Homicidal Texas Governor Shut Down

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

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  1. greg and ron (and anti-vax anti-mask parents refusing/not getting vaxing/masking child) should be federally charged with child abuse and neglect

    HHS:

    Federal legislation provides guidance to States by identifying a minimum set of acts or behaviors that define child abuse and neglect. The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) (42 U.S.C.A. § 5106g), as amended by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010, defines child abuse and neglect as, at minimum:

    • “Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation”; or

    • “An act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.”

  3. note to those who are grumping about potus paying more attention to covid bullies than to taliban bullies, things like this may be why his #1 priority is quelling the virus which is killing 1000 americans per day:

    wapo:

    Self-proclaimed ‘Vaccine Police’ tells Walmart pharmacists they ‘could be executed’ for administering shots

  4. Friday, almost time for the next shiny metal outlet box plug to distract the media from the “Biden presidency shaken and failing” meme.  I have not watched MSNBC in many months so I have no clue what the republicans, almost no Dems left there the last time I watched, are talking about.  But, I am sure it has to do with President Biden having his presidency and legacy destroyed last week.  It is time for something else to come up.  Oh, and I quit watching CNN years ago, so I have no idea what is their current hate topic.  I do miss the old 6pm news half hour with Uncle Walter.

  5. michael gerson

    Opinion | Govs. DeSantis and Abbott, in denial and risking lives, have betrayed the public trust – The Washington Post

    […]

    What was supposed to be a costless, largely symbolic political commitment has led DeSantis and Abbott to a particularly vivid moral choice. Should they allow local government and community institutions to save people from harm? Or should they actively prevent those measures to appease a radical faction of their party?
    The decision, it seems, wasn’t close for them. There is no public evidence of inner turmoil. If they had defied the populist base of the Republican Party, their careers (and presidential prospects) would have been as good as over.
    Now these governors have a problem, as does their party.
    The challenge for the governors is that public health is not the same as other issues. Their actions will lead, directly and predictably, to deaths in their states. This constitutes a betrayal of public trust so grave — a violation of moral responsibilities so depraved — that I am not sure there is a word for it. Selling the lives of your fellow citizens to a foreign power is treason. What is the proper description of selling the lives of your fellow citizens to a crazed political interest group?
    These governors are attempting, of course, to take refuge in principle — the traditional right not to have cloth next to your face, or the sacred right to spread nasty infections to your neighbors. But such “rights” talk is misapplied in this context. The duty to protect public health during a pandemic is, by nature, an aggregate commitment. Success or failure is measured only in a total sum. Incompetence in this area is a fundamental miscarriage of governing. Knowingly taking actions that undermine public health is properly called sabotage, as surely as putting anthrax in the water supply.
    So maybe that’s the right word: saboteurs.
    [continues]

  7. WV Mothman Festival cancelled because of rising Covid cases in the state. The only arguably positive effect of Covid in the Mountain State. 

  8. pogo, any likelihood we’ll be sued for calling those govs homicidal or child abusers and child neglecters?  in your (unbiased and well-thought out of course) opinion, should I edit my comments to insert “allegedly” or “it’s been noted on the internet” or “one might reasonably wonder if” to be on the safe side?

  11. Ducey, Abbot, Kemp, and DeSantis are allegedly enemies of humanity and actively attempting to collapse society and get us all killed

  13. In the interest of preserving sanity in the midst of current political climate, I will be having a movie weekend consisting of Reminiscence and Free Guy

  14. Re MSNBC.  It isn’t quite as bad as during the slam Hillary era, but it is close.  Rachel is about the only one worth watching if only for the background facts.

     

  15. Jamie – It is Friday and it is movie night.  I realized I have been spending a lot of time watching Tales Against Humanity – Computer tech support horror stories, of which I can supply fifty plus years of tales from my life.  Currently watching the beginning of Poms, a flick for the over seventy crowd.  So far it is just another getting old movie for the Baby Boomers.  Although of that age/era I find these movies annoying.  The hard part is I cannot imagine me in any of those situations.  The only good thing is I recognize the actresses – sigh jesus alou I am feeling old tonight.  Need to watch something less poignant.  Support Your Local Sheriff sounds good.

  16. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/20/dan-patrick-black-democrats-vaccine-white-republicans/

    Lt. Turd, Dan Patrick, is Caddyshacking the pool, again.

    “Patrick’s comments sparked immediate outrage, including from a fellow Republican, Allen West, and from within the Senate that he oversees. Sen. Borris Miles, a Black Democrat from Houston, released a statement Friday morning saying that “for the second time in the past month, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has made prejudiced, inflammatory statements about African Americans and that is unacceptable.”

    “Also despite Patrick’s claims, vaccine hesitancy is higher among Republicans than it is among Black people in Texas, according to a June poll from The Texas Tribune and the University of Texas at Austin. Thirty-eight percent of Republicans said they would not get a vaccine as soon as it is available to them, while 18% of Black people said the same.“

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/politics/texas-dan-patrick-coronavirus-black-people-vaccines-fact-check/index.html

    “The attacks heated up Thursday when Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claimed that African Americans were to blame for the ever-increasing wave of coronavirus cases.“

  17. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/entertainment/melissa-joan-hart/index.html

    “I am vaccinated and I got Covid and it’s bad,” she said. “It’s weighing on my chest. It’s hard to breathe. One of my kids, I think, has it so far. I’m praying that the other ones are okay.”
    She continued: “I think as a country we got a little lazy and I’m really mad that my kids didn’t have to wear a mask at school. I’m pretty sure that’s where this came from. I just really hope my husband and the other ones don’t get it, because if someone has to be taken to the hospital, I can’t go with them.”

  18. I am mad.
    The fact is that viruses will mutate in places where it is free to.  In the current U.S. world that is anyone under twelve years of age.  I will not second guess the scientists working on this.  I will complain about the lack of transparency of what is going on to get them vaccinated.  The most important thing to understand is that we are in a fight with a nasty that will mutate and travels the world in the air.  Finding something for the under twelve is the way we beat this beast to death.

  19. Its been an Covid day. Here. Doctors off banned unvaccined 👍👍Then my second job, my clients Sons father and mother in law, unvaccined both in the hospital. He’s got a collapsed. Both on ventilator. Then I run my TrumperAc guy. Got Covid he infected the whole family. Even a 7 month old. His older mom and all sick. Bad. He said for him like a cold😱  They always want blame the person, not Covid

  20. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/18/1027035486/covid-vaccine-children-under-12-your-questions-answered

    “Pfizer and Moderna are both running large pediatric trials to study the effectiveness and safety of using their COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for children under 12.“

    “The Pfizer study won’t test to see whether the vaccine actually prevents children from getting sick. Instead, it will look at their blood to see if they are making the kinds of antibodies that have been shown to prevent disease.“

  21. Support your local sheriff 
    Jack Elam is magic; in any and everything but especially that one.

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