April 22, 2020
Worthless Earth Day
Timothy Birdnow
On this fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day it's important to realize nothing they predicted came to pass.
An inconvenient truth:
#EarthDay at 50: None Of The Eco-Doomsday Predictions Have Come True
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Ain't it the truth? As an aside, I'll point out that songwriters Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman wrote a great song, "One Day," for the first Earth Day. The lyrics are sappy, as you'd expect, but the tune is wonderful. I wrote a great arrangement for a singer friend of ours to sing at a gig we had at a local pagan "church," and afterwards Martha cleaned up the lyrics to include God, and now it says what it should say.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 22, 2020 09:54 PM (l0Dc6)
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Dana, if I ever get up to 'sota I'll have to hear it!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 23, 2020 06:24 AM (4z6sM)
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The gal isn't singing as well as she used to (ADD) but once this bullcrap is over I wonder if I can beat on her and get her going again? I
really did a nice arrangement, she loves it, with Martha's lyrics changes it's the way it now should be, and we really ought to record it. If we do, I can send it to you.
Doggone it, I'm a-gonna send the babe an e-mail tonight and tell her we need to do it when life returns to normal, because IT NEEDS TO BE DONE!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2020 11:11 PM (S3Uvu)
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Well, I'd love to hear it Dana! I hope you can get get it done!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 24, 2020 06:56 AM (klXJ7)
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The singer's very enthusiastic! I'll tell her to use this time to get herself back in vocal shape -- I admit I'll have to start playing again too -- and once Gov. Tim "Adolf Hitler" Walz lets us congregate again, we'll try to record it, and I can send you a CD.
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That would be wonderful Dana! Hopefully your Governor lets you guys go at some point. I'm starting to think a lot of these guys are liking the way it is and we may have to force them to let our people go.
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The Harvard Gulag
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like the only tyrants the Progressives want are themselves.
Harvard prof calls homeschooling ‘dangerous,’ says it gives parents ‘authoritarian control’ over kids
In Harvard Magazine's
May-June issue, Elizabeth Bartholet, a law professor and faculty
director of the school’s Child Advocacy Program, worried homeschooled
children will not be able to contribute to a democratic society.
"The
issue is, do we think that parents should have 24/7, essentially
authoritarian control over their children from ages zero to 18?"
Bartholetasked. "I think that's dangerous. I think it's always
dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to
give the powerful ones total authority."
So we should have the government do it?
They're not powerful!
Civilization was established to benefit the family. The family is the core, the purpose of the larger civilization, not the other way around. The Progressive Left wants the individual to be property of the State. In Western Civilization it is the State that is to serve the individual and those associated with him or her. And children are given by God, not Man.
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Oh, the horror of parents having authoritarian control over their children!!!!
Why did you put that where I would read it while I was drinking coffee? Damn you anyway. I had to spend ages clearing my nose and drying out my keyboard. Neither of them may ever be the same.
My father had so much authoritarian control over my young ass that I stood up whenever he entered the room. I didn't salute, but I waited for him to nod at me before I sat back down again. No, I wasn't afraid of him. He and I had a lot of really good times together. But when I entered Navy boot camp I found that I actually enjoyed it.
Harvard? Good lord. I can see it coming from some nutbag at San Diego State perhaps, but... Harvard? This country is just spherically fucked. Spherically as in, from any direction you look at it.
Posted by: Bill H at April 22, 2020 10:47 AM (vMiSr)
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Spherical coital aspect indeed Bill!
I had parents who were easy on me, perhaps too easy. But it was their right to do so and I appreciated the freedom then and now; I was more afraid of disappointing them than being punished or whatnot and so I did what I was supposed to do. But even if they were poor parents it's not the place of the State to decide such things. The State exists to protect and promote the sovereign authority of the individual and the family. It is not there to supercede.
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Media Obsessed with Who is "Behind" Shutdown Protests
Warner Todd Huston observes:
The media is
falling all over itself to track down "who is behind the social
distancing protests." Gee, have you EVER seen them do stories on who is
"behind" abortion protests, or women's day protests, or school protests?
Ah, but we must EXPOSE the evil conservatives "behind" these small
government protests. Why, we all know that all the lefty protests are
just nice folks spontaneously gathering to be good Americans. Heck,
there could never be anyone "behind" that!
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One might indeed wonder who is behind the idea that the media are all a bunch of worthless hacks, who are largely responsible for the fact that the whole news industry is going to pot -- and no, I don't mean the kind they smoke. When you see that little piss-pot Jimmy Acosta asking Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, if his recent re-tooling of all his assembly lines to make coronavirus masks instead of his usual pillows, pillowcases, bedsheets, etc., was just a publicity stunt, how can you have any respect for his calling?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 22, 2020 10:02 PM (l0Dc6)
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Amen Dana. We don't have a media anymore. We have a bunch of publicity-seeking fools and partisan activists. The "media" is now better described by the internet term "influencer".
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Hmmm.. Yes, I agree. At least, that's what they see their role to be. Thank the Lord that not all of us agree with them.
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April 21, 2020
Some Good COVID News
Timothy Birdnow
Lemonade from Lemons!
U.S. Newspapers Face Extinction Event from Coronavirus
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Interesting. People apparently aren't using newspapers as a toilet paper substitute, though so many of them are fit only for that. Guess folks don't like the ink stains on their butts?
I don't suppose this would be an opportunity for editors to re-examine their products? Naw...
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I'm a bit surprised people aren't using it to roll joints since the marijuana companies are deemed "vital businesses" and open. But I guess the dope stores sell papers. Hey, maybe people are using the joint papers for toilet paper?
Rethink the news product? Naaahhhhh.
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Punishing the Healthy
Timothy Birdnow
I had a Facebook discussion about the CV response and a thoughtful Kiwi wanted to know my reasoning. Michael asked:
So if this pandemic was real like Ebola at 80% death rate.
Would you still say social distancing is unconstitutiona
l?
Im not looking for a fight but as a Kiwi in NZ i am interested in you stance and reasoning..
I replied:
Social distancing is pointless in regards to an asymptomatic Ebola
patient.Nobody is talking about this where someone is identifiably
sick. We ARE talking about where everyone is being quarantined on the
off chance they are sick. You cannot suspend Constitutional protections
based on "might" or "maybe". That is the difference.
The U.S. Supreme
Court has ruled quite plainly that Constitutional protections are not
suspended except under the most extraordinary circumstances and a
potential illness clearly does not qualify. By the reasoning being
employed now we would have quarantined the entire country when that
Ebola patient wandered loose in Texas.
https://
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article-2778969/
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llas-WEEK.htmlOr at least we would have quarantined Dallas. We did nothing of the
sort. In fact, I had this same argument back then with the same people
now calling for the continuation of the lockdown who shrugged it off
back during the Ebola epidemic. None of this is to say we shouldn't
take this seriously - we should - but that we are essentially
amputating a leg for a toe infection.
Oh, and bear in mind the Wuhan virus numbers have never been enough to justify this. Again, it is clearly unconstitutiona
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and the Constitution may not be abrogated. SCOTUS ruled that in Ex
parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2, that Constitutional protections cannot be
suspended except in the most limited way. At the moment two provisions
of the First Amendment are being violated - the free exercise of
religion and the right to peaceably assemble.
The authorities are
justifying this on a projection, a model that leads them to believe
something bad might happen in the future. It clearly does not pass
constitutional muster.
BTW Oklahoma has not put any lockdown in place
and they are doing just fine. If this had been limited to a week even
there would be little complaint, because a very temporary emergency
order is permissible. But not something that drags on like this. The
numbers simply do not justify the draconian response.
And if the
Constitution can be suspended based on expert projections, how do we
have ANY return to normal Constitutional principles? Just declare an
emergency and you wind up with permanent dictatorial powers. It's how
Hitler became Fuehrer. Or how Chavez took over Venezuela.
more...
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Ya did a good job, Timothy, me ould son! I'm proud of ye, me boy! I couldn't ha done a third as well meself.
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Aw shucks; thankee kindly Dana!
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Layoffs in Academia
Timothy Birdnow
Washington University - St. Louis' "premier" institute of higher learning (in their own minds) is laying off
1300 people thanks to the Wuhan virus.
I sympathize. Heck, my own brother teaches adjunct at several universities in the area and he has been laid off. I feel for the average working stiff. But this is good news.
The Universities are the source of infection in America. Every terrible and destructive idea that has plagued this country has begun amongst the insane at these asylums. Anything that damages academia and weakens their power is a good thing for America.
But the U.S. will undoubtedly bail them out first - and that despite truly mammoth amounts of reserve cash gleaned from decades of cheating naive young people.
If you con a child you are considered a scumbag, unless you are an educator...
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This is the worst phase of any humans life during this pandemic. We should all stand united by staying home and accept situations till the danger passes.
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fmwhatsapp thank you for your comment. I ask though; when will the "danger pass"? Seems to me much of what they are asking of us will not go away with the end of the pandemic.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 21, 2020 10:32 AM (ffSwX)
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Tim, you're better versed in "The Inferno" than I am (haven't read it in an age), but I know there are circles for liars. There ought to be one specific one, near the bottom, for those who lie to children in order to steer them the wrong way.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 21, 2020 10:32 PM (qzo8l)
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Now you're cooking Dana! Actually there are multiple pits for people like that that would fit in Dante'. The flatterers/seducers (who had their mouths producing human excrement, the pit of thieves where they bit you and you turned into a lizard until you could steal the shape of someone else, the pit where oracles go with their heads turned around backwards, etc. Dante' didn't mention a specific pit for those who mislead children but there SHOULD have been one such. After all, Jesus said "woe unto those who lead these little ones astray...it would be better they have a millstone tied around their necks.
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The Bare Essentials
Timothy Birdnow
And the abortion mills are deemed essential too; don't forget that.
Democrat Governor Can’t Explain Why Everything Is Shut Down Except Liquor Stores
Actually, I understand; the authorities know that the public will get VERY testy if mood altering substances are denied them at this point. A lot of people go to happy hour after work, or just hang out in the local tavern for a beer or two, and this has been denied them. So the powers that be realized it was important to let people drink - and perhaps get inebriated - at home.
I would also point out alcoholism is considered a disability now; you cannot refuse to rent an apartment, for example, to an alcoholic. It's FEDERALLY PROTECTED so the states would have been in danger of falling afoul of the Civil Rights Commission.
And, so Carleson pointed out, they are losing all that tax revenue if they shut the taps off.
So abortions and booze are essential but operations are not. Go figure.
My wife has had a leaking blood vessel in her eye and they were going to operate before the blood swelled her retina and detached it. But the surgery center won't allow this, calling it "elective" despite her doctor being very worried she may lose the eye. That's not "necessary surgery" but a bottle of Maddog and some port rinds are?
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Soviet Union had the highest rates of alcoholism the world has ever known.
Posted by: Bill H at April 21, 2020 08:18 AM (vMiSr)
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It was same situation to any country during 90's. "Where there is prohibition there is money". And after that was the new term introduced democracy.
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Bill goes to the head of the class! I had that in mind when I wrote the post.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 21, 2020 10:33 AM (ffSwX)
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Webee, it sounds like you have personal experience with that. Anyone from the former Warsaw Pact countries prbably recognizes this.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 21, 2020 10:35 AM (ffSwX)
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Said it before, will say it again with extensions: EVERY business is essential to those who run it, and those who need it. Not talking about heroin junkies. But women should be able to get their hair dressed: it's part of their self-image. Men need their hair cut. Those are just a couple of things. Use your imagination to fill in here: there are lots!
And if a restaurant you like is offering take-out and delivery service,
for goodness sakes, order something from them!
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Agreed Dana! Cathy and I have been trying to get carry out from the places we would normally go. Sadly so many of them are doing a limited menu and limited hours.
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We're planning on supper from our favorite local Irish-themed bistro tomorrow, partly because we're doing a Zoom Happy-Hour with my daughter in Colorado at 5:00, and by the time that's done it'll be rather late to start cooking. But some nice fish & chips from Celt's will hit the spot if we can get it. I'm not sure if they have delivery (I think they do), but even if I have to go and get it, it'll be a celebration.
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Media Mutters and Moans
Timothy Birdnow
This was a slow day for the news media.
BTW, why weren't there layoffs in the media
when "shelter in place" was first imposed? Everyone else saw layoffs.
But now it's about to happen because the economy is tanking, not to
protect the public health.
Our Garbage Media
From the Powerline article:
Want to know how you can tell when the lockdown became a new great
depression? It’s when the media starts experiencing large layoffs.
Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of media layoffs currently under way that makes for the feel good story of the week for sure.
The New York Times reportsthat "Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been
laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications
that rely on ads have shut down.†And it seldom gets better than this:
Read the rest at Powerline.
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If the economy goes down then there will be millions of jobs at stake. A country which hasn't seen poverty since long years have to face it again.
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April 20, 2020
Interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Mark Musser
So far, the
best interview I have seen yet to date on this virus scare with Dr. Jay
Bhattacharya from Los Angeles. Even better, he is both a M.D. and an
economist. He has done some random testing, and has been able to sort
out those who are well off financially vs. those who are poorer.
Unsurprisingly,
his testing
has some good and bad news. The good news, which is actually very good
news, is that antibody rate proves the death rate that so many are
concerned about should be dropped significantly. He specifically said
this virus is a bit worse than the regular flu. The bad news is that
the tests show the virus is more or less just getting started - but -
at least it has spread much deeper than officials are presently aware
of so that this virus is not nearly as dangerous as first feared. He is
skeptical of herd immunity because there is so much controversy
surrounding it.
Armed with this information, which needs to be
corroborated by much more such testing, the good doctor has some
targeted instructions on how to handle the situation much better than
what we are seeing now. As far as the shutdowns are concerned, that is
water under the bridge that may or may not have helped, but is now not
worth arguing about at this point as it is time to move on. The great
problem with this virus, unlike other flus, is that it so targets the
lungs in certain cases that once the hospitals have reached their
capacity to try and help those particular patients, they are no longer
able to help them - which makes the death toll go up more than it
should because they cannot be properly treated in a timely manner. It
is this problem that needs to be targeted if there is going to be any
amelioration of the problem. The good doctor also said it is impossible
to eradicate the virus, which is a fantasy, and that people are going
to have to get used to it as a new normal to some extent.
The last 10 minutes of the interview then discussed what is not being
talked about nearly enough, and, in fact, is being resisted politically
and socially as all too many seem to like the panic mode that we are
currently in - how much the economy has an affect on people's well
being and health? The answer is much, much bigger than many of our
officials are even talking about right now, and if they do not wake up
soon to this reality, it is difficult to say what kind of state they
will be in charge of. Worse, no one is showing us the stats on all that
because they border on a semi-apocalypse
of sorts.
The Fight against COVID 19 an Update Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Here is a link to the results of the study - .
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On Sunday (4/19) Mark Levin interviewed a doctor who has great experience in immunology and similar disciplines, and he was of the considered opinion that (with proper testing, of course) we should let the low-risk people get back to work and get the economy moving again.
After all, you cannot remove risk from everyday life.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 20, 2020 10:55 AM (l0Dc6)
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Testing is vastly overrated. It is a snapshot in time. A person can be tested and found free of virus one moment and be infectious an hour later. The emphasis on testing is a political cudgel being used as an anti-Trump weapon.
Posted by: Bill H at April 20, 2020 11:59 AM (vMiSr)
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Bill, the main thing they'll be testing for is people who have had, and survived, the virus, and who therefore "can't get it again," nor will they be in danger of spreading it. Hence the concept of "herd immunity."
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 20, 2020 01:17 PM (RjlmW)
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That's not the testing which is being touted in the discussion of restarting the economy. "Test, isolate and track" is the phrase they use. If they are testing for antibodies there is no need to track, and certainly no need to isolate. The test is for the active virus and to track those with whom you have been in contact. Even the test for antibodies is still highly uncertain as to accuracy.
Testing is a snapshot and is like putting a bandaid on a broken leg. We did not solve smallpox or malaria by testing or the equivalent. We did it by addressing immunity and treatment. The only effective measures of addressing Corona are immunity and treatment. Testing is a government sop for the masses.
Posted by: Bill H at April 20, 2020 05:10 PM (vMiSr)
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Of course it's not the testing they're talking about. Because they aren't listening to people like him. They've got this dumb idea that we can't get off the starting line until nobody has the virus anymore -- in other words, too many people are listening to the donkeys.
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On testing I have read that having antibodies could mean you have had any of the corona virus varieties - not just Wuhan. I've also read it may be you have antibodies from other diseases too. So testing is largely a red herring.
They just want this country and the world shut down for a while. It really is that simple. I see so very many benefits to the Progressives, to the international elites and to the Democrats and the media that nobody is going to want to call it off. Of course, people who nobody knew about previously are now basking in the glory of the spotlight, and so you have Birx and Fauci and others unwilling to see this thing end.
Trump needs to find some other experts saying the opposite and start promoting them.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 21, 2020 06:54 AM (ffSwX)
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I'll go along with that last, Tim. My wife and I have pretty much stopped watching the briefings because there's more heat than light being generated. Oh, Pence and the Admiral are OK, and Trump offers good answers if he gets good questions, which isn't that often. But Fauci and Birx are becoming more like trained seals. Predictable and just a bit fishy.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 21, 2020 01:13 PM (qzo8l)
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Love that turn of phrase there "predictable and a bit fishy". I'm going to have to steal that and use it sometime.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 22, 2020 08:08 AM (3+tNT)
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Go right ahead. You don't even need to credit it.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 22, 2020 10:14 PM (l0Dc6)
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Alinsky, the Devil, and a New Disease
Timothy Birdnow
All I can say is "Right-On!"
From the Wati article:
Communist-minded community organizer Saul Alinsky, in his prologue to "Rules for Radicals,†explainedthat the most effective activists were those who worked within the
established "system,†not against it, so as to stir the revolutionary
pots of change through fear.
His
words: "Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive,
affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of
our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so
futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of
the past and chance the future,†Archives.org noted.
This is Coronavirus Chaos, exemplified.
[...]
In times of deceit, truth-telling becomes revolutionary.
In times of fear, critical thinking becomes a threat to those living in fear — to thoseembracing the fear.
America’s businesses and free market economy are in shambles.
Instead
of heading to work each day, good, hard-working entrepreneurial
spirited Americans wait at home for the stimulus check — or maybe, head
to the liquor stores that remain open, or the marijuana shops allowed
to operate under guise of "essential business.†They watch their dreams
crash and burn with each televised real-time death and case count
uptick in coronavirus — upticks that may or may not be accurate. The
computer modeling for coronavirus is about as accurate as the computer
modeling for climate change. The numbers mean what the inputters want
them to mean.
"Weekly jobless claims hit 5.245 million, raising monthly loss to 22 million due to coronavirus,†CNBC reported.
[...]
"A revolutionary organizer,â€
Alinsky
wrote, "must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives — agitate,
create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to
produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative,
non-challenging climate.â€
It’s not just a fight for the Constitution and country.
It’s a fight of good versus evil
There's more - a LOT more. This essay by Cheryl Chumley is a must read!
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Some are More Equal
Warner Todd Huston observes:
Um, if we are supposed to have shut down "non-essential"
jobs and are enforcing "social distancing," how are we seeing literally
thousands of radio and TV commercials all made in the last month about
how we are "all in this together" and other coronavirus themes? Are ad
men a "vital job"? Are the literally millions of TV employees so
"essential that they can keep shooting TV commercials while the rest of
us have our jobs shut down?
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Television commercials are usually (not always, but most often) made years in advance of when they are aired.
Posted by: Bill H at April 20, 2020 10:56 AM (vMiSr)
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That may be so, Bill, but I think the point here is that we are NOT all in this together. I think there's a deep divide in this country, and I don't mean between Left and Right, though it may play out that way to a certain extent. I mean between those who are just as happy to stay at home and let the economy go to hell in a handbasket, and those who want to get back to work, start earning some money again, and get the economy going.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 20, 2020 11:02 AM (l0Dc6)
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I think that's probably true, Dana, and a lot of it revolves around Trump Derangement Syndrome. But using bogus arguments to illustrate it not only does not help, it weakens the argument. It's the sort of thing that anti-Trumpers do. If they can show that we used one false argument to make our point then they can argue that we should not be believed in anything we say, and their point would not be entirely invalid.
Lie to a judge in court just once, and your goose is cooked. The judge will not believe anything you say thereafter.
Let the other side make silly, provably false claims. We should stick to saying things that make sense.
Posted by: Bill H at April 20, 2020 12:07 PM (vMiSr)
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What bothers me about this "essential jobs" dance is that ALL jobs are essential to those who are providing them and earning money from them. My hairdresser is performing an essential job for her customers at Fantastic Sam's, and I'm going to start looking pretty damn scruffy before I can get back to her, not to mention that she's going to be hurting financially unless she can start cutting hair out of her home. Ditto for the people who groom my dog.
Why isn't EVERY job an "essential" job? Tell me just one job that isn't an essential job to somebody.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 20, 2020 09:58 PM (RjlmW)
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I would agree with that analysis entirely. Every job is an essential job to the person who is doing it. Why else would they be doing it? If out politicians had ever worked for a living they would know that.
Posted by: Bill H at April 20, 2020 11:46 PM (vMiSr)
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And the point Warner was making was that these psa's were shot AFTER the lockdowns, so they are considered vital services. Not ALL commercials, but the ones that have been out there promoting "together" stupidity.
BTW "stronger together" was Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan. Coincidence?
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 21, 2020 06:57 AM (ffSwX)
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They pay any royalties to The Hag?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 21, 2020 01:16 PM (qzo8l)
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Wonder if that means she wants to run again?
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 22, 2020 08:05 AM (3+tNT)
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Leftist Group Sues Fox New Over Coronavirus Coverage
Timothy Birdnow
Fox News is being sued for it's coverage of the Coronavirus epidemic.
According to the Daily Mail:
A 10-page complaint was filed on Thursday
in King County court by an organization known as the Washington League
for Increased Transparency and Ethics (WASHLITE).
The
network is accused of ‘willfully and maliciously’ engaging in a
‘campaign of deception and omission regarding the danger of the
international proliferation of the novel coronavirus.’
I have little doubt this a George Soros/Open Society funded outfit.
So, not being content with trashing the free expression of religion and the right to assembly in the First Amendment they are going to go after free speech as well.
But did that surprise any Aviary readers?
Meanwhile organizers of a protest against the lockdown
have been arrested and health care workers have been giving the names of infected to police who a judge ruled
can arrest them.
Looks like America is slipping away.
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Too many people with "questionable motives" have too much time on their hands.
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Nothing is going in favour of our survival.
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April 19, 2020
Claims of "Megadrought" All Wet
Timothy Birdnow
Anthony Watts says there is no "mega drought" on the horizon:
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"Megadrought to hit SW US. Women and minorities hardest hit. Trump to blame, (of course)."
And then they'll find that a tremendous drought will kill the COVID-19 virus smack in its tracks. So now who do you root for? But the drought isn't going to happen, so. . . It must really suck to be a Leftist these days!
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Yes, I saw the article. Current megadrought comparable to one which began in 1500 and ended in 1620. That one was obviously not caused by fossil fuels but this one, which is 100 years shorter, is. We know that because they ran 31 computer models that said so. Probably the same sort of models that predicted 2,200,000 deaths from Coronavirus in the US. They ran 31 models because the first 30 didn't produce the answers they wanted. Oh God, it all gets so tiresome.
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Yeah Dana; it's not easy being red these days.
Agreed Bill; They use so many models so as to get the answer they want. These are surely bubbleheaded blond models...
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Coronavirus and the "Deaths of Despair"
This from Richard Cronin:
For how long, and at what cost, does the lockdown persist ?
Read up about the well documented studies of "Deaths of Despairâ€.
Suicides due to loss of businesses, depression, drug overdoses,
alcoholism, domestic abuse from helplessness and frustration. It is
well documented that a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 3.3%
increase in suicides. In our current situation that totals over 75,000
vs. the latest CDC estimate of 60,000 deaths from the Chinese Communist
Party Virus. That is, the CCP Virus.
A small business owner who
has devoted his life to his business and extended family of employees,
lays off his workers, closes shop, and goes home to eat his gun.
Following the Brenner (1976) model, these figures all reflect the
estimated cumulative impact of an increase in unemployment on mortality
over a five-year lag period.
Lower bound. If the unemployment
rate increases by 5 points as a result of the various lockdowns, then
294,170 additional lives will be lost, not from coronavirus, but from
deaths of despair.
Mid-range. If the unemployment rate increases
by 16.5 points (as predicted by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin), then
970,761 additional lives will be lost to deaths of despair.
Beyond suicides there are the shattered families with loss of the
primary earner as well as lost months in education, training, church
attendance, all the social mechanisms for families and communities
which are also the life line to the elderly.
Dr. Fauci has
said no relief until we have a vaccine. Bill Gates is throwing all of
his money and influence echoing Fauci’s remarks. Of course Gates would.
That’s what he does. Vaccines for everybody, for any conceivable
malady. See link.
The loss of Freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of
Rights. Yes, the Bill of Rights include Religious Practice, Speech,
Assembly, as well as Freedom of Movement — all upheld in multiple forms
by repeated Supreme Court decisions.
How about farmers dumping
milk because the farm workers are better off not working and on forced
unemployment than working their normal job ?
Deaths in a Trial of the HPV Vaccine/Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
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Good luck on that vaccine shit. We don't even pretend to have a vaccine for the common cold, which is a Corona virus. We have a flu vaccine, which cuts the infection rate to 40% of the population and, in a really good year, limits deaths to 30,000 or so.
If we can test 150 per 100,000 we can restart the economy. Really? That's .01% of the population, one person out of every 658.
I keep asking and asking. Where are all these idiots coming from?
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Yeah; and the general public seems utterly incapable of doing basic arithmatic. Or of understanding what numbers mean. We are in the same territory as "400 ppm of co2" where nobody actually bothers to think about what that means (for those who stumble on this blog it mean 0.04% of the air is co2, meaning it's a trace gas.) It just amazes me how these people come out peddling this stupidity and everyone believes them.
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Ultraviolet to Kill Wuflu
Timothy Birdnow
I remember when the big scare was destruction of the ozone layer. Liberals all had their pink Tinkerbell panties in a bunch over that one. So they banned freon and other chlorofluorocarbons (in fact, the final ban
went into effect in the U.S. on January 1 of this year).
Now it's
looking like we could use a bit more ultraviolet! Hey, using the global warming thinking of geoengineering, shouldn't we consider ramping up freon use to kill this virus? They keep talking about chemtrails in the atmosphere or putting aerosols to cool the planet; why not weaken the ozone to get rid of the virus? Just my modest proposal.
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If I were a virtuoso with Photoshop, right about now I'd take the pic of that guy in the Dos Equis ad and put some text in saying "I don't always screw around with the environment, but when I do, unexpected things happen."
The envirowackos never learn. What was it they were proposing not long ago? And they say
Trump's a criminal?
Sunshine's the best disinfectant. . .
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Holder Cheers the Wuhan Virus Revolution
Timothy Birdnow
Obama's "wing man" and first Attorney General Eric Holder is thrilled with the Coronavirus pandemic.
According to WND:
"Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system
so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for
the American people to access,†Holder said.
"It would be foolhardy to take these pro-democracy measures off the
table after we get on the other side of the virus. These are changes
that we should make permanent because it will enhance our democracy."
What are the "pro-democracy measures†Holder is so ardent about?
Measure like voting by mail and no-excuse absentee ballots -- the kind
of voting "reforms†Democrats champion that would make national
elections so open to tampering and fraud that they could be subject to
endless challenges.
Does anyone doubt the over-the-top reaction to what is turning out to be nothing worse than a seasonal flu is intended for anything but fostering Revolution?
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