“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday rejected requests from former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell [to] dismiss lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems against the three,” The Hill reported on August 11, 2[...]
Archive for August, 2021
August 11th, 2021 - 7:14 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Trump-appointed judge greenlights election vendor’s lawsuit against Trump allies
August 11th, 2021 - 6:25 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
Choose Covid-19 advice carefully, and pray school officials do the same
It’s a good idea to choose medical advice as carefully as you would buy a car. This is ought to go without saying. But don’t underestimate the power of human nature; people listen to what they want to hear, and shut out what they don’t want to hear. Dan Stock, M.D. (photo, left), s[...]
August 11th, 2021 - 12:09 pm § in Misc.
Spokane woman to be West Point’s top cadet
Local kid makes good story: This Sunday, Holland Pratt (photo, left) of Liberty Lake, Washington, will become West Point’s First Captain of Cadets, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reported on August 11, 2021 (story here; see West Point press release here). First Captains are “responsible fo[...]
August 10th, 2021 - 12:14 am § in Health
What we know about infections among vaccinated people
The Covid-19 pandemic is a dynamic challenge to our society. As new information keeps coming in, specialists improve their understanding, and as threats evolve in terms of new and more transmissible variants coupled with waning vaccine effectiveness, and rising “breakthrough” cases in va[...]
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Florida governor doubles down on pushing mask choice
“In a move that escalated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fight over mask mandates,” the governor threatened Monday “to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard the governor’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts,R[...]
August 9th, 2021 - 4:47 pm § in Environment
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A GOP congressman’s vaccine advice
From Huffington Post, Monday, August 9, 2021 (story here): “Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) is refusing to say whether he has received the COVID-19 vaccine, because he doesn’t want to be ‘taking sides on it.’ “The conservative congressman made his comments to a reporter from WKOW-TV in Ma[...]
August 8th, 2021 - 10:53 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Can a judge condition probation on vaccination?
An Ohio judge gave a drug defendant 60 days to get vaccinated as a probation condition (read story here). The man apparently would rather go to jail, or at least his lawyers are waiting to see what the judge does after the 60 days are up, with no vaccination. So, how about that? Is this […][...]
August 8th, 2021 - 10:08 pm § in Health
8/8/21 Covid-19 status report
A gusher of bad news … 107,000 daily new cases, 66,000 in hospitals Ambitious GOP governors “gamble with children’s lives” (story here) Scientists warn a “doomsday” variant may be coming (story here) Florida children’s hospitals are “overwhelmed” (story here) Unvaccinated 2x[...]