Gimmick...

 

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration's Covid-related eviction moratorium.

"Congress was on notice that a further extension would almost surely require new legislation, yet it failed to act in the several weeks leading up to the moratorium's expiration," the court wrote in an unsigned, eight-page opinion

Landlord groups challenging the eviction ban pointed to a concurrence written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when the earlier version of the moratorium was before the Supreme Court in June. Kavanaugh said Congress had to act in order to extend it.

The landlords accused the Biden administration of "gamesmanship" for ultimately reviving the moratorium after several top administration officials said, in the wake of Kavanaugh's concurrence, that they did not think the Supreme Court would uphold an extension of the moratorium.

The court pointed to the "decades-old statute" the CDC was relying on to defend the moratorium that it "strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts."

Award...

 

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute  praised Cuomo, who first took office on January 2011, for fighting “for social, racial and economic justice for all New Yorkers.”

Under Cuomo’s leadership, New York passed a $15 minimum wage, the nation's strongest paid family leave program and some of its strongest gun safety laws, the institute said.

Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Edward Kennedy, said Cuomo showed leadership during the early days of the pandemic when thousands were dying in New York.

Cuomo said the test of leadership is telling people what they don’t want to hear including the need for social distancing from those not in their immediate household.

“That’s when Gov. Cuomo became a household name," she said. “His dialing briefings became must-see TV.”

He continued to be a household name all the way til the bitter end. And I mean Bitter.

 Just a thought.

Baby Daddy...

 

Survive..

 

Some don't want to be forced to even accept new technologies. Why is this so hard for the Americans to understand. Don't we have the same here?

Some are living comfortably in their whatever century they are in. They would gradually move at their own pace to whatever time zone they can survive in.

Here comes the Americans........ to move women and girls few centuries ahead. Who wants that?.. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, husbands, sons, daughters?

We paid people to agree with us and with our plans. Just a thought.

Lives...

 

Over...

 

Distance...

 

..Mutates...

 

When the coronavirus surfaced last year, no one was prepared for it to invade every aspect of daily life for so long, so insidiously. The pandemic has forced Americans to wrestle with life-or-death choices every day of the past 18 months and there is no end in sight.

Scientific understanding of the virus changes by the hour, it seems. The virus spreads only by close contact or on contaminated surfaces, and then turns out to be airborne. The virus mutates slowly, but then emerges in a series of dangerous new forms. Americans do not need to wear masks. Wait, they do.

Americans are living with science as it unfolds in real time. The process has always been fluid, unpredictable. But rarely has it moved at this speed, leaving citizens to confront research findings as soon as they land at the front door, a stream of deliveries that no one ordered and no one wants.

Is a visit to my ailing parent too dangerous? Do the benefits of in-person schooling outweigh the possibility of physical harm to my child? Will our family gathering turn into a super spreader event?
Living with a capricious enemy has been unsettling even for researchers, public health officials and journalists who are used to the mutable nature of science. They, too, have frequently agonized over the best way to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.

But to frustrated Americans unfamiliar with the circuitous and often contentious path to scientific discovery, public health officials have seemed at times to be moving the goal posts and flip-flopping, or misleading, even lying to, the country.

Most of the time, scientists are “edging forward in a very incremental way,” 
“There are blind alleys that people go down, and a lot of the time, you kind of don’t know what you don’t know.”

Biology and medicine are particularly demanding fields. Ideas are evaluated for years, sometimes decades, before they are accepted.
Not this time, we got no time...    Just a thought.

Unavoidable...

Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has led to scenes of pandemonium in Afghanistan, with as many as 11,000 Americans and tens of thousands of endangered Afghans scrambling to evacuate the country.

 Scenes of civilians swamping planes on the runway at the Kabul airport, desperate for escape, have triggered bipartisan criticism that the Biden administration handled the hasty exit poorly.

 President Joe Biden stood firm in his defense of the United States' withdrawal, and asserted for the first time that he believes the chaos was unavoidable.

"Now exactly what happened, I've not priced in," he said. "But I knew that they're going to have an enormous  Look, one of the things we didn't know is what the Taliban would do in terms of trying to keep people from getting out.  

What are they doing now? They're cooperating, letting American citizens get out, American personnel get out, embassies get out, et cetera, but they're having -- we're having some more difficulty having those who helped us when we were in there."

Anybody...