Month: January 2025

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Scott

Scott West, Sabino Canyon 1983

I don't know whatever happened to Scott. We ironically met in 1979 or early 1980 through his ex, who I tried to pick up one lunch hour while waiting in line at the bank. (Remember when you had to do that to cash a check?) Tom and I didn't really have enough in common to cause a spark, but when I met Scott we immediately hit it off. We actually "dated" for a while, but our schedules never seemed to sync often enough (he was an overnight radiology tech) to ignite the kind of passion that would spark a serious relationship. We did manage to maintain a casual friends-with-benefits thing for some time, but even that fizzled after I moved from Phoenix to Tucson. We lost touch with each other completely shortly after this photo was taken on his singular trip he made to Tucson that summer, and despite attempts to locate him years later (difficult because of his relatively common name), I was unsuccessful. I finally gave up and mentally put him in the MIA bucket along with so many others lost during the plague years.

I ran across this photo in the same file folder I found the Minidisc comic strip from the earlier post, undoubtedly thrown in there years ago because I was too  lazy to return it to the photo album I'd pulled it from.

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Quote Of The Day

It's been a week. The shock part is over; the awe part never happened. Time to be throwing sand into the fascist gears, y'all." – John Scalzi

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Our Failed Political Press â„¢, Again. Sigh.

From Mock Paper Scissors:

The Orange 🤡 cannot force Canada into becoming the 51st state, because that's not the Constitutional process. And our corrupt and illegitimate SCOTUS has nothing to do with it. This is NOT a legal process, so they have no say.

Just look at what Puerto Rico/DC has been trying to do and you can see the process for yourselves.

      1. Canada would have to petition the United States to become a state. Or more likely, each province would have to petition (And I guaran-damn-tee you Quebec don't play that game!)
      2. Congress would have to agree —and FOTUS (Felon of the United States) has NO vote in Congress.

Now recall that each province would get TWO senators (and some number of Representatives) and Canadians already have socialized medicine. Can you really see the Fascists diluting their iron grip for 18 or so new Democratic Senators? (Remember, the Quebecois are never going to petition to become part of the United States! They are not even keen on being part of Canada!)

It just isn't going to happen, and this is the same reason Greenland is never going to become a state.

And just in passing because everyone is freaking out, Executive Orders cannot lawfully undo laws passed by Congress. FEMA was established by statute, our membership in the World Health Organization is by statute (which is probably why The Orange 🤡 now says that we'll probably rejoin. He cannot admit that he made a mistake.)

While it is true that Congress can repeal laws, it is rarely done. So before everyone freaks out about all the institutions and guardrails failing, go look to see if there is any legislation behind them. Our Failed Political Press â„¢ is only reporting what Fat Nixon is saying, and not checking to see if it is even possible.

(I know that everyone is going to pile-on and tell me that laws don't matter any more, but they kinda do. )

—Regards, Civics Boy