And Now, the Greatest Living Acoustic Guitarist: Tommy Emmanuel, “Fuel”

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“Fuel” appears on Tommy Emmanuel’s album “The Best of Tommysongs.” It was written, performed, and produced by Tommy. He plays his TE Personal Custom Maton guitar on this song. The video was directed and edited by Joshua Britt and Neilson Hubbard with Neighborhoods Apart.
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1
Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:09:32pm

Oh, why not, I’d only been expecting the thread to close for the last 3 hours, so of course I still get CL’d when I get complacent:

re: #330 goddamnedfrank

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:14:39pm
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lawhawk  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:18:50pm

2 attendees to AIPAC in DC this week have tested positive. Israel was putting attendees in quarantine, but there were 18-20k people in DC for this conference.

2/3 of Congress was in attendance. Members of my congregation were supposed to be there. There were people from all over the country in attendance. They flew there and back. They ate and attended a wide range of venues. They lobbied all across DC.

It’s only a matter of time before we learn of a lot more cases.

Separately, this morning we learned a local yeshiva was closed for sanitizing due to potential exposures. Now this.

The cases are closing in, and it’s just a matter of time.

Elsewhere, SXSW cancelled due to the outbreak, and instead of considering shutting down public events to try and contain the disease, Trump’s busy claiming everyone can go about their business and not worry about the disease - a recipe for massive expansion of the disease through the population.

What’s worse than Trump? A CDC and public health officials who defer to Trump’s dumbfuckery instead of calling him on it. They have corrupted the CDC and put Trump’s ambitions above all else. They don’t care that they’re burning it all down to save the most corrupt admin in our history.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:20:06pm

re: #3 lawhawk

Yep. We’re fucked.

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uriel  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:21:28pm

And what would a day be without Kurt chiming in with his special brand of incoherent myopia:

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lawhawk  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:23:45pm

Trump does a Friday night news dump (traditional). He’s named Mark Meadows as his Chief of Staff.

So, he dips in to the House to get a CoS? Well, one less member of the House to worry about - and we’ll watch Meadows smear himself with fecal matter to keep Trump happy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:26:53pm

re: #6 lawhawk

Trump does a Friday night news dump (traditional). He’s named Mark Meadows as his Chief of Staff.

So, he dips in to the House to get a CoS? Well, one less member of the House to worry about - and we’ll watch Meadows smear himself with fecal matter to keep Trump happy.

The first 38 people he asked didn’t want the job.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:27:17pm

19 of the 21 cases on the Princess Petri Dish near San Fran are crew members.

Gotta ask… what other cruises did they recently work on? What about the other crew members they worked with… What other cruises did they go on to work?

Christ. Just friggin Christ.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:27:49pm

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:34:30pm

Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property
October 1, 2019

“…Three years ago, the North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows sold a hundred-and-thirty-four-acre property in Dinosaur, Colorado. The buyer was Answers in Genesis, a Christian nonprofit based in Kentucky, which was founded by the Australian creationist Ken Ham. Answers in Genesis is dedicated to promoting young-Earth creationism, which holds that the Earth was created in six days, several thousand years ago. According to documents related to the sale, Meadows was to be paid about two hundred thousand dollars for the property, in monthly installments, the last of which was paid last year.

Neither the sale nor any such payments are noted on Meadows’s congressional financial disclosures, which he is required by law to file annually. Meadows is a founding member of the very conservative House Freedom Caucus and is one of the more prominent members of Congress; last year, Donald Trump reportedly considered making him the White House chief of staff. Why didn’t Meadows disclose the property or the sale?”
newyorker.com

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:35:46pm

Creation Science reaches the Oval Office!

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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:35:53pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:36:51pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:37:36pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I love old photos like this. A little like time-traveling.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:38:43pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:40:00pm

Did anyone ever hear from teleskiguy?

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:40:24pm

The candidate we wanted to win didn’t win. I have my reservations about Biden, he has made a bunch of horrendous decisions in the past.

Biden is 1.000.000X better than Trump, he is at least sane and respects the workings, duties and obligations of the departments under his care.

F*ck Bernie. His outreach is join us or you are worse than the folks we are fighting to replace.

The Biden I saw last week was not the Biden I saw during the debates or previously during the campaign, that Biden gets my vote 100% of the time.

The Berners are done, that ship has sailed. At this point the Berners are either trolls or idiots, I will not entertain their pleads to kiss their poor butt hurt ass.

Game on! Biden is smart, I hope he is smart enough to load his clip full of the next progressive generation.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:40:36pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Did anyone ever hear from teleskiguy?

Not that anyone has said. No activity on Facebook or Twitter since January.

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:42:27pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

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What is your history/relationship with Tommy Emmanuel?

I know I live in a cave but I have never heard of him outside of this place and brother thank you for turning me on to him.

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gocart mozart  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:43:13pm

.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:43:40pm

re: #19 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

What is your history/relationship with Tommy Emmanuel?

I know I live in a cave but I have never heard of him outside of this place and brother thank you for turning me on to him.

I’ve never met Tommy! I stumbled across him on YouTube one day and was totally blown away.

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lawhawk  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:44:45pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I took to having dad’s old slides converted to digital (Costco charges are very reasonable for this service), and it was a time machine alright. Dad shot Kodachrome almost exclusively and the colors are as vibrant as you could possibly imagine.

Photos from out west from 50 years ago. And then I compare them to shots I’ve taken on my trips.

A bunch of the shots are virtually identical in viewing angle and depth of field and framing.

I still have to convert his super 8 films, but that’s for another time.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:46:28pm
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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:49:17pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Did anyone ever hear from teleskiguy?

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Did anyone ever hear from teleskiguy?

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:50:32pm
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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:51:11pm

re: #24 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:52:39pm

re: #26 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

U3RPpL+7G1fbc3XirF1iFGKaPAVGmNCYNMybP2Cj7ceZTf4bVeSPwpVXEF8VpelcIoe8C/gQPoiaQiuYgKlutmZ3Y09A7wiAJMQobyQRuppFQX6qYMAlHA==

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:53:07pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Nader, Bernie and all of the other horses in the RT stable are getting long in the tooth. They were grooming her to be the next generation and Hillary Clinton stopped that s*it right in its tracks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 5:56:40pm

re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Not that anyone has said. No activity on Facebook or Twitter since January.

I have noticed that his tweet numbers are decreasing. There are about 20 fewer tweets since he stopped posting

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gocart mozart  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:00:28pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:01:02pm

re: #6 lawhawk

Trump does a Friday night news dump (traditional). He’s named Mark Meadows as his Chief of Staff.

So, he dips in to the House to get a CoS? Well, one less member of the House to worry about - and we’ll watch Meadows smear himself with fecal matter to keep Trump happy.

and there’s ALWAYS a tweet:

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:04:17pm

re: #6 lawhawk

Trump does a Friday night news dump (traditional). He’s named Mark Meadows as his Chief of Staff.

So, he dips in to the House to get a CoS? Well, one less member of the House to worry about - and we’ll watch Meadows smear himself with fecal matter to keep Trump happy.

Mark Mulvaney is out?!!? From all of his jobs?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:04:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:05:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:09:43pm
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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:10:14pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:10:57pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If you can’t test for the virus or have a competent way to report the findings then the infection rates become much smaller.

I hope that Trump and Kim Jong Un congratulate each other with beautiful letters on the great job they have done.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:11:55pm
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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:13:41pm

LOL, in retrospect having a private email server is preferable to us all dying in a global pandemic.

why didn’t anyone let us know that?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:13:56pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:15:44pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I love old photos like this. A little like time-traveling.

Memories of my favorite show when I was a kid!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:18:18pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:18:41pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:19:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:19:51pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:22:48pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:23:43pm
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boredtechindenver  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:29:01pm

I am behind and left this on the last thread.

re: #343 boredtechindenver

I am getting tweet not available when i click the embedded timestamp. twitter.com /mandalorchick/status/1236000503718281217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1236000503718281217&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2flittlegreenfootballs.com%2Farticle%2F49696_Colbert-_Elizabeth_Warren_Bows

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See the quoted tweet for how I am able to see tweets that appeared to be unavailable. Something is going on with the referer coding.

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:29:10pm

My prediction:

Economy goes to hell due to the worldwide pandemic. Trump focusing on stock market makes matters worse. The market was due for a correction anyways. My advisers a couple of months ago said a real correction would still be around 20%, we are down about 15% now.

I don’t think we know where the end is when it comes to containment or what the global implications are at this point. I think the world wide economy is solid but it relies on the leader of the free world acting like the leader of the free world.

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:29:17pm

re: #39 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

LOL, in retrospect having a private email server is preferable to us all dying in a global pandemic.

why didn’t anyone let us know that?

I think a number of people predicted there would be something like this, especially the description of how Trump would handle it.

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stpaulbear  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:29:47pm

re: #43 Dread Pirate

I was trying to find some hand sanitizer on Monday, and I managed to find some on Walgreens website. The Walgreens item was a box with a dozen 16 oz bottles, but I figured that I could find other homes for 10 of them, so I ordered it.

It still hasn’t shipped, and it’s not even showing up any more as an item on Walgreens site. My credit card shows the purchase as ‘pending’. I’m waiting for some notice that they’ve cancelled the order, but I’m wondering if they’re going to keep the order hanging on for months. I’ll give it another couple days before I cancel it. It’s slightly possible they’ll actually ship it - hopefully in an unmarked box.

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:31:08pm

re: #49 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

My prediction:

Economy goes to hell due to the worldwide pandemic. Trump focusing on stock market makes matters worse. The market was due for a correction anyways. My advisers a couple of months ago said a real correction would still be around 20%, we are down about 15% now.

I don’t think we know where the end is when it comes to containment or what the global implications are at this point. I think the world wide economy is solid but it relies on the leader of the free world acting like the leader of the free world.

Wait, what? Merkel’s so far done nothing to not-act as the leader of the free world, though I don’t recall her saying much of anyth—OH! Wait. You’re still claiming the two of us live in the Free World.

Easy mistake for me to make, since even BoJo the Clown is doing the right things for this.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:34:10pm

re: #50 Belafon

I think a number of people predicted there would be something like this, especially the description of how Trump would handle it.

it’s the metaphorical 3am phone call

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:35:16pm

re: #51 stpaulbear

I was trying to find some hand sanitizer on Monday, and I managed to find some on Walgreens website. The Walgreens item was a box with a dozen 16 oz bottles, but I figured that I could find other homes for 10 of them, so I ordered it.

It still hasn’t shipped, and it’s not even showing up any more as an item on Walgreens site. My credit card shows the purchase as ‘pending’. I’m waiting for some notice that they’ve cancelled the order, but I’m wondering if they’re going to keep the order hanging on for months. I’ll give it another couple days before I cancel it. It’s slightly possible they’ll actually ship it - hopefully in an unmarked box.

:)

I can’t believe Obama let us run out of hand sanitxer.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:36:18pm

I wonder if he used the Stanford test or the CDC test.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:38:16pm

re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Goddamnit! What is the low for these monsters?

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:40:32pm

re: #56 Barefoot Grin

Goddamnit! What is the low for these monsters?

We are nothing but apes at this point.

//

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:41:02pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Yep- another “Fox News Democrat” = ineffective, poorly versed punching bag

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:41:16pm
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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:43:33pm

re: #59 Belafon

In the DK story that mentioned the tweet, this comment:

If I remember correctly, it’s still a matter of common courtesy to punch Nazis.

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makeitstop  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:43:39pm
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Kilroy was here  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:47:40pm

I think I have found the name for his disaster….
Trumpnobyl

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:48:01pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:51:30pm
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bratwurst  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:51:41pm

The respectable Bernie Bros (and in Cenk’s case I apply this term VERY loosely) accuse Biden of dementia. The disgusting online troll Bernie Bros accuse Biden of being a pedophile.

I don’t want to share a PLANET with these people, much less a political party.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:54:03pm

re: #65 bratwurst

The respectable Bernie Bros (and in Cenk’s case I apply this term VERY loosely) accuse Biden of dementia. The disgusting online troll Bernie Bros accuse Biden of being a pedophile.

I don’t want to share a PLANET with these people, much less a political party.

There are some that are accussing Tom Hanks of being a pedo. Not sure I want to be in the same universe, but I don’t seem to have a choice.

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:55:25pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 6, 2020 • 6:58:48pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:04:52pm
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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:08:45pm

re: #69 Dread Pirate

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:09:02pm

India’s equivalent of our religious right nuts:

Yagna, cow urine can kill coronavirus: Uttarakhand BJP legislator

Days after a legislator in Assam claimed cow-dung could cure coronavirus, another in Uttarakhand has said that ancient Hindu rituals and cow urine can kill the virus in the “air and within the body”.

Sanjay Gupta, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Laksar area in Haridwar, made the comments on Friday while speaking to reporters in Gairsain of Chamoli district where the budget session is underway.

He was talking about the steps that should be taken to curb the spread of the deadly virus, which has killed thousands of people and infected more across the world.

[…]

Fundamentalist Hindus are every bit as bad as fundamentalist Christians. But we don’t have many such Hindus in the US so most Americans don’t have a clue about them. However, in India they are a dominating political force, even with the diversity of Indians.

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b.d. (Voting is not a Plot)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:11:52pm

Really!!

The Hinterlands would be worse!

Hey Mick! You are now responsible for the largest unpatrolled border since Brexit, good luck!

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:13:06pm

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

India’s equivalent of our religious right nuts:

Yagna, cow urine can kill coronavirus: Uttarakhand BJP legislator

Fundamentalist Hindus are every bit as bad as fundamentalist Christians. But we don’t have many such Hindus in the US so most Americans don’t have a clue about them. However, in India they are a dominating political force, even with the diversity of Indians.

Oh, yeah. One of those nuts was on Twitter two nights ago, and my response to him then led me to MT it into a new tweet whose key words were “Hindutva is a hell of a drug”. Which also got a slightly expanded paste into the overnight LGF thread for that evening.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:13:10pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:13:50pm

re: #70 Chrysicat

What a moron.

Just before entering the office building and finishing the impromptu interview, Gaetz decided against advising spring break travelers to cancel their planned trips to Florida.

“In my experience, the things that you consume on spring break will typically kill the coronavirus.”

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:13:50pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:15:17pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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Well, that ‘s what it took to stop the Martians after everything mankind threw at them failed.

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stpaulbear  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:19:17pm

re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Just before entering the office building and finishing the impromptu interview, Gaetz decided against advising spring break travelers to cancel their planned trips to Florida.

“In my experience, the things that you consume on spring break will typically kill the coronavirus.”

Bleach.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:20:09pm
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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:20:38pm

There’s a good thing to read over at Balloon Juice from Adam Silverman, about why we’re down to Bernie and Biden. This is the mid:

The 2020 presidential election is really about whether the house (the US) will continue to be burned down by the President, his administration, the GOP, and the conservative movement or whether the fire will be put out, the structure assessed for damage, a determination made about what can be salvaged and refurbished versus what has to be thrown away and replaced with something updated and better. That’s what the election is about. The President obviously represents the arson and burn down the house side of the analogy. VP Biden, better than almost anyone, represents the put the fire out, everyone take a deep breath, assess the damage, and make repairs side of the analogy. Senator Warren, as impressive as she is and despite being the most competent person to oversee the assessments, repairs, and refurbishment, doesn’t convey this. Or, perhaps, she conveys this all too well and it scares far too many Americans, including Democrats. Senator Sanders, however, is the representation of someone who always thought the house was an eyesore and structurally unsound so he wants to accelerate the fire because he has this completely different idea of what should replace it.

I’m torn between copying the whole thing, so just go read it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:20:56pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:21:20pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:22:27pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

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They’re really taking Tuesday’s loss well

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:23:11pm

County just south of me has a confirmed Covid-19 case now. Might be time to self-impose isolation, or at least be very careful about where/when I head out.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:26:02pm

Saw this coming

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mmmirele  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:26:38pm

re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What a moron.

Yeah, this is the same guy who tried to get a mother of two children incarcerated for a year because she yeeted a Slushie at him. No surprise. Asshat.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:28:04pm

re: #86 mmmirele

Yeah, this is the same guy who tried to get a mother of two children incarcerated for a year because she yeeted a Slushie at him. No surprise. Asshat.

Hell, if I was in a room with him and had a Slushie in my hand, I’d have done the same damn thing.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:30:30pm

They just can’t accept a hard truth which is not everyone loves Bernie. I think Biden is smart enough to understand he wasn’t everyone’s first choice which is why that Dallas rally worked out. We’re going to need a great group of men and women to fix Trump’s bullshit. Bernie’s choices of surrogates don’t really inspire any confidence.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:32:36pm

Knowing that the DailyFail intentionally goes for the bombastic headlines, let’s look at this story that is hot:

US hospitals are preparing for 96 MILLION coronavirus infections and nearly HALF A MILLION deaths, leaked documents reveal

US hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths from the outbreak, leaked documents have revealed.

The spread of the deadly disease could be far worse than officials claim, with 480,000 Americans expected to die from the virus and 4.8 million hospitalized, according to a presentation hosted by The American Hospital Association (AHA) in February.

[…]

These numbers are not secret. It is not at all unreasonable for a third of the US population over the next year to contract COVID-19, and what is currently known about the lethality does lead to those numbers of deaths for various categories of patients.

This is why there is such a scramble to contain, then delay, the spread.

Yes, Trump wants to ignore this.

However, I want to emphasize that if containment/delay is successful enough until vaccines are developed, the number of deaths will probably be lower.

So this all boils down to Public Health policies and how well we carry them out.

On the other hand, with Trump as the head of the executive branch…

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:33:38pm

re: #88 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

They just can’t accept a hard truth which is not everyone loves Bernie. I think Biden is smart enough to understand he wasn’t everyone’s first choice which is why that Dallas rally worked out. We’re going to need a great group of men and women to fix Trump’s bullshit. Bernie’s choices of surrogates don’t really inspire any confidence.

Well, they do inspire confidence that I’d almost certainly find myself in a re-education camp because there are folks there who think Venezuela is too far right, but certainly no confidence about a path forward that isn’t nearly as dystopian as the Rs, no.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:34:25pm

So Costco was really quiet tonight. And they has ZERO toilet paper or paper towels. Shit’s real folks.

I just bought a bunch of mega rolls on Amazon.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:36:27pm

re: #88 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Bernie’s choices of surrogates don’t really inspire any confidence.

This! 1000x this.

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:36:30pm
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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:36:59pm

re: #91 plansbandc

So Costco was really quiet tonight. And they has ZERO toilet paper or paper towels. Shit’s real folks.

I just bought a bunch of mega rolls on Amazon.

Shit’s always real. It’s how you deal with it that can be the problem.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:37:35pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:38:47pm

This flipping admin makes “Heck of a job” Brownie look downright competent.

Think about that for a minute.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:39:06pm

re: #90 Chrysicat

Well, they do inspire confidence that I’d almost certainly find myself in a re-education camp because there are folks there who think Venezuela is too far right, but certainly no confidence about a path forward that isn’t nearly as dystopian as the Rs, no.

It scares me. Four years ago I thought Bernie was a jerk yes but perhaps an overzealous Nordic inspired social democrat. I haven’t seen the democrat in him. We need democrats of all colors to fix this shit mess we’ve been in since 2017. And Sanders and his movement are deterring that.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:41:09pm

Too early for Obama, Warren maybe?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:41:51pm

re: #92 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This! 1000x this.

It’s broken my heart honestly even though I have not liked Bernie since the early stages of the 2016 primary. I’m not a socialist but I believe and still do believe that capitalism isn’t above criticism or improvements.

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:42:22pm

re: #98 Dread Pirate

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Too early for Obama, Warren maybe?

LeBron James. :)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:42:47pm
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Broad With Sass  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:43:10pm

Finally catching up, some random notes

*I have found on most of the this tweet not available redirects, if I refresh it shows up

*OMG Picard was the bestest

*Watched the latest DR Who…also the bestest

*My regular polling firm called me. they are good..keep adjusting to the new realities very quickly..it’s kinda fun seeing the results on the news shows since its a reputable company

*Charles, your potential cash windfall as a never trumper would never be worth your soul & self worth over the last decade

*lastly when I was new in recovery I had to change all my playgrounds & playmates as an essential part of my staying sober…tele may have taken that route

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:45:32pm

re: #98 Dread Pirate

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Too early for Obama, Warren maybe?

I can see it being Warren, maybe Sen Harris, or possibly Michelle Obama as she’s doing a GOTV rally in Michigan.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:46:17pm

re: #100 Belafon

LeBron James. :)

That’d be cool. I’m sure they already know each other through Obama.

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:48:43pm

re: #82 Charles Johnson

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Suit up and open all the airlocks on the ship, Captain!

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:49:41pm

Flava Flav.

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:50:32pm

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE

gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com

World Data/Map

Blog:
“…In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an interactive web-based dashboard (static snapshot shown above) hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, to visualize and track reported cases in real-time. The dashboard, first shared publicly on January 22, illustrates the location and number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries for all affected countries. It was developed to provide researchers, public health authorities and the general public with a user-friendly tool to track the outbreak as it unfolds. Further, all the data collected and displayed is made freely available, initially as google sheets, now in a GitHub repository, along with the feature layers of the dashboard, which are now included in the ESRI Living Atlas.”
systems.jhu.edu

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:51:08pm

re: #107 jaunte

That’s the site that was recommended to me.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:52:54pm

My libertarian friend says the reason why Warren didn’t make it is because she told too many lies.

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makeitstop  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:53:43pm

And in the ‘Irony of Ironies’ department…

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:54:06pm

re: #109 plansbandc

How do they explain Trump?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:54:50pm

re: #110 makeitstop

And in the ‘Irony of Ironies’ department…

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Or Mexico crash-building a wall to keep out a flood of infected American refugees.
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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:55:30pm

re: #111 jaunte

Good question. It’s weird how all the criticism is always directed at Dems. It’s almost like he’s a Republican. ; )

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:55:58pm

re: #112 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or Mexico crash-building a wall to keep out a flood of infected American refugees.
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Trump’s Mexican equivalent, we’re gonna build a wall and the US will pay for it!

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:58:03pm

re: #110 makeitstop

And in the ‘Irony of Ironies’ department…

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:59:18pm

re: #114 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Trump’s Mexican equivalent, we’re gonna build a wall and the US will pay for it!

Those damn Mexicans are so crafty we’re building the wall AND paying for it.

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 7:59:57pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:02:25pm

That’s the second time Pence has been exposed. He may need to pray harder.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:02:29pm

After all this. Trump needs to be out on trial. He needed to before this. He definitely does now.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:04:15pm

I’m enjoying Freaks on netflix. Am about halfway through, so if it’s like a lot of their movies it’s gonna go stupid pretty soon. But it’s good so far.

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stpaulbear  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:06:10pm

re: #118 Dread Pirate

That’s the second time Pence has been exposed. He may need to pray harder.

He’ll be in a better place.

(Isn’t that what they always say?)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:07:20pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:08:49pm

It’ll probably come out eventually that for this entire period Trump, the Cabinet, and associated staff were getting tested every day.

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:11:16pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:12:04pm
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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:12:33pm

re: #124 Chrysicat

Yeah, screwed up the second half again. Embedding be hawwwwd, yo.

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:15:15pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:16:10pm

re: #127 Chrysicat

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Do the police now seize the toilet paper for themselves as associated evidence for the assault case?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:19:27pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

Seriously. Holy shit I never noticed how much I did it until now.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:21:05pm

re: #118 Dread Pirate

Fun Fact: AIPAC was the conference Ted Lieu ripped Mike Pompeo over because he was going to attend that instead of actually doing his fucking job.

This was the same exchange where Pompeo refused to say COVID was NOT a hoax.

EDIT: I was wrong. It was actually CPAC. Point stands though.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:22:19pm

Two Floridians have died of coronavirus. Two new patients found in Broward.

Two Floridians have now died after contracting coronavirus, state health officials announced late Friday. They are the first to die of the disease in the state.

The Florida Department of Health also announced two new positive tests in Broward County. They are both men, ages 65 and 75, who tested presumptive positive for novel coronavirus, known technically as COVID-19.

[…]

The news broke hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Florida had not seen any new cases in a day.

The deaths include a man in his 70s from Santa Rosa County whose positive test was announced Thursday. But the other death, from Lee County, is a previously unannounced case.

Coronavirus has also infected: a woman in her 20s in Hillsborough County; a travel companion of hers who normally lives out of state but is currently isolated in Hillsborough; and a man in his 60s from Manatee County. Each of those patients is under self quarantine at home.

Each of those patients are in self quarantine at home. Doctors Hospital of Sarasota announced Friday that the Manatee patient was released from its facility. It is not clear how he contracted the disease; health officials said he had underlying conditions and had been hospitalized for five days before he was tested for coronavirus last week.

[…]

Politicians are going to find it hard to keep up on the fast moving news. While Trump is intentionally misleading, other elected officials are just not going to process data fast enough to have their statements OBE within a day, if not sooner.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:22:47pm

330 cases, 17 deaths now.

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:23:05pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:25:35pm

re: #118 Dread Pirate

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That’s the second time Pence has been exposed. He may need to pray harder.

Or we do. 😈

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:25:50pm

re: #133 jaunte

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And probably feels he has no responsibilty to the public (or media) to make such remarks. Or be honest. But then most of this already knew that.

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:28:09pm

re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg

Seriously. Holy shit I never noticed how much I did it until now.

I was at Uchi last week w/SWMBO and the sushi bar chef said the first thing she learned at culinary school was how to properly wash her hands and how not to touch her face.

We talked about COVID (duh) and she said “soap, water, rinse, bleach dip, rinse, and moisturizer.” Her hands are everything in her work. Believe her.

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Interesting Times  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:33:45pm

re: #136 austin_blue

I was at Uchi last week w/SWMBO and the sushi bar chef said the first thing she learned at culinary school was how to properly wash her hands and how not to touch her face.

I assume she must’ve chopped her fair share of hot peppers at the former, and that right there will do wonders in terms of training you to avoid doing the latter!

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:38:25pm

And in purely local news, around a hundred small venues directly associated with SXSW are expected to lose $20-40,000 each because of the cancellation of the fest. That’s the *owners*, not the severs and other staff. This doesn’t include restaurants and other retail venues.

It’s going to be a big, big hit for a lot of folks in Austin.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:38:30pm

Given the high lethality for 80+ year olds, I’m afraid we have to prepare for Biden to get ill, if indeed the spread in the US is ubiquitous. Trump too, though I will hardly shed a tear for him.

I wonder how the Trumpers, many of whom are over 65, are going to react if/when there are many deaths of their friends and relatives?

China went very hardcore with containment in Hubei and has been, and is, criticized for some of their decisions. Still, it is completely understandable why the Chinese authorities were/are so scared.

In my lifetime there has been no dramatic easily-spread diseases in the US. Harder to spread disasters like HIV, true, but not a disease that is as each to catch as these coronaviruses. We here in the US got off relatively easy in SARS. In my childhood there were some Rubella problems, IIRC (CDC says it was 1964-65), but I was vaccinated though my sister was infected.

The wingnuts are going with the FLU!!! defense of Trump. Which is ridiculous, of course. Besides the obvious, what they miss is that the increased cases of COVID-19 will clog up the hospitals, taking beds that otherwise flu victims will need.

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jaunte  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:41:44pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:43:39pm

re: #139 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I had rubella as a kid. 106.5 temperature for two days before they hospitalized me. Ice baths and sleeping on an ice mattress. It was miserable. And the dreams… I still remember them. Like a bad acid trip.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:46:21pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:46:37pm

re: #139 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Reagan was as evil about the AIDS epidemic as Trump is about the Coronavirus. He ignored it because the victims were mostly gay men. Time was lost and many thousands died before anything was done. He didn’t care.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:49:49pm

I know the feeling…LOL

Mark Meadows?
No big help for the Dems in the House. Meadows had already withdrawn from running again.. Already looking like Col. Moe Davis has a good chance to take that seat

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:50:55pm

VROOM

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:53:09pm

re: #145 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

VROOM

No Boom

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:54:42pm

re: #139 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Given the high lethality for 80+ year olds, I’m afraid we have to prepare for Biden to get ill, if indeed the spread in the US is ubiquitous. Trump too, though I will hardly shed a tear for him.

I wonder how the Trumpers, many of whom are over 65, are going to react if/when there are many deaths of their friends and relatives?

China went very hardcore with containment in Hubei and has been, and is, criticized for some of their decisions. Still, it is completely understandable why the Chinese authorities were/are so scared.

In my lifetime there has been no dramatic easily-spread diseases in the US. Harder to spread disasters like HIV, true, but not a disease that is as each to catch as these coronaviruses. We here in the US got off relatively easy in SARS. In my childhood there were some Rubella problems, IIRC (CDC says it was 1964-65), but I was vaccinated though my sister was infected.

The wingnuts are going with the FLU!!! defense of Trump. Which is ridiculous, of course. Besides the obvious, what they miss is that the increased cases of COVID-19 will clog up the hospitals, taking beds that otherwise flu victims will need.

If the infection rate goes hyperbolic, you are going to see health facilities doing triage and determining who will get the available respirators. Catch it quick, or you’re dead. It’ll be worse in the hustings.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:56:17pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:57:53pm

(sigh)
Probably should be one of the first places to get tests done

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makeitstop  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:59:07pm

re: #138 austin_blue

And in purely local news, around a hundred small venues directly associated with SXSW are expected to lose $20-40,000 each because of the cancellation of the fest. That’s the *owners*, not the severs and other staff. This doesn’t include restaurants and other retail venues.

It’s going to be a big, big hit for a lot of folks in Austin.

I read an articles in Forbes that said SXSW took in about $365 million last year. That would be a massive financial hit.

It makes me wonder where it’s going to leave the mega-festivals like Coachella. That festival generates about a billion dollars, and there are production companies who are already a couple million in on production costs. If Coachella is canceled the entire industry is going to feel it. But you gotta wonder what their insurers are thinking at this point.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 8:59:19pm

Touchdown #50

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:00:36pm

There will be a novel corona virus recession.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:01:58pm
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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:03:07pm

re: #141 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I had a 106 fever as an infant. They never did know why. I think it’s part of the reason why I’m batshit. (My whole family on both sides is batshit also, so there’s a genetic component too.)

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sagehen  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:04:08pm

re: #44 gocart mozart

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Twenty years before that, his dad was so notoriously racist (even by 1950’s standards) that Woody Guthrie wrote a song about him. By name.

Ain’t Got No Home - The Ballad of Old Man Trump

apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:04:16pm
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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:05:08pm

re: #143 stpaulbear

I hate him for many reasons, but his callousness about AIDS is at the top of the list. What an utter piece of garbage. He had plenty of gay friends too. God I hate him. If there’s a hell, I hope he’s burning in it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:06:12pm
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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:09:22pm
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Broad With Sass  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:12:45pm

Vroom indeed..was walking Libby during the launch, crisp clear night best visuals in ages..saw the up, separation and flames coming down and touchdown firing

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:15:46pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:16:04pm

re: #157 plansbandc

I hate him for many reasons, but his callousness about AIDS is at the top of the list. What an utter piece of garbage. He had plenty of gay friends too. God I hate him. If there’s a hell, I hope he’s burning in it.

Not to mention his son, who was as gay as a box of birds. But AIDS was a slow moving disaster. I was living in New Orleans at the time, and even the the gay community had no idea what was going on. They just knew that people were getting a “wasting disease”, cause unknown.

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William Lewis  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:16:36pm

re: #157 plansbandc

I hate him for many reasons, but his callousness about AIDS is at the top of the list. What an utter piece of garbage. He had plenty of gay friends too. God I hate him. If there’s a hell, I hope he’s burning in it.

I always imagine Franco, Pinochet, Reagan and Thatcher as room mates in hell :D

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:17:44pm

Brazil adds 14 cases of coronavirus after another confirmation in RJ

It is the second confirmed case of the disease in the state of Rio in just over 24 hours. São Paulo has 10 infected (including an asymptomatic teenager). Bahia and Espírito Santo have one case each.

There are over 12 million people who live in the great Rio de Janeiro urban area, many are very poor. Once COVID-19 gets into that community, I wonder how the Bolsonaro will react. Will he try to out-Trump Trump?

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:20:09pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Friends got sick and died. My generation was hit horribly. Reagan’s press secretary laughed about AIDS.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:20:22pm

Read this thread. This is what hubby has been fearing.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:24:14pm

I told dude today that when we get it, I’m not going to see it through. He understood what I was saying, but we both realize that there won’t be any medical care for us, so we’ll die super quickly anyway. But, neither one of us will survive an infection, so it will be quick one way or another.

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:26:58pm

re: #165 plansbandc

Friends got sick and died. My generation was hit horribly. Reagan’s press secretary laughed about AIDS.

My wife and I both lost a whole bunch of besties. It was awful. But it was slow in accelerating. COVID isn’t going to wait around. It’s already loose, and once it reaches critical mass, it’s going to explode.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:30:10pm

re: #168 austin_blue

From what I read today, Chinese doctors say this virus is like a combo of SARS and AIDS. It attacks your immune system and scars your lungs in a way that even if you “recover” You won’t really survive much longer.

So it’s like the AIDS epidemic on steroids.

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:31:31pm

re: #161 Chrysicat

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:33:12pm

re: #169 plansbandc

I think that was a bad statement that got passed around, as HIV really is a different beast.

What those doctors were trying to communicate, I think, is more along the line of how much of a challenge it is for the human immune system to fight off the virus, while it cells of the cardio-pulmonary system overloads.

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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:34:41pm

re: #169 plansbandc

From what I read today, Chinese doctors say this virus is like a combo of SARS and AIDS. It attacks your immune system and scars your lungs in a way that even if you “recover” You won’t really survive much longer.

So it’s like the AIDS epidemic on steroids.

And fast, damn fast.

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:35:03pm

re: #170 Chrysicat

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screwed up post. Move along.

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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:35:23pm

re: #173 Chrysicat

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Dammit.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:36:19pm

Definitely not a Kudlow-approved broadcast:

Coronavirus expert: ‘War is an appropriate analogy’

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:36:20pm

Sort of felt we would be done in by some terrorist starting a nuclear war. But no, we’re going to meet our end by a plague that’s enabled by our fucking moron “president”.

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Targetpractice  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:36:33pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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It’s like listening to children now. Berner gets caught doing something that will ward off possible converts? “It wasn’t us! It was the Russian bots! They’re responsible for this!”

Brought to you by the same people who’ve spent the last 3+ years insisting that there was no Russian involvement in 2016, that Hillary lost because she was a “horrible candidate,” and anybody who suggests Trump benefited from Russian interference is spreading a “hoax.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:42:08pm
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austin_blue  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:44:12pm

re: #178 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Which Obama?

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:49:20pm

You know what will make the trumpsters understand that this isn’t fake news? When major league sports cease operations. And that’s going to happen within a couple of months.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:56:09pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:56:48pm

re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Brazil adds 14 cases of coronavirus after another confirmation in RJ

There are over 12 million people who live in the great Rio de Janeiro urban area, many are very poor. Once COVID-19 gets into that community, I wonder how the Bolsonaro will react. Will he try to out-Trump Trump?

No kidding. Once the virus gets hold in the “favela”, it will never leave. As it’s been noted that recovered infect can again contract the virus rather quickly

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:57:57pm

re: #174 Chrysicat

Dammit.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 9:59:24pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:00:53pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:01:17pm

re: #184 goddamnedfrank

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:05:20pm

That Channel 4 interview is devastating. Not something that one can easily find on US television, the latter being given over to coddling Trumpers.

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:06:26pm

A Biden delegate is saying she won’t vote for Bernie for president, though she’ll vote down ticket. As you can imagine, it’s got some people going nuts:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:06:36pm

Do we have a extradition treaty with Northern Ireland?
Now, which new sycophant is going to be OMB Director?

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Dave In Austin  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:09:33pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:10:41pm

re: #183 Belafon

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I personally want someone whose idea for getting his ideas into law is more realistic than “I’ll call on the people to protest until Congress bends the knee!”

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unproven innocence  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:16:06pm

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That Channel 4 interview is devastating. Not something that one can easily find on US television, the latter being given over to coddling Trumpers.

I’ve watched it twice today, after first seeing just a short clip.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:16:35pm

We are living in a tweeted version of The Stand.

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Mattand  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:17:52pm

re: #109 plansbandc

My libertarian friend says the reason why Warren didn’t make it is because she told too many lies.

I think I see the problem here…

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Targetpractice  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:20:36pm

re: #193 plansbandc

We are living in a tweeted version of The Stand.

M-O-O-N, that spells “We’re fucked!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:31:25pm

A stellar performance

Hilarious Rescue dog Kratu steals the show (and a pole)!

Kratu apparently has a history at Crufts
2019

Kratu The Happy-Go-Lucky Rescue Dog Has A Mind Of His Own | Crufts 2019

2018

Kratu the rescue dog having fun in the Rescue Dog Agility | Crufts 2018

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:32:38pm
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Chrysicat  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:41:38pm
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BigPapa  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:43:39pm

re: #195 Targetpractice

M-O-O-N, that spells “We’re fucked!”

I was thinking earlier today that The Stand memes are going to be over the top. I def like dark humor and such, and we need to laugh. But it’s going to be tough as I think friends/fam will be sick and we’ll at least know somebody who will pass. But we need to keep on trucking. I’m going to crack some jokes and deal in some dank memes.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:49:07pm

re: #199 BigPapa

When we get infected, we will tell you. And when we sign off, we will tell you.

You, meaning LGF.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:51:15pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

I saw Contagion when it came out years ago, and there’s a brief line of dialogue where Kate Winslet’s character points out how many times a day we unknowingly touch our own faces (the fictional virus, MEV-1, was spread by fomites). It actually made me think about that; it’s one of the reasons I like that movie as much as I do….screenplay writer Scott Burns and director Steven Soderbergh were way ahead of the curve and Contagion is one of the all-time best “germ apocalypse” films ever made.

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BigPapa  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:53:46pm

re: #200 plansbandc

When we get infected, we will tell you. And when we sign off, we will tell you.

You, meaning LGF.

I’m worried about you and your fam. I’m scared we’ll lose a few lizards. But I have to get my head into the right place too.

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plansbandc  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:56:44pm

re: #202 BigPapa

I understand. But we will go on our terms.

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Belafon  Mar 6, 2020 • 10:59:55pm

I am flipping through the channel, and Scream has finished and the credits are scrolling by, and I see this:

No thanks whatsoever
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 6, 2020 • 11:07:04pm

re: #204 Belafon

I’m trying to remember the film with this disclaimer:”…Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead…”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 6, 2020 • 11:10:21pm

re: #205 Sherlock Hound

I’m trying to remember the film with this disclaimer:”…Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead…”

Not sure but the Naked Gun movies were well known for putting many humorous things in their credits.

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Targetpractice  Mar 6, 2020 • 11:11:26pm

re: #205 Sherlock Hound

I’m trying to remember the film with this disclaimer:”…Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead…”

I remember seeing that at the end of the credits for the Zack Snyder Dawn of the Dead remake.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 6, 2020 • 11:12:09pm
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Dread Pirate  Mar 6, 2020 • 11:47:37pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:09:19am

So you can imagine my surprise when I look at the Fark politics tab and other regular gathering spots for Berners and see that the events of the past week have led them to try to flex leverage that they don’t have, namely the infamous “If you don’t start being nice to us, we’re gonna stay home!” routine.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:13:12am

The first case of person-to-person transmission in Nebraska has been reported.

Nebraska reports first case of coronavirus disease (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Nebraska has its first case of coronavirus disease — a 36-year-old woman who had traveled to the United Kingdom, Gov. Pete Ricketts said Friday.

The woman, who is “very seriously ill,” is at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, officials said, and is being transferred to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus.

The Omaha woman, who had traveled with her father to the United Kingdom from Feb. 18-27, became ill Feb. 25, said Dr. Robert Penn, an infectious disease specialist at Methodist. She returned to Omaha on Feb. 27. Her symptoms remained relatively mild until Thursday, he said. A chest CT scan has shown that the disease is evolving into acute respiratory distress syndrome, Penn said.

More at the link.

re: #200 plansbandc

When we get infected, we will tell you. And when we sign off, we will tell you.

You, meaning LGF.

I’ll try to let you know if that happens.

The only thing protecting my wife and me right now is the fact it will spread more slowly in rural areas.

I can’t guarantee telling you about logging off because of the frequency of my Internet service simply going out (like it did yesterday: Weirdly, Internet and long-distance went out, but I could make local telephone calls. I hiked down to the cell tower with my flip phone to call CenturyLink and I got some guy asking me for my credit card number.)

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:21:17am

re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My “germ apocalypse” playlist:

Contagion Ending

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Mid Credits Scene

Dawn of the Dead - Opening Title

On a serious note, I’m pretty sure that COVID-19 is now endemic in Czech Republic. It’s too late to prevent an outbreak.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:29:43am

re: #212 Dr Lizardo

My “germ apocalypse” playlist:

My, isn’t that cheery.

The woman in Methodist Hospital in Omaha was likely spreading the disease before she became sick enough to go to the hospital (and she just went, she didn’t call ahead). She’s going to be transferred to Univ. of Nebraska Omaha Medical Center’s national quarantine centre tomorrow. The article says she became sick in the United Kingdom, then two days later flew home to Omaha.

On a serious note, I’m pretty sure that COVID-19 is now endemic in Czech Republic. It’s too late to prevent an outbreak.

It might be too late in eastern Nebraska as well.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:36:02am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My, isn’t that cheery.

The woman in Methodist Hospital in Omaha was likely spreading the disease before she became sick enough to go to the hospital (and she just went, she didn’t call ahead). She’s going to be transferred to Univ. of Nebraska Omaha Medical Center’s national quarantine centre tomorrow. The article says she became sick in the United Kingdom, then two days later flew home to Omaha.

It might be too late in eastern Nebraska as well.

Over the last two or three weeks, about 25,000 Czechs have been in Italy, enjoying their vacations. And even though now they’re supposed to report to their doctors and stay in self-imposed quarantine for 14 days (there’s a three million Kč fine for failing to do so), they will simply lie about where they were…..indeed, many Czechs who are - right now - in Italy are cheerfully admitting that’s exactly what they plan to do. There are currently about 15,000 Czechs in Italy at the moment, many of them in the COVID-19 affected areas.

The reason for this is quite simple; they’re in denial as to how bad COVID-19 really is. And as I’ve pointed out before, Czechs are big believers in quackery like homeopathy and other such woowoo.

We’re fucked.

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ericblair  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:48:23am

re: #210 Targetpractice

So you can imagine my surprise when I look at the Fark politics tab and other regular gathering spots for Berners and see that the events of the past week have led them to try to flex leverage that they don’t have, namely the infamous “If you don’t start being nice to us, we’re gonna stay home!” routine.

I gather that Vote Blue No Matter Who and Whoever Gets the Plurality Must Get the Nomination are now inoperable statements? Who could have seen that coming?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:51:58am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Over the last two or three weeks, about 25,000 Czechs have been in Italy, enjoying their vacations. And even though now they’re supposed to report to their doctors and stay in self-imposed quarantine for 14 days (there’s a three million Kč fine for failing to do so), they will simply lie about where they were…..indeed, many Czechs who are - right now - in Italy are cheerfully admitting that’s exactly what they plan to do. There are currently about 15,000 Czechs in Italy at the moment, many of them in the COVID-19 affected areas.

The reason for this is quite simple; they’re in denial as to how bad COVID-19 really is. And as I’ve pointed out before, Czechs are big believers in quackery like homeopathy and other such woowoo.

We’re fucked.

I went to St. Peter’s Basilica many years ago. Now that they’ve identified a Covid-19 case in the Vatican City-State, what happens next? That church is like a giant open-air barn, and is packed with worshippers during Mass. Does the Holy See stop holding Mass at St. Peter’s?

Plus people from around the world visit the Holy See, and they have no border. What does Italy do since they have no authority there? Surround St. Peter’s Square with the Italian Army?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:58:06am

At least five suspected COVID-19 patients have died in Indonesia: What we know so far

Indonesia has confirmed four cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but concerns remain as to whether tests run by the Health Ministry’s laboratory are accurate.

At least five people suspected of having COVID-19 have died since late February before authorities eventually announced two confirmed cases on Monday. Some of the suspected patients died while waiting for their test results, although all of their tests eventually came back negative.

[…]

This is all very troubling. A week ago Indonesia was happy they didn’t have any cases, but now there is confusion about who is really infected.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 1:00:00am

re: #217 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

At least five suspected COVID-19 patients have died in Indonesia: What we know so far

This is all very troubling. A week ago Indonesia was happy they didn’t have any cases, but now there is confusion about who is really infected.

Government officials were saying last week that it was their devotion and prayer to Allah which was keeping their country safe. I guess Allah didn’t like his name being taken in vain.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 7, 2020 • 1:03:02am

Taiwan reins in spread of coronavirus as other countries stumble

With some 850,000 Taiwanese living and working in China, Taiwan could have been one of the hardest hit when the coronavirus outbreak emerged in late December in Wuhan, a central Chinese city of 11 million people and the epicentre of the outbreak.

The timing would prove devastating for China and the rest of the world, as the outbreak began to accelerate around Lunar New Year, a time when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel abroad or return home to see their families.

But Taiwan, an island democracy with a population roughly the size of Australia, has kept cases at a minimum of 45 and one death, even as infection rates in China have topped 80,000 and the virus has mushroomed in places like South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy.

Taiwan’s success so far in handling the infection has largely been due to its action in the early stage of the contagion, according to experts, even when the virus was still poorly understood and its transmission rate still unclear.

[…]

Taiwan did exactly what the Trump administration did not: act fast and decisively.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 1:18:55am

re: #215 ericblair

I gather that Vote Blue No Matter Who and Whoever Gets the Plurality Must Get the Nomination are now inoperable statements? Who could have seen that coming?

Now it’s become “We’ll only vote blue if you cater to us!” and “Whoever gets the most votes!”, the latter of which is because Bernie probably thinks that all he has to do is run up the score in California and he’ll arrive at the convention with the most votes.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 1:24:29am

re: #220 Targetpractice

Now it’s become “We’ll only vote blue if you cater to us!” and “Whoever gets the most votes!”, the latter of which is because Bernie probably thinks that all he has to do is run up the score in California and he’ll arrive at the convention with the most votes.

Sanders won the 2016 caucus here in Nebraska.

For the 2020 primary, there has been no polling since any of the campaigns started. (Nebraska doesn’t count.)

Anecdotally I get the impression he’s a lot less popular this time round.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 1:57:41am

Gotta give Kenya some serious props for being proactive regarding COVID-19:

Kenya launched a 120-bed isolation center Friday dedicated to coronavirus cases in case of an outbreak in the East African nation.

The first of its kind center in sub-Saharan Africa has been set up inside state-owned Mbagathi Hospital in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe emphasized the country is ready to deal with any outbreak of the virus, known as COVID-19.

“About one thousand one hundred health care workers have been trained and additional health workers have been deployed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA),” he said while inaugurating the facility. “The sensitizations will be cascaded to the community level throughout the country, the isolation center is secure.”

aa.com.tr

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:01:34am

re: #220 Targetpractice

Now it’s become “We’ll only vote blue if you cater to us!” and “Whoever gets the most votes!”, the latter of which is because Bernie probably thinks that all he has to do is run up the score in California and he’ll arrive at the convention with the most votes.

IIRC Hillary got the most votes in the general election — but she’s not President, is she? These people aren’t particularly good at playing by the rules, are they? A mirror image of Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:18:11am

I’m off to watch the new season of “Archer.” Catch y’all later. Remember: Phrasing.

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ericblair  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:20:53am

re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter

IIRC Hillary got the most votes in the general election — but she’s not President, is she? These people aren’t particularly good at playing by the rules, are they? A mirror image of Trump.

It’s just completely instrumental, saying whatever would seem to benefit them at the moment and expecting everyone to memory-hole their last statements. It’s very Trumpian.

I can’t see total votes helping Bernie at this stage. That was their argument out of Iowa. Plus, their strategy was to get some 30% of the delegates in a wide field where they could count on a number of candidates being non-viable in multiple states, therefore running up Bernie’s own delegate totals relative to his total votes, so um.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:30:18am

re: #64 Belafon

Never confuse your Twitter feed with your country.

Ever since #TrendingonTwitter became a news item in and of itself, things have been going downhill for the Republic…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:34:19am

re: #143 stpaulbear

Reagan was as evil about the AIDS epidemic as Trump is about the Coronavirus. He ignored it because the victims were mostly gay men. Time was lost and many thousands died before anything was done. He didn’t care.

Not until it started affecting non-gays as well.

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ericblair  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:38:40am

Y’all do what ya need to do.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:39:35am

re: #212 Dr Lizardo

My “germ apocalypse” playlist:

On a serious note, I’m pretty sure that COVID-19 is now endemic in Czech Republic. It’s too late to prevent an outbreak.

I seem to recall that my kids had a video game in which the goal is to create a virus that kills off the entire planet the quickest…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:44:03am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I seem to recall that my kids had a video game in which the goal is to create a virus that kills off the entire planet the quickest…

Plague, Inc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:47:20am

In Planet of the Apes it is not jut the plague, it is the total collapse of society that dooms the human race.

I am not as worried about the death toll from Corona as I am about the economic effects, and yes, economic collapse and unrest are within the realm of the possible and even plausible given the level of “leadership” in the USA and elsewhere.

We must also note that the death rate is not a fixed number but is based on the quality - and availability - of health care.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 7, 2020 • 2:57:38am

re: #210 Targetpractice

So you can imagine my surprise when I look at the Fark politics tab and other regular gathering spots for Berners and see that the events of the past week have led them to try to flex leverage that they don’t have, namely the infamous “If you don’t start being nice to us, we’re gonna stay home!” routine.

In other words the expected behavior which is one reason I know of for some people not being willing to support Bernie in the first place.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 7, 2020 • 3:03:03am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Sanders won the 2016 caucus here in Nebraska.

For the 2020 primary, there has been no polling since any of the campaigns started. (Nebraska doesn’t count.)

Anecdotally I get the impression he’s a lot less popular this time round.

Sanders was the sole Clinton alternative four years ago. This time he was part of a pack. And there was the record of how he and his rabid supporters behaved four years ago. And it quickly became apparent that he (and they) were following the same playbook. Which has (is) failed(ing) dramatically in the face of a political party behaving like a political party and combining forces as candidates decide they lack viability and drop out.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 7, 2020 • 3:12:13am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 4:24:30am

re: #179 austin_blue

Which Obama?

SOS Barack H. Obama.

Fitting, too.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:09:06am

My wife and I watched the first three episodes of Archer: 1999.

LOL.

In the meantime, this is infuriating. A person wrote the Ask a Manager advice blog about their company telling people with elevated risk for infection from Covid-19 to stay at home and work from there.

That person is now being shamed by fellow employees, and her direct supervisor is harassing her to come back to work in the office. Allison Green (the owner of the blog) and commentators address the issue.

3. Coronavirus shaming

My sister works for a subsidiary of a large U.S. corporation. Her office is located in about 20 minutes away from the nursing home that is Ground Zero for U.S. Covid-19 infections. She normally works from home two days a week, so telecommuting is possible and accepted. The CEO of her company has followed health department advice and advised all employees via email to work from home if possible if they are in one of the high-risk groups, which my sister is. (Note that other large companies in the area have also issued this direction to their employees, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, REI, and many more.) However, her direct supervisor and coworkers, who are all much younger than she, have been shaming her for working at home and videoconferencing while they have gone into the office. Contrary to health department advice, they laugh off any idea that any extra precautions should be taken in the office like cleaning surfaces and phones, avoiding large group gatherings, etc.

With the CEO telling her to stay home but her direct boss persisting in asking her when she will return to the office, what are her rights? How should she handle this? She is very afraid of being infected to the point of tears, she is not trying to take advantage of the situation to work from home.

(more at the link):

addressing feedback from an anonymous survey, coronavirus shaming, and more (Goes to Ask a Manager)

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steve_davis  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:15:08am

re: #3 lawhawk

2 attendees to AIPAC in DC this week have tested positive. Israel was putting attendees in quarantine, but there were 18-20k people in DC for this conference.

2/3 of Congress was in attendance. Members of my congregation were supposed to be there. There were people from all over the country in attendance. They flew there and back. They ate and attended a wide range of venues. They lobbied all across DC.

It’s only a matter of time before we learn of a lot more cases.

Separately, this morning we learned a local yeshiva was closed for sanitizing due to potential exposures. Now this.

The cases are closing in, and it’s just a matter of time.

Elsewhere, SXSW cancelled due to the outbreak, and instead of considering shutting down public events to try and contain the disease, Trump’s busy claiming everyone can go about their business and not worry about the disease - a recipe for massive expansion of the disease through the population.

What’s worse than Trump? A CDC and public health officials who defer to Trump’s dumbfuckery instead of calling him on it. They have corrupted the CDC and put Trump’s ambitions above all else. They don’t care that they’re burning it all down to save the most corrupt admin in our history.

I went to Sam’s Club yesterday and noted that the carts all smelled like vinegar and piss, so I guess they’ve been diligent. Or that homeless guy has been marking his territory on the rack outside again.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:15:45am

re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

SOS Barack H. Obama.

Fitting, too.

Associate Supreme Court Justice Barack H. Obama.

Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State redux.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:17:34am

re: #237 steve_davis

I went to Sam’s Club yesterday and noted that the carts all smelled like vinegar and piss, so I guess they’ve been diligent. Or that homeless guy has been marking his territory on the rack outside again.

Homeless guy libelz. I was homeless for eleven years and never “marked territory.”

The phrasing makes us homeless people sound like animals.

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steve_davis  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:19:30am

re: #9 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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again, this doesn’t really tell us anything. people keep taking these numbers and trying to show mortality in the general population. There are almost certainly double this number of people at least who were infected and showed no, or limited, symptoms. Who comprises the number of those who died? Are they almost exclusively the already health-impaired? The elderly?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:20:37am

Massive planned Men’s Rights protest fails because dude has a meeting at work that day (goes to We Hunted the Mammoth, more at the link):

As you may have noticed, Men’s Rights Activists aren’t really very, well, activist. Sure, they talk a lot online, but when it comes to organizing anything in the real world, they fail utterly. Indeed, the only real Men’s Rights protest I’ve seen in all my years running this blog drew fewer people than a ten percent off sale at the dollar store.

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jeffreyw  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:23:02am

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:26:40am

Nebraska’s first coronavirus disease patient is transferred to biocontainment unit (Goes to the Omaha World-Herald, more at the link), the lede:

Nebraska’s first coronavirus disease patient — a 36-year-old Omaha woman who recently returned from the United Kingdom — was transferred to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit on Friday evening.

The woman, who is “very seriously ill,” had been at Methodist Hospital in Omaha before being taken by ambulance to the biocontainment unit, which is on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus.

Earlier Friday, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and health officials announced that the woman is the state’s first confirmed case of a person with the coronavirus disease, COVID-19.

She fell ill in the United Kingdom on Feb 25, then travelled home to Omaha on Feb 27. Epidemiologists are now in Omaha trying to reconstruct all those she came in contact with after she fell ill and decided to travel home anyway.

“We don’t know those answers right now, I’m afraid,” he said.

(Dr. Gary Anthone, the Nebraska state medical officer)

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:27:56am

re: #242 jeffreyw

“The College of Cardinals.”

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:28:53am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Sanders won the 2016 caucus here in Nebraska.

For the 2020 primary, there has been no polling since any of the campaigns started. (Nebraska doesn’t count.)

Anecdotally I get the impression he’s a lot less popular this time round.

He’s a lot less popular when more people speak/exercise their franchise

Ie primary vs caucus

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:33:14am

re: #245 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

He’s a lot less popular when more people speak/exercise their franchise

Ie primary vs caucus

The only reason we now have a primary is because a bunch of Republicans here are trying to primary other Republicans in office on the “Trumpier than thou” platform. The GOP here decided they didn’t want to pay for a bunch of caucuses, so the Unicameral voted to switch to a primary. That had bipartisan support, because Democrats here are tired of paying for caucuses the GOP has forced upon us.

The whole reason we are having a primary this year is because the GOP suddenly got the fiscal conservative bug when it was going to cost them money.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:38:47am

My regional newspaper is not going to print my letter in response to another person in my village praising Trump. You are not permitted to directly criticise Donald Trump in our paper, despite the publisher recently posting an op-ed saying all opinions are welcome. He stated in that op-ed he is a proud Republican.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: President Trump’s accomplishment outshine his blemishes (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, March 1)

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:41:04am

re: #245 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

He’s a lot less popular when more people speak/exercise their franchise

Ie primary vs caucus

Harder to bully people in a primary.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:47:55am

“Maybe you’re somewhat disappointed it’s Biden, but please remember that in November:
1. You’re not just voting for President.
2. You’re voting for who replaces RBG on the Supreme Court.
3. You’re voting for the next Secretary of Education.
4. You’re voting for federal judges.
5. You’re voting for the rule of law.
6. You’re voting for saving national parks.
7. You’re voting for letting kids out of cages.
8. You’re voting for clean air and clean water.
9. You’re voting for scientists to be allowed to speak about climate change.
10. You’re voting for what a President says and does on Twitter.
11. You’re voting for housing rights.
12. You’re voting for LGBTQ people to be treated with dignity.
13. You’re voting for non-Christians to be able to adopt and to feel like full citizens.
14. You’re voting for Dreamers.
15. You’re voting so that there will be Social Security and Medicare when you retire.
16. You’re voting for veterans to get the care they deserve.
17. You’re voting for rural hospitals.
18. You’re voting so that someone else can have health insurance.
19. You’re voting for the preservation of PBS.
20. You’re voting to have a President who doesn’t embarrass this country every time she or he attends an international meeting.
21. And you’re voting against allowing the USA to become yet another authoritarian regime.
22. You’re voting for sensible gun laws.
**No Democrat is perfect.**
Your first AND second choices may have dropped out. Your third might. But the nominee, no matter who she or he is, won’t be perfect. They won’t pass your purity test. And yet every single one of them will be better than four more years of Trump!!!
Please be reasonable. Show up in November and vote Blue!!
Share widely so we can stay united!!
~author unknown

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 5:49:01am

re: #248 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Harder to bully people in a primary.

In the 2016 caucus, I was all-in for Bernie Sanders. After the original alignment which gave no clear winner in my county, my speech to the caucus-goers was effective at putting Sen. Sanders over the top in the first realignment.

I was unaware of the Bernie Bro culture on-line (as was everyone else here because most people have no Internet service here). I was also unaware of some of the problems with Mr. Sanders (such as his wife’s difficulties at the college she ran, or his own seeming lack-of-ability to compromise when that is the best course of action, or his lack of taking responsibility for his campaign staffers and surrogates).

It’s really tough for me to get good information on candidates when no media outlet here will report on Democrats at all. My regional newspaper barely recognises Joe Biden exists, never mind the other Democratic candidates; all the Christian hate radio stations universally paint us as satanists or un-American. When you have no Internet service like the overwhelming majority of people here, that’s the only message you get.

Damn I wish Bloomberg or Steyer would buy up some media outlets in media deserts like this.

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Chrysicat  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:00:47am

Admittedly, I think I’ve only seen the “Rs pulled Op Chaos AGAINST the only truly viable candidate, Bernie!” on FARK so far, rather than in the wild on Twitter, but it has to have shown up there too, right?

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:03:06am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:05:01am

A few reminders: the nomination process is somewhat removed from a direct election.

You are voting for delegates who will attend a convention. They are pledged to vote for a particular candidate the first time around and then can pick and choose whomever they wish.

In addition, a large number of delegates were selected by caucus or committee.

And the convention rules can also be altered or amended at the convention itself.

But yeah, since it is only the Dems engaging in this process, let’s just push the “Democrats are not democratic!” talking point.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:07:30am

We’re literally in a national medical emergency.
Every American needs to do their part, and then some.
//

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:08:29am

Coronavirus Needs Caution, Not Fear (goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph):

The local paper in Cheyenne County (the county south of me) is trying to calm fears and offer practical advice to people in the area.

My county’s newspaper (the Bridgeport, Nebr. News-Blade) has only reported on the patient in Scottsbluff who tested negative for Covid-19. They have not offered any other useful information as far as I can tell (but there is an op-ed on why abortion is evil).

I pay for a subscription to the paper for some reason which escapes me.

RWMC patient tests negative for COVID-19 (Goes to the Bridgeport News-Blade, a short article at the link):

SCOTTSBLUFF—Test results were negative for a patient at Regional West Medical Center whose illness was investigated for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Regional West Chief Medical Officer Matthew Bruner, MD, FACOG, said the tests were conducted out of an abundance of caution based on the CDC’s guidelines after consultation with the state epidemiologist.

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Chrysicat  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:10:00am

re: #254 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

We’re literally in a national medical emergency.
Every American needs to do their part, and then some.
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So you’re saying all the folks who currently have outdoor plumbing need to pull their weight?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:13:09am

Our broadcast media thrive on sensation, hype and scandal, and the President feeds into that loop, it will be hard to disengage it to get us thinking and acting rationally.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:14:25am

re: #254 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

We’re literally in a national medical emergency.
Every American needs to do their part, and then some.
//

Pornhub can help with boosting your immunity. Who knew? Perhaps Sen. Ted Cruz was on to something with the video clip shared on his Twitter account.

Fortunately, Pornhub is one of the sites I research in my editing job.

Next up: BDSM rope play fends off malaria.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:15:29am

re: #256 Chrysicat

So you’re saying all the folks who currently have outdoor plumbing need to pull their weight?

///

Well, pull something at least.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:26:56am

Wholly crap: the regional newspaper acknowledges this happened.

Photos: On 55th anniversary, a look back at ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

(caution for photographs of police violence against African-Americans)

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:31:09am

You would not be surprised that “coronavirus” is a trending video topic on Pornhub. Numerous videos have been uploaded with that tag.

This is research; don’t harass me. /s

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:31:09am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

Plague, Inc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:31:12am

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Wholly crap: the regional newspaper acknowledges this happened.

Photos: On 55th anniversary, a look back at ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

(caution for photographs of police violence against African-Americans)

Let us not take the gains we have made in personal freedoms, minority, women’s and LGBT rights for granted: there are plenty of people working actively to turn them back.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:34:04am

re: #249 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

You should Page that!

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:35:15am

re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

#Republiplague should be trending.

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makeitstop  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:37:38am

re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🎃

#Republiplague should be trending.

So should #TrumpSmellsLikePee

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:42:43am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I love old photos like this. A little like time-traveling.

Some good old photos here

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jaunte  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:47:17am
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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:50:31am

re: #264 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You should Page that!

Done! ———->

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:53:09am

Why is the sun up? It’s way past my bedtime; catch y’all later.

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makeitstop  Mar 7, 2020 • 6:53:32am

As if things aren’t bad enough…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:01:07am

re: #256 Chrysicat

So you’re saying all the folks who currently have outdoor plumbing need to pull their weight?

///

re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Well, pull something at least.

Everyone should, as they say, put some skin in the game

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:06:41am

re: #272 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Everyone should, as they say, put some skin in the game

Pulling for the team, yes.

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JC1  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:06:45am

re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Associate Supreme Court Justice Barack H. Obama.

Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State redux.

HRC should just stay home and enjoy her life. I thought that she was a shitty SoS. She was a strong advocate for the intervention in Libya, a position I strongly disagreed with.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:15:22am

re: #269 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:15:52am

re: #274 JC1

HRC should just stay home and enjoy her life. I thought that she was a shitty SoS. She was a strong advocate for the intervention in Libya, a position I strongly disagreed with.

I like the idea of DOS lifer for Secretary of State. Nicholas Burns is someone I read that is widely respected by lifers there and is knowledgeable. For SCOTUS, I like Ketanji Brown Jackson. She was actually one of the names considered for the Scalia vacancy, is a member of the DC District Court where a lot of SCOTUS members get their promotion from, and is well respected.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:19:44am

Why wouldn’t warm weather make it worse?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:21:56am

re: #277 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why wouldn’t warm weather make it worse?

Warm weather is also tourist and travel season. More people are prone to stay home in the colder months now that Holiday travel season is over, but starting with Easter break, we are going to see more people moving about.

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jaunte  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:23:16am

Who in the US government said no to the WHO test?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:24:28am
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makeitstop  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:26:01am

re: #279 jaunte

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Who in the US government said no to the WHO test?

My money’s on Trump, since he’s a stockholder in the company which is developing the ‘new’ test.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:28:42am

re: #279 jaunte

Who in the US government said no to the WHO test?

World Gummint is the emeny of free peoplez!

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Teddy's Person  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:32:58am

re: #134 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Or we do. 😈

Maybe the c-virus will be how we get a President Pelosi for one brief shining moment. s//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:33:54am

re: #283 Teddy’s Person

Maybe the c-virus will be how we get a President Pelosi for one brief shining moment. s//

or the reason that we get Tulsi G as the democratic nominee

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:35:10am

re: #281 makeitstop

My money’s on Trump, since he’s a stockholder in the company which is developing the ‘new’ test.

Do you have a link to that information?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:36:35am

re: #285 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Do you have a link to that information?

That does sound just like the sort of thinking that will sink this nation…

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:36:42am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or the reason that we get Tulsi G as the democratic nominee

Don’t worry; if Biden and Sanders both croak, others will jump back in the race.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:37:29am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or the reason that we get Tulsi G as the democratic nominee

Ummm…

Draft Warren

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jaunte  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:38:19am

Someone is hiding.

“Please provide an explanation for why the Covid-19 diagnostic test approved by the World Health Organization was not used,” Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate health committee, who represents the hard-hit state of Washington, asked in a 3½-page letter on the testing fiasco to Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, CDC director Robert Redfield, and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn.

So far, none has been provided.”

politico.com

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:38:58am

The coronavirus will give conservatives a perfect excuse for Trump losing in November China created the coronavirus to defeat Trump because he was making Murica great again!

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stpaulbear  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:39:24am

re: #228 ericblair

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Y’all do what ya need to do.

Hmm. I always just refer to it as prostrate maintenance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:40:01am

Just got through episode 7 of Picard and it is so slow. Seems like they could have compressed this all into 3 or 4 episodes to reach the current point in the story…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:40:30am

Blind man fails US citizenship test after not being provided with braille

A blind man failed the US citizenship test after the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) failed to provide the reading portion in braille.

Lucio Delgado moved to the US from Mexico in 2014 and learnt English by listening to the radio.

Mr Delgado asked for braille in his application and got a vision test to confirm he is legally blind, but when he started the test realised it had not been provided to him.

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jaunte  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:40:53am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:41:48am

re: #290 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The coronavirus will give conservatives a perfect excuse for Trump losing in November China created the coronavirus to defeat Trump because he was making Murica great again!

And the Democrats spread panic and disinformation just to undermine our Great Leader…

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Belafon  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:41:59am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:42:05am

re: #293 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Blind man fails US citizenship test after not being provided with braille

I would hope/think he’s got a case against the government for violating his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This is so awful. This is exactly the kind of person we want becoming a citizen. The nativism of this administration is so disgusting.

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Belafon  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:43:03am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:45:58am

If Trumpence BOTH die and go to hell from COVID-19, we will have war in the streets with the conspiracy dupes. It won’t last long though. Relatively few of them have the courage of their convictions and they will chicken out quickly once they realize that they don’t in fact have all the guns.

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Belafon  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:47:44am

re: #290 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The coronavirus will give conservatives a perfect excuse for Trump losing in November China created the coronavirus to defeat Trump because he was making Murica great again!

There are a number of other variations:

“Trump lost because people were scared to go to the polls.”
“Trump lost because our voters died.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:56:12am

Morning Lizardim from the dangerously springlike wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk as the plague sweeps across our fair land?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 7:57:30am

re: #301 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Morning Lizardim from the dangerously springlike wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk as the plague sweeps across our fair land?

At work trying to catch up after having to take time off for my mom this week.

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BigPapa  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:00:35am

This could be the end or libertarianism and rampant free marketeering. That shit doesn’t come close to meeting the needs of a society under serious duress like a pandemic.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:04:39am

Speaking of libertarianism….

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:07:00am

re: #287 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Don’t worry; if Biden and Sanders both croak, others will jump back in the race.

Yep. Others still have more pledged delegates than Tulsi, including Bloomberg. Pete, Elizabeth, Amy — would all become viable again.

OT. Our rabbi talked last night about the AIPAC meeting he had just attended. He was very impressed with Cory Booker’s speech, detested Mike Pence and Kevin McCarthy’s speeches, thought McConnell was interesting though he’s not a fan, and was infuriated with Sanders’ treatment of the group. Sanders is certainly doing his best to lose the Cuban and most Jewish votes.

No discussion of the AIPAC attendees with COVID-19. One note of interest: if you exclude China from the official statistics, the observed death rate is about 2%. Of course, China has had several weeks more for cases to resolve, but they also probably lack the medical facilities available in many of the other nations that are experiencing an outbreak.

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stpaulbear  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:09:42am

re: #301 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Morning Lizardim from the dangerously springlike wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk as the plague sweeps across our fair land?

I bet that we’ll have one big snowfall before spring finally arrives, but this weather certainly is a teaser.

Plague news is scaring the crap out of me. I’m looking at retirement from work on 07/07/2020 but I’m starting to dread that everything may fall apart by then.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:09:52am

re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter

Yep. Others still have more pledged delegates than Tulsi, including Bloomberg. Pete, Elizabeth, Amy — would all become viable again.

OT. Our rabbi talked last night about the AIPAC meeting he had just attended. He was very impressed with Cory Booker’s speech, detested Mike Pence and Kevin McCarthy’s speeches, thought McConnell was interesting though he’s not a fan, and was infuriated with Sanders’ treatment of the group. Sanders is certainly doing his best to lose the Cuban and most Jewish votes.

No discussion of the AIPAC attendees with COVID-19. One note of interest: if you exclude China from the official statistics, the observed death rate is about 2%. Of course, China has had several weeks more for cases for cases to resolve, but they also probably lack the medical facilities available in many of the other nations that are experiencing an outbreak.

Fortunately, I think Sanders isn’t going anywhere. He’s really pissed off a lot of core Demogratic groups. I wasn’t aware that he had not attended Elijah Cummings’ funeral and that he didn’t even talk to Clyburn. Booker is great. He’s someone I really wanted to gain traction. I love Booker on CJ reform. TBH I’ve found something to like about most of the Dems running. I chose Biden in the end because I’ve seen the successes of a more moderate executive paired with a more liberal legislature and I think Biden’s soft political skills are greatly underrated.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:12:48am

re: #306 stpaulbear

I bet that we’ll have one big snowfall before spring finally arrives, but this weather certainly is a teaser.

Plague news is scaring the crap out of me. I’m looking at retirement from work on 07/07/2020 but I’m starting to dread that everything may fall apart by then.

I had a conversation with a lady who works at a different location in my company. She was asking me if I was going to Europe for our upcoming product launch. Then she doubled back with, “Though with all this virus news, I don’t think anybody would want to.” I don’t know, though - right now, if I’m going to be sick, I think I’d rather be sick in Canada or northern Europe.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:15:24am
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sagehen  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:15:34am

I missed the break-up songs discussion yesterday, but I have a late entry.

Tonio K. - H-A-T-R-E-D (Vinyl)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:16:31am

re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter

Was Sheldon Adleson at AIPAC this year?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:16:38am

re: #308 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

At least in Canada you would have gauranteed health care.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:16:44am

re: #309 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Yeah this is totally normal behavior.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:20:28am

re: #206 Eclectic Cyborg

Not sure but the Naked Gun movies were well known for putting many humorous things in their credits.

Mel Brooks was big on that. I remember one movie trailing credits (don’t remember the exact movie) where he had:

Best Boy …. Someones name
Worst Boy …. Adolph Hitler

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:20:53am

re: #312 PhillyPretzel

At least in Canada you would have gauranteed health care.

As a Canadian. But as an American, you’ll have to pay - but it’ll be a fraction of the cost. I went to the ER before I was a permanent resident…$255. that would have cost about $10K in the US.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:21:15am

re: #311 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Was Sheldon Adleson at AIPAC this year?

Rabbi did not mention that. However, I just looked online and discovered that Adelson founded a right-wing alternative to AIPAC - !!!!! Apparently Adelson thinks AIPAC is too conciliatory!!!!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:25:06am

re: #315 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That is good information to have. The only advantage I have is that there are doctors in my family. I also have lawyers and one dentist (my brother-in-law).

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:25:27am

re: #303 BigPapa

This could be the end or libertarianism and rampant free marketeering. That shit doesn’t come close to meeting the needs of a society under serious duress like a pandemic.

Let the weak die. FREEEEDUMB!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:27:21am

re: #316 Hecuba’s daughter

Rabbi did not mention that. However, I just looked online and discovered that Adelson founded a right-wing alternative to AIPAC - !!!!! Apparently Adelson thinks AIPAC is too conciliatory!!!!

DAMN. Double DAMN. 😈

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Belafon  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:33:09am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:33:29am

re: #304 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Try some She’s butter - *snork*

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:34:30am

re: #320 Belafon

I think most of us here will agree with this: Bernie’s lack of success is not the fault of moderates. Progressives made the choice.

If being a moderate means I’m aware of the fact that there are two other branches of government that a President Biden/Sanders/Warren would deal with, so be it. Honestly, I find it insulting the whole idea that it’s moderates versus liberals. I’m a liberal. I never even considered Bernie.

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ericblair  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:34:42am

re: #315 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

As a Canadian. But as an American, you’ll have to pay - but it’ll be a fraction of the cost. I went to the ER before I was a permanent resident…$255. that would have cost about $10K in the US.

I live in Western Europe, and am an expat so have private insurance where I pay for treatment and then get reimbursed, so I’m paying retail. Basically, rule of thumb is that you can take the US cost for whatever and knock a digit off.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:35:33am

re: #323 ericblair

I live in Western Europe, and am an expat so have private insurance where I pay for treatment and then get reimbursed, so I’m paying retail. Basically, rule of thumb is that you can take the US cost for whatever and knock a digit off.

Or two.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:37:00am

They’re equally stupid up here.

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retired cynic  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:42:19am

re: #301 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Morning Lizardim from the dangerously springlike wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk as the plague sweeps across our fair land?

I don’t know if we are going to get winter in April and/or May, but we here in west central Illinois are having April weather in early March. And April started back in February. So confusing!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:44:00am

re: #326 retired cynic

Get used to it; the climate future had arrived.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:44:10am

I don’t know what BNO is (And I’m to lazy to look) but…

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BigPapa  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:44:26am

So I’m really wondering about rallies and social gathering dynamics changing rapidly and dramatically. People can get sick, but so can the candidates. Besides wondering how Trump and his handlers will deal with the realities of the pandemic and his need for rallies, what about the other campaigns and the rest of us?

I expect social gatherings to change dramatically. Demand for distance learning and audio/video conferencing systems, already a steadily growing market, is going to explode. Imagine a candidate having a video conference with 100 groups of 100 people all with live video and audio. This will help compartmentalize people but maintain social interaction in group settings.

I’m in/out of this particular biz for decades and my disaster capitalism and tech geek funnybones are super tickled right now.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:44:34am

re: #327 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Get used to it. The climate future had arrived.

It’s the new normal.

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ericblair  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:46:01am

Interesting thread regarding black voters’ views of Bernie. Basically, the Democratic Party has been the one thing that has done right by them for decades now, and Bernie, “He ain’t no Democrat.” And that’s that.

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BigPapa  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:48:22am

I’m really worried about Joe or Liz getting sick, and even Bernie. We know Trump is probably the most health challenged but he’ll be able to compartmentalize better, with a medical structure around him. But he’ll fight it.

Voting could be impacted but I expect more pressure for mail in voting to accelerate. I expect the GOP to fight any changes but the stark reality of pandemic and the fight against will be too overwhelming for them.

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Chrysicat  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:49:22am

re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:51:06am

re: #332 BigPapa

I’m really worried about Joe or Liz getting sick, and even Bernie. We know Trump is probably the most health challenged but he’ll be able to compartmentalize better, with a medical structure around him. But he’ll fight it.

Voting could be impacted but I expect more pressure for mail in voting to accelerate. I expect the GOP to fight any changes but the stark reality of pandemic and the fight against will be too overwhelming for them.

I think that’s why the VP selection will be so important. We thankfully haven’t had a President die in office in a long time but I can’t discount the possibility due to age and Corona. Honestly, I trust Biden to go with a younger running mate that is both qualified and has legit liberal/progressive bonafides.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:51:33am

BNO stats list that of nearly 800 cases in Germany, nobody had died yet and only two cases are critical.

That is good, as I am in the risk group.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:52:11am

re: #331 ericblair

Interesting thread regarding black voters’ views of Bernie. Basically, the Democratic Party has been the one thing that has done right by them for decades now, and Bernie, “He ain’t no Democrat.” And that’s that.

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I get it completely. All four of my grandparents were staunch Democrats and as a result my parents are too. I mean I’m a Democrat by choice but I know what progressive policy has done for families like mine and others.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:52:24am

3 More GA Coronavirus Cases Confirmed, 1 Test Pending

And the third person is a 46-year-old Floyd County woman who is hospitalized. Testing by the Centers for Disease Control confirmed the patient has the virus, which was first indicated by a state lab test. The woman went to the Floyd Medical Center’s Emergency Care Center with flu-like symptoms on Feb. 29, was treated and released, officials said. The woman did not meet the criteria to be tested for COVID-19 at that time, the hospital said. She returned to the Floyd Emergency Care Center on Tuesday with worsening symptoms, still did not meet coronavirus screening criteria, but was admitted to the hospital due to her condition, the county said.

This parsimony regarding who gets is a disaster.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:53:58am

Smart move:

Pope Francis has cancelled his regular appearances in public to stop crowds gathering to see him and will stream them on the internet from inside the Vatican because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

The Vatican said that on Sunday the pontiff will not address crowds from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, and will also not hold his general audience from there this Wednesday. Both attract tens of thousands of people.

It will be one of the few times in the past 66 years that a pope will not appear at the window, a ritual deeply engrained in Roman tradition, with some families attending every week.

Both the address and general audience will be held without public participation inside the official papal library in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace and will be viewable on the internet or television, the Vatican said in a statement on Saturday.

thestar.com.my

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:55:45am

re: #335 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

BNO stats list that of nearly 800 cases in Germany, nobody had died yet and only two cases are critical.

That is good, as I am in the risk group.

Same here. Even though I’m 50, three decades of smoking left me with a rather mild case of COPD. I sure as hell don’t need this COVID-19 shit.

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jaunte  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:56:03am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:56:23am

The college basketball tournaments are about to start, with teams and fans traveling all over the country to pack into arenas together. I wonder what contingency plans they are making?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:57:06am

re: #339 Dr Lizardo

Same here. Even though I’m 50, three decades of smoking left me with a rather mild case of COPD. I sure as hell don’t need this COVID-19 shit.

I used to smoke regularly as well, have now abandoned it just to be on the safe side.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:57:07am

My team lost. I’m devastated.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:57:35am

re: #340 jaunte

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When will the GOP realize Trump’s colossal ignorance is gonna cost them?

Easy…..when their voter base (largely older people) starts dropping like flies.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:57:37am

re: #339 Dr Lizardo

I am in my fifties non smoker with seasonal allergies. Let’s just say I am concerned.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:57:43am

re: #340 jaunte

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We’ll find out in the fall I guess but I think this is going to catch up with them in a way other issues might not have. I doubt Gaetz loses unfortunately. Very Republican district.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:57:43am

re: #343 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My team lost. I’m devastated.

you could just curl up and die?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 8:58:58am

re: #345 PhillyPretzel

I am in my fifties non smoker with seasonal allergies. Let’s just say I am concerned.

yes, and allergy season is kicking in early this year, I have been sneezing off and on all week, and that has left me panicked as I had to drive down to the University Hospital in Strasbourg last week to sign parental permission forms for my daughter’s emergency knee operation…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:01:00am

re: #345 PhillyPretzel

I am in my fifties non smoker with seasonal allergies. Let’s just say I am concerned.

A former student of mine is deeply worried - she’s in her early forties, but she suffered from tuberculosis about 20+ years ago, so she reckons she’s got some lung damage and that in her case, COVID-19 could well prove lethal.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:01:07am

re: #347 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you could just curl up and die?

I thought they would sweep the competition

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:02:04am

re: #348 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, and allergy season is kicking in early this year, I have been sneezing off and on all week, and that has left me panicked as I had to drive down to the University Hospital in Strasbourg last week to sign parental permission forms for my daughter’s emergency knee operation…

Looks like allergy season is gonna start next week here - forecast temperatures are for 17C by Thursday.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:02:34am

re: #320 Belafon

I think most of us here will agree with this: Bernie’s lack of success is not the fault of moderates. Progressives made the choice.

“Can’t fail, can only be failed,” that’s all the Berners care to listen to as they make excuses for Bernie. Much like MAGAts, they can only see people breaking down into two groups: The Saved and the Damned. And you can’t split the difference, you can’t be Saved but think Bernie has flaws, while if you’re Damned then there’s no way you can find common ground. It’s why they’re blowing fuses when they encounter Warren supporters who are not eager to become Berners, they can’t believe you can support progressive ideas and not be drawn to Bernie. So the only “logical” conclusion is if you have a problem with Bernie, then you can’t “really” be a progressive.

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retired cynic  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:03:27am

re: #331 ericblair

Interesting thread regarding black voters’ views of Bernie. Basically, the Democratic Party has been the one thing that has done right by them for decades now, and Bernie, “He ain’t no Democrat.” And that’s that.

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That whole thread and comment string is absolute gold. Simple statement from the comments: “I wanna eat everything I want and not gain weight. Just like Bernie wants everything but isn’t going to get it.”

Bingo.

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William Lewis  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:05:13am

re: #343 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My team lost. I’m devastated.

Now now don’t just curl up on us…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:06:21am

re: #354 William Lewis

Hey, did you mail that to me? It wasn’t there when I got my mail this morning.

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William Lewis  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:08:40am

re: #355 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Hey, did you mail that to me? It wasn’t there when I got my mail this morning.

Haven’t had money for a stamp. I’ll see if I can find the change today.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:10:34am

re: #356 William Lewis

Haven’t had money for a stamp. I’ll see if I can find the change today.

No rush. Just checking to make sure when to look for it, coz I know you need it. Shoot me an email so I know to watch for it. 🙂

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:10:46am

Nature is amazing.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:12:51am

Here’s the long & short of it from last April: The Sanders campaign was counting on the same strategy Trump used in 2016 of relying upon his opponents splitting the “not-Sanders” vote while he kept his own base intact.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:13:32am

1,247 new cases and 36 new deaths in Italy.

The head of one of the ruling coalition parties is now infected.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:16:29am

Pretty sure the website this story is from is satirical, but it sure made me chuckle:

Sales of the Daily Mail are soaring - but not because of any new-found fondness for its journalism.

Instead, British shoppers are snapping up the rag because toilet roll is running out in the shops.

Panic buying over the coronavirus is leading to bog roll shortages - but enterprising Brits know the Daily Mail is the ideal replacement.

Shopper Lorraine Fisher, 34, said: “My usual brand of soft, strong and very long lavatory paper has been cleared off the shelves by overly-worried shoppers.

“But like many others, I instead purchased a copy of the Daily Mail, which is good for nothing except wiping your arse.”

suffolkgazette.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:16:33am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:19:14am

re: #359 Targetpractice

Here’s the long & short of it from last April: The Sanders campaign was counting on the same strategy Trump used in 2016 of relying upon his opponents splitting the “not-Sanders” vote while he kept his own base intact.

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It might have worked too, if Biden had not won a landslide victory in SC, convincing Pete and Amy to withdraw and endorse, and Warren had not eviscerated Bloomberg in the debate. But now Silver’s model gives Biden an 88% chance of winning a majority of the delegates by June 7.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:21:05am

re: #290 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The coronavirus will give conservatives a perfect excuse for Trump losing in November China created the coronavirus to defeat Trump because he was making Murica great again!

i welcome any and all excuses, as long as he loses.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:21:48am

re: #363 NO SMOCKING GUN!

It might have worked too, if Biden had not won a landslide victory in SC, convincing Pete and Amy to withdraw and endorse, and Warren had not eviscerated Bloomberg in the debate. But now Silver’s model gives Biden an 88% chance of winning a majority of the delegates by June 7.

It fell apart earlier than that, when first Harris and then Booker dropped out of the race. His best hope when one left the field was that the other would stay long enough to spoil SC for Biden by drawing off a significant fraction of the black vote. But once both were gone, he was left gambling that his early “wins” would be enough to build momentum there. He needed to put Biden away in SC, as that was the only way that the field would remain so splintered that he could eke out a “plurality.”

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:29:01am

re: #352 Targetpractice

“Can’t fail, can only be failed,” that’s all the Berners care to listen to as they make excuses for Bernie. Much like MAGAts, they can only see people breaking down into two groups: The Saved and the Damned. And you can’t split the difference, you can’t be Saved but think Bernie has flaws, while if you’re Damned then there’s no way you can find common ground. It’s why they’re blowing fuses when they encounter Warren supporters who are not eager to become Berners, they can’t believe you can support progressive ideas and not be drawn to Bernie. So the only “logical” conclusion is if you have a problem with Bernie, then you can’t “really” be a progressive.

while they think everyone should vote for him for brilliant reasons, bernie has not convinced enough people to vote for him(.) <——- that there is a full stop.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:30:57am

I just filled out my primary ballot for Joe. Not my first choice, but it’s where we are.

A c-virus thought: I hope one of her clerks is following RBG around spritzing her with hand sanitizer.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:32:51am

re: #359 Targetpractice

Here’s the long & short of it from last April: The Sanders campaign was counting on the same strategy Trump used in 2016 of relying upon his opponents splitting the “not-Sanders” vote while he kept his own base intact.

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and he had to weave this path because he squandered the last 4 years

he should / could have been organizing, expanding, meeting, reaching out to….everybody, everywhere

instead he settled on a sort of lazy way by taking on an air of inevitability

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:33:10am

No Tweets from the Orange asshole in over 12 hours.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:33:10am

re: #367 Teddy’s Person

RBG probably has a bottle of Purell with her at all times.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:33:44am

re: #368 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

and he had to weave this path because he squandered the last 4 years

he should / could have been organizing, expanding, meeting, reaching out to….everybody, everywhere

instead he settled on a sort of lazy way by taking on an air of inevitability

Yeah, for all their bitching back in ‘16, Berners really did put a lot of faith in “It’s his turn!” as a sales strategy.

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CarolJ  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:34:29am

re: #370 PhillyPretzel

Also being on the Supreme Court means she doesn’t have to do public appearances at all.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:34:42am

re: #367 Teddy’s Person

I just filled out my primary ballot for Joe. Not my first choice, but it’s where we are.

A c-virus thought: I hope one of her clerks is following RBG around spritzing her with hand sanitizer.

it’s time for these

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:34:56am

re: #369 Eclectic Cyborg

And when he starts tweeting again it will be a virtual storm of tweets. :(

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:37:17am

re: #371 Targetpractice

Yeah, for all their bitching back in ‘16, Berners really did put a lot of faith in “It’s his turn!” as a sales strategy.

which would have been fine and might have worked if he spent the last 4 years hammering it home.

instead he immediately went back to being (I-VT), and then conveniently popped up again at the start of the next D primary season.

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stpaulbear  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:37:28am

re: #358 I Would Prefer Not To

John Moffitt 🌊
@JohnRMoffitt
Seriously folks … how can you tell the #CoronaVirus from a Trump Nazi Hate Rally?#COVID19

Make Affliction Global Again.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:37:31am

re: #367 Teddy’s Person

I just filled out my primary ballot for Joe. Not my first choice, but it’s where we are.

A c-virus thought: I hope one of her clerks is following RBG around spritzing her with hand sanitizer.

“Moisturize me”

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:39:09am

re: #377 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

“Moisturize me”

*shudders*

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SteelPH  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:39:27am

re: #375 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

which would have been fine and might have worked if he spent the last 4 years hammering it home.

instead he immediately went back to being (I-VT), and then conveniently popped up again at the start of the next D primary season.

All while still having no accomplishments to his name.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:40:26am

If you’d like to avoid feeling optimistic about anything, I recommend the Netflix documentary series “Pandemic: How To Prevent An Outbreak”. I’m not all the way through it yet but it’s fascinating to see how infectious disease specialists and overworked medical staff respond to contagion outbreaks. Since it was (apparently) finished before the coronavirus outbreak, it’s especially foreboding.

Here’s the trailer:

Trailer for Netflix Docuseries “Pandemic”

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:44:00am

re: #362 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Any photos of him at the resort, golfing, yukking it up, driving in his golf cart, etc. better be used as ads immediately.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:44:36am

re: #369 Eclectic Cyborg

Good.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:45:02am

re: #374 PhillyPretzel

And when he starts tweeting again it will be a virtual storm of tweets. :(

Maybe Trump has finally realized that he has no control over the information provided by the states to the media and that his misinformation has been rapidly overtaken by real world events. He and his team are probably strategizing on how best to lay the blame for the outbreak on others, especially Democrats. Except for the state media, every other outlet has been highly critical of the response to the crisis.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:47:34am

re: #383 Hecuba’s daughter

Hell, he blamed Obama three days ago. You think that’s ever going to stop?

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William Lewis  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:47:47am

re: #383 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe Trump has finally realized that he has no control over the information provided by the states to the media and that his misinformation has been rapidly overtaken by real world events. He and his team are probably strategizing on how best to lay the blame for the outbreak on others, especially Democrats. Except for the state media, every other outlet has been highly critical of the response to the crisis.

Nah, I’m going to hope he’s in bed with a cough and a fever and they’re scared of taking him to Walter Reed because that would really blow the lies wide open :D

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:49:31am

re: #384 Ace Rothstein

Hell, he blamed Obama three days ago. You think that’s ever going to stop?

Nope, Trump is going to blame everyone and anyone else, especially Obama and the Democrats. Everything he does is “perfect.”

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KingKenrod  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:50:49am

Really worried about how this outbreak will affect the election coming up. An outbreak in a place like Philadelphia could swing a close election. Cities are more likely to be harder hit. How will it affect travel and turnout?

Also I don’t put it past Trump to use emergency powers to his advantage. In fact I expect it, since ignorance and incompetence don’t seem to be working for him.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:53:27am

re: #387 KingKenrod

This is so far the current information from Philly.
whyy.org

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:55:07am

re: #385 William Lewis

Nah, I’m going to hope he’s in bed with a cough and a fever and they’re scared of taking him to Walter Reed because that would really blow the lies wide open :D

Certainly does make me wonder exactly WTF the White House would do if Trump caught COVID-19? Or required hospitalization/intubation?

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makeitstop  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:58:56am

And in other news…

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SteelPH  Mar 7, 2020 • 9:58:59am

re: #389 Dr Lizardo

Certainly does make me wonder exactly WTF the White House would do if Trump caught COVID-19? Or required hospitalization/intubation?

Pretend everything is fine up until he croaks. Then invent conspiracies about it.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:02:53am
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ericblair  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:02:58am

re: #389 Dr Lizardo

Certainly does make me wonder exactly WTF the White House would do if Trump caught COVID-19? Or required hospitalization/intubation?

Not only COVID, but from any of the rapidly deteriorating physical and mental conditions that he’s suffering from. I don’t think this is an academic question.

I think it will be complete chaos unless he directly drops dead, since Pence is going to be really reluctant to 25th amendment his ass and Betray His Master. They are all, of course, going to try to cover it up like they did last fall, but when he’s truly hors de combat there might be a real race for the doors.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:04:06am

re: #392 Ace Rothstein

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The “liberal media,” ladies and gents.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:06:31am

re: #394 Targetpractice

The “liberal media,” ladies and gents.

“After 3500 deaths were confirmed in March, President Trump, in his free-flowing communicative style described the report as an attempt by the liberal media to destroy his massively successful presidency.”

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:07:52am

re: #392 Ace Rothstein

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‘going with your gut” means to trust your own instinct or intuition rather than some sort of sober, objective ‘analysis’ or logic.

trump doesnt do that because it doesnt apply

he does what he does because his goals are manipulation, advantage, and personal gain.
not a quest for solutions, facts or truth

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:08:00am

re: #393 ericblair

Not only COVID, but from any of the rapidly deteriorating physical and mental conditions that he’s suffering from. I don’t think this is an academic question.

I think it will be complete chaos unless he directly drops dead, since Pence is going to be really reluctant to 25th amendment his ass and Betray His Master. They are all, of course, going to try to cover it up like they did last fall, but when he’s truly hors de combat there might be a real race for the doors.

Yea, you’re right, they’ll probably try to cover it up until it can’t be covered up anymore and then the rats will turn on each other in their effort to flee the sinking ship of state.

And yes, then they’ll start up with the conspiracy theories…..and the Trumpites will swallow it hook, line and sinker.

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makeitstop  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:09:48am

Guess what’s trending?

(Behind the button because you can’t unsee it.)

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:11:29am

re: #398 makeitstop

Yes you are correct one cannot “unsee” it. But that is funny as heck.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:13:19am

re: #391 SteelPH

Pretend everything is fine up until he croaks. Then invent conspiracies about it.

President Trump is missing and presumed dead after an incident aboard his Yacht…

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:13:43am

What has “going with his gut” led Trump to? Multiple bankruptcies, having property and possessions repossessed by banks, made a laughingstock among the wealthy of NYC, and treated like a pariah by polite society. It was only The Apprentice that gave him any sort of notoriety after he’d spent the previous decade shredding it with shoddy business calls and “his gut” leading him to lose money hand over fist.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:13:55am

re: #392 Ace Rothstein

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VegasGolfer  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:14:01am

re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My regional newspaper is not going to print my letter in response to another person in my village praising Trump. You are not permitted to directly criticise Donald Trump in our paper, despite the publisher recently posting an op-ed saying all opinions are welcome. He stated in that op-ed he is a proud Republican.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: President Trump’s accomplishment outshine his blemishes (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, March 1)

“Just for the record, all of us sinners who voted for President Trump did not do so because we thought he was Miss Polly Purebreath. We did so because we thought he had guts and would stand up to the corruption in Washington DC and would possibly get stuff done.”
Yeah, she’s full of shit

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:15:44am

re: #403 VegasGolfer

They all are.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:17:03am

re: #401 Targetpractice

He “went with his gut” and married Ivana. Divorced.
He “went with his gut” and married Marla. Divorced.
He “went with his gut” and married Melania. Divorce papers to be filed 12:01 PM, January 20, 2021.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:19:13am

Think about it this way: Donny’s “gut” led him to think that there was room in the air travel market for a “luxury” brand with his name plastered all over it, only to watch it fail and the jets he bought taken back by the banks.

He thought slapping his name on steaks, vodka, and bottled water in a country that subsists on all three would be a winning strategy, yet all three ventures failed miserably and his reputation suffered as a result.

His “gut” told him that the USFL could be his way to buying an NFL team if he could boost it as bigger and more glamorous, but all he did was drive the league out of business with his extravagant demands.

And let’s remember that his “gut” led to casinos being shut down in Vegas and Atlantic City, the latter particularly gruesome because he made all sorts of promises to the city about how his gambling houses would bring in greater revenue than existing casinos.

Considering that streak, the only reason The Apprentice didn’t crumble under its own weight within a season is because it was scripted and creative input from his decaying cerebrum kept under control by people who know how to actually create successful shows.

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makeitstop  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:20:01am

re: #400 Eclectic Cyborg

President Trump is missing and presumed dead after an incident aboard his Yacht…

He’s afraid of yachts. Remember he sold one to a member of the Saud royal family for dimes on the dollar…

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:20:19am

re: #406 Targetpractice

He went with that extra large, lard-infested “gut” of his and sued the NFL. He was awarded $1 in damages.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:21:50am

re: #343 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

There’s a curling rock emoji?

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:22:14am

re: #408 Ace Rothstein

He went with that extra large, lard-infested “gut” of his and sued the NFL. He was awarded $1 in damages.

That’s just one of the endless deluge of assaults he’s waged upon the judicial system, endless litigation that he uses to attack his enemies and then walk away from when he meets a foe that can’t be cowered by his “wealth.”

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:22:56am

re: #409 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Yes, and there’s even “Curling Night in America” Friday nights on NBC Sports. No bullshit, we watch it at the local boozer.

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Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:25:03am

One can only imagine the number of lawyer’s children that Donny has sent to college suing anyone and everyone that he’s felt crossed him.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:25:15am

He “went with his gut” and raw dogged a porn star two months after his wife gave birth to their son.

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:29:56am

Ipsos poll out with some truly stunning stats showing the difference between the GOP and everyone else on COVID-19. I paged this.

As I said, the sheer balls of this is stunning. If Trump/Fox is wrong about this, then the millions of people who believe in them are about to get really, really sick.

No doubt they’ll blame Mexicans, college professors, gays, blacks & violent video games.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:30:21am

LOL

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:34:56am

re: #415 Dr Lizardo

LOL

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I showed this to Mrs. Fish. She just groaned and rolled her eyes at me.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:36:24am

He’s a fucking danger to the human race.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:36:48am

re: #405 Ace Rothstein

He “went with his gut” and married Ivana. Divorced.
He “went with his gut” and married Marla. Divorced.
He “went with his gut” and married Melania. Divorce papers to be filed 12:01 PM, January 20, 2021.

Going with your gut implies an analysis of sorts

All he does is calculate “what’s good for me”

It’s something else entirely

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:42:40am

This statement doesn’t go to any bad places, no sir…

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Jay C  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:45:26am

Well, I did my bit this morning to either beat (or join - I’m still unsure as to what scenario applies) the recent hoarding movement: by foresight (and it’s not just chance: I was told the store had pre-ordered) my local Walgreen’s (Duane Reade) had both toilet paper and hand sanitizer in stock!
So barring a 21st-Century rerun of 1348, we’re set for a couple of weeks at least!

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Mar 7, 2020 • 10:46:14am

re: #419 Sherlock Hound

This statement doesn’t go to any bad places, no sir…

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I thought they were *all* human beings..

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:17:09am

re: #409 Colère Tueur de Lapin

There’s a curling rock emoji?

🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌

Indeed there is.

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retired cynic  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:21:48am

Charlie Pierce always ends the last post of the week with dinosaur news, since “dinosaurs lived then to make us happy now.” I love Charlie having fun with words!

Is it a good day for dinosaur news, National Geographic? It’s always a good day for dinosaur news!

The study, published last week in National Science Review, takes a close look at two juvenile skull bones from the hadrosaur Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what’s now Montana about 75 million years ago. Inside the tiny fossils, researchers can see what appear to be cells, some frozen in the process of dividing. Others contain darkened balls that look just like nuclei, the cellular structures that store DNA. And one cell even seems to contain dark, tangled coils that resemble chromosomes, the condensed strands of proteins and DNA that form during cell division.
Uh, oh.

Does the discovery mean we can sequence dino DNA? Not even close. The researchers haven’t tried extracting DNA from the fossil cells, so they haven’t confirmed whether the material is unaltered DNA or some kind of fossil byproduct of genetic material breaking down. Scientists also caution that if DNA is present within the dinosaur cells, it’s probably in tiny fragments, chemically altered, and tangled up with what was once protein.

Whew. That’s a relief. I’m not sure I want hadrosaurs raiding the bird feeders or the compost bin. I have enough trouble with squirrels. They lived then to make us happy now. Not sure I want to be that happy, though.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:21:58am

re: #422 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌

Indeed there is.

(That’s actually eight emojis…I use 8 because that’s how many one team throws per end.)

Right now, my second fav team is playing on this championship weekend. The skip (Captain) is like 23 and I’ve been watching him since he came out of juniors. I want him to take it all.)

🥌🥌 Go Matt! 🥌🥌

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retired cynic  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:23:26am

re: #423 retired cynic

Charlie closes:

I’ll be back on Monday as we all get psyched for the Battle of the Septuagenarians. This reminds me of the embarrassing brawl between old Laurence Olivier and old Gregory Peck in The Boys From Brazil. No, really, it does. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line, and keep the hadrosaurs out of the corn crib.

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jaunte  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:28:55am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:29:32am
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mmmirele  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:29:36am

re: #420 Jay C

Well, I did my bit this morning to either beat (or join - I’m still unsure as to what scenario applies) the recent hoarding movement: by foresight (and it’s not just chance: I was told the store had pre-ordered) my local Walgreen’s (Duane Reade) had both toilet paper and hand sanitizer in stock!
So barring a 21st-Century rerun of 1348, we’re set for a couple of weeks at least!

Ever read “Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis? It’s a time travel novel. A young woman is sent back to what she thinks is 1320 and arrives with a terrible illness. Meanwhile, in 2054/55, an epidemic of a new strain of influenza takes hold in Oxford. It comes out that the calculations sending the young woman back were wrong and she ended up in 1348. But no one can go fetch her because they’re sick and dying in 2054/55.

It’s a very good book. I can’t believe it’s not been made into a film.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:34:59am

re: #413 Ace Rothstein

He “went with his gut” and raw dogged a porn star two months after his wife gave birth to their son.

I suspect he went with a different part of his anatomy on that one.

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sagehen  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:36:11am

re: #408 Ace Rothstein

He went with that extra large, lard-infested “gut” of his and sued the NFL. He was awarded $1 in damages.

Kaepernick got a whole lot more than that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:37:13am

re: #429 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I suspect he went with a different part of his anatomy on that one.

Stormy said it wasn’t even a magic mushroom…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:37:57am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:39:19am

re: #421 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

I thought they were *all* human beings..

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I think they’re using the Bene Gesserit definition of human, so Bernie gets to be President because he never pulled his hand out of the box.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:41:43am

re: #432 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I am not fond of Daylight Savings Time but a lot of people enjoy that extra hour of sunshine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:43:17am

re: #434 PhillyPretzel

I am not fond of Daylight Savings Time but a lot of people enjoy that extra hour of sunshine.

I’m all in favor of making DST permanent, but I understand the concern of parents who would have to send their children to school in the dark in the morning.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:43:19am

re: #433 goddamnedfrank

I think they’re using the Bene Gesserit definition of human, so Bernie gets to be President because he never pulled his hand out of the box.

Which isn’t just an attempt at a clever reference, because a large part of his campaign’s appeal lies in the literary narrative of the heroic quest

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:44:58am

re: #434 PhillyPretzel

I am not fond of Daylight Savings Time but a lot of people enjoy that extra hour of sunshine.

I don’t care one way or another about DST, myself, but this is beyond parody that a fucking government elected official says nothing about COVID19 when two people in FL just fucking died and more were diagnosed. It’s just fucking gross.

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retired cynic  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:47:18am

re: #427 goddamnedfrank

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! gasp!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:48:33am

re: #391 SteelPH

Pretend everything is fine up until he croaks. Then invent conspiracies about it.

Let him die to own the libs, get Alex Jones to claim Soros and Hillary did it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:48:33am

re: #437 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t care one way or another about DST, myself, but this is beyond parody that a fucking government elected official says nothing about COVID19 when two people in FL just fucking died and more were diagnosed. It’s just fucking gross.

Surely you didn’t expect more from Rubio, did you? He cannot express concern because it would contradict the Trump party line that everything is OK.

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Cheechako  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:56:18am

re: #434 PhillyPretzel

I am not fond of Daylight Savings Time but a lot of people enjoy that extra hour of sunshine.

Me, I’m for compromising by splitting the difference. Change the clocks 1/2 hour and keep it that way for the whole year.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:57:10am

This Infuriates Me! Not that I need any incentive to tell Rubio he’s a fucking dick.

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stpaulbear  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:57:44am

re: #420 Jay C

Well, I did my bit this morning to either beat (or join - I’m still unsure as to what scenario applies) the recent hoarding movement: by foresight (and it’s not just chance: I was told the store had pre-ordered) my local Walgreen’s (Duane Reade) had both toilet paper and hand sanitizer in stock!
So barring a 21st-Century rerun of 1348, we’re set for a couple of weeks at least!

I finally got an email from Walgreen’s telling me that the hand sanitizer that I found and ordered from their website on Monday was out of stock and the order cancelled. Bummer, but mostly expected.

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Belafon  Mar 7, 2020 • 11:59:29am

re: #359 Targetpractice

Here’s the long & short of it from last April: The Sanders campaign was counting on the same strategy Trump used in 2016 of relying upon his opponents splitting the “not-Sanders” vote while he kept his own base intact.

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I wonder what the writer thinks of this tweet now:

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Dread Pirate  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:03:39pm
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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:04:22pm

re: #406 Targetpractice

He really does go with his gut.
Know what comes from the gut?
Shit. Shit comes from the gut.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:05:57pm
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Jay C  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:06:43pm

re: #443 stpaulbear

I finally got an email from Walgreen’s telling me that the hand sanitizer that I found and ordered from their website on Monday was out of stock and the order cancelled. Bummer, but mostly expected.

We got a large bottle. If you need some, email me…..

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:08:03pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:12:39pm

re: #449 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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The fuckers

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:17:53pm

re: #434 PhillyPretzel

I am not fond of Daylight Savings Time but a lot of people enjoy that extra hour of sunshine.

I hate DST because I’m on call this weekend and where I work we have to bounce our core systems.

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William Lewis  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:27:56pm

re: #449 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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This is why Madam Guillotine needs to be woken up again.

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William Lewis  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:29:15pm

re: #451 Eric The Fruit Bat

I hate DST because I’m on call this weekend and where I work we have to bounce our core systems.

Say what? Why?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 7, 2020 • 12:43:15pm

re: #437 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I don’t care one way or another about DST, myself, but this is beyond parody that a fucking government elected official says nothing about COVID19 when two people in FL just fucking died and more were diagnosed. It’s just fucking gross.

Out media let them get away with lying in the face of photographic evidence about inaugural crowds. It let them get away with all sort of even more blatant lies and now they are going for the prize: insisting that a life-threatening viral epidemic is a lie and hoax.


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