Author: mtc9393

On March 5, 2020, the Cosa Luminosa, an Italian cruise liner owned by Carnival (one of the cruise lines the GOP wants to bail out)with 1,400 passengers  left from Fort Lauderdale to head on a planned cruise to Antigua, Puerto Rico, Málaga, Spain, the Canary Islands and Marseille. See here. You may remember that on February…

When I was a kid someone asked me what job would I take.  Each job would require me to work every day for two months. The first job paid me a penny for the first two days, then it doubled two days later to two cents a day, then on the  fifth and sixth day…

From the Wall Street Journal: “The U.S.’s ability to respond to infectious-disease outbreaks in China was already compromised by State Department budget cuts, according to current and former U.S. diplomats. In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was forced to scale back or discontinue its work to prevent infectious-disease epidemics and other health threats in…

Like Jeremy Jim I joined the Marines at age 17. We’d both go through officer boot camp during the summer breaks while in college. This was at Quantico, Virginia. My first summer there I was out at Camp Upshur where I spent six weeks living in a Quonset hut. I was part of a group…

On Wednesday Bill Cassidy a U.S. Republican senator from Louisiana who is also a medical doctor was asked about him not referring to the coronavirus in the same way that Trump refers to it by calling it the Chinese Virus. Cassidy a Trump supporter did not comment specifically on Trump’s use of that term but…

I always have been mystified trying to figure out why black Americans love our country so much that despite their treatment and lack of appreciation from some of their fellow white Americans they continue save our nation from going over the cliff. The latest example is the vote in the states with a large percentage…