In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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And let me chime in as well - though I've been mostly absent, I wish for all my friends here A GOOD CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Massive wind storm blew through my corner of British Columbia. Damage done, a pier in a city called White Rock was destroyed. Someone was on that pier and had to be rescued by helicopter before he wound up in the drink.

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Wow, THAT was dramatic!

We've had high waves here too, 15 ft and more, which is unusual for the So Cal coast. One of the piers at Zuma beach was damaged, since they're not built for waves higher than 15'.

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It's been foggy here too. We had three rainstorms come in a few weeks ago and a great start to the rainy season, but nothing much lately. Long term forecast says maybe rain nine or ten days from now. It'll be interesting to see if my long term guesstimate (near-normal rainfall for the season) turns out to be good... or not!

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Have been TRYING to clear out "stuff" accumulated over twenty-five years living here, and that's in order to repaint a bunch of rooms. It's been slow going as I've been managing our health insurance transitions when hubby retired, plus his required minimum distributions, and all of the usual household stuff. And for some strange reason have been aching in every joint for the past month ... it's like the "aging clock" went on fast-forward and I turned 90 in five weeks.

But so far have managed to pile up a number of things to give away ... hey, does anyone want wire metal shelving? ... plus a bunch of recycling and SOME stuff to throw out. I just keep chipping way at it as time permits. I hope that some day, after "chipping away" at the mess, I'll look up and think Holy shit! This place looks ...better!

So have been managing with all of the aches and pains ... got the tree up, hobble around with the dog in the morning and doing the best I can.



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Been following the deep discussions of heater systems ... I learned a lot, thanks guys!

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BRENDA, I hope you stay warm.

And to my friends here at FFF.net, I wish you a Merry Christmas. I think of you warmly, and wish all the best for you for the coming year.

Here is an image from my hometown to get us all in the Christmas spirit!



MAY YOU ALL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND PROSPEROUS IN THE COMING NEW YEAR.



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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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Very dramatic for here Sig.

When that wind blew through it brought rain as well.

I'm working on the staying warm and keeping the depression at bay.

That picture of the houses reminds of Alberta.

Have a good Christmas Sig.

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Merry Christmas everybody.

Hope you can knock that depression down Brenda. Got a few cold months ahead of us, but we've always got spring to look forward to. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Merry Christmas everybody.

Hope you can knock that depression down Brenda. Got a few cold months ahead of us, but we've always got spring to look forward to. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I'm working on it Jack. It's better when I am busy then I am not thinking so much.

Going out to Christmas dinner tonight but need to find something to take for desert. So out for a walk in a bit.

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Rain and sleet here today.

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Adventure for the end of the year. Went into Vancouver to meet friends for dinner yesterday(Thursday). They are on a layover before heading to the US for a family trip to Disneyland.

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Massive New Migrant Caravan To Leave Honduras; Overloaded El Paso Faces Imminent "Crisis"

A new, larger migrant caravan is set to leave Honduras on Jan. 15 according to Spanish-language media and migrant rights advocates.

"They say they are even bigger and stronger than the last caravan," according to Irma Garrido of migrant advocacy group Reactiva Tijuana Foundation.

News of the new caravan comes as thousands of Central American migrants from an October caravan remain stranded at various cities along the US-Mexico border as they face wait times of up to several months for the United States to process their asylum requests. What's more, if migrants cannot justify their asylum claims, they may be denied.

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OMG! Denying unjustifiable claims!!!

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Garrido said this new, larger caravan will probably be joined by more people in El Salvador and in Guatemala, but she said they don’t plan on coming straight to the Tijuana-San Diego border, where resources are already stretched nearly to a breaking point. -LA Times

"They will stay in the south of Mexico in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Their aim is to request work there," said Garrido.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-28/massive-new-migrant-caravan-
leave-honduras-overloaded-el-paso-faces-imminent-crisis

Huh. Well, let Manual Obrador figure out what to do with them!



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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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I think this zerohedge russian propaganda belongs here don't you think sig? We keep telling you not to post these sources of aggregated russian contextual analysis “russian cultural , political propaganda" news in our threads claiming it is true, yet you continue to do so.

So sig, stop trolling the rest of us with zerohedge. And I quote you...

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THUGR, do you really think that I care about "who" ZH is? As I have posted many times in the past, you have to be careful of ZH: they tend to have an apocalyptic bent to their articles ... it's either the end of the dollar, or the end of the free market as we know it, or the end of SOMETHING!

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Here you just admitted that a source of yours, a primary source of the information you post here, is as you described above. That's very telling, thats very sad. Your source is a corrupt blog that has a pro Russia havoc creating agenda. This was admitted to by one of the three creators of this blog so your opinion concerning that is mute.

Even you admit here the blog is a haven for conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories produce hypotheses that contradict the prevailing understanding of history and simple facts. Again, very telling, very sad. Evidence enough for the reader I should think that what you post is biased and not to be believed.

What I do is put a face on peoples agendas SIG. I've put a face on yours. Russian commie troll. I think you loose. I think you always loose.



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Where is your link showing what you claim is true? Or showing it was reported by a reputable news outlet.

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Hey THUGR, is this what you were looking for?

Since I didn't want to pre-digest the article, I just posted the whole thing ...

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Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

After the Obama administration approved the sale of a Canadian mining company with significant U.S. uranium reserves to a firm owned by Russia’s government, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assured Congress and the public the new owners couldn’t export any raw nuclear fuel from America’s shores.

“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.

A year later, the nuclear regulator repeated the assurance in a letter to Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican in whose state Uranium One operated mines.

“Neither Uranium One Inc. nor AMRZ holds a specific NRC export license. In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the exports of uranium for use in reactor fuel,” then-NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko wrote to Barrasso.

The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.

NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license — which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal — the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Officials at RSB, Cameco and Rosatom did not return repeated phone calls or emails seeking comment.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.

“None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. “Any physical export of the product from co

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