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The Commentariat -- July 19, 2021
Afternoon Update:
Eugene Scott & Rachel Lerman of the Washington Post: :President Biden on Monday balanced his earlier, blunt criticism of Facebook by blaming bad actors on the website for spreading dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines, but he still called on the social media platform to be more aggressive in combating the problem. The president said he hopes that 'instead of taking it personally,' Facebook spends more energy focusing on 'the outrageous misinformation' being spread about vaccines on the popular social network. Biden put Facebook on the defense last week after accusing it of 'killing people' by allowing the spread of misinformation about coronavirus vaccines."
The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Monday are here: "In what appeared to be the first ruling upholding a coronavirus vaccine mandate by a university, a federal judge affirmed on Monday that Indiana University could require that its students be vaccinated against the virus."
Amanda Coletta of the Washington Post: "Canada on Monday said it would begin to ease pandemic restrictions at the U.S.-Canada border next month, allowing U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the United States who are fully vaccinated with Canadian-authorized vaccines to enter for nonessential travel without quarantining. The decision, which takes effect on Aug. 9, follows months of criticism from U.S. lawmakers across the political spectrum, business groups and some travelers over what they said was an overly cautious approach to lifting curbs that have split families, battered the tourism sector and upended life in close-knit border communities. To be eligible for entry, fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents must present a negative covid-19 molecular test taken within 72 hours of flight departure or arrival at a land crossing. They will also be required to upload proof that they have received a full series of an authorized coronavirus vaccine at least 14 days before departure to a Canadian government app."
Trump Is Getting Worse. Greg Sargent of the Washington Post: "It was only a matter of time until Donald Trump converted the debate over covid-19 vaccines into an occasion for his supporters to show their loyalty to him -- and even worse, to the 'big lie' that his 2020 loss was illegitimate. 'People are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don't trust his Administration,' the former president said in a statement Sunday, referring to President Biden. 'They don't trust the Election results, and they certainly don't trust the Fake News.'... Trump is telling his supporters that they are correct not to trust the federal government on vaccines, because this sentiment should flow naturally from their suspicion that the election was stolen from him.... What makes this worse is that other Republicans are playing a version of this game." ~~~
~~~ Aaron Blake of the Washington Post: "... [Chris] Wallace interviewed Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and asked why Louisiana had seen such low vaccination rates. Cassidy blamed a lack of trust in government -- and President Biden. 'When you have partisan comments coming out of the White House regarding next Jim Crow laws, or people like Senator [Charles] Schumer and the White House not cooperating on a bipartisan bill -- ... that just doesn't work.'... This is nonsensical for a variety of reasons.... The idea that Tucker Carlson's incessant rhetoric misleadingly targeting vaccine safety and effectiveness is less of a factor than Biden's praise for the vaccines while advocating Democratic policy positions is bizarre. More important, for more than a year, beginning when he was president, Donald Trump has explicitly fostered distrust in government experts, insisting to his base that the pandemic was not a big deal.... After leading his base to a place where they shrugged at the virus, he ended up either having to change their minds or join them. Over the weekend, he joined them."
Taylor Telford of the Washington Post: "Global stock markets swooned Monday, with the Dow slumping more than 900 points in afternoon trading, as investors grow increasingly anxious about a delta-led resurgence in coronavirus cases and its potential to derail the economic recovery. Oil prices also fell sharply. The delta variant has become the dominant strain worldwide and is surging rapidly, even in countries with high vaccination rates." CNBC's report is here. MB: Gee, Donald, I'll bet your hotel biz is not doing too well, either.
Missy Ryan of the Washington Post: "The Biden administration on Monday repatriated a detainee from Guantánamo Bay to Morocco, the first transfer of an inmate from the high-security prison since the Trump administration mostly halted the resettlements when he took office in 2017. The transfer of detainee Abdul Latif Nasir, who was held without charge or trial for nearly two decades, leaves 39 inmates at the military facility located on the eastern tip of Cuba, and provides the first concrete illustration of how the administration may attempt to finally shutter the prison.... At its peak, the prison held some 700 detainees, and became a global symbol of U.S. excesses in its response to extremist threats. President Barack Obama vowed to close the prison but, facing congressional opposition, was unable to do so. His administration transferred more than 170 prisoners to their home nation or third countries.... Nasir ... was one of five men whose transfers had been readied at the end of the Obama administration but did not go through."
Zolan Kanno-Youngs & David Sanger of the New York Times: "The Biden administration on Monday formally accused the Chinese government of breaching Microsoft email systems used by many of the world's largest companies, governments and military contractors, as the United States joined a broad group of allies, including all NATO members, to condemn Beijing for cyberattacks around the world. The United States accused China for the first time of paying criminal groups to conduct large-scale hackings, including ransomware attacks to extort companies for millions of dollars, according to a statement from the White House. Microsoft had pointed to hackers linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security for exploiting holes in the company's email systems in March...." Politico's report is here.
Florida Man Gets 8 Months. Spencer Hsu of the Washington Post: "A federal judge on Monday handed down an eight-month prison term to the first person to be sentenced for a felony in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, after attorneys argued whether the punishment would divide the country, deter future threats to lawmakers, or lead hundreds of other charged to face trial or plead guilty. Tampa crane operator Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, pleaded guilty last month to one count of obstructing a joint session of Congress meeting to confirm the results of the 2020 president[ial] election. He was seen carrying a red-and-white 'Trump 2020' flag into the well of the abandoned Senate while others stood over the vacated vice president's chair. 'The symbolism of that act was unmistakable,' U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss said. 'He was staking a claim on the floor of the U.S. Senate not with an American flag, but declaring his loyalty to a single individual over the nation. In that act, he captured the threat to democracy that we all witnessed that day.'... U.S. prosecutors had called for 18-month prison term, citing the need to deter domestic terrorism." The CNN report is here.
Haiti. Catherine Porter of the New York Times: "With foreign powers weighing in, Haitian officials announced a new prime minister on Monday, in an attempt to resolve a caustic leadership struggle in the wake of President Jovenel Moïse's assassination. Claude Joseph, the prime minister who took control of Haiti's government immediately after the killing, is stepping down in favor of Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon who had been appointed to the position by the president before he was killed, the elections minister said Monday.... The political maneuvering by Haitian officials and international power brokers was met with anger by Haitian activists and democracy advocates, who said it did not consider what the people wanted."
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Mark Leibovich of the New York Times: "Ron Klain, who after a few near misses, finally achieved his career-long goal of becoming the White House chief of staff.... Mr. Klain is an unquestioned man to see in the current White House, the most influential chief of staff of recent vintage and a marked departure from the four battered and marginalized short-timers who held the position under ... Donald J. Trump. Mr. Klain, who was the chief of staff for Vice Presidents Biden and Al Gore, is viewed in and out of the West Wing as the essential conductor of administration business, a surrogate for the president and -- in the mischievous portrayal of opponents -- an all-powerful, unelected orchestrator of an ultraliberal agenda."
Attorney General, Know Thy Job. Donald Ayer, Danielle Brian & Norman Eisen in a New York Times op-ed: "... Mo Brooks ... swore to support and defend the Constitution. His official duties certainly don't include what Mr. Brooks is accused of doing in a civil lawsuit pending in Washington federal court: helping to incite a mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6.... Mr. Brooks has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to certify that his actions on Jan. 6 were those of a government employee acting within the scope of his employment.... If the attorney general were to certify and the court agreed, Mr. Brooks would be dismissed from the lawsuit under a federal statute.... Certification that Mr. Brooks acted within the scope of his job would leave the United States government defending the right of its elected representatives to foment insurrection against itself.... Mr. Garland's choice ... carries ramifications for cases targeting possible official wrongdoing in the Trump era, including by the former president himself.... [Mr.] Garland [must] unequivocally reject any notion that a congressman is doing his job when he foments a riot based on lies in order to sabotage a legitimate national electoral process."
Amy Gets Her Groove On. Carl Hulse of the New York Times: "The usually obscure Senate Rules Committee is ... typically responsible for doling out precious Capitol office space, keeping the Senate running and handling fights over arcane floor procedures. But circumstances and the ambitions of the committee's current chairwoman, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, have thrust the panel into the middle of things. In just six months, she has spearheaded a push for a sweeping voting rights bill sought by Democrats while her committee has investigated failings in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. The panel was also in charge of staging President Biden's inauguration, only two weeks after the deadly riot.... The panel will convene its first field hearing in 20 years in Atlanta on Monday as it seeks to put a spotlight on the new voting restrictions being imposed by Republican state legislatures there and elsewhere, hoping to build a case for the seemingly fatally stalled voting rights measure."
Calvin Woodward, et al., of the AP: "Months after the then-president's supporters stormed the Capitol [on January 6], Trump and his acolytes are taking this revisionism to a new and dangerous place -- one of martyrs and warlike heroes, and of revenge. It's a place where cries of 'blue lives matter' have transformed into shouts of 'f--- the blue.' The fact inversion about the siege is the latest in Trump's contorted oeuvre of the 'big lie' compendium, the most specious of which is that the election was stolen from him, when it was not. It is rooted in the formula of potent propaganda through the ages: Say it loud, say it often, say it with the heft of political power behind you, and people will believe.... Trump and many Republicans have cycled through various characterizations of the insurrection, each iteration wholly unlike the previous one. The attackers were said to be leftist antifa followers in disguise. Then they were said to be overexcited tourists. Now they are heralded as foot soldiers for freedom."
Marie: Akhilleus found a "True Confessions" essay where the worst part is not, "And I had an extramarital affair with Ken Starr." (Yes, yes, that seems impossible to believe; as much as I can't imagine having an affair with Ken Starr, even less can I imagine humiliating myself by admitting it.) (Also linked yesterday.)<
The Pandemic, Ctd.
The New York Times live updates of Covid-19 developments Sunday are here: "Canada's vaccination rate is now higher than the United States rate, as the country has overcome months of production and shipping delays.... The European Union has also been catching up to the United States after lagging far behind until recently...." MB: IOW, there are fewer idiots per capita in Canada & Europe than there are in the U.S. But we had already figured as much.
Madeline Holcombe of CNN: "With vaccination rates still not at the threshold needed to stop the spread of Covid-19, most Americans who are unprotected will likely contract the rapidly spreading Delta variant, one expert said. 'And for most people who get this Delta variant, it's going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital,' Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration during the Trump administration, told CBS' 'Face the Nation' Sunday."
Florida. Curt Anderson of the AP: "Pandemic restrictions on Florida-based cruise ships will remain in place after a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a previous ruling that sided with a Florida lawsuit challenging the regulations. The one-paragraph decision by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was filed at 11:50 p.m. Saturday, just minutes before a Tampa judge's previous ruling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention restrictions was set to take effect. The judges' issuance of a temporary stay keeps the CDC regulations regarding Florida-based cruise ships in place while the CDC appeals the June decision by U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday. The lawsuit, championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, claims that the CDC's multiple-step process to allow cruising from Florida is overly burdensome...."
U.K. Sylvia Hui & Jill Lawless of the AP: "... England's nightclubs reopened Monday as the country lifted most remaining [Covid] restrictions after more than a year of lockdowns, mask mandates and other pandemic-related curbs on freedom. For clubbers and nightclub owners, the moment lived up to its media-given moniker, 'Freedom Day.' But the big step out of lockdown was met with nervousness by many Britons, and concern from scientists, who say the U.K. is entering uncharted waters by opening up when infections are not falling but soaring. As of Monday, face masks are no longer legally required in England, and with social distancing rules shelved, there are no limits on the number of people attending theater performances or big events.... In a reminder of how volatile the situation is, the prime minister was spending 'freedom day' in quarantine. [Boris] Johnson and Treasury chief Rishi Sunak are both self-isolating for 10 days after contact with Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday."
Presidential Race 2024. David Siders of Politico: "Mike Pence was met by a respectful, even warm, crowd in his first trip back to Iowa since the election.... What few people said they saw in Pence, however, was the Republican nominee for president in 2024. Many Iowa Republicans had seen the results of the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, released just days earlier, in which Pence flatlined, drawing no more than 1 percent support.... By most accounts, both here and nationally, Pence is dead in the early waters of 2024."
Way Beyond the Beltway
Germany. Melissa Eddy of the New York Times: "Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday met with survivors and thanked volunteers as she made her way through a village wrecked by the extraordinary floods that have killed at least 183 people in Germany and Belgium, calling the level of destruction 'surreal and eerie.' As rescue teams continued searching for victims amid the wreckage and debris, heavy rains in the southern German region of Bavaria caused still more flooding on Sunday. The authorities said they expected the number victims to rise, as many hundreds of people remained unaccounted for, though it was unclear how many were simply unreachable by friends or family amid the chaos of the calamity and lost communications.... German meteorologists called the flooding the worst in 500 years, if not a millennium." ~~~
~~~ Leonie Cater of Politico: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday promised a stronger government focus on climate protection following the deadly floods that have ravaged parts of Germany and neighboring countries. 'The German language knows hardly any words for this devastation,' Merkel said during a visit to flood-stricken areas in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate. 'We have to hurry to fight climate change.'"
Iran, U.K. The Iranian Armada? H.I. Sutton of USNI News: "Two Iranian warships are nearing the English Channel, according to satellite photographs reviewed by USNI News. The ships are thought to be headed to the Baltic Sea to represent Iran in a July 25 naval parade off the coast of St. Petersburg to commemorate the 325th anniversary of the Russian Navy. The pair, the frigate IRINS Sahand and former oil-tanker-turned warship IRINS Makran, sailed up the West coast of Africa and past Spain and France before approaching the southern coast of England. Leaving Iran in April with arms and likely refined fuel, the duo was first thought to be headed to Venezuela before lingering off the coast of Senegal and then heading toward the North Atlantic."
Israel, etc. Dana Priest, et al., of the Washington Post: "Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and two women close to murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16 media partners. The phones appeared on a list of more than 50,000 numbers that are concentrated in countries known to engage in surveillance of their citizens and also known to have been clients of the Israeli firm, NSO Group, a worldwide leader in the growing and largely unregulated private spyware industry, the investigation found.... Among the journalists whose numbers appear on the list, which dates to 2016, are reporters working overseas for several leading news organizations, including a small number from CNN, the Associated Press, Voice of America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Le Monde in France, the Financial Times in London and Al Jazeera in Qatar. The targeting of the 37 smartphones would appear to conflict with the stated purpose of NSO's licensing of the Pegasus spyware, which the company says is intended only for use in surveilling terrorists and major criminals." The Guardian's story is here. ~~~
~~~ Hungary. Michael Birnbaum, et al., of the Washington Post: "In the Hungary of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a spyware tool has been deployed to ... [monitor] people with technology that can turn smartphones into troves of information. More than 300 Hungarian phone numbers -- connected to journalists, lawyers, business titans and activists, among others -- appeared on a list that included numbers selected for surveillance by clients of NSO Group, an Israeli security company.... In a brochure, NSO bragged to potential clients that, by sending a text message that recipients don't even have to open, its product can turn smartphones into 'an intelligence gold mine.'" The Guardian's report is here.
Japan. Ben Dooley of the New York Times: "A Japanese court on Monday sentenced two Americans to prison for their role in helping the former Nissan leader Carlos Ghosn skip bail and flee Japan. A Japanese court on Monday sentenced two Americans to prison for their role in helping the former Nissan leader Carlos Ghosn skip bail and flee Japan. Michael Taylor, 60, was given a sentence of two years and his son Peter Maxwell Taylor, 28, received one year and eight months. The men helped to smuggle Mr. Ghosn onto a private jet and whisk him to Lebanon as he awaited trial in Japan on charges of financial wrongdoing. The men admitted their role in the escape during a court proceeding in Tokyo in June. Michael Taylor, 60, was given a sentence of two years and his son Peter Maxwel Taylor, 28, received one year and eight months. The men helped to smuggle Mr. Ghosn onto a private jet and whisk him to Lebanon as he awaited trial in Japan on charges of financial wrongdoing. The men admitted their role in the escape during a court proceeding in Tokyo in June." The AP's story is here.
South Africa. Hlengiwe Motaung, et al., of the Washington Post: "... a wave of lawlessness swept across South Africa's two most populous provinces this week.... The looters were the poor who had scarcely benefited from the end of White rule 27 years ago.... South Africa has deployed 10,000 soldiers in addition to its police and expects to deploy 15,000 more in coming days even as the looting has lessened.... At least 212 ... have died in the mayhem -- killed by police or vigilantes, or crushed in stampedes as people fled law enforcement.... The killings, as well as the widespread destruction of small, uninsured businesses in townships, underscore the bitter irony of this wave of violence born of anger at inequality: Most of its victims are the poor and dispossessed, and many are ethnic Zulus, members of the same tribe from which former president Jacob Zuma draws his most fervent support. It was his jailing last week that set off the protests that quickly devolved into the worst unrest South Africa has seen since apartheid ended in 1994."
News Lede
New York Times: "A summer of unrelenting heat in the western United States and Canada hit the Northern Rockies this weekend, where temperatures reached the upper 90s and lower 100s with a heat wave that is expected to peak on Monday but ease only slightly through the week. It was the fourth major heat wave to afflict parts of the West since early June, bringing dangerously hot temperatures and helping fuel the deepening drought and exploding wildfires across the region." This is part of a liveblog.
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I think the Christian thing for Ken Starr to do would be to
apologize to Bill Clinton, but then most Rs only pretend to
do Christian things or what can I do to make the other guy
look bad and me look good even though I did worse things
than he did. There must be a word for that disorder, but not
being a psychologist I can't come up with it.
THE CHRISTIAN THING: According to R's
Do unto others as you don't want them to do unto you especially when it might reveal your own dodgy dealings and taradiddles, otherwise known as Lies.
A more fancy phrase: Transference?
I recall some journalist writing about the tome that Ken Starr put out for public scrutiny re: the Clinton/Monica hanky- panky; he suggested that Starr seemed overly involved and most excited about the intimate sex scenes, almost as if he was "getting off" from it all. And I, too, after reading Ken's salacious rendition felt the same way.
Praise Jesus!
An affair with Ken Starr: the poor woman was too lazy to masturbate. Imagine Starr, Pence, and Hershmann in a room: likely not much laughter, or levity, or concern for others. Yup, you can't make silk out of a sow's ear.
On a much better note: I bought my wife Stacy Abrams book under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Reckless. Clearly a tenor of a different timbre than those listed above.
Here's an interesting quote from a book by Carol Leonnig and
Philip Rucker of the Washington Post 'I Alone Can Fix It.'
The former guy says: "I think it would be hard if George
Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham
Lincoln as his vice-president, I think it would have been very
hard for them to beat me."
Ego much?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/16/i-alone-can-fix-
it-review-donald-trump-fuhrer-mark-milley-leonnig-rucker
Number of Covid-19 infected Texas law makers who fled their state rises to five.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-lawmakers-infected-covid19_n_60f5150ae4b022142cfa0aea
I find this curious since they had been vaccinated. I am also concerned about Kamala Harris' hospital visit–-routine examination or does she, too, have Covid?
Forrest,
Hypocrisy is the name of the game when it comes to Christianist dominionism, the idea that god wants them to rule over everyone, so nothing that can help achieve that end is wrong or sinful, even supporting a lying criminal and serial adulterer like Fatty Trump.
I saw a graphic the other day that perfectly encapsulates this nefarious (and hugely anti-American) mindset. A 50’s looking Father Knows Best white family is sitting in their living room for what looks like a Bible reading. The son asks his father if the Bible says not to cheat, steal, lie, and commit adultery, we they support Donald Trump.
Dad’s answer? “Oh, Billy. We don’t actually practice these things, we only preach them.”
Ain’t that the truth?
Check it out:
https://m.facebook.com/decolonizemyself/posts/a-painted-portrait-of-a-family-mother-and-daughter-sat-on-couch-to-the-left-look/1781228665359981/
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, love thy neighbor as thyself, turn the other cheek? Sound like the basis of Republican ideology?
@Akhilleus: It would have been nice if some of those reporters who fanned the Heartland (as opposed to the Brainsland) in 2016 & 2017 seeking to "understand" Trump voters had asked them about those Christian principles. The reporters could even have given the Trumpenlumpen either/or questions like, "Which of these statements do you agree with: (1) "Give the IRS what it is owed" (a version of "render unto Caesar....") OR "Not paying taxes makes me smart."
And let's not forget that little nugget from the Gospel of Luke who records Jesus of Nazareth saying:
"If any man come to me, and hate NOT (emphasis mine) his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sister, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Can someone here explain this to me?
One more thing as long as we are into sexy times and bad actors, here is a most interesting book review from the NYT––"The Man Who Hated Women" is mostly about the women who hated men. This "Man" is Anthony Comstock––a "self styled moral crusader and chief architect of the Comstock Act of 1873:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/books/review-man-who-hated-women-amy-sohn.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
@PD Pepe: Luke 14:26 has a number of translations, and the one you cite is one of many. "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple."
The root Greek word for hate -- which is what appears in this passage of Luke is "misos" or "miseo." "Misos" has several meanings, including, "not esteem" and "love less."
This is clearer in the analogous verse of Matthew: Matthew 10:37: "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me."
The whole idea here is the radical nature of becoming a follower of Jesus. A disciple must reject his worldly connections: his family, his work, his possessions, if he is to become a true follower. This suggests to me the position the early Christians were in: the Jews didn't accept them as a sect or cult, and -- because they refused to also worship Caesar -- the Romans didn't accept them either. Many became martyrs (i.e., hating "their own life.") They had to give up a lot/everything to join the Jesus movement. The passage announces that following Jesus means making sacrifices.
I don't think the passage actually meant "hate" in its original context; I think it meant more like "renounce."
Thank you, Marie! that passage has always been a puzzle since the word "Hate" hits you smack in the face. I so appreciate your Biblical knowledge. "The passage announces that following Jesus means making sacrifices," you bet your bippy!!!!!!
The Jeruslam Bible (which has LOTS of footnotes) says that in this verse, Luke 14:26, the use of "hate" is "a Hebraicism", and as Marie notes above is translated in various ways. TJB says that Jesus uses the word to demand total detachment from other interests.
Which makes you wonder. The many folks who translated, edited and published TJB were academic and theological heavy hitters (including Tolkien) who, as a rule, sought to create a modern-language bible that expressed the original texts as much as possible in clear language. They wrote a footnote here that says "hate" really means "detachment." They would know that the word "hate" would make a moder reader wonder.
So why did they not use a more appropriate modern word? They probably felt that the original word (in Hebrew? Greek? Dunno.) clearly means "hate" but that the concept of "hate" in that time and context means "detach".
Imagine the arguments in committee. Which is one reason why it took several decades to develop the Jerusalem Bible.
The footnotes are really good. I imagine many of them were the result of committee compromises.
https://news.yahoo.com/unvaccinated-americans-least-worried-delta-083452459.html
This one is no surprise, but it is really yahoo news.
Anyone else see that CNN has verified that Fox has put a vaccine passport system in place for their employees?
Don't know if any of you will find these of interest, but I've listened to two episodes of "Skipped History" and thought them worth passing on, as my older son did to me earlier today.
The episodes are short, pointed and informative.
Knew little about the origin of the "lost cause" mythos, and was unfamiliar with the influential Muzzey high school history texts, subjects of two episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sil0ijOeXYeee