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RussBLib's Journal"THE RIVER HOUSE BROKE. WE RUSHED IN THE RIVER."
What follows is a first-hand account of a family that got tossed into the flash flood on the Guadalupe River, published by Texas Monthly magazine. I hope it doesn't give me nightmares. I have fond memories of lounging by and swimming in the Guadalupe during my college years in San Marcos, Texas. I look at them in a new light now.
On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came.
Rosemary, the four-year-old, woke up first. She told my brother-in-law, Lance, that there was something on the roof.
Seven of us were at my family’s river house on the Guadalupe, between Ingram and Hunt, for the Fourth. Our little stretch of river is wide, green, cool, deep, and slow. It is some of the best swimming anywhere and one of the most beautiful spots in Texas, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve spent many peaceful afternoons there, floating and staring up at the cypress trees that tower over the water. The house, a one-story cabin on stilts about fifty yards from the river up our steeply sloped yard, was built right after the 1987 flood that devastated this region, killing ten teenagers. Concrete pillars put our family’s place a few feet above what officials consider a one-hundred-year floodplain. More than once I’d tried to imagine the waters rising that high, but it seemed impossible.
We’d had pizza for dinner and spent that Thursday evening playing hide-and-seek with Rosemary, a rambunctious, expressive, willful little girl with blond hair and blue eyes who can speak Spanish and calls me Tío, and her baby brother, my twenty-month-old nephew, Clay, a towhead who’d just learned to say the words “boo” and “yellow.” After the kids went to sleep, a few of us played charades until about 9:30 p.m., when we all said goodnight and went to bed.
the rest is here.
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John Fugelsang is now on Substack
John has a show on Sirius Progress weekdays, does a podcast, and now he is also on Substack. He is quite an asset for "our side."
It was, if you’ll pardon the expression, 2 crazy rich bitches slap-fighting in public.
It’s porn for the angels.
Ladies & gentlemen, we are witnessing the most spectacular, petulant, steroid-injected trust-fund man-baby billionaire breakup in American history. The world’s richest man and the world’s most indicted president have finally gone full Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago.
In 135 days, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have gone from being mutually grifting BFFs to an apocalyptic low-T death-match with ketamine and spray tan.
It’s like watching the Titanic and the Hindenburg crash into each other, to the theme from “Benny Hill.”
the rest is here, or you could go to my blog.
A.I. BS
An anecdotal peek into the world of A.I.
So our Lexus car dealer has implemented an A.I. call assistant. We recently received a phone call from "Lexy," the name they have given their A.I. program. Lexy tells us our car is due for service. Strange, because we just had our 15,000 mile service less than 2 months ago. So my wife calls up the dealer and it took several minutes to get past this pest aka Lexy. When she finally gets to talk to a human and explains the situation, the man at the dealer sighs heavily. He then goes on to bitch about their new A.I. assistant, telling my wife this A.I. "monster" is screwing up everything and pissing off all the Lexus customers.
Is this the future of A.I.? Sowing confusion and anger, driving away customers? How much are people spending on this crap?
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another righteous rant
Sorry about the link, but I could not figure out a way to post this rant directly here.
Clifton Freeman Cash
https://www.facebook.com/17841402331445394/videos/1205613391129733/
righteous rants
I seem to be seeing more and more righteous rants from people lately. Regular people, not our Congresscritters. Is the tide turning against Trump and Musk?
Here's a snip from one re Musk:
Some guys just buy a sports car when they have their midlife crisis but Musk is out here lobbing 400 foot phalli at Mars all day long and using us to bankroll it. He shouldn't be allowed to play sandbox with our country just because he has a disgusting amount of money. He has zero business being involved with our government. I'm not even going to start digging into the damage and theft from the corny DOGE puppet show that has people so enthralled and fooled. It's just more theater, and they're not even trying that hard anymore because their base is just that gullible.
If I had to guess what Elon is doing right now I'd guess he's probably deep in a K-hole, manically tweet-trolling the libs, or desperately trying to breed one more influencer in his own personal Führerbunker, the Banyan Cottage at Mar-a-Lago. Maybe all at the same time. Maybe he's contemplating his getaway: self-exile to Russia or possibly a rocketship to Mars. Elon is smart enough to recognize that this situation ultimately cannot be unf*cked and this is spiralling out of control. The wheels are really coming off now. His rockets are crashing. Tesla is crashing. Planes are crashing. The illusion of competency is collapsing too. This house of cards cannot hold much longer. Wherever we go from here, we're going there fast and it's bound to be exciting.
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new video on Musk, SpaceX and Boca Chica
It's a 20 minute documentary from "More Perfect Union/The Class Room."
In Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest communities in America, Elon Musk sold hope for the town to climb out of stagnation into growth. Instead, SpaceX has caused earthquakes, rampant workplace injuries, skirted regulations, threatened wildlife, and displaced local communities, while securing millions in corporate welfare. We went to Texas in January, just as SpaceX was gearing up for the seventh launch of its Starship, and this is what we unraveled.
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More Perfect Union’s mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means:
We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective, and we attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions.
We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power, and we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
I can't post a video from YouTube (now I can!)
Edit: I forgot that you have to put SOMETHING in the Discussion Title field before any video will even show up in the Discussion Text.I would have sworn I could do this a few months ago, if not more recently. Has anything changed? Am I getting too old and CRS (Can't Remember Shit) any longer?
Could someone give me a quick lesson on posting a video from YouTube onto here?
Thanks in advance.
Facebook software is screwing up
...I wonder if it is intentional? But why scare away users?
Over the last few weeks, when I see a number by the "Notification" symbol, I have not been able to view the Notifications. Oh look, I have 5 Notifications, and yet, I cannot view them. This affects my Google Pixel phone, my iMac desktop and my HP desktop.
In addition, if I see a post I would like to comment on, I click the Comment link, and if there are already a lot of comments on the post, the software will not display any of the comments, and I can "post" a comment, but I cannot view it after I post it. This has also been going on for a few weeks now. If the post has only a couple of comments, I will be able to read them and contribute a comment, but if there are already a lot of comments, I can't view any of them.
Anyone else experiencing this? In these paranoid times, I assume maybe I have been flagged as a liberal, and they are fucking up my feed to make me, what, leave the platform?
I'd been thinking about leaving Facebook, and it feels like they are trying to push me out the door.
how many firings?
...anyone know if anyone is keeping a running total of how many government workers have been fired so far? Or is trying to? As usual, reality is murky, clouded by all the bullshit spewing from Trump and Musk and right-wing lackeys. They are firing these people, firing those people, etc. But is anyone keeping actual numbers? I would be surprised if Trump or Musk were even keeping score. Seems like a pace that is going to show up in upcoming unemployment stats. If they release accurate figures, of course.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson for president
We need someone with a high profile to announce a run for president in 2028. A scientist! A Ph.D. in astrophysics. Someone that will dog the shit out of Trump and Musk and keep pointing out their lies and bullshit. A damn-near atheist to boot that can quote Scripture. A writer of books, a TV personality. A smooth-talking self-deprecator that can win arguments in multiple fields.
Why the fuck not?
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