They're doing their damnedest to fail spectacularly. I wish them every success.
Monday, March 23, 2020
WHY DON'T WE JUST TRY THROWING THE BUMS OUT? It's time to afflict the comfortable in higher education.
OUR RULING CLASS IS SO INFATUATED WITH THEIR 'EXPERTISE' THAT IT TAKES A HEAD SHOT WITH A 2X4 TO INJECT SOME COMMON SENSE: Virus response threatens our ability to 'stay together as a society'.
Ya think?
Ya think?
IF TRUMP DOESN'T ACT, people will die. Why? Where has Mayor (Whiny) DeBlasio been for the last two months?
HOW'S THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU? My ill-fated foray into homeschooling.
The bright side is that homeschooling does make it a little more difficult for the progressives to indoctrinate your kids....
The bright side is that homeschooling does make it a little more difficult for the progressives to indoctrinate your kids....
COVID-19, the elephant and the house cat.
Here’s something special: a headline in The Economist that speaks the truth: “In Europe, and around the world, governments are getting tougher.” You betcha. Last week, I wrote with contempt about San Francisco’s mayor who had just announced she would “legally prohibit residents from leaving their homes except to meet basic needs.” “Well,” I thought, “It’s California, what do you expect?”With that introduction, go and read it all.
But now several other states, including New York, Connecticut, and Illinois, have issued “shelter-in-place” orders. They closed all “nonessential” businesses (nonessential to whom? To the people who work there?) and are throwing their weight around in other ways.
Restaurants: closed, except for take-out and delivery. Gymnasiums: closed. Museums: closed. Concert halls: closed. Public fraternization: essentially prohibited.
Why? Because of the biggest threat to mankind that the world has ever seen: the COVID-19 virus, also know as the Chinese flu, which to date has killed—are you ready—276 people in the United States, almost all of them over 80, almost all with serious co-morbidities.
Two-hundred-and-seventy-six people! And yes, that frightening number will rise. It will be 400, 500 before you know it. Maybe when all is said and done, we’ll see 1,000-1,200 identified who have died from complications that can be traced to this respiratory illness.
Meanwhile, somewhere between 22,000 and more than 50,000 people have died from the seasonal flu in the United States this year. Why is there no panic about that?
The Wuhan virus is a bad bug. But far more lethal than the “pandemic”—it sounds so much scarier to say “pandemic” than “epidemic,” even if the term is not justified—far more lethal, I say, are two other “P” words: panic and passivity.
FACTS? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' FACTS: Los Angeles County health officials telling doctors to give up on testing patients in the hope of containing the outbreak and instructing them to test patients only if a positive result could change how they would be treated.
Call me cynical, but I suspect testing wasn't showing enough cases to warrant shutting down all business activity in LA county.
Call me cynical, but I suspect testing wasn't showing enough cases to warrant shutting down all business activity in LA county.
IF YOU HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, you don't want to know the answer.
Especially if the government has anything to do with it.
Especially if the government has anything to do with it.
ON BUSINESS: Restocking in the age of coronavirus:
[T]he supply chain is built for some disruption, and there's cushioning for it. Our food system can deal with the current demand; it just has to relearn how to distribute the supply.But only as long as our 'ruling elites' can be held off from fucking things up more than they already have....
As long as farmers can keep farming, truckers can keep driving, packaging can be made and supplied and grocery stores can stay open, the empty shelves should be just a temporary inconvenience.
KURT SCHLICHTER: "Never have so many with so much unwarranted self-regard spread so much bullSchiff so shamelessly."
If anything, he's understating....
If anything, he's understating....
Sunday, March 22, 2020
LET ME LEAVE YOU WITH THIS from PowerLine's Week in Pictures:
Given the Great Toilet Paper Crisis and the sheer idiocy of the week, it seemed appropriate.
Now go see the rest. There are some very good ones.
Given the Great Toilet Paper Crisis and the sheer idiocy of the week, it seemed appropriate.
Now go see the rest. There are some very good ones.
WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE:
As of 6 pm EDT, the U.S. population was 329,424,761; approximately 329,263,031 (99.951%) were not infected with the COVID19 virus.
The world population was 7,638,282,250; of them 7,636,557,070 (99.977%) were also uninfected.
Get over it, doomsayers.
Here are today's charts:
Compared to yesterday I think it's safe to say that more people got sick and more people died, but the trends remain the same: confirmed cases still increasing, higher in the U.S., probably as a result of increased testing, but that is yet to be proven; and a relatively stable -- and low -- death rate.
The nightmare is yet to come -- the economic nightmare, that is -- unless Americans revolt and start reopening businesses in spite of government interference. I think that's going to start happening -- sooner rather than later.
As of 6 pm EDT, the U.S. population was 329,424,761; approximately 329,263,031 (99.951%) were not infected with the COVID19 virus.
The world population was 7,638,282,250; of them 7,636,557,070 (99.977%) were also uninfected.
Get over it, doomsayers.
Here are today's charts:
Compared to yesterday I think it's safe to say that more people got sick and more people died, but the trends remain the same: confirmed cases still increasing, higher in the U.S., probably as a result of increased testing, but that is yet to be proven; and a relatively stable -- and low -- death rate.
The nightmare is yet to come -- the economic nightmare, that is -- unless Americans revolt and start reopening businesses in spite of government interference. I think that's going to start happening -- sooner rather than later.
BABYLON BEE, yet not the Babylon Bee: Congress assures Nation they're working tirelessly to figure out how to take advantage of this crisis.
This time they were overtaken by reality....
This time they were overtaken by reality....
WUHAN FLU UPDATE FROM POWERLINE: "[T]he COVID-19 hype quotient is astronomical."
It is, and I place the blame squarely on the Deep State and their mainstream media camp followers (both varieties, Red and Blue). When this is finally over, these arrogant, ignorant, insufferable elitist bureaucrats and their media camp followers should be made to suffer by the people - at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the unemployment line.
But other than that, I'm perfectly happy....
It is, and I place the blame squarely on the Deep State and their mainstream media camp followers (both varieties, Red and Blue). When this is finally over, these arrogant, ignorant, insufferable elitist bureaucrats and their media camp followers should be made to suffer by the people - at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the unemployment line.
But other than that, I'm perfectly happy....
BREAKING NEWS: Due to the toilet paper shortage, Gov. Gavin Newsom [D(umb)-CA] just issued new regulations limiting California residents to one bowel movement per day. Residents are also required to use both sides of the toilet paper.
No, that's not the Babylon Bee; it's just me.
Given the shortages, though, it's time to resurrect a few outhouse jokes. Here's one:
No, that's not the Babylon Bee; it's just me.
Given the shortages, though, it's time to resurrect a few outhouse jokes. Here's one:
Why are outhouses always equipped with two yellow corncobs and one white one?And by the way I was at the grocery store yesterday. There was no toilet paper, but plenty of fresh corn on the cob....
The white one is used to see if the second yellow one is needed.
SPRING FORWARD in 2020 as the world begins to green up. This begins my 2020 weekly picture series as summer rolls around in the north Georgia mountains.
This is my usual 'wiew from the deck' picture. The 'butterfly bush' (so-called because it attracts all the butterflies) is already past full bloom. I took a picture last week to start the series, but lost both the picture and my enthusiam to thecoronavirus Wuhan flu panic.
This is looking down the driveway, which the weeds are already trying to take over since it's the only place on our property that gets a lot of sun. That will end (thankfully!)when the trees begin to fill out and the driveway/road becomes a tunnel.
Here's the fire pit area. It's still pretty clear from my taking the brush down a couple of years back, but I can tell it going to need another weed control effort again this year. The trees are still pretty much bare; no buds evident yet.
Now down to the pond. It's pretty this time of year, with the growth along the water's edge pretty killed off by the cold. But be not discouraged, it's beginning to come back. There's more brush cutter work today, and lots of work behind the dam where the pond overflowed in recent heavy rains (I just yesterday recovered two 50-foot sections of 4" drain pipe which had washed a couple of hundred yards down the creek in the 'flood'.
Our new addition this year is the fountain that was installed by our neighbor a couple of months ago. In the late afternoon there's always a rainbow showing in the mist. I hope that'll last (we need a few rainbows these days) but my guess is that it will go when the trees fully leaf out.
And lastly, our house, taken from the dock. It's late afternoon, so the slope is mostly in shadow. The leaf growth hasn't started yet, but as the summer goes on the house will slowly disappear. The tree you can see leaning is dead. It'll probably come down this year, but at most it'll displace a squirrel or two and take out part of the stair rail if I don't have it attended to first.
Until next week, then - unless as seniors we're confined inside the house by thecoronavirus Wuhan flu police.
This is my usual 'wiew from the deck' picture. The 'butterfly bush' (so-called because it attracts all the butterflies) is already past full bloom. I took a picture last week to start the series, but lost both the picture and my enthusiam to the
This is looking down the driveway, which the weeds are already trying to take over since it's the only place on our property that gets a lot of sun. That will end (thankfully!)when the trees begin to fill out and the driveway/road becomes a tunnel.
Here's the fire pit area. It's still pretty clear from my taking the brush down a couple of years back, but I can tell it going to need another weed control effort again this year. The trees are still pretty much bare; no buds evident yet.
Now down to the pond. It's pretty this time of year, with the growth along the water's edge pretty killed off by the cold. But be not discouraged, it's beginning to come back. There's more brush cutter work today, and lots of work behind the dam where the pond overflowed in recent heavy rains (I just yesterday recovered two 50-foot sections of 4" drain pipe which had washed a couple of hundred yards down the creek in the 'flood'.
Our new addition this year is the fountain that was installed by our neighbor a couple of months ago. In the late afternoon there's always a rainbow showing in the mist. I hope that'll last (we need a few rainbows these days) but my guess is that it will go when the trees fully leaf out.
And lastly, our house, taken from the dock. It's late afternoon, so the slope is mostly in shadow. The leaf growth hasn't started yet, but as the summer goes on the house will slowly disappear. The tree you can see leaning is dead. It'll probably come down this year, but at most it'll displace a squirrel or two and take out part of the stair rail if I don't have it attended to first.
Until next week, then - unless as seniors we're confined inside the house by the
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