Covid-19 has savaged America. Our country’s death rate is 40 times that of Australia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand and Taiwan. Here: Over 2,000 per million of population. There: Under 50 per million. Why? They have common sense; we have Republicans. “Many lives would have been sa[...]
Archive for September, 2021
September 22nd, 2021 - 12:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Eric T. to keynote anti-vax confab
“Eric Trump is booked as keynote speaker next month at a conference organized by two major purveyors of vaccine disinformation that will feature leading personalities in the anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracy theory movements,” Huffington Post reported on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 (read[...]
Trump sues the New York Times; why that’s a good thing
Trump sued The New York Times and several of its reporters, along with his niece, on Tuesday, September 21, 2021. The Times reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for their exposé of Trump’s tax avoidance schemes. (His tax returns still aren’t public, but the Manhattan district attorney has the[...]
The great peril of Trumpism, and what we must do
The Constitution defines our system of government and protects our freedom only while we agree to abide by it. If we don’t, it’s a useless scrap of paper, and right now 4 in 10 Americans don’t consider themselves bound by it. We are in great peril of this thing called America falli[...]
Kicked out for wearing masks
The owner of Hang Time Sports Grill & Bar in Dallas, who only wants to be known as “Tom,” doesn’t like masks. To him it’s political; he thinks masks are “ridiculous.” So part of his restaurant’s dress code is that no masks are allowed, and he says itR[...]
September 21st, 2021 - 2:45 am § in Misc.
Where we stand with Covid-19 now
Condensed and paraphrased from The Atlantic (published Sept. 20, 2021; read article here): What we know about the virus We know it better than we once did. We know that it can set off both acute and chronic illness, that it spreads best indoors, that masks help block it, that our vaccines work. We k[...]
Darwin award #09202021
Kristen Lowery, 40, of Escalon, California, was dead-set against masks and vaccinations. Her motto: “Unmasked, unmuzzled, unvaccinated.” She leaves behind four children and a family is begging for GoFundMe donations to bury her. Read story here. Her story is far from unique. There should[...]
Border Patrol attacks Haitians with horses and whips (video)
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September 20th, 2021 - 4:30 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump has it in for McConnell; can you guess why?
Trump is trying to recruit a Kentucky Republican to mount a primary challenge against Mitch McConnell (photo, left), and “has been busy making calls” to feel out whether there’s support for replacing him as GOP Senate leader, the Daily Mail said on Monday, September 20, 2021, (read[...]
September 20th, 2021 - 1:28 am § in Misc.
Track meet (age 100+ division)
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