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Andrew Yang will not be given a speaker's spot at the DNC.
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2012 Detroit Lions Draft: 1) Cordy Glenn G , 2) Brandon Taylor S, 3) Sean Spence olb, 4) Joe Adams WR/KR, 5) Matt McCants OT, 7a) B.J. Coleman QB 7b) Kewshan Martin WR -
Apologies if this has been posted up thread. Working third shift these days....
JB should find this interesting.
In Florida, schools need local Health Departments to say it is not safe enough to open in person schools. Fine. Then DeSantis and Co. order local health departments to not take a stand and only provide facts on safely reopening schools.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ng/3317014001/
2012 Detroit Lions Draft: 1) Cordy Glenn G , 2) Brandon Taylor S, 3) Sean Spence olb, 4) Joe Adams WR/KR, 5) Matt McCants OT, 7a) B.J. Coleman QB 7b) Kewshan Martin WRComment
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Nope.Actually, and this would give you nightmares, It would be Nancy Pelosi that would be elevated to VP
It would be a person of Kamala's choice. When Spiro Agnew, VP for Richard Nixon resigned due to his own legal issues, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford as his new VP. Ford then became President after Nixon resigned, and Ford brought in Nelson Rockefeller as his VP. Neither of them chose the Speaker of the House.
Besides, Nancy would never give up her cushy position as top grouch of the House."The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, .. I'd worn them for weeks, and they needed the air"Comment
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When asked how he intends to fund social security (or Medicare for that matter) if he's eliminating the payroll tax, Trump just says "the general fund". When asked how will there be enough money in the general fund when we're already running a 2.8 trillion deficit, Trump just says "tremendous growth".
Friendly reminder that Trump bankrupted most of his businesses before becoming a reality tv star when he started charging $$$ to slap his name on inferior goods and buildings instead.Comment
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Arizona and Florida are getting better. Less clear about Texas where they had a single-day high number of deaths announced (324) excluding that weird data dump day. The positivity rate also hit a new high of 24.5%. It's hard to know if that's because testing is way down or what.
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The QAnon rot in the GOP, by Rich Lowry
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963,000 new jobless claims which is quite a bit better than the 1.1M predicted.
Continuing claims fell by about 600,000 but are still very high overall at 15.5M
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shaddupShut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Favorite flavors at Wiz's Wing Shoppe (Nebraskans have weird tastes):
Ketchup
Velveeta
Liverwurst
CornComment
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And you called ME Buddy Hackett?
(you forgot 10w30)"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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I did forget 10w30
And Wiz is the guy who uses all the ventriloquist dummies. Dunham?Comment
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BTW, Trump today was openly saying that he didn't see how the post office could handle all the mail in ballots without more money. Then threatened he will veto any bill that gives the post office more money.
Saying the quiet things out loudComment
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Yeah, that move is quite...dictatorish."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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How can anyone confuse Idaho with Michigan?
Covid statistics did ....
Jeff will love this.
"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, .. I'd worn them for weeks, and they needed the air"Comment
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Not surprising at all. A similar thing just happened in FL. % positive numbers went up in every county in the tri-county S. FL region while case numbers only rose slightly on Tuesday. As soon as the data hit FL's PH Dashboard around 11am, the news reported the typical dire consequences headlines because for a straight week, both new case and % positive numbers had been declining. By about 2pm, the increased % positive #s were attributed to one lab submitting 4000 positive test results on the day before going back to June 23rd. That was nearly 30 % of the total 15K results reported for that day and around half of the positives.Originally posted by lineygoblue View Post
I had been tracking other metrics over the last two weeks. All of them had significant downward trends - ED visits, hospitalizations, bed and ICU space use. On Monday of this week, the first positive news article reporting these trends as reported by the three tri-county hospital systems themselves appeared on the front page of the Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald. Things are going well in FL and it is becasue behaviors are changing. I just shrugged at the increases that were reported yesterday knowing full well the data being reported by the press and conclusions being drawn from it are unreliable for all the reasons that have been posted here.
I've said this before. The lack of uniform test processing by labs and test result reporting by states and even by counties is making it impossible for the public to judge the efficacy of the need for a stronger or more relaxed response to the pandemic. I do think that FL officials, having learned the lessons of faulty test reporting and how that affects pandemic response decisions, do have more data available to them to put a more complete COVID picture in context. Desantis, who has been a reopening advocate, appropriate basic mitigation measures left up to the counties, has been a force. I don't know for sure, I can only judge from what these officials are quoted as saying wrt the local measures they are easing or tightening. There seems to be some momentum for moving to Phase II in S FL which is currently still in Phase I after stepping to Phase II and then retreating, and to Phase III in the rest of the state after retreating from that Phase in early June.
The hot topic right now, as it is in most states, is in-person learning as the school year begins. Desantis has mandated in-person learning be offered as an option, that decision left to county school boards. He's also been soft on school starting dates leaving that to county school boards as well. In Broward Co. the board said that classes will begin next week but there will only be virtual class rooms through September. That prompted outcries from parents and applause from some, not all, teachers. The school board relented and said they'll reassess every two weeks with an eye toward going to in person learning when it is safe to do so ..... criteria for that not detailed. So, the public can't know when it is "safe" or not and that is because school officials are leaving themselves wiggle room to justify continued virtual learning so as to avoid the predictable dire warnings from the media when the first school age child tests positive for the virus, actual risk of disease burden in that age cohort notwithstanding.
In GA, last week, it was reported that a 7yo died from COVID after starting school. On Monday, it was revealed that the child had a high fever, he was place in a tub of cold water (a standard and usually safe practice to reduce a fever) and the child drowned. He did not die from COVID. You've all seen the video of kids, unmasked, crowded together in the halls of GA HS that was open for the first day. This video accompanied an article that stated on the first day of school, 53 students and staff tested Positive for COVID. 300 quarantined. It wasn't reported that every one of these positive tests would have resulted from an exposure days before the first day in school. The school day crowd didn't cause the positives. Some contact in the 5-10d period before school started caused the positive tests.
This is where we are. You must be very skeptical of the reporting of the public data as well as the press's interpretation of it.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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