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Los Banos part 2

Today is the 6th of June – D-Day in Europe, 1944.

Pacific Paratrooper

Los Banos depicted by: Mariusz Kozik

First Lt. John Ringler was in charge of those troopers who would drop 900 yards from the camp. They made their jump at approx. 500 feet instead of the usual 700-1,000′ since the drop zone was so small and the men would have less exposure time. They made three V’s-in-trail by the nine Douglas C-47s from the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron/ 54th Troop Carrier Group/5th Air Force. Some of the men ran across open fields to achieve their assigned positions. Ringler and his company went down a riverbed from the northeast (photo) while others came from the south and southeast.

Major Burgess went across Laguna de Bay with the amphibious vehicles as the main attacking force. The noisy amtracs slowly made their progress to shore with hopes the enemy had not heard their arrival. Once on the beach, the 457th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion…

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54 years ago… In Memory of Bobby Kennedy.

Gone but the dream lives.

Longshot's Blog

I’ll never forget watching just after midnight that victory speech from California. I’ll never forget watching the next night when Frank Mankiewicz announced that Bobby had died. I’ll never forget watching all the days and nights following.

I’ll never forget at 11 years old the day my childhood ended.

I’ll never forget losing my Hero.

At 65 I still ask “WHY” and cry.

One by one they murdered all of our Hero’s.

Open wounds that have never healed and a country that to this day has never recovered.

This country would not became what it is today if these men had not been murdered.

On this June 6th,

Never forgotten Bobby, never ever forgotten.

Hero then, Hero now, Hero Forever.

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Coupgate? Trumpgate?

Can we find a new mime for national political crimes/scandals? “Gate” was 50 years ago.

Filosofa's Word

This week will begin the televised hearings of the January 6th committee and while I’m not holding my breath, I am hopeful that the American public will at least be convinced of one thing:  Donald Trump is a crook, a criminal, who attempted a coup to overturn the U.S. election in 2020 and can NEVER be allowed to hold public office again.  Robert Reich gives us a comparison to another set of televised hearings 49 years ago … all the news then, but Watergate pales in comparison to what happened on January 6th 2020.


The Week Ahead: Why everything depends on Liz Cheney

Forty-nine years ago, Howard Baker had a similar responsibility — but hers will be far more challenging

Robert Reich

The televised hearings of the House Select Committee on the January 6 insurrection, which begin Thursday, mark an historic milestone in the battle between democracy and…

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Tomás Antônio Gonzaga

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Nesta cruel masmorra tenebrosa

…ainda vendo estou teus olhos belos,

a testa formosa,

os dentes nevados,

os negros cabelos.

Vejo Marília, sim; e vejo ainda

a chusma dos Cupidos, que pendentes

dessa boca linda,

nos ares espalham

suspiros ardentes.

Tomás Antônio Gonzaga. Marília de Dirceu. Literatura brasileira.

Literatura Brasileira em diálogo com outras literaturas e outras linguagens. William Cereja/Tereza Cochar. Atual editora. 5 ed. reform. São Paulo, 2013

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: pt. m.wikipedia. org

Santarém, Pá 6 de junho de 2022

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Sacramento City Unified School District reimposes mask mandate as COVID cases rise | The Voice of LaSalle County since 1952!

The Sacramento City Unified School District reinstated its mask mandate Monday just two months after making face coverings optional.

School officials said the decision came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designated the county as having high levels of COVID-19 in the community.

When counties enter this category, the federal health agency recommends masking in indoor, public spaces and on public transportation.

“We are following the science. We’re following the data,” SCUSD Superintendent Jorge Aguilar told local affiliate ABC 10. “This is a public health issue. We are part of a community.”

According to the CDC, the county is currently recording 283.49 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people every week.

Data from the district shows the case rate is currently more than seven times higher than when the mask mandate was lifted.

Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told ABC News that cases in Northern California are rising for several reasons, the main being the spread of new omicron subvariants.

“The new generations of subvariants are looking so different from the original variants from Wuhan that the antibodies don’t recognize them as easily,” he said.

He described immunity from vaccination against the new subvariants as two levels of defense.

“I think of the antibodies as guards at the front gate that are a little bit sleepy that let the virus in,” Chin-Hong said. “But you have B-cells and T-cells so, once the virus is in, they’re like the guard dog that attacks. So, you get infected, but you won’t go to the hospital.”

Source: Sacramento City Unified School District reimposes mask mandate as COVID cases rise | The Voice of LaSalle County since 1952!

COVID-19 cases are still rising in many states. What experts say makes this summer different

The rise in reported cases seen in the Northeast in recent weeks appears to have peaked but upward trends continue in at least 21 states, according to a U.S. TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. Health experts say cases are likely higher due to underreported home tests.

Although cases are rising, health experts say hospitalizations are remaining in check. The U.S. is reporting about 350 deaths per day* based on a 7-day average, which is more than a hundred deaths less than this time last summer, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

“We’re only about 10 to 15 cases higher than what we were a year ago as far as hospitalizations and there are fewer patients requiring ICU care, which is encouraging,” said Dr. Adia Ross, chief medical officer of Durham Regional Hospital. “Even though cases are up, the hospitalizations are not as high as they have been.”

(Me: 350 per day deaths means 123,200 deaths due to Covid this year, so if you think Covid is over:

  • you are not paying attention
  • you do not care if you or someone you love dies or contracts long Covid.
  • you have decided to self-delude yourself that you are safe and don’t need to worry.)

 

Source: COVID-19 cases are still rising in many states. What experts say makes this summer different

UK records 77 more cases of monkeypox, taking total to 302 | Monkeypox | The Guardian

The current outbreak of monkeypox in the UK has topped 300 cases, official figures reveal, as contacts who have a rash with blisters are asked to contact a sexual health clinic.

According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), 77 more cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the UK, 73 of which are in England and two each in Scotland and Wales. The figures bring the total identified in the UK, as of 5 June, to 302, with 287 in England, 10 in Scotland, two in Northern Ireland and three in Wales.

 

Source: UK records 77 more cases of monkeypox, taking total to 302 | Monkeypox | The Guardian