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    https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/west-virginia-gov-justice-state-will-use-covid-19-stimulus-funds-to-give-all-residents/article_3464b366-a6af-11eb-8cef-a3be246c97ac.html

     

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    West Virginia Gov. Justice: State will use COVID-19 stimulus funds to give all residents 16-35 a $100 savings bond

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — The state will give a $100 savings bond to each West Virginian from age 16-35 who takes a COVID-19 vaccine. West Virginia will use federal COVID-19 stimulus funding to finance the program.

    Gov. Jim Justice announced the savings bond plan Monday in a bid to get more COVID-19 vaccine shots in arms in West Virginia. He said the plan had been "vetted [in] every way in the world." He added that he had made the decision "if we want to really move this needle, and we want to move it right now."

    "I'm telling you, West Virginia, it's time to shut this thing down" unless state residents want COVID-19 to "linger forever."

     

     

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    The governor later in his news conference said he's hopeful the state will be able to give all those 16-35 savings bonds, and added that he believes a savings bond would be something meaningful to look at it in the future, rather than "just ... a dash in the pan and a couple of trips to Wendy's with your friends."

    Justice estimates the initiative could cost $27.5 million if it's wildly successful. If there aren't enough savings bonds available, the state will hand out cash, Justice said.

    "But if we did that ... it would be the best money ever spent, like you can't imagine," Justice said.

    Justice also went over the many ideas submitted and kicked around to boost the numbers of those being vaccinated.

    The governor indicated state officials have received "lots and lots of good ideas here, but I am telling you, we need to kickstart this, and kickstart this in a big way."

    He added, "maybe just a real dose of patriotism from the standpoint of a savings bond" would be meaningful to the young. "Our young people should be really, really proud if they help us step up," Justice said.

    He said without vaccine buy-in from many more people, he would be "reading names" of the pandemic dead every other day, "and also we're going to be faced with wearing these masks that nobody likes for a long, long, long time."

    But if young people "step up in masses, we'll be done, and we'll be done soon" with COVID-19.

     

    Great idea in my opinion.  Good use of stimulus money.  Hopefully it will pay off.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

    Any of you guys following the various studies and papers etc? I got the feeling a few folks here might be in the scientific/epidemiology community based on some past posts. I feel like I'm moderately self-educated on the topic as I read infowars.

    Let's say someone has a nearly 80 year old parent who lives to go to the gym and hasn't been in nearly a year. They are now fully vaccinated. They see their kids and grandkids often who are not vaccinated. Reason to remain home from going to the gym or is going to the gym masked up with limited capacity ok?

    My read is we are trending heavily towards vaccinated individuals not being able to contract the virus in high enough loads to pass it on to others and have them become ill. 

     

    1 hour ago, BradInATX said:

    Recent studies and data from Israel show that the mRNA vaccines are between ~80-90 percent effective at stopping spread. There is still some risk that they could catch it and pass it to you. It's a much smaller risk, but it's not zero risk. That becomes a risk tolerance issue that your family will have to make a decision about. 

    I would add to this that if they are also masked up and at a limited capacity gym they're risks are even lower.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    The article in the Washington Post on this story begins. "Nobody likes Ted Cruz."  The rest was behind a paywall. 

     

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    Nobody likes Ted Cruz. This is conventional wisdom in Washington. While not technically true — his family members like him, presumably, and his approval rating among Texas Republicans last month was 76 percent — it feels essentially true. Maybe it’s the exhausting smarm, the squirrelly ambition, the hollow theatrics. Maybe it’s how he tried to block relief aid after Hurricane Sandy, or how he helped to shut down the government in 2013. The Victorian facial hair hasn’t helped; it lends an incongruous quality of statesmanship to a man viewed by his colleagues as a pest.

     
    “Lucifer in the flesh,” Republican John A. Boehner, the former speaker of the House, called him in 2016.

    “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said in 2016.

    Said Democrat Al Franken in 2017, when he was still in the Senate: “I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.”

     

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    Nobody likes Ted Cruz. This was the place that Ted Cruz was starting from earlier this week. Then he went to Cancun. He went to Cancun, where it is mostly sunny and in the low 80s, while many of his ice-blasted constituents were without heating and plumbing, watching their ceilings collapse, huddling in warming centers, defecating in buckets, and generally not packing for a few days on the Yucatán Peninsula.

    “Not good,” Cruz tweeted early Tuesday evening about the shutdown of his state. “Stay safe!”

     
    Within 24 hours he was in Mexico. And by then, the pastime of disliking Ted Cruz would become sport.

    “As far as I’m concerned it’d be fine if he remained in Cancun,” Democrat Chris Turner, a Texas state representative, said on CNN. “He doesn’t do anything for us in Texas or in Washington, so I don’t know that we’re going to notice when he comes back.”

     

    The Cancun affair is “something that he has to answer to his constituents about,” Allen West, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, told the Associated Press. “I’m here trying to take care of my family and look after my friends and others that are still without power.”

    “Lyin’ Ted,” as Donald Trump called him during the 2016 campaign, became “Flyin’ Ted” just past midnight Thursday, when TV journalist David Shuster tweeted a photo of Cruz headed for his seat, passport apparently in hand, on an airplane Wednesday afternoon. The Cruz family was headed to Cancun, Shuster reported. Twitter users started sleuthing immediately, trying to corroborate this reporting with photographic details of gate and flight information. The evidence suggested that Cruz was in an Economy Plus seat, with plenty of legroom, on a United Airlines flight out of Houston.

    On Thursday morning, Kyle Potter, editor of Thrifty Traveler, spotted “CRU, R” — Cruz’s first name is Rafael — on United’s upgrade list for a return flight to Houston. And then Edward Russell, a reporter for Skift, cited a source at United: Around 6 a.m. Cruz, whose original return trip was Saturday, had been rebooked on a flight out Thursday afternoon.

     

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    And then Cruz released a statement confirming the trip, and noting that it was motivated by fatherliness.

     
     

    “With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends,” Cruz wrote, mentioning the direness of the winter storm but not the pandemic that has inspired many people to avoid unnecessary travel. “Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.”

    The Family-Man Defense, deployed to hilarious effect. As the father of daughters, I had to go to Cancun.

    “Cold Cruz Flees to Cancun Amid Crisis!” was the headline on the Drudge Report.

    Politicians have a terrible habit of recreating during times of crisis. When he was governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie plopped himself on a beach that was closed to his constituents because of a state government shutdown. Last year California Gov. Gavin Newsom, flouting covid caution, dined with a dozen people from multiple households at the French Laundry in Napa Valley. In 1987, as Washington grappled with a massive snowstorm, Mayor Marion Barry was in Beverly Hills drinking champagne and getting a manicure.

     
     

    “We need to stay home if you can,” Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, said in a Facebook video posted from his vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in November. “This is not the time to relax.”

    Cruz joined this tradition Wednesday, escorted through the Houston airport by city police officers — perhaps a safety measure after Cruz’s workplace in Washington was besieged by insurrectionists last month following Cruz’s participation in a disinformation campaign to fuel doubt about the legitimacy of President Biden’s electoral win. At the Cancun airport Thursday, the senator appeared to be escorted by a representative from the Ritz-Carlton.

    “We appreciate his visit,” the tourism ministry of Quintana Roo told The Washington Post.

    “I don’t have any updates on the exact location of Senator Ted Cruz,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted during her daily briefing Thursday, but the exact location is always known: somewhere near the floor of how likable a senator must be to maintain power.

     

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  4. 3 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    What, her cancer can just be avoided by living healthier? She's hygienist if that's what you're talking about?

    I have no idea what you're talking about.  You made a statement that "Usually what happens in universal healthcare is more people die waiting to get their procedures."  Zepol called you out on it and you cited an article to presumably back up your initial statement that people are dying while waiting to get a procedure.  The article you posted has absolutely nothing to do with that.

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  5. 22 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    Yeah, that's fucked. Usually what happens in universal healthcare is more people die waiting to get their procedures. So either die poor, or die cause you cause you waited so long on a list.

     

    7 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    That article doesn't say anything about people dying while waiting to get a procedure.  It's talking about funding being cut from early education that teaches people how to live healthier lives which would in turn prevent things like heart disease.  

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  6. GOP Rep. Kinzinger to start new PAC to challenge party’s Trump supporters

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/31/gop-rep-kinzinger-start-new-pac-challenge-partys-trump-supporters/

     

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    Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of 10 Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump earlier this month, has launched a new leadership political action committee that is designed to become a financial engine to challenge the former president’s wing of the GOP caucus and stand up against a leadership team still aligned with him.

     

     

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    Kinzinger, a onetime star of the 2010 Tea Party class, said the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol served as a final breaking point for the direction of the Republican Party, providing a stark divide between those who want to continue a path toward autocracy and those who want to return to traditional conservative values.

    “The reality is this: This is a time to choose … And my goal in launching CountryFirst.com is just to say, look, let’s take a look at the last four years, how far we have come in a bad way, how backward looking we are, how much we peddle darkness and division,” Kinzinger said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” formally unveiling his Country First PAC and a 6-minute campaign-style video launching what he hopes will become a movement. “And that’s not the party I ever signed up for. And I think most Republicans didn’t sign up for that.”

     
     

    Kinzinger previewed the launch in a Saturday interview with a small group of reporters on a Zoom call, alternating between taking shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose QAnon conspiracy theories have drawn great attention in recent days, and being dismissive toward what he views as the weak leadership of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

    “Republicans must say enough is enough. It’s time to unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage,” Kinzinger says in the launch video.

    Kinzinger said in the days after the assault on the Capitol he felt some optimism as McCarthy said Trump “bears responsibility” for encouraging the rioting mob to attack Congress and target then-Vice President Mike Pence. McCarthy quickly backed away from that remark and on Thursday he praised the ex-president after a meeting at his Palm Beach resort.

     

    “That’s a heck of a move in about three weeks. It’s hard to square that circle,” Kinzinger told reporters Saturday. He suggested that McCarthy is not even the most powerful member of the GOP caucus anymore, but that it was Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) “for sure” now.

    Jordan was an outcast just a few years ago who banded together with about 30 other far-right conservatives and, after forging a strong alliance with Trump, has soared to vast power over McCarthy’s leadership team while making alliances with figures like Taylor Greene while trying to expel Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from the leadership team because she voted to impeach Trump.

    “They’re political terrorists,” Kinzinger said of Jordan and his allies.

     

    He called Wednesday’s formal meeting of the House Republican Conference — when Republicans will debate Cheney’s status and discuss whether to punish Taylor Greene for her controversial actions — “the opening salvo in the fight for the party.”

     

    Kinzinger, 42, said he does not want to play any leading role in the GOP and has no ambition to run for higher office, but said too many Republicans were remaining quiet and just hoping Trumpism will fade away without fully confronting it.

    He said that his push is not really around ideology so much as it was focused on driving the conspiracy theorists and racists out of the GOP.

    “We don’t embrace conspiracy theories to win anymore,” he said. “Would we lose the Proud Boys? Maybe, I’m fine with that.”

     

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  7. What a scumbag.

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

     

    Trump extended Secret Service protection for 14 members of his family as he left office

     

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    In the days before he left office, then-President Donald Trump instructed that his extended family get the best security available in the world for the next six months, at no cost — the protection of the U.S. Secret Service.

    According to three people briefed on the plan, Trump issued a directive to extend post-presidency Secret Service protection to 14 members of his family who were not automatically entitled to receive it.

    Under federal law, Trump, his wife Melania and their 14-year-old son are the only members of his immediate family entitled to Secret Service protection after they leave office.

    The couple will receive it for their lifetimes, and Barron is entitled to protection until he turns 16. Former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence will also receive continued Secret Service security for the next six months under the same law governing protection.

    But Trump wanted every family member who had been protected by the Secret Service during his administration to be covered for another six months, according to the people familiar with his directive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe security arrangements.

    That means the expensive, taxpayer-funded security will continue for his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, their three children, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his five children, his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara and his daughter Tiffany Trump.

    The 24-hour protection will focus on Trump’s grown children. His grandchildren will receive protection that derives from being in proximity to their parents and will not be as extensive as it was during Trump’s presidency.

     

    A former Trump White House spokesman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Secret Service also declined to comment, saying the agency does not discuss the individuals it protects.

     

    A president can order Secret Service protection for any person he choses, but it is highly unusual for a president to provide 24-hour security to such a large number of family members, including so many grown adults.

    President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush sought extensions to protect their college-aged daughters for a short period after they left office. President Barack Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia were also granted short extension of security after he left office in 2017, when they were in high school and on a gap year from college. A Secret Service official declined to say when that protection ended.

     

    A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the expansion of Secret Service security, did not respond to inquiries. The official did not answer questions on whether the agency performed any threat assessment that suggested the extension was warranted, or it weighed in on the decision regarding Trump’s family.

     

    The perk for the Trump family is expected to cost taxpayers millions of dollars and further stress the elite federal security force, which in the past four years had to staff the largest number ever of full-time security details — up to 42 at one point, according to former senior administration officials.

    The extension of security for the Trump family comes as the Secret Service has also mobilized protective details for the extended families of incoming President Biden and Vice President Harris.

     

    Full-time security teams are being deployed to protect Biden’s two grown children and seven grandchildren, as well as Harris’s two step-children.

    The Trump family’s protection has been costly for the Secret Service’s budget, as his adult children traveled widely across the country and around the world for personal vacations and travel related to the Trump Organization, the family company.

     

    From 2017 to 2019, government records show, Trump family members took more than 4,500 trips that required Secret Service to travel alongside them, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.

     

     

     

  8. Hoping someone out there in Texarkana/Bowie County area can help me out.  My dad is 81 with practically every known medical condition known to man but can't seem to find a shot.  He says that he calls 4 or 5 places a day and they all tell him they don't have anything and that they can't schedule anything for him until they have supply.  I'm not sure he has the ability to use the internet to hunt something down.  Anyone that can give me a lead or ideas on how to hook him up I'd appreciate it.

  9. 46 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    They don't expound on the last sentence any further.  If dotard could lean on the NSA, not sure why Biden can't.

    NY Times had a similar article but also included the following:

     

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    Mr. Ellis’s allies had pushed for him to be installed before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is inaugurated. While it will be difficult to fire Mr. Ellis under Civil Service rules, the Biden administration could easily reassign him to another, less important post.

    While not ideal, I am assuming the guy is going to get re-assigned on Day 1 to some other important position like "Head of Janitorial Services."

     

    As to the question about whether this was normal civil service hiring practice, from what I have seen it looks like it was a posted opening where several candidates were interviewed for the opening.  Although it has been reported that the other candidates scored higher on the interview, at that stage of the process, the hiring authority usually has discretion on the hire.

  10. 28 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    Wait - did he say 15k military votes? I’d love to know how they broke in November. That could fuck Ossoff up in a narrow race. They blew by that stat after Jonesing on 3k votes here and there.

    That's just the number of ballots they sent out.  One of the local GA election guys said the number actually returned isn't usually enough to significantly change the election.  I couldn't find 2020 data, but in the 2016 presidential election, they were returned at a 69% rate.

    With Trumps recent history of calling soldiers losers and ignoring Russian bounties on troops, I can't image him gaining much in the batch returned.

  11. 4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Power sharing agreements. Probably D committee chairs but Rs can bring legislation to the floor 

    I believe that's what happened last time. The Washington Post had an article a while back saying no way Schumer would agree to any kind of power sharing agreement this time around.

  12. 3 hours ago, Gale Snoats said:


    Thank you. Dad no. Mother has a shellfish allergy. Maybe that was the issue. I told them to both get proactive about getting on lists and dual trac that with reaching out to allergy doc.

     

    Just saw this in the Times.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine-allergies.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=322065185&algo=identity&variant=no-exp&imp_id=59681212&action=click&module=Science Technology&pgtype=Homepage

    Boston Doctor Reports Serious Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna’s Covid Vaccine

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    A Boston physician said he developed a severe allergic reaction minutes after receiving Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, in the first week of the nationwide rollout for the company’s shots.

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    The incident on Thursday involved Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncologist at Boston Medical Center, who has a severe shellfish allergy and had an appointment to get the Moderna shot in the afternoon. In an interview, Dr. Sadrzadeh said he experienced a severe reaction almost immediately after he was inoculated, feeling dizzy and with his heart racing.

     

  13. 4 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    I took the fucking Cardinals lol. Fuck Kyler Murray and Kliff. Played like bitches against a 3rd string QB

    I had a bad feeling after picking them. They never looked good. No idea why I didn't go with the Bears. But I picked against the Jags 3 times this year and every time was a nailbiter. Glennon always played really good. 

    What makes it worse is a good chunk of our league lost with the Cardinals/Bengals/Browns going down. And i had the Ravens next week so it would be an easy pick for me against the Bengals. 

    That blows.  Cardinals had everything to play for, and just looked like they didn't give a shit.

    1 minute ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    How many started? 

    Started with 267.  I'll be riding the Ravens next week.

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  14. Your list looks a lot like what I have left too.  I'm also saving the Ravens for next week against the Bengals - but like you, I have to wonder if I'm getting too smart for my own good by saving the pick.  Just comes down to who you can pick if you don't have Balt available for that last week.

    That week 17 pick is tough in that you don't know which teams will be taking the week off for the playoffs or which teams are just mailing it in.  In your case, I think all of the options you have this week are better than Cardinals/Rams.

    I was even looking at Washington vs Carolina this week and next week vs the Eagles.  Washington has a good defense which should match up well with Carolina but if Alex Smith is out, then they're hot garbage.

  15. Hoping to get some feedback from any Texans followers out there.

     

    For this week, my best two options are either Chicago vs the Jags or the Texans vs. the Bengals.

     

    I'm leaning towards the Bears as they're still playing for a playoff shot and Trubinsky is looking pretty good these last couple of games.  Jaguars are still the jaguars - been blown out the last couple of games.  Now that they're in the lead for the no. 1 draft pic, it might be time to totally tank.

     

    I don't know much about the Texans of late.  Saw a few of their games early in the season and they didn't seem too bad.  They looked a lot better than their record but would still end up short on the scoreboard.  I think Cin beating Pitt last night was a fluke with Pitt having 3 TOs.  Every game I've seen Cinci play. they've been pretty awful - especially since Burrow went out.

     

    So what say the braintrust here?

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