https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/cuomo-investigation-fbi-covid-nursing-homes-15957401.php The DOJ is looking into this. I doubt anything will happen since he's a Democrat and we all know how much the FBI loves them.

Disheartening...

@ricky Thanks! Brazil is a very nice country to visit. Choose well when you two decide to come. Brazil is many different countries in one. For instance, if you go to the south of Brazil, you'll see something quite similar to a less historical Europe. In São Paulo there is a whole city-like region that is almost a piece of a less populated Japan. The center-west is almost full of American like farmlands. Sadly many people go to Rio or Salvador, which are, in my opinion, not great places at all. If you allow a complete stranger to give you some tips, I'd recomend João Pessoa or Recife (if you like beaches), Manaus (if you like the Amazon rainforest), Belo Horizonte (if you want to get a fell of how multiple Brazil is and appreciate nightlife) and Gramado (if you want to experience Brazil's cheaper Europe).

@raphjd Honestly, I thought this had to be bullshit, but I read it... In this article it says: "The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the course states. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." I'm sorry, but unlike your English class, where color and colour are technically BOTH correct spellings, 1 + 1 = 2 and the square-root of 25 is exactly 5 are not "open for debate", nor are they - at least at the level taught in non-graduate school level classes - open to being re-interpreted and changed anytime soon! If math was subjective - and open to debate based on your cultural heritage, or other factors - then we'd have never landed the lunar or martian explorations! Now THIS is some LIBERAL BULLSHIT!!!

@raphjd Honestly, man! As-if the left had a monopoly on STUPIDITY? Qanon? Donald Trump's Big Lie? Enough said? That's not to say the left DOES NOT come up with some stupid shit! Bernie Sanders "free for all"? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the AOC) "free the planet, now!"?

@raphjd White supremacy? More like cultural appropriation! Just another example that you can find almost anything on the Internet, assuming it's not important to your job that you find it - in which case, it will be beyond the scope of any modern Search Engine to find what you need. "You can believe it - it has to be true, I saw it on the Internet!" ... - Abraham Lincoln (ca. 1869)

@raphjd That is about the time he left the organization... perhaps they just weren't aware of the extent? Or were unaware of the illegal (underage) parts... I don't know - I'm not really following that story closely, for reasons at the END of this posting... What I do know is that the organization stands for Conservative Ideals - many of which I agree with - but didn't "sell their soul" to authoritarianism or turn a blind eye to essentially treason in exchange for a Supreme Court judge or two (or three!). I also know that I'm not one to throw around guilt by association claims or accusations. If I did, most of the largest Evangelical Christian organizations in the US (not to mention the Catholic Church) would have been burned to the ground by now for the sins of their past leaders... Sins also against children

@ricky NOPE, it only applies to women. Gender equality doesn't apply to men.

@ricky Same here.

@erich214 Let's look at the "racism" claim in all of this. Plenty of non-whites speak english, just as there are whites who don't speak english. Of course, liberal dogma says that only whites can be racist and you can't be racist toward whites. Also, every society uses jargon/slang, so every society is guilty of racism (see the previous sentence). Industries, likewise, use jargon/slang. Let's not forget that they still use acronyms; ie SFUSD

@bi4smooth Tony Timpa's murder was captured on police bodycam and the cop is heard laughing and saying "I hope I didn't kill him" as well as making fun of Tony. Qualified Immunity needs to go. Shitty cops hide behind it. Western legal doctrine says that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but QI says that ignorance of the law is allowable if you work for the government in any capacity. The federal circuit court that covers Texas just ruled that federal "actors" (anyone who works directly or indirectly) has absolute immunity. I was military police when I was in the Marine Corps. I hated the way it was Us vs Them.

@raphjd I should point out that I also peruse the BBC, DW, GlobalTV, and other "international" news outlets - I try not to be US-Centric... And for the record, some of those outlets have a "political bent" as well - I think it's really hard to present news without some kind of angle. Further, I think the appearance of impartiality we like to remember about the newscasters of old is a beautiful illusion

@bc22 I've posted about this before.... The reason Obama, Trump, and now Biden can make all of these Executive Orders is because there is no controlling law. I think Biden hit it on the head when he said he wasn't creating law, he was creating policy! It's up to the Legislature to make LAW - and when they do, Presidential Executive Orders are either codified into law, or overturned by the law. This is a symptom of a totally broken congress. It was broken under Republican "rule" in Obama's term, it was broken (even worse?) under Trump's term... it remains to see just how broken it remains in Biden's... And the result is that we all get whiplash when a new President comes in and starts changing all the "policy" - for which there are no laws! Congress needs to pull its head out of its collective ass and start passing laws! Start by evaluating the Trump version and the Biden version of some of these Executive Orders... get together and negotiate a middle-ground that both sides hate equally! Codify it into law, and STOP THE MADNESS!

@raphjd Your powers of mental gymnastics are truly amazing! You belong in a circus! Then again, you get it wrong so often, the organizers would go broke giving away prizes.... c'est la vie! I would imagine I'll get far more pushback from our local wingnuts, but I am prepared for that...