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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." - RW Emerson "Make someone's day; it will make yours" - Me Refugee ally. Ecosystems restoration. Bicycle restoration Zeitlangers.com

Cartoon of two kids walking hand in hand. One asks "what is worse than an authoritarian president?" The other responds "the people who support him."
Al Capp's Ole Nan Mose saying "Ah has spoken."
Al Capp cartoon of grizzled barefoot bearded hermit in cavemouth shaking his cane and declaring "Ah has spoken."
Forget hell license plate
Trump standing frozen, back to the people dealing with the guy who collapsed.
Al Capp cartoon of hermit Ole Man Mose declaring "Ah has spoken."
My sign from the last No Kings rally. It says Make America Good Again
Photo of a stern side-eyeing Kathy Bates as Wikes
Ai image of me riding a bull.
Weather radar showing just a small patch of clouds over Dallas; otherwise blank
At an Easter lunch reception yesterday, Trump echoed this argument precisely. “I said to [Office of Management and Budget director] Russell [Vought], ‘Don’t send any money for daycare because the United States can’t take care of daycare,’” he said. “That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have fifty states, we have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You gotta let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They’ll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up, but we, it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection.” from Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American 4/3/26
3 photos of the cartoon character "Beavis" One is actually the religious nutcase in charge of the most powerful military in the world.
Sign says" make America good again"
Sign reads "no faux king way"
Sign says "make America good again
Video of me last summer hauling 200+ lb concrete slabs up a ramp i designed and helped build the previous year. Temps were over 100 the entire visit, mostly only 105-6, but a couple of 110's. Just go slow &steady, take breaks in shade, hydrate hydrate hydrate
President Bush's response of "All right. You've covered your ass" has been erroneously linked to this PDB. This response, however, came from a separate PDB linked to Bin Laden from several months earlier. During 2001, CIA analysts produced several reports warning of imminent attacks by Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Senior officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and staff from Donald Rumsfeld's office at the Department of Defense, questioned whether these reports might not be deception on the part of al-Qaeda, purposely designed to expend resources in response needlessly. After re-evaluating the legitimate risks of these recent reports, CIA analysts produced a report titled "UBL [Usama Bin Laden] Threats Are Real." It was after this report that the president gave that now-infamous response.[
Mad Magazine's grinning Alfred E Newman character with standard caption "what, me worry?"
The English language does not have words equal to the task of describing the intense grief a parent feels when a child dies. To capture that emotion, some of the Amish families who lost five children in the West Nickel Mines School shootings turn to a Pennsylvania Dutch word. Zeitlang. It means a keen yearning - some describe it as a homesickness - for a little girl whose empty dress now hangs in her room, the older sister who no longer chatters with her little sisters at bedtime, the smiling child gone from her chair. "There's a hole," one mother says. "It goes through you every day, what's missing. You just long to see her. You just have to have her here." Zeitlangers seems an apt description. We cannot make that zeitlang go away, nor should you want it to. But know that we think of you. Parents, wives, husbands, children, brothers, sisters, other family, friends, and loved ones - all are Zeitlangers together.
Hagee
"The bug" character from the movie "Men in Black" Supposedly an insect-like aliien wearing a poorly done humanoid costume.
Captain John Parker's famous quote April 18, 1775 at Lexington Green not to fire first, "but if it's war they want, let it begin here."