Thought for the Day

[KnightHawk 2.0]

When a Billionaire pleads for money you wonder why even his supporters don't scratch their heads and say 'Ain't you got any?'.

Completely agree,Billionaires should be using their own money to pay for and run their campaigns,instead of begging and pleading to their supporters for money.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

How about this from Republican Jim Marchant who wants to be Secretary of State in Nevada -

"Addressing the crowd of Trump supporters, Marchant then went on to pledge that he and his band of election deniers would secure a Trump victory in two years’ time.“When I’m secretary of state of Nevada, we are going to fix it, and when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected we’re going to fix the whole country, and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024."
Nevada secretary of state contender pledges to secure Trump victory in 2024 (yahoo.com)

In other words, Nevada, your votes don't count, because we are counting the votes, and Trump has won!

Jim Marchant is another delusional candidate living in an alternate world and parroting the Big Lie.

[broncofan]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/polit...xes/index.html

[Stavros]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/polit...xes/index.html

Can Trump's lawyers be held accountable for false statements and even be struck off or have their licences to practice taken away?

[blackchubby38]

On the one hand you make a fair point about border control, to which there are numerous complex solutions which cost money, but also require a degree of diplomacy with the states of Central and Southern America that I don't think the Biden Administration has focused enough attention on.

But consider the view that as Texas, by GDP is the second richest State in your Union, why spend millions of tax dollars busing migrants out of the State, when it can fund their residence in Texas? When the migrants were dumped in Martha's Vineyard, the locals provided food, clothing and shelter. Is Texas incapable of providing the same?

And this from Pope Gregory who wanted to replace the Constitution of the USA with the Holy Bible?

"But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Luke 14:13-14

"If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you."
Leviticus 25:35.

If the USA is to become a Christian Theocracy, is it too much to expect Americans to behave like Christians?

Well the Biden Administration did tell the migrants not to come. Obviously they didn't get the message.

If the Biden Administration and further more Congress don't want to address the border crisis with the countries of Central and South America and expect local governments to provide food, clothing, and shelter to migrants while many of them go through the asylum process, the least the federal government can is send financial aid to the those governments before their resources run out.

New York Faces Record Homelessness as Mayor Declares Migrant Emergency

http://https://www.nytimes.com/2022/...-response.html


Yes Texas is the second richest state in the union. But at the last count about 2 million migrants have crossed the border this year and even they can't be expected to provide for that many people, some of whom won't be able to work at least for 6 months. Considering the fact that NYC has only been sent 19,000 of them, I think its safe to assume that a majority of that number are still residing in Texas and are being provided for.

Look I have empathy for anyone who wants to come to this country in search of a better a life. But the situation as it stands now is unsustainable. There is only so much any local government can do before they reaches a breaking point.

For example:

Migrants bused to NYC hotel going door-to-door asking for help

http://https://nypost.com/2022/10/09...king-for-help/

Or:

‘It’s scary for me’: Struggle of migrant kids in NYC schools with few Spanish speakers

https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/migran...gual-teachers/

But I think the Biden Administration finally got the message:

Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams laud Biden administration's move to limit migrants crossing Southern border

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...uthern-border/

[Stavros]

Thanks for your response and the links. I wonder what Kamala Harris has been doing, as I understand Biden tasked her with Border issues. I am therefore disappointed that there seems to be no dialogue or policy framework between the US and Central American states to reach a rational means of reducing immigration, though it might be that crime and disorder is so endemic in Honduras, for example, that even the Govt can't deal with it, or may be part of the problem.

That so many people want to leave oil-rich Venezuela is a damning indictment of the incompetence of that Govt, though I doubt even a rapprochement with Maduro would help as, again, it is the endemic corruption and bad government that has infiltrated so many levels of society that Exit, rather than either Voice or Loyalty is the option, to borrow Hirschmann's terms.

That said, and I take your point about Texas, I think the trafficking of migrants is a cruel, and expensive stunt, and distracts from the need for a more holistic policy. Should every State in the Union agree to take a proportion of migrants? Would that lessen the burden for 'frontline' States, or run into trouble if certain States refuse to participate?

I should also point out the UK doesn't have a coherent policy either, with Asylum Seekers -not migrants- being sent for processing to Rwanda, a policy so cockeyed and expensive one wonders who created it, and if they could be asked to pay for it. The link does explain the policy in some detail, but is worth reading for all that.
Q&A: The UK’s policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda - Migration Observatory - The Migration Observatory (ox.ac.uk)

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Herschel Walker makes a fool of himself during last night's debate againist Raphael Warnock,by flashing a police badge claiming that he worked for law enforcement,and was chastised by the moderator for pulling that stunt. With all of his skeletons and despicable things being revealed about him,the Republicans are still defending and standing by him,but i am not surprised at all,because this is who the Republican Party has become over the last 7 years,when they let embraced someone who is as toxic as the Maga King Donald Trump is. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/u...mentsContainer

[broncofan]

I was getting my car inspected about ten miles East of Pittsburgh in what is Trump country. While sitting in the small waiting room wearing my mask a woman engaged me in conversation about her newest pet conspiracy theories. She was reading a book that claimed every part of the food supply chain was damaging her health, from real concerns about antibiotic use in livestock feed, to unreasonable concerns about the pasteurization of milk. She told me she drives 60 miles to get her beef a particular way, drinks raw milk which the fda and cdc says is dangerous and leads to lots of foodborne illness, and eats eggs that come right out of a chicken's butt (I didn't argue with her about where the eggs come from).

When I responded to be nice and not disagree with anything she was saying she told me she couldn't hear me because of my mask, which she said does nothing but is good if it makes me feel better. Anyhow, I went into the parking lot and walked around for an hour and a half, and took my car home. People seem to be hooked on scientific sophistry and anti-establishment crackery. Had I told her the FDA and CDC think drinking unpasteurized milk is dangerous it would only make her guzzle more of it.

[Stavros]

People seem to be hooked on scientific sophistry and anti-establishment crackery. Had I told her the FDA and CDC think drinking unpasteurized milk is dangerous it would only make her guzzle more of it.

Stay safe, for The Angle of Death is coming, and coming for you. Do watch the video, it's a hoot.

Pro-Trump rally speaker says that 'angel of death' is coming for Lindsey Graham and Democrats before end of the year | Business Insider India

[filghy2]

I was getting my car inspected about ten miles East of Pittsburgh in what is Trump country. While sitting in the small waiting room wearing my mask a woman engaged me in conversation about her newest pet conspiracy theories. She was reading a book that claimed every part of the food supply chain was damaging her health, from real concerns about antibiotic use in livestock feed, to unreasonable concerns about the pasteurization of milk. She told me she drives 60 miles to get her beef a particular way, drinks raw milk which the fda and cdc says is dangerous and leads to lots of foodborne illness, and eats eggs that come right out of a chicken's butt (I didn't argue with her about where the eggs come from).

When I responded to be nice and not disagree with anything she was saying she told me she couldn't hear me because of my mask, which she said does nothing but is good if it makes me feel better. Anyhow, I went into the parking lot and walked around for an hour and a half, and took my car home. People seem to be hooked on scientific sophistry and anti-establishment crackery. Had I told her the FDA and CDC think drinking unpasteurized milk is dangerous it would only make her guzzle more of it.

There are a lot of people who spurn large-scale farming for various reasons, including environmental and animal welfare. The problem is that avoiding the supply chain makes feeding yourself an expensive and inconvenient process. There's no way the world can feed itself without large-scale farming.

I guess this particular conspiracy only harms those who believe it, but the problem is that once people start to believe in government/corporate/media conspiracies they reject the idea of any authoritative source of knowledge. Ironically, they can then start to believe things they read in murky corners of the internet, without considering what those people's motives might be or how their claims have been tested.

It's amazing how many people assert as fact that surgical masks do nothing. Do they think medical staff have been acting out some form of pointless cosplay all these years?