The Use of Ashes

Science Bitch and Nasty Women. In normal times I would be excoriating creationists.

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Truth

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THANK YOU for the perfect definition of the true nature of this beast.

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I just had to re-blog this.

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Fauci Was Right. Again. US Cases Top 100K In a Day.

As we were warned in testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci in late June, the worst is now upon us. The United States of America reported 100,000 new COVID infections in a single day. Nearly 35 states reported at least 1,000 new cases today — a new record....

So, COVID-19, which does not sway Democratic or Republican, nor show much interest in the outcome of the election, will spread like a massive, uncontrolled wildfire through the United States. Hospitals in Utah, Montana, SW Texas, Wisconsin and rural Kansas/Missouri/Nebraska — among others — are already beyond full and debating how to ration care. At 100,000 cases a day, the flow-through hospitalizations and deaths are on the way, putting dozens if not hundreds more hospital systems at risk. And half the country will insist on “giving thanks” in person, indoors, at family gatherings one month from now. In case we needed another dose of fuel on the fire. If we assume the typical percentages of hospitalizations and time period for progression after infection, the new infections we record next week, while we are focused elsewhere, will begin to manifest as new hospitalizations at or near the end of November. Right about when flu season starts peaking.

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if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

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This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

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Capitalism is largely to blame for the situation in the first place, so really there’s no excuse for us not to affirm shelter as a human right.

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Obama’s New Gig: Gleefully Needling Trump

Clearly relishing the chance to strike back at his successor, the former president has been willing to throw punches on behalf of Joe Biden’s unity-focused campaign.

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Trump is pocketing money from Republican donors, from GOP functions, and from your taxes

The ways in which Donald Trump has found to skim funds from the government—in other words, to enrich himself by stealing money from you—are legion. Whether it’s the Air Force keeping his money-losing Scottish golf course afloat, massive overcharging...

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‘Corrupt Bargain’: Chris Hayes Says GOP Traded 100,000 Lives For Supreme Court Justice | All In

What the GOP has done cannot be undone—but not just swearing in a new Justice. “They have participated in a project that has led to the deaths of probably 100,000 Americans who didn’t have to die. Congratulations, you got that done, too. That also can’t be reversed,” says Chris Hayes. Aired on 10/26/2020.

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