LEAP DAY! / So. Carolina!
So cruel that Leap Year always falls in a Presidential Election Year!
Oh yeah, and today is the South Carolina primary!
Charleston, South Carolina photo by Pat Tokuyama
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Axios: “If Biden wins South Carolina commandingly, he lives to fight on Super Tuesday, three days from now. But if Sanders manages to even come close, it’ll fuel his juggernaut.” Juggernaut?!
ReplyDelete*sigh* They just won't let up with the slams, will they?
DeleteI seem to be detecting a negative reaction to "juggernaut," so I looked up the definition: "a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path an advertising juggernaut a political juggernaut." I don't see anything there that would constitute a slam.
DeleteI think it's the negative connotation of "crushes" that hangs in the air, as to suggest that it destroys something.
DeleteJuggernaut \Jug"ger*naut`\, n. [Skr. jagann[=a]tha lord of the
Deleteworld.]
1. One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as
Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindus. See also Jagannath.
[Written also Juggernnath, Jaganath, Jagannath,
Jaganatha, Jagannatha, etc.]
[1913 Webster]
Note: The principal seat of the worship of Juggernaut
(Jagannath) is at P[^u]ri in Orissa. At certain times
the idol is drawn from the temple by the multitude, on
a high car with sixteen wheels. The idol is considered
to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul.
The principal festivals are the Snanayatra, when the
idol is bathed, and the Rathayatra, when the image is
drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings.
Formerly it was erroneously supposed that fanatical
devotees threw themselves under the wheels of this car,
to be crushed as a sacrifice to the god. It is now
known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is
considered to render the place unclean, and any
spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a
pollution. As a result of this erroneous belief,
however, the word juggernaut is now used principally
in the figurative sense 2.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. Any large, unstoppable force, power, or popular movement
which defeats or destroys any person who gets in its way
or attempts to stop it; as, for years the Notre Dame
football team was an unstoppable juggernaut; after the
early primaries, Johnson's campaign became a juggernaut,
crushing all rivals.
A teen created a fake candidate Twitter account. Twitter verified it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/index.html
Biden Rambles at Town Hall Meeting [Click] I honestly don’t think the man is all there any more.
ReplyDeleteA Tiny, Lab-Size Wormhole Could Shatter Our Sense of Reality [Click] “How scientists plan to set up two black holes and a wormhole on an ordinary tabletop.”
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alan. I'll definitely have to read that one!
DeleteFascinating, especially since wormholes are routinely used in science fiction to allow apparently faster-than-light travel. But I don't understand what the next-to-last paragraph says about impacts of theoretical physics and the article makes no effort to explain.
DeleteMy understanding of theoretical Physics is sketchy at best, but it looked to me like the article writer doesn't have a firm grasp on it either. It would be helpful if such experiments could, for instance, be used to explore String Theory, though.
DeleteI am reminded of a science fiction story I read a long time ago and only partially remember. It was set in a time when ocean levels had risen to the extent that Britain was only a collection of small islands (mountain peaks) off the coast of Europe and what was beneath the waves was forgotten. Scientists had made a nuclear reactor that had some sort of problem, and upon inspection it was discovered that there were small holes in the bottom of the containment vessel. They deduced that the reactor had produced tiny black holes that were subsequently drawn into the center of the earth by gravitational attraction. How they dealt with that problem I do not recall. It was interesting, though!
DeleteSC Live Results page at Vox [Click] Ready to go when results are released.
ReplyDeleteRe the number of days in February: If I remember correctly, February started out with thirty days, as did all other months. But, when the Roman calendar was being revised Julius Caesar wanted the month named for him to be longer than all the others. So, he took a day from February. Not to be outdone, Augustus then wanted the month named for him to have thirty-one days too and, again, a day was taken from February.
ReplyDeleteMind you, though I know I read this somewhere, exactly where that might have been escapes me.
Has anyone read anything that tells how long the Covid-19 virus generally lasts once you catch it? Is it a week? Two? Or?
ReplyDeleteNot I.
DeleteTry this, listener: NYT: How Does the Coronavirus Compare to the Flu? [Click
DeleteI haven't read anything specific, but people who caught it 2 or 3 weeks ago are now recovering.
DeleteAs a technical point that most of the media get wrong, the virus is SARS-CoV-2. CoVid-19 is the disease it causes.
Right. Thanks, Bill. I was going to make that point if you hadn't.
DeleteIIUC corinavrus is a class of viruses. SARS was caused by a corinavrus virus. Don't know why the cable news channels can't get that right.
I note that the polls in SC close in about 3/4 of an hour....
ReplyDeleteArwa Mahdawi: No, Elizabeth Warren – taking Super Pac money is not girl power [Click]
ReplyDeleteLOL Ya don't say!
DeleteSC Democratic primary: Absentee votes far exceed 2016 [absentee ballot] total for Democrats [Click]
ReplyDeleteThe latest polls by state (this gets updated, too)
ReplyDeletehttps://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
The only thing I've read so far is that they recommend a three week self-quarantine.
ReplyDeleteI just returned from a walk, and I noticed something very odd. Our neighbor(s) across the street had had for some time three political yard signs; one pro-Trump ["It's your choice: Trump or Socailsm"], one for Devin Nunes, and one for the Republican candidate for Mayor of Fresno [note: we are very near but not actually inside Fresno]. Today I saw that all three yard signs had gone missing. It looks like the front lawn was recently mowed, but the signs are not stacked to one side ready to be reinstalled. Another neighbor's Nunes sign remains, but their Republican for Mayor sign disappeared several days ago.
ReplyDelete“Better a socialist than a sociopath.”
Delete(~ inspired by Holly*J from the Dean blog.)
I have seen two tallies of SC results: Vox at 1.3% reporting, NYT at about 10%. There was a significant but not stupendous shift toward Bernie between the first and second tallies.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Sis told me quite early in the evening that Biden had taken the state, winning all counties.
DeleteWith 44% reporting:
ReplyDeleteBiden 50%
Bernie 19%
Steyer is about to announce that he is dropping out.
ReplyDeleteNot a surprise. Wonder when, or if, Gabbard will drop out?
DeleteLooks like Biden got the firewall he wanted and so desperately needed.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that firewall really mean? He will end the night with a few more delegates than Bernie. But Tuesday is coming.
DeleteBernie remains the leader in delegates after SC. But there are not many delegates selected yet. From the looks of the polls, it could be that Bernie gets all of California's delegates.
DeleteWhat the firewall means is that Biden still looks like a viable candidate. People who think he is the best choice still have reason to go to the polls and vote for him. Whether that will still be true Wednesday is another question.
DeleteExactly. If he had come in anywhere other than first or second, he might have looked like a less attractive choice to voters who have yet to cast their ballots. With a decisive win in SC, he now may seem more attractive to more voters, which potentially means winning more states.
DeleteWith 72% reporting:
ReplyDeleteBiden 49.7%
Bernie 19.3%
Looks like all the others got skunked.
DeleteHow Many Delegates Do The 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates Have?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/799979293/how-many-delegates-do-the-2020-presidential-democratic-candidates-have
With 99% reporting:
ReplyDeleteBiden 48.4%
Bernie 19.9%
Currently showing:
ReplyDeleteBiden: 48.45%
Sanders: 19.91
Steyer: 11.34
Steyer came in third with double digits, far better than any of the remaining candidates. Dropping out now doesn't make sense to me. As I said before, it's Gabbard who should bow out if anyone, with 1.28%, her worst showing yet.
Yes, it makes no sense for Gabbard to continue. But Steyer threw everything he had into South Carolina and still didn't make the cut. If his best effort couldn't get him a single delegate, what are his chances?
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