Los Angeles will reinstate mandatory masks when indoors.
Here’s the chart showing why LOL
Note, there’s been no increase in deaths at all. This is just a harassment gesture by public health officials and politicians.
One wonders if the LA mask and presumably other actions about to occur is to distract from election shenanigans.
Conspiratorial I know.
Seemed there was traction on Cuomo back a while till the MeToo charges distracted.
My favorite weird bird is the Shoebill from East Africa. I saw one on a high school field trip to Busch Gardens in Tampa. It looks like a cross between a pelican and a stork. It can stand motionless, staring, for long periods of time, which gave it a spooky dignity.
The Shoebill is all I remember from that field trip.
Yep, consistent across many states. Cases going up and deaths continue down. I read common symptoms of the delta are headache, cough , runny nose. Geez can’t have people having a cold.
physicsguy:
Are they counting colds as Covid? I had one of those a month after I got the J&J vaxx.
A couple of things for the way things were the other day:
Our houses used to be dark at night. Now they are lit up like Christmas trees with little colored lights everywhere from the smoke detectors to the GFI outlets to almost every device that is plugged in.
There used to be way less people. In 1970 the US population was about 210 million, now it is about 330 million. Everyplace is more crowded some of them to point of un-usability. There are very few places I have been in the last 50 years where I said “Gee I wish there were a lot more people here”.
Computers were very expensive and most people didn’t interact directly with them. The first disk drives I dealt with looked like top-loading washing machines and took a 200-megabyte removable disk-pack the size of a curling stone. List price in 1980 was $34,000 ($112,000 in 2021 Biden money). I occasionally pull out a 1-megabyte 8-inch floppy to show millennials.
After the latest revelation about the Trump appointed US Attorney slow walking the Hunter Biden investigation until after the election, I guess Ace is done with Trump.
I know Trump remains personally popular with many of you, but for me, this is it: This is the breaking point. He’s fucked up too many times, trusted the left too many times. Trusted GOPe saboteurs too many times.
I can only support someone for president who understands the full evil of the enemy. Not who consistently lets them clown him in an absurd bid for eventual acceptance by them.
“I occasionally pull out a 1-megabyte 8-inch floppy to show millennials.”
1mb? Hmmm. One fifth of one photo …
There used to be way less people. In 1970 the US population was about 210 million, now it is about 330 million. Everyplace is more crowded some of them to point of un-usability.
You could assemble the entire non-farm population of the United States in loci with ordinary suburban densities (that is, a half-acre plot per household, plus land devoted to retail establishments) and make use of about 4% of the total land area. The crowding you experience arises from poor urban planning and excessive use of private automobiles.
Interesting bird! I don’t feel like going to Costa Rica to add it to my life list, however.
Los Angeles: If they don’t stop this nonsense I may never see my brother again. When will it be safe to travel there? Plus, I think I’ll pay to fly into Burbank and avoid LAX altogether.
I can only support someone for president who understands the full evil of the enemy. Not who consistently lets them clown him in an absurd bid for eventual acceptance by them.
I like Ace, but what he asks for doesn’t exist. And I still can’t blame Trump for this, since he was an outsider.
If Trump STILL trusted these people, he’d have a point.
“The crowding you experience arises from poor urban planning and excessive use of private automobiles.”
Yes, if only the right technocrats were in charge eh?
Kate:
Common Nighthawks are related and present here up north (USA). But you probably know all about them (your Life List is a clue)?
Thanks, om. Yup, I’ve seen the Common Nighthawk, and the Antillean Nighthawk (that one on a trip to Key West some years ago). I don’t have the Lesser Nighthawk; in my Arizona childhood I wasn’t watching birds as much as I do now. We have friends who are crazy birders. I wouldn’t, myself, go out in a swamp at midnight to see a species of rail. But I enjoy looking around me in normal conditions.
Kate:
Some of the best things from working along the Columbia River at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was seeing the Pelicans flying upriver just above the water, flap and glide (using ground effect?), and then floating downriver to feed. Huge, majestic birds. And the ducks, Bald Eagles, … and I’m not even a birder.
om, birds can be so beautiful! A couple of weeks ago we drove over the upper Mississippi through a federal wildlife refuge, and a bald eagle flew over us.
“Something’s gonna happen” to the USA soon.
A commenter at Instapundit quotes Conservative Treehouse on the building tipping point, and Commie Biden is flying invaders into our heartland to takeover us:
From Sundance at CTH:
“Folks, we are approaching an inflection point of regime instability.
“Something is going to happen….
“The economy is a hot mess; inflation is crushing the working class; people can see food prices increasing to a disturbing level; gasoline is expensive; vaccinations are being forced upon people; our borders are intentionally unprotected; the election fraud is beginning to surface; the institutions of government are openly corrupt; the media cannot provide adequate enough cover; censorship is back-firing; people are now looking at freedom from a very personal perspective; and into this mix, the installed regime is losing control and lashing out.”
Yeah, something is about to happen, says the Instapundit commenter
Is THIS the quickening? A Fairfax County, Virginia, NAACP Vice President tells us that opponents of CRT in schools to simply be left to die: “let them die.”
Breitbart explains:
“[Michelle] Leete spoke to supporters of CRT, saying:
So let’s meet and remain steadfast, in speaking truth, tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let’s not allow any double downing on lies. Let’s prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-health care, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-health care, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-live-and-let-live people. Let them die. Don’t let these uncomfortable people, don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.
Watch:
“Let them die,” says @FairfaxNAACP leader Michelle Leete at protest before @fcpsnews board. Folks against critical race theory are here, with protestors including Leete opposing them. It’ll be tonight. Watch at https://t.co/KuScNenTVQ pic.twitter.com/Csb5faEYKG
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 15, 2021
Leete is also vice president of communications for the Fairfax County Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), vice president of training for the Virginia PTA, and according to her LinkedIn, a federal employee at the U.S. Capitol.
Parents were protesting CRT being taught in Fairfax County Public Schools in a “Stop CRT Rally.” The event flyer stated, “It’s not about race or equity, it’s about a Communist Radical Takeover of America!”
TJ, that’s making the violent approach of the left very clear, isn’t it?
“Well, as I said in my confirmation hearing, one of the reasons I came back is because I was concerned that people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. And that the political and that the justice, or the law enforcement process was being used to play political games. And I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system. There’s only one standard of justice.”
Meanwhile back in Reality, the Antipope Bergoglio who really ought to be playing tangos on his accordion in a Buenos Aires Whorehouse instead of pontificating has just this day issued a Motu Proprio in effect banning the Latin Mass… which used to very charitably conclude with a prayer for the conversion of the You-Know-Whos… Really don’t know what the world is coming to, but expecting the Horsemen anytime soon.
It’s a chilly day in hell when I say something nice about Rod Dreher, but looks like he picked the better nag.
Can Do!
Papal infalability doesn’t mean what you “think” it means. Another one of your It Ain’t Necessarily So stories.
Yes, if only the right technocrats were in charge eh?
Strange as it may seem to you, local governments employ town planners, traffic engineers, and construction crews. These services are what economists call ‘public goods’. They do not emerge naturally on the open market.
Note, road construction and maintenance is financed by people in their capacity as property holders or in their capacity as general consumers. If you put tolls on limited access highways and financed the maintenance of other roads by excises on motor fuels and vehicle registration fees, you’d discover people make different decisions on the use of vehicles – fewer trips, walking, bikes, mass transit, taxis and ubers &c – which will generate less congestion.
And strange as it seems to you they fail pretty much everywhere. Plus the point I am making has nothing to do with the roads and the desire to force us out of our freedom chariots. I had to meet at Rosario Head State Park a couple of summers ago. It was so crowded that I vowed never to return. There are no more Rosario Heads to create new parks. All the good places are taken.
All the campgrounds around here are full all day all week all summer. When I was in high school you could get up early on a Saturday and get a good place to camp. Now they are all overcrowded zoos.
Hikes that used afford some solitude with only the occasional passing walker or biker are now crowded, noisy and unpleasant.
I used to ski at Whistler BC when it was a little village. When I stopped going it was so @#@$% crowded everywhere I started hating it.
The long-awaited Ed Buck trial is underway. He should have killed those @#$#@$@#$ several years earlier. With the whole BLM thing he’s going to get it good and hard.
And strange as it seems to you they fail pretty much everywhere.
Who fails at what?
Plus the point I am making has nothing to do with the roads and the desire to force us out of our freedom chariots.
The ‘desire’ is a figment of your imagination.
You will make different decisions if road maintenance is financed by people in their capacity as motorists rather than in their capacity as property holders or general consumers. Some portion of the congestion is a function of costs having been socialized. The costs and benefits will be more closely aligned. Your objection is just what?
I had to meet at Rosario Head State Park a couple of summers ago. It was so crowded that I vowed never to return. There are no more Rosario Heads to create new parks. All the good places are taken.
The country has parkland up the wazoo.
If you object to the congestion at Rosario Head, charge admission.
Hikes that used afford some solitude with only the occasional passing walker or biker are now crowded, noisy and unpleasant.
Try a different time or a different place.
wow,
My opinion is it was nicer in the past when there were fewer people. That is a fact. You more or less saying get over it doesn’t change that. You are being a bit unreasonably churlish.
On the Latin Mass restrictions: I got an email this morning (on a list) from an Orthodox priest, who said he read the news links right after finishing the day’s edition of the Babylon Bee, with no sense of having made a transition.
California lawmakers on Thursday approved the nation’s first state-funded guaranteed income plan that would distribute $35 million in monthly cash payments to eligible pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care.
The taxpayer-funded plan was approved unanimously in both chambers—36–0 in the Senate and 64–0 in the Assembly—and now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk to be signed into law.
There will be no restrictions on how eligible individuals spend the money. The plan aims to help recipients transition to life on their own.
“If you look at the stats for our foster youth, they are devastating,” Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk said in a statement. “We should be doing all we can to lift these young people up.”
“Pregnant People”
Burn It Down.
That’s quite a goatsucker.
My opinion is it was nicer in the past when there were fewer people. That is a fact. You more or less saying get over it doesn’t change that. You are being a bit unreasonably churlish.
You live in Washington State, which is economically and demographically dynamic. You can relocate to New York, which has about the same number of people it did 50 years ago. Also has no shortage of little towns that are…used looking. There are always trade-offs.
What you’re telling me is you want economic dynamism, you want selected costs of your economic activity socialized, you don’t want prices to ration space, you don’t want clutter, and it’s the technocrats’ fault you’re not getting what you want. But I’m the one being churlish.
“If you look at the stats for our foster youth, they are devastating,” Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk said in a statement. “We should be doing all we can to lift these young people up.”
Why not replace half-assed academic classes in secondary schools with voTech?
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Los Angeles will reinstate mandatory masks when indoors.
Here’s the chart showing why LOL
https://mobile.twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1415793311210745858
^^^ I think this something we can all agree on.
Los Angeles will reinstate mandatory masks when indoors.
Here’s the chart showing why LOL
Note, there’s been no increase in deaths at all. This is just a harassment gesture by public health officials and politicians.
One wonders if the LA mask and presumably other actions about to occur is to distract from election shenanigans.
Conspiratorial I know.
Seemed there was traction on Cuomo back a while till the MeToo charges distracted.
My favorite weird bird is the Shoebill from East Africa. I saw one on a high school field trip to Busch Gardens in Tampa. It looks like a cross between a pelican and a stork. It can stand motionless, staring, for long periods of time, which gave it a spooky dignity.
The Shoebill is all I remember from that field trip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoebill
Note, there’s been no increase in deaths at all.
Yep, consistent across many states. Cases going up and deaths continue down. I read common symptoms of the delta are headache, cough , runny nose. Geez can’t have people having a cold.
physicsguy:
Are they counting colds as Covid? I had one of those a month after I got the J&J vaxx.
A couple of things for the way things were the other day:
Our houses used to be dark at night. Now they are lit up like Christmas trees with little colored lights everywhere from the smoke detectors to the GFI outlets to almost every device that is plugged in.
There used to be way less people. In 1970 the US population was about 210 million, now it is about 330 million. Everyplace is more crowded some of them to point of un-usability. There are very few places I have been in the last 50 years where I said “Gee I wish there were a lot more people here”.
Computers were very expensive and most people didn’t interact directly with them. The first disk drives I dealt with looked like top-loading washing machines and took a 200-megabyte removable disk-pack the size of a curling stone. List price in 1980 was $34,000 ($112,000 in 2021 Biden money). I occasionally pull out a 1-megabyte 8-inch floppy to show millennials.
After the latest revelation about the Trump appointed US Attorney slow walking the Hunter Biden investigation until after the election, I guess Ace is done with Trump.
I know Trump remains personally popular with many of you, but for me, this is it: This is the breaking point. He’s fucked up too many times, trusted the left too many times. Trusted GOPe saboteurs too many times.
I can only support someone for president who understands the full evil of the enemy. Not who consistently lets them clown him in an absurd bid for eventual acceptance by them.
“I occasionally pull out a 1-megabyte 8-inch floppy to show millennials.”
1mb? Hmmm. One fifth of one photo …
There used to be way less people. In 1970 the US population was about 210 million, now it is about 330 million. Everyplace is more crowded some of them to point of un-usability.
You could assemble the entire non-farm population of the United States in loci with ordinary suburban densities (that is, a half-acre plot per household, plus land devoted to retail establishments) and make use of about 4% of the total land area. The crowding you experience arises from poor urban planning and excessive use of private automobiles.
The Potoo reminds me of this:
https://paulineconolly.com/2017/master-of-disguise-the-frogmouth/
But they’re carnivorous.
Interesting bird! I don’t feel like going to Costa Rica to add it to my life list, however.
Los Angeles: If they don’t stop this nonsense I may never see my brother again. When will it be safe to travel there? Plus, I think I’ll pay to fly into Burbank and avoid LAX altogether.
I can only support someone for president who understands the full evil of the enemy. Not who consistently lets them clown him in an absurd bid for eventual acceptance by them.
I like Ace, but what he asks for doesn’t exist. And I still can’t blame Trump for this, since he was an outsider.
If Trump STILL trusted these people, he’d have a point.
“The crowding you experience arises from poor urban planning and excessive use of private automobiles.”
Yes, if only the right technocrats were in charge eh?
Kate:
Common Nighthawks are related and present here up north (USA). But you probably know all about them (your Life List is a clue)?
Thanks, om. Yup, I’ve seen the Common Nighthawk, and the Antillean Nighthawk (that one on a trip to Key West some years ago). I don’t have the Lesser Nighthawk; in my Arizona childhood I wasn’t watching birds as much as I do now. We have friends who are crazy birders. I wouldn’t, myself, go out in a swamp at midnight to see a species of rail. But I enjoy looking around me in normal conditions.
Kate:
Some of the best things from working along the Columbia River at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was seeing the Pelicans flying upriver just above the water, flap and glide (using ground effect?), and then floating downriver to feed. Huge, majestic birds. And the ducks, Bald Eagles, … and I’m not even a birder.
om, birds can be so beautiful! A couple of weeks ago we drove over the upper Mississippi through a federal wildlife refuge, and a bald eagle flew over us.
“Something’s gonna happen” to the USA soon.
A commenter at Instapundit quotes Conservative Treehouse on the building tipping point, and Commie Biden is flying invaders into our heartland to takeover us:
From Sundance at CTH:
“Folks, we are approaching an inflection point of regime instability.
“Something is going to happen….
“The economy is a hot mess; inflation is crushing the working class; people can see food prices increasing to a disturbing level; gasoline is expensive; vaccinations are being forced upon people; our borders are intentionally unprotected; the election fraud is beginning to surface; the institutions of government are openly corrupt; the media cannot provide adequate enough cover; censorship is back-firing; people are now looking at freedom from a very personal perspective; and into this mix, the installed regime is losing control and lashing out.”
Yeah, something is about to happen, says the Instapundit commenter
Is THIS the quickening? A Fairfax County, Virginia, NAACP Vice President tells us that opponents of CRT in schools to simply be left to die: “let them die.”
Breitbart explains:
“[Michelle] Leete spoke to supporters of CRT, saying:
So let’s meet and remain steadfast, in speaking truth, tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let’s not allow any double downing on lies. Let’s prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-health care, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-health care, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-live-and-let-live people. Let them die. Don’t let these uncomfortable people, don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.
Watch:
“Let them die,” says @FairfaxNAACP leader Michelle Leete at protest before @fcpsnews board. Folks against critical race theory are here, with protestors including Leete opposing them. It’ll be tonight. Watch at https://t.co/KuScNenTVQ pic.twitter.com/Csb5faEYKG
— Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 15, 2021
Leete is also vice president of communications for the Fairfax County Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), vice president of training for the Virginia PTA, and according to her LinkedIn, a federal employee at the U.S. Capitol.
Parents were protesting CRT being taught in Fairfax County Public Schools in a “Stop CRT Rally.” The event flyer stated, “It’s not about race or equity, it’s about a Communist Radical Takeover of America!”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/16/let-them-die-fairfax-naacp-leader-speaks-against-anti-critical-race-theory-parents/
TJ, that’s making the violent approach of the left very clear, isn’t it?
“Well, as I said in my confirmation hearing, one of the reasons I came back is because I was concerned that people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. And that the political and that the justice, or the law enforcement process was being used to play political games. And I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system. There’s only one standard of justice.”
AG Barr
Gab of the Day:
Guaranteed to offend Libertarians:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/079/428/091/original/ac69d46f905c550b.jpeg
Although this comes a close second:
https://gab.com/MrJoePrich/posts/106590183237502715
But Cubans >> Poor White Trash
Meanwhile back in Reality, the Antipope Bergoglio who really ought to be playing tangos on his accordion in a Buenos Aires Whorehouse instead of pontificating has just this day issued a Motu Proprio in effect banning the Latin Mass… which used to very charitably conclude with a prayer for the conversion of the You-Know-Whos… Really don’t know what the world is coming to, but expecting the Horsemen anytime soon.
It’s a chilly day in hell when I say something nice about Rod Dreher, but looks like he picked the better nag.
Can Do!
Papal infalability doesn’t mean what you “think” it means. Another one of your It Ain’t Necessarily So stories.
Yes, if only the right technocrats were in charge eh?
Strange as it may seem to you, local governments employ town planners, traffic engineers, and construction crews. These services are what economists call ‘public goods’. They do not emerge naturally on the open market.
Note, road construction and maintenance is financed by people in their capacity as property holders or in their capacity as general consumers. If you put tolls on limited access highways and financed the maintenance of other roads by excises on motor fuels and vehicle registration fees, you’d discover people make different decisions on the use of vehicles – fewer trips, walking, bikes, mass transit, taxis and ubers &c – which will generate less congestion.
And strange as it seems to you they fail pretty much everywhere. Plus the point I am making has nothing to do with the roads and the desire to force us out of our freedom chariots. I had to meet at Rosario Head State Park a couple of summers ago. It was so crowded that I vowed never to return. There are no more Rosario Heads to create new parks. All the good places are taken.
All the campgrounds around here are full all day all week all summer. When I was in high school you could get up early on a Saturday and get a good place to camp. Now they are all overcrowded zoos.
Hikes that used afford some solitude with only the occasional passing walker or biker are now crowded, noisy and unpleasant.
I used to ski at Whistler BC when it was a little village. When I stopped going it was so @#@$% crowded everywhere I started hating it.
The long-awaited Ed Buck trial is underway. He should have killed those @#$#@$@#$ several years earlier. With the whole BLM thing he’s going to get it good and hard.
And strange as it seems to you they fail pretty much everywhere.
Who fails at what?
Plus the point I am making has nothing to do with the roads and the desire to force us out of our freedom chariots.
The ‘desire’ is a figment of your imagination.
You will make different decisions if road maintenance is financed by people in their capacity as motorists rather than in their capacity as property holders or general consumers. Some portion of the congestion is a function of costs having been socialized. The costs and benefits will be more closely aligned. Your objection is just what?
I had to meet at Rosario Head State Park a couple of summers ago. It was so crowded that I vowed never to return. There are no more Rosario Heads to create new parks. All the good places are taken.
The country has parkland up the wazoo.
If you object to the congestion at Rosario Head, charge admission.
Hikes that used afford some solitude with only the occasional passing walker or biker are now crowded, noisy and unpleasant.
Try a different time or a different place.
wow,
My opinion is it was nicer in the past when there were fewer people. That is a fact. You more or less saying get over it doesn’t change that. You are being a bit unreasonably churlish.
On the Latin Mass restrictions: I got an email this morning (on a list) from an Orthodox priest, who said he read the news links right after finishing the day’s edition of the Babylon Bee, with no sense of having made a transition.
https://www.ntd.com/california-lawmakers-approve-first-state-funded-guaranteed-income-plan-in-nations-history_644222.html
California lawmakers on Thursday approved the nation’s first state-funded guaranteed income plan that would distribute $35 million in monthly cash payments to eligible pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care.
The taxpayer-funded plan was approved unanimously in both chambers—36–0 in the Senate and 64–0 in the Assembly—and now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk to be signed into law.
There will be no restrictions on how eligible individuals spend the money. The plan aims to help recipients transition to life on their own.
“If you look at the stats for our foster youth, they are devastating,” Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk said in a statement. “We should be doing all we can to lift these young people up.”
“Pregnant People”
Burn It Down.
That’s quite a goatsucker.
My opinion is it was nicer in the past when there were fewer people. That is a fact. You more or less saying get over it doesn’t change that. You are being a bit unreasonably churlish.
You live in Washington State, which is economically and demographically dynamic. You can relocate to New York, which has about the same number of people it did 50 years ago. Also has no shortage of little towns that are…used looking. There are always trade-offs.
What you’re telling me is you want economic dynamism, you want selected costs of your economic activity socialized, you don’t want prices to ration space, you don’t want clutter, and it’s the technocrats’ fault you’re not getting what you want. But I’m the one being churlish.
“If you look at the stats for our foster youth, they are devastating,” Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk said in a statement. “We should be doing all we can to lift these young people up.”
Why not replace half-assed academic classes in secondary schools with voTech?