One of the main purposes of the pretense that the POTUS sets policy and is responsible for everything is that Congress can just fall to posturing and yammering. Congress has become a dumping ground for business leaders that the local elite does not want around. "Up and out." How else to explain a Jim Jordan?
Jim Jordan is easily explained by the illegal gerrymandering of Ohio Republiguns. Maps which the Courts have rejected something like four times (I think). Republicans refuse to create fair maps because they can't risk Democrats or Independents voting. So they have turned the State bright RED and Jim is a favorite of theirs because *all he does* is attack Democrats. I don't think he has produced any legislation, just screaming into and at cameras and microphones. He is a little banty rooster of a man and I hate his guts. He is just useless and he makes Ohio look bad.
(Alan) Having been through such events, it never fails to warm the cockles of my heart to see the "hotshot" managers get it and the little people they lorded it over do all right or even do better.
I figure that as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is in the same league as Thomas “Czar” Reed and Sam Rayburn; there may be others farther back in time, but I am unfamiliar with them.
Ecuador gangs: Gunmen storm hospital in attempt to kill teen [Click] The county hospital where I worked took security seriously, and routinely took measures to deal with exactly this sort of event. Of course when the Board of Supervisors essentially gave the hospital away to a big private hospital security was one of the first things to be cut back. —Alan
listener— followup for grandson: Patagotitan: Colossal dinosaur heading for UK display [Click] Two notes: 1) the story fails to point out that the fossil is not an adult; and 2) there is a list of other very large sauropods including one I had not previously heard of: Dreadnaughtosaurous! --Alan
Whoo hoo! Gramie appreciates having a new dinosaur to present to Grandson! (Something tells me he already knows EVERYTHING about it, though. He would still enjoy hearing an adult bring up the subject and have some awareness of a species he's fascinated with. Cred for Gramie. LOL.)
Reuters: U.S. weighs sending 100-mile strike weapon to Ukraine [Click] “The Pentagon is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with [relatively] cheap, small precision bombs fitted onto abundantly available rockets, allowing Kyiv to strike far behind Russian lines as the West struggles to meet demand for more arms.” ---Alan
That would give the Ukrainians enough range to cover all of occupied Ukraine except for the southernmost parts of Crimea, which will probably be within range soon enough. --Alan
As an 86-tear-old who, afater two boosters, got a quite mild case of Covid-19, I find myself wondering about the correlation between age, vaccinationi status, and general health.
I suspect that general health is a major factor. Some people are in good health in their nineties; others start going downhill so early that one wonders how they have mistreated their bodies. I suspect that in many of the latter cases it is familial hyperlipidemia--the proportions seem approximately right. I had a co-worker whose family had such a hyperlipidemia--diet could not control their high cholesterol levels; the men started having strokes and heart attacks in their early 40's; the women in their early 60's. All they could do was make sure their affairs were in order and and the kids understood (that was before statins). I remember reading about one small Italian village where a many people have very high cholesterol levels with no adverse effects; it seems there was a protective gene that was brought to the village by an identifiable ancestor hundreds of years ago.
One of the main purposes of the pretense that the POTUS sets policy and is responsible for everything is that Congress can just fall to posturing and yammering. Congress has become a dumping ground for business leaders that the local elite does not want around.
ReplyDelete"Up and out." How else to explain a Jim Jordan?
Jim Jordan is easily explained by the illegal gerrymandering of Ohio Republiguns. Maps which the Courts have rejected something like four times (I think). Republicans refuse to create fair maps because they can't risk Democrats or Independents voting. So they have turned the State bright RED and Jim is a favorite of theirs because *all he does* is attack Democrats. I don't think he has produced any legislation, just screaming into and at cameras and microphones. He is a little banty rooster of a man and I hate his guts. He is just useless and he makes Ohio look bad.
DeleteAlexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss? [Click] “Amazon, which went on a hiring spree during the pandemic, is now, like all the big tech outfits, shedding jobs on an industrial scale . . .”
ReplyDeleteTwitter Grapples with Chinese Spam [Click]
Don’t like Musk? Work for us! Tech firms woo ex-Twitter staff [Click]
---Alan
{listener}
DeleteSo good to see that the folks Musk laid off might do okay after all.
(Alan) Having been through such events, it never fails to warm the cockles of my heart to see the "hotshot" managers get it and the little people they lorded it over do all right or even do better.
Delete[Musk’s] Twitter failed to detect upload of Christchurch mosque terror attack videos [Click]
Delete--Alan
I figure that as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is in the same league as Thomas “Czar” Reed and Sam Rayburn; there may be others farther back in time, but I am unfamiliar with them.
ReplyDelete^^^ [Alan]
DeleteEcuador gangs: Gunmen storm hospital in attempt to kill teen [Click] The county hospital where I worked took security seriously, and routinely took measures to deal with exactly this sort of event. Of course when the Board of Supervisors essentially gave the hospital away to a big private hospital security was one of the first things to be cut back.
ReplyDelete—Alan
Saint Malo: The first Asian settlement in the US [Click] I had been unaware of it, but it makes perfect sense.
ReplyDelete---Alan
Very nice story. Thank you.
DeleteMy pleasure.
Delete---Alan
listener— followup for grandson:
ReplyDeletePatagotitan: Colossal dinosaur heading for UK display [Click] Two notes: 1) the story fails to point out that the fossil is not an adult; and 2) there is a list of other very large sauropods including one I had not previously heard of: Dreadnaughtosaurous!
--Alan
Whoo hoo! Gramie appreciates having a new dinosaur to present to Grandson! (Something tells me he already knows EVERYTHING about it, though. He would still enjoy hearing an adult bring up the subject and have some awareness of a species he's fascinated with. Cred for Gramie. LOL.)
DeleteOperation Desert Light: Europol take down massive cocaine 'super cartel' [Click]
ReplyDelete--Alan
'We Remain Human': Bodies Of Russian Troops Collected To Exchange For Dead Ukrainians [Click]
ReplyDeletePutin’s Army is surrendering en masse to the Ukrainian side to save themselves [Click]
Light in dark: Ukrainian “points of invincibility” [portable shelters] save people from winter in coldness and blackness [Click]
--Alan
---Alan
ReplyDeleteReuters: U.S. weighs sending 100-mile strike weapon to Ukraine [Click] “The Pentagon is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with [relatively] cheap, small precision bombs fitted onto abundantly available rockets, allowing Kyiv to strike far behind Russian lines as the West struggles to meet demand for more arms.”
ReplyDelete---Alan
That would give the Ukrainians enough range to cover all of occupied Ukraine except for the southernmost parts of Crimea, which will probably be within range soon enough.
Delete--Alan
The release os such particulars suggests to me that the end is nigh.
DeleteToday, nearly 9 in 10 covid deaths are in people 65 or older — the highest rate ever.” [Click] At the risk of sounding heartless, I understand that Trump voters are more common in that age range.
ReplyDelete---Alan
As an 86-tear-old who, afater two boosters, got a quite mild case of Covid-19, I find myself wondering about the correlation between age, vaccinationi status, and general health.
DeleteI suspect that general health is a major factor. Some people are in good health in their nineties; others start going downhill so early that one wonders how they have mistreated their bodies. I suspect that in many of the latter cases it is familial hyperlipidemia--the proportions seem approximately right. I had a co-worker whose family had such a hyperlipidemia--diet could not control their high cholesterol levels; the men started having strokes and heart attacks in their early 40's; the women in their early 60's. All they could do was make sure their affairs were in order and and the kids understood (that was before statins). I remember reading about one small Italian village where a many people have very high cholesterol levels with no adverse effects; it seems there was a protective gene that was brought to the village by an identifiable ancestor hundreds of years ago.
DeleteGeorgia Voters Break Sunday Record As They Settle Last Senate Race Of The Midterms [Click]
ReplyDeleteDevil Will Not Be Going Down To Georgia [Click]
----Alan