Oh y’all, the Iowa Republican Party just revealed to the whole world the bank account numbers for the Republican National Committee.
I’ll let you see, but please don’t tell anybody.
Here’s a screenshot in case they take it down. You can see it and save it to your computer but for pete’s sake, keep it secret.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up. You can tell him, but that’s all. Nobody else.
Remember Jack Abramoff? Of Tom DeLay fame?
Sure you do. He served nearly four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and tax charges in 2006.
And then he got out, wrote a book and then went on a book tour, and then lived happily ever after. screwed up again.
He’s pled guilty to “conspiracy to commit wire fraud and lobbying disclosure violations,” and that can cost him 5 more years in prison.
The SEC announcement of its complaint alleged that Abramoff had conducted an “fraudulent, unregistered offering” of a BitCoin product, AML BitCoin. Abramoff has agreed to a settlement with the SEC, according to its release.
The scheme involved false claims that “multiple government agencies were negotiating to use AML BitCoin,” according to the SEC. The SEC said Abramoff and an associate “falsely claimed that they were on the verge of advertising AML BitCoin during the Super Bowl in an effort to create interest in the offering.”
Dude, this life of crime thing ain’t working out real good for you.
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus payments to almost 1.1 million dead people totaling nearly $1.4 billion, Congress’s independent watchdog reported Thursday.
You’ll be glad to know that the breakdown was caused by the fact that the Social Security Administration has death records, but the Treasury Department does not, and apparently the two of them had a tiff of some sort because cross referencing them was just too damn much trouble. Gee, if the government just had some manner of machine on their desk that could cross-reference data. You know, with a screen so they could see it.
The report makes clear how, in the mad dash to pass legislation to prop up an economy in free-fall in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, mistakes were made.
Mistakes were made? Well, Honey, that pretty much sums up the Trump presidency.
No matter how bad it gets in Texas, at least I don’t live in Florida.
Here’s Florida’s latest graphic showing the increase in the virus.
The size of the bars have nothing to do with the numbers at the bottom. However, they did get them in correct chronological order. There’s always that.
Source: Florid Dept. of Health (But Not Arithmetic)
Well, Governor Abbott has apparently coughed on Senator John Cornyn.
Bless Cornyn’s pitiful heart, he’s now blaming Democrats for the rise of Covid 19. He has now tweeted that State Representative Gene Wu of Houston should “quit trying to scare people” because Wu explained the hospital situation in Texas.
Cornyn’s tweet was in response to Houston state Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat, who tweeted a link to a news story about the Texas Medical Center reporting 97 percent of its intensive care beds in use with the comment: “We’re at the edge of the cliff. After these next few days, we will not have enough beds to care for all of the incoming #COVID19 patients. Then people die.”
Cornyn said that most of the cases in the ICU were not because of the virus and that those that are will probably recover.
Cornyn never was very good at math. (However, he must have gotten a medical degree when we weren’t looking.) A filled bed is a filled bed. If I have Covid19, I’ll need a bed, no matter how many car wrecks or heart attacks happened the night before. If that bed is not there, that’s a problem.
There’s a difference between scaring people and informing people.
Gov. Greg Abbott, still clinging pathetically to Donald Trump’s invisible coattails, has called a halt to future plans for re-opening Texas and laying out a bigger Yea Covid 19! welcome mat.
In case you haven’t heard, Texas is drowning in virus. Our ICU units are filled to capacity, elective surgery is halted, and the Governor wants you to wash your hands.
“This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business,” Abbott said. “I ask all Texans to do their part to slow the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask, washing their hands regularly, and socially distancing from others.”
Are you freekin’ kidding me? That is exactly what got us here.
Look, Greg, let’s chat. Texas is the home of conspiracy nuts. Remember Branch Davidians? Jade Helm mean anything to you? Oh hell, I forgot, you fell for that Russian troll conspiracy yourownself. Greg, when you tell people that Texas is fine, you just encourage the anti-maskers to go out and kiss each other. You and your Lt Governor don’t wear a mask. You’re not helping.
We’re not fine, Greg, and we are not fine because you have failed us.
Forgive me, customers, but I needed to explode this morning. “Temporary pause?” Really? When you are driving the wrong direction a temporary pause is still not going to get you to the swimming hole.