Thursday

Media - Wingnut Propaganda Channel

Scholars' Letter on Senator Kamala Harris’s Eligibility

Israel vs Palestinians

Israel always seems to increase action against the Palestinians when the US attention is diverted.

Israeli planes bomb Gaza for seventh straight night

In Further War Crime, Israelis cut Electricity to Gaza, Idling 50,000 Factory Workers

2020

Trump enthusiasm? - Well, I rode about 100 miles up and down the East/West Teabagistan border this weekend. I see a lot fewer Trump-Pence signs than 2016 so I'd agree Trump enthusiasm is down but I've yet to see a Biden sign. 

I get the feeling that while the Ds have spent a couple weeks screaming for vote by mail and saving the PO, the R's are quietly signing up people to request an "absentee ballot". Ohio has been blanketed with absentee ballot application forms from the Ohio republican party. So yeah, there will be a lot of by-mail voter fraud this election but I'm guessing it will not come from where Trump has everyone looking.  

COVID

Just like the Flu - I remember our company department heads having to go to the local hospital for a class on how to handle H1N1. It was basically the same stuff as coronavirus, wash hands, hand sanitizer, etc. The big difference,... it was a month or so before flu season. We were out in front of H1N1.

GAMA (Great Again My Ass) - So Much Winning

Inequality

CEO compensation surged 14% in 2019 to $21.3 million

In 2019, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 320-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 293-to-1 in 2018 and a big increase from 21-to-1 in 1965 and 61-to-1 in 1989. 

Inequality needs to be near the top of the list of things to fix. I don't think the corporate party candidates really see it as a problem.