Beth

Vaccine rates are well below average in the ultra-orthodox communities at about 77% and they are closely grouped the risks of measles spreading is higher. Herd immunity should be 95% or greater. Similar numbers in the US this year too. Gaines County in West Texas really suffered. Two children in Texas (unvaccinated, no underlying conditions) died…[Read more]

Thanks Enco. I am very experienced in spotting the narrow-minded and dangerous idiots who get frustrated and angry when finding themselves incapable of responding rationally to facts. I have manned Atheist Ireland tables around the country over the years and encountered all types of weirdos and religious bigots. I usually take a Socratic approach…[Read more]

I don’t think I did Jake, but I did rattle their echo chamber with external inputs. She was willing to listen. My comments would sound forthright and assured rather than combative because I generally only talk about things I have a understanding of. I don’t have “isms” that I believe in. Rather, I have “considered opinions on topics I have made…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, You didn’t even read my questions, though you did answer them despite yourself.

I’ll humor you.

So, this is the sort of thing that goes on around the ICE facility in Portland. It’s very localized. Portland is not burning. It’s simply the sort of protest that has happened innumerable times in America’s history.

Now, there are circumstances when a governor might want to call in Federal help. One…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If the “Blues” are the ones who create the programs that redistribute wealth and the “Reds” are the beneficiaries more than the “Blues”, doesn’t that make the “Blues” dummies?

I suppose it might if the blue states had a way of directly controlling how the red states spend their money. They don’t.

And aren’t the “Blues…

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Portlanders racing out of the city to escape rampaging Antifas, BLMers, and maybe even Hamasers?

Nope. Just the annual Portland marathon going on without a hitch.

I just watched a clip of Trump earlier today condemning the judge who put his militaristic plans for Portland on hold mixed in with the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

The problem with blue cities with high crime rates existing in red states is that they are in red states with state governments that don’t feel like helping any part of the state which isn’t white and conservative.

But wait a minute, you just said before and almost in the same breath that Red States were the “ta…

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“The President’s determination is untethered to the facts.”

The problem with blue cities with high crime rates existing in red states is that they are in red states with state governments that don’t feel like helping any part of the state which isn’t white and conservative.

_Robert_ wrote:
The states with the highest murder/crime rates year after year in the United States are MAGA central. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri. Their small rural towns have insanely high crime rates. Ever drive though rural Alabama? Shit shacks and moldy doublewides covered with MAGA flags. So…

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BTW, we should all be concerned about this deep shift into fascism? (Does this make me Antifa, being anti-fascist?)

Go to her Youtube channel and browse through her videos looking for a pattern. I think you’ll see what I see.

Look, she does what a lot of right wingers do which is to provide a video to support an argument based on one instance without full context. Was there an assault before the assault? Were inflammatory words exchanged? Is this one episode…[Read more]

@PopeBeanie

A+

Strega 🙂

Under Portland’s old commission-style city government, we were governed by some fairly nutty no common sense commissioners who passed experimental laws like the one that made public drug use legal.

My brother, a sociologist by education, said “That’s among the nuttiest things I’ve ever heard. Don’t they know about the broken windows phenomenon?…[Read more]

My friends work as consultants in the “Healthtech” industries and their contracts are up at end of this year. They would have stayed but their contracts are not going to be renewed. It’s almost like companies with contracts and connections to the HSS suddenly don’t want qualified doctors with Masters degrees working there. What they love about…[Read more]