July 18, 2020

Just came to mind..

July 3, 2020

A message to you

July 2, 2020

Equal Rights

July 2, 2020

Buffalo Soldier

June 30, 2020

Someone making sense

Black Lives Matter NY President: Crime Needs To Be Looked At As A Health Issue, Not A Police Issue

"What I'm talking about is systemic inequality. What I'm talking about is America treating crime as -- as something that needs to be handled with policing instead of defunding the police and looking at crime from the perspective that it's a health crisis
The same way we looked at heroin addiction when it was only black people as 'tough on drugs, war on crime.' We have -- and when it became white people, we looked at it as a public health crisis, as something that needs to be treated."

"But you have corporate lawyers, you have Ivy League graduates who are out there protesting, right? Stop trying to vilify those who are out there fighting and try to understand why they're out there fighting."

"They're fighting because the government has failed us. The government spends too much money on failing programs. The government is beholden to corporations, right?"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/29/black_lives_matter_ny_president_crime_needs_to_be_looked_at_as_a_health_issue_not_a_police_issue.html


Good read

June 20, 2020

Dirty Boulevard

June 18, 2020

Been waiting for this one

rump vs. Joe at 538

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/national/

For polling freaks like me
Long Read on the guts of their model

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-new-polling-averages-show-biden-leads-trump-by-9-points-nationally/

June 16, 2020

A bit of sanity?

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/16/coronavirus-is-back-and-spreading--but-lets-blame-trump-instead-of-each-other/

The lockdown was never supposed to be indefinite.

The lockdown was supposed to be a temporary emergency measure, put in place so that the federal government could draft a long-term plan to ramp up testing and tracing, as well as medical response, so the country could be reopened in a safer manner and our health care systems wouldn't be overwhelmed.


Trump got in the way of formulating such a plan, much less implementing one, because he committed early on to the idea that the best approach was to let people get infected by the millions and simply deny that it was happening (which is why he is so opposed to testing).

On Monday, Trump reiterated this notion that it's better to lie about it than deal with it

Worth a read

June 10, 2020

Russia 'concerned' for human rights as it watches U.S. protests, Kremlin says

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/george-floyd-protests-russia-concerned-for-human-rights-in-us.html

Trolling U.S.?

“We consider it to be a domestic affair of the United States and we don’t want to interfere,” Dmitry Peskov, a top Russian official and President Putin’s spokesman, told CNBC on Tuesday.

“At the same time we are concerned about respect for human rights in every corner of the world and that’s applicable for the United States as well,” he said, adding that the febrile mood in the U.S. had appeared to contribute to “Russophobia,” with some high-profile commentators (most notably by President Obama’s former national security adviser, Susan Rice) insinuating that Russia had helped to stoke unrest in the U.S.

Trolling rump?

“We are urging the U.S. authorities to take effective measures to improve the current state of affairs, resume good-faith efforts to honor international commitments and tailor national legislation to the UN basic principles on the use of force and firearms by law enforcement.”

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova caused a stir by going one step further, reportedly telling the U.S. that “it’s time for the U.S. to drop the mentor’s tone and look in the mirror.”

Possibly tired of rump?

“It’s the business of the American people to think about what was done right by their politicians, and what was done wrong and who’s better and worse,” Peskov said.

June 6, 2020

Swearing