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gwydion* "Hope for a New Beginning: Two Years in a German Teen Refugee Home:" http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-two-years-with-eight-afghan-teens-in-refugee-home-a-1195803.html
* This coming just after the news that Cohen was taking money from a pharmaceutical company. Because that's not suspicious at all. "Trump touts plan to lower drug costs but rejects Medicare negotiations:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/trumps-drug-prices-532682
* Up until the last couple of weeks the financial reporting Re: Russian Oligarchs, Trump, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, et al. has been the sort of thing that I as a reasonable intelligent and aware lay person could follow. Recently though, I think we've moved past what I can easily grasp, especially given the way my chronic illness makes my often tired and thick headed, particularly with the complex factors that gang up on me this time of year. In short, I am too tired, achey, itchy, sad (It's cherry blossom season), and thickheaded to summarize goings on to the degree I generally am accustomed to doing, nor am I up to the quantity of reading/comparison involved in selecting what I consider the clearest links on the topics involved. I still intend to link things on the financial side of Trump-Russia, but I won't be able to vouch for the sense or quality to the extent I prefer, if that makes sense. I just read the same thing on a particular Russian oligarch three times and can't tell you WTF and the same for a different piece on a different oligarch I read earlier twice. It's clearly time to give up trying for tonight. Again, I plan to keep pocking at it, and there is hope if I can pick apart the various things currently wrong, and lessen one or two sufficiently and if this other tree I'm wildly allergic to stops spooging in my neighborhood, I might be brighter in a week or two, but for now, take the links offered with a grain of salt.
* "FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation:" https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610381368/fbi-warned-of-russian-intelligence-links-to-oligarch-in-cohen-payment-allegation
* "Mueller probing donations with foreign connections to Trump inauguration:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-special-counsel-probing-donations-foreign-connections-trump/story?id=55054482
* "Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's Trump ties raise suspicion:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oligarch-viktor-vekselberg-s-trump-ties-raise-suspicion-1231600707606?playlist=associated
* "Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives In U.S. Since 2009:" https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610206357/documents-reveal-how-russian-official-courted-conservatives-in-u-s-since-2009
* "Mueller probing foreign-linked Trump inaugural donations:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mueller-probing-foreign-linked-trump-inaugural-donations-1231533123850
* "AT&T CEO: We made 'big mistake' hiring Cohen, chief lobbyist out:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-at-t-exclusive/exclusive-att-ceo-says-hiring-trump-lawyer-was-big-mistake-memo-idUSKBN1IC1L6
* "Watchdog group wants DOJ to probe whether Trump lawyer violated lobbying laws:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watchdog-group-doj-probe-trump-lawyer-violated-lobbying/story?id=55078729
* "Lawmakers weigh Plan B to protect Mueller’s work:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-weigh-plan-b-protect-mueller-s-work-n873241
* "Trump Was Told of Schneiderman Abuse Years Ago, Lawyer Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-11/cohen-judge-asked-to-seal-files-related-to-schneiderman-women
* "There's lobbying then there's what Michael Cohen was doing:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/there-s-lobbying-then-there-s-what-michael-cohen-was-doing-1231556675605
* "Sudden Departure Of White House Global Health Security Head Has Experts Worried:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tim-ziemer-global-health-security-leaves_us_5af37dfbe4b0859d11d02290
* "Nielsen pushed by Trump tirade to brink of resignation:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/nielsen-trump-resignation-532193
* They actually found something grosser than lying about his war record and mocking him being literally tortured for years yesterday. "Lawmaker anger builds after White House aide mocks 'dying' McCain:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmaker-anger-builds-after-white-house-aide-mocks-dying-mccain-n873406
* "Pruitt Hid Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Sex Abuse:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-pruitt-hid-dinner-with-cardinal-accused-of-sex-abuse
* "John Kelly’s terrible immigration lies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/11/john-kellys-terrible-immigration-lies/?utm_term=.7b38e6aef251&noredirect=on
* "John Kelly stirs familiar controversy with rare interview:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/john-kelly-stirs-familiar-controversy-with-rare-interview-1231589443524?playlist=associated
* TW: Hate Crime "DaShawn Horne was brutally beaten in a hate crime months ago. Now, his homecoming is marred by family turmoil:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/family-turmoil-overshadows-homecoming-for-victim-of-vicious-attack/
* TW: Dead Child. "Kansas waterpark operators indicted on criminal charges in child's death:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/23/kansas-waterpark-operators-indicted-criminal-charges-childs-death/454932002/
* "Here’s what’s going on with Hawaii’s erupting volcano:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/heres-whats-going-on-with-hawaiis-erupting-volcano/
* "The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine :" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness
* The quality of my sleep was actually pretty good given the level of Physical inconvenience I am dealing this week, though alas not in the quantity I'd hoped for. Weirdly, I'm having a good couple weeks with the AS, so my mobility is pretty good. (Fairly even temp and humidity at a level good for my joints). It's all the other chronic stuff that is haywire. So I'm in pain, struggling with the pollen count and feeling all round ick, but I can accomplish things if I avoid doing them when I'm dizzy or too tired. My legs are actually reliable for once, since my spine and hips are at a level of pain that I consider comparatively mild.
The ebay money is still in the banking netherworld, but I did manage to pay off the car repairs today and the honest Mechanic himself drilled a hole in my trunk for free, which is good as I am flat out not up to bailing it again and their hasn't been much cardboard. I need to figure out how to prop it open to air. I'm suspecting I need to sacrifice a cane, though not the good one, which is too nice for the job, is the perfect tool for when things slide behind the freezer drawer, and was a gift from a friend long ago, whom I miss. I do have a couple spares in the closet and need to take them out there to experiment with. I then looped the library and Post Office to get the ebays off, so that's sorted.
I also took down the cat window curtain for cleaning as someone had the blerps on it, cleaned that mess, changed a litter, and pre-washed the dishes. This is most of the spoons, but I should be fine for things like making a second meal and rehanging the curtain with yet another bit of Livia proofing, since it clearly needs more anchor points given her size, strength and heft.
Looking at my bank account, post today's expenditures, it really does look like I'm still about 150.00 down with the insurance, last unpaid bill, plus things we clearly need like litter and toilet paper. Litter is urgent as I only had enough for the one box and while Livia's output has slowed down with her growth, she still is very active, quite large, and has an appetite to match. It's not bad yet, but I really need to sort that in a week. The ebay is definitely enough to cover insurance, plus either household stuff or partial payment of the outstanding bill. That's next weeks problem though and nothing is going critical until nigh the end of the month. I feel rather like I accomplished something.
Addendum: I know I found both spare canes in a clean in the last year. They are not where I thought they were or the next most obvious place. I don't want to risk my good cane, and I definitely don't have the spoons for a proper search. D'oh!
Second Addendum: The curtains withstood a group panic, which suggests the five point system will work. I need to finger knit a better replacement for the far right temp string, but I am very pleased so far.
* I spent the day of opening ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics sitting with my mother in an emergency room waiting room. It was an eight hour wait for a five minute treatment plus tn minutes of monitoring. It was a poverty hospital and packed even though it was day. I remember at one point some poor bastard sat next to us, soaking through a bandage with most of his finger in a baggie for most of an hour. After they took him, I remember watching the blood spots dry on the linoleum where he'd been sitting in that dull and dazed way one does when in that kin of pain. They had Calgary on the waiting room screen once it started. It was a rough fucking year for me physically, and my sister had spent most of the previous two years in various hospitals trying not to die and was still in serious physical jeopardy, but the Olympics that year were first rate. The Battle of the Brians in Men's figure skating, dueling Carmens on the women's side, the Jamaican bobsled team, and Eddie the Eagle. None of us had ever been skiing in our lives, but Eddie the eagle was a hero in our house.
I mean it, we adored him unironically. He was goofy looking and nerdy and and so wonderfully over the top just happy to be there. There was something wonderful about that death defying dork not caring if people were laughing at him, just thrilled to be doing something he loved at the motherfucking Olympics. He was this ordinary guy who did something extraordinary because he just really fucking wanted to do the thing. That he did the thing and managed miraculously not kill himself was magic to us. Inspirational. It didn't matter that he had zero cool and zero chance of winning. He was THERE, doing a thing that ought to have been impossible with his level of training.
I just watched the Eddie the Eagle movie today, and what really got me was that the people who made it clearly understood what was amazing about him. Why just getting there was a victory, and how simply surviving the jumps was as big a win as a gold medal, given what it took to get there. I was really scared that they'd make fun of him, that they wouldn't love him the way we did, but it was clear every frame of that thing was made with love.
* It is fundamentally confusing to me that they are using the themesong from Versailles to sell cars.
* "‘The Expanse’ To End On Syfy With Season 3, Will Be Shopped Elsewhere By Alcon:" http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-canceled-syfy-after-three-seasons-to-be-shopped-1202388026/
* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it's all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $150 to stay afloat. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.
* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* This coming just after the news that Cohen was taking money from a pharmaceutical company. Because that's not suspicious at all. "Trump touts plan to lower drug costs but rejects Medicare negotiations:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/trumps-drug-prices-532682
* Up until the last couple of weeks the financial reporting Re: Russian Oligarchs, Trump, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, et al. has been the sort of thing that I as a reasonable intelligent and aware lay person could follow. Recently though, I think we've moved past what I can easily grasp, especially given the way my chronic illness makes my often tired and thick headed, particularly with the complex factors that gang up on me this time of year. In short, I am too tired, achey, itchy, sad (It's cherry blossom season), and thickheaded to summarize goings on to the degree I generally am accustomed to doing, nor am I up to the quantity of reading/comparison involved in selecting what I consider the clearest links on the topics involved. I still intend to link things on the financial side of Trump-Russia, but I won't be able to vouch for the sense or quality to the extent I prefer, if that makes sense. I just read the same thing on a particular Russian oligarch three times and can't tell you WTF and the same for a different piece on a different oligarch I read earlier twice. It's clearly time to give up trying for tonight. Again, I plan to keep pocking at it, and there is hope if I can pick apart the various things currently wrong, and lessen one or two sufficiently and if this other tree I'm wildly allergic to stops spooging in my neighborhood, I might be brighter in a week or two, but for now, take the links offered with a grain of salt.
* "FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation:" https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610381368/fbi-warned-of-russian-intelligence-links-to-oligarch-in-cohen-payment-allegation
* "Mueller probing donations with foreign connections to Trump inauguration:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-special-counsel-probing-donations-foreign-connections-trump/story?id=55054482
* "Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's Trump ties raise suspicion:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oligarch-viktor-vekselberg-s-trump-ties-raise-suspicion-1231600707606?playlist=associated
* "Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives In U.S. Since 2009:" https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610206357/documents-reveal-how-russian-official-courted-conservatives-in-u-s-since-2009
* "Mueller probing foreign-linked Trump inaugural donations:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mueller-probing-foreign-linked-trump-inaugural-donations-1231533123850
* "AT&T CEO: We made 'big mistake' hiring Cohen, chief lobbyist out:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-at-t-exclusive/exclusive-att-ceo-says-hiring-trump-lawyer-was-big-mistake-memo-idUSKBN1IC1L6
* "Watchdog group wants DOJ to probe whether Trump lawyer violated lobbying laws:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watchdog-group-doj-probe-trump-lawyer-violated-lobbying/story?id=55078729
* "Lawmakers weigh Plan B to protect Mueller’s work:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-weigh-plan-b-protect-mueller-s-work-n873241
* "Trump Was Told of Schneiderman Abuse Years Ago, Lawyer Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-11/cohen-judge-asked-to-seal-files-related-to-schneiderman-women
* "There's lobbying then there's what Michael Cohen was doing:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/there-s-lobbying-then-there-s-what-michael-cohen-was-doing-1231556675605
* "Sudden Departure Of White House Global Health Security Head Has Experts Worried:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tim-ziemer-global-health-security-leaves_us_5af37dfbe4b0859d11d02290
* "Nielsen pushed by Trump tirade to brink of resignation:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/nielsen-trump-resignation-532193
* They actually found something grosser than lying about his war record and mocking him being literally tortured for years yesterday. "Lawmaker anger builds after White House aide mocks 'dying' McCain:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmaker-anger-builds-after-white-house-aide-mocks-dying-mccain-n873406
* "Pruitt Hid Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Sex Abuse:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-pruitt-hid-dinner-with-cardinal-accused-of-sex-abuse
* "John Kelly’s terrible immigration lies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/11/john-kellys-terrible-immigration-lies/?utm_term=.7b38e6aef251&noredirect=on
* "John Kelly stirs familiar controversy with rare interview:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/john-kelly-stirs-familiar-controversy-with-rare-interview-1231589443524?playlist=associated
* TW: Hate Crime "DaShawn Horne was brutally beaten in a hate crime months ago. Now, his homecoming is marred by family turmoil:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/family-turmoil-overshadows-homecoming-for-victim-of-vicious-attack/
* TW: Dead Child. "Kansas waterpark operators indicted on criminal charges in child's death:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/23/kansas-waterpark-operators-indicted-criminal-charges-childs-death/454932002/
* "Here’s what’s going on with Hawaii’s erupting volcano:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/heres-whats-going-on-with-hawaiis-erupting-volcano/
* "The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine :" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness
* The quality of my sleep was actually pretty good given the level of Physical inconvenience I am dealing this week, though alas not in the quantity I'd hoped for. Weirdly, I'm having a good couple weeks with the AS, so my mobility is pretty good. (Fairly even temp and humidity at a level good for my joints). It's all the other chronic stuff that is haywire. So I'm in pain, struggling with the pollen count and feeling all round ick, but I can accomplish things if I avoid doing them when I'm dizzy or too tired. My legs are actually reliable for once, since my spine and hips are at a level of pain that I consider comparatively mild.
The ebay money is still in the banking netherworld, but I did manage to pay off the car repairs today and the honest Mechanic himself drilled a hole in my trunk for free, which is good as I am flat out not up to bailing it again and their hasn't been much cardboard. I need to figure out how to prop it open to air. I'm suspecting I need to sacrifice a cane, though not the good one, which is too nice for the job, is the perfect tool for when things slide behind the freezer drawer, and was a gift from a friend long ago, whom I miss. I do have a couple spares in the closet and need to take them out there to experiment with. I then looped the library and Post Office to get the ebays off, so that's sorted.
I also took down the cat window curtain for cleaning as someone had the blerps on it, cleaned that mess, changed a litter, and pre-washed the dishes. This is most of the spoons, but I should be fine for things like making a second meal and rehanging the curtain with yet another bit of Livia proofing, since it clearly needs more anchor points given her size, strength and heft.
Looking at my bank account, post today's expenditures, it really does look like I'm still about 150.00 down with the insurance, last unpaid bill, plus things we clearly need like litter and toilet paper. Litter is urgent as I only had enough for the one box and while Livia's output has slowed down with her growth, she still is very active, quite large, and has an appetite to match. It's not bad yet, but I really need to sort that in a week. The ebay is definitely enough to cover insurance, plus either household stuff or partial payment of the outstanding bill. That's next weeks problem though and nothing is going critical until nigh the end of the month. I feel rather like I accomplished something.
Addendum: I know I found both spare canes in a clean in the last year. They are not where I thought they were or the next most obvious place. I don't want to risk my good cane, and I definitely don't have the spoons for a proper search. D'oh!
Second Addendum: The curtains withstood a group panic, which suggests the five point system will work. I need to finger knit a better replacement for the far right temp string, but I am very pleased so far.
* I spent the day of opening ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics sitting with my mother in an emergency room waiting room. It was an eight hour wait for a five minute treatment plus tn minutes of monitoring. It was a poverty hospital and packed even though it was day. I remember at one point some poor bastard sat next to us, soaking through a bandage with most of his finger in a baggie for most of an hour. After they took him, I remember watching the blood spots dry on the linoleum where he'd been sitting in that dull and dazed way one does when in that kin of pain. They had Calgary on the waiting room screen once it started. It was a rough fucking year for me physically, and my sister had spent most of the previous two years in various hospitals trying not to die and was still in serious physical jeopardy, but the Olympics that year were first rate. The Battle of the Brians in Men's figure skating, dueling Carmens on the women's side, the Jamaican bobsled team, and Eddie the Eagle. None of us had ever been skiing in our lives, but Eddie the eagle was a hero in our house.
I mean it, we adored him unironically. He was goofy looking and nerdy and and so wonderfully over the top just happy to be there. There was something wonderful about that death defying dork not caring if people were laughing at him, just thrilled to be doing something he loved at the motherfucking Olympics. He was this ordinary guy who did something extraordinary because he just really fucking wanted to do the thing. That he did the thing and managed miraculously not kill himself was magic to us. Inspirational. It didn't matter that he had zero cool and zero chance of winning. He was THERE, doing a thing that ought to have been impossible with his level of training.
I just watched the Eddie the Eagle movie today, and what really got me was that the people who made it clearly understood what was amazing about him. Why just getting there was a victory, and how simply surviving the jumps was as big a win as a gold medal, given what it took to get there. I was really scared that they'd make fun of him, that they wouldn't love him the way we did, but it was clear every frame of that thing was made with love.
* It is fundamentally confusing to me that they are using the themesong from Versailles to sell cars.
* "‘The Expanse’ To End On Syfy With Season 3, Will Be Shopped Elsewhere By Alcon:" http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-canceled-syfy-after-three-seasons-to-be-shopped-1202388026/
* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it's all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $150 to stay afloat. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.
* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com