My goodness, Alan; hat's off to you for the ways you manage to cope with the increasing difficulties of very hot weather and lack of air quality from the fires. Working in small bursts is wise, and I think you were smart to skip the walk this time. Those fire tornadoes up north are dang scary, even for trained wildfire firefighters. If the rotten conditions keep on keeping on, here's one idea:
That's an interesting gizmo, listener. I'd probably fall flat on my face trying it! I agree that fire tornadoes are horrific; I remember seeing a video of one in Australia. The Redding area is very hot in the summer; despite its latitude, high temperatures can get up to 120F in the summer. The valley floor there is forested--a thin forest of oaks, but a forest nonetheless.
From the Washington Post: Farmers like me put Trump in office. Now his trade war is smothering us. [Click] Excuse me, but this opinion piece is truly pathetic. The author, an rancher in Missouri, holds forth on the effects of Trump's tariffs and China's retaliatory tariffs, talks about how the Depression-Era farm supports are so terrible, and ends by saying "…Trump MUST [emphasis added] listen to his manufacturing and farming constituents who put him in office and pursue trade agreements that help us increase our gross and net earnings without corporate welfare. That starts with shelving plans to open a new front in the trade war with China." Must? Trump? No, my dear; he need not. He doesn't give a tinker's damn about you. Will you have to be bankrupted before you realize you were hornswoggled?
Image result for tinker's damn In the Practical Dictionary of Mechanics of 1877, Edward Knight gives this definition: "Tinker's-dam: a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The material can be but once used; being consequently thrown away as worthless".
Well, dang! I learn something every day if I'm not careful. Thanks, puddle. I was told as a youth and reasonably believed that tinkers, not being a genteel lot, made casual use of profanity, so it didn't mean anything much coming from them.
Alan
P.S.: On the other hand, "not worth a dam" refers (as I understand) to the smallest coin in common circulation in North America in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, called a "dam" (it was a French coin, and I expect the spelling has been altered). Hmmmm....better see what Google has to say about it. Back in a flash.
I see they're listing four districts in Illinois -- more than any state but California. That's partially the result of how Illinois is gerrymandered: In addition the the heavily Democratic district there are a lot of swing districts and only a limited number that are safely Republican.
I withdraw my earlier statement that the smoke seemed thicker this morning. We can't see the mountains at all, but there is more blue sky, the visibility looking west (which has more things to judge by than looking north, as I did earlier) is better. The air also seems less irritating; we walked two km this morning with hardly any pulmonary irritation at all. Then I murdered weeds.
Several items of interest over at PoliticalWire.com[Click] this morning. Samples:
GOP Candidates Are Not Touting the Economy “For their part, Democrats are weaponizing the tax law“
Russia Liquidated Nearly All of Its U.S. Treasury Securities
Complaint Says NRA Illegally Coordinated with Campaigns
Koch Network Says Trump Is Causing ‘Long-Term Damage’
Female Fundraisers Are Powering Women Candidates
Atlanta Consitution: A Warm-Up for 2020 (Georgia Governor race) “The candidates have little choice but to nationalize the race.”
And on another note altogether: The House That Healed My Migraines [Click] “How creating a dark, fragrance-free home relieved a migraine sufferer’s symptoms.” An unusual, but pleasing interior no matter the motivation IMO.
That is an interesting house. People tend to shy away from dark nowadays, though. We have dark green, textured wallpaper in our back parlor, and a good many people see it and are clearly uncomfortable, besides the inevitable one or two who actually cringe. Dark walls can be striking. It never occurred to me before that they might actually be helpful for some people.
Once again I have something I have to type because I can't cut and paste it. I don't know who wrote it and it is full of explicit language which I will tone down (even though I love it). But, the greatest thing about this piece? Conservatives have been sharing it on right-wing sites yammering in fear that we really WILL do these things if we win. So, here it is:
You Trumpsters better pray that liberals never gain control of the WH again because we are going to pay you back so effing hard for all of this sh_t. Planned PARENTHOODS ON EVERY DARN CORNER. We're going to repaint Air Force One, pussy hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms and atheist literature from the cockpit. We're going to tax your mega churches so bad Joel Osteen will need to get a job at Chik Fil A to pay his light bill. Speaking of Chik Fil A, we're buying all those and giving them to any LGBTQ person your sick cult leaders have tortured with conversion therapy. Have fun with the new menu you bigoted freaks. Try the McPence. It's a boiled unseasoned chicken breast that you have to eat in the closet with your mother. We're going to gather up ALL of your guns, melt them down and turn them into a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hilary Clinton. ALL parks will be renamed Rosa Parks asap. We're replacing Confederate statues with BLM Leaders & Mexican immigrants. Every single public school will be renamed after a child that was kidnapped by this regime. And after we fumigate the WH, we're repainting the whole thing rainbow. Fox News will be taken over and turned into a family refugee shelter. We're turning Hannity's office into a giant unisex bathroom with changing tables and free tampons. And every single time a Trumpster complains about any of the changes we're adding an openly gay character to a Disney movie."
Yes, Cat, they ARE that stupid. Trumpeters thrive on conspiracy theories and fear and the more outrageous and unbelievable the conspiracy theory is the harder they embrace it. They long to be victims and envy the Christians of old who were thrown to the lions.
You're cynicism is wholly justified, Alan. Personally, I have disassociated myself from the DCCC and the DSCC. They live in some sort of bubble, completely divorced from the real world.
For some reason (who knows why the mind does these things?) the thread title reminds me of a song I learned in voice lessons as a youngster. Seems to me the melody is by Papa Hayden. As best I can recall, the words go like this:
Away from care and sorrow I gladly greet the morrow When I throughout the night Have slept till morning light
With freedom in my heart With freedom in my heart When morn dispels the night
And sorrows all depart My heart is ever light My heart is ever light
My goodness! I haven't thought of that song since I was fifteen. Guess the learning process was thorough. *grin*
My goodness, Alan; hat's off to you for the ways you manage to cope with the increasing difficulties of very hot weather and lack of air quality from the fires. Working in small bursts is wise, and I think you were smart to skip the walk this time. Those fire tornadoes up north are dang scary, even for trained wildfire firefighters. If the rotten conditions keep on keeping on, here's one idea:
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That's an interesting gizmo, listener. I'd probably fall flat on my face trying it! I agree that fire tornadoes are horrific; I remember seeing a video of one in Australia. The Redding area is very hot in the summer; despite its latitude, high temperatures can get up to 120F in the summer. The valley floor there is forested--a thin forest of oaks, but a forest nonetheless.
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It's too hot, too hot, too hot lately...
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From the Washington Post:
ReplyDeleteFarmers like me put Trump in office. Now his trade war is smothering us. [Click] Excuse me, but this opinion piece is truly pathetic. The author, an rancher in Missouri, holds forth on the effects of Trump's tariffs and China's retaliatory tariffs, talks about how the Depression-Era farm supports are so terrible, and ends by saying "…Trump MUST [emphasis added] listen to his manufacturing and farming constituents who put him in office and pursue trade agreements that help us increase our gross and net earnings without corporate welfare. That starts with shelving plans to open a new front in the trade war with China." Must? Trump? No, my dear; he need not. He doesn't give a tinker's damn about you. Will you have to be bankrupted before you realize you were hornswoggled?
--Alan
It is indeed pathetic. I doubt *anything* will ever bring them to that realization.
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DeleteIn the Practical Dictionary of Mechanics of 1877, Edward Knight gives this definition: "Tinker's-dam: a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The material can be but once used; being consequently thrown away as worthless".
Well, dang! I learn something every day if I'm not careful. Thanks, puddle. I was told as a youth and reasonably believed that tinkers, not being a genteel lot, made casual use of profanity, so it didn't mean anything much coming from them.
DeleteAlan
P.S.: On the other hand, "not worth a dam" refers (as I understand) to the smallest coin in common circulation in North America in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, called a "dam" (it was a French coin, and I expect the spelling has been altered). Hmmmm....better see what Google has to say about it. Back in a flash.
Google directs me to Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children, pp 46-47, which [Click] provides THREE possible explanations: a very small INDIAN coin, the solder barrier, or a curse. Take your pick!
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Try again:
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—Alan
I see they're listing four districts in Illinois -- more than any state but California. That's partially the result of how Illinois is gerrymandered: In addition the the heavily Democratic district there are a lot of swing districts and only a limited number that are safely Republican.
DeleteI withdraw my earlier statement that the smoke seemed thicker this morning. We can't see the mountains at all, but there is more blue sky, the visibility looking west (which has more things to judge by than looking north, as I did earlier) is better. The air also seems less irritating; we walked two km this morning with hardly any pulmonary irritation at all. Then I murdered weeds.
ReplyDeleteAlan
Several items of interest over at PoliticalWire.com[Click] this morning. Samples:
ReplyDeleteGOP Candidates Are Not Touting the Economy
“For their part, Democrats are weaponizing the tax law“
Russia Liquidated Nearly All of Its U.S. Treasury Securities
Complaint Says NRA Illegally Coordinated with Campaigns
Koch Network Says Trump Is Causing ‘Long-Term Damage’
Female Fundraisers Are Powering Women Candidates
Atlanta Consitution: A Warm-Up for 2020 (Georgia Governor race)
“The candidates have little choice but to nationalize the race.”
And on another note altogether:
The House That Healed My Migraines [Click] “How creating a dark, fragrance-free home relieved a migraine sufferer’s symptoms.” An unusual, but pleasing interior no matter the motivation IMO.
--Alan
That is an interesting house. People tend to shy away from dark nowadays, though. We have dark green, textured wallpaper in our back parlor, and a good many people see it and are clearly uncomfortable, besides the inevitable one or two who actually cringe. Dark walls can be striking. It never occurred to me before that they might actually be helpful for some people.
DeleteI was struck by the comparison to Dutch Renaissance painters.
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Once again I have something I have to type because I can't cut and paste it. I don't know who wrote it and it is full of explicit language which I will tone down (even though I love it). But, the greatest thing about this piece? Conservatives have been sharing it on right-wing sites yammering in fear that we really WILL do these things if we win. So, here it is:
ReplyDeleteYou Trumpsters better pray that liberals never gain control of the WH again because we are going to pay you back so effing hard for all of this sh_t. Planned PARENTHOODS ON EVERY DARN CORNER. We're going to repaint Air Force One, pussy hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms and atheist literature from the cockpit. We're going to tax your mega churches so bad Joel Osteen will need to get a job at Chik Fil A to pay his light bill. Speaking of Chik Fil A, we're buying all those and giving them to any LGBTQ person your sick cult leaders have tortured with conversion therapy. Have fun with the new menu you bigoted freaks. Try the McPence. It's a boiled unseasoned chicken breast that you have to eat in the closet with your mother. We're going to gather up ALL of your guns, melt them down and turn them into a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hilary Clinton. ALL parks will be renamed Rosa Parks asap. We're replacing Confederate statues with BLM Leaders & Mexican immigrants. Every single public school will be renamed after a child that was kidnapped by this regime. And after we fumigate the WH, we're repainting the whole thing rainbow. Fox News will be taken over and turned into a family refugee shelter. We're turning Hannity's office into a giant unisex bathroom with changing tables and free tampons. And every single time a Trumpster complains about any of the changes we're adding an openly gay character to a Disney movie."
Oh, that IS good fun, Susan! Thanks so much for sharing!
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You CAN'T be serious that they take this to be an actual plan of action. Surely, not even Trump supporters are THAT stupid!
DeleteCome to think of it, the White House will have to be fumigated but good!
DeleteYes, Cat, they ARE that stupid. Trumpeters thrive on conspiracy theories and fear and the more outrageous and unbelievable the conspiracy theory is the harder they embrace it. They long to be victims and envy the Christians of old who were thrown to the lions.
DeleteAnyone who envies being mauled and eaten by a lion is too stupid to live!
DeleteYou're cynicism is wholly justified, Alan. Personally, I have disassociated myself from the DCCC and the DSCC. They live in some sort of bubble, completely divorced from the real world.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason (who knows why the mind does these things?) the thread title reminds me of a song I learned in voice lessons as a youngster. Seems to me the melody is by Papa Hayden. As best I can recall, the words go like this:
ReplyDeleteAway from care and sorrow
I gladly greet the morrow
When I throughout the night
Have slept till morning light
With freedom in my heart
With freedom in my heart
When morn dispels the night
And sorrows all depart
My heart is ever light
My heart is ever light
My goodness! I haven't thought of that song since I was fifteen. Guess the learning process was thorough. *grin*
Looks like I divided the lines incorrectly, though I did get all the words right.
Deletehttps://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130613214032AAXx33z - click
Picky, picky!
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