lummi island wine tasting dec 5-6 ’25
Hours this weekend: 4-6 pm Friday & Saturday
painting by Anne Gibert
This Week’s Wine Tasting
Marchetti Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico ’22 Italy $14
Verdicchio/Malvasia blend from free-run juice; pale straw-green color; intense bouquet of citrus and lemon zest, complex fruity character, and crisp, well-balanced palate.
Perrin CdR Rouge Réserve ’20 France $16
Fresh, bright and fleshy GSM Rhone blend shows peppery aromas and flavors of black cherry and raspberry, finishing warm and long. Excellent value!
Domaine Chibaou Surnaturel Merlot ’20 France $22
Aromas of black fruits, strawberries, and caramel; rich and concentrated, balanced and elegant.
Economics of the Heart: Enough of the People Enough of the Time…
Sure, they look tough… but they don’t pack the gear!
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
The familiar American myth is that Abraham Lincoln said these wise lines in various places at various times with various wordings.
So it is curiously disappointing to learn that rigorous research concludes that the idea has been around since long before Lincoln, with numerous similar wordings, (including Dubya’s memorable “fool me once shame on you; fool me twice..um..fool me….well, you can’t fool me again!” The point still holds: when facts contradict what politicians have been telling us, they have been lying and it’s time for them to go!
Now a year into the 2024 coup, everyone can see very clearly the blatant corruption and sadistic cruelty of the Project 2025 assault on our 250-yr old democracy. For most of the year, Congressional Republicans have been largely silent and unavailable for comment, making this the most unproductive Congress in history, aka “most Oval Office genuflections in a single year.”
It’s been a long, horrifying year of Congressional rubber-stamping of the Tweetster’s long list of breathtakingly incompetent Cabinet appointees, Musk’s DOGE publicizing of confidential federal records, and Project 2025’s methodical destruction of American democracy.
At the same time, the venerable White House is being ripped to pieces and cheapened to the Tweetster’s tasteless “standards.” Congressional Republicans remain silent and subdued as he cedes Ukraine to Putin, and nod off in their chairs as he hands over our most advanced weapons systems to ruthless Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (the guy who brought us 9/11 and the brutal murder of Jamal Kashoggi.) Folks, this isn’t a Congress; it’s a retirement home for empty suits.
The sadistic cruelty of Congressional Republicans’ failure to protect our institutions, our people, our Constitution, and their own oaths of office are exacerbated even further by the daily, nation-wide brutality of thousands of armed, masked, warrantless ICE agents. Each day, under orders from Steven Miller, they deliberately violate the Constitutional rights of thousands of legal immigrants and asylum seekers, create chaos across the country (even Lummi Island*) and defy state and federal laws with adolescent impunity.
However, we are seeing many encouraging signs of growing public resistance to the ongoing lies, the corruption, the looting, the cruelty, and the widespread violations of local, state, federal, and international laws by administration officials. These include the illegal murders of scores of unknown, unnamed boat crews by US armed aircraft in neutral waters by American ships and aircraft and their intention to eliminate federal support for the needy altogether in 2027.
Recent polls, election results, and increasing nationwide resistance from lower courts, state governors, AG’s, legislatures, and public events all show growing commitment to preserve our Constitutional rights. These include the calling out of federal overreach by state and local authorities, consistent lower court nixing of unjustifiable/illegal charges against targeted individuals or groups, recent election victories for the rule of law, and increasing political activity of younger voters, including NYC mayor, New Jersey and Virginia governors, and CA Prop 50.
* Last spring some 34 Mexican-origin roofers who regularly worked here on LI were swept up across the County by ICE and “disappeared”)
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