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LIZ CHENEY: 5 November 2024?

     From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

          DAY  USA  WORLD    Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82
July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572
Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130
Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82
Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85
Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118
Dec    30       3880    14748       1224       299      465
Jan     14        4142    15512        1151         189      712
Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398
Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194
April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37
May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59 
June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95
 July    7         251      8440        1595        817      411
Aug     4         656    10120        1118         532      423 
Sept   22      2228      9326          839       279     124
Oct      6       2102      8255          543       315       59
Nov    3        1436      7830         186        458       23
Dec     1       1633      8475          266        477       28
Jan     7        2025      6729         148         285     140
Feb     2        2990   12012          946        991      175
Mar     2        1778     7756          335         173       28 
Apr     1          439      4056         290          52       12
May    5          225      2404          151            ?       64 
         12          222      1995           136           9       21
         19          201      1801           115           20      31
         26          217      1528          136           14      49
June   2          216       1413         130          10       31
          9          195      1526         148           24       24 
        15          305      1382         289           11       26 
         23         266      1650        346            ?          7 
         29         326      1608        294           39       19 
         30         228      1517         274           23       29 
July    6          316      1627        335           35       12 
         13          407       1742        388          38       12 
         14          231       1721         292          47         8
        21          367       2063        351          45         4
        22          251       1785         271          69         3

Summary:
  • Clearly, the World is now in its 7th wave.  You never see a positivity curve, but here is the latest.
  • As deaths follow by two to three weeks, there is an expectation that new deaths could yet increase.  No question this is the most contagious variant yet, but the mortality index is not all that bad.  Vaccines help to keep you from dying.  Well, we need to wait until mid-August.
  • Yikes, my next trip is supposed to be to Japan.  However, yesterday, they had the highest number of new cases  in the world with 135,239.  #2 was Germany with 107,819, and #3 the USA with 100,711.
    • Today, Japan reported 190,000 new cases!  The third straight record-breaking day for the country.
    • Yesterday Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki declared a special state of emergency for his prefecture's medical care system.  Special rules are also being made for bars and restaurants.
      • Okinawa has long had the nation's highest number of COVID-19 cases per million residents, and with a population similar to Hawaii, had 5250 new cases on Wednesday, the second consecutive day over 5000.  Hawaii is averaging one tenth that rate, and we are among the worst states.
      • These new mandates will last until August 31.
      • We are supposed to be in Okinawa for the World Uchinanchu Festival in October.
  • #1 in new deaths was Brazil with 271.  #2 USA with 251.
  • The USA was only #43 in new cases/million population with 300. Australia was at 2106, New Zealand 2064 and Singapore 1640.  Japan #16 with 1076, even though it had the most new cases.
  • The USA was #27 in new deaths/million with 0.75.  New Zealand #4 with 6, Japan #35 with 0.4.

Well, hearing #9 of the House January 6 Committee came in prime time last night, with three stars, Republican Liz Cheney, Republican  Adam Kinzinger and Democrat Elaine Luria.  They quizzed a couple more White House staffers.  Read all about it here.  Chairman Bennie Thompson was infected with COVID and participated electronically.

The Committee sealed the doom of Donald Trump, and will meet again in September to nail his coffin.  However, how did they do this without publicly featuring Trump, Mike Pence, and at least a dozen other sycophants who were the leaders of the attempted coup, is both a wonderment and weakness.  What is the reluctance?  Maybe congressional committees, faced with deadlines, apparently cannot effectively subpoena recalcitrant witnesses.  That is perhaps left to the Department Justice.  Or maybe state of Georgia.

Cheney again praised Cassidy Hutchinson:

She knew all along she would be attacked by president trump and the 50-, 60- and 70- year old men who hide behind executive privilege.

She also warned of what was at stake.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Liz Cheney won her current House seat in 2020 with  69% of the vote.  She supported Trump's initiatives in Congress 93% of the time, but voted FOR his impeachment.  Clearly now an anti-Trumper, she will probably lose in her Wyoming Republican primary next month.  That could well be the springboard to her run for the presidency in 2024.

She is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and got a law degree from the University of Chicago.  She is married to another lawyer, Phillip Perry, and they have five children.  One of  her jobs was with Fox News, where she guest-hosted programs such as Hannity and Fox News Sunday.

She would have a problem running as the Republican candidate for president in 2024.  However, why not as an Independent?  They now represent more than 40% of voters.  This percentage went as high as 46% in January 2022.

The last non-Democrat/Republican U.S. president was Whig Millard Fillmore, from 1850-53.  He was a cloth dresser who fell in love with his teacher, Abigail Powers.  He later got a law degree and married her.  He opposed Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War era.  Even if was selected as the 7th worst president, he was better than #2 Donald Trump and #1 James Buchanan.

An ideal running mate for Cheney would be Adam Kinzinger, who will not run this year, even though he garnered 65% of the vote in 2020.  His searing comment yesterday as one of the Committee leaders was:  President Trump did not fail to act...he chose not to act.

Kinzinger is 44 years old, and has been representing his district in Illinois since 2011, winning that initial election 57%-43%.   He was also one of those 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.  Kinzinger graduated in political science from Illinois State University, and while a student was voted at the age of 20 to the country board.  He then interned for former U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald.  Joined the U.S. Air Force, and flew over Iraq and Afghanistan, and has a current rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard.

From Wikipedia:

During a September 5, 2021, interview on CNN's State of the Union, Kinzinger said his party "desperately needs to tell the truth", that if the party pushes lies and conspiracy theories, it does not deserve to win Congressional majorities in the 2022 elections, that if they were "going to be in charge and pushing conspiracy, pushing division, and pushing lies, then the Republican Party should not have the majority", and that it "is a pretty scary place to go in this world if we start using our power as a way to get the outcome that we want" in elections.[67]

Yesterday I suggested what to watch.  I add The Gray Man, which premieres today on Netflix.  I love it when Rotten Tomatoes shows gargantuan discrepancies.  For this film, reviewers said 51% and audiences 90%.  I almost always side with the masses.

The film stars Ryan Gosling as a black ops mercenary.  The production has been more than a decade in gestation, and was originally supposed to feature either Brad Pitt or Charlize Theron.  The budget ended up being $200 million, one of the most expensive funded by Netflix.


One more film to watch, this one in your neighborhood theater, is Nope (Rotten Tomatoes 91/78), bringing together the team that made the breakout movie, Get Out (RT 98/86), director Jordan Peel and leading man Daniel Kaluuya.  A horror film involving horses, humans and an extraterrestrial force that devours.  Is NOPE an acronym for Not of Planet Earth?   Rated R.

I thought, what would be ideal to end this week and blog today just the opposite of horror.  The following is a pretty good antipode.

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