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The Ideal Scrub For All Types Of Skin
Tags: Organic, Natural Face Scrub, Crueltyfree, Vegan, Natural Ingredients

Some people love Face Scrubs while some people hate them. Are face scrubs good for your skin? Which is best suited for you? How often should you use them? Which one should you use? The answer to all questions is right here, in this blog.

The Ideal Scrub For All Types Of Skin

It might seem like an extra load on your daily face regimen. But trust me, it is necessary for your natural glow and revitalized skin. Here are 5 reasons on why you should choose the DeTan Face Scrub and why you should add it in your essentials:

1) Removes Tan from your Skin: Protect your skin from environmental stressors and restore the lost and harmed complexion of your face.

2) Improve texture and skin tone: Due to your various daily outdoor struggles and diverse environmental conditions, your skin builds up dead skin cells, dirt and oil, which looks quite dull and dry. The DeTan Face Scrub removes all of the above problems and infiltrates fresher, newer, smoother and radiant-looking skin.

3) Unclog Pores: Your skin pores get locked up due to build-up of excess sebum (natural oil in our face). Not only this but, various other factors like dirt, sweat, pollution and other everyday struggles that could result in spots on your face. Your face needs the exfoliation of a face scrub to get rid of this problem. Do apply it at least twice or thrice a week for best results.

4) Fades Spots and Scars: The Detan Face Scrub helps in getting free of dry and dead skin. It also serves in providing a smoother texture which makes your skin more consistent and smooth. Correct and regular usage of the Scrub will reduce problems like acne scars, dark spots, whiteheads, blackheads or hyperpigmentation.

5) Makes Skin Fast-Absorbing: Your skin has a dense layer of dead skin cells. Serum and moisturizer are tougher to penetrate your skin. A face scrub will ease the process of penetrating your skin and removing unwanted dead cells.

6) Exfoliates and Fight Signs of Ageing: Generally, for an average individual, the skin regenerates after every 20–30 days. As we grow older, the process of regeneration reduces. This process leads to problems like wrinkles, fine lines, anti-ageing and pigmentation. The DeTan Scrub increases the skin revival process and adds life to your face.

Use the Detan Face Scrub twice or thrice a week for best results. The directions of use are:

Take a small amount of scrub and apply it on your face and neck.

Scrub gently and massage in anti-clockwise movements using your fingertips.

Rinse with lukewarm water or tap water and pat it dry using a clean towel.

If you are impressed with the DeTan Face Scrub, then try the various range of products at Thyme Organic.
Vejetaryen Değilim, Et Sevmiyorum
By: Gizem Yenikale
Tags: Vejetaryen, Beslenme, Türkçe, Vegan, Türkçe Yayın

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For only 20 items, this is quite a thorough list!
By: Pixcayān Macuahuitl
Tags: Health, Plant Based, Wellness, Vegan, Veganism

For only 20 items, this is quite a thorough list! Since others are offering suggestions as well, mine is coconut oil.

Can be bought organically in larger containers at Costco & etc. So useful and healthy in so many ways... including delicious food ways :)
My understanding is polyunsaturated fat is highly unstable when heated, it becomes rancid — causing oxidation leading to free radicals leading to damage within the body, or something along those…
By: Rachel Rogers
Tags: Vegan, Health, Polyunsaturated Fat, Plant Based

My understanding is polyunsaturated fat is highly unstable when heated, it becomes rancid — causing oxidation leading to free radicals leading to damage within the body, or something along those lines. I would think unless you are eating raw fish, a topic for another day , you are not gettting much good— that would be what that information refers to correct? Too much PUFAs being a bad thing, especially heated.

Although I understand they are in vegetables, nuts and seeds — smaller amounts. Those can be consumed differently than fish or at least should be — such as soaking and dehydration.

Same with vitamin d — how does that hold up in the frying pan or oven? Is pan seared tuna in a butter sauce really still full of health? Or has that been cooked into something more dangerous?
How Congress can (legally) stage a coup
By: Michael Krebs
Tags: Congress, Corruption, Electoral College, Politics

Did you know Congress can overthrow the results of a U.S. Presidential election? I sure didn’t until recently.

First off, don’t worry about this Presidential election of 2020. Trump will be gone, and Biden will be President on January 21st, 2021. But that’s only assured because Democrats kept enough U.S. House seats in this last election.

The issue centers around the counting of electoral votes that the newly elected Congress will perform on January 6th. Here’s an example of what could have happened if just five additional House seats had gone to Republicans instead of Democrats in November:

On January 6th, the House and Senate meet to count the electoral votes from the states. When California’s certificate is presented with its Biden electoral votes, one Republican Senator and one Republican House Representative say they object to California’s certificate. The Senate and House go away for two hours and vote. With Republicans in control of both houses, a simple majority in each chamber upholds the objection and California’s electoral votes are thrown out. Without those 55 electoral votes, no candidate would have the required 270 votes to be President. The House votes for the President, and they could choose Trump. The Senate votes for the Vice President, and they could choose Pence.

How is this a thing?!

I understand this process was put in place to account for corruption by states and for there to be a way to counteract that. However, the problem here is that it also allows corruption by Congress to counteract the Will of the People.
If this pandemic forces our businesses to close — It stands to reason the government should shut down as well
By: Jack C Lee
Tags: Shutdown, Congress, Debt Clock, Stimulus, Deficit

It seems to me, this pandemic has not affected everyone. The people working and essential workers are on the job and getting paid. The people serving in our government, federal, state and local are all getting a paycheck. However, millions of workers in the restaurant and service industry are told they must stay home. They are prevented from making an income to feed their families.

Next week, our government may face a shut down. Without passing the stimulus and funding bill and signed by the president, our federal government will run out of money. They won’t be able to borrow any more money. We already owe $27.5 trillion and soon will be unable to print more money.

This may be a good thing. It is time these elected officials and federal workers live like the average Americans. They need to experience the recession they help created. Lose their jobs or get furloughed. How will they handled it? We have had many recessions in the past. These workers never had to miss one paycheck.

Anyone can spend other people’s money. Anyone can be generous with our tax dollars. Free healthcare, why not? Free college tuition, great. Free housing, and food and heating…It is just humane and a right. After all, aren’t we the most richest country in the world?

Money does grow on trees. Our government officials seems to believe it. Let the party begins. I support the shut down. It is long past time for them to feel the pain. What will they do? when they have no more money to piss away.
Overlooked reason for Capitol atrophy: Lack of a modern and more substantial diet
By: Kevin R Kosar
Tags: Congress

For the past 15 years, public disapproval of the performance of Congress has averaged around 70 percent. Typically, when people look at Washington, as former Speaker Paul Ryan once observed, “It looks like chaos” — not leadership or governance, regardless of which party is in control.

What’s wrong with Congress? Most frequently the problem is framed as a people problem. Congress has bad people in it. There are clowns, cranks and crooks, and we should throw those bums out. Others point to Capitol Hill having too many rabid partisans. Best to send them packing, too, in favor of new legislators who will choose “country over party.” Still others point to the corrupting influence of lobbyists and the campaign finance hustle as the proximate cause for congressional dysfunction.

All of these diagnoses have merit, and their corresponding remedies are worth pursuing. But we should not forget about the “congressional capacity” problem…. (Read more)
My new podcast: Understanding Congress
By: Kevin R Kosar
Tags: Congress, https://www.aei.org/tag/understanding-congress-podcast/

AEI and I launched a new, monthly podcast: Understanding Congress. It features short discussions explaining how the First Branch works — and doesn’t. Check it out at https://www.aei.org/tag/understanding-congress-podcast/.

Here are some of the initial episodes:

How does the budget process work and not work? (with Tori Gorman)

What is the filibuster and does it have a future? (with Molly Reynolds)

How does the House of Representatives organize itself for a new Congress? (with Matthew Green)

Reforming Congress for the 21st Century (with Rep. Derek Kilmer)

Do we need Congress? (with Phil Wallach)
Last in decency/ first in line. At last, non partisan consensus.
Tags: Trump, Congress, Humor, Political Satire, Covid 19

Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash

At last, non partisan consensus.

The other day we had the great fortune to witness our beloved politicians receiving their covid 19 vaccination shots.

You could almost hear that collective sigh of relief around the country.

Now we can all stop worrying that our country might possibly be rendered rudderless, lest one of our fine and dedicated “public servants” contract the virus and prematurely buy the farm.

(Let the record show that I’m being extremely polite when I use the word “premature”.)

Some of these folks were past their expiration date at the turn of the last century.

As we know, it’s become almost de rigueur these days to host super spreader events in the Washington.

You ain’t nobody until you’ve made the front page by shooting the rest of the country a big fat D.C. Bird.

At least the people at the top are safe now.

And isn’t that the American way?

So now that our feckless leaders are safe, who’s next in line.

That would be the entire staff of the Walter Reed Medical Center and the Office of the Attending Physician, of course.

You never know. Maybe a rogue health care worker decided to play Russian Roulette and throw a few complimentary placebos into the Congressional vaccine mix. To hell with the vote, let Fate take the wheel.

And then the next set of essential workers would obviously be the lobbyists on K Street.

They do write our laws after all. We would be lost without them.

Perhaps Trump will even have a little fun before he is finally escorted out of the White House.

To all of his cronies, that he hasn’t already thrown under the bus, he can ask: pardon or vaccine?

Once this pathetic show of fake patriotism is over and the front of the line has been sold to the high dollar donors ,we can get to the lesser of us.

You know, the real essential workers.

Doctors, nurses, police and fire, teachers, the elderly etc.

You voted for em folks.
Our Overwhelmed Congress
By: Kevin R Kosar
Tags: Congress

Something remarkable happened this spring — Congress’s public approval rose to 31 percent. If that sounds like little to celebrate, bear in mind that the percentage of Americans who are happy with Congress had not been that high since August of 2009.

John and Jane Q. Public’s esteem for Congress rose because the legislature had passed a massive aid package and those dollars were beginning to land in desperate Americans’ pockets. The uptick in affection, alas, was short-lived. By summer’s end, Congress was engulfed in bitter bickering over enacting additional aid and public approval slumped to 17 percent.

This instance illustrates a basic truth about Americans: they want a Congress that solves problems, and they have little patience for partisan posturing…. (Read more)
Trump urges Congress to amend ‘wasteful’ coronavirus aid bill.
By: Zob Zaris
Tags: Trump Administration, Money, Trump, Congress, Money Management

Over half of the bill that congress presented to the present has nothing to do with the US population and/or the coronavirus. A lot of money goes outside the United States.

Add to this the Elected Officials have had seven months to be working on this and now is another last minute dance to get it done.

Maybe it’s time to recall most if not all the whole bunch of them and start over?
The speed of Congress shows its priorities and sense of urgency.
By: Michael Tran
Tags: Trump, Congress, Coronavirus Update, Relief Bill, Coronavirus Relief

At the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the United States Congress was rather quick in its decision to grant $2.2 trillion dollars to the US people. These payments were granted before the date of April 17th. However, months after the first round of payments were granted via the Coronavirus Tax Relief and Economic Impact Payments, the US Congress has failed to keep the American people in its thoughts as Republicans and Democrats debated over how money should be allocated towards helping the American people.

Sadly, on 12/21/2020 Congress finally passed a bill to be signed by President Trump. Trump immediately rejected the bill stating that the payments were not enough for the American people, especially American families and business owners hit hardest by previous state government business interferences and attempts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The bill Congress pushed for would have only sought to pay Americans a meager $600 as their “coronavirus relief.” This amount, especially during the holiday season and as we approach 2021 where many annual contracts are renewed is NOT enough. It is not just “not enough,” but it would be ludicrous to believe that $600 is what the American people require to make it to 2021, let alone through the first few months of 2021.

Trumps rejection of the bill is excruciatingly heart-rending, but to allow Congress to continue to believe that the $600 was enough would be in itself deeply disturbing. Finally US Democrats and President Donald Trump can agree on something, and that agreement is towards the economic security and prosperity of the American people. President Trump’s rejection of signing the bill, along with remarks at the disgraceful amount of spending it entailed towards helping Americans has spilt the GOP. But that spilt is necessary because it will show us who is really for the United States people and who is not.
‘There is no democracy in India’: Rahul Gandhi
By: India Ahead News
Tags: Congress, Farmersprotest, Farmlaws

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday (December 24) claimed that there is no democracy in India while also saying that it can be in our imagination but democracy does not exist in reality in the country.



“Democracy? Which country are you talking about? There is no democracy in India,” Rahul Gandhi said while speaking to reports today.



“There is no democracy in India. It can be in your imagination, but not in reality,” he said on Delhi Police taking party leaders into custody during their march to Rashtrapati Bhavan.



“PM Modi is making money for the crony capitalists. Whoever will try to stand against him will be called terrorist — be it farmers, labourers and even Mohan Bhagwat,” he further added.



The Congress leader then went on to add that the Government should convene a joint session of Parliament and repeal the new farm laws.



“I want to tell the Prime Minister that these farmers are not going back home until these farm laws are repealed. The government should convene a joint session of Parliament and take back these laws. Opposition parties stand with farmers and labourers,” he added.



“China is still at the border. It has snatched away thousands of kilometres of the land of India. Why doesn’t Prime Minister speak about it, why is he silent?” the Congress leader said.



“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making the country weak and outside forces are seeing it as an opportunity,” he said.
A Reimagined Vice Presidency
By: Curtis H. Stratton
Tags: US Politics, Congress, Vice President, American Politics, Us Senate

Cred: AP.

Future vice presidents best be former senators.

John Adams may have decried the perceived worthlessness of the position, but neither he nor successor Vice President Thomas Jefferson were negligent in their duties as President of the Senate. For, until the Kennedy Administration, the vice president was a primarily legislative role, with the president’s second-in-command having offices on Capitol Hill, not in the West Wing.

Today, the vice president is whatever the current president imagines. They are surrogate campaigners, proxy emissaries, and, most importantly, vote-getters every four years. Vice presidents are picked to balance presidential tickets and, on the odd occasion, succeed to the presidency itself. They relegate their responsibility as presiding officer in the Senate to their senatorial compatriots, who gladly relish their independence from the executive branch.

This oversight in what a reimagined vice presidency can be is a gross oversight for effective future governance.

Future vice presidents best be former senators, as they will need their parliamentary experience and years of building relationships with other senators to effectively wield their role as presiding officer. In this new vice presidency, vice presidents will actively wield the gavel, ensuring that the president’s agenda is muscled or cajoled through the obstinate upper house. Indeed, the Founding Fathers saw the role in a similar light, with John Adams “persuad[ing] senators to vote against legislation he opposed.” Vice Presidents Dallas, Morton, and Hobart “studied the Senate’s rules and precedents,” presiding “most effectively.” It was not until Lyndon Johnson that the vice president’s historically paramount role was set aside, as LBJ desired a more executive role for himself, and President Kennedy was unwilling to be seen as beholden to Johnson’s admittedly formidable skill as a legislator. Vice President Agnew attempted to regain lost ground by learning the rules of the Senate, actively presiding in proceedings, and inquiring as to how senators intended to vote. Clearly, a historical precedent exists for vice presidents to be active and willing Presidents of the Senate.

The implication of having a future vice president on the floor of the Senate would manifest itself in an arguably more successful presidential agenda. Instead of relying on the whims of Senate party politics, the president would have a constitutionally empowered advocate moving the sludge through the legislative pipeline. More importantly, the White House would empower vice presidents to contribute in their own way to a four- or eight-year legacy, instead of playing an arguably useless role, as it stands. If the goal is active, effective governance, presidents will need to use every tool at their disposals, and a vice president in the Senate would be a sterling start.
A Decade in Federal Discretionary Spending
By: The Pulse Of Government Contracting
Tags: Congress, Procurement, Government Contracting, Federal Government, Data

The Government Contracting Industry is a complex marketplace. No other industry is as dependent on the successes and failures of Federal policy, regulation, and Congressional leadership. Our ecosystem lives or dies by it. Elements of the sector ebb and flow depending not only on the needs wants, whims, and votes of American citizens but also the global stage, all of which command our ~$1T competitive landscape pipelined through Federal discretionary spending.

Today’s discretionary spending levels are high by historical standards — in short, the Government Contracting Industrial Base is ~25% of the USA’s economic welfare.

While the World sets its sights on 2021, The Pulse decided to take a step back and examine the state of Federal discretionary spending (procurements and grants) over the last ten (10) years, as we close out the decade not with a whisper — but with a boom.

Read more here: https://thepulsegovcon.com/article/a-decade-in-federal-discretionary-spending/
Fuck em all…They all deserve an eternity in hell.
By: Michael Jaqua
Tags: Greed, Pelosi, Politics, Congress, Assholes

Fuck em all…They all deserve an eternity in hell.
CARES Relief and the $2,000 Stimulus
By: David B. Christian
Tags: Trump, Congress, Stimulus, 2000, Cares Act

Yesterday, President Trump made it clear that Congress limp attempt at personal stimulus for individuals ($600) is simply not enough. He wants to eliminate all of the money going to foreign countries for things like sex-change surgeries in Pakistan and put it in the pocket of citizens here. What a concept! Finally, a bit of common sense is being heard from concerning a new stimulus package. President Trump is demanding that Congress modify the bill that was just passed to provide for $2,000 stimulus per qualifying person.

The funny thing is that President Trump has been telling both the Democratic and Republican politicians on Capitol Hill for months that the amounts they’ve been arguing over were not sufficient. No one chose to listen because it didn’t fit the immediate establishment goal of removing him from office. At least some are listening now. Thank goodness. Hopefully, the light that President Trump has shined down upon this mess will encourage enough of the Senators and Representatives to provide more help to the people of this country than the $600.

Why stop at $2,000 per qualifying person? Why not set a minimum floor of $2,000 for all persons with a sliding scale that increases the amounts similar to the income tax rates only in reverse? Those at the top brackets for purposes of income tax would receive the $2,000. Everyone else would receive more based upon the bracket they fall in with a maximum of $5,000 per person. In parts of the country which have not seen significant lockdowns that may seem high. But, in parts of the country which have seen significant lockdowns even that is probably not sufficient. After all, if you look at it from a six month standpoint, then even at the highest amount it is less than $1,000 per month per person. That’s not a lot when people are forced into lockdowns, businesses are lost, and jobs are destroyed. Unemployment and subsistence benefits just don’t cover it.

I encourage the members of Congress and our President to consider this option instead and truly serve the people of this country. Despite what some might say, it is both possible and prudent. But, those arguments are for another day!
Hero Omar Calls Lawmakers ‘Shameful’ For Getting Vaccine Before the Vulnerable
By: Jack Smith
Tags: Ilhan Omar, Vaccines, Molyneux Post Stories, Congress, Covid 19

Hero Omar Calls Lawmakers ‘Shameful’ For Getting Vaccine Before the Vulnerable

Image: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Despite fellow ‘Squad’ member Alexandria Ocasio Cortez taking the COVID vaccine, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar who married her brother, claimed that is ‘shameful’ for politicians to take the vaccine.

As many country’s recently-purchased vaccines are starting to roll out throughout their respective populous, debates in both the United Kingdom and the United States have sparked asking who will get the vaccines.

The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom requested the racial background of healthcare workers in vaccine request form, which sparked controversy whether the government will follow many Democratic states in US, and start favouring one race for vaccine roll out.

One of the main debates on social media was whether politicians should get the vaccine before anybody else. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota lawmaker responded to a question posted by Anand Giridharadas, a far-left ‘journalist’ for The Ink, MSNBC and TIME, regarding whether politicians should receive the vaccine due to their “age” or “importance”.

Ilhan responded with a scathing attack on politicians who received the vaccine.

This scathing attack was very unexpected considering Rep. Ilhan Omar’s closest comrade and fellow ‘Squad’ member Alexander Ocasio Cortez (AOC) flaunted herself receiving the vaccine on social media.

Our Queen getting the vaccine.

Our Queen reminding us the vaccine is safe, showing the peace sign, cuz she cares.

Brave. Powerful. Empowered. Yass Queen.

Ocasio-Cortez was heavily criticised by her own followers asking what “qualifies” politicians to get the vaccine. The woman wrote;

“AOC, I love you, but I’m a nurse and I’m still waiting to get mine so what exactly qualifies politicians to get a vaccine before healthcare workers?”

Another angry healthcare worker also commented.

“Why are you getting this before health care workers? I put breathing tubes in people’s airways for 13hrs a day.”

The New York post added, in an article reporting on AOC’s vaccination, that Ocasio-Cortez’s dog ‘Deco’ wasn’t “enthused” by her Instagram stories
Congress Is Out of Control
By: David B. Christian
Tags: Congress, Stimulus

Once again, the House of Representatives has voted on legislation which it has yet to read. (Reminiscent of Obamacare.) Late today it passed the second stimulus package and sent it to the Senate. The legislation consisted of 6,000 pages put together over the last few days and dropped onto the members of the House about 2 hours before the vote. Hey, it’s only $900 billion. Why read the bill before voting? That’s just a waste of time, right?

AOC, with whom I rarely agree, brought up the idea that perhaps the bill should be read prior to the vote. What a novel thought! Apparently, the remaining members of the House thought it just to be a waste of time to read the bill prior to voting. They voted anyway.

The Senate is to vote tonight and may have done so already. Guess Senators read very quickly or, perhaps, they are skipping that process just like the House? Of course they are not reading it prior to voting. That’s such an inconvenience when plotting the course of an entire country!

Congress is out of control.
Congress Writes a Book Titled “The Art of the Deal That You Pulled Out of Your Ass”
By: Shoshana Nose
Tags: Congress, Satire, Comedy, Donald Trump, Covid 19

In what seems to be a victory lap after finally agreeing upon a stimulus bill, Congress is publishing a book discussing the artful way in which the said compromise was achieved.

“We have to keep up with the times if we want to be relevant pieces of the dynamic American fabric,” one congressman said. “Anyone who is anyone seems to be publishing a book to immortalize, in excruciating detail, their successes and as politicians it is our duty to do the same.”

Another congresswoman stated, “If we don’t give ourselves credit where credit is due or memorialize the importance of the work we have done, future generations will never have the opportunity to understand the importance of democracy. We cannot let that happen.”

While many Americans are still confused as to why this stimulus bill providing minimal and much delayed support is being seen as a major accomplishment, Congress has defended its decision to spend the next few months writing a book instead of passing a follow up stimulus package. In a statement released to the press this morning, Congress has confirmed that the book will help ensure that this week’s Covid relief bill will not go to waste as the book will be placed in one of the new museums that the relief bill is itself funding. In this way the publication creates artifacts with which the museums can be filled while they might otherwise remain empty.

When questioned about plagiarism violations with regards to the title of the book, Congress provided video evidence confirming that they in fact came up with the title based on their own physical undertaking of the process of writing the bill. Thus, any similarities to previously published works are believed to be simply coincidental at this time.
Congress has passed a stimulus package or a coronavirus relief bill.
By: Misha Smith
Tags: Stimulus, Money, Congress, Economy, Jobs

Photo taken off of CNBC top page.

Congress has passed a stimulus package or a coronavirus relief bill. Like it or hate it we needed it. Our economy was flattening not tanking nor rising. This will be a broad stimulus less then the one in April but that was guaranteed. This will put money into small businesses and individuals which will hopefully revive the economy quicker. Also airliners are saved so the 30,000 jobs almost lost coming back.

Sometime people don’t feel they got money from the stimulus but if your job is kept you benefited. The $600 direct payments to incomes less then $75,000 will help everyone if they need it or not which is good. $300 extra in unemployment benefits and unemployment is extended to 50 weeks so that’s also another benefit. These systems are in place to help the worse off and a get me back up. Not a line to continue to hold as long as you can just till you get a job, which is important during a recession/economic term oil or pandemic. We need to fight the pandemic so baseball and other live events can come back.
Alliance of Specialty Medicine’s Winter 2020 Newsletter
By: Alliance Of Specialty Medicine
Tags: Medicare, Doctors, Congress, Healthcare, Physicians

The Alliance of Specialty Medicine’s newsletter, On Call, provides updates and information on legislative and regulatory issues for which the Alliance is advocating and highlights our individual member societies’ work. In the Winter 2020 edition, we cover the Alliance’s first-ever “virtual” fly-in, where specialty docs from around the country logged in to discuss health care policy with Congressional leaders and offer their own front line assessments on the state of health care in the United States. The health policy coverage continues with a story on how the Alliance has allied with other national provider groups to address CMS’s proposed harmful Medicare payment cuts. Our individual member societies are highlighted as well, with stories on physician burnout in neurosurgery and the work of the American Gastroenterological Association’s efforts to stop Medicare from charging surprise co-pays for colonoscopies. Finally, we remember Dr. Alan Crandall of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and his selfless work to bring eye care to the world’s poorest communities.

Click Here to Access the Newsletter
[Sunday, December 20th, 2020 (Leadership from both chambers "finalize an (Covid Stimulus) agreement")]
By: Cory Wyszynski
Tags: Folk, Congress, Poetry

[Sunday, December 20th, 2020 (Leadership from both chambers "finalize an (Covid Stimulus) agreement")]

I feel,

Witherd scones as dry as old bones, doused in

Damp lakewater with smells of ash and empty coke bottles.

I hear,

Black Gospel on repeat of an outdated playlist.

Rock a bye baby, don't let it rot,

Tied to a cradle, it's head in a knot.

Vows they are a broken. You did this!

We the People do hold these truths to be self--

Self love

Self gratitude

Selfless

Shelfless

Homeless

Near miss.

The Tennessee River is where he was last seen, reverend.

Just like all the other tired, snot grieving widows, sour, timid.

Her violets need water.

The lights, they like yours, Father. Shall I wait?

For who?

Whom.

Him?

Put down your shameful finger. Such a wild gesture.

If not why--

Then. Then, if not now

Then...

When.

This was sent with love, but ended up like the other cuts of dry aged meat.

Exhibit A: a Stripper wife with beefy thighs, fresh from the butcher that momma called home.

The verdict?

Not guilty, your honor.

.

.

.

In these uncertain times:

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New Stimulus Passed by Congress
By: Jack C Lee
Tags: Deficits, Stimulus Package, Congress

Congress finally agreed on a new 900 billion dollars new stimulus bill. The main piece includes another $600 per tax payer. I understand the need to help some Americans and businesses impacted by the coronavirus. Some people are definitely hurting while some small businesses like restaurants are closing their doors for good.

My question to the power that be is this. Was this the best they can do this time around? I understood the first stimulus was necessary and the rush to get the funds to the people made it impossible to target specific groups. However it is seven month later. We had plenty of time for Congress and the treasury department to figure something out. Something better in terms of giving relief in a more targeted fashion. This is just prudent and common sense.

Our government deficits are already to the brink. It has risen dramatically this year to 28 trillion after the addition of the 3 trillion broad stimulus back in May. This second stimulus needs to be more narrow.

In specific, the $600 per person check is not well spent. Many people are still working at home throughout this pandemic shut down. They do not need this $600. The people who need it and more than the $600 are those whose job have been impacted. Those who have lost their jobs as a result of the shut downs. Those industries that have been impacted such as restaurants and hotels and travel related industries.

Why is it so hard to separate those groups? Doesn’t the IRS or the Social Security agency or the Department of Labor know who is employed and who is not?

I have made this same argument after the first stimulus. At that time, I received $1200 along with my wife. We file joint tax returns. She is working from home and I am retired. There was no reason for people like us to receive the stimulus check. I gave the government benefit of doubt and argued that it was done for the sake of expediency. It was the quickest way for money to flow to the public by using the banks and providing debit cards. There was too little time for them to separate the groups. However, this time around, seven month later, there is no excuse.

This second stimulus bill just reinforce my perception that our government is broken. They seems unable to do what private businesses do everyday- manage their finances in a responsible way. Those funds are our tax dollars. They are borrowed funds that our children and grandchildren will have to repay with interests. How is this fair?
Los Angeles Daily 12/18/20
By: Clint Allisone
Tags: Dailies, Congress, Progressive, Daily Blog, Covid Diaries

I’m thinking of congress. I’m thinking of the progress, or lack thereof, on the stimulus package so many of us need to survive. I’m thinking their plan is to send just enough money to look like they are doing their jobs, but not enough to keep American workers housed.

These are the people who’s friends and families own almost ever building, and parcel of private land in the US, but that’s still not enough for the rich, they want to own every building, every piece of land. If millions of out of work families become homeless, all the better for them, the want only to gobble it all up. The rich and the governments policy agenda starts with the words suicide is an option.

My veteran buddy, the only one I know, but we’re close, told me he’s convinced the US military wanted their vets to kill themselves. I’m thinking this now applies to waitresses, too.

When we’re all gone what players will they find to take the role of the downtrodden? Will they dress up robots to look like poor Americans, and refuse to plug them in?

The behavior of the rich in congress, their misuse of the PPP by their own companies, the vast wealth they have gained by juicing the stock market, is pure corruption. There was a time when an honest worker could earn an honest living, but now an honest worker only gets a rich man’s dick in their ass, and told to be grateful for the loan.

I’m thinking of what I learned in sales, in real estate, in business, in the film industry. What I learned is the motto “take the money, and run” is the fastest way to make a buck. Say anything to get the money, and don’t pick up the phone once you got it. That’s become business as usual.

That’s what congress, their family, and their friends are doing in the midst of a pandemic, and as their gains parallel an overwhelming amount of suffering to their fellow Americans all I see are sociopaths in power.
Is Contesting Your Own Winning Election Crazy Or What?
By: Floyd Mori
Tags: Elections, Politics, Congress, Republicans, Donald Trump

Is Contesting Your Own Winning Election Crazy Or What?

Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash

It seems like an error in judgment

The suit by the Texas attorney general was rejected by the Supreme Court of the United States. Most people would agree that it was a ridiculous effort done for questionable reasons. Was it that the Texas AG wanted to be on Trump’s good side so he could get a presidential pardon for himself before Trump leaves office? The puzzling thing is why nearly twenty attorneys general of other states would join him along with 126 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was something done solely to appease Trump.

The Utah AG (who I know personally as a friend) was one of those who joined with the Texas AG in his effort. The Governor and the Governor-elect (who is currently the Lieutenant Governor) of Utah condemned his actions. They said that they certainly would not want other states interfering in and criticizing the election in Utah by trying to change the results. There is a petition in Utah to have the attorney general apologize for his actions in that matter or to resign. It appears that he made a big mistake as did the others who joined the Texas AG.

Those Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who signed the brief to support the Texas AG’s suit and supported Trump in the process seem to have made a big error in judgment. Some people have said they will be looked upon as fools. Trump’s surprising control over these Republicans is remarkable. They will do his bidding no matter how crazy it is.

The part of this issue that is more strange is that seventeen members of the House of Represenatives who were among those 126 Republicans had their names in those same elections that they are trying to contest. They represent the four states where the Texas AG wanted the results challenged. They are saying that the election results are not correct and should be thrown out. That seems to indicate that they should not have won their elections either. Some people think they should not be punished.

The Republicans who signed the brief which would have brought doubt in their own election results even though they won in the four states in question are:

Georgia — Rep. Rick W. Allen, Rep. A. Drew Ferguson, Rep. Austin Scott, Rep. Jody Hice, Rep. Barry Loudermilk Michigan — Rep. Jack Bergman, Rep. Bill Huizenga,Rep. John Moolenaar, Rep. Tim Walberg Pennsylvania — Rep. John Joyce, Rep. Fred Keller, Rep. Mike Kelly, Rep. Dan Meuser, Rep. Scott Perry, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson Wisconsin — Rep. Tom Tiffany

Does that seem crazy that these people would contest the results of the election when they won even though Trump lost those states? It seems extremely ridiculous and foolish.

Trump does not want to admit that he lost the election. Many people think he will never concede. It may be a transition into a Biden Presidency without Trump ever acknowledging that he lost.
Only paying $600 to American families during a pandemic is ridiculous.
By: Glad Doggett
Tags: Pandemic, Congress, Economy, Government And Politics

Only paying $600 to American families during a pandemic is ridiculous. Has congress forgotten that taxpayers are the people who paid the money in to the government in the first place?! It’s OUR money!!!

Handout my ASS!!

Joel Osteen got $4.4 million. Tom Brady got almost $1 million.

You get $600.

That’s just wrong any way you look at it.

Republicans who call it a it a handout are out of touch and don’t deserve to call themselves public servants! People are suffering. This is an easy way to boost the economy and actually help American families and businesses.

We need to remind Congress and the White House that they work for Americans. We are the ones who put them in office, and we will take them out if necessary!
Open for dialogue: Sonia Gandhi to meet top Congress leaders including dissenters from December 19
By: India Ahead News
Tags: Congress, Featured, Soniagandhi

Congress’s top leadership has started taking steps to redress grievances and other pending issues of the organisation while chalking out a strategy on key issues as its interim chief Sonia Gandhi will be meeting the party’s state and Central leaders.



She will also meet the dissenters who had asked for reforms in Congress.



According to top sources in Congress, Gandhi will start in-person meetings with leaders from December 19. A week-long program has been planned for these meetings with the leaders who had sought an appointment from her in the last couple of months.



After the demise of senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, a former chief minister and party leader met Gandhi and urged her to meet leaders and settle down the ongoing issues within the party on which she agreed upon.



In the first batch of leaders, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Rajya Sabha lawmaker Gulam Nabi Azad, along with that several Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Presidents, are likely to meet Sonia Gandhi, a source told ANI.



A former PCC president on the condition of anonymity said that it is good for the party that pending issues are now being taken up by the Congress top leadership and it is the need of the hour that decisions that were pending for a long time are on board to be taken now.
The Rusesabagina Family and Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation Thank Congresswoman Maloney for her courage and dedication to human rights
Tags: Congress, Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Carolyn Maloney, Paul Rusesabagina

The Rusesabagina Family and Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation Thank Congresswoman Maloney for her courage and dedication to human rights #FreeRusesabagina Dec 17, 2020·2 min read

By, Alyson Chadwick

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) showed great courage and a commitment to human rights when she wrote Rwandan President Paul Kagame and urged him to release Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina. In her letter, Maloney stressed what the Rusesabagina family and Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation have said all along; that he was kidnapped and taken to Rwanda, where he was arrested and detained. He never would have gotten on the Gain Jet plane had he known its real destination was Kigali and not Burundi.

Mahoney further states that when Kagame took Rusesabagina against his will, Kagame violated international and United States law. She underscored that by resorting to clandestine methods, he ignored all legal processes used to extradite suspected criminals from another nation. There is a process that provides basic protections to people in the United States while allowing people who have been accused of crimes to be sent back to the country that wants to prosecute. The United States has deported four people to Rwanda over the course of the last 20 years. Additionally, four others are currently in American prisons and will be sent back to Rwanda once they have completed their sentences. If Kagame had credible evidence, he would have gone through the normal process as he had with other cases. This alone is reason to let Rusesabagina go.

Rusesabagina said in open court that he was tortured after he was taken. He was bound and blindfolded on the GainJet plane and held incommunicado for several days. Furthermore, he is a cancer survivor who has several health problems such as hypertension, and other cardiovascular problems. The Rwandan prison where he is being held has been reported as being one of the worst places for Covid-19. Rusesabagina has been taken to the hospital a few times. Despite this, he has been denied access to the medicine he needs. Maloney underscores the humanitarian reasons to release Rusesabagina.

Rusesabagina is a human rights activist. His bravery saved 1,268 people during the Rwandan genocide. In 2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is not someone who deserves to be treated this way.

By sending Kagame this letter, Congresswoman Maloney stressed the importance of due process, the rule of law, and the United States commitment to human rights. She let Kagame know that Rusesabagina has the full support of the United States government. She should be thanked and applauded for her courage, resolve, and commitment to helping people like Rusesabagina who is a permanent United States resident.
Did you know that every member of Congress and the Senate takes an Oath of Office ?
By: Courtney Allen-Gentry Rn Msn Phn Ahn-Bc Hwnc-Bc
Tags: Senate, Politics, Congress, Constitution, Politics And Elections

Did you know that every member of Congress and the Senate takes an Oath of Office ?

Any Senator or Member of Congress who signed onto the Texas lawsuit to overturn the election results is actually guilty of #sedition and could be held accountable as treasonist.

Read more in this great article from “The Week” that’s the best history lesson I have had lately…

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

— U.S. Constitution, Article VI, clause 3
PM MODI GOT A LETTER TO CHANGE INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM “JANA GANA MANA"
By: Sushanta Mandal
Tags: Indian Politics, Nationalism, Congress, Indian National Anthem, Pm Modi

PM MODI GOT A LETTER TO CHANGE INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM “JANA GANA MANA"

Indian national anthem "JANA GANA MANA" written by one of the most famous writer Rabindranath Tagore. It was first sang in 1911 in Calcutta. The song was adopted by Indian Constituent Assembly on 24 January 1950 as India’s national anthem.

A letter written by Subramanyam Swamy member of Rajya Sabha (BJP) to PM Modi. He request to PM for remove few words in current national anthem. Also he give a suggestion to replace those words by a another song that was composed and sung by the Late Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his INA forces.

Same kind of request also previously raised by Markandey Katju a former judge of supreme court and Ripun Bora (INC) a member of Rajya Sabha.

Current national anthem have words like "Sindh", "Adhinayak ". Reason for this request is the word "Sindh" indicates the area Sindh province of Pakistan, currently which is not a integral part of India or any disputed area of India. The song was written when India was not divided into two parts. Also he mentions current demographic doesn't match with the anthem as there is nothing mentioned about North-East India. So we can use a word that can indicate the area of North-East India. Also he said the word "Adhinayak " word indicates the British king George -V.

There is some controversy regarding those two words as in India there is a community called Sindhi, who are living all over India. So the remove of Sindh word they interpret as a devaluing contribution of Sindhis. Also many people arguing that Rabindranath not a supporter of British raj so why he would wrote the word 'Adhinayak' for British king. There is no evidence that can support claims of anyone.

Check out below link: https://hotcurrentissues.blogspot.com/2020/12/letter-sent-to-pm-modi-for-change.html