‘Two people who prevented us from doing it’
(Brent D. Griffiths) bgriffiths@insider.com
LIVING IN A LAND OF CONFUSION – THE WORLD is certainly deteriorating rapidly.
I am hearing reports from people worldwide about how bad things are becoming.
Tragically with so many hard-hearted people and the church being dull of hearing, conditions must get worse so that people can become desperate for God. However, this
is not a time for doom and gloom. Thankfully, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. And God’s grace is always sufficient for those who will simply call upon the Lord. Even so, come Lord Jesus!
https://www.sourceministries.net/go/2012/08/living-in-a-world-of-confusion/
Bernie Sanders said Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have “sabotaged” Biden’s agenda. Sanders unloaded on two of his fellow Senate Democrats for opposing parts of Biden’s economic plan. His criticism comes at a time when Democrats are increasingly pessimistic about passing even parts of Biden’s agenda.
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These 9 Senate races hold the key to who will control Joe Biden’s agenda after the midterm elections in America. Democrats and Republicans will battle over Senate seats in nine key states in November. The outcomes will determine who controls the Senate next year.
Polling shows Republican congressional candidates have an edge against Democrats.
There will be 34 US Senate elections this year, but control of the US Senate will hinge
on just nine contests. Both Democrats and Republicans have their eyes on the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
All are considered competitive by the Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional and presidential races, as well as operatives and pollsters from both parties.
Democrats are playing defense in four of those states, while Republicans are seeking to keep five more. At stake for both parties is control of the US Senate, and whoever holds power come January 2023 will determine what, if anything, President Joe Biden can accomplish in the final two years of his first term.
Democrats barely hold the Senate. The chamber is divided 50-50 between the two parties, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as a tie-breaker (the chamber’s two independents, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders and Maine’s Angus King, caucus with Democrats).
Republicans are eager to capitalize on voters’ concerns about inflation and
frustration with the lingering pandemic in order to oust at least one incumbent Democrat.
Political winds may be on their side. Recent polling shows voters are frustrated with Democrats, mostly due to economic concerns. And an ABC News poll from February found that Republican congressional candidates have a seven-point edge over Democratic ones among registered voters. The gap is even starker among voters who are registered and also certain to vote, with Republican candidates leading Democratic ones 54-41%.
While home-state factors will weigh in on each of those senate races, national forces, such as Trump’s continued sway over Republican voters, economic anxiety, and frustration over the coronavirus pandemic will also likely play a role in deciding the balance of power in Washington. Read the original article on Business Insider
Sen. Bernie Sanders unloaded Sunday on Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, calling out the pair of centrist Democrats by name and arguing that they have “sabotaged” President Joe Biden’s agenda.
“You have two members of the Senate, Sen. Manchin and Sen. Sinema, who have sabotaged what the president has been fighting for,” Sanders told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”
Todd responded that “sabotage” was a “strong word” to use, but Sanders doubled down on his criticism of his Democratic colleagues. Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, also serves on Senate Democratic leadership with Manchin.
“You got 48 members of the Senate who wanted to go forward with an agenda that helped working families, that was prepared to take on the wealthy and the powerful,” Sanders said. “You got a president who wanted to do that. You had two people who prevented us from doing it.”
Sanders and Manchin have tussled publicly before, but this latest round comes as progressive Democrats express increasing exasperation with Manchin and Sinema.
The two senators have opposed passing parts of Biden’s sweeping climate and spending plan once known as “Build Back Better” into law.
Manchin snapped at Sanders in January when the former presidential candidate hinted that the West Virginia Democrat should potentially face a primary challenger.
“Well, Senator Sanders is not a Democrat,” Manchin said at the time, adding that Sanders’ ideology was “not what I think the majority of Americans represent.”
There is hope that a slimmed-down version of the once $3.5 trillion proposal can still pass, but Democrats are increasingly running out of time as the midterm election approaches.
Both Manchin and Sinema have repeatedly expressed concern over rising inflation as prices spike to their worst point in 40 years. Their inflation-related fears have only added to skepticism about even small pieces of Biden’s plan becoming law. As Insider previously reported, Manchin has also thrown cold water on universal pre-K and other aspects of the original plan.
The White House has also tweeded off on Manchin in the past, a move that reportedly led Manchin to effectively kill Build Back Better late last year. Since then, Biden and his team have been careful not to publicly question Manchin’s loyalty.
The most recent example of this was this past week when Manchin joined Senate Republicans in blocking Democrats from passing federal abortion protections into law. Manchin told reporters that he supports codifying Roe v. Wade, but he argued that Democrats’ proposal goes too far. Biden released a statement attacking Senate Republicans for opposing the bill, but Manchin’s name or even a mention of his
opposition was nowhere to be found. Read the original article on Business Insider
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Eating crow is a colloquial idiom,[1] used in some English-speaking countries, that
means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.[2] The crow is a carrion-eater that is presumably repulsive to eat in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow.[2] The exact origin of the idiom is unknown, but it probably began with an American story published around 1850 about a dim-witted New York farmer.[3] Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect, such as to “eat dirt” and to “eat your hat” (or shoe), all probably originating from “to eat one’s words”, which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin‘s tracts, on Psalm 62: “God eateth not his words when he hath once spoken”.[2]
Literally eating a crow is traditionally seen as being distasteful; the crow, if understood
to be a type of raven, is one of the birds listed in Leviticus chapter 11[4] as being unfit for eating. Scavenging carrion eaters have a long association with the battlefield,
“They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island,” says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Along with buzzards, rats, and other carrion-eating scavenging animals, there is a tradition in Western culture going back to at least the Middle Ages of seeing them as distasteful (even illegal at times) to eat,[5] and thus naturally humiliating if forced to consume against one’s will.[2]
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A million COVID deaths: Here’s when the U.S. shot past the rest of the developing world.
By John Woolfolk, Harriet Blair Rowan, Bay Area News Group
Two years ago, COVID-19 was killing Western Europeans faster than Americans.
Even in early 2021, the virus wasn’t taking U.S. lives at the clip it was in the United Kingdom, Italy or Belgium.
But that changed last fall.
By November, after the delta variant swept through the country, the United States’ overall death rate shot past its European peers as well as its neighbor to the south, Mexico. This month, as the U.S. marks its millionth COVID-19 death, the country is left pondering how the richest nation on earth has recorded nearly a sixth of the 6.25 million reported deaths from the virus around the world.
The answer is regrettable, said Ali H. Mokdad, professor of health metrics at the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.
“The main driver of our higher mortality is we did not adhere to mandates on social mobility, wearing masks, and other countries did a much better job,” he said. “And second, we had a lot of deaths after we had vaccines.”
More than 400,000 of those 1 million U.S. deaths came after May 2021 when COVID-19 vaccines became widely available here to all adults – and they came, in large part, because many Americans have avoided the shots. At about two-thirds of its population, the U.S. has a smaller share of fully vaccinated people than most countries in Western Europe, including the U.K., France, Germany, Spain and Italy, which are all at or above three-quarters.
“Not only did we have vaccines, but we had plenty of vaccines, and we had
plenty of good vaccines,” Mokdad said. “So that has been a failure in our approach.”
Things were different at first. In May 2020 the U.S. death rate was half that of Italy –
hit hard in one of the world’s worst early outbreaks.
According to Johns Hopkins University figures compiled by Our World in Data,
run by the nonprofit Global Change Data Lab based in the United Kingdom.
But by last November, the U.S. death rate had eclipsed that of Italy, as well as Belgium,
the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Today it is 50% higher than the combined rate for high-income countries worldwide, as well as the combined rates in South America, Europe, Asia or Africa.
It’s nearly 25% higher than the rate for the European Union.
Experts generally agree with Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist with UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston, that America’s “very individualistic society” resisted health regulations to an extent not seen in other developed nations. The situation here was made worse, they say, by the extreme politicization of public health during the COVID crisis. Elsewhere in the world, politicization has taken different forms. In particular, many nations – including India, Russia and China – are thought to have purposefully undercounted their COVID toll.
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The World Health Organization earlier this month estimated excess deaths from the virus – the number of deaths above baseline levels seen in prior years – at 15 million globally in the first two years of the pandemic, 2 ½ higher than the official tally. It’s not all deliberate: Many poorer nations simply haven’t been able to track the disease accurately.But in wealthier, Western nations, the counts are much more accurate – and they point to America’s resistance, especially to vaccines.
“Wearing a mask, not wearing a mask,” Troisi said, “getting vaccinated or not getting vaccinated, was linked to your political identity.”
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