Thursday, July 04, 2019

Independence Day 🇺🇸



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  1. Kamala Harris: Donald Trump is a predator [Click] Fair enough. Rather gutsy for her to be the first to take Biden down a peg, then Trump shortly after.

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    1. That’s pretty darn amazing!!

      I once found a Monarch in the middle of the road with a dislocated wing. The upper part that closes over the lower was positioned to close under the lower, which is not possible. It only took a second to gently move it to the correct position and the butterfly flew away beautifully!

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  3. Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis [Click] “In the two and a half years since Donald Trump became US president, lawsuits have sought to prevent his attempts to roll back environmental regulations. An analysis of 154 cases in the report shows that no rollback of a climate regulation brought before the courts has yet survived a legal challenge.”

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  4. Today’s weather in DC is expected to be 90F with 65+% humidity, making it feel like 100F. It is already 88F and feels like 98F. Moreover, thunderstorms are expected during the parade, with pouring rain thereafter.

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  5. Federal Court of Appeals Blocks Trump’s Border Wall Spending [Click]

    Kamala Harris: Donald Trump is a predator [Click] Fair enough. Rather gutsy for her to be the first to take Biden down a peg, then Trump shortly after.

    Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis [Click] “In the two and a half years since Donald Trump became US president, lawsuits have sought to prevent his attempts to roll back environmental regulations. An analysis of 154 cases in the report shows that no rollback of a climate regulation brought before the courts has yet survived a legal challenge.”

    Unusual for me: a fashion review. the people who wear complete historical dress – every day [Click]

    Long read: Biofortified foods [Click]

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    1. What Kamala Harris is saying now is bold, but I still think it's a big shiny cloud to keep people from looking at her past extremely corporate and anti-people record.

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    2. Susan-- I agree that Harris has more than enough baggage to do her in, although considerably less than Biden. Many (but probably less than most) people are just beginning to pay attention. So far Harris and Butigieg have had some increase in interest, but I think they will fade. [Remember that anyone I vote for is doomed...] The only way for Joe to go is down, and he has farther to fall than anyone else. But if Kamala [figuratively] kneecaps Joe and DT, that helps everyone.

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  6. We felt a mild earthquake about 10:30 AM; enough to set anything hanging into motion. Nothing about it in the news yet, but there have been several earthquakes today in southeastern California (Searles Valley).

    Alan

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  7. From the local newspaper, under headline "Did you feel that?"

    A magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled the Central San Joaquin Valley on Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.

    The quake struck at 10:33 a.m. near Ridgecrest, about 224 miles southeast of Fresno.

    This story will be updated.

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    1. In Ridgecrest, near where the quake was centered, the Kern County Fire Department is reporting dozens of emergency calls and have called in rescue crews.

      #EarthquakeResponse@kerncountyfire resources working nearly 2 dozens incidents ranging from medical assistance to structure fires in and around the city of Ridgecrest, CA. @kerncountyfire Urban Search and Rescue teams en route.

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    2. It seems there were two magnitude 6.4 earthquakes about 90 seconds apart, first one 10 km deep, second 5 km deep. Maximum intensity (near epicenter)> [Click] VI for the first one, VII for the second.

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    3. WOWOWOW!!! I hadn't heard there were two just 90 seconds apart!! Were they two distinctly different quakes or one quake that caught and slipped a second time? How terribly scary. And one to the north in SW Canada earlier the same day. I hope this means the stress is off and all will settle down for a long time. Are they saying anything like that? I heard there was some speculation that the Ridgecrest quake(s) could have affected a fault line north of there, which could yet quake. Egads.

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    4. So, does the San Francisco area have an app like this one, which warns folks around LA just as a quake begins, even before the shaking is felt? It gives a tiny bit more time to react and could save lives.

      https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/us/la-earthquake-app-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1AvI5DrOY_SoOp_7kxaPgcNYw_h0ug9XBKDKzrE76Y4nd_hLGPWnrl_A0

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    5. Ah, wait, I finally read the last part of the article, which says:

      "Los Angeles is the first US city to make the app available to the public, but the US Geological Survey plans to deliver it to the entire West Coast once the pilot project is completed."

      Very cool.

      (I spent the day quilting. If I spend every day quilting I MIGHT get the top of the quilt pieced before August 1st. That would give me two weeks to add the quilting stitches. Hoping!!

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    6. Oops, here's the missing close-quote: )

      Hey, Susan, would you like a sneak preview of the quilt? I could maybe post one by the end of the weekend. I have a LOOOONNNGG way to go. The base of the quilt's center is pieced, and now I am adding appliqué. After that, I have embroidery to do as embellishment. I also need to sew pieces together as a border and add that, then the backing, of course. I really want to get the batting in by August 1st. It'll more likely be that I get the batting in around the 7th and have to really work hard to do all the quilting stitches in about one week. Yikes!!

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    7. Sure enough; that is exactly the place where I read the previous misinformation. A friend of ours who lives in Ridgecrest said she felt two distinct shocks. The TV fell onto the floor and seemed none the worse for wear, but two or three vases fell and were broken. She knows some folks who were having coffee at Starbuck's, sitting at an outside table with an umbrella (a metal one?) which tipped over and injured a couple of them. An earthquake that size is unlikely to do significant damage to any house built (in California) in the past seventy years unless there was a considerable mistake in locating or building it. The offending earthquake fault is a short one, incapable of generating a great earthquake, and is believed to be isolated from any other faults; it is not part of the San Andreas fault system.

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    1. “The dispiriting truth is that many of those tasked with interpreting our politics are — in addition to being extremely freaked out by the race they’re covering — totally ill-equipped for the historic task ahead of them.”

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    1. Yeah, we used our submarines to do it.

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    2. Well, actually the rebels did have a submarine, [Click] although it did not succeed in damaging, much less sinking, any British ships. But what the devil did His Royal Senility mean by “they rammed the ramparts?”
      Said Trump: “Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports.”

      I haven’t yet checked on it, but I had hopes that the VIP seating area for Trump’s extravaganza might be assailed by lightning, hail or at least pouring rain. Or he himself, for that matter.

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  10. Thinking of great earthquakes, the San Andreas fault system isn't capable of generating one anywhere near the size of the ones that hit the Cascadia Fault (which runs north from Cape Mendocino in California into Vancouver Island). Oregon is in the greatest danger.

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