Some North Carolina Republicans are worried President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown in the battleground state could backfire. The Trump administration has touted its North Carolina surge as a successful operation targeting the "worst of the worst" criminals, but some Republicans in the state -- which will feature one of the most expensive and hotly contested Senate races next year -- fear that message is not breaking through with voters.
While the threat posed by COVID-19 remains relatively low nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that infections are growing or likely growing in 19 states across the nation. read more
Holiday shoppers are feeling stressed as rising costs, family expectations, and social media pressures lead many to overspend and hide expenses from loved ones.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether Bill Pulte and Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Donald Trump's critics. read more
The agency was largely absent from that space for elections this month in several states, a potential preview for the 2026 midterms. read more
As Pres Trump looks towards those polling results, has he startes to say to Americans ...
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Don't Go Away (1990)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
We were sharing so many words and feelings
Age is heavier, it seems, than years alone
But, I told you things I wouldn't dream of telling anyone
Are we drifting out, like flowers from a forgotten someone
Don't go away
I can't feel sane without you
We were making so many plans and secrets
We would both be millionaires or kings or presidents
But like everything those little dreams
Just kind of came and went
Hard now just to make end meet
How soon we all forget
...
CBS News poll finds most would oppose U.S. military action in Venezuela, say Trump hasn't explained
www.cbsnews.com
... The situation around Venezuela has Americans asking to know more.
Across party lines, big majorities say the administration needs to explain what the U.S. intends regarding any action, and that it has not done so clearly yet. ...
John Hiatt - Back Of My Mind (1990)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Well my daddy he stood at the foot of the stairs
He was calling to me at the time
And I knew even then, I could die for the thoughts
That I kept in the back of my mind
But I dared not to speak
How I felt for my dad
Cause there were no words to define
The ball of confusion, of feelings and junk
That I kept in the back of my mind
So I took to the highway
And I kept to myself
Just a lookin' and hopin' to find
Some solutions, some answers, someway to exist
With this stuff in the back of my mind
So I took me a job
And I took me a wife
And I took me a bottle of wine
And it did not take long, 'til all I had left
Was this stuff in the back of my mind
[Drivin' like rain, or a runaway train
Flyin' blind, shot from the dark in the back of my mind]
Well the end of the tunnel
Just never came up
'til I came to the end of the line
And I saw that the light I'd been hoping to see
Was just a spark in the back of my mind
And the cold wind that blew
Through the hole in my heart
Made a fire for the very first time
From some branches of trust
And a kindling of faith
And that spark in the back of my mind
Drivin' like rain, or a runaway train
Flyin' blind, shot from the dark in the back of my mind
...
OK, more of a fun tune, but with some good guitar playing ...
Man or Astro-Man? - Interstellar Hardrive (1999)
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@#27 ... The best part of this thread is LftHnd being so utterly clueless as to why everyone is laughing at him. ...
Oh, imo, I suspect he knows exactly why everyone is laughing at him.
But that current trolling alias seems to have a mission: disrupt and divide.
To wit: drudge.com
... and while on the subject of communicative illness ..
Why subclade K' could make for a nasty flu season
thehill.com
... A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts.
The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom's flu season started a month earlier than usual, a trend also playing out across the Atlantic.
U.S. flu cases have already reached numbers typically seen in December, said Cameron Wolfe, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at Duke University.
"We're here mid-November seeing the beginning of an uptick that's actually mirrored by what we've seen overseas," Wolfe said.
"It's not necessarily showing any signs of being more severe, I think it does look as if it has sort of escaped some of our prior immunity, and therefore we'd expect more cases, and maybe that's why we're seeing them more early in the season than what we would usually see."
Subclade K is a variant of the H3N2 influenza, which has dominated past flu seasons and cocirculated with an H1N1 last year.
H3N2 variants tend to cause more severe symptoms like a high fever, fatigue and severe body aches in comparison with H1N1 variants, which tend to be more mild, according to the Doctors Diagnostic Center. ...
@#4 ... They will just be pardoned ...
Exactly.
The Trump "investigates" them, and decides to prosecute, only to receive a pardon.
But that shows that the Trump DoJ is independent? Correct?
Or is the Trump DoJ just part of the MAGA cult?