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It's a great country to live in. It's not the only great country to live in though. For my values and views, I do believe it's towards the best. Values and view are subjective though. I was telling my younger cousin about vacationing in Germany years ago. My uncle lived there as he served in the Army and he married a german women. My aunt took us to a pig roast on a Sunday morning. We were planning on driving to Munich that afternoon, so I wasn't drinking. By 9:30 in the morning, the roughly 150-200 folks in this soccer hall/complex in the middle of nowhere already had 2-3 steins of beer and shots of some thick liquor. A guy across from me said how he heard everyone in the US is an alcoholic and we all get DUI's. Turns out, if you want to get avoid a DUI in Germany, you need to get into an accident. They utilize camera's in order to deal with speeding, running lights, etc. Basically, you need to get into an accident, which would then require you to call the police, in order to have to deal with the cops.

I've sent in the binax test which you can visibly see if it has one or two lines (although I don't think it has a key explaining that attached to it). For another one, you actually use an app, so I did a screen shot and sent it to my daughter. She showed it to the office on her ipod and they accepted that too. My guess is it's probably an honor system to a point as every time I talk to a different parent, their kids are in quarantine too.

So this is why some folks are for charter schools. I just got a text message stating to look for an email notification from our school regarding quarantine actions required on our part. I look up the email, it's for my daughter who is supposed to sing at a christmas tree lighting event with her school choir class. Current policy says I can send my daughter into school based on certain conditions. As she is not fully vaccinated yet (second shot in a few days), we can test her daily which would allow her to still attend school if negative. The process requires to provide proof of a negative test when she goes into school in the morning. So I call the school right away and see if I can give her a test tonight and provide it to her teacher to allow her to attend tonight. Initially the secretary states they believe that would be work, but checks to verify. After speaking with the office manager, I learn that the quarantine process technically doesn't start until tomorrow as she was not identified until the end of the school day. Therefore, I can send her to the event and no test is needed. Awesome!

CNN report I just saw indicated that reporters were questioning why the parents attended their sons arraignment from their car (via zoom) and the reporter definitely indicated the response he was getting makes him suspect they were hiding at that point already.

I can't recall the podcast, but I listened to a lawyer that was interviewed and they talked about a client of his that truly scared him. There was also a mountain of evidence on him and the client refused to take a deal. He talked about how he poked every hole he could in the prosecution, not to try and get the defendant off, but to ensure that once he was found guilty, he had no legitimate reason for appeal. That said, it was clear he certainly didn't want that case.

This was similar to my first thought "Hey son, we obviously screwed you up more than we even realized leading to what you need, and you probably need us more than ever right now, but hey, just like we told you before, 'you have to learn not to get caught'. Good luck." ~ Mom and Dad. I don't want to say I have sympathy for that kid, but good lord, definitely provides some insight into how he was raised.

Absolutely agree with this.

Just wondering, what does that make someone that believes masks work, has the power to do something about it, but doesn't.

I've seen a lot of video's that appear pretty damning but as a full investigation comes out, it doesn't look as bad or you see an entirely different side. This one though, this has the same feeling I had as I did with the Chauvin video, to me at least. As for a knife, you're right and some of the comments by others about a knife are ridiculous. It's extremely dangerous. But this is where I was talking about various degrees of dangerous earlier. A fit young man with a knife can be on top of you in a blink of an eye at a distance that most people might initially assume is safe. That wasn't the case here. As Hongbit eluded to earlier. If this guy would have just listened to the cop, none of this would have had to happen. And if he was tasered, or knocked over with something and dragged away from the knife before being aggressively (but within reason) detained, I would have defended the cop from anyone complaining they were too rough with that exact statement. But C'mon...

Clarifying this for those that don't want to watch the video. When he shoots, he shoots 8 times total, but it's 7 immediate shots, pause, 8th shot.

Wait, weren't you calling for the moderators to kick Archie off of this forum because of a dig at the Texas kid that went home after shooting up his school? Now that you've figured out how it fits in a narrative you agree with, comments about that are fine?

It was confirmed by the sheriff yesterday that it was not the shooter. They said it was likely a plains clothes officer. Absolute smart move by the kids though.

I certainly am more of a “why didn’t you just listen”, but even with that, there are various degrees. If he had a knife and no cop was there and managed to kill the clerk that was just standing there it would have been a real life version of the Austin Powers steamroll scene. IMO, you looked at the facts of Rittenhouse vs the feeling that it wasn’t right. Yes, some stuff might mitigate what that video shows. although I’m pretty sure it was a white victim and the police department already fired the guy so take that for what it’s worth. Back to the video, even if you could get me to believe the first seven shots were self defense, that eighth shot, I’m convicting on that alone.

I'm not going to post the video due to the graphic nature, but pretty confident we're going to have another cop heading to jail soon in Arizona. Absolutely horrible. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59439798

Haha, that's funny. You know why? Because it completely ignores all of the differences between the two incidents but allows you to continue to play a false narrative.

The money aspect isn't the only weird thing about it either. I won't get the shot my doctor says is good for me, but if I happen to get sick, sure, give me the monoclonal antibody treatment which I'm guessing 99.9% of people never heard of before either.

To be honest, I know most of what I post will be ignored and/or a 'but Ivanka' type response will be generated. The crazy thing is, I agree with you so much more than you realize. The biggest difference in my opinion is your party (and you) look at things in terms of black and white, which you look at as poor vs rich and conservatives look at things in urban vs. rural, which they look at as poor vs rich. IMO, poor urban and poor rural teaming up would be much more beneficial than anything we've ever seen.

And some people speculate that getting covid and recovering from it might induce better immunity. With both, we don't know. If anything, we know more about vaccines and as of just recently, the CDC is recommending everyone to get a booster. 6 months ago talks of boosters was considered way to speculative. 2 weeks ago the CDC said it wasn't needed for the majority of the population, now it's everyone eligible. So, if i'm reading this right, if you're under 65 and in decent health, get vaccinated and have Covid parties to help ensure you get the disease too, that way you're super resistant? Right now, there is no evidence that serious risk from Covid weakens over time. I would venture it's likely, but the ER's aren't full of vaccinated folks that haven't gotten their booster yet. Additionally, look at Omnicron. Unless there was a serious discussion of vaccinating the world, versus just the rich countries that can afford it, at some point we have to decide if it's better to line the pockets of the CEO's of Pfizer and Moderna to ensure we deal with very mild complications for 2 days versus mild complications for 4 days.

It was a comment on a ridiculous decision that was made down in Texas after a school shooting. In that case, no one died, but one was shot multiple times and had multiple surgeries before he was able to be released from the hospital. The shooter was partying (yes, his family threw a party for him) when he was released the day after the shooting. Was the comment that much different than Oblong comment on the ridiculous views on some of the far right that think more guns solve everything?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/29/cnn-host-chris-cuomo-used-sources-to-find-info-on-andrew-cuomo-accusers-records.html I have to believe this will be the last straw for Chris.

There are folks out there that had Covid and as they already had it, don't want the vaccine. From a science perspective, they have a valid argument. Obviously this portion was clipped, but i'm guessing that's what she's stating, that folks that can prove they tested positive, from a science point of view, currently pose no more risk than a vaccinated person and thus, probably should be treated the same.

As a non-trumper that would like good and transparent government with a media willing to hold elected officials accountable, I do want standards.

What you say is true for a portion of that party, but it's not the feeling for all. Part of it is how the media treats it. Fauci supported Trump's travel bans, but the media didn't talk about that. Instead, Trump was a xenophobe. Fauci stated testing was the key to reopening travel. We now have vaccines AND testing, but Fauci is supporting Biden's worthless travel ban (everyone is convinced Omnicron is here, and the process in place to deal with it won't keep it out). Add in the lies about gain of function, which even if nothing leaked from the lab, doesn't make me fuzzy inside about Fauci deciding to lie about it.

Plus this is 2021. They could airbnb a place if Biden truly demanded to be in a specific place. My uncle was secret service for years and where ever the politics of the day took the president, that steered him towards what locations/venues he needed to study/review in order to provide security.

That's true. Good thing he has a friend in the Carlyle group co-founder (you know, the friend to white supremacist Glenn Youngkin.) Plus as I haven't seen it reported, Rubenstein probably didn't even charge the secret service to stay there so Biden was definitely looking out for the American tax payer. Add in that the Carlyle group doesn't compete for government contacts....oh wait, nm.