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News round up...
Sep. 21st, 2021 09:52 pm1. Box Office: Marvel made “Shang-Chi” with the Chinese market in mind. The government won’t allow it in theaters. [ LOL!] I should provide a link, shouldn't I? Warm Reception From Asians Everywhere - Except China
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Yes, China. Proof you can be capitalistic and a fascist dictatorship at the same time.
2. Advice from Wirecutter: Consider pet insurance - Geeze, owning a pet is an expensive and stressful proposition nowadays, isn't it? ( Read more... ) See? This is why I don't have a pet - well that and I'm allergic.
3.Last week’s recall landslide in California suggests the stolen-election myth is hurting Republicans, says Rich Lowry in Politico. [ If only. I'll believe it when it happens. I'm still waiting for the Republican Party to crawl back into the cesspit from which it erupted. It's not happened yet. I'm almost resigned to the fact that it never will. We're stuck with the bloody bastards.]
4. The U.S. needs a uniform system to verify vaccination status, Dr. Tom Frieden, a former C.D.C. director, argues. [ Well, yeah. Kind of figured that out several months ago. Also, the flimsy paper cards aren't good enough. NY put in apps - two of them, the NY State Excelsior Pass, and NYC COVID Pass. You just upload your information to the app on your phone, and voila. I've also uploaded it to my doctor and my company's portal. If this was more uniform - I wouldn't have had to upload it so many times.]
5. Middle-aged sadness is behind the cancel culture panic, Michelle Goldberg argues. [ Okay. I think what's behind it is idiotic twenty-somethings cancelling professors on Twitter, Tik Tok, Facebook, and other social media platforms that I don't know the name of. Which is actually the problematic nature of Twitter in action. Cat Sebastian, LGBTA romance novelist, recently tweeted that part of the problem with this site (platform) is that it bullies people into speaking out about things. "We Know who hasn't Spoke out about this! Shame on you!" - they did that with the whole Joss Whedon thing, the actors, writers, etc who chose not to tweet about Whedon or speak out against him on Twitter and Instagram - got harassed for not doing so. (Poor Alyson Hannigan who was promoting a movie at the time - had her publicist handle Twitter. And her husband, Alexis Denisof just jumped off it completely.)
6.Justin Trudeau will stay prime minister of Canada, but his party failed to secure a majority in Parliament, according to unofficial election results. [ Is this good news? I think it is. But I also don't know who the opposition was.]
7. The S&P 500 index saw its biggest one-day slide since May. One reason: A Chinese real estate giant is in trouble. [Sigh. After I added money to my investments...ugh. Stupid China - they've put the damper on everything.]
8. Biden will address the U.N.’s General Assembly today. Yesterday, the boy band BTS took center stage. [ Okay, why is a boy band playing at the general assembly of the UN? I should provide a link... Boy Band BTS speaks in front of the UN General Assembly]
They apparently even performed there. But this was a speech about Corona Virus vaccines saving young adults.
9. Pfizer says its Covid vaccine is safe and effective in children from 5 to 11. It could be available to them in October. [ Yay!]
10. The U.S. will allow fully vaccinated foreigners to visit starting in November.[ Finally? ]
11. The Labor Department will draft standards to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat. [ Why wasn't this done before now?]
12. Two men from other states seem to be the first to use Texas’ new abortion law to sue a doctor for performing an abortion. [ This is a weird case - the two men are disbarred lawyers. So it could reveal the problematic nature of the law.]
13. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating the border patrol’s treatment of Haitian immigrants. [The immigrants were detained in San Rio, Texas. Border patrol hunted them down on horseback and decided to deport them back to Haiti without warning. This is after they worked for years to get to the US. ]
14. The Biden administration will raise the cap on refugee admissions to 125,000 for the coming 12 months. [ They kind of have to - considering we left a bit of a crisis in Afghanistan.]
15. A glitch revealed the ballot choices of hundreds of voters in New York City’s mayoral primary — including the mayor’s son’s. [ Woopsie.]
16. Oh, there's also 31 new television shows premiering this fall, after the pandemic glut. (I disagree, there were some great shows that popped up during the pandemic. Queen's Gambit, Bridgerton...both come to mind.)
31 Television Shows to Watch - depending on what your service is of course
IDK - I am nostalgic for the days in which there were just 10. Actually, I'm guessing there's more than 31, but the critics gave up and just list the ones they managed to see. Well that, and the networks/streaming services pretty much greenlit every single pilot they saw. So.. I mean who has time to watch over 100 television shows, sixty percent of which are real clunkers?
Not to be outdone, there's also More than 125 movies to watch - basically every movie that was put on hold since 2020, that they did not want to release on streaming channels and felt needed to be seen in movie theaters. So we have a backlog of a year and a half of movies coming out. Blame the pandemic.
( Excerpt )
Yes, China. Proof you can be capitalistic and a fascist dictatorship at the same time.
2. Advice from Wirecutter: Consider pet insurance - Geeze, owning a pet is an expensive and stressful proposition nowadays, isn't it? ( Read more... ) See? This is why I don't have a pet - well that and I'm allergic.
3.Last week’s recall landslide in California suggests the stolen-election myth is hurting Republicans, says Rich Lowry in Politico. [ If only. I'll believe it when it happens. I'm still waiting for the Republican Party to crawl back into the cesspit from which it erupted. It's not happened yet. I'm almost resigned to the fact that it never will. We're stuck with the bloody bastards.]
4. The U.S. needs a uniform system to verify vaccination status, Dr. Tom Frieden, a former C.D.C. director, argues. [ Well, yeah. Kind of figured that out several months ago. Also, the flimsy paper cards aren't good enough. NY put in apps - two of them, the NY State Excelsior Pass, and NYC COVID Pass. You just upload your information to the app on your phone, and voila. I've also uploaded it to my doctor and my company's portal. If this was more uniform - I wouldn't have had to upload it so many times.]
5. Middle-aged sadness is behind the cancel culture panic, Michelle Goldberg argues. [ Okay. I think what's behind it is idiotic twenty-somethings cancelling professors on Twitter, Tik Tok, Facebook, and other social media platforms that I don't know the name of. Which is actually the problematic nature of Twitter in action. Cat Sebastian, LGBTA romance novelist, recently tweeted that part of the problem with this site (platform) is that it bullies people into speaking out about things. "We Know who hasn't Spoke out about this! Shame on you!" - they did that with the whole Joss Whedon thing, the actors, writers, etc who chose not to tweet about Whedon or speak out against him on Twitter and Instagram - got harassed for not doing so. (Poor Alyson Hannigan who was promoting a movie at the time - had her publicist handle Twitter. And her husband, Alexis Denisof just jumped off it completely.)
6.Justin Trudeau will stay prime minister of Canada, but his party failed to secure a majority in Parliament, according to unofficial election results. [ Is this good news? I think it is. But I also don't know who the opposition was.]
7. The S&P 500 index saw its biggest one-day slide since May. One reason: A Chinese real estate giant is in trouble. [Sigh. After I added money to my investments...ugh. Stupid China - they've put the damper on everything.]
8. Biden will address the U.N.’s General Assembly today. Yesterday, the boy band BTS took center stage. [ Okay, why is a boy band playing at the general assembly of the UN? I should provide a link... Boy Band BTS speaks in front of the UN General Assembly]
They apparently even performed there. But this was a speech about Corona Virus vaccines saving young adults.
9. Pfizer says its Covid vaccine is safe and effective in children from 5 to 11. It could be available to them in October. [ Yay!]
10. The U.S. will allow fully vaccinated foreigners to visit starting in November.[ Finally? ]
11. The Labor Department will draft standards to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat. [ Why wasn't this done before now?]
12. Two men from other states seem to be the first to use Texas’ new abortion law to sue a doctor for performing an abortion. [ This is a weird case - the two men are disbarred lawyers. So it could reveal the problematic nature of the law.]
13. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating the border patrol’s treatment of Haitian immigrants. [The immigrants were detained in San Rio, Texas. Border patrol hunted them down on horseback and decided to deport them back to Haiti without warning. This is after they worked for years to get to the US. ]
14. The Biden administration will raise the cap on refugee admissions to 125,000 for the coming 12 months. [ They kind of have to - considering we left a bit of a crisis in Afghanistan.]
15. A glitch revealed the ballot choices of hundreds of voters in New York City’s mayoral primary — including the mayor’s son’s. [ Woopsie.]
16. Oh, there's also 31 new television shows premiering this fall, after the pandemic glut. (I disagree, there were some great shows that popped up during the pandemic. Queen's Gambit, Bridgerton...both come to mind.)
31 Television Shows to Watch - depending on what your service is of course
IDK - I am nostalgic for the days in which there were just 10. Actually, I'm guessing there's more than 31, but the critics gave up and just list the ones they managed to see. Well that, and the networks/streaming services pretty much greenlit every single pilot they saw. So.. I mean who has time to watch over 100 television shows, sixty percent of which are real clunkers?
Not to be outdone, there's also More than 125 movies to watch - basically every movie that was put on hold since 2020, that they did not want to release on streaming channels and felt needed to be seen in movie theaters. So we have a backlog of a year and a half of movies coming out. Blame the pandemic.