Post by mhbruin on Dec 5, 2021 11:46:19 GMT -8
US Vaccine Data - We Have Now Administered 470 Million Shots (Population 333 Million)
CDC doesn't do a good job of reporting around holidays.
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Remember When He was a Respected Republican?
Bob Dole, former senator and presidential candidate, dies at 98
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Remember All Those Taliban Promises That They Were Ready to Join the Civilized World?
The US and a host of allied countries have called on the Taliban to end the targeted killings of former members of Afghan security forces.
In a joint statement, the 22 nations demanded that the Islamist regime respect its pledge not to harm former government or security personnel.
"We are deeply concerned by reports of summary killings and enforced disappearances", the statement says.
It follows a damning report on killings and abductions by the Islamist regime.
Released by the Human Rights Watch earlier this week, the report documented more than 100 executions and abductions of former Afghan government officials since the Taliban took control of the country almost four months ago.
It also documented the murder of 47 members of the Afghan security forces who surrendered to, or were captured by, the Taliban between 15 August and 31 October.
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Lumajang telah menuju lokasi untuk melakukan assesment dan evakuasi warga di sekitar Gunung Semeru. Silahkan mention jika ada yang dilokasi
I Think That Means They Are Up To Their Ass in Ash
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People Get "Famous" For the Dumbest Reasons
A strongman who became famous for balancing a Mini on his head has said he wants to reach 100 world records before retiring.
John Evans, 74, who started out as a labourer on building sites, added determination and willpower have got him through the challenges.
Mr Evans, from Derbyshire, said he has raised "well over £250,000 for charity" from his head-balancing act which has taken him around the world.
John, who is affiliated with Record Holders Republic, says he holds about 98 world records including 50 that were acknowledged by Guinness.
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This Is Critical. It Involves Race. It is Not a Theory.
Some Black students are being told they stink while others are being called monkeys by their White peers. The n-word has been written on the walls of school restrooms as other students are the targets of racist rants on social media.
Students of color are facing racial slurs and bullying in and outside the classroom, and many who are fed up have been walking out of class, speaking at board meetings and even suing school districts.
In Minnesota, a 14-year-old Black girl spoke in front of a crowd to condemn a video widely shared online that she said encouraged her to take her own life. Meanwhile, a community in Utah is scrutinizing a school district after the family of a Black and autistic student said she was bullied by classmates before dying by suicide.
As some lawmakers and parents attempt to limit teachings about racism and schools' diversity and inclusion efforts are met with protests, numerous reports of racist bullying have recently surfaced in classrooms from coast to coast.
"It's everywhere, it's not a new thing. This isn't something that is just now happening. It's just now getting attention, more than it has (gotten) before," Sean Sorkoram, a high school student in Tigard, Oregon, who was part of a walkout on Wednesday, told CNN affiliate KPTV.
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Two People Who Are Luckier Than Any Of Us Will Ever Be. Or Are They?
A North Carolina man wasn't sure if he had bought a ticket in the state's Lucky for Life lottery drawing, so he filled out the online form.
"I was just laying in bed watching a basketball game on TV and I couldn't remember if I filled it out or not," said Scotty Thomas, 49, from Fayetteville, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.
"I went ahead and filled it out again and the next morning my son asked why there were two different amounts listed. I realized, 'I think I filled it out twice.'"
It turned out he had won $25,000 each year for life with each ticket in the November 27 drawing.
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A Massachusetts man recovering from open-heart surgery won a $1 million lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket given to him by a friend, according to lottery officials.
Alexander McLeish received three scratch-off tickets in a get-well card from a friend earlier this month, according to a news release from the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission.
As McLeish scratched off the first three letters on the crossword lottery ticket, his first glimpse of good luck was revealing his initials: A, W and M. As he continued matching letters to words on the lottery ticket, for a game called $5,000,000 100X Cashword, he revealed the word "heart" on the bottom row of the puzzle.
The man wound up winning the second top prize for the game -- $1 million. There are only 10 total prize winners for that amount on the $20 lottery ticket. The top prize is $5 million.
Maybe They Are Lucky. We Don't Know About the Rest of Their Lives.
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Can A Story Be More San Francisco?
A San Francisco restaurant was hit with a wave of negative reviews after it made headlines for asking uniformed police officers to leave, saying the presence of guns made staff uncomfortable.
Hilda and Jesse, a breakfast restaurant in the city's North Beach neighborhood, seated three uniformed officers on Friday but said its staff became uncomfortable with the presence of "multiple weapons" shortly after.
The restaurant's Instagram page said this was not a political decision and was made with the interest of their staff.
"We respect the San Francisco Police Department and are grateful for the work they do," the statement on social media said. "We welcome them into the restaurant when they are off-duty, out of uniform and without their weapons."
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A Man's Trailer is His Castle?
The fatal shooting of a Black man in a trailer park is rocking a rural community in Missouri as neighbors who say they witnessed the killing dispute the police narrative of events.
Justin King, a 28-year-old Black and Filipino man, was shot Nov. 3 at 11:45 a.m. in the small town of Bourbon, located about 73 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Police say he was shot by the owner of a home he was trying to break into, but witnesses and family members say he was shot in "cold blood" by a man he called his friend.
King succumbed to his wounds at the scene. The 42-year-old white neighbor who shot him was taken into custody and later released.
The Crawford County Sheriff's Department said King was shot "after forcing entry into a neighboring residence where an altercation took place." The homeowner "feared for his life" and shot King, the department said in a news release.
The department said evidence, video surveillance and statements "preliminarily corroborate the homeowner's account of the events."
But family members of King and five people who live in the trailer park told NBC News they doubt that narrative.
Three neighbors told NBC News the shooter was a man who had expressed a desire to kill someone, has a history of violence and was known to use racial epithets. Several neighbors said King and the shooter were friends.
Nimrod Chapel Jr., the president of the Missouri NAACP, who is representing the King family, said Justin King was shot outside the neighbor's home and had not entered it, contrary to the sheriff's account.
"The only person that says it's a home invasion is the guy that shot my son," King's father, John King, told NBC News. "And all the neighbors are saying, 'No, you shot him in cold blood outside.'"
"He had no shirt on, only pajama bottoms. So how was he a threat?" John King said. "Justin was shot in cold blood outside in broad daylight."
Under Missouri's "castle doctrine" law, individuals are allowed to use deadly force against intruders without the duty to retreat, based on the notion that their home is "their castle."
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Every Single Day MTG Says Or Tweets 60 Moronic Things.
Every single day MTG says or tweets more than 60 moronic things.
Her mouth has never once shut down.
Not a single intelligent thought has occurred to her.
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They Are Selling CHOCOLATE
An Idaho Republican went into a meltdown faster than a chocolate bar over a campfire this week when she threw an online fit over a year-old Hershey’s commercial. NPR’s Boise State Public Radio reports that it’s unclear whether Lisa Leisy, a local official for Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s gubernatorial campaign, has retained her position after she sent a tweet complaining about a “black only” Hershey’s commercial Monday.
I Guess She Only Eats White Chocolate
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Who Won the Week?
Human dynamo Stacey Abrams, for announcing another run for Georgia governor
Germany's federal and state governments, for imposing a lockdown on the unvaccinated, now barred from going anywhere but supermarkets and pharmacies
First Lady Jill Biden, for transforming the White House into a holiday winter wonderland that is, in the words of one HuffPost writer, "refreshingly not terrifying."
The astronomers in India who discovered an exoplanet 725 light years away that's larger than Jupiter, and a rare class of radio stars that are hotter than our sun
The legacy of Josephine Baker, who becomes the first Black woman and first person of American origin to be inducted in the Pantheon in Paris
Barbados, for becoming the world's newest republic as it says "toodles" to the British empire
President Biden: Signs bipartisan veterans bills into law; averts govt. shutdown; announces robust winter covid recovery plan; economic recovery continues to impress economists
Rep. Ilhan Omar, for hanging up on a call with Lauren Boebert after the congresscultist refused to apologize for accusing Omar of being a terrorist and instead doubled down on her bile
The FDA advisory panel that approved the new antiviral molnupiravir pill to treat Covid-19 for emergency use---the first oral drug for the disease
Federal Judge Robert Pitman, for striking down Texas's new law that would ban social media platforms from moderating/removing hate speech & disinformation spewed almost entirely by MAGA cultists
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Who Lost the Week?
Charles Doty, arrested at a Little Caesars in Tennessee for threatening workers (with an AK-47) after he was told it would take ten minutes … to make his pepperoni pizza
James Beeks, an actor, Michael Jackson impersonator and a member of the Oath Keepers, arrested for his role in the January 6th riot after being identified by his wearing … a Michael Jackson 1987 “Bad” tour jacket
Carlos Arthur Nuzman, former head of the Rio 2016 Olympic games and Brazilian Olympic Committee, sentenced to 31 years in jail for money laundering and corruption in order to buy votes for Brazil to host the games
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, held liable by a federal jury in Ohio for the spread of opioid painkillers (with thousands of overdoses), the first time that pharmacy retailers have been held accountable for contributing to the opioid crisis
James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of a Michigan high school shooter, themselves charged with four counts of homicide involuntary manslaughter after being fugitives from justice
Off-duty New Jersey police officer Louis Santiago, charged with reckless vehicular homicide for hitting a pedestrian with his personal car and briefly taking the body home, where he discussed with his mother … what to do with it
CNN host Chris Cuomo, fired after using his sources in the media to seek information on women who accused his brother Andrew of sexual harassment, according to documents from the NY State attorney general’s office
Rossie Dennis, arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a video surfaced online of her brandishing a gun in a Corpus Christi parking lot, threatening to shoot occupants of another vehicle … over a parking space
John Croucher, head chef at a pub in England hosting a church harvest supper, sentenced to four months for not cooking a dish of shepherd’s pie thoroughly, as one of the congregation died and 31 others suffered food poisoning
Steve McLaughlin, a GOP county executive in upstate New York (and an Andrew Cuomo foe) arrested on allegations he stole $3,500 in campaign funds to pay off personal debts
Ohio sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who boasted of being able to “hunt people” after shooting an unarmed Black man in the back five times last December, arrested on two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide
Ryder Winegar, a New Hampshire man who made threatening phone calls to members of Congress if they didn’t support Trump’s claims, sentenced to two years … in part as he either … left his name or phone number
Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, being ordered by a federal judge to pay $175k in sanctions for abusing the judicial process by bringing baseless lawsuits against Michigan officials, falsely accusing them of election fraud
Amazon, after a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ordered it to allow workers at an Alabamb warehouse a second vote on unionization, finding that the company had “hijacked” the process
Australian banking giant Westpac, fined for wrongly charging customers fees, including over 11,000 deceased customers “for financial-advice services that were not provided due to their death”
Robert Paduchik and Dave Johnson, chairman and treasurer of the Ohio GOP, being sued by several state party members for misuse of $3 mill in party funds, then after they inquired: were removed them from their committee positions
Houston mega-church pastor Joel Osteen, who had reported $600k in stolen church funds in 2014 … now having a plumber reveal he found 500 envelopes filled with cash hidden behind tile while repairing a church toilet last month
Justice Hall, arrested after he opened fire on Dollar General workers in Kentucky (with one woman injured by shattered glass) after an Uber gift card he purchased at the store was not working
The Hoft brothers, who run the right-wing site Gateway Pundit, being sued for endangering the lives of two Georgia election workers with false accusations of voter fraud (using “suitcases” full of fake ballots for Joe Biden)
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So It Doesn't Not Say That the Election Wasn't Stolen?
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They Say It Is Too Expensive To Do Something About Climate Change
Insurance companies operating in Louisiana will be charged at least $100 million to pay the claims of two failed property insurers who went belly up in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath. But the cost of dealing with the insolvent insurers ultimately will fall on the state after companies recoup the dollars through a series of tax credits.
The Advocate reports that the board of the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association — a state-sponsored safety net for policyholders -- voted for the first time since 2004 to charge insurers 1% of their net written premiums to help fill its coffers.
The guaranty fund, known as LIGA, covers claims for policyholders whose insurers become insolvent.
Its work is being triggered after the state insurance department in mid-November took control of two regional insurers whose finances tanked following Hurricane Ida: Access Home Insurance Co. and State National Fire Insurance Co.
We Can Pay Mother Nature Now, or Pay Her Later
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What Will It Take For Rand Paul To Gain a Shred of Credibility?
He Can Start By Not Posting Nonsense Like This
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CDC doesn't do a good job of reporting around holidays.
Doses Administered 7-Day Average | Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses | Number of People Fully Vaccinated | New Cases 7-Day Average | Deaths 7-Day Average | |
| Dec 5 | 2,264,301 | 235,698,738 | 198,962,520 | ||
| Dec 4 | 2,009,864 | 235,297,964 | 198,592,167 | ||
| Dec 3 | 1,700,056 | 234,743,864 | 198,211,641 | 106,132 | 1,110 |
| Dec 2 | 1,428,263 | 234,269,053 | 197,838,728 | 96,425 | 975 |
| Dec 1 | 1,116,587 | 233,590,555 | 197,363,116 | 86,412 | 859 |
| Nov 30 | 1,152,647 | 233,207,582 | 197,058,988 | 82,846 | 816 |
| Nov 29 | 937,113 | 232,792,508 | 196,806,194 | 80,178 | 804 |
| Nov 28 | No Data | 72,008 | 719 | ||
| Nov 27 | No Data | 72,139 | 721 | ||
| Nov 26 | No Data | 73,962 | 742 | ||
| Nov 25 | No Data | 82,440 | 887 | ||
| Nov 24 | 898,833 | 231,367,686 | 196,168,756 | 93,931 | 989 |
| Nov 23 | 1,126,545 | 230,669,289 | 195,973,992 | 94,266 | 982 |
| Nov 22 | 1,521,815 | 230,732,565 | 196,398,948 | 93,668 | 1,009 |
| Nov 21 | 1,774,196 | 230,298,744 | 196,284,442 | 91,021 | 985 |
| Nov 20 | 2,136,513 | 229,837,421 | 196,128,496 | 90,823 | 996 |
| Nov 19 | 1,952,717 | 229,291,004 | 195,920,566 | 92,852 | 1,047 |
| Nov 18 | 1,870,564 | 228,570,531 | 195,713,107 | 94,260 | 1,069 |
| Nov 17 | 1,811,047 | 228,175,638 | 195,612,365 | 88,482 | 1,032 |
| Nov 16 | 1,608,906 | 227,691,941 | 195,435,688 | 85,944 | 1,028 |
| Nov 15 | 1,582,519 | 227,133,617 | 195,275,904 | 83,671 | 1,029 |
| Nov 14 | 1,375,998 | 226,607,653 | 195,120,470 | 80,823 | 1,043 |
| Nov 13 | 1,370,279 | 226,157,226 | 194,951,106 | 80,590 | 1,049 |
| Nov 12 | 1,335,066 | 225,606,197 | 194,747,839 | 78,552 | 1,038 |
| Nov 11 | No Data | 73,218 | 999 | ||
| Nov 10 | 1,316,294 | 224,660,453 | 194,382,921 | 76,458 | 1,051 |
| Nov 9 | 1,316,228 | 224,257,467 | 194,168,611 | 74,584 | 1,078 |
| Nov 8 | 1,300,925 | 223,944,369 | 194,001,108 | 73,312 | 1,078 |
| Nov 7 | 1,265,361 | 223,629,671 | 193,832,584 | 71,867 | 1,068 |
| Nov 6 | 1,254,975 | 223,245,121 | 193,627,929 | 71,327 | 1,079 |
| Feb 16 | 1,716,311 | 39,670,551 | 15,015,434 | 78,292 |
| At Least One Dose | Fully Vaccinated | |
| % of Total Population | 71.0% | 59.9% |
| % of Population 12+ | 81.4% | 69.7% |
| % of Population 18+ | 83.4% | 71.5% |
| % of Population 65+ | 99.9% | 86.5% |
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Remember When He was a Respected Republican?
Bob Dole, former senator and presidential candidate, dies at 98
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Remember All Those Taliban Promises That They Were Ready to Join the Civilized World?
The US and a host of allied countries have called on the Taliban to end the targeted killings of former members of Afghan security forces.
In a joint statement, the 22 nations demanded that the Islamist regime respect its pledge not to harm former government or security personnel.
"We are deeply concerned by reports of summary killings and enforced disappearances", the statement says.
It follows a damning report on killings and abductions by the Islamist regime.
Released by the Human Rights Watch earlier this week, the report documented more than 100 executions and abductions of former Afghan government officials since the Taliban took control of the country almost four months ago.
It also documented the murder of 47 members of the Afghan security forces who surrendered to, or were captured by, the Taliban between 15 August and 31 October.
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Lumajang telah menuju lokasi untuk melakukan assesment dan evakuasi warga di sekitar Gunung Semeru. Silahkan mention jika ada yang dilokasi
I Think That Means They Are Up To Their Ass in Ash
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People Get "Famous" For the Dumbest Reasons
A strongman who became famous for balancing a Mini on his head has said he wants to reach 100 world records before retiring.
John Evans, 74, who started out as a labourer on building sites, added determination and willpower have got him through the challenges.
Mr Evans, from Derbyshire, said he has raised "well over £250,000 for charity" from his head-balancing act which has taken him around the world.
John, who is affiliated with Record Holders Republic, says he holds about 98 world records including 50 that were acknowledged by Guinness.
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This Is Critical. It Involves Race. It is Not a Theory.
Some Black students are being told they stink while others are being called monkeys by their White peers. The n-word has been written on the walls of school restrooms as other students are the targets of racist rants on social media.
Students of color are facing racial slurs and bullying in and outside the classroom, and many who are fed up have been walking out of class, speaking at board meetings and even suing school districts.
In Minnesota, a 14-year-old Black girl spoke in front of a crowd to condemn a video widely shared online that she said encouraged her to take her own life. Meanwhile, a community in Utah is scrutinizing a school district after the family of a Black and autistic student said she was bullied by classmates before dying by suicide.
As some lawmakers and parents attempt to limit teachings about racism and schools' diversity and inclusion efforts are met with protests, numerous reports of racist bullying have recently surfaced in classrooms from coast to coast.
"It's everywhere, it's not a new thing. This isn't something that is just now happening. It's just now getting attention, more than it has (gotten) before," Sean Sorkoram, a high school student in Tigard, Oregon, who was part of a walkout on Wednesday, told CNN affiliate KPTV.
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Two People Who Are Luckier Than Any Of Us Will Ever Be. Or Are They?
A North Carolina man wasn't sure if he had bought a ticket in the state's Lucky for Life lottery drawing, so he filled out the online form.
"I was just laying in bed watching a basketball game on TV and I couldn't remember if I filled it out or not," said Scotty Thomas, 49, from Fayetteville, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.
"I went ahead and filled it out again and the next morning my son asked why there were two different amounts listed. I realized, 'I think I filled it out twice.'"
It turned out he had won $25,000 each year for life with each ticket in the November 27 drawing.
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A Massachusetts man recovering from open-heart surgery won a $1 million lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket given to him by a friend, according to lottery officials.
Alexander McLeish received three scratch-off tickets in a get-well card from a friend earlier this month, according to a news release from the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission.
As McLeish scratched off the first three letters on the crossword lottery ticket, his first glimpse of good luck was revealing his initials: A, W and M. As he continued matching letters to words on the lottery ticket, for a game called $5,000,000 100X Cashword, he revealed the word "heart" on the bottom row of the puzzle.
The man wound up winning the second top prize for the game -- $1 million. There are only 10 total prize winners for that amount on the $20 lottery ticket. The top prize is $5 million.
Maybe They Are Lucky. We Don't Know About the Rest of Their Lives.
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Can A Story Be More San Francisco?
A San Francisco restaurant was hit with a wave of negative reviews after it made headlines for asking uniformed police officers to leave, saying the presence of guns made staff uncomfortable.
Hilda and Jesse, a breakfast restaurant in the city's North Beach neighborhood, seated three uniformed officers on Friday but said its staff became uncomfortable with the presence of "multiple weapons" shortly after.
The restaurant's Instagram page said this was not a political decision and was made with the interest of their staff.
"We respect the San Francisco Police Department and are grateful for the work they do," the statement on social media said. "We welcome them into the restaurant when they are off-duty, out of uniform and without their weapons."
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A Man's Trailer is His Castle?
The fatal shooting of a Black man in a trailer park is rocking a rural community in Missouri as neighbors who say they witnessed the killing dispute the police narrative of events.
Justin King, a 28-year-old Black and Filipino man, was shot Nov. 3 at 11:45 a.m. in the small town of Bourbon, located about 73 miles southwest of St. Louis.
Police say he was shot by the owner of a home he was trying to break into, but witnesses and family members say he was shot in "cold blood" by a man he called his friend.
King succumbed to his wounds at the scene. The 42-year-old white neighbor who shot him was taken into custody and later released.
The Crawford County Sheriff's Department said King was shot "after forcing entry into a neighboring residence where an altercation took place." The homeowner "feared for his life" and shot King, the department said in a news release.
The department said evidence, video surveillance and statements "preliminarily corroborate the homeowner's account of the events."
But family members of King and five people who live in the trailer park told NBC News they doubt that narrative.
Three neighbors told NBC News the shooter was a man who had expressed a desire to kill someone, has a history of violence and was known to use racial epithets. Several neighbors said King and the shooter were friends.
Nimrod Chapel Jr., the president of the Missouri NAACP, who is representing the King family, said Justin King was shot outside the neighbor's home and had not entered it, contrary to the sheriff's account.
"The only person that says it's a home invasion is the guy that shot my son," King's father, John King, told NBC News. "And all the neighbors are saying, 'No, you shot him in cold blood outside.'"
"He had no shirt on, only pajama bottoms. So how was he a threat?" John King said. "Justin was shot in cold blood outside in broad daylight."
Under Missouri's "castle doctrine" law, individuals are allowed to use deadly force against intruders without the duty to retreat, based on the notion that their home is "their castle."
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Every Single Day MTG Says Or Tweets 60 Moronic Things.
Every single day MTG says or tweets more than 60 moronic things.
Her mouth has never once shut down.
Not a single intelligent thought has occurred to her.
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They Are Selling CHOCOLATE
An Idaho Republican went into a meltdown faster than a chocolate bar over a campfire this week when she threw an online fit over a year-old Hershey’s commercial. NPR’s Boise State Public Radio reports that it’s unclear whether Lisa Leisy, a local official for Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s gubernatorial campaign, has retained her position after she sent a tweet complaining about a “black only” Hershey’s commercial Monday.
I Guess She Only Eats White Chocolate
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Who Won the Week?
Human dynamo Stacey Abrams, for announcing another run for Georgia governor
Germany's federal and state governments, for imposing a lockdown on the unvaccinated, now barred from going anywhere but supermarkets and pharmacies
First Lady Jill Biden, for transforming the White House into a holiday winter wonderland that is, in the words of one HuffPost writer, "refreshingly not terrifying."
The astronomers in India who discovered an exoplanet 725 light years away that's larger than Jupiter, and a rare class of radio stars that are hotter than our sun
The legacy of Josephine Baker, who becomes the first Black woman and first person of American origin to be inducted in the Pantheon in Paris
Barbados, for becoming the world's newest republic as it says "toodles" to the British empire
President Biden: Signs bipartisan veterans bills into law; averts govt. shutdown; announces robust winter covid recovery plan; economic recovery continues to impress economists
Rep. Ilhan Omar, for hanging up on a call with Lauren Boebert after the congresscultist refused to apologize for accusing Omar of being a terrorist and instead doubled down on her bile
The FDA advisory panel that approved the new antiviral molnupiravir pill to treat Covid-19 for emergency use---the first oral drug for the disease
Federal Judge Robert Pitman, for striking down Texas's new law that would ban social media platforms from moderating/removing hate speech & disinformation spewed almost entirely by MAGA cultists
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Who Lost the Week?
Charles Doty, arrested at a Little Caesars in Tennessee for threatening workers (with an AK-47) after he was told it would take ten minutes … to make his pepperoni pizza
James Beeks, an actor, Michael Jackson impersonator and a member of the Oath Keepers, arrested for his role in the January 6th riot after being identified by his wearing … a Michael Jackson 1987 “Bad” tour jacket
Carlos Arthur Nuzman, former head of the Rio 2016 Olympic games and Brazilian Olympic Committee, sentenced to 31 years in jail for money laundering and corruption in order to buy votes for Brazil to host the games
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, held liable by a federal jury in Ohio for the spread of opioid painkillers (with thousands of overdoses), the first time that pharmacy retailers have been held accountable for contributing to the opioid crisis
James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of a Michigan high school shooter, themselves charged with four counts of homicide involuntary manslaughter after being fugitives from justice
Off-duty New Jersey police officer Louis Santiago, charged with reckless vehicular homicide for hitting a pedestrian with his personal car and briefly taking the body home, where he discussed with his mother … what to do with it
CNN host Chris Cuomo, fired after using his sources in the media to seek information on women who accused his brother Andrew of sexual harassment, according to documents from the NY State attorney general’s office
Rossie Dennis, arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a video surfaced online of her brandishing a gun in a Corpus Christi parking lot, threatening to shoot occupants of another vehicle … over a parking space
John Croucher, head chef at a pub in England hosting a church harvest supper, sentenced to four months for not cooking a dish of shepherd’s pie thoroughly, as one of the congregation died and 31 others suffered food poisoning
Steve McLaughlin, a GOP county executive in upstate New York (and an Andrew Cuomo foe) arrested on allegations he stole $3,500 in campaign funds to pay off personal debts
Ohio sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who boasted of being able to “hunt people” after shooting an unarmed Black man in the back five times last December, arrested on two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide
Ryder Winegar, a New Hampshire man who made threatening phone calls to members of Congress if they didn’t support Trump’s claims, sentenced to two years … in part as he either … left his name or phone number
Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, being ordered by a federal judge to pay $175k in sanctions for abusing the judicial process by bringing baseless lawsuits against Michigan officials, falsely accusing them of election fraud
Amazon, after a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ordered it to allow workers at an Alabamb warehouse a second vote on unionization, finding that the company had “hijacked” the process
Australian banking giant Westpac, fined for wrongly charging customers fees, including over 11,000 deceased customers “for financial-advice services that were not provided due to their death”
Robert Paduchik and Dave Johnson, chairman and treasurer of the Ohio GOP, being sued by several state party members for misuse of $3 mill in party funds, then after they inquired: were removed them from their committee positions
Houston mega-church pastor Joel Osteen, who had reported $600k in stolen church funds in 2014 … now having a plumber reveal he found 500 envelopes filled with cash hidden behind tile while repairing a church toilet last month
Justice Hall, arrested after he opened fire on Dollar General workers in Kentucky (with one woman injured by shattered glass) after an Uber gift card he purchased at the store was not working
The Hoft brothers, who run the right-wing site Gateway Pundit, being sued for endangering the lives of two Georgia election workers with false accusations of voter fraud (using “suitcases” full of fake ballots for Joe Biden)
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So It Doesn't Not Say That the Election Wasn't Stolen?
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They Say It Is Too Expensive To Do Something About Climate Change
Insurance companies operating in Louisiana will be charged at least $100 million to pay the claims of two failed property insurers who went belly up in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath. But the cost of dealing with the insolvent insurers ultimately will fall on the state after companies recoup the dollars through a series of tax credits.
The Advocate reports that the board of the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association — a state-sponsored safety net for policyholders -- voted for the first time since 2004 to charge insurers 1% of their net written premiums to help fill its coffers.
The guaranty fund, known as LIGA, covers claims for policyholders whose insurers become insolvent.
Its work is being triggered after the state insurance department in mid-November took control of two regional insurers whose finances tanked following Hurricane Ida: Access Home Insurance Co. and State National Fire Insurance Co.
We Can Pay Mother Nature Now, or Pay Her Later
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What Will It Take For Rand Paul To Gain a Shred of Credibility?
He Can Start By Not Posting Nonsense Like This
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