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Lol... I'm actually getting pretty good at it. Got caught on that last dip and terrorized the bottom of it. Came out of it on fire.

In recent history, September has not been good for the markets. But if you believe they will recover and it's not a beginning of an extended bear market, it's a good time to buy.

I'll do my bimonthly lump sum DCA in the next couple of weeks.

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What a bunch of cry babies.

Take the shot and wear a mask kids.



650,000 Americans dead and you guy focus on your navels....
Man up, will you!



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Mind your own business would ya….. how bout we mandate you have to live in a tent in San Francisco and jerk off all the homeless dudes ever day between 0630 and 1730. You know for benefit of public health.


I AGREE WITH PLOWBOY221

it appears that many well known anti-vaxxers who've died recently from COVID have said they regret their decision...this has done little to convince people who are anti-vaxxers...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trio-conservative-radio-hosts-died-covid-will-their-deaths-change-n1278258

let nature do its thing...



here's an article showing comparative death rates among unvaxxed and vaxxed in UK ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-study-in-england-shows-few-deaths-among-vaccinated-11631549453



we're all gonna die, but getting the jab (or at least wearing a mask and maintaining social distance when in public places with strangers) gives one a louder say about the when and how as the infection rate goes up in the latest surge...freedom of choice...even among the loudest antivaxxers on Fox News more than 90% have been vaccinated...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-corp-boasts-of-employee-vaccine-program-like-the-ones-fox-news-hosts-call-authoritarian

On September 9, President Biden announced he would circumvent the democratic process, ordering the Secretary of the Department of Labor to require employers with over 100 workers to “ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week.”

This was essential, as Biden said, “to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated workers.”

As we have explained, the Secretary of Labor will issue these regulations through OSHA by way of an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The ETS would allow the Secretary of Labor to issue the vaccine mandate without the normal administrative rulemaking requirements (like notice and public comment periods).

While the Biden Administration tells the public that there’s no time to waste in issuing the mandate, the truth is that OSHA/Labor failed to argue the necessity of a vaccine mandate since the vaccines have been available – a time period approaching one year. Moreover, the Biden Department of Labor is secretly meeting with the US Chamber of Commerce and business lobbyists to gather support for the mandate. As Bloomberg Law reports:

Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda held a virtual meeting with Neil Bradley, the Chamber’s chief policy officer, and other business lobbyists. The Chamber, the largest business lobbying group in the U.S., has yet to publicly declare a position on the coming Occupational Safety and Health Administration emergency rulemaking.

It was one of at least three briefings the department held Friday for labor union leaders and employer associations—constituencies the White House hopes to forge partnerships with to lift the vaccination rate nationwide. Information from the calls was disclosed to Bloomberg Law by eight sources who took part, all of whom requested anonymity because they didn’t have approval to speak publicly.

Why the Vaccine Mandate is Unconstitutional

As you can imagine, the constitutionality of the vaccine mandate will be litigated as soon as OSHA issues the rules. The media is running interference, telling the public that challenges to the mandate are “unlikely to succeed.”

Do not believe them.

The legality of the vaccine mandate will be assessed under what is called the major rules doctrine (also known as the major questions doctrine). Under this doctrine, the courts look to (1) whether the agency action is a major rule; and (2) whether Congress has clearly authorized the agency action.

As Justice Scalia stated in 2014, “We expect congress to speak clearly if it wishes to assign to an agency decisions of vast ‘economic and political significance.’”

From here we turn to the first question of the major rules doctrine: there is zero doubt that it is a major rule. It would affect the healthcare decisions – and implicate the personal autonomy – of “some 80 million private sector workers.” It is an action never before taken by OSHA, the Department of Labor, and any other federal agency. It would affect the entire US economy.

In support of my position, we have seen lesser invasive agency rules be determined to be major rules. For example, “rate-regulations” of telephone companies has been held to be a major rule. MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 512 U.S. 218 (1994).

From there we get to the second question: whether Congress has clearly authorized the Department of Labor/OSHA to mandate vaccines. The answer is no.

If Congress clearly authorized (not just authorized, but clearly authorized) Labor/OSHA to mandate vaccines, then we would have seen such authority in the OSH Act of 1970. Look for yourself – the language isn’t there. Instead, there are general grants of authority to “set mandatory occupational safety and health standards.”

Looking to the history of OSHA, this authority has been understood to regulate employer actions to provide a safe workplace (Benzene limits) or employee actions at work (operation of heavy equipment). The OSH Act has never been understood historically to include mandatory vaccinations. This is significant because the Supreme Court recently looked to agency history to determine the CDC lacked the authority to issue its latest eviction mandate.

For an example of “clear authority” relating to public health, look to the authority Congress gave HHS to take action in case of “significant outbreaks of infectious diseases.” Going further, to allow the mandate would be to allow OSHA to require vaccination as a condition of employment. The OSH Act contains no such language or authority.

So there we have it. This is a “major rule” and Congress has not “clearly authorized” Labor/OSHA to issue a vaccine mandate. It is an unlawful - and unconstitutional - seizure of authority by the Executive. Expect further challenges on whether the ETS itself (and the finding of “grave danger”) is legal.

We also observe that we by no means concede Congressional authority to mandate vaccines. (In other words, Congress could not give OSHA/Labor this authority because Congress has no such authority to give.) You may have seen some pundits argue that the 1905 case of Jacobsen v. Massachusetts gives this authority. These arguments are misplaced, as that was the Supreme Court over 100 years ago considering state, and not federal, authority.

One Final Point – Why Justice Kavanaugh Matters

In 2017, when Justice Kavanaugh was sitting on the DC Circuit, he wrote a dissent from a denial of rehearing en banc, in which he thoroughly summarized the major rules doctrine. He argued that the FCC’s net neutrality rule was unlawful, in that it was a “major rule” that was not clearly authorized by Congress.

Kavanaugh’s 2017 dissent was one of the most (or perhaps the most) comprehensive discussions of the major rules doctrine ever written in the DC Circuit. Kavanaugh went through a number of Supreme Court cases in support of his position and argued the doctrine essential to uphold the separation of powers. To this author, it reveals Kavanaugh values this doctrine and believes it should be applied with vigor.

We see an example of this in Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in the original application to vacate the stay of the CDC eviction moratorium (June 29, 2021), where Kavanaugh wrote “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium.”

Whether Kavanaugh has the courage to apply his convictions is another matter.


https://technofog.substack.com/p/why-the-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandate

So the DNC plan is to not pass legislation but ram it down with agencies NEVER designed for this activity per current law and people are STILL okay with this?

You are watching your God given rights being evaporated before your eyes and most of you are willing servants in giving them away and helping them.

A leaked Zoom conference reveals a doctor questioning how to increase the count of COVID-19 patient numbers on the hospital’s dashboard report.

The media outlet National File said it obtained the recording from an “internal source” at the Novant Health System that includes New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina.


National File posted the video on its Twitter feed on Sept. 10.

https://tinyurl.com/yr8psxa5

National File and other local media outlets that reported on the leak identified the people in the video as Mary Kathryn Rudyk, a physician at the medical center, who is asking Carolyn Fisher, the hospital’s director of marketing, how to inflate the number of people classified as COVID-19 patients for the purpose of generating fear in the unvaccinated.

“I think we have to be more blunt, we have to be more forceful - we have to say something coming out - if you don’t get vaccinated, you know you are going to die,” Rudyk said in the video.

“Let’s just be really blunt to these people.”

The video begins with Fisher explaining how her department is communicating “meaningful numbers”—the percentage of the unvaccinated, vaccinated, and percentage of deaths in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)—to the public.

Rudyk then asked how post-COVID cases can be included in the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19.

“My feeling at this point in time is that maybe we need to be completely a little bit more scary for the public,” Rudyk said.

“There are many people still hospitalized that we’re considering post-COVID, but we are not counting in those numbers, so how do we include those post-COVID people in the numbers of patients we have in the hospital?”

Fisher asked if she meant every patient who has been in the hospital “since the beginning of COVID?”

Rudyk answered, “Well, that are still in, and that’s something I can take to someone else, but I think those are important numbers: the patients that are still in the hospital, that are off the COVID floor, but still are occupying the hospital for a variety of reasons.”

Also on the Zoom conference call was Shelbourn Stevens, president of New Hanover Regional Medical Center, who said those patients are classified as “recovered.”

“But I do think, from our standpoint, we would still consider them a COVID patient because they’re still healing,” Stevens said.

Rudyk said she thinks those patients need to be “highlighted as well, because once they’re off isolation, they drop from the COVID numbers,” prompting Stevens to say that they can later talk offline about “how we can run that up to marketing.”

In response to questions asking for confirmation on if people in the video were employees of New Hanover Regional Medical Center and what the context of the video was, a spokesperson for Novant Health told The Epoch Times that staff involved in the excerpt of the video are seeing the “highest levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths so far in this pandemic, despite having safe and effective vaccines widely available.”

“This was a frank discussion among medical and communications professionals on how we can more accurately convey the severity and seriousness of what’s happening inside of our hospitals and throughout our communities,” the spokesperson said. “Specifically, the data we have been sharing does not include patients who remain hospitalized for COVID-19 complications even though they are no longer on COVID-19 isolation, so it does not provide a complete picture of the total impact of COVID-19 on our patients and on our hospitals.”

The hospital continues to be concerned with misinformation, the spokesperson said, and that it strives “to be transparent and tell the whole story.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaked-zoom-video-exposes-hospital-officials-discussing-covid-19-scare-tactics


Follow the science?

Pull the plug. We've been lied to.

Is cap'n cut'n paste your new protégé or something?

It’s the cheese Domino’s uses man….

.... a doctor ....

The left: "showing ID to vote is racist!"
Also the left: "Show us your vaccine ID!"

Do you smell the freedom in the air HD as Cali keeps looking more and more like East Germany?
The name of the game is to use fear to keep the sheeple free from freedom.

But I sure it makes you big evening out worth wild.

Going to the San Francisco Giants game today. Need masks on the concourses but not in the seats. I don’t need the Covid passport but I carry it anyway because I would need it if I wanted to go into the restaurant across the street from the stadium.

This virus is wicked.

Could it be that going to a Giants game has less authoritarian requirements than going to a Buffalo Bills game? If so, they'll need to fix that. According to the county dicktator here, it's NO JAB, NO FEETBALL FOR YOU for fans over 12 years old. No no medical or religious exemptions are allowed.

Erie County, Buffalo Bills will require vaccination for home game attendance

https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2021/9/14/22674092/erie-county-buffalo-bills-will-require-vaccination-for-home-game-attendance

Hey... the protected need to be protected from the unprotected... by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.

Can't make this stuff up, folks...

Fauci did though.

Weird.

Just think how much time and effort you anti-vaxers could save if you just shut up and got the vaccine. My state is now the most vaccinated (%wise) and lowest in new covid cases. I guess that's just an unfortunate coincidence to you.

Me thinks those who didn't get the vax used much less time and effort than those that did.

Didn't get the vax: go on with life as normal.

Did get the vax:
1) Make an appointment.
2) Show up for appointment, maybe wait in line somewhere to get the shot
3) Undergo some mild (or some not so mild) side effects, discomfort or even be bed ridden for a few days.
4) Make appointment for the second dose.
5) Go to step 1.

Want a booster every 6 months? Go to step 1

Apparently logic isn't your strong suit.

Got any statistics on how often that happens?

I'll help you out, more than than 98.2% of those that CATCH it do not undergo your hypothetical scenario. Much less since not everyone catches it.

We can add statistics along with logic as not being one or two of your strong suits.

HA! Buckmeister... beat me to it by a few seconds. lol

I’m almost certain I have Covid right now because I’m fully vaccinated and have no symptoms.

I’m going to go to Mexico for a week and find out on the return trip.

^ Don't drink the water. You'll polly die which will add to the COVID death charts.

Just a side effect. It's it's been accounted for in the in the COVID model... the one that's almost vanilla-like.

The chocolate or mocha one wasn't explored, that would be racist.

I'd show you the data but you wouldn't understand it so it's best if the experts keep it close to the vest.

People still gaf about that covid thing?

That was so last year.

It’s mostly a black and Hispanic thing out here. Kinda like abortion.