lummi island wine tasting nov 21-22 ’25
Hours this weekend: 4-6 pm Friday & Saturday
November sun!
rare glimpse of sunshine on
late November leaves… 🙂
This Week’s Wine Tasting
MAN Chenin Blanc ’22 South Africa $14
Free-run juice preserves a crisp, clean, natural character; light, bright flavors of quince, pear, and pineapple, palate of fresh stonefruit and apple, and a round, soothing mouthfeel.
MAN Vintners Pinotage ’22 South Africa $14
Aromas of dark coffee beans, red berries, nutmeg, and vanilla spice turning to dark berries and smoky plum; rustic yet silky and juicy, with smooth tannins, balanced acidity, and comforting intensity.
Wolftrap Red ’21 South Africa $14
Consistently appealing aromas and flavors of ripe plum, red currant, violets, Italian herbs and exotic spices; vibrant flavors of dark berries and spicy plum with hints of orange peel that linger on a juicy finish. (read more)
Lunetta Prosecco Italy $14
Pale straw color with greenish reflections, and fine perlage; fragrant, with enticing aromas of apple and peach; refreshing, dry, and harmonious, with crisp fruit flavors and a clean finish.
Economics of the Heart: America’s Closeout Sale
F-35 stealth fighter/bomber
When you think about it, it’s not all that surprising that the self-absorbed billionaires who have taken over the US government think of our entire country as just another profit center. From their point of view it makes no sense at all to squander resources keeping anyone alive who isn’t contributing at least as much value to the bottom line as it costs to hire them.
After all, this is the way feudalism worked for centuries. The powerful made the rules and the serfs did their bidding just to stay alive. Even so, every regional warlord had to maintain an army to protect his lands from neighboring kings and their armies, and the middle ages were filled with savagery and brutality. As the old story goes:
Get off this land. Whose land is it..?
It’s MY land. Where did you get it?
From my father. Where did he get it?
From his father. And where did HE get it…?
He fought for it. Well, then…I’ll fight YOU for it.
Over the last two thousand years human beings have tried out countless socioeconomic government structures before the United States became the first nation founded on the quaint principle that “all men are created equal,” designing an interdependent governmental structure specifically to keep government power under the will of the people.
For the last ten months our current “federal government” has been following the detailed blueprint of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 by systematically dismantling the Constitutional checks and balances that that have made this nation a global leader for 250 years. They are systematically replacing it with an authoritarian state that they seem to imagine: 1) will somehow survive as a fundamentalist White Christian oligarchy-against-women while systematically abandoning our traditional principles and the global leadership and respect they have engendered.
Seriously, make no mistake! This precise moment in history could well be our last chance to circle the wagons and fight back with everything we have left as a society. In particular, the recent meeting between the disintegating-before-our-very-eyes Tweetster and the gruelingly smarmy Saudi monarch represents the crossing of a roaring Rubicon that must be stopped immediately!!
The photo above is of the Lockheed-Martin F-35 stealth fighter/bomber, specifically designed to be electronically invisible. Btw, our military has not been using “airplanes” for a long time. On the contrary, every military aircraft represents a complex bundle of weapons, capabilities, and electronics generally referred to as a weapons system, with an extensive spec sheet of strategically important top secret capabilities.
Do not doubt for a moment that selling such cutting edge weapons systems to any other nation than long- trusted allies would instantly compromise all of those capabilities, negate their strategic advantages, and expose our country and its global interests to enemies across the world. For more on this topic, take a look at former VP Pence security advisor Olivia Troye’s assessment.
The recent unity shown by Congress in releasing the Epstein files suggests that Republicans might be crawling out of their 10-month hibernation and thinking, hmm, maybe things are not going quite the way they imagined. Meanwhile growing pushback about rising prices, together with increasing ICE domestic terrorism against Latino immigrants, has propelled a massive shift of Hispanic voters back to Democrats.
CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION:
PLEASE call/write your members of Congress immediately and urge them to kibosh the sale of sophisticated weaponry like the F-35 to Saudi Arabia or any other countries with whom we do not hold long-standing, proven alliances.
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