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I'm betting the Judge sees through is rather transparent to dismiss charges. They guilty as hell.
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carmenjonze wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:24 pm There is only one type of person in this entire country that is doing this sort of thing.

One type of person, and one type, only. White, conservative, male, and most importantly: all three.

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They are a national security threat.
Cons everywhere, hint hint, are silent. They are complicit. When the GOP takes the House by gerrymandering and voter suppression they will impeach Joe the next day. All hell breaks loose. Enjoy this relative peace and calm while we can. Cons including those here by NOT speaking out are responsible for what is coming.
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Libertas wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:45 pm Cons everywhere, hint hint, are silent. They are complicit. When the GOP takes the House by gerrymandering and voter suppression they will impeach Joe the next day. All hell breaks loose. Enjoy this relative peace and calm while we can. Cons including those here by NOT speaking out are responsible for what is coming.
Well, we just have to stop them in their tracks.

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Australia's New South Wales records first omicron death

Australia's most populated state on Monday recorded its first COVID-19 death from the omicron variant, The Associated Press reports.

New South Wales reported that the victim was a man in his 80s who experienced a breakthrough case after contracting the new variant at an elderly care facility in western Sydney. The fully vaccinated man had an underlying health condition.

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Federal program offers cash to cover COVID-19 funeral costs

BOSTON (AP) — When Wanda Olson’s son-in-law died in March after contracting COVID-19, she and her daughter had to grapple with more than just their sudden grief. They had to come up with money for a cremation.

Even without a funeral, the bill came to nearly $2,000, a hefty sum that Olson initially covered. She and her daughter then learned of a federal program that reimburses families up to $9,000 for funeral costs for loved ones who died of COVID-19.

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In WWII they told people not to spread rumors and fear based suppositions. It hurt the war effort to have everyone in a panic state all the time. It also made people more susceptible to foreign actors with disinfo ops, and there were plenty of those. And, of course, it sent racism over the top, with Japanese in concentration camps, Zoot Suit riots, etc etc.

That might be a good idea for now. We don't need the scare stuff. The media do it to sell their product. People verbalize their fear. The Internet does what it does best, which is to spread every bad idea in record time. It's becoming toxic.

I could do my worst thoughts here, but they would scare your pants off. Literally. You'd need a dry pair. Trust me, you would. I think cinematically, and you wouldn't sleep for a month. But what does it accomplish to let imaginary monsters run wild?

We are in a major crisis and the last thing we need is all the hand wringing and verbalization of every negative thought. We have the perfect machine for spreading unfounded panic, and that's exactly what this net is doing, again and again. The social effects are as catastrophic as a comet hitting the Earth.

Absent a real old school direct military threat with the occasional shell hitting oil piers off Santa Barbara, the situation is less obvious. The solution is the same. It starts with us.

Don't just sling doom prophecies. It makes the problem worse. Use your intellect to find pathways to hope, and inspire people to cooperate and prevail. It will help. I promise.
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ZoWie wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:24 am In WWII they told people not to spread rumors and fear based suppositions. It hurt the war effort to have everyone in a panic state all the time. It also made people more susceptible to foreign actors with disinfo ops, and there were plenty of those. And, of course, it sent racism over the top, with Japanese in concentration camps, Zoot Suit riots, etc etc.

That might be a good idea for now. We don't need the scare stuff. The media do it to sell their product. People verbalize their fear. The Internet does what it does best, which is to spread every bad idea in record time. It's becoming toxic.

I could do my worst thoughts here, but they would scare your pants off. Literally. You'd need a dry pair. Trust me, you would. I think cinematically, and you wouldn't sleep for a month. But what does it accomplish to let imaginary monsters run wild?

We are in a major crisis and the last thing we need is all the hand wringing and verbalization of every negative thought. We have the perfect machine for spreading unfounded panic, and that's exactly what this net is doing, again and again. The social effects are as catastrophic as a comet hitting the Earth.

Absent a real old school threat with the occasional shell hitting oil piers off Santa Barbara to drive home the dangers of speculation and/or worry running wild, the situation is less obvious. The solution is the same. It starts with us.

Don't just sling doom prophecies. It makes the problem worse. Use your intellect to find pathways to hope, and inspire people to cooperate and prevail. It will help. I promise.
OK. I hear you. In my case the reason I sling doom is because the people responsible are HERE on this board and out there and they STILL wont denounce the party and the actions of the leaders. But I am wasting my time, one friend here in particular has told me over and over that I am if I am waiting for them to do the right thing.

I will stop with my predictions but I will continue to blame those who are responsible. As usual I appreciate criticism that is constructive and stated in the manner in which you did here. I look forward to being wrong, I learn much more that way.
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They're doing the only thing they know how to do, which is to find scapegoats and rationalize amorphous situations by reducing them to the usual politics of hate that have worked since civilization began. Right now, they are in denial regarding changing racial attitudes, and they have brought their solution for that to a vastly different situation in which a virus evolved with an R-sub-zero number practically off the chart. Over the top. Worse than measles, some say, and that would put it near the most contagious virus ever discovered, if they're right. Literally, one guy could get off a plane with it, and have a whole country going within 4-6 weeks.

Rationally speaking, we survived measles as a race and we'll survive this one. We need to do what we'd do in a measles epidemic, had we not virtually eliminated those, and just use our brains instead of our adrenals. Common sense tells you all you need to do.

I realize I'm preaching to the choir here. The people who need to change their behavior feel as if they're being colonized if anyone tries to speak to them rationally. Surely, in their thought process, some librul somewhere in the great non-white-protestant Them made up the whole covid thing to get their guns. You don't talk to people like that, but you don't scare rational people either. That just makes more irrational people.

If I gave into that kind of adrenal thinking, I'd go over the top in a legendary mannner, and there'd still be one hell of a nasty virus to fight. I'm appealing to whatever rational faculty we have left to STAY CALM and fight it with the weapons we have. Everyone knows what those are, however inconvenient it is to use them.
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ZoWie wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 12:27 pm They're doing the only thing they know how to do, which is to find scapegoats and rationalize amorphous situations by reducing them to the usual politics of hate that have worked since civilization began. Right now, they are in denial regarding changing racial attitudes, and they have brought their solution for that to a vastly different situation in which a virus evolved with an R-sub-zero number practically off the chart. Over the top. Worse than measles, some say, and that would put it near the most contagious virus ever discovered, if they're right. Literally, one guy could get off a plane with it, and have a whole country going within 4-6 weeks.

Rationally speaking, we survived measles as a race and we'll survive this one. We need to do what we'd do in a measles epidemic, had we not virtually eliminated those, and just use our brains instead of our adrenals. Common sense tells you all you need to do.

I realize I'm preaching to the choir here. The people who need to change their behavior feel as if they're being colonized if anyone tries to speak to them rationally. Surely, in their thought process, some librul somewhere in the great non-white-protestant Them made up the whole covid thing to get their guns. You don't talk to people like that, but you don't scare rational people either. That just makes more irrational people.

If I gave into that kind of adrenal thinking, I'd go over the top in a legendary mannner, and there'd still be one hell of a nasty virus to fight. I'm appealing to whatever rational faculty we have left to STAY CALM and fight it with the weapons we have. Everyone knows what those are, however inconvenient it is to use them.
You are one of the wisest people I have interacted with on the internet. I look forward to your counsel as things get worse. Seriously.
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staffing problems disrupt air travel for 4th consecutive day
Airlines have called on the Biden administration to shorten the guidelines for the isolation period for vaccinated workers who get COVID-19, in order to ease staffing shortages. The union for flight attendants has pushed back against that, saying the isolation period should remain 10 days.

Flight delays and cancellations tied to staffing shortages have been a constant this year. Airlines encouraged workers to quit in 2020 when air travel collapsed and have struggled to make up ground this year when air travel rebounded faster than almost anyone had expected.
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De Blasio announces NYC schools will open as planned after holiday recess

Outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday announced that schools will reopen as planned following the winter break on Jan. 3, despite the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the spread of the omicron variant.

"The science is clear. Schools need to be open," de Blasio said in a press briefing. "Everyone talks about the needs of our kids. Their health needs, physical health, mental health, nutrition needs, their social development. These are academic needs, schools need to be open."

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Cathedral Bell Tolling for 800,000 COVID Deaths

As our nation marks 800,000 lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington National Cathedral will toll its mourning bell 800 times -- once for every 1,000 dead -- on Wednesday, December 15
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Here we go, we are so FUCKED


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How much of this was avoidable if board cons had insisted on vax and mask? We cant be sure I guess.


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What is certain is your disgusting trump worship behavior has killed innocent people.
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Libertas wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:14 pm Here we go, we are so FUCKED


https://twitter.com/Unusual_Times/statu ... 99712?s=20


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https://twitter.com/mccarthy_kr/status/ ... 61479?s=20

How much of this was avoidable if board cons had insisted on vax and mask? We cant be sure I guess.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216190417



What is certain is your disgusting trump worship behavior has killed innocent people.
Do you also hold that opinion about the African Americans who refused the Vax?
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The idea that people would resist the vax NOT because they have a history of being used as guinea pigs but because of something uttered by someone who has been proven to be BOTH the stupidest person alive and the most corrupt.

So AMAZING that it is almost funny.

Every WORD uttered by board cons supports the continued demise of our democracy and supports the virus instead of fighting it.

Why people tolerate them on message boards is beyond me, you have more patience than I will ever have dealing with these assholes who are actively engaged in terrorism.
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Libertas wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:36 pm The idea that people would resist the vax NOT because they have a history of being used as guinea pigs but because of something uttered by someone who has been proven to be BOTH the stupidest person alive and the most corrupt.

So AMAZING that it is almost funny.

Every WORD uttered by board cons supports the continued demise of our democracy and supports the virus instead of fighting it.

Why people tolerate them on message boards is beyond me, you have more patience than I will ever have dealing with these assholes who are actively engaged in terrorism.
I know what you mean. These people are the same types who defended segregationism. On the European continent, they are also the same types who were perfectly fine with the Anschluß, hey, so long as it wasn't their kids getting beat up in the streets.

As far as tolerating these rightwingers and their dutiful capitulators, that's a board decision that I do not agree with. We're not in a pre-Trump or even pre-Obama situation where kicking around ideas with eliminationists is cute and fun and a novel, funny joke.

For myself, for obvious reasons, I could never be online friends with a white supremacist or white nationalist. But we've got people here who are still trapped in kumbaya thinking, that being "civil" with people who want to eliminate you is a good idea.
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carmenjonze wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:10 pm I know what you mean. These people are the same types who defended segregationism. On the European continent, they are also the same types who were perfectly fine with the Anschluß, hey, so long as it wasn't their kids getting beat up in the streets.

As far as tolerating these rightwingers and their dutiful capitulators, that's a board decision that I do not agree with. We're not in a pre-Trump or even pre-Obama situation where kicking around ideas with eliminationists is cute and fun and a novel, funny joke.

For myself, for obvious reasons, I could never be online friends with a white supremacist or white nationalist. But we've got people here who are still trapped in kumbaya thinking, that being "civil" with people who want to eliminate you is a good idea.
Yes, my friend. We do have those folks too, trying to STILL get along, just because of similarity.

Hey, you are an older white str8t male like myself with common backgrounds or memories or likes, such as football or baseball or The Beatles (you are not allowed to be a fan of most RocknRoll and continue being a righty, it is not congruent) so lets focus on those similarities while you sit silent and your leader kills me.

no thanks

The very thing they like that they have in common is itself the problem.
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Libertas wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:14 pm The very thing they like that they have in common is itself the problem.
Ooph. Yes.

White superiority, white supremacism, whites-rule is a hell of a drug.

Especially when it's had the implementation and backup of the most powerful government in history.
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carmenjonze wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:20 pm Ooph. Yes.

White superiority, white supremacism, whites-rule is a hell of a drug.

Especially when it's had the implementation and backup of the most powerful government in history.
I told you but you probably dont remember, the person and I cant say how I know but what they did to someone who sat on their car, this was 50 years ago in the valley.

Which is too cryptic for here so never mind.
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A pediatrician and a professor have developed a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine and India has approved its emergency use.
Dr. Peter Hotez, a pediatrician at Texas Children's Hospital, developed the Corbevax vaccine alongside Baylor College professor Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi, a press release from the children's hospital said.

The vaccine, which the developers called the "World's COVID-19 Vaccine," uses a traditional recombinant protein-based technology, which would allow it to be mass-produced and used across the globe.

The vaccine was found to be safe and effective after two phase 3 clinical trials of more than 3,000 participants, the press release said.

In a tweet, Hotez added that the children's hospital does not plan to profit from the vaccine, calling it a "gift to the world."
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San Diego's Holiday Bowl game between UCLA and North Carolina State has been cancelled hours before kickoff because of COVID-19 problems with the UCLA program.
UCLA was forced to pull out of the Holiday Bowl only hours before Tuesday's scheduled game against NC State in San Diego because of COVID-19 problems within the Bruins program.

The school announced its decision around 3:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The Bruins and Wolfpack were scheduled to play at Petco Park at 8 p.m. ET.

Though UCLA did have multiple players not make the trip to San Diego for COVID-19 reasons, Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren said nobody at NC State knew UCLA was dealing with more COVID-19 issues once the Bruins arrived in town to begin preparations for the game. The first he heard about it was when his athletic director, Boo Corrigan, told him the game was off -- only minutes before the news was reported on social media.
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Normally, this game is played at the Qualcomm Stadium where the Chargers played before moving to Los Angeles and it wasn't played last year because of COVID-19. This years game was going to be played at Petco Park, home of the Padres, in downtown San Diego. Petco Park has been converted from a baseball park to a football stadium, the first time for Petco Park, for the game. Next year's Holiday Bowl will be played in the new San Diego State Aztec stadium which will be completed in time for the college's 2022 season.
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That game was gonna be in 4k on comcast, I was gonna watch for a couple minutes just cuz it looks cool.
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Libertas wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:48 pm That game was gonna be in 4k on comcast, I was gonna watch for a couple minutes just cuz it looks cool.
The Holiday Bowl held their Holiday Bowl Parade along the San Diego Bay waterfront this morning. Reportedly, it's the largest balloon parade in the U.S..
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:25 pm Do you also hold that opinion about the African Americans who refused the Vax?
Hey, rapist predator of a 15 year old. viewtopic.php?p=5657#p5657

Please provide your references about where you get your ideas about "African Americans who refused the Vax."
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carmenjonze wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:58 pm Hey, rapist of a 15 year old. viewtopic.php?p=5657#p5657

Please provide your references about where you get your ideas about "African Americans who refused the Vax."
Butt (that I pulled it out of) meet message board.
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