Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Trump Nachos Party Fundraiser

Trump...is privately terrified about getting the virus. “Donald is a famous germaphobe. He hates it if someone is eating nachos and dips a chip back in after taking a bite. He calls them ‘double dippers,’” a prominent Republican said. 

Trump told aides he’s afraid journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One...The source also said Trump has asked the Secret Service to set up a screening program and bar anyone who has a cough from the White House grounds. 

The Trump White House Correspondents Dinner

The Trump Meet-and-Greet Cough-athon


 


Las Vegas political investors think Joe Biden won last night's debate. That 90 degree upturn is one day.

I cannot remember seeing schadenfreude in others toward us. I have seen vicarious embarrassment. Does that speak only that others exhibit that highest expression of empathy, the most sublime of human emotions? Or are we still liked? It is peculiarly American to want to be liked. They liked what we were, not what we are. Vicarious embarrassment is mournful, and we mourn the dead.

The Shining City Upon a Hill: "a new nadir of national embarrassment"

It's always useful to hear what others think of you. Sometimes useful but painful. The Guardian:

America is in pain. 

The presidential debate 

offered no help

...
Nearly all of the evening’s chaos can be blamed, of course, on President Donald Trump, who spent the evening lying and misrepresenting his own record, his opponent’s record, President Obama’s record, Hillary Clinton’s record, the records of several Senate and congressional Democrats, and the state of fires, crime, economic activity, coronavirus infection rates, and ballot distribution in various states and regions. He claimed, wrongly, that Joe Biden supports “socialist medicine”. He claimed, wrongly, that Joe Biden supports a Green New Deal. He claimed, wrongly, that Joe Biden opposes the police. And he claimed, wrongly, that Joe Biden had the power to limit the coronavirus outbreak during his time as a senator, vice-president and presidential candidate.
...
When he wasn’t lying, Trump was speaking over his time, whining at the moderator, and undermining the election. At one point, asked to disavow white supremacists, he instead spoke directly to the racist group known as the Proud Boys, telling them to “stand by”. At another point, he requested that his supporters deploy themselves to “watch” the voting in progress. It was hard not to interpret these comments as threats to incite his supporters to racist violence if the election does not go his way. And Trump seems convinced that it won’t. His closing remarks were dedicated to insisting that the election would be illegitimate if he lost. “This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen,” he said. “This is a rigged election.”
...
Debating Donald Trump is like debating a chimpanzee: he is less likely to deliver a thoughtful and substantive answer than he is to throw his own feces at you.
...
It was difficult for the former vice-president to make clear and complete statements to the audience in the midst of Trump’s onslaughts, a reality he tried to confront head-on. “It’s hard to get anything in with this clown,” he said. Biden called Trump a clown several times and was frank in his exasperation and contempt, often looking directly at the camera and addressing his frustrations not to Trump or the moderator, but to the viewers at home. “Folks, do you have any idea what this clown is doing?” he asked the audience. At other times, he was dismissive of Trump. “Will you shut up, man?” he asked.
...
What was the point of tonight’s debate? The circus of vanity, lies and hostility certainly didn’t reveal anything new about the candidates, and it would be laughable to suggest that the exchange was productive to the democratic process...Tuesday’s debate was a new nadir of national embarrassment...

 Top headline:



There Is Going To Be Violence

I was wrong, again, about Trump. One is always wrong when predicting other than evil from him. Last night he, again, signaled for his disgusting people to engage in violence to prevent his foregone exit from the White House and loss of immunity from criminal prosecution. In answer to a question concerning accepting the outcome of the vote, Trump spoke directly to one group of his neo-Nazis who explicitly endorse violence:

“Proud Boys — stand back and stand by.”

Trump's words are now the group's official slogan.

Which means that I was wrong, again, to say that Trump's exit is "foregone." His supporters are going to commit violence, he has the support of local law enforcement, he has his Praetorian Guard, he is commander-in-chief of the military. He has and he will, again, unleash this personal army against voters and against the vote. They will physically prevent people from voting, including by beating, injuring, shooting, and killing voters; they will intimidate those who they do not physically prevent; they will storm voting precincts and batter and assault election workers, so many of them the elderly and female, to steal or destroy ballot boxes, old-fashioned or electronic, to prevent the votes therein from being counted.

This is an entirely reasonable scenario which Trump explicitly encouraged, again, last night, just 34 days before the election. So his exit is not foregone. The exit of American democracy is at least as reasonable.

The Plague of Trump: 206,005

I guess it’s just me. I’m a small-town rube still with wonder in me. When I’ve been away from this for even a day and then check in and see a number like...I just uterred a “Wow” to myself. I stare at the number and stare at the number. I reimagine it, like 206,005 Dead can’t just look like that, like just a number. It must have a taste or smell; a shape, a color. Sound. I have heard in my mind’s ear the muffled drums of the funeral march when I have seen other of these numbers. Well, here's a sound:



It could sound like that, absolutely it could sound like that.

It should move. Do the Dance of Death or something. It must have some other meaning. It’s not just me. The New York Times put names to the first 100,000 so long ago, 106,005 ago. They put a slideshow of graves and coffins on their front page. That’s what I mean, graves and coffins, the living burying the dead like in The Great Plague. The Plague of Trump.

Monday, September 28, 2020

I give professional oddsmakers almost equal respect with other more scientific predictors, pollsters for instance. And just like their betters sometines the bettors lay an egg. Pitt -21.5 over Syracuse. No, and hell no. Comes now the Las Vegas investment houses with these gems in the NBA Finals

LAL 2/9

Mia 15/4

To which I respond—with my HEAD NOT my heart:


Coronavirus



The world and the big dysfunctional part of it denominated U.S.A. are closing in on two bad mile markers on Death Highway.Per Johns Hopkins at this moment 999,969 people have died worldwide of coronavirus and in the aforementioned Fuckupville, where the virus is known as the Plague of Trump, we are at at 294,995, just bodies shy of 295,000. Both the world and America have probably left their markers behind by the time you read this.

The Plague of Trump Sept. 27 Final





7,115,000 Total Cases since Jan. 20. [numerology: Jan. 20, 2021 is Inauguration Day.]
36,919: New Cases.
204,756 Total Deaths Since Feb. 6.
266 New Deaths.

14-day change: Cases +23%
                          Deaths +2%

7-day average Cases per day: 43,111 (+155)
7-day average Deaths per day: 748 (+8)

Sunday, September 27, 2020

The president dismissed the story Sunday during a news conference, calling the reporting "totally fake news."
(USAToday)

Don’t want to get callouses pattin’ myself on the back BUT I’ve had a good stretch in the prediction biz.

 Heavens to megutroid, I completely forgot.

It will be a Hodown Showdown in the Bubble. Pat Riley in the dark Armani trunks and LeBron James in the Superman Cape. The Miami “Heat” and the Los Angeles “Lakers” (There really are no lakes in Los Angeles. There is plenty of heat in Miami, so advantage “Heat”) in the NBA Finals

The “Heat” cooked Beans 125-113 to win the Eastern Conference finals four games to two!

THE “HEAT” ARE IN THE FINALS! THE “HEAT” ARE IN THE FINALS!

 President Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale was taken from his Fort Lauderdale home by police Sunday afternoon after his wife reported that he was armed and threatening suicide.

The police, called by his wife, went to the house in the Seven Isles community, an affluent area in which the houses have access to the water. They made contact, “developed a rapport” and negotiated his exit from the house, the police said in a statement. He was taken to Broward Health Medical Center under the Baker Act, which provides for temporary involuntary commitment.

(Sun-Sentinel)

 

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, armed, barricades self in Fort Lauderdale home, police called

(local10.com)

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after he was armed and threatening to harm himself, Fort Lauderdale police say

(Sun-Sentinel)

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after threatening self-harm: report

(The Hill)


Let's pause here for a second and take inventory. What is Trump's reaction to this disclosure? I haven't googled it so I honestly, sincerely, do not know for sure but I assume it's "FAKE NEWS!", right? Then, in the next tweet, "THE FAKE NEWS REPORTERS AT THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD BE IN JAIL!" Right? 

I'm pretty confident that's what it's going to be but I also think this with equal confidence: Trump is devastated right now. He knows it's true, he knows what he paid in taxes. He knows...yes knows but also feels that he is a fool; that he has been found out...Like the Wizard of Oz screenshot I posted of him so many times in 2016. The curtain is pulled back, etc...Trump feels right now like the Wizard did. But Trump is not going to react as the Wizard ultimately did. "Okay, yes, I'm a fraud." That turned the Wizard into a lovable, sympathetic figure. Trump is going to react, I predict, in the predictable Trumpian manner above, as the Wizard initially did--"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" That would have kept the Wizard an awful, mean man. Ultimately the Wizard tearfully confessed. That made him a good guy. Trump is not going to confess. Which brings us to the second reason for this pause.

This ain't Hollywood. This isn't heaven. You don't get brownie points for confessing to the police on earth. You get jail. That's where Trump is going. A confession just greases his track. He's not going to do that. He's going to fight and fight with all his might. He's going to take the advice his crooked lawyer friend Roy Cohn once gave him: "When they punch, you punch back twice as hard." Ironic, isn't it? Roy Cohn had a Wizard of Oz moment once upon a time, remember? Ah, let's go back for just a moment to 1954 and take a look at Roy Cohn's moment:

Senator McCarthy: May -- may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting -- He has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn, before sundown, get out of any department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause...
...
Mr. Welch: We know he belonged to the Lawyers' Guild.

Senator McCarthy: No, let me finish --

Mr. Welch: And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn?


Mr. Cohn: No, sir.






Mr. Welch: I meant to do you no personal injury.

Mr. Cohn: No, sir.

Roy Cohn did not punch back there. Roy Cohn did the right thing there and admitted that his mentor's antagonist had not wronged him. 

Anyway, Trump won't do that. Trump can't do that. He knows he's going to jail and a moment of humble humanity will not help him. What will Trump do? What would Cohn do? Cohn would try to cut himself or his client a deal. Can Trump do that? Resign like Nixon did in return for a pardon? No. This is a state action, not a federal. President Pence could not pardon him. Trump's lawyers could go to Cy Vance. No, Vance wouldn't make any deals with Trump.Vance knows that a deal with Trump allows Trump to wriggle free once more and would allow Trump to continue to tell the Disgustings that he, Trump, was the victim, that he, Trump, only made a deal..."I made the Art of the Deal! I got little Cy Vance to back down!"--that he had snookered Vance. Vance will not do that. Donald Trump needs to be taken down; he needs to go to prison. Only that. And Trump wouldn't authorize his lawyers to go to Vance to try. Trump has never admitted to anything, he never will admit to anything, he thinks he learned one lesson in life from Roy Cohn, he doesn't realize it was half a lesson learned too well, and Trump is going to keep fighting.

Suicide? Too much of a coward.

So what does he do about Nov 3? This all makes him more panicked, desperate, dangerous. My sense is no. My sense is Trump feels that this is the end. 


Oh, he is going to bluster and campaign and hold rallies, etc. but any violence, any more Russian influence, any further voter suppression, no, I honestly don't think Trump will. If he stopped all attempts to steal the election again right now, if we had a free and fair vote, in other words, Trump is still going to get the votes of 60M Disgustings. He needs that. If he resigned he wouldn't have that. He'll continue to fight but he won't contest Biden's victory, it's going to be a substantial victory, and he'll leave office and fight Cy Vance in court and lose again and go to prison and get anally raped by the Booty Bandit.

$750

Here's Google Images results:




The picture that perhaps emerges most starkly from the mountain of figures and tax schedules...is of a businessman-president in a tightening financial vise.

See? "Mountains of figures." We don't do mountains of figures. Give us ONE NUMBER!...Wow. Look at this. The number of course is $750 but I can't type it any bigger than I have so I was looking for an image of $750 and googled it. Before I got to images:

That's the hook and it's already breaking the internet.


$750

The Times was frustrated that the amazing work that they did on Trump's finances a year or two ago didn't pack the punch that it, on the merits, should have. That reporting proved Trump was a charlatan. Their frustration is understandable but so is the no knock-down. They weren't the actual tax returns. That's the money shot everybody wants to see. And, finances are complicated stuff! People are not good at understanding complicated numbers, as this here undersigned done writ nine years ago. Stephen Hawking once revealed a piece of advice he had received: your readership will be cut in half by each equation you put in your book. The Times previous investigation lacked a hook. This one has it: $750.


They reveal the hollowness, but also the wizardry, behind the self-made-billionaire image...that helped propel him to the White House and that still undergirds the loyalty of many in his base.

Yep, and this will not hurt him with his "Disgusting People." Nothing will. But it's gonna hurt him with tons of normal people. Who vote! lololol

The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S.

 Those porn stars! How did they get these!?!

This is one example, just one but a BIG 'un why there is only one

New
York
Times.










You sad, Trumpie?

 LONG-CONCEALED 

RECORDS SHOW 

TRUMP’S CHRONIC 

LOSSES AND YEARS

 OF TAX AVOIDANCE

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax 

information extending over more than 

two decades, revealing struggling 

properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle 

and hundreds of millions in debt coming 

due.

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.



Okay, I’m not going to cut and paste the Times’ work here, this is just pure gold. Here’s the link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html


 Um, the New York Times got Trump’s tax records, um.

Oldie

I was searching my 'puter just for something that began with "over." I found it and also came across this nine years-old draft of a post that, for reasons unknown, I had begun on Word. I read it and it tickled me. Maybe it'll tickle you too.


Over the years the title of this blog has stalked me like a debt collector. While confining posts, by and large, to Big Stuff and not indulging in little, teensie, weenie, stuff I have had to make only glancing references to some Big events, earthquakes for example. And when making those glancing references I have just written that since the title is “Public Occurrences” and an earthquake is a Big public occurrence, I was thereby recording that on such a date a ‘quake hit Haiti or Chile or Japan. 

The most important public occurrence in the ten year existence of this latter-day Public Occurrences (the original lasted one day) has been Islam. We have covered that subject. The second biggest though, certainly since 2008, or was it 2009—see I can’t do this—has been the economy, the American economy, the world economy, The Economy.

That has not been covered here.

I can remember only two posts, one suggesting that New York Times columnist—and Nobel economics laureate—Paul Krugman visit a whorehouse to improve his mood, the second lauding President Obama on an unemployment report.  The reason there have been only two posts is because I’m in over my head here, or perhaps more accurately, because I’m in over my head here and I know I’m in over my head.

I cannot balance my checkbook.

The reasons for this post, which I hold constitutes a third post on The Economy, are a report today from the International Monetary Fund, via Reuters, that the U.S. and Europe are “playing with fire” on their budget deficits, and a report earlier this week (I think) that China is in danger of “a hard fall.”

Now they’re talking my language.

I have played with fire, last night I splashed my hand with boiling water. I was taught by my parents, or I learned “the hard way” that “playing with fire” is bad, it hurts. And, being a boy, I have had hard falls, fell out of a tree once, tippy-top. Boom. And so, it will probably not win me a Nobel Prize but I feel that—at this level—I can write intelligently about The Economy.

I hold that Greece is really playing with fire. Really, really, really, really. Playing with fire. Their budget deficit is too big. Really too big.  Greece…do something about that.

On China, some guy, I forget who, but really impressive credentials, flew into Shanghai. Said the shiny new airport was half-empty. Took the mag-lev train around town. Said the train was ¾ empty. Looked out the window of the mag-lev train. Said the new super-duper highways were uncrowded. According to this guy (it really was an impressive article) all this meant China was in danger of a “hard fall” because it had overbuilt. Chinese weren’t using this stuff. The commanders of the command economy have gotten way out in front of the foot soldiers…Actually,  I’m not 1000% sure how that adds up to a “hard fall.” I guess I don’t really understand what a “hard fall” is, economically.  I do suggest that Chinese start using the mag-lev.

And I read that President Obama’s stimulus plan is over this month, that all the good that it did for the American economy, and it doesn’t seem like it did enough, well that’s as good as it gets.  And I saw the movie As Good As It Gets. Really liked it. After the end of this month, which is in only 13 days, President Obama has got to try something else.  And I suggest he do that.

I have been following a little the budget negotiations between the White House and the Republicans in Congress on lifting the debt ceiling. The Republicans don’t want to do that. That has really gotten economists like me worried because if the debt ceiling is not lifted then we will go into temporary default on our financial obligations and our credit rating will fall and that’s playing with fire. And so I hope the Republicans do that—or maybe the White House should agree to the Republican spending cuts—both. I urge that the country not go into default.

All of this goes back to the housing “bubble” of a few years ago. Somehow it all goes back to that and I’ve read that home prices are still inflated which means there’s still something of a bubble out there and we need to pop that bubble.

In conclusion, The Economy is in bad shape. It is very fragile, it doesn’t seem to be getting better in a permanent way and we don’t have many good options. The world economy today seems to me to be intertwined in a way that Europe was when President Wilson warned against “entangling alliances, when in the summer of 1914 one little man can reasonably be said to have caused the whole damn world war, and now one little country, Greece, or some other little thing like an Icelandic volcano or an American housing bubble, or Shanghai mag-levs, could cause another Great Depression.  I don’t know how that could be.  I thought an intertwined world economy was good, that a European economic union was good.

City 2 Lester 5

 "We have set up to infuriate them and it has worked a treat. We knew if we stuck to our plan we would get some chances," Vardy said after the game.

You don’t bother me Vardy.

much.


The Plague of Trump Through Sept. 26

 


That's just not good and you can't make it look good by miniaturizing it. The Sept. 26 iteration of the 7-day average is 42,995. That's 42,995 NEW cases every day for a week. Highest we've been since August 22.

But, it's the more extended trend that is so angering. For fourteen goddamn straight days, from Sept. 13 through the 26th we have been on an upward trajectory.

According to NYT new cases have risen 22% in the last 14 days.

That is just fucking terrible. And Trump doesn't care.



The Deaths trends do not yet reflect the dramatic, visually and arithmetically, rise in Cases, but they will. Deaths are up 1% in the last 14. As they are Deaths are on a small 4-day plateau of about 735. That's an average of 735 Dead every day from Sept. 17 through Sept. 26.

Around the Horn, "Heat," LBJ, college tackle

The "Heat" look to close out Bawston agayne tonight-o at the normal hour of 7:30 p.m. in the eve-en-ing Normal People Time. If they do they will have their chance at Riley's Revenge. LeBron James' "Lakers" (horribly misnamed in Los Angeles) woofed down the Denver "Chicken Nuggets" to reach The Finals.

Louisiana Southern University, the "allegedly" "sixth" "best" "team" in the "country" were bombed and strafed with Mississippi State's new "Air Raid Cowbells" 44-34 on the bayou.

FU did that to Lane Kiffin and Olé Mississippi in drain-The Swamp 51-35.

Tex-ass, number eight, beat the former Air Red Raiders in overtime in Lubick with the basketball score of 63-56.


Half Ass U 10-52 0-2

First they lost Jumbo. Then they hired Willie. Then they hired Memphis' coach who lost to Ga.Tech. Who then got Trump Plague. 

So it was that the "Semiholes" rolled into Miami Gardens with their wheels already falling off. Then the game was delayed for a lightening strike. At half-time it was 38-3. UMG rolled 52-10. Half Ass U is in deep do-do.

Saturday, September 26, 2020

The Plague of Trump, 204,486

This is the last heavy report day for the week. Sundays and Monday's are weekends for reporting.

According to Hopkins there have been 736 Deaths reported today. I want to show you this:

That's a grab off the JHU U.S. page. When you see it in miniature it is clear that we have made enormous progress since April. When you look at the big graphs you can lose site of the forest for the trees. It looks like a roller-coaster, doesn't it? You start off on the ground and just go about as straight up as it is possible to go--and at speed. You're pressed back against your seat by the thrust. You reach the top and the roller-coaster levels off to give you a chance to recover. And then the roller-coaster goes down, slow at first then picking up speed and more speed, not as fast or as steep as going up but you feel it as much because it looks like you're going to crash into the earth. You get butterflies in your stomach. Not much rest at the bottom before you start climbing again and now you're really nervous at how high and fast you're going but not to worry, not too high, not too fast, you dip and rise and bob like a cork on the ocean but you get the distinct feeling this isn't going to be a  repeat of a Saturn V launch as at first, nor a seeming free fall as in the first descent and you're right, this is more like slalom skiing than soaring and free-falling and you have a bumpy little ride up in July and then an easy plateau into and through most of August, then a not fairly gentle drop into September and some mild up-and-down but more plateau than sustained up and down and then a gentle decline in the end of September, which is where we are now. Take out April and May and you would be inclined to buy another ticket and take the ride again. The most terror-inducing by far was that vertical lift off in mid-March to the first of April. 

This is the NYT Cases graph. the line is the 7-day average. That's a scarier ride. A very steep (but not nearly vertical as with JHU's) climb from your starting point in mid-March to about April 1, then a rest plateau for two-three weeks, then a noticeable but fairly gentle drop to about June 1. But then a prolonged steep incline until about mid-July. "How high is this thing going to go?" you say to yourself and you get more terrified when it doesn't level off. From mid-June to mid-July you ride up and up and up. You level off in about the third week of July and now you start to drop, precipitously and gaining speed and maybe you want to tap out. Your descent lasts seemingly forever, from the last week in July through the entire month of August and the ride bottoms out in the first week in September. You reach for your safety harness to disengage and you are immediately thrust back against your seat for a steep but short climb again. You start to whimper. The ride's rise eases in the third week and the rise is gentle through the third week in September, where we are now. But you're still going up goddamn it and what goes up must come down in roller-coasters, maybe not in Trump Plagues. You are back at the elevation you were on August 22, more than  a month ago with no end in sight. 


You're frazzled and your frazzle is born out in the NYT 14-day changes:

You have been on a 22% increase in elevation in Cases and a minuscule 1% decline on the Death ride.

The 7-day average incline/decline on the Death ride is roughly consistent with the eye test of Hopkins' raw daily reported counts, certainly a more acute, scary drop from mid-April to July 1 and then a not quite as acute, but plenty enough thank you very not much, rise from July 1 to August 1 when you are mortified to find yourself atop the K-2 of Death peaks around August first.Then a deep, fast drop to the trough around the end of the first week in August then ballroom dancing, downhill till the first week of September about, you feel like you missed a step on the way down and then you have to make up for it by taking two steps at a time going up and then you take four or five gingerly steps down and are on a three step plateau now. You have the confidence by this time to expect two steps down tomorrow and Monday before, in all likelihood, you'll have to double-step going up again.

All thing considered, your're not buying another ticket to either of these rides.


Another way of looking at these graphs and numbers and lines from a human perspective. Good night.

The Plague of Trump

 

Four states report record number of new COVID-19 cases

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon and Utah all hit records for single-day increases in the number of COVID-19 infections Friday as the country surpassed 7 million total cases, according to an analysis by Reuters. 


WIDeptHealthServices
@DHSWI
Your #COVID19_WI update and another day with more than 2,500 reported cases, plus 65 people hospitalized. Please, protect yourself and your community: stay home if you can, physical distance, #MaskUpWisconsin, and wash hands often. #YouStopTheSpread: http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/protect.htm

Governor Kate Brown
@OregonGovBrown
Today we reached an alarming milestone: the single highest daily total of COVID-19 cases in Oregon since the onset of this pandemic. We don't want to lose ground on all of the great progress we've made. Please keep distancing, wearing a face covering, and washing your hands.
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OR Health Authority
@OHAOregon
 · Sep 25
OHA Director Patrick Allen during today’s media availability: "We find ourselves at another crossroads: After weeks of steady decline, #COVID19 cases have been rising. Today we are reporting 457 new cases – the single highest daily total since the onset of this pandemic."
...
[Reuters] also reported that hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients hit new highs in Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming this week. 

These numbers come after Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) on Tuesday declared a new public health emergency following spikes in cases on college campuses in the state. The governor also extended the state’s mandatory mask mandate. 

In the order, Evers activated the Wisconsin National Guard to provide support on Election Day and oversee community testing locations. 
...
In a video address...Evers said that "Wisconsin is now experiencing unprecedented, near-exponential growth of the number of COVID-19 cases in our state," adding that a larger portion of cases came from young people aged 18-24. 

The MAC is Back

 What’s next the Ivies?

The Mildcats! K-State went into Normal and beat the third-ranked Oklahoma University 38-35! Beat 'em last year in Manhattan, too! Got the "Sooners" number, the Mildcats do. Didn't have Arkansas State's number two weeks ago but got the "Sooners" number, they do.

Man, pathetic crowd in Normal even if they did know the “Sooners” couldn’t beat K-State.

The Orangemen! Syracuse won a tackle football game :o Beat the Ramblin' Yellow Jacket Bees of Georgia Tech. 37-20. Sheesh.

In the Titanic Tilt upon Trois Rivières the Gray Panthers prevailed over the Red Boids of Lewisville 23-20. Pitt ran the interception play on Lew's final possession to seal the deal.


There are a group of women friends who get together sometimes on a balcony in my building somewhere and just chat and laugh. They are doing that now and it is so charming. They are obviously good friends and just having a good time. It’s like birds chirping.