I have read that one of the major impacts will be for trucks carrying hazmat cargoes. They're not allowed in the tunnel and probably not allowed to go through the city.
I pulled out ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition and yeah, a majority of the cuts have a vocal track. Lyrics, even. None of the lyrics are memorable, and I suspect that the main purpose is that it's easier for Greg Lake to sing lyrics than just "Dum, dum, dum-dee-dee-dum-dum" even when the vocals are just another instrument.
I'm depressed this am, so... 6-3 is not a slim majority, but large enough to claim a mandate. Tomorrow the Court hears FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine to decide whether the states for themselves or the SCOTUS for the nation as a whole can overrule decisions made by the FDA almost a quarter-century ago.
Rep. Gaetz, who we all think is an idiot, has told reporters that if the Speaker's seat comes to a vote, there are at least three Republicans who will vote for Jeffries.
NBC News reports that the motion was not filed as a privileged motion, so the two-day limit doesn't apply. Johnson can, in fact, dump it into a committee and let it die there. Gaetz has said he does not support the motion, because he believes at least three Republicans will vote for Jeffries if it comes to a vote.
I saw another opinion this morning that said they would be likely to start with real physical property in New York because they're familiar with the procedures and know the statutes and case law well.
Should have added, risky for the investment banks? Say it's ten of them, each with a $50M stake. They have bad days when their holdings lose $50M plenty of times.
Risky for whom? The state seizes, say, a quarter of Trump's stake and starts disposing of it. Trump says the wrong thing and the stock promptly heads to zero. Trump's remaining stake, which he can't sell for six months, is wiped out. The state, having not realized the entire judgement amount, goes back for the real estate...
By the end of the day Monday it is possible that Trump will hold a couple billion dollars worth of listed stock in whatever shell company Truth Social is part of. He isn't allowed to sell any of it for six months. My working assumption would be that if the State of New York seized the stock they wouldn't be under the same restriction. I suspect that some group of investment banks and private capital funds might be willing to buy a big block of stock from the state for enough to cover the judgement because they believe they can "trickle" it out slowly enough to sell at a profit before that whole thing collapses.
People aged 60 and older in the U.S. reported high levels of well-being compared to younger people. In fact, the United States ranks in the top 10 countries for happiness in this age group.
As a member of the demographic, I'll point out three things: Social Security, Medicare, and the (currently) the last group that enjoyed heavily subsidized state universities and a degree translating into a secure middle-class job. I'll assert that how to increase the happiness of Americans more broadly is implicit right there in those three things.
Well, the fact that we got to live through 25 years of declining interest rates, and the effect of that on real estate values, didn't hurt.
When I was a legislative staffer I kept a short list of statutes that I'd encountered that struck me as "How the hell did this rather confusing mess get strung together?" During the summer interim between sessions I dug through the history of the text from the beginning through various later changes. (One summer I was the legislative librarian's favorite staffer because I stopped by her facility in the Capitol sub-basement at least once each week with another request.)
I don't know if this particular section was (somewhat) poorly drafted initially, or if there was an accumulation of cruft. I'm not curious enough to try to find out, either, since no one's paying me.
I used to say the same respect thing about Queen. Their music wasn't my thing, but you have to respect anyone who can work hard enough to sell out 100,000-seat stadiums on six continents.
When I was an undergraduate I met a woman who was doing her PhD dissertation in the music department on "sing-along rock." I initially understood it intellectually, but didn't really get how it could be a thing. She took me as far as the elevator lobby on a floor in the women's dorm. Most doors were open; everyone's radio was tuned to the same station; you could hear a whole bunch of women singing along, including people doing the harmony.
I'm sure that over the years those women poured a fair amount of money into artists/groups that did rock that invited the listener to sing along, and their metal head boyfriends had no clue what the attraction was.
All long-lived organizations (ie, they survive while multiple generations of mere humans are born, grow, and die) depend to some extent on tradition. Part of that is legacy recruiting: Dad belonged, and Grandma belonged, and now I'm going to belong. I'm sure, for example, that Army recruiters put a bit more oomph in their pitch when they're dealing with someone whose family has Army veterans in the previous generation. Every few years my undergraduate school's alumni magazine publishes an article highlighting current students who are third or even fourth generation attendees. Some legacy applicants who aren't otherwise quite qualified get in; sometimes the tradition is the difference for a highly-qualified legacy applicant choosing their parents' school over an alternative.
What modest-sized relatively inexpensive electric cars will they consider shipping to the US? Not the kind of electric car that the US manufacturers are falling in love with -- massive vehicles that tend to be computers first and cars second and run to $75,000 or so -- but a straightforward car with an electric drive train and braking.
Re: Pulsifer v United States... My time on the permanent legislative staff in my state taught me to respect the job the bill drafters have to do. Part of every staffer's job was to watch for errors and ambiguities that had slipped in. I was on the budget staff, and while we primarily looked at bills that spent money, someone in the group read every single bill. It was one of those things that wasn't in the job description but still chewed up time. Language that was wrong, or at least problematic, was referred back to the responsible party in Legislative Legal Services, who would make the final call on whether changes were necessary.
One of the very last bills introduced each session was the Revisor's Bill. It contained fixes like this bill needed. In the 2019 session, the Revisor's Bill fixed 73 problems, mostly by making small simple changes to the text.
Of course, as the staff regularly noted over lunch or drinks, compared to Congress the General Assembly was highly functional.
ThTh10: One of Cain's Laws™ says, "When the project begins to exceed either the time or money allotted, the first thing that will be cut is testing. This frequently ends badly."
ThTh7 (well, technically 8 because there are two 6s): Recently I came to the conclusion that no matter how much I wanted an electric car, I am old enough that the old Honda Fit will last until I have to give up driving, and given how little I drive now the carbon cost of building another car is more than I can save by getting rid of gasoline. And some of the rest of my carbon footprint will be shrinking as the local power authority moves to 90% non-carbon electricity by 2030.
Fort Collins had a couple of inches on the grassy areas this morning, less on pavement. The road in front of my townhouse is clear and dry (no plow). The wind patterns set up so that we got a downslope off the Cheyenne Ridge* that forced the moisture around us and kept us a few degrees above freezing for almost the whole time.
* The Cheyenne Ridge is the lesser-known northern counterpart to the Palmer Divide south of Denver.
I was largely a free-range kid. IIRC, I got my first watch the first day of summer break after second grade. Dad said, "Supper is at 6:00. Be here if you expect to get fed."
Ken Buck (R-CO4), who had previously announced he would not be running for reelection this year, announced that he will be resigning on March 22. His is the district that Lauren Boebert is running for this year. I believe that
Colorado's regular primaries are scheduled for June 25. The special election to replace Buck has to be held no less than 85 nor more than 100 days after the vacancy occurs. The governor has at least suggested he will call the election for the same day as the primaries. The Republican candidate for the vacant seat will be named by a convention called by the state party chair, or a committee designated by such a convention. I suspect that Buck and the state Republican chair have cooked up something that they hope will result in Boebert being squeezed out.
On “Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Struck By Container Ship, Collapses”
I have read that one of the major impacts will be for trucks carrying hazmat cargoes. They're not allowed in the tunnel and probably not allowed to go through the city.
On “Music Monday: Is This the Greatest Rock Instrumental of All Time?”
I pulled out ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition and yeah, a majority of the cuts have a vocal track. Lyrics, even. None of the lyrics are memorable, and I suspect that the main purpose is that it's easier for Greg Lake to sing lyrics than just "Dum, dum, dum-dee-dee-dum-dum" even when the vocals are just another instrument.
On “A Chance for Sanity in the House of Representatives?”
I'm depressed this am, so... 6-3 is not a slim majority, but large enough to claim a mandate. Tomorrow the Court hears FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine to decide whether the states for themselves or the SCOTUS for the nation as a whole can overrule decisions made by the FDA almost a quarter-century ago.
"
Rep. Gaetz, who we all think is an idiot, has told reporters that if the Speaker's seat comes to a vote, there are at least three Republicans who will vote for Jeffries.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/18/2024”
NBC News reports that the motion was not filed as a privileged motion, so the two-day limit doesn't apply. Johnson can, in fact, dump it into a committee and let it die there. Gaetz has said he does not support the motion, because he believes at least three Republicans will vote for Jeffries if it comes to a vote.
"
I saw another opinion this morning that said they would be likely to start with real physical property in New York because they're familiar with the procedures and know the statutes and case law well.
"
Should have added, risky for the investment banks? Say it's ten of them, each with a $50M stake. They have bad days when their holdings lose $50M plenty of times.
"
Risky for whom? The state seizes, say, a quarter of Trump's stake and starts disposing of it. Trump says the wrong thing and the stock promptly heads to zero. Trump's remaining stake, which he can't sell for six months, is wiped out. The state, having not realized the entire judgement amount, goes back for the real estate...
"
By the end of the day Monday it is possible that Trump will hold a couple billion dollars worth of listed stock in whatever shell company Truth Social is part of. He isn't allowed to sell any of it for six months. My working assumption would be that if the State of New York seized the stock they wouldn't be under the same restriction. I suspect that some group of investment banks and private capital funds might be willing to buy a big block of stock from the state for enough to cover the judgement because they believe they can "trickle" it out slowly enough to sell at a profit before that whole thing collapses.
On “Happiness, Ranked and Revealed”
People aged 60 and older in the U.S. reported high levels of well-being compared to younger people. In fact, the United States ranks in the top 10 countries for happiness in this age group.
As a member of the demographic, I'll point out three things: Social Security, Medicare, and the (currently) the last group that enjoyed heavily subsidized state universities and a degree translating into a secure middle-class job. I'll assert that how to increase the happiness of Americans more broadly is implicit right there in those three things.
Well, the fact that we got to live through 25 years of declining interest rates, and the effect of that on real estate values, didn't hurt.
On “Lawsplainer: Our Three Most Recent Supreme Court Decisions”
When I was a legislative staffer I kept a short list of statutes that I'd encountered that struck me as "How the hell did this rather confusing mess get strung together?" During the summer interim between sessions I dug through the history of the text from the beginning through various later changes. (One summer I was the legislative librarian's favorite staffer because I stopped by her facility in the Capitol sub-basement at least once each week with another request.)
I don't know if this particular section was (somewhat) poorly drafted initially, or if there was an accumulation of cruft. I'm not curious enough to try to find out, either, since no one's paying me.
On “Girl Dadding in the Taylor Swift Era”
I used to say the same respect thing about Queen. Their music wasn't my thing, but you have to respect anyone who can work hard enough to sell out 100,000-seat stadiums on six continents.
"
When I was an undergraduate I met a woman who was doing her PhD dissertation in the music department on "sing-along rock." I initially understood it intellectually, but didn't really get how it could be a thing. She took me as far as the elevator lobby on a floor in the women's dorm. Most doors were open; everyone's radio was tuned to the same station; you could hear a whole bunch of women singing along, including people doing the harmony.
I'm sure that over the years those women poured a fair amount of money into artists/groups that did rock that invited the listener to sing along, and their metal head boyfriends had no clue what the attraction was.
On “From NBC News: Virginia bans public universities from considering legacy in admissions”
All long-lived organizations (ie, they survive while multiple generations of mere humans are born, grow, and die) depend to some extent on tradition. Part of that is legacy recruiting: Dad belonged, and Grandma belonged, and now I'm going to belong. I'm sure, for example, that Army recruiters put a bit more oomph in their pitch when they're dealing with someone whose family has Army veterans in the previous generation. Every few years my undergraduate school's alumni magazine publishes an article highlighting current students who are third or even fourth generation attendees. Some legacy applicants who aren't otherwise quite qualified get in; sometimes the tradition is the difference for a highly-qualified legacy applicant choosing their parents' school over an alternative.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/18/2024”
Commercial real estate still hasn't recovered from the pandemic in most places.
On “A Literal Bloodbath?”
What modest-sized relatively inexpensive electric cars will they consider shipping to the US? Not the kind of electric car that the US manufacturers are falling in love with -- massive vehicles that tend to be computers first and cars second and run to $75,000 or so -- but a straightforward car with an electric drive train and braking.
On “Lawsplainer: Our Three Most Recent Supreme Court Decisions”
Re: Pulsifer v United States... My time on the permanent legislative staff in my state taught me to respect the job the bill drafters have to do. Part of every staffer's job was to watch for errors and ambiguities that had slipped in. I was on the budget staff, and while we primarily looked at bills that spent money, someone in the group read every single bill. It was one of those things that wasn't in the job description but still chewed up time. Language that was wrong, or at least problematic, was referred back to the responsible party in Legislative Legal Services, who would make the final call on whether changes were necessary.
One of the very last bills introduced each session was the Revisor's Bill. It contained fixes like this bill needed. In the 2019 session, the Revisor's Bill fixed 73 problems, mostly by making small simple changes to the text.
Of course, as the staff regularly noted over lunch or drinks, compared to Congress the General Assembly was highly functional.
On “Throughput: Excited Delirium Edition”
ThTh10: One of Cain's Laws™ says, "When the project begins to exceed either the time or money allotted, the first thing that will be cut is testing. This frequently ends badly."
ThTh7 (well, technically 8 because there are two 6s): Recently I came to the conclusion that no matter how much I wanted an electric car, I am old enough that the old Honda Fit will last until I have to give up driving, and given how little I drive now the carbon cost of building another car is more than I can save by getting rid of gasoline. And some of the rest of my carbon footprint will be shrinking as the local power authority moves to 90% non-carbon electricity by 2030.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/11/2024”
Services including vasectomies.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Molasses Baked Beans and Laparoscopy”
Fort Collins had a couple of inches on the grassy areas this morning, less on pavement. The road in front of my townhouse is clear and dry (no plow). The wind patterns set up so that we got a downslope off the Cheyenne Ridge* that forced the moisture around us and kept us a few degrees above freezing for almost the whole time.
* The Cheyenne Ridge is the lesser-known northern counterpart to the Palmer Divide south of Denver.
On “The First Watch”
I was largely a free-range kid. IIRC, I got my first watch the first day of summer break after second grade. Dad said, "Supper is at 6:00. Be here if you expect to get fed."
On “Kacey Musgraves Does What Taylor Swift Hasn’t: Grow Up”
What's the old saying about it? Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't do or teach get jobs as critics.
On “The New Right-Wing Leftists”
Cool.
"Have any hobbies?"
"Not painting scenic watercolors."
"Anything else?"
"Not doing oil paintings using light and dark in the style of the Dutch masters."
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/11/2024”
Ken Buck (R-CO4), who had previously announced he would not be running for reelection this year, announced that he will be resigning on March 22. His is the district that Lauren Boebert is running for this year. I believe that
Colorado's regular primaries are scheduled for June 25. The special election to replace Buck has to be held no less than 85 nor more than 100 days after the vacancy occurs. The governor has at least suggested he will call the election for the same day as the primaries. The Republican candidate for the vacant seat will be named by a convention called by the state party chair, or a committee designated by such a convention. I suspect that Buck and the state Republican chair have cooked up something that they hope will result in Boebert being squeezed out.
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As long as both sides believe they can win, we'll get war (at least a cold war). Only once both sides accept that they can't win is divorce realistic.
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