Sunday, March 15, 2020
I have been championing the Climate Crisis for more than two decades. Opportunistic viruses, fungus, mold, and bacteria are all part of it.
Additionally, I have never been so interrupted in blogging my 'standard' blog as I have with this idiot in the White House.
The guy does nothing but soak up attention like a sponge to maintain his standing with voters he considers loyal. We have an Attorney General that is not only sick, but, violates the law and judges orders. Trump's cabinet dismantles centuries of precedent and produces more and more victims to their whims. He has exploited every aspect of power to dismantle the federal authority and counts on anarchy to make it permanent. He is a criminal and now he has made the country sick while crashing the financial markets. We recovered the markets after Bush and now it has to be done all over again because of gross negligence of the USA by this president.
This has to stop.
This national emergency will cause me to abandon once again the "standard" practice of this blog. It is about the morality of the face of this blog. There is nothing people can count on anymore except one emergency after another and the USA Debit is skyrocketing.
This must stop.
Additionally, I have never been so interrupted in blogging my 'standard' blog as I have with this idiot in the White House.
The guy does nothing but soak up attention like a sponge to maintain his standing with voters he considers loyal. We have an Attorney General that is not only sick, but, violates the law and judges orders. Trump's cabinet dismantles centuries of precedent and produces more and more victims to their whims. He has exploited every aspect of power to dismantle the federal authority and counts on anarchy to make it permanent. He is a criminal and now he has made the country sick while crashing the financial markets. We recovered the markets after Bush and now it has to be done all over again because of gross negligence of the USA by this president.
This has to stop.
This national emergency will cause me to abandon once again the "standard" practice of this blog. It is about the morality of the face of this blog. There is nothing people can count on anymore except one emergency after another and the USA Debit is skyrocketing.
This must stop.
March 14, 2020
By Monique O. Madan
When immigration officials (click here) rolled out their “public charge” rule last month, people who were sick were deemed a “burden” to the U.S. and their health conditions were counted against them when applying for a green card.
Late Friday, however, part of that changed— at least when it comes to coronavirus, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced. Any immigrant who gets tested or treated for the virus will not be negatively impacted.
“USCIS encourages all those, including aliens, with symptoms that resemble coronavirus (COVID-19) (fever, cough, shortness of breath) to seek necessary medical treatment or preventive services,” the agency said in a statement. “Such treatment or preventive services will not negatively affect any alien as part of a future public charge analysis.”...
By Monique O. Madan
When immigration officials (click here) rolled out their “public charge” rule last month, people who were sick were deemed a “burden” to the U.S. and their health conditions were counted against them when applying for a green card.
Late Friday, however, part of that changed— at least when it comes to coronavirus, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced. Any immigrant who gets tested or treated for the virus will not be negatively impacted.
“USCIS encourages all those, including aliens, with symptoms that resemble coronavirus (COVID-19) (fever, cough, shortness of breath) to seek necessary medical treatment or preventive services,” the agency said in a statement. “Such treatment or preventive services will not negatively affect any alien as part of a future public charge analysis.”...
There are immigrant children in detention, who is seeing to their health?
Thousands (click here) of immigrant children have been separated from their parents at the Texas-Mexico border. We’ve compiled a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help.
The Trump Administration is eliminating asylum in the U.S. (click here)
- The Trump Administration has put in place, or proposed, a dizzying number of policy changes that threaten the asylum system as it has existed for decades.
- They have taken steps to restrict who can be granted asylum, to drastically limit whether asylum seekers can stay in the U.S. while their claim is reviewed, and to remove minimum standards for the treatment of children.
- Though the courts have stepped in to stop many of these new policies—at least temporarily—seeking and receiving safety in the U.S. has become next to impossible.
It wasn't an adjustment. It wasn't a downturn. It was a CRASH.
...A crash like many others (click here)
Thursday's market crash was the Dow Jones Industrial Average's worst day since 1987. At the end of the day, the Dow had plunged 10%, just one day after falling into a bear market, down more than 20% from its most recent high. Also on Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 9.5% and the Nasdaq shed 9.4%, also officially entering bear markets.
There are similarities between the two crashes, and other major market events that have occurred in the interim, according to Sonders. Market movements in the last few weeks have felt like "an ugly mashup" of what happened in 1987, in 2001 after the terrorist attacks on September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008, Sonders said....
Thursday's market crash was the Dow Jones Industrial Average's worst day since 1987. At the end of the day, the Dow had plunged 10%, just one day after falling into a bear market, down more than 20% from its most recent high. Also on Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 9.5% and the Nasdaq shed 9.4%, also officially entering bear markets.
There are similarities between the two crashes, and other major market events that have occurred in the interim, according to Sonders. Market movements in the last few weeks have felt like "an ugly mashup" of what happened in 1987, in 2001 after the terrorist attacks on September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008, Sonders said....
Americans are not used to personal space in this way. They aren't used to wearing masks either. The Chinese wear masks all the time.
I don't care how Americans come to terms with this virus, all I know is that they need to and Trump will never put on a mask.
Non-profits are in need of these supplies. This is price gouging and the supplies as evidence serve no one.
By Jack Nicas
On March 1, (click here) the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver SUV to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tennessee, they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves.
Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from “little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his brother said. “The major metro areas were cleaned out.”
Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic....
Voters know the character it takes of a person in office to lead and care for the people. Their leadership is iconic. The images and memories of their words will always be a part of the country's experience. Chris Christie was passed over for AG. He shouldn't have been. At least Trump would have someone with a backbone and loyalty of the USA Constitution.
March 12, 2020
By Bob Hennelly
Military history is a great teacher (click here) that has application to all human endeavor. History is littered with the carnage caused by generals who threw their troops into battle without a clue about the facts on the ground because their ego eclipsed their judgment.
The stakes are every bit as high with the kind of large-scale efforts to protect the public health that Phil Murphy and Andrew Cuomo, the governors of New Jersey and New York, are now engaged in as they lead our nation's most densely populated region through the coronavirus challenge.
New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country is really getting hit with this stuff.
A public health crisis on this scale requires Cuomo and Murphy to make significant judgment calls informed by real -ime conditions on the ground, in the transit system, in the financial markets, on the streets, our hospitals, in our schools and in the privacy of all our homes.
In the jargon of the "table-top" exercise, this is what we call situational awareness. Every assumption has to be challenged. All "facts" must be vetted through the deceptive question, "How do we know what we know?"
Having that kind of first-hand awareness in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 earned former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie an enduring and well-earned footnote in history. If part of Christie's legacy will always be his sycophantic relationship with Donald Trump a few years later, this is another part. Amid the crisis posed by Sandy, he demonstrated that the most important thing is knowing how to listen deeply....
By Bob Hennelly
Military history is a great teacher (click here) that has application to all human endeavor. History is littered with the carnage caused by generals who threw their troops into battle without a clue about the facts on the ground because their ego eclipsed their judgment.
The stakes are every bit as high with the kind of large-scale efforts to protect the public health that Phil Murphy and Andrew Cuomo, the governors of New Jersey and New York, are now engaged in as they lead our nation's most densely populated region through the coronavirus challenge.
New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country is really getting hit with this stuff.
A public health crisis on this scale requires Cuomo and Murphy to make significant judgment calls informed by real -ime conditions on the ground, in the transit system, in the financial markets, on the streets, our hospitals, in our schools and in the privacy of all our homes.
In the jargon of the "table-top" exercise, this is what we call situational awareness. Every assumption has to be challenged. All "facts" must be vetted through the deceptive question, "How do we know what we know?"
Having that kind of first-hand awareness in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 earned former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie an enduring and well-earned footnote in history. If part of Christie's legacy will always be his sycophantic relationship with Donald Trump a few years later, this is another part. Amid the crisis posed by Sandy, he demonstrated that the most important thing is knowing how to listen deeply....
There are new states added to the list of those with infected individuals, now Illinois and Louisiana have victims. And the special interests in the USA such as the NBA are finding their players are testing positive as well.
Dorothy Campbell, 88, (click here) visits her 89-year-old husband Gene through a window.
I don't believe for a minute that Donald Trump is negative. It isn't possible. He has been in the presence of people that have had the virus but were tested the next day or so. If there is no one else in the world precious to him, Ivanka is and she has the virus, perhaps now he is beginning to understand how the rest of the country feels.
Trump has been lying and breaking the law since taking office. And why? Oh, yeah, the Deep State. That many people cannot be the problem. There is only one person without a conscience and that is Trump himself.
March 1, 2020
A federal judge (click here) in Washington DC ruled Sunday that Ken Cuccinelli, the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, had not been lawfully appointed to his job and a policy directive speeding up initial screenings of immigrants seeking asylum during his tenure should be voided.
The decision comes months after Cuccinelli was initially tapped to lead USCIS by President Trump, a move that advocates immediately said violated a relatively obscure federal statute governing selections to agency positions. It’s the latest setback in the federal courts for the Trump administration and its efforts to restrict immigration....
And will Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, do the right thing? Hell no. And why? Because of the notorious Deep State which he cannot point to one incident of such mythology, except, of course, the judge.
Now that Barr has COVID-19, perhaps Cuccinelli will get a shot at the big desk in DC. He will never get it any other way now that he has opposed a judge. The number three man in the administration without a conscience.
March 2, 2020
By Anna Giartelli
"The succession for the deputy secretary of homeland security (click here) ties back to my official position as the principal deputy at USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services], there's not a problem with me at my current position," Cuccinelli said (of course, he first breaks the law and now is above the law) on Fox and Friends Monday after initially laughing at the news. "The only issue in the case is related to being the acting director at USCIS. And this ruling is really something of an outlier. This is a methodology that has been used in the past. It's been thought of as legal as — pretty broadly."
And of course the hard hitting Fox News brought that to his attention in disgust, right? Never in a million years will Fox News bring Republicans to justice through interviews of their ACTIVIST JOURNALISTS.
A federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Cuccinelli, who was acting director of the 19,000-person USCIS from last June until January, did not meet the requirements in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 to have the job. The judge's decision deemed Cuccinelli's policy changes invalid, teeing up new legal troubles for the Trump administration....
And where is Barr on these events? Running to the leveraged Supreme Court? Heck no, he doesn't have to work that hard. He lets Trump continue to defend the indefensible.
Ah, caught in a lie once again. NOW, Trump states he is waiting for the test results. Of course, why let Ivanka receive all the sympathy?
Trump is at least a carrier at this point and should not be holding news conferences with his staff standing less than six feet from him. Trump is not even setting an example for the country to OBSERVE "SOCIAL DISTANCING."
March 14, 2020
By Jon Ward
Washington - At a press conference Saturday, (click here) President Trump announced that he had been tested for the coronavirus, settling for the time being a question on which the White House has reversed itself three times in less than two days.
Only about 12 hours earlier, the White House physician released a letter saying testing wasn’t necessary for the president and would not be done — while acknowledging that another person Trump hosted at Mar-a-Lago last weekend has now tested positive for the virus.
Trump did not explain why he changed his mind. Results of the coronavirus test typically take around two days.
On Friday afternoon, Trump had told reporters at a White House press conference that he would “most likely” be tested. The president was photographed at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Saturday standing shoulder to shoulder with a spokesman for the Brazilian government, who tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday....
March 14, 2020
By John Kastilomeres
Penn & Teller, (click here) favorites in Las Vegas since 1993, are off the stage until further notice.
“We are heartbroken to disappoint our fans, but the new figures that have come in today make it clear that the risk of bringing our fans together in theater tonight is just too great. So we will be closed for a while,” Teller said in a statement Saturday. “We love you all and will be back with you as soon as we possibly can.”...
I don't believe for a minute that Donald Trump is negative. It isn't possible. He has been in the presence of people that have had the virus but were tested the next day or so. If there is no one else in the world precious to him, Ivanka is and she has the virus, perhaps now he is beginning to understand how the rest of the country feels.
Trump has been lying and breaking the law since taking office. And why? Oh, yeah, the Deep State. That many people cannot be the problem. There is only one person without a conscience and that is Trump himself.
March 1, 2020
A federal judge (click here) in Washington DC ruled Sunday that Ken Cuccinelli, the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, had not been lawfully appointed to his job and a policy directive speeding up initial screenings of immigrants seeking asylum during his tenure should be voided.
The decision comes months after Cuccinelli was initially tapped to lead USCIS by President Trump, a move that advocates immediately said violated a relatively obscure federal statute governing selections to agency positions. It’s the latest setback in the federal courts for the Trump administration and its efforts to restrict immigration....
And will Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, do the right thing? Hell no. And why? Because of the notorious Deep State which he cannot point to one incident of such mythology, except, of course, the judge.
Now that Barr has COVID-19, perhaps Cuccinelli will get a shot at the big desk in DC. He will never get it any other way now that he has opposed a judge. The number three man in the administration without a conscience.
March 2, 2020
By Anna Giartelli
"The succession for the deputy secretary of homeland security (click here) ties back to my official position as the principal deputy at USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services], there's not a problem with me at my current position," Cuccinelli said (of course, he first breaks the law and now is above the law) on Fox and Friends Monday after initially laughing at the news. "The only issue in the case is related to being the acting director at USCIS. And this ruling is really something of an outlier. This is a methodology that has been used in the past. It's been thought of as legal as — pretty broadly."
And of course the hard hitting Fox News brought that to his attention in disgust, right? Never in a million years will Fox News bring Republicans to justice through interviews of their ACTIVIST JOURNALISTS.
A federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Cuccinelli, who was acting director of the 19,000-person USCIS from last June until January, did not meet the requirements in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 to have the job. The judge's decision deemed Cuccinelli's policy changes invalid, teeing up new legal troubles for the Trump administration....
And where is Barr on these events? Running to the leveraged Supreme Court? Heck no, he doesn't have to work that hard. He lets Trump continue to defend the indefensible.
Ah, caught in a lie once again. NOW, Trump states he is waiting for the test results. Of course, why let Ivanka receive all the sympathy?
Trump is at least a carrier at this point and should not be holding news conferences with his staff standing less than six feet from him. Trump is not even setting an example for the country to OBSERVE "SOCIAL DISTANCING."
March 14, 2020
By Jon Ward
Washington - At a press conference Saturday, (click here) President Trump announced that he had been tested for the coronavirus, settling for the time being a question on which the White House has reversed itself three times in less than two days.
Only about 12 hours earlier, the White House physician released a letter saying testing wasn’t necessary for the president and would not be done — while acknowledging that another person Trump hosted at Mar-a-Lago last weekend has now tested positive for the virus.
Trump did not explain why he changed his mind. Results of the coronavirus test typically take around two days.
On Friday afternoon, Trump had told reporters at a White House press conference that he would “most likely” be tested. The president was photographed at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Saturday standing shoulder to shoulder with a spokesman for the Brazilian government, who tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday....
By John Kastilomeres
Penn & Teller, (click here) favorites in Las Vegas since 1993, are off the stage until further notice.
“We are heartbroken to disappoint our fans, but the new figures that have come in today make it clear that the risk of bringing our fans together in theater tonight is just too great. So we will be closed for a while,” Teller said in a statement Saturday. “We love you all and will be back with you as soon as we possibly can.”...
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