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No sunrise photo today. The "feels like" temperature was below zero this morning. We've had quite the late-winter cold snap these last few days. But it will be over tomorrow. The next 10 days look like they'll hit 50° and beyond. By then it will be spring. The first day of spring is March 20th. And speaking of landmarks of the calendar, tonight is the spring forward into Daylight Saving Time. It's dark now, so the next time you see daylight, engage in the mass fantasy of saving it. It's what we do.
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Weather is never over until it is over. But I hope you are correct that spring is near. My Mother used to say "we have broken the back of winter." But that was usually in late Febuary.
Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.”
Portland is now the first city to offer bereavement leave for employees after they have an abortion. Under the new policy, employees are able to take off three days of work after an abortion or any type of pregnancy loss.
https://katu.com/news/local/portland-offers-bereavement-leave-to-city-employees-who-have-abortion
Western PA: 8 inches of new snow, after a very promising first ten days of March. Down to ten tonight, then on to better things.
Not to be a curmudgeon but . . . The term “World War Three” seems to be getting a bit devalued lately. A world war should involve a very substantial part or the world’s powerful nations and be played out on a global stage. Just because a war might involve the US and some other (usually nuclear equipped) country doesn’t make it a world war.
OTOH, if the US and Russia were to have a serious nuclear war with each other, and no one else, then in the aftermath, the uninvolved players - notably China and the EU, would be in much better relative positions. If the US and Russia are not committed to attacking others, then this discourages the prospect of a bilateral nuclear war. Otherwise, it provides an incentive for attacking other nations, so that no one is left standing.
We had our last snow of the season about a month ago, with some cold days after. Glad to see it gone.
Yesterday was mid-60s and sunny, tomorrow will be near 50 and sunny. Today we had a gray and cold and windy day with hours of cold wet snow.
What is time?
Time is the measurement of changes in space. Delta distance divided by rate of change.
What is time?
That was time.
US consulate bombed in Iraq.
Not a word on CNN.com
Clowns.
Our sudden 4" of snow last night is mostly gone after a sunny day, but it's coldern crap tonight.
If time = money, does money = time? Why or why not? I'll check back in a few months.
I watched Cloudburst.
Netflix. Lesbian love story.
I liked it. Kinda not my thing, but emotionally it was.
It's two weeks of rain here in Pugetopolis. Temps in the high 30s to the mid 50s.
When do we start evaluating the Democratic Party with RICO laws??
So when does the ice go out?
Sweet Jesus! Mike of Snoqualmie it is now called the Salish Sea, and all my girl friends agree that Puget Sound is racist.
Obviously, you need to update your paradigm.
/sarc
US consulate bombed in Iraq.
Wasn't that in Erbil, Kurdistan?? I know I might be splitting hairs, but I'm pretty sure the Kurds don't consider themselves Iraqis.
Veep Harris said in a speech to the DNC that the Democrats' task is to show people that the country "got what it ordered." Good luck selling that-no one "ordered" the highest inflation in forty years, a major war in Europe, a non-existent southern border, N Korea lobbing missiles, Russia mediating a US treaty with Iran, etc. Reportedly Saudi Arabia and the UAE didn't take Biden's calls.
Seriously, has this administration had any successes?
Mason G said...
Portland is now the first city to offer bereavement leave for employees after they have an abortion. Under the new policy, employees are able to take off three days of work after an abortion or any type of pregnancy loss.
https://katu.com/news/local/portland-offers-bereavement-leave-to-city-employees-who-have-abortion
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If they can get bereavement leave (paid for by someone else) for deciding to expel a "clump of tissue", can I get one for having a kidney removed?
I LOVED that kidney!!
SNORT
We just finished watching the last episode of “Vikings:Valhalla” on Netflix. Very interesting, entertaining 8 episode series with more forthcoming next year. It chronicles the end of the Viking age, their conquest of parts of England (the Danelaw) , and the Battle of Stamford Bridge, around 1066, just prior to the Norman invasion of England. A rather high budget film, with excellent production values for Netflix. It is historically rather accurate, and it honestly depicts the conflicts between Christianity and Norse Paganism. The two main characters are Leif Erickson and Freydis Eriksdottir, brother and sister, who are also chronicled in “The Vinland Sagas.”
So, Althouse, I've been thinking about this. How about if we just call them "Noggers"? Like, you see some news article, about how some "youths" decided they needed immediate access to some poor woman's car, and after pistol-whipping her, they drove off with her infant in the back, and of course they wrecked it, and left the baby in the resulting inferno while they attempted to hijack another vehicle, so they could get away from the cops, but the owner of that vehicle turned out to be armed, so now he is looking at life in prison for daring to point a handgun at one of your little pets -- your little pet noggers -- how about, in that ever-more-common situation, we just shrug our shoulders, and say, "Noggers gonna nog".
Is that OK, or is more work required?
There's another interesting story In Wisconsin Right Now about how the vote was gathered in Wisconsin nursing homes during the 2020 election. Wisconsin statutes specify that special state deputies "shall" oversee how votes are counted in nursing homes but the Wisconsin Election Commission disregarded the statute and there were no deputies overseeing the vote gathering. 100% of the patients in these homes in the five largest jurisdictions in Wisconsin voted including those declared incompetent and those who did not know their own family members. There are 90,000 nursing home patients in the whole state. Should there have been deputies monitoring the nursing home voting as the statute said when the voting was absentee due to Covid? The Milwaukee Soros-DA, John Chisholm has ruled that the word "shall" is a non-directive word meaning perhaps "suggest" or "you may feel like doing this" and so the WEC did not break the law when it had votes assembled by staff rather than by the special deputies. It's strange that the staff who knew the patients never objected to collecting votes from those whom they, better than anyone, knew were incompetent
https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/2022/03/08/chisholm-wec/
I fell asleep earlier than usual, so I’m saving even more than the average saver, saved for people in a vegetive state, without a time zone, that is to say I was in a kind of vegetive state when I was sleep, just not as profound as people who are said to be in a vegetative state because they are not self identifying as vegetive. that identification was given to them by other people who needed to save time identifying a condition in which a person is not capable of self identifying do to falling in a kind of profound sleep, but I repeat myself.
If we’re in a kind of a brave new world, as laid out here (in the form of a question) 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/S9x6_1exxV8.
Then guilt by the weak association of having been born in Russia nowadays is just unfortunate, isn’t it? I’m talking about people losing their livelihood because they were born in Russia.
I mean. Just a short time ago, after 9/11, we were going to some lengths to essentially say #NotAllMuslims. In the span of a short decade, that kind of fundamental respect for the dignity of personhood is seemingly tossed aside.
If that becomes a trend, I’m very pessimistic about the world we’re disinheriting subsequent generations.
Oh. I just realized Russias are white. That’s why it’s ok to lump them together as opposed to way we preached to avoid lumping all Muslims together in the aftermath of 9/11. That means it’s even worse… it’s always worse than what it appears at first look.
I’ve started listening to a long podcast about slavery given by a Joe Rogan guest, Dan Carlin.
👉🏽 https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/blitz-human-resources/id173001861?i=1000553133741
Hopefully today is the last day I wimp out and don’t run because it’s too cold. It’ll be much nicer in a few hours, but I like to run in the early morning when no one else is out.
Mason G said...Portland is now the first city to offer bereavement leave for employees after they have an abortion. Under the new policy, employees are able to take off three days of work after an abortion or any type of pregnancy loss.
Figures…either abortion is the murder of a human being or it’s the removal of a cyst. Where does bereavement leave fit into this dichotomy? And yet it is put in place by people who want abortion to be legal in most/all circumstances.
Kamala speech yesterday said Voters got what they voted for. We Know. This is exactly what Biden promised, and progressives were so excited about bankrupting America, this IS what they voted for. Vote wiser next time. (And stop the fraudulent mail in voting...)
Just another day in Bidens America. Yesterday in NYC, a woman was beaten and raped in a Catholic Church by a homeless guy who had been arrested over 33 times. Insane Progressive policies have made NYC a 3rd world slum. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10607139/NYC-woman-68-beaten-raped-inside-Catholic-CHURCH-homeless-man.html
Mason G said...
"Portland is now the first city to offer bereavement leave for employees after they have an abortion. Under the new policy, employees are able to take off three days of work after an abortion or any type of pregnancy loss."
At least it's an admission that it was once alive and human ish. That's a form of progress, I suppose.
Seriously, has this administration had any successes?
He's become a master at ordering a two-scoop, chocolate, chocolate-chip ice cream cone. That's why he's referred as "Two Scoop."
I mean. Just a short time ago, after 9/11, we were going to some lengths to essentially say #NotAllMuslims. In the span of a short decade, that kind of fundamental respect for the dignity of personhood is seemingly tossed aside.
Woodrow Wilson and his progressive party, i.e., Democrat party, did the same thing to the Germans back in WWI era. That's what progressive, I mean neobarabarians, do. Everyone is a member of a group. Individual people do not matter, only the group identity.
It's dark now, so the next time you see daylight, engage in the mass fantasy of saving it. It's what we do.
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saving daylight is indeed fantasy as much as CAGW
what is desirable is better use of natural light to save energy for the dark-times
... The question of a better use of daylight was raised by Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers, while he was posted in Paris in the 1780s.
Franklin's letter to the Journal of Paris in 1784 poked fun at modern habits of sleeping through daylight and burning fuel for light at night, ....
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