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@#31
You're off this evening.
I would have expected a better comment from you.
I mean, your "Secretary of Bar" comment ( drudge.com ) was quite apropos.
Jus' sayin'
;)
@#19 ... Where government steps in and stops the "let's eat tide pods challenge", because people are dying from it left and right ... ?
That's the hill you're trying to die on??? ...
An area hospital...
Danbury's outdoor hospital could treat variety of patients (2020)
www.newstimes.com
... Crews progressed Thursday on installing the 25-bed tented facility that Danbury Hospital says would be equipped to handle a surge in patients due to the coronavirus.
Danbury Hospital has not decided when or how it plans to use the facility, which is expected be fully set up outside the hospital by mid-day Friday in a city that is recording the third-highest number of cases in the state.
But it is meant to prepare the hospital for a potential influx of patients that is straining hospitals in nearby New York and has overwhelmed health systems in Italy and Spain
"We're developing the mobile field hospital as a what if' and looking a number of different scenarios for how we could use this field hospital," said Matthew Cassavechia, director of emergency medical services at Danbury Hospital. ...
@#19 ... My guess is that this failed deployment of ICE to our airports is a trial run for deploying ICE to election polling places in November. ...
OMG, I and Mr Bannon agree?
Bannon says ICE at airports test run' for 2026 elections
thehill.com
... Former White House strategist and podcaster Steve Bannon said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel assisting with airport operations is a "test run" for the 2026 midterms.
During a conversation with conservative lawyer Mike Davis on his "War Room" program, Bannon asked, "We can use what's happening with these ICE [authorities] helping out at the airports, we can use this as a test run, as a test case to really perfect ICE's involvement in the 2026 midterm elections, sir?"
Davis responded, "Yeah, I think we should have ICE agents at the polling places, because if you're an illegal alien you can't vote, right? It's against the law, it's a federal crime for you to vote in federal elections."
"And so, if you're an American citizen, you should be happy that ICE is there, because you're not going to have illegal aliens canceling out your vote," he added.
"Exactly," Bannon replied. "Pick em out of line starting today, and maybe the lines will get shorter." ...
Wow.
Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world's most malnourished (March 2025)
apnews.com
...But in February, Mercy Corps abruptly ended the program that was entirely financed by USAID. Two weeks later, one of the twins died, Bulama said.
She has no more tears, only dread for what may come next.
"I don't want to bury another child," she said. ...
At this point, my guess is that an attack by Iran will likely be a cyber attack.
Pres Trump has defunded CISA (the part of DHS that protects us from computer-based attacks).
One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office (2025)
www.axios.com
... Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration, a former government official tells Axios " cutting the agency's total workforce by nearly a third.
Why it matters: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is also facing a potential 17% udget cut under the president's proposed budget -- raising fears that power grids, water utilities, and election systems could be left without a well-equipped federal partner as cyber threats mount. ...
Trump's campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting (November 2025)
www.reuters.com
... Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump's leadership " from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government. ...
... and once Pres Trump returned to the Oval Office, he took back those classified documents ...
Trump is returned classified documents from the dismissed federal case against him (March 2025)
www.axios.com
...Classified documents " the final remnants of former special counsel Jack Smith's since-dismissed federal case against President Trump " have been turned over to the president, he said.
Zoom in: "They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library," Trump said on Truth Social Friday. "Justice finally won out. I did absolutely nothing wrong." ...
... She spoke at the summit about how the device could be used to replace traditional teachers. ...
Robots replacing teachers?
What could possibly go wrong?
I have another question, though ...
Have Big Tech financial contributions to Pres Trump so tainted the views of his administration that he now wants robots to teach the children?
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
--- John W. Whitehead