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<\/p>\nYesterday I finished that @#$% sweater, and I admit I pushed myself to get it done before it got hot again. But I won’t need to push myself going forward. It’s never too cold to work with cotton yarn. This afternoon I have a doctor’s appointlent – for that “annual” checkup which was deferred by CoViD. I’m not expecting any surprises. I will go masked – the Doctor is not an idiot, but too many other people in my county are. I won’t be going anywhere unmasked any time soon.<\/p>\n
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Lindsey Graham Comes Down With COVID At Joe Manchin\u2019s Boat Party<\/a> The Grio – Jury overrules coroner\u2019s finding that Black teen died by suicide<\/a> The Kansas City Star – Kansas City police board tried to meet behind the mayor\u2019s back<\/a> Food for Thought Yesterday I finished that @#$% sweater, and I admit I pushed myself to get it done before it got hot again. But I won’t need to push myself going forward. It’s never too cold to work with cotton yarn. This afternoon I have a doctor’s appointlent – for that “annual” checkup which was deferred by […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3913,4115,3748],"class_list":["post-44671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-justice","tag-racism","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – 7 Senators total, that we know of. That is a LOT of folks that were exposed to someone who is positive for COVID. Let’s hope everyone else stays healthy or asymptomatic. Hopefully Senate Majority Leader Schumer will come out with a statement shortly about how they plan to proceed with Senate votes on the Infrastructure Bill. This is CRITICAL. Also, it’s probably a good time to recall the House Trolls’ little trip to the Senate to performatively complain about masks. That was on July 29th. The photo at the top was taken on July 30th, by the way, and even there old Lindz doesn’t look especially well.
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\nQuote – The town in which Martin lived is reportedly 95% white, and next steps for how this case will proceed are unknown at this time. His kin is reportedly elated by the news. \u201cI am happy,\u201d said Kimberly Lotts, Martin\u2019s mother. \u201cI am happy that somebody else saw. Glory to God. I could just shout. But we got a long way to go, so we\u2019ll just keep on praying and keep on trusting in the Lord.\u201d
\nClick through for background.<\/a> I’m glad it was possiblt for the family to get an inquest. I hope that the case is pursued and resolved with justice.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – We asked the department to explain the legal basis for excluding Lucas, a voting police board member, from the session. We didn\u2019t get a clear answer. The department did not claim a clerical error, either, or an honest mistake. It refused to provide documents that might explain the decision, citing attorney-client privilege…. The only way any member of the board could have participated was through use of the dial-in number and passcode, or by going to Police Chief Rick Smith\u2019s office. Lucas wasn\u2019t given any of this information that morning.
\nClick through for details.<\/a> Never a dull moment, eh?<\/p>\n
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