I am beginning to become worried about the lack of activity in the skies.
The occasional week or two is to be expected, but when it drags on this long I begin to wonder, are the stars silent, or have I gone deaf? Has being trapped inside stunted my psychic growth? Is spending so much time in my home — filled with so many comforts, distractions and delights — caused my Third Eye to close out of laziness? Or perhaps (and I think this is probably the most likely) so many people engaging in irrational and unscientific panic is filling the aether with Stupid and inhibiting my oracular observations? While it is possible to screen out ‘tard radiation, the materials required are either very expensive or require a great deal of upkeep, so this home has not been so equipped.
Aries finally gets its due with a burst of good luck early in the week as Mercury comes calling. Venus’s path through Gemini shows a very good month for the polyamorous ones (with a nasty hiccup in May, but we’ll get to that then — no use borrowing trouble). The only really disturbing thing new this week is the Moon in Sagittarius. Sagittarius represents The Archer (discipline, control, vision, truth) and is usually represented as a Centaur (prophecy, knowledge, stability). To put the waning (diminishment) moon (vacillation, change, inconstancy) smack dab in the middle of it means conflict in the skies, and thus conflict on the Earth.
The cards are also ambivalent, with signs of a strong and harmonious household coupled with what might be the absolute worst draw in re: conjugal life I’ve ever seen.
Aries: Page of Cups – News, message, application, reflection, meditation
Taurus: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation
Gemini: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honorable. If the card beside her signifies a man*, she is well disposed towards him. Also, love of money, or a certain success in business
Cancer: The Magician* reversed – Physician, magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet
Leo: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear
Virgo: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity
Libra: 5 of Cups reversed – News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects
Scorpio: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated, contrarieties
Sagittarius: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish
Capricorn: The Star reversed – Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence
Aquarius: Ace of Cups reversed – False heart, mutation, instability, revolution
Pisces: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension
Virgo: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity
I’ll pass, thanks anyway!
Same here.
Pisces: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension
To buy, or not to buy? Ammo, that is the question.
Always buy. Always.
“consanguinity”
THAT’S BETWEEN ME AND MY COUSIN
/looks at the signs (cusp based on most of the star scientists)
Fuck that noise. Here, listen to this noise.
Libra: 5 of Cups reversed – News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects
So my reordered material isn’t going to be delivered next week?
“While it is possible to screen out ‘tard radiation, the materials required are either very expensive or require a great deal of upkeep, so this home has not been so equipped.”
It seems impossible if you have internet.
That’s why it’s so expensive.
I finished season 2 of Altered Carbon last night. I had heard that it was awful, but I disagree. Now the people who were most loudly down on it were the aggressive anti-wokesters, and if that’s the lens you look at it, it’s definitely all woke all the time. However, it didn’t bother me as it wasn’t woke as a story element. I did think it kind of fell apart at the end with the cartoon villany and the “ahm never leaving you” bullshit. But still worth watching.
I did find it hilarious how it (and whatever the last Netflix show I watched) had “smoking” as a content warning tag, but not mass murder.
I enjoyed the second season of Altered Carbon. I also finished off the second season of Happy! this past week (it does focus around Easter after all), and caught up on Devs (Nick Offerman playing against type).
I liked the first season, but haven’t seen the second. I heard the opposite, that it’s good. Although, no Dichen Lachman or Martha Higareda.
Not that it applies to Netflix, but any drug use gets an R rating, but not murder.
Altered carbon is diamonds, right?
Million year-old carbon
/ducks
Sagittarius: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish
BO-ring.
“smoking” as a content warning tag, but not mass murder.
Mass murder has social utility, unlike smoking.
That made me chuckle.
Well, my horoscope sucks (Cancer), but at least I got steaks.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/JVm94Y0ZR-y6Pv0st7cf2w.X0YkZL2l-9qInL9KI5Ol-V
Prime strips with classic protection.
Tonight the plan is pasta, it’s currently up in the air if it’s going to be a bake, cacio e peppe, or carbonara (bacon, no cream).
Holy shit, how old are those cartridges?
Mid Century Modern, so 70 years?
Dunno. Maybe Suthen or Animal would know.
How long has it been since Sears sold ammo?
Speaking of Animal:
What might have been – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3RccZ5SC0
Nice Ruger. Just put on Chili. Now I have to go get milk.
Nice
What do the asterisks mean in the Gemini and Cancer horoscopes?
The Queen of Wands (and some other cards) have additional meaning if they are drawn next to other cards. I don’t include that if it doesn’t apply. In this case, I was noting how The Magician applies to the reading for Gemini. Gemini will have a favorable encounter with someone corresponding to The Magician (doctor, student, apprentice, mountebank, etc).
I’m hoping for a favorable encounter with 19 year old Filipina twin sisters. One can be a student, and a mountebank, I guess?
That was my question too. I was afraid the * after man was used to indicate that gender was being fluid in this situation which had me concerned.
We cannot allow this apocalyptic pestilence to impede our march toward becoming a Progressive Utopia
“No more will legislators in Richmond, most of whom are men, be telling women what they should and should not be doing with their bodies,” Northam said. “The Act will make women and families safer.”
On Saturday, Northam signed the Virginia Values Act, which he said “sends a strong, clear message – Virginia is a place where all people are welcome to live, work, visit, and raise a family.”
According to an official release, the VVA “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, public and private employment, public accommodations, and access to credit.
“The legislation also extends important protections … on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, and status as a veteran.”
Northam said: “We are building an inclusive Commonwealth where there is opportunity for everyone, and everyone is treated fairly. No longer will LGBTQ Virginians have to fear being fired, evicted, or denied service in public places because of who they are.”
Virginia previously had some of the most restrictive abortion laws, and loosest gun freedoms, in the country.
Make Virginia safe from Republikkkins.
Isn’t that special.
Yay! Now VA employers won’t want to hire women! Thanks!
@Gustave from the thread before last, yes, starting over with new molding (especially if it’s pre-primed MDF) is much easier than painting a mess like that. Latex over oil, primer or not, is a crime and should be punished with 60 lashes and public shaming.
If they had used an oil primer, at least it would bond. They didn’t of course. Discovered after doing two rooms.
Using primed FJ Pine. Not crazy about MDF due to dampness concerns.
Good call on the MDF. it’s also not very durable
We enameled all the trim and millwork in my house with this Benjamin Moore product.
It’s very forgiving (no sloughing) and sprays well. Brush marks are minimal. It’s something of a hybrid product, so clean up is easier.
Fantastic product!
Advance is a great product, but even better for trim and cabinets (IMNSHO) is their Aura line. I’ve used it along with foam rollers on cabinetry and have achieved a finish that rivaled spray-on (at least, that’s what a professional painter told me when he saw some of the projects I’ve done in the last few years). It’s also their most expensive product by far, but if you need it to be really, really forgiving, I can’t think of anything that can beat it.
Although I admit that I do miss melamine paint. Effin’ California.
Might have to look at it if I decide to repaint again. Assuming my wife wouldn’t kill me first. Much of the interior is done with the remaining in the same schemes. Really dislike mismatching even if color matching is “close”.
For the exterior, think we’re going to go with one of the Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams lines.
I am a Sherwin Williams devotee. When I can afford it.
We also have an actual retail store in my little ‘burb.
Cleveland thanks you.
Just don’t buy their in store products outside of the actual paint. Over the last couple of years they’ve switched a lot of their inventory to Sherwin made products and frankly, they suck.
I have always gotten my paint stuff at Lowes. I only buy brand name stuff, e.g., Frog tape and Scotch tape.
I’ve used Resilience and Duration on my house.
Both have held up well. Don’t skimp on prep work!
IIRC (that’s asking a lot), I got MDF because it was cheaper than wood, and as we all know, I didn’t have much money to work with on this stupid house.
I’d thought about actually getting a sprayer and spraying cabinets and woodwork, but that’s irrelevant now and hopefully will remain irrelevant for the rest of my life.
Nothing wrong with MDF in the interior if you are painting. I am a fan. Then again I am also cheap.
The trend around here has been MDF 1×4’s for casing and 1×6’s for base, I don’t mind that, but I hate the MDF mouldings that mimic colonial or traditional profiles. They are too flimsy and hard to get a decent cope on, and even though as my painters say “A litte caulk and a little paint, will make you the carpenter you ain’t” I still can’t bring myself to leave a shitty joint.
I don’t cope (heh). Miters will do, as long as it looks nice. I’m the only one who’ll know.
But once in a while it doesn’t hurt to go uptown to a little nicer joint, err, establishment, though.
Ya, I am not a fan of the fake colonial moldings. I have never tried to cope mdf. My coping skills are lacking at best. Even when I made a living cutting wood into parts we did mostly custom cabinetry with mostly one run moldings for the doors and crown. I have ran base as a pro just a few times. My own stuff, I am all about caulking and painting but I am lazy by nature.
Add a little Floetrol to your paint and those brush marks will flatten right out.
French garage psych. With a touch of Steve Smith. Slift “Fearless Eye” https://youtu.be/jwKLNT_JtxA
Holy Mackerel! Make it stop already!
Yeah, last week was bad enough. I don’t need more of it.
O.
M.
G.
Current state of affairs.
I SHOULD HOPE SO! Otherwise, I’m suing for malpractice.
You mean to correspond to the lack of activity in the country and its economy? With no end in sight?
The stars and planets are social distancing?
The CCP paid them to be quiet.
For those interested, the new happy hours have been scheduled for this coming weekend.
Friday night at 19:00 Eastern
Saturday night at 20:00 Eastern
Feel free to share the links and information on other threads and Discord. The girlfriend has decided she wants to continue to join, and thinks all y’all are nice.
You like ’em dumb and pretty obviously.
Boy, do we have her fooled.
I’ve suggested she read Sugarfree to at least get a baseline of the culture here.
I have the halloween Subaru Horror Theater saved, if you think it would help
How are you feeling today? How were the fritatas?
I’m feeling fine, no bruises. The fritatta was good, biscuits came out pretty well also.
Awesome. The good beer store by me has been deemed essential, so I picked up some Mocha Sombrero from Clown Shoes and it is really, really yummy.
That’s a good one. The beer stores by me were deemed essential, but the really good one closed down voluntarily. So I have to go to the second choice store (or the grocery store [shudder]). I may put in an order with Fat Head’s tomorrow if they still have any of the beers they were planning on entering in the World Beer Cup still available (they deliver).
There is a supermarket here, in the heavily Eastern European section of the Rockaways, that sells some stupendously strong and tasty Polish beers. This one, Before & After is 12% ABV and only $2.00.
The label reminds me of Founders Double Trouble. I’m thinking next weekend I need to walk up to one of the local strudel shops to get breakfast.
/goes off to check if one of the pirogi places is still open in these trying times.
Clown Shoes has some good stuff.
Thanks for setting these up! They are good.
This week, in Constitutional scholarship
In addition to inflicting life-threatening illness, the coronavirus is proving to be fertile ground for dangerous ideological zealotry. Misguided anti-government types are defying stay-at-home orders and quarantine mandates saying they violate constitutional rights. And conservative governors in a handful of states are holding out against statewide isolation measures.
Just over the state line in Idaho, a large number of libertarian ideologs are defying bans on public gatherings to voice their opposition to any kind of government control. And they are doing so in the face of a very troubling spike a coronavirus cases and nearly a score of deaths in that state.
In this perilous pandemic, it’s time to give political extremism and conspiracy theories a rest.
Business shutdowns and isolation and quarantine orders are not unconstitutional. The government’s authority to impose these measures derives from the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution that authorizes measures to prevent the spread of disease. The courts have also long recognized the need for temporary governmental authority during times of war. And the struggle against coronavirus has been widely recognized as such an effort.
I, uh…
Almost TWENTY deaths?
*swoons, aims for fainting couch*
Especially when they’re totally true.
Sit down and shut up, comrade!
Ah, the Commerce clause! Is there anything it can’t do?
Its a dessert topping! Its a floor wax!
It’s everything you will ever need!
Whycome the filthy conservanazi rethuglikkkans no declare martial law?
Wait, Congress issued a formal declaration of war against the commie cough? I missed that.
“The courts have also long recognized the need for temporary governmental authority during times of war”
And some of those are the most egregious decisions by the courts.
Korematsu FTW!
And Schenck!
How many battalions does the coronavirus command, exactly?
Its troops number in the billions or trillions, but are individually very week, their main advantages being surprise and rapid breeding.
It also has a bout a billion or so human allies who’ve turned traitor.
I thought they were very month. :-p
their main advantages being surprise and rapid breeding
Actually, their chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the New York Times…
*pretends to turn the dish rack*
Bring out your comfy chair.
The government’s authority to impose these measures derives from the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution
It is not a “conspiracy theory” that each of the 50 states has its own constitution. Maybe read your state’s constitution before spouting off nonsensical dribble about the U.S. Constitution since it has no bearing on the actions at hand.
And they don’t supersede the enumerated rights to free speech, free assembly, petition government, the press, or exercise religion, bear arms, freedom from unreasonable search and seizures & taking of property of the US constitution either.
I can’t read this authoritarian apologia without a visceral response
Fucking Roperites.
Just cause this has been stuck in my head all morning.
In this case, I was noting how The Magician applies to the reading for Gemini. Gemini will have a favorable encounter with someone corresponding to The Magician (doctor, student, apprentice, mountebank, etc).
Magic Hat Money is coming!
As long as the Number 9 is nowhere to be found.
Well, could be worse.
It’s early.
“Abby, something”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said the nation could return to a “degree of normality” by fall.
The physician and immunologist made the comments on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour on Friday evening.
Asked by host Brian Williams if by November voters will be able to participate in the upcoming presidential election, Fauci said that while this was not his area of expertise, “I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we could have a real degree of normality.”
I won’t be satisfied until our new normal includes Fauci’s decomposing gibbetted corpse on the Washington Mall.
*looks up gibbeted* Aaah, ?
He was horribly wrong about the impact of the virus. I can forgive him for that, I think he was doing the best he could with the information he had. What I can’t forgive him for is the doubling and tripling down on his initial assumptions. It’s fucking ridiculous. Someone needs to throw his sanctimonious ass into the nearest dumpster.
So I ran in to another “Florida botched the Covid response” guy last night. I also had that opinion hurled at me by my wife and sister in law. Both are avid CNN viewers. They viewed dissent as endorsement of Trump.
So running in to a “Florida’s governor is the worst in the US” guy on Volokh made me go look for details to back my story up. Here’s what I found for my friend on TVC:
The inescapable conclusion of those numbers is that you’ve been led astray by politically motivated reporting.
Florida is doing measurably better than average, and New York is vying for the most rapid rate of spread in the entire world. Yet your perception is that both failed at a similar level. This is not a personal failing… .how could you know anything beyond what you’ve seen and read.
This is why the press is my hobby horse of late. They have been pushing Cuomo as a heroic figure, valiant in the fight. This is incompatible with the numbers.
Nobody in the national press seems smart enough to ask the salient questions. They are happy to play “gotcha” with idiotic wordplay and fake outrage questions, but nobody asks “Why do the numbers for case fatality rate at 10x those of the flu seem so incompatible with the count of fatalities we see? (which are far, far less than 10% of the count of flu fatalities in a typical season, thusfar).
That’s not a critique of the experts. There are loads and loads of numbers and facts out there… and I’m quite confident that the guys at the CDC and WHO and elsewhere understand them quite well. But the press seems to view it as their responsibility to find controversy rather than enlighten, so they as Fauci to disagree with Trump instead of asking for better explanations of things that don’t make sense to laymen.
Things that end up being endlessly speculated about on internet forums, precisely because nobody can get a coherent picture from the information available.
Just one smart and properly educated person in the room could make a world of difference. Unfortunately, we don’t seem to have such a person.
Instead, we get CNN crowing about what a great job their host’s brother is doing, and what a terrible job the governor from the opposing party is doing, despite numbers that are inescapably in opposition to such an assertion.
So, back to the numbers:
Italy is the world standard for worst response. With 60 million people, they have 160k confirmed cases and are approaching 20k deaths.
New York has 19 million people. They have 200k confirmed cases. 20,646 deaths.
Florida has a population of 21.5 million. 19k cases. 446 deaths.
Now spend a moment comparing your perception with those numbers. New York has 1/3 the population of Italy, but more fatalities in a shorter time frame. But who did you perceive as having the worst response?
Florida has a larger population than New York. But New York has more than 45 times as many fatalities as Florida. Yet your perception was that both states had similarly botched responses.
Where did that perception form? That’s the important take-away from this. Somehow you formed a strongly held opinion that is completely incompatible with even a cursory look at the facts. But you are not a rube. You are not illiterate. You are not unread. You are actually informed and up on the relevant events. Yet somehow your perception was wrong at flat-earth levels.
That’s why the media’s competence is my stalking horse of late.
Where’s the opera applause GIF for this one?
Don’t forget that the same media was downplaying this for months and calling it racist to impose any measures before they did an about-face and demanded a nationwide lockdown.
People need to be de-programmed. Not to say there is a perfect source of news out there but CNN and friends are deliberately manufacturing lies for political gain. It’s sick.
A lot of people seem to be aware that there’s fake information out there but then they still reflexively accept anything fed to them by an “approved” source.
New York has 9,000 some deaths 20,600 is the US, not that it changes your overall point but New York alone doesn’t have more fatalities than Italy.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Exactly
New York
USA
9,385
I was relying on the JHU map. Must have glitched on me when I was pulling the numbers.
Yeah, I’ve noticed if you switch back from a state to the country sometime the numbers don’t change but the map will.
Somebody over at Volokh pimped this site
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
much easier to deal with.
Trust me. It’s frustrating on one hand to see my governor issue stay at home recommendations and then be hit by national media for not playing along. We have less than 20 deaths.
Thanks to Coronavirus, we can use Science to stop those religious fanatics!
US President Donald Trump last month predicted “packed churches” on Easter Sunday despite a raging coronavirus death toll. His prediction has proved horribly wrong and highlights the inconsistencies populist leaders who have exploited religion now face.
For populist leaders who have exploited religion to rise to power or maintain their political positions, the crisis “could threaten the foundations of their religious support base as well as their discriminatory policies towards religious or ethnic minorities”, noted James Dorsey, senior fellow at the Singapore-based S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. This could play out in countries with “segments of ultraconservative religious communities that have different concepts of medicine or a blind faith in God to solve the problem”, explained Dorsey in a phone interview with FRANCE 24.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200411-empty-churches-belie-trump-s-easter-promise-highlight-science-s-role-in-keeping-faithful-safe
I don’t think this is going to undermine Xi Jinping’s power that much.
Did he “predict” packed churches or just hope for them? I remember it as the latter.
Somehow he also “exploited religion to rise to power” despite being the least religious President since Bill Clinton.
Well because he got all the religious right to vote for him.
To be honest they never much cared for him though. He just doesn’t actively and openly mock Christianity or propose laws against basic things Christians care about like the other side does.
The barely veiled giddiness that them deplorables don’t get to commemerate the holiest of days is not going to convince them to join the left.
Bill Clinton played a baptist on TV. Remember, he clapped along to hymns and everything.
Trump said “Two Corinthians” when they tried to prop him up with the faithful. He can’t even play one on TV.
Similar to reopening the country for business and the clips I’ve heard him talking about hydroxychloroquine. How dare he express optimism and hope rather than acknowledging that we’re all dooooommmed and rent his clothes!
If he did that, the same people would be whining that we need a President who can be optimistic and raise up the hopes of the nation in a crisis.
+1 New Deal didn’t help, but it gave people hope.
Yeah, when I think “ultraconservative religious” person who has a “blind faith in God to solve the problem”, Donald is the first person who comes to mind.
They were thinking about Pence. But any old strawman will do.
I saw about a dozen cars in the parking lot of the Lutheran church down the road from me when I ran to town this morning. Half of what us usually there on a Sunday. The drive in theater in town has a sign saying that they did a drive in sunrise service this morning.
Leo: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear
Doesn’t sound sufficiently shitty. I’m suspicious.
You should have been a Capricorn. Shitty guarantee.
Hey Not Adahn, congrats on your side gig.
https://everydayfeminism.com/use-tarot-for-everyday-life/
Also, she fucking loves science.
Based on her pic, prolly wood
That’s the top pic.
Scroll down. In another pic it might be a dude. Ex dude. Whatever.
Just shows you can’t trust a photo, I suppose.
Something something don’t kill the host
‘This will lead to airline bankruptcies’ — flight attendant union furious with Treasury bailout offers
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Less than 24 hours after the Treasury Department formally extended cash grant offers to the six largest airlines in the U.S., the union representing 120,000 flight attendants is blasting the move with a dire warning.
“This will lead to airline bankruptcies,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants union. “The Treasury Department is destabilizing the industry, not helping save it.”
Nelson’s anger is fueled by the Treasury Department deciding to make 30% of each cash grant offer a low interest loan payable to the federal government.
That move, which caught many airline executives by surprise, means the $25 billion approved by Congress for immediate cash grants will actually be $17.5 billion. The other $7.5 billion will now be loans airlines will be required to re-pay.
Boo fucking hoo.
You know. At least when the patricians raided the Public treasury, the treasury had been filled by spoils of conquest and not tax cattle
Has anyone seen morels yet?
Y’mean in the wild, or in stores?
I love ’em, but even the dried ones go for approx. CDN $100/kg around these parts. I don’t think any grow native, especially not in the snow. ;-)
I thought Glibs didn’t have any morels.
Plenty of corn smut though.
Prolly another week or so here.
#MorelsGoneWild
Where do you get them in the store?
I have only had fresh morels twice. Once we collected them in mycology when I was in college. I may or may not have gotten to taste them. The big impression was from a giant shelf fungus that we fried up. That was really tasty. I’ve never done it again, since death is the penalty for picking the wrong shelf fungus.
The second time was at a restaurant in West Palm Beach called “Off the Vine”. The wife used to work there, so she asked the chef to surprise is. Filet mignon on a bed of truffle-morel risotto. Oh, good lord! Two nice, juicy and plump morels perched on top of my button of heavenly beef, in addition to those in the rosotto. It was fantastic. (shoulda been, for the price)
We usually hunt and pick ourselves, but once in a great while purchase at a local Farmer’s market while in-season.
Farmers market? Specialty produce place? Have seen dried at Safeway.
Like leeks they are full of dirt.
And bugs, if you have queasy friends and relative and don’t want them eating your morels just have them look at the soak water.
Not yet, but I haven’t looked very hard. I’m going on my annual hunt on a friend’s property in a couple weeks.
Obligatory.
My obligatory.
“Virgo: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity”
You’ve been readng my mail.
I just visited my parents house for Easter. Weird Holliday this year. I was the only sibling not locked down at home.
I still got a loaf of her home made paska bread, ham, and kielbasa.
Gotta say, more than a little jealous about the loot.
I’m in Seattle, if you want to stop by. Bring the paska, ham and kielbasa. I’ve got liquor.
OT & apologies if already covered, but two sporting deaths in the UK over night.
Stirling Moss: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/52261216
Peter Bonetti: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52261413
Interesting aside, in each story, the reporter includes in comment in the opening sentence that the deaths came after “a long illness.”
And one more OT comment…in what will surprise no one, apparently the SPFL in Scotland has managed to completely fuck up a straight ballot issue on the status of the current season. Here’s one story: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52262072
I wouldn’t vote for anything that involves pro/rel. It’s over. This year didn’t count.
A champion weights, outsmarts, and optimizes these things: consider Jackie Stewart for smoothness, equipment durability, and championships.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio explains it
But even as public officials last week decried the racial disparity and its link to social conditions, the emergence of the issue also had a perverse effect. It apparently made it easier for some people living farther away to see the virus as someone else’s problem.
That is where the issue of racial disparity in death rates highlights the overall difference in the way America is experiencing COVID-19. And that difference largely follows the dividing line between urban and rural America.
So far, at least, the disease is hitting us where we live, and this is primarily in the big cities. For those outside the major population centers, the impact is less immediate, and the sacrifices being asked of them often seem out of proportion.
That message can also be heard in the president’s briefings, as when he resists suggestions that there should be a 50-state shutdown by saying, “Parts of our country are very lightly affected” and mentioning states such as Nebraska, Idaho and Iowa.
The president has held to this view despite the openness to that approach by his own medical advisers, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — the man whom, according to polls, Americans trust most in this crisis.
“Don’t tell me one size does not fit all! I’m a professional big city journalist, you ignorant hicks. Why do you hate black people?”
This…. so very much this.
New York and Washington journalists are seeing this through the lens of not only politics, but location. They think they are the bestest and most valiant.
New York has without question been the worst at handling this thing. Probably of anywhere in the world. And while I’d like to heap all of that on De Blasio, the citizens of New York deserve a heaping helping of blame as well. They still don’t appear to be doing the level of “social distancing” that we are doing here in fairly densely populated south Florida. And that’s on the citizens. We’ve been ratcheting things up locally as the cases rise – we are now only shopping for groceries and medicine, and we have to wear masks. The stores won’t let you in without them.
Yet we still only have < 500 deaths in the whole state (21 million souls). That's a hot month of shootings in Chicago.
Let’s look at NYC deaths/hospitalizations across boroughs – this isn’t just about density and sure as hell isn’t about urban/rural.
Less then 300 deaths here in Ohio. At least one state senator is starting to push back.
What happened to the DNC talking point that “this disease does not discriminate” – “doesn’t care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat”
These people are literally salivating as they HOPE for rural states to experience high death rates.
What are “rural” Americans experiencing? Their lives/businesses are also shut down and both media and government leaders from the cool states ridicule them daily.
Oh fuck off with this shit already.
You cannot amend away the equal representation in the Senate by an ordinary Amendment, you would need all of the States to agree because no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
And altering the rules for Senate seats would deprive all States of equal suffrage either immediately, or in potential. So amending away the Great Compromise requires all 50 States.
I never thought I would say this, but I love having lawyers on this site!
Once the next Team Blue President bumps the Supreme Court up to 15 justices or so, the newly appointed goodthinkers will handwave that meaningless little clause away.
Who needs SCOTUS? Governors (both Team Red and Team Blue) have managed to handwave away 1A.
It’s just a tax, and anyways Commerce Clause.
But “states’ rights” is racist and stuff.
MUH DIRECT DEMOCRACY
Why do you hate black people?”
For the same reasons I hate all people?
My wife and I joke that Hitler’s big mistake was his fixation on hating Jews. Had he fixated on hating *everyone*, he would have been alot more popular.
Moss died? Bummer.
Kate? I’m surprised she lasted this long…..
From what I’ve heard of the man, he was not only a great competitor, he was also a true gentleman.
He had a good run.
Japanese arrival quarantine accommodations:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willhorton1/2020/04/10/tokyo-narita-airport-becomes-cardboard-box-hotel-for-passengers-waiting-coronavirus-test-results/#cfbe1391c8aa
the deaths came after “a long illness.”
Life?
Sexually transmitted and 100% fatal.
Haughty and arrogant… well that’s normal.
Impotent… hey wait a minute…
I thought Glibs didn’t have any morels.
*boos, throws popcorn*
Despite the threat to all Americans, and while the crisis is causing many to sacrifice and serve, the sentiment of “we’re in this together” is not shared in all parts of our body politic. And that should not surprise anyone who has followed the increasing polarization in our national attitudes and voting behavior.
The racial aspects of this divergence, demonstrated in the current viral crisis, are a salient element in a larger trend toward disunity in America. We typically talk of polarization in terms of “red states” and “blue states,” Republicans versus Democrats, right versus left, your cable TV news channel versus mine. But it is also largely a matter of population density.
Whodares to resist the ineffable lure of enlightened urbanist progressivism? Fucking traitors, that’s who.
IFLS!
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-injected-himself-with-his-own-semen-to-cure-his-back-pain
Not as dumb as the guy in my first story of this variety back in the early 90’s. Dude injected cocaine into his urethra. Cocaine was contaminated. Caused blood clots. Extremities like fingers and toes turned black. Penis turned black. One day, about 2 weeks into his hospitalization, something was floating in his bathwater. Yup. His junk turned black, shriveled up and fell off. Lost all of his fingers and toes, eventually legs and part of his arms, IIR.
Yeah, even if I was a druggie…. not screwing around with my junk.
The racial aspects of this divergence, demonstrated in the current viral crisis, are a salient element in a larger trend toward disunity in America. We typically talk of polarization in terms of “red states” and “blue states,” Republicans versus Democrats, right versus left, your cable TV news channel versus mine. But it is also largely a matter of population density.
The nearness of your neighbors can be highly predictive of your likely political leanings, says Will Wilkinson, vice president for research at the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank named for a former chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute. Wilkinson has written a monograph called The Density Divide.
[insert prolonged character assassination and vilification en masse, based on sweeping self-referential generalizations and fundamentally unsupportable assertions]
Idiot confirmed.
Fire this fame whore motherfucker.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/672794/fauci-lives-saved-us-shut-down-earlier/
Lives would have been saved if we nuked China. See how this works?
You know who else wanted to burn books?
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-hate-store-amazons-self-publishing-arm-is-a-haven-for-white-supremacists
The irony of advocating the banning of Nazi books is just too much.
Interseting take…its rules you muat follow!
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2020/apr/12/defying-stay-at-home-measures-is-hardly-the-christ/
fuck
off
slaver
well and succinctly said. Definitely a slaver pushing for the field hands to give him a bigger whip.
Living out in the sticks causes you to reject science and logic, and become a Republican? Let’s ask that notorious white conservative anti-intellectual biblethumper, Heroic Mulatto.
Mister Mulatto, is it true you despise black people and rational discourse?
Well, now shit’s getting real.
John Conway Dies From Coronavirus .
He lived a good life.
https://babylonbee.com/news/roman-authorities-investigating-jesus-for-violating-stay-in-tomb-order