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With a total of 5 labs now offering vaccines (not to mention the questionable Russian and Chinese versions), the wait times ought to fall dramatically in the new year, so hang in there.

Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake also revealed that police investigators “found tissue that we believe could be remains,” from the scene of the incident, but will be conducting further examinations to confirm. The FBI is now heading up the investigation into the explosion, which—if intentional as officials have suggested—could have been an act of domestic terrorism. However, authorities in Nashville said they received no threats of potential holiday attacks before the RV explosion on Christmas.

The developers of the Moderna vaccine have said they believe that their vaccine will be equally effective. This is far from a guarantee, though.

Police work on the highest probability approach to solving whodunits. And currently, right-wing violent acts are far and away the biggest internal threat the US faces. The FBI made that statement a few years ago, and the Trump regime has encouraged right-wing violence, so.......

Wild Scheme to Sabotage COVID Vaccine Is Too Creepy for Some Anti-Vaxxers AWAY WE GO Vaccines are here, and while skeptics hyping misinformation is nothing new, the frantic effort to conjure up dead people is getting spooky, fast. In the days since the United States began rolling out coronavirus vaccines, many Americans have been searching for information on when, where, and how they and their loved ones will be able to get a jab. The question of who gets to be first in line, and why, is inescapable. But a small, vocal minority has begun frantically trying to find something grimmer and nonexistent: evidence that these vaccines against COVID-19 have started killing people. “Comprehensive list of COVID vaccine-related deaths?” one Reddit user posted in a conspiracy theory-focused forum recently. “Anyone putting one together yet?” “Pick a date and time when the first recorded death of someone who had the vaccine [sic],” another user posted. “For bonus, which news site will announce it?” Anti-vaxxer rhetoric has, for many months now, primed some Americans to falsely believe that COVID-19 vaccines will kill people, that the powers that be will suppress it, and that they must hunt down and share evidence of this alleged outrage. Experts on anti-vaxxer rhetoric and conspiracy theories worry that this wild hunt for deaths and disaster could lead reasonable but worried people down conspiratorial rabbit holes, ultimately hindering efforts to curb this nightmare pandemic. The current quest for deaths is so off the rails that even some old-guard vaccine skeptics are distancing themselves from the frenzy. -Getty News

There is a report that human remains have been found at the detonation site.

Apparently Trump met privately with Pence for an hour prior to Trump jetting off to play golf while the GOP stalled the COVID relief bill and people were going hungry and dying. Pence was pressured by Trump to refuse to announce that Biden had won the electoral college vote vote, thereby throwing the results of the election into doubt. To his credit, the spineless Pence refused to not do his constitutional duty, This enraged Trump who barely controlled himself. Even after Trump was in Florida, he called Pence once again and spoke to him for an extended period, but was unable to convince Pence to change his mind. Trump is almost out of options. He has one more SCOTUS appeal, and then he will have only two possibilities: negotiate with Biden for a pardon in exchange for not inciting violent protests, or call for blood and fire in American streets, giving Trump a excuse to declare a national emergency and invoke martial law. The latter option would not cause Trump any hesitation.

'Going to get ugly': Trump supporter uses his work email to threaten ‘mass execution of public officials’ Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D) on Tuesday called out a supporter of President Donald Trump who sent a threatening email to lawmakers. "This was sent to my office this evening from Randall Yaeger, who chose to send it from his work email at Yaeger Construction. This email has already been sent to the authorities," Pohutsky said in a Facebook post. Yaeger's email repeated debunked claims of massive voter fraud and warned that "American voters will now be forced to change our government officials with bullets instead of ballots." The threatening email also "predicts" that the "mass execution" of public officials will begin "very soon" unless Trump is given a second term as president. According to Fox 2 Detroit, Yaeger could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the threat if he is really the person who sent the email.

A deepening democracy crisis: More than 70 percent of Trump voters distrust the best-run election in years Angela Clark-Smith, a lawyer, started learning about the intricacies of observing elections when she was a member of the same sorority as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. In 2020, three decades later, she was deployed by the Georgia Democratic Party to observe the presidential election and, most recently, the processing of returned absentee ballots in its Senate runoffs. "There's a process. It is very straightforward," Clark-Smith said during a break at an early voting center in an Atlanta suburb, where she praised poll workers and the process of verifying signatures on ballot envelopes and flagging problems for follow-up with voters. "Watching it was like watching a work of art." Elections in Georgia are better run than those in many blue states. But as the state has become a national battleground following Joe Biden's narrow win there and during Senate runoffs that could return control of Congress to the Democrats, the artful process that Clark-Smith has seen and praised has become a "circus," she says. Clark-Smith witnessed the turmoil that is tearing apart American democracy: where partisans do not understand the process; do not know what they are seeing as they view election administration up close for the first time; and are part of a tidal wave—nearly three-fourths of Republicans, according to an NPR poll conducted in early December—who don't trust that the 2020 election results are accurate. A deepening democracy crisis: More than 70 percent of Trump voters distrust the best-run election in years - Alternet.org (Putin's agenda has been fulfilled and America has been primed for a dictatorship)

Trump has managed to combine the worst of both Nero's and Caligula's reigns. He is determined to punish America for rejecting him and does not care who gets hurt or goes hungry.

And you are not alone in that view.

Truth be told, Trump does less harm when he is on the golf course.

Was hoping for a sub-200 number.

Jared's father is as amoral and corrupted as Trump. FYI- Charles Kushner was convicted of fraud and tax evasion, due, in part, to the testimony of his brother and business partner. As revenge, Charles hired an expensive hooker to seduce his brother and had the tryst filmed. Charles then showed the encounter at a family gathering. Classy. No wonder that Jared and Ivanka are so good a fit for each other- they are both cut from the same cloth. Scum begets scum.

Military on 'red alert' that Trump may invoke martial law to stay in power: report A series of pardons, post-election protests claiming voter fraud that has never been proven, and one man's probable mental illness at the head of the nation are adding up to a "red alert" in what has normally been a quiet time of the year for many: the holidays. But not this year. "Pentagon and Washington-area military leaders are on red alert, wary of what President Donald Trump might do in his remaining days in office," Newsweek reported on Thursday. One officer who spoke with Newsweek on the condition of anonymity said the inaugural and transitional planning is being kept out of sight of the White House and Trump loyalists in the Pentagon for fear that it would be shut down. "I've been associated with the military for over 40 years and I've never seen the discussions that are being had right now, the need for such discussions," said the retired flag officer, who is currently a defense contractor. He was granted anonymity in order to speak without fear of reprisal. "Right now, because of coronavirus," one retired judge advocate general said, "the president actually has unprecedented emergency powers, ones that might convince him—particularly if he listens to certain of his supporters—that he has unlimited powers and is above the law." Military on 'red alert' that Trump may invoke martial law to stay in power: report - Alternet.org

A young Buddhist monk sought out the wisest of the order to ask a question. "Master," he said," Which is most important- the destination or the journey?" The master smiled and replied," The most important thing is not the destination, nor the journey, but who you travel with." To all here who share this part of the journey, may we forget this year, but not the learnings, and may we all journey together again in 2021 on a smoother road. Thanks for the companionship.

Wasn't it banned because of excessive violets?

Unless Trump is pardoned by Pence, or tries to pardon himself, he is still subject to criminal prosecution as there is a lot of evidence that he has committed both treason and sedition, not to mention a host of other criminal acts.

I was referring to Trump being hauled before a judge that he has maligned.

Because post-apocalyptic chaos and the brutality of slavery lend themselves so well to musical renditions..

There has to be a consequence for all this crap, and severe one. The question is: do the Democrats have the cojones to (legally) prosecute these weasels to the hilt?

Yet, Australia did it. I have no doubt that the cost to the country (not to mention the cost in human suffering) was much lower because of the apparently harsh measures. The staff who were affected were compensated, BTW.

The Australian statistics were skewed by a several private for-profit care homes in one province who were not following government regulations. The care homes who were either government-run or not-for-profit or were for-profit and following regulations were much, much better. The rules are very simple: one resident per room, a two-week total lockdown as soon as COVID was reported in the area, strict PPE adherence and absolutely no staff working in more than one facility.

Mike Pence accidentally admits the real reason Republicans hate Democrats so much The grassroots organization People for Bernie on Tuesday advised the Democratic Party to take a page from an unlikely source—right-wing Vice President Mike Pence—after Pence told a rally crowd in Florida that progressives and Democrats "want to make rich people poorer, and poor people more comfortable." "Good message," tweeted the group, alerting the Democratic National Committee to adopt the vice president's simple, straightforward description of how the party can prioritize working people over corporations and the rich.