No one is above the law. Snyder and Dillon are to be held responsible for their own decisions.

July 14, 2020
By Beth LaBlanc

A federal appellate panel Tuesday (click here) upheld its June ruling that former Gov. Rick Snyder and former state treasurer Andy Dillon could not be shielded from certain depositions in civil litigation related to the Flint water crisis.

A three-judge panel on the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Snyder and Dillon's motion for an en banc review, or reconsideration of the appeal by the full Sixth Circuit rather than the three member panel. 

The panel concluded Tuesday that the issues raised in Snyder's and Dillion's request "were fully considered upon the original submission and decision of the case."

"The petition then was circulated to the full court," the panel said. "No judge has requested a vote on the suggestion for rehearing en banc."

The three circuit judges were Gilbert Merritt, an appointee of former President Jimmy Carter; Karen Moore, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton; and Eric Murphy, an appointee of President Donald Trump. Moore wrote the opinion.

Snyder and Dillon had requested that they be shielded from depositions in which they would be used as "non-party fact witnesses" in civil litigation connected to the water crisis....

..."Plaintiffs allege here that Gov. Snyder approved the water source switch," the motion read. "But Plaintiffs also allege that his approval was based on Dillon's approval, which in turn rested on the approval of Director Wyant.

"Like Director Wyant, Snyder and Dillon can only be held 'accountable for [their] own conduct.'"...

The Natural Resource Defense Council (click here) has a map that currently tells of the places still in need of replacing lead pipes.

I really feel compelled to mention a gun buyback program the Flint Police are offering to residents.

July 21, 2020
By Ron Fonger
Flint - City officials say they will form a special police unit and buy back guns in the city as part of a broader effort to tamp down rising violent crime.

Mayor Sheldon Neeley announced the plan in a news conference Tuesday, July 21, less than 24 hours after a man in his 20s was shot and killed on Clement Street -- the 28th homicide in Flint this year....

In addition to these, there was a 19-year-old woman shot and killed over a $10 bill. Another 10-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet and was injured. There is no reason for any of this.

I don't care if there is a poor example by leaders in this country regarding the law and crime, the people need to respect life and stop this violence. It is senseless crime. The people of the USA need to place their dignity on review every day regardless of those in leadership that do not. The people aren't part of gangster culture, we are Americans and we respect life without question. 

Everyone possible in Flint should be taking guns to the police and turn them in for $10 bills not seek to victimize more people.

This is a grossly deceptive statement by the CDC.

The “Children appear (click here) to be at lower risk for contracting COVID-19 compared to adults. To put this in perspective, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of July 17, 2020, the United States reported that children and adolescents under 18 years old account for under 7 percent of COVID-19 cases and less than 0.1 percent of COVID-19-related deaths,” the guidelines state.

American children have been sheltering at home and NOT in social environments. Comparing the USA to Europe is also a gross deception because Europe has conquered the virus.

The USA has the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is no other country that can be compared to the USA because they are all doing better than we are. American children have been sheltering at home with their parents so sure there are far few cases because "staying at home" works. 

THERE ARE NO CASES OF IN SCHOOL TRANSMISSION BECAUSE THE CHILDREN HAVEN'T BEEN INVOLVED IN THOSE SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

DO NOT SEND CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL, THERE IS NO SAFE SCENARIO.

The USA needs a nationwide general strike for 16 days to end this virus!

Any Governor wishing to reach herd immunity is committing murder.

As of 2019, the USA population was 328.2 million men, women, and children.

Herd immunity by definition is 60 percent of the population of a country has sustainable immunity.

To begin, no one can say for sure that people immune today with antibiotics against SARS-CoV-2 will maintain that immunity for a sustained period of time. There have been cases of reinfection after initial infection, too.

196,920,000 Americans with sustained immunity are needed according to 2019 figures for herd immunity. There aren't even that many in the global community, yet alone the USA.

Currently, there are 4,205,389 confirmed cases in the USA.

THE HOSPITAL CAPACITY IN THE USA WILL NEVER ACCOMMODATE ANOTHER 192,000,000 PEOPLE THAT HAVE CONTRACTED COVID-19.

The USA needs a nationwide general strike for 16 days to end this gross malpractice of governance.

The Jacksonville City Council was asking questions about the RNC Convention when Trump decided to cancel the convention.

July 21, 2020

By Max Greenwood

The mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., (click here) on Tuesday backed up Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams’s assessment that the security plans for the Republican National Convention are inadequate, saying that he needed reassurance that law enforcement would have the necessary resources to secure the convention. 

“Any event, anything we put on in the city of Jacksonville, I have to have my sheriff telling me it can be done,” Lenny Curry, a Republican who is also involved in planning the August convention, told reporters on a video call Tuesday. 

Curry said that he needed Williams to assure him that “he has the resources he needs and that it can be done in a safe and responsible way.”...

July 23, 2020

The 2020 Republican National Convention’s plans (click here) for coming to Jacksonville next month will face a major roadblock after Mayor Lenny Curry filed a bill Wednesday evening: a city council president who said he now opposes the effort.

The bill, which still leaves gaps about how the city plans to handle testing, treatment and the potential spread of coronavirus, grants Curry extraordinary power to spend $33 million in federal security funds how he thinks is necessary....

There are private schools in the country opening today with teachers having positive tests. The governors have to issue closure of all schools otherwise there is too much financial pressure to open with a president that doesn't care about the infection rates of students.

It appears schools are not required to alert parents that school teacher(s) are testing positive.

We are talking about children. This should not be occurring without a national understanding that the virus has a very minor number of Americans positive. The fall semester should be canceled across the USA and school ONLY virtual.

Trump is proving to be lying about COVID and other issues as he chooses.

There will be nightmares out of this for no other reason than “The Donald Trump  Crisis.” Trump is disregarding Supreme Court decisions. Why are government employees willing to carry out unlawful directives by Trump? It will negate the US Census in 2020. He is also sending in people to REASK households the Census questions as a validation of truthful reporting by USA citizens. Private companies are carrying this out.

July 22, 2020
By Leah Litman

On Tuesday, (click here) President Trump signed yet another executive order designed to solidify the political power of his white Republican base at the expense of members of minority groups: It would exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to apportion congressional seats.

The order appears to emphatically confirm what the Supreme Court concluded last summer in a blockbuster decision that forbade the administration from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census — namely, that the administration had “contrived” a rationale for that action. It did not want to collect citizenship information to enforce the Voting Rights Act, as it had maintained. (Throughout the litigation, the groups challenging the citizenship question argued that the administration really wanted citizenship information to allow states to draw districts based on the number of citizens rather than total population. The court did not embrace that interpretation, but did reject the administration’s descriptions of its motive.)

Trump is now pursuing another way to wield the census against noncitizens — confirming that the court was correct in finding the administration to be disingenuous in the earlier case. The administration will now try to figure out which people identified by the census are undocumented immigrants using information shared with the Commerce Department by other agencies. That Trump’s dishonesty on census-related questions is now crystal clear could doom this executive order as well — fairly quickly....

There is an enormous hurricane system with the eye in the Gulf of Mexico.

24 July 2020
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Tropical Storm Hanna (click here for film loop)

I hope everyone is ready. This isn't just a thunderstorm. It is highly unusual to have a storm front (from the Four Corners north to Canada) with the rotation center over Nebraska and Kansas.

The tropical storm organized and grew very quickly because of the heat in the Gulf of Mexico waters.

Tropical Storm Warning (click here)
GMZ001-242100-  Synopsis for the Gulf of Mexico  448 AM EDT Fri Jul 24 2020    SYNOPSIS...Tropical Storm Hanna near 26.7N 92.4W 1002 mb at 5  AM EDT moving WNW at 8 kt. Maximum sustained winds 35 kt gusts 45  kt. Hanna will move to 27.1N 93.7W this afternoon, 27.3N 95.5W  Sat morning, 27.3N 97.1W Sat afternoon, inland to 27.2N 98.6W Sun  morning, then rapidly weaken over land Sun and Mon.