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From the file of Good Things to Know:
 
White House’s science policy office on Tuesday ranked “ending the Covid-19 pandemic” atop the list of President Donald Trump’s top first-term accomplishments.
 
It's number one on their list of "Science and Technology Accomplishments from the First Term".
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/27/white-house-science-office-ending-pandemic-432827
 

From the file of Good Things to Know:
 
White House’s science policy office on Tuesday ranked “ending the Covid-19 pandemic” atop the list of President Donald Trump’s top first-term accomplishments.
 
It's number one on their list of "Science and Technology Accomplishments from the First Term".
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/27/white-house-science-office-ending-pandemic-432827
 

That's why we're called Yankees.

I honestly don't think you have anything to worry about when it comes to Biden getting enough votes in the right states to win the Electoral College. (Though I'll admit to being a natural-born worrier.)
 
 
I do think there's reason to worry that Trump will interfere in some way to stop votes from being counted.
 
"Counted" not "recounted" or "quibbling about provisional ballots or hanging chads".
 
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Oct 25
 
The poll showed Biden ahead in Texas with the support of 48 percent of likely voters, compared with 45 percent for Trump. The results represent a shift from the same poll in September, when Trump led by 2 percentage points. One difference from September is that Biden has expanded his lead among Hispanic voters from 30 percentage points to 48.
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/25/texas-biden-trump-poll-432217

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump made it a habit to stay at Trump properties whenever possible. When he got a Secret Service detail assigned to him, like they do when someone becomes a serious contender, the Secret Service rented rooms at the Trump properties in order to stay close to him.
 
That was entirely legal.
 
After Trump was sworn in, he's made a habit of staying at Trump properties with his now expanded Secret Service detail also staying...with Trump continuing to get paid for renting them rooms.
 
That's a direct violation of the Constitution which doesn't allow the president to turn a profit off of being president and is definitely an impeachable offense.
 
The first time he did that was less than two weeks after being sworn into office. I screamed bloody murder at the time.
 
He's also repeatedly rented out Trump properties to the government so that he could hold presidential functions there. Not incidentally "someone somewhere in government happening to do business with a Trump business". This is the president deliberately scheduling events to happen on his own property, presenting a bill to the government, and accepting payment in direct violation of the Constitution.
 
Now I can't speak for the Democrats or Republicans as to why they didn't act but Trump should have been impeached and removed from office shortly after being sworn in based solely on information which was readily available without any investigation.
 
And I complained here when the Ukraine email thing looked like it was heading toward impeachment because the Democrats didn't choose to include other charges which would have built a stronger case against Trump and have shown a pattern of reckless disregard for the law and the Constitution.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump made it a habit to stay at Trump properties whenever possible. When he got a Secret Service detail assigned to him, like they do when someone becomes a serious contender, the Secret Service rented rooms at the Trump properties in order to stay close to him.
 
That was entirely legal.
 
After Trump was sworn in, he's made a habit of staying at Trump properties with his now expanded Secret Service detail also staying...with Trump continuing to get paid for renting them rooms.
 
That's a direct violation of the Constitution which doesn't allow the president to turn a profit off of being president and is definitely an impeachable offense.
 
The first time he did that was less than two weeks after being sworn into office. I screamed bloody murder at the time.
 
He's also repeatedly rented out Trump properties to the government so that he could hold presidential functions there. Not incidentally "someone somewhere in government happening to do business with a Trump business". This is the president deliberately scheduling events to happen on his own property, presenting a bill to the government, and accepting payment in direct violation of the Constitution.
 
Now I can't speak for the Democrats or Republicans as to why they didn't act but Trump should have been impeached and removed from office shortly after being sworn in based solely on information which was readily available without any investigation.
 
And I complained here when the Ukraine email thing looked like it was heading toward impeachment because the Democrats didn't choose to include other charges which would have built a stronger case against Trump and have shown a pattern of reckless disregard for the law and the Constitution.

I asked my wife if I was the only one she's been with.
 
She said, Yes, the others were at least sevens or eights.

If I had a dollar for every girl that finds me unattractive...
 
eventually the girls would find me quite attractive.

Best of luck, Cygnia!

I find it truly appalling that you cannot get tested right away nine months after the start of the pandemic and even more shocked at how uneven the testing availability is.
 
Alabama is by no means a hotbed of modern society, but we've had drive-in testing with 45 minute wait lines since June. My aunt, sister and I went in after my sister fell ill in one car. They gave us the brain swab, temperature checks and blood oxygen at curbside. My sister had blood oxygen in the low 80's and the doctor on site wrote her a hospital admittance on the spot. 
 
I don't know if you have a blood oxygen detector, but if you can get one and your reading is below 90, go to the hospital right away.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump made it a habit to stay at Trump properties whenever possible. When he got a Secret Service detail assigned to him, like they do when someone becomes a serious contender, the Secret Service rented rooms at the Trump properties in order to stay close to him.
 
That was entirely legal.
 
After Trump was sworn in, he's made a habit of staying at Trump properties with his now expanded Secret Service detail also staying...with Trump continuing to get paid for renting them rooms.
 
That's a direct violation of the Constitution which doesn't allow the president to turn a profit off of being president and is definitely an impeachable offense.
 
The first time he did that was less than two weeks after being sworn into office. I screamed bloody murder at the time.
 
He's also repeatedly rented out Trump properties to the government so that he could hold presidential functions there. Not incidentally "someone somewhere in government happening to do business with a Trump business". This is the president deliberately scheduling events to happen on his own property, presenting a bill to the government, and accepting payment in direct violation of the Constitution.
 
Now I can't speak for the Democrats or Republicans as to why they didn't act but Trump should have been impeached and removed from office shortly after being sworn in based solely on information which was readily available without any investigation.
 
And I complained here when the Ukraine email thing looked like it was heading toward impeachment because the Democrats didn't choose to include other charges which would have built a stronger case against Trump and have shown a pattern of reckless disregard for the law and the Constitution.

Experts were calling for a couple of weeks of shutdown to buy enough time to start mass produce masks, gowns, and other PPE. To use the Defense Production Act to crank up producing millions of tests. And to set up contact tracing.
 
The president and the vice president, by their own admission on multiple occasions, were assuming that the virus would magically go away if we waited until the weather was a bit warmer. 
 
Yeah both the administration and the experts were looking to buy time. But they were looking to buy time for completely different reasons.
 
You still can't go into a Wal-Mart or a Home Depot and have a reasonable expectation that they'll have disposable masks for sale...NINE freaking months after the president knew there was a pandemic coming. Testing is still hard to come by and what little testing the feds did, they've scaled back. Contact tracing is still a dream by the people who want to control the virus rather than a plan being implemented by an administration which, by their own admission, wants it to spread.
 
The president, VP, and administration, as we were starting out, were intentionally withholding information from the public which the people could have used to protect themselves. And were also deliberately spreading disinformation about how deadly the virus is.
 
And none of that has stopped. The administration is still not telling the truth, as we saw last week with the congressional committee which dumped the weeks of White House data which it was sharing with Congress behind the scenes. 
 
The president is holding maskless events with no social distancing. Is saying there's a cure to the virus when one doesn't exist. Lying by saying a vaccine will be here in a couple of weeks and the military is prepared to distribute it around the country. The vaccine is at least six months away. The military hasn't even ordered the equipment which would be necessary to distribute the vaccine around the country, much less taken possession of the equipment. 
 
We can't even get into a discussion about what tool is being used to deal with the crisis, whether scalpel or chainsaw. 
 
This is not "dealing" with the crisis at all.
 
Welcome to Fantasy Island, where all your nightmares come true.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump made it a habit to stay at Trump properties whenever possible. When he got a Secret Service detail assigned to him, like they do when someone becomes a serious contender, the Secret Service rented rooms at the Trump properties in order to stay close to him.
 
That was entirely legal.
 
After Trump was sworn in, he's made a habit of staying at Trump properties with his now expanded Secret Service detail also staying...with Trump continuing to get paid for renting them rooms.
 
That's a direct violation of the Constitution which doesn't allow the president to turn a profit off of being president and is definitely an impeachable offense.
 
The first time he did that was less than two weeks after being sworn into office. I screamed bloody murder at the time.
 
He's also repeatedly rented out Trump properties to the government so that he could hold presidential functions there. Not incidentally "someone somewhere in government happening to do business with a Trump business". This is the president deliberately scheduling events to happen on his own property, presenting a bill to the government, and accepting payment in direct violation of the Constitution.
 
Now I can't speak for the Democrats or Republicans as to why they didn't act but Trump should have been impeached and removed from office shortly after being sworn in based solely on information which was readily available without any investigation.
 
And I complained here when the Ukraine email thing looked like it was heading toward impeachment because the Democrats didn't choose to include other charges which would have built a stronger case against Trump and have shown a pattern of reckless disregard for the law and the Constitution.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump made it a habit to stay at Trump properties whenever possible. When he got a Secret Service detail assigned to him, like they do when someone becomes a serious contender, the Secret Service rented rooms at the Trump properties in order to stay close to him.
 
That was entirely legal.
 
After Trump was sworn in, he's made a habit of staying at Trump properties with his now expanded Secret Service detail also staying...with Trump continuing to get paid for renting them rooms.
 
That's a direct violation of the Constitution which doesn't allow the president to turn a profit off of being president and is definitely an impeachable offense.
 
The first time he did that was less than two weeks after being sworn into office. I screamed bloody murder at the time.
 
He's also repeatedly rented out Trump properties to the government so that he could hold presidential functions there. Not incidentally "someone somewhere in government happening to do business with a Trump business". This is the president deliberately scheduling events to happen on his own property, presenting a bill to the government, and accepting payment in direct violation of the Constitution.
 
Now I can't speak for the Democrats or Republicans as to why they didn't act but Trump should have been impeached and removed from office shortly after being sworn in based solely on information which was readily available without any investigation.
 
And I complained here when the Ukraine email thing looked like it was heading toward impeachment because the Democrats didn't choose to include other charges which would have built a stronger case against Trump and have shown a pattern of reckless disregard for the law and the Constitution.

Breaking down the story as given in the article
 
1)FBI & DOJ concur w/ Ratcliffe that Hunter Biden's laptop & the emails in question weren't part of a Russian disinformation campaign," Fox News producer Sean Langille tweeted Tuesday evening.
 
So some unidentified person in the FBI and unidentified person in the DOJ spoke to a Fox News producer.
 
 
2) The FBI DOES have possession of the Hunter Biden laptop in question." He said it was first reported by Fox News's Justice Department producer Jake Gibson.
 
So one Fox News producer says another Fox News producer makes this claim according to the Washington Examiner...who quotes what the first producer said about the second rather than quoting the producer who (reportedly) reported it.
 
 
3) A federal law enforcement official confirmed the report with the Washington Examiner.
 
So a random federal law enforcement official (who remains nameless) from some agency (which remains nameless) spoke to someone (who remains nameless) at the Washington Examiner which is publishing the story and is presumably is free to name their own reporter in a news story in their own newspaper...but chose not to name that reporter.
 
 
4) Separately, Langille tweeted that Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum "is told by a Federal Law Enforcement Official that the emails are 'authentic.'
 
So a random federal law enforcement official (who remains nameless) from some agency (which remains nameless) spoke to a Fox News anchor according to one of the previously mentioned Fox News producers. This random federal law enforcement officer from some agency (which remains nameless) may or may not be the same person as the random federal law enforcement officer from some agency (which remains nameless) who spoke to the Washington Examiner.
 
 
I read a hell of a lot of news. The Washington Examiner would have had to have gone through some significant effort to make this "confirmation" sound sketchier.
 
In contrast, when I Google "FBI Hunter Biden email", I see links to articles by Forbes, Business Insider, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, The Hill, The Daily Mail, a Fox affiliate, the CBC, etc. readily available and all talking about how the FBI is investigating the laptop as part of a Russian intelligence operation.
 
Maybe the conservative echo chamber is correct. I wouldn't bet on it based on the readily available information.

Let's go way, way out on a limb here and assume I'm talking about the same weapon we've been discussing for a page-and-a-half now.    

I'm not sure how many people here have taken the time to go to the official Trump for President campaign website.
 
But there is literally no place on the website where it lays out his plans for what he wants to do if he wins election to office. It's the most bizarre political thing I've seen.
 
Campaign sites have an issues site telling what the candidate believes. And as part of saying what the candidate believes, it lays out what he intends to do about those beliefs.
 
Every single campaign site I've ever seen.
 
In contrast, the Trump campaign website has a section to boast about his past accomplishments, such as they are.
 
Trump has mentioned a few things he intends to do along the way in his rambling rally rants (things aside from prosecuting his enemies). But not in any consistent way that would lead you to believe he was serious about it. And not in writing.
 
 
I really want/need a real political party to reemerge in the post-Trump era rather than a personality cult. Even a real political party which had an agenda I thoroughly disagree with would be a step up.

I came here to do 2 things.. love, and quote Air Supply lyrics.
 
And I’m all out of love....

I came here to do 2 things.. love, and quote Air Supply lyrics.
 
And I’m all out of love....

They say young men become obsessed with either "Atlas Shrugged" or "Lord of the Rings".
 
One is a fantasy that may cripple your ability to deal with reality, and the other is about orcs.

A Dungeons and Dragons Joke about the most fearsome of foes: Furniture
 
The barkeep asked why we carried weapons into his bar.
 
I said ‘Mimics.’
 
The party laughed.
 
The barkeep laughed.
 
The table laughed.
 
We killed the table. Good times.

My Grandfather has the heart of a lion!
 
And a permanent ban from the San Diego Zoo.

I got the words "Jacuzzi" and "Yakuza" confused.
 
Now I'm in hot water with the Japanese Mafia.

I was told that wearing a mask and gloves would be enough during the corona virus pandemic.
 
But when I got to the store I was told that pants and a shirt were also required.

A woman answered her front door and saw a little boy holding a list.
 
"Ma'am," he explained, "I'm on a scavenger hunt, and I still need three grains of wheat, a pork-chop bone and a piece of used carbon paper so I can earn a dollar."
 

"Wow, that's some list," the woman replied. "Who sent you on such a challenging hunt?"

 
"My babysitter's boyfriend."