raisin bran. That was essentially the beginning of my day. It wasn’t too bad, but I have found after not consuming breakfast cereal for a while, that it has too much salt in it for my taste. I was feeling lazy this morning so I had cereal instead of making some oats which I’d run out of anyway. The journal is off to a great start I see. Clearly I need a vacation which starts tomorrow.
Yesterday the band had another rehearsal and I have to say it’s sounding better than ever. I’m not trying to promote it beyond what it is, but it’s approching something that I would leave the house to listen to. If I have time later today I will try and post something from yesterday’s session. I have to pack my bag for the trip and I don’t know what to take. I’ll probably be swimming and walking a lot. Florida has a lot of interesting things to see and do. I won’t be taking a fishing boat out to catch Marlin, nor will I be scuba diving or anything like that.
The most exciting thing will be walking to the Publix supermarket to buy some coffee. I was looking at a breakfast place down there and they were charging six bucks for a latte. That’s New York prices. I’ll be making my own with a neat little single cup plunger that I bought in Hawaii a couple of years ago. It’s still cold here. Indeed the heaters came on this morning. I was going to turn the whole thing off, but it’s too cold still.
This is George Jenkins the founder of Publix with a customer in 1961. Sharp lookin’ dude!
This is all fascinating talk I know, but I don’t have much to say. I do think it’s worth mentioning a bizarre story that came out yesterday. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an often quoted source for detecting and exposing so-called hate groups across America has been indicted on 11 federal felony counts, including six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama.
This is the same organization who claimed to have shut down the KKK. “it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, for its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting anti-bias education.”
From the Associate Press, “The SPLC was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples.
“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.”
These are the same people who, in their “Hate Map” classified concerned parents as domestic terrorists because they objected to extreme left wing indoctrination of their children in schools. Let that sink in.
Good Day
ps I’ll be traveling tomorrow so there may not be a journal for a couple of days. I’ll try and post something next week
Let’s have some more of that great Sabrage music