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Really makes one wonder, is she just miscalculating now, going senile, or getting desperate about something? Her holding her breath until the R's caved and blaming them for the hold ups used to work. Something's different now.

Yeah, he was "something." Does she still try to pretend she's a conservative? Or has she finally given into the fact that veil came off years ago?

As was already pointed out, he was a longtime poster here. Very left leaning and often obnoxious. Don't know if he was banned or just left to avoid the ridicule of having demonstrated his medical prowess by comparing the safety of 21st century orthopedic surgery to late '70's emergency spleen operations. Thought it was just embarrassment, but maybe he was banned for something considering he chose a new handle.

Thought Rent closed on Broadway years ago. Too bad, could've made a nice date night for her and her brother.

No last minute swooping in provided the DNC doesn't decide Biden is TOO senile (right now, he seems to be just the right amount of senile for their liking). In which case the Tara Reade thing grows legs and somebody else gets drafted at the convention.

There's a lot of stuff you can find out about on the USPTO's website and do some basic research on your own. But there are also a lot of nuances to getting a trademark. Would highly recommend talking to a lawyer about it. Also, would be using the TM superscript (you don't use the circles R until it's registered) after the brand name when you refer to whatever your product is. You can start doing that even before the TM is registered. Just realize that if somebody else already has that trademark, they'll make you stop using it if you sell enough to get on their radar.

Nationally, which is what level he needs the trademark for, yes, the USPTO is where all trademarks are registered. But, if he were only doing business in a single state, he could register w/ that state's secretary of state and save a small amount of money.

Thing is, IF that article describing why hydroxychloroquine is effective with treating COVID & malaria is correct (again, a big if), then it makes sense that the drug doesn't help the sickest patients. They've already lost too many functional rbc's to allow preventing damage to the few remaining healthy rbc's to provide enough oxygen long enough for a patient's body to produce enough new cells to keep from choking outback patient's organs. Again, if that's how COVID attacks the cells and how the drug prevents COVID from damaging the body's hemoglobin, then it would seem combining that treatment along with tbc transfusions (or even whole blood) would improve the recovery rates yet more.

NOW that SOB doesn't believe in "politicizing this at the national level" because it could lead to body bags? Wtf was that concern in January? (Will throw him a bone and give him a pass on buying China's manure in December. There was no obvious reason to say for certain he should've known better then. But he is culpable from mid-January onward.) It could have saved thousands of lives and $T's if he'd've done his ####ing job and not played politics at the national level. #### him and the horse he rode in on.

If the ####ing WHO wouldn't have been carrying the CCP's water for them, how many THOUSANDS of people wouldn't be dead right now? If the ####ing WHO hadn't been either liars or dupes, how many $T's wouldn't have been pissed down the crapper in the past month? #### their hypocritical ####ing leader that won't even acknowledge the existence of Taiwan. One ####ing oops costs a hundred attaboys. How ####ing far is their balance sheet now in the red?

That would've been the 2nd guess. Ugly f'n donut, if it is.

Very good news on your niece. Wishing her a quick recovery from the surgery.

1, 3, 8; though 4 came close to making the cut. But wtf is 7 supposed to be? Fried dough?

Hers is a very interesting character, but she's nearly as scummy as Saul is. She has no problem with slipping back into the "Gisele" character, she even encourages/ hatches some of their plots. Every single person on this show is deeply flawed, but that's a big part of what makes them interesting. Mike is pretty much a good person now (though he seems to have no compunction about killing bad guys, like stated above they're all flawed) but a lot of that seems to be trying to make up for having made choices in his younger days which allowed him to become a crooked cop and eventually get his son into a situation that got him killed. Had he been stronger in his younger days, his kid wouldn't be dead. That drives him to do everything he can for his daughter-in--law and especially his grand daughter. And yeah, that episode was good and kind of had some elements of The Fly from BB to it.

Well, if it's the same equipment Italy was using prior to China unleashing this on the world, they have a reasonable chance the stuff had already gone through QC checks in Italy and will actually be effective. Who knows, maybe the Chinese were willing to give them the stuff China just made but then Italy said no and China needed payment to send stuff that works.

What part of IF is the difficult to understand part?

Never said they all would. But IF (again, there's that word) this is a major pathway for the COVID to cause harm, it could SUBSTANTIALLY raise the survival rate as chloroquine (sp?) can be prescribed for most patients as soon as the virus is suspected (provided the supply chain is fixed/set) preventing major damage that would have progressed beyond treatment before it can begin. And by adding things like blood transfusions as part of the treatment for severely afflicted patients prior to going on a ventillator. And, this also MIGHT explain partially why young children don't seem to be as affected as adults, especially older adults. They can produce red blood cells a lot more efficiently than the elderly can as they as still growing.

Also, the data seems to indicate that men succumb to this more frequently than women. IF this hemoglobin "attack" is the way COVID causes harm, might women's natural tendency to have to replenish blood cells more frequently than men be a part of the cause for that trend?

Wow. IF that article is correct, that would be a game changer and could get life functioning normally again a LOT sooner than anybody is predicting.

"Every precaution possible" is absolutely unrealistic and isn't in actuality "possible." Every precaution possible leads to people not leaving their homes for months. You say the rural areas aren't equipped to handle this, apparently because no one that lives rural has access to transportation to the big city where the hospitals are actually located. If that wasn't your reasoning, please tell us what it is. But, though "they aren't equipped to handle this" they also aren't designed to put large numbers of people in contact with each other every single time they step out of their domicile. It is a heck of a lot easier to practice social distancing living rurally than it is in a place like NYC. As an example, except for a weekly trip to the grocery store (2 primary we use, have gone alternating weeks to 1 of them to restock what we were low/ out of of) and the occasional trip to the drive through window, in the past 3+ weeks have been within 6 ft of exactly 6 people for all of a combined 10 minutes of anyone not family living in my house. We aren't even in a heavily rural area. But that isn't possible in NYC. And if we take every precaution possible on this, why don't we ban all automobiles and trucks because that would save over 60,000 lives taken in vehicular accidents every year? That would be every precaution to solve that problem. That it might leave to mass starvation in the cities and untold cases of dysentery when those same city dwellers can't get rid of their trash shouldn't be a concern, right?

It will be interesting to see if anything is left for sole proprietorships which have to wait until this Friday to apply.

Trust the SCIENTISTS, like Lady Gaga, dammit!

Yes, it does. Watering (lack of or over) were not the issue.

Of course, the flip side of that is that it has been widely speculated that once a person has had the COVID virus and recovered from it then that that person will have an immunity to it. IF the flu-like virus that ran rampant through Texas and other states in November was this COVID virus, it would provide a reason the outbreak isn't as bad there at present - they've already developed the "herd immunity" to it, reducing its spread now..

For the fruit trees, even having just single tree, you'll be able to have a good yield once the tree is mature (takes several years to get there) for stuff like apples and cherries. Pretty cool that you're growing your own. Good luck with it.