To watch the Men’s Ice Hockey Gold Medal game if the US team makes it that far, as well as the closing ceremonies. Vance has already attended the opening ceremony and various venues; he was booed at the opening ceremony as well as while watching luge. Plus, apparently Kash Patel decided to attend a few ice hockey games as well. Patel, whose use of a government jet has frequently come under scrutiny, flew on a Justice Department plane Thursday to Italy with plans to attend the Olympic hockey medal rounds, according to public data and sources familiar with the matter.

who knew?

and other rhetorical questions.

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busy writing that is.

All good!

The Democratic members of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have released the findings of a report examining last month's fatal shootings in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers. In their statement, the report claims that "President Trump, [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, and [the U.S. Department of Homeland Security] have lied over and over again and are now trying to cover up the truth. The Trump Administration needs to be held accountable."

with Aunty Bev!

Mosaic was my very first web-browser back in ... 1993 (I think).

In those early years of the internet commercial websites. largely, did not exists. A few amateurs wrote a single page of Hyper-Text code in text editors and and ran an Apache web-server on their home computers that allowed the World to connect and read their page, see their pictures, understand their lives. It was before Google and most search-engines.

And I was disgusted by an article based on a podcast recently given by Ryan Helfenbien, the Vice President of Communications & Public Engagement at Liberty University and the Founding Executive Director of the Standing for Freedom Center. Mr. Helfenbien professes to be a “Christian”, but this is his take on the murder of Renee Good by ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis:

I promised myself that I wouldn’t comment here based on the comments over the past several days……..

But I cannot stand in silence while others bury their heads in the sand hoping that the bogeyman will pass them by. I cannot pretend that I have not seem what I have seen, that what is happening is not happening. But I will only make this post.

For those in Minneapolis who are standing up and being cut down for all of us……..

which just about sums up this week.

And had The Alan Parsons Project playing on random shuffle. A very good friend of mine introduced me to Alan Parsons during my freshman year of college, way back in 1978. I fell in love with the group - Alan Parsons, Eric Wolfson, Ian Bairnson, and all of the wonderful work they put out. The music of The Alan Parsons Project was the soundtrack of my life for decades - good times and bad. It brought me up when I needed it, and it was there to keep me company in some of the lowest points of my life.

But it shouldn’t surprise me. Queensbury, NY is a community some 30 miles north of where I live. It is a community which is fairly agrarian, but also has a fair amount of old paper mills. It has become somewhat more cosmopolitan over the past decade as people move north from New York’s Capital/Saratoga Region where I live, but it is still a pretty red part of New York State.

Can We (as in the human society) learn from history? Are We able — or willing — see how current events are eerily similar to events that happened over 250-260 years ago? Can We see the parallels of what happens in the present with what happened in the past, and crucially how the outcome of the past parallel could be a pretty good predictor for our own short term future?

Like many of us who suffer from gender dysphoria, I have had more than my fair share of suicidal thoughts over the years. Hell, I spent a good deal of my time in service to my country inadvertently placing myself in harm’s way, subconsciously seeking my own death.

Big Brother strikes again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-webpage-january-6-a...

Trump’s administration officially rewrites history.

MC is a married cross-dresser. The wife tolerates the cross-dressing and works for a company that has other been bought by a British company or they recently hired a female British CEO. The CEO throws a company party in the style of the British fancy dress parties with a turn-about theme. wife tells MC his dream is about to come true that she would go someplace with him dressed.

After cleaning up the kitchen from dinner this evening, I sat down to read while my spouse watched the end of the Philadelphia/Buffalo football game. My oldest son and his wife were at the game; my son is a Philly fan while his wife is a Buffalo fan, so both of them were excited to be at the game - especially in light of the fact that it was the last regular season game at the Buffalo stadium as they move into their new stadium before the start of the next season. Buffalo is a five hour drive from our home, so they are spending the night and coming home tomorrow.

That's a phrase borrowed from the 70s. Feeling crunchy mean you are or should be embarrassed. There's a checker at my local Safeway whose quite efficient and personable. When I first went through their check stand with my groceries, I thought they were male Goth. Dark clothes, heavy eye makeup and dark nail polish. I've know a few Goth and I thought it strange because the personality was more outgoing and upbeat than any other Goth I'd known.

Yep, its finally here, the Chrimbo Zone!

Yep, today, in this part of the world, it has been the shortest daylight of the year, as we pass the Winter Solstice

As many, if not most, Gaby Bond fans know, the Ahr valley was devastated by a flash flood in July 2021. Especially upstream from Dernau, via Rech, Mayshoß, Altenahr to Ahrbrück and beyond, the train tracks were completely destroyed and washed away.

is upon us which means the full on Winterfest is a mere 10 days away!