It is time a US President spoke about the core beliefs of the American people.

The officers knew this was a tragic relationship. They had no right to prevent them from being together.

Gabby Petito's death has been ruled a homicide and validated by the FBI. I believe Brian Laundrie is still missing. It is my understanding the van the couple was traveling belonged to Ms. Petito.

September 21, 2021

By Catherine Garcia

Remains discovered Sunday in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest (click here) are those of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old social media influencer who was reported missing earlier this month, the Teton County Coroner confirmed on Tuesday.

The FBI field office in Denver said Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue performed the autopsy on Tuesday, and ruled the initial manner of death as a homicide, pending the final results.

Petito went missing while on a road trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie to the national parks in the western United States. Laundrie, 23, is a person of interest in the case, but police have not been able to interview him and his family in Florida says they haven't seen him since Sept. 14.

Petito's remains were found on the eastern edge of Grand Teton National Park, and the FBI is asking anyone who may have come in contact with Petito or Laundrie there or visited the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area between Aug. 27 and Aug. 30 to contact law enforcement.....

September 20. 2021

By Kyle Dunphey

Melissa Hulls can still hear Gabby Petito’s voice. (click here) On Aug. 12, the visitor and resource protection supervisor at Arches National Park, heard a call come over her radio of a possible domestic assault, stemming from an argument in Moab between Petito and her fiance, Brian Laundrie.

Hulls arrived to find the couple pulled over by a Moab police officer inside the park. Knowing that in a domestic violence situation the female usually feels more comfortable talking with another female, she focused on Petito, who at that point was sitting in the back of a police cruiser.

“I can still hear her voice,” Hulls said in an exclusive interview with the Deseret News. “She wasn’t just a face on the milk carton, she was real to me.”

Hulls pictures the sobbing 22-year-old sitting in the back of the cruiser. She knows her mannerisms, just from the roughly hour-and-a half interaction....

 

That is a terrifying title. Yet, it is real.

Health officials reported the state’s seventh child death from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic and raised alarms about a string of deaths in unvaccinated pregnant women.

What state has this reality?

The state is lead by a Republican governor.

It has a state GDP of 99.76 billion US. That is nearly it's highest. The highest GDP was a little more than 104 billion.

This far into the pandemic and vaccines the state's hospitals have not been able to keep up with the spread.

That reality in a state within the lower 48 states of the USA is pathetic. There is no excuse for all this disease, hardship and poverty.

September 9, 2021

Mississippi (click here) is closing its only remaining parking garage field hospital set up to treat coronavirus patients during the delta variant surge, but it is still relying on out-of-state workers to help increase ICU capacity in state hospitals, officials said Wednesday.

Health officials also reported the state’s seventh child death from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic and raised alarms about a string of deaths in unvaccinated pregnant women. State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said eight pregnant women with coronavirus have died over the past four weeks....

That's right, it is the glorious state of Mississippi. The article below is ten years old, but, I am confident that are still issues with food security in Mississippi.

November 8, 2011
By Christofor Husted

The number of Americans who use food stamps (lick here) is now close to 46 million, or 15 percent of the population. The government program that provides food stamps is formally known as SNAP, for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. And the number of people who depend on it to buy groceries has grown substantially, even since the recession was officially declared over, back in June of 2009.

The state of Mississippi has the highest percentage of its population — 24 percent — on food stamps of any state in the country. (It's also the most obese state, with 7 of 10 adults in the state either overweight or obese.) That means the government is feeding one Mississippian in five right now.

All Things Considered host Robert Siegel yesterday interviewed John Davis, director of the SNAP program in Mississippi, to find out why so many people count on food stamps there.

"The economic downturn of course is a contributing factor," Davis tells Siegel. "And we know that from a historical standpoint anytime there is a decrease in the job availability, there's going to be an increase in our program."...

Of course, it is the economic downturn, EXCEPT, there never is an economic downturn in Mississippi. The economy of Mississippi is always an economic downturn. That is why the State of Mississippi has 24 percent of the people on SNAP also known as Food Stamps.

So, now babies are dying and is anyone surprised?

The Michigan Republican Legislature says the pandemic is over. Talk about lack of intelligence.

It is believed Whitmre is going to sign this mess because it is in the budget bill. That's right, the state budget is held hostage to the Michigan legislatures political dogma. Whitmer should be putting a very big veto across this budget and tell the legislature to do better. That veto would result in an override of it and the law within the budget would pass anyway.

I think the budget provision will be challenged by cites and probably successfully. As a matter of fact wasn't a similar attempt at killing people attempted by Florida's governor What's His Name? The courts did not endorse, oh, yeah, DeSantis, DeSantis' idea of good governance.

September 21, 2021
By Dave Boucher

Michigan public agencies (click here) may not require employees or customers be vaccinated against COVID-19 while state and local health officials cannot enact or enforce mask rules for K-12 students under provisions of a budget bill that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and legislative leaders say will be approved. 

The nearly $70-billion budget proposal also mandates the state publish detailed justification for any future pandemic orders.

Senate Bill 82, a budget measure that emerged from closed-door negotiations between legislative leaders and Whitmer's administration on Tuesday, includes nearly 1,000 pages outlining funding for all state departments next financial year. It passed the Senate with unanimous support. 

"We wanted to negotiate. Those negotiations were in good faith, they were bipartisan. They were very productive. They weren't always easy, but I'm pleased with how the budget ended up," Whitmer said, speaking Tuesday afternoon from outside the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.

This is absolutely amazing and should be the envy of every governor in the country.

California ranks as one of the largest states in the country and their ability to handle this virus is astounding. Could it be that the wackos that back Trump are fewer in number? Possibly. But, Governor Newsome has done a really good job with this and has every reason to be the center of attention at the next national governor's meeting.

Seriously.

September 21, 2021

California (click here) has the lowest coronavirus case rate of any state, federal figures show, illustrating the progress made in the ongoing battle against the highly infectious delta variant.

The state has been among the national leaders in that metric for the last week, as the number of newly confirmed coronavirus infections continues to tumble from a peak earlier this summer. But while infections have plummeted in highly-vaccinated Bay Area and Southern California, hospitals are struggling to keep up with a crush of cases in the Central Valley, underscoring how vaccines are so critical in combating serious illness.

California’s new case rate per 100,000 people is less than half of neighboring states, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some hard-hit states have more than quadruple California’s numbers....

...as good as it gets...

There is a reality no one seems to be inclined to discuss and that is the fact the NGOs are not providing information to the USA military as far as their locations and personnel in Afghanistan. Having that information would definitely put a pause and huge question mark over this deadly attack.

Before I go any further, let me say the relatives and friends have my complete sympathies for the people lost in this attack, especially the children. These are human lives lost and that is inexcusable for any free people that use military forces to secure their country.

The facts are plain this seems to be the best and most careful effort the USA mlitaray can put forward. There is no other method that has proven to do the job better. Realizing all that, is it safe to say this entire drone mess is a wet dream and not a real method of removing the enemy to secure the national security of the USA. We have drone pilots falling by the wayside with all sorts of emotional and mental disroders after they worked in this capacity with the USA military.

Now. This issue is the fault of a whole lot of people including the USA Military Industrial Complex that thrives on new ideas to kill people. The drone issue first started as a surveilance mechanism and someone somewhere decided that "Why don't we put bombs on them to kill the enemies we are seeing in surveilance. Like, why wait?" Wet dream. Not researched or validated to provide a solid knowledge base to the SAFE and CONCISE operation of the drone. They just cut it loose to kill and suffer the concequences afterward. What do generals say, "Our troops are not dying."

The future of surveillance in Afghanistan is going to change. Drone will be shot down so why send them at all? Right now as I write this the Taliban are torturing and killing Afghans THE TALIBAN BELIEVE are aprt of the resistence that would provide intelligence to the USA military, right or wrong.

The intelligence that the USA military receives will have to be through allies such as Pakistan, the country that housed Osama bin Laden for 15 years or so. The USA did not belong in Afghanistan and will never return. There is no reason to return to that country because the Afghan people and it's current government are not a direct threat to the USA. It will take a lot for that country to qualify as a threat again. It will have to do something worse than North Korea to fall into that category. Personally, I think the area will consolidate to form a EU type of alliance to combat Daesh and end any threat that will abolish the religion of Islam. There is a lot of that stuff that has been going on for a long time. Hezbollah, Syria, Iran the Shia Crescent and the rest, including the Saudi war with Yemen. 

Before Americans go off half-cocked about improving the drone technology to spy on Afghanistan, the entire national security of the USA has to be assessed and the region of this country put into perspective. The BEST assault against the further governance of the Taliban is to shut down the POPPY culture and crops of that region. We know that the Haqquani Network was supporting the Taliban through opium sales. That has to stop.

As far as this drone strike and the intelligence that went into it, the entire paradyme of the drone is flawed. Grossly flawed and that has been the case since it was first introduced as a real solution to any problem the USA has. I might add, one of the most sophisticated drones in the fleet ended up crashing in Iran and Iran put it on display. Why did that happen? Because the USA military did reconnaissence in Iran when they had no right to do it. So, the tinker toys are a little to tempting to the commanders and the USA pays a whole lot of greenbacks for them. That incident also resulted in lost technology.

The drones are not going to be the answer. The USA State Department and mlitary need to work together to answer that dilemma. I have no further comment.

September 21, 2021

By Eric Schmitt

U.S. military officials have insisted (click here) since the last American troops withdrew from Afghanistan last month that they would be able to detect and attack Islamic State or Qaeda threats in the country from afar.

But an errant drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Kabul on Aug. 29 calls into question the reliability of the intelligence that will be used to conduct the operations.

U.S. commanders concede that the missions will be more difficult without a military presence in the country. But new details about the drone strike, which the Pentagon initially said was necessary to prevent an attack on American troops, show the limitations of such counterterrorism missions even when U.S. forces are on the ground.

“The U.S. has a terrible record in this regard, and after decades of failed accountability, in the context of the end of the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. should acknowledge that their processes have failed, and that vital reforms and more independent outside scrutiny is vital,” John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, said in an email....