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Fingers crossed, but so far it has been smoke free in and around Seattle. But for the rest of the state, it’s already there. So I think the City of Seattle’s Wildfire Smoke Guide is pretty good. Alot of it is pretty basic, but it’s a good start.

And speaking of things that can make it tough to breathe, get your COVID-19 vaccine today if you haven’t yet.

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    I stayed away from the Paul-Fauci dustup earlier this week. The allegation hinged on one’s definition of “gain of function”.

    Regardless, WaPo is out today with an opinion piece about it. WTF was the US doing funding Chinese research of this type, it fairly asks.

    But it doesn’t matter which “gain of function” definition you prefer. What everyone can now see clearly is that NIH was collaborating on risky research with a Chinese lab that has zero transparency and zero accountability during a crisis — and no one in a position of power addressed that risk. Fauci is arguing the system worked. It didn’t. Even if the lab leak theory isn’t true, what’s clear is that we need more oversight of this risky research, both in the United States and in China.

    Fauci also told Paul there’s no possibility the research in the paper Paul cited directly led to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but Paul correctly called this out as a straw man. That specific project was only one element of the U.S. government multiagency effort that for years pumped U.S. money and know-how into these Wuhan labs, via the EcoHealth Alliance, including NIH, USAID and the Pentagon. According to an intelligence fact sheet released by the Trump administration and partially confirmed by the Biden administration, the WIV took our help and used it to build another, secret part of the lab, where they worked with the Chinese military.

    Congress and the media would be derelict not to examine the decisions by Fauci and others that led to this collaboration.

    Every bit of this is above the comprehension levels of HA’s resident fangirl and The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. The rest of us should pay better attention.

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    Both from Dow Jones & Co holdings – they’re sister publications. Both from today.

    BARRON’S TAKE
    EVs Are Now Better Than Gas-Powered Cars. Investors Need to Get Used to That.

    vs.

    The Wall Street Journal
    GM recalls Chevy Bolt for second time due to fire risk

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    2,
    I’d be more inclined to “pay attention” to musings by anyone other than such a strident China hawk as Rogin.

    Won’t we all be disappointed to learn that he owes his job to Guo Media Inc?

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    Can you imagine how perverted the admissions standards of an institution would have to be in order to permit the admissions of YLB and The Even Bigger Fucking moron?

    The University of California Is Lying to Us

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron converses at the level of a middle-schooler. YLB is forced to converse in HAbonics, the result of a double-digit IQ and a low-quality public school education.

    Sad!

  7. 7

    @ 5

    Who does Kamala Harris owe her job to, QoS McHillbilly?

    Actually, I’ll answer that myself. She owes it to the American voter. When Biden gets twentyfifted and she’s automatically promoted to a job that nobody really gave enough thought to before electing her, the American voter will realize its mistake. Too late.

    Kamala Harris won’t get away with eating ice cream cones rather than running the country.

  8. 8

    When Biden gets twentyfifted

    So fucking stupid. More evidence of the double-digit IQ the dumbfuck traitor assigns to others.

  9. 9

    @3

    He just hates America. Nothing more American that Baseball, apple pie, and Chevrolet. He has already posted hate on 2 out of 3 and it isn’t even 10AM PDT.

    Next up, hate about apple pie.

  10. 10

    Well, surely.

    Biden tells fleeing Cubans to get lost — while flooding the southern border

    Too many Cuban-Americans vote Republican.

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    Who does Kamala Harris owe her job to, QoS McHillbilly?

    You, mostly.

    Pence could have crossed the plate standing and accepting high-fives. But instead you tried to assassinate him and take Congress hostage. Weird flex.

    #owngoal

  12. 12

    @1 Their new motto is, “Fuck Doctor Dumbfuck. Fuck his horse, too. Whoops, he already did.” Runners will chant it while stealing home. Fans will chant it between innings. Every inning.

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    @ 11

    Pence could have crossed the plate standing and accepting high-fives.

    I could say the same thing about Bernie in 2016.

    Pence ’20 would do what Romney did ’12, which is make GOP voters stay home. Although I suppose that isn’t as bad for the GOP as what Hillary made Dem voters do. She made them vote for her opponent.

    Gorsuch.

    Kavanaugh.

    Coney Barrett.

    Enjoy the present, QoS McHillbilly. It’s fleeting. SCOTUS justices, OTOH, are for decades.

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    @2 While we’re at it, we could use more oversight of Rand Paul, too. His medical advice is at least as bad is NIH’s grant funding process.

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    Hey. Everybody here, get on this:

    https://gofund.me/f8451aff

    Just pulled from my morning in-box.
    It’s legit. The lawsuit is live in LexisNexis.
    Just give five dollars.
    Make the law better by rejecting SLAPP trolls like this.
    Help a couple of kids out. And make the world a better place.

    Here’s a local television report that explains:
    https://youtu.be/xNQ2G_SNVzQ

  16. 16

    @4 How many times have you been recalled? From what we can see, it doesn’t like look any of your parts work right, least of all your brain.

  17. 17

    Hundreds of thousands of Indians fans will now back the Reds.

    Team owner Paul Dolan said last summer’s social unrest, touched off by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, spurred his intention to change the club’s name.

    “We are excited to usher in the next era of the deep history of baseball in Cleveland,” Dolan said in a statement. “Cleveland has and always will be the most important part of our identity. Therefore, we wanted a name that strongly represents the pride, resiliency and loyalty of Clevelanders.

    One of the finalist names, I’m told, was the Cleveland Hoopin’.

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    Tweets from the director of one of the Guardians of the Galaxy flicks:

    In 2009, Gunn had tweeted about how he enjoyed “when little boys touch me in my silly place.” Another tweet from that year mocked rape victims: “The best thing about being raped is when you’re done being raped and it’s like ‘whew this feels great, not being raped!'”

    Maybe Cleveland didn’t fully consider what social justice was gonna mean.

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    @ 18

    Now do your pal Puddy.

    Why is it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, that when I mock Goldy’s fangirl YLB for being stupid, you want me to compare her to a black man?

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    Pence ’20 would do what Romney did ’12, which is make GOP voters stay home.

    As opposed to what Trump ’20 did, which is… produce record shattering Democratic turnout turning states red-to-blue and get impeached a second time.

    Yeah. I see your point?

    Now think about what Bernie did instead.
    He turned the Senator from JP Morgan Chase into President ACORN. And now the only choices facing your elected “conservatives” are $5 trillion or $7 trillion? No matter how long he lives in Associate Justice Pubic Hair’s faint shadow, Associate Justice GangBang will never be able to do that.

    #youbuiltthat

  22. 22

    Next year it will be 100 corporations – change.

    President Biden
    @POTUS
    ·
    21h

    United States government official
    55 major corporations paid zero in income tax in recent years.

    My Build Back Better Agenda is going to change that paradigm – and give working families a fighting chance.

    But three new flavors of ice cream!

  24. 24

    Tweet du jour:

    Jill Biden
    @FLOTUS
    ·
    6h

    United States government official
    Dear
    @TeamUSA
    , your entire nation is cheering you on and we are grateful for what you’ve given us: the chance to come together in common awe and appreciation for your accomplishments and the shared joy of rooting for our country on the edge of our seats. And Kamala Harris can go fuck herself.

  25. 25

    @17 “Hundreds of thousands of Indians fans will now back the Reds.”

    Just like millions of Republican voters voted for Biden-Harris, except for much better reasons …

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    @ 23

    Should have renamed to the Cleveland 351s.

    Nonstarter. Internal combustion engine.

    Your suggestion lauds a fossil-fuel consuming obsolescence that helped make our citizens sick, and therefore you must be shunned due to your hatred of America and everything she stands for, Newt.

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    25,
    Except they are no longer “Republican voters”.

    But never mind. The last time we brought up the voter file data showing the huge numbers of former “Republican voters” who changed their affiliation in 2020, Tara went on an hysterical crying jag that lasted all day.

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    Seems to me that the alt reich is outraged that Dr. Fauci challenged the god emperor so Dr. Fauci must be destroyed.
    I’m not as brilliant as the greedy racist incel. I don’t understand when he asserts that Japanese Interment justifies Child Labor. that everything in the Steele Dossier was false, that everything in the Biden laptop was true, that a tornado that killed 27, was going to kill more people than COVID, or that COVID is a secret conspiracy created in a lab, just to make trump look bad.

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    @ 27

    … went on an hysterical crying jag that lasted all day.

    I got over it.

    Robert Reich
    @RBReich
    ·
    Jul 22
    Net worth of top 1%: $41.52 trillion
    Net worth of bottom 50%: $2.62 trillion

    The problem is not that 50% of Americans are “too lazy”. It’s that the system has enabled 1% of Americans to hoard wealth.

    A different problem is that 50% of Americans are “too lazy“.

  30. 30

    @ 28

    Seems to me that the alt reich is outraged that Dr. Fauci challenged the god emperor so Dr. Fauci must be destroyed.

    Of course it does. This is why I can credibly mock you for demonstrating a middle-school level understanding of most topics raised on this site, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.

    Ever notice that nobody comes to your defense? Your contributions aren’t worth the trouble.

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    4 so what’s your point? From the headline in general electric vehicles are becoming better than gas vehicles and the second headline says GM is having a problem with a specific electric car.
    It’s like trying to Gin up outrage because one headline says restaurant sales are improving and the other headline says Steak and Shake is going out of business

  32. 32

    @26

    Ever been to Cleveland? I have. They love their old and outdated technology. Didn’t get the nickname, “The Mistake by the Lake” for nothing. Best thing we could do to improve Ohio is give Cleveland to Canada.

    You are sounding like a Left Coast Elitist these days Doc (despite you owning not one, but two Dodge internal combustion powered trucks).

  33. 33

    30 who ask them to? Dude everyone knows you are so wrong, I’m the only one bored enough to call you out on it.

  34. 34

    Ever notice that nobody comes to your defense?

    Nobody comes to anybody’s defense. Everyone here is a grownup, except for you. They don’t need anyone else throwing punches for them. And besides, in your unique case that’d be like cock-blocking at the Playboy Mansion. Why would we deprive a fellow liberal of enjoying the routine of humiliating you?

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    I got over it.

    And you never voted for Trump. So it’s all good.
    Right.
    Got it.

  36. 36

    @ 1 Explain how that’s funny instead of just bitter?

    Bitter because breeding will not save him. His biggest claim to fame, as a Hetero, is that he breeds for civilization to live on, but obviously that is sour as a lemon. Heterosexuality – a sexual lemon.

  37. 37

    @6. Much unflattering reviews of Caitlin Flanagan, the author of the fiction piece called “The University of California Is Lying to Us”

    “The creepy condescension of Caitlin Flanagan”
    “Others had also seen her analysis as dangerously nostalgic, a fantasy of sheltering precious girls that seemed divorced from real girls’ lives and totally ignored the lives of boys.”

    “Femme Banal – Caitlin Flanagan has issues—with you ”
    “God bless Caitlin Flanagan. Without her, who else would give voice to the sorts of anxieties that make upper-middle-class women break out in hives? Whether she’s wringing her hands over the prevalence of sexless marriages, the costs of overscheduled children, the depravity of hookup culture, or the advantages of stay-at-home mothering, Flanagan is never afraid to take a sharpened stick to the hornets’ nest, just to see what trouble she might stir up.”

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    A team logo that Dr. Dumbfuck can really get behind, because, you know, it screams “America is the greatest!” is at a school in our own backyard, Richland High School, home of “The Bombers!”

    Doc will just dismiss it because it was written by a woman.

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    @ 34

    Nobody comes to anybody’s defense.

    Not true. Darryl once came to YLB’s defense. YLB does her best work when hiding behind someone else.

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    @ 32

    I have, briefly.

    I was head-hunted once. What I remember is that the promo material referred to Cleveland’s orchestra as the #2-ranked orchestra in the nation (NYT called it #1). It didn’t get much air time on the Drew Carey show.

    “Left Coast Elitist”. Nah – Vicious Troll sounds better.

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    Trump’s PAC raises $75 million, spends $0 on election audit efforts

    How do you fleece sheep?
    Tell them the election was stolen.

    Please send him more money. He does not share with the GOP.

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    a low-quality public school education.

    It keeps getting better. I’ve read a study that pointed out that most Repuke voters went to public school. Ok let’s say that’s better funded schools in teh ‘burbs..

    teh babblin’ butthole is on the record going to public school.. Let’s say for the moment it was quality…

    My 1st grade through 7th was in Catholic School. 8th-12th was in a ‘burb public school. Small town of 23k people with its own school district. Well heeled burb. I knew one kid who lived in the even richer burb town next door and came to our High School. Today he’s the Prez of his family business.. Well heeled and so well connected he threw a first pitch at the local MLB franchise.

    Heh. It cracks me up when klownservatics attack liberals over public school. It shows EXACTLY what they are.

    Not much.

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    It sure is suspicious that now, all of a sudden, the WUHAN virus is only targeting the people who took a stand against Big Government Tyranny and refused to take the experimental vaccine.

    The virus is Deep State too.

    MAGA!

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    You know what else is really suspicious?

    After literally thousands of ANTIFAs attacked the peaceful Trump rally on Jan. 6th, only Trump supporters have been arrested and charged with any crimes.

    MAGA!

  53. 53

    The FuckHump has fleeced more than money. He’s fleeced brains, well somewhat, them people never really had much brains.

  55. 55

    and God Bless Red too….he’s taking up some space there too, in that shell….it’s pretty much an empty shell.

  57. 57

    And Roger too – it’s like a party up there!

    God Bless Roger. And God Bless Roger’s patriotic service.

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    @58 – your mighty welcome! It’s hard work hanging out in that shell, well not too hard, but someone has to do it.

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    BEACH WEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!

    1 in 5 new cases in the U.S. is in Florida. For two weeks running.
    Florida, Texas, and Missouri now account for 40% of all new cases.

    Obviously I’m a very petty man. But I’ll ask you all to recall now that I did warn Tara that DeSantis was going to disappoint her.

  64. 64

    warn Tara that DeSantis was going to disappoint her.

    Can’t teach an old dog new tricks

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    Something fun to think about:

    when the Jan 6 committee begins calling witnesses next week there will be no Trumpalo defenders on the panel available to make speeches, and Trump will have absolutely zero global platform from which to Shitlord the media response.

    There must be a mad scramble going on right this moment as Trump and the GQP try to line up alt-Right media loyalists to come to their defense. And that would have happened anyway. But now with the stakes so much higher and with team KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN having literally nothing to trade on, it’s got to be a sellers market.

    I just hope Kimberly Guilfoyle doesn’t have to actually touch Bret Stephens’ junk. One of her assistants can do it.

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    52)In Season 2 of For All Mankind, Chrysler went under, as in the shows timeline, 1981 was in Reagan’s Second Term.(He beat President Edward M Kennedy in 76, who had defeated Nixon for re-election in 72)

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