Today was mostly a good day for Donald Trump.  Although this was expected, the  Supreme Court today voted to allow Trump to run for president,  a 9-0 vote against the Colorado verdict, and a 5-4 majority preventing other states from removing him from the primary ballot.  Turns out that important as this ruling is, all those states threatening keep Trump from qualifying are Democratic states where Biden would have gotten all the electoral votes anyway.  No battleground state was involved. Frankly, I think this move at this time means that SCOTUS will now act in timely enough fashion to determine that he is  not immune to criminal prosecution  for his attempted coup on 6January2021.  At least either the Georgia ( which televises everything ) or DC trial will begin before the summer is over.  Actual judgement by November 5 would be nice, but not necessary.  We will know about the fate of Georgia district attorney Fani Willis by the middle of this month.  Yesterday Nikki Haley finally beat

On Saturday, my posting was entitled,  Here We Go Again , referring to Vietnam in 1975.  Today, NBC News reported: U.S. to send 1,000 more troops to Kabul in scramble to evacuate Video: Panicked crowds descend on Kabul airport after Taliban take city Afghan women fear 'dark' future, loss of rights as Taliban take over 'Blood on his hands': Republicans criticize Biden   Analysis: Afghans were promised the U.S. would not abandon them. Now they have .   Man and nature can indeed be cruel.  Yesterday I reported in this blog that a 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti.  While this was twice as strong as the 7.0 that devastated the already poorest country in the Americas in 2010, killing 220,000, this time "only" 1200 or so died, although there surely will be more.  However, Grace makes landfall today.  Fortunately, she is now "only" a tropical depression, not the Category 5 Hurricane Matthew that creamed the nation in 2016. Finally, been swimming lately?  7-year o

  I'll start with the pandemic: Looks like schools will continue to mostly be in-person, meaning that for the rest of the year elementary school students will continue to share the virus and bring it home to family and friends.  Pfizer indicated back in May that their vaccine should be ready for 5-11 ages in  September .  However, the Feds said, do more tests, so Pfizer and Moderna might roll out these vaccines  sometime in the Fall ...which means the number of new cases/day will be with us for much of the rest of the year. According to the  New York Times  this Sunday morning: With a stockpile of at least 100 million doses at the ready, the first boosters   are likely to go to nursing home residents and health care workers , followed by other older people. Officials envision giving people a third dose of the same vaccine that they originally received. How would you like to live in Haiti? Their government was always a bit, if not a lot, screwed up. A 7.0 earthquake on 12January2010