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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[bambu-wisdom]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/jill-meaghers-husband-responds-to-aiia-maasarwe-murder/ar-BBSr7Xx?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

Tom Meagher has paid his tributes to the family of Aiia Maasarwe after the Israeli student was allegedly murdered in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora this week.
On the night of January 15, Maasarwe, 21, was coming home from a comedy show when she was allegedly attacked and killed less than a kilometre from her dorm.
Around Australia and in Maasarwe's home of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, tributes are pouring in for the 21-year-old, who has been described as a "friendly, happy, positive" person.

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"Friendly, happy, positive person"...and now look what's happened to her...allegedly raped and murdered.
A 'sitting duck' she was.

I have many questions but dare not ask them.
I have many statements to make, but dare not make them.
That's what the world has become today.

[kidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1087197280392884224

[josh]

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1087197280392884224

Yeah!

Pay no attention to what he said.

[facilitatorn]

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1087197280392884224

If only the family raised their kids better, maybe sent them to public schools.

[facilitatorn]

And still no counter argument or evidence to refute Reich's analysis.   You just possess a secret truth box and stop by to tell us what it has ruled today.  Bo.  Ring.

LOL Reich simply ignores the real economic numbers.
You can’t even own up to your original post.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/trumps-one-legislative-win-is-actually-a-failure.html

Silence might grow like a capitalist economy under Democratic leadership or a cancer, but Red’s willful ignorance is like an STD.

[barton]

Good analysis, supported by "real economic numbers."  The Facilita-tourniquet is productively turned a little tighter.   

Meanwhile, where I web admin, I went to get some datasets from NOAA on regional temperature increases.  NOAA is an international center for collecting climate data.  And its online database portals are offline, due to the shutdown.  The data is there, but they can't keep those portals open when the offices are shut down.  Dissemination of data, which is key to doing good science, is being blocked by Tantrump.  They could easily allow a skeleton crew to keep the website open, just a few people would be needed, but Tantrump doesn't want to do that because he really pooped his diaper bigtime and he wants the world to know it. 

[josh]

[josh]

Good analysis, supported by "real economic numbers."  The Facilita-tourniquet is productively turned a little tighter.   

Meanwhile, where I web admin, I went to get some datasets from NOAA on regional temperature increases.  NOAA is an international center for collecting climate data.  And its online database portals are offline, due to the shutdown.  The data is there, but they can't keep those portals open when the offices are shut down.  Dissemination of data, which is key to doing good science, is being blocked by Tantrump.  They could easily allow a skeleton crew to keep the website open, just a few people would be needed, but Tantrump doesn't want to do that because he really pooped his diaper bigtime and he wants the world to know it.

Barton, are you looking for the PSD Gridded Climate Datasets: Surface Temperature?

[barton]

Those would be handy, but I think I found enough at IRI/LDEO, a climate data library at Columbia U.

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/

This place is also good, for historical data for stations in the contiguous 48....though they stop at 2014. 

https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn.html

[josh]

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/wireStory/15-people-charged-flint-water-scandal-60474808

Haven't fixed the problem, yet, but at least we have people to blame?!

Now for the nearly 3,000 municipalities in the US whose water is worse than Flint's, right?!

[josh]

Those would be handy, but I think I found enough at IRI/LDEO, a climate data library at Columbia U.

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/

This place is also good, for historical data for stations in the contiguous 48....though they stop at 2014. 

https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn.html

Okay.

Figured to check, as I think I have a backdoor to the datasets.

[LarryBnDC]

MLK

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article224748225.html

[whiskeypriest]

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/wireStory/15-people-charged-flint-water-scandal-60474808

Haven't fixed the problem, yet, but at least we have people to blame?!

Now for the nearly 3,000 municipalities in the US whose water is worse than Flint's, right?!

I know a better use for the money than a va it wall if Trump has an urge to spend an additional 4 bil.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Interesting statistics on MLK Day.

In 1958, 48 percent of white Americans polled by Gallup said that “if colored people came to live next door,” they would be likely to move.
By 1978, only 13 percent still said that;
Today the proportion has fallen to 1 percent.

In the  World Values Survey researchers in 59 countries asked residents how they would feel about having neighbors of a different race, . The United States ranked 47th out of 59 countries surveyed, making it more racially accepting than Japan, Mexico, Germany, South Korea, and the Netherlands, among others.

In 1964, a mere 18 percent of white Americans claimed to have a friend who was black. Four decades later, Gallup found that the proportion of interracial friendships had more than quadrupled: 82 percent of whites said they had close nonwhite friends (and 88 percent of blacks reported having close friends who were not black).

Over 90 per cent of Americans approve of interracial marriage. It was just 3 per cent in 1967 according to the Pew Research Center.

By 2015, 17 percent of all US newlyweds — one of every six — had married someone of another color.

And when Barack Obama in 2008 won the White House, it was with a greater share of the white vote than six of the previous seven Democratic nominees.

[josh]

Interesting statistics on MLK Day.

In 1958, 48 percent of white Americans polled by Gallup said that “if colored people came to live next door,” they would be likely to move.
By 1978, only 13 percent still said that;
Today the proportion has fallen to 1 percent.

In the  World Values Survey researchers in 59 countries asked residents how they would feel about having neighbors of a different race, . The United States ranked 47th out of 59 countries surveyed, making it more racially accepting than Japan, Mexico, Germany, South Korea, and the Netherlands, among others.

In 1964, a mere 18 percent of white Americans claimed to have a friend who was black. Four decades later, Gallup found that the proportion of interracial friendships had more than quadrupled: 82 percent of whites said they had close nonwhite friends (and 88 percent of blacks reported having close friends who were not black).

Over 90 per cent of Americans approve of interracial marriage. It was just 3 per cent in 1967 according to the Pew Research Center.

By 2015, 17 percent of all US newlyweds — one of every six — had married someone of another color.

And when Barack Obama in 2008 won the White House, it was with a greater share of the white vote than six of the previous seven Democratic nominees.

Yup. Progress is made. (Mind you, in 2008, Obama was helped a ton by Sarah Palin.)

If only we did not still have endemic, widespread racism.

And if onlypeople like you could admit it.

Then we might make some further, deeply needed progress.