TRUMP: One, Final, Egregious Trait.

Had enough of Donald Trump? Well, I'll end with another egregious trait, his disdain for what should be good and supported. For example, he kept making fun of global climate warming and began the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. But those diplomats in the UN are not total idiots. The departure process insured for a one year delay so that about the time the U.S. officially was to have departed, Trump lost to Biden. Of course, President Joe Biden scuttled the exodus, and rescued America, and the World.

He is xenophobic and particularly despised NATO and the UN. For example:

Withdrew the U.S. from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in October of 2017. Had something to do with bias of the UN against Israel. Well, whatever, it was, President Joe Biden worked it out, for we are rejoining UNESCO next month.

Pulled out of the UN Human Rights Council, the first nation to ever do so, and became among only four nations not participating in its proceedings. We returned after Biden became president after a 3-year absence.
The U.S. withdrew from negotiations on the Global Compact for Migration. Why? Trump deemed child immigration factors incompatible to his beliefs. Of course, Biden reversed this position.
Do you have a sense that Trump has no "heart?"

About that lack of heart, Trump tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding for PBS and National Public Radio.

The NEA gets 0.004% of the U.S. budget.
An Ipsos Public Affairs survey showed that by a 2-1 ratio, Americans supported DOUBLING the NEA budget.
Congress saved the NEA during Trump's reign, and Biden again increased it's annual budget.

Of course we know that he never bothered to greet the Bidens to the White House, but did you know that by not showing up at Biden's Inauguration, he was the first previous president in 152 years not to do so?
Actually, Trump does have a heart, which is defective. This was not the reason why he regularly got a deferment from the Vietnam War. Reportedly, he has something called heel spurs.

Finally, Trump has a theory that exercise is bad for you. More?

Sleeps 4 hours/night.
Got divorced from his second wife Marla because she supposedly had an affair with a bodyguard.
He is a germaphobe and avoids handshakes.
Is overweight, and the third heaviest president.
Won a Razzie as Worst Supporting Actor. Actually, he now has three Razzies.
Has been sued more than 3000 times.
More than 20 women has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.
Has short fingers.
Has nicknames: Tiny Hands, King of Debt, Orange Julius, World's Greatest Troll and Godzilla with Less Foreign Policy Experience.
You can still buy Donald Trump Toilet Paper on Amazon.
Was the first billionaire president.
Has been a Democrat, Independent, and now runs the Republican Party.
Is the only president with no military or political experience.
Starts his workday at around 11AM.
There are 120 of these facts to drive you nuts.

Can't end the week with Donald Trump. Heard that the Beatles will release a final song? Watch this. Even John Lennon and George Harrison are involved...using Artificial Intelligence. Legality? Spotify had the AI music of Drake and The Weeknd for 600,000 streams until it yanked it off their platform.

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicious and troublesome. This strain has also been spreading in

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics. Thursday was my pandemic day for years. Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments. All these subvariants derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms. One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell. From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant, BA.2.86, also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to lose hair for several months. This is caused by stress more than anythi

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These are held every five years, and there have only been

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