Thought for the day:"If you steal solid triangular pieces of glass with flat, polished surfaces that refract light you may get punished with a prism sentence"
Happy Solstice - today apparently almost 3 million people watched the sun rise at Stonehenge via web camera and twitter...
A much more civilised way of doing it, and of course you can watch it later and don't have to get up early !!!
Of course, talking of things being watched, Trump's famed start to his election campaign where over a million people have replied to the invitation and 20,000 expected in the Tulsa Conference centre with 40,000 outside in the "spill-over" area dwindled into a non-event. About 8-9 thousand formt eh looks of the auditorium. No Masks. No Social Distancing. Just the normal vitriol.
Seems to me that if Trump needs every vote he can get, I wonder how many will be dead or incapacitated by the time of the election. He blamed the protesters of course - there did not seem to be much in the way of that - but I was watching CNN who obviously lie, and of course the media are to blame for scaring everyone with their anti-Trump health scares.
I watched - because it is like watching an election result, you know what is going to happen but it is like watching a train wreck in slow - motion and you are fascinated. And yes I heard him say that the Testing is what is causing all the high statistics , and he "has asked his people to hold back on the testing"... Apparently a spokesman later said that he was joking... Did not sound like it to me - he sounded deadly serious and he got a loud cheer for it from his supporters, so I am sure that he will say it again...
BBC News summary:
In his opening remarks, Mr Trump said there had been "very bad people outside, they were doing bad things", but did not elaborate. Black Lives Matter activists were among the counter-protesters to gather outside the venue before the event.
On the coronavirus response, Mr Trump said he had encouraged officials to slow down testing because it led to more cases being discovered. He described testing as a "double-edged sword".
"Here is the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you are going to find more people, you will find more cases," he told the cheering crowd. "So I said 'slow the testing down'. They test and they test."
The coronavirus, Mr Trump said, had many names, including "Kung Flu", a xenophobic term that appears to be a reference to China, where Covid-19 originated.
Almost 120,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the US since the pandemic began, a number that health experts say could have been much higher had testing not been ramped up. Testing, health officials say, is important to understand where and how widely coronavirus is spreading, and therefore prevent further deaths.
A White House official later said the president was "obviously kidding" about Covid-19 testing.
Taking aim at his Democratic presidential rival, Mr Trump described Joe Biden as "a helpless puppet of the radical left".
The president also struck a combative tone when he touched on anti-racism protests - and the toppling of statues - which began after the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis.
"The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalise our history, desecrate our monuments - our beautiful monuments - tear down our statues and punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control. We're not conforming," he told the crowd.
The Trump campaign event in Tulsa had all the colour and character of one of his typical rallies.
The "Make America Great Again" hats, the Hillary Clinton "lock her up" chants, the ear-piercing soundtrack - squint, and it felt like the kind of raucous celebration that powered Trump to the White House in 2016 and buoyed the president through the ups and downs of his presidency.
The only thing missing was the capacity crowd, as vast swathes of blue upper-deck seats remained empty even as Trump entered the stage.
Blame the coronavirus for discouraging people from attending. Blame phantom protesters - as the Trump campaign did in a statement - for blocking access to the rally site. Blame mischievous liberals for flooding the campaign with fake ticket requests, encouraging the campaign to prepare for massive overflow crowds.
Whatever the reason, those massive crowds simply didn't materialise. It wasn't a bad turnout, but when your campaign boasts of more than a million RSVPs, it's an embarrassing look to hit way below that mark.
For a campaign struggling to steady itself amid sagging polls and a public increasingly uneasy about the direction of the nation, the president may have needed more than a comfort-blanket rally that harkens back to better days.
Mr Trump had initially planned to hold the rally on Friday. But he changed the date last week after learning it fell on 19 June, known as Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the US.
The choice of location is also controversial. In 1921, Tulsa was the scene of a massacre in which white mobs attacked black people and businesses, killing an estimated 300 people.
At a peaceful Juneteenth rally in Tulsa on Friday, the civil rights activist Al Sharpton said campaigners could "Make America Great" for everybody for the first time.
In his opening remarks, Mr Trump said there had been "very bad people outside, they were doing bad things", but did not elaborate. Black Lives Matter activists were among the counter-protesters to gather outside the venue before the event.
On the coronavirus response, Mr Trump said he had encouraged officials to slow down testing because it led to more cases being discovered. He described testing as a "double-edged sword".
"Here is the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you are going to find more people, you will find more cases," he told the cheering crowd. "So I said 'slow the testing down'. They test and they test."
The coronavirus, Mr Trump said, had many names, including "Kung Flu", a xenophobic term that appears to be a reference to China, where Covid-19 originated.
Almost 120,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the US since the pandemic began, a number that health experts say could have been much higher had testing not been ramped up. Testing, health officials say, is important to understand where and how widely coronavirus is spreading, and therefore prevent further deaths.
A White House official later said the president was "obviously kidding" about Covid-19 testing.
Taking aim at his Democratic presidential rival, Mr Trump described Joe Biden as "a helpless puppet of the radical left".
The president also struck a combative tone when he touched on anti-racism protests - and the toppling of statues - which began after the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis.
"The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalise our history, desecrate our monuments - our beautiful monuments - tear down our statues and punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control. We're not conforming," he told the crowd.
The Trump campaign event in Tulsa had all the colour and character of one of his typical rallies.
The "Make America Great Again" hats, the Hillary Clinton "lock her up" chants, the ear-piercing soundtrack - squint, and it felt like the kind of raucous celebration that powered Trump to the White House in 2016 and buoyed the president through the ups and downs of his presidency.
The only thing missing was the capacity crowd, as vast swathes of blue upper-deck seats remained empty even as Trump entered the stage.
Blame the coronavirus for discouraging people from attending. Blame phantom protesters - as the Trump campaign did in a statement - for blocking access to the rally site. Blame mischievous liberals for flooding the campaign with fake ticket requests, encouraging the campaign to prepare for massive overflow crowds.
Whatever the reason, those massive crowds simply didn't materialise. It wasn't a bad turnout, but when your campaign boasts of more than a million RSVPs, it's an embarrassing look to hit way below that mark.
For a campaign struggling to steady itself amid sagging polls and a public increasingly uneasy about the direction of the nation, the president may have needed more than a comfort-blanket rally that harkens back to better days.
Mr Trump had initially planned to hold the rally on Friday. But he changed the date last week after learning it fell on 19 June, known as Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the US.
The choice of location is also controversial. In 1921, Tulsa was the scene of a massacre in which white mobs attacked black people and businesses, killing an estimated 300 people.
At a peaceful Juneteenth rally in Tulsa on Friday, the civil rights activist Al Sharpton said campaigners could "Make America Great" for everybody for the first time.
Meanwhile int he UK I mentioned that the trace and track app was having problems ..
I saw this summary which I enjoyed..
I saw this summary which I enjoyed..
Abut sums things up in my view..
In other news, I unpacked the last box in the warehouse yesterday...
In other news, I unpacked the last box in the warehouse yesterday...
Yes, I know that there are still a lot of boxes in there now - but they all have something that I have decided can and should be transported to the new place, or that they have definite value and could be sold. There are also a lot of boxes of "Car-Boot" Garage Sale type stuff that looks as though it should have some value, but can be discarded if necessary. But it is an achievement ...
I did sum Calculations. A Morrisons Banana Box is approximately 15" x 9" x 20" (Sorry for those on metric - I use old money" or just over 1 1/2 cubic feet...
A Column of Morrisons boxes contained 9 boxes - or just over 14 cubic feet of stuff.
Each row had 10 boxes (wall to Filing Cabinet) = 90 Boxes = 140 Cubic Feet of stuff.
I had 15 rows of boxes = 1350 boxes = 2,109 cubic feet .. which I can translate for the metric as 60 cubic metres ... I maybe a hoarder...
And that was one quarter of the storage area.. I think I will go and have a lie down...
Managed a few songs in the Tavern / Studio last night and have just finished rendering..
However , today's offering is No 58 - and back to the LARP songs - The Algaia Regret.
A funny little song based upon Miss Otis Regrets (quite appropriate I suppose as the original was talking about not being able to attend because of a lynching!), but in this case the song originated when I realised that the War Leader of the Algaia was named HART, and thus "They couldn't find the Hart " gave me the last line. The rest developed from an on-line argument regarding the abilities of the Faction to fight, and their lack of support for other groups... Well, I enjoyed it
No 58 - The Algaia Regret...
Cheers ...
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