Pennsylvania Court Voids School Mask Mandate

Finally people are rising against the madness.

Corrected: This is not an ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Alec Lemeas and DMan correct me, but by an appeals court. The Karen Governor is appealing to a higher court.

An order by Pennsylvania's acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools and child care facilities was thrown out Wednesday by a state court that said she lacked the authority. The Wolf administration said lawyers were directed to file an immediate appeal.
Commonwealth Court sided 4-1 with the ranking Republican in the state Senate and others who sued to challenge the masking order that took effect in early September as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The judges said acting Health Secretary Alison Beam's mandate did not comply with the state's laws about reviewing and approving regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.
The state's disease control law does not give health secretaries "the blanket authority to create new rules and regulations out of whole cloth, provided they are related in some way to the control of disease or can otherwise be characterized as disease control measures," wrote Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon, a Republican, for the majority.

Compare and contrast:

Oops... pic.twitter.com/Vcg4nOi5d5
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2021

They don’t want you to talk about the psychological effects masks are having on kids pic.twitter.com/xf54rsnIP4
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2021

School board speech by Florida 2nd grader who was suspended 36 times for not wearing a mask:
Legend 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/SjEAhuQuP8
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2021

When a generation of kids begin exhibiting an induced autism-like syndrome of stunted social development caused by not seeing human faces through several of their key formative years, we can all say, "Well, at least we protected the 50 year old Karen teachers. And bitter broken shut-ins like AllahPundit. They're our Real Most Precious Resources, after all."

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1 Foisty

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at November 11, 2021 02:14 PM (P4Cor)

2 good

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 02:15 PM (LvTSG)

3 We'll Never Give In!

Posted by: The Mask Nazis In Oregon State Government! at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (I2/tG)

4 Finally is right ... keep fighting. Wins lead to wins.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (sX1BW)

5 That college professor...

He'll be dean in 3 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

6 Moar!

Please, God, more like this. Like in WA state, please....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (eeRB6)

7 From the Rekieta stream: Backdoor Binger

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (csEWM)

8 PULL UP!

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (d6Kkx)

9 I suppose any good news is better than none. Maybe the person who issued the mandate will do like the Brandon Admin and tell the schools to ignore what the court said.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 11, 2021 02:16 PM (4a9Vv)

10 Mask of The Beast.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 02:17 PM (WmGrA)

11 A coworker Karen was whining about that the other day

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 11, 2021 02:18 PM (YZG/i)

12 I'm an adult, and who knows, maybe I'm borderline on the Asperger's thing, but I find myself not looking at people AT ALL. I don't look at their face. I don't look them in the eyes. I don't even look at them. I look at their feet, their elbow maybe, just collision avoidance.

What is this like for kids? The whole notion horrifies me.

Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2021 02:18 PM (BD/yx)

13 was extremely proud of my kid's school - the headmaster sent an email out IMMEDIATELY following the ruling saying "no more mask requirement" (of course they are still allowed for kids who want to wear!)

other public schools here were like "no Wolf is appealing it so you still have to wear them."

Wolf supposedly didn't do the order? his bimbette interim health director/lawyer did? so why is he the one appealing and crying about this?!?!

such an ass

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 11, 2021 02:19 PM (j9HX3)

14

These school boards look so damned Soviet it's creepy.

Jackasses let it all go to their heads. Pathetic.

BTW, Tom Wolf still wants to get into little kid's sexuality...that creep is still out there.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at November 11, 2021 02:19 PM (4WPW/)

15 The judges said acting Health Secretary Alison Beam's mandate did not comply with the state's laws about reviewing and approving regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.
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Is that because the legislature canceled the state of emergency? If so, then does that mean the agencies are still behaving as if they have emergency powers when they do not?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 02:19 PM (DU+/6)

16 9 I suppose any good news is better than none. Maybe the person who issued the mandate will do like the Brandon Admin and tell the schools to ignore what the court said.

mallfly that IS what wolfie is doing

because he's a big baby

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (j9HX3)

17 People are rising up against the madness . . ." Yes, about 18 months too late.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (txdEq)

18 Oh, was at "industry" training yesterday. Not a single person in the class, despite big "masks required" signs on the building wore a mask. Not one.

To be fair, it was a borrowed meeting room, but anyone I saw that "belonged" to that building was bare faced as well.

Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (BD/yx)

19 Oddly though, a F'ing federal court overturned Texas's mask mandate ban.

There is no law anymore. Its Calvinball.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (+LCoQ)

20 I am still wondering why you see Biden speaking at the WH with VP Giggles standing a few feet away with a mask on.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (4a9Vv)

21 Tom Wolf is fucking asshole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (ekXJa)

22 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (arJlL)

23 When a generation of kids begin exhibiting an induced autism-like syndrome of stunted social development caused by not seeing human faces through several of their key formative years, we can all say, "Well, at least we protected the 50 year old Karen teachers. And bitter broken shut-ins like AllahPundit. They're our Real Most Precious Resources, after all."
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There is no evidence of any poor psychological effects on children associated with masking or any other COVID mitigation strategy.

Posted by: Doctor Anthony Fauci, pure scientist at November 11, 2021 02:20 PM (DU+/6)

24 This was a 5-2 D-R court (justices are elected in PA, except appointed to fill gaps).

Two justices are retiring due to age so it's now 4-1 D-R

Posted by: Joe Biden's Thing at November 11, 2021 02:21 PM (RHGPo)

25 yea

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 02:21 PM (HMHlJ)

26 come on

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 02:21 PM (HMHlJ)

27 The judges said acting Health Secretary Alison Beam's mandate did not comply with the state's laws about reviewing and approving regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.

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It would be nice if one of these judges just said because we are Americans and since 1776 we don't follows orders from the crown, if the people want this the legislature can pass a damn law, but I guess I'll take what we can get.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 02:21 PM (sX1BW)

28 Hola?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (AjvVI)

29 Good!

Posted by: MAC SOG'''' at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (P4Pk9)

30 nope

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (HMHlJ)

31 Huh? Wut broke?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (wAnMi)

32 "Well, at least we protected the 50 year old Karen teachers. And bitter broken shut-ins like AllahPundit. They're our Real Most Precious Resources, after all."

AllahPundit might just be the last national reservoir of anal fissures, and we cannot afford to lose that resource.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (F0YaR)

33 These school boards look so damned Soviet it's creepy.

Jackasses let it all go to their heads. Pathetic.

BTW, Tom Wolf still wants to get into little kid's sexuality...that creep is still out there.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at November 11, 2021 02:19 PM (4WPW/)

One thing that communism got right is that it does go to a part of human psychology, not for the regular people who have to live under it, but for the people in charge of it. They get to be lords and masters with the full cloak of the state surrounding them, doing unto their neighbors what they have always wanted to do: take them down a peg, take what they have, or ultimately kill them.

That is why Communism should be fought everywhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (csEWM)

34 12 I'm an adult, and who knows, maybe I'm borderline on the Asperger's thing, but I find myself not looking at people AT ALL. I don't look at their face. I don't look them in the eyes. I don't even look at them. I look at their feet, their elbow maybe, just collision avoidance.

What is this like for kids? The whole notion horrifies me.
Posted by: Synova at November 11, 2021 02:18 PM (BD/yx)

I do the same, but I can force myself to look at people when I think about it. I've taken the AQ test online and it says I'm probably a little tarded.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (UuD2k)

35
The Science(tm) is telling us that the chinese virus only lives in the Inhalation/Exhalation of one's breath.

This must be the only virus in history that doesn't live on Surfaces.

Historic!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (7+Ovs)

36 Where did the thread go?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (yQpMk)

37 The Biden junta told everyone to ignore this court ruling.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 11, 2021 02:23 PM (iDcra)

38 Hey Horde

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 11, 2021 02:23 PM (a4EWo)

39 what happened now?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 11, 2021 02:23 PM (4a9Vv)

40 Slightly OT: A large CO metro hospital group wanted me to come in for a pulmonary test. I told them it was a hard-pass on their policy of get vaxxed or subject myself to a PCR test before entering.

I was contacted by the practice yesterday, and was told neither is a requirement, now.

The lesson here is to resist, and do not comply, and let them know it is not negotiable. They will eventually fold.

/off rant/soapbox

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 02:23 PM (WmGrA)

41 fuck

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 02:23 PM (HMHlJ)

42 fuck joe biden

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 02:24 PM (HMHlJ)

43 Speaking of f^cking @ss holes

The trial is about to begin

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 02:26 PM (ynq4A)

44 After...noon?

Hamsters shit the wheel again?

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2021 02:26 PM (1Yy3c)

45 Are we sure it was a state Supreme Court ruling? The linked article says it's from "a state court" (specifically Commonwealth Court) and that the governor will appeal to the state Supreme Court.

Posted by: Dman at November 11, 2021 02:45 PM (R/Oit)

46 The United States is illegitimate. It does not have a functioning democracy.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet at November 11, 2021 02:54 PM (juH8z)

47 Ace - the Commonwealth Court is one of two intermediate appellate Courts in Pennsylvania. I think the Order has been appealed to the 5-2 Democrat Supreme Court.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 11, 2021 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

48 Look at that set-up the school board has - looks like some kind of Politburo (which it is). Like they are sitting rulers of some intergalactic consortium.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 11, 2021 02:57 PM (IytoW)

49 The Commonwealth Court typically handles appeals of matters in which the Commonwealth itself or a political subdivision or agency thereof is a party and has statutory jurisdiction. The Superior Court is the other intermediate appellate Court handling other appeals not within that jurisdictional carve-out.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 11, 2021 02:59 PM (ssz2a)

50 I'll repost my question since it went in before we got unposted.

The judges said acting Health Secretary Alison Beam's mandate did not comply with the state's laws about reviewing and approving regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor.
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Is that because the legislature canceled the state of emergency? If so, then does that mean the agencies are still behaving as if they have emergency powers when they do not?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 02:59 PM (DU+/6)

51 To whom do you appeal if your state supreme court rules your state government's abuse of state law is invalid?

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:00 PM (Ectld)

52 If so, then does that mean the agencies are still behaving as if they have emergency powers when they do not?
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So what? You and what fucking army are going to stop us?

Posted by: The Agencies at November 11, 2021 03:01 PM (IytoW)

53 Now if the PA legislature would just pay some attention to the voting system like they did to cut the Governor off from a perpetual emergency grift then maybe we'll have something going b4 2022 elections.

So far, nothing. The district were told by Wolf to not cooperate and apparently the GOP run legislature can't find it's big boy pants to go after them and get the info they want or just make some common sense rules like the Sos Can't just make shit up just before an election.

Posted by: jakee308 at November 11, 2021 03:01 PM (aH4R4)

54 So what? You and what fucking army are going to stop us?
Posted by: The Agencies at November 11, 2021 03:01 PM (IytoW)

Yadda yadda blades of grass.. .

Posted by: Zombie Mao Tse-Dong at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (IloDw)

55 The lesson here is to resist, and do not comply, and let them know it is not negotiable. They will eventually fold.

/off rant/soapbox
Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 02:23 PM (WmGrA)

Or they love the money more that their perceived power.

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (hOMhY)

56 Love the wording of the story.

Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (CYnTg)

57 Believe all children!
Oh, wait.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (SmFPm)

58 Actually quite surprised this result from our Leftist judges

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (2JoB8)

59 Many modern Americans just go where the wind blows. No though, no core principles. At this moment the wind is blowing in our direction but a nation without principles can't last.

The same people pushing gay and trans rights right now would be shoving them into ovens if the wind blew that way.

Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (BJKQV)

60 "the GOP run legislature can't find it's big boy pants to go after them and get the info they want or just make some common sense rules like the Sos Can't just make shit up just before an election."

Every state should be repealing or restricting emergency powers. No emergency power should last longer than two weeks at which point the Congress should be called into session to pass any necessary laws as appropriate. I love what Michigan did to their emergency laws.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (Ectld)

61 A coworker Karen was whining about that the other day
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 11, 2021 02:18 PM (YZG/i)

let me guess - overweight, dowdy, painfully plain to ugly with no social skills ?

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (V13WU)

62 From yesterday's Miami Herald:

>>The Miami-Dade and Broward school districts on Tuesday said parents can opt their children out from wearing masks in schools as a result of declining COVID case numbers. This applies to all students.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (m/Gc2)

63 Governor Tom Wolf only wears a mask when dick fasting, a rare thing for him.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (C1Lsn)

64 Splat!
Goes the twunt,
When you hit em with the lawfare.

Posted by: Million to one shot, Doc. at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (5aIMb)

65 Ace, why do you call a commonwealth court (presumably what is elsewhere known as a superior or circuit court, aka, trial court) the PA "Supreme Court"? PA ain't NY (NY is the only state that calls its trial courts "supreme court" - like MD, NY's top court is not called "Supreme Court").

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (KAi1n)

66 Second chances are the best chances.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 03:04 PM (WmGrA)

67 all my stupid posts posted lol

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 03:04 PM (HMHlJ)

68 Not Your Daddy's Trebuchet

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=119441

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:04 PM (kwfA1)

69 Isn't this same PA Supreme Court the one that said the Board of elections making up new election rules that violated the PA Elections Laws was fine and dandy?

Posted by: rd at November 11, 2021 03:04 PM (Z32m1)

70 sorry -- thanks for the correction, I misread this as the Penn supreme court!

Wishful thinking I guess.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 03:04 PM (0G13K)

71 I'm glad they're not requiring masks at the Rittenhouse trial...

It would be a shame to miss some of those facial expressions.

Posted by: jwest at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (/BlEx)

72 Pennsylvania State Congress passed a carry law negated many local laws but or course Emperor Wolf will veto it.

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (2JoB8)

73 The prof in the tread doesn't care about COVID, he cares about Respect My Authoritah!!

A sad little king on a sad little hill.

Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (BJKQV)

74 So what? You and what fucking army are going to stop us?
Posted by: The Agencies at November 11, 2021 03:01 PM (IytoW)
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Ah.... The very essence of American "FREEDOM."
Perfectly stated. Especially today of all days.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (juH8z)

75 Actually quite surprised this result from our Leftist judges
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 03:02 PM (2JoB

This was my immediate reaction as well.

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (yHJec)

76 People will get dragged one day all at once for fuckin with kids like this.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (NYKO9)

77 These school boards look so damned Soviet it's creepy.

Jackasses let it all go to their heads. Pathetic.

It's all theater. They care about the opinions of the speakers about as much as Stalin cared about the opinions of Ukranians.

Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (ZsR3z)

78 -
To whom do you appeal if your state supreme court rules your state government's abuse of state law is invalid?

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:00 PM -
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Tire rubber, or shoe leather if necessary.

Posted by: irright at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (SchQD)

79 Ace, why do you call a commonwealth court (presumably what is elsewhere known as a superior or circuit court, aka, trial court) the PA "Supreme Court"?

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Same reason he called Duchess of Cornwall - Duchess of Shropshire (or some such). He obviously has no respect for authority !

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (V13WU)

80 Daily mail yesterday: Parents in Virginia have collected more than 2,000 signatures to file a petition to remove Loudoun County school board chair, Brenda Sheridan. The group, Fight for Schools, cited the reasons neglect of duty, misuse of office and incompetence in the performance of her duties. They also compiled signatures to mount legal challenges to oust three other board members, Atoosa Reaser, Ian Serotkin and Denise Corbo

This, on every level.

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:05 PM (+mkOR)

81 We aren't protecting 50yos, we're breaking the country to support 80+ yo with pre-existing.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:06 PM (ONvIw)

82 At this point, I would support complete prohibition of any emergency powers. They have demonstrated they will be abused. Sorry, it only takes one to ruin it for everyone.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 11, 2021 03:06 PM (IytoW)

83 Ffs.

Nothing I hate more than a drama Queen. Who loves the attention. And doesn't ever want a solution. Just wants to bitch without pause about their situation.

Killmenow.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2021 03:06 PM (W2Pud)

84 Same reason he called Duchess of Cornwall - Duchess of Shropshire (or some such). He obviously has no respect for authority !
Posted by: runner

*considers a glare*

Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at November 11, 2021 03:06 PM (QzkSJ)

85 Paul Joseph Watson
at_PrisonPlanet

A man in New Zealand who was shot dead was counted as an official COVID death because he tested positive for the virus after he was deceased.

12:39 PM - Nov 11, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3C7wFtA

The "COVID death" data from the beginning has been intentionally FUBAR'd to create fear and hysteria. Numerous cases like this as well as the protocol in place where "a death for any cause within 60 days of COVID(+) test result" = "COVID death".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (Do5/p)

86 How far have we gone when a common sense ruling causes us to celebrate? I'm tired of being told to be grateful the left allows me to breathe. (No one here, you folks are sane.)

Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (r1z5A)

87 So what? You and what fucking army are going to stop us?
Posted by: The Agencies at November 11, 2021 03:01 PM (IytoW)
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Ah.... The very essence of American "FREEDOM."
Perfectly stated. Especially today of all days.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet
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*snort*

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (kwfA1)

88 "Parents in Virginia have collected more than 2,000 signatures to file a petition to remove Loudoun County school board chair, Brenda Sheridan. They also compiled signatures to mount legal challenges to oust three other board members. This, on every level."

The beautiful work of Democracy in action.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (Ectld)

89 My daughter goes to a conservative private school.

They've completed 8 weeks so far with no masks.

500 students + faculty/staff.

3 confirmed CV cases.

Posted by: I mean at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (QKRDW)

90 Every state should be repealing or restricting emergency powers. No emergency power should last longer than two weeks at which point the Congress should be called into session to pass any necessary laws as appropriate. I love what Michigan did to their emergency laws.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (Ectld)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This.
I might give them a whole 30 days in event of war or specific named natural disasters

Posted by: rd at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (Z32m1)

91 F*ck all you deaf and hard of hearing kids.

F*ck all you kids in speech therapy who need to see the mechanics of how your peers are forming words.

F*ck you.

F*ck your development.

Don't you know that 146 (one hundred and forty six) 5-11 year olds with massive physical and neurological problems who also use feeding tubes have died over the last two years while also having COVID?

F*ck you kids who need to see other kids faces.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM (XSoJN)

92 Not Your Daddy's Trebuchet

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=119441

Awesome, but I imagine the g forces are pretty extreme. You aren't going to launch astronauts that way unless you want them to become two dimensional.

Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM (ZsR3z)

93 Every state should be repealing or restricting emergency powers. No emergency power should last longer than two weeks at which point the Congress should be called into session to pass any necessary laws as appropriate.

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I'm in favor of no emergency powers period. If there is a true emergency that requires the government, the people will allow it whether it is declared an emergency or not. These emergency powers are to used far too often.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM (sX1BW)

94 90 This.
I might give them a whole 30 days in event of war or specific named natural disasters
Posted by: rd at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (Z32m1)

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The natural disaster of climate change never ends, comrade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM (LvTSG)

95 32 "Well, at least we protected the 50 year old Karen teachers. And bitter broken shut-ins like AllahPundit. They're our Real Most Precious Resources, after all."

AllahPundit might just be the last national reservoir of anal fissures, and we cannot afford to lose that resource.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 11, 2021 02:22 PM (F0YaR)

***

I understood that Resident (FJ) Biden was going to tap into the "Strategic Anal Fissure Reserve" to allay just such an emergency.

Posted by: Publius Redux at November 11, 2021 03:09 PM (SSlJ9)

96 "At this point, I would support complete prohibition of any emergency powers. They have demonstrated they will be abused."

I personally think there is an appropriate application of emergency powers, but this always and forever power is ludicrous.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:09 PM (Ectld)

97 I don't know that I would hold a lot of hope in this not being overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. IIRC it's 8-1 Democrat.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2021 03:09 PM (BMmaB)

98 Awesome, but I imagine the g forces are pretty extreme. You aren't going to launch astronauts that way unless you want them to become two-dimensional.
Posted by: pep
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We should use our "elites" as test subjects.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:09 PM (kwfA1)

99 65 Ace, why do you call a commonwealth court (presumably what is elsewhere known as a superior or circuit court, aka, trial court) the PA "Supreme Court"? PA ain't NY (NY is the only state that calls its trial courts "supreme court" - like MD, NY's top court is not called "Supreme Court").
Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2021 03:03 PM (KAi1n)

not being from Pennsylvania, I had to look that up. Looks like the Commonwealth Court is the top Pa Court for Government disputes, but it can be overruled the Pa Supreme Court if they choose to take the case.

https://www.pacourts.us/learn/

so you're correct, it's not a Supreme Court, it's one step down. (and only Pa has such a thing)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (trdmm)

100 "I understood that Resident (FJ) Biden was going to tap into the "Strategic Anal Fissure Reserve" to allay just such an emergency."

Why? Have large numbers of children gone missing?

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (Ectld)

101 Not Your Daddy's Trebuchet

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=119441
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:04 PM (kwfA1)

I just watched a video on this company. Pretty crazy, but it might actually work. The full size version would be scary AF in real life.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (wAnMi)

102
I have this mental of image of AnalPundit now. He's hiding under the bed in his tiny little apartment, with all shades pulled on the windows. He's going to Mr. Monk level hygiene measures, wearing five masks, and trying to get his 6th booster shot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (Mzdiz)

103 Hey publius, did you hear?

"The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency"

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
PMC8543421/

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (XSoJN)

104 Anchorage has a mask mandate in effect. I have yet to wear it in public.

Posted by: Bosk at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (x6uUk)

105 *waves to Ralph

--Abbot Radulfus

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (V13WU)

106 kentucky has clipped dumb fucks wings

Posted by: Doug at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (HMHlJ)

107 I was reviewing my local school board agenda recently. This includes the Superintendent's report. In it the supt. mentioned all the adjustments elementary school kids have had to go through - between being schooled at home, masks, etc. Social interactions suffering is the highlight.

Yet - he is still mandating face masks. Even worse, we just had an election for school board members. most of the wards had anti-mask mandate candidates running. Not wanting to eliminate masks - just give parents the right to choose. Every single one of them lost.

NH is no longer Live Free or Die.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - F*** Joe Biden and Fauci at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (N39Ws)

108 -
Awesome, but I imagine the g forces are pretty extreme. You aren't going to launch astronauts that way unless you want them to become two dimensional.

Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM -
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Unless I misheard, it's something like 10,000 Gs.

Posted by: irright at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (SchQD)

109 There is no "emergency". There never really was. It was a media happening from its inception. Gamed at Event 201, the call for shutdowns was sounded by Messonnier (coincidentally Rod's little sister)

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (ONvIw)

110 I'm in favor of no emergency powers period. If there is a true emergency that requires the government, the people will allow it whether it is declared an emergency or not. These emergency powers are to used far too often.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe)

Poor planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (r1z5A)

111 Another subject pushing me towards the Thanos was an under-achiever position.

Posted by: DaveA at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (FhXTo)

112 At this point, I would support complete prohibition of any emergency powers. They have demonstrated they will be abused.

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At this point, I would support bills of attainder and letters of marque against every elected official in the country.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (/KPLX)

113 I understood that Resident (FJ) Biden was going to tap into the "Strategic Anal Fissure Reserve" to allay just such an emergency.
Posted by: Publius Redux

On it!

Posted by: Major Pete at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (WmGrA)

114 3 confirmed CV cases.
Posted by: I mean at November 11, 2021 03:07 PM (QKRDW)

Caught at home from auntie clubbing .

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (yHJec)

115 Unless I misheard, it's something like 10,000 Gs.
Posted by: irright
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wow

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (kwfA1)

116 I'm in favor of no emergency powers period. If there is a true emergency that requires the government, the people will allow it whether it is declared an emergency or not. These emergency powers are to used far too often.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM (sX1BW)

FJB: "Why use 'emergency powers' when you can order private businesses via OSHA nonsense to obey your will?"

Posted by: Thrawn at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (5aFbR)

117 96 "At this point, I would support complete prohibition of any emergency powers. They have demonstrated they will be abused."

I personally think there is an appropriate application of emergency powers, but this always and forever power is ludicrous.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:09 PM (Ectld)

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"Emergency powers are allowed, but they can be for no more than 30 days by which the legislature must affirm any new powers through regularly statutory process or deny them by not passing anything. The governor of the state will also step down from office with a bar from future position in government because they have proven themselves unworthy of the tremendous powers of government."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:12 PM (LvTSG)

118 This is what Greta should have talked about stealing a child's hopes and dreams.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2021 03:12 PM (r5BVk)

119 Rittenhouse trial is back.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 11, 2021 03:12 PM (NpAcC)

120 You know what would probably be easy to do in a true emergency - get the legislature to vote on it being an emergency. Maybe we should give that a try. I'd rather not, but it is a step up from what we normally do.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (sX1BW)

121 I personally think there is an appropriate application of emergency powers, but this always and forever power is ludicrous.
Posted by: squid_hunt

I want the definition of "emergency" defined and codified into law.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (r1z5A)

122 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (XSoJN)

Alex Berenson brought that variant to my attention not too long ago. Figures the virus is going to find ways around vaccine-generated antibody response.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (5aFbR)

123
It was a media happening from its inception. Gamed at Event 201, the call for shutdowns was sounded by Messonnier (coincidentally Rod's little sister)
Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (ONvIw)

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Hugely comforting. We can rest easy knowing she's a secret white hat Top Woman who did this all by the book.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (/KPLX)

124 oooh, I like the idea of two weeks of emergency power that also serves as the politician's official notice of resignation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (XSoJN)

125 "Emergency powers are allowed, but they can be for no more than 30 days by which the legislature must affirm any new powers through regularly statutory process or deny them by not passing anything. The governor of the state will also step down from office with a bar from future position in government because they have proven themselves unworthy of the tremendous powers of government."

Interesting proposal. I would have said no more than three allowed declared emergencies in a year of no longer than two weeks each. But that stepping down thing has merit.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (Ectld)

126 Awesome, but I imagine the g forces are pretty extreme. You aren't going to launch astronauts that way unless you want them to become two-dimensional.
Posted by: pep
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We should use our "elites" as test subjects.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:09 PM (kwfA1)

This video I watched yesterday explains a bit about this - unmanned missions but even then the equipment itself needs to be able to withstand that sort of G force. It's only 11 minutes:

https://youtu.be/JAczd3mt3X0

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (wAnMi)

127 PA Supreme Court rubberstamps any wish the Democrat Governor wishes. The mask mandate is a definite for PA. Not even worth debating. This is the same supreme court that hired a Stanford Liberal political hack to come in and gerrymander the PA districts to the Democrat's favor despite the state constitution stating in black and white that only the legislature can set voting districts.

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (+Df5v)

128 Posted by: Thrawn at November 11, 2021 03:11 PM (5aFbR)

Do you really have RIGHTS, if the Government can take them away by decree?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (oHd/0)

129 Emergency powers should require 3/4 of the legislature to extend.

Posted by: irright at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (SchQD)

130
There is a big variation in the g-force limits for different directions relative to the body.

"Negative gs", whether "up" along the vertical axis, or "eyeballs out" along the horizontal are not tolerated well.

Sideways g's aren't too good either, I don't think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (Mzdiz)

131 The lesson here is to resist, and do not comply, and let them know it is not negotiable. They will eventually fold.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021

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That was what I did earlier this year at an auto parts store where I'd gone to pick up a UPS dropoff. The manager actually implied I was lying when I said I had a medical exemption from the mask. He wanted me to stand outside and wait for my package. I said, "I'm not a second class citizen, to be segregated. Give me my package and I'll leave."

Eventually he gave in and handed me the damn package, and said, "Don't come back."

I hope he enjoyed the extensive 5-hour re-training in how to treat customers required by his regional manager when I complained to the head office.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (txdEq)

132 125 Interesting proposal. I would have said no more than three allowed declared emergencies in a year of no longer than two weeks each. But that stepping down thing has merit.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (Ectld)

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If a governor can't deal with tremendous circumstances with the power they currently hold, then they're obviously incompetent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

133 He's trying to prove Kyle pointed the weapon / not lower it.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (ynq4A)

134 Hugely comforting. We can rest easy knowing she's a secret white hat Top Woman who did this all by the book.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:13 PM (/KPLX)

I don't find it anything less than totally suspicious and well coordinated, and funded by Gates, etc.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (ONvIw)

135 We aren't protecting 50yos, we're breaking the country to support 80+ yo with pre-existing.
Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:06 PM (ONvIw)

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Not to be tinfoil hatted, but who has all the money and assets? The old folks.

Posted by: rd at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (Z32m1)

136 This video I watched yesterday explains a bit about this - unmanned missions but even then the equipment itself needs to be able to withstand that sort of G force. It's only 11 minutes:

Same set of problems they faced when developing the proximity fuse. The Japs didn't think it was possible. They were wrong.

Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 03:15 PM (ZsR3z)

137 "Emergency powers are allowed, but they can be for no more than 30 days by which the legislature must affirm any new powers through regularly statutory process or deny them by not passing anything. The governor of the state will also step down from office with a bar from future position in government because they have proven themselves unworthy of the tremendous powers of government."

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Too long, I'd go with:

"Emergency powers are not allowed. Never. We mean it. Do you understand? There is no such thing as a f---ing emergency power. We are not subjects to be ordered. We are f---ing Texans and we can take care of ourselves without any f---ing help from any f---ing government."

Mine got a little wordy too.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:15 PM (sX1BW)

138 "If a governor can't deal with tremendous circumstances with the power they currently hold, then they're obviously incompetent."

I believe the politically expedient argument is that you cannot foresee every event, which is true and likely will find sympathy.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:15 PM (Ectld)

139 Not to be tinfoil hatted, but who has all the money and assets? The old folks.
Posted by: rd at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (Z32m1)

Not for long!

Posted by: The Reaper at November 11, 2021 03:15 PM (trdmm)

140 "Emergency powers are allowed, but they can be for no more than 30 days by which the legislature must affirm any new powers through regularly statutory process or deny them by not passing anything. The governor of the state will also step down from office with a bar from future position in government because they have proven themselves unworthy of the tremendous powers of government."
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I think we could work with this.

Posted by: Democrat-Packed Legislatures at November 11, 2021 03:16 PM (IytoW)

141 >> Hey publius, did you hear?

Yeah. I heard about A.30, "complete vaccine evasion", a couple weeks ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:16 PM (Mzdiz)

142 -
Too long, I'd go with:

"Emergency powers are not allowed. Never. We mean it. Do you understand? There is no such thing as a f---ing emergency power. We are not subjects to be ordered. We are f---ing Texans and we can take care of ourselves without any f---ing help from any f---ing government."

Mine got a little wordy too.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:15 PM -
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You know what? I like yours better. F em.

Posted by: irright at November 11, 2021 03:16 PM (SchQD)

143 One thing I remember reading some time ago, has to do with child development and bonding. Babies and toddlers use visual cues when looking at faces and Mom and Dad and others, and it was poorly understood at the time, but they experimented with people wearing masks, and it screws with their heads (precise clinical term I'm sure)

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2021 03:16 PM (c25ja)

144 Yeah. I heard about A.30, "complete vaccine evasion", a couple weeks ago.

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Figured you had but wanted to be sure.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (XSoJN)

145 gerrymander the PA districts to the Democrat's favor despite the state constitution stating in black and white that only the legislature can set voting districts.

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (+Df5v)

Now that's the PA Supreme Court I know and spit on.

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (yHJec)

146 138 "If a governor can't deal with tremendous circumstances with the power they currently hold, then they're obviously incompetent."

I believe the politically expedient argument is that you cannot foresee every event, which is true and likely will find sympathy.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:15 PM (Ectld)

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I'm ruminating from the position of God Emperor of America, dictating my whims to a supplicant populace that will obey my every whim during my single year of total power before I return to my farm to live the rest of my life in peace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (LvTSG)

147 I needed to cheer up and that last video really warmed my heart. God bless those warriors with courage to fight this tyranny. They want you to despair, don't let them succeed.

Posted by: Max Power at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (QCc6B)

148 So there is something that wasn't there before?

Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (ynq4A)

149 Not to be tinfoil hatted, but who has all the money and assets? The old folks.
Posted by: rd

Correction: only some of them.

Posted by: Jorge Soreass at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (WmGrA)

150
The Party went with the emergency-powers gambit because it was easy. Absent those provisions, they *would* have legislated it. In a lot of GOP-faction controlled states, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (/KPLX)

151 I'm getting becoming a expert on video processing today.

Posted by: redchief at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (Kab4E)

152 KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as "the enemy."

Breitbart

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (kwfA1)

153 "dictating my whims to a supplicant populace that will obey my every whim during my single year of total power before I return to my farm to live the rest of my life in peace."

I foresee a large wedding procession ending in a bridge explosion for you.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (Ectld)

154 Not to be tinfoil hatted, but who has all the money and assets? The old folks.
Posted by: rd at November 11, 2021 03:14 PM (Z32m1)

Some old asshole at Kid2's wedding (Sunday) was pushing me to encourage the vax for grandsons who are 6 and 8. I asked why as the risk is so low....he said "to protect people like me". I said we would not risk their lives and subject them to cardiac or neuro issues so that a 84yo mother fucker could live to 86. This whole thing is bullshit.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (ONvIw)

155 The Party went with the emergency-powers gambit because it was easy. Absent those provisions, they *would* have legislated it. In a lot of GOP-faction controlled states, too.

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Well yeah. I'm not sure if know it, but Trump said pussy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (XSoJN)

156 153 "dictating my whims to a supplicant populace that will obey my every whim during my single year of total power before I return to my farm to live the rest of my life in peace."

I foresee a large wedding procession ending in a bridge explosion for you.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (Ectld)

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I have my shield. Anyone who tries to take me out by lasgun will go themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:19 PM (LvTSG)

157 Not Your Daddy's Trebuchet

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=119441
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Awesome, but I imagine the g forces are pretty extreme. You aren't going to launch astronauts that way unless you want them to become two dimensional.
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 03:08 PM (ZsR3z)

I had the same thought. Definitely outside-the-box thinking, but seems to be an answer in search of a problem.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 11, 2021 03:19 PM (pJWtt)

158 It's even worse...

WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Group Biden Removed From Terror List Storms U.S. Embassy in Yemen, Takes Hostages.

[Via Stephen Green at Insty's.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 11, 2021 03:19 PM (UHVv4)

159 "Absent those provisions, they *would* have legislated it. In a lot of GOP-faction controlled states, too."

I don't agree with this. The GOP has been willing to stand by, but they're not really that keen on getting their hands dirty. It sort of ruins the Good Cop/Bad Cop bit they're playing.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:19 PM (Ectld)

160 >>>"At this point, I would support complete prohibition of any emergency powers. They have demonstrated they will be abused."

I personally think there is an appropriate application of emergency powers, but this always and forever power is ludicrous.

The law requiring the US to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was passed in 1995. Every president of both parties signed a waiver *every 6 months for over 25 years* as required to forestall the move.

But these motherfuckers just decide they can run every aspect of our lives forever, with no redress.

Fuck that.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (8LP6B)

161 >>> Not Your Daddys Trebuchet

I can see it now. The next Ethan van Sciver project: Go Get Daddys Trebuchet

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (LgMPT)

162 The Party went with the emergency-powers gambit because it was easy. Absent those provisions, they *would* have legislated it. In a lot of GOP-faction controlled states, too.

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In some places, yes. In others, no. It would have gummed up the works a bit. It would have at least put a people on record.

But in the end, I don't trust the legislature that much either. It just means that the process is better, not the result. But good process typically leads to better results.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (sX1BW)

163 Am I the only person to realize during all of this that there is a National school board association? Why? Shouldn't school boards be unique to the school they serve? Very confusing.

Posted by: Chillin the most at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (Go1Bm)

164 163 Am I the only person to realize during all of this that there is a National school board association? Why? Shouldn't school boards be unique to the school they serve? Very confusing.
Posted by: Chillin the most at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (Go1Bm)

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Because everything must be centrally controlled.

Everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (LvTSG)

165 KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as "the enemy."

Breitbart

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (kwfA1)

Guess he'll want us to don a yellow star?

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (yHJec)

166 >"The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 03:10 PM (XSoJN)

This means we need moar boosters targeting the old Wuhan S protein that's no longer in the wild!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (cSs/W)

167 "there is a National school board association? Why?"

The more centralized the power, the easier to dictate your whims.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (Ectld)

168 Federal judge in Texas just said yesterday that Abbott's ban on mask mandates by schools (which is already tangled up in state courts in various forms) violated the American with Disabilities Act.

I mean, I feel bad for cancer kids and whatnot with weak immune systems, but it's sort of f'd-up that "reasonable accommodation" can be stretched to mean FORCE Everyone Else in the Entire School to wear something on their face [especially since no one can prove it actually helps prevent COVID in the cancer kids].

Posted by: Match Checksout at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (dYe5S)

169 KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as "the enemy."

Breitbart

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (kwfA1)

We refer to KISS frontman Gene Simmons as "home"

Posted by: Dozens of colonies of gonorrhea at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (IloDw)

170
And Taiwan has just halted 2nd jabs of Pfizer for teenagers due to the myocarditis risk, and aren't even going to consider vaccinating children under 12.

Also, in Germany, the Krau Fauci, name Drosten or something is making a big change in the narrative. The "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is no longer useful, because it undermines the push for boosters. If only the unvaxxed are getting sick, who needs boosters?

So the Krauts are pivoting on that. Fauci and the CDC will soon make such a change here, I imagine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:22 PM (Mzdiz)

171 I foresee a large wedding procession ending in a bridge explosion for you.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (Ectld)

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I have my shield. Anyone who tries to take me out by lasgun will go themselves.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves

Great. Turn Arrakis back into Dune. Thunberg's gonna be all over your ass.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2021 03:22 PM (r1z5A)

172 I'm ruminating from the position of God Emperor of America, dictating my whims to a supplicant populace that will obey my every whim during my single year of total power before I return to my farm to live the rest of my life in peace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:17 PM (LvTSG)

You want a piece of this action, muh'fucka?

Posted by: Norton I, Emperor Of The United States and Protector Of Mexico at November 11, 2021 03:22 PM (1Yy3c)

173 163 Am I the only person to realize during all of this that there is a National school board association? Why? Shouldn't school boards be unique to the school they serve? Very confusing.
Posted by: Chillin the most at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (Go1Bm)

How else do they coordinate their curriculum and wokeish bullshit. I knew as they were compensated for attending national and state meetings

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:22 PM (ONvIw)

174 I personally think there is an appropriate application of emergency powers, but this always and forever power is ludicrous.

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I do not. If it is a true emergency, the people will allow the government to operate. Just like if it were a true pandemic, the people would protect themselves as was necessary. Instead we have an obviously fake emergency in which only the help need to wear mask at a party of 1,000 elites.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:22 PM (sX1BW)

175 Some old asshole at Kid2's wedding (Sunday) was pushing me to encourage the vax for grandsons who are 6 and 8. I asked why as the risk is so low....he said "to protect people like me". I said we would not risk their lives and subject them to cardiac or neuro issues so that a 84yo mother fucker could live to 86. This whole thing is bullshit.
Posted by: CN

Had a customer of mine pretty much use the same excuse for vaxxing his grandkids last week. He is in his 80's. He even tried to get me to take the vax as a condition for our next meeting. After informing him that I regarded him as a coward, I fired him.

Posted by: Jorge Soreass at November 11, 2021 03:23 PM (WmGrA)

176 I am really perplexed about what just happened in the Rittenhouse trial. The state called back the video expert and they got into meaningless minutia about brightness/contrast enhancement in a video file. It was pointless. I don't know if Binger wanted to imply that the videos were meaningfully changed/manipulated by those adjustments or what, but it was boring and irrelevant to the point of being stultifying and I can't fathom why he did it or why the defense examination went off into the weeds about interpolation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:23 PM (DU+/6)

177 And Taiwan has just halted 2nd jabs of Pfizer for teenagers due to the myocarditis risk, and aren't even going to consider vaccinating children under 12.

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This is smart for a country that is probably going to need as many young adult men as it can get in a few years.

Oh Germany doesn't want it either ... look out France.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:24 PM (sX1BW)

178 "President Joe Biden's immigration officials now accept two non-U.S. approved coronavirus vaccine candidates developed by China to fulfill the inoculation requirement for land entry into the United States"

Breitbart

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:24 PM (kwfA1)

179 I wish to modify my proposal.

Instead of the governor stepping down and being barred from future government work, they will be executed.

If the emergency is truly great, and they are public servants with only the public interests at heart, they will be willing to do what is necessary to save the people and then lay down their own lives in exchange.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:24 PM (LvTSG)

180 I will send my kid to school without a mask on monday and see how it goes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 03:24 PM (0ryfU)

181 Federal judge in Texas just said yesterday that Abbott's ban on mask mandates by schools (which is already tangled up in state courts in various forms) violated the American with Disabilities Act. ...
Posted by: Match Checksout at November 11, 2021 03:21 PM (dYe5S)
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That makes so sense. Banning a *mandate* doesn't mean that masks are forbidden if someone needs or wants to wear one, it just means the school system cannot require that you do so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:24 PM (DU+/6)

182 There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

- Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, 1742

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (SRRAx)

183 Off old Nazi collaborator sock.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (WmGrA)

184 What's the blonde detective's name ?

Posted by: I mean at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (7zv4f)

185 >>>Some old asshole at Kid2's wedding (Sunday) was pushing me to encourage the vax for grandsons who are 6 and 8. I asked why as the risk is so low....he said "to protect people like me". I said we would not risk their lives and subject them to cardiac or neuro issues so that a 84yo mother fucker could live to 86. This whole thing is bullshit.
Posted by: CN

The bell tolls for THEE, old man.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (8LP6B)

186 Am I the only person to realize during all of this that there is a National school board association? Why? Shouldn't school boards be unique to the school they serve? Very confusing.
Posted by: Chillin the most at November 11, 2021 03:20 PM (Go1Bm)

The board started as grift. A way to provide for national conventions and seminars and DUES and such. Then create larger and larger staff and the CEO needed a bigger salary. Empire building.

Eventually power.

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (yHJec)

187 Had a customer of mine pretty much use the same excuse for vaxxing his grandkids last week. He is in his 80's. He even tried to get me to take the vax as a condition for our next meeting. After informing him that I regarded him as a coward, I fired him.
Posted by: Jorge Soreass
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How does one fire a customer?

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (kwfA1)

188 "That makes no sense. Banning a *mandate* doesn't mean that masks are forbidden if someone needs or wants to wear one,"

Please not a Trump appointee. Please not a Trump appointee.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (Ectld)

189 Had a customer of mine pretty much use the same excuse for vaxxing his grandkids last week. He is in his 80's. He even tried to get me to take the vax as a condition for our next meeting. After informing him that I regarded him as a coward, I fired him.
Posted by: Jorge Soreass at November 11, 2021 03:23 PM (WmGrA)

I will not force that stupid shot on my grandsons in order for 80+ to eke out another couple of years on cruise ships. Fuck these people

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:26 PM (ONvIw)

190 -
KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as "the enemy." -
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He thought he could block the syphilis from getting to his brain with lead face paint. It took a while, but it got him anyway.

Posted by: irright at November 11, 2021 03:26 PM (SchQD)

191 187 How does one fire a customer?
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (kwfA1)

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Happens all the time.

Vendors can end contracts with problem clients just as easily as clients can end contracts with problem vendors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

192 "I will not force that stupid shot on my grandsons in order for 80+ to eke out another couple of years on cruise ships. Fuck these people"

Boomers, man.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:26 PM (Ectld)

193 That makes so sense. Banning a *mandate* doesn't mean that masks are forbidden if someone needs or wants to wear one, it just means the school system cannot require that you do so.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:24 PM (DU+/6)

They probably just couldn't remember if "Commerce" has one m or two.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2021 03:27 PM (IloDw)

194
Why should I want to protect a crunchy old Leftist pussy more than a young one?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:27 PM (/KPLX)

195 I will not force that stupid shot on my grandsons in order for 80+ to eke out another couple of years on cruise ships. Fuck these people
Posted by: CN
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My parents have this mindset.

Which is why they will never see their only great-grandbabies.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:27 PM (kwfA1)

196 >KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as "the enemy."

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (kwfA1)

Big words from a filthy little plague carrier.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 03:27 PM (cSs/W)

197 Trial ended for today. For some reason, it's going to resume on Monday, I think.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:27 PM (DU+/6)

198 Boomers, man.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:26 PM (Ectld)

I'm a boomer, age 64. Husband is a "silent generation' (the loudest assholes ever) at age 80.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:28 PM (ONvIw)

199 Texas Roadhouse is doing a free meal for veterans thing today. I'm not a vet but I was out for lunch and saw an entire strip mall parking lot situated with lanes and people directing cars through and up to the restaurant. Hundreds of people there.

No meals now but they give you a ticket for one free meal anytime in the next two weeks.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:28 PM (l4HL2)

200 >Some old asshole at Kid2's wedding (Sunday) was pushing me to encourage the vax for grandsons who are 6 and 8. I asked why as the risk is so low....he said "to protect people like me". I said we would not risk their lives and subject them to cardiac or neuro issues so that a 84yo mother fucker could live to 86. This whole thing is bullshit.
Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (ONvIw)

"Your kids may have to suffer and die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay".

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 03:28 PM (cSs/W)

201 >>> WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Group Biden Removed From Terror List Storms U.S. Embassy in Yemen, Takes Hostages.

As a Reagan baby raised in one of the best times in American history, possibly peak America, I was utterly spoiled. I always looked at the 70s with pity and annoyance for the Carter years, and the folks that voted him in.

Did not realize how close we are in America, with one false step in leadership, slipping back into curruptocracy and socialist malaise. Life, especially life under President Brandon, has a way of utterly humbling you. Apologies to all those who endured those years, and I am sorry you must relive them again.

I pray another Reagan rises but I do not see one on the horizon.

Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (swKd5)

202 Trial ended for today. For some reason, it's going to resume on Monday, I think.

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If I was on the defense, I would want the jury to start deliberating tomorrow. There has to be one juror who just says we can end it quickly and have our weekend. Because no way I'm convicting. We might as well just do the right thing now.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (sX1BW)

203 Oh, no - not over. Just a break.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (DU+/6)

204 To paraphrase Augustus McCrae, Wolf's the type of man it's a pleasure to hang.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (g5I2H)

205
My parents have this mindset.

Which is why they will never see their only great-grandbabies.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:27 PM (kwfA1)

Very sad. We refuse to go along with this bullshit.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (ONvIw)

206 How does one fire a customer?
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return

Happens all the time. Bing it.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (WmGrA)

207 This glamorous Asian lady hopes more states of emergency are canceled and more agencies are reigned in:
https://is.gd/DcVcMW

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (DU+/6)

208 177 Oh Germany doesn't want it either ... look out France.

missed it by *that* much

Posted by: Poland at November 11, 2021 03:30 PM (edU/H)

209 School board speech by Florida 2nd grader who was suspended 36 times for not wearing a mask:
Legend

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Awesome sauce. Was getting a little dusty in here until the end. That 7-year-old female girl* has more longing for freedom and bigger balls than all of #NeverTrump combined.

[I'd never watched "Dukes of Hazzard" but wifey, a Texan did, and so we just started -- funnier than I would have guessed, and Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke, "half-naked female woman!", is to die for. I looked up to see if she was related to Barbara Bach -- who was born Goldbach -- and no, but people confuse them so much that Ringo jokingly refers to her as his "other wife."]

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:30 PM (cUUIs)

210
"My Xyler has a peanut allergy. So no one can have peanuts. No one."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 03:30 PM (/U27+)

211 >>> Happens all the time.

Vendors can end contracts with problem clients just as easily as clients can end contracts with problem vendors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

I remember some big-name clothing stores were starting to tell problem customers, "nope, you're not welcome here anymore". Those customers were buying stuff and returning a large percent each time.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:30 PM (l4HL2)

212 Very sad. We refuse to go along with this bullshit.
Posted by: CN
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Yes, it is, but it's their decision and their loss.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:30 PM (kwfA1)

213
"Your kids may have to suffer and die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay".
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 03:28 PM (cSs/W)

Nothing more selfish than 80somethings wanting to live forever. They spend an inordinate amount of time running to doctors to ward off their demise. Symptoms are irrelevant.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:31 PM (ONvIw)

214 the vax doesn't work, so let's be assholes and require everyone to get it?

no, fuck off. The top-down media complex doesn't understand this, there's no purchase outside of the dozen or so people who care what celebrities have to say.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:32 PM (ZZK0E)

215 207 This glamorous Asian lady hopes more states of emergency are canceled and more agencies are reigned in:
https://is.gd/DcVcMW
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:29 PM (DU+/6)

She looks sad. I volunteer to give her joy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 11, 2021 03:32 PM (cSyAR)

216 This glamorous Asian lady hopes more states of emergency are canceled and more agencies are reigned in:
https://is.gd/DcVcMW
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!)

Deserves the Golden Globes award.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 11, 2021 03:32 PM (WmGrA)

217 When a generation of kids begin exhibiting an induced autism-like syndrome of stunted social development caused by not seeing human faces through several of their key formative years, we can all say, "Well, at least we protected the 50 year old Karen teachers. And bitter broken shut-ins like AllahPundit. They're our Real Most Precious Resources, after all."

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Out: Grooming Physical Soiboys.
In: Grooming Mental Toiboys.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:33 PM (cUUIs)

218
Nothing more selfish than 80somethings wanting to live forever. They spend an inordinate amount of time running to doctors to ward off their demise.

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The physician shorthand is LOL in NAD.

Little old lady in no apparent distress

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 03:33 PM (/U27+)

219 Simmons should wear a mask full time.

Posted by: klaftern at November 11, 2021 03:33 PM (taPSh)

220 214. It does not work. The restauranteur for our rehearsal dinner, was fully vaxxed with a booster, too. Caught the wuflu, anyway. Got monoclonal antibodies and felt normal in a day.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:33 PM (ONvIw)

221 202 Trial ended for today. For some reason, it's going to resume on Monday, I think.
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They're just on a break right now. Back at quarter to two, Wisconsin time.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 11, 2021 03:34 PM (k4dH2)

222 Darwin would have anticipated A.30

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at November 11, 2021 03:34 PM (b+v9B)

223 The talisman nature of the maskers defies logic, so seems perfect as a govt solution.

Buy the Mask - It does nothing! (tm).

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2021 03:34 PM (r5BVk)

224 nood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

225 Behind the Mask - Part 3 (Romans 1:24-32)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-b3wWoGjXo

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at November 11, 2021 03:36 PM (kwfA1)

226 223: Completely a talisman, they should hang garlic around their necks, too.

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2021 03:36 PM (ONvIw)

227 Please not a Trump appointee. Please not a Trump appointee.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2021 03:25 PM (Ectld)

G.W. Bush appointee.

He's also 76 years old and one can't help but notice the more decrepit the person is the more shit scared they are of the 'vids.

Posted by: Robert at November 11, 2021 03:38 PM (1Yy3c)

228
I'd be more sympathetic to the "we must protect our elders" line of reasoning if we hadn't had several straight retard generations in a row. It's not as if these oldsters are some repository of wisdom. Same distribution of idiots as the younger generations - a straight-up majority.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:38 PM (/KPLX)

229 If I was on the defense, I would want the jury to start deliberating tomorrow. There has to be one juror who just says we can end it quickly and have our weekend. Because no way I'm convicting. We might as well just do the right thing now.

Posted by: SH

The defense did and was willing to go into the weekend; it was the prosecutors that wanted next week. Judge set it for Monday.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 03:40 PM (9hXN1)

230 "My Xyler has a peanut allergy. So no one can have peanuts. No one."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 03:30 PM (/U27+)

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Heh. "Xyler" sounds like it could catch on. This all started with the narcissism generation (of which I'm at the tail-end) and was utterly predictable at the dawn of "political correctness" when all it took was ONE individual to be offended to cancel something (moved to Northern CA to work in the late 80's and there was a story of a perfectly fine billboard that a city ordered taken down because some black woman saw "KKK" somewhere in the perfectly fine image).

It culminated in "electing" (I wonder how many others have been stolen, as we know 1960 was too) the first malignant narcissist-in-chief in 2008.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:41 PM (cUUIs)

231 The Party went with the emergency-powers gambit because it was easy. Absent those provisions, they *would* have legislated it. In a lot of GOP-faction controlled states, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:18 PM (/KPLX)

The Ohio GOP, despite the legislature taking away DeWine's dictator tendencies, still thinks the base supports that bugeyed turd. Next year they'll find out the hard way.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 11, 2021 03:41 PM (g5I2H)

232 The spike protein interferes with DNA repair mechanisms in vitro. DNA errors lead to cancer. The answer is to keep pushing the vax to see if there is a surge in cancer in the next few years. Vax your 5 year old. If he develops leukemia at 15, we will know that he probably should not have gotten the vaccine. Oops.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 03:47 PM (0ryfU)

233 My Maydysyn only eats kale. I demand that only kale be served in schools so she is not exposed to other foods.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (0ryfU)

234 "My Xyler has a peanut allergy. So no one can have peanuts. No one."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Funny. No one at my grade school ever died from someone eating a PB&J at lunch.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (YQdCi)

235 My Maydysyn only eats kale. I demand that only kale be served in schools so she is not exposed to other foods.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Your Maydysyn will be eating dick behind the bleachers, mom.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (YQdCi)

236 My guess is the fed judge gets overruled pretty quickly. He is trying to put in an ADA interpretation where it doesn't begin to apply.

No where for that ruling to rest.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (V6xwG)

237 The spike protein interferes with DNA repair mechanisms in vitro. DNA errors lead to cancer. The answer is to keep pushing the vax to see if there is a surge in cancer in the next few years. Vax your 5 year old. If he develops leukemia at 15, we will know that he probably should not have gotten the vaccine. Oops.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 03:47 PM (0ryfU)

**

Heard someone make a really interesting observation, although I'm no vaccinologist so I don't know the ins and outs.

The push for kids to get the Pfizer shot as a regularly-scheduled thing same as all the other school-required shots is because that puts Comirnity (or whatever the name is) permanently under a different level of legal protection where the maximum payout is something like $300K.

That's why kids are going to be required to get it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (XSoJN)

238 I'm in PA. The Wolf Administration appealed the ruling.

The school district my kids attend is keeping masks. I don't know of any that are not. I suspect it's because the State Secretary of Education said it's still in place.

Sad, really.

Posted by: Rhode Island Red at November 11, 2021 06:08 PM (a1isw)

239 Now to Mandate Freedom and Liberty in our Nations Schools no more of this Liberal PC Brainwashing

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 11, 2021 06:16 PM (FLiOE)

240 The "Pull up your masks!!!" guy is obviously Very Low-T.

Left-winger's form of compensation for being a eunuch.

Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2021 09:42 PM (ws6kw)

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