Saturday, September 02, 2017

Let's Go Sailing!


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  1. The weather continues hot here, with four substantial forest fires in the mountains making the air quality quite a bit worse. The smoke rolls down into the Central Valley and is trapped by the typical inversion layer.

    Alan

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  2. What did Pence know, and when did he know it? [Click] Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe said Saturday that the reports suggest the Vice President committed a felony. “Pence hid what he knew about a serious federal crime,” he tweeted. “That looks like active concealment.”

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    1. That's a good one, Susan; thank you.

      Alan

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  4. Hurricane Harvey’s Public-Health Nightmare[Click] “Ground zero for the budding mental-health disaster in Houston is the convention center…” I guess that’s not the convention center where Trump saw “a lot of happiness” and “couldn’t” get his ham hocks into sanitary gloves to hand out a few clamshells of food.

    —Alan

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  5. "Given Irma’s well-developed core and emerging annular structure, I expect that this modest wind shear will not keep Irma from intensifying. Beginning on Sunday, Irma will encounter warmer SSTs, with a major increase in total heat content, and on Monday, mid-level relative humidity will start to rise. These favorable conditions for development should allow Irma to strengthen. If the storm can develop upper-level outflow channels to both the north and the south, intensification into a high-end Category 4 storm or stronger may occur, late in the week."
    ~ Dr. Jeff Masters, cofounder of Weather Underground

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    1. I was just wondering about that... will have to read up a bit on Irma.

      --Alan

      P.S.: Hotter than a two-dollar pistol here today--officially 109F, prediction 107 Sunday, 99 Monday, then slowly decreasing to 90 next Saturday.

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  6. For some reason that I cannot fathom, Amazon has started recommending right wing garbage. Just now they wanted me to buy a book explaining how the American Left has its roots in nazism, a book with an incoherent blurb by Rush Limbaugh. And that wasn't the only piece of RW trash they were pushing. I don't understand it. The last books I ordered from Amazon were on Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, neither one of them darlings of the Right.

    Curiously, the CD recommendations make sense, Engelbert, Donny and/or Marie and The Osmonds along with Glen Campbell. Do you think it's the Glen Campbell? Is the correlation between Country & Western music and RW nuttery so tight that my having purchased two copies of a GC CD a jew weeks back is enough to saddle me with RW bilge in my recommendations for months to come? *shudder* I've always liked Glen, rest his soul. That never stopped my being a Democratic Socialist.

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    1. Certain web sites show me weirdly inappropriate, even frankly offensive, ads too, Cat. YouTube also, after it was bought by Google. Their algorithms need a tune-up.

      --Alan

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    2. Some people interested in politics may be interested in all shades of politics. So they throw out the possibility. If you don't buy those particular books, what have they lost?

      My own purchases have very little to do with what Amazon recommends and everything to do with what my book discussion groups will be covering. Which means they may only modestly correlate with my specific tastes. But Amazon has no way to know that.

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  7. He Can’t Even Fake It[Click] Yes, a very damaged individual, no matter how it came about. An organic neurological defect? Developmental or acquired? But not fit to stand trial.

    —Alan

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