John Mayer: “Wild Blue”

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Incredibly tasteful, super-clean guitar work here. Reminiscent of Mark Knopfler.

“Wild Blue” from John Mayer’s album ‘Sob Rock’ out now: https://johnmayer.lnk.to/SobRock

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Lyrics
Never seen the sun before
Lying on the ocean floor
I’m walking through the wilderness
And living off the loneliness

Wild blue deeper than I ever knew
Wild blue on a bed of grey
Oh baby what a wild blue
I found myself when I lost you

All the tears I mean to cry
Dance across the evening sky
And in my sorrow I can see
That missing you belongs to me

Wild blue deeper than I ever knew
Wild blue on a bed of grey
Oh baby what a wild blue
I found myself when I lost you

Wild blue deeper than I ever knew
It’s a wild blue since you went away
Oh baby what a wild blue
I found myself when I lost you

And you’ll never know
The unlikely beauty in letting you go

#JohnMayer #SobRock #WildBlue

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 22, 2021 • 8:53:21pm

CL’ed:

So my internet died this afternoon, and (of course) took my landline with it. My only connection with the world is my cell phone.

The good news is, I called support, a tech answered in about 10 seconds and said (after verifying that it was me), “looks like your fiber is out.” After the router reset failed, he scheduled a service call for tomorrow. I love my ISP.

This place contains hundreds of dvds and thousands of books, I WILL manage 17 hours without my connection. Yes, I can.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 22, 2021 • 8:54:45pm

So there’s this “Milk Crate Challenge” thing that’s blowing up on social media and just…wow.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2021 • 8:57:25pm

re: #2 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

CL’ed:

So my internet died this afternoon, and (of course) took my landline with it. My only connection with the world is my cell phone.

The good news is, I called support, a tech answered in about 10 seconds and said (after verifying that it was me), “looks like your fiber is out.” After the router reset failed, he scheduled a service call for tomorrow. I love my ISP.

This place contains hundreds of dvds and thousands of books, I WILL manage 17 hours without my connection. Yes, I can.

One of the cool things about Samsung Galaxy phones is Dex, an app for your PC that creates a Chrome desktop app on your PC that is running via the phone. So you can watch stuff or other internet related things with a full size screen and your PC’s keyboard and mouse.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 22, 2021 • 8:57:40pm

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

So there’s this “Milk Crate Challenge” thing that’s blowing up on social media and just…wow.

[Embedded content]

And we wonder that we can’t talk them into vaccinations.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2021 • 8:58:40pm

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

So there’s this “Milk Crate Challenge” thing that’s blowing up on social media and just…wow.

[Embedded content]

Ow.

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:04:43pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:12:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:14:04pm

re: #2 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

CL’ed:

So my internet died this afternoon, and (of course) took my landline with it. My only connection with the world is my cell phone.

The good news is, I called support, a tech answered in about 10 seconds and said (after verifying that it was me), “looks like your fiber is out.” After the router reset failed, he scheduled a service call for tomorrow. I love my ISP.

This place contains hundreds of dvds and thousands of books, I WILL manage 17 hours without my connection. Yes, I can.

Why would you want such great customer service when you could pay for less with CenturyLink?

10
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:18:06pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A friend of mine has a 13 year old son who wants to get vaccinated. His father (her husband) is dead set against it.

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piratedan  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:21:51pm

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I share her concerns…. preliminary studies show (we’ve even seen the links posted here in tweets) that those infected with even a milder response to the disease have shown that some of the after-effects are… less than optimal…

1) decreased virility (for those that care about such things) for males
2) reduced long term stamina
3) significant cognitive decline - meaning that the disease actually makes us dumber and harder to reason and retain information

so while some of this, it will probably have a pandemic effect of reducing world production and for all we know, have the effect of reducing the global birth rate (which may not be a bad thing depending on how long term and pragmatic you choose to be about such things), but will certainly have an impact on more medical interventions being needed and perhaps sooner than expected.

will kids be subject to this at birth? in the womb? do we need to vaccinate our pets?

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:28:01pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:28:42pm

John Oliver’s main story tonight was Afghanistan; he was full of rage toward Biden, his handling of the evacuation, and his apparent longstanding focus only on US forces with a notable lack of interest on Afghanis. Oliver was infuriated with our entire policy from the Bush invasion until today and how unprepared we have been with the Taliban takeover. We will have to see how this ultimately all plays out — but we left death and destruction in our wake and we owe the Afghanis who helped us and those women who are in special danger an escape from this nightmare of our making.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:30:57pm

Nothing will dial down the Pre$$titute$ hatred of Joe. They are going to continue to hammer away at him over this. They have wanted another Benghazi and they got it.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:34:03pm

re: #14 JOE 🥓

Nothing will dial down the Pre$$titute$ hatred of Joe. They are going to continue to hammer away at him over this. They have wanted another Benghazi and they got it.

When Trump did this shit like 1000x times worse to the Kurds, it was on the news for like what? Two days? Tops?

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Belafon  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:36:09pm

re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter

John Oliver’s main story tonight was Afghanistan; he was full of rage toward Biden, his handling of the evacuation, and his apparent longstanding focus only on US forces with a notable lack of interest on Afghanis. Oliver was infuriated with our entire policy from the Bush invasion until today and how unprepared we have been with the Taliban takeover. We will have to see how this ultimately all plays out — but we left death and destruction in our wake and we owe the Afghanis who helped us and those women who are in special danger an escape from this nightmare of our making.

Leaving was a hard decision, but the only other option was to leave forces there. As for the evacuation, notice how slow things were going until Biden pulled the trigger?

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teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:36:30pm

I’ve been raiding my parents’ LP collection this summer, putting my record player to use. Lots of classical; Liszt, Rachmaninov, Holst, Offenbach, Strauss, Mozart, Prokofieff, Grieg, Debussy, Tchaikovsky. Lots of old Stones records. Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” Lots of first pressings; The Doors “L.A. Woman,” every Roy Buchanan record from the 70s, a white vinyl White Album, Led Zeppelin’s first five albums, Zappa’s first two albums, David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust” and “Space Oddity,” Focus, Yes “Tales From Topographic Oceans,” Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense,” on and on. There’s thousands of titles. Most of the records are in decent shape for playing, the sleeves are a little worse for wear, what with being in my parents possession and moving with them everywhere for decades. Pretty neat project.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:37:48pm

re: #15 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

When Trump did this shit like 1000x times worse to the Kurds, it was on the news for like what? Two days? Tops?

Because they loved Trump.

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:38:27pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why would you want such great customer service when you could pay for less with CenturyLink?

I’m pretty happy with C-Link for my landline and DSL. I called them when my modem pooped out a couple months ago, and they delivered an updated replacement to my back door within two hours. We also reviewed and upgraded my service a LOT for $20 less per month. I had been ignoring notices to upgrade for months because I thought of it as junk mail.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:39:37pm

re: #14 JOE 🥓

Nothing will dial down the Pre$$titute$ hatred of Joe. They are going to continue to hammer away at him over this. They have wanted another Benghazi and they got it.

I don’t think so. Joe is not Hillary and few wanted us to stay in Afghanistan. They will try to make this stick, but it will only be an issue for the 30% of Americans that will never vote for a Democrat.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:43:18pm

re: #11 piratedan

have the effect of reducing the global birth rate (which may not be a bad thing depending on how long term and pragmatic you choose to be about such things)

It is not pragmatic.

Under examination it doesn’t bear up. Most of the resources are used disproportionately by people in developing nations who have a massive consumption footprint. One baby in the US destroys the world much faster than many babies in the Congo.

As a consequence, it doesn’t matter what the overall birth rate is worldwide if all the money, and thus all the consumption, is concentrated in a few places. If you halve the number of people in the world but the remainder assume the lifestyle of the top consumers, things will trend worse, maybe a little slower, until growth takes us right back to the same bad place.

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sagehen  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:43:21pm

re: #15 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

When Trump did this shit like 1000x times worse to the Kurds, it was on the news for like what? Two days? Tops?

Trump perfected the technique of FLOOD THE ZONE. (he did this during his campaign and every single day in office). If there’s a dozen “what would have been career-ending for anybody else” scandals every single day, and as soon as one or two seems to drop off the radar throw out a few more… it’s just too many things happening for the media to actually focus one any one of them.

So the drip-drip-drip of BUT HER E-MAILS!! could take hold, but a firehose of endless things is too distracting for any one or two or three things to catch the media’s attention. Especially when the Presidential Advisors Hunger Games provides endless opportunities for the correspondents to demonstrate their access.

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:49:24pm

[Deleted because who gives a shit]

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:51:11pm

re: #18 JOE 🥓

Because they loved Trump.

Nah, they didn’t give a flying fuck about the Kurds. Just like the R’s don’t give a fuck about the Afghans who helped us *for twenty years*.

Never did, never will.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:55:25pm

Looking at air traffic I see 3 C-17 going into and 3 C-17s coming out of Afghanistan. 1 UK and 5 US.

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teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:57:08pm

re: #17 teleskiguy

Just popped on Lou Reed “Rock And Roll Diary 1967-1980.” Records are in great shape for playing.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:59:16pm

re: #17 teleskiguy

I’ve been raiding my parents’ LP collection this summer, putting my record player to use. Lots of classical; Liszt, Rachmaninov, Holst, Offenbach, Strauss, Mozart, Prokofieff, Grieg, Debussy, Tchaikovsky. Lots of old Stones records. Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” Lots of first pressings; The Doors “L.A. Woman,” every Roy Buchanan record from the 70s, a white vinyl White Album, Led Zeppelin’s first five albums, Zappa’s first two albums, David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust” and “Space Oddity,” Focus, Yes “Tales From Topographic Oceans,” Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense,” on and on. There’s thousands of titles. Most of the records are in decent shape for playing, the sleeves are a little worse for wear, what with being in my parents possession and moving with them everywhere for decades. Pretty neat project.

We’ve got a friend in Germany who has two vinyl stores, one in Freiburg, one in Berlin. If you would like to have someone look at the collection, I could hook you up.

I would keep the collection and get a really good record player, but that’s me.

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teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2021 • 9:59:35pm

Pale Blue Eyes

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:01:09pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Just popped on Lou Reed “Rock And Roll Diary 1967-1980.” Records are in great shape for playing.

I’ve got that one too. Good combo of Velvets and solo stuff.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:01:23pm

re: #21 The Ghost of a Flea

If you halve the number of people in the world but the remainder assume the lifestyle of the top consumers, things will trend worse, maybe a little slower, until growth takes us right back to the same bad place.

And that right there was the flaw in Thanos’ plan.

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:02:50pm

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

And that right there was the flaw in Thanos’ plan.

Heh. Have you seen the new animated “What If”? Thano’s plan gets dissed in the second episode…

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:03:07pm

re: #24 austin_blue

Nah, they didn’t give a flying fuck about the Kurds. Just like the R’s don’t give a fuck about the Afghans who helped us *for twenty years*.

Never did, never will.

Cognitive dissonance: They regurgitate the Ben Domenech tweet
“President Donald Trump would have gotten every single American, interpreter, and piece of equipment out of Afghanistan. The man understood optics. The media’s kid glove treatment of Biden enabled this disaster.” while at the same time screaming about the potential invasion of Afghans into our country and saying nothing about the decimation of the visa program to help these interpreters and other allies emigrate here.

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teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:05:26pm

re: #27 austin_blue

We’ve got a friend in Germany who has two vinyl stores, one in Freiburg, one in Berlin. If you would like to have someone look at the collection, I could hook you up.

I would keep the collection and get a really good record player, but that’s me.

Thanks, I’m going with option two. I bought an Audio-Technica LP-60XBT-USB at the start of the summer. I’ve purchased a half dozen titles since I got the player, including “A Love Supreme” with bright orange vinyl… at the Target in Glenwood Springs. And also my new favorite band’s debut album, Frank Zappa “Hot Rats” with bright pink vinyl, and others.

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:05:26pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

A friend of mine has a 13 year old son who wants to get vaccinated. His father (her husband) is dead set against it.

Same here. Son of a friend of mine brought covid home from school or sports, father (the refusenik) got covid (asymptomatic), spouse has not yet tested positive. Son is NOT over it yet.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:05:46pm

re: #25 Dread Pirate Ron

Looking at air traffic I see 3 C-17 going into and 3 C-17s coming out of Afghanistan. 1 UK and 5 US.

And we know you can get 800 pax into a C-17. Six X 800 = 4800 refugees. Six civil airlines are being directed to fly to Doha to pick up refugees and fly them into the EU by the US.

It’s chaos, but it’s beginning to be less chaotic.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:06:28pm

re: #31 William Lewis

Heh. Have you seen the new animated “What If”? Thano’s plan gets dissed in the second episode…

I haven’t seen it yet, I’ll have to check it out. I’ve heard it’s good.

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plansbandc  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:08:28pm

re: #15 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

The press has never given a shit about what tRump does. He gives them clicks, hits and money. He will always have a free pass.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:08:48pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

Thanks, I’m going with option two. I bought an Audio-Technica LP-60XBT-USB at the start of the summer. I’ve purchased a half dozen titles since I got the player, including “A Love Supreme” with bright orange vinyl… at the Target in Glenwood Springs. And also my new favorite band’s debut album, Frank Zappa “Hot Rats” with bright pink vinyl, and others.

I don’t blame you. That’s where the money is. In addition, vinyl sounds killer bee.

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TedStriker  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:09:32pm

re: #2 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

CL’ed:

So my internet died this afternoon, and (of course) took my landline with it. My only connection with the world is my cell phone.

The good news is, I called support, a tech answered in about 10 seconds and said (after verifying that it was me), “looks like your fiber is out.” After the router reset failed, he scheduled a service call for tomorrow. I love my ISP.

This place contains hundreds of dvds and thousands of books, I WILL manage 17 hours without my connection. Yes, I can.

In other internet news:

Google Fiber had seemingly been in suspended animation for at least the past couple of years (in my area of Nashville, at least [Inglewood/East Nashville]), but I awoke Thursday morning to find that they had finally got off their asses and started to trench and run fiber up and down my street. After their nanotrenching experiment a couple of years ago went horribly wrong (bad enough for them to subsequently pull out of Louisville completely and it even caused some post-install issues in the few neighborhoods here where they tried it), GF seems to be making up for lost time, because they’ve got about eighty open excavation permits for Inglewood, East Nashville, and Green Hills right now (thanks, Metro Open Data).

I’ve been a Comcast customer for more than two decades and have had their highest-speed DOCSIS gigabit internet tier for a couple of years (right now, it’s 1.25Gb down/35Mb up, which, with the 10% DOCSIS overprovisioning Comcast generally does, is really about 1.4Gb down/40Mb up); even if I could get Comcast’s symmetrical gigabit fiber service (which I can’t, because, to this point, they didn’t and apparently still don’t want to run FTTH to my part of town [and, apparently, neither does AT&T, for the record]), I sure as hell wouldn’t pay $300/month for it when I at least get a gigabit down on their coax plant for slightly less than a third of that. When my Comcast service (TV and internet) is working fine (and that’s almost a given for me, with outages being rare), I love it, but it’s just the rare time having to deal with their oft-maligned customer service on the phone that makes me want to jab icepicks into my eye sockets, especially when it comes time to renegotiate my service contract every couple of years to keep a decent deal.

After over five years of waiting for GF to come to my neighborhood, it’s looking like it’s finally going to be here, hopefully within the next few months as they finish construction and start signups. That sweet, sweet 2Gb down/1Gb up (or even just their symmetrical gigabit service, I haven’t decided) has me all excited for GF again…

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:15:11pm

re: #24 austin_blue

Nah, they didn’t give a flying fuck about the Kurds. Just like the R’s don’t give a fuck about the Afghans who helped us *for twenty years*.

Never did, never will.

The press cares about spectacle.

They show Trump because he’s all spectacle. That he makes things scary, and worse, means more people watching their shows: some because they’re into that vibe, the rest because the only way to feel safe is to stay informed on what the maniac is doing.

They’re doing this thing with Biden because it’s spectacle—the long answer that every preceding president made this moment, that the blame is systemic and suggestive of deep problems all through the body politic, isn’t as satisfying as the current no-drama, popular president failing in ways that require commentary and opining. And I say that even though I don’t agree with Biden’s given reasons…that his actions are not seen as contextualized by the past year or so of events is just insane to me. Nobody cares that the last president ghosted the government we’re propping up to talk with the Taliban and concede basically everything?

They’ve never cared about Afghanistan beyond producing dramatic images or “this will make you feel something” moments…it’s just be a grim, long grind of uncertainties if they did. Lots of stuff has happened in Afghanistan that been bad signs, but it’s all boring detail work where you’d have to explain the regional politics and the culture and such: even the Taliban themselves became boring because their shit wasn’t as ultraviolent as ISIS or as Cold War-redux as China and Russia stories.

Indeed, part of the don’t-care-about-Afghanistan is that Afghanistan and the Taliban have been assigned a label as incorrugible brown tribals who can’t be better: they’re either decadent useless Kharzais or draconian ascetic Mullah Omars. There’s no hook, no good dudes or bads dudes to react to, no recognition that the Taliban are awful people but are competent at what they’re doing, because those things don’t put asses in seats. Even the throwaway “Graveyard of Empires” sobriquet belies that there’s reasons we failed the way we failed: we were winning and then our loss was inevitable, no reason to learn any lessons.

And to get spectacle, the press relies on access, which means that what they show aligns with what their points of access want shown. And DoD and defense “experts” having been pushing a very flat “it’s fine, six months” thing for quite awhile. It’s only in the last few years that we’ve had unconventional news sources dig into stuff like…concealing the civilian casualty rate, the role of bribing warlords and whether that produced strategic gains. At no point have anyone talked about stuff like casualty rates in the new army and how morale is doing…the nitty gritty, the stuff that says we’re losing the war, has no zazz. What does have zazz is stuff like videos of bombs being dropped and reporting yet another terrorist second-in-command vaporized.

The other thing going on is that the useless pundits in the press that pretend to be reporters but actually read transcripts basically do mutual aid with the useless pundits who get sinecures in thinktanks and lobbying groups: none of them actually have a solid basis for what they say, but by coordinating they can create the aesthetic of all being wise, well-informed people who are thinking seriously. It’s the David-Brooks-industrial complex: the words themselves are absolute horse puckey, but there’s just enough shallow erudition that it can be presented as “smart” such that other people as performing shallow erudition will applaud.

Also, most fundamentally…war is a racket, and part of that racket is getting paid to sell war as not a racket.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:16:32pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

A friend of mine has a 13 year old son who wants to get vaccinated. His father (her husband) is dead set against it.

Is she preparing to leave her husband over putting her child at deadly risk?

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:19:19pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

Thanks, I’m going with option two. I bought an Audio-Technica LP-60XBT-USB at the start of the summer. I’ve purchased a half dozen titles since I got the player, including “A Love Supreme” with bright orange vinyl… at the Target in Glenwood Springs. And also my new favorite band’s debut album, Frank Zappa “Hot Rats” with bright pink vinyl, and others.

I can get you a 12” of a song “by” Charo called “Ole! Ole!” On pink vinyl. The only words in the song are “Ole, Ole”. It’s an extended mix…

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William Lewis  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:24:54pm

Ok just had a chance to listen to the song on top and that is some yummy guitar. I see what you mean about Mark Knopfler, Charles, that solo sounds straight out of Dire Straits early records. Beautiful.

Thank you.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:27:07pm

re: #40 The Ghost of a Flea

The press cares about spectacle.

They show Trump because he’s all spectacle. That he makes things scary, and worse, means more people watching their shows: some because they’re into that vibe, the rest because the only way to feel safe is to stay informed on what the maniac is doing.

They’re doing this thing with Biden because it’s spectacle—the long answer that every preceding president made this moment, that the blame is systemic and suggestive of deep problems all through the body politic, isn’t as satisfying as the current no-drama, popular president failing in ways that require commentary and opining.

They’ve never cared about Afghanistan because it hasn’t produced any dramatic images or “this will make you feel something” moments…it’s just be a grim, long grind of uncertainties. Lots of stuff has happened in Afghanistan that been bad signs, but it’s all boring detail work where you’d have to explain the regional politics and the culture and such: even the Taliban themselves became boring because their shit wasn’t as ultraviolent as ISIS or as Cold War-redux as China and Russia stories.

Indeed, part of the don’t-care-about-Afghanistan is that Afghanistan and the Taliban have been assigned a label as incorrugible brown tribals who can’t be better: they’re either decadent useless Kharzais or draconian ascetic Mullah Omars. There’s no hook, no good dudes or bads dudes to react to, no recognition that the Taliban are awful people but are competent at what they’re doing, because those things don’t put asses in seats.

And to get spectacle, the press relies on access, which means that what they show aligns with what their points of access want shown. And DoD and defense “experts” having been pushing a very flat “it’s fine, six months” thing for quite awhile. It’s only in the last few years that we’ve had unconventional news sources dig into stuff like…concealing the civilian casualty rate, the role of bribing warlords and whether that produced strategic gains. At no point have anyone talked about stuff like casualty rates in the new army and how morale is doing…the nitty gritty, the stuff that says we’re losing the war, has no zazz. What does have zazz is stuff like videos of bombs being dropped

The other thing going on is that the useless pundits in the press that pretend to be reporters but actually read transcripts basically do mutual aid with the useless pundits who get sinecures in thinktanks and lobbying groups: none of them actually have a solid basis for what they say, but by coordinating they can create the aesthetic of all being wise, well-informed people who are thinking seriously. It’s the David-Brooks-industrial complex: the words themselves are absolute horse puckey, but there’s just enough shallow erudition that it can be presented as “smart” such that other people as performing shallow erudition will applaud.

Also, most fundamentally…war is a racket, and part of that racket is getting paid to sell war as not a racket.

You are completely correct. And the point of this withdrawal at this time is to take advantage of the short attention span of Americans.

We really are fucking idiots, like dogs who lose the thread anytime anyone yells “Squirrel!”

But we *are* predictable. A year from now, no-one is going to give a fuck about Afghanistan or any other fucking stan. But we’ll still be arguing about vaccines and why we still have thousands of people dying every week from a disease we should have killed dead bang in July, 2021.

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austin_blue  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:32:48pm

And night all, may your sleep be better than you waking nightmares.

Mine hasn’t been for a while. We really are living in what is basically a failed state. The level of stupid is very close to killing us.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:33:04pm

re: #44 austin_blue

You are completely correct. And the point of this withdrawal at this time is to take advantage of the short attention span of Americans.

We really are fucking idiots, like dogs who lose the thread anytime anyone yells “Squirrel!”

But we *are* predictable. A year from now, no-one is going to give a fuck about Afghanistan or any other fucking stan. But we’ll still be arguing about vaccines and why we still have thousands of people dying every week from a disease we should have killed dead bang in July, 2021.

A disease that Trump supporters deliberately and maliciously are guaranteeing will continue to ravage the country. No vaccine to own the “libs”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:36:51pm

Threats continue at school boards and the state education commission over the proposed sex education standards and Critical Race Theory.

Local school board meetings are now using armed police to protect board members.

One person said the state education commission needed to remember “January 6,” then after a commissioner said she was scared by that comment, she’s been mocked by conservatives here. The man insisted he was simply “heated.”

Students also testified to the necessity of the sex education standards, and were booed by adults in attendance.

Senator Megan Hunt (D-District 8, Omaha), the atheist, bi, single mother senator, also spoke before the state education commission as a citizen.

Greenwald said some of the comments directed at opponents have been disparaging. She pointed to State Sen. Megan Hunt’s testimony at the meeting.

When her time expired and some opponents cheered, Hunt told the board: “The Christians would like me to stop.”

Hunt, of Omaha, told The World-Herald that opponents in the room had acted rudely and disrespectfully to a number of LBGTQ students who were sharing their personal stories while testifying in favor of inclusive standards.

She said she was mid-sentence, finishing her testimony, when people in the crowd urged her to stop.

“No, I do not regret calling out the Christian adults in the room who were booing the children who this curriculum would directly impact,” she said. “My comment was not a broad swipe at all Christians.”

(more)

Masks, sex ed, CRT turn sleepy Nebraska school board meetings into culture war battlegrounds (Omaha World-Herald)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:40:46pm
49
teleskiguy  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:45:02pm

Because stpaulbear mentioned it, and I looked it up, it goes here.

Charo & The Salsoul Orchestra - Olé, Olé \ 12”Mix

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:45:52pm

re: #44 austin_blue

You are completely correct. And the point of this withdrawal at this time is to take advantage of the short attention span of Americans.

We really are fucking idiots, like dogs who lose the thread anytime anyone yells “Squirrel!”

But we *are* predictable. A year from now, no-one is going to give a fuck about Afghanistan or any other fucking stan. But we’ll still be arguing about vaccines and why we still have thousands of people dying every week from a disease we should have killed dead bang in July, 2021.

It’s terminal empire brain: the rest of the world exists to the exact extent it’s emotionally fulfilling: If it isn’t gratifying it isn’t happening or didn’t happen. When you’re on top, the superpower, you can maintain that self-importance. But once decline comes—and it always comes because at some point the money get tighter and the people at the top aren’t going to decrease their cut—the inconsistent stories and the bad makeup become obvious.

The best way to understand what’s going on is to compare the USA with Britain when it lost almost all it’s colonies: the country ate itself and has continued to eat itself, while insisting that the rest of the world not notice how fucking broken it is. Lots of money is still being made through globalism, but there’s no longer a national cut so most people’s lives are getting worse…but empire brain has already trained them to think of anyone getting fucked over as deserving fucking-over. All the jobs disappear because of neoliberal policy and each person imagines that every other person deserved the sack and is now a loser on the dole. Brexit, Windrush generation immigration, COVID, and TERF-mania are all symptoms the same decline: don’t look at the systemic problem or who continues to win as things get bad, get angry at these incidents of foreigners and outliers. If we find the right people to shun and punish—or merely let die because a disease is a judgement—then everything will be fine again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 10:54:37pm

re: #48 Dread Pirate Ron

Bit of fear mongering there.

As millions get the vaccines, and millions get Covid-19, a drop was always expected. No vaccine is 100%, and these vaccines were always meant to prevent the worst outcomes (critical illness or death), which they are doing well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:02:38pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

Because stpaulbear mentioned it, and I looked it up, it goes here.

More Charo Disco (6:19, 1977)

Dance a Little Bit Closer (12” Mix)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:11:24pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

More Charo Disco (6:19, 1977)

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I prefer her solos.

YouTube

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:13:05pm

The Walking Dumb:

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:16:16pm

I don’t think it’s scaremongering. A wider pool of hosts adds to the ability to mutate, especially against vaccinated persons.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:27:32pm

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

I don’t think it’s scaremongering. A wider pool of hosts adds to the ability to mutate, especially against vaccinated persons.

Hm. Well, I’m just some rando in the Old West. I’ll just continue to follow practices recommended by physicians (washing hands, distancing, stay away from crowds especially indoors, &c).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:32:27pm
DENVER (AP) — An aerial landscaping team has taken flight in the mountains west of Fort Collins, Colo.

Its landing site sits in a broad field at the base of Poudre Canyon. Every few minutes, a helicopter arrives to lift a net loaded with about 1,300 pounds of shredded wood. The payload arcs from a cable as the aircraft banks toward a line of fire-charred mountains, waiting to spread the mulch over a section of scorched forest.

The daily airshow is meant to protect water supplies. Last year, the Cameron Peak Fire — the largest in state history — burned through the Cache la Poudre River watershed, leaving many slopes vulnerable to destructive erosion during rain events.

“Our fear is the debris and ash will come into the reservoir and make the water undrinkable,” said Randy Gustafson, a water resource administrator overseeing the project for the City of Greeley. “What we’re trying to accomplish here is to stabilize these slopes.”

Forests have long served as a reliable piece of natural infrastructure across the American West. Experts now warn they’re increasingly vulnerable as climate change drives more frequent and intense wildfires. Without any vegetation, the scorched landscapes left in wildfire burn scars lack the treetops to slow rain or roots to hold back hillsides.

(more)

Mulch eyed as erosion control following severe wildfires (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

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stpaulbear  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:38:21pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

Because stpaulbear mentioned it, and I looked it up, it goes here.

[Embedded content]

How could I have possibly forgotten that there are sung verses?/
Defintely done before auto-tune made the scene.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:41:15pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 22, 2021 • 11:48:22pm

YouTube

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:05:35am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:26:48am

Post-midnight login. Looks like I have lost ability to upding, all other functions seem fine.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:28:29am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:30:09am

Ding buttons are there but invisible. Reload didn’t help. Will reboot.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:31:02am

Zyklon B, for real? Oh, hell no.
Jewish orgs. slam Arizona using Zyklon B gas chamber on death row inmates
(This might have been a pretty big story last June but I missed it completely.)

Major Jewish organizations have harshly condemned a recent measure by the US state of Arizona to execute death row convicts through the use of a Zyklon B gas chamber, the same poison used by the Nazis to kill Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The state has had a gas chamber since 1949, and since then it has only been used twice, the most recent of which was in 1999 to execute German national Walter LaGrand.
The use of Zyklon B is seen by the state as being an “upgrade” of their preexisting gas chamber.

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:32:52am

re: #65 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Zyklon B, for real? Oh, hell no.
Jewish orgs. slam Arizona using Zyklon B gas chamber on death row inmates
(This might have been a pretty big story last June but I missed it completely.)

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

Republicans.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:36:28am

Everything is back. Some hamster was flogging the dog.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:37:18am

re: #65 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Zyklon B, for real? Oh, hell no.
Jewish orgs. slam Arizona using Zyklon B gas chamber on death row inmates
(This might have been a pretty big story last June but I missed it completely.)

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

Nazi is as Nazis does.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:39:07am

The Latest: U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls tests positive for COVID-19 (San Jose Mercury-News)

HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas says that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and has moderate symptoms.

Nehls, a Republican from the Houston area, said Saturday that he is fully vaccinated and hopes the symptoms pass soon. “All Americans are free to make their own health decisions, but I strongly encourage getting vaccinated,” he wrote on Twitter Saturday. “It is scientifically proven to drastically reduce the risk of severe illness & death from COVID.”

Nehls, the former sheriff of Fort Bend County who was elected to Congress last year, had said on Wednesday that a close family member had tested positive. Nehls said he has been quarantining at home and will continue to do so for at least the next 10 days.

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Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:43:07am

The Gray Lady seems to be the first to have just made the argument out in the open:

This is the argument they’ve wanted to make for a week now, that the status quo was “affordable” (whether in blood or treasure) and that Biden should have maintained it, even if it not only meant breaking a campaign promise but also giving them the opening they wanted to accuse him of being a “warmonger.”

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:44:56am

Affordable. Motherfucker.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 12:51:51am

re: #70 Targetpractice

The Gray Lady seems to be the first to have just made the argument out in the open:

This is the argument they’ve wanted to make for a week now, that the status quo was “affordable” (whether in blood or treasure) and that Biden should have maintained it, even if it not only meant breaking a campaign promise but also giving them the opening they wanted to accuse him of being a “warmonger.”

The home of Judith Miller and Adolph Hitler endorsements, you know, the liberal New York Times.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 1:04:11am

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was very hopeful for the US to beat the pandemic or at least turn the trend around but that date has come and gone.

Germany missed it more due to a slow vaccine rollout than to vaccine hesitancy. Took me until end of July to get my second shot and I am in the 60+ age group)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 1:09:10am

re: #70 Targetpractice

Things were quiet because the US had promised the leave and the Taliban did not want to give us any reason to reconsider.

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Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2021 • 1:10:56am

re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Things were quiet because the US had promised the leave and the Taliban did not want to give us any reason to reconsider.

Right, they stopped targeting Americans for 18 months because they didn’t want to give us an excuse to stay, but that didn’t mean they stopped attacking their own people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 1:12:57am

re: #75 Targetpractice

Right, they stopped targeting Americans for 18 months because they didn’t want to give us an excuse to stay, but that didn’t mean they stopped attacking their own people.

And that is what the NYT meant by “affordable”…

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Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2021 • 1:19:21am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And that is what the NYT meant by “affordable”…

Ayep. It’s like all the tweets that the country saw no US deaths with “only” 2,500 soldiers in-country before last week. The idea is to present a lull in the fighting as the “norm,” the unspoken reality being that as soon as Biden announced that we weren’t leaving, then he could be attacked for “losing the peace” as the Taliban blew past those 2,500 soldiers who had most of their equipment already shipped back stateside.

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Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:05:46am

Poster over at Fark raised a good point for why Donny will run in ‘24: So he can then claim that presidential candidates have legal immunity from criminal investigations.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:18:12am

The EPA has Scottsbluff’s air quality monitor back up. The air quality here measures 94 … the prairie fires here are contained, and the firefighters continue to look for hot spots.

According to The Coloradan there are some fires to our southwest.

data.coloradoan.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:19:10am

re: #78 Targetpractice

Poster over at Fark raised a good point for why Donny will run in ‘24: So he can then claim that presidential candidates have legal immunity from criminal investigations.

IANAL, but I don’t believe that opinion letter from the Nixon Justice Department covers candidates.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:21:11am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was very hopeful for the US to beat the pandemic or at least turn the trend around but that date has come and gone.

Germany missed it more due to a slow vaccine rollout than to vaccine hesitancy. Took me until end of July to get my second shot and I am in the 60+ age group)

Thanks, Obama. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:23:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:28:05am

Comment thread is wild.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 2:30:52am

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thanks, Obama. /s

right, because the Dems are not getting enough black people to vaccinate.

/

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:02:31am

re: #70 Targetpractice

So, the N.Y. Times would have us stay in Afghanistan….forever? Make it a U.S. protectorate or something?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:06:05am

re: #85 Dr Lizardo

So, the N.Y. Times would have us stay in Afghanistan….forever? Make it a U.S. protectorate or something?

It would have looked better if it had taken a few weeks at least before the Taliban took Kabul, sort of like seeing your ex in a new relationship two days after you break up…

And in the end, being President means taking responsibility for whatever your predecessor(s) left you stuck with.

But being President means taking responsibility in general and not blaming it on the Chinese or the Liberal Press or the Antifas when you fail.

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:20:05am

Heh. My “pre sunrise” photos convinced an old friend to make a Labor day weekend reservation here for her and partner. That’s a nice way to say you like the pictures!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:20:44am

.

Duke Ellington - Ring Dem Bells [1930]



..

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:21:04am

re: #85 Dr Lizardo

So, the N.Y. Times would have us stay in Afghanistan….forever? Make it a U.S. protectorate or something?

That should be our 51st State!!!QQ11ty!

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:23:44am

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Your post made this pop into my mind:

It’s funny how I could never cry
Until tonight and you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You’re dressed to kill and guess who’s dying?

Roxy Music

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:31:35am

re: #89 William Lewis

That should be our 51st State!!!QQ11ty!

we could trade it for West Virginia and hardly anyone would notice the difference:

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:36:30am

re: #89 William Lewis

That should be our 51st State!!!QQ11ty!

LOL like in Watchmen, where South Vietnam became the 51st American state after Dr. Manhattan pretty much single-handedly won the war against North Vietnam. That was in Nixon’s third term (IIRC).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:42:27am

Tropical Depression Henri is still hanging on.

SUMMARY OF 500 AM EDT…0900 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…41.6N 74.4W
ABOUT 60 MI…95 KM NNW OF NEW YORK CITY
ABOUT 90 MI…145 KM W OF HARTFORD CONNECTICUT
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…30 MPH…45 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…E OR 90 DEGREES AT 1 MPH…2 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1005 MB…29.68 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS
——————————
Flood watches are in effect across eastern Pennsylvania, southeast
New York, New Jersey, Long Island, and portions of New England.

DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
———————————
At 500 AM EDT (0900 UTC), the center of Tropical Depression Henri
was located near latitude 41.6 North, longitude 74.4 West. The
depression is nearly stationary at the moment, but is expected to
begin an eastward motion by later this morning into the afternoon
hours.

Maximum sustained winds are near 30 mph (45 km/h) with higher gusts.
Little change in strength is forecast during the next 48 hours.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:44:42am

The remnants of Hurricane Grace have reformed.

Tropical Storm Marty has formed in the eastern north Pacific from the remnants.

LOCATION…20.0N 111.0W
ABOUT 210 MI…340 KM SSW OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…40 MPH…65 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 280 DEGREES AT 15 MPH…24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1000 MB…29.53 INCHES

Marty is expected to move out to sea.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:45:50am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The remnants of Hurricane Grace have reformed.

glad to hear that she has cleaned up her act…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:52:03am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

glad to hear that she has cleaned up her act…

She was embarrassing the family… .

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 3:54:16am

No extension for foreign troops, Taliban warn (BBC Live updates)

The Taliban will not extend the 31 August deadline for the current evacuation mission, a spokesman has said
But the UK is expected to urge President Biden to delay the withdrawal of US forces beyond that date at Tuesday’s G7 talks
Thousands of Afghans are trying to flee the country, a week after the Taliban seized control
The German military says a member of the Afghan security forces was killed by unidentified attackers at Kabul airport on Monday
The gun battle came as the US said it was stepping up its evacuation effort
Aircraft from Delta, United Airlines and others will help fly those already evacuated from Afghanistan to final destinations
US vice-president Kamala Harris - who’s visiting Singapore - praised the US military for “doing very hard and difficult work” at Kabul airport

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Ming5000  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:05:34am

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Comment thread is wild.

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Endorse this thread’s comments. Wow

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:07:28am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

glad to hear that she has cleaned up her act…

She changed her gender, though, so that’ll set off the usual subjects.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:09:15am

re: #98 Ming5000

Endorse this thread’s comments. Wow

Someone suggested in that thread that perhaps you could do a “true crime” show from the confessions of elderly residents of care homes on murder, rape, embezzlement, &c. The only problem would be sorting out delusional statements or attention-seeking from actual crimes.

There’s more than one murder recounted in there where a nurse or staffer called the police on where to find the bodies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:09:57am

re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

She changed her gender, though, so that’ll set off the usual subjects.

LOL, it’s now a himicane.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:13:56am

I always loved catchy lyrics.

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (Official Video)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:22:18am

Remember this guy, Representative Barry Moore of Alabama, calling Speaker Nancy Pelosi a tyrant over masks in the US House?

About that:

Anti-mask Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama tests positive for COVID-19 (Yahoo!)

He will not say whether he has been vaccinated (that means no). He considers vaccines a “personal choice” and vaccinating the military a bad idea.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:23:14am

re: #98 Ming5000

That’s a big “yikes” from me….

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:24:32am

Off to set up an unmanned voter registration station at a local college. It’s still too corona-y out there for face-to-face, so we’re publicizing mail-in and online paths.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:25:40am

re: #105 Decatur Deb

Off to set up an unmanned voter registration station at a local college. It’s still too corona-y out there for face-to-face, so we’re publicizing mail-in and online paths enabling more massive Democrat voter fraud.

///

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:30:37am

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

So there’s this “Milk Crate Challenge” thing that’s blowing up on social media and just…wow.

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someone invented stairs?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:30:39am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

///

District of congressman Barry Moore. He would take that town from the grave, so thoughts and prayers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:32:21am

re: #108 Decatur Deb

District of congressman Barry Moore. He would take that town from the grave, so thoughts and prayers.

Then we must get more dead people to vote!

/

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:33:36am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Then we must get more dead people to vote!

/

Alabama is doing it’s best.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:36:38am

re: #62 Decatur Deb

Post-midnight login. Looks like I have lost ability to upding, all other functions seem fine.

see a doctor
maybe a specialist

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:39:10am

re: #62 Decatur Deb

Post-midnight login. Looks like I have lost ability to upding, all other functions seem fine.

there are medications if you can’t get your ding up…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:39:46am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Then we must get more dead people to vote!

/

Well, Nevada elected a dead pimp for the GOP… .

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:40:07am

Tabloid site, lifted from Freep:

An Alabama man who called himself the ‘vaccine police’ told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be ‘executed’ if they continued giving COVID-19 shots
insider.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:40:22am

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, Nevada elected a dead pimp for the GOP… .

Horst Wessel?

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:40:51am

re: #70 Targetpractice

The Gray Lady seems to be the first to have just made the argument out in the open:

[Embedded content]

This is the argument they’ve wanted to make for a week now, that the status quo was “affordable” (whether in blood or treasure) and that Biden should have maintained it, even if it not only meant breaking a campaign promise but also giving them the opening they wanted to accuse him of being a “warmonger.”

but they dont explain why
forever sure
but to what purpose?
so we wouldnt have to temporarily face this?
what exactly was our substantial national interest in forever?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:41:04am

re: #114 Decatur Deb

Tabloid site, lifted from Freep:

An Alabama man who called himself the ‘vaccine police’ told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be ‘executed’ if they continued giving COVID-19 shots
insider.com

It’s all about love of personal freedom, right?

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:43:04am

re: #85 Dr Lizardo

So, the N.Y. Times would have us stay in Afghanistan….forever? Make it a U.S. protectorate or something?

make them a state before DC?

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:43:40am

re: #89 William Lewis

That should be our 51st State!!!QQ11ty!

ah gmta

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:47:42am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Horst Wessel?

Dennis Hof, the Pimp Who Won a Nevada State Primary, Dies at 72 (New York Times, October 16, 2018)

Dennis Hof, the brothel owner, reality-television star and self-described pimp who won a Republican primary race for the Nevada State Assembly in June, was found dead on Tuesday morning. He was 72.

Mr. Hof’s death, at Love Ranch Vegas, a brothel he owned in Crystal, Nev., was confirmed by his manager, Chuck Muth. The Nye County Sheriff’s Office said that an autopsy would be conducted on Wednesday, adding that officials had no reason to suspect foul play.

“Dennis died quietly in his sleep,” Mr. Muth said in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon. “Ron Jeremy found him this morning when he went to wake him to go to a meeting in Pahrump.”

(more)

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:49:36am
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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:49:57am
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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:57:42am

re: #121 Dangerman

re: #122 Dangerman

but something something debacle

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:57:52am

An Alabama police officer killed a suicidal man by shooting him in the face. He was convicted of murder. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.

The mayor and the police chief both protested, arguing the jury reached the wrong verdict. Seventy-two character letters were sent in asking for leniency because he’s a Christian.

Former Alabama Cop Begs for ‘Mercy,’ Has Friends Proclaim His ‘Christian’ Values Before Sentencing for On-Duty Murder (Law & Crime, August 21, 2021)

Looking for leniency by leaning on the dominant religion.

A judged sentenced a former Huntsville, Ala. police officer on Friday to 25 years in prison for murdering a man during a call for help.

A jury convicted officer William Ben Darby in early May. The conviction drew immediate protests from the city’s mayor and police chief. Both indicated in strongly-worded statements that they believed the jury made the wrong decision.

(more Christian privilege in the article linked above)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:59:40am

re: #123 Dangerman

but something something debacle

We’ll have to see what happens over the arbitrary deadline of August 31 for removing all troops on Afghan soil. The Taliban says that troops at the airport will not be tolerated after that date.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 4:59:47am

another reason why the taliban have to hold their end up for now and are more or less allowing the evacuation to proceed unimpeded

Associated Press: “Despite their dominant military blitz over the past week, the Taliban lack access to billions of dollars from their central bank and the International Monetary Fund that would keep the country running during a turbulent shakeup. Those funds are largely controlled by the U.S. and international institutions, a possible leverage point as tense evacuations proceed from the airport in the capital of Kabul.”

“As of now, the Taliban government cannot access almost all of the Afghanistan central bank’s $9 billion in reserves, most of which is held by the New York Federal Reserve.”

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:00:49am

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An Alabama police officer killed a suicidal man by shooting him in the face. He was convicted of murder. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.

The mayor and the police chief both protested, arguing the jury reached the wrong verdict. Seventy-two character letters were sent in asking for leniency because he’s a Christian.

Former Alabama Cop Begs for ‘Mercy,’ Has Friends Proclaim His ‘Christian’ Values Before Sentencing for On-Duty Murder (Law & Crime, August 21, 2021)

Looking for leniency by leaning on the dominant religion.

(more Christian privilege in the article linked above)

ok, 24 years then

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:02:10am

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Darby said at sentencing that he was haunted by what happened.

“After the shooting, I would wake up in the middle of the night,” Darby said, according to WHNT. “I would think about Mr. Parker. I would think about his face. I would think about his fiancé.”

“There is no evil intent,” Darby reportedly said later. “There is no malice … I am human. I am Christian. The taking of human life was not lost on me … I’m asking for mercy; I’m asking for leniency.”

“I believe it is evident I didn’t want to kill him,” Darby also said, according to a report by regional newspaper consortium al.com.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:06:15am

re: #127 Dangerman

ok, 24 years then

Twenty-five years is the low end of the sentencing range in Alabama for that crime. That is what the prosecutor asked for and the judge delivered that sentence.

Naturally, the defence plans to appeal, since they believe shooting the man less than ten seconds after the cop passed the threshold of his house is not indicative of a crime, and the judge didn’t properly consider the seventy-two character letters testifying he is a good Christian man.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:09:18am

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Murphree also reportedly told the court that Parker’s murder “strengthened and solidified Darby’s faith.” That’s according to a WHNT synopsis of his statement.

Murder and genocide has often done that throughout the two thousand year history of Christianity.

I’m sure the murdered man’s family is comforted by the fact the ex-cop’s faith was strengthened by murdering their family member.

After his conviction, he remained on the city payroll for two more months until he finally resigned.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:09:41am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:11:56am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

No person of any other religion in the USA could point to their religion as a reason they should receive leniency from the court and be taken seriously by the majority of a town.

If you were a Muslim or atheist, you would get a sentence enhancement.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:13:45am

Alright, I’m out. Maybe back later.

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jeffreyw  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:21:35am

Good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:22:45am
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Florida Panhandler  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:24:06am

re: #70 Targetpractice

The Gray Lady seems to be the first to have just made the argument out in the open:

This is the argument they’ve wanted to make for a week now, that the status quo was “affordable” (whether in blood or treasure) and that Biden should have maintained it, even if it not only meant breaking a campaign promise but also giving them the opening they wanted to accuse him of being a “warmonger.”

When the NYT editorial board is against you it has increasingly been a badge of honor for those against the normalization of fascism trending the past 30-40 years or so.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:26:33am

Public Religion Research Institute (a widely-respected religious polling outfit on religious issues) has done a poll on the religious affiliations of those who got or definitely will get a vaccine, versus those who are unsure and those who definitely will not.

They compare the number to a similar survey conducted previously, to show positive or negative movement.

Amongst other takeaways, they note that positive approaches by religious leaders have had a definitive effect on parishioners.

Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: (Wave 2: June 2021) (July 27, 2021)

One of the takeaways from their survey about religious views and Covid-19 vaccine acceptance is we’re getting down to the hard-core people who simply won’t get it unless forced.

They are comparing against a previous survey done in March.

Among religious groups, Hispanic Catholics have increased most in vaccine acceptance, from 56% in March to 80% in June. Nearly eight in ten white Catholics (79%) are also vaccine accepters, up from 68% in March. Other non-Christians (78%), other Christians (77%), the religiously unaffiliated (75%), and white mainline Protestants (74%) are also above the 70% mark, with increases of 11-15 percentage points in each group.

(many more insights about religious views and vaccine acceptance at the link)

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:33:41am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:34:51am

US, South Korea Envoys Discuss Jump-starting Talks with North Korea (Voice of America, yesterday)

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - The U.S. special envoy for North Korea was scheduled to meet his South Korean counterpart on Monday, as the two allies look for ways to entice Pyongyang back to talks over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

Sung Kim arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a four-day visit. He met with Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong at the minister’s residence on Sunday, where they discussed ways for a speedy resumption of the peace process on the Korean Peninsula, a foreign ministry official said.

On Monday Kim will meet with his South Korean counterpart, Noh Kyu-duk, and on Tuesday with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov in Seoul.

The visit comes as a brief thaw in inter-Korean relations in July gave way to a new standoff over U.S.-South Korean military exercises that North Korea has warned could trigger a security crisis.

The nine-day exercise began on Aug. 16, with silence so far from North Korean state media despite fears that the country could conduct a missile test or take other actions to underscore its disapproval.

(more)

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lawhawk  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:34:55am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We’re coming through the latest tropical storm in good shape here at casa lawhawk. Our town got about 4 inches of rain, which is on the light side compared to a bunch of other spots around Northern NJ or elsewhere in the NYC metro area. Central Park got more than 7 inches. Prospect Park in Brooklyn got 8 inches.

Wind wasn’t an issue here, but same can’t be said of elsewhere. We’re still expecting some more rain today, and then we transition to a heat wave. Woo.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:36:19am

yahoo.com

Ken Ham says aliens can’t have any Jesus.

This death cult just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:36:25am

re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Public Religion Research Institute (a widely-respected religious polling outfit on religious issues) has done a poll on the religious affiliations of those who got or definitely will get a vaccine, versus those who are unsure and those who definitely will not.

They compare the number to a similar survey conducted previously, to show positive or negative movement.

Amongst other takeaways, they note that positive approaches by religious leaders have had a definitive effect on parishioners.

Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: (Wave 2: June 2021) (July 27, 2021)

One of the takeaways from their survey about religious views and Covid-19 vaccine acceptance is we’re getting down to the hard-core people who simply won’t get it unless forced.

They are comparing against a previous survey done in March.

(many more insights about religious views and vaccine acceptance at the link)

I just overheard a very religious woman who works in my office saying controlling the children is how Hitler started, that Covid is much less dangerous than the flu for kids, and they should just let the children catch it.

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sagehen  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:36:52am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

No extension for foreign troops, Taliban warn (BBC Live updates)

There’s a frozen $9.5B that says they can be persuaded to change their minds…

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:38:00am

re: #62 Decatur Deb

Post-midnight login. Looks like I have lost ability to upding, all other functions seem fine.

Pfizer makes a blue pill for that problem.

Dang - third one to say it!

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:38:02am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:40:02am

Between Sputnik V and BioNTech: Caught in vaccine limbo (Deutsche Welle)

As Germany begins introducing new restrictions for unvaccinated people, some find themselves in a peculiar situation — being fully vaccinated but not counted as such. DW reporter Natalia Smolentceva is one of them.

Six months ago, while back home in Russia, I did what I thought was the responsible thing: I got vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Russian Sputnik V inoculation. Back in February, Germany did not offer vaccination to my age group, and I wanted to protect myself and those close to me.

Being vaccinated with Sputnik V was potentially problematic, as the jab was not approved in the EU. But the risk of getting COVID-19 while in Russia, where very few people wore masks or respected social distancing rules, was greater. And it felt good to be at least somewhat protected, both in Russia and back in Germany.

But it turned out my decision backfired. Sputnik V is still not recognized in the EU. And even fully vaccinated with two jabs and having developed antibodies, I still have to test myself constantly and even — in some circumstances — go into quarantine.

So what can “unofficially” vaccinated people do in this case? One possibility, of course, would be to get vaccinated again — this time with an EU-approved jab. But that is not as easy as one might think at first.

(more)

Originally, my sister-in-law (the former Soviet immunologist) was going to fly to Russia from Texas to get the Sputnik V vaccine, because she did not trust mRNA vaccines. My wife prevailed on her to get the vaccine in Texas instead.

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:43:13am

re: #8 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:44:30am

re: #147 Teukka

Alternative method: Do like my state and stop reporting infections. Voila, no cases.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:45:22am

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How safe is second-time vaccination?

So, where does that leave “unofficially” vaccinated people like me, and, above all, is it medically advisable for us to be vaccinated again with an EU-approved vaccine?

The short answer is that no one knows, as there have been very few studies on the safety and efficacy of a combination of Sputnik and the four vaccines authorized in the EU: AstraZeneca, Moderna, BioNTech-Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

Sputnik V and AstraZeneca hybrid vaccinations have been used in Argentina due to shortages of the second Sputnik V dose. A national study on the topic is underway, and preliminary results show an increased level of antibodies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:47:58am
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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:51:25am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Alternative method: Do like my state and stop reporting infections. Voila, no cases.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the infections are a comin’… It’s how you into a “It’s not 3 Röntgens. It’s 15,000!” sorta situation. IDIOTS!

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:52:32am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:55:09am

Belarusian Opposition Warns Europe That No One Safe From Lukashenka (Radio Free Europe)

Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called for increased support against authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, saying his autocratic regime threatens to spread chaos across Europe.

In an opinion piece published in The New York Times on August 23, Tsikhanouskaya wrote that “for the good of the continent,” Lukashenka must be stopped amid a sometimes violent crackdown on dissent following a disputed August 2020 election that has left 10 people dead.

She added that the recent forced landing of a European plane in Minsk to arrest a journalist and the hanging of a Belarusian community leader in Kyiv showed that “unless we contain the bandit at large in the middle of Europe, no European citizen is safe.”

(more at the link)

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 5:56:28am

re: #152 Teukka

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:00:14am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Also this is preventable (more or less):
wear an effing mask
Its even less “intrusive”

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:06:26am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I learned to hate that vital signs warning signal with the passion of a thousand stars well before CoViD…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:08:27am

Today’s random karma point recognition goes to Teukka, who as of this post has 46,964 points.

Our Esteemed Host Mr. Johnson can fill you in on what promotions and incentives you will receive when you reach fifty thousand LGF karma points.

We eagerly await the drawing for the Tesla Model 3, as soon as Mr. Johnson determines how many points enters you in the contest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:11:46am

re: #156 Teukka

I learned to hate that vital signs warning signal with the passion of a thousand stars well before CoViD…

I sort of pissed off the nurses at the VA when I was bored during recovery after my hand surgery last year, holding my breath and watching my O2 level go below 50% on the monitor.

They really got pissed at me when I set off the alarm for about the tenth time.

They did finally get me the book I’d brought to the hospital to read during recovery though. I don’t know why they wouldn’t give it to me before I annoyed the crap out of them.

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lawhawk  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:12:00am

re: #156 Teukka

There’s a thread there.. but ultimately, it’s all about that right wing nutters have endangered everyone, including health care workers trying to save their lives. They’ve overwhelmed hospital systems across the nation, and you can’t magically expand ICU capacity beyond personnel levels. You can’t stop all elective surgeries and triage patients without seeing deaths elsewhere, higher numbers of complications, and more serious cases ending up in the ER as people delay care because hospitals are overwhelmed.

It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s playing out all over the South. They saw what happened in NYC in March-May of 2020 and thought that this was something to emulate all while claiming that it wouldn’t happen to them.

Well it is, and it was avoidable: masking and vaccinations can prevent spread of covid.

I remain out of fucks to give for these anti-vax/anti-mask nutjobs who risk our lives and those who can’t vaccinate (age/infirmity/immunocompromised).I don’t expect to get a new shipment of fucks for the foreseeable future.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:17:49am

re: #159 lawhawk

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:19:26am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:21:29am

re: #159 lawhawk

(3:05)

I’ve No More F***s To Give!

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:23:12am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I sort of pissed off the nurses at the VA when I was bored during recovery after my hand surgery last year, holding my breath and watching my O2 level go below 50% on the monitor.

They really got pissed at me when I set off the alarm for about the tenth time.

They did finally get me the book I’d brought to the hospital to read during recovery though. I don’t know why they wouldn’t give it to me before I annoyed the crap out of them.

The reason I hate that signal is that I was with my late ex at ER’s many times. When you’d hear the red alert, you would hear the steps of the nurses going to that particular room or cubicle within 15 seconds. And every so often, you’d hear the crash alarm on the patient alarm system go off, or hear in the in the next cubile:
“Öhhh… Öhh…. LÄGGER AV!” (“Eeehhh… Ehhh… QUITTING!”).

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:27:14am

Back from setting up the college voter registration table. Got one early-bird student while unpacking. This is maddening—before CV restrictions we would register 100-150 kids in two days. Our hands-off table will help register 3-4 if we’re lucky.

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:28:28am
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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:29:19am

re: #70 Targetpractice

The Gray Lady seems to be the first to have just made the argument out in the open:

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This is the argument they’ve wanted to make for a week now, that the status quo was “affordable” (whether in blood or treasure) and that Biden should have maintained it, even if it not only meant breaking a campaign promise but also giving them the opening they wanted to accuse him of being a “warmonger.”

Of course the Pre$$titute$ at the Screw York Times wanted the war to go on forever because THOSE RICH MOTHERFATHERS HAVE NO SKIN IN THE GAME!

Would any of those Pre$$titute$ send their kids to war?

NOPE!!!!!

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:31:21am

re: #165 Teukka

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:31:27am

re: #165 Teukka

Pretty much the whole world’s nonsensical antivaxxer conservative movement is on Donald Trump and the GQP.

I would really like to see some other nation bring a case against the Republican Party for instigating a worldwide genocide.

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:34:05am

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Pretty much the whole world’s nonsensical antivaxxer conservative movement is on Donald Trump and the GQP.

I would really like to see some other nation bring a case against the Republican Party for instigating a worldwide genocide.

Or at least having knowingly caused the harm they are causing. Like I wrote in #167…

Need to go outside, partly to procure noms, partly to cool my head. Lord have mercy on any antivaxxer I encounter on the way (no, won’t hurt anything but their feelings).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:34:52am

re: #166 JOE 🥓

Of course the Pre$$titute$ at the Screw York Times wanted the war to go on forever because THOSE RICH MOTHERFATHERS HAVE NO SKIN IN THE GAME!

Would any of those Pre$$titute$ send their kids to war?

NOPE!!!!!

All the comparisons to Saigon are really insulting to me.

If my father was still alive, he would be eighty-three on August 27.

The crap going on in Afghanistan is nothing like the crap in South Vietnam, and I feel insulted every time some political pundit tries to make that comparison, building their political narrative on my father’s flag-draped coffin from 1968.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:35:25am

Good morning lizards. My son is on a plane to Denver, then on to Atlanta after his Big Adventure. He had a blast and wants to travel some more. Whether his bank account can do that is another matter. Super proud of him. Makes me tear up a bit. My main worry now is covid exposure, but the venues did enforce masks so that’s somewhat hopeful.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:38:27am

Closest to home Covid has hit so far. Wife of a friend of mine from college is in the hospital with it.

Conflicted a bit about sympathy towards this for reasons.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:38:52am

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I sort of pissed off the nurses at the VA when I was bored during recovery after my hand surgery last year, holding my breath and watching my O2 level go below 50% on the monitor.

They really got pissed at me when I set off the alarm for about the tenth time.

They did finally get me the book I’d brought to the hospital to read during recovery though. I don’t know why they wouldn’t give it to me before I annoyed the crap out of them.

Reminds me of the defibrillator scene from Eraser

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:39:42am

re: #171 A Mom Anon

Good morning lizards. My son is on a plane to Denver, then on to Atlanta after his Big Adventure. He had a blast and wants to travel some more. Whether his bank account can do that is another matter. Super proud of him. Makes me tear up a bit. My main worry now is covid exposure, but the venues did enforce masks so that’s somewhat hopeful.

I hope your son returns healthy and hale, with a lifelong memory of his trip.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:40:29am

So the FRAUDIT has been completed and a SECRET REPORT is going to the assholes in the Arizona State Senate.

How soon will the “report” be leaked to OANN?

localnews8.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:40:40am

Tweet/comment from a historian whose blog stuff I read. (Military history and such.)

Afghanistan may or may not be a graveyard of empires, but it sure is a graveyard of modern universalist governing ideologies.

White-Man’s-Burden colonialism? Soviet central government? Democracy-planting?

Turns out, not so universal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:41:58am

re: #172 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Closest to home Covid has hit so far. Wife of a friend of mine from college is in the hospital with it.

Conflicted a bit about sympathy towards this for reasons.

The closest family member to me is my wife’s former mother-in-law from her previous marriage, who died of Covid-19 in California before there was any real understanding of the disease or a vaccine for it.

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:43:41am

washingtonpost.com

What’s the excuse gonna be now?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:43:57am

re: #175 JOE 🥓

So the FRAUDIT has been completed and a SECRET REPORT is going to the assholes in the Arizona State Senate.

How soon will the “report” be leaked to OANN?

localnews8.com

Sunshine laws, what are those?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:45:54am

re: #145 Dangerman

We live in a society where everyone is free to express their opinions on any subject except the experts because they are all elitists with an agenda or puppets of special interests and therefore not to be trusted…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:46:25am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sunshine laws, what are those?

OANN will be doing the Sunshining in a couple hours with “proof” Trump won Arizona by a million votes…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:46:58am

re: #178 EstebanTornado1963

washingtonpost.com

What’s the excuse gonna be now?

It was rushed, with the evidence being the British Medical Journal letter to the FDA arguing against approval.

In areas like mine where the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine cannot be administered due to lack of refrigeration infrastructure, there is no need of an argument against it. Moderna’s and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines have not yet been “approved.”

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:47:35am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:48:35am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sunshine laws, what are those?

Something to placed where the sun don’t shine…

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:48:59am

re: #183 Belafon

Might get into the books as the “I-10 Plague”.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:51:04am

re: #172 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Closest to home Covid has hit so far. Wife of a friend of mine from college is in the hospital with it.

Conflicted a bit about sympathy towards this for reasons.

The grandmother of a girl my wife had in the girl scout troop she led is dying of Covid now. The dying woman is my wife’s age.

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:51:37am
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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:52:26am

re: #176 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Tweet/comment from a historian whose blog stuff I read. (Military history and such.)

AFAIK the British Empire was never particularly interested in ruling the territory Afghanistan now occupies and never actually tried to conquer it, never mind civilise it. There was always an interest in the mayfly rulers of that territory hence the disastrous Elphinstone Expedition in the early 1840s but by the time the Raj was established in India the strategic approach taken was “hold the passes and sow discord”. This strategy worked pretty much all the way until the British withdrawal from India in the late 1940s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:53:19am

re: #183 Belafon

All they need to do is stop reporting, like my state did.

The CDC should make this a mandatory reportable disease, like TB or measles.

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:53:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:55:28am

re: #187 Belafon

All unvaccinated students over the age of 12 in #SaudiArabia will not be allowed to attend school until they are fully vaccinated against the #COVID19, the Ministry of Education announces.

So how long until we start reading “Vaccine Mandate = Sharia Law!!!” in the RW blogosphere?

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:55:45am
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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:57:14am
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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:57:44am
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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:58:53am

re: #192 Belafon

That’s enormous. If we can start producing this as a booster to the original vaccines, it could have the potential to actually win this war.

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:59:10am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:59:31am

re: #192 Belafon

If that is true, they also identified a vaccine against most common colds.

We’ll have to see if the GQP comes out supporting your right to spread colds.

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 6:59:56am

Glad they came out with the Pfizer approval first thing this morning.

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gwangung  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:00:19am

re: #159 lawhawk

I’m almost afraid it’s too l;ate and we’ve broken the heathlcare system. With PTSD haunting them, we’ll see the slow erosion of the ranks of nurses, doctors, attendants and other care givers until there’s no one left.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:00:59am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

That’s enormous. If we can start producing this as a booster to the original vaccines, it could have the potential yo actually win this war.

If they could just market it as horse wormer or sheep emetic, then it would gain wider acceptance…

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:01:58am

LIVE: A climate change protest takes place in London

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:03:40am

re: #194 Belafon

I’m surprised the House of Mouse hasn’t put irresistible pressure on the state government.

I sure as hell wouldn’t travel to Florida now.

—-

I’m off to bed. The birds were switched on long ago, so it’s past my bedtime.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:03:41am

re: #178 EstebanTornado1963

washingtonpost.com

What’s the excuse gonna be now?

“The FDA rushed approval under political pressure. We still don’t know the long term effects of the vaccine.”

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Mattand  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:04:36am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The closest family member to me is my wife’s former mother-in-law from her previous marriage, who died of Covid-19 in California before there was any real understanding of the disease or a vaccine for it.

My brother and sister-in-law got it last June, along with her mother.

Everyone appears to be doing fine, which is a miracle given my brother’s weight problem and SIL’s mother’s advanced age. I still wonder if I’m not getting the full picture from him as to any long haul effects.

We nearly had a super spreader gathering at my sister’s house, celebrating some combined birthdays. My partner and I noped out of that one for obvious reasons. My sister-in-law’s diagnosis came like two days before my brother was going to show up at the party. I still don’t think anyone really gets what a massive bullet dodge this was.

And here’s the thing: my family are not COVID deniers and were taking some precautions, and this still almost happened here in South Jersey, which is way lighter on COVIDiots. I cannot imagine what it’s like on the ground in MAGAt spreadneck territory.

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Jay C  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:04:58am

re: #192 Belafon

Sounds HUGE if it can be proven out and mass-produced in reasonable time. IANAMD, so unsure if this means that this “antibody” treatment can be useful as both a primary vaccination, AND a booster (?)

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:05:37am

re: #199 gwangung

I’m almost afraid it’s too l;ate and we’ve broken the heathlcare system. With PTSD haunting them, we’ll see the slow erosion of the ranks of nurses, doctors, attendants and other care givers until there’s no one left.

There will be new ones who enter the field, just like armies get new recruits.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:06:12am

Another Antivaxer exposed…and gets fired…

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gwangung  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:06:55am

re: #206 No Malarkey!

There will be new ones who enter the field, just like armies get new recruits.

Except it takes time to train, time to get experience and time to get good on the job. I’m afraid we’re losing folks faster than we can rain.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:07:06am

re: #205 Jay C

Sounds HUGE if it can be proven out and mass-produced in reasonable time. IANAMD, so unsure if this means that this “antibody” treatment can be useful as both a primary vaccination, AND a booster (?)

As far as I’ve been able to gather, the trick is to convince the body to produce these antibodies, which I assume means a new mRNA sequence to produce the correct proteins to replicate the sequence they’re targeting and then convincing the body to attack it. In that sense, I think it would essentially work as a complementary vaccine to the original, not really a true booster, but would be perfectly viable as a primary vaccine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:07:51am

re: #204 Mattand

Everyone appears to be doing fine, which is a miracle given my brother’s weight problem and SIL’s mother’s advanced age. I still wonder if I’m not getting the full picture from him as to any long haul effects.

.

It is seems hard to predict who will be hit hard, who will come away unscathed and who will get stuck with long-haul Covid.

One thing that kept me wary (and keeps me wary even after being vaccinated) is that I am in a risk group: over 60, overweight, occasional smoker, etc…

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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:08:19am

re: #195 Dopamine Fish

That’s enormous. If we can start producing this as a booster to the original vaccines, it could have the potential yo actually win this war.

It’s in-vitro research regarding an antibody produced uniquely by individual humans. Early on (pre-vaccines) in this Great Clusterfuck attempts were made to treat and protect individuals using plasma derived from blood donations from previously infected individuals since this plasma was shown to be loaded with antibodies against COVID-19 proteins. The data from this treatment process was analysed, it was found it didn’t work (your antibodies are not someone else’s antibodies, basically) and the treatment was abandoned.

The key development from this one-paper-research news is maybe, with a lot of work and effort, vaccines might be modified and tuned to encourage the production of particular antibodies if it can be proved in large-scale tests that doing so improves the efficacy of the vaccines. Maybe, might, if, proved, tests — lots of caveats.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:09:43am

re: #211 Nojay UK

The key development from this one-paper-research news is maybe, with a lot of work and effort, vaccines might be modified and tuned to encourage the production of particular antibodies if it can be proved in large-scale tests that doing so improves the efficacy of the vaccines. Maybe, might, if, proved, tests — lots of caveats.

Like everything else in the medical field - huge, IF TRUE. Emphasis added.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:10:13am

re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is seems hard to predict who will be hit hard, who will come away unscathed and who will get stuck with long-haul Covid.

One thing that kept me wary (and keeps me wary even after being vaccinated) is that I am in a risk group: over 60, overweight, occasional smoker, etc…

Mask and social distance. Here in Kentucky a 72 year old former legislator, Brent Yonts, died of Covid even though he was fully vaccinated.

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:10:39am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

“The FDA rushed approval under political pressure. We still don’t know the long term effects of the vaccine.”

Except they didn’t. But with the emergency use they got enough data (millions of doses vs thousands) to make their decision. I expect Moderna and J&J to come in the following weeks.

This also frees the US military to mandate the vaccine. And colleges and universities. And high schools. And employers. It’s huge.

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:11:18am

re: #201 Shropshire Slasher

A superspreader event about climate change? SMDH.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:11:18am

Is there some conservative mantra out there I am unaware of for refusing monoclonal antibody therapy? Presumably religious based.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:12:31am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

“The FDA rushed approval under political pressure. We still don’t know the long term effects of the vaccine.”

Which can only be said by someone who has no idea how vaccines, or especially this vaccine, work

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:12:49am

re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Is there some conservative mantra out there I am unaware of for refusing monoclonal antibody therapy? Presumably religious based.

No, in fact, isn’t that the thing they’re pushing now instead of vaccination? “Don’t inject this well-studied, widely distributed, and proven preventive treatment - take this extremely experimental therapy instead. You might still die, and you’ll almost certainly feel like shit, but you’ll OWN THE LIBS.”

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A Mom Anon  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:13:30am

re: #207 JOE 🥓

That is the hospital company in charge of the hospitals that saved my husband’s life more than once. The only thing that really irritates me is how long all these companies waited to make vaccines mandatory. It’s a hospital ffs. Same goes for elder and hospice care workers, why the fuck wasn’t it mandatory from day one?

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:14:19am

re: #217 Dangerman

Which can only be said by someone who has no idea how vaccines, or especially this vaccine, work

And we know the long term effects of Covid. Herman Cain is still dead.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:14:24am

re: #208 gwangung

Except it takes time to train, time to get experience and time to get good on the job. I’m afraid we’re losing folks faster than we can rain.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:16:26am

re: #219 A Mom Anon

That is the hospital company in charge of the hospitals that saved my husband’s life more than once. The only thing that really irritates me is how long all these companies waited to make vaccines mandatory. It’s a hospital ffs. Same goes for elder and hospice care workers, why the fuck wasn’t it mandatory from day one?

I can understand waiting to see how safe and effective the vaccines really are as they enter general use. I think it may have been a little late, but not excessively so. Certainly by this point, as the FDA is granting full approval, they damn well better require it, or I’m not going there if I have a choice in the matter.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:16:57am

re: #217 Dangerman

Which can only be said by someone who has no idea how vaccines, or especially this vaccine, work

Which describes all anti-vaxxers.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:18:34am

re: #219 A Mom Anon

That is the hospital company in charge of the hospitals that saved my husband’s life more than once. The only thing that really irritates me is how long all these companies waited to make vaccines mandatory. It’s a hospital ffs. Same goes for elder and hospice care workers, why the fuck wasn’t it mandatory from day one?

I think part of the fear early on was losing too much staff too fast that couldn’t be replaced fast enough.

I’m sure that’s what drove most nursing home’s thinking
It could take months to replace 30% of your staff
And meantime???

And yes I’m guessing

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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:18:43am

re: #217 Dangerman

Which can only be said by someone who has no idea how vaccines, or especially this vaccine, work

That makes up 90%-plus of the population. Viruses are weird to begin with and it’s difficult for most folks to comprehend how something that isn’t considered alive in scientific terms can replicate and be so dangerous. Size is another thing — bacteria are gigantic complete living organisms, most viruses are tiny so filtration systems that work on bacteria are mostly ineffective against viruses. And so on.

Ignorance is understandable, even expected. The unwillingness to listen to advice and instruction from those who have actually bent their brains around the realities of viruses, their spread, replication, effects on the human body etc. is another matter. “You’re not the boss of me!” is more of a problem than ignorance about viruses and disease.

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sagehen  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:20:05am

re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Is there some conservative mantra out there I am unaware of for refusing monoclonal antibody therapy? Presumably religious based.

There’s a “rumor” (untrue) that the cells of aborted fetuses are used in the production.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:20:56am

re: #220 darthstar

And we know the long term effects of Covid. Herman Cain is still dead.

Not as dead as The Generalissimo.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:21:13am

re: #226 sagehen

There’s a “rumor” (untrue) that the cells of aborted fetuses are used in the production.

This shit is getting REAL FUCKING OLD. I am so done with these pseudo-religious bullshit artists.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:21:26am

re: #225 Nojay UK

That makes up 90%-plus of the population. Viruses are weird to begin with and it’s difficult for most folks to comprehend how something that isn’t considered alive in scientific terms can replicate and be so dangerous. Size is another thing — bacteria are gigantic complete living organisms, most viruses are tiny so filtration systems that work on bacteria are mostly ineffective against viruses. And so on.

Ignorance is understandable, even expected. The unwillingness to listen to advice and instruction from those who have actually bent their brains around the realities of viruses, their spread, replication, effects on the human body etc. is another matter. “You’re not the boss of me!” is more of a problem than ignorance about viruses and disease.

Indeed
But those same.people should save me if I get it…

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:23:53am

re: #228 Dopamine Fish

This shit is getting REAL FUCKING OLD. I am so done with these pseudo-religious bullshit artists.

There’s mercury in some vaccines
all mercury is not the same
But all they see is mercury
Because they’re experts

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:24:08am

re: #219 A Mom Anon

That is the hospital company in charge of the hospitals that saved my husband’s life more than once. The only thing that really irritates me is how long all these companies waited to make vaccines mandatory. It’s a hospital ffs. Same goes for elder and hospice care workers, why the fuck wasn’t it mandatory from day one?

Emergency Use Authorization. It’s very difficult to mandate an “experimental” vaccine.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:25:05am

re: #226 sagehen

There’s a “rumor” (untrue) that the cells of aborted fetuses are used in the production.

Ah. That *would* explain what I was told.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:26:07am
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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:29:04am

re: #230 Dangerman

There’s mercury in some vaccines
all mercury is not the same
But all they see is mercury
Because they’re experts

There’s water in almost everything. Thousands of people drown every year. Why aren’t they protesting THAT?

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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:29:53am

re: #226 sagehen

There’s a “rumor” (untrue) that the cells of aborted fetuses are used in the production.

What is true is that aborted fetal tissue was involved in the research for most medical treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, if at a remove or six. It’s like homeopathy, if someone used the data from research carried out in the 1970s using materials cultured from aborted fetal tissue harvested in the 1950s then the memory of the abortion in question persists and that’s enough for some people to reject its use.

Back in the late 1930s and on through to 1945 both Germany and Japan conducted ethically unacceptable experiments on unwilling human beings. Some of that research on exposure to extremes of heat and cold, immersion in seawater etc. returned invaluable data which cannot be replicated today due to the ethical concerns. Using the tainted but scientifically unquestionable data from that period is a perennial problem for people trying to improve produce new designs of protective clothing to improve the chances of surviving a shipwreck or getting lost on a mountain in a snowstorm.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:31:00am

re: #178 EstebanTornado1963

washingtonpost.com

What’s the excuse gonna be now?

If people don’t “trust” the government or doctors, having a government panel of doctors approve it won’t sway them. Saner people, yes, but not the people that booed Trump yesterday saying to get the shot.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:31:52am

This thread from Libertarian dumbass “Eric” is full of self-owns.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:33:17am

re: #237 The Pie Overlord!

This thread from Libertarian dumbass “Eric” is full of self-owns.

Red states are successful at running hospitals because they’re full? He really didn’t think this through, did he?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:34:29am

re: #235 Nojay UK

No group is more wrapped up in the anti-abortion battle than the RC church. Pope says “Get the Shot”. The anti-vaxxers are just shopping for another bullshit excuse.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:36:34am

Here’s the “Confederate flag” that Chris posted:

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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:37:31am

re: #230 Dangerman

There’s mercury in some vaccines
all mercury is not the same
But all they see is mercury
Because they’re experts

No mercury in Western vaccines, not any more for at least a decade after White People panicked and Thimerosal (also Thiomersal, not a spelling error) was withdrawn from common use. It was used as a preservative in vaccines for about seventy years, cheap, very effective, didn’t degrade the vaccine or reduce its own effectiveness, had no perceivable effects in use over tens of billions of doses administered around the world but, MERCURY!!!

It’s been replaced by other preservatives, some of which are less effective than Thimerosal or cause the vaccine itself to degrade etc. It is still used in some places such as sub-Saharan Africe for mass immunisation programs in part because it is cheap, it works well in bulk storage, doesn’t degrade in heat etc.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:37:37am

re: #240 The Pie Overlord!

Here’s the “Confederate flag” that Chris posted:

So Alabama is basically broken, and the other four are on the precipice. But hey, the South is winning the pandemic, I’m sure their economies are booming on the backs of all the dead people!

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:37:42am

re: #237 The Pie Overlord!

This thread from Libertarian dumbass “Eric” is full of self-owns.

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Where does this “more staff” magically come from?

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:39:29am

And we got a MAGAT disclosing to the whole world how tiny his Ding Dong is.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:39:46am

re: #243 Dangerman

Where does this “more staff” magically come from?

The back room, the same place the beds and ventilators come from. You know, every business has a back room where they magically keep stuff.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:40:20am

re: #240 The Pie Overlord!

FFS, if Alabama is at 99% ICU occupancy rate, I’d say it’s time to start prioritizing who gets admitted to the ICU, same as is done in a mass casualty situation.

“Doc, we got an emergency….18-year-old, severely injured in a car accident. Also, 58-year-old unvaccinated COVID patient in respiratory distress.”

This might sound heartless, but for me at least, this one is a no-brainer. I know damn well who’s going in the ICU and who gets an ibuprofen and a hearty, “Good luck buddy!”

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:42:13am

re: #246 Dr Lizardo

FFS, if Alabama is at 99% ICU occupancy rate, I’d say it’s time to start prioritizing who gets admitted to the ICU, same as is done in a mass casualty situation.

“Doc, we got an emergency….18-year-old, severely injured in a car accident. Also, 58-year-old unvaccinated COVID patient in respiratory distress.”

This might sound heartless, but for me at least, this one is a no-brainer. I know damn well who’s going in the ICU and who gets an ibuprofen and a hearty, “Good luck buddy!”

Part of the problem is that COVID patients tie up ICU beds for a ridiculous amount of time. So once there’s a bunch of them in there, you’re already past the point where you needed to be triaging the ICU beds, because those beds already occupied by COVID patients aren’t going to be getting un-occupied in a hurry.

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:43:01am

re: #244 JOE 🥓

And we got a MAGAT disclosing to the whole world how tiny his Ding Dong is.

He’s also on film shooting “Pelosi’s plan” as well as a RINO…he seems balanced.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:43:50am

re: #241 Nojay UK

No mercury in Western vaccines, not any more for at least a decade after White People panicked and Thimerosal (also Thiomersal, not a spelling error) was withdrawn from common use. It was used as a preservative in vaccines for about seventy years, cheap, very effective, didn’t degrade the vaccine or reduce its own effectiveness, had no perceivable effects in use over tens of billions of doses administered around the world but, MERCURY!!!

It’s been replaced by other preservatives, some of which are less effective than Thimerosal or cause the vaccine itself to degrade etc. It is still used in some places such as sub-Saharan Africe for mass immunisation programs in part because it is cheap, it works well in bulk storage, doesn’t degrade in heat etc.

Yeah I was speaking generally sort of.

But zomg there might be some trace amounts in this one flu vaccine (fluverin) so our position that all vaccines are bad is still valid…///

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:46:51am

re: #243 Dangerman

Where does this “more staff” magically come from?

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Eric is a Libertarian which means he lives in his own little Laissez Fairyland where Goddess Ayn Rand rules unabated and the Free Market is absolutely perfect.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:47:07am

re: #245 Dopamine Fish

The back room, the same place the beds and ventilators come from. You know, every business has a back room where they magically keep stuff.

Right where the spare unused ventilators are too.
So you wheel them in. To where I’m not sure.
And there’s unused electrical outlets (orange, not white) and unused o2 ports just waiting for you to plug in…

Idiots. These people are idiots.

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:47:10am
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:47:13am

FDA has granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Good.

fda.gov

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:48:03am

re: #249 Dangerman

Yeah I was speaking generally sort of.

But zomg there might be some trace amounts in this one flu vaccine (fluverin) so our position that all vaccines are bad is still valid…///

We have one faction that is distrustful of Big Pharma and Western Medicine.

And another faction that is distrustful of Big Government and Modern Science.

Put those two together and you have reached a toxic critical mass of stoopid.

People are already dying from it.

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:48:36am

re: #247 Dopamine Fish

Part of the problem is that COVID patients tie up ICU beds for a ridiculous amount of time. So once there’s a bunch of them in there, you’re already past the point where you needed to be triaging the ICU beds, because those beds already occupied by COVID patients aren’t going to be getting un-occupied in a hurry.

Start transferring them to the Facebook hospitals.
That’s where the experts are

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:48:53am

re: #253 Dr Lizardo

FDA has granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Good.

fda.gov

That’s what I got

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:49:00am

“He’s a Big Pharma shill”, “He’s a sheep!”, “He’s a know-nothing”. You know those reactions to any video of this type are going to come.

“My advice to anyone is to get the vaccine” - Young COVID patients share their experiences | NHS

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:49:19am

Ostrava is growing up….we got a Japanese bistro!

MAIDO || international cuisines in ostrava

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:51:50am

re: #257 Teukka

“He’s a Big Pharma shill”, “He’s a sheep!”, “He’s a know-nothing”. You know those reactions to any video of this type are going to come.

[Embedded content]

I really think I want an mRNA shot this time instead of the J&J booster

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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:52:14am

re: #251 Dangerman

Right where the spare unused ventilators are too.
So you wheel them in. To where I’m not sure.
And there’s unused electrical outlets (orange, not white) and unused o2 ports just waiting for you to plug in…

A couple of hospitals in the UK ran into problems with their ICUs last year during the first wave of cases. The original engineering specification for the wards didn’t allow for most/all beds being taken up with respiratory cases requiring high-flowrate oxygen and the existing plumbing in the walls, the regulators and distribution manifolds etc. couldn’t cope structurally with the peak demands for oxygen flow caused by COVID-19. This has been fixed now, everywhere.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:53:10am

re: #255 Dangerman

Start transferring them to the Facebook hospitals.
That’s where the experts are

If sheepdip is a medicine, a hospital can be a barn. We have precedent in the manger/neonatal unit.

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sagehen  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:53:33am

re: #242 Dopamine Fish

So Alabama is basically broken, and the other four are on the precipice. But hey, the South is winning the pandemic, I’m sure their economies are booming on the backs of all the dead people!

Shame the census happened before all the Confederate deaths…

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sagehen  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:54:10am

re: #243 Dangerman

Where does this “more staff” magically come from?

The Phillipines.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:55:10am

re: #243 Dangerman

Where does this “more staff” magically come from?

How many nurses can we fly out of Afghanistan?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:55:18am

re: #263 sagehen

The Phillipines.

Trump U Medical.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:56:19am

re: #263 sagehen

I’m sure he’s an open-borders libertarian and not one of the pot-smoking fascist libertarians…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:57:12am

Still waiting for all those Pulpit Pimpin Preachers who heal in the name of Jay-Zuss to get their asses into the hospitals and lay their healin’ hands on the sick and afflicted! 😏

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:57:24am

Honest to god, I genuinely had no idea the Geo Prizm was made by Toyota….

1997 Geo Prizm: Regular Car Reviews

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:57:25am

re: #265 Decatur Deb

Trump U Medical.

Home of the Fighting Hydroxychloroquines!!!

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:58:02am

re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Home of the Fighting Hydroxychloroquines!!!

And the Ivermectin Brigade!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 23, 2021 • 7:58:25am

re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Home of the Fighting Hydroxychloroquines!!!

Shouldn’t their name be the “Grifters” with a big “$” on the side of their helmets?

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:04:16am

Still wondering why Marky Mark hasn’t taken all those Ivermectin pages down on Facebook…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:09:37am

And here go the assholes at 19th Century Fox!

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:10:42am

re: #272 JOE 🥓

Still wondering why Marky Mark hasn’t taken all those Ivermectin pages down on Facebook…

Oh, I’m sure that even if they do, they’ll come back using code words for all the key talking points.

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:10:56am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Honest to god, I genuinely had no idea the Geo Prizm was made by Toyota….

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That’s why it was better than the average 90’s GM auto… and I’m someone who prefered GM brands over the other American makers.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:13:54am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

So was the Pontiac Vibe / Toyota Matrix.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:14:44am

re: #275 William Lewis

That’s why it was better than the average 90’s GM auto… and I’m someone who prefered GM brands over the other American makers.

There’s a bit in the video where he notes that it was made at the Fremont, CA plant (now a Tesla plant) and they had 20% absenteeism, rampant on-site drug and alcohol use, hookers in the parking lot operating out of trailers and the disgruntled workers putting Coke cans in the door panels.

Sounds like a not-so-happy place to work, LOL.

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:15:17am
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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:15:32am
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A Mom Anon  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:15:57am

re: #231 Rightwingconspirator

I get that part. But this is about people caring for sick and dying people. In a pandemic. You would think those professions would look at that sheer numbers and then not decide to require it for employment.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:20:57am
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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:22:42am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Honest to god, I genuinely had no idea the Geo Prizm was made by Toyota….

[Embedded content]

My sister had a green one. One of the smoothest shifting millennial anti-theft device I have ever had the pleasure to drive.

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Jay C  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:24:11am

re: #231 Rightwingconspirator

Emergency Use Authorization. It’s very difficult to mandate an “experimental” vaccine.

So there’s no excuse, now, right?

*Mandating* vaccination is one thing: what really floors me are the numbers showing widespread (if geographically uneven) non-vaccination rates among healthcare workers in general. One would think that people (at whatever level of employment) exposed to the demands and stresses - and high mortality rates - of a pandemic in 2020 would, by 2021, be only too eager to get a protective vaccine.
One would think, but apparently incorrectly.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:24:33am

This looks like an interesting film. Apparently, it’s based on the 1946-1947 South Sulawesi counterinsurgency campaign run by the Dutch in their attempt to reclaim Indonesia as their colony in the aftermath of WWII. The actions of Raymond “The Turk” Westerling in that campaign are considered war crimes by Indonesians.

THE EAST Official Trailer (2021)

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:25:53am

As it should have been in the first place.
Go Jennings!!
google.com

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A Mom Anon  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:26:02am

re: #244 JOE 🥓

Oh yay. He’s running in Jody Hice’s district. Because it’s just not wingnutty enough right now. Hice either isn’t running again or isn’t right wing enough I guess. It’s GA, I can’t explain anything here except by waiving a confederate flag or riding around with it flying from the back of my oversized pickup truck. Gah.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:26:25am

re: #282 Shropshire Slasher

My sister had a green one. One of the smoothest shifting millennial anti-theft device I have ever had the pleasure to drive.

The smoothest shifting millennial anti-theft device I’ve ever encountered was in a 1989 Volvo 740 Turbo wagon. Smooth as silk.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:28:06am

re: #285 Patricia Kayden

As it should have been in the first place.
Go Jennings!!
google.com

I’m down for this.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:28:40am

re: #286 A Mom Anon

Oh yay. He’s running in Jody Hice’s district. Because it’s just not wingnutty enough right now. Hice either isn’t running again or isn’t right wing enough I guess. It’s GA, I can’t explain anything here except by waiving a confederate flag or riding around with it flying from the back of my oversized pickup truck. Gah.

Isn’t Hice running for Secretary of State in Georgia so he can rig the vote?

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:29:42am

re: #284 Dr Lizardo

This looks like an interesting film. Apparently, it’s based on the 1946-1947 South Sulawesi counterinsurgency campaign run by the Dutch in their attempt to reclaim Indonesia as their colony in the aftermath of WWII. The actions of Raymond “The Turk” Westerling in that campaign are considered war crimes by Indonesians.

[Embedded content]

One of the greatest tragedies for SEA was the death of FDR. He fully intended for all of the colonies to be liberated at the wars end. Truman just couldn’t make that leap of faith. Good man in many ways (see his desegregation of the US Army) but that was the proverbial bridge too far because too many of the nationalist groups were seen as communist.

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danarchy  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:29:58am

re: #285 Patricia Kayden

As it should have been in the first place.
Go Jennings!!
google.com

I didn’t like him as a host. Just doesn’t have the charisma of a game show host imo.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:31:40am

re: #178 EstebanTornado1963

washingtonpost.com

What’s the excuse gonna be now?

Approved too quickly.

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:32:12am

Sweet, sweet Connie, she was doing her act.

Connie Hamzy, famous groupie in Little Rock, AR (where I grew up), passed away.

ultimateclassicrock.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:32:35am

re: #291 danarchy

I didn’t like him as a host. Just doesn’t have the charisma of a game show host imo.

I’m willing to give him a chance. He might just need some time to grow into it, you know?

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A Cranky One  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:33:00am

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:33:06am

...

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:33:27am

re: #285 Patricia Kayden

As it should have been in the first place.
Go Jennings!!
google.com

If it’s not LeVar Burton, well, I won’t bother watching. If it’s on I wouldn’t turn to something else but I wouldn’t look for it either. Everyone else has been white-washing by Sony.

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Jay C  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:34:36am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Honest to god, I genuinely had no idea the Geo Prizm was made by Toyota….

[Embedded content]

Geo was a catchall marque GM used for various vehicles, mostly of Japanese origin: Our first 4WD we got for the “country” was a first-gen Geo Tracker we bought from the local Chevy/GM dealer. It was not really a surprise to find that it was a re-badged Suzuki Sidekick* built by GM in Canada and using Japanese engines.

*rebranded due to tariff issues I don’t really comprehend….

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:37:03am

re: #243 Dangerman

Where does this “more staff” magically come from?

[Embedded content]

Whole hospitals have turned into COVID wards because the ICU can’t handle them all, Eric.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:38:19am

Antivaxx protestors stormed the HQ of ITN in London: dailymail.co.uk

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:38:47am

re: #283 Jay C

So there’s no excuse, now, right?

*Mandating* vaccination is one thing: what really floors me are the numbers showing widespread (if geographically uneven) non-vaccination rates among healthcare workers in general. One would think that people (at whatever level of employment) exposed to the demands and stresses - and high mortality rates - of a pandemic in 2020 would, by 2021, be only too eager to get a protective vaccine.
One would think, but apparently incorrectly.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:39:08am

re: #298 Jay C

Geo was a catchall marque GM used for various vehicles, mostly of Japanese origin: Our first 4WD we got for the “country” was a first-gen Geo Tracker we bought from the local Chevy/GM dealer. It was not really a surprise to find that it was a re-badged Suzuki Sidekick* built by GM in Canada and using Japanese engines.

*rebranded due to tariff issues I don’t really comprehend….

Yeah, I do recall there was something about tariffs being involved.

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piratedan  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:40:12am

well, am at the point where since the hospitals are full, that any new patients that present themselves with COVID symptoms should be immediately transported to the state government chambers for immediate treatment by the “real” experts.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:40:20am
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Mattand  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:41:37am

re: #297 William Lewis

If it’s not LeVar Burton, well, I won’t bother watching. If it’s on I wouldn’t turn to something else but I wouldn’t look for it either. Everyone else has been white-washing by Sony.

Unpopular hot take, but I did not like Alex Trebek. He could be very condescending when someone got an answer wrong. Always got the feeling that he felt he was always the smartest one in the studio, with no awarenesses that it was because he had the frigging answers right in front of him at all times.

It didn’t help that he was a prick to a contestant who had some pop culture/geek career or hobby. I forget what the scenario was, but it was along the lines of “Oh, you like comic books? How’s it feel to be a loser virgin?”

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lawhawk  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:42:18am

Also Fox: why wasn’t this done faster/sooner.
Also also GOPers: why aren’t you giving credit to Trump for Pfizer BioNTech getting approved because of Operation Warp Speed.

These fuckers can’t stop lying about absolutely everything. They have no bottom.

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Mattand  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:44:47am

re: #306 lawhawk

There is something really off-putting about Mitch’s Twitter account being titled “Leader McConnell”. It has a vague dictator-ish ring to it.

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:53:31am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:54:33am

re: #307 Mattand

There is something really off-putting about Mitch’s Twitter account being titled “Leader McConnell”. It has a vague dictator-ish ring to it.

Note the refusal to properly put “Minority” in front of it.

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:56:27am

Current mood:
Really fucking good, actually.

San Junipero - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Black Mirror 3x04)

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:57:40am

My day so far in one tweet. Hope all yours got off to a better start.

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William Lewis  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:57:46am

re: #305 Mattand

I can see that. Don’t agree BUT I can easily see it. Probably known too many on both sides of the Geek divide.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 23, 2021 • 8:58:59am

re: #223 No Malarkey!

Which describes all anti-vaxxers.

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying know how vaccines work, yet they(especially Bret) have been very vocal in attacking mRNA vaccines.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:00:11am

re: #276 Eric The Fruit Bat

So was the Pontiac Vibe / Toyota Matrix.

Mitsubishi and Chrystler/Plymouth had a joint venture making cars together for awhile; I remember touring the Subaru/Isuzu plant in Lafayette, IN on the Isuzu side and saw made-in-Mexico GM engines going into the Isuzus.

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:03:49am

re: #308 jaunte

Watch those goalposts move!

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:06:38am

re: #247 Dopamine Fish

Part of the problem is that COVID patients tie up ICU beds for a ridiculous amount of time. So once there’s a bunch of them in there, you’re already past the point where you needed to be triaging the ICU beds, because those beds already occupied by COVID patients aren’t going to be getting un-occupied in a hurry.

The ICU beds are starting to “turn over” now, as covid patients die.

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:07:01am

Pentagon just announced a vaccine mandate for its 1.4 million employees. They said mid September or full FDA approval, whichever came first.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:08:06am

I really hope this isn’t true.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been staying with one of his sisters in Westchester County in the final days of his third term, recently has asked staff members at the Executive Mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, Captain, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor moved out last week.

Two State Police sources told the Times Union on Saturday that the governor had recently asked mansion staff members if anyone would be interested in caring for the dog. Captain — a high-strung mix of shepherd, Siberian and malamute — has nipped a few people since Cuomo adopted him in 2018, the sources said, and a mansion staffer recently took the dog home for a few days but decided he was too much.

Probably won’t have the same sized staff at his sister’s house to care for him.

timesunion.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:08:35am

re: #238 Dopamine Fish

Red states are successful at running hospitals because they’re full? He really didn’t think this through, did he?

He’s implying that there so good at running hospitals that there are no wasted bed. Kinds like just-in-time shipping. Just make more ICU beds as you need them. Not understanding that an I U bed is not just a href in the ICU, but comes with a complement of machinery and staff that probably doesn’t exist in excess.

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Juan Carlos Mescalero  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:10:07am

Watching the news from Oz. I think Australia might be West Virginia with beaches.

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Belafon  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:13:17am

Personally, I would like to see Robin Roberts do it, but I doubt she’ll give up her morning job for it.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:18:17am

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piratedan  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:18:58am

re: #319 Colère Tueur de Lapin

just like most of us don’t get a chance to peek behind the curtain….

first you have to make something from nothing, you have to point to a spot somewhere on the floor plan and make that area a “bed”. Then you have to tie it to a patient location… why? because for the staff that has to then work that location, it has to be able to identify which patient is in which bed. The network staff needs to be able to route any and all network associations with it because all that equipment is interfaced and if it’s interfaced, it has to be accounted for on the network. Then you have to notify all of the relevant departments of this new location, dietary, radiology, lab for all of them to be able to know who this person is and where to find them. Then Billing has to be brought in to be able to track the costs associated with dealing with this patient.

After a bit, you may eventually run afoul of certain regulatory agencies that indicate that the infrastructure of the hospital can’t safely track any more add-ons as all of this equipment has to be on 24/7 and running. You need to include environmental services and facilities that we need new beds, linens, trash cans, disposable items like tissues, cleaning supplies, phones, tvs that are usually part and parcel of the “hospital experience”, in addition to racks for hanging IV, jacks and outlets to plug the equipment into.

all of that also takes people to update the networks, run the cables, manage the software and then, nurses and physicians to manage the patient.

its very much been like this in the health care field for the last 20 months and its not expecting to get better any time soon with the ability for Delta to be more easily spread and more of an ass-kicker once it finds a host.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:19:28am

re: #307 Mattand

There is something really off-putting about Mitch’s Twitter account being titled “Leader McConnell”. It has a vague dictator-ish ring to it.

At least McConnell has been serious about vocally promoting vaccinations from day one.

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:20:26am

re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter

At least McConnell has been serious about vocally promoting vaccinations from day one.

Yeah, even though he always couches it with Trump support…fuckin’ coward.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:21:34am

re: #314 Barefoot Grin

Mitsubishi and Chrystler/Plymouth had a joint venture making cars together for awhile; I remember touring the Subaru/Isuzu plant in Lafayette, IN on the Isuzu side and saw made-in-Mexico GM engines going into the Isuzus.

I bought a brand new Plymouth Colt in ‘88. It was basically a Mitsubishi.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:21:53am

Deep Twitter mining (got a new like on an 11 month old tweet):

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:25:38am

re: #322 Dave In Austin

“Just the Corn”

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darthstar  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:26:05am

Okay, I normally don’t do these but this one starts with dick…my phone finished with “abundant and low value.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:30:55am

re: #323 piratedan

That was a very good descriptor of logistics behind a bed — more that just the care and equipment. Thank you.

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Citizen K  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:31:05am

re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter

John Oliver’s main story tonight was Afghanistan; he was full of rage toward Biden, his handling of the evacuation, and his apparent longstanding focus only on US forces with a notable lack of interest on Afghanis. Oliver was infuriated with our entire policy from the Bush invasion until today and how unprepared we have been with the Taliban takeover. We will have to see how this ultimately all plays out — but we left death and destruction in our wake and we owe the Afghanis who helped us and those women who are in special danger an escape from this nightmare of our making.

I’m honestly exhausted right now and this is kinda why. Once again, the only thing that we can agree with as a country is that, no matter what, no matter how long the problem has existed, and no matter who else was involved, A Dem must somehow be to blame for everything, and we must reserve our rage for them and only them, ever.

I know the polls aren’t showing it yet, but the entire complex seems knives out for Biden now and i’m not sure that support is going to hold up against this kind of full court press from even some of the more reasonable commentators and pundits we know about.

Just….fuck everything. How the fuck do you fight against this shit?

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Dave In Austin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:35:19am

Ham and eggs over medium. Is there pepper?

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:37:26am

re: #306 lawhawk

Thank you!! Trump gets no credit seven months after he’s out of office for what the CDC did today. What a ridiculous lie.

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Teukka  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:38:19am

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:39:17am
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plansbandc  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:41:44am

re: #285 Patricia Kayden

He’s the one I wanted from the beginning.

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A Cranky One  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:41:59am

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:42:31am

re: #322 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

Frankenfurters

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:42:45am

Hope Sergey pays us a visit here to tell us what’s going on with Covid in Russia. Certainly the current “official” deaths have been at the highest level since the start of the epidemic. Looks like Russians are finally getting vaccinated — the percentage has doubled since 2 months ago but is still half our level. Our percentage is pathetic, primarily due to the Trump anti-vaxx brigade.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:42:51am

A here, hold my rum unfortunate moment:

New York police have identified the Brooklyn resident who fell to his death while attempting a backflip on a balcony at Citi Field on Friday as the CEO and co-founder of the liquor company that created Monkey Rum.

Ian Crystal, 46, died after falling about 30 to 50 feet and landing on concrete during intermission at a Dead & Company concert.

Damn, looked like a full house too.

dailymail.co.uk

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:44:26am

re: #337 A Cranky One

When the aliens get here we have a lot to answer for.

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:46:31am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:46:41am

re: #340 Shropshire Slasher

A here, hold my rum unfortunate moment:

Damn, looked like a full house too.

dailymail.co.uk

A CEO who is not smart can get by on motivation and enthusiasm, until they attempt a 30’-50’ backflip. You can’t bullshit your way through that.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:47:27am

re: #340 Shropshire Slasher

Police say Crystal was possibly inebriated while attempting the flip

You don’t say…

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:48:10am

re: #343 Punish Domestic Terrorists

A CEO who is not smart can get by on motivation and enthusiasm, until they attempt a 30’-50’ backflip. You can’t bullshit your way through that.

Gravity is a harsh mistress, and there’s no fooling that old broad.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:50:09am

re: #345 Dopamine Fish

Gravity is a harsh mistress, and there’s no fooling that old broad.

I suspect even Bezos would have succumbed.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:51:45am

re: #339 Hecuba’s daughter

We follow each other on SlimeBook. I’ll ping him.

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:53:10am

PR release on Rick Perry’s new filtration company:

“Rick Perry and Henry Cisneros join IVP Air and InterContinental Houston - Medical Center to celebrate installations of coronavirus killing air filtration system”
prweb.com

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lawhawk  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:53:41am
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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:54:43am

“…Airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) via air-conditioning systems poses a significant threat for the continued escalation of the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Considering that SARS-CoV-2 cannot tolerate temperatures above 70 °C, here we designed and fabricated efficient filters based on heated nickel (Ni) foam to catch and kill SARS-CoV-2. Virus test results revealed that 99.8% of the aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 was caught and killed by a single pass through a novel Ni-foam-based filter when heated up to 200 °C. In addition, the same filter was also used to catch and kill 99.9% of Bacillus anthracis, an airborne spore. This study paves the way for preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other highly infectious airborne agents in closed environments.”
sciencedirect.com

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A Mom Anon  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:55:39am

re: #289 JOE 🥓

I’m not sure how serious he is, there are a bunch of wingnuts talking about doing it but who is totally serious remains to be seen. I try keeping up with all the shit here, but god is it awful.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 23, 2021 • 9:56:08am

re: #350 jaunte

What does that do to the air temperature, though?

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:07:38am

re: #335 jaunte

[Embedded content]

They still don’t want to take the vaccine.

Fine.

Give those assholes the Pine Condo and the Dirt Nap.

I’ve had it with those brainwashed assholes.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:08:03am

re: #352 Dopamine Fish

What does that do to the air temperature, though?

So it has to be raised to 158 F? People would have a lot more to worry about than Covid!

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:10:27am

re: #352 Dopamine Fish

I suppose they cool the air back down after heating it. Pretty energy-intensive.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:11:13am

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jaunte  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:11:19am

Heating the planet to save ourselves from the diseases caused by heating the planet.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:14:33am

Just got a text message from the Los Angeles County Recorder that my Recall ballot was received and counted.

So that’s one more NO vote and another FUCK YOU to Larry “I Want Covid To Kill You” Elder

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:17:20am

re: #331 Citizen K

I’m honestly exhausted right now and this is kinda why. Once again, the only thing that we can agree with as a country is that, no matter what, no matter how long the problem has existed, and no matter who else was involved, A Dem must somehow be to blame for everything, and we must reserve our rage for them and only them, ever.

I know the polls aren’t showing it yet, but the entire complex seems knives out for Biden now and i’m not sure that support is going to hold up against this kind of full court press from even some of the more reasonable commentators and pundits we know about.

Just….fuck everything. How the fuck do you fight against this shit?

you wanna blame properly:
George W. Bush
Congresses (4)
American People
Military Leadership
Barack Obama
Donald Trump (includning sabotaging the incoming admin)
the afghan army
the afghan people

which might leave biden with 5 maybe 10% max

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:20:21am

re: #341 jaunte

When the aliens get here we have a lot to answer for.

they’ll see the billboard and def not get off at our exit

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Dangerman  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:21:33am

re: #345 Dopamine Fish

Gravity is a harsh mistress, and there’s no fooling that old broad.

covid went to the same school

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Nojay UK  Aug 23, 2021 • 10:22:20am

re: #345 Dopamine Fish

Gravity is a harsh mistress, and there’s no fooling that old broad.

Yes, but she’s sooooo attractive.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 23, 2021 • 11:20:27am

re: #354 Hecuba’s daughter

So it has to be raised to 158 F? People would have a lot more to worry about than Covid!

There is already a design that uses a HEPA filter chamber and UV light. That’s gotta be a more efficient design
usairpurifiers.com


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