Dave Prowse, and so it goes.
"From the Carolinas to Central America, many are glad to see the end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. It set a number of records, including the most named storms. The 30 hurricanes and tropical storms used all the names on the list maintained by the World Meteorological Organization, and the final nine were named for letters of the Greek alphabet… The last hurricane of the season, Iota, was the latest in the year that any storm has reached Category 5 status."
In local news… "A Winter Storm Warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for portions of Northeast Ohio… Heavy snow is expected with accumulations from 8 to 12 inches with locally higher amounts possible."
And because the adults around them can't handle it, the kids are also suffering. "As a toddler, Kenley Gupta stopped speaking after her mom died. Over the years, she recovered from the anxiety disorder, called mutism, but in March the 8-year-old went silent again… The change occurred soon after her school shut down, and Kenley was shocked when her school closed."
"Across the country, medical personnel are now bracing for what they fear will be a new wave of infections after millions of Americans ignored the advice of public health experts and traveled for the Thanksgiving holiday. Already, hospital resources are being stretched thin, with many institutions reporting a dire shortage of beds and personnel to handle the influx of new patients." Also, and her's the thing, hospitals lie about how many beds they have. Sometimes it's the number of actual beds a hospital owns, not that they have clinical space for them (ie. an actual room). Also "bed space" tends to include the emergency room, pre-surgery and post surgery rooms. Not all of those can be repurposed to care for patients in a long-term way. Also, and here's the big rub, they don't have enough nurses to staff all those beds (and are pressing floor nurses into service as ICU nurses).
To wit… "But beds and space aren't the main concern. It's the work force. Hospitals are worried that staffing levels won't be able to keep up with demand as doctors, nurses and specialists such as respiratory therapists become exhausted or, worse, become infected or sick themselves."
"French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse — cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods."
"Two American citizens have reached a settlement in a lawsuit they filed against US Customs and Border Protection after an agent asked them for IDs because he heard them speaking Spanish… Ana Suda and Martha 'Mimi' Hernandez, who live in the small town of Havre, Montana, say they were detained by a border patrol agent while waiting to pay for groceries at a local convenience store in May 2018."
"The Supreme Court on Monday will return and take up another of President Donald Trump's immigration-related policies as it considers the attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the Census totals when seats in Congress are divvied up between the states next year."
"On Monday, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill asked the Supreme Court to strip same-sex couples of their equal parenting rights. He did so at the request of the court, which is considering taking up his case. Hill implored the new conservative majority to rule that states may deny married same-sex couples the right to be recognized as parents of their own children. The case gives SCOTUS an opportunity to start chipping away at Obergefell v. Hodges by allowing states to withhold marital privileges from same-sex spouses. If the majority wants to begin eroding Obergefell, they will probably start here." Here we go.
"Counting in some metro Atlanta counties resumes today as the presidential recount in Georgia begins to wind down."
"President Donald Trump said Sunday he was 'ashamed' for endorsing the Republican governor of Georgia after he lost in the state to Democrat Joe Biden."
"Tensions over the election results came to a head Saturday after a group of supporters of President Donald Trump held a rally outside the Georgia secretary of state's home… Trucks flying Trump and 'Stop the Steal' flags drove up and down the street outside of Secretary Brad Raffensperger's property, honking their horns as they passed by."
"Bartiromo opened the interview with a question about election fraud, telling Trump, 'The facts are on your side.' Trump responded, falsey saying, 'This election was a fraud; it was a rigged election.' The Fox anchor then reflected the president's anger, saying, 'This is disgusting and we cannot allow America's election to be corrupted.'"
And further, from Bullshit Mountain itself… "President Trump told 'Sunday Morning Futures' in his first interview since Election Day that the Department of Justice is 'missing in action' regarding alleged election fraud… He went on to tell host Maria Bartiromo in the exclusive interview that he has 'not seen anything' from the DOJ or the Federal Bureau of Investigation on investigating the 2020 election."
And in reality, Joe Biden continues to win the presidency.
"President Trump's push to overturn the election results suffered another in a series of defeats on Friday — this time in Wisconsin, where officials in the state's most populous county announced that a recount had added to President-elect Joe Biden's lead. Albeit slightly: Out of the roughly 460,000 ballots cast in Milwaukee County, Biden made a net gain of 132 votes on review."
"President Trump this week acknowledged that the transition for President-elect Joe Biden to take office is going ahead. But on Thursday, he made clear he's in no mood to concede the election, even after the Electoral College formally votes this month." I don't care why you leave, just as long as you leave.
And so begins the spectacularly bad election takes. Like this one… "President-elect Joe Biden has white men to thank… Two years ago, I wrote that Democrats and progressives needed to appeal to white men and address the problems particularly of non-college educated white men. Although the party may not have been so explicit about what the problems of this population are and the ways in which they would tackle them, at least at the presidential level, Democrats were successful in winning many of them over."
"Campaigning in Georgia's two Senate runoffs is well underway, but Republicans are still fighting over the state's November election and casting doubt on its voting system without evidence."
"It's not just the Senate majority on the line in Georgia’s runoffs. It's also Joe Biden's chance to reshape the courts." It's the same thing. Also, it's not a chance to "reshape", it's a chance to bring some balance back.
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