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We shall see. I am willing to give the benefit of a doubt for now.

Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification Acknowledging Joe Biden as president-elect, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been urging Senate Republicans not to voice objections when a joint session of Congress meets on January 6 to certify the Electoral College results. But Sen. Josh Hawley, a far-right Trump loyalist, has announced that he will contest the certification. With Biden's inauguration only three weeks away, President Donald Trump continues to make debunked claims that he was the victim of widespread voter fraud. The Electoral College certified the election results when it met on December 14, but Hawley, in his statement, said, "At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has so far failed to act." Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification - Alternet.org.................

Yup. sorry about that.

Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification Acknowledging Joe Biden as president-elect, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been urging Senate Republicans not to voice objections when a joint session of Congress meets on January 6 to certify the Electoral College results. But Sen. Josh Hawley, a far-right Trump loyalist, has announced that he will contest the certification. With Biden's inauguration only three weeks away, President Donald Trump continues to make debunked claims that he was the victim of widespread voter fraud. The Electoral College certified the election results when it met on December 14, but Hawley, in his statement, said, "At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has so far failed to act." Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification - Alternet.org

British Government Predicts Pandemic Will End in Spring as Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Approved Reuters/Paul Ellis The Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine won approval from British regulators Wednesday—a landmark moment that the U.K. government claims will see off the pandemic by the spring. Britain is the first nation in the world to approve the Oxford shot, which is cheaper and easier to store than other vaccines. The country has ordered 100 million doses, which, when combined with its store of Pfizer-BioNTech shots, will be enough to vaccinate the whole population. Interestingly, the approval came with a shift in Britain’s vaccine strategy—it’s now aiming to give as many people as possible their first shot, to provide some level of protection to more people, rather than focusing on giving the required double dose of the vaccine to a smaller number of extremely vulnerable people. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Wednesday: “We now know, with a very high degree of confidence, that we’re going to be out of this by the spring.” Read it at BBC News

Ah, a Mike Mercury fan.

Trump paid off his convicted flunkies with pardons but not one of those who testified against them- a clear message.

Nothing in reports so far have indicated that the variant is more virulent than the primary virus- just more easily transmittable. We need to hope and pray that no deadlier variants appear- there is evidence that one did appear in New Jersey, wiping out 5 of 6 members of one household, but it appears to have been contained.

Yoshi proves that you do not have to be a superstar in order to be loved by teammates and fans alike.

If you have established yourself as a bona fide star in any league, you get a lot more slack than if you are a rookie. BTW: the Cowpersons had a house of ill repute that management reserved for them post-game. And John Matuzak would reserve a hospital bed reserved every time he went out partying. Good times.

Listened to a minute or so to the interview- the guy has the intelligence of a house plant and was trying to sound remorseful. Fail on both counts.

It seems very possible that Trump is setting the stage for riots in DC when Pence fulfills his constitutional duty (which is both ceremonial and non-optional) and officially declares Biden the winner. From credible reports, Trump is toying with the idea that if/when the riots break out, he will use the excuse to follow Flynn's direction to declare martial law, have the army or para-military impound the voting machines and order another election under military supervision. THIS is the nuclear option which would be legally questionable at best. If you think this improbable, remember how Trump tried to order paratroopers to clear the street so he could have his pathetic photo-op holding a bible which he never read, upside down in front of a church he never visited. Apparently the commanding officer refused the order, so Trump's toadies ordered in paramilitary border and customs staff who had no training at all in this sort of thing.

No. no, no. It was right the first time.

The sad thing is that his thralls will believe this without question and fight to the death defending it. Who needs Soma?

IT GETS WORSE?? Scientists Reporting Rare Amount of Severe Psychosis in COVID-19 Patients Getty A small number of COVID-19 patients worldwide are experiencing severe psychotic symptoms, The New York Times reported on Monday. While COVID-19 has been linked to psychological effects, most notably “brain fog,” researchers have begun to publish papers on more severe cases of psychosis, even in patients with no prior history of mental illness. One paper, published by the NIH’s National Library of Medicine, describes a 52-year-old man who developed suicidal paranoia after contracting the virus. As with much of the lesser-known symptoms of the coronavirus, medical researches do not yet know much about what causes these effects.

Republicans made their own worst nightmare come true in the most lurid way imaginable Yeah, so remember the nonsense that proto-Trump nitwit Sarah Palin spewed about "death panels" back when the Affordable Care Act was being debated? Like most of what she said, it was too crazy to believe. I mean, seriously. Rationing lifesaving care in America? Pfft. Like that would ever happ … Oh, what fresh hell is this?

Funny but true. Trump has a maniacal talent for destruction but little else.

Great! We're almost down to double-digit new infections, but the test will come next week when the results of Christmas gatherings will appear.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Pack of GOPers Sue Mike Pence in Bid to Force VP to Pick Trump Electors on Jan. 6 REUTERS A group of Republicans including Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and Kelli Ward of Arizona is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Electoral College is scheduled to certify the win on Jan. 6, a procedural task overseen by the sitting vice president—in this case, Pence, who has not yet publicly acknowledged the fact that Trump lost his bid for a second term. In the lawsuit, details of which reporter John Kruzel of The Hill posted on Twitter, Gohmert, Ward, and 10 other plaintiffs such as Students for Trump COO Tyler Bowyer, Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Greg Safsten, and Maricopa County Republicans Second Vice Chair Nancy Cottle, are asking federal Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, to declare Pence legally authorized to pick pro-Trump electors on Jan. 6. Since Trump lost his November bid for a second term in the White House, certain members of the GOP have continued to stoke his delusion of having won by floating unlikely—and thus far, entirely unsuccessful—court challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Meanwhile, other Republicans have urged the president to gracefully accept defeat. On Monday, Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) retweeted news of the lawsuit against Pence with an exasperated, “This is NUTS.”

Here's how we know Trump isn’t serious about running in 2024 — he just want to 'burn down his party': conservative Although the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden is less than a month away, President Donald Trump hasn't publicly ruled out the possibility of running for president again in 2024. But conservative Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that the president's recent actions show that there will be no 2024 campaign in his future. "As if an attempted coup, insulting the 'totally incompetent and weak' Supreme Court — including three appointees who supposedly were his big gift to conservatives — and refusing even to comment on the COVID-19 surge did not make it clear, President Trump's recent actions should show he is not seriously contemplating another presidential run in 2024," Rubin writes in her column this week. "

When a Flat Earther Refused to Concede and All Hell Broke Loose: The forgotten saga of Zion, Illinois, is evidence that America’s political situation could still be a whole lot stupider. Nearly two months after the election, President Donald Trump still has not conceded his loss, even as members of his own party dismiss his voter fraud conspiracy theories. “You’re headed into the cliffs that guard the flat Earth at that time, brother,” Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman recently told Yahoo News, likening Trump’s claims to those of the flat-Earth movement. That is exactly where Trump is headed. While no modern president has refused to concede an election, his tactics are not without precedent in American politics. Along with an 1873 Texas governor who barricaded himself in office after losing re-election, Trump enjoys some remarkably fringe company—specifically, people who believe Earth is not an oblate spheroid, but a flat disc. In 1909, a notorious flat Earth preacher led a ballot-box putsch to maintain his stranglehold over an Illinois town. With declarations of “war,” two competing governments that claimed to be legitimate, and an armed siege between the two factions’ police chiefs at the county jail, the forgotten saga of Zion, Illinois, is evidence that America’s political situation could still be a whole lot stupider. (This is where Trump says" Hold my beer")

Astra Zeneca today stated that their vaccine is effective against the new variant.

Nashville Police Believe Man Responsible For Christmas Explosion Died In Blast Investigators linked Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, to human remains at the bomb site in downtown Nashville using DNA. Police believe no one else is involved. Officials in Nashville said that the man they believed set off a bomb in a recreational vehicle that shocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning died in the explosion. Don Cochran, a U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, identified Anthony Quinn Warner as the man who bombed the city on Friday. Warner was “present when the bomb went off, and then he perished,” Cochran said Sunday at a news conference. Investigators linked the 63-year-old Antioch, Tennessee, man to the blast using DNA. The FBI said it also matched the RV’s vehicle identification number to a registration belonging to Warner. (Apparently this had something to do with the AT&T building at the detonation sight)

Not quite tunnel vision. If you are looking to buy a car, you would go to where the greatest likelihood of finding a car. If that turned out to be a dead end, then you would probably look elsewhere.

It occurs to me that if governments wanted people to stay home, all they would have to do is pay the streaming services to offer their programming for free.