The Post says: Give it up,
Mr. President — for your
sake and the nation’s
Posted By: AltaD, 12/28/2020 8:40:00 AM
Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark charade. We’re one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country. On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine which party will control the Senate — whether Joe Biden will have a rubber stamp or a much-needed check on his agenda. Unfortunately, you’re obsessed with the next day, Jan. 6, when Congress will, in a pro forma action, certify the Electoral College vote. You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have “courage,” they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office. In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.
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Chicago police arrested 31-year-old Hunt after officers discovered seven children inside a vacant apartment unit during a well-being check at approximately 4 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of North Trumbull, authorities said.(Snip)Calling for empathy for Hunt's situation, Yosef said she needs help from social services instead of potential jail time.
Proposed changes to the rules of the House of Representatives would “honor all gender identities” by eliminating such specific terms as mother and father, son and daughter, and aunt and uncle.
Instead, only gender-neutral terms such as “parent,” “child,” “sibling” and “parent’s sibling” would be allowed in the text of the House rules, according to the proposed changes.
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Another rules change would prevent Republicans from amending a bill at the last minute, the Washington Examiner reported.
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The majority of cadets caught cheating on a math test at the West Point military academy are athletes — including two dozen members of the Army football team playing West Virginia in Thursday’s Liberty Bowl. Of the 24 Army Black Knights embroiled in the scandal, 17 remained in uniform as of Wednesday (Snip) West Point spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt told USA Today that the decision was not related to the school’s football season.
“We didn’t cancel the punishment,” Ophardt said. “We delayed it until final adjudication.”
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Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark charade.
We’re one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country.
On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine which party will control the Senate — whether Joe Biden will have a rubber stamp or a much-needed check on his agenda.
Unfortunately, you’re obsessed with the next day, Jan. 6, when Congress will, in a pro forma action, certify the Electoral College vote. You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have “courage,” they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office.
In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.
Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.(Snip)Well, now I have another piece of evidence to add to the mile-high pile of fishy mess. The World Health Organization, for reasons unknown, has suddenly changed its definition of a core conception of immunology: herd immunity. Its discovery was one of the major achievements of 20th century science, gradually emerging in the 1920s and then becoming ever more refined throughout the 20th century.
Herd immunity is a fascinating observation that you can trace to biological reality or statistical probability theory, whichever you prefer.
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'This team will help get at the latest – at the last 100 million COVID-19 vaccine – at least 100 million COVID vaccine shots into the arms of American people in the first 100 days,' Biden said, stumbling over the wording.
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Let me be the first to say; I want to be proven wrong and be forced to chomp through huge heapings of crow in the next few weeks. I hope it will (soon) be revealed that Rudy Giuliani, Ellis, Powell, et al, had a cunning plan all along beyond my understanding that is going to show me up for an arrogant know-it-all. And, to be clear; I will never be happier to be proven wrong. And I will happily take all the ‘I told you so’s, and insults thrown my way for writing this post.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
Let’s not fool ourselves here;
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