The emergency is vaccine mandates. And a special session is being convened to pass GOP-sponsored bills which “call for banning vaccine passports and enacting $500,000 fines for companies that fire, demote, promote, compensate or refuse to hire an individual based on whether they are inoculated[...]
Archive for October, 2021
October 18th, 2021 - 5:35 pm § in Health
Fake vaccine card costs NHL player $1.68 million and 21 games in penalty box
A costly lie, that one. “The NHL has suspended San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane for 21 games for submitting a fake COVID-19 vaccination card,” Huffington Post reported on Monday, October 21, 2021 (read story here). Kane is benched without pay until November 30, and “will forfei[...]
October 18th, 2021 - 5:06 pm § in Politics
“Q” runs for Congress
Ron Watkins (photo, left, complete with cowboy hat), widely believed to be the “Q” behind the QAnon conspiracy-theory movement, announced on Monday, October 18, 2021, that he’s running for an Arizona congressional seat “to fix elections.” Read story here. He didn’[...]
October 18th, 2021 - 3:55 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
The nuclear chess game
China asserts it merely tested a reusable spacecraft, but some people suspect it was a hypersonic nuclear delivery vehicle. US disarmament chief Robert Wood said, “We are very concerned by what China has been doing on the hypersonic front,” the Guardian reported on MOnday, October 18, 2021 (rea[...]
Should this U.S. Senator be tried for murder?
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), already infamous for his anti-vax antics, was torched Sunday, October 17, 2021, on MSNBC for telling Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, herself a piece of work, “that coronavirus vaccines are ‘experimental’ and ivermectin … is not being promoted as a COVI[...]
Trumper faces prison for threats against families of journalists
A California man “upset about President Biden’s victory” pleaded guilty on Friday, October 16, 2021, to “making threatening interstate communications to a journalist’s relative living in New York,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The journalist was George Stephanopo[...]
October 17th, 2021 - 9:35 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
A glimpse of life under China’s inept and corrupt communist system
The 55-year-old impoverished Chinese man who lived with his frail 89-year-old mother in this house couldn’t keep his roof on when the windstorm came, and then couldn’t get it back from his wealthy neighbor. Local authorities had previously given him permission to build a new house on his[...]
October 17th, 2021 - 5:26 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Southern football (video)
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October 17th, 2021 - 3:31 pm § in Misc.
How a Capitol rioter describes himself now
“Daniel ‘D.J.’ Rodriguez, the Donald Trump fanatic who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and was arrested for electroshocking D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone …, spilled his guts to the FBI after his arrest, repeatedly crying as he told special agents” [...]