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Anastasis

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  1. 2 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

     

    Thanks for the regional chart. This is a much better way to look at the trends.  Midwest is shitting all over everything right now. 

  2. 56 minutes ago, ndawg said:

    Oh, absolutely. I think there's a lot of waste all over our government, not just the military -- just like there is a lot of waste in private enterprises. Our government could almost certainly provide more value to Americans for substantially less tax revenue. To narrow this to the military, Americans (and American interests) could be made even more secure for less total cost.

    Great.  I don't have any disagreement. 

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  3. 57 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Small government is meaningless in a nation where the annual military budget hovers around $800 billion regardless of the party in power.

    Cooter is right. "Small government" is just bitching about taxes.

    Start with an immediate 25% haircut. 10 years to trim another 25%. And none of the bullshit DC math, real year over year cuts. We can quibble about the actual numbers, but those numbers would leave us spending approximately 40% more than #2 (China). Over that 10 year span redeploy the reduced military spending into various infrastructure jobs programs.  The military is mostly a job program as it is anyways. Trim the fat, focus the military mission, redeploy a big cut to domestic needs rather than policing the brown people of the world and essentially subsidizing the domestic programs of other wealthy nations.

    If the military is your biggest obstacle, let's address that one first. 

    Then we can talk about all the other bloat and waste and opportunity to streamline at the federal level.  

  4. 50 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    The fender flares are a bit too big in my opinion, but I like the concept. Something more sub-tlely scaled would have been prettier.  Their scale, and proportion seem a bit cartoonish.

    I'm fine with the rear flares but the front flares need to be dialed back just a bit imo. 

  5. MRNA hits last patient in. 

    https://endpts.com/on-morning-of-fda-covid-19-adcomm-moderna-completes-phiii-enrollment-putting-them-neck-and-neck-with-pfizer/

    Weeks away from a potential EUA application, Moderna announced they have completed enrollment in their 30,000-person Phase III Covid-19 vaccine trial, with over a third of volunteers non-white and a quarter over the age of 65.

    The announcement caps what has been the most closely-watched recruitment race in the history of drug development, as Pfizer and Moderna rushed to get enough volunteers to prove whether or not experimental vaccines could actually protect people from contracting Covid-19. Pfizer reached that mark on Sept. 15. Moderna said around the same time that they would slow down enrollment to ensure they enrolled enough participants from minority and at-risk groups.

  6. 9 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    It flows both ways and is an all around clusterfuck.  DSHS has to sort and assign the cases for people who test positive in counties that they don't live in because the counties wouldn't find out about those cases otherwise.  Counties do keep track of their own cases also, but DSHS adds or subtracts from that number when they get around to processing the new cases.

    LOL.  Of course. 

  7. 20 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    There is apparently some problem with the DSHS Region 7 case database right now and they are limited on what new data they can send to the counties until it gets fixed.  I'm not sure how accurate the new case numbers are right now with that going on.

    Wouldn't the case numbers flow the opposite direction? Counties push up counts to state region level?  I don't know, was just how I assume the reporting would flow. 

  8. 11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Gah, I tire of the constant machinations trying to justify Trump's business dealings.

    I think that if we cut through the right out nonsense (OMG Trump funneled 17MM through an undisclosed chinese bank account while President!!!), and stuck to the actual facts it would help.  The shit trump actually does in real life is enough to identify the ethical challenges as they relate to leading the executive branch, even when they are disclosed "by the book".  There is really no need to huff the twitter nonsense to get there. 

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