I am finally getting back to writing a bit more as TMEW continues to recover from her knee replacement surgery a month ago. Not back to my normal pace but let me continue with the Governor’s hissy fit about FEMA’s “gifting” the State with 15 Abbott ID Now test kits.
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Quick Thought: Seriously? Sununu is going to make criminals out of patients? You made it personal
Steve’s post on “….NH’s Gov. Sununu Enacted the Same Order” has just made it personal. Real personal. Nice to see that TMEW and her docs can now be criminalized just for treating a disease. Yet another day spent in taking her to medical appointments and play support tech on the different videoconferencing tools being used … Read more
COVID-19 – causing death by cutting off oxygen and oxidation of the lungs?
Steve’s post that linked to a piece on Medium I would now label as cutting edge – the first time I had seen the angle that COVID-19’s real attack is to free up the iron ion located within the heme molecule that binds oxygen into the heme (e.g., hemoglobin) within your red blood cells. No … Read more
A Public Service Announcement for those that never learned proper Civics – Part 1,505,375
You may return to your regular lives – hopefully enhanced for every time you run up against a person that holds an elected office. (H/T: Bookworm)
Notable Quote – So easily given up?
To repeat: This extraordinary menace may well require an extraordinary response. Yet a month ago, could anyone have imagined that we would see the complete cessation of all church and synagogue worship in the United States? Or a total halt to citizens’ First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble and to petition the government”? Or the … Read more
Notable Quote – Robert Higg
The most important legacy of the New Deal, however, is a certain system of belief, the now-dominant ideology of the mixed economy, which holds that the government is an immensely useful means for achieving one’s private aspirations and that one’s resort to this reservoir of potentially appropriable benefits is perfectly legitimate. To take – indirectly … Read more
I think comedian Ron White has this correct – you can’t fix stupid
I haven’t seen the Blue Collar Comedy Tour show in a long time – I miss it. Ron White was part of it along with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall (who appears, from time to time, on Last Man Standing with Tim Allen), and Larry the Cable Guy. Always ready with a quip or a long … Read more
“Coronavirus Rhapsody”
Well done. Sure, it’s as long as the original by Queen but with some clever re-working of the lyrics, it “gets” the current COVID-19. Lyrics only – no flashy band antics:
Trolling for humor – Master Class level
After all, since Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act set up during the Korean War era, he has the power to actually do that.
Notable Quote – Jim Buchanan
Frank Knight could never have joined those of the self-selected elite who, in idea or practice, seek to plan, steer, or direct the lives of those who are excluded. He was a classical liberal, not because he predicted that only with widespread individual liberty would desired results be generated, but because the liberal order is … Read more
Meet Schrodinger’s Virus
I’m really starting to get rather cynical now. It’s as if the Government wants us to believe in two things at the same time – we have the virus and we don’t. But the result is the same. The government is voiding what I believe to be the Proper Role of Government.
DISQUS Doodlings – Urban Density, Infections, and Democrat Socialists Demanding a Share of the “Profits”
Lloyd the architect/New Urbanist Professor has put his foot into it this time. Such that even the other denizens of Treehugger told him he was full of sap. In a post “Urban density is not the enemy, it is your friend,” he turns apologist.
Maine’s Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols – “We Will not Be Setting up a Police State”
We’ve lived for years with Cities, Counties, and States using the euphemism “Sanctuary” for this or that. Like, to proclaim they are “welcoming” and “inclusive” of people who want a better life for themselves and their families.
Palate Cleanser (sorta): How times can “Change” how you view things
Amazing, isn’t it. Same stuff, different times – just that the intent and purpose changes. Unless, of course, you’re one of those criminals that judges, sheriffs, and police chiefs are letting out of jail because they were fearful that you’d get COVID-19? (H/T: Bookworm)
Blogline of the Day – ONLY two genders affected???
Study: COVID-19 Impacts Men, Women More Than All Other Genders Combined All those other 57 genders getting a free ride! Where’s the “equality” in all this????? BALTIMORE, MD—A new study by Johns Hopkins University found that the novel coronavirus is impacting men and women more than all the other genders combined. According to the study, 100% … Read more
Palate Cleanser – because we still need to chuckle now and then…
…and right now, more is better than none at all. Besides, this will tick off the Planned Parenthood baby killers – you do know that most Social Justice Warriors have no sense of humor, right? So, have a laugh at their expense – they basically gave us this meme. (H/T: Bookworm)
I know how he feels: Introvert – ““The world has caught up with us at last.”
Or as Instapundit labeled it, “Springtime for Introverts“: …“Introversion,” Cain wrote, “is now [considered] a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.” Her book was a catalog of the ways in which society is designed around the pleasures and benefits of the extroverted: open floor plans in the workplace, team-building exercises everywhere, … Read more
Notable Quote – George Will
[Welfare] states presuppose economic dynamism sufficient to generate investments, job creation, corporate profits, and individuals’ incomes from which come tax revenues needed to fund entitlements. But welfare states produce in citizens an entitlement mentality and a low pain threshold. That mentality inflames appetites for more entitlements, broadly construed to include all government benefits and protections … Read more
Coronavirus modeling – it isn’t just Ed complaining about how bad it is.
Grokster Ed has been doing yeoman’s work in applying the Charles Murray / IHME model that is being used to set governmental policy (yesterday’s, for example, is here). A number of people are noticing that, just like the climate models (including the favs of the UN’s IPCC), they are running “hot” in that they are … Read more