pattykimura

pattykimura, 6 days ago to random

Why in the world would Trump think if he demanded each side take a drug test, that Joe would refuse, and would give Trump an out from the debate? The only thing Joe's blood test would show was elevated a1c from all that ice cream. Let's see Trump's jacked up adderall drug test.

pattykimura, 27 days ago to random

Trying to find a Samoan song I was taught as a child, includes the lyrics " kua fiafia". If anyone has a link, that would be great. Google doesn't recognize it as a song.

It's a delightful simple tune I have sung now for decades to the confusion of my New England neighbors. My grade school class sang it at our school's May Day celebration which, in Hawai'i was a celebration of all the different cultures in our state. We learned Bon dancing, square dancing, hula (of course), Filipino stick dancing (tinikling), the Kamehameha waltz, etc, and songs from around the Pacific.

Internets? Can you do your thing?

pattykimura, 28 days ago to random

To our friends in the Midwest and Plains states: Be safe. Thinking about you. 🙏

pattykimura, 1 month ago to random

When I was seven, I had elderly parents who talked often about old age forgetfulness. I wrote a letter to my future older self: "Dear Patty, Don't worry about forgetting things when you are old because you can't remember anything now. Sincerely, Patty."

I just called Sloppy Joes "Messy Sams".

pattykimura, 2 months ago to random

Dream last night: I am surrounded by sweet happy dogs who all want a boop. I am booping this nose and that nose, happy wiggling dogs all rushing up for a boop. I realize slipped in among the dogs are a porpoise, an alien, and a lizard, each happy and wiggly, all wanting a boop. I happily oblige. Boop!

pattykimura, 2 months ago to random

Had a dream last night where, in a moment of intense drama, I stood up and slapped the faces of three clocks, and my beloved late cat shook his head and muttered "This dream is too stupid for me" and sauntered out.

I wish I could say my dreams are never like this, but that would not be true.

pattykimura, 2 months ago to random

@GabeMoralesVR
Says a person who is baiting an IRS audit. Good luck to you. Ignorance of the tax code is no defense. Advertising that ignorance is lunacy. "...for literally years and years..."
Instead of arguing that you've gotten away with it for "years and years", I'd declare yourself lucky, and delete this public admission.

pattykimura, 3 months ago to random

I did a bad thing today. I am cleaning up the house and preparing for Saturday Dump Day when I take the trash and recycling to the Town Transfer Station. So, I cut up all the boxes, including the big one the cat has been sitting in. To my surprise, she mourned the box by pawing at its pieces, and trying to push herself underneath the pile. I am a bad senseless inconsiderate human.

pattykimura, 3 months ago to random

Trump won 51% of Iowa caucus vote.
Trump won 54% of NH primary vote.
He is the GOP incumbent

Joe Biden is currently winning 97% of the SC primary vote.
He is the Democratic incumbent.

So tell me again, who has the support of his party? Trump-o barely breaks 50%.

pattykimura, 3 months ago to random

Perhaps I am foolish (likely I am foolish) but something feels changed; the E Jean Carroll judgment, the collapsed Army of God Truck Caravan, the mocked rambling blathering of a "Nothing" 77 year old man desperate for attention, the rising Dobbs motivated voters in Red States, a father cruelly beheaded by his MAGA cursed son and broadcast on youtube.

It's been a terrible unspeakable horrific 8 years. Are we close to an end of the insanity? Are they running out of invisible steam?

pattykimura, 4 months ago to HashtagGames

#Questionsfromcats #HashtagGames
"Why you feed me poop? I can haz cover it."

pattykimura, 4 months ago to random

Hearing Christian Evangelicals idolize Trump as King David, a flawed lascivious murderous King who was chosen by God to be King. David was not actually a Christian, he preceded the life of Jesus by 1000 years.

Curious that "Christians" would forsake the believed actual Son of God Jesus Christ who led a life not characterized by pussy-grabbing, adultery, lying, encouraging assassination, to justify the idolatry of Trump.

Why not support Jesus values?

pattykimura, 4 months ago to random

I woke to realize how few years, statistically, I have left on this earth. Time to get cracking!

Less years, even, to continue to work -- I better get my files in order for the next person. Clean up the bedroom. Love the cat, and my beloved wife. Learn new things, unexpected things.

I am not afraid of aging, I am more curious about what life and the world might be if I outlive my statistical end and get to see 100. My mom made it to 97, my grandma to 105.

Curiosity has always out weighed fear, in my life.

Happy New Year to the curious, the fearful, the undecided, all!

pattykimura, 4 months ago to random

The irony of the Nikki Haley "states rights" Civil War cause of "freedom" from the "tyranny of a federal government" "denying the rights of individual states to self-determination on slavery" is that those modern human enslavement apologists have clearly NEVER read the Constitution of the Confederacy which enshrined its federal right to deny and overrule the "states right" of any confederated state to abolish human slavery.

It was never about states rights. It was always about the cause of human enslavement. That's their Lost Cause.

pattykimura, 6 months ago to random

Did I read this? MAGA has now declared War on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving parades, and non-testicular tanned Charlie Brown led by angry pale thin alpha Stephen Miller.

pattykimura, 9 months ago to random

So, Trump knows he lost 2020. He knew he would lose 2020. He lied and plotted and committed crimes to refuse to accept a newly elected government, new AG, the new prospect of accountability for corruption.

He knows he will lose 2024. The numbers just aren't there, even adjusting for Trumpist election corruption.

So, given this: What's his actual universe of options for avoiding prison?!

Flight from Justice seems a rising contender. The seeding of the glowering Mug shot as justification for flight seems par. A switch from smug "What me worry? Losers" Trump face.

Thoughts?

pattykimura, 9 months ago to random

@seachanger
Did you still need help with video footage of your BILs accident in the St Johns neighborhood on Saturday? I can ask my sister who is involved with the PDX Hazelwood neighborhood (& longtime community activist) if she has contacts in St Johns who can help.

pattykimura, 9 months ago to random

#Hurricanehillary
If it's not too late, get a small pump and hose, in case of basement or house flooding. Bought one after groundwater rise was pushed to the max due to two successive tropical storms in 4 days. We don't have a sump pump, so I spent 48 hours lifting wet/dry vacs full of water to protect my furnace and hot water heater. You can get a small inverter generator to run the pump if your power goes out.
Store potable water. Assume power outages. Extra batteries. Gas up vehicles. Have a go bag or list in case you have to leave. Remember pets, meds, elderly neighbors. Be safe!

pattykimura, 9 months ago to random

#KariNewell
#MarionKS

Who is the wealthy powerful Republican connected person who waged a vendetta against a newspaper for truthfully reporting on her DUI, jeopardizing her pending Liquor License applicaton? That resulted in an armed police raid of the newspaper's offices, and the armed police raid of the home of the newspaper's 98 year old co-owner Joyce Meyer and her subsequent death?

Could it be: #KariNewell owner of the very fancy restaurant
ChefsPlateParlour1886.com ?

Newell also owns Kari's Kitchen.

pattykimura, 9 months ago to random

#UPS

Union contract agreement for Aug 1 2023 for full-time senior drivers at top rate/CDL-A: $44.25 per hour x 2080 hours per year = $92,040

Part-time 15 yrs+ = $31.14 (annualized @ $64,771)
Part-time 5-10 yrs = $24.55
(annualized @ $51 064)
Part-time new = $21.00
(annualized @ $43,680)

Union jobs are good jobs.

US median salary in 2022 was $54,132

When the millionaire CEO of UPS says UPS drivers will be making $170,000, notice he saying not saying wages. He knows what the contract says about wages, he signed it.

pattykimura, 9 months ago to random

Ok, I'm so old I have what used to be called: "Hyperkinetic Impulse Disorder in Children" and is now called ADHD, but my beloved beleaguered spouse sometimes prefers to call it "Patty Pay Attention Deficit Disorder."

I am, admittedly, easily distracted combined with an interest in everything and a low threshold of excitement. So, basically, I am a happy dog in a world of squirrels.

Oh boy!

pattykimura, 10 months ago to random

Why do Republicans running against Trump believe that if they beat him in a primary or caucus that he'll suddenly graciously concede, and won't claim they stole that election from him? Do they think it's just about Democrats and Joe Biden that he disrespects elections?

Ted Cruz won Iowa in 2016. Trump pressured the Iowa GOP to invalidate that result, and claimed Cruz stole that election.

pattykimura, 10 months ago to random

Fascists used disruption, chaos, intimidation, and the threat of violence to take over a nation to institute an authoritarian state.
So did Nazis.
Remember the Tea Party?
J6 MAGA?
Proud Boys?
Moms for Liberty?
Screamers about groomers?1

This is classic fascist playbook.

Why are we always surprised and unprepared for the deliberate use of disruption and screamed lies?

Why are they always unfazed by our righteous indignation and why are they disrespectful of norms? Because it's an "on purpose."

I still remember a hearing when impotent polite Jerry Nadler was unwilling to immediately gavel Jim Jordan down and unprepared to shut off his microphone as Jordan deliberately continued to disrupt as a means to control the narrative and neuter Nadler. Jordan deliberately exploited Nadler's decorum as a weakness.

Marge. Boebert. Gaetz. Tuberville. Cruz.

The crossing lights are flashing. The horns are blaring. The crossing bar is coming down.

pattykimura, 10 months ago to HashtagGames

#MisheardLyrics #HashtagGames

"Fleas, fleas, travelin' fleas"
We hear it from the people of the Town, they call us...

Thought it was about a traveling flea circus.

pattykimura, 10 months ago to random

I love that everyday I find more interesting people to follow. Hmm. That could sound like the rest of you I already follow are less interesting.
I should try a more precise language.
"Everyday more follow, interesting people I love."