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crickets's JournalThis is the problem, underpinned by desire for money and power:
True governance has nothing to do with it, and is seen as an impediment rather than a necessity.
Barr's DOJ dropped it. It will not be Barr's DOJ forever, perhaps not for much longer.
Keep a tally. It will come in handy.
I wonder if a certain someone has just been diagnosed with diabetes
and is trying to process the information.
Otherwise, perhaps he's just trying to kill people for kicks. It's Tuesday after all.
Thank you.
The editorial was concise and more informative than most news articles. Well worth the read and bookmark. Journalists should aspire to do as well in getting the point across with straightforward facts.
There was a disagreement with Congress.
State Department IG fired by Trump was investigating Saudi arms sale that bypassed CongressThe Democrat-led House voted, mostly along party lines, to block the weapons sale. Trump vetoed the resolutions last July, and the GOP-held Senate failed in an attempt to override the veto.
Much of the opposition stemmed from the 2018 slaying in a Saudi Consulate in Turkey of Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, as well as Saudi Arabias military endeavors in Yemen. News outlets reported in late 2018 that the CIA found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself had ordered the assassination of Khashoggi, citing people familiar with the matter. The crown prince has denied ordering the killing.
There is also some indication that Jared Kushner may have been involved in Khashoggi's death.
In Death, Khashoggi Exposes the Corruption of Kushner and Trump
Last October, Jared Kushner paid an unannounced visit to Riyadh, where its reported that he stayed up until the wee hours talking strategy with the crown prince, apparently his new BFF. He allegedly gave MbS an enemies list culled from the classified presidents daily brief, which MbS seems to have used the following month to purge disloyal relatives from government and take their money. Also last October, Kushners company received a $57 million loan from Fortress Investment Group, which was recently purchased by SoftFund, a Saudi investment concern, to bail out its troubled property at One Journal Square in Jersey City. (A larger and more widely-reported loan, to bail out the troubled property at 666 Fifth Avenue, came the following summer, via Qatar.)
The whole thing is ugly and stinks to high heaven.
This is about getting people back to shopping and working.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213469179#post10[posted in response to another thread on the same topic]
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/charlotte-woman-hasnt-left-her-house-in-three-weeks-but-tested-positive-for-covid-19/275-77707b1d-fd2f-4a36-bf3e-16beca4104c4
Messages like this from the CDC are going to get people to let their guard down, and it will backfire badly. I'm still wearing gloves/mask on the rare occasions I go out, and not changing my souped-up cleaning routines at all.
I ask myself a question when reading this:
Is this news coming from CDC scientists who have conducted extensive lab experiments on which to base this information, or is it from the Redfield wing of the CDC who are tasked with doing whatever it takes to make trump's "open 'er up!" plans seem reasonable?
At the very same time we are being told that the virus doesn't survive on surfaces very well, the article points out that it does survive on various surfaces for hours or even days. At the same time the article touts that just because it's on that surface doesn't mean you can be infected by touching things, it also hedges by saying that you might.
It just "does not spread easily" in that manner...
Given the stakes, I'll keep spraying my packages and wiping down my groceries, all the doorknobs, my car on my few infrequent trips anywhere, my debit card, and myself just as I have been, tyvm.
eta: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/charlotte-woman-hasnt-left-her-house-in-three-weeks-but-tested-positive-for-covid-19/275-77707b1d-fd2f-4a36-bf3e-16beca4104c4
Seems you can get infected from touching contaminated surfaces after all.
Jury Foreman Regrets Convicting Teen in Girl's 2002 Death
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-01-31/jury-foreman-regrets-convicting-teen-in-girls-2002-deathNow there are statements from Ike Tyson saying he did the shooting. We didnt have that then, McLean said. [snip]
The AP examined thousands of pages of court documents and archival video that showed police investigators offered cash to potential witnesses in exchange for information. In addition, they relied on the testimony of jail house snitches who received reduced sentences in exchange, and later recanted their testimony.
At the end of the interview, McLean asked an AP reporter to deliver a message to Burrell: Tell him that Im sorry, he said. I tried to do my best. I kind of think in retrospect I failed.
The article covers a lot more and is well worth reading in full.
Amy Klobuchar Helped Jail a Teenager for Life. Was He Innocent?
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/klobuchar-helped-jail-a-teenager-for-life-was-he-innocent.html
Additionally, Burrells co-defendants have confessed to their involvement in Edwardss death, and they all say Burrell wasnt there. Burrell had an alibi that day, but the police reportedly didnt follow up on it. One of Burrells co-defendants, Ike Tyson, insists that he was the one who pulled the trigger; he says he fired off the rounds with the intention of scaring a member of a rival gang, and that it wasnt until later that evening he learned of Edwardss death. I already shot an innocent girl, Tyson told the AP. Now an innocent guy at the time he was a kid is locked up for something he didnt do. So its like Im carrying two burdens.
The above article is a bit of a hit piece, but it adds a more detail to the picture.
Those who wish to uphold the law and hold others to account when they break it
will never flout those laws. They will lead by example.
Coherent self expression is an ongoing problem for this man.
It amazes me that he has any illusions about higher elected office.
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