I haven’t seen Stranger Things, but apparently it has a character named Eleven. (Though I did have to Google to make sure the character wasn’t named Twelve.)
My boss (marine) is a Trump supporting veteran. I still thanked him.
One of my best friends (army) is a veteran and isn’t a trump supporter. I thanked him for his service. He was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan in the late 00’s.
I have to think a number of them never imagined some of the current chaos is what their efforts and sacrifices were made to secure. Hopefully, we will persevere and make it more worthwhile down the road.
I’ve got good news for her, we will have another presidential election (I hope) in November 2024, trump will be eligible to run again in 2024 and lose again.
We were riding a nice 5-day streak of sunny, 70+ degree days. Of course, that comes to an end just in time for me to have today off. Fortunately, they told us all we could sign off an hour early yesterday, so I was able to enjoy the pleasant weather a bit in the early evening.
been a high of 60 since last Fri and I think is supposed to continue at least until next week. Chance of rain this weekend, though I'm not holding my breath.
I made it out for a run just as it started to rain. It wasn't too bad while I was out and it was still warm. It's only a ten minute walk from my place to the front of Arlington Cemetery. I thought about walking over to somehow protest the President but decided he wasn't worth having to stand in the rain.
I was browsing around various countries' daily infection numbers yesterday. In comparison to ours, Australia's was particularly depressing. Despite coming out of winter into spring, they're managing under two dozen new cases per day.
I follow a freelance Australian writer named Noelle Faulkner and she's on her way home to Australia after being stuck in the UK SINCE MARCH because the Australian government is so restrictive about letting Australians back in.
Different sources have different numbers per day. WaPo tracker now has today at 140K - a new daily high. Is anyone at the WH even paying attention anymore?
FSU did their best to blow the UNC game as well, tho any Mack Brown loss is greeted with glee in the Jimmy C household...including his house fire (in which there were no injuries, of course)
New Mexico has packed up and moved to Las Vegas. (UNM-LV ?) Lobos will play in Sam Boyd Stadium, where UNLV used to play prior to the new stadium they share with the Raiders opening. Nevada will have the unique experience of playing in both in 15 days. Yet another unprecedented series of events in 2020.
Can a UC school (Berkeley) relocating to a Cal State campus (Fresno) actually happen? (Berkeley and Fresno campuses haven't exactly had the closest of working relationships historically; I recall a Berkeley campus person make the statement officially just a few years ago in print that Fresno is far western Oklahoma.)
tbh, this is what I thought the entire Pac12 should have done, but it would have demolished the pretense of "student athletes" playing football rather than "semi-professional athletes paid in kind."
Trying to insure that the military will not call for Trump's removal. They have stated before that they will not get involved in politics. Kind of like the senior Prussian officer corps that let Hitler take power and seize control of the military. Through inaction, they let "the little Corporal" in Churchill's words run amok.
I just walked past Trump campaign HQ on the way to the store. Someone thinks somebody is still working there because there was a lone guy sitting in an SUV across the street with his camera set up under an umbrella pointed at the building entrance.
Trump will no longer be president as of January 20th. His term will be over. It'll either be Joe Biden, Kamala Harris if something happens to Joe between now and then, or if Republicans somehow manage to drag it out in a way I can't exactly imagine right now, then the President will be Nancy Pelosi.
Avignon is lovely. When I was there we saw a homeless couple on the streets with 3 plates in front of them on the sidewalk. One labeled food, another wine, and the last whiskey. Later that night they were seated two tables away from us and we witnessed the woman wave off a waiter as her tried to offer her more bread.
Haven’t been to Avignon but I’m sure it is a much better travel destination than both Sacramento and Ma a Lago.
I suppose if I were setting up my administration and could pick any city to do so, I would probably pick San Diego. I’m biased but I think it would make a great capital for our soon to be new nation of Western United States (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado) basically it will be made up of lands won in the Mexican American War and land purchased/taken from the old Russian lands of the PNW.
We could form an alliance with the Northeastern United States.
I did something atypical and actually read more information about it. It's required by law to do a statistical confidence check. This is going to enrage everyone who doesn't understand statistics.
But unless Az, Nv, Pa also does a recount it shouldn't matter right? Right? someone convince me! Unless this emboldens the other states to do a recount.
It's looking like the margins will be more than 10k votes in all of these states. Historically recounts don't reverse more than a few hundred votes at most. It seems very unlikely any of these states will be flipped, much less three of them (which is what Trump needs).
Of course this is true, but it's fucking infuriating that Republicans keep on lying about the election, and acting like what Trump is doing now is "normal".
I am not sure what to do with this but maybe the democrats should start saying that election fraud has occurred and it has benefited the GOP.
All the polls showed Biden winning by a much wider margin and the democrats winning control of the senate and expanding their majority in the House. That clearly didn’t happen due to GOP meth mouth MAGA fraud. Lots of dead MAGA people were voting illegally. How else can you explain the number of people voting in these rural counties exceeding the number of people currently living in them?!?!
The GOP cheated to try to err elect Trump and that’s why the election was so close and the polls were so off.
the 'warning shot' of a zero on an assignment / quiz & a letter grade reduction seems eminently reasonable - sort of a "fuck around and find out" standard
Agreed. Never agreed with the focus on process over results to begin with, and challenging circumstances only makes overcoming obstacles more important. This won't be something I worry over.
Ah, I hadn't seen that missing two games disqualifies a team from contenting for the division title. That would be the most Cal thing ever: go 4-0 and miss a chance at winning the conference due to a technicality.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is still a way we can compete for the title with 4 conference games. If the average games played per team in the Pac-12 is less than 5.5 (so that the average would be rounded down to 5 conference games per team), then we should still be eligible to compete for the North since the rule states that we would be eligible for the tiebreaker if we are within 1 game of that average. In that scenario, a team with 4 conference games would be eligible to compete for the division champion tiebreaker.
For us to get to less than 5.5 conference games per team in the league, we would have to cancel at least 7 games. Assuming ASU-Cal is cancelled, we will be at 3 so far this year.
Right? I thought the most Cal thing ever would be to win the Conference THIS year, and then be sent to the Fiesta Bowl bc the Rose is in the CFP, but then COVID happened and this, which is EVEN MORE the most Cal thing ever as it brings the City of Berkeley and its rather draconian municipal government into the mix as well!!
I actually haven't read that no contests eliminate you from P12 Championship contention either, tho Bonagura mentioned it in one of his tweets. Also, look for the TBD'd 7th game held on Conf. Championship weekend to be against either UW or ASU now...
Because it can take two weeks for the symptoms to develop. Basically, you're at risk of developing COVID for up to two weeks from significant contact with a positive case.
Trust Scootie. It's possible for a patient to have a small amount of virus in their system and test negative--because it's under what's called the limit of detection.
After time (up to two weeks), the virus can replicate and reach levels sufficient to infect or spread.
This is one of the points a lot of binary thinking people don't, can't, or don't want to understand. There are still people, including some with a public voice, that believe you either have it or you don't, and that's as far as they think about it.
Yes. When I flew back from Philly, the urgent care location asked me to wait 1 week before getting tested because anything shorter than that could result in a false negative. I guess 1 week before getting tested is when the percentages get much lower that it will happen but it still could.
And I guess the difference is that mine wasn't contact with a positive case, more a I want to be sure in case someone on the plane actually had it and I got it. I didn't have anyone within 4 rows of me so I was fairly confident I didn't get it.
Happy Veterans Day. Thank a Veteran.
No 1's bday. Actually all 3 of my kids were born on holidays. No 2 on Halloween and No 3 on Columbus Day.
Columbus Day isn’t a real holiday and shouldn’t be celebrated at all.
true but it helps keep the narrative that my kids are all born on holidays.
can't let facts get in the way of a good story!!
I get the day off work, therefore it's a holiday. I think they call it Indigenous People's Day in SF now.
correction: can't let genocide get in the way of a good story!!
the GOP says otherwise when it comes to primary education.
Hey! No hating on the Italians.
I’m part Italian.
Which part?
Lower left leg.
My boss (marine) is a Trump supporting veteran. I still thanked him.
One of my best friends (army) is a veteran and isn’t a trump supporter. I thanked him for his service. He was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan in the late 00’s.
I have to think a number of them never imagined some of the current chaos is what their efforts and sacrifices were made to secure. Hopefully, we will persevere and make it more worthwhile down the road.
Some of these veterans are trump supporters and are cheering this BS on.
I can thank them for their efforts and contributions, but not their judgement.
International friendlies: anyone catching soccer?
How evangelicals are handling the election
ICYMI: Trump spiritual advisor Paula White with a deep message
https://twitter.com/Trump_Detester/status/1324337677903237120
Terri Pearsons lobbies for another election so Trump can be president.
https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1326288458021703680
I’ve got good news for her, we will have another presidential election (I hope) in November 2024, trump will be eligible to run again in 2024 and lose again.
drumpf will be in jail in 2024.
I would prefer dead by choking on a well done steak with ketchup.
ICYMI: Kenneth Copeland's ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha moment
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1325549895743320067
Yeah, this fraudster has been exposed for evanglicapitlism crazy before. Now he is full Green Goblin crazy.
Yeah this is the one I first thought of.
That man is deeply unwell.
Michelle Bachman going full... well... Michelle Bachman
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1325811083492401152
Crazy has taken a toll on her physically, she doesn’t look good at all.
i am still deciding how i am going to handle it.
I did see that one of these charlatans has concluded that the good Lord has decided to test America with a Biden presidency to see how we do.
News flash, better than we did under trump.
Weather
We were riding a nice 5-day streak of sunny, 70+ degree days. Of course, that comes to an end just in time for me to have today off. Fortunately, they told us all we could sign off an hour early yesterday, so I was able to enjoy the pleasant weather a bit in the early evening.
Back to more typical weather (50s) this weekend.
as long as it's sunny, I'll cope!
Warm (high 70s) and very humid. News claimed this was the second hottest Nov 11 on record here.
Submarghini
https://twitter.com/WFOJoe/status/1325638707089649664
I saw that! Bold move, although his engine air intake might actually be higher than on the "regular" cars he's going past.
Cool, but partly sunny for the Holiday non-parade. Will be the driest, and one of the warmest, days between now and Thanksgiving.
been a high of 60 since last Fri and I think is supposed to continue at least until next week. Chance of rain this weekend, though I'm not holding my breath.
I made it out for a run just as it started to rain. It wasn't too bad while I was out and it was still warm. It's only a ten minute walk from my place to the front of Arlington Cemetery. I thought about walking over to somehow protest the President but decided he wasn't worth having to stand in the rain.
Eleven
Happy Nigel Tuffnel Day
Link kinda NSFW. No nudity, but...
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10224343692242233&set=gm.3819708384730430
Surprised haven't seen this one posted yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc
Ocean's (both versions).
Some orange-colored self-declared tycoon selling his helicopter.
https://www.avbuyer.com/aircraft/helicopter/turbine/sikorsky/s-76b/359696
Do you suppose he makes them wait until he's inside before they start the rotors?
At first I was expecting to see Marine-1.
Starting to sell assets I see. Gotta cover all those loans coming due.
Today in Covid
I was browsing around various countries' daily infection numbers yesterday. In comparison to ours, Australia's was particularly depressing. Despite coming out of winter into spring, they're managing under two dozen new cases per day.
I follow a freelance Australian writer named Noelle Faulkner and she's on her way home to Australia after being stuck in the UK SINCE MARCH because the Australian government is so restrictive about letting Australians back in.
https://twitter.com/noelleflamingo/status/1326338048397701120?s=20
from her insta feed: 35 people on an A350 from Hong Kong to Sydney. https://www.instagram.com/stories/noelleflamingo/2439961671998107923/
Peru impeaches their President, partly due to his handling of Covid
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-impeachments-peru-b7a731cbd7b1dc27a14f717e6f9ffc4a
Stay classy, Bolsonaro
https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/jair-bolsonaro-asks-brazilians-not-to-deal-with-covid-19-like-fags-914199.html#
he really is the most amazing shitbag
Different sources have different numbers per day. WaPo tracker now has today at 140K - a new daily high. Is anyone at the WH even paying attention anymore?
not since they gave the tracking contract to a company with dubious qualification
how to wipe out prison populations: do nothing
https://twitter.com/rationalfish/status/1326276871772901378?s=20
more cases among the White House staff
https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1326631069542715394?s=20
Elsewhere in college
@ You hate to see it
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-stanford-surges-into-the-bottom-25-as-newcomers-make-a-big-impact/
oh that's a shame
FSU just imploded. Among other things, the starting QB just quit.
https://twitter.com/KennyMoralesTV/status/1326564695302696960
yowza
Wow they are a dumpster file. 2 wins are vs a small school and UNC, which is a good win. UNC is a good team. Not sure how that happened.
FSU did their best to blow the UNC game as well, tho any Mack Brown loss is greeted with glee in the Jimmy C household...including his house fire (in which there were no injuries, of course)
About the only transition that has gone worse is the presidential.
Add Georgia-Missouri, Ohio State-Maryland, & UL-Monroe-Ark St to the list of cancellations & postponements.
Ohio St. losing a game to COVID could have ramifications...
New Mexico has packed up and moved to Las Vegas. (UNM-LV ?) Lobos will play in Sam Boyd Stadium, where UNLV used to play prior to the new stadium they share with the Raiders opening. Nevada will have the unique experience of playing in both in 15 days. Yet another unprecedented series of events in 2020.
Can a UC school (Berkeley) relocating to a Cal State campus (Fresno) actually happen? (Berkeley and Fresno campuses haven't exactly had the closest of working relationships historically; I recall a Berkeley campus person make the statement officially just a few years ago in print that Fresno is far western Oklahoma.)
tbh, this is what I thought the entire Pac12 should have done, but it would have demolished the pretense of "student athletes" playing football rather than "semi-professional athletes paid in kind."
Rash of Covid decimates the SEC
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/secs-rash-of-covid-19-postponements-impacts-not-just-the-league-but-the-college-football-playoff-too/
If you find Covid in one SEC campus, it just means... more.
pqtm
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Fox News: DiFi to bow out before the end of her term
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1326558020617252865
Good riddance
About time and goodbye!
MS state rep Wallace tweets this.
https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1326227125876174852
buh-bye
Richard Pilger, DOJ director of the elections crimes division, resigns in protest over command to investigate election fraud
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/william-barr-voting-irregularities/index.html
USPS worker recants statement that official told to backdate ballots, but then claims he didn't. Clear as mud.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/postal-worker-fabricated-ballot-pennsylvania/2020/11/10/99269a7c-2364-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html
Top tier of DoD no longer around. Power is being consolidated in the military
https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1326284851268489217?s=21
Trying to insure that the military will not call for Trump's removal. They have stated before that they will not get involved in politics. Kind of like the senior Prussian officer corps that let Hitler take power and seize control of the military. Through inaction, they let "the little Corporal" in Churchill's words run amok.
I just walked past Trump campaign HQ on the way to the store. Someone thinks somebody is still working there because there was a lone guy sitting in an SUV across the street with his camera set up under an umbrella pointed at the building entrance.
At this point I will be pleasantly surprised if Biden is actually inaugurated in January.
I am not sure if Biden is going to have to setup his government in Sacramento or if Trump sets up his government in Mar a Lago.
Trump will no longer be president as of January 20th. His term will be over. It'll either be Joe Biden, Kamala Harris if something happens to Joe between now and then, or if Republicans somehow manage to drag it out in a way I can't exactly imagine right now, then the President will be Nancy Pelosi.
I hope you’re right. I know that’s how it is supposed to go but I have doubts that is how it will go.
President Pelosi....that'd be something...
it is going ot be like when there were 2 popes. one in Rome, one in Avignon.
also, in case you haven't been, Avignon is a great travel destination.
Avignon is lovely. When I was there we saw a homeless couple on the streets with 3 plates in front of them on the sidewalk. One labeled food, another wine, and the last whiskey. Later that night they were seated two tables away from us and we witnessed the woman wave off a waiter as her tried to offer her more bread.
Haven’t been to Avignon but I’m sure it is a much better travel destination than both Sacramento and Ma a Lago.
I suppose if I were setting up my administration and could pick any city to do so, I would probably pick San Diego. I’m biased but I think it would make a great capital for our soon to be new nation of Western United States (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado) basically it will be made up of lands won in the Mexican American War and land purchased/taken from the old Russian lands of the PNW.
We could form an alliance with the Northeastern United States.
We're going to need better freight connections.
I know that the line up from New York to Canada is kind of okay, but kind of okay isn't going to cut it.
Hand recount on the way for Georgia. This has the potential to be a monumental shitshow.
https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1326555967169900551?s=20
I did something atypical and actually read more information about it. It's required by law to do a statistical confidence check. This is going to enrage everyone who doesn't understand statistics.
https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
But unless Az, Nv, Pa also does a recount it shouldn't matter right? Right? someone convince me! Unless this emboldens the other states to do a recount.
That was my first thought too.
That's not helping! unless you mean the it shouldn't matter part.
To clarify, I meant the it shouldn't matter part.
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1326589697846603785
It's looking like the margins will be more than 10k votes in all of these states. Historically recounts don't reverse more than a few hundred votes at most. It seems very unlikely any of these states will be flipped, much less three of them (which is what Trump needs).
Of course this is true, but it's fucking infuriating that Republicans keep on lying about the election, and acting like what Trump is doing now is "normal".
Fucking traitors.
I am not sure what to do with this but maybe the democrats should start saying that election fraud has occurred and it has benefited the GOP.
All the polls showed Biden winning by a much wider margin and the democrats winning control of the senate and expanding their majority in the House. That clearly didn’t happen due to GOP meth mouth MAGA fraud. Lots of dead MAGA people were voting illegally. How else can you explain the number of people voting in these rural counties exceeding the number of people currently living in them?!?!
The GOP cheated to try to err elect Trump and that’s why the election was so close and the polls were so off.
Eh, not if we want to remain the party actually committed to the democratic process.
PRO
SP Kevin Gausman apparently signs Giant's offer
https://twitter.com/KevinGausman/status/1326650644430774272?s=19
did he take the QO or did he sign a multi year contract?
QO
$19 million a year for a guy that is 16 games under .500 in an injury plagued, predominantly blah career...sigh....Smarzdja 2.0.
better for just 1 year than multiple years.
I was watching the end of the Cowboys game and Garrett Gilbert almost brought the hated Cowboys back. Announcers brought up the Play.
Patrick Laird had one carry and one catch for 17 yards in last Sunday's Dolphins' game
CAL
Go Bears...at some point
Cheating sky-rockets at UC Berkeley thanks to an all-online environment
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/11/09/uc-berkeley-fall-2020-semester-sees-400-increase-in-cheating-allegations/
You call it cheating, I call it a rational response to the circumstances and incentives
Glad to see the pretty rational response the professors have to it in that article.
the 'warning shot' of a zero on an assignment / quiz & a letter grade reduction seems eminently reasonable - sort of a "fuck around and find out" standard
Agreed. Never agreed with the focus on process over results to begin with, and challenging circumstances only makes overcoming obstacles more important. This won't be something I worry over.
Ugh.
https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1326400362119651328
Assuming this holds, we'll miss 2 of our 3 toughest opponents this season. Other than Oregon, the rest of the schedule looks pretty manageable.
But we're immediately eliminated from P12 North contention
Ah, I hadn't seen that missing two games disqualifies a team from contenting for the division title. That would be the most Cal thing ever: go 4-0 and miss a chance at winning the conference due to a technicality.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is still a way we can compete for the title with 4 conference games. If the average games played per team in the Pac-12 is less than 5.5 (so that the average would be rounded down to 5 conference games per team), then we should still be eligible to compete for the North since the rule states that we would be eligible for the tiebreaker if we are within 1 game of that average. In that scenario, a team with 4 conference games would be eligible to compete for the division champion tiebreaker.
For us to get to less than 5.5 conference games per team in the league, we would have to cancel at least 7 games. Assuming ASU-Cal is cancelled, we will be at 3 so far this year.
Right? I thought the most Cal thing ever would be to win the Conference THIS year, and then be sent to the Fiesta Bowl bc the Rose is in the CFP, but then COVID happened and this, which is EVEN MORE the most Cal thing ever as it brings the City of Berkeley and its rather draconian municipal government into the mix as well!!
I actually haven't read that no contests eliminate you from P12 Championship contention either, tho Bonagura mentioned it in one of his tweets. Also, look for the TBD'd 7th game held on Conf. Championship weekend to be against either UW or ASU now...
What a mess.
Is there the possibility of rescheduling one of the missed games?
What a bad look for the Conference...I blame Ohio State...
Always a safe bet.
What's the point of quarantining for two weeks of we've already got rapid testing?
Because it can take two weeks for the symptoms to develop. Basically, you're at risk of developing COVID for up to two weeks from significant contact with a positive case.
Thanks Scootie...I'm still President of your fan club
apparently the DL who tested positive, also had la rona back in July.
Oh no that means it's probably Brett Johnson
That sucks. I have a colleague who has had it twice in four months, with a negative test in between.
Trust Scootie. It's possible for a patient to have a small amount of virus in their system and test negative--because it's under what's called the limit of detection.
After time (up to two weeks), the virus can replicate and reach levels sufficient to infect or spread.
This is one of the points a lot of binary thinking people don't, can't, or don't want to understand. There are still people, including some with a public voice, that believe you either have it or you don't, and that's as far as they think about it.
And many would be better off with more Scootie!
Yes. When I flew back from Philly, the urgent care location asked me to wait 1 week before getting tested because anything shorter than that could result in a false negative. I guess 1 week before getting tested is when the percentages get much lower that it will happen but it still could.
And I guess the difference is that mine wasn't contact with a positive case, more a I want to be sure in case someone on the plane actually had it and I got it. I didn't have anyone within 4 rows of me so I was fairly confident I didn't get it.
Sounds like the first game will be next weekend against OSU
I'm okay with Cal going 1-0 over the regular season by winning the Big Game.
Ha-ha
Actually, I am named Kevin. Never seen Stranger Things so can't help you with that.
I never finished season 3 of that show