Billy Graham has shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to meet his maker. I hope she explains it all over tea. Tea is good. I find myself ambivalent about the elder Graham (his son is a different matter). While I disagree with much of his theology, and he did push his own beliefs at others, I never felt that he demanded acceptance of those beliefs in the way others of his ilk have (or some of his more militant followers). Compare and contrast this with Jerry Falwell.
The Rapture has come. Today was the pre-millennialist dream, but it was only for Russian bots. "Today, our thoughts and prayers are with the #MAGA brigade, as they howl in despair after half their Twitter followers vanished overnight." (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
"Fifty years ago Monday, when Fred Rogers showed up on national public television as the host of what then was a brand new children's show called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, TV was a lot different. PBS wasn't even a network then — not by that name, anyway — and aside from CBS, NBC and ABC, there were only a few independent local channels to watch, if that."
"Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope." You might still want to keep an umbrella in your car.
"Doctors in China lead race to treat cancer by editing genes." China has a simpler system for human testing which is not always better.
"An outside legal review of NPR's handling of allegations against its former top news executive, Michael Oreskes, found that questions were raised about his behavior toward women even before he was hired. And concerns about misconduct were reportedly flagged throughout Oreskes' 2 1/2-year tenure at the network right up to the day he was fired."
"But AT&T has been working to push its timeline just that little bit faster than everyone else, and as of today, we have our first concrete promise: Atlanta, Dallas and Waco, Texas, will be the first of 12 markets that should get AT&T’s mobile 5G by the end of the year. Although we’ve had promises about 5G trials coming soon, these are the first cities to be promised real, mobile 5G by the end of the year." Looks like I'm going to have to buy the White Album again. Actually, it'll probably not get to us (where we're at now) until I retire.
"A satirical movie that envisions dictator Benito Mussolini staging a comeback opened in Italy just as the campaign for March 4 general elections was getting underway. It has received rave reviews." The new elections will possibly see avowed fascists take some seats.
"It's a conservative corner of northwest Georgia where Donald Trump won more than 70 percent of the vote. But even here, some employers are nervous that the Trump administration's immigration policies will make it harder to find enough workers." Conservatives are funny. They're all about stopping abortion, except their own, which is totally justified and needed. They're also all about deporting undocumented immigrants, except the ones they need to hire to keep their businesses running (and not pay a lot in wages).
"Loomer has been increasingly desperate for validation from her conservative media counterparts after her anti-Muslim Twitter meltdown and her effort to portray the FBI’s investigation into the Las Vegas mass shooting as a government cover-up caused some to distance themselves. So last week, when Infowars rolled out a combination of conspiracy theories about the Florida shooting, claiming that globalists ordered the shooting to cover up the FISA memo and insisting that the shooting was the 'perfect false flag,' it provided an opportunity for Loomer to once again appear on the scene of a mass shooting and pull her signature stunt of harassing public officials with conspiracy theory nonsense." What wonderful people. (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
"The wife of Kentucky state Rep. Dan Johnson, who killed himself last year amid allegations of sexual assault, has lost a bid to succeed her late husband. The special election returned the seat to Linda Belcher, whom Dan Johnson had unseated."
"Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, is resisting giving up his access to highly classified information, prompting an internal struggle with John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, over who should be allowed to see some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets, according to White House officials and others briefed on the matter." It doesn't take a year for the security clearance. That Jared doesn't have a permanent (as these things go) clearance means the intelligence agencies (including the FBI) will never clear him.
"Russian police have reportedly arrested a man who has claimed to be a worker at a so-called troll factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, hours after he gave interviews to foreign journalists and lifted the lid on a secretive organization the U.S. Department of Justice last week accused of trying to undermine the 2016 presidential election." The first rule of Troll Farm… Stay safe, my Russian friends. (Grokked from Joy Reid)
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