Omar kept her marriage to Elmi quiet, with no one from the Somali community invited to the wedding. ... 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it.' ... The first report that Omar and her husband were siblings appeared on the website Somalispot in 2016. It said of Elmi, 34: 'As soon as Ilhan Omar married him he started university at her alma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. ... Elmi and Omar married on February 12, 2009 at a Hennepin County office in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis, their marriage license shows. Omar said she and Hirsi had separated in 2008, and because their faith-based union was never recognized by law, neither is their separation. ... After their marriage Omar and Elmi moved to Fargo, where they both attended North Dakota State. But Omar and Hirsi were still together as husband and wife, [community leader Abdihakim] Osman said. ... 'She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers together to allow him to stay in this country. 'Once she had the papers they could apply for student loans. 'They both moved to North Dakota to go to school but she was still married to [Hirsi]. In the Somali way, the only marriage that mattered was the one in the mosque. ... Osman believes Elmi and Omar sought out someone outside the Somali community to conduct the ceremony because an imam would have known they were related and would have refused to marry them. ... Omar and Elmi eventually divorced in 2017 and she remarried Hirsi — with whom she had a third child — in a civil ceremony the following year, just in time for her election to Congress. Osman scoffs at the idea that this was a real remarriage. 'They never parted,' he said.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Stephen L. Miller "names" conservative frauds, including Mona Charen, Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes, Evan McMullin, David Frum, Pete Wehner, Ramesh Ponnuru, Tom Nichols, Pete Wilson . . .
It's always helpful to have an enemies list.
And he ought to know, since so many people think he works in the White House.
Wild guess: First US patient with coronavirus who has now recovered (Snohomish County, Washington man) is East Asian
The Snohomish County man went to an urgent care
clinic on Jan. 19 with a cough and fever. He told the staff he had seen a
health alert about the outbreak in China – that he had returned four
days earlier from a trip to visit family in Wuhan.
South Korea's 2.5 million population city of Daegu in a panic over coronavirus superspreader at a church
Korea’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 53
new cases of the virus on Thursday, following 20 a day earlier, taking
the total across the country to 104. Of that national tally, 70 patients are from Daegu or nearby and the
majority have been traced to an infected 61-year-old woman known as
“Patient 31” who attended a church, a scenario that KCDC described as a
“super-spreading event”. ... Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin told residents to stay indoors as he warned of likely further cases. ... Kwon cautioned that at least 90 more of the about 1,000 other people
who attended services at the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
were also showing symptoms.
More.
South Korea reported its first death from coronavirus Thursday
South Korea reported its first death from the
coronavirus on Thursday. The country’s Center for Disease Control (KCDC)
reported 22 new confirmed cases of the virus, with the deceased among
that number. The cause of death is under investigation. - Holly Ellyatt
More.
Reported separately:
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the 63-year-old victim, who died Wednesday from pneumonia, had been bedridden for more than 20 years at a hospital in southeastern city of Cheongdo.
More.
Reported separately:
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the 63-year-old victim, who died Wednesday from pneumonia, had been bedridden for more than 20 years at a hospital in southeastern city of Cheongdo.
Coronavirus deaths in Iran are not yet confirmed by WHO
The World Health Organization has not yet confirmed the two Iranian
coronavirus deaths, but should they be confirmed, it would raise the
death toll outside of China to seven.
Story yesterday.
Two elderly Japanese who were guests on Diamond Princess cruise ship have died from coronavirus
From the start, experts raised questions about quarantine on the
ship. Passengers were not confined to rooms until Feb. 5. The day
before, as passengers were being screened, ship events continued,
including dances, quiz games and an exercise class.
More.
Separately reported:
The deceased patients — a man and a woman — were in their 80s and were residents of Japan. Both were taken ashore for treatment last week after having prolonged fevers, and they ultimately tested positive for the newly identified virus, known officially as COVID-19. They both died Thursday, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is leading and coordinating the public health response on board the cruise ship. ... The WHO has not yet officially confirmed several other deaths recently reported in various nations, including the two cruise ship passengers in Japan.
Separately reported:
The deceased patients — a man and a woman — were in their 80s and were residents of Japan. Both were taken ashore for treatment last week after having prolonged fevers, and they ultimately tested positive for the newly identified virus, known officially as COVID-19. They both died Thursday, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which is leading and coordinating the public health response on board the cruise ship. ... The WHO has not yet officially confirmed several other deaths recently reported in various nations, including the two cruise ship passengers in Japan.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Joe Biden can't close
Reeled off three points no one will remember.
He couldn't remember 'em either, had 'em written down.
Bernie's not a vanguard communist
He's a bottom up, proletariat uprising communist.
But there aren't enough of them in Trump's America, which is why he'd lose.
Bloomie havin' a hard time remembering to criticize Trump's tax cuts, not Obama's
Obama made the Bush tax cuts permanent.
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