Gasping For Air

'The Big Bang wasn't the beginning' says Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288583

 

“The Big Bang was not the beginning,” Sir Roger Penrose said this week, after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. “There was something before the Big Bang.”

Fox News Poll: Biden gains ground over Trump

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-biden-gains-ground-over-trump

 Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a 53-43 percent margin, in a Fox News national survey of likely voters conducted after a combative debate and the president testing positive for coronavirus. Biden’s 10-point advantage is up from a 5-point lead last month. 

Private Concern Grows After Trump Flip-Flops On Relief Measures | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Appeals court rejects Trump's effort to block enforcement of tax returns subpoena

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/appeals-court-rejects-trumps-effort-block-enforcement-tax-returns-subpoena

 The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling allowing Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's office to enforce a subpoena to get President Trump's tax returns and other documents dating back to 2011, rejecting Trump's attempt to block the effort.

 "We have considered all of the President's remaining contentions on appeal and have found in them no basis for reversal," the court said in its ruling.

Trump's erratic behavior continues as he halts stimulus talks and spreads falsehoods on pandemic

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html

 President Donald Trump's behavior has become increasingly erratic since he left hospital after he suddenly blew up congressional talks on a Covid-19 economic rescue package and falsely claimed that the coronavirus was no worse than the flu, as chaos rocks a super-spreader White House.

With uncertainty still clouding official bulletins of the President's condition, there is bewilderment in Washington at some of his irresponsible and politically questionable moves since he was discharged on Monday. But a defiant Trump continues to portray himself as a hero leader who conquered Covid-19 and is chasing his own political goals while ignoring the human and economic toll of the virus, which has now sent the top Pentagon generals into quarantine.

The President has gone on a lengthy Twitter spree on Wednesday morning, with his first tweet was at 8:18 a.m. He has tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times -- mostly wild or false claims about Democrats.

Psychiatric diagnosis and mekach taus

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R. Yitzchak Zilberstein in his חשוקי חמד על מסכת סוכה quotes an actual case where R. Zvi Pesach Frank orally ruled that despite the fact that the groom hid from the bride that he was taking psychotropic medication, it was not מקח טעות. 

 https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/08/response-to-r-shmuel-kamenetzky.html?m=1

 

 

Chris Hayes On Trump Admin.’s Ongoing Recklessness That Led To Covid Outbreak | All In | MSNBC

How Fox News and Trump are spinning lethality of Covid-19

Donald’s Trumpumphant Return to COVID Infested White House

Joe Biden Logs Biggest Polling Lead Yet and Has Donald Trump On the Defense

 https://time.com/5896916/joe-biden-polling-lead-over-donald-trump/

 As we head into the final stretch, with more than three million votes and counting already cast, it’s worth noting that Biden has also widened his lead in crucial battleground states, putting Republicans on their heels in places that would be safely under red ink during normal years. The former VP is also enjoying a cash advantage that no one challenging an incumbent President would ordinarily expect.

Homeland Security says white supremacists ‘most persistent and lethal’ US threat

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/homeland-security-says-white-supremacists-most-persistent-and-lethal-us-threat/

 The Homeland Threat Assessment, released on Tuesday, details an array of violent domestic threats in the United States. It also notes that, among other qualities, white supremacists are characterized by their hate of Jews, or by “their perception that the government is controlled by Jewish persons.” 

 It is also published a month after a whistleblower alleged that high-ranking Homeland Security appointees told officials in the department to downplay the threat posed by white supremacists. Brian Murphy complained that in writing the Homeland Threat Assessment, he was asked “to specifically modify the section on White Supremacy in a manner that made the threat appear less severe, as well as include information on the prominence of violent ‘left-wing’ groups.”

Trump's reckless return met with a dramatically changed White House

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/05/politics/trump-white-house-coronavirus-diagnosis/index.html

 A new aura of mistrust was settling in as several aides raised questions about whether they had been recklessly put in harm's way over the past week. Accusations of mismanagement -- directed mainly at White House chief of staff Mark Meadows -- have flown amid one of the gravest presidential crises in a generation. An absence of robust contact tracing efforts caused ripples of concern as testing and mask-wearing norms were being second-guessed.

None of that anxiety was allayed when Trump arrived back to the White House Monday. His first act after striding up the South Portico steps was to rip off his mask and stuff it into his pocket -- even though he remains infected with coronavirus and could potentially infect those nearby. He was then seen going back out onto the balcony and re-entering so a camera crew could shoot his entrance.

'Totally Irresponsible Behavior': Trump Returns To WH, Removes Mask | Morning Joe | MSNBC