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| The Freedom Caucus in Action |
What more can I say about the resignation of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership? The real solution is to vote Republicans out of office wherever possible. With few and rare exceptions, they are up to no good. Meanwhile, here's hoping the nation survives until that is accomplished in 2024.
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Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists Whose Discoveries Made Covid Vaccines Possible
Here’s a timely reminder to all, regardless of age, to get the
latest Covid booster vaccination, made possible by the work of the winners of
this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine, announced on Tuesday.
Vaccinations are the best way of avoiding the spreading to
others of the virus that causes Covid. This is reality. I am sure these
scientists are getting their boosters! This is unselfish. Here is the
announcement of this award:
The
discoveries by the two Nobel Laureates were critical for developing effective
mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020.
Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our
understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates
contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the
greatest threats to human health in modern times.’
JL
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About three years ago, I purchased some miniature cacti at Home Depot and placed them near my kitchen window. Like most cacti, they are green, but these had been dyed otherwise by the grower. Since then, all subsequent growth has been in their natural color, green. There’s a moral to this somewhere, regarding how long one can pretend to be something they are not, like a yellow, orange, or red cactus.
Here they are, each no more than four inches above their ground level, as I posed them on my kitchen table this morning, before returning them to their permanent home on the windowsill.
JL
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Three Miracles and Super Judges
It is indeed a miracle that despite the ‘thumb on the scale’ that the Electoral College applies to the way we elect the nation’s president, we manage to elect Democrats to that office.
It is another miracle that gives Democrats control
of the Senate even though States with miniscule populations have as many
Senators as those with much larger populations.
For example, way back in 1889 when the Dakota Territory was admitted
into the Union, it was as two States, North and South Dakota, each with two
Senators. Today, these four Senators
represent about 1,700,000 people, while there are ten States with populations
in excess of ten million people each with just two Senators. This was no
accident.
It is another miracle that the Democrats even come within
a few votes of a majority in the House of Representatives, where State
legislatures have created gerrymandered House districts resulting in artificial
Republican majorities.
But there are no such miracles happening with the
Supreme Court. For an incisive opinion on that problem, check out retired
lawyer Marty London’s thoughts on his blog by visiting
https://londonsbh.blogspot.com/ or just by CLICKING
HERE. Check out what he wrote about three months ago on
July 9, 2023, about ‘Super Judges.’ I agree with his suggestion, but his
recipe for getting there is very demanding. The best solution is by voting Republicans
out of office everywhere in 2024, if we can preserve democracy until then.
JL
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Trivia Quiz # 11 – Professional
Football Teams and Their States
(We know teams sometimes are based elsewhere than their name suggests, such as the Giants and Jets playing their home games across the river in New Jersey, but for the purposes of this quiz, we will stick with the teams’ names. And the District of Columbia, for the purposes of this quiz, is a State.)
2. In what States are there three NFL teams? Name them.
3.
In what States are
there two NFL teams? Name them.
4.
How many States in
which there are NFL teams do NOT also have a major league baseball team?
5.
What two teams (it’s a
tie) have won the most Super Bowls?
Answers
to Trivia Quiz #10 - Actresses
1. Hair combed down
almost covering one eye – Veronica Lake
2. Skirt blown up by
breeze from air vent below her – Marilyn Monroe
3. Also was an inventor in real life – Hedy Lamarr
4. Brought film sex to the fore in Howard Hughes' 'The
Outlaw' – Jane Russell
5. Played the discoverer of radium - Greer Garson
JL
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JL
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