New York Times
Republicans are leaning into Donald Trump’s lie that he won the 2020 election.
Across the country, a group of Republican challengers are running on the “Stop the Steal” fallacy, touted by protesters above. If elected, they would bring the G.O.P.’s assault on the legitimacy of elections — a bedrock of American democracy — to Congress.
But it might not work. In Arizona, an extravagantly flawed “audit” of the swing state’s election is alienating some Republicans. Polls say it will hurt the G.O.P. in 2022. Still, state party leaders continue the count.
And Trump plans to resume regular rallies this summer. That will help him spread his message, but despite social media bans and his blog’s low-readership, loyal supporters still pushed Trump’s words out on their feeds.
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Thursday, December 24, 2020
The United States has a terrible problem that needs to be fixed.
REUTERS
HEALTHCARE & PHARMA
DECEMBER 23, 2020
In pandemic America's tent cities, a grim future grows darker
By Michelle Conlin
PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) - Nadeen Bender stood outside her home, a tattered two-man tent, surrounded by the re-purposed Amazon Prime boxes she uses to store her life’s belongings. One by one, she checked the cartons to make sure nothing had been stolen in the night.
When asked about her Christmas plans, the rail-thin 43-year-old said through a face mask, “to try to avoid it.” Then she burst into tears.
The tent city that has served as Bender’s neighborhood for the past seven months is in the middle of downtown Phoenix, just down the road from luxury high-rise apartments and expensive restaurants.
To deal with an exploding homeless population and encourage social distancing during the pandemic, Marcipoa County officials turned this pair of asphalt-topped parking lots into the area’s newest homeless shelter. The county has more than 7,500 people on the streets, and nearly 5,000 dead from COVID-19.
Inside the crowded encampment, ringed by security fencing and barbed wire, each family has been allotted a 12-by-12-foot lot, marked by paint, to separate people as much as possible.
Phoenix is just one example of a slow-motion disaster unfolding in many large U.S. cities as homeless numbers, already growing in recent years, spike during the global pandemic.
The virus presents a compounding threat. Not only are these populations some of the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, but by destroying millions of jobs, the pandemic threatens a wave of evictions that experts warn could lead to a catastrophic housing displacement and even more people living on the streets.
With cities facing a steep hit to their tax bases due to lockdowns aimed at curbing the virus’s spread, homeless advocates say the federal government must step in, and estimate another $11.5 billion is needed immediately.
New funding for the homeless is not included in a $900-billion pandemic relief package passed by Congress on Monday. The fate of the bill was thrown up in the air the next day after outgoing President Donald Trump threatened not to sign it.
Meanwhile, the $4 billion provided earlier this year through the March CARES Act bailout and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is running out, advocates say.
“It’s not just the pandemic, it’s the financial fallout from the pandemic and the complete lack of a comprehensive response to the pandemic from the federal government,” said Diane Yentel, who advised the transition team of President-elect Joe Biden and is the president of the Washington-based National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Biden’s transition team did not respond to requests for comment. But fixing the affordable housing crisis was a pillar of his campaign platform, and included a pledge to spend $640 billion over 10 years to create affordable housing and “end” homelessness.
“Addressing homelessness remains the most pressing health equity challenge of our time. And it’s about to get worse,” said Dr. Howard K. Koh, a professor of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who chairs its new initiative on health and homelessness.
EVICTION SURGE
As the coronavirus began to ravage the United States in the spring of 2020, federal, state and local governments issued temporary bans on many evictions, with an eye on the economic and health consequences of increased homelessness.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September followed up with a nationwide ban that the stimulus deal would extend to Jan. 31.
Still, since the pandemic began, more than 162,000 evictions have been filed in the 27 cities tracked by the Princeton University Eviction Lab.
So far, Congress has no clear plan to deal with the expiration of the CDC’s ban, when up to 40 million people will be at risk of eviction, according to the Aspen Institute. Overnight, more than $70 billion will be owed in back rent and utilities, said Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimated the U.S. homeless population at nearly 600,000 in 2019, before the pandemic hit. The potential health repercussions of a significant increase in that number due to evictions and joblessness are enormous, made exponentially worse by the pandemic, academics and health experts say.
Already, homeless families with babies in New York City shelters live amidst mold, mildew and vermin, according to an audit released on Monday by the city comptroller. Subway closures between 1 and 5 a.m. for COVID cleanings have forced many of the city’s homeless who go there for warmth to burrow deeper into the system’s tunnels or freeze in the tarp encampments and grocery-cart hovels that have become a feature of the city’s sidewalks.
New York City’s homeless die of COVID at a rate 78% higher than the general population, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.
In Los Angeles, several members of the city council want the city to use the convention center as a homeless shelter. San Diego already did that - and now its convention center is suffering a COVID-19 outbreak, with 190 residents and staff testing positive.
Another homeless shelter in Chicago is reeling from an outbreak just as freezing temperatures fuel demand.
Twenty-seven states that let local moratoriums on evictions expire over the summer, before the CDC ban, had a 5.4-times higher COVID mortality rate, according to a report released on Nov. 30 by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other four other universities.
TRUMPVILLE
Phoenix’s unshaded tent city is called “The Zone” by its inhabitants. Some of them call it “Trumpville,” an echo of Depression-era shantytowns named “Hoovervilles” after President Herbert Hoover, who was accused of not doing enough to keep people sheltered.
The Zone’s hundreds of residents are packed together - often not wearing masks, with many living just in sleeping bags or on a tarp. Without running water or plumbing, simple pandemic health protocols, like handwashing, are difficult. Although the city has posted portable toilets and washing stations along the perimeter, feces and garbage litter the property. In some spots, the stench is overwhelming.
COVID is a constant worry. Those who test positive for the virus can check into a 136-bed hotel provided by a nonprofit — if they can get a spot. If they prefer to remain on the streets, there’s a “shelter-in-place duffle” that contains food, water, hygienic supplies, masks and a tent.
Bender, a former foster mom with the leathered tan of someone who lives outside, said the homeless population has become more varied since the pandemic hit - she’s met a former doctor, paralegal and even an opera singer.
“A lot of us want to work, we want to get off the streets,” she said.
But the pandemic has made that seem even more impossible, she said.
“I can’t even get online” to apply for jobs, she said, “because the libraries are closed.” Her congressional stimulus check? “How would I even sign up for that or get that without a computer, or an address?”
“I didn’t think my life could get any worse,” said Bender. “But it did.”
Reporting by Michelle Conlin; Editing by Tom Lasseter and Sonya Hepinstall
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
HEALTHCARE & PHARMA
DECEMBER 23, 2020
In pandemic America's tent cities, a grim future grows darker
By Michelle Conlin
PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) - Nadeen Bender stood outside her home, a tattered two-man tent, surrounded by the re-purposed Amazon Prime boxes she uses to store her life’s belongings. One by one, she checked the cartons to make sure nothing had been stolen in the night.
When asked about her Christmas plans, the rail-thin 43-year-old said through a face mask, “to try to avoid it.” Then she burst into tears.
The tent city that has served as Bender’s neighborhood for the past seven months is in the middle of downtown Phoenix, just down the road from luxury high-rise apartments and expensive restaurants.
To deal with an exploding homeless population and encourage social distancing during the pandemic, Marcipoa County officials turned this pair of asphalt-topped parking lots into the area’s newest homeless shelter. The county has more than 7,500 people on the streets, and nearly 5,000 dead from COVID-19.
Inside the crowded encampment, ringed by security fencing and barbed wire, each family has been allotted a 12-by-12-foot lot, marked by paint, to separate people as much as possible.
Phoenix is just one example of a slow-motion disaster unfolding in many large U.S. cities as homeless numbers, already growing in recent years, spike during the global pandemic.
The virus presents a compounding threat. Not only are these populations some of the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, but by destroying millions of jobs, the pandemic threatens a wave of evictions that experts warn could lead to a catastrophic housing displacement and even more people living on the streets.
With cities facing a steep hit to their tax bases due to lockdowns aimed at curbing the virus’s spread, homeless advocates say the federal government must step in, and estimate another $11.5 billion is needed immediately.
New funding for the homeless is not included in a $900-billion pandemic relief package passed by Congress on Monday. The fate of the bill was thrown up in the air the next day after outgoing President Donald Trump threatened not to sign it.
Meanwhile, the $4 billion provided earlier this year through the March CARES Act bailout and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is running out, advocates say.
“It’s not just the pandemic, it’s the financial fallout from the pandemic and the complete lack of a comprehensive response to the pandemic from the federal government,” said Diane Yentel, who advised the transition team of President-elect Joe Biden and is the president of the Washington-based National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Biden’s transition team did not respond to requests for comment. But fixing the affordable housing crisis was a pillar of his campaign platform, and included a pledge to spend $640 billion over 10 years to create affordable housing and “end” homelessness.
“Addressing homelessness remains the most pressing health equity challenge of our time. And it’s about to get worse,” said Dr. Howard K. Koh, a professor of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who chairs its new initiative on health and homelessness.
EVICTION SURGE
As the coronavirus began to ravage the United States in the spring of 2020, federal, state and local governments issued temporary bans on many evictions, with an eye on the economic and health consequences of increased homelessness.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September followed up with a nationwide ban that the stimulus deal would extend to Jan. 31.
Still, since the pandemic began, more than 162,000 evictions have been filed in the 27 cities tracked by the Princeton University Eviction Lab.
So far, Congress has no clear plan to deal with the expiration of the CDC’s ban, when up to 40 million people will be at risk of eviction, according to the Aspen Institute. Overnight, more than $70 billion will be owed in back rent and utilities, said Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimated the U.S. homeless population at nearly 600,000 in 2019, before the pandemic hit. The potential health repercussions of a significant increase in that number due to evictions and joblessness are enormous, made exponentially worse by the pandemic, academics and health experts say.
Already, homeless families with babies in New York City shelters live amidst mold, mildew and vermin, according to an audit released on Monday by the city comptroller. Subway closures between 1 and 5 a.m. for COVID cleanings have forced many of the city’s homeless who go there for warmth to burrow deeper into the system’s tunnels or freeze in the tarp encampments and grocery-cart hovels that have become a feature of the city’s sidewalks.
New York City’s homeless die of COVID at a rate 78% higher than the general population, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.
In Los Angeles, several members of the city council want the city to use the convention center as a homeless shelter. San Diego already did that - and now its convention center is suffering a COVID-19 outbreak, with 190 residents and staff testing positive.
Another homeless shelter in Chicago is reeling from an outbreak just as freezing temperatures fuel demand.
Twenty-seven states that let local moratoriums on evictions expire over the summer, before the CDC ban, had a 5.4-times higher COVID mortality rate, according to a report released on Nov. 30 by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other four other universities.
TRUMPVILLE
Phoenix’s unshaded tent city is called “The Zone” by its inhabitants. Some of them call it “Trumpville,” an echo of Depression-era shantytowns named “Hoovervilles” after President Herbert Hoover, who was accused of not doing enough to keep people sheltered.
The Zone’s hundreds of residents are packed together - often not wearing masks, with many living just in sleeping bags or on a tarp. Without running water or plumbing, simple pandemic health protocols, like handwashing, are difficult. Although the city has posted portable toilets and washing stations along the perimeter, feces and garbage litter the property. In some spots, the stench is overwhelming.
COVID is a constant worry. Those who test positive for the virus can check into a 136-bed hotel provided by a nonprofit — if they can get a spot. If they prefer to remain on the streets, there’s a “shelter-in-place duffle” that contains food, water, hygienic supplies, masks and a tent.
Bender, a former foster mom with the leathered tan of someone who lives outside, said the homeless population has become more varied since the pandemic hit - she’s met a former doctor, paralegal and even an opera singer.
“A lot of us want to work, we want to get off the streets,” she said.
But the pandemic has made that seem even more impossible, she said.
“I can’t even get online” to apply for jobs, she said, “because the libraries are closed.” Her congressional stimulus check? “How would I even sign up for that or get that without a computer, or an address?”
“I didn’t think my life could get any worse,” said Bender. “But it did.”
Reporting by Michelle Conlin; Editing by Tom Lasseter and Sonya Hepinstall
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Biden didn't need Arizona but he won it.
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Fucktard Trump, you lost the election so get out of the way you fucking moron.
New York Times
BREAKING NEWS |
Joe Biden won Arizona, holding a narrow lead there after over a week of counting. The state hadn’t voted for a Democrat for president since 1996. |
Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:35 PM EST |
President-elect Joe Biden has narrowly won Arizona, capturing the state’s 11 electoral votes and strengthening his Electoral College margin as President Trump continues to make baseless attacks on the vote counts favoring Mr. Biden. Mr. Biden, who won the state by about 11,000 votes, or 0.3 percentage points, is the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since President Bill Clinton in 1996. |
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
$1,200.00
This is Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at 10:30am Chicago time. We still don't know who will win the election but it looks like Trump is going to lose, while the United States Senate will continue to be mostly Republicans.
If Fucktard Biden wins the election, he needs to give me another $1,200.00 I don't need.
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New York Times
What’s Left in the Seven States That Will Decide the Race
Though they’re still too close to call, they’re tilting in Biden’s direction for now.
If Fucktard Biden wins the election, he needs to give me another $1,200.00 I don't need.
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New York Times
What’s Left in the Seven States That Will Decide the Race
Though they’re still too close to call, they’re tilting in Biden’s direction for now.
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Prescott, Arizona is a beautiful place. Unfortunately it's infested with know-nothing anti-science Christian assholes.
Google:
Prescott is a city in central Arizona. Downtown, historic Whiskey Row is known for its bars and live music venues. The Sharlot Hall Museum documents the region’s pioneer-era history. The Smoki Museum exhibits artifacts from indigenous peoples of the Southwest. To the northeast, Watson Lake is home to hundreds of bird species, and a circuit of trails runs among the granite boulders dotting its shore.
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A professional asshole for Jeebus is selling his magical creationism fantasy. He calls his magical fantasy "creation science". The fucktard asshole doesn't know what science is. This is typical Idiot America stuff.
Here is the whole disgusting thing. The stupid, it burns.
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Creation Science in Prescott This Sunday, October 25, 2020
By David McNabb, Host of The Creation Corner
October 24, 2020
A Creation Science event sponsored by the Prescott Creation Science Association will feature Dr. Kevin Anderson, a microbiologist and professor of biology at the Arizona Christian University in Glendale. Dr. Anderson will speak on the topic, “Why I am a Creationist”. As a microbiologist and academic, Dr. Anderson will examine the scientific principles underlying creation science, e.g. life only from life, problems with the dating methods on which evolutionary theory is based, and the lack of evidence for evolution in the fossil record.
This event will be held on Sunday, October 25th, at the Alliance Bible Church, 2601 W Iron Springs Road, in Prescott, beginning at 11:30 AM. An extensive collection of books and DVD’s on Creation Science will be on display.
A second Creation Science event is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. The Yavapai chapter of the Arizona Origin Science Association (AZOSA) has announced that chapter vice president, Joe Sebeny , will be speaking on creationism and the Book of Job, which many Bible scholars believe to be among the oldest scriptural writings in existence. Creationists argue for a much younger earth than theorized by modern science and dispute the dating systems and time lines which are foundational to the various theories of evolution. Although those theories are widely taught in high school and college textbooks, Creation Scientists argue that they remain theories unsupported by key principles of science. In short, creation science brings the scientific method to bear in their critique of evolutionary theory.
The presenter, Joe Sebeny, is an aerospace engineer and rocket scientist with 2 BS degrees from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a MS degree from the University of New Hampshire. He is also an expert in creation science apologetics which argues that the complex design of the Universe and the existence of human life is unexplained by science alone.
The Book of Job is one of the oldest books in the Hebrew scriptures. The events described occur in the far away land of Uz in what is referred to as the patriarchal period—a period before Moses and priestly law.
Job is described as a righteous man. Yet God allows his faith to be tested thru great suffering and loss. Many commentators think that the purpose of the book of Job is about suffering, but it is not. Mr. Sebeny’s talk will focus on evidence for creationism, incredible scientific insights, and God’s sovereignty within the Book of Job.
The talk will be presented Sunday afternoon, at 4:30 PM, at the Liberty Baptist Church, 3100 Williamson Valley Road, Prescott, Arizona.
For those who are new to Creation Science or just curious to learn what it’s about, these two events are excellent opportunities to hear about the science underlying creationism. Contrary to the arguments of secularists that creation science is anti-science and a form of anti-intellectualism, those holding creationist views include many credentialed professional scientists, often holding advanced degrees from accredited universities. They accept modern principles of science. However, in doing so, they bring the scientific method to bear on the assumptions of evolutionary theory.
Both of these events are free and open to the public. Dr. Anderson and Mr. Sebeny will both take questions at the end of their talks. Skeptics, agnostics, students and seekers of truth are cordially invited to attend.
CREATION SCIENCE, CREATIONIST VIEWS, LECTURES, THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Prescott is a city in central Arizona. Downtown, historic Whiskey Row is known for its bars and live music venues. The Sharlot Hall Museum documents the region’s pioneer-era history. The Smoki Museum exhibits artifacts from indigenous peoples of the Southwest. To the northeast, Watson Lake is home to hundreds of bird species, and a circuit of trails runs among the granite boulders dotting its shore.
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A professional asshole for Jeebus is selling his magical creationism fantasy. He calls his magical fantasy "creation science". The fucktard asshole doesn't know what science is. This is typical Idiot America stuff.
Here is the whole disgusting thing. The stupid, it burns.
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Creation Science in Prescott This Sunday, October 25, 2020
By David McNabb, Host of The Creation Corner
October 24, 2020
A Creation Science event sponsored by the Prescott Creation Science Association will feature Dr. Kevin Anderson, a microbiologist and professor of biology at the Arizona Christian University in Glendale. Dr. Anderson will speak on the topic, “Why I am a Creationist”. As a microbiologist and academic, Dr. Anderson will examine the scientific principles underlying creation science, e.g. life only from life, problems with the dating methods on which evolutionary theory is based, and the lack of evidence for evolution in the fossil record.
This event will be held on Sunday, October 25th, at the Alliance Bible Church, 2601 W Iron Springs Road, in Prescott, beginning at 11:30 AM. An extensive collection of books and DVD’s on Creation Science will be on display.
A second Creation Science event is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. The Yavapai chapter of the Arizona Origin Science Association (AZOSA) has announced that chapter vice president, Joe Sebeny , will be speaking on creationism and the Book of Job, which many Bible scholars believe to be among the oldest scriptural writings in existence. Creationists argue for a much younger earth than theorized by modern science and dispute the dating systems and time lines which are foundational to the various theories of evolution. Although those theories are widely taught in high school and college textbooks, Creation Scientists argue that they remain theories unsupported by key principles of science. In short, creation science brings the scientific method to bear in their critique of evolutionary theory.
The presenter, Joe Sebeny, is an aerospace engineer and rocket scientist with 2 BS degrees from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a MS degree from the University of New Hampshire. He is also an expert in creation science apologetics which argues that the complex design of the Universe and the existence of human life is unexplained by science alone.
The Book of Job is one of the oldest books in the Hebrew scriptures. The events described occur in the far away land of Uz in what is referred to as the patriarchal period—a period before Moses and priestly law.
Job is described as a righteous man. Yet God allows his faith to be tested thru great suffering and loss. Many commentators think that the purpose of the book of Job is about suffering, but it is not. Mr. Sebeny’s talk will focus on evidence for creationism, incredible scientific insights, and God’s sovereignty within the Book of Job.
The talk will be presented Sunday afternoon, at 4:30 PM, at the Liberty Baptist Church, 3100 Williamson Valley Road, Prescott, Arizona.
For those who are new to Creation Science or just curious to learn what it’s about, these two events are excellent opportunities to hear about the science underlying creationism. Contrary to the arguments of secularists that creation science is anti-science and a form of anti-intellectualism, those holding creationist views include many credentialed professional scientists, often holding advanced degrees from accredited universities. They accept modern principles of science. However, in doing so, they bring the scientific method to bear on the assumptions of evolutionary theory.
Both of these events are free and open to the public. Dr. Anderson and Mr. Sebeny will both take questions at the end of their talks. Skeptics, agnostics, students and seekers of truth are cordially invited to attend.
CREATION SCIENCE, CREATIONIST VIEWS, LECTURES, THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Sunday, June 21, 2020
These days it's important to make sure the air conditioner is working.
Human-caused global warming is a big problem and it's going to get worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/16/climate-deaths-heat-cdc
Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside Phoenix, Arizona. At 61, the army veteran’s main connection to the world was Facebook; often, he posted several times a day. But as a heatwave blanketed the region in June 2016 – leading to temperatures among the highest ever recorded – his posts stopped. Three weeks later, a pile of unopened mail outside his door prompted a call to police.
When officers arrived, they were overcome by the odor of rotting garbage, worsened by the still-searing heat. Inside the home, they found the air conditioner broken and its thermometer reading 99F. Rhodes lay dead in the bedroom, his body decomposing. The cause, his autopsy shows: “Complications of environmental heat exposure.”
Yearly heat-related deaths have more than doubled in Arizona in the last decade to 283. Across the country, heat caused at least 10,000 deaths between 1999 and 2016 – more than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years.
Scientists link the warming planet to a rise in dangerous heat in the US, as well as the spread of infectious diseases and other health conditions. Federal research predicts heatstroke and similar illnesses will claim tens of thousands of American lives each year by the end of the century. Already, higher temperatures pose lethal risks: the five warmest years nationwide have all occurred since 2006. In the last six decades, the number of annual heatwaves in 50 US cities has, on average, tripled. In contrast to a viral pandemic, this is a quiet, insidious threat with no end point.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/16/climate-deaths-heat-cdc
Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside Phoenix, Arizona. At 61, the army veteran’s main connection to the world was Facebook; often, he posted several times a day. But as a heatwave blanketed the region in June 2016 – leading to temperatures among the highest ever recorded – his posts stopped. Three weeks later, a pile of unopened mail outside his door prompted a call to police.
When officers arrived, they were overcome by the odor of rotting garbage, worsened by the still-searing heat. Inside the home, they found the air conditioner broken and its thermometer reading 99F. Rhodes lay dead in the bedroom, his body decomposing. The cause, his autopsy shows: “Complications of environmental heat exposure.”
Yearly heat-related deaths have more than doubled in Arizona in the last decade to 283. Across the country, heat caused at least 10,000 deaths between 1999 and 2016 – more than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years.
Scientists link the warming planet to a rise in dangerous heat in the US, as well as the spread of infectious diseases and other health conditions. Federal research predicts heatstroke and similar illnesses will claim tens of thousands of American lives each year by the end of the century. Already, higher temperatures pose lethal risks: the five warmest years nationwide have all occurred since 2006. In the last six decades, the number of annual heatwaves in 50 US cities has, on average, tripled. In contrast to a viral pandemic, this is a quiet, insidious threat with no end point.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Americans in Illinois, Florida, and Arizona voted today. The socialist asshole, Berne Sanders, was wiped out.
New York Times:
Biden Sweeps Three States and Takes Commanding Lead, as Virus Reshapes American Politics
With a broad coalition, Joseph R. Biden Jr. defeated Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois, and Arizona, in a rout that could add to pressure on Mr. Sanders to end his campaign.
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It's over with. Joe Biden is now, for sure, the Democratic candidate for president. The socialist moron, Berne Sanders, was wiped out. What a fucking asshole. Good riddance.
Joe Biden is 77 years old. He never was too bright and that's been getting worse.
His opponent on November 3, 2020, is Fucktard Trump, the uneducated moron.
The choice for American voters is fucktard against fucktard.
The Democrats could have elected the brilliant Mike Bloomberg, but billionaires make liberal morons cry.
Idiot America is fucked up and I don't think there is any cure.
Biden Sweeps Three States and Takes Commanding Lead, as Virus Reshapes American Politics
With a broad coalition, Joseph R. Biden Jr. defeated Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois, and Arizona, in a rout that could add to pressure on Mr. Sanders to end his campaign.
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It's over with. Joe Biden is now, for sure, the Democratic candidate for president. The socialist moron, Berne Sanders, was wiped out. What a fucking asshole. Good riddance.
Joe Biden is 77 years old. He never was too bright and that's been getting worse.
His opponent on November 3, 2020, is Fucktard Trump, the uneducated moron.
The choice for American voters is fucktard against fucktard.
The Democrats could have elected the brilliant Mike Bloomberg, but billionaires make liberal morons cry.
Idiot America is fucked up and I don't think there is any cure.
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Monday, May 20, 2019
Evolution is the strongest fact of science.
"By the mid-20th Century if not earlier biological evolution was established as scientific certainty beyond a shadow of a doubt, whether based upon genetics or the fossil record. Multiple increasingly refined dating methods, such as genetic sequencing, geological contexts, radiometric dating and other techniques now offer increasing precision regarding the timing of evolutionary change."
-- Tom Wilson, director of the Arizona Museum of Natural History
-- Tom Wilson, director of the Arizona Museum of Natural History
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
This 2018 news article is about the Christian war against teaching evolution in Arizona. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.
Wilson: don’t dilute Arizona Science Standards
Why in the world are we discussing the validity of biological evolution in 2018?
Tom Wilson
Because Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas seeks to weaken science standards in Arizona schools by removing direct reference to biological evolution in favor of language that suggests alternative possibilities.
What might these alternatives be? Not in the language of the standards, but in her campaign, she apparently thinks Creationism, or its more recent moniker, Intelligent Design, is a possibility. Apparently, the new lax language is to encourage science teachers to explore alternatives to biological evolution under the fog of calling it critical thinking.
The idea of biological evolution, of descent from a common ancestor by means of natural selection, was first introduced to the broader world with the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859. Possibly biological evolution was a theory in 1859, although Mr. Darwin makes a good case that evolution is in fact — fact.
By the mid-20th Century if not earlier biological evolution was established as scientific certainty beyond a shadow of a doubt, whether based upon genetics or the fossil record. Multiple increasingly refined dating methods, such as genetic sequencing, geological contexts, radiometric dating and other techniques now offer increasing precision regarding the timing of evolutionary change.
Indeed, in the last 50 years, when states have attempted to insert alternatives to biological evolution into school curricula with ideas such as Creationism, Scientific Creationism and Intelligent Design, in every case, Federal District Courts, Federal Appellate Courts, and the United States Supreme Court have found that biological evolution is science and alternative theories generally fall within the scope of religion, and usually thus contrary to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Arizona’s children deserve the very best scientific education that we can provide to prepare them for the world of the 21st Century, where scientific literacy will be a requirement for many jobs and just to function effectively in the modern world.
Already we know that a skilled and intelligent workforce is a major factor in attracting companies with high-paying jobs to Arizona. In the modern world, Arizona is competing with other states and nations for these companies and jobs.
A robust economy benefits all Arizonans. We must offer our children the best possible educational opportunities for them and for our state. Diluting the standards for science education does them, and Arizona, a great disservice.
Editor’s note: Mr. Wilson is director of the Arizona Museum of Natural History
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Arizona has an extreme stupidity problem. A creationist fucktard was chosen to review the science curriculum for Arizona public schools. I'm not making this up. This is typical in Idiot America.
Guy who says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark tapped to review Arizona's evolution standards
Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Published September 13, 2018
State Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped a creationist to review the proposed new standards on how to teach evolution. Only in Arizona, folks.
Here is a bit of instruction from a guy Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped to help review Arizona’s standards on how to teach evolution in science class:
The earth is just 6,000 years old and dinosaurs were present on Noah’s Ark. But only the young ones. The adult ones were too big to fit, don’t you know.
"Plenty of space on the Ark for dinosaurs – no problem," Joseph Kezele explained to Phoenix New Times' Joseph Flaherty.
Flaherty reports that in August, Arizona's soon-to-be ex-superintendent appointed Kezele to a working group charged with reviewing and editing the state’s proposed new state science standards on evolution.
Kezele is a biology teacher at Arizona Christian University. He also is president of the Arizona Origin Science Association and, as Flaherty puts it, “a staunch believer in the idea that enough scientific evidence exists to back up the biblical story of creation.”
Douglas wants to weaken standards
Douglas has been working for awhile now to bring a little Sunday school into science class. This spring she took a red pen to the proposed new science standards, striking or qualifying the word “evolution” wherever it occurred.
This, after calling for creationism to be taught along with evolution during a candidate forum last November.
“Should the theory of intelligent design be taught along with the theory of evolution? Absolutely,” Douglas said at the time. “I had a discussion with my staff, because we're currently working on science standards, to make sure this issue was addressed in the standards we're working on.”
Thus comes Kezele, appointed last month to an eight-person panel tapped with doing a final edit on the draft standards, which will have to be approved by the state Department of Education.
At least one standard weakened
Douglas' spokesman said that Kezele didn't discuss his "personal creationist beliefs" with the committee but Flaherty reports that Kezele did convince other members to weaken the standards in at least one instance.
Flaherty, in his interview with Kezele, learned that the long-established scientific theory of evolution is basically bogus and that students should be taught in such a way that they “can defend against it, if they want.”
For example, scientific stuff about the human appendix and the Earth's magnetic field.
"I'm not saying to put the Bible into the classroom, although the real science will confirm the Bible," Kezele told Flaherty. "Students can draw their own conclusions when they see what the real science actually shows."
Because, hey, Barney floating around on Noah’s Ark.
Kezele told Flaherty that all land animals – humans and dinosaurs alike -- were created on the Sixth Day.
And there was light and the light was, well, a little dim for science class, if you ask me.
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com.
Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Published September 13, 2018
State Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped a creationist to review the proposed new standards on how to teach evolution. Only in Arizona, folks.
Here is a bit of instruction from a guy Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped to help review Arizona’s standards on how to teach evolution in science class:
The earth is just 6,000 years old and dinosaurs were present on Noah’s Ark. But only the young ones. The adult ones were too big to fit, don’t you know.
"Plenty of space on the Ark for dinosaurs – no problem," Joseph Kezele explained to Phoenix New Times' Joseph Flaherty.
Flaherty reports that in August, Arizona's soon-to-be ex-superintendent appointed Kezele to a working group charged with reviewing and editing the state’s proposed new state science standards on evolution.
Kezele is a biology teacher at Arizona Christian University. He also is president of the Arizona Origin Science Association and, as Flaherty puts it, “a staunch believer in the idea that enough scientific evidence exists to back up the biblical story of creation.”
Douglas wants to weaken standards
Douglas has been working for awhile now to bring a little Sunday school into science class. This spring she took a red pen to the proposed new science standards, striking or qualifying the word “evolution” wherever it occurred.
This, after calling for creationism to be taught along with evolution during a candidate forum last November.
“Should the theory of intelligent design be taught along with the theory of evolution? Absolutely,” Douglas said at the time. “I had a discussion with my staff, because we're currently working on science standards, to make sure this issue was addressed in the standards we're working on.”
Thus comes Kezele, appointed last month to an eight-person panel tapped with doing a final edit on the draft standards, which will have to be approved by the state Department of Education.
At least one standard weakened
Douglas' spokesman said that Kezele didn't discuss his "personal creationist beliefs" with the committee but Flaherty reports that Kezele did convince other members to weaken the standards in at least one instance.
Flaherty, in his interview with Kezele, learned that the long-established scientific theory of evolution is basically bogus and that students should be taught in such a way that they “can defend against it, if they want.”
For example, scientific stuff about the human appendix and the Earth's magnetic field.
"I'm not saying to put the Bible into the classroom, although the real science will confirm the Bible," Kezele told Flaherty. "Students can draw their own conclusions when they see what the real science actually shows."
Because, hey, Barney floating around on Noah’s Ark.
Kezele told Flaherty that all land animals – humans and dinosaurs alike -- were created on the Sixth Day.
And there was light and the light was, well, a little dim for science class, if you ask me.
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com.
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