I re-parked my car and headed out toward the primary vantage point, but I was deep in the foliage when the great blaze of color came at 5:44:
I got to the primary vantage point at 5:50, and here's how it looked, almost exactly like the 5:31 pre-sunrise view from the secondary vantage point, just slightly dingier:
(Open thread in the comments.)
পোস্টগুলি
৩০টি মন্তব্য:
Oh, but I love the sunrise through the trees! Foliage is such a key part of the North Country seasons, and we often only have the lake.
I like to tell the story of getting on the wrong tour bus in Athens.
.....and then it turns out.......there is no wrong tour bus in Athens.
A few days ago a jury found that E. Jean Carroll brought a false rape claim against Donald Trump, but I don’t remember a single headline highlighting that fact, or any opinion piece criticizing her for such a false claim.
I guess when you’re a woman, they just let you do it.
https://www.sciencealert.com/most-covid-19-deaths-may-be-the-result-of-a-completely-different-infection
A new analysis suggests that a high percentage of people who required help from a ventilator due to a COVID-19 infection also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia. This pneumonia was responsible for a higher mortality rate than the COVID-19 infection.
..while COVID-19 may have put these patients in the hospital, it was actually an infection brought on by the use of a mechanical ventilator that was more likely to be the cause of death..
They're FINALLY (starting) to admit.. it was the "treatment" for covid that killed people; not the covid
Back in 2020; if they sent you to a hospital... YOU DIED; alone, with no family allowed to visit.
How many people in the US died of covid in their own beds? At home??
I'm not saying that there weren't such; but it's Sure Clear, that you should have taken your chances at home.
Ventilators KILL. This is ALWAYS the case with any sickness. Most especially with this one
My niece graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School today. Was on Law Review as an articles editor and had an article published. She was hired jby a firm that she did summer work for the last two years and will start the end of August.
At a family gathering, as she mentioned some potential law schools, I said “What about Wisconsin? A retired law professor from Wisconsin writes a blog - she’s very witty and eclectic - check it out!” I told her to make note of “cruel neutrality” and “civility bullshit” tagged posts as those are always good reads.
I don’t know how much she read at Althouse, but we talked at a couple of other family get-togethers about law school. She later told me that she had applied and was accepted at UW Law. I believed she enjoyed school.
Very proud of her.
The team looked at records for 585 people admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, also in Illinois. They all had severe pneumonia and/or respiratory failure, and 190 had COVID-19.
The findings refute the idea that a cytokine storm following COVID-19 – an overwhelming inflammation response causing organ failure – was responsible for a significant number of deaths. There was no evidence of multi-organ failure in the patients studied.
Instead, COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and for longer periods. Cases where VAP didn't respond to treatment were significant in terms of the overall mortality rates in the study.
"Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that."
Very sweet story, Tachycineta. Thanks.
A reporter from my hometown newspaper wrote an article about the newly minted National Archivist. As it happens, she graduated from my high school. The senate approved her 52-45. The article stated she was grilled by Sen. Josh Hawley. I emailed the reporter and asked why he didn't include her stonewalling the R's when questioned about her inflammatory social media posts.
He responded: "You must have missed the Hawley fist pump to Trump supporters . Hopefully the National Archives will keep that photo. The support he got from the gang from Q'Anon and the white supremacists was evident."
I asked for a link for the fist pump. No response.
He later responded with: "The editors removed the part where I wrote that the same Sen. Josh Hawley who grilled her, gave a fist-pump of encouragement to the invasion of the Capital by Trump supporters, who beat police attempting to protect the Senators during the vote by the Electoral College."
I responded: I've done the work for you. I found a video link from the Washington Post interviewing Hawley and his fist bump. The video provides context. It would enlighten you. He did not encourage the protesters to enter the capitol as you have alleged. Disappointing.
The reporter then responded:"Right after his speech. He (Hawley) was smiling. He did it with his right hand extended, almost like a Nazi salute, but with a clenched fist."
My final comment to him: A Nazi salute? Come on, you’re better than that. End of conversation.
His last gasp: "I said it was similar to, not exact, with the way the right hand was extended upward in a stiff position,."
The article in question: https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/norwin-grad-named-head-of-national-archives-and-records-administration/
Happy Birthing Persons' Day this weekend to all of you who so identify.
We wish to announce that we self-identify as conjoined twins now, and we will be using the carpool lane from now on.
Hey, I thought this was a run but now we're hearing about driving a car and parking and then driving to another spot. My disappointment is overwhelming.
I was talking to a person today and told her how one professor, Ron Volkmer, was worth the price of tuition. He made me think like a lawyer. If I would have been in Section B, who knows what would have happened.
One great Professor can make a huge difference.
Tweet: The New Female Twitter CEO @elonmusk is reportedly talking to is Linda Yaccarino, who according to LinkedIn is currently the Executive Chair for the World Economic Forum—and was Chairman of Advertising at NBC Universal.
Awful, if true.
there’s always a downside in wonderful things nothing in life is free
YouTube: “Birth control is the first step in transhumanism”
Oh what a tangled web . . .
It looks like the DS may deal with the Biden Crime Syndicate Problem by letting on that Hunter was actually--wait for it--an asset, a Confidential Human Informant working undercover against America's enemies all along. What better cover than wasted wastrel scion?
Ta-da! Once the tale is planted, it will be taken up by the trained seals, and provide enough cover to ease Joe out for obvious mental and physical decline rather than for long-running but well-obfuscated crimes and scams.
“Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, conthrols th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.”
(from a column “Mr. Dooley on Newspaper Publicity” by Finley Peter Dunne, published in many US newspapers on October 5, 1902)
The plain English “translation” is:
“The newspaper does everything for us. It runs the police force and the banks, commands the militia, controls the legislature, baptizes the young, marries the foolish, comforts the afflicted, afflicts the comfortable, buries the dead and roasts them afterward.”
Dunne’s quote is often misquoted as “The duty [or job] of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Indeed, that version has become a kind of motto for defenders of the free press. Ironically, Dunne’s piece was not meant as praise of the press. It’s actually a negative jab at newspapers who Mr. Dooley thinks print far too much minutiae about almost everything and everyone and pokes into the private lives of citizens far too much.
Mr. Dooley complains that, because newspapers regularly print gossip and photos about local citizens, “There are no such things as private citizens” anymore. Interestingly, many of his criticisms of newspapers sound similar to modern concerns about the internet and social media.
Source - https://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2020/07/comfort-afflicted-and-afflict.html
@Narr
That's good. Got another one for you.
China knows that they can easily smuggle enough of a substance to kill us 100 times. They also know that their own people are crossing the same border in record numbers. They're also working on COVID 23 even as I type. I'll be pretty alarmed if Biden, KJP, or Mayorkas start boasting that they are expediting the amnesty for a few 100 Uyghurs that just showed up at the border.
"And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common (unclean).”(Acts 10)
Or this headline from Legal Insurrection: "New Study Reveals Lab Grown Meat Up To 25 Times Worse for the Environment Than Beef"
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/new-study-reveals-lab-grown-meat-up-to-25-times-worse-for-environment-than-beef/
You choose.
"Thus, the idea that Americans known as the January 6th protestors are now languishing in prison because they exercised their G-d-given rights to protest is shocking and beyond belief."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/from_emthe_american_gulag_chroniclesem.html
"Barr assigned U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into the Russia hoax, but as the memoir explains, “I made it clear that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were in Durham’s crosshairs.”
For William Barr, some people are indeed above the law, including Joe Biden. If that seems strange for a former attorney general, check out an episode not charted in Barr’s book. "
Except, Obama spied on Trump before AND after he was President, with the help of the corrupt Intel agencies Barr is patting on the back. Tell me again, there is no deep state, when this asshole seems to think Biden is doing a great job.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/12/barr-ometer-falling/
Tell me again that the Progressives love America, because I don't freaking believe it...
We can't take care of our own, but we are forced to take care of illegals who invaded our country because Joe Biden opened up that border.
"Dozens of homeless veterans have been kicked out of their upstate New York hotels to make room for an influx of migrants fueled by the expiration of immigration restriction order Title 42.
The struggling veterans were only informed at the start of the week that they would be making way for the migrants, a nonprofit veterans organization told The New York Post." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12079357/Homeless-veterans-booted-upstate-hotel-make-room-migrants.html
Gilbar-
You’re misinterpreting the study.
We have learned a lot over the past 3 years, and we are still learning.
The people who were placed on ventilators rather than being sent home had oxygen saturations typically in the 70% range. That met, and meets, absolute indications for intubation and ventilation. Failure to do so is a violation of the Standard of Care, because it will in the vast majority of cases result in brain damage or heart attack, or death, due to the low oxygen content of blood. When you imply that getting admitted to ICU is a death sentence, and getting sent home saves your life, you are talking about 2 completely different populations.
The linked article is a call for finding better ways of preventing and treating the bacterial pneumonia that almost inevitably results from prolonged intubation and ventilation. Nobody can disagree with that. It is simply not the case that a physician, following the standards of care, admitting a patient to an ICU, condemned the patient to an avoidable death, is simply false. The patient with 70% oxygen saturation who is sent home dies quicker and worse than if he receives standard care.
The medical establishment made a lot of mistakes finding its way through the covid catastrophe, and is still making mistakes, but following well established standards of care early in the time course was not a mistake.
Gilbar... you're on to something. Shhh!
83,000 illegals crossed the border this week. Have any of our liberal commenters on this blog agreed to house a few?
West TX Intermediate Crude said...
"Gilbar-
You’re misinterpreting the study.
We have learned a lot over the past 3 years, and we are still learning.
The people who were placed on ventilators rather than being sent home had oxygen saturations typically in the 70% range."
I can only speak from my experience. Before I went to the hospital, my O2 dipped into the 60s but bounced back. When admitted via the ER, I was asked if I had a medical directive - I did not and still don't - and I also informed the admitting rep that I wouldn't consent to be put on a ventilator. The MDs went with other aggressive therapies, including remdesevir, IV antibiotics, and steroid antiinflammatories. Normally remdesevir would be administered soon after onset of symptoms; I was already eight days in, but the treatments worked for me so I have no complaints. Since finishing recovery at home, I'm off oxygen and back to normal activities. I give the antibiotics most of the credit for knocking down the pneumonia.
I like to tell the story of getting on the wrong tour bus in Athens.
.....and then it turns out.......there is no wrong tour bus in Athens.
EXACTLY.
The theme of the scifi novella Vintage Season is the dark side of this fact. It tells the story of some unbelievably urbane and sophisticated strangers who come to stay in the protagonist's house, or maybe inn - it's been a long time! - and who seem to take pleasure in the most ordinary things. Eventually we learn (spoiler alert!) that they're time travelers who, unlike the common run of time tourists in their era, prefer to visit times just before or after the disasters the normie time travelers like to see ( the month right before Vesuvius went off and so forth. In the case of this era in which the story is set, a terrible plague is about to sweep the world. But these time travelers are enjoying the vintage season that precedes it.
I loved the usual vantage point picture.
Because Progressives are SOOOOO compassionate.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
·
Follow
A reporter tried to debunk the horror stories about San Francisco, but couldn’t because they’re true. “Some of the street addicts were rotting, literally: their decomposing flesh attracting flies.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/12/reporter-sets-out-to-debunk-san-francisco-horror-stories-is-slapped-with-sickening-dose-of-reality-instead-1358452/
@Rt41Rebel--thanks, my scenario isn't entirely original, and something like yours is eminently possible.
If our actual enemies aren't contemplating something like it, they're incompetent. How many small teams of well trained and motivated saboteurs would it take to tie this country in knots with widespread strikes on critical infrastructure? Nobody would have to invade, just set the
place on fire--and we know there are millions of disaffected citizens who are being primed for retribution for real and imagined sufferings and will be happy to participate.
@Rt41Rebel--thanks, my scenario isn't entirely original, and something like yours is eminently possible.
If our actual enemies aren't contemplating something like it, they're incompetent. How many small teams of well trained and motivated saboteurs would it take to tie this country in knots with widespread strikes on critical infrastructure? Nobody would have to invade, just set the
place on fire--and we know there are millions of disaffected citizens who are being primed for retribution for real and imagined sufferings and will be happy to participate.
একটি মন্তব্য পোস্ট করুন