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September 1, 2025
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In 2025, Gavin Newsom’s 10-year plan to end homelessness in San Francisco will mark its 22-year anniversary.
Just vote “HELL NO!” on Gavymandering, Calunicornians!
It's been a good couple of weeks for discovering new music, with new albums by Molly Tuttle, Kathleen Edwards and The Beths dropping. However, one of my favorite songs I found was actually from an EP that Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway did in 2024 titled 'Into the Wild.' It's a cover of a song by the late Kate Wolf, "Here In California." I also went and listened to some of Kate Wolf's music as well.
https://youtu.be/eUhQA8IIiVU?si=LE20b-hxLEefMaO5
Jeff Childers at Coffee and Covid 2025 today opines on several different items today, pointing out what the MSM won't. Most important- IMHO - is the reckoning he sees coming for the people involved in covidiocy decisions that were wrong. Maybe, just possibly, one of the decision from the public health agencies during the covidiocy was correct. And Trump- responsible for Warp Speed, the development of the useless mRNA shots, has set it up so that it reveal if he were lied to by Pfizer- and Fauci- and others involved. Trusted advisors and major pharms lying to POTUS- not a good look for bureaucracy or industry.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pharmapocalypse-monday-september
OK, at first I was skeptical about "computational narratology" but I have been talking with AI about it, and every once and a while it comes up with something, for instance, it explained to me the narratological basis of the final episode of Seinfeld. It didn't have to end that way, it didn't follow standard sitcom conventions, but it did follow literary ones. For instance Don Quixote, written by Cervantes as one comic episode after another, where the hero is humiliated in one comic adventure after another, never learning anything, it is a novel about nothing, until the final episode, when Don Quixote realizes the truth, that he has been delusional, wrong, a fool, on his deathbed. Well, according to AI, you can look at the final episode of Seinfeld as a deathbed realization, when the characters are put on trial, they are made to realize what awful people they really are, that really, the joke's been on them all along.
Of course you can simply reject this. I doubt that Larry David was thinking about Don Quixote when he wrote Seinfeld, but it wouldn't surprise me if he were guided by the same feelings about how his story should end as Cervantes.
“As President of the United States of America, I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani, the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, and an equally great American Patriot, will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor. Details as to time and place to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump said on Truth Social.
Clyde that’s beautiful. Thank you
Do you think the people who keep posting wall-of-text copy-pasta again and again lack self-awareness, or are they aware of how rhetorically ineffective both their actions and personae are but nevertheless persist? If the latter, why? OCD? Humiliation kink? Paid for inept shilling?
I also found out that Alison Krauss and Union Station had a new album in March, which I listened to on Sunday. This was a rather haunting song, "Richmond On The James." Alison's voice is clear and pure as always.
https://youtu.be/UgxpNRiSZDU?si=hZwJJ8j7yHMvZK4Y
the development of the useless mRNA shots,
I am open to the possibility that the first vaccines - or "vaccines," since they never did behave like traditional vaccines in preventing infection or transmission - did their most important job well, in keeping vulnerable people from dying.
Hang on, hang on! There's a "however."
However - it is also possible that by the time the mRNA therapies were deployed widely, the virus had already mutated and was in the process of becoming the basically nonlethal Omicron form (I know that there was a transitional form in there that was still pretty dangerous to vulnerable people). And it is also possible that by the time the vaccines were widely available, so many people had already had COVID, with or without symptoms, but resulting in their own immunity, that we don't really know how effective the vaccines were. And finally, it is also possible that the original vaccines did their job but came with too high a risk profile, which could have meant that we would have foregone them if we had known (and, in some people's cases, were given the choice).
Basically I want to see the testing results. Not only will that revelation help us understand whether you even CAN "warp speed" vaccine or drug development without more risk than we are prepared to tolerate, but we'll also know what pharmaceuticals are willing to do.
saw this on "X"
https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1962542344483295513
BREAKING: Puerto Ricans are rising up with demands for full separation from the United States, saying they’ve had enough of colonialism.
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That last one reminded me of a CD I bought, no longer available - Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Fister
Lots of wonderful artists. Alison Krauss, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer perform Slumber My Darling.
Here it is on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/jjYcB60cBmM?si=g0rRNJZDP00vc4jE
gilbar said...
saw this on "X"
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BREAKING: Puerto Ricans are rising up with demands for full separation from the United States, saying they’ve had enough of colonialism.
I saw it too- many versions of it. My thoughts? Every time they've voted- they've voted to maintain their commonwealth status. Let 'em vote again. The question after that will be- will those on the island who were born there maintain their US citizenship? That will be fought over in courts for decades.
Gilbar.
Yeah. Why not? Knock yourselves out.
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Works for me.
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