Friday, May 15, 2020

IS IT BECAUSE I'M A 'LITTLE PERSON'? Why can't I get a haircut?
'VERY CONCERNED': John Brennan clings to FBI Director Christopher Wray as Russia secrets emerge. Somehow I don't think that's very comforting to Director Wray....
ACLU SUES to prevent Americans from having too many civil liberties.

LOCKDOWN LAWSUIT: Doctors hit Gretchen Whitmer with lawsuit over medical 'time bomb'.

The Wicked Witch gets her comeuppance...

The Democrats can't contain their inner tyrants.



WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for May 15, 2020:


Deja vu all over again. Confirmed cases of coronavirus have dropped slightly to 13% of the total people tested.

The estimated death rate is steady -- 0.1074%. The estimated percentage of Americans not yet infected is still decreasing, at 75.146% today.

The state of Georgia, where I live, and freed of lockdown about 2 weeks ago, has shown no sign of that sudden increase so hoped for by the pan(ic)demic professionals.
CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN: What About 'Deaths of Despair'?

They're just 'little people'; nothing to worry about....
OOPS! Face masks pose serious risk to healthy people.

Related: the HealthScare pros botch another one. Not quite a coronavirus death, but close.
THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE writes on the real experts.
BUT DO YOU WEAR MASKS?


A little bit of levity goes a long way....
LET THEM EAT CAKE: Out-of-work Americans still waiting for jobless aid.
BECAUSE DIVERSITY: Harvard students petition against virtual learning.

Right answer, stupid reason. But then it's hard to control the sheep if they're not in the corral....
LONG READ from the Claremont Review of Books: the social justice endgame.

Make the time to read it all.
ANN COULTER: Liberal privilege (insanity? idiocy?) in two tweets.
THE HEALTHSCARE PROFESSIONALS ARE ALREADY TRYING TO SET US UP FOR ANOTHER PAN(IC)DEMIC: These states may already be doomed for a second lockdown.

UPDATE: Let's watch and learn. Here are two charts from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's coronavirus dashboard. They're screen shots taken yesterday, and are updated daily at the dashboard link.



Reported cases and deaths have clearly been on the decline for over a month now. If the HealthScare Professionals are correct that another pan(ic)demic is on the way, those charts should be climbing sharply soon, since Georgia has been (kinda-sorta) open for nearly two weeks.

Don't waste your time going to the Georgia Department of Public Health website; it's full of the same self-aggrandizing poppycock as on the CDC website, and the data is well-hidden from those knuckle-dragging Neanderthal deplorables incapable of understanding the nuances of death by coronavirus.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I'm so old I can remember when America was still a democracy.

Thursday, May 14, 2020

JOHN STOSSEL: 'Learned helplessness' is a bad idea.
JUDGE EMMET SULLIVAN PLAINLY HAS IT IN FOR MICHAEL FLYNN. Appoints retired judge to contest DOJ’s motion to dismiss Flynn case.

To me this is a clear case of the Deep State trying its level best to keep the Flynn case (and Russia collusion) alive until the 2020 election. Obviously President Trump can pardon LtGen Flynn at any time he wishes, but as I understand it a pardon will not allow Flynn and his attorneys to sue the pants off all the bastards who who set him up; dismissal with prejudice will.

Attorney General Barr should do all he can to force dismissal with prejudice -- even if it means going all the way to the Supreme Court.

I really, really, really want Mike Flynn to become an instant billionaire....
THERE'S NO MATH IN JOURNALISM: Vox journalist panned for his flawed logic while trying to fact-check Trump.
WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for May 14, 2020:


'Same old, same old' still applies. The daily death rate is stable to declining and the cumulative numbers are still showing the curve bending.

Confirmed cases of coronavirus remain steady at about 14% of the total tested.

The estimated death rate is up a bit today at 0.1075%. For a somewhat shocking comparison given the current pan(ic)demic, the CDC's published (average) seasonal flu death rate for the 8 flu seasons from 2010-2011 through 2017-2018 is 0.136%. For 2018-2019 it is 0.096%, although the number has yet to be finalized. For 2019-2020, the estimate was 0.091% on April 4th.

The estimated percentage of Americans not yet infected is still decreasing, at 75.554% today.

Wednesday, May 13, 2020