Prolly would a killed me….

5 May

The United States’s non-Mexican “Mexican” holiday.

‘Twasn’t until it was a “Holiday” in Southern California that it then became a holiday in Mexico. Originally only celebrated in and around the State of Puebla in Mexico for the victory over French forces in 1862, it became a “celebration” in the US in order that merchants could sell liquor and food to mexican worker and migrants in  California….and somehow became a “celebration of Mexican American Heritage”

And even now, more gringos in the US celebrate Cinco de Mayo than Mexicans. Most Mexican immigrants in the US, both legal and not, aren’t sure why anyone celebrates 5 may…but hey, Mexican!

It’s not a national holiday in Mexico, although schoolchildren are given the day off.

And it isn’t Mexico’s national Independance day….That’s 16 September…..

A 2007 UCLA Newsroom article notes that, “the holiday, which has been celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico.”[29] TIME magazine reports that “Cinco de Mayo started to come into vogue in 1940s America during the rise of the Chicano Movement.”[20] The holiday crossed over from California into the rest of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s but did not gain popularity until the 1980s when marketers, especially beer companies, capitalized on the celebratory nature of the day and began to promote it.[31][32] It grew in popularity and evolved into a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage, first in areas with large Mexican-American populations, like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and San Jose.[33]

At least he is honest:

Although where he’s gonna come up with the money for all those rifles that I lost in the terrible canoe accident  that he will have to buy back from me at my market price, I have no idea.

Rep. Eric Swalwell calls for mandatory buyback of all ‘military-style semiautomatic’ weapons

Hey, at lest he’s honest about his intentions, and smart enough to realize that unless the Feds buy ’em back, they won’t get even a tiny portion of them.

This guy may be too smart for our own good…..

Even Federal Judges

are noticing the “issues’ with Mueller’s investigations.

A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking “unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing down the president.

Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.
Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded.
He summed up the argument of the Special Counsel’s Office as, “We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying.”
He referenced the common exclamation from NFL announcers, saying: “C’mon man!” 

Least bad

I’m thinking, at least in my local elections, that I my well choose to vote for those candidates who have the least vile mailings and who say the least vile things about their opponents.

Here, at least, most of them are pretty bad. I have a great deal of mailings that tell me what a sleazbag the other guy is, but very few that tell me why I should vote for that candidate that is denigrating his opponent.

Even worse, they are hiding behind all sorts of “Paid For by Friends of _____” groups, and don’t even have the courage to sign their name to the mud they are slinging.

This may well be an election wherein I have to choose the Lesser of the Two Weasels.

“Almost No warning”

“We only had minutes to evacuate”. 

If you live on the slope of an active and awake volcano and didn’t plan on lava eating your home in the near future, then you haven’t been paying attention.

I knew that someone on the slopes of the Kilauea volcano was going to have their home engulfed in lava at some point soon…..and I live in NW Indiana, fer chrissakes…. earthquakes, the whole crater collapse, etc. And I don’t live anywhere near a volcano…

If you live in the area and still have all your irreplaceable possessions in your home instead of stored away safely in another location, I don’t feel any sympathy. If you live anywhere near the area and weren’t ready to evacuate on a moment’s notice, I feel no sympathy. I hope that your Children and Pets are safe.

Volcano
Lava flow. Rivers of molten rock.
One cannot fight that. Simply get out of the way.