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Total Landscaping: A Masque
A poem for Sunday
JAMES PARKER
America is loose as a goose
It avoided becoming Belarus.
But that sulking Caesar, POTUS—where’s he gone?
Is he watching Fox News with a big frown on?
We’ll seize the cycle. We’ll make allegations.
Reverse these numerical humiliations.
A major press conference, that’s the thing.
At the Four Seasons... Total Landscaping.
So the gods of bathos displayed us all
on pickled asphalt, by a lumpy green wall.
The morning light so skeptically slanted,
the scene so tawdry and disenchanted...
O flunkies, we’re at oblivion’s door.
It’s right next to Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore.
By the twang of the dildo, by the undertaker’s shoes,
some shall win and some shall lose.
The dark portal is reached. Bow down and enter.
Across from the Delaware Valley Cremation Center.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/four-seasons-total-landscaping-poem/617042/
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A poem for Sunday
JAMES PARKER
America is loose as a goose
It avoided becoming Belarus.
But that sulking Caesar, POTUS—where’s he gone?
Is he watching Fox News with a big frown on?
We’ll seize the cycle. We’ll make allegations.
Reverse these numerical humiliations.
A major press conference, that’s the thing.
At the Four Seasons... Total Landscaping.
So the gods of bathos displayed us all
on pickled asphalt, by a lumpy green wall.
The morning light so skeptically slanted,
the scene so tawdry and disenchanted...
O flunkies, we’re at oblivion’s door.
It’s right next to Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore.
By the twang of the dildo, by the undertaker’s shoes,
some shall win and some shall lose.
The dark portal is reached. Bow down and enter.
Across from the Delaware Valley Cremation Center.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/four-seasons-total-landscaping-poem/617042/
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Trump’s post-election purge has begun
Late Friday afternoon, the White House fired Bonnie Glick, the Senate-confirmed deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, without any justification offered, making her the first senior Trump political appointee to be purged following the election. The move further cripples the $31 billion agency in the middle of a global pandemic and potentially during a presidential transition as well.
The departure of Glick is the first in what is widely expected to be a broader purge of officials whom President Trump feels to have been insufficiently loyal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/06/bonnie-glick-fired-trump-post-election-purge/
Late Friday afternoon, the White House fired Bonnie Glick, the Senate-confirmed deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, without any justification offered, making her the first senior Trump political appointee to be purged following the election. The move further cripples the $31 billion agency in the middle of a global pandemic and potentially during a presidential transition as well.
The departure of Glick is the first in what is widely expected to be a broader purge of officials whom President Trump feels to have been insufficiently loyal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/06/bonnie-glick-fired-trump-post-election-purge/
Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection
The data shows that two doses, three weeks apart, are needed. The trials - in US, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and Turkey - show 90% protection is achieved seven days after the second dose.
However, the data presented is not the final analysis as it is based on only the first 94 volunteers to develop Covid so the precise effectiveness of the vaccine may change when the full results are analysed.
Pfizer and BioNTech say they will have enough safety data by the third week of November to take their vaccine to regulators.
There are also massive manufacturing and logistical challenges in immunising huge numbers of people, as the vaccine has to be kept in ultra-cold storage at below minus 80C.
People under 50 and with no medical problems are likely to be last in the queue.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54873105
The data shows that two doses, three weeks apart, are needed. The trials - in US, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and Turkey - show 90% protection is achieved seven days after the second dose.
However, the data presented is not the final analysis as it is based on only the first 94 volunteers to develop Covid so the precise effectiveness of the vaccine may change when the full results are analysed.
Pfizer and BioNTech say they will have enough safety data by the third week of November to take their vaccine to regulators.
There are also massive manufacturing and logistical challenges in immunising huge numbers of people, as the vaccine has to be kept in ultra-cold storage at below minus 80C.
People under 50 and with no medical problems are likely to be last in the queue.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54873105
#AdmissionOfFailureIfNotGuilt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ment-why-trump-should-fight-election-results/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ment-why-trump-should-fight-election-results/
When your ego requires a scapegoat...
Georgia GOP Senate Candidates Call for Republican Secretary of State to Resign
Georgia Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both locked in runoffs against Democrats following last week’s close elections here, called on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to resign on Monday for what they said was mismanagement of the vote count.
“The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state,” the two said in a joint press release. “Georgians are outraged, and rightly so. We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process.”
The two offered no specifics or proof of any voting irregularities or anyone voting illegally.
Mr. Raffensperger rejected the calls for his resignation.
“The voters of Georgia hired me, and the voters will be the one to fire me,” he said in a statement. “I know emotions are running high. Politics are involved in everything right now...But I am the duly elected Secretary of State. One of my duties involves helping to run elections for all Georgia voters. I have taken that oath, and I will execute that duty and follow Georgia law.”
He added: "As a Republican, I am concerned about Republicans keeping the U.S. Senate. I recommend that Senators Loeffler and Perdue start focusing on that.''
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-day-2020/card/RcRGNAQpx6qp0mx9bqB1
Georgia GOP Senate Candidates Call for Republican Secretary of State to Resign
Georgia Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both locked in runoffs against Democrats following last week’s close elections here, called on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to resign on Monday for what they said was mismanagement of the vote count.
“The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state,” the two said in a joint press release. “Georgians are outraged, and rightly so. We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process.”
The two offered no specifics or proof of any voting irregularities or anyone voting illegally.
Mr. Raffensperger rejected the calls for his resignation.
“The voters of Georgia hired me, and the voters will be the one to fire me,” he said in a statement. “I know emotions are running high. Politics are involved in everything right now...But I am the duly elected Secretary of State. One of my duties involves helping to run elections for all Georgia voters. I have taken that oath, and I will execute that duty and follow Georgia law.”
He added: "As a Republican, I am concerned about Republicans keeping the U.S. Senate. I recommend that Senators Loeffler and Perdue start focusing on that.''
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-day-2020/card/RcRGNAQpx6qp0mx9bqB1
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