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Re: https://michaelwsmith.com/2015/07/04/th ... n-signers/

"What happened to the signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?"

"This is the Price They Paid" :o

:idea: Now consider how easy it is today to track individuals who post online
and use trackable technology like credit/debit cards and smart phones ...
not to mention cameras and other monitoring technology. :roll:

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Re: posting.php?f=15&mode=reply&t=27959&sid ... 5#pr207920

:bana: Plan B (while waiting to purchase ground Coffee with Chocolate, an email tip today):

Mix rounded tsp 100% cocoa with 1/3 cup hot water, fill cup with hot coffee,
then add cream and/or sugar if desired. 8)

Experience: 100% cocoa added to ground coffee clogs the filter
and cacao nibs are expensive. ;)

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rging.html

"Arizona coronavirus patients will 'be given a score based on life expectancy and underlying conditions'
to determine whether or not they're put on a ventilator as hospitals near capacity in several states" :o

:roll: Triage to reserve limited resources for those more likely to survive
is not typical flu season protocol (but this coronavirus is not typical flu). ;)

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Re: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2 ... 375930002/

"Joey Chestnut sets world record, downs 75 hot dogs in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest"
... but no pooper scouper needed for these dogs crammed into a pie hole. :shock:

:duh Few people know that "eat" has long been assumed to include "digest",
but proof of this digestion is not a contest requirement ... fortunately. :roll:

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:study: Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... TS-it.html

"calls Independence Day a 'celebration of white supremacy' and REJECTS it because black people
have been 'dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized and terrorized' in the US for centuries" :(

:idea: Actually, that being celebrated is the independence of the first states from foreign domination.
Slavery is a different matter, having been outlawed in 1865 after the Civil War and not directly related
to U.S. Independence. Historical perspective should be that U.S. independence was the beginning
of the states' cooperation to end slavery in America. ;)

:study: Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

"Slavery was known in almost every ancient civilization and society."

"Slavery was widespread in Africa, with both internal and external slave trade. In the Senegambia region,
between 1300 and 1900, close to one-third of the population was enslaved. In early Islamic states of the western Sahel,
including Ghana, Mali, Segou, and Songhai, about a third of the population were enslaved.

"It is estimated that by the 1890s the largest slave population of the world, about 2 million people,
was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate. The use of slave labor was extensive, especially in agriculture.
"there were 2 million slaves in Ethiopia in the early 1930s out of an estimated population of 8 to 16 million."

:study: Re: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

"Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa,
forced into slavery in the American colonies"

:study: Re: https://theconversation.com/american-sl ... myth-79620

"Africans first arrived in America in the late 16th century not as slaves
but as explorers together with Spanish and Portuguese explorers." 8)

"Roughly 25 percent of all Southerners owned slaves."

"Only a little more than 300,000 captives, or 4-6 percent, came to the United States.
The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean." :roll:
( 300,000 x .06 = 18,000 slaves )

:scratch: Ending racism for good is an important goal - for the entire U.S. -
but pushing this protest on U.S. independence (and its symbols of statehood)
ignores the true history of slavery ... worldwide (including Africa) :!:

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:study: Re: https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-highes ... e-pandemic

[a comment] "Texas population 30,000,000 - Cases 191,790 .0063% chance of contracting Covid ,
Deaths 2608 chance of death .000087% , hospitalization 7,890 current chance of being hospitalized .00027%.
Odds are in your favor of not getting Covid, dying of Covid, or being Hospitalized are EXTREMELY low." :o

:idea: The magic of statistics! Ignores that those 30 million live far apart in BIG Texas!
Focus on the populated areas where covid is now spreading the most and the stats
reflect the worst of a flu season ... suggesting the contrary! :roll:

:cheers: The odds are in your favor of getting Covid if you circulate in these areas
... without due caution, especially if you're "at risk". ;)

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Re: https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-ignor ... 14485.html

"multiple studies demonstrate that particles known as aerosols — microscopic versions of standard respiratory droplets —
can hang in the air for long periods and float dozens of feet, making poorly ventilated rooms, buses and other confined spaces dangerous,
even when people stay six feet from one another." :o

"We are 100% sure about this" :!:

:idea: Makes it easier to comprehend how this coronavirus spreads,
... despite the widespread use of masks and social distance ...
and these droplets can get into unprotected eyes! :o

:scratch: This also suggests that the virus should be spreading more
but is not ... because a minimal viral load is necessary :?:
obtained with short term repeated exposure :?:

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:study: Re: https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... mbit_.html

"It is now being reported that the NFL will be playing 'Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing' *,
a song that has been called the 'Black national anthem' before all NFL games in Week 1.

"In the end, Roger Goodell and the NFL may find that just turning a blind eye to the Anthem kneeling since it began in 2016 would have been far less detrimental to its brand and its future success than theatrically spitting in the faces of its core fan base of patriotic Americans who just want to watch football games on Sundays without watching multimillionaires lecture them about why their country sucks." :roll:

:idea: Interesting discussion ...
but doesn't mention that U.S. football is further distancing itself from non-political sports (worldwide tradition!)
... and doesn't mention that this is a religious (church) song being positioned before a nation's anthem
... and doesn't acknowledge that this creates a song precedent for every race and religion! :o

* See also: https://www.blackpast.org/black-past-fe ... al-anthem/

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U.S. football is further distancing itself from non-political sports
:idea: To assuage this distancing, the NFL Rule Book might require, during the National Anthem, one player (a volunteer selected at random) to perform a one-knee tribute to the sport and to the country supporting this national competition. Players protesting other causes might then prefer to use both knees to communicate that message.

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/cahoo ... index.html

"a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors
and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn't necessarily require police intervention." 8)

:idea: This CAHOOTS program has been successful, but also suggests that police have long been tasked
with first response to most incidents not considered an active crime. Apparently, close communication
with police would facilitate necessary backup should first responders be unable to resolve the problem. ;)

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[online comment] " 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' is an uplifting spiritual, one that's often heard in churches
and popularly recognized as the black national anthem." ... however, not written as a church song:

Re: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/0 ... ng-blacks/

"According to Grand Ole Partisan, in 1900, he wrote the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing
to honor Republican activist Booker T. Washington when the civil rights leader visited his school."

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... itter.html

"Best-selling children's author Gillian Phillip is sacked - after adding hashtag 'I stand with JK Rowling'
to her Twitter handle amid bitter row over transgender rights"

:shock: The new norm! Any unpopular opinion, especially posted online, is "rewarded" quickly. ;)
However, unpopular opinion (or whatever) published as a book or movie survives ...
as long as it's bringing' in the sales money! :roll:

:o Apparently, in this new era, "political correctness" is both political and financial -
real or anticipated loss in either venue is cause for "shock & awe" repercussion :!:

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'Lift Every Voice and Sing' is an uplifting spiritual, one that's often heard in churches
:idea: This song becomes a "protest" in contrast to "celebration" (National Anthem)
when the one precedes the other ... and for the reason that it precedes the other.

Because of this conflict, "uplifting spiritual" is not the perception of the entire stadium.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." seems a related spiritual message. ;)

:scratch: The dilemma: How is this social conflict resolved by dueling anthems,
a duel effectively forced by orchestrated presentation?! :roll:

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/tampa ... index.html

"A family in Florida found a nearly 9-foot alligator with missing limbs on their doorstep"

:bana: A good psychology test (how you relate to the animal world) ...

What is your first response after reading this headline and seeing the picture?
Sadness? Humor? Indifference? Compassion? Revenge? :scratch:

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:study: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/0 ... supremacy/

"Nike has not responded to a request for comment after Kaepernick, one of their leading pitchmen,
called Independence Day a 'celebration of white supremacy'."

:idea: Nike might be concerned about contributing a new marketing term: Nike Needle
a company relationship with a popular spokesperson who keeps needling society about a social issue,
thus tarnishing (or obscuring) the company's product/service identification for consumers.

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:study: Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... party.html

:scratch: Who knew :?: :!:
In 2020 you can go to Fire Island and still get lucky
(come back without symptoms ... of anything). :roll:

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:study: Re: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy ... -again-and

"The scientist argued that a more reasonable strategy would have been to allow the virus to run its course, building up nationwide immunity levels while protecting the elderly and vulnerable from the pandemic."

Good luck with that :!: Most of the "elderly and vulnerable" are not in nursing homes (fortunately since these were good places to contract the virus in previous months). And the vulnerable (aka "at risk") are spread throughout a community. How to protect them from exposure (now known to be easily dispersed in the air when asymptomatics are not wearing masks) was not common knowledge until recently :!:

Bottom line (IMO): Governments had limited options and favored the more reliable lockdowns. Of course, groups in lockdown also needed to practice virus protection ... and this did not happen in many groups! These families and their friends shared exposure then the asymptomatics
(especially) brought it back into society when lockdowns were lifted. :(

Today, lockdowns are the least favored protection because of severe economic consequences, yet even when governments mandate masks for all many people flout the rules ... some even knowing that they have the virus! Apparently, this coronavirus will keep spreading because this is what it does well - Plan B seems limited to keeping it from delivering overwhelming numbers of patients to the hospital. :finger:

Good luck with that :!: Reckless societal behavior immediately post lockdown and during holidays is proving that this virus will have good opportunity to keep spreading ... at least until "herd immunity" begins to exist in communities. ;)

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Re: posting.php?f=15&mode=reply&t=27959&sid ... a#pr207925

:study: Re: https://www.foxnews.com/sports/colin-ka ... th-of-july

"Social media sleuths dug up a Kaepernick tweet from nine years ago
where the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback was asking ...
Happy 4th of July everyone - I hope everyone has a blessed day"

:idea: Another case of being bitten in the past now remembered
(what you post online is rarely forgotten by computers). :roll:

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -food.html

"of course, ‘clean meat’ is still bad for us. The risks of eating mountains of red meat won’t go away just because it’s been grown in a lab. It will still give us cancer and heart disease, it still has cholesterol, fat and no fibre, even if it can be engineered to be a little better for us one day."

"when you add up the miles required to ship these components to the factory, and the nutrition they provide, or don’t provide, in comparison to vegetable dishes that aren’t pretending to be meat and that anyone could make from ingredients grown in their garden, it seems like a silly idea to be going to all this effort." :o

:idea: However, most people are willing to eat (and enjoy) lotsa "engineered" snacks and other foods.
Just look at what's on all the shelves in stores! ... not to mention fast food restaurants. ;)
If it tastes good, it must be food ... apparently. :roll:

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Re: https://www.cnet.com/features/inside-th ... pocalypse/

"Inside the luxury nuclear bunker protecting the mega-rich from the apocalypse"

:idea: First thought: Spy satellites will have located all these non-camouflaged bunkers before they're needed.

:idea: Best guess: Long term survival will probably require escape to another part of the world ...
rather than months-long living in this vertical tomb shaft. ;)

:bana: If there's no other place in the world for escape,
at least you're already "en-tombed" for The End. :roll:

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:study: Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ge-68.html

"The brothers always insisted they were best friends. They both shared a love for fishing, camping, collecting baseball cards, the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Reds."

"Never married, Donnie did most of the cooking, dishes and laundry while Ronnie cleaned the bathroom and did most of the talking, reported MLive. The brothers cast two votes, had two Social Security numbers but traveled under only one passport."

"Despite their unconventional life, Donnie and Ronnie were clear that they lived their life with no regrets. 'We had fun when we were growing up,' said Ronnie. Donnie echoed the sentiment, 'We've had a nice life.' "

:bana: Fascinating life! (lives, for they were two men, conjoined) ;)

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -pool.html

"Her leg catches the edge of the shelter on her way to the ground she is flipped over before plunging headfirst into the pool."

"Thankfully, the video has a happy ending. With dust still hanging in the air from her collision with the building,
she manages to raise her hands in the air, to the delight of those gathered at the packed party."

No masks are needed (for anyone) when the apparent theme of this pool party
is Darwin's "Survival of the Fittest". :roll:

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:study: Re: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/na ... 2D11666772

"A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at a Washington Redskins home football game said Wednesday
the team name is a symbol of loyalty and courage — not a slur as asserted by critics who want it changed." :o

"My opinion is that's a name that not only the team should keep, but that's a name that's American."

:idea: How interesting that the race represented by the name doesn't find it offensive
... but other races do! A world turning upside down with political correctness?

"We were outlawed during that same period the mascot was created from practicing our own religion
and our own cultures ... That term is associated with getting rid of the Indians." :o

:idea: Good counterpoint? ... but fails the logic: Why would a major sports team choose a name with this association?
This complaint suggests the currently popular trend of redefining history (that accepted in the past is now bad). ;)

:duh Those distant generations long gone! What can we do with them now :?: :!:
Make them roll over in their graves? Or should we atone for their mistakes?
(volcanoes and young maidens come to mind) :roll:


:study: Re: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/natio ... 5aeb487e8d

"Blackout Day, an initiative that calls for Black Americans to only spend their money at Black-owned businesses.
It's getting increased visibility amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice"

:bana: Reasonable concept (in a world turning upside with political correctness),
but oversimplification of business reality: Blacks are also invested in businesses
with non-black (other race) ownership that need similar financial support.
Consider the unintended symbolism: Only blacks are customers? :scratch:

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Re: https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/singles-a ... ing-trend/

"The latest child-rearing fad, co-parenting, is on the rise as singles desperate to have kids
link up to raise children together — romance be damned." :o

:idea: This helps convince that Putin is now the West's leader in family values
... where "mother" and "father" exist in a formal relationship ...
and are called "mother" and "father". ;)

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ition.html

"University of Southern California is still planning to RAISE tuition fees to more than $59,260 -
even though they have cancelled in-person classes until at least Spring 2021"

:idea: If the chorus was allowed to sing, you might hear lament that a college education - on borrowed money -
cannot be repaid for decades ... unless the jobs lost in 2020 reappear and offer the highest starting salaries ever :!:

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