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HB 2448: Clueless in Poplar Bluff

15 Saturday Jan 2022

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“One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong…”

HB 2448
Establishes the “Rev Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Highway” and the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Highway” in Poplar Bluff
Sponsor: Billington, Hardy (152)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2022
LR Number: 4992H.01I
Last Action: 01/14/2022 – Read Second Time (H)
Bill String: HB 2448
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

The bill text:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2448 [pdf]
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BILLINGTON.
4992H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the designation
of memorial highways.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 227, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto two new sections, to beknown as sections 227.798 and 227.799, to read as follows:

227.798. The portion of Pine Street (Business 60) from North Westwood Boulevard (Business 67) continuing to B Street within the city of Poplar Bluff in Butler County shall be designated the “Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Highway”. The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the costs to be paid by private donations.

227.799. The portion of North Westwood Boulevard (Business 67) from West Pine Boulevard (Business 60) continuing to Highland Road within the city of Poplar
3 Bluff in Butler County shall be designated the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Highway”. The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the costs to be paid by private donations.

In context. The list of bills sponsored sponsored by Hardy Billington (r):

HB 1451 – (3064H.01I)
Designates January 12 each year as “Rush Limbaugh Day”
HB 1452 – (3096H.01I)
Requires the performance and explanation of an obstetric ultrasound and auscultation of fetal heartbeat prior to an abortion
HB 1453 – (3070H.01I)
Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee for having a firearm in the employee’s vehicle on the employer’s premises
HB 1454 – (3076H.01I)
Modifies provisions for voter identification
HB 1455 – (4000H.01I)
Prohibits the sending of unsolicited absentee ballot request forms
HB 1456 – (3147H.01I)
Changes the law regarding catalytic converters
HB 1457 – (3087H.01I)
Prohibits the use of the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in the public schools of the state
HB 2448 – (4992H.01I)
Establishes the “Rev Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Highway” and the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Highway” in Poplar Bluff
HJR 65 – (3075H.02I)
Modifies the process for getting an initiative petition on the ballot

That’s quite a trend there.

You half expect HB 1456 to require a profile stamp of Rush Limbaugh an all catalytic converters sold in Missouri, which with the emitted hot gases would actually make some sense.

Previously:

HB 728: there’s something about that establishment clause (January 30, 2019)

HB 728: the right wingnut cult of religious victimhood (April 3, 2019)

HB 1200: to celebrate the reality of Missouri (February 19, 2021)

HB 1451: high priority (December 1, 2021)

HB 1457: You were expecting something else? (December 2, 2021)

We are all doomed

23 Monday Aug 2021

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This morning:

Dennis Newberry – Mayor of Lake Ozark
A dear friend of mine [….] is in a Central MO hospital with Covid. [….] is the owner of [….] MO. I have known him for over 30 years. He keeps his boat at a marina here in Lake Ozark. As a hail merry pass I have procured some “ivermectin” for him and will be driving it to him today. Please pray for cooperation from his caregivers and Hospital admin to allow his loved ones and friends to step in and assist with his life. If we do nothing his life will surely be taken from his 18 year old son, his family and friends. I need your prayers and comments to attempt to gain favor with the powers to be. Thank you!

Some of the comments:

When I first started reading your post I thought it was satire. If you’re serious, when you get to the hospital with your Ivermevtin check your friend out and treat him at home. Save the hospital bed for the patients that are going to let the medical professionals treat them.

“A dear friend of mine is in hospital where he is being treated by medical professionals with decades of education and experience between them. But I’m going to try and give him horse deworming meds because some guy on the internet said it was a good idea.”
If Americans had been like you in 1775, my people would still be running your country because you’d have been convinced that running into musket fire was a cure for pimples.

I thought this was a joke. This was not a joke. Holy hell and “hail ‘merry!’” Bring on the farm animal meds for the unvaccinated fools around the county.

He should be transferred immediately to Lake Ozark veterinary. Call and get him transported right away.

Let me push all the actual trained and board certified physicians that spent 10+ years in school for this exact thing out of the way to administer a drug proven not to work. Way to go mayor. You are an embarrassment to Missouri.

I really hope that your friend pulls through and feel for his family.
But no matter what any of our beliefs or disagreements are, it seems like a very odd choice to post this publicly on your elected official page, instead of your personal.
Your post even had a warning attached to it.
By sharing this, you’re publicly condoning a treatment that isn’t approved, and that most doctors consider to be ineffective and dangerous.
I think many of us are also wondering, how you got a prescription med to give to another person? What doctor or vet did such a thing with no examination or anything?
I hope that at the very least the medicine is given to the man’s doctors and the administration of it is left up to them.
I also assume that this friend did not get the vaccine or it seems like you would have mentioned it. So if you’re going to publicly share the information that you’ve gotten an unapproved/possibly dangerous medication to give to someone else, it would be helpful to also let those people know if his level of illness is perhaps due to his not having the vaccine, or in spite of having it.
My guess is that if it were the latter, you’d have said as much.
That’s the information that would be an appropriate PSA for the people of your city. Not the whole “If you’ve got friends in high places you can get things others can’t get, even if it’s not approved. And PS I’m totally condoning this med regardless of scientists and healthcare professionals saying it’s dangerous.”
This is just a crazy thing for a mayor to post.

On the downside you’re committing a felony. But on the positive he at least won’t die of worms.

Do you help with surgeries too? I’m envisioning you showin’ up at your Great Aunt Lucy’s gallbladder surgery with one of your steak knives and some screencaps from YouTube.

Killing my friends and then being sued by his family to own the libs

All the people claiming your doctor supports this treatment: post their name and office phone number, so we can call and verify. I don’t believe any of you.

Y’all don’t know me, and have no reason to trust me, but I humbly ask you all to not give your friends and family animal medicine for treatment. Please don’t do this.

“A realtor-turned-mayor took it upon himself to obtain a drug that is indicated to treat heartworm in large farm animals to give to a guy who was severely ill due to COVID-19, after warnings from the FDA, WHO, and local emergency medicine physicians are urging the public to refrain from taking this medication, as it is causing hundreds of hospitalizations across the US.”
Turn the car around, man. You’re not even driving in your own lane.

Welcome to Missouri.

Previously:

Meanwhile, this is Missouri (July 5, 2021)

If you want to be treated with leeches and bleeding you’re going to have to invent time travel or find someone on the Internets (July 26, 2021)

Anxious elitist right wingnut slaps together an ideological word salad in the dim hope that everyone else might believe he’s erudite

30 Monday Nov 2020

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He’s not.

Late this afternoon, from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Let me explain this to you. Corporate liberals are woke capitalists. The corporatists love critical race theory and all the other warmed-over Marxist garbage. They sell out working Americans and sneer at them at the same time. That’s the New Left
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4:02 PM · Nov 30, 2020

Was this some kind of bizarre Senate office assignment hazing ritual requiring him to work “corporate”, “capitalist”, and “Marxist” into a single incoherent tweet? Just asking.

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

Some of responses:

As Missouri Attorney General, you took millions in donations from a company scamming consumers. As Senator, you take money from corporate monopolists.

You’re bought and do nothing for working Americans.
Anti-union. Anti-relief. Anti-dignity.

But do keep “explaining.”

Let me explain this to you: you don’t live in Missouri and your voter registration at your sister’s house is fraud.

hell yeah, “capitalists” and “corporatists” definitely support Marxism. really smart shit here, my man

So, “woke capitalists, marxists”?

That makes a lot of sense

What the hell are you talking about?

this makes zero sense

This is the kind of answer on an exam in high school where the teacher would say quit using a bunch of words you read or heard somewhere without putting anything together in a paragraph that makes sense.

Woke Corporatist Marxist, damn.
I need a new bingo card.

This makes no sense

The only major legislative achievement that the Republican Party has accomplished in the past 4 years (when they controlled the White House & Senate) is a tax cut for millionaires and billionaires.

But go on, Senator Hypocrite, tell us more about how the liberals are elitists…

20+ years actually.

Tax cuts for the rich is the ONLY policy that the GOP has had for at least 2 decades.

So the “New Left” embraces Marxist social policies(?), but are capitalists. As capitalists they “sell out the working class,” as of course any good capitalist would. Finally, they condescend to them because they are economically beneath them? or social Neanderthals? I’m confused!

Oh no, I’ve got it figured out. This was just a prep school, Stanford/Harvard guy trying to figure out how to relate to the MAGAs and mangling it. I’m good now!

josh do you see the woke capitalists right now? are they in the room? does it smell like battery acid and burning toast?

Show me on this doll where the woke capitalists touched you.

this word salad needs seasoning

He should have added something about antifa for that extra flavor

Senator Stanford Yale really just gets working Americans, ya know? If he’s not trying to woo us w nonsense tweets like this he’s tweeting pics of his second home being built. Meanwhile, Missourians are suffering bc of Covid. Crickets.

It’s like a dump truck full of rejected Federalist articles ran into another dump truck full of misspelled signage from a militia rally. It’s astonishing that you managed to hoodwink admissions officials and professors at both Stanford AND Yale

I feel like the likes of Hawley or Cotton aren’t the future smart ones they keep warning us about.

There are a lot of words there. I’m not sure you know what any of them mean though.

Federalist slenderman from the “right to work” party has some words he’d like to string together. No, they don’t make any sense, but that won’t stop him.

Everyone is tweeting their gobblygook trying to find their post Trump populist stance. This one is interesting, hating on capitalism and marxism at the same time. And given the base, it could work. I mean, there is literally no party platform now and zero people seem to care.

Just say “Jews,” you little bigot. You’re not fooling anyone.

This is like every dumb Daily Caller outrage posting buzzword in one meaningless tweet, nice work Hosh Jawley

I feel like you just grabbed your GOP Magnetic Poetry Kit, threw a handful of loaded words at the fridge, and tried to compose a tweet with the ones that stuck.

Buddy, this is gibberish

All the buzz words. None of the sense.

And on and on…

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Welcome to Warrensburg, Missouri

12 Saturday Sep 2020

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Today, from Missouri DHSS:

800 confirmed cases (72 hour delay).

From Johnson County [Missouri] Community Health Services:

826 confirmed cases.

And, from a private [Matthew Holloway] Missouri COVID-19 statistics site:

885 confirmed cases.

The New York Times now [widely cited] places Warrensburg, Missouri as #3 in the nation for municpalities with the highest increase of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population.

And then this, from Johnson County [Missouri] Community Health Services, removing the mandatory mask order at midnight Sunday.

JCCHS Issues Public Health Advisory
September 11, 2020

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (Sept. 11, 2020) – With the novel coronavirus disease still prevalent in Johnson County, the Johnson County Public Health Officer and the Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees have issued a county-wide Public Health Advisory, replacing the Face Covering Order at 12:01 a.m. beginning Monday, Sept. 14, 2020.

The Public Health Advisory will stay in place until the state emergency within the State of Missouri is retracted, or until deemed necessary to replace with additional forms of safety precautions.

The advisory, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), strongly recommends each individual within Johnson County take safety precautions, specifically wearing face coverings in public to mitigate the risk and slow the spread of COVID-19.

Individual Recommendations:

Individuals are strongly encouraged to wear a face covering when in a public setting (including but not limited to grocery stores, pharmacies, businesses/organizations, place of worship, gym, community centers, libraries, schools, taxis, buses); and
Wear a face covering anytime when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain; and
Maintain a safe distance of at least 6-feet from others; and
Avoid parties and social gatherings involving anyone from outside the immediate household; and
Other measure such as hand washing and cleaning/disinfecting frequently touched surfaces.
Business/Organizations Recommendations: All public locations are encouraged to implement specific safety precautions to continue mitigating the risk to employees and visitors.

Strongly encourage all employees to wear face coverings; and
Strongly encourage visitors to wear face coverings upon entry; and
Encourage face coverings to continue to be worn, especially when social distancing cannot be maintained; and
Allow for social distancing; and
Limit group gatherings as is possible.
The goal is to reduce the positive COVID-19 cases in Johnson County.

Best practice recommendations state that individuals should wear face coverings in public settings when around people outside of their household, especially when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.

Face coverings help prevent individuals who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others, and are most likely to reduce the spread of COVID-19 when they are widely used by individuals in public settings. A face covering should not replace social distancing, but used as an additional layer of protection.

[….]

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WTF?

A few of the comments on the JCCHS social media page:

Thinking a mask is going to save your life is insane. Masks don’t save lives God does.

Supplicant: “God, why did you not protect me from this pandemic?” God: “What are you talking about? I gave you math, science, logic, statistics, and medical expertise and you still didn’t wear a mask?”

Nobody believes a mask is going to save their life.

Would you believe in a Level 4 biohazard suit?

So do we HAVE to wear masks or only if we want to or if the business requires it?

Or, if you want to protect others in the community. Sociopaths and people who lack any empathy for others need not bother.

The virus is never going away folks. It’s a virus. If we do not resume a more normal way of life, everyone who has worn a mask long term now has weakened lungs anyway. So, if they do contract this virus that is hard on the lungs, they are that much worse off.
If we encourage healthy living and building strong immune systems, we are better off.
We should always put the elderly and those with low immune systems first, if they need to stay home and get curbside pickup and let others do errands for them so be it. But, healthy strong citizens who have been working throughout this whole year (without a mask for most of it I might add) should be able to make their own decisions.

Consistently fell asleep in class in high school.

Haven’t any of you noticed how the number of cases went up after the mandate ?? People are wearing masks and still getting it but then again there are false positives so the numbers aren’t accurate anyway. Wash your hands, each healthy and take your vitamins. That will work better than a mask.

Has difficulty with concepts like large numbers, exponential growth, and science.

What could possibly go wrong?

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

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Stay away from stupid people. Good luck to us all. We’re gonna need it, there are a lot of stupid people.
#FlattenTheCurve