Written By Elizabeth Moon.

Wednesday, December 9, the United States distinguished itself once more as the World Wide Leader in Covid-19 deaths, by piercing the daily-death ceiling of 3000 in one day. That is, the officially recorded deaths.  3,053.  Three thousand fifty-three individuals who were alive this time last year, last month, and up until they got Covid. 

We have thirty counties in Texas with a smaller population than 3,053* and 236 of our 254 counties have a smaller population than the US Covid-19 deaths overall, 290,000.*  Had the whole weight of this fallen on a single Texas county, only eighteen of them would’ve had survivors left to tell the tale. So much winning.

Meanwhile, in New Zealand, a former member of our church choir came to our weekly Zoom meeting that same evening to report that her new choir (in Nelson, South Island) was about to have a short rehearsal and choir dinner, and would be performing in the city center twelve times during the holidays. Schools, stores, businesses, churches, are all open…no Covid closures because they don’t have Covid cases now.  Personally, I’d call that winning and our government losers.

Reason #1:

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1336455009194618881

Reason #2:  

Texas Senator Ted Cruz To Present Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit To Supreme Court If They Take Case https://t.co/8agEhFKlYR pic.twitter.com/JYDrVMUKRf

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 8, 2020

Reason #3:

Gov. Greg Abbott tells supporters he's considering placing law enforcement for central Austin under state control https://t.co/5gTVWWEAOg via @TexasTribune

— Mark S. Getzfred (@marknyt) December 4, 2020

If you need ten reasons, I can do that, too.

Good Morning from Nick Carraway:

“”God wants law

God wants organized crime

God wants crusade

God wants jihad

God wants good

God wants bad

What God wants God gets.” – Roger Waters

Before she got the Covid, Jenna Ellis went to the place most conservatives seem to go to eventually. She was doing God’s work. The direct quote is about as predictable as any you might see. “Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country, That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

I’m not sure if Mr. Waters above believes in God or not. His lyrics are often dripping with sarcasm and he has gotten in hot water recently for some anti-Semitic stances, but this three part song represents how we as people can pervert religion to serve our purposes. No matter what we do we can do it under the assumption that it is what God wants.

I’m not going to go into all the reasons why this particular reasoning is flawed. Everyone here knows the score. The question for Ms. Ellis is whether one can credibly do God’s work while subverting justice and lying. Again, let’s forget about the ultimate goal of giving him a second term and what that would mean. People can believe what they want. Do the ends justify the means?”

Nick

You would probably not imagine that things ever get mean in Idaho. Oh, but they do.

The Central District Health Board of Health meeting Tuesday night to discuss and vote on a public health order dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic was adjourned shortly after it started because of the danger posed by protesters at the CDH office and at some board members’ places of residence.

Moments after a tearful Commissioner Diana Lachiondo left the virtual meeting to head to her house — where her son was home alone, and where anti-mask, anti-health-order protesters had reportedly gathered.

There are lines you don’t cross and trying to intimidate a minor is one of them.  And that is the problem with the anti-maskers.  They have no lines.  They believe they have the right to blow their contagious disease in your face, to pee in a public swimming pool, and to scare your kids because they are hacked off at you.

I think these are people who have two emotions – mad and not mad.  Oh, and drunk. But the emotions remain the same.

If they feel personally affronted, they don’t have words to express it, so the scream freedumb! Everything is a personal affront to them. Everything.

They love Jesus, think he was blonde, but couldn’t tell you anything he ever said.

They think Wolf Blitzer is a communist. They heard it somewhere.

I’m sure you’ve got more observations ….

Mike Flynn appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo and it was a mess.

Flynn is very upset that President Barack Obama warned Trump about Mike Flynn at their first White House meeting. Flynn whines, “they mention two people: dear leader Kim Jong Un and Gen. Michael Flynn. I’m public enemy number one.”

No, I think that would make you #2, which is about right.

I guess it’s about then that Flynn recognizes that he’s whining because he flips and lets this out about President Obama.

“And he should have been afraid of me and he still should be afraid,” he added. “Obama talking about me is outrageous. I will not give him any more time on your show.”

Oh Flynn, give me a break. Obama could take you and shove your old skinny butt through a basketball hoop in about 10 seconds.  Hellfire, you old lying piece of crap, I ain’t even scared of you. I’m an old lady and I could take you in 30 seconds and if you give me a walker, I could cut that time in half. You give me a walker and District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan and, Honey, you’d never know what hit you but you’d have to pull a purse and a gavel out of your ear for someone to explain it to you.

Idiot.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.