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That's not an actual study. That's just more anti-vax nonsense from this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch And they didn't do any sort of study. They just made stuff up. These are the same folks that were talking about how vaccines caused people to be magnetized. Had they actually done...

Israeli terrorism. it’s become Israeli government policy to starve the civilian population of Gaza. Part of that policy includes allowing right wing terrorist groups to block international food aid: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-atta...

https://www.kget.com/sports/ap-commissioner-goodell-declines-to-expand-on-nfls-statement-on-chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker/ Really mild comments from the NFL that doesn't align with the accusations about them in the OP. Their original statement was nothing more than this: “Harrison Butker gave a spe...

https://www.kget.com/sports/ap-commissioner-goodell-declines-to-expand-on-nfls-statement-on-chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker/ Commissioner Roger Goodell declined Wednesday to expand on the NFL’s statement distancing the league from comments made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker during a co...

A pardon does not mean that the person is innocent, or that he didn’t do what he was convicted of, or that the jury got it wrong. In fact, (I think) a pardon is an act of mercy extended, and one of the conditions of a pardon is that the person excepts his conviction and receives a pardon from the c...

Had Foster shot Perry, his stand-your-ground self-defense claim would have been far less tenuous than the one Perry made. But can you imagine Gov. Abbott coming to his defense? Issuing him a pardon? A Black Lives Matter marcher? Not in a million years. For way, way too many Republicans, political v...

Largest public sector unions. It is AFSCME. I don’t know who is claiming that NEA is larger. AFSCME represents all state employees below grade 13. That is a lot of employees.The teacher’s union is a mixed bag, Baltimore County is AFT, unless they have changed it in the past couple of years. (I was ...

One doesn't need to look to ancient history to explain or justify anything about the war in Gaza. Israel is a modern multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation. Every country on earth has been subject to war and conflict over its history. Israel is no exception. Every so-called Christian nation from th...

From the OP Please keep partisan comments/debates out of this thread - avoid comments that reflect negatively on either right-leaning or left leaning political persuasions. Please keep this thread focused on the topic. It looks like a number of posters have not read the OP lately. Which comments or...

Yiddish is close to/influence by German. PA Dutch, as has been said, is really PA Deutsch. That is, Deutsch is German. So the Yiddish/Deutsch connection is pretty obvious. I can understand both bits of PA Dutch and Yiddish because of my fluency in High German. There's also a lot of Hebrew in Yiddis...