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Hmmm...? I wonder why not?
Especially when the topic is in reference to something relevant to a particular individual? In my opinion, that tells me that the OP likes to be in control and his/her post is the only one that matters and prefers not to interact. Of course, that is the OP's perrogotive and I respect that.
I would like to say that I do live by my belief in Karma and I can only TRY to be the best person I can be on a daily basis. This doesn't mean that I lose my right to my opinion. I don't believe that having an opinion, that another doesn't agree with, means that I'm a bad person or that I'm causing harm by stating my opinion. When someone doesn't agree with another's comment, we are all allowed freedom of speech, so why not disagree with that comment? We can, after all, agree to disagree, right? So my point is, that quietly insinuating hypocrity based on one's opinion, is not an act of violence nor should that be considered harmful or hateful or inhuman. I can't see why this would be considered something that would cause bad karma or how a simple comment is determined to be "bad karma" and why not have a mature dialogue if there were questions/comments and welcome communication?
I don't get it...
Especially when the topic is in reference to something relevant to a particular individual? In my opinion, that tells me that the OP likes to be in control and his/her post is the only one that matters and prefers not to interact. Of course, that is the OP's perrogotive and I respect that.
I would like to say that I do live by my belief in Karma and I can only TRY to be the best person I can be on a daily basis. This doesn't mean that I lose my right to my opinion. I don't believe that having an opinion, that another doesn't agree with, means that I'm a bad person or that I'm causing harm by stating my opinion. When someone doesn't agree with another's comment, we are all allowed freedom of speech, so why not disagree with that comment? We can, after all, agree to disagree, right? So my point is, that quietly insinuating hypocrity based on one's opinion, is not an act of violence nor should that be considered harmful or hateful or inhuman. I can't see why this would be considered something that would cause bad karma or how a simple comment is determined to be "bad karma" and why not have a mature dialogue if there were questions/comments and welcome communication?
I don't get it...
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Impeachment inquiry launched into Joe Biden - implicated in widespread influence-peddling operation
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Comments on That Blog Remain Closed.
I've opted to leave it as a pristine example of what it is.
However.
I have neither the desire nor intent of stifling the exchange of ideas.
I have never before closed comments on any of my blogs, nor deleted a comment.
Any comments pertaining to it (or my accompanying blog, 'Coffee Talk') are welcome here.
I've opted to leave it as a pristine example of what it is.
However.
I have neither the desire nor intent of stifling the exchange of ideas.
I have never before closed comments on any of my blogs, nor deleted a comment.
Any comments pertaining to it (or my accompanying blog, 'Coffee Talk') are welcome here.
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Hey Y'all Canucks...HAPPY CANADA DAY!
Yep. The Dominion Of Canada was formed July 1, 1867.
So this is like their Squeamish-Centennial.
Or something like that. I think.
O.K...ya got me. I put in 'Squeamish-Centennial' cuz I couldn't spell the real thing to save my life.
Deal with it.
Whatever it is, and for that matter whatever a Dominion is
...
PUT 'EM TOGETHER
AND GIVE IT UP FOR THE CANUCKS, Y'ALL!
YouTube When It's Springtime In The Rockies - Sons Of The Pioneers
Canucks can't resist that song & vid
It turns 'em all warm & fuzzy inside....
So this is like their Squeamish-Centennial.
Or something like that. I think.
O.K...ya got me. I put in 'Squeamish-Centennial' cuz I couldn't spell the real thing to save my life.
Deal with it.
Whatever it is, and for that matter whatever a Dominion is
...PUT 'EM TOGETHER
AND GIVE IT UP FOR THE CANUCKS, Y'ALL!
YouTube When It's Springtime In The Rockies - Sons Of The Pioneers
Canucks can't resist that song & vid
It turns 'em all warm & fuzzy inside....
Trump's disapproval rating hits all time high & 1/2 of the USA urges impeachment.
Trump, officially the worst US president in history, is increasingly being recognized by the public as such.
With the recent wave of guilty pleas and findings of his appointees and associates, his disapproval rating
has sunk to a new low, and even Republicans are finally beginning to see the light.
Today from the NY Daily News;
With the recent wave of guilty pleas and findings of his appointees and associates, his disapproval rating
has sunk to a new low, and even Republicans are finally beginning to see the light.
Today from the NY Daily News;
In response to:
President Trump's disapproval hits a high as half the country supports impeachment
By Denis Slattery
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
Aug 31, 2018 | 9:30 AM
President Trump's disapproval hits a high as half the country supports impeachment
President Trump has a 60% disapproval rate among Americans, while special counsel Robert Mueller has the backing of a clear majority, according to a new poll.
President Trump is not winning any popularity contests.
The commander-in-chief’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60% , according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out Friday. Only 36% of those polled said they approve of Trump’s job performance.
ABC News noted that Trump’s average approval rating since he entered the White House is the lowest of any modern president since the 1940s.
Trump, however, recently bragged about his popularity among Republicans last by tweeting out an incorrect approval rating.
“Over 90% approval rating for your all time favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party and 52% overall,” Trump tweeted. “This despite all of the made up stories by the Fake News Media trying endlessly to make me look as bad and evil as possible. Look at the real villains please!”
A poll released by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News last week found that Trump had a 44% approval and 52% disapproval rating among general voters.
Friday’s poll found that even among Republicans, only 78% give Trump’s efforts in the White House a thumbs up.
The survey also found that half the public back Congress initiating impeachment proceedings against Trump.
The stunning poll numbers come after a flurry of legal activity in Trump’s inner orbit. Last week, his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and implicated the President in a scheme to pay off women alleging affairs.
His former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was also convicted of tax and bank fraud.
And support for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation stands at 63%, despite Trump’s attempts to discredit the probe. Fifty-two percent of Americans strongly support the federal inquiry into Russian election interference and possible connections between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Trump has repeatedly attempted to smear Mueller and his team of investigators by painting them as politically biased and frequently referring to the investigation as a “witch hunt.”
According to the new poll, 61% of Americans believe that if Cohen’s admissions are true, Trump broke the law. Fifty-three percent also think Trump has obstructed the Mueller investigation in some way.
Also troubling for the President, the majority of Americans, 66%, oppose a pardon for Manafort. Even among Republicans, 45% are against the idea.
And when it comes to Trump’s dispute with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, 62% of respondents back the former Alabama senator. The President has publicly berated Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, which eventually led to Mueller’s appointment.
Sixty-four percent also oppose the idea of Trump firing Sessions.
The poll was conducted from Aug. 26 to 29 and included 1,003 adults. The margin of error is 3.6 points.
President Trump's disapproval hits a high as half the country supports impeachment
By Denis Slattery
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
Aug 31, 2018 | 9:30 AM
President Trump's disapproval hits a high as half the country supports impeachment
President Trump has a 60% disapproval rate among Americans, while special counsel Robert Mueller has the backing of a clear majority, according to a new poll.
President Trump is not winning any popularity contests.
The commander-in-chief’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60% , according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out Friday. Only 36% of those polled said they approve of Trump’s job performance.
ABC News noted that Trump’s average approval rating since he entered the White House is the lowest of any modern president since the 1940s.
Trump, however, recently bragged about his popularity among Republicans last by tweeting out an incorrect approval rating.
“Over 90% approval rating for your all time favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party and 52% overall,” Trump tweeted. “This despite all of the made up stories by the Fake News Media trying endlessly to make me look as bad and evil as possible. Look at the real villains please!”
A poll released by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News last week found that Trump had a 44% approval and 52% disapproval rating among general voters.
Friday’s poll found that even among Republicans, only 78% give Trump’s efforts in the White House a thumbs up.
The survey also found that half the public back Congress initiating impeachment proceedings against Trump.
The stunning poll numbers come after a flurry of legal activity in Trump’s inner orbit. Last week, his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and implicated the President in a scheme to pay off women alleging affairs.
His former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was also convicted of tax and bank fraud.
And support for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation stands at 63%, despite Trump’s attempts to discredit the probe. Fifty-two percent of Americans strongly support the federal inquiry into Russian election interference and possible connections between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Trump has repeatedly attempted to smear Mueller and his team of investigators by painting them as politically biased and frequently referring to the investigation as a “witch hunt.”
According to the new poll, 61% of Americans believe that if Cohen’s admissions are true, Trump broke the law. Fifty-three percent also think Trump has obstructed the Mueller investigation in some way.
Also troubling for the President, the majority of Americans, 66%, oppose a pardon for Manafort. Even among Republicans, 45% are against the idea.
And when it comes to Trump’s dispute with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, 62% of respondents back the former Alabama senator. The President has publicly berated Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, which eventually led to Mueller’s appointment.
Sixty-four percent also oppose the idea of Trump firing Sessions.
The poll was conducted from Aug. 26 to 29 and included 1,003 adults. The margin of error is 3.6 points.
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I am having a major time trying to delete...this new format sucks...lol...
OR perhaps I am just blonde...lol...
What bothers you?
OR perhaps I am just blonde...lol...
What bothers you?
No, it's not just like the flu
In response to:
Is the new coronavirus like flu? No. It kills 26 times more – Portugal
March 6, 2020
The Director-General of Health, Graça Freitas, compared the appearance of the new coronavirus subtype, Covid-19, to the outbreak of a common flu, saying that the Directorate-General for Health would be working withwith a scenario identical to that which existed in 2009, when influenza A – also known as Influenza A / H1N1. The pandemic took less than a month to arrive in Portugal and caused 122 deaths in the country, with 166,922 cases registered until August 2010 – when the end of the pandemic was declared.
The data say, however, that the new type of coronavirus is not only a disease that spreads faster than common flu or influenza A, but is also a more lethal virus.
Three times more viral than a common flu
A common flu has a transmissibility of 1.3 points, which means that every 10 infected people pass the disease to 13 people. The number is used to measure the potential of an epidemic, translating the degree of reproduction of the disease: the higher the number, the greater the degree of exposure and threat of the disease.
In 2009, the H1N1 pandemic had a transmissibility of 1.5 and could not be contained, with estimates suggesting that 11–21% of the world's population has been infected. Initial studies on the new coronavirus, Covid-19, pointed to a 2-3 point transmissibility, more than double the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, which today is just one of the four types of common flu.
A graph showing the evolution of COVID-19 and H1N1 in its first 31 days shows that three times more cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in relation to influenza A in the first 31 days.
But the latest mathematical model by researchers at Xiamen University in China, published in the scientific journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty points to estimates of transmission of isolated surfaces in humans of 2.3 and 3.58 in person-to-person transmissions – which explains the dizzying rise in the number of cases of infection.
This last number, the most worrying, translates into a transmissibility almost three times greater than a common flu and concerns the introduction of an affected individual in susceptible environments: closed spaces, with a large population or without ventilation. For comparison, common flu infected 20 to 30 million people in the European Union last year.
In comparison with known outbreaks of other coronavirus subtypes, the transmissibility of Covid-19 in environments is greater than that seen in 2012 with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), from 0.8 to 1.3, but less than that recorded in 2002 with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 2.9 points.
Covid-19 is 26 times more deadly than a common flu
Although H1N1 affected between 700 million and 1.4 billion people, its mortality rate was, for the proportion of the disease, relatively low: between 0.01 and 0.08%, with estimates of 150 to 575 thousand deaths. In relation to the peak of H1N1, which had mortality rates of 0.4% in its early stages, the new coronavirus is seven times more deadly, with mortality rates of 2.5% in the first 31 days.
Is the new coronavirus like flu? No. It kills 26 times more – Portugal
March 6, 2020
The Director-General of Health, Graça Freitas, compared the appearance of the new coronavirus subtype, Covid-19, to the outbreak of a common flu, saying that the Directorate-General for Health would be working withwith a scenario identical to that which existed in 2009, when influenza A – also known as Influenza A / H1N1. The pandemic took less than a month to arrive in Portugal and caused 122 deaths in the country, with 166,922 cases registered until August 2010 – when the end of the pandemic was declared.
The data say, however, that the new type of coronavirus is not only a disease that spreads faster than common flu or influenza A, but is also a more lethal virus.
Three times more viral than a common flu
A common flu has a transmissibility of 1.3 points, which means that every 10 infected people pass the disease to 13 people. The number is used to measure the potential of an epidemic, translating the degree of reproduction of the disease: the higher the number, the greater the degree of exposure and threat of the disease.
In 2009, the H1N1 pandemic had a transmissibility of 1.5 and could not be contained, with estimates suggesting that 11–21% of the world's population has been infected. Initial studies on the new coronavirus, Covid-19, pointed to a 2-3 point transmissibility, more than double the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, which today is just one of the four types of common flu.
A graph showing the evolution of COVID-19 and H1N1 in its first 31 days shows that three times more cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in relation to influenza A in the first 31 days.
But the latest mathematical model by researchers at Xiamen University in China, published in the scientific journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty points to estimates of transmission of isolated surfaces in humans of 2.3 and 3.58 in person-to-person transmissions – which explains the dizzying rise in the number of cases of infection.
This last number, the most worrying, translates into a transmissibility almost three times greater than a common flu and concerns the introduction of an affected individual in susceptible environments: closed spaces, with a large population or without ventilation. For comparison, common flu infected 20 to 30 million people in the European Union last year.
In comparison with known outbreaks of other coronavirus subtypes, the transmissibility of Covid-19 in environments is greater than that seen in 2012 with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), from 0.8 to 1.3, but less than that recorded in 2002 with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 2.9 points.
Covid-19 is 26 times more deadly than a common flu
Although H1N1 affected between 700 million and 1.4 billion people, its mortality rate was, for the proportion of the disease, relatively low: between 0.01 and 0.08%, with estimates of 150 to 575 thousand deaths. In relation to the peak of H1N1, which had mortality rates of 0.4% in its early stages, the new coronavirus is seven times more deadly, with mortality rates of 2.5% in the first 31 days.
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