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11-07-20 18:19 #1286
Posts: 6486Blow the whistle!
Somebody get a calculator! Do the math! Was Poppa Joe who had the path! Blow the whistle! Blow the whistle! Blow the whistle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJtzEKetBM
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11-06-20 22:10 #1285
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by EngineDriver [View Original Post]
And now stretch to a nearly 15 K lead as it now reads 3,315,156 over 3,300,413 as they keep counting more ballots mailed in from the Philly area.
Can you say President Elect Joe Biden?
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11-06-20 12:29 #1284
Posts: 2118Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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11-05-20 02:23 #1283
Posts: 6486Sayonara!
Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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11-05-20 00:58 #1282
Posts: 2344Within the last hour PBS, Fox News and NPR have projected Joe Biden as the winner of Arizona and their 11 electoral votes, bringing Joe's total to 264 electoral votes.
Having not yet conceded AZ to the democrats, CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC still have Joe Biden at just 253 electoral votes.
Biden is leading in Nevada by around 8,000 votes, but I think no further counting will happen until tomorrow there.
I don't know if North Carolina or Georgia will finish its counting today.
Pennsylvania, which is becoming less important, expects to be counting until Friday.
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11-03-20 00:02 #1281
Posts: 2344Not again! Trump Rally In PA Ends in Chaos With Attendees Left In Cold
Not again! Trump Rally In PA Ends in Chaos With Attendees Left In Cold For Almost 2 Hours Waiting For Buses.
President Donald Trump's rally in Butler, PA had a chilling ending literally with thousands of the president's supporters left stranded in the dark and cold, waiting for almost two hours for buses to take them back to their cars. And it wasn't the first time this had happened.
A similar scene had unfolded Tuesday night at a Trump rally in Omaha, Nebraska, when Trump finished his speech and his supporters were left behind. The shuttles that had brought them from distant parking lots were no longer running, and the campaign had failed to arrange for adequate number of buses. Spending hours in frigid temperatures sent several people to the hospital and others received medical treatment at the scene.
Saturday's Trump rallies in Pennsylvania were not quite as cold as that night in Nebraska, but reporters on the ground still found people unhappy after again spending hours in low temperatures and no organized transportation back to their cars. Trump had left on Marine One and once again the buses that brought people to the rally were nowhere in sight.
CNN political reporters DJ Judd and Ryan Nobles tweeted several photos from the post-rally scene in Butler, Judd noted that "thousands of supporters who have been let loose into the night with no sign of the shuttles they've been told will take them back to parking. " According to Judd and Nobles, the temperature was 41 degrees at that time.
CNN's Anderson Cooper covered the story on AC360 Saturday evening, chatting with Nobles, who described the scene as a "logistical nightmare," with "thousands of people shoulder to shoulder, nowhere to go, no buses in sight, no direction from anyone from the Trump campaign to tell them where to go or how to get back to their parking spots."
"It became so frustrating for many of these Trump supporters, they ended up just walking," Nobles told Cooper. "That is the decision that our crew made, my producer and I walked about a mile to get to our parking lot. " According to Nobles, they passed many rally attendees who were walking at least three or four miles back to their cars.
Nobles said after he and Judd had tweeted their photos, the Trump campaign responded that they were sending buses, but it still took "more than an hour and a half."
The temperature was above freezing, Nobles acknowledged, but many of the supporters "were already sitting outside in the cold for four, five hours waiting to hear the president speak and then had to wait for an hour or longer" before the buses picked them up.
The lack of social distancing that is common at Trump rallies continued afterwards as well. Nobles described the scene with the people "packed tightly" and then crowded onto the buses.
"It was a huge headache for the thousands of people that came to this rally tonight," Nobles concluded.
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11-02-20 10:45 #1280
Posts: 1184Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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11-02-20 10:39 #1279
Posts: 2118Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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11-01-20 23:13 #1278
Posts: 2344Thanks for your usual waste of bandwidth.
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11-01-20 13:27 #1277
Posts: 3094Scatman is CNN's, oops I mean FNN's, top unpaid correspondent! Oh the imagination and energy he puts into his reports! The humanity! His noble service will be secure for the next four years! Thanks for the entertainment, Scatman!
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10-28-20 18:50 #1276
Posts: 2344Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally
7 attendees were taken to hospitals. Overall, 30 people were "contacted" for medical reasons, the Omaha police department said in a statement.
2020 Election.
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally, 7 taken to hospitals.
Overall, 30 people were "contacted" for medical reasons, the Omaha police department said in a statement.
Image: President Donald Trump campaign even in Omaha.
People attend a campaign event by President Donald Trump at the Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb. , on Tuesday, despite cold weather conditions and busy crowds. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters.
Oct. 28,2020, 5:28 AM PDT / Updated Oct. 28, 2020, 10:13 AM PDT.
By Geoff Bennett, Adela Suliman and Caroline Radnofsky.
Hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters were left in the freezing cold for hours after a rally at an airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday night, with some walking around 3 miles to waiting buses and others being taken away in ambulances.
Seven people were taken to area hospitals, suffering from a variety of conditions, and there were a total of 30 "contacted" for medical reasons, the Omaha Police Department said in a statement. The Omaha Airport Authority had a slightly different figure of the number taken to hospitals it said six were "throughout the duration of the event" and added that it could not confirm that the people were taken to hospitals because of the cold.
The temperature in the area was in the mid-30's at the time, but as low as 27 degrees with wind chill.
Many of those at the rally at the Eppley Airfield faced hours in long lines to get in and clogged parking lots and busy crowds to get out, hours after Air Force One departed around 9 pm The police said the last person was loaded onto a bus at the rally site at 11:50 pm about three hours after the event had ended.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden said the incident was emblematic of "Trump's whole approach."
"Just look what happened last night in Omaha, after the Trump rally ended, hundreds of people, including older Americans and children were stranded in sub-zero freezing temperatures for hours," Biden told reporters during a brief speech in Wilmington, Delaware. "Several folks ended up in the hospital. It's an image that captured President Trump's whole approach in this crisis. He makes a lot of big pronouncements, but they don't hold up."
The police department said 25,000 people had been taken to the rally site by 40 buses running from 10:00 am Until the rally began at 8:00 pm.
According to dispatches from the department, recorded by the radio communications platform Broadcastify, at least 30 people including the elderly, an electric wheelchair user and a family with small children were among those requiring medical attention after hours of waiting in the cold.
"Supporters of the president were brought in, but buses weren't able to get back to transport people out. It's freezing and snowy in Omaha tonight," Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt tweeted.
NBC News has reached out to the Trump campaign, Omaha Fire / EMS and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Omaha and has not yet received comment.
"There's an issue with a number of people unable to find their cars and wandering in the cold. See if we can't get everybody reunited with a car," the Omaha police Dispatch 1129 recording said, according to Broadcastify.
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10-25-20 22:02 #1275
Posts: 2344Midwest hospitals strained as ICUs reach capacity
Fifteen states across the nation are reporting record hospitalization numbers. In Utah, health officials are on standby to convert the Salt Lake City Convention Center into a field hospital for the second time.
Just 18% of the hospital beds in Tennessee are still vacant and available. Their ICUs have only 13% available.
Oklahoma is even worse off with only 11% of hospital beds available.
North Dakota is now down to having only 20 ICU beds still available.
https://news.yahoo.com/hospitals-str...230956404.html
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10-25-20 14:31 #1274
Posts: 2656Originally Posted by EngineDriver [View Original Post]
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10-24-20 21:08 #1273
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
North Dakota is the fourth smallest state in population at around 762,000 residents.
According to the North Dakota Department of Health, there is a total of only 1,877 total staffed hospital beds in the entire state.
They are going to need more available beds soon, as their % of staffed beds available is today only 11.61% (Less than 140 available beds).
Some recent days in North Dakota have generated over 1,000 new cases per-day. With that volume of new cases, you have to expect that in less than a month North Dakota will have between 50 to 100 new Covid hospitalizations daily, and their current available hospital capacity won't have enough room to handle it.
Army hospital ships, like the Mercy, don't have anywhere in North Dakota to dock up and help with the expected overflow of patients.
There are many states with populations twice to five times the size of North Dakota. California's population is roughly 50 times larger.
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10-24-20 13:14 #1272
Posts: 2656According to a 2019 Gallup poll, 40 percent of women younger than 30 years would like to leave the USA Canada is the top destination for these would-be migrant American women. These young women clearly prefer socialism to servicing septuagenarian marshmallows. Meanwhile, all of the elderly male sex tourists are heading to Southeast Asia to live out their last days as wily old hymen busters.
On the other hand, only 20 percent of men younger than 30 would like to leave the USA However, as they approach 50, the numbers are similar to that of women. Most likely, many of these fellows have turned into sexual refugees looking to spend their later years in the developing world busting hymens.
How do you think these migrants will respond to coming deep cuts to social security payouts to those residing overseas? Pension withdrawals will be heavily taxed to pay for the recent and upcoming economic stimuli. Do you think septuagenarian American sex tourists fleeing to Southeast Asia will readily acclimate to a diet of rice and fish head soup?
Link to Gallup poll. https://news.gallup.com/poll/245789/...ans-leave.aspx.