Whitmer Blames Dam Failure On Low Funding After She Proposed Funding Cut For Dam Repairs – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Whitmer Blames Dam Failure On Low Funding After She Proposed Funding Cut For Dam Repairs – Michigan Capitol Confidential

• Governor points finger at legislators — but they rejected her cut

"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has made claims that she tried to fix Michigan’s infrastructure problems, including strengthening the thousands of dams in the state.
To make the case, at a Lansing press conference, the governor pointed to a 45-cent per gallon gas tax increase she proposed in 2019.
But that proposal would not have directed any additional resources to dam repairs.
In fact, Whitmer’s first executive budget proposed reduced annual funding for a state dam repair fund, even as her budget presumed that the gas tax hike would be passed and boost revenue available for such projects.
Dam maintenance has become a national story since the Edenville and Sanford dams failed, causing history-making floods in Midland and Gladwin counties...
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History for May 29

History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com
Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 - Writer of philosophy, ontolory, poetry, Oswald Spengler (Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler) 1880 - German historian and philosopher


Bob Hope 1903 - Comedian, actor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (U.S.) 1917 - 35th President of the United States, refered to by his initials JFK, Paul Erlich 1932 - Biologist, educator


1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.


1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.

EXCLUSIVE: Michigan State Sen. Sounds Sounds Off On Whitmer’s Coronavirus Policies After Husband’s Boating Incident | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: Michigan State Sen. Sounds Sounds Off On Whitmer’s Coronavirus Policies After Husband’s Boating Incident | The Daily Caller:

Republican Michigan State Sen. Tom Barrett ripped Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after reports emerged that her husband Marc Mallory sought to use the couple’s status to take a boating trip this past weekend.
Mallory attempted to pressure a Michigan dock company to allow him to take his boat out over Memorial Day weekend according to now-deleted Facebook posts from Northshore Dock LLC and the company’s owner, Tad Dowker.

The way we were-----1959 Betty White commercials in color

Boob-tube-----Whats my line? - Alfred Hitchcoch

Chinese Communist Party Media Joins U.S. Democrat Crusade For Absentee Ballots

Chinese Communist Party Media Joins U.S. Democrat Crusade For Absentee Ballots
"Branding Republican opposition to the practice as “a denial of American democracy” after President Trump criticized it on Twitter, analysis from CCP-funded...China Global Television Network (CGTN) – a registered “foreign agent” in the U.S. – questions “the big difference between exercising one’s democratic right by physically going to a polling station versus exercising the same right by mailing” and why President Trump is “scared” of the prospect.
...In short, the CCP’s embrace of absentee voting should be a major red flag."
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Black Man Votes Republican, Immediately Turns White | The Babylon Bee

Black Man Votes Republican, Immediately Turns White | The Babylon Bee

"SANTEE JUNCTION, MO—At an early voting location this morning, African American citizen Conroy Ferguson turned white after voting Republican.
Witnesses also claim he aged about 10 years and become perceivably more stuffy and unpleasant. Upon checking his wallet, Ferguson found his name had also changed to Clinton Hemsley.
...There are now signs up at the voting location warning black voters that if they vote Republican they may also suddenly turn white...
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Proposed Health Code App Sparks Anger in China - Breitbart

Proposed Health Code App Sparks Anger in China - Breitbart:

Beijing (AFP) – A Chinese local government’s proposal for a post-coronavirus health app that ranks citizens based on their smoking, drinking, exercise and sleep habits has sparked fury online over privacy concerns
China has already developed apps that indicate an individual’s likelihood of contracting coronavirus based on their travel history and whether they had come into contact with an infected case.

Dr. Anthony Fauci: "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask."...

"Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci tells 60 Minutes: "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask."
🎥 60 Minutes on March 8, 2020"

Good News for Trump from … Team Obama? | Power Line

Good News for Trump from … Team Obama? | Power Line
"There are quite a few raised eyebrows about today’s story in Politico with the headline “The General Election Scenario That Democrats Are Dreading.” 
The story is built around the economic forecast of the former chief economist for President Obama, Jason Furman, who is now a professor at Harvard.
...so when he has an optimistic view of how the economy is going to do over the summer and into the fall, you can understand why it is giving Democrats heartburn. 
From the article:
In early April, Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, was speaking via Zoom to a large bipartisan group of top officials from both parties. 

The economy had just been shut down, unemployment was spiking and some policymakers were predicting an era worse than the Great Depression. 

The economic carnage seemed likely to doom President Donald Trump’s chances at reelection…
Furman, tapped to give the opening presentation, looked into his screen of poorly lit boxes of frightened wonks and made a startling claim. “We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country,” he said…
...Furman’s counterintuitive pitch has caused some Democrats, especially Obama alumni, around Washington to panic. “...

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Lunch video-----Woman FIRED for racist central park call to police, New York

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Chicago Mayor Launches Police Raid to Stop Black Church’s Sunday Services

Chicago Mayor Launches Police Raid to Stop Black Church’s Sunday Services:

On Sunday, Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders.
Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church in the South Side’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Woodlawn is just south of Hyde Park, the area in which the Obamas lived for a short time before Barack became president.

Another lib-media lie!----Bloomberg aide slammed for using photo from another day to claim Trump golfed on Memorial Day | Fox News

Bloomberg aide slammed for using photo from another day to claim Trump golfed on Memorial Day | Fox News
"Tim O’Brien, a former campaign aide for Mike Bloomberg and a Bloomberg opinion writer, is coming under fire for posting side-by-side photos of Joe Biden at a war memorial on Memorial Day and a photo of President Trump golfing on a different day with the caption, “Different approaches to Memorial Day.”...

...Trump played golf over the weekend for the first time since early March, but spent Monday honoring service members at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and Fort McHenry in Baltimore. 

"Together, we will vanquish the virus, and America will rise from this crisis to new, and even greater heights," Trump said at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. “As our brave warriors have shown us from the nation’s earliest days – in America, we are the captains of our own fate.

"No obstacle, no challenge, and no threat is a match for the sheer determination of the American people," Trump continued. "This towering spirit permeates every inch of the hallowed soil beneath our feet."

“This is a lie and you know it,” tweeted National Republican Senatorial Committee senior advisor Matt Whitlock of the misleading side-by-side.

“Truly is remarkable how one can be golfing at the same time holding a memorial in Arlington,” tweeted another user, along with a video of Trump at the cemetery.

The Students for Trump page called O’Brien the “CEO of fake news.”

Fox News' Marisa Schultz contributed to this report.

Tyrant!

ANALYSIS: TRUE. …

Instapundit Blog Archive
"ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Shem Horne--@Shem_Infinite
"Don't forget, the same people attacking President Trump and blaming the 100,000 Coronavirus deaths on him were just two months ago saying there would be 2 million dead by now.
Going by their numbers, they should be praising him for saving 1.9 million lives."--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

#1 This day 1962-----Ray Charles - I can't Stop Loving You

San Francisco Besieged by Homeless Demanding Free Hotel Rooms, Pot, and Booze | Frontpagemag

San Francisco Besieged by Homeless Demanding Free Hotel Rooms, Pot, and Booze | Frontpagemag:

•  “People are showing up in San Francisco from other places and asking where their hotel room is.”

“...“People are getting released from jail in other counties and being told to go to San Francisco, where you will get a tent and then you will get housing.”

...San Francisco was spending $200 a night to house the homeless, or as the current politically correct euphemism insisted that they be called, the ‘unhoused’, in hotel rooms at a cost of over $100 million...
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Report: Gretchen Whitmer's Husband Wanted Special Help to Launch Boat

Report: Gretchen Whitmer's Husband Wanted Special Help to Launch Boat:

The Detroit News reported Monday that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) husband exploited her position to urge a dock company to put his boat in the water before Memorial Day weekend, despite strict coronavirus guidelines.
The paper reported:

Trump slashes cost of insulin for Medicare enrollees to $35 a month

Trump slashes cost of insulin for Medicare enrollees to $35 a month
"WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday will announce a prescription plan drastically reducing the cost of insulin for American seniors who rely on Medicare.
The deal struck with the nation’s insulin manufacturers and health care providers will limit the co-pay for a month’s supply of insulin to $35 — a 66 percent reduction to current costs, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said.
...The announcement comes on the heels of hearings into the rising cost of insulin in the United States, with one diabetic groom-to-be dying in 2019 after switching to a cheaper version to help pay for his wedding...
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History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com
Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine 1738 - Physician, he did not invent the guillotine even though he did propose the use of a mechanical device to carry out death sentences in France, Thomas Moore 1779 - Lawyer, social philosopher, author, Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond


Gladys Knight 1944 - Singer, Rudolph Giuliani 1944 - Mayor of New York City, Marco Rubio 1971 - Politician


1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.


1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.

Horowitz: The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media? - TheBlaze

Horowitz: The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media? - TheBlaze:

The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.

The way we were-----Those Were the Days: Remembering Life in the 1950s

Boob-tube-----Television Commercials (1960s)

CDC now says 'it may be possible' for COVID-19 to spread on surfaces - Washington Times

CDC now says 'it may be possible' for COVID-19 to spread on surfaces - Washington Times
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its guidance once again, acknowledging new information on its website was confusing about the low risk of contracting COVID-19 from contaminated surfaces.
The CDC is now saying coronavirus can “possibly” be spread on surfaces and objects, though the virus is mainly transmitted between people.
This is not the first time the nation’s premier public health agency has had to reverse course on information related to the coronavirus pandemic, including the agency’s evolving guidance on whether a face mask should or should not be worn in public.

• The CDC initially changed the information about transmission risk from surfaces Wednesday, saying the novel coronavirus “does not spread easily” by “touching surfaces or objects.”
• In March, CDC warned “it may be possible” to spread the coronavirus on surfaces and objects. 
• Two months later, the CDC updated its website advisory to classify surfaces as a medium by which the virus does not easily spread...

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Study: Lockdown “Will Destroy at Least Seven Times More Years of Human Life” Than it Saves – Summit News

Study: Lockdown “Will Destroy at Least Seven Times More Years of Human Life” Than it Saves – Summit News:

• “Likely more than 90 times greater.”

"A study has found that the “stay at home” lockdown order in the United States will “destroy at least seven times more years of human life” than it saves and that this number is “likely” to be more than 90 times greater.

As we have repeatedly highlighted, the untold cost of the lockdown in terms of untreated serious illnesses and the impact on mental health will not be fully known for years, but discussion around the issue has been limited in the mainstream media.

Now a new study finds that debilitating stress and anxiety caused by the lockdown, including turmoil caused by huge job losses, could lead to a plethora of negative health problems that will have a far greater overall toll on human life than the number of lives saved by the lockdown...
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains why COVID lockdowns may have cost more lives than they saved - TheBlaze

Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains why COVID lockdowns may have cost more lives than they saved - TheBlaze:

Stanford School of Medicine Professor Michael Levitt, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says the strict lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic may have cost more lives than they saved.
"I think lockdown saved no lives," Levitt said on Saturday, The Telegraph reported.
"I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives, things like that, but social damage — domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism — has been extreme. And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions," he explained.