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Wonderful WaPo piece by Dan Zak.
Read and marvel at this guy. I don't know what he would advocate and vote for. But I sure do like him. That segment on SNL last night was very cool. It's embedded here. As a citizen I disagree with a number of the politicians' decisions over the years about what wars they have gotten our country into. But that in no way stops me from saying, to this admirable fellow, and to all other veterans today: never forget.
This story is so odd. Who's behind the leaks, and why?
ABC News cites "multiple sources" claiming that Mueller is frustrated with Manafort's non-cooperation, but we haven't seen a leak from the Mueller team since the investigation began a year-and-a-half ago, and they have no incentive to break that policy now. Mueller can threaten Manafort with prison time directly, no need to go through the press.
That leaves Manafort's team. But what's their incentive? Are they sending a message to Trump? To the Russians? Manafort might wish to remain in the good graces of one or the other by publicizing his recalcitrance, but if so, why did he agree to cooperate in the first place?
Or is the Trump team behind the leak, perhaps based on information they received from the joint defense agreement that Giuliani claimed was ongoing...or perhaps based on wishful thinking.
Or could this "leak" be a ruse to make someone think that Mueller isn't getting anywhere with Manafort?
Lead now 20,000 votes......Sinema is winning the Republican-leaning Maricopa County. When ballots have been tabulated, McSally has not won any batch of votes in Maricopa County,
"An agency cannot simply disregard contrary or inconvenient factual determinations that it made in the past, any more than it can ignore inconvenient facts when it writes on a blank slate," Morris wrote.
https://www.afp.com/fr/infos/334/la-justice-americaine-suspend-la-constr...
Twitter thread by Noah Smith with graphs and news links on topic, Nov. 6
China already emits about twice as much carbon as the U.S. And look at which direction the two countries are moving in: [....] Note that this is NOT due to the U.S. outsourcing its carbon emissions to China. Here's a graph of consumption-based carbon emissions estimates, which counts imported emissions as part of the total: [....]
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By CBS/AP @ CBSNews.com, Nov. 8
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. -- Authorities have identified the suspect in a mass shooting at a Southern California bar as 28-year-old former Marine Ian David Long. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean says Long is believed to have killed himself late Wednesday at the Borderline Bar and Grill in the city of Thousand Oaks.
At least 12 people were killed in the attack, including a sheriff's sergeant who was fatally shot as he tried to enter the bar, a hangout popular with students from nearby California Lutheran University. The gunman was tall and wearing all black with a hood and his face partly covered [....]
Dean said his department had several previous contacts with Long, a former machine gunner and decorated veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Those included a disturbance call to his home in April, when deputies found him acting irate and irrationally.
The sheriff said the department's mental health crisis team was called at that time and concluded that Long did not need to be taken into custody under a "5150" order, an evaluation that determines whether a person needs to be involuntarily held for up to 72 hours because they are a threat to themselves or others. The episode was thought to be possible post-traumatic stress disorder because of his military background [....]
The I.B.M. software engineer Frederick Brooks, in his classic 1975 book, “The Mythical Man-Month,” called this final state the Tar Pit. There is, he said, a predictable progression from a cool program (built, say, by a few nerds for a few of their nerd friends) to a bigger, less cool program product (to deliver the same function to more people, with different computer systems and different levels of ability) to an even bigger, very uncool program system (for even more people, with many different needs in many kinds of work).
Spencer plotted the human reaction that accompanied this progression. People initially embraced new programs and new capabilities with joy, then came to depend on them, then found themselves subject to a system that controlled their lives. At that point, they could either submit or rebel. The scientists in London rebelled. “They were sick of results that they had gotten one week no longer being reproducible a week later,” Spencer wrote. They insisted that the group spend a year rewriting the code from scratch. And yet, after the rewrite, the bureaucratic shackles remained.
As a program adapts and serves more people and more functions, it naturally requires tighter regulation. Software systems govern how we interact as groups, and that makes them unavoidably bureaucratic in nature. There will always be those who want to maintain the system and those who want to push the system’s boundaries. Conservatives and liberals emerge.
A pensioner has begun a legal battle to be recognised as being 20 years younger than his actual age so he can go back to work and achieve greater success with women on Tinder.
Emile Ratelband, 69, argues that if transgender people are allowed to change sex, he should be allowed to change his date of birth because doctors said he has the body of a 45-year-old.
LOL
Dead Pimp Cruises to Victory in Nevada State Election
On Tuesday, in one of the more unusual developments of the midterm elections, Nevada voters resoundingly elected Mr. Hof, a Republican, to represent the state’s 36th Assembly District just weeks after he was found dead in a brothel he owned in Crystal, Nev., at the age of 72.
