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How embarrassing for the Dead.

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Yes, it’s possible that another person could be worse. I think that position should remain empty, for now. We get helluva better info hearing from real medical experts. If another Caputo enters the scene, here’s hoping that collective outrage cancels that twit too.

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I live in the UK ( the Isle of Wight). Admittedly it isn't a very big place. Went on the government website, found out where the nearest testing site was and when there were times available. Drove into a car park the next day, no waiting at all, got the results by text the next day. I don't think it's that easy all over the UK but I do know people in other parts of the UK who went for test and it was maybe a half hour wait to get tested at most. No offence my honestly dear American friends, you are being screwed over with the handling of Covid-19, not that you need me to tell you that.

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I was verifying case choice (capital ‘D’ for a piece in ‘D minor’) and checked Wikipedia’s usage. They have excerpted some attribution analysis, but it just seems like argly-bargly, notational nit-pickery to me. You can’t go wrong with Carl Sagan’s advice: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

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No. What you say is all true.

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Yep, you're right. I was muddling Dr. Scott Atlas, the radiologist, with Alexander. Sorry. :/

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From Caputo's wiki (and why doesn't EVERY news item about this guy begin with this info?):

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Caputo established residence in Russia in 1994.[11][8][12] He served as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin in 1995.[2] In his capacity as advisor to Yeltsin, he was employed with the United States Agency for International Development.[11][13][2] He served as president of The Florence Group from 1994 to 1999, and stated he "played a pivotal role in electing Boris Yeltsin to his second term as President of the Russian Federation."[14]Caputo was employed by a Moscow-headquartered subsidiary of Gazprom, Gazprom-Media.[15][13][12] He was contracted by Gazprom in 2000 to work for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.[11][13] His task was to increase Putin's public relations standing, specifically his support level in the U.S.[15][13][12] He moved back from Russia to the U.S. in 2000.[8]After returning to the U.S., Caputo was called by his former mentor Roger Stone, who convinced him to move to Miami Beach, Florida, and then Caputo founded his media advising company Michael Caputo Public Relations.[8] Caputo moved back to Europe in 2007 while advising a politician's campaign for parliament in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

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No, don't apologize! It's so hard to keep track of all the incompetence in this administration.

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Alexander was tasked with vetting all comms and nixing anything too gloomy.

Oh, kinda like Joseph Goebbels not wanting the German people to know that their 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army just go their ass handed to them at Stalingrad.

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This show is too shlocky! Needs more realistic characters. Who tell more credible lies. Lymphatics. 🙄

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In that photo at the top of this article, Caputo looks like a fat Glenn Beck. At least he's got the raging paranoia and bugfuck conspiracy theories down pat.

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Could he...could he be Glen Beck's younger brother? I didn't see any tears, but...

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I saw a lot more than that. I remember the tree police outside my house. I'm getting better, thanks for your thoughts and prayers.

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Poor Michael with the ceiling shadows and all. Maybe that nice Dr Alexander can prescribe something.

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A couple of Scaramuccis.

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Please let it be this fkn guy:https://arstechnica.com/sci...

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