Veteran's Day
May any war we have to undertake
be for the right reasons,
that our soldiers not sacrifice in vain.
be for the right reasons,
that our soldiers not sacrifice in vain.
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Democrats Optimistic About Holding Senate
ReplyDeleteNovember 10, 2022 at 10:47 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“Democrats grew increasingly optimistic on Thursday that they would hold on to their control of the Senate as votes were counted in Arizona and Nevada, after chalking up vital victories in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and watching the race in Georgia head to a runoff election in December,” the New York Times reports.
Exodus continues at Twitter as Elon Musk hints at possible bankruptcy [Click] “Departures of top figures handling safety, security, privacy and compliance come amid warnings from Federal Trade Commission.” A shoemaker should stick to his last. Kind of an interesting way to throw away 44 billion dollars, but they say it's a free country.
ReplyDeleteCurrency is a figment of the imagination whose value depends entirely on trust. If the people who use it are not trustworthy, then their money is worth nothing.
DeleteI only learned the other day that Musk is nothing but a money man who got his start with PayPal, an organization that soon revealed itself as predatory, facilitating online purchases in order to get people's financial data.
Now this data harvesting has expanded to all sorts of spurious entities, including many masquerading as political players, collecting information to sell. So, for example, when a charitable seeks your support out of the blue, it is likely they have bought your information from the successors to direct mail advertising.
If you have not actively joined, do not respond because doing so will validate the authenticity of your address.
Reports that the Russian defenses on the right bank of the Dnieper River (including Kherson City) have collapsed; Russian troops in panic, abandoning their equipment and attempting to flee. Ukrainians establishing bridgeheads and carrying out sabotage operations on the south side of the river, etc. [Click] The fog of war is very thick, but the situation has become, shall we say, very interesting. . .
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian: Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukrainian troops reach centre of Kherson city, footage shows, as Russian forces retreat [Click] “Reports of wounded Russian soldiers being abandoned during retreat as Ukrainian flag raised in centre of Kherson.”
DeleteBBC: Live: Celebrations in Kherson as Ukraine recaptures key city [Click]
DeleteThis may be the year when both Putin and DT find out how weak they really are.
DeleteBTW, the reason DT didn't announce his 2024 run by now is that his daughter Tiffany's wedding is this Sunday...at Mara-Lago ... which Hurricane Nicole threatened over the last few days. He's had a rotten week.
I note that Mr. Putin has not appeared in public in the past couple of days, but several of his officials have been saying that the withdrawal of the Russian army from Kherson is going according to plan. Which reminds me that everything Inspector Clousau does is carefully planned. [Click] Which reminds me of Mark Twain’s account of an encounter he had in Virginia City: “Firmly thrusting my nose between his teeth, I threw him to the ground on top of me.” How much longer before Mr. Putin suffers an unfortunate slip on a balcony? Probably before Mr. Former Guy moves into the Presidential suite at Attica or Leavenworth.
DeleteVeterans and scientists fulfill ‘no man left behind,’ returning long-lost American remains from lonely Pacific WWII battlefield
ReplyDeleteSpace Shuttle Challenger remnants discovered underwater by documentary crew
The Documentary being filmed at the time is a six-part series “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters” which premieres at 10 p.m. ET on November 22 on the History Channel.
I thought it was rather odd that the article about Tarawa remains didn’t mention dog tags, so I looked a little farther and found the 2013 New York Times Magazine story. [Click] Indeed, they do find dog tags.
Delete“By [itself, the island held little value to the Japanese or the American government. They were situated about halfway between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines and were barely large enough to hold an airfield. But they served as an essential steppingstone across the Pacific: If American bombers wanted to reach Japan, they would need an air base in the Mariana Islands; to capture the Marianas, they would first need the Marshall Islands; and for the Marshalls, they needed Tarawa. To fortify the atoll, the Japanese sent in 3,800 imperial troops, along with 1,200 enslaved Korean laborers to be thrust onto the front lines. They spent a year building concrete bunkers and planting massive cannons along the beaches. The leader of the Japanese garrison, Rear Adm. Keiji Shibazaki, predicted that it would take “one million men, 100 years” to seize the islands.”
Lessons learned at Tarawa. [Click] It seems that the US ability to learn lessons from encounters exceeded that of Japan’s military.
DeleteSENATE RACES:
ReplyDelete🌟 NEVADA 🌟
Laxalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49.0% . . . . 450,534 . . . . 8,988 ahead
Cortez Masto Incumbent . 48.0% . . . . 441,546
None of these candidates 1.2%
Est. vote in: 88%
Updated 12:23 a.m. ET, Nov. 11
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
🌟 ARIZONA 🌟
Kelly Incumbent . . . . .51.7% . . . . 1,059,387 . . . . 115,037 ahead
Masters . . . . . . . . . . . 46.1% . . . . . 944,350
Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1% . . . . . 43,542
Est. vote in: 8 0%
Updated 11:21 p.m. ET, Nov. 10
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🌟 GEORGIA 🌟
Warnock Incumbent . . . . 49.6%. . . . . .1,948,422 . . . . 48,744 ahead
Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.3% . . . . . 1,899,678
Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1% . . . . . 81,187
Est. vote in: 99%
Updated 3:35 p.m. ET, Nov. 10
Interesting that MASTO is now just 1% (8,988 votes) behind with 12% left to count! 🤞
DeleteFingers crossed. . .
DeleteThat last update in Arizona was actually quite small numbers that didn't change anything. But the update in Nevada showed significant gains for Cortez Masto.
DeleteI'll be hading for windycon in a couple of hours. This may be the last you hear from me until sunday evening.
Traveling Mercies, Bill!
DeleteMan repatriates 19 antiquities after reading Guardian article [Click]”John Gomperts returned ancient objects worth up to £80,000 he had inherited from his grandmother.”
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Holmes asks for a lenient 18-month sentence at home [Click] “The judge should not view Theranos as "a house of cards," but as the "ambitious, inventive, and indisputably valuable enterprise it was," [her attorneys] wrote. I can certainly accept that it was ambitious and inventive, but “valuable” it certainly was not. I wonder where all the money went—Wikipedia is not helpful in that regard.
ReplyDeleteHeard today on Vermont Public that Gov. Phil Scott won re-election in Vermont by 46%.
ReplyDeleteThe highest margin ever in Vermont, though, was 51%, back in 1992 when Howard Dean won re-election.
Mind you, back in the 60's the Republicans typically won easily with a 40% margin.
Howard really helped shift that dynamic.
Jake Broe daily Ukraine update [Click] Includes an address to the American people from President Zelensky on the occasion of Veterans Day. Pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI've been looking for good updates on the US election results, but no luck so far.
ReplyDeleteOne commentator has likened a narrow GOP majority in the House to a poisoned chalice for the Speaker-to-be because of probable trouble-making by the "Freedom Caucus."
DeleteI hope for a Democratic Senate majority of 51 or 52, to neutralize Joe Manchin.
DeleteCNN just called Arizona for Democrat Senator Mark Kelly!
ReplyDeleteI can accept that!
DeleteNEVADA is going well. MASTO was behind by more than 9000 votes earlier today. Currently she is down by only 821 votes. It's going in the right direction and looks good.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed! Going the way it was predicted; the biggest tranche of votes left to be counted was from the Las Vegas area, which votes Democratic as a rule.
DeleteHOUSE COUNT now 203 DEMS / 211 REPUBS
ReplyDeleteAdrian Fontes wins highly contested secretary of state in Arizona [Click] The former Marine beat Mark Finchem, an ex-member of Oath Keepers militia who was at the Capitol on January 6th.
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