Yerp / Derp. . .it translates (approximately) as:
…”Let’s Kick MAGA’s A$$!”
No more Orange….
Smile. Arizona — as I said — not likely to be in the GOP’s column.
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Bill Otis And Paul Mirengoff Will Leave The Top Of Their Ballots… Blank?!
This is just perfect.
Nine years too late — but whatever.
Bill Otis all but admits he will not vote for the top of the GOP ticket.
Ride the whirlwind, now you two — both of you, and the Powerline boys refused to clean your own house.
So get ready for eight years of Kamala. Smile.
NHS / UK Health Will Offer Mpox Vaccines To At Risk Groups…
We applaud this proactive step by UK public health authorities.
We are not aware of a single Clade Ib case in Britain, but biology would suggest that is only a matter of time.
Here is the latest from the BBC:
…An mpox vaccine will be offered to thousands of men who have sex with men and some healthcare workers in the UK to boost protection against a form of the virus at the centre of an outbreak in parts of Africa, the government has said.
It has bought more than 150,000 doses and plans to offer them over time to groups at higher risk of becoming infected, starting with those who are unvaccinated….
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the UK was also providing support to the DRC….
The UK has announced £3m of funding to help efforts to tackle mpox and cholera outbreaks in the DRC, and prevent further spread to neighbouring countries….
Be excellent to one another… on a flawless morning in the steel and glass canyons now — prior to a trip to the granite and pine lined ones — coincidentally, also by a vast azure freshwater lake… on the other side of the continent… smile.
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[U]… Scott Johnson — And Trump — Ought To Re-Evaluate Their NRA Stances?! Just A Thought…
Updated @ 4:30 PM EDT — Now Scott Johnson is trafficking in, and amplifying allegations from an anon. X-itter account, one that claims to have an… “anon. whistle-blower’s” sworn affidavit (and the claim is that the original was mailed to US House Speaker Johnson, with a post-mark prior to the debate last week, as some form of “proof” though that would be no such thing!)… all of which claims Kamala pressed for Trump to be… fact checked in real time.
That much I am certain is true — the man lies with every sentence — so that would be a given, as a ground rule, for Kamala’s participation. All the rest is so improbable… as to not bear repeating.
But repeat it, Scott does, verbatim — without any verification, and reports it all as… declarative facts (and, feeding his claim about “Lawfare” below).
GOP House Speaker Johnson’s office has not confirmed the receipt of ANYTHING, whether pre-, or post-debate date mailed. [Scott — at a minimum — should have waited for that much — from his own party’s head in the House.]
So yes, all of this and the below is more “crazy sh!t my dad says” — or “Florida man”, if that meme resonates more for you. End updated portion. Sheesh. What a bitter lil’ old wrinkled spud.
Look — gun violence has no place in America.
Except that it happens in elementary schools, high schools, middle schools, restaurants, bars, at football and softball games, on street corners… and of course, inside homes (and on their lawns, too!) in almost every town in America, now — without regard to population size or demographic makeup. So, I guess all I’ve got here after two attempts in two months… is exactly what they’ve offered to the kids in schools around our nation: “thoughts and prayers”… and as Trump said, himself (to parents of kids slaughtered in their schools): “look, it is sad, but you need to move on with your life….” No, actually, dipshit, they don’t. This is a failure YOU own.
I write at the moment though, to fact check the malign idiot Johnson, on what might have been a casus belli for this incident. He claims “the Democrats’ “Lawfare” is in part to blame.
Bullshit. When someone gets held accountable for their pattern felonies, across decades now… that is not partisan “lawfare“. Those are… consequences, from a life of crime.
In sum, Trump’s chosen life-path. That he stokes people’s rage, by claiming he’s an innocent lamb at the slaughterhouse run by his opponents… leaves him mostly to blame — for his own incendiary rhetoric. No one should ever try to shoot him, of course, but Johnson helps inflame the nut-cases, by joining in the “reality distortion bubble” that sees this as “persecution” this morning. Here’s his in context (what a… putz!):
…The forces arrayed against Trump include those inspired to kill him, of course, but also the complacent bureaucratic response to the first attempt in July. They include the relentless Biden administration lawfare against him. They include the other Democrat lawfare against him. They include the corporate media.
They include all those peddling hysteria over Trump’s possible election….
Nope, pop-pop… the coming of the long arm of the law, for a life of crime… USED TO BE the No. One Priority of the Reagan-Era GOP. [Even if those self righteous SOBs just didn’t apply it to Ollie North.]
Now the GOP champions… convicted felons and seditionists.
Own your own sh!t, Johnson — and Tangerine.
Out.
Also Largely Immaterial To Merck, The Good News On Cervical Cancers Continues, For Merck’s Keytruda®: At ESMO
To be certain, this is very good news — and acts as the follow-up, to mine of yesterday morning.
The juggernaut continues — and it was already doing well in prescribing trends for cervical cancer (oncologists had previously been using it off-label in this and other cancers, for at least five years). So this won’t vastly increase the $25 billion a year franchise’s take, but it will more deeply cement it, as the foundation of the gold standard therapy. Here’s the latest:
…Along with breast cancer, cervical cancer is among the most feared cancer diagnoses for women around the world.
Today, Merck, with multiple facilities in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, announced the first presentation of overall survival results from a pivotal Phase 3 trial, investigating Keytruda® (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-Programmed Cell Death Protein therapy, in combination with concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for newly diagnosed patients with high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer.
The study results of 1,020 patients showed the therapy reduced the risk of death by 33% versus concurrent CRT alone for these patients. The safety profile of Keytruda in this trial was consistent with that observed in previously reported studies; no new safety signals were identified….
Now you know — onward with a smile — as a glorious Fall mountain/lake vacation draws nigh….
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Japan And The European Union Jointly Highlight The Fourth Flyby of Mercury, By Automated Spacecraft BepiColombo…
Watch the closest flyby of Mercury, by any spacecraft ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on September 4, 2024. This BepiColombo fourth flyby gave us our first clear view of Mercury’s south pole.
Do watch the excellent YouTube, offering multiple angles — all in high-res black and white (see below):
Here is some of ESA’s copy on it all:
…This timelapse is made up of 128 different images captured by all three of BepiColombo’s monitoring cameras, M-CAM 1, 2 and 3. We see the planet move in and out of the fields of view of M-CAM 2 and 3, before M-CAM 1 sees the planet receding into the distance at the end of the video.
The first few images are taken in the days and weeks before the flyby. Mercury first appears in an image taken at 23:50 CEST (21:50 UTC) on 4 September, at a distance of 191 km. Closest approach was at 23:48 CEST at a distance of 165 km.
The sequence ends around 24 hours later, on 5 September 2024, when BepiColombo was about 243 000 km from Mercury.
During the flyby it was possible to identify various geological features that BepiColombo will study in more detail once in orbit around the planet. Four minutes after closest approach, a large ‘peak ring basin’ called Vivaldi came into view.
This crater was named after the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). The flyover of Vivaldi crater was the inspiration for using Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ as the soundtrack for this timelapse.
Peak ring basins are mysterious craters created by powerful asteroid or comet impacts, so-called because of the inner ring of peaks on an otherwise flattish floor.
A couple of minutes later, another peak ring basin came into view: newly named Stoddart. The name was recently assigned following a request from the M-CAM team, who realised that this crater would be visible in these images and decided it would be worth naming considering its potential interest for scientists in the future.
BepiColombo’s three monitoring cameras provided 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots. Their main purpose is to monitor the spacecraft’s various booms and antennas, hence why we see parts of the spacecraft in the foreground. The photos that they capture of Mercury during the flybys are a bonus.
The 4 September gravity assist flyby was the fourth at Mercury and the seventh of nine planetary flybys overall. During its eight-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury, to help steer itself on course for entering orbit around Mercury in 2026.
BepiColombo is an international collaboration between ESA and JAXA….
These dips, by graceful twirling / dancing speed-merchants… will forever fire my imagination. This is a glimpse at what it must be like, to be immortal, and unbound by needs of oxygen, and a corporeal body… just pure energy — pure… light. Whoosh! Onward… grinning.
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Hey Hinderaker: Read The US Constitution.
Nah.
Don’t bother — there are too many big words in there for you.
Here’s the crux of it… Haitian Americans are allowed to live anywhere they would like. Recent immigrants occasionally do tend to organize into close communities, both for self protection — and richness of culture.
Hinderaker wrote — as a pure xenophobe tonight:
”…And, anyway, what the Hell are 20,000 Haitian immigrants doing in an Ohio town of 40,000?…”
See John just like you they’re allowed to live anywhere. You should try reading up — or taking more… ketamine. Both would benefit you, immensely.
So why don’t you just shove it?
[U X2: He Was A 2016 Trumper!] Ketchup, Take 2?!: Hinderaker Pegs The Guy With An AK-47 And Scope As A “Right Winger”…
Updated: as with all such characters, he seems mentally ill… he said he was a Trumper, but became disillusioned in 2019.
Second Update, 09.16.24 Evening: Hinderaker all but admits that Tangerine’s own rhetoric… false at that — may have painted an “enduring” target on his own chest.
John further *almost* admits that this uncanny ability of hundreds of profoundly mentally ill Americans to get their hands on AK-47s (fully automatic, very accurate, rifles of war) — with sniper scopes attached, most with the serial numbers filed off… all but guarantees that someone, someday relatively soon… will be successful.
He almost concedes that “things have to change”. Of course, he doesn’t say what it would be that needs to change (precisely), whether it is a toning down of Trump‘s rhetoric, or sensible gun legislation, or both… but it seems to be “some progress” — that old Pop-Pop Hinderaker no longer wants to live in a world where people are reasonably likely to get assassinated, on the regular. End of second update.
So… now, let’s just leave it at this:
The main story should be how did he end up in a sniper’s nest with a scoped AK-47, ready to take a shot from ~400 yards out?
He shouldn’t have been allowed to own an automatic weapon — of any kind, based on his social media rants, from Hawaii. Moreover, barricading himself inside a store — and his use of firearms in a hostage like situation, in 2003 in North Carolina, along with 100 other priors now reported… should have prevented his EVER getting an assault rifle.
End first update.
I’ve seen nothing elsewhere about the leanings of the alleged shooter, but it was a fairly credible… threat at a minimum.
Of course violence is never the answer. He is in custody, so by tomorrow midday, we should know much more…
That said, it is fascinating that John’s people are telling him the terror threat came from “the right”.
Not sure how they’d know that — unless inside law enforcement is leaking his name in Florida.
But it is certainly true that the ease of getting a scope mounted assault rifle ought to be part of this story — at Tangerine’s club.
Right or left — assassination is never the answer.
Out.
What A Load Of… Crap, This Morning, From Paul Mirengoff.
Again, he and his boys apparently cannot accept what the Supremes have actually ruled… is the law on EEO matters.
So he makes claims that the decisions do not support, to argue that directors and officers of public companies may be personally liable, if their so-called “DEI” efforts are beyond what the Supremes will countenance.
Poppycock.
Every COMPETENT corporate lawyer for ’34 Act companies can read the decisions for themselves, and can offer reasoned opinions that it is more likely than not… that hiring and promotion decisions are (always were, and will always be)… made based on a myriad of factors — including the under-represented viewpoints, in ’34 Act company board-rooms across America — to reach the companies’ customers.
So again — Paul tries to tell corporate board members that there is “a monster under their beds…” — a monster called “personal liability“. Hilarious.
Indeed, so long as reputable firms offer them legal advice that their course of conduct is more likely than not… lawful (and it is!)… Paul’s monster is… a figment of his (apparently considerable) imagination.
Onward, grinning.
Let Me Get This Straight… Old Coot Johnson… Doesn’t Cotton To Kamala’s Style / Vibes, In Interviews?!
Firmly in the land of “Crazy Sh!t Old Pop-Pop Complains About“…
Scott Johnson tells us that Kamala seems too “curated” — in her one on one interviews.
I suppose that’s because his ears have been bleeding for nine long years (ten, actually) listening to Tangerine burp up insane conspiracy theories, racist lies, and self-deluded BS about how he won the last election and isn’t actually… a convicted felon.
In short, Scott’s utterly forgotten what reasoned political discourse sounds like.
Time to take your Ketamine, old man — go take a nap.
Cheers.
