[National Review] Arizona police are now conducting a homicide investigation into a woman who claimed she gave her husband fish tank cleaner after President Trump claimed the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for coronavirus.
Wanda Lenius told NBC News last month that she and her husband Gary consumed fish tank cleaner because it contained a chemical that Trump suggested might be an effective prophylactic and treatment for coronavirus. The cocktail, which contained four teaspoons of fish tank cleaner mixed with soda water, put Wanda in the ICU and killed Gary. "My advice," Wanda explained, is "don’t believe anything that the President says and his people because they don’t know what they’re talking about."
The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported that Wanda was a "prolific" Democratic donor and that she had a troubling relationship with her husband that included a previous domestic assault charge, revealed Tuesday night that Mesa City Police Department is conducting a criminal investigation into the death of Gary, and requested recordings of the Free Beacon’s interviews with Wanda.
"As this is an active investigation, I cannot go into any details at this time regarding the case," homicide detective Teresa Van Galder told the Free Beacon. In an interview, Wanda Lenius told the outlet that her decision to drink the cleaner with her husband was "a spur of the moment thing," and that they ingested "one teaspoon and some soda" each — at least four times the lethal limit.
The Beacon also reported that friends of the deceased man were skeptical that he would knowingly consume fish-tank cleaner.
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The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported that Wanda was a "prolific" Democratic donor and that she had a troubling relationship with her husband that included a previous domestic assault charge
[FoxNews] A city in Sweden plans on spreading 2,000 pounds of chicken manure to deter festival crowds descending on the area Thursday amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Tens of thousands of people typically travel to the Swedish city of Lund in celebration of Walpurgis Night, a festival that also sees parties and bonfires scattered across Europe. Officials believe the smell of manure will help detract people from the gathering, which is classified as "spontaneous," so it can't be banned by authorities.
“Lund could very well become an epicenter for the spread of the coronavirus on the last night in April, [so] I think it was a good initiative,” the chairman of the local council’s environment committee, Gustav Lundblad, told the Sydsvenskan newspaper, according to the Guardian.
While there is no official lockdown in Sweden, officials throughout the country have warned people to stay away from the yearly tradition in order to limit the potential spread of the virus. Lundblad said the chicken manure in Lund will have an added benefit, allowing the city to fertilize their lawns.
[FoxNews] A funeral home in New York City overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic resorted to storing dozens of bodies in unrefrigerated rented U-Haul trucks outside, police said Wednesday.
The NYPD was called to the neighborhood after a passerby complained about the smell outside the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Police found the home had rented four trucks which were holding about 50 corpses. Some bodies were also found lying on the facility’s floor, according to the New York Post, citing law enforcement sources.
No criminal charges were brought, according to an official speaking to the Associated Press, but the funeral home was cited for failing to control the odors.
People in protective gear could later be seen transferring bodies into a larger, refrigerated truck after the funeral home was able to obtain one.
Funeral homes have been overwhelmed by the death toll in New York City.
In the city alone, there have been more than 165,000 positive coronavirus cases, with almost 13,000 deaths. Statewide, New York has seen 300,000 cases and 18,000 deaths.
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Given the diaspora, I am amazed there are any U Hauls left in NYC metro area.
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There's no plausible explanation for NYC's absurd number of deaths, totally out of line with every other US municipality or county, except for official incompetence.
When the smoke clears a year or two from now, DeBlasio's going to be indicted.
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The order that Nursing homes must take back residences that have been hospitalized for the Wuhan Virus, when we know they had issues with the virus returning (either because of faulty diagnostic equipment or that it hibernates) is why the nursing homes in NY were epicenters.
Add to that the shuttling back and forth on a Subway system that wasn't closed, only cleaned as of yesterday, and half were shut down to bring everyone into closer proximity on fewer cars.
Those two political decisions alone explain the death toll in NY. Encouraging folks to go out on Chinese New Year and pretending NY strong somehow might discourage the virus are also factors.
Notice we aren't hearing a lot of Cuomo for President or Vice President talk these days. Others have noticed as well.
[NapaValleyRegister] We have 30 artists and their families relying on us for support. We have employees to employ. We have bills to pay. We’ve risked everything; we’ve worked too hard and fought too long to bring our business to life, to keep it alive, and to grow it over the past 24 years to sit passively and watch it die for the unwillingness of some in the community to permit others to live and work on their own terms, to accept and deal with any marginal risk at their own judgment and discretion.
We welcome other Napa business-owners willing to join us in re-opening next Monday, if and as they are able and deem proper -- but we’ll open alone if necessary.
Public officials: know that we’re prepared to risk fines, arrest, or jail. We’re pursuing resources for any necessary legal challenge, up to the Supreme Court if necessary. Our constitution and system of government was created and established to secure the right of each and every individual in these United States to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There can be no life without work; there can be no work without liberty; and, with so many others, we’re increasingly unhappy being unable to work and live for lack of liberty. The present situation is untenable, unacceptable, unjustifiable. It’s unhealthy and unsustainable. Not dying is not living.
“I empathisize [sic] with the desire to mourn those we’ve lost, but this is absolutely unacceptable,” tweeted Freddi Goldstein, the mayor’s press secretary. Her post included a retweet of photos that appeared to show hundreds of people, dressed in black, packing an intersection on Rutledge Street in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. The caption of the original tweet said the gathering was for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz.
“The Mayor is on the scene and the NYPD is breaking this up,” she wrote.
In a series of related tweets, de Blasio himself wrote that “something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite [sic].”
This Funeral was originally approved and actually organized by @NYPDnews 2 hours b4 it started, PD brought trucks with barriers/tower lights to close off Bedford Avenue and the surrounding area. It's the @NYCMayor’s Dept who originally approved it before deciding to take it back. https://t.co/i1EtGvCkKO
New York Jewish funeral home returns to routine amid coronavirus easing
[Jpost] A Jewish funeral home in Boro Park, New York City, has gone from 20 funerals per day to a more regular, pre-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... routine, according to a report from BoroPark 24 released on Sunday.
A source speaking to boropark24.com said that coronavirus restrictions and social distancing have had a positive effect on the rate of infections.
"One chapel in Boro Park used to do an average of 20 levayos (funerals) a day. On one day they even had over 50 levayos, on the Motzei Shabbos [after the Jewish Sabbath] before Pesach [Passover]," the source noted.
Turkey donates planeload of medical equipment to US
[IsraelTimes] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promises to stand in solidarity with the United States in its struggle against the coronavirus pandemic and as it recovers from the outbreak. In a letter sent to Donald Trump, Erdogan also says he is following “with appreciation” the US president’s efforts to control the outbreak. The letter is sent along Tuesday with a planeload of personal protective equipment that Turkey donated to the United States. It is made public on Wednesday.
Erdogan writes: “I am very pleased to observe that, thanks to your measures, America has taken the first steps towards normalization by achieving a downward trend in the number of new cases.”
“You can be sure, as a reliable and strong partner of the US, we will continue to demonstrate solidarity in every way possible,” Erdogan writes.
Turkey sends 500,000 surgical masks, 4,000 overalls, 2,000 liters (528 gallons) of disinfectant, 1,500 goggles, 400 N-95 masks and 500 face shields. Turkey has sent similar medical equipment aid to a total of 55 countries — including Britain, Italy and Spain.
While hundreds in South Korea have tested positive again after their release from hospitals, Oh Myoung-don, who heads the country’s central clinical committee on new infectious diseases, tells a news conference there is a “high possibility” that such test results were flawed. He says South Korea’s standard real-time PCR tests, designed to amplify the genetic materials of the virus so that even tiny quantities are detected, doesn’t reliably distinguish between remains of dead virus and infectious particles. He says lab tests on animals suggest that COVID-19 patients would maintain immunity for at least a year after their infections.
He also says it is unlikely that the virus could be reactivated after remaining dormant when it doesn’t seem to be a type that causes chronic illnesses. As of Tuesday, 277 people in South Korea tested positive for the virus for a second time after being diagnosed as recovered. Health authorities have tested some of their samples, but none so far have been successfully cultivated in isolation, indicating a loss of infectiousness.
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NYC Mayor de Blasio, NYPD 'breaking up' rabbi's funeral attended by hundreds
Just to put it into proper perspective, in Israel it became necessary to use IDF to impose lockdown on ultra-orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalems & the city of Bnei Brak. Before lockdown ultra-orthodox produced most of Israel's coronavirus cases.
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I just noticed something reading the pre print of the small HCQ study that came out yesterday.
They were not able to gold standard ramdomize it but for a control group they used people who refused to accept the HCQ treatment. Almost a babylonbee moment (although sad).
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I've been tracking JH US cases since Feb 26. The first two weeks are from a friend of a friend, who included a column called "3 day % change". Wed/Mon, and Thu/Tue, etc.
I don't know what it means, but it has been falling since March 25 and currently settling under 7.8%.
The originator noted it went from doubling every two days to every three days March 24. Presently, it is doubling every ten days.So that's better, but still increasing.
I think I shall see if I can use this data to determine when everyone in the US will have been infected!
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The DM write up about the processing plants is a total hack-job.
[DAILYCALLER] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday repatriated a member of a rebel forces group involved in human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations back to his native country.
Escorted by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, 56-year-old Alexander Mentol Zinnah boarded an ICE deportation flight and was handed over to Liberian law enforcement authorities, according to a blurb from the agency. The removal marked the latest significant deportation by ICE, even in the face of a worldwide pandemic that has scaled back most air travel.
Before arriving in the United States, Zinnah was a military and law enforcement official under former Liberian President Charles Chuck Taylor The former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually. , who is serving a 50-year prison sentence for human rights abuses.
A probe by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) unit first revealed that he was a member of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, a rebel organization led by Taylor that committed a number of human rights abuses — including massacres, kidnappings and torture. Zinnah had also been a member of the Liberian National Police and even served as a commander during Taylor’s time in office.
HSI arrested Zinnah in 2017 for immigration violations and for violating his parole into the country. The Liberian national had attempted to fight the deportation order.
A U.S. immigration court slapped Zinnah with a final order of removal in May 2019. He lodged an appeal of the decision, but that request was shot down by the Board of Immigration appeals in January, and his request to be released from custody was also dismissed in February.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A U.S. naval warship seized a Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n vessel that was sailing in the southwestern Pacific this week, the U.S. Coast Guard reported on Tuesday.
According to a tweet from the Coast Guard, their ship seized a Venezuelan fishing vessel over suspicions that it was taking part in the illegal narcotics trade.
The Venezuelan vessel was reportedly sailing in the Pacific when the U.S. Coast approached the boat near El Salvador’s territorial waters.
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Shit show incoming along with fiery speeches of America drowning in imperialist blood... or something.
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Excuse me, but IIRC, when my dad was in the Navy many years ago, WestPac was Asia, not El Salvador. When you talk about southwestern Pacific, I think about places like Indonesia and Australia. When I read the headline and saw Venezuela I jumped to the conclusion that China and fentanyl were involved. But when you talk about El Salvador that's a whole other thing, most likely ordinary tootsky.
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Just trying to get the geography straight.
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WestPac was Asia, not El Salvador.
Looking at a map — geography is not my strength — it appears a ship from Venezuela would have to transit the Panama canal to get to the Pacific side of South America. Possibly it did, or possibly it is just registered there. But really, why is a Venezuelan fishing boat wandering the Pacific at all?
Two thoughts here: 1) Russia didn't do any test until very recently, so the fact that they have already 100,000 cases is deeply concerning. 2) The near collapse of Russia's university system means Russia does not have many doctors to spare… https://t.co/nyYG2YJ2Jb
[Jpost] Security flaws in the most popular online-learning platforms could enable users to steal personal information and money, Israeli cyber experts have discovered.
The findings published by researchers at Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software come as millions of students and employees worldwide turn to online-learning management systems (LMS) to conduct virtual classes.
The vulnerabilities were identified by researchers in three WordPress plugins -- LearnPress, LearnDash and LifterLMS -- which are used to turn WordPress websites into effective learning environments by top global universities and many Fortune 500 companies.
Researchers said the plugins are installed on approximately 100,000 educational platforms, including by the University of Florida, University of Michigan and University of Washington. The three platforms also are used in approximately half of all remote-learning solutions on the Israeli market, enabling companies to create quizzes, lessons, learner rewards and certificates.
The flaws enabled students and unauthenticated users to steal personal information, including names, emails, usernames and passwords; funnel money from an LMS to their bank account; change grades for themselves or peers; forge certificates; retrieve test answers; and escalate their system privileges to that of a teacher.
Following their discovery and disclosure by Check Point in March, all the identified vulnerabilities have been patched by the plugin developers.
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On the union side, start by cutting people from the parts of the KC-46 production line that were responsible for "construction debris and tools" being left in spaces inside the aircraft resulting in rejection by Air Force inspectors.
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Boeing deserves to fail. And after this fiasco with the "737" Max, I have zero sympathy for Boeing. In fact, some C-Suite pukes should probably hang.
#4
Move corporate HQ to Tulsa or Wichita. Having it in Bath House Barry land obviously didn't improve anything except the front office fukups' social lives.
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Oh yeah I remember when they rejected the sweetheart deal that Dallas offered them. " We are going to Chicago, they have better restaurants there. " Also they were going to get into the China market. "Like a fish , the rot starts at the head . "
#7
The sole function of a company is to make a good product at a profitfor so that its investors realize a gain from their investment. When it stops doing that it investors should fleedownsizes.
Pretty heavy lifting on that FIFY
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Just visiting with a neighbor and topic of aviation maintenance outsourcing came up. I didn't know it, but there are lots of aviation repairs/maintenance tasks (he called them 'heavies') done in Taiwan and the far east. Evidently a 'heavy' maintenance cycle done on a 747 here in the states could cost $4-5m dollars. In Taiwan, about a quarter of that cost. Having flown over and monitored some of these cycles first hand, he indicated the Taiwan teams literally swarmed the aircraft by the dozens. He asked a supervisor what his people made and was told "about $20." He figured that was 'per hour.' He was wrong. It was $20. per day.
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And happy to make $20 / day and probably serious about their jobs because no aircraft mechanic union to cover them for smoking a joint on the job.
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Kind of a shame, really. I remember flying on a 787 and it was pretty nice. Before that it was the 767, really smooth. But, yeah, if the investors are no longer getting their ROI, it's time for some changes.
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[CNBC] - Sweden has attracted global attention for not imposing a full lockdown, as seen in most of Europe, to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Nonetheless, data released from the country’s central bank and a leading Swedish think tank show that the economy will be just as badly hit as its European neighbors, if not worse.
Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, gave two possible scenarios for the economic outlook in 2020, which it said "depend on how long the spread of infection continues and on how long the restrictions implemented to slow it down are in place." Both possible economic outcomes are bleak.
In the first scenario (scenario A in the chart below), gross domestic product contracts by 6.9% in 2020 before rebounding to grow 4.6% in 2021. In a more negative prediction (scenario B), GDP could contract by 9.7% and a recovery could be slower with the economy growing 1.7% in 2021. Well, at least they won't have to carry the burden of all these old folks on their economy.
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Except that those forecasts are practically worthless in a situation that's changing by the day and that depends critically on policymakers' decisions which can swing wildly from one extreme to another.
Instead of useless projections, try reality and empirical facts that we have available today.
In California, lockdown central, the unemployment rate is now 22%. It's the same for the US-- about 30 million people now unemployed. We know from the Great Depression that the suicide rate is certain to spike by at least 20% in such conditions of mass misery, so expect an additional 10,000 suicides in the nation overall and at least 1,000 additional suicides in California due to the lockdown. Multiply that many times to account for the additional needless deaths of despair. Add many thousands more due to foregone surgeries.
Compare this 22% actual, real, as of this very moment unemployment rate to Sweden's unemployment rate. Even the worst forecast by the central bank in Sweden doesn't get beyond 10% unemployment in that nation.
On a per-population basis, we in the US will kill more people with this lockdown than will die from COVID in Sweden.
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Except that those forecasts are practically worthless in a situation that's changing by the day
Agreed.
We know from the Great Depression that the suicide rate is certain to spike by at least 20%
But the Great Depression was lasted about a decade here in the U.S., Lex, not to mention there was no unemployment insurance or Welfare to bolster negligible worker and small business savings, nor that $1200 stimulus check that so many have already received. The U.S. has been closed down about a month, and is already starting to open up again, so while there will indeed be bankruptcies and suicides, neither should be at anything close to the level seen during the Great Depression.
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Citizens are likely to become a little more patriotic in the aftermath of all this unemployment. I don't know how much the Swedish economy depends on exports but it'll take a while to get back to normal.
#2
Something doesn't add up. Between celebrity rah-rah and ham-fisted gummint, Cali should be so far ahead of the curve the rest of us can never hope to catch up.
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...could it be that driving the middle class out has something to do with it? The ruling class isn't known to circulate with the peasants. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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Acc. to the California Dept. of Public Health, the shape of this year's curve is not significantly different from that for prior years in California. So COVID deaths are likely to taper off this summer, which means California will probably end up with s.t. like 3,000 deaths this year.
However, this number's is probably not comparable to prior years. Assuming that the coding methodology this year has been altered-- a fair assumption given what we've seen elsewhere and the extreme publicity given to COVID--it's likely that deaths coded as caused by COVID need to be revised downward if one is to compare them to prior years' tallies.
Or you could revise prior years' numbers upward.
The CDPH took pains to point out that the 1,665 count in 2017-2018 was a severe underestimate: "Influenza-coded deaths [ for other, non-COVID coronaviruses] are not necessarily laboratory-confirmed and are an underestimate of all influenza-associated deaths ..."
So if the coding methodology were consistent across the current and prior years i.e. if this year's total coded deaths were to be revised downward OR prior years' coded deaths revised upward, we would probably see that this year's COVID deaths in California will not be significantly worse than a bad flu season.
Newsom and his people at Calif. Dept - Public Health surely know this.
The only possible explanation for maintaining the shutdown is political cowardice combined with a belief that ruining millions of Californians' lives will be less politically-damaging to the Boy Governor than enduring screaming headlines that claim, falsely, that lockdowns or lack thereof have any meaningful effect on the actual number of flu-related deaths in California.
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If this were a fiction, then the plot would be.
(a) Introduce quarantine regulation so onerous & stupid that people, en mass, disobey them.
(b) Ignoring quarantine regulations leads to mega infection/death.
(c) Now tighten the screws.
#13
RE: #6 - some people see the glass as half-empty, some see it as half-full Others look at the same glass and scream, "There's not enough water in this glass for everybody; we're all gonna die!"
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Californias disobeyed his mandate over the weekend so collective punishment for all.
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Saline wash is supposed to help kill the virus. UV is not good for it. Well a beach is wet with salt water (saline wash) the breeze has salt water in it. The sun (UV) pounds the beach...
So one could make an argument that an ocean beach is one of the toughest environments for a Covid virus to infect somebody...
#24
I've seen Coast Guard helicopters flying up and down the coast, right over the beach. Never seen those guys flying right over the beach so I think they're serious about it. Bummer. Driving home a week or so ago past one of my favorite breaks I saw a perfect, glassy, four foot wave peeling off to the right and nobody riding it. Bummer, bummer, bummer.
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Here's a thought:
Cuomo, Newsom, Northam, the psycho in MI and the blob in Ill. are the talent pool for the Dems future Presidential aspirations.
What they're doing right now is providing a preview of what national governance will be like when one of them (or a kindred spirit) next wins a Prez election.
Which is likely to occur within the next eight years.
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So now the Boy Governor says the closure will just affect one county and will be temporary.
In other words, Boy Gavin saw a photo of Californians enjoying themselves at the beach, was pissed off, threatened to close all of California's beaches as long as the little emperor saw fit, and then changed his mind and closed one small group of beaches temporarily.
As what the LA Times describes (covering the naked little boy-emperor's arse) as a "symbolic gesture."
Behold the caliber of our fearless leaders' decision-making. Calm, reasoned analysis of evidence.
Grace under pressure.
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There is a quote I can never quite remember, something like,
Nothing so erodes the power of the state as a law which is not obeyed and cannot be enforced.
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His district is fairly 'downstate' (south-central, just NE of St. Louis). The folks there are fairly conservative and really don't want to be confused with the Chicago and Springfield groups.
That said, he's speaking to the choir with regards to his constituents.
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I didn't vote for their dep politicians sweetheart deals with state employee unions. I wasn't even eligible to, as I fortunately do not live in IL. I didn't have a say. No taxation without representation. I heard that somewhere once...
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dem politicians.
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The x-37B has been far more useful that I think anyone expected. The fact there's been no rust to build a bigger or more improved version indicates it's "a pretty nifty kite."
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Any sense on how many we have? Curious if they can take a manned package up todo special things and then come back, offering real plausible deniability? It is after all a mini space shuttle.
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Um, there are two we know about. X-37C, if built would allow 6 astronauts operatives to go to orbit and return quickly...
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Like straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, you could probably put an astronaut in the X-37B cargo bay and bring him / her back, but it would mean surviving for at least 24 hours in an EVA package. Including prep, launch, mission and return. Not encouraging, but in desperate straights, who knows?
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And that's desperate straits. My usage is fine, spelchek is not.
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Isn't this pretty much the same concept as the Space Shuttle?
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It'll be interesting to read about the missions and experiments being conducted by the X-37 someday.
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Like straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, you could probably put an astronaut in the X-37B cargo bay and bring him / her back, but it would mean surviving for at least 24 hours in an EVA package. Including prep, launch, mission and return. Not encouraging, but in desperate straights, who knows?
[Arutz 7] - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it is to partner with the Israel Innovation Authority to pursue investment opportunities in the domain of bio-convergence in health.
The EIB will be supporting Israeli company Pluristem via its German subsidiary, with a venture loan of €50 million.
Pluristem is a regenerative medicine company with a focus on novel biological products. The company uses cells derived from placenta for the development of product candidates for the treatment of severe medical conditions.
[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] A spokesman for Iran's armed forces says 3,600 people have been arrested in the country for spreading rumors regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi made the comments on a live news program on state-controlled television on April 28, claiming that the Islamic republic's "enemies" had "elements" inside the country who follow their orders.
Sherkachi suggested that the unnamed enemies were trying to hurt the country due to its "very good" performance against the coronavirus outbreak that has killed nearly 6,000 Iranians and infected over 93,500, according to official figures released on April 29.
The real figures are suspected of being significantly higher, with even the Research Center of Iran's parliament estimating earlier this month that the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the country was likely to be double the official numbers, due to insufficient testing and reporting.
Tehran has been criticized for its slow initial response to the pandemic and failure to quarantine the city of Qom, where the outbreak erupted and spread to the rest of the country.
Shekarchi's comments come weeks after the U.S. State Department accused Iran of arresting individuals who have attempted to report the real extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country by contacting U.S. officials.
Speaking to RFE/RL's Radio Farda on March 28, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said Iran had not been transparent about its coronavirus cases and death toll, adding that when the Iranian people asked the government to tell the truth, when they demand transparency from the government, the regime does everything to stop them.
The French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders on April 15 condemned the Iranian establishment for the persecution of journalists and citizen-journalists who have published information about the coronavirus epidemic that lacked official approval. With reporting by RFE/RL's Radio Farda
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arrested in the country for spreading rumors regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
DeBlasio, Whitmer, Northam & Newsome have vicarious orgasm.
[FoxNews] The Michigan Court of Claims sided with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and denied a motion for preliminary injunction holding that the current Stay Home, Stay Safe executive order, and earlier versions of it, did not infringe upon the constitutional rights of Michigan residents, Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.
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If Martial Law is declared and government via FEMA and military regions is imposed, the constitution is set aside until the crisis is past.
What you have now is a Morgan & Morgan litigate disaster waiting to happen. I believe the US Senate is examining a financial set-aside for litigation compensation right now.
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^ Clem got me wondering - so I looked it up - the money shot:
"A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government."
#7
We are no longer free. The Soviet Union has less restrictions and more freedom than the United states. Our governors have shredded the constitution using the commerce clause and other add ons. We as a nation are at an impasse, not very far from a kinetic response....
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The Soviet Union has less restrictions and more freedom than the United states.
On paper, sure. But I don’t see wholesale looney bin or jail lock-ups for those who disagree with the party line, 49 Pan. For that matter, I don’t see retail looney bin or jail lock-ups for the crazies living homeless on the street, either.
And as President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell continue the assembly line of judicial appointments, the federal judiciary is becoming ever more serious, which will to some extent constrain state-level nonsense as it goes through appeals — the best most ambitious of the state level judges must aspire to a presidential tap on the shoulder, which means rulings that do not cause derisive laughter in the chambers of the Supreme Court.
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So we’re dealing with a motion for a temporary injunction at the first appeals level on the way to the Michigan supreme court — not anywhere close to a final ruling, or even a semifinal one. Though by the time they do get to something final, this all will be over and returned to normal.
We have similar problems in Kansas. The Governor said we can't go to Easter or any services. Congress said, technically you can only suggest as an order violates the Constitution. Supreme Court said Governor's word is law. That didn't sit well at all.
Second, the arbitrary tracking of phone/PED locations without warrant, or really any justification other than, yeah we do that now so forgetaboutit. Doesn't sit well either.
Lastly, these New Power Off the Cuff do not seem to have an expiration date. Suspending the State Constitution should not be arbitrary, and there should be a time frame for a go/no go on emergency declaration. I think this is why Gov. Cat Lady backed down on the suspension of Easter services because suspending the constitution was evident with with the Supreme Court's fig leaf.
Don't get me started on how Supreme Court Judges in Kansas get nominated. If you think they are conservative, you'd be quite wrong.
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Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus, because they say it is unconstitutional. - cite
I think I just heard a warning shot as in 'show cause'.
#12
TW, I do love my country. As you know. Every time some governor or official cuts into our constitutional rights I get upset. I don't care if its an ordinance over chewing gum or something like this. You see church goers going to jail and being fined, a guy being tackled and handcuffed for not social distancing from his child, and on and on. This is wrong at every level, and as much as I am a Trump follower, and will vote for him again, this is wrong. Now everyone will say we did this to save lives, that's was a good ask until we realized three weeks ago the numbers are not adding up. People will still say that staying home saves lives, if you feel that way stay home, not you TW, generally speaking. Peoples safety from this virus do not supersede my god given constitutional right. Not one here's health is more important than my constitutional rights. This has gone from a good ask to over control by a federal government. And yes, you can walk through the park holing your kids hands, you can go to church, and you can go to the synagogues in Moscow, but not in America. Not right now.
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^ Yet Homeless on the sidewalk next to each/on mass transit/OB Seawall are OK. They crack on the law-abiders and taxpayers because we listen. Will come a time we don't. Respect for the law is a precious thing. They better learn...soon. Sheriff Bill Gore is one
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He's a bundle of fun on CCW permits as well, former FBI Guy
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Right there with you Pan, though I'd say state governments instead of federal.
In fact, I was folding clothes and considering the closing of businesses seemingly arbitrarily and by decree, especially gun stores, when Trump's presser was on and he declared guns and ammo are essential services, I about high-fived the ceiling fan.
Of course I know, my dear — you have nothing to prove to me or anyone, and I am grateful for it. It’s just that I want a certain amount of accuracy in my hyperbole. ;-)
It’s been hard with everyone at every level overreacting to the early projections based on the information given out by China, and there are certainly people at various levels of power who are getting carried away and need pushback. But as we are seeing in California with the beaches and Michigan with whatever she backed down over, while the petty tyrants would love nothing more than to create a new normal that lets them destroy us, they are already realizing the limits of this temporary situation and starting to back away, led by the example of President Trump.
In these fraught times it’s important to reach for calm and perspective — OODA, right? And remember who put on jackboots during these weeks, because we will need to drive them from public life in November.
Its a good thing this 6 foot distancing thing isn't done in metric, or else everyone would be going about in their worst Arnold voice, "It's not a two-meter!"
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The New Madrid Fault is "imminent". as is the Cascadia Zone near Seattle, and of course there is "The Big One" San Andreas in Southern California. *Yawn*
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...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...
Charles 
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[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] A spokesman for Iran's armed forces says 3,600 people have been arrested in the country for spreading rumors regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
