The Guardian has begun a weekly feature, Tracking Trump.
This didn't get in for this week:
Yesterday the *resident gathered children of the White House Press Corps around him in the Oval Office like they were televangelists.This week's cover, "October Surprise," by Carter Goodrich: https://t.co/m9TinPJCNH pic.twitter.com/tKaP3nbERU— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 23, 2017
Then he insulted their parents and complimented the kid on "no weight problems here."
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Vegas shooting victims- the ones he told America would stand behind every day going forward, find him- and them- indeed, just standing there:
As hundreds of survivors struggle to recover emotionally and physically from the Oct. 1 attack, they are beginning to come to terms with the financial toll of the violence perpetrated against them. Even those who are insured could face untold costs in a city they were only visiting.
The total costs of medical care alone could reach into the tens of millions of dollars, said Garen Wintemute, who researches gun violence at the University of California-Davis.
And that is just the beginning. Many survivors will be out of work for months, if they are able to return at all.
"We really don't have a good handle on the intangible costs of something like this ... the ripple effects on family and friends and neighborhoods when a large number of people have been shot," Wintemute said.
More than 100,000 people are shot every year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That generates about $2.8 billion per year in emergency room and inpatient charges alone, according to a recent study in Health Affairs. The average emergency room bill for an individual gunshot victim is $5,254 and the average inpatient charge is $95,887, according to the study.
The U.S. senators representing Nevada, Dean Heller and Catherine Cortez Masto, wrote a letter to America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group, and Scott Serota, CEO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, requesting help with out-of-network bills, copayments and deductibles for the Las Vegas shooting victims. Many of the people who were shot had traveled from other states, including California, Iowa and Tennessee.
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“You’ve got all these parasites making a living off the bureaucracy,” the farmer declared, “like leeches pulling you down, bleeding you dry.” We had been in the state for just a few hours, and already the researchers’ quest for mutual understanding seemed to be hitting a snag.
Others in the group, a bunch of proudly curmudgeonly older white men, identified other culprits. There were plenty of jobs, a local elected official and business owner said. But today’s young people were too lazy or drug-addled to do them.
As we proceeded to meetings with diverse groups of community representatives, this sort of blame-casting was a common refrain. Disdain for the young, in particular, was a constant, across demographic, socio-economic, and generational lines: Even young people complained about young people. “They don’t want to do the work, and they always feel like they’re being picked on,” a recent graduate of a technical school in Chippewa Falls said of his fellow Millennials.
Some of the people we met expressed the conservative-leaning view that changes in society and the family were to blame. One, a technical-skills instructor at the Chippewa Falls school, questioned whether women belonged in the workplace at all. “That idea of both family members working, it’s a social experiment that I don’t know if it quite works,” he said. “If everyone’s working, who is making sure the children are raised right?”
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Though his office admitted that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke "knows Whitefish, MT (pop. 6357) CEO Andy Techmanskis, “because they both live in a small town where everyone knows everyone.”
But Zinke has no idea how his department awarded $300m, no-bid, no audit contract to rebuild Puerto Rico's electricity grid as slowly and incompetently as possible.
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After a jump in the stock market Friday, Jeff Bezo's worth rose by ten billion dollars in one day, making him the richest man on the planet. The *resident often says the stock market is proof of his management of the economy, and his billionaire-class friends reply, "STFU and get on with the tax cuts."
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People felt more emotionally disturbed by reports of a puppy or an adult dog brutally beaten than an adult human. https://t.co/HvvUdeeLBw pic.twitter.com/dXzlk5Aqd9— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) October 24, 2017
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Headline of the Week:
The Beatles’ Popularity Is Plunging on Google & YouTube…
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New rows in the aisles of Wal-Marts lie ahead as very large shoppers on scooters and people who lean on shopping carts meet robots in the center of the aisles:
Walmart is testing the use of aisle-roaming robots as a way to improve out-of-stock issues and price discrepancies in its stores.
The world's largest retailer has had a well-documented struggle with empty shelves in its stores nationwide. A few years ago, Walmart admitted that it was likely losing out on $3 billion in sales due to out-of-stocks.
With an infusion of automation, however, Walmart is hoping to keep more merchandise on its shelves by tasking robots with repeatable, predictable jobs, like scanning shelves for out-of-stocks, incorrect prices and mislabeling.
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An exculpation popularized by MOTUS last year after the Access Hollywood tape is now a thing in the NFL, but one player's not having it:
U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft, who assumed her new duties on Monday, told the CBC that she believes there is merit to both arguments in favor of the existence of climate change and those countering the belief that the phenomenon is fueled by human beings.
“I wouldn't personally want to play for somebody who views me an as inmate. Because I haven't done anything in my life to be an inmate. To be an inmate, you're either in hospital or in prison. I'm not in a hospital and I'm for damn sure not in prison. Then you say, some people commented on my [Instagram] post that, 'Hey, it's a figure of speech.'
Agree or disagree, figure of speeches aren't OK in 2017. If I come out and give a figure of speech on anything -- whether that's race, whether that's sexual orientation -- whatever that is, if I give a figure of speech in 2017, I'm going to get ridiculed by any group that's formed to protect one's group. I'm going to be fined by the NBA. I'm going to be looked at ridiculously by the community. So why is that OK?
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The new US ambassador to Canada traded up three husbands to get a Kentucky coal baron and the money to buy appointments, if not sense:
President Trump’s newly appointed ambassador to Canada believes in “both sides” of the debate surrounding climate change.
U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft, who assumed her new duties on Monday, told the CBC that she believes there is merit to both arguments in favor of the existence of climate change and those countering the belief that the phenomenon is fueled by human beings.
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