I would so love to have a couple of T-shirts with this photo enlarged. I'd wear that sucker everywhere. He has bragged so about his hair and he has been so vicious to everyone else that I hope he can feel some shame, some embarrassment or something. I can't punch him, but I can do my best to embarrass him. All we know that's really true about trump is that 1. he always lies and 2. he hates EVERYONE. (Susan)
This morning at politicalwire.com [Click] it is one column, story, or anecdote after another about dysfunction in the Republican Party. Not very different at talkingpointsmemo.com [Click] —Alan
An article in Science Advisor reports that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has downgraded its listing of the Monarch butterfly from "endangered" to "vulnerable," with a possibility of further lowering it to "near threatened" if the coming census of overwintering butterflies continues to show a more or less stable population. The initial designation was based on a linear extrapolation of the population decline since the 1990s, ignoring that the population has been almost stable since 2014.
Do you know if their wintering forests in Mexico have been protected? I was under the impression that illegal logging there had been a very serious problem. Ditto lack of their preferred forage during migration. ----Alan
The article didn't specifically address these points. But the relative stability of the overwintering population seems to imply that these are no longer serious ongoing threats.
Thanx Susan&Son, and listener
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Oh, I expected worse. But his body man should have taken care of that.
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I would so love to have a couple of T-shirts with this photo enlarged. I'd wear that sucker everywhere. He has bragged so about his hair and he has been so vicious to everyone else that I hope he can feel some shame, some embarrassment or something. I can't punch him, but I can do my best to embarrass him. All we know that's really true about trump is that 1. he always lies and 2. he hates EVERYONE. (Susan)
ReplyDeleteThis morning at politicalwire.com [Click] it is one column, story, or anecdote after another about dysfunction in the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteNot very different at talkingpointsmemo.com [Click]
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Best quip I have seen so far today:
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DeleteQuantum dots: TV screen crystals win Chemistry Nobel Prize [Click] I never knew about these things.
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‘Dangerous gatekeeping’: why is country music still resistant to diversity? [Click]
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An article in Science Advisor reports that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has downgraded its listing of the Monarch butterfly from "endangered" to "vulnerable," with a possibility of further lowering it to "near threatened" if the coming census of overwintering butterflies continues to show a more or less stable population. The initial designation was based on a linear extrapolation of the population decline since the 1990s, ignoring that the population has been almost stable since 2014.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if their wintering forests in Mexico have been protected? I was under the impression that illegal logging there had been a very serious problem. Ditto lack of their preferred forage during migration.
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The article didn't specifically address these points. But the relative stability of the overwintering population seems to imply that these are no longer serious ongoing threats.
DeleteActually there was a brief suggestion that changes in agricultural practices might have blunted the previous decline in milkweed availability.
DeleteThanks, Bill.
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[Click] It all sounds rather opaque to me, but perhaps repeated observations will clarify matters.
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Boy, did I ever muck up that link! Here it is repaired (I think):
DeleteIn the first few hundred thousand years after our Universe was born, a primordial hum ripped through a plasma of superheated particles. Scientists are listening in with the hope of gaining new insights about the mysterious force known as dark energy. [Click] It all sounds rather opaque to me, but perhaps repeated observations will clarify matters.
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Lawrence: New York judge proves gag orders can work on Trump [Click]
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