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LOL. The jokes on you. They don't prosecute, they REFER it to the Justice Department, which has all the time in the world to investigate further, charge him and prosecute him. No tick tock here.

I suspect you've been in Asia awhile. It sort of changes one's ability to identify and place people by skin color. That said, she does not look Black, IMO, but can you imagine for one second what would have happened if she tried to pass herself off as white?

Since the cartoon was published, I'm pretty sure it went through a number of people who would have alerted him to the racist connotation, unless he worked with people who were equally as clueless.

Wow! In what world would it matter whether Ukraine has a Nazi problem? If they do, is there some justification for Russia to invade to solve a problem that has nothing to do with them? Would you support someone invading the US because of racial inequity or any other problem that doesn't affect them?

I have a great deal of admiration for Harry and a lot more compassion for Megan, especially after seeing the available series episodes. I am quite well aware that this is their side of the story. They were working royals, but the Firm didn't do what it needed to protect one of their 'employees'. What do you think would happen at any company if an employee was subject to harassment on a regular basis and did nothing? The palace wields a great deal of power and was in a position to respond and take action against the press. Harry is an honorable man. He served his country and his queen. He is now doing what an honorable man would do, and that's protecting his family. The world would be a much better place were there more men like Harry.

So, if racism isn't deliberate, it doesn't count? Clearly, anybody with half a brain would see a connection between a reference to a monkey in the context of a mixed race person. It was not humorous. It was racist. It was hugely disrespectful, and pretty much any parent would be extremely upset by such a characterization of their firstborn child. Keep in mind, this was not the first time racist remarks had swirled around Harry's wife, and now it was being leveled at his child.

Fossil fuels are not cheap. They are not easily accessible either and most get subsidies and other benefits from governments.

Oh goodness, you really are misrepresenting the separation of children from families. Under Obama, children were only removed from parents when they were accused of a serious crime. That's no different from when the police arrest parents in the US -- the children are removed; the parents are charged and placed in detention. Children were also held if they were unaccompanied or were with someone who was not a family member. Children could be held up to 72 hours and were then transferred to a licensed child care facility, foster care or to a family member living in the US. This is what happens inside the US when parents are arrested. Trump, on the other hand, simply took all children from their parents for no good reason. The separations were not well recorded, and parents were often released or deported without their children. Neither children or parents had any idea where the other had been taken. The Trump administration was unable or unwilling to reunite families and this left the gov't with a huge burden of caring for the 5,000++ children for whom the gov't didn't know where the parents were. 5 years later, there are still close to 200 who have not been reunited. The DAILY cost of care was close to $900 PER DAY to care for them, and a lot of that money went to facilities run by Trump cronies. The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to find the parents, including extensive searches in the countries to which they were deported. It's very unfair to compare the placing of children in care because the parents are incarcerated to those for whom the separation was unnecessary, capricious and inhumane. A little more info can be found here: https://www.voanews.com/a/five-years-later-work-of-reuniting-families-separated-at-us-mexico-border-remains-unfinished/6610677.html

Hmmm .... so you are saying that all the guns sold in the US are only used for defense? None of them are used in crimes? I think that is a mango & papaya comparison. There is no doubt that Bout was not a nice person and that he has been a danger to US service personnel and many others. He's been in prison for a long time. He's most likely lost his connections and given the situation with Russia, the sanctions and the limits on his ability to legally travel, reconstituting his business will be a daunting task. He was exchanged. He was not exonerated or pardoned. If the US gets their hands on him again, he'll be right back in jail, just like if Griner decides to go back to Russia, she'll be right back in prison. His business is an international arms trader -- not easy to do if you can't travel.

It's still your body, your choice. If you don't want the vaccine, no one will make you get it. Go find a different job. It's entirely up to you.

He has name recognition. Russia wanted him from Thailand; they didn't get him. As far as danger goes, he is pretty much neutralized.

He was an international arms trader. Do you really think he can travel about selling weapons? Do you really think he can reconstitute his long dead career considering the situation with Ukraine and international sanctions? You can best your sweet behind if he leaves Russia, he'll be back in jail in a heartbeat. He was traded. His sentence wasn't commuted. If he's caught, he is eligible to continue serving it.

You do not get the option of deciding what part of the Constitution you wish to adhere to. If you do not accept the entire document, you reject it in its entirety. That's how it works. There is a process to amend it.

RIP. It's very sad to see young people lose their lives simply doing their job.

The reason that a medical examiner reviews these cases is to determine a cause of death. If you are hit by a car crossing the street to get to a hospital, you will not be listed as a Covid death and you won't be recorded as 'dying with Covid.' It gets a little murkier when there are serious comorbidities, so an autopsy and histological examinations are necessary. In one instance in which nine subjects from two different nursing homes included patients who presumably died from CO poisoning due to a heating system malfunction. All subjects tested positive for COVID-19 both ante- and post-mortem and were examined using post-mortem computed tomography prior to autopsy. COVID-19 was determined to be a contributing cause in the deaths of four out of nine subjects (death due to COVID-19; i.e., pneumonia and sudden cardiac death). In the other five cases, for which CO poisoning was identified as the cause of death, the infection presumably had no role in exitus (death with COVID-19). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393539/

Here's a little chart to show how the unvaccinated are faring. Note the red line at the top, those are the unvaxxed: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status?country=~50%2B

Well, since you are being rather myopic and intransigent, let me putting it to you this way, by a very, very, very wide margin, the number of people who have died from Covid are unvaccinated. You are taking a snippet in time, and a very small snippet in time, to prove an invalid point. It's been explained to you.

I'll give you a big pass on clarifying anything having to do with vaccines. If you don't want one, don't get one. It's always been known that if a high rate of vaccination occurs, the death rate would eventually be higher among vaccinated than unvaccinated. If, for example, 100% of a population is vaccinated against the flu, then any and all deaths will be among vaccinated people. That's how the disease works and that's how statistics work. In most, but not all countries (China is an exception), the highest vaccination rates are among the elderly, who are the most risk of death from Covid. The fact remains, that regardless of the death rate, in any age category, you are more likely to become seriously ill and die if you are unvaccinated.

Acute Covid infections are not a long term condition. People don't die 'with' Covid. People do die from complications of Covid, but it either kills you or you recover. It's quite disingenuous to try to somehow conflate the situation with other diseases and conditions.

Wow! This post is way off the deep end. It's obvious you do not understand how research on viruses is conducted or what gain of function is. But let's get it straight, in order for Covid-19 to have benefited from gain of function, it would mean it was in the lab and escaped from the lab. Evidence of this has not been verified. Or are you suggesting Fauci is responsible for funding some sort of viral lab in a bat cave somewhere in a remote part of China?

Again, let us know when you come out of the rabbit hole. You make accusations that are false. Did I mention Russia in my post? No. Did I mention disinformation? Again, no. I'd prefer you not quote me to make an unsubstantiated rant. Who is the big guy? I strongly suspect it was his. coke dealer, but then it would be more than 10%.

There has never been a link between Hunter's escapades or financial dealings to his father. There is no big lie because NOBODY except the right-wingers ever cared about Hunter and they weren't going to vote for him anyway. Investigate as much as you want. I suspect this will be another Benghazi story. Let us know when you decide to come up out of the rabbit hole.

The US is far from being unfixable. It's been through worse .... much worse. It endured a Civil War and it survived. During the 60s-70s we saw some of the largest riots, if not the largest, in US history over the Vietnam War and Civil Rights. The Vietnam War pitted family members against one another in an unprecedented manner. The nation survived. The nation will survive the likes of Trump or Biden or whichever politician you want to blame, and the data on Hunter Biden's laptop is unlikely to end the country as we know it.

I wonder what her future aspirations are? If she runs for the Senate, she will lose as an independent, and she will probably cause any Democrat to lose as well. She is definitely a spoiler on all levels.

I don't think so: Russia demanded that a spy held in Germany be freed in exchange for Paul Whelan Russia refused to release Paul Whelan alongside Brittney Griner unless a former colonel from Russia’s domestic spy organization currently in German custody was also released as part of any prisoner swap, US officials told CNN, even as the US offered up the names of several other Russian prisoners in US custody that they would be willing to trade. The US was unable to deliver on the request for the ex-colonel, Vadim Krasikov, because he is serving out a life sentence for murder in Germany. Brittney Griner arrives in the US after being released from Russian custody in a prisoner exchange CNN first reported exclusively in August that the Russians had requested that Krasikov be released along with Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was serving a 25-year sentence in the US, in exchange for Whelan and Griner. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/russia-paul-whelan-vadim-krasikov-germany/index.html