I was able to get back to sleep, after they woke me up last night, but I still feel very tired. They put a goopy cream on my donor site to soften the thick scab so it will flake off. It also increased the pain level.
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Presidential candidate Ben Carson has issued a dire warning that President Obama’s cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline has left the United States with “virtually no place to store grain.”
Without the massive pipeline, Carson told Fox News, the nation’s network of silos is woefully inadequate “to store the bounty of grain that we soweth.”
Andy might as well be quoting Uncle Token, because the statement fits his stupidity level.
From Daily Kos: Why any ostensibly rational person living in Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana who saw this map, and still would think their states’ Republican leaders’ policies were delivering the economic growth their region so sorely needs is beyond comprehension.
Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?
The toughest places to live in America
Almost every county in the U.S. has its share of haves and have-nots. But there are some regions where it’s just plain harder for Americans to thrive, places where the poor far outnumber those living in middle-class comfort.
Ten counties in America stand out as the most challenging places to live, based on a survey of six criteria including median household income, disability rate and life expectancy, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
The county with the dubious distinction of being the worst of all is Clay County, Kentucky, where residents can expect to die six years earlier than the average American.
The other four counties ranked at the bottom of the survey include four counties in the rural south: Humphreys County, Mississippi; East Carroll Parish, Louisiana; Jefferson County, Georgia; and Lee County, Arkansas.
The findings highlight an often overlooked issue in the debate about income inequality — the stubbornness of rural poverty. In the U.S., the number of poor rural residents outnumber those in the cities, with 14 percent of rural Americans living below the poverty line, compared with 12 percent in urban areas, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Rural Poverty Portal.
Of course you’d never get an inkling of any of this from watching Fox Noise.
There is a way to improve these areas. Forget the hate and fear that the Republican Reich peddles on Faux Noise, and elect lefties in all levels of government. Every Republican in office is one republican too many!
From Think Progress: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed legislation Monday that would have added 1.6 million new voters to the state’s rolls and made New Jersey the third state in the country to adopt automatic voter registration.
After sitting on the “Democracy Act” for almost five months, the governor and Republican presidential candidate vetoed his second voting rights-related bill in three years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Christie has previously said that he does not support making it easier for residents of his state to vote.
Now that residents of NJ have experienced what PIGnocchio is really like, he knows that his only good shot at keeping his job is to disenfranchise voters. Republicans like nothing better than separating YOU from your Constitutional and human rights.
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I wish BC would go back to BC and leave our era alone.
Rural poverty is harder to address with the transporation logistics making it hard to get food to people, etc.
Well, d'oh!
Of course Christie vetoed legislation that would have enabled citizens to participate in democracy!
When Americans are actually allowed to vote, Rethuglicans LOSE!
Living in New Jersey, I can only hope that the 2 term limit is kept in place. Not tht I think this bag of barf would win, yet again, but because if hr can't run, at least we'll be spared his presence and BS!
Maybe because I am a native New Yorker, I am just blown away that a Cchristine Todd Whtman and a C.C. can both be elected to, no less, two terms as gov'r.
Born and raised in NJ, I knew the Dems there were corrupt, but nothing like PIGnocchio!
P.S. Can this crap move be overridden?
Are there enough DEM votes in your legislature?
I think it requiries a 2/3 Supermajority in both houses.
TC, all of us have you in our thoughts and prayers.
The New Yorker: Andy is on to something there!
Daily Kos: I ask myself this same question daily. Kentucky just elected a Republican governor who has promised to get rid of KYnect, the version of ACA that our democratic governor implemented that gave insurance to about 200,000 people who did not previously have it. He is also promising the likes of Kim Davis that they won't have to put their names on marriage licences for same sex couples. Maybe poverty increases intolerance. He is also promising to enact a "right to work" law which we all know is code for getting rid of unions. I truly don't understand people who have little voting for people who will see to it that they have even less.
Think Progress: Are any of us surprised at Christie's actions? He knows he has not chance at his presidential run, so guess he is hanging on to the governor's office as long as he can.
It does sound like something Ben Carson would say. But, even addressing it on its and his own level, he's full of it. Does he not remember how for about five years, Enbridge was just like little busy bees, building the pipeline (doing a terrible job of it, yes, because there were leaks big enough to see daylight through), misusing eminent domain all over the countryside, kicking citzens away from the building sites, because they were SO SURE it was a done deal? Well, now all that empty pipeline is available to store grain – if you don't mind some leakage, which of course might cause some grain to sprout, and – oh, never mind.
Chris Christie will allow voting rights to be extended over his dead body. What he will say if the President uses an executive order to make Election Day a one-time Federal Holiday I cannot imagine. I assume we have all already signed teh petition for this, since there are about thirteen groups in a coalition to put together an impressive petition, and I expect everyone here belongs to at least one of them, and some as many as thirteen. One is Daily Kos.
Sleepwise you seem to be settling in the routine a bit, TomCat, but I'll send you another box of catnaps, because you have a lot more healing to do and need some extra sleep. Sorry that your donor site for the skin graft is still so painful. Softening of the scab should have made it less painful, not more.
The New Yorker: Now Trump is laying low a bit, left-leaning comedians (are there any other kind?) are happy that Ben Carson is shooting of his mouth with even more stupidity than Trump did. Have you noticed the correlation between the scores in the top of the poles and the amount of stupidity that is uttered is a perfect 1.0. At the bottom it's the exact opposite: the lower the scores the more stupidity.
Daily Kos: A difference of life expectancy of six years between the worst and the best areas, and there's no discussion about these statistically terribly significant numbers? My guess is that you have to go to poor, undeveloped countries in Africa or Asia to get a six year difference between the best and the worst places, but the reasons would be much the same: not enough food with enough nutritional value, no access or too little access to healthcare, people dying young by violent means, higher suicide rates…
These statistics are available to everyone, including the state governments and county authorities and yet it is in these worst areas to live that people are denied affordable healthcare, social security, food stamps or other such "entitlements" by their Republican rulers. Getting people out to register and vote is now of the utmost importance.
Think Progress: It's the second time PIGNocchio has vetoed a bill that would give more people the right to vote against him. He's not half as stupid as the other Republican candidates, so he knows many of these possible 1.6 million new voters will indeed turn up to vote, and he also knows these new voters will ot favor him. No-one with any sense in New Jersey will vote for him again, they all had front row seats and now know what he's capable of.
I'm fighting off a catnap now.
New Yorker: Carson would do well to remain silent. LOL, Andy.
DK: It's hard to leave home when one is poor, in rural America. A lot of folks don't own a car, and rely on family members for food and getting medical care. It's hard for these people living in poverty. Its really sad. I adopt a family (through the district) here, to help with holidays, winter coats, and just the basic needs these people don't have. I don't have much, but they have less.
TP: What Nameless said. Spot on! Yes, have signed petititons re: this, Joanne. Thank you.
Cartoon: Frightening events and also “Kristallnacht" reign of terror by Hitler and his Nazi henchmen.
It's so nice to see you, even if only through a computer screen, TC. Hope that your pain level decreases day by day. Thoughts and healing prayers for you. Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
A related petition I just got:
Add your name now to DENOUNCE Chris Christie and stand up for voters’ rights:
http://go.turnoutpac.org/Denounce-Chris-Christie
Thanks all. Sleepy hugs.