Showing posts with label united states. Show all posts
Showing posts with label united states. Show all posts

2021/09/28

No, Not really

 “They understand freedom as being left alone to make their own choices, and they resent being told what to do,” William Galston has written in The Wall Street Journal.

no, not really.

They are just selfish people who think that their rights, health, and privileges are more important that anyone else around them. They are told countless times what to do, and think by Trump and his acolytes. 


 

and then there is this....

"In an article this month for Breitbart, the right-wing website formerly run by Steve Bannon, John Nolte argued that the partisan gap in vaccination rates was part of a liberal plot. Liberals like Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Anthony Fauci and Howard Stern have tried so hard to persuade people to get vaccinated, because they know that Republican voters will do the opposite of whatever they say, Nolte wrote."

 I mean this is just idiotic. Basically the author is saying, it is your fault that I'm stupid. FFS.

 

 

2020/10/07

teen spenders

We are so desperate for normal....

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teen-spending-record-low-piper-survey-morning-brief-095034828.html

This is horrible though. Our society is so stuck on money that we track how much our kids spend. 

2020/09/10

never accountable

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/donald-trump-coronavirus.html

2020/09/09

A few Articles

Mixed Messages https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/court-approves-warrantless-surveillance-rules-while-scolding-fbi.html Belarus continues the fight https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/belarus-protests-100000-turn-out-in-minsk-alexander-lukashenko Thank you Captain ..... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/05/cyber-security-workers-in-demand.html A Big Navy https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2020/09/01/china-has-the-worlds-largest-navy-and-its-getting-better-pentagon-warns/#3dc8169f7933 New American Jobs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work

2020/08/14

Witness requirement removed

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/supreme-court-rhode-island-voting.html C'mon even republicans would not do this: "The court rejected a request from Republicans to block an order suspending a requirement that witnesses or a notary observe the completion of absentee ballots." "The Supreme Court’s unsigned order included an explanation, which is unusual when its acts on emergency applications. The case differed from similar ones in which state officials had opposed changes to state laws ordered by federal judges, the order said. “Here the state election officials support the challenged decree,” the order said, “and no state official has expressed opposition.”"

2020/07/06

Way out of line

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12036950/protesters-burn-flag-trump-tower-white-house/

I consider myself very Progressive, but this is sheer lunacy. If you really feel that way about the United States of America oh, maybe you should go.

2020/07/01

So much for Hoax

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-did-pay-extremists-attack-american-soldiers-taliban-sources-say-2020-7

Taliban commanders have confirmed that Russia has offered financial and material support to its members in exchange for attacking US forces in Afghanistan.


2020/06/15

Doctors Stand Up




We write as physicians to denounce this psychological manipulation. We write to apologize for the discrimination our patients of color have received in the hospital under our watch, we write in gratitude for the tireless labor of Black activists, and we write to condemn how medicine has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy. We write to validate what Black people already know—have always known—that racism is a most pressing public health crisis. We pledge to fight this crisis as if our own breath depended on it.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/george-floyds-autopsy-and-the-structural-gaslighting-of-america/

2020/06/05

Drumpf/ Nixon compared

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/trump-nixon.html

No real surprises here from Krugman in his opinion. 

2020/05/29

more patriot act stuff

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8z7q/surveillance-hawks-sabotaged-a-vote-to-stop-the-fbi-from-collecting-your-internet-history

this is not good

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-union-offers-free-warrior-training-in-defiance-of-mayor-s-ban/509025622/

2020/05/20

Party like it's 2008

https://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-wall-street-has-engaged-in-widespread-manipulation-of-mortgage-funds

6 is a very small number to claim wide spread fraud, but maybe it is enough to take a bigger look???

"""
ProPublica closely examined six loans that were part of CMBS in recent years to see if their data resembles the pattern described by the whistleblower. What we found matched the allegations: The historical profits reported for some buildings were listed as much as 30% higher than the profits previously reported for the same buildings and same years when the property was part of an earlier CMBS. 
""" 

2020/05/14

Populism Round 2.0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/12/pandemic-will-fuel-populism-that-sent-trump-white-house/

The brunt of the damage is not being borne by the elites who work in the information economy but by those at the middle and the bottom of the economic ladder — the forgotten Americans who were finally doing better under President Trump until this crisis arrived. Before the pandemic, the U.S. economy had added a half-million manufacturing jobs and low-wage workers.......



2020/05/04

How many Utah knew about this?

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/04/28/utah-attorney-general/

You would think they did some background research before engaging into this contract.

"""

Damien Patton, who helped launch and now leads the secretive startup Banjo, was part of the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as a 17-year-old and joined a leader of the group in a drive-by shooting of a synagogue in a Nashville suburb, according to a report by the online outlet OneZero, citing transcripts of courtroom testimony, sworn statements and more than 1,000 pages of records produced from a federal hate crime prosecution.

Utah officials in 2018 had awarded Patton’s company a sole-source, $750,000 contract to provide massive real-time surveillance of 911 calls, social media and traffic cameras. The company has also signed a $20.7 million contract with the state.

"""

2020/04/30

Jobs situation worse than advertised

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-30/jobs-collapse-is-deeper-than-the-government-says

So, does this mean in reality almost half are unemployed now?
The most recent government data are for mid-March, and report a 72.7% employment rate for 18- to 64-year-olds. As of mid-April, according to RPS, this rate dropped to 55.8%. That stunning 23% decline marks the lowest employment rate for the U.S. since 1962. 

2020/04/28

Don't Listen to me

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-plummeting-poll-numbers-on-people-paying-attention-when-he-talks/amp

This guy is unreal
"""
Donald J. Trump on Monday blamed his sinking poll numbers on people paying attention when he talks.
"""

Seriously?
"""
he said, “There are a lot of people out there who are listening to things I say and basing their opinions on them, and I think it’s very sad.”
"""

2020/04/24

Such a generous man

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-mcconnell-bailouts-new-york-20200422-fjli4iuxznapdol3csfzyu7j3q-story.html


He does realize that New York puts a lot more money into the Federal coffers, than his state?
Also, his state takes out more from that pot, than New York gets.

OK, no bailout. no big deal we can move on.
No more money from us for your state in the future...
Is that the game he is pushing towards? How petty is that?

Food Chain Strain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/some-canada-hog-farmers-have-culled-pigs-with-prices-in-freefall

Food is going to become a much greater issue in 6 months if this continues.