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Concerning Sanders and the Zika vaccine thing...
I'm with Angelus and Jovian on this one. Sanders sounds like someone who either isn't too sympathetic to the plight of people suffering from Zika and need a vaccine yesterday and/or someone who isn't sympathetic to an industry in which most of the money, time, and effort spent on R&D is likely to end up being All for Nothing. You can bet that if the USA were undergoing a severe Zika epidemic right now, he wouldn't have spouted this crap.
Disgusted, but not surprisedPrivate medical Rn D is kind of silly. One of the few things the government is consistently fairly efficient at is research.. and essentially *all* of the products of medical research are in the end purchased by governments. So.. Why, exactly are we not just short-circuting this whole industry and conducting pharma Rn D directly out of tax payer funds?
The government does fund a fair amount of what's usually referred to as "basic research" — ie, fundamental scientific stuff without any obvious application or marketability. But there's still a lot of work that has to be done between that and actually creating a viable product. You have to figure out how to produce the drug on a large scale, and you have to go through all sorts of clinical trials, FDA testing, etc.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.And now for the next edition of We ARE Struggling Together
Ossoff’s Democratic rivals vow he won’t get ‘coronation’ in Georgia Sixth
Which is to say the other four Democrats in the April 18 special election are none too happy about what one calls the “coronation” of the 30-year-old former Congressional aide.
“This is not going to be a coronation. You have to earn it,” said former state Sen. Ron Slotin. “He stands no chance against a Republican in the runoff. And that’s what I’m letting people know. The party shouldn’t pick favorites.”
He and the other three lesser-known Democrats in the race gathered over the weekend at Andretti’s in Roswell with Ossoff for a forum sponsored by the Needles in a Hay Stack group to make the case why the party should rally around them.
Ragin Edwards, an east Cobb sales manager, told the crowd to give her a chance and “I promise I will make you proud.”
Rebecca Quigg, a physician, focused her pitch on safeguarding the Affordable Care Act. “We need a doctor in the House who cares about the patients, and who is knowledgeable about the law,” she said.
And Richard Keatley, a college professor from Tucker and U.S. Navy veteran, said he will be the “independent voice” who will not be beholden to special interests. “I’m used to being the odd man in the room,” he said. “I’m the first officer in a long line of sailors, and I know how to rock the boat.”
It was Slotin, though, with the sharpest attacks aimed at Ossoff.
He slammed the Democratic National Committee for pledging to pour resources into the race – ostensibly to help Ossoff – and assailed Daily Kos, the left-leaning website, for raising more than $1.1 million for Ossoff’s campaign. He called them Washington insiders “who don’t know anything about the district.”
Slotin also criticized Ossoff for “not having a business in the United States,” a reference to his London-based investigative film company. He was booed by crowdmembers when he asked Ossoff about a delay in filing financial disclosures; the campaign has requested extensions and is set to submit them this week.
A straw poll conducted after the question-and-answer session showed the audience of roughly 400 had picked a clear favorite.
About three-quarters of the votes went to Ossoff and Keatley received about 10 percent. Quigg, Slotin and Edwards split the remaining 16 percent of the vote. After the vote, the group endorsed Ossoff and said it would work to help him win the race, “ideally on the first ballot.”
If we lose the sixth, because an overwhelming Dem vote was split between too many candidates who were actively cutting each other down in the middle of a crisis...
Slotin, with all his experience should know this. If Ossoff "doesn't stand a chance" drop out and rally the whole base to one end, or at least don't give the GOP ammo in what's already Mission Impossible.
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesMy real issue with what Sanders said was that he didn't want the government to help the pharmaceutical companies because it would somehow raise prices. If the government doesn't play a role in the research process, it's going to result in heightened prices as the companies try even harder to make a profit.
So, Pat McCrory is having a hard time finding a job over the Bathroom Bill
Mc Crory said in an interview with a World Radio podcast, according to the News & Observer, that the backlash following the law “has impacted me to this day, even after I left office. People are reluctant to hire me, because ‘oh my gosh, he’s a bigot’ — which is the last thing I am.”
He blamed liberal advocates who opposed the law, which requires that transgender people use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex as identified on their birth certificate, for damaging his reputation.
“If you disagree with the politically correct thought police on this new definition of gender, you’re a bigot, you’re the worst of evil,” Mc Crory said. “It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
And here's the absolute SAVAGE Democratic response:
LAWD!
edited 14th Mar '17 8:59:38 AM by TacticalFox88
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Oh, I feel for him
It seems actions do have consequences sometimes...
edited 14th Mar '17 9:07:43 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesObviously, Paul Ryan lied, but it's not so much that Ryan lied that's the issue. It's more concerning how hard Breitbart is trying to destroy fellow Republicans (Including Reince Priebus) simply because they may not have agreed 100% with Trump. This also further feeds into my idea that the Republican Party is tearing itself apart and that Trump really is the Swan Song for the party.
It may be just an internal coup attempt. If the GOP has transformed into an ethnic party, it'll be easy to keep unified compared to the diverse spectrum of Dems.
Doesn't mean it can govern...
Ga. Republicans in damage control mode on health care
Several Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation emphasized the more flattering aspects of the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the GOP’s American Health Care Act and ignored the uglier ones in a bid to keep the proposal afloat. Others sought to return the spotlight to rising premiums under the Affordable Care Act.
Others rushed to defend the embattled bill, which can only afford two GOP detractors in the Senate and about 20 in the House should Democrats stay unified against it.
“The CBO report confirms that President Trump’s plan will decrease the deficit and lower health insurance premiums, which is great news for Georgia families,” U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger, said in a statement.
“This bill is just the first step to creating patient-centered, market-driven health care that gives Americans the freedom to make their own health care decisions,” said U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-West Point. “People will be able to buy the coverage they want and need rather that an expensive, one-size-fits-all policy mandated by the government.”
Several argued that the CBO’s analysis did not take into account the GOP’s full health care plan, since it excluded leaders’ pledges to implement other policies at a later date, such as allowing insurance companies to sell plans across state lines.
A spokeswoman for Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson said the three-term Republican was still reviewing the bill but that he is “committed to following through on our promise to repeal the irreparably flawed healthcare law known as Obamacare before the system implodes on its own.”
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said the Trump administration “strenuously disagreed” with the CBO report.
edited 14th Mar '17 9:53:35 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives"If we lose the sixth, because an overwhelming Dem vote was split between too many candidates who were actively cutting each other down in the middle of a crisis...
Slotin, with all his experience should know this. If Ossoff "doesn't stand a chance" drop out and rally the whole base to one end, or at least don't give the GOP ammo in what's already Mission Impossible."
This is why the jungle primary is a crime against humanity.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Plus they are by no means that the kind of anti-establishment group you'd expect to be capable of causing an uprising if an election doesn't go their way.