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Singles/Mingle/Chat

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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I work in "member" service for a federal credit union. Yesterday I answered a call from a late 40ish guy, he was checking on the status of a credit card for someone he just put on his account as an authorized user. That means the AU can use the card,...

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News & Links

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKGOP senator says unvaccinated Americans -- not undocumented immigrants -- are to blame for COVID-19 surge - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) broke ranks with many Trump-loving governors on Friday when he said that unvacThe Citizen-Times reports that Tillis told the Council of Independent Business Owners on Thursday that it isn't fair to blame immigrants for the spread of the novel coronavirus when so many Americans are refusing a free vaccine.mmigrants. The Citizen-Times reports that Tillis told the Council of Independent Business Owners on Thursday that it isn't fair to blame immigrants for the spread of ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKHarvard Has A New Chief Chaplain And He's An Atheist : NPR

Greg Epstein is the author of Good Without God. In his new role, he will oversee the activities of all religious communities on campus. His personal beliefs or disbelief don't seem to be an issue.

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Feline Fanatics

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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Yes, the cat HAS been fed.

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News & Links

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/28/2021

Heather Cox Richardson America is in a watershed moment. Since the 1980s, the country has focused on individualism: the idea that the expansion of the federal government after the Depression in the 1930s created a m of collectivism that we must destroy by cutting taxes and slashing regulation to leave individuals free to do as they wish. Domestically, that ideology meant dismantling government regulation, social safety networks, and public infrastructure projects. Internationally, it ...

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Aug 27, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/26/2021

Heather Cox Richardson In Afghanistan today, two explosions outside the Kabul airport killed at least 60 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. troops. More than 100 Afghans and 15 U.S. service members were wounded. ISIS-K, the Islamic State Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the attack. ISIS-K is an extremist offshoot of the Taliban organized in Pakistan about six years ago by younger men who think the older leaders of the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan are too moderate. The ISIS-K ...

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Aug 26, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/25/2021

Today the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol asked eight federal agencies for records. The chair of the committee, Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), gave the agencies two weeks to produce a sweeping range of material that showed the committee is conducting a thorough investigation of the last days of the Trump administration. Thompson sent letters to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which keeps the ...

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Aug 25, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/24/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Since August 14, just ten days ago, the U.S. has facilitated the evacuation of 70,700 people from Afghanistan; more than 21,000 flew out in the last day alone. President Biden maintains that the U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by the August 31 deadline. The evacuation, which began chaotically as the Afghan army and government crumbled and the Taliban took over the country in less than two weeks, has become far more orderly and efficient. (If there’s one thing the ...

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Aug 24, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKChristian pastor gets 30 years in prison for secretly filming children as they undress – DeadState

A judge slapped a Texas church pastor with a 30-year prison sentence for secretly filming children — some as young as 11 — while they undressed, the New York Daily News reports. David Pettigrew, along with co-defendant Chad Rider, set up multiple hidden cameras disguising them as “hooks, clocks, charging blocks, a smoke detector, a picture frame, an air conditioner adapter and even a pen.” The covert recording of children took place at Denison Church of the Nazarene in Grayson ...

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Aug 24, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/23/2021

Today, the Food and Drug Administration gave full and final approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which had previously been in use under an emergency authorization. The FDA approved the vaccine for people 16 and older. It has not yet been fully approved for people aged 12 to 15; for them it is still under an emergency authorization. The good news about the vaccine’s approval sent the stock market soaring, as investors hoped the approval would lead to a surge in vaccinations, ...

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Love & Relationships

Aug 23, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKIt Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal | Glamour

I thought this was awakening. I stood in my dining room surrounded by toys and the remnants of dinner from the night before sticking to the bottom of my feet. In the kitchen, a bag of trash was tipped over, its innards strewn across the floor. In the living room, a week’s worth of laundry had been waiting two weeks to be folded. It was 9:45 a.m., and already I was exhausted. I’d come home at midnight the night before, only to have to wake up at 5 a.m. with my toddler son and then take ...

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News & Links

Aug 23, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/22/2021

A week after the Taliban took control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as the U.S. was withdrawing the forces that have been in the country since 2001, the initial chaos created by the Taliban’s rapid sweep across the country has simmered down into what is at least a temporary pattern. We knew there was a good chance that the Taliban would regain control of the country when we left, although that was not a foregone conclusion. The former president, Donald Trump, recognized that the ...

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Aug 22, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK'I'd rather be somewhere else': Ron Johnson suggests he doesn't want to be in the Senate

I'd rather he were somewhere else as well. The Wisconsin Republican has been mounting a campaign against his own reelection for months. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told a right-wing host on Wednesday that he does not actually want to be a U.S. senator saying he only took the job out of love for his country. Johnson, who is considering whether to stick with his two-term limit pledge or run for reelection in 2022, made the comments during an appearance on Wendy Bell Radio. The remarks were...

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Feline Fanatics

Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTouching Moment Little Girl Sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ To Her Dying Cat

Caution: Tear alert.

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Health & Happiness

Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKDon Winslow Films - ProtectYourChild - YouTube

Better a mask today than a respirator tomorrow.

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Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTransgender victory over Hobby Lobby could have national impact

LGBTQ advocates say the "sweeping" ruling could be used to attack “bathroom bills” and trans sports bans across the country. An appellate court deciding Hobby Lobby violated Illinois anti-discrimination law by denying a transgender employee access to the women’s restroom could have nationwide implications, experts say. Meggan Sommerville, a trans woman who has worked at a Hobby Lobby location in Aurora for more than 20 years, has been denied access to the store’s women’s room...

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Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK49 unvaccinated University of Virginia students disenrolled from fall classes after failing to meet requirement - The Washington Post

University of Virginia disenrolls unvaccinated students ahead of fall semester Forty-nine students who registered for fall classes at the University of Virginia have been disenrolled after failing to meet the school’s vaccine mandate, officials said Friday. The campus unveiled its vaccine mandate in May and the overwhelming majority of the campus is in compliance, officials said. More than 96 percent of U-Va. students are vaccinated against the coronavirus and 335 students with ...

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Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/20/2021

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and the dangers it presented to their own safety. Turner and his friends traveled from house to house in their neighborhood in Southampton County, Virginia, freeing enslaved people and murdering about 60 of the white men, women, and children they encountered. Their goal, Turner later told an interviewer,...

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General & Hellos

Aug 20, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKIf Megachurches Were Honest | Honest Ads (Mars Hill, Hillsong, Bethel, Lakewood Church Parody) - YouTube

IF Megachurches Were Honest, Awesome, just awesome!

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Aug 20, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/19/2021

On Tuesday, Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) introduced H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021. In 1965, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Voting Rights Act to protect the right to vote in America. That law was reauthorized on a bipartisan basis as recently as 2006. But in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down a vital piece of the Voting Rights Act, the piece requiring that the Department of Justice approve proposed changes in election rules in states with...

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Aug 19, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKAmericans United And American Atheists Applaud Dept. Of Education Plan To Reconsider Forcing Universities To Fund Discrimination By Religious Student Groups | Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Aug 19, 2021 Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it is reviewing and anticipates rescinding parts of a regulation enacted by the Trump administration that, among other things, forces universities to financially support religious student groups that discriminate. Americans United for Separation of Church and State and American Atheists, who are challenging this provision in federal court on behalf of the Secular Student Alliance and a California university student, welcomed...

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Aug 19, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/18/2021

It is still early days, and the picture of what is happening in Afghanistan now that the Taliban has regained control of the country continues to develop. Central to affairs there is money. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with about half its population requiring humanitarian aid this year and about 90% of its people living below the poverty line of making $2 a day. The country depends on foreign aid. Under the U.S.-supported Afghan government, the United States ...

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Aug 17, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKCardinal Raymond Leo Burke, a Covid-19 vaccination critic, is hospitalized and on a ventilator - CNN

Karma is working overtime today, WTG girl!! (CNN)Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been hospitalized with Covid-19 and placed on a ventilator, according to a tweet over the weekend from his official account. In an tweet on August 10, Burke, a Covid-19 vaccination critic, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus, and said, "Thanks be to God, I am resting comfortably and receiving excellent medical care." It is unclear whether Cardinal Burke, who is in his early 70s, has been ...

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Aug 17, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTexas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID, isolating in Austin

Whoa!! I think shit just got real for the gubner. No one deserves it more... well, some more deserve it just as much. Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to his office. The Republican leader is fully vaccinated and was asymptomatic after testing positive, Abbott spokesman Mark Miner said. Abbott is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment while isolating at the Governor's Mansion, according to a news release. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday...

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News & Links

Aug 17, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/16/2021

According to an article by Susannah George in the Washington Post, the lightning speed takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban forces—which captured all 17 of the regional capitals and the national capital of Kabul in about nine days with astonishing ease—was a result of “cease fire” deals, which amounted to bribes, negotiated after former president Trump’s administration came to an agreement with the Taliban in February 2020. When U.S. officials excluded the Afghan government from the ...

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Trump Pinata

Aug 16, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKMaddow Breaks Down How Trump Plot Revelations are Useful to Georgia Election Investigation

Donald Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election results and declare himself the winner are being investigated by the Department of Justice’s inspector general, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Last week it was revealed that Jeffrey Clark, Trump’s acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, tried to get DOJ leaders to falsely claim that investigations into voter fraud in Georgia cast ...

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News & Links

Aug 16, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/15/2021

Today, in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters took over the presidential palace in Kabul, the country’s capital, while the president of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, Ashraf Ghani, fled to Tajikistan. The U.S. and many other countries are rushing to evacuate their diplomatic personnel and allies from the country, although Russia is not, as the Taliban has guaranteed their safety. As of tonight, all U.S. embassy personnel are at the Kabul airport, which is currently being protected by the U.S. ...

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Aug 15, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/14/2021

On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. While FDR’s New Deal had put in place new measures to regulate business and banking and had provided temporary work relief to combat the Depression, this law permanently changed the nature of the American government. The Social Security Act is known for its payments to older Americans, but it did far more than that. It established unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and ...

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Aug 14, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/13/2021

Yesterday, the Census Bureau released information about the 2020 census, designed to enable states to start the process of drawing new lines for their congressional districts, a process known as redistricting. Because of that very limited intent for this particular information dump, the picture the material gives is a very specific one. The specificity of that information echoes the political history that in the 1920s began to skew our Congress to give rural white voters disproportionate ...

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Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKWhy Aren't We All Conspiracy Theorists?

Turn conspiracy theorizing upside down and you begin to see solutions. QAnon is now as popular as some major religions. That’s the finding of a study released by The Public Religion Research Institute. QAnon, of course, is a conspiracy theory centered on the idea that a cabal of Satan-worshipping, sex-trafficking pedophiles runs America. Another study found that 56% of Republicans believe that this theory is partly or mostly true. Facts like these underscore the importance of ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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Grumblement. This is not a word as we understand it, but it needs to be. It was used by the person leading the training class I was in yesterday. It was used to describe the discussion we have with some of our customers who call just to grouse ...

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Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/11/2021

Four years ago today, racists, antisemites, white nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other alt-right groups met in Charlottesville, Virginia, to “Unite the Right.” The man who organized the rally, Jason Kessler, claimed he wanted to bring people together to protest the removal of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a local park. But the rioters turned immediately to chants that had been used by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s: “you will not replace us,” “Jews will ...

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Aug 11, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKSecret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” — ProPublica

Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump’s 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed.. In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson stunned his colleagues by announcing he would vote “no.” Making the rounds on cable TV, the Wisconsin Republican became the first GOP senator to declare his opposition, ...

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Aug 11, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/10/2021

The shocking revelations from former acting attorney general Jeffrey A. Rosen about former president Trump’s direct efforts to use the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election, along with the horrors of spiking Covid among the unvaccinated, drove out of the news cycle a revelatory piece of news. Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor released the jobs report for August 2021. It was stronger than economists had predicted, and even stronger than the ...

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Aug 10, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/09/2021

It appears the Senate is on track to pass the bipartisan $1 trillion “hard” infrastructure package as early as tomorrow morning. As soon as it passes, Democrats will turn to the $3.5 trillion bill, a sweeping measure that would modernize the nation’s approach to infrastructure by including human infrastructure as well as the older “hard” projects. It establishes universal pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds, cuts taxes for families with children, makes community college ...

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Aug 9, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK/Letters From An American 08/21/2021

On the heels of yesterday’s testimony by former acting attorney general Jeffrey A. Rosen before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former president Trump hit the Fox News Channel to try to turn the conversation back to an attack on President Joe Biden’s handling of the coronavirus. “Could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus?” he asked host Dan Bongino. “If that were me, they would say, ‘What a horrible thing, what a horrible ...

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Trump Pinata

Aug 8, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKA grand jury has been convened in the Trump criminal investigation which means the DA has proof of a crime | VozWire

About damn time!

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Aug 8, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/07/2021

While I try to post a picture on weekends, I don’t want to fail to put in this record that today’s testimony by Jeffrey A. Rosen, acting attorney general during the Trump administration, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, strikes me as being a game-changer. New York Times reporter Katie Benner broke the news way back in January that a relatively unknown lawyer in the Justice Department, Jeffrey Clark, worked secretly with then-president Donald Trump to overturn the results of the ...

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News & Links

Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKUSPS awards $120 million contract to Louis DeJoy’s former company XPO Logistics, raising ethics concerns - The Washington Post

The U.S. Postal Service will pay $120 million over the next five years to a major logistics contractor that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously helped lead and with which his family maintains financial ties, according to DeJoy’s financial disclosure statements and a federal contracting database. The new contract will deepen the Postal Service’s relationship with XPO Logistics, where DeJoy served as supply chain chief executive from 2014 to 2015 after the company purchased New Breed ...

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News & Links

Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKThe Young And Secular Are Least Vaccinated, Not Evangelicals

This surprised me. Check out the article for all the tables. (ANALYSIS) As the delta variant has caused COVID-19 to surge again in the United States, there’s been a flurry of attention paid to the share of Americans who have chosen to forgo the vaccine against the coronavirus. Trying to understand the causal factors that would lead to one not getting the inoculation seems to be the first task when it comes to finding ways to reduce vaccine hesitancy coast to coast. One of the primary...

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Feline Fanatics

Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKCat Comforts Anxious Dog While Owners Are Away.

Adorable!

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News & Links

Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTHE MYPILLOW GUY REALLY COULD DESTROY DEMOCRACY

In the time I spent with Mike Lindell, I came to learn that he is affable, devout, philanthropic—and a clear threat to the nation. By Anne Applebaum About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. When you contemplate the end of democracy in America, what kind of person do you think will bring it about? Maybe you picture ...

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News & Links

Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKFederal Court Should Uphold Connecticut Law That Ends Religious Exemptions From School Vaccination Requirements | Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Aug 05, 2021 Americans United for Separation of Church and State, joined by six religious and interfaith organizations, today urged the U.S. District Court in Connecticut to protect schoolchildren from the spread of preventable diseases by upholding a new state law that phases out religious exemptions from school vaccination requirements. In an amicus brief filed today in the case We the Patriots USA, Inc. v. Connecticut Office of Early Childhood Development, Americans United and its allies...

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Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/06/2021

Fifty-six years ago today, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The need for the law was explained in its full title: “An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes.” In the wake of the Civil War, Americans tried to create a new nation in which the law treated Black men and white men as equals. In 1865, they ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing enslavement except as punishment for ...

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Aug 6, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/05/2021

I wrote a letter tonight about the rising radicalism of the Republican Party. But then, sorting through the dark chaos of today’s news, I found myself thinking instead about the Battle of Mobile Bay, which happened on this date in 1864. By the spring of 1864, victory in the Civil War depended on which side could endure longest. Confederates were starving as they mourned their many dead; Union supporters were tired of losing sons to battles that seemed to accomplish nothing. President ...

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Aug 5, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTimbo the Redneck LATEST - Tiktok star dead 'in truck crash with girlfriend Kori' as brother-in-law posts tribute video

The intelligence of these people cannot be measured. Doing donuts in your truck with no seatbelt on is not wise. It doesn't sound like he had time to spawn. TIKTOK star Timbo the Redneck has died in a car accident along with his girlfriend after he flew out the window and his truck landed on top of him while he was doing donuts. Timbo, real name Timothy Hall, had been performing tricks in his truck with his girlfriend Kori Williams when the vehicle flipped, his brother-in-law confirmed ...

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Aug 5, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/04/2021

Today seemed to mark a popular backlash against Republican lawmakers who have been downplaying the coronavirus pandemic. The Delta variant of the deadly virus is ripping through unvaccinated populations in the U.S. with an average of 85,000 new cases a day, numbers that rival those of February, before we had accessible vaccines. One in three cases in the nation comes from either Florida or Texas. Lawmakers in South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Utah have prohibited ...

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Aug 4, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/03/2021

First, let’s get the obvious out of the way: former president Trump has raised $102 million since he left office, but aside from a recent donation of $100,000 to his chosen candidate in a Texas race which is not yet in the public disclosures (she lost), has spent none of it on anything or anyone but himself. Since January, he has convinced donors to fund his challenge to Biden’s election and to fund Trump-like candidates in the midterm elections. But election filings and a release of donors ...

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Trump Pinata

Aug 3, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKCon Law Expert Revealed Ages-Old Law That Could Finally Wipe Donald Trump Out For Good

By Andrea Thompson If you’re anything like me, you often find yourself wondering if disgraced ex-president Donald Trump will ever face any real accountability for his crimes. Yes, sure, there are lawsuits and investigations and accusations galore. But frankly, it feels like there always has been, and yet, here we are still, with a man who’s still every bit as free and you and I, and even went so far as to run this country into the ground for four long years. Sometimes, it is really and...

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Aug 3, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKCon Law Expert Revealed Ages-Old Law That Could Finally Wipe Donald Trump Out For Good

By Andrea Thompson If you’re anything like me, you often find yourself wondering if disgraced ex-president Donald Trump will ever face any real accountability for his crimes. Yes, sure, there are lawsuits and investigations and accusations galore. But frankly, it feels like there always has been, and yet, here we are still, with a man who’s still every bit as free and you and I, and even went so far as to run this country into the ground for four long years. Sometimes, it is really and...

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Aug 3, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK‘Do You Believe in God?:’ DOJ Policy Nominee’s Confirmation Hearing Turns Tense Over Culture-War Issues

Hampton Dellinger, a former partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, was grilled over his past statements on abortion and Supreme Court decisions. Republican senators grilled President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy about his past statements on abortion and recent Supreme Court decisions during a sometimes tense Senate Judiciary Confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Hampton Dellinger, a former partner at Boies Schiller Flexner—who if ...

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Aug 3, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/02/2021

Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted on Facebook a photo of Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson visiting him. Carlson is broadcasting his television show from Hungary this week, before he speaks on Saturday at MCC Feszt, an event hosted by a government-sponsored university whose mission is to produce a conservative elite. Hungary is a country in central Europe of about 10 million people who have, in the decade since Orbán took power for the second time, watched their ...

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Aug 3, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKDavis Polk To Deactivate Building ID Cards Of Unvaccinated Lawyers And Staff | Above the Law

Davis Polk To Deactivate Building ID Cards Of Unvaccinated Lawyers And Staff The compensation leader is using a strict 'vax or GTFO' method when it comes to its vaccine policy. Want to go back to the office? If you’re an employee at Davis Polk, that means you’d better be fully vaccinated — as soon as possible — because without proof, you will not be welcomed back to the firm. In fact, you won’t even be able to get inside the building because your access pass will be deactivated....

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Aug 2, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/01/2021

August 1, 2021 (Sunday) Last Sunday, educator and civil rights leader Dr. Robert Parris Moses died at 86. Born in New York City in 1935, the son of a homemaker and a janitor, Moses was working on a PhD at Harvard when his parents’ health brought him back to New York City. There, he began to teach math in 1958. In 1960, images of Black Americans in the South picketing for their rights “hit me powerfully, in the soul as well as the brain,” he later said. He moved to Mississippi and ...

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Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLawyer Heather Shaner called a traitor after giving Capitol riot clients history books - The Washington Post

A lawyer hoped history books would help her Capitol riot clients grow. She was called a traitor — and worse. Defense attorney Heather Shaner said her first client from Jan. 6 wanted to invoke “the Constitution from 1776.″ When she tried to explain that the document was ratified years later, the man told her he had done his research and she was incorrect. In the very beginning, Shaner couldn’t imagine representing anyone involved in the riot. She said she cried all day as she ...

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Trump Pinata

Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKDad Who Was Smeared And Attacked By Trump Appointed To Key Commission By Biden – Breaking News USA

Khizr Khan, the father of an Iraq War veteran killed in the line of duty and who was then mercilessly attacked by Donald Trump, was appointed to a federal commission by President Joe Biden. “President Joe Biden announced Friday plans to nominate Khizr Khan, who famously criticized Donald Trump for his disparaging remarks on Muslim-Americans during the 2016 Democratic National Convention, to a post with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom,” Politico reported. After ...

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Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKA conservative radio host who downplayed vaccines on his show is on an oxygen machine after a severe COVID-19 infection

A conservative talk-show host who downplayed the coronavirus has contracted a severe COVID-19 infection that now requires that he be on an oxygen tank. Phil Valentine, host of "The Phil Valentine Show," which airs from Nashville, Tennessee, was diagnosed with the disease earlier this month. He has since been hospitalized and is on an oxygen machine, brother Mark Valentine wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. "Phil made it through the nite. He needs to be on an EKMO (sic) machine which is...

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Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKRep. Madison Cawthorn tried to board plane with gun; could face fine, status loss

Good grief. Have these idiots no shame or common sense? ASHEVILLE - U.S. House member Madison Cawthorn had his gun taken by airport police and will likely face a federal fine and loss of a special security status, local and federal officials said. The Republican congressman representing Western North Carolina's 11th District was attempting to board a plane Feb. 13 when Transportation Security Administration workers found an unloaded gun in his carry-on bag, along with a loaded magazine, ...

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Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKDelta variant: 8 things you should know | Coronavirus | UC Davis Health

WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE COVID WOODS YET!! A newer strain of COVID-19 is causing concern as cases are rising in California and across the U.S. The Delta variant, which originated in India, began spreading more rapidly and making news around the middle of June. Now, health experts are warning of another surger of COVID-19. Here's what health experts have learned about the Delta variant: 1. Delta variant is highly contagious As of July 22, nearly 80% of UC Davis Health patients who tested...

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Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/30/2021

This will be very brief because I am without power again, and am operating on a generator that is undoubtedly keeping the neighbors awake. Today, the Department of Justice ruled that the Treasury Department can release to Congress six years of former president Trump’s tax returns. Trump was the first president since Richard M. Nixon to refuse to disclose his taxes, and the House Ways and Means Committee requested them in April 2019. The fight to obtain Trump’s tax returns has stretched...

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Jul 30, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/29/2021

The ripples of the explosive testimony of the four police officers Tuesday before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol continue to spread. Committee members are meeting this week to decide how they will proceed. Congress goes on recess during August, but committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) suggested the committee would, in fact, continue to meet during that break. Committee members are considering subpoenas to compel the testimony of...

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Jul 29, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/28/2021

It appears that it is finally infrastructure week. Today, negotiators hammered out a deal on a bipartisan bill, which includes $550 billion in new spending. This evening, the Senate voted to move the bill forward by a vote of 67 to 32, with 17 Republicans joining all the Democrats to begin debate on the measure. The bill is not fully hammered out yet, and the Congressional Budget Office, which examines bills to see how much they will cost, has not yet produced a final number, but it ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKIndoor (And Outdoor) Masking Guidance In Light Of New CDC Recommendations : Goats and Soda : NPR

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending face coverings for vaccinated people in certain situations. Please tell me exactly when to mask up. If you hung your mask up in May after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said face coverings were no longer necessary for vaccinated people, you're probably not eager to start masking up once more. And with Tuesday's announcement that some vaccinated people should mask up again in certain situations because of the ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKOregon Rep. Pleads Guilty to Allowing Violent Protesters Into State Capitol Through Backdoor

Former Oregon state Rep. Mike Nearman has been banned from entering the Oregon Capitol building and its surrounds for the next 18 months after pleading guilty Tuesday to official misconduct. Last December, when the Capitol was closed due to the pandemic, Nearman opened a side door to allow a group of violent protestors inside. It led to a clash with police near the entrance. While explaining his actions to Marion County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Pellegrini, Nearman claimed he didn’t support ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKVictorian MP calls for reciting of Lord's Prayer before every sitting of parliament to be scrapped | Daily Mail Online

An Atheist MP has called for the reciting of the Lord's Prayer before every sitting of parliament to be scrapped and replaced with a 'moment of reflection'. Fiona Patten, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan Region, is leading the charge to remove the 'sombre recitation'. The MP said the prayer does not reflect Victoria's diverse community, and argued parliament should not privilege one religion over another. Fiona Patten, member of the Victorian ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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Likely Scammer BillyBrown5970 Has been PMing me, asked to meet on hangouts, said he's a very busy man but he would be willing to relocate. He's also not in the US right now. Pictures popped from a foreign language website. English is ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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Likely Scammer BillyBrown5970 Has been PMing me, asked to meet on hangouts, said he's a very busy man but he'd be willing to relocate. He's also not in the US right now. Pictures popped from a foreign language website. English is ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/27/2021

This morning, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol began its hearings with testimony from two Capitol Police officers and two Metropolitan Police officers. After Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) opened the hearing, Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and and Officer Harry Dunn of the Capitol Police, and Officer Michael Fanone and Officer Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police, recounted hand-to-hand combat against ...

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/27/2021

This morning, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol began its hearings with testimony from two Capitol Police officers and two Metropolitan Police officers. After Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) opened the hearing, Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and and Officer Harry Dunn of the Capitol Police, and Officer Michael Fanone and Officer Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police, recounted hand-to-hand combat against ...

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Jul 27, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKMissouri paper slams 'false prophet' preachers who claimed Trump's re-election was preordained by God - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

Over the weekend, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board penned a scathing indictment of evangelical preachers who told their followers to view former President Donald Trump's potential victory in the 2020 election through the lens of Biblical prophecy — and thus making them blind to the reality of Trump's loss. "Editorially, we try to avoid opining about religious faith," wrote the board. "But invoking divine guidance to advance partisan causes smacks of the worst kind of ...

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Jul 27, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/26/2021

As the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol starts its work, former president Trump and his supporters are consolidating their power over the Republican Party. Through it, they hope to control the nation. Trump this morning tried to assert his dominance over the party by issuing a statement in which he demanded that Republican senators scrap the infrastructure bill that has been more than three months in the making. Although he did not note...

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Health & Happiness

Jul 26, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKRescuing drowning children: How to know when someone is in trouble in the water.

In 10 percent of drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here’s what to look for. The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just ...

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Jul 26, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKArkansas Governor: People Call Vaccine a 'Bioweapon,' 'Mind Control'

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he is working against misinformation as he travels around the state urging residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Hutchinson, a Republican, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" on Sunday that resistance to the vaccine has "hardened in certain elements" because of "false information" and "myths." "As I go into these town-hall meetings, someone said, 'Don't call it a vaccine, call it a bioweapon.' And they talk about mind control," Hutchinson said....

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Jul 26, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/25/2021

Both Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio told television hosts today that they expect an infrastructure deal on the $579 billion bill this week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has said that he will delay the Senate’s upcoming recess until this bipartisan bill and another, larger bill that focuses on human infrastructure are passed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says she will not hold a vote on the smaller infrastructure bill ...

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Jul 26, 2021Jul 2021

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My visitors list this morning made me giggle. Notice the similarities in the names. What are the odds that these are real people? My experience says not very great.

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Jul 26, 2021Jul 2021

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My visitors list this morning made me giggle. Notice the similarities in the names. It's possible they're legit, but that would be a first for me.

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Jul 25, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKMan accused of setting West Side house on fire charged with capital murder | KTSM 9 News

Sounds like he is insane, hopefully not so insane it will keep him out of prison for a very long time.

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Jul 24, 2021Jul 2021

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Last fall with the pandemic being in full force, I decided I needed to make a wallhanging quilt. Well, I started with Thanksgiving, but by the time I got it done Thanksgiving was past. Then I decided to do all seasons and a wallhanging quilt for Xmas...

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Jul 24, 2021Jul 2021

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LINK‘Complete, dysfunctional chaos’: Oklahoma reels after Supreme Court ruling on Indian tribes

Kyle Willis hadn’t seen Kimberly Graham in years, since the day she was sentenced to 107 years in prison after she drunkenly plowed her truck into a group of motorcyclists in Tulsa, killing five people, including his mother and stepfather. So it was a shock when he saw her at a court hearing last month — tanned, dressed in a frilly purple top and jeans and laughing — a free woman. Graham, who is Native American, was let out of prison in April after a Supreme Court decision last year ...

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Jul 24, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKDate With Destiny: Capitol Riot Suspect Nabbed — This Time With Help From Dating App Bumble | HuffPost

Stupid is as stupid does.

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Jul 24, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/22/2021

On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans ever to land, and then to walk, on the moon. They were part of the Apollo program, designed to put an American man on the moon. Their spacecraft launched on July 16 and landed back on Earth in the Pacific Ocean July 24, giving them eight days in space, three of them orbiting the moon 30 times. Armstrong and Aldrin spent almost 22 hours on the moon’s surface, where they collected soil and...

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Jul 23, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKGOP Governor Says It's Time To 'Blame The Unvaccinated' For Pandemic Surge | HuffPost

A Republican governor in one of the states hit hardest by the delta variant of the coronavirus called out those who’ve refused the vaccine on Thursday. “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks,” said Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, per CBS 42 in Birmingham. “It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.” Ivey, who was vaccinated in December, also seemed to throw some shade at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets. “Media, I want ...

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Jul 23, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKAnti-vax Hillsong Church member Stephen Harmon, 34, dies of Covid after posting 'I got 99 problems but a vax ain't one'

Too bad, so darn sad!! Serves the dumba$$ right.

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Jul 23, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/22/2021

The backdrop of everything political these days is the 2022 midterm election. The most immediate story in the country is that coronavirus infections are rising rapidly. The seven-day average of Covid-19 cases is rising about 37,700 cases per day, and the seven-day average of hospital admissions is about 35,000 per day. The seven-day average of daily deaths has also increased to 237 per day, about 19 percent higher than it was in the previous seven-day period. The vast majority of these ...

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Jul 22, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKTop official with U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigns amid misconduct allegations - The Washington Post

So much for claims that data is effectively "anonymized" The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to cellphone data that appeared to show he was a regular user of Grindr, the queer dating app, and frequented gay bars. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, seen in 2018, resigned July 20 as the general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops amid “impending media reports alleging possible ...

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Jul 22, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/21/2021

The story that grabbed headlines today was that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected two of the five people House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) chose to put on the House select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection. McCarthy immediately withdrew all of the five people he had appointed, accusing the Speaker of partisanship. But let’s call this like it is. The Republicans killed a bill to create a bipartisan select committee to investigate the insurrection. Then, ...

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Jul 21, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKNot All Dogs Are Athletic

This has my attitude. [twitter.]

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Jul 21, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/20/2021

Today, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York indicted three men for illegally influencing the foreign policy positions of a presidential candidate and then, after the election, of the United States government. They were acting in the interests of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a wealthy country in the Persian Gulf. The candidate was Donald Trump, and one of the three men was his ally Thomas Barrack. Another was Matthew Grimes, a 27-year-old employee who reported ...

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Jul 20, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKChristianity is collapsing | Freedom From Religion Foundation

Sociologist are amazed by the swift disintegration of Christianity in America. In a stunning transformation confirmed by several surveys and studies. A Gallup Poll has found that fewer than half of all American now belong to a mosque, church, or temple, down from 70% at the start of the 21st century. Read more good news at the link.

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Jul 20, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/19/2021

This morning, on the Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, personality Steve Doocy told viewers to get the coronavirus vaccine because it would “save your life” and noted that 99% of the people now dying from Covid-19 are unvaccinated. Brian Kilmeade answered that not getting the vaccine is a personal choice and that the government has no role in protecting the population. “That’s not their job. It’s not their job to protect anybody,” he said. It is, of course, literally the job of ...

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Jul 18, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKMother who believed 'hand of God' would heal her daughter jailed for endangering child's life

Looks like the US doesn't have all the fruitcakes after all. A Toowoomba mother who relied on the "hand of God" to heal her sick daughter has been jailed for endangering the six-year-old girl's life. Key points: A mother, 46, was found guilty of endangering her daughter's life by failing to seek medical care The six-year-old child weighed only 13.4 kg and had to be resuscitated when taken to hospital in 2019 The woman has been jailed for 18 months and will be eligible for parole in ...

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Jul 18, 2021Jul 2021

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Johncolgate39 OY, I have been PMing with him for a few days. Today he tells me distance is no problem as he has a private jet. That was when I was 100% sure he is fulla BS. He is a god botherer. His profile says he is "sassy"... ...

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Jul 18, 2021Jul 2021

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Johncolgate39 OY, I've been PMing with him for a few days. Today he tells me distance is no problem as he has a private jet. That was when I was 100% sure he is fulla BS. He is a god botherer. He looks like a real guy, not overly ...

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Jul 18, 2021Jul 2021

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This kitty knows how pretty she is.

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Jul 18, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/17/2021

A year ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at 80 years old. As a young adult, Lewis was a “troublemaker,” breaking the laws of his state: the laws upholding racial segregation. He organized voting registration drives and in 1960 was one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders, white and Black students traveling together from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans to challenge segregation. “It was very violent. I thought I was going to die. I was left...

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Jul 17, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKJohn Dean's Authoritarian Nightmare

Nixon's former attorney talks Trump, authoritarianism, and the Goldwater Rule. There are some startling statements in John W. Dean's new book, Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers, but the former White House counsel who famously testified against President Nixon about the Watergate scandal is adamant about them all. He backs up his conclusions with 40 years of research by his writing partner, psychology professor Bob Altemeyer, and the survey they conducted on the psychological ...

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Trump Pinata

Jul 17, 2021Jul 2021

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John Dean's Authoritarian Nightmare Nixon's former attorney talks Trump, authoritarianism, and the Goldwater Rule. There are some startling statements in John W. Dean's new book, Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His ...

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Jul 17, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 07/16/2021

This morning, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, told reporters that the seven-day average of Covid-19 cases has jumped almost 70 percent in the last week. Yesterday the U.S. had more than 33,000 new cases. Hospital admissions have jumped about 36% over the same period, to about 2,790 a day. And, after dropping for weeks, the seven-day average of deaths per day has also increased, rising 26% to 211 deaths per day. Walensky called it “a ...

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Jul 16, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKFreethought of the Day

I didn't realize this existed until this morning. Birthdays and bios of famous Humanists including Adam Savage of Mythbusters, and Linda Ronstadt. 4 others are on the list. Adam Savage On this date in 1967, Adam Savage was born in New York City. Savage was raised in North Tarrytown, N.Y., now known as Sleepy Hollow. “I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend,” Savage said in a speech to ...

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Jul 16, 2021Jul 2021

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LINKWhy Trump's response to Gen. Milley makes an awful story worse

It wasn't that long ago when Donald Trump held Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley in high regard, even treating the general -- and not the secretary of Defense -- as the top decision-maker at the Pentagon. That did not last. In June 2020, for example, Milley publicly expressed regret for his presence during Trump's Lafayette Square debacle. (The Republican wasn't pleased by the general's reaction, deeming it a betrayal.) Soon after, as the then-president tried to discredit his own ...

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