Trump’s speeches, increasingly angry and rambling, reignite the question of age (NYT) He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Joe Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race. -- nordy
While Milton may intensify a bit more beyond the astounding strength observed on Monday afternoon, there is a limit to how strong a hurricane can become given its environment – what’s called its maximum potential intensity. For Milton at its current location, that figure is computed to be about 200 mph (320 km/h), with a central pressure around 890 mb. Ironically, we cannot show Climate Central’s “Climate Shift Index: Ocean” for Milton, showing how much more likely climate change made the record-warm ocean temperatures possible – because the data for that product comes from NOAA NCEI facility in Asheville, North Carolina, which was severely affected by record flooding spawned by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago. Editor’s update, 4:30 p.m. EDT on October 7: Climate Central just issued a new analysis that said, “sea surface temperatures (SST) in the region where Hurricane Milton is developing are at or above record-breaking highs. A rapid attribution analysis determined that those temperatures were made up to 400-800 times more likely by climate change over the past two weeks.”
Video: The Ancient Plagues That Wracked and then Destroyed the Roman Empire [Click] The Antonine Plague (cause still not established) and the Justinian Plague (cause Yersinia pestis). A number of interesting tidbits I was not familiar with. Also a lot of information about the Roman Empire that wasn’t clarified in my schoolbooks. ——Alan P.S.: It now seems probable that the pastoralists of central and western Europe were displaced by steppe herders who had some resistance to Yersinia pestis that either preceded or was carried by them around five or six thousand years ago. ------Alan
Saturday Night Live has a new cast member this season whom I really like! Her name is Jane Wickline. She's cute-funny and talented. Her dad was a writer for David Letterman and her mom was assistant to Lorne Michaels during SNL's 14th season. So she comes by it honestly, but is brilliant on her own...graduate of Oberlin, and former editor of their satire publication The Grape. Here is a video of Jane Wickline doing an original sketch... Jane won't leave the party
Fall bloomers a sight to see. -- nordy
ReplyDeleteMaine's [NOT!] Radical Solution To End Political Corruption [Click] Sounds very good to me.
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Meidas Touch video: Trump SWARMED BY FLIES at Speeches…WTF is Happening?! [Click]
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Trump’s speeches, increasingly angry and rambling, reignite the question of age
ReplyDelete(NYT) He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Joe Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race. -- nordy
Those killer flies from Congo will do that to a person.
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Chicago's Radical[?] Solution to End Homelessness [Click] Doesn’t sound radical to me.
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Ohhh, this could be good.
ReplyDeleteGoddard College signs new purchase and sales agreement for the campus
With her pleas of leniency denied, former Mesa County, Colorado Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years for her role in a data breach scheme linked to the 2020 presidential election. [Click]
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DeleteVideo: Hurricane Milton Becomes Strongest Atlantic Hurricane In 5 Years With 175 mph Winds [Click] Seems to be headed straight at Florida.
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Trump Tower rents evidently not enough to cover the loan payments. [Click] Gee.
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How an ultra-right majority [of supervisors] in California’s far north picked a novice to run its elections [Click] More of the same in Shasta County.
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Nobel prize in medicine awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation [Click]
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Alan Lichtman video: The Problem with Political "Science" [Click]
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While Milton may intensify a bit more beyond the astounding strength observed on Monday afternoon, there is a limit to how strong a hurricane can become given its environment – what’s called its maximum potential intensity. For Milton at its current location, that figure is computed to be about 200 mph (320 km/h), with a central pressure around 890 mb.
ReplyDeleteIronically, we cannot show Climate Central’s “Climate Shift Index: Ocean” for Milton, showing how much more likely climate change made the record-warm ocean temperatures possible – because the data for that product comes from NOAA NCEI facility in Asheville, North Carolina, which was severely affected by record flooding spawned by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago. Editor’s update, 4:30 p.m. EDT on October 7: Climate Central just issued a new analysis that said, “sea surface temperatures (SST) in the region where Hurricane Milton is developing are at or above record-breaking highs. A rapid attribution analysis determined that those temperatures were made up to 400-800 times more likely by climate change over the past two weeks.”
Yale Climate Connections: Category 5 Hurricane Milton poses an exceptionally serious threat to Florida’s west coast
Video: The Ancient Plagues That Wracked and then Destroyed the Roman Empire [Click] The Antonine Plague (cause still not established) and the Justinian Plague (cause Yersinia pestis). A number of interesting tidbits I was not familiar with. Also a lot of information about the Roman Empire that wasn’t clarified in my schoolbooks.
ReplyDelete——Alan
P.S.: It now seems probable that the pastoralists of central and western Europe were displaced by steppe herders who had some resistance to Yersinia pestis that either preceded or was carried by them around five or six thousand years ago.
------Alan
There is speculation that the Antonine Plague was due to a pre-modern variant of smallpox.
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Saturday Night Live has a new cast member this season whom I really like! Her name is Jane Wickline. She's cute-funny and talented. Her dad was a writer for David Letterman and her mom was assistant to Lorne Michaels during SNL's 14th season. So she comes by it honestly, but is brilliant on her own...graduate of Oberlin, and former editor of their satire publication The Grape. Here is a video of Jane Wickline doing an original sketch...
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DeSantis escalates the crazy. [Click] Now he’s going to jail TV managers for broadcasting paid advertisements he doesn’t like?
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Hurricane Loan Program Low on Funds [Click] Hmmmmm . . . great opportunity to let the GOP show its real colors?
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