News Headline: “FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home.”
Give credit to President Trump.
This is more exciting than Watergate.
But still waiting for the perp walks
QT Midwest New Madrid Fault, where the most recent earthquakes two centuries ago changed the course of the Mississippi River and toppled chimneys as far away as Maine, although geologists say there is only a 10 percent chance of a major quake in the next 50 years, which includes any moment now, update
News Headline: “No, the upcoming solar eclipse will not cause the New Madrid fault
to slip.”
Let’s set aside this superstition.
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it: “Earthquakes are random in time.”
So forget the eclipse. Be reassured. The earthquake could happen tomorrow.
QT news you can use
QT sunspot and solar wind update:
11 and 910,800 mph.
Or did you want to see another story about Donald Trump?
Day 202, America held hostage
News Headline: “Trump vows ‘fire and fury like the world has never seen.’ ”
News Headline: “John McCain on President Trump’s North Korea threat: ‘I don’t know what he’s saying.’ ”
That’s OK..
Trump doesn’t, either.
QT Grammar R Us Seminar on the English Language
News Item: “. . . but this seems pretty beyond the pail. . . . “
Jack and Jill ended up beyond the pail.
The rest of us? Beyond the pale.
And is it time for QT’s triennial reminder that those who pronounce “naïveté” with four syllables instead of three are not being erudite, which is pronounced, also, with three syllables, not four?
Evidently.
QT LatestCarjacker Who Didn’t Know How to Work a Stick Shift Worldwide Pinpoint Locator
4:20 p.m., Friday, August 4, on Interstate 890 at Exit 5 in Schenectady, N.Y.
GovernMania MMXVII
News Headline: “Scientists fear Trump will dismiss climate change report.”
Is it mostly pictures?
Does it mention him?
Not looking good. . . .
QT Man-Bites-Dog Worldwide Pinpoint Locator
4:21 p.m. Friday, August 4, on the Line 2 subway entering St. George Station in Toronto.
Today is the 36th dog day of summer.
There are four dog days to go.
We have seen the present, and it does not work
According to a paper presented at the American Psychological Association, it should be considered a body-shaming microaggression if your physician says might want to drop a few pounds.
QT Yellowstone Caldera (the eruptions of which can be violent enough to send a layer of ash six feet deep as far away as Chicago and which erupts every 600,000 or so years and last erupted 640,000 years ago) update
News Headline: “Tremors at Yellowstone National Park spark fears ‘supervolcano’
could erupt.”
Another scare headline.
Robert B. Smith, a University of Utah geophysicist, acknowledges that the continuing swarm of more than 1,500 Yellowstone earthquakes since June 12 is “one of the typical signs” of a volcano “acting up” before an eruption.
But he says an eruption is “unlikely.”
So you can relax.
