The More we Post...

...the quicker we get to our 5000th post. This is post 4780. 

News and New Jersey notes.

Gab's Andrew Torba reports that GETTR (in the news again because Joe Rogan fled there) is built on Amazon Web Services. Are the people running GETTR out of their mother loving minds? Parler used AWS and got nuked for their trouble. We watched Gab get bounced by its registrar and at least one hosting company until Torba built his own servers. Now he's got his own ap, search engine and payment processor. Torba is building a parallel economy. Viva Gab! Viva Torba. 

Russia Today reports widespread violence in Kazakhstan: 'Kazakhstan’s authorities have imposed a state of emergency across the country in an attempt to get a grip on a deteriorating security situation, after widespread demonstrations were sparked by a gas price hike.' That seems to happen a lot around Russia's near aboard no? Funny that. Maybe we're just getting paranoid. [Getting?-Ed] Feel free to insert a Borat joke. 

Good and more of this please. The Times of Israel reports, 'A Tel Aviv court on Wednesday sentenced a man to one year in prison for his involvement in a mob attack on an Arab motorist during a spasm of communal violence last year. Lahav Nagauker, who was 20 at the time, was convicted of incitement to violence and racism as part of a plea deal that resulted in lighter charges. His sentencing was the first in the incident that took place last May, when a mob yanked Saeed Mousa from his car and proceeded to beat him in an assault that left him motionless and bloodied on the ground, and seriously injured.' Don't act like Palestinians. 

NJ.com reports on Covid in New Jersey: 'New Jersey on Wednesday reported another 58 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and a new one-day record of 31,391 confirmed positive cases, while the number of coronavirus patients across the state’s increasingly stressed hospitals have now surpassed 5,400 — the most in more than 20 months. The state’s seven-day average for new confirmed positive tests increased to 26,862, up 85% from a week ago and nearly nine times higher than a month ago.'

Here in Bridgewater the girls are doing half days this week, but everything the district says hints that we're going all virtual next week. There's a (virtual) schoolboard meeting tonight. We're making the girls read a little extra but that's it. Is our belief that all the extra learning we forced on them during the spring of 2020 did no good at all.

We're staying away from the gym for a few weeks. We may or may not go for a walk later. Wonder if we'd pass anyone wearing a mask outdoors. Loser. 

Below, an ESPN/ New Jersey Devil's commercial. Unlike the old New Jersey Nets, the Devils have a dedicated fan base around here. This always was a hockey region. It supports three teams: