lummi island wine tasting schedule update jan 30 ’26
Schedule thru Feb ’26
- We are closed this weekend (Jan 29) for both bread pickup and wine tasting.
- We do plan to be open for both bread pickup and wine tasting all four Fridays in February from 4-6 pm:
- Feb 6, 13, 20, and 27
Some people prefer Saturday afternoons when the weather gets warmer….!
This week’s wine tasting
CLOSED
Economics of the Heart: Cruelty Is Never Justified
courtesy financialexpress.com
The past several months have evoked a broad and growing national realization that Project 2025 has moved ahead to the next phase of its destruction and looting of the United States government, assets, offices, employees, and data while violating every aspect of our 250-yr old Constitution.
Metaphorically, the ship’s rats have taken over the bridge, shut down the engines, and stopped navigating altogether while the ship is systematically looted, crew members thrown overboard, and all radio contact reduced to “sorry, no one is here to take your call.”
The emotional tone set by this so-called administration, cabinet officers, and public faces is blase, uninformed, unconcerned, grumpy, and rude. Nowhere has this been more conspicuous than in the sadistic cruelty of ICE beatings, murders, torture, imprisonment, and disappearing of tens of thousands of immigrants– including citizens– in flagrant disregard for both established law and common decency.
All of this stinks of the same sadistic cruelty as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and a host of lesser autocrats over many centuries. We have all seen clearly that this is not just political aspiration to lead. It is the sadistic rage of children with a deep grievance that can never be resolved except by hurting others in the same way. And even that satisfaction is fleeting. We are talking about the Tweetster, of course, but also and especially Steven Miller, whose hatred of immigrants is so obviously virulent that it seems to have consumed him for his entire life.
All of this is the backdrop for the present moment in American politics. The many and ongoing excesses of this heartless government have been creeping into public consciousness over the past several months. But they have now exploded into national awareness in the last two weeks with the senseless brutality of federal ICE agents in Minneapolis who murdered two ordinary, law-abiding citizens for no reason whatsoever except the out-of-control sadistic psychopathy of the agents and those who direct them.
The main components of sadism include the intention to harm others, deriving pleasure in inflicting pain on them, and a complete lack of regret. A sadist, by definition, feels pleasure from intentionally causing physical and psychological harm to others and willfully persists in such behavior. Many of the personalities in this administration’s so-called “Cabinet” may qualify as “sadistic psychopaths” besides the Tweetster and Miller, like Hegseth, Bondi, Noem, and Patel, among others. (imho…)
This second year of illegal ICE deployments of thousands of agents into American cities and towns is violently hauling people away with neither warrants or due process with amplified brutality. Most likely, these lawless escalations of brutality are intended to evoke enough resistance to justify inciting the Insurrection Act and declaring Martial Law…an outcome, to borrow a favorite phrase, “most devoutly to be eschewed.”
Keep the faith…
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