The Miami Herald is reporting while voter turnout in Miami-Dade is historic, the Democratic vote is lagging.

Hurricane Zeta is not expected to cause problems in Florida, except the panhandle.

October 27, 2020

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Florida Department of Health (click here) reported 727 new cases of COVID-19 and 9 additional deaths in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday. It’s the second highest number of newly added cases in more than a month.

The additional cases increased Miami-Dade county’s overall total to 183,250 and 3,624 deaths....

It could be a matter of missing ballots because they were wrongly collected.

October 27, 2020

...POWER CENTER (click here) — “Florida’s top prosecutor once sued Trump. Now she’s fighting for his reelection,” by POLITICO’s Gary Fineout: Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody ran on a promise to keep her office out of politics. Two years later, she’s become one of Donald Trump’s biggest surrogates in the nation’s biggest swing state. Moody, a former college Democrat whose family once sued Trump over a condominium dispute, has jumped into conservative causes with gusto, attending presidential campaign rallies and stepping out as a defender for the GOP president. She’s making appearances on right-wing media and has become a voice for the Republican Attorneys General Association. In the run-up to the election, the former judge has taken on billionaire Michael Bloomberg and joined 10 other Republican attorneys general backing the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google. And she could be at the center of the post-election fallout if the results in Florida are called into question....

The Democrats are tracking rejected ballots. It is believed those are in the thousands, not the tens of thousands, but, the party has vowed to make every ballot count.

Where else besides California are Trump headquarters setting up false drop boxes while collecting ballots.

Why don't they shutter the office because they are willfully breaking the law. Lawlessness. That is what the country can expect from Donald John Trump.

October 27, 2020
By Paul Blest

The video was shot by a voter (click here) at a Republican campaign headquarters and was sent to California officials: “PLEASE INVESTIGATE!!!," they said.

Undercover video taken at a GOP campaign headquarters in California and "Trump Store" selling merchandise featuring the president shows store employees describing an operation to collect ballots in an unofficial ballot box. It also shows them offering to store ballots for voters in a safe, ostensibly because the ballot box had been moved off premises for ballots to be delivered. 

The video was taken at a location in Newport Beach, California, by a citizen who sent the video along with a complaint to the Orange County Registrar of Voters. It was obtained by VICE News in a public records request from that office. The California GOP has defended its use of the ballot boxes and continued to use them, saying they’re legal under California’s ballot collection law, despite a cease-and-desist from Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The video in question was taken after the cease-and-desist was ordered, according to the person who filed a complaint....

One of the defense attornys are saying they were just playing army.

The evidence includes hundreds of hours of recordings and 13,000 encrypted emails. 

..."The evidence (click here) also included potentially illegal firearms and explosives evidence, which must be examined by FBI and ATF experts to determine whether additional federal charges are appropriate," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler wrote.

FBI agents in Michigan, Delaware and Wisconsin also have collected “voluminous evidence” from the six men while executing search warrants, including computers and cellphones.

The men facing federal kidnapping conspiracy charges were part of a broader attempt to spark a civil war by overthrowing the government and kill police personnel, according to the government. In all, 14 people have been charged with crimes in state and federal court, including members and associates of an obscure militia, the Wolverine Watchmen.

The six charged in federal court are:

• Adam Fox, 37, of Potterville, known as "Alpha F--- You"
• Ty Garbin, 25, of Hartland Township, known as "Gunney"
• Kaleb Franks, 26, known as "Red Hot"
• Daniel Harris, 23, known as "Beaker"
• Brandon Caserta, 32, known as "Debased Tyrant"
• Barry Croft, 44, of Bear, Delaware

Law enforcement officers do not want loose munition laws. The crowds have become homogenous with open gun carry. A gunman can take advantage of the crowd and kill the police. It happened in Texas. No one knew who was shooting. 

July 11, 2020

By Lisa Marie Pane

Paris, Texas - ...Moments later, (click here) when a sniper gunned down officers patrolling the peaceful march, killing five, the attack ignited panic and confusion. Who was shooting? Were the people with weapons friend or foe?

It was the same nightmare scenario that some law enforcement officials predicted when Texas approved the open-carry proposal.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown estimated that 20 to 30 open-carry activists attended the rally. He said some wore gas masks, bulletproof vests and fatigues. They ran when the shots rang out, but the presence of so many armed individuals at the scene of a sniper attack caused instant confusion.

“Doesn’t make sense to us, but that’s their right in Texas,” Brown told CNN, adding: “For our officers, they were suspects. And I support that belief. Someone is shooting at you from a perched position, and people are running with AR-15s and camo gear and gas masks and bulletproof vests. They are suspects until we eliminate that.”

One man in the crowd, Mark Hughes, was carrying an AR-style firearm and wearing a camouflage T-shirt. In the early moments after the attack, police released a photo of Hughes describing him as a suspect. He was questioned and released, and authorities soon announced that the attack had been the work of a single gunman named Micah Johnson....

This guy is an absolute disaster. He is divisive. He is definitely racist.

Does Jarad Kushner actually believe African American communities want to have a career as a prison inmate? 

What is FOX doing carrying an interview with racist views? They are as responsible for any racist attitudes in this country as the racists themselves, even more so. I don't know another major media service that allows racist advocacy as FOX News service does. That isn't even thinly veiled racism.

FOX News is an agitator. They are irresponsible in their content and a danger to the country.

October 26, 2020
By Michelle Garcia

White House adviser Jared Kushner (click here) described Black America's issues with inequality and racism as "complaining" in an interview Monday.

"The thing we've seen in the Black community, which is mostly Democrat," he said on "Fox & Friends," "is that President Trump's policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they're complaining about, but he can't want them to be successful more than they want to be successful....

Houston, we have a problem.

Dr. Fauci has been stating using exposure to the virus as a strategy could be a real problem. There is a reason the common cold exists year after year after year. 

There is no such thing as Herd Immunity for this virus. Of the 365,000 people in the study did not BUILD immunity over time. Twenty-six percent had falling immunity. Over a quarter of the population does not build immunity. That is trouble.

THE NEW ZEALAND MODEL IS THE CORRECT MODEL TO ELIMINATE SARS-CoV-2 from Earth. There is no longer a choice. This virus MUST be eliminated from Earth. It is too dangerous to human beings.

THE MORE HUMAN BEINGS ARE EXPOSED TO THE VIRUS, THE MORE IT WILL MUTATE AGAINST IMMUNE RESPONSES. It is RNA and will soak up the human response.

The virus is winning.

Consider what people are facing in defeating this virus, "Moderna" is a new hope in immunity. I hope they are successful in learning all they can about SARS-CoV-2 for more than immunity, but, a real treatment to end it's course when early exposure occurs. I am thinking something like "The Day After Pill."

27 October 2020
By Thomas Moore

Hopes that the population will become immune to COVID-19 (click here) have been dashed by new research showing antibodies fall rapidly after recovering from the disease.

So-called herd immunity has been proposed by some scientists as a better alternative to lockdowns in tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

It would require around 50-60% of the population to have protection against the virus so it could no longer transmit efficiently....

A non-peer reviewed study out of the UK states post recovery of COVID-19 results in diminished cognitive functioning.

I said this early on. COVID-19 was a sincere worry, especially considering the neurological symptoms manifesting in patients, and that should be a profound reason to protect the public. The study is not peer reviewed and that matters, but, it is an indication investigative medicine needs to look further.

Why would physicians even be interested in cognitive tests with a virus? Because they were finding deficits in more than a few patients during the examination and they have to decide what to treat and with what.

October 27, 2020

People recovering from Covid-19 (click here) may suffer significant brain function impacts, with the worst cases of the infection linked to mental decline equivalent to the brain aging by 10 years, researchers warned on Tuesday.

A non-peer-reviewed study of more than 84,000 people, led by Adam Hampshire, a doctor at Imperial College London, found that in some severe cases, coronavirus infection is linked to substantial cognitive deficits for months. "Our analyses ... align with the view that there are chronic cognitive consequences of having Covid-19," the researchers wrote in a report of their findings. "People who had recovered, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits.

Cognitive tests measure how well the brain performs tasks –- such as remembering words or joining dots on a puzzle. Such tests are widely used to assess brain performance in diseases like Alzheimer's, and can also help doctors assess temporary brain impairments.

Hampshire's team analysed results from 84,285 people who completed a study called the Great British Intelligence Test. The findings, which have yet to be reviewed by other experts, were published online on the MedRxiv website.

cognitive deficits were "of substantial effect size", particularly among people who had been hospitalised with Covid-19, the researchers said, with the worst cases showing impacts "equivalent to the average 10-year decline in global performance between ages 20 to 70.

Scientists not directly involved in the study, however, said its results should be viewed with some caution....

The dastardly deed against the wishes of the American people is done.

In truly Republican manipulation, while other election issues remain on the sidelines Pennsylvania is to take center stage. It is truly unfortunate that Coney-Barrett has to show her true colors so early on.

I would think the decision about Wisconsin should carry brevity in the Pennsylvania case in that the Democrats asked that due to the pandemic, which is a ridiculous situation the American people have to deal with in the first place, the mail-in ballots deadline should be extended. The court stated in a majority that local authorities rule in this request and no the Democrats cannot legislate an end date for a state through the court.

So, the Republicans being Republicans want the court to tell Pennsylvania that the local authority is wrong and there will be no extended time for counting ballots after the election in the face of a pandemic. IF the court is true to its focus regarding local authority the Pennsylvania rule for accepting ballots after November 3rd by mail will stand. Otherwise, the court will be legislating Pennsylvania law from the bench. Now the country will find out if the Supreme Court is full of political hacks or real judges.

By the way, Coney-Barrett doesn't yet have her staff in place. One thing to consider.

October 27, 2020
By Jeremy Herb

...In Pennsylvania, (click here) a state critical to President Donald Trump's path to victory, the state Republican Party asked the high court last week to reconsider whether the state should count ballots received within three days of Election Day, even if they do not have a legible postmark. The court issued a 4-4 ruling earlier this month denying the GOP challenge and leaving in place a lower-court ruling allowing the ballot receipt extension to stand. Now Republicans want the court to decide the case in an expedited fashion.

There are also lawsuits over the in-person voting process, such as a suit in Michigan seeking to block Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's directive to ban open carry of firearms within 100 feet of polling locations.