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"U.S. is going to see darkest days in modern medical history": Doctor's warning as 95% of country sees uncontrollable COVID-19 spread and 50 million travel for Thanksgiving.

One of my all-time favourite sitcoms. Loved Les Nessman, Herb Tarlik, Johnny Fever, Venus Flytrap et al. Faded away far too soon.

The family that loads together, explodes together.

F***! MARN is saying that nurses in personal care homes often do not have N95 masks despite what Minister Freisen is saying.

It would be a great thing if the Commission refused to hear the complaint.

Well, the losses are now equal to the average IQ among diehard Trump/GOP supporters.

This is happening in the financially richest country in the world and yet very few clergy have spoken out. No wonder they rank 15th in happiness.

Perhaps a few days in jail for the minister might change his mind, but I doubt it. They ought to padlock the church. This sort of ruling is exactly what the right-wing evangelists wanted and why they supported Trump en masse. What is really, really weird is that apparently more black men supported Trump this time around than in the last election. Bizarre.

You assume that the owner is telling the truth,

Diego Maradonna, one of the greatest soccer players of all time has died of an apparent cocaine overdose that caused a fatal cardiac arrest. I guess you could say it was the end of the line for him.

The St. Regis was the preferred watering hole for Tribune and Free Press staffers way back.

Better but far from good.

Trump Is Racing to Bring Back Firing-Squad Executions Before He Leaves Office, Says Report Reuters/Hannah McKay There have been many predictions—from instigating nuclear war to pardoning Joe Exotic—about what President Donald Trump might do during his final months in office, but it’s fair to say few people guessed this. According to a report from ProPublica, Trump is trying to rush through a proposed regulation that could see federal executions being carried out by firing squads again. The proposed rule cleared White House review on Nov. 6, according to the report, so it could be finalized any day. Trump Is Racing to Bring Back Firing-Squad Executions Before He Leaves Office, Says Report (thedailybeast.com)

Trump to travel ‘unannounced’ to fake ‘hearing’ on election fraud — after aides failed to talk him out of it: reports Sarah Toce and The New Civil Rights Movement November 25, 2020 President Donald J. Trump is planning to fly to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Wednesday in an attempt to save his reputation, whatever is left of it, post-election 2020. He is expected to meet with a "handful" of Pennsylvania Republicans to discuss the election results, which delivered him a loss roughly three weeks ago. Katherine Faulders reported that the "hearing" would take place at the Wyndham Hotel and that Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, would be in attendance for what they are dubbing a Republican "Majority Policy Committee." "It's readily apparent to everyone besides Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis that this election is over and that Joe Biden won resoundingly," said Bob Bauer, the lead attorney for the Biden campaign, in a statement on Tuesday. Hopefully their meeting won't turn out the same way this one did at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping earlier this month.

US can kill its own citizens without review when state secrets are involved, DOJ lawyer argues A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer argued Monday that the United States can kill its own citizens without judicial review when litigation would reveal state secrets. The argument drew alarm among judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Courthouse News Service reports. Judge Patricia Millett characterized the DOJ’s argument as giving the government the ability to “unilaterally decide to kill U.S. citizens,” according to coverage of the argument by Courthouse News Service. “Do you appreciate how extraordinary that proposition is?” US can kill its own citizens without review when state secrets are involved, DOJ lawyer argues (abajournal.com)

Not to mention that Trump has a long history of hiring them and refusing to pay them, particularly if Trump loses the case. Then he hires different lawyers to defend him aaannd.......then refuses to pay them as well. You'd think lawyers would learn.

I am waiting for a few more weeks when Giulliani submits his $20,000 per diem to Trump for payment and Trump refuses. Then Giulliani will have to sue Trump.

Bobcat! Bobcat! Bobcat!

Would you want to testify under oath in front of a hostile inquiry to defend Trump's actions?

Between the probable COVID explosion in two weeks (or sooner) and the severing of financial support of those who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, it will be the worst possible Christmas for millions in the US. Will be very grim. The rich and powerful will be unaffected, the poor may well riot and the police and military will be called in to deal with things. Sure sounds like the prelude to the French Revolution.

If the GOP follows the pattern of right-wing political parties, the crazies will continue to move in until the relatively sane members can not longer stand them and the party will spilt down the middle and one or the other will devolve into a rump party. This will move the right into the wilderness and after a time, there be a sort of shotgun wedding between them, as has happened in Alberta and the PC/Reform merger.

I'm still hoping for Bobcat Thwait.

You're probably thinking about the size of the other end of his alimentary canal,

Murphy refused to respond to the Congress's demand that she appear to explain her refusal to begin the transition in a timely fashion. They ought to subpoena her regardless and grille her undet threat of incarceration to make a point. He was probably hit with a tranquilizer dart and put in a closet while someone else literate composed the missive.

There was an English king who was so inept that history records him as "Ethelred the Unready" and I think there will some pithy tags for Trump.