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is gonna sound like am defending gaetz. not true. have referred to him as a carnival barker many times. however, so far is not a matter o' victims coming forward and accusing gaetz o' impropriety. has been leaks regarding an fbi investigation, leaks which were amusing the result o' gaetz accusing impropriety o' the fbi investigation 'bout which almost nobody previous knew anything. has also been indictments against a co-conspirator who accuses gaetz o' a whole laundry list o' misdeeds, but the indicted co-conspirator is not an ideal witness. again, is not victims coming forward. gaetz is accused o' paying underage women for sex and other stuff, but is not difficult to see why gaetz treatment has been different compared to other sexual harassment scandals. as for voters in north carolina looking the other way regarding madison 'cawthorn's sexual improprieties and overt stoopidity, am having no response. was admitted pre election and the voters knew, so ain't like he were caught doing something bad while a Congressman, but why should that make his sexual predator antics ok with voters? trump normalized such for the republican party? if you would be offended by madison regarding his pervy and alleged assaultive beahviour, then how would you explain support for trump? the same folks voting for madison voted for trumps, so recognizing the transitive obtuse property at work... dunno. HA! Good Fun!

sounds all too likely. is a shame too 'cause is a fantastic novel and our horrible synopsis might leave a person with the impression it were corny. am NOT a fan o' vampire or zombie books or movies, but i am legend is one o' our favorite scifi novels. ‘Out of control’: Dallas County reports 3,270 coronavirus cases in 3-day total "Dallas County reported five more COVID-19 deaths and 3,270 new coronavirus cases Tuesday in totals that included the weekend." icu beds is not gonna magic appear. the thing am recalling most from reading various books 'bout spanish flu in the US were that the cities which weathered the pandemic better all approached pandemic mitigation efforts similar: they acted quickly and decisively to implement social distancing mandates. closed theatres and churches and prohibited gatherings o' more than two people. masks were required everywhere. this were early 1900s and med technology weren't what it is today, but the folks knew they were facing a deadly respiratory disease and so they implemented the limited, low-tech options they had at their disposal, the same limited options available for hundreds o' years. no surprise, those communities which responded fast and comprehensive suffered less. 2020 USA response to the pandemic were so disappointing 'cause even a brief look at history made the right response kinda obvious. unfortunate, too many people don't like to read anything longer than a twitter post. HA! Good Fun!

dog and bone show. the reason why the aforementioned democrats and republicans didn't fight is 'cause they believed (typical they were informed by party leadership) that combat would be worse than going meek. want us to predict which republicans and which democrats is gonna get the defense o' their party in spite o' scandal? we cannot do that. nevertheless, you trying to distinguish the functional indistinguishable is not the best play. HA! Good Fun!

the reason why the observation from @Guard Dog (again) is particular funny is 'cause the guy cuomo replaced, also a democrat, resigned following a scandal, a fact we reminded him o' not long ago in point o' fact when he made a similar observation. jim mcgreevey, the governor o' new jersey, also had to resign following sexual harassments claims. national, is kinda tough to forget mr. weiner, yes? elizabeth esty was big news for ten minutes. 'course, for those who think republicans haven't faced similar issues and resignations, they is deluding selves. (edit: do self a favor and google "trent franks" if you do not recall who he is. same time as franken. initial bigger scandal. quickly forgotten somehow.) truth to tell, trump and clinton stand kinda apart, so might be more accurate to observe how Presidents get a weird double-standard. but serious, is functional spam and somebody is a dog with a bone. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting matheson, the novel's author, were not happy with goldsman. am seeming to recall matheson asking why anybody would buy movie rights just to change pivotal stuff. the point o' the title o' the book is that the main character recognizes that he has become like a monster o' legend to this new society o' vampire people which is evolving. while the vampires sleep during the day, robert neville came to them doing slaughter which would leave an indelible mark on their collective psyche long after he were dead and gone. the book vampires is intelligent and they know fear and they will remember neville as a creature outta legend the way humans o' today view vampires. the movie version o' the i am legend creatures, as were our understanding, were much more feral than the people in the book. am suspecting it woulda' been impossible for movie robert neville to carry on a romantic relationship with one o' the vampires, yes? am doubting it would make a difference, but maybe the owner o' the eyewear store could provide his employees with a copy o' the matheson novel. perhaps the prospect o' being turned into a bulletproof vampire and having forbidden and romantic relations with the last living person on earth wouldn't seem so terrifying, although such a fear would still be epic stoopid. one hurdle at a time, eh? HA! Good Fun!

am thinking this solid puts to rest the question o' whether or not owlcat is considering a delay of the release. sure, a delay appeared unlikely, but given the state o' the beta, such a move were warranted and even the hardcore owlcat fans at their boards were/are voicing concerns 'bout day 1 game stability. *shrug* had already resigned self to september being a continuation o' the beta, but am perhaps naïve in our hope that at least the first three chapters and crusade management will offer better than the current level o' stability... would also be nice if a few broken class features were addressed in the next few weeks. HA! Good Fun!

saw very little o' the movie. in novel the pathogen which transformed people into "vampires" were a bacteria initial spread by mosquitos. the bacteria could functional animate dead people and those were the zombified victims as it were. living folks who survived infection were vulnerable to direct sunlight and they would putrefy, turning into a ghastly puddle o' goo when exposed, but the victims were self aware and intelligent, and their vampire vulnerabilities (other than the aforementioned sunlight) were largely psychological in nature as 'posed to physiological... none o' which is relevant save for fact am disappointed so few have read the book. not book club fodder, but current cases per day is where we were at the end o' the first week o' november 2020, and such numbers is with recognition is summer and more people is spending non social distanced time outdoors as 'posed to indoors. am not expecting death rates to climb as dramatic as 2020, but we do expect a proportional increases, so two weeks from now am hoping am wrong in our expectation o' grim numbers once again being part of daily news cycle, save at fox. somehow is all gonna be fauci's fault, well, fauci and the vampire/zombie virus engineered by china now infecting americans 'cause o' all the illegal aliens flooding across the southern border. am not sure how to work conspiracies 'bout jewish space lasers into this, but if movie scripts is fair game then why not space lasers? HA! Good Fun!

additional unstated obvious: an employee opposed to a vaccination request from her boss may quit. the employee is not denied the option o' ending employment even if her reasoning for quitting is abject stoopid, and what could be more american than that, eh? HA! Good Fun!

correct. for three reasons: 1) deny business owners the right to chose a reasonable option to protect their workers is unamerican and lacks a rational basis. a simple vaccine significant reduces the chance that during a global pandemic which has already killed hundreds of thousands of americans, your primary asset (labor) will be interrupted or even crippled by what are now largely (not complete) avoidable outbreaks. again, we don't even blink at sharing private medical info such as eye exam results and drug tests, so suggest vaccine proof is a bridge too far for business is kinda asinine. 2) history has shown a poor response to government vaccine mandates and the current ignorance-based resistance is disproportionate to any historical analogue we could care to name. our resistance is nothing more than a practical recognition that achieving results through vaccine mandates is unlikely to produce the results many anticipate while at the same time resulting in a higher likelihood of radicalization amongst the stoopid. is far too much stoopid. 3) hhs has no authority to mandate national vaccine requirements. HA! Good Fun! ps this has been stated numerous times, so repeating feels like is patronizing, but 'pon reflection, given the current audience, is necessary. government mandate assumes it is not possible to say no to the demand for vaccination. kinda presupposed by "mandate" language. whatever. converse, and as already stated, trump or joe shopkeeper may only request employees or prospects vaccinate. no fines. no loss of liberty threat. am assuming an at will employment which is kinda the standard here in the US. employer may fire you for reason or no reason at anytime as long as reason is not violating the Constitution or some state or fed law. employee may quit at anytime. vaccination status is not gonna be one o' those select categories which precludes ending an at will employment.

unnecessary clarification: am opposed to government mandated vaccinations for civilian population. businesses, whether is corporate or sole proprietor (*eye roll*) obviously has reasonable and practical reasons for demanding prospective and current employees be vaccinated against a widespread communicable disease for which there is a readily available and free vaccination. preclude businesses from requesting employees provide so-called private medical info, such as eye test results for a pilot or driver, or drug tests results for bus drivers or train engineers, would not only be unreasonable but would be interfering with the rights o' business owners. make some kinda crazy exception to preclude vaccine status requests or prevent testing would be un american as well as just plain stoopid. edit: meanwhile, in texas... Austin in 'dire' situation with rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, officials warn The grim outlook is also captured in new modeling released last week by researchers at the University of Texas. It placed the chance of reaching ICU capacity by the end of August at 92%, if community mitigation efforts do not slow transmission. not good news. HA! Good Fun!

we knew how it worked, but am admitting we were curious 'bout hydrogen storage. unlike the impression one might be left with watching tv and movies, gasoline don't just spontaneously explode when a person looks at it funny. 'course we also know that unlike liquid gasoline, hydrogen dissipates extreme quick, so in spite o' volatility, we weren't certain 'bout dangers. regardless, we had never bothered to look for info regarding hydrogen storage, so thanks. HA! Good Fun! ps we do wish the video woulda' covered battery end o' life and recycling issues. lithium batteries is not eco friendly when they eventual need be disposed. am not knowing much 'bout platinum batteries and their disposal or recycling.

The Pentagon Has Moved Toward Making Vaccines Mandatory For Service Members am not actual in favor o' mandated vaccines for the civilian population. past US experience with mandated vaccines, which is incontrovertibly legal btw, has been less than positive. as some o' you may have discovered this past near year-and-a-half, once you tell americans they are required to do something, some % will resist as a matter o' principle. if USA fed or state governments mandated the need to wear a warm coat when temperatures drop below freezing, then am guaranteeing you would see a disturbing spike in hypothermia deaths. that said, the military is a bit different. mandate vaccines and reach near 100% vaccination rates is not facing practical hurdles for DoD. am guessing the only reason this has not already been done were 'cause such a mandate (sans delta) would be widely criticized by the right as well as the awareness there is so many far right extremist groups with disproportionate numbers o' former military. mandate and forcibly vaccinate large numbers o' individuals who is objecting to being vaccinated will save lives and reduce unacceptable hospitalization rates, but it will result in a boost to proud boy and 3% recruiting efforts. regardless, the current right is gonna criticize this move, but looking at the covid-19 hospitalization rates in places like texas is gonna somewhat mute the braveheart moments from republican politicians trying to dramatic appeal to the trump base before the next primary or election. even folks like desantis has given up on vaccine resistance and shifted to masks. masks? whatever. regardless, am moderate surprised the Department of Defense waited as long as it did. quite likely means there is far more future proud boys, oathkeepers and 3% in the military than we had imagined, and we imagined more than a few. is not a privacy issue. we are talking 'bout a communicable disease which has already killed hundreds o' thousands o' americans in a relative brief period o' time, a disease which is spread quite easily and anonymously through ordinary public human interaction. is 'bout as not private as you can get. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting no american gold meant as much to americans collectively as did the bronze in field hockey meant to the +1.3 billion folks in india. at the igi airport today these guys were greeted by multitudes and given a heroes welcome along with india's few other medalists including the gold medal winner in men's javelin. congrats to india. HA! Good Fun!

if you are Gromnir's age or younger, "Soccer was massively popular as a youth sport when I was a kid," could be the shared observation o' near 100% o' people from the USA. age 20, 30, 40, 50+? don't matter. soccer has been a popular youth sport and every decade people see it as increasing in popularity. same bat time. same bat channel. at some point, and maybe a bit ironic, the folks who continue to play soccer are the same kids who play golf and tennis or whose parents drive 'em to morning swim practice or afternoon lacrosse. probable helps that the parents likely prefer the increasing exclusivity. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* as it so happens, we were actual gonna use a vision quest clip link to address the limited time response to increased tactical sophistication, but am suspecting folks woulda' been too easily distracted by the pelé reference. HA! Good Fun!

got an irrigation problem o' our own, but is a past tense thing. a couple weeks ago we noticed after one o' those 110 degree stretches o' heat that one o' our japanese maples were looking a little weary-- patches o' leaves were positively autumnal. solution: we got out the hose and gave the tree an extra ten minutes o' significant daily irrigation. the ten minutes with the hose were in addition to 30 minutes daily via "drip." more than drip as it were kinda a spray attached to otherwise spaghetti drip lines. after a week o' increased watering, the tree looked worse rather than better, so, being a simple caveman at heart, we increased the watering by an additional 10 minutes. *eye roll* has 'been 'bout a month and if the tree ain't dead it is so close it might as well be. fudge. HA! Good Fun!

what a curious observation. am recalling the world league o' the 90s. we saw a couple football games in the US and europe. attendance were relative cheap. ticket price were cheap in part 'cause that is what the market were perceived to be able to bear. if soccer were to become more popular, and were regular televised and networks could sell more advertising and players could demand bigger contracts and... HA! Good Fun!

having played rugby almost as much as US football (technical more years, but fewer functional hours and not as high a level o' competition,) we would say diversity o' roles and specialization for football has the edge but not by a huge amount. there is more diversity and specialization in football, but even somebody who has never watched rugby is gonna recognize the skillset needed to play hooker is extreme different than scrum half. 'course in rugby you play defense and offense and even a prop may have dreams o' being the golden boot saviour. but again, and is unnecessary repetition, this continued discussion undermines your initial observation. as for kanadian and euro observations regarding soccer, am necessarily limiting our self to this and other game message board. our yearly overseas trips during the last couple decades o' working were near complete limited to asia and eastern europe. not enough cross cultural sharing beyond game generalizations. as for US embrace o' soccer, is perpetual misleading. since the 70s, soccer has been, to all reasonable outside observations, increasing in popularity. the term soccer mom is not new. is an early 80's term for a trend started in the mid 70s. every US kid plays soccer in school, and am suspecting a large % o' suburban kids has played organized soccer. literal every decade since Gromnir were a kid there has been certainty soccer were growing in popularity and could finally breakthrough in terms o' reaching parity with at least hockey. thanks to title ix and the need for US universities to spend as much on women's sports as men's, am suspecting soccer will indeed continue to grow in popularity, but that success will also be perpetual misleading. unlike china, and virtual every other nation which competes regular in international sports, the US government does not direct fund and support our national teams or athletes. however, we do have a functional seed program for most olympic relevant sports: university athletic programs. counter-intuitive, as long as men's american football and basketball programs continue to be ultra funded, women's soccer will benefit. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking malc is doing a skarpen_one. compare a cb to a midfielder is not the point. the diversity o' skillset amongst the players on a US football team is greater. the offensive tackle is doing something complete different from the cornerback. even an person who has no knowledge o' american football and is only familiar with soccer is gonna recognize that the diversity o' skills on the football team is more extreme than on the soccer team. ignoring the uniforms, an offensive tackle and cornerback appear to be playing complete different sports. the more distinct and diverse range o' skills adds a level o' tactical sophistication as does the functional restart o' gameplay every minute or so. us football has the same pre game and half time strategizing as does soccer, but a level o' sophistication is added 'cause is, to use gamer parlance, tb mode and using varied chess pieces as 'posed to real time with more uniform checkers... all o' which ignores fact we are having this discussion, which complete undermines your initial observation in the thread regarding American critiques o' soccer. none o' which has anything to do with olympics but does reinforce our observation 'bout euro and kanadian sensitivities regarding their soccer. so, check. HA! Good Fun!

you didn't pay attention to the articles you read and how the numbers were compared. The first is that the majority of UK adults have now been vaccinated. Indeed, break it down by age group and you'll see that of those aged over 50 around 91% have been vaccinated - most of them with two jabs. The second is that the vaccines don't entirely reduce the risk of either catching the disease or being hospitalised or dying of it. They are not 100% effective. But they do, at least on the basis of tests from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, reduce the likelihood of both of these outcomes considerably. But reducing something considerably is not the same as eliminating it. So, for instance, before getting vaccinated the chances of a 90-year-old catching and dying of COVID-19 were estimated to be roughly 2.8%. After getting the jabs, the chances of the same illustrative 90-year-old catching and dying the disease are reduced to around 0.14%. It's a very big reduction, but that jabbed 90-year-old nonetheless faces a roughly similar risk profile as an unjabbed 60-year-old (0.12%). Same thing for an 80-year-old, whose jabbed risk profile is close to that of an unjabbed 50-year-old. And so on. It's a very big reduction, but that jabbed 90-year-old nonetheless faces a roughly similar risk profile as an unjabbed 60-year-old (0.12%). Same thing for an 80-year-old, whose jabbed risk profile is close to that of an unjabbed 50-year-old. And so on. The point here is that even if the vaccines were doing exactly what we expected of them, some people, especially the elderly, are still quite likely to die of COVID-19 - especially if there's a lot of it around. ... "You might recall Sir Patrick said that around 60% of those hospitalised were double jabbed in the press conference, and then had to correct himself on Twitter afterwards. Interestingly, when you look just at the over-50s, it turns out around 54% of those admitted were indeed double-jabbed, with only 29% of those admitted having had no vaccination. Again, given the very high proportions of those in the age group who are vaccinated, this is perhaps unsurprising." again, the over 50 is the 90% vaccinated. old people is still higher risk. duh. the point o' getting everybody vaccinated is in part to prevent the issue with having much covid still around. duh. purposeful misreading the numbers does you no favors. HA! Good Fun!

you are being willful obtuse. did you bother to actual read the links? the vaccines are NOT 100% effective, so there will continue to be deaths from covid-19 amongst the vaccinated population. IF you got near all people vaccinated, then of course those deaths which continue to occur is going to appear in the vaccinated population. want a really scary stat? if we got 100% o' the US magical vaccinated, then a full 100% o' future covid deaths would be occurring in the vaccinated. omg! duh. HA! Good Fun! ps and is noteworthy you dropped the silly corporations distinction in your response. we shouldn't ignore when you final do something right. so, congrats.

we has mentioned numerous times how covid is only different 'cause o' the degree o' pushback. has been many historical US disease outbreaks which resulted in not just mandated vaccinations but compulsory vaccinations. in the past, government authorities has literal been able to come to your home and force you to be vaccinated. there were a measles outbreak in nyc as recent as 2019 and students and employees were required to be vaccinated. no codification needed to require children be vaccinated. mayor said it were necessary. declared an emergency. kids and adults got vaccinated. one law were changed btw. previous to the 2019 measles outbreak in nyc, there were a ny state law which allowed an exemption for vaccines based on religious/philosophical basis. that law were repealed. btw, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/politics/donald-trump-measles-vaccines/index.html how quick folks forget. covid-19 is only special 'cause o' the degree o' pushback. mandatory vaccinations and testing is actual the norm in this country. HA! Good Fun!

has nothing to do with corporations. american citizens has rights. if you own a business, you do not sudden lose rights. in the us (perhaps europe is different, but we hope not) business owners is not legal forced to behave stoopid. +95% o' hospitalizations for covid-19 is 'mongst the unvaccinated. +99% of deaths is amongst the unvaccinated. a business owner who is reasonable, would prefer to not have his workforce hospitalized and or dying from covid. is not a corporation issue. regardless, is no right to spread disease, whether is a business or individual or individual business. HA! Good Fun!

literal every state has vaccination laws, not that such means anything in the present context as is also perfect legal for private organizations to require. from a practical pov, case law v. codified makes a difference 'cause? however, states such as south carolina do in fact leave to whim o' the school district as to implementation questions including which vaccines is required, and florida's desantis is facing troubles with his mask prohibitions in part 'cause is laws in florida which demand that regulation o' health concerns should be left to individual school districts to decide. traditional republican small government stuff, so is unsurprising florida has such, eh? although it appears 2021 republicans has failed to get the regan era memo (not literal) on small government. "whim" is also kinda loaded and inaccurate. any vaccination requirement, be it fed, state or local, still needs be reasonable or at least rational. and o' course the school district is gonna codify their health requirements, so the question/concern from skrapen is kinda nonsensical. school district board, however is organized, will need follow process. again, we were talking 'bout land o' the free and somehow this is being inverted. "Congress shall make no law..." is government intrusion which bothers Americans. @Guard Dog would be far more likely to get his shorts in a twist over fed or state mandated school vaccinations as 'posed walmart. am also suspecting he would be more bothered by fed and state mandates on vaccines than he would be regarding local. the further the decision process is removed from the people being immediate impacted by a prohibition, the more likely will be a complaint o' government excess. skarpen has somehow made this all bass ackwards. HA! Good Fun! ps many state vaccination laws is open-ended, for obvious reasons. what we mean is, there is typical not an exclusive list o' required vaccines required by schools and state hospital workers or professional care givers or prison workers or... etc. there will indeed frequent be a list o' vaccines required, but is not like the state or fed or local authorities need rewrite laws every time a new disease or vaccine becomes relevant. is invariably language which recognizes that as new vaccines become available, schools, and state hospitals and prisons and whomever may require those employed or custodial wards to be vaccinated.

am knowing skarpen has been wrong 'bout european free speech law issues in the past, so am not just gonna take his word for stuff. regardless, as one might expect in the land o' the free, the stuff which is codified is gonna be limited to what cannot be demanded by government or from employees. Constitution says can't discriminate based on race, religion, national origin and alienage. fed law prohibits discrimination based on gender save in some extreme limited situations. states has additional laws, but 'cause is indeed land of free, we allow employers and employees to decide most other stuff. for example, an employer may decide to not hire a person 'cause the prospect is too stoopid to do the job or is too rude to deal with customers. reasonable. is not considered illegal or discriminatory to have a prospective employee show proof of education or pass a skills test anymore than is unreasonable to have an interview with the prospect. your stoopidity or rudeness is not subject to privacy even if is more debilitating than a whole host o' medical conditions. if a shipping/freight company is hiring a truck driver, chances are they require proof o' a clean driving record, a current class whatever driver's license and likely the prospect is asked to pass a drug test. not require such stuff and the new driver kills somebody in an accident while on drugs while driving one o' your trucks and chances are the shipping company gets sued and loses a whole lotta money. again, require basic proof o' safe driving record and being drug free is a reasonable precaution for the employer o' a truck driver. so how is a covid test or requiring proof o' vaccine any different? what would be the basis for precluding an employer for asking for such info? sure, medical info is deemed private and the reason medical privacy exists is 'cause society benefits from an individual being truthful with their doctor when seeking medical help. we also protect communications with spouses (though your spouse may waive) and clergy. limited exceptions. nevertheless, would be extreme stoopid if a medical facility treating immuno compromised patients were precluded from asking for employees to prove they ain't carrying an infectious disease such as tuberculosis or covid-19 before exposing patients to the prospective employee. again, could hospitals and doctors could be sued if they didn't take such obvious and reasonable precautions to protect patient safety. am not sure why medical records is important to skarpen_one. if a person need show proof o' being drug free, what would make you assume a full medical record were being communicated? we mentioned hippa, which marjorie taylor greene so frequent misrepresents. your medical records may not be communicated w/o your authorization, but would be extreme strange if you were precluded from requesting your own medical records and offering them to an employer. need proof o' being drug free, then chances are you authorize communication o' the drug test results. employer requires proof of vaccination, then authorization will be for proof o' vaccination. is not rocket science and is reasonable. obviously for a football player whose livelihood is dependent on physical health, more info is gonna be relevant to their team and will be perfect reasonable for the team to request. spend millions o' dollars on a rookie contract only to discover the player has a serious medical condition they did not disclose? that don't seem fair. hardly a caveat emptor situation. can't force a player to divulge medical info, but why would you prevent a team from requesting such info or precluding the player from making such info available? if the player won't take a physical or offer medical records, they might go undrafted, or at least their draft status will suffer. regardless, is hard to imagine a nfl team offering a kid millions o' dollars to play football if there is no way to evaluate the health o' the player especial if there is reasons for concern. reasonable. psych evaluations for people who is gonna be armed with a gun or who is gonna be given authority to investigate and prosecute american citizens? we should hope so. have actually known people who were in law enforcement and had risen in the department hierarchy, but 'cause they failed a portion o' their psych evaluation they could not carry a firearm. take reasonable precautions to protect citizens from foreseeable harm is hardly shock the conscience level o' an invasion o' privacy. much o' these observations is based on common sense and/or the reasonable person standard which is typical applied in tort situations. HA! Good Fun!