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Man stabbed Jack in The Box manager 3 times after refusing to wear mask in League City, police say

https://abc13.com/man-stabbed-jack-in-t ... /10430104/
Police said the suspect, described as a 53-year-old white male, refused to cooperate with store policy to wear a face mask. After confronting employees, the suspect attacked the restaurant manager with what appeared to be a pocketknife, according to investigators.

The manager was stabbed three times in the arm and upper torso. He was rushed to the hospital where he was treated and released.

Meanwhile, police released two photos of the suspect captured on surveillance video. In the images, the suspect is seen wearing a black and red flannel long-sleeved shirt and blue jeans. He's also seen wearing a camouflage hat. Police say he was also seen carrying a green backpack.

Police believe he fled the scene on a bicycle with a yellow flag. An arrest warrant has already been issued.
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First Peewee Herman is busted in a Porn theater, now this!
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/ ... /100029154

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Is a deluge of misinformation driving a surge in coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea?

Professor Glen Mola wrote.

"Health workers are risking their lives to continue to provide health services, and many people are just spending their time on screens accusing us of unethical practice, criminal and corrupt misuse of government funds and putting forward false, ridiculous, unfounded conspiracy theories for which there is no evidence."

Among the debunked misinformation listed by Professor Mola were suggestions the pandemic was a hoax, that COVID-19 was no worse than a seasonal flu and that home remedies such as lemon tea would protect against the virus.

Australia's High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Jon Philp, also weighed in during a radio interview with the ABC this week.

"There's a lot of denial," Mr Philp said in reference to the current outbreak. "There is a lot of bad information out on social media [saying] that COVID-19 doesn't exist or that Papua New Guineans are generally immune for one reason or another. There are lots of conspiracy theories."
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Far-Right Extremists Move From ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop the Vaccine
Extremist organizations are now bashing the safety and efficacy of coronavirus vaccines in an effort to try to undermine the government.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/us/f ... d=tw-share
Adherents of far-right groups who cluster online have turned repeatedly to one particular website in recent weeks — the federal database showing deaths and adverse reactions nationwide among people who have received Covid-19 vaccinations.

Although negative reactions have been relatively rare, the numbers are used by many extremist groups to try to bolster a rash of false and alarmist disinformation in articles and videos with titles like “Covid-19 Vaccines Are Weapons of Mass Destruction — and Could Wipe out the Human Race” or “Doctors and Nurses Giving the Covid-19 Vaccine Will be Tried as War Criminals.”

If the so-called Stop the Steal movement appeared to be chasing a lost cause once President Biden was inaugurated, its supporters among extremist organizations are now adopting a new agenda from the anti-vaccination campaign to try to undermine the government.

Bashing of the safety and efficacy of vaccines is occurring in chat rooms frequented by all manner of right-wing groups including the Proud Boys; the Boogaloo movement, a loose affiliation known for wanting to spark a second Civil War; and various paramilitary organizations.
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Three videos total, +/- 2.5 minutes each.

A beautiful documentary of a mask-hole's elaborate & well thought out plan not going at all the way he expects it to go. Add in the Canadian accents, and this is as satisfying as a sov cit window break video.

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Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:50 am Three videos total, +/- 2.5 minutes each.

A beautiful documentary of a mask-hole's elaborate & well thought out plan not going at all the way he expects it to go. Add in the Canadian accents, and this is as satisfying as a sov cit window break video.

Why you shouldn’t go oot and aboot without a mask.

His pal seems to think the police shove is going to get them in trouble.
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For the first time in a year, my church had a short service in-person. As part of Palm Sunday, we had our procession (with palms), outdoors, self-distanced, fully masked (we even had signs for that), and no singing (though we did all have non-wind noisemakers). Everybody was properly masked and distanced without issue and they were very grateful to be together again, even in this limited fashion The mask had a side benefit as well with the chilly wind.

Gathering safely is really not all that difficult. I am tired of the "I do what I want" whiners. It is all about them and they could care less about others.

After our park procession, we all processed back to our homes and picked up the indoor part of the service on Zoom (with organ music and singing, and no masks).
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pipistrelle wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:13 pm
Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:50 am Three videos total, +/- 2.5 minutes each.

A beautiful documentary of a mask-hole's elaborate & well thought out plan not going at all the way he expects it to go. Add in the Canadian accents, and this is as satisfying as a sov cit window break video.

Why you shouldn’t go oot and aboot without a mask.

His pal seems to think the police shove is going to get them in trouble.
Turns out this guy considers himself the Alex Jones of Canuckistan. He got hit back in 2019 with a 2.5 million dollar (Canadian, bien sûr) judgment for hate speeching a Lebanese restaurant. He has (ausi bien sûr) refused to pay.

Il est un grand hoser, eh.
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Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:18 pm
pipistrelle wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:13 pm
Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:50 am Three videos total, +/- 2.5 minutes each.

A beautiful documentary of a mask-hole's elaborate & well thought out plan not going at all the way he expects it to go. Add in the Canadian accents, and this is as satisfying as a sov cit window break video.

Why you shouldn’t go oot and aboot without a mask.

His pal seems to think the police shove is going to get them in trouble.
Turns out this guy considers himself the Alex Jones of Canuckistan. He got hit back in 2019 with a 2.5 million dollar (Canadian, bien sûr) judgment for hate speeching a Lebanese restaurant. He has (ausi bien sûr) refused to pay.

Il est un grand hoser, eh.
What is that, like $10 American dollars (channeling Canadian Bacon)?
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Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:50 am Three videos total, +/- 2.5 minutes each.

A beautiful documentary of a mask-hole's elaborate & well thought out plan not going at all the way he expects it to go. Add in the Canadian accents, and this is as satisfying as a sov cit window break video.

I don’t hear any accents. :lol: :kiss:

He can’t be Canadian. He said they owed him 2 bucks, instead of a toonie. :lol: :lol:
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Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:18 pm
pipistrelle wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:13 pm
Estiveo wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:50 am Three videos total, +/- 2.5 minutes each.

A beautiful documentary of a mask-hole's elaborate & well thought out plan not going at all the way he expects it to go. Add in the Canadian accents, and this is as satisfying as a sov cit window break video.
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Why you shouldn’t go oot and aboot without a mask.

His pal seems to think the police shove is going to get them in trouble.
Turns out this guy considers himself the Alex Jones of Canuckistan. He got hit back in 2019 with a 2.5 million dollar (Canadian, bien sûr) judgment for hate speeching a Lebanese restaurant. He has (ausi bien sûr) refused to pay.

Il est un grand hoser, eh.
Choices:
Put on mask, run in, get soap, pay, run out, and rip off mask. 5 minutes.
or
Don't put on mask, argue with everyone, make an illegal pseudo transaction, and get arrested. Ride in police car: Longer than 5 minutes.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden ... 10401_10_3

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday morning announced an ambitious advertising campaign intended to encourage as many Americans as possible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The campaign, with ads in English and Spanish that will air throughout April on network TV and cable channels nationwide, as well as online, comes as the administration is rapidly expanding access to coronavirus vaccines.

President Biden announced last week a new goal of administering 200 million doses by his 100th day in office, doubling his initial goal of “100 million shots in the arms” of Americans that he set when he was inaugurated. And last month, in an address to the nation, he announced a goal of making all adults in the United States eligible for a vaccine by May 1. Governors and public health officials in more than 40 states have said that they will meet or beat that deadline.

But deep skepticism about the vaccine remains a problem, particularly among Black people, Latinos, Republicans and white evangelicals. Administration officials expect to soon face the possibility of supply exceeding demand if many Americans remain reluctant to be vaccinated. And widespread opposition to vaccination could set back a return to a more normal way of life as the virus continues to spread.
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AndyinPA wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:58 pm
But deep skepticism about the vaccine remains a problem, particularly among Black people, Latinos, Republicans and white evangelicals. .
Om. this annoys me. The lead off with Black and Latinos, both with a capital letter, and White Evangelicals, with NO capital letter, so the effect of putting W Es last and the small letters is you don't notice or remember "white evangelicals." The fact is that hesitancy in Black's and Latinos has been dropping fast, whereas hesitancy among White Evangelicals is steady as a rock.

STOP PUSHING BLACK STUPIDITY AND DOWNGRADING THE FAR MORE SOLID EVANGELICAL STUPIDITY YOU GODDAM PROPAGANDISTS! I don't care if you are evangelical and want to do your church a solid, tell the truth! Stop covering it up! And ya I'm coning from seeing the media cover up Evangelical shot but screaming when a Catholic or a Black or a Latino or a Democrat drops a pencil.

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Coning?
Some things are simply too fast, or too relentless to avoid. Like the North Carolina rain.

Or the future.
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The AP style guide, used by pretty much everybody, specifies lowercase white, and evangelical is a common noun that is never capitalized unless it begins a sentence. Writing it as white evangelicals is perfectly correct.
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I usually don't capitalize black, but I do capitalize Latinos. I guess I'm guilty of coning or sumpin'.

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Foggy wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:15 am I usually don't capitalize black, but I do capitalize Latinos. I guess I'm guilty of coning or sumpin'.

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Capitalizing Black is a fairly recent change I think. Once public coning became popular the AP updated their style guide to reflect the change. :o
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mmmm coning!
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I noted the AP change last year, as well as their IMO flawed explanation (compare their reasons to their explanation for not capitalizing "white").

But I don't mind flawed explanations when it comes to language usage changes, because they're all flawed. And that goes double for written language usage, which mostly follows spoken usage no matter how much people thing otherwise.

https://apnews.com/article/9105661462
AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. The lowercase black is a color, not a person. AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses.
I use the Chicago Manual of Style. They also make the change, but are much less pretentious about it--and much more consistent:

https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/06/22/bla ... alization/
In light of recent announcements elsewhere in publishing, many of our readers have been asking us whether we continue to recommend lowercase for terms such as black and white to refer to a person’s race or ethnicity, “unless a particular author or publisher prefers otherwise”—as we have advised in section 8.38 of the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

So we are taking this opportunity to clarify that, as of today—partly in light of old arguments, partly in light of new, and very much in light of recent and ongoing events and the evidence of a real shift in usage across many sources—we have joined the ranks of those who “prefer otherwise.”

Specifically, we now prefer to write Black with a capital B when it refers to racial and ethnic identity. At the same time, we acknowledge that, as a matter of editorial consistency, White and similar terms may also be capitalized when used in this sense. We continue to recognize that individual preferences will vary, and we acknowledge that usage may depend on context. A correction has been made to CMOS Online and will also appear in subsequent printings of the seventeenth edition.
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She is determined, in a stupid and destructive way..

“A woman was asked to leave a Bank of America in Galveston, Texas, when she refused to don a face mask. When she also refused to leave, the bank called police. An officer’s body camera footage shows the officer asking Terry White, 65, to leave the bank if she didn’t want to wear a mask. “The law says I don’t have to wear a mask,” White replied, and the officer explained that the lifting of the Texas mask mandate didn’t apply to private businesses. White continued to refuse, and was arrested for criminal trespass and resisting arrest. As she was being detained, police say she claimed to have injured her foot. Officers took her to the hospital where she was treated and released. A warrant was issued and she was apprehended the following week — at an Office Depot in Texas City, which called police because she was refusing to wear a mask. (MS/KRIV Houston)“
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I guess I'm wrong, again, and should be coned, again.
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Suranis wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:29 am I guess I'm wrong, again, and should be coned, again.
As I always respond to my worthy sister, when she informs me that I've pronounced a word wrong, or used it in a wrong fashion (think "presently", or "wrong fashion"), there is no meaningful "wrong" in language use, there is only convention. Or I should say, "conventions". cf. "ideolect" and "sociolect".

Everybody gets pissed off at some usage that jars their sense of proper language use. Our pattern-sense is offended. I've learned to shrug and move on (but I had a lot of practice).
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Imagine the horror - I spent a week telling ol' Wifehorn his name was pronounced "gets" and not "gates". I actually had to tell her, "You were right and I was wrong." Auuugh! :doh: :blackeye: :bag:
Some things are simply too fast, or too relentless to avoid. Like the North Carolina rain.

Or the future.
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