Back to the present day. Before getting into the nitty gritty, I’ll share a few photos I took of flowers around my immediate neighborhood. Living in proximity to the capitol now has its challenges, thanks to Mr. Trump, but my neighbors and I still try to make our front yards look welcoming. Now that we can walk outside without masks, it's nice to breathe fresh air and enjoy all the flowers.
Business Insider, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell
falsely claims Trump will be 'our real president' in 6 months
Lindell also has said Trump is the only president not “in
it for the ego.”
[Is he trying to sell more pillows? His sales must have fallen off.]
NBC, Nearly
a third of GOP say Trump likely to be reinstated
Why keep this scam going about Trump’s immanent return to
the presidency? Didn’t the attack on the capitol do enough damage? Yet, I can
bear personal witness that some folks in both Texas and W Va. still expect
Trump’s triumphant return to office. Why do we have so many seriously misguided
fellow Americans? It’s more than just a political difference, it’s frankly delusional.
Even Trump finally admitted in a recent interview, “We didn’t win.” He never
enjoyed majority support, even during his presidency, which shows the folly of
an electoral system that allows a loser to “win” via the Electoral College.
Mr. Trump says he’s now writing his own blockbuster memoir
about his greatest-of-all-time presidency and has had 2 offers from major
publishers, though no one seems able to confirm this. His book will doubtless double-down
on the narrative of a “stolen” election. Trump could even write gibberish and
his cult followers would buy his book. He would certainly insist on a
profit-sharing deal with any publisher. Meanwhile, Mike
Pence and son-in-law Jared have both inked big book deals, to Trump’s certain envy.
Rep. Adam Schiff notes that Donald Trump has
indicated interest in running for Congress in Florida and replacing Nancy
Pelosi as House Speaker. If he should happen
to win a seat, would he say the election was rigged? Trump has said that his first priority in Congress would
be the impeachment of
President Joe Biden. He
is out for blood, a nightmare scenario. But, at least, we all have now been
forewarned, so we need to mount a full-court press to head off such a dreadful
eventuality. We are only too well aware of how destructive Donald Trump can be in
office, making it imperative to prevent his election again to any office and assuring
that Republicans don’t gain a majority in either chamber of Congress as long as
he is still alive.
President Biden gave a refreshingly coherent
press conference after his meeting with Putin, in contrast to Trump’s famously chaotic
appearances. Trump was so terrible that now Biden, just a normal guy, seems like
a really great president.
Trump’s former physician
is asking Biden to take a cognitive test, all well and good, if Trump takes it
first under the administration of a neutral party. As Trump described the
cognitive test that he “aced” while in office, I recognized a routine dementia
screening test I was given by my health care provider. A man so mentally and emotionally
challenged deserves our sympathy, but not license to visit chaos on our nation
and the world.
Putin has been depicting America as a fading power, mirroring the
demise of his own country. Trump and Covid have definitely brought us down, but
a further decline is not inevitable. If our country does decline either
relative to other powers or absolutely, it will be because we have too many
uninformed and rigid-thinking fellow citizens, too many Trump followers, meaning
that the rest of us have not done our duty.
Good riddance to Mr. Netanyahu, another
leader whose departure is welcome! Israelis have been out celebrating. Meanwhile,
Netanyahu is still standing fast, not moving out of the official residence.
NY Times, Israel's New Coalition
Takes First Steps, Including Mending Fences With U.S.
A Methodist Hospital in Texas, requiring its employees to be vaccinated, is facing legal
challenges by those alleging infringement on their rights. Such a requirement
is not arbitrary, rather, quite reasonable to protect vulnerable patients, nor
do workers have a right to employment there. A local hospital where I once
worked as an on-call Spanish interpreter had vaccination requirements for us as
well as for regular staff.
ABC News/Washington Examiner,
Evidence mounts Wuhan lab studied live bats despite denials
If Covid, which has sickened and killed so
many around the world and created so much economic havoc, actually escaped from
a Wuhan lab, the Chinese government will do everything in its power to prevent
this from ever seeing the light of day.
Gun killings in the US are becoming an escalating epidemic. Many are
probably copycat crimes.
A man in NC, Charles Ray Finch, was found not to have committed the capital crime for which
he was almost executed and for which he served 41 years, another example of one
reason why many of us oppose the death penalty.
A South African Woman Claims She Gave Birth to a Record 10
Babies. Their ‘Dad’ Thinks It’s a Hoax. [He says
he’s never even seen the babies.]
Good news! See Amnesty Int’l Outcome UA 055/21 on prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero, a member of the San
Isidro Movement, who was released on 31 May 2021 without any charges
presented against him nor conditions for his release. At Amnesty, we will
continue to monitor his situation.
Cuba is developing Covid vaccines. A friend with close
access to Cuban information sources tells me: Cuba might transfer its vaccine technology with a licensing
fee to other countries. Iran, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, and Kenya have
expressed interest. The export and transferring of the technology of Cuban
vaccines will become an important source of foreign exchange for the island
during the second semester of 2021.
Dominico-Haitians Are
#StillStateless: The Plight of Dominicans
of Haitian Descent
Miami Herald, Four
Cubans land on Marathon beach, continuing migrant wave to Florida
Miami Herald, Haiti
already had a child hunger problem. Now COVID and gang clashes are making it
worse.
Looking out our windows on a recent evening, we saw a mother raccoon with 3 young ones, plus 2 males fighting, on an adjacent roof. They all scurry around between adjacent houses, thanks to a handy tree in between. The tree can be removed, but not while the raccoons might be marooned on a rooftop. They do provide an entertaining spectacle and the offspring might be considered cute if the whole bunch didn’t make us feel so trapped inside our own home. I still have not figured out the most effective, cost-effective, and humane way to tackle this problem, the first time it has arisen in the more than half-century I’ve lived in my venerable house. Last year, the dead maple tree provided a major logistical and financial challenge. This year’s big home owner’s problem comes from raccoons! With beady eyes staring out from their furry faces,
they almost seem to be mocking us.
Once again, while my modest book sales
on Amazon mainly enrich Amazon, a little extra goes to a small educational charity
for kids in developing countries selected by me and other authors.
Dear Barbara Joe,
This is the quarterly notification to
inform you that AmazonSmile
has made a charitable donation to the charity you’ve selected, Pencils
of Promise, in the amount of $54,854.98 as a result of
qualifying purchases made by customers who have selected this charity.
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