President Trump Travels to India to visit Prime Minister Modi. This will make the left’s head explode even more. India is the natural bulwark against China and we should be strong allies. I’ve been screaming about this for almost 15 years and finally!
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I have been waiting for this for years.
eaglesoars wrote:
She is.
https://youtu.be/TBAj4nbdLEU
https://youtu.be/SOJJ26xGytU
The Internet is a bad thing. Cell phones have destroyed society and face to face conversation.
However, if used correctly then the Internet is a perfect way to keep in contact, and enjoy life with another person who is physically hundreds, or even thousands of miles away.
Currently I am having supper with someone far away. We ordered food delivery from the same chain of restaurant. Eating it together, but separate.
Life is good…..
Hillary, round 2?
https://www.weaselzippers.us/444293-ex-bill-clinton-adviser-bloomberg-and-hillary-cooking-up-scheme-for-her-to-become-democratic-nominee/
Iran has closed all schools in Tehran, first coronovirus case found in Herat, Afghanistan. Italy is just shut down, period.
I don’t even want to SEE the markets today. This has got to start showing up somewhere on the African continent soon, China is all over that place.
India is about to give Trump the biggest rally he’s ever had. LOOK at the people in this stadium
https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1231845576334958592
@ eaglesoars:
amazing
@ coldwarrior:
The thing about Bollywood I love is the glamour. Unapologetic and over the top. Gorgeous clothes, jewelry, makeup etc. And if you’ve ever seen any pics of jewels from the days of the Rajs, it’s not far off the mark.
As for the 2nd video, Schwarzenegger should take notes
I was watching Trump in India over morning coffee.
He is killing it over there and the crowds are great.
Melania is a great representative of the US.
The best looking First Lady ever!
coldwarrior wrote:
100,000 people. World’s largest cricket stadium
@ RIX:
morning Rix, how goes it?
Photos of Trump in India
https://www.axios.com/trump-india-visit-namaste-rally-photos-71a779a9-395d-4ac0-85e4-d57f7b2ad80d.html
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/02/23/not-the-onion-bernie-sanders-praises-the-castro-regime-in-new-60-minutes-interview
@ Twitchy.
Comrade Bernie praises Castro’s literacy program.
Hey, you want them literate before execution.
Democratic Socialist is an oxymoron.
@ eaglesoars:
Hi Eagle. It is up and down sometimes hour by hour. We had a good weekend, got her out to breakfast and a movie on Saturday. Yesterday we went to lunch and took the dogs for a walk. Best days since she got ill.
We meet with the docs tomorrow.
I am still asking for prayers.
@ RIX:
Tell her we all say HEY!!. Prayers, always.
This is great. They played ‘Macho Man” as Trump enters the stadium and people were rockin!
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1231872531704868865
Dow futures down over 800.
At what price point to I buy Amazon? So much of it’s supply chain involves China……
No reason given yet, but the PM of Slovakia has checked into the hospital after coming home from EU summit
eaglesoars wrote:
PM Peter Pellegrini (Smer) was hospitalised in Bratislava on the evening of February 22.
He had an acute upper respiratory tract infection accompanied with high temperatures.
“Due to his health condition, he has temporarily cancelled his programme,” the press department of the Government’s Office informed, as quoted by the Sme daily.
Pellegrini later published a picture from hospital on Facebook, saying he had been suffering from some health problems for some time already.
The hospital where Pellegrini is staying did not want to comment on his condition, Sme wrote. It is not clear yet how long he will stay there.
Čítajte viac: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22333130/pm-pellegrini-taken-to-hospital.html
@ eaglesoars:
This could be a 15% correction. However…flight to quality could soften that.
@ coldwarrior:
my metals are – ahem – pure gold! I’m not selling tho, that is a long-term hold play
Weinstein guilty on 2 of 5 counts. Pretty good for a total sleaze. If I’m the taxpayer paying the prosecutors, I want their asses fired, they totally blew this.
Car hits crowd at Carnival in German town injuring dozens
The driver was arrested, but police couldn’t immediately provide details about the man’s motivations.
of course they couldnt.
S. Korea’s coronavirus caseload multiplies 25-fold in 5 days.
‘The City Has Been Annihilated’: South Korea’s Coronavirus Epicenter Is a Virtual Ghost Town
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-city-shuts-down-as-south-korea-raises-highest-coronavirus-alert-11582465932
It’s behind a paywall, but at least you know about the story
jut got an txt from a ID doc who i play golf with. i had a drink with him yesterday at the CC and asked him if it is true that corona virus is more virulent in asians. he didn’t know.
apparently, asians have more ACE2 cells in their lungs than caucasians. this corona virus loves to bind to ACE2. BUT, this has yet to be properly quantified/peer reviewed/ etc sez he
might be sumthin?
coldwarrior wrote:
It is known that Asians have more ACE2 cells in their lungs. It is NOT known if that makes them more susceptible to this virus. That ACE2 fact is one of the reasons people thought it was an engineered/targeted virus.
Also, I forget where I saw this – some blurb that said China was making it illegal to consume ‘exotic’ animals. I’m not sure what that means, one guy’s exotic is another guy’s venison.
At any rate, it supports the idea that this got out via a ‘wet market’. It would be – I would think – very easy for someone on the janitorial staff to take some bats no longer needed, due for disposal, and instead of disposing of them in the incinerator, walk them down the street and make a few extra yuan.
Here we go
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8037093/China-considers-complete-ban-eating-wild-animals-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually the MCG … Melbourne Cricket Ground holds that record. 104,000!
🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity
college football is YUGE!
Rungrado has us all beat! JUCHE! this is where the great leader revolutionized cricket and college football a the same time by giving on the spot instructions to the luminaries of the day.
@ coldwarrior:
Used to play cricket on occasion at UCLA whilst on ‘layovers’ in LA.
Teams were from UCLA and visiting teams (mostly Indians) and even a free ‘
company teams from Canada used to show up.
I’d play for whoever needed an extra spinner!
🙂
UCLA sports department had several full sets of cricket gear stored away.
🙂
c’mon Dr Doom, i expect more from ya!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/24/dr-doom-nouriel-roubini-warns-of-multiple-white-swans.html
jeeze…resting on his laurels. any schmuck could come up with this.
John Solomon’s site is finally up and running.
https://justthenews.com/
@ coldwarrior:
potentially catastrophic damage from climate change
yeah, bye
eaglesoars wrote:
i took a big yawn on that one. he is slacking off.
eaglesoars wrote:
who is paying for this?i don’t see any ads
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
hey y’all
Despite No Income Tax, Tennessee Is Drowning In A Growing Budget Surplus
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=385959
To keep Tennessee from drowning in excess tax revenue, legislators are working on ways to – no, not spend it – they’re actually working on how to return some of it to taxpayers.
wow, hudda thunk it
@ rain of lead:
Amazing how that works
coldwarrior wrote:
no clue. At the very bottom is a trademark for Bentley Media Group LLC. Which is NOT to be confused with another Bentley Media Group, a video production service out of Atlanta.
This one was incorporated about 11 days ago in Delaware, mailing address in Manasass Virginia. Solomon is the only officer. I don’t see a standalone website for it.
@ rain of lead:
hiya!
I cannot TELL you how frustrated I am at trying to get down there. I’m about ready to choke my husband.
https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/marketminder/as-the-big-stories-churn
https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-disposable-plastic
Brilliant
Hoo boy howdy. I don’t think that ‘mandate from heaven’ thing is working out too well.
Missive from China
. My mother-in-law has told us that the “death stench” has permeated her city the past week or so and getting worse daily. She cannot even open her windows. Why? No one is going to work – and no one is taking care of the livestock. No shipments of grain are coming in for the animals — and throughout the land the animals are starving in the pastures. The bodies by the hundreds of thousands are just laying in the sun and rotting. All this while the industrialized part of China is beginning to have severe food shortages.
Now comes the good part. Something is being shared among the 1% elite Chinese population. Written by a buddhist monk in the early 20th century.
“The year 2020 – The year all of China will weep. The omens will be so bad that the New Year will not be celebrated. Then the plague will come. It will come with a fury – the tigers and the wolves will hide in the mountains. The plague will encompass all the land – and will eventually spread to the whole world. Very soon – rice will become so expensive that no one can eat. Then the rivers will sink all the boats. People in that year will only be able to harvest rice in the very early spring. There will be no harvest of late season rice, beans, wheat, and oats because vast clouds of locusts will lay waste to the entire countryside. I, Gentleman Zigong, assure you Chinese in 2020 that the locusts will fall from the skies and the destruction will be complete. Smoke and fire will fill the fields – but nothing will be able to stop the swarms. Once the locusts have destroyed the land and the smoke is still coming from the ground, the rivers will flood the countryside. I, Gentleman Zigong, will tell you Chinese in 2020 how to survive. Remain very close to your families and your neighbors. The best is to have stored up plenty of gold and food to live and share freely with those you love. Tolerate no thieves among the people. Be uniters and not dividers. If you can do all these things, you will survive.”
The locusts have actually arrived
Vast clouds of locusts made it to Xinjiang (the furthest west Chinese province) last week. The videos are amazing. The Mandarin news is showing the government deployment of these gigantic fire throwers that lay waste to not only the locusts but all the land in the path of the fire. Huge bursts of fire blow out from them and they truly look like something that would be appropriate to accompany the Four Horsemen. Today we learned that the locusts have now arrived very close to the western border of Gansu province. Gansu is part of the ancient Chinese homeland and is a huge producer of wheat and rice. If this swarm gets started up, it will be a huge blow to China and their psyche. The CCP has now ordered that every live chicken in China is to be immediately dispatched to the western border, where they will be released to eat the locusts. To everyone who thinks this is not a huge problem — think about the decision being made. Take away eggs and meat for the people who are already angry — to stop the locusts. The CCP must have data that this locust swarm is going to become a disaster unless stopped immediately, no matter what the cost.
And if THAT doesn’t remind you of something – when Mao thought the birds were eating the corn, so ordered them all slaughtered. The birds were eating the insects. No birds, lots of bugs, no corn.
The author of this piece is an M.D. in the U.S. And now it begins
And as a physician, the first instances of medication shortages are now happening in earnest. A memo from the hospital’s pharmacy committee arrived yesterday. It specifically named the following drugs – IV antibiotics such as gentamicin, tobramycin and streptomycin – IV drips from the ICU dobutamine, dopamine, and norepinephrine – and the following pill medications – diltiazem, verapamil, amlodipine, losartan, valsartan and irbesartan. Also mentioned were all of the usual narcotic opioids used for pain – morphine, dilaudid, hydrocodone and fentanyl among others. The memo stated that while there was stock in the hospital on all of these at this moment — the intermediate suppliers had sent warnings that supplies were quickly diminishing — and that further supplies from the manufacturer were not going to be reliable into the foreseeable future. Therefore, we were strongly urged to immediately begin making sure that every prescription was appropriate — and to replace it with something else if possible.
And if THIS isn’t out of left field
I have now had a patient show up this week in full blown opiate withdrawal. That is very rare in my practice. Why did this happen? His drug of choice — heroin — was not available at any price from his usual dealer. I have now confirmed with local law enforcement that the street price of opiates and meth have substantially increased in just the past week or two. I have spoken with many colleagues in cities across the country this week. In some places, nothing has changed — in others there has been a noticeable increase in opiate withdrawal. And everywhere I called, colleagues have noted a marked decrease in opiate overdoses. All this is anecdotal, but very consistent. If this holds up, it appears our illicit opiate and meth supply is being affected as well. NOT COCAINE. China for the past 10 years or so has been producing all the precursors of illicit opioids and meth. These are then shipped to Mexico where the bathtub chemistry is done on a huge scale – and the final product is then shipped to American cities. What is this China supply problem going to do to our addicts here in the USA? What will happen to Mexico if the drug cartels begin to have problems with cash flow?
just keep reading
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/china-apocalypse-buddhist-prophecy-locusts/
@ eaglesoars:
Hmmm
This is a very cute border collie video
volume on so you can hear what the dog is reacting to
https://youtu.be/VybdAZWvs48
oh good lord. Now they’ve got frogs
https://www.scmp.com/article/999782/frog-invasion-spawns-fears-earthquake
2nd case confirmed in Israel.
You know if this hits the refugee camps in Jordan, it’s game over.
@ eaglesoars:
or are the frogs eating the flies?
One Beijing researcher, now in jail, made a million dollars selling his monkeys and rats on the live animal market, where they eventually wound up in someone’s stomach.
ok, so not the janitorial staff, as I surmised
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/02/24/expert-chinese-scientists-sell-lab-animals-meat-black-market/
@ eaglesoars:
it just gets worse and worse for the commies every minute
coldwarrior wrote:
no. they’re the teeny tiny thumbnail thingies. The locusts and animal carcasses are in a different part of the country
fwiw, a reddit thread about the virus
https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/
coldwarrior wrote:
… and by doing so, they just provided all the details bout the person and his motivations.
/I’ll wait to be proven wrong
coldwarrior wrote:
Very much so. Loved this little tidbit:
Sums up today’s environmental movement’s motivation pretty well. What we are seeing is not new, these attempts to control the common people goes back centuries, probably to the dawn of time.
Um. #Breaking update from Amador County Sheriff on death of
@DHSgov whistleblower Philip Haney. After his body was found sheriff said it was “apparent self-inflicted” GSW. Now saying that was “misinformation.” Not ruled a suicide. FBI called in. Invest ongoing. Autopsy scheduled
https://twitter.com/MicheleMcPhee/status/1232101573880205312
*snort*. FBI. I feel so much better.
Ok, I have a question. For regular cars, we measure the usage/fuel as miles/per gallon.
How is it measured for electric cars? miles/ per???
@ eaglesoars:
smugs/kilometer
@ coldwarrior:
😆
@ eaglesoars:
miles per charge i think
total distance on one full charge avg now is 200 to 250 miles
vs gas 15 gal tank at 30 mpg is 450 miles
@ rain of lead:
ok, how much energy in one full charge? Measured in kilowatts or something?
@ eaglesoars:
@ rain of lead:
At least as big a question for me is how long does it take to charge versus the five minutes or so it takes me to fill up a tank.
@ right_wing2:
Anywhere from 3 to 12 hours, depending on the charger.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, that’s a problem.
@ lobo91:
too bad they dont have a total pollution per lifetime sticker too. those batteries are nasty and we arent all nuclear…
@ rain of lead:
@ lobo91:
which turns my 7 hour jaunt to the beach into 10-11 hours.
yeah, no thanks
the puti took a few of my tibetan singing bowls to her music class today.
whatever happened to the cause de celeb ‘free tibet’ ?
that kinda went away.
coldwarrior wrote:
Richard Gere got old and is no longer anybody’s heartthrob
lobo91 wrote:
exactly what I wanted, thank you!
Iran’s health minister has the virus. Don’t know where he picked it up from, but the number of people he encounters on a daily basis has to be significant. And the gov’t refuses to close Qom, a ‘tourist’ city.
CNN announced Germany won’t be closing it’s border with Italy, which is a huge relief to all involved, as the last time anyone checked, there isn’t one.
@ eaglesoars:
Hardly anyone speaks Austrian, anyway
/s
ghurkas and horses. yep. great stuff
lobo91 wrote:
heh.
Interesting article.
This virus is probably not containable. It will become a seasonal, endemic event, like flu.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that the most likely outcome of this outbreak is a new seasonal disease—a fifth “endemic” coronavirus. With the other four, people are not known to develop long-lasting immunity. If this one follows suit, and if the disease continues to be as severe as it is now, “cold and flu season” could become “cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/
@ eaglesoars:
Amador County? Good thing local FBI is on the case.
Biggest thing Amador has to deal with is someone bagging a deer out of season.
eaglesoars wrote:
I remember when the Olympic torch went through San Francisco is 2008. The Free Tibet people were everywhere along the route.
Question for all those who are now claiming what a PARADISE Cuba is:
what do you think would be the result if Castro said anyone in Cuba could leave if they wanted and Trump said anyone from Cuba would be welcome in the United States?
Personally, I think the 90 miles from Cuba to Miami would look like the first day of crab season in San Francisco Bay.
The Barbarian wrote:
We did that already. It’s called the Marianna Boat Lift.
The Barbarian wrote:
People this morning are asking why all Bernie’s perverse writings/statements on sexuality (rape fantasies, child sexuality etc.) aren’t being exposed as weapons.
Given Epstein, Weinstein, etc. and people we probably don’t even know about, I think the answer is blazingly obvious. Because for their demographic, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
@ eaglesoars:
Wait for the general election.
I’m kind of thinking of changing my registration to Democrat just so I can support Sanders during the caucus.
Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Spain all reporting their 1st cases
@ right_wing2:
Operation Chaos! Ha!
Oh good! Chris Plante played the audio of this today. It’s easier to ‘get’ with the video.
It looks like Mayor Pete has studied Obama like an actor studies a living character in order to emulate them on the screen. Check this out.
https://twitter.com/TrumpStudents/status/1232313667196260352
I will declare a state of emergency on the first day of my presidency. I will use the Executive emergency powers of the presidency to tell companies how they can generate electricity, what kind of cars they can build, what kind of buildings we’re gonna have…”
Tom Steyer, facist in training
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1232167088221032449
I was watching Trump and Melania going through the receiving line before the state dinner.
Watching it I imagined President Biden and Doctor Jill.
All I could think of is Biden looking at the assemblage and saying something like “come on man, all these 7/11 franchise guys! Can I get slurpie?”
@ RIX:
Imagine Bernie and his wife
@ eaglesoars:
That was Castro emptying the prisons, wasn’t it?
Here’s my little fantasy:
Raul the Jerk makes announcement covered by World Press that all emigration travel restrictions are lifted for Cuban citizens – hey, you wanna leave, leave. Trump announces that we’ll be happy to take them here in the U.S. (met with vicious opposition by Democrats since Cubans do NOT as a rule vote Democrat, which exposes hypocrisy of Democrat open border statements).
Of course, since most Cubans live in pretty much basic poverty, they can’t leave without makeshift boat, which is dangerous so Cuba says “HA – we got ’em now. We said they can leave….but they haven’t the means.”
Two hours later, big black jet with orange lettering on the side lands at Guantanamo. Don Jr. has arrived in Dad’s Boeing 737 to start shuttle service to Miami….
Havana’s a ghost town in 10 days.
@ eaglesoars:
I often think Tom Steyer is the biggest dickhead in California – which is saying something since we also harbor Eric Fartwell, Nancy Smirnoff Pelosi, Shiffty McPencilneck and Gavin Gruesome.
Oh, and Steyer made all those billions, by the way, partially in the fossil fuel industry. It’s indicative of his complete irrelevance that this has not become an issue in this campaign.
I’m thinking Steyer will run for Governor the next time the Democrat nomination is up for grabs.
lobo91 wrote:
A bad image.
This is insane
Key California reservoir to be drained due to earthquake risk
Camacho also said that draining the reservoir starting in seven months is likely to kill wildlife downstream in Coyote Creek, including endangered steel head trout, amphibians and reptiles. Coyote Creek flows from the dam through downtown San Jose to San Francisco Bay.
Complicating the issue, California may be heading into a new drought. On Monday, amid a dry winter, Anderson Reservoir was just 29% full. Nevertheless, the 26,133 acre feet of water stored there is an important part of the South Bay’s water supply — holding enough water for the annual needs of at least 130,000 people, and what the district considers an emergency supply.
https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/key-california-reservoir-to-be-drained-due-to-earthquake-risk/article_24654552-0272-5057-80bf-033b1d3f7099.html
There’s more, but seriously, can’t they just do it a bit at a time? They’ve known about this for 10 yrs and now they want to kill everything? I can think of a few other alternatives to this all-or-nothing chicken-with-head-cut-off approach
@ eaglesoars:
They call everything a drought. We’ve had plenty of rain this winter. We haven’t had any in awhile. It isn’t even the end of April yet.
Its HPV16 squamous cell carcinoma. Looks like I was having too much fun 30 yrs ago. I was.
Consequences…
Doc thinks I’ll be fine. Prolly need chemo and rads tho. This will suck.
Carry on.
I think Rush has been a moron on the coronavirus thing, won’t bother you w/the details. But he’s right about one thing – whatever happens, it will be used against Trump
Lawmakers in both parties on Tuesday expressed growing alarm that the threat of coronavirus in the United States is serious, and that the Trump administration is not doing enough to fight it.
Two Cabinet members at separate hearings were grilled over what lawmakers described as an insufficient response so far, while Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said the White House’s budget request to handle the disease was lackluster.
“It seems to me at the outset that this request for the money, the supplemental, is lowballing it, possibly, and you can’t afford to do that,” Shelby told Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar during a hearing on the agency’s budget request.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484597-lawmakers-raise-alarms-over-trump-coronavirus-response
coldwarrior wrote:
Alrighty then. Did they find the primary?
@ eaglesoars:
PET and MRI coming up.
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s lucky that he’s just doing hard time.
The CEO and CFO of the Chinese company that contaminated Kiwi milk powder to ‘stretch it and make more $$$$$ resulted in the deaths of tens of Chinese babies and the sickening of 100,000+
No prison for them!
Into the sports stadium tied to a chair and shot as a warning to the other business spectators in the bleachers!
coldwarrior wrote:
Fingers crossed for you mate.
Hunt down that ‘primary’ and destroy the bastard!
@ coldwarrior:
got it. The numbers on this one look very good. I’m not concerned.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
same for the guy responsible for contaminating our dog food. Bullet to the back of the head.
My only problem with that is that there were probably more that needed the same outcome, not just one.
eaglesoars wrote:
Great news. Qom is a festering hell hole full of wild eyed Revolutionary Guards and Black garbed Religious Police!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually according to my ‘tame Chinese mate’ with excellent access to what’s actually going on in China.
Xi knows that 95% of businessmen are corrupt so that just makes his task of reducing overt corruption so much easier.
No long expensive research and southing needed. Just pick up a few random businessmen and make an example of them with a bullet in the head. Their families even get the bill for the cost of the bullet . Seriously!
If Xi accidentally rounds up one of the innocent 5% then it’s just too bad for them and it’s their personal privilege to suffer for the Chinese State.
Serious!
This is what is being put about amongst business leadership in China.
southing = sleuthing
Yup Predictive strikes again
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
please see the article linked at my #44. fascinating.
eaglesoars wrote:
Thanks doc. Lol
@ coldwarrior:
Anytime!
Well, Dr. Nancy Messonier of the CDC, who today said that we need to be prepared because the virus is coming here is – Rod Rosenstein’s sister. She is the Dir, Nat’l Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
@ eaglesoars:
What precisely would they expect him to do?
The Barbarian wrote:
Well, according to the article, he isn’t asking for enough money (not that they’ve specified now to spend it). There’s another piece I saw where Azar got slammed by Sheehan for holding ‘secret’ meetings. It’s all bullshit.
However, if we don’t have enough masks, Trump will be slammed for that. I saw that Amazon has them, but the shipping costs have been jacked up to HUNDREDS of dollars.
And if people start running out of their meds before election, get ready for Bernie.
This is Professor Helen. She is a professor of Health Policy & Politics at UC Berkeley
The folks most likely to be unprepared for the coronavirus #COVIDー19
Are MAGAts [ed: ‘maggots’]
Those who exclusively watch Fox News aren’t being told about the virus or epidemic.
Because Trump’s afraid it will hurt his re-election chances.
Public Health under 45:
#LetThemGetSickAndDie
https://twitter.com/Helenhs/status/1232317477180149760
Universal child care for children 0-4 years old. I agree….
Possum wrote:
me too. We call them ‘parents’
Peter Navarro is on Tucker. Said CDC has a RFP out for half a billion face masks.
I wonder where they’ll be manufactured.
@ Aussie Infidel:
From what I was told the Chinese are big on examples. One point that was indicated to me was that Chengdu is the only city currently in China that has a massive statue of Mao still standing. Chengdu was the last city to be conquered by Mao’s revolution and they are reminded of it to this day. Second example. Was driving past this one sky scraper that was totally blacked out at night. Apparently it was supposed to be a hospital but the army officers in charge of building it were farming it out as condos. They got caught and dealt with. Building is still empty as an “example” of trying to get away with it.
eaglesoars wrote:
LOL glad some one got it.
I am all for child care for WORKING parents. Many companys provide creche facilities.
eaglesoars wrote:
… and you know the courts will side with him and his authority. Compared to every court striking down the smallest EO that Trump has put out
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, at least now you know. Prayers for rapid recovery from all the nasty stuff.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Thing with China is that it is basically a whimsical government. There are so many rules and regulations, everyone is in violation of something and the only way to make a decent living is to be corrupt. So the government, at its whim, can swoop down on one and take them out if they offend the government. That, and in China, life is cheap.
@ AZfederalist:
And the argument can be made that there’s precedent. You should see what FDR did with agriculture during the war. Altho I’m not sure it was done with EO, but pretty sure it was done with ’emergency powers’
Possum wrote:
Yeah, and it can be terrific. When I worked at USA Today, they had great child care programs. They also had an unbelievable gym that was open to employees only, not even families. The facilities were out of this world. The women’s area was a freaking spa. It was really nice after you’ve busted your butt with 6 days of 13 hour days and you get a break in THAT place. I hated to leave.
eaglesoars wrote:
It started with his recovery act and the various controls placed on production. Wickard vs. Filburn — the wheat case. In which the Supreme Court determined that a farmer in Ohio, raising wheat to feed his own chickens, was engaged in interstate commerce because, since he was using his own wheat, he was affecting interstate commerce because if he hadn’t raised it, he would have been buying wheat and that wheat could have come from another state.
… and this is how the federal government got its grubby mitts on every aspect of our lives. Because, by that definition, there is nothing that is not interstate commerce.
@ AZfederalist:
yep. I keep meaning to follow up on that thing and figure out how the law has evolved over time – but I never have time – and I’m pretty sure I don’t know how to do legal research
the logical end to the argument is that we’re all engaging in commerce by not buying something.
Agricultural Adjustment Act. That’s what I was trying to remember.
bedtime nite
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/goshennews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/a6/1a6ccbd6-b482-11e9-868a-e7f4582e5056/5d432202b89c0.image.jpg
https://youtu.be/7xgP3QdKGj0
Prayers needed for a couple friends of mine. She had a miscarriage last year, and is now pregnant again. She was admitted to the hospital yesterday with something called pre-eclampsia, which causes decreased blood supply to both mom and baby. She’s about 28 weeks along. They’re going to have to induce labor at some point. Her name is Tiffany, his name is Gabe.
Thanks.
@ right_wing2:
oh jeez. I assume they’re keeping her in the hospital until delivery. Gah.
So, one of the feeding mats I use for the girls has to be replaced. Went to re-order. Most places that carry it are out of stock, with a 3 month-delivery time. What’s in stock is a different color and there’s only one place to find it, they have 2 left.
Made in China.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/okeefe-strikes-again-socialist-abc-reporter-admits-bosses-spike-news-important-to-voters-dont-give-trump-credit-video/
@ rain of lead:
And they SUSPENDED him? HAR!!
Jesus
BREAKING: Leaked documents show gross #COVIDー19 underreporting.
“The Shandong CDC daily numbers ranged from being 1.36 times to 52 times greater than the officially published data by the Shandong health commission & #China’s National Health Commission.”
https://twitter.com/JanJekielek/status/1232682389119406081
@ eaglesoars:
That’s a pretty big spread.
@ coldwarrior:
This may interest you. A pediatrician in Japan, looking at the stats of the 1918 flu, suggests the use of aspirin may have enhanced the virulence of the illness
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/aspirin-may-be-enhancer-virulence-1918-pandemic
@ Aussie Infidel:
This is common thinking for the Chinese. They have extremely poor mental and spiritual hygiene as a culture. Think of what they are doing via the Yangtze river?
lobo91 wrote:
well, unless there is animal-to-human transmission and there’s an animal around here somewhere, that statement is obviously false
eaglesoars wrote:
Those whom the gods seek to destroy, they first make mad!
🙂
PaladinPhil wrote:
Actually the PLA’s hospital in Hong Kong , right alongside the old British Services Sports club remains EMPTY and has been so since the end of the 1990s.. I stay at the Sports Club when I’m transmitting HK and I have a ‘nosey’ to see if anyone has ever moved in!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
This attitude by Chinese ‘mandarines’ towards the Chinese people has been ingrained for 2500 years over many Empires. The equanimity of the Chinese people to just get on with life under the authoritarian heel of the Chinese State astounds me. Other than the odd insurrection , usually when an Empire is in terminal decline, masks the acceptance by the Chinese people of their ‘lot’.
Amazing.
Probably a mixture of Chinese nationalism, racism, cultural isolation, ethnic (Han) supremacy, and ingrained authoritarianism keeps the Chinese people compliant and quiet.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
did you see the article I linked to at #44
Mandarines grow nice little oranges.
rain of lead wrote:
…. ” we recognise we (ABC NBC CBS CNN) are all dinosaurs and we are in danger of dying!”
Out of their own mouths!.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
I surely did. Great article. A LOT to take in.