Biden: "I Promise You I Am OK" (famous last words)
Friday, July 12, 2024
Hurricane Beryl made landfall just before 5 AM on July 8th, four days later 1 million are still without power in Texas, mostly around Houston, mostly customers of Center Point Energy
CenterPoint reported $867 million in profits for 2023, down 14% from 2022.
The company has asked state regulators to approve around $2.2 billion in resiliency investments for 2025 through 2027, during which time it will have to continue to focus on expanding the system as well. It expects to keep adding about 2% more customers each year.
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
LOL Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee withdraws conditional endorsement of AOC for insufficient anti-semitism
NPC is withdrawing our conditional endorsement of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, although she will remain endorsed by our New York City chapter. ...
Many members have supported national endorsement while at the same time demanding that AOC demonstrate a higher level of commitment to Palestinian liberation, self-determination, and the immediate end to the heinous genocide in Gaza committed by Israel that aligns with DSA’s positions and expectations of socialists in office.
We recognize that AOC has taken many courageous positions on Palestine such as co-sponsoring several House Resolutions (3103, 786, 496), naming Israel’s genocide as well as opposing House Resolution 894. However, members have raised their concerns regarding a number of her votes, including a vote in favor of H.Res.888, conflating opposition to Israel’s “right to exist” with antisemitism. AOC also co-signed a press release on April 20, 2024, that “support[s] strengthening the Iron Dome and other defense systems”
Finally, AOC recently hosted a public panel with leaders from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, lobbyists for the IHRA definition of antisemitism. On this panel, she conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism and condemned boycotting Zionist institutions. This sponsorship is a deep betrayal to all those who’ve risked their welfare to fight Israeli apartheid and genocide through political and direct action in recent months, and in decades past.
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In the first half of 2024, overall prices are up 3.2% year over year on an average basis, and core prices are up 3.6%
Prices on some important things you use everyday made new record highs.
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| core inflation |
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| overall inflation |
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| gasoline in the first half of 2024 is still Obama-like under Biden, not Trump-like |
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| the high price of home heating, water heating, cooking, clothes drying ticked up in 1H2024 |
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| new high for chuck roast |
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| new high for all purpose flour |
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| fricken chicken came down a half penny: six bucks for a three pound chicken |
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| new high for a loaf of healthy bread |
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| new high for a pound of hamburger |
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| new high for the electricity to keep everything running |
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The chutzpah of this guy: George Clooney takes $28 million of Democrats' money and gives it to Biden on June 15 and three weeks later says My Bad
Phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n rolla.
People forget that Joe Biden came in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire in 2020 and was still neck-and-neck with Bernie in the primary popular vote until March 14th
Democrats ended up with Joe because the alternative was a lefty, Bernie, who would surely lose to Trump.
The same calculus applies today. Possibly win with cognitively challenged Joe, or lose with lefty Kamala Harris.
Joe was extremely unpopular in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Joe endeared himself to Iowans by calling them fat liars.
And he endeared himself to New Hampshireites by calling them lying dog-faced pony soldiers.
The common thread is the projection. It's Joe who is the liar, along with all his accomplices in the DNC and the media.
Flashback June 30, 2004 NBC NEWS: One in ten students encounters sex abuse, schools are places where abusers come to prey
More than 4.5 million children are forced to endure sexual misconduct by school employees, from inappropriate comments to physical abuse, according to an exhaustive review of research that reads like a parent’s worst nightmare.
The best estimate is that almost one in 10 children, sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade, are targets of behavior ranging from unprofessional to criminal, says the report for Congress by Charol Shakeshaft, a professor at Hofstra University’s School of Education.
... the American Association of University Women, whose surveys of students were at the core of the new report, stood by its research. ...
The report describes schools as places where abusers come to prey, targeting vulnerable and marginal students who are afraid to complain or unlikely to be believed if they did. It describes adults who trap, lie and isolate children, making them subject to unwanted behavior in hallways, offices, buses or even right in front of other students in class. And the offenders work hard to keep kids from telling, threatening to fail or humiliate them.
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Rate of public educator sexual misconduct is 10 times higher in a year than in five decades of abuse by clergy, two thirds of the predators are male, most of the victims are high school females
Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America. ...
“In any given year they have failed to report thousands of these situations, and instead they’ve papered them over, acted like it’s not an issue,” former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told RealClearInvestigations. Stunned by a 2018 Chicago Tribune investigation that found 523 incident reports of sexual misconduct by employees of the city’s schools during the past decade, DeVos during the Trump administration launched the process of including specific questions about such cases in the Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection, a process it undertakes every two years. Previously, the Office for Civil Rights asked only general questions about sexual misconduct incidents, without a breakdown of alleged perpetrators.
The Biden administration initially sought to remove those questions, saying it wanted to avoid data duplication, but it backtracked after fierce criticism it was doing so as a sop to teachers unions. Consequently, the question will be included on future questionnaires, but, as of today, the Department of Education “has no data,” a spokesperson told RCI. These days, from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, even a cursory review of local news reporting brings disquieting revelations of teachers accused of or arrested for alleged sexual relations with a student. ...
Pointing to research from Hofstra University that found roughly 1 in 10 students in K-12 schools have suffered “some form of sexual misconduct by an educator,” Terri Miller, head of the advocacy group SESAME (Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation), said the number of victims is staggering.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Trump's RNC strong-armed the GOP platform committee, weakened its abortion provisions, pared it down from 66 pages to 16
“The 2024 platform is a decent
statement of campaign priorities, but not necessarily the enduring
principles of a party,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family
Research Council. “Unfortunately, the process was unbecoming of
constitutional conservatives which did not allow the document to be
amended or improved.” ...
Gayle Ruzicka, a platform committee member from Utah, said the RNC staff “didn’t allow” a discussion on the language the platform used on abortion.
“I had planned to go up there to try and make an amendment and they said we could make amendments,” she said, adding that she had been on platform committees several times and found it “very unusual.”
“They didn’t even give us a chance to read it before we voted on it,” Ruzicka said. She didn’t know exactly how long they had before voting — staff had taken her watch, phone and laptop — but it was “maybe a couple of hours” filled by speakers.
“I’m very frustrated. I think we were treated very poorly. We spent a lot of money to get here. We were supposed to have the opportunity to study it and read it. We didn’t get even a chance to read it first,” Ruzicka said. “They gave it to us, but we kept waiting to go to our committee and then they didn’t ever do committees.”
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Monday, July 8, 2024
The French election commentary on right wing twitter has been as laughably apocalyptic as left wing
Meanwhile, here are the final election results from France's most-watched news channel BFM-TV, slanted pro-business instead of pro-worker, shown below.
As you can see Le Pen's "right wing" alliance RN has overwhelming support in terms of votes with 10.12 million in the 2024 Second Round (left column) vs. 3.58 million in 2022, and now enjoys 143 seats vs. 89 in 2022. It's now arguably France's biggest party.
RN has grown its support phenomenally in just two years.
Its problem is that its support is more diffuse, so that its supporters are frequently outnumbered by enough voters from other parties to win seats. And this time leftist NFP and Macron's centrist ENS cooperated in the second round to reduce candidates so that voters had to choose more often than normally between just two sides.
In the end no one got even close to 289 seats to achieve control in the 577 seat National Assembly.
And Macron could easily lose a vote of confidence in the wake of this within weeks and send the voters back to the polls again.
RN is obviously a growing threat to the status quo all while Macron has been just bleeding out seats since 2017, when he had a comfortable lead with 350.
Even CNN recognizes this:
The RN’s success should not be underestimated. In the 2017 elections,
when Macron swept to power, the RN won just eight seats. In 2022, it
surged to 89 seats. In Sunday’s vote, it won 125 – making it the largest
individual party. That unity means it will likely remain a potent force
in the next parliament, while the solidity of the leftist coalition
remains untested.
Stay tuned. The fireworks are not over, not in the least because the lunatics of NFP are even more divided than France as a whole, primarily because of the presence of the anti-semitic communist Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Joe Biden calls in to Morning Joe and defies the Democrats who say he should drop out
It's been a week since the awful internal polling broke and Joe remains defiant and dismissive of the facts.
Trump is +3.3 in the Real Clear Politics national polling average and 312-226 in the no-toss-ups Electoral College vote. Biden's approval/disapproval spread is back up and is almost as bad as his -20.7 point spread from July 2022.
I suppose because it's not worse than that the Biden campaign figures it's weathered the storm of the debate exposing his condition.
Meanwhile the cognitive flubs have become a daily feature so routine it's downright boring.
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Final results of French election: "far right" up 62%, adds 55 seats in National Assembly, Macron loses 88
And now the final results have arrived with the left-wing NFP alliance on 182, Macron’s centrists on 163 and the far-right RN and its allies on 143.
Here.
Macron loses nearly 100 seats in the French National Assembly and Drudge calls it a win lol, Le Pen gains many seats despite Macron deal with left to pull hundreds of candidates
Macron has gone from 350 seats in 2017 to 251 in 2022 to a projected 160 now.
Macron calling this snap election in France when he didn't have to was just as dumb as Sunak calling one in the UK. Sunak had to resign as the left clearly won, but Macron will wish he had to resign as he faces three years of a hung parliament divided by left, middle, and right, each with 140-200 seats and no clear winner.
289 seats are needed for an absolute majority.
Le Pen's party increased its presence in the assembly from 88 seats to 140 to 160, depending on who you read tonight. Her influence is steadily growing while Macron's is withering.
The plot to sabotage Le Pen was hatched immediately in the wake of her party's stunning performance in the first round on Jun 30.
Everyone's pretending to be shocked by today's results because they don't want to admit what just happened.
Macron sold out to the left.
President Biden who is cognitively healthy just said Philadelphia helped him win his Senate seat from DELAWARE not just once but each time
Someone should really look into that.
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