I noticed there were far fewer serious public acknowledgments and accolades of life of Harry Reid, as compared against the recent accolades to Robert Dole. I suppose that's probably because Dole hailed primarily from a less politically polarized time (although he did overlap with and lose his Presidential bid to Bill Clinton).
Also might be because Dole had lived on productively as a physically disabled veteran of WWII, but I tend to think it's more likely the former than the latter. ________________________________
PBS' Earth Emergency offers a pretty fair beginer's explanation some of the important basic mechanics of the environmental catastrophy into which we're now striding. (The first eight minutes or so are mostly introduction to the subject matter; it gets better after that.) That link's supposedly gonna be good for about a month. I thought I might offer it a little bit of publicity here.
Perhaps there are still some hard feelings about Harry Reid's stance on the Iraq war. So, yes, a time of more polarization. I was surprised though that Mitch McConnell had nice things to say about him. Apparently he can still observe the niceties of civilized behavior when he wants to. Unlike some others.
I will be sure to watch the PBS show when I get a chance. I actually have most of today off, using up vacation time. I got tired of iosing it.
I talked to someone who was visiting relatives in Lake Tahoe over Christmas. During the week she was there they got 117 inches of snow. Her flight home was scheduled for Sunday, but they didn't get home until Wednesday.
They spent a lot of time playing in the back yard with the kids as they couldn't go anywhere.
I watched the video. It was a nice, and scary, overview of what is happening. It was also spot on when they said it will take the will of people to change what is happening. So far that has not been on the radar. It will mean voting for those who understand the danger of climate change and are willing to try to make a difference. That means not voting for those who are in the pockets of special interest groups like the fossil fuel industry.
Now that he's dead. Their relationship was pretty frigid when Reid was still alive. (That is, when it wasn't openly acrimonious.) ________________________________
"…and scary…"
The future is scary--don't look like we're gonna avoid a drastic change in earth's climate. The human habitable zone is gonna shrink back. Some people will likely survive it; lotta people won't. ________________________________
NewYorkMagazine recommends masks you can buy through Amazon, most with earloops, and several with KN95 ratings (or the South Korean equivalent) so they'll have less prominent lettering on them.
The future is scary--don't look like we're gonna avoid a drastic change in earth's climate.
No, it doesn't. I also have a feeling that I will be seeing more of it than I wanted to.
Maybe I should spend more time enjoying the small things. Like watching the neighbors dogs playing in the snow.
I watched the Netflix movie "Don't Look Up" the other day. It's about a comet heading for a collision course with Earth. It captured quote well the idiocy of the human race. I kind of felt it was a waste of my time as I see that every day with the Covid and political situation.
Don't believe I've heard that from anybody else. I'm not sure I know what sensation you're trying to describe there, certainly never got a 'face melting' sensation from them myself. Although, they do get kinda 'stuffy' especially if I'm scurrying around and my rate of respiration rises much above a base rate (which is why I went to the valve vented models--they're much easier and cooler to breath in) ________________________________
The publication called "The Federalist" (as in 'The Federalist Society') is now urging its readers to refuse to be tested for covid-19 and to buckle down, suffer through it and go on about their business in public, unmasked, even as they're symptomatic. link I recollect that Trump and his the dedicated Trumpkins tried at first to convince people that the pandemic causing virus was 'fake news' and either didn't actually exist, or didn't kill people (nothing beyond the level of an annual flu--an argument Marcus pushed here on these pages for months before he finally abandoned it and insisted he'd never pushed it before he quit pushing it). That was before the United States had 800,000 + people dead from it. Now they're testing that story line out once again.
It is amazing the number of people in stores here who are not wearing a mask. It's like there is no pandemic. But there are long lines here for testing.
I think the melting sensation is due to the tight fit of the mask. It can get rather humid behind it.
Lotta people 'round here going about unmasked as well. Most of the employees of the national chains (Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc.) are masked up by company policy--many local businesses as well (and both local hospitals require them on all who enter) but less than half of the local population wear them willingly--and this with our local hospitals continually overstuffed with cases of covid. We don't have much in the way long lines for testing. We also don't have much in the way of available testing, so it's good that nobody's lining up for the testing that's not available anyway. Our governor says that we have plenty of tests; apparently they're all stacked in a state-owned warehouse a couple hundred miles away (if they're really there). ________________________________
"It can get rather humid…"
Ah, I see. The exhaust valve helps tremendously with that problem. And I wonder if wearing makeup might contribute to the problem (I don't wear makeup). Also, you may wear the masks longer than I do. I put one on, go in the store, or wherever; do my business, and remove the mask when I leave. I seldom wear one more than 30 minutes at a stretch, 45 minutes max, maybe, but not often, I'll hit two populated interior zones in a day (and then the mask goes back to the house and another one, previously aired out in the sun on a window sill and then put back in another little box, replaces it the next day, as a cycle of three masks goes from vehicle to window sill to vehicle again.)
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I noticed there were far fewer serious public acknowledgments and accolades of life of Harry Reid, as compared against the recent accolades to Robert Dole. I suppose that's probably because Dole hailed primarily from a less politically polarized time (although he did overlap with and lose his Presidential bid to Bill Clinton).
Also might be because Dole had lived on productively as a physically disabled veteran of WWII, but I tend to think it's more likely the former than the latter.
________________________________
PBS' Earth Emergency offers a pretty fair beginer's explanation some of the important basic mechanics of the environmental catastrophy into which we're now striding. (The first eight minutes or so are mostly introduction to the subject matter; it gets better after that.)
That link's supposedly gonna be good for about a month. I thought I might offer it a little bit of publicity here.
Perhaps there are still some hard feelings about Harry Reid's stance on the Iraq war. So, yes, a time of more polarization. I was surprised though that Mitch McConnell had nice things to say about him. Apparently he can still observe the niceties of civilized behavior when he wants to. Unlike some others.
I will be sure to watch the PBS show when I get a chance. I actually have most of today off, using up vacation time. I got tired of iosing it.
I talked to someone who was visiting relatives in Lake Tahoe over Christmas. During the week she was there they got 117 inches of snow. Her flight home was scheduled for Sunday, but they didn't get home until Wednesday.
They spent a lot of time playing in the back yard with the kids as they couldn't go anywhere.
I watched the video. It was a nice, and scary, overview of what is happening. It was also spot on when they said it will take the will of people to change what is happening. So far that has not been on the radar. It will mean voting for those who understand the danger of climate change and are willing to try to make a difference. That means not voting for those who are in the pockets of special interest groups like the fossil fuel industry.
"McConnell had nice things to say about him."
Now that he's dead. Their relationship was pretty frigid when Reid was still alive. (That is, when it wasn't openly acrimonious.)
________________________________
"…and scary…"
The future is scary--don't look like we're gonna avoid a drastic change in earth's climate. The human habitable zone is gonna shrink back. Some people will likely survive it; lotta people won't.
________________________________
NewYorkMagazine recommends masks you can buy through Amazon, most with earloops, and several with KN95 ratings (or the South Korean equivalent) so they'll have less prominent lettering on them.
I did wear the ones I bought. They made me feel like my face was melting.
The future is scary--don't look like we're gonna avoid a drastic change in earth's climate.
No, it doesn't. I also have a feeling that I will be seeing more of it than I wanted to.
Maybe I should spend more time enjoying the small things. Like watching the neighbors dogs playing in the snow.
I watched the Netflix movie "Don't Look Up" the other day. It's about a comet heading for a collision course with Earth. It captured quote well the idiocy of the human race. I kind of felt it was a waste of my time as I see that every day with the Covid and political situation.
"They made me feel like my face was melting."
Don't believe I've heard that from anybody else. I'm not sure I know what sensation you're trying to describe there, certainly never got a 'face melting' sensation from them myself. Although, they do get kinda 'stuffy' especially if I'm scurrying around and my rate of respiration rises much above a base rate (which is why I went to the valve vented models--they're much easier and cooler to breath in)
________________________________
The publication called "The Federalist" (as in 'The Federalist Society') is now urging its readers to refuse to be tested for covid-19 and to buckle down, suffer through it and go on about their business in public, unmasked, even as they're symptomatic. link I recollect that Trump and his the dedicated Trumpkins tried at first to convince people that the pandemic causing virus was 'fake news' and either didn't actually exist, or didn't kill people (nothing beyond the level of an annual flu--an argument Marcus pushed here on these pages for months before he finally abandoned it and insisted he'd never pushed it before he quit pushing it).
That was before the United States had 800,000 + people dead from it. Now they're testing that story line out once again.
It is amazing the number of people in stores here who are not wearing a mask. It's like there is no pandemic. But there are long lines here for testing.
I think the melting sensation is due to the tight fit of the mask. It can get rather humid behind it.
Lotta people 'round here going about unmasked as well.
Most of the employees of the national chains (Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc.) are masked up by company policy--many local businesses as well (and both local hospitals require them on all who enter) but less than half of the local population wear them willingly--and this with our local hospitals continually overstuffed with cases of covid. We don't have much in the way long lines for testing. We also don't have much in the way of available testing, so it's good that nobody's lining up for the testing that's not available anyway. Our governor says that we have plenty of tests; apparently they're all stacked in a state-owned warehouse a couple hundred miles away (if they're really there).
________________________________
"It can get rather humid…"
Ah, I see. The exhaust valve helps tremendously with that problem. And I wonder if wearing makeup might contribute to the problem (I don't wear makeup).
Also, you may wear the masks longer than I do. I put one on, go in the store, or wherever; do my business, and remove the mask when I leave. I seldom wear one more than 30 minutes at a stretch, 45 minutes max, maybe, but not often, I'll hit two populated interior zones in a day (and then the mask goes back to the house and another one, previously aired out in the sun on a window sill and then put back in another little box, replaces it the next day, as a cycle of three masks goes from vehicle to window sill to vehicle again.)
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