Best Posts, COVID, Hope, Bright Spots, Lessons, 2020 Not Over, Calvary, Lin

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Hand Munch, Max’s Dad’s Dad, Carols, Bethlehem, Trump, COVID, McConnell

  • Finger sandwiches, I think. @momwino98 enjoys Christmas dinner:
     


    • Max’s Dad misses his dad, loves a Beatles tune his father shared, and mourns a bit of religious bigotry that kept the song out of the funeral.
       
    • Damn, I’m old. nojo remembers carols that are way out of my memory. See how many you recall.
       
    • The Moderate Voice applies Trump standards to a transformative event in my own religion.
       
    • In MadMikesAmerica, Michael J. Scott explores the myth of Bethlehem. The star, the wise men, Bethlehem itself. Could be none of it is true.
       
      Michael has been my friend for years. He would have no mission concerning my faith. Indeed, such details probably bounce harmlessly from the beliefs of most Christians. Still, my brothers and sisters in Christ do share with me a vulnerability. It is that ours is an historically based belief.
       
      This comes from what I have written in the past.

      I do love the idea that God would come to earth as human, experiencing more temptation, pain, and struggle than most of humanity. So my faith would be shattered if it was proven to me that Jesus died running in panic from Gethsemane with a Roman spear in his back.

    • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz vividly describes the fight-against-death struggles and the constant care, naming health care workers as bruised angels struggling to lift victims out of nightmarish hell.
       
    • Nan’s Notebook illustrates, with stories from those she knows, how we tend to regard the pandemic as a sort of theoretical, perhaps good citizenship, thing. That is until a friend or family member gets hit with COVID. It was real for me from the start. Got more real when family, those I admire, got hit.
       
      This thing is deadly dangerous, folks.
       
    • Not to worry. Reductress proves that COVID is not real. Three spirits have not visited to provide important life lessons. Okay, that beats other COVID-denialist arguments I’ve heard.

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    Flakes, Vax Held, Hack, Trickle Downed, Trump Bounced, Dr Jill, Barr None

    • @momwino98 tries very hard to explain why cornflakes were invented:
       
       
    • Iron Knee at Political Irony draws an unfortunate holiday-in-the-night-of-COVID parallel as one phrase has a tragic double meaning.
       
    • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has news on how our madcap Trump administration can screw up everything but a lightbulb. State officials are being told that up to 40 percent of scheduled vaccines will not be delivered after all.
       
      Pfizer has warehouses filled with millions of ready to go doses, but can’t get the okay from federal authorities to ship. I can only speculate, but my guess is that nobody has explained to Trump and company that vaccines can’t work without vaccinations.
       
    • Yikes. It’s documented. Trump COVID policies, the downplay of risks, the denigration of simple protective masks, the mega-spreading events, the lack of preventative action were not a series of simple myopic bumblings. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reacts to recently revealed memos showing deliberate, directed policy. No longer a conspiracy theory, this administration actually ordered policies calculated to get as many unsuspecting people infected as fast as possible.
       
      The internal memos confirm the horror: a deadly experiment testing a Darwinian construct. As the amateur theory went, several million deaths would have been in the past and forgotten by accountability time. A sort of survival game. The fittest would survive and the world would go on. Modeled after the black death plagues of the middle ages that wiped out large sections of Europe, it would be herd immunity: curing through culling.
       
    • So Vladimir Putin’s cyber-intelligence people have successfully penetrated every computer on every desk of pretty much all of the executive branch, including the military, the State Department, and agencies in charge of our nuclear weapons.
       
      Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit listens carefully to my president’s outraged reaction ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ outrage against those supporting accurate election counts. Nothing about the Russian cyber attack campaign. She draws one obvious conclusion.
       
    • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson details the attack and the horrific damage to national security. Contrasting reactions show President-elect Joe Biden taking on the role of a responsible Commander-in-Chief, and Donald trump taking on the role of ‑well‑ whatever he plays these days.
       
    • John Scalzi at Whatever sees Biden winning and winning until everyone is tired of all that winning. To those who insist it isn’t over for my president, John has a message involving a crudely expressed description of a common biological urge.

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