Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by James Brown

I'm not so sure about that.  More importantly, If I understand it correctly, the vaccine roll out is a state by state thing.  The Feds have little to do with it.  Some states will be efficient and effective.  Other states will be rolling disasters.  

Jim

California does appear to be slow out of the gate, but what would you expect?


https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Texas seems to have its act together, but we have 30Mn residents. You need two doses, so that's 60Mn doses. Let's say half the population gets the jab. We are getting 300,000 doses per week. Even at that rate, getting 30Mn vaccinations done will take 100 weeks or almost two years. The tragic truth is there never was a quick solution to this problem. Most serological studies suggest that maybe 15% of the population has been exposed, and that's after 1 year, so even "herd immunity" was a pipe-dream. However, here's to better times ahead; at least some progress is being made now.

Hi James:

I would expect the vaccination rate to ramp up as more vaccine is produced, distributed and more producers come on line.  Sort of like the test kit situation several months ago.  First they were all but unobtainable.  Now you can get drive-through testing almost anywhere.

Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

That's the problem: the feds have little to do with it. That is, the Trump administration dumped it onto the states without any prep or planning and no funding to support it...

Rod, that is how healthcare distribution in our country is supposed to work.  I see that we are leading the world in vaccinations.  Also saw that the Chinese vaccine being tested in Brazil is kind of sketchy.  When it comes to vaccinations, I am very happy to be in the good old USA.

Jim

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

In order

1 Cheney
2 Romney

if they were the nominee, you can add

3 Haley
4 Rubio

If Satan were the Democratic nominee

5 Pence

Cruz and Satan are a draw, so I’d just not vote

But if Satan and Trump were the last two standing, you'd vote for Satan, I presume?  At least he's generally considered to be competent right?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Sorry, it didn't load. How do you delete a post?

I don't think you can...  You could edit your comment to something witty!

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Even after everything that we have seen, the talk here is as if we just ended the college football season and are taking about next years. I just can't get my head around intelligent people not understanding how dire the situation is. This is how numb we have become after 4 years of trumpism. WE CAME PERILOUSLY CLOSE to many members of Congress being killed, and it is literally a miracle that it didn't happen. This has the potentially of ended our country as we have known it for 240 years.

It is STILL in great danger. Think about the fact that Lindsey Graham and others in the GOP say the Senate should not perform its constitutional duty and hold a trial of djt because it will lead to violence. That is EXACTLY how Italy became a fascist country. It is how the Nazi's obtained actual power. The WORST thing that could happen is this past and continued violence would lead to radical changes in the execution of our Constitutional democracy.

Like it or not, it is irrefutable that neo-nazi's and white supremacists have cuckold this party thorough donald trump. The trump supporters at the Capitol may not be part of that movement, but they were their battering ram to invade the Capitol. TODAY, it has the potential to take over the entire movement and put us into a war against domestic terrorists that make radical Islam seem quaint.

WE ARE BY NO MEANS OUT OF THE WOODS AND WE'RE ENTERING THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME IN OUR HISTORY.

Russ, I think we are out of the woods.  There are a tens of millions of Rs and conservatives out here and only a tiny fraction approve of the events at the Capitol.  There will always be crazies.  But speaking of those crazies, if they had been bent on murder when they invaded the Capitol, there would be a lot more dead.  I am not defending them, but they behaved more like Frat boys on spring break with the selfies and all, than professional mercenaries supporting a coup.  

Biden gets sworn in on the 20th, and then in 4 years there will be an election which I predict will be rather normal stuff.  The system prevailed.

Jim 

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Galatians 5:9

OK, I get your point - but I still do not think it is that bad.  I've looked up Galatians 5:9 - I certainly don't want to pretend to be a biblical scholar.  

Paul wants us to excise false teachings before they spread like a virus.  I think (I hope at least) that with respect to Trump and his disdain for the rule of law, this has occurred and will continue to occur going forward.

We all are influenced by our environment of course - and my circle of R friends are not big-time Trump supporters, so I suppose I am isolated from the "storm the Capitol" crowd.  Still, the bad yeast of Trumpism has not yet to my knowledge worked its way into the thoughts and practices of the whole R group. 

By the way, I was raised Catholic and still would ID myself as Catholic even though I no longer go to mass.  I see in Paul's teaching here the seed of one of the great differences between Protestants and Catholics.  Whether or not works matter at all with respect to salvation.  This does not effect your point of course, but I have always been leery of "faith and faith alone" teaching.  I recognize that genuine people of faith create good works because of their faith.  The sincerity of certain louder and more public members of the "I've been saved" crowd has always seemed suspect.

Jim 

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

In 5 years, we have gone from "You have to take trump seriously, not literally", to today "Well the attack on the Capitol didn't succeed"

Most in the GOP still support trump and he is the leading candidate for President for them even today. Imagine what another 5 years would do to this country if he gets back into the White House. 

I disagree.  Trump has name recognition and that is it.  I'd bet money that HRC was the leading D candidate in any poll taken in 2017 or 2018.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I have had my hands on both the 340 and the 590.....and will have my hands on a 700 sometime this week as we are building a kitchen with one in it. I would say the 590 would serve your needs well as the only difference functionally between the 590 and 700 is the width of the cooking surface 29" vs 36" in width (same depth and height). You can put quite few burgers on a 29"x20" surface lol. I do however like the pellet hopper being on the back of the 700 instead of the side like the 590. With either model you can add the griddle plate and searing plate accessories and have a grill that does it ALL as well.

While I try to push the appliances I prefer, we work with a wide variety of them based on customer choices and have built around a couple of Traegers. They are decent grills. Not in the league with the RecTec's though..... Nor will you find better customer service or a better warranty.

Hi Greg:

As the fates would have it, a huge wind gust blew my old weber gas grill off the patio yesterday.  Richard can verify that we are having some intense winds in Colorado right now...

My grill landed right on its face and the knobs and plastic parts of the housing disintegrated.  More importantly, all three valves are bent and mangled, So I have declared it a total loss... How convenient for me.

So,  now that you have seen the 700 and the 590, do you think having the hopper in the back (the 700) is worth the up-charge?

Thanks in advance, Jim

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Hillary Clinton was the leader of a political party, not a cult. In a cult, it doesn't really matter if some don't believe they are in a cult or not, they still empower it.

I used to argue in the late 90's with those that wanted to liberalize trade with China, giving them the crown jewel of our system, MFN. THEY would say all of this activity would change China into a Democracy, and I would argue that, in fact, they would change us. This is the foolishness of the evangelicals that hold their nose and vote for trump - trump is the one that changed the GOP, the GOP has not changed trump one lick.

Someone once said that China + Democracy = India.  I don't know if this is exactly true, but it is a point of consideration.  Once again, you have spun me into depression about the future.  Not too bad though.  In a few minutes my sunny and optimistic Pollyanna side will reassert itself.  

Besides, I have grills to drool over on the internet (and some work to do)....