Friday, August 28, 2020

We Have a Dream...

57th Anniversary
March on Washington
1963 / 2020





28 comments:

  1. Air quality continues to improve here, high temperatures projected to be just below or just above 100F for the next ten days.

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    1. Glad your air quality is improving, but that's still too derned hot for me!

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    2. My thermostat seems to still be set for where I grew up, where the current temperature is 65F; but that's too cool for my better half. One learns to adjust; but air conditioning is damned close to a necessity hereabouts. In the oldest part of town you can still see the old (and generally converted) sleeping porches on houses here and there. Typically, when we have a hot day here, the night may be warm, but not cold. That is quite unlike Santa Rosa, in the northern SF Bay Area, where I lived off and on for six or seven years; it can get just as hot as Fresno on a summer day, but around sundown the temperature plunges as fog flows in from the coast and it turns downright cold. The nicest weather of any place I have ever lived was in
      Santa Cruz, on the coast south of San Francisco, at the north end of Monterey Bay; but there were remarkable variations in microclimates. The actual climate could change in a distance of two blocks.

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    3. This week in Chicago it has been mid-90s with humidity in the 40-50% range. That would have been typical summer weather where I grew up in Arkansas. But tomorrow's predicted high is 80F. Never happen in Arkansas.

      And I will comment that humidity makes a huge difference. I've attended a couple of conventions in Phoenix. The first was during a cool spell: temps in the mid-90s. Very pleasant. The other had highs in the 105-110 range. I mostly hugged the shade when I was outside (yes, shade also makes a difference, as I learned in Arkansas), but I was still up for strolling the better part of a mile to see what was to be seen.

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  2. VT: 1589 (+3)
    58 deaths (23days)
    144 active cases
    Recovered:1400(+4)
    In Hospital 3 (-1)
    Tests 126,755 (+1924)

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  3. OHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 120,124 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,105 deaths, and 13,221 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  4. 21 states sue White House over rollback of bedrock environmental law [Click] Once again they set themselves up to fail by ignoring the Administrative Procedures Act.

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  5. “But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate we want to get done.”

    — President Trump, in an interview with the New York Times, when asked about his second term agenda if re-elected.

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    1. Not to put too fine a point on it, Holy Shit!

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  6. Daily Show: “Sure, 180,000 Americans have died from coronavirus on Trump’s watch, but six years ago today, President Obama wore a tan suit.”

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  7. What’s with all the insider Trump books? [Click] The common thread is self-defense, basically. “That simple fact is more revealing than any leaked anecdote in any of these stories.”

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    1. Well, and I should imagine, cashing in on the market while it's hot. Were Trump to lose the election, the bottom would fall out. So maybe everyone rushing to publish reckons he's gonna lose?

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    2. That is a very reasonable motivating factor, Cat. Sometimes we try to make things more complicated than they likely are. Back to Occam's Razor!

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  8. I didn't watch either the DNC or the RNC (I never have, and see no reason to change now), but there seem to be more and more reports that the Dems put on a program far better suited to TV than did the Trumpets.

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    1. I figure that in a couple more weeks the reports of COVID-19 infections acquired at the RNC should start ticking up noticeably.

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    2. I Expect so. Howie said few people were wearing masks. I'd say 'unbelievable,' except what actually surprises me is that *anyone* was wearing a mask.

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  9. Senate Dems have developed plans for climate legislation so they can get to work immediately if they gain control. [Click] I suppose that means I should kick in for a marginal Senate campaign. Maybe for Warnock in Georgia.

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    1. I consider that good news as well. Other polls I've seen quoted make the race a dead heat. Wonder why such a big difference.

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    2. Maybe people started paying attention?

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