Before beginning I just want to apologize to those brave souls who view the posts here. They are far too long and messy with too many interjections by me. I know I need a new format, more concise rather than the single encapsulation of today's BG $hit.
For today I will try to leave the colorful markings to a minimum as well as the commentaries, and let you read it for yourself and make your own judgements rather than mucky it up with the button-pushed, rapid-response commentary.
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Having said that, this is their ostensible page one, righthand corner, above the fold lead:
"What happens the next time a president tries to steal an election?" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, January 9, 2021
Based on what just happened, he/she/it/ will get away with it again, and when one looks at history they always have (W. Bush did it twice, and sorry, JFK).
Politics in this country is over. We now have, and probably always have had, a one-party state that is now unanimously totalitarian and soon to descend to Bol$hevik Communi$m (I didn't think that until this past week based on how the Globe is reporting the staged false flag at the Capitol) and genocide -- nor do I say that lightly.
WASHINGTON — To a cadre of political scientists and legal experts who have been closely watching President Trump’s attempts to cling to power since losing the November election, the most frightening part of Wednesday for the future of US democracy was not the mob, but the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to object to the election results even after the riot.
That vote showed that many in the political elite were willing to depart from the central norm upholding any democracy — that the loser and their party accepts their loss — and to try to take advantage of the antiquated and vague laws that govern Congress’s limited role in presidential elections.
That is where the turn in came, and all of a sudden our wonderful system that just had the cleanest election and has worked for centuries is now "antiquated and vague."
This sets the stage for changing those laws and truly entering a one-party control hell, another purpose of the staged false flag riots (and there were many). The e$tabli$hment Republicans who go along with this out of fear or survival instinct will find themselves in a permanent minority and eliminated a lot quicker than they think.
Look, I didn't believe any of what I'm typing before last week, but the Globe's reaction to events has made it perfectly clear where we are going. I woke up this morning to my massive blind spot, for I thought the Globe was part of the game and now I need to realize they are indeed the enemy. What I am reading every morning are Democrat talking points and enemy propaganda. It's that simple, and it's actually criminal.
Beyond that and before continuing, I just wanted to note the constant inversion of events with clever terminology as the Globe, and the government for which they mouth, distorts what happened to serve its pre-conceived purposes.
The scene raises the frightening possibility that unscrupulous lawmakers, egged on by enraged grassroots supporters, could go even further in attempting to overturn election results in the future, and there’s little to stop them.
“The moment people don’t feel it is in their interest to act democratically, democracy is just lost,” said Michael Miller, a democracy expert at George Washington University. “The Constitution cannot save it. It’s not going to leap out of its case in the National Archives and start attacking people.”
If there’s any good news that sprang from Wednesday’s violence, it’s that for now, the US electoral system has withstood the immense strain Trump placed on it. Despite hordes of Trump supporters invading the Capitol and derailing the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s win, Congress eventually discharged its duty and finished tallying the Electoral College’s votes in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
It appears that a peaceful transition of power will take place on Jan. 20, despite Trump’s attempts to harangue Republican swing state officials to “find” thousands of votes for him and reverse the result, but as the broken glass is still being swept from the Capitol, fear lingers in the air about what could happen in the future, given how far Trump, his congressional allies, and his supporters were willing to go to attempt to stay in power this year.
The system, though it survived, feels more fragile than ever.
Never was a problem until now, now entire political system needs to be redone!!
HMMMM!
Comes in the wake of the allegedly cleanest election in history (HA!) and after four years of the same deplorable people screaming the Russia, Russia, Russia fiction.
With all due respect, Globe reporters and the people for whom they front are without a doubt the most disgusting creatures on the face of the planet.
The laws guiding Congress’s role in presidential elections are arcane and confuse even legal experts. Each state conducts its own election, determines a winner, and then sends the winner’s slate of electors to the Electoral College to vote in mid-December. Congress, presided over by the vice president, ceremonially counts those votes in early January, ahead of inauguration.
That doesn't seem very confusing unless states are corrupt.
In a few past instances, members of both parties have lobbed objections during this process, but these efforts stayed small — never garnering the support of the losing candidate — unlike this year, when Trump pressured Republicans and Vice President Mike Pence to hijack the count to prevent Biden from becoming president.
There is some charged language, for sure, because we all know what event is implied there, and the Globe outrage from 2000 has dissipated.
There are at least two ways for a president who wishes to stay in office despite losing the election to subvert that process through Congress. One is to convince governors or legislatures in some states to send the votes of a competing slate of electors who support him or her to Washington, and then have a majority of Congress choose to acknowledge that slate. That couldn’t happen this week because no state legislature or governor, despite considerable pressure from Trump and his allies, chose to take that step.
“Yesterday would have looked very differently if the state legislatures had done what President Trump asked and had attempted to back the alternative electors,” said Edward Foley, an election law expert at Ohio State University.
Another way to attempt to overturn the result would be for a majority of lawmakers in both chambers to vote to object to some states’ results, bringing the winning candidate’s total below the 270 electoral vote threshold for victory. The 12th Amendment says the House of Representatives would then gather to elect a new president.
The Globe has done the same with reality and the truth, the surest sign of being an agent for evil.
That scenario did not happen on Wednesday because there was not a majority in either chamber that wished to take that step, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen in the future.
“One of the flaws we are facing here is the possibility that Congress could turn our system on its head and a political party could hijack the results,” said Trevor Potter, the founder of the Campaign Legal Center nonprofit.
Just in case you didn't get the point the first time, as the hijacking of the system is being carried out by the criminal Democrat cabal, Repuglican collaborators, and their agents in the pre$$.
Potter, a former George H.W. Bush appointee, and Charles Fried, who was solicitor general under Ronald Reagan, are both advocating for legal reforms to prevent such a scenario in the future. At the top of the list is abolishing the Electoral College, which would mean the presidential candidate with the most total popular votes across the country would win the presidency. That would likely mean margins of victory in the millions of votes, making it harder for losing candidates or their allies to try to change the result.
“It’s much easier to put pressure on 11,000 votes,” Miller said, referring to the margin of victory for Biden in Georgia. “It’s much harder for someone like Donald Trump to make 7 million votes go away.”
Abolishing the Electoral College would require amending the Constitution, however, a daunting political task that would entail convincing two-thirds of Congress to propose the measure and three-fourths of the country’s state legislatures to ratify it. Republicans, who have won the presidential popular vote only once in 30 years, would be almost certain to fiercely fight that reform.
There you go. That's the point of this article. Then there will never again be a Republican president (not that it rally matters anymore or ever did really), and the pressure could go the other way, too, right?
Nawwww, duplicitous and disingenuous Democrat $cum would never do that.
To all those in fly-over America, you NEED to FILE ARTICLES of SECESSION!
There is one law that Congress could change without such an overwhelming majority: the Electoral Count Act, which Congress passed in 1887 after the disastrous and nearly failed election of 1886 to clarify the body’s role in counting Electoral College votes.
Foley hopes Congress will pass “a new Electoral Count Act for the 21st Century,” that would modernize the process for post-election litigation and set clearer rules for what counts as a legitimate competing slate of electors from a state. That reform could prevent a state from claiming it had a failed election as a pretext to help elect someone who didn’t actually win the state.
There’s only so much legal clarification would do, however, if the country is faced with another scenario where a president does not want to let go of power and finds majority support from Congress in that quest.
“At some point, the peaceful transfer of power and a democratic system kind of presupposes that it’s going to happen,” said Lawrence Douglas, a law professor at Amherst College who wrote a book about what would happen if Trump did not concede. “You can’t just build a system of law that’s going to guarantee it.”
Some of the Republicans who objected on Wednesday claimed they did not want to overturn the results but to set up a commission to adjudicate claims of fraud. This was a pretext, however, given that the courts, not Congress, are the proper forum for adjudicating fraud, and a vote to object counts as rejecting the state’s vote no matter what your reasons.
Yeah, they were part of the fraud and duplicitous. Look like defending Trump while tossing him overboard.
“The voters, the courts, the states — they’ve all spoken,” GOP Senator Mitch McConnell said in a blistering speech shortly before Trump’s supporters breached the Capitol. “They’ve all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever.”
Fuck him.
Experts are still trying to take stock of what happened and plot a course away from danger.
“Do I think anybody should kid themselves that somehow things couldn’t have been even worse and couldn’t be worse in the future? Absolutely not,” said Rosa Brooks, a professor of law at Georgetown Law and a former Pentagon official. “Whether this presages some kind of inevitable further erosion of Democratic norms in the future is up to us.”
For some political scientists, the siege was the culmination of years of worrying signs for American democracy — from increased polarization to widening inequality and increasing distrust in institutions. The Center for Systemic Peace, which received US funding for decades to rank governments’ stability, recently downgraded the United States from a democracy to a “anocracy,” due to the “executive’s systematic purge of ‘disloyalists’ from the administration, forceful response to protest, vilification of the main opposition parties; and undermining public trust in the electoral process.”
The one thing they won't call it because that is what it is, is an OLIGARCHY, just as they will never call what Israel is doing to Gaza a siege.
Brooks, who cofounded the Transition Integrity Project, a bipartisan group of experts and former elected officials that gamed out scenarios in preparation for a contested election, said she’s learned in her line of work that things can go bad quickly.
“I spent a good chunk of my career working in and studying societies where things went terribly, terribly wrong,” Brooks said of her research on failed states. “Rwanda genocide, civil wars. I think one of the most dangerous political mythologies held by any group of people is the ‘that can never happen here’ myth.”
OMFG, that was the Democrat and Deep $tate outfit that pre-programmed the narrative before the election even happened!
Those are the "experts" of the enemy!
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The above-the-fold feature located to the left:
"Historians and academics warn that while the Capitol riot may be unprecedented, white extremist groups are growing" by Deirdre Fernandes and Dasia Moore Globe Staff, January 9, 2021
President Trump and the mob he incited at the Capitol on Wednesday to stop the congressional electoral vote count have laid bare the threat of political violence in the United States and thrust the American democratic experiment to a perilous pass.
Political scholars and historians say that while this act of insurrection, spurred on by the president himself, has no national precedent, it stems from a long history of white supremacy and far-right extremism, and could erupt into further violence.
Jill Lepore, an American historian and Harvard University professor, said that both the Trump presidency and the riot at the Capitol defy any historical comparison.
“ ‘Armed insurgents occupied the Capitol’ is not a sentence you will find in an American history book,” Lepore said. “It will be in every history book from here on out.”
That makes sense because they were NOT ARMED, and HISTORY BOOKS are NOTORIOUS for LYING about HISTORY (and the name Rothschild never appears once in any of them)!
Beyond that, count on more and more events, real or imagined, to scapegoat supporters and lead to their internment and death.
It's coming, folks, and I'm a fool for thinking it was not despite the warnings.
Fortunately, I am as about as prepared as I can be and they will be finding quite a surprise when they come.
The riots involved hundreds of primarily white Trump supporters and occurred on the day after Georgia, with strong turnout among Black voters, elected Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, its first Black and first Jewish senators. The timing testified to the country’s constant struggle with race, and the backlash against building a more inclusive country, said Chad Williams, the chairman of the African and African American Studies department at Brandeis University.
The turn-in came halfway through that, and I think the Georgia steals were done for a multitude of reasons. It's Senate control and a big in-your-face to enrage the "right," and I have dial back the color-coding and commentaries.
He noted that Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a leader in the recent Republican effort to overturn the election results, has repeatedly suggested that Congress follow the example set by the body in 1876 to resolve that disputed election. It is a baleful precedent. The compromise reached at that time ushered in one of the more shameful eras of American history: Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South, Williams said.
“This an attempt to maintain a white-supremacy democracy,” Williams said. “There’s been some deep, deep damage to this country’s democracy and political institutions that have been exposed. This is certainly going to be a test of the viability of American democracy and the Constitution.”
Yeah, those guys were DEMOCRATS!!
As for the compromise of 1876, the DEMOCRATS STOLE THAT ONE by DENYING REPUBLICANS VOTES in the SOUTH!
The ELECTION THEFT seems to be in Democrat DNA, doesn't it?
National security experts have been warning for years about the growing threat and influence of white supremacist, far-right groups. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh, who was steeped in white supremacist and right-wing ideologies, killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism of the past several decades.
More recent attacks have shown that far-right extremism remains a threat, and a growing one. In the past year alone, adherents of such ideologies have stormed the Michigan and Oregon state houses, plotted to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and shot and killed demonstrators in Wisconsin.
Turns out Michigan was a dress rehearsal for the chaos at the Capitol on Wednesday, and it “seems so quaint now” as they equate such actions with ALL anti-lockdown advocates!
That's why it was a one-day wonder that was quickly dispatched down the ma$$ media memory hole once it was discovers an FBI instigator agitated the whole thing for the usual reasons, and with Biden we are going to see a never-ending bevy of government run false flags framing the usual suspects for more draconian purposes and ultimate COVID CAMP EXTERMINATION.
Tell those you know you love them today for you see, civil disobedience is not an option in Michigan but it IS in Oklahoma.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan policy think tank, reports that in the first half of 2020, nearly 90 percent of terrorist plots and attacks in the United States were tied to right-wing extremism, but the intelligence community and the political establishment at large have failed to take the threat seriously, experts said.
Oh, look, the Globe really makes you think by turning to a "bipartisan$an" $tink tank!
“What happened at the Capitol yesterday is a culmination of years of federal government and state government neglect of this issue of far-right extremism and domestic terrorism, as well as the reckless and irresponsible statements by conservative political leaders including the president,” said Daryl Johnson, founder of DT Analytics, a private consulting firm, and a former senior domestic terrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security.
No revolving door conflict of intere$t there, right?
Though federal agencies publish detailed accountings of various forms of terrorism and political violence, there is no publicly available source for federal data on killings by white supremacists. Johnson and others have criticized intelligence and law enforcement for instead zeroing in on largely peaceful movements on the left, including Black civil rights and environmental activists, leaving extremism to fester on the far right.
No data? Since when?
They have data for everything they do. What this tells you is the "terrorist right" doesn't really exist outside of the government provocateurs. Think about it: the FBI is OUT a JOB if there brave NO DOMESTIC "terrorists," and the tyrannical agenda of control and elimination can not be pursued.
Law enforcement’s failure to forcefully confront armed mobs even as they breached the Capitol highlighted the gravity of the country’s failure to take far-right extremism seriously, said Michael German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a former FBI special agent. It also leaves insurrectionists emboldened, he said.
“The way that these groups have been empowered will make it very difficult to bring back a sense of normalcy,” German said. “This is really going to be a dangerous period, because they have become accustomed to being allowed to commit public violence. So when law enforcement starts to crack down on violence, you’ll see a much more violent response.”
OMFG, now they have reached the point of INTOLERABLE INSULT!
How DARE they bring up the word "normalcy" in the midst of the life-altering CV HOAX they are blatantly lying about and perpetrating in their paper?
As for EMPOWERING TERRORISTS, that would be the COROPRATE DOUGH being dumped into BLM COFFERS!
Even after Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol, some Republicans in Congress continued to back the unproven claims that the election results were fraudulent. Cruz and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley both sent out fund-raising messages touting their efforts to block the vote certification moments before rioters stormed in. They have been unwilling to break with Trump in the days since, hoping to harness the energy of his die-hard fans for their own political ambitions.
All of this points to a sobering reality: Extremism has infiltrated deep into the Republican Party, said Paul Watanabe, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
“I frankly don’t think they got a lot of resistance,” Watanabe said, speaking of the response by law enforcement and the GOP. “They’ve occupied the hearts and minds of politicians of the United States, and that’s pretty frightening.”
(Blog author shaking his head in incredulity)
This is insane shit.
How Biden win then?
Different kind of Occupy, right?
(Turns out Occupy was started by Obama to sabotage Romney, if you can believe it)
On public message boards Thursday, members of militia groups suggested that they were preparing for a sustained battle against those they brand leftists and claimed that they were the true patriots fighting for American values.
To face down a growing and violent uprising, historians said, the country must recognize white supremacist extremism as a homegrown, American problem — one that is unlikely to be resolved quickly.
Miguel La Serna, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies political violence in Latin America, said it is important to acknowledge Wednesday’s insurrection as part of US culture, not distinct from it.
Yeah, our CIA had been fomenting to for the last 70 years all over the world!
“While there are certainly mobilizations and protests and conflict and insurrections elsewhere . . . we haven’t seen this level of insurrection sanctioned from a president in some time,” he said. “Claiming that this isn’t us is not really helpful. This is us, and the question is how do we deal with it.”
We know how, and I'm getting carried away again, sorry.
That insurrectionists succeeded at not only storming the Capitol but also left behind symbols of their destructive designs — broken office windows, Trump banners, and Confederate flags waving in the nation’s most hallowed halls — is especially concerning, La Serna said. Those images could do irreparable damage to the nation’s political psyche if left unchallenged.
“That’s going to outlast any individual there or any elected member of Congress who was in the building,” he said.
Global history does offer one chilling lesson, he added: Insurrectionist acts are rarely isolated events and almost always lead to drawn-out campaigns of political violence.
“It’s very difficult to close that Pandora’s box once it’s been opened,” La Serna said. “This could be something that can take years, or even a generation or more.”
Let the fucking frame-ups and false flags fly!
Rooting out extremism is difficult work, and historians questioned whether the United States is up to the task.
The anger of some white people over the increasing diversity of America has been growing for years, they warned, stoked by many provocateurs, including Trump. White supremacist ideologies and right-wing conspiracies have been allowed to spread largely unchecked, and whether the country can rebuild trust in broken political institutions remains in doubt.
You getting it yet, reader, and this is what the Bo$ton Globe had to say about trust.
Never again, f**kers.
Much will depend on the country’s willingness to face the truth and punish the perpetrators, scholars said.
Secessionists were largely granted amnesty after the Civil War, and whites who terrorized Blacks who gained wealth and power in the decades that followed went unpunished, emboldening them further.
That long-running failure of accountability has persisted to our day.
Okay, there they go.
They are reaching all the way back to the Civil War to push the f**king agenda, and Lincoln offered amnesty to end the war and preserve the Union -- something Globe types hold so f**king dear.
Honestly, I'm having a hard time even trying to think like these Globe flaks. They are absolutely awful, and must be so humiliated at needing that paycheck to push such rubbish. Either that or they are all-in collaborators.
Oh, yeah, if you are BLM or Antifa taking over and burning down citiesn with the help of authorities, no charges.
“We’re in a dangerous space in America, and we’ve got to be really clear about what that danger means,” said Carol Anderson, chair of African American studies at Emory University and author of the bestseller “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.”
“Part of what has happened in this nation and also why we’re here is that the folks who do damage to this nation, who attack democracy, are not held accountable,” Anderson said.
Like the Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, the pedophile ring masters (of which the Globe seems to be a part, today it was Will, 11, who likes Legos).
Accountability must extend beyond those who stormed the Capitol to include the elected officials who undermined public trust in democratic institutions, experts said.
The ma$$ media did that long before them.
Impeaching or indicting Trump for inciting the insurrection, and withholding leadership positions from members of Congress who promoted false claims of a stolen election or have tried to delegitimize government institutions, will help ensure that the country reckons with this crucial moment, instead of leaving it unchallenged, historians and political scientists said, but it will be difficult for the incoming Biden administration, particularly given the hesitancy of many Republicans to condemn the rioters outright and the incoming Democratic president’s desire to build consensus during a pandemic and economic crisis.
They have the consensus after the stunt, and those politicians will never be holding leadership again anyway.
“I don’t think that the Republican Party, as it’s currently constituted, is a salvageable partner with the new administration,” said Clarence Lusane, a political science professor at Howard University.
Republican leaders will have to step up and push antidemocratic forces out of the party, or the more moderate voices will have to form their own coalitions, historians said. Democrats, for their part, must defend the country’s electoral process and vital institutions without compromising principle, they said.
Democrats not sacrificing principles, HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
That's a good one!
You CAN'T SACRIFICE what you DON'T HAVE!!!!
Meanwhile, Republicans, we are told, need to PURGE their PARTY!
Lusane said that following years spent attacking the legitimacy of courts, the media, the military, and electoral processes, as well as driving out more moderate members of the party, the GOP must “earn bipartisanship.”
“If we accept that there is a degree of democracy within the US, that has to be defended,” Lusane said. “I think we’re at the point now where this really is a central question for the country.”
Yeah, from the Obamas, the Clintons, the Biden, and YOU!
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Below both bit still above the fold:
"Rural states got off to a faster start on vaccinations, but big urban centers expected to gain momentum; CDC lists Massachusetts in the middle of the pack, along with Texas and New York" by Robert Weisman, Felice J. Freyer and Dasia Moore Globe Staff, January 9, 2021
West Virginia deployed National Guard units to get first doses of the vaccine to every nursing home before New Year’s Day. In South Dakota, the Civil Air Patrol waited at the Sioux Falls airport to ferry vaccines to remote parts of the state, and a small hospital in Nebraska’s corn and soybean belt mixed logistics with a can-do attitude to vaccinate front-line staffers hours after its precious shipment arrived.
“We’re getting it out there as quickly as we receive it,” said Daniel Bucheli, a spokesman for the South Dakota Department of Health. “Shots in arms — that’s the goal.”
They can't make it any clearer, can they?
It's a vaccine you don't need for a "disease" that doesn't exist and it won't protect you from becoming infected or transmitting it.
Orwell is spinning at Warp 15 in his grave.
While the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout has been shaky almost everywhere, the states most nimble in getting larger swaths of their residents immunized in the early weeks have been rural with small populations, not health care hubs like Massachusetts, New York, or Texas.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted Friday evening, show West Virginia leading the pack in per-capita vaccinations, with 4,867 doses per 100,000 people, followed by South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, and Nebraska.
The turn-in came halfway through, and it saddens me if that is the case.
Massachusetts, which had given 2,197 doses per 100,000 people by Friday, ranked near the middle of the pack, behind all the other New England states, but Massachusetts was on a par with New York and Texas, and ahead of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, based on doses per 100,000.
With the US government ceding vaccination programs to the states, offering no central plan with goals or best practices, each state has scrambled to set priorities — sometimes, but not always, adopting CDC recommendations — while searching for sites and trained staff to administer shots.
“It’s like someone dropped the box in front of your home and said it’s up to you to assemble the furniture,” said Sridhar Tayur, professor of operations management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
PFFFT!
That is such bullshit after all the planning that went into this.
It's constant dekes and lies from the deceptive a$$holes at the Globe!
More densely populated states with fragmented health systems and overstretched public health agencies so far have been slower to set up infrastructure and remove bottlenecks, said analysts who are tracking the vaccine launch.
“If you have a very large population, it’s harder to reach all corners,” said Josh Michaud, associate director for global health policy at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Good.
You won't be reaching mine at all.
Massachusetts stumbled at the outset of its rollout, when some hospital workers were temporarily prevented from scheduling vaccine appointments because of a computer glitch and there were scattered reports of employees cutting in line, but its vaccination program has expanded in the past two weeks to senior care sites, and late last week started providing shots to first responders such as police and firefighters.
They are gearing up to begin COVID-19 vaccinations for first responders, 60% or more who don't want it, even as the disease continues to pose an increasingly dire threat (they decided to postpone a return to in-person classes for students as the virus continues to derail efforts to resume everyday life in Worcester).
Baker administration officials defended the pace of the vaccine roll-out, saying it was “in line with the original time frame.”
Never admit error or wrong, just lie, lie, lie.
That's what passes state government around here.
You will have to click on the link yourself if you want more of that slop.
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If you flip below the fold of today's Sunday Globe you will receive a low blow:
Well, not really. Going to have to get rid of those "Archie Bunker-types" from f**king 50 YEARS AGO!
I've watched the show and made my own judgements, they pick three scenes to focus on, whatever. The antiwar aspect of the show sure seems quaint in the 21st-century.
Yeah, those were the days, all right. When I was young and innocent and the world seemed full of tremendous possibilities before you realized it was total shit.
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This is what I found when I opened up the pos:
"A sustained surge of coronavirus infections has locked Southern California in crisis, overwhelming intensive care wards, ambulance services, funeral homes and local officials. Dozens of overcrowded hospitals have had to shut their emergency-room doors to ambulances for hours at a time. Medical wards are running dangerously low on a vital necessity: oxygen, and the portable canisters to supply it to patients. Los Angeles County has a coronavirus-related death every eight minutes, a grim toll accompanied in many neighborhoods by the soundtrack of shrieking sirens. “We’re having our New York moment,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, referring to the weeks in March and April when New York City was the epicenter of the virus. It took nearly 10 months for Los Angeles County to hit 400,000 cases, but little more than a month to add another 400,000, from Nov. 30 to Jan. 2. In the coming days, the county, the nation’s largest, will reach a level where one in 10 residents has tested positive for the virus. “In the City of Los Angeles and in our county, Covid-19 is now everywhere and infecting more people than ever,” the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, whose 9-year-old daughter contracted the virus and has since recovered, told reporters on Thursday. California reacted swiftly at the start of the pandemic with the country’s first stay-at-home orders, and had largely avoided the widespread infection and death experienced early on in places like New York. Now many epidemiologists, health officials and elected leaders are trying to understand what went so wrong. Part of the reason for the new surge appears to be the Thanksgiving effect. Many Californians, particularly those in and near Los Angeles, held small gatherings for Thanksgiving with family and friends, despite warnings from officials. Acting as a collective superspreader event, those gatherings multiplied the amount of virus circulating and sharply raised the risk of infection. More broadly, experts say the state’s early success in the pandemic may have given Californians a false sense of security — in contrast to people in New York and New Jersey, where the early surge in cases left many petrified and extremely cautious.
Okay, that was the print brief in the Virus Notebook, and I'm having a hard time catching my breath after that load of insulting $hit.
They have become such a broken record with their scripted narrative that is all lies that this commentary is becoming useless.
So the SIRENS are a SOUNDTRACK in this STAGED SCREENPLAY called COVID, huh?
I had to go to the web to find that piece, and this is what they added:
"For months in the early stages of the pandemic, many residents and elected officials had embraced a mask-wearing and pro-lockdown culture. As other states were hit hard by the virus, California had far lower infection rates, a phenomenon some infectious disease experts called “the California miracle.” A spike in new cases hit parts of California later in the summer but subsided. The turning point, experts said, came in November, as that culture of precaution waned. Young people who had isolated themselves gathered in large groups and stretched the limits of what constituted outdoor dining to include rooms with large windows. The taboos of the first months of the pandemic, like meeting friends inside their homes, fell away, and in more conservative parts of Southern California, the resistance to lockdowns grew as cases skyrocketed throughout December. The resistance in some parts of the state to the lockdowns has been so strong that it has even spurred a move to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. The effort has drawn funding and support from conservatives opposed to restrictions on church services. Although recalling Newsom is considered a long shot in such a staunchly Democratic state, Republicans were encouraged by gains they made in the November elections, winning back four congressional seats. Another reason behind the surge in Southern California has been its dense housing. New York, a vertical city of skyscrapers and residential towers, builds up. Los Angeles sprawls horizontally, its acreage masking for many a squeezed-in quality of life. Many poor and middle-class families in Los Angeles pack into homes and apartments, with generations of the same family or members of different families living under the same roof. One infection spreads quickly through the entire household, members of whom are often low-wage essential workers who do not have the luxury of working from home. Los Angeles County averaged 187 deaths a day in the seven-day period ending Friday, the most of any American county and double the nation’s per capita rate. The county’s death toll, though awful, is far smaller than the one in New York City in the spring when less was understood about the disease and treatment was not as sophisticated as it is now, but there are similarities between the two in the strain on hospitals....."
The hospitals are quiet around here and everywhere else where citizens are documenting it, and oh, how Satanic of them to want a "culture of masks."
I'm sure those "conservative, anti-lockdown" part of California are on the feds radar, too. COVID will be used to lock you up and exterminate you.
It's a staunchly Democrat state, however, and somehow the Democrats lost seats (harder to steal a local election, folks) in Congre$$. There are those that even say Trump won California, and I'll bet he did. They are fed up with Democrat hypocrites going to eat inside without masks as they shit in your face.
The master of that:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday received the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine after becoming the first Israeli to be inoculated last month. Israel is in the midst of a third nationwide lockdown after seeing a surge in cases despite unleashing one of the world’s fastest vaccination campaigns. The country has given the first of two vaccine doses to nearly 20% of its population, and Netanyahu said Saturday that it has secured enough vaccines to inoculate the whole adult population by the end of March. Netanyahu has placed the vaccination drive at the center of his campaign for reelection that month, when Israel will hold its fourth nationwide vote in less than two years. In the meantime, he has called on Israelis to make “one last big effort” to halt transmission by adhering to the tightened restrictions. Most schools and businesses were closed starting Friday, with people required to remain within 1,000 meters (yards) from home except for essential needs. Public gatherings are heavily restricted and public transportation is limited. The restrictions are to last for at least two weeks."
WhereTF have we heard that before, huh?
The above is a template for the rest of the world after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday that Israel will begin vaccinating the public against the coronavirus, saying a public vaccination campaign would begin with the capacity to innoculate 60,000 people a day, and who was then vaccinated against the coronavirus on live television Saturday, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world’s leaders to be inoculated, saying he wanted to be the country’s first recipient to set a personal example and to encourage Israelis to get the shot before receiving the injection of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, calling it an “exciting moment” that would put Israel on the path to returning to its normal routines.
Well, his SMILE BETRAYS HIM in the LAST LINK!
It's a fucking con job by liars, folks, and EVIL!
All they are getting is a dummy shot because only dummies would take it as Israel began its coronavirus inoculation drive and as Isabel Kershner of the New York Times tells you how Israel became a world leader in vaccinating against COVID-19.
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"Now that the coronavirus vaccines are finally rolling out, one of the big debates is who should get them first. In Britain, which became the first country in the world to begin immunizations with a fully tested vaccine this week, 90-year-old retiree Margaret Keenan was the first person to receive a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday, but in Israel, where the first doses of the same vaccine arrived via plane Wednesday, it appears the first person to receive a shot may be 71-year-old Benjamin Netanyahu — the country’s prime minister. It’s not just two decades that separate Keenan and Netanyahu, though that alone would put the British patient zero in an altogether different risk category than her Israeli counterpart. Netanyahu is arguably Israel’s most famous man. He is the country’s longest-serving prime minister and enjoys a privileged, wealthy lifestyle....."
So Netanyahu has a connection to British royalty, huh?
They are also gung ho about the vaccine, and please remember that the majority of Covid misinformation is conveyed by the media without question or correction.
Some people never learn:
"Chicago teachers balk at reopening plan, face pay loss if they don’t return" by Dawn Reiss Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2021
CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools will reopen for some students Monday for the first time since last spring amid an escalating clash between city officials, who are threatening to withhold pay from teachers who do not show up, and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union, which contends that schools are not properly outfitted to combat the coronavirus.
Teachers who don’t show up for work Monday “will be deemed absent without leave and will not be eligible for pay,” said Janice Jackson, CEO of the nation’s third-largest school district.
Do you teach Communism in Chicago schools, because that's what you teachers will be getting.
COVID is running wild with variants, but you have to risk your life and teach the kids.
Aren't you so glad Trump is gone?
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she is determined to reopen schools Monday, starting a phased return to in-person learning, and that city officials are “doing everything we can to place safety in this pandemic at front and center,” but teachers, many of whom returned to classrooms last Monday to start to prepare, said they found conditions unacceptable and called the demand for them to start teaching “heartless.”
The situation sets up a potential showdown between a powerful teachers union that has a history of striking and a school district that is determined to open despite a rise in coronavirus cases.
Thad Goodchild, a lawyer for the teachers union, says the union hopes the district will “come to its senses.”
HOW NAIVE!
You better COME TO YOURS!
Jackson has said reopening is “not a measure we take lightly,” adding that an agreement with the teachers union is not necessary to reopen. “Operationally, we are prepared to open and we can conduct school on Monday,” she said.
Oh, I SO AGREE!
In October 2019 the union, which has 25,000 teachers, organized a 14-day walkout, its longest strike in more than three decades. It reached an agreement with Lightfoot that included reducing class sizes and hiring more social workers and school nurses.
“This is our opportunity to set a new course for who we are as a city,” Lightfoot said Friday.
A NEW WORLD ORDER, as it were, and Google has scrubbed all references other than debunking even though the very article I linked quotes her as saying it.
Can the ma$$ media be any more deceptive?
On Monday, nearly half of the teachers who were supposed to return a week before students showed up. Some teachers taught remotely for hours outside their schools in 27-degree weather to protest the district’s reopening plan.
“I don’t really want to go back, but there wasn’t a way for me not to,” said Heather Debby, a seventh-grade English teacher who has twin 4-year-old girls in preschool and a husband who is also a CPS teacher. “We could take an unpaid leave of absence, but that’s not really an option. I like my house.”
You won't have it for much longer, none of us will, and what an idiot.
Now, when she gets sick from protest it can be called COVID!
do they teach what is extortion in the $chools, because that is what is happening here.
The city has a seven-day rolling positivity rate of over 10 percent, with the state of Illinois surpassing the grim milestone of 1 million reported coronavirus cases Thursday, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Then the lockdowns have failed, the teachers shouldn't have to return, and Chicago surely has natural herd immunity now!
Marielle Fricchione, medical director of the Chicago Department of Public Health, has said she supports CPS reopening, citing virus positivity rates that are lower now than in the spring and fall.
The city had a seven-day rolling positivity rate of 15.9 percent in November and 30 percent in April, according to Chicago’s COVID Dashboard, and infection rates have begun climbing again from an 8.4 percent low in December. According to the district, 640 adults and nine students have contracted covid.
Fewer than 40 percent of pre-K through eighth-grade families are opting to send their children back to school.
That is where the print copy ended.
The district has created “care rooms” and “care pods” to isolate sick children that include hospital-grade pop-up temporary structures that some have likened on social media to “plastic cages” for children that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement might use.
OMFG!
WHERE is the LEFT?
Can the parents see the kids, and if not, DON'T SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL, PARENTS!!
On the city’s West Side, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Lowell Elementary School has asked teachers to sign a form that will free the school from liability for any health consequences in the building.
If you don't think this is totalitarian communism, you better WAKE UP!!
Lena Carrillo, a preschool special-education teacher on Chicago’s North Side, said that out of the 111 students that have enrolled for pre-K at her school, only four are returning in person and none from her classroom.
Carrillo, a mother of two, put her children in Catholic private school and said there is no comparison. One of the biggest differences, besides having a faith-based education, is the cleaning protocols, which have become a problem for Chicago Public Schools since the district outsourced its custodial services, she said.
Carrillo says her public school bathrooms have been so dirty that some of her students’ parents have offered to clean them. Carrillo, who has been teaching in Chicago for 14 years, said, “We used to just have a janitor that was a CPS employee, but that changed when everything started getting outsourced. Now everything is gross. We’re cleaning all of our own stuff. The fact that there was grime and dirt, and no kids had been there since March but custodians had been there, was mind-boggling,” she said.
That is your DEMOCRAT-RUN CITY, folks!
Take a GOOD LOOK at the FUTURE!!
At least Lightfoot got hair cut so she looks good!
The problem was well-documented after Chicago Public Schools’ facilities chief, Leslie Fowler, was ousted in 2018, following inspections finding dozens of buildings that repeatedly failed cleanliness audits.
Last March, as the pandemic took hold, the Chicago Board of Education voted to end its relationship with two food service and facilities management companies — Aramark and Sodexo — worth hundreds of millions of dollars because of systemic problems, but it agreed to a contract extension to continue outsourcing through July 1 until a solution can be found.....
Time for lunch, right?
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"Historic second impeachment bid looms over Trump’s final weeks" by Peter Baker New York Times, January 9, 2021
WASHINGTON — Barely 11 months after President Donald Trump was acquitted in a momentous Senate trial, the nation now confronts the possibility of yet another impeachment battle in the twilight of his presidency, a final showdown that will test the boundaries of politics, accountability and the Constitution.
No president has ever been impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors twice, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was weighing bringing a new article of impeachment to the House floor as early as Monday charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging the mob that ransacked the Capitol to disrupt the solemn process finishing his own election defeat.
If Pelosi decides to proceed, the House could approve the article in days, this time with even some disaffected Republicans joining the Democratic majority to send the matter to the Senate for a new trial unlike any of the previous three in American history.
While it seemed unlikely that 17 Republicans in the Senate would go along with Democrats to reach the two-thirds necessary for conviction, the anger at Trump was so palpable that party leaders said privately it was not out of the question.
The fresh bid to remove Trump from office and strip him of his power without waiting until his term expires Jan. 20 capped a traumatic week that rattled Washington more than any since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
SIGH.
Well, they hijacked earlier so.... what mind-f**kery by these pre$$ $hits.
Emotions were raw. The White House was in meltdown. The military was on edge. The Cabinet was in revolt. The Republican Party was in civil war, and the president was in hiding, stripped of his social media bullhorn, ostracized by his allies and at odds with almost everyone including his loyal vice president.
Pence is far from loyal, you f**king puke, but I guess that's my fault for forgetting I'm reading NYT slop.
So where is Trump, anyway?
What has happened to him?
The storming of the Capitol by Trump’s supporters that left five people dead, among them a police officer, transformed the politics of the city in ways that were still hard to measure. A new impeachment would be more than a do-over of the drive that failed last year because this time the crime was not a phone call to a foreign leader captured on the dry pages of a transcript but the siege of American democracy played out live on television for all to see.
Yeah, and because of that we didn't get to see the actual challenges and evidence of vote theft.
The fact that the Globe is using it to "transform politics" as the staged and scripted event was played out live on television is further indication of a goddamn false flag, sorry.
“Insurrectionists incited by Mr. Trump attacked our nation’s Capitol to stop Congress from accepting the Electoral College results,” said Rep. Ted Lieu of California, who began drafting the article of impeachment while sheltering during the Capitol takeover and sponsored it with Reps. David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, two fellow Democrats. “People died. We cannot just issue sternly worded press releases as a response. Unless Trump resigns, Congress must impeach to hold him accountable.”
Oh, people died!
Now, all of a sudden, they care about people dying!!
Yet the timing of such an effort, with just 11 days until Trump is to leave office, scrambled the equation. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, indicated that under Senate rules a trial could not begin until Jan. 19, the day before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, meaning the process would not advance quickly enough to avert any feared dangerous moves in Trump’s last days in power.
This is all HOT AIR and THREATS to keep Trump out, and is a massive distraction to what is actually going on.
That raised the prospect of conducting a trial after Trump vacates the White House, overshadowing the opening days of Biden’s administration at a time when he would like to turn the page and confront crises like the coronavirus pandemic, which has grown even deadlier while attention has focused on Washington’s political wars. A nationally televised trial could dominate discussion and would prevent other business in the Senate.
“If the House does send articles of impeachment over, they really get the Biden administration off to a bad start,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said in an interview Saturday. “Whether that’s the first 10 days or the first 20 days of the Biden administration, it’s certainly not how you’d want to start your presidency off.”
Then have at it!
GO, Democrats, GO!
Some of Trump’s critics argued that it would be important to hold a trial even if he is already out of power in order to bar him from ever seeking office again, a penalty envisioned by the Constitution — and perhaps more important, to render a verdict condemning his actions for the sake of history.
They are REALLY AFRAID of the guy, and it is the SUREST SIGN that he won in a LANDSLIDE!
Of course, war criminals Bush and Obama were never impeached -- partly because such trials would also implicit the accusers in the very same crimes!
“We’ve never had to consider even the possibility of impeaching a president twice, or in the final days of his presidency,” said Michael J. Gerhardt, a constitutional scholar at the University of North Carolina who testified in Trump’s first impeachment and favors another trial, “but we’ve never had a president before who’s encouraging sedition as Trump has done in his last few days in office.”
He did no such thing.
Yet even some of the president’s harshest critics worried that a last-minute impeachment and an overtime trial could help him rally supporters by presenting himself as a victim not a villain, allowing him to turn the focus from his own actions to those of his opponents.
Oh, he IS a VICTIM -- as are we all, and lapsing back into the conduct I said I would avoid, sorry.
“It historically will be important,” said Andrew Weissmann, who was a deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller and recently published a book, “Where Law Ends,” expressing frustration that the president was not held fully accountable for his actions during the Russia investigation, “but the danger is he is acquitted and the momentum of condemnation now is lost. Plus, until we change the mentality of his base, we have not gotten at the underlying issue.”
The New York Times turns to the partisan hack Weissmann!!
It's an ENEMY PAPER, I have to remember that!
At the moment, a strong majority of Americans holds Trump responsible for the attack, with 63% saying he has a good amount or even a great deal of blame, according to a PBS Newshour-Marist poll. But when asked whether steps should be taken to remove him from office as a result, Americans retreated to their partisan corners, with 48% saying yes and 49% saying no.
A Reuters-Ipsos survey found that 57% of Americans want Trump to leave office right away, but most of them favored removal by Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet through the disability clause of the 25th Amendment, with just 14% calling for another impeachment.
Trump has few defenders among Republicans for his actions exhorting the crowd before it marched on the Capitol and even some in the conservative news media turned on him, most notably The Wall Street Journal editorial page, which called his actions “impeachable” and urged him to resign, but in the face of impeachment threats, some Republicans began taking up the fight against his opponents again. They may not like him or believe it is politically viable to be seen as excusing his behavior but are still energized by battling his enemies on the left.
All he said was go up there and applaud when they object. Then Nancy let loose her operatives, and that was that, and if $hit-headed Republicans think we are coming back to the fold they are sadly mistaken.
On Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Friday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was accosted by Trump supporters at an airport for opposing the president’s efforts to overturn the election, was suddenly back to castigating Trump’s rivals and talking about Hunter Biden.
Graham focused on Trump’s video message Thursday calling for healing and reconciliation, a video the president privately expressed regret for making. “Instead of trying to match what President Trump has done, the radical Democrats are talking about another impeachment that will destroy the country even further,” Graham said.
PFFFT!
Hunter who?
The fact that his laptop and the Biden family corruption was buried and never brought up again -- hell, Barr sat on the evidence for over two years -- proves this is all garbage.
I hope Lindsey is finally outed for being gay, one of the biggest open secrets out there.
Still, Trump might have a challenge finding lawyers to defend him in any trial. Jay Sekulow, who was a leader of the defense team in the impeachment trial last year, called the idea of a second impeachment a “gigantic mistake” by Democrats during a radio show, but has not participated in Trump’s legal efforts to overturn Biden’s election and did not respond to a message asking if he would represent the president again. Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel who teamed up with Sekulow, has been so upset about the Capitol attack that he has considered resigning.
Cipollone is a mole leaker and a traitor, according to Pat Byrne, and maybe he could call Mike Cohen?
One of the few members of his defense team who said he would stick with the president was Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School emeritus professor who had a secondary role last time. In an email Saturday, he said he would defend Trump on free speech grounds.
“Trump’s speech, whatever one may think of it on the merits, is clearly protected by the First Amendment,” he said. “To impeach him for a constitutionally protected speech would violate both the First Amendment and the constitutional criteria for impeachment and would do enduring damage to the Constitution.”
That doesn't surprise me, and Dershowitz better be careful or the Epstein flight logs might make the Globe or he could be disbarred!
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who testified in the House against Trump’s first impeachment, said the latest drive was a rush to judgment out of partisan anger. The fact that Trump’s critics have called for him to be removed either by impeachment or the 25th Amendment, he said, showed that they are interested only in the outcome, not the legitimacy of the method.
“This opportunistic use of impeachment would do to the Constitution what the rioters did to the Capitol: leave it in tatters,” Turley said. “The Democrats should not repeat one impulsive, destructive act in the Capitol with another in such an impeachment.”
I respect him because he is fair.
The House voted almost entirely on party lines to impeach Trump in December 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in connection with his effort to pressure Ukraine to incriminate Biden in wrongdoing while withholding vital security aid, but the Senate acquitted him last February also on a nearly party-line vote.
They impeached him for something that Biden actually did, that's how insane is all this.
A second impeachment would in some ways revise how that first one looks in history. Some have argued that focusing on the Ukraine episode was too narrow given Trump’s many actions violating norms in Washington. Others have said it served as a warning that the president would use his power to cheat in an election, a forecast now borne out.
You see?
The president didn't cheat, the opposition did.
The New York Times invest the turn, a sure sign of evil.
While there is scholarly debate about whether an official can be impeached or tried after leaving office, there is precedent. When William Belknap, the war secretary under President Ulysses S. Grant, was accused of corruption, he rushed to the White House to submit his resignation minutes before the House impeached him. Lawmakers proceeded anyway and the Senate went ahead and put him on trial, although it acquitted him.
Have to go that far back, huh?
The Constitution specifically provides for the Senate to bar anyone convicted from holding federal office in the future, a secondary penalty that can be approved in a separate vote but requires only a simple majority of 51 senators rather than two-thirds. The Senate has applied this penalty to impeached judges in the past.
“At some point, democracies have to be able to defend themselves,” said Corey Brettschneider, an impeachment expert at Brown University. “The framers probably didn’t give us enough to protect us against a president, but disqualification is one thing they rightly did give us.”
That's why THEY START WARS!
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Anne Gearan, Josh Dawsey and Mike DeBonis of the Wa$hington Compo$t mob them about it.
Says he is worthy of rebuke.
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New York Times says that more than a week before President Trump called Georgia’s secretary of state, pressuring him to “find” votes to help overturn his electoral loss, the president made another call, this one to a top Georgia elections investigator, in which he asked the investigator to “find the fraud” in the state.
The tag-team by Maura Judkis and Ellen McCarthy of the Wa$hington Compo$t is complaining about things broken, pilfered, or defaced while conveniently ignoring and excusing they toppling of statues by Antifa and BLM topple statues that were applauded.
The double standards and hypocrisy couldn't be more clear as the alleged "insurrectionists" did not even start any fires!
I hope you smiled when you were on candid camera:
"More arrests in Capitol riot as more video reveals brutality" by Rick Callahan Associated Press, January 10, 2021
Police charged more Capitol rioters on Saturday, including a man who carried off the House speaker’s lectern, as more graphic details of the insurrection emerged, revealing the violence and brutality of the mob that stormed a seat of American political power.
What violence and brutality when compared to last summer?
This is all one-sided $hit no matter what "news organization" is slinging it.
A bloodied officer was crushed in a doorway screaming in Wednesday’s siege, which forced lawmakers to go into hiding for hours and halt their voting to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Another officer tumbled over a railing into the crowd below after being body-slammed from behind. Members of the media were cursed, shoved and punched.
Three protesters were tossed ver railings and killed, but that doesn't fit the narrative.
A vast number of photos and videos captured the riot, which left five people dead. Many of the images were taken by the rioters themselves, few of whom wore masks that would have lowered not only their chances of contracting the coronavirus, but their chances of being identified. Some took pains to stand out.
Tragic, but THAT'S ALL?
foru of them were Trump supporters, by the way, one who was allegedly murdered by police.
#WWLDM
Jacob Anthony Chansley, an Arizona man seen in photos and video of the mob with a painted face and wearing a costume that included a horned, fur hat, was taken into custody Saturday and charged with counts that include violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Chansley, more commonly known as Jake Angeli, will remain in custody in Arizona pending a detention hearing that will be scheduled during an initial court appearance early in the coming week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Esther Winne told The Associated Press by email. Chansley did not immediately respond to messages left via email and telephone.
Well, Google and Twitter have completely scrubbed any information that identified him as an Antifa and BLM from this past summer, so the CENSORSHIP is HUGE NOW!
So the Joo(?) actor and shaman changed his name, huh?
I gue$$ you take work anywhere you can get it.
Chansley, who had become a staple in his costume at pro-Trump protests across the country, is now among dozens of people arrested in the wake of the Capitol invasion by a large mob of Trump supporters enraged over his election loss.
The rioters took over the House and Senate chambers, smashed windows and waved Trump, American and Confederate flags.
A Florida man accused of making off with Pelosi’s lectern during the chaos was arrested Friday night on a federal warrant and was being held Saturday without bail in Pinellas County, Florida. Jail records do not show if Adam Johnson, 36, of Parrish, Florida, has an attorney.
Johnson was charged Saturday with theft, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
The married father of five was quickly identified on social media by local residents as the man in a photo smiling as he walked through the Capitol rotunda carrying Pelosi’s lectern, The Bradenton Herald reported.
This place is going to look like East Germany soon, what with totalitarian do-gooders ratting out people and children tattling on their parents.
Stalin would be so proud.
Johnson posted on social media that he was in Washington, D.C., during Wednesday’s riots and included disparaging comments about the Black Lives Matter movement, according to The Bradenton Herald. Those posts were later deleted or taken down.
During Wednesday’s violence, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was wounded in a confrontation with attackers and was reportedly struck by a fire extinguisher. He died Thursday night. Another officer was crushed in a doorway, but it’s unclear what happened to that officer, whose plight was captured on camera and shared by the progressive organization Status Coup. Members of media organizations, including the AP and The New York Times, were also attacked.
Then it must have been a fake and acting job.
By Saturday, prosecutors had filed 17 cases in federal district court and 40 others in the District of Columbia Superior Court for a variety of offenses ranging from assaulting police officers to entering restricted areas of the U.S. Capitol, stealing federal property and threatening lawmakers.
Prosecutors said additional cases remained under seal, dozens of other people were being sought by federal agents, and the U.S. attorney in Washington vowed Friday that “all options were on the table” for charges, including possibly sedition.
Other notable arrests in the Capitol invasion include:
— Doug Jensen, an Iowa man, was jailed early Saturday on federal charges, including trespassing and disorderly conduct counts, for his alleged role in the Capitol riot. Jensen, 41, of Des Moines, was being held without bond at the Polk County Jail and county sheriff’s Sgt. Ryan Evans said he didn’t know if Jensen had an attorney. Video posted online during the storming of the Capitol showed a man who appears to be Jensen, who is white, pursuing a Black officer up an interior flight of stairs as a mob of people trails several steps behind. At several points, the officer says “get back,” to no avail.
I saw that piece of phony baloney as the cop led them upstairs.
What BS, and WHO WAS FILIMING IT, 'eh?
— Richard Barnett, an Arkansas man who was shown in a widely seen photo sitting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office with his boots on a desk after the storming of the Capitol, was arrested Friday by the FBI. Barnett, 60, turned himself in to FBI agents at the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in Bentonville, Arkansas. He is jailed in the Washington County Detention Center in nearby Fayetteville, Arkansas, without bond pending an initial court appearance, FBI Little Rock spokesman Connor Hagan said. No attorney is listed in online jail records for the Gravette, Arkansas, man.
— Derrick Evans, a West Virginia state lawmaker who posted videos online showing himself pushing his way inside the Capitol, was arrested Friday by the FBI at his home and charged with entering restricted federal property. Evans, who faced bipartisan calls for him to step down, submitted a letter of resignation Saturday to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and apologized for his actions. Evans faces charges that he entered a restricted area of the U.S. Capitol after he livestreamed himself rushing into the building with a horde of rampaging Trump supporters. In the videos, Evans is seen fist-bumping a police officer and then milling around the rotunda as he shouted, “Our house!”
And yet Antifa and BLM were allowed to run wild for weeks.
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Trump is being blackmailed to leave with incredible carnage if he does not.
These people are serious, folks. They are genocidal monsters.
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Michael Crowley of the New York Times says it is either bravery or self-preservation, but he is wrong on both counts. It is COWARDICE that you're seeing -- as they turn to, get this, William Kristol, a conservative writer and activist who has been critical of Trump, for "expert analysis."
Enough said.
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This was the first page of the second front section:
"Supreme Court’s Breyer faces renewed calls to retire" by Robert Barnes The Washington Post, January 9, 2021
Biden hasn't even been sworn in yet and they are trying to purge him before enlarging the Court!
WASHINGTON - Democratic control of the White House and Senate will put pressure on the Supreme Court’s oldest justice, Stephen Breyer, to step aside so that President-elect Joe Biden can choose his successor.
Breyer, 82, was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and is the court's second-longest serving member, after Justice Clarence Thomas. He became the senior member of the court's diminished liberal wing upon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last fall, but that event - which resulted in President Donald Trump naming a third justice to the court and solidifying a 6-3 conservative majority - along with the fragility of the Democrats' one-vote control of the Senate, adds to the push on Breyer.
It's actually 5-4 now because the compromised Chief Justice has flipped (he was an Epstein flier and likes little boys).
Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal constitutional lawyer who is dean of the University of California at Berkeley law school, said he would urge Breyer to step aside soon. In a 2014 op-ed, Chemerinsky made the same argument to Ginsburg, who declined to retire when President Barack Obama was in office.
"Given the composition of the Senate - one unexpected change could cost the Democrats their majority - and the inherent uncertainty about the 2022 midterm election, Justice Breyer should consider stepping down when there is a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate to replace him," Chemerinsky said in an email. "It is his best way of ensuring that someone with his values and his views takes his place."
Not with Murkowski threatening to bolt and Romney there.
Republicans fate, and indeed that of the Republic, now fall into the hands of Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia
As soon as it was clear that Democrats won both Senate races in Georgia - giving Democrats 50 seats in the chamber and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote - the liberal group Demand Justice also said Breyer should consider exiting.
"Justice Breyer has had a tremendous career," said Christopher Kang, the group's chief counsel. He said Breyer should appreciate the "poetic possibility" of stepping aside so that Biden could nominate the first Black woman to the court, as Biden pledged during the campaign.
Oh, I see, they need the white man to sacrifice his privilege on the altar of communist political correctness.
Just as they can't wait for Trump to leave, they can't wait to purge Breyere, or for that matter, vaccinate us.
You know, when one is impatient they are not rational and make mistakes.
Even before the Georgia results, Breyer faced questions about when he would leave the court.
He was gingerly asked by MSNBC host Ari Melber in October, during a session for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, whether "justices do or should think about who will replace them, and their retirement process while they are on the court?"
"Of course from time to time you think about it," Breyer replied. "It's part of the aging process. It's inevitable," but he continued that it was a dangerous topic, because of the politics involved, but such "thank-you-for-your-service" nudges come with a job that carries a lifetime appointment. Even though Trump had already named two justices, some in the legal conservative movement were not subtle this summer in speculating that Thomas, 72, or Justice Samuel Alito, 70, might retire so that Trump could put a younger conservative stamp on the court.
The relative youthfulness of the president's nominees - Justices Neil Gorsuch, 53, Brett Kavanaugh, 55, and 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett - is one factor liberals cite in hoping to reinforce their allies on the court with a younger member.
As much as they assert their independence, many justices feel a pull to retire when the party of the president who nominated them is in power, or when the president is inclined to name a like-minded successor.
Scott Lemieux, a political scientist at the University of Washington, said that in the last half-century, "strategic retirements have been more the rule than the exception."
"The only justices since 1968 who resigned while still alive and with a president they weren't positively disposed to on ideological or partisan grounds were [William J.] Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who waited as long as they could during a 12-year run of Republican control of the White House" before resigning for health issues, Lemieux wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
In an interview, Lemieux noted that Obama's choices for the court replaced liberal-leaning Republicans, David Souter and John Paul Stevens. He chose Sonia Sotomayor, now 66, and Elena Kagan, now 60.
The two justices chosen by Clinton, Ginsburg and Breyer, resisted calls to step down.
What a surprise.
In a 2013 interview with The Post, the then-80-year-old Ginsburg predicted that Obama's successor would be a Democrat. "The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections," she said.
Wrong!
Noting the poisonous political atmosphere a year later, she said in an interview with the Associated Press: "So who do you think could be nominated now that would get through the Senate that you would rather see on the court than me?"
Ginsburg had hoped to stay on the court through the Trump presidency, but she died of cancer in September, which led to Barrett's confirmation in the days before the election.
Breyer has not had similar health concerns, and gave up his bicycle after a series of accidents that resulted in broken bones. Friends and former clerks say he loves the job, and the justice is something of a happy warrior on the court, enjoying the company of even the justices with whom he disagrees, such as Thomas, a longtime seatmate.
Yeah, they are literally all in it together despite the illusion and imagery of the pre$$.
Because of the uncertainty of the confirmation process, some have suggested he could make his retirement contingent on the nomination and confirmation of a successor, as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor did in 2005.
The most recent justice to retire from the court, Anthony Kennedy, did not, but he was pretty certain confirmation would happen. Trump administration officials made Kennedy, then in his early 80s, comfortable with giving up his seat.
The president's first choice for the court, Gorsuch, was a former Kennedy clerk. After that, Kennedy himself suggested Kavanaugh be added to the list of possibilities, and he was named as Kennedy's replacement when he retired in 2018.
All I have to say is thank God for Gorsuch.
Biden said he would name a Black woman to the court, and the two women mentioned most prominently are California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, who argued before the Supreme Court as deputy solicitor general in the Obama administration, and U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom Obama considered for the high court.
Jackson was one of Breyer's clerks at the Supreme Court. There is also speculation she would be in line for U.S. Judge Merrick Garland's seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit should Garland be confirmed as attorney general.
Breyer is the ninth-oldest justice in the Supreme Court's history, recently passing Justice Louis Brandeis. In a recent interview with Dahlia Lithwick for a series on Slate.com called the "80 most influential Americans over 80," Breyer said, "I mean, eventually I'll retire, sure I will, and it's hard to know exactly when."
Asked if society was sometimes too quick to move people out of their jobs, he answered, “I’ve thought sometimes that one virtue of China is they really respect old people.”
OMFG, and they are KILLING THEM HERE under cover of the mythical COVID!
Yeah, time for him to retire!
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The Globe finally discovers the rest of the world on page A16:
It was a Boeing 737, but not the Max.
Eyewitness: "Fishermen in the area around Thousand Islands, a chain of islands north of Jakarta’s coast, reported hearing an explosion around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. “We heard something explode, we thought it was a bomb or a tsunami since after that we saw the big splash from the water,” fisherman Solihin, who goes by one name, told The Associated Press by phone. “It was raining heavily and the weather was so bad. So it is difficult to see around clearly, but we can see the splash and a big wave after the sounds. We were very shocked and directly saw the plane debris and the fuel around our boat.”
Who was on that plane and what happened?
Climate change, yeah, the world warming because of carbon, uh-huh.
On the far-right was this two-inch column that went the whole length of the page (in hopes I would miss it?):
"China’s new rules could hit US firms and send a message to Biden" by Amy Qin New York Times, January 9, 2021
China fired back at the Trump administration on Saturday with new rules that would punish global companies for complying with Washington’s tightening restrictions on doing business with Chinese companies.
They must be feeling very confident over there.
Have our pre$$ in their pocket, too, including “lavish, all-expense-paid trips to attend seminars in China.”
(for the record, Google is utter garbage for a search now)
China’s Ministry of Commerce said that the rules, which went into effect immediately, were intended to counter foreign laws that “unjustly prohibit or restrict” people or companies in China from doing normal business. It said its measures were necessary to safeguard China’s national sovereignty and security and to protect the rights of Chinese citizens and entities.
I wish I had a government like that, but without the freedom-destroying Communi$m.
Although Chinese officials did not mention any specific country, the new rules could potentially put global companies in the middle of the economic battles being waged between Washington and Beijing. They could also send a signal to the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who must ultimately decide whether to preserve Trump-era restrictions against Chinese businesses, relax them or rethink them entirely.
As President Donald Trump’s trade war against Chinese companies intensified, the Trump administration prohibited the sale of American technology to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, and other firms. It also issued rules that punish companies for their ties to the Chinese military and for their involvement in Beijing’s surveillance and suppression of mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s far northwestern region of Xinjiang.
The new rules released Saturday would allow Chinese officials and companies to strike back at those who comply with the U.S. limits. The Chinese measures allow government officials to issue orders saying that companies do not have to comply with certain foreign restrictions.
Chinese companies that incur losses because of another party’s compliance with those laws can sue for damages in Chinese courts, according to the Commerce Ministry’s notice. Such a case would be likely to result in a victory for a Chinese plaintiff, since China’s courts are ultimately answerable to the Communist Party.
Here they answer to Joos.
“This basically puts many big companies between a rock and a hard place, because they either have to decide to comply with U.S. sanctions or with the Chinese rules,” said Henry Gao, a law professor from Singapore Management University who specializes in international trade, “and either way, they are going to lose one of their biggest markets.”
Hey, they are happy Biden is here so f**k 'em!
It is unclear whether global companies would end up being punished in China for complying with U.S. sanctions. Under the rules issued on Saturday, companies could seek a waiver from the Commerce Ministry in order to comply with U.S. restrictions. They also require Chinese officials to set up an interagency body to determine which foreign laws fall under its scope.
In addition, much of the language of the order released on Saturday was vague, giving the Chinese government and companies wiggle room for compliance. Still, the threat could prompt big American companies with business in China to press Biden to relax the restrictions against Chinese companies. Biden has not said whether he intends to press forward with Trump’s punishing measures, which have contributed to the most toxic relationship between China and the United States in decades.
Especially since they have him in their pocket.
He'll be pushed around like broom.
“China wants to deter the new administration from behaving like Trump,” Gao said.
Under Trump, Chinese businesses found their access to the U.S. market increasingly limited. The administration has prohibited companies around the world from using American software or machines to make chips designed by Huawei. It has imposed sanctions and blacklisted Chinese companies over the systematic human rights abuses against Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
The new rules come just days after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened additional sanctions against people or entities involved in the recent roundup in Hong Kong of dozens of pro-democracy figures. It is not clear to what degree the new rules might apply to restrictions related to Hong Kong, the Chinese city that is governed by its own set of laws but where Beijing has taken an increasingly strong hand.
I don't care about the coup attempt in Hong Kong, but Trump kept cheap Chinese $hit out of the country?
With each passing day, even those Americans whop hated him so will regret his passing.
They don't know it yet, and when the change comes it will be overnight quick leaving them dazed and confused about what happen and how their friends and Democrats let this happen.
I'm sure they will blame you-know-who even though he is gone and they have full power.
What will liberals and Democrats say when family members start disappearing?
Probably GOOD, knowing them.
Go buy your mother some flowers. Maybe then you can be as good as a Trump supporter.
China has responded to U.S. tariffs and sanctions with its own moves, but its actions have not been one for one. The United States buys much more from China than it sells to China, so Beijing has fewer options for taxing American goods.
It also relies heavily on American products, including chips and software, and its economy depends in part on factories that make goods on behalf of big American companies like Apple and General Motors.
?????????
We won't be buying more from them for much longer because our economy has been destroyed by the chimera that is the Wuhan Flu.
Beijing has said little about its pledge in 2019 to create an “unreliable entities list” of foreign companies and people that could lead to further business restrictions.
Earlier in the week, the New York Stock Exchange, under pressure from the Trump administration and members of Congress, removed China’s three major state-run telecommunications companies from the exchange to comply with an executive order aimed at stopping American investment in companies linked to the Chinese military.
Biden will be easing that and they will be relisted.
Read it here first.
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As I reach the end of the A section and the 11(!?!) pages of obituaries, I realize I have failed lightly in my attempt to keep this post clean and avoid interjection. Sorry.
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The Globe leads the top of the B-section (left-to-right) with this:
Yeah, it's just beginning, I know, and I'm not wasting my time reading her.
The Globe's concern is what will we tell the children?
"How some schools are teaching about the violence at the US Capitol" by Felicia Gans Globe Staff, January 8, 2021
As the violence at the US Capitol shook the country on Wednesday, many of Massachusetts’ teachers and school administrators had to shift gears, pause their lesson plans, and help their students grapple with the implications of the attack — even as many educators were still trying to process it themselves.
“I’m still processing,” said Marcus Walker, a humanities teacher at Fenway High School in Boston. “Between the pandemic and Donald Trump and the racial unrest. ... It’s overwhelming, and that’s an understatement. It’s just really difficult to think about what kids are thinking and going through right now.”
No one is really worried about the kids, for if they were they would never have foisted this destructive hoax upon their development.
Any who go along with this laid-bare fraud at this point is criminal!
Beyond that, I want to know what you tell the kids about never-ending wars based on lies pushed by the very same pre$$ (probably you will be serving in them).
In an academic year that has already been tragic for some young people and challenging for nearly all, Wednesday’s siege was yet another dark moment. To make matters more difficult, most students in Massachusetts are still learning remotely, at least part time, and don’t have the in-person camaraderie of their teachers and classmates for support.
Well, who is responsible for that?
When Walker returned to his virtual classroom on Thursday, his priority wasn’t traditional teaching.
When is it ever?
He wanted to give his students the facts to inform their opinions and the space to ask questions and understand their own feelings. It was not lost on many of his students that the treatment of the pro-Trump supporters in Wednesday’s mob was vastly different than the treatment of protesters at Black Lives Matter demonstrations last year.
He showed them YouTube videos and countless images. He asked: What do you see? How does this image make you feel?
That's the problem with "education" today: it's all about "feelings."
That's how you not only propagandize young minds, but prey on them, too.
He also wanted his students — ninth, 10th, and 11th graders — to understand just how serious Wednesday’s events were; he wanted them to know that in a functioning democracy, this is not the norm.
Wouldn't they already know that, or is the $y$tem that far gone?
“Especially after four years of Trump, I feel like young people, it’s really hard for them to nail down what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable behavior in our democracy,” he said. “Trump has really moved the goalpost on what you can say and what you can’t say.”
Especially if you are a supporter!
Btw, I'm tired of them throwing around that term.
From what I can see from history and now is DEMOCRACY $UCKS!
Glad we are a REPUBLIC for the moment anyway!
Man, those white a$$holes were smart!
Of course, they would be stacking traitors like firewood by now.
Teaching about traumatic events, racial injustice, and the intersection of the two has quickly become an important part of teachers’ jobs over the past year, but figuring out exactly what role educators should play in those discussions has been difficult in some communities.
AI can't replace them soon enough.
In June, Milton teacher Zakia Jarrett was placed on paid leave — a move that was swiftly reversed — after she discussed a poem about racism in one of her classes. The school’s reaction sparked outrage in the community, and Jarrett worried at the time that the consequence she faced would discourage others from talking about race in class.
“Students already think it’s taboo to talk about race, and I worry that this just confirms that,” she told the Globe at the time. “If we believe as a society that antiracism is a goal, we need to teach it actively to all our students.”
We need to GET AWAY from RACE because WE ARE ALL IN LOCKDOWN!
The TYRANNY of the GLOBE and the GLOBALI$TS for whom they mouth don't care what color we are!
Across the region this week, school administrators emphasized that message of active engagement to teachers and to the wider school community. Teach about it, and discuss it, many said. Don’t ignore it.
Has to be the correct kind of active engagement, though.
Now go burn a city like a good boy or girl to the Globe, not me!
“Ignoring this event is normalizing the event,” Newton North High School Principal Henry Turner wrote in a blog post to other educators, urging them to be “leaders committed to social justice, antiracism, and equity.”
“Whether it’s an announcement, optional student and/or faculty meetings, or classroom discussions this event should be discussed,” he continued. “This was not politics. This was an attack on our country.”
In Boston, too, Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said teachers are expected to keep political partisanship out of the classroom, but Wednesday’s violence was simply “unacceptable.”
“When the Capitol is stormed, that’s pretty black and white,” she said in an interview. “We would not teach our children to storm the cafeteria or the library. There are ways to address the behavior without addressing the intent.”
OMG, SURE IS!!
That hypocritical piece of crap that no one has confidence in is a real piece of work and absolutely insulting.
She should be fired like a Trump person!
Cassellius said she was in an executive team meeting Wednesday when the news of the violence broke, and she and her colleagues sat there in shock for just moments before jumping into the next step: How are we going to prepare for the children tomorrow?
In an e-mail to Boston Public Schools staff on Thursday, Cassellius included a variety of resources about discussing violence with students. She encouraged educators to take time in their classes to process this week’s events and to give students a safe environment to express their feelings.
This world is literally going to be a living hell.
It's not education anymore, it's ejookhazion, sorry.
“What’s unfortunate is we have too many of these situations happening for our children, and that they carry this huge burden unnecessarily because of the conditions we as adults are creating for them, and it is not fair at all,” Cassellius told the Globe. “It’s just so disheartening to me that we can’t be better for our children.”
Maybe if you purge and eliminate the Trump people it will be a paradise.
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Below that was this:
I gue$$ they are calling the shots, and to hell with Bo$ton.
It was a record-breaking year in time of escalating pandemic need, when the ravages of the COVID 19 pandemic gravely increased the needs of Boston area families.
They are patting them$elves on the back for something they helped bring about over a damnable lie.
HO-HO-HO!
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Looking up at the top of page A2:
"Make sure to look up at the sky the next couple of nights. Otherwise, you might miss a special planetary alignment that won’t be seen again anytime soon. Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn will form a trio that will be visible through Monday evening. Like other trios, this triangular cluster of planets has come together for just a few days to form a rapidly changing and beautiful sight, said Amy Oliver, a spokeswoman for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “This shape is just a blip in time,” Oliver said. “We won’t see it exactly like this ever again, since it probably isn’t going to happen again in this exact same way — at least not in your lifetime.” While these three planets can often be seen from Earth, it’s unusual for them to come so close together. Oliver said the last time they came anywhere near each other was in 2000, largely because they move at different speeds around the sun. “Mercury has somewhere to go...” she said. “Because [Mercury and Jupiter] are orbiting slower, it’s going to take longer for them to get farther apart. After the next few days, they won’t all be in the same plane of view together.” Jupiter will shine brightest and be visible at the top of the triangle, with Mercury and Saturn making up its base angles, said Federica Spoto, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The shape will be visible just above the southwestern horizon about 30 to 45 minutes after sunset, but don’t be late. The trio will disappear around 15 or 20 minutes after it shows up. Saturday and Sunday evenings will have clear skies perfect for viewing the stars and planets, according to the National Weather Service; however, a few clouds could obscure the planetary trio on Monday night."
After the whole Jupiter-Saturn thing went sideways and down and with the dark of the moon coming, prepare for MORE FIREWORKS AHEAD.
Left there by Neil Young?
Shouldn't have been out of the house, right?
Of course they did. They want own show.
WTF were kids doing at museum during this crisis when they are not in school?
Btw, there was NO MENTION of the CV in that article AT ALL!
Meanwhile, at the BOTTOM of page B2:
"Department of Correction suspends operations at two facilities" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, January 9, 2021
The state’s Department of Correction is temporarily suspending operations at two facilities within the next 60 days and working to place some prisoners in home confinement, amid a nearly 35-year low in the prison population, according to the department.
The changes would affect nearly 200 minimum-security prisoners in the housing units of MCI-Shirley and in the South Middlesex Correctional Center, a minimum-security and pre-release unit located at the department’s Framingham facility.
The department said in a statement Saturday that it has been in the process of finalizing a home confinement plan for some inmates. Other prisoners will be transferred to other minimum-security settings that can maintain social distancing practices.
The MCI-Shirley minimum-security facility is at 44 percent capacity, with 166 inmates, the department said. South Middlesex houses 26 inmates and is at 14 percent of the facility’s capacity.
Can't they be moved to other prisons instead?
I mean, who the hell are they releasing?
If they didn't belong there to begin with?
So the pri$on-indu$trial complex was just a big waste, huh?
I'm sure they will all obey the CV rules like the citizen saps we are.
What it LOOKS LIKE is they are MAKING ROOM FOR YOU, TRUMPER!
“DOC will continue to maintain and inspect these units on a regular basis, and there are no plans at this time to close them permanently,” the department said in the statement.
The changes will not affect the availability of quarantine and medical isolation areas in other department facilities, or COVID-19 testing strategies in place for prisoners and staff, the department said.
Inmates moved to other facilities will be screened and tested for COVID-19 prior to their transfer, the department said.
As of Friday, there were 320 active cases among prisoners at the department’s facilities and 16 inmates had died due to the disease.
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Of course, another benefit to the societal redesigners is the chaos and crime these guys will cause, thus resulting in more draconian tyranny.
That is the point where I stopped reading today's Sunday Globe; however, the BH-section continued with what they call a Local Section. I now provide those links for you:
There once was a time where I not only would have given a hoot about that story, but gotten excited about the Globe bringing it to me.
Not anymore. It's an insult now.
You can unearth it if you want as I walk around it rather than get twisted into a knot.
I left that book closed, sorry.
That reminds me, it's getting to be that time.
Football is on now, but I'm going to do a puzzle with a loved one after this is posted.
Maybe he can help the guys who are out jobs above due to "temporary" operation of the prisons.
This post is almost history because I am out of Ideas after the week that upended American politics — and our sense of what’s possible, such as Trump’s Twitter ban that is a step toward ending the hijacking of the First Amendment(??).
The Globe is of the opinion that censorship is good, huh?
That is SO WARPED and CRAZY!
That means they will be nothing and are nothing but a Party mouthpiece.
Speaking of party mouthpieces:
They are of the idea that Biden's win is also good for business, and they couldn't be more wrong.
Until they jettison the official narratives, they will be about as useful as tits on a bull. I'm no longer watching.
That's how other democracies have died, after pushed to the breaking point, and the Globe is asking if federal law enforcement will finally take the right-wing terror threat seriously because the Capitol siege was the foreseeable consequence of an America where white supremacists and radical conspiracy theorists are given wide latitude to wreak havoc.
They are totally losing it over there, and the garbage that they trowel out will live in infamy.
Now if you will excuse me, I hear someone knocking at the door but am not going to answer it for this will be my last Sunday Globe. I will be cancelling my subscription tomorrow.
That doesn't mean I am done posting as I have a lot of drafts to clean up, but there will be no more new Globe work here. They went too far this time. It's over.
See you in hell, you bastards.
