CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND DHS. No Money for the Secret Service! Excellent! Those Guys Suck! And Now Congress is in Recess Again without Getting Anything Done,...

Tens of thousands of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees are working without pay during the shutdown, with the hardest-hit agencies including  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been paid because Trump signed an executive order authorizing paychecks...

McCartney MOCKS Trump, Crowd Joins In: Boos rang out for Donald Trump the moment Paul McCartney cracked a joke about Trump’s embarrassing dance moves during a packed Los Angeles show this weekend.
Inside the iconic Fonda Theatre, the 83-year-old legend was performing for a celebrity-filled crowd that included Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Stevie Nicks, and more. While McCartney delivered classic hits, it was that quick political jab that sparked one of the loudest reactions of the night.
And it didn’t happen in a vacuum.
Outside the venue, thousands were taking part in the latest No Kings protests, joining millions nationwide pushing back against Trump’s policies and rhetoric.
Inside: music, unity, and a shared cultural moment. Outside: organized protest and collective action.
Different settings, but the same energy.
People aren’t staying silent.

I've Been Banished from TwitterX Again! Corporate Censorship... Elon Musk refuses to allow people to mock Mad King Donald. At least I won't be attracting the attention of the Secret Service because of something I tweeted.

I'm comfortable with not being on TwitterX or Tooth SoCal...  Those guys are weird and mostly Bots or Russian/Nigerian Hackers... 

CBS canceled Stephen Colbert because corporate felt it had to obey Mad King Donald.

Did you know? Elon Musk renamed Twitter to honor his personal hero Malcolm X...

And then I saw on Faceborg...

and I replied... 

I've always been glad that every job I did made a tiny little bit of improvement in the world... When I sold stuff at Radio Shack the customers were glad that I could help them out... I had this one guy that came in once a year and bought 65 packages of hearing aid batteries and mailed them to Czechoslovakia... Where his mom was having difficulty buying hearing aid batteries... Just doing my part to make the world a better place to live...

Cannabis is STILL classified as a Schedule I substance. All we got was a TV News sound bite... Where Trump said that we ought to reschedule it to schedule 3 but then... Nothing Happened!

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Rescheduling cannabis involves moving it from Schedule I (no accepted medical use, high abuse risk) to a lower schedule under the Controlled Substances Act, a process often initiated by petitions to the DEA. Proponents argue it does not meet the strict criteria for Schedule I, prompting ongoing legal and scientific disputes over its danger and medical utility.

Key Aspects of Rescheduling:

Current Status: Cannabis is currently classified as a Schedule I substance.

The Process: The DEA reviews petitions, often relying on scientific evidence and recommendations from health agencies like the HHS.

History: The first petition to reschedule cannabis was filed in 1972, with legal challenges lasting 22 years before it was denied.

Alternative Actions: While cannabis itself remained Schedule I for decades, synthetic THC (dronabinol) was rescheduled to Schedule II in 1986 and later to Schedule III in 1999.

Arguments for Rescheduling: Supporters contend that cannabis has recognized medical applications, arguing that its placement in Schedule I is inappropriate based on legal requirements for scheduling.

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Hot summer day - TODAY!

I was Outdoors walking around the property and I noticed that I had an overwhelming desire to find a shady spot to sit down... Because it was hot! And I look at the fire danger in my neighborhood and it's pretty damn scary... I've got five palm trees that are made of 50 dead branches of leaves and 10 green ones... That's just the way palm trees are... A whole lot of dead branches and very few living ones... And I look at that and think Combustible Fuel - FIRE HAZARD... So I looked up the address of the Amtrak train station in Sacramento because in the event of evacuation I'm going to get on the train and ride it to San Francisco and go live with ______.

401 I Street Sacramento, CA 95814-2308

How I will get from the house in the middle of a wildfire to the train station is a mystery... But there's one guy that works here that owns a car... And Elena lives next door and she's got three cars... And maybe LYFT will still be working in the middle of a evacuation event...

But it's much more likely than I'll be able to evacuate to some kind of public housing... The basketball arena at the school... Or something like that...

Historic Heatwave in San Francisco too!

Thankfully... We get our electricity from SMUD and they are famous for being reliable... We just had the air conditioner Guy come out and do check up repair and it works great... As long as the electricity runs I'll be cool...

Anyway... It's really unlikely that my house will burn down in a wildfire this summer because we are really close to the fire station at 6248 Chestnut Ave. Orangevale, CA 95662... I looked at the map and it's about four blocks away... And they'll just drive a truck right up to the front yard and put out the fires... They know where we are because for some unknown reason they send a fire truck whenever somebody needs an ambulance or dies...

On good news... My crepe myrtle tree has started to have green leaves... I thought it was dead but no!