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Recently when I was in NYC, I went to the Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim. My ex works there so I get in free. I asked her why there was a recommendation to go up the rotunda instead of the usual start at the top and go down. She said that people were running down! Disappointing, as I was familiar with his later works, but did get to see his early works until the end.
Thanks to all the cyclist out there. My mt bike is a 28 year old fat chance titanium, less than 20 #s. At 17,800′ weight matters. Three summers I worked at a ski area, 4.5 mile climb, 1800 verticale feet. (16%) Yesterday riding in 90 degrees, I recalled riding that hill in heat and hoping it would rain. My comuter bike is less than 17#s
“How much more useful is today’s bicycle than a bicycle from 100 years ago?” Absolutely ridiculous. I’ve ridden the Himalayas numerous times, and to think a bicycle from 100 years ago could do that. (I was one of the first to do it in the 80’s because no bikes could do it before then.) Bikes from 100 years ago were heavy and one speed, it would be very difficult to do the commutes I’ve done over the last 40 years with a bike from that era. The bicycle is the only viable transportation for an individual for this century and beyond.
The swiss researcher that isolated the lyme pathgen said it was an accidental lab leak, from Plum Island NY, just off shore of Lyme Ct.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42117387-bitten
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
“A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time-Lyme disease-and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today.”I still can’t forget Vlad’s quote of Tolstoy, which I’ve read almost all, there is no happiness.
Happy solstice, here is my arrangement and playing of J Coltrane’s Equinox. The picture is looking east from my porch.
Absolute galore, re: Richard Sachs. I owned a bike shop in the 80’s to 90:s. I was one of Fat City Cycles top dealers (Fat Chance) the company that spawned so many frame builders.
Michael R, “Greene said neither Muskrat Falls, which is billions over budget, nor the pandemic are responsible for the province’s problems.”
From my wife’s article: “For opponents, all this waste has become a metaphor for the uselessness of a project that has replaced a gift of nature of immeasurable value with a great big mess that is on track to bankrupting a province.”Damming Muskrat Falls: Land and River Protectors in Canada Recharge the Debate on Mega-Dams
“And this was after Newfoundlanders learned that $120 million had been wasted in the creation of a super “dome” intended to shield the dam’s powerhouse from frigid winter weather during construction. Close to 4,000 tons of structural steel had been fabricated, transported, and installed before the project was abandoned midway, the steel turned into scrap.“More millions of dollars of waste piled up at the metal scrap yard in the form of 350 kilometers of aluminum cable that was mined, smelted, fabricated and installed before the flaw in the cable was discovered, and the already installed hundreds of miles of DC conductor wire was dismantled and dumped in piles the size of houses.”
Absolute, the horse paste comes in a tube, with a lock ring. Set the lock ring to body weight and press on plunger. I use it on my sheep.
Who is the frame builder?“On the day that 🇮🇱 Israel launched their💉they were averaging 14 ⚰️/ day.
Every day after that until 19th March 2021 the average number of ⚰️ was higher than on 💉launch day.
AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAILY DEATHS:
Before 💉: 11
After 💉: 33Experts say the coincidence is NOT causal.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1373333873103400962.htmlRather disturbing numbers, and the link includes many more countries.
Yesterday’s dog named Sisu, is Finnish for guts, the name given to the war with USSR, fending off an army 30 x larger. Apex predators. The traditional way of hunting bears in Finland was to go to a bear den, wake it up, and stand there with a spear behind you, bear attacks and you duck, job done.
I didn’t buy from India, I have never gotten a flu, so I probably won’t get this one. If need be I can get this: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/durvet-ivermectin-paste-187-608-g
I use something simalar for my sheep.“All of us act like communists a good deal of the time. None of us act like communists consistantly. “Communist society” -in the sence of a society organized exclusively on that single principal-could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communisim.” -David Graeber Debt The first 5000 years.
Wes, and V Arnold, before digital I used a Rolleflex TLR that my father bought before I was born. Mt biking in Nepal I tried to keep it at f16 or f22.
V Arnols,”That’s quite a photograph; I don’t feel qualified to critique it, but the depth of field must have been huge…” He shot with large format cameras. and had a f64 club. smaller format cameras couldn’t come close to f64
Trump didn’t start any wars? What utter BS. Sanctions are an act of war, and no president has used them more than Trump.
“Americans have become so accustomed to the concept of sanctions that the policy has become hum-drum and commonplace. Since the violence associated with sanctions is indirect and difficult to see, people don’t put them in the same category as bombs. But the reality is that sanctions, by virtue of their targeting foreign citizens for death, are every bit an act of war as dropping bombs on them.”
Sanctions against N Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and others.
Coups against Bolivia, and Venezuela
Provocations w/ China in the S China Sea, Iran in the Straight of Hormuz, w/ Russia in Syria
If Iran had assassinated an American general, the US would be at war. Trump did not get the US into a hot war, but he certainly tried. (Loser)
FDR started the war with Japan with an oil embargo, that’s why they attacked Pearl Harbour, AND the Philippines, Japan’s major source of oil.
When did TAE become a MAGA site?Looks like Biden has got the lock on 270. I didn’t think the CIA and FBI would let Trump win.
When I met Nate Hagans as a possible tenant, when he was going to the U of Vt., he said, “I saw the light.” I thought to myself, hmm, I think that’s an on coming freight train.“Has there been a worse candidate in history than Joe Biden? ”
Yes, and he is running against him.
“I don’t have to tell you. You read the same newspapers I do. A President who has said if he doesn’t like the outcome of an election, he’ll simply not leave office, and is taken seriously enough that,”
” A striking example recently was the firing of the inspectors general when they started looking into the incredible swamp Trump created in Washington. This kind of thing goes on and on.”
“Trump, but the people around him are essentially creating an international alliance of extremely reactionary states, which can be controlled by the White House, which, of course, has shifted way far to the right, tearing up every international agreement, wrecking everything in sight.”
“United Nations’ sanctions are reinstituted against Iran. Why? Because he says so. The United States brought it to the Security Council and could get virtually no support. So therefore we reinstitute the United Nations’ sanctions unilaterally. That’s the Godfather talking. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. The same is true of every international agreement. The arms-control regime has been torn to shreds, with great danger to us as well as everyone else.”
“Well, having an arms-control regime is different than not having one. That’s a break, and it’s a break on one of the two most significant issues in human history. We’ve been living for seventy-five years under the shadow of possible nuclear destruction. The arms-control regime that’s been slowly built up over the years—Eisenhower’s Open Skies proposal, the Reagan-Gorbachev I.N.F. treaty, and other pieces—has mitigated the dangers. Trump has been tearing every piece of it to shreds. ““Greg Palast does not mince words about the 2020 elections.
Only the voter fraud he warns about is not by the voters, as President Trump insists. It’s by the vote-stealers in the Republican Party. And they’ve been at it for a long time, unbeknownst to the American people.”
The author, Charlotte Dennent is a freind.“His conclusion is that there will be no collective immunity to coronavirus despite earlier hopes. The virus is here to stay for a long while, and while vaccines may give immunity this is likely to be temporary”
“Despite publicly downplaying it, President Donald Trump and his team of White House advisers have embraced the controversial belief that herd immunity will help control the COVID-19 outbreak, according to three senior health officials working with the White House coronavirus task force. More worrisome for those officials: they have begun taking steps to turn the concept into policy.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-covid-advisers-hes-now-pushing-herd-immunity“An especially telling moment occurred on October 13th. According to the Times, two senior White House officials cited, in a background conversation with reporters, the Great Barrington Declaration—a document that argues for the pursuit of herd immunity through widespread infection instead of a vaccine.”
“Throughout the pandemic, Trump and his team have often denied that they are pursuing herd immunity as a strategy. And yet their words and actions have belied their disavowal. “Once you get to a certain number—we use the word ‘herd’—once you get to a certain number, it’s going to go away,” the President told Fox News, in August. ”
https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-trump-became-the-pro-infection-candidate?slatzman, I hear you, from the oil drum to politics, how did we end up here. I posted a couple of days ago about our predicement, and that politicos either know nothing, or will say nothing.
” Supporters of both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden regularly assert that the nation will never recover if the other side wins.”
“They are both partly right but miss the larger point namely, that it is unlikely that either oil supply or demand will ever return to 2018 levels on a sustained basis.World Oil Growth is Dependent on U.S. Tight Oil https://www.artberman.com/2020/09/03/stop-expecting-oil-and-the-economy-to-recover/
“Strangely enough, the limit we seem to be reaching with respect to fossil fuel extraction comes from low prices. At low prices, the extraction of oil, coal, and natural gas becomes unprofitable. Producers go bankrupt, or they voluntarily cut back production in an attempt to force prices higher. As the result of these forces, production tends to fall. This limit comes long before the limit that many people imagine: the amount of fossil fuels in the ground that seems to be available with current extraction techniques.”
Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way“Population growth, particularly among 1st world and Asian working age populations, will decline / decelerate (respectively) and the likely decline in births will be greater than projected above. Energy consumption will almost surely grow far less than projected above with a fairly good potential for outright decline”
“So, it’s the growth of the working-age population in the developed world that is critical for the growth of money within a fractional reserve system.”
I care who wins the election, but I don’t think it will make much of a difference as we are in the greater depression, and politicos don’t know or will admit it.Dr D., a correction, it was not Pulitzer.
“Among Hearst’s employees was the famed illustrator Frederic Remington. In 1897, Remington became very bored by the lack of anything newsworthy in Cuba and cabled to Hearst, “Everything quiet. There is no trouble here. There will be no war. Wish to return.” In response to Remington’s message, Hearst reportedly replied, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” This is straight out of the Sermon on the Mount and Krishnamurti.
Trump inherited $450 million. So at the age of 21 adjust for inflation in 2020, he would be worth $3.7 billion. Forbes reports that he’s worth $2.5 billion, so he’s basically been losing his entire life, so that explains his low tax returns.
“In 1772, a judge sitting in the High Court in London declared slavery “so odious” that it could not exist at common law and set the conditions which would consequently result in the freedom of the 15,000 slaves living in England. This decision eventually reached America and terrified slaveholders in the collection of British colonies, subject to British law. The predominantly southern slave-owners feared that this decision would cause the emancipation of their slaves. It did result in some slaves freeing themselves.
To ensure the preservation of slavery, the southern colonies joined the northerners in their fight for “freedom” and their rebellion against England. In 1774, at the First Continental Congress John Adams promised southern leaders to support their right to maintain slavery. As Eleanor Holmes Norton explains in her introduction, “The price of freedom from England was bondage for African slaves in America. America would be a slave nation.”
Thomas Jefferson relied on this understanding when carefully crafting the stirring word”
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution
Not to mention that England said no more western expansion (genocide)Does it matter if the virus was made in the Wuhan Lab? We know that the research there was for “gain of function”, that the US was a co-sponsor. So either way this is what these bat shit crazy researchers were after.
I do not understand how Woodward should have acted differently. He is an author and hasn’t been a journalist for a long time. If he had divulged, his interviews would be over, and when did he become a spokesman for public health?
James Joyce called Jung and Freud tweedle-de and tweedle-dum, and Jung said that Joyce was probably schizophrenic, but intelligent enough to handle it.
Not exactly permaculture, Here is my wife’s blog about our farm, “Usually at this time of year we are lambing on our farm. But we chose not to do this anymore, at least for a while. I did not know, of course, when we made that decision, that come spring, we would be forced to stay at home; that this would be a time when new life would have brought much-needed delight. More life. I look out at the paddock where I should see tiny lambs standing beneath their wooly mothers, their little tails trembling, while the ewes raise their chins into the air, as if whistling a familiar tune. I miss them.”
https://ewetopia.farm/Reply To: Debt Rattle August 19 2020Speed reading. I took an Evelyn Wood Speed Reading class when I was 17. I had been a remedial reading student up to then, I think I’m dyslexic. I graduated the class with a 1,400 word speed after reading the Old Man and the Sea in 11 minutes. I was one of the slowest. I went to a great school which my parents made me transfer out of (Franconia C.) then went to a couple different U’s and was bored to death. I got a book called This Way Out, a guide to getting a college education without the college. I read extensively and a lot. At this point I think college is for the non-inquisitive and don’t like to read.
“”If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been tried as war criminals,” General LeMay remarked, according to Robert McNamara, who brought maximum efficiency to B-29 bombing during the war and maximum death and destruction to Vietnam as secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
He added: “What makes it immoral if you lose but not immoral if you win?”
I know of 7 friends and family that have gotten covid 19, despite living in Vermont. “Indeed, Vermont has had the fewest cases of covid-19 of any state in the country: fourteen hundred and two, as of Monday. The state’s hospitals currently house just one confirmed case. Only fifty-six people have died of the disease in Vermont—even though the epidemic raged in neighboring states—and the last of those deaths came more than a month ago, in mid-June.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-vermont-and-its-history-might-teach-the-nation-about-handling-the-coronavirus?Kimo, I’m perplexed that public restrooms do not have seat covers, and no one is proposing/mandating their use. (fecal plume) If I ever hear a flush in a public bathroom, I’m going to hold my breath and get out.
