ArtfromArk

He was actually pretty liberal, for a 1970s governor of a Southern state. And he did try to get the ball rolling for universal health care when he was elected President. Unfortunately, he let his sexual peccadillos get the best of him.

One of which was a church in Arkansas that seems to have been akin to a “snake-handler church”, where the pastor (and maybe others) can believe that they can handle a poisonous snake without any repercussions, if they just believe strongly enough. I haven’t been back to Arkansas since the Covid crap hit the fan, but my relatives there have…[Read more]

Of course, Tokyo is also far more congested than the average American city.

and I’m talking about 東京都, the prefecture (state), with more than 14 million residents, official statistics show that as of today, a little less than 4 million residents have received one shot, and around 2 million residents have received 2 shots. That means that the vaccination rate is roughly 42% for at least one shot. Meanwhile, the daily death…[Read more]

And I’ve also seen US TV ads for “meds” where the “cures” can be worse than the “disease”because of their potential side effects, and yet we’re supposed to trust them this time? I’ve also lived through lots of pandemic scares, starting with the 1968-69 Hong Kong flu scare. I got a bad cold back then, but my mom thought I had the Hong Kong flu, so…[Read more]

“low population density” (necessarily) means …  “fewer options for meeting other people to pass the virus on”. On the contrary, I would say that people in “low population density” areas may actually be more inclined than their urban peers to socialize, through regular church attendance, local bars, workplaces, and community picnics and other…[Read more]

who was always spying on her neighbors. The TV character Gladys Kravitz (from “Bewitched”) was rarely if ever seen outside of her house, so it’s hard to think of her as a “self-entitled twit”.

They couldn’t get us to panic enough with the Asian/Hong Kong flu, swine flu (twice), e-coli, bird flu, SARS, West Nile virus, and mad cow disease, among others, but they’ve finally struck the mother lode with Covid.

She said he was a very good eye doctor. She also said he should have stayed with his eye clinic, instead of becoming a US Senator.

Heck, they’ve already got a Lambda variant!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-unusual-lambda-variant-is-rapidly-spreading-in-south-america-heres-what-we-know

when the infection rate is a couple of hundred people per day, out of a population of 14 million. The July death toll so far in Tokyo from, presumably, Covid, is 2. One was a man in his 70s, the other was a man in his 60s.

https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/tosei/hodohappyo/press/2021/07/18/02.html

Your chances of dying in a traffic accident in…[Read more]

I couldn’t have been more than 7 years old at the time. At that time, I actually thought it was possible to saw Florida away from the rest of the US! LOL!

but the real power behind the throne was Lincoln’s Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who tried to set himself up as the de facto President after Lincoln’s assassination, first by setting up the kangaroo court that convicted the assassination “conspirators”, then by getting Congress to pass the Tenure of Office Act to guarantee that Johnson couldn’t…[Read more]

It makes me want to take a special trip to Shinjuku Station (East exit) just to see it, like the couple in this video (0:57) 🙂

PERIOD!

We should never have gotten into the Afghanistan quagmire, ESPECIALLY after seeing what happened to the Russians after we supported the Mujahideen in the 1980s.

Delayed reactions to untested Covid vaccine, perhaps?

Like the “Keep the ball rolling” movement during the 1840 presidential campaign, where people were rolling a huge ball of yarn/twine/string from one Kentucky town to another in support of the William Henry Harrison campaign.

would know that the House only starts the impeachment process, while the Senate has the final say.