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The media also ignores, likely because the median age of its "reporters" is 22, that the insidious monkeypox was found in a lab, and AIDS, and nearly every single respiratory virus pandemic since the 1950s has not been conclusively traced to a natural ignition point. MERS? Nope. SARS? Don't know. It's always "we don't know" or "we don't know how that virus jumped from chimpanzees, etc. Yet, COVID *must* be from nature. It must, *****! The US is ultimately to blame for COVID when it's all said and done, and it's probably greasier than that. The US cleverly steered money to the Chinese to do the research to get around the US stateside ban on GOF. The Chinese don't work on it without the money.

You can get there pretty easy. Annual in-state tuition (with meal plan, room and board) at a state school here in PA is now $26k, out of state is $38k. If you manage to get out in four years, that puts you north of 100k. However, schools play games with scheduling now, so it's more like 4.5-5 years. Trade school in PA is now up to $22K, all in. However, that's a two year program.

His "plan" is simply more evidence that Washington has zero interest in solving real issues affecting the low and middle class American. $10k? Who cares. Let students discharge the entire student debt in bankruptcy instead. Of course, unlike this one time loss, allowing people to discharge the debt via bankruptcy would severely impact .gov's bottom line and constrain .edu's love of jacking up tuition rates annually. Bankruptcy sucks, but you eventually get to live another day in a few years, free of it. Student debt is more like decades.

I'm concerned that the focus on Fauci "the person" is misplaced emphasis. IMO, the Congressional emphasis should be on greatly curtailing or ending GOF research and ending this dangerous work at labs ill-equipped to contain it. This type of research takes lots of funding, and if the US government completely pulled the plug on funding it, it'd go a long way to curtailing it. COVID has demonstrated that this research is no less dangerous than nuclear weapons or chemical weapons research. It can get millions of people killed. I know they won't do any such thing because the government and academia are deeply rooted in such research, so they will find a way, like they did with coronavirus research in Wuhan, and the accidents will continue.

OP must be a younger Bills fan, and that's ok. However, in context, calls to "defund" the FBI aren't new in my opinion. I recall in the Ruby Ridge/Waco era, calls to eliminate, not just defund, both the FBI and ATF were being shouted by both parties. The government participated in violent raids that could have been completely avoided with better planning. The feds had numerous opportunities to take Randy Weaver and David Koresh into custody peacefully and chose not to. Domestic terrorism isn't new either. I'd offer that it's quieter today than it's been, and it was pushed to the backburner with resources being thrown at al Qaeda after the first WTC bombing. In the 90s, the FBI was contending with active domestic and international terror groups in the US. In the 60s-70s, you had countless domestic terror groups - on the left and right actively participating in bombings, attempted assassinations, kidnappings and bank robberies in the US. Then in the late 80s came the militia movement, which came under its most intense scrutiny post OKC, and you've always had the lone wolf terrorist - Ted Kaczynksi, Tim McVeigh, Robert Rudolph. And of course you can't forget the prison gangs and organized crime.

I don't think the Bills have a strong desire to do anything with his contract, and they probably won't do anything with it. They will run out the clock until the season stars and say "our focus is on football, we'll discuss this after the season concludes."

Liz Cheney joins John Kasich as a politician without a home. Having less Cheneys in power is a positive for the country.

I don't know of an NFL player that was the "same" post Achilles injury, and you never know how many suffer chronic tendinopathy post surgery. He's slower but I wouldn't be shocked to see him have close to 10 TDs this year. He'll have plenty of red zone opportunities. Teams don't have the personnel to cover all the weapons. TE2 will be open.

This search gets more bogus by the day.

This has less to do with Trump and more to do with the FBI trying to create a violent flashpoint for some reason. They've been banging that domestic terror drum and nothing has happened. They want their "See! See! We told you *they* were violent!" moment and they will keep trying to provoke one, and keep raising the provocation level.

His campaign is a complete mess. He barely campaigned in the primary, even prior to suffering the stroke, and he's effectively using the Biden in the basement playbook, running out as much election clock as possible, letting Oz out there do his thing. He's the all hat, no cattle politician. Hasn't done much besides champion the legalization of weed in the state. Most people like him simply because he's 8 feet tall and doesn't wear suits ever. "He's so edgy." His wife is quite eloquent. They should have had her run instead of him. If he weren't running against the equally as incompetent carpet bagger from NJ, the race wouldn't be close.

Yet another catchy virus just "appears" on the world stage, and lights it on fire. Funny how this just keeps happening. Just like Covid, this is another lab accident. Another critter breaks sloppy or careless containment. .gov and the money behind all this dangerous research will wildly point fingers at anything and anyone but themselves. Wherever the first case was reported - there's a lab nearby doing research on it. Count on it.

This seems like a Pelosi thing, not a White House thing. It makes no sense at all, which suggests to me it's a pet project of hers, consequences be damned. With her husband up to his eyeballs in trades around semiconductors and the CHIPS bill, I can see this being a personal trip disguised as official diplomacy. I give President Biden some credit. If he ended up saying no to Pelosi's trip after saying yes, he shows that China can control access to Taiwan with a few stern words, and that's not something the US should start doing. This administration often steps in messes of his own making, but has so far, avoided that misstep.

The timing of this trip is odd.

Hasn't this guy been "confirmed" dead for a decade? He and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (Saddam's right hand) have died like 10 times. I find it odd as how neat and packaged this appears. They found him in a wealthy suburb of Kabul. The Taliban and al-Qaeda aren't exactly friends. This isn't Pakistani ISI turning a blind eye to bin Laden living in their country. (They knew.) Why would al-Zawahiri be in the open in an unfriendly country that is teeming with foreign intelligence surveillance after spending decades in hiding, and doing a great job of ot? I find it even more unusual he so happened to be standing on a balcony, the perfect spot for a drone strike, where no one else would be harmed. It's just very...neat. On the other hand, the US dropped two 500lb bombs on a single house to kill al-Zarqawi in Iraq, and sent special operations into someone else's country to kill bin Laden. As time has gone on, one of the more uncomfortable realizations I've had as an adult is that 9/11 may not be what we've (American public) been told.

IMO, China has finalized plans to invade Taiwan, and even the flimsiest of justifications is all they are looking for to start it. If you're China, if you want to do this, the time is now. This particular US administration will respond slowly, if at all. Japan won't do anything without first consulting the US. They don't have to worry about the Russians getting involved. Before, you had that Russian circuit breaker out there encouraging the Chinese not to inflame tensions but that's all but eliminated.

America should be concerned their leaders have spent more time trying to redefine recession and shouting down all talk of a recession vs. strategizing on what to do about it and get ahead of it a little. Recession was inevitable - we were all talking about it on this board last year. The frightening thing is that this administration is ill-equipped to do timely, practical, smart things.

Many African American and Hispanic Democrats won't vote for a gay candidate, and Buttigieg ran into that when he campaigned in 2020. May be cool in New Hampshire, but in the Midwest and South, forget it. They will sit out the race. That poll tells me Republicans can run anyone but Trump and win.

I don't think there's enough interest or talent for two "minor league" football leagues. These moneyed interests would do a lot better combining resources to create one league that they could sustain through the initial lean years, of which there will be many. It's like they don't pay attention to history. The AFL was the only league that even remotely came close to competing with the NFL, and it was on the verge of collapse every single year of its existence. Or just go buy the CFL and its infrastructure and make it a minor league with NFL rules.

1. At least six teams, perhaps more, will tank the season as a strategy. 2. Frank Reich won't be the first coach fired, but he will be fired before the end of the regular season. Things just don't work out in Indy this year.

I don't think "they" have much of a choice - they need an excuse to give him an extended respite of more than a weekend. He's gassed from the overseas trip, and given that they probably do a lot of medication of his condition in the secrecy of Delaware, where the visitor logs aren't kept, they couldn't do it on AFO or overseas. Don't be surprised he spends most of his "quarantine" in Delaware, where I suspect a small group of ChristianaCare doctors take care of him. My theory is that he's a man who's suffering dementia, possibly Parkinson's, and has been for some time. They have been infusing and medicating him as best they can to keep the decline as slow as possible.

I don't buy for a single second the President has actually tested positive for Covid. TPTB need to get him out of the spotlight and the President needs an extended period of time to rest and recover - so they reverted back to the 2020 campaign strategy with an impossible to verify, convenient Covid diagnosis. The weekends to DE aren't cutting it. There will be zero public appearances for President Biden until after midterms out of an "abundance of caution."

I saw one where they had German Chancellor Scholz in a picture like that, but with an ax, and all the trees in the background cut down. (On a serious note, Germany is in serious trouble.)

January 6th was crawling with federal agents, retired federal agents and informants. Until somebody comes clean on who Ray Epps works for, or who he worked for, and identifying the other people that day cajoling people to enter the Capitol, who are also not oddly are imprisoned, you must assume they are a government agent. The FBI has tracked down every trespasser that day but those folks...still remain nameless. Ray Epps is so free, he can complain to the paper! He's certainly not hiding. That's a man who feels confident he's well protected. The Feds got caught in Michigan with the Whitmer case. You see the approach. They are not getting caught by the January 6th committee because A) the committee already knows the answer, B) they don't want to ask the question and C) there are no lawyers asking the questions on behalf of their imprisoned clients. I don't particularly care about how Trump feels about this committee. What bothers me is that US citizens are being unlawfully detained on charges built around government entrapment.

Newsome and Pritzker are DOA in the 2024 election. California and Illinois are failed states. Newsome is a phony who will melt under pressure. America isn't voting for 57- year old Pritzker's obesity after eight years of elderly Presidents. Dems do need to run a governor, as America sees what two senators can do in the White House, but someone like Beshear, Edwards or Cooper to stand any chance.