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Arkansas Granny

Arkansas Granny's Journal
Arkansas Granny's Journal
January 6, 2021

Trump will not let up on stolen election claims. He's enjoying this.

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1346955764254924800?s=20

Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
President Trump justifying violent protesters breaking into the Capitol where at least one person was shot.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!
This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence
January 6, 2021

Judy Woodruff on PBS reporting that National Association of Manufacturers is calling

for Pence and Congress to invoke 25th Amendment.

January 6, 2021

Last Known Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 in Missouri

Last Known Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 in Missouri
Helen Viola Jackson, the last known widow of a Civil War soldier, has died. She was 101.

Jackson's death was confirmed in a statement by the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival, which revealed that she died on Dec. 16 at Webco Manor Nursing Home in Marshfield, Missouri, where she had been living for many years.


Though she kept details of her life mostly private, Jackson recently disclosed to her minister while working out the details of her funeral that she had married James Bolin, a 93-year-old Civil War veteran, when she was 17 years old, the statement read.

At the time, Jackson had been providing daily care for Bolin, a widower who served as a private in the 14th Missouri Cavalry through the Civil War.

https://people.com/human-interest/last-known-widow-of-civil-war-veteran-helen-jackson-dies/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true


What a fascinating story.
January 5, 2021

LOL! As seen on twitter:

Detective: In the year 2020, where were you the night of?

Me: Home, alone, no witnesses.

January 5, 2021

Sen. Charles Grassley will preside over the certification of Electoral College votes.

I'm not familiar with this source, Roll Call, but this could be interesting, if true.

https://twitter.com/rollcall/status/1346473050078777356?s=20

Roll Call
@rollcall
NEW: Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Senate president pro tempore, says he and not Vice President Mike Pence will preside over the certification of Electoral College votes, since "we don't expect him to be there."
9:06 AM · Jan 5, 2021

ETA:

Apparently, Grassley has come out to say Pence will preside:


https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1346476616235405312?s=20


Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
oh.

Nicholas Fandos
@npfandos
A Grassley spokesman clarifies that the senator does not "have any indication Pence won't be present." Grassley, he said, was just trying to explain that at president pro tempore of the Senate, he would fill the chair if Pence does not show or steps out at points for a break https://twitter.com/rollcall/status/1346473050078777356
9:20 AM · Jan 5, 2021


January 5, 2021

Governor shifts vaccine plan; first responders move up in line

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday moved police, firefighters and other first responders to the front of the covid-19 vaccine line, breaking with the established, phased administration plan.

As the vaccine continues a slow rollout -- with only about one-third of the vaccine doses administered from the vials that landed in the state on Dec. 14 -- state Epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Dillaha said in an interview Monday that the state Health Department has new resolve to make the vaccine plans and data more transparent and available to the public.

Dillaha spoke as the state's daily count of new cases was relatively low, at 1,306, but as the number of Arkansas covid-19 patients hospitalized, in intensive care units and on ventilators all reached record highs, according to data released by the Arkansas Department of Health.

The first responders, such as police and fire personnel, were initially in Phase 1B of the Health Department's vaccine distribution plan, as recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but Hutchinson moved the group to the initial phase.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jan/05/governor-shifts-vaccine-plan/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morning-1-5-

January 4, 2021

About those dead people voting in Georgia.

https://twitter.com/ElayneBoosler/status/1346196078345895936?s=20

Elayne Nasty Woman Boosler
@ElayneBoosler
If thousands of dead people voted in the election as SCROTUS claims, it's a tribute to how vile, incompetent and criminal he and the @GOP are; people rose from the dead to vote them out. Count those votes!! That is effort that deserves reward!
2:45 PM · Jan 4, 2021
January 3, 2021

Stonekettle's wisdom.

https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1345763285858201603?s=20

Stonekettle
@Stonekettle
Well, for starters: When you believe the earth is 6000 years old and 2 of every kind of animal lived within walking distance of Noah's house, a guy who supposedly built a boat the size of a WWII cruiser out of wood, with hand tools, in his backyard, math ain't exactly your thing.

𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡
@essenviews
Joe Biden received 81.2 million votes and won.
Trump received 74.2 million votes and lost.

Why is this so complicated for the GOP?
10:05 AM · Jan 3, 2021

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