ALERT: BLIZZARD WARNING 4 PM Sunday to 7 AM Tuesday

Alert: Blizzard Warning issued February 21 at 12:29PM EST until February 24 at 7:00AM EST by NWS Boston/Norton MA A blizzard warning is in effect for your area from 4 PM Sunday to 7 AM Tuesday EST, with expected snow accumulation between 1 and 2 feet and winds gusting up to 60 mph.  Summarized by Yahoo Scout Was this message summary helpful?      To:  me · Sat, Feb 21 at 12:35 PM    ⚠️ Blizzard Warning In Your Area     Blizzard Warning issued February 21 at 12:29PM EST until February 24 at 7:00AM EST by NWS Boston/Norton MA     BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM SUNDAY TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY     Instruction: Travel should be restricted to emergencies only. If you must travel, have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded, stay with your vehicle.     Description: * WHAT...Blizzard conditions expected. Total snow accumulations between 1 and 2 feet. Winds gusting as high as 60 mph. * WHERE...Portions of eastern, northeastern, and southeastern Massachusetts and northern and southern Rhode Island. This includes Boston to Providence corridor. * WHEN...From 4 PM Sunday to 7 AM EST Tuesday. * IMPACTS...Visibilities may drop below 1/4 mile due to falling and blowing snow. The strong winds and weight of snow on tree limbs may down power lines and could cause power outages. Whiteout conditions are expected and will make travel treacherous and potentially life-threatening. Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The hazardous conditions will impact the Monday morning and evening commutes. Strong winds could cause tree damage. 

Anne Lamott "The love of our dogs and cats is the closest most of us will come to knowing the direct love of God on this side of eternity." ~@ANNELAMOTT

 

Bob Golen: trump wins gold in downhill presidency

The Way they Were

 

Lulu's back in Town

In early January the Blackstone MA animal rescue officer received a call about a dog someone needed to drop off. "Sorry, but you're outside our jurisdiction," was the reply. Because the caller lived in Woonsocket, they were told they needed to go to Woonsocket's facility. But because the Woonsocket animal control building is under construction, they would have to drop the dog at the Woonsocket Police Department. The people were too scared to do that so they drove to Blackstone, just a mile away, and let the dog loose.

Soon after, the Blackstone animal rescue officers, Kevin and Susan, started receiving calls from residents about a loose dog, and they went out and picked her up. I saw her picture and immediately filled out an application for adoption. After waiting the allotted days without being claimed, she was brought to Tufts for spaying and vaccines and a microchip. I went to meet her when she was allowed to be adopted and then Bill met her and then Romeo dog met her. We adopted her February 1st, and decided to name her Lulu.

She and Romeo are becoming good friends. We took Lulu for her lyme and lepto shots part one of two and fecal test this week. She is being treated for the Giardia parasite common at kennels. 

We love her! 

I have three treasures that I cherish and hold dear. The first is love, the second is moderation, the third is humility. With love one is fearless. With moderation one is abundant. With humility one can fill the highest position. Now if one is fearless but has no love, abundant but has no moderation, rises up but has no humility, surely he is doomed. Lao Tzu

‪Dare Obasanjo‬: Other countries are arresting people on the Epstein list, America decided to make its most frequent flier its president and is now going to give him a war with Iran as a distraction. This is not a serious country.

I was walking my dogs on Montcalm Avenue in Blackstone Massachusetts and the trash bins were on the street today. I tossed in the poop bag and an empty plastic yogurt container I picked up from the sidewalk. The surveillance camera shouted at me, Get the fuck away from my trash! I have met the folks and dog who live there. No cars were in the driveway so someone was shouting at me from a remote location. Fascinating. Cowardly.

I had never met a Briard dog until just now in the waiting room at the vet's office. Apparently Thomas Jefferson had them. They are French herding dogs.

The dog was huge and reminded me of the children's book by Tomi Ungerer called THE BEAST of MONSIEUR RACINE. I told the woman  with the dog about the book and she was out the door to get a copy for her 5 year old grand daughter. "She loves books!"

"The Beast of Monsieur Racine" by Tomi Ungerer, published in 1971. 

In this story, a retired tax collector named Monsieur Racine discovers a strange-looking creature eating the award-winning pears in his garden. The creature is described as a large, lumpy, weirdly shaped beast, which the community treats as a scientific wonder. 

However, the twist is that the "beast" is actually just two children from next door hiding under a disguise of blankets, rags, and skins. The secret is revealed in a dramatic scene at the Academy of Sciences in Paris when the children break into giggles and come apart from their disguise.

 

Giardiasis is common in densely populated environments, such as kennels, pet stores, or animal shelters.

 https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/giardia-in-dogs

Public health can’t survive another year of this

Take chances in the interest of clarity of emotion.

Tell the whole truth. Don't be lazy, don't be afraid. Close the critic out when you are drafting something new. Take chances in the interest of clarity of emotion.

JANE KENYON

'By using words well, writers strengthen their souls... And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.’ — Ursula K. Le Guin

Corn Rye Wheat Barley Oat Sourdough

I ground up the barley and the wheat in the coffee grinder. 

It came out great!

Bull Clasp Leashes are Secure!

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Vegetable Soup and Apple Pie

I made a vat of everything soup again. This has turkey base with peas potato corn tomato kale garbanzo white bean herbs spices salt vinegar. Vegetable soup and apple pie are winter staples in my house.

‪Chris Pariso‬: US getting absolutely destroyed in the Epstein Olympics.

Provoking Trouble Again

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery February 18, 20268:56 PM UTC Updated ago A woman views her phone as she walks past street art on a wall in London, Britain A woman views her phone as she walks past street art on a wall in London, Britain, December 18, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab      Summary     Companies      Launch planned for last week was delayed     Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine     Officials discussed including a VPN function  WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said. The site will be hosted at "freedom.gov," the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user's traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked.  Sign up here. Headed by Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, the project was expected to be unveiled at last week's Munich Security Conference but was delayed, the sources said. Reuters could not determine why the launch did not happen, but some State Department officials, including lawyers, have raised concerns about the plan, two of the sources said, without detailing the concerns. The project could further strain ties between the Trump administration and traditional U.S. allies in Europe, already heightened by disputes over trade, Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s push to assert control over Greenland. The portal could also put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws. In a statement to Reuters, a State Department spokesperson said the U.S. government does not have a censorship-circumvention program specific to Europe but added: “Digital freedom is a priority for the State Department, however, and that includes the proliferation of privacy and censorship-circumvention technologies like VPNs." The spokesperson denied any announcement had been delayed and said it was inaccurate that State Department lawyers had raised concerns. The Trump administration has made free speech, particularly what it sees as the stifling of conservative voices online, a focus of its foreign policy including in Europe and in Brazil. Europe's approach to free speech differs from the U.S., where the Constitution protects virtually all expression. The European Union's limits grew from efforts to fight any resurgence of extremist propaganda that fueled Nazism including its vilification of Jews, foreigners and minorities. U.S. officials have denounced EU policies that they say are suppressing right-wing politicians, including in Romania, Germany and France, and have claimed rules like the EU's Digital Services Act and Britain's Online Safety Act limit free speech. The EU delegation in Washington, which acts like an embassy for the 27-country bloc, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the U.S. plan. In rules that fall most heavily on social media sites and large platforms like Meta's (META.O), opens new tab Facebook and X, the EU restricts the availability — and in some cases requires rapid removal — of content classified as illegal hate speech, terrorist propaganda or harmful disinformation under a group of rules, laws and decisions since 2008. FRICTION WITH EUROPEAN REGULATORS Rogers of the State Department has emerged as an outspoken advocate of the Trump administration position on EU content policies. She has visited more than half a dozen European countries since taking office in October and met with representatives of right-wing groups that the administration says are being oppressed. The department did not make Rogers available for an interview. In a National Security Strategy published in December, the Trump administration warned that Europe faced "civilisational erasure" because of its migration policies. It said the U.S. would prioritize "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations." EU regulators regularly require U.S.-based sites to remove content and can impose bans as a measure of last resort. X, which is owned by Trump ally Elon Musk, was hit with a 120 million-euro fine in December for noncompliance. Germany, for example, in 2024 issued 482 removal orders for material it deemed supported or incited terrorism and forced providers to take down 16,771 pieces of content. Similarly, Meta's oversight board in 2024 ordered the removal of a Polish political party's posts that used a racial slur and depicted immigrants as rapists, a content category EU law treats as illegal hate speech. Calling the U.S. plan "a direct shot" at European rules and laws, former State Department official Kenneth Propp, who worked on European digital regulations and is now at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, said freedom.gov "would be perceived in Europe as a U.S. effort to frustrate national law provisions." Also involved in the U.S. portal effort is Edward Coristine, a former member of Musk's job-slashing Department of Government Efficiency, two sources said. Coristine works with the National Design Studio, created by Trump to beautify government websites. Reuters was unable to reach Coristine for comment. It was not clear what advantages the U.S. government portal would offer users that are not available from commercial VPNs. The web address freedom.gov was registered on January 12, according to the federal registry get.gov. On Wednesday, the site had no content but showed the National Design Studio's logo, the words "fly, eagle, fly" and a log-in form. Before Trump's second term, the U.S. government helped fund commercial VPNs and other tools as part of efforts to promote democracy globally and help users access free information in China, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Myanmar and other countries.  Reporting by Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery; Additional reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Paris; Editing by Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman

The Monster is Backed Against the Wall So he's going to Launch a War

 All of this to protect pedophiles.