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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

https://www.salon.com/2019/03/21/trumps-own-economists-now-agree-gop-tax-cuts-are-failing-to-spark-growth/

Trump repeatedly claimed that the Republicans' $1.5 trillion tax cut primarily aimed at corporations and the rich would pay for itself with annual economic growth above 3 percent. Trump went as far as to claiming the cuts might lead to a GDP growth of 6 percent.

Trump’s White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released an analysis in 2017 showing that slashing corporate taxes by 15 percent would lead to GDP growth of 3 to 5 percent.

On Tuesday, the CEA released a revised report showing that the economic gains will fall far short of their initial forecast.

According to the CEA, growth is projected to slow to 2.5 percent by 2022 and then decline to 2 percent by 2026. Even that estimate is rosy, according to most economists, the Washington Post reports, who expect projected growth to fall to 2 percent well before 2026.
...
The CEA estimate predicts a strong 3.2 percent growth in 2019, but that number was contradicted by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday.

Powell said in a news conference that GDP growth is slower than expected and the Fed now projects 2.1 percent growth in 2019, well below the White House estimate, and just 1.9 percent growth in 2020.

[josh]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2019/03/18/trump-is-trying-to-change-the-meaning-of-instructor-and-its-not-good/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie%2F#64f9996944a6

In higher education, in the Department of Education (ED), it’s not that no one is looking, it’s that few people understand the scope and impact of the proposals now under consideration there. And too few people are talking about them.

“People have a general expectation for what a college is doing, what it should be, what it means to be authorized, accredited, what a credit is, what a teacher is,” said Clare McCann, Deputy Director for Federal Policy, Education Policy at New America, a policy think tank. “The proposed changes being considered weaken all of these things at the same time and can fundamentally change what a college looks like.”
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One of the proposed NEGREG rules would change the very meaning of “instructor.”


“Now,” McCann said, “if you’re a distance education program, those usually doing online education, you’re required to have regular and substantive interaction between a student and the course instructor.”

That “regular and substantive” part is in the existing rule. As are the “interaction” and “instructor” parts.

In the rule under consideration now, ED wants to weaken the definition of “instructor” according to McCann, who’s sat in all the public meetings so far. “They want to define instructor as instructional team,” she said. And a team could include people such as course mentors, advisors, course designers, even other students. The impact would be to, “make it so a subject matter expert does not need to be the one interacting with students in online classes,” McCann said, “Your instructor could be almost anyone and it would essentially create an incentive to not hire experts to teach because experts can be expensive.”

[josh]

President Trump and his loyalists like to talk about the rise in White Supremacist violence as if they had nothing to do with it (and it isn't rising, anyway).

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-rally-hate-crimes-study-maga-2019-3

Hate crimes increased 226% in places Trump held a campaign rally in 2016, study claims

This suggests that it might not be so.

US counties where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally saw a 226% increase in reported hate crimes over similar counties that did not hold a rally, political scientists at the University of North Texas said in an analysis published in The Washington Post.

According to a study done by University of North Texas professors Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and PhD candidate Ayal Feinberg, the scientists found that Trump's statements during the 2016 campaign "may encourage hate crimes" in the respective counties.

The study measured the correlation between counties that hosted a 2016 campaign rally and the crime rates in the months that followed. The scientists used the Anti-Defamation League's map that measures acts of violence and compared the counties that hosted a rally with others that had similar characteristics, including minority population, location, and active hate groups.

"We examined this question, given that so many politicians and pundits accuse Trump of emboldening white nationalists," the analysis said in The Post.

[FlyingVProd]

The Governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, is running for President as a Democrat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Inslee

We will see what he brings to the discussions.

Salute,

Tony V.

[josh]

The Governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, is running for President as a Democrat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Inslee

We will see what he brings to the discussions.

Salute,

Tony V.

Tony, his stated intention is to bring one topic to the discussion: the climate and the urgency of dealing with it.

So far, I see no reason to doubt his intentions.

[kiidcarter8]

2020 solved.

Juan Bahama for president!

Need more grey

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18277769/aclu-kansas-police-karle-robinson-moving-while-black

Every damn day...

“I’d like to see those cops and that chief lose their jobs because this was uncalled for,” he told the Associated Press. “This is strictly racial profiling.”




Please.

[josh]

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18277769/aclu-kansas-police-karle-robinson-moving-while-black

Every damn day...

“I’d like to see those cops and that chief lose their jobs because this was uncalled for,” he told the Associated Press. “This is strictly racial profiling.”




Please.

Kiiid has a hard time accepting the truth about how Blacks are treated by the police.

[josh]

[LarryBnDC]

User error...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/airline-assured-flight-attendant-shed-be-safe-to-fly-to-mexico-when-she-returned-ice-detained-her/ar-BBV4DXe?ocid=sf

[josh]

The GOP cannot stand democracy.

They try to quell the number of voters. And when the voters pass something they do not like, they try to undo it. We've seen it again and again.

Here's the Idaho GOP trying to undo the voters' will:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/22/18277083/idaho-medicaid-expansion-john-roberts-obamacare

It wasn't always this way.

But it is this way now. And all the bleatings of Ward and Kiiid cannot change it.

[REDSTATEWARD]

The GOP cannot stand democracy.

They try to quell the number of voters. And when the voters pass something they do not like, they try to undo it. We've seen it again and again.

LOL
Time and time again local and state legislative bodies enact , amend, or overturn voter initiatives.
That’s reality and the law.

[Yankguy1]

LOL!!!!

[oilcan]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/24/robert-mueller-report-donald-trump

The real danger is that as attention inevitably turns to the 2020 campaign, controversy over the Mueller report will obscure the far more basic issues of Trump’s competence and character.

An American president is not just the chief executive of the United States, and the office he (eventually she) holds is not just a bully pulpit to advance policy ideas. He is also a moral leader, and the office is a moral pulpit invested with meaning about the common good.

As George Washington’s biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, explained, the first president believed he had been entrusted with something of immense intrinsic worth, and that his duty was to uphold it for its own sake and over the long term. He led by moral example.

Few of our subsequent presidents have come close to the example Washington set, but none to date has been as far from that standard as Trump.

In the 2016 presidential campaign, when accused of failing to pay his income taxes, Trump responded “that makes me smart”. His comment conveyed a message to millions of Americans: that paying taxes in full is not an obligation of citizenship....

[FlyingVProd]

The leader of one of the most authoritarian nations met with the leader of the world's wealthiest and most free, albeit small, nation.

https://www.newmyroyals.com/2019/03/prince-albert-ii-and-princess-charlene.html

I wonder, did the President of China play the roulette wheel at the casino?

Salute,

Tony V.