TOTES DESERVED. AFTER ALL BEFEHL IST BEFEHL IS A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE DEFENSE, AMIRIGHT? Seattle Cop Placed On Administrative Leave After Bill Of Rights Video Goes Viral.
Archive for 2020
May 15, 2020
SPEAKING OF PEOPLE RUNNING GOFUNDMES TO ATTEMPT TO MITIGATE DAMAGE DONE BY INSANE GOVERNMENT AFTER THE PERSON DID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO: C&C Coffee and Kitchen Castle Rock, CO.
(And don’t be ridiculous. Polis is not a bear. Bears are LEAN at the end of winter.)
ALL OF THIS VIOLATES THE BILL OF RIGHTS, WITHOUT EVEN ROOFYING IT FIRST: Federal lawsuit against Linn County alleges 4th Amendment violation.
ABOUT MASKS: Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy.
May 14, 2020
WELL, THAT SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT: Trump to Salena Zito: ‘Joe has absolutely no idea what’s happening.’
TO BE FAIR, THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN: Baltimore Restaurant Owner Can’t Get Employees to Return Because They Make More in Unemployment.
AT AMAZON, deals in Movies & TV.
DECADES OF SQUANDERED AND BETRAYED PUBLIC TRUST HAVE A COST: A Post-Coronavirus Crisis of Institutional Legitimacy: Unless American institutions are able to regain lost public confidence, it may become increasingly difficult to control the coronavirus pandemic.
SIDNEY POWELL IS ONE BADASS WOMAN WHO’LL NEVER BE CELEBRATED BY FEMINISTS AS SUCH: Open Memorandum to Barack Obama; Re: Your Failure to Find Precedent for Flynn Dismissal.
Yet Gov. Charlie Baker, the scold and scourge of all golf carts, gun shops, nail salons and churches, none of which have recorded any fatalities, seems strangely oblivious to the ever-escalating toll in the state’s “long-term care facilities,” which are both heavily regulated and subsidized by the commonwealth.
Ditto, the Legislature, where no one seems to be demanding hearings into the nursing-home death tolls, which dwarf those of neighboring states.
Of the 5,108 deaths, only 246 were of people under the age of 60. Yet they remain locked up, more than a million have lost their jobs, and yet they are daily lectured and threatened by politicians who say next to nothing about the nursing homes where residents are actually at risk.
The nursing homes seem to have a lot of very powerful friends at the State House, perhaps because of the hundreds of thousands of dollars their executives funnel into the pockets of those keeping the rest of the state, where few are dying, in lockdown.
Shocking.
TO BE FAIR, MAGGIE HABERMAN IS MORE A JOURNOLIST THAN A JOURNALIST: NYT Journo Becomes Triggered After WH Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany Calls Her out for Spreading Fake News. “And there’s also this revealing bit of information about how Haberman was viewed by Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign team as a ‘very good’ press ally who ‘tees up’ stories on their behalf.”
Plus: “As of this writing, Haberman hasn’t put out another unhinged tweet in regards to McEnany’s remarks, but I wouldn’t put it past her. She’s quite defensive about being accused of taking Trump administration officials out of context. And understandably so – considering that she has quite literally been caught altering their quotes before.”
FILE THIS UNDER “DEMOCRATIC HEROES CAN’T BE RACIST”: The Irony of “The Plot Against America”.
The book and mini-series imagine Pres. Charles Lindbergh dispersing Jews to the hinterlands, but FDR, consistent with how he ultimately treated Japanese-American citizens, was the one who actually favored that.
FLASHBACKS (From Ed):
● New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II.
● Historian: New Evidence Shows Fdr’s Bigotry Derailed Many Holocaust Rescue Plans.
(Updated and bumped.)
OPEN THREAD: And I myself am just another freak.
PATHOGENS TRAVEL VIA NETWORKS OF INTERACTIONS, and this does seem to be a disease that got its start via jet-setting globerati. The rich infected the poor as COVID-19 spread around the world.
SPACE: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aces test-fire for next Starlink launch.
Related: Astronauts enter a routine quarantine for historic SpaceX Crew Dragon launch. “Although the pre-flight quarantine is standard procedure for crewed spaceflight, additional measures are being taken to ensure the safety of the launch during a global pandemic, according to the NASA statement. Anyone who has to interact with Hurley and Behnken during the quarantine period will have their temperature taken and be screened for any symptoms of COVID-19, according to the statement. Additionally, both astronauts, as well as those who will be in direct contact with them, will be tested twice for the virus prior to launch.”
GOVERNMENTS CAN DO A LITTLE TO MAKE IT BETTER, AND A LOT TO MAKE THINGS WORSE, BUT PANDEMICS ARE BAD FOR THE ECONOMY ON THEIR OWN: Sweden Has Avoided a Coronavirus Lockdown. Its Economy Is Hurting Anyway. Even without legal prohibitions, many Swedes are following social-distancing recommendations and limiting travel.
Sweden’s decision not to impose a mandatory national lockdown has drawn global attention from policy makers eager to judge the strategy’s impact on public health and the economy. But it turns out the situation here is not as different as it might first appear.
Even without legal prohibitions, many Swedes are voluntarily following authorities’ social-distancing recommendations and limiting travel, pushing down domestic consumption. And the country can’t insulate itself from lockdowns among its trading partners. Exports are falling.
The result: Sweden’s economy is contracting, but not by as much as some others in Europe. Meanwhile, it is recording deaths per capita from the virus that are considerably higher than in neighboring countries—though below levels seen in France, Italy and the U.K.
Shops, restaurants and even nightclubs have been allowed to stay open in Sweden. There are no curbs on the manufacturing and services industries. But that doesn’t mean life is normal here. . . .
All of that is contributing to what Sweden’s government estimates will be a 6% contraction in domestic consumption this year. Combined with a forecast 10% drop in exports, Swedish authorities predict, the result will be a 7% decline in overall 2020 economic output. The eurozone economy as a whole is projected to contract by about 8% this year, according to a European Commission estimate.
Deaths per capita from Covid-19 in Sweden are at 301 per million inhabitants, lower than France and the U.K., but much higher than in neighboring Denmark, Finland and Norway, with 87, 46 and 40 per million, respectively. Public-health experts say the infection rate appears to be slowing. . . . The Gripsholms Värdshus company runs three hotels in lakeside resorts near Stockholm. They had been booked out throughout the year for conferences and events, but in March management mothballed two hotels and all restaurants after many reservations were canceled.
There are no free lunches in a catastrophe.
WHY IS THE INTERNET SO FULL OF BIGOTRY AND HATE?
WHERE IS CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD AND WHY HASN’T SHE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT TARA READE?
Blasey Ford doesn’t support Tara Reade.
Okay, I don’t actually know that’s true. But Christine Blasey Ford wasn’t whisked away from earth in 2018. She’s still out there somewhere reading the news. She knows about Tara Reade and, so far, she hasn’t offered a word of public support about her allegation. That’s true even though Tara Reade made a point of saying she believed Christine Blasey Ford in her interview with Megyn Kelly.
Isn’t it pretty remarkable that Ford has remained silent? Has anyone in the media even tried to ask Blasey Ford if she believes Reade? Did reporters at every news outlet suddenly lose her number after the confirmation? Given the media comparisons between the two women over the past several weeks, it really does seem like an obvious avenue to pursue. So why hasn’t the media pursued it?
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and the radio silence all makes perfect sense.
