Good morning.
*Please forgive the grammatical errors. I write these blogs over the course of days on different devices. You're a smart cookie. You can keep up. I believe in you.
I found out a little more on my old coworker's ICE detention case. Seems he and his family were coming back from vacation abroad and he was arrested at a Georgia international airport coming back into the country. Seems he was red-flagged for a 2010 drug conviction with the intent to sell but instead of jail time, because he was just a kid, the DA at the time gave him time served and a $200 fine which my coworker (I'm guessing) paid. But because of the drug conviction my coworker was red-flagged and detained by ICE a few weeks ago coming back from vacation even though his sister reported he has a valid green card and served zero jail time back in 2010. The DA at his 2010 hearing used his best judgement. Sonny was just a kid in 2010 and so the DA let him go with a $200 fine. And for that, ICE is now trying to deport him to the *Philippines. I mean, c'mon, no one apparently remembers the 80's?! How many drug convictions happened in the 80's! A gram here, an ounce there, a little Pink Floyd under a groovy fluorescent poster and a black light, but if you're an American citizen with "good jeans" that's 100% fine... I guess. What bull. Pure racism. That's what this is. Pure racism and hypocrisy. Nothing more.
The hypocrisy from this White House administration is out of control.
And yes, I meant to spell "Jeans" that way. (sigh) We all saw that intentionally racist commercial with that Sweeny chick. I'm 100% Team Bea on this one only because I have actually worn Levis. Lees, Levis, Calvin Kline and Gloria Vanderbilt in high school, never that trashy AE.
Well done GAP. I shop there too sometimes. Well done CEO Richard Dickson. Well done all.
America is a melting pot, a new country that wants no kings or fascists and that includes the fat orange soulless tube donkey currently flapping in the White House. I'm a studious tough old broad, sirs, raised right by another well educated tough old broad (my grandma). You can't fool me, mister. If my German/Swedish grandma were alive today she would proper-old-lady-shame Schottenstein into a slow rocking fetal position. Grandmas back in the 70's and 80's could put a 300 pound grown man DOWN with that shame stare. You know which one I'm talking about.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, in life, and/or in spirit...
Here is a PBS documentary on eugenics.
I saw Weapons instead. Interesting film. Wished the ending was a little stronger but worth seeing nonetheless.
This White House administration wants to bring back eugenics. How long before women of color are sterilized again without their consent? How many women are sterilized now without them knowing it I wonder?
Eugenics is why models and actresses in 70's and 80's all looked like Christie Brinkley and Lonie Anderson. The fallout didn't happen until the 90's.
MAGA hypocrisy is out of control. I would not put anything past those people. Look what they're doing to America's immigrants. To us. All of us. America IS immigration. That's our jam. That's the whole point of this country, immigrants wanting a better life. Statue of Liberty, "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The last time I was back in Minnesota was January/February 2024 and it was the MAGATS who moved to my home state at the age of 30 and 40 from places like Missouri or wherever who then complained MN wasn't the German, Scandinavian state it used to be, AKA dominantly white. Those MAGAT outsiders, those Johnny-come-lately's are the ones ruining my childhood home state. And then they have the audacity to say on social media, "I'm stuck here!" No Bish, you're not stuck there. Just leave. Bye-bye. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, get in your cars and keep driving until you pass state lines FOREVER. Literally no one will stop you from moving out. See ya. That's my attitude not only with MAGATS mucking up my home state, and mucking up California, but also with the people who are in relationships they don't want to be in, or jobs they don't want to have but say idiotic things like, "I'm stuck here." Literally no one is stopping you from leaving. Bye. Problem solved. That's me, a problem solver. Be the solution. I got tired of shoveling snow and -20 degree winters so I moved to the west coast. Problem solved. If I can do it, you can do it, AND you don't have any reason to go back to MN to visit. Hooray!
Everywhere in the world now hates Trump. They absolutely hate him. Tourism is way down because of Trump. Population is way down because women are sick of men imitating Trump. Inflation is ever growing because of Trump. War is ever ongoing because of Trump's inability to be a world leader. That moron is just an epic failure of a man. He married an absolutely useless woman. Most of his children are from the very chain migration his administration criticizes. Oh the hypocrisy. And single MAGAT men wonder why they're still single and are 100% going to die alone.
I'm a community minister. Maybe one day I'll minister a small parish somewhere but until then I'm just a messenger. I know God and God knows me well. And just like the Catholic church has their young dancing priests on TikTok, I blog for the wee bit more intellectually minded.
Do you know what I pray to God mostly for these days - stronger wiser more intelligent men willing to stand up and correct these wayward younger fellas who think Trump is their daddy and role model. So when a man like California Governor Gavin Newsom and his social media anti MAGA wrecking crew stands and delivers against the MAGA hypocrisy, I'm all in. ALL IN. Let the great mock soar.
I don't know why in 2025 men have to be told to wash their hands. So many men don't wash their hands and it's disgusting. Remember when men got on social media and proudly openly admitted they don't clean their backsides. First of all, ewe! WTF! Women, even if they're not Democrats, would rather be in a room with Gavin Newsom than Trump if only because Newsom looks great and he probably smells amazing. I imagine Trump smells like he looks, gross fake tan and weirdo hair. In other words, Trump looks as though he smells like a homicide. Add to that, Newsom is at a great age to be a world leader. He's old enough and experienced enough, yet young enough and hip enough to tough out the politics, listen to his advisors, and make sensible decisions regardless how hard. Whereas I have no idea what the heck is going on with this current White House president and VP at any given hour of any given day like someone's dementia ridden grandfather who escaped the old folks home ala grandpa Simpson. I refused to vote for Trump (a second time) and I'm not even a Democrat.
(sigh) Anyway.
Hey! Baby blankets for winter donation are coming along nicely. I'm working on blanket #4. I'm making the blankets bigger now for toddlers too. We do what we can to help others.
As I've mentioned before, I'm a 56 year old 1980's conservative protestant. I've made reasonable amendments to my old school line of thinking from my 20's and 30's now that I've lived longer. Do I know the difference between gay and queer? Nope, I sure don't. Do I understand why my niece became my nephew, nope I sure don't. You could explain it to me a thousand times I'm not going to understand it - just accept that I accept these changes and we both move on.
I'm an old school conservative. I make no apologies. I still believe in gender roles (to simplify) masculine and feminine, and that it takes two parents to raise a healthy child where one parent dominantly stays home full time while the other earns the main household income full time. I don't care if the parents are a man and a woman, two women, or two men, so long as the roles are still there being performed. These young Trump supporters with working wives and nannies are not any kind republican I know of. Being married is supposed to be a benefit to both parties or why bother getting married at all. Just stay single then. No married woman wants to work a full time job, raise children, mommy her husband, and do ALL the cooking, cleaning, etc. No woman wants to do that. Not in my generation or any generation. If a man wanted me to birth children, cook, clean, laundry, raise kids, ain't NO WAY I'm also working a full time job. Having a helper around the house to help with laundry and grocery shopping is cool but I am 100% against dumping children off to strangers. Look, raise your own children. You had a choice, have kids or don't have kids. If your choice was to have kids, then raise them, and raise them to be smart, kind, and know the difference between right and wrong on a humanitarian level.
I'm a Gen X'er and let me tell you, there is a percentage of us who didn't make it because we raised ourselves and not everyone grasped the concept of right and wrong. The weak percentage didn't make it. But we also had the luxury of a safe(r) country to raise ourselves in. Kids today don't have that luxury. They're not safe in schools, at home, on the computer, they're not safe to play in the street like my generation did, they're not even safe to keep second floor bedroom windows open at night for fresh air. One parent has to stay home with the kids. One parent has to bring home the money. You cannot do it all, all by yourself, I don't care what those tampon commercials tell you ladies, you're not a "goddess", they're just trying to sell you tampons.
I spent the other day in Pasadena, California. Beautiful city. They have a Humane society that seems to have a pretty decent reputation and I had a bunch of pet stuff to donate. I took the A train to Pasadena.
The Pasadena Humane society were very nice and friendly. They took everything I donated, thank goodness. I had an airplane approved soft zip-up pet carrier, cat body harnesses, dog & cat bowls, and unopened cans of dog food. Thankfully, they took it all. I'll continue to donate to them I think. Food, litter, Poo bags, toys, etc. I like their setup. It was my first time hanging out in Pasadena. I've been to Pasadena before, the Rose bowl stadium, the Huntington Library, Descanso Gardens, etc, but this was the first time in the city bumming around to Starbucks, the Humane Society, lunch, etc. I really like it there. Nice people.
I'm still in a state of limbo. My brother emailed me August 13th, "The lawyer will email you in a few days with estate close-out documents to sign and send back before I mail out the close-out checks." It's now August 21st and (surprise, surprise) no email. I'm not sure what to do with the money anyway. It's not a lot of money but it's enough to get me started in a new direction until my eventual retirement. I was thinking of going back to school but Nevada and California are among the top three states for unemployment. Should I just move all together some place new? Now that I'm in a perpetual menopause it seems, with constant hot flashes, winter states don't look too bad nowadays. My only reluctance, strong reluctance, is my love for California. I moved to the Bay Area in 1989 and California has been home ever since. I'm an Angeleno. Even after brief stints in Las Vegas and the east coast, you can check out (of California) any time you want but you can never leave. Dilemma. What to do? It's a conundrum.
I don't want to own anything. I'm a single old lady with no kids. Who would I pass anything down to? Should I just get rid of everything and keep going until the wheels fall off?
It's going to be 105 to 106 degrees for the next 5-7 days. Ugh. Melt. At least I'll have the internet to keep me busy while I hide from the sun.
The fact this got 425K likes is all you need to know about the world of advertising these days, and I'm here for it.
Language, Colonel Sanders! Language! That's a quarter in the swear jar, mister.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, in life, and/or in spirit...
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
--Romans 12:3
God bless us all. Amen.