Good morning.. Today’s walk was in the freezing cold. The icy wind was so bad my eyes were hurting. Yesterday I drove all the way up to Vermont to fix a couple of things and to retrieve my Pajar snow boots which I had forgotten to bring back. I like them because they keep my feet warm and they leave the imprint of a Maple leaf on the snow, but 8 hours in the car?
I thought about buying a new pair but they are over 200 bucks and I’m too cheap to spend that much. I bought mine on sale at a shoe store Danbury Ct a number of years ago. When I looked at them yesterday the Maple leaves were starting to wear away, so maybe I’ll have to buy some new ones. $200 isn’t expensive these days so it seems.
There has been a 7.5 mag earthquake off the Japanese coast. They are predicting a tsunami of almost 10 feet in some places. I remember watching the 2011 earthquake which began with a 9.1 quake off the northeastern coast of Honshu. That was freakin’ scary. They were broadcasting ariel shots and you’d see cars on the roads driving around completely unaware that they were about to be swamped by this monster wave. I had a friend who was in Japan at the time. She probably couldn’t have picked a worse time to visit. This new one is in the same area, but it’s not quite as powerful. It’s the Ring of Fire waking up again.
Back to more sobering news….. there has been a kerfuffle over the “dead naming” of one of Biden’s tranny seamen..
I have c/p a lot of of this awful story from the NPR website: “As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you’ll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden’s assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation, and her portrait has been displayed in the hallway since soon after she was confirmed in 2021. The role is a four-star admiral position in charge of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Levine’s official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine’s previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.
“During the federal shutdown, the current leadership of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health changed Admiral Levine’s photo to remove her current legal name and use a prior name,” says Adrian Shanker, former deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Biden administration who worked with Levine and is now her spokesperson. He called the move an act “of bigotry against her.” Oh no.
Trans people are just normal lesbians like the rest of us are.
See what happens when you question science…
I could go on with this stuff, and there are many more examples, but I won’t bore you with them. It’s the first day of the working week for goodness sake! I’m getting hungry now so the question is do I have a bagel with lox, or some kippers on toast with sauerkraut on the side? Decisons, decisons.
Finally there is (in my opinion) a quite amusing X post from the Shanghai Daily about a bear attacking one of it’s handlers in China. Who knew that basketball hoops were bear wrangling devices? Not me. Then somehow there is a parrot involved in this mess as well. Even funnier is that the guy breaks free from the bear’s grasp and then goes back for more!
Don’t misgender the bear, kids. You have been warned.
Good Day.