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A Covid Death? The Bureaucracy DecidesInside America’s mortality misinformation crisis.I’m a former death certificate clerk. I’ve spent nearly 7 years in the funeral home industry and processed thousands of death certificates. I’m appalled that death certificate data is codified for use as our national mortality statistics.Aside from tracking age, gender, and place of death of the deceased, using death certificates for anything beyond closing bank accounts is a disservice to society. With the rare exception of a medical certifier who is especially conscientious and thorough in his certificate completion practices—or the special circumstances of car accidents, overdoses, and suicide and...

Danny Venderamini's main site.Vendramini thesis on Youtube. All Neanderthal images here courtesy of www.themandus.org This thing starts off with Danny Vendramini figuring out something which should have been figured out 100 years ago i.e.. that (other than for the larger brain area) a Neanderthal skull is a near perfect match for ape profiles and a very bad match for one of ours: That is consistent with what we know about Neanderthal DNA i.e. that it's no closer to ours than to an ape's. The funny thing is that Vendramini did not tell his artist to produce the world's scariest monster,...

RUSH: Now, there's more outrageous, just embarrassing stuff out there. I can't really believe it. I feel like I'm still watching the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary show with this next one. Have you heard about Marie Harf at the State Department and what she said? She was on MSNBC last night, and we have a ban on all audio from MSNBC. She was on with Chris Matthews. Even Matthews... He was doing everything he could to agree with her and support her, but even he thought he was listening to a lunatic. Marie Harf said, "We cannot win the...

(CNSNews.com) – A Republican and a Democrat agreed on Sunday that the government may have to take a larger ownership stake in the nation’s banks. But the Republican lawmaker seemed to go even further than the Democrat in backing the idea of nationalization. “Let’s talk” about nationalizing the banks, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said on ABC’s “This Week.” But she also said the nation is not ready to “move to the point of a formalized nationalized banking program yet.” Rep. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who appeared on “This Week” with Waters, said the nation’s banks are in so much trouble,...

Washington (dpa) - Barack Obama Wednesday charged that the Bush administration has failed to confront the threat of nuclear terrorism and vowed that if elected president, he would lead the effort to corral errant nuclear materials and stay one step ahead of biological and cyber threats. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, aimed to bolster his credentials on national security with the gathering organized by his campaign - billed as a summit on 21st Century threats at Purdue University in Indiana. While Obama is seen as strong on major domestic issues such as health care and the economy, polls...

Geez, Senator Lott is really unhappy with "talk radio" and some of his colleagues: The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in “younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the bill.” I think that this is a complaint that the old days were more fun for senators, and that the senators especially don't like the new media's ability to inform, inspire and direct public opinion. The end result of...

Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”

Justice Stephen G. Breyer says the Supreme Court must promote the political rights of minorities and look beyond the Constitution's text when necessary to ensure that "no one gets too powerful." Breyer, a Clinton appointee who has brokered many of the high court's 5-4 rulings, spoke in a televised interview that aired one day before justices hear a key case on race in schools. He said judges must consider the practical impact of a decision to ensure democratic participation. "We're the boundary patrol," Breyer said, reiterating themes in his 2005 book that argue in favor of race preferences in university...

<p>An article I posted earlier has been inadvertently removed from the board. Please return it as it was very important.</p> <p>Also, for some reason, my earlier account is inactive. Please resolve.</p>

I was just reading Article 2 of James Madison & Ben Franklin's opus magnus and started counting the number of times that masculine gender is indicated. Hmmm, I doesn't appear that Hildabeast (or "Law of the Sea" Condi for that matter) can even be president.: Article II.Section. 1. Clause 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows ... Clause 6: In Case of the Removal of...

In a May 4 editorial, the Wall Street Journal accused Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry of having a “paranoid” worldview and engaging in “xenophobia” because he has been talking about taking action to open foreign markets to U.S. exports, revive American manufacturing, and regain some of the 2.6 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. I will not discuss Sen. Kerry’s proposals, which are far too timid to make much of a dent in the massive and growing U.S. trade deficit – likely to hit $600 billion this election year. Instead, this column will examine what the WSJ’s extremist rhetoric...

Introduction One of the most attractive features of libertarianism is that it is basically a very simple ideology. Maybe even simpler than Marxism, since you don't have to learn foreign words like "proletariat". This brief outline will give you most of the tools you need to hit the ground running as a freshly indoctrinated libertarian ideologue. Go forth and proselytize! Philosophy In the beginning, man dwelt in a state of Nature, until the serpent Government tempted man into Initial Coercion. Government is the Great Satan. All Evil comes from Government, and all Good from the Market, according to the Ayatollah...

The year 2003 dramatically and dolefully illustrated Lord Acton's famous dictum that absolute power corrupts absolutely. An almighty United States, unrestrained by any rival, international body, or world opinion, bestrode the globe, a belligerent colossus determined to monopolize global oil reserves and use its vast military power to crush lesser nations or malefactors that disturbed the Pax Americana. For America's hard right — a curious farrago of Armageddon-seeking southern Protestants; neo-conservative supporters of Israel's right-wing Likud party; and the military-industrial-petroleum complex — the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy of world domination, and utter contempt for international laws and old allies,...

WASHINGTON -- Look who's talking. Vice President Dick Cheney is accusing the press of "cheap shot journalism" in covering the Bush administration, claiming "people don't check the facts." Cheney is miffed over a raft of stories about his ties to Halliburton Co., a Houston-based energy conglomerate, which is a major recipient of U.S. contracts to rebuild Iraq. While he's lecturing about accuracy, Cheney should do some fact-checking of his own statements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction weapons. The vice president's prewar chant about such weapons helped lead the nation into war. Now, despite an intense hunt for that arsenal...