2:00PM Water Cooler 11/15/2023 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Fowl Music of the Day

Lengthy-billed Thrush, Sandakphu, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. “Montane, Evergreen Forest, Bamboo, Scrub.”

Politics

“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order

“Dialog With an ‘Insurrectionist’: He Took Nancy Pelosi’s Lectern” [Newsweek]. A should learn, not least as a result of it confirms my priors (see The Class Composition of the Capitol Rioters (First Reduce) and The Organizational Capability and Behavioral Traits of the Capitol Rioters (First Reduce). The entire piece could be very entertaining, in a bemused type of method, however this to me is the important thing level: “‘I believed it could make an excellent image, so I carried it 20 yards to the middle of the room, gave a brief speech and left it there.’ His speech, he stated, consisted of him railing towards traitors and treason and his concept that funds gadgets should be voted on individually.” Identical factor with the Buffalo Horns dude; he made a speech too, and nothing got here of it. In different phrases, no group no matter. (I can’t discover the quote from the Bolshevik Revolution the place IIRC a sailor screams at Lenin: “Take energy, dammit!” Nothing like that right here.)

Biden Administration

“The fortieth day of the battle Gallant on the discharge of hostages: Hamas is able to pay for some peace” (Google translation from Hebrew) [i24]. On Al-Shifa hospital:

Oh. Extra commentary:

We want extra time.

“The official stated that troopers had discovered weapons and proof of a militant headquarters, however declined to offer additional particulars and stated that proof wouldn’t be offered till after the raid had ended.” (NY Instances)

It takes time to plant proof.

— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) November 15, 2023

“The Secret Service has been mendacity to you concerning the White Home cocaine scandal” [FOX]. “Good factor now we have the paperwork from the Secret Service proper right here. However right here’s the factor: The Secret Service redacted the place the cocaine was first discovered. Now, if the cocaine was truly first discovered within the cubby, they usually photographed it within the cubby, why would they redact that? After which at one level, the Secret Service says this suspicious substance is a white powder in a small Ziploc bag on the redacted foyer ground. What? Foyer ground? The foyer into what room? The library. And I believed they discovered the cocaine within the cubby. Nicely, the cubby isn’t on the ground. The cubby’s on the wall. Afterward within the night time. They stated it was within the cubby, they usually didn’t redact that. They need us to suppose it was present in that little locker.” • It’s a sport of Clue, isn’t it? Hunter, within the Library. With the spoon.

2024

Lower than a yr to go!

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“High GOP Home Member Hits Engoron With Ethics Criticism” [1945]. “A prime Republican congresswoman has hit New York Justice Arthur F. Engoron with an ethics criticism resulting from alleged politicking for the Democratic Occasion whereas being a justice of the New York Supreme Courtroom… Stefanik alleges that Engoron violated these guidelines. ‘Choose Engoron and his workers are partisan Democrat donors. As not too long ago as 2018, Choose Engoron donated to the Manhattan Democrats – although Part 100.5 says that judges ‘shall chorus’ from ‘making a contribution to a political group,” Stefanik writes in her criticism to the New York State Fee on Judicial Conduct. ‘Part 100.5 additionally stipulates {that a} ‘decide shall prohibit members of the decide’s workers’ from contributing greater than $500 ‘within the combination throughout any calendar yr to all political campaigns for political workplace.’ Allison Greenfield has served as Choose Engoron’s principal legislation clerk since 2019. … The congresswoman continues, ‘In 2022 alone, Greenfield donated ‘$3,335 in political donations to Democrat candidates and causes.’ She’s already given greater than $1,000 in 2023 to campaigns.” • Hmm.

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“Freeway Catastrophe Presents Hurdle for Newsom’s Nationwide Ambitions” [David Dayen, The American Prospect]. We don’t hyperlink to Dayen a lot, for good causes I gained’t go into right here, however on this submit he’s so on level I’ve to cite. Recall that there was additionally a freeway hearth in Philly, so now we have a baseline. “The preliminary evaluation in Philadelphia was that I-95 could be closed for months, perhaps via Thanksgiving. However [Democrat PA Governor Josh] Shapiro mobilized union development staff and enabled a novel use of recycled glass to get the freeway up and operating in lower than two weeks… That set a precedent that Newsom is now going to want to stay as much as. There is no such thing as a present timetable for reopening the ten. Whereas many of the web site has been cleared of hazardous supplies and federal emergency funds have been made out there, engineers haven’t but decided whether or not they might merely retrofit the present construction, or be pressured to demolish and rebuild it. The message to residents has been to strap in for a protracted winter of east-west driving both method. That’s not going to fly for Newsom for a number of causes. He’s not a newcomer in a purple state his first yr on the job; in truth, he’s termed out in 2026. However Newsom has nationwide aspirations, which is the worst-kept secret in America. If the ten closure lingers and development falls behind, public anger will construct. Shapiro got here in properly forward of schedule, was utterly clear (he even arrange a webcam to trace progress), and thrived below strain. That can inevitably be used as a measuring stick for Newsom. Newsom’s recognition not too long ago sank to an all-time low in California, an across-the-board drop that has an unclear origin.” • After all, the DNC can pressure whoever they need to down our throats, particularly if (when?) Biden pulls up lame. However skeptical about Newsom, California oligarch and pseudo-Getty scion although he’s. First, his hair. Come on. Second, the French Laundry incident. Loads of grist for oppo there! Lastly, his dyslexia. Oppo once more — childrens’ books and trauma apart — however for Newsom “a five-minute speech could require six hours of preparation and analysis.” So what occurs together with his briefing books? Do staffers learn them aloud?

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“Newest Polls Present My Path to Victory” [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] “In accordance with a brand new nationwide ballot by Quinnipiac College, I beat Trump and Biden amongst voters ages 18-34 with 38% of the vote in comparison with Biden’s 32% and Trump’s 27%…. I’m additionally outpacing Biden and Trump amongst impartial voters, with 36% in comparison with 31% for Biden and 30% for Trump…. One other latest ballot performed by The New York Instances and Siena Faculty reveals that I’m closing the hole on Trump and Biden in six battleground states — AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI — the place I come inside single digits of the two-party candidates. In these six battleground states, I beat Trump and Biden amongst 18-44 yr olds.”

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“Q&A with Rep. Dean Phillips” [The Dartmouth (Petal)]. Phillips: “Individuals are screaming as loud as they will that they’re determined. Life isn’t inexpensive. It’s true right here in New Hampshire with heating oil, costs are so excessive for some that there are hundreds ready in line for subsidies, children going to high school hungry, housing out of attain for many individuals and turning into unaffordable for individuals who are even of their homes proper now, grocery costs via the roof. I voted for lots of the President’s insurance policies. My rivalry isn’t that what we did was unhealthy. My rivalry is it’s not sufficient. And my rivalry is that Bidennomics has grow to be an anchor weighing down the Democratic Occasion, because it represents to most Individuals. I’m not saying that the insurance policies have been unhealthy. All I’m saying is now we have to do higher. How will we do this? Affordability, affordability, affordability. Power coverage, our farm invoice and meals coverage, our housing coverage, our schooling coverage and our well being care coverage, are all components of how we increase the inspiration for arduous working Individuals.” And: “The trail ahead is mutual empathy… I intend to be the primary Jewish President in American historical past, who indicators paperwork that assist set up a Palestinian state. That to me is the answer. And that’s the place the empathy begins.” • Fascinating!

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PA: “Democrats’ Massive Bucks County College Board Sweep Ought to Unnerve Republicans In all places” [RealClearPolitics]. “There are solely a handful of counties on this nation that may authentically declare their voting habits are bona fide bellwethers for elections in battleground states. Bucks County, a suburb close to Philadelphia, is considered one of them. What makes it so is the political range of voters that’s break up up into three distinct geographical patches: Decrease Bucks, Central Bucks and Higher Bucks…. Decrease Bucks has at all times been crammed with working-class voters… Central Bucks are the voters who moved up and out of Decrease Bucks because it started to say no as business did. They typically are higher center class…. Then there’s Higher Bucks, which is a component rural, half suburb…. Of the three elements of Bucks County, it’s the one that’s the most really conservative…. On Tuesday, voters determined to vary the stability of energy on the Central Bucks College District’s faculty board, which beforehand had a 6-3 Republican majority. This week, voters flipped it to a pending 6-3 Democratic majority…. Apparently, a majority of voters rebelled towards the involvement of the nationwide Mothers for Liberty, portrayed by the media as excessive, and which was thought by many centrist voters, even those that often lean Republican, to make use of rhetoric that was a bridge too far. Bucks County voters are telling Republicans to cease with the overreach. They’re additionally telling the Democrats, ‘We didn’t precisely vote for you as a lot as we voted towards the Republicans.’”

Republican Funhouse

Mitchell on comity:

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated “its very tough to regulate the conduct” of these within the constructing and that it was the accountability of Capitol Police to take care of the conduct on the Hill, not his. pic.twitter.com/ALiEr8XdOS

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 14, 2023

To be honest, we’re nowwhere close to “Caning of Sumner” territory.

“Sen. Markwayne Mullin Stands Up To Struggle Teamsters Boss Throughout Senate Listening to: ‘We Can End It Right here’” [RealClearPolitics]. “‘Nicely, stand your butt up then,’ stated Sen. Mullin. ‘You’re a United States Senator, sit down,’ yelled Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairing the listening to.” • I hate that “your butt” locution. Usually spoken by an authority determine to a baby, what does it say about how the authority determine views youngsters?

“Rep. McCarthy: I Did Not Kidney Punch Republican Congressman That Voted To Oust Me From Speakership” [RealClearPolitics]. • In the event you’re explaining, you’re dropping.

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected person readers, evidently persons are truly studying the back-dated submit! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I should do this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Occasion (“the Democrat Occasion is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated submit, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Occasion is, in truth, a tough downside. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Occasion is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Occasion didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working elements of the Occasion reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Occasion (ka-ching, however not totally) these components comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Word, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.

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“Democrats Plan to Spend Tens of millions to Weaken Republican Supermajorities” [New York Times]. “Democrats are pushing to interrupt up Republican supermajorities in states with Democratic governors, successfully battling to win again the veto pen district by district. Such supermajorities end result when a single political celebration has sufficient votes in each chambers of a legislature to override a governor’s veto, usually, although not at all times, by controlling two-thirds of the chamber. The extraordinary political dissonance of getting a governor of 1 celebration and a supermajority of an opposing celebration within the legislature is without doubt one of the starkest results of gerrymandering, revealing how events cling to evaporating energy. As gerrymanders constructed by each events for many years have tipped the scales to favor the celebration of the map-drawers, legislative chambers have proved proof against shifting political winds on the state stage. At instances, these gerrymanders have locked in minority rule in legislatures whereas statewide workplaces, just like the governor’s, adhere to the wishes of a easy majority of voters. Although each events employed aggressive gerrymanders over the last spherical of redistricting in 2021, Republicans entered the cycle with a definite benefit: In 2010, G.O.P.-controlled state legislatures throughout the nation drew aggressive gerrymanders in state governments. Democrats have been caught off guard.” • Thanks, Obama.

“Disturbances In The Discourse” [Eschaton]. FTX poodle Rising Star Sean McElwee is again. “I maintain telling about how a lot of The Discourse was actually fucked for a few years due (partially) to some FTX cash floating round… I gained’t say any names, however there are some individuals who must be indicted for being straw donors who haven’t been!!!” • Dude! Say the names! I imply, we’re not speaking Epstein’s Black Guide right here. Proper?

#COVID19

“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the deal with given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!

Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reviews); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Maskstravaganza

Nonetheless in search of methods to justify what we must always by no means need to justify within the first place:

Consumer: “That is smart. You already know, the variety of guys who are available right here to work currently, they appear to be fricking zombies. They’re going to cough and stumble round.” (adopted by a visible charade demonstration of stated zombie staff)

Hubs doesn’t resemble a zombie. For the file.

— ApocaLiz (@Lizzardo77) November 14, 2023

Good concept, although!

An infection

They only can’t assist themselves:

Oh we acquired *the* electronic mail at this time.

“Thanks for attending the blah blah blah convention. We’re sorry to tell you that there have been a number of COVID instances and suggest you check.”

Considered one of solely 4 people who wore a respirator at this factor.

— Dr Noor Bari (@NjbBari3) November 15, 2023

One other PMC superspreading occasion.

“One thing Terrible”

Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” could be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. A lot of exceptionally nasty sequelae, probably deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we’d add mind harm, together with persona modifications therefrom.

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Coverage

“USA – No immunity for jail officers sued for COVID deaths in jail, Circuit Courtroom holds” [Covid-19 Litigation]. “Shortly after the COVID-19 grew to become a nationwide emergency, the Governor of California issued an order suspending the consumption of inmates into all state correctional services and, quickly afterwards, the California Correctional Well being Care Providers adopted a coverage opposing the switch of inmates between prisons, reasoning that transfers would “carry a major danger of spreading transmission of the illness between establishments”. On this context, a bunch of high-level officers within the California jail system transferred 122 high-risk inmates from the California Establishment for Males (CIM), the place there was an outbreak of the COVID-19, to San Quentin State Jail, the place there have been no identified instances of the virus. Many of the males who have been transferred weren’t examined for COVID-19 and none of them was correctly screened for signs earlier than the switch; moreover, although a few of them exhibited signs, they weren’t placed on quarantine at their arrival on the jail; as a substitute, all of the transferred inmates have been housed in a unit with grated doorways. The switch resulted in a violent outbreak of COVID-19 on the San Quentin jail. Regardless of this state of affairs, the jail official continued to place in place insufficient protecting practices and ignored the suggestions acquired by each the Public Well being Officer and a court-appointed medical monitor of California jail. Consequently, many inmates and a guard died. The heirs of the latter filed swimsuit towards the jail officers claiming that they’d violated their relative’s substantive due course of rights by affirmatively, and with deliberate indifference, putting him in peril. Certainly, below , state employers – who in precept haven’t any constitutional responsibility to offer their staff with a protected working surroundings – are liable after they affirmatively and with deliberate indifference create or expose their staff to a harmful working surroundings. Plaintiffs additionally alleged that defendants breached their proper to familial affiliation.” • Very fascinating. Oh, and the “the Governor of California” on the time was none apart from Gavin Newsom.

Nevertheless, an analogous case within the UK loses:

They inform me I’ve to have the ability to determine who contaminated me or I haven’t got a case. This was simple in 2020/21 as workers have been examined and isolating and infectious pts recognized. Now, anybody within the hospital might’ve contaminated me. There is no masks and workers can work whereas in poor health.

2/?

— #keepmasksinhealthcare 😷 (@voidscream101) November 14, 2023

Elite Maleficence

Eugenicist Biden Administration continues to erase Covid’s airborne transmission, and any mitigations primarily based on it (air flow, Corsi-Rosenthal bins/HEPA filters, respirators):

As we head into the vacation season, now we have extra instruments out there that will help you shield you and your loved ones than ever earlier than.

Be taught extra at https://t.co/S2DQV6MlBv. pic.twitter.com/352UjAR2ao

— The White Home (@WhiteHouse) November 13, 2023

Word that this can be a full repudiation of the views of the White Home’s personal Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage (OSTP), as expressed in 2022. The then-director of OSTP, Alondra Nelson, is a Black girl. I believed we have been presupposed to hearken to them. Anyhow, the Google discloses no hits on airborne Covid transmission by Nelson in 2023, so maybe mentioning it could have been a career-ending transfer. So it goes! (In some unspecified time in the future, accident, ignorance, and inattention grow to be implausible explanations, and the most effective working assumption is that the outcomes of a coverage — on this case, mass an infection by SARS-CoV-2– are the supposed outcomes of the coverage. Identical with Maskless Mandy, HICPAC, and many others.)

Lambert right here: A lot of indicators up, beginning with wastewater. (The one I fear about probably the most is ER visits, since I believe that information is tough to sport, and who desires to go to the ER, anyhow?) I believe it’s time to ship the kinfolk these clippings you saved on mind harm (additionally, after all, the 2022 clippings: right here, right here. And the 2020 one).

Case Information

From BioBot wastewater information, November 13:

Lambert right here: Circumstances up, simply in time for Thanksgiving (and tinfoil hat time: That is the, er, inflection level CDC was attempting to hide after they gave the contract to Verily and didn’t guarantee a seamless transition).

Regional information:

In all places!

Variants

NOT UPDATED From CDC, November 11:

Lambert right here: High of the leaderboard: HV.1, EG.5 a powerful second, with FL.1.15.1 and XBB.1.1.16.6 trailing. No BA.2.86 (though that has confirmed up in CDC’s airport testing). Nonetheless a Bouillabaisse…

From CDC, October 28:

Lambert right here: I positive hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to services reduce by directors of in poor health intent).

CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance information can be reported biweekly, primarily based on the supply of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Appears to be like like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

Covid Emergency Room Visits

From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, November 11:

Lambert right here: Slight will increase in some age teams, conforming to wastewater information. Solely per week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator till Verily will get its home so as (and dealing class-centric, since I might doubt the higher crust goes to the ER).

NOTE “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your entire pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “identical to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for each_{MR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot}. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, a minimum of for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, although CDC is attempting to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections.

Hospitalization

Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of November 15:

Decline flattens. (I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading, though the hospital-centric public well being institution loves it, hospitalization and deaths being the one metrics that matter [snort]).

NOT UPDATED Right here’s a special CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, a minimum of. November 4:

Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and information offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?

Positivity

NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, November 13:

-1.4%. However bouncing round. (It will be fascinating to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer strain, went and acquired examined anyhow.)

From Cleveland Clinic, November 11:

Lambert right here: Improve (with backward revision; guess they thought it was over). I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is nice*, and we’re starved for information, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is attempting to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.

NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s information, October 23:

Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed below are the variants for vacationers, nonetheless from October 23:

Sudden large BA.2.86 look. This variant chart has not been up to date, which makes me surprise if CDC is gaming the info, and BA.2.86 is worse than we predict.

Deaths

Complete: 1,181,963 – 1,181,872 – 1,181,863 – 1,181,620 = 91 (91 * 365 = 33,215 deaths per yr, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would love, although they will discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could need to determine that is what the powers-that-be take into account “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of demise and illness). 

Extra Deaths

The Economist, November 15:

Lambert right here: Primarily based on a machine-learning mannequin.

• Demographic impacts:

NPIs looks like a attain, although.

• Extra demographic impacts:

Darwin Awards for everybody. (It will be good to have the ability to evaluate each these datasets with the “Spanish Flu” pandemic.)

Stats Watch

Immediately’s Worry & Greed Index: 41 Worry (earlier shut: 42 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 41 (Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 13 at 1:52:13 PM ET.

Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 187. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is good.) NOTE on #42 Plagues: “The coronavirus pandemic has maxed out this class.” Extra trustworthy than most! • The goat sacrificers are going to defile the Al Aqsa mosque, and the Rapture Index is down? I hardly had them within the contrarian field! UPDATE I suppose the indexing lags. I can’t recall a soar of two, and if Date Settings hadn’t been down one, it could have been three!

The Gallery

“Bringing the portray ‘Seascape close to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer’ (1888) to life” my candy Aunt Fanny:

The portray is already alive. The paint + the eyes + the mind (+, I suppose, tradition and style) make the waves, not some tediously literal minded developer.

Information of the Wired

“How Stone Partitions Turned a Signature Landform of New England” [Smithsonian]. • Legal guidelines of Correspondence between mentalitiy and landform?

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