Bear Pit: now the sole domicile of politics at LuLa

[MattBurt]

Boebert may be in some hot water for what appears to be a pretty blatant conflict of interest.

[digitaldog]

Too funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhOPOzlvTA
The morons on full display.

[TechTalk]

Too funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhOPOzlvTA
The morons on full display.

Thanks! That was well worth watching. It's sad that there are people so gullible, but also too funny at the same time. The guy who does those interviews is really deft and quick on his feet!

As a history lover, I enjoyed his comment regarding George Washington being the first to mandate inoculation. In Washington's time, it was for the smallpox virus. Below are links to a short video about it from PolitiFact or a link to an article from the Library of Congress.

https://www.youtube.com/Washington smallpox inoculation order

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/Washington & smallpox inoculation order

[digitaldog]

Another video, this about Washington:
Bringing our Revolutionary past to the pandemic
https://www.msnbc.com/the-week/watch/bringing-our-revolutionary-past-to-the-pandemic-117717573606

[TechTalk]

Another video, this about Washington:
Bringing our Revolutionary past to the pandemic
https://www.msnbc.com/the-week/watch/bringing-our-revolutionary-past-to-the-pandemic-117717573606

Thanks! Also an excellent video worth watching.

[Peter McLennan]

Too funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhOPOzlvTA
The morons on full display.

Unfortunately not available in Canada at that URL.

Anyone got an alternate?

[PeterAit]

Note: Her initials are M. T. Greene, so I like to think of her as "Empty Greene."

But she's not empty. She's full of ... well, you know!

[Peter McLennan]

But she's not empty. She's full of ... well, you know!

Poison.  That’s what she’s full of. 

[PeterAit]

Poison.  That’s what she’s full of.

Well, we here in NC have our own jackass twit representative in Madison Crawthorn. Not up to (down to?) MTG's standards yet, but working hard at it.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

You have my sympathy, Peter.

[PeterAit]

You have my sympathy, Peter.

Thank you. Fortunately not my district, we have been gerrymandered into a reliably Democratic district. But still Crawthorn is an embarrassment to the whole state.

[digitaldog]

A conservative radio host from Florida who criticised coronavirus vaccination efforts – and called himself “Mr Anti-Vax” – before contracting Covid-19 himself has died, his station said on Saturday. Marc Bernier was hospitalized three weeks ago

Natural Selection; slow but steady.

[TechTalk]

Natural Selection; slow but steady.

Well, now that makes three conservative radio hosts who were vaccine critics that have died from COVID this month.

On Aug. 4, another Florida conservative radio host who had criticized the coronavirus vaccine, Dick Farrel, died from Covid-19 complications. Farrel, whose given name was Farrel Austin Levitt, had worked at several radio stations in Florida, including WIOD in Miami and WPBR in Palm Beach, and had served as a fill-in anchor on Newsmax.

He had strongly condemned the coronavirus vaccine, posting on Facebook on July 3, “why take a vax promoted by people who lied 2u all along about masks, where the virus came from and the death toll?” He also criticized Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infection disease doctor, calling him a “power tripping lying freak,” according to The Washington Post, which reported on his death.

Last week, Phil Valentine, a 62-year-old conservative radio host in Nashville, Tenn., who had questioned the necessity of vaccines, also died from the virus.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It sounds as if Natural Selection is now actively going after the real “power tripping lying freak(s.)”

[digitaldog]

One more, his age is shocking:

Caleb Wallace, a Texas anti-mask organizer, has died at the age of 30 after contracting COVID-19.

And this as part of the story is also shocking:

At first, he declined to get tested for COVID-19 or go to the hospital, she said. He medicated using ivermectin—a drug that's often used to treat parasites in people and animals, and which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said shouldn't be used to treat COVID-19—along with zinc, aspirin, Vitamin C and an inhaler, the newspaper reported.

[LesPalenik]

Ballotpedia lists 18 US politicians on federal, state, and local levels who died from covid. Hundreds who tested positive and got better.

https://ballotpedia.org/Government_official,_politician,_and_candidate_deaths,_diagnoses,_and_quarantines_due_to_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020-2021#Diagnosed_incumbents.2C_candidates.2C_and_government_officials

[Alan Klein]

New Afghanistan poll.  The results are stunning.

A new ABC News/ Ipsos poll conducted after Thursday's deadly Kabul airport attack found that only 38 percent of Americans support the way President Joe Biden is handling the situation in Afghanistan. That marked a decline from the 55 percent of Americans who said in an ABC News/Ipsos survey from July that they approved of it.

The new poll was taken on August 27-28 after the suicide bombing outside the Hamid Karzai Airport that claimed the lives of 13 U.S. service members and over 160 Afghans.

The survey also found that 84 percent of Americans believe that U.S. troops should stay in Afghanistan until all Americans are evacuated regardless of the mission's deadline this Tuesday. Additionally, 71 percent of respondents think that U.S. troops should stay until all Afghan allies who assisted the U.S. are evacuated.
https://www.newsweek.com/only-38-percent-back-bidens-handling-afghanistan-poll-taken-after-kabul-airport-blast-1624111

[digitaldog]

Aug 25, 2021,01:01pm EDT|3,397 views
Voters Largely Support Afghanistan Withdrawal Even If It Means Al-Qaeda Resurgence, Poll Finds
From the lefty site, Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/08/25/voters-largely-support-afghanistan-withdrawal-even-if-it-means-al-qaeda-resurgence-poll-finds/?sh=627032f359e3
What isn't stunning, is taking polls and jerking knees about them when the situation is still evolving. As a mere 5 days show.

[Frans Waterlander]

...jerking knees about them...

What knee-jerk reactions are you talking about? Maybe giving up Bagram airbase? Maybe giving the Taliban a list of Americans and Afghanistan people who helped the US? Depending on the Taliban for safety of those people? Letting the Taliban determine when we have to leave and abandoning tens of thousands of those people? That kind of knee-jerking?

[digitaldog]

What knee-jerk reactions are you talking about?

Many of yours, when you once again return to take a dump on the carpet here (instead of showing us you can take a photo).
You have this odd habit and posting agenda of asking questions of others, when your posting history and agenda show/prove, you have no desire or ability to accept any answer. Proof of concept (a partial list):

Flicker, eyestrain or headache when using a monitor with LED backlighting?
AND:
How do you like your 23" NEC P232W-BK-SV with LED backlighting?
AND:
Three different color calculators can't be wrong, can they?
Do SoLux bulbs meet color temp specs?
And (push back) again:
NEC SpectraView update doesn't work
NEC PA242W with SpectraView problems
NEC P242W with SpectraView weird flicker
Epson R2880 suddenly prints with reddish color cast
And:
Photoshop Elements 2018 doesn't report Exposure Compensation
And:
How to backup Elements 2018 Camera RAW Database in Windows 7?
Add inability to understand Adobe or the need to not blindly update an OS when running a four version old copy of that product.
And:
ACR Histogram misunderstanding
And (thankfully I missed this slug fest of Frans):
In-camera RAW histograms
And:
Elements print bug.
Actual URLs for anyone who would pain themselves to slog through Frans silliness. 
That kind of knee-jerking.