Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Going Out In Style...


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  1. If you can believe it, our last Tulip petal is still hanging on! They are usually done by early May!

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  2. What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane [Click] Despite Malaysian
    gov’t. coverup attempts, enough is known.

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    1. The article is very long and detailed, but top-line there is nothing really new. I hadn't encountered the speculation about depressurization before, but that is not a crucial point.

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  3. Democratic presidential candidates at Poor People’s Campaign debate [Click] This sounds like it would be worth watching at length; presumably it is on YouTube. It sounds far more substantial than the DNC debates.
    Wow—the whole thing is more than seven hours long. [Click]

    Opinion: The secret to Elizabeth Warren's surge? Ideas [Click] “Of all the Democratic candidates, Warren has offered by far the most plans-driven and ambitious campaign – and voters love it”

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    1. I am reminded of an experiment that was carried out five or ten years back. Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech was given to a modern audience; the organizers wondered if such a long and closely reasoned exposition would be followed by a modern audience--and it was.

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  4. A New Theory for the Staggering Sex Difference in Autoimmune Disease [Click] “An evolutionary trick to accommodate pregnancies might be what makes women much more likely to suffer from illnesses such as lupus and MS.”

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  5. Democratic Voters Don’t Actually Understand ‘Medicare For All,’ New Report Says [click] Those voters included me. This is the first time I have learned that "Medicare for All" is not really Medicare for all. Without copays or deductibles it is nothing at all like current Medicare. Why give it a name that makes it sound less attractive than it is?

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  6. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/18/orlando-sentinel-2020-endorsement-donald-trump-1367031

    “Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent. Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump,” the editorial board wrote.

    “After 2½ years we’ve seen enough. Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.”

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