BadGimp
BadGimp's JournalThe most uses of the F-word I've ever seen
...and I completely agree. ESPECIALLY Stephen Miller!
No, the Democrats Haven't Gone Over the Edge
No, the Democrats Haven’t Gone Over the EdgeThe party still has a strong vibrant center.
David Brooks
By David Brooks
Opinion Columnist
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/trump-biden-socialism.html?referringSource=articleShare#commentsContainer
You may not have heard of Kilmer or even the New Democrat Coalition. The media wing of the Republican Party wants to pretend that A.O.C., the Squad, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are the Democratic Party because it wants you to think Democrats are a bunch of socialists.
Progressive Twitter is far to the left of the actual Democratic Party and it also emphasizes A.O.C., Sanders and Warren because that’s what makes its heart flutter. Even the mainstream media pays far more attention to the Squad than to Kilmer or moderates like Abigail Spanberger.
This week a thoughtful scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Danielle Pletka, fell for the mirage. She wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in which she disdained President Trump but said she would have to vote for him because the Democrats have moved so far left.
Pletka’s essay kicked up a storm, but usefully raised the question: Where exactly is the Democratic Party?
My Favorite quote ::
"Right now, Republicans are a culture war identity movement that suppresses factional disagreement and demands total loyalty to Trump."
US Marshals find 39 missing children in Georgia during 'Operation Not Forgotten'
Source: CNN.com
By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Updated 12:06 PM ET, Sat August 29, 2020
(CNN)Authorities have found 39 missing children in Georgia during a two-week effort to rescue endangered minors.
The US Marshals Service Missing Child Unit led the search, dubbed "Operation Not Forgotten." It collaborated with the agency's Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state and local agencies.
The operation resulted in the rescue of 26 children and safe location of 13 others, US Marshals said in a news release on Thursday.
"The US Marshals Service is fully committed to assisting federal, state, and local agencies with locating and recovering endangered missing children, in addition to their primary fugitive apprehension mission," US Marshals Service Director Donald Washington said in a statement. "The message to missing children and their families is that we will never stop looking for you."
FBI related Tweet: https://twitter.com/FBIAtlanta/status/1299062751898279936
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/29/us/georgia-missing-children-us-marshals-trnd/index.html
What flummoxes me about this is that they lumped in Parental Kidnappings with actual Sex Traffickers, Pedophiles etc, and likely waited till some PR influenced opportune time to take action.
WTF: If at any time they know someone is holding a child and sexually exploiting them, you send in the fucking calvary right the fuck now! You don't wait till you have some PR worthy event or a Round UP.
I'm probably missing something here buy my Spidey sense is tingling.
What am I missing?
750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys
Source: CNN.com
A plan to release over 750 genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida Keys in 2021 received final approval from local authorities, against the objection of many local residents and a coalition of environmental advocacy groups. The plan had already won state and federal approval.
"With all the urgent crises facing our nation and the State of Florida — the Covid-19 pandemic, racial injustice, climate change — the administration has used tax dollars and government resources for a Jurassic Park experiment," said Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the International Center for Technology Assessment and Center for Food Safety, in a statement released Wednesday.
Now the Monroe County Mosquito Control District has given the final permission needed. "What could possibly go wrong? We don't know, because EPA unlawfully refused to seriously analyze environmental risks, now without further review of the risks, the experiment can proceed," she added.
Approved by the Environment Protection Agency in May, the pilot project is designed to test if a genetically modified mosquito is a viable alternative to spraying insecticides to control the Aedes aegypti. It's a species of mosquito that carries several deadly diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/gmo-mosquitoes-approved-florida-scn-wellness/index.html
What could possibly go wrong right?
Does anyone care that we in the midst of 2020?
I admire the stated intentions/goals but I'm nervous. No, actually I scared shitless
Intelligence community's top election official: China and Iran don't want Trump to win reelection
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/politics/2020-election-russia-china-iran/index.html
(CNN)The US intelligence community's top election security official said in a statement Friday that China "prefers" an outcome where President Donald Trump is not reelected in November and Russia is working to "denigrate" former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid.
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So I guess that means we're going to war with China China China.
craps pants
Report: Kushner's Covid-19 testing plan 'went poof into thin air'
Source: CNN.com
Erin Burnett Out Front
VIDEO at link
According to a Vanity Fair report, White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, was working on a secret national testing plan in the spring to help bring the spread of Covid-19 under control.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/31/kushner-national-testing-plan-white-house-coronavirus-vanity-fair-report-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
The fact a plan existed is amazing.
That they killed it is while not surprising is quite insane and very damaging for Trump imo.
But if it was killed for the reasons stated in the report, then THIS should END TRUMP.
Pay attention to the White House Spokesperson's response. She never once said there was NOT a plan. What a political gold mine this is imo.
Pelosi mandates masks in House chamber after Gohmert tests positive for Covid-19
Source: CNN.com
Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday she would require all House members and aides to wear masks on the floor after Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert -- who was often in the chamber interacting with colleagues and refusing to wear a face-covering -- tested positive for coronavirus.
"Members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times in the hall of the House," Pelosi announced from the House floor Wednesday afternoon.
Lawmakers will be permitted to temporarily take off masks when they are speaking.
Members and staff will not be allowed to enter if they don't wear masks. Pelosi noted that as speaker she has the authority to direct the House sergeant-at-arms to tell members to leave if they do not wear a mask.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/pelosi-mask-mandate-capitol/index.html
This should be interesting....
From a friends FB post... COVID "humor/commentary"
So we're into our 5th month of defeating COVID-19. I didn’t write this but These words made me laugh but there's a lot of truth mixed in to consider. . .😂
1. So let me get this straight, there’s no cure for a virus that can be killed by sanitizer and hand soap?
2. Is it too early to put up the Christmas tree yet? I have run out of things to do.
3. When this virus thing is over with, I still want some of you to stay away from me.
4. If these last months have taught us anything, it’s that stupidity travels faster than any virus on the planet. Just look at the idiot wearing his mask below his nose in Publix.
5. Just wait a second – so what you're telling me is that my chance of surviving all this is directly linked to the common sense of others? You’re kidding, right?
6. People are scared of getting fined or arrested for congregating in crowds, as if catching a deadly disease and dying a horrible death wasn’t enough of a deterrent.
7. If you believe all this will end and we will get back to normal just because we reopen everything, raise your hand. Now slap yourself with it.
8. Another Saturday night in the house and I just realized the trash goes out more than me.
9. Whoever decided a liquor store is more essential than a hair salon is obviously a bald-headed alcoholic.
10. Remember when you were little and all your underwear had the days of the week on them. Those would be helpful right now.
11. The spread of Covid-19 is based on two factors: 1. How dense the population is and 2. How dense the population is.
12. Remember all those times when you wished the weekend would last forever? Well, wish granted. Happy now?
13. It may take a village to raise a child, but I swear it’s going to take a whole vineyard to homeschool one.
14. Did a big load of pajamas so I would have enough clean work clothes for this week.
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