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Monday June 22, 2020

132 Days until the election on November 3^rd

212 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Missing Persons Report:

The Trump Rally had over one million people wanting to get in, according to their staff.

6,200 showed up according to the Fire Marshal.

Lemme do some math here 1,000,000 – 6,200 = 993,800

Nine Hundred Ninety Three Thousand Eight Hundred people vanished.

That’s astonishing. Remember that’s a conservative estimate. How did he do it?

Well, as per usual he didn’t do squat.

Now the staff is making cowardly excuses.

It was the fear of the virus.

It was the violent protestors.

It was the fear of the violent protestors.

Blah blah blah – blah blah.

Wait a second, aren’t these the America Love It or Leave It crowd?

Aren’t they the gun toting’ rebel yell crowd?

Aren’t they they the ones who are supposed to rough up those puny ass protestors?

What happened?

Maybe reality?

Was it the fact that they had to sign a waiver saying they wouldn’t sue Donnie if they got sick and died?

Was it fear of sickness and death?

Were they sick of him?

What was it?

Oh the protestors – blocking the entrances – yeah. Wait a second Chris Wallace on Fox News said there were less than one hundred. None of them were blocking entrances, and all were peaceful.

Oh, it was fear of the them, was it?

How about their Facebook guru? I can’t remember what excuse he made. I don’t think he admitted that he got played. Played by teenagers on Tok Tok and Twitter that bought up free tickets. Hundreds and thousands of them. You mean the chief Trump Troll got trolled? Yeah. Pussy.

Apparently, there is a circular firing squad in the White House all trying to blame someone else. 

Did you see the bedraggled picture of Trump?

I love it.

But that isn’t the best of the weekend. I thought it was but I was wrong.

The best was the citizen who stood in front of the school board in Baton Rouge and called out on of the members who was shopping on-line rather than listening to the people’s petitions. Yeah. The guy held up his cell phone with a picture of her shopping on line. That after she wanted to name a school after Robert E. Lee. This guy knew his stuff and suggested the first black governor of Louisiana or the first black Lieutenant Governor of the state because as he pointed out it was the black community that built the state and they were loyal to the Union not to the traitors.

The woman walked out. I guess she didn’t like being identified as having been ignoring people and their requests. She later said she was deeply sorry. How touching.

Why not take her little skinny ass out of the equation and resign?

Here’s the link:

Let people in there who want to try and improve the state. They’ve got a long way to go since Bobby Jindal nearly bankrupted it with his wonderful conservative policies.

This leads me to my ultimate question, “If you are for Trump or a Republican or a conservative Republican what is it that you envision for the country?” 

I’m curious. I really don’t know of anything that they really want. No vision. That was the problem Papa Bush had – “that vision thing.”

Any takers?

132 Days until the election on November 3^rd

212 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Not Leslie Jones as a puppet. 

Saturday June 20, 2020

134 Days until the election on November 3^rd

214 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

A friend of mine won’t even write his name he refers to him as Satan.

My friend is a shortwave enthusiast and has contact friends around the world.

Robert Gates in his book and on interviews has said that we need to strengthen our soft power and stop using military power as the first and only solution. Gates recommends strengthening such things as Voice of America (VOA) and associated U.S. Government run networks that broadcast news and our way of life around the world. It is how we stand up to authoritarian governments and autocratic bullies. It is how we give people news and the truth about what is happening both in America and in their own countries.

Until now.

Donal Trump at the behest of Steve Bannon no doubt (because Trump ain’t that bright) has replaced the head of all those networks with a right wing disciple of Bannon’s who up until this point in time has made wacky right wing movies. Seems the right wing is very concerned about boys going into girls bathrooms and whether or not girls in sports are being marginalized by transgender athletes. Given that their boy in the White House has pulled us out of every major treaty and deal he could, started trade wars that yielded nothing but ruined markets here at home and abroad, seen the largest decline in the economy since the Great Depression, the greatest joblessness rate since Black Friday, the biggest world pandemic ever seen, and huge rallies in our streets and streets around the world I can see why they are looking at the transgender issue as paramount to being resolved right now.

(I almost wonder if Gates’ book prompted Trump to realize he could kick down another American bulkwark then I realized – no, it’s Bannon.)

While they are focused on bathrooms and girls’ athletics Mr. Trump via his newly minted head of VOA and associated networks has fired everybody at the top of those organizations. All the boards of directors, all the people who actually run the place and deliver the content – all gone. Gee, I wonder who he’s going to replace them with? I’m guessing people worried about transgender people using the bathroom and oh yes let’s not forget the Clintons and George Soros.

So is that the worst thing Satan did this week? Or was it the firing of the head of the Federal Prosecutor’s office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY)? 

Hard to say isn’t it?

Why fire the guy he appointed and why fire him now?

Ah, grasshopper, five months to go til the election and he can put an acting in there for six months. The Southern District keeps looking into Trump’s dealings in New York. Just because he setup a scam university for which he had to return money and he and his sons are barred from running a non-profit in New York, and because he and his dad racially profiled and denied minority people housing, and just because he used illegal scab labor to build his Trump Tower and when they asked to be paid he threatened to deport them, just because his sister resigned as a judge so she wouldn’t have to face an inquiry about how the Trump family had set up many ways to hide and avoid taxes – some illegally, just because he was laundering money for Russians via Deutsche Bank and the son of a Supreme Court Justice signed many of the loan documents thus causing that judge to retire, just because he created four businesses that went bankrupt, just because he let people sign over title to their houses so they could keep gambling at his casino in New Jersey and then he could seize their houses The SDNY is investigating him and he thinks it very unfair and is out to do whatever he can to stop them. At least, until he can slide by in the next election.

Here’s the VOA clip:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-stacks-us-media-agency-with-loyalists-led-by-bannon-acolyte-85488709871

On a positive note: I saw an article in The Economist that talked about how science has been fundamentally changed by this pandemic and how that is of benefit to the world and science. The lady’s point being that the rush to try and stop this virus has led to publishing and the forming of alliances across corporate and international lines. Things that in earlier times (like March) would have taken years to form if ever. One thing she wrote that was really good was quoting someone else who said that in science if you don’t publish it doesn’t exist. The point of science is to learn how the world works. It is the ultimate search for truth. If you learn something and don’t tell others then we can’t benefit.

134 Days until the election on November 3^rd

214 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS In the Cave Balankanché, near Chichèn Itzá

Friday June 19, 2020

135 Days until the election on November 3^rd

215 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

John Bolton has a new book and there’s lots of talk about what’s in it. Yeah, well, who cares? He had his chance and he blew it. What did you expect? He’s a coward. I remember when I first heard of him. He was making stupid statements that the right loved. Remember the one about cleaning off the two top floors of the U.N. and nothing would be lost? Yeah, at that time he was considered to be kind of nutty. Smart maybe, but nutty. He hasn’t changed only our perception of him. Stuff has moved so far to the right that he now seems main stream to some. But he’s still nutty and he’s still a coward. 

He’s the kid on the playground that is hanging around the action, never part of the real action. He’s goading others to fight. He’s talking behind people’s backs, trying to get them to do something sinister. He hasn’t changed. Look what was reported about him at least three times during the impeachment hearings – he told others to go to the lawyers. He let his deputy assistant testify. He didn’t. 

Okay on to the stock market, Stevo, and all that. I was trying understand something about how economies work and I asked a friend about it. I thought it an econ 101 question; he thought it more graduate level – econ 330. The question was, “How does money get into the economy?” And this is central I believe to what’s going on in the stock market. 

Another friend sent me an article about the Fed and how they are now buying up new kinds of debt. Debt they have never bought up before. I think this is central to why the stock market is going up.

All this started when I began to expelling to another friend how the Fed controls the money supply in the economy. It was then that I realized I didn’t know how those newly printed bills that Steve and his wife Elvira were holding up with his name on them, how they get into the economy. Yes, I understand that banks could swap old bills for new ones but that doesn’t increase the actual dollars in the system. 

And I understand that the Fed can issue bonds and that the better the rate the more people will want them and this will take dollars out of the system. And I understand that by creating credit cards allows people to have more money available and the Fed can’t really control that. (That btw is one of the really neat things to understand. Credit cards and borrowing limits is a way to create money in the sense that people can use those credit cards to buy goods and services, which in turn stimulates the economy. More on this idea with Robert Gates and soft power- later.)

So why is the stock market going up? I mean it should be going down. We are in a pandemic. The economy is being throttled by a pandemic. People are out of work and yet the stock market is going up.

Ah Grasshopper. Why you ask? I’ll tell you why.

There are several things to realize:

1 – Remember stag-elation? That started with Nixon, then Ford (WIN? Whip Inflation Now?), and finally Carter. It was the fact that prices kept going up which indicated their was excess money in the economic system. To take money out of the system the Fed kept increasing the rates of the bonds they sold. Mortgage rates were over 15%. Yet, prices kept going up. Why? I asked a friend. He said that their was money that was unaccounted for that kept being coughed up to take advantage of the high interest rates on the bonds, etc. He didn’t put it in such economic terms; he said that there was a lot of money in mattresses. I said but that seemed crazy because it (the stagflation, the rising rates) had gone up for so long. He said, “The mattresses were thicker than anyone thought.”

Moral – The economy is a big slower than you think beast. 

2 – The problem with politicians trying to fix the economy is that they do too little too late, which economist after economist has pointed out actually makes the problem worse. By the time politicians get around to fixing things typically whatever they thought they should be doing just the opposite is usually true. So they keep adding fuel to the fire. This is a universal statement, not pointing at just our Congress. 

Our Congress has been particularly inept at doing much of anything. This Robert Gates points out is a threat to our security. If we can’t fix our own problems than maybe our system of government isn’t the way to go? Is how people around the world can view us.

With Trump’s behavior in terms of aligning himself with White Supremacists, with his advancing his own political fortunes at the expense of the country’s interests, with his lining his own pocket and those of his pals – it is easy for an autocrat to say, “See, you’re no better than us.” This is a threat to our way of life.

As Bolton’s book points out Trump is easily manipulated by other leaders around the world; be it Putin in Russia, Jinping in China, Kim in North Korea. They know they can manipulate him. Jared is also easily manipulated – for example by MBS in Saudi Arabia. This lead to the killing of Khashoggi, but they knew Donald would do nothing as well because that was the first trip he took as president.

So how does all this play into to rise in the stock market? Two things, maybe more, but two new things. Remember that half trillion Mnuchin got to spend anyway he wanted? That was to help small businesses and revive the economy, remember that? It wasn’t that long ago. So that’s 500 billion or 500 thousands of millions, or 500,000 millions. Wouldn’t that revive the economy if it was put into small businesses? You would think so. At least, it would be a big shot in the arm, right? I mean even if you gave a million to 500,000 people randomly that would help, right? So where did it go? 

It would seem to me that Trump and Mnuchin would be crowing about how that money has helped revive the economy. I mean at least as much as Paul Ryan saying the tax cuts, which gave millions and billions to the rich, helped some woman afford the annual fee at Costco (or was it Sam’s Club?)

But they haven’t been talking. No crowing. No chest puffery, no twitting, no long rambling nonsensical explanations from Mnuchin, something I’ve come to learn is his specialty. Why?

Well, others have asked that question too. Seems these folks have the silly idea that because this is money on the American people’s dime they have a right to know. By law they are correct. Of course Trump and Mnuchin could care less about that. However, a few bits and pieces have been pried out of some SEC filings. Turns out money has been funneled into “Street Names.” Those are the stock trading names that brokerage accounts and hedge funds use to trade and sell stocks. In other words, the money didn’t go to the pizza shop, or the car garage, or the barber shop, or the neighborhood restaurant – it went to Wall Street.

I’m shocked.

Moving on, the Fed has been doing it’s damndest to keep the economy afloat. They have been practically giving away money via almost no interest loans and that hasn’t done the trick so now they are buying up corporate debt. Something they have in the past been loath to do. Lemme break this down for you in an example I’ll call “The Prodigal Son.”

A son goes to his dad, hat in hand, and says, “Dad, I have tried to do my best but it wasn’t good enough. The businesses I’ve started have gone into debt. I did that to hopefully turn them into something great but it didn’t work out.” 

The father might say, “Really? From what I heard you were drinking, gambling, whoring, and blowing coke.”

To which the son might say, “Yeah, well that too and if I don’t come up with 5Gs by Sunday Guido is gonna break my legs.”

Okay, now dad says, “Oh son that’s terrible hears one hundred Grover Clevlands (He’s now on the $,000 bill. Used to be Hamilton.) Let me know if you need more.”

“I need more.”

“Okay, here’s more. What are you going to do with that?”

“None of your fucking business.”

Okay? See how this works?

So to put it in more esoteric terms. The Fed has bought up corporate debt and the Secretary of the Treasury has been given 500 billion to help the economy.

Of course my Prodigal Son example is simplistic. Actually the son would ask Dad to pick up the debt on Guido and lots of other “expenses” (Like “Debbie’s Dallas House of Pleasure and Pain” etc.) 

What does the sone do now? He spends that money dad gave him. He buys back stock in his company to make the price go up so he can pay himself a big bonus based on the price of the stock going up. He sees other stocks going up so he buys them to ride the glide. Yeah, good times.

When will it end?

August.

Maybe November. Depends who get elected. If a Democrat gets elected then expect Jm Jordan to all of a sudden discover that MY God the Country is in Debt and What are You Going to Do About It? This followed by any Republicans left in the Senate to scream that they need to hobble Social Security and Medicare more than they already have. Ron Paul will go off about Austrian Economics and diddling with rates. Ted Cruz and some other sap will get concerned about the debt and the need to cut social programs more. Or as Bill Clinton said about when Democrats take office the Republicans complain that they (the Dems) don’t clean up their (the Republican) mess fast enough.

When you get right down to it Mnuchin and Bolton are cut from the same cloth. Cowardly twiddlers who have learned to play the game but have no sense of what the game is being played for. They are only in it for their own power and glory.

Now on to the Osmo 3. This is a cute little gadget. It’s a handheld device for your mobile phone. Like a selfie stick. It has a steady cam feature and it can be paired via bluetooth with said mounted phone. You can look at your phone make a “V” sign and it will start recording in three seconds after that and it will follow you based on facial recognition. This is handy for all those dance move (think Tiki’s Tok) videos you’ve been meaning to put up on social media. The think can be put on a tripod too. It’s really neat. Except, it’s incomprehensible. If you have found the product manual on-line; you have a chance. However, the manual was apparently written by engineers and the marketing department. Both of whom have some idea how this thing works.

The button are described in one section. The use of the buttons is described in another. In this way you have to scroll back and forth to figure out which button they are talking about. (This to me is a dead giveaway that the manual was written by engineers and not humans.)

There is a feature for following you around. It’s called ActiveTrak. Not “follow your face” which would let you know what they were talking about. (This is a dead giveaway that the manual was written by marketing and not humans.)

There is a the “V” feature that allows you to turn on the record button when you are in position in front of the camera. There is also a “palm up” sign. What is that for? Obviously stop. Wrong. There is no “stop” hand gesture, only start and that can be either the palm up or the V.

Then there are the lights. The manual says the lights are red, green, and yellow. Sometimes they blink. All these things mean something. What exactly, you better consult the table elsewhere. What they don’t mention is that most of the time you will see white lights. What are they telling you? I think that it is charging. The manual does tell you that when all the lights go off the unit is fully charged. What they don’t tell you is that another condition can occur when all the lights are off and that is THE THING IS DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL.

Then there is a button marked “M” that is the on/off button. Why M? Who knows.

After balancing your phone and paring it via bluetooth (provided that The Thing Isn’t Dead as a Door Nail) then you can press the “M” button multiple times and thing will happen with the gimbals. One of those things is that the phone will turn down 30 degrees. Why? Who knows. Press the “M’ button somemore and the thing whips your phone around so it is lying prone face up like a dead fish. If you get to read the screen before it goes blank you might discover that this is “Standby Mode.” Otherwise, you just laugh and look around wondering if you are in a Keystone Cops remake. Or Hidden Camera. (Look it up.)

I’ve been told laughingly with these new apps and this gizmo that you have to play with it and that there really aren’t manuals because things change so fast.

The only thing I want to “just play with is” – can you guess? Yeah, that’s right. And for that I don’t need a manual. Otherwise, please. If you want to give me some instructional videos I understand there’s a whole industry that is willing to help there.

Why can’t we get the porn industry to make videos and manuals for tech things? It would be so much better than most of the crap out there.

Okay, enough. 

I’ll not be in the field but more likely in my chair, playing with all these super-cool apps asking the question, “What do you think this is for?”

135 Days until the election on November 3^rd

215 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Me and Osmo

Thursday June 18, 2020

136 Days until the election on November 3^rd

216 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Okay we have two models of how to treat the pandemic. We can do what Italy, China, Spain, and South Korea did or we can do what the governors in Florida, South Carolina, Oklahoma and seven other states have done. Let’s not listen to the rhetoric, let’s look at the results. In the countries I mentioned after a rapid rise the number of cases came down, way down. In the states I mentioned the number of cases rose and continue to rise with no end in sight. 

Put on your thinking caps and ask yourself which model would you think would make sense to follow? If you said what the countries did you’d be right. So what has the Trump administration done? Well, nothing – really, and they’ve encouraged the states to keep doing what they are doing. What exactly is that? Well, mainly telling people to get out there, and to hide the data from the public. If this seems like a recipe for disaster let the data speak for itself. 

How did we get to this point?

That’s a question Fiona Hill has been asking as well. She has been looking at Britain, Russia, and the U.S. And asking when it comes to the corona virus how did they end up in the same place? Hill has an especially good eye for this type of analysis having grown up in Northern England, educated there and in the U.S. and her specialty is Russia and Putin. 

Her conclusion is that all three are populist politicians and populism lends itself to simple slogans and fixes to complicated problems. 

Here’s the article and thanks to my friend Frank for showing this to me.

‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism

She was the White House’s top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump’s impeachment. She reflects on her journey from County Durham to Washington

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/APjUjngoXRqO7HtgPIo7Ntw

136 Days until the election on November 3^rd

216 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Big Bird

Wednesday June 17, 2010

137 Days until the election on November 3^rd

217 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I feel like I am writing a nineteenth century chapter of a novel where you go to the Table of Contents and there laid out over several lines is a brief summary of the whole chapter. I have wondered if the authors did that to keep track of what they were doing or did the editors do it for that purpose.

Let’s get to it. I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday to pick up the book I mentioned yesterday entitled Impostors, which talks about how the Republican Party no longer cares to govern but rather put out press releases and call it a day. They no longer have policies only BS. You can go to their website to verify what I’m saying, as the author did. Compare that to Joe Biden’s campaign website where he has over seventy action items. Go to Donald Trump’s website, there is nothing. No policies, no prescriptions, no action items – just bull.

When I walked around Barnes and Noble I saw several books that made me spin around and say to myself, “What the ???” One was a book that reported to have discovered the crimes that Devin Nunes uncovered. Either that book or another one was written by the guy who wrote “Clinton Cash.” Another book featured an ominous looking photo of Chelsea Clinton revealing, supposedly, her cozy criminal fiddling up to power. You have to really go aways to make Chelsea look sinister but a green filter with a blue one and a dash of purple kind of did the job. It was so dark however that I wasn’t sure who it was at first.

But here’s the thing – all those books are crap. Lies. Now, we could argue that there might be some shreds of truth in them; much like one can argue that most of what Hitler said was sort of true, but that misses the point. The purpose of these books is to foster a false narrative, an overall lie. It is an attempt to gas light, to try and convince you and me that something happened that really didn’t. We’ve come to accept this in political campaigns, but in governing? That’s a different story. 

If when you govern you try to do it by lying you will find yourself in a world of trouble, as Donald Trump has. Not that he’s discovered that fact. But this is the way the Republican Party has acted for decades. They don’t have ideas or principles by which to govern. They have animosities and scores to settle and lies to foster. There are no solutions, just press releases. 

On leaving the book store I got a call from Shelby, “Where’s the sausage? Did you do something with it? I can’t find it.” I reassured her I didn’t do anything with the sausage and that the last time I saw it, it was on the middle shelf in the frig, in the front, right in the middle.

“It’s not there. I’ve looked everywhere. I’m afraid I might have taken it out, put it somewhere and we’ll discover it smelling weeks from now.”

The hunt was on. I came home. Confirmed it wasn’t on the middle shelf. Not in the freezer, or any other shelf in the refrigerator, not in the trash or the other refrigerator, or the pantry, or the front hall table, or the bathroom, or next to the magazine stack by her chair, or in the car. It had disappeared. No, it wasn’t in the other bathroom. It was gone. Disappeared.

Robert Gates has written a book I’ve gotten tired by former government officials who have written books. Many of them are the same format. The first 7/8 is the history of their rise within the ranks and the last part mentions the stuff you really want to know. 

Gates has served in government for forty or fifty years. He’s been Secretary of Defense under Obama and W. He’s run the CIA, been on the National Security whatever. He’s seen threats and dealt with them. He knows his way around Washington and Presidents. He has respect for the President and the office of the President.

Gates said several things in an interview last night that I think are worth repeating:

The army is trained to kill our enemies. The National Guard is trained to protect our communities and to assist when disaster strikes them. (This puts it in pretty stark terms. This all made me think about the policing problem we have. We’ve put all sorts of problems on the police’s shoulders that aren’t what they are trained to do. Then we started giving them military weapons and military (kill ‘em!) training. Now, some are surprised by the outcome?)

The other really big point Gates made was that we have hollowed out and defunded many of the tools that we have had for spreading our influence around the world that are of a non-military nature. He pointed to Voice of America and other radio type operations. He said most presidents didn’t always like what VOA was saying about them. But the programs were trusted around the world not only for telling people what was going on in America but what was going on in their own countries. “Why aren’t we telling the Iranians how their leaders are stealing from them? Or the Russians what Putin and his thugs are doing?” he asked. Why indeed.

Gates went on to say that China has been buying up media and communication outlets around the world so they can tell their story and we have nothing to counter that. I can’t remember why we stopped such programs but I’m willing to bet it was due to administrations and Senators who didn’t like what was being said about them and their party. 

Another point Gates made was that it appears that we can no longer solve our own problems and this makes people around the world wonder if our system of government is right for them.

How though, I ask myself, can we solve any problem when we aren’t willing to face the truth? We need to go no further than the current pandemic and the administrations actions around this crisis. Mike Pence has just praised Tulsa for their outstanding work in fighting the pandemic. What is he drinking? Oklahoma has just had their biggest rise in cases this week and Tulsa leads the way. 

One person on the front lines in Alabama was asked about a second wave of the pandemic. She scoffed and said we never got over the first wave. The results in other countries versus our own is startling. Italy, Spain, and other countries have graphs with a huge rise at the beginning that has been brought down to low levels. Us? We have a huge rise and it’s leveled off at a high plateau. Remember that football coach who ESPN keeps replaying saying, “Playoffs? Don’t talk to me about playoffs.” 

Like “Are you crazy? We’d like to win a game.”

Yeah, well. “Second Wave? Ha. We haven’t dealt with the first wave.”

I have really enjoyed Vivian Howard’s new show “Somewhere South.” It’s on PBS, like her other show, “A Chef’s Life.” In her original show she told the story of going back home to eastern North Carolina to open a restaurant in the town she grew up in. There’s not much in Kingston except for her restaurant and a replica of a Confederate ironclad ship, which sits on pilings on the side street opposite her restaurant. 

In this new show she’s traveling around the south to see how various people in their corners of the south do southern cooking. One show was about greens and another about barbecue. She talked, cooked, prepped, and ate with black people, rednecks, Asian Americans, American Indians and Indian Indians. One thing they had in common – they were from the south. They lived worked cooked and ate in the south. It became clear to me that this was not a show about cooking but about people and their food. (Well, duh. She said that at the beginning. I know, but it takes awhile for me to catch on.) She has a big beautiful book out. Many would call it a cookbook. It’s that, but it’s more than that. It’s the story of food. Her food. 

Shelby took one of Howard’s recipes for cooking greens. One of the things Vivian Howard spoke about in her show about greens was “Pot Liquor,” The juice made from the greens cooking. I wanted to know what that was like. I guess Shelby wanted to let me experience it too. This brings me back to the missing sausage package. It was for that recipe. 

She found and defrosted some other sausage and let me tell you – the greens, the sausage, and the pot liquor were tasty. That should be a capital “T”.

I had not experienced greens like that before. Now I understand.

Later that evening I went to have some yogurt and blueberries. There were two large flat square packs of blueberries.  I picked up the first pack. Nearly empty, but enough for my yogurt. And will you lookey-here. Both blueberry packs had lips on them and just enough to hide the sausage package from view that was sandwiched in-between. Even when you got down and peered straight on. Where were those pesky sausages hiding? Second shelf right in the middle of the shelf, where I had first descried them to be located.

Moral of the story – Sometimes things are as they seem.

137 Days until the election on November 3^rd

217 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Go back and look at the second to last photo. See the white edge of the sausage package? It’s between the two blueberry containers.

PPS I’m glad I didn’t find it right away. ( Then I would have done a superiorty dance. Pissed her off. And I’d be sleeping on the couch – so to speak. )