Miscellaneous political stuff - Part 2

they have plenty of time... not sure they can legally help him, though, depending on where he files his suit. lol!!

bwahahaha!!  thank you for that much-needed laugh.  

one of the replies on Twitter:  "The nearly shooting his teammate's head off aside...what the hell is with this "use your buddy as a human shield" tactic here? I did 10 years in the Army, can't say I ever was taught this approach."

yeah...  ummm, I don't think I'd trade with the guy, if he's that bad of a shot.  HE can be the human shield.  

My favorite comment:

Wiki talks to me....
Also found his 2015 issue....

In October 2015, McCarthy was accused of having an affair with Representative Renee Ellmers.[185] McCarthy had unexpectedly dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House shortly before the allegations surfaced.[186][187] Days earlier, Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. had sent a letter to the Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers stating that any candidates for a leadership position with "misdeeds" should withdraw from the race.[60] Both McCarthy and Ellmers have denied the allegations.[185]

An October 2018 investigation documented how William "Bill" Wages, of McCarthy's brother-in-law's company Vortex Construction, has received a total of $7.6 million since 2000 in no-bid and other prime federal contracts. The work was mostly for construction projects at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in McCarthy's Bakersfield-based district, and Naval Air Station Lemoore in California's Kings County.[188]
Not one mention of Judy Wages McCarthy or her brother William being Native American!!!

A basket of deplorables indeed.

Here's a longer shot. Absolutely disgusting.

Imagine your tiny life with your tiny feelings and your tiny intellect waiting all your life for your shot to "change the world" and this is what you go with.

Be aware this is who wants to be president. Remember how he is treating the educators of Florida and hundreds of thousands of kids. DeSantis is defying a court order to do this!!

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran withheld funds from the Alachua and Broward county school districts that are equivalent to the salaries paid to school board members' salaries.
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However, there is some question of whether the decision to withhold the funding from the schools will hold up in court.
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Corcoran's announcement Monday came after Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper on Friday ruled that DeSantis' overstepped his constitutional authority in issuing the executive order," reports the Tampa Bay Times. "Cooper issued an injunction barring Corcoran, the Department of Education and the State Board of Education from enforcing DeSantis' order. It was not clear Monday evening whether the announcement about withholding funds from the Alachua and Broward districts conflicts with Cooper's ruling."

www.rawstory.com/desantis-mask-mandate-2654844456/

Florida Board of Health and DeSantis have changed their method of reporting Covid deaths ...

In mid-August, without notifying the media or the general public, the department abruptly changed the way it reports COVID-19 deaths, according to a new report from the Miami Herald. Previously, the department counted deaths by the date they were reported. But now, it is tallying deaths according to the date the person died.

As a result, the state reported on Monday that only 46 people died from COVID-19 during the previous week. Under the old system, the number would have been 262.

"If you chart deaths by Florida's new method, based on date of death, it will generally appear — even during a spike like the present — that deaths are on a recent downslope," the Herald explained. "That's because it takes time for deaths to be evaluated and death certificates processed. When those deaths finally are tallied, they are assigned to the actual data of death — creating a spike where there once existed a downslope and moving the downslope forward in time."

Shivani Patel, a social epidemiologist at Emory University, called the move "extremely problematic" and said it creates an "artificial decline" to make it "look like we are doing better than we are."

"It shouldn't be left to the public, to scientists, national policy makers or the media to guess as to what these numbers are," Patel said. "We know from the beginning that dates matter and that they tell us different things."

Economist Tim Harford, author of "The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics," referred to such unexplained changes in data reporting as "statistical sleight of hand" that may be designed to confuse the layperson.

"When numbers are presented in a flattering light, an expert will generally be able to see through the dazzle quite quickly. That said, I still think the truthful-yet-deceptive framing of numbers is a serious problem," Harford said, adding that it can lead to dangerous public mistrust and cynicism.

"COVID is a matter of life and death and people deserve to have information that is both accurate and understandable without having to decode it," Harford told the Herald.

www.rawstory.com/florida-cases-2654853210/

Arizona governor.. oops...

The FBI's Public Corruption unit is investigating efforts by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's past and current staffers – including one who is now a federal judge – to push for a closed-door deal to issue tax refunds worth as much as $100 million to aid one of Ducey's campaign supporters.

The investigation: Untangling Gov. Doug Ducey’s complex network of interests

The men and others working for Ducey met with Revenue officials at least 16 times to insist that the department – which was under their oversight in the governor's office –agree to stop opposing Ryan and issue a tax refund to one fuel company. That, officials said, would have triggered refunds in all other similar cases, costing the state's general fund more than $100 million.

Nulle, who along with ex-Revenue Director Carlton Woodruff opposed the giveaway, succeeded when an appellate court ruled in their favor and opposed the tax refund claims. Ducey later fired both men.

www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2021/08/31/fbi-investigating-tax-refund-campaign-doug-ducey-ryan-llc/5666173001/

Sad little man.