Abortion is not in the Constitution. So it's not allowed?

Where does the Constitution say it isn't allowed?

I was struck by a thread this morning about Kris Kristoferson's Bobby McGee.

"I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday."

That one hit home in so many ways. She's been gone for eight years now and I couldn't stop thinking about those lines all day.

It also took me to the people around me now. Today, is tomorrow's yesterday. I want that line of song to guide me to be better to the people in my life.

Absurd temptation to buy shit I don't need.

I puzzled about this, coming home from a drive to pick up my grandson from school.

I want to buy stuff I have no need for.

1. A mirrorless camera. I am a fairly good photographer.... made some money off of it and enjoy it. I have a camera which I paid $2,800 for when it was new. It works good. A mirrorless camera would change nothing about my ability to take photographs. In fact, most of my favorite photos were taken with an iPhone 5.

Yet, I still want a mirrorless. I don't expect to buy one but it is still a temptation. I look a the adverts and wonder...

2. Electric bike. I would have no use for one but I want one. No. I will not get one but I want one.

I try to understand why I want stuff.

Do you get similar urges?

What I don't get.. Why ain't Pootie worried about our "red line?"

Or maybe we ain't got one?

So did the Russian ship sink?

Last night, some reports indicated that it was on its side and then sunk.

I got one hell of a sore arm this morning.

2nd Booster, yesterday. Nothing more, just a sore arm.

I should'a followed my cousin's lead. She (the cousin with the big rattlesnake flag on her lawn) got the first two Moderna but refuses to get any booster because she doesn't want the gub'mint telling her what to do.

If I had followed her lead, I wouldn't have a sore arm this morning.



3H

Star-Ledger today, Legal weed sales delayed again.

--- another one of my mind ramblings. Feel free to click on to something else because this one is

going nowhere.

I was watching the Netflix doc. on Andy Warhol. There is the point about his sexuality and how he had to hide it as a kid.Then I got to thinking about my sexuality. (Or lack of it these days - I am 80 and the market for 80 year olds is not too hot.) From this point in time, I guess I will die, INCEL.

I am hetro. Nothing remarkable about that.. it just is. I don't come off as macho. Far from it. When I was about 18, my uncle tried to call me out.. "I think you are a queer."

My response: "That is a very nice invitation, Uncle Ben, but I don't do that." He never brought it up again.

Guys have hit on me in past. I do not accept their efforts. I just explain that it is not for me. It doesn't upset me...it just is. About 5 years ago, one of my friends hit on me. I declined. He asked if I was offended that he propositioned me. I told him that I wasn't. It was like if he had asked me to play a game of Curling. I wouldn't accept the invitation because I am not interested in Curling but I wouldn't be upset because you asked me if I wanted to play.

We are friends.... see each other a few times a month. He still sends passes at me, once or twice a year, more in a sense of humor now.

Which then brings me to where this is going. It was about 15 years ago, I was in a small NYC venue and the show was "The Mcgarrigle Family." This included Rufus Wainwright. Joyce and I got there early and sound check and such were going on. Rufus was setting up on stage and he commented about some hot guy in the back of the room. This pissed me off because he wasn't hitting on me. I would not have responded to a pass except to smile and maybe acknowledge him with a smile.. but still, I was pissed that he wasn't attracted to me.

Now why, do you suppose, is that?

The Freedom Convoy --- Somebody's grift.

$5 million collected from rubes. Truckers ain't seen any of it.

Taking out Putin. My thoughts. Yours?

Can it happen? I don't expect nor encourage C.I.A. or Eric Prince to go to Moscow for the purpose. But will Putin go? If so, how? Or will he just decide to recall the troops?

People who have suggested a "rubout," have been bet with hostile reaction. "Who would replace him?" and so forth. But if getting him out of office isn't the plan, then what is the plan/purpose of the economic sanctions?

So, who would take him out and what would happen to him? It has happened before..... coup without the leader being wacked. Remember Nikki K? He was removed and allowed to retire to his lakefront property. Gorby was removed and not killed.


Does the E.U. and U.S. expect the oligarchs to go to him and tell him to just stop? Do thy have the authority? The access to him? Maybe members of the Politbureau or whoever the second level leaders are. Maybe the military leaders but would they be much better than him?


People in the streets are there because they don't support the war or because they are directly suffering... But who listens to them?

Your thoughts?