Thursday, February 29, 2024

Goodbye February!


29 comments:

  1. Thinking of you, W.A.!
    Did any tornadoes materialise?

    Congrats on DT being taken off the ballot in Illinois!

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    1. ^^ {listener}

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      Whoa! Sounds like it was a rough night in the Windy City!
      High winds and suspected tornadoes pound Chicago area

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    3. Gee.
      ----Alan

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    4. There were tornadoes in the area but none particularly near here. Thunder and lightning while I was walking to the restaurant. Again as I left. A few drops started to fall before I'd gone a block and it was raining heavily before I got home.

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    5. I'm not paying much attention to ballot removal until we hear from the Supreme Court.

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    6. I just appreciate that Illinois said no.

      As for weather...it was a rough night Tuesday into Wednesday in Ohio!! Eh, Susan?

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  2. Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment [Click] This is the first time I have heard that a gene linked to HIV resistance has been identified, although it has been suspected for quite some time.
    ——Alan

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    1. Wonderful news!!
      So long needed.

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    2. ^^ {listener}

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  3. Pentagon Weighs Plan to Ship Weapons to Ukraine Quickly [Click] My dream is that the Administration will pay for replacements with consols.
    —Alan

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    1. Very good! Concrete proof should be needed for such arrests.

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    2. For any arrests.
      ---Alan

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  5. I was looking at the weather forecast, and they say California is beginning to be hit by a "monster" storm with up to twelve feet of snow. Down here they are predicting temperatures decreasing into the high 50's and then rising; half an inch of rain tomorrow and also on the day after. Twelve feet of snow in the mountains is OK for us; the river is running about a foot below its maximum of last year; they have been making room in the reservoirs.
    ----Alan

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    1. 5PM and just back from shopping. The sky was clear at midday; now there are small low-hanging cumulus clouds, above them a mackerel sky, mares' tails just barely beginning to form, and a steady breeze out of the south. Could rain, all right.
      ---Alan

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    2. "A mackerel sky" is one of my favourite weather phrases.

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  6. Quote du jour: [Click] “People who don’t speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them.”
    — Donald Trump, while making a visit to the southern border.
    —Alan

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    1. If he is going to have a debate with Joe Biden, maybe they could be in booths that rise out of the stage when it is time for a question, and then descend into the stage when the time to answer is up.
      ----Alan

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    2. Well, he certainly doesn't speak any discernable language.

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    3. It seems to me that TFG speaks Senile, but granted that is not a language per se.
      ----Alan

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    4. DT speaks Snide, disjointed Snide.
      And YES to having him descend into the stage when he needs to stop talking.
      (Could we just do that everywhere?)

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  7. Folks! If you can possibly find this past Monday's Daily Show episode, please please make time to watch it. Jon Stewart did a fabulous job of describing the issues in the Israel-Hamas war. I so appreciate Jon, as a Jew, pointing out that what Israel is doing is making more Hamases. He also had, as guests, two American journalists ~ an Arab and a Jew ~ who have been friends for 10 years, though they take completely different views on the situation in the Middle East. Impressive.

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