Global Warming

There's no denying that the earth is getting warmer.  What is causing it is irrelevant.  Whether or not the actions we take to mitigate it are irrelevant.  It's happening weather human activity is the cause of it or not. 

Here's a pop quiz for you all:  What grows where it is warm and moist? 

Answer:  BACTERIA

Here's what should bum you all out even more:  Our running to the doctor every time we had green snot and getting antibiotics has made bacteria resistant due to our overuse of antibiotics. 

Here's another pop quiz for you all:  What proliferates in warm, standing pools of water along with bacteria?

Answer:  Mosquitoes and other blood sucking insects .

Yes, fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, etc., are all to happy to share the viruses and bacteria with not only us, but with any animal that has blood they can suck - and that includes lawyers. 

I think of global warming like the Night Walkers in Game of Thrones.  We all know it's coming yet we continue to bicker and jockey among ourselves trying to gain personal power and accumulate bright, shiny objects.  The Night Walkers (global warming) continues its slow, steady march to find us.  There's no stopping it.  It's getting to the point where there will be no sides to take.  It won't matter who sits on the throne if we are all dead. 

Dope Growing Problems: NOT Organic

Here's something I learned yesterday at lunch:  Pot growers are not subject to the same constraints as other crops (corn, wheat, soy, GRAPES, etc.).  For recognized agricultural crops there are rules and regulations regarding pesticides, fertilizers and such.  Those rules and regulations are non-existent for marijuana growers.  Why?  Because the federal government does not recognize marijuana as a bona fide crop.  It's still illegal at the federal level.

This poses a problem for dairy farmers, grape growers, etc., out here.

Some dairy farmers and agriculture growers go through great lengths to have their products meet "organic" standards that are free from pesticides and other carcinogenic chemicals.  They invest heavily.  Then......one day......BAM.....Pot Grower Joe buys up the neighboring land and decides to have a pot farm operation.  Pot Grower Joe uses all sorts of God-Only-Knows-What chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides to get a maximum profit.  The pot operation also sucks up the water wells.  Then it rains - it rains for months it seems.  All those unregulated chemicals wash next door to the farmers and the ranchers who are trying to have organic products.  Those chemicals then get absorbed by the crops and ingested by the animals. 

Then there is the smell and the undesirables showing up with Kansas license plates trying to steal some of the crops to bring back. 

Yeah, I think I would be upset.  I get it.  I think when California legalized pot we were focused more on decriminalizing the use of it rather than the growing of it. 

Look For The Union Label

.....Look for the union label......when you are buying your cocaine or pot.....

Remember that Saturday Night Live skit from the 70's?  Let's see if I can dig it up off of YouTube.  Hold on a sec.  I found it.  That classic skit.  Check it out.

 
Fast forward 40 years or so.  The below picture is from the newly organized cannabis growers in Sonoma County, California.  Yes, they are Teamsters.

So.... look for the union label when you are buying your pot. 

I HATE paper plates

I hate paper plates.  I know they are the 'go to' for many functions nowadays, but I'd rather do dishes and wash silverware than have my guests eat off something that has as much thought about what do do afterward as a used kleenex. 

Yes, I use my grandmother's prized serving platters.  Yes, I use my mother-in-law's china she received as a wedding gift in 1939.  Yes, I use the family silver serving spoons that have been in the family since the 1800's. Yes, I use the cast iron skillet that made the pioneer wagon trip west.  Yes, I use the linens that graced many family dinners for decades. 

To me, these items are about passing down traditions and remembering the family members who have passed.  No, we are not stuffy people with sticks inserted into certain orfices.  I love to make people feel welcome and relaxed.  However, that does not mean I ignore traditions that I hold near and dear to my heart.  You would not walk into my house and think, "Oh my, these people are FANCY." 

Quite the contrary.

We are about as relaxed as relaxed  can get.  I just don't skimp on dinnerware, linens, and food.  It's all prepared with care, love, and family history.  Nothing comes from a can nor a plastic bag.  Nothing is 'disposable.' 

That's how I tell the people I care about I love them.  They are not disposable....and neither is anything I use when I have the privilege of entertaining them. 

Mueller Report

I have to confess that I have not followed this like a bird dog.  Here's one thing I do know:  Democrats are out for themselves no more nor more worse than republicans.  I've mentioned this before, but at least republicans are honest about *&%$@ you over.  Democrats pretend they are all about fairness and the people, but they are not.  They are all corrupt.

The older I get the more I'm staying away from politics. 

We are a divided nation.  Something that is divided is bound to implode.  If the media and politicians really cared about us they would find more things to unite us than to divide us.  Our primal, tribal brains can't evolve if we keep dwelling on wanting to beat each other up all the time.  I'm guilty of sliding into the hate cesspool as well.  We are all human and each of us capable of non-flattering traits.  Try to catch yourself when you feel yourself going down the road of blame, anger, and hate.

I've said this before as well:  Peace and love are horrible for media ratings.  Stop feeding the monster and it will eventually starve.  Find one thing about "the other side" you agree with and go from there.  Each viewpoint has grains of truth.  Challenge your own beliefs.

Sanctuary Cities

The Reigning Orange Cheeto wants to release thousands of those caged up trying to enter our country from south of the border illegally into 'sanctuary cities.'  The press wants to spin this as a slap to governments that attest federal deportation policies.....cough, cough......San Francisco.

Not so fast. 

Think about it.  The if the illegal immigrants are released to sanctuary cities, their chances of getting deported are diminished greatly.  The Reigning Orange Cheeto is actually acquiescing to the democrats.  The sanctuary cities get their hordes of illegal immigrants. The sanctuary cities can embrace and take are of them all - just like they wanted.  Democrats win. 

Well played, Orange Cheeto. 

One problem.  San Francisco is already overrun with homeless people putting extreme pressure on limited resources.  Just where, pray tell, will these new arrivals live?  Give them Nancy Pelosi's and Dianne Feinstein's address.  Don't forget Gavin Newsom, either. 

The World As It Is vs. The World As We Want It To Be

The world is what it is... people are who they are...it's not our job to fix any of it.  All we can do is know that the world is what it is, and try to be a good person.  Are we so vein to think that we can really change things?  People don't change.  People have been the same since the dawn of time.  Sure, we may have temporarily shuffled some social customs thinking we are the first ones to have a brilliant agenda for humanity, but eventually everything goes back to what it was from the beginning.   
Don't fight it.

There's the world as it is, and the world as we want it to be.   Protect your energy and how you spend it.  Also protect with whom you spend time.  People, in general, are a disappointing lot.  Trust very few if any at all.  Cherish true friends and family.  Well, family can be complicated and some of the most heinous breaches of trust have happened within families. 

I'm not saying to hide yourself in your house and be a complete hermit.  I'm saying be pleasant but leave your guard up.  Resist the temptation to try to "fix" people.  Love, and don't demand it in return.  However, that does not mean you have to be a sucker and be taken advantage of.  Boundaries are healthy.  Cut people out who are a drain and a suck.  It's not your fault that they are:  addicts, broke, angry, lost their job, etc.  There are forces at work we don't understand in people's life curriculum and their position in life.  You are not responsible for their situation.  However, in the same breath, we all need some help at some time.  The key is to RECIPROCATE. 

Believe it or not, we are not all created equal.  We are not guaranteed anything in life, nor owed anything in life.  It's all pretty much luck and fate no matter how much our egos want to think we are in control.  It's true we all have a lot in life whether it's a wealthy life full of luxury, or the opposite.  It's all necessary. 

Saying NO

Believe it or not, I'm really not as angry and bitchy as this blog portrays me to be.  This is my negative energy dumping ground.......a place where I cleanse myself of my own evils.  It's where I face my own internal evilness and try to puke it out there so I can be rid of it.  Nobody gets hurt in the process and I can hopefully evolve to the next level.

Anyway, I went with M today to hang out.  M is a really darling woman who has a huge heart.  M's niece wanted to live with her, but M knew that her niece would be nothing but chaos and destruction should she come to live with her (long story).  It tortured M to say 'no' to her niece living with her.  M was basically physically ill putting up the boundary.  M was mentally tormented.  She loves her niece dearly, but living with her???? No can do.  It's a lot like my current situation where one of my foster kids has returned and wants to live with us.

The point being, M's niece is doing just fine.  After M said 'no' she ended up living with her boyfriend in Santa Rosa.  It tortured M to say 'no' and caused M many sleepless nights, but these 'users' like the niece are completely unaffected.  The users (addicts, narcissists, etc.) go along looking for the next person they can suck off of.  They don't care one bit.  Why do we? 

Mind Control & Toilet Paper

Think about this.  I'm joking, of course, for those of you who don't get my sarcastic, dead pan humor.  If you really wanted to control people and needed to put some sort of chemical into people's bodies, how would you do it??   Tainting the water is soooo predictable as would be injected immunizations of any sort.  Just what does everybody use regardless of race, creed, religions, species, etc?

TOILET PAPER.

Toilet paper does not have a litany of regulations and the only real test is how smoothly it can wipe your behind.  Oh, there's the bonus!!!  A large orifice easily accessed so the blood stream can be tainted.  The evidence of toilet paper tampering is literally flushed away.  

Mind control via toilet paper.  You read it here first. 

Foster Kid

I get why there are homeless people.  One of my 'foster' kids showed up on our doorstep.  She lived with is for a while a few years back.  She is an extremely smart young lady and was set to graduate college this year.  For the sake of this post, I will refer to her as Bee. 

Bee first came to live with us while my youngest was in high school.  Bee's mother, I'll call her TrainWreck, was always an addict with manipulation tactics like none other.  TrainWreck was, or should I say is, a professional liar and can put on act that is Oscar worthy (as most addicts and manipulators are so capable of doing).  TrainWreck did not care whose life she impacted with her abandoning of her own flesh and blood only then to suddenly reappear out of the blue promising Bee that she has changed.  TrainWreck has never changed.

God only knows who Bee's biological father is.

Bee has a maternal grandfather who is married to a lady who is not Bee's biological grandmother.  Step-grandma.  She seems to be the most interested in Bee's well-being.  It's certainly not any of Bee's biological family. 

Long story short, Bee popped home to Sonoma County unexpectedly.  Wait. What?  She's set to graduate soon.  What is she doing home? 

She is as thin as a rail and obviously has psychological problems compounded with suspected chemical abuse.  Bee is delusional and paranoid.  She will make remarks that Trump is spying on her.  Bee also called 911 at 5:00 in the morning to 'tell them they are doing a great job.'  She is incoherent at times. 

Sorry, I can't have the cops showing up at the house at 5:00 AM and have a mentally ill person wondering around my house all night.  Bee can't be left unsupervised.  She needs meds, and they need to be given at a specific time.  Here's the kicker:  Bee thinks herself perfectly normal.

How do you tell a crazy person they are crazy?  In their minds they are perfectly fine and take any hint that they are off as a personal attack.  It's YOU who is the crazy one.  Now it's to the point where Bee is bouncing around from house to house as her own mother and grandparents are burned out.  Bee has taken a few night at an ex-boyfriend's parents' house from high school.  Really?  An ex-boyfriend's family is now involved?  They did not sign up for any of this.  Bee's grandparents set down boundaries, for her own good of course, but Bee is defiant and basically ran away.  I'm sure her grandparents did not want her wondering around all night getting into her drug stash. 

Now she is here.  What am I supposed to do with her?  I have no legal rights.  I can't force her into treatment and she doesn't want to go.  Bee's own biological family has washed their hands of her.  This whole scenario has been draining, exhausting, and emotional.  Before you pass judgement as to why people cruelly kick out mentally ill drug addicts, I suggest taking one in and see for yourself how it goes. 

My fear is that she will end up on the streets eventually.