Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Noam Chomsky: 2020 election tampering for real


Noam Chomsky
Vote for Joe Biden, Noam Chomsky is telling Progressives. We cannot afford another four years of Donald Trump, nor can we afford to let down our guard now because Trump and other Republicans cannot be trusted until the last vote is counted. They're corrupt, all of them, and will do anything to thwart the election from Joe Biden. Chomsky wants Biden to stay on track to support Progressive issues and hopefully Kamala Harris will help insure that.

Chomsky cautions...
"despite all the polls showing Biden ahead, a Biden victory is 'anything but a sure thing.'”
And...
“Election tampering is a huge industry. Massive campaign funding in the last days can have a major effect, as seems to have happened in 2016. The leading specialist on campaign funding, Tom Ferguson, found that a ‘dual wave of money’ for both president and Senate had a substantial and probably decisive impact in the final days of the ’16 campaign.”
Already Trump has been fighting the mail-in vote since it has a tendency to include more Democrats. I have heard figures that at least 75% of the country is eligible to vote by mail, which could produce 80 million ballots to count. And another example of Trump's dirty hands meddling in the 2020 vote, his new Postmaster General, Louis Dejoy, is purposely slowing down the mail. Add to that the regular GOP voter suppression of the left to round off their efforts.

Here's a shocker for me, Noam Chomsky warned that...
“'popular support for autocracy runs disturbingly high.'” in the U.S., and he made his point by citing an Ipsos poll that was released last week and addressed 'Americans’ views on the media.'”
The latter would explain at least some of those poor souls that support Donald Trump with his autocratic power hold on the U.S. government. It would seem that these misfits are just begging for a 1984 society, welcoming Big Brother into their homes. These are the same double-digits who scream about too much government control, refusing to vaccinate their children and wear face masks and socially distance in the COVID-19 pandemic. Pathetic!

Monday, August 10, 2020

Against concealed and open carry of guns


I've wondered from the beginning why these cowboys feel the need to walk around on the streets armed, finally coming to the conclusion it somehow makes them feel like a man. For some time there has been a debate over whether this action keeps the streets safe. A new study says NO! It's the "good guy with a gun" theory that says. "If more well-intentioned people carry guns, there's a higher chance of stopping a violent shooter."

I've never witnessed anything personally, but there was a report from the Gabby Giffords shooting in Tucson that says two civilian gun carriers on the scene heard gunfire and rushed in with their weapons drawn and almost shot each other. These carriers can be a menace...
"according to new research published in the journal Justice Quarterly. The study found that laws allowing more people to carry guns in public are associated with a rise in gun violence. The results also showed that the higher a state's gun-ownership rate, the more likely a mass shooting is."
Emma Fridel, an assistant professor at Florida State University authored the study and found...
"that looser concealed-carry laws had little impact on mass shootings and increased a state's gun homicide rate by 11%. Higher rates of firearm ownership overall, meanwhile, was associated with a 53.5% increase in the likelihood of a mass shooting."
But during all this, concealed carry laws proliferate throughout the country, and Congress is even considering passing federal legislation making them overlap nationwide. Hopefully, November will change all this.

Thursday, August 6, 2020

NRA should be dissolved


The New York Attorney General has been investigating the National Rifle Assn. and it head, Wayne LaPierre, for some time now. Some time back the NRA was accused of an insurance scam that alleges they acted "as an unlicensed insurance producer and engaging in misleading marketing practices." That was in February with the state seeking upwards of $14 million in civil fines. In the 18-month investigation it found the NRA is "fraught with fraud and abuse."

Here's what NPR reported...
"Attorney General Letitia James claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she found financial misconduct in the millions of dollars and that it contributed to a loss of more than $64 million over a three-year period.
The suit alleges that top NRA executives misused charitable funds for personal gain, awarded contracts to friends and family members, and provided contracts to former employees to ensure loyalty."
There's more...
"The NRA's influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets," James said in a statement. "The NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse, which is why, today, we seek to dissolve the NRA, because no organization is above the law."
 And back in September of 2019, it was also revealed by NPR that the NRA had...
"acted as a "foreign asset" for Russia in the period leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore."
A colossal example of how the NRA will accept support, including funding from anyone to further its goals. It seems that...
"the Senate Finance Committee's Democratic staff found that the NRA underwrote political access for Russian nationals Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin more than previously known — even though the two had declared their ties to the Kremlin."
Butina spent 15 months in prison and was then deported to Russia. The NRA has also spent time in Russia on a visit hosted by Maria including the gun group's board members and supporters. There was also concern over how the trip was financed. It is just another example of an organization gone bad, after having been created for hunters. The change from a peaceful body to one that promotes violence to attain its goals was orchestrated by NRA head, Wayne LaPierre.

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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Donald Trump supporters thinking twice?


Salon points out that Donald Trump followers have never really cared that he is "a liar and a cheat." That, in itself, identifies the profile of these minions. And they would follow him right off the end of a cliff. The piece by Amanda Marcotte says, "The evidence of Trump's sociopathic disregard for business ethics, or any ethics at all, is overwhelming."
Trump cheated people who worked for him, finding ways to refuse to pay them. He spent decades engaged in tax fraud, reaping hundreds of millions through the process. Trump's claims to be a billionaire appear the inverse of reality, where he was a billion dollars in the red, making him the photonegative of a billionaire. Trump University was a scam, described in court as preying "upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money." Trump's supposed charitable foundation was also a scam that faked giving to worthy causes but operated largely as a way for Trump to pay bribes and pay down his personal debts with other people's money. Trump's real estate business was drowning in fraud, with the entire family engaging in practices that should have resulted in criminal charges, such as lying to potential buyers about how well their condos were selling.
The above is an aggregate of some of the most egregious acts of a card-carrying con artist. It is, however, the regular behavior of the one who sits in the Oval Office of the White House. And, after almost four years, I am proud to say that I have never called this buffoon "President." Marcotte adds...
"There are easily a dozen more examples of the various ways that Trump has shamelessly lied, distorted numbers, cheated other people and generally committed fraud with the ease most of us would pour a cup of coffee. It was inevitable that he would do the same thing as president — but with the coronavirus statistics, that has turned deadly."
Donald Trump will go down in history as the worst, certainly, most corrupt and incompetent president the United States has ever had. I just hope Joe Biden is up to the job ahead of him to pick up the shambles of the Trump administration and cure the U.S. of the Trump stigma.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Republicans/White House cause Americans to suffer financially

“House Democrats passed a bill specifically designed to deal with this mess two and a half months ago,” Krugman notes. “The Trump Administration and Senate Republicans had plenty of time to propose an alternative. Instead, they didn’t even focus on the issue until days before the benefits ended. And even now, they’re refusing to offer anything that might significantly alleviate workers’ plight. This is an astonishing failure of governance — right up there with the mishandling of the pandemic itself.”  READ MORE...

Sunday, August 2, 2020


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In comparison, the top U.S. state is Arizona, with a positivity rate of 25.3%, followed by Florida 18.7%, then Texas 13.8%. On the other end of the scale is New York at only 0 to 1%. The District of Columbia is 2%. Now keep in mind this is based on August 2, 2020 data and could change tomorrow. To check your state and keep up with updated daily changing rates, go here. Florida has been hardest hit...
Miami-Dade County in Florida, where the number of cases is skyrocketing, on Sunday reported a staggering 26% positivity rate.
There's more...
Los Angeles County, another Covid-19 hotspot, on Tuesday reported its positivity rate had jumped more than 2 percentage points to 11.6%, from the 9.5% reported Monday.
The positivity rate does not preclude watching the total number, ie., total cases, new cases, total deaths, new deaths you can find here, also updated daily. The figures are frightening, just depends on how much of this disaster created by Donald Trump you can take. READ MORE...
 

Wednesday, July 22, 2020


Mandatory masks driving some people crazy...


Image result for donald trump face masksContinued...Dr. Richard Stutt, a postdoctoral research associate at Cambridge University. says, "essentially every country that has used masks has done better than every country that hasn’t." As an example, until recently, seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump has refused to wear or recommend face masks, and the United States ranks number one in the world for coronavirus cases. Trump's recent impotent support is an insult to Americans.
It was just recently that...
"Robert Redfield, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the country’s outbreak could be controlled within four to eight weeks if everyone wore masks."
Believe what you will, but doesn't it make sense to at least give this a try? READ MORE... 

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Monday, July 20, 2020


Birmingham, Ala. clinic doctor marvels over those who disrespect COVID-19

Dr. Michael Saag is risking his life to save people's lives who have coronavirus, but is daily confronted with those on the outside who discard the whole thing as a frivolous hoax. He speaks of...
"the intense struggle being waged against a virus that has cost about 140,000 lives nationwide and made so many — including the doctor — seriously ill."
There's more...
"It’s not just an Alabama problem. About 250 miles (400 kilometers) from Birmingham, Dr. Chad Dowell warns that his hospital in tiny Indianola, Mississippi, is filling up and so are others, making it difficult to locate beds for the sickest patients even as people debate on social media whether the pandemic is real."
As this is being posted, the worldwide figures are 14,802,464, 611.786 deaths. In the United States, 3,947,382 cases, 143,636 deaths, MAKING THE U.S. 23.5% OF WORLD DEATHS.

Thank you, Donald Trump! 

Thursday, July 16, 2020



Joe Biden's plan to quell the COVID-19 pandemic and reopen U.S. economy

"Biden highlighted a new proposal that builds upon the recommendations he issued in March. The plan emphasizes increased federal support for testing and virus tracing, personal protective equipment supplies, vaccine development and national standards for reopening the economy.  READ MORE,,,
 



Donald Trump brings U.S. to the level of idiocracy

Continued..."Mike Judge’s movie “Idiocracy” came out in 2006: Luke Wilson plays an average Joe who is put into suspended animation and reawakens 500 years later to find himself the smartest person in America because everyone else has gotten so dumb. The No. 1 TV show features contestants being hit in their private parts; crops are watered with a sports energy drink, causing a famine; and the president is a former wrestler and porn star who curses freely and fires automatic weapons on TV.

Donald Trump is not a wrestler and he hasn't fired an automatic weapon on TV...yet. Read more here.

Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump

Continued..."There has never been a figure in political history who was so passionately dedicated to destroying the projects for organized human life on Earth in the near future. That is not an exaggeration.”



Friday, May 29, 2020

Is racism still a dirty word, or...just accepted today?


Racism is worse than that old weather saying. People have been talking about it for years, but no one has seriously done anything about it...


My take is that it is definitely a dirty word, even many racists would agree with that, but it is like one of those rogue genes that are the basis for a particular kind of behavior which allows those who have it to justify what they do. I grew up in the South, fighting with racists all my life, even within my own family, and when I finally left in the 1960s, there were still lynchings of black people, their houses being burned to the ground, all orchestrated by the Ku Klux Klan.

Like the Mafia, the Klan slowly faded away, but as is the case for both, there is still evidence of their activity around. Here's a scenario from NPR...
"For the fourth year in a row, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, reports that hate and domestic extremism are rising in an unabated trend. The center found a 30 percent increase in U.S. hate groups over the past four years and a 7 percent increase in hate groups in 2018 alone."

NPR adds, "The watchdog group blames President Trump, his administration, right-wing media outlets and the ease of spreading hate on social media platforms for the alarming increase." Trump has promoted and encouraged white nationalism since being inaugurated, hiring people like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, of which the latter is still on his staff. Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project said...
"The numbers tell a striking story — that this president is not simply a polarizing figure but a radicalizing one."
Excellent video on the Trump-Miller relationship...


This added...
"Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, said in a statement. "Rather than trying to tamp down hate, as presidents of both parties have done, President Trump elevates it — with both his rhetoric and his policies. In doing so, he's given people across America the go-ahead to act on their worst instincts."
"Worst instincts," resulting from that rogue gene that wallows in racism. And here's more on Stephen Miller from the Daily Beast...
"Stephen Miller, the highly influential advisor to President Donald Trump, is the end result of a shadowy network made up of racist organizations and PAC’s designed to push a white nationalist worldview from the fringes into deep inside the White House."
The Confederate battle flag

Now there are even rumbles that Steve Bannon is attempting to work his way back into the White House. The combination of Miller and Bannon, especially should there be a Trump second term, God forbid, and with the White House maniac at his highest level of mental instability since entering office, could turn this country into a national Confederate States of America. What would a new flag look like? Would future elections even be allowed?

Miller was a close ally of John Tanton, an Ophthalmologist from Michigan, founder of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and considered by SPLC the "puppeteer" of the nativist movement and a man with deep racist roots. Stephen Miller, practicing Tanton's ideology, is considered the architect of Donald Trump's immigration policies. The Beast's Mark Potok reports...
"Miller is both a promoter and, to some extent, a product of a much wider racist network aimed at preventing non-white immigration into the United States.”
He also thinks there is little chance of Miller leaving the administration, able to now influence, as I stated earlier, a much more mentally unstable Donald Trump, who is already making the worst of bad decisions. I would surmise when the black community sees this rampant racism originate from the highest office in the land, they feel there is just no hope. And they may very well be right as long as Trump occupies the White House and Mitch McConnell controls the Senate.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Minneapolis police officer mercilessly suffocates black man


Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, says ‘George Floyd’s life mattered.’

George Floyd
Tomorrow you will see the post, "Is racism still a dirty word, or...just accepted today?," and since the killing of George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man who died in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department earlier this week has raised condemnation around the country, I decided to do this piece now due to the urgency. Joe Biden's statement that it was a “horrific killing” is perhaps the most important. Biden looks like Trump's contender in November.

Aside from the fact that this could help Biden's support of the black community, it is in keeping with a Democratic platform that has for years backed people of color. And that's the way it should be since the left must maintain its position as the party of the people. We've lost our way recently, but Bernie Sanders gave us a wake-up call and it continues to reverberate within the Democratic candidates, even Joe Biden.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on George Floyd killing...


Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said, "four Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated." I just watched the video in this article, above, (scroll down below Floyd's picture) and it is beyond a doubt the worst case of police brutality I have ever seen. Frey describes it "Blatantly wrong and malicious." It is terrifying to watch this cop hold Floyd down with a knee on his neck, preventing him from breathing for five minutes, until he was no longer responsive.

We know this is not typical of the average cop, and brings up the continuing question of how do you deal with this kind of situation without castigating all police officers. But equally disturbing, I thought, was the cop just standing, facing the crowd, looking like a complete idiot, yet not doing a thing to stop the other cop while obviously hearing Floyd's desperate pleas for help. Frey calls for the prosecution of killing cop; watch this video!

Here's the scenario from a local Minneapolis television station...
"Multiple sources confirm for KARE 11 that the officer with his knee on Floyd is Derek Chauvin. Early Wednesday afternoon the City of Minneapolis released the names of all four officers fired in the wake of Floyd's death."
 They are: 
  • Officer Derek Chauvin
  • Officer J Alexander Kueng
  • Officer Thomas Lane
  • Officer Tou Thao
Protesting turns volatile over Geo. Floyd killing...


The Floyd. family from Houston "is calling for action after viewing a video that appears to show George Floyd begging for help." And the video I watched proves that he was begging for help until he could no longer breathe and was unresponsive. It seemed obvious to me that Officer Chauvin repeatedly pressed down on Floyd's neck in the five minutes he was on top of him. All of this while the black man was handcuffed and not resisting.

More from Channel 11...
In the video of the fatal encounter, bystanders can be heard asking the officer to remove his knee and telling him that Floyd can't breathe. One person says that Floyd's nose is bleeding.
"I can’t thank them enough," [Shareeduh] Tate (a cousin) said. "We always see these kinds of things that take place and we wonder what would we do if we were placed in that position, and I can only be grateful that there were people there who were advocating for him, even more so grateful for the person who was there with the camera to capture it."
There's more...
The Floyd family's attorney, Ben Crump, told TMX.news he believes the officer shown in the video with his knee on Floyd's neck should be charged with murder, and that the other officers should be charged as accomplices to a murder.
"They were supposed to protect and serve citizens like George," Crump said. "We in black America, we are done dying at the hands of the people who are supposed to protect and serve us."
Termination of the officers isn't enough, the general consensus is for criminal prosecution. Amen!

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

WORLDOMETER LATEST COVID-19 results




Coronavirus cases 1,745,371

Coronavirus deaths 102,091

Coronavirus recoveries 487,838

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Why is Donald Trump afraid to finish his physical exam?


Donald Trump started a physical exam six months ago but has chosen not to complete it. His aides have no answer why.

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Were there questions Trump' partial medical exam didn't answer?

This moron who resides in the White House persists in his refusal to follow the guidelines established over the years that will guarantee the American public that they have a president competent and capable of carrying out his or her duties. The Oval Office lunatic is neither competent nor capable of achieving either of these, but no matter how blindingly, stupidly stubborn Trump is, Americans have the right to know if he is in good enough shape to lead this country.

In spite of not knowing his physical condition, assuming he doesn't, the idiot is taking hydroxychloroquene, a drug that has been deemed dangerous, and of no use in treating COVID-19 from several reputable studies. Hydroxychloroquene is known to be fatal in some cases. T-rump also has stock in the company that makes the drug, as do several of his cronies, and he has regularly been promoting it from the White House. The corruption is endless.

"A president’s annual physical typically occurs at the beginning of a new year. Trump’s 2019 exam was conducted in February, and his 2018 physical was conducted in January. It is uncommon for a president to complete a routine physical exam months apart and in multiple stages."
Chris Cillizza's commentary on Trump's abbreviated Nov. 2019 medical exam...


As I indicated earlier in this article, the American public has the right to know the condition of the leader of their country, especially with an election coming up in less than six months where he is running for office. Agreement and confirmation with this...
“As a part of granting a president as much power as we do, he has the obligation to demonstrate that he is well or, if he is not, to let us know exactly what is amiss,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
With Donald dufus usurping the power of more people and government agencies on a daily basis, it makes the need to know even more critical. The timeline from NBC...
'In November 2019 — six months ago this week — Trump began what the White House described as 'portions' of his third physical during a two-hour examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
"That visit to Walter Reed was unannounced and remained shrouded in secrecy for two days as the president remained out of public view and as the White House declined to answer questions about it.
"The president’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, later wrote in a memo released by the White House that Trump’s 'interim checkup' had been “routine.” Conley at the time said a 'more comprehensive' examination would occur this year and that the president’s labs and exam results would be released in a corresponding report."
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Dick Cheney's cardiologist questions quick physical...


Based on experience with Donald Trump's physicians, do we even believe Dr. Conley? Back in November of 2019, Stephie Grisham, Trump's former press secretary, was interviewed by Fox News bonehead host, Jeanine Pirro, as follows...
Speaking with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on her Saturday program, Grisham said Trump is as "healthy as can be" and that he's "got more energy than anybody in the White House."
"You know, Stephanie, he's almost superhuman," Pirro responded. "I don't know how anyone can deal with what he's dealing with. I get frustrated with what's going on in Washington. I want to throw things at the television. But I don't."
Don't that just wanna make you vomit? Grisham did tell NBC that Trump "is fine — perfectly healthy." Well, that may very well be true, but then why hasn't he completed his exam so we can hear it from a medical professional, not some White House airhead. 

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

LATEST COVID-19 results WORLDOMETER


IT'S OFFICIAL: U.S. passes 100,000 coronavirus deaths mark



Coronavirus cases 1,714,371

Coronavirus deaths 100,103

Coronavirus recoveries 469,049

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Are Donald Trump and Boris Johnson long lost brothers?


Boris Johnson was born in New York and that is about as far as the comparison goes with Donald Trump, who was also born in New York, Queens. Although they are both conservative politicians serving on opposite ends of the pond.

No comparison? Well, just study these pictures...

Here...

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And here...

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And here...

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The likeness is obvious, even the hair has its similarities, although I imagine T-rump gives the mess on his head plenty of help. They aren't the same age, Boris Johnson 55, Donald Trump 73, and while Johnson is erratic in his ways, he is not the raving moron Trump is. I wouldn't wish the Oval Office lunatic's lineage on anyone, not even this Brit, but there is such a striking, clonish correlation between the two, in more than just looks prompting more speculation.

They have been called "brothers in chaos," while Johnson has been labeled "Britain's answer to Donald Trump," and both of them identified as wrecking balls. There is one distinct difference between the two men, Boris Johnson is a man of letters, a journalist, an affluent and influential writer of material with substance, dismally conservative. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has a string of meaningless 'how to get rich' crap, most of which was ghost written.

God, listen to the similarities...


There was a serious confrontation by telephone back in February, with Trump becoming "apoplectic," as described by officials in on the call. Here's the scenario from Business Insider...
"Donald Trump's previously close relationship with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks close to collapse, with the president reportedly accusing him "betrayal" after a furious phone call between the two leaders." 
The "betrayal" mentioned refers to when "Johnson defied the president in allowing the Chinese telecom company Huawei a role in developing the UK's 5G network." Johnson cancelled his plans for a visit to see Trump in the United States. The U.K. Prime Minister also commented...
"Johnson says Trump is 'failing to lead' and 'letting the air out of the tires of the world economy.'"
More comparisons...


This is based on Trump's latest threats of another trade war with Europe. And, because of the mental instability of Donald Trump, there is evidence of this every day, there is every likelihood he will screw up the friendship with Boris Johnson again soon. An example of the wrecked relationships between the United States and allies, or in some cases, former allies. It is a pathetic situation, one that will take years to remedy when we finally dump Trump in November.

So, what do you think? Possibility of these two being of blood kin, or even cousins? In my most far-reaching fantasies, I cannot imagine a gene likeness between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. The gene that finally spawned the miserable life of Donald Trump is unique in the universe, originating in some galaxy that specializes in abominable mutations designed to qualify for the profile of inhuman. Too bad about the face similarities, Boris.

P,S. The only thing you are missing, Mr. Prime Minister, is the word beautiful.

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