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  3. 3

    Guilty on 5 counts. Was thinking it would go the other way as deliberations were dragging on.

  4. 4

    “Health care workers experienced five times more violence on the job in 2018 compared to the general population, federal statistics show. Covid-19 has only seemed to increase the amount of violence in health care settings, with regular reports of assaults and verbal abuse toward medical staff.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/hospitals-health-care-workers-face-inordinate-violence-they-need-our-ncna1286705

    Certainly, it’s no fun to be gasping for breath, to feel terrified, and think you’re going to die. (You probably are.) So, these folks need our understanding. Above all, they need someone to blame. So what if we put a punching bag in each ICU room, and paint an image of a nurse or doctor on it, for them to pound on?

  6. 6

    @3 I didn’t think she’d be acquitted. The jury would’ve had to disbelieve the witnesses. There was no reason for them to lie. It defies logic she didn’t know what Epstein was up to. If she got off, it would be on some super-technicality. Juries don’t finesse such things.

  7. 7

    6)Plus, in the past, some quick deliberations have been acquittals if the jury had their mind already made up.

  9. 9

    The Oklahoma governor (and some of his Republican buddies in other states) sued to block the Pentagon’s vaccination mandate for National Guard troops.

    When a judge says at the very beginning of his order that your lawsuit is “without merit,” you probably should stop reading there, because that signals the rest of it is even more unkind.

  12. 12

    9,
    Reading the introduction I had to double check that I was reading the court’s order instead of the defendant’s reply.

  13. 13

    The barely regulated Christian Agape Boarding School is often in the news here in Missouri.
    Smock is the longtime physician for Agape Boarding School, a Christian school that remains under scrutiny after five other employees were charged in September with assaulting students, amounting to a total of 13 third-degree felony assault counts.
    It’s weird how the greedy racist incel will take some event like teachers taking a vote about COVID and virtual teaching to endlessly paint all public school unions as scum, yet has no opinion at all about christian boarding schools beating and abusing the kids in their care.
    What could be the difference?
    Damning school unions owns the libs, while damming abuse in christian does not.
    If it doesn’t own libs, Bob could care less if the teachers and staff fuck and beat the boys and girls

  14. 14

    Politicans in Missouri have bent over backwards to set up schools outside of the public school system.

    Missouri is only one of two states that does not have oversight of religious boarding schools.

    “I refer to it as a gaping hole in our child welfare code where our child abuse laws and our criminal codes were not applied to these specific situations,” Ingle said. “An exemption to this type of facility with a religious waiver and that there was absolutely no oversight.”
    “I refer to it as a gaping hole in our child welfare code where our child abuse laws and our criminal codes were not applied to these specific situations,” Ingle said. “An exemption to this type of facility with a religious waiver and that there was absolutely no oversight.”
    The attorney general’s office is currently investigating Agape Boarding School and Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch. Last month, the owners of Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch, were charged with more than 100 crimes of abuse and neglect of a child, rape, sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child.

    https://fox4kc.com/news/former-students-of-reform-schools-plead-lawmakers-to-regulate-missouri-boarding-schools/

    Best I can tell, the bill passed this summer. after all the bad press.

  15. 15

    Lest you think it was just in Missouri, (but it’s connected to Missouri.)
    Exclusive: Christian school near Tri-Cities ordered closed. Owner faces sex abuse lawsuit

    A faith-based boarding school 45 minutes east of Pasco that was shut down last spring after abuse allegations is closed for good.
    Pastor David Bosley and his wife Tresa opened the unlicensed home for troubled boys from across the country in early 2020. They already were running the Master’s Ranch Christian Academy in Missouri for at least seven years.

    Read more at: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article247709415.html#storylink=cpy
    Master’s Ranch sounds like a gay S&M video title. Talk about hiding in plain sight. It seems that people who get off on abuse of boys have found if they call themselves a Christian school for Troubled Boys(TM), they can beat and fuck the boys with immunity and conservatives will only turn on them when it generates bad press.
    To be fair, girls also, but that seems to be less reported on.

  16. 16

    @9

    I’m not an attorney, but after reading what the judge wrote, it seems it is amateur hour in Oklahoma with the leadership there. Seems the judge was happy to point that out to those idiots.

  17. 17

    “The economy expanded an estimated 5.5 percent in 2021 (fourth-quarter growth dramatically outpaced Europe and even China). Unemployment plunged to 4.2 percent. Record-setting U.S. stock markets (the S&P 500 is up nearly 30 percent) outperformed the world. Productivity jumped. Corporate profits are the largest since 1950 and corporate debt the lowest in 30. Consumer credit expanded. Confidence among CEOs is the highest in 20 years. The American Rescue Plan cut child poverty in half.”

    Biden triumphed.
    “Conservatives” lied.
    Again.

  18. 18

    What a difference a few committed people can make /s

    New Documents Prove Tennessee County Disproportionately Jails Black Children, and It’s Getting Worse
    https://www.propublica.org/article/new-documents-prove-tennessee-county-disproportionately-jails-black-children-and-its-getting-worse#1227110

    Tennessee’s Rutherford County, which has been widely criticized for its juvenile justice system, has been jailing Black children at a disproportionately high rate, according to newly obtained data. And, in a departure from national trends, the county’s racial disparity is getting worse, not better.

    Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
    https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist

    A few weeks before, a video had appeared on YouTube. It showed two small boys, 5 and 6 years old, throwing feeble punches at a larger boy as he walked away, while other kids tagged along, some yelling.

    The police were there because of the video. But they hadn’t come for the boys who threw punches. They were here for the black children who looked on. The police in Murfreesboro had secured juvenile petitions for 10 children in all who were accused of failing to stop the fight. Which is NOT A CRIME. The youngest girl was 8.

    Carroll handcuffed the sixth grade black girl. Later, asked why, he said because policy allowed him to. Miles handcuffed the 8-year-old black girl with pigtails. “Just acting out of habit,” he said later.

    Among cases referred to juvenile court, the statewide average for how often children were locked up was 5%.
    In Rutherford County, it was 48%.

    Republicans making it clear to the next generations of kids of color in Rutherford County that they are not welcome and they best move away as soon as they can.

  19. 19

    Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a national divorce between Republican and Democratic states
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce-states-b1984460.html

    Well, she got her name in the headlines again. I’m sure she is proud of herself.

    Ms Greene, whose home state of Georgia once unsuccessfully tried to secede from the US so wealthy Georgians could continue to own Black people as slaves, made the incendiary suggestion on Wednesday in a tweet responding to a separate comment suggesting that “transplants” from so-called blue states should be “actively discriminat[ed]” against by GOP state governments through legislation denying them the right to vote “for a period” and requiring them to pay a tax for the “sin” of having lived in an area where voters prefer to elect Democrats to office.

    I bet her base thinks this is a great idea.
    I don’t think they considered the Blue states would stop sending that evil socialist federal support (/s) to the red states.

  22. 22

    21,
    Fear sells. And fear draws viewers, readers, and listeners.

    But at some point it all comes at the cost of credibility.
    For all the pearl clutching bullshit about “ruined” Christmas, America just blew out all retail records. Material reality has a tendency to trump media hysteria when people are struggling to navigate around all their new shit.

  23. 23

    @ 20

    “Love is …. finishing each other sentences.”

    Jill Biden really, really, really loves First Vegetable Joe Biden.

    She feeds him his oatmeal and cleans his bottom when he sharts, too.

  24. 24

    @23 When you got nothing, make up lies. But even in your lies, you see Jill loving Biden. That’s it’s kernel of truth.
    Now let’s apply those lies to trump. Can you see Melonia lovingly feeding trump his oatmeal and gently wiping and cleaning his bottom when he poops his diaper?

  25. 25

    The long-awaited Biden plan for The Wuhan:

    ian bremmer
    @ianbremmer
    ·
    Dec 29
    First time CDC has the entire US in the red (high) on COVID transmission.

    Once everyone’s dead and the virus runs out of victims, it will shut itself down.

    FJB, y’all.

  26. 26

    @ 24

    Can you see Melonia lovingly feeding trump his oatmeal and gently wiping and cleaning his bottom when he poops his diaper?

    Not while Trump is Commander in Chief, no.

    That having been said, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, people will truly debase themselves if there’s a paycheck in it. Just look at Goldy after he started taking handouts from Nick Hanauer.

    Missing a few meals focuses the mind on not missing any more.

  28. 28

    @16 On Handbill.US (here), I pointed out how stupid the governor’s argument is:

    “A federal judge shot down Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt’s attempt to enjoin the Pentagon from imposing its vaccine mandate on his state’s National Guard troops. …

    “Stitt had previously argued to the Pentagon that the mandate ‘violates the personal freedoms’ of Guard soldiers. Wait, what? That argument is just plain dumb, perhaps the dumbest anti-vaccine argument of them all.

    “Does this even need to be explained? There’s very little ‘personal freedom’ in the military. You get the shots they tell you to. If they tell you to do pushups, you do them. If they order you to charge against the enemy into certain death, you do it. You gave up your freedom to say ‘no’ when you signed the enlistment papers. (Or, back in the day, when you got a Selective Service induction notice.)”

    Stitt, needless to say, never served in the military.

  29. 29

    @24 He’s just jealous because his fuck buddy doesn’t love him. The horse doesn’t have a choice about who “rides” him.

  30. 30

    @25 “Once everyone’s dead and the virus runs out of victims, it will shut itself down.”

    That’s been the Republican game plan all along. The Democrats want survivors, but they don’t have to include Republicans. That’s up to the Republicans.

  35. 35

    34)Maybe he’s with Ted Cruz, who confused Washington State with the Australian State of Western Australia.

  37. 37

    It just came to my attention that A. Q. Kahn died in October, killed by Covid-19. For once the virus is good for something. Good riddance to the world’s worst nuclear arms merchant.

  39. 39

    @35 haha, you think maybe Cruz and DeFuckFace are romantically involved? Probably.

  40. 40

    @33. This seems to be the decade where more people start to feel unease about Climate Change. That maybe those yammering liberals might be telling the truth.
    But not enough yet to do anything about it.

  42. 42

    It’s simple, really. Run the fuck away from the far-left.

    Colorado’s governor provides winning model for the Democratic Party’s future

    Polis’s pragmatic positioning on COVID, at a time when most Democratic governors and mayors have tried to outcompete each other on issuing the most onerous regulations and mandates, should be a lesson to the Biden administration about where the political sweet spot is on the pandemic. As the more-transmissible but less-severe omicron variant begins to spread in Colorado, Polis is again urging a get-vaccinated, get-back-to-normal approach that contrasts significantly from most of his Democratic gubernatorial colleagues.
    …
    Polis’ centrist approach to governing—what counts as heterodox thinking in the Democratic party these days—isn’t limited to his handling of the pandemic. From the beginning of his political career as a reform-minded member of the Colorado Board of Education, he’s been a champion of public school choice. In our interview, he promoted the fact that Colorado parents have a great degree of flexibility over where to send their child to school, compared to many states’ one-size-fits-all systems.

    “Glenn Youngkin’s message in Virginia was parents should control schools, right?” Polis said. “We take school choice as a given in Colorado. We have open enrollment within districts and between districts. We have charter schools and magnet schools. It’s similar during the COVID era: Different schools handled [the pandemic] in different ways, and parents were able to choose schools that better fit them.”

    Polis added: “We were one of the earlier states to return to school. Kids had a relatively normal second semester last year.

    Y’all wanna save the Democrat party from electoral disaster? Start telling The Squad to STFU. Begin with a decent primary challenge to them.

  43. 43

    Nothing to do, then, but watch YouTube videos of Lia Thomas’ dominance of Ivy League womens’ swimming meets.

    SportsCenter
    @SportsCenter
    · 11h
    Spurs assistant Becky Hammon is finalizing a five-year deal with the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces that will make her the league’s highest paid coach, sources told @wojespn.

    Too bad, really. This would have been a huge step beyond women refs in the NBA.

  44. 44

    Shortbus must be lonely. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit shills @ 28 for a blog that should have died with dignity along with its founder.

    Instead, like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit himself, it has become an embarrassment to others in its online neighborhood.

  45. 45

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit maintaining what’s become of SeattleJew’s blog is akin to Tom Hanks’ Castaway character mowing the lawn on his island. You know, just in case the neighbors drop by.

  46. 46

    Charter. schools.

    ChicagoTeachersUnion
    @CTULocal1
    · 19h
    Our union proposes Mayor Lightfoot and her CPS team must put mitigations in place — including COVID-19 testing — by Jan. 3 to ensure safety as classes resume. If mitigations are not in place, in-person learning must be paused so the district can implement proper safety measures.

    Never more important.

  47. 47

    Speaking of Democrat-run cities packed with failing schools:

    Mayor Muriel Bowser
    @MayorBowser
    · Dec 29
    We expect that schools and classrooms will need to transition to situational virtual learning throughout the semester, especially in the coming weeks.

    Our goal is to be flexible, responsive, and guided by our students’ needs.

    What would Jared Polis do?

  48. 48

    Polis has an opportunity to stand even taller in the next few days.

    The Denver Post
    @denverpost
    ·
    17h
    LATEST: The wildfires burning in Boulder County have grown to 1,600 acres. Officials said over 500 homes are thought to be impacted. https://dpo.st/3pEDdwG

  49. 49

    This author:

    Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and bad for rich people
    By Allison Morrow, CNN Business
    Updated 11:24 AM ET, Wed December 1, 2021

    is working on a companion piece regarding the Boulder County wildfires. Things are still in flux but the working title is:

    The Best Thing About A Neighborhood Destroyed by Wildfire Is There’s Nothing Left To Loot.

  50. 50

    A reminder that Ghislaine Maxwell was invited by the Clintons to attend Chelsea’s wedding.

    Hillary Clinton has been busy of late, giving likability lessons to Kamala Harris while simultaneously planning to leap-frog over her for the DNC prez nomination in 2024.

    • Gorsuch
    • Kavanaugh
    • Coney Barrett

  51. 51

    Fun headline du jour:

    Bernie Sanders: Pay your workers better. Warren Buffett: That’s not my job

    “At a time when this company and Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) are both doing very well, there is no reason why workers employed by you should be worrying about whether they will be able to feed their children or have health care,” Sanders wrote. “There is no reason why the standard of living of these hard working Americans should decline. I know that you and Berkshire Hathaway can do better than that,”
    …
    But Buffett responded with a letter quoting Berkshire’s annual financial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which tells investors that the management of its different companies is left up to the executives at each subsidy — not Berkshire itself (or Buffett).
    “Our companies deal individually with their own labor and personnel decisions (except for the selection of the CEO),” he said in his response to Sanders, which was released by Sanders’ office. “I’m passing along your letter to the CEO of Precision Castparts, but making no recommendations to him as to any action. He is responsible for his business.”

    This is the Warren Buffett invited by Obama to sit in the gallery with Michelle during a SOTU address.

    This is the Berkshire Hathaway that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit
    • disses as one of the corporations that pays no dividend
    • cannot afford to own if it did.

  52. 52

    Q: What do Warren Buffett and Evergreen Railfan have in common?

    A: They are each quite fond of railroads.

  53. 53

    Biden: “In 2021 I will shut down the virus.”

    COVID-19: “In 2022 I will shut down the president. Don’t believe me? I did it in 2020.”

  54. 54

    The accompanying photo is from 2006.

    Hillary Clinton
    @HillaryClinton
    · 2h
    Looking ahead to 2022. Wishing you a happy, healthy, and fabulous New Year.

    Seth Rich and Jeffrey Epstein looked better in 2006 than they do now, too.

  55. 55

    Nother!

    Ames, 81, died of complications from COVID-19 Tuesday morning at Good Samaritan Hospital…
    Phillips said Ames was a principled conservative who, even while sick with COVID-19 in December, considered running for a fourth term..

    https://www.witf.org/2021/12/29/lebanon-county-commissioner-dies-after-being-hospitalized-with-covid-19/

    But here’s the kicker:

    after being criticized by a few local Republicans for approving a small tax increase.

    Oh, he mustabeen a closet Dem.. Good riddance bleats the dimfuk types.. a threat to their fookin’ munee…

    however.. according to the seriously deranged babblings of teh widbee kreepah, this old old repuke is no longer getting a SS check.. and that..

    is GOOD

    for my kids..

    AMIRITE?

  56. 56

    Let’s look at the currently clinking, unserious twat YLB’s spew, shall we?

    1. No mention that he was unvaxxed.
    2. He was legally blind for he past 25 years. Why? Diabetes, perhaps? Diabetes is a risk factor.
    3. He’ll be replaced by another Republican.
    4. He voted for a small tax increase – to support medical services, given his position – and he improved the hospital district’s bond rating.

    What’s to cheer about this man’s death, YLB? The possibility that he may be replaced by someone who isn’t as effective as he was? Or that the life of a legally blind man was ended at age 81 due to complications of infection by a virus that Joe Biden promised he would stop?

    Only The Even Bigger Fucking Moron‘s presence prevents you from being the most imbecilic commenter on HA, YLB.

  57. 57

    I skimmed the greedy racist incel’s posts do you don’t have to.
    41. It’s cold somewhere, so Climate Change can’t be real.
    42. Progressive polics are bad
    43. Insults women
    44. Insults Rabbit.
    45. Insults Rabbit again. He must have lost money.
    46. Insults Public School teachers.
    47. Insults Public School teachers again.
    48. Tries to use climate change driven wildfires to insult someone?
    49. I think he’s already started day drinking.
    50. Ghislaine Maxwell. Clintons. Harris. BENGAZI. Squirrel. Has to be day drinking.
    51. Classic fuck a living wage rant. “I got mine. Fuck everyone else.”
    52. More Day drinking.
    53. He celebrates the deaths of the unvaccinated.
    54. “CLINTON, CLINTON. CLINTON. Everyone I see looks like Hillary Clinton. Please God make it stop”. Continues to slam the vodka.
    What it must be like for him
    https://c.tenor.com/kmzsCXOpfesAAAAd/the-suicide-squad-polka-dot-man.gif
    https://preview.redd.it/hnuiswmqseg71.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9d8f88faab4926ce14216f22849a95f2a90464db

  58. 58

    Shorter @ 57

    “Who says eight years of grade school education aren’t enough to prepare one for life?”

  59. 59

    58. Aw shucks, grampy tried to tell an insult joke. Hey everyone, gather round. It’s so cute. He’s really trying. Let’s give him a polite golf clap.
    Grampy, you go keep working on that out on the porch as you drink more Kool-Aid. Adults are talking in here.

  60. 60

    The photos on First Vegetable Joe Biden’s desk had to be rotated to face away from him because it was the only way to get him to stop asking the Oval Office staff, “Who the fuck are these people and why do two of them look like drug addicts?”

  65. 65

    @ 63

    A reminder that #CrookedHillary’s candidacy gave us:

    – Gorsuch
    – Kavanaugh
    – Coney Barrett
    – A LOT of judges in lower courts
    – A corporate and individual tax cut
    – The perpetual silliness of Goldy’s “bullshit polls” post the weekend before the 2016 election
    – Massive wealth gains

  69. 69

    @57 “44. Insults Rabbit. 45. Insults Rabbit again. He must have lost money.”

    Or it’s just a hobby. Which is fine, because I insult him as a hobby. (Also because he deserves it.)

  70. 70

    @ 64

    Therefore, the incident didn’t happen.

    Other than it being discussed on HA a year ago, you mean.

  71. 71

    It’s year-end 2021. Time to assess Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s stock holdings.

    He’s had AT&T for awhile:

    January 4: $29.44/share
    Today: $24.68. A decline of more than 16% on the year.

    He’s had 3M for 2-3 years and bought it at around $177 or so.

    January 4: $171.87/share
    Today: $178.14. The site tells me it’s up 3.6% YTD. Over the time Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has owned 3M, while the broader market has soared, 3M is up much less than 1% annually.

    On October 20, he bought Citigroup.

    Purchase price: A little north of $70/share
    Today: $60.49. He’s down 16% or so in little more than two months.

    For comparison, the S&P 500 tracking shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF are up 26.24% YTD.

    Don’t be a dumbfuck. Don’t follow Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s investing advice. Ever.

  72. 72

    I guess the other lesson @ 71 is not to share too much personal financial information.

    In Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s case, his indiscretions have revealed his repeated claims to be a millionaire as bald-faced lies.

  74. 74

    66)Wished the Brightline didn’t have these grade crossing accidents. Anti-Railers have gone after it too, even though it’s the conservatives private sector financing it. Even attacking them over Siemens as a rolling stock provider thinking they can get Jewish retirees on their side. Where did Israeli Railways get their new Electric Multiple Units from? Siemens!

  76. 76

    For the period January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2021 – +24.00%
    For the period January 19, 2021 though December 31, 2021 – +16.64% (annualized)

    1. My mom had nothing to do with it. She has been dead for over 30 years.

    2. No second job was required, like poor WTF!?. (BTW, whatever happened to WTF!??)

  77. 77

    @76 is an imposter. My worthless son dead. He died penniless and unloved. I found him dead on my porch last January. He had been beating on my door for hours the night before but I wouldn’t let the lying bastard inside.

  78. 78

    @77 – No, it’s the real me. And you’re jealous.

  80. 80

    @65. You list that stuff like they were somehow good things, instead of destructive to the health of the country.

  81. 81

    @76 “For the period January 19, 2021 though December 31, 2021 – 16.64% (annualized)”

    The S&P 500 was up 25.46% over the same period. You should’ve listened to your dead mom’s advice to buy an index ETF.

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