lummi island wine tasting oct 10-11 ’25
Hours this weekend: 4-6 pm Friday & Saturday
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This Week’s Wine Tasting
Novelty Hill Stillwater Creek Chardonnay ’22 WA $22
Aromas of lemon verbena, thyme and apple blossoms; creamy fruit flavors of mango, lemon curd, pineapple, and crème brûlée.
Idilico Monastrell ’22 Washington $19
Known as Mourvèdre in France, Spanish monastrell typically has notes of dark cherry, pepper, and a bit of gaminess, bright acidity, and freshness and low alcohol levels. Fermented on the lees and aged in neutral barrels.
Idilico Tempranillo ’21 Washington $19
Aromas of leather, forest floor, and balsamic notes wrapped around a core of red fruit, notes of fresh dried herbs, sweet spice and red currant; medium bodied with juicy mouthfeel, soft tannin, and a lingering finish.
Shirt Found in Wine Shop last Friday
click link for photo : found in wine shop last week…
Economics of the Heart: National Guard and Illegal Orders
Federal agents use teargas and pepper balls to break up Chicago ICE protest | US immigration | The Guardian
“Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown today (10/8) led a coalition of 24 AG’s and governors in an amicus brief supporting Oregon’s court challenge to the Trump administration’s attempts to illegally use the military for civil law enforcement…”Every day we’re witnessing tactics by the President of the United States that have been used by fascist leaders across the world — sending the military into cities, threatening to jail political opponents and trying to intimidate into silence the media, academia, law firms and any other perceived critic,” Brown said. “Our Founders never envisioned this for our country, and the law simply does not allow it.”
Joining the brief are AG’s from Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin, and the governors of Kansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
2. According to Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, “if the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions is invaded or in danger of invasion by a foreign nation; experiences a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States, “the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws, BUT: “ Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the Governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.”
There should now be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Project 2025 is completely committed to hijacking US military forces to help them destroy democracy. In the war against immigrants we have gone from “they’re eating the dogs!” to grabbing people off the streets at gunpoint and disappearing them to foreign countries (even Florida!) with no legal process or paper trails, to using our military to bomb from the air (on camera!) random small boats at sea and killing everyone aboard with undocumented assertions that they were smuggling dangerous drugs into the U.S. That is just plain old vicious, unjustifiable, literally unwarranted Murder.
You can draw a straight line from these expanding threads of irresponsible murder, kidnapping, and brutal ICE raids all over the country directly to the current effort to invade major Blue cities and states with heavily armed police, soldiers, and masked ICE agents creating deliberate chaos in American cities, especially Blue ones. This is where the brutality starts following even more faithfully the models established by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and other Fascist, Nazi, (name your dictator) rulers.
What you can do: If you have a friend or relative in the military or National Guard, remind them that they have both a right and a responsibility to refuse to obey illegal orders.
The more service members that understand their obligation to refuse to be part of an insurrection, the safer we all will be.
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