YO SENATORS!!! Remember Those Oaths???

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Today my thoughts (and snarky side) turn to two of President Biden’s nominees … one who was likely doomed from the start, and another who will likely succeed, although not before being run through the grist mill.


Sarah Bloom Raskin

Once again, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has put his own self-interests above the interests of the nation.  This time, he has said that he will not vote to confirm President Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve vice chair of supervision, Sarah Bloom Raskin.  Why?  In a nutshell, because she “has written in the past in support of the Fed increasing its attention to financial risks from climate change.”  Manchin, you see, has vested interests in the production of coal, one of the worst offenders to our environment.  He has holdings valued at between $1 million and $5 million in Enersystems, Inc., the coal brokerage business he founded.

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Good People Doing Good Things — Aaron Jackson

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I don’t know how it is that Aaron Jackson has not flown onto my ‘good people’ radar screen before, but he’s there now and deserves recognition.  Jackson was a CNN Hero back in 2007, a few years before I started my ‘good people’ posts, and he has been noted for numerous humanitarian causes since then.  A bit about Mr. Jackson’s background from Wikipedia provides a foundation before I get into the reason he is on my radar today …

“Aaron Jackson is an American human rights and environmental activist. Jackson was raised in Destin, Florida and attended Valencia College until 2002. After backpacking around the world, he interned at The Homeless Voice, an advocacy group in Davie, Florida, and became director of the COSAC Homeless Shelter. The first orphanages he opened in Haiti were established using money he made as a golf caddy while living in a homeless shelter in…

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Dismay as funding for UK’s ‘world-beating’ Covid trackers is axed | Coronavirus | The Guardian (Me: Boris and Tories reach for new level of stupid with Covid pandemic to appear as if they know how to beat Covid… “by giving in to it”)

“The government says we have to learn to live with Covid, but to learn to do that we need data which is agile enough and trustworthy enough. The ONS survey and React have been very good examples of agile and trustworthy programmes.

“We know immunity is going to wane and health authorities have to decide how to deal with that, with recommendations for boosters, for example. So they need reliable information about what is going on to target their strategy.

“React has given very good information about the effectiveness of vaccines and can monitor the waning of immunity. The pandemic is not yet in a stable equilibrium. Many factors are still changing and we need to keep monitoring basic epidemiological quantities such as prevalence in a reliable way.

“I would like to see a strategic plan for preparedness in terms of what type of studies and resources they are going to keep. So far, myself and other experts at the Royal Statistical Society haven’t been consulted, and there seems to be a lack of strategy – we don’t know how they are going to monitor new variants, for example.”

 

Source: Dismay as funding for UK’s ‘world-beating’ Covid trackers is axed | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Saksı Çiçeklerinin Renk Cümbüşünü Seven Vantrologlar — KAYIPDefter(arşiv)

…saksıları bile tutmuş hürriyet çiçeği, sümbüller, menekşeler, laleler renk taşırıyor zamana, vantrolog rengi zamanın keski rengi, bir buse konduruyorsun duvara, duvarın kulağı düşüyor kiremit rengi, duvarcı ustaları renk bilmiyor, karnından konuşuyor, saksıları suluyor kor ateşlerin su rengi, ırmak rengi…

Saksı Çiçeklerinin Renk Cümbüşünü Seven Vantrologlar — KAYIPDefter(arşiv)

Kriegskinder – niños de guerra

Senioren um die Welt

Es ist geschehen, was ich bis vor kurzem nicht für möglich gehalten habe, Russland hat am 24. Februar 2022 die Ukraine überfallen und damit mitten in Europa einen unsinnigen und mörderischen Krieg begonnen, der so viele unschuldige Menschen betrifft, sie heimatlos macht und unendliches Leid verursacht. Die Bilder im Fernsehen, die Nachrichten, Sirenengeheul und brennende Häuser, Menschen auf der Flucht und die vielen Unschuldigen, die getötet wurden, sie machen fassungslos und wecken schreckliche Erinnerungen und Ängste.

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