The key to the problem is that it's not meant at all to do good, it is meant to display malice and cruelty and inflict punishment on the poor for daring to spoil the wealthy perspective Barbara Bush is their Saint They are just implementing her vision

Ata marie te whanau We are so lucky with our birds

Every single time I see a story like this, my shoulder gremlin starts shouting about the school strike for climate and other Greenie protesters who get endless, ENDLESS FUCKING GRIEF, for "blocking roads and maybe holding up an ambulance" and demands to know "where the fuck are those voices now?"

Same here in Bombay This time of year we don't get into the good stuff till about noon with our slight westerly rotation

Busy times on the farmlette House work Milk Bella Bail training with Nutmeg due to calve in about a month Collect a barrow of cowshit for the compost Bring down 4 pallets Mike had left at the gate for the hay shed Survey the big job hanging over everything right now

Why, oh why does this not fill me with confidence?

With no frosts so far, this pie melon is still going strong, as I lean over the fence I have counted 10, there are at least 3 more without moving foliage and already 11 in the barn, off one volunteer in an old compost heap A bee club speaker had thrown out her seasonal calendar, this is why

We evicted them from the ceiling, we appear to have inhibited their taste for Macadamias This looks like revenge

I tried but all I could manage was an attempted murder

My Comfrey is trying to die off but can't stop flourishing in this weather, neither can this monster Pie Melon in a compost heap. Already took 4x4+kg fruit, it's still setting and growing more, thanks to this little one covered in pollen, in a flower from the volunteer triffid

its that he truly believes that this will somehow cover up the narcissistic wound cause by the fact that he made yet another fucking idiotic, rage-induced blunder I thought at first that it was just contempt, but its worse, he lives in a world where this mad fiction is reality, this is his icon 2/3

This is a HUGE tell from a pathetic, fragile. infantile, increasingly demented man running loose & enraged in the global china shop Its not just that the election was a year ago, that he pathetically tries to grab the credit, its not even that he is trying to cover up last week's rage post 1/3

Apple iPhone wizards I take video on the SE, until recently, if I made the video in landscape it automatically saved it that way. Suddenly it is rotating everything to portrait and, though I can edit it to landscape, it doesn't save it as that How do it tell it to get it's act together? Example

For years the media has been sanewashing Trump by, deliberately, taking out of context the least mad thing he had to say and trying to present it as something a rational being with a plan,. a goal and a strategy might have None of it is true, except, very rarely, and then NO context will save him

QUITE the home page Dog was impounded in a raid on homeless people living in cars, "after they'd had several warnings" How long before they start shooting the homeless people as well as their dogs? Seymour and van Velden WILL have an answer, especially if ACT are back after the election

In Bombay we planted 3 ea Grey Crown, Q/Blue, Oilseed & Buttercup Got 0 Q/Blue, 2 Buttercup, 9 Grey Crown & 12 oilseed Toms average Garlic good. onions laughable, greens OK Feijoas nuts, macas good, 15L olive oil, apples and pears OK, grapes great and Persimmons excellent & THIS 1 piemelon volunteer

This morning's RNZ home page is a piece to behold. Can we wonder if, finally, the reality-based timeline is beginning to get some traction? I LOVE "Businesses" complaining about OTHER BUSINESSES parking their large trucks in suburban streets

There's a panoply of PhD's to be had out of this one image Terry Pratchett himself would not have dared create a denizen of the most rat infested sewer of Ankh Morepork capable of this From deviant psychology to post-modern humour, it has it all If it was Zack polanski he would be ALL over it

We moved here Jan 2012, by mid April we had frost like this regularly. This was May, but it started 1st or 2nd week of April Haven't seen one like this for 10yrs at least Tonight at 7pm we still had crickets chirping and I was in my shirtsleeves pressing olives, a month earlier than in 2013

Same thing in Bombay, just not the same camera

Last year's crop, if we can keep the rats at bay another week, might be about the same

Just a little extra nudge Christine Lagarde, there is a slow dawning on the global economy of the damage already done, and markets are too optimistic No Shit Sherlock I tried the main link at the economist.com/insider but it wont play for me

Luxon (Probably): It's SO unfair Jacinda got all the crises, if only *I* had a proper crises to work with, *I'd* show them how it's done by a real CEO The Universe: Here, have a war and a fuel crisis Luxon:NOT LIKE THAT!!!

A state the size and power of the US cannot continue to exist for another 3 years when this is the scale and depth of incoherence at it's head. Planning for tomorrow has become impossible, beyond that is not even chaos, it is disorder and there can be no reversion to some desired mean

Mother of god she is stupid She genuinely believes that because she can make a true statement about power generation, & because power is "energy", everything else follows

As Willis clenches a petulant jaw & Luxon wiggles the thumb up his butt, in Aussie "Fuel shortages & higher prices are affecting fruit production and distribution ... harvesting decisions are being influenced by rising input costs. Robinvale, Vic. "the whole town... was out of fuel"

From my SiL

Whenever I see him I can't get past this

This turned up on my FB feed But no source identified Satisfying though it may be to see, how real is it? Anyone know?

From today's SMH home page. Aussie is having a serious cognitive dissonance moment