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@VegasFrank said:

@peter4jc said:
The fact is, the media covers what they want and doesn't cover what they don't want, and slants what they cover to portray what they're covering any way they want.

The media covers what they are told to cover, and they are told how to cover it. Both sides.

Rats! I thought I could sneak this one in while Frank was out of town. Did not count on such a quick recovery by him.

The PBS News Hour has a segment every Friday, Brooks & Capeheart, to discuss the weeks political headlines. Brooks is in the conservative corner but not so deep that PBS won't let him in the door - so he's in the center-left of the Right side. Anyway, as they discussed the CR, Capeheart was saying the Left was correct to chastize Shumer and those that voted with the enemy to pass the CR, and they need to resist Trump at every opportunity. Brooks made a very interesting point, that the Right was hoping they'd shoot it down so that Trump's henchmen could do some of their dastardly deeds during the shutdown that they couldn't do in normal times when the gov't is up and running; like a shutdown would give them the chance to do what the Left didn't want them to do because of an 'emergency'.

Looks like a bad patch of concrete. Probably marking it to cover their asś in case somebody trips instead of just fixing it.

Watching the https://southernmostpointwebcam.com/ is a good sociology lesson,. Today I watched over 100 people either walk over or around a toppled traffic cone without righting it until a 5 year old girl picked it up while the parents looked on. A real lesson in the lack of civic responsibility in most of this culture. "Not my problem"....

Algore makes a good point. I think a big part of why Mark didn't notice might be the stark contrast in how the media covered that event vs. how anything to do with the current administration is covered. The fact is, the media covers what they want and doesn't cover what they don't want, and slants what they cover to portray what they're covering any way they want.

I am not saying we are not seeing unprecedented measures (some are indeed extreme)... I would propose that the circumstances surrounding/requiring Algore's alleged cuts were less drastic. The bureaucracy that exists is responsible for ruining much about what makes this nation great (IMHO) and is so entrenched that it won't go quietly into the night. I wish it were someone other than Trump trying to change things, someone who knew how to communicate without alienating, someone who knew how to get a message across in a way that made people want to work with him, but that ain't happening.

Just a dormant oil. I am not a very good orchardist. Bugs are a problem because I don't want to use the heavy duty sprays and haven't figured out the timing for the "organic" ones. Yet.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-easternmost-point-in-north-america-is-actually-west-of-alaska.html

In the contiguous United States, the farthest east anyone can travel is to Sail Rock, Lubec, Maine. The furthest east you can travel to is Point Udall, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Both of these spots are not actually the easternmost point of the United States. That designation belongs to the state of Alaska, which also happens to have the westernmost point of the United States with Amatignak Island. In short, it has to do with hemispheres and Alaska crosses the 180th Meridian.