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Campaign Finance: dialing for dollars

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 12/30/2012 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P., d/b/a AT&T Missouri One AT&T Center Room 4200 Saint Louis MO 63101 12/28/2012 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Whatever for?

Previously: Campaign Finance: no difference, then? (December 23, 2012)

He doth protest too much, methinks

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Well, this is interesting:

December 28, 2012

Journalist makes Missouri Scout end-of-year list

Yokley to cover state Legislature for The Joplin Globe

….Yokley said he does not think of himself so much as a blogger, but as a journalist.

In a recent interview, Yokley said: “Whenever I think ‘blogger,’ I think of partisan guys who sit in their basements and yell about things from the left or right. That’s not what I do….”

Oh, really? Don’t they teach you in J-school about avoiding that lazy default to tired cliches thing? Just asking.

In the good old days, before they taught him the secret handshake and the “all opposing views are equal” catechism.

It gets better:

Taunia Adams

Yesterday at 4:04pm ·

   What sets some people apart from others? A floor or two.

   

The Turner Report: New Joplin Globe state house correspondent: I’m not a blogger; I’m a journalist

   rturner229.blogspot.com

   

Tammy Fortysevenpercent Booth My hopes were never high for young Mr. Yokely. He was too easily smitten and eager to be liked by the people who are supposed to fear journalists to the extent that they behave themselves. Instead, he’s who Tim Jones would have hired if he was the one doing the Globe’s candidate search — a kid with stars in his eyes who will toe the mark and walk the party line.

Yesterday at 4:24pm

Eli Yokley You spelled my name wrong.

Anyway. Stay tuned.

Yesterday at 4:30pm

Taunia Adams Pretty big dis to all the bloggers out there.

Yesterday at 4:32pm

Tammy Fortysevenpercent Booth Sorry about that — I was going to edit and correct, but now there is no need. As for staying tuned…I will.

Yesterday at 4:32pm

Eli Yokley I have never taken on the title ‘blogger’ because I never considered the work I do blogging. I took on the title of journalist because I believe I’ve spent the last nearly three years doing real shoe-leather journalism that I felt was lacking in Missouri. With The Fuse Joplin and PoliticMo, I took on journalism as a public service, and with the opportunity The Joplin Globe has given me, I hope to continue in that same spirt

Yesterday at 4:33pm

Taunia Adams Cool. Why’d you take down the bloggers around you?

Yesterday at 4:34pm

Tammy Fortysevenpercent Booth Just remember why blogs evolved beyond the AOL chatroom stage…The traditional media has failed us miserably. That is why we all started doing the blogging thang — in my case eight years ago.

Yesterday at 4:35pm

Tammy Fortysevenpercent Booth And yes, I am offended at the sniffy “**I’m** not a blogger.” You sure as hell were, whether you want to own it or not.

Yesterday at 4:36pm

Shelley Powers Blogger is short for weblogger, which was derived, a long time ago, from the description for the software that allows people to easily publish online. Basically the same software that now powers every major online publication today.

Saying you’re not a blogger is like saying you’re not a typewriter or printing press.

Yesterday at 5:25pm

Dude, you don’t engage in a battle of wits with someone who was blogging when you still had Star Wars sheets on your bed.

Don’t forget to wave to us from the House press gallery. Oh, wait…

Do you know why Americans are clueless? Because even our good journalists are blisteringly stupid.

30 Sunday Dec 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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By @BGinKC

I rant about conservative idiocy a lot, but the bottom line is, I expect stupidity from them, because frankly, if they were smarter, they would be liberals.

But when ostensibly smart liberals make stupid comparisons and analogies, I get righteously pissed. Frank Rich has a way of inspiring this in me like no other liberal, and I will admit up front that I am not nearly as enamored of him as many of my fellow travelers are and I happen to think he was better suited to his previous gig as a theater critic than he is as a political commentator. For a supposedly smart guy, he sure writes some idiotic, if not downright stupefying, things, and while getting paid handsomely to do so, to boot. That is most certainly the case with his column that dismisses the “fiscal cliff” fiasco by analogizing it with the much-ado-about-nothing Y2K non-crisis of 13 years ago.

The breathless and phony countdown to the fiscal cliff – What if they can’t agree? What if we fall off? Can America possibly survive? – is media hype, a desperate effort to drum up a drama to keep viewers and readers tuned in now that the election is over. It’s a Road Runner cartoon, Beltway-edition. And it’s going to end with a whimper like the similarly apocalyptic, now long-forgotten Y2K scare of the turn of the millennium.

Talk about blowing it! It is obvious that Rich wasn’t in a field that relied on much technology in 1998-99 — back when those of us who were in tech-heavy fields saw a lot of 60-hour weeks because we were busting our asses to prevent the impending apocalypse that we avoided by dealing with it, not by pretending it didn’t exist.

In case you have forgotten the hoopla about Y2K, back in the nascent days of computerization, memory was at a premium and it took twice as much to make the year a four digit field as it did a two digit field. No one thought about the next century, and even if they did, they didn’t imagine that the software they were writing on punch-cards in the 60s and 70s would still be in use when the year 2000 dawned.

Do you know why Y2K wasn’t a disaster? Because we didn’t wait until Thanksgiving of 1999 to get started fixing the problem. Instead we spent two years working our asses off to make sure all of our equipment was Y2K compliant. It wasn’t a disaster because we didn’t wait until the last minute like the congressional morons have.

I was a fairly new supervisor back then, and a “Super User” for the Health Information System (HIS) in the hospital where I worked. There were department troubleshooters then there were a few of us who were hospitalwide and we got special t-shirts issued to us that identified us as such on sight. We went piece-by-piece and made the equipment compliant, and identified it as such with a neon-orange sticker that said “Y2K COMPLIANT” in big, bold letters.

Hundreds of thousands of programmers — many lured back from retirement by pleading and large paychecks because the old software they wrote years before was still in use and younger programmers didn’t know the first thing about FORTRAN or COBOL or PASCAL, or anything else before C++ — trained people like me and worked many long hours and on 12/31 everyone on the IT team was on the premises and on the clock so patients could be minimally impacted if we missed anything.

Y2K can only be referred to now as “much ado about nothing” because we did our fucking jobs in 98-99 to make sure that was the case. But it does (righteously!) piss me off to no end when people who don’t know what the hell they are talking about pooh-pooh the hard work, skill and dedication we put into making sure it was a non-event, because if we hadn’t, it would have been a big damned deal.

Albert Reiderer, 67

27 Thursday Dec 2012

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By @BGinKC

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I sit down to write about the life of Al Reiderer, who this morning succumbed to the cancer that only became public knowledge about a month ago.  He was only 67, but he made the most of every one of those years, and along the way he made his mark on some folks who would become very, very important and influential.

Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders said upon hearing of his passing “This guy was truly a great human being and a great man. We’ve lost one of our great citizens.” Mike isn’t known for understatements, but somehow even calling him “great” three times in two sentences doesn’t quite capture just how truly exceptional a man he was.

People who worked alongside him, professionally in the prosecutor’s office or during his time as a judge; or in a civic capacity in the community he loved and lived to serve, have gone on to great things. One became the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and another now sits on the federal bench. Others now sit on the Missouri Court of Appeals. He worked alongside Emanuel Cleaver when EC was a community leader and city council member, before he was Mayor of our fair city, and long before he ran for and won his seat in Congress. He was just reelected to his fifth term representing the Missouri Fifth Congressional District and just completed his tenure as Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

You also may have heard of a former assistant prosecutor of his, and successor to the office herself, a feisty little blond with a sharp tongue and a sharper wit by the name of Claire McCaskill. You may have noticed that it was her who played the state GOP like a fiddle in the last election. First she picked her own opponent and then she romped to a fifteen-point victory against said hand-picked opponent in November, beating him, as we say in Missouri, “like a rented mule.”

Mike Sanders, who served in the prosecutor’s office alongside Claire McCaskill and later held the job himself, credits Reiderer with creating the modern prosecutor’s office in Jackson County, where he introduced the drug unit, drug courts, COMBAT and anti-crime efforts, and putting an emphasis on treatment over incarceration. “Even during the meth and crack craze in the late ’80s, Albert went in a different direction,” Sanders said. “He said, ‘We can’t incarcerate our way out of this.’ He started treatment programs. He was a guy who was really ahead of his time.”

His dedication to public service, and pioneering spirit in his approach to it was inherited from his father, a noted jurist in our community who is credited with revolutionizing family courts the way his son would modernize the prosecutor’s office with the innovative approach of drug courts.

His loss is a great one, not just to his family, but to his friends and his community as well. He will be missed, and he will surely be remembered. The county Democratic Committee which he chaired through the early and mid 90s will no doubt introduce a yearly award in his name at the annual Truman Days celebration held each May.

Can we talk about gun control yet?

26 Wednesday Dec 2012

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By @BGinKC

On February 23, 2004 Mary Seymour, my former colleague in emergency medicine in this town, was one of the first responders to a call involving a house fire in south Kansas City. As soon as she was out of the bus, a sniper opened fire. Two bullets broke four ribs, collapsed her right lung and grazed her heart. Then shit got real when her partner and the police who arrived first rescued the fallen rescuer while taking fire.

I was off that day, so I didn’t work her trauma, but I didn’t have to work it to feel the horror. I’ve been shot at and I’ve had a gun held to my head. I worked a dangerous job that sometimes put me in harms way and more than once, it literally put me on the line of fire. I instinctively reached into the side pocket of my flight suit, took out a tampon and used it to plug a bullet hole in a cop and kept him from bleeding out before he got to surgery.

What I’m saying is, I know my way around an emergency situation and I tend to keep my head while other people freak out and lose theirs, but I don’t get more excited than any situation calls for. I figured out early on that staying calm and paying attention was going to be the way I wanted to go through life. The keeping calm and the paying attention were qualities that served me well in my medical career, first as a first responder and then as a laboratory clinician who responded to traumas in the hospital with four units of O for traumas that needed blood, and I did point-of-care testing. (By the way…everything you think you know about blood banking and blood types is wrong because teevee has never once gotten it right.)

Six weeks after Mary Seymour was critically injured, two more MAST medics were ambushed and gunned down in the firehouse where they were pulling their shift.

Everyone is talking about the firefighters who were shot on Christmas Eve morning after responding to a house fire in Webster, NY and pulling up to a sniper situation like Mary Seymour faced in South Kansas City in 2004. Two firefighters died and two were wounded.

Here’s the dirty little secret…it happens all the time, all over the country. In the average 12-year EMS career, a medic can expect to be assaulted 9.6 times and on average will deal with 17 attempted assaults.  

Here is another dirty little secret. Since we can’t prove a negative, we don’t know how many medics have been killed or injured as a result of the GOP-controlled congress zeroing-out the budget for research into gun violence.

I am so sick of this nonsense – and I would be even if I had never been one of the people who has been shot at, threatened, assaulted and stitched up in two places after I was slashed with a knife when a patient in the middle of a full psychotic meltdown lunged at me.

As shock and grief give way to anger, the urge to act is powerful. But beyond helping the survivors deal with their grief and consequences of this horror, what can the medical and public health community do? What actions can the nation take to prevent more such acts from happening, or at least limit their severity? More broadly, what can be done to reduce the number of US residents who die each year from firearms, currently more than 31 000 annually?1

The answers are undoubtedly complex and at this point, only partly known. For gun violence, particularly mass killings such as that in Newtown, to occur, intent and means must converge at a particular time and place. Decades of research have been devoted to understanding the factors that lead some people to commit violence against themselves or others.

Substantially less has been done to understand how easy access to firearms mitigates or amplifies both the likelihood and consequences of these acts.

For example, background checks have an effect on inappropriate procurement of guns from licensed dealers, but private gun sales require no background check. Laws mandating a minimum age for gun ownership reduce gun fatalities, but firearms still pass easily from legal owners to juveniles and other legally proscribed individuals, such as felons or persons with mental illness. Because ready access to guns in the home increases, rather than reduces, a family’s risk of homicide in the home, safe storage of guns might save lives.2 Nevertheless, many gun owners, including gun-owning parents, still keep at least one firearm loaded and readily available for self-defense.

The nation might be in a better position to act if medical and public health researchers had continued to study these issues as diligently as some of us did between 1985 and 1997. But in 1996, pro-gun members of Congress mounted an all-out effort to eliminate the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although they failed to defund the center, the House of Representatives removed $2.6 million from the CDC’s budget-precisely the amount the agency had spent on firearm injury research the previous year.

Funding was restored in joint conference committee, but the money was earmarked for traumatic brain injury. The effect was sharply reduced support for firearm injury research.

To ensure that the CDC and its grantees got the message, the following language was added to the final appropriation: “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”

Precisely what was or was not permitted under the clause was unclear. But no federal employee was willing to risk his or her career or the agency’s funding to find out. Extramural support for firearm injury prevention research quickly dried up. Even today, 17 years after this legislative action, the CDC’s website lacks specific links to information about preventing firearm-related violence.

When other agencies funded high-quality research, similar action was taken. In 2009, Branas et al published the results of a case-control study that examined whether carrying a gun increases or decreases the risk of firearm assault. In contrast to earlier research, this particular study was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Two years later, Congress extended the restrictive language it had previously applied to the CDC to all Department of Health and Human Services agencies, including the National Institutes of Health.

These are not the only efforts to keep important health information from the public and patients. For example, in 1997, Cummings et al used state-level data from Washington to study the association between purchase of a handgun and the subsequent risk of homicide or suicide. Similar studies could not be conducted today because Washington State’s firearm registration files are no longer accessible.

The nation is in shock right now. First we were shocked by the Jevon Belcher and Kasandra Perkins murder-suicide. The anger at Bob Costas for reading Jason Whitlock’s column word-for-word hadn’t even cooled yet when the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut happened. And then before the funerals there were even over, four volunteer firefighters were shot, two fatally, as they responded to a call in Webster, NY.

In Florida, it’s illegal (although a federal judge has stayed the law for now) for a pediatrician to ask about guns in the home and the law allows for stripping medical professionals of their licenses if they “harass” or “discriminate against” gun owners. Stayed or not, it has had a chilling effect and kids will undoubtedly die as a result.

Military commanders used to have the right to discuss personal weapons with those in their command, but last year, as the bodies from suicides and murder-suicides piled up in post towns all over the country, the tea-party/NRA-beholden Congress inserted a little-noticed provision into the Defense Bill that prevents commanders from initiating such conversations. Because hey, liberty! Freedom! Second Amendment!

I knew the job was dangerous when I took it, but I took it anyway. And I didn’t just do it, I did it well. There are a hell of a lot of people still on this side of the sod because I kept my head when the situation went south in a big, big hurry.

You count on people like us to save your ass when an emergency happens. And do you know who we count on?

We count on Congress.

And we have been failed. Miserably.

No one is served by silencing studies or science. That doesn’t change reality; it just betrays the cowardice and fear of the gun lobby and their ideologically pathological and morally bankrupt sycophantic pets from red, gerrymandered districts.

We shouldn’t have to fight with one hand tied behind our back by a congress that obviously holds us in contempt, or they wouldn’t be actively trying to suppress the studies and the science that might save our lives.

The blood of first responders is on the hands of every American who didn’t bother voting or who doesn’t work actively to overcome the GOP majority in the House and take back the lower chamber, gerrymandering or not, so that the science can be done that might save the life of someone you love – or, more likely, save the life of someone who may go on to save your life or the life of someone you love.  

Campaign Finance: all quiet at the Missouri Ethics Commission

25 Tuesday Dec 2012

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For now.

Enjoy the peace and quiet while you can.

Campaign Finance: no difference, then?

24 Monday Dec 2012

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Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 12/23/2012 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON David C Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO President & CEO 12/21/2012 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Compared to other recipients it’s not that much. Still, is someone trying to tell us something?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: propping up Ed Martin (r) (December 11, 2012)

Campaign Finance: propping up Shane Schoeller (r) (December 9, 2012)

HB 92: because Wayne LaPierre had such a good day today

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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A bill, prefiled today in the Missouri House by Representative Chuck Gatschenberger (r):

HB 92 Changes the age for concealed carry endorsements from 21 years of age to 19 years of age

Sponsor: Gatschenberger, Chuck (108)

Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2013

LR Number: 667L.01I

Last Action: 12/21/2012 – Prefiled (H)

Bill String: HB 92

Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled

Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

Adam Lanza was twenty years of age.

Campaign Finance: this can’t be good

21 Friday Dec 2012

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oxymoron: noun ˌäk-sē-ˈmȯr-ˌän

a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C121488: Missourians For Excellence In Government

308 East High Street Suite 301 Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65109

(573) 634-2500 Established Date: 12/21/2012

  Termination Date:

Treasurer

Nancy E Rice

5297 Washington Place

St Louis Mo 63108

[emphasis added]

And just how many Missourians are funding this effort?

Another sign that the Mayan apocalypse isn’t supposed to happen by asteroid or all at once:

C121488 12/21/2012 MISSOURIANS FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 12/20/2012 $275,000.00

[emphasis added]

Not good at all.

Because Shane Schoeller (r) was such a great example of all that is well and good in government?

HB 89: it’s not gonna happen

21 Friday Dec 2012

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A bill, pre-filed today, by Representative Mike Colona (D):

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 89

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE COLONA.

0666L.02I     D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 571, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the crime of failure to secure a firearm, with a penalty provision.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

           Section A. Chapter 571, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 571.065, to read as follows:

           571.065. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Firearm Responsibility Act”.

           2. A person commits the crime of failure to secure a firearm if such person fails to secure a firearm at all times such firearm is not in active use by:

           (1) Engagement of a gun locking device; or

           (2) Storage in a locked safe, gun box, or other similar container appropriate for the secure storage of a firearm.

           3. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

           4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any licensed law enforcement officer, licensed peace officer, or active member of the United States Armed Forces.

           5. For purposes of this section, “gun locking device” means an integrated design feature or an attachable accessory that is resistant to tampering and is effective in preventing the discharge of a firearm by a person who does not have access to the key, combination, or other mechanism used to disengage the device.

It’s not gonna happen. Not because it shouldn’t, but because the republican majority in the General Assembly would need permission from their NRA masters.

This is why, from Mark Ames:

….Because it’s now so deeply ingrained that owning guns is a form of radical subversive politics, the people who still engage in real politics have the pick of the litter. That first became really clear in the depths of the 2008-9 collapse, when a lot of people who thought of themselves as radicals and anarchists made a lot of feckless noise about how they were arming and preparing for the collapse and revolution. They could’ve gone out and organized something and maybe built a politics of people power or even a politics of what they call revolution, a politics that actually changed things. But instead, they locked themselves in their homes and apartments with their guns and fancied themselves political revolutionaries just waiting to be swept up. But no one came. No one bothered or cared. And really, why would any plutocrat or evil government agency bother with the suckers, all harmlessly atomized and isolated and thoroughly neutralized by the false sense of political empowerment that their guns gave them, while you do the real work of plundering budgets, bribing politicians and writing laws even more in your favor?

So while everyone was hiding out in their homes armed and ready for Hollywood finales that never came, in the real world political power was concentrating at warp-speed with zero resistance.

From the oligarchy’s perspective, the people were thoroughly neutralized by the false sense of political empowerment that guns gave them. Guns don’t work in this country – they didn’t work for the Black Panthers or the Whiskey Rebellion, and they won’t work for you or me either.

It takes years to cultivate a political mindset that voluntarily neutralizes itself by convincing itself that its contribution to world revolution comes down to purchasing a few guns at K-Mart, then blogging about it. That’s what reactionary plutocrats like the Koch brothers understood about the deeper politics of gun fanaticism, and why their outfits like the Cato Institute have been at the forefront of overturning gun regulations and promoting “Stand Your Ground” vigilantism as a substitute for political engagement: That by poisoning the political climate, it poisons the minds, which circulates back to the external environment, and back into the minds, until you lock the culture into a pattern in which you always get more and they always get fleeced, which makes them more fanatical and you more powerful…

This is what I missed or ignored about gun control: The longterm view that the Koch brothers and the Scaifes and everyone backing gun-nuttery understood about how gun laws or the absence of those laws can completely transform the surrounding political climate.

(via “The NRA As Paranoia Vector & Neofeudalist Tool” at Balloon Juice)

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