Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The new marina at Lake Champlain



22 comments:

  1. VT: 927/53 (+1?/0)
    no deaths for 5 days!
    Recovered: 787 (+3)
    (So now only 40 active cases in the whole state!)
    Hospital 5 (for 5 days)
    Tests 21,262 (+391)

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  2. David Frum: Trump Has Lost the Plot [Click] “The president is talking about things most Americans can’t comprehend, let alone care about.” The three-dimensional chess quotation is a good one…

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  3. New Joe Biden ad [Click] Heilige Scheiss! Uncle Joe has somebody working with him who knows what they are doing; that’s a shocker right there. I think this ad ranks right up there with Daisy. [Click]

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    1. As someone who knows a bit of German, I have to agree.

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    2. Me too. My grandparents still spoke German at home.

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  4. What Trump’s refusal to wear a mask says about white masculinity in this country. [Click] It’s worse than I thought. A fellow student who works at a nearby grocery store says the workers don’t dare reprimand customers who don’t wear masks because they fear being attacked. That sort of thing is actually happening…

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    1. Was it in the Chicago area that a security guard tried to stop a mother and daughter from entering a store because the daughter wasn't wearing a mask? The mother pulled out a gun and killed him.

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    2. It was in Flint, and more complicated. [Click] Husband, wife and her son charged with first-degree murder.

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  5. OHIO: As of Tuesday afternoon, there are 25,250 cases in the state, 1,436 deaths, and 4,539 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  6. Americans Have Baked All the Flour Away [Click] “The pandemic is reintroducing the nation to its kitchens.”

    Anybody want a recipe for drop bannocks? Let me know. No flour, just rolled oats. Good for breakfast, and leftovers for lunch.

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    1. Senators have been elected by popular vote since 1913. Since then four incumbent presidents have been voted out of office: Hoover (1932), Ford (1976), Carter (1980) and Bush Sr. (1992). Of those elections, only in 1932 did the incumbent president's party lose control of the Senate: that was in 1932, when the GOP lost eleven seats to the Dems.

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    2. In 1932 the Dems also increased their number of governorships by eleven.

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    3. Per Wikipedia on governors' races:

      Montana and North Carolina are seen as the competitive races in this cycle. Montana's popular Democratic governor, Steve Bullock, is term-limited, but his lieutenant governor is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, making the race a tossup in a state Donald Trump won by 20 points in 2016. North Carolina is a Republican-leaning state with a Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, meaning that Cooper faces a tough reelection, though most forecasters give the race a Democratic lean.

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    4. We are counting on this!

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