Today is Friday, isn't it?

Hm...

Well. This is interesting. It is impressive. Flint still has a problem with violence. I am sure the police would like to see the end of it.

Suggestion: There are too many guns on the street.

June 4, 2020
By Georgea Kovanis

Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson marches with demonstrators in Flint. (Photo via Genesee County Sheriff's Office Facebook page)

Chris Swanson, (click here) the sheriff in Genesee County, made national headlines for throwing down his riot gear last week and joining people protesting police brutality in the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by a white Minneapolis cop who pinned him down by the neck during an arrest.

The Flint Township protest took place on May 30, which Swanson said is the day "this office changed the way we do policing and George Floyd changed American policing because of what he sacrificed."

He said he is organizing meetings with members of the Black Lives Matter movement and with pastors throughout the community. "We're not going to just be an office of words, we're going to be an office of action."

So who is Swanson, besides a 27-year veteran of the Genesee County Sheriff's Office?...

January 15, 2020
Genesee county - Scam victims (click here) will not get their money or the big prize, Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said.

He laid $120,000 on a table, which he said came from one of these scams.

Swanson said an 83-year-old man of sound mind had been caught up in this scam for the last three years. The scammers had him convinced he'd win big money and a Mercedes if he played along.

After the man sent nearly $250,000 to the scammers, the elder abuse team at the Genesee County Sheriff's Office stepped in to save him from losing any more of his hard-earned money....

June 2, 2020

Flint post commander F/Lieutenant Brantley (click here) & her career were highlighted as a class project for Black History Month at Baker College. The college has always celebrated Black History Month however, this is the first time a class has requested to honor anyone local.

Flint - “I'm not a sellout. (click here) I'm trying to help.This is the way I want to help,” First Lieutenant Yvonne Brantley said.

She’s been a Michigan State Trooper for 25 years, serving multiple communities across our state.

F/Lt. Brantley rose through the ranks at MSP and now heads the Flint Post.

She is the highest-ranking African American woman currently serving with the Michigan State Police.

The long-standing divide between police and the African American community is something she understands from both sides.

But, she's dedicated her career to putting an end to it....

June 2, 2020
By Dale Dowden

It is no secret (click here) to anyone that the United States is currently dealing with a few things.

Many people are pointing fingers at this and that when it appears to be a group of things needing to be fixed.

Mark Ingram II, current running back for the Baltimore Ravens shared a video on twitter. The video is of a friend of his, Officer Deon Smith of Flint, Michigan who states, "I am am a product of Flint, Michigan!"

Before Officer Smith gets to that statement he delivers a heartfelt message to the community of Flint but the message is universal....

Stop growing this independent federal force that is larger than any other agency of the government outside the military.

I want budget cuts and it starts here!

The FBI has fewer personnel than the Secret Police of the Justice Department.

FBI Washington Field Office : With more than 830 special agents (click here) and more than 850 professional staff, the Washington Field Office remains at the forefront of the FBI’s efforts to protect the people and defend the nation.

June 5, 2020
By Garrett M. Graff

...To understand the police forces (click here) ringing Trump and the White House it helps to understand the dense and not-entirely-sensical thicket of agencies that make up the nation’s civilian federal law enforcement. With little public attention, notice and amid historically lax oversight, those ranks have surged since 9/11—growing by roughly 2,500 officers annually every year since 2000. To put it another way: Every year since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the federal government has added to its policing ranks a force larger than the entire Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives....

2500 agents X 20 years is 50,000 special police in Washington, DC. Where is the arsenal that supplies 50,000 police officers?

The FBI in total have only 35,000 agents. This is ridiculous. The Special Police have to be downsized and assessed for racial equality.

The Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Force is only 3800 officers for slightly more than 700.000 residents. The municipal government of Washington, DC should be outraged that their own police force is so minuscule compared to the Secret Police of the Justice Department.

This is ridiculous. There needs to be a severe reassessment of this DOJ force, it's duties and it's numbers. 

Rather than allowing Trump to bludgeon "The Green New Deal" as a political weapon...

...send it to the CBO (click here) for monetary cost and benefits. When realizing The Green New Deal will end the next tipping point and begin the reversal of the Climate Crisis, the CBO analysis should be interesting.

We do still have a Congressional Budget Office, don't we?

Looks like we do:

June 1, 2020
By Jeff Cox

The coronavirus (click here) likely will sap about $7.9 trillion of economic activity over the next decade-plus even with all of the rescue funding being poured in to offset the pandemic’s impact, according to a government estimate Monday.

Through fiscal 2030, the virus will reduce real economic output — nominal GDP adjusted for inflation — by 3% from initial economic estimates in January before the pandemic hit, the Congressional Budget Office said.

“Business closures and social distancing measures are expected to curtail consumer spending, while the recent drop in energy prices is projected to severely reduce U.S. investment in the energy sector,” CBO Director Phillip L. Swagel said in a written response to an inquiry from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Recent legislation will, in CBO’s assessment, partially mitigate the deterioration in economic conditions.”...

Trump really screwed up the response to this threat to the USA and national security. 

The first reversal will begin with the oceans and the end of acidification. The land and oceans are currently warehousing CO2. Those saturations will reverse before atmospheric saturation reversed in any noticeable and measurable ways.

Lindsay Graham's boogeyman doesn't exist. Nice try though.

There is nothing Strzok or Comey did that was so wrong it could have prevented an investigation into the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia had PAPERWORK been completed differently. The Russia investigation was begun because RUSSIA HACKED THE DCCC AND CLINTON CAMPAIGN TO PUT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND RUSSIA SUCCEEDED. The investigation went forward as it should and the Special Counsel Report is damning of the Russians and the perjury of Trump.

FBI protocols are rules, not law. Sometimes protecting a democracy requires bravery beyond the rules.

Graham, Trump and Barr have nothing but disciplinary procedures on their hands. If Comey and Strok decide to testify beyond their 5th amendment rights we might find out why any breach in protocol was NECESSARY.

If Graham, Durham, or Barr seek to exonerate Russia from EVIDENCE of hacking that is treason. They should be very careful about their purpose.

The May unemployment figures should be no surprise.

The reason the Democrats wrote the PPP and enhanced unemployment laws was to bring about exactly what occurred in May. Americans with a stable income through unemployment actually started to spend money once the essentials of housing and food were accomplished. 

May would be the point where past due housing and food needs were finally coming under control and Americans were feeling better about their home budgets. The spending in May was no longer sustenance spending.