Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Blue Sky Day

 Today is Howard Dean's 73rd birthday. 






18 comments:

  1. https://digbysblog.net/2021/11/16/infowars-without-the-screaming/

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    1. Yes indeed, strong echoes of the rise of the fascists in the 1920's and 1930's. So far they haven't created a Blutfahne, and the original has not been recovered (it could well be among the mementos of a US soldier who was doing some liberating in Munich). If the original should be discovered, I sincerely hope it will promptly be destroyed.

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  2. Tom McTague: A worsening crisis in Northern Ireland carries far greater costs than simply domestic political fallout. [Click]

    In case you missed it yestere'en:
    Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves [Click] “About one in five health-care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.” Allow me to suggest that everyone read this. Granted that I have been retired since before the Covid pandemic, but there is so much described here that was part and parcel of medical work throughout the forty-odd years I spent at it.

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    1. Didn't get around to mentioning yesterday that my long-term primary care doctor was one of them. But at a guess he was probably in is early 60s, so it's not clear the pandemic had anything to do with it. He had stopped taking new patients a couple of years before.

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    2. I read it, despite it being incredibly long. It makes me so angry that the institution hasn't taken care of its own ~ even though that is exactly what nearly every institution does.

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    3. Also, I think the world needs to follow Austria's example and have a lockdown of the unvaccinated.

      Lockdown or Lockup ~ their choice.

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  3. 🎉 Happy Birthday, Howard Dean 🎂

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    1. Prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense.

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    2. Infuriating. And I know I would have felt this way back then, too.

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    3. Now that I have read the more extensive news report, I think the prosecutorial misconduct seems both clear and extensive. It wouldn't undo anything, but I hope New York is one of the states that pays compensation for wrongful imprisonment, and that it would be paid to surviving family members should the victim have passed away.

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  5. It’s Not the Other America. It’s Just America. [Click] Photographer Matt Black’s epic journey through the places that “don’t matter.”

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  6. Backlogged LA port struggles to implement 24/7 schedules: ‘We’ve had very few takers’ [Click] Examples are a very powerful way to gain cooperation. Howzabout Congress going on a 24/7 schedule to clear their backlog?

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