"Paul may have been the best all-around back ever to play football," Lombardi wrote.

His 176 points in the 12-game 1960 season was an NFL record that stood until 2006, 29 years after the league had moved to a 16-game schedule. He was voted the NFL's most-valuable player that season.

His Federalist Society speech was a laundry list of grievances from Covid-19 restrictions ("previously unimaginable restrictions on religious liberty")--- lamenting the deference given to state and local leaders to issue orders aimed at controlling Covid-19).

Alito believes that responses to the pandemic are unduly worshipful of "experts."  To his credit, he did not cite Bannon's call for the beheading of Dr. Fauci or give indication that he was supportive of Bannon's point of view.

Alito worried that marriage equality stifled free speech. He recalled in his Obergefell dissent that legal gay marriage "will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy."

He seemed irate that some senators allowed the issue of "restructuring" the Supreme Court to arise--he was concerned that such threats may already be affecting the Court, although he will not be bullied.

Alito does know a little about pop culture. Although George Carlin has been deceased for several years, he brings up the late comedian's skit on words that can't be spoken, and that they are now spoken all the time on TV shows.

Senators have been seen regularly on the chamber floor exchanging words in close contact. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was seen on Capitol Hill Tuesday without a mask, talking with staff in a hallway for several minutes. 

In an election of many firsts, it appears that surging youth turnout in a number of key states may have helped propel Joe Biden to victory.

Analysis suggests an increase of as much as 10% in youth voter turnout - with particularly high engagement in 11 key battleground states. That may have been game-changing for Joe Biden, who had the support of 61% of people aged 18-29.

Bleach and ammonia

On the morning of November 19, Everett delivered his two-hour oration (from memory) on the Battle of Gettysburg and its significance, and the orchestra played a hymn composed for the occasion by B.B. French. Lincoln then rose to the podium and addressed the crowd of some 15,000 people. He spoke for less than two minutes, and the entire speech was fewer than 275 words long.

you can read about him on WIKI

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But Obama is wrong on the third front: Republicans aren't doing this because they're scared of Trump. They're doing this because most of them, on one level or another, want him to succeed. And even if he fails, they appreciate him advancing the idea that voters in certain areas -- notably, cities where Black people outnumber white people -- shouldn't really have the right to vote.

Let's face it: The reason Trump has gotten this far is that he's building on decades of Republican antipathy to democracy, an antipathy borne out of resentment that people they deem as "less" American than themselves -- people of color, urban people, people who know what "tempeh" is -- have the right to vote at all.

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Graeme Wood profiles historian Peter Turchin in The Atlantic:

"The year 2020 has been kind to Turchin, for many of the same reasons it has been hell for the rest of us. Cities on fire, elected leaders endorsing violence, homicides surging--­­to a normal American, these are apocalyptic signs. To Turchin, they indicate that his models, which incorporate thousands of years of data about human history, are working."

"He has been warning for a decade that a few key social and political trends portend an `age of discord,' civil unrest and carnage worse than most Americans have experienced. In 2010, he predicted that the unrest would get serious around 2020, and that it wouldn't let up until those social and political trends reversed. Havoc at the level of the late 1960s and early '70s is the best-case scenario; all-out civil war is the worst."

On Friday, New Mexico followed suit with the country's most restrictive statewide measures since the fall surge began.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said the state is at a "breaking point" and reinstated the most heightened public health restrictions, including prohibiting on-site dining and requiring nonessential businesses to close their physical locations. The state recorded 1,742 coronavirus cases Thursday, a record.

Washington Post: "Georgia's Jan. 5 runoffs will decide whether Perdue and Loeffler return to Washington, and whether the Senate has a slim Republican majority or a 50-50 split. President Trump's refusal to concede the presidential race has, for now, added some confusion to the GOP's message."

"Democrats tell their audiences that victory would give Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris a tie-breaking Senate vote, unlocking the party's agenda. Republicans warn that there'd be no stopping the Democrats if the Senate seats are lost. But so long as Trump remains unwilling to concede, they're unwilling to explain exactly why."

"For nearly two years, allies of President Trump have been exploring ways to build up a formidable competitor to Fox News. One target they recently zeroed in on: the fledgling pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax TV," the Wall Street Journal reports.

"Hicks Equity Partners, a private-equity firm with ties to a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, has held talks in recent months about acquiring and investing in Newsmax."

I've been enjoying the new HBO series, The Undoing so far.  Same with The Right Stuff and season two of The Mandalorian on Disney Plus.

Moderna said its experimental coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective at protecting people from Covid-19 in an early look at pivotal study results, the second vaccine to hit a key milestone, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Trump, Obama noted, is not exactly an exemplar of traditional American manhood. "I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing up: the John Waynes, the Gary Coopers, the Jimmy Stewarts, the Clint Eastwoods, for that matter. There was a code ... the code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the '30s and '40s and before that. There's a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn't complain, that he isn't a bully--in fact he defends the vulnerable against bullies. And so even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy, I thought that the model wouldn't be Richie Rich--the complaining, lying, doesn't-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said that he has come under increasing pressure from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to question the validity of legally cast absentee ballots in an effort to reverse President Trump's narrow loss in the state, the Washington Post reports.

The atmosphere has grown so contentious, Raffensperger said, that both he and his wife have received death threats, including a text to him that read: "You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it."

The normally mild-mannered Raffensperger saved his harshest language for Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), who is leading the president's effort to prove fraud in Georgia and whom Raffensperger called a "liar" and a "charlatan."

Graham asking Georgia Secretary of State to throw out votes.

Rudy in Federal Court admitting he does not know what "strict scrutiny" is.  Arguing without evidence about fraudulent election.

Trump just fired head of cyber security who said elections was fair.

Too many have humored the  GOP attempt to steal the election.

In the middle of the worst pandemic in living memory.  

And as Mr Krebs said in spite of all the hysteria about election tampering foreign and domestic it was the most secure election in history.

Let's just relish that for a moment.  

BIDEN SAYS HE DOESN'T  WANT TO INVESTIGATE TRUMP

many pearls were clutched.

but if you bother to read the rest what he actually says is he would rather his entire presidency not be about investigating the previous one

BUT

He also said he would have no role in making that decision.  That it would be made by the DOJ and he would not try to stop it or have any role in making it.

Some COVID-positive patients don't believe virus is real, even as they're dying, SD nurse says

It's said he is pumping Trump up with false hope of "winning" just to get more billable days.

"In the final weeks of President Trump's term, his administration intends to execute three inmates on federal death row, the last scheduled executions by the Justice Department before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has signaled he will end federal use of capital punishment," the New York Times reports.

Trump has another lawsuit coming up that was just filed in Pennsylvania asking, among other things, that the election not be certified, and the GOP-led legislature could vote to decide the tally. Another point asks for Trump's campaign officials to be the ones to do the recount in the state.

Oh, wait.....

Geraldo Rivera suggested on Fox News that we name the coronavirus vaccine after President Trump to soften the blow of his election defeat.

Said Rivera: "It would be a nice gesture to him and years from now it would become kind of a generic name. Have you got your trump yet, I got my trump, I'm fine. I wished we could honor him in that way."

How, then, to explain AMLO's willingness to confront the United States over its recent arrest in Los Angeles of Gen. Cienfuegos, who was was accused of protecting drug smuggling corridors and alerting drug bosses to U.S. enforcement actions?

Recent polling suggests that Mexican citizens tend to view their country's armed forces as efficient, professional and comparably less corrupt that the rest of the government. For their part, military leaders have long cultivated that image, and Gen. Cienfuegos's arrest threatened to undermine their efforts.

AMLO, who is first and foremost a very strong Mexican nationalist, was reportedly incensed that President Trump and senior administration officials had failed to disclose to him the DEA's investigation and pending arrest of Gen. Cienfuegos during their July meeting in Washington. Almost immediately, he vowed to withhold security cooperation with the United States until charges were dropped and Cienfuegos was returned to Mexico.

Then AMLO announced this week that Mexico will no longer allow local officials accused of corruption to be tried in the United States, ending a long tradition in which major drug cases involving those officials were held north of the border because of Mexico's weak justice system. Sensing that DOJ may have caused a damaging breach in U.S.-Mexican relations, Attorney Gen. William Barr buckled. The charges again Gen. Cienfuegos were dropped, and he returned to Mexico a free man.

AMLO's success in both springing Gen. Cienfuegos and compelling the U.S. to back down not only further endeared him to a citizenry long resentful of their northern neighbors, but also garnered him the support of a now-grateful military command for having rescued one of their own from Yanqui clutches.

A caller who is near tears, distraught over election results, tells Rush Limbaugh that he's willing to die for Trump

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