Another of the all-too-frequent nights of complete night-long insomnia. Finally surrendered to the fact that I could not sleep at 7 a.m. Got up. Sewed 8 quilt blocks, emptied the dishwasher, made buttermilk bread and glazed carrots. I still don't feel like I could sleep, but I'm going to lie down and try anyway because this is SO not good for me and I still plan to live to 120. This is getting in my way. Not having it.
Almost the opposite of what I've been experiencing the past couple of years or so: counting naps, I typically sleep 10-11 hours out of the 24. Less today because I stayed up an extra three hours reading. Not the first time that reading seemed to be the equivalent of sleep.
Susan, Anxiety can be a real pain when it comes to getting enough sleep. Gee, think there’s anything anxiety producing going on these days? You are wise to rest even if you can’t sleep. Your sleep pattern reminds me of when I had a new baby every two years. That tells you something about how much stress interrupts sleep pattens. What helps you relax?
There are only two things to worry about Either you are well or you are sick. If you are well, Then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick, there are two things to worry about. Either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, There is nothing to worry about. If you die, There are only two things to worry about. Either you will go to Heaven or Hell. If you go to Heaven there is nothing to worry about. But it you go to Hell, You'll be so busy shaking hands with friends, You won't have time to worry!
..........
Also, a lyric from John Mellencamp: "nothing matters and what if it does".
The Advantage of a Biden Shadow Cabinet [Click] “If the former vice president names his future appointees now, it will cast him as the convener of a generational transition in national leadership.” Toward the end, there is a discussion of potential legal problems and how to work around them. I have only a vague grasp of the allusion to “The Avengers,” evidently a takeoff on a comic book series that I never read, transmogrified into a Netflix series (or some such) that I have never seen. To me The Avengers [Click] is the British TV series, which has very little relevance to a shadow cabinet. Culturally deprived, that’s me.
Howe’s critique of today’s conservatives is shared by a growing number of younger Republicans. Rachel Bovard, the senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute, said that many in her generation wanted to see an interventionist government in areas of policy like trade and finance.
“I think that’s gone unquestioned for so long, and it’s become this national theology: Private enterprise is good. Full stop,” Bovard, 36, said. “I prize my liberty, whether it’s liberty from a tyrannical government or a tyrannical corporation."
Although I am almost a half-century older, that pretty much sums up my political philosophy. Given the opportunity, I like to refer to myself as a left-libertarian.
Yep, that column sounds pretty good to me, Bill. One of the major ideas of the New Deal was that the government could foster competition by preventing monopoly, which would be good for everyone; it worked well until the New Democrats threw it into the trash can forty-odd years ago. I want to see that come back.
Not that it is of any significance, but the author’s contention that Biden is a member of the “silent generation” because he was born in 1943 and the “baby boom generation” began instantaneously and universally in 1946 is silly. And I never heard the people who lived through the Depression and WWII ever call themselves “the silent generation” or “the greatest generation.” I think Biden is a dyed in the wool New Democrat, and their use-by date has passed. But consider the source.
I flatter myself that I am a slightly improved model of New Deal Democrat, and I want to see the New Democrats get the bum's rush, just like they did to the remaining New Dealers in Congress once they gained power.
The Baby Boom did start more or less instantaneously in 1946, as WWII soldiers returned home and resumed normal lives -- including procreation. I prefer to refer to people in my age groups as "the generation in the gap", but I can't dispute "silent generation." There are two reasons for that: 1. Many of us came of political age during the era of the HUAC and Joe McCarthy. We early on learned the lesson, "He who sticks his nick out gets it chopped off." 2. There really weren't that many of us, and nobody thought they needed to pay attention. A dozen years later the Boomers made their mark by virtue of sheer numbers.
Incidentally, Obama is technically still a Boomer. It wasn't until a few years later than the birth rate fell below replacement.
When my folks figured they were well enough off to be able to afford a second child, I came along. The place where we lived when I was born was considerably behind the times--maybe 20 years behind, and in some cases quite a bit farther behind than that. There were some young men who went to war, and when they saw the outside world they didn't come back. The considerably less remote place where I grew up was socially and culturally about ten years behind the times--the 1960's there were like the 1950's in the cities. We were too old to be hippies, but were considerably influenced by the Beats. My parents, and my friends' parents, were survivors of the Depression, and it was their stories and attitudes that shaped me. So I figure we were the tail end of the Depression generation. The prototypical Baby Boomers were to a large extent culturally foreign to me.
Current reported temperature (4:25 PM) 107 to 109 deg. F depending on reporting station. High temperature dropping into the upper 90's tomorrow, then into the mid to upper 80's for at least a week thereafter. Better get out my wool trousers...
OHIO: As of Thursday afternoon, there are 33,915 cases in the state, 2,098 deaths, and 5,811 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Sen. Cortez Masto withdraws name from Biden VP consideration [Click] Trying to attract the support of Latinos that Bernie earned merely by having a Latino/a running mate sounds like a losing proposition to me. But Biden can't just go out and buy Bernie's credibility and consistency, no matter how much money he raises from bagmen and bundlers (OK, I'm prejudiced).
Maybe it's just a cultural thing, me being from the southern reaches of Cascadia and all--a very long way from the upper midwest (or upper mideast, depending on one's perspective), but Klobuchar's speech and body language conveyed to me that she was not a nice person.
I suppose that blessing the communicants' hip flasks or administering the wine with a squirt gun (IF the priest/pastor were a good shot) would work, but the wafers would not lend themselves to semi-automated dispensing (I am having visions of types of spring-loaded wafer guns). But where there's a will, there's a way!
Bad state data hides coronavirus threat as Trump pushes reopening [Click] “Test counts inflated, death tolls deflated, metrics shifted.”
ReplyDelete”a strong argument for universal mask wearing as long as COVID19 remain prevalent in the population and we have no vaccines or effective treatments.” [Click]
Another of the all-too-frequent nights of complete night-long insomnia. Finally surrendered to the fact that I could not sleep at 7 a.m. Got up. Sewed 8 quilt blocks, emptied the dishwasher, made buttermilk bread and glazed carrots. I still don't feel like I could sleep, but I'm going to lie down and try anyway because this is SO not good for me and I still plan to live to 120. This is getting in my way. Not having it.
ReplyDeleteAlmost the opposite of what I've been experiencing the past couple of years or so: counting naps, I typically sleep 10-11 hours out of the 24. Less today because I stayed up an extra three hours reading. Not the first time that reading seemed to be the equivalent of sleep.
DeleteSusan,
DeleteAnxiety can be a real pain when it comes to getting enough sleep. Gee, think there’s anything anxiety producing going on these days?
You are wise to rest even if you can’t sleep. Your sleep pattern reminds me of when I had a new baby every two years. That tells you something about how much stress interrupts sleep pattens. What helps you relax?
One of the things is "An Irishman's Philosophy"
DeleteThere are only two things to worry about
Either you are well or you are sick.
If you are well,
Then there is nothing to worry about.
But if you are sick,
there are two things to worry about.
Either you will get well or you will die.
If you get well,
There is nothing to worry about.
If you die,
There are only two things to worry about.
Either you will go to Heaven or Hell.
If you go to Heaven there is nothing to worry about.
But it you go to Hell,
You'll be so busy shaking hands with friends,
You won't have time to worry!
..........
Also, a lyric from John Mellencamp: "nothing matters and what if it does".
That's a new one on me, Susan; pretty good, it is.
DeleteGotta get moving, so all in a single post:
ReplyDeleteTrump Is a Psychopath [Click] Wikipedia: Psychopathy [Click]
Gideon Leads Collins In Maine [Click] 51:42, from a poll I have never before heard of. Automated phone interviews of likely voters.
The Lincoln Project is out with a new ad targeting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who they say has mysteriously become a very rich man while in the U.S. Senate. [Click]
White House Won’t Issue New Economic Projections [Click]
Charlotte Observer: North Carolina Should Call Trump’s Bluff [Click]
WaPo: Coronavirus May Never Go Away [Click] No kidding.
Trump Tweets Video Declaring That ‘The Only Good Democrat Is A Dead Democrat’ [Click]
Donald Trump's move against Twitter factchecking could backfire [Click]
DT’s cheese is slipping off the cracker.
DeleteGreat news about Maine!
The Advantage of a Biden Shadow Cabinet [Click] “If the former vice president names his future appointees now, it will cast him as the convener of a generational transition in national leadership.” Toward the end, there is a discussion of potential legal problems and how to work around them. I have only a vague grasp of the allusion to “The Avengers,” evidently a takeoff on a comic book series that I never read, transmogrified into a Netflix series (or some such) that I have never seen. To me The Avengers [Click] is the British TV series, which has very little relevance to a shadow cabinet. Culturally deprived, that’s me.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the comics, the Netflix or the Brit version. Move over. LOL!
DeleteI concede.
DeleteThey predicted ‘the crisis of 2020’ … in 1991. So how does this end? I post this partially for the following two paragraphs:
ReplyDeleteHowe’s critique of today’s conservatives is shared by a growing number of younger Republicans. Rachel Bovard, the senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute, said that many in her generation wanted to see an interventionist government in areas of policy like trade and finance.
“I think that’s gone unquestioned for so long, and it’s become this national theology: Private enterprise is good. Full stop,” Bovard, 36, said. “I prize my liberty, whether it’s liberty from a tyrannical government or a tyrannical corporation."
Although I am almost a half-century older, that pretty much sums up my political philosophy. Given the opportunity, I like to refer to myself as a left-libertarian.
Yep, that column sounds pretty good to me, Bill. One of the major ideas of the New Deal was that the government could foster competition by preventing monopoly, which would be good for everyone; it worked well until the New Democrats threw it into the trash can forty-odd years ago. I want to see that come back.
DeleteNot that it is of any significance, but the author’s contention that Biden is a member of the “silent generation” because he was born in 1943 and the “baby boom generation” began instantaneously and universally in 1946 is silly. And I never heard the people who lived through the Depression and WWII ever call themselves “the silent generation” or “the greatest generation.” I think Biden is a dyed in the wool New Democrat, and their use-by date has passed. But consider the source.
I flatter myself that I am a slightly improved model of New Deal Democrat, and I want to see the New Democrats get the bum's rush, just like they did to the remaining New Dealers in Congress once they gained power.
The Baby Boom did start more or less instantaneously in 1946, as WWII soldiers returned home and resumed normal lives -- including procreation. I prefer to refer to people in my age groups as "the generation in the gap", but I can't dispute "silent generation." There are two reasons for that: 1. Many of us came of political age during the era of the HUAC and Joe McCarthy. We early on learned the lesson, "He who sticks his nick out gets it chopped off." 2. There really weren't that many of us, and nobody thought they needed to pay attention. A dozen years later the Boomers made their mark by virtue of sheer numbers.
DeleteIncidentally, Obama is technically still a Boomer. It wasn't until a few years later than the birth rate fell below replacement.
When my folks figured they were well enough off to be able to afford a second child, I came along. The place where we lived when I was born was considerably behind the times--maybe 20 years behind, and in some cases quite a bit farther behind than that. There were some young men who went to war, and when they saw the outside world they didn't come back. The considerably less remote place where I grew up was socially and culturally about ten years behind the times--the 1960's there were like the 1950's in the cities. We were too old to be hippies, but were considerably influenced by the Beats. My parents, and my friends' parents, were survivors of the Depression, and it was their stories and attitudes that shaped me. So I figure we were the tail end of the Depression generation. The prototypical Baby Boomers were to a large extent culturally foreign to me.
DeleteTHURS: 974/55 (+3/ 1)
ReplyDeleteFirst death in 12 days 😢
Recovered: 855 (+6)
Hospital 0 ( 0)
Tests 31,152 (+153)
Current reported temperature (4:25 PM) 107 to 109 deg. F depending on reporting station. High temperature dropping into the upper 90's tomorrow, then into the mid to upper 80's for at least a week thereafter. Better get out my wool trousers...
ReplyDeleteOHIO: As of Thursday afternoon, there are 33,915 cases in the state, 2,098 deaths, and 5,811 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
ReplyDelete6.19%
DeleteSen. Cortez Masto withdraws name from Biden VP consideration [Click] Trying to attract the support of Latinos that Bernie earned merely by having a Latino/a running mate sounds like a losing proposition to me. But Biden can't just go out and buy Bernie's credibility and consistency, no matter how much money he raises from bagmen and bundlers (OK, I'm prejudiced).
ReplyDeleteAmy Klobuchar didn't prosecute officer at center of George Floyd's death after previous conduct complaints [Click] If Uncle Joe has any sense, these sorts of reports should torpedo Klobuchar’s chance to be VP.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just a cultural thing, me being from the southern reaches of Cascadia and all--a very long way from the upper midwest (or upper mideast, depending on one's perspective), but Klobuchar's speech and body language conveyed to me that she was not a nice person.
DeleteWhite House Removes Virus Warnings About Choirs [Click] and shared communion cups!!!
ReplyDeleteFortunately, most clergy members are smarter than DT.
DeleteI suppose that blessing the communicants' hip flasks or administering the wine with a squirt gun (IF the priest/pastor were a good shot) would work, but the wafers would not lend themselves to semi-automated dispensing (I am having visions of types of spring-loaded wafer guns). But where there's a will, there's a way!
DeleteWhat To Make Of Trump’s Executive Order On Social Media [Click]
ReplyDeleteWhat I make of it is that DT doesn't like to be told he's lying, can't handle rebuke, and is immaturely lashing out, andisanyonesurprised?
DeleteThousands of protesters take to US streets over George Floyd killing – live
ReplyDeleteMinnesota governor has called on the national guard and Minneapolis has declared a local emergency [Click]