It has really been something watching reports about Hurricane Helene. Wil's brother has a place in Tampa and we're waiting to hear how it fared. Could take a week or more to find out. (He's in NH, so not in harm's way.)
US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors [Click] My first thought was that it must be the New Orleans case, but it is Long Island. The recent Supreme Court decision in the Purdue Pharma Oxycontin case played a big role in the settlement, which I sure didn’t see coming. ——Alan
Bernie Sanders video: Last night the Senate held CEO de la Torre in criminal contempt. [Click] I sincerely wish I could say this was a unique event, but CEO’s and corporations destroying local hospitals while lining their own pockets is distressingly common in my experience. ——Alan
We honoured Dame Maggie tonight by watching Tea With the Dames, and we highly recommend it! It's Maggie Smoth, Judi Dench, Elaine Atkins and Joan Plowright all sitting together, in a conversation that is half interview, half remininscence, replete with anecdotes.
I received my voter's guide today. An unusual number of the initiative propositions lacked detailed explanations and arguments--- I supposed because they were submitted too late to be printed. Several were available online, though; of those several arguments (both in favor and opposed) were very unclear. Cynical fellow that I am, I suspect the authors in several [or most?] of those cases are trying to pull fast ones on the voters. I think our ballots will be mailed this coming Monday. -----Alan
Grim new death records amid brutal heat plaguing south-west US [Click] “More than 16 million people under heat alerts on Friday, with Las Vegas on 102nd day of temperatures above 100F.” Looks like we probably have a little hundred-degree weather coming next week. ——Alan
JD Vance to join a Jan. 6 defender and Christian nationalist for a Pa. town hall. Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — Before Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance visits purple Bucks County on Saturday, he’ll be roughly 300 miles away in Monroeville participating in a town hall with a Christian nationalist and defender of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. The town hall is a part of the religiously and politically charged “Courage Tour,” where participants can “experience revival” that marks the “Third Great Awakening.” In a video montage on the tour’s website, the events’ speakers use religion to encourage mass political mobilization from their attendees. --nordy
Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri. (NYT) A possible cluster of bird flu infections in Missouri has grown to include eight people, in what may be the first examples of person-to-person transmission in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. “We should be very concerned at this point,” said Dr. James Lawler, co-director of the University of Nebraska’s Global Center for Health Security. “Nobody should be hitting the panic button yet, but we should really be devoting a lot of resources into figuring out what’s going on.” -- nordy
It has really been something watching reports about Hurricane Helene. Wil's brother has a place in Tampa and we're waiting to hear how it fared. Could take a week or more to find out. (He's in NH, so not in harm's way.)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a very high storm surge.
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US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors [Click] My first thought was that it must be the New Orleans case, but it is Long Island. The recent Supreme Court decision in the Purdue Pharma Oxycontin case played a big role in the settlement, which I sure didn’t see coming.
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Everyone loses as the Athletics leave Oakland Coliseum for good with a win [Click] I’m not interested in baseball, but this seems extraordinarily complicated and thoroughly weird to me.
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Well, Chicago managed to keep the White Sox when they threatened to move. But the NFL Cardinals are gone, gone, gone.
DeletePutin may announce his resignation as president, there is consensus regarding transfer of power [Click]
ReplyDelete“Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.” ― Winston S. Churchill
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^^^^^^ Video
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Farron Balanced video: Trump Attacks ANOTHER Religion As He Grows Increasingly Insane [Click]
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DNC Sends Funding to All State Parties For First Time Ever [Click]
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ReplyDeleteVance Said Trump ‘Failed to Deliver’ on His Promises [Click]
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ReplyDeleteNewsmax, Smartmatic settle defamation lawsuit [Click]
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ReplyDeleteKathy Hochul Could Remove Eric Adams [Click]
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ReplyDeleteNate Silver Says Don’t Trust 538 [Click] Or any similar prediction program, I should say.
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ReplyDeleteHurricane center warns of ‘historic and catastrophic flooding’ as Tropical Storm Helene barrels into North Carolina – Guardian live [Click]
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Arizona county sheriffs say they will not enforce immigration measure if passed [Click] “On the ballot in November is a measure that will make it a state crime for migrants to cross into the US unofficially.” It boils down to performance art— the measure provides no funding. Among other problems.
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Newsom vetoes key part of reparations package in another blow to deal [Click] The matter is far more complicated than one would understand from the headlines.
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Bernie Sanders video: Last night the Senate held CEO de la Torre in criminal contempt. [Click] I sincerely wish I could say this was a unique event, but CEO’s and corporations destroying local hospitals while lining their own pockets is distressingly common in my experience.
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And when management garbs itself in religion it can be (and usually is) even worse.
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RIP Dame Maggie Smith. You will never ever be forgotten.
ReplyDeleteWe honoured Dame Maggie tonight by watching Tea With the Dames, and we highly recommend it! It's Maggie Smoth, Judi Dench, Elaine Atkins and Joan Plowright all sitting together, in a conversation that is half interview, half remininscence, replete with anecdotes.
DeleteAfter that we watched a movie with Vanessa Redgrave, called Finding You. Also recommended!
DeleteI received my voter's guide today. An unusual number of the initiative propositions lacked detailed explanations and arguments--- I supposed because they were submitted too late to be printed. Several were available online, though; of those several arguments (both in favor and opposed) were very unclear. Cynical fellow that I am, I suspect the authors in several [or most?] of those cases are trying to pull fast ones on the voters. I think our ballots will be mailed this coming Monday.
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Vance to talk at tour hosted by ‘prophet’ who thinks Harris practices witchcraft [Click] Better watch out; she might turn him into a toad!
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I read this to Wil and he said, "Well, that guy is already a toad."
DeleteGrim new death records amid brutal heat plaguing south-west US [Click] “More than 16 million people under heat alerts on Friday, with Las Vegas on 102nd day of temperatures above 100F.” Looks like we probably have a little hundred-degree weather coming next week.
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Sorry Alan, 62 degrees here. -- nordy
DeleteOh, it's not so bad here. Thanks, though. And we get exactly the amount of snow we like.
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Brian Tyler Cohen video: October surprise incoming? [Click] Sure looks like it! In Judge Chutkan’s DC case, starting this coming Tuesday.
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JD Vance to join a Jan. 6 defender and Christian nationalist for a Pa. town hall.
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PHILADELPHIA — Before Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance visits purple Bucks County on Saturday, he’ll be roughly 300 miles away in Monroeville participating in a town hall with a Christian nationalist and defender of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
The town hall is a part of the religiously and politically charged “Courage Tour,” where participants can “experience revival” that marks the “Third Great Awakening.” In a video montage on the tour’s website, the events’ speakers use religion to encourage mass political mobilization from their attendees. --nordy
Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri.
ReplyDelete(NYT) A possible cluster of bird flu infections in Missouri has grown to include eight people, in what may be the first examples of person-to-person transmission in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.
“We should be very concerned at this point,” said Dr. James Lawler, co-director of the University of Nebraska’s Global Center for Health Security. “Nobody should be hitting the panic button yet, but we should really be devoting a lot of resources into figuring out what’s going on.” -- nordy
Republican mayor steals vote drop box [Click] Cute.
ReplyDelete—Alan