tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45887094448411568922024-03-23T06:17:09.206-04:00The Dismal Political EconomistDavid Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.comBlogger4369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-64633070386540947662023-07-25T15:44:00.001-04:002023-07-25T15:44:10.860-04:00<p> We are back! This is a test.</p>David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-16773033897383073992018-04-16T07:53:00.001-04:002018-04-16T07:53:33.050-04:00This Explains a Lot<br />
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York City’s Sewage Shipment Runs Afoul in Rural South</b></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "retina" , "whitney ssm" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alabamans
want human-waste deliveries to local landfill to stop; ‘We didn’t
produce it. We don’t want it here.’</span></span></span></h2>
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From the WSJ. And no Alabama, despite the great target we are
not going to make snarky comments on this. That would be just too
easy.<br />
<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-5679819761435713502018-04-16T07:52:00.002-04:002018-04-16T07:52:47.687-04:00Since the U. S Knew Syria Had Chemical WeaponsAnd since the U. S. knew where the chemical weapons were being made<br />
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And since the U. S. knew where the chemical weapons were being stored<br />
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<b>Why didn't the U. S. destroy them before they were used to kill innocent civilians?</b>David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-14607635414141392142018-04-15T08:17:00.005-04:002018-04-15T08:17:47.841-04:00Actual Innocence Isn't Enough to Get Convicted Person Out of Jail<b><span style="font-size: large;">Fortunately, That's the Dissent</span></b><br />
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Want to know what's wrong with our criminal justice system? <a href="https://reason.com/volokh">This post</a> from the Volkh Conspiracy is example enough.<br />
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<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 18px; padding: 0px;">"Low-IQ drifter confesses to killing two gay men three days apart in 1980. He's convicted of first murder, acquitted of the second. Decades later, DNA exculpates him of the second murder, but DNA from the first no longer exists. <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-30421-CV0.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #ff6c2f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Fifth Circuit</a>: New trial. Evidence of innocence, like a third party's fingerprints at the scene (which was withheld from the defense) and a detective's propensity for beating suspects, is ample. Dissent: <u>A finding that a convict is actually innocent isn't enough to grant him relief;</u> he still has to prove that his rights were violated and that deference to the state court is out of line." (ermphasis added)</li>
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In our system of justice innocence does matter. And oh yes, the suspect had an IQ of 59 and confessed to another murder that he did not do.David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-60753910349275406682018-04-14T08:46:00.003-04:002018-04-14T08:46:46.377-04:00Trumpie Rails Against Proven Liars and Leakers<b>So he pardons one, Scooter Libby, a proven liar since </b><br />
<b>he was convicted of that in a court of law.</b>David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-12376683215641690552018-04-13T08:15:00.002-04:002018-04-13T08:15:58.315-04:00Paul Ryan - No Longer to be Speaker, But Still a LiarEverybody should remember how he said he was not quitting as Speaker before he<br />
did quit as Speaker.David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-11733557865978264902018-04-13T08:14:00.003-04:002018-04-13T08:14:50.206-04:00Finally, Even Republicans in Virginia Embrace Health Care for Low Income People<div align="CENTER">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Cruelty of Conservatives May Stop</span></b></div>
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Virginia is one of the Republican controlled states
that refused to expand Medicaid. To even get Medicaid in the state
residents had to be not just poor, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/us/virginia-medicaid-wagner-hanger.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/us&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront">but
as poor as some </a>of the weakest economies in the world.</div>
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Virginia has one of the most restrictive Medicaid programs. Childless
adults are not eligible and working parents cannot exceed an income
of 30 percent of the federal poverty level, or $5,727.</span></span></span></span></span>
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But reality, read elections, are changing things.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Elections
have consequences, goes the old saw, and in Virginia a Democratic
wave in November remade the political landscape on one of the state’s
longest-running and most contentious issues: whether to expand
Medicaid to 400,000 low-income residents.</span></span></div>
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Republicans lost 15 seats in the House
of Delegates and, left clinging to a bare majority, did an about-face
on Medicaid expansion — an issue that to many had smacked of
“Obamacare.” But Republicans in the State Senate, who had not
faced voters, blocked expansion last month, and lawmakers failed to
pass a state budget because of the issue.<br />
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Now, as Gov. Ralph Northam orders the
House and Senate back to the capital on Wednesday for a special
session to fix the problems, what remains of Republican opposition to
expansion appears to be cracking.<br />
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Two Republican state senators said
this week they would accept some form of broader Medicaid benefits,
as provided under the Affordable Care Act — enough votes to carry
the day on an issue that is widely popular in state polls.</div>
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And the Republicans who are changing are learning first hand how
vicious conservatives can be.<br />
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Mr. Kilgore’s district in southwest
Virginia is one of the poorest in the state, where each July
thousands of people visit a free pop-up clinic at a county
fairground.</div>
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Delegate Chris Peace, another
Republican who favored expansion in the House, said he had changed
his position in part because in his family law practice, he had come
to see the dire effects that a lack of health care had on low-income
families.</div>
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He called the House bill that includes
work requirements “the epitome of the Republican conservative
mantra of a hand up, not a handout.”</div>
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Ahead of the special session,
activists from the conservative group Americans for Prosperity have
demonstrated outside Mr. Peace’s office in Mechanicsville, trying
to pressure him to change his mind.</div>
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He dismissed them as remnants of the
Tea Party movement straining to remain relevant. “Half are 60-plus
gray-haired white men who hate Obama,” he said.</div>
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<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-4232997934082659512018-04-12T08:12:00.001-04:002018-04-12T08:12:11.250-04:00Defficit Hawk Paul Ryan Leaves a Legacy<b><span style="font-size: large;">Trillion Dollar Deficits </span></b><br />
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When the tough gets going, the tough stay and fight. Ryan cuts and runs.David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-3776463355880750572018-04-12T07:49:00.001-04:002018-04-12T07:49:19.730-04:00Missouri Republican Gov. Charged with Felony in Sex Scandal<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Still
Has Support of 55% of GOP Voters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another
nail in the coffin of Republican ethics is happening in Missouri
where the recently elected governor is charge with a felony for
threatening his girl friend. Of course he was married at the time,
he is a liar and a cheater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But
the not so amazing thing is <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/sheena-greitens-claims-ex-husband-of-governors-mistress-cyberstalked-her">that
his support among the GOP</a> is still fairly solid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Greitens’
job approval ratings have </span></span></span><a href="http://https//www.scribd.com/document/373614957/2018-Poll-Missouri-March-10-2018#from_embed"><span style="color: #007bff;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">tumbled</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #212529;"> </span><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">since
his personal foibles were exposed. But they haven’t collapsed
irreparably, some Republican insiders say. In an early March survey,
34 percent of Missouri voters gave Greitens positive marks; among
Republicans, that number was nearly 55 percent.</span></span></span> </span>
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Yes these are the same people who
thought Bill Clinton was the devil incarnate for his actions. But
then Bill didn't cut taxes for billionaires, so we guess he deserved
it.</div>
<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-12202189618957597252018-04-11T13:07:00.002-04:002018-04-11T13:07:55.992-04:00House Speaker Paul Ryan - Quitter In Chief<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Turns Tail and Runs</b></span><br />
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<b>A Big Win for the American People</b><br />
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The news that Paul Ryan in the not to distant future will no longer be Speaker of the House of Representatives is just great news for the people who believe government serves everyone and not just the rich and powerful. A possible Democratic takeover of the House seems to be what pushed Paulie out.<br />
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Ryan leaves a lot of unfinished business. He has not yet ruined health care. People, particularly children still get nutrition assistance when they need it. A woman's body is still in her control, not the government's. Social Security lives.<br />
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All American should celebrate Ryan's departure. Just so sad it took so long.David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-24649328158717070442018-04-10T08:11:00.000-04:002018-04-10T08:11:53.691-04:00GOP To Chase Their Dream – Make Low Income People Go Hungry<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Take Away Their Food – Take Away
Their Dignity</span></b></div>
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Republicans never tire of trying to use
the money from cutting benefits to low income to pay for tax cuts for
the wealthy. Well they got the tax cuts for the money bags, now they
just need to cut nutrition assistance, and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/food-stamp-fight-imperils-farm-bill-1523185200">they
are off to the races.</a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "exchange" , "chronicle ssm" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">WASHINGTON—House
Speaker </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/paul-ryan-discusses-entitlement-reform/D92B03A9-0726-45E4-980D-88B2C7C1E863.html"><span style="color: #0080c3;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "exchange" , "chronicle ssm" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Paul
Ryan’s long-sought goal</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "exchange" , "chronicle ssm" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-push-on-taxes-republicans-line-up-welfare-revamp-next-1512469801"><span style="color: #0080c3;"><span style="font-family: "exchange" , "chronicle ssm" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">overhauling
welfare programs</span></u></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "exchange" , "chronicle ssm" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">will
get a kick-start when Congress returns to Washington this week, as
Republicans prepare to release a new, five-year farm bill that would
impose tougher work requirements to get food stamps.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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It remains to be seen if this is just a
symbolic middle finger to people struggling to put food on the table,
or real policy. Either way, cutting nutrition assistance to families
who need it defines the Republican Party of Donnie Trumpie.</div>
<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-19065120202556610712018-04-09T08:20:00.000-04:002018-04-09T08:20:10.665-04:00Kentucky Leads the Nation - Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Tax Increases for Everyone Else<b>That's What Conservatives Believe</b><br />
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Republicans have long argued that they support working men and women. They have long lied about this. Now in Kentucky <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/">the truth is out.</a><br />
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Here's the headline<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Kentucky legislators send tax cuts for wealthy, tax hikes for the other 95 percent to governor’s desk</span></b></div>
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See, other rabid Republican states like Kansas passed big tax cuts for the high income folks and experience huge revenue losses. Kentucky wanted to avoid that. Of course the easy way to avoid that would be to not cut taxes for the wealthy. But Kentucky has a better way, raise taxes on everyone else.</section></div>
David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-49263766786121759102018-04-09T08:19:00.000-04:002018-04-09T08:19:44.216-04:00Pat Robertson is Batshit Crazy<br />
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Pat Robertson said on <a href="https://youtu.be/c1JtbPV5SBQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #478fb3; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">The 700 Club</a> that homosexuals are drowning out voices like his.</div>
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Said Robertson: “We have given the ground to a small minority. You figure, lesbians, one percent of the population; homosexuals, two percent of the population. That’s all. That’s statistically all. But they have dominated — dominated the media, they’ve dominated the cultural shift and they have infiltrated the major universities.”</div>
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He added: “It’s just unbelievable what’s being done. A tiny, tiny minority makes a huge difference. The majority — it’s time it wakes up.”</div>
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David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-65152606819218668832018-04-08T08:29:00.000-04:002018-04-08T08:29:28.458-04:00Remember When Donnie Was Going to Produce Better Relations with Russia?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The response of Trumpie
to criticism that he like and loved Putin has been that he will
develop a good rapport with Russia and will lead to a glorious era of
cooperation with Russia and and end to animosity. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-russian-relations-worst-ambassador-antonov-can-remember-n861391">Things
have not turned out that way,</a> have they?</span></div>
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Russia's ambassador to the United
States has told the "Today" show that he can't remember a
period of worse relations between Washington and Moscow, after both
countries expelled dozens of diplomats following the
poisoning of a former Russian spy.</div>
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So Donnie, the strategy of sucking up to Putin, it ain't working.
As with most things, you are making it worse.
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<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-67890786576650845142018-04-07T08:27:00.002-04:002018-04-07T08:27:19.600-04:00No Wisconsin Anti-democratic Republican Governor – You Cannot Cancel Elections<br />
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<b>Just Because You Think You Will Lose</b></div>
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One of the great myths is that
conservatives believe in democracy. Their massive effort to keep
people from voting, that is, people they don't think will vote for
them is well documented. In Wisconsin the Republican governor
decided not to hold elections for vacant state legislature seats
because he was sure they would lose to Democrats. <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/scott-walker-special-elections-7f70f3a2c515/">A
court has said nope, no deal.</a></div>
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A judge ruled Thursday that Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker (R) must “promptly” hold special elections for
two vacant seats in the state legislature — elections that he
refused to call because he was afraid his party would lose.<br />
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According to the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel, Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds ruled that
state law requires Walker, a two-term governor and former
presidential candidate, to hold the elections in order to give
residents of the two districts representation in the state
legislature. The seats have been vacant since December, when Walker
appointed the two representatives to serve in his administration.<br />
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“To state the obvious, if the
plaintiffs have a right to vote for their representatives, they must
have an election to do so,” said Reynolds, who Walker appointed to
the court in 2014.</div>
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Yep, democracy kills, ultra partisan
conservatives that is.</div>
<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-78487835748778373652018-04-06T07:58:00.001-04:002018-04-06T07:58:54.723-04:00Sure Scott Pruitt's $50 a Night Condo Cost is Market for D. C.<br />
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<b style="font-size: large;">A
Rate Available to Everyone</b></div>
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The current EPA Administrator got to
rent a condo from a lobbyist's wife for $50.00 a night in Washington.
The claim of course is 'nothing to see here, that's the going rate'.
Actually that's the going rate at the Fleabag Inn in Butcreek,
Georgia. The cost in D. C., a little bit more.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holiday
Inn Washington DC-Central/White House</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1501
Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Check
in Mon, Apr 9Check out Tue, Apr 10</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="sd-abs-pos" style="position: absolute; width: 20px;"><img border="0" height="20" name="graphics3" src="https://www.gstatic.com/travel-hotels/branding/4482e500-2749-4134-bda8-bcca457111ef_W4GUNUuUBeA.png" width="20" /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holiday
Inn Washington DC-Central/White House</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #878787;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Total:
$259/night</span></span></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/travel/clk?pc=AA80Osz5Ib5Al6h_t_P0eg168Z55tho52fglalJt0-JOmmtnMZpD4rW75kV2A0g-vbKuJApPli64FGyJHP48Vv4DFXW6vfbmHr4-UH8Z63TgcIsUccirhB7uhoziWJNtsCCfHIJiZ82Huw4VmDrl1rvDz71ZQwWzv2MqHQ-telGnQHWhZ6CzCe800043WJyYMZikxGVxcuRI3G_-5rhcb9twIEr2u-8wECn9mWLcBm2vmeYTFUoNwo7vmeZ-cT49FhVaVq4S9qI0s4ZAuOUm7c-Hm2-VppBCh-ZyQpXmYs3JPpyhNvKUYnU3hV8nloPe5zk2WijUOw04WC8Rhcxf8Q" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: #3e82f7; font-size: large;">$225</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Standard
room - Book early and save</b></span></span></span></div>
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guests</b></span></span></span></div>
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$259/night</b></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/travel/clk?pc=AA80Osxvx_MjZ7hGVoh3CyuAIbsh7--qy8_yA6f_bhQpLzMs4xjxlFjDC6ddB1p7K9njbmDau25_4lcFMD9pq7WtARvDtSz5dzHIN9EwMqyBQ8vaP5m0eOQzxcgHTEDVgkk0KfIL_ASUcGYG-G2h9dp9K2bHfv26A3vbuKPA5CapNHSUywcSp_oKy5Egpx3HpmyZZImzA6mN92IHvTL3FotMysrb7Jt2MhF846hqpicpPn46I16WdaRP7tm0ZF4z4PxpYiNH8HPSnuLVZZCxzGhs2sAx5CMzbtandgmWRjtijXtPyOvTrZf5ZgY-Jcr3ABBPjOIh8v_nS3Tmoqa6FA" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: #3e82f7; font-size: large;">$225</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></a></div>
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full beds nonsmoking - Book early and save</b></span></span></span></div>
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<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-46673350677120024252018-04-05T07:49:00.003-04:002018-04-05T07:49:57.414-04:00Patient Doesn't Have $6,500 Cash to Pay for Prescription<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Too Bad, Just Die</span></b></div>
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The prescription drug pricing crisis in
the U. S. is not getting the attention it needs, and certainly
getting nothing from Trumper who promised to do something about it.
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/patients-cant-afford-life-saving-medications-under-new-health-plan-change-2018-03-23">Here
is one dire </a>situation from the WSJ.</div>
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Killgore, who was born with
hemophilia, knew that clotting factor would help stop the bleeding
and pain. He had previously used a co-pay coupon provided by the
factor’s manufacturer to afford the prescription, but it wasn’t
working this time.</div>
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To get his life-sustaining medication,
Killgore needed to pay his $6,500 health insurance deductible in
full, the pharmacy told him.<br />
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It was money Killgore and his wife,
Lauren, already grappling with hundreds of thousands of dollars in
student and medical debt, just didn’t have.</div>
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Lauren asked a customer service
representative about a payment plan, and was advised to borrow money
from family or take it out in credit cards.<br />
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Killgore ended up being hospitalized
and needing surgery, something that taking the factor would have
completely avoided.</div>
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How does this happen to a person with
insurance? Oh, high deductibles that must be paid before any
insurance kicks in. This is the junk insuranace type Republicans
want to replace ACA. After all, shouldn't everyone have that
experience?</div>
<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-6378255669584332062018-04-05T07:49:00.000-04:002018-04-05T07:49:21.328-04:00Smackdown – Wisconsin Gov Has to Call Special Elections<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Democracy Wins – Conservatives Lose</span></b></div>
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One way to prevent a party from losing
an election is not to have the election in the first place. In
Wisconsin after Republicans started losing special elections the
Republicans reacted by cancelling elections. <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/29/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-calls-special-elections-senate-leader-drops-bill/469000002/">A
court set them right.</a></div>
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MADISON - After a three-month delay, a
lightning-quick lawsuit and three orders from as many judges,
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called two special elections
Thursday and GOP senators dropped legislation to block the contests.</div>
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Republican efforts collapsed following
a Wednesday ruling by an appellate judge ordering the governor
to call the May primary and June general elections. In less than a
day, Walker abandoned a state Supreme Court appeal to overturn
the ruling and lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly canceled
plans to vote to leave the seats vacant.</div>
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Nice going Democracy!</div>
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<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-48022987760738510692018-04-04T08:07:00.002-04:002018-04-04T08:07:28.424-04:00Wisconsin Judicial Race Says People Don't Like NRA, TrumpHey Conservatives, Are You Getting the Message?<br />
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A race for a seat on the Supreme Court in Wisconsin normally is not news outside of Kenosha. But yesterday it was news, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/wisconsin-judicial-race-becomes-costly-partisan-contest/2018/04/03/5a2adf66-376e-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html?utm_term=.9a41eb5f8826">as reported by the Washington Post.</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Democrat wins a bitter, costly race for </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</span></b></div>
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Both candidates and their supporters turned the race, which is technically nonpartisan, into a political referendum. Dallet ran early <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5j05Ha2UqY" shape="rect" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration-line: none; zoom: 1;">ads</a> that accused President Trump of “attack[ing] our civil rights and our values,” while Screnock <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/screnock-refuses-to-release-letter-to-nra-in-court-race/" shape="rect" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration-line: none; zoom: 1;">portrayed himself </a>as a “rule of law” conservative endorsed by the National Rifle Association. By election day, more than $2.5 million had been spent on TV ads.</div>
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With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, Dallet had 56 percent of the vote and Screnock had 44 percent.</div>
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Wow, Wisconsin which has turned slightly Republican decisively went against the NRA and conservatives. Big news people.</div>
David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-63995392319633779302018-04-04T07:52:00.000-04:002018-04-04T07:52:30.291-04:00Just In - Photo of Enemy Migrants Trumpie Wants to Send Military After<b>Don't Be Fooled - This is a combat ready child</b><br />
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From the WaPo<br />
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<img alt="A girl lies awake as migrants traveling with the annual âStations of the Crossâ caravan sleep at a sports club in Oaxaca State. (AP)" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480x320/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2018/04/03/Foreign/Images/Mexico_Migrant_Caravan_16834-c684d.jpg?t=20170517a" />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-20573955475076324232018-04-03T07:57:00.000-04:002018-04-03T07:57:52.297-04:00Trump and Treasury Sec Try and Fail to Explain Their Ignorance of the Constitution<b><span style="font-size: large;">Just Another Day in Trump World</span></b><br />
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When the acting President and his chief economic flunky the Secretary of the Treasury called for the line item veto, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/03/26/steven-mnuchins-deeply-worrying-gaffe/?utm_term=.2079289bfd4b">they had to be corrected by Fox News</a> of all people.<br />
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"On “Fox News Sunday,” Mnuchin was tasked with defending the president’s signing Friday of a $1.3 trillion spending bill, to the scorn of many on the far right. Asked by host Chris Wallace what the president would do if congressional Republicans sent Trump another spending bill of this size later this year, Mnuchin repeated a suggestion that President Trump made Friday: Congress should give him the power of “line-item veto,” i.e. the ability to veto portions of the bill without vetoing the whole.</div>
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The problem? As Wallace pointed out, “that’s been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, sir.”</div>
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That the President is an ignoramus is not news. That his Secretary of the Treasury is one is not news. That Fox News would be the revealer of truth is.<br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18px;">"Wallace is correct: The Supreme Court ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional in 1998. But instead of conceding his mistake, Mnuchin dug himself in deeper: “Well, again, Congress could pass a rule, okay, that allows them to do it.” When Wallace pointed out that “No, no, sir, it would be a constitutional amendment,” Mnuchin stammered, “Chris, we don’t need to get into a debate in terms of — there’s different ways of doing this” and moved on."</span><br />
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David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-799349335195247882018-04-02T08:05:00.000-04:002018-04-02T08:05:14.693-04:00Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Does Another Stupid Thing<b><span style="font-size: large;">Exposes Trumpie to a Deposition in Stormy Case</span></b><br />
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<b>Duh</b><br />
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Michael Cohen, the lawyer who paid the $130k to Stormy Daniels moved the case to Federal Court because he thought it would be more favorable for him. Bad move.<br />
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Stormy's lawyer has now moved to depose Donnie. In Federal Court this means that unless the Supreme Court overrules itself the Prez has to give the deposition because conservatives forced that ruling when Bill Clinton was in office. Had the case remained in state court there was a chance the federal ruling would not have applied.<br />
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Nice going Michael, you just blew it, again.David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-49008961929972662782018-04-02T08:04:00.000-04:002018-04-02T08:04:12.740-04:00Pictures of Trumpie's Great Wall<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here it is!</span></b><br />
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According to Donnie the building of the Wall has started and boy is it a great wall. Here it is in all its glory, and remember, it is all being paid for by Mexico.<br />
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<img alt="Image result for photo great wall of china" height="263" src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/1992/2023283-great_wall_1.jpg" width="400" />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-3646596219654647732018-04-01T08:17:00.000-04:002018-04-01T08:17:03.350-04:00Trump Declares April 'Sexual Assault Awareness' Month<b>Please stop laughing, this is not a joke,</b><br />
<b> it is not from SNL, it is not from The Onion.</b>David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588709444841156892.post-56945484480847237992018-03-31T08:15:00.002-04:002018-03-31T08:15:45.408-04:00Jared Kushner is in Charge of Bringing Peace to the Middle East.<b style="font-size: 16pt;">Here's the Latest</b><br />
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It was going to be easy to solve the Middle East conundrum. Put a
sniveling son-in-law in charge and the problems would be solved.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-protest-clashes.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news">Here's
what happening right now.</a>
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<span style="font-family: nyt-cheltenham; font-size: 15pt;"><b>Israeli
Military Kills 15 Palestinians in </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: nyt-cheltenham; font-size: 15pt;"><b>Confrontations on Gaza Border</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">JERUSALEM
— What was billed as a six-week campaign of peaceful protests in
Gaza descended almost immediately into chaos and bloodshed on Friday,
with health officials in the Palestinian territory saying Israeli
soldiers killed 15 Palestinians in confrontations along the border
fence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Soon
after the campaign began Friday morning, the Israeli military said
Palestinian protesters were rioting in six places along the border,
rolling burning tires and hurling stones at the fence and at Israeli
soldiers beyond it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Later,
the military said Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at soldiers
and that it had also thwarted a shooting attack in northern Gaza and
an attempt to infiltrate the border. Israeli forces fired live
ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas.</span></span></div>
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Yep, doing a heckuva job Jared. Try not to overdo the
celebrations of peace this Passover.<br />
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<br />David Ricardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733100135827552933noreply@blogger.com0