Two weeks ago I indicated that on Tuesdays I would chronologically traipse through my past postings and selectively repeat the few that are important or monumental in some way.  However, I skipped last week and this, so will make it up today.  If I use one/month, it would take me 12 years to get to the present.  So clearly I need to be more selective.  Nevertheless, I only went one month from my  first one , but just had to choose  my blog of 31May2008  for featuring today, as it reported on my very first  Huffington Post  article.  Note that here and there I will add graphics and editorialize as necessary. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2008 WELL, BARACK, WE HAVE A PROBLEM... ...and you have the power to provide the solution. Why you? The United States is the most powerful nation, ever. Today, and for the next generation, no other country will be anywhere close to our military and economic dominance. You will have a once in a millennium opportunity to accomplish something monumentally extraordinar

The USA continues to recover from COVID-19.  However, several countries in the Orient are getting worse in new cases per day, and New Zealand, which until recently was admired as a being incredibly successful in fending off this virus, is now suffering.  Yesterday (with new cases/million population in the parentheses): South Korea  266,838  (5232) Hong Kong  52,523  (6910) Singapore  17,564  (2977) Austria  32,419  (3602) Denmark  19,178  (3307) New Zealand  22,582  (4516) USA  45,698  (137) Taiwan  (2.7) China  294  (0.2) The case of  New Zealand  is somewhat baffling.   For the longest time they had zero new cases daily.   Now, this number yesterday was among the world highest at 4516/million population. Yet, 95% of New Zealanders over 12 have been vaccinated, and 57% boostered.   Probably says something about the contagious effectiveness of the Omicron variant. Further, and this is amazing, the total number of deaths up to yesterday for the entire country was only 63, which is a rat