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Campaign Finance: this time, with more feeling

30 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC propping up Gov. Mike Parson (r):

180490 06/30/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC KETCHMARK & MCCREIGHT PC 11161 OVERBROOK ROAD SUITE 210 LEAWOOD KS 66211 6/30/2020 $135,000.00

C180490 06/30/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC STERLING BANCSHARES INC 1100 STERLING DRIVE POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 6/30/2020 $25,000.00

C180490 06/30/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC GJ GREWE INC 639 GRAVOIS BLUFFS BLVD SUITE D ST LOUIS MO 63026 6/30/2020 $25,000.00

C180490 06/30/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC GSSW-REO LC 500 N AKARD ST #2030 DALLAS TX 75201 6/29/2020 $25,000.00

C180490 06/30/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC KOCH INDUSTRIES INC 4111 EAST 37TH ST NORTH WICHITA KS 67220 6/30/2020 $10,000.00

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You’d think it was the end of the quarter. Or something.

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

Previously:

Campaign Finance: smiling through the pandemic (June 30, 2020)

Missouri DHSS – COVID-19 Outbreak Statistics – June 30, 2020 – 2:00 p.m.

30 Tuesday Jun 2020

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The most recent statistics on the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak for Missouri from the Department of Health and Senior Services:

Cases in Missouri: 21,551
Total Deaths: 1,015
Patients tested in Missouri – PCR (by all labs): 373,007
Individuals with positive PCR results: 20,883
Patients tested in Missouri – Serology: 42,984
Individuals with positive Serology results: 1,548

Total cases reported (PCR and Serology tested) do not add up.

4.71% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in Missouri have resulted in a fatality.

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Campaign Finance: smiling through the pandemic

30 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Business as usual.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC propping up Gov. Mike Parson (r):

C180490 06/29/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC MACO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LLC PO BOX 68 111 NORTH MAIN CLARKTON MO 63837 6/29/2020 $25,000.00

C180490 06/29/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC CENTENE CORPORATION 7700 FORSYTH BLVD CLAYTON MO 63105 6/26/2020 $100,000.00

C180490 06/29/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC MISSOURI LEADERSHIP FORUM 575 WITTE INDUSTRIAL CT TROY MO 63379 6/29/2020 $37,350.00

C180490 06/29/2020 Uniting Missouri PAC MISSOURI SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION 734 S COUNTRY CLUB DR JEFFERSON CITY MO 65109 6/29/2020 $25,000.00

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Governor Mike Parson (r) [2019 file photo].

Previously:

Campaign Finance: just the right amount of cash to prop someone up (June 12, 2020)

Campaign Finance: the smell of desperation, er, money… (June 15, 2020)

Campaign Finance: seasonal joy (June 23, 2020)

What we have become

29 Monday Jun 2020

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On Saturday in Aurora, Colorado at a memorial vigil for Elijah McClain, a violinist.

Video from : Something Witty

Apparently, string instruments and music and art are considered dangerous weapons. But we’ve always known that, just not in the sense that authority believes them to be.

The courage of those string players, to keep playing while exposed to tear gas or pepper gas and authority in riot gear, is astounding.

Just so non-musicians understand – string players consider their instruments sacred, not only as a vessel for expressing the art of music in the now, but as an intergenerational calling to be handed from the past through the present to the future.

As an example, my cello is approximately 110 years old, it existed before me and will continue long past my lifetime.

For authority to threaten and desecrate not only a peaceful memorial, but musicians and those instruments, with their violence and threats of violence is a crime against humanity, culture, and the future.

Rally for Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 28, 2020

28 Sunday Jun 2020

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Johnson Countians (Missouri) for Justice held a Rally for Justice early this afternoon in Warrensburg on the lawn of the Johnson County Courthouse.

Local ministers offered prayers and several individuals spoke to the crowd of over fifty people.

The event lasted a little over an hour.

“Soccer Mom”

“I am Black History”

“Social Justice”

“Resist”

“Black Lives Matter”

Previously:

George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 (May 31, 2020)

George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 – part 2 (June 1, 2020)

March for George Floyd and Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 8, 2020 (June 8, 2020)

March for George Floyd and Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 8, 2020 – part 2 (June 9, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): on the outrage of Donald Trump’s (r) inaction on Putin’s bounty on American troops in Afghanistan

27 Saturday Jun 2020

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“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

So far, this morning, the reaction to the news from Josh Hawley (r) – on Twitter and Facebook:

So far, this morning, the reaction in a press releases on Josh Hawley’s (r) U.S. Senate web site:

We’ll wait.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Missouri DHSS – COVID-19 Outbreak Statistics – June 26, 2020 – 2:00 p.m.

26 Friday Jun 2020

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The most recent statistics on the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak for Missouri from the Department of Health and Senior Services:

Cases in Missouri: 19,914
Total Deaths: 990
Patients tested in Missouri – PCR (by all labs): 348,618
Individuals with positive PCR results: 19,226
Patients tested in Missouri – Serology: 40,812
Individuals with positive Serology results: 1,497

Total cases reported (PCR and Serology tested) do not add up.

4.97% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in Missouri have resulted in a fatality.

In Johnson County, Missouri:

Johnson
Positive Cases 101
Deaths 0
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 188.25

In Pettis County, Missouri:

Pettis
Positive Cases 110
Deaths 1
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 258.57

In Lafayette County, Missouri:

Lafayette
Positive Cases 87
Deaths 2
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 266.89

In Jaspar County, Missouri:

Jasper
Positive Cases 338
Deaths 1
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 438.43

In Newton County, Missouri

Newton
Positive Cases 332
Deaths 2
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 649.05

In Saline County, Missouri:

Saline
Positive Cases 282
Deaths 4
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 1,231.71

In Sullivan County, Missouri:

Sullivan
Positive Cases 107
Deaths 0
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 1,719.98

In McDonald County, Missouri:

McDonald
Positive Cases 473
Deaths 1
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 2,049.57

Did we hear anyone mention big cities? Just asking.

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Ten years

25 Thursday Jun 2020

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Peace and calm. From a distance.

NASA:

As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.

With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer — the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes. The video shows the rise and fall in activity that occurs as part of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle and notable events, like transiting planets and eruptions. The custom music, titled “Solar Observer,” was composed by musician Lars Leonhard [….].

While SDO has kept an unblinking eye pointed towards the Sun, there have been a few moments it missed. The dark frames in the video are caused by Earth or the Moon eclipsing SDO as they pass between the spacecraft and the Sun. A longer blackout in 2016 was caused by a temporary issue with the AIA instrument that was successfully resolved after a week. The images where the Sun is off-center were observed when SDO was calibrating its instruments…

Science.

Missouri DHSS – COVID-19 Outbreak Statistics – June 25, 2020 – 2:00 p.m.

25 Thursday Jun 2020

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The most recent statistics on the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak for Missouri from the Department of Health and Senior Services:

Cases in Missouri: 19,421
Total Deaths: 982
Patients tested in Missouri – PCR (by all labs): 341,648
Individuals with positive PCR results: 18,805
Patients tested in Missouri – Serology: 38,268 *
Individuals with positive Serology results: 1,446 *

* No reported changes from the previous day.

Total cases reported (PCR and Serology tested) do not add up.

5.06% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in Missouri have resulted in a fatality.

In Johnson County, Missouri:

Johnson
Positive Cases 96
Deaths 0
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 178.93

In Pettis County, Missouri:

Pettis
Positive Cases 110
Deaths 1
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 258.57

In Lafayette County, Missouri:

Lafayette
Positive Cases 87
Deaths 2
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 266.89

In Jaspar County, Missouri:

Jasper
Positive Cases 311
Deaths 1
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 403.41

In Newton County, Missouri

Newton
Positive Cases 312
Deaths 2
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 609.95

In Saline County, Missouri:

Saline
Positive Cases 282
Deaths 4
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 1,231.71

In Sullivan County, Missouri:

Sullivan
Positive Cases 108
Deaths 0
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 1,736.06

In McDonald County, Missouri:

McDonald
Positive Cases 451
Deaths 1
COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 1,954.24

Did we hear anyone mention big cities? Just asking.

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve