YOU’D THINK THE AP WOULD UNDERSTAND THE PUSHBACK IS FROM PLAINTIFFS, NOT JUDGES.  FROM THE TENOR OF THIS ARTICLE THEY ARE VERY CONFUSED — AND ADMIT THAT THESE ARE LESS SETBACKS THAN SPEED BUMPS:  Trump’s fossil fuel agenda gets pushback from federal judges.

PUTTING PEOPLE ON VENTILATORS MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HASTILY ADOPTED UNTESTED STRATEGY?  I SEEM TO RECALL REPORTS A FEW YEARS BACK ABOUT SUCH DEVICES BEING INADEQUATELY STERILIZED AND BECOMG A SOURCE OF ADDITIONAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE:  Northwell Health probing use of ventilators for COVID patients.

A STRONG RECOMMENDATION, EVEN IF I HAVEN’T YET MANAGED TO CONVINCE MYSELF TO SPEND THE MONEY:  COVID19 update, May 30, 2020: Fang Fang’s “Wuhan Diary”.

I LIKE ROBERT ZIMMERMAN’S WORK, BUT “SYMBOLIC” IS A VERY FUNNY WAY TO SPELL “DICTATORIAL”:  More evidence masks are merely a symbolic gesture.

ONLY A RACIALIST IDIOT WOULD THINK TUCKER CARLSON’S SPEECH HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH RACE. OF COURSE, MOST LEFTISTS ARE RACIALIST IDIOTS. THEY’RE ALSO TRYING VERY HARD TO HIDE THE FACT MORE THAN HALF OF THE RIOTERS ARE WHITE:  Tucker Carlson: Our leaders have sided with the agents of chaos – we’re told crimes of the mob are our fault.

IF IT WERE ONLY THE TWIN CITIES, THIS MIGHT BE JUST A BAD SITUATION OUT OF CONTROL. BUT THIS IS NATION WIDE, IN EVERY BLUE CITY WHERE THEY CAN COUNT ON THE POLICE STANDING DOWN. THIS ISN’T ORGANIC, OR AN EXPRESSION OF FRUSTRATION WITH INJUSTICE. THIS IS A SUSTAINED ENEMY ATTACK, PLANNED AND ORGANIZED:  Minneapolis goes Bagdhad.

Look, maybe I’m paranoid, but when the impeachment failed, we got the “pandemic lockdown.”  (The virus is real, the reaction to it was pants on the head crazy and a complete overreaction fed — on cue — by the media that had been drumming up the impeachment now feeding panic.)  When that started to fail and break down, as even health authorities turned against it — the mountain numbers on its doing nothing to curb infections and also the infection not being as lethal as claimed are getting hard to ignore, and even Doctor Fauci says there probably won’t be a second wave — we get riots.  Right on cue.  What are the odds?

THIS IS NOT IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE. THIS IS NOT IN THE NAME OF SANITY. THIS IS JUST UTTER STUPID ATTEMPTING TO SUMMON “FREE STUFF” THAT FLOWS WHENEVER YOU SHOW ENOUGH “OUTRAGE.”  THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A DEATH OR A CULPABLE POLICE OFFICER. THIS IS A MANIFESTATION OF THE SAME IDIOCY THAT WANTS EVERYONE LOCKED UP FOREVER BECAUSE “THE GOVERNMENT CAN JUST SEND EVERYONE MONEY:” Riots Destroy $30M Affordable Housing Project.

There is no understanding of what constitutes real wealth or even “how to make a living.”

The good news is that we, as a society, have been wealthy enough for long enough to have raised a whole bunch of toddlers in adult bodies (most of which are the very white kiddies of antifa. Don’t let anyone tell you this is a race riot. This is a socialist riot. A series of them.)
The bad news are plain enough.

The sad news, for my community personally, is that Uncle Hugo’s bookstore has burned to the ground.  They say they’ll rebuild.  (Saint Leibowitz, ora pro nobis. (Hey, A Canticle for Leibowitz was the second SF book I read. Those who have read it will understand my evoking it on the burning of bookstores.))

A MUCH NEEDED COUNTERPOINT:  SpaceX Takes Off For The Final Frontier.

Beam me up Scotty…..

OPPORTUNISTIC? TOO COORDINATED FOR THAT. PRE-PLANNED RIOTS.  REMEMBER THAT THE LEFT DOESN’T VIEW SETTING THE WEST ON FIRE AND CRASHING THE WORLD ECONOMY AS A PRICE TO PAY TO GET ORANGEMANBAD OUT OF OFFICE. THEY REGARD TAKING WESTERN CIVILIZATION DOWN AS AN UNALLOYED GOOD IN AND OF ITSELF:  Floyd Protests Transform Into Opportunistic Riots.

AND JUST LIKE THAT, CROWDS ARE OKAY AGAIN:  De Blasio backs George Floyd protests despite coronavirus gathering ban.

If you still believe in any great danger from Winnie the Flu, you should ask yourself why.

SERIOUSLY….  THE CELL PHONE VIDEO OPENS WITH A MAN HANGING FROM A CAR, BUT WE’RE TOLD SOMEONE TURNED AROUND TO RUN A PROTESTER OVER? OR PERHAPS SINCE THE RIOTERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PULL PEOPLE FROM CARS TO BEAT, SOMEONE JUST REFUSED TO STOP:  Driver runs over man at George Floyd demonstration in Denver.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

LOOK, I’M BEING REASONABLE HERE. I’M WILLING TO NEGOTIATE. YOU TOOK AWAY PLUTO. YOU HAVE TO GIVE US SOMETHING! OTHERWISE ALL THAT OLD PULP WITH THE FEDERATION OF NINE PLANETS STARTS TO LOOK MIGHTY FUNNY:  Many Astronomers Now Think Planet Nine Might Not Exist After All, Here’s Why.

ADD IT TO MURDER HORNETS AND INVADING LIZARDS:  The Mysterious Anomaly Weakening Earth’s Magnetic Field Seems to Be Splitting.

aka: Ah, 2020, why you treat us like this?

THE CRAVING FOR “REAL” IS A MEASURE OF HOW MUCH PEOPLE KNOW THEY’RE BEING DUPED. THIS DOESN’T END WELL:  Be For Real.

IT’S PROBABLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WITHOUT POLITICS IN IT. THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH WRITING EXPLICITLY POLITICAL SF/F. HOWEVER IT IS POSSIBLE AND DESIRABLE TO HAVE POLITICS BE AN ELEMENT OF THE STORY, INSTEAD OF JUST BEATING PEOPLE OVER THE HEAD WITH THEM:  The Political Writer.

NO ONE WITH A NORMAL ATTENTION SPAN AND A HEALTHY DISTRUST OF AUTHORITY?  Who Believes the Lockdowns Were About Science? 

BECAUSE THE “EXPERTS” WEREN’T RIGHT ON ANYTHING IN THIS ENTIRE CLUSTER, MAYBE?  Why Were ‘Experts’ So Wrong About Florida?

GOOD:  Someone finally brings clarity to the Obamagate narrative.

I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE LIKE SOCIALLY DISTANCING FROM BURGER KING:  Burger King debuts giant crowns to encourage social distancing.

I ENDORSE THIS PROPOSAL FOR ALL STATES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WELL:  Top-earning public officials should cut pay amid NY’s fiscal crisis.

WON’T ANYBODY THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE UNION JOBS AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS THAT WOULD BE ELIMINATED?  Homeschool organization says public schools are blocking parents from withdrawing kids.

I DOUBT ANY QUESTION ASKED IF PEOPLE WOULD STOP RECYCLING IF IT WERE SHOWN TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DESTRUCTIVE (WHICH IT IS):  Nearly half of American say they would NEVER give a company money again if they did this .

In other news, people like to pollsters. LIKE RUGS, they lie to pollsters.

IT’S HARDLY THE FIRST TIME – WITNESS THE ABSENCE OF MEGAFAUNA IN THE AMERICAS:  Human activity threatens 50 billion years of evolutionary history, study reveals.

I’D EXPECT NO LESS FROM A TAVERN NAMED LIBERTY TREE:  Texas bar owner bans customers from wearing coronavirus masks inside.

UNEXPECTEDLY!  81 percent of COVID-19 patients on cruise were asymptomatic, study says, raising concerns on lifting lockdown.

What concerns? Precisely? That just brings the rate of death of the infected down.
Personally I’m wondering what the alternative to lifting lockdown is.  “Starve harder” by fall? “Eat government money?”

It’s time to stop this nonsense. Let my people go.