vxbush 12/11/2020 5:32:21 AM

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Is that butterscotch on the pancakes? Blech. I know I am clearly damaged, but I simply cannot stand butterscotch. 

Morning, campers. I'm playing catchup on the Texas Supreme Court filing. Based on this article at Epoch Times,  

• 20 Democrat attorneys general have filed amici in support of the defending states.
• 18 Republican attorneys general have either filed to join the suit or filed amici for Texas. 
• The three of the four defendant states and the 20 AGs represent all democratic AGs but one in the US; Iowa seems to be keeping clear of the action. (Georgia has a Republican AG.)
• Five Republican AGs haven't taken sides, either. 
• A decision will supposedly be made by December 14. 

So it appears some Republican AGs have stayed out of the fray. One is Alaska, who said there wasn't enough time to review the case thoroughly. Idaho decided to stay out.

What have I missed? I find the position of the Democrat AGs to be rather funny on its face; they are claiming there is no right to second-guess the decisions made by the state courts and legislatures. The complete inability to realize their own hypocrisy is just stunning on its face, considering all the lawsuits that get filed to support their political positions that do nothing but just this.

PaladinPhil 12/11/2020 5:46:53 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 6:30:18 AM

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vxbush 12/11/2020 7:12:35 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Good morning. Here is a very interesting and very detailed and very *encouraging* roundup of facts regarding COVID-19.  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/10/essential-facts-about-covid-19/

A quick perusal of this page notes one thing that i thought had been debunked--the notion that if you were infected but not showing symptoms, you weren't capable of transmitting. That's what they told everyone before all the studies took place, and my understanding is that has been refuted; you can only transmit the disease when you are showing symptoms, just like with most viruses.

JCM 12/11/2020 8:28:35 AM

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vxbush 12/11/2020 8:35:00 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

Is that the actual cover, or a mockup? 

vxbush 12/11/2020 8:35:31 AM

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In #6 vxbush said: Is that the actual cover, or a mockup? 

because if they were trying to imitate Zaphod Beeblebrox, they did a poor job.

JCM 12/11/2020 8:42:37 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 6:

That's the cover.

That is who they picked.

lucius septimius 12/11/2020 8:45:59 AM

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Reply to JCM in 8:

Like anyone is surprised?

Kosh's Shadow 12/11/2020 8:49:08 AM

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In #7 vxbush said: because if they were trying to imitate Zaphod Beeblebrox, they did a poor job.

I'd prefer Zaphod Beeblebrox as President

Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 9:20:41 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

Objective, non-partisan "journalism". 

Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 9:21:29 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: A quick perusal of this page notes one thing that i thought had been debunked--the notion that if you were infected but not showing symptoms, you weren't capable of transmitting. That's what they told everyone before all the studies took place, and my understanding is that has been refuted; you can only transmit the disease when you are showing symptoms, just like with most viruses.

Either I'm misunderstanding, or your post contradicts itself. 

Kosh's Shadow 12/11/2020 9:22:22 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Actually, flu and other viruses are contagious for a couple of days before symptoms appear.

Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 9:24:16 AM

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In #9 lucius septimius said: Like anyone is surprised?

Well, they already did Hitler. 

vxbush 12/11/2020 9:26:39 AM

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In #12 Occasional Reader said: Either I'm misunderstanding, or your post contradicts itself. 

Sorry, my apologies; trying to post and work at the same time. 

Usually, with most viruses/bugs, you can only transmit the disease when you are showing symptoms--you have the sniffles, your nose is running, you have body aches, etc. They may not be severe--you may be at the very beginning of the cold--but you can transmit the disease during that time. 

With COVID, they have said for ages that you could transmit the disease *before* you started showing symptoms. Hence the concern of so many asymptomatic people being out and supposedly being contagious while not showing symptoms. 

But now I'm hearing that that isn't the case; that COVID is just like other diseases. You're infectious when you have symptoms. 

Kosh's Shadow 12/11/2020 9:28:46 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

Well, Slime already wants you to think the BDS movement isn't about destroying Israel, and it isn't Jew-hatred (link to article ABOUT the article)

doppelganglander 12/11/2020 9:30:00 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

Person of the year is supposed to be the most consequential, not necessarily the most popular or admirable. These two don't fit any of those criteria. Trump's success with the Abraham Accords would qualify him but the media makes sure hardly anyone knows about it.

On the bright side, at least they didn't choose Andrew Cuomo, much to his chagrin I'm sure.

Kosh's Shadow 12/11/2020 9:44:32 AM

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In #17 doppelganglander said: On the bright side, at least they didn't choose Andrew Cuomo, much to his chagrin I'm sure.

Cuomo was certainly consequential to a lot of elderly in NY. Not in a good way.

Kosh's Shadow 12/11/2020 9:44:52 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 9:50:24 AM

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In #17 doppelganglander said: Person of the year is supposed to be the most consequential, not necessarily the most popular or admirable

Yes, I know. And that is why they picked Trump in 2016, a political outsider who came from behind spending half the money and won the presidency. Oh, wait...

lucius septimius 12/11/2020 9:54:50 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

I suppose Biden deserves to be "man of the year" given that it is a source of perpetual amazement how this drooling nitwit of a career politician get elected.

Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 10:31:21 AM

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In #21 lucius septimius said: I suppose Biden deserves to be "man of the year" given that it is a source of perpetual amazement how this drooling nitwit of a career politician get elected.

C'mon, man!  It was, the thing!  You know, the thing! 

Occasional Reader 12/11/2020 10:31:43 AM

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JCM 12/11/2020 11:10:24 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:

Time spiking the football with and in your face, "we stole the election and there is not a damn thing you can do about it!"

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2020 11:51:00 AM

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Just...gah.

Regarding Kosh's #16, I'd note that a friend of mine who's a journalist in Israel (for a relatively left-leaning paper) dismisses BDS on the grounds that their feeble boycotts "have not hurt Israel economically."  I've tried to tell him that the point is not to actually be effective in hurting Israel economically directly, but to delegitimize Israel in the Western nations---and in that, they are, if not succeeding, making progress.

Why some people continue to refuse to understand that the stated objective differs from the genuine objective is beyond me.

lucius septimius 12/11/2020 11:57:01 AM

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In #25 buzzsawmonkey said: Why some people continue to refuse to understand that the stated objective differs from the genuine objective is beyond me.

One of the many annoying things in Eichmann in Jerusalem is that Ahrendt shows nothing but contempt for the "Asiatic" and  "Stetl" Jews but heaps praise on anyone who conforms to her idea of Weimar German Jews, with an emphasis on the German part.  That is to say, she privileges a culture that in the end killed 6 million of her own people.  It was a critique of her work she never acknowledged.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2020 1:02:15 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 26:

Never read Hannah Arendt.  A former flame---the relationship ended very badly---was a big devotee of hers, and had, I think written a Big Paper on her when in college.

Kosh's Shadow 12/11/2020 2:09:40 PM

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When Biden was asked whether he thought Hunter had committed any crimes, he answered "I'm proud of my son"

Didn't even have the sense to deny it! But his son is a good Democrat.

lucius septimius 12/11/2020 2:32:49 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:

Origins of Totalitarianism is very good.  One thing I like about it is that she connects anti-Semitism to modern European politics right from the outset, using French and English cases before getting to the Germans and Russians.  And her description of the workings of totalitarian regimes is outstanding, though there is the question how much she might have stolen without attribution from Raul Hilberg.

JCM 12/11/2020 3:51:53 PM

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