tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059Fri, 29 May 2026 16:45:08 +0000bits of knitting blah blahFun StuffWalk with BeautySunday Stealinggardens and flowersWhose Country is this anyway??saturday9Healing the HeartWordless WednesdayMusic MondaySaturday NineDarling Pets and other QuadrupedsTuesday TailsMiscThankful ThursdayWhy?BirdsGeneric Blah BlahGood Booksmother earthSaturday KomeekzSky Watcher PostsUppity WomenHealth CareBecause it's my blog??WolfieHeroes for the Planetfriday5Trippin down the road.Holidays and BirthdaysBaby TortoisesThursday 13A Heart of Loving KindnessFriday 5Plugs for Good thingsFive Minute FridayPolitical blah blahFriday Fill-insCeramicsYarny GoodnessMy Money my VoiceAccidental ArtCinemaBrave New World?Good things to EatSkywatcher postBay WatcherBrave New WorldSunday MatineeGeneral Rants and Major TootsGetting OrganizedThursday ThirteenPostcard GroupABC's or ZYXNatureWho knew?A little WhiningAngels and SaintstortsCode Tweaking DramaAugust Happiness ChallengeRecipes to shareSewingLet's preserve it.KIP bitsBelly FlowersMusic with a Message.The Good The Bad and the Uglybees and bugsHandcraftingLittle WIPs progressMEME PostsRemodelSaturday SkyThis n ThatWild AnimalseeekAncient memoirsMusicThe Olden DaysApril ChallengeFoodie PostskneeAnswer to CommentsBrokenDrawing blah blahFor the AnimalsMonday Whateverstealth politicsflowersCookingI'll kill it when I see itQuilting ShtufffFriday Fill insFriendsMythsPolicy statement RantsPoetrySilly Arse and Bogus ChargesWomen for WomeneconomicsHealing the Heart.Seeing into the Futureblog helpsmonday musicApril FoolBiggest Ass of All?Fun Stuff. 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Love this!NOTNot Exactly Accidental ArtNot fun FridayRighteous People!Saturday Sweater Update.Some of those who OccupySunday KomeekzTeaching knittingThankful ThrusdayThe dog's?Throw Back ThursdayTime Out!Time outsTuesday TalesTuesday TravestiesWayback WednesdayWednesday WhiningWolifie's sore little eye.whyBroken Hearted Melodyhttp://zippiknits.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)Blogger5586125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-894051596294186926Thu, 28 May 2026 22:11:13 +00002026-05-28T15:11:13.060-07:00 I am sorry.  😕  Crosby Stills Nash and Young line.... "It's getting the point, where I'm no fun anymore.  I am sorry...."I need a brain transplant.  Wordless Wednesday is out for repair, as are QUITE a few of my right brain cells; this happened after I fell in the kitchen and broke my shoulder, as well as re-activating a break in the elbow.  AND on top ofhttp://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/05/well-that-went-wellmuch-bitchiness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-5959184322868323931Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:12:00 +00002026-04-15T17:12:36.350-07:00💥 1. Health has been a struggle but things are on the mend.  Especially my MIND!💥2.  I'm limiting exposure to Instagram because if I haven't already said it, I've got nothing left to add.  Besides, my blood pressure goes up just THINKING about going into that viper pit.💥3. Having hit my limit of Hurly Burly fistacuffing,  💣💥😆💪 I'm now ready to retire the fieldhttp://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/04/three-on-thursday-trying-to-get-back-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-656637446394553018Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:21:00 +00002026-04-15T16:21:35.833-07:00 http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/04/wordless-wednesday-good-eats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-1392165730878938005Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:12:00 +00002026-04-14T22:12:58.607-07:00I’ve gotten another terse bit from Gmail about this blog.  Politely terse “corporatespeak”.  So let’s see.  What is today?  Tuesday….  Excellent!  *carves another notch on her cell door.*  And, it’s one more week of the Putini, Trumpty (aka “Satanella” the Clown) Show.  No, I’m not a democrat or a Republican. I do vote though. 🗳️ So, I crossed the http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/04/cant-access-account.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-554633298316023325Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:21:00 +00002026-03-10T19:31:11.751-07:00 Having found that I can hardly even change the text on my blog anymore, so....I've started to claw my way back into Blogging.I have let it go so long.  But I'll try to get back on track.  I really need to get away from Social Media.  It's depressing, but it's also that I lose hope that we are going to get out of this whole mess created by megalomaniacs who think that the US http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/03/ive-been-away-too-long.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-244316441862720643Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +00002026-02-11T00:00:00.142-08:00 http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/02/wordless-wednesday-little-scarlet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-1410816387469269878Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:57:00 +00002026-02-06T23:03:22.066-08:00Great article on the origins of the Pueblo people .. specifically the Hopi and other Pueblo tribes. Now I know why my own DNA -17% of it, comes from Hopi and Incan sources. https://fatsil.org/hopi-tribe/where-did-the-hopi-tribe-come-from-asia/http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/02/great-article-on-origins-of-pueblo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-3549933305905041436Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:52:00 +00002026-02-01T18:00:38.807-08:00This goes to an Intercept article about ICE and it's violent and brutal arrests.  Too often they are done to intimidate Americans.  Trump's vindictiveness is like a cancer that has invaded every corner of our body politic and will likely, if not stopped by the courts, allow him to set up, for life, in Our House, The White House.  https://theintercept.com/2026/01/31/http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/02/ice-is-not-nice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-6414200599900120234Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:53:00 +00002026-01-04T16:22:29.324-08:00 To paraphrase Mexico's long ago president, Benito Juarez: "Poor little Venezuela, so far from God and so near to the United States." Trump was unflinching in his confidence that the bad actors of the old government will be pushed aside as he helps make Venezuela “great again.” He also sought to reassure American taxpayers that they won’t be on the hook for his plan to help out http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2026/01/trump-was-unflinching-in-his-confidence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-5270732267359511606Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:24:00 +00002025-12-26T00:37:01.527-08:00 I WANTED THIS LINK HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO STUDY IT IN DEPTH AND DIDNT WANT IT TORN DOWN BEFORE I COULD DO SO. Decrease font size. https://keghart.org/wilde-dna-never-lies/#  Reset font sizIncrease font size.By Garcia Wilde, 20 November 2024Cartoon: The scorpion and the serpent by Chris FernezianAfter suffering almost-mortal PR hits for more than a http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/12/this-post-is-about-dna-studies-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-8773624390411445246Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:40:00 +00002025-12-26T00:29:47.439-08:00 I really have to get away from all the friggin’ things I can do little about.Now, your reward for reading this far. http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/12/coming-back-to-little-sanity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-8802682580398664377Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:27:00 +00002025-10-28T19:27:09.316-07:00“ This crisis is not happening in a vacuum,” Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democratic appropriator in the House, said of the shutdown in a statement. She blamed Mr. Vought and Mr. Trump for undermining the division of powers — Congress passes spending laws, and the president is supposed to carry them out.”This is a pretty fundamental understanding of this issue since http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/10/executive-attempt-to-usurp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-8603729791633731760Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:43:00 +00002025-10-15T22:54:27.713-07:00This is a letter in response to an article in the New Year Times on Brazil’s fantastic President.   Maik SkowronekHamburg (Germany)July 30“Let’s not miss what’s truly alarming in Trump’s recent remarks about Brazil: he suggests, almost offhandedly, that a president should interfere with court decisions — and speaks as if that were perfectly normal. So what stands out isn’t just what hehttp://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/10/excerpt-of-article-from-new-york-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-4011732066554476081Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:42:00 +00002026-01-04T15:53:39.278-08:00This article is from the Guardian.  I had to read it twice before I could contain my emotions over what Trump and his short sighted policies  have done to our standing among Nations.  The U.S. will never recover its once exalted status as a beacon of hope or fairness.  Maybe it never deserved it?  Though I think, personally that  it was.  I remember how http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/10/article-about-canadian-woman-detained.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-7781515624426939509Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:46:00 +00002025-07-29T19:16:19.668-07:00 https://theintercept.com/2025/07/24/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-israel-aid-starvation/I've just read some of the horrible things that a fake Humanitarian aid group operating in Gaza have said, and I am absolutely APPALLED that ANY human being could be so heartless and cruel when talking about children.  http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/07/gaza.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-7023905862018881568Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:05:00 +00002025-07-14T14:05:26.909-07:00 http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/07/music-monday-amazing-and-just-so-lovely.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-5948662704755534416Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:32:00 +00002025-01-12T03:32:13.815-08:00Murad's Story.  C/C the New York Times.   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/magazine/israel-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk4.5TdE.fjHXN4IDLZ3M&smid=url-shareNareman Shehadeh Zoabi, a lawyer at Adalah, told me that since Oct. 7, “you can’t express a Palestinian identity and not be linked to Hamas. And if you’re not fully on the Israeli side, you’re a legitimatehttp://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2025/01/murads-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-6740385327310109967Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:37:00 +00002024-11-08T19:37:36.187-08:00 HERE is the scoop..   This is getting to be a whole lot more interesting all the time.  Can you spell DISTOPIA.. I can't but I'm sure you can.  Tata...  this is just for fun.  Truly.  Honest.  I kid you not.  No way it's real.  Shhh it's a stealth post!http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/11/omg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-807464543811938578Sat, 02 Nov 2024 01:05:00 +00002024-11-08T19:26:24.293-08:00This is a LINK to an article about a tenured professor who lost her job at Columbia University because she DARED to have an opinion about Gaza that was not wrong but that was not, shall we say, Kosher.  You don't have to pay to read it.  These are some very respected investigative Journalists - some of whom quit Eastern newspapers so that they could get beyond the local http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-is-happening-who-is-trying-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-2282541397415752428Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:07:00 +00002024-11-01T19:09:46.151-07:00This book is fundamental in understanding what the Palestinians have had to work against in trying to keep their country from becoming just another colonized and stolen land.  Israel's Genocidal campaign is just the latest land grab by invaders who have tried, mightily, to play the victims.    http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/10/what-im-reading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-8514135842174284108Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:21:00 +00002024-09-28T18:21:28.954-07:00I'm sorry to Have neglected this blog.  But I must read constantly for my soul.  And, of course, the world decides to blow up.  I guess that was inevitable, given the care and feeding of despots has been the major political activity that those in power, and those who want to be in power, have loosed on the rest of us, who really only want the human family to act, well, http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-around-and-alive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-7626693536303137383Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:43:00 +00002024-06-25T23:43:44.708-07:00 Unfortunately Google won’t let me use my own photos…storage for which I pay…to post in this blogger anymore without enabling “cookies”. Theirs.  Until I can find a way around this insult, I won be posting wordless Wednesday…http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/06/wordless-wednesdayshhhhh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-714757666634603331Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:34:00 +00002024-06-15T19:34:26.144-07:00 Artist is Dennis CoxAnd the meme is at Dreamstime.comThis is what I feel like.  I'm not as broad, either in body or probably in mind. HeeheeheeOUCH!See you all on Monday for Musichttp://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/06/toddling-off-with-my-knitting-and-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-5046802307503922908Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:57:00 +00002024-06-14T19:57:46.149-07:00 <.............And... an older book by Ilan Pappe'                                                              Points...............>We'd better get this right this time....or there will be Hell to Pay  http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/06/what-i-am-reading-i-will-be-very-busy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7115059.post-5985081733101313532Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:12:00 +00002024-06-13T00:37:22.217-07:00 I am so disgusted and sickened by what “they who should know better than to do” are doing.  My country, also (for one) should know better.  They are a bunch of pussyfoots and assassins.  I have to remember the important things like: "Memento Mori".This is the sky on the day of the first-year memorial for our daughter who passed away eight years ago. this year.  She http://zippiknits.blogspot.com/2024/06/off-net-for-awhile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zippiknits...sometimes)0