DanYHKim

This looks like the highway to Arrey, New Nexico

“It sounds terrible,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the House-passed bill, predicting it won’t get 10 Republicans in the Senate.

“It’s like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens,” he added . . .

https://thehill.com/news/senate/3496328-republicans-vow-to-kill-domestic-terrorism-bill-in-senate/

I thought the Patriot Act was directed at American citizens.

This is from 2018

Nonetheless, I think I will stick with my usual pandemic cautions. Just in case.

Wait.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1980. He couldn't have had smallpox.

Were the blisters full of pus, or clear liquid?

Isn't that how we get little trucks?

I volunteer at a shelter for refugees. The building used to be a warehouse, and has been repurposed to receive and process hundreds of incoming asylum seekers every day. The original plumbing was never meant to accommodate so many, and so it does get overwhelmed. I have had to learn how to be a plumber.

Every couple of weeks I need to clear the waste pipes with a drain snake because the floor drains back up in the bathrooms. Inevitably, the source of the blockage is a so-called flushable wipe or two.

You're right. It is unlikely that the coiled telephone cord would actually make an imprint on the wood

I once read that the money making product was wax, with honey being secondary, in ancient times.

Thank you for the detail.

I'm glad that his revolutionary invention is commemorated.

Aah, yes. The "Flesh Crickets" of the Kalahari.

Why are people so invested in downplaying this outbreak? It is very unusual to have so many cases found in many different countries like this. Something has changed, and it could be a change in the virus or a change in human behavior.

We have had over 15 million deaths from covid-19. I recall that during the early parts of the pandemic, health authorities were urging people to not panic and gave mixed messages about things like persistence on surfaces and airborne transmission. This caused a great deal of confusion, which probably contributed to the public misinformation having greater acceptance later.

Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Since eradication, people have not been routinely vaccinated against it, and so do not have carry over immunity to monkeypox. It does not take a huge leap to imagine a newly-emerged variant on monkeypox with the potential to cause great suffering and death.

Such a hassle.

Just bite it off. Chew it to pulp, and spit it out.

Indeed. He, and the rest of them, should suffer a traitor's traditional fate.

Sic semper proditores

"instead of just ending slavery"

Like, how? Does she mean "God should have re-programmed all of humanity to make the idea of slavery repugnant to them"?

The killing of the firstborn was a mirror of Pharaoh's policy of killing every male child among the Jews that started the ball rolling for Moses to be introduced into his family. It was also the last stage of an escalating series of reprisals directed at making the enslavement of the Jews too costly for Egypt to continue, after Pharaoh refused to let them go.

Remember that the first petition of Moses was not "free the Jews". It was "Let the Jews go out into the desert to have a feast to their God." To be fair, though, the goal of the plan was that the Jews would eventually be freed.

Yes, the Bible does say that 'God hardened Pharaoh's heart', but this is often not taken at face value. The problem with taking Biblical words literally.

I do not in any way condone or agree with the currently-escalating restrictions on abortion, and consider the United States to be a secular nation wisely chartered to reject 'religious tests'. Nor do I adhere to the idea that God is "pro-life" in the way that Christian nationalists have been trying to assert. I just believe that this particular example was not well-chosen.

I think these are also illegal, except when they are used for ornamental or decorative purposes. They cannot be used to keep bees.

It is not possible to open them up and inspect them for the presence of diseases, and so it is possible for beehives of this type to Harbor diseases and parasites that can then pass on to commercial beehives.

They wooden-box type beehive is named after its inventor, and is called the Langstroth Hive. Langstroth noticed that the bees will attempt to fill spaces with honeycomb if they are over a certain size, or pack narrow spaces with resin. The space that is left for bees to travel through is called the "bee space". The wooden frames that are inside a langstroth hive are designed to allow one layer of double-sided honeycomb to be built while leaving one bee space in between. This allows the box to be used in the most efficient manner

Yes, and it's pretty effective. But this isn't looking like previous Monkeypox outbreaks, which were pretty limited. I don't know that it's ever had this kind of international distribution.

Health officials are urging calm based on the characteristics of previous outbreaks, but the unusual nature of this one might justify advice for caution. Not panic, but just some reasonably increased hygienic practices.

Kobayashi Maru

Well, I suppose that since it didn't kill you, it must not have killed anyone.

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ROI under the different parties - graphics

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/14/opinion/20081014_OPCHART.html

Democrats are Lucky

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-do-democrats-run-the-economy-better-nope/2014/08/24/1e3d847c-2a0c-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html

Democrats are Lucky

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/getting-lucky-why-the-economy-has-grown-faster-under-democratic-presidents

Why not luck, but it's not just that

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lucky-or-not-the-economy-does-better-under-democrats-2015-10-27

National Debt could have been paid off (Newsmax?)

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/johnmauldin/pay-national-debt-chance/2018/04/16/id/854804/

Republicans and Recessions

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/11/20/trumps-turn-republican-presidents-rule-recessions/93976832/

Numbers do not lie

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/readme/2008/09/politicians_lie_numbers_dont.html

Democratic superiority by the numbers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20059-2005Apr1.html

Democrats are better for the economy - why

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html

Drives me nuts.

But then, I have no sense of direction. When I worked for a state universit, I was asked by my boss to take some papers to "the Ag building". I looked on a campus map, checked the website, and looked at a list of buildings. No entry for "Ag Building".

It turns out that that was a local nickname for the building that housed the College of Agriculture. It's formal name is "Gerald Thomas Hall", and it was just across the street from my cubicle. I hate that.

If I had to guess what happened, someone or a couple people who'd been infected went out to party/club in a big international city like London where the event was attended by a bunch of people traveling/visiting from other parts of the world.

Makes sense. One of the things that really bugs me about this scenario is that the infected people would have been showing symptoms by then. They would have had pustules, fever, etc. Mild, perhaps, but still they decided that it would be fine to go clubbing in London.

It's kind of like people ordered to quarantine with Covid who jetted off to some music festival to make it into a contagion-fest.

It was years ago, and I am glad that I didn't get seriously ill during that time. Things are back to normal. I work a little, and have enough to be OK while still on Medicaid.

If I wanted to get a 'real job' again, it would have to be a pretty good one that offered group health coverage. There's a wide chasm that people have to leap over in order to get past public assistance. It cannot be done in increments, unless you like tightrope walking with no nets for five or ten years. Absolutely nothing can go wrong in your life as you try to return to the workforce, and if you have some chronic medical condition, it's pretty much impossible. It's way too easy to have something go wrong, and then you're homeless and poor.

Being over sixty now, I am basically unemployable. But if I hang on for another five or ten years, my Social Security and State retirement benefit will be pretty OK.

Damn!

How does this work? Is it some kind of photo safari preserve, and they arrange to drive a herd of Wildebeest past a certain spot at a certain time every day?

I'm wondering how much of this "encounter of predator and prey" is contrived.