Which is why we need more oversight.

And very, very few mail-ballots.

I suppose many of the 245 thousand American deaths so far have been due to COVID complications rather than only COVID, but when you start think about comparisons, the figures are numbing.

The Pacific War with Japan cost the USA something like 120 thousand deaths, an horrendous amount.
COVID deaths are already double that, and yet some Americans wearing flak jackets & semi-automatics are are refusing to wear a mask.
I listened to their reasoning and felt, well, sadness more than anything, especially for their elderly relatives and friends.

I think you are probably right John, worse than 60k american deaths before Christmas.

@89th Excellent! You will love it in Greater Minnesooooooota. That's what we call any part of the state not in the Twin Cities metro area. I highly recommend checking for housing in Greater Minnesooooooota. We're where the fun is!

I can't stand NewsMax - it's like CNN for the Right. All that red meat is just gross.

I want to work there.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

@Jolly said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

@taiwan_girl said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

It would be an interesting poll to ask prisoners in jail if they were religious or not. My guess would be that the majority say that they are religious.

Depends if they are on death row.

If I was on death row, I don't think I'd want to believe in OT God, because in that scenario chances are things are only going downhill after the injection.

Oh, I'm not talking out of my hat...My wife's uncle worked Death Row for years. I've been places down at Angola that you never could...After the guys knew me, I've had bars clang behind me many times as I was trying to get papers signed (guards don't always have relief). Camp C, Camp A and Death Row. I used to eat down at Camp F a good bit...White beans and smoked bologna over rice and a slice of cornbread ain't bad.

Even back years ago, when Old Sparky was in use, I was down at the prison a good bit during hunting season. One of the guys I hunted with, bagged the remains after execution. So I've been all over the grounds and I've talked with a lot of cons.

You'd be surprised at how many churches are on the grounds of Angola. Prisoner built, some of the work is pretty durn good. Lots of love in those boards. Many of those prisoners on The Farm will die on The Farm. Their coffins are built in the woodworking shop. Most if the time, nobody wants the body, so they get buried on the grounds.

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If grey walls are your life, religion offers hope. It offers a certain kind of mental freedom before death and spiritual freedom after.

@jon-nyc said in Any validity?:

@jon-nyc said in Any validity?:

My in-person vote took two attempts in our reader this year.

In fairness, I must add that my vote met Trump's working definition of fraudulent. It was early, and it was for Biden.

May you be well-taxed for your efforts.

@George-K said in Dersh Speaks:

Andy McCarthy had a related analysis.

To get the courts to recognize this it's a really high hurdle. To succeed you have to prove

Fraud occurred (presumably a relatively easy thing to do) Prove that the outcome would be altered by the elimination of those fradulent votes. That's a LOT more difficult.

Ted Cruz said much the same thing.

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@xenon said in Andrew Sullivan is on point:

@Loki I'm saying he could probably do nothing and things will look pretty decent by April.

It'll look better. Flu season will be over.

Not really an escalation, more of a turnabout

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/trump-election-protests.html

The protests on Wednesday came just hours after Hillary Clinton, in her ... page titled “Not My President” called for protesters to gather on Inauguration Day

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-protests/violence-flares-in-washington-during-trump-inauguration-idUSKBN1540J7

Old Bay rules MD

@jon-nyc said in In Medieval Germany:

@Klaus said in In Medieval Germany:

Are you into necrophilia?

In a pinch.

Hahahaha

Only 5 who were registered as lobbyists in the last year though.

Out of 500+ appointees? Honestly I would have guessed a much higher number than the 5 or the 40.

I'm guessing a decade or two ago it would have been a much larger number.

Yeah. On the plus side there's going to be a recount as it is.