A continuation of events surrounding the drug war and related social issues of Baja California and Mexico. Keeping an eye on Seig Heil Trump. We are still trying to restore all blogs from 2006 which were hacked by Linton Robinson and his team, famous for supporting the Baja Trump Towers on one of his real estate sites. Highlights of Paris-Simone's favorite music !!
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"CNN)Donald Trump on Monday launched a three-week quest to save his presidency, behaving as though the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans was already a memory in front of a packed-in crowd -- even amid chilling new warnings about the resurgent virus.
In his first rally since his own bout with Covid-19, Trump painted a deeply dishonest picture of the nation's battle with the disease, mocked Biden over social distancing and vowed victory on November 3 as he began a frantic push to Election Day, marked by multiple rallies a day that could act as superspreader events.
"I feel so powerful, I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience," Trump said in Sanford, Florida, showing his illness did not teach him to respect his own government's pandemic guidelines. "I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss."
At his Florida rally, Trump fed off the large crowd's energy during his hour-long performance and ran through his demagogic list of favored political attacks, from law and order to his false claims of voting irregularities. He took the stage hours after the White House physician said he posted negative Covid-19 tests in consecutive days.
"(Biden) may be the worst presidential candidate in history and I got him," Trump said, despite a flurry of recent polls showing him down by double digits to the former vice president and trailing in most swing states.
Biden campaigned Monday in Ohio, a state once seen as a sure fire bet for Trump that Democrats think is now in play, and synchronized his message with Capitol Hill colleagues using the Barrett nomination to supercharge claims that she would be a vessel to finally kill off Obamacare, which faces its next date with destiny in the court a week after the election.
"In the middle of this pandemic, why do Republicans have time to hold a hearing on the Supreme Court instead of providing the significant economic need for localities?" Biden asked. "I'll tell you why. It's about finally getting his wish to wipe out the Affordable Care Act."
Biden also rebuked Trump for his "reckless" conduct since his diagnosis, saying: "The longer Donald Trump is president the more reckless he seems to get."
Taken in isolation, Trump's rally looked like any other big campaign event three weeks before an Election Day. While some supporters wore masks behind him in the camera shot, many people in the big, outdoor crowd did not.
And despite presiding over a botched pandemic response, Trump claimed he had saved millions of lives. After turning his White House into a superspreader that caused multiple infections, the President also criticized Biden for holding socially distanced events in which attendees sit in designated circles.
"They only have the circles because that's the only way they can fill up the room," the President said, before gazing out at his own large and raucous crowd that contravenes every government recommendation on combating the virus and saying: "These are the real polls."
But medical experts expressed despair at Trump's decision to gather huge crowds during a worsening pandemic, ahead of a swing that Trump aides said Monday would involve multiple rallies each day in the coming weeks.
"I promise you, the virus is there, whether it is an indoor event or an outdoor event in these large gatherings," said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of health policy and preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University on CNN's Erin Burnett "OutFront," who added that the images of Trump's rally made him "weep."
"Some of those people will become sick, they will spread it to others when they get home and they will become sick. These are accelerator events that promote the distribution of the virus," Schaffner said.
Trump's mockery of his own government's recommendations -- his rallies are almost the only mass participation events taking place in the world right now -- came amid fast darkening warnings about the months ahead.
The government's top infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned that rallies like the one Trump held on Monday night are "asking for trouble."
"Because when you look at what is going on in the United States, it is really very troublesome," Fauci told CNN's Jake Tapper.
Later, Fauci delivered an even more dire warning about a pandemic that is seeing rising cases in 31 one states as a fall spike -- that is effectively being ignored by a negligent White House -- begins to gather pace.
"I think we're facing a whole lot of trouble," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, referring to coronavirus infections which have recently climbed back above 50,000 a day.
"That's a bad place to be when you're going into the cooler weather of the fall and the colder weather of the winter," Fauci said.
Trump's claim to have saved millions of lives is based on the presumption that there would have been many more deaths had no counter-measures been taken against the disease -- a scenario no one was seriously advocating.
New research on Monday exposed the President's misinformation and showed in staggering clarity how the US has done far worse than many other industrialized nations in saving lives during the pandemic. After May 10, the US had more deaths per 100,000 people than other high mortality countries featured in a study published in the medical journal JAMA.
Countries including South Korea, Japan and Australia recorded fewer than five deaths per 100,000 people. If the US had comparable death rates to Australia since the beginning of the pandemic, it would have had 187,661 fewer deaths, according to the study conducted by Alyssa Bilinski, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost of global initiatives and professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
If the US had comparable death rates to Canada it would have had 117,622 fewer deaths. And it would have recorded 96,763 fewer deaths if it had comparable death rates to France.
In the CNN Poll of Polls on Monday, Biden led Trump by 11 points. Fresh New York Times/Siena surveys in battlegrounds Michigan and Wisconsin released Monday showed the Democrat up 6 points and 10 points, respectively.
Trump is hoping to use his return to the campaign trail to portray himself as triumphing over Covid-19 and to solidify his assurances to Americans there is nothing to fear from the disease, despite its rising nationwide threat.
The President -- who has rarely tried to reach beyond his political base -- is counting on a massive turnout not just from his 2016 supporters but also from new working class white voters who identify with him culturally but who have rarely cast a vote in previous elections. Trump's rally on Monday was for instance peppered with comments about the "Panhandle," the portion of northern Florida where he performed especially strongly in 2016.
CNN White House reporter Kevin Liptak reported Monday that Trump is pressing his advisers to organize multiple rallies in the next few weeks as he tries to unleash a late wave of momentum to overhaul Biden.
The President is pining for two and three events a day -- which in the circumstances could turn into multiple superspreader events -- to revive the spirit of his push up to his shock victory over Hillary Clinton four years ago.
But there are signs that the GOP hierarchy in Washington is not seeing the similarities with 2016, with some seeing Trump's antics, including a boorish performance at the first presidential debate, as giving Democrats a golden opportunity to grab both the White House and Senate.
McConnell delivered his warning about Democrats being "on fire" in a call with lobbyists recently, according to someone familiar with the remarks.
Senate Republicans who never expected to have a serious challenge, such as Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Joni Ernst in Iowa, are at serious risk. Graham, who as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is leading the Barrett hearings, is facing a challenger, Jaime Harrison, who just shattered the single quarter fundraising record for a Senate race with $57 million.
And Trump's itinerary for later this week also indicates a campaign playing defense as he travels to Iowa, Pennsylvania and North Carolina -- all states he won four years ago and where he is in danger of losing now."
~~~~~
Everyone knows we're going to lose this round to Amy Coney Barrett, but the tickle will be if Lindsay Graham loses his Senate seat and is sent back to the Plantation; that upset and a few more will put us in the position to override the arch conservative votes of the Supreme Court, right ?
So hang on to yer seats and stay calm (if you can). Vons has this great organic popcorn with white cheddar cheese, check it out, you may need it.
Lots more here, including the confirmation hearings:
So says the Turtleman; but not in the sense of burning up and burning out as Trump is doing. More like gaining momentum at a rapid and feverish pace in every possible direction.
There are so many "fire" songs...I thought this one was the best - Scorcese used it in one of his scenes as background for his frenetic anti-hero with helicopters flying overhead (hilarious) and it's very hyper. When I hear it I envision lots of energy with thousands of robust and pissed off donkeys on a stampede chasing Mitch The Turtleman out of the Senate chamber from all directions...wow, I must need sleep.
Anyway, Nilsson was a completely cool guy ..you might remember him from years ago on the Smothers Brothers. This is the longer version.
"CNN)Donald Trump on Monday launched a three-week quest to save his presidency, behaving as though the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans was already a memory in front of a packed-in crowd -- even amid chilling new warnings about the resurgent virus.
In
his first rally since his own bout with Covid-19, Trump painted a
deeply dishonest picture of the nation's battle with the disease, mocked
Biden over social distancing and vowed victory on November 3 as he
began a frantic push to Election Day, marked by multiple rallies a day
that could act as superspreader events.
"I
feel so powerful, I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there,
I'll kiss everyone in that audience," Trump said in Sanford, Florida,
showing his illness did not teach him to respect his own government's
pandemic guidelines. "I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the
-- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss."
At
his Florida rally, Trump fed off the large crowd's energy during his
hour-long performance and ran through his demagogic list of favored
political attacks, from law and order to his false claims of voting
irregularities. He took the stage hours after the White House physician
said he posted negative Covid-19 tests in consecutive days.
"(Biden)
may be the worst presidential candidate in history and I got him,"
Trump said, despite a flurry of recent polls showing him down by double
digits to the former vice president and trailing in most swing states.
Biden
campaigned Monday in Ohio, a state once seen as a sure fire bet for
Trump that Democrats think is now in play, and synchronized his message
with Capitol Hill colleagues using the Barrett nomination to supercharge
claims that she would be a vessel to finally kill off Obamacare, which
faces its next date with destiny in the court a week after the election.
"In
the middle of this pandemic, why do Republicans have time to hold a
hearing on the Supreme Court instead of providing the significant
economic need for localities?" Biden asked. "I'll tell you why. It's
about finally getting his wish to wipe out the Affordable Care Act."
Biden
also rebuked Trump for his "reckless" conduct since his diagnosis,
saying: "The longer Donald Trump is president the more reckless he seems
to get."
Taken
in isolation, Trump's rally looked like any other big campaign event
three weeks before an Election Day. While some supporters wore masks
behind him in the camera shot, many people in the big, outdoor crowd did
not.
And despite presiding over a
botched pandemic response, Trump claimed he had saved millions of lives.
After turning his White House into a superspreader that caused multiple
infections, the President also criticized Biden for holding socially
distanced events in which attendees sit in designated circles.
"They
only have the circles because that's the only way they can fill up the
room," the President said, before gazing out at his own large and
raucous crowd that contravenes every government recommendation on
combating the virus and saying: "These are the real polls."
But
medical experts expressed despair at Trump's decision to gather huge
crowds during a worsening pandemic, ahead of a swing that Trump aides
said Monday would involve multiple rallies each day in the coming weeks.
"I
promise you, the virus is there, whether it is an indoor event or an
outdoor event in these large gatherings," said Dr. William Schaffner,
professor of health policy and preventive medicine at Vanderbilt
University on CNN's Erin Burnett "OutFront," who added that the images
of Trump's rally made him "weep."
"Some
of those people will become sick, they will spread it to others when
they get home and they will become sick. These are accelerator events
that promote the distribution of the virus," Schaffner said.
Trump's
mockery of his own government's recommendations -- his rallies are
almost the only mass participation events taking place in the world
right now -- came amid fast darkening warnings about the months ahead.
The
government's top infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci,
warned that rallies like the one Trump held on Monday night are "asking
for trouble."
"Because when you look at what is going on in the United States, it is really very troublesome," Fauci told CNN's Jake Tapper.
Later,
Fauci delivered an even more dire warning about a pandemic that is
seeing rising cases in 31 one states as a fall spike -- that is
effectively being ignored by a negligent White House -- begins to gather
pace.
"I think we're facing a
whole lot of trouble," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, referring to coronavirus infections
which have recently climbed back above 50,000 a day.
"That's
a bad place to be when you're going into the cooler weather of the fall
and the colder weather of the winter," Fauci said.
Trump's
claim to have saved millions of lives is based on the presumption that
there would have been many more deaths had no counter-measures been
taken against the disease -- a scenario no one was seriously advocating.
New
research on Monday exposed the President's misinformation and showed in
staggering clarity how the US has done far worse than many other
industrialized nations in saving lives during the pandemic. After May
10, the US had more deaths per 100,000 people than other high mortality
countries featured in a study published in the medical journal JAMA.
Countries
including South Korea, Japan and Australia recorded fewer than five
deaths per 100,000 people. If the US had comparable death rates to
Australia since the beginning of the pandemic, it would have had 187,661
fewer deaths, according to the study conducted by Alyssa Bilinski, a
PhD candidate at Harvard University, and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice
provost of global initiatives and professor at the University of
Pennsylvania.
If the US had
comparable death rates to Canada it would have had 117,622 fewer deaths.
And it would have recorded 96,763 fewer deaths if it had comparable
death rates to France.
In the CNN Poll of Polls on Monday, Biden led Trump by 11 points. Fresh New York Times/Siena surveys in battlegrounds Michigan and Wisconsin released Monday showed the Democrat up 6 points and 10 points, respectively.
Trump
is hoping to use his return to the campaign trail to portray himself as
triumphing over Covid-19 and to solidify his assurances to Americans
there is nothing to fear from the disease, despite its rising nationwide
threat.
The President -- who has
rarely tried to reach beyond his political base -- is counting on a
massive turnout not just from his 2016 supporters but also from new
working class white voters who identify with him culturally but who have
rarely cast a vote in previous elections. Trump's rally on Monday was
for instance peppered with comments about the "Panhandle," the portion
of northern Florida where he performed especially strongly in 2016.
CNN White House reporter Kevin Liptak reported
Monday that Trump is pressing his advisers to organize multiple rallies
in the next few weeks as he tries to unleash a late wave of momentum to
overhaul Biden.
The President is
pining for two and three events a day -- which in the circumstances
could turn into multiple superspreader events -- to revive the spirit of
his push up to his shock victory over Hillary Clinton four years ago.
But
there are signs that the GOP hierarchy in Washington is not seeing the
similarities with 2016, with some seeing Trump's antics, including a
boorish performance at the first presidential debate, as giving
Democrats a golden opportunity to grab both the White House and Senate.
McConnell
delivered his warning about Democrats being "on fire" in a call with
lobbyists recently, according to someone familiar with the remarks.
Senate
Republicans who never expected to have a serious challenge, such as
Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Joni Ernst in Iowa, are at serious
risk. Graham, who as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is leading the
Barrett hearings, is facing a challenger, Jaime Harrison, who just
shattered the single quarter fundraising record for a Senate race with
$57 million.
And Trump's itinerary
for later this week also indicates a campaign playing defense as he
travels to Iowa, Pennsylvania and North Carolina -- all states he won
four years ago and where he is in danger of losing now."
~~~~~
Everyone knows we're going to lose this round to Amy Coney Barrett, but the tickle will be if Lindsay Graham loses his Senate seat and is sent back to the Plantation; that upset and a few more will put us in the position to override the arch conservative votes of the Supreme Court, right ?
So hang on to yer seats and stay calm (if you can). Vons has this great organic popcorn with white cheddar cheese, check it out, you may need it.
Lots more here, including the confirmation hearings:
So says the Turtleman; but not in the sense of burning up and burning out as Trump is doing. More like gaining momentum at a rapid and feverish pace in every possible direction.
There are so many "fire" songs...I thought this one was the best - Scorcese used it in one of his scenes as background for his frenetic anti-hero with helicopters flying overhead (hilarious) and it's very hyper. When I hear it I envision lots of energy with thousands of robust and pissed off donkeys on a stampede chasing Mitch The Turtleman out of the Senate chamber from all directions...wow, I must need sleep.
Anyway, Nilsson was a completely cool guy ..you might remember him from years ago on the Smothers Brothers. This is the longer version.
I should have added (but I thought the title was getting kind of long) he might even reveal that he thinks Joe Biden is taking drugs.
Of course, he won't be speaking about the Republicans who are blocking the Virus Aide and millions of Americans are unemployed, broke, hungry, losing their homes or rentals and scared to death. But then again he could mention he received the Bay of Pigs award.
One thing we know for certain, people will be crammed in like sardines to the inside event, most not wearing masks and not a soul practising social distancing.
This BTW was from last week, and if you listened to the Trump speech, comparing himself to FDR and Churchhill as we did, you probably were astounded-left speechless as we were to say the least. Goes to show Trump knows nothing about history, not one thing, bombastic !
So, here we are with the West ablazedue to climate change (which BTW is really not being covered here locally...nor have I heard any television weather reporter in San Diego [ with the exception of PBS] even mention "climate change" and the fires. Not a peep ! That to me is just dern-right irresponsible and stupid.
~ From Informed Comment: (with video hit the link)
"Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is astonishing to me that we still have 287 million gasoline vehicles on our roads and that 20 percent of our electricity comes from burning dirty coal. We just go on blithely pumping over 5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, a powerful and dangerous heat-trapping gas, into the atmosphere annually. It is like setting off atomic bombs in the atmosphere. We know this. And yet as a society we are virtually paralyzed. Our Neanderthal-in-chief actually promotes coal burning, and the Republican Party is a Siamese twin with Big Oil.
The presidential candidates aren’t even talking about it much, and it was an issue largely excluded by the corporate press and the party machines from the primary debates.
While individuals with the resources can cut down on their carbon footprints with solar panels and electric cars (they are a good combination), the problem can’t be tackled effectively without government action. And there, the United States has failed. It has been made to fail by Big Carbon and greedy politicians and ignorant journalists and an apathetic public that apparently doesn’t care if their children or grandchildren face a choice of being burned up or drowning.
If you go back and look at the predictions of climate scientists about 2020, you’ll see that they gave a range, of best- and worst-case scenarios. In every instance, it is the worst case scenario that has come to pass. Even the most jaded and alarmed scientists in 2000 were not pessimistic enough.
Mother Nature is trying to tell us something but we are not listening.
Diana Leonard and Andrew Freedman at WaPo write, “These wildfires are what is known as a compound disaster, in which more than one extreme event takes place at the same time, across a varied geography. While climate scientists have been warning that compound disasters are an inevitable result of human-caused climate change, a spate of simultaneously burning, rapidly expanding fires spanning the entire West Coast was not expected for several more decades if greenhouse gas emissions remain high.”
1. 3.1 million acres of California have been scorched this year by wildfires, the largest number in recorded history, and thousands of homes have been destroyed. Some 200,000 are going without electricity in a bid to stop more fires. Christina Walker at CNN reports that California wildfires have increased 8x in size since 1970, and the number of acres burned is up 500%.
CNN quotes Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research: “climate change has not just made the extreme heat waves that coincided with the fires worse. The bigger effect is the more subtle, long-term warming,” he said. “That couple of degrees of (average) warming over decades … you don’t notice it as much, but it’s still there lurking in the background, sucking extra moisture out of the vegetation and the soil.”
A study has just demonstrated that the number of extreme-danger fire days has doubled since 1980 in California because of global heating.
2. Wildfires have burned a million acres in Oregon, and Timothy Bella, Marisa Iati and Hannah Knowles at WaPo report that state officials are worried about a “mass fatality incident” that will overwhelm local health care facilities. Fully 10 percent of the state’s population, some 500,000 people, have been ordered evacuated.
3. Joseph O’Sullivan reports at the Seattle Times that Washington state has seen over 600,000 acres burned. It is also part of the expanding Compound Disaster. This is the most acreage burnt in recorded history except for 2015. Governor Jay Inslee, in keeping with the spirit of Compound Disaster, is trying to provide shelter to some of the 500,000 fleeing Oregonians.
4. Nature is not disconnected from human society or from the economy, as Trump and his ilk imagine. Jeff Dukes writes in the Chicago Tribune about the effect of global heating on the Midwest:
“In the Midwest, we regularly see crops ruined by droughts or floods. We expect wetter springs, bigger downpours and more variable precipitation during hotter summers to crash yields more often. The agricultural banks that many farmers depend on for credit are typically small and disproportionately exposed to these regional extreme weather events.”
The Midwest is facing the opposite problem from the West, of increased downpours and crop damage. What we seldom stop to think about is the rolling farm bankruptcies it will produce and hence the rolling bank failures.
5. Hurricane Laura visited devastation on Louisiana and struck up to Arkansas. It landed as nearly a Category 4 Hurricane, and if it had hit more populous areas it would have been an even bigger disaster. Sarah Gibbons at National Geographic lays out the dangers of such enormous storms. They are causing coastal erosion, literally just taking away the state’s land. As the icecaps melt, the Gulf of Mexico is rising (and the water is heating, so it expands). That sea level rise is exacerbating the sinking of the Delta because levees no longer let the Mississippi lay down silt.
Hot sea water and extra moisture in the air from heat-driven evaporation is fueling super-hurricanes in the Gulf that are more powerful and cause more downpours than anything in recorded history. This heating is from us driving our cars and burning our coal and other ways we generate heat-trapping gases."
~~~~~
Local Drug War & COVID Stats:
Before I get so far behind, here are some stats:
Tijuana:
58 executions so far this month of September in Tijuana, leaving a YTD total of 1,412 dead. Check out Noticias del Dia for more reports on all of these.
"From 5 a.m. on Saturday, September 12 to noon this Sunday, in Tijuana there were ten homicides. With this, they add 58 murders so far in September, and in the accumulated of 2020, 1,412.
In the most recent violent events, the multi-homicide of three men stands out during the early hours of this September 13, when in the first minutes of the day, officials of the State Investigation Agency located the three bodies on the old highway to Tecate, on one side from number 105, in the Colonia Vivienda Magisterial 37, in the Los Pinos delegation. The victims - who remain unidentified - have gunshot wounds.
At noon today, in the same district of Los Pinos, a man was shot to death while walking on the main avenue of the Puerta Plata subdivision, located on one side of Bulevard 2000.
Municipal police officers and Red Cross rescuers arrived at the scene and attended to the victim, but the victim no longer had vital signs and the man was declared dead at the scene. The area was cordoned off waiting for agents of the State Attorney General's Office to carry out the corresponding proceedings.
Regarding the homicides reported on Saturday, September 12, at the stroke of midnight, Valentín Reyes Rosa and Alberto Audeves Mercado were found dead inside a house in the private San Jorge, in the Villa del Álamo subdivision, in the delegation The pines. Both bodies show traces of strangulation.
At 11:40 p.m. yesterday, the assassination of J. Nicolás Martínez Monroy, 55, was reported. The corpse of the man -which showed gunshots- was found inside a green and cream public transport vehicle on Mixtla street, in front of number 14912, in the Sánchez Taboada Produtsa neighborhood, in the Sánchez Taboada delegation .
Hours before, at 6:30 p.m., officials of the State Investigation Agency located a gray truck, parked on Constitución avenue, between Second and Third streets, in front of number 616, in the Zona Centro neighborhood, in the Centro delegation .
In the passenger seat was Geovany Zepeda, 32, whose body had gunshot wounds to the neck and chest.
Minutes earlier, on Avenida Ferrocarril -on one side of the train tracks-, in the Zermeño Mérida neighborhood, in the Los Pinos delegation, the body of a man, between 20 and 25 years old, was found. The body had a head wound and 3 more to the thorax produced by a firearm projectile. So far the identity of the victim is unknown.
In the early hours of Saturday, at 5:25 a.m., the body of a man, between 45 and 50 years old, was found on the free highway Mexicali-Tijuana, at kilometer 159 + 100, in the Presa Rural delegation The body had two injuries to the head and one more to the thorax, caused by a firearm."
~~~~~
UPDATE/edit 09/14:
The execution numbers according to Zeta have increased. I'm adding this because maybe you might be thinking, well, it is just more people being shot. No, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as cruelty Is concerned...and it happens all of time, it is savage here up and down the coast:
"The violence in Tijuana continues. This morning of Monday, September 14, the severed head of a person was found inside a plastic bucket, a body inside a tambo, as well as a drug message. The discovery occurred in the vicinity of the Altamira neighborhood.
With this fact, the number of intentional homicides rises to 63 victims in September, and 1,416 so far in 2020.
Information obtained by ZETA, refers that around 06:29 hours it was reported that in Lucrecia Toriz Street and Second Street at the height of the stairs that lead to a private university there was a black and white plastic drum, which was he managed to appreciate the lower extremities, which were tied with a piece of black cloth, wrapped in a brown and beige blanket.
In addition, 20 meters from the first site, a white plastic bucket was found, and inside a human head. On one side was a piece of canvas with a legend that read: “ALINIENSE BALL OF DOGS FROM INDEPE TO VAN A RODAR CHOMPAS. YOU FOLLOW YOUR LUIZ GÁMEZ OR THE (LUISILLO) ATORALE BY DAY CRISTALON IN ONE. ATT EL KINDER NG ”.
In other violent events, four murders were recorded on Sunday, September 13.
The first occurred at 6:10 a.m. at an address at number 96 Lázaro Cárdenas street, Alfonso Garzón neighborhood, where a 20-year-old male who went by the name of Yamil Ramos Ramírez was murdered.
Later, another young man identified, Gerardo García Mora, 24, was found dead on Titanio Street in the Puerta de Plata neighborhood. The victim had reddish-brown spots.
Also on Sunday on Abedul Street in front of the address of Lot 11, Block 27, Valle Imperial neighborhood, a male was found dead with visible traces of violence, until now unidentified. Two casings were found at the site.
Finally, at 9:40 p.m., a young man between the ages of 25 and 30 was shot to death when he was on Hacienda las Arboledas Street, in the Terrazas del Valle II section.
In none of the cases are detained persons reported."
end edit.
~~~~~
Ensenada:
You wouldn't know Ensenada is more or less a battleground, not only in the drug war related deaths but the COVID debacle by reading the reports of tourists flocking to the Municipality. Marco Flores writes that a YTD tally would exceed 265 deaths in Ensenada by execution. Here is the link to Ensenada from Zeta; you can scroll through - don't miss the two gringos down in San Quintin at El Socorro. Back in the early 80's Socorro used to be one of our favorite places to camp & surf.
"The State Attorney General's Office (FGE) suspects that the North American couple who is missing in Baja California are inside a grave in the town of El Socorrito in San Quintín, south of Ensenada.
They are a retired couple identified by the media from San Diego, California, as Ian Hirschsohn, 78, of Solana Beach and Kathy Harvey, 73, of Tierrasanta.
Both traveled frequently to the area where they rented a home, although they intended to return to the United States on August 31. Relatives of the couple had no further news of them so they notified the police corporations.
The San Diego Police Department confirmed on Friday that the bodies were found, however, according to Ensenada officials working on the case, they reported that they are not sure because they have three days trying to extract the remains from a grave, or well, six meters deep.
Since the discovery last Thursday, September 3, a delegation was formed between agents and rescue elements from the Civil Protection Directorate, as well as volunteers.
On Saturday night the rescuers deserted the operation due to the risk, on Saturday morning they began the work but so far they have not been able to extract the remains.
El Socorrito is located about four kilometers from the Transpeninsular highway, and the closest to the place of the discovery is a rehabilitation center for addicts."
"The number of deaths caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) amounted to 3,330 in Baja California, with which the entity remains in fifth place nationally. More than half of the deaths (58.8%) from March to September 12, 2020 were registered with the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
While 37.4% in the hospitals of the Ministry of Health and 3.75% in the rest of institutions, said the Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, this Sunday during the message of Governor Jaime Bonilla Valdez, on Facebook.
In the last report (of September 12) the entity reported 20 new deaths: 12 in Tijuana, 3 in Ensenada, 3 in Mexicali, and 2 in Tecate.
Regarding the number of accumulated cases of coronavirus, in Baja California there are 18 thousand 324. Of which, the Ministry of Health registered 7 thousand 108; IMSS, 9,753; IMSS Wellbeing 209; ISSSTE, 440; ISSSTECALI, 662; Sedena, 37; Semar, 47 and private hospitals, 68.
According to the official, 24 new cases were reported on September 12. Fifteen in Ensenada, to add 2 thousand 905. Eight in Mexicali, bringing the total to 8 thousand 778 accumulated. Five in Tijuana, to reach 5,841 accumulated cases of coronavirus. Rosarito one, with a total of 323. While Tecate had no new cases, although it registers 477 accumulated cases.
As of yesterday's cut, active cases in the entity decreased from 675 to 601. Tijuana went from having 317 cases to 278, which left the top 20 municipalities with the most active cases, ranking 25th.
Mexicali also decreased the number of active cases, from 144 to 125. Ensenada, went from 162 to 157. Tecate dropped 10 active cases, from 26 to 16. Rosarito also reduced one active case, bringing it to 25.
Pérez Rico added that hospital occupancy is 28.16% in the SSA; 73.68% in Social Security; 87% in the ISSSTE; 63.82% in the ISSSTECALI; and 21.36% in Sedena."
"The city of Tijuana in Baja California reported 229 active cases of COVID-19, on the morning of Monday, September 14, the highest figure in the five municipalities, which together accumulate 501 patients with the active SARS-CoV-2 virus . Of the accumulated cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 18 thousand 341 and three thousand 319 deaths, reported the head of the Ministry of Health (SS), Alonso Pérez Rico.
Although active cases decreased by 100 cases compared to the previous day, the state remains above 500 patients with the active virus. Tijuana reports 229, Mexicali 103, Ensenada 100, Playas de Rosarito 24, Tecate 11 and the towns of San Quintín and San Felipe have 32 and two cases respectively.
In contrast to the more than 100 new cases to COVID-19 registered in recent days, this Monday there were only 17 new cases. Tijuana (5,851 confirmed) accumulated 10 cases; Ensenada (2 thousand 364) added three cases; Mexicali (8 thousand 484) accumulated two cases; Tecate (478) had a new case as well as the town of San Quintín (545). Only Playas de Rosarito (323) and the town of San Felipe (296) remained without incident.
Of the confirmed accumulated, 387 are people ranging from 0 to 20 years old, but the group with the most cases is that of people 30 to 34 years old who report 2,274 COVID patients. Of the patients that are still alive, 14,848 have been outpatients and 173 have been hospitalized, 3,319 have lost their lives.
Pérez Rico reported that of the 15 recent deaths, Tijuana had the highest number, with 7 deaths reaching 1,352 deaths; Mexicali accumulated 1,498 with five deceased persons; Tecate with two reached 103 deaths and Ensenada with one case rose to 327 deaths. The localities without increases are Playas de Rosarito, which maintains 18 deaths, the town of San Quintín has 19 and San Felipe has two.
By age groups, the highest number of deaths has occurred in people aged 64 to 69, 427 to date; It is followed by the groups of 60 to 64 years that register 414 deaths and that of 55 to 59 years has 413 deaths. Those recovered are 10,380 in the entire state.
In the SS, hospital occupancy is 28 percent with 110 beds occupied and 60 ventilators in use. The General Hospital of Mexicali is at 29 percent occupancy; the General de Tijuana at 32 percent and the General Hospital of Ensenada at 24 percent occupancy.
The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) is 74 percent occupied in the state with 149 hospitalized patients and 29 connected to a ventilator. Mexicali has an occupation of 78 percent in the General Hospital of Zone 30; Tijuana is 73 percent in the Regional Hospital 1 and Ensenada works at 73 percent occupancy in the General Hospital of Zone 8."
end edit.
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I saw this report a few days back and thought it might work on the blog...but I was torn, especially after viewing the Ensenada report from Zeta (above) and of course the drug violence which surrounds us in Tijuana.
However , I am a Jimmy Carter fan... and I needed a tune for the blog.
Here then,
~ From the Hill via MSN:
"Jimmy Carter Says His Son Smoked Pot With Willie Nelson On White House Roof"
By, John Bowden - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jimmy-carter-says-his-son-smoked-pot-with-willie-nelson-on-white-house-roof/ar-BB18ZURH
"Former President Jimmy Carter reveals in a new documentary that his son James Earl "Chip" Carter sat on the roof of the White House and smoked marijuana with country music legend Willie Nelson.
People magazine reports that Carter made the admission in a new documentary, "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President." Carter confirmed the anecdote described in Nelson's autobiography, though Nelson had hid the identity of Carter's son in the book in which he referred to his companion as a "servant" in the White House.
"When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, he confessed that he smoked pot in the White House one night when he was spending the night with me," Carter says, according to People. "And he says that his companion that shared the pot with him was one of the servants in the White House. That is not exactly true - it actually was one of my sons, which he didn't want to categorize as a pot-smoker like him."
Carter famously made political alliances with many well-known musicians during his White House tenure, including Nelson and the Allman Brothers. In the documentary, he reportedly also dismissed criticism of his meetings with musical groups, pointing to the influence such groups had over their fans.
"I was doing what I really believed, and the response I think from the followers of those musicians was much more influential than the people who thought [of] that being inappropriate for a president," Carter says, according to People.
Nelson is an outspoken advocate for left-leaning causes and in 2018 supported former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) in his Senate bid against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)."
~~~~~
Rolling Stone covered this same material back in 2019:
"Sixty-five years after he smoked his first joint, Willie Nelson is America’s most legendary stoner and a walking testament to the power of weed. It may have even saved his life"
I should have added (but I thought the title was getting kind of long) he might even reveal that he thinks Joe Biden is taking drugs.
Of course, he won't be speaking about the Republicans who are blocking the Virus Aide and millions of Americans are unemployed, broke, hungry, losing their homes or rentals and scared to death. But then again he could mention he received the Bay of Pigs award.
One thing we know for certain, people will be crammed in like sardines to the inside event, most not wearing masks and not a soul practising social distancing.
This BTW was from last week, and if you listened to the Trump speech, comparing himself to FDR and Churchhill as we did, you probably were astounded-left speechless as we were to say the least. Goes to show Trump knows nothing about history, not one thing, bombastic !
So, here we are with the West ablazedue to climate change (which BTW is really not being covered here locally...nor have I heard any television weather reporter in San Diego [ with the exception of PBS] even mention "climate change" and the fires. Not a peep ! That to me is just dern-right irresponsible and stupid.
~ From Informed Comment: (with video hit the link)
"Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is astonishing to me that we still
have 287 million gasoline vehicles on our roads and that 20 percent of
our electricity comes from burning dirty coal. We just go on blithely
pumping over 5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, a powerful and
dangerous heat-trapping gas, into the atmosphere annually. It is like
setting off atomic bombs in the atmosphere. We know this. And yet as a
society we are virtually paralyzed. Our Neanderthal-in-chief actually
promotes coal burning, and the Republican Party is a Siamese twin with
Big Oil.
The presidential candidates aren’t even talking about it much, and it
was an issue largely excluded by the corporate press and the party
machines from the primary debates.
While individuals with the resources can cut down on their carbon
footprints with solar panels and electric cars (they are a good
combination), the problem can’t be tackled effectively without
government action. And there, the United States has failed. It has been
made to fail by Big Carbon and greedy politicians and ignorant
journalists and an apathetic public that apparently doesn’t care if
their children or grandchildren face a choice of being burned up or
drowning.
If you go back and look at the predictions of climate scientists
about 2020, you’ll see that they gave a range, of best- and worst-case
scenarios. In every instance, it is the worst case scenario that has
come to pass. Even the most jaded and alarmed scientists in 2000 were
not pessimistic enough.
Mother Nature is trying to tell us something but we are not listening.
Diana Leonard and Andrew Freedman at WaPo
write, “These wildfires are what is known as a compound disaster, in
which more than one extreme event takes place at the same time, across a
varied geography. While climate scientists have been warning that
compound disasters are an inevitable result of human-caused climate
change, a spate of simultaneously burning, rapidly expanding fires
spanning the entire West Coast was not expected for several more decades
if greenhouse gas emissions remain high.”
1. 3.1 million acres of California have been scorched this year by
wildfires, the largest number in recorded history, and thousands of
homes have been destroyed. Some 200,000 are going without electricity in
a bid to stop more fires. Christina Walker at CNN reports that California wildfires have increased 8x in size since 1970, and the number of acres burned is up 500%.
CNN quotes Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the National
Center for Atmospheric Research: “climate change has not just made the
extreme heat waves that coincided with the fires worse. The bigger
effect is the more subtle, long-term warming,” he said. “That couple of
degrees of (average) warming over decades … you don’t notice it as much,
but it’s still there lurking in the background, sucking extra moisture
out of the vegetation and the soil.”
A study
has just demonstrated that the number of extreme-danger fire days has
doubled since 1980 in California because of global heating.
2. Wildfires have burned a million acres in Oregon, and Timothy Bella, Marisa Iati and Hannah Knowles at WaPo
report that state officials are worried about a “mass fatality
incident” that will overwhelm local health care facilities. Fully 10
percent of the state’s population, some 500,000 people, have been
ordered evacuated.
3. Joseph O’Sullivan reports at the Seattle Times
that Washington state has seen over 600,000 acres burned. It is also
part of the expanding Compound Disaster. This is the most acreage burnt
in recorded history except for 2015. Governor Jay Inslee, in keeping
with the spirit of Compound Disaster, is trying to provide shelter to
some of the 500,000 fleeing Oregonians.
4. Nature is not disconnected from human society or from the economy, as Trump and his ilk imagine. Jeff Dukes writes in the Chicago Tribune about the effect of global heating on the Midwest:
“In the Midwest, we regularly see crops ruined by droughts or
floods. We expect wetter springs, bigger downpours and more variable
precipitation during hotter summers to crash yields more often. The
agricultural banks that many farmers depend on for credit are typically
small and disproportionately exposed to these regional extreme weather
events.”
The Midwest is facing the opposite problem from the West, of
increased downpours and crop damage. What we seldom stop to think about
is the rolling farm bankruptcies it will produce and hence the rolling
bank failures.
5. Hurricane Laura visited devastation on Louisiana and struck up to
Arkansas. It landed as nearly a Category 4 Hurricane, and if it had hit
more populous areas it would have been an even bigger disaster. Sarah Gibbons at National Geographic
lays out the dangers of such enormous storms. They are causing coastal
erosion, literally just taking away the state’s land. As the icecaps
melt, the Gulf of Mexico is rising (and the water is heating, so it
expands). That sea level rise is exacerbating the sinking of the Delta
because levees no longer let the Mississippi lay down silt.
Hot sea water and extra moisture in the air from heat-driven
evaporation is fueling super-hurricanes in the Gulf that are more
powerful and cause more downpours than anything in recorded history.
This heating is from us driving our cars and burning our coal and other
ways we generate heat-trapping gases."
~~~~~
Local Drug War & COVID Stats:
Before I get so far behind, here are some stats:
Tijuana:
58 executions so far this month of September in Tijuana, leaving a YTD total of 1,412 dead. Check out Noticias del Dia for more reports on all of these.
"From 5 a.m. on Saturday, September 12 to noon this Sunday, in Tijuana there were ten homicides. With this, they add 58 murders so far in September, and in the accumulated of 2020, 1,412.
In
the most recent violent events, the multi-homicide of three men stands
out during the early hours of this September 13, when in the first
minutes of the day, officials of the State Investigation Agency located
the three bodies on the old highway to Tecate, on one side from number
105, in the Colonia Vivienda Magisterial 37, in the Los Pinos
delegation. The victims - who remain unidentified - have gunshot wounds.
At
noon today, in the same district of Los Pinos, a man was shot to death
while walking on the main avenue of the Puerta Plata subdivision,
located on one side of Bulevard 2000.
Municipal
police officers and Red Cross rescuers arrived at the scene and
attended to the victim, but the victim no longer had vital signs and the
man was declared dead at the scene. The area was cordoned off waiting for agents of the State Attorney General's Office to carry out the corresponding proceedings.
Regarding
the homicides reported on Saturday, September 12, at the stroke of
midnight, Valentín Reyes Rosa and Alberto Audeves Mercado were found
dead inside a house in the private San Jorge, in the Villa del Álamo
subdivision, in the delegation The pines. Both bodies show traces of strangulation.
At 11:40 p.m. yesterday, the assassination of J. Nicolás Martínez Monroy, 55, was reported. The
corpse of the man -which showed gunshots- was found inside a green and
cream public transport vehicle on Mixtla street, in front of number
14912, in the Sánchez Taboada Produtsa neighborhood, in the Sánchez
Taboada delegation .
Hours
before, at 6:30 p.m., officials of the State Investigation Agency
located a gray truck, parked on Constitución avenue, between Second and
Third streets, in front of number 616, in the Zona Centro neighborhood,
in the Centro delegation .
In the passenger seat was Geovany Zepeda, 32, whose body had gunshot wounds to the neck and chest.
Minutes
earlier, on Avenida Ferrocarril -on one side of the train tracks-, in
the Zermeño Mérida neighborhood, in the Los Pinos delegation, the body
of a man, between 20 and 25 years old, was found. The body had a head wound and 3 more to the thorax produced by a firearm projectile. So far the identity of the victim is unknown.
In
the early hours of Saturday, at 5:25 a.m., the body of a man, between
45 and 50 years old, was found on the free highway Mexicali-Tijuana, at
kilometer 159 + 100, in the Presa Rural delegation The body had two
injuries to the head and one more to the thorax, caused by a firearm."
~~~~~
UPDATE/edit 09/14:
The execution numbers according to Zeta have increased. I'm adding this because maybe you might be thinking, well, it is just more people being shot. No, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as cruelty Is concerned...and it happens all of time, it is savage here up and down the coast:
"The violence in Tijuana continues. This
morning of Monday, September 14, the severed head of a person was found
inside a plastic bucket, a body inside a tambo, as well as a drug
message. The discovery occurred in the vicinity of the Altamira neighborhood.
With this fact, the number of intentional homicides rises to 63 victims in September, and 1,416 so far in 2020.
Information
obtained by ZETA, refers that around 06:29 hours it was reported that
in Lucrecia Toriz Street and Second Street at the height of the stairs
that lead to a private university there was a black and white plastic
drum, which was he managed to appreciate the lower extremities, which
were tied with a piece of black cloth, wrapped in a brown and beige
blanket.
In addition, 20 meters from the first site, a white plastic bucket was found, and inside a human head. On one side was a piece of canvas with a legend that read: “ALINIENSE BALL OF DOGS FROM INDEPE TO VAN A RODAR CHOMPAS. YOU FOLLOW YOUR LUIZ GÁMEZ OR THE (LUISILLO) ATORALE BY DAY CRISTALON IN ONE. ATT EL KINDER NG ”.
In other violent events, four murders were recorded on Sunday, September 13.
The
first occurred at 6:10 a.m. at an address at number 96 Lázaro Cárdenas
street, Alfonso Garzón neighborhood, where a 20-year-old male who went
by the name of Yamil Ramos Ramírez was murdered.
Later,
another young man identified, Gerardo García Mora, 24, was found dead
on Titanio Street in the Puerta de Plata neighborhood. The victim had reddish-brown spots.
Also
on Sunday on Abedul Street in front of the address of Lot 11, Block 27,
Valle Imperial neighborhood, a male was found dead with visible traces
of violence, until now unidentified. Two casings were found at the site.
Finally,
at 9:40 p.m., a young man between the ages of 25 and 30 was shot to
death when he was on Hacienda las Arboledas Street, in the Terrazas del
Valle II section.
In none of the cases are detained persons reported."
end edit.
~~~~~
Ensenada:
You wouldn't know Ensenada is more or less a battleground, not only in the drug war related deaths but the COVID debacle by reading the reports of tourists flocking to the Municipality. Marco Flores writes that a YTD tally would exceed 265 deaths in Ensenada by execution. Here is the link to Ensenada from Zeta; you can scroll through - don't miss the two gringos down in San Quintin at El Socorro. Back in the early 80's Socorro used to be one of our favorite places to camp & surf.
"The
State Attorney General's Office (FGE) suspects that the North American
couple who is missing in Baja California are inside a grave in the town
of El Socorrito in San Quintín, south of Ensenada.
They
are a retired couple identified by the media from San Diego,
California, as Ian Hirschsohn, 78, of Solana Beach and Kathy Harvey, 73,
of Tierrasanta.
Both
traveled frequently to the area where they rented a home, although they
intended to return to the United States on August 31. Relatives of the couple had no further news of them so they notified the police corporations.
The
San Diego Police Department confirmed on Friday that the bodies were
found, however, according to Ensenada officials working on the case,
they reported that they are not sure because they have three days trying
to extract the remains from a grave, or well, six meters deep.
Since
the discovery last Thursday, September 3, a delegation was formed
between agents and rescue elements from the Civil Protection
Directorate, as well as volunteers.
On
Saturday night the rescuers deserted the operation due to the risk, on
Saturday morning they began the work but so far they have not been able
to extract the remains.
El
Socorrito is located about four kilometers from the Transpeninsular
highway, and the closest to the place of the discovery is a
rehabilitation center for addicts."
"The
number of deaths caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) amounted to
3,330 in Baja California, with which the entity remains in fifth place
nationally. More than half
of the deaths (58.8%) from March to September 12, 2020 were registered
with the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
While
37.4% in the hospitals of the Ministry of Health and 3.75% in the rest
of institutions, said the Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, this
Sunday during the message of Governor Jaime Bonilla Valdez, on Facebook.
In
the last report (of September 12) the entity reported 20 new deaths: 12
in Tijuana, 3 in Ensenada, 3 in Mexicali, and 2 in Tecate.
Regarding
the number of accumulated cases of coronavirus, in Baja California
there are 18 thousand 324. Of which, the Ministry of Health registered 7
thousand 108; IMSS, 9,753; IMSS Wellbeing 209; ISSSTE, 440; ISSSTECALI, 662; Sedena, 37; Semar, 47 and private hospitals, 68.
According to the official, 24 new cases were reported on September 12. Fifteen in Ensenada, to add 2 thousand 905. Eight in Mexicali, bringing the total to 8 thousand 778 accumulated. Five in Tijuana, to reach 5,841 accumulated cases of coronavirus. Rosarito one, with a total of 323. While Tecate had no new cases, although it registers 477 accumulated cases.
As
of yesterday's cut, active cases in the entity decreased from 675 to
601. Tijuana went from having 317 cases to 278, which left the top 20
municipalities with the most active cases, ranking 25th.
Mexicali
also decreased the number of active cases, from 144 to 125. Ensenada,
went from 162 to 157. Tecate dropped 10 active cases, from 26 to 16.
Rosarito also reduced one active case, bringing it to 25.
Pérez Rico added that hospital occupancy is 28.16% in the SSA; 73.68% in Social Security; 87% in the ISSSTE; 63.82% in the ISSSTECALI; and 21.36% in Sedena."
"The
city of Tijuana in Baja California reported 229 active cases of
COVID-19, on the morning of Monday, September 14, the highest figure in
the five municipalities, which together accumulate 501 patients with the
active SARS-CoV-2 virus . Of
the accumulated cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 18
thousand 341 and three thousand 319 deaths, reported the head of the
Ministry of Health (SS), Alonso Pérez Rico.
Although
active cases decreased by 100 cases compared to the previous day, the
state remains above 500 patients with the active virus. Tijuana
reports 229, Mexicali 103, Ensenada 100, Playas de Rosarito 24, Tecate
11 and the towns of San Quintín and San Felipe have 32 and two cases
respectively.
In contrast to the more than 100 new cases to COVID-19 registered in recent days, this Monday there were only 17 new cases. Tijuana (5,851 confirmed) accumulated 10 cases; Ensenada (2 thousand 364) added three cases; Mexicali (8 thousand 484) accumulated two cases; Tecate (478) had a new case as well as the town of San Quintín (545). Only Playas de Rosarito (323) and the town of San Felipe (296) remained without incident.
Of
the confirmed accumulated, 387 are people ranging from 0 to 20 years
old, but the group with the most cases is that of people 30 to 34 years
old who report 2,274 COVID patients. Of the patients that are still alive, 14,848 have been outpatients and 173 have been hospitalized, 3,319 have lost their lives.
Pérez Rico reported that of the 15 recent deaths, Tijuana had the highest number, with 7 deaths reaching 1,352 deaths; Mexicali accumulated 1,498 with five deceased persons; Tecate with two reached 103 deaths and Ensenada with one case rose to 327 deaths. The
localities without increases are Playas de Rosarito, which maintains 18
deaths, the town of San Quintín has 19 and San Felipe has two.
By age groups, the highest number of deaths has occurred in people aged 64 to 69, 427 to date; It is followed by the groups of 60 to 64 years that register 414 deaths and that of 55 to 59 years has 413 deaths. Those recovered are 10,380 in the entire state.
In the SS, hospital occupancy is 28 percent with 110 beds occupied and 60 ventilators in use. The General Hospital of Mexicali is at 29 percent occupancy; the General de Tijuana at 32 percent and the General Hospital of Ensenada at 24 percent occupancy.
The
Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) is 74 percent occupied in
the state with 149 hospitalized patients and 29 connected to a
ventilator. Mexicali has an occupation of 78 percent in the General Hospital of Zone 30; Tijuana is 73 percent in the Regional Hospital 1 and Ensenada works at 73 percent occupancy in the General Hospital of Zone 8."
end edit.
~~~~
I saw this report a few days back and thought it might work on the blog...but I was torn, especially after viewing the Ensenada report from Zeta (above) and of course the drug violence which surrounds us in Tijuana.
However , I am a Jimmy Carter fan... and I needed a tune for the blog.
Here then,
~ From the Hill via MSN:
"Jimmy Carter Says His Son Smoked Pot With Willie Nelson On White House Roof"
By, John Bowden - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jimmy-carter-says-his-son-smoked-pot-with-willie-nelson-on-white-house-roof/ar-BB18ZURH
"Former President Jimmy Carter reveals in a new documentary that his
son James Earl "Chip" Carter sat on the roof of the White House and
smoked marijuana with country music legend Willie Nelson.
People magazine
reports that Carter made the admission in a new documentary, "Jimmy
Carter: Rock & Roll President." Carter confirmed the anecdote
described in Nelson's autobiography, though Nelson had hid the identity
of Carter's son in the book in which he referred to his companion as a
"servant" in the White House.
"When Willie Nelson wrote his
autobiography, he confessed that he smoked pot in the White House one
night when he was spending the night with me," Carter says, according to
People. "And he says that his companion that shared the pot with him
was one of the servants in the White House. That is not exactly true -
it actually was one of my sons, which he didn't want to categorize as a
pot-smoker like him."
Carter famously made political alliances with many well-known
musicians during his White House tenure, including Nelson and the Allman
Brothers. In the documentary, he reportedly also dismissed criticism of
his meetings with musical groups, pointing to the influence such groups
had over their fans.
"I was doing what I really believed, and the
response I think from the followers of those musicians was much more
influential than the people who thought [of] that being inappropriate
for a president," Carter says, according to People.
Nelson is an outspoken advocate for left-leaning causes and in 2018 supported former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) in his Senate bid against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)."
~~~~~
Rolling Stone covered this same material back in 2019:
"Sixty-five years after
he smoked his first joint, Willie Nelson is America’s most legendary
stoner and a walking testament to the power of weed. It may have even
saved his life"
