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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gov. Cuomo Hangs Tough as Dems Plot Replacement
[American Thinker] Gov. Andrew Cuomo remains firm on keeping the job "the people of New York have elected him to serve."

He wasn’t going to cave after Attorney General Letitia James released a scathing 165-page investigative report detailing his "sexually predatory" and "toxic bullying" behavior targeting young women and political opponents in his administrative orbit. One of the 11 young female alleged victims indelicately summed up the governor’s behavior as "sleazy and creepy" in the extreme.

Many in Cuomo’s own party have said the governor ought to resign his office. If Cuomo is thinking of resigning, he must be doing it poolside -- at the politician’s mansion in Albany -- where he was photographed hunkering down this week. He wasn’t alone.

The governor was photographed with an unidentified (but shapely) blonde sharing the poolside experience. No doubt his public relations team viewed the photograph as an unfortunate distraction that couldn’t have come at a worse time. Impeachment proceedings against the politician are heating up, along with the endless session, now dragging into its sixth month, of the New York State Assembly.

One of the 150-member assembly claimed that Cuomo’s removal was "inevitable," asserting that 80 assembly members support impeachment, going beyond the 76 votes required for a simple majority.

Cuomo is entitled to due process, but his opponents appear to be in a hurry to speed up his removal. They are appealing to the court of public opinion, which is what really counts in turning the protracted wheels of justice. This is a domain where they rule as the masters at manipulating a compliant media. Why wait for the matter to be voted on?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 03:22 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe he's penned a letter to be opened and read in case anything happens to him. That'd be a good strategy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/09/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
U. Oklahoma coaches claim they can discipline players for their politics
[CollegeFix] Two women’s volleyball coaches at the University of Oklahoma argue in a legal motion that they have the right to discipline players for their political beliefs.

Player Kylee McLaughlin sued coaches Lindsey and Kyle Walton along with the OU Board of Regents earlier this year, alleging "she had been excluded from the team [...] over her politically conservative views."

The OU Daily reported that McLaughlin, the OU team captain and first team All-Big 12 selection in 2018 and 2019, had made comments that "at least one" of her teammates considered "racist" following a team viewing of the Netflix documentary "13th."

McLaughlin was told to attend a follow-up discussion on the issue — mass incarceration of black Americans — which she did.

Later, after McLaughlin had tweeted out her disagreement (a skull and crossbones and laughing clown emojis) at the University of Texas’s possible dropping of its school song "The Eyes of Texas," Lindsey Walton "urg[ed] her to delete [the] tweet." In a subsequent hour-long phone conversation, she told McLaughlin "I can’t save you when you get into the real world when you leave here."

Kyle Walton allegedly told McLaughlin "[I’m] not sure I can coach you anymore." McLaughlin did end up apologizing to U. Texas’s volleyball players and head coach for her tweet.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go ahead and put your names out there woke dumbasses. Oklahoma doesn't seem like the place to do it.
Posted by: Chris || 08/09/2021 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Believe it. The Oklahoma University faculty and administration has had a desire to be more Ivy League than Hah-verd for decades. Think of it as a bluish-purple blot in the center of the state.
Posted by: magpie || 08/09/2021 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  They have a dot, gotta think about the rest of the area who send their kids to that school. Those farmers an such don't tend to be like to be told how to think or what to do.
Posted by: Chris || 08/09/2021 1:15 Comments || Top||

#4 

Rule #1 to all athletes.
You are here to compete in your chosen sport.
You are not here play politics or engage social issues.
You are not here to polarize the teams fans politically or socially.

You are here for 1 reason only to compete and make the fans proud of their Team.

Therefore, you acknowledge as a representative of the Team you shall not negatively impact or attempt to impact Fan solidarity with comments or actions.

You acknowledge there will be only 1 warning with a 3 game suspension. The 2nd offense will result in immediate removal from the team for the remainder of the season.

You acknowledge, if removed from the team, it will impact your scholarship and other related financial aid privileges status.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/09/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Hello, Oklahoma legislature! I think you fund the University of Oklahoma and all the attendant shenanigans? Would you care to do something about it?
Posted by: Tom || 08/09/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  ..in most states the governor appoints the school's regents aka patronage rewards. Maybe the governor needs a call too about who he's left the university in charge of.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/09/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Now that college athletes are going to be mostly focused on their endorsements and other cash, the quality of the product is going straight to sh*t...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/09/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||


Tennessee Govenor EXEC Order Authorizes Natl Guard, Quarantines, Involuntary Commitment for ‘Certain Healthcare' Operations
[Ted Starnes] There is growing concern among Tennesseans after Gov. Bill Lee quietly issued an Executive Order on Friday giving the state permission to call up the National Guard and State Guard “in connection with certain health care and emergency services operations.”

Tennessee Stands, an influential statewide conservative coalition, said they found some of the governor’s orders “exceptionally concerning.”

One section of Executive Order 83 would permit the construction of “temporary quarantine and isolation facilities.”

“Telephone assessments for involuntary commitment cases are permitted,” the executive order also states.
Posted by: Slinerong Hupating5185 || 08/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "BREAKING: Order Authorizes Natl Guard, Quarantines, Involuntary Commitment for ‘Certain Healthcare’ Operations"

see above...
Posted by: 746 || 08/09/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  This event is a crossing of the Rubicon moment. We're generally a live and let live bunch ...until you threaten our family and try to force us to leave our homes. Are they prepared for a certain amount of losses when the stormtroopers try and round us up?
Posted by: Warthog || 08/09/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Why that last bulk ammo purchase you made is beginning to make perfect sense.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||



#6  ...The 'betters' have no understanding how it all works. No one is old enough to grasp that Central Planning didn't work and Adam Smith's invisible hand of the marketplace is superior. The system is so complex and intertwined that decrees and orders cause the entire system to implode.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/09/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Not thrilled about this exec order.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/09/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, if he thinks the Tenn Guards is going to be rounding up and sticking their families in camps, cause he said so, he's got a sad day coming. The western part of the state is one thing, but Appalachia is another.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/09/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Let's all hope and pray it doesn't come to that, but Bobby Lee turned down command of the entire Union Army for much the same reason.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Spent some money there back in the day. Guess I'll spend it somewhere else now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/09/2021 21:56 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fauci: Allowing virus to replicate could make 'worse variant' that 'could impact the vaccinated'
[FOX] Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that allowing the coronavirus delta variant to circulate freely among unvaccinated individuals could lead to a more potent variant that could harm even vaccinated individuals.

The delta variant has already given rise to a small variant known as "delta plus" variant that has a spike protein mutation that may cause it to spread faster. So far, the variant has appeared in only a few cases in several countries, but the original delta variant rapidly spread through the United States and became the dominant strain after only a few months.

So far, health officials have argued, and studies have shown, that vaccinated individuals remain protected from serious illness, hospitalization and death due to current variants of COVID-19. Fauci cautioned, however, that unvaccinated individuals will allow the virus to circulate and continue to mutate, potentially giving rise to a variant that could harm even vaccinated individuals.

"There's a tenet that everybody knows in virology: a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate," Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press." "Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against delta, particularly in protecting you from severe disease, but if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you're leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant, and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 08:35 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  According to Dr. Robert Malone, these could be the initial signs of ADE.
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/09/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there still anyone out there who believes this all began in a Chinese wet market ?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Wet Market? More like Lab Technician 2nd Class Li slipped on a wet floor and dropped a rack of test tubes.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/09/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  If enough people dump enough chemicals down a storm sewer, we may get something even more powerfully toxic than carfentanyl. And a million monkeys, typing on a million typewriters for a million years couldn't have come up with the grants that Fauxi let to Wuhan in a million years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/09/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ LOL.
Posted by: Matt || 08/09/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm sure they have other manufactured viruses ready to unleash if the variants fail to create the political outcome the elitists want.
Posted by: CO || 08/09/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||

#8  ALL viruses mutate. There is no way to totally eradicate a virus once it's been introduced into the wild. The only way to stop a virus from being "pandemic" is to develop immunity in the general population, either through immunization or development of natural immunities. Neither one will stop EVERYTHING, but they'll make it easier to treat those that do come down with it. Fauci is promoting more fear, and even he knows it. Someone needs to give him a long, painful lecture out behind the woodshed, and tell him to either put a plug in it, or do it for him.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/09/2021 19:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Viruses tend to become less lethal with time -- the most dangerous period is when they've developed the ability to infect a new species. Killing the host is the worst outcome as far as a virus is concerned -- corpses can't make more viruses.

So letting the virus spread MIGHT develop a more lethal strain, but the odds are it will develop into a less lethal strain. Regardless, it will eventually fade into the background noise of other corona viruses.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/09/2021 21:31 Comments || Top||


Fauci berates mass outdoor gathering in South Dakota, but gives Obama's birthday bash a pass
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/09/2021 08:33 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


#2  You simply don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  If the people telling me to be afraid are not themselves afraid...
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/09/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  It's all bullsh*t. Now out in the open.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/09/2021 17:49 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
DHS Warns of ‘Increasing' Threat of Violence From ‘Trump Conspiracy' – Admits There is No Evidence of Specific Plot
[ABC via Gateway] The Department of Homeland Security said Friday they have observed "an increasing but modest level of activity online" by people who are calling for violence in response to baseless claims of 2020 election fraud and related to the conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump will be reinstated.

"Some conspiracy theories associated with reinstating former President Trump have included calls for violence if desired outcomes are not realized," according to a DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis bulletin obtained by ABC News.

There is no evidence that shows there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 03:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Dear Homeland flunky,
if you're reading this:
Go do your actually job,
there's... Mohammedry amiss.

We are pleasant people,
once you get to know us.
And if you were born in the 90s,
get on yer knees and blow us.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/09/2021 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Surely the "evidence" can be somehow created. Please contact FBI Director Christopher Wray for details.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 3:38 Comments || Top||

#3  There is no evidence that shows there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Keep repeating this, maybe you'll begin to believe it, I don't.
Posted by: Spoter B || 08/09/2021 6:24 Comments || Top||

#4  There is no evidence that shows there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.

And there is no ongoing obstruction, resistance, or attempts to intimidate anyone looking into the matter. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Gee, why is DoJ and the NY DA's offices looking into Mr Trumps past tax returns if they have already been subject to reviews and acceptance by the existing governmental organizations charged with that specific function.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/09/2021 6:45 Comments || Top||

#5  notice the inclusion of 'widespread'

no evidence of voter fraud
no evidence of widespread voter fraud <- you are here
ok there's evidence of voter fraud, what are you going to do about it?
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/09/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, I guess if its only confined to several major metro areas you could stretch the point that it wasn't 'widespread'. Of course you're now calling a chick with a d*** a female for official purposes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/09/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#7  More B.S. like the Russian Collusion delusion, Mueller witch hunt, and the three impeachments. What's wrong with these people in D.C. Never mind, the list would be too long. Sum it under "crazy."
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/09/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Since the Berlin Wall fell every Democratic Administration has been looking hard, very hard for a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy™. Part paranoia and part an aching need for drones in the federal law enforcement bureaucracy to justify their "phony-baloney jobs"...
Posted by: magpie || 08/09/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Fig leaf to take away your rights.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/09/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Spot on Vader. And towards those goals, pretty much any excuse will do but this is their go to.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/09/2021 17:44 Comments || Top||

#11  No evidence of specific plot Only FBI personnel ready to trigger the next event.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/09/2021 20:23 Comments || Top||


Georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count
[Just The News] day after the November election, as Donald Trump and other Republican candidates clung to evaporating leads in Georgia, vote counters in Atlanta were confronted by a paper ballot known only by its anonymizing number 5150-232-18.

A Dominion Voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, an error known as an "overvote." The machine determined neither candidate should get a tally, and the ballot was referred for human review.

The image of the ballot, obtained by Just the News, shows the voter messily scribbled a large blob in the box to select Trump as president while also putting a thinner check mark next to Biden's name.

At 6:10 p.m. ET on Nov. 4, 24 hours after the ballot was first scanned and rejected by Machine 5150, a panel of humans decided the vote should be awarded to Biden, with the notation "mark removed for Donald J. Trump." You can see that ballot here:
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 02:56 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  .....a panel of humans decided the vote should be awarded to Biden

The same 'humans' who may have actually created the overvote? How very convenient.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  the voter messily scribbled a large blob in the box to select Trump as president while also putting a thinner check mark next to Biden's name

Shouldn't the larger blob get preference? Were these 'humans' psychiatrists from the APA? I think there needs to be a case in the Supreme Court over what said voter actually meant.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/09/2021 3:11 Comments || Top||

#3 

To be honest I can see 2 possible ways to look at this. But put with the same result.


I am assuming this was a MAILED in Ballot given from what I have seen in my GA counties???.

Where we use Electronic Voting machine that are either directly linked to the polling place unit. Or print out a copy you take to the polling place reader unit to be inserted and counted.

#1
I see the ballot clearly marked other DEMOCRATS.
The Trump mark looks like a mistake (STUPIDLY) scribbled out and JB then was voted for, along with other DEMOCRATS.

#2
Or engage additional brain matter.
The voter voted for Trump and no other candidates.
An unknown (D) pole worker attempted to change D.T. to J.P. and add additional (D) votes.


EITHER WAY
Seeing an Altered Ballot. I would have placed it in the REJECT PILE & invalid for counting.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/09/2021 6:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Here in India, you just show your registered voter ID (linked to your biometrics and citizen's ID) and walk up unmolested to a kiosk, where guarded by a company of paramilitary, you press a single button. You get only one press, mistake or no. If you're dumb enough that you can't locate the symbol of your party and press its button, you're better off disenfranchised.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/09/2021 17:08 Comments || Top||


Through incompetence and corruption, Illinois may lose two nuke reactors and their power grid
[HOTAIR] The state of Illinois is facing a looming energy crisis almost entirely of its own making, but despite having options on the table to avert it, the state appears ready to simply let the situation continue to implode. Thanks to state policies intended to end all energy production using fossil fuels, energy producers are increasingly struggling to remain viable. This is particularly true of the state’s nuclear power plants, run by energy company Commonwealth Edison, a subsidiary of Exelon. They have been unable to compete with the cheaper natural gas-fired plants in the state and are facing a potential bankruptcy situation. Governor J.B. Pillsbury Pritzker has proposed a plan to have the state provide significant subsidies to Exelon to keep the plants afloat, but the state legislature has remained focused on not passing any sort of energy bill that isn’t based almost entirely on carbon reduction and renewable energy. As a result, Exelon recently submitted plans to close two of their nuke plants.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Renewables will cost a bit more but it must be done. Hike the property and sales taxes a bit to cover the additional costs. If that isn't sufficient, the county roads can become tolls, and the existing tolls can be hiked. If that still won't carry it, those that lies in cemeteries paying nothing can be levied an annual fee. They pay nothing now. Then there is pets and farm animals....such as still exist.

Use your heads people! As long as you have people to tax, you'll still survive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Governor J.B. Pillsbury Pritzker

J.B. stands for 'Jelly Belly', Besoeker. You were indeed on the right track, though.

The Byron facility generated about 2,500MW and the Dresden unit about 1,800MW.

Wind Farms or Solar aren't going to cover that grid loss.

F* ConEd.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/09/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  The old Chief will be very upset at the Byron closure Rich.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Been there (part of the 'Eagles Nest Colony'). Blackhawk stands a bit downriver and closer to Oregon, though.

He'd probably still say "F* ConEd", though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/09/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Oregon, Illinois and not the Antifa state.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/09/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Want to bet one of the lefty PIRGs sues CE for not bribing the pols in Springfield hard enough? Going to bet Fatzker's carcass would give off enough methane to fuel several gas fired plants.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/09/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  ...unable to compete with the cheaper natural gas-fired plants
Don't worry, be happy! The Greens and Anti-Fracking Luddites will soon make those uneconomical as well as we slouch towards a new Dark Age.
Posted by: magpie || 08/09/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of assholes.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/09/2021 15:50 Comments || Top||


Texas Dems who fled state sue Gov. Abbott for trying to bring them back: 'Discomfort and embarrassment'
[FOXNEWS] Nearly two dozen Texas House Democrats who fled the state last month have sued Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
and other Republican officials, alleging that GOP efforts to bring them back to the state Capitol for a special legislative session infringed on their constitutional rights.

The 22 plaintiffs have been "deprived of liberty for substantial periods of time, suffered much anxiety and distress over separation from their families, and much discomfort and embarrassment," the complaint filed late Friday alleges.

Abbott, House Speaker Dade Phelan and State Rep. James White are all named as defendants in the case.

The lawsuit alleges that the three Republicans have "by public statements and otherwise, to attempt to deny, coerce, threaten, intimidate, and prevent" the Democrats and constituents from voting in elections, speaking publicly about their constitutional rights, and their right to not being arrested without probable cause.

The suit comes after Abbott called for the arrests of more than 50 Texas House Democrats who fled the state in July for Washington, D.C., in a bid to stop a Republican-backed voter integrity bill from passing in a special legislative session.

It was the second time that Texas Democrats staged a walkout on the voting bill, and left the state’s House of Representatives without a quorum to pass the bill.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The complaint then claims $5 in actual damages and $10 in punitive damages.

These are not serious people. Not a lawyer, but isn't there some legal principle about not filing frivolous lawsuits?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/09/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  this should be the logic to sue every politician right now.
Posted by: Chris || 08/09/2021 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  The term is "Barratry" in Common Law for spurious litigation.
Posted by: magpie || 08/09/2021 1:06 Comments || Top||

#4  "deprived of liberty for substantial periods of time, suffered much anxiety and distress over separation from their families, and much discomfort and embarrassment,"

No one forced you morons to leave Texas. No one.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/09/2021 2:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Bring them back in chains.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 2:41 Comments || Top||

#6  bring them back in chains, and forced to walk all the way there
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/09/2021 7:09 Comments || Top||

#7  OPEN LETTER TO ALL
Socialcrats, Progressives, Liberals and old school Democrats.

If you cannot abide by your Oath of Office and perform your elected duties.


You can and will be removed from office.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/09/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Bring them back in chains, make sure the return flight is over the Gulf, and give them the opportunity to swim twenty miles to shore.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/09/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#9  and much discomfort and embarrassment

Not more than the beatdown you'll get if I run into you.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/09/2021 8:29 Comments || Top||

#10  These dimwits should have been thrown in the clink. I can't see where they suffered any wrongs or injuries. They didn't do the jobs they were elected to do. They were AWOL. They broke the law. What chutzpah from this bunch of morons. Hope the judge tosses the case with prejudice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/09/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#11  So, they were hired to do a job and didn't show up for work. Texas is an At-Will state, Abbott should consider that quitting the job and arrange for special elections.

"Focus: Job Abandonment



There is no official definition of job abandonment in the statute or the TWC regulations. It is mentioned in the following TWC precedent cases: Appeal No. 97-004610-10-042497, VL 135.05(6); Appeal No. 1197-CA-71, VL 450.02(2); Appeal No. MR 86-2479-10-020687, MC 90.00; and Appeal No. 764254-2, MC 135.05 (cross-listed at VL 135.05). The concept of job abandonment is generally defined by each company in its employee handbook. The basic idea is to set a limit for the number of days an employee can be completely out of contact with the company, beyond which the company will presume that the employee has decided not to return to work at all. Most companies define job abandonment as absence without notice for three or more days in a row. Such work separations are generally considered voluntary, although TWC may view certain job abandonment-caused work separations as involuntary, depending upon how the claimant and employer explain their respective positions and on what the facts show."
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/09/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#12  Just fire the worthless SOB's and hold new elections.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Infrastructure push slowed by Tennessee senator's objection
[AP via FOX] WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, Democrats and Republicans trekked to the Senate floor on Sunday touting a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal and argued that, after months of haggling, it was time for a final vote on the measure.

Standing in their way: Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee.

The freshman senator spent the weekend using a procedural maneuver to essentially grind the chamber to a halt. A final vote that could have happened on Friday night could now linger into the early hours of Tuesday morning, forcing lawmakers to give up their second consecutive summer weekend to plod through the minutia of Senate rules.

More than a dozen Republicans have joined Democrats to clear initial hurdles on the infrastructure bill, meaning the legislation will almost certainly pass despite Hagerty's protest. But the effort could raise the profile of a one-time Trump administration official eager to align himself with the former president, who has stepped up efforts to derail the package.

"I think he’s doing Trump’s bidding. I don’t think there’s any doubt about it," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont, one of the lead negotiators of the package, said in an interview. "I think they want to try to draw this out as long as they possibly can and hope and pray that Congress fails."

In Hagerty’s telling, his reasoning for taking a stand has less to do with Trump and more about the measure increasing the federal deficit by about $256 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Once Congress approves this legislation, Democrats are planning to take up an even more ambitious — and expensive — spending measure on their own.

"Democrats’ true intention is to rush this bill through," Hagerty said Sunday, adding that Democrats want to pass the bill quickly so they can pivot to the separate $3.5 trillion spending plan, which he derided as "a socialist debt bomb."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 09:56 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Appears to be at lease one honest man left in D.C.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  1st Term. Things seem to change in the long run.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/09/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  the "Infrastructure" bill had only 10% going to classical infrastructure work. If any other business or manufacturer claim their product was something that in reality was only 10%, you betcha the FTC would be on their neck.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/09/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Wasn't too sure about Bill Hagerty at first; he was unknown to politics--a conservative businessman. He looks better all the time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/09/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||


Obama Dancing At Maskless Martha's Vineyard Birthday Bash
[ZERO] A performer at President Obama's Martha's Vineyard "scaled-down" birthday party allegedly uploaded pictures of the event and was immediately forced to delete them.

Rapper Trap Beckham and manager TJ Chapman snapped pictures of the 'epic' birthday party with hundreds of maskless liberal elites partying like royalties while the ordinary folks, under the new health guidelines, are forced to wear masks and social distance at bars and restaurants.

Before the pictures were deleted, fans of Beckham saved them that show there's a two-tier society of liberal elites drinking top-shelf liquor, smoking expensive cigars, and eating fancy food in a maskless environment. The recording artist and his manager took pictures of themselves smoking weed behind the scenes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 03:56 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Katie Pavlich has more at this NYT link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 4:15 Comments || Top||

#2  immediately forced to delete them.

it's good that our enemies still have no clue as to how technology works.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/09/2021 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  What do they know about COVID and vaccines that the rest of us don't?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/09/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ There's probably some sort of fetal tissue cocktail made available to these people. May also assist with memory retention, Sundowners, and the occasional airplane or Secret Service limo boarding stumble.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Alien lizard people are immune to the Earth viruses.
Posted by: Whacko || 08/09/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder how loaded Champ was, and nowhere did I see him dancing with Big Mike. But best of all was the overt schism shown between Champ and NannyGoat, defining the split in DC and through the intentional insult. Hopefully the grifter kleptocrat wing of the ruling class will intensify their resistance to the Marxist wing on display in all its celebrity POC finery last night....
Notice John Kerry showed up but Hilda didn't, and the exiled VP who seems to have annoyed in both sides in her attempt to be seen as the heir apparent was absent from all the media over the weekend. Finally, anybody notice that Bidet didn't say anything about the auspicious event of his good friend? Or at least Jill didn't write anything for him to read? Often the actors hate the Director even as they play the parts written for them onstage..
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/09/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Mrs Mundi and I escaped to a popular destination for an extended weekend. I won't give our Fed observers the courtesy of saying where but what struck us both was the absolute refusal by nearly all there to where masks indoors. And not once did I encounter any employee attempted to enforce the mandate. This needs to go nationwide.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/09/2021 17:28 Comments || Top||


Pete Holmes concedes Seattle city attorney race; Thomas-Kennedy, Davison will face off in November
[SEATTLETIMES] Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes conceded on Friday, as he fell further behind his two primary opponents in an election that will bring an end to his 12 years in office.

The result will leave Seattle with a clear-cut choice in November between a law-and-order candidate and an abolitionist who wants to halt most misdemeanor prosecutions.


"After two decades of public service to Seattle — the last 12 as your City Attorney — it’s time to acknowledge that my opponents will be advancing to the general election," Holmes said in a prepared statement. "While defeat is difficult to accept, it’s inconsequential compared to the collective pain we’ve suffered as a City throughout this pandemic."

Holmes was in third place after Friday’s vote tallies, with 31% of the vote. He trailed challengers Nicole Thomas-Kennedy,
...the abolitionist...
who had 35%, and Ann Davison,
...who therefore must be the law and order candidate...
who had 33%.

And while thousands of ballots remained uncounted, the trendlines offered no reason to believe the results would swing Holmes’ way.

Holmes was in second place, leading Thomas-Kennedy by about 550 votes on election night, but Thomas-Kennedy has gained every day since, taking the lead for the first time Friday, as later-arriving ballots continue to be processed, counted and released. Davison led on election night and now leads Holmes, for second place, by 3,141 votes. The two candidates with the most votes advance to the Nov. 2 general election.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Left is busy printing more ballots so that the Marxist candidate can win.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/09/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
Kinda clear Seattle Voters are sending a clearing picture.

If you can't enforce the laws of Washington state and
allow anarchy without prosecution you are out.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/09/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  as later-arriving ballots continue to be processed, counted and released.

Haven't we seen this movie before? Remember, Washington State is a forced mail-in ballot state.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/09/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||


Senate votes to advance Biden's $1T infrastructure bill
More on this story from yesterday.
[APNEWS] The Senate moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package Saturday after politicians from both parties came together and voted to clear a key procedural hurdle, but the action soon stalled out as opponents tried to slow the rush to approve one of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
’s top priorities.The measure would provide a massive injection of federal money for a range of public works programs, from roads and bridges to broadband internet access, drinking water and more. In a rare stroke of bipartisanship, Republicans joined the Democrats to overcome the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure toward final votes. The vote was 67-27, a robust tally. If approved, the bill would go to the House.

But momentum dragged as opponents refused to yield 30 hours of required debate before the next procedural vote, which could delay swift passage of the package and result in a dayslong slog.

"We can get this done the easy way or the hard way," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.67399 years, or 319.71793 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
, D-N.Y., said as the Senate opened on Saturday.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  why is broadband internet access in this bullshit? I have to pay a private company for mine, don't know about the rest of y'all.
Posted by: Chris || 08/09/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  The government wants you to pay them, Chris.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/09/2021 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Inflation is already way too high. It hurts all us seniors on fixed incomes. Why, oh why, do they want to pour this gasoline on the fire?
Posted by: Tom || 08/09/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  If your goal is to loot what is left of the treasury to enrich your friends in the near term, and impoverish your enemies while you can still exercise the stolen power of public office, and the end-state you seek is open rebellion so you can crush what is left of middle class, whom you know will be the core of resistence in the new workers paradise, what better way than instituting Venezuela style fiscal policies. The preposterous story of an insurrection is to create the contrived pretext of rebellious white supremacy that will explain the coming civil unrest by those whose future you have destroyed.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/09/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||



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