Thursday, June 04, 2020

Wow. Eldest was born 45 years ago today.


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  1. Press Release: National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) Regarding the autopsy report: Mr.George Floyd (Minneapolis Medical Examiner report) From: Sally S. Aiken, MD 2020 President James R. Gill, MD 2020 Vice President National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME)

    The independent autopsy is the one done by the medical examiner who, unlike private pathologists, do not have an incentive to come up with a certain view. The Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Medical Examiner’s Office is an independent county office that works separately from law enforcement agencies, and prosecutors.The office is fully accredited by the National Association of Medical Examiners(NAME), and employs board-certified forensic pathologists. The Chief Medical Examiner in Minneapolis, Dr. Andrew Baker, is one of the most highly regarded and esteemed Forensic Pathologists in the United States. Dr. Baker has received several awards, published numerous academic articles,and has lectured nationally and internationally about forensic pathology. He is a Past-President of NAME and known for his expertise and integrity. The National Association of Medical Examiners has published a position paper on Deaths in Custody (available on the NAME websitehttps://name.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/2e14b3c6-6a0d-4bd3-bec9-fc6238672cba.pdf). The paper includes recommendations on the investigation, autopsy, and certification of deaths that occurunder these circumstances. The Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Medical Examiner’s Office followed these carefully constructed recommendations in the autopsy performed on Mr.George Floyd. The Minneapolis Medical Examiner’s Office helped author this paper. Though the public may have concerns about the inclusion of underlying natural diseases, and drug intoxication as “contributing to death” on Mr. Floyd’s death certificate, this is usual practice for Medical Examiners. Death is a complex process and often occurs with multiple interacting contributing causes including physiologic stress brought about by physical altercations. Therefore,listing all provides a more comprehensive statement of the cause of death. The “manner of death was certified as “homicide”. Homicide (as a manner of death on the death certificate) is a statistical category for this public health document. In the medical examiner setting, a homicide is defined as death “at the hand of another”. It is not synonymous with “murder” which is a legal term. It is ultimately up to the legal system to determine how this death is criminally classified under Minnesota Law.

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  2. Arrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!

    Vast Arctic oil spill prompts state of emergency (Russia)
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52915807

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    1. A classic structural failure for that part of the world--diesel fuel tank collapses due to ground subsidence. The Russians have experts at preventing that sort of thing. As memory serves me, there are very serious and long standing pollution problems associated with that nickel mining operation.

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  3. A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 49% to 45% with 6% still undecided.

    In the U.S. Senate race, Cal Cunningham (D) leads Sen. Thom Tillis (R), 43% to 41% with 16% not sure.

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  4. Quote of the Day
    June 4, 2020 By Taegan Goddard

    “Biden has a team of killers and all I’ve got is a defense.”
    — President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, complaining to allies about his campaign.

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    1. Reporter to Biden: "President Trump says you have a team of killers. Do you have any comment on that?"

      Biden [deadpan]: "We don't discuss Department 38 in public. Next Question."

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  5. Joint Chiefs Chairman sends a memo… [Click] Strange—it doesn’t say anything about loyalty to the President…

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  6. Three Reasons Stocks Are Rising [Click] “In the time that U.S. deaths have increased from 100 to more than 100,000, the S&P 500 has gone up 20 percent.”

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    1. I have never been so pissed off at him as when he pulled this stunt...disrupting a peaceful, lawful protest, harming people, driving out the clergy and laity from their own church with no warning, using the Bible sacrilegiously, being the most self-focused and cruel person in power on the planet.

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  8. OK, one more and then to work:

    Stacey Abrams: I Know Voting Feels Inadequate Right Now; Just Hear Me Out. [Click] “Voting will not save us from harm, but silence will surely damn us all.”

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  9. OHIO: As of Thursday afternoon, there have been at least 37,282 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 2,339 deaths, and 6,312 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  10. going back to the thread before last:

    Alan, it makes perfect sense to me that there would be a make of car called Trilobite. *grin*

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  11. Arggghhh! Cluster: 1026/55 (+36/ 0)
    No deaths in a week
    Recovered: 881 ( +2)
    In Hospital 0 ( 0)
    Tests 37, 834 (+641)

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  12. In case you missed it, the Vallejo, California police were at it again: Vallejo police kill unarmed 22-year-old, who was on his knees with his hands up. [Click] I think the only thing that will stop them is when they start relaiably going to prison.

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    1. Why don't they go to prison en masse?

      I don't know if it's a question of education or of psychological testing or what, but demonstrably too many police officers do not see civilians as human beings just like themselves deserving, as they themselves are, of being treated with decency and dignity and fair play.

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  13. Some Democrats Worry About the Whiteness of Biden’s Inner Circle [Click] I don’t recall that he campaigned in California to speak of, either.

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    1. What were we saying the other day about leopards and spots?

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  14. On a frivolous note: Earlier this week Facebook awarded me my badge as one of Neil Sedaka's top fans. Silly though it is, that little milestone gave me a smile. I watch, react to and comment on his mini concert every day, which is why it took less time than to get the badge for Engelbert.

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    1. Congrats!! Nice things really help right now.

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  15. White House Turns Into a Fortress [Click] “The White House is now so heavily fortified that it resembles the monarchical palaces or authoritarian compounds of regimes in faraway lands.”

    Flashback Quote of the Day
    June 4, 2020 By Taegan Goddard

    “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.”
    — Donald Trump, in a 1990 Playboy interview.

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