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Post by MichyM on May 17, 2020 0:34:29 GMT
I’m watching the news right now, and of course the virus and it effects are still dominant, understandably so. Other than politics and the fall election, what other things do you think would be getting attention in the news right now if not for the virus?
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Post by pierkiss on May 17, 2020 0:37:49 GMT
Stupid shit trump stays. Just like always. 🤪
ETA: I literally have no idea of what else is happening in the world other than Covid. Maybe they would be paying more attention to the man who was recently killed by the white guys? Or maybe they would be covering the guy who was involuntarily held by neighborhood white people? I don’t know.
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Post by lisae on May 17, 2020 0:38:37 GMT
The Arbery murder is already getting significant press coverage but would likely be getting more coverage.
We would be seeing those clips of graduation speeches by famous people at college graduations.
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Post by cycworker on May 17, 2020 0:39:35 GMT
Well, we'd have sports... NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs, NWSL, prep for football, prep for the Olympics.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 17, 2020 0:45:14 GMT
Oh, I don’t know, maybe some of the other corrupt crap Trump has been pulling that he’s been firing all of those IGs for lately? And a lot of sports. Plus we’re heading into severe weather season so hurricanes and tornadoes.
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Post by auntkelly on May 17, 2020 0:56:55 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on May 17, 2020 0:59:05 GMT
Well there probably would have been about 8 school/workplace shootings during the last two months that would have filled up lots of airtime. Sad that it takes a lockdown/quarantine to keep that from happening.
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Post by shescrafty on May 17, 2020 1:06:51 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards. Well that honks! I am so sorry and hope it is just a bit of a postponement and it still happens. |
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Post by monklady123 on May 17, 2020 1:08:34 GMT
-- trump and the stupid idiotic ridiculous ignorant things he says. -- the horrible attack on the maternity hospital in Kabul  -- Kim Jong-Un -- graduations around the country and the speeches of famous people, especially President Obama.  |
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Post by peasquared on May 17, 2020 1:23:18 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards. That's very exciting! Congratulations! I'm sorry you didn't get the book signing and celebration you deserve, though. |
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Post by GamGam on May 17, 2020 1:27:46 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards. Auntkelly, Did the book signing take place today? From your post, I assumed it did not. And I am so sorry. But congratulations on your book!!! What is the name of the book? I would be interested in reading it. |
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Post by scrapsotime on May 17, 2020 1:30:23 GMT
There would have been more about the horrible accident that killed a man on a motorcycle and I would have known it was my neighbor before today.
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Post by ~summer~ on May 17, 2020 1:40:58 GMT
Trump
School shootings
Climate change
The stock market
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Post by pierogi on May 17, 2020 1:49:17 GMT
-- trump and the stupid idiotic ridiculous ignorant things he says. -- the horrible attack on the maternity hospital in Kabul -- Kim Jong-Un -- graduations around the country and the speeches of famous people, especially President Obama. We would be having a “Kim watch” where everyone would be speculating how sick or dead he is, and whether he’d try a body double, and getting background on his crazy sister. Who may very well be the next leader. Also the Mary Kate Olsen/Sarkozy divorce would be getting more air. |
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Post by yodutchess on May 17, 2020 1:51:05 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards. I am sorry you did not receive this honor. Our local bookstore has been doing Online interviews with authors. I hope you are able to be recognized once things open in your area. And shill your book on the pea reading thread. I would buy one too! |
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Post by PNWMom on May 17, 2020 2:46:22 GMT
The freaking West Seattle Bridge disaster.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 3:11:53 GMT
auntkelly congratulations on your book! I'm so sorry the celebration couldn't take place as planned. I hope it will just be a postponement and can be done soon.
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Post by MichyM on May 17, 2020 3:24:33 GMT
The freaking West Seattle Bridge disaster. agreed. |
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Post by papersilly on May 17, 2020 3:34:32 GMT
Election ramping up
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Post by katlady on May 17, 2020 3:35:00 GMT
Obamagate.
Also, crime in the area was down significantly in April, so there would have been more local crime news.
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Post by used2scrap on May 17, 2020 4:27:51 GMT
Tropical Storm Arthur around these parts...
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Post by 1girlygirl on May 17, 2020 4:52:44 GMT
The governor quietly repealing the death penalty probably would’ve made the news, and I don’t recall hearing anything announced when it happened. Too bad the weasel of a governor before him chose not to follow through with those sitting on death row at the time, like the Chuck E Cheese shooter and the guy who had some witnesses killed. Now it will never happen.
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Post by wellway on May 17, 2020 6:56:14 GMT
Brexit, brexit, brexit, namely the trade negotiations or lack of them. It is still in the news just off to the side not front and centre. A ton of sport, the lead up to the Euros. Miss my sports This morning there would have been coverage of the Eurovision song contest. Instead we got lots of review programmes looking back. We watched one called the A to Z of Eurovision and it was a trip down memory lane. If you want a small escape have a look at this video. It shows the two presenters when Sweden hosted the show performing the interval act, how to write and perform a song to win the competition. Everything that you see happen on stage happened in some nation's act in previous years. Eurovision is delightfully mad. m.youtube.com/watchv=cv6tgnx6jtqYou will all know the most famous interval act, first performed in Dublin at Eurovision, Riverdance. |
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Post by inkedup on May 17, 2020 7:46:13 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards. What an accomplishment! It really stinks you can't celebrate this in the way you deserve. I hope you and your friends will be able to get together someday soon. |
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Post by mom on May 17, 2020 8:40:40 GMT
In my hometown paper, the headline today would been about my book signing for a book I co-wrote about a devastating F5 tornado which blasted through my hometown almost 65 years’ ago. The local museum was going to dedicate a new room in the local museum about the tornado in conjunction with the book signing. A well-known local television meteorologist, who wrote the forward for the book was going to appear at the book signing. (He would have been the star of the show). Several of my high school friends who have moved away from my hometown were going to come home for the book signing and we were going to have a get together afterwards. Very cool! I bet the book is interesting! |
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Post by gar on May 17, 2020 8:48:58 GMT
Yeah, definitely Brexit for us. The new Labour leader was installed April 4th and I suspect he would have been more vocal without the virus stuff going on. HS2 a high speed train link between London, the Midlands and the North which is costing eleventy billions and counting.
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Post by sueg on May 17, 2020 12:02:38 GMT
Here it would be football (soccer) - last weekend would have been the final week of the Bundesliga season and we would have had the DFB Cup final yesterday evening, then the preparations for the Euros. We do have the liga back this weekend, and hopefully it will be able to be played through to the end, albiet without fans in stadiums, but the Euros are gone.
Eurovision would depend on how well or badly our entry did - I haven't heard it, so I have no idea there.
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