Recent content by brewer12345

Yes, I understood. FYI, putin generally gets 9X% of the vote and more than one popular opposition candidate has been pretty blatantly murdered by the state.

So this is safe and tested like Russia has open, democratic elections?

I was thinking the same: this reminds me of 2009. My friend's son has a post graduation job lined up as a civil engineer, but his start date keeps getting pushed back. I am hoping they won't just kill the job offer. I remember this stuff happening in 2009 as well.

After a bout of flu 15 or so years ago, I faithfully get my annual flu shot simply to cut the chances. I will not be "rushin" to get the covid vaccine. Probably coming up on due for another tetanus booster, though.

I suppose that is why family and village life was so important. The transient nature of our society makes it easy to dissociate oneself. That is also why it is so hard to trace contacts. Think about it: if you weren't being pandemic careful, would you be able to give a list of everyone you...

We will find out for real if the case numbers shoot up in the next few weeks.

Hahaha, never let a crisis go to waste, I guess. We are frantically hiring contract tracers in a pandemic but apparently those hires are subject to racial quotas. Amazing!

I have about given up looking to scrape value out of the bond markets. Credit risk is paying nothing in the short and (increasingly) the long term. So I just set up yet another transfer of cast to be dumped into my add-on CDs at the credit union. When I run out of running room there in 18...

I'd say both NM and SD have beautiful spots (Taos/northern NM and the Black Hills respectively). But yeah. You also have the advantage of being in the desert in the summer. Not tons of people looking to experience that.

Probably because it is New Mexico. Not that hard to keep people out even without a pandemic.

Fantastic. So the news that CA case data is buggy has been out for a while. Now the state's top public health official is falling on her sword over this. I presume that means we will hear of massive undercounting and that the gubnor has been making decisions based on fluff...

$21 for 12 cans of Cento brand crushed tomatoes with basil, delivered. Sometimes prices are fine, lately many are not. You can tell an item is scarce when only the scalpers are selling on Amazon.

I ended up with a case of 28 ounce cans, so no need for any of that.

I noticed that we were getting pretty far into the stack of crushed tomatoes so I put some cans in our pickup order at the local kroger affiliate. Nada. I ended up buying a case )12 cans) of the only brand I recognized on Amazon. Had I been interested in the foodservice cans (whopping 105 oz...

I'd guess it will get challenged. It need not actually be Congress that does the challenging. If they have to, I imagine they will quickly come to the table and hammer out a compromise, which is what this bit of nonsense was no doubt intended to accomplish.