Sunday, November 01, 2020
Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up highMama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Up in Memphis the music's like a heatwave
White lightning, bound to drive you wild
Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl
"Love me tender" leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle
The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Every word of every song that he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon, what could
You do?
Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
If you please, if you please, if you please
He is absolutely correct. A month is the correct time limit to isolate the infection.
Every country in the world has a model for success in New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Arden is a hero to her people. They were unhappy with her in the beginning, but, after witnessing other countries' failures to protect their people, New Zealand is able to react to any unexpected break out to end it quickly.
It is time for Prime Minister Arden to virtually address the United Nations in an appeal for a standard to end this virus on Earth. This is the 21st century, not the dark ages. It is time everyone starts acting as though they believe in the strength of the human spirit to overcome adversity.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Trick or Treat in India.
By Akhil Kadidal
Sir Sean Connery has passed on, but, he will always be with us.
Friday, October 30, 2020
CHILDREN ARE NEVER PART OF AN EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE OR DRUG.
HOW THE HELL DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT TO USE ON CHILDREN WHEN THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO USE ON ADULTS!
The adult vaccines are not perfected and J&J had a death recently in those adult trials.
CHILDREN ARE NOT TO BE PART OF AN EXPERIMENT!
There is no indication that separation and isolation have a poor effect. The current distance learning has been proven to be 100% safe. There is absolutely no reason to experiment on children. J&J is way out of line.
This Washington administration has provided a wide-open regulatory environment for this pandemic and is it not a safe method to put children into an experiment. When the adult dosage is known and PROVEN to be successful then and only then is the child does determined.
I remind this virus is a killer and it maims it's victims. There is no reason to experiment on children. There needs to be an injunction against J&J and its methodologies scrutinized for purity and safety.
Reuters, New York, OCT 31 2020, 08:01 IST UPDATED: OCT 31 2020, 08:13 IS
Johnson & Johnson (click here) plans to start testing its experimental Covid-19 vaccine in youths aged 12 to 18 as soon as possible, and the company's previous experience with the same technology in a vaccine successfully used in children could give it a leg up with regulators.
"We plan to go into children as soon as we possibly can, but very carefully in terms of safety," J&J's Dr. Jerry Sadoff told a virtual meeting of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Friday....
It seems to me the PERMISSION to begin a pediatric vaccine trial should be coming from the CDC and not from J&J. The authority pipeline is backward. It seems this country has had enough of child endangerment.
In 1966, Henry K. Beecher, MD, (click here) published a study describing 22 instances of mainstream medical research that he claimed were unethical. In his article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Beecher described medical studies in which
- medical treatment was withheld from subjects for research purposes- institutionalized children and adults were involved
- surgeons performed experimental techniques with unknown effects
- infectious or otherwise harmful substances were deliberately introduced into a subject’s body.
Be there or be square.
Old Home Week. They are simply incorrigible.
October 30, 2020
Flint - Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden will be in Flint on Saturday.
They are planning to take part in a drive-in event around 1:45 p.m. at an undisclosed location. The event is closed to the public but will be live-streamed on the Biden-Harris campaign website.
Obama and Biden plan to discuss bringing Americans together to address the crises facing the county. They plan to encourage voters to cast a ballot in Tuesday’s election.
Afterward, Obama and Biden will travel south to Detroit for a similar drive-in event beginning around 5:30 p.m.
I just got in from a three hour drive.
I passed at least three tractor-trailers going 5 MPH less than the legal speed limit for trucks. It is very strange to have trucks that big to be going slower than the rest of the traffic.
THEY WERE USPS TRUCKS. ALL THREE OF THEM.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
It was pure stupidity and false pride to leave Edward Snowden in Russia.
The "Cyber Security Market - Forecast (2020 - 2025)" (click here) report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
Cyber Security Market size is forecast to reach $174.09 billion in 2025, estimated to grow at a CAGR of 8% during 2020-2025. The increasing use of technology such as artificial intelligence, IoT, machine learning and so on are significantly driving the cybersecurity market. Furthermore, the increasing demand for cloud-based cybersecurity systems in order to reduce data loss are also enhancing the growth of the market. The rising demand for network and endpoint security, mobile security, behavioral detection are fueling the growth of the market during forecast period....
Hm. I guess Former FBI Mueller knew what he was talking about in his report about Russia attacks on the USA.
The agencies on the conference call, which included the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), warned participants about “credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals and healthcare providers.”
The agencies said they were sharing the information “to provide warning to healthcare providers to ensure that they take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats.”
The warning came less than two days after this author received a tip from Alex Holden, founder of Milwaukee-based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security. Holden said he saw online communications this week between cybercriminals affiliated with a Russian-speaking ransomware group known as Ryuk in which group members discussed plans to deploy ransomware at more than 400 healthcare facilities in the U.S....
It is impossible to fight crime such as this when agents have to learn the enemy over and over again with the purging of agents with inconvenient truths. Trump's leadership has left the USA vulnerable and this should not be a surprise to anyone.
August 13, 2019By Bradley P. Moss
...With the firing of Peter Strzok (click here), the president’s purge of senior FBI leadership who helped launch that investigation is now complete. For those wondering whether Trump would allow the bureau to do its job without political interference from the White House, I think we have our answer.
This is from 2017. What is it with that stairstep costs of Burial caskets. It looks like a cartel issue.
By Akin Oyedele
The cost of burying a loved one (click here) in America has risen faster than virtually everything else over the last 30 years.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just published a fascinating look at the cost of dying in the US... because it's Halloween. The chart below shows that the price index for funerals has risen almost twice as fast as consumer prices for all other items.
Producer prices for caskets rose 230% from December 1986 through September 2017, while prices for all commodities increased 95.1%. The data is not seasonally adjusted.
As casket costs surged, the rate of cremations surpassed burials in 2015 for a second straight year, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Its data showed that the median cost of a funeral with viewing and burial in 2014 was $7,181, and $6078 for a funeral with viewing and cremation....
The financial markets know how it plays. So, there is no surprise and they should address their investments appropriately.
By Emily Graffeo
Apple is fine . That is obscene money and the internet companies are a wash of it.
A lot of their business requires liquidity. I am happy they are able to conduct their business, but, don't complain that one quarter is lower than another. No sympathy.
October 29, 2020By Michelle Gao
Apple (click here) now has $191.83 billion cash on hand, according to the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report released Thursday.
That’s down from the company’s fiscal third quarter of 2020, when it reported $193.8 billion in cash. It’s also down from Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter 2019 earnings, however, when it reported $205.9 billion in cash.
Apple regularly has one of the largest cash piles among U.S. companies and hit a $2 trillion market cap in August, although it has fallen back below that number.
Erdogan needs to stop his verbal assault against the free world.
Erdogan branded European leaders 'fascists' and 'links in the chain of Nazism' as he said Muslims on the continent 'are now subjected to a lynch campaign similar to that against Jews in Europe before World War II'.
It is just the latest attack from the Turkish strongman leader after he spent the weekend verbally lashing French President Emmanuel Macron, over his toughed stance on Islamic extremism....
Summertime. This was expected. It does not give permission for herd immunity.
US gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 33.1% in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. The reading marks the largest output gain in recorded history, based on data going back to the 1940s. It came in roughly double the next-biggest jump seen in 1950. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected a 32% gain.
The reading represents how much the economy would've grown had the third-quarter rate lasted for a year. It's a sharp reversal from the second quarter, which saw a 31.4% annualized rate of contraction.
Thursday's figure is also the first of three estimates published by the Commerce Department, and could be revised in the coming months.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The financial markets are absolutely pathetic. IT IS A BEAR MARKET!
By Matthew Fox
The repeat vaccination is more or less like a booster shot.
By Kaylan Ray
Governor Whitman has maintained a steady appearance with the people.
By Beth LeBlanc
Nearly 54% of Michigan voters view the Democratic governor favorably and 59% approve of the job she's doing, according to the Oct. 23-25 survey of 600 likely Michigan voters. The job approval number inches up to 61% about her handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the survey, which had a margin of error of plus-minus 4 percentage points.
The poll by the Lansing-based Glengariff Group found 37% viewed Whitmer unfavorably, 38% disapproved of the job she is doing and 37% disapproved of her handling of the pandemic....
Sen. Lisa Murkowski fears courts are becoming more political losing confidence
By Allison Pecoria
Three hours (click here) before the Senate was poised to vote on the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, walked toward the Capitol contemplating the "incontrovertible" reality that her party was about to confirm a justice nearer to an election than any confirmation in history.
Murkwoski is a rare moderate Republican who found herself at the center of the debate over Barrett's confirmation when she was one of two senators in her party who moved to delay the vote until after Election Day. She said Monday afternoon that she's fearful of what is becoming of the judiciary and even the Congress in this increasingly partisan era....
Just because Federalist Society judges are smarter than Trump, doesn't mean they are smart.
Brett Kavanaugh plagiarized Donald John Trump in a recent opinion. He didn't plagiarize a speech at some radical right religious meeting, he plagiarized a Supreme Court opinion. That is called incompetency.
I don't think there is anything smart or especially politically leaning about plagiarism, it is just pure stupidity and brings into question the competency of Federalist Society judges.
October 27, 2020By Mark Joseph Stern
While the Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett on Monday night, (click here) Justice Brett Kavanaugh handed down a startling opinion that laid out how the Supreme Court could steal the election for Donald Trump. Kavanaugh’s opinion was an assault on the integrity of America’s upcoming election; it was also extraordinarily sloppy, riddled with errors that would make even a traffic court judge blush. It’s worth highlighting these mistakes, not just to set the record straight but also to show how Kavanaugh uses falsehoods to twist the law against voting rights....
When Supreme Court justices are valued for their political ideology and iconic victories of right-wing politics, the USA has lost it's third branch of the government. I hear that addicts of any particular type of substance, including alcohol, stop growth and development at the age a person became an addict. There was a question not asked of Kavanaugh during his confirmation, "Did you ever receive therapy for your alcoholism?"
I think having Brett Kavanaugh plagiarize political ideology into a Supreme Court decision should be a warning shot about what is going on in the Robert's Court. The exception for that is the Chief Justice himself who has heroically written to preserve the Majority Rule of the USA Constitution. I do believe the Chief Justice once openly corrected Gorsuch within the past year. Just sayin', it is time to examine Trump's justices for their ability to be loyal to the USA Constitution. Chief Justice Roberts may not alone be able to correct the course of the current Supreme Court members by his vote alone.
The Federalist Society along with it's obsession with judicial placement for it's own purposes must be investigated, especially in the face of Kavanaugh's obvious incompetency. He, like Bill Barr, was chosen for that incompetency. If one remembers right before Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination he was writing rather strange opinions. If there is going to be a majority of Justices writing strange and assaultive opinions against the US Constitution, then it and the Rule of Law is lost to anarchy. I think scrutiny of past and present opinions is very much in order for the purpose of our democracy and sincerely religious, civil rights, and cultural freedom.
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