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Status Updates posted by william.scherk
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William,
With all the censorship by big tech and all the craziness by Dem politicians and all the calls for eliminating Trump supporters from society, are you enjoying the coming of the socialist utopia in the USA.
Use your eyes. And try to take the core-story glasses off.
If you can manage that, even for as moment, that's what the start of socialist and communist utopias look like.
However, this is America. They did their surprise attack. Now lets see if they can sustain it. btw - Did I mention it? This is America. They probably forgot what that means.
Enjoy this show.
Michael
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William,
With all the censorship by big tech and all the craziness by Dem politicians and all the calls for eliminating Trump supporters from society, are you enjoying the coming of the socialist utopia in the USA.
In the industry, that is known as a "Loaded Question."
QuoteUse your eyes. And try to take the core-story glasses off.
I detect a 'core-story' side track. "Trump can do no wrong" is a helluva drug.
QuoteIf you can manage that, even for as moment, that's what the start of socialist and communist utopias look like.
I live in British Columbia. The "start of the socialist and communist utopia" began here in 1972. A few hiccups along the way.
QuoteHowever, this is America. They did their surprise attack. Now lets see if they can sustain it. btw - Did I mention it? This is America. They probably forgot what that means.
"They" did their surprise attack. Trump can do no wrong. Ever. He is Dear Leader. Dissent is punished.
QuoteEnjoy this show.
Michael
It's a horrifying "show" ... all the folks I know here are shocked and saddened by what happened on January 6 2021.
Defend the President to the end. It gives life meaning.
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Quoting William: "Trump can do no wrong. Ever. He is Dear Leader. Dissent is punished."
William,
That's what I thought--with sadness. You can't take the bias glasses off and just look. The judgment (or prejudice) is set in stone (the core story) along with the presumption that thinking like this is all others do.
From your response, you don't understand what I am talking about.
So no biggie.
Forget I asked.
I had to ask, though.
Michael
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This comes as a surprise to almost no one, I expect.
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I got a final snapshot of President Trump's account.
I wonder if the several existing Trump Twitter archives will have been able to copy the three tweets before they were flagged, before the plug was pulled.
I have a niggle of a doubt that public records will have been retained of each Trump account tweet at the White House (one can download one's own Twitter existence, albeit in a huge database file).
In any case, the President can use the "official" account of the Presidency until the iffy day comes when he can't.He is in charge.
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NTD has a pro-Trump slant. This live feed may have commercial breaks:
LIVE: Joint session of Congress counts Electoral College votes (Jan. 6) | NTD - YouTube
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Sebastian Gorka has some good news and some less-good news, while laying out a brief explanation of what he believes is likely to happen January 6 in Congress -- and beyond. He does not mention the special date of the 23rd of December ...
More Gorka from yesterday at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit:
(79) LIVE! SAS 2020 is Here! Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr, and More! - YouTube
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Howard Roark says 'Wait a Minute' ...
QuoteJustin Sink / Bloomberg:Buildings — Executive action makes classical style default in Washington — Directivestops short of fully banning modernist architecture — Mr Thompson signed an executive directive on Monday making classicalarchitecture …Discussion:Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: Mr Thompson issues Directive to demand new US federation buildings be ‘beautiful’David Taintor / Talking Points Memo: In Gaudy We Trust: Mr Thompson Issues Directive Mandating Classical Architecture On Fed BuildingsDouglas Braff / Sara A. Carter: Mr Thompson signs directive making classical architecture the preferred style for federally-funded buildingsRELATED:Government of the United States:
Directive 60-442 on Federal Civic ArchitectureDiscussion:Matt Tinder / AIA: Roark condemns executive order mandating design preference for federalized architecture corpsAndrew Beaujon / Washingtonian: Mr Thompson Wants the President to Be Notified If the Government Constructs a Brutalist Building. Howard Roark says Hold On A Damn MinuteIsrael Salas-Rodriguez / The Sun: What is Big Fat Knockers and why is it trending?John Binder / Breitbart: Mr Thompson Signs Directive Requiring Classical Architecture for Federal BuildingsLizzie / WSPA-TV: Mr Thompson directive says federal buildings should only be ‘beautiful’ and ‘classical’Tristan Justice / The Federalist: Mr Thompson Signs Executive Directive Cementing Classical Architecture As The Default Style For Federalized BuildingsClaire Selvin / ARTnews.com: Howard Roark Assails "Dangerous" Executive Directive Mandating ‘Beautiful’ Architecture for Federation-Controlled BuildingsDaniel Uria / UPI: Mr Thompson signs executive directive recommending classical designs for federal buildings-
William,
I had a feeling someone would do something like that and I also had a feeling it would be you.
There's another reason for President Trump doing that than being a mediocre bureaucrat in a fiction work.
The left has been on a constant campaign to sever the current generation from the American heroes of the past, then replace that with an invented history and, ultimately, obedience to a collectivist state. They do similar with family, too. In human nature, pride in a country's heroes and love of family are cornerstones of social order that resist a takeover by a new social system.
The Founding Fathers of the US were great admirers of classic architecture in homage to the Roman and Greek social system models they studied and incorporated in the US Constitution. Classic architecture for government buildings is a subconscious link to the Founding Fathers in the minds of Americans. So I think it is 100% correct for President Trump to do what he did.
In today's statue-toppling idiocy, if the left were ever permitted to choose styles of architecture for government buildings, I can just see it making buildings in the shape of tribal huts, Indian Teepees, raised fists, and pussy hats.
The sickle and hammer of communism would definitely become commonplace. This even happened in Brazil in the way Oscar Niemeyer did in his Memorial JK (monument to Juscelino Kubitschek, the Brazilian president who led the building of Brasilia project). The statue looks like an abstract version of a sickle and hammer. (Niemeyer was a lifelong communist and this statue used to cause the military dictators indigestion.)
So I say good on President Trump for keeping the American hero ancestors narrative alive by protecting the connection of modern life with the Founding Fathers through the visual form of government buildings.
Michael
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Here's a couple of videos of interest to Electoral College process mavens ... the first is a brief on the 1960 Presidential Election in Hawaii, and the second is a brief on Contingent Elections. Both from YouTube account Wiki4All.
(57) 1960 United States Presidential Election In Hawaii - YouTube
(57) Contingent Election - YouTube
One fun thing from the Hawaii 1960 video is a couple of snapshots of historic paperwork -- including the "certificates" all banged up with signatures and seals.
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A page at the National Archives gives some further background on the Action Day of December 23, 2020. This is the fourth Wednesday in December this year. I've abridged on section and the highlights and emphasis is mind. National Archive page: Presidential Elections & Vacancies | National Archives
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Attributed to Ivan Raiklin. The first one reads like a script, the second one reads like a "suggested format" for VP Pence. More peaceful research needed, I think.
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I was curious about what happened during the 2017 Joint Session of Congress Electoral Vote counting process, which formulaic phrases were used. I cut a CSPAN excerpt to highlight the disposition of an objection. This is but one objection made. Others came -- four times from another California representative, from Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington state and from Arizona. And again from California.
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More moves.
Links at DonaldJTrump.com
[added, from the page link above:]
Quote“Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., President Trump’s campaign committee, today filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election in violation of Article II of the United States Constitution and Bush v. Gore.
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“The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements. The Campaign also moved for expedited consideration, asking the Supreme Court to order responses by December 23 and a reply by December 24 to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to rule before Congress meets on January 6 to consider the votes of the electoral college.”
- Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Trump
Click here to read the Campaign's Petition.
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This bit should probably go in one of the Q/QAnon threads, but hey. "While sites such as 8kun offer the Q drops in their original setting, aggregator sites like QMap offer a sheltered, mom-friendly version, removed from the immediate vulgarity of the source image board sites."
QuoteInvestigation by Nick Backovic and Joe Ondrak.
Supporting research by Kristina Gildejeva.***
A Logically Investigation reveals that QAnon communications are being consolidated under the control of Jim Watkins, through US based hosting company VanwaTech.
Based in Vancouver, Washington, VanwaTech hosts only a handful of websites unrelated to QAnon, including the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
The connection with Watkins was previously assumed, but our investigation reveals concrete evidence.
VanwaTech also hosts several phishing sites posing as UK banks and cellular phone service providers, aiming to defraud customers of money.
Since the removal of QMap, VanwaTech’s operators have made a concerted effort to develop the company into a safe haven for the aggregator sites that disseminate the conspiracy material at the heart of QAnon."Mom-friendly."
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Dexamethasone's invention and uses over the last sixty years, via noted vote-suppressing communists 538.
Its use in women experiencing preterm labour is now "indicated," as they say. It's also first-line treatment for altitude sickness, or so say the extremists in the video ...
Experimenting with a writing-enhancer called Grammarly. Let's see if it catches the loaded language in this item. This item will then miraculously disappear, the Holy Spirit willing.
Biden "town hall" snoozefest coming up. I hope they give him some of that dexa meth, enough to liven him up at least.
On the other hand, never show weakness; give no quarter:
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Check out the animated gifs on offer. Thinking of Adam's often hilarious gif rejoinders ...
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Science magazine:
QuoteHow does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
By Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, Catherine MatacicApr. 17, 2020 , 6:45 PM
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What follows is a snapshot of the fast-evolving understanding of how the virus attacks cells around the body, especially in the roughly 5% of patients who become critically ill. Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen. Without larger, prospective controlled studies that are only now being launched, scientists must pull information from small studies and case reports, often published at warp speed and not yet peer reviewed. “We need to keep a very open mind as this phenomenon goes forward,” says Nancy Reau, a liver transplant physician who has been treating COVID-19 patients at Rush University Medical Center. “We are still learning.”
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How the virus attacks the heart and blood vessels is a mystery, but dozens of preprints and papers attest that such damage is common. A 25 March paper in JAMA Cardiology documented heart damage in nearly 20% of patients out of 416 hospitalized for COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. In another Wuhan study, 44% of 36 patients admitted to the ICU had arrhythmias.
The disruption seems to extend to the blood itself. Among 184 COVID-19 patients in a Dutch ICU, 38% had blood that clotted abnormally, and almost one-third already had clots, according to a 10 April paper in Thrombosis Research. Blood clots can break apart and land in the lungs, blocking vital arteries—a condition known as pulmonary embolism, which has reportedly killed COVID-19 patients. Clots from arteries can also lodge in the brain, causing stroke. Many patients have “dramatically” high levels of D-dimer, a byproduct of blood clots, says Behnood Bikdeli, a cardiovascular medicine fellow at Columbia University Medical Center.
“The more we look, the more likely it becomes that blood clots are a major player in the disease severity and mortality from COVID-19,” Bikdeli says.
Infection may also lead to blood vessel constriction. Reports are emerging of ischemia in the fingers and toes—a reduction in blood flow that can lead to swollen, painful digits and tissue death.
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Re-upping and bolding a line from the intro of the article I linked to at Science:
QuoteWhat follows is a snapshot of the fast-evolving understanding of how the virus attacks cells around the body, especially in the roughly 5% of patients who become critically ill.
I think everyone struggles at least a bit to comprehend the novel coronavirus and its impacts on the human body. The article at Science is a brief reading for OL readers who want to know how close medical sciences are to answers for the questions posed in the article. The questions are almost all ''How?"
Understanding the way the virus works is key to disrupting its work, I think. I thought this article would serve as a reasonably a-political piece to share with OLers. We all seek understanding. The more knowledge, the less fear. I am hopeful that the humans will beat this thing into the ground, if not tomorrow.
I found the most interesting questions were posed on the subject of cytokine storm versus blood system as cause for certain symptoms. Enormous resources are being put in play by the humans to get safe and effective treatments out the door ...
QuoteSome clinicians suspect the driving force in many gravely ill patients’ downhill trajectories is a disastrous overreaction of the immune system known as a “cytokine storm,” which other viral infections are known to trigger. Cytokines are chemical signaling molecules that guide a healthy immune response; but in a cytokine storm, levels of certain cytokines soar far beyond what’s needed, and immune cells start to attack healthy tissues. Blood vessels leak, blood pressure drops, clots form, and catastrophic organ failure can ensue.
Some studies have shown elevated levels of these inflammation-inducing cytokines in the blood of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. “The real morbidity and mortality of this disease is probably driven by this out of proportion inflammatory response to the virus,” says Jamie Garfield, a pulmonologist who cares for COVID-19 patients at Temple University Hospital.
But others aren’t convinced. “There seems to have been a quick move to associate COVID-19 with these hyperinflammatory states. I haven’t really seen convincing data that that is the case,” says Joseph Levitt, a pulmonary critical care physician at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
He’s also worried that efforts to dampen a cytokine response could backfire. Several drugs targeting specific cytokines are in clinical trials in COVID-19 patients. But Levitt fears those drugs may suppress the immune response that the body needs to fight off the virus. “There’s a real risk that we allow more viral replication,” Levitt says.
Meanwhile, other scientists are zeroing in on an entirely different organ system that they say is driving some patients’ rapid deterioration: the heart and blood vessels.
One part Science magazine to nine-parts Infowars is a reasonable trade for me ... it's a mean 'flu' that is still in its top killing phase in many of our states and provinces. "Excess deaths" as the actuaries might plot it.
I hope everyone is financially secure and staying safe. Our household has two essential service workers who head out every day and one eighty-year old who is the focus of our 'do not bring it home' efforts. Our governments up here, like yours, are feeding empty wallets with future billions. Canadians are in general much more pacified-by-authority than Americans, and so are doing what public health authorities tell them to do without significant protest.
We have our own gruesome gallows humour on the subject of nursing homes, of course, and the debate on how, where, when and under what criteria we relax the strictures on commerce and recreation. On the other hand, we don't have the ordeal of a presidential election year to get through at the same time.
The biggest losers are the high-cost energy producers. The "demand shock" to the global energy markets is going to be felt for a good while in the Oil Patch, by my estimation.
I will head back to the shallows until I find something as neutrally interesting to share.
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Real Fake stakes ...
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Symphony of Science by Carl Sagan.
As the ancient mythmakers knew
We're children equally of the earth and the sky
In our tenure on this planet, we've accumulated
Dangerous evolutionary baggage
We've also acquired compassion for others,
Love for our children,
And a great soaring passionate intelligence
The clear tools for our continued survival
We've begun at last
To wonder about our origins
Star stuff contemplating the stars
Tracing that long path
Our obligation to survive and flourish
Is owed not just to ourselves
But also to that cosmos
Ancient and vast, from which we spring.
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Updated with a new mix. I will delete this after a couple more instances ...
I've finally solved the biggest problem I had with a new kick-ass piece of software, StreamYard. Basically, it is a video-conferencing website. You only need a camera and mic (and for advanced users, accepts both a virtual-camera and a virtual microphone). The very best thing about it is that it has privacy built-in. Unlike Hangouts, which is also used extensively in live video streams of guests and host chatting -- it doesn't require you a Google ID or anything intrusive. You get a web-link, choose your name/moniker, accept or deny use of your camera and microphone, and boom, you are the virtual studio.
Anyhow, blah. This below is a kind of sound-mix check. I finally figured out the virtual mixer VoiceMeeter and was able to mix desktop browser sound output as well as media played within the OBS server. Premiering in 15 minutes ...