Liz R

God is in the details 🌷🌱

Eye opening comments for someone from the Silent Generation to absorb. For once my reaction justifies that description of my age group. 🤐

It's not out of condemnation, just sticker shock. 🙀

Cash for a used car was always my choice. It let me buy new Apple gear. 😂

Most I paid was 5300 for a Chevy Prizm, a hybrid, mostly Toyota with a Chevy glovebox. 🙂💕

Most miles I ever put on a car: 247k on a 1980 Datsun 210B hatchback. Loved that 5-speed ride for my mountainous commute.

Sounds like the well-heeled (including leaders of combatants)
have bought into any brief plunge in #oil and are fine with seeing it soar now like Iranian missiles or drones that threaten tankers in the ME.

Yes one can grow cynical as the war rages on. I'm at 11 on a scale of 1 to 5.

Calling prediction markets an asset class is way past putting lipstick on a pig, no offense to actual 💄or 🐖🐖🐖

Even prediction bets that are not sports-related are still subject to manipulation and can corrode trust in conduct of other forms of what the markets prefer to call "investing."

"Peony Cat" from the 'Neko' collection of Quilt Gate's fabric series Hyakka Ryoran. A black cat solemnly sits amid painterly images of peonies in pink, blue and pale green on a cream background.

#7syllablesentence

Will this winter never end?

Yep. Bush 43 had wanted to go after Saddam Hussein bc he was allegedly behind a foiled plot to kill W's dad and other family during trip to Kuwait to be honored for the USA-led 1991 rescue of Kuwait's sovereignty.

Imagine W's rage if the plot had succeeded. Now imagine Mojtaba Khamenei's fury.

Yeah... because the GOP mantra of cutting labor costs, cutting taxes on the wealthy and deregulating anything that gets in the way of an improved profit margin is so much simpler than thinking about consequences for 99% of humans in an unfettered end stage of capitalism.

Bargello wall hanging in earth tones from nearly black through brown, green, grey, cream.

A #bargello wall hanging that I call "Fire on the Savannah" -- pinned and ready for tacking. Not too happy with that grey batik in the borders, lacked what to pick up the rose hues in that floral, but time to move on from lessons learned. Otherwise a very fun project.

#quilting

Odds Rise That El Niño Will Soon Bring Weather Extremes The climate pattern known for intense heat, floods and drought is likely to develop this summer, raising questions about disaster preparedness.

An El Niño climate pattern that is likely to develop this summer may be severe, federal scientists warned Thursday in a forecast that raised threats of record heat, floods and other weather extremes around the planet this year and next. Here's what to know.

Imagine all those #AI data centers trying not to melt down in the heat, or keep sump pumps running in the "100-year" flash flood events every two weeks all summer.

#energy

"Picture mealtime at the #hog trough with the swine committee."

--Ernie Payne, in "Listen to the Blues Grow"

🫤🙄😬💯 yep that just about says it all, doesn't it. 😢

How wonderful 😊

This sure beats all the other news in my feed on a Monday in March!
🎉 🥳 ☀️

#quilting

Some who voted for Trump did so in favoring tax cuts and deregulation, thinking they could not care less about anything else that happens on his watch.

Even now they put side bets on war events via Kalshi or Polymarket while letting their algos punch in and out of stocks and commodities. 😥😡

Yeah but why lend even $25M to a struggling outfit that had merged with another one.

These guys think they can pick up any debt-laden firm, maybe drop a few bucks into it, strip or restructure it and flip it before defaults pop up.

Cheap (so far!) #remake of a bad feature film we saw in 2007. 🍟

I just rewatched Margin Call last weekend...

So does that come out of food stamps, home heating assistance or support for health care premiums? Asking for some disenfranchised taxpayers.

And Trump calls it a war while the #GOP aisle of Congress dodges the authorization issue by calling it "an operation."

Throw Republicans out of office in 2026. They don't care about their own constituents any more than Trump cares about US military folks deployed to this illegal war.

There'd be more criticisms aired by US Senators of Sec'y Noem's incompetence if more of the #GOP senators were retiring, as is the case w/ Senator Thom Tillis. Too bad most of the rest of them are too afraid of Trump and MAGA to do their jobs. They diminish our respect for #Congress 🫤 🥲

Epic Fury? More like Epstein Fury.

Yep, and OpenAI and Hegseth were hot to ink a deal.

Circular financing of AI behemoths is now exponentially more risky to the entire planet.

Another ideal moment to cue up Ernie Payne's "Listen to the Blues Grow."

"Picture meal time at the hog trough with the swine committee..."

#AI
#insanity

This off the wall guy RFKJr is part of why I could almost believe (if it all weren't so tragic) that we're living in a reality show that was meant to feature life under a hilarious parody of an American government.

I'd have liked to switch channels before Trump ever picked his Cabinet.

#dreams

So not deployed to Signal chats for Uncle Pete's convenience, eh?
Good to know. 🫤

Loathe magic links as much as sites using email address and password but that make you TYPE IN the email part instead of letting password manager provide both components of your credentials.

All tiresome enough to make me nostalgic for nightly walk to a newsstand to plunk down a few coins !

[ So i am still snowed in and cannot re-up on cookies this week so i end up in this thread to top it all off? Damn! ]

😬☃️🙏☀️☀️🍪

On topic: Fourth Estate is doing fine, it's the King's courtiers need a refresher course on how to behave.

Looks more like a barstool cat... 🥴😂

The expression "Don't let the door hit you in the a^^ on the way out" was made for these guys.

There goes the grocery budget again.

Picture Alito and Thomas flipping a coin to see which one creates the vacancy. Or is Trump planning to throw the chief justice under the bus? Someone should remind him that even his King card can't trump a SCOTUS justice.

Anyway Cruz loathes Trump so it would be riskier than Bush picking Souter.

The last thing the USA needs to do with its military is create a culture of goose steppers topped by a partisan and sycophantic officer corps.

A priceless aspect of US military leadership has bern their independent thinking via study of history, politics and literature at our great universities.