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This makes a difference…
Trump's Treasury Department gives banks green light to seize individuals' $1,200 stimulus checks
The Treasury Department's encouragement to big banks slammed as "beyond predatory"
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/15/trumps-treasury-department-gives-banks-green-light-to-seize-individuals-1200-stimulus-checks_partner/
Anyone surprised?
Meanwhile in Wisconsin farm bankruptcies are at an all-time high after first barely enduring the devastating trade war with Jyna, the collapse of the corn and soybean market, and domestic policies that are gutting the iconic Wisconsin family dairy farms to the tune of two-a-day. Only to now have to deal with the bungled response by the Sadministration to the deadly COVID pandemic.
So while the Whitest House has been taken back by the grubbing the WI Republicans got last week at the polls….is anyone else surprised that greater-Wisconsin is waking up to the realities of this presidency?
The checks will be a bit late as well, as Treasury has decreed that the checks cannot go out until Captain Fat Fuck's name is printed on them.
I say that Corona Virus death certificates all need to have Donald Trump printed on them.
Tom Toles agrees with you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/15/trump-wants-his-name-everything-well-not-quite-everything/
WOTD from Quinta Juresic and Benjamin Wittes at the Atlantic: “The Lazy Authoritarian“
(Hat tip to Mahablog)
A warning:
Mahablog’s comment:
I don't think Trump's daily show serve no purpose. They're providing a deep well of content for every Democrat on the ballot in November.
Saw this yesterday on a Yahoo News! thread (when I'm tired of working; and I have a ton of projects; I visit Yahoo for some laughs). I was impressed and wrote it down.
"Trump is a cranky, old, snake bit, con man from New York City. He rode in on the perfect economy, falling budget deficits, rising employment, and a great outlook. And whammo, the wheels came off the bus. This is Trump's MO. He's been snake bit for decades with terrible business deals, even worse marriage decisions, and a trail of pathological lies and lawsuits that will send him to his grave broke, alone, and reviled."
Interesting read of the morning: 538 What if the Nominee Can No Longer Run for Office?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-a-presidential-nominee-can-no-longer-run-for-office/
This is quite possible as Covid-19 often leaves patients in a very weakened state if they recover and this is more often the case with men over 70. Given the demographics of congress I would be surprised if someone in government does not die or have to resign before this is over. Though at least with congress we generally have a clearer set of rules of how to deal with vacancies due to death or incapacity after nomination but before election.
How about this for a farce?
https://www.welldonemontana.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIspOo-d_q6AIV5Bd9Ch0t_ARDEAEYASAAEgJm8fD_BwE
In case the reader hasn’t quite figured out what is going on here…
Well Done Montana is an LLC that arranges for the public to adopt and clean up old wells that have been abandoned. In every case, an oil company deserted their responsibility, walked away with their profits, and left the mess for someone else to clean up.
Well Done Montana is owned and operated by an oil company. They want you and me to pay for cleaning up after them. I don’t know if there is a similar con job going on here, but since there are 20,000 abandoned wells in Colorado, there probably is. C’mon, citizens! Let’s pitch in and clean up the multi-million dollar mess left by our beloved Oily Boyz.
Yesterday’s report said Colorado had COVID-19 cases in 56 of 64 counties. Exceptions:
county ….. Pop July 2018
Bent County ……….5,821
Cheyenne County ..1,861
Conejos County …..8,138
Dolores County ……2,054
Jackson County …..1,392
Kiowa County ……..1,373
San Juan County …….760
Sedgwick County ….2,276
Total population of the outlying 8 counties… 23,675.
Anyone know of a source of how many tests have been given that goes down to the county level? I’m wondering if those 8 simply don’t have tests being given.
Anyone know when a therapeutic drug will be available that reduces the effects of contracting COVID-19? I understand that it could be available much faster than a vaccine. For example, a tuberculosis shot may activate our immune system to mitigate the COVID effects, and that it would be available very soon. Something like that could allow us to get infected without dying. Anyone know the status of a therapeutic drug??
My understanding is that a drug to reduce Covid-19 is wishful thinking. In normal times it takes 12 years to find a drug to treat a disease.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9877
Even cutting out all the normal safety guidelines and cost saving measures getting a drug that will treat the disease would be incredibly lucky. All the “promising treatment” news stories are the usual bad science reporting. Taking highly preliminary results and hyping them like computer game vaporware.
https://www.thestreet.com/phildavis/news/coronavirus-research-done-too-fast
These are some of the things I was referencing:
https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/coronavirus-death-rates-lower-in-countries-using-tb-vaccine/
https://news.umich.edu/mandated-tb-vaccination-predicts-flattened-curves-for-covid-19-spread/
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/bacille-calmette-gu%C3%A9rin-(bcg)-vaccination-and-covid-19
The last one is from the World Health Organization that seems to say the TB vaccine does not "protect people against infection". But, it does not say whether it minimizes the effects of COVID if you do get infected.
As you say, there is no hope for a vaccine (or testing, or contact tracing, etc.) in any reasonable time that would allow us to end this madness. But, anything that reduces the effects would be significant.
That WHO update is really measured in what it says.
“There is experimental evidence from both animal and human studies that the BCG vaccine has non-specific effects on the immune system. These effects have not been well characterized and their clinical relevance is unknown.”
One thing gives me some hope in that direction, DenE.
Artificial Intelligence may be helpful here. The ability of creatures like Watson from IBM and the google ai entities are getting pretty fast. Watson has made huge strides in our understanding of oncology. As I understand it, much of the recent progress in genetic cancer therapies has been with Watsons' help.
I'm sure there are experts hereabouts who can add more pertinent information, but I admit to having at least as much confidence in our non-human partners as I do in my human brethren.
We could get lucky. It is entirely possible. But it would be like betting on Lorena Garcia to beat Hickenlooper for the Democratic nomination for Senate. It might be as likely as Romanoff winning, but no more than that.
And unlike with an election there is no timeline. This is also a question of when results might come in.
I saw this and realized we haven't had an appearance by our troll-on-the-government-dole for a few days.
He’s waiting for his next talking point, before he can spew his next vapid screed. Maybe he’s upset because Pols did a post insulting State Attorney General George Brauchler.
All that said, apologize to the Pigeon. Pigeons deserve better than to be compared to morons like Nutlid.
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I freely admit I am not the norm.
I like rats. I admire them; rats are cool.
The first time I heard someone call a pigeon a flying rat I was thinking that is effing awesome!
Sadly it's not true – but still.
BTW – we do we have sea gulls in Colorado?
Talk about your flying shitfactories.
True. What your average citizen sees as a pigeon is really a Rock Dove. Actually, a beautiful bird.
I know we have pelicans and I am pretty sure I have seen seagulls once or twice over here on the ws.
Pelicans!
wow
Every once in a while. White pelicans, usually up high in the area where I live. Not up with the sandhill cranes , though.
This is how I usually see them..
I’ve seen both pelicans and cranes up at Steamboat Lake State Park in N. Colorado. Both of the species nest there.
Rock Dove or Squab.
When those and squirrels are all that’s left to eat, . . .
. . . they’ll just be called “dinner”
I've eaten them…and rabbits. Where I grew up, you get food where you can.
I've never understood why we have gulls in a landlocked state like Colorado, but they were thick as hops at my high school out in Aurora and it was still largely farm country then.
If you want a mental break from the covid 19 coverage/ Trump shit show, peruse the 2020 winners of Truman Scholarships, awarded for graduate studies to individuals interested in public service – https://www.truman.gov/whats-new/2020-truman-scholars
It is an impressive group including two CSU students and one AFA cadet.
This from Chase Woodruff at Westword:
With More Cutbacks Announced, Colorado’s Oil Industry Is in Free Fall
https://www.westword.com/news/covid-19-fuels-colorado-oil-and-gas-industry-challenges-11690035