On this day:
325
The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
526
An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
1217
The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1956
In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
1983
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
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The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
526
An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
1217
The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1956
In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
1983
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
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Moody's stripped the U.S. of its last triple-A credit rating late Friday. “Successive U.S. administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs,” the firm said in its report.
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The corruption trial of retired Adm. Robert Burke concluded Monday with him being found guilty of four criminal counts, including bribery charges, by a jury in Washington, D.C., his attorney and others in the courtroom confirmed to Military.com.
Burke, once the second-highest ranking leader in the Navy, was charged by federal prosecutors last year on allegations that he directed a lucrative Navy contract to an executive training company, Next Jump, in 2021 while serving as a four-star admiral. The company later hired him in 2022 for a starting salary of $500,000 per year.
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Democracy's DNA
The discussions over the silliness and corruption in the American government should be put aside.
In July 2022, then-President Joe Biden spoke at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts. The topic was new steps to combat climate change, which he called “an emergency,” and similar hyperbole we Americans have grown to love and ignore. In the middle of it, talking about growing up in Delaware, apparently a cancer belt, he said this:
“And guess what? The first frost, you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window, That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up (with) have cancer and why can — for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
The White House explained that Biden was referring to his skin cancer, but the recent prostate cancer diagnosis raises more questions. This is a longstanding disease, and Biden certainly has had it for several years. Particularly, during his presidency. So, if anyone had any hesitancy about seeing Biden's serious disability while president, this offers more clarification.
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The corruption trial of retired Adm. Robert Burke concluded Monday with him being found guilty of four criminal counts, including bribery charges, by a jury in Washington, D.C., his attorney and others in the courtroom confirmed to Military.com.
Burke, once the second-highest ranking leader in the Navy, was charged by federal prosecutors last year on allegations that he directed a lucrative Navy contract to an executive training company, Next Jump, in 2021 while serving as a four-star admiral. The company later hired him in 2022 for a starting salary of $500,000 per year.
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Democracy's DNA
The discussions over the silliness and corruption in the American government should be put aside.
In July 2022, then-President Joe Biden spoke at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts. The topic was new steps to combat climate change, which he called “an emergency,” and similar hyperbole we Americans have grown to love and ignore. In the middle of it, talking about growing up in Delaware, apparently a cancer belt, he said this:
“And guess what? The first frost, you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window, That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up (with) have cancer and why can — for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
The White House explained that Biden was referring to his skin cancer, but the recent prostate cancer diagnosis raises more questions. This is a longstanding disease, and Biden certainly has had it for several years. Particularly, during his presidency. So, if anyone had any hesitancy about seeing Biden's serious disability while president, this offers more clarification.
The specifics of the disease are distractions.
To be clear, prostate cancer makes you weak; it does not make you stupid. BUT...prostate cancer therapy interferes with both mobility and cognition, the two most obvious Biden impairments, and this might stimulate debate over whether or not prostate cancer therapy was started while Biden was president.
To be clear, prostate cancer makes you weak; it does not make you stupid. BUT...prostate cancer therapy interferes with both mobility and cognition, the two most obvious Biden impairments, and this might stimulate debate over whether or not prostate cancer therapy was started while Biden was president.
But how Biden became incompetent is beside the point.
A mentally impaired president. So profoundly impaired, he was unable to perform his duties or meet his heavy responsibilities. He could barely walk. With an additional serious illness. These circumstances were denied and concealed by the press and the president's party for the advancement of their political organization and at the expense of the nation.
Watergate was an abuse of presidential power. A man twisted his office for his own selfish personal advantage. But it was a personal failure, a cipher compared to this Biden crisis.
A mentally impaired president. So profoundly impaired, he was unable to perform his duties or meet his heavy responsibilities. He could barely walk. With an additional serious illness. These circumstances were denied and concealed by the press and the president's party for the advancement of their political organization and at the expense of the nation.
Watergate was an abuse of presidential power. A man twisted his office for his own selfish personal advantage. But it was a personal failure, a cipher compared to this Biden crisis.
This Biden crime is a gigantic failure of the system, of the very representative process we all regard. The Biden cronies created the same arrogant, self-absorbed, self-appointed, dismissive class that inspired the original revolution--and all the subsequent failed imitations.
Does the nature of man's leaders simply not allow for the realization of all men's aspirations?
A situation of risk to the country, a situation the constitution anticipated and prepared for, was disguised and diverted by those responsible for its solution. They will be rightly cursed by history. But how will we resolve the present? Is this failure evidence that this system can not work, that it asks more national integrity of its leaders than they are willing to cede? Will leaders and the press, even in high-minded democracies, fail the nation and its ideals to advance their own tiny, personal gains or comforts?
A situation of risk to the country, a situation the constitution anticipated and prepared for, was disguised and diverted by those responsible for its solution. They will be rightly cursed by history. But how will we resolve the present? Is this failure evidence that this system can not work, that it asks more national integrity of its leaders than they are willing to cede? Will leaders and the press, even in high-minded democracies, fail the nation and its ideals to advance their own tiny, personal gains or comforts?
Is this the best a democracy can do?
This is a crisis. It might be a disaster.
This is a crisis. It might be a disaster.
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