tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7821263414902838978..comments2024-03-28T04:42:46.147-05:00Comments on Althouse: At the Western Sunrise Café...Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49173537975262954542020-03-08T03:01:08.196-05:002020-03-08T03:01:08.196-05:00wildswan, thankswildswan, thanksLewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364287936968808344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38485344732312115862020-03-07T17:45:22.389-06:002020-03-07T17:45:22.389-06:00As I stated in an earlier thread, the VP choice wi...<i>As I stated in an earlier thread, the VP choice will be the actual POTUS candidate. Biden will drop out and the VP becomes the candidate. There is no way they can continue to hide his cognitive decline.<br /><br />Klobuchar makes sense because she is from the Midwest and can pretend to be a moderate Minnesota nice candidate in contrast to the NYC rough Trump. That will keep the suburban women in line.</i><br /><br />If this happens, history will repeat itself and the only state she'll get is Minnesota. If the DNC cheats sanders out of the nomination (and they will) only to give it to Biden, and then have Biden give it to someone else will drive Bernie supporters bug fucking crazy. We're talking burning cities crazy. They definitely ain't voting for Amy.<br /><br />Right now, the Democrats are in a can't win situation. They're down to someone who is clearly in the early stages of senility and a fucking Communist. The goal is to have a brokered convention where they can fix things. Which is when Cruella De Ville returns to "save the Party and the nation".Gahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56206499131186190862020-03-07T17:42:34.461-06:002020-03-07T17:42:34.461-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62652203133516836812020-03-07T15:37:15.705-06:002020-03-07T15:37:15.705-06:00"It’s a finely-tuned machine, this Administra...<i>"It’s a finely-tuned machine, this Administration."</i><br /><br />Chuck obviously longs for the days when Valerie Jarrett ran the White House while President Bricklayer filled out his March Madness brackets.Jim athttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271099587684174816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73089850949669453222020-03-07T09:51:32.155-06:002020-03-07T09:51:32.155-06:00I've thought for a month or two now that it wo...I've thought for a month or two now that it would be Klobuchar for VP.<br /><br />And almost certain to be president if Biden is elected.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43044746254074088202020-03-07T09:48:33.482-06:002020-03-07T09:48:33.482-06:00Tulsi should issue a video of herself answering th...Tulsi should issue a video of herself answering the debate questions and questioning answers, a video made during the debate and issued just after. You know - the moderators' questions, Tulsi's answers right off the cuff, at least to the more relevant ones. Not interested on mottoes, colors, most poignant moment, hello Mom and Dad.<br /><br />The novel I'm reading.<br />The Dems have eliminated all the better candidates (some of whom never ran) and now they've got Hindenburg, Good Ol' Dementia Jon Hindenburg, as the Presidential candidate and they're going to put in their real candidate as vp - a dynamic young socialist who's ready to lead the Black Masks against the foul racist, sexist, homophobic, patriotic, Christian POS Americans led by their foul racist, sexist, homophobic, patriotic, Christian leader, Don John of America. The plan of the billionaires is that Hindenburg, (Good Ol' Dementia Jon) will hold Dynamic Young Socialist back from real excesses. But what about Hellarion? and Willy-Wag-Tail, her husband? Hellarion plans a sudden snatch and grab raid on the nomination at the convention when everyone's drunk, thus becoming The Hindenburg Candidate instead. But...<br />Haven't finished yet.wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43114035485286972102020-03-07T09:20:06.802-06:002020-03-07T09:20:06.802-06:00Lewis
I liked these lines
"This our modern ...Lewis<br /><br />I liked these lines<br /><br />"This our modern way<br />We love but cannot have<br />The once promised life?"<br /><br />"You had a claim on an Angel.<br />But he did not come. Only me."<br /><br />Yancy Ward said<br />"... why has California been assigning delegates? ... For all anyone knows, Biden won the state with that large an amount uncounted."<br /><br />I think they know - as they should since they counted them as they wrote them.wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80957775036906066002020-03-07T08:52:13.738-06:002020-03-07T08:52:13.738-06:00"seems a Pakistani immigrant that worked for ...<i>"seems a Pakistani immigrant that worked for a Chinese restaurant delivering food to customers was found positive for the virus and told to self-isolate. Of course he knew better than that, so he continued working"</i><br /><br />Immigrants: we get the job done!Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15535446176175079522020-03-07T08:41:11.493-06:002020-03-07T08:41:11.493-06:00MockTurtle!
i'm so happy that you're (fina...MockTurtle!<br />i'm so happy that you're (finally!) reading ivanho!<br /><br />my blogger name is named after the Hero of Ivanho; Brian de Bois-Guilbert<br />In a more perfectly perfect world, Brian and Rebecca would have lived happily ever aftergilbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949243924046064880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74940661566251463322020-03-07T08:40:06.601-06:002020-03-07T08:40:06.601-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.gilbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949243924046064880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57059136223867178002020-03-07T08:35:23.054-06:002020-03-07T08:35:23.054-06:00I would put my money on Klobuchar being the choice...<i>I would put my money on Klobuchar being the choice, even though she is a non-entity as a candidate.</i><br /><br />As I stated in an earlier thread, the VP choice will be the actual POTUS candidate. Biden will drop out and the VP becomes the candidate. There is no way they can continue to hide his cognitive decline.<br /><br />Klobuchar makes sense because she is from the Midwest and can pretend to be a moderate Minnesota nice candidate in contrast to the NYC rough Trump. That will keep the suburban women in line.Francisco Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06352134756750456783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16147015565826877672020-03-07T08:05:29.535-06:002020-03-07T08:05:29.535-06:00Mike Munger on Prince Gouging
https://www.econtalk...Mike Munger on Prince Gouging<br />https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-price-gouging/<br /><br />amusing, one of the best podcasts around.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43386094609759937712020-03-07T07:50:20.751-06:002020-03-07T07:50:20.751-06:00The decision comes after eBay's marketplace wa...<i>The decision comes after eBay's marketplace was hit with price gouging, with sellers offering some items at inflated prices.<br />Sorry! You can't buy something because it has recently become more valuable! FOAD, it's for your own protection</i><br /><br />It's the (new) american way! When there is a crisis, the VERY FIRST THING you want to do; is fill up your gas tank, 'cause Real Soon they'll run out of gas<br />The REASON they'll run out of gas, is because; they are Required, BY LAW, NOT to raise their prices<br />And Everybody KNOWS they're GOING TO RUN OUT SOON, so EVERYBODY fills up their tanks...<br />Which causes an massive increase in demand, with causes them to Run Out.<br />So, by day two, we have stories about nurses and doctors not being able to get to work<br /><br />IF, on the OTHERHAND<br />We let the price float; people would say: <br />I don't REALLY need gas, so i'll wait<br />which would mean that there WOULDN'T BE a spike in demand, and they wouldn't run out<br /><br />Which World would YOU rather live in?<br />a world were there IS NO GAS, but it would be reasonably priced; if it existed<br />or, a world were Gas was Really expensive?gilbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949243924046064880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29124457277744277502020-03-07T07:33:02.053-06:002020-03-07T07:33:02.053-06:00Putnam Mathematical Competition
I got a congratu...<i>Putnam Mathematical Competition <br /><br /></i>I got a congratulatory letter from my college president for getting a positive score. WEEE!Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5122215001902183152020-03-07T07:07:31.733-06:002020-03-07T07:07:31.733-06:00American socialism in action:
"EBay issued a...<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/ebay-bans-sales-of-all-face-masks-and-hand-sanitizers.html" rel="nofollow">American socialism in action:</a><br /><br />"EBay issued a notice to sellers Thursday telling them it's banning all listings for N95 and N100 masks, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes. <br /><br />The decision comes after eBay's marketplace was hit with price gouging, with sellers offering some items at inflated prices.<br /><br />The company said it was banning all new listings in these product categories in connection with regulatory restrictions across the U.S., including price gouging laws in some states."<br /><br /> ++<br /><br />Sorry! You can't buy something because it has recently become more valuable! FOAD, it's for your own protection.<br />Fernandinandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253225431705407699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52034288944942936332020-03-07T06:19:14.381-06:002020-03-07T06:19:14.381-06:00"Arguing About Slavery, William Lee Miller.&q..."Arguing About Slavery, William Lee Miller."<br /><br />His "Lincoln's Virtues" is one of my favorite books.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06544975859782391441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65522958309558837892020-03-07T06:16:17.128-06:002020-03-07T06:16:17.128-06:00...[H]ere are the top scorers in the 2019 Putnam M......[H]ere are the top scorers in the 2019 Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduates in the U.S.A. and Canada, held December 7th. Top five scorers, surname only, alphabetic order:<br /><br /> Sah, Sun, Yao, Zhang, Zhu.<br /><br />Next eleven:<br /><br /> Ardeishar, Bhattacharya, Gu, Lin, Liu, Peng, Ren, Schildkraut, Singhal, Yao, Zhao.<br /><br />Next twelve:<br /><br /> Gao, Kim, Kim, Lin, Liu, Liu, Nichani, Ren, Rong, Tang, Wang, Zhang.<br /><br />- Derb notices.<br /><a href="https://vdare.com/articles/derb-s-february-diary-adam-rutherford-s-racist-myths-basil-s-namesakes-fury-vs-wilder-etc-12-items" rel="nofollow">Derb Diary</a>rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10051310484057993672020-03-07T06:08:54.616-06:002020-03-07T06:08:54.616-06:00Yancey, your analysis rings true to me. I'm st...Yancey, your analysis rings true to me. I'm struck by the notion that what the Democrat party has done on this year's candidate selection process is not terribly dissimilar from the old style choosing of the candidate by the party operatives and elite.stevewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17253727732365900942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13017102228458671992020-03-07T04:33:21.699-06:002020-03-07T04:33:21.699-06:00As one living in the east (Hong Kong) I thought yo...As one living in the east (Hong Kong) I thought you might have meant a metaphor for The East vs The West…Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12244915774610622135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50972665309035658902020-03-07T03:02:36.940-06:002020-03-07T03:02:36.940-06:00No. Wrong episode.No. Wrong episode.Original Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714345479248980398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61410927704635959602020-03-07T02:32:12.133-06:002020-03-07T02:32:12.133-06:00"Curzon Dax's widowed wife comes to the s...<i>"Curzon Dax's widowed wife comes to the station and meets Jadzia. Dax is still in love with the wife."</i><br /><br />Fionnula FlanaganOriginal Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714345479248980398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20971315111620315362020-03-07T02:29:28.675-06:002020-03-07T02:29:28.675-06:00Is the Cali vote counting organization a Soros pur...Is the Cali vote counting organization a Soros purchase?BUMBLE BEEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634550534359132384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3887944958692627882020-03-07T01:04:18.049-06:002020-03-07T01:04:18.049-06:00Arashi said...
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A thought. If the WuhFlu is re...<i>Arashi said...<br />....<br />A thought. If the WuhFlu is really, really deadly - then why have not all of the homeless camps on the west coast succumbed at this point? Why are ther not hundreds of dead bodies in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, etc. by now? We are talking people that unfortunately are not in good health, have terrible hygiene and most likley don't wash their hands every 5 minutes. So why are we not reading about the terrible decimation of these poor folks in the msm?</i><br /><br />The homeless, most of the, are alcoholics, and live with a BAC that would render us occasional drinkers unconscious. (Had a co-worker DRIVE to work and blow a .32 at 8 AM.....) I have read that while alcoholics suffer many things, viral diseases aren't one of them. Because their BAC is too high for the average virus to survive. <br /><br />I know more than one person, including me, who's deliberately gotten drunk, very drunk, while suffering from a bad cold, and woke up feeling better the next day. YMMV.<br /><br />I don't believe this works for bacterial infections.Gospacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570281939230746682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91669816626259232932020-03-07T00:50:44.691-06:002020-03-07T00:50:44.691-06:00And now for something completely different...
Gen...And now for something completely different...<br /><br />Genome. 2019 Nov;62(11):761-768. <br />Sex solves Haldane's dilemma.<br /><br />"The cumulative reproductive cost of multi-locus selection has been considered to be a potentially limiting factor on the rate of adaptive evolution. In this paper, we show that Haldane's arguments for the accumulation of reproductive costs over multiple loci are valid only for a clonally reproducing population of asexual genotypes."<br /><br />"...Specifically, Haldane's calculations illustrate the evolutionary disadvantage of asexuality; sexual reproduction frees the population from this disadvantage."<br /><br />https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31437405<br /><br />Glad that this has all been figgered out before the FBI clone squads take us into custody.StephenFearbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05189831095663157811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68196307884218431752020-03-07T00:41:18.008-06:002020-03-07T00:41:18.008-06:00The Democrats waited and waited for another candid...The Democrats waited and waited for another candidate to rise to challenge Sanders after Iowa, but it became clear as South Carolina approached that only Biden could win the state and possibly run the table through the south on Super Tuesday, so they got Clyburn to endorse Biden forcefully, and the media were instructed to get behind Biden after Saturday's primary. Then they coerced/bribed Buttuvwxyz and Klobuchar to drop out and endorse Biden the day before Super Tuesday, but said nothing to Warren. This had exactly the desired effect- Biden won Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and with Warren staying in the race, Biden also won Massachusetts, Maine, and even picked up 1/3 of the delegates from Vermont. It was a brilliant maneuver, and I think they will finish Sanders off next week- Sanders is likely to win Washington, but with a small margin compared to 2016, and Biden romps in Michigan and wins the state by 20 points. At that point, it will be over- Biden will deliver the final blow in Florida by taking <i>all</i> of the delegates- Sanders won't reach 15% in the state.Yancey Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16427042729449397357noreply@blogger.com