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March 20, 2020
GEORGIA SENATOR DUMPED STOCKS AFTER PRIVATE MEETING ON CORONAVIRUS: REPORT.
A wealthy Georgia senator is reportedly the second member of Congress to have dumped massive shares of stocks following a private, chamber-wide meeting on the new coronavirus.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), whose husband is the chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, began selling off more than a million dollars in stocks on the same day as the closed-door Senate meeting on Friday, Jan. 24, reports The Daily Beast.
Over the next three weeks, through Feb. 14, Loeffler made 27 sales worth between $1,275,000 and $3,100,000, before the market nosedived and her holdings’ values tanked.
Related: Tucker Carlson calls for Richard Burr’s resignation. “Carlson commented on Thursday’s show about a story earlier in the day from Pro Publica that said that Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina sold between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions.”
WHAT AN AWFUL PERSON: Did Rick Wilson Wish for Melania to Get Infected by Coronavirus?
Related (From Ed): Wilson is further damaging what’s left of CNN’s and MSNBC’s credibility.
REPEAL TITLE IX: Another Title IX Investigation Run Amok.
Wednesday the NY Times published a lengthy description of another Title IX investigation run amok. This case is unusual for a couple of reasons. First the accuser eventually turned out to be a professor from another school and second, the accused was a lesbian professor and her wife. It all started when Sarah Viren, who wrote the piece for the Times, applied for a job at a college in Michigan. . . .
Both Sarah and Marta were convinced the claims were false, but how do you prove an anonymous accusation is false? In the meantime, more anonymous accusations were being delivered to the school where Sarah and Marta taught. Someone claiming to be a grad student named “Rebecca James” claimed she had been propositioned by Marta.
The person investigating the claim on the school’s behalf, Melanie, quickly discovered that no such student existed. Sarah asked if the fact that the accuser didn’t exist meant the investigation would be closed and Melanie explained that’s not how things work.
Universities should get a federal funding “death penalty” for this sort of behavior. One strike and you’re out.
IN FAIRNESS, GAMERS ARE RENOWNED FOR THEIR PERSONAL HYGIENE: GameStop claims it is ‘essential retail’ during coronavirus lockdowns.
On the other hand, do you really want gamers roaming the landscape looking for a fix?
MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN: Maryland distillery shows what free markets can accomplish in a pandemic.
The owners experimented first with a recipe that called for ethanol, glycerol, aloe vera gel, lemongrass oil, and vitamin E oil. As they messed around with the recipe, they also applied for a license to produce the sanitizer. They were approved almost immediately by the federal government, which, honestly, is a sentence I thought I would never write.
“The federal government said the application typically takes three weeks for approval. We got approval in two days,” the distillery’s general manager, Jonathan Shair, told the ABC affiliate.
THE MIND BOGGLES: The Far Limit.
ARE THEY WORRIED ABOUT THE REPORTS OR THE CONDITIONS? South Asia quarantine centers worry experts.
MAYBE. FEAR AND MOBS ARE FICKLE: Politicizing Coronavirus Will Cost Dems the House.
THE WHOLE POINT OF GETTING BIDEN IN, IS TO GET KAMALA IN. AS COMMUNIST AS BERNIE, TWICE AS STUPID AND A COMPLETE TOTALITARIAN. THE DEMOCRATS DREAM GIRL: Jeepers Veepers!
YES: Dangerous Curves.
I TOO WONDER ABOUT THIS: How Long Will Americans Tolerate Corona-Madness?
I WONDER IF MY CATS THINK I PLAY WITH THE LASER POINTER BY ACCIDENT: Trump and the Chinese virus.
WELL, NO. BECAUSE SOCIALISM KILLS AND WE’RE NOT DEAD YET: Coronavirus Has Not Made Us Socialist.
March 19, 2020
GAIL HERIOT: You are one of my heroes. That said, I reccommend that all Californians stay put. Don’t move. Isolate. Extreme Californication-Isolationism-Gee, We’re Screwed. Californians hear me! Isolate. Remain hidden in place and imbibe (if you’ve the booze) on the dismal effects of the one-party leftist dictatorship y’all — well, self-selected. Please. Do not flee to Nevada or Texas. Please, avoid Texas, at all costs. It’s really hell here in Texas. Tarantulas. Effin tarantulas. Legs. Icky hairy legs. And the effers jump and bite. But it gets worse. We are over-run by feral hogs, mega-gators , armadillos with leprosy and –this is where tax refugees/internally displaced persons (IDPs) come in– aka Californians…They come to Travis County and the Hill Country…what a bring down…All right. Full disclosure. The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF to insiders) informs me most Californians coming to Texas are at least as conservative as Ed Driscoll, who left the Bay Area for Texas. TO CONTINUE: If TPPF’s stats are accurate, erudite Texas should welcome California refugees…But do California refugees truly understand the the Hell they fled?…I hope y’all do. If you do, there’s a national upside. If you do dig, you CALTEXREFS, this means media-created jerk political fops like Robert O’Rourke (pseudo-Beto, a racist appropriation, White House press corps condemn it now!) and Wendy Davis are dust in the dead bin of Marxist never-beens. (Aside to Stephen Green: this is how you do it, kid. Take notes.)
OK, fellow frustrated quarantined libertarians. I let it roll. Now you let it roll.
AT AMAZON, stock up on Pet Food and Supplies.
Plus, spring savings in Car Care.
YIKES. MY 40 MILLION FELLOW CALIFORNIANS AND I ARE ORDERED TO STAY HOME: Here are the core sentences of the order from Governor Newsom: “To protect public health, I as the State Public Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health order all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of the federal critical infrastructure sectors, as outlined at https://www.cisa.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectors. In addition, and in consultation with the Director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, I may designate additional sectors as critical in order to protect the health and well-being of all Californians.”
The order goes into effect immediately.
THE FAILURE OF THE BUREAUCRATS: What Went Wrong with Coronavirus Testing in the U.S. “The public-health-laboratory network was never intended to provide widespread testing in the event of a pandemic. To offer tests to anyone who wanted them, as President Trump did, on March 6th, was always going to require commercial testing facilities to come on line. Still, the three-week delay caused by the C.D.C.’s failure to get working test kits into the hands of the public-health labs came at a crucial time. In the early stages of an outbreak, contact tracing, isolation, and individual quarantines are regularly deployed to contain the spread of a disease. But these tools are useless if suspected cases of a disease cannot be tested. The void created by the C.D.C.’s faulty tests made it impossible for public-health authorities to get an accurate picture of how far and how fast the disease was spreading. In hotspots like Seattle, and probably elsewhere, COVID-19 spread undetected for several weeks, which in turn only multiplied the need for more tests.”