Brad Mehldau performs the G Minor Fugue from Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and his own Three Pieces After Bach: II. Ostinato in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie de Paris on April 2, 2018.
Brad Mehldau’s album ‘After Bach’ is available at smarturl.it
Explainer time! Understanding #COVID19 testing is easier & more interesting than taxes & you’ll wow your friends. (From @nikhil_bhide‘s 83rd fav virologist) — Political Leaders and Citizens Need Better Understanding of How Covid-19 Testing Works. https://t.co/Qj1gU8AcYE
— Peter Kolchinsky (@PeterKolchinsky) April 22, 2020
Oooof:
I don’t understand why staying home is so hard. 105 million of you managed it on Election Day in 2016.
— ANITAFELLOWS (@An3ita5) April 18, 2020
Who made this ? 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/zVlvJH2UUU
— Tommy Chong (@tommychong) April 23, 2020
A brief flash that maybe the common-sense message is out there. One of my good friends is an ardent Republican (we’ve always to agreed to disagree). He’s mainly that way because of abortion .. whatev. Talked with him this evening. He is a leader in his Baptist church and thinks ANY re-opening is beyond ridiculous. Mind you we are in Republican Central in Western NC. He said the governor of Georgia is nuts, along with the governor of South Carolina. Also said his church is going to have to radically rethink how they do things, including Sunday school and the collection of offerings. Don’t get me wrong, I do not expect him to go with Biden in November. But this friend tells me that the Trumpian-Tea Party infection IS NOT going to counter common sense. Something about dying seems to be holding sway … for now.
In New York City, more transit employees have been killed by coronavirus in the past month than all of the police shot and killed in the past *40 years*. https://t.co/lL8wFbkTNQ
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) April 22, 2020
re: #5 TarHellion
Agreed. Look, consumer confidence is a fickle bitch in good times. We are 95% vulnerable. Just because the doors are open has never guaranteed customers. We are all germophobes now. As we get ongoing waves people will vote with their feet. By the fireplace at home. Browsing Amazon, ordering delivery of something nice to eat.
The Neimen Marcus Group is expected to file for bankruptcy protection tomorrow or Friday.
re: #5 TarHellion
A brief flash that maybe the common-sense message is out there. One of my good friends is an ardent Republican (we’ve always to agreed to disagree). He’s mainly that way because of abortion .. Something about dying seems to be holding sway … for now.
Perhaps he’s one of those GOPers who’s at least somewhat less hypocritical about that whole “pro-life” thing.
hi.
My county’s Internet service was out for about two days. It was deemed nonessential by the telephone company to restore it right away (read we don’t make them enough money).
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡
hi.
My county’s Internet service was out for about two days. It was deemed nonessential by the telephone company to restore it right away (read we don’t make them enough money).
Welcome back. We kept your seat warm.
re: #5 TarHellion
A brief flash that maybe the common-sense message is out there. One of my good friends is an ardent Republican (we’ve always to agreed to disagree). He’s mainly that way because of abortion .. whatev. Talked with him this evening. He is a leader in his Baptist church and thinks ANY re-opening is beyond ridiculous. Mind you we are in Republican Central in Western NC. He said the governor of Georgia is nuts, along with the governor of South Carolina. Also said his church is going to have to radically rethink how they do things, including Sunday school and the collection of offerings. Don’t get me wrong, I do not expect him to go with Biden in November. But this friend tells me that the Trumpian-Tea Party infection IS NOT going to counter common sense. Something about dying seems to be holding sway … for now.
I guess, good for him if he’s not defending Trump, but honestly, so what? I’m not trying to be combative, but from what you’ve said, he and his flock are not likely going to vote Biden, or any other Democrat. At best, we have to hope that instead of doing the right thing, enough people like your preacher buddy will sit out the POTUS vote, and that maybe will get Biden in office?
I know I’m being a hard ass, but unless these “sane” conservatives say they voting for Biden, their sudden attacks of common sense just don’t mean anything.
re: #13 Targetpractice
Welcome back. We kept your seat warm.
LOL.
I saw the comment on the previous thread about the guy in the Smart being chased by the police in Phoenix. I can’t imagine what he was thinking.
McConnell to States: FOAD
McConnell telling state and local governments to just go bankrupt means he is telling all the teachers, police and firefighters that their pensions aren’t worth saving.
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) April 22, 2020
Nebraska’s new positive case rate has taken a plunge over the last few days. The high was +190 three days ago, today it was +50.
Total: 1,813 (+165 since yesterday, nearly 10% of all cases since this started)
Deaths: 45 (+12 since yesterday, over 25% of all deaths since this started)
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡
That said, over the last few days the number of new tests plunged, from 1,105 Monday to 307 today.
An update about my father who tested positive w/ #coronavirus. He’s been in critical condition in the ICU on a ventilator for 3 wks now. We remain hopeful + strong. I’m going to keep fighting for my family and our community. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/bNU1ze6NSe
— Senator Tony Vargas (@TonyVargas) April 21, 2020
I’m asking all of you to wrap my friend Senator @TonyVargas’s family in your love, thoughts, and prayers.
I’m also asking you to do something even more helpful: Vote for candidates who trust experts and believe in science-based policy. Seriously. Sending you all my love, Tony. https://t.co/TdHpf1Eva2— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) April 23, 2020
1,500 square foot garage? That’s bigger than my house.
let’s see what completely relatable advice the New York Times has on this one pic.twitter.com/XnVZuYFUCc
— Tess Rinearson (@_tessr) April 20, 2020
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡
1,500 square foot garage? That’s bigger than my house.
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Their second home is 1,500 sqft, not the garage.
Now, their second home is the size of the house I grew up in.
re: #21 Belafon
I have a no square foot garage.
House was built in late 1940’s. Garage had been converted into a room in the house (yes, with paneling) when we bought it.
I confess we put an addition on the house after 15 years. Original 9 x 13 kitchen got a bit too snug.
Philly students without internet can do remote learning in parking lots, district says https://t.co/Edeqe2tbd1 pic.twitter.com/SJyZ0W4rue
— Billy Penn (@billy_penn) April 21, 2020
Good morning, all. Well, morning here in Europe.
So I saw from the last thread that Azar’s deputy, apparently one that Trump likes, is a former dog breeder and thinks his experience as a dog breeder is somehow useful or relevant to the current situation.
Now, I was going to make a crack about the former chicken farmer*, Heinrich Himmler, and how I’m sure he believed his experience in chicken farming was somehow useful and relevant to (checks notes) creating the Aryan “master race” but…..I just can’t.
It’s a shitshow, an F5 shitnado of complete incompetence at the worst possible moment.
Good luck everyone. You’re gonna need it.
*he graduated with a degree in agronomy from what is now the Technical University of Munich
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Federal law since 1937 permits municipalities to declare bankruptcy. States have never been permitted to declare bankruptcy. Mitch is also shoveling bullshyte.
He’s apparently “open” to changing the law to allow states to declare bankruptcy. And is trying to play the “deficit card,” whining after he and the WH ransacked the Treasury for 3 years running that suddenly spending is “out of control” and he won’t support taking money from “future generations” to pay for state pension funds.
re: #21 Belafon
Their second home is 1,500 sqft, not the garage.
Thanks. My second home is zero square feet, as is my garage.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Somehow I got off on a tangent on Twitter from this post deep in to the “Biden is a Rapist” suburb of Berniestan.
I feel like I got COVID just reading that thread.
re: #29 Targetpractice
He’s apparently “open” to changing the law to allow states to declare bankruptcy. And is trying to play the “deficit card,” whining after he and the WH ransacked the Treasury for 3 years running that suddenly spending is “out of control” and he won’t support taking money from “future generations” to pay for state pension funds.
And the Supreme Court would strike down any such law as unconstitutional. It is directly counter to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution.
Moreover, any state government which proposed a bankruptcy would get slaughtered by their voters (perhaps literally). All state assets (parks, roads, schools, state buildings, police forces, &c) would go on the auction block to settle debts.
The last time there was a shitshow over state debt was the Republic of Texas’s debt. The State of Texas inherited that.
The Texas State Historical Society has an interesting article on the thirty-plus year crapfest that everyone from holders of Republic debt, holders of Republic currency, state bonds, &c went through to settle that debt.
🚨 You just found out all these aunties and uncles are coming to your house for dinner. What’s on the menu? 🍽 pic.twitter.com/BcMBP1C1qB
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) April 23, 2020
If they came over to my house, I would just let them cook. And I’d record it.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And the Supreme Court would strike down any such law as unconstitutional. It is directly counter to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution.
Moreover, any state government which proposed a bankruptcy would get slaughtered by their voters (perhaps literally). All state assets (parks, roads, schools, state buildings, police forces, &c) would go on the auction block to settle debts.
The last time there was a shitshow over state debt was the Republic of Texas’s debt. The State of Texas inherited that.
The Texas State Historical Society has an interesting article on the thirty-plus year crapfest that everyone from holders of Republic debt, holders of Republic currency, state bonds, &c went through to settle that debt.
It also doesn’t really help his case that it was just 5 years ago that he and the rest of the Senate Repubs chose to throw more money at Puerto Rico than alter the law to allow them access to bankruptcy courts. And (of course), he and the Repubs are portraying this as an issue that only really applies to blue states, when the reality is that the list of states that would be first in line at bankruptcy court would be almost universally red.
re: #34 Targetpractice
It also doesn’t really help his case that it was just 5 years ago that he and the rest of the Senate Repubs chose to throw more money at Puerto Rico than alter the law to allow them access to bankruptcy courts. And (of course), he and the Repubs are portraying this as an issue that only really applies to blue states, when the reality is that the list of states that would be first in line at bankruptcy court would be almost universally red.
Yup. Plus, if you were a vendor or contractor for the state and it somehow declared bankruptcy, I imagine you would demand to be paid 100% upfront for your product or services. The state might issue bonds to run a deficit, but no one would buy them.
The data here is nuts. So far:
-2,011 positives, which is about 80% of the facility.
-105 symptomatic (5%)
-1906 asymptomatic (95%), though it’s possible asymptotic and very mildly symptomatic are being aggregated
-2 fatalities (0.1% IFR, but no lag) https://t.co/8XMDDmIMpS— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) April 23, 2020
re: #37 Dread Pirate
Nebraska’s prisons have been overcrowded for years, and now the novel coronavirus is starting to circulate through them.
The state refuses to release it’s so-called action plan to protect prisoners (other than banning visitors), so the ACLU is now in court to force the state to release that.
Republican legislators are resisting calls to release non-violent offenders.
Nebraska officials resist calls to release some inmates early amid coronavirus pandemic (April 5)
ACLU files action to obtain Nebraska’s plan to protect inmates from coronavirus (both articles are at the Omaha World-Herald)
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Yup. Plus, if you were a vendor or contractor for the state and it somehow declared bankruptcy, I imagine you would demand to be paid 100% upfront for your product or services. The state might issue bonds to run a deficit, but no one would buy them.
Except we both know that that’s all secondary to Mitch’s thinking. The primary concern for him and his buddies is breaking the back of the public unions. As well as forcing states to sell off assets that his buddies in the private sector generally can’t get at directly. Of course, the big selling point to his base is the idea that the only states in danger are blue ones, that red states are all models of “fiscal conservatism” and wouldn’t dare turn their backs on their public unions.
Locally:
pphd.org (Panhandle Public Health District)
One new case in Cheyenne County (next county south of me), a man in his sixties.
One new case in Scott’s Bluff County (next county west of me), a man in his forties.
Five of the twelve counties in the district (the non-Panhandle county of Grant is also in our district) have confirmed cases.
Total tests: 814
Confirmed: 39
Recovered: 21
Deaths: 0
Time for me to make dinner. A gourmet treat tonight, Tuna Helper.
It turns out the ersatz drive-in theatre here at the Legacy of the Plains Museum has become a huge hit in the area.
Thursday through Saturday they are showing the 2006 film Night at the Museum (Wikipedia).
First fifty cars in get free popcorn.
It’s not so much the flour that’s in short supply now, says a flour producer. It’s the packaging. https://t.co/YeoIyA1b8f @p_evans
— CBC News (@CBCNews) April 23, 2020
re: #5 TarHellion
Don’t get me wrong, I do not expect him to go with Biden in November. But this friend tells me that the Trumpian-Tea Party infection IS NOT going to counter common sense. Something about dying seems to be holding sway … for now.
I know that there is nothing that can get these people to vote Democratic but at least something that will dampen their rabid enthusiasm to turn out at the polls as they did in 2016.
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡
hi.
My county’s Internet service was out for about two days. It was deemed nonessential by the telephone company to restore it right away (read we don’t make them enough money).
That says a lot about any future that rural America might have in coming years…
Watching Czech news here this morning, and we’ve managed the R0 to 0.74.
So, now we will begin a controlled return to normalcy. We’ll still have to wear masks in public locations, but it means that shopping centers and other venues can begin opening over the next four weeks. Cinemas will re-open, and they’re working on maximum capacity and distancing.
So…..slowly but surely, life’s getting back to a bit of normal. Wearing those facemasks helped in controlling the spread of the infection. The plan here still is a “controlled burn” through the population, but done in such a way as not to overwhelm the healthcare system. The top Czech epidemiologist said that we’ll have to accept that SARS-CoV-2 is simply a fact of life now, and we’ll just have to get used to an elevated mortality rate during the traditional cold and flu season as well as any additional complications COVID-19 might throw our way (that’s rather typical brutal Czech pragmatism). He’s doubtful a vaccine will be found, at least not in the next 24 months.
And that’s that.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
In Germany, the number of new cases is sinking and the rate of doubling is now over 20 days.
But plans still seem to be to maintain restrictions on large public gatherings until end of August.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
The plan here still is a “controlled burn” through the population, but done in such a way as not to overwhelm the healthcare system.
That’s the strategy that most nations are taking.
China went for suppression in Hubei. South Korea went for suppression and have almost succeeded.
But Trump wants to fast burn, burn the place down appears to be his and his follower’s desire.
They don’t care if the hospitals become so overwhelmed that any other malady has to be ignored.
Or… maybe Trump is planning DEATH PANELS, just sending the Covid-19 patients to barracks to die horrible deaths?
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That says a lot about any future that rural America might have in coming years…
Just to make sure everybody remembers that a certain Mrs Clinton was going to try to fix that: HILLARY CLINTON’S BROADBAND-FOR-ALL PLAN FACES HURDLES.
Apparently the “hurdle” was that the plan was ambitious.
re: #53 ericblair
Just to make sure everybody remembers that a certain Mrs Clinton was going to try to fix that: HILLARY CLINTON’S BROADBAND-FOR-ALL PLAN FACES HURDLES.
Apparently the “hurdle” was that the plan was ambitious.
She just wanted to be able to send her e-mails faster…
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Germany, the number of new cases is sinking and the rate of doubling is now over 20 days.
But plans still seem to be to maintain restrictions on large public gatherings until end of August.
Here, the restrictions on large public gatherings are planned to be lifted around the same time, end of August, so that means the big summer music festivals are almost certainly cancelled for this year. As to opening the borders completely for foreign tourists, they’re going to see how the situation develops in the neighboring countries. If things settle down better in Germany, they’ll re-open the border; same with Austria. They’re also getting serious pressure to do so….Czech Republic is an export economy and there’s tons of Czechs in the border regions who work outside the country and they need to do something to let those people get back to work ASAP.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
Here, the restrictions on large public gatherings are planned to be lifted around the same time, end of August, so that means the big summer music festivals are almost certainly cancelled for this year.
Even after restrictions are removed, I imagine people will be staying away from crowded events and places like festivals, cineplexes, theme parks, concert and sports venues in large numbers: it will hardly be economically worthwhile for those sites to reopen.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even after restrictions are removed, I imagine people will be staying away from crowded events and places like festivals, cineplexes, theme parks, concert and sports venues in large numbers: it will hardly be economically worthwhile for those sites to reopen.
Oh, not Czechs. They’ll turn out en masse once that’s allowed. They love that sort of thing, especially music festivals and sports venues. They’re incredibly social people, even if it might not look that way on the surface.
re: #57 Dr Lizardo
Oh, not Czechs. They’ll turn out en masse once that’s allowed. They love that sort of thing, especially music festivals and sports venues. They’re incredibly social people, even if it might not look that way on the surface.
Getting out and socializing has a broad range of possibilities: crowding into a beer tent, a cruise ship, concert venue, etc., will probably not be as popular as the less contact-intense alternatives.
Can anyone name a country where both the left and the right (including the far-left and far-right factions) were united on a major issue that shaped their nation since the turn of the millennium?
This week’s I-10 tornado front is getting fired up near Baton Rouge. That’s the third one in 11 days. Reports of 2 dead in this edition. We’re good in AL until this afternoon, but everyone along that latitude needs to stick their heads out the window today.
re: #60 electrotek
Can anyone name a country where both the left and the right (including the far-left and far-right factions) were united on a major issue that shaped their nation since the turn of the millennium?
Nickleback.
re: #61 Decatur Deb
Footage of the fatal tornado you speak of in Oklahoma yesterday, just north of Lake Texoma. It got deadly big in a matter of seconds.
re: #33 Belafon
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If they came over to my house, I would just let them cook. And I’d record it.
Lasagna with garlic bread and a green salad. Beer or wine upon request.
re: #60 electrotek
Can anyone name a country where both the left and the right (including the far-left and far-right factions) were united on a major issue that shaped their nation since the turn of the millennium?
I would say France circa 2003. The Iraq War galvanized the entire country into a united front on their opposition to Bush’s adventures. Not even Trump could have accomplished such a feat (unless he were to invade Iraq again or Syria).
re: #64 teleskiguy
Footage of the fatal tornado you speak of in Oklahoma yesterday, just north of Lake Texoma. It got deadly big in a matter of seconds.
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The northern end of that front is messing with Birmingham now. The hottest part trails SW, still in Louisiana. Like they need more grief.
Hundreds of Alberta infections linked to meat-processing plant (Global News)
Since this article came out, one person has died from the outbreak.
More at the link:
High River has become a hot spot for COVID-19 in Alberta, with hundreds of infections, including staff at a long-term care home, tied to one of Canada’s largest slaughterhouses.
Health officials said that as of Friday, 358 cases in High River and elsewhere in the region were linked to the Cargill facility. Many of the workers at the Cargill Ltd. plant are new immigrants or temporary foreign workers, whose jobs and shared living spaces make them especially vulnerable to infection. At least one worker is on a ventilator, the union for the plant says, and others are struggling with serious illnesses.
Cargill is a major employer in High River, a bedroom community of roughly 13,000 people located a half-hour drive south of the Calgary city limits. About 2,000 people work there and the facility supplies about 40 per cent of the beef processed in Western Canada.
BREAKING: Sources report that former Governor Jesse Ventura has submitted a letter of interest to the Green Party to run for the party’s Presidential nomination
— PRIMO NUTMEG (@PRIMONUTMEG) April 23, 2020
re: #65 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Lasagna with garlic bread and a green salad. Beer or wine upon request.
Big pot of green chili with beans and salad…
making a joke about date rape to the president and he and his buds laugh it up on speakerphone? I know she’s 90 years old but jesus christ
— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) April 23, 2020
re: #5 TarHellion
A brief flash that maybe the common-sense message is out there. One of my good friends is an ardent Republican (we’ve always to agreed to disagree). He’s mainly that way because of abortion .. whatev. Talked with him this evening. He is a leader in his Baptist church and thinks ANY re-opening is beyond ridiculous. Mind you we are in Republican Central in Western NC. He said the governor of Georgia is nuts, along with the governor of South Carolina. Also said his church is going to have to radically rethink how they do things, including Sunday school and the collection of offerings. Don’t get me wrong, I do not expect him to go with Biden in November. But this friend tells me that the Trumpian-Tea Party infection IS NOT going to counter common sense. Something about dying seems to be holding sway … for now.
The polling shows the overwhelming majority of the people, Democrat, independent and Republican, do not want to reopen prematurely.
Uhhh …
Lou Dobbs guest says “hopefully Kim is going to be alright” and “we have to make sure [North Korea] does not become a military dictatorship”…………………. pic.twitter.com/anOWHkbA6x
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April 22, 2020
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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Well, technically, it’s not a military dictatorship but an autocratic one under the Kims.
Not that there would be much functional difference, except the dickhead in charge would have some measure of military experience.
If the Russians were paying pissant Esper to disable the US Navy, what would he have done differently? Nothing.
If they were paying astroturfers to increase the coronavirus death toll into the millions, what would the anti-lockdown protestors be doing differently? Nothing.
If they were paying conspira-liars like Alex Jones to sabotage anti-virus precautions, what would HE be doing differently? Nothing.
We have to settle with these traitors when this is over. It will be ugly but it is our moral duty to bring them to justice.
re: #78 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Kim holds the rank of Marshal in the NK armed forces.
And Trump is Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. I don’t think that either of them have any sort of practical military experience or training (except DT’s time in a private military academy)
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And Trump is Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. I don’t think that either of them have any sort of practical military experience or training (except DT’s time in a private military academy)
Commander-in-Chief is a civilian title, which is meant to reinforce the idea the military is subservient to the elected government.
What Happened to the KGB When the Soviet Union Folded?
Since the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist back in 1991, you might assume that the KGB vanished with it. Indeed, after the hammer-and-sickle flag on the Kremlin was replaced by the tricolor of the Russian Federation that nation’s first president, Boris Yeltsin, dismantled the agency and dispersed its functions among various other parts of the new government. In reality, though, intelligence experts say the KGB never really went away. Instead, like spies often do, it simply has resurfaced with a different name, FSB, whose letters stand in Russian for Federal Security Service. And today, with a former KGB agent and FSB head named Vladimir Putin as the head of state, the organization once known as the KGB seems to have regained much of its old reach and power.
re: #29 Targetpractice
He’s apparently “open” to changing the law to allow states to declare bankruptcy. And is trying to play the “deficit card,” whining after he and the WH ransacked the Treasury for 3 years running that suddenly spending is “out of control” and he won’t support taking money from “future generations” to pay for state pension funds.
pretty sure states declaring bankruptcy doesn’t have anything to do with “the law.” they’re entities that have the ability to set tax policy. they can’t declare bankruptcy because constitutionally they’re fully able to raise taxes to offset expenses, or just drastically curtail services.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And Trump is Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. I don’t think that either of them have any sort of practical military experience or training (except DT’s time in a private military academy)
Kim’s rank, Wonsu (usually translated as Marshal) is a military rank rather than a civilian title and has its own insignia. It has been held by officers who were not heads of state. There is a higher rank, Generalissimo of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to which Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were posthumously promoted.
Wonsu is also a theoretical rank in the South Korean armed forces, equivalent to US five star rank, though there have never been any ROK Wonsu.
re: #82 steve_davis
pretty sure states declaring bankruptcy doesn’t have anything to do with “the law.” they’re entities that have the ability to set tax policy. they can’t declare bankruptcy because constitutionally they’re fully able to raise taxes to offset expenses, or just drastically curtail services.
Yup, as noted in #32, it is unconstitutional for a state to declare bankruptcy. It has never been legal.
On the formation of the republic, the federal government assumed all the debts of the former colonies.
Funding Act of 1790 (Wikipedia)
re: #14 Mattand
Agree. At this point, any and all Republicans are dead to me. Friends, family… everyone.
The holier than thou, bony hands clutched to the chest, “kindly, “church going”, GOP neighbors are all MAGA, in my book.
They will have to prove me wrong with actions.
re: #83 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Generalissimofo!
re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That’s the strategy that most nations are taking.
China went for suppression in Hubei. South Korea went for suppression and have almost succeeded.
But Trump wants to fast burn, burn the place down appears to be his and his follower’s desire.
They don’t care if the hospitals become so overwhelmed that any other malady has to be ignored.
Or… maybe Trump is planning DEATH PANELS, just sending the Covid-19 patients to barracks to die horrible deaths?
Trump isn’t planning at all; he is just reacting day to day, hoping it will somehow go away. What a shitshow.
“What’s the first thing you’ll do when…”
“PUB”— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) April 23, 2020
re: #85 Ming5000
Agree. At this point, any and all Republicans are dead to me. Friends, family… everyone.
The holier than thou, bony hands clutched to the chest, “kindly, “church going”, GOP neighbors are all MAGA, in my book.
They will have to prove me wrong with actions.
These days we don’t care why a German citizen voted for the Nazi Party: Whether they voted to restore Germany’s greatness, because of economic anxiety, end gridlock in Berlin, &c. We call them “Nazis.”
“Republican” needs to carry the same weight when we get on the other side of this.
re: #47 Dread Pirate
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
(Reference to a certain song by TLC.)
sitting in the passenger side of my best friend’s ride, trying to holler at scrubs pic.twitter.com/NfVm9aGnrg
— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) April 20, 2020
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
Baking powder, too.
re: #81 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This thread directly relates. Read the whole thing. It’s fascinating (in a not great way).
This is a personal thread.
It’s about duty, honor, love of country, love of humanity - and STOPPING DONALD TRUMP.
It starts with this remarkable article. https://t.co/0RI0SshlXD— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) April 23, 2020
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Wingnut Christian apologist Rick Wiles wants to seize Bill Gates’s wealth, saying there will be “blood in the streets” over Gates’s support of vaccination. (caution for coarse language, 21:24, goes to Utah Outcasts)
So, he’s getting his nutcase supporters acclimatized to the idea of seizing billionaires’ wealth if they turn out to be bad for society. Ok.
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
Adding to this, Whole Foods had 1-lb bricks of SAF yeast. King Arthur Flour had these online. I recommend getting the biggest package of yeast that you can. Active dry is the most practical. It will keep for a long time in a cool place, or even the freezer.
I can bake just because I have yeast. (Whether I have the emotional state to do so, OTOH….:O)
(Now, if only baking powder could be preserved like that…)
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
Luckily my store in Michigan has yeast. So far.
Last summer I made dill pickles for the first time. They just use wild yeast from the air, and it worked wonderfully. (I think it is yeast that does the pickling.. could be bacteria?)
I just saw some articles about sourdough starter. It uses wild yeast from the air too. I never knew this pre-Covid.
re: #81 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I was working in Russia immediately after the collapse of the USSR and we had a couple of colleagues who still hung onto their Communist Party cards.
I asked one of them why he would wish to be associated with an organization that had clearly wound up on the ash-heap of history and he replied: “Мы победим” (We will prevail)
And he was pretty much right.
Just declare bankruptcy, pay pennies on the dollar and reorganize under a different name.
re: #92 Sherlock Hound
Baking powder, too.
Both baking powder and baking soda have been pretty readily available both here and in MI.
re: #96 Ming5000
Luckily my store in Michigan has yeast. So far.
Last summer I made dill pickles for the first time. They just use wild yeast from the air, and it worked wonderfully. (I think it is yeast that does the pickling.. could be bacteria?)
I just saw some articles about sourdough starter. It uses wild yeast from the air too. I never knew this pre-Covid.
I don’t do sourdough because it is too much work, but I’m surprised that wild yeast is recommended for new bakers. When I first started baking bread for myself around 20 years ago, wild yeast was not recommended because it was too inconsistent. There were prepared yeast cultures you could buy (also from King Arthur).
The disadvantage of sourdough yeasts (besides flavor, which not everyone cares for) is that you must maintain the culture every day. It’s only practical if you make bread daily. Sourdough excels at that, since you use old dough (“biga”) to feed new dough, continually.
McConnell, black hearted bastard that he is, would love to steal the pensions of millions of retired state and local gov’t employees who worked for decades for them. But the GOP can’t allow state and local governments to completely collapse in an election year, especially when they insist the states have to take the lead in fighting the pandemic, so a deal will be struck to deliver federal dollars to the states which will be desperately needed. slate.com
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
re: #95 Sherlock Hound
re: #96 Ming5000
Online anything from the US is a no go for me. After today it’s unlikely I’ll be returning to my mail stop any time soon as the border is closed to non essential travel. ☹️
Hopefully I’ll be able to accomplish everything I need to do today.
I’ve personally never, ever been able to work with yeast. I’ve tried multiple times and it never foams. I gave my bottle to my SIL on Monday. And today, if it’s in stock, I ordered a bunch of packets for her (the bottles are out of stock). We’ll see how today goes.
She’s also doing a sourdough starter so she may not even need yeast.
re: #96 Ming5000
Luckily my store in Michigan has yeast. So far.
Last summer I made dill pickles for the first time. They just use wild yeast from the air, and it worked wonderfully. (I think it is yeast that does the pickling.. could be bacteria?)
Various lactic acid producing bacteria are what creates the sour aspect of pickling. The shit-ton of salt is the preservative.
re: #99 Sherlock Hound
I don’t do sourdough because it is too much work, but I’m surprised that wild yeast is recommended for new bakers. When I first started baking bread for myself around 20 years ago, wild yeast was not recommended because it was too inconsistent. There were prepared yeast cultures you could buy (also from King Arthur).
The disadvantage of sourdough yeasts (besides flavor, which not everyone cares for) is that you must maintain the culture every day. It’s only practical if you make bread daily. Sourdough excels at that, since you use old dough (“biga”) to feed new dough, continually.
I’m not a fan of sourdough myself.
SIL has a friend who kept the starter going for 60 years. When she’d go on vacation she put it in the fridge where it “went to sleep”. (We had a lengthy discussion about yeast on Monday when I couldn’t get any for her. Mom is living with her now so I’ve been doing their shopping so they stay safe.)
re: #14 Mattand
I guess, good for him if he’s not defending Trump, but honestly, so what? I’m not trying to be combative, but from what you’ve said, he and his flock are not likely going to vote Biden, or any other Democrat. At best, we have to hope that instead of doing the right thing, enough people like your preacher buddy will sit out the POTUS vote, and that maybe will get Biden in office?
I know I’m being a hard ass, but unless these “sane” conservatives say they voting for Biden, their sudden attacks of common sense just don’t mean anything.
The one I know in that area (NC) will vote Trump even though he has stated that Trump is an asshole. His focus is getting more conservative judges appointed. Thus, my belief is that he is just fine with GOP policy and actions, but doesn’t like Trump as a person or leader.
re: #29 Targetpractice
He’s apparently “open” to changing the law to allow states to declare bankruptcy. And is trying to play the “deficit card,” whining after he and the WH ransacked the Treasury for 3 years running that suddenly spending is “out of control” and he won’t support taking money from “future generations” to pay for state pension funds.
And this is the same bunch that are trying to destroy the USPS by *requiring* it to fully fund pensions far in advance. No principles or integrity involved here folks, just using whatever tools are available to destroy what they want destroyed.
So, in a bit of interesting news I’m watching on Czech TV, the Czech Constitutional Court has just ruled that the state of emergency was issued in violation of the Czech constitution, and they’ve given the Czech government until Monday to remedy the situation, or it will be considered annulled.
Interestingly, the ruling clears the way for private businesses to file a class-action lawsuit for monies lost during the shutdown, which began on 16 March. Potentially, the government could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of Czech crowns.
An unexpected development, to say the least - and as you can imagine, the Czech government right now is absolutely shitting themselves. Apparently, these geniuses never bothered to consult with constitutional lawyers before declaring the state of emergency.
Oops.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Except we both know that that’s all secondary to Mitch’s thinking. The primary concern for him and his buddies is breaking the back of the public unions. As well as forcing states to sell off assets that his buddies in the private sector generally can’t get at directly. Of course, the big selling point to his base is the idea that the only states in danger are blue ones, that red states are all models of “fiscal conservatism” and wouldn’t dare turn their backs on their public unions.
Leveling the playing field for all states means to level them to the ground in terms of infrastructure, etc. And the bonus gravy is allowing the various US oligarchs in waiting to grab stuff as the states auction it off. (And why do I think the various GOP dominated states would be fine with selling off the state assets? Just call it a hunch.)
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Time for me to make dinner. A gourmet treat tonight, Tuna Helper.
I used to like making the Tuna Helper pot pie option. Gave it up years back due to sodium and carb content.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
Watching Czech news here this morning, and we’ve managed the R0 to 0.74.
So, now we will begin a controlled return to normalcy. We’ll still have to wear masks in public locations, but it means that shopping centers and other venues can begin opening over the next four weeks. Cinemas will re-open, and they’re working on maximum capacity and distancing.
So…..slowly but surely, life’s getting back to a bit of normal. Wearing those facemasks helped in controlling the spread of the infection. The plan here still is a “controlled burn” through the population, but done in such a way as not to overwhelm the healthcare system. The top Czech epidemiologist said that we’ll have to accept that SARS-CoV-2 is simply a fact of life now, and we’ll just have to get used to an elevated mortality rate during the traditional cold and flu season as well as any additional complications COVID-19 might throw our way (that’s rather typical brutal Czech pragmatism). He’s doubtful a vaccine will be found, at least not in the next 24 months.
And that’s that.
I personally am not in favor of a “controlled burn” since that eventually includes catching the virus while being in a risk group for being seriously worked over by it. So while the rest of society might go near-normal (which in the US is even farther in the future) I will be staying in semi-isolation as long as feasibly possible and hoping for an effective vaccine to be developed.
re: #110 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I personally am not in favor of a “controlled burn” since that eventually includes catching the virus while being in a risk group for being seriously worked over by it. So while the rest of society might go near-normal (which in the US is even farther in the future) I will be staying in semi-isolation as long as feasibly possible and hoping for an effective vaccine to be developed.
Nor do we have any data on how long one remains immune, and there are indications that people can be re-infected…
For Anymouse from the WaPo:
How a family-owned Nebraska bank became a leader on coronavirus loans
re: #112 stpaulbear
For Anymouse from the WaPo:
How a family-owned Nebraska bank became a leader on coronavirus loans
That’s an interesting article; thanks.
Idaho Anti-Vaxxer Mom Is The Rosa Parks Of Exposing Children To Deadly Viruseshttps://t.co/BbnWWKsu8Z by @DoktorZoom
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) April 23, 2020
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Idaho Anti-Vaxxer Mom Is The Rosa Parks Of Exposing Children To Deadly Viruses
NAACP:
National Association for the Advancement of Corona Patients
Australia had 12 people diagnosed yesterday, New Zealand had 3, and our governments are contemplating a trans-Tasman travel bubble in the next few months.
Both countries have been in a lockdown for weeks now.
Yeah! It’s B’day!
After noting how much the environment is improving with the majority of us sheltering in place, a friend posted this poem by Sara Teasdale:
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows calling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Nebraska added hospital capacity to its “dashboard” of Covid-19 information:
Total beds: 4,288
ICU beds available: 42%
Hospital beds available: 47%
Ventilators available: 78%
nebraska.maps.arcgis.com
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
The Aldi near me carries it.
re: #117 plansbandc
Happy Burfday! And many many more.
My wingnut state senator has an opinion piece in the regional paper saying basically Dr. Fauci’s projections and scientific models are “flawed” and are desperately trying to spin the lower death predictions on social distancing.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx are now trying to convince the American public that social distancing is the reason for these drastically revised numbers and that they should somehow be credited for these diminished numbers. However, it defies common sense to attribute social distancing as the reason for a decline from 2.2 million down to 60,000. Instead, the initial projection was intentionally set high in order to make these carryover bureaucrats from the Clinton and Obama administrations look credible once the actual numbers came in. These two physicians acted immorally when they advised the President to implement a policy that was based upon flawed models.
re: #117 plansbandc
Yeah! It’s B’day!
After noting how much the environment is improving with the majority of us sheltering in place, a friend posted this poem by Sara Teasdale:
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows calling with their shimmering sound;And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
I always associate that poem with the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name that is part of “The Martian Chronicles”.
God designed the coronavirus in your anti-science religion, Senator Dipshit.
God designed the human body with the ability to form a natural defense against these kinds of viruses. That natural defense system produces the antibodies we need to fight the coronavirus. The mitigation procedures that we’ve currently set in place actually work against the body’s natural defenses. This is why we prefer the second option.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡
My wingnut state senator has an opinion piece in the regional paper saying basically Dr. Fauci’s projections and scientific models are “flawed” and are desperately trying to spin the lower death predictions on social distancing.
Next step in the apologetic blame game by the Trumpists. Someone else’s fault still, and now 50,000-100,000 dead is “acceptable” since the “flawed models” predicted more.
Fuque you, Senator Erdman.
Now it is time to liberate Nebraska…we need to get back to living and making a living.
Country star @BradPaisley explains how his free grocery store in Nashville has adapted to the coronavirus pandemic and expanded to incorporate deliveries. pic.twitter.com/NnxbFtja3s
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) April 22, 2020
I have never found a use for my Keurig machine at work until now during the pandemic. I always used to go out to Cumberland Farms gas station and get coffee, not anymore. Two pods later a perfect cup of weak coffee from my Keurig.
Amid pockets of protest, only 12% of Americans say efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 go too far. About twice as many say they don’t go far enough. https://t.co/tbZOwCo04I pic.twitter.com/mgvx2125rz
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 22, 2020
Working real hard to get in a “Democrats in disarray” angle aren’t you?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 23, 2020
More than 4 in 10 coronavirus cases are spread by those not obviously sick, a study suggests. https://t.co/gTRHDYOZd0
— Science News (@ScienceNews) April 23, 2020
Post by a Facebook friend:
I need to apologize to everyone. It’s my fault that we are all in this Stay at Home position. For the first time ever, I bought the year-long popcorn refillable bucket from the movie theater.
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think I’m going to head down to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over!
re: #131 Belafon
Wow, there’s a whole bunch of racists and bigots in that thread.
re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Wow, there’s a whole bunch of racists and bigots in that thread.
Saw that. Decided to ignore most of them.
Usama bin Laden is trending on Twitter.
Apparently FOX had an article claiming bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so a “totally unprepared” Biden would become President.
It’s about as moronic as you might think, and sprinkled with conservative doses of racism.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Usama bin Laden is trending on Twitter.
Apparently FOX had an article claiming bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so a “totally unprepared” Biden would become President.
It’s about as moronic as you might think, and sprinkled with conservative doses of racism.
So, for all of Obama’s mastery of being president, the one thing he would have flubbed was picking someone who could take his place?
re: #140 Belafon
So, for all of Obama’s mastery of being president, the one thing he would have flubbed was picking someone who could take his place?
Of course ignoring that one reason Biden was picked for VP was his foreign policy knowledge and experience.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Now it is time to liberate Nebraska…we need to get back to
livingdying and making me a living.
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
LOL I have like a year’s supply of yeast since I bake mostly sourdough which doesn’t require yeast.
re: #117 plansbandc
Happy Birthday.
As I mentioned earlier, the courts here ruled that the state of emergency wasn’t properly declared - and the slippery government did it for a reason….and now they’ve been busted.
According to the court, the problem (mainly) is that the government didn’t issue the emergency regulations under the Crisis Act, but rather, on the basis of the Public Health Protection Act. The difference is that under the Crisis Act, people and companies are entitled to compensation, while under the Public Health Protection Act, they are not. The government was trying to get out of paying compensation - and as per the court ruling, they can’t legally do that.
So now the government has a rather critical choice to make - either drop the whole thing, or re-issue the Emergency Act using the Crisis Act and compensate business owners and individuals…..and as a government analyst speaking to Czech TV just noted, such a move would mean hundreds of billions of crowns, blowing up the country’s economy.
This is what happens when a government tries to play fast and loose with the rules, even though this is an emergency situation.
re: #145 Dr Lizardo
Made a typo…..please reload that comment.
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yeast is harder to find than flour. I haven’t seen yeast on the shelves in weeks. Flour is usually in short supply but yeast is non existent.
Around here (and, I’ve heard, elsewhere), bakeries are selling flour as well as bread, since the shortage is not flour, but the new way it needs to be distributed. Maybe it would be possible to get yeast from them too.
And now for something completely unrelated - it’s snowing/sleeting in Bergen County NJ right now.
Not enough to accumulate, but just enough to say WTF.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2020
Hmm. The mid-morning cat doldrums is not the usual each cat off somewhere napping by themselves. It’s cloudy and cool out, so maybe they just want a change of pace.
Chat Noir is napping on my lap. A newish development going along with his kidney issues and loss of weight. Arguably the warmest spot in the house.
Fat Cat is perched on the back of my office chair and leaning her 14 lbs of weight directly against the back of my neck. I could lean forward and let her slip, but figure the claws would come out as she scrambled back up.
Tuxedo Cat was last seen nestled down in the comforter on the bed.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡
God designed the coronavirus in your anti-science religion, Senator Dipshit.
As much as everyone shits on NJ, one of our pluses is a noticeable dearth of these kind of ignorant bible-humpers.
re: #150 Mattand
As much as everyone shits on NJ, one of our pluses is a noticeable dearth of these kind of ignorant bible-humpers.
Or are they there and simply don’t get the local media coverage they seem to covet?
re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Next step in the apologetic blame game by the Trumpists. Someone else’s fault still, and now 50,000-100,000 dead is “acceptable” since the “flawed models” predicted more.
We are going to hit 50k tomorrow, and with a headless, floundering federal government, it’s going to soar way over 100k before we have a vaccine ready.
re: #130 Belafon
Amid pockets of protest, only 12% of Americans say efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 go too far. About twice as many say they don’t go far enough.
Numbers mean nothing. Who are the true Christian, Free-Market Patriots and who are the Muslim-atheist socialist traitors?
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re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Numbers mean nothing. Who are the true Christian, Free-Market Patriots and who are the Muslim-atheist socialist traitors?
/
Patriotic seniors are eager to die for their country; just ask Dan Patrick!
Somehow every single Republican President runs into a totally unforeseen act of god that could not be avoided or predicted and it destroys the nation’s economy, morale & reputation. Like clockwork. https://t.co/Wet1KRYmx6
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) April 23, 2020
Insane Clown Posse is more responsible than Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp https://t.co/LkCg4FqJPi
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 23, 2020
re: #151 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or are they there and simply don’t get the local media coverage they seem to covet?
Possible, but I’ve lived here for 46 of my 53 years. If they were a major problem like they are in other states, I’d probably see and hear from them on a regular basis.
I’d like to think our lack of religious-based restrictions on abortion access is a good bellwether of that.
This is so fucked up:
NEW from me:
Employees from venture capital firm Insight Partners worked inside FEMA, sourcing coronavirus supplies from vendors using their personal Gmail accounts.
The program was part of a Jared Kushner-led private sector push.https://t.co/ziY5G840r1— Rachael Levy (@rachael_levy) April 21, 2020
re: #157 lawhawk
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Fucking physical distancing, how does it work?
Oh, it works like that! Carry on, ICP.
re: #157 lawhawk
Insane Clown Posse is more responsible than Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
Test kits, how do they work?
mistermix has a good article up about Andrew Cuomo’s daily press conferences. Yesterday’s included a great quote from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then [they] ceased to be free.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Numbers mean nothing. Who are the true Christian, Free-Market Patriots and who are the Muslim-atheist socialist traitors?
/
And the only polls that matter are those on the first Tuesday of November.
By which time the political paladins of that Patriotic 12% will have spent billions of dollars on campaign advertising (funding which NEVER seems to be hard to obtain) trying to convince the rest of us that they were “ right all along”, and that any negative consequences to the country from the COVID-19 virus were, as they always have had to be, Someone Else’s fault…..
re: #163 Jay C
And the only polls that matter are those on the first Tuesday of November.
By which time the political paladins of that Patriotic 12% will have spent billions of dollars on campaign advertising (funding which NEVER seems to be hard to obtain) trying to convince the rest of us that they were “ right all along”, and that any negative consequences to the country from the COVID-19 virus were, as they always have had to be, Someone Else’s fault…..
They are working hard on an action plan to ensure that they get enough EC votes to pull this one off…
re: #163 Jay C
And the only polls that matter are those on the first Tuesday of November.
By which time the political paladins of that Patriotic 12% will have spent billions of dollars on campaign advertising (funding which NEVER seems to be hard to obtain) trying to convince the rest of us that they were “ right all along”, and that any negative consequences to the country from the COVID-19 virus were, as they always have had to be, Someone Else’s fault…..
Which will be ineffective if a vaccine isn’t found by then.
Markets: how do they work?
answer: definitely not to the consumer’s favor
BBC:
Coronavirus: Drivers being ‘ripped off for petrol’
…The price of oil has crashed in recent days, leaving the wholesale price of petrol bobbing around the 16p a litre mark, according to the AA.
But the average pump price for unleaded has remained around the £1.10 mark, inching only slightly below that this week…
….the average pump price is higher because retailers say they need to charge 10p a litre more to offset the lower volumes of fuel they are selling,” said the AA’s fuel spokesperson Luke Bosdet…”
re: #153 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We are going to hit 50k tomorrow, and with a headless, floundering federal government, it’s going to soar way over 100k before we have a vaccine ready.
Almost like we should start measuring the death rate by using the seating capacity of stadiums…
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When oil prices rise, they spike immediately and stay there. When prices collapse, the lag between the collapse and the price at the pump is noticeable and lasting.
It’s not a coincidence. It’s how the energy companies maximize their profits.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Markets: how do they work?
answer: definitely not to the consumer’s favor
BBC:
Coronavirus: Drivers being ‘ripped off for petrol’
…The price of oil has crashed in recent days, leaving the wholesale price of petrol bobbing around the 16p a litre mark, according to the AA.
But the average pump price for unleaded has remained around the £1.10 mark, inching only slightly below that this week…
….the average pump price is higher because retailers say they need to charge 10p a litre more to offset the lower volumes of fuel they are selling,” said the AA’s fuel spokesperson Luke Bosdet…”
Generally that’s a bad thing, but, as the article points out, how many of the smaller places would survive with lower prices?
re: #152 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Western good morning!
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Good morning! Tho I think those are wespelicans.
re: #148 lawhawk
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Yeah, we got a little snow out here for a while, too.
My wife said she’s going all Karen and wants to speak to the manager of 2020.
re: #171 makeitstop
Yeah, we got a little snow out here for a while, too.
My wife said she’s going all Karen and wants to speak to the manager of 2020.
I wonder if, with fewer cars being driven and fewer airplanes being flown, if there has been a noticable change in the weather. I remember reading stuff about how the power outage in the north east that one year (fewer ozone alerts required), and 9/11 grounding flights (slight changes in min/max temps), led to brief changes in weather patterns.
re: #168 lawhawk
When oil prices rise, they spike immediately and stay there. When prices collapse, the lag between the collapse and the price at the pump is noticeable and lasting.
It’s not a coincidence. It’s how the energy companies maximize their profits.
Though some quick(ish) calculations show that that pump price is about the equivalent of $5.45/gallon: how much of that is going to be taxes? I know “European” fuel prices are generally (often hugely) more expensive than they are here, but taxation (and the costs of maintaining a retail distribution network) is typically a big part of it. As a matter of policy, usually
Ammon Bundy Leads Protest At Home Of Idaho Cop Who Arrested Anti-Vaxxer (Huffington Post)
Notorious militiaman and anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy led protesters Tuesday evening outside the Meridian, Idaho, home of a police officer they claimed had unlawfully arrested an anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist earlier that day.
Bundy — best known for leading the armed militia occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016 — shared a video on Facebook showing him and dozens of protesters standing outside the home of the Meridian Police Department officer.
“There was a woman at a park with her children and she was arrested!” Bundy screams at the four or five cops standing in the driveway, watching guard over their fellow officer’s home. “Completely inappropriate.”
Bundy was referencing the arrest, earlier that day, of Sara Walton Brady, a prominent Idaho anti-vaxxer who staged a protest at a Meridian playground shuttered due to town measures to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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re: #167 Eric The Fruit Bat
Almost like we should start measuring the death rate by using the seating capacity of stadiums…
Yankee stadium is listed as having a capacity of 50,291.
I’ve used it in the past to reference crowd sizes in that ballpark figure, should get the horrible point across here as well…
re: #175 Disloyal Archangel
Yankee stadium is listed as having a capacity of 50,291.
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That’s great because numbers are too abstract and distant for most people. A visual image will work much better.
Why do ducks have tail feathers? To cover their butt quacks.
re: #124 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
One of my faves!
NEW from me:
Employees from venture capital firm Insight Partners worked inside FEMA, sourcing coronavirus supplies from vendors using their personal Gmail accounts.
The program was part of a Jared Kushner-led private sector push.https://t.co/ziY5G840r1— Rachael Levy (@rachael_levy) April 21, 2020
But his emails…
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Ammon Bundy Leads Protest At Home Of Idaho Cop Who Arrested Anti-Vaxxer (Huffington Post)
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It fucking angers me every time I see that guy isn’t in a cell.
re: #180 Mike Lamb
It fucking angers me every time I see that guy isn’t in a cell.
And now he feels vindicated and empowered to do shit like this…
re: #180 Mike Lamb
It fucking angers me every time I see that guy isn’t in a cell.
He’s persistently working on it, though.
My oldest brother, Don Reed, died from coronavirus on Tuesday evening. He joined the Air Force at 19 and spent his career in the military, including five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam. He was charming and funny, a natural leader. https://t.co/b8m0xKzAmM
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 23, 2020
re: #182 wrenchwench
He’s persistently working on it, though.
THIS. At the rate he’s going, his luck is bound to run out sometime.
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
THIS. At the rate he’s going, his luck is bound to run out sometime.
If it does, Trump will just pardon him and bestow a Freedom Medal on him while he is at it…
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it does, Trump will just pardon him and bestow a Freedom Medal on him while he is at it…
From the cell next door.
Sorry, had an attack of optimism, there.
What made him extra special was his smile—quick and crooked, it always seemed to generate its own light, one that lit up everyone around him. pic.twitter.com/SFMOaBVCN3
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 23, 2020
I’m grateful to the nurses and frontline staff who took care of him, but it’s hard to know that there was no family to hold his hand or to say “I love you” one more time—and no funeral for those of us who loved him to hold each other close. I’ll miss you dearly my brother. pic.twitter.com/oOG6HArEL6
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 23, 2020
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it does, Trump will just pardon him and bestow a Freedom Medal on him while he is at it…
I’m hoping Bundys luck won’t run out until at least the first few months of the Biden Administration because hey, we’re being optimistic right?
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
THIS. At the rate he’s going, his luck is bound to run out sometime.
Somewhere around January 22, 2021.
For the second time this week, our town is under 70+ MPH wind, with a likely second tornado headed for the S side. Obviously the wrong flavor of churches there.
re: #190 Decatur Deb
For the second time this week, our town is under 70+ MPH wind, with a likely second tornado headed for the S side. Obviously the wrong flavor of churches there.
Wow, stay safe, Mr. Deb.
re: #190 Decatur Deb
For the second time this week, our town is under 70+ MPH wind, with a likely second tornado headed for the S side. Obviously the wrong flavor of churches there.
Yikes, stay safe out there.
That’s one advantage to living near the Gulf of Mexico. It usually keeps most of the serious tornado activity well north of here. The tornadoes we do get are the ones hurricanes drag in with them.
re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Wow, stay safe, Mr. Deb.
Worst is past our side, didn’t even tear up the garden (yet).
re: #170 jeffreyw
Good morning! Tho I think those are wespelicans.
If they fail to catch fish they become pelicants.
Our storm front is trucking through, now heading for Albany GA, one of the worst CV19 hotspots in that state.
As it clears, damage reports are surfacing—looks like tornado damage in the S part of our county.
re: #177 Shropshire Slasher
Why do ducks have tail feathers? To cover their butt quacks.
+1
now get out ;-)
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
Yikes, stay safe out there.
That’s one advantage to living near the Gulf of Mexico. It usually keeps most of the serious tornado activity well north of here. The tornadoes we do get are the ones hurricanes drag in with them.
at least with hurricanes we get a week’s warning (most of the time)
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not a fan of sourdough myself.
SIL has a friend who kept the starter going for 60 years. When she’d go on vacation she put it in the fridge where it “went to sleep”. (We had a lengthy discussion about yeast on Monday when I couldn’t get any for her. Mom is living with her now so I’ve been doing their shopping so they stay safe.)
I used to make sourdough. You can also take a couple tablespoons of your starter, smear it on waxed paper or something, and when it has dried, wrap it up and put it in the freezer. It will be OK for a year. It takes a while to reconstitute it, because the amount you start with is so small, but it works.
Congress, the Senate, the Oval Office - anything and everything touched by the GOP-backed Orange Menace must be washed clean and all traces of this abomination and those who unleashed it are gone.
November can’t come fast enough. #VoteBlue2020 https://t.co/HvXLT1T0Yf— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) April 23, 2020
re: #172 Belafon
I wonder if, with fewer cars being driven and fewer airplanes being flown, if there has been a noticable change in the weather. I remember reading stuff about how the power outage in the north east that one year (fewer ozone alerts required), and 9/11 grounding flights (slight changes in min/max temps), led to brief changes in weather patterns.
My wife isnsists that that is why temperatures haven’t warmed up. Less cars/planes, less cO2, less heat. I’m not sure if I completely buy it, though. Might just be a cold Spring.
Apparently #KPopisOverParty is trending and one of my Calvinista Dudebros decided to weigh in and call KPop stars “not masculine.” Some KPop fans are giving him a bit of grief.
You’re telling me he isn’t a men? pic.twitter.com/2x36eOMwJV
— ⁷ᴊᴇɴᴏ+ᴄʜᴀᴇʏᴏᴜɴɢ ᴅᴀʏ!!˚* ❀¹²⁷🍈⁴² (@BXBYYXQI) April 23, 2020
He’s not masculine in your eyes. But then again, Jesus isn’t either. He wept (John 11:35) and he compared himself to a mother hen gathering her chicks (Luke 13:34). That’s not masculine either, but actually paying attention to Jesus never stopped you Calvinsta dudebros.
— Dee “Stay home—STAY HOME!” Holmes (@mmmirele) April 23, 2020
I’m annoyed. I misspelled “Calvinista.” *sigh*
i made a comment the other day about the USPS.
that no one has considered that the government itself so very highly relies on it and so delivery costs would skyrocket for every federal agency, including the most obvious IRS.
imagine spending 8.50 with Fedex to send a $2.00 tax refund, etc. parts of government budgets would explode. they cant not send your refund. nor an audit notice, or other agencies and legal notices, etc.
outside of government, who gets hit the hardest if the usps shutters - ie who relies on it? seniors, rural areas, and small businesses. you know, “the base”.
anymouse and other rural dwellers rely on the USPS for medications. they know shutting it down would be a disaster for them. They’d have to drive quite a distance (50-100 miles) to wherever the nearest pharmacy or VA or other source might be while also weighing the risk of (now) contracting corona on the outing.
while as the market and private enterprise rules all, ups, fedex etc could simply decide a bunch of states are just not profitable.
it would be disastrous for the R’s if they axed the usps.
re: #206 mmmirele
Apparently #KPopisOverParty is trending and one of my Calvinista Dudebros decided to weigh in and call KPop stars “not masculine.” Some KPop fans are giving him a bit of grief.
I’m annoyed. I misspelled “Calvinista.” *sigh*
Those who have no real idea of what something means: patriotism, Christianity, masculinity, are the ones who cling the most desperately to arbitrary cultural symbols associated with them: flags, Bibles, guns, etc…
re: #207 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
i made a comment the other day about the USPS.
that no one has considered that the government itself so very highly relies on it and so delivery costs would skyrocket for every federal agency, including the most obvious IRS.imagine spending 8.50 with Fedex to send a $2.00 tax refund, etc. parts of government budgets would explode. they cant not send your refund. nor an audit notice, or other agencies and legal notices, etc.
outside of government, who gets hit the hardest if the usps shutters - ie who relies on it? seniors, rural areas, and small businesses. you know, “the base”.
anymouse and other rural dwellers rely on the USPS for medications. they know shutting it down would be a disaster for them. They’d have to drive quite a distance (50-100 miles) to wherever the nearest pharmacy or VA or other source might be while also weighing the risk of (now) contracting corona on the outing.while as the market and private enterprise rules all, ups, fedex etc could simply decide a bunch of states are just not profitable.
it would be disastrous for the R’s if they axed the usps.
Unfortunately there would be a lot of pain, expense, and annoyance inflicted before the base realized that they’d been screwed over and that the situation would need to be modified or reset. And I expect that a rebuilding of the USPS (or equivalent) would be done with the usual suspects dragged kicking and screaming all the way.
re: #204 Disloyal Archangel
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i am all out of quelle surprises to give
Congress, the Senate, the Oval Office - anything and everything touched by the GOP-backed Orange Menace must be washed clean and all traces of this abomination and those who unleashed it are gone.
November can’t come fast enough. #VoteBlue2020 https://t.co/HvXLT1T0Yf— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) April 23, 2020
re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those who have no real idea of what something means: patriotism, Christianity, masculinity, are the ones who cling the most desperately to arbitrary cultural symbols associated with them: flags, Bibles, guns, etc…
Grasping symbols without understanding, really believing, or following the principles and responsibilities that come with the ideals underlying those symbols.
re: #209 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Unfortunately there would be a lot of pain, expense, and annoyance inflicted before the base realized that they’d been screwed over and that the situation would need to be modified or reset. And I expect that a rebuilding of the USPS (or equivalent) would be done with the usual suspects dragged kicking and screaming all the way.
there would be great motivation to build ‘the trump federal postal service” in a matter of weeks
his name on every local post office!
re: #209 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Unfortunately there would be a lot of pain, expense, and annoyance inflicted before the base realized that they’d been screwed over and that the situation would need to be modified or reset. And I expect that a rebuilding of the USPS (or equivalent) would be done with the usual suspects dragged kicking and screaming all the way.
I doubt local businesses would like it much either. Weekly grocery store mailers, sale flyers, etc. Gone. Sure, you could email people, if you had their email and it was current, and they hadn’t moved, but if you’re running a special on window washing or something in a given area, forget it.
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
THIS. At the rate he’s going, his luck is bound to run out sometime.
Yep. This know nothing idiot is going to find out the hard way that just because he skated on the Bundy ranch and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff, law enforcement is eventually going to say enough is enough and take his dumb ass down. Hard.
re: #214 calochortus
I doubt local businesses would like it much either. Weekly grocery store mailers, sale flyers, etc. Gone. Sure, you could email people, if you had their email and it was current, and they hadn’t moved, but if you’re running a special on window washing or something in a given area, forget it.
small businesses - another big part of ‘the base’
that’s why it’ll never happen
they’ll scream, rant rave, posture, spin, and pontificate
and then they’ll fund it like always
but only just enough to keep the issue afloat (like abortion)
so they can rinse repeat again next time
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡
hi.
My county’s Internet service was out for about two days. It was deemed nonessential by the telephone company to restore it right away (read we don’t make them enough money).
Damn but I’m glad i live in a country that understand that capitalism is good and unregulated capitalism is not capitalism.
The Michigan House and Senate will hold a special session tomorrow with the intent of forming an oversight committee to assess Gov. Whitmer’s handling to the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/tXIi5BtnyB
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) April 23, 2020
This is a good look.
I’m so glad outlets like the New York Times promoted the protests against her and manufactured a supermassive “popular uprising” against her. No, really, extremely helpful, guys.
This Twitter thread:
Americans still don’t understand what he is. That is the fault of politicians, the media, propagandists - and of course his sincere supporters as well.
But some know the truth. That he isn’t rich, he’s Mob property. That’s he’s tasked with destroying anything his bosses say to. pic.twitter.com/A26E2WlVGH— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) April 23, 2020
Tracks with my own personal experience. Moscow in ‘07, Ukraine ‘08, Kazakhstan ‘09, Georgia, Azerbaijan & Bulgaria ‘10, back to Kiev in 2011-2013.
The KGB melded with the vor in the Organizatsyone, took over the Russian government, and have been operating since then in a combined-warfare mode against the West.
Trump is their tool. Their little puppet.
Intelligence professionals know this. But what do they do? Especially when Fox, Hate Radio & Breitbart all lie to ~46% of America about him?
re: #215 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yep. This know nothing idiot is going to find out the hard way that just because he skated on the Bundy ranch and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff, law enforcement is eventually going to say enough is enough and take his dumb ass down. Hard.
Come to a cop’s personal house, spouting wild-eyed rhetoric, and things will get … kinetic … in short order.
Ammon Bundy may suffer a drunk-driving accident real soon. And every officer on the scene will sign off on the accidental nature. The coroner will list the official cause of death as “Voluntary intoxication - Accident.”
re: #218 Citizen K
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This is a good look.
I’m so glad outlets like the New York Times promoted the protests against her and manufactured a supermassive “popular uprising” against her. No, really, extremely helpful, guys.
Is it possible we could see a U.S. State remove their own Governor because she dared to actually follow the advice of medical experts during a health crisis?
Has this country really gone that far off the rails?
re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it possible we could see a U.S. State remove their own Governor because she dared to actually follow the advice of medical experts during a health crisis?
Has this country really gone that far off the rails?
Thankfully, I think the governor can only be removed by recall? That doesn’t preclude any other actions the legislature could try and pull on her, but I don’t believe the GOP holds veto proof majority in any of the state houses. It’s still just…
re: #218 Citizen K
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I’m so glad outlets like the New York Times promoted the protests against her and manufactured a supermassive “popular uprising” against her. No, really, extremely helpful, guys.
12%
eff em
re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it possible we could see a U.S. State remove their own Governor because she dared to actually follow the advice of medical experts during a health crisis?
Has this country really gone that far off the rails?
theyll call it something else
so yes
re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it possible we could see a U.S. State remove their own Governor because she dared to actually follow the advice of medical experts during a health crisis?
Has this country really gone that far off the rails?
It’ll turn out like the Senate investigation into the IC corruption in declaring that the Russians were interfering in the election.
re: #33 Belafon
You just found out all these aunties and uncles …
Uh, they’re younger than I am.
Dunno, how’s about a nice Tiep bou dienn? But that wouldn’t work if we “just” found out, hum…
Yunno what? If they don’t tell us they’re coming in advance I think my wife would have some pretty strong words.
re: #227 John Hughes
Uh, they’re younger than I am.
Dunno, how’s about a nice Tiep bou dienn? But that wouldn’t work if we “just” found out, hum…
Yunno what? If they don’t tell us they’re coming in advance I think my wife would have some pretty strong words.
I suspect you’re given enough warning to prepare something.
Trumporrhoid of the Day
A Self-Proclaimed ”Boogaloo Boy” Was Arrested After Allegedly Livestreaming His Hunt To Kill A Police Officer https://t.co/mJM1uFrsMc
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) April 23, 2020
re: #230 The Pie Overlord!
Do I even want to know what a “Boogaloo Boy” is?
re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg
Do I even want to know what a “Boogaloo Boy” is?
‘Boogaloo’ is White Supremacist shorthand for the Second Civil War.
re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg
Do I even want to know what a “Boogaloo Boy” is?
Particular form of stupid that refers to “Civil War Mark II” as variations on the movie title “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” with as much racism packed in as possible.
I’m back.
I WON THE LOTTO!!! ($2)
We also got our primary ballots in the mail. I think I’m going to write-in Joe Biden. /s
Lunch Pr0n - Brisket Sammich pic.twitter.com/X1nzzFA3af
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) April 23, 2020
I NEED VIDEO, STAT.
Governor Cuomo THANK YOU for Calling out the Virus Mitch McConnell. He’s a Plague on our nation. He is a Mean and Vindictive piece of protoplasm. #CuomoPrimeTime #MitchMcConnell pic.twitter.com/Z9U4pE9aKf
— Carole Scott (@LivingInBondage) April 23, 2020
Here it is. Drag him, Gov.
BOOM. @senatemajldr, you should probably watch @NYGovCuomo’s words for you. pic.twitter.com/VB2KVFgrDq
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 23, 2020
re: #233 William Lewis
Particular form of stupid that refers to “Civil War Mark II” as variations on the movie title “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” with as much racism packed in as possible.
So it’s even dumber than I thought it was. Figures.
re: #220 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Come to a cop’s personal house, spouting wild-eyed rhetoric, and things will get … kinetic … in short order.
Ammon Bundy may suffer a drunk-driving accident real soon. And every officer on the scene will sign off on the accidental nature. The coroner will list the official cause of death as “Voluntary intoxication - Accident.”
Not likely. Idiots like him WANT to go out in a blaze of glory. He’ll be stupid enough to try and pull a weapon on an officer during a traffic shot and get killed. That way he becomes a martyr to the cause.
So, here in Czech Republic, establishments up to 2,500 m2 (26,900 sq. ft.) will be open from Monday, April 27, provided they are establishments with their own entrance - IOW, not in shopping malls - as well as driving schools, gyms and fitness centers, libraries, and zoos and botanical gardens without indoor pavilions. Just announced by the Prime Minister here.
Starting on 11 May, shopping malls will also re-open, as well as restaurants and cafeterias with a service window and a outdoor garden (no sit-down restaurants just yet), pedicure/manicure shops, barbershops, massages centers, etc., as well as galleries and exteriors of castles and chateaux throughout the country.
For the most part…..back to normal. Still have to wear facemasks on public transportation and stores must provide disinfectant wipes and hand disinfectant dispensers at the entrances and people inside should maintain social distancing, which I’m already seeing in many places.
re: #239 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Not likely. Idiots like him WANT to go out in a blaze of glory. He’ll be stupid enough to try and pull a weapon on an officer during a traffic shot and get killed. That way he becomes a martyr to the cause.
Or maybe he gets sick from Coronavirus and dies. Not much glory there.
re: #205 makeitstop
My wife isnsists that that is why temperatures haven’t warmed up. Less cars/planes, less cO2, less heat. I’m not sure if I completely buy it, though. Might just be a cold Spring.
This hasn’t gone on long enough to significantly affect CO2 levels.
CO2 levels are still going up, though not as rapidly.
Cuomo ain’t having McConnell’s “bankruptcy” bullshit:
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 23, 2020
re: #243 Barefoot Grin
Cuomo ain’t having McConnell’s “bankruptcy” bullshit:
The only red states which pay more than they receive are Utah and Nebraska.
It really is stark to see the number of House Republicans opting out of masks/face covering compared to Democrats.
I’ve seen several Rs walking side-by-side with staff, none of them wearing masks. One walked right by me, inches away.— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) April 23, 2020
re: #241 stpaulbear
Or maybe he gets sick from Coronavirus and dies. Not much glory there.
Poetic justice though.
Missed this yesterday.
Here you go….https://t.co/rFlDezeO2B
— Craig Boston (@cnboston) April 23, 2020
Jim Jordan is completely insufferable.
re: #220 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Come to a cop’s personal house, spouting wild-eyed rhetoric, and things will get … kinetic … in short order.
Ammon Bundy may suffer a drunk-driving accident real soon. And every officer on the scene will sign off on the accidental nature. The coroner will list the official cause of death as “Voluntary intoxication - Accident.”
It will have to be something different. He’s Mormon and Mormons famously don’t drink alcohol. That said, I wish his stake president would get a call from the suits in SLC and then turn around and tell him to shut up.
re: #130 Belafon
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About twice as many say they don’t go far enough.
About twice as many? From the numbers on the chart MORE than twice as many.
re: #245 jaunte
It really is stark to see the number of House Republicans opting out of masks/face covering compared to Democrats.
But Matt Gaetz was wearing a gas mask weeks ago!
re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it possible we could see a U.S. State remove their own Governor because she dared to actually follow the advice of medical experts during a health crisis?
Has this country really gone that far off the rails?
I dunno: this proposed action by the MI Lege has the stench of “Benghazi Hearings” all over it. To me, it sounds like the usual Republican BS of forming an “Embarrassment Committee” to try to dump on their (D) Governor in a legislative forum: doesn’t really matter what they do, so long as it keeps Whitmer’s name in the news negatively (at least they would hope it’s negative).
Whether they can actually DO anything to her depends on the provisions of the MI Constitution/state laws: but I’m sure they’ll at least go for: if nothing else, red-meat for the goober base….
The Czech Finance Minister, Alena Schillerová, whom I usually don’t agree with all that often, did one damn good thing today and got the PM and the rest of the cabinet to agree with her on it.
We have just decided to freeze rental prices. From today, until the end of the emergency measures, it will not be possible to increase the rent on apartments. Even a small increase in rent can cause people severe financial problems. Now we give renters a guarantee that in today’s difficult situation, their housing costs will not increase.
re: #248 mmmirele
It will have to be something different. He’s Mormon and Mormons famously don’t drink alcohol. That said, I wish his stake president would get a call from the suits in SLC and then turn around and tell him to shut up.
Maybe Ammon Bundy IS the stake president…?
Coming back from the general store, I saw my first political election sign in town. It’s for Trump (naturally).
My yard’s going to look like a frickin’ campaign headquarters soon, with signs for every Democrat on my ballot. Need to balance the town.
re: #254 Jay C
Maybe Ammon Bundy IS the stake president…?
Given that group’s attitude towards authority, they would start their own fundy Mormon splinter group in a blink.
re: #254 Jay C
Maybe Ammon Bundy IS the stake president…?
The Bundy family anti-government shtick is a bit surprising given their Mormon background. And apparently, he think that the LDS church has been affiliated by socialists and globalists, and the LDS church had already condemmned the Bundy family takeover of BLM lands in Oregon.
Ammon Bundy claims LDS Church infiltrated by socialists
Edit: to be clear, they too claim to be Mormons.
Jamie Raskin launching at Gym Jordan is my mood.
re: #235 jeffreyw
That onion roll looks awesome.
re: #206 mmmirele
Apparently #KPopisOverParty is trending and one of my Calvinista Dudebros decided to weigh in and call KPop stars “not masculine.” Some KPop fans are giving him a bit of grief.
I’m annoyed. I misspelled “Calvinista.” *sigh*
Masculine men a couple hundred years ago wore high heels.
Cowboy boots have high heels.
“Masculine” is a social construct.
re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Masculine men a couple hundred years ago wore high heels.
Cowboy boots have high heels.
“Masculine” is a social construct.
Now it’s cargo shorts and flip flops.
re: #258 BigPapa
Jamie Raskin launching at Gym Jordan is my mood.
Rules change for the US House: No mask, no entry. The GOP wants to ignore public health measures, they don’t get to vote.
Boogie On Reggae Woman (on the U Bass) pic.twitter.com/26wWmWuT6J
— Jacob Collier (@jacobcollier) April 22, 2020
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
THIS. At the rate he’s going, his luck is bound to run out sometime.
He led a group of people in an armed takeover of federal property. As long as he doesn’t kill someone, I’m pretty confident there is nothing he can’t get away with.
re: #244 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The only red states which pay more than they receive are Utah and Nebraska.
Rockefeller Institute of Government is associated with my alma mater, so I take a certain amount of pride in seeing their efforts promoted :)
GOP owns the death toll and the catastrophic effects it’s had on the economy, and now they’re concerned that their astroturfed efforts to restart/reopen might be undermined by the optics of the racists/white supremacists they’ve turned out for those “protests”. https://t.co/EZOlOV4EDk
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2020
re: #265 lawhawk
Rockefeller Institute of Government is associated with my alma mater, so I take a certain amount of pride in seeing their efforts promoted :)
You’re welcome. Maybe if I promote them enough they’ll send me to college? /s
re: #264 Mike Lamb
He led a group of people in an armed takeover of federal property. As long as he doesn’t kill someone, I’m pretty confident there is nothing he can’t get away with.
It pretty much takes murdering someone (violently, as opposed to by neglect) or stealing from other rich white people for a white Republican man to be punished in the US.
re: #266 lawhawk
It shouldn’t be that hard to troll the people who are going to those rallies: “Why are you letting some government official tell you what to do now?!”
re: #266 lawhawk
ain’t gonna work, half the reason those assholes come in the first place is to show off their Symbols of Freedom and Heritage.
And of course, a Confederate Flag is all about “heritage” especially coming from a state that sent over 90,000 soldiers to fight against the Confederacy
re: #270 Belafon
It shouldn’t be that hard to troll the people who are going to those rallies: “Why are you letting some government official tell you what to do now?!”
no need to, I can imagine a lot of guys are reacting that way without prompting
re: #266 lawhawk
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GOP owns the death toll and the catastrophic effects it’s had on the economy, and now they’re concerned that their astroturfed efforts to restart/reopen might be undermined by the optics of the racists/white supremacists they’ve turned out for those “protests”. https://t.co/EZOlOV4EDk
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2020
re: #237 makeitstop
Here it is. Drag him, Gov.
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Slight correction of my earlier post - The Stones are rolling out the video of their new tune at 2:00. Audio is out already, and here it is.
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Good tune.
That’ poppin’. Mick sounded pretty great on “You can’t always get” the other day, but it’s nice to hear some dirty guitars up in the mix too.
re: #266 lawhawk
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Let’s just briefly focus on the states’ rights thing (no, not the obvious, It was the Slavery Stupid)…would there be a peep out of these assholes if federal legislation passed that prevented states from implementing stay at home orders? Or if Trump conditioned federal funding on lifting social distancing restrictions?
“I own more tactical guns than some small nations.”
And yet I can only manage two tactical hands.
re: #276 Barefoot Grin
It’s amazing how truly great they STILL are.
re: #275 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Establishing bonafides as a sucker gun culture consumer.
Up yours, Mike.
Up yours, too, Rush.
And up the marching Nazis’, too, really, really hard. https://t.co/ZBUWRvAg2o— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) April 23, 2020
This is political violence. https://t.co/Su45HXpXPs
— Alex Halpern (@HalpernAlex) April 23, 2020
That’s quite a bit of a different experience without the ‘up close’ personal guidance typically provided on the first day
What’s 2+8 training, you may ask. Now that the arrival of BCT recruits has resumed, the 1st 2 weeks will focus on #SocialDistanceEnabledTraining, along with controlled monitoring, to look for signs of #COVID19. #VictoryStartsHere@PaulFunk2 @TradocDCG https://t.co/FWhvsM7Z0U
— U.S. Army TRADOC (@TRADOC) April 23, 2020
re: #239 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Not likely. Idiots like him WANT to go out in a blaze of glory. He’ll be stupid enough to try and pull a weapon on an officer during a traffic shot and get killed. That way he becomes a martyr to the cause.
blue tarp man syndrome
re: #275 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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re: #283 jaunte
Yeah, they’re going to show that idiots have no place in deciding how our country should be run.
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re: #205 makeitstop
My wife isnsists that that is why temperatures haven’t warmed up. Less cars/planes, less cO2, less heat. I’m not sure if I completely buy it, though. Might just be a cold Spring.
In New England, springs are cool, if not cold, until they aren’t. Averages are 50-55F during the days from April until late May. Then it may warm up to the 70’s. Or the seabreeze kicks in on the North Shore where I am, and temps are in the 40’s.
Then a switch turns on and we’re in the 90’s!
I’m so fucking tired of trying to fight folks embracing the accelerationist spirit, either out of anger or despair. It’s just….
Fighting for what good you can out of a shitty situation is not somehow surrendering to fascism. And “burn it down” assumes you get to build from the ashes. But ‘All-Or-Nothing’ has as good a chance of giving you ‘nothing’ as anything, and sometimes all you get is ashes, without anything to build on. Building shit is hard, and some of the things we have, rotten as the institutions have gotten, are still things we need to rely on and rebuilding from scratch is going to hurt a LOT of people, with no assurances that what we get afterwards is even allowed to be better.
That’s what fighting asymmetric warfare is. Sometimes, you fight a foe who’s not fighting to win, just to make you lose. And that’s a shitty hand but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth pushing and getting what you can. Sometimes, there’s no option not to play the game.
re: #290 Sherlock Hound
In New England, springs are cool, if not cold, until they aren’t. Averages are 50-55F during the days from April until late May. Then it may warm up to the 70’s. Or the seabreeze kicks in on the North Shore where I am, and temps are in the 40’s.
Then a switch turns on and we’re in the 90’s!
I was ready for 70s about 3 weeks ago, personally. :)
Wasting military resources on a meaningless stunt while 26 ships of the US Navy have covid19 cases on board. Ships are being incapacitated due to your incompetence and failure, but you think this stunt is helpful?
Resign.
That’d be helpful.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 23, 2020
Yikes
BREAKING/NEW: NYC antibody tests showed roughly 1 in 5 residents in city were positive for antibodies.
— Jesse McKinley (@jessemckinley) April 23, 2020
20%. Damn.
re: #266 lawhawk
“I own more tactical guns than some small nations.”
A major problem in this nation summed up in a single sentence.
re: #239 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Not likely. Idiots like him WANT to go out in a blaze of glory. He’ll be stupid enough to try and pull a weapon on an officer during a traffic shot and get killed. That way he becomes a martyr to the cause.
Relatives are cops. Big-time Trumps supporters because Catholic/abortion.
Now that their pensions are threatened, and Fox News is whipping the heavily armed boogaloo jackasses to hunt them and their children, they are suddenly awkwardly silent.
This coming election, if you don’t show up, you’re essentially voting for people from a political party that apparently now believes ice cream to be a communist plot.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2020
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
Yikes, stay safe out there.
That’s one advantage to living near the Gulf of Mexico. It usually keeps most of the serious tornado activity well north of here. The tornadoes we do get are the ones hurricanes drag in with them.
Yeah, you’re in the southern part of MS. Up in the northern parts we would see them kinda regularly. I watched 2 small ones running side by side from about a mile away one day in Greenville.
re: #300 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, you’re in the southern part of MS. Up in the northern parts we would see them kinda regularly. I watched 2 small ones running side by side from about a mile away one day in Greenville.
There was one in Hattiesburg (about 40 miles north of me) that did considerable damage not long ago.
re: #259 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That onion roll looks awesome.
If I had baked it I would change my nym to onion roll overlord. That’s straight outta Kroger.
re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg
There was one in Hattiesburg (about 40 miles north of me) that did considerable damage not long ago.
Dang. You’re pretty much right on the Gulf, then?
God’s Mercy upon you during the upcoming hurricane season. The bungling & incompetence are just going to make FEMA even more incapable of helping Americans in need.
re: #248 mmmirele
It will have to be something different. He’s Mormon and Mormons famously don’t drink alcohol. That said, I wish his stake president would get a call from the suits in SLC and then turn around and tell him to shut up.
“We conclude from evidence at the scene that the decedent’s truck ran over debris which cut his front tires and his brake lines.”
re: #302 jeffreyw
If I had baked it I would change my nym to onion roll overlord. That’s straight outta Kroger.
I recognized that roll.
They are awesome
re: #303 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Dang. You’re pretty much right on the Gulf, then?
God’s Mercy upon you during the upcoming hurricane season. The bungling & incompetence are just going to make FEMA even more incapable of helping Americans in need.
Yep. Beaches are about eight miles due south of me.
Fortunately, being that far back the water and nowhere near a river means the flood risk for my home is low. This particular area had electricity back less than a week after Katrina.
My major risk here is falling tree limbs, wind damage, that kind of thing.
re: #287 lawhawk
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re: #302 jeffreyw
When this is over, I want to invite dude and myself to your house so you can cook us Anything you want.
Kthanks
NEW: In deleted tweets, new HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said the coronavirus was because “millions of Chinese suck the blood out of rabid bats as an appetizer and eat the ass out of anteaters.”
He said Democrats had a “goal” of “massive deaths.”https://t.co/V1srtrx52E— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 23, 2020
re: #308 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The testing gap. washingtonpost.com
Argh. I hate that WaPo INSISTS on putting stories like this behind the paywall.
Scumbags selling fake covid19 treatment:
1 of 2: Today the FBI executed a search warrant at Allure Medical Spa in Shelby Township. The investigation includes allegations that the clinic provided fraudulent treatments for the Coronavirus and that the clinic did not observe proper protocols to protect patients/staff…
— U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider (@USAO_MIE) April 23, 2020
This is a great example of shitty journalism from the @washingtonpost. No mention of @FLOTUS as a birther, there were no masks and no social distancing during the televised tree planting. Which undermines the whole story. It’s just an excellent suck up piece by the Post. https://t.co/Viz49gQCSd
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) April 23, 2020
re: #309 plansbandc
When this is over, I want to invite dude and myself to your house so you can cook us Anything you want.
Kthanks
Give me a ring from the gate and I’ll buzz you in. The gators are just for show, mostly. Stay on the marked path and you will be fine.
So the dilemma now faced by the Czech government - and the reason they’ve so drastically sped up the return to normal - is that they’d apparently realized that today’s earlier court ruling puts them on the hook for something on the order of 600 - 800 billion Czech crowns (about $24 billion to $31 billion dollars) if they didn’t lift the restrictions. The way the Czech constitution is written, the government here is liable for damages caused by restrictions on property rights, even during a state of emergency. They tried to weasel out of it (LOL) by using a legalistic fiction, but the court saw through that and called bullshit on their actions.
So, either they lift the restrictions on use of property and allow businesses to open again…..or they fork over about 55% of the annual budget, leaving precious little money for anything else.
Unlike some other former Communist states here in what used to be the Warsaw Pact, the Czech judiciary isn’t going to take any shit. Which is good to see….the rule of law still prevails.
It’s cool though, he wasn’t eating ice cream. https://t.co/3paeWgUs4X
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 23, 2020
Trump sure knows how to pick em.
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Damn, Soledad is out of fucks to give…and I like it!
re: #312 Eclectic Cyborg
Argh. I hate that WaPo INSISTS on putting stories like this behind the paywall.
I went ahead and bought a subscription to stay informed in these difficult times.
re: #319 cat-tikvah
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That later prompted an entirely new discussion, LOL.
And now the other shoe drops on the “Small Business” loan program where the vast majority of recipients were large companies with multi-million dollar loans, and leaving actual small businesses high and dry.
Turns out it was a cash grab for the banks processing the loans, to the tune of more than $10 billion in “transaction fees”.
Small Business Rescue Earned Banks $10 Billion In Fees
For every transaction made, banks took in 1% to 5% in fees, depending on the amount of the loan, according to government figures. Loans worth less than $350,000 brought in 5% in fees while loans worth anywhere from $2 million to $10 million brought in 1% in fees.
For example, on April 7, RCSH Operations LLC, the parent company of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, received a loan of $10 million. JPMorgan Chase & Co., acting as the lender, took a $100,000 fee on the one-time transaction for which it assumed no risk and could pass through with fewer requirements than for a regular loan.
In total, those transaction fees amounted to more than $10 billion for banks, according to transaction data provided by the SBA and the Treasury Department.
re: #321 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I went ahead and bought a subscription to stay informed in these difficult times.
I thought about it but I refuse to be strongarmed like that.
re: #322 Dr Lizardo
Mr. Cat-Tikvah and I watched it just before the 2016 election.
For some reason, it seemed relevant….
Another great Teri Kanefield thread
(Thread) Trump has no interest in controlling the pandemic
(He wants to control the narrative)
To answer this ⤵️ I will weave together:
🔹The purpose of government
🔹The limits of Sadopopulism, and
🔹Trump’s lifelong formula: what matters is the appearance of success. https://t.co/g5RYm5xgEv— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) April 23, 2020
re: #323 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
And now the other shoe drops on the “Small Business” loan program where the vast majority of recipients were large companies with multi-million dollar loans, and leaving actual small businesses high and dry.
Turns out it was a cash grab for the banks processing the loans, to the tune of more than $10 billion in “transaction fees”.
Now that the pigs have gorged themselves at the trough, Mitch wants to get the Senate back to the most important task in his mind: Ramming through as many judicial appointees as he can before Dec 31st.
re: #311 lawhawk
re: #318 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump sure knows how to pick em.
Caputo can be a good and effective official. He is also more than willing to carry a rhetorical bat on behalf of whoever his boss is https://t.co/MjNOBaURiO
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 15, 2020
re: #325 cat-tikvah
Mr. Cat-Tikvah and I watched it just before the 2016 election.
For some reason, it seemed relevant….
Dr. Strangelove is perhaps the greatest dark comedy ever made. And it certainly appeals to Czechs’ pitch-black sense of humor.
re: #323 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
Worse than candy from a baby. More like food from a refugee’s mouth. The worst kind of piracy.
FDA had extended its maximum telework schedule through June 1st meaning we can continue with 40 hours per week at home.
Sometimes I wish I could vote. Some fraud conspiracy nuts say I do. LOL. I do retweet some politics that appeal to my sense of fairness and a better country for all. Super glad my human is Safer At Home. I’m scared of COVID 19. Who knew pets could get it? #vulnerable
— Manksy (@TheManksy) April 23, 2020
Looks like former Acting SecNav Modly’s immortal words to the TR crew has entered Navy lore. Here’s the banner on the /r/Navy subreddit. pic.twitter.com/JYbql5hyrc
— David B. Larter (@DavidLarter) April 22, 2020
re: #326 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Another great Teri Kanefield thread
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That’s been Trump for ages now, “fake it til you make it.” The man has been losing money for decades, his major business ventures flop left and right, yet he keeps people convinced that he’s “rich” when the reality is he’s no different than the very plebes he looks down upon by living off other people’s money. And that’s what he lives in fear of more than anything else: The revelation that he’s one unfavorable bankruptcy ruling away from being penniless as the debt collectors descend upon his “empire.”
re: #266 lawhawk
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“The Confederacy was more about states rights than slavery.”
Yeah, it was about the right of citizens in states to own slaves. Another dumbass who has never read the Declaration of Causes.
re: #117 plansbandc
A very Happy Birthday!! And maybe this year will end with the best birthday gift: Democrats in control of WH, Senate, and House!
re: #337 Hecuba’s daughter
Thank you so much. I sincerely hope that happens.
re: #335 Targetpractice
That’s been Trump for ages now, “fake it til you make it.” The man has been losing money for decades, his major business ventures flop left and right, yet he keeps people convinced that he’s “rich” when the reality is he’s no different than the very plebes he looks down upon by living off other people’s money. And that’s what he lives in fear of more than anything else: The revelation that he’s one unfavorable bankruptcy ruling away from being penniless as the debt collectors descend upon his “empire.”
He has never “made it”
JFC
Some of the deleted tweets from the new HHS assistant secretary for public affairs: https://t.co/V1srtrx52E pic.twitter.com/qmSHh8tFbs
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 23, 2020
And Garbage Hobbit has the chutzpah to complain that people who don’t think like him can’t be “real Jews”
Ben Shapiro balances death and economic hardship: “Death is worse than all of the other things, for the individual. But for the society, we make these calculations all the time because that’s called policymaking.” pic.twitter.com/JsQMtarTwn
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April 23, 2020
re: #343 Dr. Matt
We are living in strange times….
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re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡
That said, over the last few days the number of new tests plunged, from 1,105 Monday to 307 today.
The only accurate numbers are deaths and hospitalizations.
Another case in the Panhandle yesterday, in Scott’s Bluff County.
For the Panhandle:
Confirmed: 40
Recovered: 21
Deaths: 0
Largest age group: 40-49
Smallest age group: 80+ (1 case)
Women: 2/3 of cases
re: #344 Teukka
We are living in interesting times, in the ancient Chinese curse sense.
I take no responsibility at all. /
Oh hey “World’s Most Authentic Jew” where in the Torah does it teach that people have to die so other people can make money? And by Torah I don’t mean “Atlas Shrugged” #resist #COVID19 #GOPGenocide #NoBloodForEconomy https://t.co/nGlCulrWQR
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 23, 2020
re: #342 The Pie Overlord!
And Garbage Hobbit has the chutzpah to complain that people who don’t think like him can’t be “real Jews”
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This….uh….
…yeah, this feels especially tonedeaf coming from someone who portrays himself as a gatekeeper to real American Jewishness.
Fucking NY Times
Democrats blocked 2 consecutive coronavirus rescue packages to win concessions from Republicans. It was a dangerous strategy in an election year, Carl Hulse writes, but the Democrats’ willingness to take on risks plays to the party’s strengths. https://t.co/8CWtxl2y3I
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 23, 2020
re: #275 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
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Y’know, speaking as a gentile, my understanding about Jewish history has generally been of a people who constantly had to deal with oppression and the possibility of death by one society after another because the economy of the time saw that as not only acceptable but preferable.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
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The last time I read that kind of reasoning was in a book called The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze talking about the economics of Nazi Germany. They didn’t have the money or resources to win WWII even with stealing everything they could or by murdering as many useless mouths as they could. Sad to see him spewing the same shit now.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
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The All Lives Matter/Pro-Life crowd are exposed as frauds.
re: #350 The Pie Overlord!
Fucking NY Times
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Yes, let us not discuss what those concessions were or why Republicans opposed them, let’s talk about how Dems are “blocking rescue packages.”
FFS
re: #352 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I wish I could give that more than one like.
I’m thinking of getting a swastika tattoo in order to get more respectful treatment from the red rose brigade. https://t.co/FvZ2btfyWx
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 23, 2020
Update from daycare: When it reopens, parents must provide at least two masks a day for toddlers. “We ask that you begin using the masks at home as soon as possible…so your child can become familiar with wearing a mask.”
— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) April 23, 2020
I can’t even get my kids to keep their shirts and socks on 🤷♀️
— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) April 23, 2020
Terry Gross today is interviewing Jane Mayer about that New Yorker article on Mitch McConnell! I just started streaming NPR to hear Gov. Pritzker and then Fresh Air.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
I’m not a fan of Shampiro and I support the shutdown, but is there a hint of truth about weighing the costs? I studied econ and we did cover this. @planetmoney just ran a podcast covering this. https://t.co/MRjminhy9F. Answer, no it’s not worth it to open the economy. 1/2
— Thomas Kurzhal (@TKurzhal) April 23, 2020
Okay asshat, you first. I weigh the costs and find you lacking. See how that works?
re: #358 gocart mozart
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re: #342 The Pie Overlord!
Ben Shapiro balances death and economic hardship: “Death is worse than all of the other things, for the individual. But for the society, we make these calculations all the time because that’s called policymaking.”
Yeah, Hari Seldon used mathematics to predict the movement of galaxy sized population, but noted that you can’t predict shit about an individual. He also said
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
And doing right here is noting that sacrificing people for your money god is morally reprehensible.
And extra updings for garbage hobbit
re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
ain’t gonna work, half the reason those assholes come in the first place is to show off their Symbols of Freedom and Heritage.
And of course, a Confederate Flag is all about “heritage” especially coming from a state that sent over 90,000 soldiers to fight against the Confederacy
I can wish that the ghosts of the Iron Brigade issue forth and haunt their sleep, can’t I?
Didn’t they used to see this as Death Panels? Which were bad. Then. Now they’re good?
Being a conservative is way too confusing. Everything is a political calculation, every thought and every action. People don’t matter. Nothing matters really other than OUR SIDE RAH RAH.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 23, 2020
re: #341 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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