I’m trying to get little smarter about finding the news,since letting it come to me is not always enough any more. We’ll see how it goes in the long run. We can be glad Colleen is recovering even though the recovery is not yet complete. I also heard from Carrie B last night, and she has a couple of spots on her face which she worries may be cancerous, and is stalled waiting for a referral to a dermatologist. Prayers for her please.
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Short Takes –
Axios – Bill Barr on Trump’s election fraud claims: “It was all bullsh*t”
Quote – Barr said that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had been urging him to speak out against Trump’s false claims since November but would not do so himself. McConnell did not want to upset Trump as he needed Trump to campaign in Georgia. “Look, we need the president in Georgia,” McConnell said, according to Barr. “And so we cannot be frontally attacking him right now. But you’re in a better position to inject some reality into this situation. You are really the only one who can do it.”
Click through for as much of this profile in cowardice as they are willing to print from a book not yet released
Insider – 14 years after a sexual assault in Tampa, a man has been charged with rape because he entered his own DNA into a genealogy database
Quote – DNA evidence was collected at the time but did not find any matches, and the case remained unsolved for more than a decade. In 2020, however, detectives revisited the case and began to search genealogy testing databases, including GEDmatch and FamilyTree, two services often used by people who are researching their ancestry, to find potential matches…. Florida was the first state to establish its own forensic genealogy unit in 2018. Similar units have since been created in California and Utah to solve cold cases.
Click through for more. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, even to Florida.
The Guardian – Rattlesnakes everywhere: the odd consequences of California’s drought
Quote – Surprisingly, disease-carrying mosquitoes, which most people associate with wet times rather than dry, thrive in cities during times of drought when waters recede and grow still. Webb explains that human-made structures like pipes, pits and ponds are prime spots for stagnant water to become a breeding ground for the insects. “Fish and other animals that live in these systems die and the mosquitoes have free rein”.
Click through for details, and a multitude of consequences, obviously, of climate change. And yet, some still deny it.
Food for Thought
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Coleen, and Carrie_ Best wishes.
Axios: Full tilt cowards? Or Machiavellian Turtle bastard? Or, a mixture of the two. Having read Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” I have to say that he’s been the victim of bad press.
Insider: I’m impressed! I’m glad for the victim, and I’m amazed that Florida would have been at the vanguard of a forensic, or any kind of genealogy, use. Genes indicate aeons of deep time, not some 6,000 year old universe. We have bacterial and plant genes within our DNA.
Guardian: Hot damn! (Pun intended).
Deny climate change? Live in make-believe? Who in his/her right mind would do so at this point? Oh, yes, I did say “right mind,” did’t I?
FFT: those who deny climate change would most probably say “No, I’m good with my blindness.”
I also have read “The Prince,” and agree wholeheartedly that he has been another victim of bad press (as is just about anyone today who is honest about how Democrats should deal with Republicans.)
YAY! Grateful and relieved w/Colleen’s recovery from her surgery, take good care!
Praying for you, Carrie, with hopes and prayers for an appointment, and with good news that comes out positive and well for you.
Cartoon: A great day!
Axios: I don’t know what compels anyone to listen to, or follow the TOT. He’s nothing but negative, and he can sap energy from anyone around him within minutes, with his lies and deceit. Glad Barr spoke the truth, finally!
Insider: WOW! A one-in-700-billion match! Isn’t science great? So glad that he was found out, and the victim can now have positive closure…PTL.
The Guardian: I don’t mind little four legged critters…it’s the insects (wasps/hornets), that bother me.. and of course the rattlers. Corals are not as aggressive like the rattlers, they’ll try to quickly slither away…but their venom is just as powerful as the other.
FFT: Yes! By all means, Ms. King!!
Thank you, Joanne for post. Hope you have a good day !!
This just in: “Californians can live without nuts. Just ask Caitlyn Jenner, but not water. California should stop thinking about how to get water on almonds and start thinking about how to get it on fires. #California Drought ~ Bill Maher ~
2. “Know who isn’t disbarred? the email lady.” ~ Jeff Tiedrich ~
3. “Gallup poll: Americans are now more likely to be socially liberal than conservative for the first time since Gallup started polling the question in 2001.” ~ Kyle Griffin ~
4. “@Speaker Ryan Tonight – @Tucker Carlson called General Milley a “PIG”. You are a Board member of the most corrupt public company in the United States. Have you had enough? Is there any line? Any vandalism towards the country that sickens you? Milley has served for 42 years.” ~ Steve Schmidt ~
5. “Every American citizen needs to stand up for General Milley and all military personnel. They protect us, we protect them.” ~ The Traveling Kit ~
TJI #1 – Like Mitch, I love almonds, but they are definitely not expensive enough to rate getting that much water. My doctor advises tree nuts as healthful snacks (NOT peanuts, which are a bean). Walnuts, cashews, pecans, pistachios, Brazil nuts – what other nut can be grown with less water?
TJI #2 – Yup.
TJI #3 – Yeah, but you can’t ask the question that way, because they won’t use the word “liberal.” You have to present the policies in a vacuum to get that response. And, because of the fear of the word “liberal,” they won’t vote that way.
TJI #4 – Steve, if you expect integrity from Paul Ryan, you are considerably more naive than I thought you were.
TJI #5 – Amen!
The Former Guy (TFG) has FULL DELUSIONAL MELTDOWN w/ an INCOHERENT RAMBLING RANT calling AG Barr & McConnell “RINOs” All Because of the BULL$HIT Article
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-attacks-barr-mcconnell_n_60d95d16e4b066ff5abc1293
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/560478-trump-calls-barr-a-disappointment-in-every-sense-of-the-word
PSA – ABCDE of Skin Cancers
Although it says “Melanoma” – it’s a good screening guideline for all skin cancers
Carrie had one before, so which responded to minimally invasive surgery. Since she has the experience, I take her fears very seriously. It already too her GP two weeks to suggest she go to Aubirn (quite a trip from where she is.) Thenearest dermatoligist is actually in Columbus GA. It was hard not to say out loud that I wished she were still in Santa Fe, but I certainly thought it. I realize it was hard on her being so far from family though.
At least one person, on the Twitter feed in the HP article said that TOT is getting sicker by the moment. Sorry to disagree, he’s not any sicker than he was when he took that Godawful escalator ride, he’s just less able to hide it. The article listed a slew of the “Best and most serious” people he hired, fired, and debased. He was not talking about them, he was trying to show off how good his judgement was.
TJI#1: I love almonds, literally eat them every day, but the amount of water required to grow a single almond is 1.1 gallon of water, or 1,900 gallons per a single POUND of them. Yes, “shortchanging” almonds would be financially hard on the growers, but there are, apparently, going to be huge consequences to using that water that way.
TJI#2: Rudy needs to be disbarred, and indicted, Barr needs to be indicted, and if that POS is a lawyer, disbarred as well (I guess he is, but don’t normally think of him that way,) and De Joy needs to be shackled and runout of town on a rail (maybe tarred and feathered first).
TJI#3: Part of what is freaking out the GQP!
TJI#4: Ryan on THAT board? Figures. Has he any of the “decency” that Sen. Joe McCarthy lacked? Probably not. Let us not forget that he saw his failure to get rid of Social Security as the biggest failure of his tenure in congress.
TJI#5: Amen!
I do miss having Clippy around to mock. Especially since she was pregnant!
Now WHO got her pregnant is still an unsolved mystery!
I didn’t even know Clippy was a “she”, let alone that she was pregnant. Unsolved mystery – well, I’m pretty confident it was not Links, who is the assistant that I miss.
I’m afraid I can’t do much more in the next few days than skim through all those wonderful articles and videos you have gathered and posted, Joanne. We’re heading for a lockdown again, starting with the greater Brisbane and coast of Queensland, but as it was installed to contain the virulent Delta variant, all we can do here is keep our fingers crossed and hope it is not extended to this area. So I’m trying to get some shopping in and all my outstanding appointments behind me.
But look on the bright side, if we do go in lockdown, I’ll probably have more time to read and comment.
Thank you for the heads up, so that we will knw your absence is precautionry, not because something unthinkable has happened to you. And best of luck. I fear your community would be hatd hit by Delta if it reaches there.