CONTENT ADVISORY: This thread is not about Beaver football.

I believe the CDC said less than 10%, so technically correct. Candy-ass way to straddle the fence.

My favorite is Ray Bradbury. Educated in the public library.

No one has to go to college to be intelligent. But they do need to turn off the TV/Facebook/Twitter/YouTube and read. 

And unlike a different generation, people have to realize that what they know is limited. I remember a nice piece by Bill Moyers many years ago in which he looked at how much we do not know and how much trust we put in things in our daily lives. One example that stuck with me is the elevator. We trust it to work. Most of us have no idea how it works or how to repair it if it fails. We just use it. We put our lives in its hands without even thinking. And we do this every day with lots of things.

So turn off your TV. Read. Know that people are working their whole lives on these things.

And trust the elevator to work. Get your vaccine.

It was not "fake news," which I consider a deliberate lie, like telling people the election was stolen when it has been demonstrably proven countless times, by multiple entities, that it was not and in fact may have been the fairest and most accurately-counted election in our history.

The news was released by the county and then by OSU, who did not completely understand the state's Covid metrics and either overlooked or ignored the 15% increase in hospitalizations clause. OSU's mistake was repeated by the Oregonian; neither the OHA nor the governor ever released any statement moving Benton County to extreme. 

I asked, on this message board and of Nick Dashel, for a source and nothing has been offered. No official statement from OSU, just “sources.”

So can you provide a link to the aforementioned release from OSU?

Your first paragraph is needlessly provocative drivel and eliminates any credibility that you might have with regards to the second paragraph.  The losing side to an election in America always believes that the election is rigged or stolen, always.  Hilary Clinton has asserted and continues to assert that the election was "stolen" from her.  She said it at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. 
2016    The 2016 election was stolen. 
2017    The 2016 election was stolen.
2018    The 2016 election was stolen.
2019    The 2016 election was stolen.
2020    The 2016 election was stolen.
2021    The 2020 election was the fairest and most-accurately counted election in history. 

Your blue-colored glasses are deceiving you, brother.

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has found that the 2020 Wisconsin election, as conducted, was unconstitutional.  Georgia set the record for biggest delta ever in a recount.  And guess whose votes were overcounted and guess whose voted were undercounted.  The manner that Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin ran their elections was unconstitutional.  Time magazine ran a gushing 20+ page article in February 2021 describing how Democrats and Never Trumpers "conspired" (Time magazine's word) to "fortify" (read rig) the 2020 election.

But, yes, fairest and most accurately counted.  Sure.  Why not? 

The 2016 election was the fairest and most accurately counted election in the history of all countries for all time.  It also had a pleasant smell.  Videos of election night in 2016 can cure diabetes and cancer.  And chimps, who watched the results, are able to speak phrases and short sentences. 

My paragraph above is probably about as demonstrably true as your first paragraph.

Fun stuff to watch, if you're bored:


Fun article to read, if you're bored:
thefederalist.com/2021/02/09/time-magazine-gushingly-profiles-the-successful-conspiracy-to-rig-the-2020-election/

Democrats used money from American and European billionaires and tech oligarchs to out-spend, out-hustle and out-maneuver Republicans between 2016 and 2020 and set up the rules of the game to their benefit.  That helped them to win the 2020 election.  Good on 'em.

Now, unless you're going to quit bad-mouthing Republicans' efforts to un-rig the 2022 elections, quit talking up your rigged 2020 election.

Lol!  Well, if I am the Whataboutism King, I would hate to disappoint.

Classically, whataboutism, in the Soviet sense, is comparing the results of different political systems in different countries, not different political parties within the same country.  "Whataboutism," in that context, is typically called "fairness" or "consistency," your choice.

Be fair or consistent, and I do not have a problem.  I have a problem, when the Left whines and complains about rigged and stolen elections for four years and then clutches their pearls, when the other side makes the same or similar complaints nine months later.  Either it was always BS and is BS now.  Or it was legitimate then and legitimate now.  Or it is all politics and Skrimshander is a whiner?  Again, your choice.

Skrimshander pulled out non sequitur nonsense about the 2020 election.  That had nothing to do with anything that was talked about previously.  Respectfully, pulling out a non sequitur to try and talk up an election that Skrimshander's side won reeks of insecurity.  Logically, why do you need to publicly bolster your assertion without attack, if there is no question as to the soundness of your assertion?  

Not my hero, for sure.  I just miss $2.24 gas.  I miss being able to buy OSB for $268 per 1,000 square feet.  I miss a guy that would stand up for Israel, that would work to set up an international network to work against the Iranian mullahs, rather than trying to buy them off.  I miss a guy that stands up for Life, Liberty and Property: the freedom to speak, the freedom to bear arms, etc.

The inflation numbers come out tomorrow.  Any guesses as to what they will say?  Or the markets response?  Or the spin thereafter?

A fun article from The Guardian, of all places:
www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/15/why-stagflation-is-a-growing-threat-to-the-global-economy

The crazies are going to be crazy. It is who they are and what they do.

Michael J. Lindell has had to overcome a lot to get to where he is.  You would think that he would be a little more humble?  The guy is a nutball but makes a great pillow.

I wish that Trump had not talked out of his a$$ so much after it was clear that Biden had won.  There was a way to spin it to be honest and still defiant.  But I wish that Clinton had not talked out of her a$$ so much after it was clear that Trump had won.  When you whine and complain ad nauseum for four years, you more or less invite the other side to do the same ad nauseum.  You cannot complain about the person you voted against doing it, when the person that you voted for did it last time.  Romney was the last losing presidential candidate with any class.