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We leave next Monday for three weeks out and about.  First stop is Ft. Stevens State Park near Astoria, then on to Gray’s harbor area on the central Washington coast, then lastly to the foothills of Mt Rainier for some biking and sightseeing.  I’ll take pix along the way; charging the batteries on my good camera right now.  So, until we’re in a place where I have decent WiFi, I’ll part for now with these last few pix from the yard.  One is regular visitors to the pond and the other is our Watermelon Crepe Myrtle tree in full summer bloom.  It blooms late here because what it really likes is zone 7, and we’re at about 5 1/2.

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I took this picture on our honeymoon, just above the trail head down to the excursion boat.

Claire, I read your latest post carefully, but at the end I’m not quite sure exactly what it is you are going to do, single-handedly if necessary.
The options are limited in a political context. One could go with the current flow and trust in the American people to orient our leadership properly. One could argue vehemently against the current flow, but there’s so much healing necessary for our economy and culture that such a course might be counter productive. One could look backward and analyze what caused the current flow, but what does that produce?
Is it possible that a view of politics that assumes autocracy is always possible and that must be guarded against at all costs is not relevant in America? The examples … Continue reading →

I love this website!  Seems designed to keep me interested in the middle of the night here in Oregon.

Here’s the summary at the end of this article: https://amgreatness.com/2017/02/26/who-cares-about-conservatism/

“Hillsdale College politics professor Kevin Portteus can help us understand this realignment:

In 2016, the most consequential division was not between Democrats and Republicans but between the “court party” and the “country party” of whatever formal affiliation. There was a general dismay at the cronyism of bailouts and the stimulus package, a regulatory state with its tentacles in every aspect of individuals’ lives, trade deals that benefit multinational corporations, mass immigration, the imposition of same-sex marriage on a nation that had voted overwhelmingly against it, and the passage and subsequent sustaining by the Supreme Court of the Affordable … Continue reading →