Archive for 2020
February 18, 2020
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus Outbreak: Thieves Steal 6,000 Masks from Hospital in Japan.
Head of hospital dies in coronavirus epicenter; global economic impact spreads.
SARS killed hundreds and then disappeared. Could this coronavirus die out?
Walmart sales slower than expected as it keeps an eye on coronavirus.
HSBC eyes $600 million in losses if Coronavirus persists.
China says coronavirus infections declining but experts say many cases may be undetected.
China counts over 72,000 cases of novel coronavirus as death toll rises.
Coronavirus: Restaurants struggle amid fears of outbreak. Passing through Boston’s Chinatown on the way to the airport yesterday, our driver told us that the restaurants and businesses there were really suffering from coronavirus fears.
Expect more companies to revisit their economic models due to coronavirus.
Too optimistic to say coronavirus impact can be wrapped up by second quarter, strategist says.
See what Shanghai, China, looks like as coronavirus fears linger.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Idiot King Obama Tries to Take Credit for Trump’s Economy. “Obama’s tweet on Monday was extraordinarily arrogant, even for a guy whose entire career has been based on undeserved smugness. The only thing out of character was the fact that it may have been the first self-congratulatory picture that he’s ever shared on social media that didn’t have his face in it.”
Hey, Barack — you didn’t build that.
COLD WEATHER OPS: A USAF crew chief prepares a C-17 for a flight in a snow storm. Here’s a photo of a C-17 in better weather, as well as aircraft data. The C-17, unfortunately, is no longer in production. It’s quite a plane.
ANGELO CODEVILLA: Abolish CIA and FISA. Both have failed at their purported missions, while interfering unforgivably in domestic politics.
CORONAVIRUS: Israel bans foreigners coming from East Asian countries over virus fears. “On Sunday, the Health Ministry instructed Israelis returning from Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau to self-quarantine for two weeks, amid concerns over the spread of the disease. Previously, only travelers coming from China were subject to such a self-quarantine.”
CONGRESS NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE: CBO: Graduate And Professional School Students Account For 81% Of Loan Forgiveness.
ANOTHER HUNTER BIDEN SCANDAL UNCOVERED: The former vice-president’s son was on the board of an industry coalition that lobbied the Obama administration on trade issues in 2014, according to The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross.
Lobbying disclosure forms examined by Ross show Hunter Biden’s firm was significantly smaller by comparison to others represented on the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) board, but what the the Biden operation “lacked in terms of assets and name recognition it made up for in access to key figures in the Obama administration, with Joe Biden being at the top of the list,” Ross writes.
I wonder why we’re only now reading about this and not in the New York Times or Washington Post or any other MSM media outlet?
I’VE CALLED HIM NANNY BLOOMBERG MYSELF, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS: Mike Bloomberg as Mary Poppins is a Train Wreck We Can’t Stop Watching.
NONE DARE CALL IT RATIONING: Bloomberg Said U.S. Should Deny Treatment To Old People With Chronic Disease.
I THOUGHT IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW TO INVESTIGATE ANYONE RELATED TO A DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR OFFICE: FBI Raids James Biden-Tied Business.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE WHEN YOU REMEMBER THAT THE WASHINGTON POST HAS TAKEN MONEY FROM THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE ITS VIEWS: Tom Cotton Raises a Question the Washington Post Fails to Debunk. “Not a single one of the people who supposedly ‘debunk’ Cotton’s claim actually debunked it, including China’s ambassador. In fact, it is striking that China’s ambassador not only did not unequivocally deny it but pivoted immediately to xenophobia.”
WELL, I’M CERTAINLY HOPING FOR A POLITICAL SLAUGHTER AT THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER: Lawmaker warns of ‘mass murder’ after Virginia gun ban fails.
I OBJECT TO THERE ONLY BEING 750ML OF BOOZE IN A 750ML BOTTLE, BUT WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? Pelosi Objects to CNN Anchor’s Claim That Trump Was Acquitted in Impeachment Trial
WHY ARE BERNIE BROS SO VIOLENTLY RACIST AND INTOLERANT? Brawl breaks out at Bernie Sanders rally over ‘Black Guns Matter’ shirt.
A brawl broke out at a Bernie Sanders rally in Colorado on Sunday when a supporter of the Vermont senator confronted another man for wearing a T-shirt that read “Black Guns Matter,” a report said.
The man sporting the shirt, who is black, told CBS Denver that he was recording the presidential hopeful at the Colorado Convention Center when another rally attendee called him “racist” because of his shirt.
“He had a problem with the shirt I was wearing,” the man, who was not identified, told the news station.
“I was recording the event, he walks up and calls me a racist. But I thought, ‘What’s he know about black lives, about discrimination, or, for that matter, the representation of the shirt.’”
Not much, but he has the violent and intolerant instincts of today’s Democratic Party down pat.
UM: No To Hunting; Yes To Culling Of Deer Herds. “By hiring that means instead of hunters paying for the chance to hunt and kill a deer . . . East Lansing has to pay the $6,000 it will cost for this round of culling. When the cull happens the city manager would partner with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services to bring in those taxpayer-paid sharpshooters who will kill the deer in specialized hunts in the city parks.”
This may sound nonsensical, but when you realize that opposition to hunting stems more from hatred of hunters than from love of deer, it all makes sense.
ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR PLUTOCRAT POLITICS: Bloomberg’s AR-15 Ban Rejected in Virginia. “It was supposed to be the best state government money could buy, bought and paid for by Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety for the purpose of overturning the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms in Patrick Henry’s Virginia. Bloomberg overwhelmed the NRA in spending during the Virginia state election campaign. Yet despite early success in Bloomberg’s Virginia House, the Virginia Senate stood fast for the Second Amendment as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-5 to reject House Bill 961 on February 17th. The bill is dead for this legislative session. As the Washington Times noted, it was a huge defeat for Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.” Bloomberg had money. The NRA only had supporters.
FALLOUT: Apple Scraps Q2 Revenue Guidance; Says Coronavirus Will Hit iPhone Supplies, China Demand.
As an operations guy, maybe now Tim Cook sees the need for decoupling.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: Latest Extinction Rebellion stunt? Digging up lawns.
PREDICTION: HARDLY ANYONE ON THE LEFT WILL MIND SO LONG AS THEY SEE HIM AS THEIR AUTHORITARIAN. Michael Bloomberg’s Polite Authoritarianism: He never hid his callous indifference to civil liberties; too many people just didn’t care.
SHOT: Why boosting turnout in November may be tougher than Democrats hope.
CHASER: Trump drives massive turnout in primaries despite token opposition.
Winning begets more winning.
Still not tired of it though.
ANOTHER WIN FOR THE VESTED INTERESTS: Proposed Tennessee bill to allow cosmetologists & many other professions to work without a license killed in legislature.