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  2. Regardless of this discussion, I am not convinced that Public Health should be solely science driven. At least not to the extent that if we don't know 100% sure yet, we should not advocate to do anything.

     

    Fauci standing at the microphone and stating: "We don't really know what's going on, or how the virus is spreading. Until we are 100% sure we are 100% correct, we ask the public to do nothing, go on with your life and please just ignore the bodies." 

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  3. 3 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

    How exactly does the Liberty University MBA program work? "The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on record, according to a new report by the industry’s trade association."

    Can't use percentages. That part of math was not covered in his MBA and he struggles with them. You have to use terms like " a lot more" or "the best people say it is more than"...stuff like that.

  5. 3 hours ago, brenthutch said:

    You are adorable, Pax Americana did not end at the culmination of the Cold War, which arguably continues to this day. It is the absence of head-to-head major power wars since the U.S. became the global police man. 

    But America became the global police main before Raegan became president. Pax americana started before Raegan. Military spending hasn't abated since Raegan either. So to go back to your claim: What was the bargain he reached?

     

  6. Just now, brenthutch said:

    Yes I have. It’s called WWIII.

    lol, you are rambling, moving goal posts, or generally not really understanding what you are talking about.....

     

    Sure, Reagan started pax americana by ending the cold war and thereby preventing WWIII.....

  7. 1 hour ago, airdvr said:

    I'm constantly amazed at how the usual suspects can take a discussion and turn it into an us/them conversation.  

    I'm not ok with any president's ability to spend billions of our tax money without needing approval.  Read that again ANY PRESIDENT.

    You seem to have a problem with other President's use of the EO.  How about chiming in on how wrong it is for any of them.  

    You are just now figuring out how much of democracy is based on decorum and tradition. Based on expecting leaders to generally do the right thing.

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    1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

    Going overboard with queer, urban and climate crazy displacing the quirky and interesting stories they had been known for.

    Interesting how you list those as mutually exclusive. I think that pretty much proves my point.

     

    Also still waiting for you to provide any evidence of this claim you made: "they falsely reported that intelligence agencies claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation AKA hoax"

  9. 1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

    Pax Americana 

    Reagan ended Pax Americana and spending has decreased since then? Is that how you propose this bargain worked?

    I am sure you have some numbers to add to this, you have an MBA and all.

    You may also want to think about the possible scenarios if that spending right after WWII had not taken place.

  11. Funny thing in all of this is, that even with all this supposed liberal bias, NPR is still a much better source for factual reporting than anything with a supposed conservative bias.

    There are a fair number of right leaning media outlets, which one of them would you hold up as providing generally correct reporting? Yet many of those networks seem to be financially doing very well.

    Which leads me to my opinion, counter to Berliner, that the drop in consumers for NPR is likely more because they are NOT sensationalizing things, than because of diversity and inclusion or not posting Hunter Biden dick pics.

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  13. On 4/13/2024 at 4:31 AM, billeisele said:

    The  USPS has declined far too much, to the point that's it's unreliable.

    Someone came to my house on Monday from Charleston on the way to Atlanta on a business trip. She left something important in Charleston. On Tuesday her hubby had it sent to her hotel in Atlanta Next Day Delivery. The cost was $30 plus $17.50 for Tracking. By Friday it still had not arrived. Tracking indicated that it had not left Charleston.

    Her options were to have the hotel refuse delivery or cancel the delivery for a fee.

    The response from USPS was, "If you come to our office we'll refund the $30 if you can prove what you're saying."

    How does this make any sense? They take no responsibility, don't care and there's no recourse.

    We're wondering if it will ever arrive at the hotel and IF the hotel will remember to no accept the delivery.

    So having a business man run it for 4 years isn't helping? Almost like it is by design....

  15. 5 hours ago, airdvr said:

    I'm of an opinion that we need to curtail all President's use of these.

    "Executive orders are not legislation; they require no approval from Congress, and Congress cannot simply overturn them. Congress may pass legislation that might make it difficult, or even impossible, to carry out the order, such as removing funding. Only a sitting U.S. President may overturn an existing executive order by issuing another executive order to that effect."

    https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publications/teaching-legal-docs/what-is-an-executive-order-/

    Thoughts?

     

    This is what your legislators concerned themselves with today:

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    Probably going to need the EO so some adulting can take place.

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    changed how to who

    1 hour ago, Rickendiver said:

    It’s not just me. There are about 70,000 scientific, medical & health care professionals that have signed the Great Barrington Declaration attesting to it.

    Is that the one where you could put any name down and click the box that said you were a scientist? I heard Mr. Banana Rama's scientific accomplishments are very special. And, who isn't aware of the science behind the healing powers of Mongolian overtone singing?

    Do you not see the irony touting your scientific record and then hyping the validity of the Great Barrington Declaration based on the number of signatures?

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  18. On 4/12/2024 at 4:52 PM, brenthutch said:

    “I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.”

    Yep, sounds like a far right MAGA extremist. No credibility.

    I guess you are the MAGA far right extremist 

  19. 12 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

    The bias revealed was from a NPR staffer, not me. 

    You mean an NPR employee is of the opinion that there is a bias. He then provides hearsay and correlation without causation in his opinion piece.

    You are presenting it as "bias revealed" because it agrees with your opinion.

    Quite frankly, you are doing the exact same the NPR employee is claiming NPR does.

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  21. This is what you continue to refer to:

    8 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

    In October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about his sordid business dealings. With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye.

    To somehow try and prove this statement you made:

    23 hours ago, brenthutch said:

    No Hunter was covered.

  23. 3 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

    Obviously didn’t read the article 

    I am starting to feel sorry for you if you think the opinion piece you posted says that the NPR covered the Hunter Biden laptop story and called it a Russian hoax.

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  24. Just now, brenthutch said:

    I’ll do better than that, why don’t you read the whole article I linked to. It is not what I said it is what a twenty year NPR staff member said. 

    So you can't. As usual you post bullshit and you can't back it up when you are challenged. Appears a tax bracket isn't the only thing you aren't maxing out.

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