Monday, January 21, 2019

Total Lunar Eclipse on MLK Jr Day!


I tried to get a photo at peak, when it was all reddish, but the snow was moving back in and it was too hazy and dark for a photo. But we saw it through to full eclipse. We won't get to watch the second half as the light returns, as it is snowing again.
During the course of this thread today, please post your favourite MLK, Jr quotes.

Posted by listener at 1:00:00 AM

14 comments:

  1. Alan in CA1/21/2019 01:39:00 AM

    How to pronounce Mayor Pete Buttigieg [Click]

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  2. Susan Davidson1/21/2019 09:25:00 AM

    "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  3. Alan in CA1/21/2019 01:03:00 PM

    Kamala Harris has announced her campaign slogan. [Click] As memory serves me, it was also Marina le Pen’s campaign slogan. KH is trying to evoke comparisons with Shirley Chisholm, and she sure ain’t no Shirley Chisholm. I particularly remember her involvement in the scandal of SF police officers’ previous convictions not being revealed to the defense. As a California politician she has a reputation as a skilled back room operator, and she is a full-blooded Clintonista. Well, Well, here [Click] is FiveThirtyEight’s take on her. I wonder if I can find a “Dave Kovic President 2020” bumper sticker…

    Rudy really stepped in it this time. [Click] NYT sets it out clearly.

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  4. Alan in CA1/21/2019 01:08:00 PM

    The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination [Click] “In the official story told to children, King’s assassination is the transformational tragedy in a victorious struggle to overcome.” Can anyone tell me if this statement is true? I should hope not, but there are so many other misrepresentations in grade school history books that I should not be surprised.

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    1. Alan in CA1/21/2019 01:27:00 PM

      Many of those misrepresentations are by omission, certainly.

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  5. Alan in CA1/21/2019 01:26:00 PM

    The Pentagon’s New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details [Click] “The entire Marine Corps, for instance.” House Dems are not amused.

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  6. Alan in CA1/21/2019 08:31:00 PM

    I see that Dear Leader and Dear Vice Leader stopped off at the MLK memorial for a whole TWO minutes! Photo indicates they actually got out of their golf cart.

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  7. Alan in CA1/21/2019 09:21:00 PM

    Gizmodo: President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner [Click] And his fingers longer! How pathetic.

    GOP tries to mimic ActBlue [Click]

    Pollution in India Could Reshape Monsoons [Click] I hadn’t heard about this for some time; more detail now.

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    1. listener1/22/2019 12:58:00 AM

      With him it's not just alternative facts but alternative universe!

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  8. Catreona1/21/2019 10:05:00 PM


    Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism — but disentangling them can be tricky
     - Click

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  9. Catreona1/21/2019 10:35:00 PM


    Here are 11 questions you should ask Libertarians to see if they’re hypocrites     - Click

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  10. Catreona1/21/2019 11:09:00 PM

    Being on so many mailing lists, I get multiple requests to sign the same petitions and to become a citizen co-sponsor of the same bills. It gets confusing. I keep meaning to start a list, because surely it is counterproductive to sign the same things more than once.

    It doesn't help that they send the same e-mail with different subject lines, so you think you're looking at something new.

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    1. listener1/22/2019 01:00:00 AM

      I agree, Cat. And I strongly dislike when they send messages from the same group but begin it with a different staffer's name. I keep thinking I'm getting spammed when it's something I would read more readily if they just started with the group's name each time.

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