Saturday, October 05, 2024

{31} Wagons at the Orchard

 




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    1. As you might imagine, the Iron Dome could not protect Israel from a nuclear missile, because it would detonate the missile and spread the radiation over the country.

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    2. By the way, the threats the US speaks of are threats on the USA.

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    3. I think you are mistaken about Israeli air defense weapons setting off an incoming nuclear weapon, listener. And given the truly disproportionate number of deliverable nuclear weapons Israel has (estimated long ago to be in excess of two hundred), no one is going to send one their way. Israel might again use conventional weapons on Iranian uranium purification facilities, but those are well protected. The computer viruses Israel got into the Iranian centrifuges controls were more destructive than any conventional bomb Israel could drop.
      ------Alan

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    4. Alan, the article said that the Iron Dome would detonate the nuclear missile and spread the radiation.

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  2. Fresno voter: Our three cats and one small dog have decided to vote for Kamala Harris [Click] “In debate, Trump [rants], cites conspiracy theories as Harris pushes back, touts her vision for future” (fresnobee.com, Sept. 10) After watching the presidential debate last night and listening to the guy who used to have the nuclear codes talk about Haitian immigrants eating our cats and dogs, two things occurred to me: First, I couldn’t stop laughing. And second, our three cats and one small dog who were all previously on the fence about who to vote for all immediately decided to vote for Kamala Harris.”
    ——Alan

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    1. {listener}
      😹😹😹
      Love it!!
      Laughing from Loch Nest…out for our last sail of the season. ⛵️

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  3. How Biden helped end a port strike that threatened Democrats in November [Click] “With early-morning Zoom calls and a surprising ultimatum, the White House brain trust averted a potential economic disaster weeks before the election.” It wasn’t jawboning, it was arm twisting— to the point of breaking.
    ——Alan

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    1. And the management corporations are based in Europe and Asia.
      -----Alan

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  4. I today received the detailed state booklet about the propositions on our ballot and studied up the ones I wasn't clear on; all ready to go, and my mail ballot should arrive some time this coming week.
    ------Alan

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    1. I have my ballot drop box pre-selected; I have never seen anyone staking one out, but will be observant.
      ------Alan

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    2. Checking my e-mail just now, I saw the California Green Party list of recommendations for the various propositions. There is one they took no official position on, and all the others we agreed on. Validation.
      ------Alan

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  5. I don't know how to link to it, but I was just now looking through a thesis about inflation in the Soviet Union. Toward the end of the Soviet Union, and coincident with the Soviet-Afghan War, inflation became uncontrollable--- or at least the Russian/Soviet government didn't know how to control it. And here it is again--- the Ukraine war is destroying the Russian economy, with inflation as well as production becoming ever worse.
    -----Alan

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    1. The Role of Inflation in Soviet History: Prices, Living Standards, and Political Change and Political Change
      Steven M. Efremov
      East Tennessee State University

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    2. ^^^^^^ Google it.

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