Discombobulated

[digitS']

I just discovered a combination that seems quite discombobulating to me.

Where I grew up in southern Oregon, and not far from where @Rhodie Ranch lives, wineries had not made their appearance during those years. Now, there are quite a few.

One, a maker of champagne, is the nextdoor neighbor to a food bank.

digitS'

 

[Zeedman]

I just discovered a combination that seems quite discombobulating to me.

Where I grew up in southern Oregon, and not far from where @Rhodie Ranch lives, wineries had not made their appearance during those years. Now, there are quite a few.

One, a maker of champagne, is the nextdoor neighbor to a food bank.

digitS'

Decisions, decisions...

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

What food bank is that?

 

[digitS']

What food bank is that?

Applegate Valley

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Wow, Steve. I had no idea that there were so many here.

Wine

Let Medford be your launchpad to Rogue Valley Wine Country.

www.travelmedford.org

 

[digitS']

Just remember

@Rhodie Ranch

if you take a daylong tour, make sure that your driver never leaves the bus.

Steve

 

[Marie2020]

Her context appears to have been Nazi Germany but I think they apply to any totalitarian rule or attempt at totalitarian rule. I’ll copy a few more of her quotes. Thanks for posting about her.


The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

Hannah Arendt

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Hannah Arendt

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Hannah Arendt

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

Hannah Arendt

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Hannah Arendt

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Hannah Arendt

Thank you for these posts

Hannah Arendt Quote

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

www.azquotes.com

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

My 90 yr old Mother and her 89.75 yr old Boyfriend have been diagnosed with COVID. At their independent living center in the SF Bay Area. They are in the second wave. Mother never liked the rules of staying home. Sheesh.....

 

[flowerbug]

My 90 yr old Mother and her 89.75 yr old Boyfriend have been diagnosed with COVID. At their independent living center in the SF Bay Area. They are in the second wave. Mother never liked the rules of staying home. Sheesh.....

arg! i hope they will come through this ok.

 

[digitS']

I imagine (and I'm very sorry) your mother and friend are in this situation, @Rhodie Ranch :

"The vaccines are going out. As soon as they receive vaccine, this is according to the governors telling us to ship to them, we can have every nursing home patient vaccinated in the United States by Christmas," Azar said. (That is former Secretary of Health and Human Services Azar.)

"Then, on a call with LeadingAge, an elder advocacy group, former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said he believed vaccinations among nursing home residents and workers would be completed by the end of January." LINK

It's not happening and ABC News interviewed people in several states about it. The most serious fail is with "assisted living" residents since that group is in a separate class from the nursing home patients - where the effort is still falling short despite the assurances.

Steve