The Cost Of Freedom

The political philosophy of the founders was not predicated on overarching government. It was not based on some communitarian concept of shared responsibility and equal distribution of the fruits of our labor.

It was based on personal responsibility, the idea that we will rise or fall based on our own accomplishments and hard work. And the reason why we have been the most successful country in the history of the world is that the freedom and liberty once guaranteed by the Constitution enabled us to work harder and accomplish more.

And fail and die. But the stunning and unprecedented success of the country as a whole was accelerated by that uncertainty. You can call it chaos or disorder or a dozen other words, but it is an unavoidable result of freedom. We have to accept a degree of uncontrolled behavior and unexpected and sometimes dangerous events because we are (or were) a free people, who act in wildly different ways...in their own best interests.

Do you want to decrease crime? That's easy. Violate our civil rights, gut the Constitution, search and seize at will, create a police state, and poof! Our crime rate will drop. Want to decrease automobile deaths? Just as easy! Put governors on every car, have real-time transmission of driving behavior that goes straight to the cops. Then the recalcitrant driver either gets fined or jailed. No trial.

Extrapolate that to diet and exercise and littering and medical care and the thousands of things we do because we want to, and others be damned, and our society will be calm and ordered and a total and dismal failure.

Destroying the economic security and success of millions of Americans to prevent a marginal increase in the death rate from seasonal disease is functionally identical to creating such a police state.

Time to Sideline the False Prophets of Doom

The warning from the nation’s top public health official was terrifying.
“This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized,” U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on Fox News last Sunday, referring to coming deaths due to the novel coronavirus. “It’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that.”
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Holy Week, Adams further cautioned, would be the “hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives.”
President Trump echoed Adams’ dire prediction. “We are coming up onto a time that’s going to be very horrendous, probably a time like we haven’t seen in this country,” Trump said from the White House on April 4. Instead of celebrating Easter and Passover this week, the president soberly admonished, Americans would instead see “some very bad numbers” about people succumbing to COVID-19.

We are a free people, and one of the trade-offs is that we must accept more uncertainty and chaos in return for that freedom. We cannot allow government to destroy our freedoms to save us from their convenient bogeymen*. This year it is Chinese Flu, next year it will be gun violence, the year after will be GMOs in our cereal, and on and on and on.

It is time to take back some modicum of control over our own lives. When government feels emboldened to tell us not worship as we see fit, not to associate with those whom we desire, not to go where we wish, then it is time to push back.

*We have always been at war with Eastasia. We have always been allies of Eurasia.

Posted by: CBD at 12:15 PM

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1 First?

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:16 PM (UUBmN)

2 An Easter first!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:16 PM (UUBmN)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:16 PM (UUBmN)

4 Now, to wait

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:17 PM (UUBmN)

5 Amen.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:17 PM (NWiLs)

6 1984 was not a guide book.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:18 PM (UUBmN)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at April 12, 2020 12:18 PM (IDViP)

8 Seems to much for the vast public

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2020 12:18 PM (ZCEU2)

9 Disappointed with Trump in this instance. It was not necessary to say what he said, and it's already proving to be wrong. This is a time to calm fears, not inflame them.

Posted by: Caliban at April 12, 2020 12:19 PM (QE8X6)

10 I just looked up at my ceiling fan in my family room... I really need to hire a cleaning crew...yikes!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:20 PM (UUBmN)

11 Doom mongering.....should be a tv show....or "news".

Posted by: BignJames at April 12, 2020 12:20 PM (X/Pw5)

12 As I wrote in a thread last night - we pay taxes for police, fire, parks, schools, etc - NOT to be locked in our houses in a police state.

Come November vote EVERY ONE of these despots out - EVERY.SINGLE.ONE!

This lock down is too dangerous to our civil liberties to allow to go unchallenged.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at April 12, 2020 12:21 PM (FnwlK)

13 "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

-Robert A. Heinlein

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at April 12, 2020 12:21 PM (dB+c3)

14 Hi lin-duh!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:23 PM (NWiLs)

15 Hope lots of opposition candidates use this lockdown

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2020 12:23 PM (ZCEU2)

16 Happy Easter everyone! And remember that this whole flattening the curve nonsense was just to spare the health-care people from being overwhelmed. It doesn't even reduce the eventual death toll so we are going through all of this for nothing. But it's our fault if we don't rise up and smite them and let them know at the top of our lungs that we are so over this and we are not going to take it anymore. Of time for some civil disobedience!

Posted by: Beverly at April 12, 2020 12:23 PM (+Wp0a)

17 Hey, insomniac!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 12:23 PM (UUBmN)

18 In my neck of the NJ woods, I'm beginning to see signs of civil disobedience. A barricade to the local park was destroyed and a supermarket refused to continue with making people wait outside. It also refused to act like a bunch of Karens about masks.

I know two more people recovering from wuflu, a 30ish pair from Philly. No meds, no complications, no pre-existing health issues.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:23 PM (ONvIw)

19 We have a saying out here when things are going bad --- "downhill faster than a pig on roller skates". I doubt we will getting many of our diminished freedoms back. Once the politicians have seized this level of control they will not give it back. I thought at 70 years old I'd be gone before the USA died. Missed it by that much.

Posted by: oldgeezer at April 12, 2020 12:24 PM (Wb5vb)

20 I tend to agree this is not the time for Trump to be in 'Yuge!' mode.

For a number of reasons I suspect this thing will mostly peak this week.

Posted by: JEM at April 12, 2020 12:25 PM (8erNz)

21 Well put, and I have noted before, sometimes to criticism, that chaos is essential to life.

If you achieved absolute order, you'd have a system where nothing even moved - there would be no uncertainty of any kind. Everything would be as it is forever.

Too much chaos, and everything flies apart at the speed of light, every atom zipping across the universe untethered from any other. That's also not exactly conducive to life either, but at least another Big Bang might create life again, somewhere, somehow.

Life is found in the balance of these extremes, casually violating entropy by making itself more complex over time, yet stumbling forward into new environments and even now taking its first baby steps into the vastness of space.

A little too much chaos is better than too much order. Jefferson was right, the ills that attend too much liberty are preferable to those that attend too little.

When you stifle a society's creative spark, through onerous rules, regulations, and taxes, it dies. Stagnation follows, and ultimately complete failure.

These people have an unhealthy obsession with order, which is itself an unhealthy level of pride, as they imagine this order emanating from themselves or their clique, that they are the ones who can level out what the human condition has made crooked.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:25 PM (O4K4J)

22 Unfortunately, we were already in a police and surveillance state, just not one to this blatant a degree. The Fourth and Fifth Amendments have been under attack and greatly eroded as part of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. The Second has been under attack since the 1930s, and we're seeing outright cancellation of both the First and Second by local and state authorities.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:26 PM (NWiLs)

23 I get to beg my gastroenterologist for antibiotics via the phone tomorrow. The rheumatologist said she can only treat me with Humira. Freedom!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 12, 2020 12:26 PM (vGJY7)

24 Many truths in what CBD has chosen to put to words.

The only way to remove uncertainty is to grant absolute authority to our leaders.

Yet if one seeks to remove uncertainty, one removes hope.

And without hope.....we wither and die as a nation, a people, and as individuals.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:27 PM (/bu8g)

25 The Left is already viewing this as a rehearsal for future societal controls under the Green New Deal.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (I2/tG)

26 It troubles me that the stupidest demographic in society (the media) has been allowed to drive this panic.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (Uu+Jp)

27 Here in Orange County signs appeared in a local park saying amenities closed. Park was full of people and the signs were mostly gone the next day.

This cannot stand. When a wild animal tastes human blood you PUT IT DOWN for the safety of the community. Our "leaders" have tasted DESPOTISM. This won't be the last time unless we make them pay for it in November in the voting booth.

Vote them out - EVERY.SINGLE.ONE!

Now....where's my pants...?

Have a blessed Easter everyone. Today is a day of hope and renewal.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (FnwlK)

28 When you're right, you're right. And you're right.

Posted by: Ass Chum at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (q1SZO)

29 The only way to remove uncertainty is to grant absolute authority to our leaders.

I thought that was the way to increase uncertainty!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (vGJY7)

30 Personal Responsibility.

Pretty much sums it up right there.

And all the Karens who worry about this, that and the other thing need to learn what MYOB means the hard way.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (Z+IKu)

31 I have been very very disappointed in the doomsayer rhetoric coming out of the White House and their 'experts'.

We've painted ourselves into a corner .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 12:29 PM (2DOZq)

32

I am not a number. I am a free man.

Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink.

Posted by: Meme crosser at April 12, 2020 12:29 PM (aKsyK)

33 A barricade to the local park was destroyed and a supermarket refused to continue with making people wait outside.

People have also destroyed barricades in the Columbia River Gorge, a popular recreational spot outside of Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:29 PM (I2/tG)

34 29 The only way to remove uncertainty is to grant absolute authority to our leaders.

I thought that was the way to increase uncertainty!
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 12, 2020 12:28 PM (vGJY7)

Now I'm totally unsure.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:30 PM (NWiLs)

35 Hit the store early to beat any crowd or stand in a long line.
The 6 foot force field is getting ridiculous, letting some one pass with 6 feet clearance.

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2020 12:30 PM (ZCEU2)

36 Well said CBD.

As I've stated before, Americans are willing to tolerate a heck of a lot when properly led and informed. This virus thing is no different.
But...
The media and those inside the Beltway have burned through a lot of good will and trust in the last few years. It reminds me of the most important phrase I learned in college..."Bullshit."
And I'm calling Bullshit on this.
I want my Liberty back!
I'll play along until the first of May.
After that, I'm taking it back.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:30 PM (axyOa)

37 1 death from the virus in our county of 155,000.

Posted by: freaked at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (Tnijr)

38 In my neck of the NJ woods, I'm beginning to see
signs of civil disobedience. A barricade to the local park was destroyed
and a supermarket refused to continue with making people wait outside.
It also refused to act like a bunch of Karens about masks.

I know two more people recovering from wuflu, a 30ish pair from
Philly. No meds, no complications, no pre-existing health issues.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:23 PM (ONvIw)

In my area of jersey people to seemed to give governor shitstain the finger a while back. They closed the park down the street, so the locals are using it for dirt bikes and quads. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (9Om/r)

39 32

I am not a number. I am a free man.

Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
Posted by: Meme crosser at April 12, 2020 12:29 PM (aKsyK)

The Moody Prisoner

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (NWiLs)

40 Welcome to Oregon, where it is perfectly legal to hand someone a baggie of joints at a pot store, but where offering communion is illegal.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (I2/tG)

41 I like that Heinlein quote, but if I ignore a law I find obnoxious, I'll go to jail. If the left ignores a law, they do not go to jail. We're kinda already living under a leftist tyranny because of that, two sets of laws. Heck, so-called sanctuary cities are already in a state of open rebellion and our betters don't blink an eye.

Posted by: Blutarski at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (VNfwt)

42 In my area of jersey people to seemed to give governor shitstain the finger a while back. They closed the park down the street, so the locals are using it for dirt bikes and quads. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (9Om/r)

And I have not heard of any police involvement since the huge party in Ewing, NJ. My neighbors had a multifamily soiree without incident. Mask up the nursing homes, have the compromised isolate and wear them until this is over, take the bans of prescribers.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:34 PM (ONvIw)

43 There are many ways to categorize people.

"There are two kinds of people; those who divide the world into two kinds of people, or those who do not."

In this country it breaks down into two antithetical conceptions:

Diversity Is Our Strength
vs.
E Pluribus Unum

The first is the creed of Democrats, the second is that of Americans.

Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at April 12, 2020 12:34 PM (d6mdH)

44 Just listened to ABC morning program and I'm told things are bad, every very bad, grim, pil s of bodies everywhere.. And heroic medical workers and policemen and govt workers. Plus racism and inequality is making the death rates worse in certain communities of color, who also suffer worse form the comic shut down BTW, and the rich are just escaping in their yachts and mansions while the plague wipes out the masses, especial the poor dark ones. Oh, and don't forget, We Are All In This Together!

More than half what I read about this pandemonium has a lot less to do with the medical aspects of this and the focus is now racism and inequality. And how this can be used to address global warming and need for universal healthcare . And free day care and.... The narrative is being set in place and will now be hammered home endlessly.

It is making me sick watching this, although not unexpected. We will be suffering form this virus shutdown for years., it will be like trying to get rid of Obamacare. The left has not let this crisis go to waste.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2020 12:34 PM (MxEKc)

45 I gotta give props to the Judge in that western Kentucky case, ruling in favor of the church.

Very worth reading.

https://bit.ly/2V0PWuk

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (/bu8g)

46 I guess I have to say that I am disappointed and a bit embarrassed about how we as a country reacted to this. I do think there were lessons learned but overall, I feel we flunked the "test". Just my opinion and most likely not a popular one.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (EgshT)

47 I'm sickened that Trump said that. I honestly haven't been watching the briefings because they had become monotonous and dispiriting.

This must end. But I don't know how if Trump has been seemingly co-opted by the all the little people and "experts" around him.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (H8QX8)

48 My urge to fuck something up is almost uncontrollable.

Posted by: Ass Chum at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (q1SZO)

49 Fortunately, federalism is our friend here.

It will be hard to keep the serfs in the blue states quiescent under lockdown, as the red states start opening up again.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (I2/tG)

50 I do think there were lessons learned but overall, I feel we flunked the "test". Just my opinion and most likely not a popular one.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (EgshT)

I share the judgment.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (H8QX8)

51 I experienced my first IRL 'rona scaredy cat yesterday. It was a 40 something man at a trailhead. I was walking towards his vehicle cuz he couldn't hear the answer to the Q he had asked and he threw his hand up in the stop signal while I as 20-25 feet away.

Lots of folks were enjoying the sunshine and with the 'rona folks got extra off the trail to let the horses pass and some turned away from the trail. Lot of folks were like me, wearing a mask or bandana loose on neck and putting it over face only when approaching others.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (K78+l)

52 The next time people might not be so anxious to throw away a month or two of their lives.

Posted by: The boy who cried flu at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (Tnijr)

53 45 I gotta give props to the Judge in that western Kentucky case, ruling in favor of the church.

Very worth reading.

https://bit.ly/2V0PWuk
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (/bu8g)

It's quite a smackdown. My only criticism is the judge gives the mayor way too much benefit of the doubt. I don't think his motives are well-intentioned in the slightest. And of course, the ever cucktastic David French thinks it's all "a bit much."

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (NWiLs)

54 [oi]It was not based on some communitarian concept of shared responsibility and equal distribution of the fruits of our labor.

***********

One of the great ironies of this whole experience is that the biggest advocates of the "we're all in this together" noise also seem to be the ones who can't stop screeching on Twitter Facebook, NextDoor and at the checkout stand at Safeway about their own individual beliefs, myths, experience and travails. "It's all about MEEEE!" "You're not wearing a mask, you're endangering MEEEE!" etc. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me!!!

It's as if they don't really believe in communal thinking unless they are the center of focus of the community.

Traditionally in this country "the squeaky wheel gets the grease, a reward. Perhaps the Japanese corellary to that, which goes "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" might be used to some good effect instead.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (m45I2)

55 Just my opinion and most likely not a popular one.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (EgshT)

Well, you and I can be unpopular together. I agree with you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (dLLD6)

56 The only silver lining I see in this mess is identifying those innocuous products that are actually essential to our national security and well being. I don't know exactly how we are going to bring back domestic manufacturing but it has to be done. Either the government has to provide an incentive or a contingency plan to be able to start up manufacturing of these products in an expedited manner.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (2DOZq)

57 Thanks for the NOOD, lin-duh.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 12:38 PM (XxJt1)

58 " My only criticism is the judge gives the mayor way too much benefit of the doubt"

I prefer to think that he was slapping the Mayor with a velvet glove.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:38 PM (/bu8g)

59 Home is the hunter! Made a daring daylight raid on the local Dollar General, and scored a 12-pack of TP and two tins of devilled ham, and two packs of ramen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 12:38 PM (miJU3)

60

Citizens! Friend Computer is disappointed in your selfish efforts to fulfill your shallow and superficial needs! You have not worked for the best interests of The Collective!. Friend Computer expects each of you to do your duty and comply with all of Friend Computer's required requests in these difficult times!

As such, all of Citizens must be reduced in Grade to Basic Sustenance Level! Good news though, your kibble allowance has been increased from 750 grams to 500 grams daily!

Also, it will be necessary to reduce the burden on Citizenship on Society. Disintegration booths will be established in every neighborhood. It is required for 10% of you to voluntarily self vaporize. Alternatively, after logging into the booth you may have another Citizen take your place.

Thank You for Your Cooperation, and remember, Anything not Permitted is Forbidden!

Posted by: Friend Computer at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (d6DSt)

61 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
"May you live in interesting times." - ancient Chinese curse.
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." - Thomas Paine
Volcano erupts, a plague of locusts attacks Africa, and the Wuhan flu has too many people quaking in their shoes. Just remember: Christ the Lord is risen today! Hallelujah. Death is not the end. -- BJ54

Posted by: BJ54 at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (EKrU1)

62 The next time people might not be so anxious to throw away a month or two of their lives.

*snort. I wish.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (dUJdY)

63 We are quarantined in an RV park in rural Florida. The nearest town in 45 minutes away. We have had one case of Kung flu in the entire county and the person recovered. The RV park told everyone yesterday to wear a mask if you were outside the vehicle. Not one mask is being worn and no one is planning on wearing one. We are still having our campfires with all of the neighbors, visiting everyone without social distancing, having kayaking parties. We are all sick of this

Posted by: megthered at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (/weA8)

64 imo we need a strong federal government, to do the things specified in the constitution. Military is most obvious, but as society advanced, so did the various ways that BigPowers would organize against individual sovereignty (and national sovereignty).

So we are well served by food safety, until they start pushing a bad diet on us. And worse when China bribes their way in and sells us drugged up fish/shrimp, and knocks out American farmed fish or whatever.

We are well served by local bankers (even with the 10% cash reserve, imo), but as the conglomerates go global and own our congress, and set up the IMF and BiS ... suddenly un-elected globalists and making and breaking nation states, playing a shadow government role.

The federal reserve is necessary, imo, but not when it has been corrupted to serve the elites, and to enable us to fund "socialism". Our current highly socialist system is carried by unlimited debt, on the back of the good faith and credit (and military), which strength we all sacrificed for, but that others have infiltrated and seized.

this whole interview is good, but I cued it to the point where DiMartino (former fed person) shows the fed is not privately owned, and has a necessary purpose (e.g. protect us from the frauds of China), but it has been corrupted indeed.

https://youtu.be/jsV_YXq-1x4?t=4259

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (Cus5s)

65 "Well, you and I can be unpopular together. I agree with you."

I stand too with Notorious BFD..

And that Dildo guy.

*Six foot apart, of course*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:40 PM (/bu8g)

66
Welcome to Oregon, where it is perfectly legal to hand someone a baggie of joints at a pot store, but where offering communion is illegal.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

A bag of pot is their communion.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 12:40 PM (aKsyK)

67 55 Just my opinion and most likely not a popular one.

Posted by: Notorious BFD

Well, you and I can be unpopular together. I agree with you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

---

Gentlemen, please!

Newsletter details if you would be so kind!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (Y4EXg)

68 Traditionally in this country "the squeaky wheel gets the grease, a reward. Perhaps the Japanese corellary to that, which goes "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" might be used to some good effect instead.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM

I am going to use that at least a dozen time in the next couple of days.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (axyOa)

69 Well got another visit from the TAB yesterday at our VFW. We were stripping the paint off the floor in the hall and they showed up this time in person instead of calling like they did last time.

They said they have to keep checking on us because they keep getting numerous calls that we are open and selling beer.

They did let it slip that it was a female caller and we have a 99.99% confidence rate that we know who it is. She has had a beef with us for years and will continue to call us in if she sees cars in the back. She has said openly that she wants us to lose our liquor license.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (JUOKG)

70 Just listened to ABC morning program and I'm told things are bad, every very bad, grim, pil s of bodies everywhere.

Interesting story on Portland Reddit - a couple of Portland nurses signed a 13-week contract to go to New York to fight the CCP virus, and plunked down a big deposit on an AirBnB apartment to to have a place to live.

Then, their contract got cancelled, since there was no need for them, and they are having problems getting the apartment deposit back.

Why doesn't New York need nurses, when it is digging mass graves and all?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (I2/tG)

71 Come November vote EVERY ONE of these despots out - EVERY.SINGLE.ONE!

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at April 12, 2020 12:21 PM (FnwlK)

Entertain me.

What if that's not possible, which is what I contend.

Posted by: Not Voting Our Way Out Of This at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (odrqb)

72 I guess I have to say that I am disappointed and a bit embarrassed about how we as a country reacted to this.

Maybe 8 years of Obama desensitized us to tyranny rather than strengthened our resolve against it.

The Constitution is only viable when those it applies to have a common purpose.

As it exists today, it is a cudgel for the Left to beat us with and a straitjacket for a law-abiding, moral citizen.

Don't know how you fix that.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (3z0gk)

73 56 The only silver lining I see in this mess is identifying those innocuous products that are actually essential to our national security and well being. I don't know exactly how we are going to bring back domestic manufacturing but it has to be done.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 12:36 PM (2DOZq)
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We do the same as we do with defense. Mandate by law that the entire Medicare Pharmacy list be manufactured in the USA - including the ingredients used to make the drugs.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy In Ca at April 12, 2020 12:42 PM (FnwlK)

74 46 I guess I have to say that I am disappointed and a bit embarrassed about how we as a country reacted to this. I do think there were lessons learned but overall, I feel we flunked the "test". Just my opinion and most likely not a popular one.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (EgshT)

The job should have been to isolate and protect the vulnerable, not to equally share the misery so no one was left out. Lots of people get very sick every year from complications of viral illness, but we don't throw the brakes on everyone.

The govt should have come up with a way to do that. We didn't shut down for Hong Kong flu and we had fewer weapons in the arsenal then. We had 100,000 fatalities from it.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:42 PM (ONvIw)

75 Doom mongering.....should be a tv show....or "news".
Posted by: BignJames at April 12, 2020 12:20 PM (X/Pw5)

Prophets of doom are always wrong. The proof of that? We are here, aren't we?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 12:42 PM (miJU3)

76 Newsletter details if you would be so kind!

I don't care about that BFD guy but I would certainly subscribe to Mr. Dildo's newsletter.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 12, 2020 12:42 PM (EgshT)

77 They did let it slip that it was a female caller and we have a 99.99% confidence rate that we know who it is. She has had a beef with us for years and will continue to call us in if she sees cars in the back. She has said openly that she wants us to lose our liquor license.
Posted by: Mr. Scott

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If would be a damned shame if *~~redacted~~*. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2020 12:43 PM (Y4EXg)

78 " we have a 99.99% confidence rate that we know who it is"

It's Karen....isn't it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (/bu8g)

79 Why doesn't New York need nurses, when it is digging mass graves and all?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM

Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

80 ""The Constitution is only viable when those it applies to have a common purpose.

As it exists today, it is a cudgel for the Left to beat us with and a straitjacket for a law-abiding, moral citizen.

Don't know how you fix that. ''

Lining the streets with rows of the impaled and a forest filled with iron cage wind chimes is a pretty good fix.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (9Om/r)

81 Hi Karen...what are you wearing?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 12:45 PM (WUctj)

82 earlier on Bleats the Press, upchuck Todd was implying that antibody tests ould be unreliable and therefore dangerous..

I take this to mean they will be the new hydroxy chloroquine

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 12, 2020 12:46 PM (G546f)

83 The Constitution is only viable when those it applies to have a common purpose.

As it exists today, it is a cudgel for the Left to beat us with and a straitjacket for a law-abiding, moral citizen.

Don't know how you fix that.

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Suspend it long enough to Build the Danged Canal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 12:46 PM (hDNne)

84 Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

There have been a lot of completely political messages. As Dr Raoult said "some people have lost their minds"

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:46 PM (ONvIw)

85 79 Why doesn't New York need nurses, when it is digging mass graves and all?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM

Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

Of course. Especially since digging graves out in that potter's field is apparently a routine occurrence from well before the Kung Flu.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:47 PM (NWiLs)

86 earlier on Bleats the Press, upchuck Todd was implying that antibody tests ould be unreliable and therefore dangerous..

Did they congratulate him on his scientific incite?

Posted by: db at April 12, 2020 12:47 PM (Gh3mF)

87 People have also destroyed barricades in the Columbia River Gorge, a popular recreational spot outside of Portland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:29 PM (I2/tG)

There needs to be more of that. And don't just knock them down. Destroy them completely.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 12:47 PM (miJU3)

88 Has the ration of chocolate been increased from 30 grams to 20 gram yet?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (JFO2v)

89 66 Welcome to Oregon, where it is perfectly legal to hand someone a baggie of joints at a pot store, but where offering communion is illegal.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

A bag of pot is their communion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

We have a nice revenue stream from marijuana sales. Communion? Not so much, but I and friends of mine are working on that.

Posted by: Gov Jay Inslee at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (0MwqT)

90 In Michigan, when our Bruce Jenner look alike governor closed the golf courses (among every other thing people derive pleasure from) our attorney general explained she does not want anymore complaints from white people who want to golf while our black neighbors are dying from corona!

Posted by: Chillin the most at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (lonOK)

91 I find it refreshing that the Governor of S.C. had directed the closing of sporting good stores.

UNLESS....they sell firearms.

Those....can remain open.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (/bu8g)

92 88 Has the ration of chocolate been increased from 30 grams to 20 gram yet?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (JFO2v)

Sure has. Let's celebrate!

*pours tin cup of Victory gin*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (NWiLs)

93 82 earlier on Bleats the Press, upchuck Todd was implying that antibody tests ould be unreliable and therefore dangerous..

I take this to mean they will be the new hydroxy chloroquine
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 12, 2020 12:46 PM (G546f)

But he's stupid and driven entirely by a political agenda, why would he think his opinion should bear any weight?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (Uu+Jp)

94 The NYC mass graves is a complete myth and even lefty sites have debunked it. NYC has a 'potters field' where unclaimed bodies are buried. Some of the 'rona deaths are those folks with no family or wills specifying and paying for burial/cremation arrangements so they are getting buried there.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (K78+l)

95 90 In Michigan, when our Bruce Jenner look alike governor closed the golf courses (among every other thing people derive pleasure from) our attorney general explained she does not want anymore complaints from white people who want to golf while our black neighbors are dying from corona!
Posted by: Chillin the most at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (lonOK)

This is absurd.

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

96 86 earlier on Bleats the Press, upchuck Todd was implying that antibody tests ould be unreliable and therefore dangerous..

Did they congratulate him on his scientific incite?
Posted by: db at April 12, 2020 12:47 PM (Gh3mF)

Says who, chuckles?

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

97 I read about the Hart Island potter's field years ago. Work details from Rikers bury NYC's destitute there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 12:49 PM (hDNne)

98 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM (5bxa0)

99 she does not want anymore complaints from white people who want to golf while our black neighbors are dying from corona!

Hey look. Actual racism.
Surprise!

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM (3z0gk)

100 If the last vestiges of MSM credibility are among the virus deaths I, for one, would not mourn.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM (Uu+Jp)

101 Trump bought their 'model'. Meh.

'Model' is so much more impressive and advanced than reading the entails of some critter they disemboweled on the Desk Resolute.

What is interesting is that all the graphics fit for publishing on national news the shape is always the familiar old bell curve. No matter how many wheels, gears, bells, and whistles are inside the black box, it shits out a bell curve.

Turn this knob and you can make it steeper, move this lever and stretch it out, and this dial stretches out the tail. And with this cog you can adjust the 'start' time, but we just leave it at zero.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 12, 2020 12:51 PM (1g7ch)

102 98 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved
Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM (5bxa0)

He's a partisan asshole. So is Debbie scarfhead

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:51 PM (ONvIw)

103 40 Welcome to Oregon, where it is perfectly legal to hand someone a baggie of joints at a pot store, but where offering communion is illegal.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:31 PM (I2/tG)
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If this doesn't go to court, what will?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 12:51 PM (M/9m0)

104 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved
No way.

(click on my nick - a picture is worth 1000 words.)

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 12:51 PM (3z0gk)

105
Here Comes Peter Covid-tail

Here comes Peter Covid-tail
Hoppin' down the virus trail
Coughity coughin', Wu Flu's on its way

Bringin' every girl and boy
Symptoms that they won't enjoy
Things to make your lockdown sad and grey

He's got pneumonia for Tommy
Soaring temps for sister Sue
There's are lilies for your mommy
And a free cremation too

Oh! here comes Peter Covid-tail
Makin' our economy fail
Sniffity coughity, hope you're all Okay!

Posted by: db at April 12, 2020 12:51 PM (Gh3mF)

106 ARC,

Did the locals destroy the barriers or tourists from Portland? The Gorge used to be a take no shit kinda place but too many city people there now. (Klickitat county excepted)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 12, 2020 12:52 PM (Lqy/e)

107 Its a sad sign of the times that we can't even get the Soviet ration increased meme correct. IIRC it was 'good news comrades the chocolate ration has been increased from 20 grams per day to 100 grams per week' and relying on folks not doing math quickly enough in their heads to realize this was a reduction.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 12, 2020 12:52 PM (K78+l)

108 Not once have heard how outside in air you can get the Covid-19 germ. Those germs are not just floating along in the air waitijng to be breathed in.

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2020 12:52 PM (ZCEU2)

109 Observed a Karen and township cop interacting yesterday at the park. Couldn't hear the details but what went down was obvious - the cop heard Karen out, executed a heavy sigh and eye roll, drove to where the group of kids were, got out of her cruiser, spoke to the boys a few minutes and was given the basketball. The cop dribbled to the 3 point line and started to fire them in.

She played center for both sides.

She was crushing it.
Screw you governor.

My big concern when this is all over is that the ignorant will remain, this time, willfully ignorant. Also, I'd wager any data collected will be so jacked up that it will be possible that everyone will be able to make whatever they want out of the numbers.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (Y4EXg)

110 Beautifully and accurately stated introduction!

And fuck a bunch of angry yard-moms declaring EVERY goddam thing illegal and promoting instant reporting to "de ah-tor-ah-tees". Pisshead sacks of shit every one of them.

One of the morons here stated: "Geo. Wash. would be stacking bodies by now" and he was completely correct.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (AsjQP)

111 Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

There have been a lot of completely political messages. As Dr Raoult said "some people have lost their minds"
Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:46 PM (ONvIw)

I took it as a letter of intent. They want people to die.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (O4K4J)

112 This is absurd.

Of course it is but that never stopped these agitators before. I agree with some others here that this will be the new narrative. As we've come to expect, the race and inequality cards are played reflexively by these miscreants, no matter what the underlying truth might be.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (EgshT)

113 92 88 Has the ration of chocolate been increased from 30 grams to 20 gram yet?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (JFO2v)

Sure has. Let's celebrate!

*pours tin cup of Victory gin*
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (NWiLs)

I got one the pair of 400,000 boots produced last month vs. the original estimate of 300,000 pairs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (JFO2v)

114 They did let it slip that it was a female caller and we have a 99.99% confidence rate that we know who it is. She has had a beef with us for years and will continue to call us in if she sees cars in the back. She has said openly that she wants us to lose our liquor license.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM (JUOKG)

Sounds like a POC: person of cnutitude.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (miJU3)

115 Jack n the Box is manufacturing cardboard coffins.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 12:54 PM (WUctj)

116 I'm watching Bob Ross. He just said something rather profound-ish.
" if you aren't having a good day, every day, try missing a few. "

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 12, 2020 12:54 PM (myjNJ)

117 It is making me sick watching this, although not unexpected. We will be suffering form this virus shutdown for years., it will be like trying to get rid of Obamacare. The left has not let this crisis go to waste.
Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2020 12:34 PM (MxEKc)

That's the demoralizing part of it -- it's so fucking predictable. You'd think by this time we'd be able to see it coming and have counter-narratives in place.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:54 PM (H8QX8)

118 I took it as a letter of intent. They want people to die.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:53 PM (O4K4J)

All over their twisted hatred for one man, and allegiance to Hillary

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:54 PM (ONvIw)

119 I've forbidden tv news to be on if I'm in the room.

However, with the endless parade of maudlin 'Rona themed ads on every single channel I am probably going to extend this moratorium to broadcast TV, period.

I'm so sick of this damnable bullshit I could puke.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 12:54 PM (hDNne)

120 "Bleats the Press"

LOL!

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (XxJt1)

121 "Do you want to decrease crime? That's easy. Violate our civil rights, gut the Constitution, search and seize at will, create a police state, and poof! Our crime rate will drop. Want to decrease automobile deaths? Just as easy! Put governors on every car, have real-time transmission of driving behavior that goes straight to the cops. Then the recalcitrant driver either gets fined or jailed. No trial."

*Scribbles notes*

Thanks, these ideas are GREAT!

Posted by: Gretchen Whitmer at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (DZRVc)

122 Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

Same thing has been happening every week for the last 150 years. That island has been NYC's Potter's Field for a while.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (qyH+l)

123 Anyone still under the illusion that Fauci is anything but a Democrat operative? After almost 4 years youd think Trump would have learned a lesson about trusting these assholes.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (olImo)

124 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (DZRVc)

125 The Freedom allowed in our society require us to accept that is our own individual responsibility for our health, wealth, and happiness.

Much like there will be no group or society Saved as a collective. We each much decide that we were the cause and the need for Easter.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (JFO2v)

126 Happy Easter... I read a funny on another site... "Jesus was cited for leaving his tomb under a shelter in place order."

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:56 PM (5bxa0)

127 Monroe, LA area just got nailed by not one, but two tornadoes that were/are on the ground at the same time.

If you're in the SE today, stay alert and stay safe.

Posted by: Vendette at April 12, 2020 12:56 PM (nRNOc)

128 123 Anyone still under the illusion that Fauci is anything but a Democrat operative

NO

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:56 PM (5bxa0)

129 60 Friend Computer expects each of you to do your duty and comply with all of Friend Computer's required requests in these difficult times!

Paranoia fistbump! I loved that game.

Soft, easy living has made us a risk adverse society. Where will the next generation of pioneers, adventurers, innovators come from if we raise multiple generations in a plastic bubble?

Posted by: Retief at April 12, 2020 12:56 PM (yBQiw)

130 Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

The "mass graves" should be filled with the media tards spreading the rumors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 12:56 PM (miJU3)

131 Watching Bob Ross ( RIP) you will eventually go catatonic or turn mass murderer

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2020 12:57 PM (ZCEU2)

132 I do think there were lessons learned but overall, I feel we flunked the "test". Just my opinion and most likely not a popular one.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 12:35 PM (EgshT)

And this is why so many of the elite KNOW that the serfs must be controlled.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 12, 2020 12:57 PM (1g7ch)

133 So when may we expect impeachment 11 .. the sequel?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:57 PM (5bxa0)

134 Cracking myself up.
Gone back outside, just came in for lunch

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2020 12:58 PM (ZCEU2)

135 pic of Birx posing with Hillary Chelsea and Bloomberg

https://tinyurl.com/w43qnu8

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:58 PM (ONvIw)

136 79 Why doesn't New York need nurses, when it is digging mass graves and all?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 12:41 PM

Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa)

They bury about 25 people a week there. Have been doing that for about 130 years or so.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:58 PM (JFO2v)

137 1 Watching Bob Ross ( RIP) you will eventually go catatonic or turn mass murderer
Posted by: Skip

He really is the cure for insomnia.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 12, 2020 12:58 PM (myjNJ)

138 All over their twisted hatred for one man, and allegiance to Hillary
Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:54 PM (ONvIw)

Less so allegiance to Hillary, than pride.

Pride is at the center of everything they do. They are absolutely and completely sure that they are right, they are perfect, that they are the best ever and thus that their clique has a right to rule (and ultimately in their fantasy, they will get their turn in the big seat and prove themselves the greatest of all).

They had convinced themselves that it was time for a woman President. History proved them wrong, but pride can never admit being wrong, so reality itself had to be wrong and revolve around them as an axis of perfection.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:59 PM (O4K4J)

139 They bury about 25 people a week there. Have been doing that for about 130 years or so

Media made it sound like they were digging up Central Park with a backhoe

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:59 PM (5bxa0)

140 Today I am heading to the supermarket then out for a hike and weather permitting plan on mowing the yard. So a typical Sunday for me. Where I live you wouldnt really know anything is happening. People are going about their lives and kinda LOLing at the stay at home orders.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at April 12, 2020 12:59 PM (olImo)

141 After almost 4 years youd think Trump would have learned a lesson about trusting these assholes.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (olImo)

Yeah, it's getting ridiculous. Maybe he's not as smart as I thought he was.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:59 PM (H8QX8)

142 I guess now that we're over 100 comments I can put this devotional on "Beyond the Thorns" a reflection on Easter and God with us in our trials. It is written by a Christian brother in Christ from England. Blessed Easter:

https://tinyurl.com/sqerf97

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 12, 2020 01:00 PM (WI7YS)

143 UNLESS....they sell firearms.

Those....can remain open.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (/bu8g)

So Dick's is closed, but Cabella is open.

Justice.

Posted by: Fox2! at April 12, 2020 01:01 PM (qyH+l)

144
In Michigan, when our Bruce Jenner look alike governor closed the golf
courses (among every other thing people derive pleasure from) our
attorney general explained she does not want anymore complaints from
white people who want to golf while our black neighbors are dying from
corona!

Posted by: Chillin the most at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM (lonOK)

Black people don't golf? I just love the blatant hatred of white people by these scumbag politicians. It's so accepted these days. And I'll not post the rest of what I'm thinking

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 12, 2020 01:01 PM (5kRQZ)

145 Just got here and couldn't read all the comments.
Happy Easter Horde!
He is risen!

Since the media has been pointing out that Blacks seem to be susceptible in larger numbers to the flu Manchu and noting that many blacks are crowded into Dem hellholes is not allowed.
Has anyone brought up that the Chinese are using the virus to exterminate black people in wholesale large numbers?
Given that China has a large presence in Africa, we dare not say colonies, it seems that a line of questions to the MSM and their Chinese masters could be interesting.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at April 12, 2020 01:01 PM (Eb+fP)

146 I have to say that SF herding the more naive of the homeless into indoor shelters to catch the 'rona is diabolical. I didn't know the progtards were capable of scheming like that. I guess some of the tech billionaires must have figured out how to explain it to the pols with easy words.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 12, 2020 01:01 PM (K78+l)

147 Soft, easy living has made us a risk adverse society. Where will the next generation of pioneers, adventurers, innovators come from if we raise multiple generations in a plastic bubble?

Posted by: Retief at April 12, 2020 12:56 PM (yBQiw)

These kind of people, though they claim to be progressive, are enemies of progress. They would build a society where nothing ever changed, and they were at the top of it.

They don't care if nothing ever improves, or if mankind stagnates and wastes away into nothing, as long as they are in control.

They would rather command a sinking ship than shovel coal in one that'll make it back to port.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 01:02 PM (O4K4J)

148 Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?

Yep. New York has been digging mass graves at that spot for 150 years, to bury indigents.

The powers-that-be just decided to give that a lot more publicity.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2020 01:02 PM (I2/tG)

149 125 The Freedom allowed in our society require us to accept that is our own individual responsibility for our health, wealth, and happiness.

Much like there will be no group or society Saved as a collective. We each much decide that we were the cause and the need for Easter.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (JFO2v)
--------------------------------

Beautiful comment. So very apt.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 01:02 PM (M/9m0)

150

Fauci's a disgrace.
According to him:

2019- HIV patients can continue to engage in anal sex, because PreP treatments allow the rate of transmission to be acceptably low.

2020- We should never shake hands ever again, regardless of the ultimate impact of COVID or whether we have a vaccine.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2020 01:03 PM (m45I2)

151 Says who, chuckles?

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

Sarcasm, bubba.

Posted by: db at April 12, 2020 01:03 PM (Gh3mF)

152 Less so allegiance to Hillary, than pride.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:59 PM (O4K4J)

We'll have to agree to disagree. Their allegiance is to Hillary and the donks, insulting her was a huge sin. It inspired the pussyhead putsch, the "resistance" and probably pushed Dr Birx-Reffe over the edge. Her husband is a huge Clintonite and she's a dedicated warrior herself. Lots of donk donations in that family, makes Mrs Fauci look third tier

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 01:04 PM (ONvIw)

153 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

I wonder if he would agree to the thought if only Congress had acted faster?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 01:04 PM (axyOa)

154 NY / NJ continue to have over half of the reported deaths . I think anyone in their hospitals who die are counted as Coronavirus deaths.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:04 PM (2DOZq)

155
Fauci's a disgrace.

I'm no fan, but earlier in the thread I said he blamed Trump for not acting earlier and that was out of context.... Stupid CNN made a headline of it so I should have known...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 01:04 PM (5bxa0)

156 Why does Fauci go on these TV shows?

Isn't he concerned he may catch the China Flu and then spread it to others?

He needs to stay home for a few more weeks and wait to see how this plays out....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 12, 2020 01:05 PM (Z+IKu)

157 Diversity Is Our Strength
vs.
E Pluribus Unum

The first is the creed of Democrats, the second is that of Americans.
Posted by: Vlad the impaler
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I've stated several times that if John Kennedy (icon of the Democrats) were to have stepped onto one of the 'debate' stages lately, and said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country', he would have been booed off of the stage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:05 PM (eYD0A)

158 151 Says who, chuckles?

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

Sarcasm, bubba.
Posted by: db at April 12, 2020 01:03 PM (Gh3mF)

Settle down, hoss. Hosses?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:05 PM (NWiLs)

159 Hey, remember when Hilary went epileptic and got thrown in the back of the van like a sack of potatoes?

And then a few hours later came out of her apartment cured of her three hour pneumonia and hugged a conveniently placed little girl?

Aside from committing what would today be a crime against humanity, how do we know Hilary wasn't really Patient Zero?

Why are we calling it the Wuhan Flu?

Fuck that, this shit is the fucking Hillary Flu!

Just like Hillary, it leaves you to choke to death on your own bile and phlegm.

Posted by: Robert at April 12, 2020 01:06 PM (DZRVc)

160 They would rather command a sinking ship than shovel coal in one that'll make it back to port.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 01:02 PM (O4K4J)
______________________

It would seem to be the case.

Posted by: DaveD at April 12, 2020 01:06 PM (P5fqQ)

161 Our Pastor never chooses special messages or sets up sermons to coincide with the calendar.

So on Mother's Day, there is no preaching from Ruth or some out of sequence message. You might be in Romans, you might be in Isaiah.

Likewise, at Christmas, you may be in Luke or you might be in 1 Corinthians.

So lo and behold, what message should fall on this day? Romans 13: 1-7! A message on obeying government authority, as we all gathered in church, somewhat in defiance of much of America's heavy handed restriction on worship services.

So, I honestly wondered what the Pastor would say about it. I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking it either.

Our Pastor then presented a sermon that carefully navigated the fact that in America, our civil authority is not a man, be he president or governor or mayor. Our civil authority is a document. And our adherence to civil authority is to stay in keeping with the authority of the Constitution. That where the Constitution guides us, we are to follow.

The amount of head-nodding during his sermon was unbelievable. I thought to myself at one point as I looked forward from the back of the sanctuary (I run the AV aptly the church during service) I was at a heavy metal concert filled with 60 year olds.

In America, our civil authority is the Constitution, and if we are to heed the civil authority, we are to maintain our right to peaceably assemble and to freely gather to worship.

This is why America is the greatest nation the earth has known. This is why Americans, freedom loving Americans, have found favor. This is why we have been the greatest force for our Father's intention for us, that all men be treated fairly, standing equally before the throne, not one greater than another, not one less worthy of possessing rights and liberties, and expected to act of our own volition for goodness instead of under the forceful hand of tyranny.

God could make you submit. He chooses instead that you would willingly come to Him. So too does our society and our governing authority, the God-inspired Constitution, hope and trust that we will live in harmony of our choice and free will and not under the forceful dictate of man.

He is risen, and on this day we remember that specifically and give honor and praise that Christ took our iniquities and unrighteousness on the cross for us as our kinsman redeemer.

Let's pray, too, that our Constitution and our will as a people, also be resurrected from what the world, and the political left, and those that have no knowledge or memory have declared and left for dead.

God bless you folks today and may our Father in heaven smile upon us and accept the true adoration of our hearts.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2020 01:07 PM (tMctm)

162 If want to get a bearing on how dumb IMDb is

Look at all the movies they rate over Ben Hur

IMDb is a gathering of the dumbest people in the world

and don't even get me started on their taste

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2020 01:07 PM (rpxSz)

163 I heard people are studying on U Tubbed how to make napalm and then googling maps to bad tv stations. Also buying black clothing and num chunks/ chucks.

And champagne.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:07 PM (WUctj)

164
Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes

Someone mentioned refrigerated trucks for bodies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 01:08 PM (aKsyK)

165 What % of deaths are in large Dem run cities? 70.80, more? Sort of out of sight out of mind for me.

Just kinda wish I could get a haircut. Starting to look like a mountain man over here.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at April 12, 2020 01:08 PM (olImo)

166 I understand why he did it but I must concur that the Fauci/Birx Hour was a calculated risk that backfired on PDT. I'm still behind our president and will remain so but am hopeful that in the future, he too will have learned something from this debacle.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 01:08 PM (EgshT)

167 Someone mentioned refrigerated trucks for bodies.

Tucker

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 01:08 PM (5bxa0)

168 We had over 4000 deaths and 20 million cases of H1N1 before Obama declared that pandemic a national emergency.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (2DOZq)

169 If you think the Kung Flu is a danger to you- quarantine yourself. If you do not believe it is a grave risk to you- go out and live your life.

Not one day is guaranteed to us. Choose everyday to be your best self. Choose wisely.

The Lord gave us free will. Our founders protected us against government that would take that freedom away. But, we're letting government usurp our sovereign selves.

We've done our duty to our fellow citizens. Enough time has passed to see for ourselves the failed guesswork of the 'experts'; the lies, propaganda, and fear mongering of the 'media'; and the eagerness and zeal of many of our 'leaders' to use our government against us.

Enough is enough. I'm calling bullshit.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (LW3vZ)

170 BJ out of Hospital

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (JFO2v)

171 Well said, CBD.

It boils down to: in America, the race is to the swift. If you're not too swift, you're going to be bringing up the rear. But ... so it goes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (Q7jm0)

172 170 BJ out of Hospital
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (JFO2v)

Progtards and Remainers hardest hit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (NWiLs)

173 Are we a free people?

Posted by: JAS at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (2BZBZ)

174 IMDB'S AI is asshole.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (WUctj)

175 Fauci's a disgrace.
According to him:

2019- HIV patients can continue to engage in anal sex, because PreP treatments allow the rate of transmission to be acceptably low.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2020 01:03 PM (m45I2)

*Fist bump*

Posted by: Andrew Gillum at April 12, 2020 01:10 PM (DZRVc)

176 As FenSpouse and I drove back from doing Easter caroling outside the houses of our shut ins w/out computer access and dropped off a flower and an Easter cup with little scriptural sayings in each egg or a bit of chocolate, we saw two people walking down the towpath. They had obviously gone past the yellow plastic warning stickers; Good for them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 12, 2020 01:10 PM (WI7YS)

177 Hand washing and Distancing has wiped out Influenza A and B.

4 Weeks ago 13,000 positive test
1 week ago 180 positive test

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:10 PM (JFO2v)

178 Anyone still under the illusion that Fauci is
anything but a Democrat operative? After almost 4 years youd think Trump
would have learned a lesson about trusting these assholes.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at April 12, 2020 12:55 PM (olImo)

My biggest bitch about trump. He is fucking naive when it comes to this shit. He trusts them where we would have made sure they were floating around florida in a plastic bag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 12, 2020 01:10 PM (9Om/r)

179 Open up by 4/20, man!

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at April 12, 2020 01:11 PM (I6LPk)

180 173 Are we a free people?
Posted by: JAS at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (2BZBZ)

No, but we were bought pretty cheaply.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:11 PM (NWiLs)

181 BJ out of Hospital
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (JFO2v)

Twenty dollars, same as in town.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 01:12 PM (miJU3)

182 My biggest bitch about trump. He is fucking naive when it comes to this shit. He trusts them where we would have made sure they were floating around florida in a plastic bag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

_________________

Personnel is a real blind spot for Trump and he often only realizes it after they have inflicted maximum damage.

Posted by: Blago at April 12, 2020 01:12 PM (sjTfF)

183 NY / NJ continue to have over half of the reported
deaths . I think anyone in their hospitals who die are counted as
Coronavirus deaths.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:04 PM

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Yep, that is exactly what they are doing. For every corona virus death that appears on the COD, the hospital gets reimbursed 110% of Medicare rates back from the Fed for uninsured patients who are listed as having died from it.

And NYC has a whole bunch of uninsured people going to the hospital and dying every single day even before this. It's literally a gold mine for them.

It's part of the disaster package that Trump put together in early March.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 12, 2020 01:12 PM (JUOKG)

184 Freedom has never been free. Our government keeps trying to raise the cost even higher.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:13 PM (ZE3T8)

185 ahhh!!!
found a new reason to psnic - saw a thing thst Smithfield is shutting down it's pork processing plant in SD

wth

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 12, 2020 01:14 PM (G546f)

186 Notorious BFD

Your observation is popular with me, also.

Posted by: French Jeton at April 12, 2020 01:14 PM (9Nrxu)

187 181 BJ out of Hospital
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM (JFO2v)

Twenty dollars, same as in town.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 01:12 PM (miJU3)

At a hospital? $1500, easy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:15 PM (NWiLs)

188 "Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?"

When will we learn that the people burried in the mass grave are disproportional POC? Because racism must be found and rooted out everywhere.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2020 01:15 PM (MxEKc)

189 9

Disappointed with Trump in this instance. It was not necessary to say what he said, and it's already proving to be wrong. This is a time to calm fears, not inflame them.

Posted by: Caliban at April 12, 2020 12:19 PM

I am reminded today of a common meme that has gone around social media in support of President Trump.

"President Trump is the only one standing between you and those who want to take away your rights."

Or something to that effect.

Well, guess what...

For those of us in states with 'stay-at-home' orders where we are not allowed to go to church or purchase certain "non-essential" things from stores... President Trump is not standing up for us.

Those memes no longer have any meaning.

President Trump must end this. SOON.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 12, 2020 01:15 PM (Do5/p)

190 Freedom has never been free. Our government keeps trying to raise the cost even higher.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:13 PM (ZE3T

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and I fear that the bill is overdue, and the late fees will be quite burdensome.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 01:15 PM (O4K4J)

191 found a new reason to psnic

Psnic, is that a combination of pissed and panic?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 01:16 PM (Uu+Jp)

192 Live free and die ! The best any of us can hope for.

Posted by: RIMcMT at April 12, 2020 01:17 PM (MAm+M)

193 162- yep! I'm watching Ben Hur and it's still all kinds of awesome. Charlton Heston...do they make actors like that nowadays? A thoroughly decent, honorable, upstanding, righteous man and patriot. He took the Ben-Hur lead after Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster and Marlon Brando turned it down...thank God. He won an Oscar for the role.

His bit parts in Wayne's World and the remake of Planet of the Apes were adornments to both movies.

Posted by: vivi at April 12, 2020 01:17 PM (11H2y)

194 Late to the party, but this is an excellent post, CBD. Thank you!

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:18 PM (vtI98)

195 Those memes no longer have any meaning.

President Trump must end this. SOON.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 12, 2020 01:15 PM

And yes, I understand President Trump did not issue the 'stay-at-home' orders. The Governors control that.

But he is neither doing nor saying anything to encourage the Governors to refrain from taking those actions. In fact, by continuing to put Fauci and Birx in front of the nation every day and scare the shit out of people, he is actually throwing gasoline on the fire.

It is far past time for him to lead the effort to stop the nosedive of the economy into the ground.

The longer this goes on, the longer people's anger will be turned at *everyone* in government, not just their immediate state government.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 12, 2020 01:18 PM (Do5/p)

196 Hand washing and Distancing has wiped out Influenza A and B.

4 Weeks ago 13,000 positive test

1 week ago 180 positive test

Great. Let's do this again next year.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:19 PM (3z0gk)

197 Completely OT!! Been cleaning out the pantry in the mud room. Good Lord.. stuff that's been there over 10 years! Anyway.. how do you dispose of citronella gel? I used for a firepot long since thrown out.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2020 01:19 PM (dUJdY)

198 This year it is Chinese Flu, next year it will be gun violence, the year after will be GMOs in our cereal, and on and on and on.

No mention of Climate Change and the 10 years we have left? All of the childhoods that have been robbed? HOW DARE YOU???????

World Government is THE ONLY ANSWER! I know this from my vast life experience and wisdom!!!!!!!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at April 12, 2020 01:19 PM (DMUuz)

199 Someone mentioned refrigerated trucks for bodies.

And yet the USS Comfort is almost empty.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:20 PM (3z0gk)

200 Word, CBD.
Happy Easter everyone...carry on.

Posted by: DBCooper at April 12, 2020 01:20 PM (bttOm)

201 Trump is still a CEO at heart and doesnt and prolly never will fully understand that politics is a different animal that a business. Which is why he does shit like elevate Fauci up who then stabs him in the back.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at April 12, 2020 01:21 PM (olImo)

202 If this doesn't go to court, what will?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 12:51
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Reposting the judge's bitch slapping TRO against Louisville mayor banning drive-in church service.

https://tinyurl.com/t6fkf9x

Favorite line: But if beer is "essential", then so is Easter.

Another quote:
At the same time, the Court does not for a moment doubt that for some believers Easter means gathering together, if not hand in hand or shoulder to shoulder, then at least car fender to car fender.

Religion is not “some purely personal avocation that can be indulged entirely in secret, like pornography, in the privacy of one’s room. For most believers, it is not that, and has never been.”

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 12, 2020 01:21 PM (Dhht7)

203 this is really cute - 6yo Philly girl assembles an audience of stuffed toys for Easter mass

https://preview.tinyurl.com/vqp8ohr

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 12, 2020 01:21 PM (G546f)

204 Smithfield is shutting down it's pork processing plant in SD

.....

Smithfield is owned by the Chi-Coms.

Trump and the USDA severed ties with Smithfield years ago in favor of American farms and processors, as we were providing financial aid to them that was intended to help American farmers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 12, 2020 01:21 PM (tMctm)

205 Jewell's, make firestarters out of it. Take a cardboard egg carton or empty TP roll. Stuff the egg pockets or roll full of dryer lint. Melt gel, pour over lint and allow to cool.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 01:22 PM (XxJt1)

206 Completely OT!! Been cleaning out the pantry in the mud room. Good Lord.. stuff that's been there over 10 years! Anyway.. how do you dispose of citronella gel? I used for a firepot long since thrown out.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2020 01:19 PM (dUJdY)

Take it to an empty field, dump it into a huge pile and throw a lit match into it?

Posted by: Robert at April 12, 2020 01:23 PM (DZRVc)

207 Psnic, is that a combination of pissed and panic?
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 01:16 PM (Uu+Jp)

yes

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 12, 2020 01:23 PM (G546f)

208 BJ out of Hospital
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:09 PM

If we can code this inside the hospital, we'll be rich!

Posted by: Hospital Administrators at April 12, 2020 01:23 PM (DMUuz)

209 Just because they wear non mafia suits and use nice words....word is the bird.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:24 PM (WUctj)

210 I agree, but what am I supposed to actually do? I mean, if I didn't have my 8yo out of school, I guess I could go to work in defiance of orders, but once I got caught being in the office, I'd get sent home. Probably get written up or otherwise damage my career. I suppose I could then refuse to leave the office and essentially dare my division chief to call security (and I really don't think that sissy would have the balls to call security on me), but it just doesn't seem like a sensible thing to do. I can't think of what concrete actions I could take that would take a stand.

Luke I said earlier, I wish I'd known this shit would last until Easter - I'd have pushed my church to hold an in-person service as civil disobedience. But I didn't think of that until yesterday, which was too late to try to arrange anything.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 12, 2020 01:24 PM (rWZ8Y)

211 Great. Let's do this again next year.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:19 PM (3z0gk)

I'm up for making masks a permanent fact of life. Not just the medical kind, of course. People need the freedom to choose their own designs and styles, and the market will provide an amazing variety of choices...

But what it will do more than just slow the spread of every disease is confound the efforts of our would-be Big Brothers by making facial recognition software so much less reliable.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 01:24 PM (O4K4J)

212 One last observation and then I'll shut up. Personally, this shutdown set me back to where it's gonna be a long slog towards coming anywhere near where I was before the panic. Certainly much of the blame can be laid at my own feet for not having the foresight to plan properly (financially) for something like this. Having said that, I'm finding myself a bit dumbfounded as to how little I was able to control the juggernaut once it was set in motion. Well, still grateful for what I have on this holiest of days and like I said...lesson learned.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2020 01:25 PM (EgshT)

213 As I put it the other day, even the smartest QB with the fastest feet will get sacked now and again.

And the way I see it, Trump got run over, in this case. He tried his best to dance around this one, but he screwed it up.

It happens.

Luckily, it seems so far that most people don't see it that way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:25 PM (hDNne)

214 And yet the USS Comfort is almost empty.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:20 PM (3z0gk)

no one wants to take a cruise atm

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2020 01:25 PM (rpxSz)

215
Jewells, what creeper said, firestarters. We have them in our dwelling as well as our vehicles.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 12, 2020 01:25 PM (pNxlR)

216 Do they have Huggies for combat?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:25 PM (WUctj)

217 OT: Watching Ben Hur. I haven't watched it for a while. Great movie! One of the Greatest of all time! So, in honor of Passover, I'd like to comment that Haya Harareet was one fine Jewess.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2020 01:28 PM (1rtYd)

218

We're All Gonna Die!

In the meantime, the ENTIRE THIRD FLOOR of my hospital is closed, nurses and techs are being low censused home, specialists are calling the ED begging to be called in for the most trivial stuff.

And people are getting pissed. Seriously pissed.

8.5% positive tests. 4.5% case fatality, 99.5% pf those elderly or seriously ill.

Cases declining precipitously the last two weeks Governor UsedDoucheFluid trying to impose MORE controls.

5000 people need to bum rush the Govenor's Mansion and Hang A Bitch.

Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:29 PM (d6DSt)

219 types
deletes
types
deletes

Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:29 PM (ZE3T8)

220
I was looking on line for information about "exponential growth without limits" with an idea to determine just WTF some disease models, particularly the Imperial College model, were showing.

One of the links I encountered was from a site called "sciencing.com". Get my 2x4, some mules need to have their attention focused.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 12, 2020 01:29 PM (pNxlR)

221 21

Well put, and I have noted before, sometimes to criticism, that chaos is essential to life.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:25 PM

You've heard of Chaos Theory?

Posted by: Dr. Ian Malcolm at April 12, 2020 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

222 221

21

Well put, and I have noted before, sometimes to criticism, that chaos is essential to life.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:25 PM

You've heard of Chaos Theory?

Posted by: Dr. Ian Malcolm at April 12, 2020 01:30 PM

I'm an agent of chaos.

Posted by: The Joker at April 12, 2020 01:31 PM (Do5/p)

223 Sadly apropos for many of our brethren:

"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping,
is to make sure he never knows he is in prison."

-- F. Dostoevsky

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2020 01:31 PM (Y4EXg)

224 Note from New York City: I went to the ER at the hospital on 7th Avenue and 13th Street at 8:30 on Tuesday night 2 weeks ago -- it was EMPTY. There were two men ahead of me, and one was a street bum who was drunk and looking for somewhere free to sleep it off. I asked the nurse about it, and she said it has BEEN empty: then added somewhat sheepishly, "maybe everyone's afraid to come here."

Yeah, roight. New Yorkers are big babies for the most part, quick to run to the doctor if they have so much as a hangnail. I'm telling you, the hospitals are half empty because they've been ordered to ignore everything except this stupid cold virus. The ONLY hospitals that are slammed are the ones in neighborhoods like Elmhurst, Queens (always good for the "news" photo ops) that are swarmed with immigrants who treat the emergency room like their neighborhood clinic anyway: they're the ones creating this impression.
Re Hart Island, the potter's field of New York City: there are ALWAYS burials going on up there. That's nothing new, but the newsidiots have just now discovered it. Re burying people in mass graves in Central Park? utter bullshit. The same City Council retard who claimed that is the one who just a few weeks ago told us that anyone nervous about going to Chinatown to celebrate their New Year was RAYCISS.

About 1/4 of the people on the street aren't wearing the masks. I have one that I wear in the hallway because two of my neighbors have gone full GESTAPO and are out of their minds. I twitch it aside when I reach the street.

Time for us to ALL JUST SAY 'NO MORE', my friends. What are they going to do, arrest us all? and throw us in jail when they've emptied the jails of all the dangerous FELONS?
One more thing: notice how the newsidiots have done ZERO stories on the 30% increase in crime since they unleashed the felons on the rest of us? Hey, you know what? If we don't have the stones to fight back, we will deserve everything that happens to us from here on out. Resist, folks. Resist!

Posted by: Beverly at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (+Wp0a)

225 Just think....some can not wait much longer for freedom.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (WUctj)

226 Just kinda wish I could get a haircut. Starting to look like a mountain man over here.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member
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I haven't shaved in two weeks and hair is getting out of control.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (eYD0A)

227
But what it will do more than just slow the spread of every disease is confound the efforts of our would-be Big Brothers by making facial recognition software so much less reliable.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 01:24 PM (O4K4J)

They'll move more rapidly to "analprinting", per last night's news. There's a lot of camera lenses that are gonna get spray painted.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (pNxlR)

228 221 21

Well put, and I have noted before, sometimes to criticism, that chaos is essential to life.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at April 12, 2020 12:25 PM

You've heard of Chaos Theory?
Posted by: Dr. Ian Malcolm at April 12, 2020 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

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

Don't you mean

"You've, ah, heard of, ah, ah, Chaos Theory?"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (CAJOC)

229 "This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it's
not going to be localized," U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on
Fox News last Sunday

I loathe this comparison and others like it.

If we are comparing the Chinese virus to Pearl Harbor then why are we not bombing the shit out of them in retaliation, sir?

Pretending that sitting your ass in your house and doing without indoor restaurant service is "fighting a war" is just the Ultimate Virtue signal. And disrespectful as hell.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:33 PM (3z0gk)

230 "... each much decide that we were the cause and the need for Easter."

Original sin of Adam made all blood impure ... he was "the cause" ... we all have the need. Grandpa Adam screwed up, broke the deal.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2020 01:34 PM (Cus5s)

231 I wish I could simultaneously, for a hundred million people, grab them by the shoulders, shake them, toss a glass of water in their faces, slap them twice, and shout "Get a hold of yourself, man! You're making a spectacle of yourself!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:34 PM (hDNne)

232 OT: Watching Ben Hur. I haven't watched it for a while. Great movie!
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I just want a set of those hubcaps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:34 PM (eYD0A)

233 Extrapolate that to diet and exercise and littering and medical care and
the thousands of things we do because we want to, and others be damned,
and our society will be calm and ordered and a total and dismal
failure.
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Whatever do you mean?

Posted by: "Great" Britain at April 12, 2020 01:34 PM (kOpft)

234
226 Just kinda wish I could get a haircut. Starting to look like a mountain man over here.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member
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I haven't shaved in two weeks and hair is getting out of control.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (eYD0A)

There needs to be a signature "corona cut" that would be easy to do it yourself but distinctive enough to convey a defiant "I'm still here, you totalitarian bastards!" message.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 12, 2020 01:35 PM (pNxlR)

235 We have a saying out here when things are going bad --- "downhill faster than a pig on roller skates".

I like "All downhill on a bad knee."

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at April 12, 2020 01:35 PM (45WxF)

236 In regards to sabotaging the administration of, and ruining the successful economy of, a sitting Republican president: the ChiComs and the Democrats/MSM have just learned what they can accomplish if they work together.

I am not looking forward to their next move, and trust PDT has now planned several steps ahead of these admittedly clever evildoers. The plague farce must not be allowed to happen again, under any pretexts whatsoever.

Posted by: MarjBaldwin at April 12, 2020 01:35 PM (H5Sbo)

237 "our Pearl Harbor moment"

But I could be wrong however.

Maybe this is a Pearl Harbor - style attack. But the attackers are not the Chicoms...

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:35 PM (3z0gk)

238 Maybe it would be easier for the president if WE ended the shutdown.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 01:36 PM (XxJt1)

239 Well put, and I have noted before, sometimes to criticism, that chaos is essential to life.

Posted by: Cato
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I often refer to my life as, 'Barely controlled chaos'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:36 PM (eYD0A)

240 I haven't shaved in two weeks and hair is getting out of control.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (eYD0A)

I have an old clipper set I bought for my dogs. I'm getting tempted to try on myself.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 01:37 PM (H8QX8)

241 I haven't shaved in two weeks and hair is getting out of control.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (eYD0A)

just wear dark hose and no one will notice

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2020 01:37 PM (rpxSz)

242 creeper-Amen

Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:37 PM (ZE3T8)

243 Mr Dice....please don't tamper with the copper tops on the coppertopses.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:37 PM (WUctj)

244 First recorded words of Jesus Christ: "How is it that you sought for me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business?"

Last words before death ... "It is Finished"

Posted by: illiniwek at April 12, 2020 01:38 PM (Cus5s)

245
238 Maybe it would be easier for the president if WE ended the shutdown.
Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 01:36 PM (XxJt1)

As much as I disliked the movie, "The Siege" showed just that.

Interesting though that the usual "march to display solidarity" crowd on the totalitarian left hasn't taken up this cause. Hmmm, I wonder why?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (pNxlR)

246 {{{BenHad}}}

I notice you're having the same problem I am...either you've already said what you're about to post six times or you'll get banned for saying what's on your mind.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (XxJt1)

247 I haven't shaved in two weeks and hair is getting out of control.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:32 PM (eYD0A)

just wear dark hose and no one will notice
Posted by: REDACTED
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I suppose I could pull something over my head...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (eYD0A)

248 "Governor UsedDoucheFluid "
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:29 PM (d6DSt)
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I'm afraid you need to be more precise in your identification. There are too many governors who fit that well-crafted nomenclature.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (M/9m0)

249 There is certainly more traffic on the road around here the last few days. People seem to be getting fed up.

Posted by: Aviator at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (2cuLk)

250 I have an old clipper set I bought for my dogs. I'm getting tempted to try on myself.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's

just clean and oil it and it will probably work greay

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (G546f)

251 5000 people need to bum rush the Govenor's Mansion and Hang A Bitch.
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:29 PM (d6DSt)

What state are you in?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 01:40 PM (H8QX8)

252
I have an old clipper set I bought for my dogs. I'm getting tempted to try on myself.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 01:37 PM (H8QX

I'll be doing my beard that way tomorrow.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 12, 2020 01:40 PM (pNxlR)

253 "By today's standards, King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence."
-- Joe Sobran

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 12, 2020 01:40 PM (DMUuz)

254 No growth or positive change occurs without pain.

What I'm seeing here, and in real life, is that our powers-that-be just might have fucked up. Maybe, just maybe, they've dialed up the requisite amount of pain.

At any rate - the sentiments expressed by many here are nothing less than a welcome gift to my eyes. I thank you for it.

Happy Easter.

Posted by: I Am No One at April 12, 2020 01:40 PM (YaiCw)

255 I have an old clipper set I bought for my dogs. I'm getting tempted to try on myself.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's

just clean and oil it and it will probably work great
Posted by: vmom 2020
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What have you got to lose?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:41 PM (eYD0A)

256 In Texas we have had 13,484 confirmed cases with 271 deaths for a 0.02% death rate.

That rate will go way lower once they start mass testing.

We were told over and over that we would have a death rate of ~4-6% with strict social distancing and locking down the entire State until the worst passes.

We've been had people.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 12, 2020 01:41 PM (JUOKG)

257 As I said, we've painted ourself into a corner since it's logical that as soon as Trump requests the end of the lockdowns, the number of cases will spike and the Left and NeverTrumpers will jump on Trump like a wolfpack on a wounded Elk.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:41 PM (2DOZq)

258

I work in both WA and ID.

I was referring to WA.

Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:41 PM (d6DSt)

259 Meanwhile our dear Govr. Ralph Coonman Northam is busy-busy-busy depriving us of our 2ndA rights.
Hey. No need to worry about more than 10 gathered for a protest, no?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM (M/9m0)

260
just clean and oil it and it will probably work great
Posted by: vmom 2020
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Wait, is this the Gun Thread?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM (eYD0A)

261 Had to go see it with my own eyes. Both st geneive catholic church and christian mega church (huge multi block compounds each) CLOSED tight on Easter, not even outlaws in parking lot. I dont even go churching but this is WRONG.

Posted by: vetting the banned back like sheep, mooing at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM (ZgQQq)

262 creeper, since I am not a congregant of any church I have no voice.

I am saddened to see that which is not Caesar's rendered to him.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM (ZE3T8)

263 There is certainly more traffic on the road around here the last few days. People seem to be getting fed up.

Posted by: Aviator at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM

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Only saw two people at Walmart this morning with masks on and it was an elderly couple.

In less than two weeks everyone got fed up with the mask stuff and quit wearing them.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM (JUOKG)

264 "May you live in interesting times." - ancient Chinese curse.

Posted by: BJ54 at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (EKrU1)

That one has been crossing my mind a lot lately.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:43 PM (26Ker)

265 255 I have an old clipper set I bought for my dogs. I'm getting tempted to try on myself.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's

just clean and oil it and it will probably work great
Posted by: vmom 2020
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What have you got to lose?
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

A week or so ago, I trimmed the split ends off my hair. First time I cut my hair myself since I was five. That was a disaster, this was...not horrific. But I am glad we are told to stay home and self isolate. It give my hair a chance to grow out again...

Posted by: Moki at April 12, 2020 01:43 PM (mFoNl)

266 There is certainly more traffic on the road around here the last few days. People seem to be getting fed up.
Posted by: Aviator at April 12, 2020 01:39 PM (2cuLk

I've noticed that in Houston too.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:43 PM (2DOZq)

267 >>We've been had people.
Posted by: Mr. Scott

At my hospital they are now insisting the surge is going to be the middle of NEXT month.

Oh, and we are all going to die.

Posted by: Aviator at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (2cuLk)

268 260
just clean and oil it and it will probably work great
Posted by: vmom 2020
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Wait, is this the Gun Thread?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM (eYD0A)m

Sex thread

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (NWiLs)

269 Less than two million testing positive out of 7 billion I think.

Just a bit of perspective.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (zvwGJ)

270 Happy Easter!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (r+sAi)

271

Both public mosques near me were open as usual Friday.

Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (d6DSt)

272 Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:41 PM (d6DSt)

You must be close to me. I'm in Spokane.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (26Ker)

273 Wait, is this the Gun Thread?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:42 PM

Just wait until the inevitable fashion/shoe/makeup tips comments take over.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 12, 2020 01:44 PM (DMUuz)

274 I got so bored today I vacuumed my living room. This is a cry for help! I need an intervention!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:45 PM (NWiLs)

275 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:45 PM (NWiLs)

Well come tomorrow you won't be bored (hopefully)!

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:46 PM (26Ker)

276 I got so bored today I vacuumed my living room. This is a cry for help! I need an intervention!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:45 PM

I'm assuming that was the flotsam and jetsam from the oil wrasslin'?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 12, 2020 01:46 PM (DMUuz)

277 Even the guys in the post office Most Wanted posters are wearing masks.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (WUctj)

278 259 Meanwhile our dear Govr. Ralph Coonman Northam is busy-busy-busy depriving us of our 2ndA rights.
Hey. No need to worry about more than 10 gathered for a protest, no?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille

That and making sure women can kill their babies at any time, including after birth. Also non-doctors can perform abortions, and abortion abattoirs don't have to follow regulations like hospitals do.

What evil demon does he worship?

Posted by: Moki at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (mFoNl)

279 Insomniac, cleaning your office space?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (ZE3T8)

280 And the latest commercial that they are showing frequently that aggravates me is Mt Sinai Hospital requesting donations.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (2DOZq)

281 "May you live in interesting times." - ancient Chinese curse.

Posted by: BJ54 at April 12, 2020 12:39 PM (EKrU1)

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"Boil a disgusting flyin' fuckin' cave rat that lives amongst piles of its own filth and make it into an outlandish stew of exciting new maladies.

Enjoy." - ancient Chinese recipe

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (hDNne)

282 275 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:45 PM (NWiLs)

Well come tomorrow you won't be bored (hopefully)!
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:46 PM (26Ker)

I'll be plenty occupied, that's for sure.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (NWiLs)

283 NeverTrumpers will jump on Trump like a wolfpack on a wounded Elk.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:41 PM (2DOZq)

Recalls WB Yeats line about journalists -- "a pack of wolves dragging down a noble stag."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 12, 2020 01:48 PM (H8QX8)

284 I can't think of what concrete actions I could take that would take a stand.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 12, 2020 01:24 PM (rWZ8Y)

Me neither. The closest I came was refusing to wear a mask at the grocery store yesterday and going to a different one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:48 PM (26Ker)

285 Finally bought a PS4. Store had one for $249 and then got 10% employee discount.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:48 PM (zvwGJ)

286

Our nurses - and Lance, from Housekeeping - are having great fun putting on ONLY eye makeup as thats all you see with the mask on. Colors, sparkles, designs. Creative, elegant, funny that is skirting the guidelines!

Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:48 PM (d6DSt)

287 I have an old clipper set I bought for my dogs. I'm getting tempted to try on myself.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's

just clean and oil it and it will probably work great
Posted by: vmom 2020
--------

What have you got to lose?
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

A week or so ago, I trimmed the split ends off my hair. First time I cut my hair myself since I was five. That was a disaster, this was...not horrific. But I am glad we are told to stay home and self isolate. It give my hair a chance to grow out again...
Posted by: Moki
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Our sad little dog already was badly in need of grooming before this. Now she is a tangled mass. I'm gonna have to break out the shears and start hacking away. The results will probably be horrifying. But, if I keep her away from a mirror for a month or two...

Fortunately, the other dogs in the neighborhood don't point and laugh.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:49 PM (eYD0A)

288 What evil demon does he worship?
Posted by: Moki at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM

Khorne. Chaos god of blood, war and murder. "Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the skull throne."

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at April 12, 2020 01:49 PM (DB16e)

289 We can't tell you the main objective of any thrread.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:49 PM (WUctj)

290 I am very sad on a day that should be full of joy. My country has no freedom left. Our basic principles have been let go for a bad flu season. I couldn't attend Mass on the most holy week of the year. Instead I made due with a short drive through blessing from a deacon that had no idea who I was. Easter is very difficult this year. Maybe it is a blessing that I can understand what we have up. Our freedom is dead we have it away for nothing.

Posted by: USNtakim at April 12, 2020 01:50 PM (0OmEj)

291 Speaking of which.. I wonder how those women with acrylic nails are doing? lol.. gotta suck right now not to be able to get a fill.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2020 01:50 PM (dUJdY)

292 Just wait until the inevitable fashion/shoe/makeup tips comments take over.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 12, 2020 01:44
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Speaking of fashion, here's what FLOTUS has been up to lately.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/melania-trump-
is-having-a-moment-during-coronavirus-pandemic/

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 12, 2020 01:50 PM (Dhht7)

293 279 Insomniac, cleaning your office space?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (ZE3T

I already got that done yesterday. I've also taken the opportunity to purge a LOT of old papers and stuff I just don't need.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:50 PM (NWiLs)

294 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:49 PM (eYD0A)

Same for my mom's dog who normally has a mobile groomer every five weeks or so . It's been 10 weeks since last grooming.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:50 PM (2DOZq)

295 >>What evil demon does he worship?
Posted by: Moki

*cackle*

Posted by: Hillary at April 12, 2020 01:51 PM (2cuLk)

296 285 Finally bought a PS4. Store had one for $249 and then got 10% employee discount.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:48 PM (zvwGJ)

Cool! What games did you get?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:51 PM (NWiLs)

297 Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (26Ker)

298 291 Speaking of which.. I wonder how those women with acrylic nails are doing? lol.. gotta suck right now not to be able to get a fill.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2020 01:50 PM (dUJdY)

speaking of sucking .....

Posted by: STRIPPER at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (rpxSz)

299 Also I need to decide when or how I'll let my mom's house cleaners back into the house.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (2DOZq)

300 That and making sure women can kill their babies at
any time, including after birth. Also non-doctors can perform
abortions, and abortion abattoirs don't have to follow regulations like
hospitals do.

What evil demon does he worship?

Posted by: Moki at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (mFoNl)

Yet he says he's a Baptist.

Posted by: Vendette at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (nRNOc)

301 Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.

Do you have access to an airhorn?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (3z0gk)

302 I'm assuming that was the flotsam and jetsam from the oil wrasslin'?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 12, 2020 01:46 PM (DMUuz)

Heh. That required a somewhat different cleaning method.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (NWiLs)

303 Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (26Ker

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Huh? Like a bunch of dumb dogs? People are going stir crazy I think.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (hDNne)

304 It came with a physical copy of The Last of Us.

Instead playing Soul Calibur 6.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (zvwGJ)

305 Same for my mom's dog who normally has a mobile groomer every five weeks or so . It's been 10 weeks since last grooming.
Posted by: Kilroy
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Our dog's fur now approximates interlaced cotton balls glued all over her body.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (eYD0A)

306 >>And the latest commercial that they are showing frequently that aggravates me is Mt Sinai Hospital requesting donations.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here

Exactly! Arrogant bastards seem to think their problems are more important than everyone else's.

Posted by: Aviator at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (2cuLk)

307 304 It came with a physical copy of The Last of Us.

Instead playing Soul Calibur 6.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (zvwGJ)

I don't think I've played any of the Soul Calibers since 2 came out.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:54 PM (NWiLs)

308 Coffee maker hit the shitter this morning. Good thing I have my trusty french press.

Gorgeous morning here. Going to go drink the second cup of coffee on the beach.

Blessings of the Risen Lord to all of you. Have faith and hope. Be kind. Do not let hatred and anger rule your heart and mind.

But by all means, remember.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 12, 2020 01:54 PM (qEnnB)

309 Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.
Posted by: Jordan61

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In 'solidarity' you may want to fire off a few rounds. LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at April 12, 2020 01:54 PM (Y4EXg)

310 291
It's very, very awful. The last time I had my nails done was March 1. It's bad. I know a lot of people make fun of acrylic nail fans, but it's my little treat to myself.

Posted by: jmel at April 12, 2020 01:55 PM (OeWgo)

311 Huh? Like a bunch of dumb dogs? People are going stir crazy I think.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (hDNne)

It's apparently A Thing now. Google it, they're doing it all over.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:55 PM (26Ker)

312 Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (26Ker

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Huh? Like a bunch of dumb dogs? People are going stir crazy I think.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (hDNne)

This is apparently a way to show solidarity with your neighbors and show support for first responders and hospital personnel. Started in Italy with singing from balconies, but here in the US of A we need to take it up to howling.

Posted by: Vendette at April 12, 2020 01:55 PM (nRNOc)

313 Funny. I have the opposite of Gell-Mann amnesia. I've always known newspapers were full of shit. Nothing could ever convince me they aren't/weren't.

Posted by: ... at April 12, 2020 01:56 PM (uEbPt)

314 We sheared the Great Pyrenees no matting left but he looks ridiculous. Meh he will grow his coat out in a couple months. The grooming on this dog is unreal.

Posted by: USNtakim at April 12, 2020 01:57 PM (0OmEj)

315 I'm up for "happy fire" (any caliber you choose) at 8PM nightly.

But gravity, and people gettin' kilt and injured by falling rounds.

Howling, not so much.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2020 01:57 PM (El6T/)

316 Hold it...was not (note that I eschew a contraction there) 'The Howling' a movie?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:57 PM (eYD0A)

317
Yet he says he's a Baptist.
Posted by: Vendette

Husband's best friend (well, no so much anymore, as you will see) was the son of a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary dean. He (and his farther) is a committed Democrat, and thinks nothing of abortion. I wonder how big the millstone was around his neck.

Posted by: Moki at April 12, 2020 01:57 PM (mFoNl)

318 But by all means, remember.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 12, 2020 01:54
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As my wife likes to say, "Oh, I can forgive, but I will never forget."

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 12, 2020 01:57 PM (Dhht7)

319 Hi Moki!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (NWiLs)

320 >>Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.
Posted by: Jordan61

Well, pack of dogs and all...

Posted by: Aviator at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (2cuLk)

321 Fortunately, federalism is our friend here.

It will be hard to keep the serfs in the blue states quiescent under lockdown, as the red states start opening up again.
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Much as I wish Trump hadn't been duped with the scare projections, he gets props for getting this right. In this, he's the most American President in our lifetimes.

Posted by: Methos at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (kOpft)

322 289 We can't tell you the main objective of any thrread.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 01:49 PM (WUctj)

It is to enter doorway of the fish pun school

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (rpxSz)

323 I am just having button mashing fun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (zvwGJ)

324 I'm up for "happy fire" (any caliber you choose) at 8PM nightly.

But gravity, and people gettin' kilt and injured by falling rounds.

Howling, not so much.
Posted by: rhomboid
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VERY bad form to fire into the air. Always fire into the ground.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (eYD0A)

325 jmel.. I had them for years. I'm sure glad I don't have them now. I probably would have just peeled them all off by now.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (dUJdY)

326 312 Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2020 01:52 PM (26Ker

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Huh? Like a bunch of dumb dogs? People are going stir crazy I think.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 12, 2020 01:53 PM (hDNne)

This is apparently a way to show solidarity with your neighbors and show support for first responders and hospital personnel. Started in Italy with singing from balconies, but here in the US of A we need to take it up to howling.
Posted by: Vendette at April 12, 2020 01:55 PM (nRNOc)

howling was a great movie

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (JFO2v)

327 VERY bad form to fire into the air. Always fire into the ground.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 01:58 PM (eYD0A)

or dick if you are in media

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (JFO2v)

328 American Werewolf in London is better

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (zvwGJ)

329 328 American Werewolf in London is better
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (zvwGJ)

The hair was perfect.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:00 PM (NWiLs)

330 This is apparently a way to show solidarity with your neighbors and show support for first responders and hospital personnel. Started in Italy with singing from balconies, but here in the US of A we need to take it up to howling.
Posted by: Vendette at April 12, 2020 01:55 PM (nRNOc)

Getting out onto your yards and singing The Hallelujah Chorus might make sense. But what percentage of the population has any idea what that is?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 02:00 PM (Uu+Jp)

331 I'm supposed to be working on a Small Claims Court case. Supporting documentation was mailed to me on a CD, in .pdf form. Finally worked up the gumption to tackle it, only to discover that my CD drive had shot craps. On the up side, it was a good excuse to do nothing for a couple of days. But my neighbor copied the CD to a thumb drive yesterday and now I have no excuse for not playing lawyer.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 02:01 PM (XxJt1)

332 Given the developments to date, and the numbers, seems fairly likely Trump will signal mostly-clear pretty soon. Many states that have never had much of a problem will almost certainly be going that way, maybe even before the Scalp Weasel issues his decision.

Would be nice if various governors whose states are looking pretty good nonetheless tried to hold out, and suffered consequences. But I doubt they will.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2020 02:01 PM (El6T/)

333 We are a free people, and one of the trade-offs is that we must accept more uncertainty and chaos in return for that freedom.

And yes, that means a certain amount of gun crimes, and a larger than world-average of people incarcerated. Plus a huge number of lawyers to ride herd, so to speak. And that whole 'swift and certain justice' thingy too. In theory, I might add.

Every time someone says "there ought to be a law", you should cringe. One of Trump's singular achievements is a rollback of the regulatory state. The utter failures of the CDC and the FDA in this crisis are proof positive that we need fewer laws and regulations, not more. Red tape kills too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2020 02:01 PM (Z4rgH)

334 American Werewolf in London is better
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (zvwGJ)

The hair was perfect.
Posted by: Insomniac
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'I saw a werewolf standing in line outside of Trader Vic's

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 02:01 PM (eYD0A)

335 Funny. I have the opposite of Gell-Mann amnesia. I've always known newspapers were full of shit. Nothing could ever convince me they aren't/weren't.
Posted by: ... at April 12, 2020 01:56 PM (uEbPt)

I grew up as a kid reading the National Enquirer that my mom always bought which subconsciously taught me to question everything in any newspaper.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:01 PM (2DOZq)

336 NPR proves true AG Barr's claim the media is on a 'jihad' against hydroxychloroquine
American Thinker

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 12, 2020 02:02 PM (3z0gk)

337 -------
'I saw a werewolf standing in line outside of Trader Vic's
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
---

Crap! '...Trader Joe's...'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 12, 2020 02:02 PM (eYD0A)

338 I will never forgive the scum that made the Holocaust a reality.

I will never forgive the scum that made 9/11 a reality.

I am damned sure that I won't forget them either.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 12, 2020 02:03 PM (ZE3T8)

339 howling was a great movie
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (JFO2v)

Werewolf sex

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:03 PM (2DOZq)

340 278---.....That and making sure women can kill their babies at any time, including after birth. Also non-doctors can perform abortions, and abortion abattoirs don't have to follow regulations like hospitals do....

Posted by: Moki at April 12, 2020 01:47 PM (mFoNl)
-------------------------------------------
I do believe he signed the child-sacrifice* bill on Good Friday, the day commemorating the ultimate SELF-sacrifice.

(* I do not want to suggest that these scum are on the same level as those primitives who threw babies into volcanoes to appease the gods. They are actually on a LOWER level, coolly slaughtering babies to avoid a mere personal inconvenience.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 02:04 PM (M/9m0)

341 Werewolf sex?

Yiffing fursonas...

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 02:05 PM (zvwGJ)

342 Well Mike H. of course I was joshing, but I'm certainly well set for any kind of ammo expenditure. Won't be reloading for quite a while after this.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2020 02:05 PM (El6T/)

343 90

In Michigan, when our Bruce Jenner look alike governor closed the golf courses (among every other thing people derive pleasure from) our attorney general explained she does not want anymore complaints from white people who want to golf while our black neighbors are dying from corona!

Posted by: Chillin the most at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM

https://bit.ly/2XwsuH4

I just can't hear about one more black health care worker, police officer or bus driver die while getting a barrage of complaints from white folks outraged because they can't go golfing.

Dana Nessel
at_dananessel
Apr 7

The high rates of infection and death within our African-American population from #COVID-19 is staggering and horrific. It further establishes how AA's are treated like garbage when it comes to equal opportunity and access to health care, housing, education and employment.

Michiganders have only themselves** to blame for putting these two scrunts into office...

** (No, I didn't vote for either one).

Posted by: The Joker at April 12, 2020 02:06 PM (Do5/p)

344 OT but have the media or the Democrats come up with any weird ways of saying Happy Easter, i.e. Happy Spring Celebration?
I suppose one side effect of the medias virus obsession is that they may not have had the opportunity to right their annual stories dismissing Jesus.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 12, 2020 02:06 PM (Uu+Jp)

345 Wondering if France is having any trouble squaring their law against face coverings with the recommendation to wear masks.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 02:06 PM (XxJt1)

346 I heard they have lizard souls.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 12, 2020 02:07 PM (WUctj)

347 So government checks start arriving on April 15th.
Unless you make over 100k. Also if you didn't get a refund for 2018 /19 you have to go online to tell them where to send the money.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:07 PM (2DOZq)

348
Oh and on my Nextdoor they are trying to organize an 8pm howling session.
Posted by: Jordan61

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 02:09 PM (aKsyK)

349 To borrow from Edward Snowden the near-ubiquity of surveillance has created a "turnkey police state."

Now when The State wants to enforce any diktat it knows WHO did not comply, WHEN they did and WHERE you are now.

Privacy is not just a value but an essential firebreak to the exercise of tyranny.

When we put up with license recognition cameras all over the roads, cameras on every street corner, lobby and elevator, let Google track and remember every one of our searches and let Big Cellphone track our every move we gave up huge strategic ground in our ability to ever defend our freedom again.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at April 12, 2020 02:09 PM (lcQJG)

350 OT but have the media or the Democrats come up with any weird ways of saying Happy Easter, i.e. Happy Spring Celebration?
=====

Spring Break.

Passover and Easter are ignored.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2020 02:10 PM (MIKMs)

351 329 328 American Werewolf in London is better
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2020 01:59 PM (zvwGJ)

The hair was perfect.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:00 PM (NWiLs)

I used to have a tailor made suit from London. Was about a grand in 99. Wonder what now?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 02:11 PM (JFO2v)

352 343 90

In Michigan, when our Bruce Jenner look alike governor closed the golf courses (among every other thing people derive pleasure from) our attorney general explained she does not want anymore complaints from white people who want to golf while our black neighbors are dying from corona!

Posted by: Chillin the most at April 12, 2020 12:48 PM

https://bit.ly/2XwsuH4

I just can't hear about one more black health care worker, police officer or bus driver die while getting a barrage of complaints from white folks outraged because they can't go golfing.

Dana Nessel
at_dananessel
Apr 7

The high rates of infection and death within our African-American population from #COVID-19 is staggering and horrific. It further establishes how AA's are treated like garbage when it comes to equal opportunity and access to health care, housing, education and employment.

Michiganders have only themselves** to blame for putting these two scrunts into office...

** (No, I didn't vote for either one).
Posted by: The Joker

That is some derp thots coming from our Rulin' Klass.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2020 02:11 PM (1rtYd)

353
https://bit.ly/2XwsuH4

I just can't hear about one more black health care worker, police
officer or bus driver die while getting a barrage of complaints from
white folks outraged because they can't go golfing.

Dana Nessel

at_dananessel

Apr 7

That's odd, it looks white to me. Another self loathing freak of nature

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 12, 2020 02:11 PM (XEEOt)

354 Growing up it was always Easter Vacation. Easter Sunday was church, with new dress, gloves and hat, then dinner at grandma and grandpa's.

Monday, back to school.

Posted by: Infidel at April 12, 2020 02:12 PM (nvc6v)

355 350 OT but have the media or the Democrats come up with any weird ways of saying Happy Easter, i.e. Happy Spring Celebration?
=====

Spring Break.

Passover and Easter are ignored.
Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2020 02:10 PM (MIKMs)

Passover bitter herbs
Easter spiral ham
Spring Break PBR

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 02:12 PM (JFO2v)

356 Well, pack of dogs and all...
Posted by: Aviator
----
True! Karen's gotta show their true inner bitch....

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2020 02:13 PM (UUBmN)

357 98 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

===
Well duh. And if the Chinese weren't lying shitweasels even more wold be saved. And if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

(I used to say, if your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle, but brain damaged TrannyDemocrats have rendered that saying inoperative)

Posted by: Vlad the impaler, whittling away like mad at April 12, 2020 02:13 PM (d6mdH)

358 The Michigan Governer really boiled my blood with her edict to prohibit downstate Michiganders from traveling to their upstate weekend or vacation homes.

Because that's not really fair to People of Poverty stuck in the cities and you don't really own things like property, but get to use them at the pleasure of The State.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at April 12, 2020 02:14 PM (lcQJG)

359 I'm not ashamed to say I got an Easter basket from my parents until I was 15. Always had one sports item in it, ie; baseball glove, basketball , tennis racquet, etc.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:14 PM (2DOZq)

360 Why is Kentucky's death rate so high compared to Tennessee?

Posted by: ChasAtlas at April 12, 2020 02:14 PM (XhXU7)

361 Apparently the oil war is over.

https://tinyurl.com/skxm29d

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2020 02:15 PM (ZLI7S)

362 "Anybody else think the mass grave thing was a completely political message?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 12, 2020 12:44 PM (axyOa) "

As much as the halos around TFG's head.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 12, 2020 02:15 PM (cqteU)

363 Wondering if France is having any trouble squaring their law against face coverings with the recommendation to wear masks.

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 02:06 PM (XxJt1)

Most banks around here HAD signs up demanding you remove sunglasses, hats, face coverings before entering. Heh. They do ask you to lower your mask for a brief moment so the cameras can get a look at you.

I wonder, when this is over, if bank robberies will have increased significantly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2020 02:15 PM (Z4rgH)

364 Good to see Boris got out of the hospital.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 12, 2020 02:16 PM (r+sAi)

365 I used to have a tailor made suit from London.

(singsong voice): ah yes sahib, london by way of india off shore tailors. Velly nice, you like.

Posted by: getting the banned who saw an invoice once and laughed at April 12, 2020 02:16 PM (WtChj)

366 I was promised stacks of corpses blocking the streets

some apocalypse
pffft

Posted by: DB- just DB. Let my people go! at April 12, 2020 02:16 PM (iTXRQ)

367 Apparently the oil war is over.

https://tinyurl.com/skxm29d
Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2020 02:15 PM (ZLI7S)

Houston breathes a sigh of relief.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:16 PM (2DOZq)

368 "I just can't hear about one more White health care worker, police officer or bus driver die while getting a barrage of complaints from black folks outraged because they can't go to church."

Posted by: Alternate World Dana Nessel at April 12, 2020 02:16 PM (Do5/p)

369 I just noticed that Colorado is admitting to fudging their numbers. From https://covid19.colorado.gov/case-data, "*The number of cases includes people who have had a test that indicated they were positive for COVID-19. The number of cases also includes epidemiologically-linked cases -- or cases where public health epidemiologists have determined that infection is highly likely because a person exhibited symptoms and had close contact with someone who tested positive. The number of epidemiologically-linked cases represents a very small portion of the reported cases." Won't report the percentage that are tested positive vs. just assumed positive.

Posted by: tunakermit at April 12, 2020 02:16 PM (1z2F+)

370 I've never had a bespoke suit. Maybe I'll get one someday.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:17 PM (NWiLs)

371 I grew up as a kid reading the National Enquirer
that my mom always bought which subconsciously taught me to question
everything in any newspaper.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:01 PM (2DOZq)

I've noticed Bat Boy has been conspicuously absent from the grocery line tabloids these past couple of months. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 12, 2020 02:17 PM (8B6Ng)

372 Why is Kentucky's death rate so high compared to Tennessee?

Posted by: ChasAtlas at April 12, 2020 02:14 PM (XhXU7)
====

Kentucky is run by a donkey.
Tennessee is run by a republican.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 12, 2020 02:17 PM (pw+jk)

373
I'm not ashamed to say I got an Easter basket from my parents until I
was 15. Always had one sports item in it, ie; baseball glove,
basketball , tennis racquet, etc.
=====
Bikes and sports equipment are from the Easter Bunny. Books/indoor toys and jammies are from Santa Claus. My silly kidlets are still huffy because this old Santa/Bunny said graduated from college and earning lotsa $$$ means no more.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2020 02:18 PM (MIKMs)

374 358: Didn't stop the Manhattan rich

Posted by: CN at April 12, 2020 02:19 PM (ONvIw)

375
Most banks around here HAD signs up demanding you remove sunglasses, hats, face coverings before entering. Heh. They do ask you to lower your mask for a brief moment so the cameras can get a look at you.

The banks here only have the drive through operational. The main entrances are locked.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 02:19 PM (aKsyK)

376 The Black Live Matter people are fucked in the head. I can find adjacent zip codes where black women die from childbirth at 10 to 25 times white women. Same goes for Planned Parenthood. They love aborting person of color babies.

FDR created a system to tell blacks that government would take care of them.

Blacks are an expense to government with no return. Hence giving money to illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (JFO2v)

377 98

Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM

Let me guess. Fauci said jack shit about the actions of Pelosi and de Blasio in encouraging people to ignore the "misinformation" about COVID-19 in February and to instead go out and enjoy the parades for Chinese New Year.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (Do5/p)

378 When I was 6, my folks gave me an Easter basket with a skinned rabbit in it. They laughed uproariously when I started to cry.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (NWiLs)

379 98 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

I thought Trump, via Pence, had barred top admin people from appearing on CNN as long as they weren't covering the daily briefings.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (Z4rgH)

380 Apparently the oil war is over.

https://tinyurl.com/skxm29d

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2020 02:15
-------------------------------
Well shit. Prolly too late to top off the cars gas tanks.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (Dhht7)

381 For Easter-y stuff I can recommend Andrea Bocelli singing from the Duomo in Milan, on his youtube channel. It was broadcast live earlier this afternoon (on youtube), but it is no less gorgeous in replay. It includes a beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace from the completely empty piazza outside the Duomo, which (as anyone who has been there or seen pictures) is a jarring sight to see.

Even ettes not interested in Bocelli might want to check out his youtube channel, as there are several duets with his son Matteo. My wife keeps a picture of Matteo in her wallet and introduces him as "her husband" to unsuspecting strangers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (NVYyb)

382 Kentucky is run by a donkey.
Tennessee is run by a republican.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 12, 2020 02:17 PM (pw+jk)

You can all got to hell and I will go to Texas.

Posted by: Davie The Crockett at April 12, 2020 02:21 PM (JFO2v)

383 My buddy who works ICU in SoCal is really upset when younger healthy types die. But, apparently the issue isn't that the victims are overflowing into the hallways. They simply don't have the drugs they need. WTF? So really, that hospital ship is useless?

I can't think of a better example of why it's not a good idea to have the ChiComs produce every single med there is. As he says, we can't stockpile since it's all got shelf life. But we sure as hell could ramp up production on certain meds if we were already making them here, instead of trying to put facilities in place first. Talk about putting all your eggs in one take out carton.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 12, 2020 02:22 PM (8B6Ng)

384 Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

And now we know the rest of the story.

Good luck in your new job. Make that first impression a positive one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 12, 2020 02:22 PM (u82oZ)

385 380 Apparently the oil war is over.

https://tinyurl.com/skxm29d

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2020 02:15
-------------------------------
Well shit. Prolly too late to top off the cars gas tanks.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (Dhht7)

Saw a buck 38 got a kiddie pool for the back of my truck and filled it up

Posted by: Davie The Crockett at April 12, 2020 02:22 PM (JFO2v)

386 The banks here only have the drive through operational. The main entrances are locked.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 02:19 PM (aKsyK)

Admittedly, it's been a couple of weeks since my last visit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (Z4rgH)

387 wife keeps a picture of Matteo in her wallet and introduces him as "her husband" to unsuspecting strangers.

In many ways, this is also the story of the paolo.

Posted by: getting the banned a private eye at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (WtChj)

388 misanthropic noodity

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (NVYyb)

389 Good luck in your new job. Make that first impression a positive one.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 12, 2020 02:22 PM (u82oZ)

Thank you! I'll certainly do my best. This will be the first job I've ever started in my life where I wasn't on-site the first day.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (NWiLs)

390 I grew up as a kid reading the National Enquirer that my mom always
bought which subconsciously taught me to question everything in any
newspaper.

****

Remember when National Enquirer scooped all of the "real" news papers on the John Edwards cheating on his cancer stricken wife.

" The Enquirer cited claims from an
anonymous source that Edwards had engaged in an affair with Rielle
Hunter, a filmmaker hired to work for his presidential campaign, and
that Hunter had given birth to a child from the relationship."

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (h1jJh)

391 The problem with federal aid, as always, is that it positively REWARDS disaster. I'll bet that the more sickies and deadies you record, the more goodies you get.

I am convinced this is driving numbers up in some states.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 02:24 PM (M/9m0)

392 The banks here only have the drive through operational. The main entrances are locked.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 02:19 PM (aKsyK)

Admittedly, it's been a couple of weeks since my last visit.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (Z4rgH)

It's made me decide to do away with my safe deposit box.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:24 PM (2DOZq)

393 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM

Let's go back and see what Miguelito Fauci was saying about this through February and see how much of a hero he was

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 12, 2020 02:25 PM (XEEOt)

394 Christ has risen. Stop giving any consent to satan.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8Nfzcn1qQ

Posted by: Out of Shadows at April 12, 2020 02:26 PM (eANeL)

395 Going to go drink the second cup of coffee on the beach.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at April 12, 2020 01:54 PM (qEnnB)

Coffee on the ground! Hands in the air! On your knees, scumbag!

Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood SWAT team at April 12, 2020 02:26 PM (DZRVc)

396 I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 02:09 PM

Madness takes its toll.

Posted by: Riff Raff at April 12, 2020 02:26 PM (DMUuz)

397 Even ettes not interested in Bocelli might want to
check out his youtube channel, as there are several duets with his son
Matteo. My wife keeps a picture of Matteo in her wallet and introduces
him as "her husband" to unsuspecting strangers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (NVYyb)

I'll never forget the Duomo was one of the first places I visited just hours after arriving in Milano. We took the ~~coffin on ropes~~ elevator to the roof, and I was walking along the little catwalk on the ridge 200 feet up or whatever obscene amount it is when BAM! Jetlag kicked in and vertigo right out of Alfred Hitchcock. Bad case of the spins with no balance, basically crawled my sorry ass back.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 12, 2020 02:27 PM (8B6Ng)

398 Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 12, 2020 02:23 PM (h1jJh)

The Enquirer was never like the Globe or World News. They worked a lot on rumor but didn't run those alien or bat boy type stories. You learned to separate fact from opinion .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:27 PM (2DOZq)

399 Did we fund our own epidemic?

The Daily Mail reports that Obama's NIH gave the Wuhan Bio-Lab a $3.7 million grant for their Bat Project. Other partners listed are the University of Alabama, University of North Texas, Harvard and the National Wildlife Federation.

Dr. Keusch from Boston University says don't worry--there was no leak from the lab because all the Chinese scientists are trained here in Galveston, Texas.

...Say WHAT?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 12, 2020 02:27 PM (Ndje9)

400 392---It's made me decide to do away with my safe deposit box.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:24 PM (2DOZq)
----------------------------
Why?
You can have access to it through appointment.
Hmmm. You're in luck!
I believe we have an opening the second week of October at 6:30.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 12, 2020 02:28 PM (M/9m0)

401 378 When I was 6, my folks gave me an Easter basket with a skinned rabbit in it. They laughed uproariously when I started to cry.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (NWiLs)

I pray you cut off all contact with them if this is true.

Posted by: Out of Shadows at April 12, 2020 02:30 PM (eANeL)

402 375
Most banks around here HAD signs up demanding you remove sunglasses, hats, face coverings before entering. Heh. They do ask you to lower your mask for a brief moment so the cameras can get a look at you.

The banks here only have the drive through operational. The main entrances are locked.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2020 02:19 PM (aKsyK)

My bank wants you to use the atm, drive thru (which takes forever) or online banking (fuck that shit!). In person banking requires an appointment.

Posted by: Robert at April 12, 2020 02:30 PM (DZRVc)

403 Fire Fauci now... He's on Tapper saying if Trump had acted sooner more lives would have been saved

Posted by: It's me donna at April 12, 2020 12:50 PM

I didn't trust that little weasel from day one. One moron said he got a Paul Krugman vibe and I couldn't agree more. In light of all the things we've learned about him since, I have no idea why Trump didn't sack his sorry ass a month and a half ago.

Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads. You know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 12, 2020 02:30 PM (8B6Ng)

404 I pray you cut off all contact with them if this is true.
Posted by: Out of Shadows at April 12, 2020 02:30 PM (eANeL)

He's exaggerating for effect. It was just dead.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 12, 2020 02:31 PM (2DOZq)

405 *struggles for reply to insom*

*fails*

Posted by: creeper at April 12, 2020 02:31 PM (XxJt1)

406 When I was 6, my folks gave me an Easter basket with a skinned rabbit in it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 12, 2020 02:20 PM (NWiLs)

Metal! \m/

Posted by: Robert at April 12, 2020 02:32 PM (DZRVc)

407 Oh...nood.

Posted by: Robert at April 12, 2020 02:33 PM (DZRVc)

408 In PDT's defense, he's never had to deal with political agenda-driven "experts" before.
In construction you don't need to worry about your architect being from the Bad Concrete Association or structural engineers subverted by the Cardboard Truss Cartel.
He's a clean guy himself, so it makes sense that he might not be as cynical and suspicious as we might like - but that is the opposite side of the coin from his desire to do things right, which is what we voted for, innit ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 12, 2020 02:33 PM (cqteU)

409 Some Sunday morning funny.
https://tinyurl.com/w2phswm
For some reason Tinyurl only will put out to the end but play the whole thing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 12, 2020 02:35 PM (pw+jk)

410 Cases declining precipitously the last two weeks Governor UsedDoucheFluid trying to impose MORE controls.

5000 people need to bum rush the Govenor's Mansion and Hang A Bitch.
Posted by: Ima Pseudonym at April 12, 2020 01:29 PM (d6DSt)

Heh. I remember a couple of weeks ago, you were arguing how serious this was going to be. Glad you have come around.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 12, 2020 02:59 PM (miJU3)

411 I am a conservative, and agree with the principles of the post. But I wonder if there IS a line somewhere?

Should we have turned the other cheek to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and let us react as individuals, rather than as a Nation? We lost a LOT of freedoms during WWII - invocation of the draft being, perhaps, the most obvious, but hardly the only one; lot of war-time restrictions on the economy, for example. Black-outs in cities - on and on.

Posted by: One-eyed cat peepin' in the seafood store at April 12, 2020 03:02 PM (/sTHK)

412 Read one comment about how the comparison is despicable - why are we not, it asked, bombing the bejesus out of the virus as we did the Japs?
Well, I think we are . . . working fully as hard on finding a vaccine and therapy as we did on the A-Bomb - maybe harder, as we are not forced to work in secret as we did on the Manhattan Project.

Posted by: One-eyed cat peepin' in the seafood store at April 12, 2020 03:05 PM (/sTHK)

413 Kudos for proper use of 1984 reference.
The point is not that the government rewrites history.
Instead it is that the government forces you to accept things that you know are false, makes you admit to them.
'Have we always been at war with Eastasia?'

Posted by: MikeN at April 12, 2020 03:23 PM (o/eHL)

414 #393 the hospital ships are good optics.

Military field hospitals would have done the trick too. They're packaged up ready to go at Sierra Army Depot Herlong ...out in a very dry desert. Along with lots of other of Uncle Sam's war toys.

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2020 03:57 PM (tPJ3A)

415 I live in relative solitude despite trying to keep abreast of changes. I was caught unaware again by how Americans just accepted what the experts said and knuckled under to this economic disaster. It was another case of we must act now or the consequences will be dire - and I have seen this playbook far too often to trust it.

While I've been outside the pop culture for nearly four decades, we have birthed and reared several generations that accept everything the see and hear. I don't know how to undo this zombie like conditioning, but if it is not stopped soon, liberty will be lost and the American experiment finished.

P.S. Even Trump was co-opted by the experts as he turned his presidency over to them. I am curious to see how he wrests it back, if he does.

Posted by: Locke Common at April 12, 2020 04:00 PM (OI4Ss)

416 Some reminders that we lost 450,000 Americans during the Civil War, fought a two-front life or death struggle during World War II, stared down nuclear apocalypse for thirty years thereafter, and landed men on the moon-an accomplishment many still don't believe.
This is nothing.

Posted by: wferrin at April 12, 2020 04:42 PM (UjYaa)

417 Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai:
@:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjjybyJ59Lw&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: I WontSubmit at April 12, 2020 04:50 PM (122Gu)

418 The sheep will always be with you, and there is nothing you can do about that. You can't escape them because your offspring will becomes them. That appears to be the cycle of life for a civilization.

Hard times create strong menStrong men create good timesGood times create weak menWeak men create hard times
There is one possibility and only one. Turn freedom into a religion and perhaps you can maintain it.

Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2020 05:46 PM (50gG9)

419 Personally, it has just been another boring week. I know I am lucky to live in the boondocks, but nobody I know has died. Nobody I know is even sick. Nobody within literally 50 miles of me has it. And I live in California.

Posted by: Phuqdat Phuqdem at April 12, 2020 11:45 PM (olpu0)

420 You can worship your God, God's, Goddess, Pagan Deity in your own home for a while.They don't just hang around at your church you know.

Posted by: obsidian at April 13, 2020 12:06 PM (7+yqP)

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