I believe Franklin Graham's March in Washington was a super spreader event.

I think the California Pastor contracted the virus at the march and then took it to the Rose Garden. There is a better than 50 percent chance Pence was exposed to COVID-19 at the Graham March.

Graham advocates prayer, church, and god as the way to survive an onslaught of a deadly virus. He DOES NOT advocate masks, distancing, or hand hygiene. I think Mr. Graham needs to be reviewed as a mass spreader.

These folks need to be called out when they don't follow the recommendations of doctors and authorities like the CDC, FDA, NIH, and WHO. Evangelicals are a global force on Earth. They could be causing some of the rise in COVID-19 cases globally. They are known for religious prejudice that causes harm to people.

March 28, 2020

Charlotte - Thousands of Americans (click here) have called a 24/7 COVID-19 prayer line started by the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, president and CEO Franklin Graham said Saturday.

“Early this week, we began airing a 60-second evangelistic message on TV across the entire United States, and we have had thousands of people call,” the evangelist posted in a coronavirus ministry update.

“Maybe your heart has been gripped by fear as millions of others have because of the coronavirus pandemic,” Graham posted on Facebook on March 21 when he announced the prayer line, 888-388-2683.

“But I want you to know that God loves you, He made you, He created you, He knows everything about your life,” Graham continued. “You don’t need to be afraid. Jesus said I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.”

The March 21 post has drawn 56,000 likes and 26,000 shares.

On Saturday, Graham urged people who “are struggling with worry in the midst of this crisis” to call the line.

“Maybe your heart has been gripped by fear as millions of others have because of the coronavirus pandemic,” Graham posted on Facebook on March 21 when he announced the prayer line, 888-388-2683.

This reporting that included this picture of Greg Laurie states he became infected with SARS-CoV-2 at the Rose Garden Ceremony.

'My symptoms have been mild so far, and I expect to make a full recovery,' Laurie tells his followers

There needs to be a change in the Vice President debate to virtual. VP Pence cannot reassure anyone that he is not infected. Pence was with this California pastor after the Rose Garden ceremony in a parade. That was Saturday. We know as a fact that a positive result can take as long as 14-16 days from the date of exposure.

The Democrats had a great virtual convention. I am sure the DNC Chair Tom Perez could recommend people that could put a virtual debate together. The Republicans are not reliable in their reporting about anything. It is time to say it and handle the danger that could effect Senator Kamala Harris. This is not casual or amusing. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed now.

October 5, 2020

By Steven Nelson

Greg Laurie (click here) addresses the controversy surrounding the billboards depicting himself holding a bible that were taken down during the run up to SoCal Harvest with Greg Laurie at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Friday, August 17, 2018 in Anaheim, Calif.

A pastor who joined Vice President Mike Pence (click here) at a “prayer march” before the Rose Garden event to announce Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has tested positive for COVID-19.

Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., joined Pence at the Rev. Franklin Graham-led Prayer March 2020 near the Lincoln Memorial, which drew thousands of participants.

Laurie is the latest participant in the Rose Garden event later that day to contract the serious respiratory illness, New York magazine reported.

Pence’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

President Trump tested positive for the virus on Thursday evening and was hospitalized the next day at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Trump is expected to return to the White House on Monday night to continue his recovery....

There is a chance that Laurie did not have contact with Vice President Pence after his exposure at the Rose Garden Ceremony.

WAIT A MINUTE. WAS THERE EXPOSURE OF PEOPLE AT THE MARCH on September 26th?

Just because Laurie is testing positive after the Rose Garden ceremony doesn't mean he wasn't exposed in the March. Are there people from the March testing positive?

October 6, 2020

By Carla Marinucci 

...A week earlier, (click here) he attended the Sept. 26 Prayer March on the National Mall with Vice President Mike Pence and evangelist Franklin Graham. Laurie also was on hand for the White House Rose Garden ceremony for the nomination of Barrett....

The reason there is confusion over this issue is that there is no communication from the White House. The media is left to piece together the facts that are available to them.

There need to be reassurances Senator Kamala Harris is safe beyond a reasonable doubt. Virtual is better. It makes no sense this has to take place with risk from the White House and it's staff.

Debates going forward should be virtual.

If the candidates are to be on the same stage there cannot be mingling of air between the two nor the audience. If Pence doesn't want a plexiglass barrier, then he MUST wear a mask. The debate stage has to be assessed for "air circulation" to be sure the air is vented out of the building from where the candidates and the audience are seated. That means there is a high rate of air exchange pushing the air to the floor and out of vents to the outside. 

October 6, 2020

By Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey

Vice President Mike Pence (click here) is requesting that no plexiglass dividers be placed on his side of the stage at Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, after an announcement Monday by the Commission on Presidential Debates that dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, said the vice president’s team does not view plexiglass dividers as medically necessary, given other safety measures at the debate, including a 12-foot distance between Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and daily testing of both candidates.

The commission and the Biden campaign both said Tuesday they understood that the Pence team was in agreement with the notion of plexiglass barriers. But the Pence team suggested they did not want any such dividers around the vice president, regardless of what Harris does....

The USA Gulf Coast needs to pay attention. This is another Katrina.

Hurricane Delta is currently a category 4 and will fuel higher once it hits the Gulf. 

This is the latest image of Delta. It is currently straddling the Yucatan Peninsula between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. That is what gives it the "dual eye" storm. Those two eyes will become one large storm once it hits the Gulf of Mexico.

There is no doubt this storm needs a wide berth. I kindly ask the Gulf States to reflect on recent rains and flooding. The people will need to MOVE AWAY from those flooded and coastal areas. There is more flooding in the interior of these states than ever before. The people are important and their awareness is not enough, they have to be told it is mandatory to evacuate.

Currently, Hurricane Delta has a central pressure of 954 millibars of pressure. Katrina's central pressure was 920 at landfall in 2005. Delta has a huge potential to cause a threat to life.

There is no "maybe" about this storm. It is coming and it is a very dangerous storm. The width of this storm will bring danger to most of the Gulf Coast. Do not just concentrate on the eye of this storm. It will have enough diameter to reach other areas causing significant flooding, winds, and danger.

...The devastation left in Katrina’s wake (click here) over southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi was immense. The storm surge ravaged coastal Mississippi, and several levee breaches occurred in and around New Orleans. The levee breaches and overtopping resulted in floodwaters of 15 to 20 feet covering about 80 percent of the city. The catastrophic damage and loss of life inflicted by this hurricane is staggering, with an estimated 1,353 direct fatalities1 and 275,000 homes damaged or destroyed....

The width of Katrina's landfalling damage covered the coast of two states. The eye is a very dangerous part of the storm, but, the peripheral bands and the rains that come with these storms are just as dangerous and IMMEDIATE.

Katrina was an August storm.

...Delta, (click here) which was just a tropical depression at 5 a.m. EDT Monday, has put on a rare feat of rapid intensification, increasing its winds by 70 mph (from 40 mph to 110 mph) in its first 24 hours since becoming a named storm at 8 a.m. EDT Monday. According to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, this is the most intensification in a 24-hour period for an October Atlantic named storm since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. According to Tomer Berg, Delta did the fastest intensification from a 35-mph tropical depression to a 130-mph category 4 hurricane in modern Atlantic records, accomplishing the feat in just 30 hours. The previous record was Keith in 2000 (42 hours)....

The USA is failing in large measure. The first two to three weeks of the national emergency in the USA was squandered for Republican politics. This could be over by now.

Global Situation (click here)

Globally, as of 3:07pm CEST, 6 October 2020, there have been 35,347,404 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,039,406 deaths, reported to WHO.

The USA hasn't learned a darn thing and is still leading the world in confirmed cases and deaths.

Situation by Country, Territory or Area by Confirmed Cases

United States of America 7,341,406

India 6,685,082

Brazil 4,915,289

Russia Federation 1,237,504

Columbia 855,052

Peru 828,169

When it comes to deaths there is no other country in our class. We lead the world in deaths by TWICE that of the next highest country, India. Graphs to the right is the trajectory of the two countries. (click here)

United States of America  208.433

India  103,569

Those numbers are stunning. The population of India is 1.35 billion with a B. The population of the USA is 328.2 million with an M. Those numbers reflect a far higher death rate per capita by the USA than any other country on Earth.

The response by the USA federal government is failing the people in large measure. Deaths are not acceptable and should be fought at every turn.

The USA passed legislation to benefit the hospitals and make them stronger, it paid businesses into a program that was to provide paychecks to keep the population going until the end of July. When the denial of the severity of this virus was squandered by the Republican political circus, deaths were not the only vital statistic of failure, the economy of the USA is failing as well. The entire Republican circus must be opposed as it opens the USA to failing national security.

These observations are based on FACT.

I MEAN EVERY WORD IN THIS ENTRY!

The rest of the world is NOT carrying out opposition to reality by holding "COVID Parties." They are finding ways to carry important messages such as brilliant works of art where people can find it.

Video (click here)

What is Australia doing to reduce wildfires?

Australia believes Earth actually knows how to maintain a safe environment. The Tasmanian devils were brought back to the wildlands of Australia. It is a similar story as the Grey Wolf in Yellowstone. Nature actually knows what balance is and maintains it.

October 5, 2020

By Jack Guy

Eleven Tasmanian devils (click here) have been reintroduced to mainland Australia, more than 3,000 years after they died out there.

The carnivorous marsupials have been released into a 400-hectare (988-acre) wildlife sanctuary north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australian NGO Aussie Ark said in a statement.

"In 100 years, we are going to be looking back at this day as the day that set in motion the ecological restoration of an entire country," said Tim Faulkner, president of Aussie Ark.

"Not only is this the reintroduction of one of Australia's beloved animals, but of an animal that will engineer the entire environment around it, restoring and rebalancing our forest ecology after centuries of devastation from introduced foxes and cats and other invasive predators."...

August 6, 2020

Pullman, Washington - A rare, transmissible tumor (click here) has brought the iconic Tasmanian devil to the brink of extinction, but new research by scientists at Washington State University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle indicates hope for the animals’ survival and possibly new treatment for human cancers.

The study, published in Genetics on Aug. 1, found a single genetic mutation that leads to reduced growth of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils in the wild.

“This gene is implicated in human prostate and colon cancers,” said Andrew Storfer, professor of biological sciences at WSU. “While the findings hold the most immediate promise to help save the world’s few remaining Tasmanian devils, these results could also someday translate to human health.”

The research team, led by Storfer and  and Mark Margres, now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, studied the genomes of cases of devil facial tumor disease, or DFTD, that regressed spontaneously — that is, the cancer began disappearing on its own....

August 21, 2020 

By Mark J. Margres,  View ORCID ProfileManuel Ruiz-Aravena, Rodrigo Hamede, Kusum Chawla,

Austin H. Patton, Matthew F. Lawrance, Alexandra K. Fraik, Amanda R. Stahlke,

Brian W. Davis,  View ORCID ProfileElaine A. Ostrander, Menna E. Jones, Hamish McCallum,

Patrick J. Paddison, Paul A. Hohenlohe, David Hockenbery and Andrew Storfer

Abstract

Spontaneous tumor regression (click here) has been documented in a small proportion of human cancer patients, but the specific mechanisms underlying tumor regression without treatment are not well understood. Tasmanian devils are threatened with extinction from a transmissible cancer due to universal susceptibility and a near 100% case fatality rate. In over 10,000 cases, <20 instances of natural tumor regression have been detected. Previous work in this system has focused on Tasmanian devil genetic variation associated with the regression phenotype. Here, we used comparative and functional genomics to identify tumor genetic variation associated with tumor regression. We show that a single point mutation in the 5′ untranslated region of the putative tumor suppressor RASL11A significantly contributes to tumor regression. RASL11A was expressed in regressed tumors but silenced in wild-type, nonregressed tumors, consistent with RASL11A downregulation in human cancers. Induced RASL11A expression significantly reduced tumor cell proliferation in vitro. The RAS pathway is frequently altered in human cancers, and RASL11A activation may provide a therapeutic treatment option for Tasmanian devils as well as a general mechanism for tumor inhibition....

Please Support Jamie Harrison for Senate in South Carolina.

 Jamie Harrison for US Senate (click here) 

South Carolina deserves a Senator that sincerely cares about them and that is Jamie Harrison.

I think the plexiglass booth was very smart. Up to now, Senator Graham has tested negative, but, he was in contact with Mike Lee who tested positive. The CDC has stated;"

You should stay home for 14 days after your last contact with a person who has COVID-19. For all of the following scenarios, even if you test negative for COVID-19 or feel healthy, you should stay home (quarantine) since symptoms may appear 2 to 14 days after exposure to the virus." (click here)

Rather than putting safety first and postponing the debate, Graham attended a debate where he could be spreading the virus. Jamie Harrison had every right to be safe and the booth was a perfect solution. There was danger in the air and Lindsay Graham didn't care.

October 3, 2020
By Lillia Callum-Penso

...Sen. Lindsey Graham (click here) said he was tested Friday and found to be negative — though a negative test means only that the person was not infected at the time of testing and the coronavirus' incubation period can be up to 14 days.

According to the Associated Press, Graham said he had been tested for COVID-19 following his interaction with fellow Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mike Lee, who's among a number of Republican officials in Washington, D.C., to have tested positive for the virus this week.

"After being informed of his positive test, and out of an abundance of caution, I was tested for COVID-19 in South Carolina. I was informed I was negative," Graham wrote in a message posted on Twitter....

White House Tours

 If there are still White House Tours they need to be suspended to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 to the public.

There are absolutely no health precautions about COVID-19 on the White House Tour Website.

Pediatric testing

There are no pediatric tests for SARS-CoV-2. 

One of the reasons children are first discovered to have COVID-19 is when they are in dire distress with MIS-C (Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome - Child) because the viral load is high. 

The tests for children to discover COVID-19 at first onset don’t exist. Children need far more intense  investigation and investment in funding for early diagnosis and treatment.

Children develop at different rates at different ages, that is why pediatrics is a specialty. That difference needs to be respected by the research being conducted in testing and treatment. That specialized research needs funding now.

My, my, my a political play by the religiously bigoted.

Bigotry of any kind is not permitted in the court, it is unconstitutional. The First Amendment provides for the room in the USA for RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, NOT RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE, ie: King of England. The first European citizens that came to the "New World" left because of religious persecution. No religious bigot is going to do the same thing here in the name of any deity!

October 5, 2020

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster

Justice Clarence Thomas, (click here) joined by Justice Samuel Alito, lashed out on Monday at the religious liberty implications of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision that cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide.

Thomas wrote that the decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, "enables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss."

Thomas' strong opinion came down on the first day of the court's new term, and reflects the fact that critics of the landmark opinion from five years ago that was penned by now retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, are still infuriated by its reasoning. They believe the court should have left the decision to the political arena and have long said that it will infringe upon the rights of those who have religious objections to same-sex marriage....

The doctors at Walter Reed are qualifying Trump’s discharge.

They are stating he may not be out of the woods with this virus. Any media outlet exploiting his premature discharge should be held partly responsible for the danger he carries for his health and life.

If he is not completely recovered he can still spread the virus. Trump needs to be legally quarantined to protect his own life and others. NOW!

A corpse can spread the disease.

He is leaving for political reasons. He wants media coverage as if Superman. No one should be contributing to the impetus of his demise.

Uncharted territory.

Where did the doctor get permission to give Trump medications out of sequence? CDC? This is the president of this country. Experiments are not allowed without proper review unless, of course, he was failing into death.

See, the problem I have with this is that protocols are protocols. When they are diverted to a different course that raises all sorts of questions. Questions like, “Why didn’t my loved one get these treatments early if it adds to the success in overcoming COVID-19?”

Then there are the professionals that are peers that are now staring at each other wondering why they weren’t doing that earlier if it added to the success in treatment.

There are now questions within the medical community as to where their authority lies as opposed to the patient’s demands.

Unless the physicians at Walter Reed are carrying out new protocols they will probably be reviewed by peers over their departure from standard protocols.

I want to see proof of the positive tests for Trump. I doubt these medications were given early.  All the positive tests, not just the ones that plays into his political timeline. My understanding is that he is tested at least daily.

Did the Trump medical doctor from the health care center say...

 "...we just added a few drops of dexamethasone to his oxygen...."

Dexamethasone 3.3 mg/ml Solution (click here) for Injection may be administered by intramuscular, intraarticular or direct intravenous injection, intravenous infusion or soft tissue infiltration. Intravenous and Intramuscular Administration: IM or IV dosage of dexamethasone is variable, depending on the condition being treated.

I think he ran some sentences together. He is probably talking about drops in oxygen that brought Dexamethasone into use as a therapeutic.

There is no inhalation therapy for dexamethasone. I am sure they aren't flying by the seat of their pants.

I think I misheard him. He was talking quickly.

Donald John Trump has no right to tell anyone how to think about SARS-CoV-2 and the impact on their lives.

This is the isolation room (click here) that Americans are trading to when they treat SARS-CoV-2 as if "just the flu."

The virus is a killer. Donald Trump was provided the absolute best medicine and care this country provides. Not all Americans have that level of care or medication available to them.

Besides that, we know the impact of SARS-CoV-2 is very much territorial. Cities, where demographics are a higher number of people per square mile, has higher numbers falling ill to this virus.

Americans must take recommendations of their doctors seriously, including masks, social distancing, and hand hygiene. This is not an amateur sport whereby the participants make their own decisions. This is not about government oppression of American liberties. This is a very dangerous virus that kills people. Every American contributes to this democracy and everyone is important. They need to take care of themselves and participate.

Most Americans don't realize that when there are decisions to make about opening up the economy it is not based on the safety from contracting the virus, it is about the ability of a region to react to citizen's needs for care, medications, and hospitalization. When a governor states the society is open to a meeting of 10 people in a group, it means that if a group of people is exposed to SARS-CoV-2 the hospitals available to them are able to handle their illnesses. Put in different words, it means there are sufficient medical beds.

Not all these recommendations are limited to hospital availability, it also includes the density an area has of COVID-19 cases. If there is an increase in COVID-19 cases that continues to increase there must be a limit to the exposure by the people to the virus to stop the spread.

Finally, Donald John Trump has been lying about everything. There is no reason for any American to believe him about dismissing COVID-19 as a minor illness.

Everyone is facing potential danger with this virus. We have seen young people succumb to this virus. That is not a minor issue. Everyone needs to think through the protections they take in their lives to prevent infection of this virus. Everyone should be respected for the decisions they make without pressure to make decisions differently.

Donald John Trump has broken the law in New Jersey when it comes to the gathering of people. The maximum number of people in an indoor room is 25. Trump had 200 people at a gathering in Bedminister, New Jersey. In realizing the limit on gatherings is 25, he clearly put all 200 people in danger because if they all become ill, which they might, it exceeds the capacity of the local health care system. THAT IS JUST PLAIN DANGEROUS AND COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE ATTENDING THAT FUNDRAISER.

A fundraiser that is political is allowed 150 people or 25% of the capacity of a room WHICHEVER IS LOWER. There is no excuse for this level of recklessness except arrogance. Arrogance did not protect Trump from SARS-CoV-2. The attendees should have asked what the limit is in attendance and whether it legally meets those limits of people in attendance. Money, power, and privilege is not a barrier to this virus. Obviously.

Indoor Gatherings (click here)

• General indoor gatherings must be limited to 25 people or 25% of a room's capacity -- whichever number is lower. All attendees at indoor gatherings must wear face coverings and stay six feet apart.
• Indoor gatherings for weddings, funerals, or memorial services must be limited to 150 people or 25% of a room's capacity -- whichever number is lower.
• Indoor gatherings for religious and political activities protected under the First Amendment must be limited to 150 people or 25% of a room's capacity -- whichever number is lower.
• Indoor gatherings for entertainment centers where performances are viewed or given, including movie theaters, performing arts centers, and other concert venues, must be limited to 150 people or 25% of a room's capacity -- whichever number is lower.

St. Francis has signed an encyclical regarding the problems we have today.

This encyclical takes on the death sentence and capitalism. He opposes both.

Catholic News World (click here)

October 5, 2020
By Charles P. Pierce

Papa Francesco (click here) has had a nice month for himself. First, he tells Mike Pompeo to pound sand. And, over the weekend, he issued an encyclical entitled Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers), a title drawn from the "admonitions" of St. Francis of Assisi, from whom the pope took his papal name. Among its other elements, the encyclical pretty much aligns the Church against the death penalty more firmly and finally than it ever has before. But its overarching theme is to confront our present moment and to do so directly and in the language of our time.

“The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neoliberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes … the magic theories of ‘spillover’ or ‘trickle’ — without using the name.”

That's not Bernie Sanders. That's the pope.

“Anyone who thinks that the only lesson to be learned was the need to improve what we were already doing, or to refine existing systems and regulations, is denying reality. God willing, after all this, we will think no longer in terms of ‘them’ and ‘those’, but only ‘us’. … If only we might keep in mind all those elderly persons who died for lack of respirators, partly as a result of the dismantling, year after year, of healthcare systems.”

That's not AOC. That's the pope.

As is customary, the encyclical is broken into numbered parts. This is a particularly relevant passage, at least to me.

Things that until a few years ago could not be said by anyone without risking the loss of universal respect can now be said with impunity, and in the crudest of terms, even by some political figures. Nor should we forget that “there are huge economic interests operating in the digital world, capable of exercising forms of control as subtle as they are invasive, creating mechanisms for the manipulation of consciences and of the democratic process. The way many platforms work often ends up favouring encounter between persons who think alike, shielding them from debate. These closed circuits facilitate the spread of fake news and false information, fomenting prejudice and hate.”

The most interesting thing about this section of the encyclical is its number.

It's 45.

October 1, 2020

By Christopher Brito

A high-ranking Vatican official (click here) said Wednesday that Pope Francis would not meet with U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo during his visit to Rome, citing the proximity of the U.S. general election in November....

The fall and rise of the financial markets is due more to Pelosi than any other decision. It is called "Bubble Up" as opposed to "Trickle Down."

Morning Papers

The Rooster? (click here)

Okeydoke

October 5, 2020
By Steve Goldstein

European stocks rose on Monday (click here) on hopes for one last economic stimulus boost to the economy before the U.S. election, as well as a clear result on Election Day....

...Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, 0.74% rose 215 points.

Politico reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as well as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin consulted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell about their stimulus plan talks. It’s unclear what, if any, role the Fed will play. The central bank did have a role in the first stimulus plan. Pelosi separately said in an interview with CBS that airlines should not fire workers, and that aid will be retroactive....

Oxygen levels

I will put it this way, normal is considered greater than 95 percent blood saturation measured by a pulse oximeter. There are Americans that have chronic lung disease like COPD (chronic obstructive lung disease) from smoking cigarettes that live on continuous oxygen flow from an oxygen condenser. Their oxygen saturation can be as low as 89 percent on a pulse oximeter, however, they are considered permanently disabled and are not making executive decisions.

Transient oxygenation problems as experienced with SARS-CoV-2 are very serious. Any patient, including the president of this country, needs to recognize the severity of that COMPROMISED state of wellness and rest while responsibly allowing decision making to other competent and trustworthy people.

Receiving serious drug treatment to successfully conquer COVID-19 is alone an indication to reassign responsibility to the Vice President. Anything short of that by the Cabinet is a compromise to the national security of this country. That does not mean that a fully recovered president cannot return to his duties to this country.

Pretending the president is not compromised is further imperiling his life and the country’s security. In the USA, anyone can legally refuse treatment and doctor’s orders. Refusing to accept doctors' orders and recommendations, as a president of the USA, is a dereliction of duty.

It is my opinion that in order to carry out his tour of citizens at the gate of the hospital complex Trump checked out of the hospital and then voluntarily returned to the doctor's care. I don't know any hospital or professional staff that would willingly compromise the public safety or the patient's well being by allowing such a stunt.

Trump wants to return to the White House while continuing his treatment. That is not fully recovered. The American people deserve better treatment than the president gives himself.

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

17.7  days old

90.7 percent lit

This is an article from mid-September. It is fairly level headed compared to some of the forecasts I have been hearing about winter.

September 17, 2020

By Hillary Gavan

Fall temperatures (click here) will warm up in the coming weeks under a reddish moon, and there will be an average-to-cool winter following the unique phenomenon of a “blue moon” in October.

Paul Collar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan, said it may feel cool now, but fall will be warming up.

“We are not heading into permanent cool. We will return to nice warmth next week,” he said....

We live in very difficult times.

Earth is warming rapidly because oil profits and the availability of liquidity for financial markets was convenient. The electric car technology has been around since Henry Ford yet when approached it is treated as if it is a failed method of transportation. That's nonsense. 

Earth is at a tipping point. A dangerous tipping point and we need to set our sights firmly on the future without looking back. Transportation and electricity production has to be benign to the balance of the planet. 

There are nearly 7.6 billion people alive on Earth. They are all consumers. Consumption means the use of energy and plenty of refuse and waste. Now, is the time to make Earth a priority. There is no looking back. 

The loss of ice fields and ice caps is extremely dangerous as they are climate mitigators. That mitigation is gone when the ice is gone. What is going to take it's place? Now, is the time we take this all very seriously and realize Earth's ice is precious and important and not simply a spectator sport when huge chunks break off to melt and raise sea levels.

Besides the climate, there are a lot of challenges to the USA Constitution as we know it. I have to continue this dialogue next week. This is simply a concept of understanding at this point. I want Americans thinking about their country and the importance of it's sovereign laws and the concept of their personal freedoms. It is time to vote and put the future first on all fronts.

One of those fronts must also be ending the plutocracy in the USA that endangers our freedoms. 

I appreciate your interest in this blog. Until later...

29 September 2020
By Tulane University

...“Barrett is an ‘originalist’ judge. (click here) The judicial philosophy of originalism has gradually become a very narrow approach to constitutional interpretation, which stresses looking for the ‘original meaning’ of the document. That meaning has to be constructed on the basis of a highly selective approach to history. The constructed nature of originalism, in effect, gives judges like Barrett permission to imagine that their preferred policy positions are ratified by the framers of the Constitution. That makes it a dangerous philosophy, one that could do real damage to the structure of American constitutional law.”

“Over the past few decades, Republicans have cared more about judicial appointments, including appointments to the Supreme Court, than Democrats. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the culmination of that effort. But going ahead with the nomination so close to a closely contested presidential election poses real risks. There are no clear parallels in American history to the current situation. The Supreme Court itself as an institution could easily become the victim of a Democratic backlash if Barrett is confirmed.”