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Posts posted by bolverk
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15 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Given some of what was reported out of Portland, this gives me pause. ICE is continuing with its proposal to have Citizens Academies in Chicago this fall. It's getting some pushback from local leaders, but I believe two trains are heading toward each other at a great speed.
Letter:
Enforcement and Removal OperationsChicago Field OfficeU.S. Department of Homeland Security101 W Ida B. Wells Drive, Suite 4000 Chicago, IL 60605www.ice.gov
To whom it may concern:
You have been identified as a valued member of the community who may have interest in participating in the inaugural class of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Chicago Citizens Academy. The ERO Citizens Academy (ECA) is an interactive 6-day program, occurring one day a week over 6 weeks. This first of its kind, the Chicago ECA will serve as a pilot for nationwide implementation. During the ECA, participants will gain insight into the many facets and responsibilities of ICE/ERO operations, and hopefully an awareness and appreciation of the issues our officers face every day in the performance of their duties. We also want to learn from you, our key stakeholders, so I look forward to your participation. Your valued participation will build a strong foundation of knowledge for those intrigued by the ERO mission. The curriculum includes an introduction to ERO Chicago staff, mapping the lifecycle of a subject through ERO, including the role of the Office of Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA). Attendees will participate in scenario-based training and exercises conducted in a safe and positive environment, including, but not limited to defensive tactics, firearms familiarization, and targeted arrests. The ECA will be held every Tuesday from 2 – 6 p.m.; it will commence on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, and conclude on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. The ECA will be held at the Chicago Field Office; 101 W Ida B. Wells Parkway, Suite 4000, Chicago, IL., as well as other locations in the area based on the learning objectives. After completion of the ECA, a graduation ceremony will be held on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020; graduates will be awarded a certificate and a commemorative coin. Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) may be available upon request.
Your personal health and safety are our priority. Participants will be issued Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and we will adhere to social distancing guidelines. ERO is working closely with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and other federal, state, and local agencies to facilitate a speedy, whole-of-government response in confronting Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), keeping everyone safe, and helping detect and slow the spread of the virus.
This has such a fucking "brown shirts" vibe to it and makes me feel like they're actually trying build some organized movement for the future.
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Supposedly all things Covid aren't restricted by the NYTimes paywall, so I'll just post the link here. They've got a story about mask usage and a kick-ass interactive map based on a 250,000 person survey showing prevalence down to small geographic levels.
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In related news:
HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A 20-year debate over the Confederacy came to an end Thursday. The Hays Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to retire the Hays High School Rebel mascot.
It’s part of the district’s efforts to cut ties with connections to the Confederacy, and it comes on the heels of larger changes nationwide. In Mississippi, state leaders voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, and this week, the NFL announced the Washington team would retire the use of its nickname ‘Redskins‘ and logo.
With Hays CISD Board’s approval, it could take all of the fall semester to come up with a new mascot. At present, Hays CISD leaders said the focus is on back to school safety plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The school will begin to phase out the Rebel through the removal of images on the school’s website and around the school building.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/hays-cisd-board-could-vote-to-retire-rebel-mascot-thursday/
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5 minutes ago, Tuco said:
It's telling how many of those topics are defensive. It's not like they want to bring up Golf, or Mueller, or Hogan.
If you look really carefully, the Mueller tab is misspelled with the U and the E reversed. I don't watch rarely watch any teevee news and certainly not the cable shows, so I can't be certain. But I bet she pronounces his name Mee-yooller.
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1 minute ago, dcbc said:
I think they are not naming either school after a person from what I've gathered.
I was talking about the Midland Lee situation where Tommy Lee Jones went to high school. I will add, though, that I'm happy to hear about the name change in Tyler.
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1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:
Looks like Lincoln Project is teaming up with RVAT to help flip Ohio back to blue. They've just announced Operation Grant.
I like that first one a lot. Testimonials from real people tend to be powerful persuaders.
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6 minutes ago, XYZ said:
Well, duh! Do you think the medical industry would leave billions of dollars on the table because of some legislation? Who do you think owns this country: the people, or tobacco/oil/banks/pharma/medical/whatever? I am literally laughing my ass off at the though of somebody even attempting to pass a bill that says “your covid hospitalization will be free”.
Give it a rest, man. Yes, there was indeed discussion about the federal government covering at least some of the costs of treatment, especially for the uninsured.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-coronavirus-treatment-costs.html
QuoteThe average cost to treat a hospitalized patient with the virus is $30,000, according to a study released Wednesday by America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group for insurers. (Other estimates have come in both lower and higher.)
Regardless of the amount, though, the tab generally wouldn’t be the responsibility of patients with insurance. And even for those with no coverage, there’s a good chance — as of now — that you won’t get billed for at least som eparts of your treatment.
Here’s what you should know.
The uninsured
Although details are still being worked out, the Trump administration said last week that it will use funding under recently passed legislation to help cover the cost of treating uninsured coronavirus patients — as long as the hospital accepting the government’s reimbursement rate does not bill the uninsured patient for any remaining balance (i.e., “balance billing”).“The uninsured would be able to go into the hospital without being worried about facing thousands of dollars in hospital bills,” said Karyn Schwartz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
However, it’s unclear whether the government’s offer of reimbursement extends only to hospitals or to other providers as well, Schwartz said. That includes physicians who treat a coronavirus patient in the hospital and may not be directly employed by the facility.
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I was wrong about the legislation -- it only covers costs for testing. The Kaiser Family Foundation has a good page explaining a lot of details related to costs of treatments.
QuoteIn an analysis on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, we find that for people with large employer-sponsored insurance who require hospitalization for pneumonia (a common complication of COVID-19), out-of-pocket costs could top $1,300. People with private coverage through small businesses and the individual market will likely face even higher levels of cost-sharing, since they generally have larger deductibles. Some states have required all state-regulated insurers to waive cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment, though self-funded plans (representing 61% of people with employer coverage) are not required to follow these regulations as these plans are regulated at the federal level. Additionally, many out-of-network physicians may balance bill patients for any costs beyond what the insurer is willing to pay, though providers who receive grants through the CARES Act are prohibited from balance billing for all care provided to patients with presumptive or confirmed cases of COVID-19. Our Health System Tracker analysis found that, on average, 1 in 5 in-network hospitalizations for pneumonia (one common complication of COVID-19) could result in at least one surprise bill from an out-of-network physician or other provider.
Some insurers have voluntarily waived some or all treatment costs. A detailed list from AHIP can be found here. For self-funded plans, employers ultimately decide whether treatment costs will be covered in full or not.
Do check the bolded link on the policy of your own insurance company.
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Serious question. In one of the early relief packages, wasn't there some legislation in there about paying for treatment expenses for Covid? I know there was some discussion, but I can't remember what was actually passed.
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About those San Antonio "presumed positive" cases being removed today that was mentioned earlier in this thread & was talked about a lot by "friends" on my FB feed: http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/officials-address-covid-19-discrepancies-amid-thousands-of-back-logged-and-probable-cases
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Tommy Lee Jones HS would be cool and a nice compromise. He went to school there.
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There's a petition circulating in Midland about their own Robert E Lee HS changing its name too.
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Anyone ever notice how he looks like a wooden headed puppet whose chin could just open and close in a mechanical like way?
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18 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
Kemp isn’t just being negligent.
He’s actually aggressively trying to kill people.
Unreal.
That's exactly what our governor did too a couple of months ago before everything went to shit.
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5 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
Yes football fandom will play a role because it’s all Tuberville has to point to in regards to his relationship with the state.
Bama fans HATE him. Tuberville needs to sort of hide out - he doesn’t need to be on television every night acting all smug and reminding Bama fans when that self-righteous smugness was directed our way.
And Auburn fans hate him too! Go look on any AU football message board and search for Tuberville. HATE.
The jugeared asshole doesn’t even really live here anymore and hasn’t since he left over 10 years ago!
He bought some property in 2018 to fulfill the residency requirements for this race.
Y’all see now why I wanted Tuberville to win?
Finebaum is going to be dripping poison and hate towards Tuberville daily for HOURS. He’s always hated him personally and now he gets to use that against him politically. Finebaum is a big ole lib. And he’s very friendly with Jones. And with no sports to speak about his show has dipped its toe even more in politics and social issues.
Alabama Democrats haven’t had much to fight for or get excited about in DECADES. With new party leadership and this race we have a lot. And we go hard in the paint.
Be honest now. Are you running that twitter account?
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7 hours ago, wildcat09 said:
Need more of this energy in the rest of the party:
Is BamaChick tweeting for them?
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11 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:
Still surprised. Perhaps I'm misremembering but I thought MiB was a decent poster back in the day. Judging by more recent posts, that day seems to have come and gone.
Yeah, he was (is) for the most part. I think he's just become really bitter in the last few years.
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Lynn County up on the plains just south of Lubbock lost their sheriff. Be sure and read the last line -- sounds like he might have been one of the better ones.
Abraham Vega, 48, ‘Peacemaking’ Texas Sheriff, Dies
Remarried, likely to win re-election in November, he was embarking on a second act when he died of the novel coronavirus.
SpoilerAbraham Vega and Rachel Curry had first met at high school football games in Tahoka, Texas, when she was covering them as a photographer for the school newspaper and he was doing the same for The Lynn County Times. They eventually went their separate ways, married, had two children each and divorced.
Then it was time for a second chapter. Mr. Vega and Ms. Curry reunited in 2017 and married the following year in what seemed like a storybook beginning to a new life.
“People who knew us told us, ‘You can tell on your faces you made a difference in each other’s lives,’” Ms. Vega said in a phone interview.
By then Mr. Vega was sheriff of Lynn County, in northwest Texas — Lynn’s first Hispanic sheriff, according to his wife — and his career was flourishing. He was renominated in March as the Republican candidate for the job. His tiny jurisdiction, which is home to about 5,000 people and a 48-bed jail, is largely Republican, and the party nomination is tantamount to re-election ahead of the November vote.
As the coronavirus pandemic surged in Texas in recent weeks, Sheriff Vega thought he had taken every precaution against being infected, his wife said.
“He had underlying conditions and was so scared of getting it, that except for the office, he wouldn’t go out,” Ms. Vega said. “I would go to the grocery store. But then, last month, a colleague tested positive. The next day, Abraham did, too.”
Mr. Vega was admitted to a Lubbock hospital, where he spent two weeks, including nine days on a ventilator. He was then airlifted to a larger medical center in Dallas and died there on Saturday. He was 48.
The day he entered the hospital was the couple’s second wedding anniversary.
“That was the last time I saw him,” Ms. Vega, who also tested positive for the virus but was asymptomatic, said.
Abraham Martin Vega was born on Nov. 7, 1971, in Brownsville, Texas, to Abelardo Vega, who worked for a telephone company, and Rachel Corona Saldana, an elementary schoolteacher.
Along with his wife, who is a teacher and executive director of the Texas Chief Deputies Association, his survivors include his parents; two children from his first marriage, Marcus and Cori Vega; two stepchildren from his second marriage, Kaitlyn Lehman and Curry Lehman; his brother, Mark Vega; his sister, Felicia Valleja; and a granddaughter.
After graduating from Tahoka High School, Mr. Vega was uncertain about a career, though he was inspired by the commitment of a state trooper who counseled him, his wife said. He went to work as a dispatcher in the sheriff’s office when he was 19 and never left law enforcement.
Mr. Vega was a jail administrator, chief of the school district police, deputy sheriff and president of the Texas Chief Deputies Association in 2016, the same year he was elected to a four-year term as Lynn County sheriff.
By leasing vacant cells to incarcerate inmates from other jurisdictions, he earned the county more than $1 million, appointed a deputy to reduce truancy and encouraged his staff members to further their educations.
“He wasn’t the chase ’em down kind of police officer,” Ms. Vega said. “He had a servant’s heart, and that’s what made him a peace officer.”
Indeed, Mr. Vega had that idea tattooed on his chest, a phrase from the Gospel of Matthew: “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
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I, for one, am happy to see Republicans tear each other apart and hope they end up destroying each other while helping bring down Trump.
Keep fighting the good fight GR.
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4 minutes ago, elfenix said:
because texas has 36 congressional districts and not even 5 of them are west of I35. just no one living out there. so they're going to take up big swathes of land. maybe if 21 and 25 weren't hilariously gerrymandered to break up SA and austin the rural counties could be put into 11, leading to some dominoes where cooke and wise were in much more compact districts. but jack, montague, or clay would still probably be in the same district as dalhart.
Your first line lies at the crux of the matter. Historically, West Texas has had five districts and they did everything they could to keep five still "anchored" out there in the last round of redistricting.
But, because the US hasn't increased the number of its representatives as the population swells, each congressperson now represents roughly 750,000 people.
Guess what. The population west of I-35 is just about 3 million. Now divide that by 750,000, and you get four, which is the number of reps West Texas would have in a somewhat sane world.
An even saner world would increase the number of representatives in the House so each district weren't so insanely large
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59 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
Women doing well on one side of the aisle.
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5 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
Hegar is beating West 3-1 in Throckmorton.
Literally 3 votes to 1, but they only have 20% in. They might get all the way to triple digits between them both.
It was a landslide in Reagan County where she won 100% of the county's 2 votes (100% reporting).
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1 hour ago, MillerEP said:
Interesting map. Basically, West has Houston (barely), DFW (minus the burbs) and East Texas. Hegar has the the I-35 corridor, South and West Texas.
To me, she has surprising support in Latino dominated areas, plus most of the burbs (not surprising).
Edit: It's easier to see the significance of that pattern by clicking the "size of lead button" for that map.
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Yeah, that came out real wishy-washy like.