Maine!
We are headed to Maine to visit family briefly. Probably the last time until next year, because of COVID and school being open. I sure hope they don't end up opening the schools, but it currently looks like they will.
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Currently waiting at MINI while my tires are switched from Winter to Summer. (On COVID-Time. LOL!)
ReplyDeleteSo I’m reading the news and got curious and read some more on potential VP picks. I still really like Susan Rice as having the experience needed. Check this out:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.biography.com/.amp/political-figure/susan-rice
My two favorites are Susan Rice and Karen Bass.
DeleteThere is speculation that Gov. Phil Scott will issue a mask mandate fir Vermont today. We’ll see.
ReplyDeleteWil said, “If he wants to get re-elected, he’d better!”
=YES!!!=
DeleteVermont now (finally) has a
mask mandate!
😷👍
(As of August 1st)
Vermont: 1385 cases (+8)
ReplyDelete56 deaths (0 x 38 days)
Now 156 active cases
Recovered 1177 (+21)
In Hospital = 3 (+1)
Tests 87,692 (+1110)
OHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 81,746 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,297 deaths, and 10,072 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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DeleteI'm late with the news links today (slept in, had to do some shopping, etc.), so here they are in groups of five links:
ReplyDeleteAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency—and rhetoric. [Click] That good, eh?
AJC article on John Lewis’s funeral and memorial services. Detailed. [Click]
Trump’s Lead with White Voters Has Nearly Vanished [Click] Well, there’s still time for more honkies to come to their senses. Not sure I would bet much more than a nickel nut bar on it, though.
Texas County Forced to Set Up ‘Death Panel’ [Click] It’s a reliably Democratic-voting county; I suppose the right wing whackadoodles will get their teeth into that.
Trump’s Most Important 2016 Donor Sits Out 2020 [Click] Not news, but it continues.
Coronavirus sinks GOP governors in hard-hit states [Click]
ReplyDeleteCook Political Report: Florida Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat [Click]
Workers Getting Laid Off as Relief Runs Out [Click]
The Legal War Against Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Census Power Grab Ramps Up [Click] In the photograph, Mr. Barr does not appear pleased; in fact, he looks decidedly unhappy. Mr. Ross somewhat less so.
Trump's free-speech legal folly has merely emboldened his critics [Click]
Florida hospitals stretched to capacity by acute coronavirus outbreak [Click] “Governor Ron DeSantis claims the situation is ‘stabilized’ but full ICU beds and overflowing emergency rooms tell a different story.” The cynic in me wonders if he figures more Democratic than Republican voters will die of the coronavirus.
ReplyDeleteTrump is using federal agents as his 'goon squad', says Ice's ex-acting head [Click] John Sandweg says the deployment of homeland security officials is a ‘manufactured crisis’ stemming from ‘a failure of leadership’
RNC Lied about Face Mask Purchases—called them “building maintenance in a federal filing” [Click]
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds Mark Kelly (D) leading Sen. Martha McSally (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 51% to 42%.
A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 40%.
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Maine finds Sarah Gideon (D) leading Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 42%.
“The surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population… 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world.” [Click] Good graph—or perhaps I should say “good grief.”
ReplyDeleteVaccine Reality Checks [Click]
Vanity Fair: New polling indicates that the [BLM] protests themselves changed America’s opinions about race so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump unknowingly planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood. [Click]
The ten US states with higher rates of new coronavirus infections than any country in the world are Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Idaho, and Tennessee.
DeleteIs that each of the ten states or the ten states together?
DeleteI wonder if Uncle Vlad will offer Trump political asylum.
ReplyDeleteCanada Got Better. The United States Got Trump. [Click] ”Two North American nations seemed to be on the same path—and then they diverged.”
ReplyDeleteTotal coronavirus deaths in California are about 600 fewer than in Canada, which is of comparable size.
DeleteDeaths in Fresno County now total 112, compared to 56 in Vermont, which has comparable although somewhat smaller population.
The Wired-Up Political Consultant Who Brought Down Ohio’s Speaker [Click] It’s probably a little too late to measure him for a set of concrete pajamas.
ReplyDelete‘PAW Patrol’ Fact-Checks Kayleigh McEnany After She Said Show Was Canceled. One Twitter user noted “we’re now at a point where Paw Patrol has to fact check the White House.” [Click] Ivy league graduate? I had to double-check that. Actually it was Georgetown (with interval at Oxford) and Harvard Law! (Unless she got online replacements for her “misplaced” diplomas, I suppose.)
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