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"We" did not do this terrible thing whereby children died sick, abused, neglected, alone and frightened in the hands of those who where supposed to care for them. But it is part of the history of our country and the scars are still everywhere. We, as a country, need to remember and mourn for all the children who never came home, the parents and families who never knew what happened and the communities who fractured under the grief and fear. We live in a wonderful country- not a perfect one, and you cannot heal what you will not feel. Going fast-forward past these tragedies will not serve anyone, and only ensure it or something like it will happen again.

But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined Wednesday that Cosby’s conviction in a second trial ― after the first ended in a hung jury ― was invalid. The court found that Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, who initiated Cosby’s arrest, was obligated to stand by a promise his predecessor had made not to charge Cosby, though there is no evidence that promise was ever put in writing, The Associated Press reported. The predecessor who made that promise to Cosby was Bruce Castor, who defended former President Donald Trump ― another man with dozens of sexual misconduct allegations against him ― in his second impeachment trial. Money talked and a predator walked.

Its so hot that I saw a dog chasing a cat- and they were both walking.

Proving, once again, how screwed up the American legal system is.

Was hoping we would be in the 30's or 40's by now.

And at the moment of death, there was a distinct, lingering smell of Sulphur in the air.

At one time there were 5 popes at the same time, and the Lateran Palace was a gay brothel run by one of them.

And a heckuva receiver who is tough to bring down after the catch.

I disagree. There is an undercurrent of intolerance in all monoculture communities that manifests when one of their own dares to challenge the cultural norms. The simmering distrust and resentment may be silenced for awhile, but it will simply have gone underground, waiting for the next opportunity.

The Free Press today reported that a Steinbach pastor who appeared in PSA to promote the vaccine has been verbally attacked as a traitor. There is no reasoning with fanatics.

Misinformation, vaccine accessibility hurdles result in hundreds of COVID-19 deaths each week. Most COVID-19 deaths are among the unvaccinated — and their rationales aren't all partisan The number of deaths from COVID-19 has drastically declined since the beginning of the year. In January 2021, the country's deadliest month of the pandemic, the U.S. hit a grim record of nearly 4,000 people dying from complications of COVID-19 in one day. For the week ending June 28, 2021, only 168 new deaths were reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While this is a promising trajectory that tangibly shows the success of the country's mass vaccination program, Americans are still dying every day. Most of those deaths are of those who are not yet vaccinated, generally due to either lack of accessibility to the vaccine or anti-vaccine attitudes. "In my experience treating COVID patients, the ones I'm seeing now are all exclusively unvaccinated individuals," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center, in a phone interview. "Most of which have some high-risk condition, they were obese or they're elderly people who just have refrained from getting vaccinated, that's exclusively what I've been taking care of for at least probably the last two months or so." Adalja, who works in an intensive care unit in Pennsylvania, recently had a 45-year-old patient die from COVID-19 complications. "More people need to be vaccinated, there's still not enough," Adalja said. "There are still major gaps in vaccine coverage that's causing some people to get infected, and some people to require hospitalization, and a couple hundred people to die every day." Misinformation, vaccine accessibility hurdles result in hundreds of COVID-19 deaths each week | Salon.com

The American political system is polarized and broken, probably beyond repair. Fox News Fined $1 Million Following Sexual Harassment And Retaliation Investigation NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Commission on Human Rights has fined Fox News $1 million, the largest penalty in its history, for violations of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation. As part of a settlement agreement announced Tuesday, Fox also agreed to mandate anti-harassment training for its New York-based staff and contributors and to temporarily drop a policy requiring people who allege misconduct to enter into binding arbitration. The penalty stems from an investigation that began in 2017 following several reports of what the commission called “rampant abuse” at the popular news and opinion outlet. The first indication of problems at the channel came in 2016 when former anchor Gretchen Carlson charged that now-deceased network chief Roger Ailes had made unwanted advances and derailed her career when she rejected him. Both Ailes and former Fox personality Bill O’Reilly lost their jobs over misconduct allegations. Several other women have come forward with lawsuits and their own harassment allegations, including former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly. The $1 million fine groups four separate “willful and wanton” violations that each carried a maximum penalty of $250,000. The commission would not identify the people involved in those cases, or whether there were more. Fox News Fined $1 Million Following Sexual Harassment And Retaliation Investigation | HuffPost White nationalist "groyper" leader doubles down on Jan. 6 Capitol riot, calling it "awesome" With hundreds of felony criminal cases pending against Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, you might assume most organizers of that day's events would express regret for what transpired, or perhaps simply stay silent. Instead two people in leadership roles on Jan. 6 have since struck a different tune, calling the riot "awesome" and floating the idea that it might have to happen again — perhaps bigger the second time. "Stop the Steal" leader Ali Alexander, along with white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes, leader of the far-right "groyper army," have emerged from the aftermath of the Capitol riot unfazed, and with larger audiences than ever. On Friday evening, with his longtime friend and fellow white nationalist Tim Gionet (aka Baked Alaska) facing felony charges over breaching the Capitol building, Fuentes said how pleased he was the events of Jan. 6. "I am unapologetic. I thought the Capitol [riot] was awesome; it was awesome! And so was Trump. And Trump was awesome because he was racist. Trump was awesome because he was sexist," Fuentes stated. "The only thing Trump wasn't awesome for was being anti-semitic; he wasn't anti-semitic." White nationalist "groyper" leader doubles down on Jan. 6 Capitol riot, calling it "awesome" | Salon.com

TIME FOR HILARITY: Noem Using A GOP Donor’s ‘Private Donation’ For Guard Deployment To Texas The South Dakota governor and 2024 presidential hopeful says the troops are necessary to protect the southern border from migrants trying to enter the country. WASHINGTON ― South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is using “a private donation” to pay for her deployment of state National Guard troops to Texas, in essence turning them into a mercenary force against migrants at the southern border. “The border is a national security crisis that requires the kind of sustained response only the National Guard can provide,” the Republican governor said on the eve of former President Donald Trump’s visit to the Mexican border at Weslaco at the invitation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R). “My message to Texas is this: Help is on the way.” It’s unclear under what legal authority Noem, a possible 2024 Republican presidential candidate, is accepting the money or whether she has the authority to send National Guard troops to another state for this purpose. Noem Using A GOP Donor’s ‘Private Donation’ For Guard Deployment To Texas | HuffPost

It is a tenet of the Catholic dogma that the pope is infallible, being a reincarnation of St Peter.

Augustine has not impressed me as being an heir-apparent to Harris. He looks ok but those are pretty big shoes to fill. Oliviera showed promise but his injury after-effects may be a concern.

Ultra-contagious Covid Delta variant is 'wreaking havoc' worldwide In Bangladesh, troops are preparing to patrol the streets to enforce newly imposed stay-at-home orders. Australia, recently heralded as a pandemic success story, is returning to strict lockdowns. Scotland is seeing a record-breaking surge in new coronavirus infections. Indonesia is teetering on the edge of a public health catastrophe. While many rich nations continue to ease public health guidelines as they gradually move in the direction of normalcy, an ultra-contagious Covid-19 mutation known as the Delta variant is spreading like wildfire in countries that have struggled to vaccinate their populations and in communities that have refused to participate in inoculation drives, forcing governments to resort to drastic measures contain the damage. "The new curbs on travel and daily life stretched from Australia and Bangladesh to South Africa and Germany, where authorities over the weekend set new limits on travelers from 'virus-variant zones' such as Portugal and Russia," the Washington Post reported Monday. "South Africa on Sunday extended a nightly curfew and introduced a ban on gatherings, alcohol sales, indoor dining, and some domestic travel for 14 days to halt a worrying surge in cases driven by the Delta variant." First detected in India, the Delta variant is rapidly emerging as the dominant coronavirus strain across the globe. The mutation—which is estimated to be 60% more transmissible than the highly contagious Alpha variant—has now been detected in more than 80 countries, and it accounts for over a third of all new cases in the United States. The Delta strain is the "most contagious variant we've seen so far," said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. "It is wreaking havoc around the world, and will cause problems here," Jha added, referring to the U.S. Ultra-contagious Covid Delta variant is 'wreaking havoc' worldwide - Alternet.org Nope. We are the only province whose government slashed healthcare so badly as to create this crisis.

It is a bit concerning to me that Andrew Harris has been sitting out a year and is not 20 years old any more. I take comfort in that our coach and GM are on the job, but primo Canadian running backs are rare birds.

This would be hilarious if there were not so many armed and angry lunatics ready to kill for Trump and all that he stands for.

They were forced to because it had gotten to the point where the sound of a zipper was stampeding whole herds of sheep.

But do you know why the Scots wear kilts?

Exactly. Immunizations does not absolutely guarantee that you will not get sick from all of the variants, it means that if you do contract it/them, you will not become deathly ill, and will probably not need to be hospitalized. I cannot recall the exact number of where I read it, but I seem to recall that in the USA, there have been fewer than a dozen deaths of people who were double-vaccinated and had passed the two week post-vaccination period. I suspect that any double-dosers who do become quite ill will have underlying health issues like type1 diabetes or other compromised immune system issues.

And, in my experience, there are a lot of dense Scots out there.

That was certainly not a sure thing. The evangelists have been working overtime to proslytize the American military- and particularly the officer corps. If you are career military, you are very comfortable with obeying commands without question and have a need for rigid structure, so you are vulnerable to the message of a would-be despot like Trump and the evangelical movement as well. These people tend to see the world as black and white, us vs "them", not to mention the lingering mental instability of PTSS effects. And a lot of ex-military find their way into para-military organizations like...wait for it....police and fire departments.

The Freep was positively gushing over the Greenies today. Wildly optimistic to the point where the article looked like it was written by the president of the Rider fan club.

If the telcos were smart enough to lay fiber optic cable instead of banking on metal wires that were barely good enough for analog phones, the future is bright for them. BTW, I believe that the Opera browser has VPN built in.