Presidents Day

Presidents day is next Monday. Actually it's Washington's birthday. Well some states don't celebrate Lincoln's birthday, so they lump Lincoln's in with Washington's. In Illinois we celebrate Lincoln's birthday on February 12th. I didn't get that day off work! We also get off the first Monday in March for Casimir Pulaski day. Who? Casimir Pulaski, revolutionary war hero. The father of American cavalry.

"Presidents day" "Washington's birthday" "Lincoln's birthday" Illinois "first Monday" "Casimir Pulaski day" "Casimir Pulaski" "revolutionary war" hero "American cavalry" #PresidentsDay #NationalStrike #TheResistance #Resist #Resistance 

No deed goes unpunished ...

"Episode 6": Brace tells Delaney that his mother was confined to a mental asylum after she attempted to drown him and that his father had saved his life. Zilpha murders Thorne and his corpse is disposed of by Dumbarton. Ibbotson takes confession but the priest is in the employ of the Company. The gunpowder is not found and is successfully transported to the dock, but the Company destroy Delaney's ship. Delaney gets hopelessly drunk, and on recovering, he finds Winter's corpse. Chichester continues his investigation into the Company's corruptness discovering that the name of the slave ship had been changed and was registered as being empty; that it was staffed it with a skeleton crew; and that Stuart Strange’s own brother owned a sugar plantation in Antigua.

#Taboo #bbctaboo #TomHardy #TabooFX #jamesdelaney #winter #taboowinter

Mid Season Premiere

Rick and Michonne introduce the herd to cable.

#walkingdead #twd #RickGrimes #Michonne #AMC #epic

On notice?

Evidently North Korea is not on notice..


#northkorea #KimJongUn #POTUS #FakeNews #alternativefacts #trump #donaldtrump

Merle is back amongst the Guardians

Merle is back amongst the Guardians

#StarLord #Gamora #Drax #RocketRaccoon 
#walkingdead  #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy 

#yondo

Potsquatch ...

Finally some good news, Potsquatch ...

#PotSasquatch #potsquatch

Home Shopping Network stands with Ivanka Trump!

Home Shopping Network stands with Ivanka Trump!

#Nordstrom #kelleyannconway  #IvankaTrump #HSN

Flea Market Kart

We go to the Grayslake flea market every other month, or so. Last time we had way too much stuff. Decanters, geodes, figurines, rocks, etcetera, etcetera. It was getting heavy. And my back started aching. So I grabbed a cart. Gina was like, "It's taking forever with that huge freaking cart". I was like, yeah but my back feels much better. This weekend I'm taking my folding dolly, with a couple of milk crates and a tie down. Much easier on the back.

"Grayslake flea market" Decanters geodes figurines rocks "shopping cart" "folding dolly" "milk crates" "tie down". "do it yourself" #fleamarketflip #thriftstorefind #DIY #upcycle #FleaMarket #repurposed #furniture #antiquefurniture #antique

Solar Eclipse 2017

Mark your calendar. August twenty first, two thousand seventeen. 8/21/17 There's going to be an eclipse. The west coast will see the eclipse peak at 10:15 am. Here in Chicago the eclipse will peak at 1:19 pm. On the east coast the eclipse will peak at 2:42 pm. Most of America will see a partial eclipse. Those in the totality zone from Oregon to South Carolina will see a total eclipse. If you want to view the eclipse, get some eclipse glasses. Or better still, look at the shadow of a tree. The leaves project little moons into the shadow. Don't view the eclipse with your sunglasses. Your eyes will fry.


"partial eclipse" "totality zone" "eclipse glasses" "solar eclipse" occults syzygy. "total eclipse" "circular orbit" Moon elliptical umbra #eclipse2017 
#eclipse "celestial display" #NationalEclipse "April 21"

#DeleteUber?

Uber is in trouble with the human rights community. Why is that? Uber lowered rates at LaGuardia when Taxi drivers struck to protest the Trump Muslim travel ban. Wait, you're pissed cause Uber was charging less? Twitter users rallied with #deleteuber. I have deleted the Uber app. You don't even use Uber. Rival Lyft pledged $1 million dollars to the ACLU. And Uber pledged to create a $3 million legal fund for Uber drivers. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is a member of Trump’s economic advisory group. Travis is urging the government to reinstate U.S. travel rights for residents, whatever their country of origin. Uber's website was flooded with complaints. “You work with Trump, I’ll work with Lyft,” read one complaint. So you downloaded the Lyft app, and will never use it. Give me that. I'm not working with Trump. You're not working with anybody.

Uber "human rights" LaGuardia "Taxi driver strike" "Trump Muslim travel ban" Twitter #deleteuber "Uber app" Lyft, ACLU, "Uber CEO Travis Kalanick" "Travis Kalanick" "Uber CEO" "travel rights" #Science #ScienceMarch #sciencematters #DeletingUber #AlternativeFacts #TrumpLies "Trump Lies" "Fake news" #fakenews #proPeace #proAmerica #proTrump #antiGlobalism #TrumpSupporter

Doomsday Clock

The 2017 doomsday clock has been reset to two and a half minutes to midnight. It is the first time since the cold war in 1960 that the clock has had less than three minutes to midnight. The Trump white house's denial of climate change, their promise of nuclear escalation, their embrace of falsehoods pawned off as alternative facts, and their cyber manipulation of our democratic process, have led editors at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to take time off of their Doomsday Clock. Scientists at the Bulletin stated, "It's almost the end of the world and we have to say things like "Facts are Good". The ironic thing is their Doomsday clock is not based on science or fact.
 
"Trump Whitehouse" "nuclear escalation" , falsehoods , "alternative facts" "cyber manipulation" "cyber warfare" "democratic process"   "Doomsday Clock" "the apocalypse" "nuclear proliferation" Armageddon "Cold War" "climate change" "nuclear escalation" "Donald Trump" "cyber warfare" "global warming"  #climatefacts #AlternativeFacts #TrumpLies "Trump Lies" "Fake news" #fakenews "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"

Haunted Circus Cemetery

In 1918 a Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train got rear ended by another train. Sixty one circus workers in the rear sleeping cars were instantly killed. Four days later they were buried at Wood Lawn Cemetery. Five elephant statues mark the boundaries of Showmen's Rest. On the gravestones, the dates of death are all marked June 22, 1918. Beneath is a mass grave containing the remains of clowns, trapeze artists, strongmen and other circus performers. Legend has it that the elephants were buried where they lay. Locals claim to hear the haunted cries of the elephants at night.

"Woodlawn Cemetery" "Circus Train Wreck" "Showmen's Rest" "Hagenbeck-Wallace circus" "Secret Clown Cemetery" clowns, "trapeze artists", strongmen "circus performers" "haunted cries" gravestones "mass grave" "haunted cemetery" "paranormal experience" "The Greatest Show on Earth" "Ringling Bros" "Barnum & Bailey"