For years, Ed Troyer (photo below) was the official voice of the Pierce County, Washington, sheriff’s department. He was on TV whenever there was a major crime story, press conference, or announcement. So when the old sheriff retired, it’s not surprising he won the job, given the influen[...]
Archive for March, 2021
Out of control sports fans
Ohio State’s Buckeyes No. 2-seeded basketball team lost to No. 15-seeded Oral Roberts University in the national tournament’s first round, “making Ohio State the ninth No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament history to lose an opening round game, according to WCMH-TV, the NBC affiliate in [...]
Stimulus payment
This time I’m getting my stimulus payment 6 weeks earlier, and by direct deposit instead of by mail. Nothing’s changed on my end. I’ve had direct deposit of my government benefits (social security) all along. The only thing that has changed is new management overseeing federal reli[...]
March 20th, 2021 - 12:31 pm § in Politics
Leveling the political playing field
The voting rights bill snaking through Congress is pushing GOP buttons. “‘H.R. 1 is an attempt to use the Democrats’ slim majority to unlevel the playing field and take away the rights of roughly half of the voters in the country,’ said Mark Weaver, a GOP consultant based in [...]
March 19th, 2021 - 7:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Whose car is this?
It’s a 1996 Ferrari F50 with 10,708 miles on it, and appraises at nearly $2 million. The car was being shipped from Quebec to a buyer in America when U.S. customs officers noticed the VIN plate had been tampered with. Further investigation revealed “the car had been stolen in March 2003 [...]
Oligopolies
From an ABC News article published on Friday, March 19, 2021: “The four biggest airlines control about 65% of U.S. passenger traffic, five giant healthcare insurers control an estimated 45% of the market, pharmaceuticals are dominated by three major companies, the top four banks control about [...]
No medals for Trump-pardoned accused war criminal
Mathew Golsteyn was on a fast track to a brilliant Army career until he broke the rules. A West Point graduate, Green Beret, and decorated war hero, he probably would’ve become a general someday. Until he broke the Army’s rules in one of the worst possible ways: Bringing the service into[...]
GOP is losing business support
The GOP, once the party of business, has morphed like a mutating virus into a petrie dish teeming with conspiracy nuts, racists and bigots, anti-maskers, and violent insurrectionists. In Georgia, where GOP legislators are ramrodding a huge voter suppression bill, the Chamber of Commerce is distancin[...]
March 18th, 2021 - 9:02 pm § in Politics
Republicans are trying to steal elections
From an NBC News story on Thursday, March 18, 2021 (here): “In Georgia on Wednesday,” while the U.S. reeled from the Atlanta spa shootings, “state Senate Republicans quietly introduced and fast-tracked a 93-page voter suppression bill” that replaced a 2-page bill on absentee [...]
March 18th, 2021 - 5:30 pm § in America, Foreign Affairs
Why America must remain a superpower
Create a vacuum, and China and Russia will fill it, and their authoritarian styles of government will fill much more of the world. Trump’s “America First” version of isolationism, and Rand Paul’s, are wrong. This is a free country, and voters are entitled to make mistakes. Bu[...]