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There's not much he can do about it. This was going to happen in the Trump presidency timeline too.

Kabul will be in Taliban control by 9/11. That's their push.

They want all those United employees, especially the pilots.

The military campaign, yes. Every second of every minute afterwards, failure. The biggest blunder was the elimination of the Iraqi Armed Forces post-conflict because we needed to create an Iraqi military in our image. That just funneled thousands of desperate, unemployed men to the insurgency. The Iraq War was an unnecessary war. From a realpolitik viewpoint, Saddam was a pressure door against the Iranians and al-Qaeda.

I had to check to see if time travel was invented and the entire planet was transported back to April 1st. I truly thought this was satire.

Can they find just one person not being financially enriched by a vaccine manufacturer? Just one? When Gottlieb started hawking N95 masks all of a sudden for kids, I thought yep, that bastard wants a seat on the Honeywell board.

I'd say they are absolutely fine with the circus. The White House could certainly reign in the talk show appearances with a couple phone calls.

I've thought the DB Cooper case is one big story. It was literally a "money plane" heist or a Lufthansa heist, but years earlier by the mob or the CIA of unmarked cash from overseas. Northwest Orient had hubs in North America and abroad. They likely routinely moved money back and forth from their Japanese hubs. DB Cooper the man, never left the plane mid-flight, but a pallet or crate, or whatever of unmarked cash did. FBI wanted to keep it quiet to deter copycats. All the specificity about the man but not about the plane or where the plane was, always made me curious.

The US was doomed to fail in Afghanistan the moment it decided to occupy it, just like all those that came before it tried to do. China is there to control the heroin fields. They will pay the Taliban not to destroy them and to look the other way. Nobody seems to wonder who funds the Taliban. It takes a lot of money to fund and equip an army, and I doubt Pakistan is footing that bill for 20 years.

I think he likes playing for winners. The trade-off was worth it in the Brady era. I don't want them to do this but strategically, the Pats should trade Gilmore for picks, and try to get a blue chip QB in next year's draft via record and/or draft assets. I'm a-ok with them being early 90s Pats for a decade. 😀

Yes. He "looks" healthy, therefore he is. It's a disingenuous article. No details on blood work, whether he smoked, whether he did drugs, whether he was immunocompromised. I know a few people who are HIV positive who are in amazing physical shape. Still... immunocompromised bodies.

The CDC Director keeps lowering her prospects for keeping her job with each interview. I don't think she even knows what's fact and what's fiction anymore. (Does anybody?) All of these "experts" need to stop hitting the talk show circuit individually and just do ONE daily or weekly press briefing. No individual twitter accounts, no hot take opinion pieces on CNN, just a professional press briefing.

You're about to be stunned....for about a decade, Europe has been trying to make the severity of its flu season less by fortifying its food supply with Vitamin D. Some countries have really gotten to it, others haven't. I think there's a lot of data points flying around out in the air about a person's Vitamin D levels and how it correlates to COVID severity. Why nobody is trying to really understand that relationship beats me, It'd seem like a simple way for people to keep themselves from not getting sick.

I'm sure I've beaten this to death but Sweden likely has Europe's longest and most complete mandatory Vitamin D food fortification program in Europe, and has for a decade. It's in everything - milk, oils, butters, sundries. The population's risk of deficiency and extreme deficiency is likely substantially lower than say...the UK that's getting broadsided with cases.

Trump and Biden are mostly the same kind of President and personality IMO. Use the same sorts of tactics. I think both are divisive, bitter personalities at their core, and they have a hard time keeping it controlled. I don't think the Biden Presidency feels all that different from the Trump Presidency. It's just as chaotic and partisan, with the administration filled with partisan hacks who are way out beyond their skis. You've got a lot of nothing getting done. Clinton, Bush and Obama are in a different class, different generation. I don't see those guys being anywhere nearly as divisive. I don't think the us vs. them rhetoric would be at the fever pitch it's been for the last couple years. Not saying they were great Presidents, but I think if this pandemic hit during their respective eras, the approach would be entirely different.

Concur. The actors and actresses today don't "buy in" to their characters like the "old timers" did because they they all want to be the Rock and Cena with dreams of mainstream movies and appeal. Can't get too weird, too crazy. I really blame Hulk Hogan for that. Remember in the 90s when UPN essentially took Weird Al's UHF and made it a reality and started pumping out random shows? I think they hit it big with Star Trek TNG, but Hulk Hogan had a dumb show on there where he literally rode around in an invisible speedboat. Hahaha.

*Failed .gov roll out of 1976 swine flu vaccine for those around when it happened. Today's rollout more or less is the 1976 program if it continued. *Botched MMR vaccine in the 1980s which led to Reagan giving vaccine manufacturers blanket indemnification. *All of those required school immunizations have decades of safety data and are covered by the VICP program. Covax has months of safety data and is not covered by VICP. Third bullet is the big one for me - if the government is so certain these vaccines are so safe, all of them should be moved into the VICP immediately so that those injured by them can petition for damages. There should be no mandate unless the vaccines are treated like any other vaccine - they are treated as workplace injuries per OSHA if you mandate them, and if you personally are injured by them, you can file a claim through VICP.

Prior to 2021, few. There was an anthrax vaccine under EUA in 2001 that .gov tried mandating DoD, but employees were successful in defeating it. That case is very likely why DoD hasn't mandated covax yet. The precedent remains.

I was thinking about NYC's vax cards yesterday. Could you imagine how many restaurants wouldn't be able to open if you flipped this around and every employee who touched a plate or the food had to be vaccinated or test negative for flu, herpes, COVID, etc. Can we make sure the short order cook doesn't have a stomach virus each week, ok? I agree with your post though - this is where this mandate business is going. Covax is the low hanging fruit for these folks. Who they really want are the obese, the smokers, the HIV+, the diabetics, the alcoholics,...the ones that cost employers and by extension, health insurance companies, the $$$. After covax, the next will be the obese won't be able to buy soda. No more cigs for you if you have cancer. If you have herpes or HIV, best of luck getting that kitchen job. Mandates come for everyone.

Urban Meyer will resign as head coach of the Jaguars before the season ends.

I'll add another: Men's suits *and* a man's desire to wear them correctly. I have lots of suits of different materials. You can feel and see the quality in the older ones, whether they are full wool, seersucker cotton, blends. I always purchased off the rack and then had them tailored. Back in the day, you could get a well made suit off the rack from a variety of places you could dry clean many times and stores often carried a variety of styles and sizes. Stores often had people who *knew* what they were talking about when it comes to suits. Today, off the rack suit quality is quite poor but you're paying back in the day price. If you find a suit that's 70% wool, you're in luck. A suit under $200 may last 2 dry cleanings. If you spill something on it, you're probably SOL. On my second point, if men wear suits at all ,they often skip the often necessary step of having them tailored to their bodies which makes for an unflattering appearance. It's ok to be skinny or have a belly. Bodies aren't ideal. Just make sure what you wear accentuates your appearance, not detract from it.

Major props to the OP for researching the stadiums. I appreciate the effort because I was curious about that exact question!

There's a lot of wannabe noise out of Austin. There's a lot of new money there and the want you to see them. It has zero to do with the Bills specifically. Just a fever dream for those tech bros down there. When the Spurs recently changed minority ownership, the same phenomenon occurred, sudden talk about the Spurs relocating to Austin. It's a nothing burger.

Hollywood movies. If you prohibited sequels and superheroes, Hollywood would stare blankly out the window for a year.

I know it's not true but I feel he's been in the league since the 90s.