Ah, but I love Marianne…and think FWIW(!) it’s one of the most thrilling songs ever written. Sweet ‘n sour, happy ‘n sad, young ‘n old…thrilling.
Off topic for open thread (oxymoron – yep that’s me)
For the “Z” s of this world:
“How else would you describe something that first looks at the qualities of a person based on something as useless as the color of their skin or what self-identified tribal identification they want them in? What else identifies a group as a collective undesirable simply because their DNA comes from a certain part of the world?”
In this case the powers that be (in the US Navy) apply their diversity tool against non BIPOC but the “Z”s would apply it to BIPOCs. It’s all about what “works” after all.
The Scandinavian nations have pursued different strategies to fight the pandemic.And all have been relatively unscathed by the menace, unlike many others.
But studies neglect to mention that what these countries all have in common is food fortified with Vitamin D.
Coincidence? The science says that’s unlikely.
A stanza from the song:
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Oh my. Is that what I think it is?
From Wikipedia,
Cohen had a brief phase around 1970 of being interested in a variety of world views, which he later described as “from the Communist party to the Republican Party. From Scientology to delusions of me as the High Priest rebuilding the Temple”.
Cohen was involved with Buddhism beginning in the 1970s and was ordained a Buddhist priest in 1996; he continued to consider himself Jewish: “I’m not looking for a new religion. I’m quite happy with the old one, with Judaism.” Beginning in the late 1970s, Cohen was associated with Buddhist monk and r?shi (venerable teacher) Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, regularly visiting him at Mount Baldy Zen Center and serving him as personal assistant during Cohen’s period of reclusion at Mount Baldy monastery in the 1990s. Sasaki appears as a regular motif or addressee in Cohen’s poetry, especially in his Book of Longing, and took part in a 1997 documentary about Cohen’s monastery years, Leonard Cohen: Spring 1996.
I checked out the link, and it deals with a Daniel Horowitz.
David Horowitz is either
– a somewhat well-known consumer advocate, or
– an extremely conservative and outspoken figure,
depending on which David Horowitz one means.
Or, did theblaze dot com mess up in its attribution?
M J R. Sorry. My mistake!
@TJ:
“I smile when I’m angry
I cheat and I lie
I do what I have to do
To get by
And I’m always alone
And my heart is like ice
And it’s crowded and cold
In my secret life”
— Leonard Cohen
“What kind of Buddhism is this, Otto?” — A Fish Called Wanda.
@TJ:
Agree about the Vitamin D3 bit. I wonder too about Zinc levels. One of the few things East Asia and Scandinavia have in common is really a lot of seafood in the diets. Chinese have a pretty insatiable appetite for clams and oysters so get even more.
Unfortunately there’s no good data from China which might or might not show a Covid severity gradient from coastal to inland provinces.
@TJ:
Probably just a Daniel Horowitz we’ve never heard of. He’s got a lot of running to do to catch up with David H of the Eponymous Freedom (tr. Neocon) Center.
I tried to struggle through the logic of this new court edict on The Epoch Times and got a little bit lost. This CBS piece doesn’t have a pay wall.
Washington — A federal judge Friday refused landlords’ request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the eviction moratorium in the spring.
Combined with the four justices who would have vacated the stay, Kavanaugh’s opinion was enough to establish that the Supreme Court would rule against any future CDC action on evictions, plaintiffs, including real estate groups, argued in their emergency motion on Aug. 4 and in court earlier this week.
Friedrich sided with the government defendants in disagreeing.
“Because the four dissenting Justices did not explain their votes, it is impossible to determine which proposed disposition—theirs or Justice Kavanaugh’s—is the ‘common denominator’ of the other,” she wrote.
Who cares about the four dissenters. Can’t she assume that the 5 deciders are in agreement? Although the decision itself is such a mess, it’s not clear what it means. Entreating congress to make the decision for the SCOTUS?
Impenetrable byzantine arcana, to me anyway. Friedrich implies, “We know the correct answer (the moratorium is unconstitutional), but our hands are tied.” And Zaphod snickers.
Doesn’t sound nearly as good as “And Alexander Wept..” I have to admit. That’s the problem with being a cynical Cassandra: you get some good lines, but predictable after not very long.
Still… Snickers is made by Mars — The God of Us All.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to have been a Chinese container ship accidentally on purpose dragging its anchor. But let’s wait and see.
@TJ
You’re right on about the Vit D. I’m above 60 with a couple of comorbidities, and I’m fine. Work-related, I’ve flown Manila to the US and Manila to Tokyo a couple of times during the prolonged sh$tstorm. Had walking pneumonia in 2019, just got over a nasty bout of influenza C, and worked closely with several people who had covid (in addition to working on the Diamond Princess taskforce in Tokyo in early 2020). Maybe I’ve been just lucky, or maybe it’s the 10,000 IUs/day of Vit D, along with 1 gram/day of sustained release Vit C, and zinc building up my resistance. Both Pfizer jabs maybe helping, too.
@Zaphod – Regarding your observations elsewhere on the Philippines, never have I seen such unreasoning fear overtake a general population. As bad as the US’s fear and propaganda responses have been, I am so ready to leave here and return home. And I will seek out (I’m retiring soon) a US state with marginally sane governance (because that’s almost all one can hope for anymore).
Been some recent chatter in this blog about the situation in Australia and the crazed response to Covid-19.
You might find some meat in this interview with a much-maligned Australian Dissident:
“But decisions to open the border in a shift from Covid control to coexistence is way beyond the mandate of local officials such as Gong while Beijing elevates the fight against Covid as an across the government imperative.
The People’s Daily on Wednesday ran a “living with Covid” rebuke from China’s former health minister Gao Qiang, who led China’s response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003.
Gao jabbed the West’s “systemically flawed” pandemic prevention and labeled it a “gross disregard” for people’s lives. He said the premature loosening and scrapping of most measures and restrictions and the “blind confidence” in vaccines were to blame for the alarming spikes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
“There is no such thing as ‘living with Covid’ and China must not fall into the West’s mistakes,” Gao said. He said that he had advised the NHC to update guidelines to further speed up mass testing to better tackle Delta’s ultrafast spread.
Zhang Yiwu, a Peking University professor of social studies, told Asia Times that China would continue to close down entire cities, ports and airports to contain outbreaks.
However, as long as it could contain each flare-up and eliminate cases in short order and open up domestically to restore production and economy, the cost of the zero-case approach would be “manageable.”
“People would feel safe and businesses could quickly claw back lost revenues in a restored ‘virus-free environment,’” he said.
PKU professor Zhang said Beijing’s mandate and public sentiment were perfectly aligned since Chinese people had no “psychological immunity” to Covid outbreaks and Beijing was chiefly concerned about any unchecked viral spread threatening social stability and its rule. ”
Hmm. Wotsit all mean? Dunno.
Probably not 100% ¡Science! though:
“He said Beijing was unlikely to consider easing up for the next 12 to 18 months, until after the conclusion of the Communist Party’s 20th national congress next fall and the parliamentary session in the spring of 2023, when a new central government would be formed. ”
Today’s reminder that we’re screwed is Afghanistan. We spent 20 years, billions of dollars, and far too many American lives and our elites either:
A. Had no idea we were accomplishing nothing.
B. Knew we were accomplishing nothing but continued to waste money and innocent lives rather than admit that,
Mike
This article confirms my experiences at the time:
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-progressive-revolution-arrived-before-trump/
Ah, but I love Marianne…and think FWIW(!) it’s one of the most thrilling songs ever written. Sweet ‘n sour, happy ‘n sad, young ‘n old…thrilling.
Off topic for open thread (oxymoron – yep that’s me)
For the “Z” s of this world:
“How else would you describe something that first looks at the qualities of a person based on something as useless as the color of their skin or what self-identified tribal identification they want them in? What else identifies a group as a collective undesirable simply because their DNA comes from a certain part of the world?”
from “Diversity Thursday” at http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/
In this case the powers that be (in the US Navy) apply their diversity tool against non BIPOC but the “Z”s would apply it to BIPOCs. It’s all about what “works” after all.
David Horowitz condemns the public health crime of failing to publicize the anti-Covid virus fighting benefits of enhanced vitamin D supplementation.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-why-wont-our-government-even-inform-people-about-importance-of-vitamin-d
The Scandinavian nations have pursued different strategies to fight the pandemic.And all have been relatively unscathed by the menace, unlike many others.
But studies neglect to mention that what these countries all have in common is food fortified with Vitamin D.
Coincidence? The science says that’s unlikely.
A stanza from the song:
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Oh my. Is that what I think it is?
From Wikipedia,
Cohen had a brief phase around 1970 of being interested in a variety of world views, which he later described as “from the Communist party to the Republican Party. From Scientology to delusions of me as the High Priest rebuilding the Temple”.
Cohen was involved with Buddhism beginning in the 1970s and was ordained a Buddhist priest in 1996; he continued to consider himself Jewish: “I’m not looking for a new religion. I’m quite happy with the old one, with Judaism.” Beginning in the late 1970s, Cohen was associated with Buddhist monk and r?shi (venerable teacher) Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, regularly visiting him at Mount Baldy Zen Center and serving him as personal assistant during Cohen’s period of reclusion at Mount Baldy monastery in the 1990s. Sasaki appears as a regular motif or addressee in Cohen’s poetry, especially in his Book of Longing, and took part in a 1997 documentary about Cohen’s monastery years, Leonard Cohen: Spring 1996.
He had experimented widely.
TJ (12:58 pm) began, “David Horowitz condemns . . . .”
I checked out the link, and it deals with a Daniel Horowitz.
David Horowitz is either
– a somewhat well-known consumer advocate, or
– an extremely conservative and outspoken figure,
depending on which David Horowitz one means.
Or, did theblaze dot com mess up in its attribution?
M J R. Sorry. My mistake!
@TJ:
“I smile when I’m angry
I cheat and I lie
I do what I have to do
To get by
And I’m always alone
And my heart is like ice
And it’s crowded and cold
In my secret life”
— Leonard Cohen
“What kind of Buddhism is this, Otto?” — A Fish Called Wanda.
@TJ:
Agree about the Vitamin D3 bit. I wonder too about Zinc levels. One of the few things East Asia and Scandinavia have in common is really a lot of seafood in the diets. Chinese have a pretty insatiable appetite for clams and oysters so get even more.
Unfortunately there’s no good data from China which might or might not show a Covid severity gradient from coastal to inland provinces.
@TJ:
Probably just a Daniel Horowitz we’ve never heard of. He’s got a lot of running to do to catch up with David H of the Eponymous Freedom (tr. Neocon) Center.
I tried to struggle through the logic of this new court edict on The Epoch Times and got a little bit lost. This CBS piece doesn’t have a pay wall.
Washington — A federal judge Friday refused landlords’ request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the eviction moratorium in the spring.
This next part is from The Epoch Times. (Paywall, sorry.)
Combined with the four justices who would have vacated the stay, Kavanaugh’s opinion was enough to establish that the Supreme Court would rule against any future CDC action on evictions, plaintiffs, including real estate groups, argued in their emergency motion on Aug. 4 and in court earlier this week.
Friedrich sided with the government defendants in disagreeing.
“Because the four dissenting Justices did not explain their votes, it is impossible to determine which proposed disposition—theirs or Justice Kavanaugh’s—is the ‘common denominator’ of the other,” she wrote.
Who cares about the four dissenters. Can’t she assume that the 5 deciders are in agreement? Although the decision itself is such a mess, it’s not clear what it means. Entreating congress to make the decision for the SCOTUS?
Impenetrable byzantine arcana, to me anyway. Friedrich implies, “We know the correct answer (the moratorium is unconstitutional), but our hands are tied.” And Zaphod snickers.
Here is the Kavanaugh decision.
This at Redstate cuts through some of the chaff.
@Zaphod
“And Zaphod snickers”
Doesn’t sound nearly as good as “And Alexander Wept..” I have to admit. That’s the problem with being a cynical Cassandra: you get some good lines, but predictable after not very long.
Still… Snickers is made by Mars — The God of Us All.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australian-federal-police-investigates-asc-subsea-cable-cut-off-perth-568593
Wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to have been a Chinese container ship accidentally on purpose dragging its anchor. But let’s wait and see.
@TJ
You’re right on about the Vit D. I’m above 60 with a couple of comorbidities, and I’m fine. Work-related, I’ve flown Manila to the US and Manila to Tokyo a couple of times during the prolonged sh$tstorm. Had walking pneumonia in 2019, just got over a nasty bout of influenza C, and worked closely with several people who had covid (in addition to working on the Diamond Princess taskforce in Tokyo in early 2020). Maybe I’ve been just lucky, or maybe it’s the 10,000 IUs/day of Vit D, along with 1 gram/day of sustained release Vit C, and zinc building up my resistance. Both Pfizer jabs maybe helping, too.
@Zaphod – Regarding your observations elsewhere on the Philippines, never have I seen such unreasoning fear overtake a general population. As bad as the US’s fear and propaganda responses have been, I am so ready to leave here and return home. And I will seek out (I’m retiring soon) a US state with marginally sane governance (because that’s almost all one can hope for anymore).
Been some recent chatter in this blog about the situation in Australia and the crazed response to Covid-19.
You might find some meat in this interview with a much-maligned Australian Dissident:
https://tv.gab.com/channel/mrjoeprich/view/just-joe-radio-52-611604fe1cff062f95f49d04
@Telemachus:
Good luck with the upcoming retirement! Don’t forget some MK-7 type Vitamin K2 to go along with your 10K IUs of D3.
This could be big if China Evergrande blows:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/explainer-how-china-evergrandes-debt-woes-pose-a-systemic-risk-2021-07-27-0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annestevenson-yang/2021/08/09/evergrande-monetary-loosening-the-only-way-out/?sh=d96038478508
Hope you’re not holding too much of their paper, Om 🙂
This is even more fun but long reading:
http://www.deepthroatipo.com/ant-group-co-ltd-yet-another-chinese-communist-financial-deathmobile-forex-grab/
Last article TL;DR they’ve hacked your financial system with the help of all the various Usual Suspects and are bleeding you dry.
More China Covid Policy Chatter:
https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/chinas-zero-covid-policy-could-be-self-defeating/
“But decisions to open the border in a shift from Covid control to coexistence is way beyond the mandate of local officials such as Gong while Beijing elevates the fight against Covid as an across the government imperative.
The People’s Daily on Wednesday ran a “living with Covid” rebuke from China’s former health minister Gao Qiang, who led China’s response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003.
Gao jabbed the West’s “systemically flawed” pandemic prevention and labeled it a “gross disregard” for people’s lives. He said the premature loosening and scrapping of most measures and restrictions and the “blind confidence” in vaccines were to blame for the alarming spikes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
“There is no such thing as ‘living with Covid’ and China must not fall into the West’s mistakes,” Gao said. He said that he had advised the NHC to update guidelines to further speed up mass testing to better tackle Delta’s ultrafast spread.
Zhang Yiwu, a Peking University professor of social studies, told Asia Times that China would continue to close down entire cities, ports and airports to contain outbreaks.
However, as long as it could contain each flare-up and eliminate cases in short order and open up domestically to restore production and economy, the cost of the zero-case approach would be “manageable.”
“People would feel safe and businesses could quickly claw back lost revenues in a restored ‘virus-free environment,’” he said.
PKU professor Zhang said Beijing’s mandate and public sentiment were perfectly aligned since Chinese people had no “psychological immunity” to Covid outbreaks and Beijing was chiefly concerned about any unchecked viral spread threatening social stability and its rule. ”
Hmm. Wotsit all mean? Dunno.
Probably not 100% ¡Science! though:
“He said Beijing was unlikely to consider easing up for the next 12 to 18 months, until after the conclusion of the Communist Party’s 20th national congress next fall and the parliamentary session in the spring of 2023, when a new central government would be formed. ”
Australia / Covid:
https://gab.com/RealBlairCottrell/posts/106752811274767820
The government threatens doctors with prosecution and de-registration if they go Off Message.
Don’t worry… David Geffen is OK:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/081/946/194/original/aa3470ff7b3abb1e.png