Shooting Someone On Fifth Avenue

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2. pogo, congratulations. not often your state makes news (and good news at that) both in the guardian AND pbs on the same day. 

   the guardain:

   How West Virginia’s decade of bad luck steeled it to fight Covid
   From a 100-year flood to a chemical leak, the state has approached its challenges the same way – and now that method has helped to distribute 81% of available vaccines
   It’s usually bad when West Virginia makes headlines. The state has a long, sad history of severe poverty, bad health outcomes, political corruption and disasters both natural and manmade.
   But by mid-January, some very good news started coming from West Virginia: somehow the Mountain state was putting 81% of its available vaccines into the biceps of its citizens while bigger states struggled to distribute even half of their available vaccines.

   [continues]

   PBS newshour:

   Judy Woodruff:
   The Biden administration announced more efforts today to ramp up vaccine distribution around the country and to make sure that underserved communities get more access.
   It comes after many states struggle to distribute it quickly.
   But, as Amna Nawaz reports, West Virginia has been a leader from the outset. In fact, it’s outpaced nearly every other state when it comes to vaccinations.
   […]
   Amna Nawaz:
   His home state is now leading the country when it comes to vaccinations. Seven weeks into their rollout, West Virginia’s already vaccinated more than 12 percent of its population, including both doses delivered to all nursing home residents and most health care workers.
   Now anyone 65 and older can sign up on a statewide wait-list. Each week, local clinics work their way down that list and schedule the next round of shots right.
   This West Virginia University clinic is one of several specialized clinics also in place. Today, faculty and staff over 65, plus younger clinical students, are getting their vaccines.
   Here’s the lay of the land here. Basically, at the table all the way in the back, the syringes are all being filled. They are distributed to six vaccination stations. Organizers say from the moment people arrive to the moment they get a shot in the arm should take five minutes total.
   […]
   Amna Nawaz:
   Here in West Virginia, that vaccine arrives each week from the federal government. National Guard members transport it to five state hubs. Those hubs then allocate to clinics, like the one at West Virginia University, where residents who put their names on a waitlist are brought through.
   Gretchen Garofoli:
   It’s really a all-hands-on-deck approach, so that we can get everybody in our state vaccinated as quickly and safely as possible.
   Amna Nawaz:
   Gretchen Garofoli is an associate professor in West Virginia University’s School of Pharmacy who’s been coordinating vaccine distribution. Key to their success, she says, is remaining nimble and flexible.
   Gretchen Garofoli:
   We have a group text message that we utilize often, so that we get our people there when we need to get them to the places to vaccinate.
   Amna Nawaz:
   You literally have a group chat going?
   Gretchen Garofoli:
   Yes. We have those relationships, and we know how to work together. We know how to get into the rural communities.
   Amna Nawaz:
   And because the state is mostly rural, West Virginia chose to tap into its network of independent pharmacies, instead of joining the federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens.

   Waterfront Family Pharmacy owner Karl Sommer says that decision was crucial to getting the most vulnerable vaccinated 

   [continues]

3. NYTimes best of late night:

   The late-night hosts on Tuesday night recapped the first day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
   “I got that real feeling of déjà coup,” said Stephen Colbert in his “Late Show” monologue.
   “It’s one year and four days since we finished up the last impeachment trial of the same president, February of 2020. Oh, we were so young then. I long for a simpler time, when people hiding from Nazis and not leaving their house for months were just the plots of ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and ‘Parasite.’” — STEPHEN COLBERT
   […]
   “Today, Trump became the only president ever to face a second impeachment trial, which is pretty impressive when you consider he only showed up to work about half of the time. I mean, if Trump really applied himself as president, we could be on impeachment number, like, 35 by now.” — TREVOR NOAH
   “But you can definitely tell this impeachment is the sequel, because the sequel always has to turn things up to 11. The original impeachment was like: ‘Listen to this diplomat describe a phone call as you ponder the meaning of quid pro quo.’” — TREVOR NOAH
   “And I know that this vote might make the trial seem pointless now, yes, but just because we know how the trial will end, it doesn’t mean the trial shouldn’t take place. I mean, when you’re watching ‘Law & Order,’ right, do you turn it off in the first five minutes when the cops interview a dentist who obviously killed his patient to cover up an affair? Of course not! You watch the whole thing because then you get to say, ‘I knew it!’ when you end up being right.” — TREVOR NOAH
   “Today, 44 Republican Senators voted that the trial was unconstitutional, because they don’t want to have this trial. Well, tough nuts. The country’s like a bar. The last president puked in the bathroom. Somebody’s got to clean it up, or we can’t use the bathroom anymore. Oh, you’re the ones who decided to be a busboy. So grab a mop and do your job. But if you can’t find a mop, use Rand Paul’s hair.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
   “The reason they’re even having this trial is because he sent maniacs on a panty raid of their office. They’re just too afraid to do the right thing because Trump and his bag of boiled nuts will then target them.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
   “You know what they say, gentlemen: see no evil, hear no evil makes you seem really evil.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
   […]
   “After how it went today, I’m worried that Trump is gonna get the chair.” — TREVOR NOAH
   [continues]

4. this one really describes it best:

   “Today, 44 Republican Senators voted that the trial was unconstitutional, because they don’t want to have this trial. Well, tough nuts. The country’s like a bar. The last president puked in the bathroom. Somebody’s got to clean it up, or we can’t use the bathroom anymore. Oh, you’re the ones who decided to be a busboy. So grab a mop and do your job. But if you can’t find a mop, use Rand Paul’s hair.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

5. bloomberg:

   Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is signaling to fellow Republicans that the final vote on Donald Trump’s impeachment is matter of conscience and that senators who disputed the constitutionality of the trial could still vote to convict the former president, according to three people familiar with his thinking.
   The Kentucky Republican has also suggested that he hasn’t made up his mind how he’ll vote, two of the people said, even though he voted Tuesday to declare it unconstitutional for the Senate to hear the case against a former president.
   That position is starkly different than McConnell’s declaration at the start of Trump’s first impeachment trial last year that he did not consider himself an impartial juror.
   […]
   McConnell, in a leadership meeting Monday night, said the same things he has said publicly, a person familiar with the matter said.
   On Feb. 2, he told reporters: “We’re all going to listen to what the lawyers have to say and making the arguments and work our way through it.”

6. patd,  Yeah, I don’t understand it either, but I did get my 1st shot at the WVU Clinic mentioned in the article and got text and email reminders today of my appointment for my 2nd.

7. If you hire Bozos for lawyers…  you should expect them to act like Bozo…
    
    

9. McConnell says that this will be a vote of conscience for republicans.  We’ll see.  

10. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/politics/trump-georgia-criminal-investigation-election/index.html
    Go, Georgia, go!

11. Not that any of the criminal GOP is listening, but the presentation is excellent.

     

12. Jamie… I agree.  As I watch this… I can’t help but think it’s falling on deaf gqp ears… but this testimony is needed for the nation to see/hear.
     
    Well done Democrats.

13. Moscow Mitch has no conscience. So how is that going to work 
     
    west va has a lot of pharmacies due to the high oxy  profits

14. House impeachment managers are killing it. So what if Senate Republicans soil themselves for acquittal. Case is made for history.

15. Spare us demands Trump’s intent to cause violence must be proved. This isn’t a criminal trial. But for him this violent riot wouldn’t have happened, all that’s needed for impeachment conviction.

16. This is absolutely disgusting footage.  They were there for one reason.  

17. Why hold a rally that day, in DC, after you’ve lost the election?  Why send Pence to the Capitol to do what he could not do?  Why throw Pence under the bus at the rally when he failed to do what he could not do?

18. I hope those F-ers never see the light of day, again.  Treasonous bastards.  Domestic terrorists. Too bad they can’t be stripped of their citizenship. 

19. Did you hear that MAGAt turn on Cruz when he thought he wasn’t on board with Arizona?   Hardline, little boogers, huh Ted?

20. …couldn’t watch or listen, today.
     
    Too bad no one has produced video footage of Kevin McCarthy cowering in a corner, afraid for his life, tears in his eyes, pleading with trump via phone to call off his mob

21. Oh, can’t watch.  Now it’s not just terrorists running through the halls and rifling through papers.  It’s triggering me. I can’t imagine the PTSD those who were there are experiencing.    

22. Good point, though.  tRUMPsky knew it was happening and just sat on his tiny hands, doing nothing to stop it…because it’s exactly what he wanted. Overthrow the election or get revenge.

    I hope Georgia takes care of him with a criminal trial, if the fascist, Republicans in the Senate won’t do their damned job.

23. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/politics/donald-trump-mike-pence-impeachment/index.html
    Please, Georgia, let us hold your beer while you take care of this, too.

24. When i told someone who isn’t very political about the threats of violence from extremist trump supporters against Republican Senators and their families if they vote to convict, their very first response was:
     
    ”Why don’t they vote on secret ballots?”

25. Larry Flynt founder of Hustler has hustled off the mortal coil at 78

     

26. “this mortal coil” = “life of struggle”
     
    Anyone know from where that granite in the Senate was quarried?  Can’t find an answer from a cursory ‘net search🤷‍♂️

27. Adding another name to the 2021 R.I.P. list I provide Larry Flynt.  He brought down pompous “religious” xchin televangelists and political hypocrites while publishing a soft porn magazine.  In a normal time his death would have been front page news, now, he is in the local obits level of notoriety.  He was shot and paralyzed by a right wing white supremacist who did not like one of the pictures in Hustler.

28. i’ll bet xrep would know where that granite came from😭

29. Getting closer:

    https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/capitol-hill-facts?page=1

    “Marble” quarried from along Potomac and imported from Carrera, Italy, but that still doesn’t answer my question🤔

30. This tweet was from 2:24 pm ET Jan 6…

    The security camera footage of Pence and his family being whisked out of the Capitol by Secret Service that we saw for the first time today was from 2:26 pm ET pic.twitter.com/udk1cXDsjP

    — Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) February 10, 2021

31. was there something more sinister going on jan 6th behind what some of the insurrectionist say the plan was to execute pence and pelosi ?  remember they were the next in line if anything like the 25th amdmt be invoked.   

     trump was still potus and a new potus had not yet been certified nor would he take office for 14 more days (if then since he may also have been a target).  

32. Oh Poohbah, back to torts 101. But for. 
    But for Dumbass’ comments on January 6, his gathering of his army, his sending them to the Capitol, and his silence while they broke into the capitol, Officer Sicknick would still be alive. Full stop 

33. so i understand the potential Georgia case, but that’s a bit like Capone going down for tax evasion.  
    i want a meaner than f444 prosecutor to charge this bastard with being an accomplis to second degree murder.  Not hard to prove and rarely gets probation.

34. Got an email last night a couple of min. after 5pm wanting to know if I wanted to get vaccinated the next day. Fortunately I checked my email 30 min later, went on line scheduled my time, then went in and got my first shot of the Moderna vaccine.  I will get the second round in a month. It was strange getting the email so late in the day, When I went on line there were  still plenty of time slots available.  As I was getting my shot my doctors office emailed me telling me I could schedule a time with them too. 
    Looks like KC got a couple of truck loads of vaccine. 
    So it looks like April 1 is freedom day, at least for me. Mrs Jacks travel  accounts still have hotel points and airline miles. Now where do I want to go……..
    Jack 

35. Jack, I’d say go south. But since we’re getting freezing rain right now, south sounds particularly good. 

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