#911 #NeverForget
David Reddish is one of RantWoman's favorite snarky flaming queen commentators, but even RantWoman needs a balanced media diet. RantWoman will look for some other accounts of W, Condi and their reflections on 9-11.
RantWoman will also discern about whether to go full snark herself about a number of points. But in the meantime.
as the conclusion of lots of other moments that belong to a beloved Friend, not to his murderer. RantWoman will continue to hold N, the man's wife in the Light
Recall:
RantWoman and the RSOF: Remembering Daniel Lytton well
RantWoman and the RSOF: When conversation might be too much, try Mr. GOOGLE. Further memorial.
RantWoman and the RSOF: Memorial with a side of fisheries management.
Finally, the verdict in court: Guilty on all charges.
Content warning about contents of testimony
Man convicted on all charges in murder of Everett landlord | HeraldNet.com
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.
#LindsayGraham
Lindsey Graham Gets Eulogized, the DNC Gets Scammed & the War in Iran Gets Reheated | The Daily Show
Spoiler alert: get started wth Jordan Klepper.
"Lindsay never met a war he didn't like."
Chair of the Finance Committee with a big hand in the Big Bad Bonkers Budget Busting Billionaire Bailout Boondoggle
RantWoman is trying to locate a Lindsay Graham memorial clip talking about all the money the late Senator Graham was able to bring home to SC: Lord help us. The words come from PResident #StableGenius or at least one of his speechwriters.
Being in sync with local SC needs--and federal tax dollars--is probably one of Darline Graham's greatest strengths. Unfortunately, is this orientation going to get her tarred in a primary campaign that now features a total of SIXTEEN candidates all probably vying to prove how anti-tax and eager to cut spending they are?
WATCH LIVE: Lindsey Graham funeral service held in South Carolina
Please at least appreciate this for the cultural phenomenon of a Southern Megachurch.
Pretty rocked up rendition of Amazing Grace
FULL: Lindsey Graham funeral service at Washington National Cathedral
"Lindsay Graham never met a war he didn't like." ???
#SCpol #DisabilityPrideMonth #SenatorGraham
RantWoman would LOVE to see an all-women Senate Race in SC.
But RantWoman, aren't you being sexist or WOKE or #DEI?
1. People decide all-men races are just fine all the time. It's women's turn. Plus, I dunno, maybe women's insight can help wring justice and accountability out of endless Epstein sludge. But first, get through the primary OF COURSE
2. Woke?
Yep. During the #DonSnoreleone administration, candidates who can stay awake are already ahead of the game.
3. #DEI?
Dignity Enthusiasm Integrity?
Dedication Excellence Influence?
Diligence Equality Investment?
Disability Eagerness Initiative.
What's not to like?
Judging by the interview here, newly appointed Senator Graham already sounds like an astute politician, so much so that RantWoman is going to have to work to contain her reflex desire for anyone endorsed by President #StableGenius to LOSE.
No, that also is not automatically an endorsement. RantWoman has resolved not to give money to partizan campaigns but will definitely be supporting projects to get people registered, fight vote suppression, and stay on top of any efforts to subvert the election process.
RantWoman will also be treading carefully about hopes for voices that undo many of the worst most inhuman policies of the current administration.
Watch the Darline Graham interview. Skip the Mitch McConnell death watch.
#Iran #Jordan #Kuwait #SaudiArabia #Desalinzation #MemorandumOfMisunderstanding #EnergyEconomy #WarCrimes
Congress DO SOMETHING. President #StableGenius is going to keep doing this get awar with as much as possible without having to go to Congress.
"Neither side wants total war but neither side is able to extract itself."
"Baby born. Doing fine." Oh Wait, the anniversary of the first test of a nuclear bomb.
No. Not the dawn of the nuclear age. A birthday RantWoman remembers because it is close to her own and a celebration of the wonderful opportunity to read memorial minutes online with the tools RantWoman needs instead of in tiny and sometimes faint print on a wall or in a notebook at annual session. Put a pin in that point when RantWoman gets to other points below. Put a pin also in points where people are actually DOING THINGS RIGHT so that when RantWoman points out a PROBLEM the world does not melt down. RantWoman is speaking to her own experience. Other people do not get a vote about RantWoman's experience, but if asked nicely, SOMETIMES RantWoman will titrate how much experience she generously shares with others.
(RantWoman followed the last few weeks of Ann's life on CaringBridge. At a certain point, although the medical details were different from RantMom's departure to other realms, RantWoman noticed that things were not headed in a good direction and just held in the Light.)
With that, the actual minute.
Ann Stever memorial minute draft.docx - Google Docs
No. RantWoman. No. Remember what happened last time you went to a giant memorial for a very weighty Friend?
RantWoman and the RSOF: Agnes Schmoe
Okay for comparison:
People noticed RantWoman arrived with white cane and offered her seating close to the entrance because the room was already packed.
Check and check, with the added detail of someone handy to put out more chairs.
Sound quality and audio issues.
For Friend Ann's memorial, RantWoman made it through the whole event without standing up and yelling a request for everyone to use the mic.
Is RantWoman reformed about need to correct people about this? Not exactly. People offering ministry had a microphone. People offering ministry in the room still did not manage to be as audible as the voices from Zoom fed into the PA system. But now there are Zoom captions. One can log into the Zoom meeting, disconnect audio in order not to generate feedback, and let captions fill one's whole phone screen, which if RantWoman holds the phone close enough to her face can be read. The captions are still Zoom captions, but Zoom actually picks things up even if voices do not come through well. Mostly also, there was just so much love in the room that RantWoman decided getting every single word did not matter.
RantWoman mostly has words of things that stuck in her mind from the time of Ann's passing and Ann's memorial
Two musical offerings stick in RantWoman's mind. Early in the memorial.
John Denver - Annie's Song (from The Wildlife Concert)
Annie's Song - Lifein3D (John Denver cover)
The song spoke so elegantly to how RantWoman has felt in early stages of grieving.
Most of the ministry fluttered through RantWoman's mind without sticking.
One moment made RantWoman smile: one of Ann's step son, RantWoman is not sure which, spoke of the time when pairings were getting rearranged, something like "I already have two moms. I am not sure about a third one." RantWoman also remembers Dorsey in the past sharing how much Ann enriched her stepsons' lives.
Many Friends spoke about Ann's attention to detail, focus in organizing, and a feeling that each person in a conversation is important.
There were also MANY messages about Ann's gift for nonverbal communications. Here is where RantWoman had a fabulous after the party emotional eruption. Oh COURSE. RantWoman is acutely aware both of the importance of nonverbal communications and the fact that, while probably never very good at nonverbal communications, after certain medical events, RantWoman was definitely a LOT worse about them.
Does anyone besides RantWoman see two problems:
One: the missed communications channel
Two: everyone's inability to see this might be a problem, a tendency to declare the problem off topic and ...
There. Eruption over, at least in Ann's direction.
It's fun to think of Ann's enthusiasm for sports.
Mention of Smith college has made RantWoman think more than fits into this meditation about women of different generations, what was / is expected of them, and what they expect(ed) of themselves.
And the other musical note that rings so true about Ann.
PS Deviled Eggs are a perfect item for a memorial reception and RantWoman blesses everyone who had a hand in the abundance.
The following bout of RantWoman Unfiltered (more unfiltered than usual) brought to you by ...
BLINDNESS. Literal physical blindness and low vision. Journalistic blindness when too many media voices are ready to skip journalistic norms and hop on the lattest horse running around
Adventures of RantWoman: Contacts Matter. So does competence
RantWoman's points:
Perhaps the late Senator Graham respected his sister's work and listened when she and a few dozen blindness advocate friends came knocking.
RantWoman can't decide whether even to care about half the male sex workers in the District of Columbia talking about "Lady G" and his thing for red undergarments. But then RantWoman is from Seattle and has been known to go to events involving blind people from many parts of the US and announce "I am (RantWoman) and I am going to tell you about my pronouns whether you think you want to know or not.
Will the newly appointed Senator Graham deviate from her brother's foreign policy fixations? Will having a bigger forum help keep the needs of #PWD in the public's eyes?
STAY TUNED.
All day RantWoman has simply said "May God rest the soul of Lindsay Graham."
RantWoman wishes to congratulate herself for finding some words that seem more centered than dancing on someone's grave or hoping that their soul is dragged into hell.
But wait. Could it be a conspiracy? Senator Graham reportedly died of sudden cardiac arrest. RantWoman's febrile mind leapt to LOTS of Russian oligarch's falling out of windows and dying of "sudden cardiac arrest." Did this kind of death bug bite Senator Graham. What WILL the tox screen say?
But along comes this video: Faux Snooze has to interrupt their tribute to Sen. Graham to announce...more bombing in Iran.
Perfect. Just Perfect. More bombing to remember a glib warmonger. Just perfect.
#Senate #KYpol #McConnell
Speedy recovery?
The whole internet is full of people with medical credentials saying various versions of "Not Bloody likely."
The norm in modern hospitals is to kick people out as quickly as possible for many many conditions. If the good Senator were a regular person, most likely he would already have been kicked out to Skilled Nursing or dumped into the lap of family ordered to find an appropriate placement. But no.
Instead, we have multiple voices asserting that they had 20-minute conversations? Was it REALLY the Senator and not AI? Was it 20 minutes of raise one finger for a yes vote and two fingers for a no vote.
Is it gauche just to say
"May God rest Mitch McConnell's soul and may he not be forced endlessly to suffer in the hospital"?
The internet of course is also full of various versions of "May he be dragged immediately to hell to burn forever."
But what if the #GOP, instead of demanding proof of life, just started singing his praises, lauding every outrageous thing that Mitch has pulled off. Play recordings about this in his hospital room daily. Convince him that he has done, cough, so much for the US already and there are others who can carry on the fight.
RantWoman is not proud that it would be fine with her if the good Senator remains on life support and cannot vote anymore BUT KY voters absolutely deserve full competent representation.
#Iran #Shia #Israel
12 million people in the streets of Tehran. As TYT puts it, probably the largest funeral ever in the history of humanity.
What? The Iranian people don't like being bombed and foreigners bombing the country generated a Rally Around the flag effect? Imagine that.
RantWoman does not dispute the body counts and issues raised by Cenk about Israel but also finds it unsatisfying to completely ignore everything to do with global oil / energy markets.
#IDF #Hezbollah #Lebanon
How DOES one react when a mass murderer meets his demise?
“Tell the court I love my wife, and it is just unfair that I can’t live with her in Virginia.” - Richard Loving
— Fred T. Korematsu Institute (@korematsu) June 12, 2026
June 12 is #LovingDay, commemorating the SCOTUS decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage - Loving v. VA (1967). More: https://t.co/3LdOOHOsLT pic.twitter.com/cT6XeRnTeL
#Venezuela #FishingBoat #ColdBloodedMurder
As reported in The Intercept
Join Peace and Social concerns for a live concert Friday June 12th at UNiversity Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE starting at 7pm!
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UPDATE:
Mateo Hayes Hansen's memorial minute which does a lovely job of speaking about Mateo's vision loss and his Guide Dog Batik.
Mateo Hansen Memorial Minute.docx - Google Docs
RantWoman lifts up many Friends who have found freedom among Friends to be fully who they are. RantWoman especially wants to lift up two people in her orbit.
Strait of Hormuz: Chokepoint or just checkpoint
Some ships sailing out of the strait by diverting into Iranian territorial water by not using standard vessel separation.
(What Sal wishes would happen militarily.)
Iran, Houthis now potentially have control of 35% of global trade.
What do we need to be doing to get trade moving?
Trump FATAL ERROR Exposed by Pilot who FLEW OVER HORMUZ
War is not a video game.
US-Iran Warcast - Day 18 - w/Malcolm Nance & Jacob Kaarsbo - YouTube
After banter about coffee and handing over from watch to another AT LEAST revise term "kill board" to "Casualty count."
1 million people on the move in Southern Lebanon. Israeli occupation of Lebanon will lead to new, fresh radicalization of Hezbollah
$100 million radar in Saudi destroyed by a $20,000 drone. 5 such hits with basically moped engine. Asymmetric warfare
Drone attack on loading tanker in UAE.
Iran HAS A RESERVE.
This war is shifting to ECONOMIC WARFARE.
Iranian attacks taking out radars impairs function of iron dome
More comments about deviation from the traffic separation stream
Who told President #StableGenius it would be a 3-day special military operation. Assumption is: NOT recommendations from US military planner.
"Do not watch television. Let us fill you in."
Iran LAUGHS At U.S. Ceasefire Negotiation Attempts
Iran says "sure, go ahead. Send ground troops."
Also, look what happened when the US sent troops a whole bunch of places.
'This is America’s war': Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi | Talk to Al Jazeera
"Iran gets a vote."
Former General Gives Brutally Honest Iran War Assessment | Command Post
No evidence that Iran has laid mines.
(relevant term "unmanned surface vesset," that is DRONE boats which, one would expect, are much more controllable, targetable than mines.)
"Things can be going well on an individual basis but not going well overall"
Iran’s National Security chief Larijani assassinated; Trump faces big rebellion | Janta Ka Reporter
Iran’s unprecedented retaliation after top security chief’s assassination | Janta Ka Reporter
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