I cannot even wrap my head around these 'proposed changes'. Who comes up with these things? Let me tell you who. Rich people who need workers, and are completely willing to break your children to do it. End meal breaks? 14 year olds working overnights? What about school? MAGA, my ass.
To quote a sage, "Nobody can believe it!"
I came home and repotted three plants. I'm sure they'll be fine, although they appear a bit bedraggled right this moment. Plants aren't the most grateful life forms I've ever known.
I broiled a chicken breast and sliced it up and made a grilled chicken salad for supper, which hit the spot for both of us.
We figure that we will spend a half day up at the new house tomorrow and be able to finish the tiling. We'll come home, clean up, and head out to see Lou Gramm in Erie.
Then:
Now:
Anyways...the old fogeys are headed out...and yes. I have earplugs.
Let's end on a laugh:
Norfolk Island, an Australian territory with a population of around 2,000, had instead of the 10% tariff imposed on Australia, had 29% imposed. There is some head scratching about what is actually exported to the US from Norfolk Island.
ReplyDeleteWell, by golly...that will teach them not to even think about it then!
DeleteFellow Aussie here.
DeleteDefinitely some head scratching! Some of the comments are hilarious, though. As are some of the MAGA comments trying to justify such nuttiness. Australia might use Heard Island as a third-party address for exports so as to get around tariffs? It's a good couple of weeks away from the mainland by boat, and just who do the think will process all the paperwork? More penguins?
Oh, and for Americans who perhaps don't realise, we don't impose tariffs on anything from the US. We don't, however, take your beef due to biosecurity concerns. We take our disease-free status in a lot of our agriculture (and our environment more generally) very, very seriously
Oh my gosh, Denise, you made me laugh out loud. Yes. It seems as if the whole thing is based on trade deficits...we buy from you, and so you must buy from us. At the same time, he's trying to enforce his DEI limits on other countries. Who would want to buy anything from us at this point? Really?
DeleteGood for you, still enjoying what you can anyway. I think there's unrest among the penguins. We're lucky they can't mount air attacks on us
ReplyDeleteVery Lucky. We've got enough people mad at us that actually can.
DeleteYa know, there are times when I feel like I'm in a theater of the absurd, between that shitshow in the Rose garden yesterday and that thing about child labor laws in Florida, my head just exploded. One wonders why that buffoon wants to tariff guano at 10%. And let me get this straight, Florida wants to exploit their children and expose them to all kinds of dangers because all the migrant folks who work in the fields or in meat processing plants have been deported or scared out of the state. Do I have that right?
ReplyDeleteSadly, Jim, you do have it right. Doesn't it make you want to cry?
DeleteThe tile is looking great! And I love the hat rack, too. Things are moving in a good way! Have a great time at your concert.
ReplyDeleteLuckily I was away from media today with lots of appointments. I would have been saying potty words out loud. What a fool. What a fool.
Major jackass.
DeleteCray cray can sometimes be funny but he's a dangerous idiot controlled by many other equally dangerous people. The penguin memes did make me laugh though!
ReplyDeleteThere are some great ones out there! You gotta laugh.
DeleteI really like subway tile and the bench area is very nice.
ReplyDeleterepublicans messed up when they let the MAGAts take over their party.
This golden age is going to kill us all.
Not me, dammit. I plan on enduring so that I can shout, "I TOLD YOU SO!!!!"
DeleteIt sounds like you're at the finishing stages for your new house. However finishing can take a long time.
ReplyDeleteWe've got plenty to do, but really Red, it's moving a lot faster now that we can focus on just that one big project.
DeleteThe subway tile looks beautiful unlike the preparations for the future launched by The Orange Man. Here in New Zealand we fared lightly unlike some of the uninhabited islands nearby🤣
ReplyDeleteMargaret
That still makes me laugh to think of it. There are lots of funny cartoons about this.
DeleteI think things will be moving quickly by the lawyers against the idiot. He needs to be stopped from doing all the unlawful stuff. He has the whole world against him now including the penguins on remote islands. My son in law is going on 5 days with no power so I asked him if any Americans had come to help. As he was a power worker before he retired he said no and they never had while he was working. But he told me help has come from New Brunswick. He thinks it could be another 4 or 5 days till he has power. I see that as the stock market was crashing, donald took himself off to Florida on the taxpayers dime to play golf and probably to cheat to win a trophy. I guess that is were his priority is. Gigi
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! I had no idea that people are still without power up there. The father of the young woman who bought our rehab travels around the country restoring power to storm damaged areas. He is headed for the south right now.
DeleteTrump gladly donates his salary to America. Of course, he rakes in many times more by dragging the Secret Service to Mar a Lago where his hotel charges a thousand dollars a night, and his restaurant bills us for feeding them.
Quite a racket he's got going.
The entryway looks good and so does the new tile.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a dangerous fool. This is all stressful and mindboggling!
I am not really that familiar with Foreigner, although I know I heard Feels Like The First Time somewhere along the way. They were after my time--lol! Just goes to show you how old I am, I guess. ;)
I was in my 20s when Foreigner and Asia were 'a thing'. The nice thing is that these concerts are generally not all that packed. We enjoyed Kansas at the same venue and the theater was not even close to half filled.
DeleteWe've got our own version of Trump here in the UK, but ours in just a puppet, doing what he is told by the Oligarchs of the world - and yes, you can count Muskrat in on that. It's not a good time to be a farmer. The Govt is out to decimate them and take their land . . . https://www.facebook.com/reel/690059147031444 Hope this
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I read about that. Horrifying, Jennie. I'm starting to think that there are no sensible places left in the world. Maybe I'll immigrate to Heard Island, if the penguins will have me.
DeleteNo it doesn't. Sorry. Basically farmers are losing subsidies et al and the Govt. can compulsorily purchase their land at well below market rate - to build on - as apparently we don't need farmers or the food they produce. No - we can allow chicken washed in bleach from USA and beef full of carcinogens and hormones also from the USA.
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing that amazes me: He wanted Europe to take more responsibility in their own defense. They are doing that. Surprise! They are buying their weaponry from European sources. He is trying to insist that they buy American. He is not the king of the world. Who is he to tell other countries that they must buy American meat (or anything else, for that matter)? And to tell foreign companies that they must change to accomodate his DEI initiatives. My god.
Deletehttps://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/
I was wondering how the labour gap was going to be filled. From everything I have seen about Florida it seems to be filled with retirees. 14 year olds are probably a scarce commodity and could name their own price!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, allowing children to work through the night is a Dickensian idea. Absolutely appalling. Whoever thought that one up should hang their head in shame.
Dickensian is exactly the word I could not think of. I kept thinking of all the heartbreaking pictures you saw of English children working in horrible factories for long hours during the industrial revolution. Tasker's cousin wrote a book that described the situation perfectly.
DeleteDefinitely. Nuts. And dangerous
ReplyDeleteGood to see house progress..and I like the bench!
I just have this awful sense that it will get worse before it gets better, but we really have put ourselves in the best position we can to meet the challenges. That's all we can do.
DeleteIt's so nice to see the progress on your house. Good things happen, despite all the dangerous nonsense going on.
ReplyDeleteIt really is a delicate balance, keeping yourself informed and keeping yourself sane. I struggle with it.
DeleteWhat makes Canada great is it’s immigrants.. as long as they are let in at a proper rate. After all we all came from somewhere else, even donald the German- Scottish person. It was a pretty boring place when it was mostly without visible minorities.
ReplyDeleteYour tile work is looking good. Don’t let those nutsy politicians get you down. They are just trying to distract or to see how far they can go before the law stops them. The American revolution needs to get started. Time for the cray cray gang to be ousted. Gigi
I wonder if there is an American manufacturer for guillotines? :)
DeleteI do not know how to say this gently, but you’re too old to say, “Cray, cray.” 😁😎😜
ReplyDeleteAC, I'm running low on words to describe what is happening, without boring repetition.
DeleteForeigner were great. I love those eighties rock bands Debby.
ReplyDeleteI thought of you while writing this post, Dave. Everyone, go over to Northsider's post to see the dry stone wall he helped make. Work of art!!!
DeleteWe were teens in the 70's so we love these rock bands! I know you will enjoy it. You are wise to take the earplugs! We forgot once and my husband ran out of the stadium with me running after him thinking he must have been having another issue that had recently send him to the hospital by ambulance. Luckily, once he got in the car he was okay. That countertop is so beautiful and the tile looks fantastic! You are both very talented people
ReplyDeleteI have to wear earplugs. If I do not, my ear begins to vibrate. I don't even know how you describe it, really. But it lasts for days and it is maddening.
DeleteObviously the republican party cares deeply about children. WTF!
ReplyDeleteOn the upside, your backsplash and counters look beautiful:)
We're pleased with how it is turning out.
DeleteMaking good progress on your kitchen. That's going to look nice.
ReplyDeleteThis administration needs to be stopped now. People smarter than me (and "them") know how to do this and cannot waste a moment now.
You know, Ellen, I don't think that it has anything to do with 'smart'. I think that millions of people see that this administration needs to be stopped. We don't lack the smarts. We lack the power to effect that change. The people that do have the power, the people we elected to represent us are seemingly not doing that. I know that there are plenty of small things happening behind the scenes, but what we need to see are big symbolic things like Cory Booker, and the people who lined up to ask questions to keep that going. What we need are town halls and people coming back to DC to say, 'the people are demanding....'
DeleteWe've got the smarts. We don't have the power.
I hadn't heard that about Florida. How depressing. Honestly, the world is just insane.
ReplyDeleteI just keep wondering how far it can go before someone says, "Wait...this is nuts."
DeleteIt’s pretty simple. We are now in the middle of a Tariff Pandemic.
ReplyDeleteChris
On Truth Social (aka Bullshit Central), a video tRUMP posted explains it all to us. "He plays chess. The rest of the world is playing checkers." Direct quote. In other words, he is smarter than all of us, and everything will be fine as long as we trust and obey.
DeleteWhich is why Tim and I will be going to a protest.
We are entering election mode here, and the dog whistle has started - one party we always expected (his tagline is "Trumpet of Patriots") but the opposition is starting up. Not in love with the concept of being sucked down that plug hole.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix. Marie says, "It's like the whole world has gone crazy at once." It feels like that now, doesn't it?
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