Have an excellent weekend and see you bright and early Monday morning.
'Symphony Number 9' - Beethoven
Friday, February 26, 2021
Wisdom
Beef
Washington Post: Opinion: Republicans’ real beef with the Jan. 6 commission by Jennifer Rubin
The problem is that the GOP has transformed into a cult of the person who instigated the attack, fed propaganda to radicalize his party and refused to denounce white supremacists.
Awe
Get Pocket/Scientific American: Can You Quantify Awe? Researchers attempt to capture the full richness of the awe experience. by Scott Barry Kaufman
Tragedy
How do these people become contributors to society without even a high school diploma at this point in time. Even simple jobs like taking orders at McDonald's will soon be disappearing. (see the CNN article about McDonald's automation.)
Washington Post: Unprecedented numbers of students have disappeared during the pandemic. Schools are working harder than ever to find them. By Moriah Balingit
In North Carolina, a state education official told state lawmakers in December that more than 10,000 students had not been accounted for.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:55 a.m. ET DOW futures are -169; the market is poised to open significantly lower.
CNN: Welcome to McDonald's. A machine will take your order now By Rachel Metz
Thursday, February 25, 2021
California Variant
Washington Post: New research shows California coronavirus variant is more transmissible By Joel Achenbach and Carolyn Y. Johnson
The variant contains a mutation that scientists suspect is enhancing the virus’s ability to bind to human receptor cells.
Mothers
Mothers have disproportionately lost their jobs and financial security during this pandemic, and those who do work find that the burdens of family life fall disproportionately on them. The state has failed them utterly.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 5:25 a.m. ET DOW futures are +29; the market is poised to open moderately higher.
CNN: E-scooters embrace AI to cut down on pedestrian collisions By Nell Lewis
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Words Matter
Now, officials in Mr. Biden’s administration are using Mr. Trump’s own tactics to adjust reality again, this time by erasing the words his predecessor used and by explicitly returning to ones that had been banished.
Puzzle
And as the researchers delved further into the mystery, they found evidence that a variant with a mutation called N679S may be circulating in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Nashville
...he had been fixated for years on the notion that alien reptiles who inhabited underground tunnels controlled the earth, a fantasy spread by a notorious British serial conspiracy theorist.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:45 a.m. ET DOW futures are +7; the market is poised to open flat.
CNN: US stocks are looking to get back on track By CNN Business
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Altered
The Atlantic: The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution - The 45th president profoundly altered our system of government. by Jonathan Rauch
Amendment 5. The president shall have unconstrained authority to dangle and issue pardons for the purpose of obstructing justice, tampering with witnesses, and forestalling investigations.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 7:00 a.m. ET DOW futures are -8; the market is poised to open flat.
CNN: Goodyear is going big in China with $2.8 billion takeover of Cooper By Laura He
Monday, February 22, 2021
Amanpour And Company - Jason Stanley - Did This 2 Minute Video Help Incite the January 6 Rioters?
Watch this one, it's a week or two old but it is very important.
Garland
I'm extremely pleased to learn that Garland is making the Capitol riot a top priority. Get those people in jail ASAP.
Past
Guardian UK: 'The past is so present': how white mobs once killed American democracy by Lois Beckett
As with the 6 January attack at the Capitol, the rioting in Hamburg in 1876 appeared spontaneous, but had been carefully planned in advance by white extremist groups, O’Bryant said. The South Carolina groups called themselves “Red Shirts” or members of local “rifle clubs”. O’Bryant said he saw them as the equivalents of the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers militia today.
Holding Trump Accountable
Washington Post: Impeachment is over. But other efforts to reckon with Trump’s post-election chaos have just begun. By Rosalind S. Helderman
“Because it’s such a dangerous new thing that occurred, there has to be some reconciliation. Moving on isn’t enough.”
Boom
Economists at Goldman Sachs forecast that the economy will grow 6.8 percent this year and that the unemployment rate will drop to 4.1 percent by December, a level that took eight years to achieve after the last recession.
Receding
The lull in many of the world’s worst outbreaks creates a critical opportunity to keep the virus in retreat as vaccinations begin to take effect.
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 6:45 a.m. ET DOW futures are -199; the market is poised to open significantly lower.
Friday, February 19, 2021
Weekend!
Have an excellent weekend and see you bright and early Monday morning.
'Windows' - Beka Gochiashvili, John Patitucci, Marcus Gilmore
'Windows' - Beka Gochiashvili, John Patitucci, Marcus Gilmore
Charges
NY Times: Suspected Oath Keepers are charged in a plot to attack the Capitol.
The Justice Department brought charges on Friday against six people suspected of being members of the Oath Keepers...
Pleasant Thought
I'm a fan of Bill's work, still I would take this with a grain of salt.
The Palmer Report: Former prosecutor: it’s now a “certainty” that Donald Trump will be charged and arrested in New York by Bill Palmer
Seriously
We assume he means all Confederate flags, or perhaps it's lowered and disinfected.
wfla.com: Flags in Florida will be lowered for Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Ron DeSantis says
wfla.com: Flags in Florida will be lowered for Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Ron DeSantis says
Rotten - Read This
The manual instructed the server to open mini glass bottles of Heinz ketchup in front of Trump, taking care to ensure he could hear the seal make the “pop” sound.
Addictive
At the top of the list were pizza, chocolate, potato chips, cookies, ice cream, French fries and cheeseburgers. Dr. Gearhardt has found in her research that these highly processed foods share much in common with addictive substances.
Anti
Cornell Law School: 42 U.S. Code § 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights
(1) Preventing officer from performing duties
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave any State, district, or place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties;
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are +42; the market is poised to open moderately higher.
CNN: Facebook faces a global backlash over its bid to 'bully' Australia By Hanna Ziady
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Subtraction
Washington Post: Opinion: Republicans are in the business of subtraction Opinion by Jennifer Rubin
After more than 60 failed lawsuits disputing the 2020 election, we know evidence of fraud is virtually nonexistent. The sole purpose for these bills is to shrink the available pool of Democratic voters.
Power Blackouts
Around seven million people – a quarter of Texas’s population – have been told to boil their water, but in many cases power outages are making that difficult.
Popular
Washington Post: Opinion: Why Democrats aren’t fraidy cats anymore Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.
Progressive economic policies are broadly popular. Many of them (notably those checks) are supported by the GOP’s large working-class wing.
Cold War
Washington Post: Trump-McConnell clash threatens to settle into a cold war as GOP eyes midterms By Mike DeBonis and Josh Dawsey
...McConnell labeling Trump as “practically and morally responsible” for the Capitol riot in a Saturday speech...Trump lashing into McConnell in a Tuesday statement as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” who should be stricken from GOP leadership.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 6:45 a.m. ET DOW futures are -82; the market is poised to open significantly lower.
CNN: Maxine Waters is planning to call multiple hearings on the GameStop frenzy By Matt Egan
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Weapons
After GQP Senator Ron Johnson said, "This didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me...", CNN and the rest of the sane world beg to differ.
Trump Loses Some Support
Fortunately I'm not the type of person who would say good riddance you loud mouthed humorless obnoxious toxic degrading jerk.
Reuters: U.S. conservative radio provocateur and Trump ally Rush Limbaugh dies By Will Dunham
McConnell
Washington Post: McConnell shows that legacies don’t matter when facts no longer do By Robin Givhan
The fate of one’s legacy used to be a reason to pause and reconsider some intemperate act, some plundering of institutions. No more. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made his disinterest in his legacy plain.
Endangering Democracy
That promise has been replaced by concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself. Democracies pay a price for internet freedom, under this view, in the form of disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:40 a.m. ET DOW futures are -9; the market is poised to open flat.
CNN: Warren Buffett sells JPMorgan Chase stock and buys Verizon By Paul R. La Monica,
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
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