Posted on 01/01/2022 1:44:52 AM PST by weston
Lol good ones.
Rasmussen Reports
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18% of voters Strongly Approve of Biden.
Trump’s lowest was 23%
I sure hope when Trump gets in there, he fires every person he is authorized to fire, removes every person he is authorized to remove from every department, every commission, every board & replaces them with his own people.
A list of personnel to be terminated & letters should be drafted during the transition period & delivered on Day 1.
Washington State Job Application: Isolation & Quarantine Team Consultants [Closing Date November 2021] Location Lewis County – Centralia, WA
The listing currently reads as 'hospitality' centers for people traveling through Washington who need to quarantine, but who's to say they didn't glean candidates for a 'similar' position at the involuntary quarantine centers under the application clause "This recruitment may be used to fill other positions of the same job classification across the agency. "
It's sad that our jailers 'get' to have jobs when so many are losing them because of mandates - it seems like a transfer of wealth from the working person (e.g., medical staff) fired for not getting the vaccine and instead, their jailer gets their job. I see in the 'Benefits' section of the application, a query asking the candidate if they'll need H1B Sponsorship. Wonder if we'd employ Chinese soldiers like Canada used at the airport.
The application is broken into three parts [Description/Benefits/Questions] - it might be easier to navigate the linked website. I'll put a link here to skip over the contents if you prefer to read the website and then want to jump to the comments below.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/13/washington-state-to-send-out-strike-teams-to-involuntarily-detain-unvaccinated-residents-and-ship-them-to-quarantine-camps/
For those who want to apply, like Frocters.
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/washington/jobs/3233390-0/isolation-quarantine-team-consultants-ps2-non-permanent-doh5814
I got home. Got a dbl meat, dbl cheese bacon burger as soon as I got out.
Heard about this on drive home:
Lawrence Brooks, who was the country’s oldest veteran when he died earlier this month at the age of 112, will be laid to rest Saturday in New Orleans. His funeral will include a traditional jazz procession.
The services will be livestreamed on the National WWII Museum’s website.
The private funeral starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at the museum and will be livestreamed for an hour. Internment will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery
Brooks was known as “Honey,” according to his obituary. He died Jan. 5 in his own bed in his Central City home as he’d wanted, said Vanessa Brooks, his daughter and caregiver.
A Norwood native who served in an engineering battalion in the Pacific during the war, Brooks had remained spry until very recently. He even danced a few steps on his porch at his socially distanced 111th birthday party in 2020, as a trio of female singers sang to him from the sidewalk.
That year, the National World War II Museum had received more than 21,500 cards, letters and packages addressed to him from well-wishers from all 50 states and nearly 30 countries.
When Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards made a birthday call to Brooks soon after, the governor advised him to reach out if he needed anything. “Yeah, man, my roof is leaking,” Brooks told Edwards, who soon enlisted help from a regional carpenters’ union to repair a gap in the house’s roof where rain was entering and pouring down the walls.
He enjoyed outings for chocolate frozen yogurt, played games of solitaire for hours and loved to watch wrestling and football on television. But in October, with his health fading, he was sent home from the hospital for hospice care.
Mentally, Brooks remained fairly sharp, family and friends said. He could still recount childhood stories and he had a vivid recollection of being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1940, at age 31.
After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to the mostly Black 91st Engineer General Service Regiment stationed in Australia. He also served in New Guinea and the Philippines.
https://www.nola.com/news/article_ae65ac70-754d-11ec-b4ea-23e2adeaa1fd.html
You’re just full of good financial news today.
Awwww….my screen got all blurry.
RIP dear vet. Thank you for your service.
Loved the part about the roof leak alert!
Glad you’re home and that double meat/double cheese bacon burger sounds really good. I know it was!
I bet exit is a lil jealous of that ;-)
#LetsGoBrandon
A federal judge has stopped the Biden administration’s mask and vaccine requirement for Head Start programs in Texas.
Judge James Hendrix, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, issued a preliminary injunction on New Year’s Eve that prevents the federal government from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for Head Start staff and masks for children and adults in the program.
“It is undisputed that an agency cannot act without Congressional authorization,” Hendrix wrote.
Head Start is a federal program meant to help low-income children under the age of five prepare for school after pre-K.
The case at issue is a lawsuit by the State of Texas and the Lubbock Independent School District (LISD) against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other administrators of the Head Start program.
Hendrix determined that the power to issue such a sweeping mandate must derive from Congress, not an agency.
“A federal agency cannot act absent Congressional authorization. It cannot confer power upon itself,” the judge wrote.
“Congress has not spoken to the precise question at issue… State laws and regulations have long required that at least children be vaccinated against many communicable diseases. Congress could have spoken directly to the issue of vaccination, masking, or other precautions in the last year when passing other COVID-19-related legislation, but it did not and has not.”
Specifically, Hendrix interpreted federal law to grant HHS only the power to “modify” Head Start standards, not promulgate a new mandate. The statute governing Head Start allows the agency to regulate standards for finance, administration, and even health protocols for the physical facilities themselves, but not masks.
Furthermore, Hendrix wrote, the agency’s current authority does not allow it to regulate health standards for the children themselves as a condition of participation. In other words, the agency can modify standards for health screenings, but it has never made the screenings a requirement for children to be a part of Head Start.
Although the order is a clear win for Texas, it wasn’t quite what the state asked for. Texas and LISD originally sought a nationwide injunction that would have blocked the vaccine and mask mandates in all Head Start programs across the country.
In their original complaint, Texas and LISD said enforcement of the rule could lead to program closures by cutting staff, especially in poor or rural areas.
I just thought she didn’t an answer.
Lol.
Good ones.
After a Texas prosecutor dismissed dozens of migrant trespassing cases, some men were dropped at a border bus station
Last week, after nearly two months and hundreds of trespassing jailings under the new border arrest initiative, Val Verde County Attorney David Martinez dismissed dozens of cases against migrants “in the interest of justice.” He later explained that he was following what the state’s top cop told legislators last month: Police on the border want to target dangerous criminals, not the many migrants who are fleeing hardships or seeking asylum.
Court documents show that over two days of virtual court hearings for more than 70 migrant arrestees, Martinez dropped 40 cases, including Ignacio’s.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/14/texas-border-migrant-arrests-trespassing/
Texas judge opens door for widespread constitutional challenges to Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative
AUSTIN, Texas (Texas Tribune) - A state district judge Thursday may have set in motion a new wave of legal challenges to Gov. Greg Abbott’s trouble-plagued border security initiative, ruling that one migrant’s arrest on state misdemeanor trespassing charges violated the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause because immigration enforcement is the federal government’s job.
In the first Travis County court hearing of a challenge to Abbott’s new “arrest and jail” approach under Operation Lone Star, state district Judge Jan Soifer agreed to throw out an Ecuadorian migrant’s trespassing arrest and criminal prosecution.
Though the ruling may be appealed and applies only to Jesús Guzmán Curipoma, a 36-year-old oil engineer, it opened the door to constitutional challenges from more of the thousands of migrants who have been imprisoned for allegedly trespassing since July, when the governor set his sights on mass trespassing arrests as a way to cut down on border crossings.
“Everybody who has a pending misdemeanor trespassing arrest under OLS will have the exact same challenge,” said Kristin Etter, an attorney with the Texas RioGrande Legal Aid who represents hundreds of migrants. “This sets a clear precedent in all of those cases both pending and future.”
Austin-Travis County announces new COVID-19 orders for businesses
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin-Travis County leaders announced new orders aimed at businesses as case numbers and hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue to rise in Central Texas. The orders could draw legal action from the state.
The only enforceable requirement set forward by the orders, which are called the “protecting customers and employees and preserving adequate workforce capacity orders,” is businesses will have to post COVID-19 signage
Generic mask and vaccine signage required for all businesses when Austin-Travis County is in Stage 3, 4 and 5 can be found here. This additional signage is also required.
Businesses that do not comply with the orders could face a $1,000 fine every day the order is not followed. The order said police officers, the Austin Code Department and the Austin Fire Marshal have the authority to enforce the new rules.
The orders, signed by Austin Mayor Steve Adler, will also give businesses more authority to require people to follow COVID-19 precautions set by the business, which could include requiring employees to be vaccinated and boosted.
“We appreciate every business that does their part to keep our community and their customers healthy and safe,” Travis County Judge Andy Brown said. “Today’s orders support local businesses by providing them tools and options to keep their doors open, customers safe and our local economy growing.”
Gov. Abbott’s office responds to new Austin COVID-19 business orders
Meanwhile, Nan Tolson, a spokesperson for Gov. Greg Abbott said, “This municipal order is preempted by Executive Orders GA-38, GA-39 and GA-40 — all of which remain in full effect. Any business would be within its legal rights to ignore this municipal order.”
Abbott signed into law an executive order that does not allow local government-issued mask mandates or business restrictions. That executive order has been in place since July of last year.
“The Governor’s executive orders, again having the full force and effect of law, are enforceable by state and local law enforcement, and our office continues working with the Office of the Attorney General to protect the rights and freedoms of all Texans,” Tolson said. “The best defense against this virus is the COVID vaccines, and we continue to strongly encourage all eligible Texans to get vaccinated.”
KXAN contacted an outside legal expert to weigh in on the battle between this city ordinance and the state law.
“It’s designed to use social pressure, not legal pressure to do this,” said Josh Blackman with South Texas School of Law Houston.
He said there are also risks to both posting and not posting this signage.
“If a business refuses to, and the city fines them, the business can challenge the fine, because they can say the city order is illegal,” Blackman said. He also said, on the other hand, if businesses do post the sign with the box checked that they require their employees to get vaccinated, it flags the state about businesses violating the governor’s order.
Austin-Travis County is in Stage 5 risk-based guidelines right now, the most restrictive tier. Those guidelines recommend everyone who is out in public wear a mask regardless of vaccination status.
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Several businesses have already changed their store rules because of the move to Stage 5, and some have even had to close because of staff shortages.
At places like Waterloo Records and The Herb Bar, where masking has been required for months now, not much will change. The Herb Bar has had ‘mask up, y’all’ signs on its front door since June 2020.
“Our owner and all of our employees really felt more comfortable for themselves, their health and the health of their families to require everyone to wear a mask,” owner Jenny Oak Walker said. The staff at The Herb Bar have all gotten their booster shots and have so far avoided getting COVID-19, something Oak Walker hopes will stay that way.
“It would be really difficult for one of us to get sick with COVID and have to close the business down for, is it two weeks?” she said.
IN DEPTH: Read more on the Gov. Abbott order barring local officials from mandating masks, requiring vaccination
Meanwhile, a woman shopping nearby, Kendall Becker, said she’s neutral about whether vaccines and masks are required in businesses, but she feels it’s her responsibility to follow the rules posted by a business.
“If you’re coming to this establishment, you should be following the protocols of the business. You’re being a patron, and it’s their rules, and if I go anywhere that is requiring masks or six feet distance it is my job to be respectful and follow that,” she said.
As of Wednesday, 128 people are in Austin-area ICUs. There were 106 new hospital admissions over the last day, though health leaders have said some of those people are showing up to the hospital for non-COVID-related treatment and testing positive.
Agree!
who had the worst week, Joe Biden or Prince Andrew?
Too funny. That’s a tough choice.
At least Brandon won’t remember his bad week.
Tenured Michigan university professor, 74, who wore a ‘space helmet’ AND mask for Zoom class is placed on leave for calling students ‘vectors of disease’ for wanting to attend in-person learning
What’s Going On With Nancy Pelosi’s Son?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi Jr., has been called out by the Daily Mail over his close ties to “a host of fraudsters, rule-breakers and convicted criminals,” yet has never been charged himself
Once dubbed the ‘rising prince’ of the Pelosi political dynasty by the now-defunct Men’s Vogue, Pelosi Jr. had “years-long repeated business dealings” with unsavory characters, in what may have been efforts to curry favor with the Democrat’s powerful family.
Via the Daily Mail, Pelosi Jr.’s links to alleged lawbreakers include:
The 52-year-old joined the board of a biofuel company after it defrauded investors according to an SEC ruling, and whose CEO was convicted after bribing Georgia officials
Pelosi Jr. was president of an environmental investment firm that turned out to be a front for two convicted fraudsters
He joined a lithium mining company and received millions of shares, allegedly issued as part of a massive $164 million fraud
He was vice president of a company previously embroiled in an investigation of scam calls that targeted senior citizens
He has close business ties with a man accused by the Department of Justice of running a fake UN charity that stole investors’ money
A medical company Pelosi Jr. worked for tested drugs on people without FDA authorization, according to an FDA investigation
According to the report, “sources close to the Democrat power broker’s son – and even Pelosi Jr. himself – admit that some of his business dealings may have arisen from savvy entrepreneurs hiring him in an attempt to curry favor with his powerful family.”
For starters, Paul Pelosi landed a $180,000 per year job as Senior Vice President at data company InfoUSA - while he was also a full-time loan officer at Countrywide Home Loans in San Mateo and had zero experience in database marketing. According to investigators, between 2001 and 2004, before Pelosi Jr. joined the company, InfoUSA knowingly sold fraudsters the data of millions of Americans - which was then used to scam elderly people out of their life savings.
According to a 2007 New York Times report on the investigation, InfoUSA sold a list of 500,000 gamblers over age 55 called ‘Oldies but Goodies’, which described its members as ‘gullible’.
InfoUSA also sold lists of people with cancer or Alzheimer’s called ‘Suffering Seniors’, the Times reported. The data company denied their lists had such titles.
Iowa investigators found emails showing InfoUSA staff knew the firms they were selling to were being investigated for fraudulently targeting old people, but continued to sell the data regardless, the state’s AG said. -Daily Mail
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-going-nancy-pelosis-son
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BREAKING: General Electric suspends Covid vaccine and testing rules after Supreme Court blocks Biden mandate
Posted on 12:47 PM · Jan 14th, 2022
https://www.gettr.com/post/poc94j3ba9
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