Mary Chapin Carpenter Is Singing Songs From Home: Episode 3, “The Hard Way” (Live From My Kitchen)

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I just loved how Angus stopped fussing around, laid down and listened when she started singing.

Mary Chapin Carpenter performing “The Hard Way” (co-starring Angus)

Good morning and welcome back to #Songsfromhome, Episode 3: Live From My Kitchen (Again)

Thank you for all of your lovely comments and for your support, I’ve been overwhelmed with joy as well as deeply moved reading everyone’s words– we may be in lock down but our hearts are still open.

Spring has begun to show itself here at the farm; the fields are greening up, the trees hint that their bare branches may soon be filling with buds, and the daffodils are running riot through the woods and rocky borders. It’s the reliable cycle of nature that brings me the most hope and calms me when I feel anxious and sad. There have been many anxious and sad days here as I know there have been for you. Please remember, when it all seems too bleak, that you are not alone.

And the world won’t stop
And actions speak louder
Listen to your heart and your heart will say
Everything we got, we got the hard way

Stay mighty!

Until the next time…

#stayhome #withme #songsfromhome #livefrommykitchen #TheHardWay #blueridgemountains #farmhousekitchen #virginia #home #angus #goldenretriever #songwriter #flattenthecurve #stayhome #weareallconnected #staymighty #stayhome #songsforshutins

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1
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:50:18am

CL’ed

2
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:52:17am

40,000 people are quarantined after ONE ‘super spreader’ preacher, 70, caused Indian coronavirus outbreak following trip to Italy

Around 40,000 have been quarantined in India after a ‘super spreader’ preacher returned from coronavirus-stricken Italy.

Up to 20 villages in Punjab have been forced into isolation after Baldev Singh got back from the Mediterranean country and died of the deadly bug.

The 70-year-old also visited Germany before going home for the Hola Mohalla Sikh festival, which sees crowds of 10,000 each day.

Mr Singh, who had reportedly flouted advice to stay at home, was revealed to have died from coronavirus in a postmortem and a week later 19 members of his family tested positive.

An official told the BBC: ‘So far, we have been

[…]

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:53:25am

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

40,000 people are quarantined after ONE ‘super spreader’ preacher, 70, caused Indian coronavirus outbreak following trip to Italy

So the ultra-rich and the ultra-religious were the prime vectors in this…

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:53:51am

re: #3 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So the ultra-rich and the ultra-religious were the prime vectors in this…

That is a Bingo.

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Thanos  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:54:24am

Our daffodils are blooming too.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:58:14am

House just passed the Corona Bill or whatever it was called.

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2020 • 10:59:33am

I’m kicking it old school with some deep cuts

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:00:59am

re: #6 Mescalero09

House just passed the Corona Bill or whatever it was called.

The Chinese Virus Bill…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:04:27am
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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:05:04am

re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Chinese Virus Bill…

Ah. Right.
But only because “The Yellow Peril” was already taken.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:05:41am

sorry, no.

a cheesecake requires cheese.

they may be very good. they are not cheesecakes.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:06:49am

re: #7 gocart mozart

I’m kicking it old school with some deep cuts

Ole Thad Stevens….

Yes sir.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:07:04am

re: #11 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

sorry, no.

a cheesecake requires cheese.

they may be very good. they are not cheesecakes.

They have to get their own song

King Missile - The Cheesecake Truck

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:07:40am
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:08:53am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:09:51am
Andrew Sullivan: “Of course, there was another way available from the get-go. He could have immediately adopted a wartime presidential posture and announced an emergency response to the threat from China. From January on, he could have deployed the government’s ultimate power to get American manufacturers to produce ventilators, masks, and tests on demand, gotten the military to set up field hospitals, and announced — and even obeyed — a partisan cease-fire because of the severity of the crisis. And he could have added another layer to this by giving a speech on the danger of over-relying on China to produce basic goods, especially those essential for Americans’ health. Then a stark and clear and unwavering stance on social distancing, to buy time…”

any competent administration would have done something
who the eff is sullivan thinking of?
Not Trump for sure.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:11:47am

re: #14 Mescalero09

Stacey Absolutely Gloating About Owning A Bidet:

A bidet is an amazing invention, and in some places you can get a bidet hose attachment that fits under your sink and works much the same way.

But from what I read, they were frowned upon in many nations, including Victorian England, because they were associated with libertinism and prostitutes who used them to flush out their vaginas after entertaining customers.

Which is why this wonderfully practical device never caught on very much outside France.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:13:55am

re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“It shoots a stream of water up your ass” doesn’t sound like a strong selling point…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:16:26am

re: #18 Mescalero09

“It shoots a stream of water up your ass” doesn’t sound like a strong selling point…..

It cleans the bits that really need cleaning without having to take a shower…

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:18:17am

re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Chinese Virus Bill…

The Trump Pandemic Bill.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:18:57am

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It cleans the bits that really need cleaning without having to take a shower…

There’s that. When I use them in Japan where they’re ubiquitous I find I have to wipe anyway even though there’s usually a dryer. Causes serious chafing.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:20:16am

re: #11 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

sorry, no.

a cheesecake requires cheese.

they may be very good. they are not cheesecakes.

[Embedded content]

American Cheese Cakes?
// ;p

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Dave In Austin  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:22:47am

re: #22 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

American Cheese Cakes?
// ;p

Velveeta Pie

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:23:40am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:23:55am

re: #12 Sir John Barron

Ole Thad Stevens….

Yes sir.

The greatest American of the 19th century that most people don’t know.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:24:58am

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:25:02am

re: #24 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Yeah. Great story. What a scream.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:25:52am

Here’s a moment of goodness for those of us who need something positive in these trying times:

03 27 2020 13 26 00

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:26:19am

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

[Embedded content]

sounds totally legit.

///

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:27:00am

Really Stevens was ahead generations ahead of his time. Another antebellum shout out but William Seward. He was an opponent of slavery and nativism as was of course Abe who increasingly with age becomes my favorite potus.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:27:20am

What a joke, we got stuck with Trump because of a fake scandal reporters decided to treat seriously.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:27:21am

re: #27 Mescalero09

Jared is probably running a How Can We Secretly Profit From This Crisis Task Force, so no wonder they don’t have public meetings.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:27:35am

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

[Embedded content]

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:27:35am

Just got this.

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:27:45am

I’m not completely sure, but this could be the most massive self-own in a campaign ad ever.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:28:36am

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

[Embedded content]

Is this going to be the cover story when Trump hightails it to Moscow?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:28:47am

re: #26 Belafon

Well, this explains it all; I now understand.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:29:58am

re: #24 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Let’s be honest, the corporate media knew what they were doing. They thought Trump was a joke and couldn’t get elected, so they lit into Hillary with decades of axe-grinding and grudge-nursing for their failure to bring down her and Bill during the 90s. In their minds, they were just getting a head start on what they figured was going to be 4 years of finally knocking the couple down a few pegs.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:30:22am

re: #31 NO SMOCKING GUN!

What a joke, we got stuck with Trump because of a fake scandal reporters decided to treat seriously.

[Embedded content]

Meanwhile they downplayed Trump constantly. Trump is the most unqualified person to be a nominee by a major political party and the media totally ignored that mostly.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:31:11am

re: #38 Targetpractice

Let’s be honest, the corporate media knew what they were doing. They thought Trump was a joke and couldn’t get elected, so they lit into Hillary with decades of axe-grinding and grudge-nursing for their failure to bring down her and Bill during the 90s. In their minds, they were just getting a head start on what they figured was going to be 4 years of finally knocking the couple down a few pegs.

Plus Trump was entertainment. Who wanted to watch a boring, efficient presidency right?//

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:31:30am

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

[Embedded content]

That is some weapons grade stupidity right there.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:32:22am

re: #26 Belafon

Re Wiring Planet Earth. So who strips the metal out and scraps it?

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:32:35am

Describe your politics with 4 people.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:33:04am

4 million test kits? Yah right..

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:33:31am

re: #42 Mescalero09

Re Wiring Planet Earth. So who strips the metal out and scraps it?

“Forget it, Jake Mescalero90 - it’s Chinatown Crazytown.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:33:50am

re: #44 Kilroy was here

4 million test kits? Yah right..

[Embedded content]

Jared is busy arranging an auction of them on E-bay.
//

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:35:22am

re: #44 Kilroy was here

4 million test kits? Yah right..

[Embedded content]

“We have so many test kits available the warehouses are so full, our people are trapped under them and cannot successfully ship them. It’s the fault of the states that didn’t send help for the helpless warehousing people. Who will think of them?”

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:36:19am

re: #45 Dr Lizardo

Bad week to have Infrastructure Week.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:36:41am

re: #44 Kilroy was here

4 million test kits? Yah right..

Not everyone needs to be tested. Fewer tests, fewer chinese virus deaths, OK? Also Google website up soon and Walgreens Dri-thru test great Parking Lots. Believe me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:36:53am

re: #48 Mescalero09

Bad week day to have Infrastructure Week.

Edited for accuracy.

/

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:37:32am

re: #44 Kilroy was here

4 million test kits? Yah right..

“I think this is a nasty question, we’re doing so much, we don’t get any credit.”

///

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:37:37am

So, went to the grocery store this morning. No too crowded. They had the checkout organized to help people social distance themselves. The only thing on my list that they didn’t have was flour. No TP, but I’m stocked up. On my way home, I drove down a part resident/part business street. Some people decorated a fence with balloons spelling out a message: You Got This. Lifted my spirits.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:40:23am

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

Edited for accuracy.

/

Bad day administration for Infrastructure Of Any Kind.

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:40:27am

And in the Crazy Side-Effects department…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:41:29am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:42:36am

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

[Embedded content]

WWG1WGA!!

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:44:42am

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Not now, crazy Yellowstone volcano.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:44:45am

re: #47 Mescalero09

You should tweet that at Pence. Hilarious but I could actually hear him saying that.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:45:09am

re: #54 makeitstop

And in the Crazy Side-Effects department…

[Embedded content]

Air quality in cities is vastly improved as well. A lot of people who don’t get killed by the virus will actually live longer! Now if we could just get a GND, and replace fossil fuel with renewable energy.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:46:25am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:46:46am

re: #59 NO SMOCKING GUN!

::: dragging out solar panel to collect some energy :::

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:47:03am

re: #60 I Would Prefer Not To

It’s that simple. Bernie lost.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:47:14am

re: #58 Patricia Kayden

You should tweet that at Pence. Hilarious but I could actually hear him saying that.

I do that and I get 3rd account smoked.

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NetworkKed  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:48:18am

Don’t sweat Yellowstone too much - the blurb I heard was that this was a new analysis of 5-year-old data.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:49:35am

re: #60 I Would Prefer Not To

[Embedded content]

“But there’s still all those states left to vote! He could win enough delegates get the nomination! Or at least enough to force a brokered convention!”

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:49:42am

re: #60 I Would Prefer Not To

Seeing more posts from Berners including my step brother beginning to roll out their rationales for not voting for Biden this Fall.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:50:13am

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I have been wondering about similar things. I remember when 9/11 happened and they grounded planes, that the daily highs and lows we’re affected by the lack of vapor trails. And when the north east lost power those few days that time, cities to the east canceled ozone alerts. I’ve been wondering if we’re seeing some effects like that now.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:50:34am

re: #43 Teddy’s Person

My politics in four images? Hmm…

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:51:53am

re: #66 Sir John Barron

Seeing more posts from Berners including my step brother beginning to roll out their rationales for not voting for Biden this Fall.

Yeah, long and short of it is the Berners who declared they wouldn’t vote for Biden are just screaming a little louder their “reasons” for not doing so. Oh, and the occasional Berner who tries to convince me he was really a supporter of [insert non-Biden candidate] until they were “betrayed” by said candidate’s endorsement of Biden and now are totally going to vote Bernie or just stay home in November.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:51:55am

re: #66 Sir John Barron

Seeing more posts from Berners including my step brother beginning to roll out their rationales for not voting for Biden this Fall.

So the Berners* are basically proving they are who a lot of people thought they were.

* - At least the vocal ones on Twitter. And I guess no one in his campaign is going to nay-say it or tell them to shut up.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:52:47am

re: #70 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

So the Berners* are basically proving they are who a lot of people thought they were.

* - At least the vocal ones on Twitter. And I guess no one in his campaign is going to nay-say it or tell them to shut up.

Fuck no, Bernie’s surrogates are doing what they do best: Stoking the flames while he just shrugs his shoulders and insists there’s nothing he can do to put a stop to it all.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:52:54am

re: #68 William Lewis

My politics in four images? Hmm…

[Embedded content]

Who’s the first/top pic?

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:54:29am

re: #72 Teddy’s Person

Who’s the first/top pic?

Michael Harrington

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:55:28am
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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:56:21am

re: #73 William Lewis

Michael Harrington

Thanks for the link so I didn’t have to google him.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:56:58am

Somewhat at odds with Trump’s “All happy talk, all the time” attempt to deny that there is even a coronavirus crisis, now comes word that Alabama & Arizona are planning to leave people with intellectual disabilities to die:

Alabama’s plan states that “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support,” according to ProPublica. It also says that “persons with severe or profound mental retardation, moderate to severe dementia, or catastrophic neurological complications such as persistent vegetative state are unlikely candidates for ventilator support.” In Arizona, medical officials are told to “allocate resources to patients whose need is greater or whose prognosis is more likely to result in a positive outcome with limited resources.”

If everything is OK, why are Red States planning to euthanize the untermensch?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:57:58am

re: #76 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Death panels.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:58:43am

re: #76 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Somewhat at odds with Trump’s “All happy talk, all the time” attempt to deny that there is even a coronavirus crisis, now comes word that Alabama & Arizona are planning to leave people with intellectual disabilities to die:

If everything is OK, why are Red States planning to euthanize the untermensch?

Pretty fucking rich shit given they’ve accused us of being pro-eugenics for years for being pro hoice.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:59:36am

re: #76 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Somewhat at odds with Trump’s “All happy talk, all the time” attempt to deny that there is even a coronavirus crisis, now comes word that Alabama & Arizona are planning to leave people with intellectual disabilities to die:

If everything is OK, why are Red States planning to euthanize the untermensch?

That’s the sanitized version. The original includes AIDS patients.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:59:37am

American right wing politics really is the worst marriage between conservative religion and Randian inspired economics.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:59:38am

re: #74 Mescalero09

Over-inflated the cat? lol

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2020 • 11:59:55am
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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:01:04pm

Not sure about Washington, but Alabama and cognitive issues sounds like ‘Bama is a goner if it gets to that.
And yes, that is gallows humor.

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:02:06pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:02:28pm

Louisiana records more deaths from Covid-19 than here in California.

Mardi Gras with coronavirus is going to result in quite a mess.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:03:54pm

Is everyone who shows up at the hospital wearing a MAGA hat automatically classified as having cognitive issues?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:04:45pm

He should be conducting the Coronavirus press conferences. Trump should shut up.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:05:06pm

re: #84 Disloyal Archangel

I’m wondering what got him all fired up this morning about General Motors and the ventilators. As recently as last night’s Hannity he didn’t care.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:05:25pm

re: #76 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Somewhat at odds with Trump’s “All happy talk, all the time” attempt to deny that there is even a coronavirus crisis, now comes word that Alabama & Arizona are planning to leave people with intellectual disabilities to die:

If everything is OK, why are Red States planning to euthanize the untermensch?

Hmmm……that sounds so familiar.

Oh, yeah! That’s where I heard that before:

“This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 Reichsmark during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too.”
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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:05:28pm

re: #87 Patricia Kayden

He should be conducting the Coronavirus press conferences. Trump should shut up.

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But how would that help get Trump re-elected?

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Mike Lamb  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:05:40pm

re: #76 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Somewhat at odds with Trump’s “All happy talk, all the time” attempt to deny that there is even a coronavirus crisis, now comes word that Alabama & Arizona are planning to leave people with intellectual disabilities to die:

If everything is OK, why are Red States planning to euthanize the untermensch?

But soshoolized medicine haz the deth panelz!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:07:18pm

re: #87 Patricia Kayden

Dr Fauci’s experience is near perfect for what we are going through. DT on the other had is as was stated a f* moran.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:07:28pm

re: #88 Sir John Barron

The story came out about the Administration nixing the contract with the Bothell, WA ventilator maker who had teamed with GM to ramp up their production. Apparently said companies put in a bid to deliver a bunch over several months, but then the Administration nixed it. The story has legs, makes Trump look bad, so Trump is striking out in anger, which is all he knows how to do.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:07:32pm
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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:07:37pm

re: #75 Teddy’s Person

Thanks for the link so I didn’t have to google him.

He was an interesting man and is why I believe that the ideals of Democracy and Socialism are what we need to defeat the forces of authoritarianism on both the left and the right. Fascist reactionaries and Socialist/Communist revolutionaries are both deadly to a healthy free society. The way forward is incrementally within the established order but that doesn’t mean we can’t push hard for real progress.

Marx gave us the analysis to go behind that.

Groucho and Bugs remind us that the Trickster is the best way to bring the Creator back into the world and gain those goals with a smile on our faces, again defeating both reaction and revolution.

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:08:16pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

I’m kicking it old school with some deep cuts

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:08:42pm
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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:08:58pm

re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The story came out about the Administration nixing the contract with the Bothell, WA ventilator maker who had teamed with GM to ramp up their production. Apparently said companies put in a bid to deliver a bunch over several months, but then the Administration nixed it. The story has legs, makes Trump look bad, so Trump is striking out in anger, which is all he knows how to do.

But I’m still surprised he reacted to it.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:09:00pm

re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A bidet is an amazing invention, and in some places you can get a bidet hose attachment that fits under your sink and works much the same way.

But from what I read, they were frowned upon in many nations, including Victorian England, because they were associated with libertinism and prostitutes who used them to flush out their vaginas after entertaining customers.

Which is why this wonderfully practical device never caught on very much outside France.

My brother’s stepson has one. He says it’s marvelous.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:11:59pm

re: #98 Sir John Barron

But I’m still surprised he reacted to it.

Reacting is all he’s got right now.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:12:37pm

re: #63 Mescalero09

I do that and I get 3rd account smoked.

Fine. I’ll do it. :-)

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:15:53pm

re: #101 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Thanks for that!

😂 😂 Can’t you just hear him actually saying that as an excuse for his failings? I sure can. The lies from this administration are just as ridiculous.

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BlueGrl21  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:18:12pm

re: #99 NO SMOCKING GUN!

My brother’s stepson has one. He says it’s marvelous.

My husband’s best friend bought us one, insisting it would change our lives. Have to say, it’s a worthy purchase. Except the water can be SO COLD on the nether regions.

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jimmyvluv4u  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:18:38pm

re: #99 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I’ve got one of these, attaches between the toilet seat and the toilet. It’s been one perk of working from home!

amazon.com

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:19:52pm

NBA analyst Doris Burke has tested positive for COVID-19

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Dread Pirate  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:19:59pm

You can’t fix stupid.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:21:00pm

Our society would be better off without the super rich.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:22:17pm

re: #106 Dread Pirate

To be honest I hate being cooped up in my house but if it means that I will not get this &^%$ virus I will do it. Thank G-d for the internet and my iPad.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:22:34pm

re: #98 Sir John Barron

But I’m still surprised he reacted to it.

Really? He responds to literally everything he feels affronts him.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:22:53pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

I’m kicking it old school with some deep cuts

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:24:38pm

NY 911 callers being put on hold because the system is overwhelmed.

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:24:56pm

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:27:38pm

re: #111 NO SMOCKING GUN!

NY 911 callers being put on hold because the system is overwhelmed.

NYC EMS and NYPD are seeing many of their own sickened and calling in sick. They’re the first responders, and they’re the ones likely seeing multiple exposures without adequate protections.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:28:04pm

Sympathies to the knothole.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:30:27pm

re: #86 A Cranky One

Is everyone who shows up at the hospital wearing a MAGA hat automatically classified as having cognitive issues?

I think we should add it to a list of signifiers.

Make it like going through customs, where you have to surrender your phone and they check your social media feeds.

QAnon? Deplorable? Nazi?

“Over there please. Over on the Group W bench with the rest of the motherstabbers & fatherrapers.”

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:31:06pm

re: #76 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Somewhat at odds with Trump’s “All happy talk, all the time” attempt to deny that there is even a coronavirus crisis, now comes word that Alabama & Arizona are planning to leave people with intellectual disabilities to die:

If everything is OK, why are Red States planning to euthanize the untermensch?

I suppose we should count our blessings they’re not using the paper bag test.

(they considered putting Jews on the list, but then someone noticed that’s about 15% of the doctors)

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:31:14pm

re: #83 Mescalero09

“That’s the whole damned county right there!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:31:18pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:31:35pm

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

Thanks for that!

😂 😂 Can’t you just hear him actually saying that as an excuse for his failings? I sure can. The lies from this administration are just as ridiculous.

The only problem with that tweet was the statement itself was so long I couldn’t be a snarky as I wanted.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:32:28pm

re: #107 jaunte

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Our society would be better off without the super rich.

Can anybody name a rich real estate investor, off the top of your head? I keep thinking there’s this orange faced babboon in Washington, but I can’t quite remember his name.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:32:43pm
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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:32:53pm

Good times…

Remembering When Coronavirus Was Contained | The Daily Show

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:33:00pm

re: #120 Skip Intro

Can anybody name a rich real estate investor, off the top of your head? I keep thinking there’s this orange faced babboon in Washington, but I can’t quite remember his name.

And his son-in-law.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:33:26pm

re: #120 Skip Intro

Can anybody name a rich real estate investor, off the top of your head? I keep thinking there’s this orange faced babboon in Washington, but I can’t quite remember his name.

Carlos Slim, but he’s from Mexico.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:33:47pm

re: #123 sagehen

And his daughter and his sons.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:34:02pm

re: #120 Skip Intro

Can anybody name a rich real estate investor, off the top of your head? I keep thinking there’s this orange faced babboon in Washington, but I can’t quite remember his name.

Don’t worry, if he loses the election you’ll see 90% of America acting that way in nine months.

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BigPapa  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:35:13pm

re: #122 Kilroy was here

‘ARE YOU NOT CONTAINED?’

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:35:46pm

re: #120 Skip Intro

Can anybody name a rich real estate investor, off the top of your head? I keep thinking there’s this orange faced babboon in Washington, but I can’t quite remember his name.

He’s the most famous right now, but the largest house in Dallas is owned by a real estate developer.

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jeffreyw  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:36:00pm

re: #64 NetworkKed

Don’t sweat Yellowstone too much - the blurb I heard was that this was a new analysis of 5-year-old data.

Yeah, but… they were saying eruption, maybe, in 5 years!
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BigPapa  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:37:54pm

re: #28 Targetpractice

Has the Masshole explained himself?

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:41:48pm

re: #127 BigPapa

‘ARE YOU NOT CONTAINED?’

+1

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:43:45pm

re: #130 BigPapa

Has the Masshole explained himself?

Something to do with the debt he gave not the least bit of a shit about when he was giving away trillions to his party’s donors.

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uriel  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:45:36pm

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

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Only kind of joking:

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jeffreyw  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:45:42pm

re: #81 PhillyPretzel

Over-inflated the cat? lol

These things happen!
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austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:46:42pm

re: #106 Dread Pirate

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You can’t fix stupid.

Seems like an auto-correction in progress, right there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:47:37pm

re: #94 lawhawk

Trump still pushing his xenophobic and racist nonsense that his base buys irrespective of the fact that covid19 is spreading uncontrolled across the US thanks in no small part to Trump’s absolute failure to push aggressive testing at every point during this crisis.

He called it a fucking hoax

He told us it would go away

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:47:48pm

re: #106 Dread Pirate

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You can’t fix stupid.

Allah will protect them./

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:48:42pm

re: #138 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Allah will protect them./

And if Allah doesn’t the usual suspects will be blamed.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:49:48pm

Heh, looks like Alex Jones is on the hook for legal fees because of his Sandy Hook frivolous lawsuit appeal:

That means that Jones has now been assessed nearly $150,000 in legal fees in two cases — one for defamation and another for intentional infliction of emotional distress — brought by Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was one of the 20 first-graders killed along with six school staff members in the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Jones and others on his InfoWars conspiracy news site have portrayed the mass shooting as a hoax.

Heslin’s lawsuit contends that a June 2017 report by InfoWars reporter Owen Shroyer — which claimed that Heslin could not have held his dead son in his arms as he has said — was based on a deceptively edited interview with a medical examiner and was intended to buttress the InfoWars narrative that the mass shooting was not what it appeared to be. Shroyer is also named in the suit.

statesman.com

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uriel  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:50:18pm

How is this not a biger story? He’s actively encouraging third parties to take out another country’s leader:

rawstory.com

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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:51:06pm

Nothing to see here—move along:

A longtime Republican fundraiser sent an email to his clients on Thursday abruptly announcing that he would no longer be working for them.

The reason: He saw an opportunity to capitalize on the coronavirus response.

“I don’t want to overstate, but we probably represent the largest global supply chain for Covid-19 supplies right now,” he said. “We are getting ready to fill 100 million-unit mask orders.”

The company, Blue Flame Medical LLC, was formed Monday in Delaware, according to state records. Its website says it sells coronavirus testing kits, N95 respirator masks, “a wide selection” of personal protective equipment and other “hard to find medical supplies to beat the outbreak.”

And, such a warm, friendly close…

“After this email, I will be unreachable,” he wrote. “I wish you the best of luck in politics and life.”

SPIT.

politico.com

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Dread Pirate  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:53:03pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:54:11pm

re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He called it a fucking hoax

He told us it would go away

at some point his own goddamned videos have to stick

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:54:56pm

re: #144 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

at some point his own goddamned videos have to stick

not if he can get them suppressed

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:54:57pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

Heh, looks like Alex Jones is on the hook for legal fees because of his Sandy Hook frivolous lawsuit appeal:

statesman.com

note this:

That means that Jones has now been assessed nearly $150,000 in legal fees in two cases

is before the trial has even started

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Dread Pirate  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:55:34pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:55:56pm
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:56:10pm

re: #120 Skip Intro

Kushner (his family)
Owner of MSG - he who should not be named for fucking up the Knicks for 20+ years (James Dolan - he owns MSG, which is probably worth a billion dollars by itself)

Spitzer (the Spitzer of Eliot Spitzer infamy)
Mendik (owns Vornado realty)
We have a lot of these reprehensible real estate families in NYC metro.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:56:17pm

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:57:18pm

re: #26 Belafon

Someone posted this seriously to nextdoor:

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I find that the author’s use of “most likely” only enhances his credibility.

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danarchy  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:59:04pm

re: #141 uriel

How is this not a biger story? He’s actively encouraging third parties to take out another country’s leader:

rawstory.com

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Well the majority of nations recognize Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuala. So by that standard Maduro is just a very powerful drug kingpin.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 12:59:58pm

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

not if he can get them suppressed

You forget. The Internet is forever. Those videos are on servers in numerous other Countries that this (mal)administration can’t touch. Not to mention they are also saved on millions of personal computers. They will be like dandelions. You can suppress them in one area and they WILL pop up someplace else.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:00:57pm
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:01:06pm

Forget 1400 or even 1450 deaths; we’re going to zoom right past that and top 1500 before the day is over. We’re going to have well over 100k cases too.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:01:35pm

Trump praising Maddow…we have officially entered the vortex.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:03:07pm

re: #153 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

You forget. The Internet is forever. Those videos are on servers in numerous other Countries that this (mal)administration can’t touch. Not to mention they also saved on millions of personal computers. They will be like dandelions. You can suppress them in one area and they WILL pop up someplace else.

oh hell they were televised ‘news conferences’ from the white house

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:04:47pm

re: #155 lawhawk

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Forget 1400 or even 1450 deaths; we’re going to zoom right past that and top 1500 before the day is over. We’re going to have well over 100k cases too.

“Rallying a nation” is an odd way of furthering the divide by accusing everybody and their dog that is not kissing his ass of perpetuating a hoax to hurt his presidency.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:06:07pm

re: #155 lawhawk

100,000 cases just flew past the ticker:

7,000 new cases, statewide total nearly 45,000; death toll jumps to 519 from 385

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Interesting Times  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:06:28pm

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump praising Maddow…we have officially entered the vortex.

Wait, WHAT?? How would he even be able to follow even the first five minutes of her show? Too many big words and not enough pictures, for one…

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:07:46pm

re: #155 lawhawk

What nation is he unifying because it sure the hell isn’t this one,

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:07:50pm

re: #158 Targetpractice

“Rallying a nation” is an odd way of furthering the divide by accusing everybody and their dog that is not kissing his ass of perpetuating a hoax to hurt his presidency.

he had that chance.
as andrew sullivan sort of pointed out in #16 above

any president with half a set of brains and political talent could have done it

we’re stuck with a rank amateur and sociopath

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danarchy  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:10:34pm

This is a disturbing poll, I think it is the first time I have seen his approval rating above water in a poll that is not rasmussen.

docs.google.com

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:11:10pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:12:47pm

re: #162 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

he had that chance.
as andrew sullivan sort of pointed out in #16 above

any president with half a set of brains and political talent could have done it

we’re stuck with a rank amateur and sociopath

Yes, it was an opportunity to rally the people, but he took it as an assault on the economy, which he saw as the only way to win. And that fixation is gonna cost us both the economy and a lot of avoidable fatalities and illnesses.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:14:42pm

re: #163 danarchy

This is a disturbing poll, I think it is the first time I have seen his approval rating above water in a poll that is not rasmussen.

docs.google.com

I love polls as much as the next person, but GWB went from around 50% to over 90% after 9/11. He’s barely scratching positive territory.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:14:42pm

re: #157 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

oh hell they were televised ‘news conferences’ from the white house

True. But I am under the impression we are talking about the Biden commercials like this one that tRump world is trying to suppress.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:15:46pm

re: #163 danarchy

This is a disturbing poll, I think it is the first time I have seen his approval rating above water in a poll that is not rasmussen.

docs.google.com

A mild “rally around the flag” effect. It won’t last.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:15:57pm

Had to post this again. Just too damn good.
bbl

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:16:36pm

re: #163 danarchy

This is a disturbing poll, I think it is the first time I have seen his approval rating above water in a poll that is not rasmussen.

docs.google.com

Two points: It’s the “rally round the flag” effect in action and he’s in the early weeks of a national crisis and he’s barely budged above his previous ceiling of 43-44%. For comparison’s sack, Carter went from 39% to 53% in the weeks immediately after the Hostage Crisis began.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:21:30pm

re: #170 Targetpractice

Two points: It’s the “rally round the flag” effect in action and he’s in the early weeks of a national crisis and he’s barely budged above his previous ceiling of 43-44%. For comparison’s sack, Carter went from 39% to 53% in the weeks immediately after the Hostage Crisis began.

There’s also a not insignificant amount of cognitive dissonance going on, especially among GOPers who think Fauci is trustworthy, but Trump is too. That can’t be true, because Trump consistently contradicts whatever Fauci says. Even when Fauci tries to slow roll things to stay relevant, Trump contradicts almost immediately.

So there’s that.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:21:33pm

Guess someone helped him with the numbers..

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:21:59pm

re: #167 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And in the time that was done, the body count is now over 1500 and 100k sickened.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:22:36pm

re: #167 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Now that is a kick ass campaign ad.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:23:00pm

re: #173 lawhawk

And in the time that was done, the body count is now over 1500 and 100k sickened.

I wonder where it will be by the time we vote?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:23:13pm

re: #171 lawhawk

There’s also a not insignificant amount of cognitive dissonance going on, especially among GOPers who think Fauci is trustworthy, but Trump is too. That can’t be true, because Trump consistently contradicts whatever Fauci says. Even when Fauci tries to slow roll things to stay relevant, Trump contradicts almost immediately.

So there’s that.

Correct

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:24:10pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

Shroyer is also named in the suit.

That’s good that a soldier in disinformation gets walloped - those morons in Fox can now be drawn and quartered for their bullshit they spread.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:25:59pm

re: #172 Kilroy was here

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Guess someone helped him with the numbers..

So after weeks of excuses for not taking action, and then days of whining that if he used the DPA it would hurt the “free market,” he finally takes action after finding out that the “free market” doesn’t expect to do anything for free.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:26:11pm

re: #173 lawhawk

And in the time that was done, the body count is now over 1500 and 100k sickened.

Yep. And it’s only going to get higher.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:26:45pm

ah but you knew…………

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:27:20pm

re: #180 Mescalero09

ah but you knew…………

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Typical.

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:27:54pm

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

not if he can get them suppressed

Not happening. It would be the mother of all First Amendment court cases.

And he would lose.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:28:59pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Not happening. It would be the mother of all First Amendment court cases.

And he would lose.

Will not prevent him from trying…at least until November.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:29:36pm

re: #180 Mescalero09

ah but you knew…………

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He is such a petty motherfucker.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:29:51pm

The title “Leader Of The Free World” will have to be either dropped, given to the real leader or wrested back from the Mob.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:30:43pm

re: #185 Mescalero09

The title “Leader Of The Free World” will have to be either dropped, given to the real leader or wrested back from the Mob.

I thought Justin Trudeau already had it?

//

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:31:20pm

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

I thought Justin Trudeau already had it?

//

I am slower than I once was….

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:31:30pm

In the realm of damning with faint praise, after watching Thomas Massie, I can say that my Congressman, Andy Barr, isn’t the biggest dumbass in Congress from Kentucky.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:33:18pm

re: #170 Targetpractice

Two points: It’s the “rally round the flag” effect in action and he’s in the early weeks of a national crisis and he’s barely budged above his previous ceiling of 43-44%. For comparison’s sack, Carter went from 39% to 53% in the weeks immediately after the Hostage Crisis began.

Also, the crisis isn’t really hitting evenly yet, not in a way that is going to drive home the seriousness of the situation to everyone. At the moment, understanding how Trump has fucked up requires that you look at reality and think critically about it.

In another few weeks, it’s going to be a lot more obvious to (more) people what’s going on.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:33:31pm

re: #188 NO SMOCKING GUN!

In the realm of damning with faint praise, after watching Thomas Massie, I can say that my Congressman, Andy Barr, isn’t the biggest dumbass in Congress from Kentucky.

Who’s running against Barr since Lt Colonel McGrath has her eyes on Mitch and I really think she can win that thing too.

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:34:59pm

So legitimate question…
If they are gonna put soldiers along the Canada/us border…have they thought of how the akwasasne mohawk native American tribe is going to react? They are major stake holders and owner of part of the border crossing here in very north New York. They shut down the border when Canada wanted to arm their border patrol.
Has anyone asked their opinion I wonder….because it is a fairly big voice in the area.

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:35:20pm

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Will not prevent him from trying…at least until November.

Let him try all he wants. The reaction to him trying to C&D those ads is the ads going viral all over the web.

What’s he gonna do? Sue everyone who re-tweeted an ad?

They are not going away. He might think he can do it, but he also thought he could wish COVID-19 away.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:35:32pm

re: #190 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Who’s running against Barr since Lt Colonel McGrath has her eyes on Mitch and I really think she can win that thing too.

I don’t even know.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:36:15pm

re: #191 nowherenorth2

So legitimate question…
If they are gonna put soldiers along the Canada/us border…have they thought of how the akwasasne mohawk native American tribe is going to react? They are major stake holders and owner of part of the border crossing here in very north New York. They shut down the border when Canada wanted to arm their border patrol.
Has anyone asked their opinion I wonder….because it is a fairly big voice in the area.

You can bet Trump didn’t ask.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:36:23pm

re: #193 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I don’t even know.

I’ll look on ballotpedia.

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:37:15pm

re: #194 NO SMOCKING GUN!

They do not take kindly to not having a voice in affairs that affect them.
This could get interesting

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:37:15pm

re: #163 danarchy

This is a disturbing poll, I think it is the first time I have seen his approval rating above water in a poll that is not rasmussen.

docs.google.com

About Trump’s Approval Rating…

At the moment, Donald Trump’s approval rating is holding steady, and perhaps even inching up a bit…

Both writers point, in particular, to the latest Gallup poll, which has Trump with a 49% approval rating. Even on its surface, however, this “analysis” is, to be blunt, silly…

In fact, his numbers right now are almost exactly the same as they’ve been all year, moving around within the margin of error, and between his usual very low ceiling and usual very high floor.

…the interesting thing is not how high it is (or how it’s on an upward trend). No, the interesting thing is actually how low it is.

Whatever gains a president makes during a crisis usually recede afterward.

…—it’s called the rally ‘round the flag effect. And as we point out above, we think the real story of Trump’s numbers right now is that there’s either no rally going on right now…or if there is, how incredibly modest that rally is.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:38:36pm

re: #191 nowherenorth2

I spent most of my life in Canada no more than an hour from the U.S. border. It was always taken for granted that we could cross freely and that this was one of the greatest things about the close relationship between the two countries.

I used to go on annual trip with my grandparents to Lake Placid, NY. In college my buddies and I would cross to go to Football and hockey games.

The thought of a military presence at the Canada/U.S. border just fucking nauseates me.

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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:39:22pm

re: #180 Mescalero09

ah but you knew…………

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:40:39pm

re: #199 BeachDem

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Unintentional gift.

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:40:59pm

re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg

Agreed. I have gone to Cornwall aces games and many concerts in Montreal.
The reservation is there right next to the crossing. And they own Cornwall island and have successfully upheld and negotiated the treaties put forth, sometimes with threats of violence and shutting down that crossing. Putting soldiers along the border would not be the wisest of actions.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:42:05pm

re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg

I spent most of my life in Canada no more than an hour from the U.S. border. It was always taken for granted that we could cross freely and that this was one of the greatest things about the close relationship between the two countries.

I used to go on annual trip with my grandparents to Lake Placid, NY. In college my buddies and I would cross to go to Football and hockey games.

The thought of a military presence at the Canada/U.S. border just fucking nauseates me.

I hear ya. My grandparents vacationed in Canada. They both had Canadian cousins since my great grandparents had relatives that settled in Ontario. Trump really does so many things we never thought an American President was actually capable of doing.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:42:15pm

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

Now that is a kick ass campaign ad.

it’s amazing that as fast as they are churning out these kick ass ads, the numbers are almost instantly obsolete

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:42:19pm

re: #202 The Pie Overlord!

Nom, nom, nom!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:42:26pm

re: #202 The Pie Overlord!

Key Lime Pie

The key to my heart is in the shape of a lime pie

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:42:44pm

re: #202 The Pie Overlord!

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Dayum. That looks delicious.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:43:13pm

re: #204 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

it’s amazing that as fast as they are churning out these kick ass ads, the numbers are almost instantly obsolete

they will become even more dramatic when we start getting mass reports of patients being turned away for lack of facilities…

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:43:54pm

re: #202 The Pie Overlord!

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:44:12pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Not happening. It would be the mother of all First Amendment court cases.

And he would lose.

of course
they are uncut videos of him and in context
he’s being hoisted with his own words and images

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:44:16pm

re: #203 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior).
I met my biological mother in 2018 and she lives in Saskatchewan. She is appalled by this shit going on. My cousin lives in Germany and was planning a trip here for Easter and had to cancel because of it all.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:45:44pm

re: #185 Mescalero09

The title “Leader Of The Free World” will have to be either dropped, given to the real leader or wrested back from the Mob.

i think right now Merkel’s got it

(the title, not the virus)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:45:54pm

re: #211 nowherenorth2

.
I met my biological mother in 2018 and she lives in Saskatchewan. She is appalled by this shit going on. My cousin lives in Germany and was planning a trip here for Easter and had to cancel because of it all.

I will probably not be able to see my kids at Easter, they live with their mom across the border in France: not too far away (about 120 miles) but the border is currently closed and France is in total lockdown.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:46:06pm
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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:46:13pm

re: #191 nowherenorth2

So legitimate question…
If they are gonna put soldiers along the Canada/us border…have they thought of how the akwasasne mohawk native American tribe is going to react? They are major stake holders and owner of part of the border crossing here in very north New York. They shut down the border when Canada wanted to arm their border patrol.
Has anyone asked their opinion I wonder….because it is a fairly big voice in the area.

They were the major reason that Quebec dropped taxes on cigarettes back in the day that were major. They bought Miami Vice speedboats and ran back and forth the St Lawrence and just about took away the cigarette tax money from Quebec.
I traveled that region back then and they said all night you could hear them.
Quebec eventually dropped taxes on smokes.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:46:39pm

My first thought was that the headline editor will consider this a career highlight:

futurism.com

My second thought was it was a briefing to Disaster Donny.

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:46:41pm

Entirely off topic and personal, but I actually had a productive morning/early afternoon during which I got all 3 things on my to-do list done. For Day 11 of Stay at Home, that’s encouraging.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:46:53pm

re: #192 makeitstop

Let him try all he wants. The reaction to him trying to C&D those ads is the ads going viral all over the web.

What’s he gonna do? Sue everyone who re-tweeted an ad?

They are not going away. He might think he can do it, but he also thought he could wish COVID-19 away.

same strategy

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:47:09pm

re: #212 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

i think right now Merkel’s got it

and not just by default, she has really earned it, even if her party took a beating at the last election (which was not her doing, she has renounced chairmanship of the Christian Democrats and they really shot themselves in the foot over a number of issues)

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:47:11pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

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EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:48:06pm

re: #210 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

of course
they are uncut videos of him and in context
he’s being hoisted with his own words and images

Of course Trump would lose a case like this if it got to trial. The more important thing here is that the case is so frivolous that he shouldn’t be able to get a preliminary injunction to keep these ads from airing while he delays things in court.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:48:13pm

re: #214 Charles Johnson

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Probably for the best that no Dems were invited.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:48:13pm

re: #199 BeachDem

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the dems should show up anyway. with masks

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:48:27pm

re: #215 Mescalero09

New York tried to enforce taxes oncigarettes. Reservation made their own. They sell name brand and then native brand to escape the taxes.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:48:54pm

re: #220 lawhawk

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Teddy, Stanton, MLK, ??,

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:49:29pm

re: #215 Mescalero09

Lived in St Lawrence county most of my life

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:49:29pm

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I will probably not be able to see my kids at Easter, they live with their mom across the border in France: not too far away (about 120 miles) but the border is currently closed and France is in total lockdown.

I feel you, I can only see my mother on facetime.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:49:45pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:50:00pm

re: #212 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

i think right now Merkel’s got it

It took me a moment to realize it was the title and not COVID-19.

re: #217 calochortus

Entirely off topic and personal, but I actually had a productive morning/early afternoon during which I got all 3 things on my to-do list done. For Day 11 of Stay at Home, that’s encouraging.

Hooray! I’m vaguely attempting to come up with some goals for the next month because it’s pretty clear mr. klys will be working at home through at least the end of April and we share an office. Fine normally, but requires some adjusting to now. Had a really nice phone call with my dad while out on my run today though.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:50:11pm

re: #225 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I could be wrong Shimon Perez?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:50:31pm

re: #199 BeachDem

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Such a shame Rand Paul wasn’t invited.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:50:44pm

re: #217 calochortus

Entirely off topic and personal, but I actually had a productive morning/early afternoon during which I got all 3 things on my to-do list done. For Day 11 of Stay at Home, that’s encouraging.

Today:

Walked into Bacharach to shop for groceries unavailable in the village bakery and produce van. (5 miles in total, hopped the train for part of the way back. Did not even buy a ticket, as nobody is checking)

Washed, dried and replaced the bedding.

Did a bit of translation work for a customer.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:51:18pm

re: #185 Mescalero09

The title “Leader Of The Free World” will have to be either dropped, given to the real leader or wrested back from the Mob.

The Leader of the Free World is Angela Merkel, and has been for a couple of years now.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:51:49pm

re: #222 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Probably for the best that no Dems were invited.

Pelosi is 80; she must stay healthy!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:52:17pm

re: #227 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I feel you, I can only see my mother on facetime.

I got to see my kids at the end of February, right before the shit hit the fan, took them home on March 2nd, just as the outbreak started to get serious and a week before restrictions were imposed in Germany and France.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:52:24pm

re: #225 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Shimon Peres, who I’ve actually met and interviewed.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:53:05pm
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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:53:15pm

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am sorry my friend.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:53:16pm

re: #236 lawhawk

Wow. That must have been an interesting experience. :)

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:53:22pm

re: #214 Charles Johnson

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May at least one of the have the Covid-19 virus.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:53:54pm

re: #236 lawhawk

Shimon Peres, who I’ve actually met and interviewed.

I thought I recognized him but I wasn’t sure. Very cool.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:54:10pm

Because we can all use something to smile about, a story in two tweets from one of my favorite dogsledders yesterday. (She and her husband *just* got back from his attempt at the Iditarod this year.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:54:47pm

re: #228 Targetpractice

When did Trump become head of supply at hospitals?

Trump on March 19th:

“Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work, and they are doing a lot of this work. The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we’re not shipping clerks,”

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:54:48pm

re: #229 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It took me a moment to realize it was the title and not COVID-19.

Hooray! I’m vaguely attempting to come up with some goals for the next month because it’s pretty clear mr. klys will be working at home through at least the end of April and we share an office. Fine normally, but requires some adjusting to now. Had a really nice phone call with my dad while out on my run today though.

Have you kept up with your drop spindle? Now would be a good time to practice. ;)

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:56:02pm

re: #239 PhillyPretzel

It was. I was part of a group that interviewed a bunch of Israeli politicians, and even got to meet a Palestinian representative at the time (and this was as Oslo was about to become known to the world… so yeah, interesting indeed).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:56:10pm

re: #244 calochortus

Have you kept up with your drop spindle? Now would be a good time to practice. ;)

My crafting hobbies are like bunnies and continue to multiply. >.> But I may be pulling it out again soon!

(plz don’t ask how much I have spent on quilting fabric and I still don’t own a sewing machine. but I’m pretty set for when I finally get one.)

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:56:30pm

re: #202 The Pie Overlord!

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there’s pie!

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:56:48pm

re: #242 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Because we can all use something to smile about, a story in two tweets from one of my favorite dogsledders yesterday. (She and her husband *just* got back from his attempt at the Iditarod this year.)

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He should be indicted for filing a false report! Poor doggy!

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:57:11pm

re: #229 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It took me a moment to realize it was the title and not COVID-19.

Hooray! I’m vaguely attempting to come up with some goals for the next month because it’s pretty clear mr. klys will be working at home through at least the end of April and we share an office. Fine normally, but requires some adjusting to now. Had a really nice phone call with my dad while out on my run today though.

I ordered a bunch of guitar parts which should arrive next week. Whatever I end up building, it will be known as the ‘Quarantine guitar.’ :)

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:57:13pm

re: #246 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My crafting hobbies are like bunnies and continue to multiply. >.> But I may be pulling it out again soon!

(plz don’t ask how much I have spent on quilting fabric and I still don’t own a sewing machine. but I’m pretty set for when I finally get one.)

Scary how that happens.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:57:43pm

re: #250 calochortus

Scary how that happens.

…have I mentioned that the idea of a loom keeps popping up as something to consider? Yours is in part to blame.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:58:12pm

re: #251 klys (maker of Silmarils)

…have I mentioned that the idea of a loom keeps popping up as something to consider? Yours is in part to blame.

looming on the horizon?

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:58:16pm

re: #214 Charles Johnson

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these tone deaf morons dont understand that image is everything
lead by example
idiots

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:58:28pm

re: #226 nowherenorth2

Lived in St Lawrence county most of my life

Then you know what I’m talking about? It goes back maybe jfc…25 years? Back when cigarettes in South Carolina were 75 cents or less a pack. Native Americans had tax breaks for cigarettes and a very lucrative market opened up.
Down Alexandria Bay area was hot for a bit, 1000 Islands and all the hiding spots.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:58:30pm

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

looming on the horizon?

ugh have your upding, I walked right into that one.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:59:04pm

re: #172 Kilroy was here

Guess someone helped him with the numbers..

The CEO of GM probably called and said they’re not going to do it for free.

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2020 • 1:59:43pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:00:57pm

re: #229 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It took me a moment to realize it was the title and not COVID-19.

Hooray! I’m vaguely attempting to come up with some goals for the next month because it’s pretty clear mr. klys will be working at home through at least the end of April and we share an office. Fine normally, but requires some adjusting to now. Had a really nice phone call with my dad while out on my run today though.

i fixed the original

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:02:19pm

re: #226 nowherenorth2

Lived in St Lawrence county most of my life

Contraband capital; The Akwesasne Mohawk reserve is a smuggling conduit, police say

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:03:49pm

re: #251 klys (maker of Silmarils)

…have I mentioned that the idea of a loom keeps popping up as something to consider? Yours is in part to blame.

An excellent idea. Feel free to come play with mine sometime, you know, when we are all out of prison.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:04:19pm

I don’t care about the new “positive” polls for Trump.

Most of the deaths that are coming from the virus will happen without family near, with the victim unable to communicate their goodbyes by phone because of the breathing tube. Social distancing will make funerals a sad small affair, if they are allowed at all in some places.

In the coming months as the death toll skyrockets the nation will for someone to blame. The obvious target it Trump. Trump himself is already backing off of calling it the China Virus so that target is potentially removed. No, Trump will get the blame, and as hard as he tries to blame shift the truth is he was in charge. Biden’s campaign can never lose sight of that face. Hammer it home at every opportunity.

I do not want Trump to lose in November.. I want him destroyed. I never want to hear the name Trump again unless it is in a court room or obituary.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:05:13pm

re: #246 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Enough fabric for when you start quilting? Ah grasshopper, Mrs cranky could open a fabric store with her stock and yet magically more fabric arrives. And she cranks out quilts constantly.

Still practicing your harp? In your copious spare time?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:07:46pm

I do not believe it. I just heard an ice cream truck on my street.

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nowherenorth2  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:09:19pm

re: #259 Mescalero09

They always say that haha. I was around then and remember it well. I live near the massena Cornwall border crossing. Where at. Lawrence and Franklin county meet. I know all about the smuggling operation up here. It is an interesting area. The reservation is treated with respect fear and ofcourse racism here. I have high respect for my native neighbors and friends

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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:09:42pm

Finished my first full day of working from home and I think I might have been more efficient than if I was at the office. In the middle of the afternoon, my scooter shop delivered my scooter home from winter storage.

So far, the thing I miss most about working from the office is the toilet paper.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:12:43pm

re: #263 PhillyPretzel

I do not believe it. I just heard an ice cream truck on my street.

Small businesses are still hoping for customers. Being portable and being food is enticing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:12:55pm

re: #265 stpaulbear

Finished my first full day of working from home and I think I might have been more efficient than if I was at the office. In the middle of the afternoon, my scooter shop delivered my scooter home from winter storage.

So far, the thing I miss most about working from the office is the toilet paper.

Two weeks ago as I heard about the looming lockdown, I immediately ducked into the local “supermarket” (more of a mom-and-pop grocery store) in Bacharach and nabbed the last two jumbo packs of TP and a kilo of flour.

Both have all but disappeared from store shelves around here since.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:16:03pm

re: #264 nowherenorth2

They always say that haha. I was around then and remember it well. I live near the massena Cornwall border crossing. Where at. Lawrence and Franklin county meet. I know all about the smuggling operation up here. It is an interesting area. The reservation is treated with respect fear and ofcourse racism here. I have high respect for my native neighbors and friends

As I.

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ericblair  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:17:16pm

re: #261 Kilroy was here

I don’t care about the new “positive” polls for Trump.

Most of the deaths that are coming from the virus will happen without family near, with the victim unable to communicate their goodbyes by phone because of the breathing tube. Social distancing will make funerals a sad small affair, if they are allowed at all in some places.

The one thing you can count on about conservatives is that they don’t give a shit about anything unless it hits them personally or their little circle. Never fails. So this will hit just about everyone to some degree. My wife’s friend’s husband died yesterday from COVID, and I don’t think that will be the end of it. We will all be personally affected. This isn’t fucking emails.

I do not want Trump to lose in November.. I want him destroyed. I never want to hear the name Trump again unless it is in a court room or obituary.

I want the Nuremberg trials. I want the mother of all inquiries. They all need to go down.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:17:47pm

Looks like Till Lindemann of Rammstein doesn’t have COVID-19 after all.

German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN have shot down a report that singer Till Lindemann has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Earlier today, German newspaper Bild reported that Lindemann was in intensive care in a Berlin hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

Several hours after the Bild report was published, RAMMSTEIN posted a message on the band’s social media clarifying Lindemann’s condition and denying that he was infected with the new coronavirus.

RAMMSTEIN’s statement reads: “Yesterday evening Till Lindemann was admitted to a hospital on the band’s doctor’s advice. He spent the night in intensive care but has been moved as he is feeling better. Till has tested negative for the coronavirus.”

Lindemann had reportedly returned to Berlin last week after a performance in Moscow, upon which he suffered from a lung infection as well as fever, prompting his stay in intensive care.

blabbermouth.net

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:17:56pm

Ikea is on it!

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:18:19pm

re: #263 PhillyPretzel

I do not believe it. I just heard an ice cream truck on my street.

See if they have margaritas

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:19:12pm

re: #272 KGxvi

See if they have margaritas

The alcoholic beverage truck? There’s a thought!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:19:23pm

re: #272 KGxvi

It already left.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:21:58pm

Gov. Beshear asking local governments to close places like basketball courts where people aren’t practicing social distancing.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:22:27pm

re: #275 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Gov. Beshear asking local governments to close places like basketball courts where people aren’t practicing social distancing.

I think they’re starting to do that here too.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:22:56pm

see, THIS is taking quotes out of context:

New Trump Ad Uses Misleading Quotes

President Trump’s campaign released a new ad that uses sound bytes from various public figures that make it appear they are praising the president for his efforts combating the coronavirus.

YouTube

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:23:07pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:23:35pm

I am looking forward to the produce van, he shows up on Saturdays around 10.30.

Between that and the village bakery/shop, I got pretty much all the essentials covered

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:24:03pm

re: #121 lawhawk

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They’re still there because nobody will let them land and let the passengers off.

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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:24:12pm

re: #274 PhillyPretzel

It already left.

Just came down my street (didn’t know an ice cream truck could travel that far that fast—PA to SC in 15 minutes—wow)////

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:24:29pm

re: #273 calochortus

The alcoholic beverage truck? There’s a thought!

Restaurants in Southern California are doing to-go and/or delivery alcoholic beverages (apparently food purchases are required too). It’s a change from how things have been around here when it comes to alcohol sales. Usually, if the place doesn’t have a fenced/gated patio, you can’t even take alcohol outside. But local governments have been easing the restrictions.

Wonder if it’ll hold once this passes?

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:25:38pm

re: #282 KGxvi

Restaurants in Southern California are doing to-go and/or delivery alcoholic beverages (apparently food purchases are required too). It’s a change from how things have been around here when it comes to alcohol sales. Usually, if the place doesn’t have a fenced/gated patio, you can’t even take alcohol outside. But local governments have been easing the restrictions.

Wonder if it’ll hold once this passes?

I don’t know if it will continue, but they’re doing it up here in the SF Bay Area too. Presumably the whole state.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:25:39pm

re: #273 calochortus

The alcoholic beverage truck? There’s a thought!

Hey we have food trucks so why not mixed drink truck. I’ll have a whiskey ginger with lime and tacos please.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:25:58pm

Keep an eye on Brazil - they could emerge as a COVID-19 epicenter real goddamn soon.

After the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Brazil on February 25, Brazil experienced an explosion in hospital admission records for people with severe respiratory failure, according to data from Fiocruz.

That week, 662 people were hospitalized in the country with acute respiratory disease, with symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, and difficulty breathing.

In the week between March 15 and March 21, the number of new hospitalized patients had already jumped to 2,250 patients, according to the projection made based on official notifications sent by public health units and hospitals, and some private ones, from all over the world to the Ministry of Health.

Original article: www1.folha.uol.com.br

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:25:59pm

re: #282 KGxvi

Restaurants in Southern California are doing to-go and/or delivery alcoholic beverages (apparently food purchases are required too). It’s a change from how things have been around here when it comes to alcohol sales. Usually, if the place doesn’t have a fenced/gated patio, you can’t even take alcohol outside. But local governments have been easing the restrictions.

Wonder if it’ll hold once this passes?

alcohol and tobacco (and marijuana where legalized) are major tax revenue streams, cannot let them be interrupted

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Dave In Austin  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:27:17pm

If you get an Email with “Knock Knock” in the subject line, don’t open it.

The Jehovah Witnesses are on lock down and as working from home.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:29:16pm

re: #285 Dr Lizardo

Keep an eye on Brazil - they could emerge as a COVID-19 epicenter real goddamn soon.

Original article: www1.folha.uol.com.br

Mexico as well.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:31:08pm

re: #285 Dr Lizardo

Keep an eye on Brazil - they could emerge as a COVID-19 epicenter real goddamn soon.

Original article: www1.folha.uol.com.br

Brazil and Mississippi.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:31:34pm

Gov. Beshear asking people to not go to Tennessee to restaurants which have not been closed.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:32:47pm

Good night, Lizards. Have fun and stay healthy.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:33:14pm

So this video has been making the rounds on my local Facebook, from a nearby state senator:

Facebook Video

It’s really bugging me in several ways, with improper statistical techniques applied throughout. I get that everyone is sick of social distancing and no one wants to stay home, but isn’t it better to err on the side of caution? This is one of those, “Yeah, the economy is being damaged, but the damage to be done if the predictions are correct is SO MUCH WORSE, and the likelihood of that happening is SO HIGH, that we have no rational choice.”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:33:22pm

54 new cases in Ky today, after 50 new cases yesterday.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:33:29pm

re: #188 NO SMOCKING GUN!

In the realm of damning with faint praise, after watching Thomas Massie, I can say that my Congressman, Andy Barr, isn’t the biggest dumbass in Congress from Kentucky.

Yarmouth is the only one who makes us look good

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:33:47pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:34:13pm
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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:34:19pm

re: #242 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Because we can all use something to smile about, a story in two tweets from one of my favorite dogsledders yesterday. (She and her husband *just* got back from his attempt at the Iditarod this year.)

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Flame: “J’accuse!”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:35:52pm

A 70 yo and 77 yo died of coronavirus in Ky today.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:36:22pm

re: #283 calochortus

I don’t know if it will continue, but they’re doing it up here in the SF Bay Area too. Presumably the whole state.

It is statewide and it is absolutely the best thing to come out of this so far. I want it to stay.

(I was so grateful because I was really looking forward to our planned cheat day with a margarita from our favorite local place last week and then the statewide shutdown happened but then this and we were able to get them to go and it was like Christmas.)

re: #262 A Cranky One

Enough fabric for when you start quilting? Ah grasshopper, Mrs cranky could open a fabric store with her stock and yet magically more fabric arrives. And she cranks out quilts constantly.

Still practicing your harp? In your copious spare time?

That has been on hold, I’m afraid. I’m very good at tackling my normal to do list but I need to be better about putting together the “fun and hobbies” to do list and actually doing some of those?

And I have heard stories of this from various quilters. I may have visited two quilt stores in the same small town in Oregon on our road trip just before this all started and ended up showing the one fabric I’d bought at the other. She may not have regarded that as the most helpful since she decided she needed some of it too. Oops. (I, of course, had to support both, and got a lovely selection of blue batiks there.)

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:38:10pm

Ky has 1352 ventilators. I hope to Dog we don’t need more.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:38:22pm

re: #296 teleskiguy

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Won’t ever fire Hannity tho.

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:38:31pm

re: #278 Charles Johnson

I keep forgetting that Trump is a Jackson fanboy. And everytime I get a reminder with an Oval Office pic, it annoys me all over again.

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:39:13pm

re: #300 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Ky has 1352 ventilators. I hope to Dog we don’t need more.

Trump has said each hospital only needs a couple, so you’ll be fine,
/////////////

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:39:29pm

re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

alcohol and tobacco (and marijuana where legalized) are major tax revenue streams, cannot let them be interrupted

On marijuana, here in California, there’s some talk that it’s a bit too highly taxed and/or that the system is too regulated (thus keeping people out of the legalized system) and actually helping the black market.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:39:42pm

re: #302 KGxvi

I keep forgetting that Trump is a Jackson fanboy. And everytime I get a reminder with an Oval Office pic, it annoys me all over again.

That’s Bannon’s influence on him.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:39:45pm

re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

alcohol and tobacco (and marijuana where legalized) are major tax revenue streams, cannot let them be interrupted

My home state has put the kibosh on cigar and tobacco stores - only marijuana stores can dispense from the curbside.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:40:24pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:40:47pm

Ooo, the county has updated with its shiny new website. There are 32 new cases and one new death. They say 75% of the deaths had one or more comorbidities. Total number of confirmed cases here is 574.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:40:54pm

re: #304 KGxvi

On marijuana, here in California, there’s some talk that it’s a bit too highly taxed and/or that the system is too regulated (thus keeping people out of the legalized system) and actually helping the black market.

It should be taxed reasonably to deny business to the black market.

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:41:12pm

re: #296 teleskiguy

Turns out circuses don’t like the killer clowns, just the “funny” ones.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:41:25pm

re: #307 The Pie Overlord!

My mouth is watering. That looks absolutely delicious.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:42:49pm

Trump administration pushes for important questions to be answered before Covid-19 patients get access to respirators;

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:42:51pm

re: #308 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Ooo, the county has updated with its shiny new website. There are 32 new cases and one new death. They say 75% of the deaths had one or more comorbidities. Total number of confirmed cases here is 574.

Minnesota added 59 new cases, 2 new deaths to bring it to 400 and 4 out of 14000 tested. The MDH was struggling last week to get through its backlog of tests; Mayo Clinic and other private clinics stepped in, and now I believe we’re all caught up on testing.

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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:43:29pm

This song playing on the radio right now.

The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind (French TV, 1967) 1080p HD

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:43:51pm

re: #292 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

So this video has been making the rounds on my local Facebook, from a nearby state senator:

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It’s really bugging me in several ways, with improper statistical techniques applied throughout. I get that everyone is sick of social distancing and no one wants to stay home, but isn’t it better to err on the side of caution? This is one of those, “Yeah, the economy is being damaged, but the damage to be done if the predictions are correct is SO MUCH WORSE, and the likelihood of that happening is SO HIGH, that we have no rational choice.”

just look here - this is harrowing

A new tool from the University of Washington projects when the coronavirus outbreak will peak in each of the 50 states and how bad it’ll get.

‘sick of social distancing’. like is some kind of fucking hardship (economics aside)
havent any of these people been sick in bed for a week or 2? (in the US, considering we only just started)

it’s inconvenient. it’s maybe annoying and irritating. what it is not is a damn catastrophe

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:43:54pm

Time magazine leaving out some important info:

Utilizing Defense Production Act, President Trump Seeks to Force General Motors to Produce Ventilators

The Detroit automaker is farthest along in the effort to make more of the critical breathing machines. It’s working with Ventec Life Systems, a small Seattle-area ventilator maker to increase the company’s production and repurpose a GM auto electronics plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to make the machines. The company said Friday it could build 10,000 ventilators per month starting in April with potential to make even more.

What Time leaves out: Ventec and GM had already bid on supplying the government thousands of ventilators when the gov’t put out a request with a short 24 hour turn around to bet bids in. But the Administration rejected the bid because they thought the cost was too high. So now, after that mess up, Trump uses his office’s power to produce the ventilators. Ventec and GM could have been farther along if the Administration would have just done the contract initially.

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:44:18pm

re: #301 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Won’t ever fire Hannity tho.

I thought the same thing about O’Reilly. But if/when Hannity starts costing them ad money (and/or is the nexus of some employment lawsuits), he’ll get the boot too. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Carlson is next out the door… from what I last read, most of his ads are the “buy gold/special coins” type./

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:44:22pm

re: #308 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I will say this is a nicely done presentation. Being able to see the total case count increase is useful. (And if we can keep the increase low it is possible we’re starting to see the curve flatten. But like I’ve said before, multiple days in a row of that required.)

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:45:52pm

re: #314 stpaulbear

Back when a radio was EVERYTHING.

The Seeds - Pushin’ Too Hard.

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:46:22pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:46:33pm

re: #300 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Ky has 1352 ventilators. I hope to Dog we don’t need more.

look at the link i posted at lgf

it does total beds, icu beds, and ventilator projections state by state

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:46:37pm

re: #315 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

just look here - this is harrowing

‘sick of social distancing’. like is some kind of fucking hardship (economics aside)
havent any of these people been sick in bed for a week or 2? (in the US, considering we only just started)

it’s inconvenient. it’s maybe annoying and irritating. what it is not is a damn catastrophe

Oh, I agree with all of this. It’s a no-brainer to me. I’m just trying to figure out how I, a mere tech hand, can speak out against a goddamn Minnesota State Senator and family practitioner who is pretending to use his power and expertise in other areas to claim to be an epidemiologist.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:47:42pm

Oregon may have a handle on this.

Social distancing as best we can.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:48:01pm

re: #315 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

just look here - this is harrowing

‘sick of social distancing’. like is some kind of fucking hardship (economics aside)
havent any of these people been sick in bed for a week or 2? (in the US, considering we only just started)

it’s inconvenient. it’s maybe annoying and irritating. what it is not is a damn catastrophe

Gov. Beshear begging people not to travel.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:49:07pm

re: #307 The Pie Overlord!

in response someone posted:

so here’s a public service:
- chicken
- potatoes
- cook

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:49:42pm

re: #312 Mescalero09

Trump administration pushes for important questions to be answered before Covid-19 patients get access to respirators;

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And “Can you prove it”.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:51:13pm

re: #321 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

look at the link i posted at lgf

it does total beds, icu beds, and ventilator projections state by state

Thanks. Ky projected to be ok

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:51:51pm

The good news, to me at least, is that the governor is absolutely taking this seriously, and relying on sound science and modeling/projections to prepare our state for war. We just opened our first dedicated coronavirus hospital today, with 90 ICU-capable rooms in a state that only needs 250 more to be able to weather the storm. I think we’re going to make it.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:54:17pm

City just sent out a notice that the mayor and police chief have COVID 19.

Second largest city in Illinois. Shit.

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EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:54:41pm

re: #328 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The good news, to me at least, is that the governor is absolutely taking this seriously, and relying on sound science and modeling/projections to prepare our state for war. We just opened our first dedicated coronavirus hospital today, with 90 ICU-capable rooms in a state that only needs 250 more to be able to weather the storm. I think we’re going to make it.

That is a strength of the US system. State governors can’t be completely hobbled by a worthless/harmful US president.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:56:26pm

Trump using the dictator’s playbook. Stalin purposely let millions of Ukrainians starved to death in the “Holodomor.” the Ethiopian Communist Regime, the Derg, withheld famine aid from it’s rebellious province Tigray, letting hundreds of thousands die.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:56:51pm

re: #330 EPR-radar

That is a strength of the US system. State governors can’t be completely hobbled by a worthless/harmful US president.

Governor Walz impressed me in his Wednesday virtual press conference. He spoke intelligently, knew his stuff, and was direct and to the point.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:56:56pm
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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2020 • 2:57:39pm

re: #283 calochortus

I don’t know if it will continue, but they’re doing it up here in the SF Bay Area too. Presumably the whole state.

Wino: “Gimme a bottle of Mad Dog.”
Cashier: “You can’t buy wine without food anymore.”
Wino: “Awright, awright. Give me the duck with pommes dauphines. And the Chateau Lafite, ‘82. And two cans of sterno for a chaser.”

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:01:31pm

who has a handle on it maybe?

south korea
china

who doesnt have a goddamned clue:

united states

i weep for what’s happened to the collective intelligence of this nation

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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:01:41pm

re: #319 Mescalero09

Back when a radio was EVERYTHING.

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There’s an oldies station in the Twin Cities that started up not too long ago and grabbed the call letters from one of the TC’s two classic 60’s AM stations, WDGY. They’re low budget to the point that they only have two non-shouty DJs (one for morning drive and one for evening drive). All of the ads are for local businesses and low tech. They overplay a lot of songs, but it’s still pretty good. Definitely a throw-back experience.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:01:57pm

re: #333 jaunte

In our rehearsals last night, our camera operator was told that we’ve been instructed to frame shots to illustrate that we are practicing proper social distancing on stage. (There’s plenty of room for the full band to stand 6’ apart.)

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:05:17pm

re: #314 stpaulbear

They’re not well enough known. Of course, George Young’s - the rhythm guitar player - brothers Angus & Malcom had a band that was a bit better known.

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cat-tikvah  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:06:36pm

re: #269 ericblair

NO ONE SKATES.
I agree - I want Nuremberg trials.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:10:56pm

My brother just pointed me to a military satire site. Headlines include things like:

DoD quietly pulls bat tartare MRE from circulation

And

F-35 tests positive for Coronavirus

But this is what he pointed me to:

Ah…jaded military satire…
duffelblog.com

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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:11:41pm

‘We were not given a warning’: New Orleans mayor says federal inaction informed Mardi Gras decision ahead of covid-19 outbreak

NEW ORLEANS — More than a million dancing, singing, bead-catching celebrants packed the streets of the French Quarter and other venues across this city in the weeks leading up to the sprawling open-air party that is Mardi Gras.

There was little worry during the February festivities about the new virus that had infected a few dozen people in other parts of the country. The city’s top health official believed the flu “is far more dangerous right now than the coronavirus,” she told the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate newspaper.

Thirteen days later, on March 9, Louisiana reported its first case of covid-19. Then came another, and another. Clusters broke out in several nursing homes. The cases popping up across the state were not easily linked to each other, meaning that a galloping community spread was already underway.

washingtonpost.com

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Kilroy was here  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:15:43pm

What is a ventilator and why is there a shortage?

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:18:08pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:18:49pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:25:05pm

I need to go to the ATM and to the grocery store. I bought a 1/2 gallon of milk a little too soon and this morning it was right on the edge. I don’t want to have to use it tomorrow. Also I’m going thru peanut butter pretty fast. Maybe I’ll luck out and get some TP.

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CleverToad  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:25:30pm

re: #246 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My crafting hobbies are like bunnies and continue to multiply. >.> But I may be pulling it out again soon!

(plz don’t ask how much I have spent on quilting fabric and I still don’t own a sewing machine. but I’m pretty set for when I finally get one.)

Hand-piecing is a thing… (A very time-consuming thing, but I’ve seen some gorgeous quilts and hangings by my mom’s old quilting buddies.)

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:31:47pm

Well, Valencia County just reported its first official COVID-19 case, a 70 year old man in an unidentified community. While this county is small by New Mexican standards, I think my little village may have the largest population in the county. We certainly have a much larger population than the City of Belen. If I had to guess, I would suspect that the victim is probably somewhere in the stretch between Isleta Pueblo and Belen (Isleta Pueblo, Bosque Farms, Peralta, Los Lunas, Tome, Adelino, Las Chavez, Rio Communities, and Belen).

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:32:17pm

re: #346 stpaulbear

I need to go to the ATM and to the grocery store. I bought a 1/2 gallon of milk a little too soon and this morning it was right on the edge. I don’t want to have to use it tomorrow. Also I’m going thru peanut butter pretty fast. Maybe I’ll luck out and get some TP.

If your milk isn’t sour it’s fine.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:32:40pm

But you did know what “America” he wanted to be “First” from the start.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:35:08pm

For some reason this song started going through my head, and I’d forgotten how strange the chord progressions were for the time.

The Warmth Of The Sun (Remastered)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:38:23pm

Nebraska update: All new cases are in eastern and central Nebraska.

LINCOLN -Tonight’s count for COVID-19 cases in the State is 81. New cases were reported by the following local health departments:

Douglas County Health Department
South Heartland District Health Department ,
Two Rivers Public Health Department ,
Sarpy/Cass Health Department ,
Central District Health Department.

Recent data shows that the virus is also affecting younger people. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said 20% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 in the U.S. were 20-44 years old.

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Coronavirus Page

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:39:11pm

Sail On, Sailor (Remastered 2000)

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:39:27pm

Rockwall is now reporting three cases.

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CleverToad  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:39:32pm

re: #262 A Cranky One

Enough fabric for when you start quilting? Ah grasshopper, Mrs cranky could open a fabric store with her stock and yet magically more fabric arrives. And she cranks out quilts constantly.

Still practicing your harp? In your copious spare time?

re: #299 klys (maker of Silmarils)

And I have heard stories of this from various quilters. I may have visited two quilt stores in the same small town in Oregon on our road trip just before this all started and ended up showing the one fabric I’d bought at the other. She may not have regarded that as the most helpful since she decided she needed some of it too. Oops. (I, of course, had to support both, and got a lovely selection of blue batiks there.)

“The one who dies with the most fabric wasn’t quilting fast enough”

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:41:02pm

re: #346 stpaulbear

I need to go to the ATM and to the grocery store. I bought a 1/2 gallon of milk a little too soon and this morning it was right on the edge. I don’t want to have to use it tomorrow. Also I’m going thru peanut butter pretty fast. Maybe I’ll luck out and get some TP.

I made my twice a week run out to see the wife, mil and bil. Everyone is doing fine, super glad to have them tucked away. We are trading home-cooked food. Took them a couple of quarts of slow cooker beef stew, got a couple of homemade spaghetti sauce.

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:43:44pm
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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:44:10pm

re: #353 Charles Johnson

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My god, that song reminded me of albusteve.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:45:45pm

re: #347 CleverToad

Hand-piecing is a thing… (A very time-consuming thing, but I’ve seen some gorgeous quilts and hangings by my mom’s old quilting buddies.)

Noooooooooo. Not going down that road. Not yet. Straight lines only. Simple stuff.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:48:54pm

I can’t stand to listen to Trump very long.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:51:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:52:01pm

re: #79 Decatur Deb

That’s the sanitized version. The original includes AIDS patients.

It won’t be long until they throw people like me back into the old “feebleminded” category.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:53:52pm
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Eventual Carrion  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:54:23pm

re: #142 BeachDem

Nothing to see here—move along:

A longtime Republican fundraiser sent an email to his clients on Thursday abruptly announcing that he would no longer be working for them.

The reason: He saw an opportunity to capitalize on the coronavirus response.

[snip]

The company, Blue Flame Medical LLC, was formed Monday in Delaware, according to state records. Its website says it sells coronavirus testing kits, N95 respirator masks, “a wide selection” of personal protective equipment and other “hard to find medical supplies to beat the outbreak.”

And, such a warm, friendly close…

“After this email, I will be unreachable,” he wrote. “I wish you the best of luck in politics and life.”

SPIT.

politico.com

Gotta get some of that sweet $500 BILLION!

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:55:47pm

facebook.com

Iframe

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:56:52pm
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:58:18pm
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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:58:20pm

Answer?
BEG ME

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:59:09pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 27, 2020 • 3:59:52pm

re: #300 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Ky has 1352 ventilators. I hope to Dog we don’t need more.

When I lived in Lexington a few years ago I walked or biked by the UK Hospital often twice a day. There was always a reliable crowd of patients outside smoking, many with oxygen assist. Lots of nurses and a few doctors, too.

So, I’d say, no problem! //

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:00:19pm

re: #254 Mescalero09

Then you know what I’m talking about? It goes back maybe jfc…25 years? Back when cigarettes in South Carolina were 75 cents or less a pack. Native Americans had tax breaks for cigarettes and a very lucrative market opened up.
Down Alexandria Bay area was hot for a bit, 1000 Islands and all the hiding spots.

I know that crossing and area somewhat as well. Lived in Massena from ‘73 to ‘81 and went to high school there.

In the winter they would also just drive across the ice and not use the bridges once the river froze thickly enough.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:01:23pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:06:27pm

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:06:44pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:07:57pm

I’d really like to see severe pushback vs. this latest outrage from Trump of conditioning Federal support to the states based on the amount of pro-Trump groveling the state level officials do.

A banner headline in the NYT “Have you no decency, Mr. President?” would be a good start.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:08:12pm

re: #94 lawhawk

My guess it’s more likely any such troops would not be used to keep Canadians out.

Pat Roberson proposed this when he ran for President; his idea was to keep “secularists” in - that is, not Christians, so they could be rounded up.

Republicans have never given up on that.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:09:06pm

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:09:35pm

Trump’s sadistic streak on full view.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:09:39pm
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:11:19pm
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:11:54pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:12:09pm
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NetworkKed  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:13:12pm

Pineapple. Anchovies. Pepperoni (or a spicy, fatty sausage). Jalapenos.

Not my favorite pizza, but damned good.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:13:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:13:16pm

re: #108 PhillyPretzel

To be honest I hate being cooped up in my house but if it means that I will not get this &^%$ virus I will do it. Thank G-d for the internet and my iPad.

The house across the street from me is for sale, for about $20,000. (It’s a nicer house than mine.)

Wanna move here?

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:15:07pm

re: #371 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I was delivering up to Lindsay Ontario (through Thousand Islands) and up along the western “Frontier” of Buffalo and in and around your area and Vt and NH into Montreal/Laval. Worked Buffalo late 70’s, and from 1980 on with my last employer.
People are not aware of how many Native American Reservations are in NY state.
Never had to take the Plattsburgh NY ferry in my Bunky Big Rig over to Vermont. That was one thing I managed to stay away from.
Managed to stay out of the Adirondacks too in a truck.
Pulaski NY is a nightmare in a bad winter.
US 20 from east to west had the most low clearance (under 13’6”) I’ve ever seen. Most are either gone or fixed now, but holy cow. You learned how to rodeo.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:15:11pm

re: #350 Mescalero09

But you did know what “America” he wanted to be “First” from the start.

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In other words, there is a Kushner adjacent startup that is looking to get in on ventilator sales.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:16:28pm

re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Right now I will stay in Philly. Besides how would I make a living in your area.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:16:39pm

People are dying and he wants a Quid Pro Quo from the governors.

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Renaissance_Man  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:17:15pm

I have noticed that many people with clear and obvious symptoms are testing negative, both public figures and from personal experience. It makes me wonder as to the reliability of the various tests that have surfaced around the world. I have not seen any data on false negative or false positive rates, and I suspect that no real research has been done on them given how quickly things have moved. I am not really looking at number of positive cases as a reliable indicator anyway at this point, and more at death and hospitalisation rates.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:20:22pm

re: #390 Renaissance_Man

I have noticed that many people with clear and obvious symptoms are testing negative, both public figures and from personal experience. It makes me wonder as to the reliability of the various tests that have surfaced around the world. I have not seen any data on false negative or false positive rates, and I suspect that no real research has been done on them given how quickly things have moved. I am not really looking at number of positive cases as a reliable indicator anyway at this point, and more at death and hospitalisation rates.

I haven’t heard of people with symptoms testing negative. I’ve seen people who were in situations where they thought they might have caught it test negative.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:20:28pm

re: #377 Jebediah, RBG

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:23:13pm

re: #389 The Pie Overlord!

People are dying and he wants a Quid Pro Quo from the governors.

“Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss YOUR ass. Happy Hanukkah.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:24:05pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:25:44pm

re: #391 Belafon

I haven’t heard of people with symptoms testing negative. I’ve seen people who were in situations where they thought they might have caught it test negative.

I’m sure there are some false negatives floating around out there. The lower the viral load, the less accurate the testing is - so catch someone early enough (or late enough!) in the infection and it’s less accurate. That’s probably a big part of why we’ve seen the “reinfection” cases (which were probably false negatives and not actually reinfection).

At the same time, there are also other viruses out there that cause a cough and fever. Those haven’t all disappeared just because of COVID-19.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:28:07pm

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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:28:11pm

re: #349 NO SMOCKING GUN!

If your milk isn’t sour it’s fine.

The date on it is 3/17. It’s wasn’t sour but it sure didn’t taste good this morning.

I’m lucky that no one likes my fave peanut butter (Smucker’s Natural Crunchy), all of the regular brands were gone.

I’m so used to stopping at the grocery store whenever I need anything. When I got home I wanted to go right back and pick up a few things I didn’t think of when I was there. It’s a small store so it can get tricky trying to maintain 6’, but thankfully there were no morons in the store. Buying groceries and going to Walgreens are probably the two most risky things I do now. Otherwise, I’m isolated. I do think I have enough food now to isolate for 3-4 weeks without going out at all.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:30:02pm

re: #396 A Cranky One

So stole that for my FB lol

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:30:46pm

So here in San Diego county we have 341 confirmed cases, 3 deaths so far.

Talked to the local hospital today (for other reasons), and one of the people in the office commented to me that they are not taking any new patients now. I presume these are elective procedures, as the emergency room is a large one in this region of California. I got the feeling that they are getting ready to go into a different mode.

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:30:53pm

Illinois Coronavirus stats
Thursday afternoon 3151 tests, 134 new cases, 422 total, 4 deaths
Friday afternoon 4286 tests, 163 new cases, 585 total, 5 deaths
Saturday afternoon 6247 tested, 168 new cases, 753 total, 6 deaths
Sunday afternoon 8374 tested, 296 new cases, 1049 total, 9 deaths
Monday afternoon 9868 tested (tests still limited), 236 new cases, 1285 total, 12 deaths
Tuesday afternoon 11,485 tested, 250 new cases, 1535 total, 16 deaths
Wednesday afternoon 14,209 tested, 330 new cases, 1865 total, 19 deaths
Thursday afternoon 16,631 tested, 673 new cases, 2538 total, 26 deaths (c. half of all in Chicago)
Friday afternoon 21,542 tests, 488 new cases, 3026 total, 34 deaths

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Dave In Austin  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:32:22pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:35:15pm

re: #351 Charles Johnson

For some reason this song started going through my head, and I’d forgotten how strange the chord progressions were for the time.

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It’s such a mesmerizing song. I’m kind of iffy on Vince Gill, but he’s got a beautiful voice and he performed a stellar version of that song.

Vince Gill - The Warmth of the Sun

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:38:20pm

re: #394 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Thanks for that clip. Even though Trevor Noah is known for his comedy he shifted gears to talk to Dr Fauci as a reporter.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:39:03pm

Two new community spread cases in my little burg. One 60, one 80, both in the hospital… Not doing well if I inferred correctly.

Brings our cases to seven.

And they’re opening a COVID wing at the hospital.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:42:39pm

re: #155 lawhawk

It’s not just on Trump. It’s on the entire Republican Party.

They could have removed this asshat from office. They also had access to the information from the Intelligence Community this was going to be a problem at the time.

The entire party is guilty.

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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:42:48pm

re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡

The house across the street from me is for sale, for about $20,000. (It’s a nicer house than mine.)

Wanna move here?

Would your neighbors run you out if you tried to bring another liberal into the town?

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:42:59pm

FWIW CNN town hall asked for questions.
My two cents.

What does a post COVID 19 Affordable Care Act look like? IOW, what do we do with this harsh lesson in public health?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:44:04pm

re: #405 Anymouse 🌹🏡

It’s not just on Trump. It’s on the entire Republican Party.

They could have removed this asshat from office. They also had access to the information from the Intelligence Community this was going to be a problem at the time.

The entire party is guilty.

Fucking right.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:48:05pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:50:35pm

re: #409 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because he will not communicate with the ‘deep state’, only with ‘business leaders’.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:52:25pm

re: #409 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Berlin Airlift demonstrated, and codified, the procedures that made the USAF the premier aerial logistical force in the world. Put that expertise to use - that’s why we have it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:53:49pm
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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:53:55pm

re: #402 stpaulbear

Vince Gill is an immense talent and from what I gathered over the years a good guy. He was humbled to be asked to perform at Claptons Crossroads concert a while back. He is a picker and a true vocalist. And he’s got that just drips out way of singing that is just sugar and sweet and true. He was great when he was on tour.
Love his stuff.
Here’s a boatload of talent just chugging along…

Vince Gill - One More Last Chance (Crossroads Guitar 2010)

and back in the day when you would work 15 hour days in a non air conditioned truck, through towns you never want to see again, eat shit meals (in shit joints because you could fucking park there) bust your ass, sleep in a coffin and have to be too far the next day for sanity to be listened too……………Late at night by the dashboard lights, on some fucking two lane to Bumfuque, sometimes a self pitying tear would well up…

Vince Gill - When I Call Your Name

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:54:03pm

re: #405 Anymouse 🌹🏡

It’s not just on Trump. It’s on the entire Republican Party.

They could have removed this asshat from office. They also had access to the information from the Intelligence Community this was going to be a problem at the time.

The entire party is guilty.

They could do it by next week with the 25th amendment if they wanted to, but they don’t.

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:55:19pm

re: #402 stpaulbear

It’s such a mesmerizing song. I’m kind of iffy on Vince Gill, but he’s got a beautiful voice and he performed a stellar version of that song.

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Vince Gill is a very good musician.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:57:54pm

re: #414 Skip Intro

True. They will not because DT is demanding total allegiance to him. And that is what they are giving him. It is completely wrong but that is what has happened to the Republican Party.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:58:00pm
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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2020 • 4:59:13pm

re: #415 retired cynic

Vince Gill is a very good musician.

And I meant to say that I know some musicians that know him, and that he is just a good guy, as well as being so good with guitar and voice.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:00:57pm

Time to decompress. What to watch.

Heavy Metal. The fucking Lok Nar is alrady residing in my yard and it has lots of animated skin.

Lok Nar

Wizards.

Or Red Tails.

Decisions, decisions.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:01:33pm
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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:01:47pm

re: #413 Mescalero09

And that first one was my husband’s favorite country song. He always asked our guys to play it. It was that line about the old John Deere. Our tractors were old John Deeres.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:03:34pm

re: #421 retired cynic

And that first one was my husband’s favorite country song. He always asked our guys to play it. It was that line about the old John Deere. Our tractors were old John Deeres.

My dad has a wide collection of 1940’s-1960’s John Deeres back on the farm. I know the song and the line you’re talking about.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:05:24pm

re: #278 Charles Johnson

Just when you say that, conservatives can go dumber and lower. There is no bottom.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:06:04pm

3AM on the 3rd day of a 4 day run and you are just toast. Crisp. Then this comes on. A sad song….
Through the glass the drizzle makes the blades scrape. And the fog is settling in the hollows. And you ain’t home. And you want so bad to be. So very bad. Now it’s foggy inside the cab.

Easy Come, Easy Go

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:09:59pm

re: #423 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Just when you say that, conservatives can go dumber and lower. There is no bottom.

Dumber, or more evil? I say evil.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:15:26pm

re: #315 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

just look here - this is harrowing

‘sick of social distancing’. like is some kind of fucking hardship (economics aside)
havent any of these people been sick in bed for a week or 2? (in the US, considering we only just started)

it’s inconvenient. it’s maybe annoying and irritating. what it is not is a damn catastrophe

So far, according to that tool, Nebraska will not exceed its hospital capacity during this.

The tool is somewhat misleading about our state, in that schools have been closed by mandatory order, travel restrictions are in place, &c.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:15:28pm

re: #417 Backwoods_Sleuth

He really is an evil fucker. There’s bad policy and then there’s evil policy. This is evil.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:16:56pm

re: #426 gocart mozart

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Video

That’s quite a quartet.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:17:09pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:18:56pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:19:28pm

re: #431 Charles Johnson

Britain’s leader also tested positive, so there’s that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:19:42pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:20:31pm

Pedantic Twitter NEVER SLEEPS.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:22:53pm

re: #434 Charles Johnson

Pedantic Twitter NEVER SLEEPS.

I could go for a Guinness though and some trad though now that you mention it.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:23:29pm

re: #433 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s exactly what it is and the media and Dem politicians need to call him out on it to his face.

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:24:16pm

re: #424 Mescalero09

3AM on the 3rd day of a 4 day run and you are just toast. Crisp. Then this comes on. A sad song….
Through the glass the drizzle makes the blades scrape. And the fog is settling in the hollows. And you ain’t home. And you want so bad to be. So very bad. Now it’s foggy inside the cab.

[Embedded content]

fun bit of trivia… Merle Haggard was part of the inmate audience when Johnny Cash recorded at Folsom Prison.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:24:16pm
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NetworkKed  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:24:29pm

re: #434 Charles Johnson

Pedantic Twitter NEVER SLEEPS.

[Embedded content]

Don’t make that mistake in person. Especially if you want any of that beer.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:27:28pm

re: #438 Charles Johnson

Always a glory prostitute.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:27:57pm

Watch out, the pedants are on the prowl.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:29:28pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:30:39pm

re: #441 Charles Johnson

Watch out, the pedants are on the prowl.

I mean, what else are they supposed to do with their Friday night? They can’t go out…

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stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:31:24pm

re: #413 Mescalero09

re: #415 retired cynic

I know he’s a fabulous musician, and I’ve liked some of his music since before I even knew it was Vince Gill. But I still like buying albums, and I just haven’t been wild about his albums.

I did like this song enough when I first heard it to get the bar band I was in to cover it. I love the harmonies. I’ve heard that when Vince joined the band, he wouldn’t let anyone else sing in the studio. John Fogerty made the same demand. The results are stellar, but it’s still kind of a power move to take with your band.

Pure Prairie League - I’m Almost Ready

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:31:46pm

Joe Biden is a welcome fresh breeze instead of being downwind of a sewer like Trump

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:31:52pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:33:29pm

re: #446 Backwoods_Sleuth

When he says that, he means he doesn’t know what it is since he doesn’t know weather from climate. I think he might know his seasons though so maybe he is learning something.

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Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:34:00pm

re: #437 sagehen

fun bit of trivia… Merle Haggard was part of the inmate audience when Johnny Cash recorded at Folsom Prison.

He later came around.
Cheap street rat hood. Heard Nixon pardoned him. He was at that 1970 July 4th White House concert. Fighting Side Of Me era. I think Jeannie C. Riley was with him.

Bob Hope was there. Heard him on the PA.
It was nuts.

It was the first Smoke In
And much more violent than reported. Much more. I know me and a couple of friends are on tape somewhere running for our lives.
National Guard was driven in later that night.
We just rented a van and drove down from Philly because one of my friends friends was buying.
Fun trip.///

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:35:04pm

Hey I know we got Jason Isbell fans here. He released a few new songs today. Brian Fallon if you liked Gaslight Anthem also an album. I “attended” Brian’s show on Instagram at 3.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:35:41pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:37:40pm

re: #450 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Trump I will note was in fact praising Xi’s response to Covid-19 until Miller told him that it would be cool to use it to exploit Anti-Chinese hysteria.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:38:12pm

Baffling pedants is my business.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:38:40pm

re: #450 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because people don’t die from anything else, of course.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:39:23pm

re: #451 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

And Trump I will note was in fact praising Xi’s response to Covid-19 until Miller told him that it would be cool to use it to exploit Anti-Chinese hysteria.

That’s the one thing that infuriated me about our governor’s recent statements - apparently, some people have started expressing hate speech toward Minnesotan Asians and Asian-Americans. I thought we were better than that, but then again, there is a district that was represented at one time by Michele Bachmann (R-Mars).

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:39:55pm

re: #453 Dread Pirate

Because people don’t die from anything else, of course.

And urns have that short shelf life.//

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:40:22pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:40:25pm
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austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:41:06pm

re: #351 Charles Johnson

For some reason this song started going through my head, and I’d forgotten how strange the chord progressions were for the time.

[Embedded content]

Video

Steely Dan’s “schwa” chords long before 1973.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:43:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:44:05pm

re: #382 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Another reason I feel unduly lucky.

Partners being able to see the birth of their child will increasingly become as luxury as hospitals all over the United States go into triage mode.

It will become common as triage means pregnancy cases will be turned away and women will give birth at home.

Some of them might be lucky enough to get a certified nurse-midwife.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:44:10pm

re: #410 stpaulbear

Because he will not communicate with the ‘deep state’, only with ‘business leaders’.

Same as Mussolini.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:45:22pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:45:48pm

re: #388 PhillyPretzel

Right now I will stay in Philly. Besides how would I make a living in your area.

Ranch or farm hand?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:46:11pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:47:33pm

re: #463 Anymouse 🌹🏡

With pollen allergies I would not be good as either one.

466
teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:48:01pm

A COVID-19 Admonition ***EXPLICIT

467
austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:48:56pm

re: #379 jaunte

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Tight election race.

468
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:49:30pm
469
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:51:20pm

My wife the cooking nurse opened the oven and said “congratulations, it’s a ham!”

470
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:52:54pm

re: #469 Anymouse 🌹🏡

My wife the cooking nurse opened the oven and said “congratulations, it’s a ham!”

You married a winner.

471
stpaulbear  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:55:28pm

re: #468 Backwoods_Sleuth

As if nobody knew that wasn’t exactly what he was going to do with all that money. It’s the least surprising surprise ever.

472
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:56:46pm

she has MUCH more to say in the thread

473
Ace Rothstein  Mar 27, 2020 • 5:58:01pm

re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t want to gross anybody out, but there’s a whole lotta fucking going on in The Villages.

474
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:00:15pm
475
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:00:30pm

Governor Ricketts (R) with a bunch of new executive orders out:

Temporarily suspends home evictions
May 12 Primary will proceed as scheduled (the overwhelming majority of the state uses vote-by-mail)
Expands childcare access
Takeout for mixed drinks with lids permitted

Possibly the most important:
Executive Order to Bolster Healthcare Workforce

The last order authorises credentialing retired or inactive health care workers, suspends mandatory continuing education courses, waives licensing fees, removes the restrictions on the numbers of physician’s assistants a physician can supervise, and authorises out-of-state licensed medical professionals to work in Nebraska without first obtaining a Nebraska license.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield is reimbursing 100% of a telehealth visit, saying it’s the right thing to do and helps more effectively prevent the spread of Covid-19.

476
Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:01:12pm

re: #473 Ace Rothstein

I don’t want to gross anybody out, but there’s a whole lotta fucking going on in The Villages.

One of Florida’s STD hot spots for years.

More info than you need but really, why not?

477
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:04:20pm

Red Tails it is. The Lok Nar can sit there all night.

Night Lizards.

478
jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:06:14pm

2016: Guinness becomes UK’s most popular ale and stout brand.
thesun.co.uk

479
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:06:34pm

re: #478 jaunte

2016: Guinness becomes UK’s most popular ale and stout brand.
thesun.co.uk

How dare you out-pedant the pedants.

///

480
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:07:27pm

re: #470 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

You married a winner.

She say’s it’s a bouncing baby 9.3 lb ham.

481
Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:07:45pm

re: #441 Charles Johnson

Watch out, the pedants are on the prowl.

[Embedded content]

At the same time, we get onto people for not knowing America or some local things.

482
Ace Rothstein  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:07:52pm

This Massie fuck. What is it with libertarians looking like disheveled slobs and coming off two-week benders?

483
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:08:11pm
484
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:08:17pm

re: #480 Anymouse 🌹🏡

She say’s it’s a bouncing baby 9.3 lb ham.

Congratulations, you must be so proud. And I’m sure you’ll enjoy eating it.

/Things you can say about your dinner, but not your child

485
Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:09:28pm

re: #388 PhillyPretzel

Right now I will stay in Philly. Besides how would I make a living in your area.

Moisture farming.

486
PhillyPretzel  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:10:11pm

re: #485 Decatur Deb

lol.

487
jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:10:56pm

The womp rats are getting cabin fever.

488
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:11:59pm

re: #476 Mescalero09

One of Florida’s STD hot spots for years.

More info than you need but really, why not?

I swear… You cannot make this up.

In the days that followed the infamous sexual escapade, Klemm’s attorney, Joseph Indelicato, said he was anticipating a favorable outcome for his client, even though she had just turned herself in at the Sumter County Detention Center after a warrant had been issued for her arrest on a probation violation. She had entered a plea of not guilty in the incident that would become known as the Sex on the Square case and requested a trial by jury.

Well, it made me laugh.

489
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:12:01pm

re: #487 jaunte

The womp rats are getting cabin fever.

Better show ‘em who’s boss in your T-16, then.

490
Jason Munro  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:13:42pm

I have seen a few Miumiu vids (6 year old Chinese musical phenom) posted lately. Just watched a few for the first time. Maybe something is wrong with me because I can’t stop watching them and I can’t stop crying at how beautiful her performance is.

[ I wish you love ] by A girl six years old 来自南京的Miumiu 记录音乐成长脚步

[ Fly me to the moon ] By A girl six years old | Bossanova guitar playing INS @miumiuguitargril

491
Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:14:03pm

re: #488 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Down at the square, dealers slide next to you and mumble “Viagra” “Cialis” “Boner Pills’ “Medical Viagra”

492
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:14:27pm
493
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:16:35pm
494
Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:18:18pm

re: #493 Backwoods_Sleuth

You can call me Ray — Raymond J Johnson Jr

495
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:22:57pm
496
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:25:38pm

oh

497
Eventual Carrion  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:26:08pm

re: #468 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Fucking criminals.

498
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:27:55pm

moron

499
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:30:07pm
500
Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:31:07pm

re: #498 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yet earlier today he was insisting GM repopen the plant to make stuff.

501
EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:31:15pm

re: #498 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, does reality end in a paradox wormhole if Trump as president ever tweets something that actually agrees with a pre-president Trump tweet?

502
Jason Munro  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:31:36pm

re: #499 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL WTF he is so dumb

503
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:33:29pm

re: #499 Backwoods_Sleuth

504
Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:33:51pm

Do a quick search of Workhorse and you get this.

General Motors owns Workhorse.
Workhorse Group Incorporated is an American manufacturing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, currently focused on manufacturing electrically powered delivery and utility vehicles. The company was founded in 1998 by investors who took over the production of General Motors’ P30/P32 series stepvan and motorhome chassis.

505
A Three Hour Tour  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:38:49pm

re: #479 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

How dare you out-pedant the pedants.

///

Hell, from 1968 to 1970, DOCTOR WHO would use the old Guinness brewery in Acton as a filming location for The Invasion, Spearhead from Space, and The Ambassadors of Death. The plant was still in operation during the filming of The Invasion, but closed by the time of Spearhead and Ambassadors.

Acton, for the record, is not in Ireland. (Unlike Gallifrey.)

506
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:39:19pm

re: #504 Mescalero09

Do a quick search of Workhorse and you get this.

General Motors owns Workhorse.
Workhorse Group Incorporated is an American manufacturing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, currently focused on manufacturing electrically powered delivery and utility vehicles. The company was founded in 1998 by investors who took over the production of General Motors’ P30/P32 series stepvan and motorhome chassis.

But Wikipedia then says:

By 2005, they were taken over by Navistar International, which had been selling them diesel engines.[2] Navistar then shuttered the plant in 2012 to cut costs after having suffered heavy losses.[1]

In March 2015, AMP Electric Vehicles took over Workhorse Custom Chassis, changing the company name to Workhorse Group Incorporated, and began offering a range of electrically powered delivery vans.

507
Ace-o-aces  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:41:57pm
508
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:42:41pm

re: #484 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Congratulations, you must be so proud. And I’m sure you’ll enjoy eating it.

/Things you can say about your dinner, but not your child

We’re atheists, we eat babies. /s

509
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:44:23pm
510
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:44:41pm

re: #508 Anymouse 🌹🏡

We’re atheists, we eat babies. /s

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Well played, sir. Well played.

511
Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:46:52pm

512
DodgerFan1988  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:47:27pm
513
Dread Pirate  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:48:36pm

Today’s finals.

514
Mescalero09  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:48:53pm

re: #506 Hecuba’s daughter

They have plants operational.

The Lordstown plant was going to come online at a later date.
These companies are all arms length from each other legally, even if wholly owned, subsidiary or member of.
When my manufacturing plant was bought it when from Ajax Products and Warehousing, to Ajax Products, to Not Ajax Products, to the name of the British holding company that bought it.Tomkins
And the Tomkins name was only on invoices and no building or property.
And then they were bought.
Trying to find the true owner of a corporation or company is hard to do sometimes.

515
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:49:07pm

re: #512 DodgerFan1988

Stopped clock, twice a day, etc., etc.

516
EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:52:35pm

re: #512 DodgerFan1988

Naturally. For Trump, the rest of humanity simply does not exist. Even his gross lust for Ivanka is much more Trump’s attraction to the image he sees of himself in her, as opposed to any recognition of her as a separate person.

517
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 6:56:11pm

Uhm…

518
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:01:43pm

re: #502 Jason Munro

LOL WTF he is so dumb

Everyone who has diarrhoea should send Bill Mitchell immediate updates to his Twitter feed every time they go.

519
jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:04:40pm

It’s our money, but King Trump will claim credit for “giving” it to us.

520
Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:04:40pm

re: #517 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Uhm…

[Embedded content]

Locking up refugees has become quite the fashion.

521
I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:04:43pm
“Trump disclosed that he has told Vice President Pence, who is leading the coronavirus task force, not to call the governors of Michigan and Washington state because those governors had been critical of Trump and the federal response.”

Quelle surprise

522
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:04:48pm

We have a phrase for that. I think it starts something like “from each according to his ability… .”

523
Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:07:54pm

re: #519 jaunte

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It’s our money, but King Trump will claim credit for “giving” it to us.

George W gave me a $600 bribe. I sent it on to Obama’s campaign. Just thinkin’.

524
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:09:50pm

re: #517 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Uhm…

525
Teukka  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:10:01pm

526
jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:12:45pm

re: #525 Teukka

Keep busy by finding all of these, hidden in random drawers around the house:

527
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:14:16pm

Damn. Read this thread.

528
mmmirele  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:14:36pm

re: #519 jaunte

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It’s our money, but King Trump will claim credit for “giving” it to us.

If it makes everyone feel better, the money is going to come via the Automated Clearing House into our bank accounts. It will be electronic transactions.

ObnFhRum0TE7Olx8O8Qvgk0VnkhkeazFyPwHpB1xQa47GYaF2CimDQugD+gGUTSMEUcIPTg+vVZ9WAy+1MhGL2PweMWiBYaB/weJ/rdP1PxqA+cJJDa5StibEGAz3DUGJiK4+JO/iCnW+zclSu7AFbfxCx3kpg891L/OPBQeSII1XGCoYoUE1aqMTqEjOHyL9bPtgKAXdCVAL1R8KQtfMtF3dJkivnJd

There are relatively few people who still get paper checks from the government. Most of us have accounts on file with the IRS or Social Security for direct deposit of payments.

529
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:18:59pm

Closing in on us.

Torrington woman, worker at children’s home, identified as first coronavirus case in Goshen County (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Goshen County, Wyo. borders Sioux, Scott’s Bluff, and Banner Counties in Nebraska’s Panhandle. Torrington is thirty-two miles from our largest city and about ten miles from the state line.

As coronavirus cases near Panhandle, health officials remind people of risks of traveling (includes map of counties affected outside the Panhandle)

530
austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:19:45pm

re: #505 A Three Hour Tour

Hell, from 1968 to 1970, DOCTOR WHO would use the old Guinness brewery in Acton as a filming location for The Invasion, Spearhead from Space, and The Ambassadors of Death. The plant was still in operation during the filming of The Invasion, but closed by the time of Spearhead and Ambassadors.

Acton, for the record, is not in Ireland. (Unlike Gallifrey.)

She Who Must Be Obeyed’s sister had a flat in Acton, just three blocks form the Brit Rail line and seven blocks from Queens Park Ranger’s home pitch. The most convenient tube stop was Shepard’s Bush, served by an express down Acton High Street.

Lovely little village in West London.

531
garzooma  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:19:49pm

re: #517 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Uhm…

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A number of states are enacting various requirements for visitors to quarantine. The new thing here is checking cars with NY plates.

532
BeachDem  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:20:35pm

re: #493 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

533
Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:23:46pm

re: #527 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Damn. Read this thread.

[Embedded content]

Worth the read, though there might be a wide range of individual experiences of the bug. It helps to know when to panic—in his case the BP reading.

534
austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:25:57pm

I want every reporter asking a question to the POTUS to start with ” Mister Killer” or “Mister Murderer”.

It is concise, accurate, and germane.

535
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:26:24pm

re: #531 garzooma

A number of states are enacting various requirements for visitors to quarantine. The new thing here is checking cars with NY plates.

And how does that work around military bases in other states? Do they harass military personnel from New York every time the police see their cars?

Nebraska public health officials reported the first two deaths — one in Douglas County and one in Hall County — that were the result of COVID-19. Both had underlying health issues. As of early Friday evening, 85 people had tested positive in Nebraska.

Douglas is Omaha and suburbs, Hall is in central Nebraska.

536
jaunte  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:26:43pm
537
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:26:50pm

re: #533 Decatur Deb

Worth the read, though there might be a wide range of individual experiences of the bug. It helps to know when to panic—in his case the BP reading.

If I get it I won’t see the other side. Too many comorbidities. I’m sure I’ll be happy with the medicate me until I die thing. If I don’t feel it… Whatever.

538
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:31:22pm
539
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:37:19pm

Isn’t this a uniquely American mood:

540
BeachDem  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:39:02pm

re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Shot:

The Villages, Florida’s huge Republican-rich retirement community, is experiencing community spread of coronavirus more than a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized for his slow and cautious response

Chasers:

The Villages last week became one of the first locations in the state to receive a 250-bed mobile hospital from the Florida Division of Emergency Services.

Gov. Ron DeSantis opened a mobile testing site in The Villages on Monday through a partnership with University of Florida Health. Testing capabilities there are faster than other sites around the state. A university official said during a Monday news conference that test results can be returned in about an hour.

politico.com

And just two short weeks ago—

When asked on the “Villages Friendly Folks” Facebook page how they were managing the coronavirus, a majority of people sided with Przybylowicz, saying the crisis is being overblown.

washingtonpost.com

But they vote 70% Republican, so…

541
Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:39:44pm

re: #539 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Isn’t this a uniquely American mood:

My 12 year-old while out on a walk: “At least with all the schools closed, there won’t be any school shootings for awhile.”

Perhaps the greater threat for that cohort.

542
NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:43:51pm

re: #513 Dread Pirate

Today’s finals.

[Embedded content]

400 dead in a single day in the US. Soon it will be thousands dying daily.

543
William Lewis  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:45:12pm

re: #539 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Isn’t this a uniquely American mood:

Blink. Blink.

That is simply the most horrific thing I’ve read all day. Damn.

544
William Lewis  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:49:37pm

re: #528 mmmirele

I really don’t care if he signs it so long as I get it. I’m worried the IRS will snarf it because of the Tax fuckup by my Ex that we still owe money on. And I pretty desperately need that coin.

545
NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:49:51pm

re: #540 BeachDem

Shot:

Chasers:

The Villages last week became one of the first locations in the state to receive a 250-bed mobile hospital from the Florida Division of Emergency Services.

Gov. Ron DeSantis opened a mobile testing site in The Villages on Monday through a partnership with University of Florida Health. Testing capabilities there are faster than other sites around the state. A university official said during a Monday news conference that test results can be returned in about an hour.

politico.com

And just two short weeks ago—

When asked on the “Villages Friendly Folks” Facebook page how they were managing the coronavirus, a majority of people sided with Przybylowicz, saying the crisis is being overblown.

washingtonpost.com

But they vote 70% Republican, so…

Literally dying to own the libs.

546
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 27, 2020 • 7:53:57pm

BREAKING NEWS:

547
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:00:59pm

re: #544 William Lewis

I really don’t care if he signs it so long as I get it. I’m worried the IRS will snarf it because of the Tax fuckup by my Ex that we still owe money on. And I pretty desperately need that coin.

Both the law and the cheque itself would have to be reworked to allow Trump to sign them, meaning they would be delayed by weeks or months.

Additionally, government cheques with his signature on them would be specifically so he can say how “he” helped out the American people. It is a campaign stunt disguised as a cheque.

548
Dave In Austin  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:12:56pm

A COVID-19 Admonition ***EXPLICIT

549
Dave In Austin  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:15:26pm
550
austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:15:45pm

Pecans are starting to leaf out. Their pollen gets me right up the ass. Big one in my front yard. I’m going to be a goo head for the next week. Big time snottage. The plan is to blow it out each morning and see if I have a sense of smell. If I do, our Social Distancing (ie: self quarantine) is probably OK, unless we have caught a whiff of the Plague in the last week.

We have been careful. But tomorrow I’ve got to make a grocery run, with gloves and a mask, for flour, yeast, cheese, beer, wine, meat, BACON, eggs, and, dog help me, Spam (It really is great fried for breakfast with eggs. Fight me.).

Calling it an early night, tonight. Sweet scaly dreams, dear friends, stay in and stay safe.

551
sagehen  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:17:15pm

re: #522 Anymouse 🌹🏡

What could possibly be the harm of having “too many” masks and ventilators?

Invoke DPA now! Nationalize the medical supply chain!

If we end up with too many…

Reminder that in 1945, when we were expecting to invade the Japanese home islands, we stocked up on as many body bags and Purple Hearts as we expected to need. Then Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the battles never happened.

But body bags and medals have a shelf life of forever. 75 years later, we’ve still only used up half. The other half is still in warehouses, we’ll need them eventually.

552
austin_blue  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:22:15pm

re: #551 sagehen

If we end up with too many…

Reminder that in 1945, when we were expecting to invade the Japanese home islands, we stocked up on as many body bags and Purple Hearts as we expected to need. Then Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the battles never happened.

But body bags and medals have a shelf life of forever. 75 years later, we’ve still only used up half. The other half is still in warehouses, we’ll need them eventually.

Those body bags may or may not come in handy. (Really? Forever? 75 years? Hmmm…)

Purple Hearts, meh.

553
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:22:37pm

re: #551 sagehen

If we end up with too many…

Reminder that in 1945, when we were expecting to invade the Japanese home islands, we stocked up on as many body bags and Purple Hearts as we expected to need. Then Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the battles never happened.

But body bags and medals have a shelf life of forever. 75 years later, we’ve still only used up half. The other half is still in warehouses, we’ll need them eventually.

It looks like we might need those body bags now. Every one is a mark against the GOP.

554
Dread Pirate  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:29:00pm
555
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:29:48pm
556
Belafon  Mar 27, 2020 • 8:33:13pm

Geeky math time in the age of corona:

The Fibonacci series is an exponential function. If you look at the the ratio of F(n)/F(n-1), this has an asymptote at approximately 1.618034 (which is the golden ratio). if you look at F(n)/F(n-2) it’s 2.618034, which means it more than doubles in two days.

If instead of starting with [1, 1] (we’re starting with one here to represent the first sick person) and add F(n-1) + F(n-2), we start with

[1,1,1] and add F(n-2) + F(n-3), we get a sequence that grows at about 2.325 every three iterations, leading to a value of 35,676,949 on the 64th iteration
[1,1,1,1] and add F(n-3) + F(n-4), we get a sequence, that grows at about 1.8189 every three iterations, leading to 206,897 on the 64th iteration.

Thus, even these very slow starting sequences are exponential in nature. These are also decent examples to show how even an every third day doubling can grow really large.


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