The Colorado GOP has a new outrage

Back in 2000, Mike Pence's family business — before it went bankrupt, sticking the state with a $20 million toxic waste cleanup bill — was called Tobacco Road; it was a local Indiana chain of convenience stores specializing in selling cigarettes.

That's probably why in 2000 Mike Pence wrote an op-ed saying that cigarettes don't cause cancer. Whenever it came up later in campaigns, though, he'd change the subject and talk about abortion instead.

Now Republicans in Colorado are trying the same little trick only this time with meat.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Sen. Rand Paul accused Dr. Fauci of 'theater' and wearing masks 'for show' after being vaccinated" by Grace Panetta.

Video: Dr. Fauci, CDC Director Dr. Walensky & Federal Officials Testify on COVID-19 Response.

Quote: "In the South African study conducted by [Johnson & Johnson], they found that people who were infected with wild type and were exposed to the variant in South Africa, the 351, it was as if they had never been infected before, they had no protection" - Dr. Fauci.

Article: "'I totally disagree with you,' Fauci tells GOP senator in fiery exchange over masks" by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Will Feuer.

Article: "Derek Chauvin Trial, Day 10 Live Updates: Only 1 More Juror Needed; Trial Not Moving Out Of Minneapolis" by WCCO-TV.

Article: "Fight against Covid-19 variants in South Africa is lesson for world" by Richard Engel and Gabe Joselow.

Article: "Senate Democrats plot new effort to gut filibuster but lack votes for major overhaul" by Manu Raju and Ted Barrett.

Article: "Top House Democrat Jim Clyburn: 'No way we'd let filibuster deny voting rights'" by Daniel Strauss and Sam Levine.

Article: "'Byrd rule' shadow could fall on Biden coronavirus relief plan" by Paul M. Krawzak.

Article: "'Everyone In, Nobody Out': Jayapal, Dingell Introduce Medicare for All Act With 112 Co-Sponsors" by Brett Wilkins.

Bill: "H.R.1976 - To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program." by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Article: "Here Come the Meat Wars!" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: White Rose Society.

Article: "Homeland Security Advisory System" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John C. Calhoun" by Wikipedia.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Some Long Covid Patients Feel Much Better After Getting the Vaccine" by Pam Belluck.

Article: "Salt March" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Line 3 Pipeline" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Canadian minister: Keeping Line 5 open is 'non-negotiable'" by Beth Leblanc.

Article: "Whitmer orders Line 5 pipeline shutdown by May 2021" by WWJ.

Site: For Love of Water (FLOW).

Article: "The 2010 Enbridge oil spill reshaped the Kalamazoo River and provided a cautionary tale" by Nick Buckley, Elena Durnbaugh and Trace Christenson.

Article: "Peak oil" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Event: 11:11 GMT March 19 - 11:59 March 20: "Seva Exchange's Global Happiness Summit".

Article: "Who's Actually Working for Minimum Wage?" by Laura Woods.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Biden faces fresh pressure from the left to raise the minimum wage" by Ayelet Sheffey.

Article: "Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State" (deaths) by NIH.

Article: "Coronavirus French cities start month-long curfew" by BBC.

Article: "Paris enters 4-week lockdown amid spread of COVID-19 variants" by Cameron Jenkins.

Article: "List of fallacies" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Finland is fighting fake news - in the classroom" by Emma Charlton.

Article: "Moffett Field won't be used to house migrant children" by Trapper Byrne and Lauren Hernandez.

Article: "Were the Airline Bailouts Really Needed?" by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Article: "American Airlines says 13,000 workers can tear up furlough notices after passage of COVID-19 relief bill" by Brendan Morrow.

Article: "Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986" by Wilmer L. Kerns.

Article: "Double Dipping" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "Next-gen ICBM program survives defunding attempt in House panel" by Joe Gould.

Article: "Feds close door on new environmental study for Los Alamos National Lab" by Scott Wyland.

Article: "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons" by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn.

Article: "GM to eliminate gas-burning vehicles by 2035" by Irina Ivanova.

Article: "Battery makers face looming shortages of high-quality lithium" by Guy Burdick.

Article: "As Republicans Shun Vaccines, Congress Toils to Return to Normal" by Catie Edmondson.

Article: "3 killed in San Diego when car hits crowd on sidewalk" by CBS News.

Article: "Florida Amendments: Voters Back Raising Minimum Wage, Citizen Voting Requirement".

Article: "Audrey Tang" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Taiwan's 'civic hackers' helped find a new way to run the country" by Carl Miller.

Article: "Jürgen Habermas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Daniel Ellsberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Daniel Ellsberg Talks About Whistleblowing, the Pervasiveness Of Official Lies, and the Dangers of the Espionage Act" by Matt Taibbi.

Article: "Inside The ICBM Lobby: Special Interests or The National Interest?" by William D. Hartung.

Article: "Here Come the Meat Wars!" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Study: The World's Largest Meat and Dairy Companies Combine To Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Most People Would Have Imagined" by H. Claire Brown.

Article: "Crested Butte Wildflower Festival 2021" by Rove.me.

Article: "Mike Pence wrote an op-ed saying that cigarettes don't cause cancer" by .

Article: ""Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence" by Andrew Kaczynski.

Article: "Dr Kurt Straif, Head of the IARC Monographs Programme, comments on the Working Group's evaluation of the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat." by WHO.

Article: "Does Meat Increase Blood Pressure?" by Liz Miller.

Article: "Red meat, poultry, and egg consumption with the risk of hypertension: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies" by Yi Zhang & Dian-zhong Zhang.

Article: "Eating red meat daily triples heart disease-related chemical" by NIH.

Article: "Red Meat. It's What's for Dinner in Colorado Politics" by Nick Bowlin.

Article: "Rep. Boebert makes a baffling and conspiratorial claim, saying the GOP may retake Congress 'before 2022'" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Meat consumption contributing to global obesity" by University of Adelaide.

Article: "Beef Cattle" by Union of Concerned Scientists.

Article: "Trump's EPA rolls back Obama-era coal ash regulations" by Dennis Romero.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "The more meat you eat, the shorter your erections last: study" by Hannah Frishberg.

Article: "Trump Ad On What Happens If Police Are Defunded: "Our Estimated Wait Time Is Currently 5 Days"" by Ian Schwartz.

Book: Labor's Untold Story by Richard O. Boyer, Herbert J. Morais.

Article: "PayPal Parts Ways With Site That Helped Send People to D.C." by Jenny Surane.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Public–private partnership" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Zersetzung" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stasi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inside Berlin's former Stasi headquarters and notorious prison" by Past In The Present.

Site: Fight "Gang Stalking".

Article: "The Lives of Others" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Colombia's Medellin emerges as surprise COVID-19 pioneer" by Christine Armario.

Article: "DC apartment residents are fed up with 'always white' maskless tenants: It's like they're 'trying to prove a point'" by Sky Palma.

Article: "Get My Payment" by IRS.

Article: "The Main Driver Of Immigrants & Refugees is the Republican Party Itself" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'There's Nothing Left': Why Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party" by Nick Corasaniti, Annie Karni and Isabella Grullón Paz.

Article: "Accused Gunman Had Visited Massage Parlors He Targeted, Police Say" by Richard Fausset, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Ruth Graham and Jack Healy.

Article: "Positive News" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life," - Exodus 21:22-23".

Article: "The Fate and Future of American Democracy Hangs On the Minimum Wage" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Defiant U.P. restaurant first in Michigan to get judge's shutdown order" by Beth Leblanc.

Article: "Small Town UP Diner Attracts Big Crowd To Protest Ongoing Lockdown" by Tom Gantert.

Article: "COVID orders fuel extremism in tiny Upper Peninsula town. Some fear unrest." by Jonathan Oosting.

Article: "The Filibuster Fight" by David Leonhardt.

Article: "In 2018, Why Did 8-Republican U.S. Senators Spend July 4th In Moscow?" by Jake Thomas.

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