Politicizing the Coronavirus Outbreak
Yesterday the President held a press conference to address the outbreak of the Coronavirus. He had asked congress for $1.25 billion in new money for vaccine development and purchasing protective equipment, in addition to spending unused funds earmarked to fight Ebola. (Total $2.5 billion). The response was immediate, totally political and based on what we've experienced with democrats, totally predictable.
“This is shameful,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill when asked about the administration sending a $2.5 billion supplemental budget request to combat the illness. “He puts forth a proposal now that is meager, anemic in terms of addressing this. Ebola, we did $5 billion. And now they’re trying to take the Ebola money and spend it here.”
https://thewashingtonsentinel.com/nancy-pelosi-uses-cdcs-coronavirus-warning-to-blast-president-trump/
Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer demanded $8.5 Billion be made available! Maybe thinking the President would turn away the exorbitant demand. Instead the President welcomed it during his press conference, saying "We'll take it."
A side note to what Schumer wants:
"Schumer said Sunday that a Stony Brook University professor who was visiting family in Wuhan is among those trapped in the country as a result of flights being suspended.
“My office is working with the State Department and embassy officials to ensure the Stony Brook professor is in constant contact with U.S. officials and we are all working to arrange a flight home for him ASAP,” Schumer said."
https://nypost.com/2020/01/26/schumer-calls-on-feds-to-declare-coronavirus-outbreak-a-public-health-emergency/
In other words, should the virus spread and become a major epidemic - it was the President's fault! Should the President stop all travel into the US - he's a "racist." Progressives wouldn't be hoping for a major outbreak in the US, would they?
The President put VP Mike Pence in charge of the effort to combat the Coronavirus in the US. There are 60 cases within the country thus far.
This is something we should be united on. Progressives have sunk to another low point.
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Putting ineffectual Pence in charge is no comfort.
Really? Finding fault even with that?
Oh, that's right AOC is against it and a reporter, her face twisted in anger, questioned it!
what if pence were to visit each of those unfortunate americans afflicted and offered to pray with them? that would be comforting to at least half of america.
What if Pelosi would do her damn job for a change and actually pass a bill for funding; instead of just politicizing it. Like she did with her so called border security proposal?
She is great at criticizing; and piss poor at getting things done. Unless she can put a few poison pills in the bill; she isn't interested.
legislation is based on compromise from both sides of the aisle, not just one side. sounds like somebody has got nancy confused with moscow mitch, the white house bitch.
So you think the f'ing Dems are willing to compromise? ROTFLOL.
The bitch isn't willing to compromise on anything. Seems asking for a clean billing to cover an "epidemic" is too damn much for those on the left.
like all the clean bills offered up by the right from 2010 to 2017? look at the bright side, covit19 might help clean out some of the old legislative deadwood when it blows up in DC.
Rush limpballs is the first one to politicize it with his bs conspiracy theories....
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I suppose some will hang onto an outrageous statement from Rush Limbaugh for dear life. Limbaugh is not the Speaker of the House, nor is he the Senate Minority leader. When they talk crazy, it divides the nation. We need unity on this.
When the Speaker of the House says “What he’s doing is late, too late, anemic,” she added. “Hopefully, we can make up for the loss of time but we have to have professionals in place, resources that are adequate and not use scare tactics about people coming back to our country” - you agree?
Let me ask you straight out - should we accept any flight coming in from China right now?
So far 0. She is just bad mouthing the President. Schumer wants $8 Billion. The President says "I'll take it!"
... so he can misappropriate that money for something else that panders to his base.
So which way do you want it?
Perhaps that's why he sought $2.5b. Why seek and squander pork? Congress loves to spray a problem with cash.
Well Nan sweetie, they didn't need all of it for Ebola evidently or there wouldn't be any left to "take". I am truly amazed some days wondering if these people actually feed themselves.
If Nancy wants 8 billion, pass a bill. That's her job, not Trumps.
What is most amazing is that politicians believe every problem can be solved by throwing public money. Apparently public money is the political hammer of choice and everything is a nail.
The threat of pandemic has revealed many cracks in political policies that cannot be solved by throwing public money. Open borders allows a disease to spread rapidly and become a pandemic. Dependence on foreign supply chains threatens the economy with major disruptions. Restrictions on travel rapidly affects tourism and tourist related service businesses. News organizations deliberately heighten fears by how they report the news.
Covid-19 has revealed just how vulnerable the United States has allowed itself to become. Those vulnerabilities can be directly attributed to political Washington. And throwing public money isn't going to solve anything.
I think you've touched on the 4 major problems we are facing in trying to deal with this. I can only add the problem of American citizens who want to come home from a place like China or even Italy. We have to quarantine then somewhere else IMO. I think a total travel ban is necessary at this point.
Well, the only people we could allow in are those who take a direct flight from Antarctica, because it's the only unaffected continent.
The problem is people wanting to avoid the inconvenience of quarantine. Where people are quarantined is less important than establishing and enforcing quarantine. Four walls look the same in China as they do in the United States. I don't understand why those who have been infected are not required to wear a bio-containment suit when they are transported. That would seem to be a simple, cheap, and effective means of controlling spread of the disease. If it works for medical staff, it should work for patients, too. And it's easier to stock bio-containment suits than self contained gurneys. Spending money is one thing. Wasting money is another.
The threat to supply chains indicate how little manufacturing has become automated. The problem isn't availability of toasters or T-shirts. The problem is the availability of mechanical fasteners (bolts, screws, nails, rivets), welding rods, hand tools, etc. It's the smallest, seemingly insignificant items that will bring down the economy.
Travel bans avoid overwhelming logistical capabilities. What we really need are stringent requirements and enforcement of quarantine. Surely the military has warehouses full of bio-suits and respirators. Those bio-suits are just as effective keeping the contagion inside as they at keeping a contagion out.
The United States has spent a lot of defense dollars on protecting against bio-warfare. So, what did we get for that expenditure of public money? Waste is waste. And apparently defense spending has been a waste.
When you have a known liar, crook, bigot, moron and cheat in the oval office, as Trump is, people will always question everything he does.
If you dont want that, dont elect such a person president of the United States.
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Health Secretary Asks For Emergency Coronavirus Funding While Trump Calls For 16% Cut To CDC Budget
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.
He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.
apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
So the fact that he wants these cut's (done or not) means he has a meaningful handle on the situation.
Right.....
I notice you didn't tackle his firing the pandemic response team.
It means that democrats have been misleading the American people about NIH & CDC budget cuts.
maybe trumpski should build a wall for that too...
Have you seen MSNBC today? They are trying to panic the entire country!
Vic,
A disease that they can't figure out how it's being spread and has a 2% mortality rate is reason to be concerned. The flu of 1918 had a 5% mortality rate and killed over half a billion people, and there were a lot fewer people then.
Please explain to me what one has to do with the other... keeping in mind that I am for border control.
Of course, but that's not concern coming from Pelosi and Schumer - It's blame! And what about the media? Did you see the New York Times story that called it the "Trumpvirus?" John had it seeded here!
The progressive love for open borders is a factor here, don't you think? Maybe we should that Bill Clinton for getting China into the WTO, which they have used so well?
Wally,
Mexico was one of the last countries to get it and they are not streaming over the border. That is an exaggeration. Frankly, given the number of cases here, I would stay in Mexico.
How is it blame?
I didn't notice it. I will have to check it out.
Please do.
Please read about the thousands of Chinese and other Asian nationals who have illegally entered the USA via our southern border since at least 2016.
Jasper,
The Chinese don't need to enter illegally through the southern border. They come through the airports and our northern border, too. They have been doing this for a very long time, along with the Irish.
I read it online and was going to seed it, because it was one of the most ridiculous articles I've read in a long time. Even left-wing folks mocked it.
I didn't know that John seeded it. I guess it never made it to the Front Page?
That hasn't stopped thousands from doing so. I don't know their reasons, and I'll assume that you don't either ... but it's TRUE.
Oh, ya it's right out on NT as if it was news or an honest opinion. We've had many such false divisive stories featured here.
"The entire country should have found it reassuring when the president appointed Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday to coordinate the Trump administration's coronavirus response efforts.
Pence has direct experience with this type of work, having overseen Indiana’s public health system as governor in 2014 when the first U.S. case of the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus emerged in that state. He’s also a proven leader who knows how to get people with different perspectives working together effectively.
MERS is also a form of coronavirus, but far deadlier than the one we’re currently battling, which is called COVID-19. Fortunately, the MERS virus was effectively contained, just as COVID-19 will be.
Instead of calling for bipartisan cooperation in this life-or-death effort, liberals reacted with collective outrage, even going so far as to ridicule the vice president’s Christian faith as a way of suggesting that he’s not qualified for the role of coordinating America’s response to the new coronavirus."
Identity politics, plain, simple, and very ugly.
While I agree that Mr. Pence's faith has nothing to do with anything here, his qualifications do and that is not identity politics.
The left's mockery of Pence's capabilities has centered on his identity as a Christian and has even gone as far as to claim that he doesn't believe in science.
You may want to recall whom Obama put in charge of the dangerous Ebola crisis:
You may also recall that the media coverage of that ranged from glowing to non-existent.
I have read plenty of articles that never mentions his faith. What I also have read, is that Mr. Trump tweeted in 2014 mocking Obama for not placing a doctor as the lead in the same situation. That his hypocritical.
According to the NYT, Ron Klain had absolutely no experience with Ebola or public health.
The Tmes got that one right.
That's nice. It's clear that you missed the articles that specifically targeted Pence's Christianity as the reason he would be incapable of coordinating a designated medical/pharm/research team.
Wow ... All the way back to 2014 to find a Tweet when US private citizen Trump gave his personal opinion!
BTW ... Private citizen Trump made no mention of a "doctor" in the tweet you posted. Also, Ebola and Coronavirus epidemics aren't "the same situation".
That is not what Trump is saying... and you know what, he was right in 2014. But now it's do as I say, not as I said.
Vic,
Will you defend the fact that Trump said one thing one time and is doing a totally different thing this time?
Maybe that is because I don't read junk news. He is unqualified for the job because he has no background in this field.
What his opinions changed when he became the president? How convenient.
Well, one we understand how to contain (ebola) and the other we don't. Any more excuses?
I do not make excuses for anyone, Perrie, and it's highly unflattering to you that you accuse me of doing so when you have no proof.
Jasper,
Proof of what? I am reading your words. That is all we all have to go on. And saying that something is unflattering is personal to me, while all I did was ask you a question.
No, I'm not in the habit of defending everything the President says or has ever said. I only know that he turned this country around despite an onslaught of attacks, lies and a failed coups. As for the media I DO HOLD THEM TO A HIGHER STANDARD! And it is they who are guilty of hypocrisy in addition to deliberately misleading the public.
I have to ask...turned it around from what? What was so bad that needed to be, or was turned around?
If you ask me, he is going backwards on a lot of things.
From the Orwellian state that Obama and progressives were diligently working on. You know where people can't say or think certain things or where certain people were allowed to resist arrest or where certain people were denied due process protections - you know, that society!
Ah. So you mean some fake made up society that was automatically disbanded when donald took office.
Talk about conspiracy theory....
Are you denying that students due process rights were violated under Obama?
Sorry but I don't take DeVos word for it.
The woman that has been trying to privatize public schools.
It had nothing to do with DeVos word! Long before Trump came to office there was concern for the way Obama corrupted Title IX. You don't get convicted or punished for anything in this country just beause somebody accused you of something!
How about the way he divided this country? Any thoughts on that?
I guess maybe he left. The radical Obama really thought highly of himself. He entered office in 2009 with a democratic majority in the House and a super democratic majority in the Senate. He treated the minority party with disdain while walking around telling us all about "teachable moments." Do those days ring a bell with anyone? Those were grand times for the left!
Sexual harassment and assault has been extended to title IX since the nineties. It didn't start with Obama. And he is certainly not the only one trying to tweak it to his views donald is doing the same.
Obama also tried to make trans-gendered people have protections under the title yet donald would not let them go into effect.
Funny though that this is your one and only thing that was terrible and had to be turned around.
Funny that you don't seem to remember the rise of the tea party people and all the hatred that was spewed at him on a daily basis.
True, but Obama had a different interpretation of title IX - right?
"Beginning in 2011, the Obama administration's U.S. Education Department began pressing colleges to more aggressively police sexual assaults. The department currently has some 216 schools under investigation, while other schools have expelled accused students on scant evidence, often with no legal recourse or due process."
Oh no, we could be here for a while, I simply picked one and you have denied it took place.
That's a strange view of the Tea Party - a progressive one.
selective amnesia
Prove the claim!
While I don't disagree with that, then you have to hold all media to a higher standard and not just the ones you disagree with. I am very picky about the sources I read, and if I am not sure, I look for more. I think no one should take one source as their only source.
I agree. I think most Americans now have many places to go for information. The old structure of the media is gone. It died via the internet. Now we have options. Tragically, it is the old, once highly valued news organizations who have lost all credibility over the past 11 years.
And some schools were covering up sexual assaults and not protecting students as they should. There had been an epidemic of sexual assaults on campus and you are upset at the one that tried to do something about it.
Funny some conservatives believe anyone can be fired at will, kicked out of a business at will, all with no recourse, yet have an institution of learning kick out a student over sexual assault claims and all the sudden, oh hell no.
And again, isn't donald just interpreting it himself with his new edits? Is he not doing the same thing?
Odd to me that the Obama interpretation bad yet the donald interpretation good.
From what I gather the Obama administration went after schools that would try to bury incidents or try to sweep them under the rug.
Amazes me the claims that Obama divided the country when it was the people with hatred of Obama dividing the country. The same ones that worship trump. I have even seen some claim donald is trying to bring the country together.
I can only laugh at that one.
That could be a valid point, but the solution should never be to deny the accused their right to due process, wouldn't you agree?
and you are upset at the one that tried to do something about it.
I'm very upset that an American president would ignore Constitutional rights.
Funny some conservatives believe anyone can be fired at will, kicked out of a business at will, all with no recourse, yet have an institution of learning kick out a student over sexual assault claims and all the sudden, oh hell no.
I'm on the side of the Constitution.
And again, isn't donald just interpreting it himself with his new edits? Is he not doing the same thing?
Correcting a wrong? That's the turning I mentioned in the beginning. Do you understand now?
Odd to me that the Obama interpretation bad yet the donald interpretation good.
I'm sorry to hear that.
From what I gather the Obama administration went after schools that would try to bury incidents or try to sweep them under the rug.
Nope, it was universal pressure applied to all institutions of higher learning. I suspect you know it.
Are you about ready to deploy the race card?
This is just nonsense. The most untrustworthy news sources are on the right, particularly Fox News, Breitbart, Limbaugh, OAN, etc.
Why do you think Trump is consistently wrong so much? He gets his information from right wing media.
As far as I know it was the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN and Buzzfeed that lied to the American people for over 3 years about a Russia/collusion bull shit story.
When the administration has to send a letter to universities to remind them of their obligation to investigate reports of sexual assault, something is wrong.
Notice the not binding part. The lowering of the bar I do not mind as we both know there is not always absolute proof. In a lot of cases it is always he said she said. The lowering of the bar says those cases cannot be ignored. Setting a sixty day response to me just means they can't ignore it and hope it goes away.
The discourage cross examination is the only thing I would have a problem with. It still said discourage not practice.
I still see nothing unconstitutional about it.
Are you about ready to deny that played a factor for some people?
As if his new corona virus czar (Pence) has experience in either the medical area or infectious disease control. That is THE TOTAL JOKE!
Vic, you support a guy who is a pathological liar. You know what? , he was a pathological liar in 2016, and the FBI, the CIA, the New York Times , the Washington Post , etc, all knew it. No one unjustifiably reported on the possibility that Trump was involved with Russia. We still dont know for sure, and his attempt to collude with Ukraine gives us no confidence that he was completely innocent with Russia either.
To my knowledge no one in the media created allegations about Trump out of thin air, what may have happened in some cases is that the media reported unproven allegations.
Your attempts to paint Trump as a heroic, put upon martyr are silly. He is the most dishonest and unfit president in the country's history, and the media has made some of that information available to the population.
The guidance all but assured accused students would be found responsible. Do you know why the Obama people didn't want cross-examination? They thought it might re-traumatize victims. Radical progressives think like that. And of course, I think most of us know that cross-examination is the best tool in determining whether someone actually is a victim.
I still see nothing unconstitutional about it.
Maybe this story from 2015 would help you to see it:
"At the University of San Diego, a student was accused of raping a young girl who attended the same University. These two young students were friends they had a strong friendship that turned into something else quickly. They would text and go out sometimes. They were both at a party. Everyone was having a good time and enjoying themselves. Everyone dancing, two guys including the young girls friend went into a room with her and started trying to touch her. Eventually 5 minutes passed and someone came into the room, both of the guys left running.
The young girls friend denies everything and says he never touched her, and it was all the other guys fault. The other guy supposedly planned it. The two guys were expelled from the University and never allowed to go back. At the court the guy had evidence that the young girl actually wanted to have sexual intercourse with him, and it wasn’t rape. The school didn’t allow him to show his evidence, so therefore he had absolutely nothing to show he was innocent. Eventually, they found them innocent and they were required to go back to the University. This story shows that under law we are innocent until proven guilty."
Vic,
No one brought race into this. Hating Obama can be for any reason and ender is right. The major rift happened right after Obama was elected and became worse when Hillary didn't get elected. It's reactionary.
How would it fit into a conversation of Obama's policies?
Be very careful
He is bringing race into it right now and I have a very low tolerance for that
How long does it take to figure out the sources (within government) are feeding misinformation? No, the msm has been part of the anti-Trump operation from the beginning. You know it too.
ender is having a very hard time defending Obama's school rape policy. Ender should have conceded that Obama was wrong on that from the beginning.
The major rift happened when certain people couldn't accept Trump's election in 2016, but Obama divided us long before that. How about when he linked Republicans to Iranian militants:
"It's those hardliners chanting Death to America who have been most opposed to the deal." "They're making common cause with the Republican caucus."
Actually you are the one that did.
I am not having a hard time on anything. I am not actually defending it just showing a viewpoint. And I do not think he was wrong, his approach may have been.
Actually your story shows very little. It shows one girl saying the one guy planned it.
Contrary to beliefs of some a woman can want to have sex, then if she decides no, it means no and stop.
First you failed to defend Obama's school rape policy, then you said:
mazes me the claims that Obama divided the country when it was the people with hatred of Obama dividing the country.
From out of nowhere you raised that!
Actually I don't think that at all. It can lead to victim blaming.
Again, fail is only in your mind.
I did't ask anything with that, I was responding to another.
Really? Nobody gets asked a question?
Do you realize how you sound?
So you go from saying I asked a question, which I did not, to saying, well I don't even know what you are trying to say now....
How about this one:
The Obama administration’s disdain for the rule of law continues to reverberate. One way is its Title IX madness, which has caught numerous colleges and universities in its web. Among them is Amherst College, which now faces a lawsuit brought by a student who makes a compelling case that he was wrongfully expelled.
The facts revolve around a drunken hookup between two students and the woman’s subsequent efforts at covering up her more than willing participation by blaming the male student and accusing him of assault. Amherst’s administration was equally complicit, however, pronouncing the man guilty on flimsy and incomplete evidence, then refusing to reconsider once evidence that the woman had fabricated her story came to light.
And the dark force driving the school to make an example of the student was the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
On the night of February 4-5, 2012, John Doe (as he is called in the court documents) was so drunk that he “blacked out” and couldn’t remember much about the night, including even his interaction with Sandra Jones (again a pseudonym). The two were making out in a dormitory common area when another student said that they ought to go somewhere private. Jones led Doe to her room, where she performed oral sex on him. Her room was available because her roommate—Doe’s girlfriend—was away.
Doe thought little more about that drunken night with Jones until he was dumbfounded to receive a notice from Amherst in December of 2013 that he had been charged with rape. He would have to appear at a hearing in ten days.
For that hearing, he was allowed to choose an “advisor” from a list given to him by the school, but that individual could only suggest questions for the examiner, not speak for the accused or cross-examine witnesses. That list didn’t include anyone with the slightest legal training. (The person Doe chose was an Amherst administrator with a degree in Social Justice Education, who was of no help.)
Unknown to Doe, Amherst had decided to follow the Obama administration's preferred system for adjudicating sexual assault complaints, namely hiring an investigator who would look into the case, question some witnesses, and then make a presentation to a panel. That panel would then decide on disciplinary action, if any.
Don't you believe cross-examination is an effective tool at getting to the truth?
In all actuality I don't think it should be handled by the school at all. I think all info should be gathered then handed over to local law enforcement agencies.
I hate to say it but cases like that happen not only in schools.
For a long time the deck was stacked against women. For a long time a man could just laugh it off and say well deep down she wanted it. No matter what, the good ol boys club is no longer. Things like the Obama era guidelines came into being for a reason. They did not arbitrarily decide to target people.
There have always been people that abuse the system, both ways.
Yes. But what Obama had the schools doing denied due process and there is no escaping that fact.
I am well aware of that, but two wrongs don't make a right. Obama was wrong.
They did not arbitrarily decide to target people.
They were totally arbitrary. They in effect said the accuser was automatically right. The accused was automatically guilty. It was a national disgrace.
I didn't read that into it. I saw it as the victim was to be believed. As we all know that, especially people with money and donated to a school, could get their kids out of a lot of things. Including misrepresenting facts, brushing things aside and putting the blame on a victim.
It said all cases had to be taken seriously.
Can people abuse that? Yes, but more than likely not.
You have an interesting way of seeing it.
Perhaps this might help:
Zerlina Maxwell wrote that we should " automatically " (see the URL for the original headline) believe rape victims. That goes against everything our system of justice stands for, as we base cases on the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. I’m not going down that rabbit hole–and neither should any American who believes in law and order. Dates, names, and physical evidence, need to be analyzed, cross-examined, and pieced together to build a case against the alleged perpetrator.
Again, you probably already know this, but some liberals seem to think otherwise. Why is that? Why is it that for other crimes they believe in the process, but when it comes to rape, it’s an automatic guilty verdict for the accused.
Right now, there seems to be this hysteria over sexual assault on campus. I’m not saying rape isn’t a serious issue, but its frequency may be overblown. We’ll get to that a little bit later.
Currently, the reforms and statues aimed at keeping campuses safe from sexual predators seem to be infringing on the civil rights of men. Emily Yoffe at Slate wrote a great long-from piece about the sexual assault epidemic that’s allegedly running rampant in higher education. She used the 2012 story of Drew Sterrett, an engineering student who used to attend the University of Michigan, as her foundation to delve into how college campuses have devolved into a clown circus when it comes to investigating sexual assaults.
Sterrett was a victim of this process; he engaged in what he says was a consensual sexual encounter with a female colleague at school. His roommate noted in a sworn affidavit that it was consensual, even mentioning his frustration that they were being too loud during the act, which was keeping him from sleeping.
Yoffe had a concise description of the legal fiasco that’s unfolding in American higher education:
As for Sterrett, the school found him guilty of sexual intercourse without the Complainant’s consent and was suspended until 2016; the year his alleged accuser graduates. All of this after Sterrett gave a thorough rebuttal, which didn’t suggest any sexual assault had occurred. His accuser’s roommate didn’t notice any behavioral shifts until her mother discovered her diary that “contained descriptions of romantic and sexual experiences, drug use, and drinking.” Obviously, this didn’t set well with the mother, who drove Sterrett’s accuser to campus to meet with the university’s conflict resolution official. Even Sterrett’s accuser’s roommate believes that a rape story could have been “manufactured” in response to the discovery of her diary and the alleged confrontation Sterrett’s accuser had with her mother over the summer of 2012. Oh, and the accuser’s roommate also mentioned in an affidavit that the mother called her repeatedly, told her not to talk to Sterrett, and take her daughter’s side in the proceedings.
Right now, Sterrett hopes to finish his education…someday. His lawsuit is pending.
Yoffe documents this tragic story in more detail, which also includes a lengthy deep-dive into the statistics as well. Spoiler alert: they’re not accurate.
Despite what feminists and liberal Democrats have been espousing for years regarding the rates of sexual assault, it’s a little dubious to say there’s a rape epidemic. The figures they give on rape and sexual assault rival that of the Congo in Africa, where it’s being used as a vehicle of war.
Additionally, there is a very wide range for actions that are considered sexual assault. In a study of over 5,000 female college students, they defined sexual assault as anything from non-consensual intercourse to “rubbing up against you in a sexual way, even if it is over your clothes.” Most importantly, Yoffe notes that we’re experiencing a great trend in this country: violent crime is down, including sexual assaults; they’re down by more than 60 percent since the mid-1990s:
That only sounds like trying to explain things away and diminish actual crimes.
For every story you tell, I can tell another where a man does not even spend any prison time.
And like I said before, I have no idea why schools should be handling any of this at all.
Indeed it is. While I am by no means a fan of Pence, in a way I feel sorry for him, as he has been placed in charge of a medical outbreak with no experience and/or background whatsoever to aid him in his newly assigned duty. He has nothing going for him other than to say "I am the one in charge." And that may come to be worst things he is known for.
It's as if Trump wants him to fail, and do so at the expense of American lives. I can't think of any other reason why Trump would put such a serious world wide illness in the leadership of someone who is so totally unfit for the job.
I have to wonder if Trump would have such a "No big deal" attitude toward the disease if he or one of his own family was stricken with the disease. I don't think so. But, as long as it is other people he obviously does not care that much, and makes it clear by putting an totally unqualified person in charge of the control of the disease. The only thing Pence might be good at is saying prayers over the dead in his charge.
Then you don't believe in due process or the concept of innocence until proven guilty, which is a cornerstone of the Constitution.
For every story you tell, I can tell another where a man does not even spend any prison time.
Then your theory is better that a few innocent go to jail than one guilty man escapes?
And like I said before, I have no idea why schools should be handling any of this at all.
And like I said before -it would be better if they hadn't, but that has little to do with the Obama policy.
And just rescinding the Obama policy will not help anything.
The problem is far worse than the Obama guidelines.
Even with the Obama era procedures, it is still not as one sided as some are trying to make it out. Making it sound like only the accused get a bad deal is false in itself.
I will reiterate that universities should not even be in the business of investigating any crimes or wrong doing. They should not be trying any criminal cases.
Imo letting them have their own rules and justice system is the problem. Instead of giving them any guidelines or taking any away, what should be taken away is their ability to have their own justice system.
It will restore justice for the accused. Everyone has the right to an assumption of innocence until proven guilty.
I will reiterate that universities should not even be in the business of investigating any crimes or wrong doing.
We've covered that, due process rights were violated under Obama and now they've been restored.
Actually if you think about it, none of them are having any due process as none of it is going through an actual court of law.
Not today for some on the left. If they don't agree with them or simple don't like them, the accused is guilty first, even if proven innocent later.
It's pretty messed up to be sure.
Seems you're conveniently forgetting "LOCK HER UP" - for right wingers, anyone on the left is guilty first.
It sure is messed up, you've got that right.
But apparently it only bothers you when the left does it; when the right does it, I hear no complaints from you.
I'm not forgetting anything or excluding anyone who does stuff like that but i'm not sure Hillary is the best example for you to use in that regard. If you think she did it all righteous, you are not as smart as i thought you were.
That said, when i hear you pointing out those on the left who have been doing just that, nonstop for the last three plus years, i'll yield some high ground to you on your accusation. I don't think you have any high ground on the matter from what i recall but hey, my memory isn't always the best, i could be wrong.
The accusers had been given the ability to do serious damage to whoever they wanted. It was a very unjust system. I'm sure it played well with Obama's feminist supporters.
Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'
Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.
I was going to post that as an article. With all the medical breakthroughs and developments from Israel it would not surprise me if they were the first to come up with a vaccine.
Also here on Long Island, a lab says they are close to having a vaccine, but there are still too many unknown variables with this virus to know how safe it will be.
Virus spreading globally
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, some of which cause the common cold. Others have evolved into more severe illnesses, such as SARS and MERS.
Locations in bold have reported a first case within last 7 days
Cruise ships. I've never understood the fascination with those floating petri dishes.
Flying in pressurized germ tubes is bad enough but your exposure time there is usually much less.
I'd prefer a Cruise Missile over one of those germination stations.
Never been on a cruise, and definitely have not the desire to start.
Once those sicknesses get rolling on the high seas, they tend to build momentum, as exampled there in Japan.
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I really do not wish to hear from Pence on this pandemic, give me a damn doctor or scientist any day, not some religious zealot who is afraid to upset the naked and afraid emperor of nothing doom and gloom about 'my' economical garden that Obama didn't cultivate, 'this economy is mine all mine', cause i claimed it, and i would never lie to any of my peasants that must bow at my feet and tie bows in my shoelaced Kool aid.
4 the broken record, I do not
believe Trump is in any way fully responsible for the economy, good or bad.
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But it certainly has been His big mouth that has claimed it.
lol
Health officials in Washington state announced three additional deaths among coronavirus patients on Monday, bring the total number of fatalities to five. Two of the patients were considered "new" cases of COVID-19, while the third death involved a patient who was previously confirmed to have the virus.
In a press conference, King County health officials announced four new cases, bringing the total number of COVID-19 patients in the state to 14, including the five deaths.
Several of the patients were described to be older in age, with underlying health issues. Three of fatalities involved female patients, including two who died on March 1, while the other two involved men, including one in his 50s with no known exposure.
Officials cautioned that the number of cases is expected to rise in the coming days and that the risk to the public would be increasing.