January 23, 2019

there is a wh conference call right now about

"the president's immigration proposal"

to state and local electeds across the country.
kellyanne conway lying her ass off right now.

they asked the press to disconnect.

spanky talking now.

January 23, 2019

how are impeachment committees constituted?

would it work to just impanel a committee on impeachment instead of a bunch of investigations in different committees?
esp if they cant get the govt reopened tomorrow, i say just impanel the committee, start the hearings. plenty of things completely unrelated to mueller that they can start w.

hearings and investigations arent votes to proceed.
the watergate hearings turned the tide.
time to start pushing.

January 23, 2019

Chicago has a mental health crisis. Reopening 6 clinics isn't enough.

This is a public health challenge we cannot afford to ignore. Mental health conditions are more common than breast cancer or diabetes. Just 50 percent of adults experiencing severe psychological distress received any treatment in 2017. Those statistics don’t take into consideration the thousands of people — our neighbors — who are suffering from trauma and grief, violence, drugs, and food and housing insecurity. It affects residents from West Ridge to Roseland and from Austin to the Loop. It affects older adults, office workers and, in growing numbers, our children.

Ignoring their common struggle is morally unacceptable. It is also costly. Many people who are living with mental illness end up in emergency rooms and interacting with law enforcement. How desperate is it? Our 911 system is effectively the central intake line for mental health needs.

The burden is felt by their relatives, who are forced to navigate a byzantine system looking for help, but also by first responders, teachers, Chicago Park District and CTA employees who are called on regularly to go far beyond their scope of work. This is the system we’ve paid for.

It doesn’t work.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mental-health-clinics-reopen-crisis-city-council-0123-20190122-story.html?fbclid=IwAR104o5K9Gp225eo9P4iChOxwf5NtzrgSzfJYSkFs3R4TP-addo2H5WoC6w


we are on the verge of a bit of a wave here in chi.
this is very much an issue.
it will be interesting to watch.

January 14, 2019

it's the trump death panel.

wait until the bodies start stacking up, as see who the republican party policies have targeted.
watch as they make exceptions, protecting bankers, etc, and see who government really works for.
and see who it profits from stifling. from abandoning.

it's only a matter of time. starting to push seniors out of their housing. it wont take long.

but a death panel, sitting in secret, is picking the "winners and losers".

tho i guess at this point it is the turtle death panel.

January 5, 2019

i think we should give him the money for the wall, but

only let him buy land.
it is my understanding that there are 700 mi of fence at the border, and that that represents all the area where we either owned the land or the owner were willing to sell it.
there are still cases in the system trying to acquire land.

so, let him start trying to buy up the land.
wont hurt much. no permanent damage, we can turn it into a park later.

that will keep him out of trouble till 2020 at least.