Monday, October 19, 2020

15: One More Grace Rose


 

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  1. Via politicalwire.com: Newsmax preempted their schedule to broadcast President Trump’s campaign rally in Nevada but apparently didn’t think it important to change the title of the original program: “The Life of Adolf Hitler.”

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    1. The Vermont Legislature made big (positive) changes to police power this year, and the Governor did not veto it.

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    2. By "positive" do you mean limiting or increasing police powers? Anything relevant to the deerjacking case?

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  3. Trump Puts Vulnerable Senators In Tough Spot [Click] It strikes me as analogous to the problems facing the Whig Party as its demise approached.

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  4. Perdue Chicken Falls Prey To Backlash Over Senator’s Racist Mocking Of Harris’s Name [Click]. . .AND. . .Perdue’s Mocking Of Harris’ Name Gives Dem Rival Ossoff A Big Fundraising Boost [Click] It occurs to me that Mr. Ossoff could get some more mileage out of this—tell his followers to join him in frying up a nice batch of Perdue chicken, for instance.

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    1. How about a bumper sticker: "Perdue for chicken, not for Senate"?

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    2. I like it.

      Hmmm... I can see the headline: Chickens flock to Harris.

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  5. Bolivia election: Evo Morales's leftwing party celebrates stunning comeback [Click] “Exit polls for presidential election project win for Luis Arce as rival concedes defeat.” Arce counsels patience, waiting for official tally.

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  6. OHIO; COVID cases, 183,624 and 5,075 deaths.

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  7. Here’s a theory (nor original with me) about why Trump is advertising so heavily in Georgia. Georgia is one of only four battleground states (Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota and Nevada) that processes absentee ballots upon receipt. (BTW, Trump has held rallies in each of those states during the past few days.) Trump can’t possibly win without Georgia; if he is in the lead in the early returns, that will look good for him, and give him a slight opening to claim vote fraud if the results then swing against him.

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  8. VT: 1946 (+9)
    Still 58 deaths (82 days)
    202 active cases
    Recovered 1696 (+7)
    In Hospital 0 ( 0)
    Tests 179,597 (+1137)

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  9. Lovely rose, Listener. I snitched it. One of these days I'll be changing my FB cover photo, currently the American flag, and my profile pic, currently the Peace Dove. Not that there's anything wrong with these, only it will be nice to go back to flowers and kitties. In fact, come to think of it, that Nasca line kitty would make a swell cover photo, don't you think?

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    1. "Worse than anything we have ever seen" sounds rather like an understatement. Quite possibly worse than anything in the history of the United States, I think.

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  11. Voter Confusion Rattles Pennsylvania Elections Officials [Click] Why in Heaven’s name do so many people delay registration and voting until the last minute?

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  12. What If Trump Is All Too Eager to Give up Power? [Click] If my memory serves me well, that would be reminiscent of the Buchanan-Lincoln transition.

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    1. Along the same lines, David Frum in The Atlantic: What a lame-duck Trump could do. [Click] Pretty much a worst-case scenario. But I figure that the worse he does, the greater the compensatory range of action the incoming administration will have, and the deeper the Republican Party’s grave.

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  14. Debate Commission Adopts Rule to Mute Microphones [Click] That ought to get Donald wound up, don’t you think?

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    1. So, only one Presidential debate, I suppose.

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  15. More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” Politico reports. [Click] Well, I should think the Russians could do a lot better job than that—but on the other hand, consider the yahoos they would be aiming to manipulate. In view of the target, they could give the job to a fifteen year old kid.

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  16. The birth of a new language [Click] “In the 1980s, deaf children in Nicaragua invented a completely new sign language of their own. It was a remarkable achievement, which allowed experts a unique insight into how human communication develops.”

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  18. NYT: Charles Fried: I Was Reagan’s Solicitor General. Here’s What Biden Should Do With the Court. [Click] “Joe Biden should be open to enlarging the number of justices. But first, he should see if the conservative majority overplays its hand.”

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