"Trump's fan base do not see him as POTUS, they see him as a television star." ~ Catreona
Ah yes, excellent point. And since, not being at the front of their class, instead of paying attention in history and civics classes, they've never encountered the Constitution. But television? Yes, they surely spent a lot of time in front of one of those.
Srby Krusa: I marched today. My first protest in a long time...And I've had a lot of time to contemplate this, but the master manipulator has us all played like he is producing a freaking reality tv show and we're not really that organized to mount an offensive, just organized enough to have a reactive protest. He throws us a shocker and we act by reacting. His tactics are going to get more inhumane to run us ragged. The opposition that is not yet inundated, he is splintering.
We need a to have an agreed upon agenda that we can all rally behind and a good place to start is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's list which are progressive and unifying (and most are already funded, just need a different cut in the budget pie): Healthcare for All Fully Funded Public Schools and Universities Living Wages Paid Family and Sick Leave, Affordable childcare Housing as a Human Right Justice System Reform and Ending Police Brutality Immigration Justice Infrastructure Overhaul- for green industries and to repair and build infrastructure with job creation and retraining program for economically devastated areas Clean Campaign Finance and Election Security Veteran Support NET neutrality
Most importantly stick to the agenda, do not react to instances like Melania wearing that green jacket, it's just a technique to keep us in shock and awe.
THEN stop here for now. Don't bring in any other ideological issues. We need to have common ground.
Don't just rely on getting the vote out, from the history of different parts of the world, democracies have been lost from elections.
Next, we NEED to organize our neighborhoods and connect with other neighborhoods across the country, meet once a week in order to: Voter Registration and Voter Security Discuss policy and keep local politicians accountable Identify vulnerable populations in the neighborhood- homeless, undocumented, uninsured and fundraise to help these people as well as form contigency plans if they are threatened or in danger Each neighborhood must come up with an emergency phone tree as well as a security plan
Then, once you have a great defensive game, it's really time for us to go on an offensive: One action per neighborhood a month to disrupt (NOT hurt or harm, but disrupt= to make uncomfortable) the lives of key people in the administration or key people that are upholding these inhumane actions and most importantly, identify Nazis and call them out- run them ragged. Be it a mariachi band to wake their neighborhoods or a march through the restaurants they eat at, etc. Make the noise, but do so with MLK's nonviolent spirit..
I don't know what "neighbourhood" looks like, really, especially in rural areas. How to find out who is in need when it's not acceptable to show up at people's doors?
But I LOVE the idear of a phone tree. We will need that when DT or the other Russians crash social media.
Ploughing ahead with organic chemistry. If it weren't Asimov, I'd have given up a few sentences into the first chapter. Astronomy and Physics are ***much*** easier to understand! But I shall plod forward.
For me Organic Chemistry was the path of least resistance... But I had the advantage of learning it to start with in the old-fashioned way. My professor's professor's professor was a student of Emil Fischer (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902). Our classes would have been immediately familiar to students of our geat-grandparents' time. It really gave me a leg up compared to the people who started out learning it the new way--with reaction mechanisms and all that. Not that the new way lacks value; but when it came in, generations of excellent pedagogy were tossed onto the rubbish heap. I combined the old and new methods for my students; I only ever found one organic chemistry textbook that used a similar system. Combining part of the older descriptive pedagogy with part of the newer academic system gave far more understanding and predictive value with less memorization than either. But Physical Chemstry... not to mention Quantum Mechanics... were exceedingly difficult for me because (for whatever reason) I did not learn (internalize?) my second year algebra lessons. I think I was the only person to get a PhD in Chemistry from UC Santa Cruz who managed to avoid (escape?) Quantum Mechanics.
My wife found organic chemistry hard because the professor expected the students to simply memorize the different types of reactions. But it was physical chemistry that forced her to switch from a chemistry major to what was on paper a food technology major. But I found organic chemistry easy because the professor was teaching us why these different reactions occurred.
I never had to worry about quantum mechanics. The place where I got my masters (Long Beach State) didn't have quantum mechanics and although my Caltech PhD reads "Biochemistry" that was in the Biology division.
I remember a particular type of question on all our (old fashioned) exams. In the center was some sort of organic compound (they say in Berkeley it was always carbon), with arrows going to and from certain other compounds around the margin; then there were arrows (some going both ways) connecting other compounds around the margin. We were to fill in the reagents and reaction conditions to connect it all.
Thanks, Alan. That's in the coffee shop about a block from the Statehouse here. The name of the shop is Capitol Grounds. The guy who served us was wearing a Bernie tee shirt. 🙂
Sooo, after a challenging day of trying and failing to post from my phone, just as I was sitting down to set a few weeks' worth of photos, we suddenly got a big thunderstorm and the second flash of lightning took out our transformer!! It's still raging and there's a monsoon too, so I have no idea when I'll have capability again. But at least I'm mostly home tomorrow. Ha!
I purposely did not lay in any ice cream when we went shopping this past Friday. But I agree it would be prudent. If ice cream softens and re-freezes, it become so hard it isn't worth the trouble of eating, and the taste suffers as well. Enjoy!
Alan
P.S.: Did I tell you I drove an ice cream truck one summer?
No ice cream in our freezer. But tonight I had ice cream for the first time in many months. Food at the Disability Pride Parade committee meeting was half a sandwich, so on the way home I stopped at the ice cream shop for a banana split.
On another note, about three weeks ago a neighbor down the street pointed out a large (nearly the size of my left palm) paw print in some damp dirt in his front yard. I appeared to be a canid front paw, and a little farther on (in slightly harder dirt) there were what look like back paw prints as well. This morning there was some scat in our front yard that resembled fox scat--very dark and hard (apparently!), but far too big to have been left by one of our very small local foxes. So I looked up coyote scat on Google Images, and quite a few photos had the same morphology. The big question is how we can get our guest/adopted cats to stay inside at night for a while?
This thread is late to the party (double entendre) but here at last!
ReplyDelete"Trump's fan base do not see him as POTUS, they see him as a television star." ~ Catreona
ReplyDeleteAh yes, excellent point. And since, not being at the front of their class, instead of paying attention in history and civics classes, they've never encountered the Constitution. But television? Yes, they surely spent a lot of time in front of one of those.
Sorry I couldn't help you out on this--I spent four hours getting Shirlee's pic up on 3.0--had no umph left to keep on dealing with blogger!
ReplyDeleteOh, no worries, puddle. I was sorry to let folks down. But you're all such a kind and friendly bunch, I wasn't worried you'd not forgive me. :-)
DeleteFrom a thread on Robert Reich's FB page:
ReplyDeleteSrby Krusa: I marched today. My first protest in a long time...And I've had a lot of time to contemplate this, but the master manipulator has us all played like he is producing a freaking reality tv show and we're not really that organized to mount an offensive, just organized enough to have a reactive protest. He throws us a shocker and we act by reacting. His tactics are going to get more inhumane to run us ragged. The opposition that is not yet inundated, he is splintering.
We need a to have an agreed upon agenda that we can all rally behind and a good place to start is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's list which are progressive and unifying (and most are already funded, just need a different cut in the budget pie):
Healthcare for All
Fully Funded Public Schools and Universities
Living Wages
Paid Family and Sick Leave, Affordable childcare
Housing as a Human Right
Justice System Reform and Ending Police Brutality
Immigration Justice
Infrastructure Overhaul- for green industries and to repair and build infrastructure with job creation and retraining program for economically devastated areas
Clean Campaign Finance and Election Security
Veteran Support
NET neutrality
Most importantly stick to the agenda, do not react to instances like Melania wearing that green jacket, it's just a technique to keep us in shock and awe.
THEN stop here for now. Don't bring in any other ideological issues. We need to have common ground.
Don't just rely on getting the vote out, from the history of different parts of the world, democracies have been lost from elections.
Next, we NEED to organize our neighborhoods and connect with other neighborhoods across the country, meet once a week in order to:
Voter Registration and Voter Security
Discuss policy and keep local politicians accountable
Identify vulnerable populations in the neighborhood- homeless, undocumented, uninsured and fundraise to help these people as well as form contigency plans if they are threatened or in danger
Each neighborhood must come up with an emergency phone tree as well as a security plan
Then, once you have a great defensive game, it's really time for us to go on an offensive: One action per neighborhood a month to disrupt (NOT hurt or harm, but disrupt= to make uncomfortable) the lives of key people in the administration or key people that are upholding these inhumane actions and most importantly, identify Nazis and call them out- run them ragged. Be it a mariachi band to wake their neighborhoods or a march through the restaurants they eat at, etc. Make the noise, but do so with MLK's nonviolent spirit..
Then share best practices.
Repeat. and Repeat. and Repeat...
I don't know what "neighbourhood" looks like, really, especially in rural areas. How to find out who is in need when it's not acceptable to show up at people's doors?
DeleteBut I LOVE the idear of a phone tree. We will need that when DT or the other Russians crash social media.
Ploughing ahead with organic chemistry. If it weren't Asimov, I'd have given up a few sentences into the first chapter. Astronomy and Physics are ***much*** easier to understand! But I shall plod forward.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed!!
DeleteI have several family members who took O.C. in college and they still tell legends about how hard it was!
For me Organic Chemistry was the path of least resistance... But I had the advantage of learning it to start with in the old-fashioned way. My professor's professor's professor was a student of Emil Fischer (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902). Our classes would have been immediately familiar to students of our geat-grandparents' time. It really gave me a leg up compared to the people who started out learning it the new way--with reaction mechanisms and all that. Not that the new way lacks value; but when it came in, generations of excellent pedagogy were tossed onto the rubbish heap. I combined the old and new methods for my students; I only ever found one organic chemistry textbook that used a similar system. Combining part of the older descriptive pedagogy with part of the newer academic system gave far more understanding and predictive value with less memorization than either. But Physical Chemstry... not to mention Quantum Mechanics... were exceedingly difficult for me because (for whatever reason) I did not learn (internalize?) my second year algebra lessons. I think I was the only person to get a PhD in Chemistry from UC Santa Cruz who managed to avoid (escape?) Quantum Mechanics.
DeleteAlan
My wife found organic chemistry hard because the professor expected the students to simply memorize the different types of reactions. But it was physical chemistry that forced her to switch from a chemistry major to what was on paper a food technology major. But I found organic chemistry easy because the professor was teaching us why these different reactions occurred.
DeleteI never had to worry about quantum mechanics. The place where I got my masters (Long Beach State) didn't have quantum mechanics and although my Caltech PhD reads "Biochemistry" that was in the Biology division.
I remember a particular type of question on all our (old fashioned) exams. In the center was some sort of organic compound (they say in Berkeley it was always carbon), with arrows going to and from certain other compounds around the margin; then there were arrows (some going both ways) connecting other compounds around the margin. We were to fill in the reagents and reaction conditions to connect it all.
DeleteAlan
The photo was well worth waiting for. A quote follows.--Alan
ReplyDelete“Dear America, appreciate your allies, after all you don’t have all that many.”
— European Council President Donald Tusk, quoted by the AP.
Thanks, Alan.
DeleteThat's in the coffee shop about a block from the Statehouse here. The name of the shop is Capitol Grounds. The guy who served us was wearing a Bernie tee shirt. 🙂
Pithy quote!
DeleteSooo, after a challenging day of trying and failing to post from my phone, just as I was sitting down to set a few weeks' worth of photos, we suddenly got a big thunderstorm and the second flash of lightning took out our transformer!! It's still raging and there's a monsoon too, so I have no idea when I'll
ReplyDeletehave capability again. But at least I'm mostly home tomorrow. Ha!
Bear with me, please, and carry on!!
I think it's only prudent to eat all the ice cream in the freezer, don't you?
DeleteFeel free to eat all the ice cream in your freezer, in solidarity with me.
DeleteGreen Mountain Power has restored our power! (=Whew!= Good thing I ate the ice cream in time!)
DeleteAnd I have also now posted a new photo for 1:00am! Hurrah!!
I purposely did not lay in any ice cream when we went shopping this past Friday. But I agree it would be prudent. If ice cream softens and re-freezes, it become so hard it isn't worth the trouble of eating, and the taste suffers as well. Enjoy!
DeleteAlan
P.S.: Did I tell you I drove an ice cream truck one summer?
No ice cream in our freezer. But tonight I had ice cream for the first time in many months. Food at the Disability Pride Parade committee meeting was half a sandwich, so on the way home I stopped at the ice cream shop for a banana split.
DeleteWow, Bill! Way to make up for lost time! ;-)
DeleteOn another note, about three weeks ago a neighbor down the street pointed out a large (nearly the size of my left palm) paw print in some damp dirt in his front yard. I appeared to be a canid front paw, and a little farther on (in slightly harder dirt) there were what look like back paw prints as well. This morning there was some scat in our front yard that resembled fox scat--very dark and hard (apparently!), but far too big to have been left by one of our very small local foxes. So I looked up coyote scat on Google Images, and quite a few photos had the same morphology. The big question is how we can get our guest/adopted cats to stay inside at night for a while?
ReplyDeleteAlan
This is lovely. . . .
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/478/the-geography-of-sorrow
NASA Just Released the Song of the Summer [Click] "The plasma waves between Saturn and its icy moon Enceladus sound like eerie music to our ears."
ReplyDelete--Alan