21 hours ago, gonzoron said:

I was incorrect. The total is 329.

3 minutes ago, dazed and confused said:

so.... based on your stats....a good deal of us are skeptical about what you just posted....

I have posted no stats of mine.

45 minutes ago, Bobref said:

That’s a cop out. The media respond to public sentiment: their customers. If people didn’t want it, it wouldn’t sell.

86% THINK MAINSTREAM MEDIA DIVISIVE

https://factnotfiction.media/2020/08/06/86-think-mainstream-media-divisive/

A Knight Foundation/Gallup poll released this week showed that 86% of Americans believe that there is a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of political bias in the mainstream media. This is 25% points higher than the same poll taken in 2007.

78% of Democrats and 94% of Republicans, believe that there is at least some bias in the media.

84% assign the media either a ‘great deal‘ (48%) or a ‘moderate amount‘ (36%) of blame for political division.

The poll noted when respondents were asked about their views of media outlets they distrust:

-79% of poll respondents said those outlets were “trying to persuade people to adopt a certain viewpoint.”

-When news is inaccurate, 54% of Americans think it’s because reporters are “misrepresenting the facts,” while

-28% assume they’re “making them up entirely.”

Does any of this surprise with the recent revelations outlined in the open letters from former MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary former NY Times op-ed contributor Bari Weiss. 

2 minutes ago, Bobref said:

 

 

What is it that has turned the American public so cynical? Nothing is taken at face value anymore. There is no “benefit of the doubt.” Anything unpleasant becomes the product of an ulterior motive or hidden agenda. Any less than desirable outcome is evidence of a sinister conspiracy. It must be downright uncomfortable living in some of your heads.

It is referred to as common sense.

7 hours ago, Gipper said:

No bueno, but not much of a surprise.  BTW:

 

Interesting how this meme is permitted yet when video evidence of Dr. Fauci stating the coronavirus is no threat to Americans and advising people to not wear masks is posted the video's are removed.

CDC Director: Threat Of Suicide, Drugs, Flu To Youth ‘Far Greater’ Than Covid

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-director-threat-of-suicide-drugs-flu-to-youth-far-greater-than-covid

During a Buck Institute Webinar streamed on July 14, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield promoted the general reopening of schools, highlighting the low coronavirus risk for children without preexisting conditions and the unfortunate spike in suicides and drug overdoses, which Redfield said are “far greater” in number than COVID-linked deaths in the young.

“It’s not risk of school openings versus public health. It’s public health versus public health,” asserted Redfield.

“I’m of the point of view, and I weigh that equation as an individual that has 11 grandchildren that the greater risk is actually to the nation to keep these schools closed,” he continued.

Redfield said that over 7 million children get mental health services from their school, “a lot of people get food and nutrition in schools,” and added that schools are vital “in terms of mandatory reporting sexual and child abuse.”

“Obviously, the socialization is important,” he said. “And, obviously, for some kids, I think actually a majority of kids, their learning in a face-to-face school is the most effective method of teaching.”

The reopening, Redfield underscored, “has to be done safely, and it has to be done with the confidence of the teachers. It has to be done with the confidence of parents. And so I think each of the school districts will begin to wrestle with this.”

Speaking of the risks of the China-originated coronavirus to children, Redfield said data shows the flu is some five to 10 times more deadly, adding that the odds of a child dying a COVID-linked death is “one in a million.”

“But I think that’s important because what that means, actually, is the risk per 100,000, so far, you know, into the outbreak, six months into it, is, in fact, that we’re looking at about .1 per 100,000. So another way to say that, it’s one in a million,” Redfield said in reference to the death rate among children.

“Now, I’m not trying to belittle that, I’m just trying to make sure we look at it proportional,” he said. “Because if you do the same thing for influenza deaths for school-age children over the last five years, they’re anywhere from five to 10 times greater.”

“So I want people to understand the risk properly as they make that decision. And, obviously, influenza, we also benefit from having therapy and a vaccine. So I don’t want people to overestimate the risk of serious illness to individuals that are school age,” Redfield advised.

1 hour ago, DannEllenwood said:

Thank you for the facts. 
We got this folks. 
Follow the guidelines the schools set. 
Parents. Students. Teachers. Coaches. All. BE SMART!  Know what you are doing. 

A considerable amount of forum members are involved in education and have had their jobs shut down during the past 5 months. Their lives have had a major impact. Our plant has worked 6 days per week since the coronavirus outbreak and we are scheduled 7 days per week through the end of August. Other than not being able to go to a bar, my life has not changed at all since March. I am in management, therefore I must comply with the mandatory mask policy. I'm about the only person in my department who consistently wears a mask. I also comply with the Indianapolis public mask policy out of respect for others.

I work in a manufacturing plant with over 1,000 employee's. Our plant never shut down. We have high tech temperature scanners for everyone who enters the plant. We have had 5 employee's test positive for the coronavirus. The company implemented a mandatory mask policy over two months ago. Approximately 800 - 900 union workers refuse to wear masks. The union supports the employee's. The mandatory mask policy implemented by the mayor of Indianapolis has had no affect. The people still refuse to wear masks. Our plant has had no further spread of the coronavirus.

The media reports all this coronavirus spread and people react like it is the Bubonic Plague yet this has not been reality at a large manufacturing plant in Indianapolis.

3 hours ago, gonzoron said:

I believe you would be hard pressed to find 30 downvotes TOTAL from me on your reputation ratings.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have submitted 10 times that amount of down votes to my reputation rating. It's what you do.

2 hours ago, swordfish said:

7 hours ago, Irishman said:

One option

Another option:

 

Why are the deaths reported by the CDC for influenza included with the statement "With things seemingly still rising as far as covid and the numbers being reported"?

Influenza deaths for children were 166. Covid-19 deaths for children were 30.

1 hour ago, TheStatGuy said:

That's the main problem. 

If they would have legit shut down all 50 states from march to end of May then slowly went from 1 phase to another...people taking precautions we wouldn't be in this spot...but we as a nation didn't do that and states didn't close...and the fact people can't realize that is super sad. 

We would simply have delayed the inevitable. The virus isn't going away. Shutting everything down and sheltering in place isn't going to kill the virus. Herd immunity is the solution.

1 hour ago, Lysander said:

Yep....Connersville plays one sport only.....Hoops.  The only aberration was the brief time Radtke was there....which tells me more than a little as to how great he is as a coach.

Baffles me too.  By all measure they should be a great football town.

Connersville has over 1,100 students. Enough to have some pretty athletic kids. The whole county is primarily a bunch of factory workers and farmers. Some tough rugged kids in the upper Whitewater Valley. There really isn't any reason Connersville is not the equal of East Central or Franklin County..

33 minutes ago, Lysander said:

So Connersville still plays football?

News to me.

 

My nephew is on the football team at Connersville. I've never understood why such a blue collar community never embraced football. They love basketball.

11 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

Lies. Take it back to the OOB and stay there where you belong with your crackpot conspiracy theories.

I noticed you disappeared from the OOB when the administrators limited the number of down votes people can submit in a single day and abolished the reputation rating. That is your contribution to this forum. Submitting 30 down votes per day so the person you dislike reflects a negative reputation rating.

13 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

You're delusional and suffering from Covid Derangement Syndrome.

Hardly.

You love to celebrate anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus and any spread of the virus. You also cheer against any medication which may help in the treatment. Your posting history on the subject supports this.

9 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

Who's celebrating? 

You are one of them.

It is interesting to observe those who celebrate anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus and any spread of the virus. These people absolutely love it.

It is interesting to observe those who suffer from Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome celebrate anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus and any spread of the virus.

Stage 4 Trump Derangment Sydrome is a mental illness.

2 minutes ago, TheStatGuy said:

Never said I didn't feel bad for his family and friends. 

I just don't feel bad for him. 

Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mental illness.

5 hours ago, Muda69 said:

Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/red-flags-soar-big-pharma-will-be-exempt-covid-19-vaccine-liability-claims

So I guess if covid-10 doesn't kill us all the vaccine will.

 

The GID democrats will be the first in line to receive their new COVID-19 vaccines.

On 7/24/2020 at 11:21 PM, Howe said:

 

Nicholas Sandman is already a multi millionaire before the age of 18. CNN and The Washington Post have already paid millions due to their fake news. This is further proof that the the mainstream media is fake news and the enemy of the American people.

Joe Biden has a long history of claiming arrests which never happened

https://nypost.com/2020/08/01/biden-has-long-history-of-claiming-arrests-which-never-happened/

Joe Biden’s “No Malarkey” bus may need a tune up.

While the former vice president’s family has almost made a sport of racking up arrests and skirting jail time, Biden himself suffers from the opposite problem — bragging about arrests which seemingly never happened.

During his long career, Biden has boasted or spoken of being collared at least three times in his life, but later confessed they were not in fact arrests, a Post review shows.

Unlike his colorful family — who have a collective rap sheet that includes drunk driving, grand larceny, and assault charges spanning decades — Biden employs the cop tales as cute anecdotes in stump speeches and elsewhere.

On at least three occasions in February, Biden told some version of a story about visiting Nelson Mandela in South Africa in the 1970s and being arrested with the independence hero.

“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robben Island,” Biden told a crowd during a campaign event in Columbia, S.C. on Feb. 11, when Bernie Sanders was still a threat.

The only problem was it didn’t happen.

“It’s a lie,” liberal commentator Mehdi Hasan said in a March video in which he also said Biden was in cognitive decline. “He didn’t misspeak. He didn’t misremember. It wasn’t a gaffe. It was a lie and a really bad one.”

The story was also denounced by independent fact-checkers like Politifact and the Washington Post — which gave the “ridiculous claim” four Pinnocchios. Biden ultimately came clean on CNN two weeks later.

“When I said arrested I meant I was not able to move, cops and Afrikaners would not let me go with them … I guess I wasn’t arrested I was stopped,” he said.

In 2008 — with the presidential election looming — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer tried to put the bravest face on yet another “arrest” back when Biden was a student at the University of Delaware. During remarks to students at the University of Ohio, he riffed on being busted for accidentally wandering into a women’s dormitory while on campus to watch a football game.

“Barack Obama’s running mate playfully admitting he was arrested more than 40 years ago. Biden joked about it in Ohio. He said he was attending a football game between his university and Ohio University and he mistakenly followed what he called … ‘a lovely group of women into an all female dormitory.’ Biden said an officer quickly stopped him noting that men were not allowed inside,” Blitzer said.

In the pre-MeToo era, the story never became a national scandal and an Associated Press account of the remarks at the time said the anecdote was met with “laughter.”

Retelling the moment in 2012 in Athens, Ohio, Biden made an important clarification: “The last time I was here, I want to make clear to the press, I didn’t get arrested, but I almost did. Because back in those days … men weren’t allowed anywhere near a women’s dorm,” he said.

A third “arrest” happened in 1963, when he was a 21-year-old student visiting acquaintances in Washington D.C. On an early Saturday morning, when most of his other friends were still hungover, the future vice president ventured out to the Senate building and walked in for an unofficial stroll.

“I sat down on the presiding officer’s chair and a police officer grabbed me, arrested me, took me downstairs,” Biden recalled in a 2016 interview with C-SPAN. Continuing with the story, Biden said he had a run-in with the same officer eight years later after returning to the chamber legally as a freshman Senator from Delaware.

“I walked in the same door and a cop grabbed me [on] the shoulder and he said, ‘You can’t go there, sir,’ and I turned around and he got a big grin in his face and said, ‘I hope you appreciate the humor, Senator, I arrested you 8 years ago, walking around the floor of the Senate.’ ”

The story also shows up in his 2007 memoir “Promises to Keep,” albeit with no mention of any arrest. Two years later while telling the story again during his farewell address to the Senate, Biden specifically insisted he had not been arrested.

“And the next thing I know, I feel this hand on my shoulder, and a guy picked me — a Capitol policeman picks me up and spins me around, and he said, “What are you doing?” Biden said. “And after a few moments, he realized I was just a dumb-struck kid and didn’t arrest me or anything.”

Reps for the Biden campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Biden’s rap sheet from The Post.