Midday open thread: Tax cut not boosting wages or bonuses; space debris netted for first time
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Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Why women claim sexual assault: • Columnist who attacked Obama over Iran nuclear deal sides with Trump regime’s efforts to get banking sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic. • Experimental debris removal plaMidday open thread: Tax cut not boosting wages or bonuses; space debris netted for first time
Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Why women claim sexual assault: • Columnist who attacked Obama over Iran nuclear deal sides with Trump regime’s efforts to get banking sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic. • Experimental debris removal platform snags its orbiting junk with a net. The University of Surrey’s Space Center captured a piece of debris speeding around the planet on Sunday, the first time this has ever been demonstrated in space after six years of testing on Earth. The system is designed to gather up the tens of thousands of pieces of speeding junk, some the size of a thumbnail, some complete rocket stages. MIDDAY TWEET xOne of the best things IâÂÂve seen in awhile. They use the same pink dye that is attached to stolen bank notes. This makes the ivory unsellable, and it cannot be consumed. The animals are not harmed and it is saving their lives. Please share, thanks. pic.twitter.com/6SFJXTjMCH— Welcome To Nature (@welcomet0nature) September 17, 2018 • Texas great-grandma kills alligator she blames for eating her miniature horse: The gator was 12 feet long and weighed 580 pounds. Linda Cochran, newly elected mayor of Livingston, a town of 5,300 about an hour north of Houston, got a permit to shoot the ‘gator, which she thinks gobbled up her miniature horse a few years ago. Livingston is the county seat of Polk County, one of 12 in Texas that has a short alligator hunting season each year. • 140 members of Congress voted against chemical safeguards every time: The Environmental Working Group Action Fund has released the first-ever report scrutinizing how every member of the U.S. House of Representatives has voted on chemical policy and safety. The results—140 members voted against chemical safeguards every time while 149 members usually voted for safeguards. The report stated: «While no president has ever done as much to weaken safeguards for toxic chemicals as Donald Trump, too many members of Congress have collaborated with the Trump administration or cast votes in favor of policies that reversed or delayed chemical bans, gutted chemical safety rules, rejected sound science, weakened worker and consumer protections, and denied justice to asbestos victims.» • California and New Mexico sue Trump regime over rollback of methane rule. • Trump regime’s tax cut fail to generate widespread growth in wages, bonuses: The $0.03 increase in inflation-adjusted bonuses per hour over the last two quarters came as W-2 wages (defined as direct wages plus wages for paid leave and supplementary pay) actually fell $0.25 and overall compensation rose just $0.07. Looking over the last year we see a rise in bonuses of $0.09 per hour accounting for nearly all of the very small increase in W-2 wages of $0.12 while overall compensation did not grow at all. On today’s “encore presentation” of the Kagro in the Morning show: It’s Yom Kippur and Talk Like a Pirate Day? Well, good thing our 9/19/17 show mentions both, because I'll be busy arr-toning. Bain boards, sinks Toys-R-Us. Trump plunders charities. Fox News rapes under the Jolly Roger. x Embedded Content RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube|Patreon|Square Cash (Share code: Send $5, get $5!) LINK TO DAILY KOS STORE Read more