Cool and wet.
Yesterday caught me off guard. It was much cooler than I expected. Rain threatened all day and it was weird greenish-yellow-y light, like tornado weather. Not something I wanted to be out in. It finally did rain pretty steady in the late afternoon. Nice ‘get everything wet’ but don’t wash away the garden soil rain.
I got up earlier than I have been, but found myself suddenly very tired after breakfast. So tired I went back to bed for a few hours. Which I try to not do, because that would start something bad. But I guess I needed the sleep, because I felt a lot better when I got up for the second time. It did mean that I got nothing real done though.
I did spend a while longer cooking and baking than I usually do. I tried some soft and springy dinner rolls, that youtube made look easy. They were edible, and even tasty, but not what I was hoping for. Dinner was pan fried chicken and I cooked it for just about 5 minutes too long. Oh well, I did learn from it, so next time should be better. FWIW the chicken was frozen years ago, and was fine, just a bit overdone.
One thing I did get started with was cleaning the garage fridge. It’s been a while. A long while. I got as far as the door and the glass shelf. Lots of work needed on the rest later today.
Stay in, stay safe,
nick
My favorite example of this came up back in the days of the Shrub, when the US got caught torturing suspected terrorists. Based on the fact that innocent people, when tortured, will confess to things they didn’t do (false positive), whereas terrorists are less likely to confess (false negative) you can show that a confession is statistically a sign of innocence.
Shrub? Oh, that kept going through Obama.
[Big defense contractor] laid off the staff of that “wet work” division and put the group up for sale in 2008 following the election, but a few months into 2009, someone dropped the dime on The Annointed One, and the snake tortures were back on at Gitmo.
One of my Bat Guano-type neighbors in Florida worked for that division of [big defense contractor]. She got a little loose lipped liquored up at a party in the neighborhood one night. She was proud of her work — realize that the virus orders are enabling control freak personalities like that, no matter where you live.
I don’t believe 75 times. I do believe 10 times the reported rate.
I would believe 75 times in Santa Clara county. Lots of Chinese business travelers, and a prevailing attitude common in The Valley that what is good for “flyover country” doesn’t mean it is good for them. I don’t believe for a second that things were really nailed down tightly in that area over the last month.
Plugs/Moochelle ’20.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/how-the-obamas-could-easily-win-8-more-years-in-the-white-house/
No, I don’t think it will happen. Plugs is still sore about having the dime dropped on him four years ago while Obama looked the other way, and the cabal behind Uncle Joe does not want to share power with the Clintons or Chicago.
More like 30+ years. Mine was recorded circa 1989. Well, probably just blood frozen, maybe sequenced later to save room. AFAIK, you can still request to have your DNA destroyed after Active Duty. Yeah, right, who believes that. There’s probably a backup in the bowels of Cheyenne Mountain.
We also had the problem of 100,000’s of Chinese flooding the country. No way to really know who spread what where, but I believe the spreading was significant. I’ve read articles popping up of random testing of people on the street who are positive. I hope Nuisance keeps Kalifornia “closed” for a year. See how those wonderful “immigrants” react when the free food, shelter, meds run out.
I hope Nuisance keeps Kalifornia “closed” for a year. See how those wonderful “immigrants” react when the free food, shelter, meds run out.
California will quietly start to reopen in two weeks. As is, on the ground, I doubt that Santa Clara County is as locked down as Texas, no matter what the official line.
There is an article on DM showing the City of San Clementine, CA, filling in a skate park with sand to keep those rascally skateboarders from breaking social distance. How dumb can you get? How much time and money was spent doing this, just to dig it out in two weeks.
I have seen allegations that the virus was not allowed to spread throughout China. I have seen other claims, from untrustworthy sources, that it did. Anyone here know anything about this, and can we learn anything from it?
Just become aware of two homeless shelters, one in Boston, the other in Worcester Massachusetts where all residents were tested for Covid-19 with around 40% positive in both cases with little to no symptoms. Interesting I think.
Well, that was a disappointment. Just watched the Starship Troopers movie. They pretty much managed to completely gloss over Heinlein’s political message, namely, that voting rights should be earned. Agree or disagree, that is the real point of the book.
Plus, the military scenes were directed by someone with zero clue about actually fighting, and the sexy scenes were very tame…
I remember seeing that movie, and thinking “I hope Heinlein’s estate sues whomever stole the title of one of his books.”
–during the events, there were tweets and blog posts from Chinese in other parts of china regarding that. It was widespread with significant loss of life outside of Hubei province. After all, they locked down most of the country, not just the 11M in Hubei. the tweets and posts were mostly of the nature of “my family is still in [rural area of northern china] and everyone is sick, lots of dead, no tests or doctors anywhere”.
I found it odd at the time that we didn’t see much out of the rest of the country. since then ADVChina (white guys who lived there with chinese wives, on youtube) and others have pointed out that- outside of major cities the population doesn’t have the tech savvy to use VPNs to get around “the great firewall of china”, and being older the people get their news from only official sources, and mostly don’t care about the outside world. People don’t understand how completely CCP controls the internet and society in china. ADVchina’s videos are fascinating, and now that they are out of china and can speak freely, very eye opening.
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haven’t seen the movie, when it came out the review was “only thing in common with Heinlein’s novel is the title”, which turned me off.
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Covid-19 of course. I think they are even counting gun shots, car accidents, suicides, and old age. Got to keep those numbers high for the money.
Surely you jest. Dig it out? Only if someone else pays for the process.
If Nashville pulls it off that 20% tax increase will remain forever. Even after Covid-19 is long gone. Once a taxing authority gets their hands on money they will never give it up, for anything. People in Nashville are struggling, without money, and told to just hang on for better times. The city is struggling, without money, and instead reaches their hands into someone else’s pocket for money. Something the plain folk are not allowed to attempt. If Nashville succeeds in grubbing for more money there will be a lot of bankrupt people, empty property, the Nashville boom will be over.
I remember seeing that movie, and thinking “I hope Heinlein’s estate sues whomever stole the title of one of his books.”
I had the same reaction to what little I saw of “World War Z” before I let my wife watch the rest by herself.
I guess the father told the son to take the money and run. Still, I guess I wanted to see one last truly great Brooksfilm horror/drama on the level of “The Fly” before Mel passed.
“Nashville Tax Increase of 20% Possible”
If Nashville pulls it off that 20% tax increase will remain forever.
The Titans will start talking about a new stadium soon if they haven’t already.
If expansion bypasses San Antonio, every team sitting in a stadium more than 20 years old will play the Alamodome/San Marcos card like the Raiders did to get the deal in Las Vegas.
New stadiums bring Super Bowls. Not that hosting the big game would do much for the average citizen of Nashville.
Our town supervisor lost a reelection bid. The new supervisor and team came in and looked at the accounting books and discovered that rather than having $12M cash in the bank the township was $18M in the hole. As such, an emergency increase in the property tax was needed to be able to pay the bills. The increase was 0.5% of the assessed value, bringing the county+township+school tax to 2.5%; I don’t recall how much was the township slice but it must have been at least a 50% increase.
That one-year emergency increase is still in place more than ten years later. And the school rate increased, too, bringing the property tax rate to just under 3%. On top of 10% income and 8% sales tax, of course. I’ve mentioned that I hate New York, right? Five more years…
When I moved here the sales tax rate for the state was 6.75%, county 2%, thus a sales tax rate of 8.75%. Imagine my surprise when I went grocery shopping and found out food was taxed. Another story.
After about two years of living here the governor decided the state needed a temporary increase in the sales tax from 6.75% to 7.75%. This money was to fund the schools for a couple of years to bring the schools up to a better standard. Well 20 years later that “temporary” tax increase is still in place. When the tax was passed I told others the tax would be permanent. I was brushed off as not knowing what I was saying.
Thus I live with a sales tax rate of 9.75% on everything except medical. Food, garbage collection and sewer are taxed which is regressive towards the lower income people. Fortunately there is no state income tax except for the Hall Tax which was not too much money. I no longer worry about that tax.
When Tennessee installed a lottery the money was supposed to go the schools. While some of the money did go to the schools, the rest went into the general fund. The state did this by using funny accounting schemes. As an example, say a school is getting a million a year from the general fund. After the lottery the school is now getting $100K from the lottery. The state reduced the funding to the school from the general fund by $100K. The mayor and their cronies could honestly state the money from the lottery went to the school. They conveniently leave out the reduction in funding from the general fund. And they all patted themselves on the back.
For those interested, here is the connection diagram for the video system at my church.
Thus I live with a sales tax rate of 9.75% on everything except medical. Food, garbage collection and sewer are taxed which is regressive towards the lower income people. Fortunately there is no state income tax except for the Hall Tax which was not too much money. I no longer worry about that tax.
My trim notice arrived this week to remind me that, in Texas, we pay about 2 1/2 times what we did in Florida in property taxes. for a similar sized house. This is in additon to 8.5+% sales tax based on whether we shop inside the city limits of Austin.
We paid ~ 9.75% living in East Vancouver, WA, with a state, county, city, and “neighborhood” sales tax. Fortunately, this did not apply to food or the garbage/sewer services.
I used to half joke that Vancouver was the future of the US with regressive taxation, legalized weed, 25% of the population on food stamps, and retail consisting of Target, Walmart, Costco/Sam’s, and Kroger. In light of the last month, that “half” joke percentage is rapidly diminishing to 0.
Yes, Portland had sales-tax free shopping, but, every few years, someone floats the idea of a 3-4% tax “for the children” in the state to pay for education. In the mean time, my kids elementary school had a stream of Oregon plates pulling into the dropoff circle every morning. No income tax existed on our side of the river, but property taxes were high to support the WA State schools.
“Torture” should be something to be feared, something which marks the subject for life physically or mentally. Defining it down to include inconveniences like humiliation renders the term useless.
I’ve watched more television in the last month than I have in the preceding decade. WTF is with all the self-congratulatory boosterism? And especially, why is the checker at Safeway considered a hero?!?
When Sullenberger ditched his plane in the Hudson everyone called him a hero. Bullshite. He was just doing his job and said so himself. Calling everyone a hero renders the term useless.
*****
What if they threw a pandemic and nobody came?
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/coronavirus-is-antibody-testing-a-misplaced-priority-for-the-kerala/article31378437.ece
The money quote, AFAIK:
So along with the data from the homeless shelters and the Teddy Roosevelt, it’s starting to look like just a really bad case of the flu, coupled with an Extraordinary Popular Delusion and The Madness of Crowds.
Who knew?
Or as Pournelle would say, “Sooprise!”
I didn’t know, but suspected, a month ago. Not based on the science, of which I know some, or on the numbers, of which I had nothing trustworthy, but on the behavior of those pushing the scare. I still took precautions, but was never much concerned about the disease. The shortages, yes, the cooties, no. And the Great Depression, 2020 Edition, took me by surprise, not having anticipated even germophobe Trump and a raft of Democratic politicians crashing the economy. Lesson learned: I wasn’t yet cynical enough.
Plus, where the Hell is all the TP? I thought the TP companies said they could supply all we need. Yet, my local HEB is empty and hour after it opens. I don’t want to wait in line, with a ticket, for a six-pack of shit paper. I guess I’ll have to hit the “senior” hours at Sams.
Here’s another Chinese flu death for you, Ray:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/man-dies-after-drinking-sanitiser/article31384260.ece
*****
And a big thank you to whoever pointed out Odyssey 5 a few weeks ago. It would have slipped under the radar had you not said so but I came across it (on crackle.com) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Once you suspended disbelief with a major premise, it got interesting without the use of involved, melodramatic story arcs. Even more to my liking were the occasional morality plays. They don’t make sci-fi like that anymore.
Who knows. I went to Costco on Friday after work. Normal low volume crowd level for an early Friday afternoon. TP and paper towel stocks were extremely low. Everything else seemed normal.
I went to Lowe’s yesterday morning to pick up some tomato plants and top soil. The place was freaking packed. Black Friday level crowds. I didn’t even get out of the truck, just turned around and went home.
Must all be here in rural Oklahoma. Just left local (not super) Walmart and all paper products were fully stocked. All the varieties of TP were on the shelf. Even plenty of nitrile gloves in the pharmacy but no masks yet. No shortages I noticed.
If you have the flu, and test positive for COVID, then croak, how are you counted?
You are a twofer !
You get counted for both !
Just become aware of two homeless shelters, one in Boston, the other in Worcester Massachusetts where all residents were tested for Covid-19 with around 40% positive in both cases with little to no symptoms. Interesting I think.
Well, that is sad. And it blows the 15 to 20% maximum infection rate of any given population hypothesis.
The director didn’t read the whole book. The screenplay was actually based on a spec script that had nothing to do with the book and was modified to have some character names in common with the book. (Similarly, the screenplay for “I, Robot” was a spec that was buffed to have passing resemblance to the book, but little to no plot in common.)
” with little to no symptoms.”— yet.
Early on, when pressed on the issue of asymptomatic transmission, CDC acknowledged that yes, people that didn’t appear sick could and did spread the virus, BUT since almost all of them either later developed symptoms, or when pressed remembered weak symptoms, the CDC didn’t consider that “asymptomatic” transmission.
So it’s entirely plausible that either the populations interviewed didn’t recognize that they had symptoms earlier, or will go on to develop the symptoms. It would be nice to keep track and find out. THAT is something CDC should be good at.
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Plus, where the Hell is all the TP? I thought the TP companies said they could supply all we need. Yet, my local HEB is empty and hour after it opens. I don’t want to wait in line, with a ticket, for a six-pack of s*** paper. I guess I’ll have to hit the “senior” hours at Sams.
My local HEB has Mexican Vogue four pack super large TP at all hours. The limit is two packages for $1.96 each. No English on the package whatsoever. The TP has apple flavoring in it and no bleach for whitening. I bought a couple yesterday. Funny, I feel that the TP is a tribute to Madonna. And the inner cardboard roll is 1.5 inches diameter instead of one inch. But the outside diameter is six inches.
https://www.kimberly-clark.com.mx/en/our-brands/vogue
My local Sam’s Club has Member’s Mark TP, 45 rolls in a package for $18, limit one. I bought that and a Member’s Mark paper towels, 15 rolls, $20, Friday for the office.
We won’t have to use lettuce leaves at the office or the house now ! I had actually had plenty of TP at both since I do plan for these events. But we were out of paper towels at the office. We have really been washing our hands a lot.
Another music legend leaves the stage…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8233317/David-Bowie-bass-guitarist-Matthew-Seligman-dies-aged-64-coronavirus-battle.html
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Plus, where the Hell is all the TP? I thought the TP companies said they could supply all we need. Yet, my local HEB is empty and hour after it opens. I don’t want to wait in line, with a ticket, for a six-pack of shit paper. I guess I’ll have to hit the “senior” hours at Sams.
Consumer grade TP is made from all new pulp in the US, and the trees destinied for paper products are a carefully managed crop, planted and harvested on a schedule based on past demand. We’ve probably blown through six months to a year’s worth of production in advance at a minimum in the last month so the restocking process will be slow for a while. It is the classic “Tragedy of the Commons”.
Stocks of everything will get back to normal in Texas just in time for hurricane season. Then, the first storm of the season with the “cone of death” crossing Texas a week out from landfall will regenerate the hysteria, especially regarding gas.
WOAI has behaved themselves in this situation, but that’s probably because they created a “gas shortage” after Harvey a few years ago that still resonates today. When all was said and done, the Railroad Commissioner’s office estimated that San Antonio sold the equivalent of 50 Labor Day weekends worth of gas during month or so the “shortage” lasted.
“What’s Causing Job Loss”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/04/18/whats-causing-job-loss/
“I’ve read claims on the web that the job losses in the US were due to the virus itself, and to the fear of the virus making people cut back on activities. The claims are that the job loss is more from that, and not so much a result of the American Lockdown. So I thought I’d take a look at the weekly new claims for unemployment insurance. Of course, the different states have been hit differently by the changes. Here’s the graph of weekly new unemployment claims for one of the least affected states, Oregon.”
Good night ! All these poor people losing their jobs. And I suspect most of them are blue collar low income workers. We are sowing the whirlwind.
Wow, some of you guys pay severe property tax rates. My millage rate for 2019 was 12.3205 . I have to believe that it’s going to go up next year, regardless of the effects of the Chinese Contagion, because the County government and the School board are still dealing with the long term financial effects of the hurricane. Florida’s fairly strong Homestead Exemption laws offer no protection against increases in millage, only against increases in assessed value. It still leaves the out of town people who own the tens of thousands of beachfront condos more exposed. The underlying value of their properties have gone up quite a bit since October 2018, just because they are habitable and so much of the county is not. (For what it’s worth, the elderly & widowed do get a small break on their homestead real estate taxes. Disabled vets & ex-POWs pay no taxes on their homesteaded residence.)
Well, my somewhat derailed train of thought goes like this:
Grab ’em by the “cat” didn’t work.
Being peed on by hookers in a Russian hotel… really?
Russia Russia Russia !!!!11!!!!1!1!!
Somewhere in there is “we gotta see his tax returns” and “he’s been married more than once and the current wife has posed nude”. (Haven’t looked, ain’t going to.)
Impeachment. For exactly what was never clear to me.
Nothing has worked.
So what the hell, let’s trash the economy with a “plague” and shut everything down to kick off Great Depression II. While we are at it, lets pass a “relief bill” to give the rubes $1200 of their own money while we skim off the rest of the two trillion, well, what’s left after bailing out the banks, again.
I think that is about all. I’m sure I missed something.
Tariffs are bad when we do them, but vital when the euros do…
Roger Stone
Stripper
Kavanaugh completely unfit, might have tried to score with drunk chick at party, 32 years ago
I’m sure there were others
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Ugh. Will Smith. Ugh.
I liked ST, but yeah, nothing like the book. Same feeling with WWZ. If you haven’t seen the direct to video sequels to ST, DON’T BOTHER! Yikes, bad. The animated series wasn’t too bad.
Florida’s fairly strong Homestead Exemption laws offer no protection against increases in millage, only against increases in assessed value.
The last rewrite of the FL Homestead Exemption introducing portability arguably made the whole thing unconstitutional. Not that it is going to happen anytime soon (who knows), but the next time the Progs hold both the Governor’s mansion and a majority in the Legislature, I wouldn’t be surprised if the state gets both income tax and property tax “reform” in the state’s favor.
Never place faith in anything Charlie Crist endorsed, especially late in his term, along with his weed smoking benefactor, one of the Morgans in Morgan & Morgan. Charlie will be back — a Congressional seat isn’t nearly enough for him, and the Dem tank is empty right now.
I think that is about all. I’m sure I missed something.
Plugs. He’s done.
I’m sure I missed something.
No toilet paper? THE SKY IS FALLING!
We must do something.
Ask me again why I like the fatalism of the Indian? Shit happens, you deal with it, Life goes on.
Stocks of everything will get back to normal in Texas just in time for hurricane season. Then, the first storm of the season with the “cone of death” crossing Texas a week out from landfall will regenerate the hysteria, especially regarding gas.
That brings up a good topic. The second wave of the virus will be coming in June. The stores are restocking. HEB has almost no limits now. It is a good time to restock on canned food and bottled water. You may not need it this year. 2021 is going to be rough, very rough.
And do not let your gasoline / diesel / propane tanks drop below 1/2 ! Things are really weird right now and I am getting horrible vibes on the energy supply of the USA. People are losing money right, left, and sideways all throughout the supply chain. This cannot go on forever, something must change.
Uh. Illinois asking for a Federal bail out of their pension system.
State lawmakers seek more than $41B in federal coronavirus aid — including $10B pension bailout
Um, no.
Give the rubes $1200 of their own money? My my my, you’re behind the times.
It’s nice to be compassionate and help those in need, but how does that make those frugal, prepared people feel, and how will they vote?
It doesn’t matter, JimB. The frugal are outnumbered 3-to-1 or more.
True, sadly.
Well, garage fridge clean. First time in …. well a long time.
Even cleaned the coils underneath.
SO GROSS.
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Counted twice by each of the CDC, WHO, DHS, IRS, NSA, CIA and FBI. Then the numbers are put into a single column in Excel and AutoSum applied to the column. Those are the Covid-19 numbers. After all, it’s the totals that matter, now how those totals were arrived.
And in other news, on this date, exactly 40 years ago…I was 40 years younger.
I think we were comparing, discussing, complaining about sales tax, not property tax. My property taxes are about $1,600.00 a year, city and county. No exemptions or reductions for vets unless 100% disabled. No reductions for seniors either. I do get 10% off at Lowes and Home Depot, about the cost of the sales tax if that counts.
seventy-six Branch Davidians, including women and children, were murdered. No government official or employee was held accountable. Janet Reno, despite having stated “I take full responsibility”, was never held accountable and never lost her position, her freedom, or even her pension.
On this date, exactly 25 years ago, Timothy McVeigh and accomplices destroyed the Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. McVeigh and several accomplices were quickly arrested and publicly tried, but a possible accomplice who appeared on surveillance camera footage shortly before the attack and who was described as Middle Eastern-looking, was not publicly arrested, footage of him was not aired on television after the first day or two, and his existence was memory-holed.
Totally like the flu…
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/cemeteries-simply-cannot-cope-ecuadors-covid-death-rate-suddenly-quadruples
Watch the video.
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I do not understand this. The most populous country in the world started the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and is #8 in reported deaths. The second most populous country in the world is #17 in reported deaths. The third most populous country is #1 in reported deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Could it be that the #8 and #17 countries are lying about their deaths ?
Could it be that this is a bioweapon targeted against non-Asians ?
Could it be that there are so few deaths that the numbers are not statistically significant ?
Could it be that the USA is over reporting the deaths ?
Will watching 40+ episodes of “The Blacklist” on Netflix over the last few days make one look for conspiracies in every corner ? I am on episode s3:e6 just after the violent staging of Elizabeth Keen’s death in the airplane hanger.
seventy-six Branch Davidians, including women and children, were murdered. No government official or employee was held accountable. Janet Reno, despite having stated “I take full responsibility”, was never held accountable and never lost her position, her freedom, or even her pension.
Kharma caught up. Johnny Reno failed in her bid for Florida Governor in 2002, losing the Dem primary to Bill McBride, an awful candidate who was little known outside of Tampa and whose candidacy was based on one issue — turning the FL Department of Eduction over to the two teachers’ unions. Jeb! beat McBride like a drum.
Our government officials lie to everyone? Officials looking for money? Officials looking to protect their jobs? Officials looking to get re-elected? Nah, never going to happen.
Could it be that the #8 and #17 countries are lying about their deaths ?
China and India?
PLEASE
Say it like Neal Patrick Harris did on “How I Met Your Mother”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16h6voegFU
(If you’ve never watched, stream the first 13 epsiodes, ending with “Drumroll, Please”, a masterpiece of classic format sitcom direction that would have served as an acceptable end of the series if the worst had happened. IMHO, the rest of the 8 1/2 seasons never quite matched that standard but still provided a lot of laughs.)
Looks like Aesop’s axed comments again.
@bill, yeah, did you see the last post with over 70 comments? It got ugly quick.
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He nuked the whole thing.
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It’s frankly why I never tried to bring any traffic from there to here. Too many jerks.
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“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Church vs State”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-church-vs-state/
“Minnesota Governor forcing churches closed while leaving Planned Parenthood open has outraged many. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020.”
Something is wrong with our country.
Something is wrong with our country.
–lots of things.
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Scanner had lifeflight bringing in a patient. Presumed positive for Covid, did the hospital want him on the pad and transferred directly to the Covid ward, or did they want him in ER? Charge Nurse said ER, and they’ll show you where to take him.
Don’t know if the flight was because of the covid complications or if the guy was in an accident.
Interesting though.
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Scanner has the sheriff’s deputies madly searching for someone who fled a scene. 59 and Aldine for Mr Lynn…
They want the guy bad but so far he’s eluded them in the bayou and brush, even with a K9.
No indication of why, which is the curse of the scanner.
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On this date:
At least 17 dead in Nova Scotia, Canada. The shooter used a fake police vehicle and uniform during his spree.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-weapon-lockdown-portapique-1.5537598
Considering how restrictive our gun laws are (and they’ll get worse after this… liberal gov’t) you’d think this couldn’t happen because controlling guns prevents these events doesn’t it? Doesn’t it?
Something is wrong with our country.
–lots of things.
How did we get here ?
And more importantly, how do we fix it ? Without a civil war of course.
Yeah, including a couple of yours and a couple of mine that weren’t ugly, and on which we both put in some little effort at sanity.
He says all the poop-stompers were coming in from Western Rifle Shooters Association, and I don’t doubt it. That place is a cesspool of true-believing lunatics.
I hope he changes his mind again, and I suspect he will. If I had to kill comments at Daily Pundit, I’d probably just shut the blog down entirely, because comments are where most of the fun is, at least for me. If you can keep the loons under control.
I made my weekly run to HEB. They had the above mentioned 4-packs of Mexican TP. I guess the good shit goes to the elites (who, like Stretch Pelosi, send in the help to shop).
I’m not sure that we do.
The country has already gone entirely insane over the issue of the Chinavirus, and I include both sides of what is now a religious divide (with a few lonely islands of sanity). Wait until the follow on effects begin to bite and watch what happens.
@lynn, it happened slowly, incrementally, and at no point could you reasonably say “This far and no more.” I don’t think we can move back incrementally.
Religious wars are usually pretty destructive. And don’t establish lasting peace.
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More and more protests are taking place at State capitols. People are restless and want to work, play and return to the way it was. Me, too. All the MSM headlines include *get ready for the Summer return of SARS*, *get ready for the Fall return of SARS*, *there may be no vaccine for SARS*, *SARS will be back every year*, etc. I think that by the end of May (maybe sooner), enough people are just going to start “breaking quarantine” and goobermints will just say it was their idea. If we don’t, the country is done in a month+. Total financial collapse. When the food, meds, city services stop, there will be rioting in the streets. It will only be a 100,000 deaths a year, you know, culling the herd of weak, sick, old.
I’m now sending the tinfoil hat back to Mr. DadCooks.
People aren’t taking a dump at work and at restaurants. So there is a higher demand for consumer TP. And plants that make commercial TP can’t convert to the other. They aren’t tooled for that.
Similar things are happening in meat processing and the like. One sticking point is that some food packaged for restaurant use is not supposed to be sold to consumers as it is missing the dietary info block. Notice that some of the packages of small bags of chips and cracker packages are labeled “Not for individual sale” because they don’t have that block, so they can’t go in vending machines.
” People are restless and want to work, play and return to the way it was”
— people in general are idiots, people in groups are especially stupid. OF COURSE they want to go back. Who doesn’t? Does that mean it’s wise?
I agree that people will just start to act. Probably there will be places where that gets them the jackboot. Probably there will be places where that doesn’t draw a response.
Because the virus isn’t distributed uniformly, in some places they’ll continue to get away with it, until they don’t. And in others it will be an immediate and obvious mistake. Immediate in the sense of “two weeks later, when no one can remember”…
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