Friday, June 26, 2020

Changeable Weather

42 comments:

  1. Just checked and Booker is currently ahead of McGrath by 2,587 votes.

    KENTUCKY
    U.S. Senate - Dem - Primary
    79.4 % Precincts Reporting | 33% expected vote
    As of: June 25, 2020 10:50 am EST

    Dem:
    Booker, Charles. 32,479. 43.51%
    McGrath, Amy. 29,892. 40.04%

    The other 8 candidates garnered a little over 12,000 votes all together.

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    1. Interesting, but it's early days. Thanks for the heads-up, listener.

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    1. WOW!
      That is a powerful ad...and from Republicans! 😮

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  3. Trump’s reality TV presidency is being crushed by reality [Click] This is for me the most striking bit (especially considering the source) in the column: “The Republican Party is not a serious governing organization on the national level,” says Stevens, who in addition to working on Romney’s presidential campaign has worked for more than a dozen GOP gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns. “Look who they’re bringing in to testify as experts: Diamonds and Silk. To me, the only thing remotely like it is the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, because the dissonance between what the party was and what it said it was was just so great.”

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  4. I never watch Faux Gnus, much less Hannity, but on his town hall with Hannity last night Trump seem to have been in rare form: Trump Plays Down Devastation Caused By COVID-19 As An ‘Artificial Problem.’ [Click] And here’s what he wants to do in a second term. [Click] Except that he concedes to Biden. [Click]

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    1. From Talking Point Memo:

      [The] Wall Street Journal editorial board concluded that Trump needs a new nickname for Biden: “How does President-elect sound?”

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    1. Maybe it will be the saving of the Gulf.

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    1. Another example of Trump deliberately sabotaging his own campaign and the Republican party.

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  7. A new NPR/PBS/Marist poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race, 52% to 44%. Trump’s approval rate is 41% to 57%.

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  8. Trump broke the law by using military money for border wall, appeals court rules [Click] It is not clear from the story how this decision differs from the previous one decided by the US Supreme Court.

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    1. Now, that headline brought me to tears. There are times when it is appropriate to risk one's life.

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    2. Human decency does show through from time to time.

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  10. Nascar releases photo of rope found in Wallace’s garage stall [Click] It looks similar to a hangman's knot, which is unfortunate, but obviously it doesn’t slip, and it doesn’t have 13 loops (which may or may not be the case in the real McCoy). It looks like it has not slipped since it was made (quite some time ago, allegedly as a door pull). It is probably a duncan knot, also called a uni or grinner knot.

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  11. OHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 48,638 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 2,788 deaths, and 7,570 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  12. A Mysterious Rhythm Is Coming From Another Galaxy [Click] Astronomers have been tracking fast radio bursts for years, but they had never caught one like this before— and now they have found others.

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  13. Facebook policy changes fail to quell advertiser revolt as Coca-Cola pulls ads [Click] Unilever, other notable companies also. If this continues to develop it *ought* to be enough to get Zuckerberg’s attention.

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  15. Judge rules migrant children in government family detention centers must be released due to coronavirus

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/children-released-from-immigration-detention-centers/index.html

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