Wednesday, October 02, 2024

{34} Vermont in Autumn


 

23 comments:

  1. Beautiful, listener. I love fall. -- nordy

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  2. {listener}
    According to [Dan] Rather, the network’s [CBS’s] fact-checking rule “incentivizes lying.”

    “It invites the participants to bend the truth, since their opponent then has to spend his rebuttal time calling out the lie, rather than giving an opposing view,” he added. “And the calling out of a lie by an opponent rather than an impartial moderator is less credible.”

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    1. Dan Rather is 91 now and still speaks truth. -- nordy

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  3. The Surprising Difference When Donald Trump Goes Without Makeup [Click] I'm not sure how surprising it is, but it's definitely noticeable.
    ——Alan

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  4. JD Vance's old law school classmates raise money for Springfield's Haitian residents.
    (NYT) Dozens of former classmates of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, spent Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate donating money to a fund for Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, raising more than $10,000.
    Robert W. Cobbs, a lawyer in Washington, donated $100. Along with his donation, Cobbs wrote: “In honor of JD Vance and Usha Vance. YLS Class of 2013 stands against scapegoating and demagoguery drawn straight from the playbooks of fascism. With love and a prayer that JD Vance and Usha Chilukuri Vance find the moral strength to reverse the course of their lives.” -- nordy

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    1. OH, YEAH! Way better than the link I placed in the thread down below. (In my defense, I had to run off and take care of a bunch of things and didn't have the chance to peruse this until just now.) AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! I wonder if TFG is researching resident makeup artists at various prisons . . . (OK, that's mean.)
      -----Alan

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  6. Anyone else notice that DT-Vance have taken to calling our current Administration the "Harris-Biden Administration"?

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    1. Can't say as I have; pretty weak tea, that.
      -----Alan

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    2. DT even wrote it that way in one of his tweets today (ALL CAPS of course).

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  7. Debate takeaway:

    Vance: Women need to trust us.
    Walz: We trust women

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  8. Judge Unseals Special Counsel Filing [Click] With modest redactions.
    —Alan

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  9. L' shana tova, Susan! 🍎🍯
    May this year bring true justice and lasting peace.

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  10. Walter Cronkite reporting Kennedy’s assassination. [Click] Excerpt from the CBS Evening News on the day of President Kennedy’s funeral:

    t is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant. But today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Only history can write the importance of this day: Were these dark days the harbingers of even blacker ones to come, or like the black before the dawn shall they lead to some still as yet indiscernible sunrise of understanding among men, that violent words, no matter what their origin or motivation, can lead only to violent deeds?


    ——Alan

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    1. Shakamuni Buddha said that thoughts are more important than words, which in turn are more important than deeds---- because each gives rise to the next.
      -----Alan

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  11. Hezbollah leader agreed to temporary ceasefire days before assassination, says Lebanese FM

    Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told CNN that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire just days before he was assassinated by Israel.

    The temporary ceasefire was called for by US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and other allies during last week’s UN General Assembly.

    “He [Nasrallah] agreed, he agreed,” Habib told Christiane Amanpour in an interview aired on Wednesday.

    “We agreed completely. Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire but consulting with Hezbollah. The [Lebanese House] Speaker Mr. Nabih Berri consulted with Hezbollah and we informed the Americans and the French what happened. And they told us that Mr. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu also agreed on the statement that was issued by both presidents [Biden and Macron.]”

    White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein was then set to go to Lebanon to negotiate the ceasefire, Habib continued.

    “They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that and you know what happened since then,” Habib continued.
    Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

    A day earlier, a joint statement issued by the United States, France, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Qatar called for a 21-day ceasefire, “to give diplomacy a chance to succeed and avoid further escalations across the border.”

    In response to a question on the United States’ diminishing influence in the region, Habib said Washington was “always important in this regard.”

    “I don’t think we have an alternative. We need the United States’ help. Whether we get it or not, we’re not sure yet, but [the] United States is very important, vital for the ceasefire to happen,” said Habib.

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  12. I was looking fore something else and came across this:
    David Pakman video: Trump CAN BARELY STAND, STRUGGLES TO READ confused rant [Click] EGADS.
    ——Alan

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