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online today!
Internet tips and tricks?
Any internet tips/tricks that anyone is willing to share that may be beneficial to a layman like me will be much appreciated.
My contribution,,, I only know of one, is:
Download any youtube video by adding a ss between the dot and the y.
Example:
https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=4W-lUAG9T0o
This will open.
Just click on 'download' and the youtube video is yours. Look in your 'Downloads' folder, thats where mine is stored.
This works for most youtube videos, maybe not all.
My contribution,,, I only know of one, is:
Download any youtube video by adding a ss between the dot and the y.
Example:
https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=4W-lUAG9T0o
This will open.
Just click on 'download' and the youtube video is yours. Look in your 'Downloads' folder, thats where mine is stored.
This works for most youtube videos, maybe not all.
Elizabeth Hurley at 54
Posted today;
"Anyone who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Anyone who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." ~ Benjamin Franklin
Trump's at it again.
Trump claims that he's seen evidence that contradicts US intel community by claiming he's seen evidence coronavirus originated in Chinese lab.
online today!
What if...
There are lots of 'what if' stories running around about every topic imaginable.
What if I would have used cream cheese on my pastry yesterday... would it have been perfect?
This video came to me me this morning that confirms suspicions about a few things. The defiance of hospital rule that everyone is required to wear a mask. Logically, speaking... would YOU go into Mayo clinic and not wear a mask?
What if a vaccine already exists for COVID-19
What if the US was involved in planting a virus in China?
Yeah, I know... The New York Post!
What if I would have used cream cheese on my pastry yesterday... would it have been perfect?
This video came to me me this morning that confirms suspicions about a few things. The defiance of hospital rule that everyone is required to wear a mask. Logically, speaking... would YOU go into Mayo clinic and not wear a mask?
What if a vaccine already exists for COVID-19
What if the US was involved in planting a virus in China?
Yeah, I know... The New York Post!
eliminating government in the post Reagan age
from the NY Times ...
States Are in Crisis. Why Won’t Trump Help?
Federal support for cities and states was a core part of the New Deal. The president is tearing it apart.
By Lizabeth Cohen
Dr. Cohen is a professor of history at Harvard and the author of “Making a New Deal.”
April 29, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
When most people think of the New Deal, they think of the enduring institutions it created — above all, the web of agencies and programs that has provided the social safety net, such as it is, for life in the United States since the 1950s. A national retirement system, public housing, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage — all had their origins during the Great Depression.
More important than any specific benefits, however, was the way that the New Deal recast the structure of American federalism. Washington stepped in to address a crisis that states and local governments were failing miserably to meet on their own, overwhelmed by tremendous need and limited by the resources and powers at their disposal.
New Deal federalism has shaped American governance for almost a century, and it has played a vital role in our country’s success. Now, with the Covid-19 crisis wreaking havoc across every state in America and the president unwilling to hold up Washington’s end of the bargain, that system may be falling apart.
For all the New Deal’s achievements, the American welfare state would never live up to the fuller protections provided by some European nations and our neighbor Canada. And there were glaring flaws in the programs that were created, such as excluding agricultural and domestic workers from the minimum wage guarantees of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and refusing to pass anti-lynching legislation. Both of these failures were partly attributable to the fragile coalition of Southern Democrats and Northern liberals that made the New Deal possible.
Still, the New Deal’s programs, enhanced by the Great Society’s addition of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act in 2010, made the United States on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic a far more benevolent place than it had been when the Great Depression hit in 1929.
New Deal federalism likewise made it easier for the states to respond to challenges and emergencies. But in exchange for federal resources, states accepted the federal government’s expectations and regulations. That relationship has substantially contributed to historic levels of economic prosperity and notable progress toward greater class and racial equality across regions.
Many of the landmark programs originating in the New Deal and the postwar era were built on this system of governance, with great success. Social Security has reduced poverty among older Americans. Intervention by the U.S. Justice Department helped the struggle to register African-American voters in the South and to integrate public accommodations nationwide. And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided a legal basis for accountability, even if challenging to enforce.
The expansion of federal authority took place under Republican and Democratic presidents alike. When the variation in workplace protections state by state left some workers more endangered than others, the federal government under President Richard Nixon created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to set national standards for safety.
And faced with wildly unequal welfare benefits across the states, the government instituted the uniform, federally funded Supplemental Security Income program in the early 1970s. Federal consumer protection and clean air and water legislation in the 1960s and 1970s protected citizens in all states, however friendly their local leaders were to mass marketers or polluters.
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States Are in Crisis. Why Won’t Trump Help?
Federal support for cities and states was a core part of the New Deal. The president is tearing it apart.
By Lizabeth Cohen
Dr. Cohen is a professor of history at Harvard and the author of “Making a New Deal.”
April 29, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
When most people think of the New Deal, they think of the enduring institutions it created — above all, the web of agencies and programs that has provided the social safety net, such as it is, for life in the United States since the 1950s. A national retirement system, public housing, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage — all had their origins during the Great Depression.
More important than any specific benefits, however, was the way that the New Deal recast the structure of American federalism. Washington stepped in to address a crisis that states and local governments were failing miserably to meet on their own, overwhelmed by tremendous need and limited by the resources and powers at their disposal.
New Deal federalism has shaped American governance for almost a century, and it has played a vital role in our country’s success. Now, with the Covid-19 crisis wreaking havoc across every state in America and the president unwilling to hold up Washington’s end of the bargain, that system may be falling apart.
For all the New Deal’s achievements, the American welfare state would never live up to the fuller protections provided by some European nations and our neighbor Canada. And there were glaring flaws in the programs that were created, such as excluding agricultural and domestic workers from the minimum wage guarantees of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and refusing to pass anti-lynching legislation. Both of these failures were partly attributable to the fragile coalition of Southern Democrats and Northern liberals that made the New Deal possible.
Still, the New Deal’s programs, enhanced by the Great Society’s addition of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act in 2010, made the United States on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic a far more benevolent place than it had been when the Great Depression hit in 1929.
New Deal federalism likewise made it easier for the states to respond to challenges and emergencies. But in exchange for federal resources, states accepted the federal government’s expectations and regulations. That relationship has substantially contributed to historic levels of economic prosperity and notable progress toward greater class and racial equality across regions.
Many of the landmark programs originating in the New Deal and the postwar era were built on this system of governance, with great success. Social Security has reduced poverty among older Americans. Intervention by the U.S. Justice Department helped the struggle to register African-American voters in the South and to integrate public accommodations nationwide. And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided a legal basis for accountability, even if challenging to enforce.
The expansion of federal authority took place under Republican and Democratic presidents alike. When the variation in workplace protections state by state left some workers more endangered than others, the federal government under President Richard Nixon created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to set national standards for safety.
And faced with wildly unequal welfare benefits across the states, the government instituted the uniform, federally funded Supplemental Security Income program in the early 1970s. Federal consumer protection and clean air and water legislation in the 1960s and 1970s protected citizens in all states, however friendly their local leaders were to mass marketers or polluters.
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Batman & Robin
No, this isn't about a comic book 
It's also not about a TV show.
It also has little to do with any Wuhan virus source.
The truth is, that some people refer to me as Batman.
No, not because I wear a black cape.
It has a lot more to do with, that I have batted leadoff on lots of baseball & softball teams.
I often have the highest batting average on my teams.
Thus, some people call me batman. OK, enough on the reason for that part of the blog title.
In reality this blog has more to do with Robin.
And it's not because a previous girlfriend's name is Robin, even though that's true.
It has to do with a current house 'guest'.
On my front door porch light a robin has built a nest.
She very tolerant of me going in & out of the house.
When I open the front door, she flies to a nearbry small tree and gives me a "chirp chirp".
It's not an aggressive nor angry expression. It's more like a "hello".
She's never flown at me, or made any angry, nor aggressive moves.
It's like she understands, that we share this property.
There was one across the street at my neighbor's house last year, that used to attack the couple who live there and their dog. Since they knocked that nest down, mine might even be the same bird.
Whenever I go in or out of the house, I talk low and gentle to her.
i.e. "Hello moma bird. How are you today ?"
When I do, she stops chirping and tilts her head, as if she is listening and trying to understand what I'm saying. If I walk to my car in the driveway, she will often follow and then fly into a tree near the car and chirp.
If I come back home later, she is often in the nest and we look eye to eye to each other, sometimes for a minute or so, perhaps 2 feet from each other and she doesn't fly at all until I open the front door. That happened again moments ago.
I went out today to check out the tulips & hyacinths I planted (they are doing great) and to inspect the veggies I planted. Spinach, radishes and leaf lettuce were all up last week. Today I noticed that scallions are now coming up.
For the first time, I also saw papa robin today. He flew into a tall tree and just watched me go into the house. Looking in the direction of the nest, while she was in the short tree more nearby me,
No chirping from him. I'm guessing if I made a move towards the nest, I might have been attacked by him.
The enforcer robin. I wouldn't be right to attack Batman. 
(Not my photo)
It's also not about a TV show.
It also has little to do with any Wuhan virus source.
The truth is, that some people refer to me as Batman.
No, not because I wear a black cape.
It has a lot more to do with, that I have batted leadoff on lots of baseball & softball teams.
I often have the highest batting average on my teams.
Thus, some people call me batman. OK, enough on the reason for that part of the blog title.
In reality this blog has more to do with Robin.
And it's not because a previous girlfriend's name is Robin, even though that's true.
It has to do with a current house 'guest'.
On my front door porch light a robin has built a nest.
She very tolerant of me going in & out of the house.
When I open the front door, she flies to a nearbry small tree and gives me a "chirp chirp".
It's not an aggressive nor angry expression. It's more like a "hello".
She's never flown at me, or made any angry, nor aggressive moves.
It's like she understands, that we share this property.
There was one across the street at my neighbor's house last year, that used to attack the couple who live there and their dog. Since they knocked that nest down, mine might even be the same bird.
Whenever I go in or out of the house, I talk low and gentle to her.
i.e. "Hello moma bird. How are you today ?"
When I do, she stops chirping and tilts her head, as if she is listening and trying to understand what I'm saying. If I walk to my car in the driveway, she will often follow and then fly into a tree near the car and chirp.
If I come back home later, she is often in the nest and we look eye to eye to each other, sometimes for a minute or so, perhaps 2 feet from each other and she doesn't fly at all until I open the front door. That happened again moments ago.
I went out today to check out the tulips & hyacinths I planted (they are doing great) and to inspect the veggies I planted. Spinach, radishes and leaf lettuce were all up last week. Today I noticed that scallions are now coming up.
For the first time, I also saw papa robin today. He flew into a tall tree and just watched me go into the house. Looking in the direction of the nest, while she was in the short tree more nearby me,
No chirping from him. I'm guessing if I made a move towards the nest, I might have been attacked by him.
The enforcer robin. I wouldn't be right to attack Batman.
(Not my photo)
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