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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Some dems would throw away senate, lose committees, never get House bills to the floor cause Manchin - a democrat from a virulently red state - doesn't vote like a progressive. They say "He's GOP!" Let's compare real numbers. And note, these comparisons would be 0% for GOPrs:..1
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...so, yah. Throw away the vote of a guy who sides with Bernie over half the time, Sherrod almost 70% of the time, etc. Either the dems attacking him - calling for throwing everything away - are idiots or they are GQPrs trying to stir up trouble. Both are equally destructive.

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22 Mar
When people rant "Someone died within days of receiving the vaccine!" - well, duh. It is the cruelty of large numbers. Of people between 65-84, out of, say, a group of 13,000,000, about 2,100 on average die per day. Far more than that 13 mil have received the vaccine. This...1
...means that, using the same logic, you could prove Christmas kills, or milk, or sunshine or a vaccine. This is why mortality correlation in anything for an elderly population is nuts. The ONLY number that matters when the cohort is large is excess death, not "a death." And...2
...there is no statistical evidence of excess death. None. You have to apply the same analysis to anything that happens to anyone. I could "prove" vaccines cause car accidents, or drowning or anything based on anecdote of a huge number of people. The anedotes were perfectly...3
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13 Mar
...the government responded by running to court, court ordered that prosecutors could go to Trump and start seizing documents. And then this happened...3
...another one, this one Alan Garten's. Trump was insured for a project he threw his name on. But if he put in a claim, the insurance rates would have climbed. So, they denied there was insurance. Then they let the insurance lapse, and when they confessed, none was available...4
...continuation...Garten says the 5 year "mistake" was his...5
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Kurt
4 Mar
I've mentioned before, rather than risking making the COVID spread worse, spend this time to learn to cook. My adult sons have done that. Here are some of their recent dishes.

From my oldest: Chashu (Japanese braised pork belly.) On left, from the oven, then in the meal)...
...homemade butternut squash soup, also made by my oldest....
...from my youngest, Korean food: Bulgogi (Marinated Beef)
Gamja Jorim (Korean Braised Potatoes) Sesame Broccoli, Sigumchi Namul (Korean Seasoned Spinach)
Gyeran Mari(Korean Egg Roll Omelette)....
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Kurt
3 Mar
I have an odd “knowledge by osmosis” on Fox News topic of the day: Dr. Seuss. I was an advisor on a fascinating thesis about his history & his books. And as usual, the GQP is full of it.

Dr. S, or Ted Geisel, was a man who, unlike members of GQP, evolved. He despised some...1
...of his early work before he became a children’s book author, but was just a cartoonist. His early stuff was littered with racist images of black, chinese & Japanese people. The black characters were the worst, made to look like monkeys in images a Klansmen would applaud...2
...Geisel apologized for his early work’s depiction of minorities. In his earliest books, he had not completely emerged from the mindset that led to his racially offensive cartoons. You will see the similarities between the cartoon above and this image from “If I Ran The Zoo”...3
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Kurt
2 Mar
As a Texas resident - I am ashamed to call myself a Texan anymore - we're captive of the stupidest among us. @GregAbbott_TX is rescinding mask/crowd orders put in place when the daily infection rate was lower than now. We're at about same level of infections as at the first...1
...huge explosion of cases in the summer. The infection now will spread, right when the more infectious variant is climbing. Why do we have to keep being threatened by GQP's insistence on doing what they want, no matter the price in lives, @GregAbbott_TX? Why do the ones who...2
...care about 500,000 deaths that didn't have to happen, who don't want to be part of the problem by risking lives of other people by ignoring common sense science, who dont want to cripple hospitals, who dont want to get sick, take 2nd place to the selfish and ignorant...3
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Kurt
2 Mar
A delightful conversation:

Loon: “Masks don’t work!”
Sane: So why is the countries with the highest mask compliance universally have the lowest infection rates?
L: “I’m not talking about other countries!”
S: So, are you saying masks don’t work just in the United States?
...1
...L: This is America! I have the constitutional right not to wear a mask!
Sane: “Well, you just changed the subject.”
L: No I didn’t!
S: You went from saying masks don’t work to saying you have the right not to wear them.
L: I shouldn’t have to wear them! They don’t work!....2
...and they are an attack on my freedom!
Sane: Real quick. What’s the party of the Constitution that says you don’t have to wear a mask?
Loon: And I don’t care what they do in other countries! America is the greatest country!
S: You realize, you are all over the place....3
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