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I've got one of those plastic file pockets by the doorbell, filled with death certificates. Everything is filled out except the name, the time and the coroner's signature.
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[Some outfit via MSN] Limited testing and delayed travel alerts for areas outside China contributed to the jump in U.S. cases starting in late February, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We clearly didn’t recognize the full importations that were happening," Schuchat told The Associated Press.
The coronavirus was first reported late last year in China, the initial epicenter of the global pandemic. But the U.S. has since become the hardest-hit nation, with about a third of the world's reported cases and more than a quarter of the deaths.
The CDC on Friday published an article, authored by Schuchat, that looked back on the U.S. response, recapping some of the major decisions and events of the last few months. It suggests the nation’s top public health agency missed opportunities to slow the spread. Some public health experts saw it as important assessment by one of the nation's most respected public health doctors.
Belgium is the world's worst affected country when it comes to the coronavirus mortality rate.
That rate, unlike the total number of fatalities, is a measure of the number of deaths in relation to the size of population.
President Donald Trump pointed to a graph recently, displaying Belgium at the top and the US in seventh place, as a result of the number of deaths relative to population size.
He was suggesting the US was handling the pandemic more effectively.
Belgium has a population of 11.5 million. That means 66 people in every 100,000 have died from Covid-19. In the US, with a population of around 330 million, it's 19 in every 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
But those figures are "faulty comparisons" that have been "abused", argues Prof Steven Van Gucht, a Belgian virologist and government spokesman.
"That's the difference between public health science and political motivation," he explains. "That's purely inspired by showing how good you are doing, and it's wrong. We are actually reporting in a more correct way."
What's different about Belgium?
Belgian officials say they are counting in a way that no other country in the world is currently doing: counting deaths in hospitals and care homes, but including deaths in care homes that are suspected, not confirmed, as Covid-19 cases.
According to Belgium's latest official figures, out of 7,703 deaths, 53% have been in care homes.... Like tornadoes finding trailer parks, CV is hitting elderly care homes hard. Focus?
[NPR] The world's biggest coronavirus lockdown has been extended by another two weeks.
For the past five weeks in India, more than 1.3 billion people have been required to shelter indoors, with few exceptions. The lockdown was due to expire Sunday night.
There was speculation Prime Minister Narendra Modi might speak to the nation this weekend, to explain what happens next. But on Friday, the government issued a notice saying the nationwide lockdown would continue for an additional two weeks, through May 18. It had already been extended once before, on April 14.
While testing has not been widespread, the country has recorded more than 25,000 active cases and more than 1,100 deaths.
During the extended lockdown, all domestic and international air travel, passenger trains and interstate buses will remain suspended. Schools, hotels, gyms, theaters and places of worship will stay closed. Grocery stores and pharmacies are allowed to stay open. Face coverings are required in all public places, and gatherings of more than five people are banned.
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Nothing to do with Gates. Gates has to fill out 11 forms in triplicate just to donate more than $1000 here.
India can just afford it. The middle class saves more money than it spends. The government is apparently more socialist than most socialist utopias. People are being practically paid to stay indoors. The very rich are pitching in, billionaire philanthropists and corporations are distributing ventilators, PPEs and food; some seeking to get tax cuts and political favours later. Doctors and nurses aplenty in India, and meds are of course cheap.
Also, Indians are the most fearful of disease and dying, so there's a self actuating exercise in discipline and circumspection underway. Couldn't hurt. Personally, I've never seen such serenity in cities. There's a ghost town outside.
In all this, the rounding up of the jihadi and the marxist has become a bit easier. Since the black robes cannot be bothered to come out of their mansions to save them, and the domestic agencies have a freer hand under the scope of 'enforcing protocol'.
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In all this, the rounding up of the jihadi and the marxist has become a bit easier.
Good. Carry on, dear boy, while your German counterparts go after the 1050 or 1500 resident Hizbullies they just declared outlaw. No cloud without its silver lining, ‘tis said.
Neither my sister nor I collect Social Security. Nevertheless, she received a check in the mail made out to my deceased mother, and it says "DECD" for her stimulus check of $1,200 [Photo of check in link]. Not exactly sure what to do with this check. How would we cash it? This is really confusing. It will probably cost $1,000 for legal advice to figure out if the check should be cashed or if they would call it fraud because we knew she was deceased, even though it is made out to her as deceased. Sort of a trick question with consequences.
This is why I say the government is just incapable of ever doing anything whatsoever. They would never be able to run even a bubblegum machine. When they sold out of gum, they would need three committees to investigate, and a fourth one to figure out how much to raise taxes to buy more bubblegum. The Justice Department would need to investigate if someone got two pieces of gum with one coin, provided they are not related to a politician.
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This is why I say the government is just incapable of ever doing anything whatsoever.
Property of the estate of the deceased. If you do not wish to treat it as such, send it back to the Treasury of the United States and keep your certified mail receipt.
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The recently dead, demographics unavailable. Gummit sez 'IRS too busy to pursue fraud.' Number of checks returned to the US Treasury, very likely unavailable as well.
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Mom died last fall. I was getting ready to close her account because the final tax return and overpayment received and underpayment cashed was completed, then that came in.
I’ve already drafted the letter but spouse said wait. Let them take it out.
#10
Where I live, they leave the onus of proving you're alive on you. Every year you've got to show up at the pension office, or an inspector will come round to take your retinal and whatever. If you don't re-register for two years, straight - you're dead for the pension office. No more pensions. Also, direct electronic disbursement to verified accounts has made false claimants marginal.
#11
Here in America we need to send along a certified (or notarized — I don’t recall exactly) copy of the death certificate, provided by the funeral company as a normal service when they bury or whatever the dear departed. My mother was given a stack of them when my father died a decade ago, with a list of all the people/businesses/government bureaus who would demand one. Without one it would be assumed Daddy was still alive, we were told.
I’ve seen indignant news stories about the difficulties caused when someone is accidentally declared dead by this or that government bureau, because of course there is no standard form when one isn’t.
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A thought: perhaps Raj, tax accountant extraordinaire — or another of Rantburg’s many experts on anything one might want to know —will have an idea of how to handle this, or whom to ask for direction.
The WHO confirmed that after discussion with numerous scientists they are assured that the novel coronavirus is natural in its origin https://t.co/LFPhC60EhC
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The WHO confirmed that after discussion with numerous scientists they are assured that the novel coronavirus is natural in its origin
Obviously in the minds of some it is still Trump's fault. And "natural" in its origin? Well, if that ain't patently a priori racist, then I don't know what is. (sarc off)
[News5Nashville] The Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed the positive cases on Friday. Out of the 2,450 total tests, more than 1,300 staff and inmates tested positive.
According to the state, analysis of the test results confirmed that 98% of those who tested positive are asymptomatic.
Denmark says spread has not accelerated since reopening began [Jpost] The spread of Covid-19 in Denmark has not accelerated since the country began a gradual loosening of restrictions in mid-April, the State Serum Institute, which is responsible for preparedness against infectious diseases, said on Thursday. The so-called R rate, which shows the average number of infections one person with the virus causes, has increased slightly in the past two weeks but remains below 1.0, the institute said.
"However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... there are no signs that the COVID-19 epidemic is accelerating," it said.
Nearly 5K meat plant workers have coronavirus, CDC says
[NYPOST] Nearly 5,000 workers at the country’s meat processing plants have tested positive for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control.
The US agency tested workers at more than 100 meat processing plants in 19 states and found that nearly 3 percent of them had the virus that has killed more than 60,000 Americans and sickened more than 3 million around the world, according to CNBC.
The CDC warned that the real percentage of infected workers could be even higher, as testing limitations prevented it from being able to get a complete picture of the scale.
"The recognized risk to meat and poultry facility operation requires prompt action to decrease risks to workers, preserve facility function, and maintain the food supply," CDC researchers said.
Poster: Fred
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Denmark says spread has not accelerated since reopening began
We still don't have good numbers for asymptomatic incubation period.
Whistleblower claims British hospitals are still deliberately sending elderly patients to care homes 'to die' by discharging them before Covid-19 test results come through - as part of NHS 'soul destroying' culture of freeing up beds
That's why they don't publish "Outcome of Cases (Recovery or Death)".
Javits Center field hospital set to close after treating just 1,000 coronavirus patients - but FEMA will keep a stockpile of supplies and equipment at the site to prepare for a second wave
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The good news/bad news/both in one headline in the above roundup is amazing. Many sides of the story, all in one place! Too many people, IMO, only see one side (confirmation bias). Mrs. Bobby's newspaper is decidedly heavy on the 'Chinese Death Plague' side of the story.
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Reading a newspaper? That's most of the problem right there.
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That fine fellow Bobby admits he can read though.
Better than many.
"The World Health Organisation lavished praise on Sweden as “a future model” in the next phase of fighting the outbreak because it has trusted people to observe social distancing rules.
Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO emergencies team, said it was wrong to believe that Sweden had “just let the infection spread”, adding: “Nothing can be further from the truth. Sweden has set a very strong policy on public health, it is about physical distancing and how to protect the elderly in various nursing homes and much more.”
“I think if we are to reach a new normal, I think in many ways Sweden represents a future model of -- if we wish to get back to a society in which we don’t have lockdowns," Dr. Ryan said while speaking to reporters from Geneva.
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So, taken out of context(?)... At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and governments to people quarantined or just social distancing, we lack reliable evidence Yes
Draconian countermeasures have been adopted in many countries. If the pandemic dissipates... short-term extreme social distancing and lockdowns may be bearable. Yes
Three months after the outbreak emerged, most countries, including the U.S., lack the ability to test a large number of people and no countries have reliable data on the prevalence of the virus in a representative random sample of the general population. Yes.
Another academic empiricist, not a field practitioner, wanting more data by putting more of the population at risk.
[Jpost] Deaths from COVID-19 in deprived areas of England was more than double that found in well-off locations, with London by far the worst affected, according to official figures released on Friday.
The data from the Office for National Statistics, which covered deaths from March 1 to April 17, found there had been 20,283 deaths from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , equating to 36.2 deaths per 100,000 people.
The figures also showed that the mortality rate from COVID-19 in the most deprived areas of England was 55.1 deaths per 100,000, compared to 25.3 per 100,000 in the least deprived places.
"People living in more deprived areas have experienced COVID-19 mortality rates more than double those living in less deprived areas," said Nick Stripe, head of Health Analysis for the ONS.
"General mortality rates are normally higher in more deprived areas, but so far COVID-19 appears to be taking them higher still."
The mortality rate in London was far higher than any other region at 85.7 deaths per 100,000 persons, nearly double the next highest figure elsewhere.
Cross-tab with public transport use and number of square feet of living space per resident...
The worst hit areas in the capital were the boroughs of Newham, Brent and Hackney, which are among the poorest. Newham's mortality rate was 1454.3 deaths per 100,000 population, the ONS said.
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The graph shows the top of the color-challenged group is the White Irish.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Data is just data. The analysis is ...
"A thousand pictures can be drawn from one word
Only who is the artist, we got to agree
A thousand miles can lead so many ways
Just to know who is driving, what a help it would be" [Moody Blues, I'm Just a Singer]
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African Americans are also at higher ris for hypertension, and coronoary artery disease. Irish Americans are more likely to get Type 2 diabetes. Men are far more likely to catch and die from Coronaviruse because they do not have the progesterone that women have (the theory is that Progesterone seems to have an inhibitory behavior on virus replication).
Its not racism to point out genetic disparities.
Despite all the liberal crap about "everyone is equal", we arent. And the sooner we face the facts, and treat them differently, the better for all of us.
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The smile looks different and deeper so I’m thinking a double. Someone with facial recognition software will know and I suspect if the I and SKORs know, they will play along to see how this plays out without kinetic emphasizing if possible.
During Fidel Castro's media appearances when he was in hospital he always ostentatiously handled newspapers and commented on contemporary news stories, establishing proof of being alive at a certain date.
IMO KJU is unavailable for whatever reason and the current rulers of North Korea haven't decide yet on how to proceed. So they're pretending the status quo ante is still the status quo.
Don't recall who, but someone commenting on an attempted assassination of Indonesian President Sukarno said it had all the hallmarks of a CIA operation in that everyone in the room was killed except for the target.
[Breitbart] Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) is investigating a multimillion-dollar Pentagon biological warfare research grant that went to a New York firm that sent taxpayer money to a lab in Wuhan, China, from which U.S. intelligence officials believe the COVID-19 coronavirus, which is plaguing the world, may have leaked. A 'Congressional Probe' on the bridge to nowhere.
Reschenthaler told Breitbart News that he considers it "disgusting" that U.S. taxpayer dollars went to this Wuhan laboratory. He has written to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper inquiring about a grant that went to a firm that provided some taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology:
"It’s disgusting hardworking US taxpayer dollars were sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. President Trump was absolutely correct to freeze that funding from the National Institute of Health," Reschenthaler said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. "To learn a $6.5 million Department of Defense grant was awarded to the same organization that sent US taxpayer dollars to the WIV, EcoHealth Alliance, is deeply concerning. I sent this letter to the DOD because we must get to the bottom of whether DOD grant funding was also sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the potential epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. Given the Chinese Communist Party’s cover-up of the origins and global threat posed by COVID-19, it is critical we ensure taxpayer dollars are not being used to support their activities."
In his letter to Esper, Reschenthaler asked detailed questions about the EcoHealth Alliance grant that the Pentagon disbursed a few years ago.
With this appearance, #KimJongUn has quashed deathbed rumors. Big smile on his face as he tours a new fertilizer factory in Sunchon, north of Pyongyang, according to North Korean state media. (Good social distancing, btw) pic.twitter.com/ltC4M1tVT1
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Now it's all coming together. The supreme and absolute autocrat blew off the beach resort, the army of international chefs, every variety of intoxicant known to man, and of course the 2,000 sex slaves for, wait for it...the crap re-processor!
No doubt they are herniating themselves in Langley trying to interpret that whole entire ribbon situation.
[DailyWire] The Department of Education is probing the University of Texas System’s dealings with an infectious diseases laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The Wuhan lab is a suspected source of the coronavirus that has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. The virus has also prompted large-scale shutdowns of the world’s economy and initiated a global recession.
Federal investigators have requested the UT System hand over all documents related to contracts with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and researcher Shi Zhengli, who specializes in bats, according to The Wall Street Journal. The investigation is part of a broader effort to examine UT’s potential links to Beijing and about two-dozen Chinese state-owned companies, as well as with Zoom Communications’ CEO Eric Yuan.
UT is working on a reply to the Education Department’s request. Yuan has denied ever working personally with UT.
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U.S. intelligence officials have been less forthright about what evidence may or may not suggest about the origins of the virus. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to point to a specific source of the pathogen in a statement Thursday, but the office did confirm that it was looking into the Wuhan lab as a potential source.
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Congress Avenue Bridge just a couple of blocks from University of Texas in Austin, Texas. 1.5 Million "Mexican" Bats, not "Chinese" Bats, big difference, yawl.
#5
^^^Well lookie here! We got a regular elderly fat duffus that thought he was being smart(ass) but hiding behind a different alias than what he normally uses,
from the Texas Privateer:
"... out of this war with an established military record, full beard, long hair to the shoulders, and plenty off scars. No casual acquaintance ought to recognize him; but nevertheless, Denward practiced speaking with a deeper voice. He memorized Texan words like yawl (Slan for you all, not the word in New England that denoted a two-masted fishing vessel) and meskin (Slang for Mexican, not the compound..."
So there you have it, the typical local know nothing spewing spittal when in reality I was right on the mark when it comes to all things Texan.
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My former linguistics education, and a period of life in the south-eastern states (KY, NC, TN, MS, TX) suggests Y'all usage is intended to reference you, your predecessors, siblings and offspring as a personal collective pronoun as in the bloodline of you and your 'kin' or clan. Significant to the tightly bound family structures formed by regional geographic isolation. Also suggesting one is a reflection of those that came before.
All y'all is a collective plural, suggestive of a gathering of clans, like "meetin down in the holler with all y'all" or "fuck all y'all".
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In almost 20 years living among the locals (I'm a transplant, m'self) I can tell you the usage in north Texas is "y'all" is singular, whilst "all y'all" is plural.
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/\ "y'all" is singular, whilst "all y'all" is plural.
"All y'all" appears to denote three or more people.
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Speaking of universities, the more farsighted and courageous university presidents are announcing they'll be open this fall:
- Purdue (Mitch Daniels, ex-CEO of Eli Lilly, who's kept tuition flat for over 7 years now while retaining Purdue's STEM excellence)
- W. Virginia U. (Gordon Gee, famous university turnaround expert who lifted the reputations of Brown and Ohio State, making each into a top tier research powerhouse and is now elevating WVU's quality and reputation for biomedical research)
- Texas A&M (Chancellor John Sharp, who's expanded A&M and helped make it one of the best in the country)
These are the leaders. Many others will follow them soon.
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Nobody from Texas, much less any other part of the South, spells it "yawl", ya damned yankee. It is "y'all", always has been, unless you're one of those recent leftard transplants from California and Illinois. Or maybe from Maryland or Kentucky.
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In almost 20 years living among the locals...
I am told that the moment when you are considered to have adapted is when you first say "fixing".
Examples:
"I'm fixing to go to the store."
"All y'all save your files. Jim is fixing to reboot the system."
[NYPOST] If Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... is holed up in his luxe seaside hideaway in the port city of Wonsan, he may have plenty of company — a harem of 2,000 sex slaves, a report said Friday.
The North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n dictator resurrected his late grandfather’s "Pleasure Squad" of secret sex entertainers in 2015, The Sun reported.
And while the dictator’s location and the state of his health remain a mystery, some reports say he fled to a luxury resort in the port city located along the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula to avoid catching the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... — and the UK paper speculates that he might have his harem with him.
"It’s within the walls of his ultra-protected palaces that his Pleasure Squad provides entertainment for high-ranking North Korean officials," the paper reported.
"The 2,000-strong harem is said to be made to sing and dance for the nation’s elite — but also take part in bizarre sexual games and orgies."
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"The 2,000-strong harem is said to be made to sing and dance for the nation’s elite — but also take part in bizarre sexual games and orgies."
[DW] SARS-CoV-2 is not the only virus wreaking havoc in Europe, there's also African Swine Fever, a disease transmitted from wild boar to farmed pigs. Western Poland is currently on the front line, and Germans are worried.
Some fear a repeat in Germany of what happened in China. One of the largest outbreaks of the ASF virus began sweeping through China's pig farms in August 2018, wiping out 40% of the country's pig population. "That's roughly 300 million to 350 million pigs lost in China, which is almost a quarter of the world's pork supply,"
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I wonder, could've Chinese decided that 2018 ASF virus was an American biological attack. That would explain why they started weaponizing caronavirus. If true, good thing it escaped before they were ready.
[NYP] Canada has banned assault-style weapons one week after the country’s worst-ever mass shooting left 22 people dead — plus the gunman.
Unemployed denture maker Gabriel Wortman was armed with two semi-automatic rifles and several semi-automatic pistols — and one of the guns was a military-style assault weapon, Royal Canadian Mounted Police say, according to the Guardian newspaper.
"These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada," he said.
"Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country."
Trudeau had pledged last week to push for tighter gun legislation, including a ban on assault-style weapons.
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If this crime took place over the period of an evening, you really think a semi-automatic was the cause. This loser could of carried this out with a butter knife.
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Alberta, Sask, Manitoba, welcome aboard. Y'alls harvesters and oil patch know us, we know you, we can figure out the sweetened/unsweetened tea thing over a couple beers.
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Once the US loses a few stars on Old Glory within the next 20-30 years, perhaps they can then add one or two back.
No need to lose any stars-- just add 4. Separate far Northern California from Calif (new state: "Jefferson"), add three new states (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and you have 54 = 9 rows of 6 stars each
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Illinois dissolves due to bankruptcy. Missouri and Iowa take everything from I-39 Winnebago County (Rockford) west. Indiana takes the eastern portion. Wisconsin takes Cook (Chicago), Lake, Dupage, and Will Counties.
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Wisconsin might object to Cook County being part of the package, Besoeker.
Don't need the headaches and they can get by just fine on their own (as they've been telling the rest of the world for years).
A nice large walled, electrified and mined border could be created by the surrounding governments at much less cost than trying to sustain that failed city/state.
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I hope Canada enjoys their slave collars. Wear them with PRIDE! And scream for joy at the lash of your master's whip.
[The Epoch Times] Peter Strzok, former FBI head of counterintelligence operations, significantly changed an early draft of the official FBI report from its questioning of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, newly released texts messages indicate.
To this day, the FBI hasn’t shown the early draft to Flynn. An eye-witness said the draft included exculpatory information, which was removed in the final version, Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, previously said.
Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017, to one count of lying to FBI agents during a Jan. 24, 2017, interview.
Agents are supposed to memorialize their interviews in an FD-302 form within five days, but the earliest 302 draft Flynn was provided was dated Feb. 10, 2017.
The new text messages suggest that an earlier version of the draft existed, either produced on Feb. 10 or earlier.
"Lisa you didn’t see it before my edits that went into what I sent you," Strzok texted after 10 p.m. on Feb. 10, 2017, to Lisa Page, his mistress and then-special counsel to FBI’s then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Strzok said he was "trying to not completely rewrite" the document "so as to save [redacted] voice."
According to Powell, Strzok and Page were editing the Flynn 302 and Strzok was referring to the Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) who co-conducted the interview with him. The Epoch Times and other media have identified the agent as Joe Pientka.
The texts show "that there in fact exists an original 302 document created by SSA," Powell said in an April 30 statement.
The FBI had no comment when asked to confirm or deny whether the texts pertained to the Flynn 302.
The failure to produce the draft 302 equals a violation of the court’s "Brady" order, which requires the government to hand over evidence helpful to the defense, Powell said.
"As repugnant as this conduct is on its face, the travel of this vital document establishes continuously—and until this day—the original FBI agents, the prosecutors, and FBI management’s determination to withhold exculpatory evidence required under Brady, among other violations of Gen. Flynn’s civil rights. They withheld it not only to try to convict an innocent man, but to hide their own crimes," she said.
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Why doesn't the FBI join the 20th (much less the 21st) century and record (with video) all interviews (with immediate copies to the subject)? Why doesn't Barr or Trump order this NOW? "302" notes are so subjective, so likely incomplete, and so easily manipulated/corrupted that they are absolutely worthless, IMHO.
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I remember when Scooter Libby was actually convicted of lying to an FBI agent, and that agent did not (refused to?) testify at the trial. Only testimony by another agent about the 302 report was given in evidence. I wonder why.
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[Legal Insurrection] A Rutgers University professor said she is facing harassment but stands by her tweets saying “f--- Trump supporters” and blaming them for the coronavirus deaths that disproportionately affect Black communities.
“So I said what I meant. And I curse cuz I’m grown,” Dr. Brittney Cooper, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, tweeted Thursday after the Washington Examiner published a story on her earlier tweets. “I disdain every person who thought and thinks he’s a good leader, because that thinking has had material consequences for far too many of us.”
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Dr. Brittney Cooper, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
Doctor? In Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies? Degrees have become meaningless anymore. I would hate to think of what her actual thesis was on.
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University = "We have a pencil box and an old guy who never combs his hair."
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OMG, I wish I hadn't clicked on the link. Definitely looks like a relative of "Box Car".
I guess her right to free speech as "professor" includes foul language. It's because of pigs like her that make many of the institutions of "higher learning" the utter jokes that they are. Oh, and it's Rutgers...Joysey. Figures.
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This slug is an intellectual wedge, the simplest tool known to man. Quite literally an oxygen thief. That it is tenured at Rutgers says all you need to know about the quality of the New Jersey institution
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Dom Calicchio of FOX News has more on Cooper’s background:
Cooper has a history of criticizing President Trump. Last October she asserted the president’s policies were partly to blame for weight problems among African-American women. Last August, she claimed Trump was willing to “get us into war” to keep the economy strong to bolster his 2020 reelection hopes.
She is the author of “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower,” which The Guardian ranked among its “Top 10 Books About Angry Women,” according to Amazon.
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Anybody else think she looks like Stacy "Tank" Abrams?
We have a winner. Just google image Dr Brittney Cooper Rutgers. If you've already digested your breakfest.
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If you don't accept her disdain for you, you are rayciss.
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Lets see your biology-epidemiology degree, or your MD. What? Its associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies? Great scientific credentials for basing public medical policies on - great job by the mainstream press, finding such a qualified person for an opinion to be spread far and wide. Who's next, Sean Penn?
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#22
I blame democrats for every death for everything, they're just so evil and vile plus they worship death. I really think they are no different than the Thug-gee cult
[Just the News] In a daily report dedicated to news updates and guidance for county employees fighting the coronavirus, an Oregon county in the Portland area said it was creating a safe "grounding space" for minority staff to escape a predominant "whiteness."
The April 5 "situation report" from the Multnomah County Office of Emergency Operations Center announced that the "Emergency Operations Center Equity Officer is hosting a grounding space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees to share, heal, connect, and get grounded in a space that is not dominated by whiteness."
To read a portion of the Emergency Operations Center bulletin, click the pdf below.
Multnomah County, Oregon coronavirus manual.pdf
Heather Mac Donald, a Stanford-trained attorney and fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research who writes about policing, homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform and race relations, told Just the News that Multnomah County’s actions are particularly disturbing during a time of emergency.
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Will they have 'white' and 'colored' drinking fountains and restrooms too? How about 'white' and 'colored' lucheon counters?
Jim Crow is alive and well in Democratic dominated Oregon.
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I'd suggest they be helped, by keeping them in the 'grounding space' indefinitely. Picket it from outside. Let them 'connect' to heart's content there. And why just appoint 'Equity Officers' for staff ? Why not a 'Grounding Enforcement Division' for cities ?
"Get away from that white woman, sir ! It's for your own good."
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^Portland is the whitest big city in America, so naturally every other lawn has a Black Lives Matter sign on it. Which is about the equivalent of me putting up a "Martian Lives Matter" sign. I promise to be nice to the next Martian I see.
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I always thought that "Grounding Space" was another name for "Cemetary", no?
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Is there a big shiny knob to grab, the one hooked straight up to the power station? A good grounding will eliminate any and all cares they have. Course, there will be the smell of burnt long pig around but I'm sure they won't mind.
Just last night/this morning I watched a movie that began this way. The long space journey was a consolidated mass that 'broke up'. The residual components then used the solar gravity well to decelerate and for steerage to their designated offshore nulllanding points.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[NPR] The world's biggest coronavirus lockdown has been extended by another two weeks.
[News5Nashville] The Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed the positive cases on Friday. Out of the 2,450 total tests, more than 1,300 staff and inmates tested positive.
[Jpost] The spread of Covid-19 in Denmark has not accelerated since the country began a gradual loosening of restrictions in mid-April, the State Serum Institute, which is responsible for preparedness against infectious diseases, said on Thursday. The so-called R rate, which shows the average number of infections one person with the virus causes, has increased slightly in the past two weeks but remains below 1.0, the institute said.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Breitbart] Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) is investigating a multimillion-dollar Pentagon biological warfare research grant that went to a New York firm that sent taxpayer money to a lab in Wuhan, China, from which U.S. intelligence officials believe the COVID-19 coronavirus, which is plaguing the world, may have leaked.
U.S. intelligence officials have been less forthright about what evidence may or may not suggest about the origins of the virus. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to point to a specific source of the pathogen in a statement Thursday, but the office did confirm that it was looking into the Wuhan lab as a potential source. 
[NYPOST] If 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
"The 2,000-strong harem is said to be made to sing and dance for the nation’s elite — but also take part in bizarre sexual games and orgies."
Trudeau genetic marker? You decide. 
Blue flag, one star. 
[The Epoch Times] Peter Strzok, former FBI head of counterintelligence operations, significantly changed an early draft of the official FBI report from its questioning of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, newly released texts messages indicate.
Dom Calicchio of FOX News has more on Cooper’s background:
