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https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/finally-the-bully-gov-cuomo-has-been-exposed-devine/ Tough contest, but Mayor Putz, Bill de Blasio, is more popular in New York these days than the Granny Killer, Gov. Cuomo. “People would tend to like a bungling idiot more than a homicidal maniac” is how “Bernie and Sid” put it yesterday on their top-rated WABC radio show. And that was in the morning, before former Cuomo adviser Lindsey Boylan dropped a bucket on her ex-boss, alleging he “sexually harassed me for years,” to the point that she felt nauseous coming to work and finally had to quit. “Andrew Cuomo abused his power as governor to sexually harass me, just as he had done with so many other women,” she wrote in an essay on Medium. She recalled in excruciating detail how Cuomo forcibly kissed her on the mouth, touched her “lower back, arms and legs,” once suggested they play strip poker, stalked her at a party and had staffers tell the 36-year-old married mother that he had a “crush on her.” When she confided in her family, her mother diagnosed the 63-year-old governor as a “sexist pig” and warned Lindsey to stay away from him. Already under fire over the nursing-home scandal, Cuomo can add “sexual predator” to the long list of allegations that has both Democrats and Republicans demanding that he resign or be impeached. Boy, the worm has turned on the “Luv Guv,” and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. The outrage is that his bullying, catastrophic ineptitude has been obvious to his Democratic colleagues from the start. As city Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said Wednesday at an ­anti-Cuomo rally, everyone knew what the governor was. “This is who he has always been long before the pandemic . . . It is finally exposing who we knew this governor was all along, from pay-to-play with real estate to pay-to-play with nursing-home owners, to ducking accountability, to passing blame to everyone but himself, to bullying tactics.” State Assemblyman Ron Kim said Cuomo threatened to “destroy” him unless he issued a statement to cover up for Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa after she admitted Cuomo had “withheld lifesaving nursing-home data” from lawmakers for fear it would be used against him. “Everyone in New York politics knows he has been abusive for a long time,” Kim told Bloomberg TV last week, “to his staff, elected officials, even journalists.” So why did they cover Cuomo him for so long? Because he was the designated foil for Donald Trump. Women swooned over his ­macho-man daily briefings last spring where he oozed fake empathy and shared spaghetti-sauce recipes, while secretly signing a death warrant for at least 10,000 seniors. Nancy Pelosi confessed she was a “big fan.” Ex-UN Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted how much she looked forward to his daily “therapy session.” Joe Biden hailed him as the “gold standard” in leadership. Cuomo even won an Emmy for his televised briefings, for God’s sake. But the truth was, that for a third-term governor, he was woefully unprepared for the pandemic. He downplayed the virus, bickered with de Blasio and dithered on locking down New York until March 22, a week after overruling de Blasio’s request, by which time cases already were doubling every three or four days. He refused to close down the subways when City Council members begged him in April, even though it was a major COVID spreader. When Trump sent the USNS Comfort hospital ship and deployed the Army Corps of Engineers to construct eight field hospitals in New York, Cuomo left them empty and instead issued his deadly memo forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients. As New Yorkers were dropping like flies, he wrote a book promoting himself. He scared Democratic voters off “Trump’s vaccine” and now is puzzled that minority communities are reluctant to get shots. Time to impeach the unmasked Gov. Cuomo Instead of prioritizing the elderly, he inserted woke metrics into the vaccine rollout and threatened vaccinators with fines if they didn’t stick to his rules, with the result that precious doses where thrown in the trash. On top of it all, he was a chump. He paid $12 million to a Chinese sex-toy store named “Please Me,” reportedly to buy 1,000 ventilators, and now taxpayers have to pay millions more in legal fees to sue the company. Cuomo’s hysterical, muddled response to the pandemic delivered us the second highest COVID death rate in the country. But the big news through it all was whether or not the bulge ­under his too-tight polo shirt was a nipple ring. The media adulation wasn’t just because he had a sycophantic brother over at CNN. It was because his briefings were a tool for belittling Trump and blaming him for every COVID death. Democrats would have worshipped at the feet of Caligula if the governor made Trump look bad. At least Cuomo’s downfall goes to show that bullies don’t prosper if their victims fight back. It just takes just one person of courage for the floodgates to open, because bullies never have one victim. They abuse everyone around them to overcome their feelings of inadequacy. In Cuomo’s case, it was Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean who led the charge after two in-laws died in nursing homes. It’s been stormy weather for him ever since. So the shoe appears to be dropping? Apparently you can be a "Granny killer" and many other bad things as long as you can make Trump look bad, but they are drawing the line at alleged sexual harassment......especially now that Trump is out of office.....

SF is certainly NOT a Fauci fan. I recognize he is much more trained in diseases and health than I. However, I have opined since seeing and analyzing his press coverage since March of last year that he is a brilliant politician who has the innate ability to give answers supporting both sides of the same topic which gives him great coverage either way the result comes out as the smartest guy in the room. Admittedly he is in a job that kind of requires him to be that way. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/faucis-mixed-messages-inconsistencies-about-covid-19-masks-vaccines-and-reopenings-come-under-scrutiny National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci's often inconsistent comments and mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic are prompting renewed scrutiny as debate rages over reopening schools and businesses nearly a year after the lockdowns started. "Dr. Fauci is a very good public-health official. His job is to advise policy makers and inform the public," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Tuesday. "But his job is NOT to decide what we can do, where we can go or which places can open or close And his job is NOT to mislead or scare us into doing the 'right things.'" "Why should we trust Fauci with a national plan? Back in March, Fauci famously told Americans, 'There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,'" wrote David Harsanyi in the National Review. "(Fauci now says we should wear two masks. No thanks, Dad.)" Fauci in an interview on "60 Minutes" in early March of last year warned of "unintended consequences" of masks, saying "people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face." On masks, Fauci and former Surgeon General Jerome Adams – who also warned against buying and wearing masks in spring 2020 – said officials recommended against wearing masks early in the pandemic because at the time there was a massive shortage of PPE for medical workers who needed it most. Further, more evidence of asymptomatic spread of the virus later came out. Fauci later enthusiatically embraced wearing masks. "What has changed in our recommendation?" Adams said in a White House briefing in July. "We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms." Now, Fauci more recently has backed recommendations that Americans wear two masks instead of one if possible in order to keep the masks tighter on people's faces. "If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective," Fauci told NBC News last month. The CDC officially put out double-masking guidelines this month. Vaccinations Another issue on which Fauci has adjusted his stances is on exactly what level of vaccination is necessary for the U.S. to reach herd immunity to the virus. Fauci previously said the percentage of Americans who need to be vaccinated to reach that goal was 70% before revising that number up to higher than 80%. This inspired a story in the New York Times that accused Fauci of "quietly shifting" recommendations. Fauci then explained to the paper that he was taking public opinion polls into account in how he shaped his comments. "When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75%," Fauci said, according to the paper. "Then, when newer surveys said 60% or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85." Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, waits to testify at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) He continued: "We have to have some humility here ... We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90%. But, I’m not going to say 90%." And on returning to normal after Americans get their vaccines, Fauci has made several different comments that are not necessarily consistent. DR. FAUCI: US WILL HAVE 600M CORONAVIRUS VACCINE DOSES BY JULY 2021 "It's gonna depend very much on what the percent or level of efficacy of the vaccine is," Fauci said in an interview of what post-vaccine life would look like with Bloomberg in August. "I would be very happy with 70-75% and I would be accepting of 50 to 60%." Fauci said continued public health measures would be necessary if the vaccine was on the low-end of effectiveness. But vaccines have been shown to be significantly more effective than anticipated – upwards of 90% – and Fauci now says Americans may need to wear masks until 2022. "Obviously, with a 90-plus-percent effective vaccine, you could feel much more confident," Fauci said on CNN in November. "But I would recommend to people to not abandon all public health measures just because you have been vaccinated, because even though, for the general population, it might be 90 to 95% effective, you don't necessarily know, for you, how effective it is." He added Sunday, also on CNN, that whether Americans wear masks into 2022 "depends on the level of dynamics of the virus that's in the community... If you see the level coming down really, really very low, I want it to keep going down to a baseline that's so low, that there's virtually no threat – or not no. It'll never be zero, but a minimal, minimal threat that you will be exposed to someone who is infected." FAUCI CAUTIONS AGAINST DINING OUT, EVEN WHEN VACCINATED More than 500,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, which is an airborne disease that is not severe in most healthy people but can be deadly to older people and those with compromised immune systems. Fauci and his defenders have said their recommendations on the virus, which did not exist before 2019, have evolved as Americans' understanding of the virus has evolved. They also say the strict recommendations reflect the vast number of deaths the virus is capable of causing and has caused. But those who are more critical of Fauci say he made pronouncements of "science" with far too much finality when the science was not in fact settled; has not leveled with Americans in some cases, including on the length of the lockdowns; and is not taking into account the mental and emotional toll of the virus lockdowns. Also this month, Fauci said on NBC's "Today" that "by the time we get to April, that would be what I would call ... open season" on vaccines and nearly full vaccination by "the middle and end of the summer." The epidemiologist was then contradicted by President Biden, who said in a CNN town hall that vaccine would be available to all Americans by the end of July, and it would take longer than that to get doses in everybody's arms. Fox News reached out to the NIAID for comment on Fauci's messaging on masks, herd immunity, vaccines and when life may return to normal and did not receive a response. Lockdowns Many Americans continue to wonder when the nation's top infectious disease expert will tell them that they can resume life as normal. One issue on which Fauci has remained more consistent is the reopening schools, which he has reiterated is possible before teachers get vaccines. In fact, he said this month on CBS that vaccinating every teacher before opening schools is "non-workable." Q Fauci on Sunday declined to say on CNN that grandparents who are fully vaccinated could see their grandchildren, saying "I don't want to be making a recommendation now on public TV. I would want to sit down with the team, take a look at that." That prompted a rant from Meghan McCain on "The View." "I was very frustrated when I saw this clip," she said. "The fact that Dr. Fauci is going on CNN and he can’t tell me if I get the vaccine, I’ll be able to have dinner with my family... It’s terribly inconsistent messaging and it continues to be inconsistent messaging." Fauci answered some of that criticism on CNN Tuesday. "If I'm fully vaccinated and my daughter comes in the house and she's fully vaccinated ... common sense tells you that in fact you don't have to be as stringent," Fauci said. But, he added, "we want to get firm recommendations from the CDC" on what people can and cannot do when they are vaccinated. Either way - SF is curious what everyone is planning to wear to the 1 year anniversary to "2 weeks to flatten the curve" coming up pretty soon.....

Wait - So Covid is no longer Trump's fault? But it cured the Flu......Come on man,,, Covid, Man-Made Climate Change, And Science, SCIENCE, SCIENCE!!!!

OK - pretty sure it was accidental, but if this were former President Trump who just dropped the N-bomb......Whoooo-Nelly.......(starts at 30 seconds in) https://247sports.com/college/west-virginia/Board/103782/Contents/Joe-Biden-Just-Dropped-the-N-Word--161335198/

Unless they were living in a New York nursing home....... Oh come on Man - you floated that one across the plate.......

https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/san-francisco-cancels-choice-to-rename-racist-schools/ San Francisco has made a stunning about-face, walking back a controversial decision to scrub 44 “racist” names from its schools — including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln — after the move drew nationwide ire and was criticized for being based on flawed information without insight from historians. “I acknowledge and take responsibility that mistakes were made in the renaming process,” the president of San Francisco’s School Board Gabriela López wrote on Twitter Sunday. “Reopening will be our only focus until our children and young people are back in schools. We’re cancelling renaming committee meetings for the time being.” In late January, the school board voted 6-1 to rename schools honoring “racist” historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere and replace them with people who didn’t aid or abet slavery, genocide or human rights abuses. The move was widely criticized as a symptom of cancel culture and for being based on misinformation and “casual Google searches” without the input of historians.

This isn't new.....(from 2012) https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2012/12/04/college-basketball-transgender-player-gabrielle-ludwig-robert-ludwig-mission-college/1744703/ ′′ She ′′ is called Gabrielle Ludwig. Biologically a man, born Robert John Ludwig, who after 2 failed marriages, had a son, this ex-Navy soldier declared himself a woman in his 40 s. At 50 years old, measuring two meters tall (6 feet and 8 inches), weighing 220 pounds and covered in naval tattoos, Gabrielle Ludwig caused a huge feeling when she made her college basketball debut for Santa Clara, California community college: but not playing in the men's league, but in the women's league.

And the left was able to get higher numbers of infection and death earlier to bolster the severity factor (and justify the "2 weeks to stop the spread"). Along with the shrill "we need 40,000 respirators" which less than 4,000 were actually utilized, the Javit's Center, the Red Cross Mercy ship that was brought out of repairs for New York. FYI - We are 11 months into "2 weeks to stop the spread"...... BUT - Coronavirus cured the Flu!! 400,000 hospitalizations to 165 in one year!!! #howstupiddotheythinkweare

https://nypost.com/2021/02/18/activist-suggests-paying-criminals-not-to-kill-to-cut-crime-rate/ A convicted murderer-turned-community activist in Baltimore has a radical approach to combating the city’s stunning murder rate: Pay criminals not to kill. The controversial idea comes from Tyree Moorehead, who was 15 when he was put away for second-degree murder and spent 18 years behind bars, Fox 45 reported. “I can relate to the shooters,” said the activist, who now transforms scenes of deadly shootings into so-called “no-shoot zones.” “Guess what they want? They want money.” Baltimore has been wracked by violent crime in recent years, closing out 2020 with 335 homicides, according to statistics from the Baltimore Sun. In 2019, there were 348 murders. “I’ve talked to these people. I’ve seen the shooters. It’s a small city, I know who the hustlers are,” Moorehead said. A similar strategy has been used before in Richmond, California, one of the most dangerous cities in the country, which paid criminals up to $1,000 a month, as well as provided counseling and job help, NPR reported in 2016. The suburb of Oakland saw its murder rate cut in half, the station said. Former Baltimore police spokesman TJ Smith agreed that a creative approach is needed to thwart the violence in the city — but said cash is not the answer. “It could make it easier for people to get their hands on guns because they now have an influx of a different level of cash,” he told Fox 45. What could go wrong with this? So how can I join? I could use an extra grand a month....Do you have to be a criminal first?

Remember SF's "degradation of society" comment from a few years ago that I caught holy Hades for?

FIFY - BTW, AOC was tucked safely away in her office building that wasn't touched......but it was almost like the time she was raped......(her words) Believe me, if the people that were in DC that day would have had insurrection on their mind, the Capital would have burned, and there would have been massive bloodshed. Instead, at about 6:00 pm, did yo notice how the VAST majority of the crowd had already left? Probably headed back to their "Olive Garden" and "Holiday Inns" as Anderson (Culture Guru) Cooper predicted..... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/olive-garden-yanked-into-trump-s-culture-war-with-cnn-comment Besides - WTF are we discussing the protest from January 6 on the Cuomo thread for? We are allowing DE to hijack this thread...... FYI - Emmy winner Cuomo's perils are multiplying with each lie, I mean excuse......

"Talent Returned to God" RIP Rush.

WELP - Coronavirus cured the Flu!! 400,000 to 165 in one year!!! #howstupiddotheythinkweare https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/flu-hospitalizations-at-historic-low-this-season-amid-covid/ The flu season has been virtually nonexistent this season — with the lowest rate of hospitalization ever since that data has been tallied. Just 165 flu-related hospitalizations were recorded between Oct. 1 and Feb. 6, according to recent information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s compared to roughly 400,000 people who were hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, which also saw 22,000 deaths. “This is lower than average for this point in the season and lower than rates for any season since routine data collection began in 2005, including the low severity 2011-12 season,” the CDC said. With many schools closed, more school kids have been staying home during the global health crisis, which has likely helped in stopping the spread of influenza, NPR reported. “COVID can be transmitted very readily among adults — very contagious — but flu, I think, really needs children to spread it around amongst themselves and then seed, if you will, the adults in their home and their neighbors,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, told the station’s “Weekend Edition.” “Children are generally thought of as having the distribution franchise for the influenza virus,” he added. “They produce much more virus, they shed more virus for longer periods of time.” Last year, a record number of people got the flu shot — amid warnings from health experts of the unprecedented combination of the flu season and the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 52 percent of people aged six months and older were inoculated, an increase of 2.6 percent from the prior season, the CDC said. The mild season has also been aided by COVID-19 safety measures, including mask wearing and social distancing. “Flu has been essentially nonexistent” this season, Schaffner said. But he also warned that flu could come back with a vengeance come the fall. “Many of us didn’t get a boost from encountering the flu virus this year, and so we haven’t had a chance to build up our antibodies,” he said. “All the more important to get vaccinated this fall.”

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https://nypost.com/2021/02/16/nyc-public-school-asks-parents-to-reflect-on-their-whiteness/ A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday. The “woke’’ offensive at the East Side Community School in Manhattan features a ranking list titled “The 8 White Identities,” which ranges from “White Supremacist’’ to “White Abolitionist.” The curriculum, written by Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, “There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. “People who identify with whiteness are one of these,’’ Hesse writes above the eight-point list. “It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others,’’ Hesse adds. In between the two extreme “identities” of supremacist and abolitionist are such categories as “White Voyeurism’’ — defined as “wouldn’t challenge a white supremacist, desires non-whiteness because it’s interesting’’ — and “White Privilege,’’ or “sympathetic to a set of issues but only privately; won’t speak/act in solidarity publicly because benefitting through whiteness in public (some POC are in this category as well).”“The Eight White Identities” written by Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse. The handout was accompanied by a color-coordinated meter with the red zone on the left titled “White Supremacist’’ and the green zone on the far right labeled “White Abolitionist.” A New York City Department of Education official told The Post that some parents at the school, which caters to sixth- through 12-graders on the Lower East Side, first shared the material with staff. The principal then disseminated it to every parent “as part of a series of materials meant for reflection” and as “food for thought,” the official said. A DOE rep said in a statement, “Anti-racism and the celebration of diversity is at the core of our work on behalf of the young people of New York City, and the East Side Community School’s students, parents and staff partner together to advance equity in their community. “The document in question was shared with the school by parents as a part of ongoing anti-racist work in the school community and is one of many resources the schools utilizes.”Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse presents an “ethnography of whiteness” in the ranking list. The spokesman said school workers are now being threatened over the missive. “Our staff are now being targeted with vile racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs and degrading language from people outside of their school and nothing justifies the abuse directed at our educators,” the rep said. Christopher Rufo of the Discovery Institute wrote in a tweet that included a posting of the curriculum, “This is the new language of public education.” The dissemination of Hesse’s literature to parents comes as the DOE and schools chancellor Richard Carranza have pushed to eliminate what they call current administrators’ “white-supremacy culture.’’ The administration has embraced “anti-bias training” across the board, with staffers forced to attend slide-show presentations denouncing the current culture’s “paternalism” and “power hoarding” — while getting sued over Carranza’s alleged creation of “an environment which is hostile toward whites.” Rufo’s Feb. 15 tweet drew mixed reactions on Twitter. “If you find this hostile, or unnerving, it’s because you are fearing the loss of power and advantage that your skin colour has afforded you. It’s an agenda to bring true equality,” a Twitter user fired at Rufo over Hesse’s chart. But another writer said, “THIS is what a public school spends time and money on? Anti-racism like this is a poison.” The racial makeup of the student body at East Side Community was 55 percent Hispanic, 18 percent white, 15 percent black, 10 percent Asian and 2 percent other during the last school year. The school’s principal, Mark Federman, declined comment through the Education Department. WTF? How is this, in and of itself, not racist? I guess since BLM endorses it, that makes it OK.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/16/bill-gates-all-rich-countries-should-move-to-100-s/ Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said in a new interview that all rich countries should transition to 100% synthetic beef in order to significantly curb the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. In an interview published Sunday by MIT Technology Review, Mr. Gates, who is now cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and chair of the investment fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures, said the U.S. switching to plant-based meats like those sold by Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat will be “required” for saving the planet. “As for scale today, they don’t represent 1% of the meat in the world, but they’re on their way,” he said. “And Breakthrough Energy has four different investments in this space for making the ingredients very efficiently. So yeah, this is the one area where my optimism five years ago would have made this, steel, and cement the three hardest. “Now I’ve said I can actually see a path. But you’re right that saying to people, ‘You can’t have cows anymore’—talk about a politically unpopular approach to things,” he said. Mr. Gates said poor countries like in Africa won’t be able to completely transition to synthetic beef and that “we’ll have to use animal genetics to dramatically raise the amount of beef per emissions for them.” “So no, I don’t think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat,” he said. “I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand. “So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible,” he continued. “But it’s one of those ones where, wow, you have to track it every year and see, and the politics [are challenging]. There are all these bills that say it’s got to be called, basically, lab garbage to be sold. They don’t want us to use the beef label.” Mr. Gates is currently promoting his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” which is due to release Feb. 23. Come on Bill - your a computer dude man, stay in your lane.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/democrats-slam-cuomo-over-covid-19-nursing-home-cover-up/ Fellow Democratic legislators in New York weren’t buying Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s explanation Monday as to why he refused for months to release a true accounting of nursing home residents who died from the coronavirus. Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens), whose uncle died from COVID-19, bluntly said that “all of it is BS” and a cover-up. “They could have given us the information back in May and June of last year. They chose not to,” Kim said after hearing Cuomo was blaming the Department of Justice probe for delays in releasing the accurate coronavirus death tally of nursing home residents. Cuomo cited an exclusive Aug. 26, 2020, story in The Post that broke the news about the DOJ inquiry into his administration’s nursing home admission policy and the undercounting of deaths, claiming Albany legislators should have known about the probe based on that. Kim said lawmakers could have passed laws to tighten up accountability and liability in nursing homes to save lives if they had the information sooner. Kim also said Cuomo’s comments Monday don’t square with what top aide Melissa DeRosa told him and other legislators during a private meeting last week, when she said former President Donald Trump made the issue a “political football” and claimed that as an excuse for withholding the nursing home data. The Post first reported on her explosive remarks after obtaining an audio recording of the meeting. “And basically, we froze,” DeRosa said. “She talked about the potential that the information would be weaponized against them. DeRosa needs to be accountable for what she said,” Kim insisted. DeRosa on Friday issued a statement, mirroring what the governor said Monday that the administration was dealing with federal probers before it would release more detailed nursing home data to state legislators and the public data. Meanwhile, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi (D-Bronx) challenged Cuomo’s assertion that his team informed lawmakers that it would delay release of nursing home fatality data because of the federal probe. “No, @NYGovCuomo , you did not tell the `entire’ Senate or Assembly that there was a DOJ investigation, as the reason why you didn’t share the nursing home numbers,” Biaggi said in a tweet. “I found out about a DOJ investigation with the rest of NY’ers in the @nypost story Thursday night,” she said. State Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) claimed Cuomo was lying. Cuomo blames ‘politics,’ fails to address nursing home cover-up admission “If the Governor had actually informed the legislature months ago that his office was withholding the data they had on total nursing home deaths, there would’ve been no need for them to have a call with a group of legislators last week to inform them of this for the first time,” she tweeted. “Governor can claim (as he’s done) that they withheld the data bc they thought it would be used against them by the DOJ(!). But claiming they informed the legislature is a lie on top of a lie. If he’d been honest in the first place, he may have had one bad news cycle. But now?” State Sen. John Liu (D-Queens) also said the federal probe wasn’t an excuse for “months and months of delays” in “misleading” or “withholding information that the public deserves to know.” He said he will back legislation curbing the governor’s emergency powers because of Cuomo’s fumbling of the nursing home issue. “The status quo can’t remain. There needs to be a revocation of some of the governor’s emergency powers,” Liu said on the Fox News Channel. “For months and months we’ve been asking the executive branch, the governor’s office for this information. It was information our constituents were demanding from the state government.” Liu said he was particularly disturbed by state Attorney General Letitia James’ damning report on nursing homes released last month that found that Cuomo’s Health Department low-balled the COVID death count of residents by 50 percent by excluding people who died in hospitals. Hours after the report, Team Cuomo started to come clean by releasing more accurate data that increased the COVID-19 nursing home death tally by nearly 4,000. Senate GOP Minority Leader Robert Ortt (R-Niagara) said Republicans were never notified by Cuomo’s office about the DOJ probe and request for time to release nursing home data. “People want the truth and the only way that can be provided is through investigations by the Department of Justice and the Attorney General,” Ortt said. A state judge on Feb. 3 ruled that Cuomo illegally withheld COVID-19 nursing home data from the Empire Center for Public Policy and ordered its release. The watchdog group filed a legal request for the information and was stonewalled for six months before the judge ordered the administration to began releasing it. The Empire Center’s Bill Hammond said Cuomo’s hiding before the DOJ probe to sit on a true accounting of nursing home deaths doesn’t hold water. “Cuomo and his administration was fighting release of the data before and after the DOJ probe. It’s not plausible that they couldn’t cooperate with DOJ and provide information to legislators and the public,” he said. He obviously thought he wouldn't get caught. Now that their own AG is circling around the Governor, and can't ignore the truth, the rest of the rats are jumping ship to save their own hides.......They "froze" the truth, but in the end the truth is winning.....and the Governor is trying to wiggle his way out..... Here is CNN's take (not even close to a "Headline Story" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/politics/andrew-cuomo-covid-19-controversy-explained/index.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9262809/More-2-million-customers-Texas-without-power-following-winter-storm.html Millions of people are without power in Texas after frozen wind turbines caused blackouts in the state amid Winter Storm Uri, which has sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the US. 1) Not a very good endorsement for wind turbines...... 2) It's pretty cold in Texas this week, huh?