Sunday, December 26, 2021

Didja get anything good for Christmas?

Always wanted a Rado. I have a Movado and several other watches in my collection. But something about Rado has always appealed to me. 

Rado Coupole Classic Automatic 

As I got older, the idea of the classic silver with white face really started to resonate as most of my other watches are more multi-colored bracelet, gold bracelet, or traditional leather band. I had an old Citizen in a similar bracelet, but it was two toned and I gave it to one of my sons.  

Funny thing is that we both agreed that this was not the year to splurge on expensive gifts and then we both surprised each other with unexpected gifts. I got my wife some really cool drop down diamond and Tahitian pearl earrings, something she has had her eye on for some time. She got me this!
 
All and all a good Christmas for our first living together! But, of course, I missed seeing my kids! 

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

My wife built me a firewood shed I always wanted. Will save me a ton of work in the dead of winter.
It is 10 feet wide and 6 feet deep, tin and clear plastic roof.

It is gorgeous, like the woman that built it.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I have a Timex that looks great like that when I was a kid!

Anonymous said...

Roger, you must have had a stroke, we are talking about 2021, not 1956.

C.H. Truth said...

Yeah...

The Rado is "just like" a Timex!

https://www.rado.com/en_us/coupole-classic-automatic-stainless-steel-light-41mm-r22876013.html

Anonymous said...

Yeah...

The Rado is "just like" a Timex"CHT

Lol@Roger.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

A paranoid schizophrenia victim got help.

The TV was talking to me. I was in the midst of a delusion that the news anchors on CNN were operatives of a shadow government run by the Clintons. Every time I crossed the living room of my father's dingy basement apartment, their heads followed me and the news anchors interrogated me about my role in the Russia investigation. I believed "Russia investigation" was really code for a global conspiracy to enslave humanity through mind control. President Donald Trump and the Republicans were secretly working to overturn this shadow government and end the deep state programs. Targets of torture like me would be set free.

I turned the channel to FOX News. They repeated over and over that Hilary Clinton was a criminal. Even though I was a Democrat and had voted for Bill Clinton twice, I mailed in the form to join the Republican Party. Then I faxed evidence to the Russian consulate and sent a letter to the CIA offering to cooperate in the investigation.

What I didn't know I was that I was in the advanced stages of untreated paranoid schizophrenia. I was experiencing a psychotic break from reality.

It all seemed so real.

When I was eventually treated, my psychiatrist explained to me, "With paranoid schizophrenia it's just like "The Bourne Identity" — there are people for you, people against you, and somebody always has to be the villain."

I know what you're thinking — thank God they have medication for these people. Now, I wonder, is the average American so different from me? Are we all susceptible to paranoid thoughts, conspiratorial thinking and bias when executive function in the frontal lobes and our ability to reason are disabled by fear?


Terrified by a global pandemic, there are people who believe Bill Gates is an evil mastermind who engineered the coronavirus, with plans to depopulate and microchip the world's population, while profiting in the process. Antivaxxers refuse to take a vaccine they think will alter the structure of human DNA. Our brains seek to impose order. Conspiracy theories can provide answers to people who feel overwhelmed. But ideally the frontal lobes should step in to challenge strange thoughts by asking the question: Is what I am perceiving based in reality?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Dr. Oliver Freudenreich, Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychosis Program, states that there is no generally agreed-upon definition on what constitutes a delusion. From a psychiatric or biological perspective, delusions are driven by excessive amounts of the neurotransmitter dopamine. There is a biological basis to them, and treatment can correct this abnormality. A person with such delusions (e.g., somebody with schizophrenia) is expected to respond to being treated with an antipsychotic medication which blocks dopamine. In other words, one can take a pill and think rationally.

However, many people can't do that if their delusional thinking is part of a worldview that is more an ideology. According to Dr. Freudenreich, when people create their own insular groups — where delusional ideas are never corrected, but simply bounce around in an echo chamber — it is much harder to fight those types of delusions. 

Policy divides are now often framed as a battle between good and evil. The most obvious consequence of overheated partisan rhetoric is that someone with an untreated psychiatric illness can go on to commit an act of violence against a person or group that they believe is a perpetrator of their suffering. This is rare. More common is the normal person who goes down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and finds a world that makes sense to them.

On January 6th, 2021, incited by President Trump and believing the election had been stolen, a mob attacked the Capital building. Some in the crowd showed up for the "Storm," which is a QAnon conspiracy theory that posits that Trump was planning mass arrests of a secret cabal of satanic pedophiles and coup plotters, headed by Hilary Clinton and George Soros. Capitol police described the scene as being like fighting a medieval battle.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Social dynamics can propagate conspiracy-based thinking that mimics biologically triggered delusions. But there is no medication that will stop mass violence fueled by conspiracies.

I was a forty-six-year-old filmmaker when I suddenly began to have paranoid thoughts that people were following me. When I lost my day job due to bizarre behavior, I lost my excellent health insurance. I was dumped into America's broken mental health care system that offers substandard psychiatric care to patients on Medicaid, while spending vast amounts of taxpayer money. Misdiagnosed and neglected at the county hospital, I got sicker and sicker … until the TV started talking to me.

Years of my life are now gone. I try not to be bitter that I ended up unemployed, bankrupt and almost homeless, when all I needed was proper medical care. Every day I am grateful that I didn't wind up living on the streets or locked up in prison, like so many people with schizophrenia.

It's easy to mock people who think Bill Gates wants to put a microchip in them with the coronavirus vaccine. But it's much harder to separate conspiracy theorists' larger existential fears from our own. We're approaching the second year of a global pandemic, which is causing mass anxiety and depression. The internet routinely displays images of future roads in major cities as gushing rivers due to climate change. Billions of fish were boiled in the American Northwest and Canada during an unprecedented heatwave this summer. If someone's mind starts spinning with their wildest fears and finds solace in a conspiracy theory, can you really blame them?

Television is a powerful medium. CNN and FOX News repeat the same headlines, the same phrases, over and over in the same news day. Back then, these read to my unhinged mind as coded speech; to the unsuspecting public, it is more akin to propaganda. When I was psychotic, I thought a shadow government had a ministry of propaganda and they colluded across networks. I worry about living in a country where the two major political parties are always at war, unable to get anything done, and the public is fed a delusional world by networks and social media companies competing for viewers.

People with paranoid schizophrenia see patterns that don't actually exist. Just like conspiracy theorists, they are constantly scanning the news for pieces of information to connect the dots about unseen forces controlling events. Both groups believe they are being persecuted by others. I had grandiose beliefs that I was at the center of every news story on TV. My mind was looking to cast a villain to account for the symptoms of a brain disease. The media handed me a culprit to blame.



Dr. Anthony Fauci has complained about the extraordinary divisiveness surrounding the public health crisis created by the pandemic. The current battle is over masks and vaccines. FOX News paints the Democratic Party as a threat to democracy that has invented domestic enemies, such as the unvaccinated, to desperately cling to power. News anchors across CNN repeat the phrase "viral blizzard" to warn the public and scare the unvaccinated about the new variant. Fear mongering is psychologically destabilizing to the most normal person. But this media environment can be toxic to someone with an untreated psychiatric illness. I wish politicians and their media allies would stop contributing to the collective unraveling of the American mind.

Take step one Scott

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Coupole Classic Automatic takes the design of a traditional wristwatch like my Timex and adds the distinctive Rado element of sapphire crystal, ensuring brilliant shine, easy readability and ultimate protection for the beautiful dials.


LMAO

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/26/schizophrenia-made-me-a/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I'm not a physician but you have exhibited the symptoms for the last few years

Anonymous said...

Roger is wrong , like it is his job.

"
He inherited the longest medical crisis in history"

Nope.

"1921-1925: Diphtheria epidemic"
4 years is longer .


KansasDemocrat December 26, 2021 at 3:15 PM

Roger is a history illiterate.

"1916-1955: Polio"



KansasDemocrat December 26, 2021 at 3:17 PM

Roger. Wrong , wrong and wrong.

"1981-1991: measles "

Ten years .




C.H. Truth said...

Yeah Roger...

Much like Porsche designs their cars with four wheels, a body, and a motor like the Fiat...

Rado designs their watches with dials, hands, and bands just like Timex.

Anonymous said...

Roger always ends up running away from the topics he brings here.

"Transitory Inflation"

Now , his inability to define his term : "Bottom up Economics " & which countries currently use it?

Anonymous said...

CHT , LOOK @ Rogers posts.
There is a disturbing trend, he wants to be you.

C.H. Truth said...

So Roger...

Just so we understand what you are suggesting here. Someone who doesn't watch Fox news is somehow gaslighted by non-exposure into believing strange conspiracy theories that are being pushed by the network that this person doesn't actually doesn't watch?

Here is my diagnosis


You are not only not a doctor, but you are not either apparently an adult with a working brain.




Did you stop to notice that you read an article suggesting that the media is gaslighting people... and then you repeated that article not realizing that you are falling for exactly the same thing the article suggests other people are falling for?

Are you not (by repeating that) being manipulated into repeating conspiracy theories based on media suggestion?

Just curious....

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://welovetrump.com/2021/12/26/warning-the-coming-vaxx-booster-twist-that-no-one-is-talking-about/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

As a recovering alcoholic I have exhibited some of the same symptoms, but I admitted problems. Unless you admit problems, you will say

You are not only not a doctor, but you are not either apparently an adult with a working brain.

I agreed with Indy but I hope I can help you.

I'm watching the football game in a minute

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Helping 'future losers succeed' is the new Republican Party platform: John Harwood

Sarah K. Burris

December 26, 2021

As 2021 comes to an end, many are coming back to remember the best and worst of the year. While no one can dismiss the horrors of the violence that happened on Jan. 6, what has followed has revealed terrifying details about the coordination, conspiracy, militias, officials and more.

Writing about the year of revelations, CNN's John Harwood explained that this began the latest attempts by the Republican Party to change the laws that govern voting. For a short moment, officials flocked to microphones to denounce the attack as unacceptable and even chastize then-President Donald Trump. That has changed, however, which is all part of the GOP plot to turn losers into winners.

"Those same Republican leaders later scuttled a proposed bipartisan investigation," Harwood wrote. "GOP legislators in battleground states curbed voting procedures and changed election administration to help future losers succeed where Trump had failed in thwarting the popular will."

Harwood went on to quote former GOP national security aide, Richard Haass, who said that until recently, "it didn't occur to me that American democracy might be in the balance. It's no longer a given. I don't think it's melodramatic to say this is the greatest crisis we've faced since the 19th century."

The GOP freakout over losses has come from decades of the party turning to the right, fighting civil rights, equality, and other ideas that may have been popular 50 years ago, but have gone away with phone booths, paper maps, and volumes of encyclopedias.

"When you think about the DNA of the current Republican Party being built around racial resentment, it's only one small step," said CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute Robert James. "The very idea that some citizens ought to have a privileged place in the eyes of the law is, at its heart, anti-democratic."

Anti-democracy is basically anti-America, which has prided itself on a democratic republic that allows all citizens the ability to elect their representatives. Taking that away, or restricting it as Republicans have done, makes the GOP "a grave threat to American democracy," wrote conservative Peter Wehner, a former aide to former President George W. Bush.

While some remain optimistic that the GOP would swing back from the far-right, the adoption of conspiracy theories and those Republicans who embrace them over the past decades may make it difficult to extricate themselves from that part of the party.

Read his full take at CNN.com.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/republican-states-rights-restrictions/621101/

A Bush administration official

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Mostly non violent protests may have saved lives.

According to the Washington Post, fatal shootings of unarmed suspects plummeted in 2021. The total number dropped from 60 to 25, with big drops recorded for every racial and ethnic group.

Maybe the George Floyd protests had some effect after all.

Plus two police officers have been convicted of manslaughter of African Americans.

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rrb said...


Maybe the George Floyd protests had some effect after all.

They sure did alky.

Protests inspired by Junkie raged unabated across the nation, culminating with the massacre in Waukesha which we mysteriously are not hearing about, as in not at fucking ALL.

Same with the school shooter in Texas. Black kid, out on bail the very next day, and down the fucking memory hole.

I agreed with Indy but I hope I can help you.

Alky, you have no business trying to "help" anyone, since your own life is a Mount Everest-sized pile of shit set ablaze. A string of failures so epic and so disastrous, I can see why you publicly contemplated suicide, and I can also see why you were too cowardly to do it.



Deep State Detective said...

The FBI is now acting like a type of Praetorian Guard for the First Family. And some outlets are now acting like a type of state media for the Biden Administration.

Welcome back to The Soviet Union.

Anonymous said...

Roger, wishes he was Mr. Johnson.

Alky wishes for a new home in Washington, a new Audi A8 and a hot former model as a wife.

Reality, Roger is co-renter of a 600 square foot apt at 4th street medical home, no car, no gf.

rrb said...


Rado designs their watches with dials, hands, and bands just like Timex.

Nice watch. I have a friend who lives in the Atlanta 'burbs who is a Rado fan. He's been collecting them for over 25 years.

I'm a Tag Heuer guy myself. I own a couple and look to add another Formula 1 and also a Carrera soon.

I have my eye on a white dial Rolex Explorer, but am having a hard time justifying the $8,000.00 asking price.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Your old Uncle Donald is too old to be the President anymore.


Far-right provocateur and anti-vaxxer Candace Owens, 32, took to Instagram to explain why she thinks Donald Trump unexpectedly defended COVID vaccines during an interview with her earlier this week. The reason? Trump, 75, is “too old” to know how to navigate the internet and find those “obscure websites” where, it seems that she believes, the truth about COVID and vaccines can only be found. “People oftentimes forget that, like, how old Trump is,” she said. “He comes from a generation—I’ve seen other people that are older have the exact same perspective, like, they came from a time before TV, before internet, before being able to conduct their independent research. And everything that they read in a newspaper that was pitched to them, they believed that that was a reality.” Owens urged her conservative fanbase to take it easy on Trump, saying that she doesn’t think his support of the vaccine is “evil” or “based in any corruption.” But, she added, “he needs to have a larger conversation to understand what’s going on and why so many people are horrified by his remarks.”




Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-claims-trump-defended-covid-vaccine-because-hes-too-old-to-understand-the-internet

Anonymous said...

Roger, you will bring up a subject again today then run from it.

rrb said...



The stupid cum guzzler said the quiet part out loud -

“What do you see is the biggest national security challenge confronting the U.S.? What is the thing that worries you and keeps you up at night?” — to which Harris replied, “Frankly, one of them is our democracy. And that I can talk about because that’s not classified.”

https://www.conservativereview.com/kamala-harris-says-our-democracy-is-the-biggest-national-security-challenge-america-faces-2656165840.html

anonymous said...

Hey goat fucker....will you post more repetitive gibberish today or will you come out of your coma???? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!


I have my eye on a white dial Rolex Explorer,



BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! About all you can afford to do LOLOLOLOLO

Good pastor James said...

Roger is right. His presentation of a psychological analysis of what is wrong with you guys is spot on. As I pointed out in a column that appeared in an Illinois and in a North Carolina newspaper, Jesus did say that "life does not consist in the abundance or your possessions." Too many of you think it does. That is why you are so greedily unhappy with life.

That is because you do not understand what Jesus and Christmas or even enlightened Western Civilization are all about.

rrb said...




Lies, lies, and more lies.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1474946202714079236

And they truly wonder why folks are behaving as they are through this endless swamp of BULLSHIT.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I remember when this happened.

Running with the Russians

December 27, 2021 at 11:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

This piece is only available to Political Wire members.

In September of 1991, my roommates and I were settling in to begin our second year at Harvard’s Kennedy School when we suddenly heard Russian singing downstairs.

While parties were common in graduate school housing, the Russian singing certainly was not. After 45 minutes of speculation about what was going on, we decided to introduce ourselves to our new neighbors.

We knocked on the door and it quickly swung open. The apartment was filled with middle-aged men. No one spoke a word of English but they happily invited us in.

Everyone was extremely friendly. We were offered Russian vodka and some really terrible sausage. And then we tried to hard task of trying to communicate with our new neighbors.

I don’t remember exactly how it happened, but somehow we agreed — or at least we thought we did — to meet the next morning at 5 a.m. to go running along the Charles River.

That was hardly a normal time for graduate students to wake up, but we were intrigued. So we set our alarms and stumbled outside early the next morning. And sure enough, our new friends were waiting for us.

Valery, who appeared to be their leader, started us running. He picked up the speed and was soon sprinting along the river. About a quarter mile later he stopped and was doubled over, completely out of breath. Valery was not alone. Our new neighbors were in terrible shape and barely lasted two miles.

When we arrived back at our apartment, we were given Russian sportsman pins by our mysterious new friends.

Later that morning, we learned that these men were actually high-ranking Russian generals taking part in a historic national security seminar at the Kennedy School.

The timing was remarkable since it was just weeks after the Warsaw Pact had dissolved and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had beaten back a failed coup attempt by communist hard-liners.

Just three months later, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine would join together to create an alliance. When most of the other Soviet republics announced that they would also become part of the new federation, Gorbachev had to choose whether he would try to hold the U.S.S.R. together by force or step aside.

He chose to resign.

That Christmas, we thought a lot about our Russian friends and the decisions they were making back in Moscow and the advice they were likely giving.

This week marks thirty years since the fall of the Soviet Union and we now know those decisions changed world affairs for more than a generation.

rrb said...

Anonymous Good pastor James said...

Roger is right. His presentation of a psychological analysis of what is wrong with you guys is spot on. As I pointed out in a column that appeared in an Illinois and in a North Carolina newspaper, Jesus did say that "life does not consist in the abundance or your possessions." Too many of you think it does. That is why you are so greedily unhappy with life.


The alky is only right to the extent that what he says ails us on the right ails him himself, and is one more example of his chronic psychological projection. he lives in a tiny box with a fucking whack-a-doo, not allowed to venture into the outside world without escort.

Meanwhile -


A very different view of conservatives and the political right emerges in Schlenker, Chambers and Le’s paper:

Conservatives score higher than liberals on personality and attitude measures that are traditionally associated with positive adjustment and mental health, including personal agency, positive outlook, transcendent moral beliefs, and generalized belief in fairness. These constructs, in turn, can account for why conservatives are happier than liberals and have declined less in happiness in recent decades.

In contrast to Napier and Jost’s “view that conservatives are generally fearful, low in self-esteem, and rationalize away social inequality,” Schlenker, Chambers and Le argue:

Conservatives are more satisfied with their lives, in general and in specific domains (e.g., marriage, job, residence), report better mental health and fewer mental and emotional problems, and view social justice in ways that are consistent with binding moral foundations, such as by emphasizing personal agency and equity.


https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/liberals-are-miserable-people.php

In other words, conservatives understand that the social justice you clowns think you can achieve through pure greed requires hard work and moral agency that does not come cheap. Using the government to relieve an individual of their wealth to bestow upon others is as corrupt and as flawed as one can be.

It is always those on the left who are so pre-occupied with the wealth of others. All couched in "fairness"; a completely subjective term that the left cloaks itself in to justify their theft.

A modern day worship of the golden calf.

So in the words of the prophet RRB: "Go forth and fucketh yourself, pederast."

Honest pastor James said...


The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.
December 27, 2021 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 90 Comments

Peter Wehner: “Donald Trump Jr. is both intensely unappealing and uninteresting. He combines in his person corruption, ineptitude, and banality. He is perpetually aggrieved; obsessed with trolling the left; a crude, one-dimensional figure who has done a remarkably good job of keeping from public view any redeeming qualities he might have.

“There’s a case to be made that he’s worth ignoring, except for this: Don Jr. has been his father’s chief emissary to MAGA world; he’s one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party; and he’s influential with Republicans in positions of power. He’s also attuned to what appeals to the base of the GOP. So, from time to time, it is worth paying attention to what he has to say.”


Israel Begins Trials of Fourth Vaccine Shot
December 27, 2021 at 9:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments

“Israel has begun trials of a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in what is believed to be the first study of its kind,” the AP reports.


Chief Justice Holds Highest Approval of Top Officials

December 27, 2021 at 9:09 am EST By Taegan Goddard 31 Comments

“Chief Justice John Roberts earns the highest job approval rating of 11 U.S. leaders with 60% approving of how he is handling his role,” according to Gallup.

“Only two other leaders on the list are reviewed positively by majorities of Americans — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (53%)
and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci (52%).”



Greene Owns Stock In Big Vaccine Companies
December 27, 2021 at 8:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has boasted about being unvaccinated against Covid-19, owns stock in three major vaccine makers, Insider reports.


Quote of the Day
December 27, 2021 at 8:09 am EST By Taegan Goddard 117 Comments

“People oftentimes forget that, like, how old Trump is. He comes from a generation — I’ve seen other people that are older have the exact same perspective, like, they came from a time before TV, before internet, before being able to conduct their independent research.”
— Conservative commentator Candice Owens, pushing back on Donald Trump’s recent embrace of the coronavirus vaccine.

HOW THEY DESPISE TRUMP FOR ADVISING THEM TO GET BOTH VACCINATED AND BOOSTED.


How the Capitol Riot Turned a Partisan Congress ‘Toxic’
December 27, 2021 at 7:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

Wall Street Journal: “In interviews with more than four dozen lawmakers and congressional aides, people of all political stripes say the House has become a deeply unpleasant place to work, with simmering ill feeling and a series of ugly incidents fraying remaining bipartisan ties. Today, magnetometers meant to detect weapons beep regularly as House lawmakers enter and exit the chamber that was breached almost a year ago, serving as a regular reminder of the attack.

Said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD):
“It’s as bad as I’ve seen it. The toxic environment has been building for a long, long time before Jan. 6, but Jan. 6 just blew it up in flames.”


MAGA Squad Boosts Challengers to GOP Lawmakers
December 27, 2021 at 7:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments

“The defiant far-right acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican caucus have embarked on a targeted campaign ahead of the midterm elections to expand their ranks — and extend their power — on Capitol Hill,” the Washington Post reports.

“The effort, backed by Trump and guided by House members such as Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), is part of a broader push by followers of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement to purge the GOP of those not deemed loyal to the former president and his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden.”

THE GOP IS TEARING ITSELF APART.

Truth telling pastor James said...

House to Probe Trump Call to Willard Hotel
December 27, 2021 at 6:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments

“Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, has said the panel will open an inquiry into Donald Trump’s phone call seeking to stop Joe Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January hours before the insurrection,” The Guardian reports.

“The chairman said the select committee intended to scrutinize the phone call – revealed last month by the Guardian – should they prevail in their legal effort to obtain Trump White House records over the former president’s objections of executive privilege.”



2022 Could Be the Year of the Political Comeback
December 27, 2021 at 6:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments

“Every election year, American politicians find new and ever more brazen ways to disprove that old F. Scott Fitzgerald adage—that there are ‘no second acts in American lives,’” the Daily Beast reports.

“Next year’s pivotal midterm elections feature a raft of political figures nationwide who are trying to do just that, attempting to regain their former power and glory, avenge past defeats, move past scandals, or in one very prominent case, do all three.”



Omicron Drives New Cases to Record Levels
December 27, 2021 at 6:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 34 Comments

Washington Post: “Coronavirus cases are being reported at record levels across the world — surpassing even last winter’s devastating peak in some places — as officials grapple with a surge caused by the omicron variant. France recorded more than 104,000 new cases Saturday, reaching a six-figure daily tally for the first time. Britain, Italy, Ireland and the Australian state of New South Wales also reported record high levels of new cases over the weekend.”

“In the United States, the seven-day average of new daily cases was more than 203,000 on Sunday, according to a Washington Post tally, a level not seen since Jan. 19 last year. U.S. health officials warn that the country could soon see more than 1 million new cases per day, far beyond last winter’s peak of 248,000.”

New York Times: “Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Puerto Rico are among the areas that have reported more coronavirus cases in the past week than in any other seven-day period.”


Airlines Cancel More Than 6,000 Flights Over Weekend
December 26, 2021 at 11:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 104 Comments

More than 6,000 flights worldwide have been cancelled over the three-day Christmas weekend as airlines continue to contend with surging cases of the Omicron variant and staff shortages, CNN reports.

Roughly 1,700 of these flights were within, into or out of the U.S.



Trump Got Nearly $4 Million In British Aid While President
December 26, 2021 at 8:50 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments

Donald Trump’s Scottish golf courses claimed $4 million in Covid-relief furlough payouts from the U.K. Government while he was president, The Independent reports.

The payments were detailed in newly released accounts filed with the U.K. by Golf Recreation Scotland Ltd., the holding company that owns both golf courses.


Unvaccinated Remain Defiant
December 26, 2021 at 3:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 520 Comments

New York Times: “Now, health experts say the roughly 15 percent of the adult population that remains stubbornly unvaccinated is at the greatest risk of severe illness and death from the Omicron variant, and could overwhelm hospitals that are already brimming with Covid patients.”