Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Something to Remember...

 

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  1. "There are two types of people one should never argue with: a wise person and a fool."

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  2. Lt.Col. Alex Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny, to be promoted to Col., despite negative reviews from the Trump Admin.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/15/yevgeny-vindman-promotion-post-trump-476038

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    1. "Both brothers were fired from the NSC a year ago by Trump, escorted out of the White House and sent back to the Pentagon."

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    2. I think Alex should be promoted retroactively.

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  3. VTcases: 17,047-16,992 = 55
    2531 active cases
    215 deaths(+1)
    Recovered 14,301(83.9%)
    Hospital:24(-5) ICU:3(0)
    Tests 342,688 (+2?)

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  4. Second coronavirus vaccination completed; took all of half an hour including the 15 minute observation period. No lines--doubtless because I took a folding stool and a book to read.

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    1. I didn't have time to verify the exact number, but I think they had eighteen or twenty vaccination stations going about as fast as they reasonably could.

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  5. OHIO; COVID cases 992,223 and 17,992 deaths.

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  6. March 16, 2021 at 6:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    “I’m perfectly willing to divide it equally between Republicans and Democrats, and so it will be up to them if they want it. If they don’t, we’ll just have it on the Democratic side. But I think enough of them would like to have it on both sides.”
    — Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as quoted by Bloomberg, on what will happen with earmarks if Republicans choose not to engage with the appropriations process.

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  7. PBS: U.S. report says Putin approved operations to help Trump against Biden [Click] “. . .no evidence that any foreign actor changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process."

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  8. Trump urges supporters to get coronavirus vaccine [Click] “Urges” seems rather too forceful a word, and his statement is typically garbled, but he seems to be sort of supporting vaccination.

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    1. Come now, Alan. I'm sure those are both lovely places. Lots of skiing.

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    2. As memory serves me, their foreign affairs are taken care of by their far larger neighbors. But mostly I was just trying to think of places where they couldn't do much harm.

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  10. President Joe Biden told ABC News that “he supports changing the Senate’s filibuster rule back to requiring senators talk on the floor to hold up a bill, the first time he has endorsed reforming the procedure the White House has for weeks insisted the president is opposed to eliminating.”

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