Mid-Morning Art Thread

South Street Stoop
O. Louis Guglielmi

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 OT: first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:31 AM (zZbCU)

2 art

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:31 AM (zr5Kq)

3 Very Hopper like.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:31 AM (X/Pw5)

4 Hopscotch during the lockdown

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 09:32 AM (8JqLB)

5 Streets are empty - just like Main St. USA today.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:32 AM (N39Ws)

6 A race of angels bound with one another
A dish of dollars laid out for all to see
A tower room at Eden Rock
His golf at noon for free

Brooklyn owes the charmer under me
Brooklyn owes the charmer under me

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 02, 2020 09:32 AM (JFO2v)

7 Is she playing solo hop scotch?

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:33 AM (X/Pw5)

8 What is that box of cornflakes in the lower left hand corner?

Posted by: Engelwood at April 02, 2020 09:34 AM (jzYSt)

9 It's post 1883 because that's when the Brooklyn Bridge was finished. The drawing looks 1930s.

South Street Seaport was the coolest after work place to drink in the 80s. It had just been converted from a ratty fish market. Is it still? I haven't been back there in ages.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 02, 2020 09:34 AM (gd9RK)

10 Is that a box of N95 masks by the steps?

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2020 09:34 AM (OAlmw)

11 Guesses when this was painted. I am going to say late 1930's to early 1040's.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:34 AM (zr5Kq)

12 The two figures in the background aren't practicing social distancing.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:34 AM (NWiLs)

13 These tree yutes in da back dere, whadda they doin'?

Posted by: Cheriebebe at April 02, 2020 09:35 AM (a4qVe)

14 Is that bridge for sale ? hahaha

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:35 AM (zr5Kq)

15
Yes, it dates from the 20th Century. Very much like this artist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (pS94+)

16 Hop scotch is the sidewalk game she is playing.

Posted by: azalea city at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (WX+x0)

17 Fire hydrant near the corner? Awful close to the curb....ain't gonna last.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (X/Pw5)

18 Looks like those old Colorforms back in the day - like you could peel her off and slap her somewhere else on the page.

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (9IkUJ)

19 15 These tree yutes in da back dere, whadda they doin'?
Posted by: Cheriebebe at April 02, 2020 09:35 AM (a4qVe)
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Three what? What's a yute?

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (OAlmw)

20 Reminds me of Once Upon a Time in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (zZbCU)

21 This is a GREAT BOOK

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 02, 2020 09:37 AM (JFO2v)

22 Ah! A current day scene of NYC at rush hour! Have you noticed that the woman in the red dress must be some kind of Leprechaun, since she's only 2 feet tall?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:37 AM (V2Yro)

23 Is that a hookah on the stoop?

I do like the colors. It has a Art Deco feeling to me.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at April 02, 2020 09:37 AM (a4qVe)

24 NYPD will be along to choke them to death shortly.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:37 AM (NWiLs)

25 18
Yes, it dates from the 20th Century. Very much like this artist.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:36 AM (pS94+)

JJ remembers hitting on that gal in the red dress.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (JFO2v)

26 It is no naked fat guy.

Posted by: schnibble wibbke at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (uGXTk)

27 Tree yutes? Dere are two yutes. Maybe it's time for a new pair of glasses.

Posted by: Vincent Gambini, Esq. at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (ejd/p)

28 Serious question about this artwork: what makes this rendering, versus scores of others we all see in our lives (or I should say, former lives ... when we were actually able to go out and visit shops), a winner? I'm not trying to be snarky here at all. It's a nice piece. But through my naive eyes, it doesn't look any more refined or different or special than a lot of stuff I've seen on the street.

This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank. Why do some people become famous for what they do, and some people never make a dime from it? Is there some kind of herd mentality in the art world where the 'in crowd' tells us what is great and what isn't?
Anyway, I guess being forced to be cooped up in my house is leading me to ask questions I normally keep to myself.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (pmRSz)

29 No rats, not an honest depiction

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (8JqLB)

30 27 NYPD will be along to choke them to death shortly.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:37 AM (NWiLs)

Kulaks and selling loosies are biggest threat to society.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 02, 2020 09:39 AM (JFO2v)

31 RBG's vaunted workout routine?

Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2020 09:39 AM (kOpft)

32 My first guess before I scrolled down was Edward Hopper. It has that same "I'm all alone here" feeling as many of his works do.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 02, 2020 09:39 AM (rpbg1)

33 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 02, 2020 09:40 AM (arJlL)

34 The yutes are failing to maintain social distancing.

Posted by: Basement Cat at April 02, 2020 09:40 AM (pPNCa)

35 Morning.

Looks bleak. The painting.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 02, 2020 09:40 AM (qn6g2)

36 Hopper-esque

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:40 AM (nRWPy)

37 At least it's not Naked Fat Guy on an Ottoman. So we have that going for us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2020 09:40 AM (ejd/p)

38
What is that thing on the left?

Looks like a Little Hobo Monkey with his Mini Circus Tent.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 09:40 AM (z0XD8)

39 There is an IED in the lower left og the picture.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (90T4r)

40 not this weird ass bullshit again.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (CLteG)

41 This painting generates feelings of confinement, foreboding, foreshadowing and futility.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (zr5Kq)

42 Is that Jackie Kennedy doing hop scotch?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (2DOZq)

43 Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank.

There's a reason he was called Jack the Dripper.

Posted by: Basement Cat at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (pPNCa)

44 That's Ladyl when she can't get a tennis game.

Posted by: JT at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (arJlL)

45 Someone should do an updated version, with hobos crapping on the sidewalks, heroin dealers, and trannies.

Posted by: PabloD at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (s3d20)

46 44 This painting generates feelings of confinement, foreboding, foreshadowing and futility.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (zr5Kq)

Huh. Doesn't look like a wedding.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (NWiLs)

47 Jeebus this painting is bad. Like something I'd find at Goodwill bad.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 09:42 AM (xAWn5)

48 Please to note lack of fauna and flora.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:42 AM (zr5Kq)

49 This painting generates feelings of confinement, foreboding, foreshadowing and futility.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM

And fugues. And fanstasy. And failure.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2020 09:42 AM (ejd/p)

50 This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank.

I've always assumed that Rothko's mother was disappointed.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:42 AM (nRWPy)

51 Looks like the Fulton Street fish market before it opens. Nice area of Manhattan to stroll around in the daytime but not so nice at night.

Posted by: Scuba Dude at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (Oq/TM)

52 46 Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank.

There's a reason he was called Jack the Dripper.
Posted by: Basement Cat at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (pPNCa)

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Apparently he had real mental problems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (zZbCU)

53 Bosch is better, 500 years prior.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (CLteG)

54 48 Someone should do an updated version, with hobos crapping on the sidewalks, heroin dealers, and trannies.
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That would require artist talent and brush work. Just look at the barbie doll in the red coat to know this will never happen with this artist.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (xAWn5)

55 A reminder that we used to build awe inspiring things. A Brooklyn Bridge now wouldn't inspire in the same way as it did then, but to see that and an Empire State Building must have been something.

Then generations saw us walk on the moon. How amazing.

I truly believe that this country needs to do something truly awe inspiring.

Perhaps when this is over, an announcement that we will go to Mars within 10 years would be that. Honestly, I do not know if that is physically (and I mean physics) possible.

But this country needs something to truly inspire them. Something that can be seen.

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (sX1BW)

56 56 Bosch is better, 500 years prior.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (CLteG)

He was, creative.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (90T4r)

57 Are we still doing the "I think I am going to kill myself" memes? Because I see many possibilities here.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (flINI)

58 Emergency! Everybody to get from street!

Posted by: Some Russian at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (ejd/p)

59 Hopscotch girl seems to be floating, but it's unclear where. I suppose she's supposed to be mid jump, but without a shadow, it's hard to see just how high up off the ground she is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (zZbCU)

60 There are a few interesting clash-of-opposites going on here. The classical-ish building on the left next to the modern factory/warehouse in the background. The orange on the classical building clashing with the steel-blue warehouse. Also, the warm colors on the building and the girl are kept to the left, while the cool colors dominate the right. This is a bright, cloudless, sunny day, but the warehouse is in shadow. This is a painting full of "things" but the street is mostly empty. Most of the forms are rectangular or strict vertical/horizontal shapes and lines, but the extreme background is a jungle of steep, thin diagonal lines.

Posted by: Kris at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (VQp/A)

61 Anyway, I guess being forced to be cooped up in my house is leading me to ask questions I normally keep to myself.
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (pmRSz)

Here's a shorthand answer: everything made after 1914 has been total crap, differing only in the amount of ridiculous crappiness it contains. The painting above belongs to the school of quasi-realistic crap, as opposed to the craptastic crap that puts all other crap to shame, like Jackson Pollack.

1914 because that's when Western Civilization chose to commit suicide. Nobody here but us zombies after that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (V2Yro)

62 South Street Seaport is Brooklyn not Manhattan? Or no?

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (nRWPy)

63 I like the blue in the sky and the gal's red coat. That's all I got.

Posted by: bluebell at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (/669Q)

64 The girl looks as if she's levitating above the hopscotch grid.

Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (UFgOG)

65 58 A reminder that we used to build awe inspiring things. A Brooklyn Bridge now wouldn't inspire in the same way as it did then, but to see that and an Empire State Building must have been something.

Then generations saw us walk on the moon. How amazing.

I truly believe that this country needs to do something truly awe inspiring.

Perhaps when this is over, an announcement that we will go to Mars within 10 years would be that. Honestly, I do not know if that is physically (and I mean physics) possible.

But this country needs something to truly inspire them. Something that can be seen.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (sX1BW)

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When more of Generation Z wants to be a Youtube influencer than an astronaut, I think there's gonna be serious problems inspiring awe in the country as a whole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (zZbCU)

66 53 This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank.
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Pollock was a drunk.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (xAWn5)

67 Made me think of Red Coat Girl in Schindler's List, for some reason.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (90T4r)

68 I like this one. Thanks Mr Dildo!

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (aVmAZ)

69
The Naked Fat Guy on the Ottoman is staring at this bleak scene from the balcony window to the left.

His unseen presence represents your own nekkidness as you sit on the toilet wishing it was a nice clean ottoman instead of a yawning, whirlpool of Doom and shit.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (z0XD8)

70 62 Hopscotch girl seems to be floating, but it's unclear where. I suppose she's supposed to be mid jump, but without a shadow, it's hard to see just how high up off the ground she is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (zZbCU)

compare here to the stoop she's standing in front of. I still say she's only 2 feet tall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (V2Yro)

71 53 This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank>>>>

The best Pollock painting was done by Norman Rockwell.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (2DOZq)

72 49 44 This painting generates feelings of confinement, foreboding, foreshadowing and futility.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (zr5Kq)

Huh. Doesn't look like a wedding.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:41 AM (NWiLs)

O.K., I laughed a good laugh.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (CLteG)

73 Made me think of Red Coat Girl in Schindler's List, for some reason.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (90T4r)

I thought Schindler's List was b&w?

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (X/Pw5)

74 Art did go to crap. Hell, if you go to the National Gallery even the Renoirs look like shit across the hall from the Renaissance artists.

There were some magnificent landscapes by Copeland et al, but other than that, looking at painting man peaked in the late Renaissance.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (nRWPy)

75 59 56 Bosch is better, 500 years prior.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (CLteG)

He was, creative.
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Like Bosch. Love Brugal the Elder.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (xAWn5)

76 When more of Generation Z wants to be a Youtube influencer than an astronaut, I think there's gonna be serious problems inspiring awe in the country as a whole.

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It has to come from the top.

I do give credit to JFK for laying down a marker for the nation to achieve something. And we did.

But we also risked lives to do it. Just as lives were lost building the Brooklyn Bridge (staying on topic).

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (sX1BW)

77 Little known fact, that girl, in red coat, grows up to be a union leader. With mob connections.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (zr5Kq)

78 74 62 Hopscotch girl seems to be floating, but it's unclear where. I suppose she's supposed to be mid jump, but without a shadow, it's hard to see just how high up off the ground she is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (zZbCU)

compare here to the stoop she's standing in front of. I still say she's only 2 feet tall.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (V2Yro)

Thumbellina.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (90T4r)

79 78 Art did go to crap. Hell, if you go to the National Gallery even the Renoirs look like shit across the hall from the Renaissance artists.

There were some magnificent landscapes by Copeland et al, but other than that, looking at painting man peaked in the late Renaissance.
Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (nRWPy)

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I blame the abandonment of the gold standard in the 1910s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (zZbCU)

80 Christine Baranski Hopscotch on ESPN8.

Posted by: klaftern at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (RuIsu)

81 But this country needs something to truly inspire them. Something that can be seen.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 09:43 AM (sX1BW)

Well we've got Drag Queen Children's Hour.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (V2Yro)

82 Why does it have a fire hydrant but the road isnt paved

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (8JqLB)

83 77 Made me think of Red Coat Girl in Schindler's List, for some reason.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (90T4r)

I thought Schindler's List was b&w?
Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (X/Pw5)

It was, except for that.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (90T4r)

84 I don't know the rules to hopscotch but I do believe this midget is out of bounds. Also, when she lands, IF she lands, she is going to twist her ankle.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (flINI)

85 Streets of Brooklyn during the shutdown I see

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (ZCEU2)

86 This is not art. It isn't even good not art, IMO.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (CPk08)

87
The kid looks positively lilliputian. Proportions seem a bit off. Then again, it is kind of a folk art WPA piece.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (pS94+)

88 My engineer kid was forced to take an art course to graduate. Prof got mad when he said, "We hated them?" after she said the US gifted some country or other with a Pollock.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (nRWPy)

89 86 Why does it have a fire hydrant but the road isnt paved
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (8JqLB)

It's not an election year...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (pS94+)

90 81 Little known fact, that girl, in red coat, grows up to be a union leader. With mob connections.
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So Nanzi Pelosi?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (xAWn5)

91 This picture looks like a set for West Side Story.

The Sharks and the Jets are going to dance into the frame any second now.

And that mid-century soundtrack by Bernstein will boom out.

I saw a performance of that movie last summer, outdoors, with a live orchestra. And it made me realize, yet again for the umpteenth time, that the past is a foreign country.

Posted by: Boots at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (oGBso)

92 This is not art. It isn't even good not art, IMO.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (CPk0

I am going to say art, but not good. Hey, I can paint this one!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (zr5Kq)

93 87 77 Made me think of Red Coat Girl in Schindler's List, for some reason.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (90T4r)

I thought Schindler's List was b&w?
Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:46 AM (X/Pw5)

It was, except for that.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (90T4r)

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And the candle at the very beginning and the final sequence where the Schindler Jews walk past his grave, placing rocks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (zZbCU)

94 Those two in background are not 6 feet apart, is their a sniper to tak e care of that unhealthy situation?

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (ZCEU2)

95 Why hasn't somebody reported that girl for playing outside and those men for not maintaining social distancing?

Posted by: Ripley at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (MxEKc)

96 78 Art did go to crap. Hell, if you go to the National Gallery even the Renoirs look like shit across the hall from the Renaissance artists.

There were some magnificent landscapes by Copeland et al, but other than that, looking at painting man peaked in the late Renaissance.
Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (nRWPy)

What do you mean? We got crucifixes in jars of piss and guys with bullwhips up their ass! Now THAT'S art!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (NWiLs)

97 That very well might be Joey Bidens giant juice box in the foreground.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (flINI)

98
Call CPS! What is that kid doing out by herself? Stranger danger! Lock up the parents!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (7rVsF)

99 Christine Baranski Hopscotch on ESPN8.

Posted by: klaftern at April 02, 2020 09:47 AM (RuIsu)

Classic Christine Baranski Hopscotch on ESPN8.

No live sports.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (X/Pw5)

100 >>This is a GREAT BOOK

>>The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough

Last year was the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Newport Pell Bridge up here. The local PBS affiliate did a fascinating documentary on the engineering and construction of the bridge which in many ways was the first of it's kind.

It's actually multiple different bridge types all integrated to make one big structure that had to be high enough in the center span to accommodate both commercial and Naval traffic.

If it ever shows in your area and you are a bridge fan I highly recommend it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (ZLI7S)

101 One of my conditions for determining "is it art," is whether I could do it or not. I could do this one.

Therefore, not art.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (hku12)

102 97

And the candle at the very beginning and the final sequence where the Schindler Jews walk past his grave, placing rocks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (zZbCU)

A great movie, IMO. I am sure many people hate it.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (90T4r)

103 99 Why hasn't somebody reported that girl for playing outside and those men for not maintaining social distancing?
Posted by: Ripley at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (MxEKc)

Joe Biden is behind the porch column, fingers flexing rapidly...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:51 AM (pS94+)

104 Painter knows his colors. Other than that, not good not-art even.

If I want to feel alienation and depression I turn on the T.V.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:51 AM (CLteG)

105 This art is crappy

Posted by: Corn Fed at April 02, 2020 09:51 AM (EA1BR)

106 Someone asked me today how would @BarackObama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word - Better. Ok, two words. Much better.

Presumably like he handled Benghazi.

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Lie his way out of it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 02, 2020 09:51 AM (+y/Ru)

107 71 Made me think of Red Coat Girl in Schindler's List, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (90T4r)

Was busy making out. Missed the movie.

Posted by: Jerry at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (JFO2v)

108 107 97

And the candle at the very beginning and the final sequence where the Schindler Jews walk past his grave, placing rocks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (zZbCU)

A great movie, IMO. I am sure many people hate it.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (90T4r)

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From my experience, it's one of those movies that everyone says they love but they have seen since the 90s because, let's be honest, it's a hard watch.

I watched it again recently (on the gorgeous 4K UHD disc), and I loved it. It's one of the few "important" films that actually feels justified in trying to be consciously important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (zZbCU)

109 Guglielmi was born in Egypt and lived with his family in Milan and Geneva during his childhood. His father, a violinist, brought the family to the United States in 1914. Guglielmi worked as a muralist for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s-- which may explain why this painting has a Depression-era quality of isolation and shabbiness.

Posted by: Basement Cat at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (pPNCa)

110 from the "Ayn Rand" school of art?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (WEBkv)

111 99 Why hasn't somebody reported that girl for playing outside and those men for not maintaining social distancing?
Posted by: Ripley at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (MxEKc)

Joe Biden is behind the porch column, fingers flexing rapidly...
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101 That very well might be Joey Bidens giant juice box in the foreground.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (flINI)

*******

Related...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (flINI)

112 The CCP doesn't care about its people - it only
cares about its power.

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I understand the "P" for Pelosi but her first name is Nancy which doesn't start with a "C" and I don't know what her middle name is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (+y/Ru)

113 111 Someone asked me today how would @BarackObama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word - Better. Ok, two words. Much better.

Presumably like he handled Benghazi.

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Lie his way out of it?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 02, 2020 09:51 AM (+y/Ru)

With Obama, there would not be a crisis. Bank on that.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (90T4r)

114 Why does it have a fire hydrant but the road isnt paved
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020

*
*

You've never been to New Orleans, have you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (rpbg1)

115 113 71 Made me think of Red Coat Girl in Schindler's List, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (90T4r)

Was busy making out. Missed the movie.
Posted by: Jerry at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (JFO2v)

===========

"During Schindler's List? How could you make out during Schindler's List?"
-Jerry's mom

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (zZbCU)

116 Tried to Google Street View the location but the FDR Highway blocks it all now.

South Street itself looks like hell.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (KxVoZ)

117 It ain't Pollock. Or Picasso. Or Poussin.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (zr5Kq)

118
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)

119 Was busy making out. Missed the movie.
Posted by: Jerry at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (JFO2v)

LOL - that took me a minute!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (V2Yro)

120 Are the Chi-Coms sporting fora shooting war?

always

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (zr5Kq)

121 What do you mean? We got crucifixes in jars of piss and guys with bullwhips up their ass! Now THAT'S art!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (NWiLs)

What progress we have made as a civilization!
From having paintings of the Madonna holding her Infant child to elective taxpayer funded abortions being considered an essential service, it is simply awe inspiring.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 09:54 AM (BiNEL)

122 WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!

#twoweeks

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

123 And the candle at the very beginning and the final sequence where the Schindler Jews walk past his grave, placing rocks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:49 AM (zZbCU)

A great movie, IMO. I am sure many people hate it.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:50 AM (90T4r)

Too disjointed to be great. And, I don't believe that it earns it's ending with Schindler.

However, that being said, there are a ton of great set-pieces within "SL",

so it's easy to mistake for a great movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 09:54 AM (z0XD8)

124 There were some magnificent landscapes by Copeland et al, but other than that, looking at painting man peaked in the late Renaissance.

Pish. The best artist evah was a 20th century American. Andrew Wyeth.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 02, 2020 09:54 AM (gd9RK)

125 125 Was busy making out. Missed the movie.
Posted by: Jerry at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (JFO2v)

LOL - that took me a minute!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (V2Yro)

How can anyone take a chick to that movie for the submarine races?! I did that in the balcony of the Nostrand Theatre in Brooklyn in '74 during "Billy Jack." But "Schindler's List?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (pS94+)

126 Are the Chi-Coms sporting fora shooting war?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)

That's been my question for a couple months now.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (CLteG)

127 Barack went the Chinese route of epidemic, just don't think about it and maybe it will go away.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (ZCEU2)

128 Guglielmi, that's not how this works. That's not how any of this works!

Posted by: mindful webworker
radically inclined
at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (AoLFQ)

129 With Obama, there would not be a crisis. Bank on that.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (90T4r)

Omelet
Eggs
Some disassembly required

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (BiNEL)

130 124

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)
Seems they are quite adept at bio warfare.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (N39Ws)

131 Pretty barren stuff.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (Ibwur)

132 Past 100 comments:

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)

*******

It would be short and costly. China cannot project their power a great distance and as was mentioned in the news thread they are vulnerable because of their dams and food supply.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (flINI)

133 Even when I was a 21 year old college student in NYC Manhattan, you didn't stroll at night. I would walk down the middle of the side streets, to many dark alleys to get pulled into and robbed with what little I had for money.

Posted by: Colin at April 02, 2020 09:56 AM (j76zc)

134 135 With Obama, there would not be a crisis. Bank on that.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 09:52 AM (90T4r)

Omelet
Eggs
Some disassembly required
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (BiNEL)

Obama IS the crisis.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:56 AM (pS94+)

135 Another interesting image is how the classical building has been updated with iron railings. It seems like this building has fallen on hard times and has been converted into apartments of some kind. It says to me that this neighborhood is pretty run down. Despite the sunny skies, this painting is kinda sad. The lack of pure hues, except in the sky, seem to emphasize that mood for me. The bright blue sky is behind the warehouse and the bridge. It is "over there," not "here."
We have a lot of those types of buildings here. The once beautiful that are now wrecks. It's sad.

Posted by: Kris at April 02, 2020 09:56 AM (VQp/A)

136 yikes - looking up some numbers this morning. Look's like we're *already* at 9.6% unemployment, right now. I suspect that we'll blow through the 15% unemployment number in a couple of weeks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (V2Yro)

137 Great Bridge is a great book. In fact all of David McCullough's books are good but I learned a lot from both Great Bridge and John Adams.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (nRWPy)

138 138
It would be short and costly. China cannot project their power a great distance and as was mentioned in the news thread they are vulnerable because of their dams and food supply.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (flINI)

Clinton gave them MIRV-capable ICBMs. I fear they could launch one or all out of desperation or G-d forbid a first strike sneak attack.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (pS94+)

139 Was out playing game and had on talk radio, one economists were shocked by the unemployment numbers that came out, 6.6 million, I wasn't as wrote often it would be 6 million.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (ZCEU2)

140 So Robert Kraft - of Patriots fame -- sent the team plane to China to pick up 1.2MM N95 masks.Haven't we seen this movie before? Ask the Netherlands. These masks are destined for MA. Great. More sick Massholes coming to NH because the masks won't work.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (N39Ws)

141 The once beautiful that are now wrecks. It's sad.

Posted by: Kris at April 02, 2020 09:56 AM (VQp/A)

Needs a stripped car...on blocks.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 09:58 AM (X/Pw5)

142 Alternate Painting Title:

Post-Apocalyptic Hopscotch

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 09:58 AM (m45I2)

143 Alternate-alternate Painting Title:

Jacqueline Kennedy Breaks Her Mother's Back

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 09:58 AM (m45I2)

144 143
Great Bridge is a great book. In fact all of David McCullough's books
are good but I learned a lot from both Great Bridge and John Adams.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (nRWPy)
+1 for his book on John Adams.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:58 AM (N39Ws)

145 142 yikes - looking up some numbers this morning. Look's like we're *already* at 9.6% unemployment, right now. I suspect that we'll blow through the 15% unemployment number in a couple of weeks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (V2Yro)

Odds of Trump putting his foot down and declaring "enough" and calling's for a lifting of the quarantines.

It's an all or nothing gamble but to continue like this would be a disaster that we can not recover from.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (pS94+)

146 My building is at about 75% unemployed right now.

Sad. I'm fortunate to still be working from home, as we have for 4 years, so nothing's really changed other than business is down about 20%. The bigwigs say we're flush with cash and can weather it.

But all these suddenly unemployed people in my building, it's just so sad.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (KxVoZ)

147 It would be short and costly. China cannot project their power a great distance and as was mentioned in the news thread they are vulnerable because of their dams and food supply.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (flINI)

agreed - that's why the US has always put such an emphasis on a powerful blue water navy. Without that, you never get far past your own borders, no matter how strong you are at home. From the looks of things lately, China is gonna need all the force it can muster just to keep the lid on things at home.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (V2Yro)

148 150 143
Great Bridge is a great book. In fact all of David McCullough's books
are good but I learned a lot from both Great Bridge and John Adams.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (nRWPy)
+1 for his book on John Adams.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:58 AM (N39Ws)

The HBO miniseries starring Paul Giamatti is really good, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (zZbCU)

149 WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!

#twoweeks
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

Now that you have a real job (congratulations, BTW!), you can make out like a bandit helping Florida People draw up their wills.

Posted by: Basement Cat at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (pPNCa)

150 Are the Chi-Coms sporting fora shooting war?

---
They think they have more targets than we have ammo.

Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (kOpft)

151 Clinton gave them MIRV-capable ICBMs. I fear they could launch one or all out of desperation or G-d forbid a first strike sneak attack.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (pS94+)

******

I like our chances. Clinton was 25 years ago already. If those things weren't properly maintained, and they weren't, they are mostly junk by now... Like most chinese crap.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (flINI)

152 South Street Seaport was the coolest after work
place to drink in the 80s. It had just been converted from a ratty fish
market. Is it still? I haven't been back there in ages.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 02, 2020 09:34 AM (gd9RK)

Touristy, but worth a stroll.

I used to go there as a kid to a fish restaurant called "Sweets."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (dLLD6)

153 There are a few interesting clash-of-opposites going on here. The classical-ish building on the left next to the modern factory/warehouse in the background. The orange on the classical building clashing with the steel-blue warehouse. Also, the warm colors on the building and the girl are kept to the left, while the cool colors dominate the right. This is a bright, cloudless, sunny day, but the warehouse is in shadow. This is a painting full of "things" but the street is mostly empty. Most of the forms are rectangular or strict vertical/horizontal shapes and lines, but the extreme background is a jungle of steep, thin diagonal lines.
Posted by: Kris

Yeah, that's just what I was gonna say, but I just got to "clash-of-opposites," when I had to go for more coffee....

Posted by: mindful webworker
radically inclined
at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (AoLFQ)

154 111 Someone asked me today how would @BarackObama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word - Better. Ok, two words. Much better.
_______________

It was Obama who allowed the U.S.' supply of ventilators to get depleted after the H1N1 virus put 275k Americans in the hospital, and killed 12.5k, and then didn't bother to get them re-stocked.

But yeah, of course the guy who screwed up the government's response to the last, much less deadly pandemic, is the guy who would handle this one so much better than Trump. Because . . . shut up.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (k4dH2)

155 Are the Chi-Coms sporting fora shooting war?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)

I'm wondering if there were some ChiCom "comfort women" deployed to relieve tension (and release CV-19) amongst the crew when they were in port.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (BiNEL)

156 157
I like our chances. Clinton was 25 years ago already. If those things weren't properly maintained, and they weren't, they are mostly junk by now... Like most chinese crap.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (flINI)

Let us hope their weapons are as good as their cat food and drywall. And masks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (pS94+)

157 HOOOOOOORRRRRRRDE! Welcome to...uh...[checks calendar] Thursday! Yeah, I'm working from home and kinda struggling to get a routine going. But let's hope everything is good with you, we get through the shutdown part, and the economy starts up again. And as always, have the best day the universe will permit.

Posted by: joncelli and the angry crowd around him at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (1FhAQ)

158 160 It was Obama who allowed the U.S.' supply of ventilators to get depleted after the H1N1 virus put 275k Americans in the hospital, and killed 12.5k, and then didn't bother to get them re-stocked.

But yeah, of course the guy who screwed up the government's response to the last, much less deadly pandemic, is the guy who would handle this one so much better than Trump. Because . . . shut up.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (k4dH2)

==========

N95 masks, not ventilators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (zZbCU)

159 Beautiful. Would hang!

Posted by: Democrat Governors at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (Ry8mf)

160 Mike Liddell was on being interviewed, he really got on the ball making these surgical masks and said when he was up with the President the other day was surprised when he was told he was to speak, so with little warning jotted down those bible verses and after his statement ased DJT if he could add a few other thoughts and DJT said to go for it.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (ZCEU2)

161 161 Are the Chi-Coms sporting fora shooting war?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)

I'm wondering if there were some ChiCom "comfort women" deployed to relieve tension (and release CV-19) amongst the crew when they were in port.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 10:00 AM (BiNEL)

What about that Mongoloid "reporter" that was ejected before a White House presser who had a high fever?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (pS94+)

162 Was out playing game and had on talk radio, one economists were shocked by the unemployment numbers that came out, 6.6 million, I wasn't as wrote often it would be 6 million.
Posted by: Skip

How can they be fucking shocked when you tell everyone "Fuck you. House arrest. Your business is closed"?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:02 AM (W2taJ)

163 136 124

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:53 AM (pS94+)
Seems they are quite adept at bio warfare.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:55 AM (N39Ws)

Maybe, but...right before things get sporty.

They will crash the banking system and utilities with the hacks they've spent decades developing.

Hell, they may have enough hacks in our military set up to bring that down.

Then since they've been working overtime on either killing our satellites for blinding them(and there goes our worldwide GPS) those will go.

And while we're dealing with all of that chaos and panic in the streets, then they'll strike Taiwan or Japan or SE Asia or wherever.

Sooooo, when those things start happening. Shit's gotten real.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 10:02 AM (z0XD8)

164 Ramming speed!

Posted by: L A train engineer at April 02, 2020 10:02 AM (iGttT)

165 I like our chances. Clinton was 25 years ago already. If those things weren't properly maintained, and they weren't, they are mostly junk by now... Like most chinese crap.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (flINI)

Didn't they launch an astronaut....and a lunar probe a little while back? Wouldn't take but 1 mirv.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 10:02 AM (X/Pw5)

166 N95 masks, not ventilators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (zZbCU)

Inhalators

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:03 AM (NWiLs)

167 Has an FDR Works feel to it.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 10:03 AM (Z1eux)

168 170 Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 10:02 AM (z0XD

Ugh...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 10:03 AM (pS94+)

169 well, I admit, the lady in red is stooping.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (rb4zU)

170 everything made after 1914 has been total crap

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (V2Yro)

You can be proven wrong rather easily.

Andrew Wyeth.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (dLLD6)

171 What about that Mongoloid "reporter" that was ejected before a White House presser who had a high fever?

That, to me, is an under reported story. It shows absolutely they were trying to spread it esp to our higher govt officers. It was Chicom news agency, right? They just let him go....?

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (nRWPy)

172 Are the Chi-Coms sporting fora shooting war?

---
They think they have more targets than we have ammo.
Posted by: Methos

*laughs in Texan

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (W2taJ)

173 O. Louis Guglielmi was with Army Corps of Engineers during WWII. So there.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (zr5Kq)

174 86 Why does it have a fire hydrant but the road isnt paved
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (8JqLB)

The road is cobblestone, which is typical of that part of Brooklyn. Then they just poured asphalt over it.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (qyH+l)

175 Mike said he is probably now always going to be into the surgical mask production as well as his other products. We can't be only relying on China anymore.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (ZCEU2)

176 Serious question about this artwork: what makes this rendering, versus scores of others we all see in our lives (or I should say, former lives ... when we were actually able to go out and visit shops), a winner? I'm not trying to be snarky here at all. It's a nice piece. But through my naive eyes, it doesn't look any more refined or different or special than a lot of stuff I've seen on the street.

This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank. Why do some people become famous for what they do, and some people never make a dime from it? Is there some kind of herd mentality in the art world where the 'in crowd' tells us what is great and what isn't?
Anyway, I guess being forced to be cooped up in my house is leading me to ask questions I normally keep to myself.
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (pmRSz)

People have spilled tons of ink answering these types of questions, and I think it's worth continuing to have the conversations.

Basically, anything that is subjected to an elitist class, a collection of priests and poobahs to determine it's worth, is not art, but religion.

Likewise, anything that captures the fancy of the general public, and becomes wildly popular... it's only by mere chance that such a thing is actual art.

So there's some sweet spot in the middle, and I do think it requires some time and distance to gauge it. In the end, it probably doesn't matter. If the snobs and gatekeepers want to be the ones who determine what is art, they can do that. For themselves. If the people want to decide what they like, that's fine.

All of it is something. I just wouldn't use the word art to describe it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (hku12)

177 Few tips from a veteran work-from-homer:

1. Shower, shave, brush your teeth, comb your hair, PUT ON PANTS. Do all the things you used to do to go to the office. You'll feel better and be more productive.

2. Take your lunch and breaks at the same times you would normally. Avoid the urge to take extra breaks just because you're at home. That disrupts your routine and actually makes the day seem LONGER. You want to KEEP your routine as much as possible.

3. Stay in touch by phone, vid chat, screenshare. Use the tools that are available and use them often. Your coworkers are just as isolated and feeling just as out of sorts as you are. You don't have to have a work-reason to pick up a phone or ZOOM chat. You'd chit-chat in the office, after all.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (KxVoZ)

178 "Barack went the Chinese route of epidemic, just don't think about it and maybe it will go away."

Interesting. That's the route I took with the Soetero Plague our country experienced from 2009 to early 2017. It finally went away, but many died and it still flares up from time to time.

Posted by: Boxx Culvert, in the return line with a box of panic at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (wmfhQ)

179 The chicoms probably purposefully infecting masks, et al.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (nRWPy)

180 Mike said he is probably now always going to be into the surgical mask production as well as his other products. We can't be only relying on China anymore.
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (ZCEU2)

Good. We need more of that. I wish I had the capital or the know how to open a frigging aspirin factory or something. Bring. It. All. Back.

Posted by: Vanya at April 02, 2020 10:06 AM (BAsqb)

181 Odds of Trump putting his foot down and declaring "enough" and calling's for a lifting of the quarantines.

It's an all or nothing gamble but to continue like this would be a disaster that we can not recover from.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (pS94)

3 weeks ago, I was arguing against a shutdown because no one was taking the economic consequences of it seriously. Most everyone, even here, was still wanting to believe "oh it will be quick, and we will recover quickly."

Well, no. We won't, and we'll all be living with the consequences of this choice our society has made for the rest of our lives. Trump can't change course now, the Die is Cast (as someone once said famously)

for me, there's no point in arguing any more against a shutdown, since the decision is made. Now all we can do is assess the fallout honestly. And yeah, it is gonna be really, really bad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:06 AM (V2Yro)

182 Inhalators, ventilators whatever it takes.

Posted by: Lightbringer at April 02, 2020 10:06 AM (q1Pj5)

183 178 What about that Mongoloid "reporter" that was ejected before a White House presser who had a high fever?

That, to me, is an under reported story. It shows absolutely they were trying to spread it esp to our higher govt officers. It was Chicom news agency, right? They just let him go....?
Posted by: dagny

I agree. China is desperate and their economy is much worse than they let on so I won't put anything past them.

Posted by: Guzalot at April 02, 2020 10:07 AM (Rz36l)

184 I like this one.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 02, 2020 09:45 AM (aVmAZ)

Huzzah!

Thanks for not being a whining, depressive complainer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:07 AM (dLLD6)

185 I like it, it's um, cheerful, bright, almost positive.

Thanks...

Posted by: IP - Still a 'ron at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (CTv2h)

186 Inhalators, ventilators whatever it takes.

Posted by: Lightbringer at April 02, 2020 10:06 AM (q1Pj5)

I hope the Chinese are making inhalalators for the muz in Iran!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (BiNEL)

187 Me and the Universe have parted ways.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (l+aAF)

188 173 N95 masks, not ventilators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (zZbCU)

Inhalators
_______________

lol, yep, James is right. It was the respirator masks that Obama failed to replenish after H1N1. Don't know why I said ventilators. Guess I have them on the mind.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/tbuk3v2

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (k4dH2)

189 This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank. Why do some people become famous for what they do, and some people never make a dime from it? Is there some kind of herd mentality in the art world where the 'in crowd' tells us what is great and what isn't?
Anyway, I guess being forced to be cooped up in my house is leading me to ask questions I normally keep to myself.
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (pmRSz)

The book to read is "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe. The short answer is: It's the result of everyone competing to stay perpetually ahead of the cool curve, ending up in an ideological feedback loop that eventually becomes so tight they disappear up their own asses.

Posted by: Vanya at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (BAsqb)

190 Andrew Wyeth...it's a matter of taste.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (zr5Kq)

191 Good. We need more of that. I wish I had the capital or the know how to open a frigging aspirin factory or something. Bring. It. All. Back.
Posted by: Vanya at April 02, 2020 10:06 AM (BAsqb)

suppose you and I wanted to open a hypothetical Aspirin factory. (or whatever). I'm game. How do we get the $50 million we need to start construction and get geared up?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (V2Yro)

192 Very suspicious girl. You want to know what doesn't cast a shadow?

Posted by: Professor Abraham Van Helsing at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (75Q6c)

193 Even when I was a 21 year old college student in NYC Manhattan, you didn't stroll at night. I would walk down the middle of the side streets, to many dark alleys to get pulled into and robbed with what little I had for money.
Posted by: Colin

In Mad Magazine' parody of Death Wish, Chas Bronson
walks down the street loudly singing "I'm in the money"
In an effort to entice muggers.

Posted by: JT at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (arJlL)

194 176 well, I admit, the lady in red is stooping.
Posted by: Kindltot

I think its the bollard in the painting. The Columns represent the White House. The artist couldnt depict a glass ceiling here so insert a bollard. HRC will never be POTUS

Posted by: Rex B at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (dKIYW)

195
Saw the movie - Pickup On South Street, the commies did it.

Posted by: MHK at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (iQIUe)

196 It's clear that the art is rectangular and features several colors. Also there are shapes. The art was likely created by hand and weighs a few pounds. Art like this is often hung on walls of a type often found in buildings.

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (iTXRQ)

197 At this rate about as many people will die by suicide as will die from Hunan Sicken. Seriously. I never imagined the American people could be scared into going meekly supine so quickly. The economic costs of this thing are very real and it's the people that can least afford it that are paying the highest price.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (flINI)

198 There are things that look out of place.
That pole sticking out from the balcony with a tiny sign attached to it.
There is a pole sticking out of the sidewalk for no apparent reason.
Those two guys in the background are up to something.

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (mcuue)

199 Felonia is socially-distanced from ever being President.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (KxVoZ)

200 Today's Art Thread First 100 comments summary:

Bridge. No Trump.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (m45I2)

201 The sun is rising and the world of man is in genuine flux.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (CLteG)

202
I saw Haggis for the Genitals open for the Sex Pistols at the Cow Palace in '75.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (z0XD8)

203 everything made after 1914 has been total crap

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 09:44 AM (V2Yro)

You can be proven wrong rather easily.

Andrew Wyeth.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (dLLD6)

Again, Norman Rockwell.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (2DOZq)

204 195 Me and the Universe have parted ways.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (l+aAF)

Dude. It just wasn't working out. It's me, not you.

Posted by: The Universe at April 02, 2020 10:11 AM (1FhAQ)

205 By the way, in case it hasn't been mentioned lately, Nancy Pelosi needs her guts ripped out through her mouth, slowly.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:11 AM (CLteG)

206 It's clear that the art is rectangular and features several colors. Also there are shapes. The art was likely created by hand and weighs a few pounds. Art like this is often hung on walls of a type often found in buildings.

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (iTXRQ)

Reads like one of my "book reports".

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 10:11 AM (X/Pw5)

207 I'm game. How do we get the $50 million we need to start construction and get geared up?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (V2Yro)

Well I can kick in about forty grand. So now we only need $49,960,000.

I have no idea. Right now? Nowhere, because everyone's going to be sitting on their capital.

Posted by: Vanya at April 02, 2020 10:11 AM (BAsqb)

208 What kind of commie hopscotch is that? I've never seen such.

Posted by: f'd at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (Tnijr)

209 Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (flINI)

Suicide and drug addiction. It's going to be horrific. And it's going to adversely effect mainly the working class.

Almost a feature, not a bug, to certain people.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (KxVoZ)

210 The economic costs of this thing are very real and it's the people that can least afford it that are paying the highest price.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (flINI)

The long term disruptive impacts on our oh so clever just in time economy have the potential to cripple us for a long time!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (BiNEL)

211 "N95 masks, not ventilators.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:01 AM (zZbCU)

Inhalators
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo"

Ah, "Inhalators".

One of the first and favorite Ookie mcDumbass busted telebinky moments.

Put it right up there with his "if fififififiifif" face plant that got made into a dance song.

Posted by: Boxx Culvert, in the return line with a box of panic at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (wmfhQ)

212 I never imagined the American people could be scared into going meekly supine so quickly.

Right? I was/am shocked at how quickly everyone rolled over. I expected some to happily play along but some others I respected didn't even ask the basic questions before surrendering. Noted for the future though...

Posted by: IP - Still a 'ron at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (CTv2h)

213 7 A race of angels bound with one another
A dish of dollars laid out for all to see
A tower room at Eden Rock
His golf at noon for free

Brooklyn owes the charmer under me
Brooklyn owes the charmer under me

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Can't buy a thrill. Nice.

Posted by: Roy at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (ABjxW)

214 There are things that look out of place.

*********

There's something off about the bridge cables.
I guess to fully appreciate this painting, one must view the bridge with a suspension of disbelief.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM (m45I2)

215 You can view this painting on TV.

See? Span!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:13 AM (m45I2)

216 suppose you and I wanted to open a hypothetical Aspirin factory. (or whatever). I'm game. How do we get the $50 million we need to start construction and get geared up?
_______________

You'd probably need $50 million just to pay the lawyers to deal with all the bureaucratic red tape and bullshit regulations that you'd have to navigate to manufacture any kind of meds in the U.S. That's why so many companies moved their operations out of here. We just make everything too costly and time-consuming. That's one of the things that must be changed.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 02, 2020 10:13 AM (k4dH2)

217

The sun is rising and the world of man is in genuine flux.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (CLteG)

The sun is rising
And the world of man is in genuine flux.
Winds of change are breezing
As the sound of silence envelopes us.

Posted by: runner, writing sub-par verse at April 02, 2020 10:14 AM (zr5Kq)

218 Hang on, we're almost through it. And then it is war.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:14 AM (CLteG)

219 Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (iTXRQ)

This painting genre should only be hung on OSHA approved hooks capable of supporting the weight of the art!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 10:14 AM (BiNEL)

220 Mike also said officials made him make his factory do lots of safety procedures these days, everyone has to sanitize their hands, wear masks, take breaks alone.
Have a feeling everyone is going to be doing this.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (ZCEU2)

221 Hang on, we're almost through it. And then it is war.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:14 AM (CLteG)

In a month or two... The easy part will be over

Posted by: Vanya at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (BAsqb)

222 223 See? Span!
Posted by: Muldoon

Maybe we should suspend the bridge puns for today?

Posted by: Rex B at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (dKIYW)

223 I'm game. How do we get the $50 million we need to start construction and get geared up?

somebody gave the Ethiopians that Clinton bombed enough to make an aspirin factory so it seems it could happen here

Posted by: DanMan at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (XTiHL)

224 Serious question about this artwork: what makes this rendering, versus scores of others we all see in our lives..., a winner?

Kind of like actors and actresses. I bet there were hundreds of artists painting exactly like this. He became a famous artist by making the AoS Art thread, and they didn't.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (DCYln)

225 >I never imagined the American people could be scared into going meekly supine so quickly.

Right? I was/am shocked at how quickly everyone rolled over.

what would you have us do

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (iTXRQ)

226 204 It's clear that the art is rectangular and features several colors. Also there are shapes. The art was likely created by hand and weighs a few pounds. Art like this is often hung on walls of a type often found in buildings.
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:09 AM (iTXRQ)

A sommelier describing the bouquet of Ripple.

Posted by: Roy at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (ABjxW)

227
187 Mike said he is probably now always going to be into the surgical mask production as well as his other products. We can't be only relying on China anymore.
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (ZCEU2)

Good. We need more of that. I wish I had the capital or the know how to open a frigging aspirin factory or something. Bring. It. All. Back.
Posted by: Vanya at April 02, 2020 10:06 AM (BAsqb)

I fully expect that this will cause the government to force him out of that business as quickly as it can. Be it regulations or even the next time a Dem gets the presidency.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (G2zl5)

228 225

The sun is rising and the world of man is in genuine flux.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (CLteG)

The sun is rising
And the world of man is in genuine flux.
Winds of change are breezing
As the sound of silence envelopes us.

Posted by: runner, writing sub-par verse at April 02, 2020 10:14 AM (zr5Kq)

The sun is rising
And the world of man is in genuine flux.
The hot twenty-something woman
in the yoga pants and sports bra
just flashed me her beaver

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:16 AM (CLteG)

229 Don't like the bridge? Tough! Kwai me a River!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:16 AM (m45I2)

230 Looks like another Sefton.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 02, 2020 10:16 AM (oVJmc)

231 isn't the govt still stopping the distilleries from producing hand sanitizer?!?!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:16 AM (j9HX3)

232 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

233 181 86 Why does it have a fire hydrant but the road isnt paved
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 09:48 AM (8JqLB)

The road is cobblestone, which is typical of that part of Brooklyn. Then they just poured asphalt over it.
Posted by: Fox2! at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (qyH+l)

Manhattan, as well.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 02, 2020 10:17 AM (qyH+l)

234 Copy/Paste

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

235 It's clear that the art is rectangular and features several colors. Also there are shapes. The art was likely created by hand and weighs a few pounds. Art like this is often hung on walls of a type often found in buildings.

Plagiarized from the Joe Biden School of Art Criticism.

Posted by: Basement Cat at April 02, 2020 10:17 AM (pPNCa)

236 Hang on, we're almost through it. And then it is war.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:14 AM (CLteG)

Hang on, we're almost through it
And then it's war.
We shall fight grim reaper
He's at every sinner's door.

Posted by: runner, writing sub-par verse at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (zr5Kq)

237 Back in the day pharmacists made your meds on site from basic chemicals. My great uncle did this up until the 1960s when the state required druggist be 'Certified'. My uncle was a drug salesman that got his firm to advance him a full supply of basic drugs to start his drug store. That store still operates to this day because of my Aunt and Uncle. The family no longer owns it but it is still named Holme's Drugstore.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (xAWn5)

238 Sponge!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (TdMsT)

239 what would you have us do
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:15 AM (iTXRQ)

*******

Good question. I have been going about my business as normal but everything became abnormal around me in a matter of 5 days or so. Not many places to go and not much to do here in Maryland. I still am ignoring most of what they are telling me to do, but I am one of a minority of people to do so.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (flINI)

240 I think she's playing "Jump to Conclusions"

h/t Office Space

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (DB16e)

241 Mike said he is probably now always going to be into the surgical mask production as well as his other products. We can't be only relying on China anymore.
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:05 AM (ZCEU2)

Good. We need more of that. I wish I had the capital or the know how to open a frigging aspirin factory or something. Bring. It. All. Back.
Posted by: Vanya

People on Facebook keep asking "would you be willing to pay more for Made in USA products"?

Hell yes. I'm willing to pay $300 more for a USA built Kenmore washer that last 30 years like they used to.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (W2taJ)

242 This painting just CAN'T be post-apocalyptic.

In the Burning Times all chalk will be reserved for making body outlines on the sidewalk and streets.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (m45I2)

243 Hopscotch girl casts no shadow. Vampire?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (oVJmc)

244 Fox2, you can see the wheel ruts in the dirt road

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (8JqLB)

245 PSA

Citizens, life is too short to drink crappy coffee !

end PSA

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (zr5Kq)

246 UM. Just saw the ONT. did MisHum flounce?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (dIXnE)

247 isn't the govt still stopping the distilleries from producing hand sanitizer?!?!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE!

Not the Fedgov. We have 5 or six distilleries in Texas making hand sanitizer. Three in just the Dallas area.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (W2taJ)

248 I'm willing to pay more for lettuce. The savings will be seen in welfare payments.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (xAWn5)

249 well better than Brian Stelter NOOD on an Ottoman

Posted by: WuHAN Solo at April 02, 2020 10:20 AM (t5n6N)

250 what would you have us do

Oh, well for starters perhaps not over react like a bunch if spooked lemmings on meth would have been nice.
Millions of people hording toilet paper, and other stupid items like it was the end of days? I lost a fair amount of respect for some I'd have thought were much more level headed and not inclined to panic as a CNN chyron.

Posted by: IP - Still a 'ron at April 02, 2020 10:20 AM (CTv2h)

251 I'm willing to pay more for lettuce.

------------

Same.

I pay very little now.

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:20 AM (sX1BW)

252 I do a lot of data analysis at my job so I threw the US Covid-19 data into a statistics program I use. I applied a vanilla Gaussian curve fit to the "positive test" numbers as well as cumulative deaths, each by date.

For positive tests, the fit was very good (R sq = 0.999

and gave me a peak at 313k one week from today.

Interestingly the deaths data gave an "ambiguous" fit meaning the computer couldn't predict a curve with any confidence. It does give you what's basically a guess of ~93k (peak), ~28 days from now. This may be where people are getting the 100k number from -- if so it's garbage.

Right now dividing total deaths by total positives gives you 2.2%. So using the peak of 313k that's less than 7k at peak or 14k for the whole curve.

Scientifically I place a lot more stock in the positive test numbers because they are what they are. The death numbers are skewed by secondary contributing factors.

I used covidtracking.com for my data.

Posted by: StefanH at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (LDja2)

253 Hell yes. I'm willing to pay $300 more for a USA built Kenmore washer that last 30 years like they used to.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (W2taJ)
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And maybe removing the "low water usage" crap that has been shoved down our throats.

2 hours for a load of laundry is a joke.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (WEBkv)

254 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 02, 2020 10:08 AM (BiNEL)

Well done!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (dLLD6)

255 The sun is rising and the world of man is in genuine flux.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (CLteG)

------

Well..... we'll just have to solder on then wont we....

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (nw6Hr)

256 I don't feel like I just "rolled over". I still get out once a day and of course still go in to work even though it's limited hours but I am trying to be more careful and I'm just praying like hell this thing has peaked by the end of the month. I'm not sure what we were supposed to do?

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (dUJdY)

257 thanks Stefan that's really interesting

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (j9HX3)

258 I'm willing to pay more for lettuce. The savings will be seen in welfare payments.
Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (xAWn5)

*******

Lettuce is .99 a head. They could raise that to $4 as far as I'm concerned. I am worried about Avacado prices though. My Artisinal Avacado Toast is as expensive as it should be right now...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (flINI)

259 Mr Pebbles - another reason this kind of art is crap, no details.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (ZCEU2)

260 256 UM. Just saw the ONT. did MisHum flounce?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 02, 2020 10:19 AM (dIXnE)

Have you guys been yelling at each other while I was gone?

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (1FhAQ)

261 PSA for morons.

If you haven't checked some banks are offering deferrals on mortgage payments. Wells Fargo is offering a 3 month deferral with the potential for another deferral at the end of the 3 month term depending on the situation then.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (ZLI7S)

262 Sheldon Adelson: I'm paying all my workers for 2 months, so should any business that can

Posted by: WuHAN Solo at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (t5n6N)

263
I never imagined the American people could be scared into going meekly supine so quickly.

Right?
I was/am shocked at how quickly everyone rolled over. I expected some
to happily play along but some others I respected didn't even ask the
basic questions before surrendering. Noted for the future though...

Posted by: IP - Still a 'ron at April 02, 2020 10:12 AM

---

We had the Sheriff come by our VFW yesterday because once again, some busy body called them and said we were open and selling liquor.

After verifying that we were not open he went around telling people fishing on the lake that effective at 4pm the County was going to be on lock down and he would arrest anyone fishing. That is in direct defiance of the Governor's order that says hunting and fishing are deemed essential activities.

Went by this morning to check on the place and there were people fishing with no sheriff in sight.

They called his bluff.

Posted by: Mr. Scottt (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (JUOKG)

264 262
Scientifically I place a lot more stock in the positive test numbers because they are what they are. The death numbers are skewed by secondary contributing factors.

I used covidtracking.com for my data.
Posted by: StefanH at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (LDja2)

==========

Any modelling is going to be suspect at best.

It's just good to understand that all models are wrong and some models are useful.

George Box told me that. Well, he said that once and my dad met him once, so it's like he said it directly to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (zZbCU)

265 Biden wants Eric Holder to head up his VP search committee. Seems like a "Cheney" situation all over again. The guy leading the search, amazingly, cannot find anyone quite as good as himself.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (JRaU+)

266 You can be proven wrong rather easily.

Andrew Wyeth.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:04 AM (dLLD6)

Again, Norman Rockwell.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:10 AM (2DOZq)

Wyeth? only three colors on his palate, brown and yellow, which he mixed together to make the background of everything he ever painted look the same, and washed out blue for the sky. If I look at a painting and say "wow that is the most boring color selection I've even seen on canvas", I know it must be a Wyeth.

Now Rockwell would have been a decent children's book illustrator in the 19th century, so yeah that made him head and shoulders above anyone working in the 20th.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (V2Yro)

267 He came back to this scene, 20 years later, just before he died:

https://bit.ly/2UCYmbh

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (OiC69)

268 197
This has always fascinated me about art. Some people think someone like
Jackson Pollack is a genius - I think he just splattered paint on a
canvas and spent the rest of his life laughing his way to the bank. Why
do some people become famous for what they do, and some people never
make a dime from it? Is there some kind of herd mentality in the art
world where the 'in crowd' tells us what is great and what isn't?

Anyway, I guess being forced to be cooped up in my house is leading me to ask questions I normally keep to myself.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at April 02, 2020 09:38 AM (pmRSz)

The book to read is "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe. The short
answer is: It's the result of everyone competing to stay perpetually
ahead of the cool curve, ending up in an ideological feedback loop that
eventually becomes so tight they disappear up their own asses.******************Thanks. That's what I've always suspected.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (pmRSz)

269 I'm not sure what we were supposed to do?

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (dUJdY)

Bitching and moaning seem popular.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (X/Pw5)

270 Right now dividing total deaths by total positives gives you 2.2%. So using the peak of 313k that's less than 7k at peak or 14k for the whole curve.

Scientifically I place a lot more stock in the positive test numbers because they are what they are. The death numbers are skewed by secondary contributing factors.

I used covidtracking.com for my data.
Posted by: StefanH at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (LDja2)
-----------

This is why I don't really trust the death rate as listed, due to a lack of demographic breakdown along with a breakout of any other underlying medical conditions.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (WEBkv)

271 Insurance companies are gearing up to fuck over small businesses who've purchased their "business interruption" insurance.

https://youtu.be/xLJ4_CPlCr4

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (DTX3h)

272 Nurse, idk..hope it was just an April Fool thing.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (dUJdY)

273 Re: testing.

We only test people who we strongly suspect of being positive OR a healthcare worker.

That skews the stats mightily.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (dIXnE)

274
I don't feel like I just "rolled over". I still get out once a day and of course still go in to work even though it's limited hours but I am trying to be more careful and I'm just praying like hell this thing has peaked by the end of the month. I'm not sure what we were supposed to do?
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (dUJdY)

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I fear the pinched faced scolds yelling at everybody that they are LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE more than I fear covid.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (nw6Hr)

275 And maybe removing the "low water usage" crap that has been shoved down our throats.

2 hours for a load of laundry is a joke.
Posted by: blake
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^^^THIS^^^

Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (UUBmN)

276 I don't feel like I just "rolled over". I still get out once a day and of course still go in to work even though it's limited hours but I am trying to be more careful and I'm just praying like hell this thing has peaked by the end of the month. I'm not sure what we were supposed to do?
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:21 AM (dUJdY)
******
I go out when I want, but then again I live in East of West Bumfuck Pennsylltucky

Posted by: WuHAN Solo at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (t5n6N)

277 Bitching and moaning seem popular.

lol.. that seems to be in abundance everywhere.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (dUJdY)

278 OH! Learned today PLCB has on line service, but is limiting to 1 purchase in a time as they don't have the capacity to have deliveries for the volume that has been forced onto them.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (ZCEU2)

279 I fear the pinched faced scolds yelling at everybody that they are LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE more than I fear covid.
Posted by: fixerupper
----
Do you mean the brownshirts?

Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (UUBmN)

280 Eric Holder is king of race mongers.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (zr5Kq)

281 Insurance companies are gearing up to fuck over small businesses who've purchased their "business interruption" insurance.

https://youtu.be/xLJ4_CPlCr4
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (DTX3h)

All business policies have business interruption coverage subject to specific risks and exclusions.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (2DOZq)

282 291 Eric Holder is king of race mongers.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (zr5Kq)

=========

Clown Prince.

Jesse Jackson is the king.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:25 AM (zZbCU)

283 {{{{Ladyl}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

284
Lettuce is .99 a head. They could raise that to $4 as far as I'm concerned. I am worried about Avacado prices though. My Artisinal Avacado Toast is as expensive as it should be right now...
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (flINI)

My former lifelong best friend voted for Cankles because she was afraid DT would close the border and avocados would cost more than $1.00. IMO, avocados are tasteless, and I can live without them.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (TdMsT)

285 Clown Prince.

Jesse Jackson is the king.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:25 AM (zZbCU)

Jackson never had power that Holder had.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (zr5Kq)

286 263 Hell yes. I'm willing to pay $300 more for a USA built Kenmore washer that last 30 years like they used to.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (W2taJ)
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CLR is a dishwasher's best friend.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (xAWn5)

287 Seriously, though... hopscotch girl is 'way over on the edgeline of the hopscotch game, not in the square.

The hopscotch board also looks oversized, although the girl's under-size has been mentioned, might make it seem bigger. Gonna have to take some big hops.

But I'm betting O. Louis didn't really know how hopscotch is played.

And the girl's reusable shopping bag sitting nearby is a health violation.

Posted by: mindful webworker
radically inclined
at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (AoLFQ)

288 Friendly Reminder:

https://youtu.be/L3tnH4FGbd0

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

289 I fear the pinched faced scolds yelling at everybody that they are LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE more than I fear covid.

OMG.. I know.. my sister in law is the absolute worse about that! Every day, ALL Day all I see is her posts telling everyone to stay home! If yelling at you doesn't work, then they try guilt. Friend of a friends mom died and she had to die alone. THINK ABOUT THAT you selfish asshole!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (dUJdY)

290 >I still am ignoring most of what they are telling me to do, but I am one of a minority of people to do so.
Posted by: Truck Monkey

well, I work for the county school district and the schools are closed thru April. No job to go to. Yesterday I mailed a bill and bought some groceries. Big day. But with so many businesses shuttered there just isn't a lot to do. I don't like the idea that a governor or mayor can 'tell' me to stay home. I think the response to this virus thing has been overkill, bigly. The cure will prove far more devastating than the disease itself.

Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 02, 2020 10:27 AM (iTXRQ)

291 I fear the pinched faced scolds yelling at everybody that they are LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE more than I fear covid.
Posted by: fixerupper
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Do you mean the brownshirts?
Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (UUBmN)

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Brownshirts, virtue signallers, morally self appointed busy bodies, Helen Kravitz. Whatevs.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:27 AM (nw6Hr)

292 Speaking of China and war...

Here's a tool they will absolutely use:

https://strategypage.com/on_point/20200331224243.aspx

Look at Cloud security stocks people, they're going to become very important the minute 5G is up and running.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 10:27 AM (z0XD8)

293 293 291 Eric Holder is king of race mongers.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:24 AM (zr5Kq)
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With all his money and power he has never acquired a chin. He's dodgy. Same deal with Pelosi and Biden not getting themselves bolt on teeth.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (xAWn5)

294
Clown Prince.

Jesse Jackson is the king.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 02, 2020 10:25 AM (zZbCU)

We rate this statement as TRUE!

Posted by: Snopes! at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

295 I look maybe stupidly at the death totals( obviously I bet) thinking yeah sucks to be you if your sick and at deaths door but recover your better off than dead. And immune the next time I take it.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (ZCEU2)

296 2 hours for a load of laundry is a joke

Especially since it doesn't get it clean.

Apply stain stick, rewash

Soak in oxyclean, rewash

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (nRWPy)

297 44 of the 70 of the UT students that chartered the Spring Break plane have now tested positive. I guess the silver lining is we're building up our herd immunity .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (2DOZq)

298 Posted by: saf at April 02, 2020 10:18 AM (5IHGB)

Take a week off.

See you next Thursday.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (dLLD6)

299 272
PSA for morons.

If you haven't checked some banks are offering deferrals on mortgage
payments. Wells Fargo is offering a 3 month deferral with the potential
for another deferral at the end of the 3 month term depending on the
situation then.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2020 10:22 AM (ZLI7S)
I have my mortgage through them - and this is good news.
But also Wells Fargo needs to do right by customers after all the shenanigans they've done over the last few years.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (N39Ws)

300 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

https://tinyurl.com/rxs5r7w

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (ZLI7S)

301 Pinchfaced scolds... yea, we all see them but to me they are playing on guilt and not likely to take it further. My concern these days are the crazyies that are prone to do crazier things.
Like, oh I don't know, say, "try to crash a freight train into a ship" for example?

Posted by: IP - Still a 'ron at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (CTv2h)

302 Though, I will say, I don't mind our dishwasher taking a while to do dishes. The thing is incredibly quiet. We can turn it on when we're watching the tv and not even know it's running.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (WEBkv)

303 300 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

https://tinyurl.com/rxs5r7w
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I liked Laredo when they had gunfights on main street. This pansy Laredo sucks.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (xAWn5)

304 Do the mortgage deferrals have a balloon payment at the end of the three month period? Or does it function more like a pause button, where the extra payments are tacked onto the end of the mortgage?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (JRaU+)

305 CLR is a dishwasher's best friend.
Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (xAWn5)

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So is Boil-Out.

It still has PHOSPHATES in it, is Cascades original dishwashers formula, and cleans dishes spectacularly.

You can get it on Amazon.

Half the problem with todays dishwashers aint always the dishwasher. Self appointed moral busy bodies fucked with the detergent too.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (nw6Hr)

306 Take a week off.

See you next Thursday.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:28 AM (dLLD6)

Thanks.

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (X/Pw5)

307 I saw Pinched Faced Scolds Yelling open for Skrillex at Red Rocks back in 2014.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (zr5Kq)

308 Millions of people hording toilet paper,

**********

Shortage of paper products explains why Genghis Khan expanded his empire to stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (m45I2)

309 2 hours for a load of laundry is a joke

Especially since it doesn't get it clean.

Apply stain stick, rewash

Soak in oxyclean, rewash
Posted by: dagny

I saw a comic "Help ! My wife is in the bathtub having a seizure !

What should I do ?"

"Throw in a load of laundry !" came the reply

Posted by: JT at April 02, 2020 10:30 AM (arJlL)

310 There has been a few articles about how a large percentage of the population getting it but with mild cases does help in the general immunity of that population.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:31 AM (ZCEU2)

311 188 Odds of Trump putting his foot down and declaring "enough" and calling's for a lifting of the quarantines.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (pS94)

Not likely.

He seems increasingly enthralled to the experts.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:31 AM (H8QX8)

312 Thanks for not being a whining, depressive complainer.

I was going to say nice things about the drawing but Kris beat me to it. It's the contrasts of the rich toned classical thingie and the dim industrial building and the tantalizing angles of the barely seen Brooklyn Bridge.

Also, anything with the Brooklyn Bridge in it is awesome.

I was kind of in awe of everything when I moved to NYC. It must be different if you grow up there. Even the Trump Tower, which is hideously gaudy, I was like I'm allowed to just walk in here and see it?

So when I'd ride my bike over the Brooklyn Bridge, on wood planking, it felt like being in a movie.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 02, 2020 10:31 AM (gd9RK)

313 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

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how convenient!

Posted by: bank robers in hiding at April 02, 2020 10:31 AM (zr5Kq)

314 CNBC reporting the President has said the Russians and SA will be announcing production cuts in the 10-15 million barrel/day range.

That ought to goose the market.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (Wm5SB)

315 But also Wells Fargo needs to do right by customers after all the shenanigans they've done over the last few years.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (N39Ws)
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I'm of the opinion that Wells Fargo was, in some ways, unjustly singled out because they refused to go along with the agenda of the gun grabbers.

The CEO of Wells Fargo flat out refused to go along with operation chokepoint.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (WEBkv)

316 Doing a load now of my work clothes, use to just put maximum load but wife says put on precise fill so I did.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (ZCEU2)

317 I do mind the dishwasher taking hours.

Whoops, forgot to run it, dinner dishes won't fit, bumps dinner dishes to the next DAY.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (nRWPy)

318 Liberty Daily has a link to a story about a Chinese woman bragging about buying up all the masks she could find to make sure white people couldn't get any.

But it's WHITEY that's the evil one.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

319 My former lifelong best friend voted for Cankles because she was afraid DT would close the border and avocados would cost more than $1.00. IMO, avocados are tasteless, and I can live without them.
Posted by: Ladyl at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (TdMsT)

I admit to liking avocados, but that is the dumbest reason for voting for Hillary I've ever heard. And I thought I had heard them all!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:33 AM (V2Yro)

320 Went by this morning to check on the place and there were people fishing with no sheriff in sight.

good!!!

why on earth would you not be allowed to go out on the water and fish

nothing more social distancey than that

the doc on Laura last night gave clues as to who exactly gets hits hard by this (other than the elderly). People with poorly managed diabetes and obesity. now that description (even without the obesity) is interesting. Just the diabetes aspect means intubation is going to be a VERY dicey proposition. they will get unrelated random infections right away from the vent.

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:33 AM (j9HX3)

321 Half the problem with todays dishwashers aint always the dishwasher. Self appointed moral busy bodies fucked with the detergent too.
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Yep. Noticed that on my first trip to Ukraine. My skeevies and tees were the whitest I'd ever seen them.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:33 AM (xAWn5)

322 Low flow shower heads can be taken apart and re-modified to make them heavy flow (phrasing) and Canadian Toilets actually flush and are not low flow. These are just some of the things I've heard... or have been told.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (flINI)

323 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

Yeah. ANY kind of mask or fabric over the face.
First thing I'd do is find an open bank and walk in with a train robbers' bandanna on.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (W2taJ)

324 I have been surprised to see some levelheaded people I know acting so scared. It's like they think they are doomed. I tell them to quit watching the news. Read a trashy book or something. Get your minde off this crap for awhile.

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (mcuue)

325 Avocados make more sense than voting for a vagina because "it's time."

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (nRWPy)

326 Painting bleak, but still hopeful with the hopscotch and hints of sun behind the buildings. Would hang, and my grandsons like industrial themes.

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (ONvIw)

327 The sun is rising
And the world of man is in genuine flux.
We'll soon be dead
From COVID Kung Flu
And so I give no more fucks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:35 AM (NWiLs)

328 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Unlike the painting from yesterday, this one speaks to me. I don't like what it says, but it resonates.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (axyOa)

329 315 But also Wells Fargo needs to do right by customers after all the shenanigans they've done over the last few years.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (N39Ws)
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I'm of the opinion that Wells Fargo was, in some ways, unjustly singled out because they refused to go along with the agenda of the gun grabbers.

The CEO of Wells Fargo flat out refused to go along with operation chokepoint.
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It would have been cheaper for America to let CitiBank go under than force TARP on all banks. My guess is the real reason for saving Citi was that it is a CIA front bank.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (xAWn5)

330 Go to the paint or floor cleaning shelf at the local big box store, get a box of TSP and mix it @ 10% with Cascade regular in the green box. In three cycles your dishwasher will look brand new and it actually cleans the dishes too.

Posted by: DanMan at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (XTiHL)

331 Maybe the thing we all can do is not promote any Media Narrative, either here, or out in meat space. They are our mortal enemy, after all.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (90T4r)

332 Im not going to stop shopping and let somebody win.

Sorry...had a 9/11 media flashback.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (l+aAF)

333 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

https://tinyurl.com/rxs5r7w
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I liked Laredo when they had gunfights on main street. This pansy Laredo sucks.
Posted by: Puddin Head

Wearing train robbers' bandannas will have gunfights back on the streets.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (W2taJ)

334 324 I have been surprised to see some levelheaded people I know acting so scared. It's like they think they are doomed. I tell them to quit watching the news. Read a trashy book or something. Get your minde off this crap for awhile.
Posted by: Case at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (mcuue)

Failbook - wifey is on that and it it many times worse than the news. Honestly, Trump needs to nationalize it and shut the damn thing down.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM (1dJNh)

335 310 There has been a few articles about how a large percentage of the population getting it but with mild cases does help in the general immunity of that population.
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:31 AM (ZCEU2)

Yep, herd immunity.

One of the neighbors is sick, but we don't know what it is. Anyway, we're hoping it resolves uneventfully and that it doesn't get to his elderly parents.

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (ONvIw)

336 319 My former lifelong best friend voted for Cankles because she was afraid DT would close the border and avocados would cost more than $1.00. IMO, avocados are tasteless, and I can live without them.
Posted by: Ladyl at April 02, 2020 10:26 AM (TdMsT)

I admit to liking avocados, but that is the dumbest reason for voting for Hillary I've ever heard. And I thought I had heard them all!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:33 AM (V2Yro)

Wow. That's pretty fucking dumb. One really fucking dumb reason I heard is "Hillary knows how to be presidential." Let that sink in for a moment.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)

337 314 CNBC reporting the President has said the Russians and SA will be announcing production cuts in the 10-15 million barrel/day range.

That ought to goose the market.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (Wm5SB)

if they follow through, it would be a much needed respite. But it's always possible that Trump is announcing this to try to push them into it, rather than them having a rock solid agreement to do it. So, waiting to see what Putin and Prince Mohammed bin Salman have to say about it, since they are the two men who are actually controlling all of this. (and as far as oil goes, Salman has more power than anyone in the world, even Putin)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (V2Yro)

338 I do mind the dishwasher taking hours.

Whoops, forgot to run it, dinner dishes won't fit, bumps dinner dishes to the next DAY.
Posted by: dagny
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Right?! I have a Bosch that does a good job but it takes 150 minutes to do a full load and sanitize...That is way too long.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (UUBmN)

339 Maybe a little spike in cases in Stockton coming up:

https://bit.ly/2R4DDL3

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (lK7fO)

340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)

341 >>Do the mortgage deferrals have a balloon payment at the end of the three month period? Or does it function more like a pause button, where the extra payments are tacked onto the end of the mortgage?

I would imagine it varies from bank to bank but Wells Fargo is giving the option to tack it on to the end of your mortgage or other options.

Just something to think about if you have a mortgage and your income is interrupted or potentially interrupted.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (ZLI7S)

342 325 Avocados make more sense than voting for a vagina because "it's time."
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Vaginas are effective only 75% of the time. This beats BigGovernment effectiveness, though.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (xAWn5)

343 323 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

Yeah. ANY kind of mask or fabric over the face.
First thing I'd do is find an open bank and walk in with a train robbers' bandanna on.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (W2taJ)

So when I am a walking the streets of Laredo, I can dress up like a Train Robber?? Cool.!!

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (90T4r)

344 315
But also Wells Fargo needs to do right by customers after all the shenanigans they've done over the last few years.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:29 AM (N39Ws)

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I'm of the opinion that Wells Fargo was, in some ways, unjustly
singled out because they refused to go along with the agenda of the gun
grabbers.

The CEO of Wells Fargo flat out refused to go along with operation chokepoint.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (WEBkv)

I had forgotten about that. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (N39Ws)

345 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public or face a possible fine up to $100 or 180 days in jail.

If I go to jail there, will they give me a friggin' mask?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (axyOa)

346 14 CNBC reporting the President has said the Russians and SA will be announcing production cuts in the 10-15 million barrel/day range.

That ought to goose the market.

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That helps the supply side - what are we going to do about the demand side?

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (sX1BW)

347 If I had the break barrel single pump crossman pellet rifle that I had as a kid, I could take out the front screen and plink the lizards on the short retaining wall out front. Ya i'm getting pretty bored

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (8JqLB)

348 Right?! I have a Bosch that does a good job but it takes 150 minutes to do a full load and sanitize...That is way too long.
Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (UUBmN)

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Well pay that German lady a little better an she might move a little faster.... jajaja !!!

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (nw6Hr)

349 Canadian Toilets actually flush and are not low flow.

***********

It used to be a "four-flusher" was a poker player trying to pass off four hearts and a diamond as a flush by only partially revealing the diamond. Now it's anybody using a low-volume modern toilet.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (m45I2)

350 Avocados make more sense than voting for a vagina because "it's time."
Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (nRWPy)

If you voted for Avocado Vaginas, then you'd really have something.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (z0XD8)

351 >>> Failbook - wifey is on that and it it many times worse than the news. Honestly, Trump needs to nationalize it and shut the damn thing down.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 02, 2020 10:36 AM

Anything that's nationalized will eventually be run exclusively by leftists for the purpose of acquiring more power for leftists. So no change.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (l6b3d)

352 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)

Oh thank you, thank you, wise medical guru. Your magnanimity is stunning!

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (90T4r)

353 I do mind the dishwasher taking hours.

Whoops, forgot to run it, dinner dishes won't fit, bumps dinner dishes to the next DAY.
Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (nRWPy)
++++++++++++++
The cost of efficiency. The modern dishwashers sip water instead of gulping it, but things take a lot more time. This is a great thing in parched areas (much of the West), but it is stupid to not have a choice - especially in soaking wet areas like much of the East.

Depending on your budget, you can get commercial-type dishwashers for your house that cycle in under 5 minutes. They are priced like uber high-end residential units. If that's your market ($2k-$3k), they're available.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (Q8c/L)

354 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

um, no offense but THAT IS NUTS

first of all, for how long? the virus is "in the wild" and it's going to have recurrent flare ups, hopefully mild ones, pretty much..forever now. so what then? we lock down all over again for each flareup?!?!

no this is a TERRIBLE benchmark, ugh Fauci is a dumbass

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (j9HX3)

355 So when I am a walking the streets of Laredo, I can dress up like a Train Robber?? Cool.!!
Posted by: tubal

Yeah. They really didn't think that through.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (W2taJ)

356 powerlineblog.com/the wuhan virus where we are now
https://tinyurl.com/uvdbjyl

Short text and graft but compared past flu to this year

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (ZCEU2)

357 Wow. That's pretty fucking dumb. One really fucking dumb reason I heard is "Hillary knows how to be presidential." Let that sink in for a moment.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)

These have to be women voters (I say this as a woman), avocados and vague ideas of "presidential" do not sound like a guy's reasons. "Presidential" is like "gravitas", words the media used to elevate donks.

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (ONvIw)

358 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

Wait. If a treatment works, why wait til no new cases?

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (nRWPy)

359 I admit to liking avocados, but that is the dumbest reason for voting for Hillary I've ever heard. And I thought I had heard them all!
Posted by: Tom Servo

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No Tom, I have to disagree slightly with you. The dumbest reason is "vagina!!". An equally dumb reason would be "penis!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2020 10:40 AM (Y4EXg)

360 That skews the stats mightily.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 02, 2020 10:23 AM (dIXnE)

The whole thing smells of con...today it's blared out that over 1000 died in one day! And yet, and yet...no idea who these people are and what happened - just Corona! But someone who might stop and think about it for a second would suspect that these are people who have been hospitalized for two, three or maybe more weeks are finally succumbing to their illness, or illnesses...because one thing seems to be the most hidden here is what underlying illnesses these people had to begin with: heart disease, cancer, emphysema, diabetes, etc.

Take the strange case of one Adam Schlesinger, only 52, famous for writing that "That Thing That You Do!" hit a couple of decades ago...he is hospitalized over two weeks ago with no news about it, and immediately placed on a ventilator. Finally, he's placed in a coma and allowed to die - which happened two days ago. But being young, what really happened here? I checked back into the news going back to 2016, not a word about this guy accept a couple of puff pieces in the usual entertainment mags. But really, what fairly young guy shows up at a hospital, is immediately in ICU that day, and dies two weeks later? His obit says died "from complications" of Corona Virus...

The HIPPA laws allow a lot of doctors to just say died of Corona on everything, no matter what happened and there is not further knowledge. I suspect Adam had some serious underlying conditions like a lot of musicians and that killed him, not Corona.

Posted by: Boswell at April 02, 2020 10:40 AM (32YRo)

361 talk about moving the goal posts my GOD!

what happened to "flatten the curve"?!?!

I mean I knew that was BS but DAMN

no new cases no cases no deaths

that will be 2021

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:40 AM (j9HX3)

362 If I had the break barrel single pump crossman pellet rifle that I had as a kid, I could take out the front screen and plink the lizards on the short retaining wall out front. Ya i'm getting pretty bored

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM

Yeah. The squirrels here are starting to look like grey targets.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:40 AM (axyOa)

363 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

July or August then back inside by November

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:40 AM (ZCEU2)

364
Wait. If a treatment works, why wait til no new cases?
Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (nRWPy)

So he can keep writing mashnotes to Cankles

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:40 AM (ONvIw)

365 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public

Why do they hate toddlers?

Posted by: mindful webworker
radically inclined
at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (AoLFQ)

366 322 Low flow shower heads can be taken apart and re-modified to make them heavy flow (phrasing) and Canadian Toilets actually flush and are not low flow. These are just some of the things I've heard... or have been told.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:34 AM (flINI)

Sure can. I do it routinely, and it results in a real shower, the way God intended.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (90T4r)

367 Depending on your budget, you can get commercial-type dishwashers for your house that cycle in under 5 minutes. They are priced like uber high-end residential units. If that's your market ($2k-$3k), they're available.

I'm of Scottish descent.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (nRWPy)

368 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

Have flu deaths ever gone to zero? They're setting up an impossibility.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (H8QX8)

369 used to be a "four-flusher" was a poker player trying to pass off four hearts and a diamond as a flush by only partially revealing the diamond. Now it's anybody using a low-volume modern toilet.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (m45I2

********

It doesn't make much sense if you have to cut your offal before sending it off to the city to make the drinking water now does it...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (flINI)

370 Anything that's nationalized will eventually be run exclusively by leftists for the purpose of acquiring more power for leftists. So no change.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (l6b3d)

I didn't say run it, I said shut it down for being a propaganda arm of the enemy.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (1dJNh)

371 I suspect Adam had some serious underlying conditions like a lot of musicians and that killed him, not Corona.

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Would agree.

Sad to say, but a death attributed to Coronavirus today is almost martyr status.

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (sX1BW)

372 Right?! I have a Bosch that does a good job but it takes 150 minutes to do a full load and sanitize...That is way too long.
Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (UUBmN)
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Mannix's parent's house came with a fairly high-end Bosch dishwasher. My mom hated it. It took three hours and didn't even have a heated dry cycle (more efficient because no heating element). Replacing it was the one truly wasteful I have seen her do. We got a KitchenAid three-rack job to replace it. Still slow, but nowhere near as slow and the dishes are dry when it finishes.

On the plus side, I hooked up the old Bosch in the basement so we have overflow for mega-dish events like Thanksgiving and Passover - so it's not a total loss.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (Q8c/L)

373 Friend of mine just got back from Home Depot garden center.

She was told by the manager there that they expect the state to limit in-store purchases to only "essential" items such as electrical, plumbing, etc. The rest of the store will be off limits. They expect to get the order this weekend.

Fucking ridiculous.

Someone else on here had a similar story.

So, not only are you under de facto house arrest, you aren't even allowed to buy things to help you cope, like seeds or plants for your lawn.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (vg8iE)

374 Have flu deaths ever gone to zero? They're setting up an impossibility.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (H8QX

Well the Clinton Foundation is demanding disaster, so she can rise like a phoenix.

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (ONvIw)

375 I would imagine it varies from bank to bank but Wells Fargo is giving the option to tack it on to the end of your mortgage or other options.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

Forbes has a list of banks that are offering deferrals or other relief:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/qmfpskm

Posted by: IrishEi at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (sGotD)

376 But really, what fairly young guy shows up at a hospital, is immediately in ICU that day, and dies two weeks later

yeah that one stinks to high heaven.

given his age and the proclivities of my peers, initial admit was probably "heart attack" from coke or other drug use

they got him to hang on on the vent but then some infection popped up and blew that (altho he was already on it way way too long). could have been covid or any number of corona viruses or a combo

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (j9HX3)

377 Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:32 AM (ZCEU2)

I figured out that the "Bulky" setting was by far the best. it uses more water and gets the clothes cleaner.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (dLLD6)

378 Whee! 6.6 million jobless as opposed to the 3.1 that were expected.

Thanks for tanking the economy Dr. Fauci, U.S. governors and the MSM! Your over-reaction to the flu has caused a new depression.

/but that's what you wanted, isn't it?

Posted by: shibumi in a tinfoil hat at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (ZCiJZ)

379 I had forgotten about that. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:38 AM (N39Ws)
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No problem.

There was and is so much malfeasance going on it's really hard to keep track of all the places the Obama administration put the screws to private enterprise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (WEBkv)

380
"I see by your bandana that you dont have the COVID"
These words he did say as I slowly walked by.
"Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story.
Ive got the Corona and know I must die!!"

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (nw6Hr)

381 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Unlike the painting from yesterday, this one speaks to me. I don't like what it says, but it resonates.
Goes looking for coffee.

==

this haiku is very untraditional....

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (zr5Kq)

382 368 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

Have flu deaths ever gone to zero? They're setting up an impossibility.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (H8QX

Maybe time to put a muzzle on him.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (90T4r)

383
Apparently he (Pollack) had real mental problems

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It's the art critics, gallery owners, and fools who bought his output who had the mental problems.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (d6mdH)

384 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)
++++++++++
So never, then. Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (Q8c/L)

385 Good news is there may be a break in the oil industry issues. I think Russia and the Middle East have stopped their oil war.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (2DOZq)

386 Dip is where old Avocados go to die.

Posted by: klaftern at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (RuIsu)

387 So, not only are you under de facto house arrest, you aren't even allowed to buy things to help you cope, like seeds or plants for your lawn.

where is this?!?!!?

that's nuts.

my garden is where I get my food. how is that not essential

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (j9HX3)

388 380
"I see by your bandana that you dont have the COVID"
These words he did say as I slowly walked by.
"Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story.
Ive got the Corona and know I must die!!"
Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (nw6Hr)

Threadwinner!!!

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (90T4r)

389 If I wasn't playing a miniature game I'd bored to death. Wasn't going to play another but if all month what Prussian/ Russian battle was after Gross Jagersdorf in 1757 in the 7 years war?

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (ZCEU2)

390 arrest her, out in public without papers

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (Cus5s)

391 My wife is having a very hard time not being able to see her mother. especially now that Lung Rot is present in the nursing home she at.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (jsWA8)

392 figured out that the "Bulky" setting was by far the best. it uses more water and gets the clothes cleaner.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (dLLD6)

In 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (nRWPy)

393 no new cases no cases no deaths

that will be 2021

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That will be never.

I don't think that is what he literally believes, but it is what he figuratively believes and it is not a recipe for returning to normal.

Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (sX1BW)

394 mega-dish events like Thanksgiving and Passover

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:42 AM (Q8c/L)

You're a Yid?

They're everywhere! I warned you people!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (dLLD6)

395 "I see by your bandana that you dont have the COVID"
These words he did say as I slowly walked by.
"Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story.
Ive got the Corona and know I must die!!"
Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (nw6Hr)

add a line about a woman and drink you it's a country song

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (zr5Kq)

396 324 I have been surprised to see some levelheaded people I know acting so scared."

This kind of reaction has always fascinated me; I suspect some portion of people simply have no ability to cope with any personal risk. I ran into it when I was on an oil rig where the well blew out and we all had to wear breathing masks to get it under control. Most men there could buckle down and do what was needed, but there were always some who you thought would be brave who just crumbled under those circumstances. I had an engineer friend who was very book smart, but when exposed to actual danger his brain would just shut down and he would stand there and mumble aimlessly.

And I've always read of this happening on the front lines of any war - some of the Big Strong Men turn coward and cry, and some shy unassuming men turn into Medal of Honor winners. you never really know which way someone will go until their feet are actually in the fire.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (V2Yro)

397 367 Depending on your budget, you can get commercial-type dishwashers for your house that cycle in under 5 minutes. They are priced like uber high-end residential units. If that's your market ($2k-$3k), they're available.

I'm of Scottish descent.
Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:41 AM (nRWPy)

Copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (NWiLs)

398 where is this?!?!!?

that's nuts.

my garden is where I get my food. how is that not essential
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Ohio

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (vg8iE)

399 no this is a TERRIBLE benchmark, ugh Fauci is a dumbass
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (j9HX3)

Trump made him the oracle. The last person I ever thought would succumb to "expertitis" was Donald Trump.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (H8QX8)

400 In 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (nRWPy)

Yeah...but at least I can wear my cute maid's outfit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (dLLD6)

401
6.6 million jobless.

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I think we're going to see a much larger exponential curve here.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (nw6Hr)

402 But this country needs something to truly inspire them. Something that can be seen.

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A mountain of Democrap skulls perhaps?

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (d6mdH)

403
340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

At some point, Trump is going to have to tell that gnome, "GFY."

During Princess Barry's H1N1 outbreak, Dr. Fauci said to keep all the schools open and continue living our lives normally.

Ultimately, 59,000,000 Americans were infected and around 13,000+ died. And the media carried on as though nothing was going on.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (ptqGC)

404 @realDonaldTrump 12 minutes ago

Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!

The market took off after this tweet....

Posted by: Tami at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (cF8AT)

405 Wait till Nancy gets the donks new green deal passed. Talk about nothing working.

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (mcuue)

406 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)

S-o-o-o-o-o, never. We're never going back to normal.

There are still cases of the Black Plague, ferchrissakes!

That's a stupid and profoundly unrealistic metric.

Fauci's reached his maximum level of competence (The Peter Priciple!),

and now needs to be "promoted" sideways out of the public eye, and let someone else who's got a more real world view and who is not willing to kamikaze the US economy for the perfect condition of "Zero",

to take over.

Dude's got too much power for his level of ability.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (z0XD8)

407 You're a Yid?

They're everywhere! I warned you people!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (dLLD6)
+++++++++
LOL.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (Q8c/L)

408 I don't think that is what he literally believes, but it is what he figuratively believes and it is not a recipe for returning to normal.

someone OTHER than this asshat or those ninnies Tucker and Rich Zeoli need to get into Trump's ear STAT

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (j9HX3)

409 So Robert Kraft - of Patriots fame -- sent the team plane to China to pick up 1.2MM N95 masks.Haven't we seen this movie before? Ask the Netherlands. These masks are destined for MA. Great. More sick Massholes coming to NH because the masks won't work.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 09:57 AM (N39Ws)

Prolly snuck a couple of Chinese "masseuses" onto the plane, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (miJU3)

410
this haiku is very untraditional....

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM

Tradition is for old Jewish guys playing fiddles on roofs.
Just how did that guy get up there anyway?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (axyOa)

411 Dude's got too much power for his level of ability.

he's clearly loving this

he LOVES being the center of attention

it's creepy and untoward

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (j9HX3)

412 I don't think that is what he literally believes, but it is what he
figuratively believes and it is not a recipe for returning to normal.

Maybe that's the plan. We never return to normal. Unemployment is turned into Universal Basic Income for those in non-essential positions and most small businesses, including restaurants are a thing of that past. We are then all slaves of the state in one way or another.

Welcome to our new totalitarian world of fear.

Posted by: shibumi in a tinfoil hat at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (ZCiJZ)

413 Copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (NWiLs)

Did you hear about the Grand Canyon?

Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (X/Pw5)

414 Depending on your budget, you can get commercial-type dishwashers for your house that cycle in under 5 minutes. They are priced like uber high-end residential units. If that's your market ($2k-$3k), they're available.

I'm of Scottish descent.
Posted by: dagny

Hand washing with soap is practically free.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (W2taJ)

415 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

Mike Gallagher just played a clip of Fauci from Jan. 25 saying Flu Manchu was nothing that American had to worry about and we could screen for it on people coming into the country. The guy changes directions more than a weathervane

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (kXYFI)

416 So we've gone from an Easter comeback to essentially never. All within two weeks.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (H8QX8)

417 >>> 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths. A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM

Things that are started for arbitrary capricious reasons will never ever have a reason to stop.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (l6b3d)

418 313Posted by: bank robers in hiding

hmm. i know he's robed the reichstag, but i wasn't aware of christo robing banks.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 02, 2020 10:47 AM (kf5Ci)

419 This damn viral protocol is going to turn me into an alcoholic.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 02, 2020 10:47 AM (J+mig)

420 @realDonaldTrump 12 minutes ago
Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!

The market took off after this tweet....
Posted by: Tami at April 02, 2020 10:45 AM (cF8AT)
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Why do I get a sneaking suspicion that Trump is trying to reform ARAMCO has an Anglo-Arab cartel with peripheral members (possibly Russia or N. Europe) that will replace OPEC?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:47 AM (Q8c/L)

421 391 My wife is having a very hard time not being able to see her mother. especially now that Lung Rot is present in the nursing home she at.
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I have the same deal going on with my wife. Personally, I am happy her mom is in a nursing home. Her husband is no longer able to care for anyone and she is recovering from dual hip replacements.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:47 AM (xAWn5)

422 "Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.
"

when all life is online, all small business extinguished ... Amazon rules shopping, Google handles propaganda/censorship/de-personing ...

Everyone gets their government checks, online worship will be allowed for now. Thanks Fauci, your models were much more effective than the global warming models, at controlling the public with fake science.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (Cus5s)

423
During Princess Barry's H1N1 outbreak, Dr. Fauci said to keep all the schools open and continue living our lives normally.

He's Deep State. Hillary fan. There are correspondences out there from Fauci to Hillary that border on love letters.

Posted by: shibumi in a tinfoil hat at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (ZCiJZ)

424 399 no this is a TERRIBLE benchmark, ugh Fauci is a dumbass
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (j9HX3)

Trump made him the oracle. The last person I ever thought would succumb to "expertitis" was Donald Trump.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (H8QX

I hate that my President may be getting played by these no good bastards. There. I said it. And I will absolutely vote for him in November, and I think he is the right man for these times. He is sailing in to monstrous headwinds, is the problem.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (90T4r)

425 There's a lot of comments on here, so I don't know if anyone's noticed but I've been warning you for over a week about the Coronavirus Hearings scam Democrats are going to run this summer as a month long nationally televised Shampeachment Theater II at the height of election season. It probably won't involve actual impeachment, but you never really know with these fucks.

Now comes word that Adam Schiff of all people wants to create a Coronavirus Commission. Shocker. These fuckers never ever stop. And they're pretty predictable.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (T+/KY)

426 Late to the thread, but O. Louis Guglielmi? Didn't we have another of his a while back? A riverfront with some odd perspectives, IIRC.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (dfRN6)

427 Trump made him the oracle. The last person I ever thought would succumb to "expertitis" was Donald Trump.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (H8QX

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Fauci innoculates Trump.... pun intended

IMHO brilliant move. Trump recognizes the political danger in this.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (nw6Hr)

428 "Maybe that's the plan. We never return to normal."

That's it. I said it weeks ago. The deep state has us by the balls.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (H8QX8)

429 They think they have more targets than we have ammo.
Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2020 09:59 AM (kOpft)

How many nukes would it take to breach China's big dams?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (miJU3)

430 It's very revealing to see the tyrants showing their true colors on Nextdoor. I'm guessing the vast majority of the tattletales and scolds are Dems, voted for Barry and Hillary, and are still seething the Beast lost.

Now some of the scolds are furious at kids riding their bikes in the evening or driving golf carts. This is after the kids have been indoors all day attending classes on their computers.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (ptqGC)

431 391
My wife is having a very hard time not being able to see her mother.
especially now that Lung Rot is present in the nursing home she at.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (jsWA

My mom was sent to the hospital 12 days ago after being admitted from being in rehab. Immediately quarantined and given a COVID test. Still waiting on the test results. Tested her again Sunday - still waiting for those results too. She has dementia and hearing issues - so talking to her is almost impossible. If we get a test result back - presumably negative -she can return to rehab - and a chance for more interaction and hopefully slow the mental decline. Meanwhile she sits there rotting away. If she had Kung Flu, she'd have symptoms by now, and with her health conditions would most likely be dead.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (N39Ws)

432 Hand washing with soap is practically free.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (W2taJ)
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True. There's a downside though: I *hate hate hate* washing dishes. My dishwasher will be the final luxury I allow to slip away when we're returned feudal poverty.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (Q8c/L)

433 oil stocks jumping by 10% today - market loves Trump's tweet on oil.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (V2Yro)

434 you never really know which way someone will go until their feet are actually in the fire.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (V2Yro)

Hard times reveal character.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (y7DUB)

435 Late to the thread, but O. Louis Guglielmi? Didn't we have another of his a while back? A riverfront with some odd perspectives, IIRC.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM

Did it have the hinky bridge in the distance?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (axyOa)

436 Will the suicides related to job loss or financial problems be attributed to the Woo-Flu?
I suppose the "gun deaths" will surge too.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (DB16e)

437 (staying on topic).

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Sorry, unfamiliar concept here. I mean it looks like English.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (d6mdH)

438 The ABC stores are still in business. May have to visit and see about a bottle of Four Roses Small Batch. Dittos gin to pair with the tonic.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (xAWn5)

439 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)

If Fauci said that, he's a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (NWiLs)

440 @415

Once your inside the operation all you see is the operation.

Going back to normal is going to be impossible so this is going to be the new normal.

Posted by: Digging Deeper at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (FVrDO)

441 413 Copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (NWiLs)

A Jew and a Scotsman were having dinner at a fancy restaurant. When the waiter came around, he heard the Scotsman say "Sure, laddie, I'll pick up the check."

The next day's headline read "Jewish ventriloquist found dead!"

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM (J+mig)

442 An offering of giving thanks:

A devotional from the Rabbi's daughter, Yael Eckstein, from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/t5wonyc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM (WI7YS)

443 Hand washing with soap is practically free.

If it were just me?

That Scot thing is hard core. My italian husband mimics the scotty dog from lady and the tramp to me all the time, "Soo expensive!" But I think that was his initial attraction (other than the boobs.)

Posted by: dagny at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM (nRWPy)

444 432. I am one of those wierd ducks that essentially washes everything before they go into the dishwasher, to be washed again.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM (JRaU+)

445 Just got back from the Post Office. They have clear plastic taped over all of the windows and have the debit card machines set up on boxes 6 feet away from the clerk.

She said they did that last night.

Posted by: Mr. Scottt (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM (JUOKG)

446 Just got back from the Post Office. They have clear plastic taped over all of the windows and have the debit card machines set up on boxes 6 feet away from the clerk.

She said they did that last night.
Posted by: Mr. Scottt (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM (JUOKG)
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What if I pay cash?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:51 AM (Q8c/L)

447 340 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)

Yeah, that's not happening. We need to get things going again before mid-May or we're going into a fairly lengthy depression.

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at April 02, 2020 10:51 AM (1FhAQ)

448 426 Late to the thread, but O. Louis Guglielmi? Didn't we have another of his a while back? A riverfront with some odd perspectives, IIRC.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (dfRN6)

Yep, The River was used recently

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:51 AM (ONvIw)

449 powerlineblog.com/the wuhan virus where we are now
https://tinyurl.com/uvdbjyl
Short text and graft but compared past flu to this year
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:39 AM (ZCEU2)
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It is useless to compare these things - apples and oranges.

Those figures represents those dead of the flu IN SPITE OF a vaccine and herd immunity.

The virus we are dealing with now has neither.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 02, 2020 10:51 AM (sGotD)

450 77 Little known fact, that girl, in red coat, grows up to be a union leader. With mob connections.

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Now there's an unnecessary qualification.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at April 02, 2020 10:51 AM (d6mdH)

451 Copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (NWiLs)

Did you hear about the Grand Canyon?
Posted by: BignJames at April 02, 2020 10:46 AM (X/Pw5)

Invented by 2 Irishmen fighting over a potato.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

452 A Scotsman prayed every night, fervently. "Please, Lord, let me win the lottery!" Every night, year after year, without stop. Finally the Lord had enough, and His voice thundered from the heavens "Will you at least meet me halfway and buy a bloody ticket!?"

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (J+mig)

453 Trump made him the oracle. The last person I ever thought would succumb to "expertitis" was Donald Trump.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:44 AM (H8QX

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Fauci innoculates Trump.... pun intended

IMHO brilliant move. Trump recognizes the political danger in this.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM

***

I completely trust PDT.
He's still playing 3 D chess and a master troller.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (axyOa)

454 powerlineblog.com/the wuhan virus six notes queries

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (ZCEU2)

455 A riverfront with some odd perspectives, IIRC.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (dfRN6)

Yup. Good memory!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (dLLD6)

456 I am one of those wierd ducks that essentially washes everything before they go into the dishwasher, to be washed again.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 02, 2020 10:50 AM

Same here. It's my Mom's fault.

Posted by: Bert G at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (OMsf+)

457 Kid casts no shadow-daywalking vampire?

Posted by: Remodern America at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (ivE/p)

458 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

Posted by: andycanuck at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (TQ/zJ)

459 I was thinking about Biden and Cuomo and the fact that even with all this mess created by Coronavirus, Trump's re-election chances are solid.

But who else would really want the job? Looming unemployment, a wrecked economy, social dissention.
Who else besides Trump would be up to the task anyway?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (CqE5x)

460 But where can i buy poppy seeds?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (l+aAF)

461 Destroying the Country's economy and throwing it into a depression is worth it if it saves just one 90 year old with one lung and failing kidneys from dying.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (2DOZq)

462 @430 Nextdoor convinced me that my choice not to associate with my neighbors is a good choice.

Posted by: BluesFish at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (KKxhj)

463 Just got back from the Post Office. They have clear plastic taped over all of the windows and have the debit card machines set up on boxes 6 feet away from the clerk.

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A nuke plant could blow in the Midwest and people downwind would take these type of precautions.

People are acting like plutonium is going around.

I have a cousin that is letting her Amazon deliveries sit in teh sun for 8 hours, then wipe down the carton, then open the carton, wipe down the inside and wipe down the packaging of her product. All before bringing it inside.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (nw6Hr)

464 Why do I get a sneaking suspicion that Trump is trying to reform ARAMCO has an Anglo-Arab cartel with peripheral members (possibly Russia or N. Europe) that will replace OPEC?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:47 AM (Q8c/L)

Count me as one that thinks this would be a fantastic, even brilliant move. Not many people today realize that OPEC itself was modeled on the Texas Rail Road Commission (which regulates Oil more than Railroads, natch) In the 1930's, the TRRC initiated stringent "pro-rationing" rules, basically production cuts, which stopped the oil industry of the 30's from destroying itself through excessive production. OPEC openly copied the TRRC guidelines.

The TRRC's efforts were the reason that America had a large and healthy oil production industry when it was time to fight WW2.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:54 AM (V2Yro)

465 A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.

And about as realistic as my target of making it with Mila Kunis.

Posted by: spindrift at April 02, 2020 10:54 AM (75Q6c)

466 453

I completely trust PDT.
He's still playing 3 D chess and a master troller.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (axyOa)

So do I, but he has a terrible amount of power arrayed against him, and can make a misstep, like any of us can. The guy is amazingly tough and resilient, though.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:55 AM (90T4r)

467 IL cannabis dispensary yesterday had tape marks 6' apart in the line. They only let like 5 people in at a time. The rest had to wait outside, but it was a beautiful day!

Posted by: Chris M at April 02, 2020 10:55 AM (eAZVt)

468 I'm thankful my parents aren't alive and holed up alone somewhere. Daddy died too young at 76, and Mother lived near us in independent living, and that entire facility has been closed to families and visitors. She would have been frightened and lonely.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 02, 2020 10:55 AM (ptqGC)

469 Poppy seeds look in spice section
Not one of my usual buys but you would be shocked at the crap seeds and grain my wife requests

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (ZCEU2)

470 Count me as one that thinks this would be a fantastic, even brilliant move. Not many people today realize that OPEC itself was modeled on the Texas Rail Road Commission (which regulates Oil more than Railroads, natch) In the 1930's, the TRRC initiated stringent "pro-rationing" rules, basically production cuts, which stopped the oil industry of the 30's from destroying itself through excessive production. OPEC openly copied the TRRC guidelines.

The TRRC's efforts were the reason that America had a large and healthy oil production industry when it was time to fight WW2.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 10:54 AM (V2Yro)

The last several years, it was run by George P. Bush.

No more Clinton.
No more Bush.
I'm tired of taking it
In the tush.

- Burma Shave

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

471 But who else would really want the job? Looming unemployment, a wrecked economy, social dissention.

Who else besides Trump would be up to the task anyway?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (CqE5x)

I think there's several thousand power-crazed loons (mostly D's) who would kill for the job.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (T+/KY)

472 When the Brooklyn Bridge was opened in, and I think I have it right, 1889, the huge crowd of celebrating pedestrians covered the deck from end to end, and something set off a stampede. Hundreds were crushed in the mayhem.

No one knew about the need for a slow timed ascent, after working in high-air-pressure conditions. Huge upside-down pier forms were built, iron-clad chisel-edged bottom edges, each the size of a ship, and sunk to the river bottom, sent down using huge cut stone pier blocks atop.

Men worked inside these, descending in shafts through the waters, entering the space where they worked like miners, picks and shovels, rock drills, etc., to excavate so as to lower the pier forms to bedrock. The air was supplied with compressors up above, in barges on the river surface. If I recall correctly, the deepest pier is on the Manhattan side, at maybe 70 feet down below water level.

At those depths, the compressed air was at considerably higher pressure than at sea level. The men got the bends. Roebling got the bends.

I am structural engineer and I love bridge stories, and the Brooklyn bridge build is a terrific story.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (+fPHo)

473 Trivia: What made the hatter mad?

More than 100 years ago, the felt hat makers of England used mercury to stabilize wool. Most of them eventually became poisoned by the fumes, as demonstrated by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Breathing mercury's fumes over a long period of time will cause erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes.

Posted by: SMOD at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (3aI0K)

474 Hey, remember hopscotch?

Was always more of a girl's game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (A5zUN)

475 And about as realistic as my target of making it with Mila Kunis.
Posted by: spindrift at April 02, 2020 10:54 AM (75Q6c)

Never dip your stick in crazy.

And dat bitch is CRAY cray.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

476 @430 Nextdoor convinced me that my choice not to associate with my neighbors is a good choice.
Posted by: BluesFish at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (KKxhj)
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I rate my neighbors by intrusiveness.

Smile and wave high as they are walking their dogs and pick up after their dogs while keeping proper control?

Golden.

Let your little fluffy piece of hawk bait yap at all hours?

Jackass.

Yard overgrown, but, nice enough to chat with and quiet?

Golden.

Perfect yard, but loud music and out of control kids?

Jackass.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (WEBkv)

477 461 Destroying the Country's economy and throwing it into a depression is worth it if it saves just one 90 year old with one lung and failing kidneys from dying.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (2DOZq)

We all know it's not worth it, but we all know that the younger people and immunocompromised people will suffer too. I'm looking for the middleground. Masks and a return to semi-normal. "No new cases" is stupid benchmark

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (ONvIw)

478 A Scotsman prayed every night, fervently. "Please, Lord, let me win the lottery!" Every night, year after year, without stop. Finally the Lord had enough, and His voice thundered from the heavens "Will you at least meet me halfway and buy a bloody ticket!?"
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (J+mig)
+++++++++++
Reminds me of a joke (that is actually a parable).

After heavy rains, a dam is read to fail and threatens to flood a community. The governor orders an evacuation ahead of the failure. To help people who can't leave, he sent buses to crawl through the town and offer rides to anyone still remaining behind. The bus stopped in front of a man sitting on his porch and the driver told him to get in. The man replied, "I am a man of faith and The Lord will protect me."

The dam started to break up and the floodwaters rose. The governor sent boats to pick up anyone left behind. The man was now sitting on the roof of his porch, the floodwaters having forced him upstairs. The boat came up and the pilot told him to get in. The man replied, "I am a man of faith and The Lord will protect me."

The dam broke up and the floodwaters rose. The governor sent helicopters to pick up anyone clinging to objects. The man was not perched on top of his chimney. The pilot called down through a loudspeaker, "Get onto the ladder!" The man shouted back, "I am a man of faith and The Lord will protect me!"

The man drowned and ascended to heaven. During his conference with the divine, he asked, "I have always been a man of faith. I was true to your Word and lived a holy life. Why did you not protect me?"

The Lord answered, "I sent you a bus, a boat and a helicopter."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (Q8c/L)

479 If cannabis is medicine, as some purport, why is not dispensed by pharmacies like other drugs ?

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (zr5Kq)

480 I have a cousin that is letting her Amazon
deliveries sit in teh sun for 8 hours, then wipe down the carton, then
open the carton, wipe down the inside and wipe down the packaging of her
product. All before bringing it inside.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 10:53 AM (nw6Hr)

Female doc on Fox suggested that last week.

Watched several news readers this morning congratulating themselves for their bravery, reporting from inside their homes. I'd love to thank them for their service.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (ptqGC)

481
I think there's several thousand power-crazed loons (mostly D's) who would kill for the job.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2020 10:56 AM (T+/KY)

And will kill you if they get it and this happens.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

482 I completely trust PDT.
He's still playing 3 D chess and a master troller.

He is, at the very least, the luckiest person in the world. Even that would be good enough for me, but I think he's far more than that.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 10:58 AM (98WNR)

483 Our Iowa Gov is holding out as long as she can to keep the state open and afloat. Politics is playing a big part of it right now.

We have the benefit that 99% of our land in Iowa is Ag or Ag related so we have room to distance ourselves. (OK, so the 3 major cities in Iowa are a mess but not nearly as bad as most places though)

Posted by: IP - Still a 'ron at April 02, 2020 10:58 AM (CTv2h)

484 So do I, but he has a terrible amount of power arrayed against him, and can make a misstep, like any of us can. The guy is amazingly tough and resilient, though.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2020 10:55 AM (90T4r)
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President Trump is an imperfect vessel sent, by God, to remind us we are a covenant nation.

The earthly forces arrayed against President Trump are completely outclassed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 10:58 AM (WEBkv)

485 Like others, I also thought this was Hopper at first. Has that same sort of feel to it. I probably would have liked it normally, but I couldn't help looking at it through a lens of stay-at-home orders.

I'm really shocked by the figure of 9.9 million abortions in just three months. Does anyone know if that's true? Even if some of them are babies who aren't viable (would die within a few hours, etc.), that's still horrific. That is a holocaust. If anyone wonders why it sometimes feels like God has abandoned us...that's your reason right there.

I always say there's nothing the cultists of Moloch could do that would surprise me, and they still find ways to go even lower. Almost ten million babies murdered in just three months.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 02, 2020 10:58 AM (rWZ8Y)

486 Does seem every individual case I hear seems to be a 87 year old guy, advanced Wuhan couldn't be saved with Z pack drug package.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:59 AM (ZCEU2)

487 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2020 10:49 AM (N39Ws)

What the hell is taking so long to get results?? That's insane.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 02, 2020 10:59 AM (dUJdY)

488
I figured the mask orders were coming and ordered the damned masks. Got a couple from the nurse at the hospital to hold us over til they come, so I'm more-or-less prepared for this.

But, Lady YD saw that CA has pulled the trigger on their order and asked whether I thought CO would, or if we wasted that mask money.

I told told her a story... back at the height of Lady Gaga's popularity with her weird obsessive fans, she pulled some dumb stunt where she wore a dress made of meat to an awards ceremony. One of these dumb chicks with no life or well-developed ego decided that, before she went to the Lady Gaga show, she'd butcher her pets to make her own meat dress.

I told her that if this were a metaphor for CO politics, that CA is Lady Gaga, and CO is that insane, thirsty, needy fan. Of course we'll follow suit. We copy everything they do, except harder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2020 10:59 AM (II2Y0)

489 Laredo, Texas is now requiring everyone over the age of 5 to wear a mask when out in public

*******

If you read the actual language at the city of Laredo's website it says "...required to wear some form of covering over their nose and mouth, such as a homemade mask, scarf, bandana, or handkerchief..."

Typically vague, arbitrary and non-evidence-based bureaucratic regulatory language.

I think I would go with either mosquito netting, panty hose or window screen material as my "fabric"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 02, 2020 10:59 AM (m45I2)

490 Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (ONvIw)

Why do you think younger people will be significantly affected? That doesn't seem to be the case. Unlike it was with the H1N1.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 11:00 AM (2DOZq)

491 Watched several news readers this morning congratulating themselves for their bravery, reporting from inside their homes. I'd love to thank them for their service.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (ptqGC)
++++++++++++
:: makes jerking-off motion ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 11:00 AM (Q8c/L)

492 If I wasn't playing a miniature game I'd bored to death. Wasn't going to play another but if all month what Prussian/ Russian battle was after Gross Jagersdorf in 1757 in the 7 years war?
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 10:43 AM (ZCEU2)
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Zorndorf?

My knowledge of the 7YW is rusty, and I'm too lazy to get my copy of The Encyclopedia of Military History.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 02, 2020 11:00 AM (g8Yc+)

493 Cato: A Scotsman prayed every night, fervently. "Please, Lord, let me win the lottery!"... That was about the shortest telling of it I've ever seen.

Amusing to see this joke propounded in different ethnicities. I originally read it in Jewish, and in the long form, it dragged on through the guy's whole life.

One of my great mantras for living for many years has been, "Moishe! Meet me half-way: Buy a ticket!" (in a NY Yiddish accent).

Posted by: mindful webworker
radically inclined
at April 02, 2020 11:00 AM (AoLFQ)

494 Watched several news readers this morning congratulating themselves for their bravery, reporting from inside their homes. I'd love to thank them for their service.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (ptqGC)
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With a round of tear gas through the front window?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 11:01 AM (WEBkv)

495
There's a nood monkey in the house

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=386589

Posted by: mindful webworker
radically inclined
at April 02, 2020 11:01 AM (AoLFQ)

496 NOOD

Yuk Monkey

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 02, 2020 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

497 woke up in a foul mood....everything bothers me right now....i hate when i feel this way....i'm trying to snap out of it.....ugh....i pity my family.....they will take the brunt....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 02, 2020 11:02 AM (0O7c5)

498 If you read the actual language at the city of Laredo's website it says "...required to wear some form of covering over their nose and mouth

Goalie mask and a chain saw!

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2020 11:02 AM (CE5C/)

499 Yup. Good memory!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at April 02, 2020 10:52 AM (dLLD6)
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Thanks. It makes me feel slightly less inadequate for always failing the Who Dis?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2020 11:02 AM (dfRN6)

500 I'm really shocked by the figure of 9.9 million abortions in just three months.
I think those figures are worldwide and not U.S. stats. (400,000 AIDS deaths per year for the U.S.? I don't think so.) The last I read, a long time ago, U.S. stats were 3,000 per day.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 02, 2020 11:03 AM (TQ/zJ)

501 I'm really shocked by the figure of 9.9 million abortions in just three months. Does anyone know if that's true?"

I can't find that number anywhere, so I don't know what it refers to. The last verifiable number I could find was for the full year of 2016, when the United States recorded 623,000 abortions. Far too many, but that makes any number in the millions very, very suspect.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2020 11:03 AM (V2Yro)

502
I literally have nothing to do today.

I log into our shared docs on the work server, make a minor change and save it so it "appears" Im working to my boss and coworkers.

Im alt tabbing between The Hord and mailing it in at work.

But.... If it saves just one life.....

Posted by: fixerupper at April 02, 2020 11:03 AM (nw6Hr)

503 :: makes jerking-off motion ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 02, 2020 11:00 AM (Q8c/L)

If this country was run by vegetarian women instead of meat eating men...

*sign language gal makes jerking off motions*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2020 11:03 AM (A5zUN)

504 Why do you think younger people will be significantly affected? That doesn't seem to be the case. Unlike it was with the H1N1.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 02, 2020 11:00 AM (2DOZq)

Younger people are not dying but they're getting ill and transmitting it. Younger people do have congenital cardiac issues and are compromised due to cancers, or like Rand, due to injury. Some have diabetes, CF, or have had transplants and are on immunosuppressants. This is not exclusively about RBG or Cuomo's mommy

Posted by: CN at April 02, 2020 11:05 AM (ONvIw)

505 Capt Obvious just looked and your right, Zorndorf will be next.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 11:06 AM (ZCEU2)

506 The science of this virus is imprecise and developing. Trump has thus largely yielded on matters on science to the scientists and researchers.

As the Executive, his job is to manage the team and make decisions based on their comprehensive advice. That is what he's doing- and frankly he's the only president in some time who understands the use of executive power in these decision making processes.

Faucci, Birx and some of the people on that podium are the exact people you want in a crisis. They are the best in their fields, bar none. This effort to create space between the president and his team is the work of small, diabolical, political minds.

In a crisis you move based on the best information you have an instincts. You reassess as more information becomes available because these situations are always dynamic. You make big decisions on the basis of all you know at the time, and you execute. Period. So I'm growing a little tired of the second guessers and weekend quarterbacks talking about how "they would have done it" or criticizing the basis of some decisions. I've never seen an executive and team tackle such an unprecedented event with such expertise and adeptness- and I've seen a lot. So you won't mind if I say fit in or fuck off. If you're not part of the solution, you are truly part of the problem.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 02, 2020 11:08 AM (VpIIl)

507 @461

So true, why risk any one dying ever, we should just shut down the economy, lock every one in, switch over to Monopoly money and dole out a UBI and hallucinogenic drugs to everyone forever.

That way, the best parts of 1984 and Brave New World will become a reality.

/Sarc.

Posted by: Digging Deeper at April 02, 2020 11:08 AM (FVrDO)

508 I am one of those wierd ducks that essentially washes everything before they go into the dishwasher, to be washed again.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

I do too. They go into the dishwasher for sterilization. Or as close as possible.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2020 11:08 AM (W2taJ)

509 what makes this rendering, versus scores of others we all see in our lives (or I should say, former lives ... when we were actually able to go out and visit shops), a winner?
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

To me, this looks cartoonish. NTTAWWT but I wouldn't hang it on my wall.

Well, maybe in a rec room. Informality does have a place.

Posted by: Art Mullin (SWIDT?) at April 02, 2020 11:09 AM (UxZdD)

510 "Maybe that's the plan. We never return to normal."

That's it. I said it weeks ago. The deep state has us by the balls.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 02, 2020 10:48 AM (H8QX

THAT'S IT!!! TRUMP WAS NEVER IN THE LEVEL! HE'S JUST A STALKING HORSE! HE'S GONNA PRETEND TO BE CONSERVATIVE AND THEN BAM!!!! HE'S GONNA GO FULL LEFTIST AND HAND THE COUNTRY OVER TO THE GLOBALISTS!!!!!!!! WHY DIDN'T WE LISTEN SOONER?? WE ARE DOOMED!!! GAME OVER!!! COUNTRY IS FINISHED!!! NEVER COMING BACK FROM THIS!!! GOOD BYE AMERICA!!!!!

Now that we've got that horse shit out of the way.... Could people just stop with the DOOOOOM!!! This is a bump in the road and it is actually causing some good things to happen. When it's over this country will be stronger. More people are praying. More people are seeing China as an adversary. More people are realizing how dishonest the media is and how corrupt the democrats are. People are noticing that their kids aren't getting a good education even when they are in school. Families are going for walks, engaging with neighbors again. People are finally seeing what is important again. The country will be stronger for all that.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 02, 2020 11:09 AM (myjNJ)

511 >>Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

There are 7700 deaths on average in the US every day from all causes - I'll be that average will hold up in 2020. Even with Corona.

The spike with be March thru April, then hit lows afterwards, but death from all causes average for 2020 will be right around the norm by the end of the year, you hide and watch - thanks Fauci.

Posted by: Boswell at April 02, 2020 11:10 AM (32YRo)

512 @ madamemayhem

What she said.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 02, 2020 11:10 AM (WEBkv)

513 But my thoughts on experts making the decision
Ask a fire chief how to build a flame proof house and you will get a flame proof house that costs double what you need, but it will be flame proof.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2020 11:10 AM (ZCEU2)

514 Can we get a full blog entry on war with China? I love reading about that. I think that this chinese virus is absolutely an act of war directly inflicted by china because they know that another 4 years of Trump will tear their country apart. Humanity could do nothing more to ensure a peaceful and free future than to destroy CHina yesterday.

Posted by: Eli Cash at April 02, 2020 11:12 AM (67sg6)

515 Good news, Fauci says we can go back to normal when there are no new cases and no new deaths.

A fairly lofty goal, but at least a target.
Posted by: SH at April 02, 2020 10:37 AM (sX1BW)

That is essentially never. Fauci is a turd.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2020 11:15 AM (miJU3)

516 It is useless to compare these things - apples and oranges.

Those figures represents those dead of the flu IN SPITE OF a vaccine and herd immunity.

The virus we are dealing with now has neither.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 02, 2020 10:51 AM (sGotD)

Relatively few people get the flu vaccine. I, for one, have never had it. And quite often, they guess wrong about which strain of flu is coming, and the vaccine is all but useless, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2020 11:31 AM (miJU3)

517 IL cannabis dispensary yesterday had tape marks 6' apart in the line. They only let like 5 people in at a time. The rest had to wait outside, but it was a beautiful day!
Posted by: Chris M at April 02, 2020 10:55 AM (eAZVt)

Shoulda gone fishing instead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2020 11:34 AM (miJU3)

518 If cannabis is medicine, as some purport, why is not dispensed by pharmacies like other drugs ?
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2020 10:57 AM (zr5Kq)

You aren't supposed to ask that question.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2020 11:37 AM (miJU3)

519
I suspect Adam had some serious underlying conditions like a lot of musicians

Dude. Just knowing these guys is a health hazard?Dead -- of an Oxford comma, or, the lack, thereof.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 02, 2020 11:37 AM (8IOEj)

520 Tom Servo is a doom troll (although he really, really loves Pence, which is very interesting.)

Posted by: artemis at April 02, 2020 11:43 AM (AwPyG)

521 "If cannabis is medicine, as some purport, why is not dispensed by pharmacies like other drugs ?"

Yeah, they're goofy. I'd say it's more like a liquor store.

Posted by: Chris M at April 02, 2020 11:43 AM (eAZVt)

522 Just before the Beast From 20,000 fathoms emerged.

Posted by: JimH at April 02, 2020 11:54 AM (NzURT)

523 A white girl. Playing hopscotch by herself on a major New York street in a now-tenement area. No cars, no taxis, no buses, no trans people screaming in your face with genitals dangling, no Black Lives Matter thug about to play the Knockout game on you, no mayor screaming to take away your super Big Gulp.

Boy the way Glen Miller played...

Posted by: Jonah Kyle (@gopcongress) at April 02, 2020 02:01 PM (SH7Tr)

524 Do kids still play Hopscotch or has it been declared insensitive to little snowflakes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 02, 2020 04:42 PM (FLiOE)

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