With explanatory signs, I hope. This reminds me of the stories of big trucks and buses entering the south of England from the Continent and getting stuck because they were using the cheaper satellite navigation programs designed for use by autos. ---Alan
Oh my gosh...the Signs!! The DMV has tried everything. Mind you, there are NO billboards allowed in Vermont. So it's hard to miss the big light-up signs along the interstate that say things like "Your GPS is Wrong!" and "NO Tractor Trailers through Smuggler's Notch" and "Fine is $1200". But every year some try it anyway.
Towing and impound fees could add up to a pretty penny. Maybe they could make it through with articulated trailers and a second driver on the back--like some hook and ladder trucks and logging trucks designed for sharp curves. Wonder if they might wonder why it is called a notch. ---Alan
My brother told me of being on a logging road in Washington State and encountering an overlength logging truck with a second driver on the back. Get caught on a curve and you would get pushed off by the trailer. In the annual parade in my home town they would always have at least one off-highway logging truck; there were several men with hooks on poles positioned on top of the cab and load, who would reach down, pick up the telephone and other wires crossing Main Street and pass them from one to the next as the truck passed under. I should expect that a "Smuggler's Notch" in the long-settled mountains of the Northeast would be passable for horses, mule trains, and maybe wagons. Yep, the photo sure looks like a notch. Can't expect a tow truck able to pull an 18-wheeler out backwards to be ready to hand. Or cheap. ----Alan
I still like the story about the would-be Republican nominee who was giving $20 gift certificates for a much smaller donation ($1? $5?). I was tempted, but didn't want to be inundated with Republican junk mail. If Mr. Biden makes that kind of offer, I will sign on right away! ----Alan
Sounds good. “'These numbers are a testament to one of our core objectives early in this campaign: raise the resources needed to run an aggressive campaign that will win in November 2024,' said Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the Biden-Harris campaign manager." I expect that their idea of an aggressive campaign hereabouts will be to fly by (not over, but past) TWICE when traveling between Hollywood and Palo Alto. Record crowds turned out hereabouts for Bernie, but this is allegedly a "Republican" area. Actually it is a Democratic area that has been gerrymandered to elect Republicans. IMO. ---Alan (Who sure would like the novelty of having a representative in the House).
I will never forget how President Obama landed at Fresno (the only airport in the area that could accommodate Air Force One) and hopped onto a helicopter to go to a meeting with a rich farmer in a nearby county, giving the cold shoulder to the politicians, community group leaders, other notables, and ordinary citizens who were gathered to greet him. He couldn't spare five or ten minutes for us, but could spend hours for a rich group of donors and a silly photo op showing him in a newly planted and drip-irrigated almond orchard intended to illustrate irrigation water shortages in the area. ---Alan
Bummer that it went that way! I am aware that most candidates are kept on a tight schedule by their staff; but it's important to NOTICE what matters and tweak things as needed.
Once more: parties/factions are nowhere provided for in the Constitution. Neither the VP nor the Speaker are (need be) members of the bodies they chair. Unfortunately, it is the tenuous nature of their legal position that makes them cling to "TRADITION" all the more. It seems the founders had a thing about ministerial roles (electoral college, prosecutors, Senate and House chairs). A minister merely forwards information with making any decision. It is because prosecutors supposedly make no decisions that they enjoy absolute immunity. This is an identified problem in our justice system. Either Congress or SCOTUS could address it, but have not.
I wore black on Friday in solidarity with The Women in Black...Israeli and Palestinian women who deliberately wear black on Fridays so they can recognise one another as those who desire peace between their peoples.
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks and audio books from wherever they live. The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
Republicans are ABANDONING THEIR PARTY in DROVES [Click] Well, we can hope so. I wanted to re-elect Senator Tom Kuchel [pronounced KEE-cull] [Click] in 1968, but he was knocked out in the California Republican primary by Max Rafferty. That is when I became aware of the radicalization of the Republican Party, but it was well underway by then.
In May 1963, Kuchel attacked the right-wing movement in the Senate in a speech, describing them as not conservatives, but "radicals with a capital R" and that the movement defiled conservatism.
Republicans are ABANDONING THEIR PARTY in DROVES [Click] Well, we can hope so. I wanted to re-elect Senator Tom Kuchel [pronounced Kee-cull) [Click] in 1968, but he was knocked out in the California Republican primary by Max Rafferty. That is when I became aware of the radicalization of the Republican Party, but it was well underway by then.
In May 1963, Kuchel attacked the right-wing movement in the Senate in a speech, describing them as not conservatives, but "radicals with a capital R" and that the movement defiled conservatism.
During the 1966 California gubernatorial primary, Kuchel was urged by moderates to run against conservative actor Ronald Reagan. Citing the hostilities of the growing conservative movement, Kuchel decided not to run. He instead issued a negative statement about the conservatives: "A fanatical neo-fascist political cult of right-wingers in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear that is recklessly determined to control our party or destroy it!"
Earlier this year when reading Arthur Schleshinger's A Thousand Days I was startled by his tracing of the radicalization of the Republican party to well before Pres. Kennedy's election. I guess the wonder is that it resisted the cancer of radicalism as long as it did.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said Sunday if House Republicans cannot elect a Speaker soon then a “deal will have to be done” with Democrats in order to get the chamber running again, as it nears two weeks since Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) historic ousting, The Hill reports.
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ReplyDeleteVermont will install barriers on each end of the Notch Road that goes over Mount Mansfield, to keep tractor trailer trucks from attempting the impossible of making hairpin turns between huge boulders and getting stuck
With explanatory signs, I hope. This reminds me of the stories of big trucks and buses entering the south of England from the Continent and getting stuck because they were using the cheaper satellite navigation programs designed for use by autos.
Delete---Alan
Oh my gosh...the Signs!! The DMV has tried everything. Mind you, there are NO billboards allowed in Vermont. So it's hard to miss the big light-up signs along the interstate that say things like "Your GPS is Wrong!" and "NO Tractor Trailers through Smuggler's Notch" and "Fine is $1200". But every year some try it anyway.
DeleteTruckers Pay Thousands of Dollars for the Thrill of Getting Stuck in Smuggler's Notch
They say no one has ever said they didn’t see the signs.
DeleteThey just decided to believe their GPS instead!
Towing and impound fees could add up to a pretty penny. Maybe they could make it through with articulated trailers and a second driver on the back--like some hook and ladder trucks and logging trucks designed for sharp curves. Wonder if they might wonder why it is called a notch.
Delete---Alan
No ladder or logging truck is likely to pass through, either. I sent you a photo to illustrate.
DeleteMy brother told me of being on a logging road in Washington State and encountering an overlength logging truck with a second driver on the back. Get caught on a curve and you would get pushed off by the trailer. In the annual parade in my home town they would always have at least one off-highway logging truck; there were several men with hooks on poles positioned on top of the cab and load, who would reach down, pick up the telephone and other wires crossing Main Street and pass them from one to the next as the truck passed under. I should expect that a "Smuggler's Notch" in the long-settled mountains of the Northeast would be passable for horses, mule trains, and maybe wagons. Yep, the photo sure looks like a notch. Can't expect a tow truck able to pull an 18-wheeler out backwards to be ready to hand. Or cheap.
Delete----Alan
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I still like the story about the would-be Republican nominee who was giving $20 gift certificates for a much smaller donation ($1? $5?). I was tempted, but didn't want to be inundated with Republican junk mail. If Mr. Biden makes that kind of offer, I will sign on right away!
Delete----Alan
Sounds good. “'These numbers are a testament to one of our core objectives early in this campaign: raise the resources needed to run an aggressive campaign that will win in November 2024,' said Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the Biden-Harris campaign manager." I expect that their idea of an aggressive campaign hereabouts will be to fly by (not over, but past) TWICE when traveling between Hollywood and Palo Alto. Record crowds turned out hereabouts for Bernie, but this is allegedly a "Republican" area. Actually it is a Democratic area that has been gerrymandered to elect Republicans. IMO.
Delete---Alan (Who sure would like the novelty of having a representative in the House).
Biden doesn't need a certain number of donations to qualify for a debate.
DeleteI will never forget how President Obama landed at Fresno (the only airport in the area that could accommodate Air Force One) and hopped onto a helicopter to go to a meeting with a rich farmer in a nearby county, giving the cold shoulder to the politicians, community group leaders, other notables, and ordinary citizens who were gathered to greet him. He couldn't spare five or ten minutes for us, but could spend hours for a rich group of donors and a silly photo op showing him in a newly planted and drip-irrigated almond orchard intended to illustrate irrigation water shortages in the area.
Delete---Alan
Bummer that it went that way! I am aware that most candidates are kept on a tight schedule by their staff; but it's important to NOTICE what matters and tweak things as needed.
DeleteThe wealthy farmers could have been shorted ten minutes without being hurt one bit.
Delete---Alan
ReplyDeleteAn Unserious Party in a Deadly Serious Time [Click]
House GOP Chaos Makes Biden’s Strategy Easier [Click]
Jeffries Suggests Bipartisan Solution to House Impasse [Click]
Once more: parties/factions are nowhere provided for in the Constitution. Neither the VP nor the Speaker are (need be) members of the bodies they chair. Unfortunately, it is the tenuous nature of their legal position that makes them cling to "TRADITION" all the more.
DeleteIt seems the founders had a thing about ministerial roles (electoral college, prosecutors, Senate and House chairs). A minister merely forwards information with making any decision. It is because prosecutors supposedly make no decisions that they enjoy absolute immunity. This is an identified problem in our justice system. Either Congress or SCOTUS could address it, but have not.
‘I hope it can endure’: examples of Jewish-Arab solidarity offer hope in Israel [Click]
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Wonderful!
DeleteI wore black on Friday in solidarity with The Women in Black...Israeli and Palestinian women who deliberately wear black on Fridays so they can recognise one another as those who desire peace between their peoples.
Doc visit tomorrow, hoping for good vibes from you all, that the blood draw goes fine, and is easy, and they get enough blood. . . .
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DeleteThe Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
ReplyDeleteTeens can sign out ebooks and audio books from wherever they live. The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
ZOT!
Delete---Alan
Republicans are ABANDONING THEIR PARTY in DROVES [Click] Well, we can hope so. I wanted to re-elect Senator Tom Kuchel [pronounced KEE-cull] [Click] in 1968, but he was knocked out in the California Republican primary by Max Rafferty. That is when I became aware of the radicalization of the Republican Party, but it was well underway by then.
ReplyDeleteIn May 1963, Kuchel attacked the right-wing movement in the Senate in a speech, describing them as not conservatives, but "radicals with a capital R" and that the movement defiled conservatism.
—Alan
Bungled post. Will try to fix soon.
Delete---Alan
Trying again:
DeleteRepublicans are ABANDONING THEIR PARTY in DROVES [Click] Well, we can hope so. I wanted to re-elect Senator Tom Kuchel [pronounced Kee-cull) [Click] in 1968, but he was knocked out in the California Republican primary by Max Rafferty. That is when I became aware of the radicalization of the Republican Party, but it was well underway by then.
In May 1963, Kuchel attacked the right-wing movement in the Senate in a speech, describing them as not conservatives, but "radicals with a capital R" and that the movement defiled conservatism.
During the 1966 California gubernatorial primary, Kuchel was urged by moderates to run against conservative actor Ronald Reagan. Citing the hostilities of the growing conservative movement, Kuchel decided not to run. He instead issued a negative statement about the conservatives: "A fanatical neo-fascist political cult of right-wingers in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear that is recklessly determined to control our party or destroy it!"
—Alan
Earlier this year when reading Arthur Schleshinger's A Thousand Days I was startled by his tracing of the radicalization of the Republican party to well before Pres. Kennedy's election. I guess the wonder is that it resisted the cancer of radicalism as long as it did.
DeleteI did not realise it went back that far. Sheesh! Nearly my whole life, then.
DeleteI have always traced it to Barry Goldwater in 1964. But his primary victory implies something was already going on.
DeleteFederal Judge sticks the dagger into Giuliani’s entire life [Click]
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If the jury can have no idea how much Giuliani is worth, I hope they go for the gusto! [Yes, my bad.]
Delete---Alan
Poland’s Opposition Leader Declares Victory [Click] Wow.
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Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said Sunday if House Republicans cannot elect a Speaker soon then a “deal will have to be done” with Democrats in order to get the chamber running again, as it nears two weeks since Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) historic ousting, The Hill reports.
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