Phil1111

A pre-election photo-op to pander to his base. "The Brennan Center, a think tank and advocacy group that has pushed for criminal justice reform, dismissed the executive order as making “only cosmetic changes when the nation is ready for law enforcement’s racism to be pulled out by its roots," noting that it “says nothing“ about racial disparities in policing. While the group called the order‘s reforms a slate of “welcome changes,” it said that legislation in the House was more comprehensive and would be more effective." There are 18,000 police departments in the US each with different training programs. During the Obama government there was 25 investigations opened up on LE departments and under trump one.The Collaborative Reform Initiative in its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has widespread support by police chiefs in the US. Under trump it was ended.

I hope your right about a somewhat widely held opinion regarding a rewrite of medical history.

Ask Warren Buffet about that.

Not true at all because deregulation only occurred in the US. Money loosing airlines led to increased flexibility, through new contracts with pilots and reduced wages for new pilots in the entire global market. Furthermore deregulation didn't allow the old contracts to be ripped up. It allowed new airlines to fly new routes. Those new routes allowed competition with the old carriers that made their contracts noncompetitive.

I'd disagree on most of that. LE is where the rule of law meets the road. The attitudes of society aren't pulling the triggers. Rouge officers are. One change at a time. Its hard enough negotiating new contracts let alone creating a new utopia of equality.

Anyone holding their breath for a vaccine in a year is likely dreaming as it has never happened before. Initial death rates for ICU patients was 1-1.5% now its under .75%.

I don't know of any police unions that are popular with the public in the US or Canada. Before or subsequent to BLM. Substantially they are the source of the problem because they seek to protect members as their number one objective. As far a lip service goes. There are contracts that state the protocols for disciplinary actions and terminations. Disagreements are sent to arbitration then the courts with the contracts interpretation not "lip service" the rule for interpretation. The objective is not to "bust the union". Its to effect change in the behaviors of the officers on the streets. Together with the necessary changes when discipline fails in the interactions between LE and the public. Its easier to change the behaviors of officers and their unions with the unions intact without trying to burn the whole house down. Furthermore as you and others have stated these LE unions are powerful. Historically changing union contracts starts with one and other unions will follow suit. That works when the side opposing unions has the stronger hand. Also when the unions have weaker hands. The airline industry's negotiations with pilots is a good example. "Union Busting" is a pipe dream.

Improved protocols for treatment may circumvent both vaccines and herd immunity.

Are there enough GOP whores to fulfill #1?

IMO there will be police unions that will want to change. The emphasis on community policing to deal with drugs, gangs and other local issues are most important. The anchor in the equation is the GOP. The GOP is the "tough on crime" and protect our officers on the "front lines" party. "The Boston Globe editorial board(2016) urged the FOP(Fraternal order Police) to refrain from endorsing Trump. “Officially aligning thousands of rank-and-file police officers with such a bigoted candidate would feed negative views of the police, chill community relationships, and ultimately make officers’ jobs harder,” the board wrote, adding that a Trump endorsement “risks pouring fuel on the fire.” LE unions and the GOP are lockstep. The new GOP amendments, trump executive order prove that. trump never even mentioned racism in his address over that new order. Last week, the president said chokeholds seem "perfect" and "innocent"

It takes time to change bureaucracies. Its also a indicator as to how much work needs to take place to bring that change about.

Poor Ron. He sold his soul to the devil, prayed to the Idolatry of trump. Then god sent the plague and flipped the SC on the GOP.

FIFY

Poor Joe, perhaps those little Cialis pills have side effects.Us younger types (under 70) wouldn't know.

Mark seems to need a ready supply of enemies. Perhaps it will involve the closing of the very last pork slaughterhouse in Mississippi. First it was Beyond Meat, then Beyond chicken,steak, bacon,fish, etc. Obviously communists would be involved in such an outrage. Perhaps it will be the death of his GOP party. With the death of the last republican who ever served. With old white men loosing control of the GOP in the famous post trump purges. The party started its long decline then was extinguished two decades later. Obviously communists would be involved in such an outrage. There will be Mark in the retirement home. The nurses and orderlies on constant guard. All the other seniors at risk of being labeled communists. Just like the nurses that make him eat his beyond bacon and beyond eggs.

Clearly you spend your marine time offshore in the salt water environment. Anytime women need to drop shorts it was time for a shore visit AFAIK.

Other tidbits "Donald Trump did not seem to know Britain was a nuclear power and wondered if Finland was part of Russia....he sought to use trade negotiations and criminal investigations to further his political interests....the president expressed a willingness to halt criminal investigations “to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked,” citing cases involving major firms in China and Turkey. “The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,” ...Trump overtly linked tariff talks with China to his own political fortunes by asking President Xi Jinping to buy American agricultural products to help him win farm states in this year’s election. Mr. Trump, he writes, was “pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win.”...Trump did not seem to know, for example, that Britain was a nuclear power ... “These people should be executed,” Mr. Trump once said of journalists. “They are scumbags.” When Mr. Xi explained why he was building concentration camps in China, the book says, Mr. Trump “said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which he thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

So Bolton has released his somewhat tell all book. One evidently somewhat toned down by trump and the WH. Bolton, a major FOX contributor, a staunch conservative. Begged China and Xi to help him win re-election. On and on selling out the US.

White "Stanford rapist Brock Turner has been spotted in public for the first time since his victim Chanel Miller revealed her identity four years after she was sexually assaulted. The 24-year-old sex offender was photographed looking carefree and relaxed while leaving an Ohio convenience store on Thursday - one day after Miller revealed her face ahead of a tell-all interview set to air later this month. The disgraced college swimmer, who was infamously handed a six-month jail sentence for raping the woman while she lay unconscious in 2015, is understood to have completed his probationary period this month. ...Turner ultimately served only three months behind bars" From the ABA "Another study in Dallas found that the median sentence for an African American man who raped a white woman was 19 years, whereas a white man who raped an African American woman received a 10-year sentence. Furthermore, African American defendants are subjected to a disproportionate number of wrongful convictions for rape.'

Just when you thought you could relieve yourself in peace. Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over "Scientists have found that in addition to clearing out whatever business you’ve left behind, flushing a toilet can generate a cloud of aerosol droplets that rises nearly three feet. Those droplets may linger in the air long enough to be inhaled by a shared toilet’s next user, or land on surfaces in the bathroom. This toilet plume isn’t just gross. In simulations, it can carry infectious coronavirus particles that are already present in the surrounding air or recently shed in a person’s stool. The research, published Tuesday in the journal Physics of Fluids, adds to growing evidence that the coronavirus can be passed not only through respiratory droplets, but through virus-laden feces, too." Remember science isn't gross, its fact.

In North Korea the US is the enemy. Its the US that wants to invade Kim's regime. Not S. Korea. "the reality Kim Jong Un presents at home, as he insists he is protecting his country from the nuclear threat posed by the United States and that the hardship his citizens must endure is the result of American hostility." So you got past HRC in the last couple days? Congratulations. I'm sure that once trump's election spending kicks into gear. The flashbacks of blame will come back.

Now Kim has given trump the finger by blowing up the liaison office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong. "North Korea’s military on Tuesday threatened to move back into zones that were demilitarized under inter-Korean peace agreements in 2018 as the country continued to dial up pressure on Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said it’s reviewing a ruling party recommendation to advance into unspecified border areas that had been demilitarized under agreements with the South, which would “turn the front line into a fortress.” From trump crickets, because there is an election to talk about and neither FOX nor OAN has told him what to say on the Kim subject.

Nah, he just turns on FOX and OAN. So he can be told what to think.

IMO Mark will come to learn that he doesn't need enemies political, ideological, racial or sexual. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. His first battle is with himself. He needs to go over,through, under or around the walls he has built.

Gabriel Manigault, who in his 1884 Political Creed described the sense that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” Nah Bolton isn't my friend but free republican advertising in an election year always brings a smile.