Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Look closely...



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  1. That is certainly a well collated selection, listener! Someone put a lot of work into it.

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    1. I love that it’s from an antiquarian bookshop!

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  2. AP Interview: Sanders says opposing Biden is ‘irresponsible’ [Click] Oppose? Not I. Support neither. Acquiesce yet again. But my vote for President means nothing, since I live and vote in California.

    Presidential campaigns money raised and money on hand. [Click] Looks like Bernie has enough money. The previous story indicates that he has laid off all or almost all of his campaign staff. I will sleep on it, but am thinking that it is time to redirect the money I have been sending Bernie to our local food bank.

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    1. Agreed. I've stopped all my contributions to political groups and from now on will concentrate on human and animal welfare. Well, I do have a small monthly donation to Hawkins. Like yours, Alan, my vote doesn't count, here in Massachusetts; so, I can use it as my conscience dictates.

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    2. After increasing my food bank donation, there is still some left over. Brand New Congress asked me today for five dollars per month, but first I will investigate their candidates. As a general principle I would favor supporting the local newspaper, but they want a lot of money for a digital subscription, and they treated us in a very shabby manner when we discontinued our dead tree subscription. The Guardian is happy to accept free will offerings.

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    1. 😷🐄😷 💚 Viva Vermont!! 💚 😷🐄😷
      Our peak was expected to be late April - early May, then surmised to be this week. It now appears that we may have passed our peak. We will continue all methods of being very careful. But sweet to hear that some planned surge sites will not be needed.
      We remain mindful that we are not 300 miles from the epicenter of the largest outbreak in the nation.

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    2. BTW, with DT mandating that his name be printed on stimulus checks, I’m glad ours arrived direct deposit. It’s in our account today, and just reads IRS.

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    3. *scraping jaw off floor* What? That monster has the gall to pretend the checks are from him? The son of a bitch!

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    4. Yep. Right up there with all the other things he's slapped his name on...
      https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/donald-trump-stimulus-checks-wine-steaks-university/index.html

      And I don't blame his mom as much as his dad. So I'd say he's son of a bastard. ;-)

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    5. Well, here in Illinois I am used to anything from the state government having the name of an elected official on it.

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  4. Ohio, 7,791 confirmed COVID cases, 361 deaths.

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  5. How the government pulls $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus money out of thin air. I found this interesting. I knew that the money basically came from the banking equivalent of a printing press, but not that there was an economic theory that said this wouldn't necessarily lead to inflation. The article doesn't explain, however, why sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

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    1. I haven't read the story yet, Bill, but I am reminded of the Social Credit theory of C.H. Douglas, who recognized that money is actually debt. When someone needs money, usually the bank "gives them a loan," which actually means they enter a debt on the books, owed by the "borrower." No physical money production or transfer is required.

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  6. Vermont’s Great Experiment [Click] “A few weeks ago, National Guardsmen in the state got an impossible assignment. And then they pulled it off.” BRAVO VERMONT!

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    1. Easy Peasy. Hey, it wasn’t even snowing. 😉

      I have exhibited art in that building. It’s large...sort of a series of huge rooms. It’s where the Champlain Valley Fair is held and all the art is exhibited in that building.
      Usually in March we have the Vermont Flower Show there, too.
      Just outside is where Paul Simon performed and we took our kids to the concert.

      This is exactly the sort of thing we need a National Guard for. Not Afghanistan.

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  7. Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode a veto of a new voter ID law by Gov. Andy Beshear (D), setting the stage for the requirement to be enacted for the November general election, the Washington Post reports.

    Vox: “Meanwhile, if a Kentucky voter heads to the state’s webpage hoping to learn how to obtain such an ID, they will encounter a message telling them ID-issuing offices are closed.”
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    Reminds me of the old voter registration schedule in Bullwhip, Alabama. Negroes could register to vote at the back door of the courthouse on the 6th Tuesday of every month, between 1:00 AM and 1:15 AM.

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  8. Democratic rout in Wisconsin election looms as a 'clarion call’ for President Trump. The last paragraph mentions Rusk County, where I used to have my vacation shack. Rural and heavily wooded for sure. "Going into town" basically meant Ladysmith, population ~2500.

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    1. I don't recall a constitutional right to spread a plague; and acting in reckless disregard for human life is not legally approved, to be sure. If memory serves me well, not only is it in some jurisdictions criminal in its own right, it also distinguishes murder from manslaughter.

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    2. My mother used to remark that one definition of “cute” is bow legged.

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  10. Now to go murder some more weeds.

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  11. Trump Administration Pays Big Premium for Masks [Click] Maybe ten times what they should have; yet another illustration of what a great businessman our Dear Leader actually is.

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