Alaska’s attorney general, Kevin Clarkson, 61, a Republican, resigned Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, after it became public that he sent more than 500 personal messages, many suggestive, to a female state employee. Clarkson’s office is not elective, so he’s an appointee of the governor, and h[...]
Archive for August, 2020
August 25th, 2020 - 2:25 pm § in Misc.
GOP candidate: Pelosi a “traitor” who “could be executed”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon believer praised by Trump as a “future Republican star” and likely to be elected to Congress this fall, was a blogger who promoted conspiracy theories, claimed “Pizzagate” (an alleged child sex trafficking ring) was for real, the Marjory Stonem[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 1:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How the GOP sees America
All their speeches are the same: If the Democrats win, civilization will end, mobs will take over cities, and barbarians will burn down your house. (click on image to enlarge)[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 10:08 am § in Misc.
Take the #GuilfoyleChallenge!
Twitter users are taking the #GuilfoyleChallenge. Click here for examples. The goal is to outdo Kimberly Guilfoyle’s widely mocked “scenery-chewing” RNC speech (here). If you don’t know who Guilfoyle is, she’s a gold digger and social climber who married California Gov.[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 9:19 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
“They’re coming for your suburbs!”
Describing peaceful BLM protesters walking past their mansion as a “mob,” a St. Louis couple facing felony charges for threatening the protesters with drawn guns claimed Democrats want to “abolish the suburbs” in a fireside chat recorded for the GOP convention. Read story her[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 8:34 am § in Health, Schools & Colleges
After a week of classes: Alabama has 531 cases, Iowa State has 130 cases
“What we have to do is identify where does the virus thrive,” Tuscaloosa’s mayor said. Read story here. “We are monitoring the data,” ISU’s public health coordinator said. Read story here.[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 7:18 am § in Racism
Deemed “suspicious” by security because they’re black, she’s a professor, he’s a musician.
Black people aren’t safe from cops even on university campuses. Security officers at a public university spotted a black man on campus, reading and working on a computer, and considered that so “suspicious” they followed him to faculty housing where his sister, a professor, lives. [...]
August 25th, 2020 - 1:54 am § in Health
Ex-SEAL who terminated Osama bin Laden’s command banned from Delta for mask violation
Must wear mask on planes. No exceptions. Robert O’Neill (photo), an ex-Navy SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, has been banned from Delta Airlines for violating its in-flight mask requirement, according to several news sources. ABC‘s Atlanta affiliate reported O’Neill [...]
August 25th, 2020 - 1:37 am § in Health
First verified Covid-19 re-infection reported
A “proved” case of a recovered Covid-19 patient who became reinfected has been reported by University of Hong Kong researchers. Read story here. The man did not suffer a relapse; originally infected in Hong Kong in April, he became infected again in August by a different strain after tra[...]
August 25th, 2020 - 1:22 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Black veteran spent 9 years in prison for selling $30 of pot
An honorably discharged black Gulf War veteran has been set free after serving 9 years of a life sentence without possibility of parole for selling $30 worth of marijuana to an undercover police officer. Derek Harris (photo) drew the stiff sentence for a minor drug infraction under Louisiana’s[...]