Senator Bernie Sanders said it all. The violence is not the answer and it isn't.

June 14, 2017
By Jose Pagliery

...On Wednesday, (click here) Senator Sanders publicly acknowledged that Hodgkinson had volunteered for his presidential campaign last year, but he denounced the violence as "despicable."

Hodgkinson's own descriptions on social media portray him as an avid consumer of political shows. His favorite television shows were listed as "Real Time with Bill Maher;" "The Rachel Maddow Show;" "Democracy Now!" and other left-leaning programs.

His favorite movie? The documentary "Inequality for All," featuring progressive economist Robert Reich.

He had also joined several anti-GOP Facebook groups, including "Terminate The Republican Party;" "The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans;" and "Join The Resistance Worldwide!!"...

The Hodgkinson family lost a member today and I am sure they didn't expect any of this either.

President Donald Trump also stated the US House Bill for ending the Affordable Care Act is mean. That is something. He said it BEFORE the shooting today. At some point I recall him calling for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. He needs to lead and get it done if he meant it.

The country is too divided and no one seems interested in closing that divide. There is a lot of work to be done to help bring all Americans up to speed again in restoring the Middle Class and sentence reform is still needed. 

We don't need the hate or the violence. We need gun control. We need to talk about improving lives and not restoring the ability to rob the country and bank wealth. The USA needs to be the wholesome country it used to be before the USA Dollar became more important than American lives. 

Shut up, Newt. Just shut up the country doesn't need to hear from another right wing nut.

Rep. Steve Scalise is lying in critical condition in a hospital bed and all Gingrich can do is escalate the hate.

SHUT UP!

I think the leader of the Republican party currently in the White House did a relatively good job at addressing the country and he wasn't interested in hate.

June 14, 2017
By Eli Watkins

Washington (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (click here) responded to the shooting at a Republican baseball practice on Wednesday by saying it was "part of a pattern" of behavior on the left.

Gingrich, speaking on Fox News' "Outnumbered," offered his prayers to those injured and promptly lumped the violent incident in with what he called a broader trend coming from those opposed to President Donald Trump.

"It's part of a pattern," Gingrich said. "You've had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left."...

Newt Gingrich hated President Obama, was the mastermind of the Working Poor and while denouncing the ACA as the worst policy ever, made millions if not billions from the roll out of the Affordable Care Act. 

Shut up you flying moron!       

When is the Flint Water Crisis ever going to reach Snyder?

Governor Rick Snyder is MOST responsible for this complete and utter disaster in Flint, Michigan. He is culpable in not establishing any rules or regulations regarding the ruthlessness of the Emergency Manager Order HE SIGNED!

Michigan Health Director Nick Lyon and four other officials (click here) are accused of failing to act on a Legionnaires' disease outbreak associated with the city’s lead-poisoning problems.

June 14, 2017
By Vann R. Newkirk

On Wednesday morning, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon became both the highest-ranking person charged in the ongoing Flint water-crisis investigation. He and four other Michigan officials received the first involuntary manslaughter charges in the investigation as well.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s office charged Lyon with involuntary manslaughter in court in connection to deaths caused by an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease, which many experts believe occurred because Lyon’s department failed to warn Flint residents of the dangers of their crumbling water infrastructure. His subordinate Eden Wells, the chief medical officer of the department, was also charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer.

Later, during a press conference, Schuette announced that he would be charging four additional officials, including former Flint Emergence Manager Darnell Earley, former state environmental official Liane Shekter-Smith, former Flint Public Works director Howard Croft, and state water supervisor Stephen Busch with manslaughter, in addition to previously announced against them. All five of the involuntary manslaughter charges, including Lyon’s, are linked to the death of Robert Skidmore, who died from Legionnaire’s disease in 2015 before a public outbreak notice was issued....

The acute kidney failure means there was a sudden onset of kidney failure.
Mr. Nelson did not have a kidney disease before he fell ill with Legionella pneumonia. Bacterial infections like this often result in "septic shock" which takes the life of the victim through system failures of the body. It is not a simple or easy death.

April 9, 2016
By Elisha Anderson

This death certificate shows Flushing resident Dwayne Nelson, 63, died of legionella pneumonia on Aug. 7, 2015, after being treated at a Flint hospital.

...Odie Brown, 65, of Flint died Jan. 16, 2015, (click here) at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after being transported from Hurley Medical Center in Flint, her family said. She liked cruises and visited the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and the Bahamas....

...John Snyder, 83, of Flint died June 30, 2015, at McLaren Flint. He loved to make homemade wine, was a huge Michigan State Spartans fan and avid snow skier, once skiing the Alps the same day that he water skied in the Mediterranean, his family said....

...Nelda Hunt, 80, of Clio died July 22, 2015, at McLaren Flint. She played cards with church friends twice a week at her home and enjoyed embroidery when her vision was better earlier in life....

...Patricia Schaffer, 81, of Flushing died July 23, 2015, at McLaren Flint. She was Irish, spent a week decorating her home for St. Patrick’s Day each year and enjoyed Irish dancing.  She had a heart procedure in April, went back to the hospital shortly after she was released and tested positive for Legionella, her family said....

...Debra Kidd, 58, of Burton died Aug. 2, 2015, at Genesys Regional Medical Center in Grand Blanc. She liked playing cards, listening to music, took care of her grandchildren during the workday and made a famous breakfast casserole on Christmas day....

...Dwayne Nelson, 63, of Flushing died Aug. 7, 2015, at McLaren Flint. He worked as a salesman at ABC Warehouse and fished for a hobby. Nelson, a father of two grown daughters, had been diagnosed with lung cancer last May and underwent radiation and chemotherapy....

...Thomas Mulcahy, 80, of Corunna died Aug. 22, 2015, in hospice care at his home in Shiawassee County. He was passionate about farming and liked tractors, his obituary said....

...Arthur (Art) Percy, 74, of Montrose died Aug. 31, 2015, at his home. He was a lifelong barber honored as Michigan Barber of the Year five times, an avid Detroit Tigers fan and had a 1952 Ford pickup that was a prized possession, his obituary said. He had multiple myeloma for five years....

Another nightmare in London.

June 14, 2017
By Griff Witte and Karla Adam

A fire tore through a 24-story apartment building on June 14 in west London, shortly before 1 a.m. The London Fire Commissioner said “a number” of people have been confirmed dead.

London — At least six people (click here) were killed, more than 70 injured and many others missing on Wednesday as a fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building in west London where residents had long warned of the potential risk of a catastrophic blaze. 

Witnesses reported people jumping from parts of the 24-story building after being trapped by the advancing flames. A thick plume of smoke could be seen for miles around.

Children banged on closed windows as they were enveloped by the dark smoke. A woman dropped her baby from at least a dozen stories up, desperately hoping someone would catch the infant in the street below.

Hundreds of other residents, many of whom were asleep when the blaze broke out shortly before 1 a.m., were forced to flee down dark and smoky stairwells. Grenfell Tower, which is publicly subsidized housing that prioritizes low-income and disabled residents of one of London’s poshest neighborhoods, was engulfed within minutes, witnesses said....

The verbal witnessing of this journalist is incredible. He saw people fade from the windows and most probably die. It is believed children died in the fire. There are citizens of London noticing people missing as the day wears on. There are school children missing their playmates. The school children are searching for their friends. This is an unmatched tragedy for London. There is a growing awareness of missing people and concern for their whereabouts.

Below Ana Ospina is concerned for her friend, Jessie.

14 June 2017

Ana Ospina tweeted this image of her 13-year-old niece Jessie who is missing after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The London Fire Brigade (click here) has confirmed that there have been fatalities in the Grenfell Tower fire, which consumed the block in west London in the early hours of the morning local time.

People have been desperately searching for their loved ones who live in the building as people appeared to be trapped inside, the Telegraph reports.

The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Borough Nick Paget-Brown said "several hundred" people would have been in the block when the fire broke out.

Children are believed to be among those missing, as school students search for their friends....

The firefighters became exhausted and the fire won it's status of inferno. Firefighting is a two edged sword; the enemy that is the fire and the victims of it. A fire such as this has to be as emotionally devastating as well as physically. To realize fighting the blaze is not saving lives is a defeat alone. Fighting the fire from the lower floors meant the rising smoke would simply cause more victims. It seems as though they were on a battle without end and the hopelessness of the circumstances set in.

How are the Capital Police doing?

My understanding is there were 50 shoots that rang out. Yes? The fact it took so many shots to hit the target and then only wounded him sounds like a burst of anger rather than pre-meditated.

Steve Scalise is mentioned on this blog several times over years past. Until Steve Bannon, Scalise was the highest ranking White Supremacist Republican in DC. He remains the highest ranking White Supremacist elected.

I think he was a target for that reason. Steve Scalise is a die in the wool White Supremacist who has traveled to Europe to attend conventions. There is no mistake, unless the gunman was seeing Scalise's wife intimately, it was attempted murder to end the life of the highest ranking ELECTED White Supremacist in the USA.

Have a better day. I disdain the man.

June 14, 2017
By Christopher Mele

Steve Scalise, (click here) the majority whip of the House of Representatives, was shot at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., when a gunman opened fire near a Y.M.C.A. on Wednesday morning, a congressional official said.

Representative Mo Brooks told CNN that “at least five” people were injured — including two law enforcement officers and a congressional aide — while members of a Republican congressional baseball team were practicing.

Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican of Texas, said in a statement that one of his aides was shot.

Officials described a scene of chaos and of players taking cover wherever they could on the field.

Rep. Mike Bishop from Michigan said the gunman was standing outside the fence line behind third base aiming for the field’s only exit....

My deepest gratitude to the Democratic Congress for defending the constitution of the greatest country that ever existed on Earth.

It is my observation that a plutocratic minority came into existence beginning with the repeal of "Glass-Steagall." That minority grew in wealth during the George W. Bush years and caused the 2008 global economic collapse. Their bailout facilitated a restructuring of commerce across the globe. That restructuring was facilitated by corruption and crime in the previous eight years. This was noted in Europe as well as the USA. 

To make a long story short, the first President of the USA was elected in 2016 from this plutocracy under the guise of a patriotic party named, "The Tea Party," a Republican Party extremist arm. As the first plutocratic president the Trump Administration has stomped the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights. 

It is about time Congress took it's place in enforcing the provisions of the USA Constitution to uphold it's integrity. The Congressional Republicans are afraid of Mr. Trump and his political clout within their party. The Congressional Republicans have relinquished the USA Constitution to the back seat of their Congressional business agenda to further exploit the USA's fiscal characteristics sending more wealth to their plutocrats and demising further the middle class and poor.

June 14, 2017
Marilyn Geewax

More than 190 Democrats (click here) in Congress have joined together to sue President Trump on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

They say Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by profiting from business deals involving foreign governments — and doing so without congressional consent. And they want the court to make it stop.

Trump has "repeatedly and flagrantly violated" the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters on a conference call....

The first notable "Temperate Disturbance" manifested in latitudes where "Temperate Rainforests" exist.

The current wind map. (click here) Kindly note the top speed is 24.3 miles per hour. If the phenomena that had been sending out severe weather for 48 hours existed in the tropics it would be considered a "Tropical Disturbance."



Tropical Disturbance: (click here)

A discrete tropical weather system of apparently organized convection -- generally 100 to 300 nmi in diameter -- originating in the tropics or subtropics, having a nonfrontal migratory character, and maintaining its identity for 24 hours or more. It may or may not be associated with a detectable perturbation of the wind field.

Given the longitude and latitude of the disturbance this phenomena is best named a "Temperate Distrubance." The special aspect that describes it in this fashion is the definition from NOAA.

To the right:

June 14, 2017
0930.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere

"...maintaining its identity for 24 hours or more. It may or may not be associated with a detectable perturbation of the wind field."

The phenomena never dissipated it's wind field for over 48 hours. This phenomena is NOT a mid-latitude vortex. It has a very different pattern of behavior than a mid-latitude vortex. It emitted severe weather that carried with it high winds and torrential rain. These severe weather patterns were sustained for hours all to themselves. This is not a normal mid-latitude vortex. This is a phenomena with characteristics of a Superstorm, but, more in that it emitted severe storms from within it's own physics.

June 13, 2017
2230.20z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere

A Tropical Disturbance is named so because it sustains itself in a wind pattern without attaining "Tropical Storm" sustained winds. This "Temperate Disturbance" has the same sustained pattern but at higher latitudes. It is my opinion this Temperate Disturbance needs to be defined as it may escalate to a sustained status that will build to higher wind speeds IF the smaller storms cease. If the higher winds are met, we will have seen the first of s high latitude "Temperate Storm" no different in nature of the "Tropical Storm." It will be the first LAND BASED storms of this nature.

June 13, 2017
1430.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere

The phenomena as it existed today is unique to any past weather patterns. I have never seen anything like it in 17 years of observations of the North America continent. The most interesting thing about this phenomena is realized when noted there are "Temperate Rainforests" at this latitude. Those Temperate Rainforests have existed a very long time.

The June 13, 2017, 1430.18z satellite image ended the 48 hours prior the Temperate Disturbance established a pattern of severe storm emissions. The previous two satellite images is it's transformation from Temperate Disturbance to mid-latitude vortex. The 48 hour phenomena was never a mid-latitude vortex.

The Russian attack on Ukraine's power grid.

I might add, Ukraine was under a Russian sympathizer as President in Viktor Yushchenko. He was ousted from power February 23, 2014. Ukraine under his leadership was made weak and vulnerable. This should be of no surprise that Ukraine was vulnerable to Russian attacks of any kind.

Ukraine never expected to have to defend itself against Russia. There was a treaty. There is another treaty today, but, Russia has been ignoring it's role in upholding treaties so much as to make Ukraine a victim to it's remaining power as an international power.

It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23, (2015) (click here) and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center, which distributes power to the region's residents, operators too were nearing the end of their shift. But just as one worker was organizing papers at his desk that day, the cursor on his computer suddenly skittered across the screen of its own accord.

He watched as it navigated purposefully toward buttons controlling the circuit breakers at a substation in the region and then clicked on a box to open the breakers and take the substation offline. A dialogue window popped up on screen asking to confirm the action, and the operator stared dumbfounded as the cursor glided to the box and clicked to affirm. Somewhere in a region outside the city he knew that thousands of residents had just lost their lights and heaters....

In less than a year after this attack Ukraine successfully tested it's renewed military strength in missile tests.

December 1, 2016
By Laura Smith-Spark

Ukraine carried out missile launches Thursday near Crimea (click here) -- territory that Russia annexed more than two years ago -- as part of military exercises, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported.

The drills involve the test firing of medium-range surface-to-air missiles, the news agency said.

"Everything goes according to the plan. There is no response from the Russian Federation. Ukrainian military are ready for any developments," Ukrinform cited military spokesman Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky as saying on Ukrainian TV.

Kryzhanivsky reportedly said the drills in southern Ukraine did not pose any threat to Crimea and that Ukraine was acting in accordance with international law....

Regardless of the electrical grid failure Ukraine did not back down and continued on it's course to independence and military strength. I sincerely don't believe the USA national security regarding it's defense capability relies completely on an electrical grid. Those would have to be long lines to any aircraft carrier. 

Don't they go on gas anyway?

The Republicans are doing little to nothing about the substance of the hearing except to provide an election ad.

Nothing is going to be resolved today. Sessions has already recused himself from the investigation. That is an obvious conflict of interest. He won't be answering any questions with substance.

This is a waste of time. Records have to be subpoenaed.

There you go. Sessions is as scared of perjury as any other charges that are possible. 

Oh, well, the Soviet Union collapsed and it is unfortunate we cannot communicate better than we do with Russia.

Ukraine is nothing to this man. THERE WAS A TREATY BROKEN BY RUSSIA, but, we should be on better terms than every with them. Amazing.

Why would Sessions take on Trumps diatribe about Russia? Loyalty? He is worried about perjury based on what loyalty to Trump?

I don't recall Sessions oath of office included loyalty to Trump. I think it was loyalty to the country and defense of the US Constitution.

The Hatch Act, (click here) a federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs. ​The law’s purposes are to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.​​​​ ​​

This policy statement is dated March 9, 2012. It was then Attorney General Eric Holder that issued this department policy. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had nothing to do with issuing this policy. It was her responsibility to enforce it. Given the fact Former Director Comey clearly violated this department policy it also makes Loretta Lynch appear to be inept. 

Land based generation of severe storms from single vortex.

June 13, 2017
1430.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (click here - thank you)

For the past 48 hours a vortex spanning southern Canada and three states, including Idaho and Montana has sent out storms with wind guts of 20 mph.


June 13, 2017
0330.10z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (see above for 12 hour loop - thank you)

The region involved spans the continent and is located at 45 degrees north latitude. The western vortex is a reverse circulation system and very similarly found with Superstorms.

Instead of moving east, it is stationary. It accumulates water vapor and at some point will send storms that deliver high winds and torrential rain that sustains for hours at a time.

Additionally, Tropicl Storm Calvin manifested in the east Pacific at the same time the 45 degree vortex formed.

continued...

I wonder if he is guilty of RICO?

Passed in 1970, (click here) the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a federal law designed to combat organized crime in the United States. It allows prosecution and civil penalties for racketeering activity performed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise. Such activity may include illegal gambling, bribery, kidnapping, murder, money laundering, counterfeiting, embezzlement, drug trafficking, slavery, and a host of other unsavory business practices....

Not just in Washington, DC; in his business dealings.

February 6, 2017
By McKay Coppins

...The question is not whether he’s vengeful,” (click here) conservative columnist Ben Shapiro told me. “The question is how willing he is to use the levers of government to exact that revenge.”...

Revenge is the enforcement of standards not widely accepted. Revenge is the basis of organized crime. ie: The "Sniffer Dogs" of law enforcement were being exceptionally successful in ferreting out heroine. In retribution, the drug cartels of Mexico placed fentanyl in heroine shipments to kill the dogs.

One has to question the idea that Trump has exceptional personal wealth worth in the face of so many business failures. There are legitimate questions that brings the IRS to his enterprises. No doubt about it. There is no harassment, there are IRS agents that have sincere concerns about the legitimacy of his taxes.

Revenge and cronyism are not desirable characteristics in a president. His statements about Dodd-Frank are proof enough he has plans for his power and it isn't to benefit the American people so much as him, his family and friends. The ethics are obvious and the idea he is committing crimes all along the way from his days as a real estate broker has to be asked.

Who did Trump level revenge of and why? If those he sought revenge are breaking the law he should be reporting that and advocating for better laws. There is no excuse for revenge. After the people and businesses he left in the breach when he declared bankruptcy again and again. 

How did this guy make it into the White House? Oh, yeah, Russia. He is loyal to his financial backers without a doubt. Ruling by consensus is fine if it is legal, but, what Trump practices is illegal. He goes over the line.

In my opinion, he practiced intimidation with the banks from his earliest investments. Banks could not afford to foreclose. The banks were then required to restructure the debt and allow different payment arrangements. Intimidation of such nature is unethical, but, when realizing he pre-determined the crimes he was prepared to commit as a strategy it changes from ethical issues to one of illegal exploitation and lies to banks who first saw their investments as secure.

Comey is the bright shiny object in the room. And in the meantime what happened with Wall Street corruption?

The corruption in his administration is completely obvious."...friend's of mine that can't borrow money..."

Wall Street will collapse because Donald Trump's friends need to borrow money. Amazing. What does that say about Donald Trump's friends.

June 12, 2017

By Martha C. White

Consumer advocates criticized House Republicans’ push to effectively defang the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with a bill passed late last week, but some observers warn that the bill’s biggest threat is that it opens the door to a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.

I told you so. The USA is well on the way to sinking the global economy AGAIN.

“It really undermines supervision and it really destroys a lot of other protections against ‘too big to fail,’” said Marcus Stanley, policy director at Americans for Financial Reform. “It goes through and comprehensively disempowers regulators and weakens systemic risk regulation in a huge range of areas.”

Mike Konczal, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, characterized the Financial CHOICE Act — which is likely to be scaled back in the Senate — as an opening volley that lays out Republican priorities for regulatory rollback. “It sets a tone for how the GOP views financial reform overall,” he said.

Republicans and banking interest groups have said that the Dodd-Frank act gives too much power to regulators. “[Dodd-Frank] grants the CFPB vague and sweeping authority to regulate large swaths of the economy… and the authority to impose substantial penalties on individuals and businesses,” senators Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote in a January letter to the incoming Trump administration....              

Carson is reducing the qualifications for public-private partnerships.

CORRUPTION. Where is Kushner? The corruption exhibited by the Kushner family in regard to EB5 visas only raises the suspicion regarding further corruption in the USA.

According to Carson, there are meetings all over the country to show the programs available through his department. If cronies are going to be building HUD housing there needs to be people to rent them.

I just have an idea it is a closed loop. Money from China and building HUD housing in the USA. There are red flag everywhere on this mess. 

June 12, 2017
By Brena Swanson

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (click here) Secretary Ben Carson is back at it this week promoting National Homeownership Month after a busy week last week.

In honor of National Homeownership Month, Carson, along with his family, toured the floor of the NYSE exchange and had the honor ringing Monday’s closing bell (full video below).

HUD kicked off the month by hosting a housing forum on June 1, which included an appearance from Carson.

During his opening remarks of the forum, entitled “A New Era of Homeownership,” Carson spoke of the importance of homeownership and HUD’s efforts to ensure that “every hardworking and creditworthy American enjoys a fair chance at becoming a homeowner.”

Then last week, Carson also attended the National Housing Policy Symposium to talk about the HUD budget and veteran homelessness in honor of the month.

The full video of the NYSE event is below, along with several tweets from Carson....

So let me get this right. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch said there would not be charges against Hillary Clinton and guess what?

There hasn't been.

There was no there, there. Why should a presidential candidate for president be attacked over charges that were never going to happen including any affiliated with the Weiner computer.  

June 11, 2017
By Victoria Guida

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (click here) on Sunday said Congress should look into former FBI Director James Comey’s revelation that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to downplay the nature of his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Comey said Lynch had asked him to refer to the probe as a "matter" rather than an investigation, an exchange that he said made him feel queasy.

This is more of the same of the type of harassment the Clintons have had to sustain over their entire careers.

Evidently, the steely eyed look of Loretta Lynch is more telling than the facts.

Loretta Lynch is the most qualified attorney in the country. She is also a controversial figure with the Republicans because she was the US Attorney that took on the cover-up of the brutal police force under Rudy Giuliani's administration.

August 9, 2007
By Sewell Chan

Ten years ago today, (click here) a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested and sodomized with a broomstick inside a restroom in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. The case became a national symbol of police brutality and fed perceptions that New York City police officers were harassing or abusing young black men as part a citywide crackdown on crime.  

The case also marked the beginning of the unraveling of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s relationship with the black community in New York. That relationship would deteriorate even further, after the police shot two unarmed black men, Amadou Diallo in February 1999 and Patrick Dorismond in 2000....

The Republicans are afraid of her. They postponed her nomination to Attorney General for two months after Former Attorney General Eric Holder resigned to private practice after a highly distinguished career in service to the USA. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is above reproach and her testimony is more about securing the information regarding Russia than any inappropriate discussion with Comey.

The fact Comey was out of line in the Attorney General's office only is more testament  to his complete disrespect and disdain he had for her in regard to any Clinton outcome. It is why he stepped out of line and impacted Clinton's campaign in addition to the Russian impact. Two powerful women was just too much for him to swallow. If Hillary Clinton were elected there is a good chance the current Attorney General Loretta Lynch would have been asked to stay on.

The reasons Republicans have for altering health care is nothing more than excuses. Example:

"Morning Papers"

"The Rooster"

"Okeydoke"

The official government count of counties in the USA comes out of the USGS. This USA government agency has kept records of all the LINES ON THE MAP for the USA. The lines are part of the geography of the USA. 

How many counties are there in the United States? (click here)

There are 3,141 counties and county equivalents in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. They are categorized as follows:

3,007 entities named "County"
16 Boroughs in Alaska
11 Census Areas in Alaska (for areas not organized into Boroughs by the State)
64 Parishes in Louisiana
42 Independent Cities (1 in Maryland, 1 in Missouri, 1 in Nevada, and the remainder in Virginia)
1 District - the Federal District or District of Columbia.

This does not include Commonwealths and territories with what are generally county equivalents, which are as follows:

Puerto Rico - 78 Municipios
U.S. Virgin Islands - 2 Districts
Guam - 19 Election Districts
Northern Mariana Islands - 17 Districts
American Samoa - 5 Districts

One of the reasons the Republicans are seeking to destroy the Affordable Care Act is that 47 counties in the USA out of 3,141 entities named counties doesn't have a Medicaid Expansion choice.

June 12, 2017

By Sarah Kliff

...In these places, (click here) Obamacare's coverage expansion could vanish regardless of whether Congress passes a repeal bill. People with Obamacare subsidies would still, technically, get that help, but have no place to actually buy coverage.

Anthem announced last week that it would exit the Ohio marketplace, leaving 20 counties and 15,000 Obamacare enrollees with no 2018 option.

Anthem has been lukewarm on the 2018 marketplaces. Reports earlier this spring from analysts who follow the company said it was “leaning towards exiting.” But Anthem has decided to stick with a few marketplaces. An Anthem exit in the rest of the states where it currently sells would be devastating to the law, leaving 300,000 Obamacare enrollees without coverage.

When Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City quit on May 24, it blamed "the uncertain direction of this market."

The Affordable Care Act relies in large part on private health plans volunteering to sell coverage on these public marketplaces. There are not mechanisms in the law to force insurers to participate....

Once again the Republicans have proven to the country they don't give a damn about Americans AND they don't know what to do than revert to the past. Or should I say, they don't know what to do about their political rhetoric except revert to the past.

The Republicans are destroying the Affordable Care Act because 1.49 percent of counties in the USA don't have a provider of the Medicaid Expansion.

1.49 PERCENT OF THE COUNTIES IN THE USA ARE DICTATING FEDERAL AUTHORITY!

All of three states are having problems.

3 STATES!

And they aren't all Republican states either!

Washington State, Missouri and Ohio are having this trouble. It is my estimation it isn't even that much trouble because the states with sparse providers are rural America. Of the three states with these issues, Missouri didn't even approve or participate in the Medicaid Expansion. The other states ONE Medicaid Expansion provider ARE NOT ACCEPTING THE EXPANSION IN THE FIRST PLACE. What right does a corrupt Republican Congress have to decide the well being of everyone in the country now receiving care through the Medicaid Expansion.

NONE!

The Republicans have NO MORAL AUTHORITY to decide about the Medicaid Expansion because the states they represent don't care about their citizens enough to ever participate.

NO MORAL AUTHORITY is the motto of this administration and Congress.

The continued surprises of this Executive Branch and it's apathetic Congress occur because they have no moral authority for what they are doing. The Americans that elected them are as disillusioned by the acts of these people as the fact Trump won the election. 

The acts of the US Congress in PANDERING to President Trump are immoral and lack the will of the people!

Here we go again!

May 24, 2017
By Danielle Kurtzleben

The revised Republican bill (click here) to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will leave 23 million more people uninsured in 2026 than if that act, also known as Obamacare, were to remain in place. The GOP bill would also reduce the deficit by $119 billion over 10 years.

That's what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported Wednesday in its latest score of the American Health Care Act. The CBO's assessment shows that the deficit would fall and premiums would fall for some Americans, but the report also raises potential concerns about the bill. The agency reports that the bill could destabilize individual insurance markets in some states, leaving unhealthy Americans unable to buy insurance....

The US Senate bill is absolutely no better than the US House. No surprise there!

Who remains uninsured? (click here)

Most uninsured people are in low-income families and have at least one worker in the family.  Reflecting the more limited availability of public coverage in some states, adults are more likely to be uninsured than children. People of color are at higher risk of being uninsured than non-Hispanic Whites....

The Affordable Care Act improved the lives of millions of Americans. There are only slightly more than 330 million of us, so the numbers are significant. Realizing in a country the size of the USA there will return double digit numbers of uninsured PROVES the lack of real focus on the people by this administration and the pandering Republican Congress.

The fact the majority of the uninsured will be minority citizens speaks even more clearly to the focus of this administration and it's pandering Congress.

They have no moral authority and I have to make the analogy of a degree of Apartheid. Citizens of the USA all get a Social Security Number. Now they are provided a SSI number at birth. But, within that Social Security Number not all Americans have the right to health care. Within that Social Security Number the majority of Americans without health care are minorities. If that is not a degree of Apartheid I don't know what is.

There is a freedom writer from the African Apartheid and a review of her most stirring book reviewed by the New York Times.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 (click here) was awarded to Nadine Gordimer "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity".

September 11, 1966
By Adrian Mitchell

...In attempting an almost direct assault, (click here) rather than the more oblique approach of her short stories, Miss Gordimer has taken a necessary risk, both in the social and literary sense. It is when she abandons precision for rhetoric that the book sags stylistically. Her protagonist cries: ''Oh we bathed and perfumed and depilated white ladies, in whose wombs the sanctity of the white race is entombed! What concoction of musk and boiled petals can disguise the dirt done in the name of that sanctity?''...

The wealthy in the USA rather tout their NEED to protect and control their wealth more than they could ever look into the world where their wealth came from and realize the impoverishment and hardship it leaves in it's wake.

It is "W"rong to mimic Republican administrations in the past by moving backward in time and excluding so many Americans, over 7 percent of the USA population, with a minority majority than move into the future and recognize the real need and address it adequately!

US Senator Bernie Sanders has the way forward and he should never abandon that path. The racism of the Republicans has to be dismantled and freedom returned to the USA.

The current Republican administration and pandering Congress is one alien of civil rights. There will be a return of bankruptcies and ONCE AGAIN the minorities of the USA will struggle to achieve wealth and maintain a path of impoverishment.

The Republican Party is an enemy to Americans, but, they can purchase the future.