*Rural Arizona county certifies midterm results after judge orders vote.*

The county supervisors voted to certify the results they had because refusing was illegal.

They presented no grounds to refuse to certify the results, but we can determine what their motives were: The country's vote had voted majority Democratic, and the Republican election officials figured that they could steal some statewide elections by (in effect) discarding all the votes from their own county.

A large fraction of Republicans are traitors at heart, and seek opportunities to steal any election that they lose. If imprisonment is required to thwart their treachery, prison it should be.

US citizens: call on Congress to raise the debt ceiling now so Republicans can't use it as a lever for sabotage later.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

I forecast years ago that leaving the EU could be beneficial if Corbyn were in charge, but would be harmful with Tories in charge. Sad to say, Britain did the latter and has been harmed. Leaving the EU created opportunities to change policies, laws and relationships — opportunities that Britain could use in various ways. Assuming that each party would use those opportunities to achieve its goals, the consequences were clear.

China has dropped the zero-Covid policy of trying, via tests and quarantines, to stamp out transmission.

It is to be celebrated that powerful protests can make China change rigid, harsh policies. But is this change the wise change to make?

My recommendation was to make the quarantine system less harsh and rigid, so people would not die or get badly sick from being in quarantine for a while.

I have updated the page rms-lifestyle.html.