Thom Hartmann brings us a story of another school voucher scam, this time in Idaho, where $50 million is being allocated, though $30 million of that is coming out of funding for public education...I don’t know much about Idaho, but in our beloved commonwealth of PA, $5K isn’t even a third of the cost of a year of parochial private high school, so yeah, as Thom says, these ridiculous vouchers are pretty much a sop to the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch (mainly to their kids, actually), and they definitely screw over those on the lower financial end in our economy...to me, the kicker is that those who get the vouchers don’t have to provide proof on how they spent the dough...
...and David Pakman tells us about the Murdoch Street Journal floating the idea of impeaching the Gropenfuhrer (about as far as you can expect from a bunch of tree-hugging libs)...and before we rush to give them credit, think about everything they were willing to look the other way on for #47, but hits to their stock portfolios was apparently a bridge too far (slightly NSFW/H)...
...and Rachel Maddow brings us another report from the Journal about countries supposedly striking deals to avoid the beyond-ridiculous tariffs form Cantaloupe Capone (and no, I don’t believe it based solely on this)...as part of an alleged deal, Vietnam is supposedly going to allow Trump to build a $1.5 billion resort, and oh yeah, there’s also the dealings with this crypto guy who served four months in prison and had to pay $4.3 billion in fines and penalties, with the Trump gang trying to leverage their crypto offering through this guy’s company (possibly) in exchange for pardoning the head of this company and less regulatory oversight – “a coloring book of corruption” indeed...
...and as a bit of a palate cleanser if you will, David Shuster of Rebel HQ gives us the tale of Buford, a heroic dog that rescued a toddler who wandered off for 7 miles, believe it or not...turning back to politics, it turns out that Canadian boycotts are definitely inflicting harm on the US economy, which could have been foreseen by anyone with a functioning mental capacity, and that excludes our *preznit I realize, profiling that Maine hotel/B&B owner again (I included this clip earlier I know)...
...and RIP Pope Francis...yes, he was from “the factory,” you might say, but he was definitely the most progressive pope in my lifetime also...my earnest hope is that his efforts won’t get undone by someone more doctrinaire in the mold of this guy...
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