Trumpism is dead. Governor Newsom defeated it with minimal effort.

Any elected official up for re-election that advocates this extremist agenda should be easily defeated, including the likes of US Senator Marco Rubio. The rally that was supposed to take place at the capital had extremists there and few of them at that. The Trump crowd is a security challenge.

Louisiana is in terrible condition. Louisiana is a national emergency all by itself.

Besides the fact, Louisiana has a high rate of COVID-19 cases the state is underwater. President Biden issues emergency provisions for food stamps in Louisiana and the people need to take advantage of that. There is yet another storm slamming into New Orleans, Louisiana, and the southeast.

September 15, 2021
By Brett Martel

New Orleans - Six unidentified members (click here) of the New Orleans Saints coaching staff, a player and a nutritionist have tested positive for COVID-19, two people familiar with the situation said.

The people spoke with The Associated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the team and NFL had not made a public statement about the matter. The people said the entire Saints coaching staff had been vaccinated.

Later Tuesday, Michael Thomas — who already was ineligible to play the first six games while on the club’s physically unable to perform list — was placed on New Orleans’ COVID-19 reserve list.

The names of most others who tested positive were not expected to be released in the short term because of federal medical privacy laws.

It is unclear how long those who tested positive will remain isolated from the team before they may return to the field or in-person meetings....

FEMA needs to incorporate "Sea Level Rise" in the ability to provide for homes that have been flooded and/or the property they are currently sitting on. It is tragic that so many problems exist in the USA with serious storms, tornadoes, and flooding, but, the fact that sea-level rise is occurring in the year 2021 as it hasn't in previous years, the emergency responders need to warn people about CONTINUING dangers.

Survivors of these storms can't' be taken lightly. The USA has had great success in past years in recovering areas of the country where FEMA responded, but, I might remind that after Katrina the FEMA trailers were the only shelter many families had and probably still maintain even today. This reality of sustained needs for FEMA trailers speaks to the condition of the land post-tragedy and the ability of Americans to recover after being displaced. I would expect FEMA to bring the reality of sea-level rise to the survivors of these water-related issues and ask them to move on rather than continue to be in danger today and in the near future.

Surviving such tragedies is not a minor accomplishment. Considering the ongoing climate issues, the survivors need to take themselves seriously and not necessarily return to the areas where sea-level rise is expected to be a problem. It makes no sense for people to return to the same inundated areas when storm after storm continues to plague the southeast region of the country.

September 14, 2021
By Bill Chappel, Barbara Campbell, and Jaclyn Diaz

Sports fishing should not be allowed when a hurricane is expected. The State of Texas should be closing beaches and outlawing such activity. This is ridiculous. If this is subsistence fishing, it should still be outlawed and perhaps Texas needs additional emergency food stamps, too.

Hurricane Nicholas (click here) made landfall along the Texas coast early Tuesday morning, bringing with it heavy wind, rain and dangerous storm surge threats.

The Category 1 hurricane made landfall in Texas just before 2 a.m. ET along the Matagorda Peninsula, a strip of land just off the southeastern coast of Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center.

A hurricane warning was in effect overnight from Port O'Connor to Freeport in Texas, and a hurricane watch was issued for Freeport to San Luis Pass, a narrow channel between Galveston Island and the Texas mainland. The Houston metro area, which was soaked by Hurricane Harvey four years ago and again by Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019, is on alert for damaging floods, though Nicholas has been downgraded to a tropical storm.

The Houston Independent School District canceled classes for Tuesday ahead of the storm's arrival.

More than 150,000 customers lost power in Texas as the storm made landfall overnight....

There is a climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland the beginning of November. Every major city and even small cities should be represented there and commit to climate targets.

September 15, 2021

New Orleans - The Archdiocese of New Orleans (click here) reports major damage to church and school buildings in multiple parishes from Hurricane Ida.

Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon Aug. 29 as a dangerous Category 4 storm that slowly made its way through southeast Louisiana.

A parish-by-parish list of the damage was published in the archdiocesan newspaper, The Clarion Herald. Notable buildings, such as St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, sustained extensive damage.

According to the Archdiocese, the cathedral's spires and turrets were damaged along with its roof, lanterns, doors, columns and stained glass windows. The church's rectory also suffered broken windows, possible roof damage, and ceiling and wall damage.

Some of the most extensive damage was reported at schools and churches in Laplace....

Cenk has a point. This was predictable and people are dying.

The South Carolina Bar needs to review Lynn Woods' law license and issue a strong letter of concern for his role in advocating malpractice with this American woman, Veronica Wolski.

Ivermectin is a drug used to eliminate roundworms in animals. These are some of the side effects possible when human beings take it. 

Lynn Wood was definitely attempting to bring this American out of a CARE situation in the hospital without any knowledge of her treatment regime. This is gross malpractice by a lawyer in South Carolina. At no time does he state he would be willing to take this issue before a judge or find a lawyer in Chicago to do so. This was a political stunt by Lynn Wood and it should be treated with the brevity in which he intended it. Just because he is a former Trump lawyer doesn't mean he is exempt from malpractice.

Headache, (click here) dizziness, muscle pain, nausea, or diarrhea may occur. If you are being treated for "river blindness" (onchocerciasis) you may experience reactions to the dying parasites during the first 4 days of treatments, including joint pain, tender/swollen lymph nodes, eye swelling/redness pain, weakness, vision changes, itching, rash and fever. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.

To reduce dizziness upon standing, get up slowly when rising from a sitting or lying position.

Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or shw has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.

Tell your doctor right away if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: neck/back pain, swelling face/arms/hands/feet, chest pain, fast heartbeat, confusion, seizures, loss of consciousness....

We already know that Illinois in general and Chicago specifically have done a fairly good job of vaccinations. There is currently a surge in hospital admissions I believe it was southwest Illinois. Well, when this type of lunacy is allowed to exist and other government officials want to wreak havoc in Illinois there are going to be people believing what is said. Lynn Wood is part of this deception and Illinois, regardless of the advocacy for vaccines is seeing problems with a population that is swamping the hospitals.

In my opinion, this is Lynn Wood screaming fire in a theater. I believe it is criminal behavior and it needs to be reined in. The Illinois Attorney General needs to regard Lynn Wood as a liar willing to spread dangerous opinions among the public that results in real deaths. This is not freedom of speech. Lynn Wood cannot go around spreading lies that lead to the death of citizens of this country. There need to be repercussions and soon.

Dog(s)

In the world of home invasion prevention and  protection the answer is a watch dog. That does not mean an attack dog. It could be an “ankle-biter” so long as the dog sounds an alarm of a violation and/or anticipated violation of their/it’s  territory.

Once the family (including one person) is awake and aware there will be a follow-up even if it is a so-called false alarm. My perspective is that there is no such thing as a false alarm coming from the family dog. I maintain that a barking dog will PREVENT and/or deter any home invader.

Now, the follow-up to the barking dog can differ according to circumstances. If the area is crime riddled and police response to any call is slow (both are extreme descriptors) then the people with a defensive firearm will probably be necessary. But, in areas where crime is low and/or police response is quick (the other extreme descriptors) nothing but a 911 call is necessary.

I do not believe guns for self-defense is necessary in most American households. The danger within our society of gun violence has increased drastically since the year 2000 and the sundown of the assault weapons ban of 1994.

In the year 2021 there is no such slogan stating “All that is necessary for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” In the USA there is gun violence of passion taking over any criminality involving gun violence. Not to dispel the idea there is criminal use of guns, of course there is, but, along side is a growing and dangerous trend of passionate use of guns for violence against others. This is a huge change in the gun culture in the USA. Arsenals are now a status symbol.

Bottom line is that there are too many guns on the street, in our neighborhoods and in the American home. They aren’t necessary AT ALL.

The only REAL preventative to home invasion is a barking dog and a response that brings police to the address if there is in fact danger to the household. 

I tend to think a household dog is better than dogs roaming the property. Why? Because dogs can be killed as well. Inside the home they are members of the “family pack” and protected from injury or death.

Guns are not necessary in a society that values life, including animal life, with neighborhoods where police know their town and the people within it and respond to calls that are meaningful to a good outcome.

People in the USA are taking the law into their own hands. I recently heard on the news how a woman shot and killed a Peeping Tom through the wall of her home. The assailant was not within the confines of her home. Peeking into windows should never be a death sentence. Basically, that is a nuisance and misdemeanor under the law for most cases. It is a mental health issue. The woman who killed the person outside her windows should face prison for aggravated manslaughter.

All that said, get a dog before getting a gun.

Trump trying to be relevant are futile lies.

Any American helicopter secrets to be learned by Russia or China occurred during the bin Laden raid in Pakistan. One of the helicopters malfunctioned during that raid and only one helicopter returned with bin Laden body later disposed of at sea.

The American liter left in Afghanistan holds no special secrets. Trump is trying to say he has special connections with Russia and China that reveal a poor exit by the USA military. It is all nonsense.

What surprises me is that Trump isn’t protected in Moscow as every other Russian ally like Litvinenko and Yanukovych. They can’t be extradited.

But, Trump’s helicopter statement is just more lies.

Shanksville speech

The FCC needs to review what occurred with FOX News on Sunday, September 12, 2021. They are complaining about no eyes and ears on the ground in Afghanistan and across the bottom of the screen stated, "Bush predicts more terror attacks." Something like that.

I listened to the Shanksville speech. It was quite something. Former President Bush indicted Donald John Trump in the attacks on the USA Capitol on January 6, 2021 and made parrallel insights about what motivates people to act against authority. But, nowhere in the speech did he predict more terrorist attacks. That is all spin of a very important speech to the people gathered at the memorial in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2021.

The fact is George W. Bush never predicted any attacks and that is significant. He spoke clearly about the exploitation of Trump in his seat of power in the presidency. It is my opinion FOX News is a channel of hate and is seeking to inspire MAGA followers to act again (click here).

Those in the country that cannot abide by a Biden presidency, need to seek comfort with George W. Bush and reject Trump's inflammatory path. He intends to take the 2024 presidential election by hook or by crook. He is practicing in the 2022 elections for the best method to manipulate not only the voters, but, also the voting machines. His methods will be employed during the 2022 elections to perfect them by 2024. 

I find FOX News an ally to Trump and proports misinformation to inspire more violence in the country. 

I also point to the recent trend of deaths of people unrelated in any way to the murderer that uses gun violence. There have been Sherriffs and Police Chief alike reporting on mass killings which is defined as more than 2 people as having an unrelated MOTIVE to the killer. I think this is all part of the so called MAGA movement to kill Americans loyal to the country and the USA Constitution. There needs to be a concensus about this trend in growing murder rates by gun violence with unrelated motives within the USA.

After all President Biden has taken a solumn oath to protect domestic tranquility. If that is not occurring there must be something wrong with this presidency. FOX and Trump are chronically seeking ways to defame President Biden and have him declared incompetent within the 24th amendment. The attacks on Americans' sanity is ever ongoing.

I have conducted my own experiment about gun violence to actually test the THEORY by gun advocates about the "gap" of time from a 911 call to the appearance of police at the door step. This is not an artifiicial call to the police, twice someone attempted to break in to my home, once while I was asleep in my bed. But, the purpose of this is the idea that a gun makes all the difference in the world, it doesn't really. 

l. A person has to wake up to begin with, if that doesn't happen there is no self-defense by any gun in the home used for self-defense. There are parts of sleep that would not allow a wake up phase. 

2. The gun has to be readily available. Many gun owners use safes both large and small for their home arsenal. That is a good thing. But, in the case of a home invasion even with alarms going off and a gun in a clam-shell lock box there is still the issue of being awake enough to arm oneself and then act to end the invasion. 

3. The average response time in suburban neighborhoods for police to arrive is about 15 minutes. The theory that being armed for self-defense is going to close that gap is highly inaccurate. If one is awake at all or enough to actually open the clam-shell, remove the gun, throw a preloaded bullet clip into the gun and actually out gun the invaders is more time than INSTANTLY occurring. It is my opinion that once an invasion begins and the resident is awake enough to unlock the safe, remove the gun and clip and actually address the growing danger of an armed invader it is at least 5 to 10 minutes. Sure that is quicker than police response time, but, hardly enough time to end a home invasion and then the gun used in self-defense can become a weapon to facilitate a fully awake and aware invader.

4. Would a self-defense gun and ammo have ended the random killings now being talked about by Sheriffs and Police Chiefs? Maybe. The circumstances would dictate the outcome.

5. To purchase a gun is somewhat intricate and getting a concealed carry permit is being taken very seriously by those conducting the background check. But, in all honesty to be your own best friend in handling a gun during a home invasion, takes practice and plenty of it to feel comfortable with the gun and operate it competently while adrenaline is rushing through one's body on the way to end the life of a home invader. It is expensive to own guns and those most vulnerable to attack most likely can't afford them and/or the training that accompanies competent gun ownership.

It is time the people of the USA become familiar with home invasion and the best way to protect from it until the police arrive. A gun is probably, in most instances, not the best protection.

The FCC must investigate FOX News to it's willingness to be friendly to insurrectionists, including Donald John Trump.

My apologies to Former President George W. Bush for allowing myself to think that FOX News was more than propaganda. They dishonored the Former President and blantantly lied about the speech to favor fear in the people over the truth.

Good night for now.

Severe weather

There is a severe thunderstorm warning tonight. 

The thunder right now Is continuous. No let up and this is due to continue to 11:00 pm. Unbelievable. Lots of lightning.

This I believe is the same issue as two Sundays ago. It might be a pattern. 

FOX news is pushing that the USA has no eyes and ears on the ground in Afghanistan as Bush is now predicting the future stating there will be more terror attacks. That is spring boarding off a permanent commemorative day of September 11th. It is nothing but fear politics and the right should be ashamed of themselves.

The technology today can hear a pin drop miles and miles away and the USA has friends in the region. The Taliban has their hands full with protests and internal push from Deash. If there was any inkling of trouble President Biden would mobilize what he needed.

Afghanistan is not the 51st state and never will be. 

Until later……

I respect those that find September 11, 2001 an important time to grieve those lost and reflect on global terrorism throuigh the recognition of the victims that day. They were civilians and every American was chilled by the act of violence that put Osama bin Laden front and center.

The expanse of that attack reaches far beyond that day. It encompasses for me the agenda of deceit that followed including the Iraq War. What sincerely bothers me is that those attacks became a political drumbeat more than the depth of understanding what occurred that day and why.

I think the wars that followed those attacks have proven to be excessive. Osama bin Laden caught democracy unaware of the dangers of the lack of security of our infrastructure. The attacks were also a failure of intelligence in that the brevity of it never was regarded as important by the president or the cabinet of that time.

There needs to be a legislative trigger that compels a president to act in protection of national security. Senator Feinstein was very verbal after the attack to bring the truth forward of her knowledge and attempts to bring brevity to the importance of the intelligence to the Vice President. She should have been able to declare a national security threat to the people, hence Congress within no longer than one week of the intelligence report if needed. I would have paid attention to any Congress person with such intelligence. The airlines definitely would have paid attention to a congressional letter. Such capacity would stem the tolerance of nitwits in the government. Sharing is caring.

I could go on and on about the unseen truths, but, there is one that was overshadowed by the long and unnecessary wars; the climate crisis was distanced to Americans, hence, made to be unimportant. We cannot afford to allow such distraction again in the face of the dangers that accompany Earth's warming. It is time to take on the Climate Crisis seriously for our children and their future.

Not to minimize the importance of a school superintendent suing the school board, there are developments with the water crisis.

September 10, 2021
By Ron Fonger

Flint - Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s claims of misconduct (click here) in the pending criminal case against him amount to nothing more than “an effort to distract from the atrocities that happened” during the Flint water crisis, prosecutors say.

Attorneys for Snyder filed a motion in Genesee District Court on Wednesday, Sept. 8, seeking a temporary halt in the production of documents seized by prosecutors, claiming there has been “a breathtaking and flagrant disregard” for his due process rights.

Snyder has pleaded not guilty to two counts of willful neglect of duty for his role in the water crisis -- misdemeanors that are punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, who are leading the prosecution, said in a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal that they look forward to addressing claims made by Snyder’s legal team in court....

See, the State of Michigan is paying for Snyder's lawyers so there is a ridiculous stall tactic going on because Snyder has no defense. All Snyder has is excuses.

Every possible motion will be made and every possible legal stunt will be pulled by lawyers representing Snyder that still have a license to practice they obtained from a Cracker Jack's box.

So, this is the "state of justice" in Michigan. One man Grand Juries and excuses by lawyers to extend the conviction deadline. My, my, my. It is truly a state for and by the lawyer. Michigan has a profound corruption problem that extends to their local judges as well. My, my, my.

This is an article about the lawsuit between the Flint Superintendent and the school board. That is really bad when that happens.

September 9, 2021
By Dylan Goetz

Flint Community Schools Superintendent Anita Steward (click here) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, Sept. 8, against the district’s Board of Education in Genesee County Circuit Court.

The lawsuit cites Steward’s contract, a warning the board imposed in June and the superintendent’s January evaluation. It alleges that board members violated the district’s bylaws and procedures by interfering with day-to-day operations and that board members “didn’t care” about bylaws or policies.

Steward reported these actions to now-fired district attorney Kendall Williams, claiming that the board created a hostile work environment and reported that she was being impeded and prevented from doing her job, according to the lawsuit.

Board President Carol McIntosh and board members Joyce Ellis-McNeal, Danielle Green and Laura MacIntyre are all named in the lawsuit. Adrian Walker, the only remaining active board member, is not named.

Attorney Tom Pabst, who is representing Steward, told MLive-The Flint Journal that the superintendent went on personal leave last week due to the pressure she felt from the board. Pabst said the board even attempted to fire her during leave.

“I am in my 70s right now and the reason I am still practicing law is to represent people like Anita -- who do the right thing and get pounded like a tent pick,” Pabst said. “I’m proud to represent her.”...

The COVID-19 Orphans.

How many children are orphaned because of COVID-19? How many people that were married with or without children find themselves widows or widowers because of COVID-19?

This virus did more damage than any other in the way it destroyed families.

September 10, 2021
By Jennifer Chambers

The family of a Detroit couple with seven children (click here) are grieving after both parents were infected with COVID-19 and died less than a day apart.

Troy and Charletta Green, married for 22 years, had plans to go to Florida with their seven children in August, Troy's sister Tiki Green said.

Charletta's mother died from COVID-19 in May and the Detroit couple had planned an August vacation with their kids, ages 10 to 23, to spend time together and grieve the loss of their loved one, Tiki Green said.

"Everyone took it so hard," she told The Detroit News on Friday.

But days before leaving for Orlando on Aug. 13, Troy felt ill and decided to stay back in Detroit until he felt better.

Charletta went ahead with the children and her sister, but when she arrived in Florida, she too fell ill, Tiki Green said. Within two days, Charletta was bedridden and taken to a hospital in the Orlando area....

An estimated 40,000 children lost parents from COVID-19. There was one other time in modern history a high number of children were orphaned because of a virus. That was HIV/AIDS in Africa. The longevity of the countries involved dropped because of parents dying and leaving their children behind. Now, the USA is having children with one parent or none. That doesn't even account for the children that lost their grandparents. Grandparents sometimes help with childcare and now what is a family going to do when those vital people die?

April 5, 2021

By Melissa Jenco

Researchers estimate 40,000 children in the U.S. (click here) have lost a parent to COVID-19, a tragedy disproportionately impacting Black children.

The team called for national efforts to support these children, especially as they face increased hardship and isolation during the pandemic.

“Children who lose a parent are at elevated risk of traumatic grief, depression, poor educational outcomes, and unintentional death or suicide, and these consequences can persist into adulthood,” authors wrote in a research letter published today in JAMA Pediatrics.

To calculate the parental losses, the team created a statistical model taking into account the number of deaths from COVID-19 since February 2020 and demographics of those who have died. They determined about one in every 13 deaths resulted in a child under 18 losing a parent.

As of February 2021, there were 479,000 recorded deaths. When deaths indirectly linked to the pandemic are included, that figure grows to 552,000. Using their statistical model, researchers determined roughly 37,000 to 43,000 youths have lost a parent. About three-quarters of those experiencing parental loss are adolescents....

Perhaps Americans need to realize over and over that the spread fo this virus was completely preventable. Now, through government neglect of it's citizens there are children without parents. It is not their fault and having a single-parent family may be a new challenge for a mother or father, not to mention some families lost their primary breadwinner. 

OH, YES, this spread of SARS-CoV-2 was completely preventable. The article below was written soon after it was apparent the USA was in for a very rough ride with a virus out of CHINA AGAIN!

Every American that suffered from the virus and those who died are all human rights violations by Trump and his minions that seek to overthrow the USA democracy to save them from facing the facts.

March 22, 2020
By Marisa Taylor

Washington - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, (click here) the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.

The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”

Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases....

COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE. IT ONLY TAKES ONE TRAINED PERSON TO DETECT A DISEASE OUTBREAK. 

JUST ONE.

This is called national security. This form of national security does not roll into town with tanks, guns, and soldiers, it is deployed with KNOWLEDGE and USA directives to seek out and find dangerous and deadly diseases to prevent human tragedy in the homeland.

COVID-19 spread, AKA SARS-CoV-2 WAS COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE.

Today, Trump is running as hard as he can to declare his next hapless years in the presidency. Let me correct that, it wasn't at all hapless, but, it definitely is feckless.

He is spreading all the lies he can about the vote for 2020 to win sympathy and excuses for extremist groups to have hope this too will be the end of the democracy that encourages diversity and inclusiveness in all walks of life. 

These people are human rights violators right here in the USA. Trump knows who the Americans are with a grudge for whatever reason they do and actively seeks them out to vote him into office in 2024. I don't think he is really interested in the office of the presidency, just free room and board while he plays General and Little Tin God.

SARS-CoV-2 started under Trump's watch because he decided he could do away with taxes for the US Treasury, so he cut everything HE THOUGHT was unnecessary government spending. That included American scientists that SAVED THE WORLD from previous outbreaks, some we don't even know about. There was no grand conspiracy by China to destroy the populations of the world. It happened for the reasons it always happens in China, overpopulation, poverty and some of it is profound poverty and lack of education about basics like sanitation. 

Donald John Trump is a human rights violator and directly responsible for all the illnesses in the USA and the deaths. He is also responsible for orphans and new single-parent families. Do you know most single-parent families didn't start out that way? There were two parents under one roof that loved and cared about each other until divorce or death struck.

GET VACCINATED. YOUR CHILDREN NEED YOU.

Joe Manchin is "Republican Light."

Joe Manchin is dead wrong! He thinks he has something to do to right the inherent wrong of Progressives and Liberals, but, he could not be more wrong.

September 9, 2021
By Paul Waldman

To be honest, (click here) I liked Joe Manchin III better when he didn’t believe in much of anything.

That’s an exaggeration, of course — the West Virginia Democrat has always believed in some things even if he’s the classic kind of “centrist” who knows where he stands only once he has a right and left to position himself between. But as Democrats try to negotiate a budget reconciliation bill, Manchin has gone from general expressions of concern and demands for appeasement to a more specific brand of threats and demands. And it isn’t pretty.

As long as Manchin was shrouding his objections in vagueness, everything was negotiable. Yes, he would insist that the dollar figure on the bill be smaller, and he would want benefits and supports other Democrats sought to be made stingier and less effective. But Manchin’s typical political play offered plenty of room to limit the damage....

Manchin forgets who pays the taxes in the USA. It isn't his cronies, he sees to that. It is the Middle Class that pays bills with monies in the USA Treasury. I am a little tired of the Middle Class paying for wars and Wall Street excesses with blood and treasury they work very hard for and that their children need to grow up.

Oh, so you think Joe Manchin is a pure as the driven snow when it comes to being corrupt. "W"RONG! All those high-minded ideals are nothing but political fluff for his electorate.

"Open Secrets" (click here)

All those high-minded ideals back up his cronies PAID FOR BY THE MIDDLE CLASS, including those that work the mines of West Virginia.

There is no moral that Manchin brings to the US Senate. He is playing with fate to try to continue to occupy the power of the USA government from a boat along the Potomac.

The problem always is how to move the greedy's grip of power to facilitate the taxes necessary to get the money in the hands of the Middle Class so the USA Treasury FINALLY has a real income rather than a ZERO contribution by the wealthy and big oil and big pharma and big distributors like Amazon. 

President Biden looked across this country and saw the Middle-Class struggling and their children in need of new shoes. There was so little talk about the American Dream that something had to be done. The $3.4 Trillion is supposed to be paid by folks like Manchin's cronies above. See, the taxes from the wealthy, the privileged, and big business doesn't exist. They don't pay taxes. Our favorite billionaire, Warren Buffet, will tell you that his secretary pays more in taxes than his entire financial company.

This ideology by the political right-wing, including Manchin, is so perverse they rather pay their bills in Bitcoin than USA Greenbacks.

The facts are clear, most of the wealth in the USA is sequestered to a small percentage in the upper crust of the country. It is impossible to get the money to circulate to the Middle Class and Poor even if they work 60 hours a week while paying for childcare. The people that do the work that provides the profits to the few billion-millionaires need help. They need their dreams returned to them and those dreams have to be attainable and not sincerely a dream that will never come true.

The USA has the greatest economy in the world. Why? Answer that! Why? Because the wealth is sequestered in the top of all the wealthy? Why? Why is the USA the greatest economy in the world? 

BECAUSE OF THE USA MIDDLE CLASS THAT PURCHASES ITEMS SOLD HERE!

THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE ALL THE WIDGETS ARE THE BACKBONE OF THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD!

The $3.4 trillion that is before a 51 vote margin in the US Senate is VITAL to the future of the economy, the SAFE AND SANE future of the children of this country, and the American Dream that includes high moral content to sustain the peoples that need excellent educations for their children to fill our brain trust and rescue those disabled by the COVID-19 VIRUS and it's variants.

Joe Manchin should not be in the USA Senate and he needs to get off his high horse and become the people of this country need a real human being rather than just another politician bought and paid for by his cronies.

For 50 years the flood controls held until Ida the Climate Crisis storm.

Strange name for a town, isn't it? Manville. It was originally named after the owners of "Johns-Manville" the asbestos kings. The town should consider changing its name. Johns-Manville is not a proud heritage. Johns-Manville filled this country with lung-destroying asbestos and made plenty of money doing it. I don't think the plant is operating anymore. But, as a girl growing up in Manville I remember how every year there was a father of a senior high school student that died of lung cancer. Just one. Every year. I think Princeton University grad students did a study of it. I remember them sitting in the living room speaking with my parents. My father worked for Union Carbide. He was lucky. He lived to be 80 before lung cancer took him.

But, as to Ida.

I think the year was 1971. I worked as a dental assistant for a local dentist. Back then dentists trained their own assistants. I didn't do what dental assistants do today, but, it was a good job for a high school student. It was a normal Saturday when I got up and readied myself for work. I hopped in my 1960 Chevy Impala with a straight six-cylinder and set out to drive to work like every other Saturday. I came done Kennedy Blvd., but, when I got to Main Street there was a river running there rather than a street to drive on. I didn't have work that day.

Hurricane Doria came through the day before and when I arrived home, my mother said, I don't think you are going to have work today and pointed to the television. To make a long story short, the government went to work immediately with an ongoing clean-up. The homes in a section of town called "Lost Valley" where the Selody Sod Farm grew just a foot or so above the Raritan River Canal were all flooded. Some people waded through the water to safety and contracted dysentery. They were treated at the local hospital because they had no homes that were safe.

The Army Corp. came in within a week or so and dredged the Raritan River and its canal to make them deeper. Then the county and state kicked in some money and a new railroad bridge was built with an underpass for cars, but, this time it had a pump house to remove water that might accumulate there. All those changes to the landscape held beautifully until Ida.

Fifty years.

There was something like nearly 11 inches that fell on Manville in just a couple of hours. There was no place to run. The Raritan River once again assaulted the small Middle-Class town where people work hard for a living and had at one time risked their lives to bring home a paycheck to their family by working in an asbestos plant.

The Climate Crisis is upon us in a very big way. This little town is suffering for the sins of society in not heeding the warning of scientists for nearly as long as this return to flooding for Manville. The 1960s was the year everyone thought the climate crisis would be respected and change would take place. But, the petroleum industry had designs on profits at any cost. Today, the country is paying for those excesses.

It warmed my heart to see President Biden on the streets of Manville talking to the citizens. They are good people. Hardworking people that love their children and embrace the family as the center of their daily lives. I am confident that the presidential visit meant a great deal to them. 

Seeing my old hometown once again assaulted by a once tamed river, only drove home the point to me that this is a national emergency and the change MUST COME.

September 7, 2021

Manville - The clean-up from Ida (click here) in the hard-hit town of Manville is far from over.

On Wednesday, a day after President Joe Biden toured the destruction, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was assisting residents who lost everything.

CBS2’s Meg Baker was on Alice Street, which dead ends to the Raritan River. She saw a mini van that was completely submerged and spoke to the owner about his horrifying experience trying to save his relatives and pets.

“We lost everything. Our cars are under water. What we are wearing right now is what we have. We lost our animals, which drowned, and you just can’t imagine the loss,” Kurt Jelenek said.

Jelenek said the flood water went from his ankles to his shoulders in a matter of minutes.

“Have you ever been hit by a wave in the ocean? It’s your worst nightmare when you see a wall of grey at night and you realize you’re going to get hit and you grab on to what you can,” Jelenek said.

Baker met Jelenek at the Manville Library, where FEMA representatives are assisting locals. He said the website wasn’t working and he didn’t get a clear answer on what assistance will be given.

“There going to try to help with the after-expenses, what insurance doesn’t pay, and that’s where the real problem is. Insurance won’t pay anything,” Jelenek said. “Here in Manville, most people are listed not in a flood zone, but somebody forgot to tell the water.”...

Every other country in the world is working to move Afghanistan forward EXCEPT THE POLITICAL RIGHT WING OF THE USA.

On the eve of 20 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the USA, we have an accomplishment that heightens the good works of President Biden. Treat human beings like human beings rather than criminals and they might actually treat others as human beings.

The Taliban do not want to be thought of in the same character as Daesh. 

My understanding is that the Taliban are asking those that left for the foreign destinations, even if they helped the USA as translators and the like, can come back to their homeland. Interesting. I think those talking to Taliban leadership are having some effect on the governance of the country.

I know, I know, Haqquanis are involved in the new government. That is because the Taliban was backed financially by the Haqqani network. The Taliban don't see the Haqqani as dangerous. The Taliban need to hunker down with Qatar's Prince and learn the disease that drugs are upon the human mind.

I think this is a major accomplishment in the world. The Taliban are not lining up every Western person in a firing squad. They are not hanging women in the town square. Those that said we should not leave Afghanistan and criticized President Biden for his decisions are now eating their words whether they like it or not. There may be some hope for Afghanistan. Time will tell.

I thank all those involved, including Taliban leadership, that have worked diligently to secure these flights and saw people moved to safety either by air or by foot when they walked out of Afghanistan to awaiting friends. We are making progress. Where there is progress there is hope.

September 9, 2021

The first passenger flight to leave Afghanistan (click here) since the frenzied U.S. military evacuation ended late last month arrived in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Thursday with more than 100 foreigners, including Americans, aboard, and Biden administration officials said they expected more such flights in coming days.

“We can confirm that flight has safely landed in Qatar,” Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that expressed gratitude to the Qatari government for sending the plane and facilitating the flight.

The statement also offered a measured assessment of coordination with the Taliban, who have resumed control of the country after a 20-year war with the United States and its allies.

“The Taliban have been cooperative in facilitating the departure of American citizens and lawful permanent residents on charter flights from HKIA,” the statement said, referring to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. “They have shown flexibility, and they have been businesslike and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. This is a positive first step.”

At a news conference earlier in the day at the airport, Dr. Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, a Qatari special envoy, said the passengers would head to their final destinations after reaching Qatar. He called the resumption of flights from Kabul “a historic day in the history of Afghanistan,” and said another passenger flight was expected to depart on Friday.....

Turn about is fair play

I saw a billboard with a picture of President Biden stating, “Coward” 

I would like to see billboards with Trump's picture and sprawled across it said

"TREASONIST." 

Are Governors of dangerously infected states racist in their opening of their economy and forcing labor rather than unemployment?

This map (click here) is very inflammatory. It is from a website that discusses racism. These states are pointed to as some of the most racist states in the country. I think it is chilling to realize the states running out of Adult ICU Beds are considered to be highly racist.

A different kind of lynching.

September 6, 2021
By Madeline Holcombe

Some hospitals in the United States (click here) are growing close to reaching full capacity as Covid-19 continues to spread, and soon officials could be making choices about who gets an ICU bed, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN.

"We are perilously close," the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases said. "You're going to be in a situation where you're going to have to make some very tough choices."...

...Across the US, 79.83% of ICU beds are in use -- almost a third of which are occupied by Covid-19 patients, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Eight states had more than 90% of their adult ICU beds occupied Sunday: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada and Kentucky.

A federal medical team arrived in Kentucky this weekend to help increase medical assistance and the ability to open more hospital beds in light of record-breaking coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, according to a statement from Gov. Andy Beshear's office....

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

The Capitol Police were exposed to many types of chemicals on January 6, 2021. The USA EPA needs to recapture the content of those chemicals. Perhaps some of the uniforms they were wearing can be tested regardless of being cleaned. We know the cleaning agents used. 

The CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION of January 6, 2021, must be looked at as a SOUP of chemicals that acted on the body of any Capitol Police.

The Capitol Police are going to need excellent health insurance and NIH investigation to any illness they manifest going forward. Congress needs to pass legislation to protect their well-being and that of their families for the rest of their lives. The families were exposed to the chemicals when their Capitol Policeperson came home.

If the United States Congress can't protect the Americans that protect them, they aren't worthy of the seat they occupy.

We need to remember on this Labor Day the importance of protecting the Americans that do all the hard work in their jobs.

"Good Night, Moon"

The new 

28.6 days old

0.9 lit

The infrastructure of this community is destroyed. There is no sense to rebuild it.

Put people in new developments at higher elevations where there are functioning hospitals, schools, and groceries. The Greenland Ice Sheet is causing sea-level rise that will result in chronic flooding and the return of storms that will devastate these areas of the Gulf Coast.

These people are now climate refugees and must be relocated to where they are safe. It is unacceptable to allow people back into their homes if the public infrastructure around them is gone.

September 3, 2021

City utility workers Fredrick Patrick, left, and Ron Fletcher look for a water meter to help stop a water leak around a destroyed building as residents try to recover from the effects of Hurricane Ida Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Houma, La.

Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana - The Terrebonne Parish President (click here) provided an update on damage across the parish from Hurricane Ida.

Communications are still strained due to widespread damage from the category four storm.

The parish said although utility providers and communication companies are working to restore water, sewer service, electricity, phone and internet service, damage assessment and recovery efforts in Terrebonne in the wake of Hurricane Ida are proceeding much slower than hoped as a result.

Damage assessment reports that have been filed in the Emergency Operations Center Friday indicate substantial and widespread structural damage throughout the parish, particularly in Terrebonne’s bayou communities.

In these areas, damage to residences rendered about 60% of them unsafe for human habitation. In these areas, road clearing efforts are underway, according to the parish.

"The lack of water pressure, electricity, and blown-out windows and roof damage have also forced the closure of hospitals in Terrebonne Parish. Patients in these facilities, some in intensive care units or on ventilators had to be evacuated to hospitals in Shreveport and Lafayette, Louisiana, as well as facilities in Mississippi and Texas. With the forced closure of these hospitals and others in the region, there is no way to treat trauma victims or even the elderly with medical issues that require hospitalization. The lack of medical facilities in the parish and region greatly complicates the return of evacuees to Terrebonne. There is no way to accurately predict the restoration and availability of utility service in the parish and when reentry may begin. Consequently, recovery, repair and restoration efforts in Terrebonne will take a great deal of time," Parish President Gordon Dove said in an issued statement....

Children have to be tested no diffferently than adults.

Br J Anaesth. 2020 Sep; 125(3): e330–e332.

Rita Assaker, Anne-Emmanuelle Colas, Florence, Julien-Marsollier, Beatrice Bruneau, Lucile Marsac, Bruno Greff, Nathalie Tri, Charlotte Fait, Christopher Brasher and Souhayl Dahmani

...Fever and cough (click here) were the most common signs of COVID-19 after SARS-CoV-2 infection in children. Our study conclusively confirmed the clinical impression that COVID-19 in children typically presents as a mild (37%) or moderate (45%) upper respiratory tract infection and is rarely severe or critical. This result is of great significance with respect to the planning of healthcare resource use over the coming months worldwide. Given that the pandemic will continue across seasons and overlap with peak influenza periods, it will be difficult to distinguish symptomatic paediatric COVID-19 patients from patients with influenza....

Teachers need to walk out and send the children home. Now, is not the time for DENIAL

September 2, 2021

This is social distancing in the Chicago Public Schools. I doubt it is different anywhere else in the country. 

Chicago teachers (click here) are threatening to "step up resistance" if safety measures aren't heightened at city schools after the new year began in-person this week.

Classes started Monday with no agreement in place between the union and Chicago Public Schools district.

"Reports of safety failures at public schools have been pouring in from across the city since students started returning on Monday," the union said in a release Thursday morning.

According to data from CPS, at least 39 schools have reported at least one COVID case in the last week....