{listener} Sunday is a blur. Explanation when I can.
Today (Monday) I’m getting the Shingrix vaccine. It’s the only time I’ve seen a list of side effects include “shivers”! Makes me wonder what I’m in for.
My arm is slightly sore, but less so than with the Covid Bivalent vaccine we had week before last. I feel slightly tired and a little "off" ~ a little lightheaded or not quite myself. But nothing terrible. I'm much relieved!
There are two illegitimate (not authorized by law) meddlers in the electoral process: political factions and the press. While the conventional interpretation of the Amendments, especially the First, is that they affirm rights, I read them to prohibit or exclude certain behaviors. In other words, both establishments of religion and the press were excluded from the people governing. Meanwhile, both have insinuated themselves via the legislative branches. A member of the press admitted the other day that the stories about Biden being too old are prompted by the fact that he gives almost no press conferences at which reporters can ask stupid questions. I suppose that was also the genesis of the stories in 2020 claiming that Biden was hiding in the basement.
Start from the fact that 2/3 of the Senate seats up for election this cycle are currently held by Democrats. It's going to be a challenge. But, aside from everything else, I can see the Republican presidential ticket dragging their Senate candidates down.
Happy International Workers Day! Cool this morning, partially cloudy, and it looks like the river has risen just slightly--a matter of inches. ----Alan
I will say it again that the reason Biden got the most votes in Georgia even as Kemp was re-elected was because 20,000 voters took ballots, voted for Republicans, but skipped the presidential box. Btw, it takes some persistence to skip over positions. At the end of the ballot, the machine warns that the ballot is incomplete and the voter has to positively assert that is the intent.
“We’re now bearing down on crunch time in the debt-ceiling hostage-taking drama of 2023. Virtually all of the establishment press is playing to form and treating the situation as a more or less ordinary matter of legislative jockeying and negotiation. That’s a problem but not a surprise. We’ll discuss that in another post. But this morning I want to talk about something different, the story that most commentators aren’t grasping about where this situation is headed. It’s a set of assumptions that is leading most of D.C. — and, it would appear, most of Wall Street — to miss what’s coming. . .”
“. . . actual debt default or the administration resorting to one of several extraordinary actions to unilaterally operate above the debt ceiling is the most likely outcome of this drama.” The reasoning I delete in the above quotation seems sound. I expect extraordinary action. —Alan
The object is to lay the groundwork for an appeal. There is some speculation that the new lawyer brought in from Missouri is to negotiate a settlement to avoid a jury decision. Tacopino was brought in to make a scene, but it seems Ms. Carroll is not a shrinking violet. The suit is about calling out a serial abuser and send a message to all those who admire the bully.
The Maypole was originally a fertility symbol, although that's not necessarily associated with the dance. There's also an association with the old, old Robin Hood (not the thief of Sherwood Forest).
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ReplyDeleteSunday is a blur.
Explanation when I can.
Today (Monday) I’m getting the Shingrix vaccine. It’s the only time I’ve seen a list of side effects include “shivers”! Makes me wonder what I’m in for.
I had shivers from a flu vaccine once; woke up shivering, went back to sleep, and that was it. May you have a mild or non-existent reaction.
Delete---Alan
My arm is slightly sore, but less so than with the Covid Bivalent vaccine we had week before last. I feel slightly tired and a little "off" ~ a little lightheaded or not quite myself. But nothing terrible. I'm much relieved!
DeleteGood news!
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ReplyDeleteThe chances of the GOP flipping the Senate next year
Oh, please, NO…!
There are two illegitimate (not authorized by law) meddlers in the electoral process: political factions and the press.
DeleteWhile the conventional interpretation of the Amendments, especially the First, is that they affirm rights, I read them to prohibit or exclude certain behaviors. In other words, both establishments of religion and the press were excluded from the people governing. Meanwhile, both have insinuated themselves via the legislative branches.
A member of the press admitted the other day that the stories about Biden being too old are prompted by the fact that he gives almost no press conferences at which reporters can ask stupid questions. I suppose that was also the genesis of the stories in 2020 claiming that Biden was hiding in the basement.
Start from the fact that 2/3 of the Senate seats up for election this cycle are currently held by Democrats. It's going to be a challenge. But, aside from everything else, I can see the Republican presidential ticket dragging their Senate candidates down.
DeleteNew York gun buyback program takes thousands of firearms off the streets [Click]
ReplyDeleteHappy International Workers Day! Cool this morning, partially cloudy, and it looks like the river has risen just slightly--a matter of inches.
ReplyDelete----Alan
A Hot Mess in the Georgia Republican Party [Click]
ReplyDeleteI will say it again that the reason Biden got the most votes in Georgia even as Kemp was re-elected was because 20,000 voters took ballots, voted for Republicans, but skipped the presidential box.
DeleteBtw, it takes some persistence to skip over positions. At the end of the ballot, the machine warns that the ballot is incomplete and the voter has to positively assert that is the intent.
Josh Marshall on the national debt game of chicken [Click]
ReplyDelete“We’re now bearing down on crunch time in the debt-ceiling hostage-taking drama of 2023. Virtually all of the establishment press is playing to form and treating the situation as a more or less ordinary matter of legislative jockeying and negotiation. That’s a problem but not a surprise. We’ll discuss that in another post. But this morning I want to talk about something different, the story that most commentators aren’t grasping about where this situation is headed. It’s a set of assumptions that is leading most of D.C. — and, it would appear, most of Wall Street — to miss what’s coming. . .”
“. . . actual debt default or the administration resorting to one of several extraordinary actions to unilaterally operate above the debt ceiling is the most likely outcome of this drama.”
The reasoning I delete in the above quotation seems sound. I expect extraordinary action.
—Alan
Tanker Pablo Explodes in the South China Sea | Probably a Ship-To-Ship Transfer [Click] It was only a matter of time.
ReplyDelete—Alan
Or preparing for a ship-to-ship transfer
Delete--Alan
Trump attorney files Desperate Motion in Federal Court [E. Jean Carroll case] [Click] And gets whacked by the judge at once.
ReplyDelete—Alan
The object is to lay the groundwork for an appeal. There is some speculation that the new lawyer brought in from Missouri is to negotiate a settlement to avoid a jury decision. Tacopino was brought in to make a scene, but it seems Ms. Carroll is not a shrinking violet. The suit is about calling out a serial abuser and send a message to all those who admire the bully.
DeleteThe Maypole was originally a fertility symbol, although that's not necessarily associated with the dance. There's also an association with the old, old Robin Hood (not the thief of Sherwood Forest).
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Thanks, Bill.
DeleteAnton Petrov: Space-Time Distortions and Ancient Light Point at Nature of Dark Matter [Click] Axions? Neutrinos? Wimps? Or??? Note: Wilczek named this new hypothesized particle the "axion" after a brand of laundry detergent because it "cleaned up" a problem
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Wikipedia: Axion [Click]
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