Michigan regulators moved fast on dangerous dam. To protect mussels. | Bridge Magazine

Michigan regulators moved fast on dangerous dam. To protect mussels. | Bridge Magazine
"...when Michigan regulators assumed oversight of the dam in late 2018 after its owners lost their federal license to generate energy, they took action.
To protect mussels.
Three weeks before the 96-year-old dam failed this week amid heavy rains and caused the worst flood in Midland history, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued its owner, alleging it illegally lowered Wixom Lake in 2018 and 2019, killing “thousands if not millions, of freshwater mussels.”
“Defendants wrongfully exerted dominion over the freshwater mussels and caused their death which denies and is inconsistent with the state’s right to them,” state lawyers wrote in an April lawsuit.
..."How we got to the point where environmental issues trumped public safety, I don't know,"
...Michigan assumed oversight in September 2018 after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission revoked the dam’s license to generate and sell power...
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Horowitz: 67K criminals released so far under coronavirus jailbreak. And crime keeps rising - Conservative Review

Horowitz: 67K criminals released so far under coronavirus jailbreak. And crime keeps rising - Conservative Review
"According to UCLA, which is tracking this data, 67,000 criminals have been released throughout the 50 states. 
The majority of the criminals, 43,000 of them, have been released from the nation’s jails, and 24,356 were released from prisons.
Consequently, given that we know the shocking degree of recidivism even among criminals more carefully selected for release, we can add victims of crime due to coronavirus jailbreak as the latest long-term death toll from COVID-19, or at least from the governmental reaction to it.
Remember, this has nothing to do with fear of prisoners dying of coronavirus...
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Italian Government Recruits 60,000 Informants to Spy on Neighbors

Italian Government Recruits 60,000 Informants to Spy on Neighbors:

ROME — The Italian government announced Sunday it is recruiting 60,000 volunteer “civic assistants” as informants to report on anyone violating norms concerning the use of masks and social distancing.
The government is recruiting unemployed citizens, especially those who receive social security or unemployment income, as an extension of its uniformed security services during the second phase of the coronavirus lockdown, Italian media reported.

The Doctrine of Media Untruth - American Greatness

The Doctrine of Media Untruth - American Greatness:
"When knowledge, wisdom, independent thought, even basic competence were no longer requisites for success, then the media naturally slid into mediocrity, and mastered networking and obsequiousness instead of valuing independence.
As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.
Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to what is abjectly false. 
Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media’s inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the “Doctrine of Media Untruth.”...
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Missed this on the national news?-----Election Judge Pleads Guilty to Ballot Stuffing for Democrats

Election Judge Pleads Guilty to Ballot Stuffing for Democrats
"A former elected official in Philadelphia who accepted large payments from a political consultant to stuff ballot boxes for Democratic judicial candidates has pleaded guilty as part of a continuing federal investigation. 

The Justice Department announced Thursday that Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, who was an election judge in South Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive city voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing ballot boxes in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections..."

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Lunch video-----Science Studies Journalists, Concludes They're Stupid, Childish Drunks

Noon-toon

‘Wake Up Call’: Several Black Conservatives Outraged Over Biden’s ‘Racist’ Remark | The Daily Caller

‘Wake Up Call’: Several Black Conservatives Outraged Over Biden’s ‘Racist’ Remark | The Daily Caller:

Black conservatives are outraged over former Vice President Joe Biden’s Friday morning comment suggesting that if a person votes for President Donald Trump, then “they ain’t black.”

"1/3 of all deaths are in the red region, 1/3 in the yellow, 1/3 in the green"

el gato malo on Twitter: "this graphic is amazing-. https://t.co/4MCxFdI689" / Twitter

• "6 states in the US adopted this policy of forcing nursing homes to take COV patients to "protect hospitals".
• these homes were NOT equipped to deal with this.
• the results have been tragic.
• these states have 19% of US population and 62% of covid deaths.
• and this was avoidable."

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Remember this when the recall petition comes round.

2014. Likely worse today.-----1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says : The Two-Way : NPR

1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says : The Two-Way : NPR
"A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.
The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
To the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth," 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly..."
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#1 This day 1962-----Stranger On The Shore - Acker Bilk

ABRAMS on VOTING: Illegal Immigrants ‘Now No Longer Able to Elect Anyone Who Represents Them’ | Sean Hannity

ABRAMS on VOTING: Illegal Immigrants ‘Now No Longer Able to Elect Anyone Who Represents Them’ | Sean Hannity
"Potential Democratic frontrunner for Vice President Stacey Abrams surprised viewers on social media Thursday; lamenting that illegal immigrants “are no longer able to elect anyone who represents them.”
“In the United States today, 50% of the population under the age of 15 is communities of color.
If you remove them from the calculation then what that means is you create a whiter, more Republican voting base,” said Abrams.
“They are now no longer able to elect anyone who represents them… This weaponization is not only intentional, it’s continuing,” she added...
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Still think it's about your health?

New York Sent More Than 4,500 Coronavirus Patients Into Nursing Homes After Cuomo Order: AP | The Daily Caller

New York Sent More Than 4,500 Coronavirus Patients Into Nursing Homes After Cuomo Order: AP | The Daily Caller:

New York nursing homes were forced to accept more than 4,500 coronavirus patients from hospitals thanks to an order from Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a tally by The Associated Press found.
Cuomo has come under heated criticism for his March 25 order forcing recovering COVID-19 patients into New York nursing homes — a decision blamed for the state’s high body count among the elderly. The governor waited roughly six weeks before reversing the order on May 10.

"... perhaps is the most stupid and most dangerous factcheck I have ever seen...."-----Michael Harris - Posts

Michael Harris

"So... some lone moron at Politifact flagged my post on the ineffectiveness of face mask. 

Why?...because they say I am misrepresenting what the box means. 

LOL!!!
I normally ignore this, but this perhaps is the most stupid and most dangerous factcheck I have ever seen. 

Based on the idea that "IFYOU HAVE LIMITED time....blah blah blah" ..these face masks will work, despite what the box says. 

They say the homemade cloth ones also work.
This is about as dumb as saying... "If you can't swim....and can't find a life jacket in time, any fluffy winter coat will do! 

Cant find a winter coat, just make one at home out of any plastic you can find and you will be protected from drowning." -

THIS IS THE IGNORANCE THAT SURROUNDS US."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/21/facebook-posts/disposable-homemade-masks-are-effective-stopping-a/?fbclid=IwAR0MKwf36bDSnxoP2Riz03EA_Hzj7EExgxgeG6R7OMt0weCbyyZnCM4ds4M

AM Fruitcake-Snitch alert!

History for May 26

History for May 26 - On-This-Day.com
Al Jolson 1886 - Singer, actor, comedian, John Wayne (Marion Mitchell Morrison, Marion Robert Morrison) 1907 - Actor, director, producer, Jay Silverheels 1912 - Actor, known for his role as Tonto in the television series "The Lone Ranger"


Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom) 1920 - Singer, actress, James Arness 1923 - Actor ("Gunsmoke"), Sally K. Ride 1951 - Astronaut


1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.


1994 - U.S. President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.

Hidden underground chambers discovered near Western Wall in Jerusalem | Fox News

Hidden underground chambers discovered near Western Wall in Jerusalem | Fox News:

Hidden underground chambers dating back 2,000 years have been discovered near the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Archaeologists have revealed the subterranean system near the Western Wall plaza and its tunnels. Excavations were conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the “Beit Straus” complex beneath the entrance lobby to the Western Wall tunnels.
“The system was sealed beneath the floor of a large and impressive structure from the Byzantine period, waiting for some 2,000 years to be discovered,” explained the Israel Antiquities Authority in a statement emailed to Fox News.
The subterranean system consists of a courtyard and two rooms arranged in three levels, one above the other. They are connected by staircases hewn from rock.

The way we were-----A road trip across the United States of America in 1955 | in color

Boob-tube-----Remembering The Cast from Fury a Classic TV Western 1955

A Bailout Won't Help States With No Financial Backbone

A Bailout Won't Help States With No Financial Backbone
"At a time when huge spending bills marked “coronavirus relief” are easily passing Congress with little scrutiny, poorly run states are asking unscrupulous members of Congress to slip in taxpayer bailouts to rescue them from years of their own fiscal mismanagement.
In response, the House of Representatives on Friday passed a coronavirus relief bill that includes a half trillion dollars (trillion with a “t”) in unrestricted funds to bail out state governments for years of reckless expenditures entirely unrelated to the pandemic.
I have the same reaction to these proposals that I had when I worked in government and people were proposing millions of dollars in monuments to little known people on what seemed like every street corner, while many Americans were out of work and struggling to make their next mortgage payment: “Have you lost your mind?”...
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Dumber that we ever thought!-----HILLARY CLINTON MARKS MEMORIAL DAY WITH ‘INCREDIBLY TONE-DEAF’ TWEET (AND PHOTO)

Instapundit Blog Archive HILLARY CLINTON MARKS MEMORIAL DAY WITH ‘INCREDIBLY TONE-DEAF’ TWEET (AND PHOTO): 
Why is Hillary uploading her photo posed with a James Bond supervillain “buwahahaha!” expression in New York State on Memorial Day?

As Jim Treacher notes, Cuomo “turned the state’s nursing homes into deathtraps and waited months to even start cleaning the subways.” 
Where Is Cuomo’s Apology for Killing 10,000 People?--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

BRIDGES OF TOKO RI

Michigan gym owner who defied coronavirus orders calls on America to do the same | Fox News

Michigan gym owner who defied coronavirus orders calls on America to do the same | Fox News:

Appearing on "Fox & Friends Weekend" with host Pete Hegseth, Michigan Institute of Athletics owner James Gray said Saturday that he had reached out to other business owners, local elected officials, ICU nurses and doctors, and House of Representatives members to help compile a large resource of information to get Open the States off the ground.
"I mean, our life's work, our dreams, everything that we’ve put together is on the line at this time," he asserted.
"And, you know the governor just indefinitely keeps extending these orders without even informing the people. Some of the officials [who] I spoke to were even telling me that the governor has been saying to the legislation that she has information that they do not have which is why she is making these extensions," stated Gray. "And, when we’re not even working with our own elected officials in a time that shouldn't be partisan at all, a time where the entire nation is in a struggle together, we need people to come together."

How sick are these media scum!-----New York Times on Memorial Day Weekend: 'Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?'

New York Times on Memorial Day Weekend: 'Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?'
The New York Times published an editorial on the first day of Memorial Day weekend asking: “Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?”

The article‘s byline is the entire editorial board, and it is accompanied by an image of a bullet shaped like a Ku Klux Klan robe.

The central complaint of the article is that there are U.S. military bases named after Confederate Army officers...
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500 Doctors Tell Trump To End COVID-19 Shutdown, Warn It Will Cause More Deaths | The Daily Wire

500 Doctors Tell Trump To End COVID-19 Shutdown, Warn It Will Cause More Deaths | The Daily Wire
"On March 22, President Trump took to Twitter and typed out a message in all-caps:
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!”
That was more than a month ago.
And while all 50 states have begun to take some steps toward reopening shuttered businesses and closed restaurants, the pace is achingly slow.
Now, 500 doctors have banded together to tell Trump  to mandate an end the coronavirus shutdown, saying it is a “mass casualty incident” that will cause more death and destruction than the virus itself...
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Lunch video-----Memorial Day Speech by President Ronald Reagan

Noon Reminder

Florida Governor Lifts All Restrictions on Summer and Youth Camps

Florida Governor Lifts All Restrictions on Summer and Youth Camps:

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced on Friday that all restrictions on summer and youth camps in Floriday will be lifted, effective immediately.
“Our kids have been out of organized activities for a couple months now,” DeSantis said on Friday in Jacksonville. “We need to have a pathway to get it back.”  The governor did say that the Florida Department of Health would likely post a list of best practices to its website and that local leadership will be allowed to make independent decisions.