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Interesting. The NYT has gone from "there was no Chinese coverup" to "there was a Chinese cover-up but Xi knew NOTHING about it."

Apparently he's testifying that he was convinced (for some reason undisclosed) that Page wasn't a CIA asset even though the CIA explicitly said Page was an asset. And clearly, rather than get clarification from the CIA on whether they REALLY meant that he wasn't an asset, he took it upon himself to "fix" the erroneous CIA sourced e-mail. Basically, his claim is that he was certain at the time that he had a better understanding of the situation than the people that actually had 1st hand knowledge. It stretches credulity to the max, but considering we see that sort of behavior pretty much daily from those with TDS, maybe there's something to his contention that he is one of the most arrogant people in Washington, which is saying a lot. A thing that will hopefully get pursued further was Weissmann's recent tweets from the last day or 2 implying that Clinesmith passed BOTH copies of the CIA memo through the FBI prior to sending it off to the FISA judge for renewal of the warrant. If so, somebody else in the food chain definitely knew Clinesmith faked the memo and (presumably) perjured himself. Would be very nice to find out at least 1 of those people was Weissmann.

Who'd've thunk 4 years ago that the 9th could ever be considered in some matters as more conservative than the SC?

Geniuses? 2.

No, it's the 6th article below the 3rd columns headline article. Nope, no burying of that one at all.

TIL.

Absolutely. The comment about people dying a few months sooner than they'd've unfortunately have been expected to pass on was referring to the tens of thousands of nursing home residents passing away and not people that were far younger and in better health. No doubt this horrible virus that China could've done far more to prevent the initial spread worldwide has taken way too many lives way too early. But as you correctly state, only a fraction of the excessive deaths will be due to this virus that prompted the lock downs. (Won't even hazard a guess at the %age but fully expect it is significantly lower than the media leads us to believe.)

That's a reasonable expectation. But am guessing though that overall the reductions won't fully balance out as due to both people putting off procedures and Dr's visits & increased stress from the uncertainty this year has created that we'll see preventable deaths from causes like heart attack, stroke, suicide, etc. increasing over the expected baseline which will end up offsetting the people that would've been expected to die in the fall that lost a few months of life due to the novel virus.

Fact check: Harris called Biden a racist. False. She merely pointed out that he celebrated and supported them (for decades). TOTALLY different. /sarcasm

Always interesting seeing people that have hated Republicans for years claim that the current Republican President is "destroying" the Republican party. If he really is, they should just sit back and enjoy watching somebody they hate turn the reins over to their guys & gals.

By the time '16 rolled around couldn't see any way to EVER vote for Clinton. Also, couldn't see any way to vote for Trump as his personality which had been on the national stage since the '80's was waaaay too narcissistic for my liking and his way of speaking and his multiple bankruptcies made me convinced he'd be awful as well. Went independent write in. Haven't locked in a vote for 45 yet but am leaning heavily that way. After him showing in his 1st year he was far better than I'd feared said that provided the economy was good & we weren't in any new wars would vote for him. Prior to the black swan that is COVID, the economy was going good. We also seem to be headed in the right direction, but it's hard to say for sure because it is so easy for places to get reclosed. So, he gets a penciled in check on that front. 3 more months 9f no new wars and he checks that other criterion as well. Can't vote for someone that probably doesn't fully realize he's running for president. If nothing significant changes will be voting for 45. If something does change for the worse would go independent again.

How will Abrams possibly juggle the responsibilities of not being the Georgia Governor with those of not being the Democrat's VP nominee? And what is the response to all the ads you just know 45 will run showing Harris calling Biden a racist?

Rice.

So, now the FBI & other federal officers are welcome in Chicago? Glad to see that she's finally getting her head out of her bippy. But how could she not see how her earlier actions (or more accurately inactions) wouldn't lead to this? And not sure why she's been ok with neighborhood rioting but downtown rioting is a bridge too far?

Doubt that would work, but interesting concept.

Wait. You mean li'l Opie Cunningham is WHITE? Gumby & the rest of us are all in shock. SHOCK we tell ya.

Taking a page from the old Dolphins' playbook with the "Killer B's?" Bernie, Barack, Bill, and B****.

Alf, any count on how many of those 45 EO's were rescinding 44's EO's? Pretty sure that's a significant amount of them.

Wasn't that the escape route Alec Baldwin was developing to FINALLY be able to sneak out of this country (like he promised us he would do) should 45 get another 4 year term in office. Boy, will he ever be ticked at the German contractors that built it for him. Heard they'd told him nobody'd be able to detect it because the US entrance appeared to be an industrial laundry. (Tibs probably was the dolt that tipped the authorities off; guess he's been partially doxxed.)

Well, sure, AOC saved innumerable lives by keeping Amazon out of the epicenter of the virus in this country. Every potential Amazon employee for that never built facility, especially those with preexisting conditions or elderly parents that would've moved with them, are (still) breathing huge sighs of relief. (Unlike a few 1,000 of her former constituents who sadly no longer breathe at all anymore.) Not sure how you figure the other 2 netted out any saved lives.

Would've thought Benito Cuomo has a better ring to it & Andy himself would probably prefer it because it is not a nickname like Il Duce & not a diminutive like Bennie or L'il Ben are. Gotta throw the nursing home czar a bone or 2, right?

And considering how a test got Hunter drummed out of the Navy, there's a reason for him to be opposed to cocaine tests. Not sure what that has to do with a cognitive test ...

Probably more than that were nursing home residents. Per Andy Cuomo's directive, in late April NYS stopped counting nursing home resident deaths as nursing home deaths if the resident died elsewhere from/with COVID-19. That nearly certainly has led to an undercounting since the directive took effect.

Cool. And yet somehow the castaways with Gilligan, one of whom could make radio batteries and cars out of coconuts & bamboo, never could figure out how to do that themselves. Sad.

Sorry for delay in posting this, just saw your post now. Pretty sure that Sweden admits they should've done a better job protecting their elderly and they should've locked those high risk individuals down. But they could've done that better while leaving the rest of the nation open. Doubt those other countries end up at Sweden's death rate, but do expect they'll be far closer to it when all is said & done. And expect that for future pandemics the Sweden model with some tweaks to better protectively quarantine the elderly will be the model to follow.