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Brent: No more or less reliable than CBS/NBC or ABC. Their "spin" might be different, albeit, but they mostly report on the very same stuff. The only real differences are the omissions. As I mentioned earlier, you and I will likely see these things from very different perspectives and that's fine with me. I don't need lockstep adherence to my views in order to have a conversation. In this now clearly dangerous time, an informed opinion is quite valuable. As a tenured professor who shoots fine guns, your opinions are interesting and unusual here. An "echo-chamber" adds no value to me. I may already suffer from confirmation-bias and nobody can afford that anymore.
A comment you made earlier is also somewhat troubling to me. Perhaps I was a bit too-blunt when I mentioned that I was glad that I wasn't one of your students. It was more of an "excited utterance" than anything deliberate and certainly not intended to be insulting. Your other conversations here can be pretty "direct" for lack of a better description, and I simply didn't filter my thoughts at the time of my writing it. Teaching is clearly your ricebowl and it was thoughtless of me to be that inconsiderate.
Keith: Glad to see you here. I was hoping to get word of how things are going in my "old country". Not much news percolates out from there anymore for me. My living connections are all going or gone, sadly. You must also know how the "Spanish" flu was named and that it started in Ft. Riley, Kansas?
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Argue all you want. Then try arguing with the rest of the world. The pictures in this video pretty much size the matter up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZZF39fgWM
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Thank you for not showing pictures of the ice rinks.
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rome is burning, while you guys argue about the relative value of fire fighting equipment and who lit the match...
lets all pull together and do what our leader tells us to do to put the damn fire out.
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keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Corona virus is not a partisan issue. What we have to have is response from expertise and experience. Our President would do a better job by getting out of the way and STFU. He clearly lacks a clue.
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bill: or the pres is providing strong leadership and wise judgement in the face of this extraordinary national crisis...
cannot think of anyone else i would rather have in charge now, than trump...
who or what is he in the way of? specifics, please?
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keep it simple and keep it safe...
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good news, indeed...hope it is just the beginning of a lot of good news, which we all need to hear... whether it turns out to be real or not, at least it is not more bad news...and provides us with hope...
an as for the fire, sounds like rain may be in the forecast...
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keep it simple and keep it safe...
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ed, when the President contradicts every qualified authority and asserts his whim of the moment, it is not leadership. It is incompetence in action. All he can see is his endangered re-election. The economy was to be his salvation, and it's the focus of his concern, not your health.
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Corona virus is not a partisan issue. What we have to have is response from expertise and experience. Our President would do a better job by getting out of the way and STFU. He clearly lacks a clue. I would suggest Bill, that not having a clue is not a partisan issue. The leaders of most countries have been shown to not having a clue. The medical profession has been divided on appropriate responses. Everyone ignored the early warning signs no matter what side of the aisle they were on. Take you bias out of it and Trump has been as good, on average, as most other first world nation leaders. And his opposition continues to be interested in scoring political points, rather than pulling together to solve the problem. And then there is the bias in favor of Big Pharma by the media, which is a whole 'nuther story.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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