This morning (yesterday morning to youse as is reading this) they said there was four feet of fresh snow at a resort up in the mountains east of here, elevation 7,000 feet.
Susan B. Glasser: “Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again? [Click] Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours. He has not insulted anyone, as far as I’m aware. He has not played golf instead of working, or held late-night counselling sessions with cable-television anchors, or caused a rupture in our relationship with Australia [or Grand Fenwick]. He had a friendly call with Angela Merkel, and a stern one with Vladimir Putin. He went to church on Sunday, and stopped for bagels in Georgetown. His tweets have been sparse and so anodyne that a writer for the Washington Post compared them to the sayings that come inside fortune cookies. He has returned policy wonks and message discipline to the White House. Technocrats are in; Rudy Giuliani is out.” But various things are going to happen; we just don’t know which various things.
I know, Alan. Every day I marvel: Everything is just so damned normal! There are daily press briefings at which the Press Secretary gives actual information, like, as in facts. And she doesn't insult or humiliate members of the press corps. There's a regular, Monday, Wednesday and Friday Covid press briefing, where they actually talk about the science of Covid. My understanding is the State Department is going to go back to regular press briefings. It's almost as though the admin. wants the public to know what's going on. Mind blowing!
A few hints of how things are going in the Republican Party (headlines only, from various sources):
Gaetz Slams Cheney In Her Home State Embracing Trump While He Tears Apart the GOP GOP Ignored Its Early Fears About Greene Trump Targets Liz Cheney Kristi Noem Won’t Say If Biden Won Fairly Bill Would Allow Arizona Lawmakers to Override Vote Trump may poison the party, but Republicans have decided they need him Some Red States Welcome Increased Federal Role In Biden Vaccine Rollout McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring After Briefly Acknowledging Ex-POTUS’s Role In Insurrection
About time to lance it, after thirty years. I have several things like that, too, though I expect I will carry some to the grave with me. Some things are better not passed down. But check out my next two posts!
Stretch of I-80 closes amid heavy Sierra snow, spinouts [Click] Gee, that’s the mail road going east over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento. [Note: “Avalanche control” means with war surplus field artillery. As memory serves me they ran out of shells for their WWI guns several years back, and had to modernize with WWII equipment.]
Cat, thanks for your explanation of the html method of editing. Unfortunately, I am definitely not left brained enough for that! I hope Blogger will fix it, or I will have to begin every edit from scratch.
Renee solved it! There's a drop down menu at the upper left corner where one can choose html view or compose view! Apparently it was somehow left at html view. I need compose view and now all is restored! Hurrah!!
Listener, you can toggle between "HTML View" and "Compose View" in the Blogger post editor.
You know how there's the line where you type the post's title and below that there's a box where you put the body of the post? Across the top of that box is a sort of toolbar, right? It contains things like "Insert Image", so I know you've seen it.
Well, at the extreme left end of that toolbar is a control that, if you click it, pops up a context menu with two items on it: Compose View and HTML View. The one you are currently in is checked.
Here's what to do. Go to the draft post I just created called "Mask Up." It's a test post that you can play with. The way I left it, I see the photo - presumably you'll see the photo too. If you don't, just click the control at the extreme left end of the toolbar and select whichever menu choice is not checked and the IMG tag will disappear and the photo will appear.
In the Anglican Communion that's known as "bishop's purple" as it's the very colour of the clergy shirts worn by bishops. And I have to say, almost no one looks good in that colour. LOL!
I don't know; could be. It looks like the river has come up some. Checked the Fresno Bee--they say nearly two inches. Which is a pretty fair amount here. I can see some snow in the mountains, which is our most important reservoir.
They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.
Well, isn't that sort of the point? Give a rich man a dollar and he'll save it. Give a poor man a dollar and he'll spend it, thereby boosting the economy. At the moment, the economy needs a boost.
And that's not even mentioning that the minimum wage has not risen since 2009.
The federal minimum wage was last raised on July 24, 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour, the last step of a three-step increase approved by Congress in 2007. Before 2007, the minimum wage had been stuck at $5.15 per hour for 10 years.
In my view the minimum wage, like Social Security, should get an automatic cost of living adjustment periodically. And, yes, despite the protests of Republicans, it should currently be $15 per hour.
Back in the mid-1960's the official minimum wage was $1.25/hr, which would equal about $10/hr today. The real minimum wage was $1.00/hr, which would be equal to $7.75 today. Working 12 hrs per day driving an ice cream truck, I could clear $12, doing that 6 days a week yielded the equivalent of $700/week today, or $18 per hour for 40 hrs per week. Only one benefit: daily cash draw. A couple could get by on that. It was common for summertime ice cream truck drivers to drive taxis during the winter. Quite a few people worked their way through college working half time at minimum wage during the school year, then full time or more during the summer. No government guaranteed student loans in those days, so nobody graduated in debt. At the junior colleges and state colleges, anyway; universities were another matter, either private or public. And not many college students had automobiles.
Wonderful wombat story. A good friend of mine, Australian, as a boy, he and his brother were in the front yard, and a wombat wondered by. His brother dashed into the house, grabbed his mother's stainless steel bread bowl, and came out and threw it over the wombat. It started to move, so his brother stood on top of it. And still it moved. Warwick said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen! Eventually, he brother stepped down, the wombat dispensed with the bowl, and walked on off into the sunset so to speak.
But I had no idea that they had cubed poop. which is almost as funny, lol!
Ohio Businessman Expected to Run for Senate [Click] Good God, Susan—is this the best the Ohio GOP can do for a US Senate candidate? A wealthy car dealer who has never run for, let alone been elected, so much as dog catcher?
At least he seems to be a new car dealer--but in that case he must take trade-ins, and sell them used. The Dems should be hard at work finding someone to whom he sold a lemon. A trying to find someone named Taft to run against him in the primary.
This morning (yesterday morning to youse as is reading this) they said there was four feet of fresh snow at a resort up in the mountains east of here, elevation 7,000 feet.
ReplyDeleteOh, and they said there had been a foot of snow at the top of the Grapevine the day before.
DeleteThat explains a few things (about the traffic issues)!
DeleteSusan B. Glasser: “Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again? [Click] Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours. He has not insulted anyone, as far as I’m aware. He has not played golf instead of working, or held late-night counselling sessions with cable-television anchors, or caused a rupture in our relationship with Australia [or Grand Fenwick]. He had a friendly call with Angela Merkel, and a stern one with Vladimir Putin. He went to church on Sunday, and stopped for bagels in Georgetown. His tweets have been sparse and so anodyne that a writer for the Washington Post compared them to the sayings that come inside fortune cookies. He has returned policy wonks and message discipline to the White House. Technocrats are in; Rudy Giuliani is out.” But various things are going to happen; we just don’t know which various things.
ReplyDeleteIt is so good to have adults in charge again. Yet there is a cruel and dangerous mob of fools yet to be contended with. I hope we come through this, America.
Deletehttps://eand.co/this-is-how-you-recover-from-fascism-and-americas-not-doing-any-of-it-73ce0b79bd4c
I know, Alan. Every day I marvel: Everything is just so damned normal! There are daily press briefings at which the Press Secretary gives actual information, like, as in facts. And she doesn't insult or humiliate members of the press corps. There's a regular, Monday, Wednesday and Friday Covid press briefing, where they actually talk about the science of Covid. My understanding is the State Department is going to go back to regular press briefings. It's almost as though the admin. wants the public to know what's going on. Mind blowing!
DeleteWhere may one watch the press and Covid briefings? Does anyone carry these live?
DeleteOh! Never mind. I googled it and it's everywhere. SOOOOO Cool!
DeleteWe saw the first one live, and want more!! wOOt!!
I get my fix on CNN, but I believe MSNBC carries them too.
DeleteA few hints of how things are going in the Republican Party (headlines only, from various sources):
ReplyDeleteGaetz Slams Cheney In Her Home State
Embracing Trump While He Tears Apart the GOP
GOP Ignored Its Early Fears About Greene
Trump Targets Liz Cheney
Kristi Noem Won’t Say If Biden Won Fairly
Bill Would Allow Arizona Lawmakers to Override Vote
Trump may poison the party, but Republicans have decided they need him
Some Red States Welcome Increased Federal Role In Biden Vaccine Rollout
McCarthy Kisses Trump’s Ring After Briefly Acknowledging Ex-POTUS’s Role In Insurrection
WHERE are the decent, moderate Republicans...both in DC and in the constituency?
DeleteProbably on their way to forming a new political party. Like the decent, moderate Whigs.
DeleteThanks for the comment on my rant, Alan. I guess I needed that to be heard after30 years, lol!
ReplyDeleteAbout time to lance it, after thirty years. I have several things like that, too, though I expect I will carry some to the grave with me. Some things are better not passed down. But check out my next two posts!
DeleteScientists solve the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo [Click]
ReplyDelete'A brilliant way to get humans to behave': the shelter where volunteers read to farm animals [Click]
ReplyDeleteStretch of I-80 closes amid heavy Sierra snow, spinouts [Click] Gee, that’s the mail road going east over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento. [Note: “Avalanche control” means with war surplus field artillery. As memory serves me they ran out of shells for their WWI guns several years back, and had to modernize with WWII equipment.]
ReplyDeletemail road = main road
DeleteI donno. Mail road made perfect sense to me.
DeleteCat, thanks for your explanation of the html method of editing. Unfortunately, I am definitely not left brained enough for that!
ReplyDeleteI hope Blogger will fix it, or I will have to begin every edit from scratch.
Renee solved it!
DeleteThere's a drop down menu at the upper left corner where one can choose html view or compose view!
Apparently it was somehow left at html view.
I need compose view and now all is restored! Hurrah!!
Listener, you can toggle between "HTML View" and "Compose View" in the Blogger post editor.
DeleteYou know how there's the line where you type the post's title and below that there's a box where you put the body of the post? Across the top of that box is a sort of toolbar, right? It contains things like "Insert Image", so I know you've seen it.
Well, at the extreme left end of that toolbar is a control that, if you click it, pops up a context menu with two items on it: Compose View and HTML View. The one you are currently in is checked.
Here's what to do. Go to the draft post I just created called "Mask Up." It's a test post that you can play with. The way I left it, I see the photo - presumably you'll see the photo too. If you don't, just click the control at the extreme left end of the toolbar and select whichever menu choice is not checked and the IMG tag will disappear and the photo will appear.
Oh. You knew that before I wrote my explanation. *sigh*
DeleteFirst sample ever found in the Levant of cloth dyed with Tyrian Purple—three thousand years old and still retains its color! [Click]
ReplyDeleteIn the Anglican Communion that's known as "bishop's purple" as it's the very colour of the clergy shirts worn by bishops. And I have to say, almost no one looks good in that colour. LOL!
DeleteWOW!
Delete‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy [Click] If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. . .
ReplyDeleteHere’s the book: American Kompromat [Click]
DeleteLooks like our rain is over for a few days.
ReplyDeleteHow much rain did you get? I heard it was hoped to be 1.5 inches. (The more the better, I'm sure!)
DeleteI don't know; could be. It looks like the river has come up some. Checked the Fresno Bee--they say nearly two inches. Which is a pretty fair amount here. I can see some snow in the mountains, which is our most important reservoir.
DeleteThe Counterintuitive Workings of the Minimum Wage [Click] Increasing it has been shown not to have any significant effect. Like Will Rogers pointed out, money trickles up:
ReplyDeleteThey [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.
Well, isn't that sort of the point? Give a rich man a dollar and he'll save it. Give a poor man a dollar and he'll spend it, thereby boosting the economy. At the moment, the economy needs a boost.
DeleteAnd that's not even mentioning that the minimum wage has not risen since 2009.
The federal minimum wage was last raised on July 24, 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour, the last step of a three-step increase approved by Congress in 2007. Before 2007, the minimum wage had been stuck at $5.15 per hour for 10 years.
In my view the minimum wage, like Social Security, should get an automatic cost of living adjustment periodically. And, yes, despite the protests of Republicans, it should currently be $15 per hour.
Back in the mid-1960's the official minimum wage was $1.25/hr, which would equal about $10/hr today. The real minimum wage was $1.00/hr, which would be equal to $7.75 today. Working 12 hrs per day driving an ice cream truck, I could clear $12, doing that 6 days a week yielded the equivalent of $700/week today, or $18 per hour for 40 hrs per week. Only one benefit: daily cash draw. A couple could get by on that. It was common for summertime ice cream truck drivers to drive taxis during the winter. Quite a few people worked their way through college working half time at minimum wage during the school year, then full time or more during the summer. No government guaranteed student loans in those days, so nobody graduated in debt. At the junior colleges and state colleges, anyway; universities were another matter, either private or public. And not many college students had automobiles.
DeleteCoronavirus update: Fresno County has fewest new cases of any day this year [Click] Well, that’s something.
ReplyDeleteWonderful wombat story. A good friend of mine, Australian, as a boy, he and his brother were in the front yard, and a wombat wondered by. His brother dashed into the house, grabbed his mother's stainless steel bread bowl, and came out and threw it over the wombat. It started to move, so his brother stood on top of it. And still it moved. Warwick said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen! Eventually, he brother stepped down, the wombat dispensed with the bowl, and walked on off into the sunset so to speak.
ReplyDeleteBut I had no idea that they had cubed poop. which is almost as funny, lol!
Biden, Democrats prepare to move beyond efforts to woo Republicans [Click]
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ReplyDeleteOhio Businessman Expected to Run for Senate [Click] Good God, Susan—is this the best the Ohio GOP can do for a US Senate candidate? A wealthy car dealer who has never run for, let alone been elected, so much as dog catcher?
At least he seems to be a new car dealer--but in that case he must take trade-ins, and sell them used. The Dems should be hard at work finding someone to whom he sold a lemon. A trying to find someone named Taft to run against him in the primary.
DeleteA trying = And trying
DeleteUS spent $200 million sending 8,722 ventilators around the world and can't find many now, watchdog finds. [Click] Government can work SO much more efficiently if it is run as a business—and by a great businessman.
ReplyDeleteAs the various inspectors general get back to work, I expect a lot more such waste to be discovered.
House Democrats Building Elaborate, Emotionally Charged Case Against Trump [Click] Yep, rub the Republicans’ noses in it. For years and years.
ReplyDeletePalm Beach reviewing Trump's residency at Mar-a-Lago [Click]
ReplyDeleteOfficer who died after D.C. riot to lie in honor in Capitol [Click]
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