March 1, 2021

Jonathan Pie isn't happy with Boris....

Sounds similar to tRump's brilliant Covid policies...

February 25, 2021

If I called Manchin as a constituent would he still be able to

flip his vote for Tanden? Is the Tanden confirmation dead?

February 21, 2021

Snow storm in Saudi Arabia, first time in 50 years.

"Camels 'Confused' by Snow as Video of Saudi Arabia Winter Storm Goes Viral"
https://www.newsweek.com/camels-confused-snow-saudi-arabia-winter-storm-1570192

"Video shows camels caught in a blizzard after a rare winter storm blanketed swathes of the Middle East, from Saudi Arabia to Syria and Libya to Lebanon, in snow. The weather event was said to have been the first time in more than 50 years that snow had fallen there."

February 20, 2021

Keith isn't too happy about the 1st doggie being harassed by Newsmax.

Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) Tweeted:
Quick message to @gregkellyusa @newsmax @CraigSmpa and @DougWead : Fuck You.

This is a 12-year old German Shepherd - a senior dog. And you’re insulting his APPEARANCE?

He’s in better shape than any of you - and smarter than all of you combined. https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1362957111886544897?s=20

February 19, 2021

Trump Is Guilty of Pandemicide

History will show the former U.S. president was staggeringly negligent during the pandemic’s deadly third wave.

BY LAURIE GARRETT
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/18/trump-is-guilty-of-pandemicide/

"There is vast evidence of Trump’s negligence during the pandemic’s third wave. Had I been a member of the House of Representatives during the body’s impeachment deliberations, I would have added to Trump’s indictment the crime of pandemicide, naming him as responsible for most of the COVID-19 deaths that transpired while he, the nation’s leader, was preoccupied with damning Joe Biden’s election victory. Trump’s failure to, as he vowed in his oath of office, “faithfully execute the office of president of the United States” promulgated a scale of lives lost exceeding anything experienced in the country since the Civil War, 160 years ago. ..the path of pandemicide was paved in pursuit of the president’s reelection and his relentless, all-consuming post-election campaign to refute his opponent’s victory, claiming election fraud and even theft. Despite the summer surge in COVID-19 infections nationwide, Trump abandoned virtual campaigning in favor of crowded, largely maskless gatherings of his supporters, knowingly risking that each rally would become a superspreader event."

"So, I level the charge of pandemicide against Trump for his failure to say or do anything to halt the soaring burden of infection and death across the United States from Election Day to his departure from office. During a period when experts inside his government warned that holiday travel and interactions over Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s could lead to massive spread of the virus, and states clamored for aid to disseminate vaccines, Trump was mum."

"He ignored the pandemic on Nov. 3, when 92,000 people were newly infected, bringing the nation’s cumulative total to 9.4 million and its death toll to 225,000.And by the time Trump boarded Marine One for his final helicopter ride at taxpayer expense, en route to Mar-a-Lago, 24 million Americans had tested positive with SARS-CoV-2, killing nearly 400,000 of them. Between the election and the inauguration, the number of infected Americans more than doubled, skyrocketing from 9.4 million cases to 24 million—adding some 15 million cases, on Trump’s watch, when he was fixated on overturning Biden’s victory and AWOL on the pandemic front."

"Between the election and the inauguration, the number of infected Americans more than doubled, skyrocketing from 9.4 million cases to 24 million—adding some 15 million cases, on Trump’s watch, when he was fixated on overturning Biden’s victory and AWOL on the pandemic front. And in his absence from pandemic duty—his duty to protect the American people—172,000 Americans died, nearly doubling the mortality toll since Election Day. Let history record that Donald Trump is guilty of the crime of pandemicide."

February 18, 2021

Atlantic City implodes its worst eye-sore

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/nyregion/atlantic-city-trump-plaza-implosion.html

"The implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the last vestige of the former president’s once-dominant brand in Atlantic City, N.J., took place Wednesday morning."

"The implosion of what was once the premier gaming destination in Atlantic City came less than a month after its best-known former owner, Donald J. Trump, left the White House after losing re-election and became the first president in history to be impeached twice. He was acquitted on Saturday of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol."

"The tower came down shortly after 9 a.m. amid a huge cloud of dust and an eruption of cheers."

“It’s an end of a not-so-great era,” said Jennifer Owen, 50, who bid $575 to win a front-row seat at a V.I.P. breakfast in an oceanfront pavilion with a direct view of the implosion."

February 18, 2021

Didn't we just have 4 years of "infrastructure week"?

How can Texas fall off a grid when "that other guy" had so much infrastructure done across the US. Wasn't Texas included in Infrastructure Week?

February 17, 2021

DU Poll: Have you received your Covid vaccine?

February 15, 2021

Parkland massacre changed us. But, three years later, it still hasn't changed us enough

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article249148830.html

"The massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 forced Florida to change in fundamental ways. The state grudgingly passed gun-control legislation, reversing decades of gun-lobby influence in a matter of weeks. The agonized eloquence of students from the school built a protest movement that spread across the country and led to a nationwide March for Our Lives school walkout. A reassessment of school safety finally brought action on long-simmering issues, including mental health and armed campus security."

"In the years after the shooting, Parkland’s influence spread across the country, with 67 new gun laws enacted in 26 states and Washington, D.C.$

"That’s a lot of progress, but it’s also not enough. The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s annual gun-law scorecard still gives Florida only a “C minus” rating. Among its chief suggestions to strengthen the state’s gun laws is requiring a background check on all gun sales, a basic safeguard in a place still widely known as the “Gunshine State.”

"The three Republican House members broke with their party to back Greene’s ouster from House committees. It was a needed show of support and advocacy for Parkland’s cause. Three years on, those 17 deaths will mean nothing if we don’t all show the same commitment."

More at link

February 15, 2021

1968 live: The Who, Pink Floyd, Small Faces, Booker T and the MGs...

Thank you for all those DUers who gave me hearts...I l❤ve them!