The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Is progressivism the political philosophy of misplaced priorities? Obviously it is also the purview of the masturbatory fantasies of every budding dictator, who giggles with glee at the prospect of sending the jack-booted thugs of the state to enforce increasingly ridiculous edicts, all in service of their ultimate goal...power over the People. Examine most of the grand schemes of the Left over the past three generations and one will discover some spectacularly misdirected efforts. Gun control leaps to mind, where the thousands of byzantine laws are directed not at the miscreants who would misuse weapons, but at the law-abiding citizens who are exercising their God-given, natural rights to self defense and protection against those despots who would steal their rights!

Fast forward from 1968 to 2020, and the same tired stupidity reigns supreme. Instead of protecting those who are most at risk from Sino-Lung-Rot, the elites, in their imagined infinite wisdom decided to focus their fascistic power grab on those who are least threatened by it, and leave to their own devices the most vulnerable among us.

Blue State Governors Lied, Thousands of Nursing Home Residents Died

Over 7,000 of the country’s coronavirus deaths emerged out of nursing homes.
Of the 4,377 coronavirus deaths in New Jersey, over 1,700 died due to infections in nursing homes. That nearly 40% of coronavirus deaths in one of the hardest hit states took place in nursing homes casts a stark light on the misplaced priorities of blue states battling the pandemic by locking down houses of worship and small businesses, while putting few to no resources into protecting nursing home residents.

Lest you think that nothing much can be done, I have first-hand experience with a facility that was proactive and took Kung Flu seriously. But they have the resources to deal with it effectively, going beyond the state mandates. And those mandates are scattershot and chaotic. So State Troopers patrol the parking lots of state parks, and arrest peaceful protesters. State administrators write arcane and insane rules governing face masks to be used by the healthy, while our most vulnerable and most in need of finite government resources die in their beds in understaffed nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Meanwhile our hospitals are furloughing employees because the expected (by the elites) tsunami of Commie-Flu cases never appeared, but they were told to cancel everything else, including cancer surgeries and cardiovascular procedures!

Yes...they worship at the altar of power, but they also focus their attentions on exactly the wrong things. It is a toxic combination of arrogance, power and stupidity, and it has come close to destroying us.

At least their philosophical antecedents could do a few things well...Mussolini was famous for getting the trains to run on time. The current crop of authoritarians can't balance a checkbook or manage to keep the streets clean.

And they want to run healthcare in America? Our experience of the last few months should be the final nail in the coffin of single-payer, government-run medicine in America.

But it won't be...

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Hello monkey thread!

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 28, 2020 11:00 AM (gIqgV)

2 The others have been summoned.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 28, 2020 11:01 AM (gIqgV)

3 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

4 orangemanbad > #metoo

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at April 28, 2020 11:02 AM (Ggb9q)

5 th

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 28, 2020 11:02 AM (8D42x)

6 Top OT!

Posted by: Roland THTG at April 28, 2020 11:02 AM (88+cf)

7 Let the wild rumpus begin!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 28, 2020 11:03 AM (34pA0)

8 Top 15!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 11:04 AM (5v5Zx)

9 in before 10

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 28, 2020 11:04 AM (FZYNt)

10
*Munkey*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 28, 2020 11:05 AM (EGyGV)

11 And they want to run healthcare in America?

When they say that they want to run healthcare, they mean that they want to get to decide who lives and who dies.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 28, 2020 11:05 AM (gIqgV)

12 We're saved!

'I'm Testing The Waters': Fmr. Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura Says He's Considering Presidential Bid

https://cbsloc.al/3eSnsuG

Eh, better him than Broken Brain Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 28, 2020 11:05 AM (+y/Ru)

13 Not First, Not Sponge

Posted by: USMC 8541 at April 28, 2020 11:06 AM (xGZ+b)

14 Top 20?

Posted by: FoodWaterAmmo at April 28, 2020 11:06 AM (MeXPd)

15 Willowed:

Now all of a sudden it's going to take two to four years for the supply chain to get back to normal.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 28, 2020 11:00 AM (mNq/0)

The flaw in that theory is that producers will just stop until the water is safe to jump back in. Someone will gamble on the cycle being ready next go around. All signals point to resumption of work in May. Someone will be prepared to fill the need.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Here's the thing. Animals only grow so fast. You skip a cycle and the animals next in line aren't old enough.

Instead of feeder cows, you're left with veal.
Instead of chickens, you're left with chicks.
Instead of hogs, you're left with piglets.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:07 AM (FrMyu)

16 DEFIANCE

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 28, 2020 11:07 AM (NWiLs)

17 and they laughed at Sarah Palin when she mentioned Death Panels

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 28, 2020 11:07 AM (FZYNt)

18 And they want to run healthcare in America?

When they say that they want to run healthcare, they mean that they want to get to decide who lives and who dies.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas

Ahhhhh. The old Sarah Palin death panels!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:07 AM (FrMyu)

19 My last comment was willowed.

Obama commie Van Jones made the amazing statement yesterday that Brian Kemp opened up barber shops, hair and nail salons "because our people will get sick and die."

My husband's barber for the past 19 years is a white woman who owns the shop, my salon is owned by a gay, white man, and my stylist is a white woman. Many of the nail salons around here are owned and run by Asian women.

But go with the racist angle, Van.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:08 AM (ptqGC)

20 coulda been a contender

Posted by: Boomers remember stuff at April 28, 2020 11:08 AM (vI+F1)

21 and the house just announced that they aren't coming back in session on Monday.

good thing there's no emergency for them to deal with...
burn

scatter

salt

nuke

nuke

and

once more for good measure.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 28, 2020 11:08 AM (8D42x)

22 I nooded. My apologies. In some countries it's considered polite.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (G4GU9)

23
One America News @OANN
2m
Ohio to begin reopening economy

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (v/yWa)

24 and the house just announced that they aren't coming back in session on Monday.

good thing there's no emergency for them to deal with...
burn

scatter

salt

nuke

nuke

and

once more for good measure.
Posted by: SturmToddler

Make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (FrMyu)

25 My boss got furloughed and the woman who shares the same position as me got furloughed this morning. And they're not done.

I'm nervous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

26 I've been making this point on Twitter and Facebook. If they were serious about fighting this, nursing homes would have extra staff and protection for their workers. They would move out those with the disease to protect the others. But they do the exact opposite.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (JKNZq)

27 Progressives struck a blow for truth, justice, and the Internationale Way early Tuesday morning by exercising their First Amendment rights on the Austin (TX) City Hall.

Their message, in red paint, read "May 1 International Workers Day U.S. imperialism is the virus Socialist revolution is the cure.

They also added an artistic update to the building by splashing red paint across the doors.

Posted by: Moron News Service at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (DMUuz)

28 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (hXPIg)

29 and they laughed at Sarah Palin when she mentioned Death Panels

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I thought it was Death Pandas. Put Seal Team Six right out of business.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (+y/Ru)

30 https://bit.ly/2VIch0c
*********
Ohio to begin reopening economy | One America News Network
******
Might help to include link

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (v/yWa)

31 "altar"

Posted by: Tuesday morning pedant at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (nwX7M)

32 The brownshirts at youtube have disappeared the video of immunologists from California discussing their opposition to the shutdown, on the ground that it disagreed with the recommendations of the WHO.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb6phxx2

Posted by: Methos at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (kOpft)

33
Those tickets for walking in a park have to be dismissed because of First Amendment guarantees.

How can the Guvnors prove there was a clear and present danger to walking in a park?

People weren't dropping in the streets, and as real data is collected, mostly sick old people are the only ones that are at serious risk. But they are anyway.
They can't.

Time to start ramping up the protests, maybe time to throw some 2A in with the 1A.

Just for walking around, of course.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (sy5kK)

34 It is a toxic combination of arrogance, power and stupidity, and it has come close to destroying us.

________

Or as I've been saying my entire adult life, a Death Cult. [h/t Ayn Rand]

Posted by: ShainS -- Failure has a thousand Faucis, but Success is an OrangeMan at April 28, 2020 11:11 AM (WqPYg)

35 and the house just announced that they aren't coming back in session on Monday.

good thing there's no emergency for them to deal with...
burn

scatter

salt

nuke

nuke

and

once more for good measure.
Posted by: SturmToddler

Make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM

Then finish up with a little WP.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 28, 2020 11:11 AM (axyOa)

36 The definition of quarantine is to lock down the sick and vulnerable not the hale and healthy. See Sweden for what that looks like. The other option was the China model which our Dems followed like Zombies.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:11 AM (o2Pdz)

37 My father's retirement home is strictly limiting visitors to only those who are there for end of life situations. Dad's 91.

Posted by: Archer at April 28, 2020 11:12 AM (gmo/4)

38 Progressives struck a blow for truth, justice, and
the Internationale Way early Tuesday morning by exercising their First
Amendment rights on the Austin (TX) City Hall.

Their message, in red paint, read "May 1 International Workers Day
U.S. imperialism is the virus Socialist revolution is the cure.

They also added an artistic update to the building by splashing red paint across the doors.

Posted by: Moron News Service at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (DMUuz)

They seem nice.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 11:12 AM (5v5Zx)

39 If this pandemic clusterfuck has shown us anything certain, it is that there are a lot of wannabe kings out there. They take power, and almost nothing is done to resist. So, as a teachable moment, the totalitarians are learning where the limits are*, and setting the stage for next time.

There will be a next time. Things that go this smashingly well are seldom a one time thing.

*Way further out than they should be, and probably further than even they thought it would be.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:12 AM (z79tQ)

40 now I want a steak

rare
with garlic mashed taters
and a ceasar salad.

and a full bodied red.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2020 11:13 AM (d7Ww2)

41 Posted by: Moron News Service at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (DMUuz)

If I were King I'd give shoot to kill orders .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 28, 2020 11:13 AM (2DOZq)

42 40 now I want a steak

rare
with garlic mashed taters
and a ceasar salad.

and a full bodied red.
Posted by: nurse ratched

and mushrooms

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (FZYNt)

43 40 now I want a steak

rare
with garlic mashed taters
and a ceasar salad.

and a full bodied red.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2020 11:13 AM (d7Ww2)

Dessert?

Chocolate Cheesecake?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (G4GU9)

44 Should we start calling this the NY/NJ Plague? It seems to be killing Marylanders and Virginias today.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (o2Pdz)

45 I've been following a story on Facebook. The woman's mother needs dialysis. She's posted pictures of her mom's foot, where you can see toes turning black. But mom is scared of catching the Wuflu so she won't go. They've been in touch with the nurses, remotely of course. I think her family finally convinced her that this has to be checked out. People are dying because they are afraid to go to the clinics and hospitals.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (JKNZq)

46 Shutting down the economy harms people who have jobs, ie, Trump voters. People who get govt bennies and the Weffeh checks--Democrat voters--aren't harmed at all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (E+OcO)

47 23

One America News @OANN

2m

Ohio to begin reopening economy

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (v/yWa)

________

Masks not optional.

Posted by: ShainS -- Failure has a thousand Faucis, but Success is an OrangeMan at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (WqPYg)

48 One thing to keep in mind about the progs, which we tend to forget. It's not government they are enamored of, it's control. Government is just the usually most direct means of implementing it. But as we see with tech companies, and elsewhere, if there is another means, they will embrace it.

Government is of course the natural first place to look, its powers being so vast (even when theoretically limited.) But if a private college's administration, or a home owners' association will do; well, on that point they are not dogmatic. Quite flexible in fact. And that is one of our weaknesses, in that we often have our guns (and our eyes) fixed on the wrong target.

It's depressing to reflect on how often we've been outmaneuvered.

Oh yes, an historical quibble. Law was one place the Byzantines were not "Byzantine" in the usual sense. Actually, that description more closely fits English law than the Code of Justinian.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (ZbwAu)

49 Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (o2Pdz)

50 The Karens have won and distancing and masks are forever.

Your dentist is closer to you, than your tattoo artist. And your dentist is IN your open mouth.

Your waiter brings you food prepared by someone else, and maybe the someone else is really two or three people. The glass you drink from got touched by two or three others before it got to you. If the wore gloves, they likely touched their faces.

The restaurant chair you touched was touched in the same place by the person who ate at the table where you are, just 30 minutes ago.

Self checkout at the Walmart or Kroger? Touch screens. TOUCH screens.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (+fPHo)

51 Trump has come in for criticism because of his opposition to Brian Kemp's plan to reopen Georgia. I wonder, though, it this isn't a bit of strategery. If he opposes it, and things go badly, he isn't to blame. However, if he opposes it and things go well, nobody will remember his opposition, so he's covered. At this point, I think the best we can do is limited openings those who want to, and we'll see how it goes. IOW, the states will once again be the experiments, which is what we need now.

Posted by: pep at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (T6t7i)

52 People are dying because stupidity can often be fatal.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (o2MD2)

53 49 Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?
Posted by: Puddin Head

white privilege

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (FZYNt)

54 Posted by: Tuesday morning pedant at April 28, 2020 11:10 AM (nwX7M)

Well...shit!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (dLLD6)

55 Governor of Colorado has issued 42 Executive Orders related to the coronavirus since March 11 (48 days)

This is an absurd attempt at micromanagement via executive overreach.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 28, 2020 11:16 AM (Fc5rx)

56 what comes out of a chinaman's ass?

RICE
RICE
RICE!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2020 11:16 AM (d7Ww2)

57 25 My boss got furloughed and the woman who shares the same position as me got furloughed this morning. And they're not done.

I'm nervous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Yikes, sorry TJM. I'm frankly a little worried about my job, in the long term anyway. Our airport is currently its own entity, owned half by the county and half by the city, but there has started to be rumblings that the city might step in and take us over, which means goodbye finance department.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2020 11:16 AM (Ez6QX)

58 Even my saintly high school math teacher, who was retirement age when he taught me mumble mumble years ago, was visibly chafing at the restrictions when I saw him on the local nature path the other day. This is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: pookysgirl, cogito erga femina sum at April 28, 2020 11:16 AM (XKZwp)

59 Rice is another item people are panic buying. I did get a 20 pound bag delivered yesterday. Bought it on Amazon.I have been tempted to go to the local Asian market and see what they have. But 20 pounds will last me a long time.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:17 AM (JKNZq)

60 I'd like to see the percentage of all deaths broken down by ethnicity.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 28, 2020 11:17 AM (2DOZq)

61 Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (o2Pdz)

I found him all the time.

Posted by: Joe Montana at April 28, 2020 11:17 AM (5v5Zx)

62 People are dying because stupidity can often be fatal.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Stupidity SHOULD be fatal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:18 AM (FrMyu)

63 If Ventura runs he could help Trump in MN.

Posted by: Ha at April 28, 2020 11:18 AM (sQq+E)

64 @dcexaminer

"You folks made my day!"

South Dakota residents threw @govkristinoem a parade following her decision against implementing a stay-at-home order in the state.

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yamaumt2

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:18 AM (cF8AT)

65 I say open all the things.
Let people decide if they want to go or not.
I've not missed a day of work, and am getting a corona! bonus, but I make sure to share what and where I can because, obviously, not everyone has that 'luxury'.

The busiest people seem to be the ad agencies making all the stupid "We Care So Much!" commercials.

Posted by: Roland THTG at April 28, 2020 11:18 AM (88+cf)

66 55 Governor of Colorado has issued 42 Executive Orders related to the coronavirus since March 11 (48 days)

I can't get the image of Dolores Umbridge out of my head.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2020 11:18 AM (d7Ww2)

67 59 Rice is another item people are panic buying. I did get a 20 pound bag delivered yesterday. Bought it on Amazon.I have been tempted to go to the local Asian market and see what they have. But 20 pounds will last me a long time.
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Here in NOVA normal rice was gone 6 weeks ago. Our newbie Asians know what to do when things get frisky. I haven't been able to buy Calrose Rice throughout. You will find Basmati and Jasmine Rice. Seems Arabs and Hindus don't know how to hoard.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:19 AM (o2Pdz)

68 "a toxic combination of arrogance, power and stupidity"

What immediately popped into my mind was Joseph Stalin at the beginning of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

IIRC he actually had people shot for reporting that Germans were crossing the border.

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at April 28, 2020 11:19 AM (T09ml)

69 People are dying because stupidity can often be fatal.

Posted by: Xipe Totec

Stupidity SHOULD be fatal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:18 AM (FrMyu)

And hurt like hell.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 11:19 AM (5v5Zx)

70 People are dying because they are afraid to go to the clinics and hospitals.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (JKNZq)

_________

Last week Prager discussed a story of a 19-year-old Israeli woman who died from an ear infection after refusing to go to an ER owing to fear of the virus. Another COVID-19 death ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Failure has a thousand Faucis, but Success is an OrangeMan at April 28, 2020 11:20 AM (WqPYg)

71 Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

For some reason they put it in the vegetable aisle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (XVuno)

72 Today would be a good day to make tenants in NJ aware of Murphy's exec order 128, permitting tenants to skip rent payments in lieu of security deposit.

Let the landlords light up the phone lines in Trenton.

Posted by: BluesFish at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (cILWK)

73 Also, NBC has changed the wording of their story on the lawsuit against Pritzker's lockdown extension (which ace linked yesterday) to say "according to multiple reports" the suit only applies to the state legislator who filed it, but the story still indicates that Pritzker is going to rewrite his illegal edict while the suit is being "resolved."

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8ej6pg5

Posted by: Methos at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (kOpft)

74 Good morning!

I'm not really worried about socialized medicine, in America, because I know that this time, it will be done right.

How do I know socialized medicine will be done right this time? Because America, unlike other countries, will put top men in charge.

It will be a pleasure to have the likes of Nancy, "Sheriff" Joe and Chuck Schumer running health care. Their demonstrated competence at governing tells us everything we need to know about trusting that socialized health care to government officials.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (WEBkv)

75 How does Murphy have those great poll numbers, when he is obviously an inept fool?

Posted by: EveR at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (ZZDMQ)

76 It would be nice if a reporter in Albany asked dictator Cuomo if he thinks death by suicide, drug overdose or starvation is better than death by virus.

In the bluest states, it will take massive civil and armed disobedience to get the lockdowns ended.

Posted by: mercenary13 at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (XTqiR)

77 >>Yes...they worship at the altar of power, but they also focus their attentions on exactly the wrong things. It is a toxic combination of arrogance, power and stupidity, and it has come close to destroying us.

because, as always, it's about their existing agenda, not what is needed to address the crisis du jour.

There's a flood down south, push Green New deal. There's an ecoli outbreak w/romaine lettuce, push GND. There's a shortage of affordable housing, push GND. There's a boom in frakking, which violates their precious "norms and values," yes, push GND.

No one is surprised that: There's a pandemic, push GND.
There's an

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (bDqIh)

78 75 How does Murphy have those great poll numbers, when he is obviously an inept fool?
----------------------
Luck of the Irish.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (o2Pdz)

79 On Monday I heard a report that there were no Covad-related deaths in King County for 24 hours.

Yet, Jay Incompetency keeps the state closed, and people are losing their small businesses and life savings everywhere.

How many will end it all because they have lost it all, including hope? Don't bother asking Jay Incompetency, because he really doesn't care.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (sy5kK)

80 Puddin Head,

The rice I bought is Calrose.
https://tinyurl.com/y7wwrwp2

I want to start doing some Korean cooking. I decided to buy bulk because I don't have any rice in storage. (I don't have a lot in storage, just wheat and beans, with smaller amounts of things like powdered milk.)

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (JKNZq)

81 @DailyCaller

According to Tara Reade, she filed a written sexual harassment complaint against Joe Biden with a "Senate personnel office" in 1993. If true, the complaint would be held in Biden's Senate records housed by the University of Delaware Library.

I'm sure that is mysteriously missing by now...

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)

82 49
Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:15 AM (o2Pdz)

________

We just got some brown basmati rice from Trader Joe's. What we can't find anywhere is yeast and bread flour.

Posted by: ShainS -- Failure has a thousand Faucis, but Success is an OrangeMan at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (WqPYg)

83 I'm sure that is mysteriously missing by now...

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)
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Filed alongside Obama's transcripts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (WEBkv)

84 73 Also, NBC has changed the wording of their story on the lawsuit against Pritzker's lockdown extension (which ace linked yesterday) to say "according to multiple reports" the suit only applies to the state legislator who filed it, but the story still indicates that Pritzker is going to rewrite his illegal edict while the suit is being "resolved."

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8ej6pg5
Posted by: Methos at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (kOpft)

---

The fat bastard can rewrite whatever he wants.

Hub and I are outta here June 1.

Only reason it's not sooner is because we don't want to stiff our current landlord.

Posted by: SMH at April 28, 2020 11:23 AM (RU4sa)

85 81 @DailyCaller

According to Tara Reade, she filed a written sexual harassment complaint against Joe Biden with a "Senate personnel office" in 1993. If true, the complaint would be held in Biden's Senate records housed by the University of Delaware Library.

I'm sure that is mysteriously missing by now...

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)

==========

I look forward to Rachel Maddow's intrepid search for the document.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

86 @DailyCaller

According to Tara Reade, she filed a written sexual harassment
complaint against Joe Biden with a "Senate personnel office" in 1993. If
true, the complaint would be held in Biden's Senate records housed by
the University of Delaware Library.

I'm sure that is mysteriously missing by now...

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)

*sideways eyes*

Posted by: Zombie Sandy Berger at April 28, 2020 11:23 AM (5v5Zx)

87 Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT

Sandy Berger is mort. I wonder who they used to smuggle it out.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 28, 2020 11:24 AM (2DOZq)

88 It's pure Zeke Emmanuel, kill off the unproductive; plus as a bonus, some might be Trump voters.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 28, 2020 11:24 AM (cqteU)

89 56 what comes out of a chinaman's ass?

Any Xi-NN reporter's lunch.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 28, 2020 11:24 AM (sy5kK)

90 It's pure Zeke Emmanuel, kill off the unproductive; plus as a bonus, some might be Trump voters.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 28, 2020 11:24 AM (cqteU)
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It's a mystery as to why Trump supporters were disproportionately targeted.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 28, 2020 11:25 AM (WEBkv)

91 Thanks for the sidebar link, CBD!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 28, 2020 11:25 AM (AFSld)

92 What are the blue states going to do when their population sees red states open and people going about their business? Will they stop trucking coming through their state if it's going to a red state? Will they allow commerce between their state and a red state? Their population is not going to be happy at all.

Posted by: Abby at April 28, 2020 11:25 AM (SM/op)

93
We know from past experience with SCOAMF that universities will withhold information from the public to protect Democrats.

That complaint will be held back from the light of day forever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 11:25 AM (BOr8Z)

94 I nooded. My apologies. In some countries it's considered polite.

If you ignored my nood @324, that's on you.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 28, 2020 11:25 AM (gIqgV)

95 When NJ municipalities begin to delay insurance premium payments to Connor, Strong & Buckelew, you'll be noticing a new attitude from Jackass Murphy.

Posted by: BluesFish at April 28, 2020 11:25 AM (cILWK)

96 burn

scatter

salt

nuke

nuke

and

once more for good measure.
Posted by: SturmToddler

Make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (FrMyu)

Going to make it bounce like the girls asses at a 3 am illegal rave when the base drops and the drugs kick in...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (8D42x)

97

You are not adults.

You cannot make your own decisions.

We are smarter than you.

Shut up and follow our edicts or you will be arrested or ticketed.

Posted by: Blue at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (sy5kK)

98 Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)
*******
Nah with all of the Chocolate Buddha's stuff

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (v/yWa)

99 My liberal friends continue to believe the 'government' needs to do these things. They believe that those who buck the system are an existential threat to community health and well being. You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

Posted by: iandeal at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (vgGyZ)

100 Sorry to hear that, TheJamesMadison!

Been there, it sucks, that's all I'll say.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (bDqIh)

101 DeWine's idea of opening the economy seems to be a fucking joke.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (G2zl5)

102 Hi Nurse!
have you gotten your problems with UI solved yet?
I just saw this yesterday.
No joy here. Camping was a bust due to a lot of factors. Like the ferry across the river is down for repairs. Soon though, we hope. A lot is going to depend upon appointments with SCCA and her health.

Also, you made me hungry already.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at April 28, 2020 11:27 AM (Eb+fP)

103 If the complaint was filed within the Senate, could Mitch release it?

If not, she needs to sue for a copy.

Posted by: Ha at April 28, 2020 11:27 AM (sQq+E)

104 NY / NJ continue to have half of the reported Coronavirus deaths.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (2DOZq)

105 99 My liberal friends continue to believe the 'government' needs to do these things. They believe that those who buck the system are an existential threat to community health and well being. You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.
Posted by: iandeal at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (vgGyZ)

True! But you CAN tell them to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (o2MD2)

106
According to Tara Reade, she filed a written sexual harassment complaint against Joe Biden with a "Senate personnel office" in 1993. If true, the complaint would be held in Biden's Senate records housed by the University of Delaware Library.

I'm sure that is mysteriously missing by now...

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)

I'll get to it after listening to this Khalidi tape.

Posted by: Judge Crater at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (EGyGV)

107 104 NY / NJ continue to have half of the reported Coronavirus deaths.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (2DOZq)

==========

Georgia is a monster for opening up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (LvTSG)

108
It's pure Zeke Emmanuel, kill off the unproductive; plus as a bonus, some might be Trump voters.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 28, 2020 11:24 AM (cqteU)

Zeke "Dr. Death" Emmanuel sez people have outlived their usefulness by age 75 and need to just die. I wonder if he'll gift us his own public suicide when he reaches that age?

Oh, and Brain Bleed Rapey Joe is 77.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (ptqGC)

109 "25 My boss got furloughed and the woman who shares the same position as me got furloughed this morning. And they're not done.

I'm nervous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (LvTSG) "

Assuming that the work needs to be done, it tells me that the assessment was that you are carrying the two drones and will survive.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (cqteU)

110 I stuffed 'em in my pants, bitches!!!!

- Zombie Sandy Berger

Posted by: Archer at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (gmo/4)

111 @DailyCaller minutes ago

A University of Delaware spokesperson told WaPo that the records are "unavailable" and that "its contents will become available, as the website indicates, when Mr. Biden retires from public life."

They did not respond to a request for comment from us.

Nailed it.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:29 AM (cF8AT)

112 >>It's pure Zeke Emmanuel, kill off the unproductive; plus as a bonus, some might be Trump voters.

YUP.

Tucker had a clip of Zeke on last night. Zeke was saying we'll need to stay shutdown for 18-24 months* and said 'we have no choice.'

Says who? (not WHO)

*18-24 months declaration was the same as that Virginia Health Director said a few days ago - funny, that!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 11:29 AM (bDqIh)

113 Just read an interesting take on Kemp and the re-opening vis-�-vis Trump's comments.

Apparently Kemp has "mandated" that businesses open.
This means that they must open even if they have no customers. (Think restaurants and still keeping the dining rooms closed.) Business that were eligible for interrupted business insurance (never heard of that) can no longer receive payment. Landlords can now demand payment. Workers earning unemployment can no longer file so they must go back to work or be laid off. If laid off, then that tab for that is with the employer.

Anyone know more about this?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 28, 2020 11:31 AM (axyOa)

114
I stuffed 'em in my pants, bitches!!!!

- Zombie Sandy Berger

Posted by: Archer at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (gmo/4)

Only time your trousers had a bulge, honey.

Posted by: Mrs. Sandy Berger at April 28, 2020 11:31 AM (5v5Zx)

115 And they want to run healthcare in America? Our experience of the last few months should be the final nail in the coffin of single-payer, government-run medicine in America.

says it all Charlie Brown

Posted by: DanMan at April 28, 2020 11:31 AM (XTiHL)

116 Interesting that Steele testified Perkins Coie was the source for the popular rumor saying the Trump campaign had a server communicating with a Russian bank. That same rumor was repackeged in several stories by Fusion Ken and Slate, along with David Corn. It later wound up as the pinned story at Hillary's twitter feed.

Where could Perkins Coie have sourced that rumor, other than Fusion/DOJ cabal? Some people need to be dropped into a deep dark hole and questioned.

https://tinyurl.com/ydh4au9a

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 28, 2020 11:31 AM (NVYyb)

117

Where can I buy some FURlough oil,i'm getting crabby in isolated areas?

Munkey throwing shit around today,so the Zoos must be open !

Posted by: saf at April 28, 2020 11:31 AM (5IHGB)

118 75 How does Murphy have those great poll numbers, when he is obviously an inept fool?
----------------------
Luck of the Irish.
Posted by: Puddin Head at April 28, 2020 11:21 AM (o2Pdz)

Polls shape public opinion. They don't measure it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2020 11:32 AM (iuFgi)

119 96 I want to see the cinders dance.

Posted by: Curtiss LeMay, Gen, USAF at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (C1Lsn)

120 @TrumpWarRoom

JOE BIDEN: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything what everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one."

(Ummm...wut?)

https://tinyurl.com/ya2yq6zu

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (cF8AT)

121
That same rumor was repackeged in several stories by Fusion Ken and Slate, along with David Corn.

-------

David Corn would NEVER make up a story from whole cloth for political reasons. Never.

That's why I totes believe that he found vulgar AOC graffiti in that airport bathroom.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (BOr8Z)

122 Zeke "Dr. Death" Emmanuel sez people have outlived their usefulness by age 75 and need to just die. I wonder if he'll gift us his own public suicide when he reaches that age?

Oh, and Brain Bleed Rapey Joe is 77.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:28 AM (ptqGC)

Joe has never been useful.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (Uu+Jp)

123 @DailyCaller minutes ago

A University of Delaware spokesperson told WaPo that the records are "unavailable" and that "its contents will become available, as the website indicates, when Mr. Biden retires from public life."

They did not respond to a request for comment from us.

Nailed it.
Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:29 AM (cF8AT)

I admit I don't know how this works. Is this data lockdown thing a standard feature for alumni? Is there a set fee for levels of data lockdown? Is it available for everyone?

Or, as I suspect, is this something done as a favor for selected folks, while others get their data leaked to the press?
Sure, I was being a little sarcastic.
Sure would be nice if there were some "righties" on campus to do the leaking the left always seem to benefit from.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (z79tQ)

124 JOE BIDEN: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything what everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one."

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rainmando is Joe Biden?!

Posted by: SMH at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (RU4sa)

125 122
Joe has never been useful.
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (Uu+Jp)

==============

"Objection!"
-The Democratic Party machine of Delaware

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (LvTSG)

126 How does Murphy have those great poll numbers, when he is obviously an inept fool?
----
Don't you have to prepare for today's presser, Phil?

Posted by: BluesFish at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (cILWK)

127 Huey Long got himself shot for a lot less than what some of these Donk governors have done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (miJU3)

128
@TrumpWarRoom

JOE BIDEN: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything
what everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one."

(Ummm...wut?)

https://tinyurl.com/ya2yq6zu

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (cF8AT)

Stewardess, I speak gibberish!

---- Barbara Billingsly

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:35 AM (ptqGC)

129 TrumpWarRoom

JOE BIDEN: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything what everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one."

(Ummm...wut?)

https://tinyurl.com/ya2yq6zu
Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (cF8AT)
*********
Need the Yoda Translator

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 28, 2020 11:35 AM (v/yWa)

130 >>JOE BIDEN: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything what everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one."

That's some authentic Delaware Gibberish!

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2020 11:35 AM (VEdu7)

131 "... the expected (by the elites) tsunami of Commie-Flu cases never
appeared, but they were told to cancel everything else, including cancer
surgeries and cardiovascular procedures!"

yes, people died because of the arrogance of the Fauci/Birx/Gates dream team ... dreams of starring in a movie where they get to be the heroes. And dreams of their globalist agenda overpowering "capitalism" and BigGov winning the Battle of Wits (by the witless and malevolent).

Sweden and other places showed that letting it run its course, with moderate precautions, was the right course. Gates had war-gamed thsi pandemic scenario, with an aim to establishing Globalist UN authority OVER the nation state and state level decisions, and over all sovereign rights.

imo it goes directly toward harming free enterprise in the US (and Germany and UK) ... as Fauci fully defended his friend the Marxist terrorist China owned leader of the W.H.O.. Birx has been more friendly toward Trump I suppose, but is still on board with draconian measures, and is part of the PEPFAR globalist agenda team.

An economic crisis was already brewing, so this gets that out of the way in a sense, IF we quickly open back up. But some harm will remain, and the trillions of QE thrown toward the richest is not coming back. tick tock .. #2weeks

Posted by: illiniwek at April 28, 2020 11:36 AM (Cus5s)

132 Let our people GO!

Posted by: zeera Moron Author at April 28, 2020 11:36 AM (zUdXR)

133 Stewardess, I speak gibberish!

---- Barbara Billingsly

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:35 AM (ptqGC)

LOL!

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (cF8AT)

134 Sure would be nice if there were some "righties" on campus to do the leaking the left always seem to benefit from.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (z79tQ)

Most universities have pretty porous security. How hard would be to hide in the stacks, and get oneself locked in the library overnight?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (miJU3)

135 JOE BIDEN: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything what
everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one."

Joe is spouting a load of number two

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (aQqRN)

136 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:34 AM (miJU3)

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Always optimistic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (NVYyb)

137 25 My boss got furloughed and the woman who shares the same position as me got furloughed this morning. And they're not done.

I'm nervous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Fingers crossed for ya, man

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (l4C/z)

138 Fascists have some intellect, areas competence, and a modicum of administrative skills.
The administrators of NY, NJ, and MI wouldn't qualify as fascists.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (SWrii)

139 Sam's shopping report.

Plenty of chicken except no drumsticks. A Limit of 3 fresh meat items of each kind per card.

Had to buy boneless pork chops because there were no bone in one there. We prefer bone in ones for the grill

Had to buy baby back ribs instead of spare ribs. Doesn't really matter to us, but I wanted spare ribs.

The brisket case was pretty much worked over and only a few really fatty small ones were left. I skipped them.

They still had some corned beef and I picked up one of those.

Did not see any price increases but saw one yellow card special for whole pork loins. It was $1.78 a pound. I passed on it.

Overall they had plenty of fresh meat but you might not get what you want.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 28, 2020 11:38 AM (JUOKG)

140 137 Fingers crossed for ya, man
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM (l4C/z)

========

Thank you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:38 AM (LvTSG)

141 @DailyCaller minutes ago

A University of Delaware spokesperson told WaPo that the records are "unavailable" and that "its contents will become available, as the website indicates, when Mr. Biden retires from public life."

They did not respond to a request for comment from us.

Nailed it.
Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:29 AM (cF8AT)

That's actually a good policy from U of D. If you look at presidents, you'll find that their records are sealed for a minimum of five years after they leave office, but can be sealed for up to twelve years.

If you're looking at when Biden retires from public life, I think we'll be able to see those records after 21 Jan 2021.

That being said, I wonder if we'll see what Obama's shenanigans pulled regarding Flynn after 20 Jan 2022, or did he have those sealed for another seven years after that?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2020 11:38 AM (iuFgi)

142 https://tinyurl.com/ya2yq6zu
Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:33 AM (cF8AT)

Yikes! Wait, now that I think about it, he didn't do too bad. It still had the cadence and syntax of English, so there's that. Plus he sets a very low bar for himself.

Listen, fat...

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:39 AM (z79tQ)

143 Did not see any price increases but saw one yellow card special for whole pork loins. It was $1.78 a pound. I passed on it.

Posted by: Mr. Scott

I grabbed a whole pork loin, cut it in thirds, vac packed some and turned the rest into pulled pork sammiches. Low and slow on the smoker.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (FrMyu)

144 Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:14 AM (JKNZq)

Is she sure she needs dialysis? The foot turning black sounds like diabetes.

Posted by: Bill R. at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (wzzJf)

145 I wish the first edition of Joe Biden Comics would be released by Marvel. Number one is "Joe"s Fickle Finger of Fate" introducing his boy sidekick "Hunter of Crack". Available in Mandarin and Uke.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (C1Lsn)

146 I'll tell ya what, it lifted my spirits bigly yesterday, driving past a local pub in our twee village, and seeing a handful of people sitting at tables outside in the warm sun, being served adult beverages.

Only thing out of place, were the servers in masks and gloves.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (ptqGC)

147 At least their philosophical antecedents could do a few things well...Mussolini was famous for getting the trains to run on time. The current crop of authoritarians can't balance a checkbook or manage to keep the streets clean.
+++++++++++++
This is an important point. The siren call of socialism (or any of the collectivist/statist philosophies) is that of competence. The expert-class technocracy has this as its *only* real argument in its favor.

The concept - and it is alluring if you're not too committed to the opposite messy (but free) small-state/subsidiarity concept - is that people who are supremely competent, who really know what they're doing, will make the hard decision and that society will benefit from their planning and execution on society's behalf. But it doesn't work that way and this is writ large during this pandemic morass. There have been various data points prior (like most things the state touches, for example), but this is a big and loud one.

If they want to propose an exchange of liberty for centralized competence, they had better be competent. They are not competent. Every day of my life, the state has been less competent than the day before. Why should I exchange my liberty - which is real - for their competence when their competence is fake? A lie?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (hYcqw)

148 Zeke "Dr. Death" Emmanuel sez people have outlived their usefulness by age 75 and need to just die.

-
Bye bye Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (+y/Ru)

149
Oh, sir, get the doll a roofing. You can play jacks and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. I take all events into consideration. No. No. And it is no. It is confused and its says no. A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim. Did you hear me?

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (BOr8Z)

150 Zeke "Dr. Death" Emmanuel sez people have outlived their usefulness by age 75 and need to just die. I wonder if he'll gift us his own public suicide when he reaches that age?
____________________

Wonder no more. These officious assholes never apply their own sage wisdom to themselves.

They're too special.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (k4dH2)

151 Thank you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Definitely prayers up TJM.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (FrMyu)

152 The administrators of NY, NJ, and MI wouldn't qualify as fascists.

The aspirations of fascists with none of the industry.

The same societal faction that reads about how Trump is bad at being an authoritarian and nods along. Projection, all the way down.

Posted by: Sporkatus at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (CGB5H)

153 The most heartbreaking thing is that while their loved ones were prevented from seeing them in their final moments, the immigrant staff that probably infected them in the first place were the last faces they saw before slipping the surly bonds of earth.

Many people belong in jail for this monstrosity.

Posted by: Larry Mondello at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (RVqby)

154 19 My last comment was willowed.

Obama commie Van Jones made the amazing statement yesterday that Brian Kemp opened up barber shops, hair and nail salons "because our people will get sick and die."

My husband's barber for the past 19 years is a white woman who owns the shop, my salon is owned by a gay, white man, and my stylist is a white woman. Many of the nail salons around here are owned and run by Asian women.

But go with the racist angle, Van.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:08 AM (ptqGC)
_______

This is completely OT, but that reminded me of my HS years. Now, those were late 60s through 1971. That is, the very nadir of barbershops' popularity. But one in my home town came up with the solution. They hired an EXTREMELY hot girl for the job. Suddenly guys decided haircuts were not such a bad idea after all.

Which just confirmed my father's belief that he had discovered the Philosopher's Stone, in that all male actions can be so explained.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (ZbwAu)

155 Huey Long actually did things to benefit the "little people" in his state.That's the way Dems used to do things. Now, they benefit only their cronies and cheat to stay in office.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (JKNZq)

156 >>That's actually a good policy from U of D.

No. It isn't.
Biden's personal correspondence, sure. But ALL records from his time in office?

No. This is a criminal coverup. If I were Tara Reade, I would sue the University and have them charged.

You don't get to hide evidence of a crime.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (VEdu7)

157 How does Murphy have those great poll numbers, when he is obviously an inept fool?�
----�

The media isn't attacking him 24/7. Like they do with Trump.

They're praising him for saving lives.

And the public roars with approval.

Posted by: Ha at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (sQq+E)

158 Who the hell is Peter Daou?

Is he Pre-Law or Pre-Med?

Posted by: klaftern at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (RuIsu)

159 @AndrewHClark

Oh man. The debunked lie that Joe Biden spread last night just got debunked even further.

"Consequently, the story was updated a second time on Monday evening to take account of the apparent mistake in the public record."

https://tinyurl.com/yb2wmw7j

This is about their story of Trump having a loan with the Bank of China.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (cF8AT)

160 148
Zeke "Dr. Death" Emmanuel sez people have outlived their usefulness by age 75 and need to just die.

-

Bye bye Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 28, 2020 11:40 AM (+y/Ru)

I bet he's a fan of big estate taxes too. "Why should your heirs get your estate? They didn't earn it!"

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (WwSyk)

161 156 No. This is a criminal coverup. If I were Tara Reade, I would sue the University and have them charged.

You don't get to hide evidence of a crime.
Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (VEdu7)

==========

"But that could help Trump..."
-Tara Reade

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

162 Excellent points. I'm gonna live in my home when I retire as long as I can. Screw the nursing homes, I'll visit.

Posted by: Draki at April 28, 2020 11:43 AM (HDwJc)

163
Best of luck, TJM. But I kinda doubt you'll need it. I wouldn't shitcan you. You're a smart guy, and that's at a premium.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 11:43 AM (BOr8Z)

164 This is completely OT, but that reminded me of my HS years. Now, those were late 60s through 1971. That is, the very nadir of barbershops' popularity. But one in my home town came up with the solution. They hired an EXTREMELY hot girl for the job. Suddenly guys decided haircuts were not such a bad idea after all.

Which just confirmed my father's belief that he had discovered the Philosopher's Stone, in that all male actions can be so explained.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (ZbwAu)

Barbara Eden...Andy Griffith show. Manicurist at Floyd's.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:44 AM (cF8AT)

165 49 Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

Ancient Chinese secret.

Posted by: Boomers remember stuff at April 28, 2020 11:44 AM (vI+F1)

166 You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

Posted by: iandeal at April 28, 2020 11:26 AM (vgGyZ)

Now that there is a pure jewel of wisdom.

Posted by: creeper at April 28, 2020 11:44 AM (XxJt1)

167 Kroger's marked-down meat must be cooked promptly. Go longer than 48 hours and you risk it turning green, like my $0.67/pound pork butt did.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 11:44 AM (5v5Zx)

168 12 We're saved!

'I'm Testing The Waters': Fmr. Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura Says He's Considering Presidential Bid

https://cbsloc.al/3eSnsuG

Eh, better him than Broken Brain Biden.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 28, 2020 11:05 AM (+y/Ru)

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

WWE could host the debates. No-holds-barred cage matches!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 28, 2020 11:44 AM (CAJOC)

169 The woman has 5% kidney function, so yes, she needs dialysis. She could have other issues too that account for the foot problem. People kept telling her to take her mom in, but her mom is of sound mind. You just can't force someone to go to the doctor.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:44 AM (JKNZq)

170 I remember working for big corp in the aftermath of the '86 oil crash, when thousands of layoffs across the industry were happening weekly. One friend of mine, who was on the "management track" and was always a big suck-up, got called over to the head regional office, they said they had some work to do. He was happy, because he thought he could prove how loyal he was. So he got there and they told him, well we've got 27 layoffs we need you to process today, call them in, go through their paperwork, tell them their options.

It was a dirty, demeaning job, having to call in a long line of people who needed this pay and who's lives were now being wrecked, but he did it faithfully. And at the end of the day he said "you know I only processed 26 men today" and they said "oh yeah, well you're #27. Here's your paperwork, Bye."

that was about the point when I realized that all big corps were evil. I was able to keep my job with them for about 3 years after that, but I hated them for every minute of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 11:45 AM (V2Yro)

171 You don't get to hide evidence of a crime.
Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (VEdu7)
++++++++++++++
You do if you're in the political class.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 11:45 AM (hYcqw)

172 159
@AndrewHClark

Oh man. The debunked lie that Joe Biden spread last night just got debunked even further.

"Consequently, the story was updated a second time on Monday evening
to take account of the apparent mistake in the public record."

https://tinyurl.com/yb2wmw7j

This is about their story of Trump having a loan with the Bank of China.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (cF8AT)

They got it abjectly wrong and admitted in the "retraction" that they hadn't even contacted BoC before the published their first "news" story.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 28, 2020 11:45 AM (WwSyk)

173 This is completely OT, but that reminded me of my HS years. Now, those were late 60s through 1971. That is, the very nadir of barbershops' popularity. But one in my home town came up with the solution. They hired an EXTREMELY hot girl for the job. Suddenly guys decided haircuts were not such a bad idea after all.

Which just confirmed my father's belief that he had discovered the Philosopher's Stone, in that all male actions can be so explained.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (ZbwAu)

Back in the early '80's, some selfless entrepeneur in Calgary opened a topless haircut shop, in which haircuts were given by well-endowed young ladies with minimal training as barbers, and even more minimal upper-body clothing.

It did not last long, got shut down by the city, and I missed out, being out in the bush at the time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (miJU3)

174 We have an open and transparent government.

Sorry, those records are sealed.

Posted by: Ha at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (sQq+E)

175 Interesting article.

I was reading a study the other day on mortality rates in NH's the other day that you might find interesting.

According to the study, the median survival in NH facilities is 2.2 years and the yearly mortality rate for residents is 31.8%.

All things must should be looked at in relative terms.

Study linked here.

https://tinyurl.com/y76lj6ld

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (rPQ2x)

176 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

177 @keithkoffler

'They're shorts': ABC News reporter denies being pantless during Good Morning America segment

https://tinyurl.com/ya69ehcp

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (cF8AT)

178 I'm here.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (QzF6i)

179 Govern this:

https://youtu.be/L3tnH4FGbd0

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

180 You don't get to hide evidence of a crime.
_________________

If you're the FBI, you get to manufacture evidence of crimes that never happened.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 28, 2020 11:47 AM (k4dH2)

181 163
Best of luck, TJM. But I kinda doubt you'll need it. I wouldn't shitcan you. You're a smart guy, and that's at a premium.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 11:43 AM (BOr8Z)

==========

I really appreciate that.

But, based on my experience, these things get decided by HR, and they don't know us any more than what we get paid, essentially.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

182 Tom Servo,

My husband had a story like that at the shipyards. The only problem is that the guy's layoff notice was in the stack to be processed. He saw that and handed them back the rest of the stack.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:47 AM (JKNZq)

183
You don't get to hide evidence of a crime.�
Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (VEdu7)�

You new to this country?

Lilgf

Posted by: DOJ FBI CIA at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (sQq+E)

184 I'm noticing the new direction media is taking, including 'conservative' media.

They're guilting me into wearing a mask everywhere. If I go into public, enter a grocery store and choose not to wear a mask, I'm selfish and don't care about my fellow man.

Um......the masks don't work.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

185 Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?
---
growing season. warehouse inventory levels. unexpected consumer demand.

Posted by: BluesFish at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (cILWK)

186
It did not last long, got shut down by the city, and I missed out, being out in the bush at the time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (miJU3)

I don't know but that almost deserves a phrasing?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (Uu+Jp)

187 Huey Long actually did things to benefit the "little people" in his state.That's the way Dems used to do things. Now, they benefit only their cronies and cheat to stay in office.
Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (JKNZq)

There you go. Democrat machines all over this USA would deliver down to the little folks. In return, little folks would look the other way toward a little graft and cronyism.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (z79tQ)

188 Who the hell is Peter Daou?

Is he Pre-Law or Pre-Med?
Posted by: klaftern at April 28, 2020 11:42 AM (RuIsu)

He's post-Clinton.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (miJU3)

189 Well, Dolley just asked me why I receded away from the rest of the family. Just said that I needed to work alone for a bit.

I'll let her know about the layoffs once they're all done and I know about my position one way or the other. No need to worry her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

190 Well said Punk Monkey!

There is an overwhelming Hubris to Progressive thought. They actually believe that 'perception is reality'. They believe that they can not only reprogram Human Nature, but Reality itself.

Thus ALL of progressive end goals ignore that basic things of human nature, like sex differentiation, somehow believing that if they convince people that Men and Women are the 'same' it will somehow change the physical reality that we are put together differently, and thus have different strengths and weaknesses.

Progressives Covid response shows that very Hubris. They don't understand the world around them, and thus can't counter what the world actually does.

So, they get bitch slapped by reality. Problem is, that when they are in power, that bitch slap hits others too.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (NgKpN)

191 >>Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

The grains are tiny. You can hide tham almost anywhere.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (Rm4ee)

192 And one of my Filipino guys just made a joke hoping that Trump would bomb China. I laughed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

193 "Back in the early '80's, some selfless entrepeneur in Calgary opened a topless haircut shop, in which haircuts were given by well-endowed young ladies with minimal training as barbers, and even more minimal upper-body clothing."

No, my bangs still don't look quite right. You'd better work on them some more...

Posted by: The DNC at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (eAZVt)

194 that was about the point when I realized that all big corps were evil. I was able to keep my job with them for about 3 years after that, but I hated them for every minute of it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 11:45 AM (V2Yro)

Always look out for number 1. The age of loyalty to a company being rewarded is dead and gone.

Posted by: jwest at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (mrrpT)

195
That's actually a good policy from U of D. If
you look at presidents, you'll find that their records are sealed for a
minimum of five years after they leave office, but can be sealed for up
to twelve years.

If you're looking at when Biden retires from public life, I think we'll be able to see those records after 21 Jan 2021.

That being said, I wonder if we'll see what Obama's shenanigans
pulled regarding Flynn after 20 Jan 2022, or did he have those sealed
for another seven years after that?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2020 11:38 AM (iuFgi)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE DOCUMENTS GENERATED OVER THE COURSE OF A VERY PUBLIC LIFE AND ARE PROBABLY IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND WOULD CAUSE HIM TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE IF REVEALED ARE BEING HIDDEN BY ACADEMICS UNTIL HE RETIRES FROM PUBLIC LIFE!

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (WwSyk)

196 I have a relative in a nursing home attached to a very rural hospital. They locked down very early and they have no problems. I realize its a small town home, and some relatives were upset they couldn't see their parent or relatives. Probably about 100 residents. The employees where screened every time they came to work.

Posted by: Colin at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (kdwfY)

197 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (arJlL)

198 Um......the masks don't work.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Um, yes they do now. Until they don't again.
Do try to keep up, please.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (z79tQ)

199 I'll let her know about the layoffs once they're all done and I know about my position one way or the other. No need to worry her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

Prayers up, TJM. I hated the feeling of not knowing, when it happened to me.

Your family will be fine, however, no matter what.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (iuFgi)

200 Um......the masks don't work.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)
+++++++++++
It depends on how you define "work." They do help prevent you from spreading viruses through exhaling. They help to some degree to protect you from the environment, but less so.

If you're an asymptomatic carrier, it can help prevent you from spreading anything. On the downside, though, if you're asymptomatic then you may well have a minor strain - a strain that it might be beneficial to spread as it may help with immunity against more severe strains and lessen their effects.

But mandating them for all people is typical overreach and it empowers the Karens to go nuts on anyone who doesn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (hYcqw)

201 12 We're saved!

'I'm Testing The Waters': Fmr. Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura Says He's Considering Presidential Bid

https://cbsloc.al/3eSnsuG

Eh, better him than Broken Brain Biden.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

You're replacing a dementia broken brain with a cocaine fried, steroid addled, brain.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (u8l4t)

202 Is there a possibility Biden has funnelled money to the U of D?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (Uu+Jp)

203 Zeke "Dr. Death" Emmanuel sez people have outlived their usefulness by age 75 and need to just die.

Joe Biden never had any usefulness to outlive. He has always been a parasite sucking blood from society. Nothing more. And now, he can't even aim his own dick.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (o2MD2)

204 >>Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

.....

I never had any problems.

Posted by: Joe Montana at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (rPQ2x)

205 199 I'll let her know about the layoffs once they're all done and I know about my position one way or the other. No need to worry her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

Prayers up, TJM. I hated the feeling of not knowing, when it happened to me.

Your family will be fine, however, no matter what.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (iuFgi)

===========

The company did something like this a few years ago for other reasons. It took them three days to get through it all. That was a shitshow.

I'm really hoping this is more efficient.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

206 the immigrant staff that probably infected them in the first place

The infections in my state do not correlate with immigrant areas vs non immigrant areas.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (SWrii)

207 185
Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

---

growing season. warehouse inventory levels. unexpected consumer demand.

Posted by: BluesFish at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (cILWK)

Well there are a shit ton of sealed indictments kicking around DC these days.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (WwSyk)

208 My boss got furloughed and the woman who shares the same position as me got furloughed this morning. And they're not done.

I'm nervous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts

Prayers up, James Monroe !

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (arJlL)

209 184 I'm noticing the new direction media is taking, including 'conservative' media.

They're guilting me into wearing a mask everywhere. If I go into public, enter a grocery store and choose not to wear a mask, I'm selfish and don't care about my fellow man.

Um......the masks don't work.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Virtue signaling.

And you will submit, or be cast out.

Soon? We will see Mobs of people hounding the heretics.

Then come the witch burnings.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (NgKpN)

210
Who the hell is Peter Daou?

------

Digital media hack and money bagman for Thundershart.

Think "David Brock, but without the insanity and the crack habit."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (BOr8Z)

211 204 >>Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

.....

I never had any problems.
Posted by: Joe Montana at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (rPQ2x)

===============

THIS JOKE HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE AT 61!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

212 Obama commie Van Jones made the amazing statement yesterday that Brian Kemp opened up barber shops, hair and nail salons "because our people will get sick and die."

so he believes that "his people" are too stupid to keep themselves alive unless they have Big Bwana Government to control every aspect of their daily lives.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 11:53 AM (V2Yro)

213 I'm pulling for you, TJM.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 11:53 AM (hYcqw)

214 204 >>Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

.....

I never had any problems.
Posted by: Joe Montana
______________

Neither did I!

Although I did have problems keeping Rice hidden from the media, after they caught us together.

Posted by: Gary Hart at April 28, 2020 11:53 AM (k4dH2)

215 You're replacing a dementia broken brain with a cocaine fried, steroid addled, brain.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (u8l4t)

..who preys on war widows because of his fragile ego.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at April 28, 2020 11:53 AM (x8Wzq)

216 If you're an asymptomatic carrier, it can help prevent you from spreading anything. On the downside, though, if you're asymptomatic then you may well have a minor strain - a strain that it might be beneficial to spread as it may help with immunity against more severe strains and lessen their effects.

But mandating them for all people is typical overreach and it empowers the Karens to go nuts on anyone who doesn't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 11:51 AM (hYcqw)

The media taking the stance that I'm willing to KILL MY FELLOW MAN by not wearing a mask that isn't really all that effective and MAY actually HAMPER the very necessary "herd immunity" is going to lead to a leftist psycho fuck shooting up a Walmart or Kroger.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

217 I never hated Bill Gates until now. Fuck him!

Posted by: The DNC at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (eAZVt)

218 Digital media hack and money bagman for Thundershart.�

....

Hmmmm

Posted by: ACDC at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (sQq+E)

219 Um......the masks don't work.

You just have to incentivize them properly. Make them feel part of the team.

Posted by: some MBA at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (nwX7M)

220 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

.....

***Hangs head in shame over not reading all the comments***

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (rPQ2x)

221 56% of Wuhan Flu deaths in MA are in nursing homes. End the shutdowns!

Posted by: cool breeze at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (UGKMd)

222 The media taking the stance that I'm willing to KILL MY FELLOW MAN by not wearing a mask that isn't really all that effective and MAY actually HAMPER the very necessary "herd immunity" is going to lead to a leftist psycho fuck shooting up a Walmart or Kroger.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
+++++++++++++
Yes, this is possible. They are manipulating people into compliance so they don't get pestered - or killed - by lunatic wannabe jackboots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (hYcqw)

223 I'm an asymptotic carrier.

Posted by: The DNC at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (eAZVt)

224 This is completely OT, but that reminded me of my HS
years. Now, those were late 60s through 1971. That is, the very nadir
of barbershops' popularity. But one in my home town came up with the
solution. They hired an EXTREMELY hot girl for the job. Suddenly guys
decided haircuts were not such a bad idea after all.

Which just confirmed my father's belief that he had discovered the
Philosopher's Stone, in that all male actions can be so explained.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 28, 2020 11:41 AM (ZbwAu)

Back in the early '80's, some selfless entrepeneur in Calgary opened
a topless haircut shop, in which haircuts were given by well-endowed
young ladies with minimal training as barbers, and even more minimal
upper-body clothing.

It did not last long, got shut down by the city, and I missed out, being out in the bush at the time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:46 AM (miJU3)

Same time period in Houston, with the explosion of 'gentleman's clubs' was a nearby place called Hairem. Dressed in diaphanous I Dream of Jeanie outfits, the lady barbers were uniformly young, fit, shapely, quite attractive, and stacked.
Only got there once before it was shut down.

Thank heavens for oil booms!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (5v5Zx)

225 Virtue signaling.

And you will submit, or be cast out.

Soon? We will see Mobs of people hounding the heretics.

Then come the witch burnings.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (NgKpN)

Seems to me cheap cotton masks, printed with brightly-colored Coronavirus images, would be a hot seller.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (miJU3)

226 Oops.

Posted by: Chris M at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (eAZVt)

227 My boss got furloughed and the woman who shares the same position as me got furloughed this morning. And they're not done.

I'm nervous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Fingers crossed for ya, man

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 28, 2020 11:37 AM

***

Ditto Dude!
Prayers for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (axyOa)

228 >>>>Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

Because FISAgate is heating up and she doesn't think the cya memo she emailed herself at 12:01pm on Jan 20, 2017 will save her?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (bDqIh)

229 223
I'm an asymptotic carrier.

Posted by: The DNC at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (eAZVt)

Me too!

Posted by: Parabola at April 28, 2020 11:56 AM (WwSyk)

230 After my sneezing bout at the grocery yesterday I've dropped any opposition to masks in public.

But gloves are petri dishes on wheels. I'd rather a be served by clean washed hands than a gloved server.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 11:56 AM (SWrii)

231 But, based on my experience, these things get decided by HR, and they don't know us any more than what we get paid, essentially.

They also know age, race and gender. You might be screwed.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 28, 2020 11:56 AM (gIqgV)

232 ***Hangs head in shame over not reading all the comments***
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 28, 2020 11:54 AM (rPQ2x)

lol, like anyone does.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2020 11:56 AM (z79tQ)

233 Neither did I!

Although I did have problems keeping Rice hidden from the media, after they caught us together.

Posted by: Gary Hart at April 28, 2020 11:53 AM (k4dH2)

Nice wayback callback!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 11:56 AM (5v5Zx)

234 189 Well, Dolley just asked me why I receded away from the rest of the family. Just said that I needed to work alone for a bit.

I'll let her know about the layoffs once they're all done and I know about my position one way or the other. No need to worry her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

You tell them no, uh uh. You have a new baby and a new house and they just need to STFU. Oh just gimme their number...I'll call them.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:57 AM (cF8AT)

235 212 Obama commie Van Jones made the amazing statement yesterday that Brian Kemp opened up barber shops, hair and nail salons "because our people will get sick and die."

so he believes that "his people" are too stupid to keep themselves alive unless they have Big Bwana Government to control every aspect of their daily lives.
_____________

Yeah, what is Commie Jones bitching about? Nobody is forcing black people to go get their hair or nails done. If they think they're at risk, stay at home!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 28, 2020 11:57 AM (k4dH2)

236 Prayers up, TJM. I know this is very stressful.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:57 AM (ptqGC)

237 (I don't have a lot in storage, just wheat and beans, with smaller amounts of things like powdered milk.)
Posted by: notsothoreau

Ya don't hafta feed powdered cows !

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2020 11:57 AM (arJlL)

238 228
>>>>Any ideas on why Rice is so hard to find?

Because FISAgate is heating up and she doesn't think the cya memo she emailed herself at 12:01pm on Jan 20, 2017 will save her?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 11:55 AM (bDqIh)

Her, Yates and and the joker from the UN who let someone use her credentials to unmask 100's of undercover people need a comeuppance.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 28, 2020 11:58 AM (WwSyk)

239 I give no fucks over a rice shortage, just as long as the grit supply is good.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 11:58 AM (o2MD2)

240 Yeah, what is Commie Jones bitching about? Nobody is forcing black people to go get their hair or nails done. If they think they're at risk, stay at home!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 28, 2020 11:57 AM (k4dH2)

He's the same one who keeps saying Black People are not smart enough to find the DMV to get ID to vote too.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 28, 2020 11:58 AM (NgKpN)

241 Hub and I are outta here June 1.

Only reason it's not sooner is because we don't want to stiff our current landlord.
Posted by: SMH

Best of luck with your move !

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (arJlL)

242 You tell them no, uh uh. You have a new baby and a
new house and they just need to STFU. Oh just gimme their number...I'll
call them.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:57 AM (cF8AT)

Lol. Earlier this morning, I saw a restaurant owner outside his place (NJ I think). His establishment's name: The Angry Italian.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (ptqGC)

243 @thehill

JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

Here's my shocked face -_-

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (cF8AT)

244 Always look out for number 1. The age of loyalty to a company being rewarded is dead and gone.

Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that this is true.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (gIqgV)

245 Thanks JT. : )

Looking at few places in MO south of St. Louis this weekend.

Posted by: SMH at April 28, 2020 12:00 PM (RU4sa)

246 I'm beginning to think I should paint my face blue and stand outside my front door with a sign that says FREEDOM!
It just seems that I am on a completely different wave length from everyone I know. Maybe it is being stuck in the Northeast. Maybe it is living alone. But I literally can;t tell anyone I know how I really feel about what is going on and life in general.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2020 12:00 PM (QzF6i)

247 Well, the university where I am an adjunct is starting furloughs and layoffs this week.
I expect to be included and I'm OK with that. Time to hang it up anyway.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 28, 2020 12:00 PM (axyOa)

248 Lol. Earlier this morning, I saw a restaurant owner outside his place (NJ I think). His establishment's name: The Angry Italian.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (ptqGC)

Lol!

I'm not angry...that's my normal tone.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 12:00 PM (cF8AT)

249 @thehill

JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

Here's my shocked face -_-

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (cF8AT)

Gasp!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 12:00 PM (ptqGC)

250 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

I always passed tickets to the ball game to difficult managers I had to deal with. Oh, wait.

Hang in there.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (SWrii)

251 >>Obama commie Van Jones made the amazing statement yesterday that Brian Kemp opened up barber shops, hair and nail salons "because our people will get sick and die."

so he believes that "his people" are too stupid to keep themselves alive unless they have Big Bwana Government to control every aspect of their daily lives.
- - - -

Seems all the tv news peoples' hair are looking good - how is that happening?

Are the networks breaking the rules to make sure their on-air people have colored and cut hair despite 6 weeks of shelter in place? They can't all be that good at DIY hair maintenance. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (bDqIh)

252 243 @thehill

JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

Here's my shocked face -_-
Posted by: Tami

This falls in the category of "if an ant farts in a rain forest, does it make a sound?".

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (u8l4t)

253 I give no fucks over a rice shortage, just as long as the grit supply is good.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 11:58 AM (o2MD2)

I like watching GRIT. Old westerns are cool and there were a LOT of hot wimminz back then.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

254 Prayers up TJM.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (tmA71)

255 246 I'm beginning to think I should paint my face blue and stand outside my front door with a sign that says FREEDOM!
It just seems that I am on a completely different wave length from everyone I know. Maybe it is being stuck in the Northeast. Maybe it is living alone. But I literally can;t tell anyone I know how I really feel about what is going on and life in general.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2020 12:00 PM (QzF6i

I might be available to listen to your deepest feelings. Do you have any nude pics?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (o2MD2)

256 JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

Here's my shocked face -_-

Next you're gonna tell me Amash isn't gonna vote Trump... At least we can count on meghan Mccain.. great Americans all

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (5bxa0)

257 I'm not selfish and uncaring of my fellow man, wishing them dead by not wearing a mask.

Rather, I am building herd immunity for the greater good!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (5v5Zx)

258

It's past time for government to step WAY back and turn the private sector loose.

I'll wager the economy will explode in such a manner as has never been seen. And it will carry anything even tangentially related along.

Plus for those concerned with elections, by November there will BE no concern with elections.

Given our past history of meeting with and prevailing in other dicey situations there is no reason for pessimism.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (KATBx)

259 Are the networks breaking the rules to make sure their on-air people have colored and cut hair despite 6 weeks of shelter in place? They can't all be that good at DIY hair maintenance. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (bDqIh)

Is Jimmy Acosta's hairspray considered and essential good?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (Uu+Jp)

260 53
I give no fucks over a rice shortage, just as long as the grit supply is good.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 11:58 AM (o2MD2)

I like watching GRIT. Old westerns are cool and there were a LOT of hot wimminz back then.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

MMMMMMMMM sand paper.

Posted by: Norm Abrahms at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (WwSyk)

261 This falls in the category of "if an ant farts in a rain forest, does it make a sound?".
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (u8l4t)

Haha! I'm stealing this.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (sI15f)

262 Seems all the tv news peoples' hair are looking good - how is that happening?

Are the networks breaking the rules to make sure their on-air people
have colored and cut hair despite 6 weeks of shelter in place? They
can't all be that good at DIY hair maintenance. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (bDqIh)

JournOlists love to remind us that they're "essential."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (ptqGC)

263 Just getting this in the name field.

Posted by: Moron Robbie saw a man remove his mask to sneeze at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (2h5i/)

264 My wife grew up in Loozyanna, one of the rice producers there is Konriko, out of New Iberia. She remembers in grade school they would watch educational films, and one of them was made by Konriko and called "The VaRICEty of Life!"

I'll bet school kids don't have to sit through those really lame films anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (V2Yro)

265 @thehill

JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

Here's my shocked face -_-
Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (cF8AT)

It's as shocking as finding out that Mayor Wilhelm Jr. is taking his limo to the park and taking walks as he's ordering his subjects to shelter at home.

What IS shocking here that he felt he needed to announce this as if anyone gives a FLYING FUCK about how his private citizen ass is voting.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

266 My job is safe!

But people I really like were laid off.

Mixed emotions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

267 Always look out for number 1. The age of loyalty to a company being rewarded is dead and gone.
Posted by: jwest at April 28, 2020 11:50 AM (mrrpT)

--------

Yeah, not so long ago that was sacrosanct.

Back in the fifties, Gene Kleiner and his crew bailed out on Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild.

Now, everyone in the electronics business knew that Bill Shockley, while brilliant, was a paranoid lunatic who treated his other brilliant employees like dirt, and consequently harmed his own research badly. Common knowledge that he was out of control.

It didn't matter. They were still branded "the Traitorous Eight," and if they hadn't been doing groundbreaking work that customers ABSOLUTELY HAD to have, they likely would have been destroyed by being frozen out.

"Leaving the firm," simply wasn't done in those days. It was considered the height of unprofessional behavior to do so.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (BOr8Z)

268 I'll bet school kids don't have to sit through those really lame films anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (V2Yro)
+++++++++++++
No, they have to sit through entirely different lame films now - like about cutting your junk off and being a moral relativist. The lame film about rice variety was far more valuable, I reckon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (hYcqw)

269 266 My job is safe!

But people I really like were laid off.

Mixed emotions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

Alcohol is the prescribed solution.

Posted by: Someguy at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (Zm+LZ)

270 I'll bet school kids don't have to sit through those really lame films anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (V2Yro)

No it's now "My two Mommies." and" Why Uncle John is now Aunt Jane."

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (5bxa0)

271 Neither did I!

Although I did have problems keeping Rice hidden from the media, after they caught us together.

Posted by: Gary Hart at April 28, 2020 11:53 AM (k4dH2)

Nice wayback callback!
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Vintage monkey business.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (ysC0S)

272 It's past time for government to step WAY back and turn the private sector loose.

-

The opposite will happen unless / until the Democrat presidential candidate wins.

Posted by: Moron Robbie saw a man remove his mask to sneeze at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (2h5i/)

273 I buy Carolina Gold rice (from SC) when I can find it, and keep it in the freezer.

Husband can't eat white rice anyway.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (ptqGC)

274 258

It's past time for government to step WAY back and turn the private sector loose.

I'll
wager the economy will explode in such a manner as has never been seen.
And it will carry anything even tangentially related along.

Plus for those concerned with elections, by November there will BE no concern with elections.

Given our past history of meeting with and prevailing in other dicey situations there is no reason for pessimism.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (KATBx)

Right now every action be promoted by the MSM serves to heighten the tensions and prolong the crisis with little or no effect on the trajectory of the virus. But the unemployment curve.....not flat and not them......so OK CORONA YREAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHH!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (WwSyk)

275 Always look out for number 1. The age of loyalty to a company being rewarded is dead and gone.

I always look out for number 1.

I usually wind up stepping in number 2.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

276
Told you so, TJM. Happy to hear it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (BOr8Z)

277 253 GRIT is a great channel. When I get disgusted with the morning news, I turn on "Death Valley Days" . It's like the old Twilight Zone episodes in that you never know who you'll see.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (C1Lsn)

278 268 I'll bet school kids don't have to sit through those really lame films anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (V2Yro)
+++++++++++++
No, they have to sit through entirely different lame films now - like about cutting your junk off and being a moral relativist. The lame film about rice variety was far more valuable, I reckon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (hYcqw)

Older folk like to talk about how much harder things were in their day, but the authorities weren't trying to mutilate and drug them back then.

Posted by: Someguy at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (Zm+LZ)

279 JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

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Guess I reckon I'll be voting for the senile perv, since Jeff Flake isn't voting for Trump.

Posted by: SMH at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (RU4sa)

280 Noble Energy

Posted by: JackStraw at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

281 No it's now "My two Mommies." and" Why Uncle John is now Aunt Jane."
Posted by: It's me donna
------

'Jacob's New Dress'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (ysC0S)

282 266 My job is safe!

But people I really like were laid off.

Mixed emotions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

Mixed indeed but YAY for you!!
(I called them....)

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (cF8AT)

283 My job is safe!

But people I really like were laid off.

Mixed emotions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

-

That's a compliment. We're going to see a purge like we haven't had in a long time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie saw a man remove his mask to sneeze at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (2h5i/)

284 I might be available to listen to your deepest feelings. Do you have any nude pics?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (o2MD2)

Don't tempt me. If I thought you were serious, I might take you up on it.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (QzF6i)

285 Maybe it is being stuck in the Northeast.

sharon, go to the blackboard and write that 100 times.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (SWrii)

286 Monkey should be wearing a mask.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (v0R5T)

287
But people I really like were laid off.

Son and Son-in-law were both laid off... Son is making more on unemployment

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (5bxa0)

288
...
Back in the fifties, Gene Kleiner and his crew bailed out on Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild.
...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 12:03 PM (BOr8Z)
+++++++++++++
Fairchild: Invented here.
https://youtu.be/z47Gv2cdFtA?t=62

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (hYcqw)

289
Don't tempt me. If I thought you were serious, I might take you up on it.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (QzF6i)

I'm a good listener.......

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

290 284 I might be available to listen to your deepest feelings. Do you have any nude pics?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 28, 2020 12:01 PM (o2MD2)

Don't tempt me. If I thought you were serious, I might take you up on it.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (QzF6i)

You'd be surprised what guys would be willing to do for some nudes.

Posted by: Someguy at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (Zm+LZ)

291
Fairchild: Invented here.
https://youtu.be/z47Gv2cdFtA?t=62
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (hYcqw)

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Dude, that video is fucking awesome. Every Moron should go enjoy it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (BOr8Z)

292
Son and Son-in-law were both laid off... Son is making more on unemployment
Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (5bxa0)

This.

My wife got furloughed in mid March. She's making almost double on unemployment than she did while working.

This is about as fucked up as it can be.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

293 How many people will Flake have to talk to until he finds someone who cares?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (Uu+Jp)

294 It's past time for government to step WAY back and turn the private sector loose.

I'll
wager the economy will explode in such a manner as has never been seen.
And it will carry anything even tangentially related along.

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

Permanently eliminate the payroll tax.

It would be a direct bonus payment to employees and the self-employed alike and it would help lower wage employees / self-employed more than anyone else.

But it would also help businesses and take a huge burden away from business owners.

Posted by: SH at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (sX1BW)

295 The idea behind masks is to help reduce the droplet spread of asymptomatic carriers on surfaces. Or respiratory droplets from being in close contact with someone , such as standing in line, sitting in a medical waiting room, etc.
My physician's office has had masks in boxes sitting in the entry way for several years to help stop the spread of flu and common cold to those of us there for non respiratory issues.

The major screwup on masks was when the brilliant CDC, Fauci, and Birx were screaming at the beginning of the pandemic that masks "don't prevent the spread" and at the same time decrying that the public buying up masks would deplete the supply to health care workers "who absolutely must have them".

That is BS doublespeak. If masks don't work, why bother having health care workers wear them? It's a redundant question, because masks DO work. But now there is a lot of people who think they don't work from that initial damnation of wearing or buying them.

The CDC knew we likely had a shortage of masks, and they also thought that the virus was only being spread by obviously sick individuals.
Which ended up being incorrect.

The people who keep screaming and stomp around pronouncing that they will not wear a mask, no one can make them, this is a free country etc. are no different, IMO, than the anti vaxers . They have a belief and no one or no actual science is going to change that belief system.

Wearing a mask for a few months in a public setting in which distancing from other humans at six feet for the majority of the time isn't easy to do is such a small thing to do to help stop the spread of this virus. I mean, who the hell really wants to come down with the flu, a cold, o Covid 19, even though all three are unlikely to kill most people.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (7zB87)

296 ^^ "Any idea why rice is so hard to find?"

Because it's in the FOOD SECTION?

Posted by: saf at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (5IHGB)

297 I'm asympathetic

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (LYkSI)

298 Always look out for number 1. The age of loyalty to a company being rewarded is dead and gone.

-

Yep. If you don't bump elbows with the boss/owner who is right there working in the same office at least a few days a month then the two week notice ideal is optional.

They won't give you one.

Posted by: Moron Robbie saw a man remove his mask to sneeze at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (2h5i/)

299 How many people will Flake have to talk to until he finds someone who cares?

I do... Raises hand

Posted by: Blimpo AKA Meggie Mac at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (5bxa0)

300 PHEW, TJM!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (bDqIh)

301 Anybody making MAGA masks?

Or Trump/Pence 2020 masks?

Or STFU masks?

How about a mask with Hitler's nose, mouth, and 'stache?

Or a mask in gray with a yellow Star of David?

Because if you can virtue-signal from a concert stage in front of thousands, wearing a "FUCK RACISM" tee shirt, why can't you anti-virtue-signal with your wear-it-or-be-arrested mask?

Or why can't print shops do a mask for you from a photo of your face so it looks almost not there, but has a subtle text across it, the way a watermark looks, that says, Fuck You, Arrest Me.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 28, 2020 12:09 PM (+fPHo)

302 I told Dolley, but she didn't like the order I told the story in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:09 PM (LvTSG)

303 @dcexaminer 3 minutes ago

.@StaceyAbrams has been calling Democratic power brokers and asking that they tell the Biden campaign she should be his running mate.

Some Democrats say her veepstakes campaign appears desperate.

https://tinyurl.com/ycdv6yty

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (cF8AT)

304 I swear last week during the Monday or tuesday press conference the tyrant Dewine said they weren't going to make masks a requirement.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (WqCOQ)

305 292
Son and Son-in-law were both laid off... Son is making more on unemployment
Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (5bxa0)

This.

My wife got furloughed in mid March. She's making almost double on unemployment than she did while working.

This is about as fucked up as it can be.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

The $600 a week kicker from the Feds ends in May?

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (7zB87)

306 Thank you to everyone for your well wishes and prayers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

307 Nobel Surfer

https://youtu.be/ikq4meTNryU

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (5v5Zx)

308 JUST IN: Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake says he will not vote for Trump

Here's my shocked face -_-
Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 11:59 AM (cF8AT)
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It is unreal that someone could have such an apt name.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (WEBkv)

309 258

"It's past time for government to step WAY back and turn the private sector loose."
Posted by: irongrampa at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (KATBx)

If the private sector could be cut loose, that would be great. However, it can't happen.

The government stopped the economy. Millions of people who were solidly in the middle class are not going to be called back to work. A lot of small businesses will not reopen. All through no fault of the individuals.

You can't just say "OK, all clear. Go back to what you were doing".

Right now, the government is on a path to spend 4 to 6 trillion on ill-conceived programs. As you can see from Harvard and Shake Shack getting the money, it's not being distributed in the most beneficial way. As always, with complex programs the well connected get theirs and the regular guy who has played by all the rules gets nothing (nevergiveup).

The only way for the government to step back and have the economy take off running is for it to make a bold effort to funnel enough money into a total reset. I've laid out such a program that is totally transparent and extremely hard for big business and the banks to cheat on.

It's time to really consider what could be.

Posted by: jwest at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (mrrpT)

310 masks work just fine.

you think 3m and others spend so much building factories to make masks for nothing?

Posted by: not so at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (HALdu)

311 I hate to credit Jim Cramer but he's the first economic pundit to agree with one of my pet theories, so shout out to Cramer.

Banks manipulated the queue for PPP loans, particularly guilty are large banks, and most particularly guilty is Bank of America (who openly said so). The customers banks put first in line were also customers who owed the bank money on credit lines. Stated policy.

So, BofA made sure they got PPP loans, which the companies then could use to repay more expensive bank lines. This contravenes the purpose of the program, which was to fund small business payrolls, and is the most screaming example I can imagine of self-dealing right in the midst of the pandemic crisis.

I hope this manipulation breaks a law of some kind because we should jail the bankers who organized this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 28, 2020 12:11 PM (NVYyb)

312 Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (7zB87)

Yeah, I don't see a problem with wearing them either. It's just not a big deal.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 28, 2020 12:11 PM (LYkSI)

313 We're going to see a purge like we haven't had in a long time.

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

Somehow the government will escape the purge.

Its high time government employees hit the unemployment lines.

This is our best chance.

Posted by: SH at April 28, 2020 12:11 PM (sX1BW)

314 State administrators write arcane and insane rules governing face masks
to be used by the healthy, while our most vulnerable and most in need of
finite government resources die in their beds in understaffed nursing
homes and assisted living facilities.

For all of his screwups, this goes into the "Plus" column for Kemp. The first place the Georgia National Guard was deployed to was nursing homes and assisted living facilities, with the mission of shoring up manpower and conducting disinfection and sanitation operations.

Posted by: Bert G at April 28, 2020 12:11 PM (OMsf+)

315 " a toxic combination of arrogance, power and stupidity". A better description of Progressivism has never been written.

Posted by: Bob (formerly Beto) at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (hVOXD)

316 It's a dangerous game, riding that unemployment benefit train.

The economy will re-open, but it will be contracted. If people choose to ride the enhanced unemployment, when it expires they are gonna have difficulty finding a job.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (rPQ2x)

317 The only way for the government to step back and have the economy take off running is for it to make a bold effort to funnel enough money into a total reset. I've laid out such a program that is totally transparent and extremely hard for big business and the banks to cheat on.

It's time to really consider what could be.
Posted by: jwest at April 28

is that the thing where everybody covers for your mistakes?

Posted by: not so at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (HALdu)

318 How many people will Flake have to talk to until he finds someone who cares?
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (Uu+Jp)

Since he'snot voting for Trump, he has admitted to being a useless eater. Time to send him to the rendering plant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (miJU3)

319 If you're in NY or NJ there should be Blue Angels flyovers near you now.

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (cF8AT)

320 .@StaceyAbrams has been calling Democratic power brokers and asking that they tell the Biden campaign she should be his running mate.
........

...but they couldn't understand a word she was saying with all the whistling.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (v0R5T)

321
Son and Son-in-law were both laid off... Son is making more on unemployment
Posted by: It's me donna at

This.

My wife got furloughed in mid March. She's making almost double on unemployment than she did while working.

This is about as fucked up as it can be.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe!

Yang's Univeraal Basic Income PLUS

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (aKsyK)

322 Son and Son-in-law were both laid off... Son is making more on unemployment
Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:06 PM (5bxa0)

Is it really more or is it because taxes have not been taken out of the UI?

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (Obdic)

323 There's a blog I follow, and the woman has been making masks. She posted a picture of this fabric that she'd planned to use. But the design really does look like corona virus, so she decided against it. I think people like masks that are a bit ridiculous. I saw a picture on Facebook, where they made a mask out of a gallon milk jug. The handle went down the nose and they cut out areas for the eyes. And you could take the cap off if you need to drink something.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (JKNZq)

324 318 How many people will Flake have to talk to until he finds someone who cares?
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 12:07 PM (Uu+Jp)

Since he'snot voting for Trump, he has admitted to being a useless eater. Time to send him to the rendering plant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (miJU3)

Can you still buy Tenderflake lard, or maybe it was shortening?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (Uu+Jp)

325 280 Noble Energy

Posted by: JackStraw at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

That's not cryptic, not at all.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (SWrii)

326 If you're in NY or NJ there should be Blue Angels flyovers near you now.
Posted by: Tami at April 28

they were just over, very loud

Posted by: not so at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (HALdu)

327 Or why can't print shops do a mask for you from a photo of your face so it looks almost not there, but has a subtle text across it, the way a watermark looks, that says, Fuck You, Arrest Me.

Posted by: Les Kinetic

So I'm thinking my "Fuck off Karen!" Mask will likely get me kicked out of Costco.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (axyOa)

328 $600 UE benefit is through the end of July, IIRC.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (rPQ2x)

329 Is it really more or is it because taxes have not been taken out of the UI?

It's the extra 600

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (5bxa0)

330 Any idea why rice is so hard to find? Because the arrows at both ends of the rice isle point outward! <--- ---->

Posted by: Archer at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (gmo/4)

331 325 280 Noble Energy

Posted by: JackStraw at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

That's not cryptic, not at all.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (SWrii)

=========

It's energy of noble blood. What's so hard to understand about that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (LvTSG)

332 In Carrol Country, Maryland, 48 out of 52 deaths from Corona are from nursing homes. And over 50% of cases are nursing home residents and staff.

If this was happening before the internet it'd would be thought of and reported mainly as a crises in Nursing Homes. Nobody would've shut down the schools and businesses. Of course, it was pre-internet there'd wouldn't be large scale and frequent travel to and from China. It'd just be a few seeds that gradually emerging over time, not the explosion of cases we saw in NYC.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (zqs/f)

333 "If you're in NY or NJ there should be Blue Angels flyovers near you now."

This is a cool idea, but they should do it at mach 2. America! Fuck Yeah!

Posted by: Chris M at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (eAZVt)

334 331 325 280 Noble Energy

Posted by: JackStraw at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

That's not cryptic, not at all.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (SWrii)

=========

It's energy of noble blood. What's so hard to understand about that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (LvTSG)331 325 280 Noble Energy

Posted by: JackStraw at April 28, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

That's not cryptic, not at all.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (SWrii)

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It's energy of noble blood. What's so hard to understand about that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (LvTSG)

So are we trying some sort of blood sacrifice thing?

Posted by: Someguy at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (Zm+LZ)

335 334
So are we trying some sort of blood sacrifice thing?
Posted by: Someguy at April 28, 2020 12:14 PM (Zm+LZ)

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So good it had to be said twice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 28, 2020 12:15 PM (LvTSG)

336 Remember when Flake set up that "cringeing in the elevator" video?

He's a pussy and a fake, so of course he's a douche voter.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 28, 2020 12:15 PM (LYkSI)

337 The economy will re-open, but it will be contracted. If people choose to ride the enhanced unemployment, when it expires they are gonna have difficulty finding a job.

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True, but so long as unemployment is over 10% the politicians will find it difficult to reduce unemployment. It will just get extended - maybe in a reduced form.

Posted by: SH at April 28, 2020 12:15 PM (sX1BW)

338 $600 UE benefit is through the end of July, IIRC.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 28, 2020 12:13 PM (rPQ2x)

Thanks, I wasn't sure if it was for two months or four months.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:15 PM (7zB87)

339 Just witnessed the NY Blue Angels flyby from my NJ hotel room. Murica'

Posted by: Citation X Driver at April 28, 2020 12:15 PM (zu7JG)

340 >>How many people will Flake have to talk to until he finds someone who cares?

"Yoohoo, over here!!"
*waves vigorously*

-- Jonah, David French, Max Boot, and the rest of the NT Twit Brigade

Posted by: Lizzy at April 28, 2020 12:15 PM (bDqIh)

341 Pelosi just said House not coming back May 4th. I think she was quoted saying "Screw you America"

Posted by: WisRich at April 28, 2020 12:16 PM (G0vdT)

342 masks work just fine.

you think 3m and others spend so much building factories to make masks for nothing?
Posted by: not so at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (HALdu)

Can't knock over a bank without one!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2020 12:16 PM (miJU3)

343 Is Jimmy Acosta's hairspray considered and essential good?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 28, 2020 12:02 PM (Uu+Jp)

Only when sprayed towards his face and then lit with a match

Posted by: Boswell at April 28, 2020 12:16 PM (32YRo)

344 Can't knock over a bank without one!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28

Posted by: not so at April 28, 2020 12:17 PM (HALdu)

345 Fuck the House.

Mitch needs to get the Senate back in session now.

82 judicial vacancies.

Fill them fast.

Posted by: Ha at April 28, 2020 12:17 PM (sQq+E)

346 Just witnessed the NY Blue Angels flyby from my NJ hotel room. Murica'
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There are open hotels in NJ? Wow, wouldn't have guessed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (NVYyb)

347 What was the name of the company that George Papdopoulos was working for when the FBI tried to set him up?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (ZLI7S)

348 Well, Pixy may be rejecting my comments but at least I don't have to log in here so he can do that.

I HATE passwords.

Posted by: creeper at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (XxJt1)

349 Is it really more or is it because taxes have not been taken out of the UI?
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 28, 2020 12:12 PM (Obdic)

A friend's son was working 30ish hours a week at a local chain restaurant. The 18 YO senoir in high school was clearing about $200 per week.

Now the state provides him $61 per week UI.

AND the FEDs are paying him the $600 to boot. Nice addition to his college fund.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (qLs5f)

350 Alcohol is the prescribed solution.

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The cause of and the solution to all our problems.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (+y/Ru)

351
The people who keep screaming and stomp around pronouncing that they will not wear a mask, no one can make them, this is a free country etc. are no different, IMO, than the anti vaxers . They have a belief and no one or no actual science is going to change that belief system.

Wearing a mask for a few months in a public setting in which distancing from other humans at six feet for the majority of the time isn't easy to do is such a small thing to do to help stop the spread of this virus. I mean, who the hell really wants to come down with the flu, a cold, o Covid 19, even though all three are unlikely to kill most people.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (7zB87)

Ok Karen

:jerk of motion

Seriously fuck that noise. My parents county has 6 cases. 6! My large town has 13. Why in the ever living fuck should we all be required to wear masks when we haven't been required before now and yet plenty of people have been going out and to the grocery store.

It's a fucking joke.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (G2zl5)

352 nood, press covering for uncle joe

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2020 12:18 PM (d7Ww2)

353 So Costco will kick you out if your mask says "Fuck You, Karen," . . .

. . . but wearing a "Fuck Racism" tee shirt in Costco is totes fine?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 28, 2020 12:20 PM (+fPHo)

354 I've been making masks out of the Lilly Pulitzer hem scrapes cut off my son's girlfriends' dresses when I hemmed them for her (she worked there). I'm also making them of an inner lining of flannel and an outer one of bandana.

I figure if I'm going to wear a mask, it'll be Lilly Pulitzer and will color coordinate.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at April 28, 2020 12:20 PM (LYkSI)

355 "My wife got furloughed in mid March. She's making almost double on unemployment than she did while working."

That's why so many people are all "We must continue the lockdowns until nobody dies of corona!"

They'll collecting unemployment, lazing on the sofa and watching Netflix while eating carryout. It's a mistake to think everyone hates this.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at April 28, 2020 12:21 PM (HabA/)

356 345 Fuck the House.

Mitch needs to get the Senate back in session now.

82 judicial vacancies.

Fill them fast.
Posted by: Ha at April 28, 2020 12:17 PM (sQq+E)

@ChadPergram

Hoyer on the optics of the House being out while the Senate is in session:

As I understand it, the Senate is coming back to confirm judges and confirm executive appointments

Posted by: Tami at April 28, 2020 12:21 PM (cF8AT)

357 Listening to the radio yesterday and a labor atty. was being interviewed regarding unemployment insurance, etc.

She said that these people who are receiving unemployment with the Fed kicker and don't want to go back to work, cannot stay on unemployment and refuse a call back to work UNLESS they can demonstrate via a medical exam, letter, etc. that they have a reasonable medical issue that precludes them from being able to risk getting infected. They would also have to demonstrate that there workplace would have a higher than normal risk of employee infections, etc.

Simply saying you are afraid of Coronavirus won't cut it. Unfortunately, the dummy interviewing her didn't ask about many states mandates that workers can't be retaliated against for fearing getting infected.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:22 PM (7zB87)

358 Trump 2020 face mask for sale.

https://republicanlegion.com/product/djt_2020_mask_made_in_usa/

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 28, 2020 12:22 PM (+fPHo)

359 310 masks work just fine.

you think 3m and others spend so much building factories to make masks for nothing?

Posted by: not so at April 28, 2020 12:10 PM (HALdu)

If masks didn't work why were they ever made.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2020 12:22 PM (SWrii)

360 The brownshirts at youtube have disappeared the video of immunologists from California discussing their opposition to the shutdown, on the ground that it disagreed with the recommendations of the WHO.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb6phxx2

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At some point, something needs to be done about Youtube, FB and Twatter and their blatant censoring. At some point...like now. This is getting beyond ludicrous. They are literally deciding what news the little people get to see, and what news they can't see.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at April 28, 2020 12:23 PM (O+I8R)

361 @ 319
Flyovers are all Downstate. No chance I'll see any of them, being in the Adirondacks.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 28, 2020 12:25 PM (KATBx)

362 They are not immunologists.

They're a couple of doctors that own several Urgent Cares.

But your point is taken and I agree.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at April 28, 2020 12:26 PM (qLs5f)

363 Empty the prisons of rapists and murderers (giving them the right to vote) and fill them with beach goers and park visitors.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at April 28, 2020 12:27 PM (Qc+Wp)

364 In Chicago the police routinely step over a murder victim to write a parking ticket.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at April 28, 2020 12:29 PM (Qc+Wp)

365 346,

Yeah. Us "essential" flight crew need to stay somewhere. Marriott Teaneck. Completely empty except for crews.

Posted by: Citation X Driver at April 28, 2020 12:37 PM (zu7JG)

366 No it's now "My two Mommies." and" Why Uncle John is now Aunt Jane."
Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2020 12:04 PM (5bxa0)

Two weeks ago my 8-year old was doing her required 20 min of reading for her private Christian school on the "epic books" website (it's like a huge database of books you can search and have read to you or read yourself). She finished a book and in the suggested titles was "MY TWO MOMS" - I only realized it bc she asked me to read it to her and I quickly saw where this book was going so I shut it down and made her pick a different book.

This is not the only reason but we were already leaning towards homeschooling next year.

Posted by: Roxanne, Roxanne at April 28, 2020 12:41 PM (xU7mE)

367
The people who keep screaming and stomp around pronouncing that they will not wear a mask, no one can make them, this is a free country etc. are no different, IMO, than the anti vaxers . They have a belief and no one or no actual science is going to change that belief system.

Wearing a mask for a few months in a public setting in which distancing from other humans at six feet for the majority of the time isn't easy to do is such a small thing to do to help stop the spread of this virus. I mean, who the hell really wants to come down with the flu, a cold, o Covid 19, even though all three are unlikely to kill most people.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2020 12:08 PM (7zB87)

I would hate to live with the fear that you live in.

Thank goodness I don't.

Posted by: Sooner at April 28, 2020 12:41 PM (Fs5vw)

368 TJM - Just a longtime lurker here. Glad your job is safe... best of luck, regardless.

Posted by: Hillsdale Grad at April 28, 2020 12:46 PM (T3Je5)

369 PDT tweeted that this corona nightmare will have a quote "miracle" ending. He knows something about it that we don't know, and there must be a damn good reason why we're not being told, yet.

Trust.

Posted by: MarjBaldwin at April 28, 2020 01:06 PM (H5Sbo)

370 Per Sziller, who worked as a tour guide in Italy the only resemblance between the train schedule an the actual operation of the passenger trains was solely in Mussolins fevered imaginations

And Willow

Posted by: Kindltot--It's not a mask, it's a spit hood at April 28, 2020 01:42 PM (bMMCK)

371 I wonder if the reason why states didn't give a rat's patootie about nursing homes is because it's a quick solution to lightening the load for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? I've been watching too many paranoid scenario movies.....

Posted by: vivi at April 28, 2020 01:49 PM (11H2y)

372 Here in Moscow on the Lower Colorado, you can find Texas long grain rice for $8.99 for 25lbs at Costco.

It was $7.99 just a couple weeks ago. Limit 1 bag though.

Posted by: Al Swearengen at April 28, 2020 02:21 PM (Ei0/7)

373 What's that you say, "progressives" enacting policies that result in the deaths of the elderly, reducing the costs of providing not just financial support (retirement benefits), but also social services (especially healthcare)?
Who would ever expect something like that!
I mean, other than people who studied history and knew about how "progressive", "socialist" governments have long embraced principles of cost-effectiveness when it comes to providing actual care for the population, not to mention overt eugenics-level policies of dealing with the disabled.
Totally, what's that word I'm looking for?
Incon-something-or-other.

Posted by: Sam at April 28, 2020 02:23 PM (ohyxL)

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