In Tennessee, Pamela Moses was sentenced on January 31, 2022, to 6 years in prison for “illegally registering to vote” despite her assertion the state department of corrections told her she was eligible to vote (story here). Legal experts said they were “baffled” by the sever[...]
Archive for February 26th, 2022
More coffin nails in “lab leak” theory
Two new studies “offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China,” CNN reported on Saturday, February 26, 2022 (read story here). These are preprint studies, not yet peer-reviewed or publishe[...]
February 26th, 2022 - 9:18 pm § in Politics
Texas democracy? No way!
Click here for the faces and stories of people who Texas Republicans don’t want voting — the blacks, the elderly, the sick and disabled, the young. To be honest, I can’t vote for a party or politicians who do that to their fellow citizens. How about you? And if a party has to preve[...]
Russians with a sense of humor
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February 26th, 2022 - 8:51 pm § in Environment, Humor
Notice to hikers
Mountain goats are native to the North Cascades, but not the Olympic mountains. Goats need salt. The North Cascades have salt licks, the Olympics do not. There, the goats have only one salt source: Hikers. Consequently, the “Olympic National Park in Washington had a huge problem: [very friendl[...]
Is Putin creating a giant of history?
In August 1914, Germany demanded passage for its troops through tiny Belgium. King Albert refused, “took personal command of the Belgian Army, and held the Germans off long enough for Britain and France to prepare for the Battle of the Marne” (quoted from Wikipedia here), the pivotal ba[...]