Mountain Rose

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@Cheesecake7777 Beautiful 😢💔

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@CharliePawsUp I just ordered, looking forward to my wonderful things!❤️❤️

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@Hellbeastly @chicathechih I am so sorry for your loss, your beautiful girl was clearly very loved! I will miss seeing her. Sending you much love.💔🌈❤️

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@LittleBearconvo What a beautiful orchid for beautiful Little Bear, so very thoughtful.❤️

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@MatthewJLadd Thank you for masking!😷

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@Hellbeastly I’m so very sorry, sending much love to you and dear Ember.💔

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Him: “Hey Joe, why you got a problem with live streaming the execution of that killer? We gotta send a message.”

Me: “Bcuz I think ISIS is evil. I think Al Qaeda is evil. I think Hamas is evil. I think Hezbollah is evil. I think the Taliban is evil. I think Iran’s ruling regime is evil. I think the Saudi regime is evil. I think Kim Jong Un is evil. I could go on. They all publicly execute people. And I don’t want America to be even remotely like them. Any of them. Ever.”

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@GigEmJD @BogartSmith3 @LittleBearconvo Such a lovely picture show in memory of Little Bear! ❤️Thank you for putting this together, I really enjoyed seeing her be so adorable.

[The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket]

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.
He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.
We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.
Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.
If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives. We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance. We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach. Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.
Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.
On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.
They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@LittleBearconvo @BogartSmith3 I’m so very sorry for your loss but know you look forward to the blessed reunion. I haven’t known Little Bear very long but want you to know that I smiled every time I saw her face.😊 She was so cute and adorably sweet, she made my hard days better. Sending you much love.❤️

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@MelanieLee48 @gerbilsand18 You are blessed to have such a good son! Feel better soon!😊

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@michael_hoerger Awesome! I just donated, thank you for everything you do for us and have a great race!

[Deborah Holloway 😷 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @DebHolloway]

I can't believe I have to say this in year 7 heading into year 8, but if you want to understand how to clean the air in your home or why respirators and testing matter, not just for SARS-CoV-2 but for the 'flu and other respiratory viruses, we have you covered. If you are sick (or get sick) we also have a section for what to do if you test positive and don't want to spread it to others in your household. I'm so tired. FFS. Happy Thanksgiving, Canada. https://t.co/5kNi74NSSI

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@HaggisAdele I absolutely love it!❤️

[Mountain Rose @MountainRose73]

@1goodtern Same here!🙌😷

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

California's COVlD outbreak now surpasses 3 months.

PMC estimates 1 in 29 residents are actively infectious statewide. Mask up and get boosted.💉💪😷

On a computer, go to https://t.co/iBvYAoL2TK and click on individual counties for more info, including a graph of recent levels.

Here's a summary by county of the level and PMC estimate of the proportion of the population actively infectious:

Alameda | Very High | 1 in 26
Alpine | High | 1 in 34
Amador | High | 1 in 36
Butte | Very High | 1 in 22
Calaveras | High | 1 in 30
Colusa | Very High | 1 in 25
Contra Costa | High | 1 in 36
Del Norte | Very High | 1 in 23
El Dorado | High | 1 in 40
Fresno | Very High | 1 in 23
Glenn | Very High | 1 in 23
Humboldt | High | 1 in 32
Imperial | High | 1 in 31
Inyo | Very High | 1 in 20
Kern | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Kings | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Lake | Very High | 1 in 23
Lassen | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Los Angeles | High | 1 in 34
Madera | Very High | 1 in 24
Marin | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Mariposa | High | 1 in 29
Mendocino | Very High | 1 in 24
Merced | Moderate | 1 in 43
Modoc | Very High | 1 in 21
Mono | Very High | 1 in 25
Monterey | Very High | 1 in 28
Napa | High | 1 in 33
Nevada | Very High | 1 in 28
Orange | High | 1 in 38
Placer | High | 1 in 29
Plumas | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Riverside | Very High | 1 in 26
Sacramento | High | 1 in 29
San Benito | High | 1 in 30
San Bernardino | Very High | At least 1 in 20
San Diego | Moderate | 1 in 48
San Francisco | High | 1 in 34
San Joaquin | Very High | 1 in 22
San Luis Obispo | High | 1 in 29
San Mateo | High | 1 in 37
Santa Barbara | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Santa Clara | High | 1 in 40
Santa Cruz | Very High | 1 in 26
Shasta | Very High | 1 in 26
Sierra | Very High | 1 in 23
Siskiyou | High | 1 in 31
Solano | High | 1 in 34
Sonoma | Very High | 1 in 25
Stanislaus | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Sutter | High | 1 in 31
Tehama | Very High | 1 in 23
Trinity | High | 1 in 30
Tulare | Very High | 1 in 20
Tuolumne | High | 1 in 29
Ventura | High | 1 in 34
Yolo | Very High | 1 in 24
Yuba | Very High | 1 in 28

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

NYC has high levels of COVlD, so public health and political leaders are telling people to go get your boosters... for flu.
#paltering #NYC

[Lola Patolla @LolaPatolla]

Little lemon beagle mix Latte (fka Dove) is looking for a new “lady-only” home. Unfortunately she hasn’t been able to be comfortable with the dad at her home or male visitors & to relieve her anxiety, a female home may be best.

So calling all gals!!! (Because Latte has decided men are extra scary likely due to past abuse).

Latte is the kind of girl who makes you celebrate the tiniest victories—because for her, they aren’t tiny at all.
She is a completely sweet, gentle girl who has clearly learned that keeping her distance feels safest. She isn’t ready for cuddles or affection yet. She doesn’t want you right beside her—but she does want to know you’re there.

Outside at night, she’ll explore a fenced yard as long as she can see her person nearby. During the workday, she’s content to lie on her bed in the office while her foster works or has meetings. She’s learning that sharing space with a human can be safe.

And every so often, we get a glimpse of the dog hiding underneath all that fear.

She LOVES being outside, sniffing, exploring and digging. She’ll secretly play with her squeaky toys when she thinks nobody is watching. She thinks a snuffle mat filled with breakfast is fantastic, and treats are definitely one of the better things humans have invented.

She’s also apparently decided that horses are highly suspicious creatures. When one appeared on TV, Latte suddenly came alive—standing up, staring at the screen, fur raised, growling and barking. She spent the rest of the evening keeping one eye on the television just in case those horses came back. 😂

Latte thrives on routine and predictability. She sleeps quietly through the night in her crate, eats well and views her crate as her safe place.

What Latte needs most isn’t someone determined to “fix” her. She needs someone willing to give her time.

A quiet, patient home where she can have a safe space of her own and learn at her own pace would be ideal.

Latte has shown no aggression. When frightened, she retreats and submits. That’s why her adopter needs to understand fearful dogs and be willing to let trust come to them rather than forcing interaction.

Because underneath that scared little girl, her foster is already catching glimpses of someone else:

A silly girl. A playful girl. A curious girl. A happy girl.

She’s in there.

Latte just needs a patient person willing to give her the time, love and safety she needs to finally come out. ❤️