Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Welcome July!


23 comments:

  1. From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html

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  2. VT: 1210/ 56 (+2/ 0)
    193 active/ 0 x 2wks
    Recovered 961
    In Hospital = 1 (-1)
    Tests 66,292 (+528)

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  3. Via politicalwire.com

    New CNBC/Change Research polls in six key battleground states:

    Arizona: Biden 51%, Trump 44%
    Florida: Biden 50%, Trump 45%
    Michigan: Biden 48%, Trump 43%
    North Carolina: Biden 51%, Trump 44%
    Pennsylvania: Biden 50%, Trump 44%
    Wisconsin: Biden 51%, Trump 43%

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  4. One-minute breath test for COVID-19 [Click] Very interesting if true. Probably won’t immediately undergo regular FDA approval process, but expedited procedure for an emergency use authorization.

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    1. I have only a vague recollection of it; the Motown Sound came along after my musically formative years and didn't make any significant impression on me.

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    2. Ah, Martha and the Vandelas, great song! I like Motown, especially The Supremes. They were just a touch before my time; though the Motown sound continued through the '70s.

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    3. How about The Chordettes? And Memphis Minnie! Not to mention Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf?

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    4. Note: There is a cafe in Burlington VT called Muddy Waters.

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  6. OHIO: As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 52,865 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 2,876 deaths, and 7,911 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  7. In re Tammy Duckworth, I looked up some of her interviews and speeches on YouTube last night. I think many, in fact most, civilians would be taken aback by her marked assertiveness, but I have encountered it before in women who were formerly military officers. It is a protective adaptation.

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  8. Stars Aren’t Supposed to Go Out Like This [Click] “When a massive star went missing, astronomers expected to find a supernova in its place. But there wasn’t one.”

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  9. How the Black Death make the rich richer (among other things) [Click] [Pet peeve of mine: the tendency to overlook the underlying industrial, financial, and mercantile progress of the Middle Ages that laid the foundation for the societies of the Renaissance and modern times.]

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    1. Agreed. The Middle Ages was, first, a long and rather ill defined period and, second, a wonderfully vibrant and diverse one.

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    2. The first banks, corporations, stock markets, and letters of credit. The first factories, labor unions, guilds, mechanical clocks (to regulate working hours). Continual increases in the exploitation of available sources of energy--horses, wood, coal, wind, water. Improvements in architecture, hydraulics, philosophy, agriculture, etc. European medicine was barbaric until roughly the Renaissance. The legend of the Renaissance that was made up by the social elite ignored things they were too good to dirty their hands with--like all those rubbish inventions of that bastard da Vinci fellow, who couldn't even carry on a discussion in Latin or Greek.

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  10. Record cash floods Democrats, Black groups amid protests and pandemic [Click] “ActBlue, the online donation processor favored by Democrats and many left-leaning groups, smashed its monthly fundraising record in June.” I suppose I will send a little more love to one or two candidates this month. I haven’t seen any recent polling on the Georgia US Senate special election.

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