Friday, March 03, 2023

Comfy Kitty

The Susan Book Quilt gets a lot of use!

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    1. Maybe he will pay more attention to the warnings in future. . .
      ---Alan

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  2. Three weeks until Spring. . . . .

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  3. (Susan) I am the rare person who is not in love with Spring. Spring means yard-work, which I hate. Bugs, which I also hate. Spring is also the preview of the fires of Summer, which I hate even more. I don't like any outdoor temperature over 72 degrees, I burn to a crisp quickly and all the people come outside and walk around, ugh. Summer is like a prolonged trailer for the Fires of Hell. I will eagerly await Fall, which is my most favorite season.

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    Bill: Bill: Wikipedia article for Barbara Lee [Click]

    listener: It varies considerably from one place to another, but most people who are called to report for jury duty don't even get called for questioning ["voir dire"], much less get selected for a jury. Hereabouts if one is called, shows up, and isn't selected for a jury on that day, his or her obligation is satisfied for the year (or maybe several years--I don't remember. I have never managed to get on a jury. As a frequent witness, I observed that in capital cases things are generally so calm that one would think it was a jay-walking case--- nothing like a Perry Mason case on TV [dating myself]. I think the reason is that the judge and attorneys want to do everything humanly possible to avoid laying legitimate grounds for an appeal.

    ----Alan

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    1. Thanks for the link, Alan. Lee sounds really good. I notice that she is currently 76. That means she will be 82 or 83 and the end of her first term -- about the age I started to lose my energy. This suggests she might be a one-term Senator -- although a number have held on much longer -- but I have no problem with that.

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    2. listener: to reinforce what Alan said, I have been called for jury duty three times. (Technically five, but the first time I got a hardship excuse because it would disrupt my graduate research and the last time I intended to request a postponement but instead requested a permanent excuse because I was over 70). Of the three times I reported in, I was called to the panel twice but was never actually on the jury. For the civil trial it was obvious they knew in advance which four of the 12 they had called they wanted on the jury. On the thrid occasion the case we had been called for was settled just before the trial was to begin.

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    3. It is not unusual for the attorneys to quickly work things out when they hear a jury is on the way.
      ---Alan

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  5. North Carolina Republicans Reach Deal on Medicaid [Click] This is actually a rather interesting solution! Since the governor is a Democrat, presumably it won’t be vetoed.
    —Alan

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    1. {listener}

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      Let me guess before looking: fundy not-really-Christians who believe that vaccines implant a tracking device?

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    2. {listener}

      Okay, I looked.
      Not as out-there as I imagined (but far enough). Basically Methodist, but highly conservative Methodist.

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    3. Methodist-Holiness. Personally, I can sympathize with the Holiness Church. The name of our nearby Holiness Church is very fine: "Souls Harbor Holiness Church."
      ---Alan

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  7. Kandinsky painting stolen by Nazis fetches record £37.2m at auction [Click] London sale comes after owners’ descendants reunited with work found in Dutch museum
    —Alan

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  8. Trump’s Prosecution Primary Has Already Begun. It’s Going to Be Wild. [Click] “Trump’s legal threats are moving faster than the political calendar.” Works for me.
    —Alan

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  9. Attorney Ben Crump Says His Team Has Obtained ‘Consequential New Evidence’ Related To Malcolm X’s Death [Click] This sounds like it could be VERY interesting. I didn’t know that he is also handling the Henrietta Lacks case.
    —Alan

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  10. Anton Petrov: Where Are All The Alien Robots? Hart-Tipler Conjecture and What It Gets Wrong [Click]
    ---Alan
    I more and more wonder if the combined geologic peculiarities of Earth that seem to be related to our development of life might be incredibly rare. Galactic habitable zone, Goldilocks zone, large nearby moon, plate tectonics, etc.---Alan

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    1. IMHO, the molecular complexity of anything that can be called life would in itself make it rare.

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    2. If they find signs of ancient life on Mars, then we must wonder if one world seeded the other--unless they find actual life, with nucleic acids significantly different from those on earth.
      ---Alan

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  11. Waterspout photographed in Northern California [Click] Not far from where I was born; I remember going there with my family to pick mushrooms.
    ——Alan

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    1. {listener}

      Are waterspouts unusual there?

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    2. Indeed they are.
      ---Alan

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