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March 20, 2020 07:18 AM UTC

Friday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

–John Wooden

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  1. Leoffler’s husband is Chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange.  Do you really think the information stopped with she and her husband?  I have a hunch this insider information was the equivalent of financial COVID on Wall Street.

    Seeing reports that Feinstein  might well have been doing the same thing. If so, her fate should be the same as the others. INOKIYAD

    Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler dumped stocks after coronavirus meeting

    Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, whose husband is chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, began selling off more than a million dollars in stocks on the same day as the closed-door Senate meeting on Friday, Jan. 24, reports the Daily Beast.

    Over the next three weeks, through Feb. 14, Loeffler made 27 sales worth between $1,275,000 and $3,100,000, before the market nosedived and the values of her holdings tanked.

     

     

    3. From several sources, Sen. Feinstein’s investments are in a blind trust, handled by financiers who are not directly contacted by her.  So the likelihood of inappropriate use of privileged information seems fairly remote.

      For all the others being named now and those not yet named? Investigations by a NONPARTISAN or bipartisan group are obviously needed.  The whole context needs to be known:

       * what did the politician learn of the threat, and when did they learn it?

       * what did the politician COMMUNICATE about the threat, and when did they spread the word to their donors, their partisan colleagues, their partisan supporters, and their constituency as a whole?

       * what did the politicians DO with their investments?  Were they directly in charge?  Was a family member or close friend in charge?  What was sold? what was bought? what was kept as liquid funds?

      1. When I was a small child, I lived, for a time, in a cockroach infested tenement in downtown Cincinnati. I noticed, even then, how cockroaches will scatter when you walk in the room and turn on the lights.

        nothing has changed, really.

  3. My wife, who is retired, is an active quilter.  We saw reports that seamstresses in Evansville, IN are sewing hospital masks for use in their local hospital that has run out of their supply.  Zeke Emmanuel said this morning that an emergency room doctor in an unnamed Denver hospital is also running out of masks and gowns.  We have contacted Denver Children’s Hospital, where we volunteer, to see if they could use these home sewn masks and gowns.  Assuming they respond affirmatively, my wife will mobilize her large group of quilters to start making masks and gowns.

    So. in the span of three years, she has gone from knitting pussy hats to sewing surgical masks and gowns.  Welcome to Trump’s America today.

    1. Please let me know.  My mom has been a quilter all her life and teaches a number of classes — she has a large network of elderly quilters who would probably love to have an occupying activity right now.

        2. It's really a shame these centers didn't make it:

          Sewing the seeds of economic revival in rural Colorado

          Nestled into a group of office buildings along Highway 34 on the eastern plains of Colorado, near the Nebraska border, is the site of something big for rural Colorado. It is in Wray, where the first Rural Colorado Apparel Manufacturing – or RCAM – center has been established.

          R-CAM photo

          RCAM-Wray, which will be a light apparel manufacturing center, is renting an empty commercial building. Today it’s the tick-tick-ticking of sewing machines that has replaced the sounds of computer keyboards and calculators of former tenant Farm Bureau Insurance. Vacant for more than five years, the space now hums with the activity of teams collaborating on sewing projects.

          1. Along those lines this is a really interesting article about Depression-era coops for the unemployed: 

            What History Books Left Out About Depression Era Co-ops

            The mood at kitchen tables in California in the early 1930s was as bleak as it was elsewhere in the United States. Factories were closed. More than a quarter of the breadwinners in the state were out of work. There were no federal or state relief programs, nothing but some local charity—in Los Angeles County, a family of four got about 50 cents a day, and only 1 in 10 got even that.

             

            Not long before, America had been a farming nation. When times were tough, there was still the land. But the country was becoming increasingly urban. People were dependent on this thing called “the economy” and the financial casino to which it was yoked. When the casino crashed, there was no fallback, just destitution. Except for one thing: The real economy was still there—paralyzed but still there. Farmers still were producing, more than they could sell. Fruit rotted on trees, vegetables in the fields. In January 1933, dairymen poured more than 12,000 gallons of milk into the Los Angeles city sewers every day.

             

      1. Thanks, Duke and all.  I’m afraid we’re all going to start having stories to report.  She’s now working remotely – reading test results and such.  The toll on the health care industry is especially frightening.

        1. The 34 yr old man that died from COVID yesterday in Pasadena was the son of a friend of my aunt.  The young man had asthma; he had just returned from a vacation to Disneyworld with his family.

  5. Of course they do….

    Private jet industry — the transportation of choice for the wealthy — asks for bailout funding

    The private-jet industry is asking Congress for bailout money, even as many private jet companies say sales are strong as wealthy flyers avoid commercial flights.

    The National Business Aviation Association, or NBAA, which represents private-jet companies and corporate jets, sent a joint letter with other industry groups to congressional leaders saying the industry is facing “increasing financial uncertainty” and that private-jet companies should be included in any airline or aviation bailout.

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