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RFK Adjusts Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendations; Democrats Lose Their Minds

The only bad actor I see here is you, denying the various cases of harm caused by this vaccine
No, you haven't; I have left it to others to point out the relative safety and effectiveness of this vaccine as compared to an infection from the virus itself.

Which, again, sweetheart,
Again, please be appropriate.
AI tells you precisely what you want to hear.
No, neither it nor you have any understanding, apparently, about what I want to hear.
It literally hallucinates stuff into existence.
This is true; it also lies. Which is why I included the underlying source which, again apparently, you have not bothered to read. For your and any interested reader's edification, here's another link which discusses how the virus may be transmitted:



People most often get hepatitis B from contact with blood. Blood from a person infected with hepatitis B virus is heavily contaminated with the virus. The virus is present at such high levels that it can be spread by contact with quantities of blood too small to see. The virus can also survive on surfaces longer than most viruses — up to seven days. As a result, even casual contact with the blood of someone who is infected can cause infection. Casual contact can include sharing of washcloths, toothbrushes, or razors...

...The spread of hepatitis B virus has been difficult to control in the U.S. because the disease can be transmitted by casual contact and because so many chronically infected people don’t know they are infected. It’s estimated that about three-quarters of a million to 2 million people in the U.S. are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus. The original strategy aimed at controlling hepatitis B in the U.S. started in the early 1980s. The goal at that time was to vaccinate only those at highest risk (for example, healthcare workers, patients on dialysis, and intravenous drug users). But because the disease can be transmitted to those who are not in high-risk groups, this vaccine strategy didn't work. The incidence of hepatitis B virus disease in the U.S. remained unchanged 10 years after the strategy was first used! So, the vaccine strategy was changed. Starting in 1991, all infants and young children were recommended to receive the hepatitis B vaccine. As a result, the incidence of hepatitis B virus infections in the U.S. started to decline. Indeed, this strategy has virtually eliminated the disease in children less than 19 years of age. If we stick with it, we have a chance to finally eliminate this devastating disease within one or two generations.[oh well]

...Large quantities of hepatitis B virus are present in the blood of people with hepatitis B. In fact, as many as one billion infectious viruses can be found in a milliliter of blood from an infected individual. A milliliter is about one-fifth of a teaspoon. Therefore, amounts of blood too small to be seen can contain enough viral particles to cause infection. In addition, many people don't know that they are infected. For these reasons, it is very hard to avoid the chance of getting infected with hepatitis B virus.​
And again, all of this is moot as vaxxes are already given to those who are born to mothers with Hep B. None of this has changed.
No, not moot because the virus can be spread from people and things other than the mother to the baby (see above). Instead of addressing the actual argument you persist in repeating the same moot point.
You're doing nothing but fearmongering and inventing false things
This is patently false as the previously provided links attest.
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A Conversion Journey

As a kid, I went to the Baptist church with mom. Poor lady. I have two memories from that church, and one is her literally dragging me by my arm down the sidewalk to the front door. I was crying and screaming because I didn't want to go in. Mom was very embarrassed and apologizing to an elderly couple who were looking very sternly at me as if I were under demonic influence. I think it was because I was a very hyperactive kid, and hated having to be quiet and sit still. But maybe demons viewed me as an easy target because of that. ?

The other thing I remember was something the preacher said one Sunday, the only thing I remember him saying, which stuck with me and would come up later in life.

Dad was not religious. The only time I heard him mention God or Jesus was when he was trying to fix the car, if you know what I mean. But he would convert and be baptized later in life.

One day in elementary school a teacher told us that light and sound traveled at different speeds. I'd never heard of that, and it didn't make sense to me because I didn't think of those as physical things. But one day while riding my bike I stopped on a hill to watch some older guys playing baseball a good distance away. I experienced what the teacher was talking about, because I would see the bat hit the ball, but didn't hear the sound from that till a second later. This blew me away. G.K.C. said that "One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot." And C. S. Lewis in several places wrote of reality as an "artifact" of God.

In whatever childlike thoughts I had, in that moment I realized that reality presents itself to us as something like "stagecraft" in a play. Something set up or designed to be experienced a certain specific way. Reality is real enough to us, but there's something else behind it. And if we're in some kind of play, it's possible that some kind of story is being told, or that we are to tell it. Later, like most of you EO, I'd come to know that it's also a cosmic battle.

I've also always kinda liked the Santa Claus editorial to Virginia: "...there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond."

I read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as a kid. Loved the story, but didn't have a clue what it was actually about.

(I apologize for not just getting straight to conversion to EO. I will. It's just that looking back I perceive that I may have picked up bits of truth which each played a part in eventually leading me to the fullness of Truth.)
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Human/chimp genomic similarity drops to ~85%: for real this time?

Scientific research is not published on Twitter. Find the original peer-reveiwed research from a reputable journal (thinking you might have trouble with that ;) ).

As far as I'm able to tell, the new percentage value is actually supported by the Nature paper. Although as Hans Blaster mentioned, it's based on a calculating the level of similarity with a different method from the one that produced the 98% number.
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Florida Man arrested in Polk County after claims of ‘dirty’ nuclear bomb in his truck; also several firearms, speed loaders, battering ram, NV goggles

So
On Dec. 5, officers responded to a report of a vehicle crash in a Publix parking lot.

When they arrived, they found a Chevy Silverado with 43-year-old Benjamin Donald Johnson behind the wheel. Johnson refused multiple commands by police to get out of the truck.

As Johnson sat the back of a police cruiser, an officer overheard Johnson says there was a “dirty bomb” in his truck. Officers found a yellow plastic container secured with chains and locks, with a radioactive warning label.

With the help of personnel from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, ATF, and an FBI bomb technician, it was advised that the device inside the container was a moisture density gauge, commonly used for soil testing. The experts said it emits less radioactivity than a medical X-ray.

A search of Johnson’s truck yielded several firearms and ammunition, firearm magazine speed loaders, thermal scopes, knives, a battering ram, night vision goggles, cannabis and gummies which tested positive for THC.
So, just you're average ICE recruit then?
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Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

China’s trade surplus tops $1 trillion as its exports surge

But as trade with the U.S. weakens, China is diversifying its export markets throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

[China's surplus for the first 11 months of 2025 is already larger than all of 2024 and a new record, topping $1T for the first time.]

Right, as I indicated at the outset, if the US picks a fight with the world, the world doesn't have to fight with each other -- they can band together and do EVEN MOAR trade.
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ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations

It is about knowing the difference between immigrant and refugee. a refugee seeks refuge until the danger he is fleeing from is over,

relieved he returns. Matthew 2:13-14, Matthew 2:19-20.
How are things looking in Haiti these days?
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For those who are gamers, how do you handle Christian Ethics vs gaming?

He judges and makes war :expressionless:
God kills. Does that make him a God of killing?
God destroys. Does that make him a God of destruction?

I really wanted very much to please God, so rather than mock at God Galatians 6:7, by trying to justify my actions as righteous, I took his counsel to heart Psalm 97:10. I also knew it would be to my benefit to listen to him, and be obedient, and it sure has been to my benefit. Isaiah 48:17, 18
It's Satan's world, and "whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.". James 4:4
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

Yet they look nothing like the ones being blown up. Now show us a picture of one of the suspected drug boats with fishing gear.
If you can't see similarities between this:

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and this:

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then I might suggest an eye exam. They are, of course, not identical, but they are of similar size and shape. Could those white blurs at the front be bundles of coke? Sure. They could also be coolers full of fish or piles of nets though. The point is, we don't know.

Furthermore, I was responding to another poster's assertion about what fishing boats in the Caribbean look like. It's pretty clear that fishermen in the Caribbean use whatever boats they have at their disposal, and thus it's impossible to tell at a glance what a particular boat might be employed in doing without a clear view of what's inside.
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

President Trump and his administration are not taking action against fishing boats but boats that are carrying drugs. My question is, can we simply attack a ship transporting drugs without going through the legal process, such as prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators? Should we just strike them with missiles instead?
During wartime, a combatant is lawfully subject to lethal force wherever the person is found – unless and until the individual offers to surrender. Therefore, only posisitive identification of an enemy target is required to use lethal force.
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Why Do Christians Resist the Idea of “Social Justice”? A Theological Question

I only see tip jars where people are doing actual work for pay...and the pay is low. I don't see tip jars at places where people are volunteering their labor.
Yes but the concept of entitlement overrides basic altruism by far. It is the way of mankind. Putting self first started in the Garden and has been pointed out as the failure of both elohim and mankind ever since. A failure worth repenting of.
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B flat B♭

@jonojim1337 I'm still waiting for your explanation of how flights between Sydney and Santiago take between 12hr 40m and 14hr 30m depending on which direction you are going, while flights between Sydney and Los Angeles take between 13hr 45m and 15hr.
How does this work on your flat earth, seeing as Los Angeles sits literally halfway between Sydney and Santiago on the only maps flat earthers have offered.

@Apple Sky you are welcome to give an explanation also, though you've not bothered to try when asked before.

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OU Student given a zero for citing the bible in essay

The 'essay' itself is floating around and it really does bear no resemblance to a piece of academic writing, even a poor one.
The reason it was floating around was that conservatives were making a big deal of this 'injustice' and spreading it themselves as 'evidence' of what a great essay it was.

Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay

The academic merits of Fulnecky’s essay are immaterial to the battle at hand. [Short answer to headline question: it's ragebait.]
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Why Is It So Hard for Christians to Talk About Justice and Greed?

They believe that what they deem as just and unjust is a fact and that could be the biggest log they have in their eye.
Much in the way kids stamp their feet and say that is not fair? True but their is a difference between self-entitlement and genuine love for others.
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Now does everyone understand why the "right to refuse illegal orders" video was made?

Then another posts:

Hmmm... boat not hit - boat has two less engines -

First it was the evil Secretary of War - saying kill them all - never happened
Now it is a picture of a boat too small and not hit -

Uh, huh......
Are you treating that picture seriously? Good grief, do you know nothing about the matter at all? Plainly you don't, so I must ask why on earth you have involved yourself in a thread about a situation that you seem to know nothing about.

All you've done is confirm that you are a person who has no qualms about killing people who are suspected of smuggling drugs. And killing them in direct violation of the stated rules of engagement and against everything we'd describe as civilised behaviour. It was illegal and immoral in the extreme. But as I've said, that's the world in which it appears you want to live. This is not an ugly incident in a dystopian novel about the collapse of a decent society. It's now how the US conducts itself.

And heaven help us, your attitude is 'Bring it on'.
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The primary cause of America's social-justice violence

God will forgive the ones who have given themselves to Christ.
I agree but we don't know who these are or if and when people give themselves to Christ. That is why pray for all because vengeance is the Lord's.

Paul was a prosecutor before Jesus revealed himself to Paul. Why did Jesus choose that moment? Faith is trusting that God has a plan and he will save whom ever he wishes whenever he chooses.
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Dear Pete Hegseth, I’m Grateful the Japanese Navy Spared My Grandfather’s Life

Let's just call it a Rorschach test. What do you see? A fishing boat, or something else? With all the talk about Trump blowing up "fishing boats," I am curious to see if we are actually looking at the same pictures. If not, I have yet to see any evidence of any fishing boat being destroyed by the Navy. Got any? Where is the rhetoric about fishing boats coming from?

Well, that answers the question. We are looking at the same pictures. I see what obviously appears to be a smuggling boat filled with drugs and you see a beautiful butterly. You say the evidence vanished. Do you not know about this thing called a "battle damage assessment?"
You seem to be under the misapprehension that any of this matters. It's like you didn't even read my post.

You're here defending either war crimes or murder. That's all that is happening here. And you're defending this because you've somehow latched onto the idea that there is a war on drugs going on and that justifies the US military doing double taps. You don't need to do this. There is no reason for you to do this.

You talk about x-number of dead Americans and "how many kids is this killing?". As if that is at all relevant. First of all it was a Colombian boat so in all likelihood if anything was being smuggled it's coke. This is not killing American kids. They don't have coke money. People on wall street maybe. And deleting a few boats from existence is doing absolutely nothing to impact the price of Don Jr's blow even one bit. And fentanyl doesn't come from Colombia. And 90% is smuggled into the US by white American citizens.

This narrative of a "war on drugs" or a "war on cartels" is nothing but rhetoric. Congress didn't declare war. You're not actually at war. It's a metaphor. It's not real.

You're not at war with drugs any more than you're at war with homelessness or obesity. Or does the fact that 300K Americans die of obesity warrant the unlawful killings of the CEOs of America's largest food producers? After all, their products are stuffed with ultra-processed harmful addictive ingredients, which kill hundreds of thousands of Americans on a yearly basis with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

These people in the boats, even if they are committing an illegal act, have rights. That's the issue here. I don't care if there were drugs on this particular boat. It was sitting dead in the water. There are laws and protocols to be followed when dealing with this. Don't pretend you're following a law and order ideology when you yadayada law and order.

No double taps, no extrajudicial killings. How is this difficult?

There are plenty of stories of u-boats sinking ships and the u-boat letting the survivors go. An anecdote I heard just last week of a US navy ship being sunk, the crew making it to the lifeboats in time after which the u-boat surfaced and the German captain gave the survivors some whiskey and a compass and pointed them to the nearest port.

As the burning ship sank lower in the water and the lifeboats and raft pulled away, the crew could see the submarine illuminated by flames, its deck gun now silent. "They didn't fire at the lifeboats," Semenov recalls. "In those days, everyone played by the rules."


Even some Nazi captains are better than what you're defending here. Sincerely, I don't know why you are doing this. You can walk away from this.
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Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

Glenn Beck attempts to patiently explain to his rightwing fans that Hitler was bad.

The idea that Adolf Hitler was some misunderstood or even "good" figure while Winston Churchill was the real WWII villain was once confined to the extreme fringes and unknown to almost everyone else. Today, however, the idea has resurfaced with disturbing visibility — no longer limited to neo-Nazi forums but now defended or entertained on major podcasts, viral social-media threads, and platforms with tens of millions of listeners and viewers.

Glenn Beck, a lover of history and collector of historical artifacts, is appalled that this revisionist narrative is being taken seriously.

“I really don't get it. History, real history, is not a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. It's ink on paper, orders in filing cabinets, telegrams, diaries, bodies. It's what actually happened, not what we hope happened,” he says.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn sets the record straight about Hitler, Churchill, and WWII.
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