Bernie Boomer

since they’re handing out “vaccine cards” after you get the shot.

I suppose a person with mental issues might use a false name to get another round of shots, but that seems like it would be a small percentage.

I showed my ID at the door, but I did not have to give them all my information. They used it to enter my name and birth-date (I was…[Read more]

In the mid-’70s, my GYN told me that nearly 50% of pregnancies never make it to term. The majority of that 50% end in the first six to eight weeks. She called it (and I don’t know if this is an actual medical term) a ‘blotted ovum.’ The process was generally nothing more than heavier-than-normal bleeding during the cycle. Maybe a few cramps.…[Read more]

written for the Catholic Tribune or something.
gads

can’t recall which one, proposed a ban on a similar sort of homemade weapon – a zip gun or a 3d printed gun or something.

Pure political theatre. People aren’t dying in mass shootings with ghost guns.

If they can cancel ten thousand or fifty thousand, they can cancel it all. It’s just numbers on a balance sheet.

Not sure what their definition of ‘fine’ is, though.
It tastes awful. Standard water filters that should last three months? Pretty much toast after six weeks.
Leave a little water to evaporate in a glass and guarantee yourself a vinegar and salt scrubbing session to get off the sediment. It’s so hard you could knock someone out with it.

show some of the numbers, including Miami-Dade. It looks pretty grim.

I am sick of identity politics. Being female doesn’t give her a special pass.

Neera Tanden is not only unqualified, she has the leadership ‘skills’ of a serial killer.

If Biden would choose to argue that he had cause – say, something like: “The current USPS BofG, including the Postmaster General, are clearly trying to fatally undermine and destroy the USPS.”

Seems like sufficient cause in my book, but I’ve always been a fan of USPS and hate what’s happening. Maybe I’m too biased?

The board should be upended in…[Read more]

Looking at the US code, it only says that they can be removed for ’cause’ but it doesn’t say by whom, nor does it define ’cause.’
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/202

@MizzGrizz – the board cannot have more than five appointed members from one political party. Currently, there are six members, so one is a Democrat. Biden has nominated…[Read more]

The President appoints the nine governors with ‘advice and consent’ from the Senate. Biden has nominated three people for the existing three vacancies (left unfilled by Trump, I think), but they haven’t been confirmed.

while they embrace authoritarianism.

Too bad the founders believed that privilege implied intelligence instead of insisting that prospective representatives prove they had the ability to think critically on a variety of topics.

and looking forward to becoming an entrenched member of the Washington elite, apparently. Power tends to corrupt, and all that. She doesn’t have it, presently, but she sees it and she wants it.
It’s very rare for a politician to maintain their center, surrounded by so much “opportunity.”
Too bad.

Because too many people believe that health care is not a human right, but a perk for being a team-player in American free-market capitalism. The outrageous cost of drugs is one reason they keep those blinders in place; the absolute fear that they will someday need a drug they know they can’t begin to afford . . . and the fingers-crossed wishful…[Read more]

Worth it to read the entire article. Matt Taibbi lays out the issues very well . . . and I learned “progressive authoritarianism” is a thing.

While waiting it’s turn to go through. Someone on that twitter feed had a picture of the drift pattern – I guess the crew was all asleep or something?
Reuters said it was turned the right way again (as of an hour ago).

the store opened in the ’40s. I remember thinking it sounded silly when my family moved to Colorado in the ’70s. I think Kroger Co. just keeps the names after they buy up the stores – Smith’s in Nevada, Fry’s in Arizona . . . good way to cover your growing monopoly, I guess.

but I think the slight roll-backs coincide with changes in rail ownership. Italy was the first European country to open competition to private ownership in the late 1980s. For the most part, it appears that the state still controls most of the built track and leases them to the companies, but the companies have also built track (I think). In any…[Read more]

The issue is far more complex than most of the stories make it appear – and he had already been ordered to stop publicly discussing the issue. He chose to defy the court order. He was arrested for contempt.

I’m not going to get into the rest, except to point out that some in this thread (not you @snot) seem to think that the treatment includes…[Read more]

And maybe to find some numbers on track by total area, because that intrigues me.

China has made huge and rapid advancement in HSR, obviously, but they are also have a lot of land area, so that makes sense. Japan is tiny in comparison with a much smaller number of km, but I suspect a more comprehensive coverage map.
I guess there are two ways of…[Read more]