Have an excellent weekend and see you bright and early Monday morning.
My new classical guitar tracks.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Kinzinger
I would suspect the level of death threats this man is receiving is off the charts.
Axios: Kinzinger will not seek re-election in 2022 by Erin Doherty
Combat
This proposed framework includes $555bn in incentives, investments and tax credits aimed at bolstering the deployment of renewable energy such as solar and wind, as well as a tax break that will deliver up to $12,500 to people who buy an electric car. The bill will help deploy new electric buses and trucks, build community resilience to disastrous wildfires and floods and employ 300,000 people in a new “civilian climate corps”.
Cowards
NY Times: Cowards, Not Crazies, Are Destroying America by Paul Krugman
But the crazies wouldn’t be driving the Republican agenda so completely if it weren’t for the cowards, Republicans who clearly know better but reliably swallow their misgivings and go along with the party line.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are -62; the market is poised to open moderately lower.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Charged
Washington Post: Former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo charged with a misdemeanor complaint for sex-crime-related offense, court says By Felicia Sonmez and Josh Dawsey
“A Misdemeanor Complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo has been filed in Albany City Court..."
New York Knicks Fans Go Crazy
This was from last Wednesday night. The Knicks had just won their season opener against the Boston Celtics in a thrilling nail biter type of game that went into double overtime. Apparently, NYU students filmed and edited this video of Knicks fans celebrating the win outside of Madison Square Garden. I think it's a riot. Warning - the profanity is loose and frequent. The video, of course, went viral.
WSJ
Washington Post: The 14 things you need to know about Trump’s letter in the Wall Street Journal By Philip Bump
8. They could have noted that Trump’s lead on election night was meaningless given the number of absentee ballots that remained to be counted. It was obvious by the morning of Nov. 4 that there were enough absentee votes outstanding to probably hand Joe Biden a victory in the state. Yet, nearly a year later, the Journal allows Trump’s claim that something suspicious happened to stand without comment.
Running
Conversely, the more runners distract themselves from what their bodies are doing as they put one foot in front of the other, the more effortless their run may feel, and the better their performance.
NYC
...baby damselflies, the world’s most endangered sea turtles and a baby seal in Queens; and exotic insects not seen in decades in Brooklyn.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 6:35 a.m. ET DOW futures are +31; the market is poised to open moderately higher.
CNN: Home heating prices are skyrocketing, and there's nothing Biden can do about it By Matt Egan
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Bomb Cyclone
Hardest hit was Plymouth County, which was 90 percent in the dark. Around 85,000 were without electricity in Rhode Island and another 25,000 combined in Connecticut and Maine.
Covid
Washington Post: New cases down nearly 60 percent since delta variant surge By Andrew Jeong and Adela Suliman
The seven-day average of infections stood at about 69,000 this week, figures show, reflecting a 58 percent drop from the latest surge’s peak around Sept. 13, when the average for that week was 164,475.
Chasm
If the continuing anger, resentment and denial among Republicans in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential contest is a precursor of the next election, current trends, in combination with the politicization of election administration by Republican state legislatures, suggest that the loser in 2024, Republican or Democrat, will not take defeat lying down.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:40 a.m. ET DOW futures are -7; the market is poised to open slightly lower.
CNN: Trump SPAC slumps after wild week of trading By Rob McLean and Jill Disis
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Why
Instead of theological affinity for Jesus Christ, millions of Americans are being drawn to the evangelical label because of its association with the G.O.P.
Hippos
Washington Post: Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ are legally people, U.S. court rules By Amy Cheng
Escobar smuggled several hippos onto his estate in the 1980s, but their wild spawn now roam the wetlands north of Bogotá, the largest invasive species on the planet.
Right
NY Times: Cori Bush and AOC Are Right About Jan. 6 and 1866 By Jamelle Bouie
“Any member of Congress who helped plot a terrorist attack on our nation’s capitol must be expelled,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Those responsible remain a danger to our democracy, our country, and human life in the vicinity of our Capitol and beyond.”
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 6:35 a.m. ET DOW futures are +109; the market is poised to open significantly higher.
Monday, October 25, 2021
Thugs
Washington Post: Opinion: The party of thugs Opinion by Paul Waldman
So while people may be painting signs and leading chants of “F--- Joe Biden” (or “Let’s go Brandon”), Biden himself is almost incidental. This is a means for conservatives to communicate with one another, and what’s being communicated more than anything else is “I take pleasure in flouting norms of polite behavior.”
Facts Versus Fear
She told them the designation would forbid landowners to build sheds, drill wells or use fertilizers and pesticides. It would alter water rights, give tourists access to private property, create a new taxation district and prohibit new septic systems and burials on private land, she said.
None of this was true.
Stench
Washington Post: Opinion: Youngkin banishes Trump, but he can’t clean the stench of Trumpism Opinion by Dana Milbank
The campaign of Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin eliminated virtually any indication that Donald Trump had ever existed.
California
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow swaths of exceptionally moist air, sometimes sourced from the tropics, that can produce excessive amounts of precipitation.
Not Enough
NY Times: The World Is Bending the Climate Emissions Curve. Just Not Enough. By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovic
Current policies put us on pace for roughly 3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100 — a better result, but still devastating.
To The Core
NY Times: The Rotten Core of the Republican Party by Binyamin Appelbaum
Former President Donald Trump’s loud and proud declaration that paying very little in taxes “makes me smart” was just a more brazen articulation of what has become party orthodoxy.
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are +14; the market is poised to open slightly higher.
CNN: Everything is still getting more expensive By Julia Horowitz
Friday, October 22, 2021
Weekend!
Have an excellent weekend and see you bright and early Monday morning.
Plastics
Ninety per cent of the plastics industry’s reported climate change pollution takes place in just 18 communities, where residents earn 28% less than the average American household and are 67% more likely to be minority communities.
Big Tent
Washington Post: Opinion: The GOP rebrands itself as the party of tax cheats Opinion by Catherine Rampell
Recently, though, GOP leaders have been cobbling together a new coalition, welcoming insurrectionists, white-nationalist tiki-torchers and people who think Bill Gates is trying to microchip them.
The latest recruit to the Big Tent? Tax cheats.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 7:05 a.m. ET DOW futures are +36; the market is poised to open moderately higher.
CNN: After a pair of scandals, Fed bans officials from buying stocks By Matt Egan,
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Knicks Postgame - Kemba Walker - 'The Energy In This Building Is Second To None'
Knicks win their first game of the season with a victory over the Boston Celtics.
Security
Global tensions will rise as countries argue about how to accelerate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; climate change will exacerbate cross-border flash points and amplify strategic competition in the Arctic; and the effects of climate change will be felt most acutely in developing countries that are least equipped to adapt.
Russia And Methane
Brace yourself for this one, it's possibly the worst, most alarming article you could read all year.
Washington Post: Russia allows methane leaks at planet’s peril By Steven Mufson, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, John Muyskens and Naema Ahmed
Crews from the natural gas giant Gazprom hurried to repair a defect in the steel pipeline and stem the rush of methane — an invisible but powerful greenhouse gas — which was escaping into the atmosphere at a breakneck rate of approximately 395 metric tons an hour.
Wrong
Democrats can leapfrog the right with significant investments in streaming video, podcasting, newsletters and innovative content producers on growing platforms like TikTok, whose audiences dwarf those of cable news networks like Fox News.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 6:55 a.m. ET DOW futures are -104; the market is poised to open significantly lower.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
No Use
"If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use." - The Dalai Lama
Have An Excellent Wednesday
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Afghanistan
Washington Post: Afghanistan’s war is over, but the Taliban faces a new hurdle: Enforcing the law — and protecting Afghans from ISIS By Sudarsan Raghavan
One captured narcotics dealer had his product stuffed into his mouth and his picture posted on social media as a warning.
Schiff's New Book
NY Times: Adam Schiff: What He Saw at the Trump Revolution By Jonathan Martin
Fittingly for a regular on television news shows, Schiff’s volume reads like a well-composed MSNBC segment on the Trump presidency — but with behind-the-scenes details on the working of Congress to go with the liberal commentary.
Knicks
“New York is about winning. And they’re doing that,” he added, “New York wants a team that plays hard and leaves everything out on the floor and plays together and plays basketball the right way.”
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:50 a.m. ET DOW futures are -2; the market is poised to open flat.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Searched
NPR: The FBI searched properties in Washington and New York linked to a Russian oligarch by Ryan Lucas
Deripaska did business in the early 2000s with Paul Manafort, who later became Donald Trump's campaign chairman during the 2016 presidential race.
Bottom Of The Barrel
CNN: Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom - Analysis by Chris Cillizza
And so, Trump saw Powell's death as an opportunity to get back at him -- and took it.
This is, in a word, classless. In two words: Utterly classless.
'Femcel'
“I’m not conventionally attractive and I never get approached by men,” she says. “They don’t look at me..."
Resignation
Washington Post: The ‘Great Resignation’ goes global Image without a caption By Ishaan Tharoor
A survey published in August found that a third of all Germany companies were reporting a dearth in skilled workers.
Sirens
When emergency medical responses were evaluated in Salt Lake City in the 1990s, the difference between “hot” calls (lights and sirens on) and “cold” ones (no lights or sirens) amounted to an average of 26 seconds...
Covid, The Flu, Transmission
If you can gain access to this article please read it. There's some useful and helpful information here.
If recommendations to combat the flu continue to rely heavily on hand washing and surface cleaning, without recognizing the role of aerosols in transmission, we are unlikely to make a dent in the 12,000 to 52,000 deaths in the United States per year caused by the flu.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 6:40 a.m. ET DOW futures are +129; the market is poised to open significantly higher.
Monday, October 18, 2021
Paris Hilton
At all four facilities I was sent to in my teens, I endured physical and psychological abuse by staff: I was choked, slapped across the face, spied on while showering and deprived of sleep. I was called vulgar names and forced to take medication without a diagnosis. At one Utah facility, I was locked in solitary confinement in a room where the walls were covered in scratch marks and blood stains.
Colin Powell
Mr. Powell had undergone treatment for multiple myeloma, which compromised his immune system, a spokeswoman said. She said he was due to receive a booster shot for his vaccine last week but could not because he had fallen ill.
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