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https://twitter.com/MaryAnnAhernNBC/status/1394766979450425360
I am not sure if it copied properly but it is a tweet from a NBC news person stating Chicago mayor only does interviews with black people.
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2 hours ago, Tiberius said:
The Great Society programs made old age a much better time for people. Good job Big Government!
And some people still complain! Just whiners
So you agree that it has been ineffective on the war on poverty?
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41 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Most elderly lived in poverty until the Great Society improved their lives significantly
Ya Great Society!
Once again when you stop working your income goes down, but let is discuss the great society, it has cost us how much money and yet out poverty rate in 2020 is the same as it was 1965, it would seem to me to be woefully ineffective.
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3 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Just look at poverty rates for the elderly before Medicare. Most old people lived poor lives and many just went out health care. The Federal Government has dramatically improved the lives of the elderly. That's what you are complaining about.
Are you intentionally using pointless economic points? The poverty rate is based on my income, when you retire your income drops dramatically, often times to the point you are legally impoverished. My parents have likely been part of that rate since they retired in 2006 but they have always had a nice house and money to have a nice life. Also you are comparing being 70 in 1965 vs today, which are very different, but the funniest part is you are giving the Federal government credit for the improvement in Americans lives that would have happened without them.
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17 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Ya right. Most people would simply have no health care if the government didn't guide them by the hands to it.
BTW, your parents take more out than they ever put in.
You believe that most people would not have health care without the government stepping in? The sad part is you are serious, most people would have a different version of healthcare but 90% of people would still take care of themselves.
Secondly your math sucks- as usual. The only way my parents will even get back more from the government in healthcare costs is if my parents at some point need long term care. Of course you probably count all the layers of government employees as part of their healthcare.
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9 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Most people like big government. All those red state seniors on medicare love it, but they still complain because that's what they do.
This is why Democrats rarely lose power once they obtain it, they will punish you if they lose. Medicare is needed because my parents and all of the people who have worked for the past 50 years of his life has paid into it instead of being able to save it or put it into a long term care plan. You simply made it so getting rid of it would mean people would forfeit literally hundred of thousands of dollars to a government agency.
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On 5/16/2021 at 5:51 PM, B-Man said:
2-year-old girl among 37 shot in Chicago since Friday evening
Chicago Sun Times Wire (IL), by Staff
Chicago has very strict gun laws and this happens weekly.
Can it be explained without trying to blame neighboring states ?
The reason it is the neighboring towns is simple. Good honest people are not armed and criminals know that. In Indiana and Wisconsin the good and honest are likely armed therefore criminals don't go there. Taking away the ability of good people to defend themselves is stupid.
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8 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
Let me try to explain, and I hope it will help you decide to get vaccinated.
When they say that Covid-19 was a novel virus, that is precisely what was meant. With new viruses expressing new spike proteins in Covid-19's case, the body has not had a chance to build immunity. And this virus was very unpredictable. First, the long latency period of two weeks before symptoms occurred. That greatly enhanced the spread of the virus, in that people could infect others without knowing they had it. Add then that the clinical course of the infection was unpredictable, in that some remained unsymptomatic whereas the number of deaths now approaches 600,000, and you see the seriousness of this virus.
I don't think anyone would argue that boosting one's own immune system and such is a bad thing. But in the face of a very infectious pathogen like Covid-19, the issue is what if doing so doesn't work? Then you die, or you have serious long term morbidity if you are one that becomes seriously affected. The reason vaccines are being advised, and even for children, comes down to basics about virology. Viruses need host cells to replicate, specifically our cells. The more people vaccinated such that they no longer become hosts (i.e. herd immunity) the less opportunity for the virus to hang around and it eventually becomes controlled or hopefully eradicated. The reason children should also get vaccinated is that they too can get Covid (although the mortality rate is much lower it is still there as are longer term complications) and because they harbor the virus and act as hosts. The longer we let the virus hang around, the more it can infect and the more it can mutate and potential become even more infectious (such as the U.K variant).
Now to concerns about the vaccine. The mRNA vaccines have actually been in development for a long time, and before getting EUA they had to go through the usual phases of clinical trials to look at potential damaging effects and such. I sit on an FDA advisory panel, and I can assure you that these clinical trials and the data obtained from them are taken extraordinarily seriously by the FDA. The tens of thousands of patients enrolled in the trials for especially the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines showed no serious side effects and extremely good rates of success in generating an immune response against Covid. And now since those vaccines have gone into widespread use there are millions of people that have been vaccinated, and the FDA and CDC follow up on adverse reactions. The sum of that is the two mRNA vaccines used in the U.S. show remarkably high effectiveness rates in promoting an immune response and helping the vaccinated individual fight off Covid. Serious side effects and deaths from Covid with these vaccines are virtually nil. And more recent data provides evidence that the ability of vaccinated persons to harbor and spread the virus is also very low. These findings, together with the efficiency in preventing illness and the marked decrease in infection and mortality rates since widespread vaccine distribution has started, allowed the CDC to make their recommendation last week. And they have made the Pfizer vaccine a candidate for full FDA authorization, which I expect to see shortly. Concerns about long term effects from the vaccine are understandable. But if you look at the mRNA vaccines they are basically the mRNA, some salts, and some lipids (fats) to help keep the mRNA soluble. There really is nothing there that should cause any long term effects; the mRNA is degraded by the cell after it is used to direct synthesis of the viral spike protein part.
Regarding masks, flip flopping, and such, it is regrettable that what is a public health crisis turned into a political football. There has not been flip flopping per se. Rather, what we have seen is an evolution in how we deal with Covid as scientists gather more data on prevention and treatment and such. Dr. Fauci is criticized time and again for flip flopping on masks, with the statement in March of last year about how the public should not wear masks being misinterpreted. What he was referring to at that time was that he did not want the mask supply to be taken away from front line health care workers. At that time we did not know exactly how the virus was transmitted, and what the effectiveness of various masks, distancing, and such would be. Studies were done showing that masks of different types mitigated against the spread of droplets and aerosols, which were found to be the main modes of transmission. Note I said mitigate and not prevent; anti-mask folks like to say the masks don't prevent anything as if it were a black and white, works or doesn't work issue. And it is not. As more and more studies are done we find that the risk of infection outdoors is much lower than indoors and recommendations then change when you're outside. And so on. This is how science works; it is not flip flopping, it is good science. You continue to build information and as you do you change treatment strategies and recommendations. Look at other medical conditions such as heart disease or cancer. We don't treat people the same way today as we did even a year ago, because new data and findings come into focus and cause changes is strategies. The same thing has happened with Covid over the past 14 months and will continue to do so.
In your last sentence you indicate you want to see more results before deciding. The results are in on millions of folks now, and they show that these vaccines are tremendously effective against Covid. Almost historically effective. And with few if any serious side effects. So please do your part and get the vaccine. I hope some of what I've written here helps guide you down that path.
Where there is a problem with messaging is that the CDC does not respond quickly to new info. It has been obvious since Thanksgiving at the latest that schools could be open safely with some simple precautions but they still are not because the CDC drags it's feet. We have known since last summer that being outside masks are not needed unless you are on top of each other, and maybe not even then. If you are that slow then your "expertise" is useless. I will also state that giving kids a vaccine that does not have any proper long term studies for an illness that has a 99.999% recovery rate for healthy kids under 20 is questionable at best. I have had multiple students miss days from symptoms from the shots but none missed days from being symptomatic from COVID itself.
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On 5/14/2021 at 3:20 PM, reddogblitz said:
I'm not convinced they didn't let it out on purpose.
The only evidence that is was accidental is that the lab has been cited before- I believe by WHO- for poor security and oversight. So I do believe it was accidental but if intentional we will never know.
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3 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:
Anyone who still consumes corporate news, at this point, is hopeless imo...Lol
I will add the clause that you have to consume all the versions of news. I look at Fox, CNN, WSJ, MSNBC, and other smaller ones and see which each is saying. I can't do all of them each day due to time but in a week I see a lot of pages from different sources.
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14 hours ago, BillStime said:
The request are not made to the President but to the house leadership and mayor of DC. Thank you for showing your obsession again.
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The investigation of January 6th needs to include why more police were not on hand- it was requested multiple times by multiple levels of police before the riot but somehow no support was allowed to happen. It was known that the people showing up that day were the lowest level people on the political right but no one with authority acted on the known information.
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On 5/13/2021 at 8:26 PM, Doc said:
The odds that this accidentally started in a marketplace in the same city in which a BSL4 lab that studies these exact viruses is located is also minuscule. Occam's razor, you know. But since China is beloved by the left...
I pointed out Occam's Razor to a coworker last August when we restarted school and they actually argued the simplest explanation is that a bat traveled hundreds of miles and ended up near the research facility, and that diseases just popping up Wuhan is normal. This is a well educated person who understands the concept but could not admit that China was at fault because it would prove Trump was not the main problem.
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I have been many times both for work and with family. There is plenty to do for a family and my biggest suggestion is stay on other side of Canal St from French Quarter. The city does get crazy in FQ at night but until at least 8 nothing "adult" has happened around me. There is lots of history and cool things there to see even if you have no interest in Bourbon St.
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One thing I heard past year is that Josh would listen to hype music the first two years before a game and last year he switched to more mellow music pregame. I think that is a good sign for when crowds return
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This year I will be rooting for Darnold since I feel he was put in an impossible situation in NY and he is now in the NFC. I always root for Fitz, except against us. I also always root for Matt Ryan because I was at his last college game and he not only won the game for BC but he apparently was very nice to everyone he dealt with in Orlando.
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6 hours ago, JoPoy88 said:
No doubt. Hopefully a couple more years of winning will shake loose the combined persecution/inferiority complexes so many of these posters cling to like their blankie.
It is not a blankie but I spent 17 years perfecting those arguments, it is gonna take some time to break that habit. 😀
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If you do not like the beach than Jax is probably not the best trip for you. Jax is not built like most cities so do not expect it to be like Vegas or Chicago. I have been to several good breweries there, there is good seafood and barbeque but it is much more chill than most NFL cities.
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I am so happy we do not have more primetime games- I hate them- I have my Sunday routine and the game being later destroys that routine.
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I hate Brady as much as anybody but I still prefer our short week against the other conference vs against KC or Tennessee. Brady will beat us if it is officiating like the Super Bowl but we win otherwise
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It is weird trying to get used to being respected- I am trying to adapt to a world where we might be overrated by Vegas.
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55 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
Just because the one place on the planet where they study and engineer how to infect humans with this exact virus (which couldn’t and didn’t previously) happens to be right down the street from where the virus first appeared?
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total coincidence
The Chinese are very open and transparent about these things.
I stopped trusting him when he said that Covid did not seem likely to be from the lab. That is stupid and he has slowly been working his way towards it ever since. I have no idea if it was intentional or not but logic clearly indicates that a powerful new Sars variant that pops up in the literal backyard of a lab that works on it and in bats that are not native to the area that the lab is the source. I think at this point he is enamored with his celebrity and is little better than a political hack.
That is last may which is very different than now.
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34 minutes ago, Coffeesforclosers said:
Nevermind the mob that tried to stop the electoral college from voting, whatabout...
What mob?
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46 minutes ago, Niagara Bill said:
I can agree making fraud hard is imperative. Stopping any fraud is the goal. But not acknowledging the results and legitimate government in Washington is wrong. The GOP has not got the guts to call the results a coup. Either the election is legit or it was a coup.
So you agree that the media and Democrats were horrendously dishonest in 2016 when they claimed Russia hijacked our election? I accept the election and I have not seen anything that is in the realm of overturning it, but to have so little security on ballots being mailed is asking for mass fraud next time. As I have said my neighbor recieved his dead mother's ballot from Pennsylvania in the mail, I live in FL and she died at least 8 years ago.
Combating imaginary racism with actual racism??
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Your statement is generally correct but your solution is detrimental and does not actually solve anything. The best way to help minorities is to help them do well in school but the worst schools with the most minorites in the country are in the most blue areas (Chicago,NYC, Baltimore,LA) and until they fix those cities the majority of minorities do not have much of a chance. In the schools near me the minorities compete well with all other groups, so it does not appear to be racial issue but a school issue.