Monday, February 01, 2021

Welcome February



34 comments:

  1. https://www.nationalmemo.com/miller-disarmed-national-guard

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    1. We know them for what they are because of the fascist who put them in their position. I hope they suffer for the damage they've done.

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  2. The Republican Party is dead. After four decades of spreading dread, they were undone by a bug.

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  3. Are you ready for more snow? I pruned the grape vine the other day in hopes of getting more fruit.

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  4. Check out The end of civilization is we know it. Subway did a live stream for February in 2019.

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  5. Discovery of stars sheds new light on dark matter and galactic cannibalism [Click] “Nine more stars found in Tucana II, revealing galaxy to be larger than previously thought”

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  6. Beautiful day here today; blue sky, clouds have largely disappeared, and the breeze is actually very slightly warm. This is the first time since autumn that I have perspired during our morning walk. I see it has warmed way up in Regina; currently 18F, recently down around sixty below zero.

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    1. Beautiful day here too. Bright sun on inches and inches of new-fallen snow.

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    2. It's getting close to sundown here, and the view of the snowy mountains is really fine.

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    3. Oh, I wish you'd all send me photos!!

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    4. Oh, I am sure one needs a special filter--whether infrared or polarized I don't recall. And I don't have one on either of my modern cameras. There ought to be one in the newspaper--I will look.

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    5. Are you sure? The iPhone camera has some filter options, or you could adjust some of the settings after the fact, in the edit function.

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    1. They're only just now noticing?

      So where are all these leavers going? Are they swelling the ranks of the Independents or is some organizational principle appearing?

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    2. I gather that some are registering as independents, some are quitting the GOP, some are allowing their registrations to expire.

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    1. puddle's Gov may have saved the day with that declaration. It gives Manchin a face saving way forward, and reconciliation with Biden.

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    2. My thought exactly. Governors and US senators must be elected by all the voters in a state. In a few states, their single US Representative is of equal political stature.

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  9. OHIO; COVID cases 899,079 and 11,230 deaths,

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  10. VT cases: 12,083-11,965=118
    3640 active cases
    175 deaths (+1)
    Recovered 8268 (68.4%)
    Hospital 60(-3) ICU:6(+1)

    Positivity rate holding at 2%
    Death rate down to 1.4%
    Tests 305,649 (+1938)

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  11. In the week from Jan. 6 through Jan. 12, about 4,600 Republicans changed their party status in Colorado, according to a CPR News analysis.

    There was no comparable effect with any other party.

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    1. We keep hoping!! But so far no snow coming down. First it was going to start at 4:00pm, then 7:00pm, then 1:00pm. Oh well. On the radar it looks imminent. It'll snow all day tomorrow and we'll get something like 4-10" of snow atop what's already on the ground. We got something like 15" in January, but I think it's down to about 8" now. So even 4" will get us back up to a foot. A foot of snow is pretty nearly perfect!

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  13. The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability [Click] “Somehow the coronavirus is rampaging through a city that was supposedly immune.”

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  14. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fees-not-just-strategy-blew-020144132.html

    Disagreements over legal strategy weren't the only reason Donald Trump's defense team collapsed just days before his second impeachment trial, Axios has learned.

    What we're hearing: The notoriously stingy former president and his lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, wrangled over compensation during a series of tense phone calls, sources familiar with their conversations said. The argument came even though Trump has raised over $170 million from the public that could be used on his legal defenses.


    The two initially agreed Bowers would be paid $250,000 for his individual services, a figure that "delighted" Trump, one of the sources said.

    However, Trump didn't realize Bowers hadn't included additional expenses — including more lawyers, researchers and other legal fees that would be accrued on the job.

    He was said to be livid when Bowers came back to him with a total budget of $3 million. Trump called the South Carolina attorney and eventually negotiated him down to $1 million. In the end, the money dispute added to frustrations Bowers and the other lawyers felt about whether the former president's claims of election fraud should be central to their arguments.

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    1. Gee, didn't they know he never pays his contractors?

      I think it's just desserts.

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  15. Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat [Click] “The 27-page report pins Trump's loss on [White] voter perception that he was untrustworthy and disapproval of his pandemic performance.”

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    1. Yah, I sad to Wil, "It's a pretty bad day when McConnell is the one who's making sense.

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