Visibility seems less today; I'd estimate a mile to at most a mile and a half. Cool, sky completely gray, very noticeable smell of smoke, and although it is turning yellow I can still look directly at the sun without discomfort (now 9AM).
A new Trump campaign Facebook ad touting his recent nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize actually misspells Nobel as “Noble.” (Aside: I am reminded of the Ig Nobel prize awarded for the paper on detection of brain activity in dead fish.)
President Trump threatened to “put … down very quickly” riots on election night should aggrieved Democrats take to the streets in the wake of his potential victory, Politico reports.
“State election officials in Michigan and Ohio said they’ve already received a record-breaking number of requests for absentee ballots.”
————————— Biden Dramatically Outspending Trump in Battlegrounds September 11, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
The Washington Post has some fascinating data on television ad spending in the key battleground states over the last two weeks: Florida: Biden $20.5 million, Trump $7.8 million Michigan: Biden $9.3 million, Trump $560,000 Pennsylvania: Biden $17.7 million, Trump $6.1 million Nate Silver: “In 2016, the Trump campaign did a much better job of allocating campaign resources to the right states. Their strategy this year is bizarre, conversely, spending to defend states like Georgia and Iowa while Biden outspends them in the tipping-point states.” ————————— Last Stand of the Baby Boomers September 11, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
The Economist: “2020 will be a year of the young in one more important respect. Electorally, it will be the last stand of the baby-boomers and the first poll in which voting will be dominated by generations younger than 40.” ———————————— “President Trump disembarked Air Force One on Thursday to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son, a song about children of influential families who were able to avoid the Vietnam War draft,” Business Insider reports. ——————————— Police Who Killed George Floyd Turn on Each Other September 11, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
Washington Post: “The four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing appear to be turning on each other, with each offering significantly different versions of the infamous arrest that acknowledge Floyd should not have been allowed to die that day but also deflect the blame to others.” —————————
OHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 135,326 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,403 deaths, and 14,236 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
I do not think the sky will clear today, no matter that the official weather prediction is that it will. The sun is nearly overhead and I can look straight at it with my eyes open. There is a cool breeze out of the west.
When I woke up this morning I had an unusual recollection of my pre-wakening dreams. I was dreaming of blue sky--that's understandable. I was dreaming of President Biden and his Democratic Congress passing several BIG bills: removing the cap on Social Security contributions (I even remembered his doughnut hole), expanded medical care, student debt cancellation and free public college. I was turning the latter two over and over because of the legislative difficulties; all understandable so far. Then a small white sheep was walking inside the fence from our front yard into the back. A woman came looking for the sheep and then I woke up. The sheep took a while to work out, but I am pretty sure it was the black and white cat (abandoned by the previous neighbors) that went away for a while and recently returned; the woman was the lady who was taking care of him for a while. I'm pretty sure she was the one who came looking for the sheep.
“A federal judge has ruled Thursday that Arizona voters who forget to sign their early ballots before mailing them get up to five days after the election to fix the problem,” the AP reports.
Well, I got the squirrel shower installed and adjusted, although it was more work than I anticipated; I hope they like it. The smoke thinned enough by early to mid afternoon to make gardening all right.
LA Times endorses Biden [Click]
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Visibility seems less today; I'd estimate a mile to at most a mile and a half. Cool, sky completely gray, very noticeable smell of smoke, and although it is turning yellow I can still look directly at the sun without discomfort (now 9AM).
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ReplyDeleteA new Trump campaign Facebook ad touting his recent nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize actually misspells Nobel as “Noble.” (Aside: I am reminded of the Ig Nobel prize awarded for the paper on detection of brain activity in dead fish.)
President Trump threatened to “put … down very quickly” riots on election night should aggrieved Democrats take to the streets in the wake of his potential victory, Politico reports.
“State election officials in Michigan and Ohio said they’ve already received a record-breaking number of requests for absentee ballots.”
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Biden Dramatically Outspending Trump in Battlegrounds
September 11, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
The Washington Post has some fascinating data on television ad spending in the key battleground states over the last two weeks:
Florida: Biden $20.5 million, Trump $7.8 million
Michigan: Biden $9.3 million, Trump $560,000
Pennsylvania: Biden $17.7 million, Trump $6.1 million
Nate Silver: “In 2016, the Trump campaign did a much better job of allocating campaign resources to the right states. Their strategy this year is bizarre, conversely, spending to defend states like Georgia and Iowa while Biden outspends them in the tipping-point states.”
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Last Stand of the Baby Boomers
September 11, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
The Economist: “2020 will be a year of the young in one more important respect. Electorally, it will be the last stand of the baby-boomers and the first poll in which voting will be dominated by generations younger than 40.”
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“President Trump disembarked Air Force One on Thursday to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son, a song about children of influential families who were able to avoid the Vietnam War draft,” Business Insider reports.
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Police Who Killed George Floyd Turn on Each Other
September 11, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
Washington Post: “The four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing appear to be turning on each other, with each offering significantly different versions of the infamous arrest that acknowledge Floyd should not have been allowed to die that day but also deflect the blame to others.”
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Our automatic on-demand squirrel shower has arrived; the actuator is right up to date-- solar-powered, no less.
ReplyDeleteEXCLUSIVE: Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program [Click]
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DeleteOHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 135,326 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,403 deaths, and 14,236 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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DeleteI do not think the sky will clear today, no matter that the official weather prediction is that it will. The sun is nearly overhead and I can look straight at it with my eyes open. There is a cool breeze out of the west.
ReplyDeleteWhen I woke up this morning I had an unusual recollection of my pre-wakening dreams. I was dreaming of blue sky--that's understandable. I was dreaming of President Biden and his Democratic Congress passing several BIG bills: removing the cap on Social Security contributions (I even remembered his doughnut hole), expanded medical care, student debt cancellation and free public college. I was turning the latter two over and over because of the legislative difficulties; all understandable so far. Then a small white sheep was walking inside the fence from our front yard into the back. A woman came looking for the sheep and then I woke up. The sheep took a while to work out, but I am pretty sure it was the black and white cat (abandoned by the previous neighbors) that went away for a while and recently returned; the woman was the lady who was taking care of him for a while. I'm pretty sure she was the one who came looking for the sheep.
Oh, I was dreaming of a stock market transaction tax, too.
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Court Says Florida Felons Must Pay Fines Before Voting [Click] Evidently the little matter of the state having no centralized system to let felons know how much they might owe was ignored.
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A new Citizen Data poll in Maine finds Sarah Gideon (D) leading Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 41%.
That augurs well, if true.
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Virus May Have Reached U.S. Earlier Than Thought [Click] Around mid-December?
“A federal judge has ruled Thursday that Arizona voters who forget to sign their early ballots before mailing them get up to five days after the election to fix the problem,” the AP reports.
Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse [Click] Why the orange sky looks gray.
Well, I got the squirrel shower installed and adjusted, although it was more work than I anticipated; I hope they like it. The smoke thinned enough by early to mid afternoon to make gardening all right.
ReplyDeleteWow—the whole Northwest seems to be getting bad smoke. [Click]
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DeleteCalifornia clears way for inmate firefighters to enter profession upon release [Click] About time.
ReplyDeleteNewsom endorses ‘split-roll’ [property tax] measure [Click] Also very long overdue IMO.
We get our voter's pamphlets and sample ballots toward the end of this month, and our real ballots in the first week of October.
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