So, Trumpka doesn’t believe in the future.

Unions have to fall in line with the demands of the climate crisis. They need to be demanding good pay for green jobs, not enforce Republican paradigms of pollution and bigoted polluters.

The KXL should never have begun yet coveted for a few union jobs.

It looks like the unions need new leadership that believes in American ingenuity and the promise to generations they will have good lives and a beautiful country.

The KXL represents the greed guaranteed by big oil not a benevolent future.

The KXL was never going to even carry oil, it was nothing but Canadian tar sand sludge.

2005 was Peak Oil. Get used to hearing the truth. All this mess the petroleum industry drummed up was determined danger a long time ago.

Big Oil wants Americans to believe they will be energy paupers because they aren’t needed nor wanted anymore. LOL! Big Oil are already paupers. Big Oil is exactly the tale of “The Emperor Needs New Clothes.” Live in denial so the status quo is maintained.

Oil isn’t going to be Wall Street’s easy cash flow anymore. The geniuses of Wall Street might actually have to work for a living. Apple isn’t having any cash flow problems, what is wrong with the rest of them?

Wall Street firms, especially Hedge Funds have been handed trillions of dollars since the global economic collapse that began in 2007. Enough is never enough for them. The world needs a future and it ain’t fossil fuels. No more hand holding!

Quarantine hotels

San Diego is quarantining all those that arrive from the southern border for ten days. To date, there seems to be no such effort by Texas. New Mexico, Arizona also need to increase their vigilance of border crossings. These are people in need after hurricanes that devastated their countries.

There must be partnerships put in place to prevent mass migration. A while ago there was a program within the UN called the Millennium Project. It ran until 2015. I think that needs to be revisited to find ways to protect land so people have homes.

Parents are losing their children to Foster Care.

There are many reasons children are taken from impoverished parents to be placed in the adoption industry including religious bigotry. This $3000 per year is about what Foster parents and then adoptive parents (with certain conditions) receive from the government anyway. This $3000 per year will help keep children living with their natural parents in many instances. 

Say good-bye to Foster Care. Bye, bye and good riddance.

65% of foster children will change schools 7 or more times until they graduate high school. At the most 3 percent attend college but 25 percent will be in prison two years after emancipation. It is called the “Foster Care to Prison Pipeline.” Don’t try to deny it. The studies stating the truth of this failed system go back decades.

I am going to leave the previous entries at the top of the blog until later today. 

Thank you.

Yesterday, besides the Super Bowl.

February 7, 2021
By Martin Crutsinger

Secretary Janet Yellen (click here)

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (click here) said Sunday the country was still in a "deep hole" with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year.

Republican senators argued that Biden's proposal was too expensive and they cited criticism from Larry Summers, a treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, that passage of the measure could run the risk of triggering runaway inflation. Summers also contended that Biden's plan would make less money available for other initiatives such as improving the nation's infrastructure.

Yellen, a former Federal Reserve chair who is the first woman to lead the Treasury Department, said the central bank had the tools to handle any potential inflationary threat. She said the urgent need now was to deal with the problems raised by the pandemic-induced recession: as joblessness, lost small businesses and reopening schools....

First a stop in Flint.

This administration in DC and the majority of Congress, including Mitt Romney who has come out of the dark shadows of the GOP as a real human being, is intent on correcting the course of gone-wrong policies. I think the American public should applaud this effort and continue to support the initiative. This very well may be the "Year of the Child" in the USA and I am all the happier for it. The future. Climate is among those priorities and so is child poverty.2 February 2021

February 2, 2021
By Corey Stern

...For too long (click here) the burden of our crumbling infrastructure has not been equally felt. As of last January, lead in ageing pipes, contaminated soil and old, peeling paint was found in 3.6m homes nationwide – most of which are concentrated in low-income neighborhoods. I’ve ridden the unhurried roads to justice for communities that have been debilitated by public officials allowing infrastructure to fall into disrepair. I’ve represented thousands of children exposed to lead-based paint hazards in New York City public housing, and I currently represent 3,000 young victims of the Flint water crisis and their parents....

Joe Biden is a magnificent father and wonderful grandfather. It seems a natural place for his administration. The future and American children.  Nice and long overdue. They aren't born wealthy and have absolutely no right to decision making in Washington, DC, otherwise, "Flint" would never have happened.

...The Biden administration now has the opportunity – and the obligation – to change that trajectory. He can ensure infrastructure gets modernized while achieving his goals of creating new jobs and holding polluters accountable. Here are three ideas for how he can do it.

First, Biden’s infrastructure plans should include investments to finally deliver clean water and shelter for every American. This is basic stuff, and he doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel to follow through: last year, Senator Cory Booker and the then representative Deb Haaland introduced a proposal to clean up dangerous Superfund sites, replace wastewater systems and lead pipes, and remove lead-based paint in low-income and tribal communities. And of course, Senator Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this too, which mandates that the federal government fully fund drinking water infrastructure and install filtering systems to clean up our drinking water – all while creating 190,000 new jobs. Both of these are good ideas, and they share a common component: putting people to work at a time when jobs are sorely needed, while delivering on a fundamental right for millions of Americans....

Senator Romney first addressed the issue of child poverty a short time ago when he thought a $3000 per year GRANT to every child in the country an appropriate expenditure for the USA government, with income qualifying standards. An amazing proposal, but, considering Mitt's financial well-being and the fact he has many grandchildren I am not surprised his moral side has reflected on how to correct the path for so many children in poverty in the USA. I sincerely believe Mitt Romney to be among the great moral Senators of our time and perhaps all time. I think the US Senate is the perfect place for him and his spouse. May he spend as many years as he likes in that position.

So, in realizing we are just as sick of child poverty as we all can get, this initiative has taken flight and the US House is considering this as a proposal for at least a year and possibly forever. I think it will be successful considering the cost of raising a child in the USA and the fact up to now Congress has mostly cut support for children in the way of food stamps and health care.

The Democrats always had these great programs for impoverished children, but, it has been the mission of the GOP/Plutocrats to cut those programs at every turn. Given the most recent Republican administration that seems to now to not want to go away given Gaetz's stupidity to attack a woman legislator, the entire Affordable Care Act was to be eliminated. So, I really don't want to hear how the GOP loves kids, because they only love money and that is completely clear.

As to Flint, who brings a cannon-type device to a baby shower? Really, America? 

February 6, 2021

...Silva (click here) was an attendee at a baby shower where the homeowner fired a small cannon-type device in the backyard to celebrate the baby’s pending arrival, police said.

The cannon blew up upon firing, spreading metal shrapnel that hit Silva, as well as three parked cars and the garage where the baby shower was held.

Silva was standing 10 to 15 feet from the explosion, police said. He was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint where he later died from his injuries.

He was one of about five people outside the residence where the cannon was fired and was the only one hit by shrapnel, police said.

The cannon was designed to fire more like a novelty Signal Cannon, which is intended to emit a big flash, a loud noise and smoke, police said....

As to be expected, there are wrongful statements being made about the enormous financial settlement for Flint. Why is it that money makes people do things and say things that simply are not in the realm of "the truth?"

February 5, 2021
By Ron Fonger

Flint - A federal court judge (click here) has ordered a Flint attorney to stop sharing “misinformation” about a proposed $641-million settlement of Flint water crisis civil lawsuits and says all 200-plus people he contacted by mail must be told the information they received was misleading.

U.S. District Court Judge Judith Levy made her ruling after an hour-long hearing with attorney Loyst Fletcher Jr. on Friday, Feb. 5, after other attorneys involved in the settlement requested a temporary restraining order and asked the court to forbid Fletcher from communicating with residents who are already represented by other attorneys in the settlement....

...Fletcher said he contacted 200 or more residents by mail after they called his law office, upset that the settlement agreement does not provide enough money for adults and does not allow them to receive direct refunds for water bills they paid after the city’s water source was switched from Lake Huron to the Flint River and back to Lake Huron again....

...Fletcher said he mailed those residents information, including a form letter they could mail to Levy, that contained “multiple inaccurate statements” about the settlement agreement, “distorts the opt-out procedures,” and “improperly solicits individuals who have been retained by counsel to represent them for their Flint water crisis claim,” the court filing says....

Prosecutors need to keep going in their review of the Flint Water Crisis. These latest charges still haven't finished the depth of corruption leading to the deaths and maiming of so many people. Add two more to the "Michigan 9."

January 14, 2021

Two former Michigan health officials (click here) were charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis, as prosecutors revisiting how the city’s water system was contaminated with lead and bacteria also hammered a key adviser to ex-Gov. Rick Snyder with extortion and perjury crimes.

Snyder joined a parade of former state and local officials pleading not guilty in Genesee County courts. He’s facing misdemeanor charges of willful neglect of duty in Flint in a case that was filed Wednesday night, the first governor or former governor in Michigan’s 184-year history to face charges related to time in that office....

Sorry, I am not a big "game ball" fan. From what I saw of the last few minutes of the last quarter, the players looked fairly bored. To me, the Super Bowl is about corporate profits, right? This was 55, yes? So, as a sport, it has been fairly successful in maintaining its viability, at least financially.

Tom Brady has proven himself as the greatest football quarterback in history as of today. So, with that question answered the next one is will people be interested now in seeing him beaten? That is all that is left, right? He is the best, now in order to keep people interested in the game the only question is who is going to beat him?

So, stay tuned to the NFL even though the outcomes will be the same when facing Tom Brady. What other millionaire quarterback will finally beat Brady on a billionaire owner's field?

It wasn't much of a game I take it. The commercials were just about the best part of the game? No? Tom Brady loves to play football. Congratulations to Tampa Bay.

I was just reading an article about a displaced wolf. (click here) I was trying to figure out why she never settled down into a pack. I can't help believe she made the study's approved list because she was healthy. She was probably healthy because she was an alpha in an established pack. So, once an alpha always an alpha. Wolf W003F made unintentional history for the research team.

She doesn't appear to be in any one place long enough to have a pack herself. She may have given birth a couple of times when she settled into a forested area in Canada. It only takes 2 to 2 and a half months to birth pups and another few months to get them eating food rather than milk.]

• 10 - 13 days: the eyes open
• 3 weeks: the milk teeth appear, they start to explore the den
• 4 - 5 weeks: short trips outside the den, begin to eat meat
• 6 weeks: moving up to a mile from the den (with adult wolf)
• 6 - 8 weeks: pups are weaned, traveling to rendezvous site.
• 12 weeks: begin to travel with the pack on hunts (with adult wolves)
• 15 - 28 weeks: milk teeth are replaced
• 7 - 8 months: begin to hunt with the pack

She was in the Canadian forest to welp one litter. But, then she left again for her original home. Females can have their own generational packs whereby the females of several generations become their own pack. She doesn't seem to have done that though. She is a rare find and one that is willing AND ABLE to live on her own. 

Delayed

This is even unbelievable to me, but, my location doesn’t allow for reception of the Super Bowl except for CBS Sports App and my iPhone. A friend has followed the career of Tom Brady since the beginning, hence, my phone. I will have my phone back to use as a hot spot after the game. Until then.

Censure!

Wyoming is radical right? How many members of the lynch mob came from Wyoming?

Matt Gaetz is spreading lies about the election and Liz Cheney. He whipped the Wyoming GOP to censure her. Has he nothing else better to do except hate the truth. Matt Gaetz needs an ethics review in the US House and face censure himself. He flew to Wyoming to censure Liz Cheney when she wasn’t censured in the House. 

Gaetz is a dead ender for Trump.

George Walker Bush was just in Wyoming to visit with his former Vice President Dick Cheney. While he was there he thanked his former Vice President for his daughter that loves the country. 

Gaetz’s hissy fit occurred after “W” visited. It is a shame that people like Gaetz and Flynn don’t love this country as much as most Americans do in placing Joe Biden as the leader of the free world.

Flynn is setting himself up for more investigations.

I apologize to Liz Cheney as a great patriot that never deserved this level of defaming in her life. She doesn’t need the apology I am sure. It just isn’t right.

No one should be under the delusion that Trump and his cohorts are setting up another party. They are setting up a regime to remove democracy from the American people. The attack on the Capital was by a regime. There were military, retired and otherwise among them. There is still a Republican Party, ask Michael Steele. The real GOP is alive and kicking.

The White House isn’t moving away from bipartisanship...

 ...the Republicans are dragging their feet on everything. They forgot rather quickly who did all the damage to the country the last four years.

The entire Trump administration should be permanently suspended from any access to intelligence and national security issues, including Michael Flynn. Former federal Republican Senators and Representatives have to be revised as Trump sympathizers.

You have got to be joking?

After all he has been through with investigations and court dates, he is still willing to be a part of insurrectionist plans. This is a commitment against the USA Constitution. This breach in national security with people looking for power and wealth isn’t over. Trump is count on that.

In the wake of Trump’s dismantling of the rule of law...

 ...Congress must pass enforcement measures along with any law they pass. The agencies can’t possibly do all the enforcement measures and expect to have them consistent across administrations.

The legislature must legislate like it means it.

I am confident as Vice President Harris settled into her responsibilities she will begin a law that provides clear understanding of law enforcement to judges in a bill that ends mass incarceration and takes White Collar Crime seriously, especially when it comes to impacting the Middle Class and the elderly.

What good is upward mobility if it can be taken away because the financial markets said, “Oops.”

Integrity in government doesn’t exist unless it is legislated.

The US Senate made the wrong decision on fracking.

Typical Republican bill, erring on the side of “business knows best,” simply says “go ahead” be as destructive as you want. That isn’t the approach that needs to be taken with natural gas wells. 

THEY LEAK!

They leak a lot. They leak into the air and they leak into the water. Fracking wells break the laws of the Clean Air Act and The Clean Water Act. The petroleum industry was given a lot of freedom from important laws in the 2005 (the year of Peak Oil) Cheney Energy Bill. 

If the country INSISTS on drilling for natural gas it must be done without ANY leaks and through safe pipelines that need repair and replacement.

Energy companies are lavished with new pipelines for the sake of jobs. There aren’t that many jobs in a pipeline. A couple of thousand on long pipelines. There are more jobs created in repairing and replacing existing pipelines. First the old stuff has to come out and then the new pipe gets laid. It is like a double fit for each pipeline replaced and/or repaired.

Additionally, the pipelines to cities and homes are never replaced and gas explosions happen. I am sure the occasional deaths are figured into the companies costs. 

Fracking and pipelines must be heavily regulated to prevent methane into Earth’s atmospheres. The 2005 Cheney Energy Bill needs to be repealed and replaced when taking the climate crisis seriously. There needs to be a national emergency for climate in the USA to rip the corrupt laws out by the roots.

The Supreme Court is incorrect about assemblies.

Church going is an assembly, not a grocery store. The virus exists at higher levels in assemblies where people remain in one spot for a length of time greater than a few minutes.

Indoor air is different than outdoor air. We know that a person infected with the virus will be a polluter rather than a breeze when indoors. In other words a person in an assembly, like church, is a smokestack of the virus. The accumulation indoors will infect others.

That is why indoor activities require better ventilation than in the past and quite possibly UV treatment of the air in HVAC systems. I am sure permitting processes can be instituted if an establishment’s air is proven to be safe. That might be the best way forward for California, a retired testing of air quality to determine fitness, which can be legislated.

The Supreme Court chose to ignore the science and decided a level playing field based on discrimination was in order. They are dead wrong. And for some parishioner that might the outcome.

For God’s sake California is in a state of emergency because of an irreverent president of the science. It is a stupid decision and citizens should be careful. The Catholic Church and it’s scientists as an organization, is more cautious than the US Supreme Court.

California needs vaccine.

I question the insistence of Trump’s testimony.

Since he is a known compulsive liar there isn’t much sense to it. The US Senate can offer him the opportunity to speak on his own behalf with the right to question him on lies accompanied by proof of those lies. Otherwise, go forward with facts, the laws Trump has broken with visual or auditory proof and a substantial sized list on a poster as a visual aide to the Senate members and the public.

The best that can come out of this hearing is conviction. Next to that, the best that can come out of this with corrupted Republicans is a clear demonstration of the facts to the American people.

The American people need to move out of a highly propagandize Republican White House. The same White House that incited the attack on the Capital and with goals to kill members of the Legislature including the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.

The trial of Donald John Trump is the best chance we have to break down the propaganda and set Americans free to love their Constitution again.

The Republicans are playing a very dangerous political game. They are willing to bring members of their own party under their agenda of lies. In doing so they attempt to impugn other Republicans and instead to act against the USA Constitution by putting party before country.

The challenge going forward is to unleash the truth in everything done over the next two to four years. Basically, Trumpism is an enemy to the USA Constitution as are the people that practice it. I know no other better way to vanquish such an enemy but to disarm it’s premise and expose it’s guilt.

We must present the opportunity to purge enemy paradigms that seek to destroy our Constitution. It would be best to convict but the Republicans seem to be drunk on power.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is an enemy to the USA

You won’t read this any place else. Marjorie Taylor Greene is affiliated with extremists that fully intend to dismantle the USA Constitution. She condoned and enthusiastically backed the insurrection on January 6th. She didn’t mind if a person radicalized by her words or the words of Donald John Trump killed elected House and Senate members, including the Vice President, so long as she would never be indicted for a crime. Her plan was perfect so long as Trump was still president.

Just because the USA Constitution still stands today doesn’t mean it doesn’t have enemies and Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of them. Through a default election she made it to the USA House of Representatives.

The US House has acted against an enemy of the USA Constitution to minimize her power to assault the most vulnerable Americans, children.

The US House did the work that needed to be done and the country should be grateful for it.

Democrats need to codify current policy.

President Biden stated he is not writing law with his executive orders, he is ending bad policy and empowering good policy.

There are many aspects of government that needs bills to pass it into law. One of those places is the type of information before the EPA for decision making. There was a lawsuit yesterday that ended upended values within the EPA facilitated by Trump.

The reporting was “Science.” The title is, “Death of EPA’s controversial ‘censored science’ rule delights researchers.”

That said...I believe Congress needs to protect Americans from adverse politics. We can no longer trust our political system with some of the country’s widely held views to protect quality of life.

Congress must do more than learn from the experience with Trump. Congress must write and pass legislation to require the agencies of the federal government that receive taxpayers’ dollars to use THE TRUTH in decision making. That includes accepting the truth from highly qualified people on the subject. There must be an enforcement clause, in that, any lack of highly qualified Truth Telling will bring about a reduction in spending accounts, salary, reduction in security clearance and after those measures removal from their position without any impeachment, but, with standing policy. 

There should be no resistance to that policy because highly qualified is a peer review measure that requires sober recognition of an alienated knowledge base. So, that means lobbyists that have a lawyers background and not much else are unqualified to make decisions requiring professional knowledge. 

Example under Obama:

Department of Energy was headed by a highly qualified physicist.

The EPA Secretary was a highly regarded chemist.

The American people pay taxes to be protected from danger. They have a right in the consistency of their government’s role in that protection.

Congress needs to get on with the Rescue Plan.

I know now why President Biden wanted to fast track his well researched Rescue Plan, testing is not being reimbursed.

There is an article in the New York Times, “Burned by Low Reimbursements, Some Doctors Stop Testing for COVID.”

Congress needs to include an Inspector General for the USA’s response to the pandemic. The virus now has variants that require containment including contact tracing. We need to know it is all working rather than just point to numbers that “sorta looks like it is improving.”

Pass Biden’s Rescue Plan now with an Inspector General to be sure nothing past or present became or becomes a slush fund!

The USA needs additional help for the Treasury to trace every penny to be sure Hedge Fund Managers are not supported by the legislation passed to save the people.

End the loopholes!

Let’s go!

The Republicans are sexist.

Liz Cheney was not the only Republican that voted for impeachment, yet, she was the only one placed in the dock. 

The same is true of extremists like Greene. There were 150 House Republicans that stood with Trump on his accusations of having the election stolen. Out of those members there are a few tied to extremists like Jim Arroyo and Paul Gosar and Oath Keepers, Andy Biggs is part of the Stop the Steal campaign, Matt Goetz and Laura Bobert are connected to the Three Percenters. Goetz is also connected with the Proud Boys. All these groups are militias. Some of the House members are being looked at by the FBI and their involvement in the insurrection on January 6th. 

That is just the US House, there are US Senators on the fringe as well.

The GOP victimizes women in a heartbeat, but, it took them years to get rid of Steve King.

There are no excuses for McCarthy. He isn’t a leader, he is a servant to a group of Republicans that refuse to acknowledge that fact there was leadership in Liz Cheney that upholds the USA Constitution.

All 150 Trump identified supporters need to be followed for their extreme ideology. They took an oath, as did McCarthy, to protect the USA Constitution and in their partisan vote assaulted the Constitution to support violence WITHIN the USA Capital. There is a lot wrong. Far more members should have stood with Cheney.

The Proud Boys were declared a terrorist group in Canada. That means that elected officials that fall in line with the Proud Boys are now affiliated with terrorists as identified by an ally. The USA must purge itself of this extremism.

I will remind, these groups are active militias placing them within a very violent economy within the USA in the weapons of war culture. Having allies beginning to identify terrorists within our borders will open the USA in time with economic sanctions.

None of this is a joke and “just politics.” This is serious and the American people need to purge violent militias from it’s society. There is no room for weapons of war in the USA. Removing the availability of these weapons saves the lives of some of our bravest law enforcement officers as well as the local police we value.

Let me add one more thing. These militias justify their existence to stop an overbearing government. Trump and January 6th prove these militias can be harnessed and used to pretend there is a Deep State to cause insurrection against the USA Constitution. It must end.