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2/9: SUPER BOWL SUNDAY — LIX
Today marks Super Bowl LIX, a cultural event that often draws people together for socializing and celebrating. However, I’ve decided to skip this year’s game. It’s not because I’m anti-football or anti-socializing. In fact, I enjoy both. But my reason for not watching is to protest the commercialization of this precious cultural event so destroyed by billionaire oligarchs.


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Happy? New Year 2025

1/29: — Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the appropriations committee, called the White House’s decision to rescind the order “an important victory for the American people,” commending those who spoke out against the original order for putting pressure on the White House. She accused the Trump administration of sowing chaos through “a combination of sheer incompetence, cruel intentions and a willful disregard of the law.”


Happy Holidays 2024
from The Touché Tales Team

November 2024 The turkey run The turkey run – Illustration by David Crellen

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11/11: VETERANS DAY 


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September 2024 Harvest September Harvest – Illustration by David Crellen

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Liz Cheney To The Rescue

Down with the old. Up with the new.


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8/16:There is no real choice this November

"No one was ever born who agreed to be a slave, who accepted it. That is, slavery is a condition imposed from without. Of course, the moment I say that, I realize that multitudes and multitudes of people for various reasons of their own enslave themselves every hour of every day to this or that doctrine, this or that delusion of safety, this or that lie. Anti-Semites, for example are slaves to a delusion. People who hate Negroes are slaves. People who love money are slaves. 


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7/31: Ethnic diversity is an essential source of America’s strength. — Kamala Harris 

7/30: “Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”. Does Sherlock Holmes presage the next four years? Is that the reason why we need a male vice president/interpreter?

7/29: If children are given the right to vote, my two family dogs should have that same right.


Apple, of course, had a lot to show off on Monday. It was like introducing an exciting new sports car. They had to show off the style: how the revolutionary fender design cut the airflow, how the revolutionary paint protects from the sun and vastly improves the mileage. Plus, the breathtaking

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Apple Intelligence

June is busting out all over June is busting out all over

She Flew the Flue

June 1: She Flew The Flue.

It all started late yesterday afternoon when a crazy-weird noise emanated from the TV, It sounded like someone was stumbling and thumping in a metal duct. Finley was immediately up and at ’em — staring at the TV. .

… But the TV was not on! …

Actually, the crazy noise was coming from the fireplace situated directly behind the TV. The thumping came with a lot of chirping! Turns out that a bird fell down the chimney!


It's the challenge of the Lions and the Lambs. Shall we watch?


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January 2024

Let's see how this year goes. Shall we?
 


December 2023 December 2023

December 2023

It's time to take care of loose ends. Clear the books, so to speak. 

Karen and LexieThat means to think of how well the year has gone for you. Don't think of any of the bad things. That'll ruin the magic of the season and take all the bubbles out of your New Years Eve champagne.


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November 2023

November brings Gears to mind:

  • Switch gears to Standard Time
  • Time to gear up for Winter
  • What gear do you want for Christmas

But it's also the season for wrenches falling into the gears …

Día de Los MuertosAt least for me it aptly begins as DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (Day of The Dead) – my birthdayMom, did you think I was a wrench in the works?


America’s Competitive Edge
How to smoothly adapt the metric system

This is a reflective commentary on America's resistance to adopting the metric system, using Japan's post-war innovation and adaptation as a juxtaposition. It recounts Japan's successful transition to self-sufficiency in various industries, which played a significant role in its rise to become a

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Artificial Rules – artwork by DALL•E

Haunting October – PhotoArt by David Crellen Haunting October – PhotoArt by David Crellen

October 2023

Mona on fall leaves with ballOctober should be a calming month. The leaves are falling. The fall colors are showing. The fall transition weather should be gentler. We, in the northern hemisphere temperate zone will be bundling up.


Keeping The World's Far Right
Who's paying them?

 it’s obvious that Putin OWNS the far right throughout the world. 

What has he promised besides help to gain power? Is there hidden money behind this? Does Matt Gaetz have a hidden Swiss bank account? 

I think Congress should investigate – Put him into the same Hunter Biden investigation.

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Is Gaetz On Track?

September Mushrooms - Photo art by David Crellen September Mushrooms - Photo art by David Crellen

September 2023

As a month that will metamorphose from an unbearable summer into, hopefully, a calming Autumn, September has begun as scheduled. The inhuman summer temperatures here in Coachella Valley has suddenly lowered by as much as ten degrees. Most importantly, the mornings are now below 80 making morning exercise and run bearable.

Let's hope the real world – plus politics – begin to lose its restlessness and succumb to a relaxing autumn atmosphere.


Term limits be damned
President Carter doesn’t follow any rules.

Mr. Carter as defied rules – and death – many times over his life as a farmer, a US Navy officer, a President, as a lover and savior of people, as a human being! He has a very high Emotinal Intelligence.

Instead of a memorial service he could not attend, Mr. Carter has experienced a living eulogy

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President Jimmy Carter - almost 99 years

The Quiet Struggle of Being Overlooked

I feel like I provide a breath of fresh air to some people's thinking. But, alas, I find they won't leave their cigar-smoke-filled tavern. This tavern represents the comfortable, familiar confines of their own echo chambers. There, the intoxicating haze of similar opinions and ideas surrounds them

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Smoky Tavern

The True Meaning Of Fail-Safe
Can you trust others?

"Welcome to Flight 120. In case of an emergency landing overwater, you will find a flotation device under your seat. Grab it and follow instructions to exit. In case of emergency landing over land, the back of your seat is a parachute. Just tighten your seatbelt. Then grab the upper seat belt straps

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Rough Skies Ahead - photo by David Crellen

Material World
We humans are too materialistic.

Why do we humans look at life so materialistically? 

What is material? Material is nothing but the other side of Einstein's equation for relativity:

"Energy equals Mass (material) times the square of the speed of light"

E = MC2

Our mind provides the energy that puts the mess, er, mass together.

C2 means

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Material World photoart by David Crellen

August Flight Pattern August Flight Pattern photo by David Crellen

August 2023

We're not going anywhere this August. The entire world is way too hot – temperture AND politicature!


Russia's Rouble Declines A Further 30%
Does this mean Russian oligarch billionaires are now mere multimillionaires?

The Rouble has declined 100% since Putin's vicious invasion of Ukraine.  I wonder how much longer the Oligarchs can tolerate their fiscal disenfranchisement, meaning their ability to travel the world as an emperor – these days it's more like emperors without clothes. Ha ha.

Plus, their toys have

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Photo: Elena Fairytale, Pexels

DeSantis And his "Federal Law Enforcement” vs “House Judicial Committee”
Let's play with paraphrasing DeSantis' rant.

On August 2, The New York Times published a piece about Ron DeSantis rant in support of Donald Trumps ongoing legal problems. He is attempting to exonerate Trump by blaming our own national pride of constitution as gone awry.

Here is a paragraph from the article: “The weaponization of federal law

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DeSantis And his "Federal Law Enforcement” rant

From Twitter to eXcretes!
How Tweets become a big pile of eXcretion

eXcretingWill Tweet posts now be called eXcretes? So guess what the act of “tweeting” must now be called? And, on this same theme, I can imagine a collection of posts being called “a pile of …” What’s this world coming to?

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eXcreting

July 2023 Valle Guadalupe, Baja California Vineyards photo: David Crellen

July 2023

Dateline, Palm Desert, CA – July will be the hottest July on record in the Northern Hemisphere – (don't worry, southerners. Yours will come in six months).

It's almost too hot to write, or to be writing creatively, in this crippling heat. Here in the Coachella Valley it's been well above 45 degrees (113°f) all month long. (Sorry, Phenix, we outlast you with the heat.)

 


American Circuits on Russian Missiles!
Targets are programmed on Xilinx FPGAs!

This is a huge wakeup call for me.

The PBS Newshour on July 21, 2023 broadcast an article about how Ukranian military are deconstructing Russian missiles after they have destroyed buildings and killed people in Ukraine. Here is the video: Parts made by U.S. companies used to build Russian cruise

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Russian Missile with American Computer

Baking Lessons
When it sizzles is not my way of losing one's mind

The 121-degree, windless sun was baking Ralph's parking lot and the self-created breeze hurt my face as I walked to the store. 

I can think of a more fun way fo going mad. But I had to shop for our dinner. Many restaurants close during the summer months in the Coachella Valley as the snow-birds

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Sizzling Parrot by David Crellen

June Eclipse June Eclipse, San Diego, CA - photo by David Crellen

June 2023

Dateline, Palm Desert, CA – June begins to get hot as summer rolls in. Average temps here excede 100 degrees. 

Several important events occur here in America in June in addition to the beginning of summer. These include Flag Day commemorating the 1777 adoption of the stars and stripes as our national emblem and the relatively new Juneteenth Day which, on June 19, 1865, finally recognizes the 1863 passage of the emmancipation of all slavery in America.


Juneteenth Day
It’s scary where our culture is today and where it's headed

Cancel KnowledgeIt seems like the 1863-1865 era when many white Americans refused to accept the emancipation of black Americans. Today, a particular sector of society refuses to get not only the emancipation of all our rights to freedom of thought and deed but wants to eliminate the true knowledge of our history.

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Cancel Knowledge

Are they ever coming home? Are they ever coming home?

May 2023

Dateline, Palm Desert, CA – May's weather here in the desert begins as a refreshing 20• to 25• in the day (around 13• over night). It's the time for the golfers to enjoy their game and for Finley, Lexie and I to enjoy our daily runs. 

But by the end ov the month we'll be experiencing an unlivable 40• to 45•! That's when all sane people should emigrate from the valley if they can. In another month many of the nicer restaurants will close for the summer months. … Not nice!


Number Magic Bubbles
or - Found: money in the mattress

The Pentagon's Money Bubble
The Pentagon's Money Bubble

The Pentagon says $3 billion more for Ukraine was 

discovered due to an accounting mistake.. What kind of accountant works for the gov? I wish my accountant could find even a thousand-dollar error in my favor! I never took any accounting classes, but I've often wondered if there is a class called

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Bubble Magic – photograph by David Crellen

Nanotechnology Industries
A peak into the industrial future

I've been watching an uber-interesting course on Wondrium.com about Nanotechnology. Its application is especially suitable to the medical field, where the technology can produce miniature devices (thousands of them could fit across a single human hair!). These can be made to carry payloads of

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Nono Loading Dock – photograph by David Crellen