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[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

That's so vehiclist. I'm sure there's a pro-noun that is preferred.

 

It's a truck.  We're allowed to disparage such polluters.

[Cinga]

On 12/10/2021 at 1:40 PM, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

It's a truck.  We're allowed to disparage such polluters.

 

Modern day trucks pollute les than most cars

[B-Man]

 

 

 

World's largest pot brownie 

 

When the Puritans Banned Mincemeat Pie

 

 The Absolute Best Way to Cook Shrimp, According to So Many Tests. Never eat an overcooked, rubbery shrimp again. Never!

 

 Camels enhanced with Botox barred from Saudi beauty contest

 

 Vermont school commits to kiddie porn as enlightening for children

 

 Education’s enduring love affair with “luxury beliefs”

 

 Latino civil rights organization drops 'Latinx' from official communication

 

Steven Pinker book:  Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

 

Teachers Don't Want to Come In to Work Because of Class Privilege

 

 Male and Female Athletic Performance: Worlds Apart

 

 Actual Female Swimmer at UPenn Says Team’s Support for Transgender Swimmer Is ‘Fake’

 

 IT’S OFFICIAL: YALE IS THE WORST

 

 COVID-19 A Pandemic Of Fear "Manufactured" By Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist

 

 Chris Wallace Leaving Fox News

 

 NYC Gives Right to Vote to Foreigners, Illegal Aliens

 

 

 

 

 

 California Is The Only State To Hide Its Spending — Nearly $300 Billion A Year

[Cinga]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 NYC Gives Right to Vote to Foreigners, Illegal Aliens

 

So they're saying the "rights" of illegals to influence our elections and who broke our immigration laws shall not be infringed by citizens and legal immigrants who are forced at gun point to follow the law?

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

2 hours ago, Cinga said:

 

So they're saying the "rights" of illegals to influence our elections and who broke our immigration laws shall not be infringed by citizens and legal immigrants who are forced at gun point to follow the law?

 

Only city elections, which isn't uncommon.

 

And of course it'll be abused, and some of them will vote in state and federal elections.  But the law says city elections only.

[Cinga]

3 hours ago, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

Only city elections, which isn't uncommon.

 

And of course it'll be abused, and some of them will vote in state and federal elections.  But the law says city elections only.

 

So it's okay in your opinion if it's only city elections? Don't answer, I know it's not but that is the problem as I see it... It only effects certain people so it's okay. Just like taxes for instance, if they only raise them on the rich that's okay because it doesn't affect me. Or maybe it's that new law, it's okay because it doesn't affect me...

 

And again, not picking on you, but this is the entire reason we are  purposefully divided in this nation and until we all look to things that affect anyone, as an affront to all of us we will stay divided.

[Spartacus]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-a-pandemic-of-fear-manufactured-by-authorities-yale-epidemiologist_4106244.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge

 

“Overall, I’d say that we’ve had a pandemic of fear. And fear has affected almost everybody, whereas the infection has affected relatively few,” said Risch.

 

“By and large, it’s been a very selected pandemic, and predictable. It was very distinguished between young versus old, healthy versus chronic disease people. So we quickly learned who was at risk for the pandemic and who wasn’t.

 

“However, the fear was manufactured for everybody. And that’s what’s characterized the whole pandemic is that degree of fear and people’s response to the fear.”

 

 

"I'm looking at clinicians who have now treated more than 150,000 patients, with fewer than 2 dozen deaths, with #hydroxychloroquine." Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, #Ivermectin & other therapeutics.

 

[B-Man]

 

 

NASA craft ‘touches’ sun for 1st time, dives into atmosphere

 

 Good News: Showing Boobs On The Beach Could Go To The Supreme Court

 

 Norway Bans Booze To 'Slow The Spread' Of Omicron

 

 The Latest Absurdity: Optional Mandates

 

 The Looking Glass World Of "Climate Injustice" -- Part III

 

 ELON MUSK FOR THE WIN

 

 Democrats Push ‘Racial Equity Audits’ To Cement Control of Tech Companies

 

 ADL report: Anti-Israel student groups top drivers of anti-Semitism on campus

 

 President Biden's job approval sinking on inflation, crime and COVID: POLL

 

 Facebook Quietly Admits Its Third-Party ‘Fact-Checks’ Are ‘Opinions’

 

 

 

[Spartacus]

https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/the-latest-absurdity-optional-mandates/

 

From the start of the pandemic, masking has been a social convention, not a legal one. The constabulary isn’t posted on every corner and in every business checking to make sure your nose and mouth are properly obstructed. When masking was all but universal, it was a result of a social compact that drafted individuals into the policing of their own communities. It was an organic response to a genuine panic around a disease that could not be mitigated pharmaceutically. That is no longer the case.

 

Masking as a social convention has withered away in the parts of the country where pandemic-related apprehension is low, and it cannot be reimposed from the top down. At least, that’s what California’s experience suggests.

 

If New York and California’s governments are making a political statement, their endorsement of burdensome interventions into American social and economic life makes perfect sense. They’re appealing to constituencies that like government mandates and want to see more of them. But their policies are not justified by the existence of a public health crisis; indeed, they’re not even acting like it is a public health crisis. If they were, compliance wouldn’t be left up to the discretion of individuals, business owners, or county executives.

 

But it is, and that should tell you all you need to know

[Spartacus]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/elon-musk-for-the-win.php

Question for Senator Karen: Just who is responsible for “rigging” the tax code? Oh yeah—that would be Congress. I know Warren was not in the Senate when the tax credits for electric cars were initially passed, but is there any doubt how she’d have voted? Is she supporting the expanded tax credits for electric cars in the so-called “Build Back Better” bill? Well, you know what they say about consistency.

 

P.S. Musk has lately been selling billions of his Tesla stock. Unless he has some large losses somewhere, he’s going to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in capital gains tax this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if his tax bill this year is the largest in U.S. history for a single individual. That won’t stop Senator Karen from saying he isn’t paying his “fair share.” (“Fair share” for a Democrat always means, “more than whatever you’re paying now.”)

[Koko]

Judges in Harvey Weinstein appeal slam 'prejudicial testimony,' raise questions about conviction

 

It's always dangerous to assume what judges will do based on oral argument questioning. However, they do raise a valid point: Was Weinstein convicted because the prosecutors proved he committed the crimes he was accused of beyond a reasonable doubt, or was he convicted because the prosecutors successfully showed he was a piece of shit as a human being?

 

Same issue Cosby had at his first trial (which resulted in a hung jury): the judge allowed only one witness to prior bad acts. At the retrial, the same judge inexplicably allowed multiple accusers to testify about crimes he was never charged with.

[Foxx]

37 minutes ago, Koko said:

Same issue Cosby had at his first trial (which resulted in a hung jury): the judge allowed only one witness to prior bad acts. At the retrial, the same judge inexplicably allowed multiple accusers to testify about crimes he was never charged with.

Would that not go to character? I know I have heard about character witnesses before but not sure if this is what that would be.

[Koko]

23 minutes ago, Foxx said:

Would that not go to character? I know I have heard about character witnesses before but not sure if this is what that would be.

 

Character witnesses/reputation evidence aren't generally allowed (unless the defense opens the door trying to proclaim the defendant is a good guy).

 

Prior uncharged bad acts can go towards arguing things like the crime wasn't an isolated incident, that the person had a specific way of committing the crime, etc. Cosby, for example, having a history of providing drugs to women before having sex with the can be relevant. However, piling on, like they did with Weinstein and Cosby, is dangerous from an appeal perspective, especially when there's scant evidence that the crime they were charged with actually occurred.

 

The probative value of the evidence must outweigh the prejudice to the defendant. For example, putting in evidence that someone may be a child molester has absolutely nothing to do with proving whether or not a defendant drove drunk.

 

While it's great to try to get a conviction based on the defendant being a vile piece of garbage, the job is to actually prove they committed crime(s) they're charged with.

[Taro T]

On 12/15/2021 at 10:09 AM, B-Man said:

 

 

NASA craft ‘touches’ sun for 1st time, dives into atmosphere

 

 Good News: Showing Boobs On The Beach Could Go To The Supreme Court

 

 Norway Bans Booze To 'Slow The Spread' Of Omicron

 

 The Latest Absurdity: Optional Mandates

 

 The Looking Glass World Of "Climate Injustice" -- Part III

 

 ELON MUSK FOR THE WIN

 

 Democrats Push ‘Racial Equity Audits’ To Cement Control of Tech Companies

 

 ADL report: Anti-Israel student groups top drivers of anti-Semitism on campus

 

 President Biden's job approval sinking on inflation, crime and COVID: POLL

 

 Facebook Quietly Admits Its Third-Party ‘Fact-Checks’ Are ‘Opinions’

 

 

 

 

To the 2nd story, sure, letting women wander about the beach topless seems good in principle, but why is it always the ones you don't want to see that take advantage of that "right?"

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Uncovered: Key to how exercise protects against consequences of ageing

 

 Elite Winsor Girls School In Boston Moving Away From Calling Girls “Girls”

 

Elizabeth Warren Is Really Cranking Up the Commie Stupidity This Week

 

Democrat Senator Under Fire After Speaking at Communist Group’s Gala

 

 The Sanctimonious, Insufferable and Clownish Liz Cheney Seeks Revenge for Republican Ridicule

 

 How George Soros funded progressive ‘legal arsonist’ DAs behind US crime surge

 

The Salvation Army pays a big price for its foray into wokedom

 

 Airline CEOs Testified Before The Senate On Taxpayer Bailouts – But You’re The One Getting Fleeced

 

 Now that Build Back Better looks dead in the water, weird things are coming out of the mouths of Delusional Dems

 

 Senate parliamentarian deals Democrats blow on immigration

 

 New IRS Disclosures Confirm Flood of Private Money to Elections Offices from Zuckerberg Grantee

 

 Biden administration scraps $450,000 payments to migrant families separated under Trump

 

 93% of Polled Arab Residents of Jerusalem Prefer Israeli Rule to Palestinian Authority

 

 

 

[Alaska Darin]

On 11/20/2021 at 12:35 PM, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

I'm very confused how the white guy being acquitted of shooting three white guys who attacked him is "white supremacy."

Racism is everywhere the left wants it to be.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

59 minutes ago, Alaska Darin said:

Racism is everywhere the left wants it to be.

 

That's...

 

<...shakes Magic Intersectionality 8-ball...>

 

...homophobic.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

5 hours ago, B-Man said:

Elite Winsor Girls School In Boston Moving Away From Calling Girls “Girls”

 

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Although Winsor remains in its mission a school for "young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world," the school recognizes the importance of inclusive language.

 

Seriously...you're a girl's school.  You are, by definition, exclusionary, no matter what language you use.  

 

Which is not me complaining about the exclusion of boys from a girls' school.  It's me complaining about the serious lack of rational thought in "We're inclusive, because...words!"

[B-Man]

 

 

 Louis Prang, Father of the American Christmas Card, Santa Claus of American Art

 

Sexual Assault Is Already Happening in Meta’s Virtual Reality World

 

 Former Harvard Chemistry Chair Admits to Taking Tens of Thousands of Dollars From China

 

That's peanuts 

 

 Prof: Outdoor recreation a ‘white-dominated space,’ has ‘roots in systemic racism’

 

Elon Musk's taxes 

 

 Which Country Or U.S. State Will Be The First To Hit The Renewable Energy Wall?

 

CJ:  Two Statues of Jefferson - The New York city council has evicted Thomas Jefferson from its chamber. Should Paris now follow suit?

 

 People who get breakthrough COVID-19 infections after being fully vaccinated have 'super immunity' with antibody levels rising as much as 2,000%, study finds

 

 Covid is no excuse to dress like a slob. Time to get rid of the ‘athleisure’ wear and start caring about our appearances again

 

 Nick Sandmann reaches settlement with NBC

 

 THE JOE MANCHIN EXPERIENCE

 

  Manchin Exposes Dems' Ignorance of Flyover America

 

 Trump’s attacks on McConnell are wildly off-base

 

China and American business 

 

 Poll: 93 percent of eastern Jerusalem Arabs prefer Israeli rule

 

 

[Spartacus]

What the massive study of 29 vax victims really shows 

is that the vaxxed but not sick group have no antibodies from the jab.

 

 

 

https://www.lucianne.com/2021/12/19/people_who_get_breakthrough_covid-19_infections_after_being_fully_vaccinated_have_super_immunity_with_antibody_levels_rising_as_much_as_2000_study_finds_75323.html

 

The small study compared 26 vaccinated staff at Oregon Health & Science University who had breakthrough infections to people who were vaccinated but never got the coronavirus. The breakthrough group saw a surge in antibodies. 'The increases were substantial, up to a 1,000 percent increase and sometimes up to 2,000 percent, so it's really high immunity,' said study author