“You can’t have a policy of giving aid and giving Israel the weapons to bomb the food trucks at the same time,” Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, said in an interview the day after the speech. “There is inherent contradiction in that."*
…it's a re-election campaign.
*NYTimes "news analysis" 3/9/2024.
"Archeology becomes like a peephole into medieval history that allows us to learn more about how life was several hundred years ago."
…about how life will be several hundred years in the future.
And about what archeologists may think then when they find the junk in my back closet.
The situation is sparking battles across the nation over who will pay for new power supplies, with regulators worrying that residential ratepayers could be stuck with the bill for costly upgrades. It also threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy, as utility executives lobby to delay the retirement of fossil fuel plants and bring more online. The power crunch imperils their ability to supply the energy that will be needed to charge the millions of electric cars and household appliances required to meet state and federal climate goals.
Climate goals? Oh, right. Those.
A tweet published by @POTUS this morning read:
I propose a minimum tax of 25% for billionaires.Just 25%.That would raise $500 billion over the next 10 years.Imagine what that could do for America.
OK, imagining.
Regarding current budget negotiations in Congress, the AP reported a couple of days ago:
In the end, total discretionary spending set by Congress is expected to come in at about $1.66 trillion for the full entire year.
Look. I don't have an answer for this. I'm merely asking a question.
Has there ever been an entire year that wasn't full?
“Not unlike when one travels across many time zones, how long it can take is very different for different people,” said Dr. Eduardo Sanchez of the American Heart Association. “Understand that your body is transitioning.”Yikes.
Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1,000 parts called .beats. Each .beat lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. One .beat is equal to one decimal minute in French decimal time.
Wait a minute (err, beat). French decimal time?
Yep.
In 1788, Claude Boniface Collignon proposed dividing the day into 10 hours or 1,000 minutes, each new hour into 100 minutes, each new minute into 1,000 seconds, and each new second into 1,000 tierces (older French for "third").
And let's not even start with the Romans.
Just chill.
And, before you go to bed Sunday, spring up.
This year, President Biden was the first president in a State of the Union to say the words IVF, cease-fire, fetus and impersonation. In his previous addresses to Congress, Biden had already said cybersecurity 2021, okay 2021, LGBTQ 2021, insulin 2022, ironworkers 2023 and skyline 2023.So far (confessing I didn't watch it and haven't read the transcript yet) it appears the address was less about the state of the union and more about kicking off the president's re-election campaign.
In a raucous State of the Union address, the president’s goal was to reassure Americans that at 81 he is ready for a second term.While the Washington Post echoes (almost literally echoes):
President Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address Thursday night, making a forceful case for a second term…And in other news, we should have a fairly nice 50-ish day here.
"He looks more like a dopey tourist than a stone-cold killer."
Complaints about politicians are as old as American politics itself. But pollsters and strategists believe something different is happening this year.
And cycling through the stages of grief,
Meanwhile, Baltimore entrepreneur named Jason Palmer beat Biden by 11 votes in a Democratic caucus in American Samoa. The next day he ended his campaign,“If Change did pay, it's problematic,” says Callow. “It highlights the profitability of attacks on the health care sector. Ransomware gangs are nothing if not predictable: If they find a particular sector to be lucrative, they’ll attack it over and over again, rinse and repeat.”
There may be more to this story than meets the eye but $22 million is a lot of eye candy.
In a video published by the German newspaper Deutsche Welle an expert from the Georgetown Strategy Group comments on the U.S. plan to air drop food into Gaza. A provocative view from outside the bubble.
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In addition to the patrol boost, Hochul said she will introduce a new law that allows judges to ban anyone who has been convicted of a violent transit assault from riding the Big Apple’s subway or bus system.
NYC has changed a lot since I lived there in a previous century, granted, but this still sounds like some kind of stunt to me.
Success or failure will depend on lawmakers working through complex problems while negotiating with an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars and growing at a speed best measured in lightyears.“The third-party service we utilize to screen all prospective tenants has denied your tenancy.” That was the notice received by one Massachusetts woman when she applied for an apartment. The third-party service was a computer running AI.
“Good night, Odie. We hope to hear from you again,” the company said via X, formerly Twitter.
And what about the X? Why don't we just call it Formerly Twitter and be done with it?
Or maybe we could go full circle and instead of calling it "X, formerly Twitter" we call it "Twitter, ex X."
