Tag: Kentucky

Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant’s digital ID card

The agreement, obtained through public record requests from CNBC and other sources, mostly portrays Apple as having a high degree of control over the government agencies responsible for issuing identification cards.

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Apple has “sole discretion” for key aspects of the program, including what types of devices will be compatible with the digital IDs, how states are required to report on the performance of the effort, and when the program is launched, according to the documents. Apple even gets to review and approve the marketing that states are required to do.

The Government’s War on Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine the First Amendment

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

This holds true whether you’re talking about the right to criticize the government in word or deed, the right to be free from government surveillance, the right to not have your person or your property subjected to warrantless searches by government agents, the right to due process, the right to be safe from soldiers invading your home, the right to be innocent until proven guilty and every other right that once reinforced the founders’ belief that this would be “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”

The Government’s War on Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine the First Amendment

US Defense Secretary Miller’s naughty US spy flights

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The new Trump appointee US Defense Secretary Christopher Miller (doomed to be the shortest serving ever) was in the Philippines making a show of donating war equipment to the Philippines, ironically in the time when it is not needed as it is the time of the Covid pandemic when what we need are ventilators, protective equipment, vaccines and financial aid for economic recovery.

US Defense Secretary Miller’s naughty US spy flights

I said it was just a smokescreen!

Coronavirus Reality Show: Kentucky Episode!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“All the world’s a stage!”

Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns Senators Reopening Too Soon Will Cause “Suffering and Death”

Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky — the first senator known to test positive for the virus — appeared in person and did not wear a mask.

Masks are for those who are SICK!

Where coronavirus cases are rising in the United States

Kentucky had the largest surge in new cases in the nation with a 60% rise in the first week of May, due to widespread testing at a prison that revealed an outbreak.

University of Kentucky to close $6 million COVID-19 field hospital — without ever housing patients

The University of Kentucky is closing the 400-bed field hospital at Nutter Field House as the potential for a surge of COVID-19 patients has subsided.

Kentucky’s poor economic outlook due to COVID-19 was ‘self-inflicted,’ UofL professor says

Dr. Coomes says he’s blunt, and so he criticized Kentucky for not pivoting when it was clear a surge of COVID-19 patients at hospitals wasn’t going to happen.

He also criticized the policies for opening up the commonwealth slowly, saying it was overly cautious.

“This is really self-inflicted from my point of view,” Dr. Coomes said.

For some sarcastic relief:

Rand Paul Says Secret to Social Distancing Is Making Everyone Despise You