Sharing History from an official Emotional Support Canadian

Not Exactly a Canada Day celebration. Remembering events of July 12, 1844 but get some cool merch by June 30. 

Don't wait for Canada day. Head over to shop.todmaffin.com for organic cotton t-shirts that say "Relentless Decency," "I Stand With Canada," tees that have a cool line of trees and assorted other gear. Buy NOW, before June 30.

Now the video: 

Video content warning: violence, drunkenness, and extreme police accountability.

Language note: several quite respectable Canadianisms

Today From RantWoman's brand new Emotional Support Canadian

The Great Toronto Circus Riot

This item is honest about Canadian history, somehow a welcome relief from the overabundance of tendentious ranting RantWoman tolerates in other channels.

Enjoy!

And one more rant: for anyone from the US who might be travelling abroad and thinking of trying to pretend to be Canadian in order to duck floods of national embarrassment, just DON'T!

Small footnote: RantWoman knows how to share things just fine in Elon's Sandbox. RantWoman even managed to share with a tiny number of friends on Instagram. And for further Instagram fun, RantWoman MUST look up the swipes needed to make her phone read a lot of text--if only to read posts from one important national blindness organization.

Happy belate birthday #GrandpaSleepyhead.

RantWoman is a grown-up. RantWoman made the grown-up decision to watch this entire video. Sorry Dear Readers, though. If you want to experience the Kai Trump goes to her grandpa's birthday party at the White House, please click on the link your own selves.

I went to the UFC fight at the White House

Neither Grandpa farmer nor the Righteous Reverend Rant Grandad needed a UFC fight for their birthdays. They did not need to surround themselves with (fake) gold. 

They did not turn any rose garden into concrete.

There is NO WAY that RantChildren would have been permitted to kick a soccer ball around outside the residential areas of the White House.

If anyone in the RantFamily had the opportunity to tour the white house and the Washington monument, maybe they would have made some effort to share interesting factoids. Not Kai.

Kai and her aunt Ivanka both do breathy blond frighteningly well. RantWoman has a very good friend who is blonde and perfectly capable of exploiting people's assumptions about blondness; this friend is also a doctor with multiple published scientific papers. Apparently there is no hope of expecting anything like that from the Trump family blondes.

But anyway, Happy belated birthday Mr. President. Sorry you fell asleep at your own party though.

The reflecting pool. Oh, the reflecting pool

#TeamAlgae

The reflecting pool and algae homeland
miraculously still reflects

First a link to a Today Explained segment wherein algae experts are definitely having a moment.

The Reflecting Pool fiasco - Today, Explained - Apple Podcasts

There is a link to a transcript.

There are NUMEROUS scientists commenting about the wonders and persistence of algae. Any organism millions of years and photosynthesizes deserves respect.

RantWoman enthusiastically embraces the science and will henceforth strive to get a handle on every reflex that might prosaically be considered Trump derangement syndrome. RantWoman MAY also go look for the T-shirts that come in either "olive green" or "military green" imprinted with the words "American Flag Blue.

It is not like there are not floods of other things to doomscroll about or that President #StableGenius is going to run out of other ways to cause consternation and hopefully motivate people to rise up and GO VOTE.

Reflecting Pool’s “American Flag Blue” Turns Green Due to Algae - Washingtonian

As for "vandalism," former federal prosecutor Gleen Kirschner brings some receipts, er, evidence (?), along with a quote: "Cross examination is the greatest legal weapon for discovering the truth."

More Trump Reflecting Pool Nonsense!

Unsolicited clothing tips for Blanche, recently proclaimed Icelandair's World's Worst Photographer.

Blanche, Icelandair's "World's Worst photographer" is heading out on the promised 10-day trip around Iceland! 

RantWoman has mastered enough Instagram skills to search for specific channels, to like videos, to absorb ads for all sorts of travel giveaways (Clue: RantWoman seems to have a bit of a travel bug). RantWoman truly enjoys, for instance all the joy and energy and hope flowing from the Obama Presidential Center. RantWoman, who spends a bit of her time loathing #bikeshare vehicles also noticed someone, perhaps a Qatari "football" fan trundling around downtown Seattle on a #LimeBike. RantWoman has not really mastered sharing, reels / Threads, or how to target the floods of things one might want to share. Hence the need to offer unsolicited advice in blogland.

Back to IcelandAir and Blanche. Yesterday there was advice, mostly in Icelandic with tiny print that MAY be subtitles, for Blanche. Today both IcelandAir and Blanche posted a video that is almost to jittery and visually busy for RantWoman to appreciate. 

RantWoman did, though, notice that Blanche might need advice from one of the numerous "what to wear" / "how to pack for Iceland" videos.

Here, in case it is helpful are a couple such examples.

Rain Gear: How to Stay DRY in Iceland

There. Now RantWoman has to speak about Seattle. No need for rain gear, at least for a couple days. Temperatures have hit close to 90 F a few days in a row. RantWoman, who has lived in hotter climes, has gotten used to the need to whine about the heat anytime the temperature rises above about 80F. 

The summer temperature yo-yo in Seattle, for better or worse, does not include as much summer rain / heavy mist as was Seattle's reputation when RantWoman first moved here decades ago. The important point for tonight's ramble: weather definitely not as variable as Iceland but a young intern RantWoman knows will in fact, for the next few days, need the wrap RantWoman encouraged her to get.

Yes! A summer bus route from Ballard to Golden Gardens

#NonDriver #KingCountyMetro #GoldenGardens 

RantWoman has once or twice walked from Golden Gardens south to Ballard. Not in a few years.

RantWoman is THRILLED to read this summer bus. RantWoman will check to see whether her ORCA Card and bus pass work to pay the fare, but RantWoman is THRILLED. 

Stay tuned for more raves.

Kenyan court orders halt to construction of Ebola isolation facility that would serve only people from the US

 #Kenya #Ebola

This whole controversy is classic President #StableGenius

--pull out of international bodies

--try to manipulate individual leaders into expressing "appreciation" for all the US has done in the past.

--Bring a horrific disease into a country where it is not present and then make only promises about safeguarding the local population.

RantWoman is horrified by the US approach and hopes the Kenyan courts NEVER let it go forward.

Elon Musk proudly trampling environmental standards in TWO states with help fro governors and the DoJ

#DataCenter #MSpol #TNpol