Saturday, February 22, 2020

🌟 NEVADA! 🌟

     

Lake Tahoe State Park, Nevada

43 comments:

  1. That's the east slope of the Sierra Nevada. The mountains are basically a huge block of granite, that has been lifted up on the east end, so the slope on the west side is relatively gentle and on the east side precipitous.

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    1. Ah, thanks for the location information, Alan! Topography is fascinating.

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    2. So, then, that was actually a photo of California, yes? I had googled Nevada and that's what came up. Should have been better labeled! I revamped the front page.

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    3. The state line runs along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, so that is in Nevada. You're good.

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    4. Of course, from our perspective, "Back East" also starts at the crest of the Sierra Nevada... Iowa is in the Middle East, and New Hampshire is in the Far East. China is in the Far West. One could defensibly use the 19th Century definition of where the West begins--the hundredth meridian. That excludes most of Texas and Oklahoma, which seems appropriate.

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    5. The West begins at Fort Worth. Ask anybody there.

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  2. How is everyone faring? Ready for Super Tuesday? Are you voting absentee or working at the polls or? I'll be working at the polls, though I haven't yet heard what hours. It's Town Meeting Day here, so first there's the business of the town to attend to, during the voting. We'll see whether I'm at the meeting or at the polls. I'm fine either way, though it is fun to watch the townspeople haggle over the budget, weigh in on which roads need repairs this year, and register opinion about zoning, etc.. Good people here.

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    1. Let's see:

      OHIO and ILLINOIS vote March 17th, so can already vote absentee.

      WEST VIRGINIA votes May 12th, so can't vote absentee until April 21st.

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    2. In-person voting here started on Feb. 3rd. I received my ballot in the mail on the 4th, and sent it off on the 5th.

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    3. My dad goes in to vote at our poling place. Mum, Sis and I can vote absentee. We received our ballots a few days before the Iowa caucus, but Sis fiddled and faddled around so we didn't actually get them mailed till the day after, that would be Feb. Fifth. It took Mum several more days to get hers marked and mailed in. Sis voted for Biden. Mum says she doesn't remember who she voted for, though my feeling is probably Biden. :P

      The Democratic primaries for congressman and senator will be held in September.

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    4. I will be voting on election day. As I told Alan yesterday, I consider voting by mail just too much of a pain. I could vote early in person, but that would involve waking more than a half mile to Village Hall. I'd rather just walk three blocks to my precinct polling place.

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  3. Simon Tisdall: So the west is winning, is it? Only if you’re a delusional Trump toady, Mr Pompeo. [Click]

    Who said it – Trump or Bloomberg? Take our revealing quiz [Click] “Bloomberg is indisputably on the record saying things that make it clear he is simply a richer version of Trump.”

    Judge Dismisses Nunes Lawsuit [Click]

    Americans Should Be ‘Deeply Afraid’ [Click] Retired Navy Admiral William McRaven — U.S. special forces commander from 2011 to 2014, including the 2011 SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden — writes in the Washington Post: “As Americans, we should be frightened — deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security — then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.”

    National Security Adviser No Longer Advises [Click]

    Bernie Heads to Texas [Click]

    Bernie Unleashes Volunteer Army on Nevada [Click] Blitzkrieg?

    White House Fears Coronavirus Impact on Election [Click]

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  5. Nevada Democratic Presidential Caucus Data for Progress (D)
    Sanders 35, Biden 16, Warren 16, Buttigieg 15, Klobuchar 8, Steyer 8, Gabbard 2
    Sanders +19

    But remember that Nevada (particularly in the primary) is said to be very difficult to poll accurately.

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  6. Alan, Hunca Munca is a mouse. The original was a character in Beatrix Potter's A Tale of Two Bad Mice. In this case you must recall that Mizzen and Spinnaker are cats. One gathers their invitation of Hunca Munca inside for playtime was not actuated by a wish to improve interspecies relations. Sounds like Listener rescued her and will eventually take her back to wherever her home may be.

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    1. That's what I figured, but thought I might have missed or forgotten the history of listener's Hunca Munca.

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    2. Well comprehended, Catreona!
      Hunca Munca was freed this morning! 🐭
      The ol' peanut butter in the Have-a-Heart trap did the trick.🙀😿

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  7. California grad students risk losing their jobs amid months-long strike [Click] I figure that the basic factors remain the same; if the graduate students don’t make enough to survive, the research doesn’t get done, publications disappear, and tenure track faculty don’t get tenure. Those who already have tenure don’t get fancy awards or positions that burnish the reputation of the university. Universities benefit that do see to it that graduate students can survive. Oh, and if graduate students disappear, professors will have to go back to teaching, the poor dears. I should counsel the grad students to take masters’ degrees (which are basically consolation prizes at PhD-granting institutions in the US) and consider Canada as well as other land grant universities in the US. Evidently in Canada a master’s degree is normally taken before entry into a PhD program.

    By and large, the realclearpolitics.com polling data for Super Tuesday states looks pretty good for Sanders, dismal for several others. [Click]

    How Beating Up Bloomberg Has Reinvigorated the Democratic Field [Click] Well, to some extent and for a time, probably.

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  8. From politicalwire.com:

    Democrats in Nevada will caucus beginning at 3 p.m. ET, although there have already been more than 70,000 early votes cast.
    It’s not exactly clear when results will be released.
    The Washington Post has live updates and Politico has a good results page.

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    1. CNN has constant coverage and what I appreciate is that when they cut for commercials they keep the numbers at the bottom of the screen.

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  9. Talking Points Memo liveblog here. [Click]

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  10. How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw [Click] Analogous to the disasters of The Great Leap Forward, and exactly what Donald Trump is driving the United States (and himself) toward.

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  11. Bernie is doing great in Nevada in the early returns. At one point he was at nearly 45% of the vote. I think he's closer to 30% now, but he has been ahead from the start. 10% of the vote counted so far. Just heard that the phone lines are beginning to get tied up. Hmmm. Are the Republicans at it again?

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  12. Sanders 5761
    Biden 2622
    Buttigieg 2350
    Warren 1502
    Klobuchar 1063
    Steyer 624
    Gabbard 8

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    1. That's with 10% in so far.

      Nevada has 36 pledged delegates
      and 12 unpledged

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    2. Bernie has 41.7% of the vote at the moment.

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  13. From TPM:

    Cristina Cabrera|
    6:47pm

    MSNBC host Chris Matthews, like his fellow pundit James Carville, is having a very normal reaction to Sanders’ likely victory in Nevada by comparing it to Nazis conquering France in World War II.

    MSNBC host Chris Matthews compares Bernie Sanders' likely win in Nevada to Nazi Germany defeating France. pic.twitter.com/BFZnf9fSPv
    — TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 22, 2020

    You may also remember Matthews’ meltdown over Sanders last week in which the host shrieked about how he’d be assassinated in Central Park under a socialist government.

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    1. Carville is 75 years old.
      Matthews is 74.
      Dear Leader is 73.

      And all three showing signs of dementia. I understand that silent strokes are a strong risk factor for developing symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease.

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    2. This last comment is not technically correct. Alzhermer disease is a specific form of dementia. What you're referring to is multi-infarct dementia, which my mother had.

      It might be worth mentioning that all the people you mention are younger than me.

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    3. Don't worry, Bill. It is abundantly evident that you are not suffering from any type of dementia!

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    4. I recall that retired nuns' home in Minnesota where they agreed to autopsies to help investigate Alzheimer's Disease. There was one in particular who seemed perfectly functional for her age, but her brain was riddled with Alzheimer's plaques. The thing that was different about her was that she had no sign of even the mildest strokes--which were not uncommon among the elderly retired nuns. Another thing that they discovered was that there were abnormalities in the writings of the novices that developed Alzheimer's Disease 50, 60, 70 years later. Shorter, less complicated sentences than average, lacking parenthetical and dependent clauses, etc.

      As for our ages, I am pretty sure most people my age are dead. I haven't been able to find data on that sort of thing, but I suspect it is so. I discovered that it was not my imagination when I was doing drug and alcohol testing on coroners' cases that the majority of decedents were younger than I. Of course some of them were violent deaths, but still... I wondered if someone was sending me a message!

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    5. Huh? What are you, Bill, eighty-three, eighty-four years old? Engelbert has his eighty-fourth birthday in May and he has hardly slowed down at all. My dad is Eighty-six. He is seeming a touch frail these days, but still in good physical health. He does get somewhat confused sometimes, oftener than forty years ago, but on the whole he's in more than adequate shape. My mother turns eighty-one in March. If anything, we're a lot more concerned about possible dementia in her than in Dad! Can't say as I know any other octogenarians. But that doesn't mean there aren't any around. My acquaintance is simply rather restricted.

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    6. I'll be 84 in August, so I'm a few months younger than Engelbert. I seems to need a lot of sleep these days but am otherwise doing pretty well. I do find myself paying attention to the ages at which celebrities die. Some of them younger than me, but I pay more attention to those in their nineties. Or to Kirk Douglas at 103.

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  14. Whoo hoo!! Bernie did it!! 😃👍
    He is giving his victory speech right now in Texas and it's his best yet!

    44.6% of the vote!!

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  15. Bernie Sanders wins Nevada caucuses, CNN projects. The article talks about how Bernie won big in a state almost evenly split among very liberal, somewhat liberal, and moderate voters. And where 2/3 of the voters said nominating someone who could beat Trump was the most important consideration.

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  16. I don’t expect final results until tomorrow, but at the moment politico.com reports:

    With 27.23% of precincts reporting

    Bernie 46.6%, Biden 22.8%, Buttigieg 14.4%, Warren 8.8%, Steyer 3.8%

    Biden, Buttigieg and Warren all together add up to 46.0%.

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  18. I must admit that I am disappointed that Warren's popularity has slumped so much; but it happened after she tried moving toward the institutional Dems. And she didn't keep her proposals simple enough to be effective on the stump. Bernie's quick and evidently complete recovery after his coronary artery stents helped him, I think. And Bernie (as well as his organization) profited greatly from the experience of running a presidential campaign four years ago. I hope to see him demolish the anti-socialist propaganda with an updated version of the Truman quote you used at the start of the thread about three days ago, listener.

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    1. Among things Truman didn't mention are veterans' benefits, Medicare, and freeways. All socialism in action. There are probably other examples that don't come immediately to mind. Aid to Families with Dependent Children antedated Truman; I remember reading a bit of a congressional speech in favor of it (by a Republican, I think) who referred to it as "the mothers' pension."

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  19. With 43% of the precincts reporting, Bernie has 46.8%. That's slightly more than the next three candidates combined. Warren won't make the 15% cutoff and at the moment Butigieg is just barely above it.

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