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dixiegrrrrl's JournalWhat does YOUR calendar from the summer of 1982 show you did not do?
curious minds want to know.
Guys, you have to see this incredible political ad
andit's almost midnight here, could you kick it up for the morning folks?
I am still WOW-ing over this one.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1043328129064939522
Cargill recalls 66 tons of ground beef after deadly E coli O26 outbreak
the Cargill recall was associated with an epidemiological investigation into illnesses with onset dates ranging from July 5 to July 25. CDC said that outbreak appears to be over. One death in Florida is associated with the outbreak. Also, CDC reported one person developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which results in kidney failure.
CDC also said 15 of the 18 illnesses involved people in Florida. Colorado, Massachusetts and Tennessee each reported one case.
Cargill early Thursday recalled approximately 132,606 pounds, or 66.3 tons, of ground beef produced at its Fort Morgan, CO, facility. Cargill shipped the recalled beef to retailers nationwide. Made from the chuck portion of the carcass, the recalled beef may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O26, according to FSIS.
Notice that Cargill is NOW recalling beef but the E.coli breakout ended after July 25.
Nunes just gave us happy news....
For those who might not know, he is from the Fresno area in the Central Valley of Cal.
https://twitter.com/SaysHummingbird/status/1042855433877237760
Fascinating history of for profit prisons
Undercover journalist Shane Bauer was hired as a prison guard in 2014 at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana.
He has since written a book about the topic.
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
In his VICE interview, he talks about the history of private prisons, and how Trump has enriched them.
These corporationsCoreCivic, the GEO groupstarted in the 1980s, [but] weve had for-profit prisons for almost all of American history. [At times] the profit is going to companies, [at times] it's going to the states, but for most of American history, especially in the south, prisons were intended to actually make a profit. Penitentiaries were invented in America [and were] meant to turn a profit for its factory. Instead of hanging somebody for theft, we're going to give him a sentence to some years in prison. Louisiana privatized its prisons in 1844. Then, when slavery ended, the penitentiary system in the south was used in a way that mimicked slavery. Where slaves were picking cotton, prisoners started to fill that role.
Every prison system in the south was privatized almost immediately after slavery ended. It was the most brutal labor that existed at the time. The death rates were staggering. States averages in the south for decades were somewhere between 16 and 25-percent depending on the state. One in four inmates died every year largely because of the conditions. An important point here is that this system of convict leasing was actually more deadly than slavery was. As we went forward through history, the states, seeing how much money these companies were making, decided to open their own plantations and run them at a profit for the state.
In the 1960s, Arkansas still allowed prisoners to be whipped. Men were picking cotton in cotton fields and Terrell Don Hutto, who came to be the co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America learned the business of corrections by running a cotton plantation. He lived on the plantation himself, had a house boy, a prisoner who served him, and lived a life that, in many ways, resembled slavery. He was the last person to run these state-run plantations at a profit. Towards the end of that era, in the 1970s, we saw a prison boom that ended up being massive. We had a 500-percent increase in our prison population over 40 years. The prisons became a burden on the states and rather than bringing in money, [they were losing it].
When Trump became president his Justice Department kind of breathed life back into the private prison system.
When he was elected, the ( for profit prisons) stock prices rose more than any other companies. Trump has been very aggressive with immigration. Immigrant detention is the frontier of private prison companies. They run about half of the immigrant detention centers. The private prison companies seem very happy with the situation now. I actually went to a shareholder meeting. I bought one share and went to the company's annual shareholder meeting and their spirits were very high. They were very happy with where things stood and their business was growing. I think Trump played a major role in that.
Open Letter from 220 Yale Law Students, Alumni, and Educators Regarding Brett Kavanaugh
One excerpt:
Entire letter here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUrOBy5sPzw1VGusbYr2VqVqPiNmO5adNdo8mIcsryvgOfrw/viewform
I had not seen a full view of the Oval Office since trump crowned himself. Until this:
I am so glad they haven't a clue this color scheme washes out all that old wrinkly skin. It's like trying to find Waldo whio is dressed like a snowman on the South Pole.
Big plot hole in Amazon's new Jack Ryan series...(spoilers of ep. 7 and 8)
If I am incorrect, ples. let me know.
Binging on the show, ep. 7 has Suiliman telling Samir his mother is dead????
but in Ep. 8, he tells Samir he will soon be re-united with his sisters and his mother.
Of course Samir finds out later in Ep. 7 Momma is still alive, but Suiliman does no know that?
Trump's buddies are making big money from his immigration detention policy.
9 of the 10 largest immigrant detention centers in the United States are privately operated.
One of them, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was/is a for profit prison company that changed its name to CCA, much the way Blackwater changed its name ( twice now) to avoid its troublesome past.
Here's a good Mother Jones article about CCA and problems with private prisons, besides the fact that money corrupts the justice system.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/09/corecivic-private-prison-shane-bauer-book/
Trump's buddies are making big money from his immigration detention policy.
In trump's speech I saw: a girl wiping her nose on the flag (click play)
another girl ( I think) flashing white power sign in full camera view, and proud of herself
and the candidate that Trump is supporting flashing the white power sign to Trump, alongside of him, and Trump nodding.
https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/1037916804067278849
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