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Post by liama on Mar 25, 2021 19:24:54 GMT
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Post by achilles on Mar 26, 2021 9:50:22 GMT
Interesting how, post Brexit, the EU and Britain have had wildly different COVID fates. The EU is mired in vaccine woes; they simply don't have enough, and the one they do have has problems. Britain, meanwhile, while suffering greatly like everyone else from the early days of the pandemic, now have what by the numbers is the world's second best vaccine program, (measured by shots delivered into arms per capita). We are third or forth IIRC.
Some vindication for Brexit, evidently, as the EU tries to bully Britain about their vaccines. What happened was simply that the EU was incompetent, while the UK and US, (under Trump...who was the one who actually did all the work), did it right, locking up their vaccines by buying hundreds of billions worth of them from several different manufacturers, (Trump's innovation), whether or not they worked. In other words, we placed a bet, as did the Brits, and won. The EU didn't bother playing, not buying vaccines until everyone else put in their own orders first.
Maybe getting away from that brilliant organization wasn't such a bad idea after all....
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Post by achilles on Mar 26, 2021 16:29:48 GMT
So remember when Texas Gov Abbott re-opened Texas without a mask mandate three weeks ago, and everyone from Biden on down in the media gleefully predicted mass death and destruction, talking about how much Republicans wanted to kill their constituents for some reason, (odd, since the Dems under Cuomo have been wildly successful at doing that, so you'd think they'd claim that title, but for some reason they want to give it away despite earning it). Wonder how much worse things have actually got three weeks later, well after those results should have started showing up?
Well, so did the WSJ, which looked at the numbers. Turns out the whole Texas thing is....getting quite a bit better thanks, evidently. The COVID case numbers on a seven day average have fallen quite a bit. from 4,900 to 3,400 from the day they lifted those restrictions, to now.
"Neanderthal", is how I believe Biden phrased it. Wonder if he has a "genius" label for it now? Probably not, even if he hasn't wandered off somewhere.
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 27, 2021 2:11:52 GMT
RIP Beverly Cleary
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Post by achilles on Mar 27, 2021 9:10:04 GMT
Yeah, maybe Biden isn't the best advocate for gun control. Given that Hunter Biden is guilty of a felony, or perhaps more than one, for LYING about his drug use on the forms he filled out to buy his gun that went missing, (which the Secret Service apparently tried covering up). Yes, they do ask you that on the forms you need to fill out, and he did lie, (you don't get the gun if you answer in the affirmative). So why isn't he in jail? Biden's own family can't be bothered to follow the existing gun laws, and he wants new ones?
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Post by sdsichero on Mar 29, 2021 20:22:04 GMT
Finally
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Post by achilles on Apr 1, 2021 9:57:51 GMT
Now....say it with me! "Si Say Pwodway"! I have no idea what that means, Dr. Jill, but okay, I will say it with you because...er...reasons?!?
Though...it sort of sounds like she means "Yes, we can" in totally butchered Spanish...
Important tip for "Dr." Jill, the real President of the US, when trying to pander, try to pander correctly. And...take a basic Spanish course.
So..."Dr." Jill speaks bad English and worse Spanish, and Melania speaks...how many languages again? Five or six languages?
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Post by liama on Apr 1, 2021 19:16:03 GMT
Now....say it with me! "Si Say Pwodway"! I have no idea what that means, Dr. Jill, but okay, I will say it with you because...er...reasons?!? Sounds to me like Pidgin Pig Latin.
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Post by achilles on Apr 1, 2021 19:21:41 GMT
NBC News has announced its new slogan, "Fairness is overrated", as anchor Lester Holt, (known for such hard hitting questions as "Were your feelings hurt?" to Hillary Clinton during her campaign, about the mean Orange Man Bad existing or something), noted that NBC's policy is, has been, and will be into the future, to avoid fairness and only give the Democrats favorable coverage because Orange Man Bad or something. And because they want to.
The punchline? He said "fairness is overrated" while accepting the Edward R. Murrow award for doing the exact opposite of everything Murrow stood for. Irony is pretty ironic...
Also...it's lost on Holt apparently.
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Post by achilles on Apr 2, 2021 13:18:32 GMT
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Post by glaeken on Apr 13, 2021 20:16:58 GMT
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Post by liama on Apr 15, 2021 22:01:29 GMT
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Post by achilles on Apr 20, 2021 11:21:40 GMT
I know little of Walter Mondale besides that he was a Vice President and old. However, RIP to the former Veep, at 93, IIRC. No cause for his death was cited.
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Post by achilles on Apr 20, 2021 22:34:59 GMT
Derrick Chauvan, or however you spell it, I don't care, was convicted on all three counts in his role in the death of George Floyd.
I'm of a few thoughts on that. Chavan was guilty as hell of something, (I don't know the law there, so I can't guess at exactly what)....but the defense made valid points. Floyd was probably a walking dead man at that point, police or no, given he had three times the lethal limit for fentanyl, a vastly more lethal than heroin drug---seriously, just touching a bit of that drug the size of a small grain of sand killed a cop responding to a different crime scene years ago. I was offered a time-release patch of that stuff---in hospital, and absolutely refused it because I'd heard about how many deaths it caused, and that was even though I was in severe pain.
I don't really buy the car exhaust thing. I suppose it's remotely possible, but come on.
The moves the cops used on Floyd can certainly kill, but given the amount of fentanyl in his system, it's hard to tell how much it contributed.
I think Chauvan had a beef with Floyd beforehand.....and his treatment of the man might be just an opportunity for Chauvan to hurt Floyd.
And, I agree with that judge; Maxine Watters is one of the world's biggest idiots. I know she's corrupt as hell, she's won an award once or twice for that for most corrupt member of Congress, but not that she was that stupid. For a sitting congresswoman to make comments that borderlined on sedition BTW, about a current court case---I can easily see a number of legal reasons SCOTUS would either rule in Chauvan's favor, and either order a new trial, or overturn the verdict.
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Post by liama on Apr 21, 2021 18:50:28 GMT
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