Thursday Reads and So Forth

Obituary:  Former presidential candidate Herman Cain, 74,  has sadly died after a month-long battle with the coronavirus.  He had been on a ventilator in his last days and most observers didn't expect him to make it.

Sad all around.  Cain was known for being a bit of a weirdo, even by Republican standards, and ironically he didn't perceive the virus as any kind of threat.


Cain was admitted to a hospital July 1 after testing positive two days earlier for a novel coronavirus infection.

“We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight,” Calabrese wrote Thursday. “He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. We all prayed that the initial meds they gave him would get his breathing back to normal, but it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle.”
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Trump is on a rant again.  He thinks that because the economy tanked this past quarter, he can just willy-nilly "postpone" the presidential election.  Of course, he can't.  Congress has that power, plus the states are in charge of elections anyway.

He is simply doing what he always does, grandstands for his dwindling base.

Ditto for his yakking about Oregon's Governor Brown.
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The Republicans are trying the old "poison pill" bullshit with regard to the proposed coronavirus bill.
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Another cold case murder has been solved through genetic genealogy:

Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, was taken into custody and booked into the St. Louis County Jail in Virginia on probable cause of second-degree murder.

The arrest comes after BCA agents and Chisholm police investigators received confirmation from the BCA laboratory that Carbo’s DNA matched DNA from the crime scene.

Nancy Daughtery was last seen alive just after midnight on July 16, 1986. Chisholm police found Daughtery dead inside of her home that afternoon after officers conducted a welfare check. Officials say she had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Witnesses later reported hearing a woman screaming in the early morning hours.
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Trump has decided he wants to continue the 600-a-week UI extended benefits, which is set to expire after the GOP couldn't come to any agreement.
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