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Johnson County, Missouri – COVID-19 – Statistics – January 26, 2021

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

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Today from Johnson County, Missouri Community Health Services:

Note: Numbers for adjacent counties are no longer updated at this site.

Johnson County, Missouri

Cumulative Positive Cases: 4219

Deaths: 34

23 additional cases since yesterday’s report.

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

It’s really cold out there

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

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This morning in west central Missouri:

Dark-eyed Junco. Junco hyemalis
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/1250, ISO 3200, 400 mm.

Maybe some snow tomorrow.

Johnson County, Missouri – COVID-19 – Statistics – January 25, 2021

25 Monday Jan 2021

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Today from Johnson County, Missouri Community Health Services:

Note: Numbers for adjacent counties are no longer updated at this site.

Johnson County, Missouri

Cumulative Positive Cases: 4196

Deaths: 34

110 additional cases since the January 20th report.

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

Yeah, but those seven Senators didn’t pump their fists at insurrectionists immediately before the breach of the Capitol

25 Monday Jan 2021

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

The first rule of holes: When you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging.

The first rule of republicans: Projection doesn’t just happen in movie theaters.

The first rule of Josh Hawley (r): “Where’s the microphone?”

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Today, in self-serving arrogance:

Hawley Calls for Investigation into Democrat Abuse of Senate Ethics Process
Monday, January 25, 2021

U.S. Senator Josh (R-Mo.) is filing a counter-complaint today against seven Senate Democrats who called for an ethics investigation into his objection to certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral count. The Democrats admitted in their complaint that Hawley’s electoral college objection was lawful. In a letter to the seven Democrat Senators, Senator Hawley called out the senators for their historic partisan abuse of the Senate ethics process and potential coordination with dark money groups.[….]

Project much?

Billboard in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Missourians are going to be reminded of that raised fist for a long time.

You think he sees that billboard every day on his commute between his home in Virginia and the Capitol? Just asking.

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

After 17 days of silence (January 24, 2021)

Heartland Pod: break the cycle

25 Monday Jan 2021

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Ep. 48: Break The Cycle of Trauma – with Cathy Alderman (JD/MSPH) from Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

EPISODE SUMMARY
Adam Sommer gives this week’s opening statement about the work to come now that we have moved on to the new administration (2:00) followed by “Let’s Have A Chat” (4:55) with Cathy Alderman from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Then a sneak preview of OUR NEW SHOW! “The Flyover View” a news summary show that will air every Friday, hosted by Kevin Smith with several rotating cohosts during this week’s edition of “Talkin’ Politics” with Adam, Sean Diller, Rachel Parker, and Zack Schwartz which includes inauguration talk, cabinet talk, and Heartland politician talk on Josh Hawley, Wiley Price, and Lauren Boebert, closed out by the connection of current Russian political strife with the promise of American democracy.

After 17 days of silence

24 Sunday Jan 2021

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

This is what we get:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
It’s time to stand up against the muzzling of America
[….]
8:35 PM · Jan 24, 2021

Seventeen days of silence from the seditionist on his Twitter account until today. And all we get is self-serving whining.

Some of the responses:

Strange muzzling. You announce the muzzling on a Big Tech platform about a column in a major newspaper. Me thinks you protest too much.

#JoshHawleyIsATraitor #joshhawleyisaliar #JoshHawleyResign

You wanted to disenfranchise MILLIONS of voters. You wanted to muzzle people of color. WTF is wrong with you.

Sweetie, you’re not being cancelled. You being held accountable for your actions in supporting insurrection. Take several seats, Josh.

How can someone who is cancelled have an op ed in the Post?

You don’t seem terribly muzzled.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

The senator is complaining about being ‘muzzled’ for challenging the results of a free and fair election. He believes ‘cancel culture’ is silencing him after he helped incite an insurrection that left five people dead, including a police officer.

He also believes it’s unconstitutional for a private company to cancel a book deal. The victim complex on this one…

You tried to disenfranchise millions of voters in a seditious plot and are whining about this?

Have you no honor?

Oh cut the shit. You are guilty of sedition and need to be removed.

You are a disgrace to the office and we will never forget what you did.

It’s time for you to Quit.

This guy literally incited a riot…on his own free will… and now he’s whining about some censorship bs

It’s time to stand up to seditionists

You’re a traitor and that’s how you’ll be remembered, Senator.

So you wrote an op-ed that made the cover of the NY Post and it’s about (checks notes) having your voice muzzled.

How fortunate the US would be if that was in fact true.

The irony is completely lost on him.

So elitist to write for a New York paper. I thought you were the senator from Missouri. Is Missouri not good enough for you?

If it were good enough for him he’d live there

You weren’t muzzled. You spoke out and caused a bloody insurrection.

Stop deflecting from your sedition

The muzzling of Americans?

You mean like when you tried to muzzle the votes of 81 million Americans? Including me?

Literally fuck off, dude. Consider, just for one hot second, that you might have been in the wrong.

Our State is dying Senator. Stop whining about your book deal and do your job.

Since your actions are deserving of censure and expulsion from the Senate, I’m not surprised you are opposed to consequences.

The picture of privilege – having a national platform from which to speak.
You’re not being muzzled, you’re being held accountable.

Five people died in a right wing attack on the Capitol you incited. They’re silenced now. You did that. Resign.

Difference between being silenced and being ignored.

New York Post op ed. Very relatable to a Missourian.

Your. Career. Is. Over.

Stop fighting it. It only makes it sadder.

Your first tweet in days could have been much, much better than this.

Your actions will have consequences, now it’s time for you learn about the 14th Amendment.

It’s time to resign, you lying, seditious traitor.

But you had no issue with trying to muzzle me and the millions of others who didn’t vote for Trump, though, did you?

“I’m being censored… here’s a link to an op-Ed I wrote in a major publication about it.”

It’s time to stand up to seditionist, inciting, traitors and expel them from the Senate. Your whining isn’t going to make us forget.

“Local DC socialite and Ivy Educated lawyer Josh Hawley is furious after being unable to find constitutional clause that would force private bookseller to publish his fascist manifesto after attempting overthrow of American democracy“

I’m constantly amazed that there a group of ppl that believe ppl like @HawleyMO when they say they are silenced, “muzzled”, etc. when they see them say it in front of a camera or read their exact words they have tweeted or told a reporter to report.

How can silence be so loud?

You refuse to talk to local media. You aren’t muzzled.

You misspelled “I resign.”

I too have been muzzled by the New York Post’s front page

Man, I really hope you just shut the fuck up soon

Now you are doing fascist op-eds in the New York Post?

You are free to say whatever you want, and we are free to call it seditious.

The irony of being published in a New York City newspaper, sharing it on Twitter, and then having the audacity to say you’re being muzzled. The mind boggles.

republican campaign supplies.

And on and on…

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024 (January 23, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): looking ahead to 2024

23 Saturday Jan 2021

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

In the U.S. Senate:

Roll Call Vote 117th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Avril Danica Haines, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence )
Vote Number: 3
Vote Date: January 20, 2021, 06:23 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN78-10
Nomination Description: Avril Danica Haines, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence
Vote Counts:
YEAs 84
NAYs 10
Not Voting 6
[….]
Missouri:
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Hawley (R-MO), Nay

[emphasis added]

Roll Call Vote 117th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Lloyd James Austin, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Defense )
Vote Number: 5
Vote Date: January 22, 2021, 10:31 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN78-1
Nomination Description: Lloyd James Austin, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Defense
Vote Counts:
YEAs 93
NAYs 2
Not Voting 5
[….]
Missouri:
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Hawley (R-MO), Nay

[emphasis added]

Josh Hawley (r), sedition then, obstruction now.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – town hall in Warrensburg – Press Q and A – August 17, 2017 (August 17, 2017)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2018)

Josh Hawley (r): throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks (December 30, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): ladders and rakes (December 30, 2020)

Ladder Climbing 101: by the book (December 31, 2020)

Burning bridges (December 31, 2020)

Sedition, sedition…sedition (January 2, 2021)

What it is, is sedition… (January 3, 2021)

If you can’t stand the heat, trample people on your way to a live mic (January 3, 2021)

Nothing much going on. Why do you ask? (January 3, 2021)

The third Senator from Virginia (January 5, 2021)

Fascist pig (January 6, 2021)

What hath Josh Hawley (r) wrought? (January 6, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Dumbass (January 7, 2021)

Sedition is bad for business (January 11, 2021)

HCR 10 and HCR 11 (January 12, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): “I no mye misoori constitutents our reely stoopit.” (January 14, 2021)

Ignite (January 15, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (January 16, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Taps Closed to Insurrectionists (January 17, 2021)

Josh Hawley (r): Why not add “obstructionist asshole” to the list, it’s just one more thing, right? (January 21, 2021)

Penrose on Politics: Hawley’s Hallmark Moment (January 23, 2021)

It’s Saturday morning in America

23 Saturday Jan 2021

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An early morning visit by a House Finch:

House Finch. Carpodacus mexicanus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 – 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/800, ISO 800, 400 mm.

House Finch. Carpodacus mexicanus.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 – 70-200 mm, 2x III.
F 5.6, 1/800, ISO 800, 400 mm.

International Space Station

22 Friday Jan 2021

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Early this evening over west central Missouri:

The International Space Station – over Missouri – January 22, 2021.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 20 mm.
F 9.0, 51 seconds, ISO 100, 20 mm.

Look carefully, you’ll find the track.

DACA lives

22 Friday Jan 2021

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September 5, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri:

Dreamer not Criminal”

Yesterday, with a signature:

Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

JANUARY 20, 2021 • PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY

SUBJECT: Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. In 2012, during the Obama-Biden Administration, the Secretary of Homeland Security issued a memorandum outlining how, in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, the Department of Homeland Security should enforce the Nation’s immigration laws against certain young people. This memorandum, known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) guidance, deferred the removal of certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, have obeyed the law, and stayed in school or enlisted in the military. DACA and associated regulations permit eligible individuals who pass a background check to request temporary relief from removal and to apply for temporary work permits. DACA reflects a judgment that these immigrants should not be a priority for removal based on humanitarian concerns and other considerations, and that work authorization will enable them to support themselves and their families, and to contribute to our economy, while they remain.

Sec. 2. Preserving and Fortifying DACA. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall take all actions he deems appropriate, consistent with applicable law, to preserve and fortify DACA.

Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.

(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

Joe Biden (d) [2020 file photo].

September 5, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri:

“No human is illegal”

Previously:

In support of DACA – Kansas City – September 5, 2017 (September 5, 2017)

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): on DACA (September 6, 2017)

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): on DACA (September 6, 2017)

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