Christmas Playlist

Merry Christmas to all my followers and readers, here on RushBabe49.com. I like to have music playing on Christmas, and here are a few of my favorites. I hope you have a blessed, and relaxing day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYLb6O2QQ8 I have been to Cambridge, and attended a concert in the King's College Chapel. The Christmas Eve Festival …

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Photos of December

For Christmas Eve, a sampling of December photos from my library.  A Merry Christmas to all! This year, in my own neighborhood. Found at a local market last week. Seen near Silver Lake, about a mile from our house. Seen at our local Asian market.  It's a wonder that these exotic fruits are grown right …

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Have another Very Harry Christmas

Welcome to Christmas time at Hogwarts Castle.  Harry Potter's first Christmas at Hogwarts was perhaps his first, real Christmas of his life.  He had been mistreated by his only living relatives most of the time, and had no idea of what Christmas was all about. [Editorial comment: There is no mention of anything really religious …

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Do you or your company use ZOOM for your online meetings? Beware!

This story in The Epoch Times shows how Communist China monitors online meetings held in The US, between participants in the United States. The Chinese Communist Party has put Zoom on a short leash, and has kept track of meetings here in the US, making sure that participants do not discuss issues that might be …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #128: Holidays (slightly re-imagined)

It's December, isn't it? Normally, December is filled with parties, and lights, and presents, and snow, and song, and bells, and family celebration. This year, most of those things have been canceled. Due to government pandemic rules, Christmas concerts are not held. Normally, each year on the day after Christmas, I grab my violin and …

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I’m feeling a bit like Harry Potter today…

In detention.  Now, I will admit, the punishment imposed upon me is not quite as horrifying as that imposed upon Harry by Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but it is punishment just the same.  I was suspended from Ricochet.com for 72 hours, which will end Monday. My crime?  I violated the …

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I KNEW he couldn’t resist! Dictator of Washington proposes Capital Gains Tax

In spite of the fact that income taxes are unconstitutional in the State of Washington, Dictator Dimslee has proposed, in his 2021-2023 budget, a Capital Gains tax on "only the wealthiest citizens" of Washington State.  Never, ever, in the history of taxation, has such a tax, when instituted, EVER affected only the wealthiest citizens!  Never! …

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Seattle used to be committing slow suicide. The word “slow” no longer applies. Decline accelerates.

Sometimes I wonder how Seattle manages.  Their Radical Leftist government, elected by the people of Seattle, continues to engage in activities that are making the city unlivable.  Let's start with Cal Anderson Park, on Capitol Hill.  During the summer, riots over the death of a black man in Minneapolis led to the takeover and destruction …

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Right out there in public now. Google censors content IT deems “misinformation”.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been exempt from federal regulation, as "platforms" and not "publishers" under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.  It has been known for a long time (and contested by those huge tech companies), that they have not been acting as platforms, but as publishers, by removing content they deem to …

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