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Dr. Oz took a peculiar stance on abortion right during his debate against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania last night, and another woman has shared her story of a secret relationship with Herschel Walker.
Democrats are betting that President Biden and Vice President Harris can put Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman over the top despite a faltering debate performance that has operatives more worried than ever they could lose the pivotal race.
Biden and Harris will head to Philadelphia to campaign together on Friday, a rare occurrence for the duo who typically don’t travel alongside one another.
With less than two weeks till Election Day, Biden and Harris are set to participate in a reception for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.
“It’s always helpful to have the two leaders of the party out there in the final push,” one Democratic strategist said of the joint appearance. “Is it risky? Maybe. But it sends a powerful message in a really important race.”
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“If Dr. Oz gets his way, where does this end? Would he recommend local officials make decisions about cancer treatments? Colonoscopies? Or is this kind of scrutiny reserved just for women?” Biden tweeted, sharing a clip of Oz’s viral answer from Tuesday night’s debate.
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Much will be on the line for both Biden and Harris as the two take the stage together.
While they have a string of legislative accomplishments to tout, recent polling has shown that the Biden-Harris ticket is a drag on Democratic candidates with voters concerned over the administration’s handling of inflation.
“Their agenda is on the ballot,” said one Democratic strategist close to the White House. “For Biden, it’s about how he will be able to govern the next two years and for Harris, it’s about deepening her relationships with the Democratic coalitions and expanding her name ID.”
The Philadelphia rally with Biden and Harris on Friday is an opportunity to energize Democratic voters to increase turnout, but not necessarily change voters’ minds, argued Ivan Zapien, a lobbyist and former Democratic National Committee official.
“I think this is incredibly helpful to Fetterman. I think that you may not see it in the polls but every time you see appearances together, people come out,” he said. “The rallies at this point are more of an organization tool than they are a persuasive mechanism and I think that this will be helpful.”
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If you’re a fan of heated words this one is on fire and quite possibly right up your allez.
The media is making me crazy. Dems up Dems down Dems up again.
The media is a ass.
(Long story short.)
Sheldon Whitehouse is also kickin ass about dark money. Shut Meeker down abruptly. Good job, Shel.
Jamie, i sympathize a bit with the media on the rollercoaster coverage. Independent voters are all over the place, up and down for dems, driving the changing stories. So many decide late, outcome will depend on their mood when they vote.
For Bob (and others who are following the climate change debacle dropping water levels in rivers and lakes of the West) well, It ain’t limited to the west. The Mighty Mississippi is becoming th emouse that roared (or whispered). WaPo.
[…]
The nation’s mightiest, most mythical waterway has been strangledby months of dry conditions, which have sent water levels plummeting to historic lows. For weeks now, that slow-moving crisis has made it difficult, if not impossible, to move barges down a river that serves as a highway for about 60 percent of the nation’s foreign-bound corn and soybeans.
The result is a season of uncertainty for many up and down the river who depend on it for their livelihoods, from farmers growing crops to the tugboat pilots who steer barges toward the Gulf of Mexico and back. The deep worries over the crippled supply chain have mingled with the sheer curiosity of people who have flocked to the banks of the Mississippi to marvel at a sight few can ever recall.
Aerial images and meteorological data help to illustrate how dire the situation has become: Sandbars line a narrowing river channel, the result of scant precipitation and parched soils across the Missouri River Valley to the west and the Ohio River Basin to the east.
Historically, the winding river was marked by a wide flood plain that would swell during wetter years, while drier years would leave pools and deeper spots throughout the waterway, said Olivia Dorothy, upper Mississippi basin director for the advocacy group American Rivers.
But the river has since been altered by dams, levees and other structures, and engineered to maintain a central channel that carries barge traffic that is key to commerce along the Mississippi. But the river has become so dry, that central channel is about all that is flowing in some places these days.
Levels have sunk so low that many boat ramps don’t stretch down far enough to reach the water. Docks that usually float with ease sit tilted and grounded on riverbanks. Stretches of the river have transformed into a marvel of drought, attracting onlookers to spots such as a dead-end road outside Portageville.
[…]
This shit is real, folks.
Yesterday I saw something unexpected, the gasoline prices in D.C. were lower than the prices in Annapolis. Both are reliable Blue territories so no voting disparities on the horizon.
return to dust bowl days ahead?
Sept 27, 2022
Rivers and reservoirs around the world are drying up this summer as record droughts rage on. Lake Mead along the Colorado, the largest reservoir in the nation, hit record lows. And experts fear the dreaded deadpool – where the reservoir can no longer provide water or hydropower to downstream communities – may only be a couple years away. The Yangtze river in China, the world’s 3rd largest by volume, got so low that Sichuan province experienced rolling blackouts as hydropower had to be severely rationed. And the Danube that runs through eastern Europe is currently at half its usual levels for this time of year. So what does all of this mean? In short, it means that, as global warming continues, we are going to continue seeing record droughts and many places are, simply, going to have to live with far less water. But, more specifically, it means we are going to need to innovate both how cities and agriculture do business. In this episode of Weathered we discuss how the vast majority of water is actually used in agriculture and how the greatest gains in water use efficiency will have to come from irrigation.
The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the third quarter, marking its first increase in 2022 and a sharp turnaround after six months of contraction — despite lingering fears that the country is at risk of a recession.
The third-quarter gross domestic product figures, released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, provide an upbeat snapshot less than two weeks before midterm elections, in a year that has seen the economy and high inflation become a persistent challenge for Democrats.
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Even though consumers bought fewer goods, they continued to spend on health care, which helped lift the GDP reading. An increase in government spending at the federal, state and local levels also contributed to the gains.
The biggest boost, though, came from a narrowing trade deficit, with American retailers importing fewer items and exporting more goods as well as services, such as travel. That is a stark reversal from earlier in the year, when the gap between incoming goods and outgoing ones was at its widest on record.
“…she and her team draped a 7,000-square-foot mesh installation across the north facade of the National Museum of Women in the Arts…”
Made of white mesh and embroidered with bright pink tulle, the work reads: “As long as generations change but our struggles stay the same, I will be a feminist.”
In France, her installation reads, “As long as my anatomy determines my autonomy, I will be a feminist.”
In Italy: “As long as it takes balls to get to the top, I will be a feminist.”
In Austria: “As long as he makes the cash while I work for change, I will be a feminist.”
ROE-vember is coming, so ROE, ROE, ROE your vote.
Here in NH, you get to vote on Election Day only. But it’s never been a problem cuz our population is small.
I can see our population growing with all these drought conditions all over the country. But then… we are mostly rural and depend on wells and septic systems. The state has a requirement of at least 2 acres of land per house with those systems.
i talked one young person into voting and dissuaded one old person from being consumed by horserace political media coverage, so i’m +2 for the week 😇
Former President Donald Trump appeared Wednesday for a deposition as part of the defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Last week, a federal judge cleared the way for Trump’s testimony saying the former President had already taken steps to delay the case and he “should not be able to run out the clock.”
“We’re pleased that on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump’s deposition today. We are not able to comment further,” said a spokesperson for Kaplan Hecker & Fink, the law firm representing Carroll.
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In civil cases if someone declines to answer questions the jury is allowed to apply an adverse inference against the person when deciding their potential liability.
Last year Trump sat for a deposition for a civil lawsuit brought by protestors who claimed they were injured outside of Trump Tower during his first presidential campaign. He is also expected to testify in another civil lawsuit relating to a marketing campaign by the end of the month.
Lawyers for Trump have not responded to a request for comment.
It is not clear what Trump said during the deposition, which was taken at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for defamation after he denied her claim that he raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s. She was scheduled to sit for her deposition last Friday.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Tuesday said it would expedite former President Trump’s challenge of a defamation suit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of rape.
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The D.C. Court of Appeals scheduled oral arguments for Jan. 10, according to a new filing obtained by Axios, to answer the specific legal question of whether Trump made the allegedly libelous statements against Carroll within the scope of his role as president of the United States.
SECOND WOMAN CLAIMS WALKER PRESSURED HER TO HAVE ABORTION: After another woman came forward with claims against Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker — which he calls lies — #TheView co-hosts discuss how GOP heavy hitters continue to stick by him. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjApic.twitter.com/qQlIF82tQL
A climate activist glued his head to glass covering the world-famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painting at a museum in The Hague on Thursday, though the artwork was not damaged, gallery staff said.
“Four sources told CNN that West had originally suggested the title “Hitler” for his 2018 album that eventually released as “Ye.” They did not want to be named, citing concern for professional retribution.”
Everyone was making money, so they all let it slide. “Personal retribution” now? Ye is losing money and power; he will only be playing county fairs and MAGAt rallies. “Professional” retribution from whom?
By the way, have any of Herschel’s old, teammates talked about his behavior/works views? (I don’t mean his behavior with women, because many of them have their own secrets.)
There is something fishy about these “Climate” protesters attacking great works of art.
To what end ? To piss off those gas guzzling art historians ?
One of the hardest things I am trying to understand, and I suspect millions of others too, is how SFB is keeping himself from do harm to himself and others from the pressure so many high level, high power, lawsuits going on at one time. During the last six years I have been sued twice three times (neither because I was negligent in behaviour). Or was it four? No mind. I just was torn inside out for each of them. The only thing is I now get vocal when I get served rather than being passive.
Although minor in action, none of them would do more than result in me paying monetary damages or acknowledging something affecting our little community. I did dream several times of Godzilla (with Perry Mason doing his job) or Lucy Lawless jumping to my rescue by smiting the nasty people suing me.
The only thing I keep coming back to is the guy is a narcissistic sociopath and has no emotions in him. His only reaction to anything is rage. Turning burned blood red and veins bulging rage is his reaction. And, turning his mob to destroy those against him. What he has failed at in the past is taking on the U.S. DOJ. That is why he is a criminal, and will always be a criminal. All these, and future, trials may pop the cork (so to speak) and the moron goes as cold as his former wife. Which brings up why bury an urn with the cremains on a golf course instead of the family burial grounds?
Pogo –
Thanks for the WP story on the drying of great rivers.
Just last spring there were calls for a pipeline to tap the Miss. river to solve the water issues out West.
Band-Aids on sucking chest wounds.
The forecast for this winter in the upper Missouri water shed. Even drier.
I think it’s just to draw attention to the climate crisis & the art is always protected, so while they are vandals, the art isn’t harmed.
Greta has written a new book. Printed on paper and delivered by carriers/fossil fuels around the world. Digital would’ve been better.
BB – State funeral (shudder), that will be a circus.
The calls were coming in thick and fast, and Greg did not know what to do about them. He regretted very much running for local political leadership. Getting elected register of deeds had been wonderful. But his mistake had been thinking he would just get to register deeds. Instead, in addition to the job he thought he was supposed to do, which he was good at and had worked hard to obtain, he was also being asked to do a totally different job that he did not want and that made him feel as though people were getting him confused with someone else.
“Happy Monday!” Greg observed, hopefully, sitting down at his desk.
The county commissioner was already five calls deep and seemed grumpy. Greg could see on his desk a notepad where he had drawn what looked like an amphora with an X over it and written “ick topic pregnancy???” “Greg, as a local political leader, you know where your responsibilities lie. You should have gone straight to the hospital!”
“You know,” Greg said, timidly, picking up his jacket from the back of the chair, “I don’t actually — I know people keep coming to me for medical advice, but actually I am not a doctor, and I don’t really feel all that comfortable being asked to make all these choices.”
“Greg,” the commissioner said. “You heard Dr. Oz. Not just Dr. Oz, but Republicans around the country. The best people to make decisions of this kind in this democracy of ours that thrives where the best ideas are put forward is women, and their doctors —”
“And their local political leaders,” Greg sighed. “Were you trying to write the word ‘ectopic’?”
The county commissioner shrugged. “Everyone on the line sounded very hysterical. Have you ever heard of a baby implanting outside the womb? I told them they needed to calm down and it would probably sort itself out.”
“Well,” Greg said, “actually, I was looking it up the other day in a book, because it keeps coming up so much, and it seems like maybe it doesn’t sort itself out?”
“Dr. Oz didn’t say ‘between a woman, her doctors, her local political leaders and a book,’ ” the commissioner said. “Greg, you’ve got the special sauce. And thank goodness you do. Imagine a world where women and their doctors just made decisions like this by themselves and didn’t have to seek input from you, their local register of deeds.”
“I would certainly get a lot more deeds registered,” Greg said.
The county commissioner scoffed and took a big sip of his coffee. “Unthinkable,” he said. “This way, the best ideas are put forward in this democracy.”
Greg started to walk to the door. Then he halted and turned back. “And Dr. Oz, he, he knows about these things?” he asked. “I mean, he’s a real doctor and everything?”
“Well, he’s trying to be an elected official,” the county commissioner said, “which is even more impressive than a doctor. Get on out of here, Greg.”
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“Industry analysts suggest three outcomes: It will be rebranded, exported for donation or sale in secondary markets or destroyed.”
“In other words, Yeezy might be headed to landfills.”
“There’s the environmental impact of destroying or disposing of unsold merchandise. Making clothing and other apparel already comes at a high environmental cost because of the resulting green house gas emissions, significant water use, water pollution and textile waste. Typical methods for destroy unwanted clothing — such as using incinerators — only compounds the problem.”
“Exporting it looks to be the last and final best solution to make Yeezy products disappear,” said Flickinger.
See who is voting early in Georgia’s 2022 election
Democratic governor nominee Stacey Abrams in particular has made targeting newly-registered voters and those who don’t vote often an integral part of her campaign. Approximately 27% of these new voters are Black, 53% are women and nearly half registered in 2022.
Click through the tabs in the graphics below to see more voter turnout data, including turnout for Black and white voters as well as by county, plus how the early vote so far compares to total votes in 2018.
Stacey Abrams is a stone cold genius.
The salty Gulf is pushing upriver
Here in south Louisiana it’s causing a unique phenomenon, changing the point at which the freshwater river and salty sea meet.
“As the flows in the Mississippi River drop, the Gulf of Mexico essentially comes upstream,” Jones explains. A saltwater wedge has crept along the river bottom nearly 64 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi.
“It’s almost like a triangle,” Jones says. “As this flow in the Mississippi River drops, it loses its ability to keep saltwater at bay.”
The saltwater intrusion is threatening both municipal drinking water supplies in the New Orleans metro area and commercial water users like oil refineries that depend on fresh water from the Mississippi.
“The news is now out there. So, I should say something here. My beloved mom, Lucianne Goldberg, passed away yesterday. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by people – and pets! – who loved her.” Jonah Goldberg
We saw the same thing on the Po River this summer.
U-tube has dropped it’s share button.
A straight link.
Love the upright bass solo. And the mandolin duet. And the breakdown. And of course Del overseeing the whole operation. Good shit Bob.
good morning Trail Mixers, the persons you are looking for are you and any other eligible voter within your immediate vicinity. Your mission should you choose to accept it is to get every last one of said people to cast their ballots by or before November 8th.
As always, Mixer, should you be noncompliant in this mission, the Trail will ignore any and all of your rants about the election results and will disavow any knowledge of your existence. This comment will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.
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Dr. Oz took a peculiar stance on abortion right during his debate against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania last night, and another woman has shared her story of a secret relationship with Herschel Walker.
but be careful out there
‘A madness has taken hold’ ahead of US midterms: local election officials fear for safety | US news | The Guardian
Biden, Harris to make rare campaign appearance as duo to help Fetterman | The Hill
Wherein Olbermann refers to “Scumbag Scarborough”and “vacuous Mika.”
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
If you’re a fan of heated words this one is on fire and quite possibly right up your allez.
The media is making me crazy. Dems up Dems down Dems up again.
The media is a ass.
(Long story short.)
Sheldon Whitehouse is also kickin ass about dark money. Shut Meeker down abruptly. Good job, Shel.
Jamie, i sympathize a bit with the media on the rollercoaster coverage. Independent voters are all over the place, up and down for dems, driving the changing stories. So many decide late, outcome will depend on their mood when they vote.
For Bob (and others who are following the climate change debacle dropping water levels in rivers and lakes of the West) well, It ain’t limited to the west. The Mighty Mississippi is becoming th emouse that roared (or whispered). WaPo.
This shit is real, folks.
Yesterday I saw something unexpected, the gasoline prices in D.C. were lower than the prices in Annapolis. Both are reliable Blue territories so no voting disparities on the horizon.
return to dust bowl days ahead?
Sept 27, 2022
Rivers and reservoirs around the world are drying up this summer as record droughts rage on. Lake Mead along the Colorado, the largest reservoir in the nation, hit record lows. And experts fear the dreaded deadpool – where the reservoir can no longer provide water or hydropower to downstream communities – may only be a couple years away. The Yangtze river in China, the world’s 3rd largest by volume, got so low that Sichuan province experienced rolling blackouts as hydropower had to be severely rationed. And the Danube that runs through eastern Europe is currently at half its usual levels for this time of year. So what does all of this mean? In short, it means that, as global warming continues, we are going to continue seeing record droughts and many places are, simply, going to have to live with far less water. But, more specifically, it means we are going to need to innovate both how cities and agriculture do business. In this episode of Weathered we discuss how the vast majority of water is actually used in agriculture and how the greatest gains in water use efficiency will have to come from irrigation.
good news for a change maybe?
GDP report shows U.S. economy grew 2.6% in the third quarter, but recession fears loom – The Washington Post
BTW on media, strokes & politics
How the handling of Fetterman’s stroke compares with Mark Kirk’s in 2016 – The Washington Post
Does the media coverage feed into the false narrative of dodgy ejection results?
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/10/24/a-new-art-installation-is-draped-over-the-national-museum-of-women-in-the-arts/
“…she and her team draped a 7,000-square-foot mesh installation across the north facade of the National Museum of Women in the Arts…”
Made of white mesh and embroidered with bright pink tulle, the work reads: “As long as generations change but our struggles stay the same, I will be a feminist.”
In France, her installation reads, “As long as my anatomy determines my autonomy, I will be a feminist.”
In Italy: “As long as it takes balls to get to the top, I will be a feminist.”
In Austria: “As long as he makes the cash while I work for change, I will be a feminist.”
ROE-vember is coming, so ROE, ROE, ROE your vote.
Here in NH, you get to vote on Election Day only. But it’s never been a problem cuz our population is small.
I can see our population growing with all these drought conditions all over the country. But then… we are mostly rural and depend on wells and septic systems. The state has a requirement of at least 2 acres of land per house with those systems.
i talked one young person into voting and dissuaded one old person from being consumed by horserace political media coverage, so i’m +2 for the week 😇
last week
https://news.yahoo.com/dc-court-fast-tracks-trump-185048695.html
Gulp ……………
Gigantic radiation storms have been pummeling Earth for at least 10,000 years and could strike again, tree ring analysis reveals
By Ben Turner
publishedabout 2 hours ago
One of the events was 80 times more powerful than the strongest solar flare ever recorded.
https://www.livescience.com/miyake-events-mystery-deepens
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/famed-girl-with-pearl-earring-painting-targeted-by-climate-activists-nos-2022-10-27/
A climate activist glued his head to glass covering the world-famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painting at a museum in The Hague on Thursday, though the artwork was not damaged, gallery staff said.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/entertainment/kanye-west-hitler-album/index.html
“Four sources told CNN that West had originally suggested the title “Hitler” for his 2018 album that eventually released as “Ye.” They did not want to be named, citing concern for professional retribution.”
Everyone was making money, so they all let it slide. “Personal retribution” now? Ye is losing money and power; he will only be playing county fairs and MAGAt rallies. “Professional” retribution from whom?
By the way, have any of Herschel’s old, teammates talked about his behavior/works views? (I don’t mean his behavior with women, because many of them have their own secrets.)
There is something fishy about these “Climate” protesters attacking great works of art.
To what end ? To piss off those gas guzzling art historians ?
One of the hardest things I am trying to understand, and I suspect millions of others too, is how SFB is keeping himself from do harm to himself and others from the pressure so many high level, high power, lawsuits going on at one time. During the last six years I have been sued
twicethree times (neither because I was negligent in behaviour). Or was it four? No mind. I just was torn inside out for each of them. The only thing is I now get vocal when I get served rather than being passive.Although minor in action, none of them would do more than result in me paying monetary damages or acknowledging something affecting our little community. I did dream several times of Godzilla (with Perry Mason doing his job) or Lucy Lawless jumping to my rescue by smiting the nasty people suing me.
The only thing I keep coming back to is the guy is a narcissistic sociopath and has no emotions in him. His only reaction to anything is rage. Turning burned blood red and veins bulging rage is his reaction. And, turning his mob to destroy those against him. What he has failed at in the past is taking on the U.S. DOJ. That is why he is a criminal, and will always be a criminal. All these, and future, trials may pop the cork (so to speak) and the moron goes as cold as his former wife. Which brings up why bury an urn with the cremains on a golf course instead of the family burial grounds?
Pogo –
Thanks for the WP story on the drying of great rivers.
Just last spring there were calls for a pipeline to tap the Miss. river to solve the water issues out West.
Band-Aids on sucking chest wounds.
The forecast for this winter in the upper Missouri water shed. Even drier.
I think it’s just to draw attention to the climate crisis & the art is always protected, so while they are vandals, the art isn’t harmed.
Greta has written a new book. Printed on paper and delivered by carriers/fossil fuels around the world. Digital would’ve been better.
BB – State funeral (shudder), that will be a circus.
Alexandra.
RFLMFAO
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/business/kanye-west-unsold-yeezy-merchandise/index.html
“Industry analysts suggest three outcomes: It will be rebranded, exported for donation or sale in secondary markets or destroyed.”
“In other words, Yeezy might be headed to landfills.”
“There’s the environmental impact of destroying or disposing of unsold merchandise. Making clothing and other apparel already comes at a high environmental cost because of the resulting green house gas emissions, significant water use, water pollution and textile waste. Typical methods for destroy unwanted clothing — such as using incinerators — only compounds the problem.”
“Exporting it looks to be the last and final best solution to make Yeezy products disappear,” said Flickinger.
See who is voting early in Georgia’s 2022 election
October 27, 2022
https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/10/27/see-who-voting-early-in-georgias-2022-election
Stacey Abrams is a stone cold genius.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1131452623/saltwater-mississippi-river-drought-gulf-of-mexico
Lucianne Goldberg has passed away at 87
We saw the same thing on the Po River this summer.
U-tube has dropped it’s share button.
A straight link.
Love the upright bass solo. And the mandolin duet. And the breakdown. And of course Del overseeing the whole operation. Good shit Bob.
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