{"id":35506,"date":"2025-01-26T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35506"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:19:02","slug":"todays-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35506","title":{"rendered":"Today’s news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: just because I include a link to the NY Times or Salon or WAPO does not mean I have read the entire article. For instance I am leading with a Times article whose headline allows me to make a comment on my son an expert in all manner of science with a mind as eclectic as mine if you discount his long standing general disregard for social studies and history. Also Note: I mean for this to be both a link to things I think are important and a window into my thinking.<\/p>\n

1. C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid\u2019s Origins https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/cia-covid-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-android-share<\/a><\/p>\n

Harry’s comment:<\/p>\n

My son has maintained since the covid pandemic that the lab is the place where the virus escaped. In 2017 Claudia and I were in Wuhan<\/a> as Chinese scientists were experimenting on the deadly pathogen. I recommend the preceding link. I was a little appalled at how angry my son was with Dr. Fauci because 1. he fibbed about how necessary medical face masks were so the general public wouldn’t scarf them all up and deny front line medical workers in hospitals from getting their hands on them to keep hospitals from becoming seed beds of epidemics. and 2. Fauci’s assurance that there was no way the US offloading dangerous viral studies on other nations had anything to do with the virus’s creation and subsequent escape. I only read the headline in this story as my son has filled me in copiously on the details the CIA now apparently agrees with.<\/p>\n

I have several other news items to comment on but Church calls. When I return I hope to limit work on this blog post to thirty minutes. I have many other projects to attend to.<\/p>\n

DAMN IT<\/p>\n

I could spend hours and hours on this stuff and despite what appeared to be my resolve a couple days ago to do justice to the news I didn’t do it.I read or skimmed a lot but I need to live life so….. I will conclude here..as always. We will see what tomorrow brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: just because I include a link to the NY Times or Salon or WAPO does not mean I have read the entire article….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35510,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35506\/revisions\/35510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}