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"Global Warming" Alarmist Who Panicked the World By "Predicting" a Half Million Wuhan Flu Deaths In the UK Alone Now Says... Never Mind
We need heads for this.
And I think I might mean that literally. His new bullshit -- and his "model" is, like all alleged global warming models, completely based on whatever bullshit assumptions you start the model with -- garbage inputs, garbage outputs -- is that a great many more people contracted the Wuhan Flu than he thought, which means that many, many people had the flu and didn't even know it, which means... the Wuhan Flu is not much more dangerous than the standard yearly flu. Gee sorry I crashed the world economy. Muh bad. Of course, he didn't do it alone. It was the incompetent psychotics of the media and the obsessive shut-ins of Twitter that really Spread the Disease of FakeNews Panic.3/ Essentially, what has happened is that estimates of the viruses transmissibility have increased - which implies that many more people have already gotten it than we realize - which in turn implies it is less dangerous.
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) March 26, 2020
4/ Ferguson now predicts that the epidemic in the U.K. will peak and subside within “two to three weeks” - last week’s paper said 18+ months of quarantine would be necessary. https://t.co/1Hln7w90bt
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) March 26, 2020
Big thread. The man who panicked the world is now running from his doomsday projections. Shut up and quarantine crowd MIA. No need to apologize to those of us who told you not to blindly trust 1 projection. Scrutinize a little more next time before you surrender your freedoms. https://t.co/EopJL2BhNB
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) March 26, 2020
So the guy who scared the world into shutting down is revising his estimate. If it all does turn out to be like a more aggressive flu, in terms of the numbers, will there be an accounting of what went wrong? https://t.co/KWDr1J8qvE
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) March 26, 2020
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:15 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:15 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 26, 2020 12:16 PM (TQ/zJ)
Posted by: El Kabong at March 26, 2020 12:16 PM (datdl)
Just another day in the life of politics.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:16 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2020 12:17 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 26, 2020 12:17 PM (DTX3h)
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Trump. Trump was what went wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:17 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 26, 2020 12:18 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:18 PM (qLs5f)
From the looks of him, maybe he confused "Wuhan Flu Deaths" with "Delicious Pies, possibly filled with some sort of cream".
Posted by: El Kabong
He kind of resembles Jeffrey Dahmer. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: pep at March 26, 2020 12:18 PM (T6t7i)
The panic mongers (pandemic, global warming) are in "protected" professions (academia, journalism, "civil service") and never have had to or ever will face up to the consequences of their actions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: Eric Idle at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (6fa9D)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 26, 2020 12:17 PM (DTX3h)
Big mindshift.
Now that people realize how dangerous China is (again), let's see how long they retain it.
But no one is thinking climate change, or AOC's fake green deal. It has been weakened.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: Vic at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (mpXpK)
Millions of people lose their jobs and $16T in accumulated wealth.
Annual performance review:
[ x ] meets expectations, 3% raise in the coming year
Posted by: Moron Robbie was bitten by a radioactive ampersand at March 26, 2020 12:20 PM (AwI0L)
What am I? Chopped suey?
Posted by: China at March 26, 2020 12:20 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 26, 2020 12:20 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:20 PM (QrImU)
*Laughs in James Comey and John Brennan*
Posted by: El Kabong at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (datdl)
Posted by: Moron Robbie was bitten by a radioactive ampersand at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (AwI0L)
I then realized that part of the reason the media has lost their minds over this virus (besides the default OrangeManBad! setting for most of them) is that it has registered in their reptilian brains that the Wuhan Lung Rot endangers THEM (due to their "citizen of the world" life-style), not the deplorables in fly-over country.
I think this dude at the Imperial War College is trying to get ahead of the lynch mob.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (00fXp)
Posted by: FoodWaterAmmo at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (4qYQG)
After this fiasco that was promoted by our "elites" I sort of suspect global warming might finally be laid to rest.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (ch6++)
"We have all lost our jobs *bs*"
He is trying to explain to people not to feel bad or ashamed or frightened, but he did NOT lose his job. No one in Congress did. Nor the idiots filming this.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (8fB/R)
"12 Experts Question The COVID Panic"
https://tinyurl.com/vzur9jo
...Which is weirdly respectable from ZH, as they've been all-in on the panic.
Good quote from one of the experts:
"Our main problem is that no one will ever get in trouble for measures that are too draconian. They will only get in trouble if they do too little. So, our politicians and those working with public health do much more than they should do.
"Should it turn out that the epidemic wanes before long, there will be a queue of people wanting to take credit for this. And we can be damned sure draconian measures will be applied again next time."
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (88+cf)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (G546f)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (5bxa0)
......
My 401(k) thanks you, Mr Ferguson!
And.. while I have the choice of working from home occasionally, I choose to go into the office.. mainly because when I work from home, my wife treats it like I'm on a vacation day. 2 more weeks of this shit is gonna be the death of me!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: FoodWaterAmmo at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (4qYQG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Guzalot at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (Rz36l)
After this fiasco that was promoted by our "elites" I sort of suspect global warming might finally be laid to rest.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 26, 2020 12:21 PM (WEBkv)
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It won't be laid to rest, there's simply too much graft in on it, but remember, global warming is regularly last in the list of priorities for voters in polling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (UWqZJ)
IT'S ONLY WHAT I AND MANY OTHERS HAVE BEEN SAYING SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.
Everyone on Earth -- literally everyone, except for the people reading this blog -- is a complete idiot.
Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (N9G0H)
Being on the Left means never having to say your sorry
No one will call you on it the next time you run around with your hair on fire
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (ZCEU2)
Too bad it turns out that the real world results were much worse than predicted.
Bad models I guess.
Posted by: SH at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (sX1BW)
For instance at a four percent rate of inflation the cost of living is not going to triple in 10 years.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (Uu+Jp)
And Congress put in this shit "bill" a 25 thousand dollar raise for themselves
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (5bxa0)
Emily Litella (sp?) did it better. Don't just jam in a denominator before extrapolating next time, okay?
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (Zo1XC)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (DY3v8)
And that, my friends, is the great danger.
Posted by: The Cookie Man at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (0S1xB)
Quarantine any panic-monger for a minimum of 18 months--no outside communications of any kind allowed.
Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (NiXyF)
Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (N9G0H)
HEY, NOW HOLD ON ONE MINUTE!!!
We have to 'read' the blog?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (QrImU)
We were taught this in the first week of programming classes.
I guess they don't teach it in climate "science".
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (J+mig)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts
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That guy has blocked more insidious plans from "our betters" than we will ever know.
Just the ones I know about are astounding.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Moron Robbie was bitten by a radioactive ampersand at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (AwI0L)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (DY3v
Units. They get you every time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (DY3v8)
Yup, a good portion of the MSM is headquartered in NYC. It's about THEM, you guys, so now it's a crisis!!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (bDqIh)
Funny how their "science" always leads to a Marxist takeover of everything.
Posted by: Blago at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (sjTfF)
@davereaboi
So the guy who scared the world into shutting down is revising his estimate. If it all does turn out to be like a more aggressive flu, in terms of the numbers, will there be an accounting of what went wrong?
_________
Accountability is so early 20th century, Dave ... get with the times, dude.
Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (WqPYg)
But I'm not ready to point fingers. Let's just get back up and running first.
I'm glad to see the walk-back begin, it's very reassuring honestly. I don't want people dying, or even very sick. So we just keep on, keeping on.
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (AwI0L)
it's almost perfectly tweaked to bring down countries
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (G546f)
Someone was able to determine the data date on Kathy Griffin's stupid hospital pic....
The exif data date is also from 07/07/2017...
"AKA, the image was taken on July 7th, 2017 at 1:22PM..."
Can she get any lamer? Lamer is a word right?
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (cF8AT)
And.. while I have the choice of working from home occasionally, I choose to go into the office.. mainly because when I work from home, my wife treats it like I'm on a vacation day. 2 more weeks of this shit is gonna be the death of me!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (CjFDo)
we are on separate floors, and I am seeing my husband less than if he drove in each day, lol
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (UWqZJ)
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I keep forgetting about the graft.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: jhawk90 at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (9IkUJ)
However, I absolutely agree that we shouldn't rely on one model and moreover I think (professionally-I am a statistician and applied probabilist and this sort of modelling is pretty standard) that he did take the most pessimistic estimates-which are largely undermined by the experience of the Diamond Princess.It's all about your health services not getting overwhelmed. If they do, then many, many thousands will die, because of Wuhan flu not with it.
Posted by: Clovis Sangrail at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (R+QZX)
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (cF8AT)
Posted by: jwest at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (mrrpT)
Posted by: FoodWaterAmmo at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (4qYQG)
Posted by: Ha at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (fNWtj)
There used to be devices for sale made of heavy foam called "Encounter Bats" so you and your problem person could wale away at each other.
This guy, and innumerable others, are aching for a session with aluminum -- sorry, aluminum -- Encounter Bats.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (DY3v
They have a half track mind.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (in24S)
"12 Experts Question The COVID Panic"
https://tinyurl.com/vzur9jo
...Which is weirdly respectable from ZH, as they've been all-in on the panic.
The ZeroHedgers have never seen a panic they didn't like.
It is still a sometimes useful site, but must be taken with an entire pickup-bed full of salt licks.
Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (NiXyF)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (DY3v
ZH?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (nRk/c)
I looked at the assumptions (emphasis ASS) when it came out and it looked like cooked numbers at that time. We should breathlessly await a peer review of the whole pile of pucky.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (Ndje9)
We need heads for this.
And I think I might mean that literally.
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This.
We need to get into the habit of harshly punishing America's enemies, both foreign and domestic, for their attempts to sabotage our economy, overthrow our government, and otherwise trample on our God-given Rights.
Posted by: Methos at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (H5knJ)
_________
"Here, hold my latte." -- Paul Ehrlich
Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (FTlwv)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (pNxlR)
Wax dueling pistols.
Or just dueling pistols.
Or just dueling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (dKiJG)
I'm starting to understand why.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (J+mig)
Do we know that?
Has anyone here, in the decision-making or advisory role, said it?
I may well have missed all these.
But I thought the goal was to avert overwhelming acute care capacity - which would actually result in an increase in fatalities - which is not the same as the apocalyptic model now being abandoned.
Unless I have something wrong here.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Methos at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (kOpft)
Don't know.. One person said 600 dollars another said none
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (5bxa0)
punishing America's enemies, both foreign and domestic, for their
attempts to sabotage our economy, overthrow our government, and
otherwise trample on our God-given Rights.
Posted by: Methos at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (kOpft)
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... but mostly domestic.
Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (WqPYg)
We have to 'read' the blog?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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*checks the Handbook*
Hmm. Says 'Highly recommended'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (CDGwz)
That side goes by the name "conservative".
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (r6yYr)
60 OMG!
Someone was able to determine the data date on Kathy Griffin's stupid hospital pic....
The exif data date is also from 07/07/2017...
"AKA, the image was taken on July 7th, 2017 at 1:22PM..."
Can she get any lamer? Lamer is a word right?
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (cF8AT)
Excuse: "I don't know how to set tim and date on my digital camera or smart phone!"
Wait for it ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Urkel Ferguson at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (yk557)
Kung Flu Grippe
Posted by: Moron Robbie was bitten by a radioactive ampersand at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (AwI0L)
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I saw a meme in the comment section at Insty's once, that had a drawing of GI Joe strapped to a hospital bed, and was captioned "GI Joe, now with Kung Flu Grippe"
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (CAJOC)
Oh and in before jackstraw tries to derail the discussion with some nonsense about Venezuela.
Posted by: Methos at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM (kOpft)
_________
At least AG Barr is cleaning up Venezuela ... so we've got that going for us.
Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (P6ZCq)
I hear he tested negative for troll, positive for HIV)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (o2MD2)
++++++++++++++
Yes. As so many have said, the doomsday scenario depended on a *lot* of guesswork (if I am feeling uncharitable - and I am - I would say the guesses were deliberately chosen for big scary figures, as global warmists are wont to do). Some of those guesses are known to be wrong, and others are unknown. The big guess that was wrong, as far as I know, was time. It was based on China's disclosure in mid-January and there is a lot of evidence that this probably surfaced a month or so *before* they disclosed it - a month of contagion and unfettered travel. That has pretty significant consequences.
The other unknowns are still unknown beyond some statistical guesswork (as near as I can tell, anyway), primarily what the damn denominator is. We don't know, especially in places like this country that are testing *only* symptomatic people or those in close contact with confirmed cases. It's a skewed and self-selecting data set right now.
Should this guy be punished for sowing doomsday scenarios and triggering a major panic? Maybe so. He should certainly lose his job and never be published again.
But my ire is even more with the press and the state. The former for whipping up hysteria based on a problem they cannot understand and deferring to the first expert that fit their narrative, and the latter for exploiting any excuse to go insane and cause damage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (e/H31)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (dzyR5)
Hmm. Says 'Highly recommended'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (CDGwz)
Dammit. You have to read the handbook? I have been using it to hold down the junk mail.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (QrImU)
I meant "homosexual".
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (Ndje9)
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And the award for the most Garretish comment not posted by Garret, is...
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (Eicbe)
Don't know.. One person said 600 dollars another said none
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I read that if you file taxes on more than $1200 you'll get paid, yo. Unless you're a taxpayer paying taxes on over $99K/year, which is the cutoff. Even if you just got fired. Yay government!
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (AwI0L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (+y/Ru)
Lawyers are in a quandary on this one. "But he tried to slay The Orange Man!"
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 12:30 PM (oTMWb)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2020 12:26 PM (H5knJ)
Why do you hate science?
/
Posted by: Ha at March 26, 2020 12:30 PM (fNWtj)
There's a stupid hospital? Is that where the media goes?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:30 PM (Uu+Jp)
>>>And I think I might mean that literally.
How many fake scientists' and fake news readers' heads to ensure that this sort of crap doesn't happen again?
My model says about 1,000. I am open to peer review.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 26, 2020 12:30 PM (KnJdm)
There is just ONE side of politics these days where people are not interested in doubling down on academic projections.
That side goes by the name "conservative".
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:28 PM (Eicbe)
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And they WILL be silenced, one way ... or another IYKWAMAITYD.
Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 12:30 PM (WqPYg)
can't wait for all the Moron Dem Governors to trot out new draconian restrictions for us peons
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (EuPI/)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (kXYFI)
You'd think before you quack like this you'd check, and double-check your calculations.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (Tatvh)
can't wait for all the Moron Dem Governors to trot out new draconian restrictions for us peons
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (j9HX3)
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"With the unemployment numbers exploding, the only solution is to shut down more industries."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Socratease at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (2GbWn)
Now I just want my 17yo grandson to pull through his case of it. It is kicking his ass.
Posted by: ghbucky at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (s9Eo8)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 26, 2020 12:31 PM (H3ZEL)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (o2MD2)
And Congress put in this shit "bill" a 25 thousand dollar raise for themselves
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2020 12:23 PM (5bxa0)
They did not. The section that people think is a "raise" is $25 million for the House of Representatives under "Salaries and Expenses" to cover virus response efforts, namely expenses relating to a whole bunch of staff suddenly having to telecommute. It has nothing to do with congresscritters' salaries.
If Congressmembers want to give themselves a raise and it gets put in a bill, the bill language has to say that the raise is meant for them and how much it will be.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (nRNOc)
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I just went out to walk the dog. One of your brethren got into my garbage can. Now I have trash strewn over the lawn.
I wish you would talk them about that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (CDGwz)
Speaking of globull warming, Have you seen the idiot "greenies"
celebrating that the beloved Gaia earth is less polluted now because
people are dying and not driving or working in evil factories?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (5bxa0)
The wife of one of my husband's best friends is a former pro basketball cheerleader and complete airhead, who thought I'd give a f*** about her mind farts and texted me, "We humans are the virus, and we've been put in timeout....blah blah blah...." She's so excited that there won't be any planes dirtying up the skies (her husband's a Gulfstream exec), and we won't be taking out our boats.
I loathe her.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (t9PwF)
2 epidemiologists walk into a Pub
next day
4 Epidemiologists walk into a pub
next day
8 epidemiologists walk into a pub
next day
16 epidemiologists walk into a pub
What was the name of the PUB?............
The "COCK & BULL"
Posted by: saf at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (y7DUB)
I loathe her.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (ptqGC)
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She'd make a great bad guy in a movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: RKae
Yay! Expect the measures to ramp up next January as we approach 20,000 deaths from the seasonal flu.
What? Those deaths don't matter?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (Vddbf)
Is this going to resonate with the Administration or will it be ignored/discounted as bogus?
I don't mean this rhetorically, what do y'all think?
Posted by: irongrampa at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (KATBx)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (WEBkv)
And if he doesn't, we get to execute him. Right?
If you aren't willing to put your ass on the line for your prediction of this sort, then STFU.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: The Bull at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (WEBkv)
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That is a great part of it.
"Why isn't Trump doing things that are well beyond his defined power ?! He must do these things now!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE!
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Sorry, I can't go home again.
Posted by: Tom Wolfe at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (xSo9G)
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$25M for non-essential personnel to occasionally use their phones seems a bit excessive.
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (AwI0L)
"Just out of curiosity, what would you do about a corrupt government that was sending billions of dollars of drugs into your country using that countries corrupt military in conjunction with their justice system and terror groups including FARC and Hezbollah?"
I would use any and all financial and political leverage (including outright bribes, if necessary) to enlist Columbia and Brazil, and induce them to launch a joint effort. Venezuela's military is concentrated in Caracas, the north central area. Venezuelan forces would make a quick strike from the west, backed by US Air Support, taking and holding Maracaibo, the primary oil producing region. (the only part of Venezuela still worth anything) Brazilian troops could move quickly through the southern half of the country - Everything south of the Orinoco River, which is half of the country, can be controlled by holding one single highway.
And then they hunker down and sit there. With the west and the south gone, what Maduro and his generals control is just a small rump state around Caracas with no access to food, money, or power. It collapses into chaos in a month or less, with international troops invited in to provide order. And Columbia and Brazil get to keep anything they've taken. New borders.
So that's what I would do, but it won't happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: MKoepf at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (P2P8D)
And yet talk about prayer would probably be unsciency for her.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Captain Hate
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"Cocks."
He looks like the sort who is bored by only one.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (ArumA)
Haven't noticed any - any - daylight between the WH and the measures adopted by various states, including the most severe.
My 1,459-dimensional chess isn't up to the standards of some here, but I keep wondering why Trump is in on the "op" or the "scam", unless he's quite the dupe, or also secretly seeking to destroy the economy.
And again, isn't the NYC-type potential overflow of acute cases vs. care capacity the primary threat the US (and other countries) have targeted in their responses?
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (El6T/)
G-d forbid anyone should be able to go out for a cruise in this gorgeous weather, and get some fresh air.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (ptqGC)
https://youtu.be/g8FglYCmUFM
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (DTX3h)
LOL!
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (l6b3d)
Ferguson now predicts that the epidemic in the U.K. will peak and subside within "two to three weeks"
And if he doesn't, we get to execute him. Right?
If you aren't willing to put your ass on the line for your prediction of this sort, then STFU.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (Tatvh)
Didn't we used to stone to death false prophets? I think we should take that up again.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (in24S)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (2DOZq)
Population density covers a lot of things.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (X5CsJ)
Haven't noticed any - any - daylight between the WH and the measures adopted by various states, including the most severe.
My 1,459-dimensional chess isn't up to the standards of some here, but I keep wondering why Trump is in on the "op" or the "scam", unless he's quite the dupe, or also secretly seeking to destroy the economy.
And again, isn't the NYC-type potential overflow of acute cases vs. care capacity the primary threat the US (and other countries) have targeted in their responses?
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (El6T/)
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Trump is telling New York to shut down completely? I missed this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: MKoepf at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (P2P8D)
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How does a judge have the authority to make an order like that?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (nRNOc)
I thought they voted themselves "automatic" raises several years ago.
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (X/Pw5)
Diversity Is Strength
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (ptqGC)
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She'd make a great bad guy in a movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (UWqZJ)
An Extra in a Tarantino film.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (8fB/R)
I loathe her.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (ptqGC)
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I've noticed this recently. The intelligent skepticism that lay behind doomsday predictions was the *disbelief* that Nature could respond to recover from powers of distortion.
This skepticism against a natural "equilibrium" is one of the historical forces that showed through in Keynesian economics.
Now, they *believe* that Nature had its own reaction system.
So, they've actually equivocated on the entire Nature of Nature in the progressive, interventionist point-of-view.
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (Eicbe)
Public Transportation : The Silent Killer
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (lELxn)
He should rerun the numbers with cubic dick-bags per round orifice.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (EuPI/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (QrImU)
Finally quit raining for 5 seconds.
But don't get used to it. Supposed to start up again this evening.
Posted by: Linn Ridge. Russian Bots R Us. at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (3ZVnS)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (in24S)
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That's a lot of stones for those 11 person CNN panels. But I'd watch.
Posted by: jhawk90 at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (9IkUJ)
Keep America Great
Trump/Pence 2020
Posted by: Myshiba at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (jLjyF)
And yet talk about prayer would probably be unsciency for her.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (Uu+Jp)
Point out to her that Nature just declared War on Humanity. Mother Gaia is trying to kill us all.
And what do we do to those who are trying to kill us? We declare War.
Thus, its time to put Mother Earth in her place.
More Dams! More Drilling! Slap that biatch upside da head!
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (NgKpN)
Home Depot: Your Home For Quality Medicine!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: MKoepf at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (P2P8D)
"raise" is $25 million for the House of Representatives under "Salaries
and Expenses" to cover virus response efforts, namely expenses relating
to a whole bunch of staff suddenly having to telecommute.
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$25M for non-essential personnel to occasionally use their phones seems a bit excessive.
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at March 26, 2020 12:34 PM (AwI0L)
How the money is spent will be made public and has to be approved. But this is government, so everything costs more (some sarcasm should be noted).
A number of other federal agencies got bumps in the "Salaries and Expenses" category too.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (nRNOc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Are we speaking intellect here?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (xSo9G)
... and they did
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (X5CsJ)
645 confirmed cases - nearly half in the Indy metro and Marion county area.
17 confirmed deaths.
4651 confirmed tested.
Number of confirmed cases within 50 miles of casa Fortcoins - 12
Shut down until at least Easter.
Posted by: Fortcoins at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (JbL9Q)
But don't get used to it. Supposed to start up again this evening.
Posted by: Linn Ridge. Russian Bots R Us. at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (3ZVnS)
Yeah, but look at that sky. Kentucky has few beautiful days, but when it has them, it pulls out all the stops.
Kudos to the Man Upstairs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (ZQR/T)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (Uu+Jp)
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Haven't noticed any - any - daylight between the WH and the measures adopted by various states, including the most severe.
My 1,459-dimensional chess isn't up to the standards of some here, but I keep wondering why Trump is in on the "op" or the "scam", unless he's quite the dupe, or also secretly seeking to destroy the economy.
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Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (El6T/)
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I don't think it is 3D chess or anything like that. Trump has been pretty clear on offering Fed guidance and then the states do what they will and he will support the states to treat people hit by the outbreak, financially, etc.
It isn't so much "daylight" between them as it is "do what you need to do, and I'll support you." He hasn't (as far as I know, though have seen none of the pressers this week) advocated for or against any of the particular states' approaches.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (e/H31)
Posted by: Red enchilada at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (+i7ay)
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (lELxn)
Then why isn't DC being hammered?
All the conditions that exist in NY exist in DC and a lot of LA, but nowhere else seems to be blowing up.
Posted by: ghbucky at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (s9Eo8)
Posted by: garrett
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But sometimes you get to participate!
Posted by: Colin Ferguson at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (xSo9G)
Actually, yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (ouBhA)
Posted by: Social Justice Worrier at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (4VFWk)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (o2MD2)
I think all of the people who have lost their jobs and businesses that are closed need to have a word or two with this Limey ponce and then with the dictators in this country pretending to be elected officials
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (kXYFI)
I loathe her.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (ptqGC)
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She'd make a great bad guy in a movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (UWqZJ)
Former pro basketball cheerleader - SO in other words, rich guy picked up some eye candy to give himself status among his fellow execs, and now the eye candy thinks it can get away with opening its stupid mouth. Newsflash - in your current position, your mouth is only for one thing, and talking ain't it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Red enchilada at March 26, 2020 12:39 PM (+i7ay)
Is he the guy who was freaking out because his Trump supporting parent's aren't panicking?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: mercenary13 at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (r1mci)
ot
hammering home how awful canadian news is
This morning the pravda state run cbc were all beside themselves wondering why the market hasn't crashed with the US's unemployment announcement.
It was just as surreal as watching CNN or MSNBC, etc.
They were sad.
Every day, every hour, there is a segment showing how bad the US and Trump are in response to this. And then switch to how great they are doing.
This is still the stop the brain-drain mentality. They do not want people to know how good it is in the US. There are problems, yes, but the US gets busy when confronted with something. And capitalism works. Big government doesn't.
They have no idea why individual states' leaders are making decisions.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (8fB/R)
exactly. he followed federalist principles here.
this is property the domain of the states. and dealing with awful Governors is the domain of the residents of each Commonwealth.
and we will.
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2020 12:29 PM (e/H31)
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And don't forget a total embargo from the press on experimental/off label treatments that doctors around the country are using this very moment.
They literally don't want to cover it because they're afraid these ad-hoc treatments are effective and that would mean Trump was right.
Posted by: WisRich at March 26, 2020 12:41 PM (OAlmw)
My 1,459-dimensional chess isn't up to the standards of some here, but I keep wondering why Trump is in on the "op" or the "scam", unless he's quite the dupe, or also secretly seeking to destroy the economy.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (El6T/)
If you notice, Trump has been pushing a federalist strategy on this, which I think is entirely appropriate for several reasons.
First, because the states are materially different from each other, so what is appropriate for may not be for another. Second, because no one knows for sure what the best approach is, so it's worthwhile making room for a variety of approaches. Third, because if Trump adopts a strict top-down approach, he'll be blamed for everything every idiot out there does. And fourth, philosophically, we need more power - and the attendant responsibility - to devolve to the states on issues generally.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:41 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 12:37 PM (NWiLs)
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That's in the prog world of "ideas".
Now, they've done a lot to make academic "fore-thinking" look sexy, and to have people who have a higher involvement with real-world mechanics interested.
I think the more people are grounded, the more they will walk away from the crowd that thinks this was a good use of our time.
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:41 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (CAJOC)
The words that killed the Constitution were 'the Constitution is not a suicide pact'.
Some attribute that quote to Lincoln, but it has been used by the Supreme Court TWICE.
Yes, we can ignore it, because, shut up, that's why.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 26, 2020 12:41 PM (NgKpN)
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I'm hoping he's perfectly fine letting the (D) governors damage their re-election chances with the job losses and shutdowns.
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at March 26, 2020 12:41 PM (AwI0L)
Of, course, I have never seen these people walking around here before.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: no good deed at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (MmFTx)
In the meantime, we made ourselves vulnerable.
They were reporting that the terrorist groups were trying to figure out how to take advantage of this.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (kXYFI)
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The judges determined it to be so.
Posted by: Moron Robbie got the Kung Flu Grippe at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (AwI0L)
Posted by: MKoepf at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (P2P8D)
Posted by: Pliney at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (nzKWW)
Of, course, I have never seen these people walking around here before.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (CDGwz)
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Here comes Charlie! Duck!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (UWqZJ)
Set to the tune of Imagine, this may be my favorite song.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (EuPI/)
Posted by: zombie
Well, I'm not so sure about SOME of the people here....if you know what I mean...and ....I think you do.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....lost in America at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (vcOmj)
Yes!!! *hic* *thud*
Posted by: Wine Moms at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (EgshT)
The exif data date is also from 07/07/2017...
"AKA, the image was taken on July 7th, 2017 at 1:22PM..."
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 12:25 PM (cF8AT)
Not following this story, but doesn't twitter strip out the EXIF tags on images? I guess I just assumed it did.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Roy at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (ABjxW)
Posted by: Gman at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (xZTWS)
... and they did
Posted by: SMOD at March 26, 2020 12:38 PM (X5CsJ)
The Trump Haters have always been in favor of a quarantine.
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: things johnny rotten said at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (m/Gc2)
His slogan now needs to be "Make America Great Again... Again."
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (r6yYr)
Posted by: aelfheld at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (IxDhF)
not if you use SM management software
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:43 PM (j9HX3)
It's not multidimensional chess.
It's a mass hysteria, largely fueled by the media And politicians being the jackals that they are, are capitalizing on it to increase their own power and hopefully to harm Trump.
Trump is caught in this tide of madness, and swimming in the current to the best of his ability. He must appear to DO SOMETHING about the #BigBadCold that's gonna KILL EVERYONE, after all.
It's that simple.
Trump is playing the Politics of Panic to his own best advantage, because staying out of the game would be fatal to his Presidency.
It does not make this mass-hysteria any less of an hysteria.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (II2Y0)
How does a judge have the authority to make an order like that?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (CAJOC)
He doesn't. But everyone is scared so no one is challenging it. I said that he had no authority to do this to a millenial from the area yesterday, and he looked at me like a goat that had just been asked to do algebra. The thought had never even remotely occurred to him before.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (trdmm)
hammering home how awful canadian news is
This morning the pravda state run cbc were all beside themselves
wondering why the market hasn't crashed with the US's unemployment
announcement.
It was just as surreal as watching CNN or MSNBC, etc.
They were sad.
Every day, every hour, there is a segment showing how bad the US and
Trump are in response to this. And then switch to how great they are
doing.
This is still the stop the brain-drain mentality. They do not want
people to know how good it is in the US. There are problems, yes, but
the US gets busy when confronted with something. And capitalism works.
Big government doesn't.
They have no idea why individual states' leaders are making decisions.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (8fB/R)
bad timing as I somehow got on a run of youtube videos about Canadian Anti-Americanism. There was one where even the CBC made fun of it because it is so pervasive. And the big joke is 90 percent of Americans have no clue it exists.
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (hHxp2)
Thank You so much for what you post. It's nice having someone who's hair isn't constantly on fire.
Posted by: Sam. Not a one name troll. Again at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (/LQkF)
I've been walking about 3 miles around town each day and it's been great. And I got my "papers please" letter from my company in case I'm driving around.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (l6b3d)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (CDGwz)
Trump 47% (+4) Biden 43%
PENNSYLVANIA: Trump 47% (+2) Biden 45%
WISCONSIN: Trump 45% Biden 45%
@BaldwinWallace
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@oaklandu
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@ohionorthern
3/17-25
Posted by: Ha at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (fNWtj)
Trump is playing the Politics of Panic to his own best advantage, because staying out of the game would be fatal to his Presidency.
It does not make this mass-hysteria any less of an hysteria.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (II2Y0)
Agreed, every word!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Lionel Hutz at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (eAZVt)
If you notice, Trump has been pushing a federalist strategy on this, which I think is entirely appropriate for several reasons.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:41 PM (Tatvh)
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It's actually a good political strategy if he had any doubts about draconian measures. Because those were likely left to center-left governors, and to their overreaction. Which could lead to fewer Dems getting re-elected.
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Third, because if Trump adopts a strict top-down approach, he'll be blamed for everything every idiot out there does.
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This is the way that the press will further put distance between themselves from people who are paying attention. I'd bet the over that they will try this anyway.
In a public poll of across the board job approval it's: States, then Trump, then Congress, then the Press.
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (in24S)
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That's a lot of stones for those 11 person CNN panels. But I'd watch.
Posted by: jhawk90
Well that where good ole American Ingenuity comes in. Make a Gatling Gun that shoots stones!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (MVR7y)
Catching up on Picard because Dolley had CBS All Access and didn't tell me.
People explain a lot to each other in this show. Explain things that have been explained before and that we as an audience already know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Uu+Jp)
You are in Contempt of Court!!!
Bailiff! Defenestrate immediately!
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #6 at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (DMUuz)
Of, course, I have never seen these people walking around here before.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:42 PM (CDGwz)
"Beatrice, take the point."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (X/Pw5)
There hasn't been a legislated increase in base pay since 2009. However, they are eligible for the annual federal COLA if there is one, although Congress can pass a joint resolution saying, "No thanks," which has also been done since 2009.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (nRNOc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (II2Y0)
Isn't regular chess multidimensional? I count at least two.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: IronDave at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (k3crU)
https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=w8YlMjG1Rxk
Posted by: Adriane the Why I Do Declare Critic ... at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (LPnfS)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
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Did you see Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking to Colbert?
"This is going to be a test to see if people will finally listen to the scientists."
Fuck that arrogant asshole!
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (CAJOC)
Again judge is just a title used in Texas for what's commonly known as the County Commissioner.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (2DOZq)
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Third, because if Trump adopts a strict top-down approach, he'll be blamed for everything every idiot out there does.
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This is the way that the press will further put distance between themselves from people who are paying attention. I'd bet the over that they will try this anyway.
In a public poll of across the board job approval it's: States, then Trump, then Congress, then the Press.
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Eicbe)
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It's not just political intelligent, it's intelligent in terms of actual results.
Maybe this whole federalist thing will catch on in terms of other policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (UWqZJ)
The field was blank on the image I downloaded. I'd love to see this substantiated though.
Posted by: Eisenhorn at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (F6tBH)
Posted by: happyfeet at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (PpK9J)
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I just went out to walk the dog. One of your brethren got into my garbage can. Now I have trash strewn over the lawn.
I wish you would talk them about that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I have it on good authority that if you just stand off at a distance and shrilly scream, "Stop it, bear. Bear, bear, you're breaking my kayak. Stop it. Stop it bear. . . . Gosh darn it, please stop." that they'll just good-naturedly wander off.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Uu+Jp)
heh
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (II2Y0)
Isn't regular chess multidimensional? I count at least two.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (QrImU)
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One dimensional chess gets really hard at times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: irongrampa at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (KATBx)
Trump has previously said he thinks the country can resume normalcy by Easter.
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (ouBhA)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 12:36 PM (CAJOC)
++++++++++++++
If I remember the discussion on this point, the "County Judge" (I think it was a county, might have been city) is a weird title. Person is not actually a judge, but is instead an executive with pretty significant powers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (e/H31)
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (r6yYr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM
You miss me, don't you?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (DMUuz)
After this fiasco that was promoted by our "elites" I sort of suspect global warming might finally be laid to rest.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing"
Wrong, unfortunately It has shown the "elites" how easily the country can be panicked into doing what is necessary to save the world or whatever. The people that went into panic mode will have learned nothing, just like they are taken in by fake hate crimes and forget the later retractions.
Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 12:35 PM (in24S)
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That's a lot of stones for those 11 person CNN panels. But I'd watch.
Posted by: jhawk90
Well that where good ole American Ingenuity comes in. Make a Gatling Gun that shoots stones!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (MVR7y)
Nah. I've still got a good throwing arm. Let me do it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Tatvh)
If I don't get out of here soon, I'm going to start licking toilets at the Metro station.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (2BgZB)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:40 PM (8fB/R)
Sadly too many in these United States do not understand why or how we are a nation of united sovereign states.
All other sovereign states (Germany, France) have provinces.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (ZQR/T)
Posted by: jbill at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (yLBLc)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (0OmEj)
Did we have our own agencies check the analysis and vet the underlying assumptions, or did we just go with what this guy said at face value?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (Xesvh)
Posted by: no good deed at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (MmFTx)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM
You miss me, don't you?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (DMUuz)
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This is what happens when people who don't know how to write a ten hour show write a ten hour show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (UWqZJ)
matriarchies are risk averse and panicky, and not very strong on actual scientific inquiry, or inquiry of any kind, really
matriarchies are VERY HIGH on social "cohesion" - which means everyone must say and do the same exact thing
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (nRNOc)
Have they ever voted "no thanks"?
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Uu+Jp)
heh
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Tell him this is what teleworking looks like.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (dzyR5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (UWqZJ)
An outcome to be fervently desired.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (hHxp2)
90% of Americans have no clue that Canada exists, nor would they care about Canada even if they knew.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (H3ZEL)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 26, 2020 12:32 PM (ptqGC)
Tell her you shared it with a dude who works in a factory, and he just grit his teeth and said "We'll see about that bitch." Mention that he might have been laid off, you don't know because you didn't want to make him feel bad.
Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (t9PwF)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Martians in giant, walking tripod machines.
...Wait. I think I got the wrong story.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:45 PM (Uu+Jp)
heh
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Tell him this is what teleworking looks like.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (dzyR5)
Tell him you're avoiding human distemper.
He'll understand.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (Tatvh)
"This is going to be a test to see if people will finally listen to the scientists."
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (ArumA)
NDT, we don't listen to YOU because you're not a scientist.
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:50 PM (ouBhA)
and the President is a SMART businessman. which means he believes in the maxim UnderPromise and OverDeliver
so I'm feeling pretty ok
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 12:50 PM (j9HX3)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Martians in giant, walking tripod machines.
...Wait. I think I got the wrong story.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (ArumA)
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Yeah, it was the walking plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:50 PM (UWqZJ)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
it mutated itself into a non lethal form, IIRC.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 12:50 PM (trdmm)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
I seem to remember the virus was still alive and mutating.
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:50 PM (X/Pw5)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
Increased oxygen levels in the crying baby and the sterno drinker?
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (qLs5f)
Martians in giant, walking tripod machines.
...Wait. I think I got the wrong story.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (ArumA)
Viruses or bacteria killed the Martians. Does that mean we're safe from alien attack?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (Uu+Jp)
Did we have our own agencies check the analysis and vet the underlying assumptions, or did we just go with what this guy said at face value?
Yeah, but this bloke's accent was posh. So he's even more exporter than normal.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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*recollects video*
*snort*
If I'm ever reduced to that behavior, I hope one of my neighbors shoots me. I'm pretty sure that my best friend actually would. Act of kindness.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: zeera at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (zUdXR)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (H3ZEL)
For the best. After 1865, a great number of Americans were demanding the USA take the British colonies. You might laugh, but it made the British found modern canada with the British North America act in 1867.
Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (t9PwF)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (o2MD2)
Europeans labor under the misapprehension that Americans care what they think. I used to ask them, "What does Bolivia think?"
"Who cares what Bolivia thinks?"
"Now you know how Americans view Europe."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (Tatvh)
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And the museum gift shop employee.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - won't somebody think of the chyron?!! at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (41rs/)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
The atmospheric oxygen eventually did it in.
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (qLs5f)
Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (MxEKc)
++++++++++++++
To a point, yes. But there is a major difference in that this one was an imminent threat - a hugely contagious and extremely lethal virus spreading like wildfire through your community and family (never mind whether this is true or not, that is the position and the message) and you have a significant, immediate, personal risk of death or grievous injury to yourself or within your family.
"Climate change" doesn't have that personal urgency. They have been trying for decades to get it to have that kind of personal urgency, precisely because they want this level of panic over it. I don't think they can make them analogous.
They will, though, learn this lesson *very* well for whatever they can come up with that will have that level of personal urgency.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (e/H31)
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
Increased oxygen levels in the crying baby and the sterno drinker?
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (qLs5f)
That sounds like it might be right.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
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Did you see Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking to Colbert?
"This is going to be a test to see if people will finally listen to the scientists."
Fuck that arrogant asshole!
Posted by: RKae
Thank you, Mr. Planetarium Manager.
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (MVR7y)
Posted by: Uncle at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (Tvz2D)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater "
Growing up in Ohio, all we knew about Canada was that was where cold weather came from.
Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (MxEKc)
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It's in the constitution?-fuck-that-shit clause.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: happyfeet at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM
Because as I wrote this is a everday occurrence with Leftists who lie to further their agenda.
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (ZCEU2)
They should make a movie about this and call it There Will Be Blood.
Like that title? I just thought of it.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (fhCLs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Tomatoes?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (xSo9G)
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A triffid named Audrey II.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (2BgZB)
Grab a spear, some rattles, and jump and shout: uh, ee, uh ah, ah, ting tang ram a dam a ding dong ...
... it will make you feel better ...
Posted by: Adriane the Why I Do Declare Critic ... at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (LPnfS)
Posted by: RJD at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (2cfUo)
They should make a movie about this and call it There Will Be Blood.
Like that title? I just thought of it.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (fhCLs)
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*sends message back in time to Paul Thomas Anderson*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (qLs5f)
Not exactly. They survived because the virus couldn't grow in such acidic and alkalotic environments. The virus itself basically died out once it no longer had living human hosts. If the bomb to destroy the facility went off, however, the energy released would have caused a massive explosion in virus population and mutations, making any containment impossible.
Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (t9PwF)
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I just recall that one of the symptoms of the disease was failing to end an interrogatory sentence with a question mark.
That usually meant death was immanent.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I think that's, 'Planetarium Gift Shop Manager'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (xSo9G)
You laugh, because "How is a feather going to hurt this prick???"
Well, the first 10 million feather hits probably won't kill the guy, but the 20 millionth just might.
Ironical because the Yellow Peril is felt like a feather by 99.5 percent of the people who contract it. 0.5 percent die, sadly.
So flog him with something as mild as what he panicked the world with. 30 million times.
PPV, too.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (dtV0Y)
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I just recall that one of the symptoms of the disease was failing to end an interrogatory sentence with a question mark.
That usually meant death was immanent.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (ArumA)
Oh crap?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (Uu+Jp)
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No shiit Sherlock. People are tougher than a lot of pansies give them credit for being. Doesn't mean it's time to start licking toilet bowls, but not time to pull the hole in on yourself either.
Posted by: Lump at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (M3gBh)
next day
4 Epidemiologists walk into a pub
next day
8 epidemiologists walk into a pub
next day
16 epidemiologists walk into a pub
What was the name of the PUB?............
Epstein Bar
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (DjiZK)
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2020 12:48 PM (X/Pw5)
Every year. Although if Congress did decide to take it (or even a full-out pay raise), individual members can decline it if they wish.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (nRNOc)
And those in the "alternative" media (looking at you, Glenn Beck & Glenn Reynolds) on the "It's not the flu! Stay home!" bandwagon need to STFU right now.
Posted by: Brown Hornet at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (3Djt/)
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (ZCEU2)
There has to be a reckoning. Start with forcing American corporations to pull all manufacturing from China, not just pharmaceuticals and medical devices, harden the borders and boycott globalists.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cats at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (puu6v)
If that guys claims are true, I'd think if I were in the group of scientists that went to the preznit and said we had to shut down the country, I'd be sweating bullets.
And if I were the preznit, I'd ask them to show their work, including the math.
Then fire the lot of them.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (Xesvh)
Incidentally, this is one of the "experts" the Fake News is referring to when they say "experts disagree with the president" all the time.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (fhCLs)
Like that title? I just thought of it.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 12:53 PM (fhCLs)
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*sends message back in time to Paul Thomas Anderson*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts
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Plagiarism accusations only work if you can PROVE the existence of linear time in one exclusive direction.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (nRNOc)
"This is going to be a test to see if people will finally listen to the scientists."
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (ArumA)
NDT, we don't listen to YOU because you're not a scientist.
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:50 PM (ouBhA)
You're right, he's not. His resume screams "affirmative action social promotion with understanding that he won't try to go on to a research position." Maybe half a dozen papers published lifetime on each which he's in the middle of a pack of other authors ... hmmm. That's diagnostic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (Tatvh)
Annie Lowrey @AnnieLowrey
It would be better if the 3.3 million initial-claims number were higher: We want people to stop working to help stem the public-health catastrophe, and we want UI to cover everyone who has lost work.
I'm sure she deleted this.
Ekdahl had the perfect reply.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM
In other words, get ready for these actions to be taken again come seasonal flu time in OCT '20 through MAR '21.
The good news... NBA season will be cancelled.
The bad news... NHL season will be cancelled.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (Do5/p)
Yeah, it was the walking plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Tomatoes?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (xSo9G)
Technically sir, tomatoes are fags.
He means fruits
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (kXYFI)
Posted by: RKae
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*?*
I thought it was misuse of words that signaled the end.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (xSo9G)
If it had said "$15 million for the bullet riddled corpse of Maduro" then I would take it a bit more seriously.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (fhCLs)
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (r6yYr)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (OuZMr)
"This is going to be a test to see if people will finally listen to the scientists."
It's not in accord with the scientific method if people have to agree with you.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (ouBhA)
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Gov Inslee, snake at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (as7w9)
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (hHxp2)
90% of Americans have no clue that Canada exists, nor would they care about Canada even if they knew.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (H3ZEL)
most know it is exists they just don't realize so many dog them all the time. And to be clear, I know there are great Canadians and conservatives there. The conservatives there have had a worse time of it than we have.
It is not unusual that a foreign country has anti American sentiment. The joke I heard about Greece many years ago is half the country dislikes America and the other have moved here. But few countries define themselves by how much they are not American. You could say the same thing about France but that would be selling them short. France thinks they should be America, that we stole that title from them. It is not the same really.
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (nBq51)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (Xesvh)
Trump's in no position to assess their work. The thing to do is convene another, independent group to critique the work of the first group anonymously.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: Lump at March 26, 2020 12:54 PM (M3gBh)
We are the descendants of people who survived bubonic plague, tuberculosis, small pox, spanish flu.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (oTMWb)
New podcast! I provide some delicate suggestions as to what those in the if you do not want to shut down All The Things you are not pro life can do.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (mf5HN)
Rump roast seasoned and ready to cook for dinner. Life is not only good, it goes on.
Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cats at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (TQ/zJ)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (neb64)
Posted by: Ripley
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And, if you were within range of channel 9 out of Windsor, Hockey Night in Canada.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (QcpW6)
President @realDonaldTrump's net approval rating on his handling of the #Coronavirus: +22
The Media's net approval rating on its handling of the #Coronavirus: -11
The Media's solution? Consider whether or not to stop airing the President's briefings.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (8fB/R)
"This is going to be a test to see if people will finally listen to the scientists."
It's not in accord with the scientific method if people have to agree with you.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM
And we did listen. And we have found out that the "scientists" were MASSIVELY wrong.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (ouBhA)
gub'nor fatass of illnoize is probably going to extend to May. How the hell does TGE counteract that?
Posted by: Sam. Not a one name troll. Again at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (/LQkF)
In the sandbox their snipers excelled and but were called home for it.
Canada's changed much.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (ZQR/T)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:56 PM (Uu+Jp)
This.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: MKoepf at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (P2P8D)
I think the oxygen increased the patient's ph, made them more alkaline and that killed the virus because it could only survive in the host within a narrow ph range.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (l6b3d)
From what I can tell, most if not all of the cops in my town are in quarantine, so I think I'll drive really REALLY fast.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 12:59 PM (2BgZB)
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 12:59 PM (oTMWb)
Rump roast seasoned and ready to cook for dinner. Life is not only good, it goes on.
Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2020 12:57 PM (XxJt1
Great neighbors are a blessing, Creeper!
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 12:59 PM (ouBhA)
No I did not vote for him. Very few people in my province did.
And no I will not blame him if I get sick. Probably won't give him credit either if I don't get sick.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:59 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Brown Hornet at March 26, 2020 12:59 PM (3Djt/)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 12:59 PM (eAZVt)
Posted by: Sam. Not a one name troll. Again at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (/LQkF)
He doesn't. Let gub'nor fatass of illnoize put his cherished parts on the anvil. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong. Let's find out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Tomatoes?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Carrots
Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (+FPkr)
Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (MxEKc)
Texans too, it was called a Blue Norther.
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater
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90% of Americans have no clue that Idaho exists.
If you told them that Hawaii was right next to Montana they would believe you.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (fhCLs)
Zactly. But it will be used for the climate change agenda, make no mistake. This will become the normal response for new annual exotic contagions out of China or Africa (those are the really scary ones), which may be used to largely drive airlines out of business, with longer term attitude-reshaping by social media and relentless 24-7 propagandists shaming anyone that doesn't want to be on lockdown.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (EuPI/)
Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Sam. Not a one name troll. Again at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (/LQkF)
Allowing the rest of the country to resume normalcy while the governor keeps flying towards the mountain, I guess.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (t+qrx)
Shoot. Damned punctuation.
I'm giving up. Drinking for the next month.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (nBq51)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 12:46 PM (UWqZJ)
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That's another good point. States ranked the highest?
Look which side wanted states to be lackies subservient to the federal government?
Look who let them take the lead?
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (Eicbe)
https://twitter.com/DeionNBCMT/status/1242910540105576450
Reporter sees herd of bison coming for him. And, for once, someone responds properly.
About 99.99% of the time, never read the replies on a twitter thread. This is the exception. The replies are great and it's all just fun.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (mf5HN)
The Media's net approval rating on its handling of the #Coronavirus: -11
The Media's solution? Consider whether or not to stop airing the President's briefings.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (8fB/R)
Yep. Cut down on those pesky viewers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (Tatvh)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said @jaredkushner
has been "extraordinarily helpful" in assisting the state hit hardest by the #Coronavirus pandemic.
lots of pigs flying
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (8fB/R)
Who said "Collapse the world for protection!"
Two weeks later he retreated:
"My model should be deleted..."
"...but at least Trump might lose the election."
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (uEbPt)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said @jaredkushner
has been "extraordinarily helpful" in assisting the state hit hardest by the #Coronavirus pandemic.
lots of pigs flying
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (8fB/R)
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The Resistance has gotten weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (qLs5f)
Their blood was of higher alkalinity than normal.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (dzyR5)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (TNy/K)
Posted by: Sam. Not a one name troll. Again at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (/LQkF)
I suspect Trump would not have to do anything. Illinois residents will see everyone else return to normal with no viral threat increase and start to think maybe their governor is an idiot who does not deserve to be re-elected.
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (ouBhA)
Demanding Coronavirus Screenings, Mexican Protesters Prevent Americans From Crossing Border Down pointing backhand index
heh
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (8fB/R)
Fauci stuck with the one percent, saying it was ten times more lethal than flu. As data emerged showing it much lower, Fauci praised overreaction.
The federal government, Blue State and City governors and mayors, the propaganda outlets, and celebrity experts will be the hardest hit although all had little credibility left.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cats at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: Vic at March 26, 2020 12:19 PM (mpXpK)
Vaccines cause autism (Andrew Wakefield published an article in The Lancet in 199
Global Warming (Michael Mann, et.al)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
The Population Bomb (Paul Ehrlich)
These Intellectual Yet Idiots, to coin a phrase by Nicholas Taleb, have done incalculable damage to the world. There has been very little cost borne by them for their inaccuracies.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (iuFgi)
Posted by: I'm Hungry at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (ZQR/T)
Posted by: dagny at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (nRWPy)
We have to 'read' the blog?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 12:24 PM (QrImU)
Just the comments.
Posted by: Andrew at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (0x00j)
I'm guessing these would have been some of the actions:
1. Mandatory nationwide lock down.
2. Solid red states mandated to forward resources (masks, ventilators etc.) to states such as NY, California, Illinois.
3. Continued massive immigration.
4. Potentially martial law if it meant they could institute their pet policies into place making them much more difficult to remove in the future.
Posted by: Orson at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (jmFV5)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (dzyR5)
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From Wikipedia:
Author controversy
Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film's net profits.[64] However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him, using Hollywood accounting to posit that the blockbuster film lost money. Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for a percent share of the film's gross receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40 million.[64][65] Additionally, Groom was not mentioned once in any of the film's six Oscar-winner speeches.[66]
Groom's dispute with Paramount was later effectively resolved after Groom declared he was satisfied with Paramount's explanation of their accounting, this coinciding with Groom receiving a seven-figure contract with Paramount for film rights to another of his books, Gump & Co.[67] This film was never made, remaining in development hell for at least a dozen years.[68]
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (UWqZJ)
Fake News and Their "Experts" Have Been Weighed and Measured...
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 01:00 PM (fhCLs)
Mene mene tikal upharsin.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (aS1PU)
"Our main problem is that no one will ever get in trouble for measures that are too draconian. They will only get in trouble if they do too little. So, our politicians and those working with public health do much more than they should do.
"Should it turn out that the epidemic wanes before long, there will be a queue of people wanting to take credit for this. And we can be damned sure draconian measures will be applied again next time."
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (ArumA)
I'm now expecting this to happen every time a new strain of cold or flu to comes to this nation.
Posted by: Sooner at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: MKoepf at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (P2P8D)
Anybody can "order" anybody else to do just about anything - the trick is whether or not they will obey, and what kind of enforcement is available if people don't obey. In Texas, a County Judge could probably call on the County Sheriff and his deputies to enforce his orders, but they typically handle unincorporated areas only and are always spread pretty thin. City cops answer to the Mayor and the City Manager, with the advice of the City Council. They aren't under any County Judge, more like equals.
Everyone is obeying for the moment because of social pressure, not much else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (trdmm)
County population is about 131,000. No deaths reported for ChiCom Death to America virus. County is under semi shutdown and town is under stricter shutdown rules. This place's economic base is tourism/vacation. Nobody coming means no jobs for locals and local building grinds to a halt. Beach rentals fall which results in loss of revenue which leads to loss of real value which results in countywide loss of tax base.
Posted by: Agitator at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (oEmr5)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (dzyR5)
Rookie Mistake. The House always wins ...
Posted by: Adriane the Why I Do Declare Critic ... at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (LPnfS)
[using only right side of mouth]:
I AM THE LAW
Posted by: Judge Dredd at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (l6b3d)
You know, so Congress could oversee and kibbutz the President's actions, like the Founders meant in the Constitution!
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Puddin Head
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Read "Fatal Subtraction."
Hollywood has an army of accountants who can make it look like "Jaws" won't make a penny for the next 300 years.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (ArumA)
I'm guessing these would have been some of the actions:
1. Mandatory nationwide lock down.
2. Solid red states mandated to forward resources (masks, ventilators etc.) to states such as NY, California, Illinois.
3. Continued massive immigration.
4. Potentially martial law if it meant they could institute their pet policies into place making them much more difficult to remove in the future.
Posted by: Orson at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (jmFV5)
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Handled what?
We wouldn't have heard of it except for the occasional five second sound bite at the end of nightly news broadcasts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (CqE5x)
Yeah, it was the walking plants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Tomatoes?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2020 12:52 PM (xSo9G)
More like Triffids.
Posted by: YIKES! at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (2DOZq)
In the sandbox their snipers excelled and but were called home for it.
Canada's changed much.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 12:58 PM (ZQR/T)
their military is still great, and work closely with America's military
It's the government and the media. As in the US
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (r6yYr)
Posted by: IC at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Orson at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM
Nope.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (TNy/K)
Everyone is obeying for the moment because of social pressure, not much else.
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Can attest, these orders are in place. But they are not being enforced since most are complying. I don't think these orders changed the behavior of anyone.
Posted by: SH at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (sX1BW)
There is no model. We've never seen this thing before and we've never seen a reaction to a thing like this before.
I don't know about where you live, but here in Seattle, it's nearly a ghost town. We've never been more sanitary. We've never worn masks and gloves like this. We've never stayed home like this.
Claiming any improvement in numbers without taking these unprecedented steps into account is baffling. Only we aren't seeing an improvement in numbers. The only places that seem to have paused this thing are places that immediately imposed draconian measures. We are doing things on a more voluntary basis. And that is not going to work.
The Federalist is saying people should go out and get this on purpose. And yet yesterday you were wanting to execute some dipshit for licking products in a Walmart.
Get your story straight.
We can absolutely get things back to normal in three weeks. But only if no one transmits this thing in the next couple weeks. That's what China did.
A handful of people out of China spread this across the globe in a matter of weeks.
Posted by: Seattle Slough at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (IJG6N)
In real science, you have to deposit your raw data as supplementary material, so that anyone who is so inclined can repeat your calculations.
Conversely, if you refuse to do that, most reviewers and editors will reject your paper out of hand.
Crystallography is about as hard a science as you're going to find, and yet every crystallographic paper must have all of the raw reflection data (typically 4-5000 reflections) deposited as supplementary material, and the paper must specify the data reduction methodology and the programs (generally standard) used for such reduction.
Otherwise, adios, pendejo.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (Tatvh)
I don't think it was a random date. Numbers probably points that way.
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (zr5Kq)
I'm guessing these would have been some of the actions:
1. Kill someone she used to work with.
2. Fall on the floor and start shaking.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (ArumA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Orson at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM
Nope.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (TNy/K)
It would have ended in tears.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 12:44 PM (hHxp2)
yep
ALL of my inlaws.
I'm looking for retirement property in SC and won't look back.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2020 01:01 PM (axyOa)
There's a Oxford Comma joke in there somewhere!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (BiNEL)
Seems Groom signed up for 3% of the profits on the movie and receive not a penny. How does that work on a movie with $678M at box office?
Hollywood accounting.
Posted by: Zombie Cecil B. Demille at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (PtOP4)
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (dzyR5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (UWqZJ)
I dunno, other countries are freaking out - do you think the media could've covered it up here?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Sooner"
Yep. Like the extreme panic and shutdown on every prediction of a snow flurry in Georgia which is now standard because there was a real storm 10 years ago.
Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (MxEKc)
In real science, you have to deposit your raw data as supplementary material, so that anyone who is so inclined can repeat your calculations.
Conversely, if you refuse to do that, most reviewers and editors will reject your paper out of hand.
Crystallography is about as hard a science as you're going to find, and yet every crystallographic paper must have all of the raw reflection data (typically 4-5000 reflections) deposited as supplementary material, and the paper must specify the data reduction methodology and the programs (generally standard) used for such reduction.
Otherwise, adios, pendejo.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM (Tatvh)
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My main stats professor went on a holy crusade when I brought a "study" to his attention that linked cola drinking with violent behavior in students.
He contacted the author who refused to show him the data.
He used it as an example in class of shitty studies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: dagny at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (nRWPy)
It's one of the big downsides of Democracy (even indirect democracy in a republican form). It's a flaw built into the system, we can only hope that it doesn't come up too often, and that we can survive the mistakes that will inevitably be made when it does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (trdmm)
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On what show? I don't get ads when I'm watching things.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (2BgZB)
Sign for a % of the gross.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (ZQR/T)
Holy moly. It is all they think about!
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (JRaU+)
Posted by: Regular joe at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (6/uwW)
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (Eicbe)
I didn't know that - but see my prediction in the last thread about how we're going to have to suffer through a month of Coronavirus Hearings this summer. Which will be just another Democrat electioneering marketing campaign and sham like shampeachment, and every bit as bullshit-filled and maddening. At least there will be more book deals.
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 26, 2020 12:49 PM (H3ZEL)
LOL, I said that to the inlaws once. No one in the US every even thinks of Canada. I never did. This enrages them.
They are literally obsessed.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (8fB/R)
"I said very early on, as a Senator and continue to believe, as a presidential candidate and now as president, that we can absorb a terrorist attack. We will do everything we can to prevent it. but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever, that ever took place on our soil, we absorbed it, and we are stronger. This is a strong, powerful country that we live in, and our people are incredibly resilient."
obama, 2010, after he let us "absorb" the chinese swine flue.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (fhCLs)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (o2MD2)
making its way around the building.
Someone bamboo shiv my eardrums... please.
Posted by: dananjcon at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (u6xw0)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (0O7c5)
I'm guessing these would have been some of the actions:
1. Get drunk.
2. Throw a hotel room lamp at Bill.
3. Send Podesta out to talk to the crowd.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (ArumA)
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On what show? I don't get ads when I'm watching things.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (2BgZB)
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Picard.
And it seems like every episode starts with a flashback.
This show is not well constructed. At all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Alanr at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (v7b8O)
Do you think we have done this for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic?
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (2DOZq)
Anyone else curious how Hillary would have handled this?
I'm guessing these would have been some of the actions:
1. Kill someone she used to work with.
2. Fall on the floor and start shaking.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 01:06 PM
embrace the power of "and"
Posted by: AltonJackson
...and remember that we are not descended from fearful men
at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (9C0cu)
With enough variables, I can get an R-Squared be whatever you want it to be.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (2BgZB)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Puddin Head
Easy. They charge off every overhead right down to the gardeners mowing the lawn and studio chief's mistress getting an abortion against the profits of the movie.
If Groom had had any sense, he'd have demanded a percentage of the gross.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: dagny at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (nRWPy)
It's the end of the world as we know it.
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (0O7c5)
Annie Lowrey @AnnieLowrey
It would be better if the 3.3 million initial-claims number were higher: We want people to stop working to help stem the public-health catastrophe, and we want UI to cover everyone who has lost work.
I'm sure she deleted this.
Ekdahl had the perfect reply.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 12:55 PM (8fB/R)
I don't know who Annie Lowrey is, but she really should've brushed her hair for her Wikipedia page picture.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (Ez6QX)
Kung Flu
The viruses love globalist
and toilet seat lickers too.
Hey mom.....look what i wrote.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (neb64)
Posted by: Emmie at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (ouBhA)
I've met people who live outside the Chicago core. They'd be ready to drag the Governor and his entire stuff behind a truck at high speed. Trump knows how to pressure the least affected governors while holding out the carrot of ventilator help, and he knows how to brutally punish California and New York. Hell, I think maintaining a quarantine order on NYC until the election would be very beneficial.
Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (t9PwF)
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On what show? I don't get ads when I'm watching things.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (2BgZB)
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Picard.
And it seems like every episode starts with a flashback.
This show is not well constructed. At all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts
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Again, odd...I don't get ads when I watch Picard...which is a pity because they would break up the monotony.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (2BgZB)
It's the government and the media. As in the US
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:05 PM (8fB/R)
they have good troops for sure. The society is to blame for teaching the kids that America is a bad place. Now one thing that should be obvious here is the same has gone on in the USA for a long time. American anti-Americanism is real for sure.
But even the CBC had a bit of a laugh when they asked Canadian students to raise their hands if they thought their country was better than America. Pretty much everyone raised their hand. Then they asked if they thought Canada was better than other countries, and they all put their hands down. That was the funny part, if that is the right term.
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (pS94+)
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (fhCLs)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (2BgZB)
Hence Occam's Razor.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (Tatvh)
And it seems like every episode starts with a flashback.
This show is not well constructed. At all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (UWqZJ)
Well, you could always, I don't know, not watch it.
Pop in Doomsday Machine or Courtmartial.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Kazi at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (0x00j)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (TNy/K)
If you don't like how Trump has been handling the WooHoo Virus, what do you think President Hillary would have done differently?
Likely answer: "She would have listened to the experts!"
Actual correct answer: based on how her husband behaved in the 1990s, she would have had everything poll tested before taking any action. Her toadies would have quietly made clear to the MSM that they check with Clinton's advisors before reporting anything. People from Fox News would somehow never get to ask any questions.
Posted by: mallfly of the Lamamoors at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (4a9Vv)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (dzyR5)
They are literally obsessed.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (8fB/R)
Does anyone even live there? I mean, really?
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM
Meh. I feel fine.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (ejd/p)
And it seems like every episode starts with a flashback.
This show is not well constructed. At all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (UWqZJ)
Well, you could always, I don't know, not watch it.
Pop in Doomsday Machine or Courtmartial.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (QrImU)
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I've got movies saved on STARZ to watch. So it's either this or Heaven's Gate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (UWqZJ)
Besides the prognosticators raving about Armageddon predictions, enjoying the spotlight a little too much (using every high end of every range) ... the bigger issue is doctors come out with great results from the HCQ + cocktail, and for some reason (TDS?) many doctors refuse to use it.
Nevada Gov' actually orders it not be used, I assume many doctors are using it, and the one we know had 100% success with 350 cases (that tested positive, I assume). And at least one testimonial, the patient himself did the research and had to convince the doctor to let him try it.
Apparently the old protocol is to treat the symptoms, but not try anything not FDA approved (via years long studies). Since the malaria treatment is known to be safe, that just seems insane, and hopefully the eye on an ICU full of $10k/day patients has nothing to do with their decisions ... cuz hospitals would never do unwarranted and expensive procedures to pad their bottom line ... or be too afraid to try for fear of lawsuits.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (Cus5s)
"Everyone is obeying for the moment because of social pressure, not much else."
It will be interesting when people start to disobey, which probably will start in a few days.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cats at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (puu6v)
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Sorry you can't get your teeth cleaned, but you can still kill your baby.
Posted by: SH at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 26, 2020 01:09 PM (Ez6QX)
The Atlantic, I believe. One of those
She did delete it. Bongino had linked to it too and it is now gone.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (UWqZJ)
The choice is not binary!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (QrImU)
Some of the Texas commenters have mentioned that there are officials in Texas called "county judges" who aren't judicial judges, but rather executives for the unincorporated areas of a county. So it is likely that under the Texas constitution and statutes this executive has that police power to order quarantines.
Or you could look up Texas government and how it works in that state.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (in24S)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (UWqZJ)
The choice is not binary!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (QrImU)
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Hmmm...
Prometheus and Alien Covenant double feature...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Alanr at March 26, 2020 01:08 PM (v7b8O)
Re modeling, if you could accurately model anything, what would it be?
Global warming ... um ... no. The stock market? You betcha. Do you suppose financial institutions are interested in doing that, and have the resources to do it? I'm guessing yes. Have they done it successfully? I'm guessing no.
QED on the efficacy of modeling.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 26, 2020 12:22 PM (88+cf)
........
I'm getting Sciatica Granny.
She's holding on to a chair, looks like she's throwing up. Must be the WuFlu.
Posted by: wth at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (v0R5T)
Anyone else curious how Hillary would have handled this?
I'm guessing these would have been some of the actions:
1. Get drunk.
2. Throw a hotel room lamp at Bill.
3. Send Podesta out to talk to the crowd.
Posted by: RKae
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I've been wondering and asking that myself. No joke, I think #1 is accurate, but then I think she launches herself around 11:00 am every day no matter what.
I honestly can't imagine what she'd be doing, but she and her friends would be getting rich.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: dagny at March 26, 2020 01:03 PM (nRWPy)
Newfies drink "screech"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (TNy/K)
Prometheus and Alien Covenant double feature...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (UWqZJ)
*washes hands of the matter, pops in Rio Bravo*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:13 PM (QrImU)
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 01:13 PM (hHxp2)
County population is about 131,000. No deaths reported for ChiCom Death to America virus. County is under semi shutdown and town is under stricter shutdown rules. This place's economic base is tourism/vacation. Nobody coming means no jobs for locals and local building grinds to a halt. Beach rentals fall which results in loss of revenue which leads to loss of real value which results in countywide loss of tax base.
Posted by: Agitator
Denton County, Texas. 70 cases of Whoo-Hoo Flu.
Population - 859,064.
Shut down over 70 cases.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 01:13 PM (Vddbf)
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 01:13 PM (zr5Kq)
Money ($25 million) pissed away on the Kennedy Center=500 to 1,000 ventilators.
Money ($75 million) pissed away on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting=1,500 to 3,000 ventilators.
Okay then. lolgf
Posted by: Stu-22 at March 26, 2020 01:14 PM (kZT36)
Posted by: wth at March 26, 2020 01:14 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 26, 2020 01:14 PM (LxTcq)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (dzyR5)
I liked the book a lot. Very different from the movie.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 26, 2020 01:14 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 01:13 PM (hHxp2)
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I've seen it once, many years ago, and was bored by it.
But the movie, especially the Director's Cut, has its fans, so I've decided to give it another shot.
It's just almost 4 hours long, and I want to give it the attention it deserves.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:14 PM (UWqZJ)
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Groom has also written a number of popular (as opposed to academic) histories. Shrouds of Glory, about the Civil War battles of Franklin and Nashville, and Storm Over Flanders, WWI in microcosm, are two of my favorites.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 26, 2020 01:14 PM (+y/Ru)
So what was it that killed the virus in The Andromeda Strain.
I can't remember.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 26, 2020 12:47 PM (Uu+Jp)
I thought I had that book but after looking it up I found Amazon wants
$13 for it. I'll pass.
Posted by: Vic at March 26, 2020 01:15 PM (mpXpK)
In a few months we'll find out china murdered hundreds of thousands, probably with Chlorine, to stop the virus.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 01:15 PM (fhCLs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM (UWqZJ)
The choice is not binary!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (QrImU)
We started watching 1917. Not a fan of war movies because they upset me so much now. The first 15 minutes weren't too bad, and then hubby got a call from work.
Haven't returned yet, but an interesting premise.
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:15 PM (8fB/R)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 26, 2020 01:15 PM (87EdW)
They've shoveled the shit off the sidewalks?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:15 PM (Tatvh)
Haven't returned yet, but an interesting premise.
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 01:15 PM (8fB/R)
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Apparently, it's subtly steeped in Catholic imagery. For instance, it takes place on Good Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (UWqZJ)
My favorite bit of media panic mongering... In a newscast on one of my local Vremya broadcasts (where they buried the lede about the government enforced lockdown in my state), they did a profile of a rural doctor working on The Virus! in his community...
at one point, they cut to him webcasting from his office. "It will be a miracle if I don't contract this before this is all over!" he says.
Then, I shit you not, they cut to a photo of him slumped over his desk, with sad music playing, and slowly zoom in on it, while a voiceover declaims:
"He's just one doctor fighting for his patients' lives, in a war that no one saw coming..."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (II2Y0)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Yeah, I agree, but the producers had to do quite a bit of rewrite to come up with the movie they made. They kept Groom's characters, but they did some serious remodeling on the stories (actually creating two stories) and cleaning up some of Grooms' best lines. Glad to hear got something for it. The book was a bit choppy, but overall very fun reading.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (dzyR5)
Posted by: vrf at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (8ZODY)
Posted by: Caliban at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (QE8X6)
US bank "temporarily closed" (multiple branches)
Called ph #. No idea when they will reopen.
Wow, no warning
Posted by: seamrog at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (oZAA7)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 26, 2020 01:17 PM (neb64)
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at March 26, 2020 01:17 PM (fhCLs)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2020 01:17 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2020 01:17 PM (l6b3d)
Unless I have something wrong here.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 12:27 PM
Yes, this is the same model that Mayors and Governors have been using to justify their "stay-at-home" orders.
Look up the article from JJ Sefton's Morning Report about "COVID-19 Act Now":
https://bit.ly/2WMLh0C
Posted by: Clyde Shelton, a law abiding citizen at March 26, 2020 01:18 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:11 PM
Most I've met are good folks. Assholes wherever you go. I can be there in a few hours. Used to go to go on remote camping and fishing trips every year. But their restrictions on fish limits got worse and worse and they were absolute assholes at the border. literally they went out of their way to be dicks to Americans. If you had a DWI 10 years ago they will not let you enter. Happened to a friend of mine. We finally said fuck it, We won't give you guys another dime. there's plenty of lakes around here that are great so GFY. But the actual everyday people I met were nice folks. Their govt. assholes.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2020 01:18 PM (TNy/K)
No paper goods whatsoever, nary a small cube of Kleenex. Sanitizer, faggedaboudit. Any kind of wipes, not even a bad joke. Formula 409, none. Pet food aisle has tumbleweeds blowing through it.
Did score some Jimmy Dean sausage as the stock clerk was taking them out of the box. That's been wiped for weeks.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 26, 2020 01:18 PM (KxVoZ)
Texas Governor Greg Abbott tells NY Governor to shove a barbed wire wrapped pineapple up his ass sideways and stops abortions in Texas during coronavirus quarantine.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 01:18 PM (Vddbf)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:07 PM (dzyR5)
Agitator, not alligator, but thinking about changing since the leftists and communists have given agitating a bad name. Down the river from Wilmington in Oak Island.
Posted by: Agitator at March 26, 2020 01:18 PM (oEmr5)
Posted by: Regular joe at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (6/uwW)
Some of the Texas commenters have mentioned that there are officials in Texas called "county judges" who aren't judicial judges, but rather executives for the unincorporated areas of a county. So it is likely that under the Texas constitution and statutes this executive has that police power to order quarantines.
Or you could look up Texas government and how it works in that state.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 01:12 PM (in24S)
I believe that's the theory being used to justify it. The problem is that Quarantines before now have always applied to those who are ill or who have been exposed. There is no precedent in Law for a judge to quarantine people who have NOT been exposed, but who they worry might be exposed at some future point, maybe. Because that would be a grant of Absolute Power, based on nothing but the Judge's whim.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (2ygtH)
Then heorsheorit has a reading comprehension problem: The initial panic study had invalid input parameters in the model.
This admission comes from the author of the study.
What Seattle is doing, was doing, or will be doing does not change the fact that the author of initial panic study had invalid input parameters in his model and has admitted it.
Posted by: Adriane the Why I Do Declare Critic ... at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (LPnfS)
*flies into a thread, shits and flies away.
Posted by: Kazi at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (0x00j)
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 26, 2020 01:16 PM (dzyR5)
OK, but that just affects the percentage of the gross he should get. He should have known that Hollywood can rob you with a pencil.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (Tatvh)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 01:10 PM (G546f)
Yes
Posted by: JoeF. at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (CqE5x)
Predictably, Amazon workers still employed now are super-worried that working will kill them. So they are sort of hinting they think Amazon ought to do the right thing and close up delivery centers and lay everyone off. So they can collect the same money for not working, like so many others.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cats at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (puu6v)
Apparently there's word out that eating Doritos keeps you from getting the flu. The entire aisle was radically depopulated.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (E+OcO)
His new bullshit -- and his "model" is, like all alleged global warming models, completely based on whatever bullshit assumptions you start the model with
Like reinforcing amplification loops that are baked into the "climate models"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Chris M at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (eAZVt)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (ZQR/T)
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Hitler ordered von Manstein to relieve the troops encircled in the Stalingrad pocket. Manstein asked that trains transporting Jews to the east be reassigned to transport troops to relieve Stalingrad. He was refused. Priorities.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 26, 2020 01:21 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 01:21 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2020 01:22 PM (XxJt1)
Read Forrest Gump by Winston Groom yesterday. The books is quite funny but the story is basically different from the movie and there are lot of other characters that got cut from the movie. Seems Groom signed up for 3% of the profits on the movie and receive not a penny. How does that work on a movie with $678M at box office?
Posted by: Puddin Head
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Read "Fatal Subtraction."
Hollywood has an army of accountants who can make it look like "Jaws" won't make a penny for the next 300 years.
Posted by: RKae at March 26, 2020 01:04 PM (ArumA)
Which is why when Hollywood bitches about how thin their profit margins are, or that they're in danger of having the entertainment market collapse, I reach for my Browning.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2020 01:23 PM (EGyGV)
1. Collect the checks.
2. Cash the checks.
3. Have the critics wiretapped and framed by the Nat/Sec Apparatus.
4. Shoot the whistleblower in the back. Twice.
5. *Coughing* fit. Followed by binge drinking.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 26, 2020 01:23 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 26, 2020 01:23 PM (2ygtH)
One of the claims the doomers make is that the mortality rate that gets mentioned is not just from confirmed cases.
Posted by: Erebus at March 26, 2020 01:23 PM (LURX1)
Which is really the point right? Anomaly theory, if you have a large enough sample size, and look for particular results eventually you will find them. Idiots with bad models are not nearly as much to blame as those who cherry pick those models, promote and disseminate them to instill panic. Those are assholes have committed crimes against humanity in the case they did it deliberately which I think is the case, voluntary manslaughter in the case it was accidental.
When anyone in modern times makes the claim of journalistic integrity, it should be laughed at. Followed by "we treat you as journalists not because you are, almost without fail you are not; but because we don't want to accidentally not treat a real journalist as a respected journalist, on the extremely remote chance we run across one"
Posted by: mikethemoose at March 26, 2020 01:23 PM (Y6UV7)
I'm guessing that she thinks well enough of you to send you her thoughts, unless she just sends them out to everybody, so what is your response in return? Do you just ignore her? Tell her you loathe she and her minds f** or just say "I don't believe that Gaia has a mind or that she's punishing us" and send her this article on this Wuhan Flu alarmist.
I find it odd that some of the same people who decry the God of Christians as being an evil being who hates humanity and wants to punish us, or who don't believe in God and who talk sneeringly about "Big Daddy in the Sky", seem to gleefully attribute a malevolent mind to the Earth claiming She wants to get back at us for environmental depredations.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2020 01:24 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 01:24 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 26, 2020 01:24 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: mallfly of the Lamamoors at March 26, 2020 01:27 PM (4a9Vv)
And if he doesn't, we get to execute him. Right?
If you aren't willing to put your ass on the line for your prediction of this sort, then STFU.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 12:33 PM (Tatvh)
Does the Queen still own the Tower, and a museum quality collection of axes?
Posted by: Fox2! at March 26, 2020 01:28 PM (SXmvw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2020 01:19 PM (trdmm)
Welcome to New America.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2020 01:28 PM (ZQR/T)
Population - 859,064.
Shut down over 70 cases.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 01:13 PM (Vddbf)
Remarkably close infection rate .81% vs .76%.
Posted by: Agitator at March 26, 2020 01:29 PM (oEmr5)
Posted by: Blago at March 26, 2020 01:30 PM (sjTfF)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 26, 2020 01:30 PM (UUBmN)
And how many unconfirmed cases are there for every confirmed case? Right now that is a swag, and the difference between 1-2-3-4 all very reasonable numbers with the current data is the difference between 1%, 0.5%, 0.3%, 0.25% fatality rates. When you say fatality is someplace between a bad flu season and the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu, you're not being informative your being speculative. And your pessimism, while it is good personal precaution, is not a good basis for global economic matters that could kill millions, which should revolve around actual information not fear of the worst possible scenario the limited data provides.
Posted by: mikethemoose at March 26, 2020 01:33 PM (Y6UV7)
Posted by: Deep State 368 at March 26, 2020 12:51 PM (qLs5f)
Their blood was of higher alkalinity than normal.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 01:02 PM (NWiLs)
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Almost. The virus survived in a specific pH range. The baby and the drunk were outside the range, at opposite ends.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 01:36 PM (CAJOC)
Apparently there's word out that eating Doritos keeps you from getting the flu. The entire aisle was radically depopulated.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 26, 2020 01:20 PM (E+OcO)
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Twinkies are still in short supply. They've got banana flavored, and chocolated-covered, but not the original.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 01:37 PM (CAJOC)
Our curve isn't even close to flattening. Unlike most illnesses, this one is transmissible before you know you have it. That's why we are social distancing. No one knows whether they have it or not for days. Some people's immune system has no trouble with it and they walk around thinking they don't have it, yet they are spreading it to hundreds of others.
I hope you are all right. That this is much ado about swine flu 2. But if you think this person in England is the only person raising the alarm, you aren't paying attention. Listen to the CDC and our Surgeon General.
For a party that complained about "death panels" a few years ago, you are all being awfully cavalier about what this this does. Which is shred old people's lungs. In Italy, they ran out of ventilators weeks ago. You know what they had to do? No ventilators for those over 60.
Italy has over 8000 deaths and counting. And that country is a fucking ghost town. If they flatten their curve will it be because this isn't a big deal or because they all locked themselves in their houses for a few weeks? Do we want to find out?
Well, the way the conservatives in this country are acting, it seems we are going to.
Posted by: Seattle Slough at March 26, 2020 01:44 PM (IJG6N)
They are literally obsessed.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette
it must be difficult for american/canadian/mexican marriages as one spouse has basically given up their country and their identity in some ways and imagine saying something positive about your country and being told by people if you don't like it here go back to your own country, either way depending where they live, that's got to be tough.
i mean there's people here that are extremely protective of their own state! let alone their country, that's got to be stressful on a relationship/spouse.
especially when you factor in the inlaws.
Posted by: blackdogs at March 26, 2020 01:46 PM (EK1ea)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 26, 2020 01:47 PM (f7Img)
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=366423
Seattle Seagull/Slew is so concerned it makes regular appearances every three years.
Posted by: Kazi at March 26, 2020 01:51 PM (0x00j)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 26, 2020 01:37 PM (CAJOC)
All-purpose flour has been missing at WalMart, but not sugar or coffee.
Posted by: FloridaMan - still believes this is overreaction at March 26, 2020 01:51 PM (r28kI)
Posted by: FloridaMan - still believes this is overreaction at March 26, 2020 01:52 PM (r28kI)
Better luck next time?
Stop fetishizing PhDs and realize they're all invested in something and want to peddle their bullshit at everyone else's expense.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2020 01:57 PM (1Kcet)
Posted by: Common Tater at March 26, 2020 01:57 PM (bG/5x)
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 26, 2020 02:05 PM (MVR7y)
Posted by: Caliban
LOL
"I'm concerned that you're not taking that concern troll seriously."
Posted by: Biergood at March 26, 2020 02:07 PM (FQWHA)
Posted by: Nikola's Notion at March 26, 2020 02:55 PM (hrHLc)
Posted by: @gidyupz at March 26, 2020 03:47 PM (nc6KU)
Motto of the Royal Society: "Take no one's word for it?" When are you experts going to start listening to the real scientists?
Posted by: madrocketsci at March 26, 2020 03:59 PM (+G8SK)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (FLiOE)
And perhaps a second open thread to document/link and screenshot the ridiculous predictions from the MSM.
Because this stuff -- the grotesque scamster predictions from Acknowledged Elite Experts -- will be memory-holed faster than any of us can blink unless we can gather the links and the screen shots to their claims.
Posted by: Igor at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (1A8Xt)
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