A belated Happy Halloween to Elon. Who is SCARED

#ElonMusk #CampaignFinance #Democracy #Justice

Fearmongering by the richest man in the world is just not a good look. Happy belated Halloween, dude. 

Sadako: statue due back in 2027

Something genuine, troll- and ad-free flows across RantWoman's screen often enough to persuade her to stay. Today via the Korematsu Institute, information about the preparation of the Sadako statue in a city park across a street from University Friends Meeting.

Enjoy!

Community to build new Sadako statue in Seattle by 2027 | Nichi Bei News

Also, please consider sending money

The Campaign | Sadako Renewal Proje

Grieving sucks...and then there are bagpipes

 Pssst: RantWoman likes bagpipes more than many people do.

RantWoman has no idea what makes a bagpipe band the champions. Comments at the end explain a little. 

RantWoman is simply posting this video in fond memory of the bagpipers who practiced in the park across the alley from the RantFamily home in MT.

Grieving gets month anniversaries right now.

Grieving as in working out love and rage, grief and gratitude, gratitude for others sharing the thoughts, encrusted with different details.

A great Wind blows the Saturday Blue Angels air show out of the sky.

 What? No Blue Angels on Saturday?

Blue Angels air show canceled Saturday at Seafair due to wind | The Seattle Times

Wind gusts of up to 15 mph?

Neither RantWoman nor Little Sister has EVER heard of the Blue Angels being cancelled because of wind.

Was it REALLY wind?

Not grumpy citizen chatter about noise or surface to air missiles?

Not hacking by the IRGC?

Not a sudden urge to cut back on things like fancy air shows so that the #DoD really truly can afford all the latest war?

Not reticence about whether we even need fighter planes if everyone is busy hitting each other with better and fancier drones?

Shush RantWoman. Settle down and enjoy the peace and quite.

But Wait, videos for people who really LIKE air shows.

This must have been the Friday show.

Blue Angels July 2026 Seattle SeaFair

For anyone who might actually think a ride-along is FUN

KOMO's Molly Shen takes flight with the Blue Angels over Seattle

A few seconds here and there that might evoke motion sickness.

Listening to some of the details of the different maneuvers, RantWoman will NOT comment about the 15mph wind cancellation 

Seattle Seafair Blue Angels Airshow 2026

But wait! Couldn't we put some of that flying talent to work fighting wildfires? Just wondering.

The "near abroad" lectures Putin on the war on Ukraine

#Kazakhstan #Ukraine #Russia #Tokayev

RantWoman's attention has somewhat been elsewhere, but the carnage, corruption, and intrigue continue. Kazakhstan's President Tokayev telling Putin off is something notable.

Rep. Al Green on Major Jason Watson

 

After the SemiQuincentennial Party Zoom Open House Sunday July 5, 5 pm-9pm.

 AfterParty The SemiQuincentennial a day later.

The Short Version:

Happy 250th Birthday USA

It's the Party after the Party!

Please join RantWoman and friends for an After the party Zoom open house 

Sunday July 5, 

5 pm-9 pm Pacific.

Zoom info by request: please leave a comment.

Has it really been 50 years since the bicentennial?

(Will there be guests who were not alive in 1976? Please come.

Can we stare down our nation's current mess and possibly contemplate a few more centuries? 

YES dang it.

The RantFamily observance of the bicentennial involved a lot of schlepping things around for a Billings Symphony concert in the park, a certain amount of helium balloon sales, and a thoroughly satisfying family picnic the next day.

In that tradition, time for a Zoom party!

Also, family circumstances got in the way of my customary holiday procrastination-themed Zoom open house so family time as needed. 

Put on your best patriotic gear, irreverent or ironic T-Shirt or at least come dressed appropriately for Zoom.

Come meet characters from many parts of RantWoman's life

Bring a recipe or at least a vivid description of a favorite picnic food.

Bring something tat makes you laugh.

Bring a reason to be hopeful, outraged, or just perplexed.

Bring a story of a memorable Fourth of July. 

Come as you are for as long as you like.

There will also be a couple breakout rooms if people find something they want to chat about in a smaller group.

Readers who would like to attend and have not received an email invite, please leave a comment and Zoom info will arrive.

Grok + overriding / ignoring environmental regulations = bombing an Iranian girls' school???

#GROK #Iran #AI #MSpol #TNpol 

Ai ai ai. The events described here are just GROSS on so many levels.

Let's see: the US government admits in a court filing in the NAACP case against a Musk data center in MS that the grok.gov ai model is absolutely necessary for national security including the drone swarm that, among other things, bombed the girls' school??

RantWoman is inclined to double check the court filing and other sources before absolutely pinning the bombing on AI alone, but the suggestion sounds really plausible.

And OF COURSE the people of MS are entitled to a clean environment.

So please help RantWoman out: HOW exactly is untrammeled dumping of pollutants in racially biased patterns #AmericaFirst?

In related news

Adventures of RantWoman: Elon Musk proudly trampling environmental standards in TWO states with help fro governors and the DoJ

RantWoman and the RSOF: Will we EVER know who is responsible for the DOUBLE TAP on the girls' school?

The original abwun prayer :

 #LordsPrayer

Provocative, to say the least

The Obamas and ...!

#ObamaAppreciationDay 

First a few of the MANY videos about the upcoming opening of the Obama Presidential CENTER, not just library.

The Obamas get a 1st look at their official portrait at the new Obama Presidential Center

Surprise event held ahead of Obama Presidential Center's grand opening

Next 

Adventures of RantWoman: Excellent High Quality--and DANGED TIRESOME--UFC trash talk.

But is there something to laugh about?

RantWoman goes here gingerly between sweaty bruiser MMA fighters and the lives of people always fighting erasure. 

To hear haters tell it, there must be millions of transgender people about.

President #StableGenius thinks a kid can turn transgender in one day at school. To go one step further, he loves the poorly educated so skip school AND ...

#GrandpaSleepyhead even thinks the National Science Foundation is studying transgender instead of TRANSGENIC mice. 

The internet has been proclaiming Michelle Obama a man for YEARS and yet she persists in remaining female. 

If only all this magical thinking about transgender people ensured that people who actually are transgender found instant ease and comfort as fast as social media waves its magic wand. If only....

Happy Birthday Mr. President

#Iran

 RantWoman was just going to leave it at that and offer the President a SLIGHT reprive from all the divisive and objectively true content others are spewing on the occasion of the Presidents' birthday, but then the following landed in RantWoman's media streams.

PS. Mr. President, you're all grown up now. Please try to hold it together if the weather , the gnats, the mosquitos, the pigeons... get in the way of the UFC fight you have scheduled on the White House south lawn.

Sincerely RantWoman and .... other people.

Concert for Sadako Statue Project Friday June 12, 7 pm

 Join Peace and Social concerns for a live concert Friday June 12th at UNiversity Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE starting at 7pm!

Please help us welcome singer-songwriter Mike Stern and his friends as they sing out for Peace. 

All proceeds will go to the Sadako Statue replacement project.

250 years since the signing of the Declaration of independence

#Rededicate250 #ChristianNationalism  #SemiQuincentennial

Update.

The President is a robot with a crowd size problem. Oh, and God needs a ballroom?

The Terrifying Reality of Christian Nationalism and the MAGA Church [WHO RAISED Y'ALL?]

Presenting Republican Jesus

What did not make it to posted yesterday, along with wondering, foreshadowing, what all historical excursions the US will be treated to between now and the Fourth of July: 

RantWoman could be home scrubbing her floor.

RantWoman could be responsibly adulting and looking at her schedule for tomorrow.

RantWoman could be holding forth about AI in academia and the world of computing for seniors losing vision.

Instead, RantWoman is going to let morbid curiosity loose on todays #Rededicate250 experience in Washington DC. This is supposed to be the opening of a months long series of events, history lessons, boasts about the hand of God, the greatest nation on earth and HOPEFULLY some actual reflection on the occasion of the "semiquincentennial" of where the country has gone and where it will yet go. HOPEFULLY there will be room for people of many faiths or no faith. Hopefully.

May 17, 1776: the day of fasting and prayer

Rededicate 250: Washington, DC

Lucky Secretary Rubio gets to be the first face seen here, with on video to frame the event before we link to speeches.

FULL SPEECH: Pastors Lou Engle & Dutch Sheets on Foundational Covenant of Old Testament - 05/17/26

"On this day of jubilee, release your slaves."

FULL SPEECH: Pete Hegseth Speaks at Massive Prayer Gathering on National Mall for Freedom 250 | AC1E

Sen. Tim Scott delivers impassioned speech at Rededicate 250 National Prayer Jubilee

Irony: quote Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglas, and refer to the Civil rights movement

Could we have equal time for, say, Sen. Raphael Warnock?

House Speaker Mike Johnson prays with attendees at Rededicate 250 National Prayer Jubilee

Bless us oh lord and spare us the reflex to barf on someone's shoes about the gap between inspirational verbiage and actual reality.

Framing by multiple voices

"One Nation under God": US President Trump joins national prayer rally • FRANCE 24 English

And an alternate intro

America’s 250th birthday just got hijacked by the Christian right

No, young men are actually not more religious—here’s what’s happening instead. #culturewars

5+ hours from C-SPAN

America 250: "Rededicate 250" Celebrating USA's Religious Heritage

5+ hours from USA today

Live: The National Jubilee of Prayer takes place in Washington, DC ahead of Freedom 250 celebration

7+ hours from Fox

LIVE: Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving

Entire 8 hour stream which is likely to get clipped and snipped

LIVE Rededicate 250 on May 17: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving

How to funble a gift presentation?

 The pope only wears white socks.

Trump Lights the Fire, Rubio Takes the Heat — The Pope Meeting Gets Weird (LEGO Song Rock Story)

Time for an exorcism: Send in the Seashells? 86 47?

 Harry Litman rebels against President #StableGenius plastering himself everywhere.

So time for an exorcism? Or should we just call in some seashells. 86 47 everywherr. T shirts. Mugs. Bumper stickers .... I feel sorry for anyone who needs to double down on reasons for people to hate him.

The whole topic conjures up images of the post-communist world swarming around to tear down the Lenin statues.

RantWoman! An exorcism? Really? How will that heal what ails the country?

RantWoman you keep talking about this T-Shirt Idea. If it would be such a great free speech protest why don't you just do it? Make a design. Hook up with one of those online platforms. Set a price and do it. Um, the design has to be something like

86 47

Resign?

Retire?

25th Amendment??

Glenn Kirschner’s MAGA HOT MIC MOMENT Has Stephanie Miller STORMING OFF Set!

And what do you know, among many examples. No sea shells though

Amazon.com: 8647 Subtle Anti Trump 86 47 Sunflower Cat Lovers Feminist T-Shirt : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry

Ballroom? Which ballroom?

#WHCD #WHCD2026 

RantWoman has probably spent too much time down YouTube rabbit holes about the gunman at this year's White House Correspondents' dinner.

RantWoman has not watched every second of all the videos linked here but has tried to pull out points that seem important to her but is seasoning further comment.

Harry Litman outlines a lot of details without all the fluff and angles other sources are chasing.

Link to video above.

WILD New Details Emerge About Trump ASSASSINATION Attempt

Trump SEIZES on Shooting to Push Ballroom Plan

FBI Agent: The WHCD was “staged” by Trump but not in the way many believe

Dean Obeidallah and retired FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi.

Discussion of the shooter's manifesto and moral reasoning.

"Not staged but manipulated immediately afterward."

Why the Presumed Trump Assassination Attempt Will Not Improve His Polling Numbers

Trump Assassinated? Rushed Off Stage After Shooter Opens Fire at White House | Iran Lego Animation

Cenk Explains Everything STRANGE About The WHCD Shooting

🚨MAJOR RED FLAGS Surface on SHOOTING from Trump Admin….

Who actually fired the bullet that hit the Secret service officer? 

Paraphrasing: Now we need a taxpayer funded ballroom to respond to the threat environment

great statements from Congressmembers

Hitch funding to the reconciliation bill about DHS

White House Correspondents Dinner Attack Is Not Going Like They Planned

Reese Waters

Comics

Jimmy Kimmel on Melania & Donald Trump Demanding His Firing & The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

John Lovett on Jimmy Kimmel

Jon Lovett on The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel's Joke & the D.C. Grindr Party

"By the time I heard about it, the conversation was about ballroom....The WH ballroom does not become any more legal because someone did something illegal and stupid at another ballroom."

They’re LYING to Us….

AI version of security camera video

Manifesto: why is Kash Patel the only person not on the list?

Why buckshot not slugs?

"The best way not to ...is just not to do it."

MAGA started tweeting about the ballroom before the #Stablegenius held his press conference.

Trump Demands Ballroom After WHCD Shooting, Kash Patel "Likely to Be Fired": A Closer Look

Trump Spins Dinner Shooting for Ballroom Agenda & Blitzer Is CNN's One-Shoed Hero | The Daily Show

RantWoman appreciates the audio description

Gun violence? "What about the un-ballroomed rest of us?"

AOC

Trump STUNNED as SHOOTING PLAN BACKFIRES in CAPITOL!!!!

Ken Harbaugh

Trump Press Scheme RAMPS UP after SHOOTING…

And the #WHCD NOT at the White House but possibly not at the Hilton anymore

'It would be inappropriate': Carol Leonnig explains why WHCD wouldn't be held at Trump's ballroom

Earth Day plus or minus earth

 

Jessie, Aka "RantMom"
with a picture of the farm
where she grew up

Grieving sucks, okay. If RantWoman were not frazzled enough by news timelines, there is always RANTMOM to keep one awake.

Saturday was 3 months to the day since RantMom departed to other realms. RantWoman had an in-person gig that went well, thanks be to God, despite RantWoman giving in at 2:30 am to waves of RantMom battering any attempt to sleep. 

Then yesterday was one month to the day since RantMom's memorial. RantWoman unintentionally spent the night before on an all-night YouTube news binge and had a lovely walk in balmy weather before breakfast. RantWoman was basically a zombie all day. 

Today is #EarthDay so bless us all with too much to say and a sort of ragged reflection that is half annotated playlist from the memorial, half tribute to all kinds of things, and half just attempting to ride today's waves of whatever is going on.

As for the playlist, there is a site called something like Hymnary that has a ton of interesting info but RantWoman wants some audible experience opportunity. Hence links, and sometimes several per hymn. 

Cope. 

This list is only the ones RantWoman remembers; Little Sister contributed some other suggestions which RantWoman will look up. The RantSisters did well about each other's preferences. Plus neither one of us wanted Amazing Grace. If Little Sister had wanted Amazing Grace, RantWoman would to have the drums from RantMom's church that she did not entirely relate to as part of worship. The whole playlist and modern renditions is a bit of a timewarp and in several cases RantWoman has vivid memory of considerably more old-fashioned renditions. But this is YouTube.

RantMom, basically tone-deaf herself, was unflagging in her support of RantDad's music. Music has always been part of the backbone of RantWoman's experience of God. YouTube is quite the fountain of musical performances, though in a couple cases RantWoman notes that it seems to be fashionable not to perform some verses. 

Now the playlist

In the prelude. Who one earth puts perfectly lovely hymns in the prelude? Little Sister. That's who. 

RantWoman wanted For the Beauty of the Earth on the hymns list partly because it is lovely and simple, partly because we also had it at RantDad's memorial.

For the Beauty of the Earth (feat. Michelle Swift)

For the Beauty of the Earth | John Rutter – Bel Canto Choir Vilnius

Asterisk about European song festival tradition andsinging of hymns as resistance during Soviet times.

More overdone than RantWoman is used to but ....

RantWoman does not remember the other hymns in the prelude or the first hymn, a requested solo from the music director at Little Sister's church because he sang it solo over li-ve-streamed services during the #Pandemic

There was another hymn and then Little Sister spoke.

Next, 

BE THOU MY VISION -- My Favorite Irish Hymn! :)

RantWoman decided to stop at one version.

A favorite from Baptist Sunday school but also a lead-in to RantWoman speaking about she and RantBrother inheriting RantDad's congenital cataracts. It never occurred to RantMom that thick glasses should interfere with expectations about making our beds, doing dishes, and other chores.

Also a bit about God at work in the form of others from her church in Billings who also had, um, challenged adult children.

Then before an invitation to others to speak a hymn about the People of God. RantWoman is not familiar with the tune and might have preferred something more inclusive than just Jesus. But  RantWoman was grateful for all who attended regardless of faith.

Next, after many memories, especially of how RantMom made newcomers feel welcome at her church or in her retirement communities:

Shane & Shane: Come Thou Fount (Above All Else)

with cello

Come Thou Fount | Classic Christian Hymn

with choir

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing - story behind the hymn

LOVE THS VIDEO. It's long and the story speaks deeply.

Then Pastor Jane spoke.

There is a whole thread about RantMom and PastorJane and #COVID

Adventures of RantWoman: Nope. Not COVID, but...

Pastor Jane also elegantly dispatched emotional landmines about RantBrother who, as Pastor Jane put it, RantMom just had to hand to God.

And in the postlude, again all instrumental

two other hymns RantWoman does not remember and How Great Thou Art. RantWoman in general has heard too many way too dirge-like renditions of How Great Thou Art but the Google says that is where a verse about "Bread of Heaven...Feed me til I want no More " can be found.

The bread of heaven part is important because of MANY frustrations about RantMom not wanting to eat, trying to feed herself, and other details that tore at RantWoman's heart as she read about a weighty Friend's parallel journey out of this world.

Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art (Official Audio)

How Great Thou Art with lyrics performed by chris rice

still no feed me till I want no more.

How Great Thou Art (feat. Lauren Daigle) - Hillsong United | Live (Lyrics)

a gorgeous view

RantWoman has other #EarthDay reflections and of course more, more, more reflections of RantMom but this is what RantWoman has to offer today.

What's left of RantMom
in her new home

GENIUS trolling about the "Golden Dome"

 Ben Cohen NAILS IT.  No joke

RantWoman finds this gesture hilarious on multiple counts.

God's Gonna Cut you down--for Holy Week?

 Who Knew? Marilyn Manson has covered this Johny cash song God's Gonna Cut You Down several times. 

Tell me it's weird to make this the earworm of the week for holy week. Guess what! COPE!

This song is dedicated to the Secretary of #WarCrimes, to his pastor who is being even more Rah-rah violence, and to Pope Leo attempted to spank the warmongers. 

And the evidence for referral

🚨Pete Hegseth Just Dropped A SUNDAY BOMB On His Own Military!

James Talarico STUNS After Hegseth's Pastor Drops Unthinkable Attack

RantWoman is willing to, but NOT linger long, in the place where the good pastor's words refer to some kind of spiritual transformation. On account of allof MAGA who are metaphor-challenged though, Yuck. Way to win converts bro.

And the Pope

“Those Who Take the Sword Will Perish” — Pope’s Palm Sunday Anti-War Message | APT

“God won’t listen to war leaders” -- Pope’s blunt message on Iran war | DW News

And the Center on Conscience and War is right there in social media saying, basically, "if this galvanizes you, we can help you file a conscientious objector claim.

Jessie Cornwell Memorial Invitation, updated

 

Jessie, Aka "RantMom"
with a picture of the farm
where she grew up

A SERVICE OF WITNESS TO THE RESURRECTION

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones. -- Psalm 116:15  

Jessie Althea Cornwell

1937 - 2026

March 21, 2026

2 pm PST

Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church

9636 Waters Avenue S, Seattle

Google Maps

or on the church Facebook page

Thank you to all who attend. 

A shared meal after church has been an important part of our family life.

Please join us downstairs for a light soup and bread meal after the service.

In keeping with Jessie's wishes, memorial contributions may be made to 

RBPChurch.org or SeattlePlayGarden.org.