Heading Up Sturges Hill
Donald John Trump signs
While I’m no fan of Donald Trump, I have to admire the homemade roadside signs and displays you see in favor of his candidacy along rural road sides.
There is something neat about home painted signs or even displays like that of a model Donald Trump riding a snowmobile in North Brookfield, NY or riding a fake missile in Bald Eagle, Penna. It’s just piles of junk bolted together but it shows creativity and passion, far more than just store bought political sign placed on a lawn briefly before chucked in a burn barrel or sent to the landfill.
Clinical trials underway on pill to treat COVID-19 – pennlive.com
Clinical trials that are part of an international effort to test an antiviral treatment aimed at halting COVID-19 early in its course, are currently underway.
According to a report by NBC News, researchers are testing a “short-term regimen of daily pills” that when begun shortly after diagnosis can fight the virus early and possibly prevent symptoms from developing after exposure.
Timothy Sheahan, a virologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has helped pioneer the therapies, explained that in addition to curtailing the duration of one’s COVID-19 syndrome “oral antivirals have the potential to limit transmission to people in your household if you are sick.”
How to actually follow your passion
A while back on stumbled upon this Youtube channel. It seems to have a lot of good advice on a wide variety of topics.
Western Shoreline
Minority Rights
America is the one of the few countries that protects minority rights through our political system. Most democracies do not have a mechanism that protects the rights of minorities through the power of the filibuster, federalism, and the ability of different political parties to control different branches of government.
We also have a Constitution which protects additional rights, that can not be questioned by Congress or the President. Congress has two branches, the House and Senate, drawn from distinctively different constituencies. It also have a separate executive, the President, who is drawn from a national constituency. Unless all these diverse groups agree, no policy can be implemented.
Most countries allow their governments to engage in rash decisions, allow a simple majority to act in a tyrannical fashion. Fortunately, America is globally unique, and and we restrict the power of the majority by empowering minorities. This is one of the reasons why America’s democracy has outlived most other countries, and has proven to be a stable, long-lasting form of government.
Churchill Mountain
