No. If you want to define dwarf planets as full planets, Ceres is the ninth and Pluto the tenth. I really do not understand this vicious prejudice against Ceres. Is it purely and simply sexist?
If it's any comfort, Ceres is so highly regarded in Vermont that she is the statue that graces the top of the Vermont Statehouse. She is known, you see, as the Goddess of Agriculture.
As memory serves me, the Romans also considere her the guardian of boundaries, such as those of fields and cities. Hence the marking of the original boundary of Rome by plowing a furrow.
I am not going to sign on to any service. However, the observation that Republicans seem to be on a suicide mission is sort of obvious. And there is a good reason for it. The inescapable turht is that four decades of Congressional manipulation of the currency resulted in almost universal depribation and reversing now would be an admission. Republicans are between a rock and a hard place. All they can count on is that the electorate is forgiving.
Swiped this bit from CNN: "A federal judge will allow the US House to access hundreds of pages of documents from Donald Trump's presidency leading up to and about the January 6 attack at the US Capitol, in a forceful rejection of Trump's recent attempts to control information from his White House. The ruling Tuesday night from Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court in DC is a blow to Trump's efforts to keep more than 700 pages of records from his White House secret -- though his legal team has informed the court it intends to appeal. "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President," she wrote."
Authoritarians are not reconciled to government by the people. They were content to have surrocages (plitical factions) hijack the electoral process. Since the unitary executive, a rotating dictatorship did not fly (Bush II's adventures in Iraq were reigned in), hijacking the electorate with the electoral college was a last-ditch effort. Government by the people will not be denied. Which means that the factions are toast.
Late last night, Trump tried to block the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from answering a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol for telephone records, visitor logs, and other documents.
But tonight, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected his suit, saying that the decision to exercise executive privilege resides with the office, not the people who have held that office in the past. Her decision was scorching. It quoted his tweets inciting the insurrection, took down his arguments one by one, and concluded: “Plaintiff does not acknowledge the deference owed to the incumbent President’s judgment…. His position that he may override the express will of the executive branch appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power ‘exists in perpetuity,’.... But Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.” She concluded: “The court…holds that Plaintiff’s assertion of privilege is outweighed by President Biden’s decision not to uphold the privilege.”
But she went further. Trump’s lawyers had tried to argue that the committee was simply on a fishing expedition and had no legitimate legislative reason to look into the insurrection. Judge Chutkan responded with an acknowledgement of just what Congress might want to consider in the wake of the insurrection. It might want to enact or amend criminal laws “to deter and punish violent conduct targeted at the institutions of democracy, enacting measures for future executive enforcement of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment against any Member of Congress or Officer of the United States who engaged in ‘insurrection or rebellion,’ or gave ‘aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,’” she wrote. Coming from a federal judge, this is a significant indictment of the actions of those leaders who engaged in the events of January 6.
Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed. A senior adviser to Trump responded that the former president is simply trying to “defend Executive Privilege for Presidents past, present & future,” and that “Trump remains committed to defending the Constitution & the Office of the Presidency, & will be seeing this process through.”
A household hint! Yestermorn I needed to disinfect a cloth item, and being in a hurry I just poured some straight PineSol into my washbasin, added the cloth, and poured on a bit more PineSol (usually I dilute it). When I removed and rinsed the item, I noticed that part of the discolored hard water deposits on the washbasin stopper had disappeared and the original fancy brass finish looked like new. I checked the PineSol label and saw that the current active ingredient is a weak (organic) acid--probably a bit stronger than vinegar. So last night I put a piece of cotton gauze on the stopper and poured on a bit more straight PineSol--more improvement this morning. I had not dared to either scrub away the hard water deposits or to use strong acid, and after 30 years it didn't look good. [Historical note: PineSol used to be made with pine oil, but when the old pine stumps from which that was produced ran out because of logging and turpentine production, they had to find a substitute for it.]
Abusers are people with low self-esteem. Perhaps they just do unto others what was done to them and their abusive behavior is a consequence of authoritarian parenting. On the other hand, narcissism may be based on a sensory deficit which results from a "difficult birth." What causes "difficult births"? Poor prenatal health care and the inherent conflict between big-boned and small-boned individuals. Keep in mind that while evolution is favoring increased cranial dimension, the dimensions of the pelvis are relatively fixed to accommodate bipedal locomotion.
Car firms and countries agree at Cop26 to end sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040 [Click] Notable by their absence: US, China, Germany, Volkswagen, Toyota and BMW. I expect those auto manufacturers will look more kindly on electric vehicle production as their unsold gasoline and diesel autos and trucks accumulate for lack of buyers, who flock to purchase electric vehicles. As for us, I doubt we will ever purchase a new auto; barring a serious crash, out current auto (2012 Toyota Camry hybrid with a little less than 40,000 miles on it, 33 mpg around town) should last longer than our ability to drive safely.
I'll bet his lawyers got a drama coach in to work with him on the fake "breakdown". The little A-hole is talking about the FIRST OF THREE PERSONS he shot. Out of state, too young to carry, assault rifle. No, he came to hunt humans. Too many signs point to them letting this little POS get off. He's a freaking MONSTER and his mother DROVE HIM THERE. She should have long ago been arrested as an accomplice. The USA Injustice system is making me crazy!
The U.S. justice system is the handmaiden of the culture of obedience. Instead of "good cop, bad cop," we have bad cops and crooks, whose mission is to insure compliance with uncomfortable directives. The culture of obedience aims for compliance. Much as good men benefit from rapists encouraging women to stay home. the crook does the cop's dirty work. It is an unholy alliance, this culture of obedience. Culture, it turns out, is inherently coercive and contrary to liberty. But the true nature of the culture of obedience is difficult to recognize because, as happens in rape, coercion is what turns virtue into vice.
"Kyle Rittenhouse's crocodile tears broke the internet Wednesday.
In a nauseatingly melodramatic performance he choked back snot as he appeared to sob about how he feared for his life the day he shot and killed two people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Defense attorney Mark Richards tried to paint Rittenhouse as a misunderstood honorable, patriotic Boy Scout who simply liked to shoot guns.
notes on previous thread
ReplyDeletePlanet 9 Update: It May Not Exist According to New Analysis [Click] Perhaps they could now restore Pluto to its rightful place as the ninth planet. .
ReplyDeleteNo. If you want to define dwarf planets as full planets, Ceres is the ninth and Pluto the tenth. I really do not understand this vicious prejudice against Ceres. Is it purely and simply sexist?
DeleteJust funnin'.
DeleteSorry. This is a bit of a sore spot with me.
DeleteIf it's any comfort, Ceres is so highly regarded in Vermont that she is the statue that graces the top of the Vermont Statehouse. She is known, you see, as the Goddess of Agriculture.
Deletehttps://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2018-11-30/ceres-statue-once-again-adorns-the-vermont-statehouses-golden-dome
As memory serves me, the Romans also considere her the guardian of boundaries, such as those of fields and cities. Hence the marking of the original boundary of Rome by plowing a furrow.
DeleteSorry, Bill--I have an emotional attachment to the planets as they were taught to us in grade school, long ago.
DeleteRecord number of new gravitational waves offers game-changing window into universe [Click] “Scientists say 35 novel discoveries included a pair of massive black holes 145 times as heavy as the sun orbiting each other”
ReplyDeleteHow cool is that?!!
DeleteDoJ to investigate Alabama’s sewage failures over possible discrimination [Click] “A 2017 study found hookworm parasite, transmitted via fecal matter, prevalent in of majority-Black Lowndes county.”
ReplyDeleteHeaven knows that hookworm can be bad, but strongyloides is worse. [Click] And one can reasonably expect other parasitic diseases to be common in the same areas.
Bloomberg opinion: Republican Dysfunction Sinks to a Weird New Low [Click] “Did you hear the joke about the GOP House members who want to punish colleagues for joining Mitch McConnell in support of the infrastructure bill? Oh, wait.”
ReplyDeleteI am not going to sign on to any service. However, the observation that Republicans seem to be on a suicide mission is sort of obvious. And there is a good reason for it. The inescapable turht is that four decades of Congressional manipulation of the currency resulted in almost universal depribation and reversing now would be an admission. Republicans are between a rock and a hard place. All they can count on is that the electorate is forgiving.
DeleteHuge Majority Says Facebook Is Hurting America [Click] Sounds like their chickens might be coming home to roost.
ReplyDeleteSwiped this bit from CNN: "A federal judge will allow the US House to access hundreds of pages of documents from Donald Trump's presidency leading up to and about the January 6 attack at the US Capitol, in a forceful rejection of Trump's recent attempts to control information from his White House.
ReplyDeleteThe ruling Tuesday night from Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court in DC is a blow to Trump's efforts to keep more than 700 pages of records from his White House secret -- though his legal team has informed the court it intends to appeal.
"Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President," she wrote."
Authoritarians are not reconciled to government by the people. They were content to have surrocages (plitical factions) hijack the electoral process. Since the unitary executive, a rotating dictatorship did not fly (Bush II's adventures in Iraq were reigned in), hijacking the electorate with the electoral college was a last-ditch effort. Government by the people will not be denied. Which means that the factions are toast.
DeleteHeather Cox Richardson wrote this last night:
DeleteLate last night, Trump tried to block the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from answering a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol for telephone records, visitor logs, and other documents.
But tonight, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected his suit, saying that the decision to exercise executive privilege resides with the office, not the people who have held that office in the past. Her decision was scorching. It quoted his tweets inciting the insurrection, took down his arguments one by one, and concluded: “Plaintiff does not acknowledge the deference owed to the incumbent President’s judgment…. His position that he may override the express will of the executive branch appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power ‘exists in perpetuity,’.... But Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.” She concluded: “The court…holds that Plaintiff’s assertion of privilege is outweighed by President Biden’s decision not to uphold the privilege.”
But she went further. Trump’s lawyers had tried to argue that the committee was simply on a fishing expedition and had no legitimate legislative reason to look into the insurrection. Judge Chutkan responded with an acknowledgement of just what Congress might want to consider in the wake of the insurrection. It might want to enact or amend criminal laws “to deter and punish violent conduct targeted at the institutions of democracy, enacting measures for future executive enforcement of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment against any Member of Congress or Officer of the United States who engaged in ‘insurrection or rebellion,’ or gave ‘aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,’” she wrote. Coming from a federal judge, this is a significant indictment of the actions of those leaders who engaged in the events of January 6.
Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed. A senior adviser to Trump responded that the former president is simply trying to “defend Executive Privilege for Presidents past, present & future,” and that “Trump remains committed to defending the Constitution & the Office of the Presidency, & will be seeing this process through.”
Then, tonight, the breaking news was this:
DeleteJudge rejects another Trump attempt to slow down documents from going to House January 6 committee
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/politics/trump-documents-january-6-committee-executive-privilege-case/index.html
Thanks; I rather like that story!
DeleteJohn Eastman And Colleagues Worked On 2020 Election Simulation That Is Drowning In Irony [Click] “. . .imagined it would be left-wingers, not Trump supporters, attempting to destabilize the country through violence.”
ReplyDeleteA household hint! Yestermorn I needed to disinfect a cloth item, and being in a hurry I just poured some straight PineSol into my washbasin, added the cloth, and poured on a bit more PineSol (usually I dilute it). When I removed and rinsed the item, I noticed that part of the discolored hard water deposits on the washbasin stopper had disappeared and the original fancy brass finish looked like new. I checked the PineSol label and saw that the current active ingredient is a weak (organic) acid--probably a bit stronger than vinegar. So last night I put a piece of cotton gauze on the stopper and poured on a bit more straight PineSol--more improvement this morning. I had not dared to either scrub away the hard water deposits or to use strong acid, and after 30 years it didn't look good. [Historical note: PineSol used to be made with pine oil, but when the old pine stumps from which that was produced ran out because of logging and turpentine production, they had to find a substitute for it.]
ReplyDeleteSpray and Wash or Shout have similar effect, I find.
DeleteNot news, but quite a compendium (particularly in the third link:
ReplyDeleteWhy do so many members of Trump’s inner circle and so many of his 2021/2022 endorsees have histories of spousal abuse, pulling guns on partners or accusations of strangulation? [Click]
Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Accused By Wife Of Abuse Ranted About ‘Woman Tyrants’ [Click]
Trump’s Circle Is Full Of Men Accused Of Threatening Behavior, Harassment, Violence [Click] Birds of a feather flock together.
Abusers are people with low self-esteem. Perhaps they just do unto others what was done to them and their abusive behavior is a consequence of authoritarian parenting. On the other hand, narcissism may be based on a sensory deficit which results from a "difficult birth." What causes "difficult births"? Poor prenatal health care and the inherent conflict between big-boned and small-boned individuals. Keep in mind that while evolution is favoring increased cranial dimension, the dimensions of the pelvis are relatively fixed to accommodate bipedal locomotion.
DeleteCar firms and countries agree at Cop26 to end sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040 [Click] Notable by their absence: US, China, Germany, Volkswagen, Toyota and BMW. I expect those auto manufacturers will look more kindly on electric vehicle production as their unsold gasoline and diesel autos and trucks accumulate for lack of buyers, who flock to purchase electric vehicles. As for us, I doubt we will ever purchase a new auto; barring a serious crash, out current auto (2012 Toyota Camry hybrid with a little less than 40,000 miles on it, 33 mpg around town) should last longer than our ability to drive safely.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/gma/kyle-rittenhouse-takes-witness-stand-161500650.html
ReplyDeleteI'll bet his lawyers got a drama coach in to work with him on the fake "breakdown". The little A-hole is talking about the FIRST OF THREE PERSONS he shot. Out of state, too young to carry, assault rifle. No, he came to hunt humans. Too many signs point to them letting this little POS get off. He's a freaking MONSTER and his mother DROVE HIM THERE. She should have long ago been arrested as an accomplice. The USA Injustice system is making me crazy!
The U.S. justice system is the handmaiden of the culture of obedience. Instead of "good cop, bad cop," we have bad cops and crooks, whose mission is to insure compliance with uncomfortable directives. The culture of obedience aims for compliance. Much as good men benefit from rapists encouraging women to stay home. the crook does the cop's dirty work. It is an unholy alliance, this culture of obedience. Culture, it turns out, is inherently coercive and contrary to liberty. But the true nature of the culture of obedience is difficult to recognize because, as happens in rape, coercion is what turns virtue into vice.
DeleteCoaching a witness is cause for a mistrial; it has been known to happen, but very few attorneys would take the risk.
DeleteThis writer had the same reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse's drama as I did.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-deserves-award-melodramatic-211958473.html
"Kyle Rittenhouse's crocodile tears broke the internet Wednesday.
In a nauseatingly melodramatic performance he choked back snot as he appeared to sob about how he feared for his life the day he shot and killed two people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Defense attorney Mark Richards tried to paint Rittenhouse as a misunderstood honorable, patriotic Boy Scout who simply liked to shoot guns.
Rittenhouse is anything but."