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Asithappens

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  1. Yep. Inside job all the way.
  2. Didn't see where this was posted (and searched for it), so, oh well. Chuck Schumer came out and said that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch would "pay" if they upheld a recent anti-abortion case that's going to SCOTUS, which prompted a response from Roberts. While I'm not really a fan of Schumer (or of Roberts), I thought that Schumer (or his staff) played this brilliantly from a political perspective. Here iit is in case you haven't seen it: WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who only very rarely responds to criticism of federal judges, issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing remarks made by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at a rally outside the Supreme Court. Mr. Schumer, speaking while the court heard arguments in a major abortion case, attacked President Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees, Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Mr. Schumer said. “You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Chief Justice Roberts condemned Mr. Schumer’s remarks. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” he said in a statement. “All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.” Here's the brilliant part: A spokesman for Mr. Schumer said the chief justice had engaged in a willful misrepresentation. “Senator Schumer’s comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grass-roots movement on the issue of reproductive rights,” the spokesman, Justin Goodman, said in a statement. “For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Senator Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes,” he said. That was a reference to a famous analogy proposed by Chief Justice Roberts at his confirmation hearings, comparing judges with umpires. Last week, the chief justice declined to comment when the president called on Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two liberal members of the court, to recuse themselves from all cases involving Mr. Trump. Mr. Schumer’s remarks suggested that Democrats see a political advantage in criticizing the court, which they expect to issue consistently conservative decisions after the departure in 2018 of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Chief Justice Roberts, for his part, insists that the court is not a political body. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/roberts-schumer-supreme-court.html?searchResultPosition=1
  3. The single biggest thing to learn about "finance" is to invest in a broad-based index fund. Vanguard Admiral, for example. Put money in at regular intervals and forget about it. You can't time the market. Your dumb ass neighbor/friend doesn't have any good stock tips.
  4. Holy shit. That is fucked up beyond all constitutional recognition. I hope you're kidding.
  5. Lol. What? How about this for "analysis"? "Alex Jones saying sources he has telling him 10% (30 mil) in US dead in 6 months. Even if this crazy fucker is 99% wrong, that's still 330k dead." Or hey, let's change the number to 100% dead in 6 months....
  6. A true sociopath.
  7. Meh. If they're that worried about it then don't go to sxsw.
  8. I see your point, but really? You can make some offensive joke against jews but it's ok because you are (or claim to be) a jew boy? And I'm part jewish, ftr. Oh yeah, but it only mildly plays into one of the oldest stereotypes against jews, so it's ok.
  9. How the fuck do you think the state idiots are handling this?
  10. Wtf does that mean? "Mitigate the spread somewhat"? So it took 6 days instead of 3 to spread the virus? The end result is the same. We're gonna get infected. All it takes is one to infect others. We're not gonna stop this.
  11. You know what's good about this? Jack Welch is finally in hell. Fuck you, Jack. Fuck you hard.
  12. Just like blacks can casually toss around the n-word? Bullshit. If it's wrong, it's wrong. Stop with the identity politics bullshit. Jews and blacks don't get a free pass for being anti-semitic or racist. But that would have to acknowledge that whitey isn't the source of all evil in the world.
  13. You can't contain this. So, there was no time to do that.
  14. No shit. It's a fool's errand to attempt to contain this. It's out there.
  15. Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but imo the stats here are bullshit. We don't know how many are affected/infected, therefore the case fatality rates are worthless. Are we having one death per 1,000; or one death per 10,000? And so fucking what if we get results back in an hour? In 30 minutes? Jesus, we're all (or most) gonna be exposed. Gotta go. Costco is awaiting my $800 purchase.
  16. Not that I think the govt will not eff things up, but I completely disagree with this mentality: what do you expect? Perfection when it comes to containing the virus? It's not gonna happen. Especially when people can be asymptomatic for week(s) before they show symptoms. What are you going to do? Quarantine everybody who we might think is infected? For how long? This is like the guy who called it negligence for not taking the temperature of every person (not a sample, not a subset, not those who are showing symptoms) coming into the US from the "pacific" (however that is defined). I mean, jesus, you can have the virus and not show a temp, so what the fuck good is taking the temp of every single person? The point seems only to be to make people feel better. It's unrealistic and going to be phenomenally expensive and more disruptive than the virus itself.
  17. There was a recent story on NPR about zinc lozenges and their ability to lessen the symptoms of the flu (really). The problem is that only zinc works, and additives such as citrus/citric acid (?) reduce the effectiveness, and that most zinc lozenges sold in stores contain the citrus additive. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/10/803886479/taking-zinc-can-shorten-your-cold-thank-a-91-year-old-scientist-for-the-discover
  18. The virus is (basically) everywhere. Stop worrying about stopping the spread. Start worrying about what to do if shit hits the fan.
  19. Ok, what are "some symptoms"? Runny nose? Cough? Scratchy throat? Jesus.
  20. This show is so bad it's great. Great, Jerry!
  21. The Longest Yard.
  22. Here's how Tommy Caldwell put it. It's just his opinion, but it's interesting: Imagine an Olympic-gold-medal-level athletic achievement that, if you don't get that gold medal, you're gonna die. That's pretty much what free soloing El Cap is like.
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