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Biden will announce new vaccine goal of 200 million shots by first 100 days in office WWW.CNN.COM President Biden will announce a new coronavirus vaccine goal of 200 million shots in arms in his first 100 days in office at his 1:15 p.m. ET news conference today, a White House official tells CNN.

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Supreme Court rules Ottawa's carbon tax is constitutional | CBC News WWW.CBC.CA The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government's carbon pricing regime is constitutional. Excellent news. Whiny Conservative provincial governments attempted to overturn it.

Dang.

New York officials reach agreement to legalize marijuana NYPOST.COM Weed all about it! New York state lawmakers struck a deal Wednesday to legalize marijuana, legislative sources said — just hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the move “essential” to

No thanks.

The only solution is to bring back the F-14 and somehow make it even cooler. Maybe the wings have another section on them that folds back even more. Or they split vertically, like an X-Wing.

"Listen, Gunther, I don't like this Hitler guy any more than you do, but we can't end the Holocaust unless we can get support from both sides of the aisle. It's just not the German way."

Also by "banned it," I am referring to the US banning other countries from placing orders with US manufacturers. There are some bad takes online saying that the US was justified in banning outside shipments of anything produced in the US, that other nations should have their own production capability. But that goes against the entire modern idea of specialization of production, and free trade. If the US actually wanted to play that game, then it wouldn't even be able to produce certain things (like medical masks, which require wood pulp only produced in Canada). The US taking an America First stance is very bad for the entire world, but also the US, if it actually goes down that road in a major way. There are advantages to individual nations not producing certain things and duplicating production (and instead doing other things, which are then traded back and forth).

In local news, my city is on further lockdown after it is now assumed that almost all cases are B.1.1.7. Looks like we are the variant hotspot for North America, now. Private gatherings now forbidden inside homes, and restaurants closed except for takeout/order. Churches are still allowed with 30 people, of course!

Oh I'm not being ungrateful! Only noting that these unused doses from the US should never have been sitting there to begin with, and that US production should have been utilized to export more doses from the start, if that was possible.

I meant that we would have had orders fulfilled using US factories had the US not banned it.

Conservative Premiers in Canada still refuse to admit that the vaccine rollout is now going much more smoothly, are thanking Joe Biden for the 1.5 million AZ doses and not crediting the federal government. So salty. Obviously the US deserves credit...but not really that much, considering the only reason we didn't have those doses to begin with is because the US went all nationalist and prevented shipments from leaving the country even when not being used domesetically.

We'll all be dead by then (except maybe @legend, inside a computer), but I do wonder what the world will look like in the late-21st-Century when populations begin to decline globally. Population will likely keep rising in many places due to migration...but how will capitalist systems react when overall constant growth cannot be maintained?

Get ready for extremely dumb takes like this: Well, yeah, the vaccines prevent 80-95% of symptomatic cases, but some people will still catch it and show symptoms. That is okay!!!

90% through Rhythm of War. I picked it up last night and saw I was almost done and thought, nice, the climax should be starting soon. Then I saw that there's still 200 pages. lol, sometimes books are too long.

Time to dig a new canal!

America can't commit war crimes, it can only make mistakes which it later regrets but does nothing to fix.* * Source - American history

It seems that everything about AstraZeneca has been unforced errors. Fucked up the western hemisphere trials. Didn't include old people in the EU trials. Now this. It looks like the vaccine works...but the management around it has been horrible.

Wonder how the NRA and GOP will react to the shooting if it was motivated by religious (and non-Christian) beliefs.

The Canadian Onion version:

I remember Chretien's refusal to let Canada be dragged into the war was one of the key events of my political awakening:

Meanwhile my second dose will be 4 months after my first.

Sums up the dumb-fuck rules our regressive provincial government has imposed: