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September 19, 2020

"I want you to use my words against me." Lindsey Graham

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."


https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1307153104941518848
September 18, 2020

15 Second Flu Shot, didn't even have to turn off my truck.

Got to hand it to my doc. Got a call last week of free flu shot clinic on the next Friday (today) so I signed up.

Text hit my phone around 12:30, reminding me of appointment at 1:20.

Pull up to the office on the dot and his team was fully PPE'd up and waiting by the door of his office. I masked up as the nurse walked up to my window. I rolled it down, she asked my name, verified my insurance provider by asking "Is insurance still the same?" I said "yes" and she swabbed my arm and then poked me with the needle.

The nurse looked at me with obvious Smiley Eyes(tm) and said "Have a great day!"

15 seconds, if that from time I rolled down my window.

Get your shot! Or not...not my call really, so ymmv.

September 18, 2020

Texas Mail In Ballots are supposed to be sent out today by your County Clerk.

45 days from Election is when they told me then send them out. If you do not receive your ballot by Wednesday of next week, give your county clerk a call and see what they have to say. I'll be calling them to make sure they mailed them out and also ask them what I need to do if we don't receive the ballot. I know I can vote in person, but want to make sure I know the process so I don't get stopped from in-person voting because I was supposed to vote by mail.

Texas Election Website:
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/index.shtml

Vote by mail Ballot request (should have already been done)
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml

September 18, 2020

Enough conspiracy theories. Enough hate. Enough division. - MeidasTouch

It's past time we #BringBackHope to this country by electing Joe Biden.

https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/1306783727780061185

September 18, 2020

Is there a live stream for the townhall?

Seems odd that they don't have it streamed live.

Kind of a mistake if it is not, but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone?

September 17, 2020

Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab

Over the next six-and-a-half minutes, Yan, a virologist and former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong, explained that the Chinese government created the coronavirus in a Wuhan lab and released it intentionally. The virus’ genome, she said, indicates that it was modified. She accused the Chinese Communist Party of silencing those who claim otherwise.

"It’s hard to be shocked in a moment like this, but you have succeeded in shocking me," Carlson said at the end of the interview. "Unfortunately, this is not the forum for the details of your research; I don’t have the grounding necessary to ask you the right questions."

Scientists do. The consensus of the scientific community and international public health organizations is that the coronavirus emerged from bats and later jumped to humans.

But the doctor’s interview on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" quickly took off, inspiring a rash of social media posts parroting her claims.


https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/16/li-meng-yan/tucker-carlson-guest-airs-debunked-conspiracy-theo/
September 17, 2020

There is nothing that lasts forever, except that which love embraces.

Embedded in the song, was a truly amazing transcendental experience. Settle in on a journey to the end of the Universe. Let your mind roam free while pondering the beauty that all of life has to offer. With love -- cayugafalls



“Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, We will fall!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
And so they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.”

Guillaume Apollinaire
September 16, 2020

Whose America Is It?

“Apocalyptic terms” have taken over the 2020 election, with potentially dangerous implications. By Thomas B. Edsall

snip...Seth Jones, director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, emailed me to say “there are several factors that make postelection violence likely.” The first, he wrote, is

the assumption by extremist groups from all sides — white supremacists, militias, boogaloos, anarchists, and anti-fascists to name a few — that others are prepared for violence if the election does not go their way.


All of these groups, he pointed out,

have access to firearms, incendiaries, and crude explosives. This situation is a classic “security dilemma.” Each side’s efforts to increase its own security and acquire weapons inadvertently threaten the other side....snip


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/biden-trump-2020-violence.html

The situation is becoming like the Ouroboros, each side is prepping and it seems like no matter what happens, someone is going to do something stupid and regretful. We have to be better then that, there has to be a non-violent solution, but the asshole in the whitehouse just keeps feeding his base and raising the heat. If we had a real president, one with compassion and soul, like Joe Biden, we could easily heal the wound and stifle the flames of hatred.

My biggest fear is that the divide is so entrenched that no matter who is president, the hatred and vitriol will be hard to quell. Trump has made it a very difficult task to bring America back, but Joe is up to the challenge.

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