Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.
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BTW, boss, hope you meant this thread was really for today (it said tomorrow on the schedule), but then what really is today was yesterday’s tomorrow….
In today’s episode, Mike turns to his good friend Dan Quayle to make an important decision about democracy. #Colbert#Comedy#ColdOpens
[all kidding aside, click here to hear rachel read about the actual event from woodward&costa’s new book “peril” and her spin on the event described among other dastardly deeds.]
Instead of immediately acting on the request, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Pitman set an Oct. 1 hearing to consider arguments before ruling. The law will have been in effect for one month by that time.
… Meanwhile, the rise of child cases of Covid-19 is sounding alarm bells. About 60% of all cases in Georgia over the last 60 days occurred in K-12 schools, representing about a sevenfold increase. In the past week, Ohio has seen a 44% increase in cases among school-age children, compared to a 17% jump in the rest of the population.
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so by neil degrasse tyson calculations for every 1600 dems who die from covid there are 8000 unvaccinated GOPers who die? if that keeps up, the 2022 midterms are a slam dunk and 2024 will go dem by default.
abbott, desantis and the rest of the prez wannabees are either not paying attention or really really bad at math.
faux news doesn’t seem to realize they’re killing off their audience either. wonder if their sponsors know how many listeners they’ve lost due to fox lies about covid.
Thanks all. 25 years and neither of us has choked the ever loving shit out of the other. patd, Mrs. P won’t go to a restaurant and eat inside, she doesn’t eat chocolate and she forbade me from ordering flowers years ago – and since the restaurants around here with outdoor dining aren’t up to 25th anniversary standards I’ll order from our favorite chef’s place, take it home and have a nice little evening together with great food and wine (then we both will probably fall asleep in front of the TV is history is a teacher). Yahoo!!
On Thursday, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued its official range rating for the Lucid Air. The Air was probably going to do well here—Lucid-commissioned independent testingdetermined that a combination ofa very low drag coefficientand a hefty 113 kWh battery pack would deliver over 517 miles (832 km) of range. But the EPA says Lucid has done even more than that: the Air Dream Edition has been rated at 520 miles (837 km) on a single charge.
That vaccine thing looks like it might be startin’ to catch on……Something about Death in the immediate vicinity gets their attention. But they’ve stretched it out so far with their high school Sophomore no-vaccine debating teams that there’s no telling WHAT the hell we gonna be looking at. Oy.
It don’t get any redder than Idaho …………. Home of Ruby Ridge.
Idaho rations health care statewide amid massive COVID surge
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement after St. Luke’s Health System, Idaho’s largest hospital network, on Wednesday asked state health leaders to allow “crisis standards of care” because the increase in COVID-19 patients has exhausted the state’s medical resources.
Idaho is one of the least vaccinated U.S. states, with only about 40% of its residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Only Wyoming and West Virginia have lower vaccination rates.
Political orientation predicts science denial – here’s what that means for getting Americans vaccinated against COVID-19
Politically motivated denialof COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness tracks with a dramatic politicization of trust in science itself. In asurvey conducted in June and July, Gallup found that the percentage of Republicans expressing a “great deal” or “quite a lot of” trust in science is down, shockingly, from 72% in 1975 to only 45% today. Over the same period, confidence in science among Democrats is up from 67% to 79%.
Heat most likely contributes to more deaths each year than are officially recorded, Hondula said. Though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports fewer than 700 heat-related deaths a year, some studies have estimated 5,000 to 12,000. Last month, The New York Times found that 600 more people died in Oregon and Washington in the last week of June, during a heat wave, than normally would have, a number three times the state officials’ estimates of heat-related deaths.
When unvaxxed dad screams at NY pizzeria for not letting him in, customers react in the best way
“Is this the America you want to live in?” he later shouts. Finally a few customers react, saying, “Yep!” and “Yes,” while another gives the anti-vaxxer the middle finger. “No, fuck you,” the unvaxxed man screams back. “You’re not American. That’s why you need to get the fuck out of here if you’re not American.”
OM – WOW – the things that happen when you do not watch television or cell phones. It rained here for a little bit but only enough to move the dust around (Annapolis).
> During this time of stress from so much COVID and the idiots who fail to understand that a free shot is better than paying for horse worming pills I present the yacht club at the marina where Buena Ventura is berthed as an example. This is deep in the heart of stupid. What they believe so much is an alternative universe, one which the former orange guy lived in. They have been mighty disappointed that the second coming has not happened during July, August and now so far in September, but they do hold out hope for this weekend. The county is of a very tiny population, about ten thousand souls. Three quarters of which are true believers in faux snooze and the other Russian television stations, another eighth think those are too liberal.
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> The yacht club members include me and my neighbor Kathy, we are the Boat Ladies and have a wine club. A very exclusive wine club, she and me. We have not attended any functions since the beginning of 2020. We live on A Dock so the function on September 18 was supposed to be ours. Kathy quit the leadership role of the yacht club and told them, very politely, what to do with their A Dock function (maybe forgetting the “n”). The leadership said “thank you Kathy” for her efforts at getting me to do something, I said no. So the leadership took over.
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> Just one little issue. The Yacht Club held a big, and well attended, crab fest in August. All was happy and joyful. At least until people started to come down with COVID. Interesting, almost all did not believe in COVID-19 and the vaccines to keep one healthy. It is a hoax. The vaccine contains rfids. The vaccine makes women sterile. And many more. Guess what?
This is the email sent to the membership
Yacht Club Membership
> It is with regret that we will have to postpone the Yacht Club function set for this Saturday, September 18 at the marina. I have been made aware of several members who are either just recovering from COVID or have recently tested positive for COVID. No one is sure of when or where the exposure to these folks happened but we as a Bridge want to do our part to mitigate any further spread of the virus at the marina, so the decision was made to postpone the function this weekend. We have been very fortunate to have enjoyed being in our marina “non-COVID bubble” up until this point and want to get back to that as quickly as possible. Rest assured this decision to postpone the event was not taken lightly and your Bridge has your best interests at heart.
An additional bit of information is that the numbers involved in the infections are at least twenty percent of the attendees are infected. I think that is low because many do not believe in COVID exists. Whatever it is infecting them it cannot be a COVID virus, it must be the “flu”. We are looking at a super spreader event, and one that will bring the county to whatever the high level of infection is. So far none have gone room temperature.
Pogo – that is trash from Microsoft Word and Outlook from a copy and paste. It should be gone now. It is all control characters which are a pain, as you see.
Before Albert , science had “laws” like gravity , after him it had “theories” like gravity .
Well it still has “Laws” , like the 7% Law . For every 1C degree rise in sea surface temperatures , there is 7% more water vapor in the atmosphere . Period, full stop .
And that ain’t going away . And it’s a logarithmic, not linear .
When we get to 2C rise it’ll be Bible type rains.
Pogo –
True dat.
But cheaper E cars are coming . It’s in bikes, and cycles now.
I never dreamed I’d live to see this , but it’s here .
And after watching the oil boys drown the baby in the bath tube for 50 years.
It ain’t going away.
I saw my first E bike not long ago , the guy was flyin’ down the street. And he was not pedaling.
The most efficient form transport man has ever made is a human on a bicycle.
This why Orville , and Wilbur were making bikes. We forget what a revolution that time was . Bikes killed off the need for a horse before Ford killed off the need of both of them.
One last nugget –
The shape of woman’s bike frame came from the fact that they were all wearing dresses , big ones . That slope in the frame is where all that fabric could rest above the chain and drive sprocket.
Life is a funny ole’ dog , ain’t it ?
OM, my best friend Jim just bought a Specialized E-bike for about $7,000. You can spend 3x that. NYC has City bikes with battery assist that are similar to the entry level e-bikes from Specialized. Last time I was there we went out for a ride and I got one of the electric ones and I can tell you it was a blast. Jim just sent me an ad from Mercedes – they are coming out with a line of e-bikes that are priced competitively with the Specialized line with entry level at about $2,000 and going up to around $4,500. Nice, nice, nice (but still a bit above my bicycle budget).
Nova aired a new show on bats last night –
They harbor a lot of viruses and they don’t get sick . Corona viruses being one.
Go watch it , it will blow your mind . Remember Ebola came from eating bats, and AIDS maybe as well .
They are truly amazing mammals . And they hold the key to our living longer.
and just yesterday, they said it was 1 in 500
BTW, boss, hope you meant this thread was really for today (it said tomorrow on the schedule), but then what really is today was yesterday’s tomorrow….
In today’s episode, Mike turns to his good friend Dan Quayle to make an important decision about democracy. #Colbert #Comedy #ColdOpens
[all kidding aside, click here to hear rachel read about the actual event from woodward&costa’s new book “peril” and her spin on the event described among other dastardly deeds.]
one [DOJ] person’s dire emergency today is another [TX fed judge] person’s I’ll-think-about-it in 2 weeks
Judge sets hearing to consider temporarily blocking Texas abortion law | The Texas Tribune
And there is this.
Some doctor said that until the entire world is vaccinated…we are looking at up to 3 more years of this stuff.
And CNN reports:
Maybe masks and vaccines would help?
Oh, and Happy Anniversary to Mrs. P. It’s our 25th. 💖🎊
so by neil degrasse tyson calculations for every 1600 dems who die from covid there are 8000 unvaccinated GOPers who die? if that keeps up, the 2022 midterms are a slam dunk and 2024 will go dem by default.
abbott, desantis and the rest of the prez wannabees are either not paying attention or really really bad at math.
faux news doesn’t seem to realize they’re killing off their audience either. wonder if their sponsors know how many listeners they’ve lost due to fox lies about covid.
Fox News kills.
pogo, taking her out for a grand celebration at a local eatery? champagne, chocolates & flowers?
This is probably a “Well Duh!” headline, but the article is interesting.
What the Critical Race Theory Panic Was Really About (and the Data to Prove It)
Pogo & Mrs P…. Happy Anniversary!
Thanks all. 25 years and neither of us has choked the ever loving shit out of the other. patd, Mrs. P won’t go to a restaurant and eat inside, she doesn’t eat chocolate and she forbade me from ordering flowers years ago – and since the restaurants around here with outdoor dining aren’t up to 25th anniversary standards I’ll order from our favorite chef’s place, take it home and have a nice little evening together with great food and wine (then we both will probably fall asleep in front of the TV is history is a teacher). Yahoo!!
Happy Anniversary Pogo!
Thanks for catching my date stamp glitch, Pat
Thanks Poobah- time flies.
Go Pogos !
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/09/lucid-gets-its-official-epa-range-ratings-and-theyre-astounding/
That vaccine thing looks like it might be startin’ to catch on……Something about Death in the immediate vicinity gets their attention. But they’ve stretched it out so far with their high school Sophomore no-vaccine debating teams that there’s no telling WHAT the hell we gonna be looking at. Oy.
That Fox clip ………………. FOOT NOTE :
One has to be vaxxed to work at Fox News.
It don’t get any redder than Idaho …………. Home of Ruby Ridge.
https://apnews.com/article/health-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-idaho-a0729894b42af1c3dadeccaffeabea0c
https://theconversation.com/political-orientation-predicts-science-denial-heres-what-that-means-for-getting-americans-vaccinated-against-covid-19-165386
This has the finger prints of the deniers of climate change all over it.
Sea-level rise becoming a hazard for South Florida neighborhoods miles from ocean
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-sea-level-hazard-south-florida-neighborhoods.html
As SLR marches on , all those canals that drained South Florida to make dry ground aren’t working anymore .
Unless Ron de Santoast orders water to run up hill.
The Greatest Killer in New Orleans Wasn’t the Hurricane. It Was the Heat.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/greatest-killer-orleans-wasnt-hurricane-114215878.html
Heat most likely contributes to more deaths each year than are officially recorded, Hondula said. Though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports fewer than 700 heat-related deaths a year, some studies have estimated 5,000 to 12,000. Last month, The New York Times found that 600 more people died in Oregon and Washington in the last week of June, during a heat wave, than normally would have, a number three times the state officials’ estimates of heat-related deaths.
Stay home fellows –
EATHER
Update: “Flash Flood Warning: Washington, DC Until 9:30 PM”
https://www.popville.com/2021/09/flash-flood-watch/
When unvaxxed dad screams at NY pizzeria for not letting him in, customers react in the best way
“Is this the America you want to live in?” he later shouts.
Finally a few customers react, saying, “Yep!” and “Yes,” while another gives the anti-vaxxer the middle finger.
“No, fuck you,” the unvaxxed man screams back. “You’re not American. That’s why you need to get the fuck out of here if you’re not American.”
https://boingboing.net/2021/09/15/when-unvaxxed-dad-screams-at-ny-pizzeria-for-not-letting-him-in-customers-react-in-the-best-way.html
OM – WOW – the things that happen when you do not watch television or cell phones. It rained here for a little bit but only enough to move the dust around (Annapolis).
Democrats call for oil company executives to testify on disinformation campaign
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/572612-democrats-call-for-oil-company-executives-to-testify-on
Let’s open this can of worms .
I sent this out to some people yesterday:
An additional bit of information is that the numbers involved in the infections are at least twenty percent of the attendees are infected. I think that is low because many do not believe in COVID exists. Whatever it is infecting them it cannot be a COVID virus, it must be the “flu”. We are looking at a super spreader event, and one that will bring the county to whatever the high level of infection is. So far none have gone room temperature.
Hey Old Man, that Lucid looks like something I’d love to have – well, except for the price. Yow.
BB, idiots. BTW, what’s all that code at the bottom of your comment?
Pogo – that is trash from Microsoft Word and Outlook from a copy and paste. It should be gone now. It is all control characters which are a pain, as you see.
Before Albert , science had “laws” like gravity , after him it had “theories” like gravity .
Well it still has “Laws” , like the 7% Law .
For every 1C degree rise in sea surface temperatures , there is 7% more water vapor in the atmosphere .
Period, full stop .
And that ain’t going away . And it’s a logarithmic, not linear .
When we get to 2C rise it’ll be Bible type rains.
Happy Anniversary to the Pogos!
Now something from George –
https://youtu.be/eFHdRkeEnpM
Pogo –
True dat.
But cheaper E cars are coming . It’s in bikes, and cycles now.
I never dreamed I’d live to see this , but it’s here .
And after watching the oil boys drown the baby in the bath tube for 50 years.
It ain’t going away.
I saw my first E bike not long ago , the guy was flyin’ down the street. And he was not pedaling.
The most efficient form transport man has ever made is a human on a bicycle.
This why Orville , and Wilbur were making bikes. We forget what a revolution that time was . Bikes killed off the need for a horse before Ford killed off the need of both of them.
One last nugget –
The shape of woman’s bike frame came from the fact that they were all wearing dresses , big ones . That slope in the frame is where all that fabric could rest above the chain and drive sprocket.
Life is a funny ole’ dog , ain’t it ?
Here is wishing the POGO’s a happy anniversary with many more celebrations to come.
OM, my best friend Jim just bought a Specialized E-bike for about $7,000. You can spend 3x that. NYC has City bikes with battery assist that are similar to the entry level e-bikes from Specialized. Last time I was there we went out for a ride and I got one of the electric ones and I can tell you it was a blast. Jim just sent me an ad from Mercedes – they are coming out with a line of e-bikes that are priced competitively with the Specialized line with entry level at about $2,000 and going up to around $4,500. Nice, nice, nice (but still a bit above my bicycle budget).
This was barely a blip in the blizzard of news ……………..
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ Wedding Marks 1st Same-Sex Marriage Of Sitting Governor
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037675898/colorados-polis-weds-marking-the-1st-same-sex-marriage-of-a-sitting-governor
It’s crazy how fast this part of our world has changed this was in Colorado , not Vermont .
But 13 year old girls raped by their uncles in Texas have to bare that burden.
The wing nuts are eating each other –
Newsmax host screams at guest for critiquing Trump on Afghanistan: ‘Cut him off!’
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/572643-newsmax-host-screams-at-guest-for-critiquing-trump-on-afghanistan-cut-him-off
The guy was a vet of the wars, the host was a fat white jackass.
Nova aired a new show on bats last night –
They harbor a lot of viruses and they don’t get sick . Corona viruses being one.
Go watch it , it will blow your mind . Remember Ebola came from eating bats, and AIDS maybe as well .
They are truly amazing mammals . And they hold the key to our living longer.
Remember “Fair and Balanced ”
A pound of horse shit , and a pound of gold weight the same.
That is the definition of “Fair and Balanced “.
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