Category: U.S. Politics
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: U.S, Inches Ever Closer to the 200,000-Deaths Mark
200,000 Americans have died of COVID because we have a president who cares about no one except himself. – Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT, September 19, 2020 As the third week of September 2020 begins and summer starts its inevitable march into the past, giving way to autumn, Americans are seeing banner headlines on social media,…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Reaching the 200,000-Deaths Milestone, or ‘What We Have Here, is a Failure of Leadership’
Sometime soon – perhaps by the end of this weekend in September of 2020 – the official COVID-19 death toll in the United States of America will reach and surpass the 200,000 mark. Think about that a minute. 200,000 or more men, women, and children have died in the U.S. as a result of the…
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Musings on Politics, September 5, 2020: Trump Disses America’s War Dead as ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’; Supporters Don’t Care
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late Saturday morning in my corner of Florida as I start this post, and – no surprise – it’s going to be another hot late summer day here. Currently, the temperature here is 83˚F (29˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With a slight breeze blowing from the east at 2 MPH…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, August 29, 2020, or: The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on a Middle-Aged Writer
Hello, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to another edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. In my corner of Florida, it’s already midafternoon on this, the last Saturday of August 2020. Currently, the temperature is 90˚F (32˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 70% and a southwesterly breeze of 8 MPH, the “feels-like”…
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Rainy Thursday and Other Thoughts & Musings, August 20, 2020
Hi there, Constant (and Not-So-Constant) Reader. Well, it’s rather late in my blogging schedule on this Thursday, but that’s what happens when you have two blogs and realize that while one of them is getting new content almost every day, the other one is not. So on this rainy and gloomy evening, I am posting…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: You Can’t Fix Stupid
Hello there, Dear Reader. Well, here we are on Thursday, August 13, 2020, and in my corner of Florida it is a hot summer morning. Currently, the temperature outside is 83˚F, but humidity at 87% and a south-southeasterly breeze blowing at 3 MPH with occasional gusts of 5 MPH, the feels-like temperatures are 99˚F in…
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Thoughts & Musings for July 29, 2020
Bits and Pieces of My Mind Well, here we are on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. It is mid-morning here in my corner of Florida, though by the time you read this it will be close to noon. Right now the temperature outside is 78˚F under cloudy skies; the little daylight streaming through my window is…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Stupidity and Craven Disregard for Public Health …Two Things That Irk Me
Today the U.S. reached another unhappy milestone in the novel coronavirus pandemic: as of 4:30 this afternoon, 78,469 Americans – young, middle-aged, and elderly; rich, poor, famous and not famous – have died from COVID-19 in a four-month period. By way of comparison, the bloodiest post-World War II conflict in U.S. history resulted in 58,220…
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“These Times Try Men Souls…” Life in the COVID-19 Era
How will history remember how the United States and its government responded to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the first half of the year 2020? Will we – and the Administration of one Donald John Trump – be remembered as the Americans who faced a serious crisis with unity, determination, and courage? Or will…
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