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How long could it stay distanced at sea?
Facebook CIA NSA
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/31/20940532/edward-snowden-facebook-nsa-whistleblower
Is it a coverup that the headline leaves Google and Amazon off the list of nefarious enemies of privacy? You have to read the article to gather that.
Better yet, read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
Follow the money
https://hbr.org/2020/03/understanding-the-economic-shock-of-coronavirus?ab=hero-main-text
Aren't you just a ray of sunshine this morning?!?
Here’s some good sunshiny news, I found . . .
. . . This coronavirus thing? Nothing to worry about!
https://youtu.be/NAh4uS4f78o
So, Coronavirus? dangerous? Pandemic?
Nope. It’s probably all just liberal mass-hysteria? Not even really happening?
(Even, Fluffy will enjoy this one, I’m sure — all his heroes — while he’s busy counting all his money, and trying to get Jared to release
America’shis emergency supply of national reserve Kleenex . . .)Now get back to
workmaking your corporate masters richer! . . .Sweet baby white prosperity Jesus. The only thing they missed was the rosy projections by Wilbur <clears throat> our freaking commerce secretary <clears throat again> about how COVID was going to be a boon for the American economy.
Wilbur Ross’s prediction about the coronavirus helping the US economy could not have been more wrong
Remembering that time Ross said the coronavirus “will help to accelerate the return of jobs,” 10 million unemployment claims later.
Oh, but it will… see, when all of those millions do finally return to work, they’ll do it at an incredible rate compared to a normal recession. The monthly numbers will look great – in isolation from this month’s and next month’s numbers, anyway. Just think of Trump bragging – “best job gains ever!” And “a GDP rise like no-one’s ever seen!” Who cares that the yearly numbers will still suck, 30% of the people – maybe 40% – will fall down before him in awe over his prowess.
And don’t forget…
He personally saved the lives of 2,000,000 Americans. What a hero is our “wartime president”.
I’m almost tired of winning. 😣
Locally: It’s not often that you might ever find me agreeing with our little melon-hunting Fuddnutter — but, it just occurred to me that this would be a perfect time to enact a needed fix, with full bi-partisan support as well as his blessing, . . .
. . . so now can we finally, please suspend #%!‰ing TABOR, and allow the elected representatives in Colorado to start planning how to fund recovery and necessary government services???
We finally got Greg with us, this one time, on the side of sanity; let’s not waste this historic opportunity . . .
Wilbur may be correct for the short period of time that patriotism recoils at the prospect of trusting so much of our fate to any power other than our own but, in time, the stronger driving forces of capitalism and greed will return to the places of cheap labor.
Rinse & repeat.
Jared was naive, short-sighted and wrong again. The National Stockpile is not 'ours', it's theirs.
We're all so lucky.
"Orian Samuelson held the same job in the broadcasting industry for 55 consecutive years second only to Vin Scully. "
Longer than the Venezuelan Navy's Naiguatá.
https://gcaptain.com/venezuelan-navy-ship-sinks-after-collision-with-expedition-cruise-ship/
Nice to see several people at the Zoom meetup yesterday … thanks to MichaelBowman for the solid technology that made it happen.
Stay safe … and help limit the damage by staying home. I had another virtual gathering of friends yesterday — the medical professional among us told stories and talked about the preparations for the expected need that's coming. Scary stuff.
By one model's predictions,
there may be sufficient capacity.
Yes, good visit. Hope that more will join in next time.
It was a fun time. Maybe next time I'll figure out how to add the video. In the meantime, I've preserved my anonymity as if it matters one iota.
Actually, your story about the hat confirmed what I already suspected. You were with us at a meetup with PCG in 2012. Good to see you again BC 🙂
Best music video so far about the pandemic
Embed isn’t working for me – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdcS0Nbo7Ng
“ . . . different strokes for different folks, and so on, and so on, and shoobee doobee doobee . . .”
. . .
https://youtu.be/N5lBGNi9R40
Thank you, Jared!! . . .
At yesterday's "press conference" "Dr." Birks noted that she is especially concerned about Colorado. I discount every positive utterance from her, but I think we should take her seriously when she makes a negative statement.
I wonder what she's talking about? There's absolutely nothing to indicate we have a particular problem reported in today's Denver Post- Mortem. Thoughts?
Colorado has high covid19 case #s relative to surrounding states, but mostly because we started testing earlier. See US map of covid19 data.
and we have a significant proportion of government skeptics
And a whole lot of visitors had an impact in resort areas such as Eagle, Pitkin, Gunnison counties.
You can play with interactive graphs at http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Doing a quick scan using the "normalized by population" graph (that also puts "start dates" at a common case or death point), Colorado looks a worse than other 4 Corners states or Nebraska, way below NY, NJ, CT, MI, way above WA, OR.
Yes, however, the curve is leveling, if you compare the most recent week to the whole time period.
I suspect that the Trumpies want to make the Democratic states look bad. Hate to say it about a "Dr" but she already showed she's a Trump sycophant when she bragged about his understanding of the data.
Blood on his hands.
“And as you know, last Saturday the FDA also gave emergency authorization for hydroxy chloroquine and the hydroxy chloroquine is a, I hope it’s going to be a very important answer. We’re having some very good things happening with it and we’re going to be distributing it through the strategic national stockpile.”
No certainty of continued supply for those using the drug for existing ailments — lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
nothing resembling a controlled trial to demonstrate effectiveness.
My cynical mindset wants to know: for the company/companies manufacturing it, are their executives backing Trump? were there recent stock purchases by politicians?
^^^THIS^^^
Navarro and Fauci got into it yesterday over this drug. Reports say it got heated, with Navarro being quite the asshole. He is pushing the hydroxycloroquine very hard.
Scoop: Inside the epic White House fight over hydroxychloroquine
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-white-house-01306286-0bbc-4042-9bfe-890413c6220d.html
There is, undoubtedly , a financial connection.
“What do you have to lose”? Are you fucking kidding me?? What happened to, “we got this”??? “I alone can save you”???? Really????? . . . “Whao you have to lose”?????? . . .
Why do I feel like I’m living right in the fucking middle of the worst-written revisionist 1970’s sci-fi dystopian movie sequel, ever made???? . . .
.. . . is god really Tarantino???
Navarro is the same doofus who thought tariffs are a good idea.
Worst. President. Ever.
I have stated these words frequently.
Now Max Boot states them as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/05/worst-president-ever/
The best critics of Trump are conservatives and Republicans including Max Boot, Steve Schmidt (don’t miss any of his rants), Jennifer Rubin, Bill Kristol, Nicole Wallace, Joe Scarborough, etc. In fact, I can’t name a Democrat that is as effective at tearing Trump a new one than these pundits. Sigh.
Make regular visits to TheBulwark.com . You won't be disappointed.
A good friend of mine is a descendant of former president Franklin Pierce, a.k.a. the drunkard. My friend doesn't claim him.
Meanwhile in Kansas, home to the failed coal plant debacle that was nearly a multi-billion dollar anvil around rural Colorado's neck. Slowly but surely they're clawing their way back into the 21st century.
VICTORY FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AT KANSAS SUPREME COURT
“Kansans, like all Americans, have a right to the free hashtag#solar energy delivered to their roofs every day without fear of illegal utility charges that serve only to preserve the utility’s anti-competitive monopoly and prop up uneconomic fossil fuels.”
This is a beautifully-written article on Ageism in America – a place where we've become the society who sees our old – the keepers of wisdom – as the problem.
We Are Not Expendable!
I watched a video clip of a nurse today. She was fighting back tears as she explained that she and her colleagues and co-workers feel "expendable". It is a big club nowadays. My Cat and I are members.
The Divider in Chief is trying to subvert justice and the constitution, but I think it is important to remember and hold accountable those who aided and abetted this petty tyrant. He is not doing this by himself
I am simply saddened by the thousands of innocent fools who will likely be led into oblivion by their evangelist preacher. I am very comforted that my mother, who attended a small fundamentalist church for most of her life, came to see the phoniness and hypocrisy that took over when the corporate mega-churches began funding and absorbing small rural churches by the thousands.
My mothers' faith in her savior never waivered, but her faith in her church died at the hands of John Hagee..
America is betrayed. Betrayed by greed and ego. Betrayed by hatred and suspicion. Betrayed by the man who would be king and the Greedy Old Patriarchs.
It is time for the end of the Republican party. The reign of Donald the Inept must end soon.
Speaking of (non) essentials in our world, the Reverand Graham weight in. Like clockwork he never "misses a chance to miss a chance". So God blessed us with riches while we were exterminating Native Americans and enslaving black people, but now he's decided to send a plague? You've stained Palm Sunday you moron.
Chesterton didn't think much of White Prosperity Jesus and his minions, either:
That is the big lie that $rump’s MAGAts never understood- their rich idol had already sold his soul, and had none left to care for them. He “couldn’t be bribed” because he was already bought.
I think that the same was true of Bloomberg- not sure about the other Democratic billionaire / millionaire candidates. I wanted to believe that Steyers and Yang were honest.
#DiabeetusJesus #Merika2020
Who'd ever thunk to look for Jesus hiding in a can of high fructose corn syrup???
This may be the most creative way I've seen yet for someone to come out of the closet.
Israel Health Minister Who Called COVID-19 ‘Divine Punishment’ Tests Positive For Virus
Colorado’s covid 19 outbreak will peak around April 17, according to the Gazette’s reporting of CDPHE’s modeling. We’ll need thousands of ventilators, and the Feds just bought Colorado’s ventilator order out from under us, so we might not have enough to keep people alive. Because Governor Polis isn’t a Trumper, and our Traitor in Chief is using life saving medical equipment as a political tool.
Any word on Cory Gardner standing up for Coloradans? Don’t hold your breath….