@sawyerfagan@ChristinaPushaw Home insurance has been up steadily - what you've experienced I can't say. Mine dropped by nearly 1/3rd this year after big hikes which I'm assuming is due to recently passed legislation. Auto increases have slowed as well. Electric prices have not tripled. Water has not doubled.
@cahobbes@ChristinaPushaw You've obviously misread my post. Real spending (meaning after adjusting for inflation and increased population) per PBC resident is up by 35% in five years.
@RBPundit After watching videos of multiple physical assaults on Spurs supporters, it reinforces my longstanding belief that Knicks fans don't deserve a championship.
A judge has dismissed charges against Richard Cox, a tier-three sex offender who allegedly exposed himself in the girls’ locker rooms at two Arlington high schools after he gained entry by identifying as a woman. | @LaurenVeldy
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The US lethal injection procedure involves the administration of three drugs: A sedative to make you fall asleep, a muscle relaxant that keeps you from moving or twitching, and then potassium chloride, which destroys the heart, causing a quick death.
If the potassium chloride does not work properly the muscle relaxant paralyzes the respiratory muscles, causing you to die either of asphyxia or of a heart attack brought on by struggling to breathe as the respiratory muscles enter paralysis. When a condemned inmate dies from the muscle relaxant rather than the potassium, it is considered a botched execution.
However, the Canadian MAID euthanasia procedure involves only the administration of the first two lethal injection drugs -- dying of asphyxia due to respiratory muscle paralysis is the intended result of the protocol.
The US has performed lethal injections on fewer than 150 condemned killers since 2020. Canada has euthanized as many as 80,000 people in the same period.
One of the things that I think people don't understand is that Israel is actually a relatively old country.
And I'm not talking about Talmudic Biblical Israel.
I'm talking about the modern state of Israel, founded in 1948, became the 59th state in the world, and there are now 193 states represented at the United Nations.
That means if you're doing the math, Israel is actually older than 67% of the nations in the world, and that's because so many countries were created just like Israel was—by having colonialist powers, mostly European in origin, draw lines kind of randomly on a map, creating countries out of whole cloth without very much regard for the populations that were being swept up into the newly formulated states.
That's how a lot of states were formed in the '40s, '50s, and '60s in the Middle East. That's how a lot of states were formed in the '40s, '50s, and '60s in Asia, and especially in Africa.
But of course, nobody protests the creation of Cameroon or of Botswana.
Nobody's protesting the creation of Lebanon or Syria or India and Pakistan or Iraq.
Remember, there are 57 Muslim countries in the world and 22 Arab countries with two billion citizens. But the world cannot stomach one tiny Jewish state in its ancestral homeland with only seven million Jewish citizens.
I have no problem with Islam. I’m just against beheading, stoning, marrying little girls, sexual slavery, taqiyya, slave trading, rape, forced conversions, jihad, burqa, attacking other religions, child abuse, women abuse, animal abuse, multiple wives, murder, Sharia, terrorism, brainwashing, intolerance, greed, anti-science, torture, illiteracy, gluttony, genital mutilation, inbreeding. Does that make me Islamophobic?
Confirmed: rapists, cowards and vile deviants.
Volumes of incontrovertible evidence of the depravity of Hamas.
NYT preemptively dropped a grotesque op-ed with sources linked to Hamas for a beachhead of “bothsiderism” Hamas defenders.
AOC says "you can’t earn a billion dollars, you just can’t earn that." Thankfully, this is not true. Worse still, in practice it is the same thing as telling someone that they can’t do the thing that would make them a billion dollars. https://t.co/zwH8hEhte8