Monday, December 16, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: Sky Atkins sacrifices his son-in-law on the altar of Trump

 
Election results:  Wikipedia
Headline:  New York Times, 12/15/2024
He sat at his kitchen table in rural Georgia across from his father-in-law, Sky Atkins, the family patriarch. Jaime, 33, hadn’t seen his own father since he was 10 months old, when he left Mexico in a car seat bound for the United States. It was Sky, 45, who had stood by Jaime at his wedding, helped him move into his first house and stayed at the hospital overnight when one of Jaime’s children was sick with pneumonia. 
[snip] 
“I’m going to be straight with you,” he told Jaime. “I voted for Trump. I believe in a lot of what he says.” \
“I figured as much,” Jaime said. “You and just about everyone else around here.” 
“It’s about protecting our rights as a sovereign country,” Sky said. “We need to shut down the infiltration on the border. It's not about you.” 
“It is about me,” Jaime said. “That’s the thing I don’t understand.”

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Stanley Pottinger

 

New York Times, 11/29/2024
He believed he was the only person in the room to notice, and he did not tell anyone what he knew until Mr. Felt revealed his identity in an article in Vanity Fair in 2005. Mr. Woodward then revealed Mr. Pottinger’s story in his book about Mr. Felt, “The Secret Man,” also in 2005. 
By then Mr. Pottinger had remade himself multiple times. After leaving government in 1977, he worked as a lawyer in private practice; in 1981, he moved to New York City to open a boutique investment firm. 
He made a fortune trading in New England real estate during the 1980s economic boom, and he became a fixture on the Manhattan social scene with high-profile romantic partners, including Gloria Steinem, Kathie Lee Gifford and Connie Chung. 
Mr. Pottinger lost much of his money when the market burst in 1987. Looking for something new to do, he took night courses in filmmaking at New York University, then settled on writing a novel. 
His first book, the medical-slash-political thriller “The Fourth Procedure” (1995), was a New York Times best seller and sold more than a million copies.



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GET ME REWRITE: Tech titans commence festival of groveling at altar of Trump

 
HeadlineNew York Times, 12/14/2024
The $1 million donations came gradually — and then all at once. 
Meta. Amazon. OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Each of these Silicon Valley companies or their leaders promised to support President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural committee with seven-figure checks over the past week, often accompanied by a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee. 
The procession of tech leaders who traveled to hobnob with Mr. Trump face-to-face included Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, and Sergey Brin, a Google founder, who together dined with Mr. Trump on Thursday. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, shared a meal with Mr. Trump on Friday. And Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, planned to meet with Mr. Trump in the next few days.

GET ME REWRITE: Undocumented immigrants in Painesville Ohio await the impact of Trump's nativist festival of mass deportations


HeadlineWashington Post, 12/15/2024
An estimated 130,000 undocumented immigrants live in Ohio. Most of those in Painesville have been in the country for more than a decade, mirroring the national trend, and nearly all of them live in “mixed-status” families — families that also include U.S.-born children, naturalized citizens or legal immigrants. 
For such families, deportations nearly always separate parents from their children. Dahlberg saw it happen dozens of times in Trump’s first term. Last month, during her presentation at the community center, she reviewed the details of those cases.

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Coming soon to your cat: Bird flu

 
Photo and headline:  Earth, 
Our beloved cats face a new cause for concern: a tiny microscopic entity known as the H5N1 virus, more commonly recognized as avian influenza or bird flu. 
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have unearthed compelling evidence of the avian influenza adaptation in domestic cats. 
The experts investigated a rural outbreak in South Dakota, where several outdoor cats succumbed to the virus after exhibiting severe neurological and respiratory symptoms. 
The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 first surfaced in China in 1996.\ 
Over the years, the virus has diversified into multiple clades, with clade 2.3.4.4.b emerging as the most geographically widespread. This clade has infected over 90 bird species and 21 mammalian species worldwide, including humans in recent years. 
Infections in domestic cats were initially documented in 2004 and linked predominantly to respiratory illness. However, clade 2.3.4.4.b has shown an alarming capacity for neurological impacts in various mammalian hosts, such as sea lions, red foxes, and now domestic cats.

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CES 2025: LG AI-powered in-cabin sensing solution sweet talk

 
Photo and headline LG Newsroom, 12/16/2024

More sweet talk!
LG Electronics (LG), a mobility sector technology leader, is set to showcase its latest innovation at CES 2025, packaged as LG’s “AI In-Vehicle Experience.” This AI-based in-cabin sensing solution is designed to bring greater safety and convenience to the driving experience, leveraging LG’s Vision AI solution to detect and respond to the needs of vehicle occupants while optimizing conditions within the cabin. Under the theme of “Life’s Good 24/7 With Affectionate Intelligence,” this AI-powered sensing solution will be displayed alongside other LG AI innovations at the company’s CES booths.  [emphasis added]

This video was uploaded 7 months ago.
 



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December 2024






Just 1423 days to go until Election Day 2028: Fawning over JD Vance is not a bold move, Mitt Romney

 
HeadlineYahoo News, 12/14/2024

Mitt upchucks
“If you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028 I think it’d be JD, Vance,” Romney said. “He’s smart, well-spoken, part of the MAGA movement.”

November 2024
Day 1460.  Philadelphia Inquirer launches 2028 presidential election guessing game campaign.  (11/8)
Day 1456.  (11/12)
Day 1455.  (11/15)
Day 1453.  (11/16)
Day 1452.  Sports metaphor malpractice in journalism at NBC News edition.  (11/17)
Day 1451.  (11/18)
Day 1449.   And here's the first of many useless 2028 presidential polls(11/20)
Day 1448.  "It's a done deal!" proclaims Newsweek (11/21)
Day 1447.  Dear Western Journal, it's the polling silly season (11/22/
Day 1443.  Fentanylizing of the pollsters(11/26)
Day 1440.  Return of the post-election silly season for pollsters. (11/29)
Day 1439.  Adding AOC to the mix.  (11/30)

December 2024
Day 1438.  NewsNation limits the field.  (12/1)
Day 1437.  More AOC buzz.  (12/2)
Day 1435.  NPR ma.  (12.15kes sure Andy Beshear  gets into the mix.  (12/4)
Day 1433.  Time for some folks to get a life!  (12/6)
Day 1432.  Primary calendar jockeying begins!  (12/7)
Day 1431.  Kentucky media keeps eye on Andy Beshear's presidential ambitions.  (12/8)
Day 1429.  GOP horror movie.  (12/10)
Day 1427.  A woman for President?  Democrats throw in the towel according to Rasmussen. (12/12)
Day 1426.  Looney Laura Loomer has it all figured out.  (12/13)
Day 1425.  They expect you to pay to see the list!  (12/14)
Day 1424.   Panic at the Democratic Left.  (12/15)

GET ME REWRITE: Meet Wisconsin nativist Tom Tiffany's least favorite person in Iowa

 
HeadlineDes Moines Register, 12/11/2024
Growing up on a farm near Grinnell, Terlouw said she didn't expect to have such a global career. She did humanitarian work in sub-Saharan Africa for about 15 years and served for over three years as the International Rescue Committee's country director in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
In 2020, she and her family moved back to the U.S. during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
"I just always wanted to understand more about things that weren't familiar to me. I just had a lot of curiosity, I think, to understand other cultures, other parts of the world and I guess that's how I kind of found my path," Terlouw said.

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ABC cowers and caves to Donald Trump

 
Headline: Associated Press, 12/14/2024
The settlement agreement describes ABC’s presidential library payment as a “charitable contribution,” with the money earmarked for a non-profit organization that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be built library.

 

Sunday, December 15, 2024

America parties like it's 1938


As elected officials demonstrate their utter spinelessness in pushing back on this hysteria.

Top headlineDronedesk,  12/15/2024
Bottom headlineYouTube


Last-minute Christmas gift suggestion for the pickleball fanatic in your life

 
Photo and video taken at Barnes & Noble on Madison's west side