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He has registered as an Independent (like me). I thought he had some good ideas (probably why he never got any traction in the Democrat Presidential primaries) and for better or worse I think his idea of a Universal Basic Income (he favored everyone getting $1,000 a month from the government) is likely to soon be reality.
At the southern border - sounds like a step in the right direction but see below - they are still giving out the coupon book & voter registration cards ...
This cruel measure has made Biden unpopular with left-wing activists. “It’s inhumane,” said Monica Ballard, a liberal pundit. “If we stop giving people delightful gift baskets, they’ll begin to think we don’t want them to illegally cross our border.”
Critics on the right, though, don’t think Biden has gone far enough. “You have to stop giving them that coupon book, too,” said an angry, racist redneck. “That coupon book is full of valuable savings — they don’t deserve that for illegally crossing our border! And stop giving them all voter registration cards; there’s something suspicious about that.”
With the program at the southern border ended, Biden is instead sending all the gift baskets they already had to the Taliban.
I posted about this a few days ago here - Merck Pharma - has antiviral pill effective against Covid.
Here's the Journal -
An early stage trial this spring showed that molnupiravir rapidly reduced the amount of virus in patients. Based on that promising result, the Biden Administration in June signed a $1.2 billion contract for 1.7 million courses. Critics of Big Pharma complain the government is paying $700 per treatment, but Merck is spending to develop the treatment and scale up production at its own risk.
Merck has also signed licensing agreements with generic manufacturers to accelerate the pill’s availability world-wide. Manufacturers in low-income countries don’t need special expertise and supervision to produce the pills, unlike with the Covid vaccines. Molnupiravir can be easily distributed in poorer countries.
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Molnupiravir would have been enormously helpful during this summer’s Delta surge that has swamped some hospitals. Preliminary results released Friday from the Phase 3 trial showed 7.3% of at-risk patients who received molnupiravir were hospitalized, and none died within 29 days of treatment. By contrast, 14.1% of placebo recipients were hospitalized or died.
Evidence also indicates that the drug is effective against different variants and is unlikely to produce viral resistance. The pill could make Covid more manageable in low- and middle-income countries while countries expand vaccine manufacturing and distribution. It may also help reduce transmission and the severity of breakthrough infections.
The government throughout the pandemic has overlooked the pressing need for a Covid pill, but the FDA can help make up for this mistake by now fast-tracking molnupiravir.
Note that her name is Theodore Guerin but she was designated St. Theodora - not sure why. Below I've put the miracles attributed to her, leading to her canonization.
She was only recently canonized - in 2006 by Pope Benedict. Today is her feast day.
St. Theodore Guerin (1798–1856), also known as St. Theodora, was born in Etables, France, towards the end of the French Revolution. She was a pious child who loved prayer and who knew her vocation was to be a nun. However, she was delayed in following this path after the murder of her father when she was 15, which, in addition to the previous death of two of her siblings, sent her mother into a deep depression. St. Theodore took on the household tasks and the care of her mother and her remaining sister.
Finally, when she was 25, her mother gave her consent, and Theodore left home to enter the religous life. She joined the Sisters of Providence who served God by educating children and caring for the poor, the sick, and the dying.
In 1840 she was asked to lead a band of missionary sisters and establish her order in the United States of America, specifically to serve the pioneers in Indiana. Even though her health was fragile, she crossed the Atlantic and then traveled by steamboat and stagecoach until she reached the wilderness mission of St. Mary of the Woods, which consisted only of a tiny log chapel. She and her five sisters endured the extreme hardships common to life on the frontier. Less than a year after arriving she opened an academy which became the first Catholic women's Liberal Arts college in the United States, still active today, called St. Mary of the Woods College.
St. Theodore also established numerous schools, pharmacies, and orphanages throughout the state of Indiana. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II and canonized in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. Her feast day is October 3rd.
The first miracle attributed to Guérin is said to have occurred in 1908. Before going to bed on 30 October, Sister of Providence Mary Theodosia Mug prayed at Guérin's crypt in the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the motherhouse grounds at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for another sister who was ill. However, Mug herself suffered from damaged nerves in both arms and her right hand, breast cancer, and an abdominal tumor. When she awoke the next day, Sister Mary Theodosia was able to move her arms without pain, and the lump in her abdomen had disappeared. The cancer never returned. Sister Mary Theodosia died of old age in 1943 at the age of eighty-two.[1][40][41]
The second of the miracles attributed to Guérin involves Phil McCord of Terre Haute, Indiana, and occurred in January 2001.[42] McCord, who had worked in facilities management for the Sisters of Providence, stopped by the Church of the Immaculate Conception and was drawn in by music from the pipe organ. After entering the church, McCord felt compelled to pray to Guérin, asking for strength to undergo surgery, a cornea transplant for his right eye to improve his failing eyesight[43] (Previous eye surgeries did not fully restore his eyesight, which had deteriorated to a legally-blind status of 20-800 in one eye and 20-1000 in the other.) McCord returned to his home, and when he awoke the next morning, his vision, although still blurry, had improved. A follow-up visit with his eye doctor confirmed that McCord no longer needed the cornea transplant. With subsequent laser treatment, McCord's eyesight returned perfect, 20-20 vision. Ophthalmologists and others investigating the case could find no medical explanation for the change in his condition. In 2006 the Catholic cardinals at the Vatican reviewed and approved the findings in the case and declared the event a miracle, paving the way for the final step in Guérin's canonization process.[42][44]
Heck, Trump only lost the popular vote by 7 million!
Trump said he was convinced by mounting evidence coming out of recounts and audits in various states and now agrees that he did not win the election by 10 million votes, but "probably more like 2 or 3 million" overall.
"After reviewing all the evidence, I'm willing to concede that I didn't win the 2020 election by a record landslide margin, and only won it by a smaller, normal margin," he said somberly to reporters. "I'm a fair guy. Maybe the fairest ever. And I know when I'm wrong. People say that to me all the time. They say, 'Hey, Don, you know what I like best about you? Your intelligence. But do you know what I like second best about you? Your humility and your willingness to admit when you're wrong.' Very smart people say that, all of 'em."
"So I come to you humbly now and ask your forgiveness for being slightly wrong about just how many votes I won by."
Trump then demanded Biden leave the White House now that he has conceded that he only won by a decent margin.
This was shown live on EWTN and other places, and it's an amazing story about a priest who died in a North Korean prison camp in 1951 and is being considered for beatification. He was captured because he stayed behind with wounded soldiers while part of his unit made an escape. His remains were only identified a few months ago.
'A heart of courage' - the funeral of Fr. Emil Kapaun
A funeral Mass was held Wednesday for Servant of God Emil Kapaun — a priest who died in a Korean POW camp seven decades ago, a Medal of Honor recipient who may one day be declared a saint.
The priest, whose remains were identified only this year, is venerated in the United States for his ministry to soldiers and prisoners of war during the Korean War. He died in May 1951, himself a prisoner, and his cause for canonization was opened in 2008.
Here are some excerpts from the homily by Bishop Carl Kemme -
“The Lord has shown us his Fatherly goodness in allowing [Kapaun’s] earthly goodness, his body, back to the land of his family, back to Kansas.”
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“I consider it a singular but undeserved honor as the present Bishop of Wichita to lead us today in the Mass of Christian burial. Six of my predecessors longed for and prayed for this day, but perhaps none more so than Bishop Mark Carroll. It was Bishop Carroll who, we are confident, acted under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and permitted Fr. Emil to return to active duty as a military chaplain in 1948.
It was Bishop Carroll who ministered to Fr. Kapaun’s family when word was received of his untimely demise. In the nearly monthly letters between Bishop Carroll and Fr Kapaun there is revealed a deep paternal and filial relationship between a bishop and one of his priests. I found in those letters much to ponder and to consider.”
“God’s goodness and everlasting love was to be witnessed in a …mysterious way in the life of this young priest, from Pilsen, Kansas. Now, no doubt the Holy See and, in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints would want me to remind you that we are not here to beatify this man; the work of the Church’s investigation continues. We are here today to provide for Father what was not provided for him 70 years ago: A Mass of Christian Burial.
Though many of us pray for his intercession, today we pray for his repose.”
Brigid and I saved the video and watched the first half one day and the second half the next day; very moving. You can get to it through the first link above.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Boston University, cum laude, and former bartender.
The Democrat congresswoman criticized Dr. Ingrid Skop, a Texas OB-GYN and witness at the hearing, for defending a Texas law that protects unborn babies from abortion once their heartbeats are detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy, according to a video of the hearing posted on Yahoo News.
Ocasio-Cortez called Skop’s testimony “unbelievable,” “irresponsible” and “hurtful,” and demanded an apology from the Republican lawmakers who invited her to testify. She did this even while claiming that pregnancy and abortion should be matters between doctors like Skop and their patients, not legislators like herself.
During her testimony, Skop said the Texas heartbeat law is reminding society of an “inconvenient fact” about abortion: It kills a “living, genetically distinct human being.”
“Nearly 50 years ago, the Supreme Court pretended it did not know this was a life. Today, we cannot plead ignorance,” Skop told lawmakers. “We have all seen ultrasounds, pictures of the unborn, demonstrating he is just like us, only smaller and more dependent on our care.”
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