EMT 4/11/20 Papers Please! edition

Things are rapidly spinning into a dystopian police state in some areas.

I would say I pity those who meekly voted for enslavement, but I do not.

I would say I pity those that meekly follow their orders into the teeth of an armed populace, but I do not.

I would say I pity the children of both parties, and I mean that wholeheartedly.

It is not the fault of the innocent that their parents choose either the shackles or the strong arm of tyranny.

The over-reaction to this wu-flu is a genie that will be nigh impossible to put back into its bottle. We have set a new standard for dealing with large-scale crises, and that standard is unprecedented power to the state.

There are no saints who pursue, much less win, public office. There are only people with a will to power, certain of their own cause.

As much as I have grown to appreciate President Trump, I don't trust him nor any other elected official to give back any power they have attained, no matter how pure their intentions may be.

I pray all choose wisely from here on. The alternative could make us all wish instead for the casualties predicted in those ridiculous wu-flu computer models.

Posted by: krakatoa at 06:04 AM

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1 Gpod mornings hprde

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:05 AM (ZCEU2)

2 G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 11, 2020 06:05 AM (cqteU)

3 Good Morning Morons today is Saturday, April 11, 2020. On this day in 1976 the first Apple computer was created.

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

4 Try again
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:05 AM (ZCEU2)

5
Nazi Commielosa gives her wish-list for approving the next koronakrap bill. I say no more bills until after her ass is gone.

https://tinyurl.com/v9k4z48

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

6
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 11, 2020 06:06 AM (4ODnY)

7 RAMIREZ

https://tinyurl.com/sqw98l2

And that's it for today. Nothing but koronakrap out there today.

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

8 NY has 7,844 Covid-19 deaths, it takes next lower 11 states to equal that. NJ is 2nd 1,932.. 18,516 deaths total. NY/NJ have dropped there % to 52 3/4 of the country's total.
2,057 in last day, 2,171 the day before so slight drop
Pennsylvania had big jump 107 in a day, mostly been in 20s
Addin up from https://covid19stats.global/state/

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:06 AM (ZCEU2)

9 Morning

Seeing the Ramirez cartoon, I wonder how many anti vaxxers are demanding a flu vaccine now

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

10 1 I poured my first cup but haven't had any yet

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:08 AM (ZCEU2)

11 The over-reaction to this wu-flu is a genie that will be nigh impossible
to put back into its bottle. We have set a new standard for dealing
with large-scale crises, and that standard is unprecedented power to the
state.

I have been saying since this crap started "how many of these mayors or city councils who have ordered these draconinan measures and self-powers are gooing to release that shit when this overreacted crap goes away?

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:08 AM (mpXpK)

12 I see they have block off the entrance to the 3 big city parks near me. Authorities do not want any unofficial unlicensed bar bq type family gatherings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:10 AM (JFO2v)

13 You'll notice that I quit posting the figures on the koronakrap a few days ago. The numbers are all BS.

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

14 Republican governor of Texas Greg Abbott said he plans to allow businesses to reopen with an executive order that would lift the coronavirus lockdown in a "safe" way.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:12 AM (JFO2v)

15 And somebody needs to tell mother nature it is now mid-Spring. It was 39F here this morning.

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:13 AM (mpXpK)

16 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2020 06:14 AM (arJlL)

17 I am fully believing the numbers are gyned up, but the totalitarians are going by that. One possibility for Pennsylvania is the hospitals do collect some patients from surrounding states

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:14 AM (ZCEU2)

18 One of Ohio's "essential business" is that of printing, packaging and distributing scratch off lotto tickets while small business, restaurants close and the box stores limit the number of people inside. This is insane.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 11, 2020 06:16 AM (DB16e)

19 Rightly so, Vic, rightly so.

If you were still posting them I wouldn't read them anyway ... as you say, they are BS, deliberately so, and I am ignoring them as much as possible.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 11, 2020 06:17 AM (cqteU)

20 Texas

Cases 11,671
Deaths 226
Test 115,918
% Positive 10.006

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:17 AM (JFO2v)

21 Even Gov. Abbott (Tx) is speaking BS.
Texans with immunity will be allowed to go back to work. Just no.

And bagpipe Barr you are the cover up and steiner ain't coming.

President Trump it is slipping away. Do the right thing for America. Open it up and We the people will take our chances. You and Abbot, get the fuck out of the way.

Posted by: azalea city at April 11, 2020 06:17 AM (WX+x0)

22 It's bullshit, it was always bullshit, it was apparent it was bulshit from the very start.

But what is very real is the fascism that has descended upon America, and without firing a shot.

Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 11, 2020 06:18 AM (tlx0a)

23 Texas Statewide Hospitalization Data as of 4/10 at 8AM CST
Lab Confirmed COVID-19 Patients Currently in Texas Hospitals
1,532
Total Texas Staffed Hospital Beds
53,042
Available Texas Hospital Beds
21,817
Available Texas ICU Beds
2,336
Available Texas Ventilators
6,655

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:18 AM (JFO2v)

24 With the stay at home order, I guess the yutes in Chicago got in some range time.
The Hey Jackass weekend shooting count starts on Friday at noon. 3 shot dead yesterday afternoon/early evening. None wounded.

Overnight numbers updated later today.

Those three will probably have had the WooHoo flu in the reports

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:19 AM (vd8XM)

25 "Laboratory confirmed flu activity as reported by clinical laboratories continues to decrease sharply and is now low."- Johns Hopkins

Wonder why?

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 11, 2020 06:20 AM (DB16e)

26 americanthinker.com/fauci considering certificate of immunity cards
Would suggest tats on forearm, has worked before you know.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:20 AM (ZCEU2)

27
Good morning, Hordians.

Another fine Trump day! Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 06:20 AM (mht8P)

28 17 I am fully believing the numbers are gyned up, but the totalitarians are going by that. One possibility for Pennsylvania is the hospitals do collect some patients from surrounding states
Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:14 AM (ZCEU2)

Look at the stats I put up. There are supposedly 1500 in Texas hospital with Kung Flu. There are 30 M in Texas. The technocrats once again have fucked over the working people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:20 AM (JFO2v)

29 #14 when did Abbott say that? I am hoping he will! The tyranny of this usurping of our rights is truly frightening but maybe not as frightening as our allowing it to happen.

Posted by: AnnaS at April 11, 2020 06:21 AM (l4l/z)

30 Here in the DC suburbs, they are such willing sheep. Raising even the slightest question about what we are currently doing is met by huge push back.

Posted by: Che Pizza at April 11, 2020 06:22 AM (Tt0eT)

31 I am so dreading next trip to grocery store. So far I walk in and go through no different than did 1 year ago, somehow think thats coming to a end.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:22 AM (ZCEU2)

32 5
Nazi Commielosa gives her wish-list for approving the next koronakrap bill. I say no more bills until after her ass is gone.

https://tinyurl.com/v9k4z48
Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

This will kill recovery. This is Rooseveltism. Prolong the misery and suffering for the unforeseeable future while doling out petty little handouts to voters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:24 AM (JFO2v)

33 29 #14 when did Abbott say that? I am hoping he will! The tyranny of this usurping of our rights is truly frightening but maybe not as frightening as our allowing it to happen.
Posted by: AnnaS at April 11, 2020 06:21 AM (l4l/z)

last night

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:25 AM (JFO2v)

34 And somebody needs to tell mother nature it is now mid-Spring. It was 39F here this morning.
Posted by: Vic

Morning Vic.
The past ten years we've been in Florida this month. We have some nice days and my wife is itching to get out and start digging and moving some plants.
I told her, "it's getting down to 24 degrees two nights in a row this coming week."
She knows the rule for this. Don't bother with yard work until after Mothers Day. But she wants to be outside doing something

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:26 AM (vd8XM)

35
Deaths 226

Or 7.9 per million population. Compared to 50.5 per million for the US as a whole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 06:27 AM (mht8P)

36 Meanwhile, while the rest of the nation is watching their jobs evaporate, all the government bureaucrats in my neighborhood are essentially getting holidays.
Lots of lawn work leisurely walks for them. They're completely oblivious to the havoc they're wrecking throughout the nation.

They're so out of touch. We need to disperse the federal government throughout the country now!

Posted by: Che Pizza at April 11, 2020 06:27 AM (Tt0eT)

37 Windy again high in 50s, 70 tomorrow.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:28 AM (ZCEU2)

38 1961: Former SS officer Adolf Eichmann goes on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust.

I thinking of a few people that could use this treatment today.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:28 AM (JFO2v)

39 And speaking of usually being in Florida...

I've had some sinus problems and headaches going on,
Of course, I start thinking the lung rot. But since we are usually on the Gulf Coast this time of year, I've not been "pollinated" by all the trees and plants doing their thing here.
I wonder if others are having that happen also

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:29 AM (vd8XM)

40 Things are rapidly spinning into a dystopian police state in some areas.

That's not what I learned yesterday.

We have to have rules, and rules come from the top. Or at least so I was reliably told.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 06:30 AM (YaiCw)

41 Oh well, it can be 2nd breakfast time, apple pie

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:30 AM (ZCEU2)

42 Oh well, it can be 2nd breakfast time, apple pie
Posted by: Skip

Sounds good.
My wife made brownies, so I got that for coffee breakfast. I'll leave to pick up some bagels in about 45 minutes

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:32 AM (vd8XM)

43 What's interesting is that people don't die from the coronavirus itself, typically. Instead, they die from the body's own over-reaction to the virus: a cytokine storm as it's called.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at April 11, 2020 06:33 AM (lXZ2r)

44 41 Oh well, it can be 2nd breakfast time, apple pie
Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:30 AM (ZCEU2)

lets see

flour
eggs
sugar
cinnamon
apples

with ice adds
more eggs
milk

Yep FDA approves

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:33 AM (JFO2v)

45 Morning Mouth Breathers

Ain't dead yet

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 11, 2020 06:36 AM (cknjq)

46 When weasel boy Acosta asked about voter fraud the easiest answer would have been lets ask Lois Learner.

One of the first non-profits she rejected (illegally) Was True the Vote down in Houston, Tx.

Catherine Engelbrecht was also personally targeted by the IRS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:37 AM (JFO2v)

47 Anyone not under house arrest? I think so far only Nebraska I heard wasn't, and the 100 people in Wyoming shouldn't be.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:38 AM (ZCEU2)

48 Over at the Real Climate Science blog

He has a headline for these changing times.

"Remember To Use Plastic Bags And Straws, And Avoid Mass Transit"

He then posts some links of the MSM having a change of heart on that nonsense

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:38 AM (vd8XM)

49 So far not a comment, not a tweet, not a word from Trump on these civil liberties outrages.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 11, 2020 06:41 AM (Xjbjx)

50 Speaking the Truth:

Adams said in New York City the majority of deaths are among Hispanics and in Milwaukee County, though blacks represent only 25 percent of the population, they are nearly 50 percent of the cases and 75 percent of the deaths. "So what's going on?" he said. "Well, it's alarming but it's not surprising that people of color have a greater burden of chronic health conditions."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:42 AM (JFO2v)

51 As much as I have grown to appreciate President Trump, I don't trust him nor any other elected official to give back any power they have attained, no matter how pure their intentions may be.

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This^^^

Anyone who thinks things will go back to normal is delusional.

Posted by: SMH at April 11, 2020 06:43 AM (RU4sa)

52 @43
The corona virus is a respiratory virus like the flu and like the flu, it's main mode of killing is through pneumonia and the attendant complications that arise from it, your lungs being inflamed, filled with fluid and unable to function.

The only legitimate COVID deaths should be a positive RNA tests for the specific SARS-COVID2 markers and an accompanying pneumonia.
Anything else is bullshit.

I suspect what they are doing to run up the numbers is simply doing a viral/bacterial RNA test, not testing specifically for COVID, not requiring an accompanying pneumonia and voila, like a magic trick, you have more COVID deaths.

As someone sagely put it...

This is the flu, it's not Ebola, it's not AIDS, it's the fucking flu.

Bastards need to pay for this.

Starting with the Chinese and working our way to our homegrown fascists and fearmongers.

Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 11, 2020 06:43 AM (tlx0a)

53 He will never work again:

Lost star Daniel Dae Kim believes the anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump was the secret weapon in his recovery from the coronavirus.

The 51-year-old actor praised hydroxychloroquine as being critical in the treatment that has left him now practically back to normal just days after confirming he had been infected.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:44 AM (JFO2v)

54 I think it was Dennis Quaid who tweeted something nice about DJT and radio talk show host Chris Stigall said he will never get another part again.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:47 AM (ZCEU2)

55 More than half of working people under age 45 are now unemployed or furloughed, says this site, and most of those also do not have health insurance.

Pelosi and the Bernie Commies just think this "crisis" is policy paradise.

https://tinyurl.com/sygxxuj

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 11, 2020 06:48 AM (NVYyb)

56 As someone sagely put it...

This is the flu, it's not Ebola, it's not AIDS, it's the fucking flu.

Bastards need to pay for this.

Starting with the Chinese and working our way to our homegrown fascists and fearmongers.
Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 11, 2020 06:43 AM (tlx0a)

I bet AIDS beat its 10 year average of 40k new cases this year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 06:48 AM (JFO2v)

57 Good morning! We made it to the weekend. Time to get to the yard work so we can do a bit of relaxing this afternoon. This viral legal over-reach is nothing new to us along the coast. Every hurricane, the forced evacuation nazis put out fear mongering newscasts 24/7. Then they put curfews in place to arrest anyone that stays behind and ventures out. We let this happen.

Posted by: Uncle Si at April 11, 2020 06:49 AM (umcnB)

58 The Chicken Little Flu will be remembered for its cure lots longer than its cause.

Posted by: Lewis Bowlby at April 11, 2020 06:51 AM (Lxxwf)

59 Kentuckians need to send Beashear to the batshit pile in the very next election. What a junior Stalin that guy is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 11, 2020 06:52 AM (NVYyb)

60
Anyone who thinks things will go back to normal is delusional.
Posted by: SMH at April 11, 2020 06:43 AM (RU4sa)

To propose a delusionally contrarian view, I think most governors, mayors and county officials have neither training nor feel for this and no interest in being wrong. They want things to get back to normal as soon as possible so they can get back to their usual job of stealing the public blind.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 06:53 AM (mht8P)

61 We'll see.

Posted by: SMH at April 11, 2020 06:54 AM (RU4sa)

62 @60
And just wait for the wailing and screaming for bailouts and tax hikes.

These shutdowns have cost states billions in lost tax revenue that are going to have to be made up.

When this travesty is over, the pain will only be beginning.

Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 11, 2020 06:56 AM (tlx0a)

63 Try to imagine if the whole ghey/ transgender class wasn't on special status and AIDS was under quarantine.
I can't actually

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:56 AM (ZCEU2)

64 Gettn' to be about time for my weekly call. Got to move to rocking chair and brown for that. BBT.

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:56 AM (mpXpK)

65 With no recovery plan in sight, President Trump can kiss re-election goodbye.

https://tinyurl.com/thlf237

Posted by: SMH at April 11, 2020 06:57 AM (RU4sa)

66 Try to imagine if the whole ghey/ transgender class wasn't on special status and AIDS was under quarantine.
I can't actually
Posted by: Skip

Not to worry. They got the Aids medicine they advertise on TV. Lotsa side effects, but get your gay on, dammit

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 07:02 AM (vd8XM)

67 Yeah, I've given up. I am sick and tired of being Cassandra.

I said, as these ukases were coming down, that armed resistance was the only solution. I meant that in a half-serious way; the best solution would have been a nationwide 'fuck you,' gathering as you will and in such numbers that the government goons couldn't arrest everyone.

But this last Kentucky madness has tipped the scale - Americans gathering to worship God (a right enshrined in the Constitution) will be forced (and how? At gunpoint?) into quarantine.

Where is the resistance? Where are not only the religious groups but the gun rights groups and the lawyers tasked with upholding the constitution? Why are they not, at this moment, outside the state capitol in the thousands, screaming for the governor's head?

I don't even wonder about the LEOs; we always said that when SHTF, they would care more about their pensions than their oaths.

It's really enough to make me want to go back to bed and pray never to wake up again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:05 AM (2JVJo)

68 Not to worry. They got the Aids medicine they advertise on TV. Lotsa side effects, but get your gay on, dammit
Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 07:02 AM (vd8XM)

Which company is going to be the first to advertise for treatment/prevention of the Chinese Beer Flu?

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 11, 2020 07:06 AM (cknjq)

69 Boker tov dear morons.

Krak feeling a little randy this morning! I like it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 07:08 AM (EZebt)

70 Written before this all ever started Rich Zeoli 1210am said thif the Democrats could crash economy would be their only hope of sinking DJT's reelection.
Polling does put the blame squarely on China and the President hasn't been getting the brunt no matter what the media has been doing.
And the Democrats still have a little problem in a forgotten guy in this named Joe Biden. Like a vampire sunlight will destroy him.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:08 AM (ZCEU2)

71 Not a complaint, why doesn't Krak join in? Its a extremely rare thing I think.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:09 AM (ZCEU2)

72 The alternative could make us all wish instead for the casualties predicted in those ridiculous wu-flu computer models.

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This proves the need for hundreds of millions in additional funding for improvement of the computer models!

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:09 AM (41rs/)

73 Even my tea tastes like shit.

This is not going to be a good day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:11 AM (2JVJo)

74 I'm still interested in seeing what PATRIOT Act level legislation comes out of this.

I know they're working on banning encryption because bad cold virus, but you know there is a 10,000 page bill that was written five years ago by Bill Gates and friends that is going to be voted on shortly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:12 AM (41rs/)

75 Interesting the Kung Flu comes out just as people are finding out the Steele paper was a Russian fake and they all new it was fake fake fake.

When Mueller sat at his desk on day 1 and the sat the folder down it was empty.

It was a folder with a file name and number and nothing on the inside.

The first part of the report was written in about 10 days. The next 2 years (second part) were just sitting and waiting for something new to happen. That why part II is even labeled as a non investigative report used in justice cases. It was just a collection rumors, wishthinking, projection, and hearsay.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 07:12 AM (JFO2v)

76
This proves the need for hundreds of millions in additional funding for improvement of the computer models!
Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:09 AM (41rs/)

If, as I pray, the casualties from this are lower than the projected numbers (and it looks so), I hope this will forever put paid to basing public policy on computer models of multivariable scenarios. Talkin' about you, Global Warming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 07:14 AM (mht8P)

77 think it was Dennis Quaid who tweeted something
nice about DJT and radio talk show host Chris Stigall said he will
never get another part again.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 06:47 AM (ZCEU2)

A)
don't tweet, it will never do you any good. Who ever said "thank God I
tweeted that three years ago, it made all the difference." Sure there
are exceptions like James Woods but those are guys that are in it to win
it.

BTW, I never
liked James Woods as an actor. Something about him rubbed me the wrong
way. I thought he was a lefty for sure when he was in Stone's Nixon. I
could not have been more wrong. It is funny how things turn out.

I
think the Hollyweird normals should get together and produce their own
films. If the Left is going to blacklist them, they should join
together with other non- fascists and do their thing. I have an idea
that a lot of people would support them. And a lot of people not into
politics would watch quality movies.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 07:14 AM (hHxp2)

78 So what's going on?" he said. "Well, it's alarming but it's not surprising that people of color have a greater burden of chronic health conditions."

-

I doubt we'll ever see it, but it would be interesting to see the comparison between health "ages" of Chinese males in China vs blacks vs whites vs Hispanics in America.

Tables comparing overall health and what ages were affected in each would probably be fascinating to read.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:16 AM (41rs/)

79 mornin yall. Just another day of absurd hysteria in America. We are ruled by a bunch of ninnies.

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 07:17 AM (Tnijr)

80 71 Not a complaint, why doesn't Krak join in? Its a extremely rare thing I think.
Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:09 AM (ZCEU2)

Sometimes he has said he's headed back to bed.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 07:18 AM (55d/e)

81 I hope this will forever put paid to basing public policy on computer models of multivariable scenarios. Talkin' about you, Global Warming.

-

That's exactly why I suspect we'll hear about the need for more funding.

They start with the premise that the problem exists. Science and the requirements to reject a failed hypothesis are not required. Only money.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:18 AM (41rs/)

82 Whatever happened to the Rhode Island plan to hunt down New Yorkers and force them into quarantine?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:19 AM (gAXBD)

83 Not sure if this is Twilight Zone or Hotel California I'm living in

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:19 AM (ZCEU2)

84 I'm still interested in seeing what PATRIOT Act level legislation comes out of this.

I know they're working on banning encryption because bad cold virus, but you know there is a 10,000 page bill that was written five years ago by Bill Gates and friends that is going to be voted on shortly.
Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:12 AM (41rs/)

I've been predicting a cabinet-level position (you know Faker Fauci is pressing behind the scenes for this) with nationwide authority to issue stay-at-home orders, isolation or complete lockdown of businesses, cities and / or states. The position will "consult" with the President during times of national emergency, but will have the authority to override any Presidential order.

This authority, of course, will only be used against a GOP president.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:19 AM (2JVJo)

85 I'm still interested in seeing what PATRIOT Act level legislation comes out of this.

Rest assured, the same slack-jawed Lee Greenwood singing assholes on the right that applauded then will applaud now - all while proudly holding their "We Love Our Local LEOs" signs. Its like they have some sort of mental circuit breaker that trips, preventing them from seeing who is at the tip of the spear enforcing this shit.

If ignorance is bliss, then the Law and Order crowd has to be the happiest SOBs on the planet.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:20 AM (YaiCw)

86 Welcome to Bubble Boy Nation.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 07:21 AM (C/Kkr)

87 I'm still interested in seeing what PATRIOT Act level legislation comes out of this.

Rest assured, the same slack-jawed Lee Greenwood singing assholes on
the right that applauded then will applaud now - all while proudly
holding their "We Love Our Local LEOs" signs. Its like they have some
sort of mental circuit breaker that trips, preventing them from seeing
who is at the tip of the spear enforcing this shit.

If ignorance is bliss, then the Law and Order crowd has to be the happiest SOBs on the planet.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:20 AM (YaiCw)

hmm.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 07:22 AM (hHxp2)

88 Mornin', all.

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:22 AM (Z/jzm)

89 m - I have taken he often is just going to bed when I'm starting but even in afternoon, say food thread ?

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:23 AM (ZCEU2)

90 Local news is pushing the "disparate impact" of the virus on minorities. We have more deaths in the city from lead poisoning this year than from the virus. There's a disparate impact there too but no one talks about it. Like the 17 year old killing another 17 year old two days ago.

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 07:23 AM (Tnijr)

91 >>>
Whatever happened to the Rhode Island plan to hunt down New Yorkers and force them into quarantine?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:19 AM (gAXBD)

===========
Governor caught some shit, so she disguised the plan by saying it applies to all out of state plates. The staties even went so far as to arrest some guys who drove over the border (from Mass) to play golf with a friend at a RI golf course.

Posted by: Little Brian Stelter, The Donut Stalker at April 11, 2020 07:23 AM (NVYyb)

92 Good afternoon MLii

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:23 AM (ZCEU2)

93 Once all of the sports leagues cancelled their seasons, everything went nuts. Trump was right to cancel flights to China and Europe, but frenzy to shut everything down came from sports.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:23 AM (gAXBD)

94 92 I always do that to co-workers if I start real early and they show up late.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:24 AM (ZCEU2)

95 How malleable our LEOs are.

Forced separation and transit for those arbitrarily selected wold not give them pause.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 11, 2020 07:25 AM (1g7ch)

96 Lol, Skip!

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:25 AM (Z/jzm)

97 Wow. So it is still in effect in Rhode Island? That's nuts.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (gAXBD)

98 Apologies for being such an angry, depressive bastard. This whole country's deliberate embrace of Gestapo tactics just sickens me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (2JVJo)

99 I have a theory that Biden died a few weeks ago and the Democrats are now running a computer animation. Biden is Max Headroom.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (NVYyb)

100 I've been predicting a cabinet-level position (you know Faker Fauci is pressing behind the scenes for this) with nationwide authority to issue stay-at-home orders, isolation or complete lockdown of businesses, cities and / or states. The position will "consult" with the President during times of national emergency, but will have the authority to override any Presidential order.

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Good call.

It will have some cute bullsh*t acronym title to make distract people from the intrusion on their rights, too, like the Secretary of Internment with Crisis Knowledge Czar.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:27 AM (41rs/)

101 As soon as I saw the first article on minorities getting the worst I just though yep and its another day ending in a 'y'.
Live in mass buildings, take packed mass transportation, often generally poor health, more strikes than a batter could swing at.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:28 AM (ZCEU2)

102 47 Skip, Arkansas is not under house arrest. Yesterday afternoon, I was on the main business highway in Fort Smith, and the traffic was the usual terrible. The only thing a keen observer would see is the drive throughs crowded. And the barber shops closed. Sure wish they would open the barber shops.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:28 AM (C1Lsn)

103 How malleable our LEOs are.

Forced separation and transit for those arbitrarily selected wold not give them pause.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 11, 2020 07:25 AM (1g7ch)

They'll do whatever they're told. That's what they signed up to do. Project force upon the citizenry on behalf of the state.

They're malleable by definition. Lets give 'em more power. Sound good ?

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:28 AM (YaiCw)

104 ZOD PANDEMIC.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:29 AM (XzT/D)

105 >>Apologies for being such an angry, depressive bastard. This whole country's deliberate embrace of Gestapo tactics just sickens me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (2JVJo)

No apologies necessary. This whole situation is depressing and worrisome. I'm afraid History will not be kind to our response. Trump needs to start talking more about how our civil liberties are heing trampled. Fine line, and all that.

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:30 AM (Z/jzm)

106 The golf story is especially disturbing because of how they got caught. The friends met up with their local resident buddy at a Micky D's, loaded their clubs into his car and jumped in to drive to the course. A restaurant employee, probably named Karen, called the police when she/he saw the suspicious golf activity.

https://tinyurl.com/u8h4xv4

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:30 AM (NVYyb)

107 I'm right there with you, MPPP. I was slightly exasperated when the lockdowns first started.

Watching the reaction has made me exasperated and extremely disheartened. We have traded our freedoms for a mess of risk-adverse pottage.

The Karens are triumphant, and Bill Gates smiles upon us all.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:30 AM (L3Rsz)

108 It's fine MPPPP. I'm thoroughly disgusted too. Thankfully we have the HQ where we can all be in this together.

I can't believe I said that. What I mean is thankfully we have the HQ where we can all rant together.

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 07:30 AM (Tnijr)

109 This whole country's deliberate embrace of Gestapo tactics just sickens me.

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I'm disappointed in myself for being surprised when the nation was so receptive to the real life version of the Facebook and Reddit thumbs-down conditioning they've been receiving for the last decade.

Every socialist/communist country has local watchers and informants, after all. People love that sh*t until they are the ones caught with the extra roll of paper towels.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:31 AM (41rs/)

110 Well have a big solo miniature game going on that is getting busy.
Going to work on it awhile. Maybe post a link on Game thead.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:31 AM (ZCEU2)

111 2019

Government Shutdown Leaves Workers Reeling: We Seem to Be Pawns

Meanwhile, federal employees and contractors are reckoning with the possibility that the shutdown will drag on for months, leaving them no steady income to pay mounting bills.

Jan 25, 2019 Employees who have gone without pay during the 35-day partial government shutdown likely will have to wait well into next week to see a paycheck.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (JFO2v)

112 Surprise, surprise, some conservative areas in WI didn't get their absentee ballots delivered, and so didn't get to vote in the recent election for WI Supreme Court Justice.

USPS is investigating.

Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (l3+k2)

113 This whole country's deliberate embrace of Gestapo tactics just sickens me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (2JVJo)

I hear you. I've been contemplating the whole "give me liberty or give me death" notion, or "live free or die." It seems we've made the conscious decision as America that fear conquers all.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (H8QX8)

114 Nice Republic you had there. Too bad you lost it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (NVYyb)

115 Skip, here in Washington DC area, black neighborhoods and the metro are filled with black people violating quarantine and isolation rules every day. Anacostia is the worst. Kids have no school hang out and party all day. House parties through the night. Then, they get the rona and it's racism. Not their fault, they say. Racism.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:34 AM (gAXBD)

116 After this is over all the government employees can take those long deferred vacations.

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 07:34 AM (Tnijr)

117 Or might be hitting store, its 1/2 hour ago or never.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 07:34 AM (ZCEU2)

118 Brother and I were planning a quick trip up and back to our Michigan cottage project one day next week. (In the UP.) Just to check on how everything wintered. Now we're not sure we will even get there with MI's governors edict.

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:35 AM (Z/jzm)

119 83 Not sure if this is Twilight Zone or Hotel California I'm living in
Posted by: Skip

If I'm with a young, smokin' hot, Elizabeth Montgomery while that Eagles album is playing, I think I'll be fine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2020 07:35 AM (MVR7y)

120
Jan 25, 2019 Employees who have gone without pay during the 35-day partial government shutdown likely will have to wait well into next week to see a paycheck.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (JFO2v)

How many "non-essential" government offices have been shut down during this? And for all that blubbing, those jobs were still there when they came back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 07:35 AM (mht8P)

121 This whole country's deliberate embrace of Gestapo tactics just sickens me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (2JVJo)

Most people are socialists when it comes to anything they really give a damn about. Just bastardy coated bastards with a bastard filling.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (YaiCw)

122 am so dreading next trip to grocery store. So far I walk in and go through no different than did 1 year ago, somehow think thats coming to a end.

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The arrows pointing which way customers are supposed to travel through the aisles are... I don't know the word for it. Offensive, maybe? Unnatural?

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (41rs/)

123 Now why would the governor of Michigan demand that Home Depot close down its sections specifically related to the exact sorts of projects and activities people would undertake while housebound?

Disempowerment. Lock you up and remove any possibility of constructive engagement.

The biggest lie of all about the Left has always been "empowerment."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (H8QX8)

124
The golf story is especially disturbing because of how they got caught.
The friends met up with their local resident buddy at a Micky D's,
loaded their clubs into his car and jumped in to drive to the course. A
restaurant employee, probably named Karen, called the police when she/he
saw the suspicious golf activity.

https://tinyurl.com/u8h4xv4

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:30 AM (NVYyb)

I think a lot of people would be shocked to see how little of this is going on in The Swamp. I saw people playing golf just the other day. No way some cop was going to go onto the grounds of a private country club and arrest someone for playing golf. And if more than 40 percent of the people are wearing masks, I will eat my hat.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (hHxp2)

125 118Good luck with that. Witmer's goons might getcha.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (L3Rsz)

126
Just bastardy coated bastards with a bastard filling.

With just a hint of son-of-a-bitch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 07:37 AM (mht8P)

127 >>Then, they get the rona and it's racism. Not their fault, they say. Racism. Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:34 AM (gAXBD)

(Tents fingers)

The virus is burning through the prole caste. Eventually they will cross the WW Bridge and begin their pillaging.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:37 AM (XzT/D)

128 73 Even my tea tastes like shit.

This is not going to be a good day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:11 AM (2JVJo)

Shouldn't have gotten that Mongolian Yak Dung tea.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 07:37 AM (NWiLs)

129 Jan 25, 2019 Employees who have gone without pay during the 35-day partial government shutdown likely will have to wait well into next week to see a paycheck.

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Yep, and they got one big paycheck at the end of it.

Never missed a penny, but never worked a minute.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:37 AM (41rs/)

130 The Lord of the Rings/emergency powers meme is perfect.

Posted by: Citizen of Bureaustan at April 11, 2020 07:38 AM (ldmQR)

131 Aside from the entrance queue, Walmart yesterday was as per normal. Aldi, on the other hand, had all the little arrows and lines and 'one way' marks. Not going to shop there again until that foolishness is over.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:38 AM (L3Rsz)

132 Most people are socialists when it comes to anything they really give a damn about. Just bastardy coated bastards with a bastard filling.
Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (YaiCw)

Dr. Cox, is that you?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 07:39 AM (NWiLs)

133 There is some good news! People have voted with their wallets, and lots of lefties are now struggling through their programming lesson books.

https://tinyurl.com/tvw2fsl

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:39 AM (NVYyb)

134 93 Once all of the sports leagues cancelled their seasons, everything went nuts. Trump was right to cancel flights to China and Europe, but frenzy to shut everything down came from sports

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That's right. And who got the ball rolling? Why, the NBA of course. And who is a direct tool of China?

2+2 still = 4

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 11, 2020 07:39 AM (7ZQe3)

135 Yesterday during my errands, people were wearing masks. Not a majority, but a lot. You can tell some of them are wannabee Karens, wishing they were living somewhere that would allow them to snitch on their fellow citizens. I had some fat masked girl give me the malochio while at Braums, surely for being unmasked. Fuckers probably have a copy of municipal, county, and state ordinances, bound in moroccan leather.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (C1Lsn)

136 think a lot of people would be shocked to see how little of this is going on in The Swamp

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Yep, same with the major metropolitan areas.

I'll believe it's a deadly virus that is killing everyone once you shut down the taxis, subways, and air traffic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (41rs/)

137 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (Dhht7)

138 Stay at home, you've been ordered to
You can play, from 10 to maybe 2
You can run, but you can never hide
From this drone, that's hoverin' up above you

All we're taking is your freedom, prole
And you don't get no say

Whatever you do
Well, we'll be six feet behind you
Wherever you go
And we'll be there to remind you
That this social distancing is now the Law of the Land
Don't turn around, Stay six feet behind...

https://tinyurl.com/sujwr9d

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (C/Kkr)

139 >>Not going to shop there again until that foolishness is over. Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:38 AM (L3Rsz)

AP: In a startling move, Va. governor Ralph Northam has declared that all stores must place little arrows/lines/"one-way" marks on their floors or close their doors.

"We're doing everything we can to help consumers obey in this time of crisis," he drawled.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (XzT/D)

140 The normally verbose Krak has gone all pithy today.

Posted by: Miklos, recalling when the band played "World Turn'd Upside Down" at April 11, 2020 07:41 AM (QzkSJ)

141 Papers please ..SORRY they were all out of Paper Products,want to smell my butt for I.D. tho't not...Im FREE free at last.

Posted by: saf at April 11, 2020 07:42 AM (5IHGB)

142 "We're doing everything we can to help consumers obey in this time of crisis," he drawled.
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (XzT/D)
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To think we have almost two more years of that idiot. Depressing.

Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 07:43 AM (/669Q)

143 There is some good news! People have voted with their wallets, and lots of lefties are now struggling through their programming lesson books.

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Ha. Some of the replies are great.

"I welcome the media employees to the hell they created" and such.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:43 AM (41rs/)

144 Robbie, did you see that vid of the powers-that-be pulling the unmasked man off of the bus in Philly?

The main Karen goon wasn't wearing a mask, and spraying his venom all over the bus, as he berated the non-masker.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:43 AM (L3Rsz)

145 The Piggly Wiggly had those arrows when I went a couple of days ago. I acted like I didn't see them. We had two people with one cart and didn't have a mask or gloves either. It's a farce and the grocery stores are just covering their asses.

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 07:43 AM (Tnijr)

146 I'll believe it's a deadly virus that is killing everyone once you shut down the taxis, subways, and air traffic.
Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (41rs/)

No shit. That was a big tell from Day One. If this was serious, they'd have every road into NYC shut down right now.

Its all bullshit - and the only benefit has been all the little "I love my government" mini-dictators outing themselves, both here and in real life.

I hope people are taking notes.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:43 AM (YaiCw)

147 >>Good luck with that. Witmer's goons might getcha.
Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:36 AM (L3Rsz)

It's a long drive to the border, we'll be pretty angry if we couldn't cross. Also the plan is to start work up again mid-may assuming the weather cooperates and the ground is thawed. Are the edicts going to disallow more than 10 family members in one place? This is insane.

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:44 AM (Z/jzm)

148 We've just played a nationwide game of Who Goes Nazi. Remember carefully those who did.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 07:44 AM (NWiLs)

149 Zod, Pritzker hasn't ordained that yet, here in Illinois.

Aldi corporate has, however.
When you're ahead of the curve in out-tyranting Pritz, you've lost me.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:44 AM (L3Rsz)

150 Oct 2019 piece on American sports cowtowing to China:

https://youtu.be/1ylleTbizgU

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:45 AM (gAXBD)

151 Guess those Islamic women with the full-face niqab are having the last laugh, insh'allah.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:45 AM (XzT/D)

152 SIL and her hubby are currently in FL. Planning on driving back to MI next Saturday. By then I expect border guards at the state line. Not sure how they will be allowed to return home. If they are allowed in I'm assuming a 2 week quarantine. Would guess their kids will be allowed to shop for them otherwise after one month away from home they may starve to death. So glad we sold our property in MI.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 11, 2020 07:45 AM (iPBiQ)

153 The sidebar has a link to an article in RedState about Gretchen Whitemer, Gov. of Michigan. Not only has she banned travel to resident's vacation homes (which, oddly enough, only applies to Michigan residents, not those in Ohio who vacation in Michigan), she has also banned any boating with a motorboat. Sailboats, kayaks, canoes, rowboats apparently have some form of protective screen that blocks the virus, I guess.

Additionally, garden centers, nurseries, and similar businesses are shut down - no yard work for you. Landscape companies, like lawn cutting services and fertilizer services, are shut down. But... thankfully, it's OK to congregate around the state lottery machine in the party store and get your scratch-offs.

Scratch the paint off a progressive and underneath is a totalitarian waiting for their moment.

Posted by: George V at April 11, 2020 07:46 AM (U2Tva)

154 Well, thanks. I know we all feel the same.

I think what really bothers me the most is the sense of powerlessness. I want to scream at people, "Why the hell aren't you resisting? Are you really that much of a slave?"

I want to be able to call President Trump up and tell him, "Look at what is going on! You have the bully pulpit! Call these bastards out! Hell, tell the people in Kentucky that you have a presidential pardon ready for anyone who gets arrested for going to church!"

I want to stop this monster in its tracks, but I can't. And I can't find enough people to make a stand.

"If you want to know the future, Winston, picture a virus mask strapped to your face. Forever."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:46 AM (2JVJo)

155 147, Best of luck! I truly hope you back it with no problems whatsoever. This IS insane.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:46 AM (L3Rsz)

156 I brought this up a few days ago. That Michigan tyrant governor, forehead woman, closed the garden departments as being non essential. Now, some people do plant vegetable gardens, and vegetable seeds are a legal food stamp item. A lot of members of the AA community are food stamp recipients. So that makes the governor racist, and a smoking lawsuit should be forthcoming.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:46 AM (C1Lsn)

157 >>>Brother and I were planning a quick trip up and back
to our Michigan cottage project one day next week. (In the UP.) Just
to check on how everything wintered. Now we're not sure we will even
get there with MI's governors edict.

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:35 AM (Z/jzm)

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Interesting tactical question. Her order specifically says you can't go to your own house, but if the cops ask you where you are headed and you tell them you just gotta visit beautiful Sault St. Marie and smell that wonderful smell, can they stop you? In other words, visiting your own home may be illegal, by government fiat, but crossing the border might be ok.
Oh wait, didn't the canuckistan cops say they were closing the border to all us diseased Americans? I think you might be stuck.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:46 AM (NVYyb)

158 >>149 Zod, Pritzker hasn't ordained that yet, here in Illinois. Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:44 AM (L3Rsz)

Your obedience will come more naturally if you begin practicing it now.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:46 AM (XzT/D)

159 If Andrew Cuomo emerges as a smart leader during a crisis, then you know you've been played.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 07:47 AM (gAXBD)

160 Zod intends to drive from Va. to Mississippi to retrieve Canis Zod the Younger early next month.

State-line prohibitions will not be observed.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:47 AM (XzT/D)

161 One of Ohio's "essential business" is that of printing, packaging and distributing scratch off lotto tickets while small business, restaurants close and the box stores limit the number of people inside. This is insane.
Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 11, 2020 06:16 AM (DB16e)

Anyone who plays the lottery supports the derp state.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 11, 2020 07:47 AM (y7DUB)

162 I LOVE the idea of a presidential pardon for persecuted church-goers. That'd be genius.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:48 AM (L3Rsz)

163 The Piggly Wiggly had those arrows when I went a couple of days ago. I acted like I didn't see them. We had two people with one cart and didn't have a mask or gloves either. It's a farce and the grocery stores are just covering their asses.
Posted by: freaked

Piggly Wiggly was the first place that allowed shoppers to walk around freely and choose things from the shelves.

Before that customers had to place orders and wait for the shop assistants to bring them around out to the customer.

My how times have changed.

Posted by: En plus ca change, c'est le meme Miklos at April 11, 2020 07:48 AM (QzkSJ)

164 Zod, I was wondering just the other day about your puppy. I was thinking March for some reason.

Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 07:48 AM (/669Q)

165 Zod, I've never been too good with obedience to the irrational.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (L3Rsz)

166 > It's a farce and the grocery stores are just covering their asses.
Posted by: freaked

EVERYBODY is covering their asses
the mayors and governors and county execs are in a regulatory arms race to see who can cover their asses more completely
nobody in gov't wants to get sued, nobody wants to lose their phoney-baloney jobs

and you BETTER harrumph

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (iTXRQ)

167 "We're doing everything we can to help consumers obey in this time of crisis," he drawled.
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:40 AM (XzT/D)

And newborn babies will be set aside for 24 hours, made comfortable, until we see if the state has the funds to support their needs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (JFO2v)

168 yes, the neighbors have become dangerous.

I saw social media for what it was a decade ago, and refused to participate. My new philosophy is I do not associate with anyone who admits to having any kind of social media account.

They are minders.

Posted by: Derak at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (BMFHr)

169 Dude... how do you post a morning thread and not say anything about your namesake volcano erupting?!

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (Do5/p)

170 >>164 Zod, I was wondering just the other day about your puppy. I was thinking March for some reason.
Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 07:48 AM (/669Q)

May 8. Male black Lab, eight weeks old. He will be waiting in Oxford for Zod, and Zod will retrieve him.

This is known.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (XzT/D)

171 State-line prohibitions will not be observed.
Posted by: Zod

One hopes that one has some moonshiner in one's family background.

Posted by: Miklos does at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (QzkSJ)

172 I maintain that a lot of this BS with stores is not fear of the state, but the insurance company and trial lawyers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (C1Lsn)

173 Can I get some of my property tax back this year ?

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (C/Kkr)

174 Off to the grocers. I used to go at 6a. But the number of old farts in those motorized carts was too much. Hopefully they'll have checked out when I get there.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (Dhht7)

175 Hope you MAKE it, insanity. Teach me to be typing two things at once.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (L3Rsz)

176 105 >>Apologies for being such an angry, depressive bastard. This whole country's deliberate embrace of Gestapo tactics just sickens me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:26 AM (2JVJo)

No apologies necessary. This whole situation is depressing and worrisome. I'm afraid History will not be kind to our response. Trump needs to start talking more about how our civil liberties are heing trampled. Fine line, and all that.
Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 07:30 AM (Z/jzm)

PDT could do this by singling out some of the overzealous governors, by name and by specific example.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (55d/e)

177 I see the democrat Governor of Kentucky has decided he does not want to get reelected.

He is sending out the State Police to record license plates at Churches and sending orders to those people to self quarantine at home for 14 days.

Good luck with that $hit in Kentucky.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (JUOKG)

178 And when the November elections endorse the totalitarians - which I fear may happen - then what? Nothing. Ruby Ridge and Waco were advanced lessons.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (SwWMX)

179 172 I maintain that a lot of this BS with stores is not fear of the state, but the insurance company and trial lawyers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (C1Lsn)

A farmer had a dog once, and his name was your post.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 07:51 AM (C/Kkr)

180 I LOVE the idea of a presidential pardon for persecuted church-goers. That'd be genius.
Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:48 AM (L3Rsz)
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I do too but I think the president can only pardon federal crimes. The governor has to pardon state crimes.

Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 07:51 AM (/669Q)

181 Aldi corporate has, however.
When you're ahead of the curve in out-tyranting Pritz, you've lost me.
Posted by: lizabth

Aldi sounds better in the original German.

Posted by: Miklos von Lidlberg at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (QzkSJ)

182 I'm hoping Anna Puma shows up this morning. I have a music video for her.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (2JVJo)

183 172 I maintain that a lot of this BS with stores is not fear of the state, but the insurance company and trial lawyers.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

That is a very good point. This is turning into a contest as to which Governor can impose the most draconian measures, For The Greater Good!

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (MVR7y)

184 The hope of Easter. Waiting for God in the darkness of Holy Saturday. An "Upper Room" Devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/th5w75v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (WI7YS)

185 I LOVE the idea of a presidential pardon for persecuted church-goers. That'd be genius.
Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:48 AM (L3Rsz)

I love it too but isn't the pardon power restricted to federal crimes? I'm pretty sure it is which is why Gaylord never pardoned Saint Mumia the cop killer and sucker of cocks.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (y7DUB)

186 Good luck with that $hit in Kentucky.

Beshear will win Louisville and Lexington - and that's about it. Local radio is trying to make their GoverDouche look like Ike - but it ain't working.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (YaiCw)

187 May 8. Male black Lab, eight weeks old. He will be waiting in Oxford for Zod, and Zod will retrieve him.

This is known.
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (XzT/D)
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May 8? Good thing we moved the MoMe then.

Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 07:53 AM (/669Q)

188 Freedom of assembly and religion is a Federal issue per the Constitution.

Posted by: George Kaplan at April 11, 2020 07:53 AM (MX4n0)

189 Mornin', all.
Posted by: My life is insanity

Hiya !

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2020 07:53 AM (arJlL)

190 Well, in these special times, and since the Gov are trampling on our constitutional rights, perhaps Trump could likewise goose the matrix. Pardons for all church-goers in cars in Kentuck.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:53 AM (L3Rsz)

191 Lots of CYA going on.

Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 07:53 AM (l3+k2)

192 Robbie, did you see that vid of the powers-that-be pulling the unmasked man off of the bus in Philly?

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Jeez, no. The worst I'd heard was ungloved cops ticketing people sitting in their cars in church parking lots listening to a sermon with their windows rolled up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:53 AM (41rs/)

193 May 8. Male black Lab, eight weeks old. He will be waiting in Oxford for Zod, and Zod will retrieve him.

This is known.
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:49 AM (XzT/D)

This is for you, Zod:

https://tinyurl.com/y7mrpqhn

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:54 AM (2JVJo)

194 Maybe a pup would be a good project. I wonder how my wife would react to a third dog? While I contemplate that, the internet is a motherlode of viszla puppy photos.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 11, 2020 07:54 AM (NVYyb)

195 >>184 The hope of Easter. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (WI7YS)

Reminded me that Lent is over.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:54 AM (XzT/D)

196 Anyone done an check on the ACLU since this started, BTW? They sure have been quiet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:55 AM (41rs/)

197 >>This is for you, Zod:

https://tinyurl.com/y7mrpqhn
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:54 AM (2JVJo)

Thanks. Showed this to Mrs. Her reaction:

"Aww...cute...oh."

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:55 AM (XzT/D)

198 Robbie, the unmasked goon also made people with homemade face masks also leave. They did so with no fuss. Only the sole freedom-lover was fractious.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:56 AM (L3Rsz)

199 We've just played a nationwide game of Who Goes Nazi. Remember carefully those who did.
Posted by: Insomniac

Traditionally, the Making of Lists precedes the Rectification of Names and the Project of Dignity.

Posted by: Miklos, no mercy for sale at the local Piggly Wiggly at April 11, 2020 07:56 AM (QzkSJ)

200 169 Dude... how do you post a morning thread and not say anything about your namesake volcano erupting?!
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Locusts in Africa and a plague throughout the world.

A wee bit of Revelations for Easter!

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2020 07:56 AM (MVR7y)

201 Anyone done an check on the ACLU since this started, BTW? They sure have been quiet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 07:55 AM (41rs/)

they are like a banker that wants to lend you money only when you don't need it.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 07:57 AM (hHxp2)

202 Would that it were so, Puddleglum.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 07:57 AM (L3Rsz)

203 >>Who Goes Nazi. Remember carefully those who did. Posted by: Insomniac

Jodphurs, riding boots, quirt, jaunty cap.

Count Zod in.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 07:57 AM (XzT/D)

204 I do too but I think the president can only pardon federal crimes. The governor has to pardon state crimes.
Posted by: bluebell

So charge the governor with a Federal crime.

Art of the Deal

Posted by: Miklos, easy peasy at April 11, 2020 07:57 AM (QzkSJ)

205 Anyone done an check on the ACLU since this started, BTW? They sure have been quiet.

The Liberal American Civil Liberties Union ? Nary a peep. Of couse, I have been busy knitting body armor for my local angels in blue - and you know how tough it is to get extra house keys cut for those oh so helpful agents of the state in times like this - so maybe I just missed all the good works the LACLU is doing for me.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:58 AM (YaiCw)

206 Anyone done an check on the ACLU since this started, BTW? They sure have been quiet.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

They're making sure that the LGBRZQwwwEETS aren't being harrassed

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 07:58 AM (vd8XM)

207 Good luck with that $hit in Kentucky.

Beshear will win Louisville and Lexington - and that's about it.
Local radio is trying to make their GoverDouche look like Ike - but it
ain't working.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM

---

If he carries through on his threat he ain't gonna win Lexington.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2020 07:59 AM (JUOKG)

208 As I asked a couple of my situational ethically challenged relatives who are off work but getting paid because they are non essential gubmint workers while other people are being laid off with no prospects, If we're all in this together, where is YOUR sacrifice ?

How about 2/3 pay ? Hell.No.

Use your own PTO ? What ? Crazy talk!

Refunds for property owners and a Shared Responsibility Payback split between all of the non-essentials still being paid ?

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE !!

It's THEM, you know...

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 07:59 AM (C/Kkr)

209 Lent is over and I made it on the wagon for the whole length. Scotch suggestions please, $50 or less.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:59 AM (C1Lsn)

210 184 The hope of Easter. Waiting for God in the darkness of Holy Saturday. An "Upper Room" Devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/th5w75v
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2020 07:52 AM (WI7YS)
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Thank you, Fen. Give us the hope of Easter Sunday, indeed.

Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 07:59 AM (/669Q)

211 Jodphurs, riding boots, quirt, jaunty cap.

Count Zod in.
Posted by: Zod

Knout

You forgot knout

Posted by: Miklos, preparing The Response of the Miklosian Tatars at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (QzkSJ)

212 Robbie, the unmasked goon also made people with homemade face masks also leave.

-

I'll admit to being the stupidest person I know, so I'm going to need a diagram so I can follow that logic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (41rs/)

213 Lent is over and I made it on the wagon for the whole length. Scotch suggestions please, $50 or less.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

A case of Val-U-Rite

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (vd8XM)

214 Is knout a sort of sausage? Wait...forget I said that...

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (L3Rsz)

215 202 Would that it were so, Puddleglum.
Posted by: lizabth

I did say 'a wee bit'. This is just a 'taste'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2020 08:01 AM (MVR7y)

216 >>You forgot knout Posted by: Miklos, preparing The Response of the Miklosian Tatars at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (QzkSJ)

Hiwis carry the knout. Zod directs them.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:01 AM (XzT/D)

217 Robbie, the police that dragged the fellow off the bus were masked, however. So it's all good. Right?

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:01 AM (L3Rsz)

218 My new philosophy is I do not associate with anyone who admits to having any kind of social media account.

Well it's fortunate that we don't know each other. I like to wander through my Facebook friends list and count how many I have whose tits I've seen.

It's a good number and I enjoy the memories.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 11, 2020 08:02 AM (gd9RK)

219 >>214 Is knout a sort of sausage? Wait...forget I said that... Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (L3Rsz)

A pickle is a meat.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:02 AM (XzT/D)

220 Lent is over and I made it on the wagon for the whole length. Scotch suggestions please, $50 or less.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:59 AM (C1Lsn)

I'm always partial to a Macallan, myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 08:02 AM (2JVJo)

221 Would that I could spit it out of my mouth, Puddleglum.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:02 AM (L3Rsz)

222 Robbie, the police that dragged the fellow off the bus were masked, however. So it's all good. Right?
Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:01 AM (L3Rsz)

As long as those brave warriors made it home safe to their families - does anything else really matter ?

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM (YaiCw)

223 I like to wander through my Facebook friends list and count how many I have whose tits I've seen.

It's a good number and I enjoy the memories.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 11, 2020 08:02 AM (gd9RK)

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate you?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM (2JVJo)

224 Oh, I forgot, the woman relative made a joke, before I had my say, about how she put in a hard 6 hours of telework in at home that week, smiling the whole time.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM (C/Kkr)

225 >>217 Robbie, the police that dragged the fellow off the bus were masked, however. So it's all good. Right?
Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:01 AM (L3Rsz)

They dragged him off, but they didn't beat him into unconsciousness for his impertinence.

Law enforcement is new to this control thing, too.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM (XzT/D)

226 Clyde Shelton:
What does "paint cars" mean in the Operation Gridlock announcement that you posted in the previous thread?

High NOON drive around the Capitol --- honk horns, paint cars or bring signs. SHOW UP.

Thanks.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM (55d/e)

227 I like Pinch a lot. I think it's a blend. $40 or so IIRC.

McIvor is a pretty good blend, too, and probably cheaper but I don't remember.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM (41rs/)

228 Morning, everyone! Sun's out, looking to get stuff done around the yard. Sait the liturgy with the kids yesterday, looking forward to Easter tomorrow.

*scans thread*

Uh, okay. I guess I'll come back later.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (cfSRQ)

229 ell it's fortunate that we don't know each other. I like to wander through my Facebook friends list and count how many I have whose tits I've seen.

It's a good number and I enjoy the memories.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Yep.

And they probably say the same about you.

Posted by: Miklos, suddenly sentimental at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (QzkSJ)

230 220 Thank you, Macallan it is, if the store has it. If not Glenlivet again.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (C1Lsn)

231 The guy was not dragged off the bus for not wearing a mask, it was because he was told to get off the bus for not wearing a mask:

"Police were not responding to the social distancing complaint, police were responding to the fact the person was asked to leave the bus and refused"

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (Tnijr)

232 Meh...I'm off to the prairie to hike, even though the day is gloomy, weather-wise. Enjoy what you can about the day.

Posted by: lizabth at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (L3Rsz)

233 Someone ask about ACLU

Front Page Headline

Public health experts say facilities housing ICE detainees are a "tinderbox" for COVID-19.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 08:05 AM (JFO2v)

234
Lent is over and I made it on the wagon for the whole length. Scotch suggestions please, $50 or less.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

A case of Val-U-Rite

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 08:00 AM (vd8XM)

Scotch is expensive stuff. But depending on where you are you should be able to get Highland Park 12 for around $50. If not, Highland Park Magnus is a deal at under $40. Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban is good too but it is likely a bit over that mark.

One I recently have liked a lot if you are not into peat is the Bunnahabhain 12. If you like peat you can try to Lagavulin 8 for a bit over $50.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 08:06 AM (hHxp2)

235 I love it too but isn't the pardon power restricted to federal crimes? I'm pretty sure it is which is why Gaylord never pardoned Saint Mumia the cop killer and sucker of cocks.
________________

Yes, Barky would have loved to pardon that crook, but he was convicted of Pennsylvania state crimes, so Barky had no power to pardon him.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 11, 2020 08:06 AM (k4dH2)

236 PDT could do this by singling out some of the overzealous governors, by name and by specific example.
Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (55d/e)

He could start with Vermont. At least with a democrat you expect to get screwed. I'm finding this knife in the back to be much worse.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 11, 2020 08:06 AM (GhGb5)

237 >>police were responding to the fact the person was asked to leave the bus and refused"
Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (Tnijr)

They were pitiful amateurs. Pros don't *pull* on people to get them to do something; pros impassively begin hitting them in the head with the club until they collapse, then they drag the limp body from the vehicle, drop it, and move about their business.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:06 AM (XzT/D)

238 A pickle is a meat.
Posted by: Zod

"In Hungary, a pickle is a salad"

(quote from weight conscious female American client in Budapest)

Posted by: Miklos, may I interest you in a pickelhaube? at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (QzkSJ)

239 This entire response is so intellectually bankrupt, it could only have come from the United States government.

Take the normal human hygiene: wash your hands, don't touch your face when you are in public, cover your sneeze or cough.
Make it mandatory.

Take the normal human response to a flu going around: don't go in public places as much, don't go out if you are sick, keep a little distance if you aren't sure. Make it mandatory.

Now ban public life and ban personal choice on risk acceptance. We can thank their genius later.

Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (1cjc5)

240 Public health experts say facilities housing ICE detainees are a "tinderbox" for COVID-19.
_____________

All the more reason to send them back home.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (k4dH2)

241 226

Clyde Shelton:
What does "paint cars" mean in the Operation Gridlock announcement that you posted in the previous thread?

High NOON drive around the Capitol --- honk horns, paint cars or bring signs. SHOW UP.

Thanks.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM

Not quite sure. I simply copied that from the Facebook event page.

I think it means how people spraypaint messages on their car during HS and college homecoming parades or some such? I assume with non-permanent paint.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (Do5/p)

242 Affordable, outstanding scotches: Ardbeg and Laphroaig.

Posted by: goatexchange at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (naxyU)

243 209 Lent is over and I made it on the wagon for the whole length. Scotch suggestions please, $50 or less.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 07:59 AM (C1Lsn)

Glenmorangie

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (NWiLs)

244 Decided no shopping trip today, but found old issued gas mask, cleaned it up and ready to go. Should some day replacement straps as their 41 years old.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (ZCEU2)

245 police were responding to the fact the person was asked to leave the bus and refused"
Posted by: freaked

OK Boomer

Posted by: Rosa Parks at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (QzkSJ)

246 242 Affordable, outstanding scotches: Ardbeg and Laphroaig.
Posted by: goatexchange at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (naxyU)

If you like tar-flavored alcoholic seawater.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:08 AM (NWiLs)

247 Was in a store yesterday. The owner came in with "Stay six feet apart signs." Was giving two employees instructions on placing the signs. The employees were standing on either side of me, so close we were touching. The owner was in front of us -- within two feet.

Posted by: French Jeton at April 11, 2020 08:08 AM (9Nrxu)

248 Was in a store yesterday. The owner came in with "Stay six feet apart signs." Was giving two employees instructions on placing the signs. The employees were standing on either side of me, so close we were touching. The owner was in front of us -- within two feet.
Posted by: French Jeton at April 11, 2020 08:08 AM (9Nrxu)
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Not everybody is good at math.

Posted by: bluebell at April 11, 2020 08:09 AM (/669Q)

249 231 The guy was not dragged off the bus for not wearing a mask, it was because he was told to get off the bus for not wearing a mask:

"Police were not responding to the social distancing complaint, police were responding to the fact the person was asked to leave the bus and refused"
Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (Tnijr)

Seems a distinction without a difference.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:09 AM (NWiLs)

250 241 226

Clyde Shelton:
What does "paint cars" mean in the Operation Gridlock announcement that you posted in the previous thread?

High NOON drive around the Capitol --- honk horns, paint cars or bring signs. SHOW UP.

Thanks.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 08:03 AM

Not quite sure. I simply copied that from the Facebook event page.

I think it means how people spraypaint messages on their car during HS and college homecoming parades or some such? I assume with non-permanent paint.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (Do5/p)

Much better than I was reading it! Some yokel dumped a can of latex housepaint on my car one time. That's why I read it that way.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 08:10 AM (55d/e)

251 That's actually Laphroaig's marketing slogan: "For those who savor the taste of tar-flavored, alcoholic seawater."

Posted by: goatexchange at April 11, 2020 08:10 AM (naxyU)

252 Now ban public life and ban personal choice on risk acceptance. We can thank their genius later.
Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM (1cjc5)

First time we've quarantined the healthy. And still - still - people will chime in all day about what a great idea it was.

Nothing changes until first those people get shouted down. Fact is - we ain't nearly miserable enough yet to demand change. We ain't even miserable enough to stop being polite.

Polite people don't win. Rude people win.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:10 AM (YaiCw)

253 The Ken Burns "Virus America" documentary is going to have Danny Glover intoning about the 'early going:'

(slow zoom into masked face)

"Early adopters were best prepared; their proud brethren, who refused the bit, were harvested by the virus like a sickle through dry grass..."

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:10 AM (XzT/D)

254 I cannot find out if Gov. "FUF" Polis still commutes daily from Boulder to Denver and back, with his security and entourage.

Posted by: stonecutter at April 11, 2020 08:10 AM (Bfr22)

255 Quarantines of the sick are so 20th century. Let's pseudo quarantine all of the healthy! The government can order law abiding, healthy citizens not to worship, assemble or work, right?

Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:11 AM (1cjc5)

256 "Seems a distinction without a difference"

Doublespeak

Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 08:11 AM (Tnijr)

257 247 Was in a store yesterday. The owner came in with "Stay six feet apart signs." Was giving two employees instructions on placing the signs. The employees were standing on either side of me, so close we were touching. The owner was in front of us -- within two feet.

Posted by: French Jeton at April 11, 2020 08:08 AM (9Nrxu)

In Wawa yesterday morning, a girl was Sheila Jackson Lee'ing her mask. Asked her what good is the mask with her nose hanging out?

She just shrugged.

Well, alrighty then.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:12 AM (C/Kkr)

258 234 The liquor store I go to has a pretty good selection, even though they were wiped out in last year's flooding. The couple had just bought the place, and it had one hell of an inventory. They only managed to get half the good stuff out before it went underwater. Liquor store inventory can really mount up in dollars. They couldn't sell the stuff that went underwater, even though it was sealed, but they thoroughly cleaned every bottle and had many friends at Christmas.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 08:12 AM (C1Lsn)

259 "Police were not responding to the social distancing complaint, police were responding to the fact the person was asked to leave the bus and refused"
Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (Tnijr)

Seems a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:09 AM (NWiLs)

You are obviously a racist.

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 11, 2020 08:12 AM (cknjq)

260 paving the way for the vaccination certificate ... with a "convenient" chip implant option, which will also be programmed for the coming fed crypto money. So convenient for the fed to extract your $500 fine, if you were not social distancing, or if you went to church on Easter.

(I just made up that dystopia, based on real evidence)

To Gates and those globalists, Christianity is a virus, and only theor technocracy for the world will make us all more efficient consumer/producer widgets, all centrally controlled by their (un) godly powers. They have the computer power to do it, and the Resistance inside DC and half the state capitols ... they just have to stomp out liberty and our will to resist. (Google/FB are on that mission)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2020 08:13 AM (Cus5s)

261 259 "Police were not responding to the social distancing complaint, police were responding to the fact the person was asked to leave the bus and refused"
Posted by: freaked at April 11, 2020 08:04 AM (Tnijr)

Seems a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:09 AM (NWiLs)

You are obviously a racist.
Posted by: weirdflunky at April 11, 2020 08:12 AM (cknjq)

Well duh. Raging anti-Semite too. This is known.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:13 AM (NWiLs)

262 >>Rude people win.
Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:10 AM (YaiCw)

Rude people win until they're rude to the wrong person and they get a muzzle shoved into their brow and the back of their head paints the car behind them and all the polite people who were tired of the rude person cheer and spontaneously dance and the polite person with the gun becomes the hero and drinks for free for a week and legends are told to children around peat fires about "the polite man who insisted on manners in 'ought-twenty.'"

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (XzT/D)

263 Checking the comments on the Facebook event for Operation Gridlock, there are a LOT of Karens posting their "concerns" and scolding people.

And now we know how Governor Half-Whitmer was voted into office...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (Do5/p)

264 Seems a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:09 AM (NWiLs)

You are obviously a racist.
Posted by: weirdflunky at April 11, 2020 08:12 AM (cknjq)

Sick lives matter !!! No mask, no peace !!!

#ComeOnGuysJustWearTheMaskOK

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (YaiCw)

265 That's actually Laphroaig's marketing slogan: "For those who savor the taste of tar-flavored, alcoholic seawater."
Posted by: goatexchange

Not after the lawsuit.

Posted by: Jagermeister at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (QzkSJ)

266 We're under stay-at-home orders here in East Texas, but at least (other than for closing businesses) nobody is out enforcing shit. It looks to me like the only ones who are really obeying the Stay at Home orders are the police.

A lot of garden shops have closed, but a bunch of Mexicans have compensated by setting up big impromptu plant and flower markets on the side of the road. They just pull over with a trailer, pull out a big load of potted flowers and garden plants of all kinds, and sell them for whatever cash you can bargain with them for. No taxes, either! I think anyone who asks about taxes gets "no habla, no habla!"

nobody official bothers them. In fact since they're completely ignoring all this stay at home bullshit, it feels like the Mexicans are the only ones left who are running anything, except for the hospitals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (V2Yro)

267 Article II Section 2

... he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (iTXRQ)

268 Surprise, surprise, some conservative areas in WI
didn't get their absentee ballots delivered, and so didn't get to vote
in the recent election for WI Supreme Court Justice.

USPS is investigating.

Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (l3+k2)

I'm shocked.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (lwiT4)

269 "the polite man who insisted on manners in 'ought-twenty.'"
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (XzT/D)

Shooting people sounds awfully rude.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (YaiCw)

270 >>"For those who savor the taste of tar-flavored, alcoholic seawater."

"I don't always enjoy a glass of lukewarm gasoline, but when I do, I choose Glenfiddich."

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (XzT/D)

271 Bought some Laphroaig this week. Very good, but certainly an acquired taste. Tar-flavored seawater is not unfair. Probably notes of ashtray as well.

Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (1cjc5)

272 Shooting people sounds awfully rude.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (YaiCw)

Some people deserve a good shooting.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (C/Kkr)

273 >>Shooting people sounds awfully rude.
Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (YaiCw)

"Wasn't he rude for shooting the rude man, Grandad?"

"No. What a ridiculous question. Does your mother make you wear a dress?"

"Yes."

"Stop it. And go get Grandpa another glass of gasoline."

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (XzT/D)

274 Rude people win until they're rude to the wrong
person and they get a muzzle shoved into their brow and the back of
their head paints the car behind them and all the polite people who were
tired of the rude person cheer and spontaneously dance and the polite
person with the gun becomes the hero and drinks for free for a week and
legends are told to children around peat fires about "the polite man who
insisted on manners in 'ought-twenty.'"

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM (XzT/D)

Poetry.

Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (l3+k2)

275 Thanks, Lizbeth (from earlier in thread) have a peaceful day.

Had to bail earlier- mom emergency. She's ok, but it's going to be one of those "preaching about personal hygeine" kind of days

Pray for me!

Posted by: My life is insanity at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (Z/jzm)

276 With the stay at home order, I guess the yutes in Chicago got in some range time.

The Hey Jackass weekend shooting count starts on Friday at noon. 3 shot dead yesterday afternoon/early evening. None wounded.

Overnight numbers updated later today.

Those three will probably have had the WooHoo flu in the reports

Posted by: Bruce at April 11, 2020 06:19 AM (vd8XM)

Yet Mayor Lori Dykefoot is driving around well she's being driven around the city yelling at people from her car for being outside. I doubt the freak of nature is doing that on the south or west sides

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (7O2sI)

277 And now we know how Governor Half-Whitmer was voted into office...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

1-Women demand the vote

2-Women demand Prohibition

3-Women get the vote and Prohibition

4-Ok, no Prohibition, that was a head fake

5-Suburban Wine Moms

Posted by: Miklos, seeing Enemy Action here at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (QzkSJ)

278 nope never not gonna happen for me

Fauci: Americans May Get Virus Immunity Papers

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 08:18 AM (JFO2v)

279 You can cap someone and still be polite.

"I say, sorry about having to shoot you, old boy."

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:18 AM (NWiLs)

280
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM

Clyde: are you going to Lansing on Wednesday? There's a few of us un-indicted co-conspirators already formulating plans for the day

shoot me an e-mail (link in nick) & let me know. thx

Posted by: AltonJackson
Impeach Whitmer!!!
Because: Reasons!!!
at April 11, 2020 08:18 AM (MIuvZ)

281 Shooting people sounds awfully rude.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:15 AM (YaiCw)

Some people deserve a good shooting.
Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (C/Kkr)

Two rudes can't make a polite. This is simply a bridge too far for me.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:18 AM (YaiCw)

282 Karen #1 post on Operation Gridlock page:

"EVERY SINGLE PERSON TRYING TO DO THIS DESERVES TO BE FINED AND IS THE REASON WE WILL BE ON LOCK DOWN LONGER. Suck it up and stay the hell home! None of us like it. Many are without income. File for unemployment if you can. But stop being immature and doing a GROUP gathering. That's asking for every single one of you to be exposed to this virus, and honestly serves you right. Unless you work in the office with the Governor and know the struggles she's facing, sit down and shut up."

lolgf, Karen.

First two replies to her post:

"Ok, Karen"

"Karen wants to speak to a manager"

heh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:19 AM (Do5/p)

283
I don't even wonder about the LEOs; we always said that when SHTF, they would care more about their pensions than their oaths.

It's really enough to make me want to go back to bed and pray never to wake up again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:05 AM (2JVJo)

They are such tough guys when it comes to arresting a man playing catch with his daughter. When it comes to Antifa or the gangbangers the tough guys are nowhere to be seen. They are nothing but flunkies of Dem politicians

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 11, 2020 08:19 AM (7O2sI)

284 Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (NWiLs)

285 I use Macallan to put my whisky sours over the top. it's very good for that.

And that's when the fight started, officer.

Posted by: goatexchange at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (naxyU)

286 We're under stay-at-home orders here in East Texas,
but at least (other than for closing businesses) nobody is out enforcing
shit. It looks to me like the only ones who are really obeying the
Stay at Home orders are the police.

A lot of garden shops have closed, but a bunch of Mexicans have
compensated by setting up big impromptu plant and flower markets on the
side of the road. They just pull over with a trailer, pull out a big
load of potted flowers and garden plants of all kinds, and sell them for
whatever cash you can bargain with them for. No taxes, either! I
think anyone who asks about taxes gets "no habla, no habla!"

nobody official bothers them. In fact since they're completely
ignoring all this stay at home bullshit, it feels like the Mexicans are
the only ones left who are running anything, except for the hospitals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:14 AM

---

The Mexicans with the "20 ribeyes for $40" trailer was by the side of the road here yesterday.

For the life of me I can't figure out why the Cops never bother them. Sitting in Town right by US Highway 82 and 56, the major intersection in Town and the Cops just drive right by them without stopping.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (JUOKG)

287 BBC
"Nineteen NHS workers have died with coronavirus since the outbreak began."
First reporting of the total that I've seen.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/so9rlb6

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (55d/e)

288 285 I use Macallan to put my whisky sours over the top. it's very good for that.

And that's when the fight started, officer.
Posted by: goatexchange at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (naxyU)

This is blasphemy! This is madness!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:21 AM (NWiLs)

289 Fauci: Americans May Get Virus Immunity Papers

I swear that bastard has compromising photos of Trump.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 08:21 AM (2JVJo)

290 Pray for me!
Posted by: My life is insanity

You got it !

Posted by: JT at April 11, 2020 08:21 AM (arJlL)

291 >>284 Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (NWiLs)

Someone's gotta bell the cat.

(checks watch)

Oops, time for Zod's root canal.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:21 AM (XzT/D)

292 257 247 Was in a store yesterday. The owner came in with "Stay six feet apart signs." Was giving two employees instructions on placing the signs. The employees were standing on either side of me, so close we were touching. The owner was in front of us -- within two feet.

Posted by: French Jeton at April 11, 2020 08:08 AM (9Nrxu)

In Wawa yesterday morning, a girl was Sheila Jackson Lee'ing her mask. Asked her what good is the mask with her nose hanging out?

She just shrugged.

Well, alrighty then.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:12 AM (C/Kkr)

Actually both of these responses are completely logical, which is why we're all seeing them. The vast majority of people in the country are realizing that the "threat" is mostly fantasy, in reality we have as much chance of dying from this as we have of winning the lottery. BUT everyone freaks out if you don't ACT like you are scared all the time and going through all the required motions. If it was mandated that we also all chant a mantra while turning in a clockwise circle 3 times, we'd all be making a show of that, too. That's what all of this is now. It's about LOOKING like you're trying, not about what you actually do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:21 AM (V2Yro)

293
The Mexicans with the "20 ribeyes for $40" trailer was by the side of the road here yesterday.

For
the life of me I can't figure out why the Cops never bother them.
Sitting in Town right by US Highway 82 and 56, the major intersection in
Town and the Cops just drive right by them without stopping.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (JUOKG)

Ribeyes.

Posted by: The Cops at April 11, 2020 08:22 AM (l3+k2)

294 Next time Fauci is up, Trump should just palm the man's head.

"He's mine. I can do this if I want to."

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:22 AM (XzT/D)

295 One hopes that one has some moonshiner in one's family background.
Posted by: Miklos does at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (QzkSJ)

===

When I was little I remember dad's relatives talk about smuggling margarine into Quebec. The Canadian dairy farmers had managed to get it banned at the time I guess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 08:22 AM (EZebt)

296 281 Two rudes can't make a polite. This is simply a bridge too far for me.

It's joshing around. Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:23 AM (C/Kkr)

297 295 One hopes that one has some moonshiner in one's family background.
Posted by: Miklos does at April 11, 2020 07:50 AM (QzkSJ)

===

When I was little I remember dad's relatives talk about smuggling margarine into Quebec. The Canadian dairy farmers had managed to get it banned at the time I guess.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 08:22 AM (EZebt)

The Blue Bonnet Gang

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:23 AM (NWiLs)

298 For the life of me I can't figure out why the Cops never bother them. Sitting in Town right by US Highway 82 and 56, the major intersection in Town and the Cops just drive right by them without stopping.

-

The same reason it's easier to sit behind an embankment ticketing speeders rather than pulling over people who tailgate.

Paperwork.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 11, 2020 08:23 AM (41rs/)

299 280

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:07 AM

Clyde: are you going to Lansing on Wednesday? There's a few of us un-indicted co-conspirators already formulating plans for the day

shoot me an e-mail (link in nick) & let me know. thx

Posted by: AltonJackson
Impeach Whitmer!!!
Because: Reasons!!!
at April 11, 2020 08:18 AM

Not sure yet. I actually am still working. Though working from home. And I have a weekly design review meeting I run on Wednesdays.

So I would have to take a vacation day. I will let you know if I end up able to go. I would be making my way up there from the Auburn Hills area.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:23 AM (Do5/p)

300 Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.
Posted by: Insomniac

Hey, those lovable MS-13 crazy guys need a hobby too!

Posted by: Miklos, seeing two birds. one stone at April 11, 2020 08:24 AM (QzkSJ)

301 For the life of me I can't figure out why the Cops
never bother them. Sitting in Town right by US Highway 82 and 56, the
major intersection in Town and the Cops just drive right by them without
stopping.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (JUOKG)

The cops are only good for harassing law abiding tax payers. Got to arrest the man playing catch with his daughter because that's all the Barney Fifes have the balls to do

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 11, 2020 08:24 AM (7O2sI)

302 Two rudes can't make a polite. This is simply a bridge too far for me.

It's joshing around. Lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:23 AM (C/Kkr)

I know.

I never can do sarcasm right on the internet. It comes across too sincere. I'm great at it in the shop. Must be my voice inflection.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:25 AM (YaiCw)

303 284 Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (NWiLs)

Richard 101: Youre either banging your wife hard or someone else is!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 08:25 AM (JFO2v)

304 Liberal/progressives have always longed for a way to control and silence people who don't agree with them. But they also have always pretended that they are for free speech and civil liberties because their views have always been unpopular. They have never been able to persuade anyone who isn't pampered and wealthy that the enemies of this country are really friends. So they deny that there even is a country with borders. This fake heroism, this phony resistance cannot last. because they they love luxury and a soft peace and you can't have that without prosperity.

But for now they have an excuse for their petty tyrannies. They supposedly love science because in their minds once they proclaim something to be a scientific fact, it cannot be argued with and they can use force against the very people they depend on to make their lives work.

In other word it is not facts that impress them but the authority that flows from undisputed facts. Hydroxychloroquinie is an unproved medicine because some depressed progressive hausfrau fed fish tank cleaner to her husband because she wanted to help, in the same way liberals want to help this country. Oh and they don't like Donald Trump either.

I think they will fail but it is true that suspension of civil liberties will be their go to remedy in the future.

Posted by: Punchinello at April 11, 2020 08:25 AM (zOrpp)

305 The Blue Bonnet Gang
Posted by: Insomniac

I Can't Believe It's Not Beurre!

Posted by: Mikleuse, eh at April 11, 2020 08:25 AM (QzkSJ)

306 When I was little I remember dad's relatives talk about smuggling margarine into Quebec. The Canadian dairy farmers had managed to get it banned at the time I guess.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 08:22 AM (EZebt)

It also could not be yellow here in the US.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2020 08:26 AM (JFO2v)

307 I was walking past St. Ignatius at 4:11 yesterday and the bell was tolling. It only tolls the hour, as far as I've ever heard.

Can any RC morons educate us about the tolling, does it have any ritual meaning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 08:26 AM (EZebt)

308 >Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.
Posted by: Insomniac

Like George Kennedy said in "The Eiger Sanction":

"Lady, why don't ya get yourself screwed. Do ya a world of good."

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:27 AM (iTXRQ)

309 For the life of me I can't figure out why the Cops never bother them. Sitting in Town right by US Highway 82 and 56, the major intersection in Town and the Cops just drive right by them without stopping.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (JUOKG)

Yes you can figure it out, it's very easy. Same as my post up above, all enforcement actions are about making a big Show of convincing Important People that they are Doing Something, so the targets are all very Socially Visible people, in Socially Visible areas. Nobody has ever payed any attention to the Mexicans before, so nobody is paying attention to them now, and there's no point for any officials to hassle them since no one else will pay any attention, so why bother?

One more time, every action now is about making a big SHOW of doing something - it isn't about actually doing anything. Because there's no actual need for any of this enforcement, it's nothing but a big Power Play.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:27 AM (V2Yro)

310 >>The cops are only good for harassing law abiding tax payers. Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 11, 2020 08:24 AM (7O2sI)

That, or the downtrodden. It is for this reason that Zod waits in van for "COPS: Trailer Park Ambush" series.

TAKTAKTAK!

"Holy shit, backup, we need backup! The methheads have three fifty-cals set up with overlapping fields of fire in the Holly Acres Trailer Park. We're pinned down! Backup!"

TAKTAKTAKTAKTAK

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:27 AM (XzT/D)

311
Bought some Laphroaig this week. Very good, but certainly an acquired
taste. Tar-flavored seawater is not unfair. Probably notes of ashtray
as well.

Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:17 AM (1cjc5)

I really like the Lagavulin 8. I am sure it is an acquired taste as well as I have worked hard to acquire it lol. The Lagavulin Distillers Edition is really good stuff. You get the peat and smoke, but you get sherry and other flavors too.

Speaking of Scotch. Some guy at the local store blamed Trump's tariffs when I noticed the price of Lagavulin 16 and DE went up over $20 overnight. Funny, they didn't raise the price of the 8 year so that is why I bought it.

I bit my tongue other than saying I doubted that was the only reason. After looking into the issue, Trump's tariffs went into place last October, five months ago. Also, other single malts have not gone up in price over that period. These distillers have ways of eating the costs and not pricing themselves out of the market. Hell the Euros are experts at subsidizing.

After looking into the tariff issue a bit I found some interesting facts. First of all, the Euros, including the Brits, put tariffs on American Bourbon almost two years ago. Trump's original tariffs were on steel as a reaction to illegal airbus subsidies. The WTO ruled that Europe was out of line and was subsidizing illegally. They awarded the US the right to tariff x amount of goods. This was a landmark decision and the biggest ever from what I read. Only then did Trump put tariffs on single malt Scotch.

It was long after they E.U. put tariffs on Bourbon and only after the WTO said the E.U. was cheating and the US should respond. But still you get people blaming the "Trump Tariffs" for this and that.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 08:28 AM (hHxp2)

312 Margarine, aka oleo, used to come with a yellow dye pack in some states. Mix it in, and you still can't believe it's butter.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 11, 2020 08:28 AM (C1Lsn)

313 That, or the downtrodden. It is for this reason that Zod waits in van for "COPS: Trailer Park Ambush" series.

TAKTAKTAK!

"Holy shit, backup, we need backup! The methheads have three fifty-cals set up with overlapping fields of fire in the Holly Acres Trailer Park. We're pinned down! Backup!"

TAKTAKTAKTAKTAK
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:27 AM (XzT/D)

I'd pay good money to see this.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (NWiLs)

314 He could start with Vermont. At least with a democrat you expect to get screwed. I'm finding this knife in the back to be much worse.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 11, 2020 08:06 AM (GhGb5)

Has Vermont had a non weird Republican since Silent Cal?

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (y7DUB)

315 >For the life of me I can't figure out why the Cops never bother them.

the groups' Protected status

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (iTXRQ)

316
Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (NWiLs)

You know she's having an orgasm when she stops filing her nails.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (mht8P)

317 Instead of immunity papers, maybe we could have people wear symbols, like, say, stars on their clothes? And make them colorful, so people stay cheerful, like, yellow?

But then we wouldn't know who was immune when they go to the beach and the wear only a bathing suit.

I got it ! Tattoos. With numbers.

People, we got this. No worries.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (gAXBD)

318 Like George Kennedy said in "The Eiger Sanction":

Great flick.

I've been educating Son Of No One in the finer cinematic classics. That one will have to go one the list.

For today - I'm thinking the original Death Wish.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (YaiCw)

319 Next time Fauci is up, Trump should just palm the man's head.

"So I said to Dr Fauci, fantastic guy, so you got all the the answers, he says yes, you told me that Tony, right?

So I said, just look me straight in the eye Tony..."

Posted by: Miklosian Scriptwriting SA de CV at April 11, 2020 08:30 AM (QzkSJ)

320 Got all the bodies from last night cleared away to get to the coffee and started making breakfast.

Scrambled eggs, wonder bread toast with butter and bacon.

More coffee before they outlaw that next.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 11, 2020 08:30 AM (Z+IKu)

321
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:23 AM

thanks, Clyde

my office is in Auburn Hills; sounds like we're in the same business

I have to take a two week furlough starting Monday, otherwise I'd be working from home as well

Posted by: AltonJackson
Impeach Whitmer!!!
Because: Reasons!!!
at April 11, 2020 08:31 AM (MIuvZ)

322 311

Lagavulin 8; I'll be on the lookout for that.

Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:31 AM (1cjc5)

323 Mother Nature is a fickle bitch

55 today
Tomorrow 3PM -Monday 7PM 4-13" Of white climate data

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2020 08:32 AM (aA3+G)

324 I never can do sarcasm right on the internet.
Posted by: I Am

Yeah, right.

Posted by: Miklosian Voiceovers, LLC at April 11, 2020 08:33 AM (QzkSJ)

325 Old and Busted: Gun Free Zone signs
New Hotness: Stay Six Feet Away signs

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 08:33 AM (EZebt)

326 Another day of waking up and hoping to the panic is easing. But no,I think it is still going to get worse. MSM isn't giving up on this and the lemming are scared shitless. Karen can be proud for the most part.

Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2020 08:33 AM (sGobE)

327 Here's a subversive thought - around here, the mexicans are a lot better capitalists than any of the native born Americans are anymore.

also, they are the model for civil disobedience of stupid laws. They don't argue or fight back, they just ignore any law they don't like, and when there are 50,000 of them in a city all ignoring the laws at the same time, the cops just give up and concentrate on the rich old white people who are still impressed by the fancy blue uniform.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (V2Yro)

328 13 you'll notice that I quit posting the figures on the koronakrap a few days ago. The numbers are all BS.
Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

Why do you say they're BS? Do you mean the actual numbers of deaths from the IMHE and the https://covid19stats.global/state/?

Posted by: Marlene at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (mpzK0)

329 Know who is digging all the stay at home orders?

Bikers. And muscle car owners.

I hear the screech of the crotch rockets every day as they hit the rev limiter at every shift. And the beautiful sounds of V-8's, sucking down gas at $1.29 a gallon.

Nary a cop in sight and traffic is light.

Posted by: Martini Farmer semper liberi montani at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (3H9h1)

330 >Mother Nature is a fickle bitch

same forecast here

Today- sunny, 70
Sunday- snow, 29

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (iTXRQ)

331 Lagavulin 8; I'll be on the lookout for that.
Posted by: MKoepf

Ask for the hydroxylavagulin.

Posted by: Miklos, and a Z-Pak chaser perhaps at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (QzkSJ)

332 Lagavulin 8; I'll be on the lookout for that.
Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:31 AM (1cjc5)

Apparently the reason I don't drink scotch is I can't spell any of 'em.

Is there not a Smith or Jones out there making a single malt ?

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:35 AM (YaiCw)

333 Unless you're Scottish, all this talk about Scotch is cultural appropriation and it will not be tolerated!

And those who consider Laphroaig to be tar flavored alcoholic seawater, well, you're racist and intolerant.

Now, step away from my sheep. It's date night and social distancing, you know.

Good day, sir.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 08:35 AM (gAXBD)

334 Morning, horde.

Just finished watching "Risen."I

I liked it. It was just what I needed.

Posted by: Gem at April 11, 2020 08:35 AM (65i3Q)

335 112 Surprise, surprise, some conservative areas in WI didn't get their absentee ballots delivered, and so didn't get to vote in the recent election for WI Supreme Court Justice.

USPS is investigating.

Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (l3+k2)

USPS has data on how many pieces of mail are delivered to the wrong address, but does not keep stats on how many pieces are not delivered (lost, stolen, deliberately destroyed, etc.)

Makes sense. Some proportion of mis-delivered mail is returned to USPS for re-delivery. But how do you know how much is lost, when some (most?) is not reported because the receiver didn't even know it was coming?

Makes sense, but is A BAD OMEN for a vote-by-mail scheme.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2020 08:35 AM (AMIL/)

336 333 Unless you're Scottish, all this talk about Scotch is cultural appropriation and it will not be tolerated!

And those who consider Laphroaig to be tar flavored alcoholic seawater, well, you're racist and intolerant.

Now, step away from my sheep. It's date night and social distancing, you know.

Good day, sir.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 08:35 AM (gAXBD)

I'm part Scottish, so lick my sporran.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (NWiLs)

337 Which preacher said this? Can you guess?

"On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. At Easter Sunday, we will celebrate his glorious resurrection."
"Though we will not be able to gather together with one another as we normally would on Easter, we can use this sacred time to focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God."

It wasn't a preacher. It was President Donald J. Trump.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (lwiT4)

338 Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (iTXRQ)

UGH

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (aA3+G)

339 >Know who is digging all the stay at home orders?

Bikers. And muscle car owners.

the city police here have been tweeting pictures of their radar gun readouts
they clocked a motorcycle doing 168mph earlier this week

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

340 Has Vermont had a non weird Republican since Silent Cal?
Posted by: Captain Hate

Posted by: Silent Cal at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (QzkSJ)

341 I said, good day, sir!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 11, 2020 08:37 AM (gAXBD)

342 I'm part Scottish, so lick my sporran.
Posted by: Insomniac

Up the Laird!

Posted by: McMiklos at April 11, 2020 08:38 AM (QzkSJ)

343 whitehouse.gov and C-SPAN.org and @realDonaldTrump and @WhiteHouse and @Mike_Pence don't mention a coronavirus briefing for today.

Posted by: m at April 11, 2020 08:38 AM (55d/e)

344 >>342 I'm part Scottish, so lick my sporran.
Posted by: Insomniac

Karen can eat a bag of dirks.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:38 AM (XzT/D)

345 Chuck Yeager (age 97!) talks about "shelter in place" when it meant hiding from German soldiers in WWII. Also shuts up some twitter creeps who dissed Trump in time of war.

Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:39 AM (lFvmz)

346 I'm part Scottish, so lick my sporran.
Posted by: Insomniac

Up the Laird!
Posted by: McMiklos at April 11, 2020 08:38 AM (QzkSJ)

Any bunch that eats haggis by choice is not to be trifled with.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:39 AM (YaiCw)

347 Seaweed and Iodine, strained through oaky campfire ashes?

Gotta be Laphroaig! Good stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2020 08:39 AM (dWqpY)

348 318 Like George Kennedy said in "The Eiger Sanction":
Great flick.

I've been educating Son Of No One in the finer cinematic classics. That one will have to go one the list.

For today - I'm thinking the original Death Wish.
Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (YaiCw)

Death Wish, yes. Eiger Sanction is fun to watch, good action, but as a movie it's an overall failure. Rodney Whitaker, aka "Trevanian", who wrote it said later that he hated Secret Agent movies and he wrote that intending it to be a satire on the genre. But unlike "our man Flint" or the best satire in the genre of all, Austin Powers, nobody ever realized it was supposed to be satire since there was nothing even faintly humorous about anything that happened. Trevanian was supposed to have been disappointed that no one "got" what he was trying to get across.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:40 AM (V2Yro)

349 test

Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:40 AM (lFvmz)

350 Sgian-dubh when only the best skin will do.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (NWiLs)

351 "Asked her what good is the mask with her nose hanging out? She just shrugged."

covering the mouth would help a lot, I'd think, in keeping her from spreading it (if she had it). Most of the small droplets get projected from the mouth, even when just talking, let alone coughing.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (Cus5s)

352 I left a stack of pallets by the road last night and they are gone this morning. I suppose the pallet mongers are not sheltering in place. Either that or they are building a place to shelter in.

Posted by: freaked, environmentalist extraordinare at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (Tnijr)

353 For today - I'm thinking the original Death Wish.
Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (YaiCw)

===

Mr. Majestyk
Freebie and the Bean
French Connection

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (EZebt)

354 112 Surprise, surprise, some conservative areas in WI didn't get their absentee ballots delivered, and so didn't get to vote in the recent election for WI Supreme Court Justice.
USPS is investigating.
Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 07:33 AM (l3+k2)

Yup....USPS is a union shop. You wouldn't believe what goes on in those places.
Hell, Son of Sam was a mailman and that idiot's daddy from Ohio was too.

The horror, the horror.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (Z+IKu)

355 So, say someone leaves you with a bottle of Laphroig. Its flavor is ... assertive.

But if you splash a little of it into a neutral whiskey like Bushmills you get a really interesting hint of the bog experience without drowning in the bog.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (gd9RK)

356 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

357 Oilfieldrando on twitter had a roundup of all these community's that are asking people to turn in their fellow citizens for gathering.

Grant Wahl who is an SI reporter really got taken down a peg when he got fired, They released a memo why he refused to take a pay cut from his 300 grand job to help save other jobs, but they also said that infrequently wrote and that nobody read his articles, Yes he's a soccer reporter but he's A HUGE ORANGE MAN BAD and would rant about it all the time. I don't like it when people lose thier jobs but this guy is way way over paid.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 11, 2020 08:42 AM (dKiJG)

358 Any bunch that eats haggis by choice is not to be trifled with.
Posted by: I Am No One

And cross-hybridization with Magyars?

It ain't pretty.

Posted by: Miklos, the last of his line at April 11, 2020 08:42 AM (QzkSJ)

359 >>no one "got" what he was trying to get across.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:40 AM (V2Yro)

...and it's not like his satirical hints weren't overbroad: "Yurasis Dragon" as a sinister, light-averse crime boss...

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:42 AM (XzT/D)

360 Wow. That is the most words I have ever seen krakatoa post.

Yes. This is an inflection point.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

361 And, despite the ever deepening crisis, piles of corpses, panic in the streets the mob of 50+ illegals is still congregating in distinct violation of SIP and social distancing orders at gas station close to my house (and elsewhere.) Several complaint to city/state have done no good, I guess they have an official exemption, plus I do not have Karen privileges

Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2020 08:43 AM (sGobE)

362 " some conservative areas in WI
didn't get their absentee ballots delivered, and so didn't get to vote
in the recent election for WI Supreme Court Justice."

they should investigate whether some of them still voted for the Dem candidate, without knowing it. Dems are very proud of their ability to defraud ...

Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2020 08:43 AM (Cus5s)

363 It's about LOOKING like you're trying, not about what you actually do.

Which is what they do in socialist countries.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 11, 2020 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

364 some conservative areas in WI

didn't get their absentee ballots delivered, and so didn't get to vote

in the recent election for WI Supreme Court Justice.

Do you know which areas? I bet mine was one of them.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 11, 2020 08:44 AM (lwiT4)

365 Morning Horde.

Anything interesting been going on in the world in the last 40 days?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 11, 2020 08:45 AM (mtcjB)

366 I'm gonna' have to see Eiger Sanction again - I do not remember it being this bad.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:45 AM (YaiCw)

367 Has Vermont had a non weird Republican since Silent Cal?
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 11, 2020 08:29 AM (y7DUB)

Jim Douglas was actually not too bad.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 11, 2020 08:45 AM (GhGb5)

368 332 Lagavulin 8; I'll be on the lookout for that.
Posted by: MKoepf at April 11, 2020 08:31 AM (1cjc5)

Apparently the reason I don't drink scotch is I can't spell any of 'em.

Is there not a Smith or Jones out there making a single malt ?
Posted by: I Am No One

Not sure if the Welsh make single malts.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2020 08:45 AM (MVR7y)

369 339 >Know who is digging all the stay at home orders?

Bikers. And muscle car owners.

the city police here have been tweeting pictures of their radar gun readouts
they clocked a motorcycle doing 168mph earlier this week
Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

People are pulling all of their secret garage cars out and enjoying the spring. I saw a Ford GT40 (as in Ford vs Ferrari) cruising my neighborhood a couple days ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (V2Yro)

370 Overwrought. Yes, there is a clear and present danger, but it just isn't so that the universal idea that governments have police powers in emergencies is, per se, tyranny. It can turn into that, sure, and we must be alert. But it's surely too early to be quite so alarmed. Remember, always, that one besetting weakness of Leftists is overreach. And that may very well bring a healthy reaction.

Also, "There are no saints who pursue, much less win, public office. There are only people with a will to power, certain of their own cause." is absurd, at least the second sentence. Sure, there are few if any saints in politics. But "only people with a will to power" kind of lets out the founders, and many others. Nietzscheanism will get you exactly where it got Foucault. Don't go there.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (ZbwAu)

371 Death Wish, yes. Eiger Sanction is fun to watch

The Assassination Bureau

*Diana Rigg*

Posted by: Miklos has his personal favorites at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (QzkSJ)

372 329 Know who is digging all the stay at home orders?

Bikers. And muscle car owners.

I hear the screech of the crotch rockets every day as they hit the rev limiter at every shift. And the beautiful sounds of V-8's, sucking down gas at $1.29 a gallon.

Nary a cop in sight and traffic is light.

Posted by: Martini Farmer semper liberi montani at April 11, 2020 08:34 AM (3H9h1)

Modern muscle car v8's use premium.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (C/Kkr)

373 Apparently the reason I don't drink scotch is I can't spell any of 'em.

--

Pinch = The Devil

Easy enough.

Posted by: moron robbie abridged at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (IwDj9)

374 Ripley

I guess the next step is to have some discussions with known neighbors. With n cell-phones, during a walk in the field.

Because organization is important. Conservatives and pragmatists do not organize well, and we are losing.

But remember, OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

375 Sad and outrageous that a pastor in Greenville Miss. was fined $500 for preaching to people sitting in their cars with the windows open. He said a lot of police cars came out to stop him.

Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (lFvmz)

376 As of this morning still just one death in our county of 155,000. 58 known cases. Our governor is an idiot but we knew that going in.

Posted by: freaked, environmentalist extraordinare at April 11, 2020 08:48 AM (Tnijr)

377 I live in NJ, maybe one of the more likely candidates to be dystopian. Enforcement in my town has been lax to non-existent. The grocery store did not enforce the mask rule, and they tossed the limited number in the store policy quite hastily. My neighbors had a party on Wednesday evening with no less than 10 cars on the street, no one objected.
I suspect had they been loud and flaunting, a Karen would have emerged, but none did.

I've seen the HS track team running along the roads (about 30 boys) with no objections made.

Murphy's rules are not as strict as many govs as garden centers remain open and home depot does not restrict purchases. The craft store is far from essential, but they can still do pick ups. Car dealers are selling.

So it sounds like we're pretty well off compared to some others.

Posted by: CN at April 11, 2020 08:48 AM (ONvIw)

378 I guess I'm Karen's opposite. I'm hoping for Darwin awards extraordinary.

I'll take all precautions to safeguard myself and my family. If you're stupid and want to die, do it. It will lighten traffic.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 11, 2020 08:48 AM (nRWPy)

379 Modern muscle car v8's use premium.

--

It's amazing to consider that $30K family appliance cars post similar numbers to - or outright beat - the high performance 60s and early 70s muscle cars that I like so much.

It's a wonderful time to be a car guy.

Posted by: moron robbie abridged at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (IwDj9)

380 344 >>342 I'm part Scottish, so lick my sporran.
Posted by: Insomniac

Karen can eat a bag of dirks.
Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:38 AM (XzT/D)

If it's not Scottish....

Posted by: Gem at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (65i3Q)

381 Sad and outrageous that a pastor in Greenville Miss. was fined $500 for preaching to people sitting in their cars with the windows open. He said a lot of police cars came out to stop him.
Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (lFvmz)

My brother - listen to my words. Rules must come from the top - and we must obey. It is not only a duty - it is a privilege. Embrace the inner glow compliance, and let it fill your heart with joy.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (YaiCw)

382 "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

2 Timothy 3:12

It's an honor to be persecuted for your faith.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (mtcjB)

383 366 I'm gonna' have to see Eiger Sanction again - I do not remember it being this bad.
Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:45 AM (YaiCw)

I don't think it was bad, I said it was fun to watch. The Director, and Clint Eastwood, and very well done action scenes saved what was really a pretty bad script. But there's things like Jack Cassidy who's supposed to be a comic character, and then he gets killed casually and cruelly and you think "well there was nothing funny about that at all."

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (V2Yro)

384 >>I'm hoping for Darwin awards extraordinary...It will lighten traffic. Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 11, 2020 08:48 AM (nRWPy)

+1

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (XzT/D)

385 351 "Asked her what good is the mask with her nose hanging out? She just shrugged."

covering the mouth would help a lot, I'd think, in keeping her from spreading it (if she had it). Most of the small droplets get projected from the mouth, even when just talking, let alone coughing.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2020 08:41 AM (Cus5s)

The rules say you have to wear a mask, they don't say that you have to wear it properly.

Posted by: CN at April 11, 2020 08:50 AM (ONvIw)

386 Death Wish, yes. Eiger Sanction is fun to watch

The Assassination Bureau

*Diana Rigg*
Posted by: Miklos has his personal favorites at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (QzkSJ)

The Odessa File.

Or, better yet, the original The Italian Job. Rather appropriate for this week, since Robert "Jesus of Nazareth" Powell was one of Michael Caine's gang.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 08:50 AM (2JVJo)

387 375 Sad and outrageous that a pastor in Greenville Miss. was fined $500 for preaching to people sitting in their cars with the windows open. He said a lot of police cars came out to stop him.

Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (lFvmz)

Are gatherings of more than 10 people at mosques being prohibited and broken-up? Yeah, I know, an unnecessary question.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2020 08:50 AM (AMIL/)

388 "Wow. That is the most words I have ever seen krakatoa post."

He will say more the next time China pulls this stunt or maybe even now the NORKS if they want to ring the chow bell with a new kind of threat.

Plus, we really seemed to have jumped the shark this time around. I can't imagine whats in store down the road.

Posted by: Drider at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (R/UH9)

389 Do you know which areas? I bet mine was one of them.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 11, 2020 08:44 AM (lwiT4)

https://tinyurl.com/sda7scs

https://tinyurl.com/r29ryvt...(doesn't like adblock)

Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (l3+k2)

390 Eeyore

I am in an extremely low rung of public office. I won my election by 56 votes. What the hell was I thinking?

If you want bad people in office, do not run.

But good people are needed more than ever. I would trust anyone in the Horde, yes even AiC, nurse ratched, and Insomniac, to do better than many in office.

I know the local players, and there are good guys in office, outnumbered by lunkheads.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

391 375 Sad and outrageous that a pastor in Greenville Miss. was fined $500 for preaching to people sitting in their cars with the windows open. He said a lot of police cars came out to stop him.
Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (lFvmz)

But people are lined up down the street for the pot shop.

Yeah... It's very consistent.

Posted by: Gem at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (65i3Q)

392 Filming the opening scene of Trevanian's "The Loo Sanction" would make for great cinema.

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (XzT/D)

393 It's amazing to consider that $30K family appliance cars post similar numbers to - or outright beat - the high performance 60s and early 70s muscle cars that I like so much.

It's a wonderful time to be a car guy.

Posted by: moron robbie abridged at April 11, 2020 08:49 AM (IwDj9)

It is indeed. I'ma go look at this car today. Look...

https://tinyurl.com/s6vxood

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:52 AM (C/Kkr)

394 Not sure if the Welsh make single malts.
Posted by: Puddleglum

They should start with single vowels.

Posted by: ap Miklos at April 11, 2020 08:52 AM (QzkSJ)

395 Dang. Cold outside. It must be below 50 out there.

Posted by: freaked, environmentalist extraordinare at April 11, 2020 08:52 AM (Tnijr)

396 Apparently the reason I don't drink scotch is I can't spell any of 'em.

Is there not a Smith or Jones out there making a single malt ?

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:35 AM (YaiCw)

even if you could spell them, it would not help with pronunciation. Try Bruichladdich or Ardbeg Corryvreckan.

Posted by: Quint at April 11, 2020 08:53 AM (hHxp2)

397 394 Not sure if the Welsh make single malts.
Posted by: Puddleglum

They should start with single vowels.

I doubt it. Single coal-seam whisky, maybe.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2020 08:53 AM (AMIL/)

398 395 Dang. Cold outside. It must be below 50 out there.
Posted by: freaked, environmentalist extraordinare at April 11, 2020 08:52 AM (Tnijr)

Trade you. Was outside trying to do some work but it started snowing so back inside sitting on the computer

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 11, 2020 08:54 AM (GhGb5)

399 I guess the next step is to have some discussions with known neighbors. With n cell-phones, during a walk in the field.

Because organization is important. Conservatives and pragmatists do not organize well, and we are losing.

But remember, OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly

You are right but it is very hard to draw people out. For example, whenever the school pulls some SJW brain washing (i.e. everyday) and I talk to other parents I think are conservative I find they are blissfully unaware of what is going on or stick their heads in the sand. Forty years of brainwashing have left people unable to believe their lying eyes. People are terrified of being ostracized. It will take another Trump victory to get many people to do more than vote.

Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2020 08:54 AM (sGobE)

400 So you have cops dragging people off buses for not wearing masks and you have drones breaking up people who are not social distanceing to the satisfaction of the rulers.

You have online censorship of counter information and narratives.

Oh yeah, fascism has definatley landed on America, and without firing a shot.

Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 11, 2020 08:54 AM (tlx0a)

401 Blue governors and mayors should realize that a prolonged shutdown will blow up budgets that rely on sales taxes.

But they were never good at math, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 11, 2020 08:54 AM (9TdxA)

402 I've seen reports that young healthy people can recover from a ChinaVirus infection without developing antibodies. Seems possible that may be a large part of the population, but they would then not qualify for the Mark of The Beast verification/certificate.

And the certificate would require people to be infected before they are released from their home/prison.

We need some (well paid) volunteers to be smeared with a small dose of the virus, and run all the tests to see their reaction, chart it all with all their personal health data collected. This would tell us a lot.

This should have been done a month or two ago, since we are changing our whole culture and economy based only on bad models, from the same UN tied globalists that have given us scary fake models in the past.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2020 08:55 AM (Cus5s)

403 It is indeed. I'ma go look at this car today. Look...

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:52 AM (C/Kkr)

Do it. That is a nice ride.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:55 AM (YaiCw)

404 Good Morning Morons today is Saturday, April 11, 2020. On this day in 1976 the first Apple computer was created.

Posted by: Vic at April 11, 2020 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

Two days later, the first computer virus was created.

*I kid, I kid, I think??*

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2020 08:56 AM (Z4rgH)

405 It is indeed. I'ma go look at this car today. Look...

https://tinyurl.com/s6vxood

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:52 AM (C/Kkr)

--

Holy cow, a manual transmission.

Yes please.

Posted by: moron robbie abridged at April 11, 2020 08:56 AM (IwDj9)

406 Posted by: davidt at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (l3+k2)

Looks like north of me. I voted in person. I wonder if they counted that. BTW, this is a red county. We have a very low incidence of the chinese flu. I notice it is mostly the blue counties that are infected. There may be a correlation, but I'm no Fauci.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 11, 2020 08:56 AM (lwiT4)

407 A bit too gloomy & pessimistic, Weird Dave!

People are easier to get back to normal, & that's going to be irresistible. They won't put up with all this BS for 1 minute when they perceive that the beer virus danger is past.

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2020 08:56 AM (Cssks)

408 "Trade you."

Not a chance. I don't care if I never see snow again.

Posted by: freaked, vicationing in the Sun at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (Tnijr)

409 405 Holy cow, a manual transmission.

LOL 1st thing I said too

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (C/Kkr)

410 Ripley

Bounce or break. We see it. Get like-minded people, and away from cell phones.

This has been the biggest wake-up call ever.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (u82oZ)

411 >>We need some (well paid) volunteers to be smeared with a small dose of the virus, and run all the tests to see their reaction Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2020 08:55 AM (Cus5s)

"You put this swab in your mouth, we knock five years off your sentence. Open."

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (XzT/D)

412 "We are not a new philosophy but a divine revelation. That's why you can't just exterminate us; the more you kill the more we are. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. You praise those who endured pain and death, so long as they aren't Christians! Your cruelties merely prove our innocence of the crimes you charge against...

And you frustrate your purpose. Because those who see us die, wonder why we do, for we die like the men you revere, not like slaves or criminals. And when they find out, they join us."

Tertullian

Let them write their tickets.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (mtcjB)

413 they clocked a motorcycle doing 168mph earlier this week
Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

Wow...I'm thinking zero percent survival chances if he wrecks it at that speed.

Which is not to say I disapprove--I'm no Karen. It's his life, and I'm sure that's exhilarating. But, one little hole in the road, and what a way to go, huh?

Posted by: April at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (OX9vb)

414 "I know the local players, and there are good guys in office, outnumbered by lunkheads."

So your an opinionated know it all?

Count on my vote, low rung or not.

Posted by: Drider at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (R/UH9)

415 407 sb "eager to get back"

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (Cssks)

416

Welsh whisky smells of daffodils and your mother of lavender,it's not unusual Delilah.

Posted by: saf at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (5IHGB)

417 Found a male Karen sharing his 'concerns' about Operation Gridlock...

Male Karen:

"This makes me angry. I can't believe that people can be so childish. This is not a game. This virus is bigger than your petty little problems. Nobody cares that you're bored, lives including those of your loved ones are at stake. And talking about trespassing on private property because a public servant is doing her job? Whether or not you agree with her that is NOT okay. Stay home, stay safe, and stop contributing to the spread of coronavirus."

lolgf, male Karen.

Some of the good responses:

Dave: "Logan, do you have a paycheck coming in every week? Are you going bankrupt? This isn't about being bored! If small businesses go out of business, where are you going to get your car fixed? Where are you going to eat? Who's going to grow your food? You think you're angry? Wait until your source of income is eliminated. Get back to me then.

Logan: Dave, WHO CARES IF YOURE DEAD???? Why is this so hard to understand???

Logan: "And someone else posted about not being able to buy mulch or paint for their children's room, or that they can't go to the movie theater or have friends over. You're right, it's not about being bored. It's about people being selfish and not acknowledging that even if they are not actively displaying symptoms of COVID-19 they can still be carriers, infecting dozens of other people who eventually carry it to the elderly, those with preexisting conditions, etc. In the scope of this danger, sacrifices such as shutting down nonessential business is a small price to pay for literally saving lives. And yes, I also don't have enough money to pay my bills. I'm in the same situation.

James: "Logan here's the thing, this is America how about you start worrying about your own family and let me do the same with mine! I think all this isolation is going to make things real bad once we get back together. Most will get sick fast (not saying from COVID) but from some other virus. I work from home and coach both my kids in football and baseball. I know that I will get sick the first week of practice, as I am always isolated at home from germs. It's happened every spring and fall for the last 6urs. This will happen to a lot of people, even more so to the ones who have really been hiding in a hole this whole time."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (Do5/p)

418 That is a very attractive car, btw.

Posted by: moron robbie abridged at April 11, 2020 08:58 AM (IwDj9)

419 >>Let them write their tickets.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (mtcjB)

Old and busted: NFL
New hotness: Coliseum

Posted by: Zod at April 11, 2020 08:59 AM (XzT/D)

420 401 Igno

Good point.

Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2020 08:59 AM (Cssks)

421 402 I've seen reports that young healthy people can recover from a ChinaVirus infection without developing antibodies. Seems possible that may be a large part of the population, but they would then not qualify for the Mark of The Beast verification/certificate.

I only read this in the early stages and usually prefaced as news coming out of CHina

Posted by: CN at April 11, 2020 08:59 AM (ONvIw)

422 And the certificate would require people to be infected before they are released from their home/prison."

You sound like someone who's forgotten about PaperWhipping the Problem.

I sound like someone who's sensing an exciting new business opportunity in Document Production.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:59 AM (V2Yro)

423 403
Do it. That is a nice ride.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 08:55 AM (YaiCw)

Shaker hood, too. I may drool on the seat.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (C/Kkr)

424 Drider

I observe. I could be wrong, but actions are quite telling.

We have a local Soros group trying to get an effective County Commissioner to resign. For saying China was the source of Wuhan flu.

Gresham's law.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (u82oZ)

425 Good morning. What fresh hell awaits?

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (dUJdY)

426 391
375 Sad and outrageous that a pastor in Greenville Miss. was fined $500
for preaching to people sitting in their cars with the windows open. He
said a lot of police cars came out to stop him.

Posted by: FloridaMan -- still think this is overreaction at April 11, 2020 08:47 AM (lFvmz)

But people are lined up down the street for the pot shop.

Yeah... It's very consistent.

Posted by: Gem at April 11, 2020 08:51 AM (65i3Q)

So, what does the Horde think about lawsuits once this episode is over? Clear First Amendment violations. Certainly 2A violations as well.But then again, Squishy John Roberts will probably nix the cases.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (D3cJf)

427 they clocked a motorcycle doing 168mph earlier this week
Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 08:36 AM (iTXRQ)

Wow...I'm thinking zero percent survival chances if he wrecks it at that speed.

Which is not to say I disapprove--I'm no Karen. It's his life, and I'm sure that's exhilarating. But, one little hole in the road, and what a way to go, huh?
Posted by: April at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (OX9vb)

Whenever I hear about that kind of thing, it always takes me a second to remember that there are other states that maintain the roads, where you could travel maybe a few hundred yards without a pothole that could take a wheel up to the axle.

If only Governor Whitmer knew about the potholes, I'm sure she'd do something.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (t+qrx)

428 Someone put a shark in the GD pond, give me Fonzi's bike and ill jump that fugger faster than you can bat an eye if it gets everyone back to normal.

We should never have left normal. Not over the Wuhan flu.

Posted by: Drider at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (R/UH9)

429 But, one little hole in the road, and what a way to go, huh?

I used to ride a Harley. Had it up to 90. Once.

I can not imagine 160.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (YaiCw)

430 Nood

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (D3cJf)

431 Drider

I've cut taxes, twice, on my tiny sliver of the mill levy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 09:01 AM (u82oZ)

432 394 Not sure if the Welsh make single malts.
Posted by: Puddleglum

They should start with single vowels.
Posted by: ap Miklos

'W' and 'Y' are single vowels. I think.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2020 09:01 AM (MVR7y)

433 Regarding TONY:
People of our persuasion have become very suspicious of him. I have seen Gifs where a reporter is saluting him and he gives a little side hand acknowledgment.

But check this out from the Press Conference yesterday.

And before you look, is it just me or was anyone surprised when Trump said that HE was the one who wanted to OVER do the beds, and vents. He kept saying as he pointed to Birx and Fauci that they told him you're not going to need that many!
What was that about? All along we have all been thinking he was being pushed by those two which is why he sent The Comfort and the Mercy. Now we find out that he did that I guess out of extreme caution.

I just can't help feeling that we (meaning every person who DOES NOT have the Virus) have been sent into a wild ride of adapting everything in our lives and people who clean houses for a living are standing on Food Bank lines. and Army people building hospitals and costing us more and more money, and they were not needed!! Factories turning into ventilator building lines.

I guess that was kind of good we will be ready for any emergency that comes our way, and I guess as a practice drill for a more devastating emergency we know we can handle one.

Anyway: Here is that little video clip. I am dying to know what everyone here thinks about it.
pic.twitter.com/useGvboEF1

Posted by: Marlene at April 11, 2020 09:01 AM (mpzK0)

434 It is indeed. I'ma go look at this car today. Look...

Manual. +1

Posted by: Martini Farmer semper liberi montani at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (3H9h1)

435 "405 Holy cow, a manual transmission."

They are getting ever harder buy in new cars, and used ones are gradually being "used up" Only my Jeep is manual, so I maintain at least some braggin' right about people not knowing how to drive them, like us 29 yo's

Bonus option is thieves don't even know how to drive them anymore so you don't have to worry about them getting stolen.

Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (sGobE)

436 James: "Logan here's the thing, this is America how about you start worrying about your own family and let me do the same with mine! "

Sounds like Logan could use a molotov cocktail through his window at 3 am.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (V2Yro)

437 Despite the drones, I'm not really seeing a lot of social distancing in NYC. Masks yes (where are these surgical masks coming from), but transit is still pretty full.

So if NYCers can ride the subways, the rest of the nation should be able to assemble as they see fit.
This bullshit is bullshit.

Posted by: CN at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (ONvIw)

438 422 And the certificate would require people to be infected before they are released from their home/prison."

You sound like someone who's forgotten about PaperWhipping the Problem.

I sound like someone who's sensing an exciting new business opportunity in Document Production.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2020 08:59 AM (V2Yro)

Yeah, in the opening phase, about 85 percent of the people with those documents will no habla Ingles.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (AMIL/)

439 Which is not to say I disapprove--I'm no Karen. It's his life, and I'm sure that's exhilarating. But, one little hole in the road, and what a way to go, huh?

Posted by: April at April 11, 2020 08:57 AM (OX9vb)

I had a '93 CBR900 I hit over 150 on. Looked down and the broken stripe was solid. Rush ? Yeah. Crazy ? Doubly so.

A squirrel in the road could have been lights out.

Posted by: jsg at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (C/Kkr)

440 So, what does the Horde think about lawsuits once this episode is over? Clear First Amendment violations. Certainly 2A violations as well.But then again, Squishy John Roberts will probably nix the cases.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM (D3cJf)

So you are proposing to sue an entity that has unlimited resources and one that actually pays the judges. Let me know how that works out for you.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (GhGb5)

441 nood coffee

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at April 11, 2020 09:03 AM (XEC2p)

442 321

my office is in Auburn Hills; sounds like we're in the same business

I have to take a two week furlough starting Monday, otherwise I'd be working from home as well

Posted by: AltonJackson
Impeach Whitmer!!!
Because: Reasons!!!
at April 11, 2020 08:31 AM

Sorry to hear about the furlough, AltonJackson. If you need help with applying for unemployment insurance, Rep. Matt Maddock has been doing a lot through his Fb page and his office to help people, since he realizes the website and call-in for unemployment is jacked.

Every contract person in our office was furloughed the first week of the 'stay-at-home' order. So since the week of 03/16/20 I think. I've been keeping in touch with my friends to see if they need anything. Passing along info from our weekly staff meetings and meetings with management on status updates. Basically all they are saying is to ask people to keep in touch with their contract houses as the company will be going through them to bring people back when the time comes to open the office again.

Which will hopefully be after this current 'stay-at-home' order ending 04/30/20.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2020 09:03 AM (Do5/p)

443 There are only people with a will to power, certain of their own cause." is absurd
Posted by: Eeyore at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (ZbwAu)

Not in the least absurd. Preponderant evidence shows it to be more the case than not, and that a so-called crisis exposes the efflorescence of the will to power. And the Founders were a long time ago, another era, another world of values.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 11, 2020 09:04 AM (H8QX8)

444 The Assassination Bureau

*Diana Rigg*
Posted by: Miklos has his personal favorites at April 11, 2020 08:46 AM (QzkSJ)
---
Another upvote for Assassination Bureau. Oliver Reed, Telly Savalas, zeppelins, mayhem. Fun movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 11, 2020 09:06 AM (Dc2NZ)

445 Trump had to overrespond with supplies, IMO. And why trust Fauci who said "no big deal" at first then wanted to institute shut downs.

At this point I favor opening up everything with masks. If NYC can keep mass transit and let their people travel the country, fuck this isolation crap.

Why can Whitmer say "no going to the lake house" while NY cannot possibly be quarantined?

Posted by: CN at April 11, 2020 09:06 AM (ONvIw)

446 Bonus option is thieves don't even know how to drive them anymore so you don't have to worry about them getting stolen.
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2020 09:02 AM (sGobE)

I only drive manual. I bought a new Forester in 2018 with manual. I was surprised they offered it.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 11, 2020 09:06 AM (H8QX8)

447 >Wow...I'm thinking zero percent survival chances if he wrecks it at that speed.

motorcycles can be unforgiving. One mistake at speed and you're in a world of shite

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 11, 2020 09:06 AM (iTXRQ)

448 NaCly Dog,

You seem to be taking my first port on you personally.

If you read it again you will see that I would vote for you.

Opinionated/know it all is in part president Trump.

Why wouldn't I vote for that?

Posted by: Drider at April 11, 2020 09:06 AM (R/UH9)

449 I thought this past week was supposed to be the peak of doom and gloom, why do I keep seeing people say that it's still coming? I saw a post about WA state and one about the literal center of PA.

#twoweeks

Posted by: Roxanne, Roxanne at April 11, 2020 09:09 AM (xU7mE)

450 Drider

Could be. We(the good guys) are under assault here in Kansas. It is a big tell. So I can be a bit touchy.

I'm over it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2020 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

451
If only Governor Whitmer knew about the potholes, I'm sure she'd do something.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 11, 2020 09:00 AM

If only she had a 45 cent per gallon incremental gas tax, mayhaps she could have someone think about it for a minute

Posted by: AltonJackson
Impeach Whitmer!!!
Because: Reasons!!!
at April 11, 2020 09:10 AM (MIuvZ)

452 I don't even wonder about the LEOs; we always said that when SHTF, they would care more about their pensions than their oaths.

It's really enough to make me want to go back to bed and pray never to wake up again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 11, 2020 07:05 AM (2JVJo)

"You know the score,pal. If you're not a cop, you're little people!"

Posted by: The Federal Reserve at April 11, 2020 09:14 AM (w+Ped)

453 I just got an email from the US Consulate in China. Apparently due to the Kung Flu bars and restaurants are not serving African Americans in CHina. Also African Americans have to self quarantine for 14 days and be tested regardless of travel history.

I'd post the email here but I'm afraid I'd blow the margins. Is there an email at AoSHq I can send this too?

Now you can bet the US press , those suckers of tiny little Chinese ding dongs and lickers of commie bungholes will not utter one word of this.

Can you imagine the non stop hysteria from the Presstitutes if Trump did this?

Posted by: The Walking Dude at April 11, 2020 09:37 AM (cCxiu)

454 I see a lot of the festival mindset in all this. The 2020 face mask is cousin to the 1984 leg warmers. People want to be a part of some big, dramatic and exciting thing, want to believe their small mite is important.
Also, it may be that after three-plus years of unrelenting political street fighting, Americans are weary of being angry and suspicious toward one another and are drawn to something, anything, that they can get together over.

Posted by: jbspry at April 11, 2020 09:38 AM (8V4Sv)

455 Late to the party but just found out that PA State Police ticketed a 19 year old woman from York, PA back on 4/5 for "leisure driving" which is apparently now illegal thanks to the Governor. Violation carries up to $200.00 fine. :-/
Link to article:https://preview.tinyurl.com/swcdvcu

Posted by: jollyr at April 11, 2020 09:42 AM (nZd6B)

456 284 Karen needs a good, hard, vigorous dicking.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 11, 2020 08:20 AM (NWiLs)

Any woman that does a Karen spends a night in the Otter Box!

Posted by: Boss at April 11, 2020 10:00 AM (di1hb)

457 thought this past week was supposed to be the peak of doom and gloom, why do I keep seeing people say that it's still coming? I saw a post about WA state and one about the literal center of PA.

#twoweeks

I am in Georgia. I have been following the IMHE map since 3/30. All along the Peak date was between 4/19 & 4/21. Now it has moved to 4/27 with 94 deaths being the magic number.

Posted by: Marlene at April 11, 2020 10:22 AM (mpzK0)

458 Nonsense. This "genie" has been let out of the bottle in times of emergency numerous times in our history, most recently during WWII, and was not only put back in the bottle, but put back so assertively as to bring about an economic surge that has kept America on top to this day.

Posted by: csmats at April 11, 2020 10:57 AM (yKiwk)

459 After tomorrow, if Trump doesn't mention anything about going back to work within a week, I'm done with him. He will have become part of the problem. Right now he seems to have accepted weakness.

Posted by: Sooner at April 11, 2020 11:15 AM (Fs5vw)

460 458. Not nonsense. For a more relevant example, look at the alphabet soup leviathan established during the Great Depression. Arguably made the economic condition worse, and is strangling us now, and will never die. This chinese flu response will be more like that.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 11, 2020 11:33 AM (b8FlO)

461 Just a theory:

Is "Corona Crisis = Economic Collapse" what happens when a watershed number of formerly sentient beings, frustrated/depressed beyond belief and infected with TDS-Climate Extinction-27Genders grab control of the narrative and take their malicious revenge on 3 years of Winning Winning Winning?

Posted by: MarjBaldwin at April 11, 2020 01:24 PM (H5Sbo)

462 Re PDT: losing faith in him is precisely what the Enemies of the People are trying to make us do. Don't fall for it. Yes, his current defensive pose is most uncharacteristic, but he knows what the Left intends better than any leader since Reagan, and now is absolutely not the time to weaken the MAGA base. The MSM orgasms every time they succeed in casting doubt on PDT's strategy... what we see with the "Corona Crisis" is not what is actually happening in the war rooms...

Posted by: MarjBaldwin at April 11, 2020 01:33 PM (H5Sbo)

463 America will get back to work before too much longer. When it does - and Durham starts dropping indictments - all the power-hungry pols and bureaucrats will be exposed as close cousins to the FBI/CIA/alphabet agency fascists. It's coming and it's going to be a VERY bad time for would-be tin pot dictators. When it is all over with, the Dem party will be dead for a generation.

If I'm wrong, you'll probably never know because this is post #462+ and nobody is going to see it...

Posted by: Lawrence L at April 11, 2020 02:24 PM (Uu7xZ)

464 I disagree. I think this has been the BitchSlap of All Time (BOAT), and will awaken the sleeping citizen that lies in the heart of every American.

We've been confronted with the Arrogant Elite, and their Minions, who believe that our only functions are:
- To serve their every whim
- To turn over all our money, and be grateful for the crumbs that they return to us
- To obey every rule they choose to impose on us

All of us - even those that formerly thought themselves exempt (and, because the whip did not descend upon them, thought us churlish to complain). Expect that a lot of people will be asking inconvenient questions this election year.

Posted by: Linda Fox at April 12, 2020 08:35 AM (3uqJZ)

465 463
If I'm wrong, you'll probably never know because this is post #462+ and nobody is going to see it...

I saw it! I hope and pray that you are correct!!!
I go between hope and despair a bunch of times daily. I go from Trust Trump to "they" are too strong for even Trump.

Posted by: Marlene at April 12, 2020 09:51 AM (JoORJ)

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