Retiring Guy's Digest: 2020-05-31

Saturday, June 6, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: Donald Trump gives a master class in the art of being tone-deaf

CNN, 6/6/2020

The New York Times, 6/6/2020

Friday, June 5, 2020

Beverly Clark Schuler (1938-2020) Warren High School class of 1956

Source: Warren Times Observer

1956 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory

Schuler Beverly C Mrs clerk Warren National Bank r318 Prospect Street
Schuler Richard L (Beverly C) draftsman Struthers Wells h318 Prospect Street

1983 Warren City Directory

Schuler Beverly C Mrs office secretary State Farm Insurance r318 Prospect Street
Schuler Richard L & Beverly C; design engineer Struthers Wells h318 Prospect Street

The popularity of Beverly as a baby name is graphed here. Let's take a look at classmate Everett.

Source: Social Security Administration

Everett spent all but a few years of the 1st quarter of the 20th century in the top 100. (1900-1910, 1911-1923). Then came a long, slow decline, which was eventually reversed during the mid-1990s. Now he's back in the top 100.

Other members of the class of '56:

2020
DeAnn Swanson King. (1/4/2020)

2019
Thomas Cooper. (8/5/2019)

2017
Frank Joseph Campanga. (8/28/2017)
Robert Billman. (7/3/2017)
Russell Grosch. (3/21/2017)

2016
Richard Mancuso. (7/18/2016)
Carolyn Garber Grosch. (1/5/2016)

2015
Charles Franklin. (11/12/2015)
Susan Brown Clark. (11/1/2015)
John Harrington. (10/13/2015)
Carol Schwitzer. (10/7/2015)
John Smith. (9/12/2015)
Donald Burgeson. (3/9/2015)
Diane McChesney Kondak. (2/15/2015)

A glum coincidence: On a day when the highest number of new COVID-19 cases is recorded, World Dairy Expo is canceled

Graph found at Worldometer

From the 6/4/2020 Wisconsin State Journal article:

The Expo’s executive committee announced Thursday the event, that brings in 62,000 people from 100 countries for a week each fall to the Alliant Energy Center, will not be held for the first time in its 53-year history. This year’s expo had been scheduled from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3. The event fills hotels and restaurants and typically has an estimated economic impact on the region of more than $45 million.

Thursday, June 4, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: Brian Kilmeade bring out the narcissist in Donald Trump

Photo credit: Twitter

Trump was asked how to restore black Americans’ trust in police — but he could only talk about himself. (AlterNet, 6/4/2020)

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: Iowa's dishonorable Steve King takes a tumble, loses GOP U.S. House primary

The predictably controversial King was first elected to the U.S. House in November 2002.

Des Moines Register, 6/3/2020

Steve King loses Republican primary race to Randy Feenstra, ending King's decadeslong political career. (Des Moines Register, 6/2/2020)

Republican voters ousted U.S. Rep. Steve King on Tuesday, delivering an end to the two decades of controversy he brought to his heavily conservative district.

The Associated Press has called the 4th Congressional District primary race for state Sen. Randy Feenstra of Hull, who had the backing of many state elected officials and national Republican groups. Feenstra won with 45.7% of the vote to King's 36%, a margin of just under 8,000 votes, according to unofficial results from the Iowa Secretary of State's office.

Feenstra vastly outraised King and spent heavily on television advertising targeting King as ineffective since he was stripped of his committee seats by Republican leaders in January 2019.

7/16/2017 update, "Iowa's dishonorable Steve King flaps his jaws on TV", starts here.

Reported in GOP Congressman Urges Paying for Trump’s Wall by Gutting Planned Parenthood and Food Stamps. (The New Civil Rights Movement, 7/12/2017)

Original 3/14/2017 post, "According to Steve King, his Congressional district is 95.8% pure",. starts here.

Photo credit: U.S House of Representatives

Twitter link and quote source: Steve King, Hurling Insults at Immigrants, Is Rebuked by His Own Party. (The New York Times, 3/13/2017)

Sources: QuickFacts, Wikipedia

Other Steve King posts:
2019
Meet the lemmings of Congress. (10/20/2019)
GET ME REWRITE: Rep. Steve King thinks "It's a Wonderful Life" is the greatest anti-abortion movie ever! (8/24/2019)
Kim Reynolds/Steve King UPDATE. As far as I'm concerned, this campaign co-chair thing is the smoking gun. (1/16/2019)
Dear John Whitehouse @MediaMatters, I know it's small consolation, but the print news media is doing a much better job exposing Steve King. Best, Retiring Guy. (1/14/2019)
Donald Trump embraces the virulently anti-immigration and white supremacist views and rhetoric of Iowa's Steve King. (1/13/2018)

2018
In a big, bold move, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds waits til after the election to chastise the despicable Steve King. (11/14/2018)
Iowa is known for its big chickens. (6/17/2018)
Most Iowans beg to differ with their most unregenerate member of Congress. (2/4/2018)

2017
Meet the 2 cretins that the AP scrounged up to defend Trump's military ban on transgender people. (7/26/2017)
UPDATE. Iowa's dishonorable Steve King flaps his jaws on TV. (7/16/2017)
51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The Steve King edition. (5/1/2017)
Trump's America and Steve King's Iowa: Crawford County, Iowa. (4/17/2017)
According to Steve King, his Congressional district is 95.8% pure. (3/14/2017)
UPDATE. Not all Republicans rebuke Steve King. Some of them sing a little Carl Perkins among themselves. (3/14/2017)

2016
Iowa embarassment, subgroups expert, and supreme whiteman Steve King sounds off again. (7/21/2016)
UPDATE: Iowa's nutburger-in-chief, Rep. Steve King, displays Confederate flag on office desk. (7/12/2016)

2015
UPDATE: The Company He Keeps: Scott Walker to Pal Around With Steve King in Iowa on January 24. (10/8/2015)
King introduces a resolution that encourages and empowers "individuals, businesses, churches, religious groups, and other faith-based organizations" to discriminate. (7/12/2015)
Meet the members of the Republican Study Committee. (7/12/2015)
No friend to the environment. (1/5/2015)

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Ellen Hessley Mascoli (1035-2020) Warren High School class of 1953

Source: Naugatuck CT Patch

1953 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory (county section)

Hessley Agatha M Mrs bookkeeper N K Wendelboe h116 Dartmouth St
Hessley Joseph B (Agatha M) retired h116 Dartmouth Street
Hessley Tom G r116 Dartmouth Street

1983 Warren City Directory (county section)

Hessley Agatha M Mrs bookkeeper N K Wendelboe h116 Dartmouth Street
Hessley Thomas G & Bobbi A; helper National Forge h906 Madison Avenue

The popularity of Ellen as a baby name is graphed here. Let's take a look at Agatha.

Source: Social Security Administration

Agatha spent the first two decades of the 20th century in the top half of the baby names chart, peaking at #392 in 1913. She tumbled out of sight after 1945 and hasn't been seen since.

Other members of the class of 1953:

2020
Harry Kroemer. (1/30/2020)
William Barrett. (1/16/2020)

2019
Karen Arlene Nielsen Swart. (11/26/2019)
Rodney Morley. (11/13/2019)
Kay Steele Wilson. (4/17/2019)

2018
Marilyn Petersen Mimm Pollino. (12/28/2018)
Rose Raffaele Scala. (10/23/2018)
Marilyn John Smith. (4/30/2018)
Elizabeth Simko. (3/3/2018)

2017
Hazel Kell Martin. (9/22/2017
Carole Moore Zimmerman. (9/11/2017)
Carolyn Webster Coates. (7/7/2017)
Leroy Sorenson. (5/25/2017)
Carole Weigel Wunner. (5/10/2017)
Arthur Wagner. (1/5/2017)

2016
Robert Harrington. (12/6/2016)
Beverly Taft Littlefield. (11/26/2016)
Karolyn Lane Stone. (11/24/2016)
Roberta Leave Troutman. (6/8/2016)
Grace Tigani. (5/20/2016)

2015
Nan Perry Fischer. (6/18/2015)

GET ME REWRITE: Trump holds up a book he's never seen before

Reported in Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church. (The New York Times, 6/1/2020)

Related post:
And then he read a passage from '2' Corinthians. (6/2/2020)

And then he read a passage from '2' Corinthians

Photo credit: Washington National Cathedral

Tear Gas Clears Path for Trump to Visit Church. (The New York Times, 6/1/2020)

Monday, June 1, 2020

GET ME REWRITE: Virus packs its deadliest punch in the places where diversity lives

The New York Times, 5/26/2020

Related reading:

African Americans struggle with disproportionate COVID death toll. (National Geographic, 4/9/2020)
For Latinos and Covid-19, Doctors Are Seeing an Alarming Disparity. (The New York Times, 5/7/2020)

Source: Othering and Belonging Institute, UC-Berkeley

Petal is whiter than your average Mississippi town

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Mississippi mayor refuses to resign after facing backlash for George Floyd comments: 'I didn't see anything unreasonable'. (USA Today, 5/29/2020)

Photo credit: City of Petal

Sunday, May 31, 2020

WORD IS BOND. And then there's Ward Bond.

Photo by Retiring Guy

Week by week: COVID-19 cases in Arizona

Total tests (positive and negative) as of 5/31: 225,206 -- a one-week increase of 43,565 compared to 29,880 on 5/24.

New cases week by week:

May 24-31: (3,497, up 46% over previous week)
May 18-24: (2,402)
May 11-17: (2,818)
May 4-10: (2,479)
April 26-May 3: (2,114)
April 19-25: (1,597)
April 12-18: (1,270)

Related reading:

Gov. Doug Ducey says a downward trend in Arizona COVID-19 cases 'is not here yet'. (Arizona Republic, 5/28/2020)

Dougie adds a sugar coating to his remarks. "You can possibly see the beginning of a downward trend," he said, pointing to a graphic of COVID-19 cases per day. "The trend is not here yet...This is something we'll continue to monitor."