Tuesday, October 06, 2020

28: BLUE

 

30 comments:

  1. Ervin Staub is First!

    A Holocaust survivor’s mission to train ‘heroic bystanders’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54339252

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    1. Conceding two crucial toss-up states looks like poor strategy to me. Although this may be another instance of Trump's excessive belief in himself. He thinks he doesn't need ads to carry these states while ads will let him catch up elsewhere. IMHO, not the way to bet.

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    2. Apparently people are already voting with their pocketbooks.

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  3. BBC: Trump Covid: Biden warns there is 'a lot to be concerned about' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54437852

    “The latest coronavirus case to emerge from that event, at which the president unveiled his nominee for the US Supreme Court, is a Christian minister from California.

    “Pastor Greg Laurie, who is said to have mild symptoms, was also with US Vice-President Mike Pence earlier that day at a prayer march in central Washington DC.”

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  4. VT: 1821 (+4)
    58 deaths (same number for 10 weeks!) 131active cases
    Recovered: 1632 (+7)
    In Hospital 1 ( 0)
    Tests 167,411?? (-94??)*

    * I guess sometimes they make a correction??

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  5. New Battleground State Polls [Click]

    Biden Expands Ad Buys In Ohio as Early Voting Starts [Click]

    White House Staff Frustrated and Angry [Click] As well they ought to be.

    The U.S. trade deficit rose 5.9% to $67.1 billion in August, the highest it has been since August 2006, the AP reports.

    The Heedless Horseman Republicans and their COVID denial [Click] “Amid a deadly pandemic, GOP lawmakers seem determined to play Russian roulette.”

    Top GOP hands brace for a blowout [Click] “The multiple calamities that have befallen the Trump campaign remind operatives of the days before Reagan's drubbing of Carter.” [Reagan 489, Carter 49 electoral votes.]

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  6. A new SurveyUSA poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally, 53% to 43%.

    More interesting: In interviews completed after Trump had been helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center, Biden appears to have consolidated support, leading by 16 points among likely voters interviewed most recently, 56% to 40%.

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  7. Goldman Sachs Says ‘Blue Wave’ Good for Economy [Click]

    The top US general, Gen. Mark Milley, and several members of the senior Pentagon leadership are quarantining after a top Coast Guard official tested positive for coronavirus, CNN reports.

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    1. The swings are so great as to be almost unbelievable, even by those of us who want to believe them.

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    2. Don't I wish! While remaining committed to high security, mask wearing and such, Dad also remains a committed Fox News viewer and, presumably, Trump supporter. Go figure.

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    3. Thanks, Listener, but I think Dad's the one who needs the prayers.

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  9. OHIO; 161,299 cases and 4,947 deaths.

    Facebook is far too full of crazy people. There's a woman on there now trying to convince me that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin chained a 10 year old girl to a tree. Cut off her face while she was alive and then danced around the tree with her face. I told her her sickness was repulsive, but there are far too many people sucking up Q-Anon and any other whackadoodle nonsense and believing it to be absolutely true. She thinks trump is "exposing corruption". Dog save us.

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    1. We need to focus on the good, sane people, encourage them along and give them more press!!

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    1. I used to think the same about Osteopaths vs MDs, Alan...until our most beloved MD pediatrician told me it’s just not true. So, I think it’s really more about character here.

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    2. Sorry it took me so long, Alan. I was quilting!

      (I’m sure Susan knows what I mean: it takes your hands, eyes and focus...and in my case your feet as well, as I was using my treadle sewing machine.. 🙂)

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    3. As a once-upon-a-time Asst. Prof. of Biochemistry at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, I could also testify that the article's focus on manipulative therapy reflects the author's personal experience and is not typical of today's DOs. As the article occasionally acknowledges.

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  11. FROM ALAN (having intermittent browser issues):

    Biden’s National Lead Grows

    October 6, 2020By Taegan Goddard

    A new Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race nationally, 51% to 37%.

    Key takeaway: “In two days of polling before Trump got COVID, the president trailed Biden by just a 46% to 41% margin. In the three days of polling after the coronavirus diagnosis, Biden held a 55% to 34% lead.”

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  12. Oh, I am really looking forward to Wednesday!
    I’m picking up 5 yo granddaughter to come over and play for the afternoon! We will have lunch, draw with my new crayons, go see Gramie’s treadle sewing machine (her request!), play with the fancy dollhouse, bake brownies and have a lovely tea party!

    Life is good!

    After I bring her home, I get back here in time to attend a Zoom class on “putting the garden to bed” which I will need to exit a half hour early to watch the debate. But that’s okay because they’ll send me a link to a recording of it on Thursday morning. 🎃

    I may need to be on the elliptical during the debate!

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