Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-6-2021

Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-6-2021

• You live in Michigan? 
• Lot's of stuff goin' on! 
• Most of it aimed at your wallet, your work, your home. 
• And your kids!

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Dial 1-800-Gimme-FreeStuff!--State to contact 5k Michigan families who could be eligible for food assistance

Drunk (D) expects "free-pass-cuz-I'm-special" will continue--Rep. Jewell Jones headed to Friday hearing after rejecting plea deal

Hmm. No mention of closed hospitals/reduced beds?--Michigan hospitals at COVID-induced capacities, as moods turn angrier

But vote fraud/theft is OK?--Coalition calls for Michigan businesses to stop funding voter suppression

The next political plague?--745 flu cases identified in University of Michigan CDC study

Lib media race obsessed!--The White Problem With Mass Shootings And The Irresponsible Oxford Parents

Dumbest prosecutor in the country?-----Democrat Prosecutor: ‘There’s not one person in this community who will vouch for’ the Crumbleys

Half have "untreated" mental illness???--MDHHS expands Opioid Health Home services to additional counties

Michigan poison control warns about possible cases of fentanyl-laced marijuana

Paranoia runs deep--More West Michigan schools close Monday as threats continue Both Fruitport Community Schools and Grand Haven...

Gov. radio spewing hate on your dime!--Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

Never let a crisis go to waste--Sparrow, union caregivers reach tentative contract deal

Compulsory Schooling Laws Under Scrutiny in Michigan Following Deadly Tragedy

Unions lie?--Be Skeptical When Media Stories Of Teacher Shortages Contain No Numbers

New plague of fear--7 students charged in Wayne County for making threats to schools

Hmmm, they don't do same for kids killed in Detroit--Coronavirus obituaries: We remember those we have lost

History for December 6

History for December 6 - On-This-Day.com

Ira Gershwin 1896 - Lyricist, brother of composer George Gershwin

• 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
• 1884 - The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
• 1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
• 1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
• 1994 - Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the richest in the U.S. and became the largest municipality to file for bankruptcy.
• 1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier.
• 2002 - Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution.

Last of WWII 'Band of Brothers' Officer Edward Shames Dies at 99

Last of WWII 'Band of Brothers' Officer Edward Shames Dies at 99: 

Col. Edward Shames, final surviving member of the World War II parachute infantry regiment known as the “Band of Brothers” which inspired the HBO miniseries and book of the same name, died Friday. He was 99.

Steve Forbes slams Biden's 'war' on the economy after another disappointing jobs report - TheBlaze

Steve Forbes slams Biden's 'war' on the economy after another disappointing jobs report - TheBlaze: 

The editor-in-chief of Forbes business magazine and two-time Republican presidential candidate sounded off against global COVID-19 lockdowns, actions Biden has taken to restrict domestic oil production, and fears over the new Omicron variant in a blistering condemnation of Biden's economic policies.

The way we were-----The Nazi Plan To Bomb NY - 1998 Film feat. Wernher von Braun, The Horten...

When Pilots treat the Aircraft Like a TOY! | Air Crash Investigation

"...what's about to happen this is one of the most upsetting and unnecessary accidents I have ever covered on the channel. 

This is the story of Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701."

GREAT MOMENTS IN CHUTZPAH AND/OR AMNESIA

Instapundit--GREAT MOMENTS IN CHUTZPAH AND/OR AMNESIA

"Democrats livid over GOP’s COVID-19 attacks on Biden.

Democrats are up in arms this month over GOP charges that President Biden is to blame for the prolonged COVID-19 crisis.

...The criticism of masks and vaccines has sabotaged Biden’s efforts to get the nation past the pandemic, some argue...

Flashbacks to early March of 2020:

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Chuck Todd: Coronavirus Can Be to Trump Like Iran Hostages Were to Carter.

● ‘She’s actually smiling:’ MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and guest discuss coronavirus that could become ‘Trump’s Katrina.’

And later in the year:

● Kamala Harris says she will be ‘first in line’ for a coronavirus vaccine if health experts approve it, but ‘if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.’

—Business Insider after the debate between Harris and Mike Pence, October 7th, 2020.

● Here’s a montage of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Andrew Cuomo saying not so long ago that you shouldn’t trust the feds, the FDA, and the vaccine.

—Not the Bee, September 11th, 2021.

And speaking of amnesia:

● Joe Biden: I’m going to ‘shut down the virus’, not the US.

—The Grauniad, October 23rd, 2020.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"...Read all!

Dr. Twitter, I presume?-----Twitter attempts to define relevant science - American Thinker

Twitter attempts to define relevant science - American Thinker

"Readers of Stacey Lennox of PJ Media, Dec. 3, 2021, were presented with some disturbing facts.

On Nov. 8, 2021, the American Heart Association Journals published the abstracts that researchers and clinicians would present during online sessions beginning Nov. 13. 

...Lennox wrote that when Twitter followers attempted to share the information, readers encountered the following warning:

It would seem that the arrogant powers that be at Twitter feel they are more qualified to determine what is dangerous to readers than actual scientists...Read all.

Liberal billionaire is fed up with failing public schools, so he's committing $750 million to fund charter schools: 'American public education is broken' - TheBlaze

Liberal billionaire is fed up with failing public schools, so he's committing $750 million to fund charter schools: 'American public education is broken' - TheBlaze: 

"Instead of giving students the skills they need to succeed in college or in a trade, the public education system is handing them diplomas that say more about their attendance record than their academic achievement," Bloomberg continued. America is "moving backward" in the education challenge, he said, so we need "the courage to rebuild public education from the bottom up."

CNN officially terminates Chris Cuomo | Breaking

"In the Michigan Shooting, What Is the School’s Responsibility?"

"In the Michigan Shooting, What Is the School’s Responsibility?"

"The NYT asks. 

First, a teacher found Ethan Crumbley searching online for ammunition. The next day, there was an alarming note on his desk: “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.”...

The parents have been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter. Isn't the school more  responsible? 

Catherine J. Ross, a law professor at George Washington University and expert on student rights, said she found the school’s reaction “truly astounding.”... If the parents refused to take Mr. Crumbley home, it was the legal and ethical responsibility of the school, Professor Ross said, to “remove the student from the classroom and put them in a safe place — safe for other people and safe for themselves.”

...This is part of a larger issue of government declining to keep the peace and attempting to convince us that it cannot keep the peace, something I wrote about last month, after the Rittenhouse verdict and the Waukesha massacre, here:...Read all!

Lunch video-----President Joe Biden on Russia's Potential Invasion of Ukraine

Noon-toon

 

Federal judge blocks Texas tech censorship law - TheBlaze

Federal judge blocks Texas tech censorship law - TheBlaze: 

Meanwhile the author of the law, Rep. Briscoe Cain, compared social media companies to phone and cable providers who cannot legally discriminate against customers, according to the Texas Tribune.

Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-5-2021

• 
  You live in Michigan? 
• Lot's of stuff goin' on! 
• Most of it aimed at your wallet, your work, your home. 
• And your kids!

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Employee throws hot coffee in customer’s face at Southgate Tim Hortons’ drive-thru

The mob forms!--Nessel offers AG review of Oxford school shooting

‘Potential emerging health threat’: Officials warn of fentanyl-laced marijuana possibly in Michigan

No wonder they suck!--Lions, owner Sheila Ford Hamp deserve recognition for building diversity

Looking for blood!--Oxford school district requests third-party probe into events leading up to shooting

In the Michigan Shooting, What Is the School’s Responsibility?

The Midwest Rail Plan: A Disaster Waiting to Happen

Lansing schools paying $300 a day amid substitute teacher shortage

Priorities!--Haaland to remove racist terms from federal lands, including 31 in Michigan

Lib-think--Susan J. Demas: From guns to COVID, we’re all trying to survive the GOP’s culture of death

Michigan NRTF recommends $45 million for outdoor recreation projects

Who will be demonized!--Superintendent: Oxford schools to hire third-party to review actions before shootings

"Public health"?--Aging infrastructure that ‘threatens public health’ in Spring Lake needs $25 million fix

"Free college" ain't free!

 

WH Busted on Huge Biden Hypocrisy, but Psaki Doesn't Handle It Well

WH Busted on Huge Biden Hypocrisy, but Psaki Doesn't Handle It Well
"...one very important Biden hypocrisy caught up to him this week during a White House press briefing.
When President Donald Trump was in office, Joe Biden took every effort to blame all the COVID deaths on him.

But White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked by Fox’s Peter Doocy about Biden’s prior comments on the subject attacking President Trump, when there were 220,000 COVID deaths, that “anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States.”
Doocy asked Psaki if that was “still the standard now that more Americans have died under President Biden than President Trump.”...

“I think the fundamental question here is what are you doing to save lives and protect people?” Psaki said, further claiming that Trump “was suggesting people inject bleach” and “continued to provide a forum for misinformation” that led to low vaccination rates...Read all!!!

And those cash cows gonna send political monet to whom?

 

Nothing is Anybody’s Fault By Clarice Feldman

Nothing is Anybody’s Fault By Clarice Feldman

"Some time ago, P.J. O’Rourke was both prescient and witty when he observed:

"Liberals have invented whole college majors -- psychology, sociology and women's studies -- to prove that nothing is anybody's fault."

This week we have more evidence that nothing is anybody’s fault although the reasons for that may include even more than those P.J. named. Narcissistic celebrities, mendacious media and politicians, and blinkered prosecutors and Soros-funded district attorneys like Milwaukee County’s John Chisolm and San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin are also part of the mix. Stupid voters aren’t off the hook in my estimation either.

• Retail Theft Rings, How Can We Not Stop Them?
  

San Francisco has been the worst-hit of many Democrat-run cities by organized retail theft rings stealing for profit millions of dollars in merchandise. So I was heartened to read that leaders of one such ring pled guilty after an extensive investigation caught them dead to rights...

...But if you read to the end you’ll see that the actions of his office belie Bonta’s words. Here are the sentences  Five of the six thieves received for stealing and fencing millions of dollars worth of merchandise (One thief, Danny Drago, has not yet been sentenced):

 “Fowler was sentenced to three years in state prison, but the judge agreed to spare her from that time behind bars if she completes two years of supervised probation and spends 364 days in San Mateo County jail. 

Morales and Villanueva were sentenced to probation. Villatoro was sentenced to probation and 30 days in jail. “..Much more, read all!

#1 This day 1971-----Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1971)

Manhattan workers warned not to use public transit. Is this the new normal?

Manhattan workers warned not to use public transit. Is this the new normal?
"...the threat of violent crime has been steadily climbing..

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  At some Wall Street financial institutions, managers are telling staffers to be “cautious” about how they make their way to the office.
  
•  At Bank of America, they are encouraging younger employees to dress in more casual, nondescript clothing without any sort of company emblem visible in order to lessen the chances of being mugged or assaulted...

The managers are clearly aware that the streets are simply not safe anymore...

• Citibank has begun providing private shuttles so their staffers can avoid public transit altogether. 
• Others have established contracts with car services or ride-sharing apps so the staff can be taken from door to door for free...Read all.

If this new government power is allowed to stand, what do you think will be enxt?

 

Fully vaccinated Dana White contracts COVID-19, takes same treatment as Joe Rogan, 'feeling like a million bucks' in less than 24 hours - TheBlaze

Fully vaccinated Dana White contracts COVID-19, takes same treatment as Joe Rogan, 'feeling like a million bucks' in less than 24 hours - TheBlaze: 

Dana White revealed he contracted COVID-19 during the Thanksgiving holiday, but he is already feeling better after being administered the same coronavirus treatment that Joe Rogan took when he was infected. The UFC president appeared on "The Jim Rome Podcast" on Wednesday, where he provided a health update. White believes he contracted COVID-19 after going to his family's Thanksgiving celebration in Maine.

Japan warns of cardiac health risks from COVID vaccines - American Thinker

Japan warns of cardiac health risks from COVID vaccines - American Thinker  By Douglas Herz

"In a Friday press release by the Kyodo News Service, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare warned of myocarditis and pericarditis issues related to the mRNA COVID vaccines...

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Raises Alertness to "Serious Side Reaction" of Myocarditis

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare today decided to raise alertness to "serious side reactions" from normal warnings and require doctors to report symptoms of myocarditis and pericarditis reported more frequently in young men after the new coronavirus vaccinations made by Pfizer and Moderna. It was approved by the expert subcommittee of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare which analyzes the side reaction...Read all!