Georgia's primary elections were a mess yesterday. Look at the race for the Democratic slot in Georgia's first district. Progressive Lisa Ring, the progressive in George's first district will be in a runoff with Joyce Griggs. With 96.89% of precincts reporting (204 out of 225), Lisa had 17,181 votes to Griggs' 17,164. Every vote counts.
The protests against police brutality, which have gripped the nation as a result of the police murder of George Floyd, reached the capital of Texas on Saturday as thousands of mostly young and outraged Austin residents of all colors flooded one of the city’s most vital arteries, taking over I-35 just where it overlooks Austin Police Department (APD) headquarters and blocking traffic until police were able to get them off.
Last week a hair salon owner from the Dallas, Texas area was sentenced to a week in jail for refusing to obey state lockdown orders to close her shop which the Governor deemed as a “nonessential business.” In this way, the government has been picking winners and losers in the lockdown lottery.
Albania was one of the most overtly corrupt cesspools of a country I have ever visited. And I've been to every corrupt cesspool on earth. There is no reason, or almost no reason, to believe their pandemic numbers. They report 868 confirmed cases and 31 COVID-19 deaths. They report that there are just 302 cases per million people. That's one of the mildest pandemics in Europe. Albania has about 2.9 million people, similar to Lithuania and Armenia.
A Dallas, Texas hair salon owner was sentenced to a week in jail on Tuesday after refusing to close her shop.
The business owner, Shelley Luther, showed no “remorse or regret” and was “flagrant and intentional” in flouting multiple court and state orders, according to the presiding judge and as court documents revealed.
Texas has a crackpot extremist as its Attorney General, Ken Paxton, a very far right and very partisan Republican. He somehow thinks preventing Democrats from voting is part of his job description.
There are three governors who have been judged so dangerously incompetent that none can be singled out as the worst pandemic governor in America and all three share the spot: Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Brian Kemp of Georgia. Because all have opposed sane social distancing policies, thousands of their states' citizens have been infected. California now has 865 confirmed COVID-19 cases per one million in the population.
COVID-45 by Nancy OhanianChris Martenson, who insists, convincingly, that he is apolitical, has been excoriating the Trump regime's response to the pandemic for months. For nearly as long, he has been holding up the Czech Republic (Czechia) as a model of effective response, primarily because of how quickly and effectively the government got the whole country to wear face masks.
