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16 hours ago, Tiberius said:
A gay rights activist explains why the CDC’s Provincetown study may be fatally flawed
Do you think this might skew the data?
But..............lets all mask up again.
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Unions wade into debate over requiring COVID-19 vaccine ...
Jan 21, 2021 — Unions have fought hard to get their workers near the top of the ... Lashay is co-author of a report on mandating the COVID-19 vaccine that ...
Biden's talk of vaccine mandates sends labor into disarray ...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/28/vaccine-mandates-labor-biden-501123
3 days ago — A steep divide has emerged among labor unions — as well as between members and leaders — over whether to require workers to be vaccinated.
NY health care union pushes back against vaccine mandates
Around 3.5 million eligible New Yorkers still have not received the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Texas Democrats Finally Begin to Realize They Are Screwed
You’d be forgiven for forgetting they existed, but the fugitive Texas Democrats, who fled their state to stop the passage of a mundane voting integrity bill, are still hanging out in Washington, DC. Where exactly, I’m not sure, but I like to imagine them sleeping on cots and eating ramen noodles every night while they mutter obscenities about Gov. Greg Abbott to each other.
That’s when they aren’t spreading COVID to everyone, of course. There was a sighting a few days ago in which some of them appeared with Al Sharpton at the MLK memorial. You know, because nothing stirs support in Texas like latching onto a notorious, big-city race grifter
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Not a surprise.
People know bullsh*t when they see it.
Support for Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe slip after cops’ emotional testimony: poll
by David Marcus
An emotional hearing this week in which police officers attacked in the Capitol riot testified before a House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 turned more Americans against the need for the probe, according to a Morning Consult poll.
Among voters of all parties, 53 percent supported the investigation, down from 66 percent in the survey in June and 58 percent just a week ago. Four out of five Democrats were in favor, while only a quarter of Republicans were, along with half of independents.Only 49 percent of those polled said they had watched all or even part of the committee hearing that dominated the news cycle on Tuesday.
Thursday’s poll continues a downward trend in multiple surveys, with both CBS News and Rasmussen reporting declining interest in the investigation just days before the hearing.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/30/support-for-capitol-riot-probe-slips-after-emotional-hearing/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/27/jan-6-capitol-riot-committee-support-slipping-among-gop-independents/
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California's recall is America's final warning
by Mike Cargile
On September 14, Californians of all political persuasions will answer two questions on their ballot: 1) Do you want to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom? 2) Whom do you want to replace him?
The fate of our nation will be determined by the outcome of those two questions. How can I say that? First, you have to know what's really going on, so let's pull back the curtain. Months ago, Ric Grenell publicly said he had no interest in running for governor because Pelosi's daughter said there wasn't going to be a recall. If it came down to it, Feinstein would have a sudden reason to retire,
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/californias_recall_is_americas_final_warning.html
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JOHN HINDERAKER: Censorship is Here. What to do about it?
Our freedoms are under threat as they have not been in a very long time. The question is, what to do about it. Private action is appropriate; we should support non-leftist alternatives to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, for example. But that is not going to be good enough. The major platforms may be natural monopolies on account of network effects, and I don’t know how individual action can create alternatives to Amazon’s web hosting dominance or the Apple-Google duopoly.
We need to bring government action to bear while we still can. Specifically, we need to encourage as many states as possible to legislate against internet censorship. In my opinion, the best way to do that is through state legislation that creates a private cause of action when a tech platform discriminates on the basis of political or philosophical viewpoint. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/censorship-is-here-what-to-do-about-it.php
As a famous man said, punch back twice as hard.
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We are being laughed at around the world.
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When you click on the link of BillZy tweet post, you get this
So............did you get that folks ?
Formally requesting a performance review of the election processes is the same as "openly and proudly beginning the process of taking over elections control and counting"
Ordinarily I would just laugh at such buffoonery, but low-life leftist constant lying is really nothing to laugh at anymore.
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1 hour ago, Governor said:
Hike up your skirt little boy….
This isn't The Lincoln Project Thread
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11 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Boy, you anti science zealots are rotten to the core. Would you have been excited showing Galileo the torture instruments that were going use on him if he didn’t recant the truth
So, you can't find anything wrong with the article to point out, and default to name-calling..............
Good thing I was sitting down.
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The Stupid, It Burns! Failed Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs Wants you to Vote "No" on the Recall and "Yes" to Progress
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
Michael D. Tubbs is the failed former Mayor of Stockton, CA. One of those bright, rising stars in the Democrat Party, he instituted the first-ever universal basic income in the city, but still lost to Republican Kevin Lincoln, who was a military veteran and had never held political office. According to reports, despite the UBI-boon, Lincoln received 56 percent of the vote. The post-mortem of Tubbs’ campaign reflected that voters felt Tubbs lacked focus on the homelessness, crime, and poverty in the city he was supposed to be running, and was more focused on flying around the country to play the rising star for national party events and Democrat concerns.
Sound familiar?
Failing up, this is what Democrats do, so our failure of a Governor Hair Gel appointed him to the inglorious position of special adviser for economic mobility and opportunity.
Seriously…
Tubbs has also penned a memoir, which appears to still be the strategy before making a bigger political move.
So this tweet to prop up his boss explains much:
Notice he didn’t invoke Arnold Schwarzenegger? Probably because it would be too much of a reminder of how the “Guvernator” ended up in office in the first place. Too close to the vest.
Instead he threw it back to Pete Wilson, who ended his run as California Governor before Tubbs was even born. So, yeah, someone else wrote this tweet as Tubbs probably knows little about the Pete Wilson days. And a throwback wouldn’t be a horrible thing, as they would be an improvement on our current situation.
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SENILITY ALERT:
How bad is Joe Biden?
It’s gotten to where there’s something virtually every day.
Yesterday was awful — with Biden calling Fox “Fax,” lying and snapping at Peter Doocy, then completely wrecking his own new argument on mandating vaccinations and masks.
But today is really bad, too.
Joe Biden was at a virtual Zoom meeting from the White House with governors in regard to wildfires.
His brain broke again while he was talking about wildfires and Delaware.
“You know, I come from the state of Delaware,” Biden said. “We had more acreage burn last year than the state of Delaware and Maryland combined. COMBINED.” Wait, what? How does that make any sense? Of course, it doesn’t.
I think that he was trying to talk about how wildfires in the United States have burned nearly three million acres so far this year — that’s the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. But he didn’t seem to be able to say it coherently.
But it gets worse.
More at the link: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/07/30/joe-bidens-brain-breaks-again-and-then-it-gets-really-bad-n419010
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CDC Scrambles to Find Delta Data and Gets Egg on Their Face
Weeks of increasingly apocalyptic statements by CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci, accompanied by little to no evidence, finally came to a head in the last few days. Their concerns and statements regarding the Delta variant of COVID-19, coupled with reversing health policy and guidance, were finally met with calls to see the data leading to these conclusions. On Tuesday, Dr. Walensky made a statement urging a return to mitigation by masking, citing data – which she did not cite or release at the time – that the Delta variant resulted in a higher viral load, more severe disease than the original strain, and caused vaccinated individuals to be just as infectious as the unvaccinated.
Late last night, the internal CDC slide deck, including the source material for these new determinations, was leaked. Most of the slides focus on vaccine effectiveness, with only seven slides examining the new data on the Delta variant – presumably the data the CDC had used to reverse course on mitigation. Of these seven slides, one is a comparison of transmissibility between the Delta variant and ancestral strains on one hand, and a variety of other infectious diseases of various and broad transmission types on the other. Two of the slides cover an internal model the CDC has generated attempting to predict future Delta transmission rates and the effect of masking and vaccines on those rates.
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What the data shows is that – contrary to the CDC’s clumsy messaging – vaccines work, and while this new increased risk to young adults should encourage vaccinations among that age group, there is no need to advocate for extreme mitigation based on overstated evidence and exaggerated risks.
More at the link: https://redstate.com/katepauldillon/2021/07/30/cdc-scrambles-to-find-delta-data-and-gets-egg-on-their-face-n418936
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‘…seems like quite a stretch’: Nate Silver breaks down the CDC data from Provincetown, MA that’s being used to justify the new mask guidance
The CDC finally released some of the data behind its new mask guidance and as many suspected, it’s a study based on a cluster of infections that happened in Provincetown, Mass. during July.
First up, the study “includes several major caveats, most of which are almost completely missing from the hyperbolic news coverage around this”:
There is also one major caveat that the study authors don't mention: they are only looking at *people who chose to be tested*,
which is a lot different than *all breakthrough infections*.
Presumably people with symptoms are much more likely to be tested.
Finally I'd note that the sample sizes here are tiny, leading to very wide confidence intervals.
And the "real life" confidence intervals are likely even wider given that (as the study authors say) the sample isn't very diverse. (P-town = mostly affluent middle-aged gay men.)
In summary, “To take a self-selected, not-statistically-significant sample of ~200 nondiverse people during a party weekend that was an outlier in many respects, and use it to conclude that breakthrough infections are just as likely to transmit the virus, seems like quite the stretch”:
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CNN Business reports:
Schneider said he believes that inflation is transitory. But the owner of brands including Nescafe, Gerber and Cheerios said it would need to raise prices by roughly 2% to offset cost increases of 4%. Nestlé hiked prices by 1.3% in the first half of 2021.
The company can hedge against some cost increases, such as rising coffee prices, said Schneider. But it can’t avoid the rising cost of things like transportation, which puts pressure on the company’s margins.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/investing/nestle-food-prices-inflation/index.html
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18 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
NY TIMES OP-ED REVEALS ENDGAME OF BORDER CRISIS: Let Illegals Vote.
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The South Florida Sun Sentinal framed an order signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this way:
DeSantis will sign order to ban masks in Broward schools https://t.co/FRMRoDDEBq pic.twitter.com/SQwpC3IkSX
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) July 30, 2021
As you can see, the tweet that read “DeSantis will sign order to ban masks in Broward schools” been deleted. One reason is that DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw dropped another “fake news” hammer on some media spin:
No correction, they just took it down when caught.
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BIDENFLATION:
World’s Largest Food Company Will Raise Prices Amid Inflation.
The January 6th Commission To Investigate The Insurrection
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Non response to what the poll says...............expected.
The Justice Department won’t have January 6 evidence ready until 2022.
by Julie Kelly
During a status hearing Friday afternoon for Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an Army reservist arrested on January 15 for his involvement in the January 6 protest in Washington, D.C., an assistant U.S. attorney admitted the government will not meet its discovery obligations for all Capitol defendants until early 2022.
Kathyrn Fifield, the lead attorney representing the Justice Department, informed Judge Trevor McFadden that the “incalculable” volume of video collected by the government related to the Capitol breach investigation will prevent defendants and their lawyers from accessing the full body of evidence against them for several more months. “No system exists to wrap its arms around [all this evidence],” Fifield told McFadden. This includes at least 14,000 hours of surveillance video plus thousands of hours of body-worn camera footage from law enforcement.
Fifield resisted setting a 2021 trial date for Hale; McFadden and Jonathan Crisp, Hale’s court-appointed attorney, told the government last month that unless a plea arrangement was agreed upon, a trial would be set for later this year because Hale already has been incarcerated for more than six months. “If we do set a trial date, the government cannot meet discovery obligations until early 2022. That’s a conservative estimate,” Fifield said.
More at the link: https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/30/unprecedented-unreasonable-unconstitutional-and-wrong/