NSR: Coronavirus: A global Pandemic.

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  1. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
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    That is Mike Pompeo, not Mike Pence.


    Mr. Pompeo talks about the rapture. “We will continue to fight these battles,” he said at a “God and Country Rally” in 2015, because there is a “never-ending struggle” until “the rapture.”

    “Be part of it,” he said at the meeting, at the Summit church in Wichita, Kan. “Be in the fight.”

    In November, Mr. Pompeo told a reporter for The New York Times Magazine that the Bible “informs everything I do.” The reporter noticed an open Bible in his office, with a Swiss Army knife marking his place at the end of the book of Queen Esther.

    Mr. Pompeo, 55, became a devoted Christian at West Point, where he joined a Bible study group.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/pompeo-christian-policy.html

    There is nothing scarier to me than the combination of religious "devotion" (regardless of the religion) and the military.
     
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  2. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Any devotion + the military is a dangerous thing. National devotion gets people slaughtered just fine, too. Give me skeptics as generals (and leaders), not those with devotion.
     
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  3. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Actually both:


    https://newscoop.com/pompeo-looking...christian-zionism-driving-u-s-mideast-policy/


    There’s at least one clear reason for that tunnel vision: Israel. Pompeo, like U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, is an evangelical Christian. And both Pompeo and Pence, like the majority of evangelical Christians, are also “Christian Zionists” — that is, they believe that the Second Coming of Christ is predicated on the Jewish people occupying all of the Holy Land. For a Christian Zionist, this would necessitate both supporting Israel in countering whomever they see as an enemy, and also in closing out any possibility of Palestinians achieving a state of their own.

    Donald Trump is just about the furthest thing imaginable from an evangelical. So, why in the world would he allow a Christian Zionist world view to drive U.S. foreign policy, even to the point of risking major wars? The answer is simple. One quarter of the U.S. adult population is evangelical Christian, and 80% of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016. As Trump faces greater and greater legal and political peril, he is evermore dependent on that voting block.
     
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  4. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
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    There is no such thing as a Christian Zionist. Anybody who says that doesn't know what a zionist is.
     
  5. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
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    Don't disagree.
     
  6. dapip

    dapip Member+

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  7. striker

    striker Member+

    Aug 4, 1999
    I am not sure that this often-quoted number of 1-2% is still true. The latest report from WHO stated that there are 82294 confirmed cases, and 2793 confirmed deaths (as of 10 am CET). That gives a confirmed death rate of ~3.4%. If no one else gets infected or diagnosed as being infected from now on, some of those confirmed cases will likely result in death. That would bring the death rate to over 3.4%. Of course, we do not know how many infected people remain undiagnosed and hence unconfirmed.
     
  8. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Yeah, strange. I remember reading that Spanish Flue picked off the young and seemingly healthy.
     
  9. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
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    Great plan!!

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  10. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    See if you can get an invite to the White House. Trump really does like to shake hands. Lick your hand first.
     
  11. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
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    So... only those who voted for Hillary are going to be sick...
     
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  12. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Ben Carson is actually a brain surgeon. Surely he’d be a more understanding person to have in charge of a pandemic than the white on white Jesus freak.

    I mean he’s more likely to consult with medical people to understand the problem not his local priest.

    Unless his priest worships the same Klingon Jesus.

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  13. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Do not try and gainsay your Czar. You don’t need to know how much we’re winning.

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  14. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
  15. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Presidential Medal of ... oh hell, I can't write it. Even for a cynic like me who thinks that such awards are mostly rubbish, Rush getting one was several steps too far.
     
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  16. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

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  17. Walia Ibex

    Walia Ibex Red Card

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    Ethiopia
    Oct 2, 2019
    We're doomed, two cases in my region. Community cases now with no exposure from China. Infection rate is astronomically high, symptoms are common and the government has no real plan. Be afraid people very afraid.
     
  18. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
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    Hocus pocus, we grab her by the pussy.
    Science is fun!
    We're dead
     
  19. VFish

    VFish Member+

    Jan 7, 2001
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
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    I don't think this virus cares if you are a liberal or conservative, rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, black or white, a Trumper or a Bernie Bro. What is alarming is some people seem to be rooting for the virus and economic recession, a pretty self defeating strategy.
     
  20. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
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  21. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Who exactly?
     
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  22. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
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    Never saw the film, I guess

     
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  23. NORML

    NORML Member+

    Aug 9, 2002
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  24. KCFutbol

    KCFutbol Moderator
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    Jun 14, 2001
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    Exactly. See USAF Academy/Colorado Springs, CO.
     
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  25. VFish

    VFish Member+

    Jan 7, 2001
    Atlanta, GA
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    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for one, remember when she condemned Trump for his travel ban on foreign nationals traveling from China only a month ago? And don't pretend you haven't been hoping for an economic down turn for 3 years.
     

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