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Say good morning to the Muse of the Misguided, the one and only Paul Krugman, still on a bender to discredit Trump and everything American
I have American friends currently in Europe considering whether to extend their stay in the belief that universal health care and leave policies will make them safer. They may well be right
Unfortunately – but predictably – facts are not Paul’s friends
Italy:
Death toll from coronavirus in Italy rises to 148: Live updates
The country reported the highest number of deaths outside of China, as world steps up efforts to tackle COVID-19
France:
A member of France’s National Assembly has been hospitalised in intensive care after contracting coronavirus, the lower house of parliament said in a statement on Thursday, as the French president warned the public to prepare for an “inevitable” epidemic.
The country recorded 138 new virus cases on Thursday in the biggest daily jump thus far, bringing the total number nationwide to 423.
U.K.
The UK has about 18 beds available for seriously ill patients who need special ventilators. I would choose a different country.
And the inevitable smackdown:
ROTF 1) you dont have friends 2) if you did we’d all prefer they weren’t in the US anymore anyway
@ eaglesoars:
18 beds. 18.
My system alone has 23 vent/icu beds open according to the tracker I have open right now. That’s just us, and just western PA.
@ coldwarrior:
Don’t get me started on the UK med system. I found a lump in my breast and was at the docs w/in 18 hrs for a mammogram. My friend in Wales was floored. Said it would have taken MINIMUM 3 months.
@ lobo91:
About that Mandate of Heaven thing………
current drug shortages
https://www.ashp.org/Drug-Shortages/Current-Shortages/Drug-Shortages-List?page=CurrentShortages&sort=2
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s gonna leave a mark
lobo91 wrote:
Oh, I don’t know, how about Chinese contractors who tried to do the minimum necessary and pocket the most cash they could. China is a whimsical government, it enforces laws at whim and almost everyone is corrupt, trying to maximize their income.
I got myself a new home-away-from-home today. Well, I signed the paperwork today. I’ll pick it up later in the week:
@ lobo91:
Enjoy. You should be set for the trips you are planning.
@ lobo91:
THAT IS SO COOL!!
I grew up around boats so I appreciate design for small spaces and that’s very well done. That bathroom is really nice.
So global demand has tanked because of coronavirus, Russia has its military involved in Syria, Erdogan is pissed off at Putin, Putin’s only financial – legal – lifeline is oil – and Saudi Arabia has decided to pile on.
Saudi Arabia plans to increase oil output next month, going well above 10 million barrels a day, as the kingdom responds aggressively to the collapse of its OPEC+ alliance with Russia.
The world’s largest oil exporter started a price war on Saturday by slashing the prices it sells crude into foreign markets by the most in at least 20 years, offering unprecedented discounts in Europe, the Far East and the U.S. to entice refiners to purchase Saudi crude at the expense of other suppliers.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia has privately told some market participants it could raise production much higher if needed, even going to a record of 12 million barrels a day, according to people familiar with the conversations,
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-07/saudis-plan-big-oil-output-hike-beginning-all-out-price-war?sref=5F8Ao01j
Not to mention MBS just arrested 3 family members for treason. The guy doesn’t fool around.
@ AZfederalist:
Thanks. I’m looking forward to it.
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, the bathroom is surprisingly large. A lot of them are almost like being on an airplane. I was actually planning to get a different one, but I decided I liked this one better (and they were about the same price). It also saved me a trip to Oklahoma City, since that’s where the closest available one in the other model is located.
@ lobo91:
ROAD TRIPs!!!
Finished the night with a LFD Digger. Double ligero is kicking my butt. On the negative side of things my cigars took too long to get here so they dried a bit too much, dropped my humidity down to 30%, filled two humidors, taking a while to get things balanced back out. Hoping it catches back up soon, threw a couple boveda packs in to help out.
morning y’all
sigh
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/03/07/bold-strategy-obidenbama-democrat-joe-biden-tells-supporters-we-cannot-win-this-re-election-we-can-only-re-elect-donald-trump/
@ rain of lead:
He needs to hold on until after the convention before completely losing it. I don’t think he’ll make it.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
i’ve found it takes a week after a good restock to get them back to level.
i’ve been using boveda packs and recharging them with distilled water. works great.
@ rain of lead:
🙄
right_wing2 wrote:
I am not sanguine. It sounds as tho you’re assuming Biden will be the nominee, apologies if mistaken.
I’m afraid his mental issues are so apparent the Dems will give it up and let Bernie have it.
Bernie Sanders is a infection vector for the most evil ideology that has ever hit western civilization. Too many people see him as a charming curmudgeon who means well.
Bring up the fact that he’s a crook and well, so what? Look at Biden, he ripped off an entire COUNTRY.
@ eaglesoars:
one more thing: I think the lib/progs could feel good about themselves (always the bottom line) for NOT voting for Biden because his disabilities are so apparent and they just wouldn’t want to do that to him.
Not true for Bernie. He’s gonna stick it to the Trumpers, good and hard. They’ll walk over molten lava to vote for him.
And ANOTHER thing: talking to the spouse of a Wall Street hedge fund guy: Biden is ‘doable’, Obama 2.0, bad but not a game-changer. What is spooking U.S. institutions is “will we have Bernie 5 years from now?” That is the “walk out a 20th floor window” scenario
@ eaglesoars:
I think you’re right. If he’d held on, though, he might have been the nominee. Now we have to hope enough people reject Sanders utter lunacy.
@ right_wing2:
It may depend on the VP pick and I have no clues on that one. The Dems are perfectly capable of putting forward someone who drinks from a sippy cup if they can pull the strings from the Executive Office Bldg.
Or – another thought – from the bedroom. Look at the spouse
@ eaglesoars:
I can see Hillary, Michelle, Warren or Mayor Pete.
@ right_wing2:
no. They’re done. It has to be somebody else, I just don’t know who.
Sherrod Brown maybe? He considered running and his wife is a total bitch, so it would be a good fit
Kyrsten Sinema?
@ eaglesoars:
Who’s the GA gubernatorial candidate who thinks she won? Stacey Abrams?
@ rain of lead: 😀
right_wing2 wrote:
not a chance
PET scan tomorrow…no carbs, sugar today for prep. Ok fine.
Crawdads, steak, shrimp, a nice cigar, and yes a double neat Don Julio respassdo.
Yeah, yeah, booze is sugar…but we must remain civilized for God’s sake.
@ coldwarrior:
no carbs??!!! yuck
eaglesoars wrote:
You should see these steaks…Wagyu.
Mmmhmmmm
@ eaglesoars:
Mrs coldwarrior is gonna take me to the strip tomorrow after the PET.
I’ll need liquid carbs.
coldwarrior wrote:
indeed.
Coronavirus has single handedly destroyed the argument that gov’t should run health care. Now watch what this does for the green deal.
The 163 million dogs and cats in the U.S. ate 1/4 of the 94.3 billion pounds of meat the country produced in 2015 — or as much as 62 million Americans did.
Raising that meat generated annual emissions equivalent to 12.3 million passenger vehicles.
Coming after my dogs will get you dead faster than anything else you could possibly do.
@ eaglesoars:
linky, sorry
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1236732780257705988
Things in Iran are very bad. This is just one thing I’ve seen of many many
“We’re estimating 30 to 40 % of Tehran’s population will be infected with COVID-19 by March 20,” says Dr. Massoud Mardani, a member of Iran’s National Influenza Committee.
Farsi source: https://bit.ly/2VO296u
Tehran’s population: ~12 million
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1236714484741419008
That’s just one tweet of a terrifying thread.
Mudbugz. Yep. Marvelous.
@ coldwarrior:
yeah, but ya can’t beat river cat
eaglesoars wrote:
Whatttt?
Even lil’ olde NZ has 260+ negative pressure isolation rooms and 15 times the UK number of special ventilator beds available if needed. Are you sure they weren’t talking about a single specific hospital in the UK. Sounds too dodgy to be true however under the UK’s National Health Service anything is possible.
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Chinese substandard reinforcing steel strikes again! There will be the inevitable inquiry and some corruptocrat will have his brains blown ou in a sports stadium to show the hot pool that Xi is serious … again. Then all the other corruptocrats will go back to forging quality control standards and hoping like hell that won’t be next.
Fletcher Steel in NZ bought a LOT of rebar roda to reinforce concrete for the 3000 person Convention Centre at Sky City Casino. Only to find that once the first lot of good steel was in place the rest was substandard but being charged at the high quality rate and some Chinese supply manager was pocketing the differential. They had to run out whole floors and virtually begin again when the Fletchers Steel QA found the substandard steel already in place.
If you shake hands with Chinese businessmen count your fingers afterwards!
🙂
hot pool = hot poloi
“We Can Not Win This Election – We Can Only Reelect Donald Trump” – Joe Biden Speaks the Truth at St. Louis Rally
DANG.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/we-can-not-win-this-election-we-can-only-reelect-donald-trump-joe-biden-speaks-the-truth-at-st-louis-rally-video/
this is just pitiful
it’s not any fun anymore
Arrrr Predictive .. again!
hot = hoi
https://pjmedia.com/trending/greek-troops-open-fire-on-refugees-while-vigilantes-attack-aid-workers-and-the-media/
@ Aussie Infidel:
One of the problems w/the Three Gorges Dam is that they didn’t let the cement dry properly because they had a schedule to meet.
eaglesoars wrote:
BINGO!
I am picking a female for a start as well as someone who presents well and has ‘star quality’ . Obama (F) , Hillary 3.0, Opra, any one of a number of others as Uncle Joe’s VP .Actually every Dem knows that they are electing the VP as the ‘real’ President as Joe is just a demented place holder. This is how they get the first US President when Joe shuffles off whilst in office and the VP takes over.
You heard it here first folks!
🙂
ICU bed availability by country per 1000 people
https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1236707627972931590/photo/1
Hospital beds per 1000
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1234409838358224897
eaglesoars wrote:
RTGat what comes of allowing totalitarian party political considerations run up against Engineering best practice. The politics wins out every time and the engineering is a bomb waiting to explode in someone else face. You HAVE to wonder about the empty cities in China. Built for destruction and to meet some 5 year plan that keeps the comrades in jobs and forestall counter-revolution … for a while longer!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Bugger.
Have to drive back to Auckland.
The sun is shining at the beach. The fishing boats and canoe fisherman are out chancing their arms and the tide has turned and is ebbing.
Now I have to spend 90 minutes returning to the city. Grrrr. When I should be getting sand between my toes Monday afternoon!
🙂
Later guys!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Kamala Harris’ video of giving her support to Biden is making the rounds. Play it w/o the sound and it looks like a hostage video
Fascinating stuff. A fragmented comet over pretty much the entire world. 12-13 thousand years ago.
Or aliens. Yeah, prolly aliens.
“A single major asteroid impact would not have caused such widely scattered materials like those discovered at Abu Hureyra,” Kennett said. “The largest cometary debris clusters are proposed to be capable of causing thousands of airbursts within a span of minutes across one entire hemisphere of Earth. The YDB hypothesis proposed this mechanism to account for the widely dispersed coeval materials across more than 14,000 kilometers of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Our Abu Hureyra discoveries strongly support a major impact event from such a fragmented comet.”
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-evidence-cosmic-impact-destruction-world.html
Hubby just got back from Mar-a-Lago, bbl
right_wing2 wrote:
I know what you mean. I really want him to be the nominee for a number of reasons, but the way he is losing his marbles, I’m not sure there will be many left before the convention. He may be off to the assisted living facility by then. They can only hide so much
AZfederalist wrote:
While seated, looks like.
The format for the next debate in Arizona — their first since Biden’s blowout Super Tuesday victories — would have the candidates seated for the first time this election cycle and take multiple questions from the audience. In the prior 10 debates, the candidates stood at lecterns and nearly all questions were asked by the professional moderators.
Bernie’s camp objected, but can you imagine trying this with Trump? He’d show up with a jump rope.
As for Hubby’s trip to Mar-a-Lago – great fun but he had to leave early because it ran late and he had a plane to catch. Met loads of wonderful people, but did NOT get a picture w/Melania. He said it would have been disappointing anyway as – believe it or not – she is more beautiful in person than any photo he’s seen. Breathtaking. Trump was a stand up comedian, the Secret Service guys were beyond nice, plotting ways to get him thru security to catch his plane, but it turned out a couple at his table rescued him. They flew in from California on their private plane and had to leave early because the private airport is an hour away, so they drove him to hotel, airport, etc., and basically saved his butt. Deena and Boyd. The consensus is that Biden is NOT a sure thing, brokered convention is a real possibility. He had a great time, could not have been treated more considerately all around, and is SO glad he went.
Bedtime, nite.
@ coldwarrior:
Why did Coldwarrior’s handle immediately spring to mind when I saw this?
🙂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-8083951/Official-best-pub-crawl-Taking-guided-tour-Londons-historic-boozers.html
eaglesoars wrote:
just did, her eyes are blinking morse code, begging for help
Good morning. I saw a clip this morning of Donald Trump Jr being interviewed.
I missed the beginning but the upshot is that he challenged Hunter Biden to debate.
It won’t happen but it would be an epic bloodbath.
@ eaglesoars:
Ok, let’s say the Democrats have a brokered convention.
Who comes out the winner?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/family-of-missouris-first-coronavirus-patient-breaks-curfew-to-attend-father-daughter-dance/
@ Gateway Pundit
This should be prosecuted. The stupidity and selfishness are unbelievable.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-jr-challenges-hunter-biden-to-a-debate-lets-make-it-happen
@ Daily Wire
Here is the Don Jr interview where he challenges Hunter Biden to debate.
right_wing2 wrote:
I think it will depend on their turnout calculation. Will they get better turnout with somebody who didn’t even run or with one of the candidates that just didn’t make it?
If it’s the former, look for somebody like Sherrod Brown. If the latter, my guess is Warren or Klobuchar.
Trading halted on S&P afer 7% drop. Will re-open in a few minutes.
I’m not sure this is ‘organic’
eaglesoars wrote:
The consensus seems to be the oil price war started by the Saudis against the Russians is what has pushed this over the ledge. I’m not so sure. The bond market is flashing yellow. I think uncertainty is worse than bad news and that, if anything organic, is the genesis.
At any event, Amazon STILL isn’t at my ‘buy’ price point, so I’m pissed off anyway.
@ eaglesoars:
Yinz need anything from the strip?
lol
@ coldwarrior:
Ah, yinz is off for your liquid carbs! No, I’m good, loaded up on bruschetta, etc, that came in w/the ham.
Oh, just fuck right off
Fmr. Bloomberg adviser Tim O’Brien: “If Republicans really want to make an issue out of Hunter Biden … there is going to be a scorched earth response aimed at all of the Trump children that is going to be unlike anything they’ve experienced thus far.”
If there were anything on the Trump family it would have been dug up by now with claymores. Bring it, asshole.
@ eaglesoars:
an admission of guilt and an admission of panic
coldwarrior wrote:
no kidding. Bloomie has been China’s buttboy for who knows how long and Hunter cut a $1.3 BILLION dollar deal with them hot off an Air Force 2 junket.
I’m looking at the markets, etc. I don’t understand the panic. Unless you’re a producer who hasn’t been ruthless about cutting costs, etc, yes, there is going to be pain, but that’s why this is called a boom-bust industry.
The cost of production in Russia is probably the highest in the world, simply because of where they have to drill. Some of their wells have to be re-dug after every winter because things just freeze. Not so in the Magic Kingdom. They can turn it on and off on a dime. Cutting the price-point from under Russia is not a bad idea. They’re bad guys. Now let’s move on to Iran, probably KSA’s main enemy. They’ve been choking on Trump’s sanctions, coronavirus has really hit them, and MBS just piled on. I’m not sure how that proxy war is going, I think it’s been a bit of a stalemate, at the very least the Saudis aren’t winning outright.
So this is war by other means. Just not our war. Given the players – I think it’s fair to say Trump and MBS are, if not golfing buddies, respectfully friendly, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Trump got a heads up on this. Because who is best placed to snap back? We are. Some well heads will be shut down, some consolidation maybe, but there’s always a flight to safety and that’s US. In the meantime, a drop in oil price is better than a tax cut when it comes to the cost of doing business.
So, I see choppy waters, but we’re on the QE II ocean yacht and the roulette wheel is headed for black.
Am I nuts?
2006: crickets
2007: crickets
2008: Bush crash
2009: Bush economy
2010: Bush economy
2011: Bush economy
2012: Mitt killed a woman
2013: Economy sucks less
2014: ” ”
2015: ” ”
2016: ” ”
2017: Obama economy
2018: Obama economy
2019: Obama economy
2020: Trump crash
https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/1237024439557967872
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/08/sketchy-44-dallas-county-precincts-were-not-included-in-super-tuesday-results-election-officials-request-recount/
of course they weren’t.
the fix is in
@ eaglesoars:
they quit teaching econ in school for a reason
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, forgot about his brother, James. The FBI has been raiding HIS marks
A mysterious FBI raid. New allegations from former executives. Questions are swirling about the business dealings of Joe Biden’s brother.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/james-biden-health-care-ventures-123159
ok, off to the salt mines,later
66f…we took the miata into town. I love global warming!
So guess what the Clinton body count is? No, guess.
SIXTY. ONE.
Including a body man. Remember that very large black man who stood next to her on stage with what looked like a syringe in his hand and helped bundle her into the van when she collapsed? Cardiac arrest. In his 40s. Cremated.
https://twitter.com/dmills3710/status/1030251541884809216
@ eaglesoars:
Right on time
@ eaglesoars:
Nothing fishy about that at all.
White House briefing by Trump NOW
Tucker Carlson has walked off the ledge
new thread