Punch Brothers Live From Home: This Is the Song (Good Luck)

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A look behind the scenes from Chris Thile and our band (Chris Eldridge, Jeremy Kittel, Trevor Lawrence Jr., and Brett Williams) as they recorded “This Is The Song (Good Luck)” at home for our April 11, 2020 #livefromhome broadcast. (Find it on the Punch Brothers album ‘Antifogmatic.’)
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The band: Chris Thile (mandolin and vocals), Madison Cunningham (vocals), Mike Elizondo (bass), Chris Eldridge (guitar and vocals), Jeremy Kittel (violin and vocals), Brett Williams (keys)

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344 comments
1
Belafon  Apr 25, 2020 • 8:58:40pm

We finished the movie for the original version of Full Metal Alchemist. One of the characters in the story was Fritz Lang, the director of Metropolis. And, if you know the story and his actual history, you’ll realize they had planned that for a while.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:07:01pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:09:08pm

Followed by a hilarious thread (four tweets):

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BigPapa  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:10:52pm

Big Brain tech question:

Musician in Hawaii
Musician in Ohio
They want to do a ‘live’ show together and broadcast the combine audio/video as a live recording.

This seems more sophisticated than what we see a lot of musicians are doing who are interacting from multiple sites in real time recording together then broadcasting from the cloud. We want to do that, but live.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:13:40pm

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. And then the dragons came.”

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i(m)p(each)sos  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:17:32pm

re: #4 BigPapa

Big Brain tech question:

Musician in Hawaii
Musician in Ohio
They want to do a ‘live’ show together and broadcast the combine audio/video as a live recording.

This seems more sophisticated than what we see a lot of musicians are doing who are interacting from multiple sites in real time recording together then broadcasting from the cloud. We want to do that, but live.

Some of my radio engineering colleagues have been talking about how to do this. The whole latency thing with Zoom makes it a really tough task when you’re trying to do music and have to be perfectly in sync.

There’s a “use original audio” setting in Zoom that seems to help. It disables some of the echo cancellation and audio processing that Zoom usually uses when conferencing speech. It helps… but maybe not enough to pull off synchronized music from multiple locations.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:21:15pm

It was the best of times,
It was the worst of times.

Then the dragons came.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:21:18pm

Publix is doing good work here. I hope other supermarket chains take note.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:21:58pm

Because it’s bad business if your customers starve.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:23:55pm

re: #2 Dread Pirate

I’m not sure why CNN is pushing this horseshyte.

Case studies are not clinical trials. They are the lowest standard of study. They state the study (which CNN doesn’t identify as a case study) is in JAMA, but doesn’t provide the source study or even the abstract.

Moreover, you have to go all the way to the bottom of CNN’s article to get to this:

They also confirmed that men were more likely to die than women, and no one under the age of 18 died.

The symptoms of infection were far from clear-cut. About a third of all patients showed up with fevers, 17% were breathing too fast and just under 30% needed extra oxygen. On average, patients were sent home after four days.

But 14% were treated in intensive care, 3% needed intensive dialysis and 21% died.

Since final data was only available on about half of the patients, it’s possible that more of those on ventilators survived, the researchers said — something that would drive down the 88% fatality rate for that group.

“This study reported mortality rates only for patients with definite outcomes (discharge or death), and a longer-term study may find different mortality rates as different segments of the population are infected,” the Northwell Health team wrote.

cnn.com

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:26:54pm

One of my Florida uncles went to work in the first Publix supermarket to support his parents and sisters when he was 15, and worked his way up to be an executive and stockholder. He liked cows so he bought some land and fed cows on it. Later on he sold it to Disney.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:29:52pm

That was before the 1970s when upward mobility was throttled.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:30:10pm

re: #8 jaunte

They should buy some dump trucks full of potatoes from Idaho.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:31:05pm
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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:31:07pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

I would run up there myself if it was a couple of states closer.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:38:29pm
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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:41:12pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:41:57pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:45:30pm

re: #17 jaunte

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“It’s just like house arrest!” scream the same people who think locking other human beings in cages and crowding them together in deplorable conditions is totally okay because they’re “illegals” who want to come to this country to work.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:45:56pm

re: #18 Patricia Kayden

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So how much money did the Mercers give that ass to make a fool of himself?

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:49:46pm

re: #18 Patricia Kayden

“Sir, after hearing your car horn and bullhorn shout, I am now chastened, transformed, and ready to run again.”

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:50:41pm

re: #14 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Imagine Fauci being fired for his portrayal on SNL.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:50:54pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹

It’s unbelievable. I get that he’s passionate about Senator Sanders but to disturb him at his house is taking things way too far.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:51:35pm

re: #18 Patricia Kayden

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Berners telling themselves this will totally work. Bernie unsuspends, he stands up and demands Biden drop from the race over a totally unproven rape “allegation,” then he takes the nomination to the roars of approval from the voters who are thrilled that he “stood up for women.” He then goes on to win the presidency because millions of women will vote for him in light of his support of Tara Reade.

How can it ever fail?///////

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:52:50pm

re: #24 Targetpractice

Berners telling themselves this will totally work. Bernie unsuspends, he stands up and demands Biden drop from the race over a totally unproven rape “allegation,” then he takes the nomination to the roars of approval from the voters who are thrilled that he “stood up for women.” He then goes on to win the presidency because millions of women will vote for him in light of his support of Tara Reade.

How can it ever fail?///////

You are forgetting all the shit republicans would ratfuck Sanders with.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:55:34pm

Rockwall has had it’s first Covid-19, at the long term care facility. It’s not a retirement home - we have those as well - but a place for people to recover from serious injury or illness, or if they need hospice. It has rehabilitation staff. My mother went there after her bypass surgery.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:56:32pm

1) I really hope this asshole gets sick and dies.

2) What crime did Bill Gates commit? At least Hillary was in public service and shit happened. I wish someone would ask someone in the crowd (or maybe I don’t want to hear the stupid).

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:58:41pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

I believe there’s a conspiracy floating around that Gates paid to have this virus made so that people would get injected with nano chips for mind control.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2020 • 9:59:29pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:00:02pm

re: #25 I Would Prefer Not To

You are forgetting all the shit republicans would ratfuck Sanders with.

Hence the heavy sarcasm. To be a Berner is to believe Bernie is squeaky clean, to believe that there is simply no way for the Repubs to attack him and thus that’s why they’re “scared” of him running for the presidency.

Meanwhile, the reality is that the VT GOP only ever put up a token effort to defeat him and he’s never made it far enough in the Dem primaries to spend time doing more than slinging “SOCIALIST!!!” at him. And the most criticism he’s faced in his two presidential bids from the Dems has been on policy or ideals, with personal attacks largely avoided except to note things like how he has no friends in Congress.

The idea that he’s impervious to personal attacks or that he has nothing in his past that’s embarrassing or “disqualifying” is just absurd.

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sagehen  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:02:07pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

2) What crime did Bill Gates commit? At least Hillary was in public service and shit happened. I wish someone would ask someone in the crowd (or maybe I don’t want to hear the stupid).

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the accusation is… something to do with vaccines. and 5G.

If I went into actual detail, it would sound even stupider than it already does.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:03:39pm

re: #17 jaunte

I’m so outraged by Barr. The stay at home orders are saving lives. He’s such a douche. Democrats should be tearing him apart.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:04:25pm

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I’m not sure why CNN is pushing this horseshyte.

Case studies are not clinical trials. They are the lowest standard of study. They state the study (which CNN doesn’t identify as a case study) is in JAMA, but doesn’t provide the source study or even the abstract.

Moreover, you have to go all the way to the bottom of CNN’s article to get to this:

cnn.com

I’m going to call it ignorance. In this instance, most patients — all diseases — who are put on ventilators for any length of time die. Someone posted an article downstairs about strokes in covid-19 patients, as if it were something really new that it could sometimes affect more than the lungs (encephalitis is a known complication of influenza, though rare). And there have been various reports of various symptoms and complications, with no indication that they’re also very rare. Posted by people who know even less about the field of medicine than I do and aren’t qualified to evaluate what they’re reporting.

And, I expect, they’re scared, like most everyone, so they post with Great Alarm. But these reports, while very useful to clinicians, have to be put into context for the rest of us.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:05:57pm

re: #32 Patricia Kayden

I’m so outraged by Barr. The stay at home orders are saving lives. He’s such a douche. Democrats should be tearing him apart.

He’s just a goon following orders. Those orders are to find some way to undermine the “shelter-in-place” orders legally so that Donny can attack Dems are engaging in “unlawful” actions and all he’s trying to do is “restore order.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:06:30pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

1) I really hope this asshole gets sick and dies.

2) What crime did Bill Gates commit? At least Hillary was in public service and shit happened. I wish someone would ask someone in the crowd (or maybe I don’t want to hear the stupid).

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A friend said that she has a Trumpster friend who “believes that Gates is a eugenicist who wants to develop a sterilization drug that can be piggybacked onto a vaccine to be administered to undesirable people”. You cannot overstate how deluded, irrational, and dangerous these Trump supporters are.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:12:20pm

Watch out for this symptom of Corona virus: lazy ecofascism (goes to Ketan Joshi)

A lot of those pictures of animals in cities? Hijacked from other places. Dolphins in the Venice canals? Hundreds of miles away. Same with the swans. Clean water? No, just not stirred up water.

Eco-fascism was pushed by arch-racist John Tanton, who tried to use Zero Population Growth (now defunct, the non-fascist part is Population Connection today) and the Sierra Club to eliminate immigration. One of his proteges? Stephen Miller.

Memes about “humans are a virus on the planet” or “coronavirus is cleaning the Earth [of humans]”? They are created by eco-fascists and spread by credulous liberals.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:12:53pm

re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter

A friend said that she has a Trumpster friend who “believes that Gates is a eugenicist who wants to develop a sterilization drug that can be piggybacked onto a vaccine to be administered to undesirable people”. You cannot overstate how deluded, irrational, and dangerous these Trump supporters are.

And why would they have a problem with sterilizing undesirables? Sounds like something right up their alley.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:13:18pm

re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:18:34pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

1) I really hope this asshole gets sick and dies.

2) What crime did Bill Gates commit? At least Hillary was in public service and shit happened. I wish someone would ask someone in the crowd (or maybe I don’t want to hear the stupid).

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According to my Qwazy Qasshole Relatives, Bill Gates created the disease to force people to get a vaccine that has nanobots that will implant in the cerebrum and allow Gates to control everyone…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:18:43pm

re: #37 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And why would they have a problem with sterilizing undesirables? Sounds like something right up their alley.

Sounds like classic projection. It’s what they’d want to try to do if they had Gates’ money and influence.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:22:55pm

re: #37 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And why would they have a problem with sterilizing undesirables? Sounds like something right up their alley.

It may depend on their definition of undesirable. And a Trumpster friend of mine posted that Soros was worse than Osama bin Laden; he’s also the one who accused those who dislike Trump of TDS. Trump supporters are irredeemable.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:26:28pm

re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter

A friend said that she has a Trumpster friend who “believes that Gates is a eugenicist who wants to develop a sterilization drug that can be piggybacked onto a vaccine to be administered to undesirable people”. You cannot overstate how deluded, irrational, and dangerous these Trump supporters are.

Conservative supporters, not Trump supporters. He didn’t arise in a vacuum, and those claims about Mr. Gates and eugenics pre-date Trump’s run for President.

See also the claims about Margaret Sanger. Conservatism by definition cannot come up with something new.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:27:38pm

re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter

It may depend on their definition of undesirable. And a Trumpster friend of mine posted that Soros was worse than Osama bin Laden; he’s also the one who accused those who dislike Trump of TDS. Trump supporters are irredeemable.

That person would not be my friend, and I would tell them why:

I don’t entertain crackpots.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:32:18pm

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Fascinating article. I’ve seen those tweets but never thought about the darker side of their sentiments.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:32:32pm

re: #37 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And why would they have a problem with sterilizing undesirables? Sounds like something right up their alley.

Because they subconsciously figure they are the undesirables, that’s why.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:34:52pm

Yes She is. Stunning.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:35:32pm

re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter

It may depend on their definition of undesirable. And a Trumpster friend of mine posted that Soros was worse than Osama bin Laden; he’s also the one who accused those who dislike Trump of TDS. Trump supporters are irredeemable.

My family definitely puts Soros in the #1 slot on their “May God Kill Him” Prayer list.
Along with Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Gov Wolf, Bill Clinton and that other Bill—Gates…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:43:29pm

Need a change of pace! Memories of Grandma’s Lemon cake…

grandmasthing.com

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2020 • 10:51:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:03:24pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

Fascinating article. I’ve seen those tweets but never thought about the darker side of their sentiments.

See also the history of ecofascism at Wikipedia, that font of all human ken [citation needed].

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:32:33pm

This “nature coming back” trope seems to be attracting a healthy amount of ridicule.

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:33:33pm
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Dave In Austin  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:36:29pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:39:51pm

re: #53 Dave In Austin

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He was hiding under the bed, wasn’t he?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:43:11pm

re: #53 Dave In Austin

The grifting never stops.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:43:53pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:43:53pm

re: #54 Targetpractice

He was hiding under the bed, wasn’t he?

//

Behind him, over his left shoulder

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:45:21pm

re: #56 Dread Pirate

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How long before they get sued by some major medical equipment manufacturer for “patent infringement”?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:57:15pm

re: #51 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

This “nature coming back” trope seems to be attracting a healthy amount of ridicule.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:57:45pm

VOCES8 - Shenandoah (arr. Hewitt-Jones)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:58:13pm

re: #53 Dave In Austin

Jesus seems to get lost a lot. People are finding him all the time.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2020 • 11:59:34pm

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Jesus seems to get lost a lot. People are finding him all the time.

Nobody ever thinks to look under the fridge.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:02:15am

re: #62 Targetpractice

Nobody ever thinks to look under the fridge.

I’ve been checking the sofa cushions. That must be why I failed.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:05:42am

Heh. Trump’s disinfectant ramblings are inspiring much bemusement:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:26:29am

Thread on Kim Yo Jong (nine tweets, caution for coarse language, behind the hide bar).

Click to Reveal
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Dread Pirate  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:32:19am

Dinesh D’Sousa, member of the criminal underworld.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:32:37am

LOL in that thread (video, 2:18, goes to The Onion YouTube channel.

First Female Dictator Hailed As Step Forward For Women
Amivi Gama’s violent rise to power in East Timor has proved that women are just as capable as men when it comes to brutality and oppression.

First Female Dictator Hailed As Step Forward For Women

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:42:10am

re: #8 jaunte

Publix is doing good work here. I hope other supermarket chains take note.

Food is a market commodity, but the health and well-being of the populace is something that goes beyond mere market considerations.

Which is something that fundamentalist Free Market Jesus freaks cannot wrap their heads around.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:44:47am

She’s a danger to the people that listen to her. There needs to be health and safety laws to protect those dumb-asses.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:46:00am

re: #19 Targetpractice

“It’s just like house arrest!” scream the same people who think locking other human beings in cages and crowding them together in deplorable conditions is totally okay because they’re “illegals” who want to come to this country to workseek legal asylum.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:46:50am

re: #69 Dread Pirate

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She’s a danger to the people that listen to her. There needs to be health and safety laws to protect those dumb-asses.

What’s this “our way of life” shit? I notice the people who repeat that bunk are the ones who seem to have benefited the most from “our way of life” and thus the least worry of getting sick.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:47:33am

re: #28 Belafon

I believe there’s a conspiracy floating around that Gates paid to have this virus made so that people would get injected with nano chips for mind control.

It’s true! I saw it in a Ben Garrison cartoon!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:51:55am

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

Fascinating article. I’ve seen those tweets but never thought about the darker side of their sentiments.

Don’t take it as representative of what most ecologists support: a healthy and sustainable balance.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:51:57am

“The models were bad” say people who still think that the cut-off point is 61,000 dead fellow Americans, when we’ll hit that number in the next week and be well on our way to 100,000 before the fall.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:54:25am

re: #52 electrotek

He didn’t say any of that & to pretend that majority muslim countries don’t have a problem with penalizing/murdering/oppressing LGBTQ & women is ignorant and harmful. The community needs education on this matter or we’ll end up making ludicrous statements like this…

Just as fundamentalist Christians have no trouble with abortion being free and legal in Israel and LGBT people serving in the Israeli Military.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:54:57am

That explains the surge in Colorado Covid-19 cases.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 12:58:33am

re: #74 Targetpractice

“The models were bad” say people who still think that the cut-off point is 61,000 dead fellow Americans, when we’ll hit that number in the next week and be well on our way to 100,000 before the fall.

to be followed by:

“You can’t trust the statistics! If you got hit by lighting and had Corona, you would be counted as a Covid-19 fatality! Hospitals get extra money for declaring a Corona death!!!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 1:04:34am

I have now caught up with the thread. You may resume.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 1:05:14am

re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

followed

“You can’t trust the statistics! If you got hit by lighting and had Corona, you would be counted as a Covid-19 fatality! Hospitals get extra money for declaring a Corona death.”

Ayep, by November it will be a matter of MAGAt dogma that the “real” number of fatalities due to CV-19 was less than 60K, that the virus only “really” killed people who were going to die anyway due to existing issues or was blamed for deaths due to other causes, and that the official number was inflated by hospitals that were “bribed” to write off deaths due to other causes as due to the virus. And if voice anything other than skepticism at the official number, then you’re an idiot who bought into the “hoax” perpetuated by the “fake news media.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 1:05:23am

re: #69 Dread Pirate

She’s a danger to the people that listen to her. There needs to be health and safety laws to protect those dumb-asses.

There is a whole lot of conservadumb in that thread.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 1:36:43am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just as fundamentalist Christians have no trouble with abortion being free and legal in Israel and LGBT people serving in the Israeli Military.

Also: when their daughter has committed a “youthful indiscretion” and they certainly don’t want her “to be burdened for the rest of life because of a silly mistake”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 1:46:03am

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

Also: when their daughter has committed a “youthful indiscretion” and they certainly don’t want her “to be burdened for the rest of life because of a silly mistake”.

And even Roger Stone can find Jesus and have his sins washed clean…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 2:08:17am

re: #13 teleskiguy

They should buy some dump trucks full of potatoes from Idaho.

Cassia farm sends potatoes cross country to New York charity

As we previously reported, Cranney farms of Oakley was unable to find a home for $75,000 worth of potatoes, due to national closures of food services. So CEO Ryan Cranney offered them up for free, and that garnered some attention, of the East Side House Settlement charity, who reached out, and Cranney Farms was able to send a semi of potatoes cross country to Bronx, New York.

Good morning

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 2:13:42am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And even Roger Stone can find Jesus and have his sins washed clean…

That made me laugh. The sheer brazen cynicism of it.

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2020 • 2:16:20am

re: #79 Targetpractice

the virus only “really” killed people who were going to die anyway due to existing issues

We’re all going to die anyway due to existing issues.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 2:19:30am

re: #84 Dr Lizardo

That made me laugh. The sheer brazen cynicism of it.

He knows that it will play to the base.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 26, 2020 • 2:56:19am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:01:59am

re: #22 Belafon

Imagine Fauci being fired for his portrayal on SNL.

That was actually the first thing I thought of. I kind of expect that will happen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:03:22am

re: #87 Dave In Austin

So telling us that we will soon be “down to zero cases” and that it will go away “like a miracle” was just sarcasm, as was his recommendation of chloroquinine?

I guess that we humorless liberals will just have to learn to laugh….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:07:39am

re: #33 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And, I expect, they’re scared, like most everyone, so they post with Great Alarm. But these reports, while very useful to clinicians, have to be put into context for the rest of us.

CNN changed both the headline and story (now it says about 25% of people placed on a ventilator die) but they left that tweet as it was.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:10:25am

re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

CNN changed both the headline and story (now it says about 25% of people placed on a ventilator die) but they left that tweet as it was.

I generally do not pay attention to CNN, now I see that they are beyond useless.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:12:35am

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I generally do not pay attention to CNN, now I see that they are beyond useless.

Aha! You agree with Trump, that CNN is FAKE NEWS!!??

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:16:43am

re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Aha! You agree with Trump, that CNN is FAKE NEWS!!??

/

I recall summer of 2015, my family was visiting and had CNN on the TV.

Donald Trump was telling everyone how exciting his rallies were and how Jeb! Bush rallies were so boring that people fell asleep at them.

15 minutes later, CNN was running an interview with a woman who had fallen asleep at a Jeb! Bush rally.

That was the last time I paid any real attention to their reporting.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:18:08am

re: #85 John Hughes

We’re all going to die anyway due to existing issues.

The MAGAts have managed to work themselves into a very narrow criteria for counting a death as due to CV-19:

1. You must have been in perfect health upon infection. If you have any existing health issues, whether diagnosed before or found upon hospitalization, then it doesn’t count towards the total because of a “co-morbidity.”

2. You must have been tested for the infection and undergoing treatment before death. Any tests conducted postmortem are considered “invalid” because the doctors are obviously lying in exchange for bribes.

3. Even if one has met the first two criteria, you can still disregard their death if they expired in a blue state because it’s obvious that the governors of those states are padding the numbers any way they can to hurt Trump. Only deaths in red states count…unless the governor is a Democrat, then even those numbers are suspect.

Really, just assume that the whole thing remains a massive “hoax” that Dems are running to defeat Trump in November. And that any reported deaths are due to totally normal illnesses that are being attributed to some mythical virus that the Chinese lied to us all about.

/////////

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:20:20am

re: #94 Targetpractice

Really, just assume that the whole thing remains a massive “hoax” that Dems are running to defeat Trump in November. And that any reported deaths are due to totally normal illnesses that are being attributed to some mythical virus that the Chinese lied to us all about Bill Gates Plot to implant surveillance nanochips in the form of a mandatory “vaccine”/

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:33:42am

Meanwhile, in Russia:

Putin announced a “non-working week” at the end of March. Anger and confusion are growing, as businesses and citizens still try to figure out what that means.

At the end of March, the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced a week-long paid holiday to keep Russians at home and slow the spread of the coronavirus, he and a few advisors explained to a handful of business owners how the government was going to help them foot the bill.

The curiously-named “non-working week” would see all non-essential businesses shuttered, Putin had said, while employers would be legally required to carry on paying staff. Chief among the new measures to help them do that would be a salary loans scheme of state-backed interest free credit. Russia’s largest lenders would be launching it within a matter of days, businesses were told.

Three weeks later, after repeated complaints that banks were delaying or rejecting loan requests, Russia’s Economy Minister decided to test the program himself. Pretending to be an entrepreneur in need of support, Maxim Reshetnikov called two of Russia’s largest lenders.

“In one case, the hotline operator said the government had not yet signed the relevant decree, and at the other, they promised to issue a loan, but … in May,” he posted on Instagram following the experiment. Criticizing the banks for not acting faster, he added: “The stabilization of the economy now largely depends on how decisions made by the Russian government are implemented in the real economy.”

Also, cratering oil prices are adding to Russia’s woes:

“This is an unprecedented fiscal challenge for Putin,” Guriev added. “He’s never seen oil prices at this level. He doesn’t know how to run a country with oil prices so low. It’s a challenge for him to pick priorities. Something has to give.”

themoscowtimes.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:40:30am

re: #96 Dr Lizardo

Russia’s Economy Minister decided to test the program himself.

Is he still alive, or has an accident occurred?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:40:49am

why not just declare Jared is the whole cabinet?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:45:19am

re: #69 Dread Pirate

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She’s a danger to the people that listen to her. There needs to be health and safety laws to protect those dumb-asses.

the models were “bad”?
how exactly?
be specific
show your work

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:50:01am

re: #97 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is he still alive, or has an accident occurred?

Heh. In Putin’s Russia, accidents abound.

This all hit at the worst possible moment; oil prices are at lows we haven’t seen in decades, then a pandemic for which the Russian healthcare system was almost certainly ill-prepared and now that it’s turning to warmer weather in Europe, the demand for Russian natural gas is at its seasonal low.

A trifecta.

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ericblair  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:52:17am

re: #96 Dr Lizardo

“This is an unprecedented fiscal challenge for Putin,” Guriev added. “He’s never seen oil prices at this level. He doesn’t know how to run a country with oil prices so low. It’s a challenge for him to pick priorities. Something has to give.”

That’s because a corrupt petrostate is the easiest kind of state to run economywise. You let your buds run the state oil industries and skim off as much as you can, and some other buds run the security organs and skim what they can from that. You really don’t have much use for the rest of the population, so give them just enough of the leftover to make sure they don’t get too restive and bombard them with propaganda, and beyond that leave them to their own devices.

Putin has half-assed tried to diversify with an independent tech industry to compete with silicon valley, but it was hard to skim a decent amount of money off of it without killing off the companies. Plus, the people involved were too hard to manage without sending in a bunch of skull-busting mob enforcers and killing off the companies that way.

So, Putin’s not a genius; he’s a jumped up spook who had the bloodymindedness and luck to end up on top of an emergent mafia state. Now, of course, he could change course and listen to the few remaining liberals kicking around government, but it’s hard and it means he gives up a lot of money and power. So, he’s probably going to ride Russia into the ground until and unless he manages to have a little unfortunate accident or six.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:56:04am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:56:43am

re: #99 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

the models were “bad”?
how exactly?
be specific
show your work

HAHAHA!! 😁😂🤣😭

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 3:58:26am

re: #101 ericblair

Yeah, if things get worse economically, he can either go full Stalin or who knows, maybe he’ll flee the country with his ill-gotten billions, which I’m sure are safely tucked away somewhere in the Cayman Islands or whatnot.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:06:13am

Source.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:10:42am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:14:24am

I really don’t like the phrase “Fake News”, as using it serves to legitimize the language of Trump.

Trump uses the phrase “fake news” because his drooling fans are low brow, to use an old fashion term.

The correct term in most cases for a report that is false is “false”. One may also find useful “wrong”, “misleading”, and when intention is clear, “lie”, “falsehood”, “deception”, and “propaganda” if the latter comes from some kind of authority.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:15:40am

I forget… Is tongue piercing essential or nah?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:25:42am

NASA: Don’t go!

CNN: This is historic!

So irresponsible.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:35:20am

re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I am so over this madness I can’t stand it. I thought there were “tough rules” to abide by to keep and stay open? Yeah right. A tattoo parlor where people aren’t wearing masks and gloves? Yeah, no thanks, that’s fucking stupid. Not to mention sitting down in a restaurant with “social distancing” to eat? Hell to the no. I have a medically fragile husband, no fucking way.

This is because republicans are cheap shit fucks who made damn sure that actual small businesses didn’t see any money they were told they would get to help them through this. Instead they are too busy stuffing all the cash they can get into their own pockets while the rest of us die.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:36:07am

re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’ve watched SpaceX launches many times from the comfort of my own home. CNN can carry a livestream from SpaceX if they want to cover it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:48:22am

Because of course.

Senior official cited by Trump is subject of investigation (Yahoo!)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The senior Department of Homeland Security official who was thrust into the spotlight by President Donald Trump to describe the effects of temperature on COVID-19 has been the subject of misconduct allegations for his previous government work.

A Department of Energy Inspector General investigation was still pending Friday based on evidence submitted by a whistle-blower that William Bryan abused his government position with energy consulting work in Ukraine.

It’s unclear if Trump was aware of that investigation when he called on Bryan at his daily briefing Thursday to explain DHS research that prompted a presidential riff on the potential to cure the virus with disinfectant and kill it with sunlight.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 4:59:45am

re: #101 ericblair

That’s because a corrupt petrostate is the easiest kind of state to run economywise. You let your buds run the state oil industries and skim off as much as you can, and some other buds run the security organs and skim what they can from that.

But at some point, public institutions decay to the point that you have ultimate political authority but no ability to implement anything because government organs are corrupt and ineffective. That is the state that the Czars found themselves in back in 1917 and the Communist Party in the early 90’s…and that is where Putin is at right now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:00:12am

re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

CNN changed both the headline and story (now it says about 25% of people placed on a ventilator die) but they left that tweet as it was.

They also added the lines I put in italics here in the body of the article, without noting they’d changed the article.

This study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, describes the outlook for patients with severe Covid-19 disease. The report originally said that 12% of patients needed ventilators and that 88% of them had died.

But Karina Davidson, senior vice president of research at Northwell Health, said Saturday her team decided to clarify the wording of the report.

“We are updating our figures,” she told CNN. “These are updated for how many we know have had an outcome and how many remain in the hospital.”

The original report in JAMA stated that 12% of patients required ventilation and of them 88% died — but those numbers only represented a minority of patients whose outcome was known, not the entire body of patients. The updated numbers include all of the patients, including those who remained in the hospital at the time the data was gathered on April 4.

That’s the sort of dishonest editing of an article you’d expect from a common FOX News or NYT.

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ericblair  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:02:31am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But at some point, public institutions decay to the point that you have ultimate political authority but no ability to implement anything because government organs are corrupt and ineffective. That is the state that the Czars found themselves in back in 1917 and the Communist Party in the early 90’s…and that is where Putin is at right now.

Yup, agreed. Corruption’s like hardcore drugs: they’re a cheap and easy way to get results, at the cost of eventually destroying the body.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:03:34am

re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Businesses Tiptoe Into a World of Masks, Gloves and Wary Customers

Reopening the economy is not going to just kick-start it back to where it once was. Aside from a handful of suicide jockeys out to “own the liberals and show” their loyalty to their Most Highest, most people are going to be wary and will be staying away in droves from crowded sports and music venues, amusement parks, cineplexes or anything to do with air or ship travel.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:09:58am

re: #115 ericblair

Yup, agreed. Corruption’s like hardcore drugs: they’re a cheap and easy way to get results, at the cost of eventually destroying the body.

In this case, destroying the body politic and the ability of public institutions to function to the benefit of the public.

German public institutions and public servants can be terribly methodical and stodgy but they are generally ethical and eventually effective, even it seems they could be a lot more efficient in many cases.

But one is reminded civil servant is not paid based on provide a degree of performance, but to fulfill their duties.

And every morning they show up, look over the workload on their desks and say “Howdy, duties!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:14:41am

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I really don’t like the phrase “Fake News”, as using it serves to legitimize the language of Trump.

Trump uses the phrase “fake news” because his drooling fans are low brow, to use an old fashion term.

The correct term in most cases for a report that is false is “false”. One may also find useful “wrong”, “misleading”, and when intention is clear, “lie”, “falsehood”, “deception”, and “propaganda” if the latter comes from some kind of authority.

Fake news sounds better in the original German anyway: Lügenpresse.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:16:41am

re: #53 Dave In Austin

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The Lord uses the good ones
and the bad ones use the Lord

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ericblair  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:19:52am

So, WHO trying to clarify what they said about immunity passports, which is really due to the typical problem with reporters and science. What I got out of the original statement is that the world needs to do more research to verify that people are indeed immune to COVID-19 after being infected, and this hasn’t been conclusively done yet. Instead, it got reported as if the WHO has concluded that people don’t get immunity to COVID-19 after infection and we’re far more seriously fucked than we thought.

Understanding the logic to scientific conclusions (and lack thereof) can be tricky, especially for people without a scientific background. And a lot of people can’t deal well with probabilities at all.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:23:27am

Good read.

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:35:18am

Good morning!

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Ming5000  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:36:48am

re: #122 jeffreyw

There is a pancake on top of something?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:39:51am

re: #123 Ming5000

There is a pancake on top of something?

an octopus…

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:40:37am

re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

an octopus…

Arrange a few strips of bacon and you’d have a facehugger.

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Ming5000  Apr 26, 2020 • 5:51:35am

US is adding just over 2000 deaths per day and no change in sight.
worldometers.info

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:04:32am

re: #126 Ming5000

I’m so old, I remember when Trump said the infected number would be close to zero in a couple of days.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:06:47am

As a pleasant surprise, Rogers and Kavanaugh rejected the EPA’s argument that point source discharges can pollute groundwater under the Clean Water Act. earthjustice.org

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:08:56am

re: #127 Ace Rothstein

I guess I must be ancient because I remember DT saying there was no such thing as the coronavirus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:10:29am

re: #127 Ace Rothstein

I’m so old, I remember when Trump said the infected number would be close to zero in a couple of days.

he was speaking aspirationally. or sarcastically. or in some manner that absolves and distances him from whatever he said in whatever context.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:10:52am
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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:17:46am

re: #123 Ming5000

There is a pancake on top of something?

Yes, it is atop several smaller pancakes. The last one resulted from scraping the last of the batter from the bowl onto the griddle. It was more than it looked like.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:18:06am

re: #110 A Mom Anon

I am so over this madness I can’t stand it. I thought there were “tough rules” to abide by to keep and stay open? Yeah right. A tattoo parlor where people aren’t wearing masks and gloves? Yeah, no thanks, that’s fucking stupid. Not to mention sitting down in a restaurant with “social distancing” to eat? Hell to the no. I have a medically fragile husband, no fucking way.

This is because republicans are cheap shit fucks who made damn sure that actual small businesses didn’t see any money they were told they would get to help them through this. Instead they are too busy stuffing all the cash they can get into their own pockets while the rest of us die.

When we take over you’re gonna be press secretary

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:20:43am

Looking for Jesus

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:21:54am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Reopening the economy is not going to just kick-start it back to where it once was. Aside from a handful of suicide jockeys out to “own the liberals and show” their loyalty to their Most Highest, most people are going to be wary and will be staying away in droves from crowded sports and music venues, amusement parks, cineplexes or anything to do with air or ship travel.

Tattoists (not taoists) and hair salons are on the front lines saving the economy.
Won’t you do your part and join them?

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:25:01am

re: #135 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

I am afraid to go to the supermarket without a mask and gloves.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:26:36am

re: #135 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Tattoists (not taoists) and hair salons are on the front lines saving the economy.
Won’t you do your part and join them?

Most people are realizing how much of our economy is essential and how much is just for fun and making their choices and weighing their options accordingly. But there are 15-30% who are so intent on proving Trump “right” about Corona that they will act as if there is no need to be concerned.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:26:52am

re: #132 jeffreyw

Yes, it is atop several smaller pancakes. The last one resulted from scraping the last of the batter from the bowl onto the griddle. It was more than it looked like.

So…not a turkey leg then.

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:34:03am

re: #138 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

So…not a turkey leg then.

Mmm… turkey leg

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:34:17am

re: #53 Dave In Austin

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“Dad! He found us! We’ve got to change the locks again.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:35:53am
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:37:43am

re: #2 Dread Pirate

Conspiracy Theory Time!
“Many people are saying” that many of these patients STARVED TO DEATH while intubated because the medical staff were too overwhelmed and forgot to install nutrition tubes.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:38:03am

re: #141 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Mitch put a cork in it. Just give out the funds the way the D’s want and things will work out just fine. If you don’t you may not be re-elected. ::: nasty laugh :::

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:41:21am

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

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Conspiracy Theory Time!
“Many people are saying” that many of these patients STARVED TO DEATH while intubated because the medical staff were too overwhelmed and forgot to install nutrition tubes.

There is no way FB can keep up with all the misinformation that appears on its pages…

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:44:57am

re: #97 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is he still alive, or has an accident occurred?

He fell out an upper floor window while getting a breath of fresh air.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:45:29am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Fake news sounds better in the original German anyway: Lügenpresse.

After the Media Wars all news is Faux News.
/

147
The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:50:42am
148
steve_davis  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:51:33am

re: #100 Dr Lizardo

Heh. In Putin’s Russia, accidents abound.

This all hit at the worst possible moment; oil prices are at lows we haven’t seen in decades, then a pandemic for which the Russian healthcare system was almost certainly ill-prepared and now that it’s turning to warmer weather in Europe, the demand for Russian natural gas is at its seasonal low.

A trifecta.

isn’t russia a country that recently discovered there is no running water in 3/4’s of hospitals?

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mmmirele  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:52:03am

Yesterday, one of my coworkers posted on her Facebook a video of two Bakersfield doctors at a press conference claiming, based on their ~5,300 tests, that California has 5 million people infected with coronavirus and the state should fully open up. I can’t find the video but here’s the story from their local fishwrap:

bakersfield.com

I love Lisa, she keeps me sane at work, but I just couldn’t let this pass, so I posted something like, “uhm, you can’t extrapolate ~5,300 tests in Bakersfield done at a couple of urgent cares to the entire state. I’m not a scientist, but this is bad science.”

Thankfully, some of her other friends agreed with me, but she does have some kook friends.

I’d note that other doctors in Bakersfield, including actual infectious disease specialists, chimed in and “we’re all “aw hell naw” on reopening.”

kget.com

Apparently this video is flying around in cloud-cuckoo land, so hopefully this information will help someone who has to deal with this kind of crazy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:56:11am

re: #136 PhillyPretzel

I am afraid to go to the supermarket without a mask and gloves.

Gloves are impossible to get here, so the last time I went I looked silly wearing winter mittens.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:57:36am

Morning Lizards!

Just us old coots around drinking coffee
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 6:58:44am

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i(m)p(each)sos  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:01:33am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Gloves are impossible to get here, so the last time I went I looked silly wearing winter mittens.

Unless you want to follow strict medical protocols for donning and doffing gloves, there’s no good reason I can see for wearing nitrile gloves to places like supermarkets. They’re mostly vehicles for transporting contaminants from one surface to another unless you’re prepared to REALLY use them right - which means careful removal, disposal and replacement between each potential contact with a contaminant.

Otherwise, they’re probably more harmful than helpful.

Just wash your hands carefully when you get back from the store and don’t touch your face.

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stpaulbear  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:02:40am

re: #22 Belafon

Imagine Fauci being fired for his portrayal on SNL.

I’m wondering if that’s a part of the reason that Brad Pitt stepped out of character at the end of the skit.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:03:32am

Morning Lizardim.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:15:42am

One new case added in the Nebraska Panhandle yesterday. That brings us to forty-four.

The one person in my county has still not recovered.

pphd.org

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:18:57am

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡

This trope is spread by too many liberals. I consider it a mortal threat to me, you and other disabled people. As soon as people forget this pandemc, they’ll start right back up with the eugenics. No one will kill themselves to save the planet, but they will GLADLY offer up “the other” to be sacrificed.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:19:27am

re: #153 i(m)p(each)sos

Unless you want to follow strict medical protocols for donning and doffing gloves, there’s no good reason I can see for wearing nitrile gloves to places like supermarkets. They’re mostly vehicles for transporting contaminants from one surface to another unless you’re prepared to REALLY use them right - which means careful removal, disposal and replacement between each potential contact with a contaminant.

Otherwise, they’re probably more harmful than helpful.

Just wash your hands carefully when you get back from the store and don’t touch your face.

I don’t change gloves between each contaminant, as each item at the grocery store is a potential contaminant. I change gloves between locations;

Exit car to go into store, put on gloves.

Shop.

On the way out, use sanitizer on gloves (20 seconds like washing your hands… Wash those gloves). Put groceries in car. Take cart back and sanitize gloves again. Remove gloves.

Repeat if going somewhere else.

Never cross contaminate by wearing gloves and then touching the cabin of your car before removing the gloves.

And if need be, do what I do… Internal mantra on repeat: don’t touch your face, don’t touch your face…. Until you’re back home, contaminated clothes in the laundry, hands washed, deep breath that your survived the moment.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:20:18am

re: #152 The Pie Overlord!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:22:34am

re: #157 Sherlock Hound

This trope is spread by too many liberals. I consider it a mortal threat to me, you and other disabled people. As soon as people forget this pandemc, they’ll start right back up with the eugenics. No one will kill themselves to save the planet, but they will GLADLY offer up “the other” to be sacrificed.

Lots of people have an interest in equating ecological advocacy with fascism, just like they want to connect being opposed to fascism to being a member of antifa, or supporting women’s rights with feminaziism. And gays with pedophilia.

Remember what happened with the Boy Scouts, who banned gay members for fears that they would spread the ghey disease of pederasty?

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mmmirele  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:24:36am

Y’all probably remember the bombshell article from Friday regarding how “bishop” Mark Grenon of the “Genesis II Church of Health and Healing” aka purveyor of industrial bleach was sending letters to Donald Trump about how bleach could get rid of coronavirus.

theguardian.com

Well, the Guardian missed this action, from April 8 to April 17:

* Wednesday, April 8: The FDA sends Grenon a letter telling him to cease and desist selling “Miracle Mineral Solution”. fda.gov

* Friday, April 17: The Justice Departnment, on behalf of the FDA, files a complaint (justice.gov) for a preliminary and permanent injunction. To back up their complaint, the DoJ also files an extensive ex parte motion (justice.gov).

* Friday, April 17: A sealed temporary injunction is granted (justice.gov)

Then, per the Guardian:

* Sometime between Monday, April 20 and Thursday, April 23: Mark Grenon writes to Trump.

* Thursday, April 23: Donald Trump goes off on disinfectants at his press conference, leading to all sorts of crazy.

Coming up on Friday, May 1, there will be a hearing on whether to make the temporary restraining order preliminary, which is a step on the road to making it permanent.

I suspect (now I could be wrong here, really wrong), but I believe Grenon wrote Trump because he was in bad legal hot water and wanted to be bailed out by the stupidest man to ever hold the office of President. Trump actually read this horseshit because Grenon is a GOP donor. Again, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:28:18am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:30:05am

re: #161 mmmirele

Bet Trump didn’t read letter/message, but a staffer who was sympathetic did and that staffer said something to Trump or simply got something regarding it added to the very limited “daily briefing” that Trump is willing to undergo.

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mmmirele  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:30:27am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

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mmmirele  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:31:22am

re: #163 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Bet Trump didn’t read letter/message, but a staffer who was sympathetic did and that staffer said something to Trump or simply got something regarding it added to the very limited “daily briefing” that Trump is willing to undergo.

Maybe Grenon sent him a coloring book: “My Miracle Mineral Supplement Cure.” (They call it all sorts of names that abbreviate to MMS.) ///but not really

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:32:09am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:33:07am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:33:14am

re: #122 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning! (Not as fancy a breakfast, but he’s happy.)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:36:57am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Gloves are impossible to get here, so the last time I went I looked silly wearing winter mittens.

Makes it harder to hold the scythe don’t it?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:37:11am

re: #19 Targetpractice

“It’s just like house arrest!” scream the same people who think locking other human beings in cages and crowding them together in deplorable conditions is totally okay because they’re “illegals” who want to come to this country to work.

Amazing how fast they change their tune when THEY’RE the ones who are locked down.

//

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Dizzy  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:37:21am

“You’re not Josef Mengele, but you can see him from there.”

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:38:13am

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

Conspiracy Theory Time!
“Many people are saying” that many of these patients STARVED TO DEATH while intubated because the medical staff were too overwhelmed and forgot to install nutrition tubes.

And the link is to the “updated” story, where “nearly all” becomes 25%. You could get whiplash reading it.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:39:34am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Gloves are impossible to get here, so the last time I went I looked silly wearing winter mittens.

Not nearly as silly as you’d look in dishwashing gloves.

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stpaulbear  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:40:13am

re: #123 Ming5000

There is a pancake on top of something?

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fern01  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:41:05am

re: #29 Belafon

I guess spending more time with his young son would be too obvious.

I guess doing the job of President of the United States would be way too obvious. There is lazy and then there is goddamned lazy & then there is trump.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:43:08am

re: #13 teleskiguy

They should buy some dump trucks full of potatoes from Idaho.

Cassia farm sends potatoes cross country to New York charity

As we previously reported, Cranney farms of Oakley was unable to find a home for $75,000 worth of potatoes, due to national closures of food services. So CEO Ryan Cranney offered them up for free, and that garnered some attention, of the East Side House Settlement charity, who reached out, and Cranney Farms was able to send a semi of potatoes cross country to Bronx, New York.

Good morningre: #122 jeffreyw

Looks good. Did you have any of these by chance?
Fresh baked this morning.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:43:24am

re: #149 mmmirele

This is the video that I’ve seen that is similar to what your describing.

They are doctors who claim they’re following the science and have studied the microbiology and biochemistry and immunology . They’re dumb.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:43:32am

re: #175 fern01

I guess doing the job of President of the United States would be way too obvious. There is lazy and then there is goddamned lazy & then there is trump.

he signed up for the rallies and golfing

now his life is empty and pointless

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:43:53am

re: #171 Dizzy

“You’re not Josef Mengele, but you can see him from there.”

[Embedded content]

OFFS. Yeah how dare the media actually report on our imbecile President being an imbecile.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:44:39am

re: #171 Dizzy

“You’re not Josef Mengele, but you can see him from there.”

[Embedded content]

We saw the look on your face when he uttered those words, Deb. We know that you know what he said was utter fucking lunacy. Don’t sit there and try to bullshit us just because admitting the truth will cause him to fire you in a fit of impotent rage.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:45:26am

re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is no way FB can keep up with all the misinformation that appears on its pages…

Sounds like a good reason to break them up then.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:46:42am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:48:16am

re: #172 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And the link is to the “updated” story, where “nearly all” becomes 25%. You could get whiplash reading it.

It’s m. Python
when he says a bed is two foot wide, it is in fact sixty foot wide.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:49:48am
185
PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:50:52am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:51:33am

Trump-supporting protesters are wearing handmaid’s outfits - do they not see the irony? (The Guardian)

(with photographs)

The shapeless scarlet cloaks and oversized white bonnets have become a familiar sight at protests around the world. From pro-choice demonstrations in Belfast to women’s rights marches in Buenos Aires, the clothes worn by Margaret Atwood’s handmaids in her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale have become a striking symbol of female defiance.

Now it seems the handmaid’s uniform has taken on a newly dystopian dimension: the outfit has been appropriated by Trump-supporting protesters at the anti-quarantine rallies that have been spreading across America. These rallies, orchestrated by a network of far right and extremist groups, have also seen rightwingers hold up signs with pro-choice slogans like “my body, my choice”.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:52:35am

re: #184 jaunte

He’s back to working on his big dick toilet project?

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:52:36am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Suicide Trolls.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:53:03am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Keeping a “keen eye” on it!

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:53:13am

re: #176 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Looks good. Did you have any of these by chance?
Fresh baked this morning.

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Not this morning, no.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:53:46am

re: #180 Targetpractice

We saw the look on your face when he uttered those words, Deb. We know that you know what he said was utter fucking lunacy. Don’t sit there and try to bullshit us just because admitting the truth will cause him to fire you in a fit of impotent rage.

She was fully aware of the context. Perhaps she figures that if she gets the sack, somebody even more craven and idiotically dangerous will take her place…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:53:48am

Lre: #184 jaunte

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Cosplay as Mr. Clean at Mar Al Lago costume parties.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:54:42am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:55:25am

re: #190 jeffreyw

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Not this morning, no.

Sticky bread. yummm……

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:55:57am

“And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” — Donald Trump, 2/26/20

Two months ago today.

60 days and 50 000 dead bodies later…and counting.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:56:19am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Trump-supporting protesters are wearing handmaid’s outfits - do they not see the irony? (The Guardian)

(with photographs)

(more)

“MY BODY, MY CHOICE!”

“So you support abortion now…”

“THAT’S MURDER! IT SHOULD BE BANNED!”

“So you want autonomy, but everybody else needs to be told what they can and can’t do.”

“YES…NO…FAKE NEWS!!!”

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Jay C  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:56:32am

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

Conspiracy Theory Time!
“Many people are saying” that many of these patients STARVED TO DEATH while intubated because the medical staff were too overwhelmed and forgot to install nutrition tubes.

Is this bit snark? Nothing relating to this appears in the linked CNN article.

Which, after reading, doesn’t really contain much in the way of new revelations: Northwell’s data* (which, presumably can be applicable to most other major healthcare complexes in the NY area) seems to just confirm the percentages which have been generally accepted as the “norm” for the pandemic: out of *all* COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital: about 20% will have it bad enough to require a ventilator, and about 5% of them, overall, will die.

It unfortunately also seems confirm the suspicions that healthcare professionals have been fearing for quite a while: that the symptomality of SARS-CoV-2 is both unpredictable and (as yet) poorly charted: and that a HUGE amount of work still needs to be done to get a handle on this pandemic. So what else is new….?

*data only to April 4 (three weeks ago now): though I think it’s doubtful the percentages (if not actual numbers) will change much (?)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:57:50am

re: #184 jaunte

I wasn’t aware the military was forcing civilians to obey military orders. That’s my understanding of martial law.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:58:44am

re: #17 jaunte

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NO ONE is prevented from going outside their home
No one is being monitored or tracked
Ag barr is a ass

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:59:11am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡

He’s just there to help promote conservative panic.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 7:59:32am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Mine too. I guess some folks want to scare others in order to feel as though they have power over someone.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:00:35am

Speaking of promoting conservative panic:

No idea too dumb to blurt out on Fox.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:01:12am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She was fully aware of the context. Perhaps she figures that if she gets the sack, somebody even more craven and idiotically dangerous will take her place…

She’s not required in her job to go on FOX and bash “the media slicing and dicing.”

Those were her words. They are the words of a conservative apparatchik, not a physician.

She’s actually quite dangerous herself, because she’s using her degree in medicine to defend Trump.

She’s no Captain Crozier here.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:01:36am

Hey, here’s an idea: let’s promote the spread of any effective vaccine across the entire world to kill off the pandemic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:02:33am

re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

NO ONE is prevented from going outside their home
No one is being monitored or tracked
Ag barr is a ass liar

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:02:53am

re: #49 teleskiguy

I didn’t get the joke at first until I looked up more tweets. 😂

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:03:14am

re: #176 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Cassia farm sends potatoes cross country to New York charity

As we previously reported, Cranney farms of Oakley was unable to find a home for $75,000 worth of potatoes, due to national closures of food services. So CEO Ryan Cranney offered them up for free, and that garnered some attention, of the East Side House Settlement charity, who reached out, and Cranney Farms was able to send a semi of potatoes cross country to Bronx, New York.

Good morning

Looks good. Did you have any of these by chance?
Fresh baked this morning.

[Embedded content]

Wife has rejoined the baking cult. This morning’s success was (homegrown) zucchini/chocolate bread.

She has tried 2 runs of Southern Shiksa challah. It’s getting better, but does not get the shiny egg crust of VB’s. She asks for guidance.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:05:01am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡

They really don’t understand pop culture. If they did, they’d understand that Margaret Atwood was warning us about them and rightwing patriarchy in her novel.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:05:06am

re: #204 jaunte

Hey, here’s an idea: let’s promote the spread of any effective vaccine across the entire world to kill off the pandemic.

Oh, come on. You know some Pharma company will try to trademark that shit and sell it to us plebes for $1000 / pop.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:05:30am

re: #204 jaunte

Hey, here’s an idea: let’s promote the spread of any effective vaccine across the entire world to kill off the pandemic.

“That Jonas Salk guy, he’s being recognised more and more. He was a real loser though, he didn’t know anything about making money. He didn’t even get one dime from his vaccine. He could have been rich like me, what’s wrong with that guy? Why would we want to give away a vaccine?”—Trump maybe.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:05:59am

I friend who is trained in statistics has been in touch for some interesting speculative calculations.

If we suppose the infection rate including asymptomatics is 5 percent in LA, ten million people then 500,000 have been exposed.

If we posit a .25% fatality rate given all the asymptomatics, then deaths would be about 1250. Actually 895.

Okay 895 fatalities, extrapolating the rate would mean 358,000 infected.

So maybe that’s a realistic range of infected people here.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:06:04am

re: #202 jaunte

Speaking of promoting conservative panic:

[Embedded content]

No idea too dumb to blurt out on Fox.

OFFS.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:06:14am

re: #207 Decatur Deb

Beat up an egg with a whisk or fork and brush on the dough right before baking. Information is from Cooks Illustrated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:08:57am

I sort of baked today, made asparagus tartes (out of ready made flaky pastry dough) and cream/cheddar cheese. No food pron available, it has been eaten already in its entirety.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:09:18am

re: #213 PhillyPretzel

Beat up an egg with a whisk or fork and brush on the dough right before baking. Information is from Cooks Illustrated.

She does that in some fashion, but the surface is still rather dull. It’s very challah-like in other respects. No King Arthur here, of course.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:10:50am

re: #215 Decatur Deb

Hmm. Since I am not a baker it is best for her to go to the source.
cooksillustrated.com

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fern01  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:14:38am

re: #166 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

And Tapper showed that either
1. he has no idea what the word embalming means or
2. He wants to stay friends with the president so he closed that down very quickly.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:17:21am

re: #215 Decatur Deb

She does that in some fashion, but the surface is still rather dull. It’s very challah-like in other respects. No King Arthur here, of course.

Beat up an egg using a fork or a whisk. Brush on the loaf with a pastry brush just before loading into the oven.

From THE CHALLAH THREAD:

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:18:54am

re: #216 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. Since I am not a baker it is best for her to go to the source.
cooksillustrated.com

Thanks—couldn’t open that, so went to King Arthur. She does not mix water with the egg as KA says. Could be that?

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:20:17am

re: #218 The Pie Overlord!

Beat up an egg using a fork or a whisk. Brush on the loaf with a pastry brush just before loading into the oven.

From THE CHALLAH THREAD:

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Bookmarking.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:21:04am

re: #219 Decatur Deb

I will repost the link to Cooks Illustrated
cooksillustrated.com

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:22:57am

re: #221 PhillyPretzel

I will repost the link to Cooks Illustrated
cooksillustrated.com

Ah. Found it this time—had to right-arrow a couple times.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:26:14am

re: #53 Dave In Austin

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:26:19am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

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Jay C  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:28:26am

re: #202 jaunte

Speaking of promoting conservative panic:

[Embedded content]

No idea too dumb to blurt out on Fox.

OFFS, indeed. This is astonishingly stupid, even by Tom Cotton standards (I.e. abyssal). Not just the facile bigoted xenophobia (which is about all we can expect from GOPers), but the notion that “China” will “steal””our””science” for a CV vaccine? As if the Chinese are all going to rely on herbs, acupuncture and astrology to treat a pandemic until they can pirate “real” ( I.e. white-people) science to cure it?

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:30:08am

re: #224 Eric The Fruit Bat

[Embedded content]

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway. There was a version that featured a mobile bris, but that was probably a half-remembered send-up.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:32:14am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway.

I remember that advert back in the 1970s - I think it was a Lincoln Continental Cartier edition.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:32:26am

re: #207 Decatur Deb

Wife has rejoined the baking cult. This morning’s success was (homegrown) zucchini/chocolate bread.

She has tried 2 runs of Southern Shiksa challah. It’s getting better, but does not get the shiny egg crust of VB’s. She asks for guidance.

Don’t ask me. Those came out of a cam CAN :-) And when I do make bread, it comes out of a box right into my bread maker. That reminds me, I have a box a Hawaiian sweet bread mix in the pantry.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:32:41am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Ford Crown Victoria/Mercury Grand Marquis/Lincoln Town Car. I too remember the cleaving diamond commercial.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:34:30am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡

“That Jonas Salk guy, he’s being recognised more and more. He was a real loser though, he didn’t know anything about making money. He didn’t even get one dime from his vaccine. He could have been rich like me, what’s wrong with that guy? Why would we want to give away a vaccine?”—Trump maybe.

At this point, the whole world needs to hope that the US doesn’t develop the vaccine, because that is exactly what would happen.

231
A Cranky One  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:36:51am

Life imitates art:

cbc.ca

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:36:51am

re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

At this point, the whole world needs to hope that the US doesn’t develop the vaccine, because that is exactly what would happen.

Hell, Trump already tried to buy one from Germany and MAKE IT EXCLUSIVE to the U.S.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:40:16am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes. That is DT to want to make money off of others and illnesses.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:40:25am

re: #231 A Cranky One

That article is pretty hysterical to read - especially with the obligatory Monty Python reference.

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Jay C  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:42:22am

re: #229 PhillyPretzel

Ford Crown Victoria/Mercury Grand Marquis/Lincoln Town Car. I too remember the cleaving diamond commercial.

And I remember the “mobile bris” one: it was an old SNL number with Gilda Radner as the (understandably) nervous mother..

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:44:17am

re: #227 Eric The Fruit Bat

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Found it.

1972 Mercury Marquis Brougham Commercial - Cartier Jeweler Diamond Cutter

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:44:44am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡

“That Jonas Salk guy, he’s being recognised more and more. He was a real loser though, he didn’t know anything about making money. He didn’t even get one dime from his vaccine. He could have been rich like me, what’s wrong with that guy? Why would we want to give away a vaccine?”—Trump maybe.

Nah. That would be pharma boi martin shkreli.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:46:30am

The governor is permitting churches to meet again, but ours remains closed today.

I’m going to bail out and go to the store for some smokes. Catch y’all later.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:46:46am

re: #236 PhillyPretzel

Perfect ride for a road-trip movie.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:48:07am

re: #239 Decatur Deb

Perfect ride for a road-trip movie.

Imagine plenty of room for an IMAX camera lol

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:50:42am

re: #240 Rightwingconspirator

Your comment is broken, but it comes up in Spy. You can maintain social distance in that bus.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:51:30am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

OMG, He’s beautiful! What adorables! What handsomeness!

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:52:45am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She was fully aware of the context. Perhaps she figures that if she gets the sack, somebody even more craven and idiotically dangerous will take her place…

Al Franken had a medical expert (can’t remember her name) on his podcast a couple of weeks ago and he asked her about this. She said, “when I was health commissioner for Baltimore I had a mayor who publicly said that people who OD basically get what they deserve, but cutting the number of OD deaths was my top priority; if I had publicly contradicted her I would never get her support, so I had to smile and nod and work behind the scenes to get the mayor to my point of view.” In other words, she thought Birx and Fauci are being very careful so that they can do what they can behind the scenes.

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Mattand  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:53:32am

LOL, I should probably stop reading Facebook. A friend of mine has a discussion going about COVID and one of his friends cited something she saw on Gab. I politely pointed out how it’s basically a nest of horrible people and nothing should be believed there.

I’m sure this will not end well.

I like my neighbor. He’s a good guy but he’s a big JFK conspiracy theorist. Also refuses to end his sentences with periods. Always uses ellipses. “I read this thing today… Here it is… This is a sentence with a definitive end…”

Yeah, I know I’m being dumb.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:57:33am

No tweets from the mango moron yet today.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:58:22am

re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg

Thank Heaven for little things.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 8:59:36am

re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg

No tweets from the mango moron yet today.

he’s pretending to watch an RC Mass today

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:01:59am
249
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:08:39am
250
Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:10:17am

re: #229 PhillyPretzel

Ford Crown Victoria/Mercury Grand Marquis/Lincoln Town Car. I too remember the cleaving diamond commercial.

Here it is

1972 Mercury Marquis Brougham Commercial - Cartier Jeweler Diamond Cutter

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:10:37am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

If it is still in the News Cycle, then it is Trump’s own fault for not have come up with something even more outrageously out-to-lunch in the meantime. You know that the media are already poised and waiting…

252
Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:14:43am

I had one of these….mine was the R/S with T-tops.

Camaro for 1978

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:15:13am

re: #250 Dr Lizardo

Thanks. And please check my #236. :)

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:16:13am

re: #253 PhillyPretzel

Thanks. And please check my #236. :)

Yeah, saw that.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:17:30am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway. There was a version that featured a mobile bris, but that was probably a half-remembered send-up.

SNL fake commercial.

256
Dizzy  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:18:32am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

This one from SNL:

aish.com

Apologies, no embed.

257
steve_davis  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:20:29am

re: #136 PhillyPretzel

I am afraid to go to the supermarket without a mask and gloves.

i don’t worry about the gloves, but the mask, definitely. I know the argument is that it isn’t keeping me from breathing the virus in, but if all of us are wearing one, it at least means the sick people are maybe getting most of the virus trapped with their exhaust in the fibers of their own cloth, or possibly in the fibers of mine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:21:27am

re: #257 steve_davis

i don’t worry about the gloves, but the mask, definitely. I know the argument is that it isn’t keeping me from breathing the virus in, but if all of us are wearing one, it at least means the sick people are maybe getting most of the virus trapped with their exhaust in the fibers of their own cloth, or possibly in the fibers of mine.

yes, if both parties are wearing a mask, chances of one infecting the other are greatly reduced

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:22:25am

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

Conspiracy Theory Time!
“Many people are saying” that many of these patients STARVED TO DEATH while intubated because the medical staff were too overwhelmed and forgot to install nutrition tubes.

Nearly a quarter died. Hell, if you’re on a ventilator and you get 3 to 1 odds that you’ll be alive when they pull it, I’d say that’s pretty good.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:23:27am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway. There was a version that featured a mobile bris, but that was probably a half-remembered send-up.

IIRC, it was one of SNL’s fake ads, back in the Dan Ackroyd days.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:24:40am
262
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:30:52am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:33:40am

This came up today on FaceBook. Thought it might be handy.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:35:22am

re: #263 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Bookmarked. And it will be handy in the near future.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:37:17am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If it is still in the News Cycle, then it is Trump’s own fault for not have come up with something even more outrageously out-to-lunch in the meantime. You know that the media are already poised and waiting…

In another way Dr. Birx is not a Capt. Crozier.

She is a retired Army Colonel. She knows what leadership and responsibility are (or she should).

She sat on Tapper’s show and made it about Trump (why is this still in the news cycle? Because people are going to the hospital over his reckless statement about disinfectant you didn’t push back on you bint).

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:39:42am

re: #219 Decatur Deb

Thanks—couldn’t open that, so went to King Arthur. She does not mix water with the egg as KA says. Could be that?

I don’t add water to the eggs, just brush “scrambled egg” over the loaf.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:43:09am

re: #229 PhillyPretzel

Ford Crown Victoria/Mercury Grand Marquis/Lincoln Town Car. I too remember the cleaving diamond commercial.

There was one commercial where someone was assembling a small TV set in the car. It was powered up by the end of the commercial, and it worked.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:46:19am

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:46:25am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:48:32am

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Someone needs to go back to school and learn their numbers and some basic skills.

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:49:26am

A reminder of just how much of a hand the media keeps dealing Trump because.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:50:19am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And even Roger Stone can find Jesus and have his sins washed clean…

Worked for Chuck Colson who used that shtick to engineer the Religious Right with a nice cash infusion from the Hunt Brothers!

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:54:15am

re: #188 jaunte

Suicide Trolls.

Murder Trolls. It would be fine if they could hurt only themselves but then they infect their family, their children, and others they encounter.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:54:40am

re: #269 Anymouse 🌹🏡

It bothers me that Trump said it, which is the only thing that matters about it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:55:12am

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Donald = 6 +
John = 4 +
Trump = 5 +
MAGA = 4 +

= 19

Open your eyes!!!

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:56:34am

re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Embedded content]

RONALD - 6
WILSON - 6
REAGAN - 6

666

Just to say.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:58:14am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 9:59:38am

re: #277 HRH Stanley Sea

“Unfortunately we have a witch bleach doctor as a president.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:00:38am

re: #274 Ace Rothstein

It bothers me that Trump said it, which is the only thing that matters about it.

It bothers me she went on television to defend him.

She was awarded the military Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct. That award is almost never given to someone below flag rank or senior foreign civilian and military leaders.

She dishonours herself by doing this.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Obviously doesn’t apply to her because she’s a woman. /s)

She did worse than nothing. She defended evil. Stonekettle is right in his observation, and so is Rick Wilson with “everything Trump touches dies.”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:01:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:03:38am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:06:04am

re: #280 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I imagine that there are people in Seattle who have been admitted to the ER after injecting Nirvana’s first album…

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:07:30am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

I spotted all 6. I will not give it away but one of them is very good at blending into the shadows.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:08:23am

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

My oldest nephew turned 50 today. During his zoom birthday party, I did not mention to anyone in the family that he and Melania were born on the same day!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:08:26am

Sure though, Dr. Birx can go on television and wonder why this is still in the news cycle.

That and the fifty thousand plus dead people. Can we haz genocide trial now?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:08:33am

re: #283 PhillyPretzel

I spotted all 6. I will not give it away but one of them is very good at blending into the shadows.

no prob, I used to own a black cat who was good at disappearing, once having fallen down the chimney, another time getting himself built into the roof of the shed I was fixing…

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:08:51am

re: #279 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Oh I agree with you. I should have been more specific with my complaint which was that how she was bothered by it hanging around which ignores the fact that the orange dunce said it in the first place.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:10:20am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway. There was a version that featured a mobile bris, but that was probably a half-remembered send-up.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:10:47am

re: #288 Eventual Carrion

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Lennon remembers

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:11:16am

re: #287 Ace Rothstein

Fair enough. I’ll move on from this. He can’t be controlled and he will destroy anyone who tries.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:12:27am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:15:45am

There’s a headline you don’t see every day. Guess it couldn’t be spun to “Democrats.”

GOP in disarray as members revolt over how to respond to COVID-19 pandemic with election looming: report (Raw Story)

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:19:06am

re: #292 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I hope that it is true. A Democratic landslide would be nice. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:19:29am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:20:37am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:22:03am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:22:45am

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:23:30am

re: #296 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

What was that high pitched yowl?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:23:53am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I imagine that there are people in Seattle who have been admitted to the ER after injecting Nirvana’s first album…

Not really being into Nirvana, I had to google that. It fits.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:24:09am

re: #298 PhillyPretzel

What was that high pitched yowl?

And why is the cat called “Lefty” now?

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BigPapa  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:24:18am

re: #293 PhillyPretzel

I hope that it is true. A Democratic landslide would be nice. :)

A Democratic landslide would be a bleach colonic to our body politic.

And I mean that in the best way possible.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:25:57am

re: #301 BigPapa

I know. Me too.

303
William Lewis  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:28:04am

Current Mood:

The Who - The Kids Are Alright

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:28:05am

re: #299 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Not really being into Nirvana, I had to google that. It fits.

I am not either, just had Gen-X girlfriends…

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:30:34am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:30:45am

Running to oppose Gym Jordan. Primary is Tuesday.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:31:12am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway. There was a version that featured a mobile bris, but that was probably a half-remembered send-up.

The Bris was on SNL

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:32:24am
309
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:35:27am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:37:34am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

[fake rage] How did he know I went shopping this morning? Does he have a tracker on me? [fake rage]

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:39:51am

re: #269 Anymouse 🌹🏡

[Embedded content]

Jim’s point sailed right over Prem’s head and landed somewhere in the bushes. Does he really have to pull out “First They Came…” to get the point across? Even if you believe that some “good” is being done by Dr. Birx behind the scenes, she is allowing a lot of bad to happen by her refusal to speak up.

And honestly, by this point, I think that’s more wishful thinking that anything else. Why? Because every time we’ve seen this play out, where we interpreted someone’s actions as playing along in order to be the “adult” in the room, we’ve discovered that they were willful participants whose biggest worry at the end of the day was not controlling the man’s worst impulses…but avoiding the shame of being fired via tweet.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:41:00am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:42:31am

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Jay C  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:42:44am

re: #308 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

NOT ALL PARROTS!!!

LOL.

And what, even does “enforceable legal action” even mean? AFAIK, no RWNJ blogger (or even “journalist”) has ever gotten anywhere with any of these blustering legal “threats” - Chuck Johnson and his inane suits come to mind: weren’t they all (mostly) summarily dismissed?

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BigPapa  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:42:47am

“We deal in facts and evidence’ of pedo rings operating out of pizza parlor basements.

316
Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:44:57am

re: #315 BigPapa

“We deal in facts and evidence’ of pedo rings operating out of pizza parlor basements.

And chemtrails and 5G mind control and the Clinton death cartel and…

317
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:45:15am

re: #314 Jay C

NOT ALL PARROTS!!!

LOL.

And what, even does “enforceable legal action” even mean? AFAIK, no RWNJ blogger (or even “journalist”) has ever gotten anywhere with any of these blustering legal “threats” - Chuck Johnson and his inane suits come to mind: weren’t they all (mostly) summarily dismissed?

“Enforceable legal action” = “I’m mad, I want to sound threatening and make you back down, and I think I’m right enough that a lawyer will listen to me even though I know in the back of my head that they’ll just laugh me out the door.”

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:45:15am

re: #312 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

To be fair, there will be several strong contenders for that title in the next…uh…

*checks watch*

….minute or so, I’m sure.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:45:37am

re: #308 Charles Johnson

Who is Xeni Jardin?

320
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:46:14am

Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats as of yesterday.

Confirmed cases: 1217 (+43)
Total tests: 5973 (+185)
Deaths: 82 (+0)

48 of the deaths occurred in just three of the townships/boroughs. Three boroughs and two townships still without any reported cases. Three townships with just over 1/2 of 1% of their population as confirmed cases.

Total tests still indicate that this is just spot testing and not something trying to find how widely the virus is actually spread in the county. Doubling rate of confirmed cases is 13 days currently, which indicates flattening is going on.

321
Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:46:56am
322
Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:47:17am

re: #314 Jay C

NOT ALL PARROTS!!!

LOL.

And what, even does “enforceable legal action” even mean? AFAIK, no RWNJ blogger (or even “journalist”) has ever gotten anywhere with any of these blustering legal “threats” - Chuck Johnson and his inane suits come to mind: weren’t they all (mostly) summarily dismissed?

He’s in the process of suing HuffPo for “libel.” Says they wrongly labeled him a white supremacist…and is using his own child in a “some of my best friends are black” argument.

323
Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:47:57am

re: #321 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do, Libtard!!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:50:41am

New numbers from Minnesota: 2390 new tests, down from Friday’s, but it’s a weekend and everybody was probably headed to the lake (bringing us to 58987, now 1% of the MN population); 156 new cases, correspondingly down (and the percentage of new positives is also down, from ~10% to ~6%), bringing us to 3602; 28 dead, up to 272. Four straight days sustaining over 2000 tests/day is progress, especially with one of them being a weekend day. Tomorrow’s numbers will be telling because Sunday has historically been the slowest day for testing.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:52:12am

re: #322 Targetpractice

He’s in the process of suing HuffPo for “libel.” Says they wrongly labeled him a white supremacist…and is using his own child in a “some of my best friends are black” argument.

That reminds me - there’s some news on that. Post coming soon.

326
Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:53:45am

re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Who is Xeni Jardin?

She’s one of the founders of the long-running blog Boing Boing.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:54:11am

re: #326 Charles Johnson

She’s one of the founders of the long-running blog Boing Boing.

Oh. Oh, that’s a name I certainly recognize. So she’s a big fish.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:59:02am
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2020 • 10:59:28am

Lee Weissman sent me a lovely “MAZAL TOV” and now I am getting hate Tweets and threats from “body integrity activists” Muted, blocked & reported. I think because Lee used the “c” word and these folks search by keyword looking for folks to harass.
Lee is a great Twitter follow, recommended here by CL

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Omar Comin’ Yo  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:01:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:02:44am

One new case in the Nebraska Panhandle. A man in his forties tested positive yesterday in Scott’s Bluff County. That brings the total confirmed to 27 there.

Tested: 899
Confirmed: 44 (+1)
Recovered: 26
Largest age group: 40-49 (13, +1 since yesterday)
Second-largest age group: 60-69 (8)
pphd.org

Which brings up a different issue, thinking ahead to agriculture and coronavirus.

Ricketts establishes detasseling safety task force (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Nebraska state officials have announced the creation of a detasseling task force to protect workers from becoming ill with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

“Detasseling is a part of our culture here in Nebraska,” Gov. Pete Ricketts said Thursday during his daily press briefing.

About 7,000 people participate in detasseling every year in Nebraska, said Steve Wellman, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.

(more at the link if you are interested in the fascinating profession of detasseling, a necessary job for corn growers)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:03:02am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:04:53am

re: #329 The Pie Overlord!

That was lovely. The fact that you are getting hate tweets is awful. There are too many ignorant people in the world today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:05:19am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:05:44am

Really interesting string here. These two are urgent care fast-food docs and one of them isn’t certified in emergency medicine. Their employer is involved in a privatization trial for the VA that was brokered by none other than Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who has opposed the lockdown from the beginning. They are also anti-vaxxers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:08:28am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:08:44am

re: #329 The Pie Overlord!

I find it amazing you have forty-five grandchildren.

That would be 1/3 of my whole town.

I’m happy you got to participate in the Zoom conference.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:13:07am

re: #330 Omar Comin’ Yo

[Embedded content]

This all reminds me of General Francisco Franco — who spent weeks in a coma before dying. But he did have an official successor; he had restored the monarchy before his death, and the king succeeded him.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:14:39am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Does it include a desire to hold one-sided conversations with sports equipment?
/

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:18:11am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Used to be a luxury car commercial that showed the smooth ride by cutting a diamond while underway. There was a version that featured a mobile bris, but that was probably a half-remembered send-up.

It was a 1970’s SNL spoof ad.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:23:22am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

How is this person (Tom Cotton) an elected official?

Arkansas Republican.

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:25:17am

Well, that’s what I get for sleeping in late and replying to posts as I scroll down.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:25:29am

re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Close all the parking around there. No parking, no parks no hotels…

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2020 • 11:29:35am

re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

That did not look like a hula.


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