Monday, November 14, 2016

@10:22, 11/14/16

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Read Paul Krugman's column.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/trump-slump-coming.html

OK,
The world will not end soon.
A lifeboat will be required.
The supply is limited.
A business could be made of building lifeboats.

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  1. NASA and FEMA Rehearse for the Unthinkable: An Asteroid Strike on Los Angeles 

     It will reward the system to think about what to do if and when.
    An evacuation situation will occur. 
    It might only be an eighth year of extreme drought. 


  2. Judge Orders That Bottled Water Be Delivered to Residents of Flint, Mich. 

    Michigan has had difficulty with its government.
    It does not trust itself to govern.
     
  3. Genetic Heart Disease Risk Eased by Healthy Habits, Study Finds 

    "The Arctic eats an all animal diet high in fat and missing fiber.  
    It does not suffer heart disease
    Japan eats a white rice diet high in starch and fiber. 
    It also does not suffer heart disease.
    Neither eat much fructose."    Dr. Lustig,  Sugar, The Bitter Truth

    Exercise helps with many things including heart trouble.

  4. Amid Tide of Red on Electoral Map, West Coast Stays Defiantly Blue 

    California tried Republicans and did not like the result. 


  5. Crime Scene

    Waffles and Pancakes, Then Violence, at the ‘Goodfellas’ Diner 

    I have to remember each time that there has been a long slow inflation
    since I learned what diner food cost. the multiplier seems to be about twelve.
    $31/12=$2.583

  6. In Troubled Newark Archdiocese, Hoping Its New Leader Is a Pastor, Not a Prince 

    Each one is a surprise package. 


  7. Teslas in the Trailer Park: A California City Faces Its Housing Squeeze 

    They are boom towns.  
    The cure is obvious: let the Chinese have the business and so end the boom.
    I know that cure is not acceptable.
    Another unacceptable cure is go to a dead small town and build a company town.
    The lure of the active culture is such the workers do not want to rusticate.
    Alternatively the culture can die and the product become the commodity it is.
    Commodity workers receive the minimum wage.
    "There is no there there." Dorothy Parker speaking of San Diego
     

  8. Reports of Bias-Based Attacks Tick Upward After Election

    The attackers received permission. 

  9. New Charges for 2 Flophouse Operators Accused in Medicaid Fraud Scheme 

    Some of the most profitable property is slum housing. 
    Housing projects are supposed to remove that profit center.
    Morality regulation has brought it back.

  10. Californians Legalize Marijuana in Vote That Could Echo Nationally 

    Business people love enforced monopolies.
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U.S.

Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff and Stephen Bannon as Strategist


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U.S.

Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss


Pointless

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Fashion & Style

When Melania Trump Met Michelle Obama, Their Clothes Did Some of the Talking


Michelle Obama is a lady.

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U.S.

Donald Trump Is Picking His Cabinet. Here’s a Shortlist.


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U.S.

Donald Trump Appears to Soften Stance on Immigration, but Not on Abortion

The president-elect said his immigration priority was to deport up to three million undocumented immigrants rather than 11 million and that his border wall might be a fence in places.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; NEWS AND NEWS MEDIA 

reality.

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Opinion

Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here

Trump’s victory is saddening, but not surprising.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

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Arts

Dave Chappelle Hosts ‘S.N.L.’ and Addresses the Protests Against Trump

Kate McKinnon, as Hillary Clinton, sang the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah,” including the lyric, “I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.”
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016 

"Some of the people some of the time . . ."   A Lincoln

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Facebook is not news.
It is rumor.
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World

New Zealand Struck by Powerful Earthquake

The east coast of the South Island was shaken Monday just after midnight, with multiple aftershocks and tsunami waves.
EARTHQUAKES

Plate tectonics; this is not the expected big one.

Noted.  No news yet.

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Magazine

A Time for Refusal


yes

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U.S.

Donald Trump Prepares for White House Move, but His Tower May Still Beckon


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Arts

Leon Russell, Hit Maker and Musicians’ Musician, Dies at 74

Mr. Russell went from being one of the top studio musicians in Los Angeles to a celebrated songwriter for himself and other acts.
DEATHS (OBITUARIES) 

Life is always shorter than we wish..

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U.S.

Obama’s Policies and Broader Vision Face Reckoning With History

The president’s place in history looks considerably different than a week ago. Can the transformation he envisioned survive his administration?
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENCY (US) 

The facts are held in common.
Some of the opinions. are facts.

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Opinion

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance

We’re big on diversity, but not when it comes to conservatives in academia. That’s wrong.

No

The facts are held in common.
Some of the facts are opinions.

Opinions not held in common
will be resisted by a group.
Internal conflict interferes with group action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/sunday/lies-in-the-guise-of-news-in-the-trump-era.htm

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Business Day

With Trump in Power, the Fed Gets Ready for a Reckoning


Doubtful.

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Science

‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found

Archaeologists have found more than 40 vessels in the Black Sea, some more than a millennium old, shedding light on early empires and trade routes.
SHIPWRECKS (HISTORIC) 

OK
Now do the work.

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Opinion

The Democrats Screwed Up

The party bears plenty of blame for its sorry lot — and for the country’s.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016 

Yes.
Next!

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U.S.

Trump’s Hires Will Set Course of His Presidency

Rarely in American history has the exercise of choosing people had such a far-reaching impact on the nature and priorities of a new administration.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

Yes. 

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U.S.

Donald Trump Shouldn’t ‘Put His Children Out of Work,’ Giuliani Says

Rudolph W. Giuliani said it would be ‘unrealistic’ for Mr. Trump to remove his children from his business empire. Ethics experts said the remarks were misguided.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

Nepotism.

There is not much to be done now.
Later the prosecutors will have a problem

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U.S.

Protesters Take Anti-Trump Message to His Doorstep, and Plan Next Steps

Beyond the commotion in the streets, liberal activists are preparing legislative challenges and getting ready to support social services they assume will be gutted.
DEMONSTRATIONS, PROTESTS AND RIOTS; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016 

The protests are probably pointless.
Do the planning.

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