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Post by mhbruin on Sept 5, 2023 9:37:02 GMT -8
There's this MAGA out for a walk. He comes to a river and sees another MAGA on the opposite bank 'Yoo-hoo!' she shouts, 'How can I get to the other side?'
The second MAGA looks up the river then down the river and shouts back, 'You ARE on the other side.'
Steve Bannon was Sentenced to Prison on October 21, 2022.
Steve Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison will go before a federal appeals court panel on October 12 in Washington D.C..
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 5, 2023 9:57:45 GMT -8
Expired COVID Tests. Can You Use Them?As Covid cases surge again in the U.S., Americans are digging out unused at-home tests that they stashed earlier in the pandemic. Many of those tests may have passed their expiration dates, but don’t throw them away just yet. The Food and Drug Administration has extended the expiration dates of many popular at-home test products, which means some of your old kits may still be safe to use. You can check by visiting a page on the FDA’s website that lists expiration information for each test brand. “That’s the first thing I would do before using an expired test or throwing it away,” Andrew Pekosz, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told CNBC. If the date has not changed, the FDA advises against using expired tests. Doing so increases the chance of an inaccurate test result, which could put your or another person’s health at risk. Authorized At-Home OTC COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests and Expiration Dates
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 5, 2023 9:59:56 GMT -8
The Danger of Unregulated Hemp
Since the U.S. inadvertently created a way for retailers to legally sell a compound called delta-8 THC, which comes from hemp, officials from across the government can’t seem to figure out how to regulate it.
The Food and Drug Administration said in January that Congress must create regulations to rein in hemp-derived cannabinoids, which include delta-8. In July, Congress responded, asking the FDA how it should go about doing so. All the while, the Drug Enforcement Administration has been quietly evaluating whether it will issue rules that would close the loophole entirely. The lack of action from the federal government has led a number of states to step in to restrict or even ban the compound.
The confusion stems from the 2018 farm bill, which legalized hemp. Hemp and marijuana are both cannabis plants, but hemp refers to a cannabis plant that contains 0.3% or less of delta-9 THC, the psychoactive compound responsible for the drug’s high. Marijuana, on the other hand, contains about 15%, on average.
Delta-9 THC is the best-known version of tetrahydrocannabinol, and it’s generally what people are talking about when they refer to THC. Notably, it’s the specific compound that’s mentioned when limits are set for cannabis plants.
The bill made no mention of delta-8 THC, however — a slightly different, and less potent, version of the compound. The omission makes it legal for vendors to sell the compound as long as it comes from hemp, not marijuana. Delta-8 products have soared in popularity and, with them, warnings of harm, including contaminated products and poisonings in children.
THC derived from hemp remains in a legal gray area that creates opportunity for consumer deception, experts say.
Safety concerns aren’t related to delta-8 THC itself — which weakly activates the same receptors in the body as delta-9 THC — but rather the other substances, such as chemicals or heavy metals, that unregulated delta-8 THC products may contain. There is also no federal age requirement to buy them.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 5, 2023 10:50:37 GMT -8
Sorry, QOP, Nobody Cares!
A new story in Politico ponders why we didn't hear much argle-bargle about Hunter Biden during the first Republican primary debate. Hunter is, after all, the only reason House Republicans continue to show up for work each day. Without new hearings speculating on how Hunter might have something-somethinged and how President Joe Biden was probably in on it because of further something-something, the whole House "Freedom Caucus" would likely shrivel up and die.
There are at least two reasons why Republican presidential candidates might not want to spend valuable debate time fluffing Rep. Jim Jordan's latest conspiracy theories, and Politico touches on them both. The first and most formidable reason is because Nobody Gives a Shit About Hunter Biden. The vast majority of the public knows that Hunter exists in the same way they might know Ivanka Trump exists, but your average person on the street has several thousand more pressing problems on their mind and has devoted very little daily thought to the life choices of either of them.
Even by the usual standards of celebrity failsons, nobody cares. The conspiracy theories that sedition-backing House Republicans have to tell about Hunter Biden are so convoluted for so little outrage payoff that only conspiracy theorists have any interest in following that shit. If the general public can't be mustered to give a shit that Donald Trump's son-in-law-turned-White-House-adviser scored a $2 billion "investment" from journalist-murdering Saudi royals immediately after finishing up his Saudi-friendly White House stint, they're certainly not going to care that Joe Biden's known-troubled son might have gotten a too-cushy gig somewhere trading on the family name.
Nobody. Cares. Or, to be more specific, only seditionists, congressional sex traffickers, coatless athlete abuse enablers, and Fox News opinion hosts care. As Politico quotes Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz-not-Gaetz: "If you do not have a Ph.D. in Sean Hannity studies or watch his show every night, it's basically totally incomprehensible for a normal person."
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 5, 2023 10:51:53 GMT -8
Elon Musk Blames it on the JewsOn Monday, Elon Musk issued a series of statements in which he has blamed secret manipulation by a Jewish organization for the destruction of the X platform, which was once called Twitter. Saying the Anti-Defamation League was the “primary” reason for falling ad revenue at X, Musk first threatened, then later seemed to promise to sue for damages.  That’s right. After months in which Musk has supported racist rants; encouraged hate speech; elevated literal Nazi propaganda; fired every Twitter employee in Brazil on suspicion of being too liberal; fired the entire company press office and the entire company communications department; decimated the team responsible for content moderation; terrified advertisers with chaos, irresponsibility, and perpetuating racism; and thrown away global brand recognition by renaming the whole platform to indulge a personal whim, Musk has put his finger on the real issue. It’s the Jews.
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Post by sagobob on Sept 5, 2023 12:02:43 GMT -8
Arrest the usual suspects.
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