I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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The irony of the ballyhoo about using convalescent serum is that it is already in use . Here in south central Texas, the blood banks have been asking (pleading??) for anyone who has recovered to please come in and donate serum. Don't think there are any peer reviewed reports yet but there have been several reports in our area of people who have taken a turn for the better after receiving convalescent serum.
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There aren't any peer-reviewed trials because the studies are all retrospective, with no placebo arms for comparison. And Il DuceBag is doubtless counting on his idiot base not to know that convalescent plasma has been an unofficial Hail Mary pass for months now--they probably aren't watching local TV news featuring doctors imploring COVID survivors to donate their plasma, which isn't a "thing" on InfoWars, Breitbart, Limbaugh, OANN, FAUXNoise, Daily Stormer, etc.
And now he's dissing ballot-drop boxes because (according to him) people can deposit duplicate ballots and "they're not COVID-sanitized." News flash: not even exterior door handles & revolving doors (including at many hospitals), nor traffic-light pushbuttons are "COVID-sanitized." (And ever notice that when people use a gallon-size communal pump bottle of sanitizer at the store, they press the pump with their unsanitized hands? (I use my forearm).
Scientists have discovered another dangerous side effect of oleandrin: it makes you wear an incongruously dainty crucifix dangling awkwardly over your buttoned collar while you hawk crummy pillows on TV and suck up to an orange blob.
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Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden,,,
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless.
Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you. -RachelNaomi Remen0 -
Pupmom
and I will say that is a hands down winner on # 3. I could give a care less about the others. Then again, I admit, I don't care much for sports. I do like good baseball but I'm fine about ( unaffordable ) watching on t.v. and not going to the stadiums to watch. I'm mainly fine with being far away from crowds anywhere most of the time. I have been so wishing that many of the restaurants that put dining tables outside might have left them there for those few of us that really enjoyed the experience -- and saying that it does seem that it is going to be a fair amt. of time before we can feel truly safe dining inside.We were going to our local Moose here and I was not in general too comfortable about it. Only good thing was such a small town here and we did seem to be "spared" for the most part. They had some sort of incident and closed to do a major dis-infect cycle. They are open again but we are not going. MY bil, the dyed in the wool Reps. goes along with another bil. They are not fazed and are willing to tempt fate. Likely it will not happen again, but the type of people that worry me a lot are those who don't seem as open to learning as they should be. I will admit they are widowers who don't cook -- but you could go in and buy the food and leave. If you stay in and take off your mask -- well, the risk becomes really real again.
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Pupmom: The answer is "C".
Trill: As far as you friend wishing for someone to "take care of her", how sad that she doesn't realize that "care" should begin within oneself as "self care". I bet she thinks she originated from Adam's rib? My Dad raised an independent woman in an age when this was not the norm. I can remember my aunt telling me that if I got a college degree, I would not be able to find a husband. Well, she was wrong on so many levels. I do feel for your friend that she has so little self-value but not enough that I could accept her voting for DJT. If she's not porn material worthy, he would have no interest in her or her welfare.
I liked the blue t-shirt with the message on the back because it says exactly what I feel about women who vote for Trump. I will not watch the RNC because I do not want to appear to be a supporter according to the TV roles. Would be interesting to see if he sticks to the scripts or goes off on his tangents. I am hoping for the latter which shows how unhinged he has become.
Kellianne leaving on such short notice because of her children? Not buying that. So one blonde bimbo down and one to go. The one who wears the crucifix and uses her forked tongue to spew his lies remains. She needs to go as well.
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Betrayal, January 20th is her date of departure, along with the orange clown she works for.
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Kellyanne Conway's 15 year old daughter has requested emancipation from both her parents, at least on Twitter. Don't know if she's actually put in a formal request. She despises both of her parents' politics, like most teenagers, but her Mother speaking at the RNC caused the teen, Claudia, to publicly denounce her.
That is a family in crisis. They should have done this years ago. But, for conservatives, money and ideology seems to trump decency and true family values every time.
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August 23, 2020
Aug 24
Trump is running far behind Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the polls. In early February 2020, at its best, his overall popularity rating hovered close to 50%. In the same month, according to a Gallup poll, 63% of Americans approved of the way he was handling the economy. To keep this economic success story going, Trump downplayed the coronavirus, leaving us wide open to its devastation. It hit the U.S. in earnest shortly after this poll was taken. The economy shut down, and we plummeted into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
But Trump is determined to be reelected, so determined that he has begun to suggest he will not accept a Biden victory as valid. There is room to speculate about why he is so obsessed with reelection that he took the unprecedented step of filing for reelection way back in January 2017, on the day of his inauguration. One possible answer is that campaign money can be used to pay for lawyers under certain circumstances. As of May, the campaign had spent more than $16 million on legal services—in comparison, George W. Bush spent $8.8 million; Barack Obama spent $5.5 million; and, in May, Biden had spent just $1.3 million. Another possible answer is that the Department of Justice maintains that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
To pull off a win Trump is trying to guarantee loyal Republican voters will show up to vote. To that end, he is favoring evangelical voters, his most loyal bloc. Last week's posthumous pardon for Susan B. Anthony was a gift to anti-abortion activists; yesterday Trump explicitly called the attention of evangelical Christians to his lie that "The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat National Convention." (They didn't. The Muslim caucus and the LGBTQ caucus, both of which met privately, left the words "under God" out. All the public, televised events used the words.)
This morning he was more abrupt. He tweeted: "Happy Sunday! We want GOD!" And then he went golfing.
He is also trying to consolidate power over Republican lawmakers, making the party his own. The Republican National Convention starts tomorrow night, and it seems it will be the Trump Show. The convention was initially supposed to be in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then Trump moved it to Jacksonville, Florida, when North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, would not guarantee he could have full capacity despite the coronavirus. Finally, in the wake of the under-attended Tulsa rally, Trump recognized that the convention would have to be virtual. But this has left planners scrambling to plan a convention in four weeks, when planning one usually takes a full year. No one seems quite sure what is going to happen.
It is traditional for a candidate to put in a short appearance to acknowledge the nomination and then give a keynote acceptance speech on the last day. But the RNC's announced line-up features Trump speaking every night in the prime-time slot. The speakers include the First Lady and all of the adult Trump children, including Tiffany, but do not include any of the previous Republican presidents or presidential nominees, which is unusual.
Trump will speak live from the White House. This raises legal questions because while the president and vice-president are not covered by the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities, the rest of the White House staff is. Further, it is against the law to coerce federal employees to conduct political activity.
Vice President Mike Pence will also speak from federal property—possibly Fort McHenry— the First Lady will speak from the newly renovated Rose Garden, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will apparently speak from Jerusalem while on an official trip to the Middle East, although secretaries of state generally do not speak at either political convention. Democrats have raised concerns about the overlap between official property and business and the Trump campaign.
The Republicans have written no platform to outline policies and goals for the future. Instead they passed a resolution saying that "the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda." The party appears now to be Trump's.
But….
The Republicans' next resolution calls on the media "to engage in accurate and unbiased reporting, especially as it relates to the strong support of the RNC for President Trump and his Administration." And a final resolution prohibited the Republicans from making any motions to write a new platform.
If you read that carefully, you see people trying to convince everyone that they are united, when they are, in fact, badly split.
Trump's extremism is alienating the voters that other Republican lawmakers need to stay in power, and those lawmakers are trying to keep their distance from him without antagonizing his base. Yesterday, in Portland, Oregon, the police refused to respond as neo-fascist Proud Boys and armed militia members staging a "Back the Blue" rally attacked Black Lives Matter protesters, who fought back. It is a truism in American history that violence costs a group political support, and militia groups are angry because Facebook has banned them, hurting their ability to recruit.
Today, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officers shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back multiple times in front of his children; the shooting was caught on video and has sparked outrage.
Tell-all books are also undermining the president. Yesterday, it came out that when researching her book, Mary Trump, the president's niece, recorded her aunt, Maryanne Trump Barry, Trump's sister, discussing Trump. "All he wants to do is appeal to his base," Barry said. "He has no principles. None. None." "Donald is cruel," she said, "he was a brat." A new book by CNN reporter Brian Stelter shows how Trump simply echoes the personalities at the Fox News Channel. And former Trump fixer Michael Cohen is about to release his own book about his years working for Trump.
Trump also took a personal hit tonight, when advisor Kellyanne Conway announced she was leaving the White House. Both she and her husband, George Conway, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, are stepping away from the public eye to deal with family issues exacerbated by the political drama of the past several years.
And the Russia story, revived by the fifth volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian connections to the 2016 Trump campaign, is not going away. Tonight, the Daily Beast reported that Jared Kushner—who after, all, could not get a security clearance until Trump overruled authorities-- has been using a secret back channel to communicate with a Putin representative. According to the story, Steve Bannon, who was arrested on Friday by the acting U.S. Attorney at the Southern District of New York and so now has an excellent reason to flip, knew all about it.
This afternoon, Trump tried to change the news trend when he called a press conference to announce what he called a "safe and effective treatment" for Covid-19. The FDA has approved an Emergency Use Authorization for convalescent plasma, a treatment involving giving anti-body rich plasma from those who have had the virus to those ill with it. Studies show that the treatment has some potential, but there has been little scientific study of it, and it is certainly not established as an effective treatment. Federal health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have objected to the EUA until there is more information; Trump has accused the doctors of delaying approval for political reasons. He walked out of the press conference after a reporter asked about the discrepancy between his triumphant announcement of a treatment and a doctor's explanation that plasma has potential.
So the best option for the president to win in 2020 might be to keep Biden supporters from voting. Yesterday, the House passed a bill committing $25 billion to the United States Postal Service and to stop Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from making more changes that are delaying the delivery of the mail. Today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refused to take up the bill.
But Americans have figured out that they can avoid using the slowed USPS by turning to Ballot Drop Boxes. So today, Trump tweeted that "Mail Drop Boxes… are a voter security disaster," that are "not Covid sanitized."
Twitter slapped a warning on it: "This tweet violated the Twitter rules about civic and election integrity."
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Yes, the Conways should have been looking out better for their children for some time. Look what it took for Claudia to get some actual real attention from her parents. I think Kellie Ann's role in ushering Trump into winning went to her head and she wasn't going to stop for anything. She really did manage to hang on but she appeared less and less. I think too strident defense made her vulnerable. Early on she started with her " alternate " facts, and it n3ever got better. She made herself the fool on Trump's behalf, but in the end -- both are despicable, un-wanted and I hope never get another political gig.
Likely ( I have some things come up very recently ) which will make it hard to watch the RNC even if I wanted which I don't so I'll likely only get the recaps later on. I won't mind. I think trump is over-exposing himself, being in the middle of thigs all four days. That is just how fearful and how much he thinks only he can GET it right. I think in many cases he will do himself in. I can't see anything good in his speakers who will all lie as much as he does. note: Mark Meadows should be ashamed but won't be for his lying role. What they will do in the end who knows, but he has a fair amt. of Reps. going against him -- not enough, but more than I would have thought. Sigh !!! It will be a long 4 days.
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I have no idea if this is true. But I do know lately Trump has had some people fighting back over his using their music w/o their permission.
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A snippet from the JH newsletter about CP thingy.....
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Betrayal--My friend is beyond porn star age so DT would sniff and walk by her......I dunno....she baffles me, totally......can't figure her out in this regard......
I like your dad!
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Re: YMCA song info from Wikipedia:
Taken at face value, the song's lyrics extol the virtues of the Young Men's Christian Association. However, in the gay culture from which the Village People stemmed, the song was implicitly understood as celebrating YMCA's reputation as a popular cruising and hookup spot, particularly for the younger men to whom it was addressed.[14] The initial goal of Village People producers Morali and Belolo was to attract disco's gay audience by featuring popular gay fantasy in their music.[15] Although co-creator Morali was gay and the group was initially intended to target gay men, the group became more popular and more mainstream over time.[16]
Conversely, Willis had said that he wrote the song in Vancouver, British Columbia[17] and, through his publicist, that he did not write "Y.M.C.A." as a gay anthem,[18] but rather as a reflection of the fun activities that young urban black youth experienced at YMCA, such as basketball and swimming. However, Willis has often acknowledged his fondness for double entendre.[19][20]
So, I hope he decides to use it since they are not included in his base because he considers them "undesirables" and tried to remove their rights to healthcare.
Trill: I think anyone over 30 (including Melania) is now beyond his porn star age group (but once she was a member). Be curious to see when he loses, who dumps whom in that relationship. Do his death benefits truly benefit her?
My dad and I shared a birthdate, which just recently passed. I was his "princess" but that did not mean I was privileged. He died in 2009 and I miss him every day. Always kidded I was his first and most expensive birthday present (with the caveat I was also the favorite) which was great because my mother never felt the same way. So he was my harbor.
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Now, this looks interesting...
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Betrayal, you were so lucky to have him and he, you. Am sure you miss him dearly....I miss both of mine, too....such special relationships.....
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Well, I am settling in with my wine to watch the RNC. I feel better that Trump has already spoken, so it is just the other losers. I firmly believe this convention will be short on heart warming andlong on hate speak. If it gets really bad, I do have a good book to read!
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I'm watching the Minnesota Twins baseball game.
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I'm watching paint dry. It's a lot more exciting, with th extra added bonus of no hate.
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I visited a friend and just got home about 8:50. Turned on the telly but they were still doing convention so I quick turned on HGTV and will try again after a while. I didn't check ( since I wasn't planning to watch much anyway ) the times. Sounds like just exactly like DNC hours. So, I'll just keep checking. Lots of things going on with DeJoy and his testimony today. He has been threatened with a subpoena already. Apparently he too wants to play hard ball like most of the Trump people. He was asked for some paperwork that he didn't wish to produce.
Not in such friendly territory in the House as he was in the Senate. He caved and admitted he knew nothing about the post office and so you know, the circus continues. Was busy cooking this afternoon so no watching. In fact, didn't totally expect it but I was busy most of the day. So, this evening ( after convention is done ) will be ( save for morning coffee ) the first long time period I will have had to sit down and view some news. I hope to get in on the time period when Rachel, Nicole, and I think is it Michael Steele give a run-down on how things went. Good recaps. I'm likely not much interested in seeing anything else.
It's been a long day for me. I'll be glad to sit back in a bit and see what goes.
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I don't feel like being angry and nauseous so I don't watch anything to do with rump. Not even ads. I'm still scared he'll win by cheating..
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haha! The chair are the brains of the attendees, brainless.
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