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"I walked into the Oval Office, and the president ... got down on one knee."
Said Dick Van Dyke, who's 95 years old, and who went to the White House on Thursday, a little reception on the occasion of honors being doled out by the Kennedy Center.
The other honorees, according to The Hill, were Garth Brooks, Debbie Allen, Joan Baez and Midori. I can't tell whether Biden got down on one knee for all of them or just for Van Dyke.
The only other detail in the linked article is that Joan Baez sang "(Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around."
She probably only sang the first verse. Here's the second verse:
Ain't gonna let the administration turn me around...Turn me around...Keep on a-walkin'Keep on a-talkin'Gonna build a brand new worldWell, those are the lyrics as presented at Genius lyrics. Reading them, I conclude that singers improvise endlessly about the thing they're not going to let turn them around.
"Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers, or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated..."
"... because I’ve already had the disease and I have natural immunity... In a free country you would think people would honor the idea that each individual would get to make the medical decision, that it wouldn’t be a big brother coming to tell me what I have to do. Are they also going to tell me I can’t have a cheeseburger for lunch? Are they going to tell me that I have to eat carrots only and cut my calories? All that would probably be good for me, but I don’t think big brother ought to tell me to do it."
From "Rand Paul: 'I'm not getting vaccinated'" (The Hill).
The most popular comment over there is: "Rand Paul's neighbor for Senate!" Celebrating violence... or at least laughing at it.
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"And if we just suppose that there is. Then don’t you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you’d have to learn not just her mannerisms...
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"But now that I am better informed, I am committed to advocating for change. Because when we know better, we should do better." ...
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