Sunday, May 17, 2020

Pair of Orioles!



22 comments:

  1. Beautiful birds! There are said to be two types of oriole in Southern California, but there are none around here.

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    1. Sounds like they are contemplating passive immunization; it is nowhere near as good as active immunization, but has been used to good effect in the past.

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  3. The Lessons of the Great Depression [Click] ”In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.”
    Point: we can’t do it by simply attempting to re-implement the solutions of 90 years ago; but we can reproduce the spirit that sought out and implemented the solutions that were needed, empathy being particularly important.
    One phrase sticks particularly in my mind: “. . .many Americans would never overcome the trauma of the Depression, . . .” Boy, ain’t that the truth. I remember a lot of people who survived the Depression, and it seemed to me (maybe that was a sexist perception) that men more often than women had something die inside of them in those days.

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  4. VT: 940/54 (+6/+1)
    First death in 10 days
    Recovered: 810 (+6)
    Hospital 3 ( 0)
    Tests 22,276 (no new tests shown)

    We were on a pretty good roll there.
    Sometimes the reporting lags.

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  5. Tropical Storm Warning in North Carolina ahead of Arthur
    ~Bob Henson
    https://www.wunderground.com/cat6

    Bookmark this site! Hurricane season (allegedly) begins June 1st. Apparently Mother Earth is challenging that date.

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    1. We are predicted to get a bit of rain tonight and tomorrow. It is definitely unseasonable.

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  6. OHIO; As of Sunday afternoon, there are 27,923 cases in the state, 1,625 deaths, and 4,921 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  7. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/covid-19-test-trump-admin-failed-disaster-995930/

    "The government leaders who failed to safeguard the nation are CDC Director Redfield; FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn; Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; and of course, President Trump. Together, these men had the power to change the direction of this pandemic, to lessen its impact on the economy, and constrain the death toll from COVID-19. Each failed, in a series of errors and mismanagement that grew into a singular catastrophe — or as Jared Kushner described it on Fox & Friends, “a great success story.”

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  8. Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts [Click] “Crisis has proved renewable energy is now a safer investment, and accelerated the shift.”

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    1. “There’s no great loss without some small gain.”
      ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  9. No doubt this is old news, but I only heard it last night.

    One and a half million Covid 19 cases in the U.S., constituting one third of cases worldwide. For comparison, the U.S. comprises 4.25% of world population. Donald Trump has, in my view, unquestionably committed crimes against this country's population, if not crimes against humanity.

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    1. And how many people will they end up exposing? Selfish idiots!

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    1. It's really just weak bleach, or looked at another way, an aqueous solution of chlorine. Claiming it is harmless is quackery. Granted that in acid solution chlorine is not very soluble.

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    2. So, it's not safe to use as a sanatizer?

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    1. I’ll take mine via super soaker. 😂

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