BComplex
Profile Information
Member since: Fri Feb 28, 2020, 02:52 PM
Number of posts: 7,061
Number of posts: 7,061
Journal Archives
FINALLY!!! Alex Wagner (MSNBC 9PM) CALLED OUT the lying right wing media. Full stop!!!
I wasn't a huge fan of hers....maybe a little Rachel jealous/grieving...but tonight? Alex Wagner is my new total all-time hero!  She nailed fux nooz for their leadership in lies for all the rightwing media followers, and their total destructive force against democracy.
If you missed her show...catch it on YouTube or wherever you possibly can. She totally rocked the truth! FINALLY!! She called the lying media for what it is. It does my soul good.  
Now I'm going to go to bed. And I'm going to have more peace in my soul. |
Posted by BComplex | Fri Jan 20, 2023, 11:29 PM (24 replies)
WTF??? MSNBC keeps showing Trump's picture behind the pundits!!
Posted by BComplex | Tue Nov 8, 2022, 06:47 PM (7 replies)
Alex Wagner has totally lost a viewer. WTF is she doing trying to act like the college
Posted by BComplex | Thu Aug 25, 2022, 10:08 PM (76 replies)
NO! NO! NO! No protection for the supremes until we have protection against ASSAULT RIFLES!! CRAZY,
Posted by BComplex | Thu Jun 9, 2022, 02:34 PM (47 replies)
I live out in the country where guns are always sounding. But today, a minute ago it sounded
Posted by BComplex | Sat Mar 26, 2022, 03:03 PM (85 replies)
Just read a Reuters article that has me incredibly upset: Supreme Court Shadow Docket
Posted by BComplex | Wed Mar 24, 2021, 01:01 PM (24 replies)
Christina Greer was AWESOME on Ali Velshi tonight.
She hit every single point right on the head with incredible clarity. I was so impressed. I mean, she's always good, but tonight she hit her stride and blew me away. 
On edit: Ali Velshi was in for Lawrence O'Donnell. |
Posted by BComplex | Fri Mar 12, 2021, 11:33 PM (2 replies)
IMPORTANT information about science & technology behind these COVID Vaccines
This is a well written and easily understood article behind the science and scientists who created the COVID vaccines, and the future of this technology to change ....well, everything when it comes to disease.
On December 23, as part of a publicity push to encourage people to get vaccinated against covid-19, the University of Pennsylvania released footage of two researchers who developed the science behind the shots, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, getting their inoculations. The vaccines, icy concoctions of fatty spheres and genetic instructions, used a previously unproven technology based on messenger RNA and had been built and tested in under a year, thanks to discoveries the pair made starting 20 years earlier.
snip The infection has killed more than 2 million people globally, including some of Weissman’s childhood friends. So far, the US vaccine campaign has relied entirely on shots developed by Moderna Therapeutics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and BioNTech in Mainz, Germany, in partnership with Pfizer. Both employ Weissman’s discoveries. (Weissman’s lab gets funding from BioNTech, and Karikó now works at the company.)
Unlike traditional vaccines, which use live viruses, dead ones, or bits of the shells that viruses come cloaked in to train the body’s immune system, the new shots use messenger RNA—the short-lived middleman molecule that, in our cells, conveys copies of genes to where they can guide the making of proteins. snip Pivoting to vaccines did have a drawback for Moderna. Andrew Lo, a professor at MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, says that most vaccines lose money. The reason is that many shots sell for a “fraction of their economic value.” Governments will pay $100,000 for a cancer drug that adds a month to a person’s life but only want to pay $5 for a vaccine that can protect against an infectious disease for good. Lo calculated that vaccine programs for emerging threats like Zika or Ebola, where outbreaks come and go, would deliver a -66% return on average. “The economic model for vaccines is broken,” he says.
On the other hand, vaccines are more predictable. When Lo’s team analyzed thousands of clinical trials, they found that vaccine programs frequently succeed. Around 40% of vaccine candidates in efficacy tests, called phase 2 clinical trials, proved successful, a rate 10 times that of cancer drugs. (Emphasis mine) The whole article is well written and touches on so many of the issues we're dealing with. We have a lot of work to do on our government! Enjoy! 
Ooops! I forgot to post the link!! Here it is: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017366/messenger-rna-vaccines-covid-hiv/?utm_source=pocket-newtab |
Posted by BComplex | Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:55 PM (1 replies)
ELECTION REFORM - It's time. Paper ballots. Counting overseen by bipartisan workers.
And the results take as long as it takes.
This is an issue that many democrats have wanted for a long time. This might be a way for the unifying of Americans to begin. We need to hold these seditionists accountable, and I won't be satisfied until all of them are locked up. But it makes sense to have a paper trail. We can still use computers to help do an initial counting, but we've seen some strange programming errors in the past that tipped the scales in a way that was the TOTAL OPPOSITE of what was predicted, and did not jibe with exit polls. (In fact, I still don't understand how Mitch McConnell regained his seat. Ok.  Maybe.)
So...this is a chance for Americans to make sure that the programming cannot be hacked and make it through, because there will be hand counts as well, and this will serve as an immediate audit. No certification until the teams are through counting. I think ELECTION REFORM is the place to start. If we have to give ground on photo ID's, or some other means of historical disenfranchisement, then I'm willing to join ANY organization that helps people everywhere to obtain and have a voter identification in order to REGISTER to vote. County Election officials must get the obituaries/death certificates of every dead person forwarded to them, and it has to match the information on the voter registration before ANYONE can be taken off the rolls. There has to be a way of telling which voter by the same name has moved/died, etc. This will be the most difficult task for election officials, but it needs to be done. But, once registered, every voter who wants to should be allowed to vote by mail. Many states already do this, and it's a better way of voting. (Paper trail, for one. Convenience, for another.) Any discrepancies between eligible voters in a county and the number of ballots cast, instantly calls for an audit if there are more ballots than voters. Furthermore, NO ELECTED OFFICIAL should for ANY reason, be allowed to eliminate a voter (ANY voter) from the voting rolls without approval of both parties, or an independent commission. I'm just throwing out there some things both sides have brought up. Stacey Abrams has given me faith that we can reach out to EVERY voter in the country, and help them be registered and assisted and encouraged in every way to cast their ballots. But to make voting count, we need to have standards of what can be spread over the internet and on the cable news, so we don't have two sets of reality going on at the same time, dividing the country. We can have different opinions, but we should NOT be having two sets of facts. And we need to make sure people know the difference. It just seems to me that we need to start somewhere, and I've always felt like elections were just not as stable in the USA as they are with our neighbors to the North. 
|
Posted by BComplex | Sun Jan 10, 2021, 05:00 PM (22 replies)