“See Something, Say Something “

Keeping America safe from terrorists, be they domestic or foreign, has not changed, say something. Suspicious behavior is suspicious behavior.

The only difference between domestic and foreign terrorists is familiarity. Sometimes friends are above suspicion. That is the only difference. Reporting a long time friend that really is intent to carry out physical harm and/or harm to a stable and benevolent government must be reported. Reporting to local police can be more immediate in a response, but, reporting to the FBI can be just as good. Ultimately, terrorists will be reported to the FBI.

Ever since the Boston terrorists carried out a successful attack on unwitting marathon competitors, big cities are taking the safety of citizens seriously at the local level. Reporting male and/or female domestic terrorists should be sent onto authorities that take reports seriously.

There is no bad reporting to authorities. Traitors are traitors. Protecting a neighborhood from the propagation of violence elsewhere is as vital to governing as if the domestic terrorist was going to carry the violence on their own street.

Terrorists are an attack on sanity as well as financial well being. Americans don’t see issues that occur in other parts of the world when it comes to infrastructure destruction. Americans repair the damage. Not all countries can do that. Prevention of domestic violence is as much an investment as saving up for a down payment on a home.

“See something, say something.”

Protect the future from continued sadness.

SNAP benefits

President Biden signed an Executive Order today that treats the USA as if it is actually in a health emergency. He opened the grain bins to feed America.

That actually is not an exaggerated statement. 

One billion dollars spent on SNAP benefits actually returns 14,000 jobs and increases the USA GDP by $1.54 billion. 

President Biden has been in Washington for decades representing Delaware, then became the first Vice President to the first minority President. I think we can trust him when he makes decisions that benefit Americans. After all, this one Executive Order proves he knows what he is doing.

One Executive Order will feed the people, including children, who need it the most. It will return jobs to the unemployed and in turn they will spend their paychecks and the USA GDP will show growth.

Americans need to stop listening to quacks from the political right wing and need to listen to their President. You gotta trust somebody. I trust Joe.

Wall Street comes before American

Jeremy Grantham, a well respected Wall Street investor type, is stating the Biden COVID Plan will make the Wall Street Bubble worse.

Hm. 

Let’s think about that for a minute.

Janet Yellen is heading up the USA Treasury. I hear Munchkin tucked a few C notes in his pocket on the way out the door. At any rate there was none of this complaining when a man was at Treasury.

That said, Bubble? What bubble? Because Former President Obama had guardrails in place to prevent bubble and bust USA Wall Street investing. 

That said, “Bubble?” “What bubble?”

The popular politics of Wall Street these days (since the American public woke up one day to see a DOW of more than $30,000) is to call that enormous jump, a bubble. Heck, quite a bubble I’d say. And, get this, to instill fear in the hearts of Americans, the word is that Wall Street is in a euphoric state of mind.

My, my. All the smart guys have lost their minds, so Americans need to mount the alarm and squelch Biden’s plans to a COVID relief bill and wait with baited breath for the most enormous breaking bubble ever in the history of the world.

I don’t think so.

To begin, the so called smart Wall Street types crying the sky is falling aren’t very smart, are they? Because if the smart guys were really smart there wouldn’t be a bubble. There would be wise investment to support stock prices with excellent company portfolios and assured stockholder dividends each quarter.

To end this charade of irresponsible investor types, the Biden COVID relief bill better not have monies for a $30,000 Wall Street. The relief is for Americans and the infrastructure of the country to end this horror called COVID-19. 

The USA isn’t in the business of bailing out Wall Street anymore. After all American Airlines is now delivering their glut of warehouses of wine. Interesting. Liquidation of assets rather than donating to corrupt politicians to ensure a bailout when needed.

The Biden COVID Relief Bill is about the people, the manufacturers that have stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park. It is about the States, too. There isn’t much room for Wall Street and its dysfunctional politicians this time around.

President Joseph Biden is a registered Parishioner at the Holy Trinity Church in Washington, DC. 

Very nice.

He is the second Catholic president, the first was President Kennedy.

Attending Catholic mass is frequently a family affair. In the year of COVID-19 the options are different. Most Catholic Churches are offering online mass and tithing. All the sacraments are still being observed in that First Holy Communion lessons are online no different than school classrooms. No one’s soul is being neglected.

The CDC doesn’t know how much vaccine the USA has.

There was no record keeping.

The only alternative is going to be the delivery trucks. The trucking companies would have a “ Bill of Lading.” It would be the paperwork about the shipment. The government is going to have to ask the companies to submit a copy of the delivery receipts. At the very least the places that accepted deliveries of vaccine will be known. Then the recipients can provide a number of vaccines delivered.

It is second hand knowledge, but, it is at least an accounting. The recipients can also provide complaints for any aspect of the process so it can run more smoothly.

This lack of accounting should not be of any surprise. Trump never accounts for anything. He treated President Biden as a stranger in locking up the White House so he could not enter. The entire staff was sent home. 

I am not surprised the entire government is starting fresh. I am sure scientific records are gone. Reconstructing that is going to be interesting.

American lives were never safe with Trump and this is more proof. 

I think the only warehouses with vaccine are the manufacturing sites. I recall Pfizer asking about additional deliveries as they had vaccine in the warehouse. I doubt if any vaccines were stored in government facilities.

The CDC needs to establish a dedicated communication office to coordinate the manufacturers with delivery dates and recipients. Orders for vaccine can be compiled and provided dates of delivery to prevent duplication.

We are lucky there are only two USA companies to coordinate with at this point as more companies are coming online.

Accountability is vital to fast and efficient distribution.

“What’s going on in this Graph?...”

The graph (click here)spells profound differs in the access to timely healthcare between minorities and their Caucasian counterparts of the USA. Before I comment on the graph I have to remind that the South is impoverished. It does not value human health over profits.

The top part of the graph that tracks to the right are illnesses, often chronic, that have treatment already established including heart coronary bipass.

Heart disease, including hypertension; diabetes, cancer, stroke as related to hypertension and heart disease, kidney disease, septicemia, flu and pneumonia are all treatable and should not be causing minority deaths. Septicemia? Really?

The higher incidents in Caucasians are primarily disease without a cure. Liver disease, kidney disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and lung disease are all terminal illnesses without a cure. There is the potential to transplant with kidney and liver disease, but, there is no cure. 

Interesting, is the fact neurological afflictions vex the white population more so than minorities.

The less medical and more social death rate is homicide which is higher in minorities because of segregation, economic deprivation and opportunities hence increasing crime.

The Caucasian social issues resulting in deaths are accidents, and suicide. The higher quality of life can result in both because of privilege that opens up danger in new experiences and loss of comfort and/or status.

That is all for tonight. That you for your interest.

Congratulations to Tom Brady and the Buccaneers today. Brady has proven himself as a great and somewhat infamous Quarterback. On to the Super Bowl.

I find the lack of information stunning in this article.

I don't think blaming the pandemic for youth suicide is the correct path to take although it is the most convenient. There are a lot of things at work in these dynamics and closing schools seems to me to be the least of the issues. 

In a 2005 study of suicides among young people (click here) shows the likelihood is more strong in young men than women except in countries where woman are undervalued and there the statistics are higher. From the information in this New York Times article that demographic has held up in the USA. So, the idea the pandemic is driving more young men to commit suicide is probably not likely. What is probably at work here is negative self-talk and how they identify themselves.

The youngest is nine and that is where puberty begins with hormones raging. I think there is a deeper driver to this and as a society, we need to look at it and not simply blame the pandemic.

In the case of the older age bracket, there is the issue of social contact and DATING. There isn't much of that being discussed and the idea of a date on Friday night at the movies is an impossibility. Young people identify intensely when it comes to who they feel attracted to and sexual attractiveness. School is an incubator to those issues. Even if school attendance change to in-person, the social component is still missing for dating and person to person contact.

Young Americans are intent on successful lives when they approach adulthood. Some of these young people feel alienated from those goals. Academics online is like an out of body experience. I think as a society we need to erase the academic performance for the period this virus has caused altered learning patterns. Those years have to be looked at with skepticism when a young person is applying to college and work. There will be some students that find online learning better than in-class learning, but, that would be the case in or out of school. Some adapt better than others. In interviews, there is nothing wrong with students expressing their reality during these years such as, "My academics dropped a bit during the pandemic. I didn't do as well with online classes, but, I tried."

Where are college achievement exams being conducted? What is the indication there?

What I believe is driving this dynamic is the fact screen time is not limited. Children now have more access to social media to be with friends and that opens up greater opportunities for bullying. It also opens up different measures that children will use to bully. In other words, when a child has a school environment where bullying occurs it can be based on physical stature and sports activities. Online there are issues with character issues and physical appearance. When children are in school the online component is an element to the bullying but not the entire picture. Bullying is also mitigated by teachers and principals when in class attendance occurs, that supervision/mitigation isn't happening with stay-at-home students.

January 24, 2021
By Erica L. Green

The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nev., (click here) have come in droves.

Since schools shut their doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.

The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible. This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths....

The health statistics among children still favor staying at home. There are about 3.4 percent of all children up to the age of 18 that have contracted COVID-19. That means more than 96 percent of all school-age students are still safe. I think as a country we need to decide how best to protect the health of our children and THEN provide an education that helps maintain the status quo but might fall short of the usual outcomes.

As of January 14, about 2.5 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 (click here) since the onset of the pandemic. Over 211,000 new child COVID-19 cases were reported last week, the highest weekly increase since the pandemic began.

The age distribution of reported COVID-19 cases was provided on the health department websites of 49 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Children represented 12.6% of all cases in states reporting cases by age. A smaller subset of states reported on hospitalizations and mortality by age; the available data indicated that COVID-19-associated hospitalization and death is uncommon in children.

At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is rare among children. However, there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects....

I think parents, as well as children, need support groups to bring about their best outcomes in coping as a family in very unusual times.

Unemployment also plays into family tensions. Financial difficulties are not adequately handled either. There used to be such a thing called welfare for families in need and there was rental assistance as well.

September 2019

The number of children under age 18 in the United States (click here) increased from 47.3 million in 1950 to 74.1 million in 2010, before declining slightly to 73.7 million in 2012. Since 2012, the number of children has remained between 73.6 and 73.7 million, and is projected to increase to 74.1 million by 2020....

The overall biggest problem is the PROLONGED success of SARS-CoV-2 in our society. The USA's dynamic is alone globally. That is a clear sign the way this virus is handled in the USA is completely wrong.

Liberate!

Alexia Navalny

Yulia Navalny

Free the Russian people from oppressive        Putin regime!

Republicans are being ridiculous.

The Arizona Republicans have censured the spouse of the great John McCain, Cindy McCain, Former Senator Jeff Flake, and Governor Doug Ducey.

The Republicans are making fools of themselves and deliberately causing acrimony and sowing dissension.

Nothing is going to stop the defense of the USA Constitution.

The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop, both daily and the 7 day rolling average. The people are moving the right direction. Maybe, just maybe, Americans are all pulling in the same direction.

Defend the USA Constitution

I expect every person who trespassed on federal grounds to assault the country’s Capital to be charged with crimes. There are no innocent people. The Congress was there to establish the victor of the hard fought elections of 2020 and those assaulting the building were expecting to see people hung. There were no innocent people on those grounds.

The insurrectionists weren’t there for a pep-rally, they were there to witness hangings. Because the scene was chaotic and didn’t achieve their goals doesn’t mean the intent wasn’t there. It didn’t happen because those that protect this country’s most hallowed halls of governance were just that good at their preparedness. 

I want to know the injuries to law enforcement along with the death of a Capital Police Officer. Those in attendance of the insurrection meant to harm this country and it was no minor scuffle.

I expect a trial of Donald John Trump as well. If USA Senators are squeamish about protecting this country from a leader that fully intended to be a dictator, then they are traitors and a disgrace to the Senate. 

Those Senators that are alive and breathing were saved by the National Guard. Not just police officers, the National Guard. And it wasn’t Donald John Trump that sent them. 

Political pettiness ends now!

Deal or No Deal?

The Michigan Attorney General needs to ask for evidence  still in the public sector that clearly spells out Snyder's malicious intent to favor cronies and a draconian practice that drained cities of their assets to satisfy his idea of MONETARY JUSTICE.

The facts are very simple. He didn't care about the people but only the balance sheet and if poisoning people to achieve a balance sheet him approved then so be it.

The Attorney General needs a liaison between herself and the people of Flint to decide deal or no deal. She also needs to have a call for evidence that is published in all 50 states because people effected by the poisoned water have moved away,

January 19,2020

...Investigators reviewed thousands of documents, (click here) searched computers, iPads and phones to try to figure out a timeline. The question is: When did the governor know that there was an issue with Flint’s water? When did he realize it was a public health emergency.

“He testified under oath about a date when he says he learned or knew, or became aware, of a problem. Now the investigators are going to look at other evidence that shows that governor Snyder apparently wasn’t telling the truth,” said legal analyst Neal Rockind.

Tuesday’s hearing is to decide whether the case moves to trial or if a deal can be made. There are eight other former Michigan state leaders charged in the case....

Ron Johnson is a traitor still doing Trump’s bidding.

The USA Constitution clearly states a trial will follow impeachment. Questions?

Senator Schumer, Majority Leader, has worked out a schedule for the impeachment. Questions?

Just because Trump threw the USA Constitution out during his shared 4 years with Putin doesn’t mean that will continue. Trump inspired a insurrection and his trial will proceed according to the schedule set by the Majority Leader. I don’t see any real reason for questions. It is the Rule of Law.

I have not seen Anthony Fauci smile like that before. He is different. Empowered.

The Cabinet level scientist is a geneticist. The vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer is the first time mRNA was used to developed it.

The scientific community has peace of mind with a Cabinet level representative. One of the issues that has to be addressed is genetic manipulation of animals that are used for food in the USA diet. The authority for that TECHNOLOGY has been placed in the Agricultural Department under Trump and Perdue. It belongs under HHS.

The alterations made in the American diet MUST be researched by HHS. Experiments on animals to investigate enhancements for profits is not a study that guarantees a safe food supply. We do not need a genetically altered food supply to cause “New Age Prions.”

The University of Montana, Mansfield Ethics is concerned about the well being of the animals, hence, the people that consume them. There are alterations in proteins in these genetically manipulated animals that are then consumed by people. The huge overriding question to all animals being manipulated genetically is the availability of essential nutrients for basic human biological needs such as amino acids. 

I don’t really care if the animals are easier on profitability, do they supply every aspect of nutrition demanded by the human body for its metabolism? The science belongs in HHS.

January 8, 2021

The highest daily toll of new infections from SARS-CoV-2 since this health emergency started a year ago; 300,594 new cases with a running 7 day average of 259,564 new cases. There has been a decline since that day which is significant at 186,235 new cases on January 20, 2021 with a seven day running total of 194,966 new cases. That is called progress. 

Americans need to continue to wear masks, social distance, and practice excellent hand hygiene. We are not out of danger yet.

Yuma County, Arizona is the hottest of hotspots. I believe it is a language barrier. We saw the same kind of issue with HIV. Those speaking Spanish are not getting the “emotional machismo” message that great parents and community leaders practice the same important practices without relenting to peer pressure.

It is naive to believe the same “machismo” that voted for Trump will dissipate because he lost the election. What the Federal Communications Commission should be doing as I write this is check for lies that endanger minority communities. There MUST be public service announcements made by all forms of media to state the facts and bring an understanding of the truth. The arrogance that accompanied Trumpism must be laid to rest to end the viral spread.

Announcements and Speeches by Joe Biden must be broadcast in Spanish with written translations in other languages that exist in the USA. This is a deadly pandemic. If translation is available in all other languages other countries around the globe will use it, too. No one is to assume written translation will end the virus. There is illiteracy in other languages, too. A strong effort must be made for the illiteracy in all languages. There are also hearing impaired. 

Communication and compliance to federal standards to stop the spread is vital. There are social anthropologist and social workers that have the ability to reach the unreachable. It is the First Amendment. People have a right to hear from government to save their own lives.

Lake Michigan looks good today.

Snow squalls, wind, one and a half foot swells but to flooding. There will be beach erosion but there is plenty of time to ready beach renourishment for the tourist season. This is the best I have seen of the lake in more than two years.

There is a fine balance with the Great Lakes. They provide an income to the business community including shipping. But, that must be balanced with commercial interests in real estate and tourism. It would not be the Great Lakes without that balance. I am sure Canada is pleased today

The commercial fishers are giving Governor Whitmer arguments. As if she is the only governor along the Great Lakes. They are complaining they will be going out of business. They will be going out of business anyway because the lakes have been overfished for four years and the fisheries are depleted. I don’t remember the Great Lakes ever depleted of commercial fisheries because they were well managed.

This is what anarchy does to an economy. The Great Lakes have a carrying capacity for fish. That is why commercial fishing has existed for so long, but, when they are overfished it can collapse fresh water fishing for years. Fish can only lay so many eggs each year. That includes the state’s ability to stock rivers. Fishing along Michigan rivers is a much sought after sport and past time.

Commercial fishers need to behave and harken back to when there was sufficient fisheries and not stressed fisheries from overfishing. What often happens when governance of fisheries are lost (deregulation) is an increase number of commercial fishing enterprises. The larger number of fishing enterprises then complains that the government is doing something wrong because their catch is too low and they can’t keep a healthy cash-flow. 

No, that is not it. Somewhere in the magical thinking of supply side economics there is supposed to be an over abundance of fish everyday. The fisheries be they fresh water or ocean have limits. It only makes sense that a limited number of fish divided among more and newer fishing enterprises means there will be less income for ALL the commercial fishers.

Grow up! This is not the magical world of Disney!

Review Leadership at the Pentagon

Yahoo News is reporting even as of January 20th the Pentagon was still refusing to meet with President Biden’s national security team. President Biden needs to demote a few people at the Pentagon, run background checks for Trump sympathizers and put his own people in place.

Major Biden

President Joe Biden has a dog named Major Biden. He has raised money for the animal shelter in Delaware. It is nice to have a First Pet in the White House again.

Too expensive to be employed.

The Trump family, excluding Donald J. Trump and his spouse, has spent more than 10 times more on security details and “away” expenses than any other administration, bar none. The expenses need an audit and where there was extravagance, they need to be billed for their abuses.

Trump hated government spending except where his family was concerned. Contrary to popular beliefs employees to the federal government have prudent expenses and NOT every comfort of Trump hotels, casinos and secret service!

They have to be held accountable otherwise it sets ridiculous precedent. They cannot be the exception to THE RULE written or unwritten!

Conservationist now have a place in the USA.

Thanks to Joe Biden the people that protect the land AND the people now have a place within the President’s Cabinet that can have a lasting effect on the beauty of this country and the health of the people. 

I am looking forward to the return of clean air and water for all the citizens of the USA. Good health needs to belong to everyone not just those that can afford it. 

The science community has a great deal of work to do to close out a devastating warming across Earth. A return to the Paris Climate Accords is a great first step and the USA must set an example and demand the best outcomes from all countries.