william.scherk

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  1. This comes as a surprise to almost no one, I expect.

     

  2. This comes as a surprise to almost no one, I expect.

     

  3. NTD has a pro-Trump slant.  This live feed may have commercial breaks:

    🔴 LIVE: Joint session of Congress counts Electoral College votes (Jan. 6) | NTD - YouTube

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      One of the NTD commentators suggested that the people who forced their way into the Capitold may be Antifa, "We just don't know at this moment."

      Bullshit.

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  4. NTD has a pro-Trump slant.  This live feed may have commercial breaks:

    🔴 LIVE: Joint session of Congress counts Electoral College votes (Jan. 6) | NTD - YouTube

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      The NTD stream is now useless; they are playing recorded interviews from within the Capitol and from the earlier rally. Not one mention of the fucking shit show in Congress.

       

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  5. NTD has a pro-Trump slant.  This live feed may have commercial breaks:

    🔴 LIVE: Joint session of Congress counts Electoral College votes (Jan. 6) | NTD - YouTube

    1. william.scherk

      william.scherk

      So, crowds of patriotic protesters are inside the Capitol?  Gas-masks in Congress, work suspended. What is going on?

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  6. Here's a couple of videos of interest to Electoral College process mavens ... the first is a brief on the 1960 Presidential Election in Hawaii, and the second is a brief on Contingent Elections. Both from YouTube account Wiki4All.

    (57) 1960 United States Presidential Election In Hawaii - YouTube

    (57) Contingent Election - YouTube

    One fun thing from the Hawaii 1960 video is a couple of snapshots of historic paperwork -- including the "certificates" all banged up with signatures and seals. 

     

  7. I was curious about what happened during the 2017 Joint Session of Congress Electoral Vote counting process, which formulaic phrases were used. I cut a CSPAN excerpt to highlight the disposition of an objection. This is but one objection made. Others came -- four times from another California representative, from Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington state and from Arizona. And again from California.

    (2) WSS Memorial Gardens on Twitter: "January 6, 2017. During the counting of Electoral College votes, an objection from a Representative. See Biden deal with it ... https://t.co/0QWDu8F1bM" / Twitter

  8. I was curious about what happened during the 2017 Joint Session of Congress Electoral Vote counting process, which formulaic phrases were used. I cut a CSPAN excerpt to highlight the disposition of an objection. This is but one objection made. Others came -- four times from another California representative, from Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington state and from Arizona. And again from California.

    (2) WSS Memorial Gardens on Twitter: "January 6, 2017. During the counting of Electoral College votes, an objection from a Representative. See Biden deal with it ... https://t.co/0QWDu8F1bM" / Twitter

  9. Dexamethasone's invention and uses over the last sixty years, via noted vote-suppressing communists 538.

    Its use in women experiencing preterm labour is now "indicated," as they say. It's also first-line treatment for altitude sickness, or so say the extremists in the video ...

    Experimenting with a writing-enhancer called Grammarly. Let's see if it catches the loaded language in this item. This item will then miraculously disappear, the Holy Spirit willing.

    Biden "town hall" snoozefest coming up. I hope they give him some of that dexa meth, enough to liven him up at least.

    On the other hand, never show weakness; give no quarter:

     

  10. Dexamethasone's invention and uses over the last sixty years, via noted vote-suppressing communists 538.

    Its use in women experiencing preterm labour is now "indicated," as they say. It's also first-line treatment for altitude sickness, or so say the extremists in the video ...

    Experimenting with a writing-enhancer called Grammarly. Let's see if it catches the loaded language in this item. This item will then miraculously disappear, the Holy Spirit willing.

    Biden "town hall" snoozefest coming up. I hope they give him some of that dexa meth, enough to liven him up at least.

    On the other hand, never show weakness; give no quarter:

     

  11. Science magazine:

     

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    How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes

    By Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, Catherine MatacicApr. 17, 2020 , 6:45 PM

    [...]

    What follows is a snapshot of the fast-evolving understanding of how the virus attacks cells around the body, especially in the roughly 5% of patients who become critically ill. Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen. Without larger, prospective controlled studies that are only now being launched, scientists must pull information from small studies and case reports, often published at warp speed and not yet peer reviewed. “We need to keep a very open mind as this phenomenon goes forward,” says Nancy Reau, a liver transplant physician who has been treating COVID-19 patients at Rush University Medical Center. “We are still learning.”

    [...]

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    [...]

    How the virus attacks the heart and blood vessels is a mystery, but dozens of preprints and papers attest that such damage is common. A 25 March paper in JAMA Cardiology documented heart damage in nearly 20% of patients out of 416 hospitalized for COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. In another Wuhan study, 44% of 36 patients admitted to the ICU had arrhythmias.

    The disruption seems to extend to the blood itself. Among 184 COVID-19 patients in a Dutch ICU, 38% had blood that clotted abnormally, and almost one-third already had clots, according to a 10 April paper in Thrombosis Research. Blood clots can break apart and land in the lungs, blocking vital arteries—a condition known as pulmonary embolism, which has reportedly killed COVID-19 patients. Clots from arteries can also lodge in the brain, causing stroke. Many patients have “dramatically” high levels of D-dimer, a byproduct of blood clots, says Behnood Bikdeli, a cardiovascular medicine fellow at Columbia University Medical Center.

    “The more we look, the more likely it becomes that blood clots are a major player in the disease severity and mortality from COVID-19,” Bikdeli says.

    Infection may also lead to blood vessel constriction. Reports are emerging of ischemia in the fingers and toes—a reduction in blood flow that can lead to swollen, painful digits and tissue death.

    [...]

     

     

  12. Twitter does a good job most of the time in featuring content from this forum.  Here I tested the embedded tweet function in the OL software. I don't know if topics in the main section of the community forum feature an image, but I will test it.

     

  13. This is weird and wonderful. "A robot inspired by vines can grow 25,000 times its original size." Seeing this brief year-old video made me think of fracking  -- a quasi-organic proboscis sniffing out lucre.

     

  14. "We'll do it LIVE!!" 

    ie, The 5 O'Clock Show November 9 -- Objectivist Living Roundup

    https://www.youtube.com/daemonesk/live

     

  15. The consensus is I was poisoned by Agnes Polonium or her cousin Alotlyke Polonium.

  16. Please give us a sign you might be a more frequent visitor.

  17. Donald Trump will be the next President.