I just read through all the posts in this thread and while I found some --opinions balanced there were a lot of screeds and conspiracy theories shared and gathering momentum. I am sad for this. I...

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This conversation and back and forth is actually more complicated than it seems in knowing what the truth is. Zeno is trying to bring some nuance defending this China study but it is true that the...

Can your thinking be improved? You say “The Chinese” and that you cannot "look at this without thinking … communist goals for social control.”


Thinking in broad generalities, and an impulsive...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA_TIAU228
The Lincoln Project, Dec 16, 2020

Never Happens Here

The danger is real. The threat is now.

In a Dark Time


In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between...

Here is a new paper on non-pharmaceutical interventions NPI's), from the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In this study, social distancing comes up as best, but masks also reduce...

Your inside sources need to blow the whistle and loudly. Until then, with evidence, they are whistling dixie. To no avail. It is irresponsible to make such a declaration without evidence and without...

1914 Truce


Christmas Eve in the trenches of France, the guns were quiet.
The dead lay still in No Man’s Land –
Freddie, Franz, Friedrich, Frank . . .
The moon, like a medal, hung in the...

There is a huge disconnect , folks don't know or care or both and it's killing people. Talk about Russian roulette .
will you be the one who dies or will you kill people because you're spreading...

Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen talks to CBSN about pardons and ongoing investigations


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I agree, it does. But I think the simple answer is sure, they are. The other binary choice, don't mandate, seems worse.

The real problem is that our culture - and maybe most cultures - don't...

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There is a strong statistical correlation between the number of teachers in a county and the quantity of alcoholic beverages consumed in that county. Obviously, teachers are drunkards.

It is also...

I've always relied on observation, communication, and intuition with my past cats. It seems hard to say based only on what you shared. And I'm no expert... it might be a common telltale behavior...

This is a documentary on wild turkeys which is very enjoyable. You can see it online free:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvccpd

Having followed the Lincoln Project in the media and some of its leaders, I would not call them conservatives. They are centrists.

December 22

203 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here.

3 Sonoma County Residents Deaths were attributed to Covid-19

The hospital capacity dashboard is still...

The Winter Of Listenings

No one but me by the fire,
my hands burning
red in the palms while
the night wind carries
everything away outside.

All this petty worry
while the great cloak

now come on, MM, when someone posts something about an Irishman, a priest, and a druid who go into a bar.... do you answer with a discussion of Catholicism and its sordid history with the Celts?

I'm not surprised. I think the internet you use for searching is different than most of us use :wink: google: About 4,420,000 results<nobr style="color: rgb(112, 117, 122); font-family:...

211 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_30/

They still have not updated the...

What if the American League fans had reacted to the Tampa Bay Rays loss of the World Series with the response of the Republicans are using to Trump's loss to Biden and the Democrats. The AL fans...

3150 people with side effects to the level of "Health Impact Event" [for Dec 18 alone, not the week as the headline wants it] out of 112,807 vaccinated that day. That's 2.8%. To say that "the...

"Hyperorthodoxy" is a word in the dictionary and sometimes used for "fundamentalism" in a religious context.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Hyperorthodoxy

'The emergence of a third party is among us' - Interview with Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson.

"The info text says:
Joe Biden won the US presidential election with 306 electoral votes. But...

RE:

OurFreeSociety, I seriously doubt the Video you are referring to is from any 'government', either overt or covert. It is so much more likely to be comedians than 'govt, IMO.

Comedians with...

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.


Then the...

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The Juice Media, Mar 13, 2020

Honest Government Ad | Coronavirus: Flatten The Curve

The Government has made an ad about the Coronavirus and it's...

Now, we have something to agree on. Making extreme arguments to get there wasn't really necessary. The goal should be to get money out of politics so decisions can be made for the good of all. At...

i passed along verbatim the context of comment by an old friend and political colleague.

the point to be made here is that we all need to be aware that the dem/repub divide is entirely misleading...

A friend sent me the video clip in an email.

I thought to do an internet search to see if I could link it here and I did find the URL. It is on Twitter, which I am not a member, but I was able to...

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December 14

322 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_35

5...

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SavageNationLiberty, Jan 18, 2013

CNN Host Confronts Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Calling ObamaCare Fascism...

Election Chaos Fuels Campaign for National Popular Vote to Elect U.S. President
Democracy Now, December 15, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris officially won...

December 16

606 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here.https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_35
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Lost cash found on Robinson/Leland.
Contact [email protected]

Excerpt from Little Gidding


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the...

December 14

154 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_35

2...

The most effective way to defund the Republican Party is to boycott Conservatives' businesses. Do the right thing and find alternatives. Shopping at Community Market instead of Whole Foods is a good...

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Two vaccines are available that protect against 36 common pneumococcal bacterial strains. If you are 65 or older, have asthma or certain conditions, you can get them (I have). My partner tried to...

Most covid related deaths have NOT been patients who were on ventilators. And recently the covid related deaths have surpassed those from other causes such as heart disease. Again, how do you...

Are you saying that you are a medical doctor providing this "slow medicine" service? As far as I know, from a financial aspect only, a 60-90 minute visit would be incredibly prohibitive and not...

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The Vote



My eyes wing out over misted fields
Dappled with islands of snow geese and sandhill cranes
I’m in my car making calls
To Hispanics in Arizona: “Your vote counts!”
This is our...

When, as a nurse, do you recall refrigeration trucks lined up outside of hospitals for the purpose of storing dead bodies because the morgues were beyond capacity?

When, in your lifetime, do you...

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<yt-formatted-string>MSNBC, Dec 13, 2020

Memo to Trump: 'Drop Your Hopeless Lawsuits That Are Tearing At The Heart of American Democracy'

Rev. Al...