It’s Easter for yinz…mine is next week. Yeah, yeah…orthodox is always late.
Easter 2020: Day 29 of the Great American Lockdown
by coldwarrior ( 174 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at April 12th, 2020 - 6:58 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Happy Easter Cold to you and all of yinz.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
the words decaf and coffee make my brain sad.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
right back at ya!
Happy Easter everyone!
Someone else walked out of a tomb today too.
Bojo has been released from the hospital
Happy Easter, everyone!
Delta is now boarding their planes from back to front, row by row due to Chinese flu.
As someone occasionally involved in both “logistical operations” and getting on airplanes, all I have to ask is “What took you so long?”
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I’ve never understood the airline industry
Happy Easter Sunday everybody.
This doesn’t stop. Dr Siegel was on FNC this morning talking about another dire warning from the CDC.
They have “credible” data that social distancing should be 13 feet.
And this data came from……..wait for it ……..Wuhan! The same nice people that gifted the world with the virus.
Pete Hegseth responded (paraphrase), I woundn’t believe anything coming out of there.
Dr Siegel’s eyes just glazed over. IMO give this over to military doctors, not bureaucrats with medical degrees like Fauci.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-bans-buying-us-flags-lockdown/
@ Gateway Pundit
The lunatic Michigan Governor with a fondness for dictatorial decrees is on a roll.
The peasants shall not have seeds for planting or American flags.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/04/11/crossed-the-line-ban-happy-michigan-governor-blasted-for-insane-overreach-in-response-to-coronavirus-outbreak-here-are-several-examples/
@@ Twitchy
More from Governor Whitmore. She must have read Orwell and missed the point thinking that it was sagacious advice not a warning.
@ RIX:
so where are all of the ACLU types in all of this?
@ RIX:
@ RIX:
In the immortal words of Monty Python, “she’s a loony.”
coldwarrior wrote:
In the tank with their fellow lefties.
right_wing2 wrote:
Bitch be cray y’all.
Happy Easter y’all !
RIX wrote:
Good Morning Rix, hope this finds you and yours doing well.
I’m beginning to have a problem with Gateway Pundit. I never used it that much so never really noticed a problem. But now that I’ve included it in my daily rounds, I’ve noticed a lot of slop in the service of sensationalism. One of the most egregious was last week when it promoted that Shiva guy as the inventer of email and used a Time (or Newsweek?) cover as documentation. Ray Tomlinson is the ultimate inventor of email, I know, I was present at the creation, and I found TONS of stuff on the web about Shiva and his email crap in 15 seconds that should have put Hoft off the scent.
Now this story about Witless and the flag – there’s nothing in her order about the flag. That issue seems to be an issue with the store and they way wrapped the yellow no-go tape. All TGP showed was a pic, no text from the order.
Witless is a nightmare imposing a police state and TGP would do a lot better to nail her with facts and start marshalling people who can fight her now, in place, instead of posting garbage fireworks
@ 4_Sticks:
hi ya!
well, isn’t this interesting. From the UK
Two more of Imagination Technologies’ top executives have submitted their resignations in protest at moves by a state-owned Chinese investor to seize control of its board, further destabilising one of Britain’s most important technology companies.
Sky News has learnt that Steve Evans, chief product officer, and John Rayfield, chief technical officer, both quit early last week amid a growing furore on both sides of the Atlantic about the future ownership of the chip developer.
https://news.sky.com/story/imagination-chiefs-quit-amid-threat-of-chinese-power-grab-11972405
meat shortage?
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving “perilously close to the edge” in supplies for grocers.
Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food supply chain, crimping availability of meat at retail stores and leaving farmers without outlets for their livestock.
Smithfield extended the closure of its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, plant after initially saying it would idle temporarily for cleaning. The facility is one of the nation’s largest pork processing facilities, representing 4% to 5% of U.S. pork production, according to the company.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-meatpacking-idUSKCN21U0O7?taid=5e934933922b190001d7eb42&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
And from the newspaper of record
Roman Authorities Investigating Jesus For Violating Stay-In-Tomb Order
JERUSALEM—Roman authorities are investigating controversial religious leader Jesus of Nazareth for violating the Empire’s clear “stay in tomb” order. After crucifying him and laying him in the tomb, Roman guards put Him under strict orders to stay there and not come back, rising victorious over sin and death.
But Jesus, answering to a higher authority, refused to stay dead and busted out of the tomb, establishing a kingdom that would never end — again, in clear violation of the government’s orders.
“Jesus is a dangerous rebel, refusing to bend the knee to Caesar and not abiding by the law of sin and death,” said one Roman official. “He clearly broke the law by leaving the tomb, and we’re going to be issuing a citation and placing him under mandatory quarantine for these crimes.”
After coming into contact with many large groups over the course of approximately 40 days, Jesus ascended into heaven and is currently thought to be reigning on high.
https://babylonbee.com/news/roman-authorities-investigating-jesus-for-violating-stay-in-tomb-order
Strange, huh?
I knew there had to be a good explanation…
/s
@ lobo91:
Whatever you think of Cernovich, he’s doing something a lot of other people need to do. If you got ticketed for attending a church service, get him a copy of the ticket and he’ll go public with the names of the cops who signed them. These officers are ‘following orders’ and not their oath of office.
A police officer called the station on his radio. “I have an interesting case here. An old lady just shot her husband for stepping on the floor she had just mopped.”
“Have you arrested her?”
“Not yet. The floor’s still wet.”
@ eaglesoars:
i trust no police officer, ever. i was an MP for 4 years. i know what goes in in the background.
and if my local jagoffs are any indication of how horrible the rest of the local barney fife’s are then we are indeed in big trouble.
@ lobo91:
oh, its easy! the police don’t believe that these muzz are human, therefore…no need to worry about wuhan flu!
that has to be the only explanation, because certainly one group wouldnt get preferential treatment over another in an advanced western society!
The big Oil Deal with OPEC Plus is done. This will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States. I would like to thank and congratulate President Putin of Russia and King Salman of Saudi Arabia. I just spoke to them from the Oval Office. Great deal for all!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249422044564992001
about 15 mins ago
eaglesoars wrote:
befehl ist befehl, they said not so long ago.
@ eaglesoars:
air, water, food, energy, medicine…critical strategic supplies.
coldwarrior wrote:
well, there have been quite a few sheriffs here in Virginia that refuse to enforce Northam’s gun laws. so there’s that
coldwarrior wrote:
we may be in some trouble on the food front. The piece I posted above about the Smithfield (pork) plant closing is going to impact a lot of pig farmers.
There are going to be long-term ‘rolling’ impacts from this.
@ eaglesoars:
sheriffs are elected officials and have to answer to the people every election.
@ eaglesoars:
is smithfield chinese?
if they say that supply is low/disrupted, the price on the shelf isnt reflect it. i just did a bunch of ribs for less that i have paid for them in a along time.
coldwarrior wrote:
yes, sold about 4 years ago I believe. They’ve got illness at a processing plant so had to shut down. This was just today (or yesterday) so you won’t see it in prices yet.
@ eaglesoars:
ah.
coldwarrior wrote:
“Never waive your rights and don’t say a g-ddamn word.” – 95B Instructor, circa 1987, Ft. McCclellan, AL
Best advice I got out of that place. So Cold– How many screen tests did you give? Body surfed? Accidents on stairs?
These are the police just following orders
Kentucky State Police record churchgoers’ license plates at Hillview in-person Easter service
“I don’t know whether they took our license plates or not; it don’t really matter,” the Rev. Jack Roberts said during Sunday’s service, which was livestreamed on the church’s Facebook page. “Church, I’ll just tell you something: If you get a ticket, if you get a ticket for being in church this morning, bring it to me; my lawyer said he’ll take care of it. It’s garbage; it’s just garbage. I took a picture of my license plate on the back of my car and sent it to the governor yesterday. I just said, ‘Save yourself a trip, right here it is. Ain’t no need in coming out.'”
https://www.wdrb.com/news/coronavirus/kentucky-state-police-record-churchgoers-license-plates-at-hillview-in-person-easter-service/article_e7c3d1b8-7cd9-11ea-9fc0-b7df1d01c625.html
I believe that state supreme court upheld the governor’s order but it should have gone to SCOTUS under emergency.
The problem we have here is that as unlawful as the order may be, the damage is done and there really is no retro-active justice.
Ah. Ramadan starts Apr 23. I bet the DOJ comes out with its ‘religious tolerance’ guidance just in time.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
none.
i did exactly 1 road patrol in my entire stay in berlin. i was assigned to checkpoint charlie for 3 months as the resident barrel-chested freedom fighter, then out to the state department thsnkyouverymuch.
i managed to go almost a year without putting on a uniform.
it was good to have a ridiculously high security clearance from DLI.
coldwarrior wrote:
You didn’t actually think the ACLU was about liberty, did you?
This is one more thing where the mask is being stripped from the marxist totalitarians.
lobo91 wrote:
… and I’m sure when they spoke with the police, they smiled and said, “we tell the truth, we will do as you say”, then after the police left, the groups collapsed in distance to their usual elbow to elbow closeness.
So, Easter services canceled, people arrested for walking outside, but the muslims get to motor on as if nothing has happened.
What is it about governments and the religion of Satan?
I’m watching the Epoch Times doc on the virus and its origin. It’s about an hour long, I’m 10 minutes in. The first thing they’ve done is establish the timeline.
It did NOT originate in that market. And, btw, there were never any bats at that market. It’s pretty good so far.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/coronavirusfilm?utm_source=Epoch_Times&utm_medium=Banner
@ coldwarrior:
Me thinks your tour of service was more refined than mine. I spent a lot of time sleeping outdoors and sent to exotic places. LOL.
The spike protein on COVID-19 is from a SARS virus, not the bat virus it’s been attached to. This is a bio-engineered virus
@ AZfederalist:
“Let the Wookie win”
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
i used to sleep at the hotel intercontinental berlin a lot…
and hang out at embassies in eastern europe…
does that count?
😆
my last assignment was security for a congressional delegation, we got them on the plane, i went back to our ‘lair’ and put my guns back in the rack then drive down to the infantry farm to talk to the retention NCO. i was still in my very nicely tailored suit.
he told me that he could send me to ft hood tx as a division MP…lots of field work and *gasp* DIRT…or i could leave the army, but there was no way in hell he could get me another job like i had. he described it as the best job in the army.
eaglesoars wrote:
time to make the chinese pay.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m beginning to suspect what’s going on now is simply battlefield prep. People are talking about ‘when this is over’.
I don’t think there’s going to be an ‘over’. Zhengli-Li Shi, the scientist who created this nightmare, has given talks about the work – and I’ve posted one paper she co-authored about it. It’s been no secret that the work was being done.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
Nov 2015
But guess what? The Obama admin cut the funding for her work. People were getting really concerned.
Patient 0 in China had no connection to the wet market, but I don’t yet know if there was any connection to the Wuhan lab. You would think that if there had been accidental release/contamination that a lot of the people at the lab would have contracted it. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I’m still watching the doc cuz I keep getting interrupted.
@ coldwarrior:
You’re killing me dog.
My first duty station was the ROK. Most of it was spent patrolling the “ville” and training to deploy out of chinooks near the DMZ. I lot of foot patrols carrying the M60 up and down hills and then setting up ambushes/ defensive perimeters. I didn’t sign up for that, but…
What I got to West Germany I did get selected to be personal security for senior brass at K-town, but declined the offer. I got deployed to SWA a year later.
In January Trump provided Remdesivir to China for free, an experimental drug.
Wuhan Institute of Viruology filed for a Chinese patent on it on Jan 21 2020
WTAF??
coldwarrior wrote:
You ain’t said shit.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/easter-surprise-disgusting-dr-fauci-unloads-trump-lives-saved-video/
@ Gateway Pundit
Dr Fauci is so busy that he again takes time to do another interview, this time on CNN.
He acts like he is the POTUS.
@ RIX:
I saw that. I thought Pence but the kabosh on CNN appearances.
eaglesoars wrote:
That was my understanding. Fauci is laboring under the assumption that he has the professional weight and reputation to say to Trump, “Whatcha gonna do, fire me?” I believe that is a false assumption on Fauci’s part, Trump is going to say, “Yep, you’re fired”
eaglesoars wrote:
yes, a molecular biology student whose records were wiped. No info on whether she survived.
AZfederalist wrote:
not yet tho. After we start opening up. He’ll give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom and kick his ass out the door
Doctors at NYU Langone Health center conducted the largest study so far of U.S. hospital admissions for COVID-19, focused on New York City. They found obesity, along with age, was the biggest deciding factor in hospital admissions, which may suggest the role of hyper-inflammatory reactions that can happen in those with the disease.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nyu-scientists-largest-u-s-study-of-covid-19-finds-obesity-the-single-biggest-factor-in-new-york-critical-cases/
As of yesterday there were 20.5k deaths in the U.S. from the inflated COVID-19 numbers.
Over 11k – more than half – were in NY and NJ. Two states have shut down this entire country
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103688/coronavirus-covid19-deaths-us-by-state/
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/observations-anonymous-ups-driver-customers-ive-seen-rona
it’s pretty funny.
eaglesoars wrote:
amazing how that works.
coldwarrior wrote:
for some reason I was under the impression Cuomo (or deBlasio) had shut down mass transit. He cut it back, but not even by half. Usage – passengers – is still about 87%. And he was bitching about ventilators?
coldwarrior wrote:
that was great! Except for Susan
Susan will be the first one Steve or Shooter takes out…from 100 yards
no way bitch. 5 ft. see it coming.
eaglesoars wrote:
There was a bit on Stu’s show on the Blaze that showed a pretty clear paper trail explaining everything that happened last year. The Chinese Government only very recently got around to cleaning up the online evidence. It probably did come out of the Wuhan lab, and it was a single infected researcher. They didn’t follow proper quarantine procedures (which another researcher described having had to do in that very same lab twice in the previous year after coming into contact with Sars material from Horseshoe bats) and just went home as normal.
The funny thing is that last November the Chinese government had sent out a message “rethinking” having the virus lab so close to a populated area. Lol, You think?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
yeah, I think that was the molecular biology student whose records disappeared. Patient 0.
Which makes me think she did not survive.
watch the film, it’s just under an hour and is really interesting.
bedtime. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Two great nurses sat with him for 24 hours straight monitoring him and tweaking his O2 and support .
One from Invarcargel in the South Island of NZ and one from Portugal.
Great work ladies.
NZ is proud of Nurse McGee
coldwarrior wrote:
Was do ya wanna know?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s what happens when you elect senior police. They are political animals.
The US State Police should be independent and NOT beholden to State Politicians. State Justice system should similarly be independent of Partisan Party politics.
Politics and justice are oil and water.
The trick is the HOW one establishes an independent Justice and enforcement system
You might have to institute ‘Royal Commissions of Inquiry as well. You guys can call them Republic Commissions of Inquiry’ if you like 🙂
That puts States under the gun of the Feds when States transgress and allows Police and Justices to be the equivalent of recall.
Pinocchio, Snow White and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day.
As they walk, they come across a sign: “Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world ”
I am entering” said Snow White.
After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, “Well, how did you do? ”
“First Place” said Snow White.
They continue walking and they see a sign: “Contest for the strongest man in the world. ”
“I’m entering” says Superman.
After half an hour he returns and they ask him, “How did you make out? ”
“First Place” answers Superman. “Did you ever doubt?”
They continue walking when they see a sign: “Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?
Pinocchio says “This is mine. ”
Half an hour later, he returns with tears in his eyes.
“What happened?” they asked
“Who the hell is Adam Schiff
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/trump-retweets-call-fire-fauci/
@ Gateway Pundit
IMO Fauci should be gone.
do you need an ap for this?
🙄
AH HA!! I KNEW it, I just KNEW it!
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
A new experiment shows that they aren’t[instantaneous]. By making a kind of high-speed movie of a quantum leap, the work reveals that the process is as gradual as the melting of a snowman in the sun. “If we can measure a quantum jump fast and efficiently enough,” said Michel Devoret of Yale University, “it is actually a continuous process.” The study, which was led by Zlatko Minev, a graduate student in Devoret’s lab, was published on Monday in Nature. Already, colleagues are excited. “This is really a fantastic experiment,” said the physicist William Oliver of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wasn’t involved in the work. “Really amazing.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-leaps-long-assumed-to-be-instantaneous-take-time-20190605/
morning……..
coldwarrior wrote:
anal prints are probably more suitable than fingerprints for libs…..
@ coldwarrior:
No.
right_wing2 wrote:
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Will criminals resort to acid etching their analprints off?
Looks like Morgan Stanley killed the Dow.
2021 my ass.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
what happened? I just got back from running my errands
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.ccn.com/dow-jones-chokes-on-morgan-stanleys-devastating-lockdown-timeline/
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
oh ffs.
Anyhoo, I’ve decided to sell some metal and pay off my car. It’s up about 40% from the highest price I paid for it, and considerably more than that for most of it. Get rid of some debt
@ eaglesoars:
Smart move!
The wife’s car is the only thing we have outstanding, but she’s trying to get her score up to excellent.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Time to buy.
MS is full of shit and wishful thinking.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/kentucky-church-targeted-police-boobytrapped-protesters-defiantly-held-easter-services/
Just following orders
coldwarrior wrote:
don’t know if you saw it, but Mike Cernovich (twitter guy, film maker, obnoxious but good guy, just makes my teeth itch) has told everyone who got ticketed by cops ‘just following orders’ to send him copies of the tickets because he’s going to name the cops. Your first order is to uphold the Constitution, dumbass
coldwarrior wrote:
and has a lot of short positions
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Curry. Don’t ask me how I know….
@ eaglesoars:
did these sooper troopers try to find out who covered the parking lot with nails?
prolly didnt bother at all
Possum wrote:
😆
vindaloo works too!
coldwarrior wrote:
not that I’m aware of. The one pic I saw looks like a small box just spilled. It looked like a hoax to me, not like someone was serious about taking out tires, just wanted a pic for social media
So, I see your guys are doing some good work on the COVID-19 drug testing front
Newswise — PITTSBURGH, April 9, 2020 – A novel clinical trial developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine launched today at UPMC to address one of the most important debates during the COVID-19 pandemic: How should doctors decide between quickly adopting new therapies, such as the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, and waiting until they are tested in longer clinical trials?
“The solution is to find an optimal tradeoff between doing something now, such as prescribing a drug off-label, or waiting until traditional clinical trials are complete,” said Derek Angus, M.D., M.P.H., professor and chair, Department of Critical Care Medicine at Pitt and UPMC.. “We’ve developed a way to do that with an adaptive clinical trial model that relies on a type of artificial intelligence known as reinforcement learning to identify the best, evidence-backed therapy for COVID-19 much faster than using the traditional scientific approach.”
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REMAP (randomized, embedded, multi-factorial, adaptive platform) allows researchers to rapidly test multiple treatment approaches simultaneously at a lower cost and with fewer patients than traditional clinical trials. The REMAP design, first described by Angus in 2015 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), is a flexible version of what are called “adaptive platform trials.” “Adaptive platform trials are rapidly being endorsed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others as a long-needed revolution in clinical trials,” said Angus, who holds the Mitchell P. Fink Endowed Chair at Pitt.
https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/upmc-leads-global-effort-to-fast-track-testing-of-hydroxychloroquine-and-other-covid-19-therapies-with-learning-while-doing-clinical-trial
@ eaglesoars:
from the original JAMA article 2015
Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have revolutionized medicine by providing evidence on the efficacy and safety of drugs, devices, and procedures. Today, more than 40 000 RCTs are reported annually, their quality continues to increase, and oversight mechanisms ensure adequate protection of participants. However, RCTs have at least 4 related problems: (1) they are too expensive and difficult; (2) their findings are too broad (average treatment effect not representative of benefit for any given individual) and too narrow (trial population and setting not representative of general practice); (3) randomizing patients can make patients and physicians uncomfortable, especially when comparing different types of existing care; and (4) there are often long delays before RCT results diffuse into practice.
The new alternative is “big data.” Because medical care is increasingly digitized in electronic health record (EHR) data sets and linked biological and genetic data banks, proponents suggest that health care systems are at the dawn of an era in which a patient’s prognosis and optimal therapy will be generated from rapid analysis of these data sets using sophisticated machine-learning strategies. The information is relatively inexpensive, generated as a by-product of patient care (overcoming the cost problem), and both specific to individuals (ie, adequately narrow) and, en masse, descriptive of the entire delivery system (ie, adequately broad). No individuals are randomized, so the ethical issues appear less complex. The richness and immediacy of these new data could allow tailored treatment decisions in real time, overcoming delays in knowledge translation. As such, although the RCT remains the gold standard for evaluation of experimental therapies, big data is proposed as a better approach for the broad swath of comparative effectiveness questions that arise in clinical practice. Indeed, the Institute of Medicine envisions big data as the engine for so-called learning health care systems.1
Yet big data is not a replacement for the RCT. The singular beauty of the RCT is the strength of causal inference that arises from random assignment. All known and unknown factors that can influence outcome, other than the treatment assignment, are distributed randomly—and, if randomization is effective, evenly—among the groups. Thus, any statistical difference in outcome between groups can be attributed to the assigned interventions. In contrast, big data exploits variation that may appear random but is not in fact randomized. For example, big data may compare patients who did or did not receive a particular drug and then attempt to determine the extent to which any difference in patient outcome may be related to receiving the drug. However, for all the allure of inexpensive access to massive amounts of data, the Achilles’ heel is lack of causal inference. No matter how detailed the measurement and how sophisticated the adjustment for all known variables, big data cannot eliminate unmeasured factors coincident with a particular treatment assignment that could explain an apparent change in outcome.2
Thus, each approach has complementary strengths: RCTs offer causal inference, and big data offers the potential for low-cost, high-volume, nuanced answers with immediate feedback. Rather than debate which is better, the greatest promise may come from fusing them.
@ eaglesoars:
Eagle, I missed you post about Gateway Punditb yesterday in reply to my post.
Your point is taken, they can be very sloppy. Gov whitmere is Barbie plays Hitler’s, but there was nothing in the order restricting the sale of American Flagd. I think that possibly Costco saw it as a non essential item hat would trigger Whitmere.
@ coldwarrior:
Speaking of big data – I saw a piece about some computer grinding being done that identified 70 different currently known drugs that might be helpful for COVID-19. One of them is ivermectin, used to kill fleas on dogs (among other things – mange, etc.). So now, people who have read about this are taking their dogs’ flea medication and wondering why they’re ending up in the ER
I cannot even……..
RIX wrote:
I think it’s more likely there are a bunch of harried floor managers exhausted and fed up who just completed a given task as quickly as they could and the flag display happened to be there.
I understand Gov Witless is on Trump’s council on how to open up the country. God, to be a fly on the wall.
@ eaglesoars:
i get paid in large part to fix the result of stupid.
eaglesoars wrote:
Please tell me this’s no true. She is on the council to open up the country? The woman is on a power trip.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/authorities-investigate-illicit-amish-wedding-in-sleepy-ohio-hamlet-population-3220/
iknow exactly where this is. now the snitches are turning in the amish.
millennial idiots.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-has-panicky-men-stashing-sperm-like-crazy
the sperm doesn’t go into a cup, morons…it goes into…nevermind.
coldwarrior wrote:
Tom Fitton of Judicial WAtch was just on Larry O’Conner bemoaning how easily we’ve given up our liberties.
Which made my hair ignite and nearly wreck the car. Because what recourse do we have? As a very benign example, say I wanted to go into a store in Witless’s state and buy veggie seeds just because she says I can’t. Well, the cashier will get fired if she checks me out. The store mgr will get fired if he refused to rope off the store. It’s easy to say those people should take one for the team, but they have mouths to feed, not least their own.
This is the problem I’ve been pounding on. There is no justice 3 years down the road, there has to be immediate recourse for a halt. Because if there isn’t this will happen over and over again. Just declare a nat’l emergency and voila! Totalitarianism in the name of protecting lives.
What complete and utter bullshit.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
The precedent to give up our Civil Liberties is being set and it was too easily accepted.
Although there is hope. Whe I checked out some items at the drug store this morning.
She said “Stay Safe” and I quipped “trying to survive the Zombie Apocalypse ”
That opened her up and she went on a reasoned rant about the loss of liberties and our sheepishness.
I wonder if her friends feel the same.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m disappointed that Trump and the Republicans haven’t loudly decried this power grab.
right_wing2 wrote:
Trump is well aware of Federalized power and has been careful about overruling the states. He’s right to do so. However, I did just see a tweet from him that said the idea that opening up the country rested in the governors’ offices is mistaken, it’s and executive power and he intends to use it.
And you can probably win that argument based on the commerce clause alone.
Besides, if he says something now, he’s going to dilute the msgs about the issues people need to hear about and are developing ulcers over – people are diluting baby formula because they can’t find any so I promise you they aren’t worried about an Amish wedding
Christie Nome of South Dakota is not only the best looking Governor she msy be the smartest.
She has already started clinical trials of Hydrochloriquine.
She is not waiting for the Feds to get around to it.
What I missed is if she has already granted the right to prescribe.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/13/report-foreign-spies-eavesdropping-on-zoom-meetings/
Yeah, let’s let the chicoms build our 5g network!
@ RIX:
You know what? I believe we give that stuff to our troops before they enter a malarial zone – prophylactically. Might be interesting to look at that cohort and see if any of them test positive for COVID-19
@ eaglesoars:
Trump can say back to work.
It’s up to the governors to get it done…as he hands them more rope.
coldwarrior wrote:
I forget what country it was, but the Chicoms were trying to trade needed medical supplies for getting their 5G network in. Damn, I wish I could recall, I’ll think of it one of these days.
@ coldwarrior:
Aaaand Wolf just shackled us to New York to move forward with a recovery plan…
https://triblive.com/local/regional/gov-wolf-neighboring-states-work-on-regional-plan-to-reopen-economy/
@ eaglesoars:
I had to take one of the ‘quines before I went to kenya/uganda.
Took a month of leave from berlin to go down and help DoS build room sized ‘cone of silence’ for super-sekrit meetings. I made $$$$ on that trip!
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
And he alone will face the backlash.
@ coldwarrior:
It made me feel like shit too.
https://triblive.com/local/regional/ohio-cuts-off-liquor-sales-to-out-of-state-residents-in-pennsylvania-border-counties/
THIS MEANS WAR!!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
It seems to me everybody had to take it before deployment to the Magic Kingdom for the first Gulf War. Both my sister’s husbands (everybody’s good at something) had to take some drug that made them feel like crap.
crap. back to the store.
Trump just gave the briefing room a wedgie, followed by a swirlie.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
now he’s kicking sand into their faces
You know, I don’t think you need to worry about Wolfe tying you to NY, apparently this is a regional effort by several governors. You’d be far worse off if Wolfe wasn’t part of it.
he cracks me up
@ eaglesoars:
i have to disagree a bit. i live 500+ miles away from NYC, that said, the rat-hole of phillie is just down the road from nyc.
why should pgh have to wait on nyc/nj/phillie to re-open. i think a county/area approach would be better.
@ eaglesoars:
That was something else. The stuff that made everyone sick was some sort of mystery shot that was the consistency of corn syrup (not to mention refrigerated). To this day, I have no clue what it was.
We were given anti-malarial pills for a few days, as well. It wasn’t hydroxychloroquine, though. I take that daily, and it’s definitely not whatever they gave us back then. That stuff was the most god-awful pills I’ve ever tried to swallow. They disintegrated the instant you put them in your mouth, and tasted horrible.
@ lobo91:
the anti-malarials were one of the ‘quines…prolly not the stuff you take.
yep, awful. i didnt get malaria or any other disease tho…so i guess it worked!
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, I agree but I didn’t get that from the article. What I got is that they’re going to pay attention to commuting patterns and wouldn’t that be Philly? At any rate, I would think that the mayors would be talking to Wolfe and it’s better that Wolfe is in the loop and not out of it. But hey, you are the ones living there and I do recognize that Wolfe is, at best, a weak sister.
lobo91 wrote:
I should probably ask my former BIL, he’s a physician, he’d probably know. Unfortunately, I’m not supposed to talk to him.
@ eaglesoars:
the progressive idiot mayor of PGH would just loooooove to keep the joint locked down for more bicycle lanes and pedestrian green space.
eaglesoars wrote:
there are indeed two PA’s. very very different places.
So Fauci exonerated Trump at the beginning of today’s briefing, and this is how CNN chyron covered the briefing.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/365456/
coldwarrior wrote:
I wonder, tho, if after all this, there is enough support for that to be sustainable. Not that I should talk. Our governor doesn’t give a rat’s ass what we think. He’s term-limited, nothing to lose, it’s rape and pillage until the very end.
eaglesoars wrote:
Good move Eagles. I assume that you are mortgage free at this time in your life? They don’t call Mort-gage the death-grip for nothing!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Anything that involves these two , I’d be VERY careful about as they do NOT have our best interests at heart!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
almost. We’ll make a chunk, assuming Trump gets the econ going soon. The real estate market here is obscene. A 1200 sq ft, 2 bed, 2 bath condo for $485k. That buys 3500 sq ft, 4 bd, 3 bath and an in-ground pool in Knoxville.
coldwarrior wrote:
… and there was one idiot in the comments praising the fact that this was being done because, by golly, those Amish people gathering like that were going to spread disease.
/Hey Twinkie, you’ve got to be infected to spread the infection. Not highly likely among the Amish
RIX wrote:
I’m seeing hope in the lawsuits and other pushback. Hopefully at some point the totalitarians are going to be slapped silly by the judges for their over-reach. If the judges side with the over-reach, well, maybe the tipping point has been reached and we the people are going to have to start the real pushback and that won’t be pretty.
Belgium? The first thing that comes to mind is I think it has a large muslim population and I’m betting their population density is high in the cities.
BELGIUM’S WUHAN CORONAVIRUS DEATH RATE SURPASSES ITALY’S: “In the meantime, neighboring Netherlands, which a few weeks ago had a similar rate to Belgium’s, now has half of Belgium’s. I don’t know why this is happening (different initial infection patterns? different containment policies? different treatment policies? different healthcare quality? different reporting practices?), but I thought I’d note it. Spain is at 374 deaths per million, Belgium at 337, Italy at 329, France at 221, UK at 167, Netherlands at 165 (Worldometer data). By way of comparison, US is at 67.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/365403/
eaglesoars wrote:
…belgian ale…
then, everything else
@ coldwarrior:
chocolate
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Don’t forget the Belgian waffles from the street kiosks.
This is a terrific summary at Instapundit of liberal media – NYT, CNN, et al., just self-owning over Biden and getting nailed about Hillary. I’ll just post the Biden bit, read the rest and howl.
BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith asks Baquet:
I want to ask about some edits that were made after publication, the deletion of the second half of the sentence: “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” Why did you do that?
Baquet replied:
Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct. And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.
Mike Cernovich nailing Scott Pelly over Hillary is priceless.
read it, love it
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/365477/
Bordm wrote:
I’ve never been to Belgium, so…
It’s my bedtime. nite.
@ coldwarrior:
They do make some pretty nice guns…
To all concerned I am not a conspiracy nut.
I am thinking of writing a novel. Actually in order to write this work of fiction I have to transport myself back to 2015 as the story is set in the future, say 2017.
For it to be a realistic scenario as is possible I need to do much more research.
All great works of fiction are based in fact….
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup I know the feeling.
In Auckland US$550 ,000 gets you a median house of 2-3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1700 square foot house on about 1/5th Acre..
Apartments in a ‘good’ suburb will set you back US$ 850,000 for 1200 square for 2 baths, 2 Bedrooms and an office with a deck and a view of the harbour
Queenstown you add 20% to the Auckland price. Service workers in Queenstown in the Southern Alps on Lake Wakatipu can’t afford to put a roof over their heads. Who collects the garbage, serves in the shops, drives the cabs, serve in the NZ Police or nurse at the hospital? Too many high flyers and not enough service workers to make their society operate.
eaglesoars wrote:
Does Fauci know this! Has he authorized it?
Oh lovely. The local radio report just said our baby-killing Governor is using a model (from U VA I think) that shows Virginia won’t hit the ‘peak’ until – the end of August.
I don’t know what to make of the weird deaths from middle aged people of “Covid-19” being reported by local media all of a sudden.
This one is particularly egregious in in it’s fear mongering. Respect and prayers for the grieving family, but what EXACTLY were the “unique” symptoms?
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/washington-co-husband-father-3-dies-covid-19/N2X4I6DSJJE3LAY2NRGKIOROCI/
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
digestive. and zero respiratory. I’ve seen other reports of that pattern but it’s rare
@ eaglesoars:
They updated the article with relevant info.
Oh, about real estate comparisons.
This is what $500k gets you here in the D.C. area – this is REston, i.e., Northern Virginia.
2 bd, 2 ba, 1200 sq ft. It’s nice, has a fireplace
http://www.homesearchwebsite.com/search/details/cy8/q8o7hg/q8q25g/alert/ACTIVE/2/
This is what $364K gets you in Knoxville. Single family, 2900 sq ft, 4 bd, 3 ba
https://www.tnliving.homes/property-search/detail/145/1113290/narrow-leaf-drive-knoxville-tn-37932/?listingid=2713407&userid=331123&searchid=233493&sentfrom=listingalert
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/14/chris-cuomo-sick-of-cnn-gig-ridiculous-content-not-worth-my-time/
@ Breitbart
Fredo has complete meltdown on the radio.
He takes himself sooooo seriously.
And China’s financials are doing exactly what we all predicted
China’s US$1 trillion consumer loan bubble is bursting as army of borrowers flinch under pandemic strain
Fuelled by a shift towards leveraged spending, China’s consumer finance expanded 10-fold in the past decade
Lenders now face a wave of delinquencies as businesses fold and job losses hit repayment ability
https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3079307/chinas-us1-trillion-consumer-loan-bubble-bursting-army
I’m sorry if I’m raining on parades here, but I just watched a news report on the apparent reinvention of the autoclave.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I swear to god, the past is a foreign country to these people. They think Viet nam is a Thai restaurant.
And it’s tax free!!
Indiana man checked his bank account for his $1,700 stimulus check and found $8million had been deposited
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216195/Indiana-man-checked-bank-account-1-700-stimulus-check-deposited-8million.html
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
…I could tell up some stories….
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s 500k in Wichita
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1911-N-Rusty-Gate-St_Wichita_KS_67206_M73632-85777?view=qv
Good news!
I just got a call from ADT security offering me a position as an emergency dispatcher which pays more than I’m making now. Schedule kind of stinks, 6 AM to 4:30 PM, but the next choice was a noon start and I’m kind of an early bird anyway.
Training starts May 8.
@ right_wing2:
Congrats!
@ eaglesoars:
There’s a local restaurant I want to try just for the name: Viet Nom Nom.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Thanks.
@ right_wing2:
oh great news!
@ right_wing2:
That’s awesome! Schedule and pay should good.
I’m sure you’ll get some crazy calls among the more serious ones.
My brother recently reinvented himself as a locksmith. In SE Florida no less. You should hear the stories he has already, in just a few months.
@ right_wing2:
Great! That’s a good company too.
In an interview with @AP , Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, says the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation’s economy.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1250095233632808961
What IS it with this testing crap? Tucker fell for it last nite talking to some guy named Epstein. He said we have to test EVERYBODY and anybody positive self-isolates, the rest go about their merry business. WTF? Somebody negative one day can be positive the next, it’s not as tho this is a static picture. But they keep insisting EVERYBODY. Why? The Feds can’t even keep the SSN rolls clean and they think they’re going to do this? No, they don’t. This is something else.
CNN: A new study from Harvard researchers published today in the journal Science finds that “prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022.”
Oh, just fuck off…….
@ eaglesoars:
Pushing vote by mail at all costs.
DOJ has, as promised, taken a stand on states stopping people from attending religious services.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-issues-statement-religious-practice-and-social-distancing-0
Today, the Department filed a Statement of Interest in support of a church in Mississippi that allegedly sought to hold parking lot worship services
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1268651/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
It’s a filing in district court taking the side of the church against the state. Yeah, that should scare the bejeebus out of everybody
we’re getting snow tonite.
I’m about to open a vein…………
None of the nets are covering Trumps smackdown of the WHO.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
yeah, well, if he doesn’t knock off with the ventilator crap and tell us when this opens up I’m shooting the television
https://www.weaselzippers.us/447119-georgia-dem-state-rep-endorses-trump/
This could be huge
@ lobo91:
Grounds for a court challenge. In a sane world it’d be an easy win for free speech. Too bad we aren’t in a sane world.
@ lobo91:
The Constitution is being shredded and people are starting to notice. Protest is ” non essential “?
This is a time to step up. This crisis will pass but the damage to civil liberties could be permanent.
right_wing2 wrote:
Awesome! Good luck to you
lobo91 wrote:
First stop, the courts. If the courts side with the state in destroying Constitutional affirmations of rights, the next protest will need to be not so peaceful.
/Yep, it’s getting to that point
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/04/14/overruled-sean-spiciers-takes-on-obama-endorsing-biden-trumps-authority-and-the-2020-election-leave-lefties-hilariously-seething/
@ Twitchy
Sean Spicier strikes again and the hive swarms.
eaglesoars wrote:
I want to see the same level of reporting applied to the flu as is being applied to this ‘pandemic’
AZfederalist wrote:
the problem with that is that the protest was stopped. The courts are an after-the-fact, the patient is already dead recourse.
The left will do this over and over again because we play by the rules.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think it can be more than that. Those harmed can go after remedy against those who carried out the illegal orders. I want to see that happen before the shooting starts.