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Jan 18, 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As President Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House, 34% of Americans approve of the job he is doing as President.

According to UPenn alumni, Fred Trump contributed millions to fund a concentration in real estate to secure Donald’s transfer from Fordham. Since Trump has threatened Penn and all his other schools with lawsuits for disclosing information the timing and amount of the contribution cannot be established.

Earth’s mantle, the layer just beneath the crust, is the source of most of the magma that erupts at volcanoes. Minerals that make up the mantle contain small amounts of water, not as a liquid, but as individual molecules in the mineral’s atomic structure.  Mid-ocean ridges, volcanic undersea mountain ranges, are formed when these mantle minerals exceed their melting point, become partially molten, and produce magma that ascends to the surface. As the magmas cool, they form basalt, the most-common rock on Earth and the basis of oceanic crust. In these oceanic ridges, basalt can be three to four miles thick.

My father and Obama's father didn't give us $400 million.

President Donald Trump's father gave enormous sums of money to his son over his entire life, playing a much bigger role than previously known in making the president a rich man, according to a New York Times investigation.  According to the report, Trump was earning $200,000 a year from his father's empire by the age 3. The financial assistance increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually when Trump was in his 40s and 50s. In all, Trump received at least $413 million from his father's real estate empire. 

Does Trump have a Harvard COOP card?   I'll bet not. I'm suprised Trump's father didn't serve time in prison like Lori Loughlin.

Trump is broke. He is living off  Save America, former President Donald Trump's leadership PAC. He owes Russian investors $4.3 billion.

The total amount of water on Earth is less than a quarter of what would be required to cover the entire planet. This claim may seem unrealistic until one realizes that Earth is actually quite water poor. Although 71 percent of the planet’s surface is covered by oceans, only about 0.1 percent of Earth’s volume is water. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the volume of all the water on Earth, including salt and fresh water, icecaps, groundwater, and atmospheric water, amounts to 332,500,000 cubic miles. Earth’s average radius is 3,959 miles. The volume of a sphere is given by the formula 4/3πr3 where r is the sphere’s radius. Earth’s volume is then about 259,900,000,000 cubic miles. The volume of atmospheric water is a little over 3,000 cubic miles, negligible in this calculation. A sphere containing all of Earth’s water would be about 860 miles in diameter, approximately the distance between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Topeka, Kansas. Or suppose Earth’s surface was completely smooth and all of Earth’s water was in a spherical shell covering the planet’s surface. That shell would be approximately 1.7 miles thick. So, is this enough to cover the Earth’s mountainous terrain?
Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, is 29,029 feet (or about 5.5 miles) above sea level. The average elevation of all the continental landmasses is 2,755 feet (about 0.52 miles).1 From this information, we can make a first-order approximation that the volume of water needed to cover Mount Everest, including all the water presently on Earth, is about 1,400,000,000 cubic miles. Therefore, the volume of water currently on Earth is only about 24 percent of the volume needed to cover Mount Everest.

Wow, I didn't know that you had to submit a research paper to get your Grand Wizard rating.  Well, it makes sense.

Don't forget that Trump is the first USA president to have 5 kids with 3 different women. He is a true Christian.

Don't forget that Trump gave the USA the first First Lady born in a Communist country.

Trump filed bankruptcy for 6 of his businesses.

All the following projects created by Trump failed but did not result in bankruptcies, although those who spent money on some of these products were sorry they had participated.:
1. Trumped!
A syndicated radio spot
2. Trump Steaks
T-bones to eat at home that tasted as good as the ones he served in his restaurants
3. Trump Network
Nutritional supplements
4. GoTrump
Online travel site
5. Tour de Trump
Bicycle race
6. Trump Airlines
7. Trump Vodka
8. The New Jersey Generals
Pro football team
9. Trump Mortgage
10. Trump: The Game
11. Trump Magazine
12. Trump Ice
Bottled water
13. Trump University

An IBEW investigative piece documented the Trump Organization’s reputation for underpaying or not paying its bills at all.  
Jack O’Donnell, former president of the Plaza casino in Atlantic City, told the Wall Street Journal it was a common practice.
“Part of how he did business as a philosophy was to negotiate the best price he could. And then when it came time to pay the bills,” O’Donnell said, Trump would say that “‘I’m going to pay you but I’m going to pay you 75 percent of what we agreed to.’”

It was known as the “Trump discount,” according to the Economist Magazine and it led to more than 3,500 lawsuits against Trump for nonpayment.

The average top CEO compensation was $14.5 million in 2019. In 2019, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 320-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 293-to-1 in 2018 and a big increase from 21-to-1 in 1965 and 61-to-1 in 1989. 

Everybody knows what a genius Tesla was and how, even though he was a true visionary, he never got his due from the world. But Tesla was also completely crazy. He had a serious case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He was a germophobe who refused to touch anything that was a little dirty or anything that was round in shape. He was also in love with the number 3. He would walk 3 times around the block before entering the building. He would only stay in a hotel room that was divisible by 3. He would require 18 napkins for each meal - 3 stacks of 6. Funnily, after he built a high-frequency oscillator, he invited Mark Twain over because he was having problems with his bowel movements. He told Twain to stand on the machine. It took not more than 90 seconds for Twain to run for the bathroom. Nikolai later said that he shook the poop out of Mark Twain. 

Remember the Pythagoras theorem from school? This is that guy. Revered as a famous mathematician and scientist, many don't know that he actually started his own religion- Pythagoreanism. Some of the commandments of Pythagoreanism, however, were a bit odd like - "Do not, under any circumstances, eat beans", "Do not walk on highways" , and "Do not step over a crossbar." No wonder Pythagoreanism didn't gain popularity along the way. 

This is ebuc.

Now I know why God loved the actor Earnest Borgnine. He lived until he was 95.  The 91-year-old legend appeared on Fox & Friends (God's channel) to promote his book and was asked his secret to longevity. He leaned in and whispered (easily heard over the microphone) “I masturbate a lot.” The hosts were in hysterics, rightly.

You are talking about porn, right?

"I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs." -Donald Trump

The United States is home to 13% of the world’s fat population, the largest percentage of any other country in the world, according a new study published in the Lancet. In fact, around 30% is now overweight or obese.  Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are heavy. The U.S. leads the pack, while China and India combined for 15% of the world’s overweight population, according to the report. And the concern isn’t just the percentage of the world that has crossed over into obesity, but the Associated Press reports that no country has been able to reverse the trend in the last decades.

Denmark became one of the first countries in the world to offer prenatal Down syndrome screening to every pregnant woman, regardless of age or other risk factors. Nearly all expecting mothers choose to take the test; of those who get a Down syndrome diagnosis, more than 95 percent choose to abort.

Since universal screening was introduced, the number of children born with Down syndrome has fallen sharply. In 2019, only 18 were born in the entire country. (About 6,000 children with Down syndrome are born in the U.S. each year.)

Of course they have culture. That's why you wear a Klan robe in your profile picture.

Isn't that what we have Witches for?  Clean up on aisle 45 !

I would vote for the South to secede from the Union. Let's give them another chance.

Oh, sorry, I thought this topic was about Trump voters.

See: Schizophrenics & cyborgs: interrogating 'posthuman(ist)' subjectivity by Angela Woods

It's actually that transhumanism/posthumanism always results from schizophrenia.

Yes, the  Sermon on the Mount is the basis of the Humanism movement. The capstone of the sermon is the golden rule, which is a common theme in almost all world religious traditions. There is something so human and yet divine in doing something as simple as treating others the way we would want to be treated. If this were easy to do humanly speaking, it wouldn’t need to be a cornerstone of virtual every major religious tradition. The highest call of being human and living a life worthy of this inner kingdom of God is in how we treat others. It’s not what doctrinal statement I profess nor what theology I subscribe to. As Paul wrote, without Love, all preaching is a clanging cymbal and simply an annoying sound. 
Nothing in the Sermon on the Mount was instructive of how to gain entry into heaven and to avoid hell. The whole monologue was about this life, and how to call out the most human of qualities and characteristics such as love, mercy, compassion and kindness.

I pray to the Simulation gods (programmers) that you all find Humanism.

Remember that religious delusions are commonly found in schizophrenia.

I think this reseach paper explains it all.

Religious delusions in patients admitted to hospital with schizophrenia

Ronald Siddle, Gillian Haddock, Nicholas Tarrier, E Brian Faragher

Conclusion: It is concluded that religious delusions are commonly found in schizophrenia and that by comparison with other patients who have schizophrenia, those patients with religious delusions appear to be more severely ill. This warrants further investigation.

 In 2005 Donald Wise of the University of Massachusetts Amherst popularised the term "incompetent design" (a play on "intelligent design"), to describe aspects of nature seen as flawed in design.

I think this proves your point.

Stephen Hawking saw a way to end the interminable groping backward in time: He proposed that there’s no end, or beginning, at all. According to the record of the Vatican conference, the Cambridge physicist, then 39 and still able to speak with his own voice, told the crowd, “There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe, and what can be more special than the condition that there is no boundary?”
The “no-boundary proposal,” which Hawking and his frequent collaborator, James Hartle, fully formulated in a 1983 paper, envisions the cosmos having the shape of a shuttlecock. Just as a shuttlecock has a diameter of zero at its bottommost point and gradually widens on the way up, the universe, according to the no-boundary proposal, smoothly expanded from a point of zero size. Hartle and Hawking derived a formula describing the whole shuttlecock — the so-called “wave function of the universe” that encompasses the entire past, present and future at once — making moot all contemplation of seeds of creation, a creator, or any transition from a time before.
“Asking what came before the Big Bang is meaningless, according to the no-boundary proposal, because there is no notion of time available to refer to,” Hawking said in another lecture at the Pontifical Academy in 2016, a year and a half before his death. “It would be like asking what lies south of the South Pole.”

I think Einstein would have agreed with him.

In 1954, one year before he died  Albert Einstein said  'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses'.

Press the tan key, then enter 45, then press the = key.  If the answer is 1 then the  calculator is working in degrees.

Or that those in line with the second group spend 8 years in prison or die from cancer.

Regardless of their impact, some scientists and scholars still view NDEs through the lenses of psychology, biology and neuroscience. John Martin Fischer, a philosopher at the University of California, Riverside, and co-author of Near-Death Experiences says that one explanation for the universal similarities in NDE reports is often ignored. “It’s not that we’re in contact with an otherworldly realm,” he says. “We’re all similar. Humans have similar developmental histories, psychologies and similar brains.”
Beyond that, all humans have to come to terms with the looming threat of death. When we’re in a situation that seems like it might lead to our death, Fischer continues, we react in similar ways. “The biochemistry and the neurophysiology interacts with our psychology in complex ways to produce similar reactions,” he says. 
Kevin Nelson, a neurologist at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, argues that NDEs can be slotted neatly into a neuroscientific framework. Like Fischer, he says that these are complex phenomena, but also notes that many of the well-known features of NDEs can also be triggered by situations where someone’s life isn’t in danger. “The context of the experience — feeling threatened — may be as important as the actual medical threat,” says Nelson, who also wrote The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain. He points out that the experience of fainting can generate similar effects: “Done in the safe confines of a laboratory, [it] will induce identical elements to a near-death experience.” A study published in The Lancet in 1994 found that syncope, or fainting, also prompted NDE staples like feelings of peace, entering another world and being surrounded by light.

A few years ago, a best-selling autobiographical work, Brain on Fire, chronicled one of the first instances of diagnosis for N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) encephalitis. The story depicted by the author is one of a young woman’s descent into madness caused by encephalitis before its relatively novel cause is determined by a New York neurologist. The book details her recovery, and the story has even been developed into a feature film on Netflix.
In historical times, such cases may have been responsible for reported incidents of “demonic possession.” In 2009, when the events of Brain on Fire transpired, this diagnosis remained obscure. Now, in 2019, this diagnosis, under the umbrella classification of autoantibody-mediated encephalitis, is prominently featured in the educational series of one of the largest critical care conferences in the world. The past decade has seen both a heightened recognition of these syndromes and also the necessary laboratory advancements required for diagnosis. This related collection of syndromes is almost certainly more common than any of us were aware during our medical education, and it is important to recognize them because early immunotherapy can profoundly improve recovery.

Doesn't God know anything about quality control?

Well, God did give out belt buckles to all his angels that says "Hitler is With Us".

I pray to the creators of this simulation that you all find Humanism.

No, 'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses,' Albert Einstein wrote, 'the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this. '

No,  in Stephen Hawking’s final book, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions,” the renowned physicist declares, “There is no God. No one directs the universe.” 

Eminem's IQ is estimated from 110 to 120. Trump's is known to be 73.

Donald Trump scored a 73 on an IQ test administered to him while in high school at New York Military Academy.

What does the mRNA vaccine do?
The studies of the vaccine have shown that the vaccine prevents symptomatic Covid infection. It has also been shown to prevent severe Covid infection. The efficacy is 95%, which is excellent with respect to vaccines. In comparison, the influenza vaccine is typically about 50% effective.
Will the vaccine prevent me from catching the virus?
The answer is: we don’t know. That is currently being studied, and the data are not out yet. This is critical to know, actually. We know that the vaccine prevents symptomatic Covid disease, but we don’t know if it prevents people from catching the virus and then spreading it to other people. It would be great if that was also the case, but we just don’t know at this stage.
So, should I still get the vaccine?
Absolutely. Of course, you should not have any contraindications to getting the vaccine (such as allergies to any of its components). Still, even if the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection and spread of the virus, if enough people are vaccinated, they will be protected from getting sick from the virus. That can only be a good thing, and that will be the best way we can finally get out from under the cloud of this pandemic.

It is true that the J&J vaccine is not an mRNA vaccine.

That is not true.

The mRNA vaccines do not contain any live virus. Instead, they work by teaching our cells to make a harmless piece of a “spike protein,” which is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19. After making the protein piece, cells display it on their surface. Our immune system then recognizes that it does not belong there and responds to get rid of it. When an immune response begins, antibodies are produced, creating the same response that happens in a natural infection.

Sam Harris's book, The End of Faith is a fantastic read.

In 1922, the constitutionality of childhood vaccination was examined in the Supreme Court case Zucht v. King. The court ruled that a school could deny admission to children who failed to provide a certification of vaccination for the protection of the public health. In 1987, a measles epidemic occurred in Maricopa County, Arizona and another court case, Maricopa County Health Department vs. Harmon, examined the arguments of an individual's right to education over the states need to protect against the spread of disease. The court found it prudent to take action to combat the spread of disease by denying un-vaccinated children a place in school until the risk for the spread of measles had passed.