David Beake wrote:
A basic income ... came close to fruition in the US in 1969 through the unlikely offices of President Nixon, who wanted every American family of four to have, from the state, at least $1,600 dollars a year – that’s $10,000 today. Until, that is, Nixon was reminded of events in Speenhamland, Berkshire, in 1795; there every citizen had a basic income against rising food prices and, by most accounts, it all worked well but a royal commission falsely claimed that all manner of social evils befell the town. Nixon’s advisers, including one Milton Friedman, recalled this and the idea was swiftly dropped....

"Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud"

https://tinyurl.com/y58zry4p

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” ---Joseph Goebbels

That's Goebbels that is.

It will be interesting to see how Joe Biden might react to this, since the Romish Church looks kindly on queers, but he may very well think it expedient to ignore this idea of supporting queerness?

Scientifically speaking, when it comes to people there are only two sexes.

Romans 1:26-27

Now, the listeners no doubt actually benefited from this interference, q.v.,

https://tinyurl.com/jga4xcx (Charismatic Chaos)

https://tinyurl.com/y4xaykqr

PTL❗❗❗❗👍

Serenity Prayer
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Adia Robinson and Adam Kelsey wrote:
....
"(Legal challenges) happen… there's nothing I can do about it," Fauci said. "I can just say, it doesn't matter who you are, where you are -- when you have congregate settings, particularly indoors, when people are not wearing masks, that is a considerable risk for acquisition and spread of infection. No matter what the circumstance is, that is a risk."
....

https://tinyurl.com/yxvwcj7j

By the way,

Chris Krebs@C_C_Krebs wrote:
Fact Check: Even if the nonsense claims of hacked voting systems and tallies were true - they're decidedly NOT & ppl propagating the claims are doing democracy great harm - every canvass, audit, or recount conducted by hand has been consistent. Can't hack paper. #WeArePerseus
12:29 PM · Nov 28, 2020
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Re-upping: Even if "massive [ballot] dumps" (I can't believe I just typed that) were true, the subsequent canvass, audit, and/or recount processes would have identified inconsistencies. And yet the outcomes were consistent in GA, WI, PA., etc. The proof is in the paper ballots....

Lanre Ola wrote:
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Around 30 of the men were beheaded in the attack, which began on Saturday morning in the village of Zabarmari, while residents said 70 people in all are feared dead.

While there was no claim of responsibility, such massacres have been carried out in the past by Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa Province which are both active in the area, where Islamic militants have killed at least 30,000 people....
....
Borno state governor Babagana Zulum, speaking at the burials, called on the federal government to recruit more soldiers, Civilian Joint Task Force members and civil defence fighters to protect farmers.

“In one side, they stay at home they may be killed by hunger and starvation, on the other, they go out to their farmlands and risk getting killed by the insurgents,” he said....

Cady Lang wrote:
“Critical race theory ultimately is calling for a society that is egalitarian, a society that is just, and a society that is inclusive, and in order to get there, we have to name the barriers to achieving a society that is inclusive,...Our government at the moment is essentially afraid of addressing our history of inequality and if we can’t address it, then we can’t change it.”---[Priscilla Ocen, professor at the Loyola Law School]

https://time.com/5891138/critical-race-theory-explained/

Mica Soellner wrote:
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"The decision isn’t final. Second, it didn’t affect our mass gathering rules. So, it didn’t mention those. It didn’t mention the overall limits," said Cuomo, who questioned why the court ruled "on an issue that is moot?”

Roberts agreed with Cuomo's sentiment, saying he didn't see a need to take action because of the state's scale-back. Breyer said if the state wants to reimpose the limits, the plaintiffs can return to the court....

--SA article--

Let all things be done decently and in order.

David Brooks wrote:
My analysis begins with a remarkable essay that Jonathan Rauch wrote for National Affairs in 2018 called “The Constitution of Knowledge.”

https://tinyurl.com/ycrgnp8c

Rauch pointed out that every society has an epistemic regime, a marketplace of ideas where people collectively hammer out what’s real. In democratic, nontheocratic societies, this regime is a decentralized ecosystem of academics, clergy members, teachers, journalists and others who disagree about a lot but agree on a shared system of rules for weighing evidence and building knowledge.
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What to do? You can’t argue people out of paranoia. If you try to point out factual errors, you only entrench false belief. The only solution is to reduce the distrust and anxiety that is the seedbed of this thinking. That can only be done first by contact, reducing the social chasm between the members of the epistemic regime and those who feel so alienated from it. And second, it can be done by policy, by making life more secure for those without a college degree.

Rebuilding trust is, obviously, the work of a generation.

Jean Mackenzie, BBC wrote:
government attempts to ban nearly all abortions.

We spent a night on the streets with the protesters as some were beaten and pepper-sprayed by police.

The Catholic country already has strict rules on abortion but the new law would stop women whose babies were likely to die after birth from having terminations.

Shocked by the scale of the protests, the government has delayed the ban, but some hospitals have already started turning women away.

https://tinyurl.com/y4kxwbba

Rather a long video for the BBC, it's 6 minutes long.

Ehud Olmert wrote:
Is it really in our best interest to poke the bear?

The decision taken by the US Department of Justice to lift all parole restrictions, including freedom of movement, on Jonathan Pollard brings to an end the 35-year-long saga during which the State of Israel was forced to contend with a tragic episode that will be remembered as one of the greatest strains on Israel-US relations.
Let us begin from the end: It is my opinion that it would be preferable if Pollard did not move to Israel, or at least not in the immediate future. For many years, I was one of the few people who handled this case, was informed of all its details, understood all of the facets, was aware of all the associated dangers, examined all of the circumstances and complications and took pains to get Pollard’s sentence reduced....

https://tinyurl.com/y5f33ytw

Amanda Mull wrote:
...“When health authorities present one rule after another without clear, science-based substantiation, their advice ends up seeming arbitrary and capricious,” the science journalist Roxanne Khamsi recently wrote in Wired. “That erodes public trust and makes it harder to implement rules that do make sense.” Experts know what has to be done to keep people safe, but confusing policies and tangled messages from some of the country’s most celebrated local leaders are setting people up to die....

https://tinyurl.com/y6cncxhz

This is why I always said, the motto that should be put on our coins should have been:

"Greed Works!"

~~~~~The Covid Tracking Project~~~~~
"COVID-19 hospitalizations have been at a record high for more than two weeks, and daily deaths have exceeded 2,000 for the first time since May...."

"Trump says for first time he'll leave office if Electoral College votes for Biden"

https://tinyurl.com/y2skyh4g

If --he follows through ❗👍

History Channel wrote:
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On May 26, 1637, two hours before dawn, the Puritans and their Indian allies marched on the Pequot village at Mystic, slaughtering all but a handful of its inhabitants. On June 5, Captain Mason attacked another Pequot village, this one near present-day Stonington, and again the Indian inhabitants were defeated and massacred. On July 28, a third attack and massacre occurred near present-day Fairfield, and the Pequot War came to an end. Most of the surviving Pequot were sold into slavery, though a handful escaped to join other southern New England tribes.

ABC.net.au wrote:
Three men who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a paedophile priest are suing Pope Francis, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne and the Catholic Church.
Key points:

• The writ was lodged in the Victorian Supreme Court
• Pope Francis, Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli and the entity representing the church are named in it
• The men's lawyer said the Pope had been named because he is the only one who can defrock a priest

It is the first known case in Australia where victims have claimed compensation from a pope for failing to take action to stop the clerical sexual abuse by a known abuser....

https://tinyurl.com/yx8lgrqm

https://tinyurl.com/y4fub5nx

Bill Mahoney wrote:
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“That Supreme Court ruling on the religious gatherings is more illustrative of the Supreme Court than anything else,” Cuomo said on a Thanksgiving morning briefing call. “It’s irrelevant from any practical impact.”
....

The decision “noted that some capacity restrictions could be permissible,” Garvey said. Other rules such as the “wearing of masks and social distancing could also certainly be enforced” at religious institutions, she said....

Lee Moran wrote:
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"Gatherings with family and friends who do not live with you can increase the chances of getting or spreading COVID-19 or the flu,” the CDC notes....

Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s own COVID-19 testing czar, on Wednesday warned the country is at “a critical and very dangerous part of this pandemic.”

And Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, has repeatedly urged Americans to scale back their holiday gatherings this year....

Emily McFarlan Miller wrote:
....
Luther wrote that letter in the midst of an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Wittenberg,...

In his treatise, Luther wrote:

“Therefore I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. … See, this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God.”

Luther himself had been ordered to leave the university in Wittenberg, where he taught, Hendel said. He refused. Instead, he and his pregnant wife, Katharina von Bora, a former nun who had learned some nursing skills in the cloister, stayed behind and opened a wing of their home as a clinic....

https://tinyurl.com/y3ohjdft