Sorry about the e-mail not working. Don’t know what the problem is. You can create an identity on wordpress.com without starting a blog. I had one for years before establishing this blog.

So last time I tried to log in it was with my email address and it didn’t work a tall.

Thanks to all the local stratovolcanos (Rainier, Adams, Baker, St. Helens, Hood), it’s fairly common to see clouds working their way around mountains out here. This just happened to be a moment when there was an interesting formation and I had my camera.

Out here it’s getting warmer, too. Might hit the mid-40s today. Amazing how quickly I got tired of the cold weather. Must be getting old…

Today though clear sky’s – 38- no wind. Better than it has been.

Cujo359 responds: Good grief, I’m supposed to get e-mail when someone comments here…

Anyways, lots of places in America already have different hours for the season. It certainly could be done by many others that might have to. Why we go through this every year really is a mystery to me.

Thanks for commenting, and sorry for the long delay in discovering your comment.

Cujo359 says: “I prefer diagnoses that offer practical paths to recovery:

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“Strategy — Phase One
1. Election Boycotts:
Gaining Power: Job number one — creating a responsive to the will of the people direct democracy electoral process… Farce to force! Yes, you have to give up being controlled by farce in order to take control and gain force! This will take proactive, not passive, boycotts of the present electoral process with a reorganization outside of, and in parallel with, the corrupt system.

When you come to see that these abuses are either by design, as I strongly believe, or even not by design, it matters not. What matters is that the abuses exist, they are severe, and they are working to destroy us. Good conscience, love, and caring, compels us now — all of us — to withdraw our consent, to no longer be complicit, and to shun the present farce immoral social political system and start again to gain force outside the present system.

The power of shunning — a ‘Vote of NO Confidence’… Voting is not a civic duty, it is a civil right like free speech. Just as you are not compelled to speak, you are not compelled to vote. Not voting is a vote that has the power of context. In times of citizen satisfaction a non vote can be considered a vote of confidence in the government that is setting the policy that is providing that citizen satisfaction. In turbulent times, where the citizenry is vocally dissatisfied and has repeatedly shown its disapproval when the government has repeatedly acted against its citizen will and been non responsive to that will, a non vote can be considered a ‘Vote of NO Confidence’ in that non responsive government. There is little doubt of citizen dissatisfaction with today’s wealthy elite Xtrēvilism corporate governance and little doubt that moneyed wealthy elite corporate interests have hijacked our government. Poll after poll leaves no doubt as to citizen dissatisfaction. Non votes in today’s context can confidently be counted as ‘Votes of NO Confidence’ in this hijacked government.

We have a Constitutional crisis that can not be resolved from within — the system is too corrupt… Election boycotts will be a bottom up movement and will include a concurrent revision of the Constitution made by all participants. The Constitution, like software, is in need of a serious upgrade. Past corruption has prevented revisions along the way, and the present corporate hijacking of the government has made change from within impossible. The New Constitution, fashioned and structured after the old, will include an electoral process of direct democracy with open and transparent voting on paper ballots by all citizens, hand counted by real humans — not machines! That Constitutional revision to regain control of the rule of law should also include, as a minimum; regaining of citizen control of all media, corporations, and banking.

Be wary of those who constantly implore you to seek remedial measures within the crooked system. Look at their wealth and stature and how they have come by it. People who advocate remedial change from within are either drinking the Kool Aid (they are totally gullible cons) or they are selling it (they are disingenuous shills). And don’t let them tell you that the American people are too stupid for direct democracy and can not be trusted to govern themselves. Yes, we have all been dumbed down a bit by the excessive ‘Greed and Evil is Good’ propaganda in the past forty plus years, but given the truth and the proper incentives the vast majority of American people are fair and intelligent and will recenter themselves to a sustainable course. That is what the wealthy elite gangsters are afraid of — fairness, direct democracy and the truth of sustainability.”

More here…

https://www.boxthefox.com/deceptionology/12fairism.html

To come up with a cure you first have to recognize the disease. ‘Progressives’, heavily infected themselves, refuse to look at it.

Deception is the strongest political force on the planet.

I prefer diagnoses that offer practical paths to recovery: “You’re sweating the small stuff – look at the larger picture”, “Don’t vote for the people who are screwing you”, that sort of thing. If they come up with a cure for “xtrevlism”, let me know.

Stupidity is banging your head against the wall when you know it hurts. Stupidity is changing the wall paper in a house that is in flames. Stupidity is changing the oil in your car as it plunges over a cliff. Stupidity is always eating and discussing your daily ration of intentionally contrived divisiveness.

The problem is systemic, morally based and won’t be resolved from within. Xtrevilism, the mental disorder swept under the rug — the mental disorder that makes you love, adore, and worship, those who oppress and kill you — is your root problem.

https://www.boxthefox.com/

Deception is the strongest political force on the planet.

I never figured out what the proximate cause was. I just assumed it was revenge, but it’s probably silly to think that Wall Street would go to the trouble if there weren’t a payoff.