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What strange times we live in. Here I am rooting for the porn star Stormy Daniels @StormyDaniels over the so called President of the United States Gospodin Trump @realDonaldTrump I so hopes she takes him down. I so hope she demonstrates beyond any doubt what the whole world already knows. That he is awful human being who should be in prison. #WorstPresidentEver
yeah I know you did not ask!
The flag is dipped to show respect. At sea it is dipped by lowering to half-mast and then raising. I have come to see flags at half-mast after gun massacres as a dip to the NRA. I am tried of seeing flags at half-mast. NRA is not owed respect.
I do not think Obama was a great President, but I do think he was a good President. I do believe that if we had not had a Republican congress hell bent on creating a shit-hole of a banana republic out of this country for their rich sponsors, he might have been a great President. He was a bit of a disappointment to me as a progressive as he listened to the military much too much, and I found him to be somewhat conservative. 20 or 25 years ago, his policies would have been Republican policies. Continue reading “Respect for the Office of POTUS”
Apparently there are not enough poor people in this country to satisfy the Effingham Trumpsters!
The Department of Labor released a proposed rule rescinding portions of its tip regulations, including current restrictions on “tip pooling”—which would mean that, for example, restaurants would be able to pool the tips servers receive and share them with untipped employees such as cooks and dishwashers. But, crucially, the rule doesn’t actually require that employers distribute pooled tips to workers. Under the administration’s proposed rule, as long as the tipped workers earn minimum wage, the employer can legally pocket those tips.
I believe the world has gone absolutely, totally off its Effingham rocker. Today at my workplace which is on the 7th floor of the tallest building in downtown St. Louis we had an active shooter drill. I understand why the company may have felt the need to do this in today’s environment. Plus I believe that since one of our primary activities is public transportation, they felt like we might be especially liable to such incidents. I don’t know maybe.
The way they handled this was to have small meetings before appraising of us of the fact that we were going to have the drill. They then went over what our responses should be. Basically it was a fire drill type of situation. If you can you are supposed to flee. In a non drill situation, if you could not flee then you need to hide. If you cannot hide then, and only then, do you fight with whatever is at hand.
They posted signs at all entrances Monday morning informing us there would the drill this week. For drill they had St. Louis police there, paramedics, and counselors were to be available afterwards if anyone felt the need for one. Continue reading “Active Shooter Drill”
I have no delusions that this will go anywhere, but I do wish it would. I think we need to flood Effingham Trump’s Twitter feed with postings of this sort. Not sure how much good it would do as he is too stupid and too narcissistic to take a nation hating him to heart. But I can hope. Maybe if we overwhelmed his Twitter account, we would not be constantly exposed to his obscene comments.
Add to this “cluster Effingham” the enabling, bought and paid for Republican Congress and this nation has essentially put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger.
I do wonder how long before I am blocked from posting on Effingham Trump’s Twitter feed. This is not the first time I’ve been outraged and done something like the below.
The best way to tease you to listen to this podcast is their tease:
“President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and – in 20 minutes – kill 60 million people. Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear arsenal. But what if you were the military officer on the receiving end of that phone call? Could you refuse the order?
This episode, we profile one Air Force Major who asked that question back in the 1970s and learn how the very act of asking it was so dangerous it derailed his career.”
The officer profiled in this story was going through the Air Force training to be a Continue reading “Checks and Balances, Nukes – A Radiolab Podcast”
This is a very sad, and a very disturbing article. There were two things in the story that really surprised me. First, is that there are no real stats kept on police shootings!
“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement can say how many purse snatchings there were in any given year, but not how many times officers fired on citizens. The FBI’s statistics on police shootings aren’t much better. No one keeps accurate count.
“Embarrassing and ridiculous,” FBI director James B. Comey called the lack of data.
“Unacceptable,” former Attorney General Eric Holder called it.
For the past three years, shootings of unarmed black men caught on video have sparked outrage. But they are anecdotes. Without data, there’s no scope.
“How can we fix what we can’t measure?” asked Vanita Gupta, who headed the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division…”
The second thing that really surprised is the extent of police forfeiture and Continue reading “Why Police Shoot – Tampa Bay Times article”
Apparently anything that gets in the way of immediate profit is to verboten , no matter the future consequences. Almost every time I look at a news site my stomach does a flip-flop over some new piece of idiocy. Trump and his administration’s world view is totally incomprehensible to me. The best I can figure these people have absolute no social conscience and probably no conscience at all…sick, sick, sick.
EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades