1.? Should refusal to get a COVID vaccination for religious or medical reasons be grounds to be refused of a lifesaving kidney transplant?
Should be a decision made by the patient and doctor in private conference. I say this as a vaccinated registered nurse who has been part of other complex
healthcare
decision-making processes.
2.? Should people be required to have visual evidence of vaccination?
It does make things easier for business owners who wish to ensure vaccinated status for their businesses.
3.? Should people lose their jobs because they refuse to get vaccinated?
Same as any job requirement. It is part of a protected status, then no? If not, then up to the employer.
4.? Should a person in public restroom be protected from unwanted video filming?
I suspect this is a trick question somehow. Restrooms are culturally private areas whether designated for public use or not.
5.? Have you heard of Havana Syndrome?
Yes. I looked it up when it made the news a few weeks ago.
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1. ?Should refusal to get a COVID vaccination for religious or medical reasons be grounds to be refused of a lifesaving kidney transplant?
Not a good idea.
2.? Should people be required to have visual evidence of vaccination?
Yes, people should be required to show their vaccination card.
3.? Should people lose their jobs because they refuse to get vaccinated?
That depends on their employer who makes the decision.
4.? Should a person in public restroom be protected from unwanted video filming?
Yes, of course.
5.? Have you heard of Havana Syndrome?
No, but I looked it up on Google. Havana syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that include ringing in the ears, fatigue and dizziness. United States and Canadian embassy staff first reported the syndrome in Havana, Cuba,
in late 2016, and subsequently in other countries.
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Marvin wrote:
1.? Should refusal to get a COVID vaccination
for religious or medical reasons be grounds to be refused of a life
saving kidney transplant?
Unfortunately, a person who can't be vaccinated is
not a good candidate for a kidney transplant. It is unlikely that
such a severely immunocompromised person would survive for long
after a transplant.
2.? Should people be required to have visual evidence of
vaccination?
Yes, I think vaccination cards should be required to
provide proof of vaccination.
3.? should people lose their jobs because they refuse to
get vaccnated?
That's entirely up to the person's
employer.
4?
? Should a person in public restroom be protected from
unwanted video filming?
Yes.
5.? ?Have you heard of Havana Syndrome?
I've heard of it, but it doesn't seem to be a
widespread phenomena. It would be great to develop a
detection/warning system for it.
Aloha,
Celeste
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1.? There is a lot of talk about a trillion dollars lately.? How tall would a stack of 100 dollar bills (brand new) be if they were stacked
in a single pile??
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As high as a stack of 1 dollar bills.?
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2,?Have you ever committed an act of civil disobedience??
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Probably but without knowing it.
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3.? Should required / recommended vaccines be paid for by the government??
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Yes, and in many countries they are.
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4.? ?Have you seen container sizes decrease in markets??
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Yes.
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5.? ? Do you have faith that the world will be more peaceful in a year than it is now??
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No, but wouldn’t a more peaceful world be wonderful?
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Re: [SPF Softfail] [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Friday Five Oct 8
-Thanks
I stumbled on the question of a trillion - and also tried to calculate the weight.? I'll check my calculation against your reference.
Marvin Nice questions.
1.? There is a lot of talk about a trillion dollars lately.? How tall would a stack of 100 dollar bills (brand new) be if they were stacked in a single pile? ?In Argentina we've had lots (and lots...) of corruption paid in cash us dollars. To the point that there was a very comic (?) situation of bags of dollars being thrown over a wall to a convent... caught on security tape,? so the weight of a millon dollars was calculated.
So, in usian denomination, a trillion dollars would be a thousand of a thousand of a million, so that would be about? (10kg) 0.01 metric tons x 10(12) = 10(10) metric tons if an ocean 20' container can carry about 25 tn, that would be 10(10) / (100/4) = 10(8) x 4 = 40 million 20' std containers Seems a lot...? 2.? Have you ever committed an act of civil disobedience? ?Probably, but I can'r remember exactly about what, when, where or who, hahahhaa. 3.? Should required / recommended vaccines be paid for by the government? It depends on the vaccine and the government/country program. There are many mandatory vaccines that are paid for the government in childrens health programs around the world by almost all countries as part of general health prevention strategies. Some are also publicly supported (for example, when I travelled to Brasil from Argentina, I was given a free shot against yellow fever). In Argentina, if you have health coverage (some are government funded, like PAMI for elders) you can get free yearly vaccines against common flue. And, of course, Covid vaccines are also publicly offered. In Argentina, however, you cannot get covid vaccines on private health programs, those vaccines are not authorized to be selled privately... 4.? ?Have you seen container sizes decrease in markets? 5.? ? Do you have faith that the world will be more peaceful in a year than it is now? Yes. As countries go, I believe International peace will be mantained, war is bad for bussiness (unless you're into weaponry).
Of course, a mule might come by and kick the board, who knows...
Slds
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- Mirá las novedades: Especial: Controles para IMPO con Valor Criterio
Detalles de Impos para Proyecciones 2020 y para 7030!
?C.O.D.,?TAD,?DJCP,?D J O N P?!
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El viernes, 8 de octubre de 2021 10:49:28 ART, Jeff Hargett <jeffhargett@...> escribió:
? 1.? There is a lot of talk about a trillion dollars lately.? How tall would a stack of 100 dollar bills (brand new) be if they were stacked in a single pile? ????? I can only imagine. Curious as to its weight also. ? 2.? Have you ever committed an act of civil disobedience? ????? Haven’t we all? ? 3.? Should required / recommended vaccines be paid for by the government? ????? Interesting question. Recommended, no. Required? Not sure if there’s a precedent for it, but it does merit debate. ? 4.? Have you seen container sizes decrease in markets? ????? Not nearly as often as I’ve seen container content decrease within the same packaging. ? 5.? Do you have faith that the world will be more peaceful in a year than it is now? ????? Faith? No. But wouldn’t that be awesome? ? ????- Jeff ?
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Re: [SPF Softfail] [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Friday Five Oct 8
Nice questions.
1.? There is a lot of talk about a trillion dollars lately.? How tall would a stack of 100 dollar bills (brand new) be if they were stacked in a single pile? ?In Argentina we've had lots (and lots...) of corruption paid in cash us dollars. To the point that there was a very comic (?) situation of bags of dollars being thrown over a wall to a convent... caught on security tape,? so the weight of a millon dollars was calculated.
So, in usian denomination, a trillion dollars would be a thousand of a thousand of a million, so that would be about? (10kg) 0.01 metric tons x 10(12) = 10(10) metric tons if an ocean 20' container can carry about 25 tn, that would be 10(10) / (100/4) = 10(8) x 4 = 40 million 20' std containers Seems a lot...? 2.? Have you ever committed an act of civil disobedience? ?Probably, but I can'r remember exactly about what, when, where or who, hahahhaa. 3.? Should required / recommended vaccines be paid for by the government? It depends on the vaccine and the government/country program. There are many mandatory vaccines that are paid for the government in childrens health programs around the world by almost all countries as part of general health prevention strategies. Some are also publicly supported (for example, when I travelled to Brasil from Argentina, I was given a free shot against yellow fever). In Argentina, if you have health coverage (some are government funded, like PAMI for elders) you can get free yearly vaccines against common flue. And, of course, Covid vaccines are also publicly offered. In Argentina, however, you cannot get covid vaccines on private health programs, those vaccines are not authorized to be selled privately... 4.? ?Have you seen container sizes decrease in markets? 5.? ? Do you have faith that the world will be more peaceful in a year than it is now? Yes. As countries go, I believe International peace will be mantained, war is bad for bussiness (unless you're into weaponry).
Of course, a mule might come by and kick the board, who knows...
Slds
Anabel Pérez Bemporat Despachante de Aduana Lic. Comercio Internacional? Capacitadora en Aduanas y Comercio Exterior Argentinos ? Foros actualizados !??y? ?
- Mirá las novedades: Especial: Controles para IMPO con Valor Criterio
Detalles de Impos para Proyecciones 2020 y para 7030!
?C.O.D.,?TAD,?DJCP,?D J O N P?!
Descarga de Insumos en PreDespachos, LNA, Facturación Electrónica, SETI Autoarchivo, i-Sap...???Qué necesitás?
#ReportSystem #CustomsaduanaS #ForoATAsARG #DJONP #DJCP #TAD
El viernes, 8 de octubre de 2021 10:49:28 ART, Jeff Hargett <jeffhargett@...> escribió:
? 1.? There is a lot of talk about a trillion dollars lately.? How tall would a stack of 100 dollar bills (brand new) be if they were stacked in a single pile? ????? I can only imagine. Curious as to its weight also. ? 2.? Have you ever committed an act of civil disobedience? ????? Haven’t we all? ? 3.? Should required / recommended vaccines be paid for by the government? ????? Interesting question. Recommended, no. Required? Not sure if there’s a precedent for it, but it does merit debate. ? 4.? Have you seen container sizes decrease in markets? ????? Not nearly as often as I’ve seen container content decrease within the same packaging. ? 5.? Do you have faith that the world will be more peaceful in a year than it is now? ????? Faith? No. But wouldn’t that be awesome? ? ????- Jeff ?
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1.? There is a lot of talk about a trillion dollars lately.? How tall would a stack of 100 dollar bills (brand new) be if they were stacked in a single pile?
I? will post my answer tomorrow after people have had a chance to guess - along with how I arrived at the answer.
2,? Have you ever committed an act of civil disobedience?
Probably - but not massively seriously
3.? Should required / recommended vaccines be paid for by the government?
Emphatically - they are a net cost saving in health care
4.? ?Have you seen container sizes decrease in markets?
Yes
5.? ? Do you have faith that the world will be more peaceful in a year than it is now?
Extremely doubtful
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Friday Five September 24th
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1.? Do you think there should be maximum as well as minimum age limitations for political office??
Yes, I do. I believe a person should be at least 25 before running for major office, although Paul Hellyer, a friend of hours, was 24 when he was made a cabinet minister, and it worked out very well. A Canadian senator has to retire when he or she reaches the
age 75, although there used to be no age limit for a senator’s retirement years ago. On the whole I believe a person is passed his prime by 75, but of course there are exceptions such as Winston Churchill.
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2.? Who said “The last temptation is the greatest treason/to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”?
T.S Elliot. ?
3.? Are you following the summer sports this year??
I never follow sports: It is not one of my interests. ?
4.? What do you do when you get terminally frustrated at people who don't uphold their promises??
I dropped them from my circle of friends. ?
5.? Who is your favorite contemporary nonfiction author??
This is very difficult to answer since I read nonfiction all the time. I recently enjoyed a couple of books by Vincent Bugliosi, but there are so many others I could mention too.
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Re: [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Fridy Five September 24
-1? Do you think there should be maximum as well as minimum age limitations for political office?
Minimum definitely - should be at least forty for federal office.? Maximum depends more on the intellectual capabilities of the individual - Winston Churchill was going strong at 90 - our current president has been out to lunch for the last thirty years.
2.? Who said?“The last temptation is the greatest treason/to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
T S Eliot
3.? Are you following the summer sports this year?
Baseball this summer - since my favorite team the SF Giants is in the midst of one of the best races in a long time.
4.? What do you do when you get terminally frustrated at people who don't uphold their promises?
Go on to the next one - right now I have three clients that owe me a total of $13500 of which I am not sure of any.
5.? Who is your favorite contemporary non fiction author?
Far and away Victor Davis Hanson - I've been reading him for twenty years.? He is a Valley Boy - born and raised in Selma - south of Freson CA - about twenty miles from where I spent my first twenty years.
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Trudeau's wrongdoings know no bounds
KINSELLA: Trudeau's wrongdoings know no bounds
Author of the article: Warren Kinsella
Publishing date: Sep 16, 2021
Don’t vote for Justin Trudeau. It’s that simple.
Ask Jody Wilson-Raybould. She knows.?
In her best-selling new book, the former Liberal Attorney-General pithily sums up why she couldn’t abide Justin Trudeau any longer.
“Aga Khan. India. Vice-Admiral Norman. SNC-Lavalin. Blackface. WE. Payette. General Vance. There are patterns reflected in all of these,” Wilson-Raybould writes. “This way of governing was not my way of governing and I did not want to be part of it — to be complicit.”
It’s quite a list, isn’t it? And it can’t be in any way dismissed. It’s the words of Trudeau’s hand-picked first Minister of Justice. And, as millions of Canadians prepare to vote on Monday, it helps to remind us of Justin Trudeau’s many, many failures.
Here, then, are Trudeau’s Top Ten Transgressions. Remember them on Monday.
1. Influence-peddling. In 2016, Trudeau and his family paid a visit to the Aga Khan’s private residence in the Bahamas — but someone else paid. The Trudeaus were ferried around on the lobbyists’ private helicopters, as were Liberal MP Seamus O’Regan and Liberal Party President Anna Gainey. The Ethics Commissioner later concluded Trudeau had violated conflict of interest laws — because the junket put a lobbyist in a position of influence over no less than the Prime Minister of Canada. But it wouldn’t be the last time Trudeau would run afoul of ethics laws.
2. International embarrassments. In February 2018, the Trudeau family went on another trip paid for by someone else — this time to India. And the Trudeau National Lampoon Indian Vacation was a disaster on an international scale. One, Trudeau didn’t meet with a single senior member of the Indian government for days after landing in New Delhi. Two, he wasn’t greeted at the airport by Indian leader Narendra Modi — despite Modi’s preference for doing so with every other world leader. Three, Canadians were shocked to learn that Trudeau had invited an extremist to a state dinner — a man who had been convicted of attempting to murder an Indian politician in the 1980s. Finally, Trudeau attracted ridicule around the globe for pulling out his tickle trunk, and (badly) dancing the bhangra, along with wearing traditional Indian attire throughout his trip. (His Indian counterparts wore suits.)
3. Groping a woman. In June 2018, the world was shocked to learn that Trudeau had allegedly groped — or, as the Criminal Code would allege with any other person, sexually assaulted — a reporter at a beer festival in B.C. Trudeau shrugged at the revelation, saying that he did not recall any “negative interactions.” He then cruelly smeared the victim, saying “who knows where her mind was.”
4. Obstruction of justice. In February 2019, Canadians learned that Trudeau and his senior staff had tried to stop the prosecution of a Liberal Party donor for corruption. Trudeau and his minions bullied Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene, but she refused. Trudeau then pushed Wilson-Raybould out of his caucus — for telling the truth, and for obeying the law. Later, the Ethics Commissioner issued a report on the sordid affair. It concluded that Trudeau had again contravened the federal Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of Quebec-based SNC-Lavalin.
5. Railroading whistleblowers. In May 2019, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman was accused of leaking information to the media about a sweetheart deal for Quebec-based shipbuilder Chantier Davie Canada Inc. Norman defiantly pleaded not guilty, and the resulting mess turned into a massive scandal for Trudeau and his regime. Trudeau’s prosecutors then hurriedly dropped the charges and later paid Norman compensation for his troubles.
6. Racist behaviour. In September 2019, photos are published of Trudeau wearing blackface while partying — as a teacher. A clip obtained by Global News even showed Trudeau smeared with dark makeup — and with something jammed down his pants. Around the same time, images surfaced showing Trudeau wearing dark makeup and a turban at an “Arabian Nights” party — and also wearing an afro wig and mocking a Jamaican song during a talent show. Even Donald Trump condemned Trudeau’s behaviour as inappropriate.
7. WE corruption. In April 2020, not long after Trudeau is re-elected with a slim minority, the WE Charity scandal breaks. The “charity” had received a Trudeau government contract to administer the $912 million Canada Student Summer Grant program — even though there were thousands of public servants perfectly capable of doing so. Later on, the Ethics Commissioner ruled that former Finance minister Bill Morneau — who had family connections to WE — had contravened sections the Conflict of Interest Act. Trudeau was forced to apologize for his role in the scandal — and Morneau was obliged to resign as Minister of Finance and an MP.
8. Gross incompetence. In January 2021, after Trudeau overruled an expert panel and appointed Julie Payette as Governor General, disturbing stories started to emerge. Payette had been involved in a fatal auto collision — and a report concluded she had abused staff. She quit. Trudeau shrugged.
9. Rewarding sexual misconduct. In May 2021, Gen. Jonathan Vance, the former chief of defence staff — who, with Trudeau, vowed to root out sexual misconduct in the Canadian military — was simultaneously carrying on a clandestine affair with a subordinate. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau and his Chief of Staff Katie Telford were reported to know about complaints against Vance. Trudeau told the House of Commons that “no one in my office … knew the nature of the complaint.” But former Trudeau adviser Elder Marques told a parliamentary committee otherwise.
10. Chinese coverup. In June 2021, the Trudeau government did what has never been done before – it sued the Speaker of the House of Commons to keep secret documents related to the firing of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. The pair had allegedly shared confidential information with a lab in Wuhan, China — the birthplace of the coronavirus. After ignoring several requests from a Parliamentary committee to turn over documents, the House of Commons voted to order the papers released. In response, Trudeau filed a lawsuit against the Speaker of the House of Commons — a fellow Liberal.
We could go on — and on — but there’s not enough room.
Like Jody Wilson-Raybould said: This way of governing was not her way of governing. She didn’t want to be part of it. She didn’t want to be complicit.
Be like her. Don’t vote for Trudeau.
Don’t be complicit.
— Kinsella was special assistant to Jean Chretien.
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Justin Trudeau's track record of failure
Diane Francis: Justin Trudeau's track record of failure
Diane Francis
Publishing date: Sep 17, 2021?
As Canadians go to the polls, it’s important to remind ourselves why Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau should never be prime minister again. Here are my picks, though this is far from a complete list of his government’s botch-ups and scandals.
Perhaps most unforgivably, the Liberals did nothing to crack down on money laundering, ignoring the United Nations’ Financial Action Task Force report on the country’s loopholes, lack of controls and remedies. The result is that illicit funds from abroad have contributed to our high real estate prices, which has made housing unaffordable for Canada’s middle class. Owing at least partly to higher mortgage debt, Canadians now have the highest level of consumer debt in the world — surpassing the spendthrift Americans. This debt, along with Trudeau’s excessive government debt due to his COVID-19 support giveaways, means that if global interest rates rise a couple of percentage points, Canada will be brought to the brink of bankruptcy.
At the same time, foreign direct investment in Canada has cratered (other than in the case of real estate). “The Trudeau government has experienced the lowest average rates of growth of business investment — in fact, growth has been negative — of the past five prime ministers going back to Brian Mulroney,” wrote the Fraser Institute’s Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios and Niels Veldhuis??earlier this year.
“What’s even more worrying is that there seems to be no acknowledgement of this problem in Ottawa nor any interest in reversing course on policy to actually encourage and attract business investment to this country.”
Undaunted by the lack of investment, the Trudeau government proposed that Canada increase the number of immigrants it takes in to 400,000 a year. With high unemployment levels, this is a hair-brained scheme devised by a handful of rich Liberals who want Canada’s population to reach 100 million by 2100, which, without sufficient business investment, will ruin Canadian living standards.
So Trudeau gets a failing grade in terms of economic management, but consider some of the other scandals and bungles his government has been involved in:
- Months of delays in getting vaccines because Trudeau signed a secret deal with China to make vaccines that the Chinese reneged on.
- Ethical violations involving the WE Charity scandal, another involving the abrogation of the rule of law to mitigate charges against SNC-Lavalin for years of corrupt practices and another one after Trudeau took a luxury holiday freebie from the Aga Khan, whose organization ended up getting millions in grants from Ottawa.
- The recent $5.2-billion bailout of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Newfoundland — which should never have been built and will never make money if finished.
- Millions spent travelling and giving away foreign aid in pursuit of a useless, temporary seat on the UN Security Council.
- Pledging $2.65 billion at a Commonwealth Leaders Summit to fight climate change even though Canada’s massive wetlands, farmland and vast forests act as a carbon sink.
- Pledging $840 million to Syria for humanitarian assistance when so many Indigenous reserves in Canada don’t have clean drinking water.
- Imposing draconian regulations and taxes on oil from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, but not on oil from Saudi Arabia.
- Imposing tough environmental assessments on new infrastructure projects, except in the case of a cement plant in Quebec.
- Attempting to hand an unneeded sole-source contract to WE Charity for nearly $1 billion after Trudeau’s mother and brother received around $300,000 from it for speaking gigs.
- Proroguing Parliament and frustrating any attempts to investigate Liberal mismanagement.
The Trudeau Liberals have a track record of dismal leadership, yet this country has so much talent and potential. It’s time for a change.
Financial Post
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A Subtle Catastrophe – AIER
A Subtle Catastrophe
In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, which could have been avoided with even a hint of Executive Branch foresight, President Biden needed a win. And how did he chase that much-needed win? He ordered some 80 million American citizens to get vaccinated. This he presented to the country in a condescending temper tantrum for all to see. “Our patience is running thin,” he said. “Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated.”?
This is not what winning looks like. This looks like yet another President declaring his way to the policy outcomes he wants by executive order, Covid style.
It’s hard to imagine Biden offering a more tone-deaf response. Part of his , on the path to universal vaccinations seems clear enough to him and however many people advise him on a daily basis. That makes the difficulties with the plan, and there are difficulties down to the marrow with this ill-conceived mess, all the more incomprehensible.
The Biden plan rests on mutually exclusive premises. First, there is the implicit assertion that the vaccines work. Indeed, they work so well that we should force 80 million people to get vaccinated, whether they want to or not. This, of course, flies in the face of the other presupposition: that we need to vaccinate damn near everyone because people are simply not safe otherwise.
Aren’t those who voluntarily took a vaccine already protected? If not, the vaccines are not all that effective, and mandating them will not make them any more so. If that’s not the objective, are we really protecting the anti-vaxxers from themselves? Since when is that an appropriate use of government power? Either way, forcing people to submit to a vaccine they don’t want as a condition of their continued employment doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
And then there are the details of the Biden plan, details that should make just about everyone uncomfortable, regardless of vaccination status. First, employers with 100 or more employees must mandate their employees be vaccinated or submit negative tests weekly. It doesn’t stop there. All federal employees are mandated, as are all contractors who do business with the federal government. Additionally, over 17 million health care workers make the list too.
Since when does the United States President have this kind of authority? There is literally nothing in the Constitution that enables anything even close to this sort of thing. The President is tasked with executing the laws passed by the Congress, not writing them himself, and there is nothing in Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution enabling Congress to mandate anything like this either.?
Oddly, members of Congress, their staffs, and employees of the federal court system are all exempted from the Biden plan. Then again, maybe this isn’t odd at all given who might be inclined to object. Better to win their favor with favors now than have them saying something about the dubious constitutionality of any of this nonsense later.
We are left with a sitting United States President who is willing to do just about anything to make it seem like he is in firm control of a difficult situation. Sadly, being firmly in control also means scolding 100 million Americans like a 19th century school marm. But maybe it’s the rest of us whose patience should be wearing thin. Where there were once meaningful limits on the exercise of federal power, we now lurch from red to blue, each team waiting its turn to inflict its vision on the other team and the entirety of the country in the bargain.
In the end, people get the government they deserve. So we get a President who either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about the constitutional constraints of his office. Either way, it’s unforgivable. But the red and blue teams will just put in their time until the next election, when we will do it all over again, proving we are all to blame to one degree or another.
So which is it? Are the vaccines effective? If so, why do we need to mandate them? Aren’t all those who elected to get vaccinated safe? Or are they somehow ineffective, in which case mandating them serves no purpose? And while we’re at it, how long will immunity last in the vaccinated? Vaccines are clearly effective in the short run, on that we seem to have near universal agreement. But how will things look in the long term??
These are questions that Biden and his team should have asked before stepping into the deep end of the policy pool. Because they didn’t, we will be left with a quieter, more subtle catastrophe than we saw in Afghanistan, but it will be a catastrophe just the same.
James R. Harrigan is Senior Editor at AIER. He is also co-host of the Words & Numbers podcast.
Dr. Harrigan was previously Dean of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and later served as Director of Academic Programs at the Institute for Humane Studies and Strata, where he was also a Senior Research Fellow.
He has written extensively for the popular press, with articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and a host of other outlets. He is also co-author of Cooperation & Coercion. His current work focuses on the intersections between political economy, public policy, and political philosophy.
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1. ?A recent study indicates the Moderna vaccine produces twice the antibodies to COVID as the Pfizer vaccine. ?Does this concern you?
No. I have already been vaccinated with AstraZeneca.
2. Are you a consumer of dihydrogen monoxide?
Not if I can help it. Dihydrogen monoxide is a dangerous chemical and should be ban by the government before it does more damage.
3. ?Should dihydrogen monoxide be a controlled substance?
Yes, of course.
4. Who said ? "the sum of good government”—“a wise & frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry
and improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”
Thomas Jefferson.
5. How do you define Critical Race Theory?
Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of US civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine
the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice. CRT examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the US. A tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate
racial outcomes are the result of complex, changing, and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals.
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1.? A recent study indicates the Moderna vaccine produces twice the antibodies to COVID as the Pfizer vaccine.? Does this concern you?
No - I am more concerned about the reports that the vaccine is only 65% effective against the Delta variant
2..? Are you a consumer of dihydrogen monoxide?
On a regular basis - I prefer it on the rocks
3.? Should dihydrogen monoxide be a controlled subtance?
Just as much as methyl carbonal
4. Who said? ?"the sum of good government”—“a wise & frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”
I don't remember who this was but remember thinking it was important.
5? ?How do you define Critical Thinking Theory?
Oops - make that Critical Race Theory
Something made up to sell newspapers and clicks on Google.
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1.??Retired members of the Navy have been informed they cannon disparage the president or vice president - is this
legal/fair? No
2. ?What does Critical Race Theory mean to you?
The goal is to teach racial awareness in the classrooms: to make the students more inclusive towards others who are different and accept the fact that we are one human race.
3. ??What would you like to have for Christmas dinner?
Traditional food such as turkey in the company of good friends.
4.??Who among the people you have encountered on line would you like to meet in person?
I would like to meet most of the people I communicate with online. Howard Rosenthal would have been interesting to meet, but unfortunately, he passed away.??
5.??Are you looking for to retirement/back at a long working life?
This question doesn't apply to me.
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The US may struggle to recover from Joe Biden’s weakness
The US may struggle to recover from Joe Biden’s weaknessThe US is a country with an enormous capacity for renewal, yet its dynamism and confidence are fadingAs the last Nato planes lifted off from Kabul, the?lit up the sky with celebratory rockets and gunfire. The West’s retreat from Afghanistan has produced some surreal scenes; Taliban fighters, revelling in the high-tech equipment abandoned by US forces, pledged to turn Bagram Airbase into a terrorist training ground to defeat the West by jihad. America’s failure of nerve has handed the Taliban an entirely avoidable propaganda coup. They may be bloodthirsty zealots, but they understand the power of a striking image only too well. The Biden administration’s handling of this fiasco, by contrast, has been abysmal right to the end. It insisted that all US citizens would be evacuated by 31 August, but many have been left behind, along with thousands of Afghans who worked directly for them. Even the repatriation of the 13 US marines, slain in last week’s terror attack, attracted controversy. As the coffins were unloaded in Delaware for the ceremonial “dignified transfer”, Biden was caught on camera repeatedly checking his watch, prompting outrage and accusations of disrespect from the grief-stricken families. From every angle, Biden embodies America’s weakness. His public statements mirror the country’s fragile state – exhausted, incoherent, inward-looking and no longer in control of events. Decades of sacrifice have been squandered in a matter of weeks, yet it’s as if Biden and his fans don’t care – or refuse to admit the scale of the disaster. He seems to have little to offer beyond his advisers’ notes and comforting platitudes typed on autocue. Over the past decade, America has veered from one extreme to another; first Trump, the pugilistic loose cannon – now the crumpled and pathetically stage-managed figure of Biden. The nation seems not just rudderless but leader-less, a sickly patient with a dubious prognosis. Is it all over, then? Has Biden set in train a series of humiliations of the US overseas, while at home the country retreats into decadence and introspection? Only a fool would bet that an American resurgence is impossible. This is a nation that – like Britain – has always possessed an extraordinary capacity for reinvention. Just as Margaret Thatcher filled the vacancy of strong, charismatic leadership after the Winter of Discontent, Jimmy Carter’s weakness helped usher in the Reagan years. In a way, American regeneration mirrors the capitalist process of creative destruction itself – something new and ground-breaking can arise from the wreckage of the old. America remains richer than many of her peers, with higher median incomes than most European nations – something often overlooked in popular media narratives about “rust-belt” states. Not only do ordinary Americans hold a significant wealth edge over their European counterparts, they also enjoy lower taxes, at least for now. It remains an exceptionally innovative country, home to an unusually large proportion of entrepreneurs and world-beating firms. Its decentralised system creates additional competition between states. But there are also ominous signs that, this time, Biden’s America may struggle to bounce back from the brink. A new grievance culture threatens its totemic virtues – a pride in enterprise and hard work, a wholehearted celebration of self-made individuals. Cynical Brits may mock Americans’ earnestness and bombastic self-confidence, but it has contributed to their success. What future for a country plagued by self-doubt? The problem is institutional, too. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph last week,?the writer Bari Weiss gave a pessimistic analysis of events.?America’s elite institutions, she claimed, were effectively lost to the identitarian mob and would need rebuilding from the bottom up. Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who devised the concept of creative destruction, predicted that intellectuals would be central to its demise. The prosperity and intellectual freedom common to many capitalist systems, he noted, would produce “an atmosphere of almost universal hostility to its own social order”, by creating a lofty academic class removed from and opposed to the free market. The identity politics championed by many members of elite institutions has spilled over into the riots and senseless violence of groups like BLM and Antifa. Mismanagement by hard-Left leaders has condemned cities like Portland to a state of constant civil unrest unlike anything seen in decades. Even the dynamism of the San Francisco Bay area – a place where you feel the future has already touched down – sits alongside massive social dysfunction and rampant homelessness. This bizarre state of affairs is vividly illustrated in California, where a recall election is taking place later this month to determine whether to remove Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom from office a year early. He faces a surprisingly tight battle, with the conservative radio host Larry Elder emerging as an unlikely front-runner for the Republicans. Democrats fear a low turnout could lose them power even in the ultra deep blue state of California. Yet in general, alternative leadership is lacking on all sides of politics. The Republicans have abandoned their traditional supply-side economics and any attempt to unify the country. In both cases, they remain in thrall to Trumpism. America’s capitalist system has assumed a new structure, too – rigged by ultra-easy monetary policy and widespread money printing. America’s economy may be booming for now, but it remains to be seen whether Biden’s trillions of stimulus will spark further growth – or merely cause surging inflation, a weakened dollar and a raft of indebted “zombie companies”, sustained only by government support. As Schumpeter warned, the expansion of regulation and the welfare state are not risk-free. Regulation that favours existing technology may hamper future innovation. Saving struggling firms from going under also risks impeding the process of creative destruction, the cycle that in the long-term yields greater productivity and real, self-generating prosperity. It is also too soon to say whether America’s identitarian shift is simply a passing fad, or a secular trend that will permanently transform the national character. Biden’s Afghan catastrophe has already dashed America’s international reputation. Whether American dynamism can survive his presidency is another matter. —
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1.? Are you keeping track of what is going on in Afghanistan?
Yes, part of the time.
2. ?Do you think the world is going into a new Cold War?
I hope not, but it could happen.
3.? Do you personally know anyone who has been hospitalized for COVID?
I know quite a few who have been infected, but not hospitalized.
4.? How many countries have been created in the last thirty years?
Since 1990, there have been 34 new countries created.
5.? Are there any more countries you think should be split up / reorganized maybe in concert with adjacent countries?
I have no idea.
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Re: MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
// ?? As a libertarian, I agree with what you say. But nobody is being forced to get vaccinated? ? ?// Wait.
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On Aug 23, 2021, at 04:27, FreedomRocks <HomeOfLove69@...> wrote:
? <<Guess it depends on your perspective.? ?Yes, it would seem that people who believe in extensive amounts of freedom wish to be allowed to decide their medical care for themselves, not be forced by the state.? In a free country that would not be a controversial position to accept for people who had principles.? I'm for vaccinations but I'm not for forcing people to get them.>>
As a libertarian, I agree with what you say. But nobody is being forced to get vaccinated. Nobody is even talking about forcing people to get vaccinated. Private corporations have the right to require employees (or customers) get vaccinated, as a requirement of doing business, and I am happy to see that a few are starting to. I also support the right of private corporations not to require vaccinations (and at this time, the vast majority are not.) Government property is a gray area, in a libertarian society, there wouldn’t be government property. But since there is, government is essentially acting as a private corporation, and has the right to make policies to best protect the health of their employees. But nobody in government is forcing anyone to get vaccinated, as with private corporations, people who choose not to get vaccinated are free to remain unvaccinated and take their labor/business elsewhere.
<<On the other hand the liberals/left seem to have a mass psychosis which compels them to do things which will cause the death of the society they live and prosper in, the society that has provided them with a fantastic level of freedom, both personal and economic.? They wish to destroy all that in pursuit of "equity".? If they get their wish they will find out what it's like to want to go to the store and get a nice bunch of yellow bananas only to find yourself limited to 2 rotten blacked ones only available on alternate Wednesdays.?But of course there will be the satisfaction of knowing no one else is getting any decent food either.. well, except for the leaders of the socialist utopia.. and it would appear virtually all members of the socialist movement think they are the ones who will wind up as the leaders telling others what they may have. It's why Bernie and the leader of BLM have multimillion dollar houses while their followers live in a cramped apartment with roommates.>>
There is a huge range of what liberal/left in the US actually means. The liberal/left are so divided and have such diverse opinions, it is clear there is no mass psychosis between them. The mass psychosis seems to be in people on the extreme right grouping everyone to the left of them as socialist, even when many people to the left of them, are still firmly right of center. For example, Biden/Harris are called “extreme liberals/socialists” by the conservative press, when there is nothing socialist or extreme liberal in either one of them. Both of them are right of center by any accepted standard, both have a long history of corporatism and supporting conservative policies, policy wise they are similar to Reagan, and both haven’t even bothered doing more than minimal campaign promises to the left and have given no indication of ever intending to keep even the minimal promises they made. To use your 2 examples of Bernie & BLM, many people on the left do not support either one. Unlike the right, which has an obviously leader (Trump) who can cause a mass psychosis by preaching his version of ‘truth”, there is no leader of the left (which is why a mass psychosis isn’t going to happen on the left, there is no accepted leader telling them what the “truth” is.)
Rhonda
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Re: MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
<<Guess it depends on your perspective.? ?Yes, it would seem that people who believe in extensive amounts of freedom wish to be allowed to decide their medical care for themselves, not be forced by the state.? In a free country that would not be a controversial position to accept for people who had principles.? I'm for vaccinations but I'm not for forcing people to get them.>>
As a libertarian, I agree with what you say. But nobody is being forced to get vaccinated. Nobody is even talking about forcing people to get vaccinated. Private corporations have the right to require employees (or customers) get vaccinated, as a requirement of doing business, and I am happy to see that a few are starting to. I also support the right of private corporations not to require vaccinations (and at this time, the vast majority are not.) Government property is a gray area, in a libertarian society, there wouldn’t be government property. But since there is, government is essentially acting as a private corporation, and has the right to make policies to best protect the health of their employees. But nobody in government is forcing anyone to get vaccinated, as with private corporations, people who choose not to get vaccinated are free to remain unvaccinated and take their labor/business elsewhere.
<<On the other hand the liberals/left seem to have a mass psychosis which compels them to do things which will cause the death of the society they live and prosper in, the society that has provided them with a fantastic level of freedom, both personal and economic.? They wish to destroy all that in pursuit of "equity".? If they get their wish they will find out what it's like to want to go to the store and get a nice bunch of yellow bananas only to find yourself limited to 2 rotten blacked ones only available on alternate Wednesdays.?But of course there will be the satisfaction of knowing no one else is getting any decent food either.. well, except for the leaders of the socialist utopia.. and it would appear virtually all members of the socialist movement think they are the ones who will wind up as the leaders telling others what they may have. It's why Bernie and the leader of BLM have multimillion dollar houses while their followers live in a cramped apartment with roommates.>>
There is a huge range of what liberal/left in the US actually means. The liberal/left are so divided and have such diverse opinions, it is clear there is no mass psychosis between them. The mass psychosis seems to be in people on the extreme right grouping everyone to the left of them as socialist, even when many people to the left of them, are still firmly right of center. For example, Biden/Harris are called “extreme liberals/socialists” by the conservative press, when there is nothing socialist or extreme liberal in either one of them. Both of them are right of center by any accepted standard, both have a long history of corporatism and supporting conservative policies, policy wise they are similar to Reagan, and both haven’t even bothered doing more than minimal campaign promises to the left and have given no indication of ever intending to keep even the minimal promises they made. To use your 2 examples of Bernie & BLM, many people on the left do not support either one. Unlike the right, which has an obviously leader (Trump) who can cause a mass psychosis by preaching his version of ‘truth”, there is no leader of the left (which is why a mass psychosis isn’t going to happen on the left, there is no accepted leader telling them what the “truth” is.)
Rhonda
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Re: MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
Guess it depends on your perspective.? ?Yes, it would seem that people who believe in extensive amounts of freedom wish to be allowed to decide their medical care for themselves, not be forced by the state.? In a free country that would not be a controversial position to accept for people who had principles.? I'm for vaccinations but I'm not for forcing people to get them. On the other hand the liberals/left seem to have a mass psychosis which compels them to do things which will cause the death of the society they live and prosper in, the society that has provided them with a fantastic level of freedom, both personal and economic.? They wish to destroy all that in pursuit of "equity".? If they get their wish they will find out what it's like to want to go to the store and get a nice bunch of yellow bananas only to find yourself limited to 2 rotten blacked ones only available on alternate Wednesdays.?But of course there will be the satisfaction of knowing no one else is getting any decent food either.. well, except for the leaders of the socialist utopia.. and it would appear virtually all members of the socialist movement think they are the ones who will wind up as the leaders telling others what they may have. It's why Bernie and the leader of BLM have multimillion dollar houses while their followers live in a cramped apartment with roommates.
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Re: MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL From:?FreedomRocks Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 05:04:08 EDT
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<<MASS PSYCHOSIS – How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL>>
It see it happening to some extent on both “left” and “right” sides, but by far it is happening on the right side. Completely crazy that people are fighting so hard for the right to die, throwing out all their conservative values to deny a virus’ existence, and falling for the most ridiculous, impossible, anti-vax stories.
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