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Talking to expectant, and new, mothers in our Community Immunity exhibit, I’d explain how a rubella infection while pregnant can result in a child being born blind, deaf, with deformities or cognitive impairment.

Almost every one of said they’d never been told about that before.

#MMR
#vaccines

Another unqualified Republican troglodyte elected into a position of power by conservative voters who are more impressed by displays of violence than by displays of intelligence and competence.

I was thinking about this earlier today, not even in the context of the return of the soldiers’ remains.

I was remembering when FoxNews showed a “huge crowd” at a TEA party rally, held in the Spring.

Except the color of the leaves in the video were clearly from a Fall event the previous year.

a black and white photo of two men standing next to each other with the words `` i 'm shocked . '' ALT: a black and white photo of two men standing next to each other with the words `` i 'm shocked . ''

Never woulda guessed

Really like the original movie, and this series, but the best was seeing Tim Conway as Felix and Tom Poston as Oscar, on stage.

Conway trying to break the coffee mug against the wall had everyone rolling.

Oh, Lord, woncha byh me a culler TV.
Dialing fer dollerz is trynta fahnd meeee
I’ll wait fer delivry each day until 3….

Found this in a B Dalton’s years before I had kids.

When our daughters were little, I’d put in a CD with Imagine on it. We’d follow the lyrics and images along to the music.

So, that way, my girls occasionally had a bedtime story read to them by John Lennon.

#BookSky #MusicSky
#JohnLennon

A few years ago, I watched a Dean Martin roast of Sammy Davis Jr.

I was cringing.
Turned it off after 10 minutes.

And he had to laugh, smile and nod through the whole thing.

Anacortes,WA as of yesterday.

Up $1.30/gal since mid-January.

Not the highest I’ve seen here, but greatest single spike: .60/gal the day *before* it was first announced that we’d bombed Iran

The false equivalency of religious = moral is what Republicans depend on to manipulate their voters.

They know how their control will erode if the upcoming generations are nonbelievers.

Which is why they’re desperate to force their corrupt version of christianity into pubic schools.

Liked Far Sector, but absolutely loved NK Jemison’s Inheritance and Broken Earth trilogies.

Spent the summer reading all 6, back-to-back.

She’s such an amazing storyteller and creative world-builder.

Washington State Republicans; who ran a high school drop out for governor.

They really show us who they are by who they think best represents their voters: vile, unfit, unqualified bullies, sadists and psychopaths.

What the hell is it with these conservatives that they need to demean, berate, and even assault or kill, anyone who isn’t like them?

All to delude themselves that they are “superior.”

Any primatologist recognizes this behavior toward “the other.”

I mention how wasting isn’t new; citing the evidence for it in the Chesapeake, back in the 80’s.

The idea that sea temps impact the affected animals’ immune response was supported by comparison with seastars in the glacial fjords of Vancouver Island that are exposed to the same species of Vibrio.

Sunflower seastar on display tank of public aquarium.

Seastars in a public aquarium display tank

Sunflower seastar was putting on a show yesterday. Lotta visitors commented how they’d never seen one that big, or with so many arms.

Talked about how the wasting disease was exacerbated by #ClimateChange.

Which I then used to segue into our government’s contempt for environmental policy.

How many times have we heard conservatives scream “I don’t want my taxes going to *that*!”, when they’re talking about helping people, or lying about things that taxes aren’t even used for.

Yet, liberals get no say when our taxes are used to destroy lives; now, both here and abroad.

If FIFA boycotts the U.S., it will really only hurt the cities that have put so much into preparing for those games.

Many of those cities, like Seattle, clearly stand against Trump.
So, it’s a win-win for him.

That said, it’s just not safe to travel here. ICE doesn’t care if you’re here legally.

Yeah, that’s reasonable.

DVD case of Fredric March in The Adventures of Mark Twain

A true 2-fer: my favorite actor playing my favorite author.

#MovieSky #filmsky
#booksky

Willing to bet that he was screaming against drag queens reading to kids in parks and libraries, and against same-sex couples being allowed to adopt, during the time he was sexually abusing those children.

Saw a sign on a small business office that reads, “we support our troops.”

Kinda want to walk in there and ask if that means they oppose Trump and this war.

But I’d probably get shot, or my arm broken.
Rightwing baboons don’t like getting called out on their lies, hypocrisy and pretend patriotism.

That….takes talent(?).

Can’t say I’ve ever wound up with a x+0.5 batch of biscuits.
How many times you laminate the dough?

When these Rightwing troglodytes claim they just want things to return to how they were when they (or father/grandfather) were a kid, it just means they want to be able to harass, bully and assault, with impunity, anyone who isn’t a WASP male.

Shell station with gas price of $4.99/gal

Hwy20 at Laconner-Whitney Rd; Anacortes,WA.

Only when a Republican is in the White House does The Right say “the president doesn’t affect gas prices.”

Except, this time: he absolutely did.

The only things that have gotten lower in America are available jobs, bank balances and life expectancy.

Fake book cover: How to Hold in a Fart.

Fake book cover: The Artvof Braiding Your Pubic Hair.

Of course, physical books have one advantage if what yer really wantin’ to do is just screw with people in crowded places.

Libby has been a godsend.

As I’ve gotten older, I’m finding the adjustable text of my iPad and my Kindle to be more comfortable.

Also, my Kindle fits in my back pocket. I can take it with me *then* choose what I want to read, or if I change my mind about what I feel like reading, I got choices.

#Seastars were brazenly showing off their tube feet to strangers today.

#science #PNW #MarineLife

Meme using an image of a hand holding a sheep’s brain to jokingly correlate the size of Trump’s hand to the size of his brain .

#science #neurophisiology

Had a guest ask if it’s true that your brain is the size of both your fists.

Replied that there was no actual evidence for that…

…then before I could stop myself, I quipped, “although Trump does have those small hands.”

Which inspired this meme: