We research how changes in the media have shifted the incentives of elected officials and the considerations of voters, and what that means for American democracy.
In recent work, we showed that extremely conservative and extremely liberal legislators receive far more airtime on cable and broadcast news than their moderate counterparts.
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Maybe I am missing something, but I did not see Harvard’s president saying anything different from Penn’s president in her post testimony remarks regarding chants by students for genocide of Jews being wrong, vile, objectionable and depending on whether it was urging conduct against Jewish students or not it would violate their codes of conduct.
I deal regularly with a parallel process in court on both sides of domestic violence cases and watch judges deal with whether a person who has not been physically harmed has a reasonable apprehension of harm from the words and actions of someone who has spoken and in some cases has acted but done so short of actual violence. Judges struggle with these cases. It, apparently like with the codes of conduct at issue in Tuesday’s hearing, is not the black and white answer Stefanik was demanding. Joe and Rev. Al and the guest who was representing the anti-defamation position on MoJo this morning were in agreement with Elise Stefanik, and I’d bet Rev. Al would never have thought he’d have her as a bedfellow.
pogo, theirs were academic-ese for “sticks and stones will break bones but words never hurt” our campus life.
Just in case there’s any doubt left, MAGA Mike is indeed completely bonkers, apparently thinks he is the new Moses:
On the House Speaker election: “The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur,” House Speaker Johnson told a gathering of Christian nationalists this week. “I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and in the county at large. God had been speaking to me about this, and the Lord told me very clearly to prepare and be ready.”
Johnson said that once McCarthy was removed, God began to wake him up in the middle of the night “to speak to me, telling me to write things down: plans, procedures, and ideas on how we could pull the conference together.”
“I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses. The Lord kept telling me to wait but then at the end, when it got toward the end, the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.'”
Note: He thought this event was not covered, thanked organizers at the beginning of the speech for excluding media — but then one of the organizers posted a video clip on his Facebook page.
The lord told him to do it? The Speaker of the House is insane, a delusional nutjob. In short he’s nucking futz.
“I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses. The Lord kept telling me to wait but then at the end, when it got toward the end, the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.’”
uh oh, pumpkin head’s no longer the chosen one and better watch his back ’cause Mikey (in case, god forbid, he ascends to the presidency) just might be tempted to taste the evil fruit and NOT abdicate to him after the expected pardon.
In the midst of answering a question about the ongoing trade war with China on Wednesday, President Donald Trump turned from reporters, looked to heavens and proclaimed, “I am the chosen one.”
When the god wakes me up at 3am it’s usually to tell me to not forget about that piece of pie in the fridge. But then many times it’s just to remind me that I need to take a leak. That pesky old god works in mysterious ways his wondries to perform.
When I was a kid I just figured out that christianity was just a bunch of hogwash, but I wasn’t mad at it—just indifferent to it. Then I began to hear about things like the inquisition and the crusades, and began to notice all the tv preachers and I just figured I better keep my eye on those peoples
Now……they’re really beginning to piss me off.
MAGAt Mike is either a megalomaniac or a huge liar. Either way, evangelicals aren’t capable of discerning the truth about his “plans” which are to destroy our democracy and create something unrecognizable.
I hope Santos has some thing on him, and I hope the Ethics Committee follows through. For now, they are busy with alleged pedo, Matt Gaetz, now that Santos is gone.
“The Republican-led House Ethics Committee has reached out to at least one witness as part of its investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to schedule an interview in the coming weeks, the latest sign that the once dormant probe remains open.”
…“the only candidate on this stage” to say the Jan. 6 insurrection “does look like it was an inside job,” that the U.S. government lied about Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and that the “Great Replacement Theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.”
Wait! Is Vivek Q Anon? Another tech bro with a huge ego, to be sure, but did he only fall down the Q Anon rabbit hole or did he dig it?
I had the debate on. I heard some of Christie imitating human sounds but I was fast becoming half asleep. They began screaming at each other and continued until I was fast asleep.
i. e. I couldn’t go to sleep fast enough.
Sturg, sounds like the same god wakes bot’ of us up at 3:00 a.m. at least for the peeing part.
And you can’t take all that inquisition and crusades stuff too seriously or it can just make you become Ishmael.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off–then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
And if your sailing days are behind you…it could spell trouble.
“Biden can win swing districts by cracking down on ‘corporate price gouging,’ new poll says: exclusive”
“Biden appears to be heeding this advice. The Washington Post reported this month that the president’s aides recently pitched him “on a plan to sharply rebuke firms for not lowering prices despite record profits,” and that “the president liked the idea and quickly approved it.”
I’ve always liked the part about knocking peoples’ hats off out in the street, though I learned long ago not to go fuckin around with a guy’s hat.
“Music streaming giant Spotify announced Monday that it will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforce, in an effort to further reduce expenses. The latest round of job cuts come after the company let go of 600 staff members in January and 200 more workers in June.”
He added, “I realize that for many, a reduction of this size will feel surprisingly large given the recent positive earnings report and our performance. We debated making smaller reductions throughout 2024 and 2025. Yet, considering the gap between our financial goal state and our current operational costs, I decided that a substantial action to rightsize our costs was the best option to accomplish our objectives.“
Nobody at the top is negatively impacted by the “positive earnings report.” They probably got bonuses.
“While we’ve made worthy strides, as I’ve shared many times, we still have work to do. Economic growth has slowed dramatically and —> capital has become more expensive.” The Fed strikes, again.
ps – Stock buybacks are whack! Pay your people and keep your people!
The Curse of Neil Young weighs heavily upon their shoulders.
“I’ve still got a hold on, I think, 11 four-star generals. Everybody else is completely released by me,” he told reporters.
So, Tommy isn’t done creating mayhem.
Sooooo…..Tubberville.
Apparently one monkey CAN stop the show.
Not only stop it, but fling his crap over all 3 rings of it.
ON AGING, Dr Seuss ————-
I cannot see
I cannot pee
I cannot chew
I cannot screw
Oh my god, what can I do?
My memory shrinks
My hearing stinks
No sense of smell
I look like hell
My mood is bad, can’t you tell?
My body’s drooping
Have trouble pooping
The Golden Years
Have come at last
The Golden Years
Can kiss my ass.
Coach Bum Phillips always said you can’t wear your hat in the house.
Bum Phillips never wore his Stetson during Houston Oiler home games, because the Oilers played in the Astrodome, and his mama taught him never to wear a hat inside.
“For the first time in at least 50 years, a judge has intervened to allow an adult woman to terminate her pregnancy.”
Read that, again. Allow. Adult.
“Cox and her husband desperately wanted to have this baby, but her doctors said continuing the nonviable pregnancy posed a risk to her health and future fertility, according to a historic lawsuit filed Tuesday.”
“At 20 weeks pregnant, Cox learned her fetus had full trisomy 18, a chromosomal abnormality that is almost always fatal before birth or soon after.”
“ Before the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Texas law allowed doctors to terminate pregnancies due to lethal fetal anomalies at any point during the pregnancy. But now, Cox’s doctors said their hands were tied by Texas’ abortion laws, which prohibit abortion except to save the life of the pregnant patient.”
“It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye to my baby, but when,” Cox said in a statement. “I’m trying to do what is best for my baby and myself, but the state of Texas is making us both suffer.”
“In October, the Texas Tribune documented the experiences of an East Texas woman who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term. Her twin sons, born conjoined with severe malformations, died just hours after they were born.”
The seven justices of the Supreme Court have given no indication HOW they will rule on Trump’s disqualification under the 14th Amendment and they have given no indication WHEN they will rule but here’s a bigger issue: They have no RIGHT to rule. The 14th Amendment clearly, unquestionably, inarguably, and ETERNALLY states that an insurrectionist can’t serve in an elected federal or state office, or a lot of other offices, and it doesn’t allow anybody to overrule the Constitution because the 14th Amendment already HAS a means for disqualified traitors to appeal – the drafters OF the 14thAmendment BUILT THAT REMEDY IN – and they have already designated two bodies to overrule disqualification under special circumstances, and those bodies are the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate and if they each vote by two-thirds to let Trump back on the ballot, he’s back on the ballot. That is, for all practical purposes, IN the Constitution! And if they DON’T, he’s not. That is also, for all practical purposes, in the Constitution!
And we KNOW this because it was written, principally, by Congressman John Bingham, a Radical Republican who not only was one of the House Managers for the IMPEACHMENT of President Johnson, but earlier Bingham had been the Assistant Judge Advocate General during the trial of the accomplices of the man who murdered Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth. And if John Bingham’s attitude towards insurrectionists wasn’t clear enough from the 14thAmendment and the completely justified slow roasting of President Andrew Johnson – just a reminder: the eight co-conspirators charged in the Lincoln Assassination that the co-author of the 14th Amendment PROSECUTED included Mrs. Mary Surratt who ran the boarding house where the conspirators met, and the stagehand at Ford’s Theater who did nothing more than hold Booth’s horse while he went in and murdered the president. They HANGED half of the defendants – including the woman who ran the boarding house. Three of the other four were given life sentences. The guy who held the horse got six years at hard labor. They DID make a concession to Mrs. Surratt. While they were preparing to hang her and the others they let her sit in a chair.
The authors of the 14th Amendment weren’t EFFING AROUND.
well, Keith is fired up
Who has to call it for it to be officially an insurrection?
“A federal jury awarded $17.7 million in damages to Kraft and other major food suppliers on Friday for a price-fixing conspiracy that claims egg producers were trying to limit the egg supply in the U.S., according to Reuters.”
This one is a bit laughable since a greedy corporations were the plaintiffs, but it does prove a point.
“Over 400,000 households in Washington will be getting checks as part of an antitrust lawsuit brought by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Office against tuna and chicken producers for price fixing.”
“The first round of checks were mailed on Dec. 5 and all checks should be mailed by the end of December, with single-person households receiving a $50 check and multi-person households getting a $120 check, according to the AG’s Office.”
Now, do something about housing!
“Who has to call it for it to be officially an insurrection?”
… when questioning Trump lawyer Scott Gessler, some justices said it wouldn’t make sense for there to be a loophole allowing insurrectionists to become president.
“I saw no rational reason for that type of an exclusion,” Justice Monica Marquez said.
Several of the justices also hammered Gessler over his contention that January 6 was only a riot and wasn’t an insurrection. The 14th Amendment doesn’t define insurrection, and the justices are now reviewing the trial judge’s decision that January 6 fit the bill.
If dog wakes me up at 3am it is probably because there is a cat, or deer, or fox, or raccoon at the back door and she is going to protect the house against such monsters. I roll over and put a pillow on my head to ignore interruptions of my sleep at that hour, otherwise I am awake and PO’d.
Not to go unheralded: It’s Happy Delaware Day!
December 7, 2023 marks 236 years since Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Following the Revolutionary War, the 13 former colonies were governed by the Articles of Confederation, which was drafted primarily by Delaware’s own John Dickinson. While the document provided a framework for the newly independent country, some saw flaws in the lack of power given to the federal government. In May of 1787, a convention was held in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation; instead, the delegates drafted a new Constitution for the states to consider. On November 26, 1787, Delaware elected thirty delegates – ten from each county – to a state convention to consider ratification. On December 7, 1787, the delegates, meeting in Dover at the Golden Fleece Tavern unanimously made Delaware the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
“The $32,000 cost of a crucial drug to treat severe lead poisoning drew ire from Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar…”
“The senator asked Kavuru to list the factors that went into the pricing decision and whether the company was seeking to capitalize on the shortage of the drug in the US. She also sought answers about the effects on patient care and why a US version must be priced so much higher than a French one.”
“…the drug, made by Rising Pharmaceuticals, costs almost 10 times more than an imported version of the medicine from France, which the US Food and Drug Administration had allowed to be used in the US while the drug was in shortage.”
“When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America.” – Republican former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season. “
Amen.
rip Ken Block, one of the best drivers you’ll ever see
sadly these days, politically speaking, the more naughty and outrageous one is the more airtime and funding and seemingly polling points one gets.
example of being on the naughty list works according to this 2021 story
The Greene Effect: Extremist Politicians Get More Airtime | Crooks and Liars
Maybe I am missing something, but I did not see Harvard’s president saying anything different from Penn’s president in her post testimony remarks regarding chants by students for genocide of Jews being wrong, vile, objectionable and depending on whether it was urging conduct against Jewish students or not it would violate their codes of conduct.
I deal regularly with a parallel process in court on both sides of domestic violence cases and watch judges deal with whether a person who has not been physically harmed has a reasonable apprehension of harm from the words and actions of someone who has spoken and in some cases has acted but done so short of actual violence. Judges struggle with these cases. It, apparently like with the codes of conduct at issue in Tuesday’s hearing, is not the black and white answer Stefanik was demanding. Joe and Rev. Al and the guest who was representing the anti-defamation position on MoJo this morning were in agreement with Elise Stefanik, and I’d bet Rev. Al would never have thought he’d have her as a bedfellow.
pogo, theirs were academic-ese for “sticks and stones will break bones but words never hurt” our campus life.
Just in case there’s any doubt left, MAGA Mike is indeed completely bonkers, apparently thinks he is the new Moses:
On the House Speaker election: “The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur,” House Speaker Johnson told a gathering of Christian nationalists this week. “I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and in the county at large. God had been speaking to me about this, and the Lord told me very clearly to prepare and be ready.”
Johnson said that once McCarthy was removed, God began to wake him up in the middle of the night “to speak to me, telling me to write things down: plans, procedures, and ideas on how we could pull the conference together.”
“I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses. The Lord kept telling me to wait but then at the end, when it got toward the end, the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.'”
— RightWingWatch.org
Note: He thought this event was not covered, thanked organizers at the beginning of the speech for excluding media — but then one of the organizers posted a video clip on his Facebook page.
The lord told him to do it? The Speaker of the House is insane, a delusional nutjob. In short he’s nucking futz.
“I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses. The Lord kept telling me to wait but then at the end, when it got toward the end, the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.’”
uh oh, pumpkin head’s no longer the chosen one and better watch his back ’cause Mikey (in case, god forbid, he ascends to the presidency) just might be tempted to taste the evil fruit and NOT abdicate to him after the expected pardon.
remember this in 2019:
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When the god wakes me up at 3am it’s usually to tell me to not forget about that piece of pie in the fridge. But then many times it’s just to remind me that I need to take a leak. That pesky old god works in mysterious ways his wondries to perform.
When I was a kid I just figured out that christianity was just a bunch of hogwash, but I wasn’t mad at it—just indifferent to it. Then I began to hear about things like the inquisition and the crusades, and began to notice all the tv preachers and I just figured I better keep my eye on those peoples
Now……they’re really beginning to piss me off.
MAGAt Mike is either a megalomaniac or a huge liar. Either way, evangelicals aren’t capable of discerning the truth about his “plans” which are to destroy our democracy and create something unrecognizable.
I hope Santos has some thing on him, and I hope the Ethics Committee follows through. For now, they are busy with alleged pedo, Matt Gaetz, now that Santos is gone.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/politics/ethics-committee-requests-interview-withwitnessin-gaetz-probe/index.html
“The Republican-led House Ethics Committee has reached out to at least one witness as part of its investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to schedule an interview in the coming weeks, the latest sign that the once dormant probe remains open.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vivek-pulls-out-his-tin-foil-hat-to-make-unhinged-debate-attention-grab
…“the only candidate on this stage” to say the Jan. 6 insurrection “does look like it was an inside job,” that the U.S. government lied about Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and that the “Great Replacement Theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.”
Wait! Is Vivek Q Anon? Another tech bro with a huge ego, to be sure, but did he only fall down the Q Anon rabbit hole or did he dig it?
I had the debate on. I heard some of Christie imitating human sounds but I was fast becoming half asleep. They began screaming at each other and continued until I was fast asleep.
i. e. I couldn’t go to sleep fast enough.
Sturg, sounds like the same god wakes bot’ of us up at 3:00 a.m. at least for the peeing part.
And you can’t take all that inquisition and crusades stuff too seriously or it can just make you become Ishmael.
And if your sailing days are behind you…it could spell trouble.
Cudos to Herman.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-can-win-swing-districts-by-cracking-down-on-corporate-price-gouging-new-poll-says-exclusive-95f47c34
“Biden can win swing districts by cracking down on ‘corporate price gouging,’ new poll says: exclusive”
“Biden appears to be heeding this advice. The Washington Post reported this month that the president’s aides recently pitched him “on a plan to sharply rebuke firms for not lowering prices despite record profits,” and that “the president liked the idea and quickly approved it.”
I’ve always liked the part about knocking peoples’ hats off out in the street, though I learned long ago not to go fuckin around with a guy’s hat.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/spotify-cut-17-its-workforce-third-layoff-year-despite-taylor-swifts-success-platform
“Music streaming giant Spotify announced Monday that it will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforce, in an effort to further reduce expenses. The latest round of job cuts come after the company let go of 600 staff members in January and 200 more workers in June.”
He added, “I realize that for many, a reduction of this size will feel surprisingly large given the recent positive earnings report and our performance. We debated making smaller reductions throughout 2024 and 2025. Yet, considering the gap between our financial goal state and our current operational costs, I decided that a substantial action to rightsize our costs was the best option to accomplish our objectives.“
Nobody at the top is negatively impacted by the “positive earnings report.” They probably got bonuses.
“While we’ve made worthy strides, as I’ve shared many times, we still have work to do. Economic growth has slowed dramatically and —> capital has become more expensive.” The Fed strikes, again.
ps – Stock buybacks are whack! Pay your people and keep your people!
The Curse of Neil Young weighs heavily upon their shoulders.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/12/archibald-tubervilles-butt-fumble-proves-one-thing-he-has-no-business-in-the-senate.html?fbclid=IwAR2vW9_Iql3MV4KDP9s_gWCYYrX7h8jor6kRDDdgXWk6bJXZFmWMEiasHmI_aem_AXR9ciJTr_9RHXlDwR_t9N616_MzFSH7xFYBhRo-VogZXyW_n4_L5UBoItVcMjK1uKY
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-senator-tuberville-says-he-will-release-some-military-holds-us-media-2023-12-05/
“I’ve still got a hold on, I think, 11 four-star generals. Everybody else is completely released by me,” he told reporters.
So, Tommy isn’t done creating mayhem.
Sooooo…..Tubberville.
Apparently one monkey CAN stop the show.
Not only stop it, but fling his crap over all 3 rings of it.
ON AGING, Dr Seuss ————-
I cannot see
I cannot pee
I cannot chew
I cannot screw
Oh my god, what can I do?
My memory shrinks
My hearing stinks
No sense of smell
I look like hell
My mood is bad, can’t you tell?
My body’s drooping
Have trouble pooping
The Golden Years
Have come at last
The Golden Years
Can kiss my ass.
Coach Bum Phillips always said you can’t wear your hat in the house.
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/berry-tramel/2013/10/20/bum-phillips-gave-the-nfl-charm-and-charisma-topped-by-a-stetson/60873045007/
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/07/texas-emergency-abortion-lawsuit/
“For the first time in at least 50 years, a judge has intervened to allow an adult woman to terminate her pregnancy.”
Read that, again. Allow. Adult.
“Cox and her husband desperately wanted to have this baby, but her doctors said continuing the nonviable pregnancy posed a risk to her health and future fertility, according to a historic lawsuit filed Tuesday.”
“At 20 weeks pregnant, Cox learned her fetus had full trisomy 18, a chromosomal abnormality that is almost always fatal before birth or soon after.”
“ Before the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Texas law allowed doctors to terminate pregnancies due to lethal fetal anomalies at any point during the pregnancy. But now, Cox’s doctors said their hands were tied by Texas’ abortion laws, which prohibit abortion except to save the life of the pregnant patient.”
“It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye to my baby, but when,” Cox said in a statement. “I’m trying to do what is best for my baby and myself, but the state of Texas is making us both suffer.”
“In October, the Texas Tribune documented the experiences of an East Texas woman who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term. Her twin sons, born conjoined with severe malformations, died just hours after they were born.”
Republicans are misogynistic monsters.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
The seven justices of the Supreme Court have given no indication HOW they will rule on Trump’s disqualification under the 14th Amendment and they have given no indication WHEN they will rule but here’s a bigger issue: They have no RIGHT to rule. The 14th Amendment clearly, unquestionably, inarguably, and ETERNALLY states that an insurrectionist can’t serve in an elected federal or state office, or a lot of other offices, and it doesn’t allow anybody to overrule the Constitution because the 14th Amendment already HAS a means for disqualified traitors to appeal – the drafters OF the 14thAmendment BUILT THAT REMEDY IN – and they have already designated two bodies to overrule disqualification under special circumstances, and those bodies are the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate and if they each vote by two-thirds to let Trump back on the ballot, he’s back on the ballot. That is, for all practical purposes, IN the Constitution! And if they DON’T, he’s not. That is also, for all practical purposes, in the Constitution!
And we KNOW this because it was written, principally, by Congressman John Bingham, a Radical Republican who not only was one of the House Managers for the IMPEACHMENT of President Johnson, but earlier Bingham had been the Assistant Judge Advocate General during the trial of the accomplices of the man who murdered Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth. And if John Bingham’s attitude towards insurrectionists wasn’t clear enough from the 14thAmendment and the completely justified slow roasting of President Andrew Johnson – just a reminder: the eight co-conspirators charged in the Lincoln Assassination that the co-author of the 14th Amendment PROSECUTED included Mrs. Mary Surratt who ran the boarding house where the conspirators met, and the stagehand at Ford’s Theater who did nothing more than hold Booth’s horse while he went in and murdered the president. They HANGED half of the defendants – including the woman who ran the boarding house. Three of the other four were given life sentences. The guy who held the horse got six years at hard labor. They DID make a concession to Mrs. Surratt. While they were preparing to hang her and the others they let her sit in a chair.
The authors of the 14th Amendment weren’t EFFING AROUND.
well, Keith is fired up
Who has to call it for it to be officially an insurrection?
“Give it a name” as Elmore Leonard liked to say.
Our Hanukkah chicken ready for roasting
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-food-drink/federal-jury-awards-17-7-million-kraft-other-egg-suppliers-major-price-fixing-conspiracy
“A federal jury awarded $17.7 million in damages to Kraft and other major food suppliers on Friday for a price-fixing conspiracy that claims egg producers were trying to limit the egg supply in the U.S., according to Reuters.”
This one is a bit laughable since a greedy corporations were the plaintiffs, but it does prove a point.
https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/washington-families-to-get-checks-from-chicken-tuna-companies-after-price-fixing-lawsuit/article_91615ef0-946b-11ee-abf8-c76d976b7308.html
“Over 400,000 households in Washington will be getting checks as part of an antitrust lawsuit brought by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Office against tuna and chicken producers for price fixing.”
“The first round of checks were mailed on Dec. 5 and all checks should be mailed by the end of December, with single-person households receiving a $50 check and multi-person households getting a $120 check, according to the AG’s Office.”
Now, do something about housing!
“Who has to call it for it to be officially an insurrection?”
sturge, the judge in colorado called it like it is when she said drumpf “engaged in an insurrection” and the colorado supremes yesterday also mentioned the word. see Live updates: Trump 14th Amendment case oral arguments to Colorado Supreme Court (cnn.com) where during the arguments it seemed to be assumed by the judges as in this case:
If dog wakes me up at 3am it is probably because there is a cat, or deer, or fox, or raccoon at the back door and she is going to protect the house against such monsters. I roll over and put a pillow on my head to ignore interruptions of my sleep at that hour, otherwise I am awake and PO’d.
Not to go unheralded: It’s Happy Delaware Day!
December 7, 2023 marks 236 years since Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Following the Revolutionary War, the 13 former colonies were governed by the Articles of Confederation, which was drafted primarily by Delaware’s own John Dickinson. While the document provided a framework for the newly independent country, some saw flaws in the lack of power given to the federal government. In May of 1787, a convention was held in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation; instead, the delegates drafted a new Constitution for the states to consider. On November 26, 1787, Delaware elected thirty delegates – ten from each county – to a state convention to consider ratification. On December 7, 1787, the delegates, meeting in Dover at the Golden Fleece Tavern unanimously made Delaware the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/health/klobuchar-letter-lead-poisoning-antidote-price-hike/index.html
“The $32,000 cost of a crucial drug to treat severe lead poisoning drew ire from Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar…”
“The senator asked Kavuru to list the factors that went into the pricing decision and whether the company was seeking to capitalize on the shortage of the drug in the US. She also sought answers about the effects on patient care and why a US version must be priced so much higher than a French one.”
“…the drug, made by Rising Pharmaceuticals, costs almost 10 times more than an imported version of the medicine from France, which the US Food and Drug Administration had allowed to be used in the US while the drug was in shortage.”
“When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America.” – Republican former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season. “
Amen.
rip Ken Block, one of the best drivers you’ll ever see
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