"Nebraska's Governor thinks the 'data shows' that legalizing pot kills kids. It does not."

what it kills is Votes for repressive reptilicans
aka the gop

LEGALIZE ALL THAT SHIT
let's Move ON

oh and let us look
CLOSELY at booze
seems we're as per usual
subsidizing* that shit too. Damn
socialists!

*how much does Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels and Budweiser -- 'scuze me -- Anhowzyurbush et al pay in Reparations? Scantily, I'd venture.

To the Cloud! Like Microsoft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuuynZ1LIU

"Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates, to Boeing [the place with the De-Fective board of mis-directors]: You are 'not getting it'"

hmmm. too bad you weren't here a year or so ago SirTimmy 'cause I was shouting it from the rooftops but better late than never. Boeing's prolly Never gonna get Union employees on its Board. hell the union's gonna be long-gone from Boeing soon enough. adios, Bill et al. you guys really helped build Seattle. Well Done.

oops @3's destined for schlogam apologies

States say "State's" is not the plural of "State".

"... keep your masks on, and continue to limit your social activities until you get the jab."

it takes two weeks I think for some good immunity and then the second shot's three to four weeks after the first and then two more weeks after that (gott-Damn that sounds like a LOT!)

and then I think
You're Home
fawking
FREE.

or: if I give you a cookie you can eat it now (if you really wanna!) but if you can wait for ten minutes you can have six dozen. whatchya say?

@5 -- Great catch! oh and the
wee dot goes inside the " ."

Of course Cuomo won't quit. He's a fucking bully. After winning his second election for Governor he chose to be a Republican in deed (after using Democrats to win the election). I lived in NYS and voted for him (though I wanted Zephyr Teachout to be the Democratic nominee in 2014, but she lost the primary). The last good and decent Governor of NYS was Mario Cuomo. Pataki sucked and everyone since him has been mired in scandal - Spitzer, Paterson, and now Cuomo. There are many things I love about NY - the way the state government is run is not one of them.

@7: As nasty with women as Trump was, perhaps more.

Some kids are digging in and making peanut butter and jelly out of a crap sandwich and others are refining their bong-making skills, so Governor Inslee's recommendation for in-person instruction is well-advised. Governor Cuomo is a serial-pervert and should save the taxpayer's some financial resources and resign. The recent attestation from the young journalist who was afraid to attend gatherings for fear of being fondled by this degenerate points to the need for resignation or removal by impeachment. Mr. Cuomo is taking a page from President Trump, the turd-monger, by digging in his heels and lying, the way Trump, the green-orange howler-monkey would just make stuff up, and was thankfully shown the door and will hopefully get molested in federal prison for tax evasion. That racist tirade was beyond offensive and that person who belittled those black basketball players for kneeling for the National Anthem should be taken behind the barn and cornholed, diabetes or Twinkie defense notwithstanding. That was utterly beyond comprehension, indicating that racism is alive and well in America, what with these assassinations by police departments, which are beginning to operate like Bolivian death squads. The taxpayers get their clocks cleaned and the survivors, although financially compensated, remain understandably bitter and broken-hearted. Also, the way Republicans cling to ancient racist inclinations like a little black jockey statue in their front yard, such as naming the Cleveland baseball franchise the "Indians" without input from Native Americans for example, is disconcerting. With the Democrats stellar performance, led by Biden-Harris and their generous COVID relief policies, we may see the eradication of Republiturds along with COVID-19. Hopefully AG Ferguson can take Eyman to the cleaners for litigation expenses and drive a stake thought the black heart of this political opportunist and carpetbagger once and for all. Let us pray Eyman doesn’t go zombie and start posting ludicrous anti-tax, pro-anarchy videos in his wife-beater tank top on social media while stealing office furnishings.

https://newrepublic.com/article/142670/andrew-cuomo-profits-republican-senate

But if you look under the hood of some of Cuomo’s banner accomplishments, they are not as impressive as the headlines imply. Take, for example, Cuomo’s free college bill. Because of the way it’s structured, the plan has been labeled as free college for the middle class. Cuomo’s plan covers tuition, but not other expenses like room and board. According to the Times, for a four-year degree, this saves students around $26,000 out of $83,000 total—meaning they would still have to pay the lion’s share. The program will only help an estimated 32,000 students this year, and those students are required to reside in New York state for years after.

Then there’s the minimum wage. In 2016, Cuomo claimed a progressive victory in raising New York’s wage to $15 per hour. “New York is showing the way forward on economic justice,” he said in an official statement at the time. But while the raise goes into effect faster in New York City, it is only set to be raised to $12.50 by 2020 for the rest of the state, and to $15 at a yet-to-be-determined time. The wage is not indexed to inflation, meaning that the Democrats may have to fight this battle all over again once it does eventually reach $15. And tipped workers, those working in the state’s huge restaurant industry, only get a raise of $10 per hour.

Furthermore, by hobbling their own party, Cuomo and the IDC have stalled a number of issues on which a blue state like New York should be at the vanguard. “Whether we’re talking about voting reforms, the DREAM Act, single-payer, or the women’s Reproductive Health Act,” Rivera says, “these are all fundamental Democratic issues that we would be able to achieve if we had a Democratic majority.” Without a unified Democratic Senate, Gianaris says, “there’s a host of substantive, progressive accomplishments that we’ve lost out on the opportunity to achieve.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/02/12/betrayal-new-york-democrats-slam-cuomo-for-underreporting-nursing-home-covid-deaths/?sh=cd1bfe3db0ad

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2016/12/cuomo-stands-idle-as-senate-goes-republican-107778

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/19/andrew-cuomo-the-king-of-new-york

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-tired-tricks-gov-andrew-cuomo-712403/

https://prospect.org/power/andrew-cuomo-s-fault/

There are loads more. Cuomo used Democrats to get into office and then betrayed them spectacularly. The fact that he his now embroiled in this scandal of sexual assault is yet another betrayal. Both Cuomo and Spitzer were exceptional Attorney Generals for the state prior to their being Governor (and both destroying their own careers through shocking hubris regarding their disregard not only for women - but for everyone who had voted to put them in the Governor's mansion).

Should Biden Cancel Student Debt?

Economics offers only part of the answer. The rest depends on whether you think higher education is an investment or a public good.

Whenever I think about student loan debt, one of the first things I think about — besides my own — is a 2018 essay by my colleague M.H. Miller.

As one of the 45 million Americans who collectively owe $1.71 trillion for student loans, Mr. Miller wrote about what it is like to have debt — more than $100,000 worth in his case — become the organizing principle of your life, to be incapacitated by it, suspended, at age 30, “in a state of perpetual childishness.”

More at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/biden-cancel-student-debt.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

should we Invest in our collective Future
or just continue watching America turn
into a few Lords and 320,000,000 serfs
to be farmed bought and sold and hung
upside down til even our Blood can no
longer satiate these Kings we've created?

I say
FUCK NO.

Fuck you, Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska,! Marijuana doesn't kill kids--YOU and the neofascist gun-crazed QANon GOP do! You're all out on federally banning safe, legal abortions for women, murdering doctors for providing safe, healthy care and preventing women from having to die while giving birth, all so you can kill their orphaned children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere after you've slapped M-16 rifles in their hands by age 17 to go faht fer their Free Dumbs!

@1 kristofarian: Agreed and seconded. The GOP kills kids, women, LGBTQA+, and anyone else who isn't insanely wealthy, corrupt white RepubliKKKan male.

@6 kristofarian: I am going in for two Pfizers: the first jab will be next Saturday and second on April 10th through the VA (I qualify as a veteran over age 55).
Here's to being COVID (and TRUMPVID!) free. :)

@10 pollysexual: Agreed and seconded. So spot on brilliantly well said, and summarized. :)

@11 xina: Thank you for sharing your experience of having been a New York State resident, offering more insight about the current Andrew Cuomo scandal, along with listing your sources.
Your comments are so often well said and the subject so well covered that there is little for me to add. Kudos. :)
.
@14 kristofarian: Agreed, seconded, and AMEN. :)

The only people who stay in Nebraska are the none-too-bright and the ones who are there because of family obligations.

You'd have to be insane to move there.

@Ducksquat -- have Nebraskans finally succumbed to Republican demands and mandated one half the Citizenry* be locked up and guarded by the other half and about every six months they swap places?

*certain Exemptions apply!
see your Bankster

honk! honk!

we have Citizens believing Not inflicting other Citizens is Oppressing the former and to whom 'Civics' is a foreign language. our 2nd Civil War cannot be far off.

here's the Fix: two years of Mandated Civil Service for the entire Citizenry and after that you can pick the career/Education path of your choosing. I believe Isreal does this and that it works pretty fucking well and with our current system of semi-Aparthied, what right wing ideologuer couldn't get behind Isreal?

Free Education for ALL
AND Civil Service

or Bust.

@20 -- not Inflicting their fellow Man
(or woman) (etc) with The COVID.

apologies

@17: Johnny Carson joked about his home state, but he loved going back there to see his fans.

and in Other News:
Happy Pie Day* Everyone!

Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern

The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/science/pi-math-geometry-infinity.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

*cum Daylight Savings Time!

alrighty then, go take a Nap everyone
and then, get back to planting your Seeds
tending your Crops and then sloppin' yur Hogs
or whatever it IS your Farmers all just Love to do.

@23 -- one reader's comment on @23
(take Note tS Journalists
an OP writers!):

Congratulations to the NYT and Steven Strogatz for this wonderful science article!

In the two years that I'm reading NYT science article now, this is the first one that corresponds to the ideal of a perfect science article: ALL technical terms used are explained, and explained in clear, daily life language, whereas the scientific concept at the core of the article is explained in a very clear way too, as are it's day to day applications.

This is EXACTLY what we need newspapers to do in order to finally obtain scientifically informed voters, and only such voters will be able to end the defining issue of our century, climate change.

Thanks again, and looking forward to reading Strogatz' book!!
--Ana Luisa; Belgium March 14, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/science/pi-math-geometry-infinity.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

one wee Taste from @23 -- "Denoted by the Greek letter π, this curious little number is approximately 3.14, although computers have calculated it out past 22 trillion digits and counting: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502…, a sequence never repeating, never betraying any pattern, going on forever, infinity on a platter."

@20 kristofarian: While my late father, a U.S. Navy Korean War veteran would agree with your good basic idea for mandatory civil service (2 years), I'm not sure reinstating the draft is best for everyone. My dad and I both had volunteered for our separate honorable four year enlistments. My father enlisted in the U.S. Navy to avoid being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951 during the M*A*S*H era. Dad didn't feel comfortable with the idea of the U.S. government ordering him to serve in the U.S. Army by age 19, and when and where to train. He liked the idea of instead growing his sea legs. :)

@23 kristofarian: Happy Pi Day! Pi r square? No, pie are not square--pie are round. Brownie are square. (I could not resist---plus, I really sucked at Math) :)

Uh, no, Matt Rowan. I blame your racist comment not on your diabetes (low blood sugar, my ass!) but rather on TRUMPVID-19 induced stupidity and shameful ignorance. You and all your MAGA / QAnon / blindsided Trumpist ilk can do better.

My favorite pi moment:
https://youtu.be/Ab6ohaNKjbs?t=25

The draft is slavery.

oops, apologies -- did Not mean to suggest America reinstate the Draft but there's shit-tonnes of things young (17-22 or so) Americans might Do to make America more Habitable -- man the Soup Kitchens, help out with the COVID, walk Granny to the supermarket, vacuum our Forests, build Homes for the Homeless, whatever.

mix the Peeps up: make 'em Mingle, learn from each other, allow them to See how Un-scary the World and other Human Beings outside their wee comfort zones actually ARE.

it takes A Fucking Village
& NOT 300,000,000 or so
Rugged (read: selfish)
'Individualists.'

E pluribus unum
bitches.

@30 kristofarian: Oh. Okay, yes, i see your point and agree. I read "mandatory civil service of 2 years, as federal law in Israel" and had misinterpreted it as a required military service proposal for the United States. Incidentally, Switzerland also requires this of males approaching age 19. Women in Switzerland can also serve. It sounds like they have more of the luxury of being able to volunteer to serve.
Wow. Thanks, kris, for the reminder of getting involved and staying active. In addition to serving my country for four years, my family members and I have volunteered in my community many times. My family is environmentally and civically conscious, and affiliated with volunteer organizations. The younger generations need to express their voices and get involved.
Out of many, one.

Raindrop dear, Johnny Carson might have gassed on about his home state, but you sure didn't see him moving back there, did you?

Duck Fart, you may be able to get a job there (depending on what part of the state you are in) but that doesn't mean you'll be able to pay rent. Minimum wage is $9/hour for non restaurant jobs, and $2.13/hour for tipped jobs (and Nebraskans are lousy tippers, because no one has any money)

Well said, auntie Gee and Thank YOU for your (& your Fambly's!) service to this thee Richest Country in the Known fucking Universe.

You ROCK.

@Catalina -- Thank you for explaining the Obvious to our deer dewdropp; perhaps One Day some of it may soak in but Osmosis can be a Long Tedious* Schlog. heavy on the Tedious.

*as in 'I gotta Flush
ten FIFTEEN times!'
--heavily Disgraced Doubly
Impeached former FAKE 'prez'
[what's-'is-name]

@32: No, but that wasn't my point. He's was the only celebrity that comes to mind associated with Nebraska and I'd think you'd enjoy the reminiscing.

Light up, or you'll get more wrinkles. You too kristeria.

no need to concern yourself with anyone's
Wrinkles dewey -- oops -- you were
Projecting! again! silly me! oh and
great Idea -- think I'll go light one
up Post Haste. thnx!

what's everybody got against
the fucking Nazis anyways?
weren't the Trains
ALWAYS on
Time?

and if they happened Not to be
Goebbels OUTLAWED Criticism
so shut the fuck up and Get ALONG.

thass an Order.

Raindrop dear, I assure you that I am sufficiently light.

Here's my favorite Johnny Carson story: Long before "The Tonight Show" he was a local TV and radio celebrity in Omaha, and developed a friendship with the local cooking show hostess Martha Bohlsen, who was a very straightforward midwestern lady.

One day she was doing her live show and was talking about the importance of fresh eggs. She went to open a cupboard that was supposed to have a basket of eggs, and instead found a live chicken!

Johnny Carson had put the chicken in there, and came on set with the basket of eggs and said "I've been looking everywhere for her. Here's your eggs" and then scooped up the chicken and walked off the set.

speaking of Dear Johnny C. when Micheal Landon ('Little Joe' of long-running 'Bonanza' and later 'Little House on the Prarie' fame) was on Carson's 'Tonite Show' Johnny mentioned how their Ponderosa ranch had all these men (5, full time) -- and no women -- and he wondered, what was up with that.

referring to the Ponderosa's cook, bottle washer, butler etc Landon answered, "No, we weren't Gay. But, thank god, Hop Sing was."

in the late 80's (when a dollar was worth a Dollar) I was in line at a little outdoor to-go ice cream store in Poipou, Kauai, Hawaii (where Landon lived) and he had three of four little kids with him. when it was their turn they all got cones or whatever and Micheal tipped the guy a very healthy $20, putting a huge smile on the kid cashiers face.

he was one of the Good guys.