48: Just Hangin'
ROMEO & JULIET have fledged!
These two were inseparable. They often shared a leaf as caterpillars. They made their chrysalises side by side on the same day, Romeo first, then Juliet. Last evening they hatched 20 minutes apart, Juliet first. Today they fledged just 4 minutes apart, Juliet, followed by Romeo, who flew right up and over the house! May they fare better than their Shakespearean counterparts.
Has anyone tried turning 2020 off,
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then plugging it back in?
Not here, yet.
DeleteI think the year got hung in “black screen of death” mode. I think the remedy is to swap out the current Administration.
DeleteI remember seeing the old IBM/Microsoft Blue Screen of Death; never heard the Mac Chimes of Doom, though. I wonder if it might be on YouTube. OK, gotta check.
DeleteOK, here they are! [Click] Not very impressive, IMO.
DeleteOh, you say that. It's also easy to laugh at the blue screen of death...until it happens to you and all, I mean ALL your files evaporate into the ether, never to be seen again, or the computer becomes completely, unreviveably dead. You won't be laughing then!
DeleteAh, blue screen of death no problem. I have a son with IT skills for that. It's the black screen of death that puts fear into my heart.
DeleteI was able to recover from the Blue Screen of Death on the few occasions it struck on my IBM OS/2 computer. How, I don't recall; that was a long time ago. I have been remiss in installing backup discs for my present computers; it seems intimidating.
Deletehttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/just-a-firehose-of-lying-trumps-town-hall-widely-roasted-as-a-train-wreck
ReplyDelete"Besides somehow blaming his Democratic rival Joe Biden for not enacting a national mask mandate, Trump spent the town hall claiming that a “herd mentality” would stop COVID-19 (he was presumably referring to the herd immunity method, which health experts have largely rejected as a solution to the pandemic), falsely denying that he wasn’t trying to kill preexisting conditions protections in the Affordable Care Act, and bragging about endorsements from the police when asked about systemic racism in the criminal justice system."
"Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker warned that the spectacle ought to be a major red flag for the GOP ahead of Trump’s first debate with Biden.
“To be perfectly frank, that performance tonight by the President at the ABC town hall should send shudders and shockwaves through the Republican Party,” Rucker said during an appearance on MSNBC. “The first debate is 14 days away, two Tuesdays from now, and this is a president who’s clearly not ready for that debate.”
Sounds about right, it does. I doubt there are many people who haven't yet made up their minds, but maybe such performances could suppress Republican turnout.
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DeleteI’m betting Biden is prepping well.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t fumble it too much.
But if DT is falling on his face at the same time, it’ll all work out.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oregon-fred-girod-house-wildfires-climate-change-b448017.html
ReplyDeleteI can't help but feel a healthy dose of schadenfreude. When a Republican has to suffer some of what they were wishing on everyone else it is Karma at its finest.
Oh, and if you didn't click on the article this guy was one of the 11 who walked out and stopped a vote on climate change. Now his house burned down.
ReplyDeleteI'd bet a fiver his house wasn't built or maintained to the government's published standard for urban-forest interface construction.
DeletePoetic justice, though no doubt he doesn't see it that way. Anyone wanna bet he'll turn up on the news shows whining and blaming The Democrats?
DeleteI wouldn't bet against it; after all, they haven't been raking the forests.
DeleteAfter November, Georgia will be the center of the political universe [Click] “The state, potentially holding two Senate elections in January, may determine which party controls the upper chamber in the next Congress.” There hasn’t been any public polling in either of the Georgia senate races for a month.
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DeleteVisibility about a mile (my estimate), just looking, it could be a mix of fog and smoke; AQI = 158 ["unhealthy"]. Air still, slight (well, not strong) smell of smoke.
ReplyDeleteSmelling the smoke is worse than having a dim day. You can turn on lights. But lungs need oxygen.
DeleteIt is now (10:45) far too warm for there to be any fog, and the visibility hasn't changed; I can barely see the bank on the other side of the river, and nothing beyond that. So the haze is surely smoke. Not a breath of wind.
DeleteWhy Isn’t Trump Trying to Win? [Click] “All he has to do is announce his intention to sign a second major economic relief bill—a CARES Act II, essentially—and count on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to muddle through.”
ReplyDeleteAnd here he is (on Twitter, natch): [Click] Democrats are “heartless”. They don’t want to give STIMULUS PAYMENTS to people who desperately need the money, and whose fault it was NOT that the plague came in from China. Go for the much higher numbers, Republicans, it all comes back to the USA anyway (one way or another!). Well, the much higher numbers would so far be the House bill. . .
DeleteHe can make any grand gesture he wants...he still ain’t getting my vote.
It is interesting that he seems to be losing his nerve, though. Schumer and Pelosi should have fun tightening the screws on Moscow Mitch.
DeleteVT: 1702*
ReplyDelete58deaths (49days)
114 active cases
Recovered:1530 (+6)
In Hospital 3 (+1)
Tests 152,064 (+472)
* -1 +1 (They must have discounted one case yesterday because the total hasn’t changed but they say +1 case.)
Check the front page again. I added a Butterfly update!
ReplyDeleteThese are butterflies #12 and #13. ONE more chrysalis to go.
It's absolutely insane that the West Coast is in such dire need of rain while the Gulf of Mexico is being deluged with up to 35 inches of rain from Hurricane Sally. I can't even wrap my mind around it...neither the immensity of the fires or the quantity of the rain.
ReplyDeletehttps://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/slow-moving-hurricane-sally-gives-coastal-alabama-prolonged-winds-and-storm-surge/
A canal from back east to California would be awfully expensive.
DeleteHey, place it along the border with Mexico and everybody would be happy! 😆
DeleteGreat kitty photo!
ReplyDeleteI knew you’d like that! 😸
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DeleteCongressional investigation report on 737 Max rips Boeing and FAA. [Click]
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ReplyDeleteJohn Crace: Johnson is tested on Covid and Brexit, his specialist subjects of ignorance [Click] Good Lord. I am reminded of a British play I saw a long time ago where a fellow’s sweetie (or sister?) inquires where he is and Colonel So-and-So answers that “If you give a good man a pistol and one bullet, he knows what to do.” I expect that the hint would be as lost on Boris as on Donald.
My copy came today of RAGE by Bob Woodward. And do you know what?
ReplyDeleteThe cover shows a photo of part of DT's face (ugh) and the word RAGE in red.
But! That's just the slipcover. When you take off the slipcover...
...the book is BLUE! LOL! I love that!!
I had to take the cover off Mary Trump's book too! The LAST thing I want to see is trump's ugly hateful pouting face!
DeleteOHIO: As of Wednesday afternoon, there have been at least 140,518 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,555 deaths, and 14,560 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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DeleteJust reading that when they make the next Star Trek movie is *won't* have Kirk in it. Just killed *all* my interest in seeing it!
ReplyDeleteFunny, Kirk is the one character that I could never stand, because of his sexist approach to, well, everything. I never watched the show when it was showing new episodes, but Wil did. He enjoyed it, but I never ever got into that show. What horrible backdrops, eh? LOL! I liked some of the Next Generation. But, as with most shows, the first year or two is usually better than what comes after the writers change.
DeleteBut, Susan, I salute you for enduring the original Star Trek. You're a better man than I am Gunga Din!
Well, the *original* Kirk was definitely a screen hog and an egomaniac, but I'm talking about Chris Pine as current Kirk. The main draw of both the movies and the series was always the interplay between the main characters, Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu and Chekov.
DeleteHow can there be Star Trek without Capt. Kirk? That doesn't compute.
DeleteToday the National Mail Handlers Union endorsed Joe Biden for President.
ReplyDeleteWe received our California voter pamphlet today, with all the official information on the twelve propositions for this general election. Many were easy, several were hard to figure out. The League of Women Voters was the biggest help. The California Nurses Association and the LA Times helped out on one each. The county clerks' offices start sending out the real ballots on October 5th, so I suppose the sample ballots will go out a week or two before that. The sample ballots will have the statements of the candidates who choose to submit same.
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