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Florida Governor Ron DeStantis looks a good bet for the GOP WH2024 nomination – politicalbetting.com
Florida Governor Ron DeStantis looks a good bet for the GOP WH2024 nomination – politicalbetting.com
I’ve just had a small punt on DeSantis after reading this in the Wall Street Journal:
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Sunny here, no sign of snow or frost, but my outside thermometer says minus 0.6 deg. C.
Stand-off in our bird-box yesterday; another blue-tit arrived and tried to take ove the nearly-finished nestr. Driven out with much chattering.
Idle wander=past-the-pub planned for later; just to see if there's anyone there whom I've not seen for a while.
On topic, de Santis is clearly a certifiable lunatic who is unfit to be President.
Therefore, I agree he’s value.
Fingers crossed everyone behaves themselves and there’s no big spike in cases a couple of weeks down the line.
Or, a possibility, that Trump's enmeshed in legal problems.
Admittedly they had borrowed a couple of 24 pounders to use instead of drums for the 1812...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25298113
I think the coverage of the Duke’s death would have been different had it happened in the run up to Christmas with COVID raging.
I do think it was a bit excessive to not show the France v England women’s football match on BBC 4.
TBF, there was probably quite an overlap between those groups...
Not surprised to learn there were complaints about the coverage of his death either.
Some people really are getting back to normal.
Happy days, more than 30 quid cheaper per month and much less liable to loss of service.*180 install cost notwithstanding.
Florida has had more recorded cases than New York although considerably fewer deaths. That seems instinctively surprising to me given that Florida is likely to have more than its fair share of retirees who are more vulnerable. It suggests that Florida at least took testing pretty seriously. Deaths per million pretty average. Indeed it is interesting how little variation there is now in US States other than slightly higher deaths in the very big cities.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Makes you wonder if a lot of the measures made a lot of difference in the end even if they had short term effects.
And if you think this is what it’s like for the spouse, clearly it will be on another level when we get a change of monarch.
This is vaccination day for me. If I am spared I will confirm what I am actually given later.
That said it's only a couple of days and the fissure in programming can be seen to represent the fissure in continuity (no matter how small) for most of us as the D of E as part of our Royal Family is all we've known.
Great stats on Covid deaths as I recall, but rather a lot of very dangerous cases of flu.
As an aside, where does GB news broadcast from and to. Is it internet only?
Looks like a long-range wifi setup, but only available in a very small area on the South coast around Chichester and Bognor. They'll have a fibre-linked base station and a few remote microwave-linked stations on towers or tall buildings, similar to the mobile phone network. Quite the investment to get it up and running. A lot cheaper than dedicated satellite bandwidth though, Starlink will be in the £100 range for an 80-100mbps service.
I might not like it as a concept, but guilt by association works, especially when it involves politicians and paedophiles.
If Gaetz took any of them to a pizza restaurant/takeaway I fear the internet might end.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/418618-anti-ron-desantis-group-launches-video-of-matt-gaetz-bromance-with-ron-desantis/
And as you say, it may be significant that the Duke of Edinburgh died but there is not much to say, other than to report the fact of his death. He is not the Queen. The BBC broke the news well, and the documentary was good but most of its output was filler.
The BBC needs to make sure its plan for HMQ's death is an actual plan, complete with details of what will be shown when and where, not just (as with the Duke of Edinburgh) that normal programming will be suspended across all the channels that existed when the plan was drawn up thirty years ago but with nothing specific about what to replace it with.
For those who live in the middle of nowhere, still on a dialup or a flaky 2mbps connection while waiting for Openreach to turn up one day, it will be a total game-changer.
It's a bit like these plug-in hybrid cars everyone is going on about. To most people, they're ridiculously expensive, heavy and complicated - but to a specific target market of self-employed company car drivers leasing them, they're a complete and utter no-brainer.
And the pub management is very likely to push the boundaries.
This is what I always think about when people accuse the BBC of bias - there may be a few instances, a few bad apples if you like, but in the main the BBC is small c conservative and not revolutionary which can annoy left and right.
This explains a lot of the actions of the BBC. Why does it have an outside broadcast for New Year in London for instance? Why does it send hundreds of people to football championships / Olympics? Why does it go bananas over Wimbledon? The proms?
Part of this is it's remit but I see it also motivated by self interest.
Oh, hold on. They did. That was Boris!
Senior experts close to the Government have said that any new wave would be more likely to arrive in the autumn, following the pattern of other seasonal respiratory infections."
Telegraph.
Totally unsurprising that once again after massive briefing about a modelled surge leading to as many deaths as January in summer we now see it seems that the advisors don't think it will happen.
I am very much hoping the public inquiry includes a look at how scientists were endlessly briefing all sorts of models and theories and predictions "in a personal capacity" and how they were given undue attention by the media.
Some of it has been ridiculous.
BTW, I saw @Mexicanpete's and @DavidL's comments about the FL numbers and the main is a lunatic etc etc. No offence meant but it just shows how a few commentators on here, even the good ones, just get their view distorted by a lot of the commentary from the media. If you truly believe that about DeSantis, you have seriously underestimated him.
One other snippet - and it backs Mike's points. One of the main hosts on the Daily Wire, which is one of the main conservative websites, ran a hypothetical poll of Trump vs DeSantis for the 2024 nomination on Twitter. 75K responses with a weighting of 70% DeSantis, 30% Trump. The host said he was really surprised by that - he said if you had taken that poll a few months back, he would have said the numbers would have been reversed.
That’s the difference. The left don’t want to get rid of the fee because deep down they know that it generally supports their view of the world or at least they think it ought to support their view.
So if they ask Jonny Scientist if something could happen then unless he thinks it won't happen then it could but the important information is often left out - how likely?
We also need to cut governmental scientists some slack as they need to be actively considering worst case scenarios, to allow government to plan accordingly.
It's the old anyone not stupid enough to believe the media and do some homework may have a decent perception of reality.
That apart, he would still be value. He's just about the only Republican runner that has managed to stay in 100% with Trump and his faithful without slavishly sucking up to them. However much I might despise him, I do recognise he's quite an effective operator.
(Which is to say that I agree with you he should not be underestimated.)
This paragraph stood out for me:
"Xinjiang itself has become a laboratory for digital surveillance. By 2013, officials in Ürümqi had begun to affix QR codes to the exterior of homes, which security personnel could scan to obtain details about residents. On Chen Quanguo’s arrival, all cars were fitted with state-issued G.P.S. trackers. Every new cell-phone number had to be registered, and phones were routinely checked; authorities could harvest everything from photos to location data. Wi-Fi “sniffers” were installed to extract identifying data from computers and other devices. Chen also launched a program called Physicals for All, gathering biometric data—blood types, fingerprints, voiceprints, iris patterns—under the guise of medical care. Every Xinjiang resident between the ages of twelve and sixty-five was required to provide the state with a DNA sample."
....."under the guise of medical care .....
With first mover advantage, and the cheapest launch costs for the next half decade at least, Starlink will be a monster. The price will come down as soon as demand starts to slacken.
Perhaps these are the only true determinants of how much a country would be affected by covid:
1) How much covid it let in
2) How many sick oldies
3) How many obese slobs
4) How many and how quickly vaccinated
5) How accurate is the data reported
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them..."
Interestingly they are able to do VAlue for money on an individual level with programmes like Watchdog and Moneybox, although Moneybox can turn into a rant about government services and benefits complaints so does feed into my previous point.
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1381501846246850562
In the early days of radio and TV it was just solemn music, IIUC. From what people say, it sounds as though broadcasters are trying now to fill the hours and days with comment, opinion and reviews of Prince Philip's life.
It would be a good thing if the broadcasters/government/palace used this experience to have a review of what is acceptable nowadays for a period of official mourning, so that the next time is more in line with current mores.
It's important to accept that people aren't being disrespectful if they take a life-goes-on approach, not nowadays.
Good morning, everyone.
There's a question for PMQs. "Can the Prime Minister tell the House whether the SNP have been given assurances - on the record or privately - that his Government will authorise a second referendum on Independence, if the SNP should win a majority of seats in the forthcoming Holyrood elections?"
The PM can then undermine Nicola Sturgeon by saying "I can assure my Honourable Friend and the whole House that no such assurances have been - or will be - given."
"However, there is clearly a level of unease across Scotland at its future direction of travel, whether from those who wish for independence or indeed those who see the immense benefits and wish to retain the Union. Nicola Sturgeon's SNP - and no doubt in turn Alex Salmond's new outfit - will airily wave away forensic examination of the many questions about Scotland's future, simply saying "You will have to trust us." Recent events have shown you would need a very brave heart indeed to trust them with your freedom."
"I have been speaking with the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, my friend Douglas Ross. We are both of the view that a detailed, independent study is required of the various possible ways ahead for Scotland. The Scottish people deserve an honest appraisal - one that is not offered them from this current Scottish administration, in their unseemly rush to undo our Union."
"Once the new Scottish government is in place, I will invite each of the major parties in Scotland to propose members to join a Royal Commission I propose we set up to examine - in great detail - the consequences for Scotland of each of the various options. It will be very broad ranging in its remit. It needs to be looking at all aspects of future governance - the head of state, the currency, tax raising powers, borrowing powers, defence, trade, fishing - whether inside the Union, some new federal structure or - if its people then still choose in a referendum - as an independent nation."
"Only when it has reached its findings and the Scottish people can have a fully informed choice of the consequences of their course of action will I consider authorising any second referendum. I'd suggest the Scottish people be very wary of voting for those who take them forward towards on independent nation before that Royal Commission has reported. Equally, those who might refuse to work with it - or who will not agree to be bound by its findings. "Why not?" you should ask of them."
"The Union has lasted 314 years so far. Any effort to undo that Union can wait a few years longer, to enable the Scots to make a fully informed choice. My proposed Royal Commission would give them that choice."
It is due to launch very soon and will be a direct challenger to the BBC and Sky
...Adrian Zenz, an independent academic who has unearthed troves of government documents on Chen’s crackdown, estimated that there were as many as a million people in the camps—a statistic echoed by the United Nations and others. Not since the Holocaust had a country’s minority population been so systematically detained...
The only real complaints about covering an event I can recall, is the Boat Race.
So it neither continued normal programming nor showed the Prince Philip coverage.
Want PR? Lib Dem members.
Want independence? SNP members.
That's why in democracies we don't rely upon Commissions. We have parties put up their own proposals, competing, and we choose between them.
Given SpaceX and Elon's history, I wouldn't bet against them reducing the price to any particular number, though.
https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-spacex-starlink-antenna/
And currency is a big issue - the SNP's answer would likely be the Euro but the tricky part are the bits between the day their stop using Sterling and the day they join the Euro.
Finance is another one - does Scotland have the tax base it needs to cover it's expenditure. In 2014 North Sea Oil was used whenever the question was raised - that isn't an option now but it still needs to be closed off before any independence referendum starts.
The CBS "60 Minutes" was an absolutely hit job to the point where you had Democrat officials publicly state that ^60 Minutes" completely misinterpreted what had go on with Florida. Take a look at the furore it has created and you can see why it has done DeSantis a world of good with the base.
BTW, for those who say DeSantis is a loon, check out the guy he ran against. Imagine if this guy had become the Florida Governor
https://news.yahoo.com/andrew-gillum-found-miami-hotel-173229449.html
China has a long history of killing its people. Look at what that monster Mao did.
I'm glad I saw HK before its takeover. No way would I travel to China and HK now.
The usual maximum in Islamic countries is 40 days, but more commonly it's 10 days or 3 days of various changes.