More than 86 percent of healthcare providers surveyed across the US are experiencing shortages of intravenous fluids after Hurricane Helene's rampage took out a manufacturing plant in western North Carolina that makes 60 percent of the country's supply.
IV fluids are used for everything from intravenous rehydration to drug delivery. The plant also made peritoneal dialysis fluids used to treat kidney failure. //
In one bright spot in the current disruptions, fears that Hurricane Milton would disrupt another IV fluid manufacturing plant in Florida were not realized this week. B. Braun Medical’s manufacturing site in Daytona Beach was not seriously impacted by the storm, the company announced, and production resumed normally Friday. Prior to the storm, with the help of the federal government, B. Braun reportedly moved more than 60 truckloads of IV fluid inventory north of Florida for safekeeping. That inventory will be returned to the Daytona facility, according to reporting by the Associated Press.
One would think that removing noncitizens from your voting rolls would be a smart thing to do to ensure a fair election in November—but the Harris-Biden Department of Justice evidently disagrees.
They’re suing the state of Virginia on technical grounds—it’s too close to the election for such procedures, they say. //
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The “quiet period” makes no sense from a legal or moral standpoint. All it does is announce to the public that people who are ineligible to vote can slide in under the radar as long as they do their registration inside that 90 day period. This same DOJ demands states also allow same day registration is limiting their ability to correct any ineligible registrations.
Imagine what would happen if the Feds announced that between 3 am and 6 am, cops are not allowed to be patrolling the streets and no crimes would be investigated. What do you suppose will happen?
Venture capitalist David Magerman, who previously donated $5 million to the University of Pennsylvania, halted his financial support of the institution shortly after the outbreak of the war in Gaza. His decision was prompted by the school’s refusal to take action against the spread of antisemitism on campus and its failure to protect Jewish students from members of the pro-Hamas crowd, which held numerous demonstrations on the premises while threatening Jewish students.
Magerman recently announced that he plans to reallocate the funds he previously sent to UPenn to five Israeli colleges in $1 million increments. These include Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, and Jerusalem College of Technology.
“I don’t see much value generated by giving to American universities. I think that liberal colleges in America are flawed institutions that are doing a poor job of preparing students for the real world,” he told Fox News.
Magerman urged other donors to follow his lead, arguing that universities are not “reformable.”
Asked what his message is to other prominent Jewish donors still contributing to Ivy League schools, Magerman said pointedly, "Stop." He said it's naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are "reformable."
"They're fulfilling the mission they want to fulfill. Their goal, it seems, is to indoctrinate their students to question the validity of Western civilization, to question the value of the Founding Fathers and to criticize Western society. I don't think that's what these philanthropists believe and I don't think that they should be donating money to support propagating that ideology," said Magerman.
Other high-profile donors have taken similar steps. Ross Stevens, CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, canceled a $100 million donation to UPenn in December over similar concerns.
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It's honestly hilarious how much some of this language mirrors the things Republicans have been lambasted for in the past. Anytime a GOP politician even suggests that they will only certify the results if the election is "fair," they are piledriven by the press as promoting "insurrection." Yet, when Democrats do the same thing, the mainstream journalists give a collective shrug.
Raskin wasn't the only one singing that tune, though. Several others with a history of objecting to the Electoral College also mused that things must go "as we expect it to" for them to certify a Trump victory. //
So are Democrats teeing up a claim that election fraud happened and, thus, certification must be delayed? Because if so, that would break every irony meter in existence.
Expectedly, Axios finished out its piece by defending Raskin and his colleagues, claiming that while both parties have objected to certification, it's different when Democrats do it.
She thought that October 7, the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Israel, was the right day to get all dolled up and pretend she's some sort of fashion icon? This speaks directly to the incredibly tone-deaf ways and poor judgment that have come to define Kamala Harris. And it's precisely because of her repeated missteps that the media is trying to come to her rescue. //
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Her priorities are always her. Always. She couldn’t have pushed it back one day? One? Just disgusting.
9:09 AM · Oct 11, 2024
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We’re still finding bodies from the devastating hurricane that destroyed parts of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris was busy posing for Vogue magazine at the same time.
She doesn’t care about Americans.
All she cares about is power.
7:37 AM · Oct 11, 2024
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The hurricane “machine” is climate change.
Cooler ocean temperatures slow hurricane development.
As temps rise, more hurricanes grow.
The Gulf of Mexico is a major location for warming water.
The people who bear responsibility are fossil fuel co’s + the politicians they buy.
4:32 PM · Oct 9, 2024
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Hi there, @AOC. 👋
You seem to like science. So, I figured I would give ya an education about this topic. 📚
I took the liberty to plot the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) for June-August (JJA) for the period 1900 to 2023. The base period used for this analysis is 1991-2020 and JJA was used because that is what the SSTs are to work with in the GoM going into North Atlantic peak hurricane season (August-October) and SSTs are slow to change due to water's high heat capacity.  I'll drop the link to the KNMI Climate Explorer for you to reproduce this chart at your own will. Give that a lil' click-sy and knock yourself out.  https://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi (the bounding box I used was 20-30°N, 80-100°W) The diamonds overlain represent instances when a major hurricane (i.e., a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained wind speeds of ≥111 mph according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale) formed in the GoM. Some years have more than major hurricane in the Gulf, so they're represented by one dot.
A total of 75 hurricanes have either formed or tracked through the GoM since 1900.[1] Of those 75, 40 (53.3%) formed with SSTAs 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 the 1991-2020 mean. That's more than half of the subset.
- [1] 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒, 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑦 (1957) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑙𝑚𝑎 (1966) 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒.
What we can conclude from this analysis is that the formation of major hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico is not contingent on warming SSTs. The Gulf gets warm enough every year to sustain a major hurricane, even of category four or five status. So, higher SSTs aren't going to add much additional effect, especially if you consider the fact tropical cyclone kinematics require far more environmental parameters to be favorable in order for a major hurricane to form (e.g., pre-existing disturbance, low deep-layer [200-850 hPa] vertical wind shear and no dry air / Saharan dust).
You are oversimplifying a very complex issue that you have little understanding about.
But also, how bad off are you that this is what you are saying to campaign volunteers? Are you really saying they don't want to vote for women? //
Really, just so offensive and insulting to black men. Sounds like they're already trying to blame black men for losing as opposed to Kamala just being a lousy candidate. //
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Voting for someone solely based on the color of their skin is a shallow approach that undermines the value of true leadership and character. Judging a candidate on their principles, vision, and ability to lead, rather than relying on racial identity should be the deciding factor.
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Wow. Obama’s message to Black men in PA tonight, per pooler @EricaLG
“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that.”
7:33 PM · Oct 10, 2024. //
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Who is denigrating black folks? Here's a short list...
Who is saying Blacks can't get an ID that no other race has a problem getting?
Who is saying math is racist?
Who is saying reading is racist?
Who is saying testing is racist?
Who is saying criminal laws are racist?
Who is saying bail is racist?
Who is saying you ain't Black if you don't vote like you are told.
Lots of denigrating going on, but is ain't from who Obama wants you to think it is. //
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Reporter:
What did Prime Minister Netanyahu tell you about his plans related to retaliation
Biden: He's coming over to help with the storm
3:05 PM · Oct 10, 2024
Ironically, he's sort of right. Netanyahu is dealing with the "storm" that Obama/Biden/Harris created in the Middle East by continuing to prop up the mullahs. //
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Biden tells Trump to "get a life, man" and "help these people" who were victims of the hurricanes.
Pres. Trump visited NC and GA and raised millions of dollars for the victims even though he is not the one currently in charge of the government.
2:21 PM · Oct 10, 2024 //
He scolded the media for not holding up the narrative enough, saying the public would hold Trump accountable. He also said that, "You, the press, should hold him accountable because you know the truth," pointing his finger at them in an accusatory manner.
"Do you plan to speak with former President Trump at all?" a reporter asked.
"No!" Biden retorted, as he went out the door.
Hold Trump accountable for what? //
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Honored to have 275 incredible linemen from FPL at @TrumpDoral as they get ready to respond to the aftermath of Hurricane #Milton! You are amazing and the Trump Family, and entire state of Florida, appreciates you! Enjoy the rooms - they are the best in Florida! Be safe! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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For the love of God, would someone just ask him if he is happy he stole the 2020 election already?
I want to hear him admit it before he croaks.
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He did admit it. Before it happened. Bragged about it, but.......................He miss spoke or some crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0
Specifically, Judge John Bush said that judges should discern the original understanding of free speech in “linguistical meaning” and “evidence of how Americans ordered their lives” in the 1790s.
The Second Amendment case to which the authors referred was New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the Supreme Court ruled that, among other considerations, gun control laws must be consistent with the “historical” standard of restrictions on firearms.
The primary argument the authors made is that relying solely, or mostly, on historical interpretations of the law to define the scope of free speech is problematic. They contend that taking such an approach could lead to inconsistent, regressive, and ultimately tyrannical rulings that would roll back protections on speech.
“If rules from the 1790s were enforced today, citizens could be jailed for criticizing politicians, public figures could freely use defamation law to punish critics, and schoolchildren would have few if any free speech rights,” the authors stated.
The authors also noted court cases that expanded the right to free speech, specifically a 1943 case where a court “held that the government could not compel students to salute the flag because ‘no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion.’”
They also brought up a 1971 case that “held that the government could not ban vulgar or offensive speech.”
Yet, in the 17th and 19th centuries, the government had no problem with restricting speech in a way that seems foreign to us today:
Historically, the wrong kind of speech could land you in jail. Laws criminalizing blasphemy, government criticism, tepid sexual content, and other speech viewed to be bad or harmful were commonplace at the country’s founding.
Another historical example the authors offer is the prohibition of abolitionist speech in Southern states, showing how restrictions on speech were used to uphold oppressive institutions such as slavery. //
any court decision should be made through the lens of liberty, seeking to ensure the state does not infringe on any of our rights without an exceedingly good reason. The Framers sought to create a system of governance that would make it difficult for the state to impose laws or policies that make it more intrusive in our lives. The goal was to cultivate a society free from oppressive and unnecessary restrictions imposed with the threat of government violence.
The north star for any court should be liberty, regardless of whether it is in line with historical precedent. Otherwise, those seeking to violate our rights will find it far easier to do so.
When the government is this big, this overbearing, this out of control, the opportunities for graft likewise grow out of control too - and the attraction to people who are seeking that kind of graft grows out of control along with it.
That's where you get the federal government sending almost $400k to a Chinese company for one magic bus and that same company shoveling campaign contributions to the politicians who made the funding happen.
One hand washes the other. //
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Electric buses are having issues. An article from Government Technology (govtech.com) on March 2024:
The director of the New York Association for Pupil Transportation said 20 out of 100 electric school buses are down on any given day, due to problems with the buses or with their charging devices.
The article goes on to say:
Traditional diesel buses, for instance, have a failure rate of 1 or 2 percent, meaning that out of a fleet of 100 buses, one or two would be down for repairs on a given day, said David Christopher, executive director
And the electric buses cost about $100,000 more per bus.
REPORTER: Is the increase in tornados [caused by] global warming?
DESANTIS: I think you can back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure, and especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of (looks at the man behind him), what was it? About 950 millibars when it hit?
Which, I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960, and the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the State of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure 892 millibars.
It totally wiped out the Keys. We've never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the State of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928, the Okichobi hurricane. Killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane, but even ones like Ian, it wasn't anything close to that. Yeah, I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something. There's nothing new under the sun. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it's something that we'll continue to deal with.
REPORTER: In your history, sir, how many storms form as rapidly as they have between Helena and Milton.
DESANTIS: I think most people remember 2004 where it seemed like we had them every other week in 2004. Then there's also time period. From 2006-16, we had no hurricanes at all in Florida. There's also been times where we had a lot. In the 1940s, we were hit a lot. Now, more recently, we've had a spate for more. That's just kind of the nature of it, but this really does, it has a lot of similarities to 2004 in terms of the season.
His new film “Line in the Sand,” however, may go down as his biggest achievement yet, as it is a powerful, moving look at the border crisis, the human trafficking that goes with it, and the moral rot at the center. /)
I asked him what surprised him most while making this film, and he said it was the endless grift:
All the people that are on the take, all the people that were making money off of this. All the people that were not willing to do the right thing because they wanted to benefit. I don't know if that was surprising—but it was shocking to hear what people were saying.
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Perhaps the most interesting thing he revealed, however, is just how much money is involved in perpetuating the problem and how many people on both sides of the boundary are benefitting from it—even as it endangers our country and causes misery for untold thousands (millions?).
Although O’Keefe didn’t get especially political in the film, the reality that he deftly portrays is one of a humanitarian disaster in large part caused by the corrupt Biden-Harris regime, aided and abetted by NGOs and others profiting from pain.
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This is not journalism. It's naked activism backed by an insane DEI apparatus that seeks to control the flow of information. The fact that CBS News even has a "Race and Culture Department" that is pre-vetting interview questions is an incredible breach of journalistic ethics. Yet, it's Dokoupil who is being accused of violating editorial standards.
Naturally, not a single mainstream press "media report" such as CNN's Brian Stelter has mentioned any of these scandals. Between this and the editing falsehoods by "60 Minutes," where a completely unrelated answer was cut and pasted to a question Harris flubbed, CBS News should not be considered a "news" network. At the very least, Republican politicians need to blackball them.
In late August, Mark Memmott, the senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, sent an email to all CBS News employees reminding them to “be careful with some terms when we talk or write about the news” from Israel and Gaza. One of the words on Memmott’s list of terms was Jerusalem.
Of Jerusalem, Memmott wrote: “Do not refer to it as being in Israel.”
He continued, in a note sent to thousands of journalists at the network: “Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel’s capital. But its status is disputed. The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its ‘eternal and undivided’ capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem—occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war—as the capital of a future state.”
Jerusalem’s status is indeed contested. For instance, the United States’ embassy in Israel is in Jerusalem, and the Jordanian Islamic Waqf has custody of its holy sites. But acknowledging the competing claims on different parts of the city, or declining to refer to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, are one thing. Denying that it is in Israel at all is quite another.
In which country is the Israeli Knesset, the home of the Israeli prime minister and the home of the Israeli president, located? The answer to that question is self-evident. Except, it seems, at CBS. In the rest of the United States, the answer is clear: Since 1995, when Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, the government has recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Bill Whitaker actually did a good job of asking some probing questions, and Kamala gave some ridiculous answers, including one incredible word salad about Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They released a clip on it early, but then when they did the whole interview on Monday, the answer had changed and been edited. //
anon-tf71 an hour ago
Can we sue CBS for election interference?
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Well, in New York, they would have to make some errors in their tax returns by deducting the expenses associated with the interview as a business expense instead of a contribution in kind to the Harris campaign. They would then be misdemeanor “bookkeeping errors”. Then, after the statute of limitations expires, the DA can declare that the statute was extended for a year for “reasons”, and then add them all together, declare them to now be felonies because “election interference”, and try CBS. So, yes. I would say sure, try them for election interference.
Many of the residents we spoke with lost their homes to landslides and flooding during Hurricane Helene.
The Daily Signal asked people a simple question: “What do you want to say to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris?”
An overwhelming majority said that they are frustrated that the U.S. government is spending billions of dollars abroad instead of helping American citizens first.
Frank Butera, a business owner in Lake Lure, said, “It’s nice that you’re helping the illegal immigrants, but it’s time to help us people that paid taxes all our life.”
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He's right, of course
The importance of using the active voice cannot be emphasized enough.
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It appears my idea was stolen by you.
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I suspect about 50% of us came here to make that post. I first came across it from a list of 'fumblerules', I think collected by William Safire circa 1980, that included :
Don't use no double negatives.
Sentences should a verb.
One will never have used the future perfect in one's entire life.
Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read and figure out.
I've told you a thousand times : avoid hyperbole.
(plus quite a bit more not currently coming to mind) //
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"I have searched for a word that refers to itself."
In a logic text book I once read the word is "homologous". "Heterologous" denotes a word that does not refer to itself. Clearly, there are no other possibilities.
"Short" is a short word, and so is homologous; "long" is not a long word and so is heterologous. But what about "Heterologous" itself? If "heterologous" is heterologous then it does not refer to itself and so must be homologous. But if it is homologous then it does refer to itself and so is heterologous.
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There's a Dr Gödel here who would like to have a word with you. //
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