Wednesday, April 12, 2023

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  1. Our cat who was off his food and otherwise appeared to be dying, has perked up. A couple of days ago he caught a bird, brought it into the house and was eating it--we literally caught him red-pawed. He has been eating more, and a greater variety, and I am informed that the odor of his breath has greatly improved. All very promising--except for the bird.
    ---Alan

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    1. So happy for the cat!! What a turn-around!
      Sad for the bird...probably had eggs or chicks somewhere.
      Ah, nature.

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    2. I hope Kitty continues to improve, though I also hope he doesn't make dining on our feathered friends a habit!

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  2. I had a girl cat once who was the world's best hunter. Found her staring at what was, by then, a dead horny toad with a look on her face that clearly said WHAT THE HELL IS *THIS*?

    puddle

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    1. What if some of the people got together and started a private library? Would they be drummed out of town?

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    2. Maybe they could go back in time to a cooperative private library rather than a public one. Just brainstorming.
      ---Alan

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    3. Oops--shoulda read the previous comment first.
      ---Alan

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    4. An old-fashioned paper system should be easy enough to set up, and not expensive. Maybe the public system could sell its used books and supplies to the cooperative for a dollar.

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  4. Taegan Goddard: GOP Boxed In [Click] Awwww…. Maybe it would help if TFG were in a long-stay hotel, of the iron bar variety? Or fled the country?
    —-Alan

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    1. Who would take him? Maybe N. Korea or Russia? Neither of them particularly salubrious spots.

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    2. My thoughts exactly. Pyongyang does have that spectacular-looking tourist hotel downtown that is rumored to not be completed inside.
      ---Alan

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  5. Politico: How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown [Click] “The Volunteer State was long defined by its unique culture. Then came toxic redistricting, poisoned social media, parties polarized on race and other pathologies.”
    —Alan

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  6. NYT story; link may or may not bypass paywall; let me know.
    With only days left before the trial starts, Fox News has been slow-walking and withholding discovery in the Dominion case; also not telling the judge the truth. [Click] The judge is not amused. “I need people to tell me the truth,” he said. “And by the way, omission is a lie.”
    —Alan

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    1. I was able to sign in with my Google account, avoiding the need to create a free NYT account that might have led to emails.

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    2. Thanks, Bill; I didn't know that could be done. I use a no longer available special purpose Mac browser.
      ----Alan

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    3. The next question is whether I can reset my Google account (which I also sign in with here) to read "W A" rather than "Bill". We'll see when I have a bit of time.

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  7. I have been catching up with the day's gnus. Mr. Trump (multiple cases) and Faux Gnus (two cases) are in all sorts of gnew gnus today. A person need a league table to keep track. I won't even attempt to describe the situations--you can read about them or see the news videos most anywhere.
    ----Alan

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    1. And Georgia is quiet. . . . today.
      ---Alan

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  8. Oh yes, I had forgotten about this one:

    “Federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have in recent weeks sought a wide range of documents related to fundraising after the 2020 election, seeking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims about voter fraud to raise money,” the Washington Post reports.

    “The fundraising prong of the investigation is focused on money raised during the period between Nov. 3, 2020, and the end of Trump’s time in office on Jan. 20, 2021, and prosecutors are said to be interested in whether anyone associated with the fundraising operation violated wire fraud laws which make it illegal to make false representations over email to swindle people out of money.”
    ----Alan

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