Previously I published an emotional blog about the draft-dodging, insurrectionist being presented with a folded flag by the Army on Saturday. And I am still upset about that, but after seeing many clips from the parade, and hearing about aspects that weren't in the clips, I am feeling a little better. I still wish the Army could reclaim that flag before the traitor in chief uses it for butt wipe, but I was heartened at what I saw of the Army in the parade. So much so I'm creating a new blog and meme, again to the US Army. It took guts for them to perform the way they did on Saturday. And creativity. It was not lost on me. So here comes the new meme:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
Senators were Shot - Scump is to blame
Two United States Senators and their spouses were shot in their homes. Senator John Hoffman survived surgery with a bullet next to heart ; his wife suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
You're Sitting in a Restaurant...
You’re sitting in a restaurant and suddenly an armored battle vehicle pulls up out front and off jumps men in tee shirts, jeans or possibly battle fatigues, tactical vests with body armor, battle weapons, boots or sneakers, helmets, and masks and you realize they are storming into the restaurant.
How would you react?
Would you dive under your table? Would you scream? Grab your children and huddle with them under the table? Unholster your own weapon, wondering if civil war has broken out or a murderer is being tracked down?
Or
perhaps this was a robbery or terrorist attack considering these guys are
wearing a mix of civilian clothing and battle gear and obviously not officers
or military personnel.
Would the whole restaurant feel threatened? Would everyone flatten on the floor? Would babies scream in fear? Would women scream in fear? Would your heart pound in your chest? Would you shake in fear? Sweat through your clothing? Wet yourself?
After you watch a sobbing or angry kitchen worker being
dragged out into the street and stuffed into the vehicle with no rights read, no warrant
understood, and no badges or even faces being displayed, would you or anyone
else in the restaurant feel like eating? Or even receive your food if the
person dragged out in the hands of god knows who happened to be the cook?
Or would you be scared half to death? Would you wonder
where that prep cook or waitress was being shipped off to, with no rights being
observed? No lawyer called, no Miranda rights being read?
These are terror tactics practiced by the Taliban, al
Qaeda, the KGB, the Gestapo, the Klan, the Mafia, and other thugs the Constitution is
supposed to protect us from – all of us, even people in this country who came
from somewhere else. Even the people in this country without documentation –
which, I might add is a misdemeanor.
We the People must stop this. We the People must stop the Republicans
who are enabling an unconstitutional president – because not a single oath,
congressional or presidential is being honored. Not. One.
When hundreds of thousands of We the People are out protesting en masse every week,
you have to question the unconstitutional regime behind these terror tactics
and why they aren’t being stopped by Congress. Congressional power ultimately
controls the president because We the People elect congress to represent us.
We the People are not being represented. Mike Johnson and
the Republicans have decided that We the People are incapable of choosing
between right and wrong. They are choosing immoral, unconstitutional, criminal
actions and supporting an insurrectionist, unconstitutional president who only
ran for the office to come back and finish the job he started during his first
term, of overthrowing our government.
Law enforcement isn’t enforcing the law anymore, partly
because the illegal president is usurping their power by sending in the
National Guard, ignoring the governors’ and local law enforcement’s prerogative
to ask for them in their communities when they deem it necessary.
He sent the National Guard into LA when it not only wasn’t
necessary, but made everything violent. Before the National Guard arrived, the
local police found it necessary to make 53 arrests. Fifty three arrests
out of thousands of peaceful demonstrators. And most of those weren’t violent,
the protestors were removed from a bridge.
The President of the United States declared war on his own
citizenry who were exercising their constitutional right to protest and doing
it peacefully. It was Scump himself who instigated the violence with another of
his vile, illegal orders.
Just like he instigated the violence on January 6th.
What he did was called stochastic terrorism. It means inciting
violence without really saying it plainly. Scump should be the one arrested,
not the protestors. Scump and the thugs he’s using to suppress We the People by
illegal and violent means.
This situation is rapidly spinning out of control. The
National Guard and Marines do not belong in LA. They were not requested or
needed in LA. Scump manufactured an
emergency, just like he did at the border. He is trying to suppress We the
People by force and inciting violence where there wasn’t any.
We the People expect our Congress, Department of Justice, Department
of Defense to do their sworn duties and uphold our Constitution. We expect them
to do that now, because the president and so-called Republicans are playing
with fire, and if We the People burn, they burn with us.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
I Have Some Questions for ICE
I have some questions for ICE and
for the unidentified military geared “militias” who are dragging people out of
restaurants, garment factories, homes in the middle of the night and
disappearing them.
Where’s the war? Where are the terrorists, drug addicts,
rapists, and gang members?
Somebody shoot spaghetti at you in that Italian restaurant?
Launch a pizza at your armored vehicle?
Fit your weapon of war for a sweater at the garment factory? Hit you with a
pillow? Throw their diploma and honors medal at you at that high school graduation?
Where’s the armed conflict?
How many freeloaders are you finding working jobs in
factories, restaurants, and landscaping businesses? They are working honest
jobs, which is more than I can say for you.
Did the women and children you dragged out of their bed, in
their underwear and out into a rainstorm get too wet for you? Cry on your body
armor?
Are you proud of dragging mothers away and zip-tying their
small children? Did they frighten you with their sobs? Are you proud of kidnapping nursing babies whose mothers you’ve stolen whether their name is on a warrant or not?
If there even is a warrant?
And who are you anyway? Soldiers? Police officers? Sex
traffickers? Rapists? Thieves? No one knows with no badges and masks on your faces.
Why are there no white people being arrested? Why isn’t the
first lady being arrested? Or her children? She was in this country for five
years before applying for citizenship. And she broke up a marriage. Where’s her
warrant?
Are you proud of shipping people away to other countries
without any kind of hearing to make sure you got the identity right? Whether
you’re sure they aren’t American citizens? Without contacting their families or
lawyers? While ignoring the constitutional rights every person in this country has?
Disobeying the constitution you swore to uphold?
These are not the actions of police in the United States of
America. Or the US military. These are the actions of the Taliban. These are
the actions of al Qaeda. These are the actions of the Klan. These are the
actions of the Gestapo. These are the actions of the KGB. These are the actions
of over-geared, over armored, over-zealous thugs. You have become the
extremists that you swore an oath to defend us from.
Shame on you. Deep
shame.
Are you proud? Would your mothers be proud? Would your
grandparents and great-grandparents who fought in WWII and WWI against this
very type of fascism be proud? Proud that you are acting on lies from a sadistic
and unconstitutional president who is so far off the rails that impeachment is
being seriously discussed?
Are you and your loved ones proud that you are breaking
your solemn vows to uphold the constitution of the United States of America to
follow orders from a president who broke his oath – uncountable times?
Your oath is not to defend a felonious, deranged president.
Your oath is to the Constitution of the United States. And if you didn’t take a
police or military oath than you are nothing more than kidnapping, violent
thugs, doing the bidding of an unconstitutional president who is himself a
felon.
Either way, you are breaking the law, not enforcing it. Shame
on you.
Deep and lifelong shame.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Right or Happy? Stupid Question
There's a meme on social media that begs the question:
Would you rather be right or happy?
What kind of a choice is that? In order to be in a
relationship (casual or serious, platonic or romantic) I have to swallow my
knowledge? My intellect? My right to my opinion? If I say I'm wrong when I'm
not, how can I be happy? If I allow people spreading misinformation or hate
around without speaking the truth, how can I be happy? If two people in any
relationship allow each other to wallow in ignorance, how can either of them truly
be happy? If either person concedes to something they don't believe or
something that goes against their conscience, how can that relationship survive?
It's living a lie.
That said, I've concluded that I'd rather be right. Anyone
that comes into your life and insists that they must be right without evidence
to back them up, and that you have to swallow your knowledge and carefully
considered opinions that you know are correct because you have facts to back
you up, isn't worth having as a friend. The willfully ignorant who refuse to
acknowledge facts when they are presented, who are too lazy to look into matters
and seek out the truth, even if it's an uncomfortable truth, and expect you to
pussyfoot around their obstinance and tell them they have a point when they
clearly are wrong is just exerting mind control. Why would anyone back down and
submit to that? Submit to the kind of bullying that has kept people oppressed for
centuries?
You want to be right? Show me evidence that you are right.
And if I prove that evidence to be false then have the grace to concede the
point, and I if you prove mine false I will do the same. Otherwise, there is no
relationship at all, just your narcissism.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Terri's Newsletter 2-24-23
February 24, 2023
Hi Everybody!
It has been an extremely busy year so far, especially the
past couple of weeks.
Since my last note, I finally found a home for my art
stuff. I settled on Fine Art America,
and have been furiously learning how to use the site all week. I'm still not
great at it, but I have managed to post over 50 pieces of art so far. I have a
little bit of everything – Abstract, Owl's Nest illustration, Paranormal Posse
illustrations, Impact pieces (memoir illustrations for a book I'm putting
together), birds and nature, and some miscellaneous stuff too.
I don't claim to be any kind of amazing artist or anything,
but some of the merch available looks pretty cool.
Check it out when you get a chance.
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/terri-delcampo
Another project I've been working on this week is trying to
get my art supplies organized and accessible (goals that seemed mutually exclusive
until this week). Blaze and I live in a studio apartment. It's tiny,
considering that we both write and have files and books for research, and we
both have hobbies. (I crochet, draw, dabble in jewelry creation and crafts, and
have hundreds of dvds, Blaze ties flies, does a little art too. So when I got more
actively into the art, I had to find a way to cram one more sardine into our
little can. I got myself an art cart.
That helped, but considering my broken old broad body, reaching
the bottom bin for gel pens with my project on my lap desk was a challenge. I
looked up other types of art bins and bags, and the best was a rolling backpack
thingy with lots of compartments – perfect – except for the $109 pricetag. So I
got creative. And I actually found stuff that's better.
When I first started drawing I bought a slew of Crayola
colored pencils and markers. I got their Colors of the World Skintone set, some
metallic colors, some neon colors, a sharpener, some blenders, and it was a
lot. Personally I think pencil cases with individual elastics for each pencil
are more of a pain in the ass than anything, so I did this:

It's just a cheapie little lunch pouch I got at Kroger on
sale for $4.99. I banded my pencils together with ponytail elastics, sorting
them by color and voila! Pencils organized. And I sit the pouch handle up so
the pencil points don't get banged around and broken.
But then there was water colors, watercolor pencils,
brushes, my pencil sharpener, erasers, markers, gel pens, brush pens, water
brushes, microns, graphite pencils, blenders, and other paraphernalia. I cannot
leave projects and supplies sitting out. My area is too small. I basically live
in my lift chair – meals, writing, art, sleep, computer activities, movies, everything
in the chair.
So this:
So for less than $40 I have portable storage for all my gear
and it all fits onto a cart that I already had. And even if I had to buy the
cart it's only $43 on Amazon, so I still would have come in under the $109
pricetag for the fancy schmancy rolling backpack I saw online.
My "micro-mini art studio:
So I consider this a productive week – artwise. The laundry,
however, is piling up and the dustbunnies are about to carry Blaze's bed away…heh,
heh, heh.
Speaking of which, I need to get this posted and start
dinner.
Until next time!
Ter