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October 9, 2020 - The U of Washington's IMHE projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. Don't be a dumbass like Covid Donnie. Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 8, 2020 - 212,784 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1875. October 7, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 935. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-8, 2020: 1405 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

And this isn't 1789.

This country is NOT "really about the best man", though. It's a republic with an elected leadership with all citizens eligible to vote except those who may be ineligible because of their criminal records and all citizens that meet some general qualifications such as minimum age, residence, etc eligible to hold public office. BTW, how do you define "best"? The richest? The best educated? The highest IQ score? The tallest? Or by "best" do you simply mean "the guy who thinks just like I do"?

For his bestie, Vladie P? Possibly ... but it would be totally inadvertent. Covid Donnie has repeatedly demonstrated that he's too stupid to understand that Putin ain't his friend.

Trump will lose the 2020 election because of his failure of leadership on the coronavirus. Sorry, dude, but when Covid Donnie stands there and tells the American people that Covid-19 ain't no big deal and not to the it rule their lives, he's insulting the tens of millions of Americans whom Covid-19 has already devastated in one way or another. He demonstrates that he doesn't give a damn about anybody or anything but himself. Why do you assume that only the MSM lies? Because it tells you stuff you don't like to hear? Ummm ... isn't Covid Donnie the one thinking that he has a "silent majority" that is going to rise up before or on Election Day and save his fat ass from going down to defeat?

I do disagree with your takes but you have your views like I have mine. That doesn't mean that we have to devolve into name calling, bullying, etc. I don't hate Donald Trump because he's a Republican. I would hate him if he was a Democrat. I hate him because he cares for nobody or nothing but himself and his own petty desires, and he is more than willing to sacrifice anybody and anything -- including this country -- to achieve whatever it is he wants. His response to the pandemic underscores that.

What part of Trump is suffering from Covid-19 and Biden isn't don't you understand? There is no "other side of the coin" here. Joe Biden isn't in nearly as much danger as Trump from the coronoavirus because he's followed the recommendations of the doctors and public health experts, while Covid Donnie has continuously defied public health measures proven effective in limiting the spread of Covid-19 for the last six months, including discouraging his staff and supporters from following those proven public health measures within the WH and at various events. He played Russian roulette with the coronavirus and ran out of luck.

Different times, different teams. What worked in the 1990s isn't going to fly in the 2020s, so I'm not even going to compare the two. They've got their QB, they've got a great WR corps that complements each other, they have a young RB duo to tote the rock when they need/want to do so, and they have one of the better OLs in the league. For the first time since the Kelly era, they actually have TEs that catch the ball rather than just block. On defense, they don't have 1 great pass rusher but they've got a deep DL unit that they rotate effectively. They have excellent LBs, especially Milano and Edmunds, one of the top pairs of safeties in the league, and a good CB corps headed up by a young All Pro in Tre White. Overall, they have significantly more team speed and smarter, more dedicated players (I think that too many fans don't appreciate just how much better prepared your average NFL rookie is today than 30 years ago). I think that the Bills are significantly better coached than those Glory Years teams. I wasn't a McDermott fan until I saw how well he's had the Bills ready for this 2020 season with no OTAs, no preseason games, etc. They came out prepared to play in Game 1 and haven't looked back. They are playing very disciplined football with minimal pre-snap, late hit, and other similarly dumb penalties. Compared to many of the other teams, they've had fewer of the kinds of injuries that might result from not having enough or the right kind of training to make up for no preseason games. Leslie Frazier has been a good DC since he was hired on. Many people disliked Brian Daboll for his first couple of years here in Buffalo, but he seems to have managed Josh Allen's development extremely well, especially after getting better coaches for the various position groups last season. I think that the Bills compare well with the top teams in the NFL today, and various experts around the league are recognizing that. IMO, the only thing that keeps the Bills from making the playoffs and making a serious run for the AFC Championship is injuries -- or a league-wide disruption of play due to Covid-19.

There used to be a buffalo ranch in Cattaraugus County somewhere in the Salamanca/Ellicottville area years ago. Visited it several times. They had large pastures along the rolling hillsides so you could large groups. Some of the pastures came up close to the road so you could see them fairly up close.

"He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." -- Trump's dissing of Senator John McCain in 2015. Trump mocked NYT reporter Sergei Kovaleski who is disabled with arthrogryposis in the 2016 election. Covid Donnie told Americans "not to let the virus dominate your life" despite the fact that more than 210,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 in less than 9 months and projections estimate that 150,000 more Americans are likely to die from the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 (IMHE).

October 8, 2020 - The U of Washington's IMHE projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 7, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 935. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 903. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

Guess what, human beings are social animals. Contrary to popular fantasy by survivalists, people can't survive well as isolated individuals for very long, and any time two or more people get together, somebody has to be a leader. Doesn't matter if it's a family or a clan or a nation. People need to be in a group and the group needs a leader. That is hard-wired into our DNA just as it is into the DNA of any other social/pack animals. Electing leaders consistently yields better results for more people than any other ways of selecting leaders. It requires citizens to get off their asses, register to vote, and then actually cast ballots, not just in presidential elections but in state and local elections as well. While voting is a citizen's right, it's also a citizen's duty. No system is perfect, but unless you've got a realistic alternative, then you have to deal with what you've got and try to make it better.

That's generally true but no writer in American history has been a more eloquent advocate for American ideals --"Jeffersonian democracy" -- and more hypocritical ... than Thomas Jefferson. If his written words didn't echo through American history down to the present day, his actions wouldn't be particularly noteworthy. George Washington was also a slave owner, but he freed all of the slaves he owned in his will. It was not an uncommon thing for slave owners to do in the early 1800s. Jefferson only ever freed Sally Hemings' 4 surviving children, at least one of whom was his own son, and that occurred only toward the end of his life in the 1820s. His last son was freed from slavery in 1826, two years after Jefferson's death. While Jefferson waxed poetic about "yeoman farmers", he himself lived and spent like the grandest British aristocrat. He went into debt building Monticello, collecting his library, filling his wine cellar, etc -- and he stiffed many of those "yeomen" who never collected the full amounts he owed them -- just like many petty lordlings in Europe. Although Jefferson was instrumental in getting the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution, as POTUS he used the power of the federal government, mainly the 1797 Sedition Act, to attack his political enemies, especially in the press. Jefferson was an advocate for small government and for limited government that stayed only within the powers granted by the Constitution, but he didn't hesitate to purchase the Louisiana Territory in 1803.

The strong anti-war/isolationist sentiment in the country during the 1930s and into the 1940s was a real problem for the Roosevelt administration. It's possible that if Germany didn't declare war on the US the day after the Pearl Harbor attack that the US wouldn't have gone to war against Germany until much later if at all.

I think cancel would be that the game simply isn't counted. A forfeit would give the team that caused the forfeit to have an additional loss while the team that they were supposed to play gets an extra win.

You are assuming that teams are only getting infections because they broke the rules. Maybe that's true for the Titans, but that doesn't seem to be the case with the Patriots. Moreover, the Raiders, a team that definitely broke the rules, has had like 1 positive test so far. Covid is extremely easy to spread because people are infectious anywhere from 2-4 days before they show any symptoms (apparently, including testing positive). Whether the virus gets into a team seems to me to be much more about luck than anything else. All it takes is one contact with the wrong person at the wrong time.

Good post. I guess I'm saying that FDR concentrated too much on Germany while not giving Japan enough credit for trouble making. He thought Germany much more dangerous than Japan, and some historians have attributed this to Americans' general racist attitudes towards Asians. Moreover, the US was involved in an undeclared war with Germany in the North Atlantic because it was providing military escort for the US ships carrying war supplies to Great Britain, and that's where FDR and his advisors believed fighting would start. Meanwhile, Japan was fighting in China and threatening parts of eastern Asia like Vietnam and the Dutch East Indies. The US imposed an oil embargo and some other sanctions but misjudged what the Japanese would dare. I agree that Ford deserves an honorable mention for handling the "Nixon problem". Nixon was a polarizing figure over the Vietnam war coupled with an administration repeatedly embarrassed by scandals (Nixon's first VP, Spiro Agnew, resigned after being indicted for graft and later found guilty and served prison time). Ford had to pick up the pieces of the mess Nixon left behind, including an economy that was mired in "stagflation".

If a team can't play because of Covid-19, just not count it for both teams. It would essentially be like a tie. I don't think it's fair to penalize 1 team with a loss and gift the other with a win. Example: 9 wins 16 games .5625 9 wins 15 games .6000 10 wins 16 games .625 10 wins 15 games .667

That's an excellent story! It's amazing that John Tyler who was born 230 years ago and took office 139 years ago still has a living grandson.

October 7, 2020 - The U of Washington's IMHE projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 710. October 5, 2020 - 210,195 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 470. October 4, 2020 - 209,725 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 390. October 3, 2020 - 209,335 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 644. October 2, 2020 - Covid Donnie admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center with Covid-19. October 2, 2020 - 208,691 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 883. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 903. September 30, 2020 - 206,905 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 939. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. September 29, 2020 - 205,966 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 22, 2020 - 201,810 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 15, 2020 - 195961 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 8, 2020 - 190,084 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. August 25, 2020 - 178,755 Ameicans have died of coronavirus. August 18, 2020 - 172,970 Americans have died of coronavirus. August 11, 2020 - 164,603 Americans have died of coronavirus. August 4, 2020 - 156,133 Americans have died of coronavirus. July 28, 2020 - 148,056 Americans have died of coronavirus. July 21, 2020 - 140,908 Americans have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

I believe that SDS posted that DR was permanently banned in the WTF thread.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.

I rate my Presidents by how they faced the crises in their administrations. Some presidents didn't face any significant crises, so I don't consider them at all. Very few faced two crises while in office. Off the top of my head, only FDR and GWB (9/11 and the Great Recession) faced two. I would have preferred that FDR would not have run in 1940 (he initially didn't intend to), but I also understand why he did so. With the the war in Europe, he and the party leaders were worried about the isolationist sentiment within both parties. As it was, the isolationists in Congress made it difficult for the US to properly prepare for self defense -- although the US instituted the first peace time draft in 1940, monies for equipment weren't appropriated so US troops used whatever WW I surplus equipment that was on hand, and some units "trained" with wooden rifles.

The Righties are operating under the delusion that they own PPP, and they're in high dudgeon because some of us Lefties have shown up and refuse to be intimidated by them.