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marie999

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June 19, 2020

I had to go to Community Care Monday.

Community Care is an urgent care medical center you go to when your VA Clinic is closed or you need medical care that your VA Clinic can not provide. My temperature was not taken before I saw a nurse. Not one doctor or nurse I saw in the building was wearing a mask or gloves. Today I went to a non-VA hospital. A nurse, wearing a mask and gloves, put a mask on me, took my temperature before I sat down outside for her to take my vitals and asked me the usual questions such as did I have a cough and then wrote everything down about my ailments. Then I was allowed to enter the ER. My wife had to stay in the car, she refused to go home, but she never would go home. In the ER I did not see one person who was not wearing a mask and everyone that came into my room was also wearing gloves. Guess where I will go the next time I need urgent care. I do go to my VA Clinic monthly for an INR blood test. That's for people on a blood thinner. They take your temperature while you sit in your car. They ask you the usual questions. Then you drive to a side door near the lab. You sit in your car until they come out to get you. They give you a mask only, one patient at a time enters the building. I will live, but I hit the trifecta, Sciatica flair up, Peripheral Neuropathy flair up, and Pneumonia.

June 17, 2020

I have a neighbor who is a racist,

but he said something one day that surprised me coming from a racist. He said that at the end of The Civil War if Blacks had been treated as equals things would be entirely different now.

June 17, 2020

I thought elected officials were not allowed to wear tan suits,

or does that just apply to Black Presidents?

June 17, 2020

You are correct that The Constitution does not say how electors must be picked,

But I have looked at all states and even though there are different ways the electors are picked such as party convention or the governors pick them from a list given to them by the party, in all states the party that wins the election picks the electors. I found this information on Taegan Goddard's Electoral Vote Map. How Are Electors Chosen? It's not that long a read because he shows each way and under each way, he lists the states that use them. I am not computer literate so I couldn't just link it.

June 17, 2020

The states do not choose the electors.

The party which wins the election within the state picks the electors.

June 17, 2020

Malcolm X

I put him in front of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

June 17, 2020

I do not have any doubt that Trump will quietly leave The White House.

He will bitch and moan from the time the election is over until Biden takes the oath of office, but he will leave. Shortly before Biden is sworn in, the Secret Service will have explained to him in simple words exactly what they would do if he didn't leave.

June 17, 2020

If you are singing something to make a point, get it right.

"From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam."

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Name: Marie Jacobs
Gender: Female
Hometown: Boston MA
Home country: USA
Current location: Belgrade, NC
Member since: Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:06 AM
Number of posts: 3,334

About marie999

Russia linguist in the 528th Military Intelligence Unit
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