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mjc
Discussion: Keeping track of the evolving Trumpocracy. Today's topic: 1st class DOJ weaponization.

I do wish people would stop using the terms "audit" and "housecleaning" to describe what's going on.  Real auditors find out how a process actually works, and then work to improve it.  Housecleaning (interior) generally does not involve a power washer, a sledge hammer, or a match.

Throwing the baby out with the bath water in every instance i've read about.  Though figurative babies in most cases other than USAID and potentially HHS.

Yes, these places need actual audits, which raises the question, why the first step was firing a dozen or so Inspectors General.

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DaveSchmidt
Discussion: RFK Jr.: Now The Weak Can Die And Make More Room For The Strong

joanne said:

I tripped this morning, falling forwards and to the right. Brained myself on the (closed) toilet, and smashing my right elbow and wrist. Not fun and a heck of a lot pain.

So sorry to hear that, joanne. You give MOL discussions so much gravity, it’s a crime that gravity turned around and did this to you.

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mjc
Discussion: RFK Jr.: Now The Weak Can Die And Make More Room For The Strong

fwiw, too much personal information about "childhood diseases":

I had a nice light case of chicken pox at the "right" age.  Problem was, i passed it to my young adult sister and her infant.  They were both very very sick (picture a feverish 3-month-old with chicken pox lesions in his mouth).  With chicken pox, you also have the possibility of the virus reactivating in middle or old age - voila shingles.  With vaccination, there's just less disease out there putting people at risk.

Measles at 16, a miserable couple of weeks, high fever, delirium.  Not recommended, even without complications.

With no MMR vaccination (didn't exist when i was a kid), i was susceptible to rubella when pregnant.  Also not recommended, obviously.

tl;dr:

To quote our PVW, above: "What if there were a way to expose your body to pathogens in a safe, controlled manner so that you would develop an immune response without actually getting sick?"

Really makes sense when you think of it that way, doesn't it.

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ridski
Discussion: The Rose Garden and White House happenings: American voters decided

DaveSchmidt said:

mtierney said:

Special language joke for you all.

*Shakes head*

Why waste all that blood writing YOU’RE when adding only ’ and e will do?

That's the difference between an editor and a typesetter, ladles and jellyspoons.

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PVW
Discussion: RFK Jr.: Now The Weak Can Die And Make More Room For The Strong

You've admitted you don't know much about vaccines, so two points you should be aware of:

- Vaccines are tested for safety. Rigorously so. People who say otherwise are lying.

- As I pointed out to you in an earlier post on this thread, you don't have to literally ban vaccines to create a dangerous situation:

This suggests an incorrect, or at least incomplete, understanding of how immunity across large groups works. No vaccine 100% stops infection and transmission, so it's not just about individuals getting a vaccine to build up their own immunity, but about enough people doing it so that you don't get breakouts of infections. When enough people are getting vaccinated, a few opting out isn't an issue -- any infections that start to spread quickly run out of viable hosts. If too few people get vaccinated, though, infections can spread into epidemics.
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DaveSchmidt
Discussion: RFK Jr.: Now The Weak Can Die And Make More Room For The Strong

tjohn said:

Is this an aptitude or something that is taught in journalism school?

What a generous question. Probably a bit of both, plus the recommended daily allowance of Thurber.

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Formerlyjerseyjack
Discussion: Random landscapes

Winter fog on the Delaware River.

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Jaytee
Discussion: Keeping track of the evolving Trumpocracy. Today's topic: 1st class DOJ weaponization.

I feel so bad about the NPS and the dismissed staff. What the actual **** are we doing in this country? 
There will be a huge protest in DC on Monday. Buses leaving from NYC and Newark early Monday morning. I’m driving down.

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DaveSchmidt
Discussion: The Rose Garden and White House happenings: American voters decided

ridski said:

That's the difference between an editor and a typesetter, ladles and jellyspoons.

We stand on the plasma of giants.

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