Friday, December 17, 2021

Politics Corner December 17th

 

Via National Park Service


If I attacked police officers multiple times with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank and used a metal pole as a spear I'm certain that I would get more than a five year sentence. If I was black I'd probably be dead. [NBC]


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The other big House select committee (on the COVID crisis) reported that the Trump administration undermined the pandemic response for political purposes. Tell us something we don't know. I'd say there's a zero chance that anyone will be convicted of more than 800,000 murders. [CNN]


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The Democrats are going to have to drop an immigration proposal from a budget bill if they expect to pass it through reconciliation. The Senate parliamentarian will not okay the Democrats argument that the proposal includes funding and taxing as reason to include it. [Associated Press]


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We've known for a long time that lead pipes are more dangerous in the real world than they are in a game of Clue. And yet we still allow people to be poisoned every day in their own homes. Biden hopes to undo that within a decade. [CBS]


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Political discussion welcome.

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