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Wonder how much America’s southern border wall grew under President Trump? The answer is 47 miles, raising the total walled distance along the U.S.-Mexico border from 654 miles when Trump took office to now 701 miles. (The entire border is 1,954 miles long.)Sometimes the bad can be made good
A really dumb comic strip. Biden isn't a tool of the so-called military-industrial complex, and he actually does give a damn about climate change. Whoever wrote this junk would know that if they bothered to look at his climate plan.It is cerainly true that the term "military-industrial complex" is somewhat last century (warning by Eisenhower at the end of his Presidency).
Quote from: RodiusNo, I don't. It is a wild ass guess. ...Quote from: John Palmer.... I agree, but one scenario demands several years of natural virus evolution (accelerated by overpopulation by a factor 10?Do you have anything to support that claim?
He's not actually pro-life either, and neither is the new SCOTUS conservative majority:Catholic theology accepts, [lots of stuff, clipped].
Brandon Bernard executed after Supreme Court denies request for a delay
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/brandon-bernard-executed/index.html
Rodius, we are wrong. The stock market is the economy. Has been since the current market system began. The economy has never deviated from the market - ever. There have always been winners and losers, people at the top and bottom, from the beginning of time. The difference between today and previous systems is that there exist a large portion in the middle. They will be rich always and the poor will always be with us. Someone much wiser than me once said that.
"A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path" has beaten Introducing the Medieval Ass to win the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.
Both books are academic studies, with the winning title by University of Alberta anthropologist Gregory Forth. It sees Forth look at how the Nage, an indigenous people primarily living on the islands of Flores and Timor, understand metaphor, and use their knowledge of animals to shape specific expressions. The title itself is an idiom for someone who begins a task but is then distracted by other matters.
Runner-up "Introducing the Medieval Ass", sees the University of Melbourne’s medieval historian Kathryn L Smithies explore “the ass’s enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the middle ages”. Other contenders included Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music, Lawnmowers: An Illustrated History and The Slaughter of Farmed Animals: Practical Ways of Enhancing Animal Welfare.
The prize, run by the Bookseller magazine, was first established in 1978 to reward the year’s strangest book title.
“I thought it would be a closer race, but A Dog Pissing is practically a perfect Venn diagram of an ideal winner,” said Tom Tivnan, the prize coordinator and managing editor of the Bookseller. He said it combined “the three most fecund Diagram prize territories: university presses (a tradition dating back to the first champ, 1978’s University of Tokyo-published Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice); animals (like 2012’s Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop or 2003’s The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories); and bodily functions (such as 2013’s How to Poo on a Date and 2011’s Cooking with Poo).”
A major milestone on the road to a Second American Civil War.
AFAIK this is the first time a significant media source has endorsed violence (correct me if I'm wrong).
I am documenting it here for you.
It is, as you might expect, the American Thinker.
Surveying the Aftermath of a Stolen Election
How much further down this road will the Right Wing go?
The condemnation of liberation movements for resorting to violence or armed struggle is almost invariably superficial, hypocritical, judgmental, and unfair, and tends strongly to represent another example of the generalized phenomenon of blaming the victim. The violence of the situation the preexisting oppression suffered by those who eventually strike back, is conveniently ignored. The violence of the oppressed is a form of defensive counterviolence to the violence of conquest and oppression. In no armed national liberation movement I know of in history has this not been the case.
Actually I expect most of the violence is neither Left or Right...not political at all.Maybe you're right, but political violence is something specific because it targets people who are totally innocent, and is done in order to gain power. It destroys democracy, and once the violent one is installed, it is quite difficult to get him out.
I's drug lords fighting each other, muggings, assaults...mostly done for reasons not having anything to do with politics.
And the violence, while it has been rising the last couple years, is nothing like it was in the ACW, or in Europe in the World Wars. The scary thing is worrying about it getting that bad again.
How do the riots that occurred after the George Floyd murder fit into this?I would say that most riots occur when people are angry, demonstrate and loose control. Nothing to do with any alt-right or left.
That a healthy level of Vit D and administration of Vit D as part of Covid treatment is positive is also generally recognized, and once again, we are talking about thousands of doctors across the world, it makes no sense all of them putting first ideological convictions rather than medical reasons.
FACT: Vitamin and mineral supplements cannot cure COVID-19https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters
Micronutrients, such as vitamins D and C and zinc, are critical for a well-functioning immune system and play a vital role in promoting health and nutritional well-being. There is currently no guidance on the use of micronutrient supplements as a treatment of COVID-19.
Oren:
I was being antagonistic to the position of A-Team, not the person, since he uses his expertise in the area to construct “express science” pictures of very alarmist scenarios. Many posters swallow his paintings as if it was ex cathedra truth. It is not. He complains of slow science sometimes (and of bothersome contributors, and of a thousand things more, he’s basically a “victim”) but the truth is, slow science is rigorous and true and at the end will save our skin, all the noise here will not, including his beautiful constructions.
I hoped you would have not touched my post, but it’s ok.
OK, so you are basically a <Try adressing the argument instead of attacking people. kassy> saying I need to take something that BigPharma has cooked up because people cannot take care of themselves. I live alone. Yet "I need to take this" according to you, some rando on the other side of the planet who apparently knows my living situation.I am not taking the vaccine for a year+ after release, if at all.
Why do I need to be vaccinated for something that has is a lower risk to my age/weight/health cohort than seasonal influenza? I am supposed to take something some nincompoops made in a lab without actual safety trials in hopes of avoiding something that is most likely benign to my risk category?
This does not compute.
Ironically, or not, the group that most needs a vaccine -- the obese and elderly, but especially the obese -- are also the group hypothetically MOST at risk of needing either an absurd number of doses for efficacy, OR an ADE-reaction that actually kills them, with the risks of said response increasing with each sequential dose of vaccine. LOL.
Big pharma has manufactured this entire crisis. I wonder if they push the vaccine on "high-risk" groups (specifically the obese). There is a not-small chance this ultimately results in mass deaths worse than the virus itself given the specifics of COVID and its similarities to Dengue which I outlined on the previous page and which does not have an effective vaccine for the same reason (ADE). Is it a guarantee? No. But precedence and lack of effective coronavirus vaccines to date, or vaccines for similar diseases, says it is likely.
A few points....
If a safe vaccine happens then as many people need to take it as possible... even you. The reason is because stopping Covid may not be an issue for you personally but for those who it is highly risk need people like you to have the vaccine to stop it reaching them.... it isnt just about you.
Do you have any research to support your opinion that Covid is more risky or even as risky for the obese than it is for the elderly?
Also, these people are not hypothetically more at risk, they are proven to be more at risk. Why do you think it is hypothetical?
No vaccine has been approved. So where are you getting the information that the vaccine is worse than Covid? Or is that just another opinion?
The last thing I want to see is an echo chamber.
The UK is a country where most people are overweight, and do not get exercise or regular sunlight, and have terrible diets of mushy peas and beans on toast or whatever the f*ck horrible food they have these days. The relics of Post-WWII culture in British cuisine are truly awful and they've been made even worse by the Americanization that has happened almost everywhere globally since 1989.Utterly & complete piffle. Evidence?
The worst thing about COVID is the brain damage it causes in people who aren't infected. It has helped foster the rise of CCP-style authoritarianism globally. It truly is the Chinese virus in that it seemingly turns random Westerners into CCP-style authoritarian automatons. I wonder if a virus has ever previously caused more damage amongst those it didn't infect vs those that it did?
Let's look at the below data.
Which countries here are accurate? I'd wager, it is Singapore, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Iceland, Kuwait, and Malta.
All of them have CFRs of .6% or below, including Kuwait, which has an extremely obese population. The data confirms that the worst outcome of the virus is the lockdowns and authoritarianism and not the death toll. These will probably end up killing way more people through economic disruption (famine, etc).
Funny enough, the above countries are all islands, or for all intents and purposes, islands (UAE, and Kuwait, both surrounded by desert, although I guess you have some Iraqis near Kuwait).
Singapore, Qatar, Bahrain, Iceland, and Malta all provide ideal case grounds a la cruise ships for ACCURATELY gauging fatality rates. Better than New Zealand, Taiwan, or Australia, all of which are way bigger and more populous / spread out. The data from ALL OF THESE POINTS confirms that the true case fatality rate is well under 1% and for young / healthy people it is almost 0.