Post by mhbruin on Feb 14, 2022 10:23:53 GMT -8
US Vaccine Data - We Have Now Administered 547 Million Shots (Population 333 Million)
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California Precipitation (Updated Tuesday Feb 9f)
January had NO rain or snow. February looks the same.
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Today's Worst Person in the World Nominees
Jerry Chewed Towels and Won.
Tarkanian is very familiar name in Silver State politics, though not entirely for welcome reasons. Tarkanian himself comes from a prominent family: His late father was the legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, while his mother, Democrat Lois Tarkanian, was a longtime Las Vegas city councilwoman who now serves on the state Board of Regents. The younger Tarkanian—sometimes distinguished from his more famous father with the sobriquet "Little Tark"—was a resident of Las Vegas' Clark County when he lost the:
2004 general for state Senate
2006 general for secretary of state
2010 primary for U.S. Senate
2012 general for the 4th Congressional District
2016 general for the 3rd Congressional District
2018 general for the 3rd Congressional District
But while Tarkanian's long string of defeats has made him a punchline to state and national political observers for years, his name recognition, personal wealth, and connections to Nevada's hardcore conservative base mean that he was never just another perennial candidate either party could dismiss. Notably in 2016, Tarkanian overcame $1.6 million in outside spending directed against him in the GOP primary to defeat state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, the choice of then-Gov. Brian Sandoval and national Republicans, by a surprisingly large 32-24 margin. That result might have cost Team Red the swingy 3rd District, but only just: Tarkanian lost to his Democratic foe, now-Sen. Jacky Rosen, 47-46 as Donald Trump was carrying the district 48-47.
They'd Prefer a Real Doctor Like Dr. Dre. --- Wait? What? He's Black? Then How About Dr. Oz or Dr. Evil?
In a Republican Party dependent on ginning up its base's rage, the villain of choice has become President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser on the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who now often supplants GOP archenemy and Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
As the New York Times reports, "Fire Fauci" became the inaugural ad for Jane Timken last fall as she launched her bid to win Ohio's open Senate seat. Wackadoodle celebrity doc Mehmet Oz, who's running for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat, doesn't want to debate his opponents—he wants to debate Fauci. And Wisconsin Democrat-turned-Republican Kevin Nicholson, who's running for governor, said Fauci "should be fired and referred to prosecutors.”
Previous Guy Decides Party Like It's 2016
Escalating the hysterics for which Trump is famous, on Saturday he released a statement that included his explicit yearning to see Hillary Clinton executed for alleged crimes that he utterly failed to identify or even peripherally grasp. The statement was tweeted, as usual, by his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill, Liz Harrington. It concerned a recent filing by special counsel John Durham that Trump completely misunderstood"
"The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia."
Trump's assertion that the filing provides "indisputable evidence" that he was spied on is wholly fictional. Durham doesn't even make that assertion in the filing. The gist of the document relates to allegations that an attorney who at one time represented the Clinton campaign didn't properly disclose that relationship. The references to spying were merely the collection of Internet IP addresses and Domain Service Names (DNS) that are publicly available.
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution. In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this."
The timing of Durham's specious filing, and the feigned outrage of Trump and his media shills, is curious coming so soon after the disclosures that Trump violated the Presidential Records Act by shredding and even flushing potentially incriminating documents, and scurrying off to Mar-a-Lago with fifteen boxes of materials that legally should have been turned over to the National Archives.
These Guys Should Get Hosed
A firehouse in Pennsylvania has been shut down after audio of deeply racist remarks became public, including firefighters mocking an 8 year-old who was slain by cops.
Briarcliffe Fire Company Station 75 has been temporarily shut down over audio of a Zoom call that features firefighters using racial slurs, disparaging the all-Black Darby Township Fire Company, and mocking Fanta Bility, an 8-year-old girl who was killed by Sharon Hill police.
The company was on a call with the Goodwill Fire Company, which continued recording after the call had ostensibly ended, and reported the incident.
Firefighters can be heard on the audio disparaging Black firefighters in the Darby company (in shockingly racist terms: “A bunch of f—ing n— down there”) as lazy, saying “They didn’t do s___ there,” and saying that “the f—ing problem” with a neighborhood is that “Blacks are taking over s—.”
In the nearly two-hour conversation after the virtual meeting, Briarcliffe firefighters allegedly bemoaned how the time had come to leave the township because Black residents continue moving into the area. They even joked about Fanta’s name, according to a letter from the board of directors of the Goodwill Fire Company that The Philadelphia Tribune acquired.
One firefighter is alleged to have mocked the name of Fanta, who was killed by police gunfire in Sharon Hill last summer.
Fanta Bility was shot and killed accidentally by police in August 2021 while leaving a football game, after a shoot-out erupted between a group of young people. One young man has pleaded guilty and another awaits charges in that case. Three Sharon Hill police officers have been charged with manslaughter in her death, after a grand jury investigation.
JJ Wants to Kill the Other Side. (Not It's Not Johnny Juzang.)
Jim Jordan Appears To Embrace Trump's Call To Execute Hillary Clinton Campaign Aides — Trump is "right on target" with a statement that included a call for the death penalty, the Ohio lawmaker said.
Donald Trump is calling for the execution of some who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign ― and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) seems to be on board.
“We’ve never seen anything like this in history,” Jordan said on “Fox & Friends” on Sunday. “So, President Trump’s statement yesterday, I think is right on target.”
Trump and Jordan were referencing a Feb. 11 filing by Justice Department special counsel John Durham reported by Fox News that claims the Clinton campaign paid a tech company to “infiltrate” Trump Tower servers looking for links between Trump and Russia.
“In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death,” Trump said in a statement.
Fake Truckers, Fake Patriots. The Same Cast of Characters
Anti-vaccine demonstrations in Ottawa have been encouraged and promoted by some of the same right wing figures who loudly backed former President Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss.
On Friday evening, American conservative activist Amy Kremer sent out two tweets in support of truckers who are protesting COVID vaccine regulations in Canada. The messages, which came one minute apart, included hashtags promoting the so-called “Freedom Convoy” and a video showing some of the crowds who have shut down streets in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, and a key message.
“Hold the line,” Kremer wrote in both posts.
It’s the exact same phrase Kremer, one of the key figures behind the protests against Trump’s election loss in 2020, used in the leadup to January 6, 2021. Kremer, who is the chairwoman of Women For America First, the group that planned the main January 6 rally on the White House Ellipse, used the “#HoldTheLine” hashtag to promote that event.
And the Grift Goes On
He doesn't care about the QOP. He Only Want the Money To Keep Rolling In
More Manchin / Sinema Kabuki Theater - They'll Do a Lot of Posturing and Block Everything.
Democrats hoping to resurrect the party’s economic agenda are facing a problem: Sen. Joe Manchin’s goal for raising tax rates clashes with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to doing so.
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Could This Be the Future of the World (My Thoughts)
Most ot the industrialized countries have declining birth rates. For political reasons, they are restricting immigration. As a result, populations are flat or declining.
There are many negative consequences for these nations. Right now most nations are facing a shortage of workers. For decades, this was covered by women entering the workforce, but that supply of new workers is pretty much tapped out. An economy can deal with the up to a point with automation, but eventually production cannot keep growing without workers.
One solution has been to out-source labor by moving production off-shore. However, as supply-chain issues have shown, there are problems with this and nations are increasingly worried about the national security issues of not controlling their own production. Most counties need more workers.
The other problem is the greying of populations. A flat or shrinking population is typically an aging population. This leaves ever fewer workers to support an increasing retired population that depends on pensions of different types.
Meanwhile, in poorer nations populations continue to grow, with their ability to support the population declining. There is already hunger in many nations and wars are breaking out, often over resources. Climate change will only make the problems worse.
So you have rich nations with a declining workforce and poor nations with a surplus of working-age people.
The solution is pretty obvious. Allow more immigration. Personally, I favor open borders like the US had for over 100 years before anti-Chinese racism led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. However, I don't see that as politically viable with the amount of racism and xenophobia in the US.
We could move to more "guest workers", but I think a large population of people who are not invested in the future of the US is a bad idea.
Slowing birth rates and an aging population are ticking time bombs. One way or another we need to embrace the only reasonable solution. When you have a domestic shortage of a resource, you import it.
Or you could try to convince your wife it is her patriotic duty to have more sex.
This Isn't "Unruly". It's An Attempt At Mass Murder and Suicide.
An American Airlines flight heading from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., on Sunday was diverted to Kansas City International Airport in Missouri after an “unruly” passenger attempted to break into the cockpit — and tried to open an exit door, according to several reports.
The man was subdued by passengers and staff, including a flight attendant who struck him on the head with a coffee pot, according to passenger Mouaz Moustafa.
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Are the Prudes Winning?
We're at a 30-year low for sex
Fewer Amercians are having sex.
Twenty-six percent of Americans ages 18 and up didn't have sex once over the past 12 months, according to the 2021 General Social Survey. You might think this is just a pandemic effect, but it's part of a long-term trend. The two years with next-highest percentage of adults saying they didn't have sex once in the past year were 2016 (23%) and 2018 (23%) -- the last two times the survey was conducted. Before 2004, the highest percentage of Americans who said they hadn't had sex in the past year was 19%.
Last year's survey was also the first time that the percentage of Americans who had sex once a month or less topped 50%. In 1989, 35% of American adults had sex once a month or less.
We're at a 30-year low for living together
Fewer people are living together with a partner.
It's not just about sex. Some 62% of Americans ages 25 to 54 lived with a partner or were married, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center study of 2019 US Census Bureau data. This included 53% who were married and 9% who were cohabitating. That's well below the 71% of couples who lived together in 1990, with 67% married and 4% cohabitating.
Partnership is at a low, not just marriage
The General Social Survey has, on and off since 1986, asked participants whether they had a steady partner. This past year, 30% of adults ages 25 to 54 (the same age bracket as the Pew study) indicated that they did not have a steady partner. In 1986, it was 20%. In fact, the percentage of 25- to 54-year-olds who said they didn't have a steady partner never topped 23% prior to the 2010s. It's been 25% or above in every survey since.
We Don't Need Less Sex in Books for Young People. We Need More!! We Should Be Burning Books WITHOUT Sex.
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More of My Thoughts - They Played 55 Minutes of Mildly Interesting Football Around a Great Halftime Show
The most exciting play in the first 55 minutes was the refs missing an obvious face mask penalty.
The last 5 minutes of the game were fun.
The National Anthem was great, too.
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They Can Always Watch NASCAR
The nation’s relentless culture wars appear to have taken a toll even on the NFL, with a large number of Republicans saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players, a new Los Angeles Times/SurveyMonkey poll shows.
Professional football remains extremely popular. The poll found just more than half of American adults say they regard themselves as fans and an additional 15% say they’re not fans but plan to watch the Super Bowl, which will be played Sunday at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium between the Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.
But the league’s popularity has eroded somewhat in recent years, the poll found.
About one-third of those surveyed nationwide said they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago, compared with about 1 in 8 who said they are bigger fans now.
The poll can’t conclusively say why that decline has occurred, but two questions about the NFL’s handling of issues involving race provide some strong hints:
People who say they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago are more than twice as likely as everyone else to say the NFL is doing “too much to show respect for its Black players.”
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The Russians Threaten Ukraine, So We Defend Poland. If the Russians Threatened Poland, Would We Defend Ukraine??
Eight more US F-15 fighter jets arrived in Poland today to take part in Nato air policing amid continued signs of Russian escalation on Poland's border with Ukraine.
“More American F-15 fighters landed today at the base in Lask," wrote Poland's defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Twitter.
"Eight aircraft join those that came to Poland last week," he added.
Over the weekend, US officials said an additional 3,000 American soldiers would be sent to Poland in the coming days.
About two thirds of a first tranche of 1,700 US troops have already arrived in Poland.
Does the Pain in Ukraine Fall Mainly on the Slain?
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I Can Handle Supply Shortages, But They Are Messing With My Guacamole
The United States has suspended avocado imports from Mexico's western state of Michoacan after a US official received a threat, Mexico's Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the statement, the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) decided to pause until further notice the avocado inspection activities in Michoacan after one of its officers, who was carrying out inspection work in Uruapan, Michoacan, received a threatening call to his official cell phone.
Michoacan is the only state in Mexico authorized to export avocados to the United States.
Michoacan Should Not Be Confused With Michigan, Home of the World's Largest Cement Factory
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No Wonder Putin Is Threating Ukraine. It Looks Like Russians Can Get Away With Anything
A drugs test controversy that has overshadowed Beijing 2022 is set to rumble on after the Winter Olympics finishes.
For now, teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva has won a temporary reprieve -- the 15-year-old gets to compete in the women's single skating competition on Tuesday.
The Valieva controversy has reignited doubts about the Olympic movement's handling of Russian athletes competing at successive Games, but also the oversight of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its working relationship with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
Did They Let Lance Armstrong Keep Racing?
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You Can Please Some of the People Some of the Time, But Can You Really Please Most of the People?
Public discontent with America's pandemic-battered economy obscures the good news: Even after inflation, most of the country has been coming out ahead.
Red-hot demand for labor means lower-income workers can command wage increases that outpace rising prices. So can middle-income workers who switch jobs.
Relief checks approved by lawmakers of both parties and sent out by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have given the majority of households a cushion. Those higher up the income scale have seen handsome increases in the values of their homes and investment assets.
Even those who fault Biden's policies for exacerbating inflation risks acknowledge that, right now, the pandemic economy continues to offer large, underappreciated rewards.
"For most people," concludes Michael Strain, who directs economic policy studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, "the current economic situation is good."
You couldn't tell that from public opinion, though. A CNN poll last week showed that just 37% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden's handling of the economy -- fewer than approve of his handling of crime, relations with Russia or protecting democracy.
The highest rate of inflation in four decades -- 7.5% on an annual basis in last week's government data -- explains part of the sour mood. Yet that worrisome milestone is directly related to another, more reassuring one: the highest annual economic growth in four decades, with an unemployment rate of just 4%.
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Drought Brings Back a Ghost Town
A ghost village that has emerged as drought has nearly emptied a dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border is drawing crowds of tourists with its eerie, gray ruins.
With the reservoir at 15% of its capacity, details of a life frozen in 1992, when the Aceredo village in Spain's northwestern Galicia region was flooded to create the Alto Lindoso reservoir, are being revealed once more.
"It's as if I'm watching a movie. I have a feeling of sadness," said 65-year-old pensioner Maximino Perez Romero, from A Coruna. "My feeling is that this is what will happen over the years due to drought and all that, with climate change."
Walking on the muddy ground cracked by the drought in some spots, visitors found partially collapsed roofs, bricks and wooden debris that once made up doors or beams, and even a drinking fountain with water still streaming from a rusty pipe.
Crates with empty beer bottles were stacked by what used to be a cafe, and a semi-destroyed old car was rusting away by a stone wall. Drone footage showed the derelict buildings.
Maria del Carmen Yanez, mayor of the larger Lobios council, of which Aceredo is part, blamed the situation on the lack of rain in recent months, particularly in January, but also on what she said was "quite aggressive exploitation" by Portugal's power utility EDP, which manages the reservoir.
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If You Ban It, They Won't Die
Deaths and crashes linked to drunken driving dropped almost 20% in Utah, the only state with a lower legal limit of .05, according to a new study.
The conclusions are a piece of encouraging news for highway safety, where the number of deaths rose at the highest rate ever recorded during the pandemic, despite fewer cars on the road, shorter distances driven, and more safety features in new cars.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration study looked at collisions in Utah, where in late 2018, the blood alcohol content legal limit lowered to .05 from .08.
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He Got One Shot, He Did Not Miss His Chance to Blow, His Opportunity Came Once in a Lifetime.
In the moments after performing his hit song "Lose Yourself" to a roaring crowd at Sunday's Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show, rapper Eminem kneeled.
Born Marshall Mathers, Eminem was one of several hip-hop icons to take the stage for the halftime show, performing along with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige.
As the final words of "Lose Yourself" rang out, Eminem could be seen taking a knee in a move appearing to resemble the gesture that made headlines when former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem as an act of protest against police brutality and racism.
With one hand over his head, Eminem dropped to one knee, holding the pose for several moments.
Kaepernick, the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, saw severe criticism, as well as major support, after he first took a knee at a 2016 preseason game.
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Apple Takes a Bite Out ofFacebook Meta
Facebook built one of the most amazing money machines the world has ever seen. Then Apple came and threw a wrench in the gears.
For context: Facebook is still making an enormous amount of money from advertising — analyst Michael Nathanson estimates the company will generate $129 billion in ad revenue in 2022. But that would mean its ad business will only grow about 12 percent this year, compared to a 36 percent increase the previous year. Wall Street has prized Facebook for its ability to grow at a rocket velocity, and now that rocket may be sputtering.
The background: In June of 2020, Apple announced changes to its mobile operating system that would give iPhone users a chance to tell app-makers not to follow them around the internet. That tracking system is the backbone of the internet’s advertising infrastructure, and you’re familiar with it even if you never think about it: It’s why, for instance, you see ads for shoes you’ve already looked at on Zappos when you’re visiting other sites. And in Facebook’s case, it’s crucial for finding people advertisers want to reach and, importantly, telling them what happens after those people see or interact with their ads.
A month later, Facebook began warning investors that those changes would hurt their ad business. The fight between the two companies got more intense after that, with both sides lobbing public attacks at each other.
While there were lots of signs that Apple’s change was in fact hurting Facebook’s ad sales, people in and out of the company also assumed that Facebook would figure out how to handle it because Facebook is a giant company flush with cash and bright engineers. And while Facebook continued to warn investors in its quarterly updates that Apple’s moves would be a problem, it used generic terms like “headwinds” when it did. More cynical observers wondered if Facebook was overplaying the problem in order to get sympathy from regulators looking to rein in Facebook’s power — or to get them to focus their attention on Apple, which is also under antitrust scrutiny.
Now Facebook is saying, in public, that Apple’s ad changes have been a really big deal, after all. The short version, as COO Sheryl Sandberg told investors last week: Facebook’s ad targeting became less accurate because it now knows less about its users. Which means Facebook advertisers have to spend more money in the hope of reaching people on iPhones — and that Facebook advertisers, who had been used to measuring the effectiveness of their campaigns down to the penny, now have to make much-less-informed guesses about whether their ad dollars are working.
Not Even Will Rogers Would Like Mark Zuckerberg If Rogers Met Him.
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Could This Be a November to Remember in a Good Way?
For a long time, political pundits have been framing the 2022 Congressional Elections as the GOP's to lose. Their estimation of Democrats’ odds was quite low. Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was so bullish that year ago he said he'd bet his own house on a victory, and that there was no chance Democrats would win.
I run election forecasts at RacetotheWH, and when I started designing my 2022 House Election Forecast, I fully expected to find that Democrats had less than a 20% chance of winning and that Democrats were on pace to win 190 seats. However, while our analysis finds that McCarthy’s caucus is the favorite, Democrats have a much stronger chance at holding their majority than I expected.
Democrats’ chance of an upset is just north of 35% at launch. If they can improve their position over the next six months in the generic ballot by even one percent, they could be within striking distance of a surprise victory in November.
Democrats have benefitted from a series of fortuitous developments. Most importantly, this decade the congressional map will be far more competitive. Democrats have matched Republican gerrymandering in Texas and Georgia with their own maps in New York and New Jersey. The practice has drawbacks, as it reduces the number of competitive elections and means fewer voters are well represented, but the upswing for Democrats is that they no longer need to decisively win the national popular vote to take the House.
In the 2010s, they needed to win by around 3% to get the majority. Now it would likely require about a 0.5% lead. That will still be a challenge in 2022. History shows us that the party out of power in the midterms tends to perform quite well, and at launch (February 6th) Republicans have a 1.5% lead in the generic ballot.
Race to the WH
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How Good Was Your Sunday? Not As Good As His.
The Los Angeles Rams' Van Jefferson won a lot more than a Super Bowl ring on Sunday night. Quickly after his team secured their win with minutes to spare in the fourth quarter, the wide receiver rushed out of the stadium to welcome the birth of his and his wife's second child.
During the Rams' faceoff with the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, Jefferson's wife and high school sweetheart, Samaria Jefferson, had to be rushed to the hospital, according to multiple reports.
After the Rams pulled off their victory — the team's first Super Bowl win since 2000 — The Athletic reported that Jefferson grabbed his daughter, brought her onto the field and "sprinted through the locker room" to get to the hospital. The Atlantic previously reported that the couple's newest addition was due on February 17.
CBS Sports' Josina Anderson spoke with Jefferson's father as they were preparing to leave, who told her at the time that "the midwife said she has about an hour to go before birth."
During the game, Jefferson had four catches against the Bengals. With just 1:25 left on the clock in the fourth quarter, a 79-yard drive capped by Cooper Kupp's 1-yard touchdown reception secured the team's 23-20 victory against Cincinnati.
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CDC doesn't do a good job of reporting around holidays.
Doses Administered 7-Day Average | Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses | Number of People 2 or More Doses | New Cases 7-Day Average | Deaths 7-Day Average | |
| Feb 14 | |||||
| Feb 13 | 555,669 | 252,054,215 | 213,869,678 | ||
| Feb 12 | 486,374 | 251,926,344 | 213,734,419 | ||
| Feb 11 | 568,820 | 251,755,851 | 213,563,173 | 175,395 | 2,241 |
| Feb 10 | 580,896 | 251,655,172 | 213,430,434 | 190,401 | 2,305 |
| Feb 9 | 591,786 | 251,467,303 | 213,246,140 | 215,418 | 2,313 |
| Feb 8 | 602,606 | 251,312,470 | 213,061,117 | 230,602 | 2,303 |
| Feb 7 | 611,742 | 251,176,199 | 212,920,278 | 247,319 | 2,404 |
| Feb 6 | 627,161 | 251,070,439 | 212,806,521 | 291,471 | 2,294 |
| Feb 5 | 655,591 | 250,915,858 | 212,657,682 | 298,890 | 2,331 |
| Feb 4 | 680,135 | 250,731,754 | 212,481,465 | 313,117 | 2,404 |
| Feb 3 | 719,986 | 250,593,665 | 212,336,183 | 343,563 | 2,371 |
| Feb 2 | 494,092 | 250,378,993 | 212,130,684 | 378,015 | 2,403 |
| Feb 1 | 510,477 | 250,184,240 | 211,954,555 | 415,552 | 2,369 |
| Jan 31 | 575,732 | 250,029,773 | 211,818,885 | 446,355 | 2,287 |
| Jan 30 | 603,030 | 249,892,470 | 211,695,131 | 497,296 | 2,234 |
| Jan 29 | 595,871 | 249,695,301 | 211,533,229 | 522,626 | 2,261 |
| Jan 28 | 626,946 | 249,473,925 | 211,343,818 | 543,016 | 2,265 |
| Jan 27 | 643,725 | 249,267,851 (I don't know why) | 211,162,083 | 577,748 | 2,300 |
| Jan 26 | 962,958 | 251,518,114 | 210,850,212 | 596,859 | 2,288 |
| Jan 25 | 1,011,603 | 251,289,667 | 210,682,471 | 627,294 | 2,246 |
| Jan 24 | 1,201,186 | 250,964,433 | 210,459,963 | 692,359 | 2,166 |
| Jan 23 | 1,101,405 | 250,763,600 | 210,358,008 | 663,908 | 1,936 |
| Jan 22 | 1,002,322 | 250,568,431 | 210,229,586 | 686,715 | 1,939 |
| Jan 21 | 1,035,111 | 250,262,153 | 210,021,766 | 716,829 | 1,974 |
| Jan 20 | 1,094,988 | 250,028,635 | 209,842,610 | 726,870 | 1,843 |
| Jan 19 | 1,135,453 | 249,702,939 | 209,509,297 | 744,615 | 1,749 |
| Jan 18 | 1,158,537 | 249,393,487 | 209,312,770 | 755,095 | 1,669 |
| Jan 17 | No Data | 736,350 | 1,746 | ||
| Jan 16 | No Data | 771,131 | 1,851 | ||
| Jan 15 | 1,268,202 | 248,707,432 | 208,995,438 | 788,628 | 1,858 |
| Jan 14 | 1,286,773 | 248,338,448 | 208,791,862 | 798,335 | 1,784 |
| Jan 13 | 1,291,013 | 247,987,225 | 208,564,894 | 794,587 | 1,730 |
| Jan 12 | 1,234,672 | 247,695,845 | 208,182,657 | 782,765 | 1,729 |
| Feb 16, 2021 | 1,716,311 | 39,670,551 | 15,015,434 | 78,292 |
| At Least One Dose | Fully Vaccinated | % of Vaccinated W/ Boosters | |
| % of Total Population | 75.9% | 64.4% | 42.8% |
| % of Population 5+ | 80.7% | 68.4% | |
| % of Population 12+ | 85.6% | 73.0% | 44.2% |
| % of Population 18+ | 87.4% | 74.5% | 46.0% |
| % of Population 65+ | 95.0% | 88.5% | 65.5% |
California Precipitation (Updated Tuesday Feb 9f)
January had NO rain or snow. February looks the same.
| Percent of Average for this Date | Last Week | 2 Weeks ago | 3 Weeks ago | 4 Weeks ago | 5 Weeks ago | 6 Weeks ago | |
| Northern Sierra Precipitation | 105% (59% of average for full season) | 113% | 124% | 134% | 149% | 158% | 170% |
| San Joaquin Precipitation | 92% (51%) | 99% | 110% | 121% | 138% | 156% | 170% |
| Tulare Basin Precipitation | 84% (46%) | 91% | 101% | 112% | 127% | 145% | 151% |
| Snow Water Content - North | 80% (58%) | 89% | 117% | 128% | 135% | 134% | |
| Snow Water Content - Central | 80% (57%) | 89% | 114% | 129% | 148% | 148% | |
| Snow Water Content - South | 81% (57%) | 92% | 121% | 135% | 160% | 158% |
Today's Worst Person in the World Nominees
Jerry Chewed Towels and Won.
Tarkanian is very familiar name in Silver State politics, though not entirely for welcome reasons. Tarkanian himself comes from a prominent family: His late father was the legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, while his mother, Democrat Lois Tarkanian, was a longtime Las Vegas city councilwoman who now serves on the state Board of Regents. The younger Tarkanian—sometimes distinguished from his more famous father with the sobriquet "Little Tark"—was a resident of Las Vegas' Clark County when he lost the:
2004 general for state Senate
2006 general for secretary of state
2010 primary for U.S. Senate
2012 general for the 4th Congressional District
2016 general for the 3rd Congressional District
2018 general for the 3rd Congressional District
But while Tarkanian's long string of defeats has made him a punchline to state and national political observers for years, his name recognition, personal wealth, and connections to Nevada's hardcore conservative base mean that he was never just another perennial candidate either party could dismiss. Notably in 2016, Tarkanian overcame $1.6 million in outside spending directed against him in the GOP primary to defeat state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, the choice of then-Gov. Brian Sandoval and national Republicans, by a surprisingly large 32-24 margin. That result might have cost Team Red the swingy 3rd District, but only just: Tarkanian lost to his Democratic foe, now-Sen. Jacky Rosen, 47-46 as Donald Trump was carrying the district 48-47.
They'd Prefer a Real Doctor Like Dr. Dre. --- Wait? What? He's Black? Then How About Dr. Oz or Dr. Evil?
In a Republican Party dependent on ginning up its base's rage, the villain of choice has become President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser on the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who now often supplants GOP archenemy and Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
As the New York Times reports, "Fire Fauci" became the inaugural ad for Jane Timken last fall as she launched her bid to win Ohio's open Senate seat. Wackadoodle celebrity doc Mehmet Oz, who's running for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat, doesn't want to debate his opponents—he wants to debate Fauci. And Wisconsin Democrat-turned-Republican Kevin Nicholson, who's running for governor, said Fauci "should be fired and referred to prosecutors.”
Previous Guy Decides Party Like It's 2016
Escalating the hysterics for which Trump is famous, on Saturday he released a statement that included his explicit yearning to see Hillary Clinton executed for alleged crimes that he utterly failed to identify or even peripherally grasp. The statement was tweeted, as usual, by his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill, Liz Harrington. It concerned a recent filing by special counsel John Durham that Trump completely misunderstood"
"The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia."
Trump's assertion that the filing provides "indisputable evidence" that he was spied on is wholly fictional. Durham doesn't even make that assertion in the filing. The gist of the document relates to allegations that an attorney who at one time represented the Clinton campaign didn't properly disclose that relationship. The references to spying were merely the collection of Internet IP addresses and Domain Service Names (DNS) that are publicly available.
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution. In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this."
The timing of Durham's specious filing, and the feigned outrage of Trump and his media shills, is curious coming so soon after the disclosures that Trump violated the Presidential Records Act by shredding and even flushing potentially incriminating documents, and scurrying off to Mar-a-Lago with fifteen boxes of materials that legally should have been turned over to the National Archives.
These Guys Should Get Hosed
A firehouse in Pennsylvania has been shut down after audio of deeply racist remarks became public, including firefighters mocking an 8 year-old who was slain by cops.
Briarcliffe Fire Company Station 75 has been temporarily shut down over audio of a Zoom call that features firefighters using racial slurs, disparaging the all-Black Darby Township Fire Company, and mocking Fanta Bility, an 8-year-old girl who was killed by Sharon Hill police.
The company was on a call with the Goodwill Fire Company, which continued recording after the call had ostensibly ended, and reported the incident.
Firefighters can be heard on the audio disparaging Black firefighters in the Darby company (in shockingly racist terms: “A bunch of f—ing n— down there”) as lazy, saying “They didn’t do s___ there,” and saying that “the f—ing problem” with a neighborhood is that “Blacks are taking over s—.”
In the nearly two-hour conversation after the virtual meeting, Briarcliffe firefighters allegedly bemoaned how the time had come to leave the township because Black residents continue moving into the area. They even joked about Fanta’s name, according to a letter from the board of directors of the Goodwill Fire Company that The Philadelphia Tribune acquired.
One firefighter is alleged to have mocked the name of Fanta, who was killed by police gunfire in Sharon Hill last summer.
Fanta Bility was shot and killed accidentally by police in August 2021 while leaving a football game, after a shoot-out erupted between a group of young people. One young man has pleaded guilty and another awaits charges in that case. Three Sharon Hill police officers have been charged with manslaughter in her death, after a grand jury investigation.
JJ Wants to Kill the Other Side. (Not It's Not Johnny Juzang.)
Jim Jordan Appears To Embrace Trump's Call To Execute Hillary Clinton Campaign Aides — Trump is "right on target" with a statement that included a call for the death penalty, the Ohio lawmaker said.
Donald Trump is calling for the execution of some who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign ― and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) seems to be on board.
“We’ve never seen anything like this in history,” Jordan said on “Fox & Friends” on Sunday. “So, President Trump’s statement yesterday, I think is right on target.”
Trump and Jordan were referencing a Feb. 11 filing by Justice Department special counsel John Durham reported by Fox News that claims the Clinton campaign paid a tech company to “infiltrate” Trump Tower servers looking for links between Trump and Russia.
“In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death,” Trump said in a statement.
Fake Truckers, Fake Patriots. The Same Cast of Characters
Anti-vaccine demonstrations in Ottawa have been encouraged and promoted by some of the same right wing figures who loudly backed former President Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss.
On Friday evening, American conservative activist Amy Kremer sent out two tweets in support of truckers who are protesting COVID vaccine regulations in Canada. The messages, which came one minute apart, included hashtags promoting the so-called “Freedom Convoy” and a video showing some of the crowds who have shut down streets in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, and a key message.
“Hold the line,” Kremer wrote in both posts.
It’s the exact same phrase Kremer, one of the key figures behind the protests against Trump’s election loss in 2020, used in the leadup to January 6, 2021. Kremer, who is the chairwoman of Women For America First, the group that planned the main January 6 rally on the White House Ellipse, used the “#HoldTheLine” hashtag to promote that event.
And the Grift Goes On
He doesn't care about the QOP. He Only Want the Money To Keep Rolling In
More Manchin / Sinema Kabuki Theater - They'll Do a Lot of Posturing and Block Everything.
Democrats hoping to resurrect the party’s economic agenda are facing a problem: Sen. Joe Manchin’s goal for raising tax rates clashes with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to doing so.
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Could This Be the Future of the World (My Thoughts)
Most ot the industrialized countries have declining birth rates. For political reasons, they are restricting immigration. As a result, populations are flat or declining.
There are many negative consequences for these nations. Right now most nations are facing a shortage of workers. For decades, this was covered by women entering the workforce, but that supply of new workers is pretty much tapped out. An economy can deal with the up to a point with automation, but eventually production cannot keep growing without workers.
One solution has been to out-source labor by moving production off-shore. However, as supply-chain issues have shown, there are problems with this and nations are increasingly worried about the national security issues of not controlling their own production. Most counties need more workers.
The other problem is the greying of populations. A flat or shrinking population is typically an aging population. This leaves ever fewer workers to support an increasing retired population that depends on pensions of different types.
Meanwhile, in poorer nations populations continue to grow, with their ability to support the population declining. There is already hunger in many nations and wars are breaking out, often over resources. Climate change will only make the problems worse.
So you have rich nations with a declining workforce and poor nations with a surplus of working-age people.
The solution is pretty obvious. Allow more immigration. Personally, I favor open borders like the US had for over 100 years before anti-Chinese racism led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. However, I don't see that as politically viable with the amount of racism and xenophobia in the US.
We could move to more "guest workers", but I think a large population of people who are not invested in the future of the US is a bad idea.
Slowing birth rates and an aging population are ticking time bombs. One way or another we need to embrace the only reasonable solution. When you have a domestic shortage of a resource, you import it.
Or you could try to convince your wife it is her patriotic duty to have more sex.
This Isn't "Unruly". It's An Attempt At Mass Murder and Suicide.
An American Airlines flight heading from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., on Sunday was diverted to Kansas City International Airport in Missouri after an “unruly” passenger attempted to break into the cockpit — and tried to open an exit door, according to several reports.
The man was subdued by passengers and staff, including a flight attendant who struck him on the head with a coffee pot, according to passenger Mouaz Moustafa.
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Are the Prudes Winning?
We're at a 30-year low for sex
Fewer Amercians are having sex.
Twenty-six percent of Americans ages 18 and up didn't have sex once over the past 12 months, according to the 2021 General Social Survey. You might think this is just a pandemic effect, but it's part of a long-term trend. The two years with next-highest percentage of adults saying they didn't have sex once in the past year were 2016 (23%) and 2018 (23%) -- the last two times the survey was conducted. Before 2004, the highest percentage of Americans who said they hadn't had sex in the past year was 19%.
Last year's survey was also the first time that the percentage of Americans who had sex once a month or less topped 50%. In 1989, 35% of American adults had sex once a month or less.
We're at a 30-year low for living together
Fewer people are living together with a partner.
It's not just about sex. Some 62% of Americans ages 25 to 54 lived with a partner or were married, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center study of 2019 US Census Bureau data. This included 53% who were married and 9% who were cohabitating. That's well below the 71% of couples who lived together in 1990, with 67% married and 4% cohabitating.
Partnership is at a low, not just marriage
The General Social Survey has, on and off since 1986, asked participants whether they had a steady partner. This past year, 30% of adults ages 25 to 54 (the same age bracket as the Pew study) indicated that they did not have a steady partner. In 1986, it was 20%. In fact, the percentage of 25- to 54-year-olds who said they didn't have a steady partner never topped 23% prior to the 2010s. It's been 25% or above in every survey since.
We Don't Need Less Sex in Books for Young People. We Need More!! We Should Be Burning Books WITHOUT Sex.
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More of My Thoughts - They Played 55 Minutes of Mildly Interesting Football Around a Great Halftime Show
The most exciting play in the first 55 minutes was the refs missing an obvious face mask penalty.
The last 5 minutes of the game were fun.
The National Anthem was great, too.
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They Can Always Watch NASCAR
The nation’s relentless culture wars appear to have taken a toll even on the NFL, with a large number of Republicans saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players, a new Los Angeles Times/SurveyMonkey poll shows.
Professional football remains extremely popular. The poll found just more than half of American adults say they regard themselves as fans and an additional 15% say they’re not fans but plan to watch the Super Bowl, which will be played Sunday at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium between the Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.
But the league’s popularity has eroded somewhat in recent years, the poll found.
About one-third of those surveyed nationwide said they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago, compared with about 1 in 8 who said they are bigger fans now.
The poll can’t conclusively say why that decline has occurred, but two questions about the NFL’s handling of issues involving race provide some strong hints:
People who say they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago are more than twice as likely as everyone else to say the NFL is doing “too much to show respect for its Black players.”
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The Russians Threaten Ukraine, So We Defend Poland. If the Russians Threatened Poland, Would We Defend Ukraine??
Eight more US F-15 fighter jets arrived in Poland today to take part in Nato air policing amid continued signs of Russian escalation on Poland's border with Ukraine.
“More American F-15 fighters landed today at the base in Lask," wrote Poland's defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Twitter.
"Eight aircraft join those that came to Poland last week," he added.
Over the weekend, US officials said an additional 3,000 American soldiers would be sent to Poland in the coming days.
About two thirds of a first tranche of 1,700 US troops have already arrived in Poland.
Does the Pain in Ukraine Fall Mainly on the Slain?
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I Can Handle Supply Shortages, But They Are Messing With My Guacamole
The United States has suspended avocado imports from Mexico's western state of Michoacan after a US official received a threat, Mexico's Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the statement, the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) decided to pause until further notice the avocado inspection activities in Michoacan after one of its officers, who was carrying out inspection work in Uruapan, Michoacan, received a threatening call to his official cell phone.
Michoacan is the only state in Mexico authorized to export avocados to the United States.
Michoacan Should Not Be Confused With Michigan, Home of the World's Largest Cement Factory
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No Wonder Putin Is Threating Ukraine. It Looks Like Russians Can Get Away With Anything
A drugs test controversy that has overshadowed Beijing 2022 is set to rumble on after the Winter Olympics finishes.
For now, teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva has won a temporary reprieve -- the 15-year-old gets to compete in the women's single skating competition on Tuesday.
The Valieva controversy has reignited doubts about the Olympic movement's handling of Russian athletes competing at successive Games, but also the oversight of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its working relationship with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
Did They Let Lance Armstrong Keep Racing?
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You Can Please Some of the People Some of the Time, But Can You Really Please Most of the People?
Public discontent with America's pandemic-battered economy obscures the good news: Even after inflation, most of the country has been coming out ahead.
Red-hot demand for labor means lower-income workers can command wage increases that outpace rising prices. So can middle-income workers who switch jobs.
Relief checks approved by lawmakers of both parties and sent out by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have given the majority of households a cushion. Those higher up the income scale have seen handsome increases in the values of their homes and investment assets.
Even those who fault Biden's policies for exacerbating inflation risks acknowledge that, right now, the pandemic economy continues to offer large, underappreciated rewards.
"For most people," concludes Michael Strain, who directs economic policy studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, "the current economic situation is good."
You couldn't tell that from public opinion, though. A CNN poll last week showed that just 37% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden's handling of the economy -- fewer than approve of his handling of crime, relations with Russia or protecting democracy.
The highest rate of inflation in four decades -- 7.5% on an annual basis in last week's government data -- explains part of the sour mood. Yet that worrisome milestone is directly related to another, more reassuring one: the highest annual economic growth in four decades, with an unemployment rate of just 4%.
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Drought Brings Back a Ghost Town
A ghost village that has emerged as drought has nearly emptied a dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border is drawing crowds of tourists with its eerie, gray ruins.
With the reservoir at 15% of its capacity, details of a life frozen in 1992, when the Aceredo village in Spain's northwestern Galicia region was flooded to create the Alto Lindoso reservoir, are being revealed once more.
"It's as if I'm watching a movie. I have a feeling of sadness," said 65-year-old pensioner Maximino Perez Romero, from A Coruna. "My feeling is that this is what will happen over the years due to drought and all that, with climate change."
Walking on the muddy ground cracked by the drought in some spots, visitors found partially collapsed roofs, bricks and wooden debris that once made up doors or beams, and even a drinking fountain with water still streaming from a rusty pipe.
Crates with empty beer bottles were stacked by what used to be a cafe, and a semi-destroyed old car was rusting away by a stone wall. Drone footage showed the derelict buildings.
Maria del Carmen Yanez, mayor of the larger Lobios council, of which Aceredo is part, blamed the situation on the lack of rain in recent months, particularly in January, but also on what she said was "quite aggressive exploitation" by Portugal's power utility EDP, which manages the reservoir.
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If You Ban It, They Won't Die
Deaths and crashes linked to drunken driving dropped almost 20% in Utah, the only state with a lower legal limit of .05, according to a new study.
The conclusions are a piece of encouraging news for highway safety, where the number of deaths rose at the highest rate ever recorded during the pandemic, despite fewer cars on the road, shorter distances driven, and more safety features in new cars.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration study looked at collisions in Utah, where in late 2018, the blood alcohol content legal limit lowered to .05 from .08.
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He Got One Shot, He Did Not Miss His Chance to Blow, His Opportunity Came Once in a Lifetime.
In the moments after performing his hit song "Lose Yourself" to a roaring crowd at Sunday's Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show, rapper Eminem kneeled.
Born Marshall Mathers, Eminem was one of several hip-hop icons to take the stage for the halftime show, performing along with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige.
As the final words of "Lose Yourself" rang out, Eminem could be seen taking a knee in a move appearing to resemble the gesture that made headlines when former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem as an act of protest against police brutality and racism.
With one hand over his head, Eminem dropped to one knee, holding the pose for several moments.
Kaepernick, the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, saw severe criticism, as well as major support, after he first took a knee at a 2016 preseason game.
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Apple Takes a Bite Out of
Facebook built one of the most amazing money machines the world has ever seen. Then Apple came and threw a wrench in the gears.
For context: Facebook is still making an enormous amount of money from advertising — analyst Michael Nathanson estimates the company will generate $129 billion in ad revenue in 2022. But that would mean its ad business will only grow about 12 percent this year, compared to a 36 percent increase the previous year. Wall Street has prized Facebook for its ability to grow at a rocket velocity, and now that rocket may be sputtering.
The background: In June of 2020, Apple announced changes to its mobile operating system that would give iPhone users a chance to tell app-makers not to follow them around the internet. That tracking system is the backbone of the internet’s advertising infrastructure, and you’re familiar with it even if you never think about it: It’s why, for instance, you see ads for shoes you’ve already looked at on Zappos when you’re visiting other sites. And in Facebook’s case, it’s crucial for finding people advertisers want to reach and, importantly, telling them what happens after those people see or interact with their ads.
A month later, Facebook began warning investors that those changes would hurt their ad business. The fight between the two companies got more intense after that, with both sides lobbing public attacks at each other.
While there were lots of signs that Apple’s change was in fact hurting Facebook’s ad sales, people in and out of the company also assumed that Facebook would figure out how to handle it because Facebook is a giant company flush with cash and bright engineers. And while Facebook continued to warn investors in its quarterly updates that Apple’s moves would be a problem, it used generic terms like “headwinds” when it did. More cynical observers wondered if Facebook was overplaying the problem in order to get sympathy from regulators looking to rein in Facebook’s power — or to get them to focus their attention on Apple, which is also under antitrust scrutiny.
Now Facebook is saying, in public, that Apple’s ad changes have been a really big deal, after all. The short version, as COO Sheryl Sandberg told investors last week: Facebook’s ad targeting became less accurate because it now knows less about its users. Which means Facebook advertisers have to spend more money in the hope of reaching people on iPhones — and that Facebook advertisers, who had been used to measuring the effectiveness of their campaigns down to the penny, now have to make much-less-informed guesses about whether their ad dollars are working.
Not Even Will Rogers Would Like Mark Zuckerberg If Rogers Met Him.
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Could This Be a November to Remember in a Good Way?
For a long time, political pundits have been framing the 2022 Congressional Elections as the GOP's to lose. Their estimation of Democrats’ odds was quite low. Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was so bullish that year ago he said he'd bet his own house on a victory, and that there was no chance Democrats would win.
I run election forecasts at RacetotheWH, and when I started designing my 2022 House Election Forecast, I fully expected to find that Democrats had less than a 20% chance of winning and that Democrats were on pace to win 190 seats. However, while our analysis finds that McCarthy’s caucus is the favorite, Democrats have a much stronger chance at holding their majority than I expected.
Democrats’ chance of an upset is just north of 35% at launch. If they can improve their position over the next six months in the generic ballot by even one percent, they could be within striking distance of a surprise victory in November.
Democrats have benefitted from a series of fortuitous developments. Most importantly, this decade the congressional map will be far more competitive. Democrats have matched Republican gerrymandering in Texas and Georgia with their own maps in New York and New Jersey. The practice has drawbacks, as it reduces the number of competitive elections and means fewer voters are well represented, but the upswing for Democrats is that they no longer need to decisively win the national popular vote to take the House.
In the 2010s, they needed to win by around 3% to get the majority. Now it would likely require about a 0.5% lead. That will still be a challenge in 2022. History shows us that the party out of power in the midterms tends to perform quite well, and at launch (February 6th) Republicans have a 1.5% lead in the generic ballot.
Race to the WH
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How Good Was Your Sunday? Not As Good As His.
The Los Angeles Rams' Van Jefferson won a lot more than a Super Bowl ring on Sunday night. Quickly after his team secured their win with minutes to spare in the fourth quarter, the wide receiver rushed out of the stadium to welcome the birth of his and his wife's second child.
During the Rams' faceoff with the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, Jefferson's wife and high school sweetheart, Samaria Jefferson, had to be rushed to the hospital, according to multiple reports.
After the Rams pulled off their victory — the team's first Super Bowl win since 2000 — The Athletic reported that Jefferson grabbed his daughter, brought her onto the field and "sprinted through the locker room" to get to the hospital. The Atlantic previously reported that the couple's newest addition was due on February 17.
CBS Sports' Josina Anderson spoke with Jefferson's father as they were preparing to leave, who told her at the time that "the midwife said she has about an hour to go before birth."
During the game, Jefferson had four catches against the Bengals. With just 1:25 left on the clock in the fourth quarter, a 79-yard drive capped by Cooper Kupp's 1-yard touchdown reception secured the team's 23-20 victory against Cincinnati.
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