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crickets's JournalAgreed, thank you for saying so.
Regardless of how frustrating the actions of some may be, lumping an entire group of citizens together as deserving to die is just wrong. The real blame goes to the utter lack of responsibility shown by the toddler at the top and the people at FOX who keep egging it on.
Welcome to DU, Checkered Giant! 
Fellow Republican says congressman tried to bully him into committing a crime
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/05/06/colorado-ken-buck-gop-primary/During a district assembly in March, Liston received 75% of the vote and Stiver just 24%, according to documents filed later in Denver District Court. Stiver complained the election was unfair, and the issue was taken up with the state central committee, which agreed, Buck said in an interview Wednesday.
The central committee consists of nearly 500 members, including elected officials and county officers. About 200 were on the line during an April 17 conference call in which the group voted to place Stiver on the ballot for the seat, even though he failed to receive 30% of the district’s votes. After the vote, Buck asked Bremer, the District 10 chair, whether he would comply with the committee’s decision.
[snip - tho' you are missing a hoot if you don't read the surreal phone call between Buck and Bremer, as well as Buck's later attempt to pass off his actions as 'tradition']
District Court Chief Judge Michael Martinez ruled Monday that any certificate of designation filed with the Secretary of State’s Office showing Stiver as a candidate would violate state law because he did not receive at least 30% of the district’s votes.
Wow! Nobody explains what was 'unfair' about the election, other than the loser being unhappy about not getting enough votes. COVID-19 gets blamed as well. What a circus. Good for Bremer standing his ground.
"backdoor expansion of the welfare state"
Is that what they're calling it these days? You know, the part where people aren't being paid enough to feed their kids, and clothe them, and pay the rent, the car payment, the insurance bills.
The people who can barely make it living paycheck are not the ones receiving the real welfare stakes -- the big money handouts go to corporations. But Republicans already know that. They are the ones making sure where the big money goes after all.
Food riots are inevitable if nothing is done. It's going to get ugly.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/01/lebanon-protests-back-streets-economic-crisis-debt-default-lockdown/Revolution of hunger. In October 2019, people across Lebanon took to the streets to protest rampant corruption and an ailing economy, prompting Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his cabinet to resign. A new technocratic government was formed in January by Prime Minister Hassan Diab, but observers noted it still had ties to the country’s elite that oversaw years of economic mismanagement—now compounded by coronavirus shutdowns. Lebanon is facing its biggest economic crisis since the end of the civil war in 1990.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/lebanon-protests-coronavirus.html
Protesters in several towns, including Tripoli and Beirut, broke the nighttime curfew, blocking roads and setting fire to banks for allowing big depositors to smuggle billions out of the country while the poorest can no longer afford lentils.
The new wave of protests has an edge of desperation that wasn’t there before. The army has responded with shocking violence, using tear gas, rubber bullets and live bullets to crush the protesters.
Poor Lebanon. The people there don't deserve this. Scarily enough, in many ways our own predicament is not so different from theirs.
"The deceased was a regular jogger in the area."
And that was his crime - running in an area that someone decided he had no right to exist in.
Horror and hot anger yesterday on first seeing that awful video I could barely watch through my fingers... today is just a tangle of emotions. I can't imagine the anguish Ahmaud Arbery's mother has been dealing with. That no one has even been charged in two months is absolutely unacceptable.
Agreed. Remember the Tea Party? Yeah... good times.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirusRepublicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare.
Congressional Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and House Speaker John Boehner, leveraged the debt ceiling — a limit on the government’s borrowing ability that had to be raised — to insist that the Obama administration accept federal spending curbs. The compromise, codified in the 2011 Budget Control Act, required a bipartisan “super committee” to find additional ways to reduce the deficit, or else it would trigger automatic across-the-board cuts known as “sequestration.”
Even in the aftermath of the swine flu pandemic, the stockpile wasn’t a priority then. Without a full committee markup, Rehberg introduced a bill that provided $522.5 million to the stockpile, about 12% less than the previous year and $132 million less than the administration wanted. “Nobody got everything they wanted,” Rehberg said.
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What a ghoulish slap in the face. How awful.
On top of it all, Jared the Wonder Jerk has made it almost impossible for any government organization outside of FEMA to get decent supplies without spending millions and resorting to Mission: Impossible tactics to assure delivery. It's just not right. Something has got to give.
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She welcomed those tests because unlike the earlier ones, the health board was permitted to use their own lab to process the tests and communicate the results to patients directly.
I am glad to hear they finally got some tests after all. (Not many.) The relief money is still being held up though. *sigh*
Excellent article. Albany is a neighboring town, just down the road.
Their experience with COVID has been brutal to watch, and I applaud how the community is handling this.
How sweet! Thanks so much for posting this.
What an amazing person Emerson is, and how wonderful that she's bringing so much joy to so many people.
I love that someone sent her stamps to start a collection. She probably should -- she's about to get mail with amazing stamps from all over the world. How special though that two of her first collected stamps are of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Take that, Kevin Madden & Chris Christie.
Andrew Cuomo knows that all people matter, and has the moral fortitude to say so.
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