[IsraelTimes] Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4 or be tested for the virus weekly under new government rules issued today.
They actually issued rules — I’m surprised. Time to crank up the lawsuit machine, boys and girls.
The new requirements will apply to about 84 million workers at medium and large businesses, although it is not clear how many of those employees are unvaccinated.
Somewhere between 10% and 45%, based on national statistics seen thus far.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations will force the companies to require that unvaccinated workers test negative for COVID-19 at least once a week and wear a mask while in the workplace.
Tougher rules will apply to another 17 million people who work in nursing homes, hospitals and other facilities that receive money from Medicare and Medicaid. Those workers will not have an option for testing — they will need to be vaccinated.
Workers will be able to ask for exemptions on medical or religious grounds.
Ask yes, but experience thus far shows that exemptions won’t be granted. Sort of like how pleading innocent by reason of insanity and guilty but insane results in the same prison sentence.
OSHA said companies that fail to comply with the regulations could face penalties of nearly $14,000 per violation.
#12
I don't expect this to stand in court and I doubt Biden does too. It will cause some companies, especially in the blue areas, to enforce it before then and more people WILL get vaccinated, which is the whole goal.
#13
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations will force the companies to require that unvaccinated workers test negative for COVID-19 at least once a week and wear a mask while in the workplace.
If it is about health and safety, then one person who has been vaxx'd and still comes down with the covid invalidates this whole procedure.
Medicare, but not the panoply of welfares? Not the Millionaire Border Jumpers?
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As long as the electricity and water utilities are running... I started keeping a 4-to-6 week supply of cans and dry beans in the kitchen cupboards when the shortages started hitting last spring. Not Prepper just thinking ahead.
If you don't have 4 weeks of supplies you are further behind an 8 ball than a Biden.
It is suggested, especially you all in the above average risk to boogie, to have 2 weeks of portable food. Stuff you can just open and eat, no prep necessary. MREs are the prime example but if space is a crunch, as it will be in a boogie, allow me to suggest only the MRE main course pouch. 3 or 4 of those will fit into the same volume as a full MRE kit. Not a salesman, just an example, plenty of brands Main Course.
Don't forget water treatment and filtration. If the Biden hits the fan for real, you will need to be able to create potable water.
You've done this drill before with no warning, so no problem. Medicine, sanitary items, alternative ways to boil water so you can use dehydrated foods.
Also, take a moment to go through your squirrel hole and check expiration dates on what you may have gathered back at 2 weeks to flatten the curve. Remember, expiration and best by dates are not the same.
[NY Post] A little pretentious as a "Man of the People" Joe
A gaggle of far-left environmental activists followed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) from his DC houseboat to his car Thursday morning and attempted to prevent him from leaving a parking garage ‐ the latest fit of progressive pique over Manchin's current opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Democratic social spending bill.
Video tweeted by John Paul Mejia, a spokesperson for the Sunrise Movement, showed Manchin walking from his houseboat on the Potomac River ‐ where the senator rests his head when not in his home state ‐ to the garage.
As he strolled, Manchin was serenaded by chants of "We want to live!" while individual activists yelled at him to "Fight for us!"
A second video, posted by Twitter user @Tim_Tweeted, showed small groups of activists standing in front of and behind the silver Maserati. Eventually, security guards who had accompanied Manchin to the car cleared a path for the senator to drive away.
Manchin and his Senate colleague, Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have been a target of persistent harassment over their objections to the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, which provides funding for programs meant to counter climate change as well as a dramatic expansion of the social safety net.
In late September, activists on kayaks rowed up to Manchin's houseboat to encourage him to support the legislation. Days later, Sinema was harangued while attempting to give a lecture at Arizona State University and was followed into a women's bathroom by pro-immigration demonstrators who encouraged to to support a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens in the legislation.
Manchin's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the incident.
When asked by The Post whether Manchin, Sinema or members of their staff had experienced an uptick in threats to their safety during the debate over the legislation, US Capitol Police responded: "We cannot discuss potential threats or potential security plans."
While some left-winger cheered the stunt on Twitter ("Manchin deserves to be peacefully but loudly hounded wherever he goes," one user wrote), others condemned the protesters' actions.
"It is *literally* violence to block someone's lawful, free movement," tweeted Ellen Carmichael, head of PR firm The Lafayette Company. "They should all be arrested."
"Weird that blocking someone from driving to work, screaming at them, and then pretending he was running you over didn't make him empathize with you!" added Maggie Howell, a staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
#7
The way they're treating Manchin and Sinema is NOT the way to win friends and influence people. Pelosi, Schumer and #FJB must know by now their agenda is kaput and they're just taking a bit of revenge.
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Doing a burn-out would have been an absolute Boss move.
#SaudiArabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman says increasing the production of #oil gradually is the right thing to do, after #OPEC+ decided on a slight raise of oil production, despite #US calls for faster output increases.https://t.co/WZDv3FxTWc
[Breitbart] Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday sounded off on the technology created by the Climate TRACE coalition to monitor greenhouse gas emissions.
Gore, a long-time climate change activist, told MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" that the technology would be able to track the "identities" of those "responsible" for emitting greenhouse gases. He advised that the government or "civil society activists" would then be able to hold them accountable.
"We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams and using artificial intelligence," Gore outlined. "All that information is combined, visible light, infrared, all of the other information that is brought in, and we can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from."
"And next year we'll have it down to the level of every single power plant, refinery, every large ship, every plane, every waste dump, and we'll have the identities of the people who are responsible for each of those greenhouse gas emission streams, and if investors or governments, or civil society activists want to hold them responsible, they will have the information upon which to base their action and holding them responsible," he added.
[Conservative Brief] An investigation into why dozens of voting machines went down in New Jersey on Tuesday has begun amid a much tighter than expected gubernatorial race between Democratic incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy and GOP challenger and former New Jersey state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli.
The Associated Press has already called the close contest for Murphy, though Ciattarelli's campaign has called that premature and "irresponsible."
But now there appears to have been an issue with as many as 56 voting machines, a glitch that is sure to conjure up thoughts regarding the post-2020 presidential election when surrogates for then-President Donald Trump made allegations of vote machine fraud that were never substantiated.
"Essex County Clerk Christopher Durkin says he has a lot of work ahead of him after the votes from 56 districts were not counted Tuesday night in the county," News 12 reported.
"It's a mix but they are mostly in Newark, in East Orange, Irvington, Maplewood, Montclair, the majority of those 56 districts," says Durkin.
"Durkin says you can call it poll worker error," News 12 reported. "There will be an investigation as to why it happened. He asks New Jersey residents not to jump to conclusions as to why the 56 voting machines were shut down last night without being counted first."
"Those machines are at the polling places right now," Durkin noted further. "Those machines have to be brought back to the warehouse. A judge will issue an order for us to open those machines, retrieve the results and post those results."
However, the report stated, it did not look like that would happen on Wednesday.
[Townhall] They're going for it. It may be fourth and long, but the Democrats are going for it. Maybe it's guilt that they couldn't get it done which may have helped Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. Or maybe it's that they know because of the 2021 elections, in which Democrats performed miserably, they need to get a legislative win for the party, and Joe Biden, ahead of the 2022 midterms. Maybe this was the kick in the ass the Democrats needed because if there is a red wave, and it's looking more like a tsunami at this point‐then none of these far-left action items are going to see the light of day for a long time. Today, they will try and make serious headway in getting the Biden agenda off the ground (via NY Post):
#2
Don't let the results of Tuesday sink in. The Bolsheviks are too lemming like to recall all those former Congresscritters who weren't around after Nancy forced Obamacare through the House.
[POLITICO] Meet Edward Durr, giant slayer. Durr, a truck driver for the furniture store Raymour & Flanigan, was declared the victor Thursday in a race against one of the most powerful people in New Jersey: State Senate President Steve Sweeney, a top officer in the international Ironworkers union whose influence rivals that of governors.
Is this a Teamsters vs Iron Workers thing?
In a week filled with surprises beyond the razor-thin New Jersey governor’s race, the election in South Jersey’s 3rd Legislative District was the biggest shocker of all — and one with massive implications for the future of New Jersey politics. Sweeney, who’s led the state’s upper legislative chamber for 12 years, was talked up in Democratic circles as a likely 2025 candidate for governor. He had amassed significant power in Trenton, shrewdly cutting deals with former Republican Gov. Chris Christie and frequently standing in the way of Gov. Phil Murphy’s agenda.
Even Durr harbored doubts about his chances and wasn’t ready to declare victory in a Wednesday interview, telling POLITICO he was "walking on eggshells" until the results became official. State Republicans quickly jumped on victory — despite deploying no resources in the race.
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It wasn’t just Sweeney. Durr’s Assembly running mates, Bethanne McCarthy Patrick and Beth Sawyer, appeared on track to defeat incumbents John Burzichelli and Adam Taliaferro (both D-Gloucester). Democrats will see their majorities shrink in both chambers of the state Legislature. And Murphy, despite claiming victory, appears to have significantly underperformed his own campaign’s expectations.
Sweeney would not concede on Thursday afternoon, dismissing the News Agency that Dare Not be Named’ decision to call the race earlier in the morning. He remains down more than 2,000 votes but said additional ballots "continue to come in."
"For instance there were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county," Sweeney said in an email to POLITICO.
What odds there are considerably fewer than 12,000 on their voter rolls?
"While I am currently trailing in the race, we want to make sure every vote is counted. Our voters deserve that, and we will wait for the final results." All the results aren't in from the dead, and they haven't even started counting the votes from the non-existent and the imaginary.
[HOTAIR] As I pointed out yesterday, it looks like Seattle ...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it... has elected Bruce Harrell as their new mayor. Outgoing mayor Jenny Summer of Love Durkan ...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone. She just can't figure what went wrong, if anything... gave an interview to King 5 yesterday in which she described the reasons she ultimately decided not to run for reelection. Durkan explained there were multiple death threats aimed at her and her family, at least two of which have led to arrests. She says the turning point came when socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant ...Socialist Seattle city council member who has difficulty distinguishing between her money and the city's... (pictured above) led a protest in front of her home.Councilmember Kshama Sawant went so far as to lead a march to Durkan’s home — her address was hidden by state statute due to her prior career as a U.S. attorney. Durkan’s home was vandalized.
That single act may have changed her life, especially as there were death threats made not only to her but to her entire family.
Before the march, Durkan said she and her family could take comfort knowing that the people who threatened her didn’t know where she lived. That all changed when people were led to her house...
The marches to her home continued, as did the death threats and malicious emails.
Durkan has some personal experience that caused her to be concerned about the threats against her and her family. In 2001, US Attorney Thomas Wales was murdered in his home in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. His case has never been solved despite a reward of $2.5 million for information that leads to a conviction. Durkan, who was a US attorney herself, knew Wales and tells King 5 that put the threats against her in a different perspective.
Did Sawant know what she was doing when she led an angry mob to Durkan’s previously unknown doorstep? Durkan believes so. "She did it knowing the harm that could be done," she said. As for Sawant, she never received any reprimand or punishment for her actions from other members of the city council.
#3
The hardcore progressives know what the rest of us know, but the former mayor didn't. There are no rules now. There's only what you can get away with.
[THEWRAP] Winsome Sears — the first woman and first woman of color elected lieutenant governor of Virginia on Tuesday night — called out Joy Reid ...Harvard-educated lefty MSDNC commentatrix, given to fits of hyperbole, bad arithmetic, and faux sophistication... after watching the MSNBC host describe the GOP as "dangerous."
"I wish Joy Reid would invite me on her show — let’s see if she’s woman enough to do that — I’d go in a heartbeat and we’d have a real discussion without Joy speaking about me behind my back, if you will," Sears said during her appearance on Fox’s "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Wednesday afternoon.
"[Reid] talks about white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... ," Sears continued. "Does she know that I ran against a white supremacist? I mean Joy come on. Get your facts straight and then come talk to me. I’m waiting for you."
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.
[NY Post] 
[Breitbart] Former Vice President 
[Conservative Brief] An investigation into why dozens of voting machines went down in New Jersey on Tuesday has begun amid a much tighter than expected gubernatorial race between Democratic incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy and GOP challenger and former New Jersey state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli.
[Townhall] They're going for it. It may be fourth and long, but the Democrats are going for it. Maybe it's guilt that they couldn't get it done which may have helped Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. Or maybe it's that they know because of the 2021 elections, in which Democrats performed miserably, they need to get a legislative win for the party, and Joe Biden, ahead of the 2022 midterms. Maybe this was the kick in the ass the Democrats needed because if there is a red wave, and it's looking more like a tsunami at this point‐then none of these far-left action items are going to see the light of day for a long time. Today, they will try and make serious headway in getting the Biden agenda off the ground (via NY Post):
[POLITICO] Meet 
...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it...
...Harvard-educated lefty MS
