My Big Fat Weight Loss Campaign, Part 1: How It Began

I gave up on losing weight a long time ago. I have all my life found the subject of my weight a huge embarrassment. I was not fat as a child, but I was plump, and bullies discovered early on that they could make me miserable by singing “Fatty Fatty Two-By-Four” on every occasion... Read more at https://theobsidianmirror.net/2024/04/10/my-big-fat-weight-loss-campaign-part-1-how-it-began/

Cartoon by Mike Lukovich.

.

If you are upset by the cruel and unnecessary roundups, killings, and sale of America’s wild horses, please sign this petition.
https://www.oregon-wildhorse.org/take-action

Cartoon by Pedro Molina.

Cartoon by Mike Lukovich.

Cartoon by Pedro Molina.

.

“Regrettably, the Republican Party under Donald Trump, and particularly the right wing of the Republican Party, are very sympathetic to Vladimir Putin. I mean, I have been with Trump and Putin. Trump is in awe of Putin. When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he’s like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero.’ It is really creepy. It’s really creepy.”--Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia

Her best friend is a part-time coyote. "The Obsidian Mirror" by K.D. Keenan, https://amzn.to/3aQgRUl

"As he spoke, his voice became a deep, resonant susurrus, and the cavern was suddenly extremely full of snake. But this was a snake like none other since the world began. Its massive loops and coils would have dwarfed even a dragon, if such had ever existed, and instead of scales, the skin was covered with glowing blue-green feathers."
--"The Obsidian Mirror" by K.D. Keenan, https://amzn.to/3eqeh79

Mike Johnson, newly elected Speaker of the House, isn't just a run-of-the-mill Trumper. He's a "Seven Mountain Dominionist." In short, he believes that God has given him and his ilk dominion over the earth and everything in it. To find out more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

I don't know why everyone is so astonished that Israel intelligence did not see the Hamas attack coming. The US didn't see 9/11 coming. Anytime you get a complacent right-wing idiot in power, crap like this happens.

.

Let's not forget who started this destructive polarization of American politics.

.

.

Today's blog post: my 9-year-old granddaughter's first novel, "The First Unicorn." https://theobsidianmirror.net/2023/07/19/the-first-unicorn/

.

I will resume celebrating the Fourth of July when my rights as a human being and a United States citizen have been restored.