Notices by LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)

@KeepTakingTheSoma @EmmaFaber My hair is thick and wavy. When it's layered, it dries faster and there's less fuss. So, I think I might have it done.

I don't really do expensive cuts; my hair is forgiving. Only cut it can't handle is when they cut the sides near the temple wrong and I get wings (then I use gel until they grow out and I never go there again).

I don't mind hairdresser's chit chat. I do mind when they take too much credit for how my hair turns out :-). Yes, it's good hair. It was good hair before I walked in...

@EmmaFaber $25 the last time I had it cut, a couple of years ago, he's the owner, so no tip but I did give him a bottle of chocolate vodka and some banana bread.

I cut it myself these days, but I'm thinking of getting it layered again -- that will cost $35 + tip

@KeepTakingTheSoma Could be. Or could be the crown knows it needs to allow it given public sentiment.

(I was watching "England's Traitor King" yesterday about Edward's correspondence with Nazi Germany, and how he got a pass from Churchill, so I admit I may be jaded at the moment.)

Prince Andrew's Arrest

Across the pond in Britain, accountability is a serious matter

Interestingly, Andrew’s arrest is not concerning the 2011 sexual assault allegations that were brought against him by Virginia Giuffre — but it was recent stories in the British media about him passing on financial information to what the British press called “his pedo mate.” (Epstein)

It’s astonishing how much accountability seems to be possible once you cross the Atlantic.

Julie K Brown

https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/prince-andrews-arrest

Trump Administration Sends Pregnant Unaccompanied Minors to Texas Shelter Flagged as Medically Inadequate

Since late July, more than a dozen pregnant minors have been placed at the Texas facility, which is located in the small border city of San Benito. Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls. “This group of kids is clearly recognized as our most vulnerable,” one of the sources said. Rank-and-file staff, the source said, are “losing sleep over it, wondering if kids are going to be placed in programs where they’re not going to have access to the care they need.”

“This is 100% and exclusively about abortion,” said Jonathan White, a longtime federal health official who ran ORR’s unaccompanied children program for part of President Donald Trump’s first term. White, who recently retired from the government, said the administration tried and failed to restrict abortion access for unaccompanied minors in 2017. “Now they casually roll out what they brutally fought to accomplish last time and didn’t.”

https://www.kqed.org/news/12073575/trump-administration-sends-pregnant-unaccompanied-minors-to-texas-shelter-flagged-as-medically-inadequate

@KeepTakingTheSoma Shocked, I tell you! Shocked!!!

Deutsche Bank, Jared Kushner, Jeffrey Epstein, and cryptocurrency.

A former compliance officer for the international financial powerhouse Deutsche Bank told the Federal Bureau of Investigation she was fired in 2018 after raising concerns about suspicious banking activity from accounts owned by financier and sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, as well as accounts linked to Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, adviser, and business partner. The allegations come from an FBI interview report included in the Justice Department’s latest release of Epstein-related documents.

https://www.levernews.com/the-compliance-officer-who-flagged-epstein-and-lost-her-job/

https://archive.ph/iHnA5#selection-1309.0-1319.82

@astarsscreams California is big state. Plenty to see.

My parents used to do road trips and camp out at national / state parks. The redwoods alone are worth it (but not Yosemite unless you book a year or so in advance). Walking in a Sequoia forest is a sacred experience.

And then there is 1000 miles of coastal highway....

@astarsscreams I don't blame you.

I'm not sure about Hawaii. Yes, no. Hurricanes.

Woulda been a better surfer.

@astarsscreams We moved to California after the snowdrifts covered the attic windows of our 2 story colonial house.

Rent is too damn high, but Nevada and Arizona are still cheap.

@astarsscreams It was indeed. My dad arranged 3 job interviews within a week, 2 in California and 1 in Hawaii.

I came with a breath of being LostInHawaii.

@TikToc @djsumdog He believe in spheres of influence. Spheres of influence means we get the Americas, China gets Asia and Eastern Europe (at a minimum) goes to Russia.

Splitting NATO fits into that.

(Bit of drastic thinking, but I had a bad day.)

@djsumdog @TikToc Would not be surprised if he's trying to bully Boeing et al into giving him shares so he can veto weapons being sold to NATO.

FTR: The car made contact with the officer after ICE fired the shots.

@mirq Chechil

Never had it, but I good at Internet searching.

@FeartnTired @astarsscreams Some people don't know how to use plain gelatin or other thickening agents?

Granted, every 20 years or so, I'll put together a pudding pie using CoolWhip. The instant pudding has to has a strong flavor though; otherwise the thing tastes like oil or powdered milk -- my nieces are grown now so they can make their own corporation food monstrositries.

Now, explain marmite.

@djsumdog I can understand that.

The best books have tons of background written. But it's background, not the story.

@djsumdog Well, it was her second book. That's expected to fail after an author creates a monster hit.

I didn't buy it for that reason. Was just curious.

@djsumdog How was "Go Set a Watchman"?

@KeepTakingTheSoma I always forget most people haven't read as much about this as I have (my dad was a WWII disabled in training, and he always had Holocaust material around the same way other vets watched war movies.) I've even read bits and pieces of Dr Kelley's book.

You really didn't know Goring claimed Hiroshima was the equivalent of the death camps?

That part wasn't new. He spouted off about the free masonry of the Jews causing both worlds wars. He also blamed the 19th century colonial empires, the British Navy, the French "theft" of artwork, etc etc. They pared it down for this movie to just the bomb, but he had a whole catalogue of excuses.

He didn't say the US would be put on trial for the bomb. He said the victors would try the losers - all the Allies (including the UK, Russia and France) -- if they had lost. It's the "other people do bad stuff, too" excuse, and that he was only on trial because he lost.

Yeah, I probably would have gotten into a fight if I'd gone to the bar with you guys -- but you missed the reason for that scene.