TreasonousBastard
TreasonousBastard's JournalShould Cuomo step down, meet Kathy Hochul...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/who-is-andrew-cuomos-lieutenant-governor-kathy-hochul.html...
Before running for lieutenant governor, Hochul had a reputation as a moderate Democrat — which was arguably a political necessity where she had run for office upstate. In local and county races, she regularly ran on the Conservative Party line. In 2007, when she was Erie County clerk, she gained some notoriety downstate for opposing then-Governor Eliot Spitzer’s effort to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants — vowing to arrest any immigrant who tried to apply for one at county offices. In 2011, she ran for Congress as an “independent Democrat,” and earned an endorsement from the National Rifle Association.
As with other upstate Democrats, like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Hochul’s politics have shifted in statewide office. She reversed her position on driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, for instance, and has been in ideological lockstep with the Cuomo administration. Hochul has described her evolution, and past positions, as a matter of trying to best represent her constituents and their views.
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The Buffalo News’ editorial board, in its endorsement of Hochul for lieutenant governor in 2018, emphasized her solid record of public service for western New York, her economic-development efforts, and her advocacy for women, noting that she “sees the governor-lieutenant governor relationship as akin to that of Barack Obama and Joe Biden — someone in sync with the chief’s priorities … She is the face of the initiatives, making appearances, leading task forces, and rallying support in the community and with legislators.”
$69 million for a jpeg? (There's just too much money out there in the wrong places)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/design/nft-auction-christies-beeple.html
With seconds remaining, the work was set to sell for less than $30 million, but a last-moment cascade of bids prompted a two-minute extension of the auction and pushed the final price over $60 million. Rebecca Riegelhaupt, a Christie’s spokeswoman, said 33 active bidders had contested the work, adding that the result was the third-highest auction price achieved for a living artist, after Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
Father outraged, heartbroken after 10-year-old son beaten to death by ex's new boyfriend...
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-boy-killed-20210309-sfw7pzmxunhg7cauypojpyz3o4-story.htmlIn a nutshell, guy and girl break up and she and kid move in with new guy. New guy beats the kid to death. Worse, neighbors hear the screams and call cops, but cops can't find apt.
(Also on that page are two other equally horrifying stories-- it's been a bad weekend in the city)
Still True? The Klan can adopt-a-highway?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-adopt-a-highway-sign-goes-up3-D printing organs for transplant in our lifetimes?
https://www.reviewgeek.com/73200/high-speed-3d-printing-method-could-produce-human-organs-in-under-an-hour/
Why don't we make things here? Why buy stuff from China?
Howcum we export pork and soy beans and import televisions? Isn't that what third-world counties do? Well, of course we do make things here. But, sometimes that invisible hand gets stuck. Take N95 masks...
This article basically says that we have a number of companies making N95 masks, but they can't sell them. They are perfectly good masks, but got stuck in the incredible web of purchasing mysteries.
Northwell Health, one of the biggest, maybe the biggest, hospital chains uses millions of these a year, but runs short. Problem is that if DemeTech goes to a local hospital, they are sent to "Purchasing" which already has contracts lined up and is loathe to pay an extra buck a mask. Distributers the same way. Amazon and Google have banned mask selling because fraudulent sellers can outnumber legitimate ones. Meanwhile, DemeTech has warehouses full of them. That containers full of masks and other stuff are tied up in salt-water "traffic jams" trying to get into port is only the tip of the iceberg.
We don't have any sort of a national policy to deal with this, and localities too often have hands out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-masks-china-united-states.html
Dying wish-- contribute to Ron Johnson's opponent...
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/she-never-got-involved-madison-womans-obit-asks-for-donations-to-ron-johnsons-2022-opponent/article_52148442-2bb3-5fa0-bec6-b090743acfbc.html“She was fascinated with it,” Laurie said. “I remember being grounded one summer and watching Watergate with her. What’s in the news or politics has always been the background music to my growing up. But she never got involved.”
A unique request Laurie included in her mother’s obituary, however, changed that.
“In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Ron Johnson’s opponent in 2022,” the obituary read.
OK, maybe Cuomo's got to go after all
But not because he's handsy, it's because he lied.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/nyregion/cuomo-nursing-home-deaths.html
After the state attorney general revealed earlier this year that thousands of deaths of nursing home residents had been undercounted, Mr. Cuomo finally released the complete data, saying he had withheld it out of concern that the Trump administration might pursue a politically motivated inquiry into the state’s handling of the outbreak in nursing homes.
But Mr. Cuomo and his aides actually began concealing the numbers months earlier, as his aides were battling their own top health officials, and well before requests for data arrived from federal authorities, according to documents and interviews with six people with direct knowledge of the discussions, who requested anonymity to describe the closed-door debates.
The central role played by the governor’s top aides reflected the lengths to which Mr. Cuomo has gone in the middle of a deadly pandemic to control data, brush aside public health expertise and bolster his position as a national leader in the fight against the coronavirus.
As the nursing home report was being written, the New York State Health Department’s data — contained in a chart reviewed by The Times that was included in a draft — put the death toll roughly 50 percent higher than the figure then being cited publicly by the Cuomo administration.
9 months for a killing?
https://abc7ny.com/ann-marie-drago-evelyn-rodriguez-kayla-cuevas-ms13/10388175/
CENTRAL ISLIP, Long Island (WABC) -- The woman who ran over and killed an anti-gang activist whose daughter was murdered by MS-13 on Long Island was sentenced to nine months in prison Thursday.
Ann Marie Drago was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, petit larceny, and criminal mischief in the September 2018 death of Evelyn Rodriguez, who was struck and killed while setting up a memorial in Brentwood to mark the second anniversary of her 16-year-old daughter Kayla Cuevas' murder.
OK, maybe not premeditated, but not good. Not good at all.
Snopes checked AOC's claim Danish McDonald's paying over 20 bucks an hour...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/There is no minimum wage there, but there is a pretty good union
The 3F union rep told us that agreements are renewed every few years. The most recent agreement from 2020 has McDonald’s employees over the age of 18 earning a minimum of DKK 127,24 (about $20.59) per hour, with a slight increase in 2021 (DKK 129,74 or about $21 per hour) and 2022 (DKK 132,24 or $21.40).
And everyone gets 5 weeks vacation by law. McD's employees get an extra week.
And, about prices?
Magic, right?
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