The Goat Pen

Sweden must be viewed as a disaster or else...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/swedens-coro ... 00568.html

interesting times


a store can refuse to sell goods to someone not wearing a mask

unless they are a bakery and its a gay guy that wants a cake.

Maybe we will find out how much (or little) Trump is really worth after all...

Trump rages at Supreme Court over tax records case, claims ‘political prosecution’

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/09/trump-r ... ution.html

most politicians don't want you to know how much money they have made while in office

Trump doesn't want you to know how much he's lost.

So, one of the signers of JK Rowling’s letter on canceling the cancel culture is now being canceled herself.

So, she changed her beliefs based on who else believed in it with her? Lol, theres the cold dead heart of social media. Everyone caught up in high school-esque drama and not any semblence of rational thought. “I thought all the cool kids were signing this, not the rejects! OMG I’m really not a reject!“

Goddam - 'cancel culture' is still a thing here? Even after hedge posted 57 trump tweets wanting to cancel everything from Vanity Fair to Obamacare?

It's getting to where you can't say for certain whether a particular week is as bad as it gets for this president.

A Russian hating neocon never-Trumper says the Russia bounty story was hysterical...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... i-BB16xTLl

Just like most of your bullshit

sardis wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:50 pm A Russian hating neocon never-Trumper says the Russia bounty story was hysterical...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... i-BB16xTLl

Oh my - Colin Powell needs a little more convincing about the bounties.

Not so about Trump, though. He's thoroughly convinced Trump is "a national disgrace". https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016- ... ls-n648011

I found this interesting - while not the same, and there is an organization trying to turn this against Fauci, certainly this information was valuable in developing a treatment strategy early in the rise of infections of Covid-19

in 2005 this is what they were saying

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/

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https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/americ ... 1594304003

Mayor Bill de Blasio is permitting Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through city streets while the city is canceling all large events through September.

Speaking on CNN Thursday night, de Blasio said the demonstrators’ calls for social justice were too important to stop after more than a month of demonstrations have not led to an outbreak of coronavirus cases.

“This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the kinds of gatherings we’re used to, the parades, the fairs — we just can’t have that while we’re focusing on health right now,” de Blasio told host Wolf Blitzer.

The exception came as New York’s rate of infections has remained consistent through the civil unrest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

A late-June study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found no evidence that coronavirus cases jumped in 315 cities in the weeks after the first protests. Researchers determined that protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.

The City Hall shutdown will include big parades like the West Indian American Day Carnival in Brooklyn on Labor Day weekend, the Dominican Day Parade in Midtown Manhattan and the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy.

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so if its important, then the gathering of people is ok during COVID-19, but if its just a social gathering, then we have to protect the interest of the people.

Quit crying

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has reportedly limited the number of retirement applications it will allow, after it saw a surge in requests in the last couple of months.

The NYPD announced on Wednesday that 179 officers filed for retirement between 29 June and 6 July – a 411 per cent increase on the 35 who retired in the same time period in 2019.

Additionally, 503 NYPD officers filed for retirement between 25 May - the day George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis - and 3 July, representing a 75 per cent increase on the 287 officers who retired in the same period last year.

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also....


A veto-proof majority of the Seattle City Council backed a proposal Thursday to defund the Seattle Police Department by 50% — including a proposal to remove 911 dispatchers from police control and to “imagine life beyond policing.”

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

Is Roger Stone having his sentence commuted supposed to deflect from the 70,000 covid cases today? Or is it the other way around?

I'm betting all those NYPD officers filing for retirement are the good ones sick of all the bad ones and want to get out.