I mentioned Norm Ornstein, who described the coming Trump-caused health care crisis two items below. Wait no more!
‘There is nothing else’: Californians face eviction as insurer cancels assisted living benefit
Four weeks ago, Matt Johnstone received a call from the board-and-care facility in North Hollywood where his 89-year-old father lives. Health Net, the insurance company that pays for his care, was eliminating its assisted living benefit, meaning he would have to move out soon.
Johnstone panicked. His father has dementia and needs around-the-clock care. Neither Johnstone nor his brother can afford the roughly $6,000 per month the facility costs, and with health problems of their own, they can’t safely meet his needs at home either. Without insurance coverage, their father could end up on the streets, he said.
“He’s declining, and I just don’t know what’s going to happen if the program ends,” Johnstone said. CalMatters is not publishing the father’s name because Johnstone fears the plan will target him for speaking with media.
America-hating rich to the rest of America: "Suffer & then die in the streets, you old bastards!!"
This country is going to need many more Luigi Mangiones. C'mon older people, defend yourselves against this subhuman scum while you can still pick up a gun & use it! Sic semper tyrannis!!!
Nothing is even worth the effort of a threat. I won't waste my beautiful mind by acknowledging all the horrible things all of the awful people do for which they should all be threatened & terrorized. Speaking of which, still exhausted, enervated, run down & barely able to function, because I've been terrorized & threatened every day of my existence since being sent to school. Not that the parents are innocent, but once school started it was every damn day as some "grown-up" piece of shit humanoid w/ 100 lbs. & several feet on me shoved me around & told me what to do. Fucking two-bit thug bullies.
No nation is innocent, except of course these United Snakes, where there hasn't been a wildfire or carbon emission since the early '50s, right? Burn in hell, lying idiot hypocrites.
I hope this is an indication that the Cascadia Subduction Zone is about to go, w/ the potential of a 9+ magnitude earthquake & 100-ft. tsunamis. Maybe some of the volcanoes will ignite & start spewing rocks & lava. We can only hope.
I really am awful, aren't I? It only seems fair for everyone else to suffer as I have.
Not actually modeling it, used as an inspiration & jumping-off point.
Did entirely too much research; I'd need more reefers & stock cars for authentic operations. Fortunately, it's a switching layout, not an operating layout.
For most of its existence, the line sourced outstanding levels of traffic carrying produce and other agricultural products from the valley. For example, an Interstate Commerce Commission report from 1956 states that the seasonal perishable train (The PVX), bound to Chicago, "averaged 69 cars," longer than the usual length of the GFX trains from California's Central Valley (although the PVX was seasonal and the GFX was year round). One week in the spring of 1954 had seen 191 carloads of lettuce, the majority percentage shipping to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The three weeks prior to approx. April 8, 1954 saw 708 carloads of lettuce shipped. In the summer of 1959, cantaloupe shipments reached 2333 cars in the growing season. In 1970, a derailed train primarily hauling lettuce had 77 cars, with at least one of the cars appearing in the picture being a newer and longer SFRC car as opposed to a 40 ft SFRD car. And the railway agent of the Blythe yard once recalled "as many as 135 cars" at one unspecified time. But as of 1977 the train length might be 35 cars "on a good day." Off-season reefer traffic cars were dropped off to Rice or Cadiz to be picked up by other trains, while the PVX trains ran directly to the transcon line between Los Angeles and Chicago. White ice was produced in Blythe and had been shipped to Winslow, Arizona in the summer of 1949 for the reefer trains stopping there.
Grain and livestock traffic was heavy too. The Blythe-Ripley included the Union Feed Yards south of Blythe, which at one time was the largest feed yard in the country. There was a nearly four-mile spur originating from the curve near the valley's northern edge that served Riverview Farms to the east from 1954 to 1982. (Myrick, Pg. 240) Information referring to this spur is extremely scarce. You can see big pictures of those feed yards in the Palo Verde Historical Museum.
Will not be attempting any of the now reduced to slabs of concrete facilities as they were in the 1950s, but the geography fits my unwillingness to make terrain features, & I was insprired by the schadenfreude of the burg of Ripley, named after a former A.T. & S.F. president, & washed away w/ the rail line by a flood in the winter of 1922. (Maybe the schadenfreude isn't justified; money was probably made on insurance.)
You needn't arse yourselves w/ any of this; it's for this reporter's reference, & he's numb already. Hollywood's one-time provider of artificial snow was U.S. Gypsum in Midland, now a ghost town. It was burned to the sand. Dunno who "Jane" is but it's a great museum."Jane" is the guy's GPS, it turns out. What? Not a bad traveling set-up, either, if you like to leave the house.
Also, which led to geoglyphs 15 miles north of Blythe. Pardon the New Age or whatever music.Those would be fun to copy, but I'd need more space than could be spared. The longest glyph would be almost two linear ft. in HO.
Railfanning nothin', planefanning, w/ a good long look at the geography. Be quite a wasteland w/o irrigation.I'll need a shitpile of little green things to scatter about. Inspiration: W/ his name so bandied about, I think I'll call the Army facility Camp Patton instead of Camp Swampy. I s'pect the only swampy areas here would be where irrigation pipes had broken.
Looks just like it though, dunnit?
"Camp Patton" will be beneath the lovely currently cardboard backdrop at the left.
Still a Sisyphean mountain of work. Once I've painted track, sanded, painted & installed roadbed, gotten two or three bridges & lost that chunk of wood, I have to ensure adequate electricity flows though the tracks, sure to be a total effing pain involving redoing the track I'll have just finally laid, then slap together seven structure kits, most of which have been sitting here for several yrs. (Hey, I beat inflation & tariffs.)
& blow more moolah on oil loading platforms, high tension transmission poles & another electrical substation. Then scenery, signage & details. And at some point exchange couplers, purchase & add coupler boxes & buy & replace trucks on several cars. Estimated completion date is approx. the 12th of Never. Gah.
"Zoning? Never heard of it."Which is more interesting? I'll grant the Californian [sic] desert isn't as population-dense & has more open space, but the buildings (All corporate, you'll note. Suck it, Mom & Pop, get a franchise.) are mind-numbingly dull, beige & uniform, as are container trains, & virtually all of you humanoids.
This reporter finds these extra-ironic in a state that allowed me to be kidnapped by a sty of fucking pigs & held in a psychiatric jail where I was pumped full of bullshit drugs & saw a psychiatrist & M.D. for about minute each over a seven-day period.
Where's your "due process" & "habeas corpus" now, you filthy hypocrites? WHY DON'T YOUR LIES APPLY TO ME, DAMNIT?
If your bullshit laws & bullshit Constitution no longer apply to the pigs, or the squealing rats, & College Behavioral Health & its equivalents are allowed to profit from my misfortune from taxpayer funds why can't I threaten & kill any of you two-faced bastards? There is no justice!
And if it does make the ballot, vote no twice, & vote thrice for the Tax the Billionaires bill!
Lying trash. The billionaire bastards behind these lies want all sorts of money for their "special interest": Not paying any taxes of any kind at all, ever.
Today on TAP: Sergey Brin funds a campaign to convince Californians to negate a wealth tax, through a ballot measure that conceals its intended purpose.
Sounded like rich weasel bullshit, so I wrote a very rude message advising them to fuck off & die, mentioning Trump & the guillotine & returned it in the business reply mail envelope.
Pass the California Billionaire Tax Act & tax Google Boy & his fellow scum into oblivion, California!!
Damned shame I have to run this in the context of Joe McDonald leaving, but he'd probably seen enough pointless & stupid fucking American wars. Bugger the "Fish Cheer", remember the Fish for this,
one of the top three to five albums of that summer of '67, which'll be 60 yrs. gone next yr. We all might as well curl up & die. You first!
