Saturday, September 05, 2020

Porch Time







 

42 comments:

  1. Trump Campaign Going Dark In Arizona [Click] Is this a sign that they are short of money? There have been other places they have cut back on advertising as the Biden campaign has increased theirs--I don't recall just where.

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  2. Few Military Officers Willing to Defend Trump
    September 5, 2020 By Taegan Goddard

    New York Times: “The president privately raged about The Atlantic’s article on Friday morning, and advisers were panicked about how to counter it. They feared it was the beginning of a constant drip of negative stories from disenchanted former officials that could sway voters. While Mr. Trump demanded that allies knock down the article, aides recognized that few senior military officers were willing to openly defend the president.”

    The BEGINNING of a constant drip? With how many books already published? Wake up and smell the rafflesia, boys and girls.

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  3. I was looking at the California weather stories. Here they say visibility is 7 miles (compared to 3 yesterday), air quality moderate (AQI=79), and predicted high temp equals the previous record for the date (106), but I rather doubt that—current temperature (11AM) = 92F. Eastern parts of the greater SF Bay Area are predicted to have temperatures in excess of 110F this weekend. I expect all our proto-raisins will have turned from green to yellow-green by the end of the day, if they have not yet.

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    1. Make that yellow by the end of the day; the grapes are already yellow-green.

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  4. Aides Mount Curious Defense of Trump [Click] Curious? Bizarre or Obviously Doomed, more like.

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  5. A new University of Maryland Critical Issues poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally, 50% to 37%.

    A new USC Dornslife poll finds Biden ahead, 52% to 41%.

    A new Data for Progress poll finds Biden leading, 53% to 43%.

    New polls from Hodas & Associates:

    Michigan: Biden 52%, Trump 41%
    Pennsylvania: Biden 51%, Trump 45%
    Wisconsin: Biden 52%, Trump 44%

    From Public Policy Polling:

    Minnesota: Biden 52%, Trump 44%

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  6. Democrats Hold Secret Edge If Election Is Close [Click] Well, I don’t know that it is any advantage to have Democrats in charge of counting the votes, but at least it doesn’t hurt.

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    1. It ought not help. But, it helps.
      They are more apt to be honest.

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    1. I'm told that the correct reaction to a pun is [groan].

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    2. No Bill, the correct reaction is o-pun the door and shove him out.

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  8. OHIO: As of Saturday afternoon, there have been at least 129,785 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,256 deaths, and 13,808 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  9. Sociology column of the day:The Pandemic Is No Excuse to [Spy On] Students [Click] And trying to do so is all but useless.

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  10. Just now we had to move a table of grapes aside to get the car out of the garage; they are already starting to turn brown, after an estimated time in the sun of maybe ten hours.

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  11. I just ordered a yard sign from Etsy. Since I'm not real keen on Biden this sign is just a picture of a flag. It says "Pro America" on top and "Anti Trump" on the bottom. My new neighbors across the street have a trump/pence sign inside their garage. Sigh.

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    1. Our across-the-street ex-Marine neighbor's "Your choice--Trump or Socialism" yard sign disappeared a while back, and continues disappeared.

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  12. A very interesting podcast on Stars & Stripes: Episode three: Unidentified aerial phenomena — what are the facts, and are they a threat? [Click] It answered a question I had that the original release of the F-18 film did not.

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  13. Reported temperature 105F (“like 113”) record 106
    27% humidity
    8 miles visibility
    It is HOT on the south side of the garage, where we are making raisins.

    Predicted temperature tomorrow 113F

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    1. The temperature is plunging! Now only 104!

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    2. 113°F is not decent.
      How do folks cope?
      Do you grocery shop at night?

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    1. Notes from Reddit, so I hear: “and so the Blue wave has come early!” “Some call it Dumbkirk” “Is this boater suppression?” In the spirit of Wikipedia, we have a Summary of the Battle [Click]

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  15. VT: 1647 (+5)
    58 deaths (full month)
    138 active cases
    Recovered:1451 (+10)
    In Hospital 1 ( 0)
    Tests 143,088 (+890)

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    1. Active Cases total adjusted to worldometers.com tally. 👍

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  16. Paris Is About to Change [Click] “The city was hit hard by the pandemic, but French leaders know transformation is necessary.”

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