June 30, 2019

Trump clever about 2 things: media distractions and using other people's money. . . . nt

June 30, 2019

A.c.t.u.a.l.l.y, Democrats are offering a lot to appeal to tRump voters if they'd think about it.

Trump voters are bamboozled by labels like the "left", which is why the editorial board of the WSJ uses such labels.

Emphasize the positives of proposals getting hashed out by the Democrats:

* Forgiveness of student debt. Many Trump voters have student debt or children facing such debt.

* Medicare for all. Many tRump voters don't/didn't have insurance or are chained to jobs by needed insurance benefits.

* Tax the rich. Most tRump voters never saw a tangible benefit from the tax heist TrumpubliCons pulled off.

Never deny the label if you are on the left but no need to raise it either. Talk up the accomplishments and especially the platforms of your favorite candidates with tRump voters who might listen or politely pretend to listen, even if rare. Appeal to their self-interests as the way in to make them think a bit.

tRump likes to create distractions so that both sides don't think too much. Make his voters think.

June 29, 2019

Kelly Koncentration Kamps ... brought to you by Трамп-RubleCon Party aka Grumpy Old People. . . . nt

June 27, 2019

OK, looking at it at a little finer detail than I was, reading off a chart, I see that peaks were in

Jan 24, 2018 was 2872,
Sep 20, 2018 was 2941,
Apr 30, 2019 was 2953,
Jun 20, 2019 was 2965.

I don't know about closes, I am eyeballing intraday peaks and rounding last digit. I could be off by one or two and a day. Close enough we can see we are looking at the same basic data.


The point I wish to make is that tRump's stock market is chaotic and just barely eking out new highs before plunging. I do not see it as strong market. It has made four major peaks in his term so far and the latter three are hardly much higher than the first one.

I dug up some S&P500 closes, dates selected just before terms began, accounting for weekend closures:

Close Jan 16, 2009: 850.12
Close Jan 20, 2009: 805.22
Close Jan 19, 2011: 1281.92
51% rise from Jan 16 close

Close Jan 18, 2013: 1485.98
Close Jan 16, 1015: 2022.55
36% rise

Close Jan 19, 2017: 2263.69
Close Jan 19, 2019: 2670.71
18% rise

So we can see that tRump did not beat Obama in either of his first two years of terms. Even if we grant tRump his highest point in his first two years, he still can't beat Obama.

Close Sep 20, 2918: 2930.75
29% rise

June 26, 2019

Term derives from the photo, the book, and the movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American_(film)









Book



1948 photo

June 19, 2019

Born Free and Equal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Free and Equal:
The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans Born Free and Equal
Author Ansel Adams
Illustrator Ansel Adams
Country United States
Language English
Subject Internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943–4.
Genre Photography books
Publisher U.S. Camera, New York
Publication date 1944
Media type Hardcover
Pages 112 p. illus. (incl. ports.)

Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans is a book by Ansel Adams containing photographs from his 1943–1944 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center[1] in Owens Valley, Inyo County, California. The book was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera in New York.

In the summer of 1943, Adams was invited by his friend, newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt, to photograph life at the camp. The project and the accompanying book and exhibition at the MoMA created a significant amount of controversy, partly owing to the subject matter. World War II was still being fought and the animosity against Americans of Japanese descent was high, especially on the West Coast.

Adams was not the only photographer to take pictures in Manzanar. Before him, Dorothea Lange had visited all eleven Japanese-American internment camps[citation needed] while a staff photographer for the War Relocation Authority. During Lange's visit in 1942, the camp was a less organized state and Lange was driven to portray the injustice of the relocation project, leading to a harsher and less optimistic portrayal of camp life than Adams's. The third photographer was internee Toyo Miyatake, previously a studio photographer in Los Angeles. Miyatake initially took photos with an improvised camera fashioned from parts he smuggled into the camp. His activity was discovered after nine months, but Merritt supported the endeavor and allowed him to have his stored studio equipment shipped to the camp and continue the project (initially a camp guard had to release the shutter for him after Miyatake had positioned the camera). Miyatake and Adams met and befriended each other at the camp, while Lange's and Adams's visits did not overlap.

Adams's goal in the project was twofold: to stress the good American citizenship of the internees, as conveyed in the subtitle of the book, "The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans"; and to show their ability to cope with the situation:

The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use. (Ansel Adams, 1965.[2])

Adams donated his collection of Manzanar photos to the Library of Congress in 1965.[3] In 2001, Spotted Dog Press published an updated version of Born Free and Equal with a foreword by Archie Miyatake, son of Manzanar photographer Toyo Miyatake.[4] The new version of the book has on the front cover a photo of Joyce Okazaki (née Nakamura), one of the children Adam's photographed.[1]