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No problem. Sexual harassment is always complicated even when you are actually a witness to some/most of the interactions between the principals. Sometimes it's a misunderstanding that deteriorates. Sometimes it's retaliation. Sometimes it's a genuine grievance. Sometimes it's a something creepy like stalking.

Don't confuse Trumplicans with logic.

Again, read what I originally posted. I said that I didn't know the merits of the case but I know that the woman's claim that she somehow couldn't quit when she wanted to was untrue. I'm not "tarnishing" her reputation because I didn't address her reputation. I simply called out her lie.

Read the woman's claim in her tweet that she tried to resign three times and somehow wasn't allowed to do so: "I tried to resign three times before it stuck". That's bull manure. Nobody forced her to stay in a job she wanted to leave.

Exactly. Socialism has actually proven it's not incompatible with democratic institutions. Most Western European nations currently have or have had democratic socialist governments since World War II. Some of those countries have swapped socialist and conservative regimes more than once without losing their democratic political systems. Modern democratic socialism stresses providing supports for the bottom tier of society via taxes on the upper tiers of society because socialists realize that a society where a tiny percentage of the populace are extremely rich while most struggle economically isn't compatible with democratic political institutions.

I don't know anything about this case but I worked for New York State in Albany for more than a decade, and what I do know is that employment by NYS is not indentured servitude. Any state employee, from the seasonal part-time maintenance guy at any state park to the governor, can resign any time he or she wants to do so. They do so frequently for a myriad of reasons, from retirement to better opportunity to relocation to duress because you got caught doing something wrong. All you do is file your paperwork and do your exit interview. Been there, done it.

You are being overly melodramatic, Bill. Nobody in the federal law enforcement is going to break the law for Donald Trump, starting with AG Bill Barr. Why do you think The Wannabe Dictator in Chief is so po'd with him? Barr refused to apprise Trump of the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, and he refused to manufacture evidence of massive voter fraud when there wasn't any. The DOJ will not manufacture evidence and no federal judge will issue an arrest warrant without evidence. There is absolutely no mechanism to postpone the inauguration. The US has held presidential elections and inaugurations during both the Civil War and World War II. During the pandemic, the US had the highest voter turnout rate in more than a generation, and every single attempt by Trumplicans to steal the election through legal channels have been thwarted by local and state officials' refusals to break the law for Trump and Trump's own appointees to federal benches from district courts to the SCOTUS. On January 20, 2021 at approximately 3 minutes after noon, Donald J Trump will cease to be POTUS. If Trump sends his cultists out into the streets of Washington, so what? The Capital Police have decades of experience in managing far larger protests than the Trumplicans will be able to muster on January 20. If Trump refuses to physically vacate the WH, the Secret Service will escort him out and turn him over to the Capital Police as a trespasser.

Americans are dying at a 3000+ clip every day. Daily Covid-19 deaths 2971 Americans died on 9/11/2001. 2403 Americans died on December 7, 1941.

Nah, just another member of the Functionally Illiterate Party, aka Trump's Cult. Another armchair revolutionary heard from. Please go ahead and try something in the real world so the FBI can thwart your lame-brained plot and the federal courts can lock up your sorry self for sedition.

More Americans are dying of covid-19 and complications from it every day than died on 9/11 or in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Big joke. More Americans have died of covid-19 and complications from in the 10 months since February, 2020 than died in battle during the 45 months of World War II. Big joke.

Secondary education is high school. College and university education is post-secondary education. The biggest reason that the cost of post-secondary education has increased so dramatically in the last 40 years is because states that used to cover 90-100% of per student costs at public colleges and universities have shifted those costs to students and their parents via tuition and fees. As tuition and fees at public institutions rose, it became easier for private colleges and universities to raise their tuition and fees also, even though many of the most prestigious schools with huge endowments could afford to offer free tuition for most students. The second biggest reason is the expansion of proprietary -- ie, for-profit -- post-secondary educational institutions from primarily trade and/or business skills schools into expensive competitors to 2 and 4 year college that lured with virtually no entrance requirements and promises of "financial aid" that was almost exclusively federal student loans rather than any scholarships or grants. Many of these were out-and-out scams set up to take advantage of expanded federal student loan programs that defrauded tens of thousands of students, and even those that weren't scams often charged as much tuition and fees as the most prestigious private schools while providing community college quality education to unsuspecting students.

It would certainly force the anti-vaxxers to put their money where their mouths are.

The only reason I don't think it's legally sedition is because none of the Republican officials Trump's pressured bowed to the Dictator-Wannabe-in-Chief's threats. They saved his ass by refusing to do his bidding since there needs to be an actual seditious action. Otherwise, he's just exercising "free speech" however reprehensible and dangerous his words may be. Exactly.

The latest poll which came out yesterday has number of people willing to be vaccinated has grown to about 63% up from around 55-58% in October. I think that people are feeling more confident that the vaccine wasn't rushed to get it out before the election. That the Brits have already started vaccinations without significant issues also makes people more amenable to vaccination. The surging pandemic has probably also made people more willing to be vaccinated.

Hospital utilization is very uneven depending upon the area. In areas with relatively low community spread like where I live in Chautauqua County the hospitals can function normally, but in areas with higher community spread like in and around Buffalo, the hospitals are stressed as evidenced by not doing elective surgery. In some parts of the country, the conditions are much worse; emergency care has to be rationed so that patients like shoshin's friend who aren't in life threatening situations get shuffled to the end of the line. The biggest issue that's emerging now is the lack of medical personnel. Hospitals can expand their capacities by adding auxiliary facilities in tents or annex buildings but they can't add more doctors and nurses because there aren't any to be had. Governors -- including Cuomo -- are asking retired medical personnel to return to help with the pandemic.

That would require that the current administration take the pandemic seriously, which they never did except for a few short weeks back in the early spring. Since then, Trump and his minions have pretended it's no big deal, including now when 15-20 k Americans are dying weekly of the coronavirus, as they continue to hold Christmas parties despite public health warnings against gatherings of almost any kind.

The average Congressional district has a population of about 711,000 people. About 60% of the US population is over the age of 18, so there are about 425,000 people over 18 in each Congressional District. Most of them are citizens, and more than half are likely to be registered and actually vote. That's not a "very small number of voters".

There's also a truckload of court rulings going back as far as the Early National Period (pre-1830) and continuing to the present that says that state election rules cannot be changed after votes are cast.

Isn't it remarkable that "fake news" sources suddenly become "real news" sources when they post a story that the Trumplicans like? Bull manure. Democratic socialism has nothing to do with hating "individual liberties protected by our constitution". Democratic socialism advocates for social programs that benefit most Americans, regardless of their political or economic persuasion. Both Social Security and Medicare are "socialistic" programs that have been around for more than half a century. How do they infringe on any "individual liberty" except for preventing the elderly from the "individual liberty" to starve or die from lack of medical care? Take your stupid self to a real library and read some books on history, economics, and social policy instead of getting your "knowledge" from liars, con artists, and nutcases on right wing propaganda sites. Perfectly said. Thank you.

The ironic part of this latest farce is that Trump and his Trumplicans' rush to pack the federal judiciary and SCOTUS with conservative justices insures that they won't get a hearing in the SCOTUS. Conservative judges tend to be strongly in favor of states' rights and are NOT going to favor a group of states attempting to interfere with the electoral processes in another group of other states.

You're being too kind. Trump will be judged as the worst POTUS in US history by such a margin that he'll make previous candidates like James Buchanan, Richard Nixon, and Warren G Harding look like political saints.

They also put others at risk. Some people cannot be vaccinated because they are allergic to some ingredient in one or more vaccines or have other health issues. Contrary to the anti-vaxxer propaganda, so-called "childhood diseases" can cause death or serious life-long consequences. For women who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons, exposure to rubella while they are pregnant can produce birth defects in their unborn children.

It's entirely possible that we clinch on Monday night. The Carp and the Ravens looked good in their last games, but the Chiefs and Browns looked better. Moreover, the Ravens played the crappy Cowpatties while the Browns whipped the Titans and knocked them out of the AFCS lead.

Agreed. This policy strikes me as being influenced by anti-vaxxers who are using historical incidents of racism to set up a court case to get the entire policy of requiring all students to be vaccinated for specific diseases. New York State requires all students at public and private colleges and universities in the state who take more than 6 credit hours to show proof of immunity for several diseases. Exemptions are granted only for medical or religious reasons. The historical incidents this policy is based on involved medical experiments and medical lab research that exploited Black subjects without their knowledge and without compensation. I don't know that other minorities were also exploited in similar ways. None of the immunizations required by New York State are experimental ones but have been around for about 50 years, and some of them like the polio vaccine have been around for more than 60 years. They were effective in virtually eliminating childhood diseases like polio, measles, rubella, and chicken pox until recently when the anti-vaxxer nuts started using social media to peddle their lies.

Woooo hooooo!!!!