Monday, December 21, 2020

Looking West by Gaal Shepherd

Solstice begins at 
5:02am EST, 4:02am CST, 
3:02AM MST, 2:02am PST

Lovely to receive this from Vermont’s Representative, Peter Welch, and his wife Margaret.
 

26 comments:

  1. Well, things have changed.
    Because they didn't get Wil a Covid test, his procedure has been rescheduled to January 7th.

    🤯

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    1. But did they give you a date for the Covid test this time?

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    2. Nope. The doc’s office sends the order to the hospital and the hospital calls the patient with a day and time.

      But that’s moot now, because his doctor did something and the procedure is back on!! She says if they give him any grief at Registration to have them page her.

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    3. We are hugely relieved!!!

      At the same time, I gotta say, I feel like I’ve been in a battle, being pushed and pulled with great force back and forth.

      Wil told a friend that he might survive this but I might not. Ha!

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  2. OHIO; COVID cases 629,354 and 8,122 deaths.

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  3. 🌟UPDATE!🌟
    Wil’s procedure is back on!! His doctor did something...! Apparently she doesn’t want him to wait. Wheeewww!!
    Such relief here!!! 🤩

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    1. Pardon my warped sense of humor, but it occurred to me to wonder if the surgery might take place in the parking lot! I certainly hope not. . .

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    2. Technically it’s a procedure, not a surgery. But I read that respiratory procedures and surgeries REQUIRE a Covid test, while for heart cath it is highly recommended. I think his doctor simply had wiggle room.

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    1. There are several of her stories in English at Project Gutenberg. [Click]

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  5. Trump’s Enablers Will Meet Their Shakespearean Ends [Click] “The Bard had a rich sense of the creeps and criminals, sycophants and slimeballs, weirdos and wing nuts who hang around power.” My first thought was “Hmmmm . . poison, cold steel, madness but no hot lead. Works for me.”

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  6. Epidemiologist looks to the past to predict second post-pandemic 'roaring 20s' [Click] There might be something to this, but it strikes me as more nonsense than not. The 1920’s were hard times for many, there are many big differences between then and now, and no, I am not interested in attending athletic contests or nightclubs. Prohibition, gangsters, insane stock market behavior, Bolshivism and Weimarism also neither appeal nor seem likely. Politically, I suspect we might see something more like the late 1860’s in the US, and given the general disenchantment with established political parties in much of the world, a political realignment. That isn’t to say that there might not be a nugget or two in this essay.

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  7. “Officials have found a case of a dead person voting,” Business Insider reports. “Bruce Bartman has been charged with unlawful voting and perjury over allegations that he pretended to be his dead mother to cast a ballot in the November election for President Trump in Pennsylvania.”

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  8. No chance of seeing the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter here— 6PM and still pretty foggy.

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  9. Climate Change Legislation Included in Coronavirus Relief Deal [Click] “The legislation calls for cutting the use of powerful planet-warming chemicals common in air-conditioners and refrigerators.”

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    1. Some Republicans understand the concepts of job creation and supporting US industry.

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