... you can talk about whatever you like.
I was so pleased to see the wildflowers back in my favorite woods!
The trout lilies have decided to grow in a way that we humans see as upside down. Meade got the idea to get underneath and photograph the flower from our idea of the front side (which let sky shine through):
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how terrible it must be to wait until mid april for blooms.
California has its problems but i don't miss the endless wisconsin winter. ever.
good thinking Meade!
"how terrible it must be to wait until mid april for blooms."
Don't worry, there have been lots of flowers around Madison for weeks, including the scilla drifting throughout our neighborhood.
I'm just talking about the first flowers in my favorite woods.
DavidUW! the midwest doesn't have an endless winter!!
Heck, Even Yellowstone (in Wyoming) has Three seasons July, August, and Winter
My mother grew up in Michigan, and she would always say she liked to see the different seasons. That's how I feel too. Winter is exciting and stimulating. I ran at dawn in my favorite woods all winter, rarely skipping a day. It felt great! Loved the challenge, loved the feeling of the cold and darkness coming in and then withdrawing. Loved the snow, and now I'm happy to see the beginnings of color. I'm more likely to be bothered by the heat than the cold, and I think going through the cycle each year is invigorating and keeps you healthy.
But those who like to avoid the full cycle of temperature (and plant life) are welcome to live in other places. I'd move elsewhere if I wanted to, hard as that may be for you to believe.
It was April 18th, 1775, when 2 lanterns were lit in the Old North Church signaling the British were coming by sea. Paul Revere began his midnight ride to alert the patriot militias. The next day was the official start of the American Revolution.
The shot heard around the world.
Winter in Montana is more like endless. Though by mid July I'm tired of summer too.
Winter is good for reading and music, and of course, Deep Thoughts.
Paul Revere's Ride
stillshot from drone footage of his ride
Playing the race card as an expression of political correctness:
DM UPDATED: 17:42 EDT
The Department of Health and Human Services is conducting a review into the social media accounts of a top coronavirus researcher after she was accused of sharing controversial tweets about the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, an NIH immunologist working with the government to develop a vaccine for the contagious virus, suggested in a recent post that the pandemic could be a 'genocide' against black people.
In a separate tweet, she implied that doctors would overlook black Americans if ventilators are in short supply, which could cause them to die.
An HHS official told Fox News that 'career ethics officials are reviewing the matter' and taking the situation 'very seriously'.
After her Twitter posts were publicized on Fox News Friday night, Dr Corbett switched her account to private.
However, screengrabs show she has posted several other divisive comments on her Twitter page stretching back to February.
After the White House Coronavirus Task Force was unveiled on February 29, Dr Corbett appeared contemptuous of the assembled team, writing that it was 'largely people (white men) Trump appointed to their positions as directors of blah blah institute'.
She theorized that they were 'indebted to serve Trump, NOT the people'.
When she received pushback on her post, the immunologist insisted she wasn't dismissing white men, but rather the 'system that they curated'..."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8233119/Top-coronavirus-researcher-tweeted-doctors-let-blacks-die-COVID-19.html
https://www.facebook.com/shelly.m.bass/posts/10158671203562971?notif_id=1587245715565605¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic_tagged
My wife and I were out in Texas enjoying the blue bells and other wild flowers today, as well. I travel to Nashville tomorrow to set up an apartment. I will be working and recreating around there for parts of the next year or so.
isnt Kizzy also a self-described "vagina-ologist" ?
It's the Tholian Web, and McCoy is an even bigger obnoxious ass than usual.
Watched the Global Citizen Concert tonight. Reasonably well done. Not too political except for segments from WHO and UN. Had the old rockers on first so old folks could call an early night. Elton John performed. I expected additional verses to “Candle in the Wind” as that is his go-to sympathy song. Maybe a couple “Virus in the Wind” verses. Not what he did. Billie Elish has a nice voice. Rolling Stones and McCartney. Good selection of artists. Not a lot of statement making. Or I ignored it.
At the moment, they are showing 1867 deaths for today, with only 540 for NY. That's 700 less from yesterday. It is also before NY comes along and readjusts its numbers to include guessed cases.
You can have winter.
I see no purpose in it.
This time of year in NoCal is spring-like, because many plants bloom that don't flower the rest of the year. Something is always blooming here, which is wonderful to me (a Midwestern gal); but right now, the colors are spectacular.
I scouted a trail today for my friends to run on Wednesday of next week. What is really fun about the Oakland hills is all the hidden staircases. The staircases allow pedestrians to shortcut the endless switchbacks on the streets. I set a path up and down five hidden staircases and paths...and down Sausal creek, so people may get wet feet. Lots of people out; most not wearing masks (stupid in the outdoors), but no big groups of people.
It's the Tholian Web, and McCoy is an even bigger obnoxious ass than usual.
I read somewhere recently that the effects guy spent months of his own time trying to get the web effects to look decent. It's nice that somebody cared about season 3..
I noted i picked up noble house when the protests began in hong kong, it is a former colony. I remember i saw the miniseries with pierce brosnan as ian dunross telescoped into the 80 the great john rhyss davis is his rival guillam gornt, gimli from lord of the rings or sallah if one goes back to raiders.
So, following the WP numbers, on April 15, before they inflated their numbers, NY had 786 deaths. Today it was 540, a substantial 32 percent decline.
"You can have winter.
I see no purpose in it."
I've never understood the need to cast aspersions on other's love of winter.
My memory of the original Tholian web was that it was better than the Lucasified remake of it that was put into the remastered episodes.
Gary Coleman for some reason is on Buck Rogers.
So is Uncle Martin/Mr. Hand.
I also robert elegants dynasty, a more expansive tale that covers from the boxer rebellion to the early 70s, and the impact on hong kong, good grief people change the eight track tape till tomorrow.
Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, an NIH immunologist working with the government to develop a vaccine for the contagious virus, suggested in a recent post that the pandemic could be a 'genocide' against black people.
Unsurprising. Belief in certain conspiracy theories is widespread in the black community, including beliefs that crack cocaine and HIV were developed by the CIA in order to kill blacks.
I think it was his first year on different strokes i hadnt seen my favorite martian yet so i didnt know how odd casting him as a gangster was.
Dynasty is one of the last of his cycle on china based on his long time reporting
My memory of the original Tholian web was that it was better than the Lucasified remake of it that was put into the remastered episodes.
The only one of those I have seen was The Cage when it ran in theaters as a Fathom Event. I thought they did a decent job with the effects, but it was so many years since I had seen the original I really couldn't compare.
"What are you people? On dope?"
Mark said...
So, following the WP numbers, on April 15, before they inflated their numbers, NY had 786 deaths. Today it was 540, a substantial 32 percent decline.
I don't even trust that there was a decline today. They are probably holding some of today's deaths in reserve, so that if there is a decline for several days they can drop them all at once to show a "spike" in deaths that will justify further restrictions. The Justice Department needs to initiate an investigation into the way that New York and maybe other states (Massachusetts?) are juicing the stats. I smell fraud.
What are you [people]?
Killer whale.
Correction, dynasty was his first by publication, the last by timeline he did others set in the taiping rebellion and even farther back.
I made firecracker shrimp for dinner. Pretty good. Could have used more red pepper. I threw in some green beans so my son would have a vegetable. He said they were not well-disguised. Nevertheless, he ate them.
It has siracha and sweet chili, it still needs peppers after that.
My mother grew up in Michigan, and she would always say she liked to see the different seasons.
I think that is the most compelling reason for living up north (i.e. anything above southern Georgia). You can acclimate to temperatures pretty easily, but cold weather is more of a hassle. More preparation required before doing things. Probably why more northerly people are smarter on average than more southerly people.
I don't like extreme Temps - either hot or cold. Although, I'd prefer 30 degrees and sun to high humidity and 85 degrees. when its cold you can put on a coat and go outside, when its too hot, you're stuck indoors.
We've considered movie to Hawaii, but decided against it due to the unchanging nature of the weather. Plus being stuck on an island.
One thing I liked about NYC was the summer thunderstorms. It was cool seeing the water come down in buckets on a summer day.
The Federal Government has in theory alomost limitless powers to reach down into any state or region of the country, regardless of what the Supreme Court may rule later on.
Some early examples are the Whiskey Rebellion [a western Pennsylvania agricultural issue], Jackson's nullification crisis that ended with his promise to take an army into South Carolina and the Civil War of course. Of best mention is Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and dissolving the government of Maryland. There are other, not so good interventions: the strikebreaking of the 1870s-80s, Wilson's nationwide arrest of 20,000 radicals during the Palmer Raids, FDR's incarceration of the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast. In 1957, Ike used the 101st Airborne and federalized the Arkansas National Guard to help integrate the Little Rock public schools.
These are exceptional uses of Federal power. Use very sparingly....
Trump is so right and so great for using the great power of federalism to win this virus war. The feds cannot micro-manage either the 50 states nor the 3,000+ counties. Relying on the states in consultation with their counties is not only proper federalism, but it is the common sense of our Founders who imagined America in 1789, after the Confederation failed to meet our challenges.
I think Nazi governors will pay.
One fascinating that angle that ties hong kong to the brexit and resistance against trump. Downer who was foreign secretary and board member with haklyut a british private spy agency.
Great photo by Meade
Atmo at 10:11 - I believe that under the constitution, the military is empowered to court-martial governors who lie during periods of martial law, if they have called out state reserve military units on account (or even partially on account) of lies that they intentionally told, with the adequate mens rea, in order to acquire military power. If I remember my civil war legal history correctly, and of course I do, it does not have to be the DOJ that institutes such prosecutions. (I cannot see Whitmer or Cuomo being found guilty, though, each of them is way too stupid to have the requisite mens rea). Such prosecutions, however, cannot apply to anybody except the governor, because only the governor is in a chain of command (and if you are not in a military chain of command you cannot be court martialed).
If other state officials are deliberately lying in order to obtain an unlawful goal, the remedies include DOJ (federal) investigation, state level prosecution, and potentially, to the extent that the lies involved war-time powers to deploy state reserve military units, war crimes prosecutions (under federal jurisdiction, not necessarily the DOJ, and you do not need to be in a chain of command to be found guilty of war crimes).
We are still a free country, with no tolerance for tyrants, and government officials have a sworn duty not to commit crimes, even if they think their attempts to fraudulently obtain federal funds or other benefits by intentionally fraudulent statements are in the best interests of the people : even in a time of emergency, they must uphold their sworn duties to uphold the constitution and not commit crimes.
Probably why more northerly people are smarter on average than more southerly people.
I am from the brisk and productive north but have lived, reluctantly, in more equatorial regions most of my adult life. I've taken to calling it the Indolent Belt.
I find Trout Lillies as early as Feb in Georgia. Know the places where they pop up.
"There is, in particular, the aspect of Chinese eating culture known as "jinbu" meaning, roughly, to fill the void. Some of its practices are folklorish or esoteric, but even among Chinese people who don’t follow them, the concept is pervasive.
...some people believe that more jinbu benefits are reaped from eating an animal whose blood and energy ran high. Similarly, it is thought that animals killed just before serving are more jinbu potent, which is one reason the more exotic offerings in wet markets tend to be sold alive — also making them more potent vectors for any virus they might carry.
Bats are said to be good for restoring eyesight.
Winter is said to be the season when the body needs more jinbu foods."
Little Rock is back in the good category, BTW.
A commenter named Frunobulax on the Hyperlipid blog posted this link
https://www.bccourier.com/a-swiss-researcher-gives-hope-in-the-fight-against-the-pandemic/
A Swiss researcher wants to try an anti-coagulant on patients who are not yet hospitalized but may be at risk of dying at home from thrombosis. There is some evidence a thrombotic condition called "disseminated intravascular coagulation" is the main cause of death from COVID-19.
The comment is to this post:
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2020/04/ards-isoprostanes-and-isofurans.html
We are still a free country, with no tolerance for tyrants
I'm not sure I agree with this. Most of the people in my community seem to be thoroughly and irrationally terrified of the virus boogeyman and want to not only be cowed and controlled, but want to pull the rest of the crabs down into the bucket with them. They could care less about what the governors are or are not doing, or how corrupt they are or aren't; they just want to be protected and hopefully get checks with the Statue of Liberty on them.
I humbly submit that the best podcast out there is John Solomon Reports.
The last of the objective news reporters, who actually dig. Been great on the Russian hoax and FISA scam. Him and Sharyl Atkisson are national treasures.
"What are you people? On dope?"
Dude, you know it's 4/20 all month. Right?
We've considered movie to Hawaii, but decided against it due to the unchanging nature of the weather. Plus being stuck on an island.
Plus the meth heads and anti-white hatred.
I just watched the movie "Morning Glory" on Epix. It starred Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, and Jeff Goldblum, so why not. The movie was about a tv news producer (Rachel MacAdams) who lands a spot on low rated morning show and who through her spunk and hard work makes the show a success....The movie was made in 2010 and it's now more dated than The Front Page. There were a few howlers. Rachel says she'd like to go over to the Today show where she at least wouldn't have to poke Matt Lauer to do his job. The high minded Edward R. Murrow type of newsman (Harrison Ford) claims that doing an interview with Donald Trump would be utterly beneath his dignity.....Beyond this though, there's the general feel of the show. The movie writers were apparently of the opinion that serious news reporters reported the news without fear or favor to any party and had no political bias. There was one newsman who made smutty jokes to the women. He got fired but it wasn't for that but because he was incompetent. The high up network executive (Goldblum) had his airhead girlfriend doing fluff segments on the show. She was also incompetent, but it was presented as a matter of course that she had a right to be there.....Anyway, we all have a different opinion of the people who work on television news....They're sleazy rapists and clumsy propagandists.
Hey, have y’all seen Lockdownsceptics.org?Warning: QALYs mentioned, sanity advocated.
Six years in the Air Force at Loring AFB, Maine. We had 2 seasons: winter and road repair.
"Similarly, it is thought that animals killed just before serving are more jinbu potent, which is one reason the more exotic offerings in wet markets tend to be sold alive"
So, they're Klingons?
@I Have Misplaced My Pants:
I'm not sure I agree with this. Most of the people in my community seem to be thoroughly and irrationally terrified of the virus boogeyman and want to not only be cowed and controlled
I think a desire to be "cowed and controlled" is pretty common among human beings. We seem to be programmed for conformity.
Its written by a south african born writer roger mitchell who also wrote notting hill (rom com fluff) and the legal thriller changing lanes
"We are still a free country"
...
"most of the people in my community seen to ... want to be cowed and controlled"
I live in Virginia, and I do not get that impression. But I do not get out all that much these days .....
So New Brian jokes (?) about being with Rupert. And so he ends up in a bloody garbage bag that Stewie drags to the curb.
And of course, already mentioned by Narciso in another thread, there’s Johan Giesecke -- anti-panic anti-BSer.
So, they're Klingons?
yes-- some can barely Klingon to life once infected
Hey now...I'm largely in agreance with most posters on Trump and The State of Politics Now, however, this virulent strain of negative attitude towards the denizens of the South cannot be left ignored. Deliverance, Dukes of Hazzard, or, even Andy of Mayberry is not cinema verite. For every freak and moron present in a Southern Walmart, you can site their counterparts in New Jersey, New York Walmarts. Florida Man has his counterpart with California Man. Our accents and generally agreeable nature is not proof positive of low IQ. To underestimate the intelligence and capability of your Fellow Citizens would not be in your best interests even if you find it immensely entertaining! Just saying...
*yikes, could not care less; humblest apologies
Happy Easter Anne-I-Am.
*and also receive checks with the Statue of Liberty
I do not know what is wrong with my grammar this evening.
Well bo and luke duke were rebels, challengers of the establishment like the oleaginous boss hogg and his minion roscoe, so they practiced crimethink the movie version was horrid.
Unsurprising. Belief in certain conspiracy theories is widespread in the black community,
Taking into account history, this is one sin I'm ready to forgive. But it is toxic.
Earlier this month it was announced that there was going to be an experimental treatment given to virus patients in Detroit. My Black friends (very highly educated, school administrators) jumped on Facebook and complained that Black people were being used as test subjects. I pointed out other experimental treatments given in White communities, and the same exact drug was being given to patients in New York. Didn't matter. What finally shut everyone up was when I pointed out that if they hadn't have done the tests in Detroit, they would be complaining that Black people were being excluded from the tests.
My teenagers alerted me to the freebie of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall on YouTube for a couple of days and while I know it's lowbrow, it's a guilty pleasure. Enjoying it very much.
"...she wasn't dismissing white men, but rather the 'system that they curated'..."
How do black people acquire the capital to hide behind this kind of bullshit when espousing their racism? I want to be King for a Day, so I can fire this vicious bigot and all like her. We've gotten to the point in our society where there is "good racism" and "bad racism." Do we have "good corruption" and "bad corruption?" "Good felonies" and "bad felonies?" No, we don't. "Out on your ass" would be the only appropriate response in a just society.
In the forest preserves around Cook County, the understory was full of trillium. With post-WW2 urbanization there was no more hunting on local private land and the deer population boomed on public land, not having any predators in the area except people. Deer grazed the trillium into weeds over 20 or so years. It was terrible.
More recent decades have seen efforts at culling the herd before they starve but that's another story. No suburban mom wants to kill Bambi.
"Now, however, this virulent strain of negative attitude towards the denizens of the South cannot be left ignored."
I am a native Virginian. If I had been born one or two states further south, I would be a racist slopehead drooling cracker rube Deplorable. Luckily I was born close enough to Washington DC to be an Honorary Human.
@Gahrie:
Taking into account history, this is one sin I'm ready to forgive. But it is toxic.
Yeah, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment looms large in black consciousness, though most have the false idea that the subjects were purposefully infected with syphilis.
Mark,
Thank you! Christ is Risen!
Death is defeated, once and for all...
In all that is going on, the chaos and the destruction, I know that all things are folded into God's plan.
All shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Thanks be to God.
Sadly for what's-her-face at the NIH, the virologist, vaginologist...I just assume she is a product of affirmative action and therefore incompetent. Such is the fruit of the diversity movement.
I note that she got her BS at a subsidiary UM campus--but then her PhD at UNC. So not an idiot, but not necessarily really NIH material.
And only MDs are doctors. That is also a black thing, the credential flashing.
Anyway, she loses all credibility when she ceases to focus on the science and instead spouts off on the racism bullshit.
"You can have winter.
I see no purpose in it."
I think Winter had a big effect on the development of Western Civilization- it is an enormous hurdle to survival that had to be overcome by the people who populated the Northern Hemisphere. It spurs cooperative innovation in a way nothing other than war does.
Having said that, I don't miss western Connecticut winters at all. It can snow down here in Oak Ridge, TN, but it is uncommon, and you don't see month-long freezes here, either.
And of course, already mentioned by Narciso in another thread, there’s Johan Giesecke -- anti-panic anti-BSer.
Giesecke certainly makes a compelling argument and could end up being correct in his predictions. But here's the rub: even if Sweden's response turns out to be the correct one, there's a good chance it could never have been the response we implemented, given the differences between Swedes and the American population and the structure of our societies.
Being descended from Euro-trash and living in Chicago, a city of many nations, to understand the wypos you must first be able to understand the differences between the South, the Med countries; the East, the Slavs and Orthodox of the plains; and the Northwest, the countries of the Baltic and North Seas. Their is also a grouping of North Atlantic countries which includes both Northwestern and Southern countries.
And, speaking as a Chicagoan, these groups look as different from each other as Japanese, Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese peoples do. Until railroads in Europe, almost all common people mated within 15 miles of their home village, producing local genotypes.
@Yancey Ward:
it is an enormous hurdle to survival that had to be overcome by the people who populated the Northern Hemisphere.
I think there is something to this notion as well. When you look at the peoples of northeast Eurasia and northwest Eurasia, they are far ahead of other peoples in terms of development. And not just in their ancestral homelands but everywhere they have populated around the globe. Ethnic Chinese who have lived in Malaysia and Thailand for decades far outpace the natives.
Why do orthodox chose this weekend after pesach for easter, i dont think it makes a great difference the date as opposed to the act that is commemorated.
"I noted i picked up noble house"
It was the first Clavell novel I read. I eventually went back and read the others that preceded it, but I never read anything he later wrote. I loved "Noble House"- it was an odd novel for me to have read at that stage in my life- it was probably the most atypical novel for me as a teenager.
Why do orthodox chose this weekend after pesach for easter, i dont think it makes a great difference the date as opposed to the act that is commemorated.
Great schism plus Gregorian vs. Julian calendars.
I skimmed it in the eighties when my fare was ludlum like the second bourne book that introduced me to tiananmen square, about two years before those events this one was also set in part in hong kong.
I dropped my sub to Science a decade ago when they printed an absurd article that stated that research showed that, because there was some overlap on the wings between the testosterone levels of male and female athletes (using doubtful methodology), there was no difference between men and women in athletic performance.
Science still sends me emails asking me to re-subscribe. These emails brag about the influence of the magazine, and about how dedicated they are to diversity and inclusion. Ain't much about science in these emails, other than the claim that science can make us a more diverse and inclusive society.
My mother had gotten the book (it came as 2 volumes) from the book club, but I don't think she ever actually read it. I don't know why I picked it up, but I got engrossed within the first 30-40 pages, and finished it a few days later.
This was around the time they did a fairly faithful bourne identity adaptation with richard chamberlain who was an odd choice for an action hero. Even at that time.
The original character david webb was sonewhat akin to paul kersey an asian expert in the state department who is catapulted to joining a secret paramilitary group out of revenge for his wifes murder, there he meets the real jason bourne
soon we wont need Coates!
a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office.
Here's 'Anonymous,' Trump Aides Say.
And Here's How They Outed Her
here's how
Coates' 'Linguistic Fingerprints’ Appear to Match 'Anonymous’
"Luckily I was born close enough to Washington D.C. to be an honorary human." Heh, I was born and raised in Atlanta and witnessed in my youth the invasion of my fair city by the very same people who found our culture backward and risible, yet, *yet*, once they were acclimated to urban Southern lifestyle, you couldn't chase them away with a stick! Ahem, BTW, some of my best friends are Yankee Devils./sarc.
Jmaes Michener published _Tales of the South Seas_ in 1947. It's a good read, but he was obviously under the influence of Hemingway when he wrote the stories. Louis LaMoore had the same problem. A WW2 vet, LaMoore wrote Heminway-ish war stories & then switched to Westerns, where he had more success. Michener eventually found his own voice. LaMoore, in my opinion, did not.
ok-- he boldly 'went there'...where no man has gone before
shades of JTK in DJT?
Trump Asks if Muslims Will Get Special Treatment in Coronavirus Lockdowns During Ramadan, Compared with Churches during Easter
Ramadan starts the 23rd...
Paul sperry has been very much on point on many of these matters but i think it looks like thin gruel, sending her to saudi arabia on a doe billet doesnt seem like a firing
The Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna, is worth checking out if you like adventure novels. Much better the film. It was a nice snapshot into the life of the sailors who operated the gunboats that more or less ran the Chinese trade with the West in the 1920s. Also a good character study.
maybe for a woman it's worse than being fired
Ingachucketal
Well, some animals are more equal than others. And we know where in the hierarchy the Muslims fall. Because they are unpleasant and frequently dangerous, they get special treatment.
Narciso-
I ran into Chamberlain once, in the 90s, at a coffee place (Holuakoa Cafe) in Kona. Tiny little guy. My first thought was "who is this little f*gg*t?" Turns out he had a rent boy in Kona. This was long before Chamberlain "came out of the closet." Can't imagine it came as much of a surprise for anyone who knew him.
Well in light of his roles in shogun and the thornbirds to name two it seemed a little surprising
@Ingachuck'stoothlessARM:
soon we wont need Coates!
Coates has certainly had a very bizarre career trajectory. National Review published a glowing profile back in 2016. She was an adjunct art history teacher blogging at RedState when she was recruited by Rumsfeld to be a researcher on his memoir. She was then an adviser to Rick Perry in 2012 and Ted Cruz in 2016 before joining the Trump National Security Council, first as a director for Middle East and then as deputy national security adviser for Middle East and North African affairs.
p.s. When Coates was advising Cruz, she worked hard to get Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney, and Elliot Abrams on board. That alone demonstrates what godawful judgment this woman has. A who's who of foreign policy quacks.
I wonder if it would be considered discriminatory to ban obese or hypertensive men from certain jobs where the risk of exposure is high?....If Coates turns out to be the author, this won't hurt sales of a book I never heard of. Perhaps a follow up book with more personal details is indicated. This book can be made into a major motion picture with Charlize Theron. It can dramatize how noble she is and how stupid Donald Trump is.
Its been remaindered on the shelves at wmart
a section on a group within the WH ready to provide 25th A stuff,
and a plan to 'self-massacre' by leaving en masse (the horrors!)
DJT seems to like the 'friends close, enemies closer' thing, but sheesh--
...sometimes we wonder if he partly approaches his staffing as
some sort of "Deep State Dialysis' machine-- purposely inviting toxic
creatures to see where they really live and to later maybe build a case
to nail them.
book deals for some of these libs are just money laundering/
'30 pcs of silver' reward $$ for doing dirty.
Are the Inuit of the far north the pinnacle of human development. They do live on top of the world so, that's awesome bragging rights.
"I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world"
I was a long-time subscriber to Scientific American. Sometime in the very early 90s they published their April Fools article where they ridiculed people than didn't believe in AGW, believed that there could ever be a missile defense, "a bullet hitting a bullet," and some third thing I forget. I cancelled my subscription. I don't need propaganda with my science.
I read National Geographic from my grandparent's collection in 1919 to a few years ago when my father died, who had been paying for my sub. When my brother asked if I was going to renew, I said fuck that. Still love their maps and I have many pounds of them.
I'm just rambling tonight.
@bagoh20:
Are the Inuit of the far north the pinnacle of human development. They do live on top of the world so, that's awesome bragging rights.
The Inuit are an exception to the general correlation seen between IQ and latitude. Their movement into the arctic is relatively recent, probably occured about a thousand years ago. The Inuit also never developed agriculture, due to the environmental conditions, and relied solely on hunting to obtain food. Inuits also seem to have more advanced spatial reasoning skills.
Erythronium dens-canis is best of breed.
"My mother grew up in Michigan, and she would always say she liked to see the different seasons. That's how I feel too... But those who like to avoid the full cycle of temperature (and plant life) are welcome to live in other places. I'd move elsewhere if I wanted to, hard as that may be for you to believe."
Absolutely, love the different seasons, they are all my favorite. A very good and long standing friend moved to FL from here about 3 years ago. We are still in touch regularly, and visit a couple times per year. He is fond of sending me his local weather report, especially when it is snowy and cold here and warm and sunny there. "Why do you continue to live there?", he asks. Why? Because I love this weather, all of it.
Snow yesterday, April 18th, low to mid 60's and sunny forecast for today. How do you not love that?
the differences between the South, the Med countries; the East, the Slavs and Orthodox of the plains; and the Northwest, the countries of the Baltic and North Seas.
Until railroads in Europe, almost all common people mated within 15 miles of their home village, producing local genotypes
The secret secret of White Privilege is that the White Race keeps expanding (demographics be damned
Whites used to be WASPs (White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants)
Germans didn't used to be white
Italians didn't used to be white
Poles didn't used to be white
Slav's didn't used to be white
HELL! Irish didn't used to be white
Soon (real soon, like last week) Hispanics will be white
next? South Koreans? I'm pretty sure they Already Are
The Real Question is: Will Americans STILL be white?
Inuits also seem to have more advanced spatial reasoning skills.
Once they learned to make tea, they began to have great intuition, too.
but then her PhD at UNC. So not an idiot
That depends. Was she a post-grad varsity athlete?
It's the Tholian Web, and McCoy is an even bigger obnoxious ass than usual.
I like Bashir much better than McCoy.
The Justice Department needs to initiate an investigation into the way that New York and maybe other states (Massachusetts?) are juicing the stats. I smell fraud.
Eventually (soon I hope) the numbers will drop so low that they are outside of the margin for fraud.
Works the same way for elections.
In an earlier picture post about State Street, Ann Althouse said...
Recreational marijuana is legal in Illinois and in Michigan. So to the south and to the north. And consider that the UP of Michigan is geographically attached to Wisconsin and not to Michigan. As we say when we look at a map: "What? Did we lose a war?"
Actually, it was a war that Wisconsin wasn't involved in, the Toledo War. Wikipedia says:
The Toledo War (1835–36), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War, was an almost bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan.
Poor geographical understanding of the Great Lakes helped produce conflicting state and federal legislation between 1787 and 1805, and varying interpretations of the laws led the governments of Ohio and Michigan to both claim jurisdiction over a 468-square-mile (1,210 km2) region along the border, now known as the Toledo Strip. The situation came to a head when Michigan petitioned for statehood in 1835 and sought to include the disputed territory within its boundaries. Both sides passed legislation attempting to force the other side's capitulation, while Ohio's Governor Robert Lucas and Michigan's 24-year-old "Boy Governor" Stevens T. Mason helped institute criminal penalties for citizens submitting to the other's authority. Both states deployed militias on opposite sides of the Maumee River near Toledo, but besides mutual taunting, there was little interaction between the two forces. The single military confrontation of the "war" ended with a report of shots being fired into the air, incurring no casualties.
During the summer of 1836, Congress proposed a compromise whereby Michigan gave up its claim to the strip in exchange for its statehood and about three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula. Although the northern region's mineral wealth would later become an economic asset to Michigan, at the time the compromise was considered a poor outcome for the new state, and voters in a statehood convention in September soundly rejected the proposal. But in December, the Michigan government, facing a dire financial crisis and pressure from Congress and President Andrew Jackson, called another convention (called the "Frostbitten Convention") which accepted the compromise that resolved the Toledo War.
One if by land, and two if by sea;
We must fight the King’s men to protect slavery!
Something, something, cultural appropriation.
Bitches and hoes.
Free stuff, like, college!
Vote Biden.
I couldn't do my walk this morning. I tried, but the fog is too thick.
I know this part of the lakefront from our house to the harbor like the back of my hand and walk it ever morning there is not driving rains. But this morning I got completely disoriented in the fog and had no clue which direction I was headed.
Never had that happen before. Has anyone else?
LaMoore, in my opinion, did not.
L'Amour wrote "Hondo" his first novel and has the geography quite accurate. He lived in Arizona and one of these days I'm going to go find his locations in the novel. The map is in the front papers of the book.
Another favorite novelist of mine is Helen MacInnes whose novels are almost all set in Europe. I have had some fun finding her locations.
"But this morning I got completely disoriented in the fog and had no clue which direction I was headed. Never had that happen before. Has anyone else?"
Yes, but never on land.
Southern trout lilys are as intelligent as the ones that grow up North. Certainly smarter than a representational sampling of PhDs.
Milwaukie guy said...
"In the forest preserves around Cook County, the understory was full of trillium. With post-WW2 urbanization there was no more hunting on local private land and the deer population boomed on public land, not having any predators in the area except people. Deer grazed the trillium into weeds over 20 or so years. It was terrible.
More recent decades have seen efforts at culling the herd before they starve but that's another story. No suburban mom wants to kill Bambi."
My friends and I are working with the DNR to get the counties to initiate a special archery hunt to control the heards.
Here's today's Serious Question(s)
Is North Carolina in "the South"? Certainly Virginia isn't (right?)
Is New York in "the North"? Certainly New Jersey isn't (right?)
please don't reference a ludicrous 18th century surveyors line
According to 'the mason dixon line',
in 1862, Lee's troops headed North, to invade the south
"Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, an NIH immunologist working with the government ...
Amazingly enough ...
"Appointed to the VRC [Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] in 2014, she is currently the scientific lead of the VRC's Coronavirus Team, with research efforts aimed at propelling novel coronavirus vaccines, including a COVID-19 vaccine."
Winter is Nature’s pest control. From the winter of 2019 reporting:
After a relatively mild winter, tick experts are warning the tick population could boom this year.
Harsher winters typically help reduce the tick population, but this year was practically balmy as far as East Tennessee winters go -- with plenty of rain to boot.
Rick.T. correctly said... Winter is Nature’s pest control.
It SURE IS! you'd be surprised how Many pests get Totally demoralized by a few nights at 20 below!
West Virginia (née Virginia) has been described as the southernmost northern state and the northernmost southern state. Linguistically, based on the local dialects - even in the eastern Panhandle - I think it's not a stretch.
Virginia above Fredericksburg is no longer in The South.
It’s nice to know that we’re in the sober, experienced and wise hands of KizzyPhD.
How do you “wait for the vaccine” people feel about that plan now?
You guys are talking geographical and environmental determinism. Good! R D Kaplan has written many good books on how geography has and will influence human affairs.
John Shelton Reed probably has the best take on what and who is Southern, IMHO. And Vernon Burton has some interesting thoughts on the issue.
A friend of mine I never met (online only) once suggested a simple test of Southerness.
It depends on the answer to the question, "Do you consider yourself a Southerner?"
If yes, you are. If no, you aren't. Mark me as a yes.
Narr
Makes it a matter of subjective identity . . . works for me.
Speaking of state identities, did you hear the one about Kentucky?
The only state that joined the Confederacy AFTER the War.
Narr
I'll be here until the money is paid
South Carolina is currently the only Eastern Seaboard state which is still safely Southern. The rest are partly or largely lost.
The South is many things; the one I know is very different from anyone else's.
We have four seasons here. I transcribed the journal of an Illinois soldier who was all over West TN and N Miss in the ACWABAWS, and he frequently complained that it was "cold as Greenland."
OTOH, we have a summer that Foote claimed (to his bud Percy IIRC) R E Lee thought too brutal for white soldiers to fight effectively through. Bad call!
Without particularly endorsing them as writers, my South is Faulkner's, Foote's, Peter Taylor's, Tennessee Williams's, Jesse Hill Ford's. And Grisham's, grrr.
Narr
Lawzy mussie, John Grisham
>>Anne-I-Am
Truly he is risen!
>>Milwaukie guy: And, speaking as a Chicagoan, these groups look as different from each other as Japanese, Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese peoples do
And, speaking as a (former) Chicagoan with a huge family still there, there was a *lot* of intermarriage. As in my non-religious, sorta Presbyterian, Scottish-descent father marrying my German Catholic mother (in the rectory, of course, not in the church) after, of course, agreeing in advance to surrender us to the Catholic church (which he sorta succumbed to in his later years). A *lot* of German/Irish marriages (or, in the case of my sisters, Scottish/German marriages with Irish or Polish and, later, my German/Scottish/Irish niece with a Puerto Rican). And my Scottish protestant cousin marrying a woman of Greek descent in an Orthodox ceremony that we had to decide whether we were allowed to attend.
Even in my now long-time home of Boston, I'm aware of a member of an old Brahmin family marrying about the darkest little Italian girl I've ever known. With his family being forced to set foot in a Catholic church.
--gpm
>>narciso: Why do orthodox chose this weekend after pesach for easter, i dont think it makes a great difference the date
Farmer beat me to it on this one, but Synod of Whitby, anyone?
--gpm
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