Great things are happening in Washington, DC

I don’t want to sound like a cheerleader, but, President Biden is making everyday exciting. Between him, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi there is much that will happen to benefit the people, hence, the country.

I strongly believe the threat of SARS-CoV-2 will be over by this time next year. I still am concerned about the children’s well being. My estimation was that as soon as the adults were immune then the children are safe. Now, I am hearing that immune people can spread the virus. For me that is counter-intuitive. Once people are immune they have no virus to spread. I am hoping this idea of immunity spreading the virus is just an old wives tale. 

I am hopeful more than ever that the climate crisis is on its way to being resolved. The problem strangely enough is still the persistence of the oil and gas industry. When will they get the message that the age of oil is over. Evidently, there are still oil leases being sold out of the Interior Department. I thought all that was on hold so proper assessments can be made. When does the corruption stop?

That brings me to the stratosphere. Yes, Earth’s stratosphere. I am still reading. This is the picture that is starting to come together. There are two studies that address a change in the stratosphere both in water vapor and temperature and get this after a decrease in water vapor in 2001, the increase started in 2002 and is continuing. 2002 is the year when the vortexes appeared in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. In other words the tropospheric vortices interface with the stratosphere just enough through the Tropopause to lend water vapor to its gaseous contain. That is my estimation and not the words of either study. 

The problem as I am concerned is that it had been nearly two decades of vortex dominance of the troposphere. The unhinged polar vortex has existed year after year now for six years. There is a consistent mixing of the two Earth atmospheres and one study suggests the Mesosphere as well. It is appearing to me to be a dire scenario that gives the impression of homogeneity becoming a threat to life on Earth. 

As soon as I find the evidence that I think exists I will put it here. I need to read through IPCC conclusions before I go much further with this, but, I believe it is time to admit the petroleum industry is adverse to life on Earth.

Thank you for your interest. 

Until later.

Any meeting with Biden...

 ...requires full social distancing and plastic barriers as well as masks. I remind that 69 Representatives and Senators have contracted COVID-19. All in all 123 Representatives and Senators have self-quarantined for one reason or another. 

A big room with high ceilings could accommodate a better meeting. A virtual  meeting would be best. A virtual meeting could accommodate Democratic leadership as well.

False Face

On December 21, 2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene attended a meeting with Donald John Trump. In the video outside the White House, she makes reference to the January 6th insurrection. That is the earliest record to date. Can't find it on YouTube but that doesn't mean anything. I think I heard the reference yesterday evening on an Al Velchi program when he stood in for the host on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."

Everything on January 6th was premeditated, even the gallows. Greene made a reference to it on December 21, 2020. 

The 45 Republicans in the USA that cannot bring themselves to vote for conviction of Trump have a false face. They cannot obey their oath of office while courting extremist voters.

“...that I take this OBLIGATION freely, without ANY mental reservation or purposes of evasion;...

There is just no way that a US Senator can live up to their oath of office and not convict. I think the Republicans evade their responsibility every time they accept fringe demands as their own.

In reflection on January 6, 2021 was there treason? Yes. 

The Supreme Court in two instances clearly stated there needs to be physical acts of war or giving aid and comfort to the enemy for treason to exist. On January 6, 2021 there was domestic terrorism which is an act of war. That day there was property damage, which was considerable, there were national security breaches in stolen material both computer and paper. If anyone has Pelosi’s laptop by now it is probably Trump.

Beyond the property damage there was death and injury. One death was that of a Capital Police Officer leaving behind a wife and children. There were also injuries. Some injuries are of seriously maiming with disability. I believe that injuries were levied on 140 people. There was also ambulance at the scene to rescue people to a nearby hospital. 

There was reason in this act of domestic terrorism.

Was there sedition?

Yes, most assuredly there was sedition when Trump spent considerable time in a speech that day and in previous days to attempt to organize any such persons to a purpose to destroy by force or violence democratic processes to elect the next President of the USA. Having no legal process to place himself as president, after innumerable legal challenged, Donald John Trump attempted to overthrow the government by disregarding the USA Constitution Rule of Law

[USCO2] 18 USC Ch. 115 Treason, sedition and subversive activities 

18 US Code 2483 Rebellion or insurrection

18 US Code 2485 Advocating overthrow of government 

These laws and Supreme Court precedent separate an actual act of treason and/or sedition from symbolic forms of free speech such as flag burning.

What occurred on January 6, 2021 and the days and weeks leading up to it cannot in any way legitimately be interpreted as symbolic free speech.

The Midwest Storm

To validate the concern about the snow storm headed to the Midwest, expect it to be severe. Yesterday and the day before I saw flicks of birds flying east. I wouldn’t expect that.

Ranchers with cows or horses in pastures need to be ready to bring feed to them.

The fringe are really dangerous.

A vote for Matt Geatz, the snow bird candidate of Florida is a vote for treason.

Marjorie Taylor Greene won a default election. The Democrat running against her was divorced by his wife forcing him to move in with his parents so his children could stay in their home. The move to his parents home placed him outside his district. Even living outside the district the Democrat still received 40 percent of the vote. 

The GOP knows Greene will not be re-elected, but, the GOP wants her fringe supporters from around the country.

Migrant children expulsion

Just because a federal appeals court allows unaccompanied migrant minors to be removed from the USA after crossing the border without immigration papers doesn’t mean that is USA policy. 

The children at the border can be tested for COVID-19 and its variants while being taught the dangers of the viruses, the usefulness in protecting life by wearing masks, distancing and clean hands.

I am sure President Biden will once again institute asylum laws with proper precautions of testing and physical wellness for children. It will be a way to say to the world the USA still sets the example for compassion and humanity.

I look forward to being proud of my country again.

Biden’s administration is attempting to find the parents that were separated at the border from their children. This time the children are unaccompanied so the decisions are easy. For THOSE Americans that want to keep them out because they would be a burden to the country, I remind them there will be 500,000 Americans dead by February. There is plenty of room for the children.

Capital Hill Bomber

If the bomber is local, there will be someone who can identify him or her. I think it might be a woman. It was the walk that gave me that idea. But, I could be very wrong.

At any rate, “Have you seen....” posters might work. You know the posters. They are about 8X10 inches because they are usually printed on a home office printer. They are commonly used to look for pets. Right? A picture with a brief description. 

Even if the person is out of the area, she/he had to do an in person research, no different than the the 911 bombers. The 911 guys staked out the New York buildings with cameras. However, if the Capital Hill Bomber, while doing research very well may have been seen. If that person was in an ally rarely visited except by residents it would be alarming and in that moment possibly a bit of a bonding with the moment enough to strike a memory.

Door to door questions by uniform officers and/or FBI would bring concern by the neighborhood and people will put their memories to work. 

Good luck.

The week of the defense attorney.

First, the Snyder defense attorneys said the documents that implicate Rick Snyder in breaking the law are tainted. They want the case dropped. So far, it hasn't been.

The Snyder defense team is attempting every legal maneuver to see if anything works, including insults to the grand jury.

January 28, 2021

By Ron Fonger

The Flint water crisis (click here) case may soon be headed in a new direction.

Defense attorneys said the judge doesn’t belong on the case because of where he lives. Some legal insiders believe it’s a tactic to get the case moved out of Genesee County to an area where a jury would be less connected to the thousands of children impacted by the public health crisis....

January 27,2021

By Hank Winchester and Dane Kelly

Geneses County, Michigan – Defense of the attorneys (click here) in the ongoing Flint water crisis case are pushing for the judge to be removed.

The Flint water crisis case may soon be headed in a new direction.

Defense attorneys said the judge doesn’t belong on the case because of where he lives. Some legal insiders believe it’s a tactic to get the case moved out of Genesee County to an area where a jury would be less connected to the thousands of children impacted by the public health crisis. 

Former Director of the City of Flint Department of Public Works Howard Croft’s attorney argued that since Genesee District Court Judge William H. Crawford lives in Flint, he could potentially be involved in a class-action lawsuit against Croft....

January 16, 2021

By Randy Wimbley 

Flint resident Leeanne Walters (click here)  was measured in her response to the criminal charges filed against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and eight other officials for the Flint water crisis.

"I don't know how to feel about it at this point and it's just charges at this point," said Leeanne Walters. "And they've already been dropped once, so we have to see what the convictions are. That's going to be the real test of time here.”...

Joe Biden’s Transition Team for the Pentagon was denied access to the Pentagon staff and records by Trump because he was worried there would be a slip up in regard to the insurrection. The change in Major General Walker’s authority is proof of it. The insurrection was an inside job and Trump lead the way. The Biden Team was given access at the last minute because the insurrection failed. There was no alternative. Zero 

Russians are up against the leader of the communist world.

The continuing demonstrations in Russia is very heartening to the free world.

I need to write far more so let me find a perch and I will be right back. I believe all those arrested are magnificent heroes to the Russian people and great inspiration.

This is the first time I have heard of a repeated demonstration by such large numbers of Russians. The first demonstration was tens of thousands and was very, very impressive.

In the past demonstrations were of interest but they were easily squelched and not repeated, but, this time it is different.

Let me tell you about Putin and his disappointments to the West.

Vladimir Putin is the leader of the communist world so the plight of the Russian people reach beyond Russia’s borders. Putin maintains “his posture” at the expense of the Russian people. The people of Russia carry a profound burden as an example of communist oppression. Currently, not so much.

Putin maintains that global posture so no one else in the communist helm has to. Automatically, global citizens under communist regime LEARN what will happen to them if they demonstrate and rebel against oppression for the desire of free expression.

Even China with all its human rights abuses appears attractive as an investment for Plutocrats because of the SHADE Putin supples to communist countries. Plutocrats like to think they will have a billion Chinese consumers to exploit. It has been nearly a half century since 1972 when Nixon went to China. Are there a billion Chinese consumers? Of course not. 

Oppression and Wall Street is a very powerful tool. Oppression by Putin, who is a very wealthy man no different than Viktor Yushchenko when he ran to asylum in Russia, knows where his strength lies in the world and that is served many purposes. He will not relent.

If the Russian people sincerely want to have free and fair elections without threat of retribution these demonstrations, no different than the strength of the USA movement of “Black Lives Matter,” must continue to completion. Of that I am certain. The people of Russia need to assess their future and commit to force changes in the society, hence, their government.

The West will do what it can and is why it is so important Germany stand with the Russian people and not another leaky oil/gas pipeline with Russia. The sanctions must work.

Vladimir Putin has made himself so important that he freely breaks promises and laws to stay in power. He has established a separate hospital for himself and the elite of Russian society. He has his own network of oppression and survival.

The police that do his bidding must see the truth about Putin and freely decide to back their friends and neighbors to end Putin’s oppression. The Russian courts must see all of this for what it is, desire of Russians to be treated with dignity, have their votes count and live with a country they provide for themselves through benevolence.

Stop accepting threats of violence as partOf the job.

Congresswomen and Congressmen are not exempt from the law. File charges against the members making threats against other members. I am sure there are witnesses as these bozos say their threats in the open. The same goes for hometown threats. If they insist on violence or the threat, they belong in jail. There are temporary holding cells in the Capital building. The Capital police know how to arrest unruly Congresspersons. They are a threat to the smooth operation of the people’s business.

NO GUNS IN THE CAPITAL BUILDING!

The Capital Police have a right to a safe working environment.

Subpoena information

 The current COVID-19 Task Force is stated to be slowly receiving information and mostly not at all when it comes to accounting for individual vaccine doses. The AG office should step in and subpoena the information. It is a national emergency and cooperation is slow in coming. There is no choice and being patient is not working.

As President Biden plans to open schools...

 ... please first conference with mayors of major cities, especially now that we know about the variants. 

Chicago Public Schools opened under the Trump insistence. Ten thousand students returned to in person class. As the days worn on students began to return to stay at home virtual lessons. 

The demographic of the returning student was primarily Caucasian. The Hispanic and Black students stayed home. Everyone could guess why, but, the childhood and young adult deaths from COVID-19 are strongly leaning minority. 

There is no child vaccine.

Simple answers for in-person classes at any level of education does not exist. I strongly believe school openings is a case by case basis depending on virus statistics in children but also adults. Adults must be well to care for children. 

Take it slow. The children will lead the way when they are ready to be among each other. My personal experience is that there is anxiety even in the youngest of children while wearing their masks and using hand sanitizer. When a child feels threatened they miss their parents when normally they wouldn’t. I think students in the classroom with other children are obedient to the demands on them but are distracted at the same time in a way that normally would not occur. I just think they belong at home where they feel secure. What is the expression? “You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

Did Paul Ryan provide the model for the narrow casting?

“Narrow Casting” as exampled by the relationship between Trump and Fox News needs to be outlawed because it breeds decent in a civilized society that is unfounded and threatens sovereignty in democracies like the USA and Europe. It provides a disruptive tool to the enemies of a democracy. 

Infotainment when constructed with lies and narrow casting has to be outlawed. It is like yelling fire in a theater, only the theater is democracy, freedom, and liberty. Narrow Casting when constructed with lies is the enemy because it supplies the danger to the sovereign state.

To those who state Trump was an irresponsible practitioner and therefore it isn’t the stylized broadcast of lies that is the problem, but, the practitioner. Fine, but, Trump was an irresponsible practitioner and Fox News allowed and even embraced it for its own reasons such as ratings which equates wealth. That proves the danger is real and the fire needs more than a single fire truck to put out the blaze. It takes the National Guard which was delayed by the same irresponsible practitioner costing hundreds of injuries and deaths to precious people that were loved and admired for the care they exerted to our nation’s capital making it safe for children to visit. 

The people injured and dead should file a class action suit against Fox News and its practitioners. Fox News never stopped to ask whether they should conduct lies as if facts because they didn’t care about the outcome. News is news even if it is self-generated. Or is it something else dangerous and maiming?

Marjorie Taylor Greene

When were the US House members in DC to be sworn in?

January 3, 2021

Were the members in the the Capital? Because if she was in the US House in the Capital building she brought the insurrectionists for the tour. She most likely provided information (a map) as to where Speaker Pelosi’s office and the offices of the other leadership is within the Capital. Was she there during the insurrection? She now knows where the “safe rooms” are in the Capital. What was she doing during the insurrection? Who witnessed her during that time?

Gainesville, Georgia

 A poultry processing saw the deaths of six people today due to a ruptured liquid nitrogen line. 

This is the kind of incident government in Washington, DC can do something about and must do something about. The people in Georgia work hard and this is the kind of danger they are facing. Six families tonight are without family members and a paycheck.

OSHA must take an active role in these incidents. Fines are not enough. That plant needs to be made absolutely safe for the workers. That means OSHA does an inspection of the facility and reports every infraction. Then unions should be invited to demand better working conditions in their contract. The two new US Senators along with the district’s US House Representative need to visit the facility with a federal solution for making working conditions better.

The people deserve to be safe, but, while fines are appropriate what is also appropriate are grants or low cost loans to these businesses to bring about safe working conditions. Follow-up inspections every six months is in order until the facility is safe for human beings and not just profit takers. 

The families need to hold the employer responsible, but, in the south the state legislators have basically removed all liability from the worst of businesses. Lawyers have lost leverage and businesses know it. It is important for the federal government to impose a presence to be the sheriff and be sure breadwinners continue on the job until retirement.

This is the kind of neglect of the value of human life that exists in the USA. It has to stop.

Masks work. Social distancing works. Hand hygiene works.

New coronavirus cases are down 25% since the peak on January 8, 2021 with 845,285. Yesterday the new cases were 602,255.

Joe Biden’s America is recovering from the deadly virus SARS-CoV-2. He has every right to be proud of his administration and the response of the American people.

Variants

The variants of SARS-CoV-2 appear to be somewhat limited so contact tracing can be utilized.

Traitors

If the US Senate does not convict Donald John Trump it will solidify Republicans, as well as Democrats, to defeat those that don’t care about the USA Constitution. There was a lot of money spent to protect the US Constitution in the 2020 election by both parties, as well as huge efforts of truth telling occurred; that hasn’t stopped and will continue. 

The Republican base has already begun to abandon the Trump paradigm and will continue as extremists are prosecuted and imprisoned. It is amazing to realize Republican Senators are cowering in the corner from Trump because his vengefulness will lead to a divided party. They aren’t interested in their own ability to be re-elected based on their own strong character to protect the USA Constitution. Republican Senators, at least 45 of them aren’t interested in truth telling.

Trump was a flag hugger. The real flag is was hugging was wrongly the USA red, white and blue, but, more correctly the Russian red, white and blue.

Trump will primary most if not all the current Republican Senators anyway. Republican Senators for the most part are party before country and under Trump it is toxic to freedom, liberty and democracy.

Constitutional Conservatives need to plan to primary the cowards of the Republican Party. I remind Trump wants to destroy the US Constitution. The truth hurts.

World Economic Forum 2021

The WEF is being conducted now. Putin unexpectedly spoke. He was unhinged and made few examples as to why his fear mongering is real. He spoke about the future destroying civilization because of COVID-19. He doesn’t believe the science that produced a vaccine. Get a clue, Vlad. This virus will be history by this time next year. When will Putin give up his stranglehold on Russia so it can join the future?

The climate is a national emergency.

The climate crisis is and has been a national emergency. I need to illustrate this in a learning presentation so people can understand it, but, the calamity that is on the horizon is dire. 

There currently is a collapse of the tropospheric Arctic vortex. Why is it a collapse? Because the air pressure that maintains the Arctic vortex is abnormally lower and unable to maintain support by the troposphere of the higher atmospheres.

For those that understand that, I think we have been lucky. The collapse that began during the winter of 2012-2013 was a warning. The collapses that happened since have been incrementally worse when it comes to the degree of stratospheric mixing.

I promise you INCREMENTAL change is how this warming works with Earth’s atmospheres. Example: When two mid-latitude vortexes showed up over the North Atlantic and North Pacific on October 4, 2002, it was an astonishing surprise to me. What surprised me further was a report out of Antarctica that on that same day C-zero, an ice river, reversed flow. The reason being that C-Zero was now floating on some degree of water no different than Greenland ice meander. The vortices in the northern hemisphere along with C-zero provided a global phenomena that as of today has not resolved. The rivers of Antarctica are flowing with water to sea level rise. At the same time the Arctic vortex collapse is a record this year.

To complete this entry and insight return to those vortices on October 4, 2002. They went from two vortexes to a maximum of seven over a year. Then they consolidated to create a maximum vortex with a diameter from the equator to the Arctic Circle and now there is a collapse.

When you accept that this incremental march by Earth is its innate nature, then realized this. As the stratospheric mixing during the Arctic Vortex has gotten incrementally worse every year, then when will the mixing become so severe it effects the oxygen content of the troposphere or collapses the stratosphere vortex as well?

Moscow Mitch McConnell’s Senate was nothing more than a judicial puppy mill.

It is time for the US Senate to actually work for the people.

 Children with COVID-19 (click here)

74 percent of children who died of COVID-19 was Hispanic or Black. More than 121 children and young adults have died of the virus.

BARDS was being raided for 10 years?

President Biden had a major project for brain cancer in the name of his son and military veteran, Beau. There needs to be consequences if the perpetrators are found. I don’t care what party they belong to, there needs to be consequences. 

In defense of BARDA, there are still diseases killing Americans that have yet to be cured. The minority community have endemic issues with chronic conditions such as hypertension. Hypertension leads to other chronic conditions over time, like heart disease and kidney failure. There remains a significant need for BARDA’s work.

The theft of funding is a surprise. Unscrupulous is the only way to describe these thieves. The American people have a right to the trust that goes along with appropriations to solve their problems.

A federal judge in Dallas ordered Garrett Miller to remain in custody until he is tried. Miller threatened Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Corte, Majority Leader Schumer and wanted to hang a Capital police officer. 

I think the FBI and a country of police officers love their country and are doing a great job as are the judges. 

No scruples

45 Republicans have no scruples. They are welcome to make fools of themselves with a vote of an unconstitutional bill. 

Paxton needs to go.

How the heck did Texas ever get a carve out from immigration law?

Homeland Security cannot provide special conditions for anyone. Homeland Security is not allowed to change legislation because Texas wants it?

It doesn’t make sense that Texas would receive special treatment without a legislative initiative. Why pass federal law if Homeland Security is going to hand out exceptions to the law? Every state in the country would get in line.

The Biden Administration, as the Executive that makes day to day decisions for the country has a right to assess the state of immigration. The 100

day moratorium is a reasonable decision in order to determine the way forward. 

In addition, there is an emergency at the borders of the Northern Triad. There is a global pandemic. The deportation of people back to these countries will make their emergency worse. There is an obligation the USA has to reduce the pandemic and moving people all over the globe is grossly dangerous.

The 100 day moratorium is the correct decision. This is not a change of law. It is a temporary measure to establish policy. 

Pre-meditated murder

Normally, local commanders of the National Guard have the authority to deploy their troops in case of an emergency that could effect American lives. The Washington Post is reporting that before the January 6th insurrection the commander’s authority was negated by the Pentagon.

The deployment of the National Guard on January 6th newly required higher ranking officers. We know those higher authorities were mostly unavailable. Vice President Pence had to call the Secretary of the Navy to request that authority and deploy the National Guard.

Both, the Inspector General and Congress need to carry out investigations. Major General Walker should be a witness at the impeachment. The insurrection was planned and expected to kill people that day.

It was all premeditated with fatal outcomes. There is at least one traitor in the Pentagon. Was someone holding a gun to his/her head or was it a willing act of sabotage of the USA Constitution.

Politics with the impeachment.

Rand Paul is playing politics with the USA Constitution. Just that simple. There is no real issue as the basis of his nonsense. When doesn’t Rand Paul object to gain the spot light regardless the issue at hand.

He is fueling “an enemy” imagine of the Democrats. He either is mimicking Trump or more like it his “style” if you will was mimicked by Trump. At any rate Rand is “acting out” and will seek to divide the Senate and the country. He is an enemy to the USA Constitution and the people that want their problems solved.

Young men and boys

In observing boys at play on playgrounds they are very physical. They use balls and goal posts of one kind or another. They are missing that growth dynamic during the pandemic. They would miss it even if they were at school because they are required to play in small groups to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. 

When I reflect on that growth dynamic during this time a support group always comes to this issue. The difference between schools that still conduct in person classes and those that don’t is an invisible support network for the boys. So, what is best?

In observing children and young adults in the classroom during instruction the computer is there anyway. President Obama instituted a national directive to connect children to online education about a decade ago, so the idea the learning distance is the problem during the pandemic is completely wrong.

My experience with boys and young men is that they have a unique way to have an autonomous identity regardless of what is expected of them. That autonomy works well for them but they fight aloneness through physical activity in the way of a competitive spirit. That competitive spirit is a benevolent part of their identity. 

A couple of things come to mind for boys. I have learned that in a classroom boys that are not doing well are more physical and mischievous. That unruliness is not a permanent condition. In educating boys a one on one to review the teaching will resolve that physical drive.

I rarely victimize a boy by shaming or sending them to the principal and only if the mischief is very disruptive and dangerous. What transpires is a one on one to teach while other students are working at their desk. Inevitably, the one on one triumphs and my troubled boy takes his seat with the rest of the class to complete his work.

That one on one is magical because it tells the entire class that I care about them and no learning has to be perfect or get a bad grade. After a one on one with a student in full view of the class others children will come to my desk asking for assistance in “getting the lesson right.” It is not cheating, they have to demonstrate a sincere understanding of the lesson. Percentage wise it is usually less than 10 percent of the class requiring help to “get it right.” They are all great young people some need help in “getting it right.”

That said, boys during the pandemic are missing there “playground support group” that assists their identity. I think that is a national shame. Just because a poorly addressed virus is secluding children from playground friends and their sport coaches there is no reason to consider it is okay “for now.” “For now” is forever when boys require validation to achieve their emotional growth. 

So what do we do? Ask Tom Brady to do a series of football lessons for young men in high school and boys and the occasional girl. Then broadcast it or put it on “The Mirror” or “Zoom” WITH their hometown coach. It will put a new and novel way of understanding their desire to play a sport. They can practice on their own in measurable “reps,” etc. Reporting in to “the coach” individually or on Zoom will bring validation to their competitive spirit.

The same dynamic can be exercised with most sports that do not require large equipment such as gymnastics. Even gymnastics can be accommodated to a certain extent. There is absolutely nothing wrong with competing against a “personal best” so long as there is no risk for injury. To that end, limits have to be placed to respect the limit of a body to perform. Even Tom Brady knows that pushing past human limits can end a career.

Boys need the physical component to their growth in many cases. If they seem bored in practicing alone, they can teach Dad or Mom how to make the grade.

That is my input for what it is worth.

Super good news.

“Moderna” states their vaccine is effective against the British and South African variants.

I had hoped the vaccine would attack the projections of the virus hence disabling the infective ability of the virus. 

A child vaccine has yet to materialize.

Those projections on the surface of the coronavirus are present in every stain. The entire idea that a vaccine would disable one strain of SARS-CoV-2 means it would disable all strains/variant. It didn’t make sense to me that the vaccines wouldn’t address all variants, but, that was being reported. Perhaps a lack of evidence brought about a negative report. I am pleased Moderna cleared that up. Thank you.

The ban on new oil wells is very welcome.

The Climate Crisis is and should be of profound importance. This year the collapse of the Arctic’s tropospheric vortex was far worse than previous years.

More later.

British Petroleum’s CEO is rolling back it’s plans for drilling oil wells. He stated getting out of the oil business is strategic for future business. The number of professionals involved in BP’s oil interests have been drastically cut as if this year. 

The CEO sees 2030 as a “net zero” goal. His science regarding the crime crisis is spot on. Timelines for continued GHG emissions that goes beyond 2030 does not have accurate scientific information.

The IPCC is a non-political organization. They have marked 2030 as a vital goal in regard to GHG emissions to avoid the next tipping point that is expected to be dangerous.

BP plans on looking very different in the future. I congratulate him.

150 world leaders from industry as well, including Bill Ford from Ford Motor Company has signed an open letter to President Joe Biden to congratulate him on his steadfast decision to fight climate change. B/P is not alone. B/P will be a green energy company by 2030. These major companies are ready. They need the guidance of the President to provide a soft landing. 

Congratulations President Biden on making all the tough decisions and to move the USA forward along with other countries.

SARS-CoV-2 variants are spreading through our children.

Schools will be required to add ultraviolet treatment to their HVAC systems. Schools without HVAC systems will have to consider their best way forward.

This is not an option. I can purchase hand held UV devices to treat incoming packages. The science is sound. 

Congress MUST pass funding to change the quality of the air our children are breathing. Kindly remember children can pass the variants on to their siblings, parents and extended family. 

The vaccines do not act against the variants. That is disappointing which brings up a lot of other issues.

As I have always stated, “The longer the virus is exposed to the human body environment the more opportunity to mutate exists.” I know no leader of any country wants to hear this, but, there is a very, very good chance that this virus will become such a chronic threat to people that a shut down of a country must occur in order STOP THE SPREAD. Get used to that idea.

Keeping the children home until this disaster has completely ended is a very good option! Why would anyone send a child into a war zone where they are guaranteed to lose? This virus by its interaction with the body causes damage to the body and brain.

Merck

Merck Company is no longer pursuing a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. They were not seeing a vibrant antibody response in comparison to other vaccines currently in use. The company is focusing on two treatments for recovery instead.

“See Something, Say Something “

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

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

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

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

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

“See something, say something.”

Protect the future from continued sadness.

SNAP benefits

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

That actually is not an exaggerated statement. 

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

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

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

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

Wall Street comes before American

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

Hm. 

Let’s think about that for a minute.

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

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

That said, “Bubble?” “What bubble?”

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

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

I don’t think so.

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

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

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

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

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

Very nice.

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

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

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

There was no record keeping.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Accountability is vital to fast and efficient distribution.

“What’s going on in this Graph?...”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I find the lack of information stunning in this article.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 24, 2021
By Erica L. Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

September 2019

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

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

Liberate!

Alexia Navalny

Yulia Navalny

Free the Russian people from oppressive        Putin regime!

Republicans are being ridiculous.

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

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

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

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

Defend the USA Constitution

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

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

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

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

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

Political pettiness ends now!

Deal or No Deal?

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

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

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

January 19,2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 8, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lake Michigan looks good today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review Leadership at the Pentagon

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

Major Biden

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

Too expensive to be employed.

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

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

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

Conservationist now have a place in the USA.

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

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

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

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.