They killed it with the phony COVID "virus" and restrictive policies
that destroyed 75-year-old businesses and devastated the restaurant
industry.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and fagboi Pete Buttigag did this to Americans.

design logos wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> They killed it with the phony COVID "virus" and restrictive policies
> that destroyed 75-year-old businesses and devastated the restaurant
> industry.
>
> Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and fagboi Pete Buttigag did this to Americans.

You don't get out much do you? Stuck in your momma's basement?

Otherwise you'd see the crowded restaurants and brewpubs, the busy auto dealers
and repair/tire shops....

Oh, and Trump's depraved indifference about the pandemic helped to kill
thousands of people needlessly.

https://coronavirus-democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/hearing-dr-deborah-birx-tells-select-subcommittee-dangerous-ideas-undermined

"President Trump's contempt for science and his persistent attacks on
public health experts have had a lasting harmful impact on our country,
undermining many Americans' trust in public health officials and
institutions, and contributing to the continued politicization of public
health. This damage has resulted in far too many coronavirus deaths,
including deaths that could have been prevented through vaccinations. We
cannot bring those Americans back, nor the more than 130,000 who Dr. Birx
estimates lost their lives before vaccines as a result of the previous
administration's failures. But we must learn all we can about these
failures so that we can properly prepare for future pandemic threats."

--
"What shall we do?" said Twoflower.
"Panic?" said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was
the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people
faced with hungry sabretoothed tigers could be divided very simply into
those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent
brute!" and "Here, pussy."
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"

>
>You don't get out much do you? Stuck in your momma's basement?
>
>Otherwise you'd see the crowded restaurants and brewpubs, the busy auto
>dealers and repair/tire shops....

But Red States are shitholes with beggers everywhere, empty bars and no
economy. It's a red state shithole problem, not an economic one.

>They killed it with the phony COVID "virus" and restrictive policies
>that destroyed 75-year-old businesses and devastated the restaurant
>industry.

COVID did a great job of killing off pesky rightists all over the USA but
especially in Trump supporting states.

Rightists cheat because they know dead rightists can't legally vote, but do
anyway.

Cumulative death rates in red states 30% higher

For red and blue America, a glaring divide in COVID-19 death rates persists
2 years later

Post-vaccine, death rates in red states were 38% higher than in blue
states.
ByArielle Mitropoulos
March 28, 2022, 6:32 AM

1:03

White House press secretary has COVID
Celebrating graduates in New York, left, and honoring the dead in Florida.
AP, FILES

Political polarization in the U.S. was evident and intensifying long before
the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, two years ago.

Americans were already deeply divided about a multitude of issues, with
differing opinions concerning healthcare, immigration, voting rights, gun
reform and climate change, often leaving little room for collaboration
across the aisle.

Polling shows that the emergence of the novel coronavirus in 2020
exacerbated the rift, pushing Americans further apart on key pandemic
response efforts.

Surveys from Pew Research Center, last year, found that in the early months
of the pandemic, about 6 in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning
independents believed the virus was a major threat to the health of the
U.S. population, compared to only a third of Republicans and GOP-leaning
independents. That 26-point gap would ultimately grow to approximately 40
points by the fall, researchers found.
MORE: Fears of COVID-19 resurgence in the US grow as officials warn of
potential upticks

Over the last two years, few issues have been more divisive than the
pandemic and related policies � from the raging debate over mask use, to
the ongoing push to get Americans vaccinated.

Among all factors in the prevention of severe COVID-19 and death,
vaccination has been key, experts say.

Unvaccinated Americans are several times more likely to be hospitalized and
die and those living in rural areas, as well as conservatives and
Republicans, were among the most hesitant to be vaccinated, according to a
September 2021 ABC News/Washington Post poll. For unvaccinated Americans,
the decision to not wear a mask or follow other restrictions, ultimately
caused increased transmission, which in turn, resulted in more severe
outcomes, experts suggest.

The end result is a gulf in COVID-19 death rates between red and blue
states, one that is particularly amplified when examining the most and
least vaccinated states.

�In the United States, COVID-19 has become a political issue, and people's
political beliefs strongly influence their behavior,� David Dowdy, an
infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, told ABC News. �Political divides in our thinking about
COVID are much stronger than in many other countries.�

Though politicization of the virus likely played a significant role in the
differing death rates, due to varying approaches to restrictions and
vaccination efforts, experts say, a myriad of other issues also
contributed, including access to adequate healthcare, and the
disproportionate impact of the virus on communities of color.

Vaccination rates and receptivity to mitigation measures have also been
influenced by factors including misinformation.

Cumulative death rates in red states 30% higher

It has been nearly a year since the COVID-19 vaccines became available to
every American adult last April, after initially being offered to health
workers and older populations, when supplies were still limited.

However, vaccination rates differ markedly between states that voted for
former President Donald Trump, compared to those that voted for President
Joe Biden, paralleling the partisan lines that have divided the country.

Data sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that
the 10 states with the highest vaccination rates all voted for Biden in
2020, while nine of the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates voted
for Trump. The lone exception was Georgia, which narrowly went for Biden by
less than a quarter of a percentage point.
MORE: Return to pre-pandemic normalcy not yet on the horizon for many
immunocompromised Americans

Further, cumulative death data from the C.D.C., from over the last 10
months, illustrates the implications of political polarization of the
COVID-19 vaccines.

An ABC News analysis of federal data found that on average, the death rates
in states that voted for Trump were more than 38% higher than in states
that voted for Biden, post widespread vaccine availability.

In addition, in the 10 states with the lowest percentage of full
vaccinations, death rates were almost twice as high as that of states with
the highest vaccination rates, the analysis found.

Over the span of the last 10 months, in the 10 states with the lowest
vaccination rates, where between 50 and 54.5% of the total population had
been fully vaccinated, there was an average of 153 COVID-19-related deaths
per 100,000 residents.

In contrast, during the same time period, the 10 states and jurisdictions
with the highest vaccination rates, which all voted for Biden, there was an
average of about 82.2 related deaths per 100,000 residents. In all 10
states, about 75% of residents had been fully vaccinated.
Death Rates Per Capita by State/Territory
Death Rates Per Capita by State/Territory Post-Vaccine Availability Vs.
Percent of Total Population Fully Immunized
ABC News / CDC

Vaccination and mitigation 'have become heavily partisan'

�There are a few reasons why we�re seeing such differences in death and
vaccination rates. The obvious one is that both vaccinations and other
forms of COVID-19 mitigation have become heavily partisan,� Seth Masket, a
professor of political science and director of the Center on American
Politics at the University of Denver, told ABC News.

According to experts, political polarization has led to different responses
and attitudes with respect to the pandemic.

While in the early months of the pandemic, many Democratic governors
strongly promoted stay-at-home orders, masking initiatives and other
mitigation measures, Trump, and some Republican governors, sought to
deemphasize the seriousness of the threat of the virus, prioritizing
instead the economy and the value of independence, Dowdy argued.

"It's going to disappear. One day -- it's like a miracle -- it will
disappear," Trump said in late February 2020. "The coronavirus is very much
under control in the USA."

Trump later admitted to veteran journalist Bob Woodward that he had indeed
tried to downplay the severity of the virus because he did not want to
create panic.

�From early in the pandemic, following the rhetoric of then-President
Trump, Republicans have consistently not been as concerned about the
dangers of COVID-19, and they have been more skeptical of medical advice
about preventing its spread,� ??Masket said. �Democratic leaders have
consistently expressed more concern about the disease and Democratic voters
have largely followed suit.�

Last fall, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that the increase in
infections caused by the delta variant surge resulted in a jump in
perceived risk of catching the virus, from 29% in late June to 47% in
September. However, only 39% expressed worries about the consequences of
infection.

Political partisanship influenced pandemic-related health decisions,
beliefs and behavior, including �one's attitude towards public health
measures � like masking � became a signifier of political and cultural
identity,� Adrian Bardon, a professor of philosophy at Wake Forest
University explained.

While most states imposed restrictions on gatherings and businesses,
issuing stay-at-home orders and masking mandates, in an effort to curb the
spread of infections, a number of states moved to ease restrictions and
masking requirements soon after the first wave abated in 2020.

Eleven states � all of which are led by Republican governors � never issued
a statewide masking mandate.

These restrictions, along with the masks and vaccine mandates, had made a
significant difference in protecting people from infections, Peter
Jacobson, professor emeritus of health law and policy at the University of
Michigan School of Public Health, told ABC News.

�In easing these restrictions earlier, more people were going to be
exposed,� Jacobson said. �The blue states took this entire outbreak more
seriously� You can't underestimate the messages that were being sent to the
public.�

Tens of millions of Americans remain unvaccinated

A November 2021 study published in the National Institute of Medicine�s
National Library of Medicine, found that �politicization has undoubtedly
contributed to hesitancy toward uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.�

The red and blue gap in COVID-19 vaccination totals was preceded and
predicted by a red and blue gap in belief in the seriousness of the
incipient pandemic, Bardon said.

In article <ver68m$1b10c$1@paganini.bofh.team>, Trock@Trock.com says...
>
> >
> >You don't get out much do you? Stuck in your momma's basement?
> >
> >Otherwise you'd see the crowded restaurants and brewpubs, the busy auto
> >dealers and repair/tire shops....
>
> But Red States are shitholes with beggers everywhere, empty bars and no
> economy. It's a red state shithole problem, not an economic one.

What a load of shit.

On 2024-10-17, P. Coonan <nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 17 Oct 2024, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> posted some
> news:veqnuh$2n4rs$2@dont-email.me:
>
>> design logos wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> They killed it with the phony COVID "virus" and restrictive policies
>>> that destroyed 75-year-old businesses and devastated the restaurant
>>> industry.
>>>
>>> Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and fagboi Pete Buttigag did this to
>>> Americans.
>>
>> You don't get out much do you? Stuck in your momma's basement?
>>
>> Otherwise you'd see the crowded restaurants and brewpubs, the busy
>> auto dealers and repair/tire shops....
>
> I can't speak for the OP, but I just came back from a biz trip across
> California, Seattle, Denver and Minneapolis. I've been making the same
> trip for over a decade.
>
> A third or more of all strip mall businesses are gone. Huge office
> building complexes, 20+ stories are totally empty, no activity, nothing in
> the parking lots. Warehouses that were formerly busy hubs, closed, doors
> open, whatever inventory was left just sitting there rotting. Lunch spots
> gone and there are no restaurants open all night except for Dennys.
>
> Homeless people are everywhere, drug paraphenalia on the sidewalks and in
> parking lots, stores have locked up most of their products because of
> theft and Democrat refusals to do anything about it.

Sounds a lot like NYC.

> Lots of Trump signs in yards tho.

Same where I live.

--
pothead

See Kamala Harris best interview ever.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112
She really knocks this one out of the park.
Don't you agree?

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David Lee Jones

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Leon Johnson on Thursday set bail at $1 million for a 22-year-old North Little Rock man facing 23 felony charges over accusations he is responsible for six attacks on women. The charges include four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.

The amount is a reduction from David Lee Jones Jr.’s original $4 million bail but still 20 times more than the $50,000 his lawyer had requested.

Most murderers don’t have bail that high, defense attorney Ron Davis said. Bail is only supposed to serve as a financial guarantee that the defendant will show up for court, and it’s not to be used to punish a suspect, Davis said.

Jones is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, three counts each of rape, aggravated robbery and theft, four counts of kidnapping and six counts of terroristic threatening. He faces a potential life sentence.

He has been jailed about 9 ½ months since his June 10 arrest, a day after, prosecutors say, he ambushed a woman inside an abandoned house next door to his home on Virginia Drive.

The 36-year-old woman was grabbed from behind; her assailant put a pistol to her head and threatened to kill her, deputy prosecutor Jeanna Sherrill told the judge at Thursday’s hearing.

But the woman was able to struggle from her assailant and run as the man shot at her, Sherrill said.

The woman had gone to the house to meet a man for a sexual encounter arranged through Backpage.com, the prosecutor said. She left her backpack when she ran, and police later found it in Jones’ home. The woman came forward after hearing about Jones’ arrest and recognizing his picture, the prosecutor said.

Sherrill argued that Jones, who did not testify, is a flight risk who evaded Texas authorities for months before being arrested and extradited to that state for a 2011 juvenile residential burglary conviction in Dallas. She said he spent almost three years in juvenile incarceration until he was released on his 19th birthday.

Jones also has juvenile convictions for minor in possession of a firearm in 2009 and aggravated assault, reduced from aggravated robbery, in 2012, stemming from separate arrests in Pulaski County, she said.

The first attack police associated with Jones came about 2 a.m. April 11, when a 19-year-old woman reported she’d been raped by an assailant who attacked her in the 4900 block of Allen Street while she was walking home from her Wendy’s restaurant shift and listening to music through headphones.

The rapist approached her from behind, grabbed her by her hair and put a gun to her head, the prosecutor said. The man threatened to kill her if she did not do what he told her. He pulled her into some woods and forced her to perform oral sex. He left, stealing her wallet and cell phone, after telling her to count down from 300 before leaving, Sherill said.

The woman was able to direct police to where she’d been attacked, and investigators found her headphones and some sugar packets she had dropped from her pockets, the prosecutor told the judge.

Five days later, a 38-year-old woman told police she was jogging on the Five Mile Creek Trail when she came upon a man who suddenly punched her, stuck a gun in her back and dragged her into the woods.

The assailant told her he’d kill her if she resisted, Sherrill said. But she grabbed him by the groin and squeezed as hard as she could, prompting him to release her.

Someone else on the trail saw the man and was able to identify Jones from a police photo lineup, the prosecutor said.

But Jones was not a suspect until after the June 6 rape of a 33-year-old woman who was ambushed by a gunman hiding in the back seat of her car, Sherrill told the judge. She’d finished doing her laundry at the Fun Wash, 4804 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, shortly before 5 p.m. when she got into her car.

The attacker, whose face was covered, forced her to drive somewhere and park, then made her perform oral sex, before stealing the $800 she had and her checkbook.

Police got Jones’ DNA from a pink shirt the woman used to wipe her mouth, Sherrill said.

The DNA also matched genetic material found on the clothes of the Wendy’s worker in April, she told the judge.

The prosecutor said Jones subsequently told detective Julie Eckert that he’d had consensual sexual encounters with the Wendy’s worker and admitted to assaulting the creek trail jogger.

Jones also identified himself as the assailant of two women on March 25, 2017, outside the now-closed Fox & Hound bar in the Lakewood Village shopping center on McCain Boulevard the prosecutor said.

The women told investigators they’d been sitting in a car when a man came up, put something against the head of the driver and said he’d kill her if they didn’t cooperate. When one of the women opened the car door for the man to get in, they saw he had been using a bottle, not a gun, so they ran into the restaurant and called police.

Jones also told police he’d had a consensual sexual encounter with a woman at a Lynn Lane home in August 2016 and that he’d stolen her phone, Sherrill said. He identified the woman by name but the subsequent investigation led detectives to a woman with a similar name and features who said she’d been raped on Aug. 1, 2016, but had never reported it, the prosecutor said.

The 24-year-old said she’d been assaulted at an empty house at Lynn Lane and 44th streets where she’d gone for an arranged sexual encounter with a stranger, the prosecutor told the judge. An associate who came to pick her up from the house told police she was hysterical when he arrived.

The location of the house is significant because Jones used to live on Lynn Lane, Sherrill said.

When he was arrested last, Jones was already awaiting trial on a residential burglary charge. According to arrest reports, Jones and another man were arrested in July 2016 — three days before Jones’ 20th birthday — by police responding to a home alarm at a Moss Street house, just after sunrise.

Officers arrived to see two men in the carport who ran into the house when they saw the police. The two men were taken into custody without incident.

Jones’ co-defendant, 22-year-old Devante Lamar Williams, is scheduled to stand trial in May.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/mar/30/bail-set-1m-nlr-suspect-rapes-attacks/

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Ambrose Williams

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims set bail at $600,000 on Monday for a Sherwood man accused of raping a former girlfriend's daughter after hearing testimony that North Little Rock police have charged him with raping a second girl, the daughter of another girlfriend.

Allegations against 32-year-old Ambrose Bernard Williams by a third girl, also a daughter of a girlfriend, are under investigation by police, with deputy prosecutor Meredith Moore saying she will call a fourth girl, yet another girlfriend's daughter, to testify against Williams at trial about how he molested her in Jacksonville when she was 5.

Testifying at Williams' bail hearing, detective Julie Eckert told the judge that a 12-year-old girl called 911 three days after Thanksgiving to report how Williams had just raped her.

Eckert said the girl was on the couch, wearing a "onesie" and watching TV when Williams came up to her and started "play-fighting" and wrestling with her. While they were playing, Williams poked holes in her jumpsuit and violated her with his hand, the detective said, describing her interview with the girl. When Williams left the room, the girl ran to the next door neighbor's house and called police, later demonstrating for investigators on an anatomically correct doll how the defendant had groped her, Eckert testified.

Williams was arrested about two weeks after a Dec. 1 interview in which he denied having any sexual contact with the child but also disclosed that he'd been similarly accused before on more than one occasion, the detective told the judge.

Eckert said she tracked down a girl who said Williams had sodomized her around Thanksgiving 2010, inflicting "the most ungodly pain" while demanding that she call him "master." Williams only stopped his attack when he heard the girl's uncle drive up, Eckert told the judge. She said that accuser's account resulted in Williams' second rape arrest.

Since Williams' arrest, police have heard from a former Little Rock woman who called from Georgia to accuse Williams of sodomizing and raping her 5-year-old daughter in 2015, Eckert said, telling the judge that investigation has only just begun.

Williams had been jailed without bail since his Dec. 15 arrest. Defense attorney Leslie Borgognoni told the judge that Williams is a lifelong central Arkansas resident whose parents live in Sherwood and would take him in and guarantee him transportation to court.

Also promising to provide Williams with a place to live was 32-year-old mother of four Francies Hollins, who said she's known Williams for about a year. A college student enrolled in online classes, Hollins told the judge she'd always be home with him and that she had no worries about him being around her children, who are ages 4 through 9.

Williams did not testify but court records show Williams has been on probation out of Benton County since June 2014 when he pleaded to aggravated assault, felony theft and misdemeanor assault. In Pulaski County, he has felony convictions for felon in possession of a firearm, domestic battering, theft and commercial burglary.

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/mar/15/bail-set-at-600-000-in-rape-case-201703/

"Scout" <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote in message
news:6WdQO.411000$WOde.5433@fx09.iad...
> On 10/17/2024 12:50 PM, P. Coonan wrote:
>> On 17 Oct 2024, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> posted some
>> news:veqnuh$2n4rs$2@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> design logos wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> They killed it with the phony COVID "virus" and restrictive policies
>>>> that destroyed 75-year-old businesses and devastated the restaurant
>>>> industry.
>>>>
>>>> Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and fagboi Pete Buttigag did this to
>>>> Americans.
>>>
>>> You don't get out much do you? Stuck in your momma's basement?
>>>
>>> Otherwise you'd see the crowded restaurants and brewpubs, the busy
>>> auto dealers and repair/tire shops....
>>
>> I can't speak for the OP, but I just came back from a biz trip across
>> California, Seattle, Denver and Minneapolis. I've been making the same
>> trip for over a decade.
>>
>> A third or more of all strip mall businesses are gone. [erase remaining
>> lies]
>
> Bullshit.

Rudy, you certainly are full of Bullshit. In fact Bullshit is your defining
feature.. it's all you are and all you do.

"Skeeter" <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in message
news:671172ce$0$3834$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com...
> In article <6WdQO.411000$WOde.5433@fx09.iad>, OFeem1987@teleworm.us
> says...
>>
>> On 10/17/2024 12:50 PM, P. Coonan wrote:
>> > On 17 Oct 2024, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> posted some
>> > news:veqnuh$2n4rs$2@dont-email.me:
>> >
>> >> design logos wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> >>
>> >>> They killed it with the phony COVID "virus" and restrictive policies
>> >>> that destroyed 75-year-old businesses and devastated the restaurant
>> >>> industry.
>> >>>
>> >>> Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and fagboi Pete Buttigag did this to
>> >>> Americans.
>> >>
>> >> You don't get out much do you? Stuck in your momma's basement?
>> >>
>> >> Otherwise you'd see the crowded restaurants and brewpubs, the busy
>> >> auto dealers and repair/tire shops....
>> >
>> > I can't speak for the OP, but I just came back from a biz trip across
>> > California, Seattle, Denver and Minneapolis. I've been making the same
>> > trip for over a decade.
>> >
>> > A third or more of all strip mall businesses are gone. [erase
>> > remaining lies]
>>
>> Bullshit.
>
> You fool no one Rudy.

Oh, I'm sure Rudy fools himself...