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Open thread Nov. 9,2021

Dan Crawford | November 9, 2021 6:59 am

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  • Jim Hannan says:
    November 9, 2021 at 11:16 am

    On election day Tucson residents voted for a city wide minimum wage of $15 per hour.  And the Arizona minimum wage will rise to $12.80 on January 1st.

    Meanwhile we are still waiting on Krysten (curtsy) Sinema to work with soulmate Mitt Romney and raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 to perhaps $10 or $11 per hour.  

    • Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
      November 9, 2021 at 4:29 pm

      F-ing kool,  THX, my best friend lives in Tucson.

  • Denis Drew says:
    November 9, 2021 at 11:18 am

    Most Americans of 1789 might as well have been living in 789 as far as their ability to do anything about slavery — for most of recorded civilization the only glue holding society together on dry land was the horse.  The rail road and the telegraph and 360,000 dead Union soldiers — and post-industrial America overrode that.

    Came Jim Crow — and waves of new Americans.  Paddy and Giuseppe and Chan had their own problems.  TV and MLK and LBJ were needed to finally put an end to that.

    Came so-called “inequality” (to most Americans this sounds like a race problem from the 50s). When I explained our labor market to my late brother John, he came back with, “Martin Luther King got his people on the up escalator, just in time for it to start going down for everybody.”

    You can’t win a culture war by raising the minimum wage.

    BTW, the minimum wage cannot reach much higher than the most weakly negotiated union contract — so it doesn’t offer much of a comprehensive answer for anything.

    As close to such an answer as can exist — doesn’t cost a dollar — Republicans swamped by deliriously desirous working class voters:
    https://onlabor.org/why-not-hold-union-representation-elections-on-a-regular-schedule/

    Giving people all their econ/pol power back make a hell of a cultural issue:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/upshot/how-the-obama-coalition-crumbled-leaving-an-opening-for-trump.html

  • Fred C. Dobbs says:
    November 10, 2021 at 8:03 am

    At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net

    What went on at a five-star hotel near the White House the day before the riot could be a window into how a Trump-directed plot to upend the election ended in violence at the Capitol. 

    “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House.

    “The truth is going to come out,” said Mr. Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.”

    In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Mr. Trump — including Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joseph R. Biden Jr. from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him.

    What unfolded at the Willard Hotel in the hours before the Capitol riot has become a prime focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as the panel intensifies its scrutiny into whether there was any coordination or tie between those pushing a legal strategy to overturn the election results and those who stormed the Capitol that day as Congress met to count the electoral votes to formalize Mr. Biden’s victory. …

    • Fred C. Dobbs says:
      November 10, 2021 at 8:29 am

      Federal Judge Rejects Trump’s Bid to Keep Papers Secret in Jan. 6 Inquiry

      A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected a bid by former President Donald J. Trump to keep secret papers about his actions and conversations leading up to and during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters.

      In a 39-page ruling, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that Congress’s constitutional oversight powers to obtain the information prevailed over Mr. Trump’s residual secrecy powers — especially because the incumbent, President Biden, agreed that lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 riot should see the files.

      Mr. Trump “does not acknowledge the deference owed to the incumbent president’s judgment. His position that he may override the express will of the executive branch appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power ‘exists in perpetuity,’” Judge Chutkan wrote. “But presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president.” …

  • Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
    November 11, 2021 at 7:10 am

    Happy Veteran’s Day folks.  Semper fidelis.

  • Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
    November 11, 2021 at 7:19 am

    Kyle Rittenhouse breaking down into tears during his trial testimony just goes to show that they do not make Nazi storm troopers the way they used to :<)

  • Fred C. Dobbs says:
    November 11, 2021 at 9:20 am

    Outside Climate Summit, Trash in Glasgow Piles High

    At COP26, delegates address the need to curb emissions and mass consumption to save the planet while the reality of today’s throwaway society is all too apparent nearby. 

    … As diplomats at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow this week preach about the need to curb both greenhouse gas emissions and mass consumption to protect the planet, the reality of today’s throwaway society can be seen just a short way from the conference’s doorstep.

    Outside the gleaming center of Scotland’s largest city, dumpsters and trash cans are overflowing. The city’s rat population has surged, with four garbage workers hospitalized because of attacks over the past five months. And litter is strewn across streets. …

     

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