retired liberal

Iron maiden? Burning at the stake? What’s next? The medieval mentality seems to be making a comeback with the taking over of states by these republican reptiles.

It’s real because they say it is real. No other proof is needed. No matter how ridicules it is, or sounds.

“It is so wonderful Israel has the time and resources to carry on these activities.”

Israel gotta do something with all that money.

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Therefore it will not work on viruses.

They only lessen the symptoms. That is why it looks like we are making progress in defeating the COVID-19 virus. “Immunized” people are not getting nearly as sick as earlier. But they are still getting and probably still spreading the virus to others.
It is still a good idea to wear a mask, and maintain some distance from others.

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The pharmaceuticals are cooking the books on how well their vaccines actually work. Too many lobbyist and too much money being spent to tell us how great they are.

Aren’t special drivers licenses and passport enough for domestic travel on plans and trains?
I know that at one time they were trying to implement the same procedures for train and bus travel as for plane travel.

They are spending way too much on lobbyists in Congress. Why, if they were a Honest, forthright company?
The money they spend on lobbying comes from what you pay for drugs and health services.
Pfizer, Amgen, Lilly spent most to lobby Congress, study finds
Dive Brief:

• Pharmaceutical and health product makers spent more than any other industry on…

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“On 11 January 1922 insulin was first used in the treatment of diabetes.”
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news_landing_page/first-use-of-insulin-in-treatment-of-diabetes-88-years-ago-today

That was almost 100 years ago. Why is there no generic versions of insulin?

And while we are at it, make advertising drugs on TV, illegal also. How many…[Read more]

It wasn’t that long ago when we though we were in the center of the universe and everything else literately revolved around us.

I understand the states controlling state and local elections, but the federal government needs to set do and don’t rules for Federal Elections. That alone would put a crimp in these wing-nuts rewriting working law to the benefit their brother wing-nutz.

They are building roads, Internet, Hospitals, whatever is needed to help the people there. If push ever comes to shove in Africa, guess which side the people that China has helped will be on?
Our leaders are too myopic and stupid to understand that.

While those two are both reality challenged ego maniacs, it is the people that keep voting that keep voting for them that I worry about.

Tax transaction on Wall street. Make the obscenely wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.

Won’t happen though. What will happen those of us down here near the ground will bear the brunt of the “corrections” again. The Pentagon’s budget will increase and the obscenely will get another tax cut, so they can hire more people for their low wage jobs.

Maybe the schools need to be better funded in the first place.

How can a continent, with many millions of people already living on it for over 15,000 years, be discovered by some lost white guy?

What are we going to do about this?

They don’t teach critical thinking, or anything close anymore. Now it is teaching to the test. There is only one correct answer. Never mind if the “correct answer” doesn’t pass the reality smell test.
As a result, people just unthinkingly take in what they see and hear, without processing it first.
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