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  • Kindergarten Application Essay

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    Catseye3C
    How perfectly nightmarish amusing.
  • Happy Side Chick Day

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    Doctor PhibesD
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  • Vax Status

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    JollyJ
    @LuFins-Dad said in Vax Status: @Jolly said in Vax Status: The current COVID vaccine does not work well. I suspect we will begin to see annual "cocktail" mixes based on prevalent strains. In that, it bears some similarities to the flu vaccine. However... Serious adverse side effects are more numerous with the COVID vaccine. Dr. Paul is right. Treatment protocols may be tailored on best practice medicine, but withholding treatment based on this particular, poor performance vaccine is simply not medically ethical and is a bureaucratic relic from the beginning if the pandemic. Kill it. If you’re talking about withholding Ariosto treatments, medicines, etc… I absolutely agree with you. But we are talking about a transplant where the patient will be on significant immunosuppressants for the rest of their life. We’re talking about a disease that can easily kill you if you are immune compromised. The potential vaccine adverse reaction is negligible when compared to the adverse reaction when on immunosuppressants and contracting COVID. There are a wheelbarrow load of diseases that can kill you if you are immunocompromised. Tell that adverse tail to my SIL, who had a horrible reaction to the vaccine or to my wife, that went tachycardia 180 with massive skips, BP of 175/120 and climbing, not to mention the usual fever x4 days, malaise, etc If hadn't had rescue meds at home and a doc on speed dial, she stood a good chance of dying in the den. Now, suppose she needs a kidney in the future? You're telling me no, because of a vaccine that barely works against the current strain or may not work at all? Gentlemen, that's bad medicine.
  • The "transgender" rapist

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    HoraceH
    @Doctor-Phibes said in The "transgender" rapist: @Horace said in The "transgender" rapist: @jon-nyc said in The "transgender" rapist: @Horace said in The "transgender" rapist: Those are some of my most profound teachings. Grading on a rather small curve. Wait till I let you know how the disgust reaction, with its contemporary manifestation as socially contagious Trump hatred, would have expressed itself in other historical contexts. I'm literally glued to my chair. If you pour a can of tomato soup over your head, you could be an environmental activist.
  • AT du Jour - GDS...Gutfeld Derangement Syndrome?

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    HoraceH
    How fitting that the creator of the daily show is a progressive white woman, and in candid interviews, she is all about how gross the other political tribe is. It would be literally impossible to get along with a person like that, unless your disgust reactions (by definition irrational, if maybe tied to something primal and useful evolutionarily) aligned with hers. And she's proud of that. If your disgust reactions don't align with hers, she wants nothing to do with you. This is the normative progressive white female mindset. So much rage at "others", underlying it. Rage that the world isn't psychologically the same as you. The only test these people are even capable of passing, is to not be grossed out by black skin. They will never get over how impressed they are with themselves over that one.
  • Vox status

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    HoraceH
    @Mik said in Vox status: Vox started out left leaning, but not tipped over. It was worth reading. Now it's just one step removed from Daily Kos. Trump sent them over the edge. And its founder Ezra Klein now works as a full time public intellectual for the NYT.
  • The Witch Houses

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  • Selling Oil

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  • Why transit projects are expensive in the US

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    LuFins DadL
    @Axtremus said in Why transit projects are expensive in the US: As much fun as it is to blaming your favorite boogeymen, there is something to be said about the quality of American construction. Boogeyman? Pick up a shovel and take a job where you actually have to lift things and move things for a living and come back to me after that. I just had to write a check to a union in Maryland to NOT touch or move instruments that they are not trained to transport. This Union also covers those drivers and workers delivering gravel, sand, etc… to MDOT projects. So excuse me when I tell you to shut up.
  • Chicago's Turn

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    JollyJ
    I'm sorry, but the Founders knew the country could not function without a literate populance...
  • Black Jack

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  • Big guns for big targets.

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    JollyJ
    Visual clue... [image: 63bfa5f9e1e020e8a55e46d1b8c105b1.jpg]
  • No slave cooking in Chicago 'burbs

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    JollyJ
    Created with inspiration from The 1619 Project. 'Nuff said.
  • Severed Cable - Lufthansa cancels all flights

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    JollyJ
    No, but it's a queer situation.
  • Dog joy

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @Mik said in Dog joy: @89th said in Dog joy: Our 4 and 2 year old still do that. Balloons...cheapest entertainment evah You’ll take them to wonderful museums and parks and they’ll just want to chase the birds. It's if they come back with a squirrel in their mouth that he'll have to start worrying
  • Size Matters. Three inches bigger is a lot.

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    George KG
    @Horace said in Size Matters. Three inches bigger is a lot.: You mean it “begs” another question. Actually in this context, it "bags" the question?
  • "Titanic" anniversary honest trailer

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    89th8
    So good.
  • Hay Cats! Your "pool party" post of the day

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  • Lawsuit

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    jon-nycJ
    Interesting indeed. In case anyone is wondering why they would sue the hospital system (likely hovering close to insolvency) rather than Meta (which prints money), it’s not by choice but by necessity- Meta is not subject to HIPPA rules. Only the hospital is.
  • Happy Valentine’s Day

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    89th8
    My moms birthday is 2/13 and my wife’s birthday is 2/15. I’m in the trenches right now