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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received reports of 4,115 patients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases who were hospitalized or died. Of those cases, 26% of hospitalizations were reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19, and 19% of the 750 fatalities were reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19. The data, which includes information through June 21, is amid a backdrop of 150 million people who are fully vaccinated in the U.S. Nearly half of the breakthrough cases, or 49%, involve females, and 3,124, or 76%, occurred in patients ages 65 years and older. Officials...

Lawmakers introduce legislation to massively expand mail-in voting. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) on Thursday introduced legislation to allow all registered voters to have the option to vote from home. The Vote at Home Act would require all registered voters to be sent mail-in ballots prior to Election Day, guarantee that voters had the option to either vote by mail or vote in person at the polls, and enact automatic voter registration for all citizens with driver’s licenses or permits. It would be a significant expansion of mail-in voting.

Testimony from ardent Hillary supporter in 2016, Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, but who is raising the alarm at how big social media can potentially swing an election. Ted Cruz is questioning Dr. Epstein.

[By Self] Surgical operations with these little guys! Fascinating!

A top tech executive was arrested Wednesday near Seattle after police said he tried to pay for unprotected sex with a girl he allegedly thought was 15 years old. Dov Katz, the head of computer vision at Oculus VR, was charged with attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor after he allegedly fell victim to an undercover sting operation orchestrated by the Tukwila Police Department, Gizmodo reported.

For the first time in its 85-year history, the California Public Employees Retirement System, CalPERS, is drastically cutting benefits for public retirees. Starting January 1st, four retired City of Loyalton public employees will have their pensions cut 60 percent. For 71-year-old Patsy Jardin, that means her pension will drop from about $49,000 a year to a little more than $19,000.

In a new legal development on the controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, an appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and said two U.S. government agencies should have done more to recover the emails. The ruling from Judge Stephen Williams, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, revives one of a number of legal challenges involving Clinton's handling of government emails when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

{snipped a bit) Andrea Tantaros, charged in a lawsuit filed Monday that top executives at Fox punished her for complaining about sexual harassment by Mr. Ailes.

Following is a schedule for the Democratic National Convention: Saturday, 27 August 2016 11:15 AM Free lunch, medical marijuana, and bus ride to the Convention. Forms distributed for Food Stamp enrollment. 2:30 PM Group Voter Registration for Undocumented Immigrants. 4:00 PM Opening Flag Burning Ceremony (Sponsored by CNN) 4:30 PM "How to Bank $200 Million as a Public Servant and Claim to be Dead Broke" by Hillary Clinton 4:45 PM “How to have a successful career without ever having a job, and still avoid paying taxes!” A Seminar Moderated by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson 5:30 PM Invitation-only $10,000 donation...

The House passed a pair of bills Thursday to provide tax breaks to businesses. One bill, H.R. 4457, “America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014,” would permanently extend Section 179 expensing of up to $500,000 after the generous bonus depreciation limit expired last year. It passed by a vote of 272 to 144. The other bill, H.R. 4453, the “S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Act of 2014,” makes permanent the shortening of the built-in gains tax-holding period for S corporations from 10 years to five years to give S corps quicker access to capital. It also contains a basis...

Two Oklahoma death row inmates (whose crimes both involved the brutal rape and murder of children) sued the government in order to find out the source of the drugs used in the lethal injection that they would receive. After the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals gave the go-ahead for the executions, the state’s Supreme Court granted an indefinite appeal to the inmates. However, an Oklahoma House member drafted a resolution to impeach the justices who granted the stay, precipitating a 180 degree turnaround by the OK Supreme Court. From The Guardian: The Oklahoma supreme court has dissolved its stay of...

The argument that sugar is a toxin depends on some technical details about the different ways the human body gets energy from different types of sugar. Today, Americans eat most of their sugar in two main forms: table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. A molecule of table sugar, or sucrose, is a bond between one glucose molecule and one fructose molecule—two simple sugars with the same chemical formula, but slightly different atomic structures.

The Bloomington Bomb Squad and the FBI arrived in Montevideo just before noon on Friday, May 3. With assistance from the Montevideo Police Department and the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office, they blocked off Northdale Park and surrounded a trailer and setup position with an armored vehicle. After the FBI called for those inside to come out, it appeared that two men were taken into custody while a search warrant was executed. One of the men, Buford "Bucky" Rogers, 24, was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a criminal complaint filed by an agent with...

A 6-year-old South Dakota girl who was initially accused of cheating in a federally-sponsored art contest was restored as a winner, and her painting of a duck is again on track to be used on a U.S. postage stamp. A 9-by-12-inch oil painting of a canvasback duck by Madison Grimm, of Burbank, S.D., was declared the winner from some 29,000 entries in the 2013 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest. In addition to having their artwork immortalized on a stamp, winners receive a $5,000 scholarship. But days after the April 19 announcement, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials said Madison —...

Years ago it was suggested that an apple a day kept the doctor away... But since most doctors are now Muslim, I've found that a bacon sandwich works best! Japanese scientists have now created a camera with such an immense shutter speed that it is now possible to take a photograph of a woman with her mouth closed. I hate all this terrorist business. I used to love the days when you could look at an unattended bag on a train or bus and think to yourself "I'm going to take that". Man in a hot air balloon is lost...

"A Kiribati man stranded at sea for 15 weeks says a six-foot shark is responsible for his rescue. Toakai Teitoi is a policeman and father of six from Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. He and his brother-in-law became lost on a small wooden boat during what was supposed to have been a two-hour sea journey between the islands of Tarawa and Maiana,... See the comment by Budkis Mandel. Quite funny!

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who allege discrimination by the USDA in past decades can file claims between September 24, 2012 and March 25, 2013. The process offers a voluntary alternative to litigation for each Hispanic or female farmer and rancher who can prove that USDA denied their applications for loan or loan servicing assistance for discriminatory reasons for certain time periods between 1981 and 2000. As announced in February 2011, the voluntary claims process will make available at least $1.33 billion for cash awards and tax relief payments, plus up to...

Well, it may be time to run off some jokes juust to lighten things up!

So does any bimbo really prepare anymore to learn the words of the national anthem? At the start of the 49ers game, she inserted "vallantly" rather than "gallantly". Good grief.

House Speaker John Boehner will face a challenge in the GOP primary next year, Fox News has confirmed. 26-year-old David Lewis, who does not live in Boehner's Ohio district, has filed with the Butler County Board of Elections (in Boehner's home county) to challenge the speaker on March 6. Lewis is a Tea Party loyalist who lives in Clermont County on the east side of Cincinnati. Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/12/31/boehner-face-gop-primary-challenger?test=latestnews#ixzz1iAsvkJDk