Today is 2nd Septemia 13AS...a Oshunday

"Oshunday is The Second Day. Oshun is a Yaruban Goddess of Love and Sweet Waters, worshiped as a River Goddess in Nigeria and as a Orisha in Brazilian Candomblé. She is chosen chosen because She gets the week to 'flow with Her Love and Beauty'."

Addendum D [Calendar for A New Matriarchy]

Dear Fellow Progressives,

~We are locked in a desperate Cold Civil War with an American Right Wing that is more insane and well armed with each passing day.

~We live within a National Security State that is well on its way to becoming a Stasi wet dream.

~Austerity is strangling us economically and relentlessly eliminating Public Sector Services, reducing us to penury.

~All of this is being supported and funded by The Corporate State with the goal of completely crushing any Progressive action or even thinking because such interferes with their long term outcomes.

....and yet one of your top priorities is disarming yourselves? Really, why don't you just drown your children and slit your own throats. That fate would be better one than the steady road to slavery to which your delusional faux-pacifist ideology is leading us.

Nebs

Life in The Desert

~It is presently 90° and 25% humidity. That's way too humid and defeats the swamp cooler. And there are plus 100's predicted for the entire next two weeks. I'm afraid it's gonna be like last July where we were fucking poached for the whole fucking month.

Nebs Sez

"The Global Climate has never been 'harmonious and balanced'. That's a Nature Lover's fantasy. It is fluid and dynamic and a warming trend was very likely on the menu anyway. However, that trend would have unfolded over a couple/three centuries and been 'manageable' from the human point of view.

But what we humans have done is to pump tens of trillions of tons of hydrocarbons into that fluid and dynamic system and supercharged it. Now it is getting warmer faster than it would have and the mean temperatures will be higher. Plus its storm systems will be far more violent. That is not simply natural 'climate change'; that is Catastrophic Climate Change.

It is probably that we are past any point of stopping this or even of ameliorating it. We just get to ride it out. We will survive this. We're like fucking cockroaches. But it's going to an unpleasant transit and a lot of us are going to suffer and die because of it."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620#ixzz2X0NGzxLY