By Mark | October 2, 2020
Donald Trump, the man who sentenced well over 200,000 Americans to death when he purposefully downplayed the severity of COVID-19 and refused to take coordinated action, appears to have now contracted the disease himself. Having read more than my fair share of Shakespeare, I’d always thought that this incredibly surreal chapter in American history would […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Christmas, Cleveland Clinic, COVID-19, Darth Vader, Donald Trump, Hope Hicks, Joe Biden, masks, Melania Trump, post-reality, post-truth, public health, Return of the Jedi, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Shakespeare, war on Christmas |
Today, in a clear violation of campaign finance law, Brad Parscale, the director of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, tweeted from inside the White House that Trump-branded COVID-19 face masks were soon to be available for purchase. I had other things that I wanted to write about tonight, but it seemed worth noting that the […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, Brad Parscale, campaign finance, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Death, death cult, death star, masks, pandemic, Star Wars |
By Mark | February 27, 2020
I don’t have any time right now, as I’m in the middle of something, but I wanted to share this video of Fox News personality Laura Ingraham, a woman who once warned that our nation was under attack by diseased immigrant hoards, accusing Democrats of “weaponizing fear” by sharing actual facts concerning a real public […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigrant, caravan, caravans, disease, fear mongering, flu, FOX News, Laura Ingraham, pandemic, public health, racism, xenophobia |
By Mark | February 3, 2016
Several people testified before the House Oversight Committee today about the poisoning of Flint’s citizens, including Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident Lee Anne Walters. While most of the local coverage, I suspect, will focus on Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s forceful promise early in the proceedings to have the U.S. Marshals “hunt down” former […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged corrosion control, Dan Kildee, Darnell Earley, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, House of Representatives, House Oversight Committee, Jason Chaffetz, Joel Beauvais, Keith Creagh, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, Lee Anne Walters, Marc Edwards, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Miguel Del Toral, water |
There’s a great piece in the Washington Post today about Republicans in the Senate, and how they seem determined to focus their wrath not on the individuals at JPMorgan who were recently caught engaging in risky, irresponsible stock trades, but on those federal regulators who didn’t somehow foresee these actions and stop them from happening. […]
Posted in Politics | Also tagged campaign finance reform, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Dana Milbank, deregulation, Dodd-Frank, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Gary Gensler, get the money out of Washington, hypocrisy watch, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, lobbying, pathetic Republicans, regulation, Republican lies, Republicanan outrage, Richard Shelby, Senate Banking Committee, too big to fail, Wall Street bailouts |
