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Well, got two hours of sleep, but lying in the dark trying to sleep is no damn fun, so I got up, more light tomorrow, so fun then anyways.
ReplyDeletepuddle~~
Aw, dear puddle. I sincerely hope tonight is a much better night. =❤️HUG❤️=
DeleteA few days ago Naomi brought home an upper respiratory virus of some sort and shared it with us; yesterday she seemed almost recovered, and this morning it seems Miyoko and I are. Maybe one more day. "Flu-like symptoms;" we haven't had anything similar for several years.
ReplyDelete----Alan
Definitely better this morning; not completely recovered, but nearly so.
Delete----Alan
Glad to hear it! Kids are so inconsiderate.
DeleteIronic that you are the ones who taught Naomi to share. 😉
DeleteHere are a couple of political cartoons:
ReplyDeleteLuckovich on the economy [Click]
And another one [Click]
——Alan
A Broken Immigration System Is Hurting the Economy [Click] Not news.
ReplyDeleteGlobal chains pile the Christmas tat high – but I found joy in a tiny Scottish farm shop [Click]
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[Video:] Supreme Court delivers major hint to Jack Smith in re assertion of immunity [Click] Makes the point that things are moving fast, and that the Supreme Court won’t like to set things up so their power can be subordinated to a President.
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[Video] Jack Smith Lays Groundwork to Make Trump Pay for Judge Cannon’s Protection [Click]
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[Video:] New California Law Will Require Police to Tell You Why They Pulled You Over [Click] Starting January First.
ReplyDelete—Alan
Er, they don't do that already? What about commonsense, to say nothing of courtesy?
DeleteI think that is very common. I was once stopped on the way to work in the evening because I was driving strangely. It was the time of year when there were many little mice of some kind, with kangaroo-type legs, all over the hills and the road, and I was trying to avoid squashing them, which I just HATED. It helped that I was on my way to the hospital where the police would bring in the intoxicated and injured, day and night. I was wearing my hospital ID badge, too. If confronted by the "do you know why I stopped you" question I figure I would go through the various classical clues of DUI, dismissing them one after another, and then ask the officer why. I figure that encountering someone who could recite the classical symptoms just as if testifying in court would convey the idea that s/he had stopped someone a bit unusual and send me on my way. If asked "do you know how fast you were driving," I would respond by stating the state's basic speed law--that I was sure I was driving at a safe and reasonable speed for the circumstances. Once I was speeding on the way home in the morning because I was falling asleep at the wheel, and I was pulled over, for which I thanked the officer. He told me to be careful, and let me go.
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[Video:] Huckabee’s Lectern Fraud Spirals Out Of Control [Click] The narrator confuses Arkansas with Arizona.
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[Video:] New York Attorney General Letitia James’ final press statement bashing Donald Trump at the conclusion of the civil fraud trial. [Click] Plus commentary.
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Can Something [material] Be Created Out of Nothing [energy]? Evidence For Schwinger Effect in Graphene [Click] Pretty much in tune with the insights of certain Indian philosophers [e.g. Nagajuna] the better part of two millenia ago.
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But energy isn't nothing. Energy and matter are interconvertable. Moreover, matter-energy cannot be destroyed. I'm no logician, but it would seem to me that if it cannot be destroyed, it cannot be created either. That is to say, the universe has a finite, stable, constantly intercycling budget of matter-energy, and that's it. I may have a different opinion after reading the article, but that's my take as of now.
DeleteQuite reasonable.
Delete----Alan
Y'know what? That view of matter being something (visible) and energy being nothing (invisible) is the basis of the Creation story. And the idea that matter can become energy is the basis of life after death. Basic religion isn't science but it's also not far afield from it in its purest form.
DeleteNagarjuna said (if I may be allowed to roughly paraphrase), that all things arise from The Void, which is not a vacuum but a plenum, and that of necessity they manifest as pairs of opposites, "that thing" and "not that thing." Why do they arise? "Lila" (play), the play of the infinite. Another way of expressing in language what The Void is, is that it is deVOID of characteristics.
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Giulani files for bankruptcy. [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Cynical fellow that I am, I suspect that he probably has substantial holdings in real estate, shell companies, and offshore accounts.
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Me thinks that is not cynical.
DeleteHe filed for bankruptcy after the judge ordered him to pay the $148 million immediately.
DeleteSuch debts cannot be discharged via bankruptcy.
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NRA’s funding continues to fall [Click]
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Groundbreaking 20cm [8 inch] Particle Accelerator Used Nothing But Light To Accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light. [Click]
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WOW!
DeleteImpressive!!
DeleteWe just returned from shopping; we had a little rain yesterday, but hardly enough to speak of--but there is fresh snow on the mountain tops. We were shopping for Christmas dinner, and ran up against the fact that the stores don't seem to stock many turkeys for Xmas these days. We purchased a small one, price be damned. It has been a very long time since I saw the large Cornish game hens in the store, although they did have the small ones. I suggested we might make toad in a hole, but was voted down. That led me to think of stargazey pie, which I just looked up on Wikipedia, which includes the following story:
ReplyDeleteA legend surrounding stargazy pie, along with the other unusual pies of Cornwall, is that they were the reason that the Devil never came to Cornwall. In his book Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and superstitions of old Cornwall, a collection of Cornish traditions, Robert Hunt explains that the Devil crossed the River Tamar to Torpoint. The chapter, entitled "The Devil's Coits, etc", reasons that the Devil discovered the Cornish would put anything in a pie and decided to leave before they took a fancy to a "devilly" pie, returning to Devon.
----Alan
Oops, thought stargazy pie was Welsh. Anyhow, I like that story. It just goes to show that it doesn't take great saintliness to send the Devil packing, merely a little imaginative thinking. The old blighter's really quite a coward, as one might expect, come to think of it, from a cruel bully. Put his precious person in danger, and he takes to his heels. Seems like there should be a lesson in that somewhere...
DeleteYou assume correctly. Also to prevent contracting another virus. I am vaccinated to the full extent of the law--- influenza, coronavirus, RSV, and pneumococcus plus a couple more.
Delete----Alan
You assume correctly-- not only to protect others, but to protect myself from their viruses. I am vaccinated nearly to the full extent of the law--influenza, coronavirus, RSV, pneumococcus and a couple more.
Delete----Alan
Don't know how that duplicate snuck in there--probably fat finger syndrome.
Delete------Alan