Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

 When I was young, I saw Mary Poppins (in a double bill with Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar). Well, I loved the movie, and my parents bought me the album. I think they later regretted it. I cannot sing, but I can loudly sing the words off-key.

And my favorite was the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". 

"Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I"

I also sang it in my best cockney accent. Which was Dick Van Dyke's. I was sure he was English. (Aside- my English friends tend to make fun of my accent in those moments when I channel dear old Dick.)

Anywho, my mother remembered and sent me this.

Took me a second to get it, but I love it.

Happy Easter

Look, I may not be a religious person, but even I know that Christ was about loving your fellow man, providing for the week and hungry, giving comfort to those less fortunate that yourself.

Christ's teachings were wonderful enough for 2.4 billion people to believe they are the words of God.

Here is Christ, risen on Easter. He promises love and redemption to those who love God.

And then there is our "Christian President." Here is his message of hope and love for Easter.

Hummmm

Well, we had a visitor for a few days last week. We went hiking and up to Joshua Tree.

(PS - none of this ties to the Title, but I just couldn't face the world right now.)

They moved Marilyn about 60'. Dopes

Pat Benatar

Ed and I saw Pat Benatar at an outdoor concert in Palm Springs with a couple of friends. It was a temporary venue, but it was a lot of fun. She is 72, and still rocking. Now, in the bridges of songs, she no longer dances like crazy; she wanders to the back of the stage to get a pull of water and returns to the mic just in time to sing again.

During the concert, very few people in the audience who were sitting stood up and danced along. We were standing room (and could walk to the front) and were having a ball. I thought the sitting folks were just party poopers. Until the end of the concert, when the ushers had a giant traffic jam trying to return walkers to folks.

Oh well, my bad.

This is where we watched "We Are Young".  Here is 11 seconds of it.

Juni was the little dog I used to walk for a woman in New York

Well Juni and her mom had passover.

Protest March of the Penguins

 When you have the zeitgeist, use it.

I don't think he liked being in the box

 

Some beautiful shots from The Atlantic

 full set here

My favorites; 1 and 2, showing the scale of floods in Frankfort, Kentucky

Number 3 - One of the Mountain Monasteries in Greece

For the Brits in Particular

 I know I am on the West Coast now, so our Administration has had an extra 3 hours to drive me batty, but THESE are the headlines we wake up to know (real headlines from this morning). 

Remember, this is from THIS MORNING only!!! (PS - Washington Post uses a mix of upper and lower case).

• U.S. Continues to 'Delay' and 'Flout' Courts in Deportee Case, Lawyers say.
• She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging Until ICE Jailed Her
• WSJ* Board: Trump Has No "Actual Strategy" On China
• RFK** Lies that Measles Vaccine "Wanes Very Quickly"
• Trump's Greenland Acquisition Plans Includes. Annual Payments of $10,000 to All 56,000 Residents ***
• Trump Threatens More Tariffs On Mexico Over Water
• GOP Rep: Climate Change is a Sham Because God Controls the Climate Because He Controls The Sun
• GOP Rep Blames Migrants for Texas Measles Outbreak
• Pirro (Fox News Host) Complains About Government Aid for Orphans
• CDC**** Fires Team That Performs Cruise Ship Inspections
• Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan

* - WSJ = Wall Street Journal

** - RFK = Robert F Kennedy Jr, Our Cabinet Secretary for Health and Human Services

*** - Could luck collecting that after year 1

**** - CDC = Center for Disease Control

And now off to breakfast

I can be reasonable about arresting and deporting criminals

But these agents wanted to enter 2 Los Angeles elementary schools (kids 5 - 10 years old) and grab 5 different children. Unless maybe the captured pets and ate them (joke) this is somewhere between immoral and evil (and definitely not legal as we use the word).

LAUSD - Los Angeles Unified School District

America is a line of ants.... let me explain

Have you ever watched the trail of ants moving things into their ant hill? There is a semi-orderly two-way path as nats march to the trash, pick up something, and then march back. This keeps going until the item has been used as much as possible, and then they look for something new.

But, sometimes, a stick falls across their path, a splash of water removes part of their trail, or a child steps on ants on the path. Well, for a few moments, there is ant mayhem. Ants run around like, well, ants. There is much confusion and probably a lot of ant cursing until they find a way back across, around, or under until they find the trail on the other side.

Once they find the path, the parade of ants continues, but with this new change, everything settles back down. Nothing really changed, but it seemed massive at the time.

It's an analogy. 

Imagine people in the United States as those ants. And we see a dumpster fire in our little ant progression, and we all carry tiny pails of water to put it out. The water won't change much, but it does make us feel like we are putting out the dumpster fire. (Forget for the moment that there are other ants "accidentally" knocking our pail of water off.)

And then some sadistic child comes and uses a magnifying glass to burn some ants. Well, we think, that was bad luck, but we still go on. 

Then, the sadistic child wipes out our little trail to the dumpster fire with his shoe and laughs. For a few moments, there is ant pandemonium until the little kid laughs, skips off to find a new shiny toy, and we ants find our path back. Ignoring what just happened.

Up next, sadistic little kid pees on new ant trail.