Saturday, June 20, 2020
Friday, June 19, 2020
As usual Rush Limbaugh is full of it: He says Lincoln ran an anti-slavery campaign for the presidency
The Republicans of 1860 pledged not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed its expansion into the territories. Lincoln's moderation on the issue upset abolitionists.
I check in for 5 minutes just to see what he's on about, and he gets something wrong. Every. Damn. Time.
Update with chapter and verse:
"The Republican Party was actually founded in opposition to slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party’s president. He ran on an anti-slavery agenda, including some other things. The Civil War was waged under his leadership and presidency, and 500,000 Americans lost their lives (mostly white) to end slavery".
Here.
Rush also gets the casualties wrong. Admittedly there is variation in estimates, but 500,000 isn't one of them.
"For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.
But new research shows that the numbers were far too low.
By combing through newly digitized census data from the 19th century, J. David Hacker, a demographic historian from Binghamton University in New York, has recalculated the death toll and increased it by more than 20 percent — to 750,000".
More.
Update with chapter and verse:
"The Republican Party was actually founded in opposition to slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party’s president. He ran on an anti-slavery agenda, including some other things. The Civil War was waged under his leadership and presidency, and 500,000 Americans lost their lives (mostly white) to end slavery".
Here.
Rush also gets the casualties wrong. Admittedly there is variation in estimates, but 500,000 isn't one of them.
"For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.
But new research shows that the numbers were far too low.
By combing through newly digitized census data from the 19th century, J. David Hacker, a demographic historian from Binghamton University in New York, has recalculated the death toll and increased it by more than 20 percent — to 750,000".
More.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Cheap widely available steroid confirmed to reduce COVID-19 deaths by 33% among patients on ventilators
"Results of trials announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, which is used to reduce inflammation in other diseases, reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital".
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
The best thing about this Media Matters attack on Glenn Beck from 2010 is the line it draws from King through Sharpton to BLM
'In fact, Sharpton accurately reflected the sentiments of King, who advocated for the “radical redistribution of economic power.” ...
'[A]uthor Nick Kotz writes that during a 1968 trip to Mississippi, King stated: “It didn't cost the nation one penny to integrate lunch counters” and "[i]t didn't cost the nation one penny to guarantee the right to vote." However, he concluded that “now, we are dealing with issues that cannot be solved without the nation spending billions of dollars -- and undergoing a radical redistribution of economic power.”'
King was a commie from the beginning. Beck just wants to pretend otherwise, like many Republican squishes do. It's whitey pretending things aren't that bad.
Sharpton, like King, is a true believer, if not nearly as intelligent: “the dream was not to put one black family in the White House. The dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.”
Now the thugs of Black Lives Matter make this the number one demand for economic justice:
"Redistribution of wealth through a 'progressive restructuring of tax codes at the local, state, and federal levels.'"
They are out in your streets trying to make that happen.
What are you going to do about it?
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Conservatism would keep military base names, Senate Republicans cave to Crockagawea by voice vote
Spineless, useless cowards, except for a couple:
"Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, and Cotton didn't support the amendment".
More.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Counterprotesters lose jobs because they shouted George Floyd should have complied with the police
Re-enacting the knee on the neck didn't help.
#MeToo hysteria has been replaced by #RacismReckoning hysteria.
Story and video here.
Hysterical Americans, hysterical military
Here:
THE NAVY ON TUESDAY announced it would prohibit the Confederate battle flag from all its military installations, following the lead of the Marine Corps which last week began implementing a ban on its troops displaying the flag in any form. ...
The top officer for the Marine Corps, which is a part of the Navy Department, issued an order in April to all Marines that would prohibit on its bases any rendering of the Confederate battle flag, including on T-shirts, mugs or bumper stickers.
"Anything that divides us, anything that threatens team cohesion, must be addressed head-on," Berger wrote in a message to all Marines at that time.
In a statement last week detailing that order, now in effect, Berger said, "Current events are a stark reminder that it is not enough for us to remove symbols that cause division – rather, we also must strive to eliminate division itself." ...
The Army on Monday broke from its prior hard line and said it would consider renaming 10 bases currently named for Confederate generals, including Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia. ...
Gen. Charles Brown, the incoming Air Force chief of staff, said in an emotional video message earlier this week, "I'm thinking about how full I am with emotion ...
The crime and justice data you don't want to hear
Here:
"If a certain group is committing more crimes, more violent crimes, and law enforcement's having to come into more contact with them, that number is going to be higher. Who in the world in their right mind would think that our shootings should be right along the U.S. Census lines? That's insanity.
"All of the research says we're shooting African-Americans about 24% less than we probably ought to be, based on the crimes being committed."
Yates expressed displeasure with the largely peaceful protests that have been taking place in big cities and small towns all over the country since Floyd's killing on May 25.
"The officer was arrested the next day. They were prosecuted, they were fired. What are you doing? What do you mean, 'justice?' Justice at this point has been done," Yates said. "Well, then it turned into systematic racism, systematic police brutality.
Monday, June 8, 2020
In Michigan at least, there was no spike in COVID-19 cases due to Memorial Day
The New York Times data for Michigan at us-covid-tracker dot com is anomalous. It adds "probable cases" data starting Jun 5 which the State of Michigan COVID-19 Dashboard does not.
Michigan's data shows no up-trend to cases at all, and in fact shows new daily cases trending lower over the period.
"The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 284 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, bringing the total to 58,525 [both data points are for Fri 6/5/20]. The state also started reporting probable cases; there are 4,928 cases that are not confirmed yet."
More.
Sunday, June 7, 2020
The bad news is exactly two weeks after Fri May 22, the kickoff to the Memorial Day holiday weekend, new daily COVID-19 cases are making records in 9 states and Puerto Rico
Michigan had an astounding 4,529 new daily cases added on Fri Jun 5, 2020.
US COVID-19 deaths now total 110,028 in the Johns Hopkins University data
So, 10 days after hitting 100,000 instead of 9 days going from 90k to 100k deaths. Stay-at-home orders slowed down the rate at which deaths piled up.
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