An Adult at the Helm
"I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy."
~ President Joe Biden, 6 January 2022
For Hannah (and all) from Alan:
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For Hannah (and all) from Alan:
Screenshot 215 shows how to post a clickable link with title and comment.
Sorry if folks were trying to access this page, but there was no Title to click on!
ReplyDeleteAlan in CA1/07/2022 11:49:00 AM
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January 7th (new thread not yet linked, so posting here)
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A few notes via politicalwire.com and politico.com re Biden’s speech yesterday:
Bill Kristol: “I’m cheered up by all the Republicans complaining Biden’s speech was partisan and conservatives whining it was divisive. They must be worried the speech was effective. And that it suggests an effective model going forward.”
Susan Glasser: “It was a powerful speech, an angry speech. A necessary speech. It was also a speech that Biden wanted very much not to deliver. Because doing so meant acknowledging that, although Trump may be out of office, Trump and Trumpism have not been banished but live on as the dominating, unpleasant reality of American political life, a year after his appalling refusal to accept the election results should have exiled him forevermore from the public space.”
Laurence Tribe: “Equal to anything that JFK did or anything that Obama did.”
Jim Clyburn: “The president demonstrated today that we are going to be more forceful going forward than we have been in the past. This speech today could very well be the turning point in what I think is going to be a big surprise for a lot of people come November. . . What they are doing is proper; it remains to be seen as to whether or not it's adequate. . . If they continue that into not just Georgia, but Florida, go to Texas, go to North Carolina, go to these places where people think they have free rein [to restrict access to the ballot] . . I think that we'll see an excited base.”
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How This Covid Wave Is Different [From Washington Post]:
“The number of Americans hospitalized with covid-19 reached more than 126,000 this week — the highest level in a year. But this wave of the pandemic looks different from what came before, with dueling variants on the move. This time, a majority of patients counted as covid cases in some hospitals were initially admitted for other reasons, their covid infections discovered incidentally.”
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Cartoon re Jan. 6th & GOP [Click]
Cartoon clickable:
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That cartoon says it.
DeleteAlan in CA1/07/2022 12:16:00 PM
ReplyDeleteNASA will provide live coverage and host a media briefing Saturday, Jan. 8, for the conclusion of the James Webb Space Telescope’s major spacecraft deployments.
Beginning no earlier than 9 a.m. EST, NASA will air live coverage of the final hours of Webb’s major deployments. After the live broadcast concludes, at approximately 1:30 p.m., NASA will hold a media briefing. Both the broadcast and media briefing will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
Thanks for the great info as ALWAYS, Alan!! I have brought over to this page what you had to post on the previous thread. I thought there was a second way to open a thread, but I think that's only after someone has posted and one can click on the number of posts to open the thread.
ReplyDeleteThank you, listener. I noticed the updated thread and was getting ready to move my contributions over here, but you saved me the trouble.
DeleteAHA! There is a second way to open the thread! On computer: click on the time stamp!
DeleteIt's on smart phone that one can click on the number of posts.
Aha! indeed.
DeleteThe Right Has Its Own American Crisis [Click] “Trump-friendly voters are expressing concern about a crisis that simply doesn’t exist.” This does sound very bad.
ReplyDeleteCloudy here today, but warmer and no prospect of rain. Predicted clear weather for the next nine days at least.
ReplyDeleteCOVID-19 death toll hits grim milestone in California’s Central [San Joaquin] Valley. Here’s the latest. [Click] The map showing the greatest number of deaths in Fresno County parallels the populations of the various counties.
ReplyDeleteOur local insurrectionists news; only two?
ReplyDeleteIt’s been a year since two men from the Fresno region were among hundreds of people arrested on allegations of taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Their cases are still pending, and the two men still face multiple charges for their alleged involvement.
Benjamin Martin, a 43-year-old real estate agent and anti-mask advocate, is charged with suspicion of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in the Capitol building; parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol building; obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder; and obstructing or impeding an official proceeding.
He’s also facing additional weapons charges related to guns that were found in a Madera home where he was living with his fiance and his two children. Martin is not allowed to possess any guns as part of his probation for a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. Martin declined to comment on his case and his Fresno attorney Roger Nuttall could not be reached for comment.
Federal authorities connected Martin to the violent event after receiving information from a tipster. On Martin’s Facebook page, he shared two videos that appear to be footage outside of the door on the north side of the Capitol. The second video appeared to be taken shortly after the first video ended. Court documents allege Martin appears to be holding the door open.
Ricky Christopher Willden, 39, of Oakhurst, a self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys, was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and acts of physical violence in the Capitol building or grounds, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Willden, who could not be reached for comment, is seen on video near the east door of the Capitol at 2:24 p.m. (according to time stamps in one of the videos) wearing a dark jacket, beanie cap and gloves, and cheering as the doors to the Capitol opened. A few minutes later, Willden can be seen raising his hand and spraying an unknown substance from a green can toward police officers who were standing guard at the east door, federal investigators said.
Martin and Willden’s cases are being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Martin is scheduled to appear for a status conference on Feb. 2 and remains out of custody. Willden’s next court appearance is Feb. 17 for a status conference and is also out of custody. All court proceedings will take place in Washington, D.C.
Sidney Poitier: Hollywood trailblazer dies aged 94 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59907931
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUEW6VG2-s&t=96s
ReplyDeleteHey, I just watched it; pretty good.
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ReplyDelete“By the way, the stock market — the last guy’s measure of everything — is about 20% higher than it was when my predecessor was there. It has hit record after record after record on my watch.”
— President Biden, quoted by Politico.
Hannah--thanks for the link; here it is clickified and titled:
ReplyDeleteStephen Colbert: Biden Takes The Gloves Off, Tears Into The Former President For Inciting Jan. 6th Riot [Click]
For some reason this computer doesn't want to let me reply directly to your post.
Thank you. Alan. I do not know how to post links.
DeleteHannah, here's how to post a link:
Delete<.a href.=Link>Link.OR.Title<./a.>
Use that formula but leave out all the . marks
Alan uses Titles instead of posting the Link twice. I post the Link twice instead of typing the Title because if I take time to type a Title Blogger usually throws my post out before I finish. Just pasting in the Link twice is MUCH faster and I can best Blogger. LOL.
Hannah--I just sent listener a picture showing how I do it; I don't know how to post an image here. Trying to type instructions so they would be comprehensible and permitted by the Internet gods was an abject failure.
DeleteYou can see I have a bunch of general purpose links stacked up and ready to go in a text file. I save the ones I post until the end of the day (more or less) in case Blogger eats them.
DeleteIt's now posted out front. Hope it helps! 😊
Deletehttps://politicalwire.com/2022/01/07/qanon-star-who-said-only-idiots-get-vax-is-dead/ [Click]
ReplyDeleteThree white men sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery [Click]
The [previous] Time We Had an Insurrectionist President [Click]
Jan. 6th Changed How the World Sees the United States [Click] “A shining city on a hill no more.”
Americans Just Move On Without Covid Tests [Click] Well, there really isn’t much choice involved.
Mom who took her child into Capitol during riot gets prison [Click]
Where Things Stand: Some News Amid The Commemorations And Noise [Click] Notably news from the House Jan. 6th committee.
Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble [Click] “Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge.” It looks to me like the hospital workers who are accustomed to having every holiday, every weekend, every evening, and every night off are beginning to learn what the people regularly working those undesirable shifts have had to endure even during “good” times.
Well, we had years of hospital closures because people were going to emergency rooms when they were just sick and could be treated in a clinic. Even I was surprised to discover that a skin cancer removal is considered an "ellective," because it will not kill you right away.
DeleteSo, then these institutions that had been rationing care got surprised by a pandemic they could not handle because all redundancy had been removed from the system. It is the same problem that is defined as a kinked supply chain. "Just in time" is simply not able to cope with the vagaries of nature.
Whom shall we blame? Economists.
"the hospital workers who are accustomed to having every holiday, every weekend, every evening, and every night off"
DeleteAnd who might they be? Even my DIL who is a maternity nurse only gets any given holiday off every other year. I don't know any who get them all off.
Management comes to mind. HR. Accounting. That's enough for now.
DeleteWe have one 2-pack at-home Covid test kit and are saving it for a time when we get scary symptoms. Meanwhile, we aren't going anywhere. Late last night we went grocery shopping for a month. We will start with the fresh items and move on to canned before venturing out again. That's that. Anything we forgot will have to be purchased online and sent directly to the house. We might, at some point, consider a "curbside" run. Not sure. Aside from that, we'll allow Root*Center*Son into the house or go there, since he lives alone, and works from home, and he has a month's worth of groceries too. So far, so good.
DeleteIt sucks that we can't go see Maine*Grandson for his birthday (first one we've missed!). But we'll save that trip for after the new truck arrives, and give him a special ride (assuming the case numbers are past peak). That's how we're coping with the crazy surge.
I don't think of paper pushers as hospital workers. Nope. They're just Admin.
DeleteRather than economists, I should blame managers who try to wring every penny out of operations and don't think far enough ahead. Rainy days are bound to come. In hospitals, when the change was made to compensation based on admitting diagnosis rather than services provided, most hospitals in the US discontinued training programs that they had used to assure themselves of a supply of technical workers--nurses, medical technologists, X-ray technicians, respiratory therapists etc. etc. All of a sudden they saw those training programs as cost centers rather than revenue centers, and they panicked. In the event, many well-run hospitals made more money with DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) billing than with fee for service.
DeleteMAGA Audit Fans Turn on Cyber Ninjas After Court Ruling [Click] Pass the popcorn!
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