swordfish

Covid patients have slightly higher RISK of developing the acute pulmonary embolism than Influenza A or B.......Neither virus "causes" blood clots, the conditions resulting from your bodies resistance to a virus (such as pneumonia) are what causes them. (Calling Covid the Flu on steroids does not mean SF doesn't take it seriously) https://www.medicinenet.com/covid-19_vs_flu_blood_clots_in_lungs-news.htm Left wing or Right wing, either way, POTUS donning a mask while descending the steps (alone) from AF1 only to pop it off while in the immediate vicinity of the dignitaries he was meeting with was pretty silly whether you want to admit it or not.......

Isn't a law breaker.......that? .......a law breaker? Look at the City of Chicago and the States of California and New York.......Strictest gun LAWS in the country - highest gun criminal activity. BR is right - Good people with guns are not the problem, bad people with guns are. You have to keep guns from the hands of bad people. So what is the right answer? BOTH sides WILL have to compromise. YOU can't take my guns or keep me from getting more if I want to, but I (and my side) have to be willing to let the government (shudder, shudder) control a little more.......

Too sad....

Improvements are looking good for the school system - SF is wishing they would have had the new gym when my kids graduated......That gym was a furnace during the ceremony.....

SF isn't advocating arming all teachers, especially if there is no desire on a teacher's part, or if they are opposed to firearms, but allowing staff to be armed if they so desired and went through specialized training if it were available. More palatable perhaps would be to allow schools to have retired LEO's or military volunteers to be present and armed. New York is floating a law to make long guns illegal to own until 21 yo. I can buy into that, but I think the problem isn't guns - it's people. Guns have always been around. I wonder where that kid, a senior in HS, working at a fast-food restaurant living on his grandmother's floor got the money to purchase the weapons he had. One he used was identified as a DDM4 (about $1,800 https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/daniel-defense-ddm4-v7-semi-auto-rifle ) with a $700 sight on it. The other one that hasn't been identified I would assume would be about the same cost. Combined with 375 rounds of ammunition ( https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/federal-american-eagle-military-grade-brass-centerfire-rifle-cartridges ) and this kid would have needed about $5,000 to get his guns and ammo. I guess it's not impossible, but wouldn't someone in his immediate family throw up a red flag? Probably not - because Grandpa had a criminal background and "would have reported it" had he known his Grandson bought those weapons since he is not allowed to have guns in the house. ( https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-school-shooting-suspects-grandfather-speaks/story?id=84966002 ) Young Sal was living with his grandparents since he had a falling out with his mother. His argument that morning with his Grandma was over an unpaid phone bill. Again - guns have always been around, and they don't fire by themselves......

True enough BR. 🤣

Starting to buy into the "Arm the teachers" idea.....

So - comparing the coverage of the Texas school shooting to the Buffalo shooting of last week. We knew the identity, the foul racist leanings and had pictures of the Buffalo shooter plastered all over every news source the next morning, we knew where he got his guns, even that he had wore a Haz-mat suit to school one day. It was all him and his racist views that killed those people. Yes - he deserves death penalty as brutally as it can be administered. This morning, it was all about the guns. And how we need more gun control, "how many more kids must die" Yada-yada. It's the gun's fault, not the shooter's. Nothing about how the gunman breached the security (or if there even was any).

Yes, one would assume that a higher number of (legal) voters means that, regardless of the party......

Wondering if MLB and/or Stacey Abrams is gonna apologize for moving the All-Star game from Atlanta last season to protest this new law "designed to suppress" voter turnout this election.......probably not...... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/voting-is-surging-georgia-despite-controversial-new-election-law/

Can we just admit Covid is the Flu on steroids, and Biden is a geriatric hazard to himself and everyone else at this point?

Wondering if Senator Schumer is going to hold a presser demanding the current President Biden lower gas prices like he did the former President Trump?

https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/biden-praises-gas-prices-as-part-of-incredible-transition/ Biden praises high gas prices as part of ‘incredible transition’ Out of touch as ever, President Biden celebrated record-high gas prices Monday, gushing that the pump pain was part of “an incredible transition” of the US economy away from fossil fuels. “[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The president then insisted that his administration’s actions, rather than increasing the price of gas, had actually been able to “keep it from getting worse — and it’s bad.” Only then did Biden pay lip service to millions of Americans who have found themselves spending thousands of extra dollars to fuel up their vehicles. Nobody seen this one coming?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/politics/baby-formula-us-military-aircraft/index.html Baby formula arrives in Indianapolis from Germany on US military aircraft to address critical need Well, this is embarrassing... I keep hearing "Switzerland" all the time. Switzerland is where the W.H.O., the W.H.A., the U.N., and a member of the C.C.P. are meeting this week to discuss and Vote on Joe's Amendments of turning our Sovereignty over to the Authority of the W.H.O. in the event of another PLandemic.

Just some good advice from your good buddy SF -

Wishing this was just another silly meme, not someone legitimately testifying before Congress......

Anyone remember all that talk back in 2020? The amazing denial effort relative to HB? Anyone? Anyone else remember the prediction that the truth will be forthcoming in about 2 years? https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/justice-coming-for-dirty-51-hunter-biden-laptop-liars/ FTA: Barr, who was AG at the time, recently told Fox News he was “very disturbed during the debate when candidate Biden lied to the American people about the laptop. He’s squarely confronted with the laptop, and he suggested that it was Russian disinformation and pointed to the letter written by some intelligence people that was baseless — which he knew was a lie … “When you’re talking about interference in an election, I can’t think of anything more than that kind of thing.”

One wedge issue after another coming into the mid-terms........ Race, Abortion, Climate..... BLM founder blames her admitted "mistakes" on "White guilt money"...... https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-says-white-guilt-money-mistakes-weaponized-against-her/

Just like his voters in 2020?

https://briancates.substack.com/p/why-i-believe-michael-sussmann-will?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F34778084-brian-cates&utm_medium=reader2&s=r&fbclid=IwAR3M2-NI57eEu-PolJ37BdqRlGo9__2htQBS4meOGlCwk0CSB6nEmSLBawc Why I Believe Michael Sussmann Will Change His Plea To Guilty Before His Trial Begins His Own Coconspirators Do Not Want To Testify At This Trial Brian Cates May 12 Why am I so confident in predicting that Sussmann was going to change his plea from ‘not guilty’ to ‘guilty’? Well I have three main reasons for this expectation. Let me list them. First, Sussmann has no real defense. None. Nada. Zip. Bubkis. Durham has him completely trapped on the false statement charge with incontrovertible forensic evidence. Including a text message that Sussmann sent to the FBI’s General Counsel James Baker the night before their meeting at FBI headquarters back in September of 2016. In that text message, Sussmann states - in his own writing, mind you! - that he wants this meeting for himself, he’s certainly not reaching out and asking for this meeting on behalf any clients. Read the text message for yourself: Now, Sussmann’s latest gambit is an attempt to introduce notes from former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe into the trial evidence because McCabe says in those notes that Sussmann **did** say he was working for clients on the Alfa Bank hoax. Here’s why that doesn’t matter: Sussmann changes his story based on who he’s talking to and when. When he sent Baker the text message on September 18, 2016 at precisely 7:24 p.m., he LIED, and said it wasn’t for any clients. When he testified before CONGRESS in December of 2017, Sussmann told the truth, that he was working for clients when he made his approach to Baker. So later on at some point after his meeting with Baker, Sussmann told McCabe or others at the FBI the truth? And McCabe took accurate notes, reflecting that Sussmann said he was there on behalf of his clients? That’s awesome! Good for him! But does that **change the fact** that in a text message to James Baker on September 18 at precisely 7:24 p.m., and then the next day in Baker’s office at FBI HQ, Sussmann LIED to Baker? It does not. Just because Sussmann tells the truth about the matter later to others does not mean his lie to Baker - delivered in writing and then in person the next day - is somehow cancelled out. It’s **still** a false statement to a federal official. That text message and Bill Priestap and Trisha Anderson’s notes are damning. The text is from the night before the meeting took place, and the notes were written down immediately after it was over when Baker briefed Preistap and Anderson on what Sussmann had told him. So Sussmann’s going to be 100% convicted if this goes to trial. Unless a DC jury just practices nullification and ignores all the evidence Durham will present to it and lets Sussmann walk out of the courtroom a free man simply because he’s a Swamp creature. I doubt that would happen, because it would mean Durham blew the jury selection process. Second, All Of Sussmann’s coconspirators do not want to come testify under oath at this trial. Testifying under oath about the tricky matters they were involved in with the Alfa Bank hoax and related issues opens them up to perjury charges later. Now, I’m sure that Marc Elias, Robby Mook, Laura Seago and all the others that are on the government’s witness list - or who might later be added to it - have done their best to keep up to date on the case filings as far as they reveal what Durham knows already. Please Dear God, don’t let them call me to testify under oath…amen! But here’s the thing: no matter how well your legal team briefs you, or how prepared you think you are, or how confident you think your grasp is of what the prosecutor knows…there are **always** things he knows that he hasn’t revealed yet. Trust me on this: The Clinton campaign’s former general counsel Marc Elias is gonna use any remaining pull or clout he has on Sussmann to pressure him to take a deal. Elias does not want to get up there on that stand under oath and answer questions where he’ll having to pick his words with extreme care as he tiptoes through a verbal minefield. It’s the same for former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, and other Clinton campaign, DNC, Fusion or Perkins Coie persons that might end up on that witness stand. Durham’s team will try to steer these witnesses with questions into places they do not want to go. And because they don’t know what the prosecution does and doesn’t not know at this point, making an untruthful answer could have really serious consequences. After all, Durham’s putting Sussmann on trial on a felony charge of making a false statement to a federal official when he wasn’t under oath in a courtroom. If Durham catches a witness telling him a provable lie under oath in Judge Christopher Cooper’s courtroom? There will be fireworks. Perhaps that’s the point? Third, nobody has ever escaped John Durham There’s a reason Durham has the reputation he does. He’s earned it. The only guy who managed to escape getting his ass shipped to prison was a crooked FBI agent who died before Durham could convict him. This is why in the end, just before the plunge, I believe Sussmann is going to blink. He knows he’s facing a stacked deck and that Durham has it all. He can’t really win and he knows he can’t win. He probably doesn't want to get "Suicided".......