Anyone notice that that some of the ridiculous --over the top rhetoric has been reduced by about a third?
House Subpoenas Postmaster General For USPS Documents Detailing Changes Alison Durkee Updated Sep 2, 2020, 02:30pm EDT House Subpoenas Postmaster General For USPS Documents Detailing Changes excerpt: "Maloney asked DeJoy during a House hearing Aug. 24 to provide the House Oversight Committee with documents by Aug. 26. Rather than provide the documents as requested, DeJoy sent a letter Friday—two days after the deadline—that said he “trusts” his House testimony “clarified any outstanding questions you had,” and he is working with the committee “to identify and provide materials requested during the hearing.” The subpoena, which committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) first announced Monday, includes requests for documents related to DeJoy’s changes at the agency, the delivery of election mail, the USPS’s Treasury Department loan authorized through the CARES Act and DeJoy’s financial interests and potential conflicts of interest, as well as DeJoy’s unredacted calendar, which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) asked DeJoy to provide during the House hearing. Maloney also sent a letter to USPS Board of Governors Chair Robert Duncan formally requesting documents from the board of governors, amid concerns that the board is stonewalling Congress’s investigation into how the board selected DeJoy as postmaster general and ex-board member David Williams testifying to Congress that Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin wields improper influence on the board."
An article that summarizes the decision of the two Supreme Court case that involves subpoenas of Trump's financial records by Congress and prosecutors in NY. The Supreme Court Rules in the Trump Subpoena Cases By Scott R. Anderson, Charlotte Butash, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Margaret Taylor, Benjamin Wittes Thursday, July 9, 2020, 7:08 PM The Supreme Court Rules in the Trump Subpoena Cases excerpt: "So who won? As Dahlia Lithwick wryly put it on the “In Lieu of Fun” show the afternoon of the Supreme Court’s ruling, everyone’s a winner today, albeit not all of them in the ways they would have wanted. The president almost certainly pushed the matter beyond the election. The Manhattan district attorney won a clear ruling that the president is not categorically immune from state criminal process. The executive branch won a certain special solicitude from the courts in considering subpoenas for personal presidential papers. Congress found itself saddled with more constraints on its investigatory authority than it previously enjoyed, but it won the important precedent—including from three conservative justices, two of them appointed by President Trump himself—that if it dots its i’s and crosses its t’s, it’s entitled to have its subpoenas respected, even by the president. And the court itself, and Roberts in particular, won a non-ideological resolution of a divisive partisan issue in the midst of an election year. Nobody, except perhaps Roberts himself, is likely to be thrilled with the Mazars opinion. But it threaded a needle with a tiny eye-hole more gracefully than many analysts imagined the justices could. And it is just barely possible, if not very likely, that it will induce precisely the negotiation process that the court’s opinion complains did not take place."
Like the battle over Trump's financial records, the one about forcing McGahn to testify to Congress continues. House Democrats can't subpoena former White House counsel, appeals court rules By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Updated 4:38 PM ET, Mon August 31, 2020 House Democrats can't subpoena former White House counsel, appeals court rules - CNNPolitics excerpts: "In the 2-1 decision, the appeals court says there's no reason or law that allows the House to sue over McGahn's refusal to testify. "We note that this decision does not preclude Congress (or one of its chambers) from ever enforcing a subpoena in federal court; it simply precludes it from doing so without first enacting a statute authorizing such a suit," Judge Thomas Griffith wrote in the opinion Monday." "Six House committee chairs said Monday they will appeal the ruling. "Today's decision in the McGahn case is clearly in error," the Democrats said in a statement. "House Committee Chairs from both parties have previously and successfully relied on the courts to enforce subpoenas -- to hold otherwise would undermine a critical constitutional check on the executive branch. Just as the last decision of the panel was appealed and reversed, we expect to appeal this decision without delay to the full D.C. Circuit.""
Yep...Trumps proposal to cut the payroll tax is a Trojan Horse that will quickly defund Medicare and Social security. Clever, huh.
The coronavirus isn't the same as the flu in terms of the structure of the virus. Media outlets have added to the confusion by making it seem that they are the same classes of viruses because the symptoms of the diseases they produce are similar. Trump and Fox News have been some of the biggest sources of confusion about the coronavirus considering their large audience and people willing to believe them. Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”? | Laboratory News excerpt: "Virology Both influenza and coronaviruses have a single strand of RNA as their genome, but that is where the genomic similarity ends. The influenza virus genome comprises 7 or 8 segments, while the coronavirus has one long strand. Influenza virus RNA is what is known as ‘negative sense RNA’. This means that its sequence is the mirror image of the correct code for proteins and a complementary strand must be made from it before production of new viruses within a host cell can proceed. In contrast, the coronavirus genome is ‘positive sense’ which means it can act as messenger RNA and code for proteins. So from a virological point of view, coronavirus is definitely not a type of flu."
Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”? | Laboratory News excerpt: "There is no vaccine against any coronavirus."
Coronavirus vaccines 101: What you need to know | UCHealth Today excerpt: "Has there ever been a vaccine for another coronavirus? None that has been approved for use with people, though research done in the pursuit of vaccines for SARS and MERS coronaviruses established a foundation for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-development efforts."
I guess them thar trump supporters don't know how to pilot a boat. Several boats sink at pro-Trump parade on Lake Travis in Texas
hindsight is 20/20 not, but the 70s did reap the rewards for which protesters in the 60s willingly risked their honor and sometimes even their lives. i'm sure john lewis had lots of 'fun' crossing that bridge and getting his head bashed in. and those kinds at ohio state. there was fun though in the sense that for the first time in decades, people were starting to have nostelgia for the future, instead of walking backwards with their eyes on the past.
Going down with the Trump ship. Lake Travis: Several boats sink at pro-Trump parade in Texas BBC News September 5, 2020 Several boats sink at pro-Trump parade in Texas
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I personally know several people who were there at Kent State that day. They were going to college. Two of the were and are great guitar players. One got a degree in astronomy.
I don't understand what you mean by nostalgia for the future? I see it as optimistic views, sort of like what Obama was saying about hope. The idea that many of the world's great leaders have always had has been to provide enough change so ordinary people could live better, have safe homes, enough food, adequate medical care, and education for their kids. Education has always resulted in the next generation having modern skills to be able to land a good paying job, to provide for their family. So having a positive outlook for the future is a good and desired sort of thinking. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, they had hope and a positive outlook for the future. In Trump I see executive actions and an obvious agenda which endeavors to exclude people from prosperity in American life. Trump wants his own crowd to be rich, but does not want that for the rest of us. He thinks we should starve, freeze, and die on America's ice cold sidewalks. One writer I know called this the politics of exclusion. By excluding people like Blacks, Muslims, and Mexicans from American prosperity, the Republicans ensure their own economic superiority. They want the bigger house, faster car, and the trophy wife with fake blond hair. They want to go on an ocean cruise without poor people lounging in deck chairs near them. Economic inequality has always been in our past, and any hope and optimism or the future should include a remedy to repair that undesired condition. I say we start by examining how these billionaire piece of dung got so rich, and confiscate their money and property if criminal activity is found.
Lolz: Osama bin Laden’s niece says only Trump can prevent another 9/11 The distant niece of Osama bin Laden has endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election, warning a similar attack could happen again if he loses. “ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike,” Noor bin Ladin, 33, told The Post in her first-ever interview. Osama bin Laden’s niece endorses Trump
Trump supporters flout safety guidelines for the coronavirus. They can't be expected to act responsibly on the water. Several ‘Unruly’ Vessels Sink During the ‘Trump Boat Parade’ in Austin, Texas Colin Kalmbacher Sep 5th, 2020, 3:50 pm Several ‘Unruly’ Vessels Sink During the ‘Trump Boat Parade’ in Austin, Texas excerpt: "According to citizen journalists who took stock of live updates from EMS response crews via the aptly-titled Citizen app, the parade participants were “unruly” and “not adhering to safety measures.”"