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Elderly Left in Freezing Cold at Trump Rally

Emergency news coverage noticed by Burr

 
Too dangerous for obvious metaphors

From the Omaha World-Herald:

Hundreds of people waited hours in the cold for buses after Trump rally at Eppley

Hundreds of people who attended President Donald Trump’s Eppley Airfield rally Tuesday evening in Omaha spent up to three hours in freezing temperatures waiting for buses to take them back to their cars.

Several people who were waiting required medical attention, based on reporting at the scene and local emergency scanner traffic. Douglas County dispatchers and Airport Authority Police said they had no immediate tally.

The president, who spoke for nearly an hour, wrapped up shortly before 9 p.m. Some people in his audience waited until after midnight for campaign buses to take them to their cars, which were parked miles away.

Walking out of the rally, The World-Herald saw two people receive help from Omaha police — an elderly woman who was warming up in the back of a police cruiser and a boy to whom an officer lent a blanket.

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Trump Offered Post-Election Employment Consideration

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Racist Candidate, Indignant Party, Biden Kissing Scandal, Giuliani Tucked

  • I’m afraid this sort of thing will become more common with time:
     
    tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors highlights an attack by a Republican candidate for Congress. Seems a critic has gone to work for US Senator Cory Booker. So candidate Madison Cawthorn attacks critic Tom Fiedler, whose name he can’t quite spell, for going to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.
     
    To be fair, Republican Madison Cawthorn later explained that his unclear syntax carried the implication that he was critical of Cory Booker for being a black male and working to ruin white males. But Cawthorn is actually not a racist. After all, he once quoted Martin Luther King.
     
    So he clarifies. He is not criticizing Cory Booker for being Black or Male or for working to ruin white male candidates. He is only attacking Fiedler … for going to work for Cory Booker, a Black male working to ruin White male candidates.
     
    Also, he once quoted Martin Luther King.
     
    Of interest to me is the Boston Globe headline, which reads in part:
    GOP House candidate under fire for racist dog whistle attack.
    Really? Dog whistle?
     
  • If an over-the-backyard-fence neighbor told you that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC for us elderly folk with bad memories) had just written up a law called the Green New Deal or that Ted Cruz just introduced a new law to eliminate voting rights, would you walk home thinking both measures had passed the House and the Senate and had been signed into law by Mr. Trump?
     
    Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is indignant at claims made by a Democratic State Representative. Seems she uses words like law and act to describe bills, and uses bill to describe what can’t be submitted until the Wisconsin legislature reconvenes. It may sound petty but, from what James writes, Republicans in Wisconsin regard it as a bit of an election scandal. False advertising, you know.
     
    Just for giggles, I went to my usual thesaurus to find what synonyms exist for bill. And I found under legislative document that the words bill, act, law, clause, code, statute, measure, enactment, and resolution are all used interchangeably, presumably by normal folk like you and me.
     
    It does remind me of a lawsuit I heard about on the radio decades ago. A small savings & loan in a little community was making a bit of a dent in business conducted by a few large banks in the area. When the little S&L advertised with a modest suggestion, Do your banking with us, the big banks sued. It was not a bank, so people putting their money in the S&L were not really banking. It was false advertising and must be stopped.
     
    The savings & loan countersued. Fair was fair. If the S&L could not advertise using the word banking because it wasn’t a bank, the big shots at the huge banks should not be permitted in their banking business ever to use the word savings or the word loan.
     
    An out-of-court settlement was very simple. All suits and accusations of false advertising were dropped.
     
    I also remember an old story that has an elderly gentleman testifying in favor of some proposal being considered by whatever state in which he lived. A hostile legislator makes fun of the old man’s use of Colonel in front of his name. The title had been awarded by the state as a honor for some bit of past philanthropy. The interrogation is short:

    Are you a combat hero?
    Were you ever in a war?
    Were you ever in the military at all?
    Just what does that “Colonel” in front of your name mean?

    The old man answers evenly:
    It’s like the word “Honorable” in front of your name. Doesn’t mean a thing.
     
    I don’t recall whether the old man and the state legislator were from Wisconsin, or whether the gentleman was testifying in favor of a bill, an act, or a law. Or whether that affects the punchline.

  • Tommy Christopher reports on reports from conservatives on the latest scandal: actual photographs of Joe Biden kissing his son Hunter. Hey, nothing else has worked so what the hell!
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged draws a lesson from the lower half of why Giuliani was in the news this week. Aside from the headline (read it), the best half-sentence was this:

    … it is a damn shame when people are set up to have revealing moments pulled wildly out of context, or to have people use their prior assumptions to create vicious, untrue images that could very well ruin a reputation, don’t you think?

  • Sarah Cooper has a special election message for lawyers.

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Debate Surfing

found on Twitter by Burr

 
 
Noted while watching debate and net surfing last night

As the debate ends:

I can help with that: