Selfish Cuomo Steps On Biden Victory

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True, but for a positive outlook I do think it helps Dems when suburban woman see them take this stuff way more seriously than GOP and shove abusers under the bus. – – Craig

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  1. positive outlook #2:  best for biden that infrastructure bill be lauded as victory for bipartisanship and return to  compromise than a gloat of “mission accomplished.”   

  2. Senate adopts budget that paves way for $3.5T spending plan – POLITICO

    Senate Democrats adopted a budget measure early Wednesday morning to deliver their next filibuster-proof ticket to passing major legislation against the will of their GOP colleagues.
    After more than 14 hours of continuous amendment votes, the chamber adopted on party lines a 92-page framework for Democrats’ $3.5 trillion package of climate and social initiatives, including subsidized child care, expanded Medicare and paid family and medical leave benefits. Once both chambers have approved the budget instructions, it will unlock the reconciliation process, which empowers the majority party to eventually clear the final bill with just 51 votes in the Senate, rather than the usual 60-vote hurdle.
    After the 50-49 vote Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the move “a massive step towards restoring the middle class” and giving “more Americans the chance to get there.”
    […]
    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the lower chamber will return from recess early in order to vote during the week of Aug. 23 on the budget resolution, which instructs a swath of committees to begin drafting the pieces of President Joe Biden’s plan by the flexible deadline of Sept. 15.
    The final Senate vote Wednesday on the budget resolution, which concluded just before 4 a.m., followed a classic vote-a-rama — an amendment barrage that allows the GOP to force the majority party into a series of uncomfortable votes. To make their Democratic colleagues suffer for sidelining GOP input on the $3.5 trillion plan, Republican senators called for dozens of amendment votes on issues like critical race theory, defunding the police, immigration enforcement and using federal money to cover abortions.
    Senators even had extra padding on their chairs to make the ordeal more comfortable, as they sat through the last major legislative hurrah before departing for the August recess, which was already supposed to be underway.
    [continues]

  6. couldn’t happen to a more deserving spreader of disinformation

    Rand Paul suspended one week by YouTube over COVID-19 mask claims | TheHill

    In a statement to The Hill, a YouTube spokesperson said the platform “removed content from Senator Paul’s channel for including claims that masks are ineffective in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19, in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies.”
    “This resulted in a first strike on the channel, which means it can’t upload content for a week, per our longstanding three strikes policy. We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views, and we make exceptions for videos that have additional context such as countervailing views from local health authorities,” the spokesperson added.
    If there is another policy violation during the 90-day period, Paul’s channel will receive a second strike, and he will not be able to upload for two weeks.
    Paul said in a statement that “this kind of censorship is very dangerous, incredibly anti-free speech, and truly anti-progress of science, which involves skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth.”
    “As a libertarian leaning Senator, I think private companies have the right to ban me if they want to, so in this case I’ll just channel that frustration into ensuring the public knows YouTube is acting as an arm of government and censoring their users for contradicting the government,” Paul added.
    The move comes a week after YouTube removed a video of Paul being interviewed by a Newsmax journalist on wearing masks during the pandemic.
    YouTube said at the time that it removed the video for falsely claiming that masks were ineffective against COVID-19.
    But the video that led to the suspension was Paul’s response to the YouTube removing the earlier video, his office said.
    In that second video, Paul claimed that two different studies showed that surgical masks and cloth masks didn’t protect against the coronavirus.
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  8. Also… I’m not the only one who’s making a buck.  Last Saturday when Obama had his big 60th BD party on Martha’s Vineyard…  he bought some chocolate goodies from OldSeaHag.  He bought from her some pretzel sticks hand dipped in caramel.. then hand dipped in dark chocolate… then sprinkled with crushed nuts.  She calls the stuff “Stoner Food”.
     
    I’ve had some…  they’re awesome!

  9. renee, are these the ones?

    Stoner Food – Enchanted Chocolates of Martha’s Vineyard

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    Stoner Food

    $ 14.00
     

    To describe this item is long winded… That’s why we just call it what it is! 

     So this is easily the most infamous item that comes from our kitchen and for VERY good reason. To start we need address the first question – NO – it does not get you high! It’s just a wonderful supplement to your munchies if you are. Although there’s no need to get high to experience the wonders of these indulgent pretzels – they’re wonderful as is! 

    The base of this treat is a pretzel rod. The rod gets dipped in our homemade caramel and left to cool down. Once it’s at a temperature comfortable to work with, we dip the caramel covered pretzel in our 70% dark chocolate! Oh no, but we don’t stop there! This is a two person job because as the chocolate is setting we sprinkle our famous “Almond Butter Crunch” crumbles that have been ground up on top. We add a few pinches of MV Sea Salt – and that completes the look! 

     

    THESE ARE INDULGENT AND DECADENT! WE RECOMMEND YOU SHARE THE LOVE WITH FRIENDS! 

  10. patd…  yes… that’s it!
     
    But anyone here who wants some should know that she does not ship chocolate in the summer because of the melting factor.

  11. As in India and UK looks like delta variant starting to lose strength here. 

    Scientists don’t know why but this variant seems to have a relatively short life span. 

  12. i’m still not seeing any disproportional consequences from Lollapalooza in cursory glances at covid data, so that would be good news if outdoor gatherings are relatively safe

    Lollapalooza took some effort (who knows how well enforced) to impose vaccine requirements or negative tests, as opposed to the Kansas City Garth Brooks concert, which took no such efforts, so the metro KC area data will be of interest in two weeks

  13. If everyone wants kids back in physical school so badly, overhaul the goddamned ventilation in the schools while they’re empty, for crying out loud
     
    ok pardon me

  14. Truth in advertising helps sell the product.  Do have to wonder if sitting back and putting on a few records, lighting a few candles, firing up a few sticks on incense and rolling a joint is not on some former presidents peoples list of Wednesday nights fun times.

  15. i’ve since been informed that at least some local school districts upgraded ventilation in response to pandemic- move enough fresh air through them, and maybe they’ll be safe?  Hopefully.

  16. What Dumbass the Former, Ghouliani and crew and the My Pillow Guys of the world have wrought in our elections… WaPo:
     

    ‘WE ARE IN HARM’S WAY’: ELECTION OFFICIALS FEAR FOR THEIR PERSONAL SAFETY AMID TORRENT OF FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT VOTING

    In preparation for a vote on local tax assessments last week in Houghton County, Mich., county clerk Jennifer Kelly took extraordinary precautions, asking election staff in this remote northern Michigan community to record the serial numbers of voting machines, document the unbroken seals on tabulators and note in writing that no one had tampered with the equipment.

    In the southeastern part of the state, Michael Siegrist, clerk of Canton Township, followed similar steps, even organizing public seminars to explain how ballots are counted.

    Despite their efforts, they said they could not fend off an ongoing torrent of false claims and suspicions about voting procedures that have ballooned since President Donald Trump began his relentless attacks on the integrity of the 2020 election last year.

    “People still complained about our Dominion voting machines, about the need for more audits, and most of all they complained about the use of Sharpies,” Siegrist said, referring to the widely used pen, which has become the focus of a conspiracy theory gripping Trump supporters in Arizona and other states.

    “It used to be fun to be an election clerk, but it isn’t any more,” he added.

    Nine months after the 2020 election, local officials across the country are coping with an ongoing barrage of criticism and personal attacks that many fear could lead to an exodus of veteran election administrators before the next presidential race.

    “The complaints, the threats, the abuse, the magnitude of the pressure — it’s too much,’’ said Susan Nash, a city clerk in Livonia, Mich., who has contended with ongoing questions about the integrity of the process in her community.

    As Trump continues to promote the false notion that the 2020 White House race was tainted by fraud, there is mounting evidence that his attacks are curdling the faith that many Americans once had in their elections — and taking a deep toll on the public servants who work to protect the vote.

    A Monmouth poll taken in June found that a third of Americans believed that President Biden won the White House due to fraud, including 63 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

    Officials from counties large and small say they are inundated with false claims, such as unsubstantiated allegations that Chinese hackers siphoned votes or that ballots marked by Sharpie pens were disqualified.

    The anger is palpable and personal, leading many to fear for their safety.

    On Friday, an orange prison jump suit was delivered to offices of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, addressed to the five-member board, which has strongly denounced a recount of 2020 ballots commissioned by the GOP-led state Senate as a sham.

    Threats against the Republican-majority board have picked up in recent weeks, particularly after it refused to comply with the Senate’s most recent demand for access to local computer routers and internal logs, said Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates. The board’s stance led some members of the state Senate to call for the supervisors to be jailed and even held in solitary confinement.

    Last week, Gates said, the board received a voice mail in which a caller threatened to kill each member and their families.

    “This stuff isn’t organic,” Gates said, saying the attacks amount to “a whole dehumanizing of people.”

    “It’s that concept that we’re somehow not worthy of respect or safety,” he said. “That we’re traitors.”

    [And to make it real – here’s a specific example]

    The threats have grown particularly intense in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, which has been roiled by mushrooming demands by residents for recounts of the 2020 vote in local counties.

    One former GOP clerk, Tina Barton of Rochester Hills, Mich., received death threats last year after there was an initial reporting error about the 2020 results in her city that was quickly fixed. “You will pay for your [expletive] lying. . . . We will [expletive] take you out, [expletive] your life and [expletive] your family,” a caller told her in a voice message she provided to The Post. “Watch your [expletive] back.”
    […]

    Sorry for the length, but it’s a worthy read.  Fuckers should be sued and prosecuted, and so should the ones making the threats.

  17. I am getting a little tired of the sucky weather.  This evening I am watching the next line of severe thunderstorms coming in.  Okay, happens and it is wonky to watch weather in realtime.  Ooops.  Radar no longer shows a little section of the world where you live. Each sweep does not show you.  Sweep after sweep. Thunder is getting louder, daylight is now deep dark night, nothing on radar. 
     
    Decision time.  Okay.  better make another martini just in case the power goes out.

  18. Jennifer Rubin’s latest moniker for Dumbass the Former – The losing Republican president.  I like the sound of that.

  19. Ms. Bronc,  we had some very strong but very brief weather blow through East Bumfuck yesterday and today.  Strong lines of thunderstorms at 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. yesterday and at about 9:00 a.m. today.  Each one lasted about 20 minutes, but the wind and rain were impressive – the thunder and lightning less so.  Our secretary and paralegal just HAD TO leave in the middle of the storm yesterday afternoon, and both said they got drenched in the process. The storm was over within 10 minutes of them leaving. I just watched. Now it’s sunny and mid 80s, as it was before and after the storms yesterday.  The humidity this morning felt like you could have grabbed a handful of water from the air without much effort.  not sure how much rain fell, but the yard needed it – hope some of my new grass wakes back up after the dry hot spell over the last couple of weeks.  I keep wine handy just in case, although an ice cold dirty martini sounds pretty good about now.

  20. Le martini était légèrement “sale”, principalement beaucoup de gin avec un soupçon de vermouth. L’orage est passé. L’air est aussi épais qu’un sauna finlandais, mais sans le bien d’un sauna. Je profite maintenant d’un monde de Paris où c’est comme là où je vis, Washington, D.C. Une grande ville internationale. Et, surtout, un mélange de touristes et de bureaucrates.

  21. Pogo – oops
    The martini was slightly “dirty”, mostly a lot of gin with a hint of vermouth.  The storm has passed.  The air is as thick as a Finnish Sauna, but without the good of a Sauna.  I am now enjoying a world of Paris where it is just like where I live, Washington, D.C. A large international city.  And, most importantly, a mix of tourists and bureaucrats.

  22. Hope Craig is correct about Delta losing its power here. Just heard from a vaccinated friend who is in quarantine because her unvaccinated, adult daughter is now sick.

  23. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/11/texas-mask-mandates-covid-19/

    Greg Abbott is a danger to society…eff him and the horse named Paxton he rode in on.

    “Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are asking Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals to block Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins’ newly issued mask mandate, they announced in a joint press release.“

    “Attention-grabbing judges and mayors have defied executive orders before, when the pandemic first started, and the courts ruled on our side – the law,” Paxton said in the release. “

    Apparently, Paxton has never seen/heard Clay Jenkins. Attention-grabbing, he ain’t. What Jenkins is is prudent, knowledgeable and a leader.

    Greg Abbot seems hell-bent on killing Texans, while begging for other states to help/send medical staff.

  24. Gotta admit Ms. Bronc, I’m a vodka martini aficionado- dirtied with olive brine and olives. A tad of black pepper is ok, too. Vermouth, what’s that?

  25. Delta variant is killing kids in Mississippi, and as of last night only 8 beds were left in the state.  The republican governor left the state.  I am sick of politicians in Florida and Mississippi trashing mask mandates under a false personal freedom quirk.
    California and Greece are still under the siege of fire.  My friend in Quincy, California has so far been spared by a few miles.  My daughter Lori in Las Vegas has had enough of burning eyes and the onslaught of Cal people flocking into Nevada and is moving back to Ohio next year.  One good thing is she will get double what she paid for her house nine years ago.
    I took no joy over the Cuomo end…just sadness. The whole sordid thing.  Now New York moves on, in 12 days.  One thing that irritates me is the attack on the Cal governor.  He doesn’t deserve a recall.  

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