This year's candles will be a little more of a challenge since the church(es) didn't have many in-house services this year, so very few candles were used.
But that's okay. I probably have enough to pull it off anyway! We'll see. Looking at pinks to red, blues to green and some sort of yellow. Stay tuned!
Alan, the iPhone has some filter options, but even so you might try taking an ordinary photo and seeing what can be done after the fact, in the edit function. There are some pretty sophisticated options these days.
"One of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 is asking a federal court to let her leave the country so she can make the most of a Mexican vacation she booked prior to the insurrection. In a court filing on Monday, Jenny Cudd’s attorneys said their client ”planned and prepaid for a weekend retreat with her employees” in Riviera Maya, Mexico, later this month and would like to attend. Cudd, the owner of a Midland, Texas, flower shop, told the court that the trip is “a work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses.”
Jenny Cudd is the one who posted a video bragging about breaking down the door to Nancy Pelosi's office. DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE TWO WORKING BRAIN CELLS? I cannot believe the outsize level of entitlement.
Positivity rate up to 2.1% (got down as low as 1.9% yesterday. It's a 7 day average. Death rate holding at 1.4% Recovered rate jumped up2 points to 70.4%!! Testing seems a strange number. Posting was very delayed today.
Country living! I just called a total stranger and asked them to plow my road! (At Nancy's suggestion--they plowed out today, and are going to town to shop tomorrow, but won't deliver unless my road is plowed.)
1) It sounded to me like she was planning to host a superspreader event south of the border.
2) The traditional method of dealing with such a situation was to require a hostage. Or hostages. Posting a bond would be the American way, I suppose. Any word about that?
I just read a really fine article about viruses in the current issue of the National Geographic Magazine. The discovery and investigation of giant viruses seems to have clarified how viruses arose, and the degree to which they have melded with cellular life is remarkable--far more than we knew before the days of inexpensive gene sequencing.
The Senate passsed the Democrats’ budget resolution, 50 to 49, paving the way to pass President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief package using reconciliation.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) was absent so Vice President Kamala Harris did not need to break the tie.
Nevada Jockeys to Be First on Primary Calendar [Click] A primary would work for me, but Nevada uses caucuses. I wonder if the Iowa Dems ever figured out how to count their votes this past year?
Reading that two other Capitol Police officers lay in state at the Rotunda, I looked up the 1998 United States Capitol shooting. [Click] The perpetrator was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and remains in a mental institution. It occurs to me that this could be a useful precedent for dealing with many, perhaps most, of the Capitol rioters. I suppose a few of them might make a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Always love the candle making pic!
ReplyDeleteThanks, puddle! ❤️
DeleteThis year's candles will be a little more of a challenge since the church(es) didn't have many in-house services this year, so very few candles were used.
But that's okay. I probably have enough to pull it off anyway! We'll see. Looking at pinks to red, blues to green and some sort of yellow. Stay tuned!
Heather Cox Richardson's post tonight:
ReplyDeletehttps://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2021?r=a0zry&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Notes on the last thread. (I finally caught up!)
ReplyDeleteSome notes commented on.
DeleteAlan, the iPhone has some filter options, but even so you might try taking an ordinary photo and seeing what can be done after the fact, in the edit function. There are some pretty sophisticated options these days.
DeleteThat's rather difficult without an iPhone. . .
Deletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/capitol-rioter-jenny-cudd-asks-court-to-let-her-vacation-in-mexico
ReplyDelete"One of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 is asking a federal court to let her leave the country so she can make the most of a Mexican vacation she booked prior to the insurrection. In a court filing on Monday, Jenny Cudd’s attorneys said their client ”planned and prepaid for a weekend retreat with her employees” in Riviera Maya, Mexico, later this month and would like to attend. Cudd, the owner of a Midland, Texas, flower shop, told the court that the trip is “a work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses.”
Jenny Cudd is the one who posted a video bragging about breaking down the door to Nancy Pelosi's office. DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE TWO WORKING BRAIN CELLS? I cannot believe the outsize level of entitlement.
DeleteThe Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists. We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism. [Click] Oh, boy. . .
Scary indeed, Alan. Urp-worthy.
DeleteMy suspicion is that rather than being linked through something like the Aryan Brotherhood, they are probably linked through Facebook.
DeleteThe Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells [Click] “Side effects [if they occur] are just a sign that protection is kicking in as it should.” If they don’t occur, the immune system is still at work.
ReplyDeleteThis is one time when having a low-normal immune system may be a benefit.
DeleteI feel concerned for Daughter who has an over-active immune system.
To paraphrase (I think) the column, having coronavirus is a million times worse than having the side effects.
DeleteVT cases: 12,196-12,083=113
ReplyDelete3439 active cases
176 deaths (+1)
Recovered 8581 (70.4%)
Hospital 54(-6) ICU:12(+6)
Tests 305,785 (+136)
Positivity rate up to 2.1% (got down as low as 1.9% yesterday. It's a 7 day average.
Death rate holding at 1.4%
Recovered rate jumped up2 points to 70.4%!!
Testing seems a strange number.
Posting was very delayed today.
COVID; CASES 902,736 and 11,336 deaths
ReplyDelete1.2557%
DeleteCountry living! I just called a total stranger and asked them to plow my road! (At Nancy's suggestion--they plowed out today, and are going to town to shop tomorrow, but won't deliver unless my road is plowed.)
ReplyDeleteOMG! The judge gave that cow permission to go to Mexico! McConnell destroyed our court.
ReplyDelete1) It sounded to me like she was planning to host a superspreader event south of the border.
Delete2) The traditional method of dealing with such a situation was to require a hostage. Or hostages. Posting a bond would be the American way, I suppose. Any word about that?
How Democrats won the Senate in Georgia [Click] Or rather, how the Republicans threw it away. (Note: the effect was strongest where DT held rallies.)
ReplyDeleteI just read a really fine article about viruses in the current issue of the National Geographic Magazine. The discovery and investigation of giant viruses seems to have clarified how viruses arose, and the degree to which they have melded with cellular life is remarkable--far more than we knew before the days of inexpensive gene sequencing.
ReplyDeleteWell, that didn't take long!
ReplyDeleteThe Senate passsed the Democrats’ budget resolution, 50 to 49, paving the way to pass President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief package using reconciliation.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) was absent so Vice President Kamala Harris did not need to break the tie.
Nevada Jockeys to Be First on Primary Calendar [Click] A primary would work for me, but Nevada uses caucuses. I wonder if the Iowa Dems ever figured out how to count their votes this past year?
ReplyDeleteA bill has been introduced in the Nevada legislature to change from caucus to primary.
DeleteSecretary of Defense dismisses all political appointees on Pentagon advisory boards. [Click] That way he avoided selectively ousting Trump appointees. Sounds very level-headed to me.
ReplyDeleteBiden pays respects to Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick as he lies in honor at Rotunda [Click] Sicknick's cremated remains will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
ReplyDeleteReading that two other Capitol Police officers lay in state at the Rotunda, I looked up the 1998 United States Capitol shooting. [Click] The perpetrator was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and remains in a mental institution. It occurs to me that this could be a useful precedent for dealing with many, perhaps most, of the Capitol rioters. I suppose a few of them might make a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.