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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FISA Court Slams Justice Department, Demands Review Of Faulty Surveillance Applications
BLUF:
[Red State] Judge Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to provide the FISA court with "the names of the targets" for all 29 surveillance applications and to indicate which targets are related to applications that have no Woods File. In its report, the OIG noted that some of these files were missing without an explanation. In some cases, FBI agents stated that they were unsure if some of these files even existed, which could mean that some applications that the court approved might not have been justified.

Please Check the twelve 4 drawer safes containing the Clinton emails, Soetoro passport and birth certificate documents. I believe you may find what you are seeking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 08:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sheryl Attkisson's explanation of the process is here. I realize this is all hi-faluting national security stuff, but out here in the hinterlands lying to a federal judge (or any judge) is considered really serious shit. Lose your licence, do not pass Go, go directly to jail stuff.
Posted by: Matt || 04/04/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Check the twelve 4 drawer safes

Left
Right
Left
Right
Open
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Shitshow
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 17:54 Comments || Top||


Panty-stealing Long Island judge stripped of license, steps down from bench
[NYPOST] A Long Island judge who copped to stealing dirty undies from the home of a female neighbor has resigned from the bench and has been stripped of his law license.

Suffolk County District Judge Robert Cicale pleaded guilty in September to second-degree attempted burglary, a felony, for breaking into the home of a 23-year-old woman who used to be the pervy judge’s intern on separate occasions and stealing panties from her laundry hamper.

The judicial panty-bandit was arrested in March 2018 as he was leaving the woman’s house ‐ with his pockets stuffed full of her skivvies.

The neighbor previously interned for Cicale while he served as Islip town attorney.

Cicale was sentenced to probation in November and was required to register as a sex offender.

The judge was suspended without pay following his arrest ‐ but inexplicably held onto his position on the bench, which prevented local officials from holding an election to replace him.
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hoarding masks
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Judges have always depended on briefs from their law clerks.
Posted by: jpal || 04/04/2020 18:34 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Bill Withers dead: Lean On Me, Lovely Day and Ain't No Sunshine singer passes away at 81 from heart complications
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  wow
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/04/2020 21:03 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
COVID-19, Urgent Reassessment, Diagnosis and Basic Principles of Infectiology: Open Letter from Professor Sucharit Bhakdi to German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
From a comment posted today by Lex, with English subtitles.
[Global Research] An Open Letter from Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, to the German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. Professor Bhakdi calls for an urgent reassessment of the response to Covid-19 and asks the Chancellor five crucial questions. The let­ter is dated March 26. This is an inofficial translation; see the original letter in German as a PDF.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 11:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good questions from Herr Doktor Bhakdi. I'll go back and read all his set up later.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  IOW, has the whole wide world succumbed to mass hysteria?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 12:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I've studied it a week ago. Unfortunately most of it can be debunked.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/04/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Actually it's doting the i's and crossing the t's, EC - very important.

Look, let put simply. It's true that most people who die have underlying health conditions. But, if they didn't contact Covid-19, they would've kept living!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#5  If we can use masks and 6' of space to safely shop for groceries, then why not other businesses?
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2020 15:30 Comments || Top||

#6 
Look, let put simply. It's true that most people who die have underlying health conditions. But, if they didn't contact Covid-19, they would've kept living!


That's what gets me about that "argument". AIDS patients don't die of AIDS; it's rare that cancer is an actual cause of death; starving people get sick and die of those diseases -- that doesn't mean starving wasn't to blame!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#7  The guy's an academic.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||


CNN's Brooke Baldwin Tests Positive for Coronavirus
[PEOPLE] CNN host Brooke Baldwin has tested positive for 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...
The news personality, who anchors the 2-4 p.m. edition of CNN’s Newsroom, announced on Friday that she has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

"Hi friends ‐ I’ve tested positive for coronavirus. I am OKAY. It came on suddenly yesterday afternoon. Chills, aches, fever," Baldwin, who resides in New York, wrote in an Instagram post.

Although Baldwin, 40, said she has been social distancing and has no underlying conditions, she still contracted the novel coronavirus, which was declared a pandemic in March.

"I’ve been social distancing. Doing ALL the things we’re being told to do. Still ‐ it got me. I’m healthy ... no underlying conditions," she wrote.

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tested negative on an IQ test
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd say the only people who'd miss him would be passengers at airports, but that audience has also disappeared. Obviously, non-essential.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Baldwin is a woman. ^^^^
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/04/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Shows you how much I watch the place.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  New York Social Distancing - lick fewer buttholes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Another COVID-19 Lie Exposed - Los Angeles Health Officials Caught Lying About Teenager's Death Linked to Coronavirus
[Gateway Pundit] The fraudstreammedia ran searing headlines about the boy’s death which was described as the first known "juvenile" to die from the Coronavirus in the US.

Well it turns out this story was a lie.

California health officials are now saying they are reevaluating the teen’s death claiming the case is "complex" and needs to be further investigated.

A couple weeks ago it was reported the teen’s parents took their son to an urgent care because he was suffering from a respiratory illness.

The couple was supposedly turned away for not having insurance so they took their son to an emergency room.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 10:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drive-by shootings, drug overdose, opioid, all Flu's, ruptured appendix, suicides, most forms of cancer, all to be categorized as....COVID-19 and Trump related administration failures.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Almost every dead celebrity obit is getting the word worked into the headline.
Posted by: Bill Fleaper8413 || 04/04/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Any story involving someone denied care at an emergency room is a lie.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#4  How else to get the 2020 death exemption deduction?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 17:37 Comments || Top||


WHOA! Dr. Fauci in 2017: President Trump Will Be Challenged By a Surprise Global Disease Outbreak (VIDEO)
[Gateway Pundit] Dr. Birx decided to throw away several proposed models for the Coronavirus outbreak and went all-in on a single model funded by Bill Gates.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 10:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There were, what, two during Obama's administration? Not exactly a low-probability prediction.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 12:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like every year some new bug gets loose in China. Whether or not this one is any deadlier than the others, we need to distance ourselves from China.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  He's not deep state. He is talking at a pandemic conference. In reality what he is saying does hand in hand with the sun will rise tomorrow. We have surprise issues like this every few years. He did not speak to Trump, he spoke to the administration. I would like to see the whole thing. I bet he talks about preparedness and how to meet the next event.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/04/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I would like to see the whole thing.

Here you go, bub.

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 17:41 Comments || Top||


"I Found The Source of the Coronavirus"
From Laowhy86 on Youtube - "After 2 weeks of painstaking searching, I refute the claim that the Coronavirus started outside of China."

Thought this was going to be some anti-US or anti-Israel skreed since I found the link on ZH, but the research this young man did is pretty good. Didn't follow the standard 'journalistic drive-by' route and actually dug in and derived his conclusions from lesser known public Chinese internet sites that only the locals might use (before the CCP scrubbed them, naturally). It helps that he lived in China for ten years and is fluent in the language.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2020 09:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Excellent! Great find Richard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Indeed. The Chinese Government should just admit the virus originated in China?

I am not going to hold my breath.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  This might be a reference to this story.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/04/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 It's certainly gene-engineered. The virus jumped from bats to humans and the spike protein immediately/spontaneously* changed from adapted to binding to bat cell to adapted to binding to human cells?

*Such changes can evolve, but it takes time. Lots of humans sick with the intermediate forms.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Such changes can evolve, but it takes time. Lots of humans sick with the intermediate forms.

At 3:45 the video states that villagers in the area where the bats were collected were already found to be infected.

If they collected virus samples from already infected humans they could have selectively bred virus strains in suitable human cell cultures. Just mutation and selection, no direct traces of engineering.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/04/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 Probably used molecular cloning + in vitro function assays - everyone does nowadays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||


Coronaplague Roundup: Spain's daily coronavirus death toll falls for first time since March 26


LA Mayor Garcetti encourages residents to report violators of stay-at-home order: 'Snitches get rewards'

Nikki Haley accuses WHO of taking 'China's word' on coronavirus transmission

New York trains packed with mask-wearing passengers despite strict social distancing instructions – essential workers continue to commute amid rising coronavirus toll in NYC

New York's death rate new high: Cuomo reveals 23 people died every hour over last 24hrs - 562 in a day - bringing the total to 2,935 with more than 100,000 infections
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Travel data shows 3.4 million travelers from countries that would become hardest-hit by the coronavirus entered the U.S. as the pandemic was starting

  • The figures are from December, January and February, which were critical early months in the spread of the deadly pandemic

  • According to the numbers, 759,493 people entered the U.S. from China, where the outbreak originated

  • Another 343,402 travelers arrived from Italy, 418,848 from Spain and about 1.9 million more came from Britain, during the same period

  • Medical experts say it cannot be known how many travelers may have been infected, but it's highly likely some were not exhibiting symptoms.

NYC medical staff wait until nightfall to bring out the dead as city hospitals report bodies flowing through like a 'conveyor belt' while 130 more mobile morgues are on their way with experts predicting citywide death toll to soar past 16,000

Coronavirus Strikes 66 of 84 Residents of San Antonio Nursing Home
[BREITBART] San Antonio, Texas, officials report that 66 of 84 residents of a local nursing home are infected with 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...
(COVID-19). On Wednesday, the total in the facility sat at 14. One elderly man died earlier this week.

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg broke the news on Thursday that 66 residents of the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center tested positive for COVID-19. He said the infection spread rapidly through the facility after 14 people tested positive only the day before, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

In addition to the 66 infected patients, 11 others received negative test results and two tests were inconclusive. One man in his 80s died earlier this week.

Officials reported that at least six employees also tested positive.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said, "That’s an incredibly high number" in response to the news.

The San Antonio newspaper reported the nursing home "has fallen short of federal standards on staffing levels and health inspections." The facility was reportedly cited recently for "failing to adhere to proper infection protocols and medically neglecting a resident."

India: Mob of 100 Throws Stones at Doctors Treating Coronavirus
[BREITBART] A mob of at least 100 locals threw stones at doctors sent to screen people for the Chinese 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...
in central India on Wednesday.

Two female doctors were maimed in the stoning and had to be rescued by police. The incident occurred in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a large state in central India.

As seen in a video of the attack, the mob chased the healthcare workers and civic officials down an alley, throwing stones and other objects at them, while also spitting on the workers and shouting abuse.

"We were given a list of contacts of Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] patients and were screening them when suddenly some of them started pelting us with stones. We ran to save our lives," said one doctor.

On Thursday, seven men were arrested for the attack. The local superintendent of police DK Tiwari said that the accused were identified based on area CCTV footage. On Thursday, police were still working to identify more people suspected of participating in the assault.

President Moreno says Ecuador is building a 'coronavirus camp for the fallen' as the country struggles to deal with dead bodies lying in homes for days amid the coronavirus pandemic

Courtesy of Lex:
US Media's Chinese Business Ties May Explain Why They Parrot ChiCom Propaganda




US scientists: Coronavirus may spread through normal breathing
So mask up, guys.
[IsraelTimes] The new coronavirus might spread through the air via normal breathing and speaking, a top US scientist says as the government was poised to recommend the use of face masks for everyone.

Anthony Fauci, head of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Fox News the guidance on masks would be changed “because of some recent information that the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak, as opposed to coughing and sneezing.”

As it stands, the official advice is that only sick people need to cover their faces, as well as those caring for them at home.

Fauci’s comments come after the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) sent a letter to the White House on April 1 that summarized recent research on the subject. It said that though the research isn’t yet conclusive, “the results of available studies are consistent with aerosolization of virus from normal breathing.”

Until now, US health agencies have said that the primary pathway of transmission is respiratory droplets, about one millimeter in diameter, expelled by sick people when they sneeze or cough. These quickly fall to the ground around a meter away.

But if the virus can be suspended in the ultra-fine mist we expel when we exhale, in other words an aerosol, it becomes much harder to prevent its spread, which in turn is an argument in favor of everyone covering their faces.

So far, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been more cautious on the airborne threat. In an analysis published on March 29, it wrote that aerosol transmission was only known to occur during particular medical treatments that required assisted breathing.

Thousands of Canadian health care workers cross border daily to help in coronavirus battle

Spain's daily coronavirus death toll falls for first time since March 26
[Jpost] Spain's coronavirus death toll rose to a total of 10,935 from 10,003 on the previous day, the Health Ministry said on Friday, but showed the first fall in a daily death toll since March 26.

A total of 932 people died from the disease in 24 hours, down from 950 people in the previous daily toll, the figures showed.The number of registered cases rose to 117,710 on Friday up from 110,238 on Thursday, the ministry said.

Mosques stay open in Pakistan even as virus death toll rises
[AlAhram] Pakistan, with 2,450 confirmed cases and 36 deaths, has been sharply criticized for moving too slow to curb large gatherings, including a gathering of tens of thousands of Muslims from several Islamic countries in March. The gathering of Tableeghi Jamaat missionaries is blamed for several outbreaks of the new virus elsewhere in the world. The first confirmed cases that emerged in Gaza were traced to the gathering.

Despite this, some religious leaders in Pakistan still urge the faithful to defy restrictions and gather at mosques. Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, head of a committee tasked with spotting the new moon in Pakistan marking the beginning of holy months such as Ramadan, went on television telling people their faith would protect them and they should attend the mosque.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2020 00:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Sailors cheer captain forced to leave USS Roosevelt after exposing virus outbreak onboard
[IsraelTimes] Sailors are filmed cheering for Captain Brett Crozier after he was ordered off the USS Roosevelt and stripped of command after a memo he sent pleading for help in containing the outbreak on his ship was leaked to the press.

The captain of the US Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship was fired by Navy leaders who said he created a panic by sending his memo pleading for help to too many people.

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Crozier “demonstrated extremely poor judgment” in the middle of a crisis. He said the captain copied too many people on the memo, which was leaked to a California newspaper and quickly spread to many news outlets.
So it wasn’t the captain who leaked it, but one of the too many people he copied on it. Definitely poor judgement.
Modly’s decision to remove Crozier as ship commander was immediately condemned by members of the House Armed Services Committee, who called it a “destabilizing move” that will “likely put our service members at greater risk and jeopardize our fleet’s readiness.”

Modly told Pentagon reporters during an abruptly called press conference Thursday that Crozier should have gone directly to his immediate commanders, who were already moving to help the ship. And he said Crozier created a panic by suggesting 50 sailors could die.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt, with a crew of nearly 5,000, is docked in Guam, and the Navy has said as many as 3,000 will be taken off the ship and quarantined by Friday. More than 100 sailors on the ship have tested positive for the virus, but none is hospitalized.

Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why not cheer. He was the cool boat captain. Allowed his guys a boat call in Thailand! Even though he knew of the threat. His going public with the fleet readiness shows panic and a lack of command control and that deserves him to be relieved.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/04/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I remain in agreement with 49 Pan.

'Popularity is too slender a reed to bear the weight of command.'

Posted by: Cesare || 04/04/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I think they were cheering to see him go ashore
Posted by: Whealet Unomp8613 || 04/04/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Shouldn't there be a pre-planned response protocol for dealing with an infectious disease outbreak on a US navy vessel?

It could hardly be a surprise that contagious disease can be an issue not to mention bio weapons.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/04/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Shouldn't there be a pre-planned response protocol for dealing with an infectious disease outbreak on a US navy vessel?

Yea, but the couldn't find it. The only thing they could find is protocol for dealing with transgendered sailor.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 14:42 Comments || Top||

#6  #1 nailed it can we all agree?

His going public with the fleet readiness shows panic and a lack of command control and that deserves him to be relieved.

Posted by: jpal || 04/04/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 04/04/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||


The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Such were the expectations for the Navy hospital ship U.S. Naval Ship Comfort that when it chugged into New York Harbor this week, throngs of people, momentarily forgetting the strictures of social distancing, crammed together along Manhattan’s west side to catch a glimpse.

On Thursday, though, the huge white vessel, which officials had promised would bring succor to a city on the brink, sat mostly empty, infuriating local hospital executives. The ship’s 1,000 beds are largely unused, its 1,200-member crew mostly idle.

Only 20 patients had been transferred to the ship, officials said, even as New York hospitals struggled to find space for the thousands infected with 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...
. Another Navy hospital ship, the U.S. Naval Ship Mercy, docked in Los Angeles, has had a total of 15 patients, officials said.

"If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke," said Michael Dowling, the head of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system. "Everyone can say, ’Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield."

The Comfort was sent to New York to relieve pressure on city hospitals by treating people with ailments other than COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.

President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
left a nine-day sequester in the White House last week to travel to Norfolk, Virginia, to personally see off the ship as it set sail for New York, saying it would play a "critical role." The ship’s arrival Monday was cheered as one of the few bright moments in a grim time for the city.

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, there are far less than 1000 patients in NYC without the virus. Someone is not telling the truth about the virus numbers it would seem or someone is playing political games with people's lives.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Yahoo "news"? Why are there only 20 patients on the Comfort? Gangways too narrow? Trump's (explanation not necessary) fault? Hospitals not filling out the proper forms? Proper forms not yet available? Chinese interference?

Maybe the Comfort is for non-WuFlu patients and those have all been sent home, or told to stay home (delay your procedure)?

The comment from Michael Dowling (we're in a battlefield) was particularly pointless.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Bet on bureaucrats. NY state licensing of facility, out of state personnel, and triple-damned ACA compliance as well as hospital billing issues .
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 04/04/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Mrs. Bobby made a good point on this topic: Fewer shootings, stabbings, and car crashes to send folks to the 'regular' hospitals.

How's Chicago doing? I mean, murder-wise.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5 
HeyJackass
Week in Progress (3/29 – 4/4)
Shot & Killed: 5
Shot & Wounded: 39
Total Shot: 44
Total Homicides: 5
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Wah, wah, they ignored the contract rules.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||


Vermont Decrees Home Farming "Non Essential", Forbids The Selling of Seeds…
[Last Refuge]
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If history is any guide, this genius-level edict will be rescinded just like the advice not to wear face-masks, most likely right after it is too late to plant.

It is mind-boggling that
a) someone has a job where they sit around and think up stuff like this
b) they think this will make things better.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2020 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 4:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Grom beat me...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/04/2020 5:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Vermont Soviet (VERSOV) Ukaz-347 stipulates that the Kulaks, Whites, monarchists, priests and other counter-revolutionary elements henceforth shall not be allowed to sow, harvest or mill private stores of grain or other foodstuffs. All Kulak et al. stocks shall be requisitioned and transferred immediately to local VERSOV cadres on pain of execution.
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 6:13 Comments || Top||

#5  And Lex beat us both.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 6:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Lemme guess, only Monsanto seeds are approved?
Posted by: Beau || 04/04/2020 6:45 Comments || Top||

#7  According to the sign, seeds can be ordered from the website for curbside pick-up or delivery— just not picked up from a rack on the shop floor.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#8  b) they think this will make things better.

Yes they do, for some values of better.

1) better control over the peasants.
2) better access to more levers of power.
3) better access to the grifter machine.
4) better levels of fear instilled to support the NEXT grab.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/04/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#9  More than a few bureaucrats need to be identified as non-essential.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#10  More than a few bureaucrats need to be lamp decoration.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Not a surprise...Bernie country
Posted by: Warthog || 04/04/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#12  #7 Thanks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||

#13  There's a lot of conclusions being based off a sign made by a store manager at a Walmart. Has anyone bothered to check with the state?

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#14  Addressed in yesterday's Texas city, not Texas City thread.

Yes, you can curbside or get delivery.

The question remains, who decides what is or is not essential? I'd think, as any time as any, home gardening is essential. I get it that browsers and lollygaggers are contrary to the distancing theory but is this not a sort of ignorance which casts doubt on the policy makers?

We out here in west Kansas were given an F in stay at home orders and will likely be sent to the principal's office. Why an F? Because the cell phone tracking models run through the grand calculatorium says we travel too much. OK, put aside the cell phone tracking shit, they are using urban travel algorithms on a rural check the cows and break the ice reality. In short, a shitty model which brings no confidence to the, uh, leadership of the local earls and lords.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#15  They shall not be allowed to purchase good or services unless they have the mark of the beast on their forehead or back of the hand...

I swear I've heard that somewhere before....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/04/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#16  A badly worded sign posted at a Wal-Mart was NOT one of the signs of the end times, OK?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 12:23 Comments || Top||

#17  I've been wondering for weeks when Americans would chafe at the thought of their "betters" enslaving them "for the common good".

Are we there yet? This is all bullshit.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/04/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#18  p.s. Does this includes home farming of cannabis sativa?

pp.s. What would Ethan Allen have done?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:24 Comments || Top||

#19  The same thing Joe Mondragon did in The Milagro Beanfield War.
Posted by: JHH || 04/04/2020 16:06 Comments || Top||

#20  So WTF do the states see Lottery Ticket sales as essential?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2020 19:18 Comments || Top||


Britain
Watch: Rare Second World War footage of Bletchley Park-linked MI6 intelligence heroes emerges, shared online
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/04/2020 04:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks for that, BP.
Posted by: Matt || 04/04/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course the article had to have mention of a gay Alan Turing
Posted by: Alistaire Tingle9882 || 04/04/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Corona beer suspends production due to coronavirus
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The lager brand will not be produced after Mexico deemed it non-essential.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never liked Corona...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/04/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  It's lawnmower beer - beer you drink while mowing the lawn.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Never liked Corona...

Try putting a slice of lime in it.
Posted by: gorb || 04/04/2020 2:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Man with case of Corona seeks woman with Lyme disease.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 04/04/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Corona and other beers bottled in clear or green glass have developed a reputation as smelling “skunky” or spoiled. That's because they are. ...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/04/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, I guess the re-branding didn't work...:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/04/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#7  People who won't drink Corona because it sounds like coronavirus = Voters.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes. I am a beer snob.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Dos Equis verde para mi.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Corona reminds me of Alster-wasser, that is beer mixed with lemonaid or sprite or something that they drink in Germany for refreshment on hot days. Super week beer.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/04/2020 17:26 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ Hoegaarden or Leffe poured into a glass with a fresh quarter-lemon is tasty
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 17:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Commonly known as a Shandy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||

#13  Ty Skid.
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 18:26 Comments || Top||

#14  More for me snobs!!!
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/04/2020 18:49 Comments || Top||

#15  @ #1 (Crazyhorse) You can almost make coffee with that. Sure, perhaps it's for hot weather places, but, I won't buy it, not even as a joke.

@ #11 (Lex) Oh, that Belgian beer...luscious, absolutely luscious (Duvel, St-Feuillien, etc., etc.).
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/04/2020 22:04 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Entire Crew Of A Russian Nuclear Submarine Is In Quarantine After COVID-19 Exposure
[TheDrive] Personnel from a second sub and a floating workshop are also in quarantine, underscoring the dangers the virus poses to naval forces worldwide.

The entire crew of one of the Russian Navy's eight Project 949A Oscar II class guided missile submarines is reportedly in quarantine over concerns they may have been exposed to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. This underscores the very serious implications that the rapidly expanding pandemic is almost certain to have on the readiness of military forces around the world, including the U.S. military, as time goes on, something the War Zone has already explored in detail.

B-port, an online Russian news outlet based in the northern port city of Murmansk, was first to report that the crew of the Oscar II class submarine Orel was in quarantine on Mar. 26, 2020. Russian Navy officials made this decision after learning that a civilian contractor who had visited the boat on official business had come into contact with another individual who tested positive for COVID-19.



Orel is one of eight remaining Soviet-era Oscar II class submarines still in Russian Navy service, two of which are in the process of being upgraded to the improved Project 949AM standard. A ninth boat in the class, the Belgorod, is in the final stages of major conversion into a Project 09852 special projects submarine, which you can read about in more detail in this past War Zone piece.

A present, Orel is one of just three Oscar IIs active with the Northern Fleet, the other two being the Voronezh and the Smolensk. The Tver, Omsk, and Tomsk are all assigned to the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/04/2020 00:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just try and social distance in a sub
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Give "hot cot" a new meaning.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/04/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Get Capt. Crozier to pen them a letter.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/04/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||


Chessmaster Putin
[Jpost] Ventilators delivered by Russia to the United States for coronavirus patients were manufactured by a Russian company that is under US sanctions, Russia's RBC business daily reported on Friday.

A Russian military plane carrying the ventilators along with other medical supplies including personal protective equipment landed in New York on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone.

Russian state television footage of the plane's unloading showed boxes of "Aventa-M" ventilators, which are produced by the Ural Instrument Engineering Plant (UPZ) in the city of Chelyabinsk, 1,500 km (930 miles) east of Moscow, RBC reported.

UPZ is part of a holding company called Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), which itself is a unit of Russian state conglomerate Rostec.

KRET has been under US sanctions since July 2014, with US firms and nationals barred from doing business with it.

The issue was further complicated by the question of whether it was the United States or Russia's sovereign wealth fund RDIF, which was added to US sectoral sanctions in 2015, that paid for the ventilators.

A senior administration official on Friday said sanctions did not apply to medical supplies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can we start playing chess, too?
Maybe realize that we and Russia both have a mutual, and mortal, enemy in the form of China?
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 6:07 Comments || Top||

#2  As our resident plant shrub Herb was schooled yesterday, medical supplies are not sanctioned, even to Iran
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China sends over 1,000 ventilators to crisis-hit New York as death-toll passes 3,500
[SCMP] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday that China is facilitating the shipment of 1,000 ventilators to his state, as he continues to shop for more of the life-saving devices ahead of a growing number of coronavirus patients who will need them.

A small shipment, but good PR. But be sure to test them!
Posted by: KBK || 04/04/2020 14:25 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What happens, if - in the end - it turns out that Covid-19 can only be cured by something that nobody but Chinese have/can produce?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:08 Comments || Top||

#2  That would be an unfortunate coincidence.
Posted by: Matt || 04/04/2020 15:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Of which maybe 6 or 7 actually work?
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#4  New or Used?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Pre-Infected or Not?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/04/2020 16:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Bellows are NOT ventilators!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 16:25 Comments || Top||

#7  They apparently gave a bunch of CPAP machines to Elon Musk to pretend they're ventilators and give to the state of CA.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/04/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#8  New-York population; 19,5 million Deaths: 2935
Texas: 29 million Deaths: 86.

Would be interesting to have a Republaican vs Democratic adminsitartion breakup.
Posted by: JFM || 04/04/2020 19:42 Comments || Top||


Henan, China County Goes Into Coronavirus Lockdown As Country Tries To Get Back To Work Amid Fear Of Second Wave
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/04/2020 08:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Raising another possibility: China's low number are (more or less) real, only because they walled off Wuhan. They may have kicked the can to the other provinces, prolonging the agony. Another argument for striving for herd immunity.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  My hypothesis is that the situation in China is qualitatively. similar to the situation in South Korea.

For some reason (*) the highly intensive epidemic has abated but new cases still appear regularly while the number of active cases decreases.

China's absolute numbers are bogus by orders of magnitude though and for reasons of international prestige they're pretending that there are no new cases.

Thus acknowledging the continuous presence of Wuhan virus disease and taking measures to keep it under control is technically an ideological offense.

Objectively the Chinese regime is incentivizing behavior that might precipitate a second big outbreak in at least some areas of the country.

(*) The reason could be the lock down or the spread of a highly transmissible but extremely mild variant of the virus, probably a combination of both.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/04/2020 14:20 Comments || Top||


#4  All the infected, carrier Chins with no symptoms that came over for the 'holidays' are returning home and must be managed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||


China's place in the post-COVID-19 new world order
Bookworm room via Instapundit
...When China first started sending America cheap things, I assumed, and I bet a lot of other people did, that China would follow the Japanese trajectory. It would begin with paper umbrellas and cheap toys and then, as it got the hang of the whole manufacturing thing, it would gradually move to the high-end products. After all, the Chinese were Asians, too, and we were assured that they could be as meticulous as the Japanese or the South Koreans.

What the Japanese and South Koreans could have told us, though, was that China is a very different culture. It’s neither clean nor orderly. The communist government manages it with an iron fist studded with spikes and bolts. There’s nothing subtle about China.

China also isn’t a country with capitalism in the factory awkwardly paired with communism in the government. It’s a mercantile system with communism in the government. It sees the world as a place in which to dump its goods, without taking in other products in exchange. Because there is no free market exchange, China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market.

...Significantly, Chinese carelessness doesn’t start with products headed outside the borders. Do you remember the 2008 milk scandal in China? The Chinese were putting melamine in milk to give it the appearance of more protein. Melamine is the same substance that the Chinese put in the pet food that killed America’s cats and dogs:

Of an estimated 300,000 victims in China,[1] six babies died from kidney stones and other kidney damage and an estimated 54,000 babies were hospitalized.

...China is in many ways a magnificent country, but it’s also a careless and dirty country that has very limited respect for individual well-being and that has a totalitarian government that is loath to admit fault. It was always going to be the perfect vector for the next pandemic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 07:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market.

They copied our box store business model? Who knew ?

Prediction: After this pandemic unpleasantness is concluded, Trump, Gaia, and a changing climate will be blamed. All will be forgiven and business with China will quickly resume.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Sadly B, there are a lot of people in positions of power and influence who will enable that because they are for sale.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/04/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||


China orders 200,000 body bags from Taiwan!
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2020 06:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's probably nothing.
Posted by: Matt || 04/04/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  They're gonna be tagged "Made in China" and shipped to the U.S.A.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  COVID-19 Beta-testing complete, China makes preparations for COVID-20 'The Virus After - The Long Game.'



Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  A good supply of body bags - that means Rambo's gonna clean house!
Posted by: Raj || 04/04/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Not anywhere close to over for China.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Did China order 200k empty body bags or full body bags?
Posted by: Airandee || 04/04/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Given the number of incinerators they have running, the need for body bags is curious.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes, Iblis. But I wonder if the body bags will only be used to transport bodies to the incinerators and then be reused.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||


Of Course He Did...
[GatewayPundit] Soros Invested Heavily in Chinese Biotech Research Company with Facility in Wuhan that Researches Respiratory Models and Infectious Disease

Documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011 show Soros Fund Management LLC invested heavily into WUXI Pharmatech Caymen, Inc.

WuXi AppTec, as it is now called, has a facility in Wuhan, China. The company provides validated research including in vitro (HTS, SAR screening support) and in vivo disease models in cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic and infectious diseases.

The document was filed with the US government in August 2012.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "WuXi"?
= Wuhan + Xi Jinping?
Soros's co-investor?
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 6:04 Comments || Top||


Economy
What Everyone's Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
Bottom line:
[Marker] If you’re looking for where all the toilet paper went, forget about people’s attics or hall closets. Think instead of all the toilet paper that normally goes to the commercial market ‐ those office buildings, college campuses, Starbucks, and airports that are now either mostly empty or closed. That’s the toilet paper that’s suddenly going unused.

So why can’t we just send that toilet paper to Safeway or CVS? That’s where supply chains and distribution channels come in.

Not only is it not the same product, but it often doesn’t come from the same mills.

Talk to anyone in the industry, and they’ll tell you the toilet paper made for the commercial market is a fundamentally different product from the toilet paper you buy in the store. It comes in huge rolls, too big to fit on most home dispensers. The paper itself is thinner and more utilitarian. It comes individually wrapped and is shipped on huge pallets, rather than in brightly branded packs of six or 12.

"Not only is it not the same product, but it often doesn’t come from the same mills," added Jim Luke, a professor of economics at Lansing Community College, who once worked as head of planning for a wholesale paper distributor. "So for instance, Procter & Gamble [which owns Charmin] is huge in the retail consumer market. But it doesn’t play in the institutional market at all."
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/04/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Ooops. I missed one of the more key sentences when I was copying and pasting from the whole article:

With some 75% of the U.S. population under stay-at-home orders, Americans are no longer using the restrooms at their workplace, in schools, at restaurants, at hotels, or in airports.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||


Gasoline Demand Way Down at end of March
[EIA.GOV] week ending 3/13, the estimated demand was about 9.7 M b/d bar/day

week ending 3/27, it was about 6.7 M b/d

domestic petroleum production was down from about 13.1 M b/d to about 13.0 M b/d in the same period
Posted by: lord garth || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They should use the industrial ethanol that was destined for blending into gasohol for hand sanitizer. With 3 Million b/d mixed at 10%, we should have an excess 300K b/d of ethanol on hand. An extra 12 million gallons of sanitizer per day sure would be useful right now.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 04/04/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||


Europe
Merkel leaves her self-quarantine and resumes her work at the chancellery
Yay.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PA asks Israel to test thousands of Palestinian workers before they return home
[IsraelTimes] Up to 50,000 laborers expected to move back to West Bank ahead of Passover, sparking fears of surge in infections; Shtayyeh blasts notion of Israel ‘medically annexing’ territory.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  No.
Posted by: gorb || 04/04/2020 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  How about giving them a nice dose of cyanide.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/04/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Israel won't test people with COVID-19 symptoms unless they've traveled

Citing a growing shortage of reagents (the chemical compound used for coronavirus testing), the Health Ministry on Friday narrowed the criteria for conducting tests for COVID-19, only days after expanding them on Monday.
The new guidelines explain that if you are suffering from a temperature above 38 degrees Celsius, a cough, difficulty breathing, or any other respiratory symptoms that correspond to the virus, you can only receive the test if you have also recently spent time either abroad, or in the Palestinian territories in the 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:05 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
How Sewage Could Reveal True Scale of Coronavirus Outbreak
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 13:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I find more amazing that the Scientific [sic] American could break away from its pop-sci rantings about "Green Stuff" to actually contribute to the discussion.
Posted by: magpie || 04/04/2020 14:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Funny magpie. I know somebody who wrote a paper on immunology citing Sci Am (in 1990es), send it to JTB, and was told by a reviewer that Sci Am is NOT an acceptable source.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#3  I've never subscribed to Scientific American but I can tell you for certain National Geographic has become a total shit show. If it's not related to transgender people coping with life it's about how the human race is destroying the planet and we all need to die.They devote entire issues to that kind of PC crap and it pisses me off. I'm not gonna renew next time.
Posted by: jpal || 04/04/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#4  For Nat Geo it is not only the environmental alarmism. A recent issue - maybe the latest issue - recounted how Greeks and Romans were driven out of Constantinople by the indigenous Ottoman Turks in 1299. The poor Ottomans were just minding their own business since ... forever and then these Greeks and then Romans show up. Imagine what their writers and editors can - or have -come up with in an article about Jerusalem.
Posted by: York Harding || 04/04/2020 23:13 Comments || Top||


Boeing 787s need to be turned off and on again every 51 days to prevent 'potentially catastrophic failure' due to a glitch that results in pilots being fed FALSE data on airspeed and altitude
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My car sat for a week and when I started it the clock was wrong.
Posted by: Slats Dribble2920 || 04/04/2020 4:23 Comments || Top||

#2  turned off and on again

Electrical system shut down and re-energised? how is this a big deal?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/04/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  You used to be able to somewhat reset a GM vehicle's on-board computer by turning the ignition key on and off five times.

Wouldn't want to do this while airborne, however.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  ...By the time this is done, Boeing's going to be lucky if they're allowed to PAINT airplanes much less make them.

Oh, BTW - agreement the other day between DOD/USAF and Boeing on the KC-46. Boeing's going to fix that stupid remote refueling system. On THEIR dime.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/04/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  It sounds like a memory leak in the Operating System or an app.
What OS does Boeing use?

Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  What OS does Boeing use?

One that was farmed out to Indian developers to save money.

Get what you pay for.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Airspeed and altitude might be GPS time delay calculated. Could be the constellation map just needs a cache refresh.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Probably a buffer overflow, caused by inexperienced 'programmer'.(A former reporter perhaps?)
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/04/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#9  To be fair, it wasn't designed for that, the problem is known, and wouldn't you want to anyways to keep the hydraulics moving?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  To the public all they hear from these explanations is “blah lab blah, Boeing screwed up again. Let’s fly airbus planes instead. Stop outsourcing critical stuff and doing MBA cost savings analytics on components that can get people killed.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/04/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#11  I could show them how to rig up a RaspberryPi to do that without wasting pilot time.
Posted by: KBK || 04/04/2020 13:32 Comments || Top||

#12  I think it's not good for any machine to sit idle for too long. And, as far as memory leaks go, Microsoft has been as guilty of this problem as any other software company.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 14:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Barring a runtime that does garbage collection, every development organization has had memory leaks.

The really unlucky ones get memory leaks in environments WITH garbage collection...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 16:27 Comments || Top||

#14  The problem with garbage collection in a real time system is that you do NOT want it to run at the wrong time - say during landing.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/04/2020 16:47 Comments || Top||

#15  I'd think twice,boarding a plane with jumper cables hooked up on the tarmac.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/04/2020 18:45 Comments || Top||

#16  My car sat for a week and when I started it the clock was wrong.

Spring ahead, fall back. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 04/04/2020 20:33 Comments || Top||


Ford designers using virtual reality to collaborate from home during coronavirus lockdowns
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Hand Sanitizer Production Halted as FDA Stands in the Way
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hand sanitizer is supposed to made with denatured alcohol, which you can't drink. The distilleries were using food-grade alcohol (remember Everclear?) with aloe vera, or similar.

No, no, no! Can't have that! Drinkable alcohol in the hand sanitizer has not been tested for safety and effectiveness!

Besides, it's production eluding the federal tax on drinkable alcohol. Or people would drink hand sanitizer, get sick, and blame Trump. Waitaminute ... let's rethink this...
Posted by: Bobby || 04/04/2020 16:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The American Mandarinate is going to try to kill as many of us as possible while trying to blame Trump.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/04/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Never attribute to malice that can be explained by sheer, unthinking stupidity
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Time to end the Prez Washington era BS designed to keep him the largest manufacturer of booze in the USA.
End the booze tax. End the ATF.
Erase the Whiskey Rebellion
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||

#5  They weren't using drinkable alcohol, but the tailings. It's nothing you WANT to drink!

What amazed me is the IRS/ATF got out of the way almost immediately!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#6  The American Mandarinate is going to try to kill as many of us as possible while trying to blame Trump.

How else to save Social Security?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 17:32 Comments || Top||

#7  There's an easy solution, hang the head of the FDA on the white house lawn and see if his replacement gets the message. If not, repeat until someone gets it.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/04/2020 18:28 Comments || Top||

#8  ^^ I support this
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2020 19:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Silent Brick : I approve your message.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 04/04/2020 19:56 Comments || Top||

#10  first, agree with comment #5. Second, re: #7, head on a pike is better.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/04/2020 23:34 Comments || Top||

#11  80% of 190 proof Everclear with 20% of 100% Aloe Vera Gel works great, and the scent of the Everclear goes away within 5 seconds. A grocery called Sprouts in the area sells 4 oz. glass spray bottles work good too.
Posted by: Fairbanks || 04/04/2020 23:54 Comments || Top||


Government
White House changes national stockpile definition amid criticism its keeping supplies from states
[IsraelTimes] The Trump administration has abruptly changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile, the federal government’s repository of life-saving medicines and supplies, to conform with President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s insistence that it is only a short-term backup for states, not a commitment to ensure supplies get quickly to those who need them most during an emergency.

The change, reflected on government websites, comes a day after Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser who has taken a larger role in 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...
response, offered a new argument about the stockpile.

After saying that states should use their own stockpiles first, Kushner said, "And the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use."

Until Friday, the federal Health and Human Services website had reflected a markedly different approach to the stockpile. The "Strategic National Stockpile is the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out," the website used to say, according to an archived search.

"When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency," the website had said.

But, according to data, the description changed Friday morning: "The Strategic National Stockpile’s role is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well. The supplies, medicines, and devices for life-saving care contained in the stockpile can be used as a short-term stopgap buffer when the immediate supply of adequate amounts of these materials may not be immediately available."

Trump has long insisted that the onus for battling the crisis lies with the states and that Washington is meant to play more of a supporting role. He has resisted calls to issue a national stay-at-home order and said that he didn’t want to overly use the Defense Production Act, which allows him to mobilize private companies for the effort, because he believed the states should take the lead in obtaining supplies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't give out stuff Obama failed to replenish.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Give supplies just to Red States. If anybody complains, tell them it's an approach Chinese Imperium been using for thousands of years i.e., any objections are racist!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||


Baltimore agrees to $3.7million 'spy' planes which will see three piloted aircraft patrol city from the sky grabbing surveillance images to tackle crimes
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See Vermont seeds. This is where they'll go next.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/04/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Well that and a pony will fix your problems, Baltimore.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2020 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  If you don't prosecute them, why track them?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Back in the day (69-72) you could drive the patrol car down half street SW in DC and just look at the young mopes on the stoop. Those that made firm eye contact and didn’t make a nod or wa e were almost certain future crime suspects. But only in daylight because a night drive would get serious damage from the bricks and malt liquor bottles thrown from the shadows and rooftops.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/04/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing against malt liquor, of course.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||



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