May 22, 2021

trump's biggest crime against humanity, why isn't it a big deal?

Early on, he purposely hid the fact that the virus was deadly and airborne.

He admitted this to Woodward on tape! Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people died because they weren't sufficiently warned.

Can "get over" all but this.

May 21, 2021

Vaccinations: Top 16 states blue, Bottom 15 red (except GA)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
(On link, scroll down for chart and more stats)

Fully vaccinated:

Top ( starting with best)
Maine - #1 in U.S.
50.6%
Conn.
49.8%
Vt.
49%
Mass.
48.4%
R.I.
48.4%
N.J.
45.6%
Hawaii
45.2%
N.M.
45.2%
Md.
44.2%
N.Y.
43.8%
Minn.
42.9%
Colo.
42.3%
Wis.
42.3%
D.C.
42.1%
Wash.
41.8%
VA
41.7%

Bottom (starting with worst):

Miss.
26.4%
Ala.
28.2%
Ark.
29.7%
La.
30%
Ga.
30%
Tenn.
30.3%
Utah
30.6%
Wyo.
30.8%
Idaho
31.3%
S.C.
32.2%
Okla.
32.7%
Mo.
33%
W.Va.
33.1%
Texas
33.3%
Ind.
33.3%

May 19, 2021

Nicest spring since moving to TX in 1997. Mild not hot. Few mosquitoes.

Lots of rain. Everything green. Vegetable and herb plants loving it too.

Early nice parts of dead end climate change?

May 19, 2021

Yikes QAnon Shaman Atty to TPM

https://twitter.com/mattshuham/status/1394666856171122692?s=20

May 18, 2021

Inventive budget meals your mom used to make?

Memories of how something used to taste so good yet be so simple. Can still remember the smell and taste.

Powerful mix, love and food!

One of mine... Hot dogs ( always cut on an angle with onions and peppers, a can of Hunts tomato sauce over rice. Bet the whole thing costed under $3 for family of 6.

May 17, 2021

Is Gun Control, Voting Rights, and Police Reform legislation all languishing?

Thought it'd be simple to get a quick status on these three topics that mean SO much to us: Gun Control, Voting Rights, & Police Reform. All murky at best, nothing sounded promising.

Evidently we don't have the votes in the Senate to pass anything. Has it always been like that and I just didn't notice? That if the votes aren't there the bills are not introduced, debated and voted on? Nothing done that I could find in Senate on:

HR 8 Expand Background check cases

HR 1446 Extend Background check review period from 3 to 10 days ( Charleston Loophole)

HR 7120 George Floyd Justice in Policing Act holding law enforcement accountable for misconduct.

HR 1 For the People Act expanding access to the ballot box & reduce influence of big money in politics.

May 6, 2021

The Texas legislature is voting tomorrow on SB 7, a dangerous bill set to restrict voting rights for

Black and brown voters, voters with disabilities, and working Texans.

If SB 7 passes through the Texas legislature, there is no doubt that Governor Abbott will sign it into law – and Texans across our great state will have to face even more barriers to the ballot box. SB 7 would make it a state jail felony for local election officials to distribute an application to vote by mail to a voter who didn’t request one, as well as set up new rules for people assisting voters who need help voting, such as those with disabilities or who don’t speak English.

We are the last defense to stop this rampant act of voter suppression from passing.

- Message from local Dem leadership here in TX

May 5, 2021

Amazing that with people still dying we are worried about Liz Cheney

Would like to see a prime time news conference..How much have the Indian and other variants/mutations infected our country and what are we doing about it?

Update on vaccines/boosters to guard against variants? Which states should be praised for highest vaccine %s? Create competition!! Who is on the bottom? Utah?

Maslow's theory - deal with life and death first, now!

May 2, 2021

How Trump scored a big tax break for conserving a golf range

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/special-report-how-trump-scored-big-tax-break-conserving-golf-range-2021-04-30/

When Donald Trump bought his seaside golf course in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb in 2002, he vowed to surround it with “some of the most beautiful houses in California.” But the 261-acre property on the Palos Verdes Peninsula had a problem.

Geologists working for the city would not clear part of it for home-building because of unstable soil underlying the course, built on a landslide-prone bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The denials infuriated Trump, who lobbied and litigated for eight years in a failed effort to reverse the geologists’ findings and secure development approvals, according to interviews with planners and geologists and a Reuters review of public records and court filings.

Trump eventually abandoned a plan to build 16 homes and turned instead to the tax code to offset the lost profits - securing a $25 million tax deduction in exchange for a promise not to develop the land. The agreement with a nonprofit conservancy allowed him to continue using the land as a driving range for the Trump National Golf Course.

More at link...
Note: trump previously won fight to reduce property taxes on this land tract based on a $1.1m assessment value to a $900k value! And then he took a $25 million charitable break on it.

April 25, 2021

Did you catch the Bill Maher and Fran Lebowitz interview tonight?

Perfect example of what we encounter every day. She, her brain, could only comprehend the now. He, wanted to talk about the hypothetical world. Neither bad, just different brains.