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The race to the bottom is capitalist construct.
Seems to me the places having less of a problem getting and keeping restaurant workers are the ones ditching tips and paying more. Sure, they’ve raised their prices, but adjusted for not tipping, it comes out as a push for the customer. Aw, whose a good boy?! Works for leftovers. The dog, but not the previous waiter. Scottie
Why not use empty buildings / apartments to house the homeless. it is win win for the landlords, the homeless, and the government. In places were this has been done it has found to be cheaper than locking up the homeless or other ways to deal with them. Scottie
Dead man walking.
People who watch FOX think it’s a news channel and do not care that it is an entertainment channel with opinions, not journalism.
That is their research. Opinions are their facts.
More than 760 kids under the age of 18 are getting hospitalized with COVID-19 on average each day, according to CDC data. It’s the highest average ever reported for the age group.
“”For the week ending December 30, 2021, more than 325,000 cases were reported among children—a 64 percent increase from the previous week and nearly double the cases from two weeks prior,” says Dr. Noah Greenspan, PT, DPT, a cardiopulmonary physical therapist and the director of Pulmonary Wellness ComplexPT, who has been treating COVID patients since the beginning of the pandemic.”
SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/more-kids-being-hospitalized-covid-210857541.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Normally I would put this anti-CDC stuff in the misleading right wing media section, but the recent guidelines that changed several times a day for several days due to lack of tests for the Coronavirus variants and people needing to work to survive. So this time he has a point. While the recommendations have changed rapidly recently the CDC has to take into account reality when they issue their guidelines. Their job is to recommend the best public health measures to take to best protect the people from a public health threat. The reality is the US doesn’t currently have enough tests for people to test and quarantine then test again until they are negative for Coronavirus as they were doing, and people also need to work to survive in the US so have to be able to go back to work with out a negative test. While the CDC guidelines are not the optimum they are the best considering the circumstances. Scottie
Twelve people were killed Wednesday when gunmen stormed a French satirical news magazine, a weekly publication called Charlie Hebdo, which has published cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Scottie
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
As January 6th was an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power, an attempted coup, an insurrection designed to deny the will of the people who voted to elect Biden president in a fair and valid election, yes it was much worse. The attack and deaths of 9/11 couldn’t destroy the US nor stop the government from functioning. Jan 6th did stop the government from functioning and could have destroyed / ended the US form of democratic government by force. Scottie
“The general public and the politicians who serve them, like me, tend to reflexively support punitive sentencing measures that often fail to promote public safety and result in needless deprivation of freedom, burdensome taxpayer cost and unimaginable racial and regional disparities,” Mariani said. Supporters of the change contend it would help promote rehabilitation and save taxpayer money by freeing up prison space.
DFL Gov. Tim Walz shared some thoughts on the proposal earlier this week, saying he thinks the commission will make sure the most violent criminals remain locked up.
“Trying to tell Minnesotans that this is somehow going to make them less safe is simply not true,” Walz said. “The sentencing commission is made up of a vast swath of expertise. So, I would expect them to make the right decision on that, to be smart about what it takes for Minnesota to keep Minnesotans safe.“ Scottie
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And now some for fun
https://twitter.com/cohencidents/status/1479601102781919232?s=20
Star Wars reference. Imperial storm troopers are notorious for missing every good guy they shoot at. Scottie
Scottie's Playtime 
Hi Scottie;
In your remarks regarding Judge Chu in Minn.: There is a term called “Restorative Justice”, which I think you have spoken on before, that seeks to “restore” the criminal offender and the victim to well rounded citizens. It is not easy, does not come with 3-word slogans, doesn’t fit well with pundits trying to create reaction. It is a reasonable, responsible, difficult process focused on the harm that has come to all involved and find a way to return everyone to being productive citizens.
Perhaps one of the most disappointing things I’ve seen over the last 6 years or so is how the country has foregone the idea of growing up. Our populace seeks simple easy answers. Murders are weekly and solved within 43 minutes. Criminals are always horrible people and deserve what they have coming. Jails are never full, taxes for more never need raised, and they never need repair, and ultimately will always solve the problem. And so, we get to make these knee jerk reactions and forget the lives mangled as we move on to the next interesting drama in our lives. I’m sad to see how our populace has forgotten that each defendant is a person, each victim is a person, all with families, friends, people who count on them. I’m sad to see that our country has given up on accepting the consequences and focused on the easy things.
But, f’it, right? I mean, who has time for all of that.
hugs;
randy
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Hello Randy. Well said, very well said. Yes I am a proponent of rehabilitative justice. It not only is the humane way to do justice, but it is the safest for the community / society. Other developed countries do not have the same issues with recidivism that we do, they really do not have punitive hells for incarceration that the US does. Here is something to think of, if the sentence someone is given is overly long and completely punitive, denying basic human needs of safety and security while being denied personhood, what are they going to be when they get out? How are they then going to deal with the community / society they are released into after suffering that? In the US, the idea is to beat prisoners / criminals down and break them regardless of crime or if they were justly convicted, so that when they come out they will not dare to raise their head up nor complain about their treatment or be a problem and also they can be used for profit while in the system again with no complaint. But what they go through, if what they suffered was just punishment with no positive reinforcement, then they endured nothing that will improve the situation they had before they entered the prison system. They will come out worse than they went in. How does that help anyone or solve any problem?
There are smarter people than me I have listened / read on this subject and all of the articles / podcasts say we have to change our system and quickly. The system we have is not sustainable and is a mirage. The US has incarcerated about 1/4 of the population, again more than any other developed nation and like healthcare it costs us more with worse results. Scottie
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