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.

A Full Court Press

I noticed President Biden huddled briefly with the Former Presidents Clinton, W. Bush and Obama. He also mentioned Former President Jimmy Carter. 

Former President Carter is going to be helpful in many areas both domestic and international. President Carter was well received in the Middle East and brokered the Camp David Accords. 

Jimmy Carter is the Democrats best kept secret. He commanded the Panama Canal Treaty, was involved with Afghanistan before bin Laden, developed full diplomatic relations with China and closed on SALT II. And that was only his international achievements.

He created the US Department of Education and expanded national lands as well as took up the mantle of the environment making it sustainable for some regulation reform for the trucking and airline industries. He protected Social Security and removed racial barriers for minorities and women. He created 8 million jobs and cut the deficit during his administration. It is unfortunate the politics only allows for him to be branded with a failed hostage rescue. 

Honestly, not bad work for a former Navy officer.

We saved our country to be at this moment.

Congratulations to all Americans. We have saved our democracy.

It is a great day.

We have the perfect team elected to the Executive Branch. We will prevail with the dedication I know Joe Biden and Kamala Harris brings to their leadership.

Has the COVID-19 team arrived to disinfect the White House?

I am assuming the limo has been disinfected from top to bottom, including the trunk. 

Hopefully, Camp David is pristinely clean.

Marine One now has to be disinfected. Pay attention to the hand rails. Trump was always hitting them for some reason as he entered all the vehicles.

“...if we had not been hit by the pandemic...”

Amazing. Of course Trump was helpless against the pandemic and the 400,000 dead was beyond control considering it would have been 2.2 million if Dr. Fauci didn’t stand in opposition to every aspects of the Trump regime.

The cheerleaders are there to shine him on instead of exposing him to reality.

“... in some form.” Shape shifting again? 

Trump put a $30,000 Wall Street in place while the country’s GDP plummeted. Ah, but, it was all because Trump was helpless against COVID. Amazing. Such disparity between the economic classes in the USA, just like every other country with a dictator.

Trump has endangered every American life with his destructive cabinet that erased decades of work on regulations to KEEP AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.o

Disinfect the letter on the Resolute Desk! Seriously! Open the envelope and disinfect the letter in all its pages. Biden’s first mail delivery by the most infected package handler on the planet.

Steve Bannon?

 A pardon? Trump just exonerated the Alt Right and reinforced hate.

President Biden has to stand by his Cabinet choices.

Hawley’s objection of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas is based in hatred and racism. Hawley supports the violence of the insurrectionists and does not deserve an opinion yet alone an objection.

Secretary Mayorkas will have to serve as an “Acting” Secretary until things change. He is perfectly qualified and there should be no objection. 

Gallows

Reports today are in the newspapers about how murderous the insurrectionists were with their intent to hunt down Congressmen and women to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

If one examines the actual gallows that they built, it was planned for killing. The gallows was made of two telephone polls with a platform to carry out lynchings. Those structures went up in a short period of time. 

The crowd of insurgents were on a mission to murder the people of the Congress. It was never conceived as a symbolic gesture. They all should be charged with attempted murder. They were all in on it. They were all invested in that outcome.

Trump had to know their plans. It was to well organized and funded. That is another thing. Money was flowing into these efforts. At least one group, the anti-vaccine groups received more than $850,000 in PPP loans. There was no national security check for the PPP loans. These people are crackpots and got their hands on nearly a million US. There is a lot wrong.

How did anyone get telephone polls near the Capital? Pence had his family there as well. Why? Was he afraid to leave them at home and thought them more secure in his office?

To many unanswered questions. They had money from a non-profit and access. Were any of the authorities to protect life that day told to stand down? By whom?

McConnell and Pepsi’s homes were vandalized. Each member of Congress should submit a statement to their experience that day. They are strong people and it may just be much of their thoughts will never be know or included as evidence. They are an important piece to the puzzle surrounding this assault on the US Capital and them. Their identities were spoken in the mobs manhunt. 

Russia has a lot of explaining to do.

The “New Start Treaty” expires the first week of February.

Has Russia lived up to renewing it?

Russia should stop the Russian generated propaganda about the radicalized attack within the USA Capital and concern itself with the oppression of free speech and wrongful imprisonment of Alexis Navalny. He is a walking miracle for surviving a poisoning carried out by a criminal network in Russia.

Russia is and has exhibited the inability to safely conduct a nuclear program at all. There needs to be strict limits on incompetent practices within any renewal of the “New Start Treaty.” Russia’s priorities are very strange to allow such unsecured tests. It is questionable as to the skill level of Russian nuclear scientists after their radiation poisoning and deaths. 

There needs to be an international reporting of such activities leading to greater non-proliferation. Serious questions must be asked of the Russian program. A review of the credentials and experience of Russian nuclear scientists must be submitted for international review.

Russia has recently expelled two Dutch diplomats and has cancelled the Open Skies Treaty.

If their is no real competent Russian nuclear program then the New Start Treaty is mute except to oppress the USA and the West’s program.

The USSR had a competent program. That has deteriorated under the prolonged rule of Putin. Ukraine had all the nuclear scientists.

The Dutch incident is quid pro quo. The Dutch diplomats were never the problem. The real problem came from Russian diplomats that were outside their official duties. I think the Dutch incident should put all Western countries on alert to inappropriate use of Russian diplomats operating outside their official duties. Putin is not trustworthy.

MLK Day

The promotion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day actually started with the labor unions in their contracts. It was to recognize the strong labor ethic in Black history as well as the man most responsible for nonviolent activism. Martin Luther King, Jr. and labor unions were based in nonviolent activism. “The Sit-In” was one of the first forms of labor activism.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday was initially defeated in the USA House in 1979. Four years later an Indiana US Representative Katie Hall would introduce a bill that would pass into law making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday.

Have a happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

“Kindle”

There is no “screen time” issues.

There is no gaming or social media.

Children will actually go outside and play. Or. They might want to read more.

Aleksia Navalny

He is the prime example as to why Russia is evil.  There is no freedom in Russia, only oppression. 

It brings home the reality of Trump’s folly with Putin and other strongmen in the world. Trump is afraid of the shadows they cast. Trump huddled with Putin for hours in Helsinki. It requires impeachment. 

The USA must contain such oppression. It is toxic to human rights. Obviously.

Shut the damn country down!

If the vaccine can’t answer the problem than Norway should do as New Zealand has done and shut the country down until the virus is  under control! If any country can do this Norway can. The people will need to be patient no longer than a month and end travel in or out of the country without quarantine and negative tests throughout. 

Everyone knows it is the only one true method that works. 

The Elderly may not have a quick fix from SARS-CoV-3

Norway is following a trend with their elderly in that, while not conclusive, is showing deaths after vaccination. They are studying the facts and adults that are younger, and not elderly, are not showing strongly negative adverse signs for the vaccine. No specific brand was mentioned.

Norway is questioning the wisdom of vaccinating the older and oldest Norwegians.

Mandatory listening by everyone through to the entire program.

Michigan Attorney General has to soft balling about the Flint Water Crisis. There is much more evidence about the crimes the former Govenor Snyder conducted while in office.

After more than six years of no accountability (click here) for former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for his actions leading to the poisoning of the city of Flint, Snyder was arraigned on Wednesday for two counts of willful neglect of duty. He is the first of Michigan’s 49 governors in 184 years to face charges related to their time in office. If convicted, he could face up to one year in jail and up to $1,000 in fines. Snyder is among nine senior officials who are facing a total of 42 criminal charges for their actions that caused a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Genesee County, and caused permanent, irreversible brain damage due to lead poisoning to thousands of Flint children....

Jordon Chariton, on the podcast "Rumble by Michael Moore," reveals the truth about the cover-up conducted directly by Rich Snyder. He has evidence to assist in the investigation to bring true jusice to the people of Flint and this country.

There are over 100 dead due to Legionella. The medical center was told at one point to stop testing for Legionella. There is an ongoing nightmare rolling out in Flint in the way of cancers and mental deterioration. At one point the people of Flint were told their water test was normal. They drank the water after those tests came in and they are now suffering from serious disease due to the ingestion of that poisoned water. 

According to Mr. Chariton the water mains in Flint have not been replace, but, the house pipelines are being replaced. That is ridiculous. How were such dangerous choice being made? Why replace the house lines if the water mains into the city aren't replaced? What was done to the water mains, line them? Where is the proof and lining water mains are not considered a permanent solution. I know that was being discussed under Snyder.

I have absolutely no doubt this was racism. The Michigan Attorney General must assign an investigaton into the corruption and political rangling that occurred. Snyder's friends and donors have profited by removing democratically elected local government and installing emergency managers to force sales of city assets and even poisoning the Flint residents. Snyder's criminal charges are grossly incomplelte, including manslaughter. He knew exactly what was happening during the entire Flint Water Crisis. He knew and he did nothing. The Michigan Attorney General cannot become an accomplice to the lies that Snyder tells.

The charges brought last week against all those people is just the beginning. I am grateful Michigan's Executive Branch is willing to bring charges, but, they need to complete the work to bring about justice.

Until tomorrow.