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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Graham And Johnson: Burisma's Back And Bigger Than Ever, Baby
[Hot Air] Maaaayyybeee, but color me skeptical that Joe Biden’s brief renaissance means voters will take any more interest in Hunter Biden’s peccadilloes. Now that Biden has momentarily regained front-runner status, CNN’s Manu Raju asked Lindsey Graham whether Senate Republicans planned to pursue their investigation into corruption at Burisma and the Bidens’ potential roles in it. Graham told Raju that it’s definitely still on the menu:

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2020 00:50 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Meat's back on the menu, boys!"
Posted by: Lex || 03/05/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Democratic Disaster Just Got Even More Hilarious
Kurt at Town Hall
So, now the Democrats are choosing between a pair of doddering crustaceans. The Crusty Commie Curmudgeon and the Crusty Comedy Relief both did well enough Tuesday to keep going. Big Chief Warren, whose actual people call corn "corn" and not "maize," may still go on because she’s an insufferable monster whose transcendent yearning to nag us into schoolmarm’d submission knows no bounds, plus because the establishment wants her in the race siphoning Chablis socialist votes away from her Marx brother. But the Hapless Halfling dropped out, a half-billion bucks lighter, and he’s not just returning to his burrow. He’ll want to remain a Dem player ‐ he’ll keep spending like an NFL superstar in the Champagne Room at the Peppermint Pasty gentleman’s club after getting his signing bonus paid in singles, and the Lil’ Loser hopes to make it rain until he drowns Donald Trump in a sea of greenbacks.

But the battle is really for the shriveled heart of the Democrat Party, and no one better represents the yin and the yang of that dying collection of power-hungry elitists and grasping greedos than the doddering socialist Sanders and that Biden guy who should by all rights be chasing that damn know-it-all squirrel around the park.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2020 02:59 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the fact that Trump beat the odds does not mean the weirdo from Burlington is destined for victory. If you are normal, he wants to take your money, your guns, your doctor, your border, and even job if you are one of the American heroes who helped make us energy independent. Trump wanted to do the opposite. A better analogy is Sanders’s fellow garbage commie jerk, Jeremy Corbyn, who all the best people on Twitter told me was going to win and instead ended up taking the Labor Party down into the figurative Pulp Fiction pawn shop basement to channel Ving Rhames

That's gonna leave a mark
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||


Dem Rep. Tammy Duckworth: VP Pence Will ‘Just Pray' About Coronavirus
Weaselzippers video, if you can stand to listen to a hate-filled, feckless Chicago pol.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2020 02:05 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The party of Science!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2020 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, that would be more useful than trying to kill it with an abortion.
Posted by: Beau || 03/05/2020 2:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Her name alone inspires confidence in her opinions.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/05/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  What's Duckworth-less going to do? Stamp her foot? (Oops, bad bad taste, I know...)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Huddled safely out in Hoffman Estates, miles away from the South Side hostile fire. Disabled war vet, minority, caustic, never-seen-smiling female, shi* slinging Chicago Democrat? Yes, she has a bright future in Illinois politics.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Beats politicizing the hell out of it and risking the lives of Americans.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  And the Chicago body count from violence continues to climb.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 03/05/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#8  What an airhead...
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/05/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Chicago police consider this "body count" blog the go to source for measuring the Mayhem- complete with excellent metrics:

https://heyjackass.com/
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/05/2020 16:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Their religion really is human sacrifice. It's clear that the only religious people she knows are the ones seen in Hollywood movies and screamed about in the leftist echo chamber.

Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/05/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, somebody needs to, because we seem to be in depth with idiots in power who only know how to use the tongue lash and whip.

@heyjackass
9 shot/killed to date in March
Must be the Dreaded Spring Offensive.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/05/2020 18:39 Comments || Top||

#12  But at least they're a sanctuary for untested illegal aliens of unknown origin and known criminal infractions
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2020 18:41 Comments || Top||


GOP did well in California
[NOQReport] 9-seat flip: Results of congressional races in California are terrifying for Democrats.

Nine of the seats are poised to be flipped from blue to red while the one red district at risk looks like it may stay red in November.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll believe it after the November elections.

But CA might be getting a wee bit sick of the insane demoncrats. Hopefully.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2020 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  We are hanging tough in the 50th district.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 03/05/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Had to get Issa past Carl "Loser" DeMaio first. 57% or so Rep District. Campa-Najjar is a puppet
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2020 13:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Turnout is key. GOP is motivated, Liberals are sad and blaming each other. I hope these trends continue.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/05/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Campa-Najjar is toast.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2020 14:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Virus That Has Killed Many People Around The World Now Spreading In U.S.
[Babylon Bee]
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2020 10:04 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Responding to Columbia U's new professor of public health, Chelsea Clinton, after she said Trump has left this country unprepared to deal
with this virus.

"More people have died trying to testify against your mother than have died in the United States from the corona virus."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't guess Bee, but in fairness I was going to snark 'Communism'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/05/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#3  King county in Washington state, which includes Seattle and Kirkland, just went into lockdown. 36 schools closing and all 2.2 million urged to stay home.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||


VDH: What We Don't Know About the Coronavirus Is What Scares Us
VDH at Town Hall
The recent spread of the coronavirus is causing a global panic. Our shared terror arises not so much from the death toll of the new flu-like disease -- more than 3,000 people have died worldwide -- but from what we don't know about it.

Experts at least agree that the virus originated in China. But Beijing's authoritarian government hid information about its origins, spread and severity for weeks.

Such duplicity only fanned the fears of a global plague -- a hysteria not seen since the groundless fears of a YK2 global computer meltdown in the year 2000, or the political feeding frenzy during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

...The method of the contagion has been perplexing to experts. Why is the mortality rate for infected patients in Iran roughly double that of patients in countries such as South Korea, Italy and Japan? Why have almost no children under 10 died from the infection?

Are governments unable (or unwilling) to count the infected, given the similarities in symptoms between the coronavirus and various colds and flus? Does such uncertainty suggest that we are undercounting the number of people sickened or killed by coronavirus?

Or are we instead overestimating its dangers? Thousands of patients may have already recovered from mild cases -- and perhaps never knew they were sick in the first place.

Evidence suggests that only about 2 percent of patients will die after infection. As in the case of other viral illness, the unfortunate victims are mostly elderly people with existing illnesses. Does that pattern suggest the coronavirus may be more like annual influenza outbreaks -- deadly to thousands but hardly the stuff to shut down a global economy?

...History also reminds us that nature remains unforgiving. We may live in the age of the Internet, smartphones and jet travel, but viruses are indifferent to so-called human progress.

Modern life squeezes millions into cities as never before. Jet travel, with its crowded planes and airports, can spread diseases from continent to continent in hours.

Globalization is a two-edged sword. It may enrich billions of people, but the leveling effects of instant communication and travel can spread disease at a speed undreamed of in the past.

The dissemination of sophisticated Western science to non-Western societies that lack advanced research centers may be increasingly suicidal. Borders are now considered passe in the age of globalization. But their enforcement reminds us that not all nations are alike. All sovereign peoples should have the right to take measures for their own safety well beyond the purview of the transnational elites.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2020 03:08 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Experts at least agree that the virus originated in China. But Beijing's authoritarian government hid information about its origins, spread and severity for weeks.

I'm no microbiologist, but finding an antidote or cure might be a little easier if we knew how it originated. Apparently no one wants to go there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and you can't believe a thing the Chinese are reporting particularly statistics.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Unsourced...passed via old duffer email. Looks like common sense.

Subject: Coronavirus
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - CORONAVIRUS
Last evening dining out with friends, one of their uncles, who's graduated with a master's degree and who worked in Shenzhen Hospital (Guangdong Province, China) sent him the following notes on Coronavirus for guidance:
1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold
2. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.
3. This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun.
4. If someone sneezes with it, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne.
5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours - so if you come into contact with any metal surface - wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap.
6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill it.
7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice.
8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes, but - a lot can happen during that time - you can rub your eyes, pick your nose unwittingly and so on.
9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm water will suffice.
10. Can't emphasise enough - drink plenty of water!
THE SYMPTOMS
1. It will first infect the throat, so you'll have a sore throat lasting 3/4 days
2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about 5/6 days further.
3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing.
4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you're drowning. It's imperative you then seek immediate attention.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Question:

will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees.

Is that 26/27 F or 26/27 C (80 - 82 F)?
Posted by: Omearong Barnsmell6769 || 03/05/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  (Celsius, obviously)
Posted by: Lex || 03/05/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Evidence suggests that only about 2 percent of patients will die after infection.

Not significant, unless you are one of the 2%, or 100M get infected.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#7  ...and elderly with some preexisting conditions.

[(Tin Foil Hat on) one way for the Chinese government to avoid their pension bomb with oldsters outnumbering the youngsters. Fewer elderly to calculate for in the end.]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Feature (bug), not bug (bug)
Posted by: Lex || 03/05/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#9  #3 good information. I will add that to my collection. Stores are having a run on a variety of products. Wipes sold out completely at our local Walmart. Being prepared is a good idea. Cool head is advisable. We are entering a period of strong airborne irritants, pollen and so on. A cough or sneeze will draw attention. Two units housing inmates are on isolation status. Two DOJ juvenile camps are on isolation status. Flu like symptoms. Most seem to recover. Those who are compromised medically speaking perhaps not so fortunate. Going to the hospital will be interesting when you have been out of the country. Right then you are taken to get blood sample. You will not be with other people as you wait for results. People will not cooperate. They go about oblivious to safety precautions.What I don't understand is they say it will end when the weather gets warm. Usually when we have a freeze these viruses die off. I guess this bug likes cold and is sensitive to what, 80-90 degree temperatures. Good luck all.
Posted by: Dale || 03/05/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Try not to drink liquids with ice.

No problem. I take my whiskey neat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2020 13:24 Comments || Top||

#11  This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees.

Yet survives and propagates in human bodies at 37 degrees C.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||

#12  @#3, re: #5: Bacterial soap?

Pass....
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/05/2020 21:32 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2020-03-04
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