"Mass. continues progress in virus fight as cases surge elsewhere" by Victoria McGrane Globe Staff, June 20, 2020
Summer arrived in Massachusetts on Saturday, the day after Governor Charlie Baker announced that restaurants will soon be able to resume serving customers indoors, but the sun and hot temperatures have not rid the state, nor the country, of the coronavirus.
What a big, fat lie. It defies the very science they extoll, and is truly reminiscent of being told 100-story towers flop into their own footprints at free-fall speed because of random jet fuel fires.
What a big, fat lie. It defies the very science they extoll, and is truly reminiscent of being told 100-story towers flop into their own footprints at free-fall speed because of random jet fuel fires.
On Saturday, state officials reported that Massachusetts’ coronavirus death toll had risen by 28 to 7,828 while the number of people who have tested positive climbed by 286 to 106,936 — figures that include both confirmed and probable cases of the virus. The same report showed that key metrics monitored by state officials showed continued improvement.
F**king liars.
F**king liars.
Elsewhere in the country, cases are surging. Florida, one of numerous states in the South and West that has seen infections spike in recent weeks, set a daily record of 4,049 new confirmed COVID cases on Saturday, a jump of nearly 57 percent from a week earlier — when the state also set a new daily record.
Was going to take a vacation there this summer, but now.....
Was going to take a vacation there this summer, but now.....
Outbreaks at two spring training facilities in the state prompted Major League Baseball on Friday to temporarily shut down all its spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona for deep cleaning.
Yup, no $ports this year or ever. It's all distraction and talk over the summer as the contract tracers come for you after the faulty tests or outright lies from the control-freak megalomaniacs in government. More on that later.
Yup, no $ports this year or ever. It's all distraction and talk over the summer as the contract tracers come for you after the faulty tests or outright lies from the control-freak megalomaniacs in government. More on that later.
In Tulsa, Okla., hundreds of supporters of President Trump filled the streets ahead of his scheduled rally, with the event expected to draw thousands of people from numerous states just as the city’s coronavirus cases topped 2,000.
The New York Times reported the event this way:
"President Trump’s attempt to revive his reelection campaign sputtered badly Saturday night as he traveled to Tulsa for his first mass rally in months and found a far smaller crowd than his aides had promised him, then delivered a disjointed speech that did not reckon with the multiple crises facing the nation or scandals battering him in Washington. The disappointing turnout came as Trump already found himself under siege about his sudden firing of the US attorney in Manhattan and his losing legal battle over the release of a memoir full of damaging revelations by John Bolton, his former national security adviser. In rambling, grievance-filled remarks, Trump made no reference to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis sparked global demands for racial justice. Instead, he railed about “left-wing radicals” who he falsely claimed were rioting in cities across the country. Health experts remained concerned that the event could be a dangerous incubator for the virus....."
Those are the same health experts that have encouraged the riots, burning, and looting of cities, and who are telling us nearly no one was infected by those events. The rank f**king political hypocrisy exposes this whole damn thing as a true fraud and $cam, and it is the New York Times that has become a virus of a mouthpiece for them.
Even in hard-hit Massachusetts, some people believe the state has been too slow to return to business as normal.
The New York Times reported the event this way:
"President Trump’s attempt to revive his reelection campaign sputtered badly Saturday night as he traveled to Tulsa for his first mass rally in months and found a far smaller crowd than his aides had promised him, then delivered a disjointed speech that did not reckon with the multiple crises facing the nation or scandals battering him in Washington. The disappointing turnout came as Trump already found himself under siege about his sudden firing of the US attorney in Manhattan and his losing legal battle over the release of a memoir full of damaging revelations by John Bolton, his former national security adviser. In rambling, grievance-filled remarks, Trump made no reference to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis sparked global demands for racial justice. Instead, he railed about “left-wing radicals” who he falsely claimed were rioting in cities across the country. Health experts remained concerned that the event could be a dangerous incubator for the virus....."
Those are the same health experts that have encouraged the riots, burning, and looting of cities, and who are telling us nearly no one was infected by those events. The rank f**king political hypocrisy exposes this whole damn thing as a true fraud and $cam, and it is the New York Times that has become a virus of a mouthpiece for them.
The Globe further reported that TikTok teens and K-Pop stans say they sunk Trump rally:
"TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Trump’s rally as a prank. After @TeamTrump tweeted asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones June 11, K-pop fan accounts began sharing the information with followers, encouraging them to register for the rally — and then not show. Twitter users Saturday night were quick to declare the social media campaign’s victory. “Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York tweeted in response to Parscale, who had tweeted that “radical protestors” had “interfered” with attendance. “The teens of America have struck a savage blow against @realDonaldTrump,” added Steve Schmidt, a longtime Republican strategist. Erin Hoffman, an 18-year-old from upstate New York, said she heard from a friend on Instagram about the campaign. She then spread it herself via her Snapchat story and said friends who saw her post told her they were reserving tickets. Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old from Fort Dodge, Iowa, who worked on several rallies for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for president, said “We all know the Trump campaign feeds on data; they are constantly mining these rallies for data. Feeding them false data was a bonus. The data they think they have, the data they are collecting from this rally, isn’t accurate.” K-pop stans have been getting increasingly involved in American politics in recent months. They also reclaimed the #WhiteLivesMatter hashtag in May by spamming it with endless K-pop videos in hopes to make it harder for white supremacists and sympathizers to find one another and communicate their messaging. Whether or not the prank to call in false tickets was the reason for the empty upper rafters at Trump’s rally, teenagers online celebrated. On Twitter, several accounts tweeted, “best senior prank ever.”
"TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Trump’s rally as a prank. After @TeamTrump tweeted asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones June 11, K-pop fan accounts began sharing the information with followers, encouraging them to register for the rally — and then not show. Twitter users Saturday night were quick to declare the social media campaign’s victory. “Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York tweeted in response to Parscale, who had tweeted that “radical protestors” had “interfered” with attendance. “The teens of America have struck a savage blow against @realDonaldTrump,” added Steve Schmidt, a longtime Republican strategist. Erin Hoffman, an 18-year-old from upstate New York, said she heard from a friend on Instagram about the campaign. She then spread it herself via her Snapchat story and said friends who saw her post told her they were reserving tickets. Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old from Fort Dodge, Iowa, who worked on several rallies for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for president, said “We all know the Trump campaign feeds on data; they are constantly mining these rallies for data. Feeding them false data was a bonus. The data they think they have, the data they are collecting from this rally, isn’t accurate.” K-pop stans have been getting increasingly involved in American politics in recent months. They also reclaimed the #WhiteLivesMatter hashtag in May by spamming it with endless K-pop videos in hopes to make it harder for white supremacists and sympathizers to find one another and communicate their messaging. Whether or not the prank to call in false tickets was the reason for the empty upper rafters at Trump’s rally, teenagers online celebrated. On Twitter, several accounts tweeted, “best senior prank ever.”
My first reaction to the above piece was WTF?!!
One is led to believe this MATRIX-LIKE FRAUD is somehow a JUVENILE ACT; however, when one steps back and takes a look at it, isn't the above INTERFERING in an ELECTION with a campaign that borders on Nixonian dirty tricks?
Not that they matter, especially around here.
One is led to believe this MATRIX-LIKE FRAUD is somehow a JUVENILE ACT; however, when one steps back and takes a look at it, isn't the above INTERFERING in an ELECTION with a campaign that borders on Nixonian dirty tricks?
Not that they matter, especially around here.
Even in hard-hit Massachusetts, some people believe the state has been too slow to return to business as normal.
In Oxford, supporters of Dave Blondin, owner of Prime Fitness and Nutrition in Oxford, gathered Saturday to back his efforts to keep his business open in defiance of state, town, and court edicts to the contrary.
Blondin, who reopened his gym May 18 in defiance of state orders, told reporters Saturday that the efforts to keep his business closed violate his constitutional rights. “This has gotten way out of hand, small business needs to get back to work. This is no longer about a virus anymore,” Blondin said, according to WCVB.
His LAST POINT is SO OBVIOUS at this stage!
On Thursday, the town cut off water and electricity to the gym, and later changed the locks to the building, according to news reports, after a Massachusetts judge ordered Oxford officials to shutter the gym by “any and all reasonable measures.”
Un-flipping-believable.
His LAST POINT is SO OBVIOUS at this stage!
On Thursday, the town cut off water and electricity to the gym, and later changed the locks to the building, according to news reports, after a Massachusetts judge ordered Oxford officials to shutter the gym by “any and all reasonable measures.”
Un-flipping-believable.
About 200 people participated in the Saturday rally, according to Oxford Police Chief Anthony Saad, who said that no arrests or citations were issued and described it as “very peaceful.”
A black Jeep bearing a large handmade sign that said “Open business, close Baker,” stood in front of the gym, while people holding smaller handwritten signs mingled, without masks, nearby. “I am essential, so is my mental health,” read one sign.
Blondin wore a white T-shirt printed with the words, “My Governor is an idiot.”
Better watch that based on the video portrait, and he is more than that. He is a criminal, but the courts have said no.
At one point, about 20 protesters lined either side of the road in front of the building, holding signs and large American flags as passing cars honked horns in support.
The standoff between Blondin and state and local authorities shows that Massachusetts isn’t immune from the pushback against public health measures designed to curb the virus, despite polls showing overwhelming support for Baker and his restrictions during the pandemic.
I no longer believe agenda-pushing polls, and the point is well taken given the context of placement. Some protests are obviously more important than others when it comes to the Globe.
It follows a smattering of other efforts to push back against Baker’s closure orders, including at least two protests in May outside of Baker’s Swampscott home that called for him to reopen the economy.
I think the disobeying of the mask and social distancing submissions are a form of that, too, no?
I no longer believe agenda-pushing polls, and the point is well taken given the context of placement. Some protests are obviously more important than others when it comes to the Globe.
It follows a smattering of other efforts to push back against Baker’s closure orders, including at least two protests in May outside of Baker’s Swampscott home that called for him to reopen the economy.
I think the disobeying of the mask and social distancing submissions are a form of that, too, no?
Baker said Friday that restaurants in Massachusetts can begin offering indoor dining on Monday. His decision was driven by the steady improvement of key metrics tracking the spread of the highly contagious virus across the state.
$crew him.
$crew him.
Those numbers, which the state is using to guide its four-phase process for reopening the economy, showed further improvement Saturday.
The seven-day weighted average of positive test rates showed another slight decrease to 2 percent as of Friday, down from 2.1 percent the day before. It has fallen 93 percent since mid-April.
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The three-day average of hospitalized patients dropped to 975 as of Friday, from 987 the day before, down 73 percent since mid-April.
The number of hospitals using surge capacity held steady at 3 as of Friday. It is down 86 percent from mid-April highs, and the three-day average of COVID-19 deaths fell to 24 as of Wednesday, down from 25 the day before. The number has fallen 85 percent since mid-April.....
That is what they have done from the start of this whole $cam. Toss simulation numbers at us with no context, and no check for veracity. They are even including "probable" cases, the f**king liars.
I'm not saying people haven't died, they have. The state has murdered many of the elderly and others kept away from contact, either by incompetence, neglect, or outright malice.
I'm not saying people haven't died, they have. The state has murdered many of the elderly and others kept away from contact, either by incompetence, neglect, or outright malice.
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After reading that, my hands went up like this guy:
"On the eve of Father’s Day, two events brought Black men together to reflect on experiences of racism, surviving trauma, and speaking to the youth. With such conversations halted due to COVID-19 restrictions, another played out over livestream Saturday afternoon as 26 men, seated in front of a stage set up with images of Black Americans killed in racist incidents, shared stories of arrests, incarceration, criticism, and empowerment....."
They started in a deep hole:
They started in a deep hole:
"Orleans fire officials on Saturday warned about the dangers of digging in the sand after a woman and a teenage boy were rescued from a 6-foot hole in a remote part of Nauset Beach. Just after 5 p.m. Friday, EMTS assigned to the beach responded to an area reserved for residents, where they found a woman in her 40s buried up to her waist and the teen buried to his mid-torso, the Fire Rescue department said in a statement on Facebook. The incident occurred in an area of the beach open only to residents. “Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt in today’s incident, but this situation highlights the dangers of digging in the sand,” said Orleans Fire Chief Geof Deering in the statement....."
Did they check the trunk of her car?
"Boston police seized fireworks from a U-Haul van in Dorchester Friday night after a man lit fireworks in the middle of a street, police said. Officers took dozens of fireworks from the van at 22 Dacia St. around 9:30 p.m. after they saw the devices exploding on the road, Boston police said in a statement. Police issued a citation but did not arrest the man. “As officers pulled onto Dacia Street, they observed fireworks being lit,” the statement said. “Officers further observed a UHaul van containing a large quantity of fireworks. Officers spoke to a male who stated he had rented the UHaul.” It is illegal to use or sell fireworks without a license in Massachusetts. Boston police are asking anyone who sees or hears fireworks to call 911...."
Aren't they the last people you want to call at this point in time?
Should move to Rhode Island:
Did they check the trunk of her car?
"Boston police seized fireworks from a U-Haul van in Dorchester Friday night after a man lit fireworks in the middle of a street, police said. Officers took dozens of fireworks from the van at 22 Dacia St. around 9:30 p.m. after they saw the devices exploding on the road, Boston police said in a statement. Police issued a citation but did not arrest the man. “As officers pulled onto Dacia Street, they observed fireworks being lit,” the statement said. “Officers further observed a UHaul van containing a large quantity of fireworks. Officers spoke to a male who stated he had rented the UHaul.” It is illegal to use or sell fireworks without a license in Massachusetts. Boston police are asking anyone who sees or hears fireworks to call 911...."
Aren't they the last people you want to call at this point in time?
Should move to Rhode Island:
"Providence officials are trying to crack down on the illegal sale and use of fireworks. Mayor Jorge Elorza and City Council Majority Leader Jo-Ann Ryan said the city will now require firework vendors to have a firework sales permit. It will cost $50 for a permit that’s valid for one year. City officials say sellers will have to file separate permit applications for each place fireworks are sold. Only ground fireworks and hand-held sparkling devices, or sparklers, are legal in Rhode Island. Ryan said in an emailed statement that every neighborhood in Providence “has been plagued by the illegal use of fireworks.” Elorza is urging residents to be mindful of their neighbors and “not use dangerous fireworks or explosives, particularly in our densely-packed neighborhoods.”
By July 4th you will have forgotten that there even was a holiday. No celebrating freedom and liberty this year.
Family and community led the way for high school valedictorian
This year’s high school seniors have faced upheavals unlike any class in memory, but Tatiana Mendez, the valedictorian of Boston Preparatory Charter Public School in Hyde Park, believes she and her peers are preparing to build a better future after she overcame early learning challenges that had her left behind in first grade.
She had an earful for the police commissioner:
"Boston Police Commissioner William G. Gross on Saturday forcefully defended a recent meeting with Attorney General William Barr that drew widespread criticism after Barr’s office released a photo of the two standing and smiling together. Gross said, “I did not OK any photos. He said, do you want to take a personal picture, may I? I said sure, no tweeting, no Instagram, no nothing.” Even so, the commissioner accepted some responsibility for being in the photo. “If it gave people the wrong image, that’s on me,” and Gross also stood his ground on agreeing to meet with Barr, which he said was by request of the attorney general. “I’ll be goddamned if I didn’t give him an earful and tell him how I felt as a Black man and what we’re doing in Boston,” Gross said, calling Barr on several occasions “Goliath,” apparently referencing the biblical giant....."
Time to march!
"Marching to the sounds of drums and their own voices in the heart of Cambridge, more than 1,000 people demanded justice and an end to deadly police violence against Black Americans on Saturday, one of many protests across the region sparked by the national Black Lives Matter movement. Demonstrators in communities across Massachusetts flocked to parks, streets, and fields in more than a dozen protests — most calling for racial justice, while some supported law enforcement amid calls to defund departments....."
The Globe attended the march in (surprise) Cambridge, and it was all white!
The Globe attended the march in (surprise) Cambridge, and it was all white!
Afghan interpreter arrives in US after years of fighting for visa
Unfortunately, he tested positive for COVID because the coronavirus has spread to each and every house in Afghanistan, and he is going to settle down in Newton:
Unfortunately, he tested positive for COVID because the coronavirus has spread to each and every house in Afghanistan, and he is going to settle down in Newton:
Newton mayor calls for civilian review of police after officers, with gun drawn, stop Black resident
She still looks absolutely nuts, and in the wake of that the police chief announced his retirement and who can blame him?
She still looks absolutely nuts, and in the wake of that the police chief announced his retirement and who can blame him?
"The union representing Newton’s firefighters has filed a complaint with the state Department of Labor Relations after the group said it was prohibited by Mayor Ruthanne Fuller from displaying a memorial flag in honor of fallen firefighters at a local fire station. The firefighters’ “Thin Red Line” flag -- a black and white US flag with a single red stripe across it -- had been on display for more than two years at Fire Station 4 when it was ordered removed June 12, the union said in a statement. Many firefighters are members of the second and third generations of their families to serve in the profession, and the flag helps proclaim that legacy, said firefighter Marc Rizza, the president of Local 863, in a statement. The union argued that flying the red-stripe flag is a protected activity under the state’s collective bargaining laws, and its removal without notice to the union was a violation of the city’s obligation under the law. “We fly the remembrance flag in honor of the valiant men and (women) who sacrificed so much to protect their communities. Keeping alive the memory of those who gave their all is a deep part of who we are,” Rizza said. The flag was removed as part of an order from Fuller notifying department heads earlier this month that only US flags and Newton banners can be displayed on city buildings, city spokeswoman Ellen Ishkanian said in a statement....."
She is really waving it in their face, and I can't wait for the next town meeting!
When you get home, you can talk to your kids about COVID-19.
When you get home, you can talk to your kids about COVID-19.
Nancy Shohet West dined with Jennifer Lichtman of Needham and her husband, Joe, and they had to eat the burgers in gloves.
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Looks like the country is being Balkanized:
"Pushing for Serbia-Kosovo peace deal, US roils allies" by Patrick Kingsley and Kenneth P. Vogel New York Times, June 20, 2020
"Pushing for Serbia-Kosovo peace deal, US roils allies" by Patrick Kingsley and Kenneth P. Vogel New York Times, June 20, 2020
BERLIN — Last October, with the Balkans unsettled and the old tethers of American diplomacy coming apart, the Trump administration dispatched a new envoy to try to solve one of Europe’s longest-running territorial disputes: the two-decade standoff between Serbia and Kosovo.
The move was unconventional. The State Department already had a special envoy to the region, and President Trump’s new emissary, Richard Grenell, was also ambassador to Germany, where his brash style and embrace of right-wing figures broke with diplomatic norms.
Before long, Grenell offended and alienated European diplomats who had worked hard on Kosovo for years. They accused him of ignoring their own, more evolved peace initiatives, of undermining democracy in Kosovo, and of turning a blind eye to budding authoritarianism in Serbia, a Russian ally.
Early this year, Trump named Grenell acting director of national intelligence, though Grenell lacked expertise in intelligence and had a reputation as a partisan warrior, taking on what is supposed to be a nonpartisan job. That stint, like the one in Berlin, has come and gone, but Grenell is still hoping to deliver a diplomatic victory in the Balkans before the November election for a president short on such achievements.
Last week, days before a much-disputed Serbian election on Sunday, Grenell announced on Twitter a surprise meeting between the Kosovar president, Hashim Thaci, and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, at the White House on June 27. Grenell said he intended the meeting as a trust-building exercise, limited for now to trade issues, that could provide a platform for peace talks later in the year. His defenders, both Democrats and Republicans, credit him with pushing the two sides closer to a deal.
Isn't that interfering in another country's election?
Isn't that interfering in another country's election?
Critics worry that a visit to the White House rewards two men whose opponents accuse them of undermining democratic institutions, and that the strategy simply won’t work. Formerly part of Serbia, Kosovo won autonomy following a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 that aimed to protect Kosovo’s largely Muslim population from ethnic cleansing, but Serbia has never recognized Kosovo’s sovereignty.
Kosovo got help from Bill Clinton's Al-CIA-Duh back then as NATO littered a recalcitrant (and white) Serbia with depleted uranium munitions.
Looking back, the Balkan wars of the 1990s were the first salvo in WWIII. They allowed NATO to establish a foothold in an area that Russia had to abandon after the collapse of Communism.
Kosovo got help from Bill Clinton's Al-CIA-Duh back then as NATO littered a recalcitrant (and white) Serbia with depleted uranium munitions.
Looking back, the Balkan wars of the 1990s were the first salvo in WWIII. They allowed NATO to establish a foothold in an area that Russia had to abandon after the collapse of Communism.
Until recently, Republican and Democratic administrations were similarly steadfast in guaranteeing Kosovo’s security, and worked closely with European allies to do so, but under Trump, collaboration with European partners has evaporated.
Grenell has tried to resolve the dispute by asking little of Vucic, a Russian ally, while heightening pressure on Kosovo and widening its domestic fissures.
“We’ve forgotten who our client is,” said David L. Phillips, a Balkans expert and State Department adviser during the Kosovo war. “It’s not Serbia, but Kosovo, a country we have helped birth, steward, and protect.”
Oh, we have "clients" out there, huh?
“We’ve forgotten who our client is,” said David L. Phillips, a Balkans expert and State Department adviser during the Kosovo war. “It’s not Serbia, but Kosovo, a country we have helped birth, steward, and protect.”
Oh, we have "clients" out there, huh?
Serbia’s backsliding on democracy is evidenced by Sunday’s parliamentary elections, which Vucic’s party is expected to win by a landslide because most opposition parties have boycotted the vote to protest Vucic’s autocratic policies.
The Trump administration hopes a victory will give Vucic breathing space to address the tensions with Kosovo.....
The Serbs will have to tighten security like the Chinese in Hong Kong.
At least the New York Times didn't insult the Chinese like they did Iowans:
At least the New York Times didn't insult the Chinese like they did Iowans:
"Joni Ernst and Donald Trump Could Both Be in Trouble in Iowa" by Trip Gabriel New York Times, June 20, 2020
Iowa is unexpectedly in play in the presidential and Senate races this year, moving Republicans to high alert. A poll published by The Des Moines Register and Mediacom on Monday showed Donald J. Trump with only a one-point lead in the state over former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The poll revealed a deep erosion of support for the president among white women without college degrees, voters who were key to his 2016 coalition across a swath of Midwestern swing states.
He isn't even president anymore according to the New York Times. He is simply Donald J. Trump.
The same survey showed that Senator Joni Ernst, a rising star in her party in her first term and a popular Republican seeking re-election, was narrowly trailing her little-known Democratic challenger. Theresa Greenfield, the Democratic Senate nominee who emerged from a primary on June 2, is running primarily on a biography with parallels to the one Ernst used to introduce herself to Iowans six years ago: Both grew up on farms, and both have made promises to show Washington their scrappy values of hard work and self-reliance, but Greenfield is turning Ernst’s celebrated anti-establishment catchphrase against her rival.
Ernst declined an interview request, but her advisers noted that Greenfield, a businesswoman and political newcomer, was riding the crest of more than $7 million in positive TV ads by liberal outside groups. “This is Greenfield’s high-water mark,” said David Kochel, a senior adviser to the Ernst campaign. He promised that the Democrat would soon face a barrage of negativity. “Forty percent of Iowans don’t have an opinion of Theresa Greenfield,” he said. “We’re here to help.”
In the Des Moines Register poll, Trump led Biden 44 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, the latest in a wave of national and state polls showing the president’s prospects for re-election at their most precarious all year.
I know it is five months away, but the controlled demolition of the economy over the COVID-19 $camdemic have destroyed not only his presidency, but his historical legacy. Jumping on the vaxx train didn't help.
I know it is five months away, but the controlled demolition of the economy over the COVID-19 $camdemic have destroyed not only his presidency, but his historical legacy. Jumping on the vaxx train didn't help.
Although the road to the White House in November will not hinge on Iowa, with its meager six electoral votes, the tightness of the race in the state is an ominous sign for Trump in other Midwestern battlegrounds like Ohio and Wisconsin, which also have large electorates of older and rural voters, and white voters without college degrees.
OMG, what an ELITI$T IN$ULT coming from the NYT!
Iowa's "meager six electoral votes" could BE the DIFFERENCE in a RAZOR CLOSE ELECTION!
Iowa's "meager six electoral votes" could BE the DIFFERENCE in a RAZOR CLOSE ELECTION!
Amid a pandemic that the president seeks to minimize, and widespread anti-police protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Trump’s approval has slipped five points in Iowa since March, to 45 percent. Only 37 percent approve of the way he has handled the protests. The president retains strong support from evangelical voters and white men, but white working-class women preferred Biden over Trump in the Register poll, 53 percent to 35 percent.
The 18-point gap strikingly reversed the president’s advantage from 2016, when he carried white women without college diplomas by two points in Iowa. He won the state after it twice voted for President Barack Obama. Recognizing the threat in Iowa, the president’s re-election campaign spent more than $400,000 on TV ads in the state in May and June, according to Advertising Analytics, a tracking firm.
Democrats’ top presidential super PAC, Priorities USA, rated Iowa this month as leaning toward Trump and outside the top-six battleground states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida, but that might change. “While Iowa isn’t currently in our spending plans, it’s a state we’re keeping an eye on,” said Josh Schwerin, a senior strategist for the group. “The fact that it’s in play shows that Biden is on offense and will have multiple paths to 270,” he added, referring to the electoral votes needed for victory.
It’s a different story in the Senate race. Democratic outside groups have booked $24.1 million to support Greenfield with TV ads through Election Day, and Republican groups are close behind with $22.6 million on behalf of Ernst. Democrats hoping to control the Senate need to net four seats in November (or three if they win the White House since the vice president has a tiebreaking vote). Their top targets are Republican incumbents in Colorado, Arizona and Maine. Close behind are the incumbents in North Carolina and, increasingly, Iowa. “The idea that Iowa’s in play really shouldn’t surprise people,” said J.B. Poersch, president of the Senate Majority PAC, which is aligned with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
Given the Republican stand-down and kneeling on the chaos and anarchy of the mob, who cares about the Senate anymore?
Did they ever get to the bottom of Spygate or investigate Clinton?
Nope.
They are FAKE OPPOSITION -- which is really NO OPPOSITION at all.
Given the Republican stand-down and kneeling on the chaos and anarchy of the mob, who cares about the Senate anymore?
Did they ever get to the bottom of Spygate or investigate Clinton?
Nope.
They are FAKE OPPOSITION -- which is really NO OPPOSITION at all.
The Iowa caucuses in February may have been a fiasco when it came to counting votes, as well as an embarrassment for Biden, who finished fourth, but a year of intense organizing by presidential hopefuls in the state brought a bounty of new Democratic voters. Democrats now outnumber registered Republicans in the state by 9,000, a reversal from the 2018 midterm elections when Republicans had a 23,000-voter advantage.
It was a fiasco because they had to stall Sanders' momentum, but it won Biden a bounty!
It was a fiasco because they had to stall Sanders' momentum, but it won Biden a bounty!
Greenfield, who until recently was president of a commercial real estate company, led Ernst by three points in the Register poll, 46 percent to 43 percent. It is the first time Ernst, a former state senator and National Guard commander in Iraq, has trailed in a general election survey by the pollster J. Ann Selzer, the most respected in Iowa, since 2014. (Greenfield’s lead, however, was within the poll’s margin of sampling error.)
Then she should be able to work with Trump if he somehow remains.
Then she should be able to work with Trump if he somehow remains.
Paralleling the gender gap in the presidential race, Greenfield held a 20-point lead among women. Just as Ernst, 49, told of her thrifty farm upbringing when she first ran, Greenfield, 56, describes how her parents, who ran a crop-dusting business and raised hogs just across the Minnesota border, were driven out of farming in the 1980s farm crisis. “They never farmed again and us five kids left the rural area,” she said.
I will get to Minnesota a bit later.
I will get to Minnesota a bit later.
Greenfield’s first husband, a union electrician, died in a workplace accident; as a candidate she praises the Social Security survivors’ benefits that sustained her, a narrative with obvious appeal in Iowa’s blue-collar communities along the Mississippi River, the swingiest part of the state. “It was Social Security, it was union benefits that kept me from going into poverty and gave me the opportunity to pay the rent and put milk in the fridge and go back to school and start rebuilding a path to providing for my family,” Greenfield said. At the same time, she accused Ernst of implying she would cut Social Security “behind closed doors” — an attack that seemed to twist a comment of Ernst’s last year.
As promised, the Ernst campaign has gone on the attack since Greenfield emerged from her four-way primary. “Liberal outside groups spent $10 million to prop up Chuck Schumer’s candidate, Theresa Greenfield, in the primary,” said Brendan Conley, a spokesman for Ernst, “but now Iowans are learning about Greenfield’s record as a failed real estate executive, like kicking out small businesses to make way for a multinational corporation.”
The reference is to a strip-mall redevelopment that Greenfield oversaw in 2015. Small retailers were displaced. Greenfield said the merchants had reached the end of their leases, and today a new shopping center on the site is home to other retailers. The “multinational corporation” was an Aldi grocery store that never moved in. “Senator Ernst, she’s desperate,” Greenfield said.
Despite being a political novice, Greenfield has absorbed message discipline. She skirted attacking Trump in the interview. Asked if her race would be swept up in a broad referendum on the president, she replied: “Gosh, I have no idea. I’ll let Iowans decide what they think about President Trump. I’m running against Senator Ernst and that’s what I stay focused on.”
I'm losing mine.
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More tear-downs by my pre$$:
"Latest US monuments toppled: Grant, national anthem writer" by Olga G. Rodrigues and Jeffrey Collins Associated Press, June 20, 2020
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More tear-downs by my pre$$:
"Latest US monuments toppled: Grant, national anthem writer" by Olga G. Rodrigues and Jeffrey Collins Associated Press, June 20, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO — Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America’s national anthem and the general who won the country’s Civil War.
Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are doing. Idiots.
Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are doing. Idiots.
In Seattle, predawn violence erupted Saturday in a protest zone largely abandoned by police, with one person was fatally shot and another critically injured.
It took a week for the Sunday Globe Utopia to collapse.
It took a week for the Sunday Globe Utopia to collapse.
On the East Coast, more statues honoring Confederates who tried to break away from the United States more than 150 years ago were toppled, but several were removed at the order of North Carolina’s Democratic governor, who said he was trying to avoid violent clashes or injuries from toppling the heavy monuments erected by white supremacists that he said do not belong in places like the state capitol grounds that are for all people.
How ironic, for it was the Southern Democrats that were the party of slavery and segregation.
Time to face up to your own history, fa$ci$ts.
How ironic, for it was the Southern Democrats that were the party of slavery and segregation.
Time to face up to your own history, fa$ci$ts.
The statues are falling amid continuing antiracism demonstrations following the May 25 police killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd, the Black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck and whose death galvanized protesters around the globe to rally against police brutality and racism.
In San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park along the Pacific Ocean, protesters sprayed red paint and wrote “slave owner” on pedestals before using ropes to bring down the statues and drag them down grassy slopes, amid cheers and applause.
No one got clocked this time, huh?
Why have those skanks not been charged with assault at the very least?
No one got clocked this time, huh?
Why have those skanks not been charged with assault at the very least?
The statues targeted included a bust of Ulysses Grant, who was the US president after he was the general who finally beat the Confederates and ended the Civil War. Protesters said Grant owned slaves. He married into a slave-owning family, but had no problem fighting to end slavery.
If nothing else, these riots have shown how pi$$-poor the U.S. ejewkhazional $y$tem has become. The protesters have no understanding of history at all!
If nothing else, these riots have shown how pi$$-poor the U.S. ejewkhazional $y$tem has become. The protesters have no understanding of history at all!
Also torn down in the San Francisco park was a statue of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the “Star Spangled Banner.” Key owned slaves.
Take a knee and ban the song.
Take a knee and ban the song.
In Seattle, authorities were investigating what led to the shooting in the area known as CHOP, which stands for the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone. Police released few other details about the shooting.
How would they know the details, and how are they going to investigate?
How would they know the details, and how are they going to investigate?
People attempted to remove a demonstrator from Seattle’s CHOP zone, the scene of a fatal shooting on Saturday (Getty Images).
WTF?
In Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, N.C,, it was another night of tearing down Confederate statues. In the nation’s capital, demonstrators toppled the 11-foot statue of Albert Pike, the only statue in the city of a Confederate general. Then they set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and “No racist police!”
They are acting like Satanists, and wasn't Pike the one who predicted the New World Order back in the late 19th-century?
Related:
"The biggest Boston highway project in a generation could veer in yet a new direction or even make a U-turn, after the latest plan to squeeze 12 lanes of traffic into a narrow strip of land along the Charles River in Allston has come under withering criticism. On Monday, state Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack is expected to disclose the state’s latest thinking on the $1 billion-plus Massachusetts Turnpike Allston Interchange project, which already has been more than five years in the making and could take up to a decade to finish....."
Officials have been taken aback by the high level of public pushback, proving how socially distant they are from their constituencies.
Related:
"The biggest Boston highway project in a generation could veer in yet a new direction or even make a U-turn, after the latest plan to squeeze 12 lanes of traffic into a narrow strip of land along the Charles River in Allston has come under withering criticism. On Monday, state Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack is expected to disclose the state’s latest thinking on the $1 billion-plus Massachusetts Turnpike Allston Interchange project, which already has been more than five years in the making and could take up to a decade to finish....."
Officials have been taken aback by the high level of public pushback, proving how socially distant they are from their constituencies.
Two statues of two Confederate soldiers that were part of a larger obelisk were torn down Friday night by protesters in Raleigh.
Saturday morning, official work crews came to the North Carolina capitol to remove two more Confederate statues. One statue was dedicated to the women of the Confederacy, and another was placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy honoring Henry Wyatt, the first North Carolinian killed in battle in the Civil War, news outlets reported.
They are now gone with the wind, and isn't that sexism?
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Related:
Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it
He is the dispenser of history now!
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Related:
Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it
He is the dispenser of history now!
Also see:
"The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic, or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue. The change conveys ‘‘an essential and shared sense of history, identity, and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,’’ John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.’’ The news organization will also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place. The Seattle Times and The Boston Globe both changed their practices to capitalize Black. The Globe explained that the word has evolved from a description of a person’s skin color to signify a race and culture, and deserves the uppercase treatment much the way other ethnic terms do. The AP said it expects to make a decision within a month on whether to capitalize the term white....."
You are now the last in line and near sub-human, whitey! The Jew pre$$ says so!
"The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic, or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue. The change conveys ‘‘an essential and shared sense of history, identity, and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,’’ John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.’’ The news organization will also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place. The Seattle Times and The Boston Globe both changed their practices to capitalize Black. The Globe explained that the word has evolved from a description of a person’s skin color to signify a race and culture, and deserves the uppercase treatment much the way other ethnic terms do. The AP said it expects to make a decision within a month on whether to capitalize the term white....."
You are now the last in line and near sub-human, whitey! The Jew pre$$ says so!
Probe of old drug cases raises questions about 2004 George Floyd arrest
Turns out he wasn't the saint they are making him out to be.
Turns out he wasn't the saint they are making him out to be.
Where it all began:
"Political leaders in Minnesota promised sweeping changes after George Floyd’s killing turned their state into a focal point for nationwide fury and grief over police killings and racism, but those efforts collapsed early Saturday as leaders in the Minnesota Legislature — the only one in the country where Democrats control one chamber and Republicans the other — failed to compromise on a package of law-enforcement measures before a special session ended. Ultimately, legislators could not reach a deal that reconciled the Democrats’ calls for far-reaching changes to police oversight with Republican leaders who supported a shorter list of “common-sense police reforms” that included banning chokeholds in most situations and requiring officers to stop their colleagues from using unreasonable force. Democrats said the plan passed by the Republican-led Senate consisted of tepid half-steps that were already in place in most law-enforcement agencies and did not rise to the moment’s calls for dramatic action....."
No sooner did they adjourn than there was a shooting that left 1 man dead and 11 people wounded.
"Political leaders in Minnesota promised sweeping changes after George Floyd’s killing turned their state into a focal point for nationwide fury and grief over police killings and racism, but those efforts collapsed early Saturday as leaders in the Minnesota Legislature — the only one in the country where Democrats control one chamber and Republicans the other — failed to compromise on a package of law-enforcement measures before a special session ended. Ultimately, legislators could not reach a deal that reconciled the Democrats’ calls for far-reaching changes to police oversight with Republican leaders who supported a shorter list of “common-sense police reforms” that included banning chokeholds in most situations and requiring officers to stop their colleagues from using unreasonable force. Democrats said the plan passed by the Republican-led Senate consisted of tepid half-steps that were already in place in most law-enforcement agencies and did not rise to the moment’s calls for dramatic action....."
No sooner did they adjourn than there was a shooting that left 1 man dead and 11 people wounded.
Better hop on the Magic Bus and get out of there:
"Administration drops secrecy posture on small business aid" by Marcy Gordon Associated Press, June 20, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has abruptly dropped its insistence on secrecy for a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses.
The administration announced Friday it will publicly disclose the names of recipients of the taxpayer-funded loans, the amounts they received in ranges, and demographic data on the businesses.
The unexpected move came after Democratic lawmakers, government watchdogs, ethics advocates, and news organizations called for the administration to make the information public.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to do so at a Senate hearing this month, saying the data on the Paycheck Protection Program was “proprietary information.” The Small Business Administration, which manages the loan program, has only provided general information, such as the total amounts of loans awarded in a given time period.
Mnuchin said in a statement Friday that the new position resulted from a bipartisan agreement with leaders of the Senate Small Business Committee.
The new approach “will strike the appropriate balance of providing public transparency, while protecting the payroll and personal income information of small businesses, sole proprietors, and independent contractors,” Mnuchin said.
Critics had denounced the refusal to open the information to the public as an attempt to dodge accountability for how the federal aid money is spent. They said it raised questions about how the money was being distributed and who was benefiting.....
All the credit goes to Rubio, the Florida Republican.
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I wonder what the puzzle while look like when they put it all together.
"Pandemic becomes a patchwork of small successes and setbacks" by Ken Moritsugu and Jill Lawless Associated Press, June 20, 2020
"Pandemic becomes a patchwork of small successes and setbacks" by Ken Moritsugu and Jill Lawless Associated Press, June 20, 2020
BEIJING — Authorities in China appeared to be winning their battle against an outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing on Saturday, but in parts of the Americas the pandemic raged unabated. Brazil surpassed 1 million confirmed infections, second only to the United States.
Related: Messias Kokama, indigenous leader in the Amazon, dies at 53
The cause was COVID-19, of course.
The cause was COVID-19, of course.
Europe, in contrast, continued to emerge warily from lockdown, with hard-hit Britain considering easing social distancing rules to make it easier for restaurants, pubs, and schools to reopen. In Italy, once the pandemic’s European epicenter, Pope Francis told medics that their heroic efforts during the outbreak would help the country forge a future of hope and solidarity.
He is nothing but a globalist tool.
He is nothing but a globalist tool.
The head of the World Health Organization warned Friday that the pandemic is “accelerating” and that more than 150,000 cases were reported the day before — the highest single-day number so far.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva that nearly half of the newly reported cases were from the Americas, with significant numbers from South Asia and the Middle East.
F**k off, Tedros!
F**k off, Tedros!
The new coronavirus has infected more than 8.5 million people worldwide and killed more than 454,000, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The actual number is thought to be much higher because many cases are asymptomatic or go untested.
Actually, the number is far lower since they have dumped "probable" cases into the mix as well as every other damn death the past three months.
Actually, the number is far lower since they have dumped "probable" cases into the mix as well as every other damn death the past three months.
The global battle against COVID-19 is a patchwork of successes and setbacks at this point in the pandemic, quantified by the trajectory of the coronavirus in different countries.....
Sick of all this COVID CRAP, and it isn't even a pandemic anymore. The curve has been flattened and it's under control.
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They will be tracking the thing right to your door:
"New York City hired 3,000 workers for contact tracing. It’s not going well." by Sharon Otterman New York Times, June 21, 2020
They will be tracking the thing right to your door:
"New York City hired 3,000 workers for contact tracing. It’s not going well." by Sharon Otterman New York Times, June 21, 2020
NEW YORK — New York City’s ambitious contact-tracing program, a crucial initiative in the effort to curb the coronavirus, has gotten off to a worrisome start just as the city’s reopening is about to enter a new phase Monday, with outdoor dining, in-store shopping, and office work resuming.
The city has hired 3,000 disease detectives and case monitors, who are supposed to identify anyone who has come into contact with the hundreds of people who are still testing positive for the virus in the city every day, but the first statistics from the program, which began June 1, indicate that tracers are often unable to locate infected people or gather information from them.
F**k you and your contaminated and crap tests!
F**k you and your contaminated and crap tests!
Only 35 percent of the 5,347 city residents who tested positive or were presumed positive for COVID-19 in the program’s first two weeks gave information about close contacts to tracers, the city said in releasing the first statistics.
I presume this is bullshit, how's that!?
I presume this is bullshit, how's that!?
Contact tracing is one of the few tools that public health officials have to fight COVID-19 in lieu of a vaccine, along with widespread testing and isolation of those exposed to the coronavirus. The early results of New York’s program raise fresh concerns about the difficulties in preventing a surge of new cases as states across the country reopen.
Not when you are burning down cities and smashing storefronts, but the agenda-pushing message never f**king changes. Vaxx and trace, vaxx and trace. Wake up, America.
Not when you are burning down cities and smashing storefronts, but the agenda-pushing message never f**king changes. Vaxx and trace, vaxx and trace. Wake up, America.
The city has successfully done contract tracing before with diseases like tuberculosis and measles, but as with much involving the coronavirus outbreak, officials have never faced the challenge at this scale.
CRAPOLA!
The city’s program has so far been limited by a low response rate, scant use of technology, privacy concerns, and a far less sweeping mandate than in some countries, where apartment buildings, stores, restaurants, and other private businesses are often required to collect visitors’ personal information, which makes tracking the spread easier.
China, South Korea, Germany, and other countries have set up extensive tracking programs that have helped officials make major strides in reducing the outbreak. In South Korea, for example, people at weddings, funerals, karaoke bars, nightclubs, and Internet-game parlors write down their names and telephone numbers so they can be traced later.
Only problem is, South Korea is already sliding back rapidly and reimposing restrictions. They were supposed to be the model, and China's quartile of Beijing belies their claims.
Only problem is, South Korea is already sliding back rapidly and reimposing restrictions. They were supposed to be the model, and China's quartile of Beijing belies their claims.
Dr. Ted Long, head of New York City’s new Test and Trace Corps, insisted that the program was going well but acknowledged that many people who tested positive had failed to provide information over the phone to the contact tracers or left interviews before being asked. Others told the tracers they had been only at home and had not put others at risk, and then did not name family members.
De Blasio told them not to ask if they had been at protests, too!
Long said one encouraging sign was that nearly all the people for whom the city had numbers at least answered the phone. He added that he believed that the tracers would be more successful when they start going to people’s homes in the next week or two, rather than just relying on communication over the phone.
Did you SEE THAT?
The MEDICAL BROWNSHIRTS will soon be knocking on your door!
They will have a paper for you to sign that will in effect quarantine you forever if you are not outright removed from your home -- for the good of yourself and your family, who you will never see again, of course! The $tate loves you! That's why they ruined your life!
Did you SEE THAT?
The MEDICAL BROWNSHIRTS will soon be knocking on your door!
They will have a paper for you to sign that will in effect quarantine you forever if you are not outright removed from your home -- for the good of yourself and your family, who you will never see again, of course! The $tate loves you! That's why they ruined your life!
Perry Halkitis, dean of the School of Public Health at Rutgers University, which is guiding an effort to bring on thousands of tracers in New Jersey, called New York City’s 35 percent rate for eliciting contacts “very bad. For each person, you should be in touch with 75 percent of their contacts within a day,” he said. He suggested that the poor showing stemmed in part from the inexperience of the contact tracers and insufficient hands-on training. “This is a skill,” he said. “You need to practice.”
I wonder who they are working with.
I wonder who they are working with.
The tracers are seeking the names and phone numbers of each person a confirmed-positive patient has been in close contact with from a few days before the onset of symptoms, defined as within 6 feet for at least 15 minutes. Each contact is then called, told that he or she may have been exposed to the virus, and asked to quarantine.
Wait a minute!
If the problem is close contact for at least 15 minutes, why are we having to practice that in the stores or anywhere else?
How often are you in contact with those people for 15 minutes?
WTF is THIS?????!!!!!!!
Wait a minute!
If the problem is close contact for at least 15 minutes, why are we having to practice that in the stores or anywhere else?
How often are you in contact with those people for 15 minutes?
WTF is THIS?????!!!!!!!
The relative silence from virus patients in New York City is one of several issues troubling the contact-tracing program.
What would further trouble the program would be tossing away your cellphone.
What would further trouble the program would be tossing away your cellphone.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has had tense relations with senior officials in his own Department of Health, stripped the department of oversight for the program in May, moving it under the umbrella of the city’s public hospitals agency. That has led to concerns among some former health officials that expertise would be lost in the process. (New York state is running a separate tracing program in counties outside New York City.)
You guys should really RECALL that A$$HOLE!
Btw, how is that daughter of yours?
You guys should really RECALL that A$$HOLE!
Btw, how is that daughter of yours?
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Oh.
She looks like she has changed a lot.
Long said 50 experts from the Department of Health — the city’s contact tracers before COVID-19, who have handled epidemics such as measles and Ebola — are guiding the work of the tracing corps but are not tracing themselves.
Oh.
She looks like she has changed a lot.
Long said 50 experts from the Department of Health — the city’s contact tracers before COVID-19, who have handled epidemics such as measles and Ebola — are guiding the work of the tracing corps but are not tracing themselves.
“It’s tough to look at these numbers and say it’s a roaring success,” said Dr. Crystal Watson, an expert on contact tracing at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “but I do think . . . it will build on itself.”
Halkitis at Rutgers said he thought the low cooperation rate was likely due to several factors, including the inexperience of the tracers; widespread reluctance among Americans to share personal information with the government; and de Blasio’s decision to shift the program away from the city’s Department of Health.
DAMN RIGHT!
DAMN RIGHT!
“You have taken it away from the people who actually know how to do it,” he said. “The DOH people, they are skilled. They know this stuff.”
Kamala Harris rises to a top Democratic VP contender despite long concerns about her criminal justice past
Harris’s law enforcement past could be an asset or a liability -- unlike the sex orgies with Willie Brown.
Harris’s law enforcement past could be an asset or a liability -- unlike the sex orgies with Willie Brown.
Just being a liberated female, right?
"Lincoln emancipation statue triggers debate on how the Black experience should be commemorated; Even descendants of the former slave depicted in the memorial are split over whether it should remain in Boston" by Meghan E. Irons Globe Staff, June 20, 2020
"Lincoln emancipation statue triggers debate on how the Black experience should be commemorated; Even descendants of the former slave depicted in the memorial are split over whether it should remain in Boston" by Meghan E. Irons Globe Staff, June 20, 2020
The statue has become a flashpoint in the nation’s latest reckoning with public art portraying figures from the Civil War and its aftermath. What was intended as a depiction of liberation can look demeaning to 21st-century eyes: a submissive Black man bending at the feet of the president, yet even as activists in Boston and Washington have urged the statues be torn down or repurposed, some argue against, saying the art, however challenging, is worth preserving.
It has become a familiar sort of cultural dispute. The surprise this time comes from one major source of that contrary view: some descendants of the slave, a celebrated escapee from bondage named Archer Alexander, who was used as a model for the kneeling figure.
“He was breaking chains; he was in the process of standing,‘' said Keith Winstead, a distant relative of Alexander who believes the monument is a tribute to a critical period in Black history and to an American hero who risked his life to help Union soldiers during the Civil War. “He was not submissive. If anything it was the complete opposite.”
His is hardly the final word in the extended family about Alexander, who was a distant ancestor also of boxer Muhammad Ali. Maryum Ali, the eldest of the boxing legend’s nine children who lives in Los Angeles, said she has seen the DC statue and finds it degrading and offensive — and she wants it taken down.
“Lincoln freed the slaves, but why isn’t that man standing up next to Lincoln?” said Ali, a direct descendant of Archer Alexander. “I’m sure that my great-great-great-great grandfather would not want to be viewed as bowing down to anyone — Lincoln or anybody else.”
Actually, they did and would have in gratitude even though Lincoln himself was a white supremacist and segregationist!
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That is all being stirred up by a paid-for agitator, and the divide really comes down to which school of thought you subscribe.
That is all being stirred up by a paid-for agitator, and the divide really comes down to which school of thought you subscribe.
"President Trump on Saturday fired the federal prosecutor whose office put his former personal lawyer in prison and is investigating his current one, heightening criticism that the president was carrying out an extraordinary purge to rid his administration of officials whose independence could be a threat to his reelection campaign. Trump’s dismissal of the prosecutor, Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney in Manhattan, whose office has pursued one case after another that have rankled Trump, led to political blowback and an unexpected result: By the end of the day, Berman’s hand-picked deputy, not the administration’s favored replacement, was chosen to succeed him for now....."
Looks like we have another Attorneygate (remember that ancient fossil and pervert John Conyers thundering on Democracy Now how they were going to get to the bottom of things), and what the above item shows is that Trump has totally lost control the government and a coup is in motion. He is being disobeyed at all levels.
Looks like we have another Attorneygate (remember that ancient fossil and pervert John Conyers thundering on Democracy Now how they were going to get to the bottom of things), and what the above item shows is that Trump has totally lost control the government and a coup is in motion. He is being disobeyed at all levels.
