[News13] UPDATE: One person has died from their injuries following the shooting, Myrtle Beach police spokesperson Cpl. Vest said.
He added that one person is in custody in connection with the shooting.
Anyone with information, photos, or videos related to this case is asked to contact Myrtle Beach police at (843) 918-1382. You may also email pdsocial@cityofmyrtlebeach.com.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bell, who lives at Landmark Resort, says he heard the shooting happen.
"I was actually inside when it happened and I heard the pop," he said. "There was one gunfire. Ran outside real quick. And people were running everywhere. And the cops started coming." "There was one gunfire" Whut?
He said it was a disconcerting experience. Bell added that police response seemed strong.
"There was probably about 100 police officers and military personnel out here running around trying to find whoever did this," he said. "They had dogs. I mean the response was great. But in the end somebody still got murdered."
[Breitbart] Seventeen people were shot in 12 hours—from Saturday into Sunday—in Democrat-controlled St. Louis, Missouri.
KSDK reported that the shootings started Saturday just before 5 p.m. and the last occurred Sunday morning around 3 a.m.. Two persons under the age of 18 were among the wounded.
Two of Saturday’s shooting proved fatal.
Breitbart News reported that four were shot and killed and at least 11 injured during the first 36 hours of Memorial Day weekend in gun controlled-Chicago.
NBC Chicago reported the first shooting of the holiday weekend in Chicago was recorded around 2 p.m. Friday and the last one in the 36-hour timeframe took place about 7 p.m. Saturday.
The fatalities in Chicago occurred between 8 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday.
Chicago has been under Democrat control for decades and on March 9, 2016, Investor’s Business Daily reported that under Democrat control, St. Louis went from the "Gateway to the West" to the "gateway to crime."
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Re comment #1. Need picture of Koreans on rooftop in LA during Rodney King riots.
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We used to live in St. Louis, but it has been on a steady downward spiral since the World's Fair and the Olympics in 1904. It's very sad to see what is a beautiful and great city just decay into nothing.
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I realize East St. Louis is in Illinois, but that probably didn't help.
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Had a great time in an after hours bar near the arch. Condemned building 3am, 2 tables, 6 stools, one-eyed bartender, albino-black on the harmonica and foot-drum, street junkie singing blues till the sun came up. Walked out, my rental had been stolen.
Good trip.
Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. It's more fragrant now than it was the last time I was there.
The streets on clear days had a liquid energy, But you had to avoid stepping in the solids.
and seemed to offer opportunities that he hadn’t had before. “It was a place where I could do what I wanted to do,” he told me recently. Depending on what you wanted to do, naturally.
He began to call the city home. "... be sure to wear some flowers in yer hair..."
Hickson was brilliant. Read on. Discover how brilliant.
He was brought up in a military family, on the gritty south side of Houston, with an I.Q. higher than both of his parents’. I wuz brought up in a gritty Pennsylvania quarry town. I wuz brilliant too, back when I wuz a teenager. At sixteen I wuz brighter than both my parents put together, with one hand tied behind my back. On skates.
He struggled to fit in, got in some fights. When he was a teen-ager, he saw “Into the Wild,” the rugged adventure movie starring Emile Hirsch. “As long as I can remember, I just wanted to travel, and I was told it wasn’t possible,” he said. He coulda joined the Navy, but he didn't like mops or paint brushes.
“I saw that movie and thought, There’s a way.” He left home at eighteen with his best friend, who had terminal cancer. Brilliant move. Hit the road with the clothes on yer back, a guy on his death bed, and yer thumb. They hit the road, staying no more than three days in any one place, because Hickson wanted him to see as much of America as possible. When his friend died, everything went dark for a while. Wonder what he did for pain meds there at the last? Wonder where Hickson hid the body?
Hickson kept travelling. Why wait around for the inquest?
He visited all forty-eight contiguous states, and, when he realized that he’d mostly seen just gas stations, Brilliant realization.
he visited all forty-eight again, camping in national parks. See? I'm still even more brilliant than him. Say I started this afternoon, and I made it from Fenwick Island to, say, Annapolis, I'd look out the window all the way. That way I'd have seen the lower edge of Sussex County and all of Maryland's eastern shore. I wouldn't have talked to anybody but the guy who picked me up, naturally, and I wouldn't know anything about either locale but what he told me, but that's okay. I've lived in both. The hard part would come when we got past Hagerstown. I might have to hole up at a gas station in Cumberland to absorb some local flavor. Two or three days should have me a pretty deep understanding, I think.
Hickson was enterprising. He made money by hunting exotic minerals and rocks. "What's that?"
"A rock. They call it schist."
"Brilliant. Go flush it. And wash your hands."
During the winters, if he wanted, he would get a job doing manual labor someplace warm. He would usually be hired as a stopgap worker, and, when employers saw his work, he was often asked to stay, and was sometimes put up in motels. "That boy's really brilliant!"
"He stocks a good shelf!" Hickson is slender, not tall, with a dusty-brown Taliban farmer’s beard and vacant distant blue eyes—a boy’s gaze added to the visage of an older man. In time, he got two words tattooed across his knuckles: “life” on the left hand and “love” on the right. I saw a guy once, it wuz in Virginia, it wuz. I wuz traveling, on the open road, y'see, kinda like Jack Kerouac, only more brilliant. I saw a guy with "L-O-V-E" tattooed on his left hand knucks, and "F-U-C-K" on the right hand. I dunno what he had on his toes. He had shoes on.
Hickson was interested in psychedelics. That's one way to keep yer mind in top working order.
One day when he was twenty-five, he was taking L.S.D. under a tree in Cave Junction, Oregon, when a young woman approached and introduced herself. She just sprang up right outta the ground, y'see. And she had four or five arms on each side, one for each head...
Her name was Elena Aytim, and she collected rocks, too. "Wanna see some schist, Elena?"
"Like, wow, man! Can we smoke it?" They spent the next several days together. "Can you get up?"
"No."
"Me neither."
"How long've we been layin' here?"
"Four days? Five?"
"Several."
“It got to be where we couldn’t get anything done, because we couldn’t stop looking at each other—everything disappeared,” Hickson said. “We would just lie in bed together and talk, and all of a sudden the sun would be going down.” "Sometimes we'd be layin' there and I'd just count the heads on her shoulders. I never got the same number twice."
They travelled on together, and Hickson started calling her his wife. As they grew close, he learned that, as a teen, in Ohio, Aytim had got hooked on opioids after a car accident, and had moved on to fentanyl before kicking the habit. She confessed that she had recently relapsed with heroin, and she worried that Hickson would turn her away. Hickson said he wouldn’t; he himself had started drinking heavily after his friend’s death. “I was, like, ‘Hit me,’ ” he recalled saying. “ ‘If I don’t understand, I’ll figure it out.’ ” Staying drunk always helps me think better too. Sharpens the mind. Why, I remember once... No, maybe I don't. He started using heroin with her. Brilliant move. And we care in the least about this pair precisely why?
“I had control of it until she lost control,” Hickson said. "That was why I stayed drunk."
“Then I’m, like, Fuck it, I’m getting high, because I can’t stand watching this.” "What's a better reason than that?"
The addiction quickly turned into a workaday grind. Every morning, he’d wake knowing that he’d have to earn enough money for a dose; otherwise, he would collapse into a days-long flulike illness. I remember what it was like. I'd wake in the morning, tired out still from the night before. I'd look in the mirror. I'd be haggard. Some mornings I was merle. I'd do what I hadda do—shower if I could smell myself, brush my remaining teeth, comb my remaining hair, get dressed, and earn enough money to cover groceries, gas, mortgage, electric, insurance, all those horrors imposed by society. That was when they decided to live for a while in San Francisco, which was known for its good public programs for getting people off drugs. "My old man said it wuz purdy cool when he was there. Of course, he'd ain't very bright."
"Not like us," she agreed.
They couldn’t find an apartment—the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom in the city is now, by one estimate, about thirty-five hundred dollars—but they were used to camping and decided to make do. It was only after settling in that Hickson realized he had fallen into a bigger rut. He was now one of thousands of homeless people in the city living on the streets. "Really. I never noticed until we got the tent. If I'd noticed, we'da gone to Santa Clara."
Homelessness afflicts nearly one in five hundred Americans. Many of them people like Hickson and his winsome bride.
As a crisis, it’s insidious, because its victims rarely plunge toward the abyss; they slide. Maybe you’ve been couch surfing in between jobs and you overstay your welcome. Maybe you’ve been in Airbnbs while apartment hunting and the search is harder than expected. Maybe, like Hickson, you lived on the momentum of a private dream until you had a reason to put down roots. Camping, couch surfing, “digital nomad”-ing—all these things are seen as normal middle-class activities, so the line between being without a home for now and being homeless is thin. It can happen to anybody, see? Not just schist salesmen. Like a hiker crossing from France into Italy, you often don’t know where you are until you look around, hear locals talking, and realize that you’ve entered another country. Like a stroller on a city street, I always notice when I enter a zoo.
D., a punctilious woman with straightened hair, who had been living in San Francisco family shelters with her son for about ten months, told me recently, “We’re not some of those forever-homeless people—it happened, and it’s never going to happen again.” (She asked to be identified by her first initial because a lot of people she knows read this magazine.) You see, there's only one woman named Darlene Flednarn living in San Francisco, and her friends would pick right up on it and she'd sure as schist lose her job as V.P. for Marketing at... Oh. Wait. Sorry, Darlene. D. had worked for years as a broadcast journalist, "And now here's Darlene with Sports!... Darlene?"
"Sorry I'm late! I was having my hair straightened!"
and was living in Las Vegas when her son’s father Which is not synonymous with "her husband."
got colon cancer and pegged out painfully died. Afterward, she went to San Francisco, where she’d gone to college. Finding a job, as a classroom aide for special-needs students, was easy. Most people in San Francisco seem to have special needs...
But she struggled to find an affordable apartment. No! Really? In San Francisco? Why didn't she get on a bus and go someplace cheaper, like... ummm... Las Vegas?
When I met D., her days began at 6 a.m., on a mat on a shelter floor. She dropped her son off at fifth grade, then went to her classroom to teach. There are are several more feet of similar "journalism," or maybe it's prose. Read it and weep. A Fred classic, kids
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A 2020 remake of that '80s punk film whose main characters you were keen, from the very first scene, to see overdose and rid the screen of their presence, Sid and Nancy
[PJ] A field hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., built to deal with the coronavirus has been closed without treating a single patient. The $21 million facility was part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s response to the growing number of coronavirus patients at New York City hospitals. That response included smaller facilities at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center and Stony Point (Long Island), and a huge, 1,100-bed medical center at the Javits Center.
All told, the state spent upwards of $350 million on facilities that were built but never used.
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Meanwhile he sent people known to be infected with the virus to nursing homes.
I find it hard to believe they didn't intend for the virus to spread there.
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That's the problem with people like this, CF. They never intend the damage they cause. They simply don't have brains that can conceive of Universe not fallowing their intentions.
If only "people like this" were exclusive attribute of the left.
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Ref #3: I find it hard to believe they didn't intend for the virus to spread there.
Nor can I. Frail old people and the young who are susceptible to childhood diseases, huddled closely together in medically ill-equipped camps (nursing homes) do not weather illness and disease very well. 'Settled Science' I would have thought, unless political motives are in play.
"The most effective method of limiting the endurance of the guerrillas... "
~ Lord Kitchener (1899-1902)
[spiked] Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.
Countries across the world have been in lockdown for months in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The costs of the policy are enormous — in terms of life, liberty and the economy. But is it worth it to save lives? Yoram Lass was once the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Health. Lass is a staunch critic of the lockdown policy adopted in his native Israel and around the world. He has described our response to Covid-19 as a form of hysteria. spiked caught up with him to find out more.
spiked: You have described the global response to coronavirus as hysteria. Can you explain that? Continued on Page 49
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Imagine how drastically a PhD in epidemiology will over analyze the final seconds before being strung up on a lamp post next to his political bosses.
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..well in ancient times false prophets were stoned to death. Had an inherit QA effect.
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"In the Middle East, this virus is not really working."
Hmm. He might want to look at the numbers (per capita) in Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, not to mention Iran.
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#6 He was always a sleaze-ball politician and an absolute idiot as an academic administrator. Now he's seeing a chance for comeback by pandering to anti-locker crowd (effectively nonexistent in Israel)- fat chance, nobody in Israeli politics, or TAU for that matter, can stand him.
“Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference.”
While it is commonly accepted among scientists that the coronavirus outbreak began in the Wuhan wet markets, where a wide range of live animals are sold and kept in close proximity, the Wuhan lab has been speculated by some to be a potential source.
Analysis of the first 41 COVID-19 patients in medical journal the Lancet found that 27 of them had direct exposure to the Wuhan wet market. But the same analysis found that the first known case of the illness did not.
Though biologists have confirmed that the virus was not man-made, theories have been floated that the virus may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab, which had been studying bat-related coronaviruses. However, while the strains of bat coronavirus in the lab only reach 79.8% similarity, other strains of bat coronavirus found elsewhere in southern China have been observed to be up to 96.2% identical to the human SARS-CoV-2
According to Yanyi, the lab's scientists had never “encountered, researched or kept the virus” before receiving samples on December 30, after it had already spread throughout Wuhan.
Worldometers
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New York eases restrictions as virus deaths decline
[IsraelTimes] NY reports less than 100 fatalities for first time in weeks; beaches in much of state to open, gatherings of up to 10 people to be allowed, but no swimming.
#Bahrain announced 360 new #coronavirus cases, 220 of which were detected in expatriate workers, and 140 were found to have come into contact with active cases https://t.co/byY6f3BmU8
Another 812 new #coronavirus cases were recorded in the #UAE during the past 24 hours, raising the total number of COVID-19 infection in the country to 28,704 https://t.co/lDg9lnqJBU
#Coronavirus patients are no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test #COVID_19 positive, finds a new study by infectious disease experts in Singapore. https://t.co/X796NhFZIJ
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
Three large #Indian states seek to delay the planned opening of their airports as new cases of the coronavirus jumped by a record, complicating the federal government’s plan to resume flights after a two-month lockdown.#COVID_19https://t.co/fIPhAefanI
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
#Iran reports 2,180 new #coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 135,701, according to the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. The Ministry also announced 58 new deaths, bringing the toll to 7,417.https://t.co/Db2iYV5Aqa
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 24, 2020
#Tunisia: 3 cases of #COVID19 were recorded & 5 previous cases tested positive from 167 tests made May 24, bringing overall infection cases to 1051 out of 47816 total tests, while recoveries stand at 917, cases still active 86 & deaths 48, said Health Ministry. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/QKYRYM1XRF
COVID-19 Cases In Somalia Soar To 1,502
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed 47 new cases of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , bringing the total tally of infections to 1,502.
Fawziya Abikar, the Health Minister said the new patients are from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... which has 19, Banadir 13, Somaliland 8 and SouthWest 7.
Abikar said two patients succumbed to the deadly respiratory disease, bringing the total number of deaths since the pandemic was reported in the country to 59.
She said 15 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 178.
The minister said 42 of the latest cases are male while five others are female persons amid concern from the UN that the cases are largely due to community transmission.
The Horn of Africa nation joined the long list of countries dealing with COVID-19 on March 16, when the Health Ministry of Somalia announced the first confirmed case.
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Now, what kind of an idiot can put his name on something like this?
It is important to realize that the news and commentary we get from the media has been passed through the Journalism filter. Through a glass stupidly, if you will.
Don't recall where I saw it, so no link, but someone was discussing the fact that some recovered patients still had bits of virus particles in their systems - basically the viral wreckage from the immune system vs virus war. The bits are not infectious, but do show up on tests.
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#3 According to worldometers average incubation period 5 days. Cases of up to 27 days been reported. 11 days is 97.5% confidence interval for symptoms to appear
COVID-19 patients are no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test positive, according to a new study by infectious disease experts in Singapore.
A positive test “does not equate to infectiousness or viable virus,” a joint research paper by Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore said. The virus “could not be isolated or cultured after day 11 of illness.”
Visit our dedicated coronavirus site here for all the latest updates.
The paper was based on a study of 73 patents in the city-state.
The latest findings may have implications on the country’s patient discharge policy. The discharge criteria are currently based on negative test results rather than infectiousness.
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There are two larger series from S. Korea and Germany of around 2K individuals. By 'not contagious' it was determined that the subjects were not symptomatic; No one around them was becoming sick; and most importantly the virus couldn't be cultured - the gold standard for identifying active viral particles. RT-PCR, the test used to identify COVID19 RNA in nasopharyngeal swabs looks for fragments of RNA, not the entire genome of an active virus. I suspect that portions of the viral RNA as well as fragments of other proteins are maintained on macrophages, dendritic cells and other T-cells to use for immune system identification should the virus reappear (cue the Rantburg bloodhound gagging over the dirty underwear proferred as a scent pic). If the RNA fragment fits what the PCR is looking for, then a positive test.
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^ Thx
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[The Telegraph] Lockdown caused more deaths than it saved, a Nobel laureate scientist said on Saturday, as he predicted the UK would emerge from Covid-19 within weeks.
Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the initial trajectory of the pandemic, sent messages to Professor Neil Ferguson [an A1 wanker]
in March telling the influential government advisor he had over-estimated the potential death toll by "10 or 12 times".
The Imperial College professor's modelling, a major factor in the Government's apparent abandoning of a so-called herd-immunity policy, was part of an unnecessary "panic virus" which spread among global political leaders, Prof Levitt now tells the Telegraph.
Prof Levitt, a British-American-Israeli who shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 for the "development of multiscale models...[subscription req'd]
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Young people are indeed leaving areas overlord controlled ares. Locating in states having more freedom and less infection. No masks. No social distancing. Police ticketing actively to restore revenues lost.
Now there's a headline you don't see every day.
[NYPOST] A Bolivian pan flute orchestra has been stuck in quarantine on the grounds of a grand 15th century palace outside of Berlin for two months. Over 20 members of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos have been stuck on the grounds and buildings of Rheinsberg Palace, a castle, complete with moat, which has housed generations of German royals, according to the BBC. So how is Kaiser Bill? Still dead?
The group arrived in Germany on March 10 expecting to perform at the MaerzMusik festival — the same day Germany announced its ban on large gatherings, swiftly followed by a full country lockdown. A week later Bolivia closed its borders — and the group was stranded at the 600 acre estate surrounded by 23 packs of wolves and haunted by the ghost of Frederick the Great. Sounds very pleasant adventurous. Should we call for the Scooby Van?
“We all joke that Frederick’s ghost is following us and trying to trip us up,” Camed Martela told the BBC. “I don’t usually believe in such things but it does feel as if there are ghosts on the grounds.” The clanking of chains and the howling at night have something to do with it. Of course, the howling might be the wolves, even if it does come from the dungeons.
Tracy Prado, who just joined the orchestra in December, ran into wolves during one of her walks. "Ooh! Doggies!"
"Hraaaarrrr!"
“I froze in fear but they were just play fighting and moved on,” she said. Never display fear to a pack of wolves. Never run from a pack of wolves. Never remain near a pack of wolves. You have big trouble in the middle of a pack of wolves.
To pass the time, the group practices up to six hours a day, takes walks (looking out for wolves) and plays soccer. Six... hours... a... day... of... pan pipes. My mind just boggled. I'd take the wolves first.
Locals have donated food and clothing but the stay is getting expensive. Berno Odo Polzer, the director of MaerzMusik, estimated to the BBC that costs have exceeded $35,000 a month – and while Germany is allowing international flights, Bolivia’s borders are still shut. The Bolivian embassy told the BBC it is trying to get the orchestra out by early June via Madrid, although they didn’t comment on how the musicians would get from Rheinsberg to Madrid. Maybe they could take an international flight from Berlin to Madrid?
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"Maybe they could take an international flight from Berlin to Madrid?"
Not with (still) closed borders. There are no flights to Madrid.
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[TheHill] The Navy's oldest operational warship has broken its record for the most days at sea, the military branch said Thursday.
The USS Blue Ridge has been at sea for 69 days as of Thursday, the Navy said in a statement, breaking its previous record, set 48 years ago, of 64 days at sea during the Vietnam War.
The ship has been at sea so long to avoid anyone on board contracting the coronavirus.
"These times are uniquely challenging for the entire world, but it takes an extremely dedicated crew to maintain this old of a ship at sea for this long," Capt. Craig Sicola, commander of the Blue Ridge, said in the statement.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Navy aircraft carrier that had been docked in Guam since March 27 due to a coronavirus outbreak, is back at sea, the Navy said late Wednesday.
The ship left Naval Base Guam and entered the Philippine Sea "to conduct carrier qualification flights," basic drills that will allow the crew to ramp up use of the carrier after 55 days away from sea.
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Have they been able to keep the Zumwalt at sea for that many hours at a time?
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That's not the longest deployment by a Navy ship. I personally made two deployments for 89 days submerged. Back to back. Back in the 70's and 80's New London based subs were deploying to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for 9 months at a time.
So, 64 days is a normal SSBN patrol, meh!
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USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides launched in 1797.
As a fully commissioned Navy ship, her crew of 60 officers and sailors participate in ceremonies, educational programs, and special events while keeping her open to visitors year round and providing free tours. The officers and crew are all active-duty Navy personnel,
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Speaking of the USS Constitution, my Grandfather,, CPO Navy Veteran 1908-1921, was recruit trained on the Constitution when they were using it for that, and then was radio trained on the then in service USS Constellation, he told me because it was anchored and got better reception. His first flight on an airplane was in the middle 70's when the family sent him to visit his daughter in San Diego. I was sent by the family since we were concerned about his health (84), and I had been stationed at Camp Pendleton after MCRD in SD. During the flight I asked him how he felt seeing San Diego for the first time, he laughed and said he knew it well, he had been stationed there in 1911!
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Any thing over 125 ft. Is a ship.. I spent more than 64 days on patrol in an SSBN in late 60s
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The Navy is the hardest service. Any Carrier task force people out there with a story about how long they were out of their home port and away from loved ones. My bro was out 300+ days. God Bless the Service Men and Women!
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[Sudan Tribune] The SPLM-IO Saturday condemned the brutal attack by the Æthiopian police on South Sudanese students in Addis Ababa and called to summon the foreign minister to elucidate the incident.
On Thursday Æthiopian police charged a group of South Sudanese students who peacefully protested outside the embassy of their country demanding to give them the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... incentives approved in April.
Seven students were left with hand and leg injuries and bruises on his face after the police attack to disperse them, after a call by the embassy demanding to break out the student protest.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, the office of Manawa Peter Gatkuoth SPLM-IO Deputy Chairperson of the National Committee for Information and Public Relations denounced the unjustified "cruelty" against peaceful protesters by the Æthiopian security forces.
The SPLM-IO "calls to summon the foreign minister by the sovereign sector to clarify the circumstances of the attack by the Æthiopian police on the South Sudanese students studying in the Æthiopian universities," further said the statement.
The statement stressed that the South Sudanese embassies abroad should respect its citizens and so that they are respected by the authorities in the host country.
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[American Thinker] Right now, regulations call for companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to let the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) oversee the auditing of their financial records if they want to raise money by selling stocks and bonds to the American public. This is a sound regulation rooted in investor-protection. All U.S. companies work with the PCAOB, but the Chinese ones don't.
The PCAOB and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have for years tried to get China to comply with the regulation but with no success. Regulators have the power to kick the Chinese companies off the exchange but have been reluctant to use the "nuclear option" of delisting.
This impasse is about to be broken. This past Wednesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill forcing Chinese companies to comply with the auditing regulation or be de-listed. The bill is called the Holding Foreign Companies Accountability Act.
After passage by the Senate, the bill goes to the Democratic-run House. There, Market Watch reports that momentum is building a favorable vote. All that would be left, then, is for President Trump to sign the bill into law.
Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holdings and Baidu have raised billions of dollars from U.S. investors. And since 1996, Chinese companies have raised $66 billion through initial public offerings. There is no earthly reason why American capital should be financing Chinese companies, especially when Chinese firms grant themselves a degree of opaqueness that hurts investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Luckin coffee Inc. is the latest example of a hot Chinese stock that gained a following with American investors before fraud was discovered. Nasdaq has moved to delist Luckin. which went public in 2019 and later said its employees fabricated as much as $310 million in sales."
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Really, you mean they're going to delist Disney? When your investments are so dependent upon the Chinese market you do as you are told, aren't you a Chinese franchise?
And it is suddenly an issue now? Retarded. If US companies can't meet listing requirements, then their stocks are off to the OTC.BB or Pink Sheets. Why wasn't this done with Chinese equities? (rhetorical question)
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Gromgoru, the bill passed the Senate wirhput objection (not a sharply partisan vote that makes me think it will be stopped in its tracks). And to all of you seemingly complacent about the Chinese ysing our markets, what gives? So what if they should have done this before. Better late than never!
#10
Or maybe it was wrong before too? And there is now a political opportunity to do something about it?
This. Nobody before cared, but this has long been one of Donald Trump’s concerns. And he generally seems to have a list of escalations to achieve his purpose, whatever it might be and to proceed in a stepwise progression. In this case, the purpose has long been, get China to behave like a peaceful trading partner instead of a slowly conquering colossus, but if they are not willing, then to disconnect them from our economy.
#11
Nice idea, but the US (and the Walmarts, the Targets, etc., etc.) is in too deep with China. We did it to ourselveds and let it happen for the all-mighty dollar. To just flip a switch and disconnect China from the US economy sounds nice--and I'm not saying there should be no ramifications for China with their shady financial reporting (delist their stocks)--but if it was wrong before and nothing was done, is COVID-19 the excuse to proceed?
The Donald certainly isn't so nice to Xi anymore. And the Donald doesn't do anything sans a reason. Methinks the situation 'back stage' is more serious.
#12
If Chinese behavior, the Chinese Virus and military belligerence are certainly reason enough. The nay-sayers in the CoC, Academia, Rino and Democrat Whores are playing the wrong hand in most American's eyes. Take advantage and push em off. "Made in China" needs to be an economic slur
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#13
Can't the Chinese just get over their 100 years of humiliation and be done with it?!?
#14
TW, that is one of the best things I've seen of DJT. Even though I voted for him (against Hillary???) I expected more of a NY Rino type.
Clem, The Donald has shown quite some mastery of taking the opportunities that present themselves.
All of the big changes take time and planning to try and disarm the constant opposition. As much as I might like to dream about a more dictatorial Trump I really don't want one.
His take on COVID, reverting to Federalism, pushing back on the Dem governors the responsibility they don't want to take.
#15
AlanC, agreed. His pushing this (rightly) on the governors (with focus on the Dem guv-nah's) was perfect. IIRC, didn't Grandma Killer Cuomo say early on something like he wasn't going to let DC/Trump push him around? We'll, sometimes you get what you ask for, Killer.
Trump is playing them like a fiddle. Some things may take longer to pan out, but watching the Dems (especially the f'tard ones, but pretty much all of them) squirm is a joyous sight.
[JPost] "Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference." "Til we dicked with it, then went out for lunch"?
The Wuhan Institute for Virology has admitted to having three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, though the lab insists that none are the source of the current coronavirus pandemic, AFP reported.
The lab's director, Wang Yanyi, said in an interview aired Saturday that the lab has "isolated and obtained some coronaviruses from bats" since 2004, AFP reported.
"Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference."
While it is commonly accepted among scientists that the coronavirus outbreak began in the Wuhan wet markets, where a wide range of live animals are sold and kept in close proximity, the Wuhan lab has been speculated by some to be a potential source.
Analysis of the first 41 COVID-19 patients in medical journal the Lancet found that 27 of them had direct exposure to the Wuhan wet market. But the same analysis found that the first known case of the illness did not.
These theories became more widespread in recent months, with many high ranking lawmakers and officials among the Republican Party in the US – including US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – accusing the lab of poor safety conditions that could have accidentally sparked the outbreak.
Though biologists have confirmed that the virus was not man-made, theories have been floated that the virus may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab, which had been studying bat-related coronaviruses. Uh huh
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#5
Next time they will get the word out quickly so the lockdowns can start sooner...
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Probing attack yielded delightful results, better than expected: American leaders responded by crippling the US economy, destroying $10 trillion of GDP, are on track to kill as many or more Americans as the virus will, and by (almost) destroying OrangeMan's re-election.
= Success beyond the CCP's wildest dreams.
Rinse and repeat.
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Only correct answer: Go for it. We will pay $250,000.00 for each dead American, extracted from Chinese holdings of US Treasury bonds. And we won't shut down our economy next time, but we will shut down yours.
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Jonah (who is a conservative leader, don't you know) misses the good old days of ineffectual Republican pussies.
Don't worry, Jonah.
There are still plenty of those.
Wow. On Fox News Sunday, Jonah Goldberg bashes Kayleigh McEnany's work as press secretary as "indefensible and grotesque," like a "Twitter troll" in cable-news combat. pic.twitter.com/p4O0H4Ljit
[EuroWeekly] - CHINESE doctors are reporting seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out.
Patients found in the northern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang appear to carry the virus for a longer period of time and DO NOT show a fever or high temperature, making it much more difficult to detect.
"The longer period during which infected patients show no symptoms have created clusters of family infections," said Qiu Haibo, one of China’s top critical care doctors.
#3
Currently taking classes from my local community college. Honestly, I would consider doing the same if the prices weren't already bargain bin low (for higher education anyway). Online learning is superior only to no learning.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Seventeen people were shot in 12 hours—from Saturday into Sunday—in Democrat-controlled St. Louis, Missouri.
Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. 
They hit the road, staying no more than three days in any one place, because Hickson wanted him to see as much of America as possible. When his friend died, everything went dark for a while. 
Hickson is slender, not tall, with a dusty-brown 
They spent the next several days together. 
He started using heroin with her. 
That was when they decided to live for a while in San Francisco, which was known for its good public programs for getting people off drugs. 
Like a hiker crossing from France into Italy, you often don’t know where you are until you look around, hear locals talking, and realize that you’ve entered another country.
D. had worked for years as a broadcast journalist, 
[spiked] Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[TheHill] The Navy's oldest operational warship has broken its record for the most days at sea, the military branch said Thursday.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[American Thinker] Right now, regulations call for companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to let the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) oversee the auditing of their financial records if they want to raise money by selling stocks and bonds to the American public. This is a sound regulation rooted in investor-protection. All U.S. companies work with the PCAOB, but the Chinese ones don't.
