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NBC's Saturday Night Live's cold open skit featured Dr. Anthony Fauci hosting a game-show titled, "So You Think You Can Get The Vaccine."
"Getting the vaccine shouldn't be competition, but Americans will only want to get it if it means somebody else can't," Fauci explained.
<p>The judges for the game show were Governors Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Anthony Cuomo (D-NY) and Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI).</p><p>The host noted that an essential worker can differ in each state and asked each governor to describe what professions count under their rule.</p><p>"Police, hospital staff, neuropaths and psychics," Newsom said of the California rules.</p><p>"Fishers, truckers, trappers and drifters," Whitmer said of Michigan's rules.</p><p>"Tough guys, wise guys, rich guys and Five Guys," Cuomo said of the rules in New York.</p><p>The first contestant said she deserved the vaccine because she does IT for the OnlyFans website and so she is busy.</p><p>The second contestant got caught pretending to be a senior citizen, the third dealt with the complexities of vaccinating pregnant women and the fourth examined New Jersey's policy of vaccinating smokers.</p><p>Then they were joined by contestant Ted Cruz.</p><p>And Cancun jokes ensued.</p><p>Watch:</p>
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An 11-year-old girl discovered both of her parents dead in their bed of coronavirus, KSDK-TV's Robert Townsend reports.
Townsend interviewed neighbor Chuck Duy.
<p>"It's really a terrible, tragic thing," said Duy. "Supposedly she had gone to the hospital. They thought she had a stroke, but I guess it was due to COVID."</p><p>Duy learned more information after speaking to a family member.</p><p>"She tested positive, but they sent her home and then her husband meanwhile was home with a positive test for COVID, so they both were quarantined downstairs in their bedroom in their basement," he explained. "To lose both parents at one time you know for an 11-year-old, it's really tragic."</p><p><span></span>The St. Louis County girl was an only child.</p><p>Watch KSDK-TV's report:</p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://ksdk.com/embeds/video/63-78f877c1-d8f0-49f8-a7d2-ad035bffdc10/iframe" style="border:1px solid #e6e6e6" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="640"></iframe></div>
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Talk about emotional: Male commenters at the Wall Street Journal threw a hissy fit today over a
news story headlined, "Congress Revives Push for Equal Rights Amendment."
The vast majority of the initial 132 comments in WSJ's "conversation" were shrieks of rage from men over the very mention that gender equality might become codified in the U.S. Constitution. Probably adding to their hysteria was that the author is a journalist named Kristina Peterson, whose first name had to be troubling.
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"Last month, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers introduced a resolution to eliminate the deadline for state ratification of the ERA, which would write into the Constitution that the federal and state governments can't deny or abridge equality of rights based on sex. The ERA has been approved by 38 states, reaching the three-fourths threshold required for ratification, but three of those occurred decades past the original set of deadlines."
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"It's important that we finally complete this task," said Rep. Jackie Speier (D., Calif.), a co-sponsor of the resolution. "Without an explicit declaration of equality in the Constitution, women's rights are always at risk."
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"'When Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, the resolution gave the states a seven-year deadline to ratify it. They never did, and the deadline passed decades ago,' Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) said in a statement."
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How about an amendment that states that everyone is equal to everyone else and any differentiation or disparate treatment based on ANY criteria (sex, race, gender identity, income, wealth, health conditions, driving record, arrests or convictions, height, weight, etc., etc., etc.,) are all illegal. What could go wrong?
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Women are already treated equal under the law. This is just fear mongering and pandering to the emotional democratic mob.
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There is no valid definition of woman anymore. This amendment would open up far more problems than it would settle. Fluid gender indeed.
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This will certainly change "female" athletics if it passes. The US won't have any "women" competing in the Olympics.
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No reason to ever change the constitution. Ever.
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The absolutely biggest inequality is lifespan; U.S. women outlive men by about 5 years. Given the U.S. population of around 328 million, that means a horridly unfair deficit of 800+ million man-years! One approach could draw inspiration from the ancient Hindu tradition of sati, whereby a widow would throw herself on her (dead) husband's pyre.
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The ERA is unnecessary given the mentioned federal and state laws. Not mentioned is sex has long been covered by the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. Advocates in the story know this. It looks like they are making political points, because it looks good to appear fair and open minded, and no American wants to be branded a misogynist or accused of discrimination.
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(Edited) This is what happens each time Democrats seize unrestricted power. But nothing changes truth and reality. Americans cannot be forced to alter our lives, schools, and businesses to accept "dishonesty and untreated mental illness that includes grave self-harm" as "Equal." Instead, we will pray for their healing.
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I'm all in on the Equal Responsibilities Amendment.
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Steve Colina<br/>SUBSCRIBER<br/>9 hours ago<br/>(Edited)</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">After reading this article, I just went and cancelled my WSJ subscription. The writing is lazy and slanted. And it's become representative of a vast majority of their articles. Not to mention that the topic is completely pointless and not worthy of WSJ ink. WSJ used to be a balanced source, in my opinion. One that allowed me to see both sides of an issue. Now it's no different than CNN.
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