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The Labor Department reports the Consumer Price Index jumped 5% from a year ago, the largest annual gain since August 2008. So, inflation from all that pandemic spending and stimulus is definitely taking hold. Banks are turning away cash deposits from businesses. Too much cash, too few goods, that's the pandemic economic story for now.

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The Axios report on unemployment fraud is dubious and poorly sourced. Since Washington was the hardest hit state and lost about $500 million (about half of which was recovered), the $400 billion figure seems absurd. The real figure is probably in the low tens of bilions, which is scandalous enough.

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Lunar New Deal: GOP Rep. ‘Loonie Louie’ Gohmert (R-TX) feels Moon too close and makes women way too weepy (ETC!) & wants the whole thing Gone ASAP.

when asked if there might be any Detrimental Effects from there being NO fucking MOON anymore Loonie Lunar Louie Gohmert-Pyles just said, well, if the Libtards don’t Like it it's GOTTA Be a Good Idea. let’s just give it one Try and we’ll just see what happens? surely it won’t be That Hard to move it back?

also ‘Science’ – Who NEEDS it?’ he (allegedly!) said but Corps Americana once again Refused to tell the Whole (gottdamm) Story.

good idea, Jasmyne, re: Kamala -- we might as well hire Julia Louis-Dreyfuss to walk the VP thru the pitfalls of the Number Two spot and hell even the (Shotgun) dick Cheney may have a few good pointers as well but I think the Main Thing is to say 'fuck' a LOT and look like you REALLY Mean it.

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Poor Louie Gohmert, obviously a sarcasm fail.

@5: No self-defense at all. Kid was unarmed and not a threat. And the homeowner shot him twice. Horrible.

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@7. When your kid gets inebriated and killed by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I hope you remember your citations.

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@9: Charitable of you to assume #7 will ever have children

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7 - Not leaving a place you have no right to be is Trespass, not Burglary.

The perpetrator has to have intent to commit a crime against a person or property within the structure for it to be Burglary.

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@8: At some point, common decency and compassion (see @9) has to take precedence over trying to excruciatingly extract debatable legalities to prove a point.

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My prediction: the "homeowner" (notice the emphasize on his status as a property owning male) will not be charged for shooting this "trespasser." Again, humanity denied, relationship or lack thereof to a unremarkable strip of land emphasized.

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@5,

The important thing is that the gun is safe.

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@17. The point is not to be a sociopathic shithead who leaps to justify a senseless killing with a sealioning wall of text. If you were capable of empathy this would be intuitively obvious. All you have to do is put yourself in the place of the family, and not leap to defend any asshole who shoots without thinking. If you want to write a dispassionate post-mortem analysis save it for your DeVry University paralegal certificate.

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It's absolutely ridiculous that so much money was stolen from unemployment. Just as ridiculous as the information regarding billionaires and trillionaires paying little to no taxes. My mother (retired, lives on social security and her retirement savings) paid $3000 in federal taxes. How does this shit make any sense? Oh right, it doesn't. But people continue to ignore how this country bleeds money due to incompetence and bleeds money for the rich, but everyone else is supposed to suck it up - work for nothing, live on the streets, die if they get sick or disabled, etc.

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@11. Agreed, but life finds a way.

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@25. Cut the kids in half.

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One of the things I hate most in this world is people stealing money that's intended for people in real need. I know quite a few people here in California who need that unemployment money for rent and food for themselves and their hungry little ones. It just makes me furious when (1) that dough winds up in the hands of convicts and cartels, and (2) that I have to deal with the realization that such people exist. I'm being emotional about it, I admit, but it makes me favor bringing back drawing and quartering. So bloody heartless.

I'm not a Marvel-type of moviegoer, but I watched the first episode of Loki last night, and it was intentionally goddamned hilarious and well-directed and the script was just...smart. I liked the sets, too. Man, it's been a while since I've seen Tom Hiddleston in anything. Obviously, he's been working on his body with diet and exercise. Slim, but super-ripped! Those trainers can do anything with a body. I guess I'm a Loki fan now.

Who be slappin' my French baby? Yeah, I know he isn't extremely popular in France right now, and some of his policies approach the line, but I still want to give him a nice warm bath.

Kamala, who I think is grace personified, seemed out of her element on her Central American tour, and it was like she was saying somebody else's words. Kamala wouldn't have just said, "Don't come." Kamala would have said, "Please don't come because if you do, you may be getting yourselves into something worse than you are experiencing here."

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@27: That was curious. But it's not as if the Biden administration did not know that. Indeed, perhaps it was because of her going through that experience and hard lessons learned on security on that level that made her a good choice.

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Pfizer has been giving the vaccine to 12 to 17 year olds for a while now. While it is good that another drug is available, I don't think it matters very much. Given that we have an oversupply (due to folks in their 20s, 30s and 40s not getting vaccinated), it would be trivial to shift things around to accommodate the youngsters. The next big milestone is when the Pfizer drug is approved for kids 5 to 11. That should happen some time in September, which will be followed by all the schools requiring it. I expect most states to follow the lead of California, and require it for every student. They got rid of the religious and philosophical exemption after a big measles outbreak a few years ago.

Anyway, the big issue is the high number of selfish idiots who don't get vaccinated. The public service announcements really need to change. For the most part, older Americans are getting vaccinated. They should have young people, with the message "I'm young, I'm strong. I'm not afraid of the disease; I'm getting vaccinated for my family and my community. I don't want it to spread, and more people to die."

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@fax,

In @25 you explicitly acknowledge the tragic element of events. And that's the thing. Regardless of whether or not the action meets some literal definition of legality, it was entirely avoidable, which is what makes it morally reprehensible. And regardless of how often you might suggest otherwise, we don't need one singular objective definition of morality for an action to be deemed indefensible.

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Man, there's some real fucked up people in this world.

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@17 Dumbass, you are fucking wrong! Your own cited statutes say EXACTLY what I said and nothing like what you said. Learn to fucking read what you cite before posting.

Based on your "interpretation," why have a fucking Trespass offense at all?! I put interpretation in quotation marks because only someone with a severe learning disability could misinterpret something so clear as badly as you have. Is it intentional?

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@42 - You are fucking wrong again, Dipshit. The homeowner "opened the door" per the story. Banging on a door, no matter how loudly, does not constitute trying to force a door. Fuck, your smug and self-satisfied stance when you are simply dead wrong is breath-taking. You must have zero friends and never get invited to parties.

And you're clearly not a lawyer or a cop, or you would not persist in your "interpretation" of what the Burglary statute clearly states. In fact, you wouldn't have put forward such an absurdist "interpretation" in the first place.


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