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crickets's JournalWhy are there stricter standards for interior dining
than there are for flying? If it isn't safe to sit in restaurant for an hour, there's no way it's safe to sit in a full plane. No one is trying to shut down airlines for operating, much less operating in an unsafe manner. Why is that? /s
Selfish and shortsighted in the extreme.
You kill the minors, you've knocked big part of the foundation out from under your cash cow. The impact might take a couple of years to be felt in full, but it will be bad news in the end. It's about the game. You need the farm team/minor league experience to give a lot of the players coming up some time to develop before hitting the bigs. Bean counters are forgetting that without a good game with good players, you don't make the money. Not smart.
Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes, Elise Stefanik, et al have passed their loyalty tests.
For now.
So it appears Tara told a cover story to her family and friends when she lost her Senate job.
They may be telling what they think is the truth after all, but they've been repeating her lies. Biden and co did Tara a favor at the time by keeping quiet, and they've continued to take the high road since. They knew somebody was going to uncover it eventually, and it would be better to let that happen naturally. They were right. It's all about to come down hard around Tara Reade. Great find, Laura.
The White House is its own little biome.
I do feel bad for the regular staff. trump's refusal to deal with the virus responsibly is not their fault. I am uncomfortable with actively wishing for someone else to come down with this thing, but I will say that for trump and the toadies he surrounds himself with -- it's about to get interesting.
"A Lynch Mob": After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men Are Charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery in GA
The following is snippets of an article containing an Amy Goodman interview with Benjamin Crump. The interview is definitely worth reading in full.
AMY GOODMAN: The disturbing video that emerged Tuesday shows Ahmaud Arbery jogging down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, in broad daylight, when he’s confronted by the two armed men. As Arbery jogs, Travis McMichael can be seen waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stands in the back of a pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery is shot at three times. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations said in a news briefing Travis McMichael is the one who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery.
The video was filmed by a third White man, William Bryan. Journalist Shaun King said on Twitter Friday Bryan is also being charged but has not yet been arrested. The Brunswick police reportedly had a copy of the shocking video since February, but before Thursday no charges had been filed against the McMichaels, who claimed they chased Arbery because he looked like a burglary suspect. Gregory McMichael is a former officer with the Glynn County Police Department, who also worked as an investigator in the District Attorney’s Office there. [snip]
BENJAMIN CRUMP: Yes, ma’am. Apparently, a lawyer or a former lawyer associated with the McMichaels, the murderous father and son duo who executed Ahmaud Arbery, released the video. And apparently he said he released it because he felt that it would somehow exonerate these killers. And it makes no sense to me. It’s asinine how they feel this hunting party, this hunting posse, chasing this unarmed, young African American throughout that community was something that would exonerate them. [snip]
BENJAMIN CRUMP: And that’s why we want a special prosecutor appointed, and we want to make sure that if these are individuals who currently work at the law enforcement agencies there in and around Brunswick, Georgia, who failed to arrest them either because of incompetence or intentional, they should not have anything at all to do with the prosecution of this case. [more]
You know what you're supposed do when you *think* you recognize someone in a surveillance video?
You call the cops, make a report and give them a copy of the video, and then let the cops handle it. You do not ambush a jogger and shoot him in cold blood with a shotgun.
The McMichaels' story has changed more than once so far, and I don't believe the surveillance video angle for a second. I hope both of these creeps go to jail, and everyone who covered for them loses jobs and also gets charged accordingly.
And did they pay taxes into that pool of relief money they are asking for a piece of?
It just seems to me that if a church considers itself enough of a small business to qualify for federal funding intended for said businesses, maybe that church should lose religious exemption and start paying taxes.
It's not just stupidity.
Combine the damage done to education in the US over the past few decades with the constant drumbeat of disinformation from FOX news and the propaganda just needs a little nudge now and then to keep chugging along with a life of its own.
It's depressing and it's infuriating watching people fall for it, but I don't blame them entirely. The likes of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are very, very good at brainwashing people.
trump won't wear a mask or allow anyone around him to wear one because
every single mask is a reminder of his inability to control the virus and his resounding failure in dealing with it. Out of sight, out of mind.
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