...opacity, nationalism and claims of victimization will slow ending the current pandemic, discovering its origin(s) and preventing☣ preparing or responding to the next one...
☣ Preventing implies pandemics are predictable, which is highly likely wrong...that is the prior pandemic is independent of the next...think earthquakes...preparing for the next pandemic is highly likely right...
...read and weep over our nation's choices that turned a small viral cluster into a ginormous clusterf#%k...hopefully when the next potential pandemic strikes our nation the sociopaths, incompetents and sycophants will not impede our public health professionals' prompt response...
"...Any pandemic management strategy relying upon immunity from natural infections [oft incorrectly referred to as herd immunity] for COVID-19 is flawed..."
[UPDATED] On May 9th a didactic U.S. Space Command unhelpfully reminded us that it is "unknown if the [CZ-5B] debris impacted land or water"...maybe our space command can tell us where its calculations show the biggest piece of the CZ-5B landed?
Hey Senator McConnell your partial mea culpa is ineffectual and disingenuous. You and your party have spent the past four plus years fomenting a fanciful insurrection instead of saying "enough"! Your party's platform and deviant behavior has exclaimed strongman, insurrection, deceit, duplicity and dictatorship. Forget the mea culpa. Immediately dissolve and replace your party!
There is a difference between corporate complexity and corruption. Yes, software is extraordinarily complex—software defeat devices✈ are corrupt. Boeing has been doing extraordinarily "complex" products, including software for decades, using talented engineers and risk analysis—not rent-seeking behavior or shameless calls by its chief executive officer.
It is highly likely that the ancestors decedents of American slaves will rescue our democracy from destruction by the ancestors decedents of American slave owners...irony's beauty is boundless.
...the upside of gerrymandering is the possibility of gaining more seats than your expected fair allocation of seats...to get this unfair allocation a party must distribute "their" finite number of precious partisan voters across many districts in "just enough numbers" to win, but no more (i. e. "waste" a precious partisan voter)...to determine what is "just enough" the gerrymanders generally use "historical voting patterns and turnout"...
...now the downside of a gerrymander...enter an ultra qualified charismatic politician who is able to "energize" their voters to turnout in numbers far exceeding the expected historical averages (i.e. Stacey Abrams)...the "just enough" allocation of the precious partisan voters in a particular gerrymandered district is "swamped"...and the opposition wins the gerrymandered district... ...this may be why Georgia's Secretary of State is very, very, very, concerned with the Democratic turnout...there are not enough reliably Republican voters in the gerrymandered district to cover the huge turnout...enter voter suppression (i.e a method of reducing the excessive turnout to the expected historical averages and those used when drawing the gerrymandered map)...
...Georgia's governor extends electoral ruses, artifices and gimmicks to critical healthcare data and information...sacrificing Georgians to Republican Party dogma and deception...
...the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party's antiquated political platform necessitates use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks (RAG)...lately, their use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks is transparently flagrant...
...just in case you're tempted to think Georgia is the only [southern?] state the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party is actively using in ruse, artifice, and gimmickry to win elections...
"...The DCCC did amazing work in 2018 to win 40 seats. Our challenge is to build on that progress, to fortify and expand our majority...America’s strength has always come from our diversity. That’s why I’m committed to building a leadership team that reflects the tremendous diversity of our House Democrats and our nation..."
"...The more fundamental risk for Republicans is that voters are increasingly savvy about issues like gerrymandering, voting rights and campaign finance, which were once thought to be of great interest to elites but of little relevance to most citizens..."--NYT, With Power Grabs--
...the NYT opinion has enough information to order a run-off based on Secretary of State, Bryan Kemp's gross negligence...a scandalous farce where a state's secretary of state "oversees" his own candidacy for governor is not an election...
...evidence continues to accumulate for requiring a form of the 1965 Voting Rights Act §5 preclearance rules, which the Supreme Court's ideologues invalidated in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), leaving the "gods" to sort out our nation's entrenched partisan regional racism...
...kudos to the local judges who are stepping in to fill the insidiously discriminatory gaps created by the Supreme Court ideologues' Shelby ruling...
...Georgia is not the only state where the RNC-GOP cum RAG Party is conducting bulk voter roll purge programs...unsurprisingly these bulk programs, disproportionately impact the economically disadvantaged and minority groups...
...everybody concerned about fair (i.e. credible) elections must actively intervene to make sure these "voter roll purges" do not remove a single legitimate...expect these ruses, artifices, and gimmicks (RAGs) to continue into the foreseeable future...
...combining an aggressive "voter roll purge" oversight program, which must receive a copy of any purge letter with an equally aggressive voter registration program is ideal...
Statement regarding decision in voter list case Date:Fri, 12/13/2019 - 17:30
The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued the following statement in response to Judge Malloy's ruling today in Timothy Zignego et al vs. Wisconsin Election Commission et al:
"We will be analyzing the judge’s oral decision and consulting with the six members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on next steps. A written order has not been issued yet." For more information, contact
Reid Magney, public information officer, 608-267-7887, reid.magney@wi.gov.
...the statement should say "We will be overruling Judge Malloy's oral ruling"...
Originally Published October 31, 2018; Last Updated August 11, 2020; Last Republished August 11, 2020:
