Odds and Ends — 28 July 2021

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WHAT DO PEOPLE DO ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MOMMY? COMPLAIN, DEAR.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

FUD on parade: Senate Banking Committee Bashes Bitcoin’s ‘Phony’ Populism

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U.S. Real Yields Hit Record Low

The real yield on 10-year US Treasuries fell further below zero on Monday as growing anxiety over the outlook for economic growth added fuel to a recent rally in bond markets.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

HIPAA and COVID vaccines: What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott get wrong

The Fake Libertarianism of Anti-Vaccine Laws

Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) recently signed one of the ‘medical freedom’ bills making their way through the Solomonic subcommittees of Republican state legislatures. The New Hampshire version boldly declares that citizens have a ‘natural, essential and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion by government to accept an immunization.’
The law, while phrased like a late addition to the Bill of Rights, does have a qualification. It doesn’t affect the state law regarding the half-dozen or so vaccines required for a child to enter school.
Seldom has fine print been more revealing. Why do we have vaccine requirements for school attendance? Because parents have a natural, essential and inherent right to determine what chemicals are injected in their children — until enough reckless, witless parents refuse to vaccinate their offspring, creating an environment where children needlessly suffer and die of preventable diseases.

Prepare for mandatory COVID vaccines in September, Army tells commands

Politics:

Officers offer harrowing accounts at first Jan. 6 committee hearing

DOJ says Trump officials can testify in Jan. 6 investigations

Democrats broaden probe into Trump-era meddling at CDC

The expanded investigation centers on efforts to blunt the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs), which offer public updates on scientists' findings. The reports had been considered sacrosanct for decades and untouchable by political appointees in the past, but Trump appointees pushed last year to edit the findings, worried that they undermined Trump's more optimistic spin on the coronavirus pandemic.

Arizona Election ‘Audit’ Falls Into Disarray

Does The Jan. 6 Committee Have What It Takes To Investigate The Big Lie?

GOP Lawmakers Abandon Press Conference

Gaetz was ushered away by security while a woman repeatedly yelled, “Are you a pedophile?”

In related news, Gaetz’s Future Sister-in-Law Says He’s a ‘Literal Pedophile’

Justice Department Says Mo Brooks Can Be Lawsuit Target

The Justice Department concluded late Tuesday that Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) did not warrant exclusion from a Capitol riot lawsuit that claims that the congressman, former President Donald Trump, Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and personal attorney Rudy Giuliani helped instigate the deadly assault.
The Justice filing in a lawsuit brought by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) found that Brooks failed to establish that he was acting ‘within the scope of his office’ when he participated in a rally prior to the Capitol siege.

Mapping the advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn on Jan. 6 mob: ‘A hit man sent them’

Jim Jordan Says He Spoke to Trump on January 6

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was asked on Fox News a very simple question: Did you talk to President Trump on January 6?
Anchor Bret Baier had to follow up to get the answer: “’Yes.”
That makes it very likely he’ll be called as a witness by the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack.



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