Florida as GOP wasteland

 

Meet homophobe and
Florida Commissioner of Education
Richard Corcoran

masked up and ready to discriminate

Florida Politics, 12/23/2021

Following the removal of anti-bullying resources from the Florida Department of Education website, including information regarding LGBTQ students, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is providing that information instead.  

In a Tuesday press release, Fried announced a set of LGBTQ resources hosted on the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services website. 

“Improving the health, safety, and prosperity of all Floridians, including the hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ Floridians, is my top priority as a member of the Cabinet,” Fried said in a written statement. 

“It’s so important that LGBTQ Floridians know that they matter, there are resources to help, and that we will continue to advocate for them,” Fried continued. “That’s why I believe it’s imperative that we make these resources available.” 

Advocates complain that removing resources for LGBTQ students is the latest attack on LGBTQ Floridians by the Ron DeSantis administration. Earlier this month, the department scrubbed dozens of informational links from its webpage on “Bullying Prevention.”

Bray by bray: What Trump did during the pandemic (December 16-31, 2020)

 

December 22, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  18,855.636 (+204,971, 36.7% of current total)

December 22, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 51,303,310 (188,798)

CNN, 12/22/2020

A Republican leadership aide told CNN “no” when asked if this was expected. The aide pointed out that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had negotiated this bill. He was the White House’s voice in the room, everyone assumed. Another aide said Trump seemed to be “coming unhinged.”   [emphasis added]

 The President is upset about several provisions that were actually in the omnibus spending bill, not the Covid relief bill.

"Coming unhinged"?   Trump's being iunhinged was one of the hallmark's of his entire presidency.

December 22, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 346,542  (+3,381, which is 42.8% of current total)

December 22, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 808,414 (+1,351)

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December 20, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  18,429,666 (+175,857, 35.% of current total)

December 20, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 50,811,522 (72,740)

CNN, 12/20/2020

Just when it seemed like the President couldn't sink any lower in his quest to subvert the November election results, his mere entertainment of invoking martial law to negate Biden's victory underscores how laser-focused he still is on his own interests at a time when the nation is mired in crisis.

The idea came up during an extraordinary Oval Office meeting Friday between Trump, members of his team and two of his most discredited outside advisers -- lawyer Sidney Powell, a fount of baseless voter fraud theories, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom Trump recently pardoned and who first floated the martial law idea earlier last week.

December 20, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 338,754  (+1,709, which is 41.2% of current total)

December 20, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 804,916 (+158)

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December 19, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  18,243,809 (+205,960, 35.% of current total)

December 19, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 50,739,052 (75,835)

Washington Post, 12/19/2020

After their warnings had gone largely unheeded for months in the dormant West Wing, Deborah Birx, Anthony S. Fauci, Stephen Hahn and Robert Redfield together sounded new alarms, cautioning of a dark winter to come without dramatic action to slow community spread. 

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, among the many Trump aides who were infected with the virus this fall, was taken aback, according to three senior administration officials with knowledge of the discussions. He told the doctors he did not believe their troubling data assessment. And he accused them of outlining problems without prescribing solutions. 

The doctors explained that the solutions were simple and had long been clear — among them, to leverage the power of the presidential bully pulpit to persuade all Americans to wear masks, especially the legions of Trump supporters refusing to do so, and to dramatically expand testing.

December 19, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 337,045  (+2,754, which is 41.2% of current total)

December 19, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 804,758 (+492)

New York Times

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December 18, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  18,037,849 (+251,570, 35.2% of current total)

December 18, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 50,663,217 (170,035)

CNN, 12/18/2020

Trump ran for president pretending he was the consummate dealmaker, the chief executive who could make things happen with a snap of his fingers. He will go down in history as a president who worsened the grief and tragedy of the most consequential pandemic in 100 years by being contemptuous of masks and the safety precautions designed by his own administration -- a man incapable of empathy, who chose to remain cocooned in his White House bubble at a time when leadership would have mattered.  [emphasis added]

December 18, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 334,291  (+3,231, which is 41.2% of current total)

December 18, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 804,266 (+2,072)

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December 17, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  17,786,279 (+238,902, 35,2% of current total)

December 17, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 50,493,182 (146,195)

But not Trump

Reuters, 12/17/2020

Trump will get the vaccine when his medical team decides it is best, according to the White House. read more The president was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 this fall. Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, according to a statement from his office.

And thus began the rollout of Trump's wink-wink, nudge-nudge antivax campaign.

December 17, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 331,060  (+3,435, which is 41.2% of current total)

December 17, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 802,194 (+1,157)

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December 16, 2020.   U.S. total Covid cases =  17,547,377 (+253,097, 34.8% of current total)

December 16, 2021.  U.S. total Covid cases = 50,346,987 (145,689)

CNBC, 12/16/2020

The emails surfaced as part of an investigation by the House coronavirus subcommittee into alleged political interference by the Trump administration. The probe came about after former HHS scientific advisor Paul Alexander and longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo were accused this summer of meddling with the work of career scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist.

December 16, 2020.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 327,625  (+3,737, which is 40.9% of current total)

December 16, 2021.  U.S. total Covid deaths = 801,037 (+2,292)

New York Times

Related series of posts: Day by day:  What Trump said about the pandemic. 
December 1-15, 2020.
November 15-30, 2020
November 1-15, 2020
October 16-31, 2020
October 1 -15, 2020
September 16-30 2020
September 1-15, 2020
August 16-31, 2020
August 1-15, 2020
July 16=31, 2020
July 1-15, 2020
June 16-30, 2020
June 1-15, 2020
May 16-31, 2020
May 1-15, 2020
April 16-30, 2020
April 1-15, 2020.  
March 20-31, 2020.
March 11-20, 2020
March 1-10, 2020.
February 2020.

Related series of official/sycophants posts:

July 16-31, 2020

July 1-15, 2000

June 16-30, 2020

June 1-15, 2020

May 16-31, 2020

May 1-15, 2020

April 20-30. 2020.

April 1-15, 2020.

March 13-31, 2020.

Dora Pace Cicchini (1933-2021) Warren High School class of 1951

 

  1951 Dragon yearbook

Source: Jamestown Post-Journal

1967 Warren City Directory

• Pace Antoinette teacher Warren School District r27 Walnut Street
• Pace Bruno A (Sabia B) conveyor operator Penelec h27 Walnut Street

1983 Warren City Directory,

• Hampson H Robert & Janet D;  lawyer 400 Market Street h115 East Fifth Avenue

The popularity of Dora as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at Antoinette.

Social Security Administration

 

Antoinette spent 69 years in the top 300 (1900-47, 1961-71), peaking at #170 in 1914 and 1917.  She dropped like a rock after 1990.


Other members of the WHS class of 1951 (32):

2021

Robert Hampson.  (11/24)

Barbara Gray Lauffer.  (5/18)

Dorothy Cook Hanson. (5/5)

Alice Hollabaugh Lindell. (3/23)

Dorothy Anderson Barstow.  (3/2)

Doris Whipple Cunningham.  (1/29)

2020
Doris Mason Sadler.  (8/21)

Sarah Irving Crecraft.  (8/10)
Mary Cotillion Young Shaffer.  (6/9)
Richard Campbell.  (5/14)
Patricia Hamm Suppa.  (4/27)

2019
John Steele Sr. (9/9)
Josephine Gregerson Baker.  (6/1)
Tilda Hildum Hulteburg.  (2/7)
George Gern (2/6)

2017
Patricia Elaine Black Williams.  (10/12)
Marilyn Albaugh Frycklund.  (9/23)
Carol Amacher.  (5/30)
John Wood.  (5/28)
Catherine Collins Sheldon.  (4/22)
Ronald McCain.  (4/13)
Elaine Crecraft McDunn.  (3/1)
Albert Kondak.  (2/28)
Richard Cook.  (2/16)
Marilyn Pasquino Nyberg.  (1/19)

2016
Mark Bevevino.  (8/26)
Diedra Peterson Andersen.  (6/8)

Marilyn Lyke Bonace.  (6/6)
John Tingwell.  (6/5)

2015
Donald Quiggle.  (12/19)
Genevieve Larson McKown.  (12/16)
Franklin Reiff.  (7/14)

Mary Ann Font Schafer.  (6/29)

In the news: Norman Oklahoma CIty Council

 

Meet city council member  Kelly Lynn
masked up and ready to spew more racist garbage

KFOR, 12/16/2021

Ward 3 council member Kelly Lynn then called the study “garbage.” 

“Looking at FBI statistics, African Americans are way more responsible for murder, robbery, all kinds of violent crimes, way disproportionate to their percentage of population. The numbers are outstanding,” said Lynn. “This seems like a big waste of time to me.” 

Ward 1 council member Brandi Studley then responded. 

“I am a little bit shocked by council members Lynn’s comments. I find them to be extremely disturbing and racist and I don’t appreciate that, and I apologize to our black community members that just had to listen to that,” she said. 

Mayor Breea Clark also responded to the comments on Twitter, saying, “The CM’s comments were wildly inappropriate & offensive, but I don’t have the power to censure Councilmembers & although vile, what was said is protected speech under the 1st amendment. With that said, I have zero issue publicly denouncing this behavior.”

In Wisconsin, Covid cases are spiking in Rock County and hospitals are overwhelmed

 

 In Rock County (pop. 163,687), the number of new Covid cases increased more than 67% in the past week.  And the county has already 624 cases this week.  Weekend numbers are likely to raise it above 800.

WI Department of Health Services

65% of Rock County residents are fully vaccinated compared to 61% statewide.  

New York Times

Rock County set a new record for highest 7-day average of new Covid cases on December 16, 2021.  That average of 2 cases in late June and early July probably seems like a mirage now.

New York Times

This WMTV headline is from a month ago.

Related posts:
Burnett County.  (11/27/2021)

Brown County.  (12/3/2021)

Clark County.  (11/9/2021)

Dodge County.  (12/9/2021 update)
Dunn County.  (11/9/2021)

Fond du Lac County.  (11/23/2021)

Green County.  (12/1/2021)

Iowa County.  (12/17/2021)

Jackson County.  (12/12/2021)

Jefferson County.  (11/23/2021)
Juneau County.  (11/15/2021)

La Crosse County.  (12/12/2021)
Manitowoc County.  (11/9/2021)

Marathon County.  (12/9/2021)
Marinette County.  (12/18/2021 update)

Milwaukee County.  (11/30/2021)

Monroe County.  (11/24/2021)

Outagamie County.  (12/11/2021)

Polk County.  (11/27/2021)
Price County.  (11/9/2021)

Racine County.  (12/13/2021)

Saui County.  (12/17/2021)
Sawyer County.  (12/17/2021 update)

Shawano County.  (12/4/2021)

Taylor County.  (12/17/2021)
Washbutn County.  (11/9/2021)

Waupaca County.  (11/27/2021)

Waushara County.  (12/18/2021)

Winnebago County.  (12/11/2021)

Wood County.  (11/24/2021)

In Wisconsin, Waushara County still has too many unvaaccinated residents

 

 In Waushara County (pop. 24,520), the number of new Covid cases increased more than 300% in the past 2 weeks.

WI Department of Health Services

42% of Waushara County residents are fully vaccinated compared to 61% statewide.  Not good.

New York Times

Waushara County is nowhere near its record high 7-day average of new Covid cases set on November 6, 2020 but has experienced two significant spikes since early October 2021.

New York Times

Based on the healdlines and pics from the web edition of the Waushara Argus, it might as well be 2019 in Waushara County.

Click on 'CORONAVIRUS STORIES' link and you'll find the 3 most recent articles are dated November 24, October 13, and July 21. 

Related posts:
Burnett County.  (11/27/2021)

Brown County.  (12/3/2021)

Clark County.  (11/9/2021)

Dodge County.  (12/9/2021 update)
Dunn County.  (11/9/2021)

Fond du Lac County.  (11/23/2021)

Green County.  (12/1/2021)

Iowa County.  (12/17/2021)

Jackson County.  (12/12/2021)

Jefferson County.  (11/23/2021)
Juneau County.  (11/15/2021)

La Crosse County.  (12/12/2021)
Manitowoc County.  (11/9/2021)

Marathon County.  (12/9/2021)
Marinette County.  (12/18/2021 update)

Milwaukee County.  (11/30/2021)

Monroe County.  (11/24/2021)

Outagamie County.  (12/11/2021)

Polk County.  (11/27/2021)
Price County.  (11/9/2021)

Racine County.  (12/13/2021)

Saui County.  (12/17/2021)
Sawyer County.  (12/17/2021 update)

Shawano County.  (12/4/2021)

Taylor County.  (12/17/2021)
Washbutn County.  (11/9/2021)

Waupaca County.  (11/27/2021)

Winnebago County.  (12/11/2021)

Wood County.  (11/24/2021)

In Wisconsin, Marinette County has been on fire with the virus since the end of summer and schools are feeling the impact

 

Wisconsin Depaertmt of Health Services

50% of Marinette County residents are fully vaccinated compared to 60% statewide.

New York Times

Marinette County came very close to beating its highest 7-day average of new Covid cases in October 2021.

New York Times

Four months of elevated case counts is wreaking havoc on some school districts, such as the Goodman-Armstrong Creek SD in Marinette County.

December 7, 2021.  

Due to staff illness and a lack of substitute teachers school will be closed today, Tuesday, Dec. 7. Again school will be closed today. I will be monitoring the situation to decide if we will be closed tomorrow as well. I will inform families and staff as soon as I know if that change needs to be made. If you have any questions you may call the high school office 715-336-2575, Extension 203 and leave a voice message. I will return your call. Thank you.

December 8

December 9.  

The GAC Holiday Concert has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 15 at 6:30pm. The regular school board meeting that night will therefore start at 5:00pm instead of its normal 6:30 start. Remember: 6:00pm- Middle and High School students meet in the band room. 6:15pm- Elementary students should meet in the high school art room to get their props and line up. After elementary students perform they can sit with their parents.

December 18

The Holiday Concert has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at 6:30PM. Families who haven't yet donated items/gift baskets for the raffle can still bring them in by January 4th. Elementary students report to the High School Art room at 6:15p.m and MS/HS students should report to the band room at 6:00p.m.

Related posts:

Burnett County.  (11/27/2021)

Brown County.  (12/3/2021)

Clark County.  (11/9/2021)

Dodge County.  (12/9/2021 update)
Dunn County.  (11/9/2021)

Fond du Lac County.  (11/23/2021)

Green County.  (12/1/2021)

Iowa County.  (12/17/2021)

Jackson County.  (12/12/2021)

Jefferson County.  (11/23/2021)
Juneau County.  (11/15/2021)

La Crosse County.  (12/12/2021)
Manitowoc County.  (11/9/2021)

Marathon County.  (12/9/2021)
Marinette County.  (11/9/2021)

Milwaukee County.  (11/30/2021)

Monroe County.  (11/24/2021)

Outagamie County.  (12/11/2021)

Polk County.  (11/27/2021)
Price County.  (11/9/2021)

Racine County.  (12/13/2021)

Sauk County.  (12/17/2021)
Sawyer County.  (12/17/2021 update)

Shawano County.  (12/4/2021)

Taylor County.  (12/17/2021)
Washbutn County.  (11/9/2021)

Waupaca County.  (11/27/2021)

Winnebago County.  (12/11/2021)

Wood County.  (11/24/2021)

Original 11/9/2021 post starts here

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

The percentage of county resident fully vaccinated is 10 percentage points lower than the state average of 59%.

New York Times

Marinette County is no. 1 (of 72) on the Wisconsin Hot Spots hit parade.

The Marinette County Public Health Covid homepage is nothing but links.