“Boris Epshteyn, an adviser for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, acknowledged Friday that he was part of the effort to prop up so-called ‘alternate electors’ to support Trump in key states,” CNN reported on Saturday, January 22, 2022 ([...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 22nd, 2022 - 2:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Did a Russian agent try to overthrow our election?
January 22nd, 2022 - 2:16 pm § in Politics
Elections and responsibilities of citizenship
When I was in the Army, we were told “freedom is not free.” What they meant was we had a citizen responsibility to defend our nation, but in my view it’s equally applicable to our roles in America’s civilian society. We have a good thing going for ourselves, in this country, [...]
January 22nd, 2022 - 11:02 am § in Health
Washington’s hospital emergency
Hospitals in Washington State issued an urgent plea to the public asking residents to do their part and reduce the pressure on health care facilities overwhelmed by the coronavirus. In a statement released on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, King County hospitals underscored the rapid increase in illness in[...]
January 21st, 2022 - 8:24 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Threatening election workers should be a federal crime
Republicans won’t allow that, of course, because their supporters are doing the threatening. Democracy requires the consent of the governed, and you don’t get that without fair elections, which you get by means of impartial professional election administration. We had that in 2020, but w[...]
January 21st, 2022 - 7:29 pm § in Misc.
Conspiracy theories are brain-eating Pac-Mans
The question is, where do they come from, and why do people get sucked in? A freelance writer and city councilmember in Teton Valley, Idaho, tackles those questions, and offers some insights, derived from her experiences with her brother. “My Gentle, Intelligent Brother Is Now A Conspiracy The[...]
January 21st, 2022 - 2:44 am § in Foreign Affairs, Law and Courts
“Does this mean we can’t come to America?”
Of course they can. They’ll even be invited to stay for a while, although trips to Disney World won’t be on their itinerary. “The US has charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy over the diversion of a passenger plane to Minsk last May,” BBC reported on Friday, [...]
January 21st, 2022 - 12:43 am § in Jews
How to ruin your life in 30 seconds
Spit on Jewish kids in direct view of a surveillance camera you don’t realize is there Three Jewish kids, ages 8, 7, and 2, were playing in a Brooklyn residential neighborhood when a 21-year-old Catholic college student came by. The woman, later identified as Christina Darling, has a history o[...]
GOP Rep. asked Jewish tourists at Capitol if they were doing “reconnaissance”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked a Jewish group touring the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, January 20, 2022, if they were there to do “reconnaissance,” Huffington Post reported (read story here), an apparent allusion to rightwing militia groups who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, whom s[...]
Is “Havana syndrome” due to mass hysteria?
The CIA’s investigation of the so-called “Havana syndrome” some have blamed on directed-energy attacks has concluded it’s unlikely a result of hostile action by a foreign power, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday, January 20, 2022 (read story here). After a few embas[...]
The Ukraine crisis, explained
Here are some things to consider when trying to understand what’s going on between Putin’s Russia and Ukraine, drawn from my own accumulated knowledge of the situation. Why Russia seized Crimea. Russia is a landlocked country with access to the world’s oceans only through the Arcti[...]