May 31, 2020

Phila: Rizzo Statue finally will be removed.

Frank Rizzo statue to be removed soon by the city, Kenney says

Kenney said that the controversial statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo at the Municipal Services Building, which protestors attempted to remove on Saturday, will be removed soon by the city.

"First of all, I've never liked the statue," Kenney said. "I didn't put it there."
https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphia-protests-riots-center-city-george-floyd-city-hall-police-arrests/

May 31, 2020

Is anyone watching Ali Velshi on MSNBC! He got tear gassed.

He said the cops are getting aggressive now, more than in the past few nights. Ali is getting nailed again.

He is in Minneapolis reporting.

May 30, 2020

Supreme Court rules in favor of CA allowing church closings due to Covid

"Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Rejects Church’s Challenge to Shutdown Order
A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses."

"The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California to block enforcement of state restrictions on attendance at religious services."

"The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s four-member liberal wing to form a majority."

“Although California’s guidelines place restrictions on places of worship, those restrictions appear consistent with the free exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote in an opinion concurring in the unsigned ruling."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/supreme-court-churches-coronavirus.html

May 27, 2020

DU Poll: Is Newsom reopening the state too soon?

With "daily new cases" at a new high, is the state reopening too early?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/26/santa-clara-health-officer-suggests-california-is-reopening-too-soon-1287237

May 20, 2020

When you finally decide to go out, where will you

likely go first and after that? Are you taking care of business, doing errands, or being social?

May 20, 2020

If someone near you was coughing and not wearing a mask

would you say something, give a dirty look, walk far away quickly or ignore him?

May 20, 2020

DU POLL: Who makes the decision for you to return outside?

When you return to the new normal who will you listen to the most to make a good decision?

May 15, 2020

Trump will not leave quietly, he intends to not leave at all.

May 14, 2020

NY City through the centuries...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/arts/design/manhattan-virtual-tour-virus.html

Millions of years of rock formations, ice ages thicker than the Empore State Bldg, and mountains of discarded oyster shells, NYC has changed in a million ways.

"Then there’s an extensive glacial history — at least seven glaciation events over the last 620,000 years. Then as the climate changed, the glacier retreated and a whole series of giant glacial lakes formed."

"We know from historical records that people caught hundreds and hundreds of fish in a few hours just casting their nets off Ellis Island during the 18th and 19th centuries — before the harbor became polluted and dams were built that closed off streams upriver where the fish had gone to breed."

"The Dutch and the English wanted to expand the island into the rivers, not move uptown, so they sold water lots to people who were then under contract to fill the lots in. They would knock down hills and use that soil or take garbage from the dump. What’s now the land between Water Street and the F.D.R. Drive is all landfill, like much of the west side, which in 1609 was a white sand beach all the way up to 42nd Street."

May 13, 2020

Jonathan Pie "Lockdown #6"

Apparently Pie is as pissed off at his government's (UK) response as we are at our Dear Leader's response to Covid in the US.