Monday, November 16, 2020
More silencing by tech firms
Now it is Mailchimp censoring Conservatives. Try to Substack. https://substack.com/ A lot of journalists who have been silenced are starting their own newsletters. If you use Mail Chimp, back up your e-mail list every day, or you might not get it back. I'd never heard of Substack until yesterday when Glenn Greenwald who'd lost his own publication for investigating the Biden Crime family (my term, not his) noted he was using it to get his information out. Then Dana mentioned it on her radio show today. Substack operates a platform for creating paid and free subscription newsletters. The company makes it simple for a writer to start a paid newsletter. Its publishing tools allow writers to publish to an email list and website simultaneously, and to accept and manage payments from subscribers.
Generation Z is conservative
Generation Z (born 1997 and after) is more conservative than the Millennials, and have had strong support for Trump.
- A 2016 American study found that while only 18% of Millennials attended church, church attendance was 41% among Generation Z.
- Polls found eight out of ten members of Gen Z considered themselves “fiscally conservative.”
- In certain areas, Generation Z is more risk-averse than the Millennials. In 2013, 66% of teenagers had tried alcohol, down from 82% in 1991.
I heard a lovely young lady on The First TV News channel this afternoon. Quite informative. Also, if you're a conservative, you like this channel. Sunday it was featuring an expose of Black Lives Matter. The First is dedicated to free speech, bold opinions, and big ideas. Americans who are tired of being marginalized and are ready to speak up should check it out. https://pluto.tv/live-tv/the-first Hosts include Bill O'Reilly, Dana Loesch, Buck Sexton, Jesse Kelly, Mike Slater, and a many top contributors. The First currently offers eight hours of original programming daily and is part of the OTT (Over The Top) platform Pluto TV — a free internet-based streaming television site.
Madison Cawthorn, who recently won a congressional seat in North Carolina just turned 25, and is the youngest member of Congress in over 200 years.
Do churches know this? Are they bleeding young people? Maybe they should pay attention and stop trying to be so "woke."
Violence against pro-Trump supporters in DC
There was a huge rally for President Trump on Saturday. I’ve seen the photos—it was definitely more than 10,000 which was reported by the Wall St. Journal. Tens of thousands. They came from all over the country. I know a few people who went, so I’ll ask them. The reports were it was peaceful until after the rally when “counter-protestors” Here’s how Buzzfeed (leftist online media) describes Antifa. “Antifa, short for anti-fascist, is a decentralized movement that protests against the far-right, with some occasionally resorting to violence.” Yes, tell that one to all the people in Minneapolis, Kenosha, Portland, etc. whose businesses and city buildings were burned, looted or destroyed in “occasional violence” during the summer of 2020. Those silly Biden supporters who think now everything is going to calm down need to see some of the attacks on children and restaurant diners.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/lawmakers-condemn-violence-in-dc-call-on-trump-to-act_3579624.html
Saturday, November 14, 2020
GARRISON KEILLOR ON "METHODISTS"
We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed, and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese.
But nobody sings like them. If you were to ask an audience in New York City, a relatively Methodist-less place, to sing along on the chorus of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," they will look daggers at you as if you had asked them to strip to their underwear. But if you do this among Methodists, they'd smile and row that boat ashore and up on the beach! And down the road!
Many Methodists are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony, a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person's rib cage.
It's natural for Methodists to sing in harmony. They are too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you're singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it's an emotionally fulfilling moment. By joining in harmony, they somehow promise that they will not forsake each other.
I do believe this: People, these Methodists, who love to sing in four-part harmony are the sort of people you can call up when you're in deep distress.
*If you're dying, they will comfort you.
*If you are lonely, they'll talk to you.
*And if you are hungry, they'll give you tuna salad.
*Methodists believe in prayer, but would practically die if asked to pray out loud.
*Methodists like to sing, except when confronted with a new hymn or a hymn with more than four stanzas.
*Methodists believe their pastors will visit them in the hospital, even if they don't notify them that they are there.
*Methodists usually follow the official liturgy and will feel it is their way of suffering for their sins.
*Methodists believe in miracles and even expect miracles, especially during their stewardship visitation programs or when passing the plate.
*Methodists think that the Bible forbids them from crossing the aisle while passing the peace.
*Methodists drink coffee as if it were the Third Sacrament.
*Methodists feel guilty for not staying to clean up after their own wedding reception in the Fellowship Hall.
*Methodists are willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at the church.
*Methodists still serve Jell-O in the proper liturgical color of the season and think that peas in a tuna casserole adds too much color.
*Methodists believe that it is OK to poke fun at themselves and never take themselves too seriously.
And finally, You know you are a Methodist when:
It's 100 degrees, with 90% humidity, and you still have coffee after the service.
You hear something funny during the sermon and smile as loudly as you can.
Donuts are a line item in the church budget, just like coffee.
When you watch a Star Wars movie and they say, "May the Force be with you," you respond, "and also with you."
And lastly, it takes ten minutes to say good-bye!
Friday, November 13, 2020
That explains a lot—church attendance restrictions, Pew survey
59% of Democrats who attended church this past summer either in person or on-line heard sermons about supporting Black Lives Matter. 29% of Republicans who attended church this past summer either in person or on-line heard sermons about supporting Black Lives Matter. But did either group of Christians hear the truth about BLM, its mission statement, and its role in the destruction of liberty and property in Democrat run cities this past summer? Were they told that the three women who founded it are radical Marxist lesbians who don’t believe in private property or the nuclear family?
Only 42% of Republicans who attended church this past summer either in person or on-line heard sermons in support of abortion, and only 28% of Democrats hear a similar sermon. And yet, about 1/3 of the abortions in the U.S. are for black women. Who is the smallest and weakest and most needy among us? Certainly not the adults rioting and looting on behalf of the mission of BLM—American blacks are the top 5% in wealth of the global population of blacks, most of whom live in Africa.
The headlines in this Pew article are very misleading. About 42% of Americans never attend church, so when the story about accepting the rules imposed on churches includes “Americans” one needs to read the entire article. No, the majority of church goers were NOT OK with the restrictions, some of which were far more restrictive than other gatherings.
Actual numbers are not given in the Pew study, however, even in a 2015 Caddell poll, 46% of Democrats never attended church and 24% of Republicans never attended. And when separated by ideology, only 18% of liberals said they regularly attend church and 62% said they never go. For conservatives, 41% regularly attend and 34% never go.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Purging again--old photos
It was not my intention to look through old photos. Old framed photos. Old, dusty and moldy framed photos with glass that had to be washed. I was collecting Christmas dishes to go to the resale shop and opened a box. There they were.
After I got the Christmas boxes moved we (Bob had to help me move things) also found two big storage boxes of memorabilia from trips; but that will be another blog.
In the middle of the night it came to me. I'd remove all the portraits from the frames and donate the frames. After a very long nap today that left me too groggy to tackle this job, I first found an album that had no photos in it, and the open slip was at the top of the pages so it would take large photos. So I took it to the basement and began removing the photos from the frames, wiping and washing as I went. Things were going well until I came across a church directory photo of my parents, about 5 x 7 and somewhat faded, and a very unattractive hair style for my mom. When I turned it over to remove the backing I discovered it had been glued. I had to get several tools to separate the backing from the wood frame, which had glued brown paper under it. When I finally got that separated from the wood, I discovered that the photo had been nailed in! Yes, 10 thin nails about 1/2 inch then pressed against the photo. In a thousand years, this 45 year old photo wasn't going anywhere. Obviously, this had been done by the directory company. Without breaking the glass, there was no way to remove the photo. So, I've scanned it and will have to throw away the photo. The frame is raised, so I couldn't close the lid of the scanner making the image fuzzy. It's painful to throw away photos, and I still have boxes to go. I've labeled it 1973, however, until I find the church directory, I won't know for sure.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
What President Trump didn’t do, Mark Levin
"President Trump didn’t use the IRS and FBI against his political opponents like at least 4 of his predecessors.
He didn’t use the Oval Office to have sex with interns like at least 2 of his predecessors.
He didn’t lie to the American people about something as horrific as the Holocaust like 1 of his predecessors.
He didn’t lock up journalists or shutdown newspapers like at least 3 of his predecessors.
He didn’t round up 120,000 Japanese Americans and send them to internment camps like 1 of his predecessors.
He didn’t resegregate the military and civil service like 1 of his predecessors.
He didn’t try to expand and pack the Supreme Court like 1 of his predecessors.
He didn’t suspend habeas corpus like 1 of his predecessors.
He didn’t use his office to enrich himself like several of his predecessors.
And so on. Indeed, President Trump was a victim of abuse by the Obama administration in the worst scandal in our history, subjected to a bogus criminal investigation and impeachment, and hounded by a dishonest media from day one."
And I'll just add to Levin's comments that President Trump isn't guilty of participating in what leftists call "systemic racism" like all his predecessors including Obama-Biden--in fact, he openly supported the advancement of all minorities, especially economically. He also didn't try to take over 1/5 of the economy like his immediate predecessor and force Americans to buy a product or go to jail.
Conservative news, journalism, opinion, talk shows H–M
Sean Hannity, Fox News host opinion show, radio talk show https://www.hannity.com
Victor Davis Hanson, columnist, professor, farmer http://www.victorhanson.com
Daniel Henninger, conservative commentator, deputy editorial page director of The Wall Street Journal, Fox News contributor. https://www.wsj.com/news/author/daniel-henninger
Hugh Hewitt, radio talk show host, attorney, academic https://www.hughhewitt.com
Jim Hoft, conservative news, https://www.thegatewaypundit.com
David Horowitz, conservative writer, founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's publication, FrontPage Magazine;
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, commentator, https://www.mikehuckabee.com newsletter
Laura Ingraham, radio talk show host, book author, political commentator https://lauraingraham.com/
Andrew Klavan, conservative commentator, novelist https://www.andrewklavan.com
Mark Levin, conservative commentator, radio, TV https://www.marklevinshow.com/
Dana Loesch, talk radio host, television host. Big 2A fan https://danaloesch.com https://www.youtube.com/user/thedanashow/featured
Rush Limbaugh, most famous radio talk show, conservative, children’s book author, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/
Heather MacDonald: political commentator, journalist City Journal, author War on Cops various videos as speaker for conservative groups
Michelle Malkin: political commentator, blogger, author 4 books, weekly syndicated column.
Michael Medved radio talk show, conservative, author of several books, pop culture http://www.michaelmedved.com/
Eric Metaxas, Christian, biographer, radio talk host http://ericmetaxas.com
Dennis Miller radio podcast, conservative commentator, humorist https://tunein.com/radio/The-Dennis-Miller-Show-p123379/
Dick Morris pollster, commentator, author, https://www.dickmorris.com
Charles Murray, author, lecturer political, scientist, various sites as speaker,
Links A - G of conservative links http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2020/11/conservative-news-journalism-opinion.html
Contact the Supreme Court
“I am very concerned about how this election was handled especially on November 4 and later with mail in votes and found ballots all for Biden. There has been a lot of fraud, and each charge needs to be investigated. Using Covid as an excuse for mail in should not be permission to cheat. I am a supporter of President Trump and Vice President Pence. Our election system has become a disgrace and embarrassment.”
Monday, November 09, 2020
Is the vaccine ready?
Good news on the vaccine—Pfizer --and the markets are responding. Although I wouldn't be surprised if some powerful Democrat CEO in the company didn't arrange for the news to come out after the election (yes, a conspiracy theory that is completely understandable). It's easier than digging up dead voters. Democrats don't care about life issues, so yes, even if they killed more people. This is Trump's legacy--cutting through the red tape and getting some reform in fusty musty departments buried in the muck of the deep swamp.
First priority will be medical staff. I've heard that the elderly are second, but I think it should be those people--gen-x and millennials--who are going back to work. Let's keep them healthy or Biden, if his crazy count wins, will lock us all in to die alone.
Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech on Monday said their experimental vaccine has proven more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data from a large study. Nigeria PM News
Saturday, November 07, 2020
Conservative news, journalism, opinion, talk shows A - G
America’s Voice News 24/7 digital entertainment and news network, focusing on Conservative family values. https://americasvoice.news/
Sharyl Attkinsson: Investigative Journalist. "Full Measure." https://sharylattkisson.com/
Fred Barnes: executive editor of The Weekly Standard https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/fred-barnes
Glenn Beck: politics, author, producer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur https://www.glennbeck.com/
Bill Bennett: pundit, politician, political theorist, author http://thebillbennettshow.com/
Brent Bozell: Founder, President Media Research Center; columnist, TV commentator https://www.newsbusters.org/people-and-organizations/brent-bozell
Breitbart News https://www.breitbart.com/
Tammy Bruce: nationally syndicated radio host, author, and political commentator. Lesbian. https://tammybruce.com/
Tucker Carlson Fox News Opinion show host, conservative journalist, political commentator https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight
Ann Coulter: Lawyer, author, columnist, frequent TV guest https://anncoulter.com/
Steven Crowder: American-Canadian conservative political commentator, YouTube channel and podcast https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/
Dinesh D'Souza, Indian American conservative, speaker, author, film https://www.dineshdsouza.com/
Larry Elder, black conservative talk show host, https://larryelder.com/
Richard Fernandez, Filipino-Australian, conservative columnist, https://pjmedia.com/columnist/richard-fernandez/
John Fund, senior editor at The American Spectator, National Review, https://www.nationalreview.com/author/john-fund/
Mike Gallagher, conservative radio talk host, https://mikeonline.com/
Pamela Gellar: Commentator, Activist Counter-jihad movement https://gellerreport.com/
Jonah Goldberg, syndicated columnist, author, political analyst, and commentator. The founding editor of National Review Online https://jonahgoldberg.com
Sebastian Gorka, British Hungarian immigrant, conservative talk show host, https://www.sebgorka.com
Greg Gutfield, Fox talker, comedian, author https://ggutfeld.com/
How accurate are Covid PCR tests?
"So, even if the test has a very high specificity of 99%, when the virus stops being present at pandemic levels in the population and starts to decrease to more endemic levels, you quickly get to a point where most positive results are false positives, and where the disease seems to be much more prevalent than it really is.
As you can see, the less prevalent the disease is in reality, the more likely the test is to generate a false positive result, and the less useful the test is as a method for figuring out who actually has covid. And the less prevalent the disease is, the more prevalent it will seem to be in relation to reality. If decisions about covid continue to be made largely based on what PCR tests show, we might never be able to call off the pandemic!" https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/06/how-accurate-are-the-covid-tests/
Friday, November 06, 2020
President Trump earns minority vote
"I heard yesterday that all the new Republican congress people are women, minorities, or veterans. Damn those racist sexist Republicans." Anna Loska Meenan
President Donald Trump got 26% of nonwhite voters, highest of any Republican presidential candidate in 60 years, while also doubling his support from voters in the LGBTQ community from 2016. He is breaking the strangle hold of victimhood lies and offerings of more government programs. He's opened the gates and let the prisoners of dependency free. Republicans had been the party of freedom for blacks and minorities until LBJ and the so-called "War on Poverty" and loading up the cities with black politicians he and future Democrats could control. No, it wasn't slavery, but neither was it freedom. Trump came along, pointed out the corruption and offered a path to real freedom. The summer riots showed he was winning that battle and had to be stopped.
Early Covid tests failure rate 33%
So how does the blame game work? If Trump was at fault for hospitals not being prepared, is it also his fault if CDC failed on the tests?
“On Feb. 6, a scientist in a small infectious disease lab on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Atlanta was putting a coronavirus test kit through its final paces. The lab designed and built the diagnostic test in record time, and the little vials that contained necessary reagents to identify the virus were boxed up and ready to go. But NPR has learned the results of that final quality control test suggested something troubling — it said the kit could fail 33% of the time.” Read the story: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678/cdc-report-officials-knew-coronavirus-test-was-flawed-but-released-it-anyway
The fact that NPR would publish this failure of CDC and it’s been so critical of everything Trump indicates to me that this will be recorded as a Trump failure.
10 axioms about the voter count
We all know Joe Biden won the popular vote November 3, 2020, and there are axioms (self-evident truths) we can learn from this.
1. Trump will end up with over 70,000,000 votes. Seventy million. These are American citizens who have been insulted, demeaned, called every name in the book, had their homes vandalized, their careers ruined, losing friends and family, and yet remained loyal and convinced he was the best president in their life times. These are not citizens duped by foreign powers, these are not citizens bought by powerful PACs and backroom deals. These are not citizens represented by the rich and famous of Hollywood.
2. The citizens who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 have completely flipped the party labels. The blue collar and less well-educated are now the Republicans. Republicans now represent the little guy being ground down by the oligarchs and big money of the new age of technology. Trump is a wealthy man, but he can't hold up against the onslaught of the money that was pouring in to defeat the down ticket candidates in the South and Southwest.
3. Trump's presidency revealed how badly divided the country is--he didn't divide it--Obama made it worse, but it was a long time coming even before him. I was in academe until 2000, and all the seeds were sprouting. President Trump revealed the coalition of hate and bigotry from members of his own party, mega-wealthy entertainers, smug over rated athletes, Big-Tech CEOs and their overpaid, overeducated workers, narrow specialty medical and science researchers, cancel culture academics, and puffed up pastors.
4. President Trump turned out to be the strongest pro-life president and that issue like none other revealed the moral bankruptcy of both parties. Whereas the Democrats were more revealing about their open animosity for the unborn, their blood lust and glee for letting little ones die dismembered with no medical care, the Republicans really didn't put up much of a fight, leaving it to non-profits and Christian groups to charge the armed bunkers of the abortionists.
5. President Trump has burst open the bubble of what Democrats are about. They have been taken over by the far left, the worst element in our country. Defund the police. Teach hate about our history in schools. Shout down any opposing view. Drag people in to court for exercising their first and second amendment rights. Divide and conquer by creating victim groups rather than supporting wealth creation through work and investment. Make everything about sex and skin rather than empowering the working class to move up and out. Lock the doors on the low income with ever expanding government programs to hang on to their vote.
6. President Trump has embarrassed and shamed the Republicans in power by revealing he could accomplish many of the goals they set for years, yet never fought for. Democrats won the House in 2018 because Republicans retired, dropped out, or threw in the towel. They limped away and joined non-profits and think tanks waiting to return to power. He's exposed their naked inadequacies. He openly ridiculed them by doing what they could only whine about. Making us independent of the Middle East oil cartels, cutting funds for Planned Parenthood and at least attempting to stop the tax drain to "sanctuary cities," plugging the holes at the border for drug pushers and sex trafficking, negotiating better trade deals and forcing European "allies" to grow a pair and stand up to the EU.
7. Trump has awakened blacks to just how badly they've been used by Democrats. In the late 19th century up to the 1960s, the Republicans were the party working for the African Americans. Democrats were the party of the KKK and Jim Crow. Johnson stole that image in the 1960s and locked down the black vote with the "War on Poverty" and over the years black politicians have been rewarded with the keys to some of our largest cities. Trying to be "nice" and bi-partisan, the Republicans went along to get along. Trump comes along and looks at the trillions spent and minorities still struggling to latch on to the American dream. "What have you got to lose?" he asked blacks who were NOT in power. He was winning, too, with low unemployment, prison reform, asking for solutions rather than telling them. How embarrassing for both parties that an outsider with no political palm greasing could get things done just by asking the people who mattered to help him.
8. A 70 million vote for Trump further reveals the terrible divisions in the Christian church. We now see Evangelicals aligning with the Main Line Protestant denominations and the Catholics having more in common with the Fundamentalists, Pentecostals and Independents in the the fight to care of the weakest (the unborn and the elderly) and fighting to hold on to the meaning of a godly marriage and sexuality. Suburban Christians (both black and white) who had been quite comfortable in their chosen enclaves suddenly found themselves after the Memorial day riots accused of systemic racism and microaggression, embarrassed to fly the American flag and fearful of a Trump sign in their yards. Even if Trump had won with a clear majority of popular and electoral votes, only God will be able to restore health to his church.
9. 70,000,000 voters did not believe the constant barrage from Democrats, media, non-profits, and even their own churches that somehow a worldwide pandemic which originated in China was the fault of the American president. With hundreds of cultures, languages, demographic variables, conflicting science, and mixed messages from the White House Task Force, 70,000,000 still believe that the federal government doesn't have the Constitutional right to lock us in our homes, close our churches and libraries, destroy our businesses and live in fear. And that may be a problem for Joe Biden who has used this tragedy as an excuse to hide in his basement and has promised us nationwide mandates.
10. 70,000,000 citizens are not enough to hold back the tsunami of socialism/Communism that is sweeping over the country. And we have 75,000,000 willing to throw aside our freedoms and elect a man with close ties to Communist China.
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Fraud, miscounts, missing ballots appearing, election interference
We are witnessing the greatest scandal in American history. Voter fraud everywhere.
*Fairfax Virginia has switched 100,000 votes from Trump to Biden stating a “clerical error”
*Wisconsin suddenly discovers over 112k Biden ballots between 3:30 am and 4:30 am
*Wisconsin magically now has more votes than registered voters
*Nevada has decided they won’t have all vote counts in until Thursday
*Michigan has gained 138.339 ballots for Biden since they stopped counting last night. A whopping zero for Trump
*6 states Trump has sizable leads, all six states decided to stop counting ballots on election night (unheard of) and they all have blue strong holds
*Jack from Twitter deletes the current sitting president’s tweet on election night. Glaringly obvious election interference
*LeeJoe, who was running for district 16 Senate seat in Idaho and stated so on his account profile, gets his account deleted from Facebook not once but twice. Another example of a glaringly obvious election interference.
*North Carolina has 100% of precincts counted with Trump in the clear lead and it’s not being called.
Yeah something is rotten in the country of USA!!!
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Note: I’m not familiar with this site, but have heard some of these reports on the radio, so am going with this. I’ll remove if it’s inaccurate.
Cultural differences and Covid cases
I was browsing an NIH study on Covid in Boston which reported that most people hospitalized with it would recover. Good news, right? Well, there's a racial disparity. Covid19 disproportionately affects people of color, and the researchers found a large number of their patients were Hispanic (30 percent) or Black (10 percent). Well, that didn't look very alarming to me, and I'm not a demographer. So I took a quick look at the population of Boston. Now, some ZIP codes are 60-70% minority, but overall, the population is 28.2% black and either 17.5 or 19.7% Hispanic depending on the source. If viruses cared about equity, there would be more blacks and fewer Hispanics in Boston with Covid.
Because "Hispanic" is a made up term, people in that demographic are not a racial group, but black or white or multiracial people who either speak Spanish, or whose parents did. So checking further, I did find an article that seems to indicate black Hispanics do more poorly than white Hispanics, and overall, Hispanics use more intensive care and support than other groups. When the data diving has finally used up all the grant money, I think researchers will find a cultural element to these infection numbers. We have been warned about keeping our distance from the beginning of this viral spread, and if you have any experience outside your own neighborhood, you know that personal space differs widely among cultures. People of Latin American and Southern European countries require less personal space according to research, and Asians are comfortable with more distance and will start backing up if you get too close. Europeans (including the majority of white Americans), Asian Indians and Native Americans prefer something in the middle. So think about how viruses spread. Close up and personal. Little tiny virus particles clinging to bits of droplets expelled when breathing, talking or singing.
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
The Second Stimulus bill to fight the virus
Have you looked at the 2nd stimulus bill?https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html... If the funds went to the people, we'd each get about $6,000 ($2 Trillion divided by the population), but it won't be distributed that way. There are too many pay backs to be made. A politician has to raise money, after all. I've traveled on Amtrak and $526,000,000 won't be enough to save it.
$100,000,000 to NASA, page 17
$200,000,000 for salaries and expenses at Federal Communications Commission, pg 43
$20,000,000,000 to the USPS, page 53
$300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts, page 77
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities, page 77
$15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training, page 84
$435,000,000 for mental health support, page 92
$30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund, page 110
$200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program, page 117
$300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting, page 125
$500,000,000 to Institute of Museums and Libraries Services, page 126
$210 million for Social Security assistance payments, page 127
$510 million for Social Security administrative costs, page 127
$25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building, page 136
$7,500,000 to the Smithsonian Institution, page 75
$35,000,000 to the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, page 76
$25,000,000 for additional salary for House of Representatives, page 134
$3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the VA
$315,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs, page 146
$95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development, page 146
$300,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance, page 147
$300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg 147
$90,000,000 for the Peace Corp pg 148
$13,000,000 to Howard University pg 121
9,000,000 Misc Senate Expenses pg 134
$100,000,000 to Essential Air carriers
$40,000,000,000 goes to the Take Responsibility to Workers and Families Act. This sounds like it’s direct payments for workers. Pg 164
$1,000,000,000 Airlines Recycle and Save Program pg 163
$25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg 165
$526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak
$13,000,000 to Howard University pg 121
$25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg 169
$492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg 167
$3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg 172
$5,000,000 Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General pg 172
$2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg 175
$5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg 175
$2,500,000 Office of Housing
$1,500,000,000 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Office of Public and Indian Housing, $1 million of which can be used as “additional administrative and other expenses”. pg 176
$720,000,000 to the public housing fund pg 177
$100,000,000 for Community Block Grants for Native Americans pg 183
$250,000,000 for Housing Block Grants for Tribes pg 182
$130,000,000 for AIDS Housing pg 185
$15,000,000,000 for the Community Development Fund pg 188
$5,000,000,000 in Homeless Assistance pg 193
$100,000,000,000 for Rental Assistance – pg 198
$7,000,000 to enforce the Fair Housing Act – pg 203
Paid Family Leave for Sickness is 2 paid work weeks pg 213
Emergency Family Leave now applies to all employers, not just companies over 500 employees pg 208
Guarantees paid leave to employees who have an in-law who gets sick pg 209
$1,000,000,000 for more Obamaphones
How Sweden did it. Dr. Sebastian Rushworth
"The Swedish Public Health authority has never admitted that the goal of their chosen strategy is to reach herd immunity. However, from an epidemiological stand point, all strategies depend on reaching herd immunity in one way or another. A vaccination based strategy also builds on getting to herd immunity, it just chooses a different way to reach it. At some point in the relatively near future, every country on Earth will have developed herd immunity to covid, either by letting the disease spread until that point is reached, or by vaccinating enough people to reach that point."
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/10/31/a-history-of-the-swedish-covid-response/?
"I think it’s becoming pretty clear that SARS-CoV-2 is a seasonal virus, just like the four “common cold” coronaviruses. It would be strange if it wasn’t, considering how similar it is to them biologically. And I think that, just as with all other seasonal respiratory viruses, we saw a drop over the summer months, and we are now seeing an increase over the autumn. The pandemic stage of covid is now over, and we have entered the endemic stage."
Sounds like Dr. Rushworth is worth following. https://sebastianrushworth.com/
"I am not saying that covid is nothing, or that it doesn’t exist. I am saying that it is a virus with a marginal effect on longevity. And yet, public policy in most countries has been driven by doomsday scenarios based on completely unrealistic numbers. To put it simply, we’ve acted like we’re dealing with a global ebola outbreak, when covid is much more like the common cold."
https://sebastianrushworth.com/.../how-deadly-is-covid-19/?
Good article. Interesting information on how dangerous the common cold is for the elderly or people with other health problems. Colds are also caused by coronaviruses.
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