Monday, March 30, 2020
History for March 30
History for March 30 - On-This-Day.com
Vincent Van Gogh 1853, Peter Marshall 1930 - Game show host ("Hollywood Squares"), Warren Beatty 1937 - Actor,
Eric Clapton 1945 - Musician, Paul Reiser 1957 - Actor ("Mad About You"), comedian, Celine Dion 1968 - Singer
1867 - The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Lindsey Graham: ‘Shameful, Disgusting’ Pelosi Said Trump Contributed to People Dying
Sunday on Fox News, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said it was “disgusting” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s delay in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic caused deaths.
Graham said, “She’s blaming the president of the United States for people dying because of the way he has lead the country. That’s the most shameful, disgusting statement by any politician in modern history.”
Tumbleweeds Greet Credible Sex Abuse Accusation Against Gropey Joe
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/03/30/tumbleweeds-greet-credible-sex-abuse-accusation-against-gropey-joe-n2565913
New York Times op-ed blames Evangelical Christians for paving the road to 'coronavirus hell' - TheBlaze
An op-ed in the New York Times blames Evangelical Christians for paving the road to "coronavirus hell." In her article, contributor Katherine Stewart draws a parallel between 19th century advocates of slavery and religious Christians whose "denial of science and critical thinking," she says, "now haunts the American response" to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why Some Cities Are Restricting the Use of Reusable Grocery Bags Right Now | Kitchn
Why Some Cities Are Restricting the Use of Reusable Grocery Bags Right Now | Kitchn
"Over the last few years, state after state and city after city have banned plastic bag use at grocery stores in favor of encouraging people to bring their own reusable tote bags.
However, as the novel coronavirus spreads rapidly around the country, the bans are not only being lifted, but sometimes even flipped completely on their heads: WCVB reports that in Massachusetts, governor Charlie Baker has now banned all reusable bags, and lifted the plastic bag ban and any charges for using single-use bags.
The same restriction was already in place in the city of Boston itself.
There is significant evidence that reusable totes didn’t offer quite the environmental advantage that they seemed to when production was factored in, but even beyond that, there has long been evidence of the bags as a vector to make people sick...
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However, as the novel coronavirus spreads rapidly around the country, the bans are not only being lifted, but sometimes even flipped completely on their heads: WCVB reports that in Massachusetts, governor Charlie Baker has now banned all reusable bags, and lifted the plastic bag ban and any charges for using single-use bags.
The same restriction was already in place in the city of Boston itself.
There is significant evidence that reusable totes didn’t offer quite the environmental advantage that they seemed to when production was factored in, but even beyond that, there has long been evidence of the bags as a vector to make people sick...
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THEY WANT A STAMPEDE: Distortion and fear: the MSM won’t quit doing this, because they think (kn…
Instapundit Blog Archive THEY WANT A STAMPEDE
Distortion and fear: the MSM won’t quit doing this, because they think (know?) it works.
—The US is nowhere near having the highest number of cases per capita.
Comparing absolute numbers in different countries without correcting for population means nothing, and one doesn’t need advanced math to realize that.
Distortion and fear: the MSM won’t quit doing this, because they think (know?) it works.
—The US is nowhere near having the highest number of cases per capita.
Comparing absolute numbers in different countries without correcting for population means nothing, and one doesn’t need advanced math to realize that.
Look at the cases per million numbers here, and you’ll see that the US has one of the world’s lowest rates (at the moment, anyway), not the highest at all.
That will change and go up, of course, as testing continues.
But it’s the more important statistic than sheer number of cases, although neither tells us very much right now.
—Then there’s deaths per million.
—Then there’s deaths per million.
It’s a figure that means more, because it’s less dependent on the vagaries of mass testing (although it still does rely on proper testing of the very ill and dying, of course).
On that measure, the current figure for the US is extremely low, similar to Germany which is considered to be doing very well.
But this is not a number in which the media is especially interested because it’s nowhere near as effective for its uses.--Posted by Sarah Hoyt"
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Admits Stockpile of Thousands of Unused Ventilators
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Friday the state did have a stockpile of unused ventilators, despite his complaints the federal government was not sending enough.
Cuomo responded to a comment from President Donald Trump on Twitter that there were thousands of ventilators in New York not being used.
New York Times Spouts Chinese Propaganda on Coronavirus
New York Times Spouts Chinese Propaganda on Coronavirus
This, they say, "is more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen."
"According to an analysis from The New York Times, 81,321 Americans have been infected with the coronavirus.
This, they say, "is more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen."
Now, I don't think anyone really believes that China's confirmed coronavirus cases simply topped out in the 80,000 range, but the World Health Organization and other groups seem to be accepting their numbers as gospel, anyway.
Just days earlier, the New York Times acknowledged that propaganda from the Chinese government has been "reshaping the coronavirus narrative" (by censoring negative information, hyping up China as the leader in the fight against the virus, and questioning the true origins of the virus) yet this latest article seems to be doing the work of China's propaganda machine, by claiming that despite a "deeply flawed early response to the outbreak" China's "autocratic government acted with ferocious intensity after the belated start."
While China was allegedly acting "with ferocious intensity," the United States, they said, "remained preoccupied with business as usual. Impeachment. Harvey Weinstein. Brexit and the Oscars."...
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Virus Heroes and Zeros
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/03/26/virus-heroes-and-zeros-n2565672
NIH failed to test coronavirus drugs, studied drunk monkeys, soap operas, and tailgating instead | Just The News
NIH failed to test coronavirus drugs, studied drunk monkeys, soap operas, and tailgating instead | Just The News:
As much as 87.5% of biomedical research is wasted or inefficient, the respected Yale University epidemiologist declared in a sobering assessment for a federal research agency that spends about $40 billion a year on medical studies.
- Expert warned agency as much as 87.5 percent of biomedical research was wasteful.
...Nearly four years later, Bracken’s sweeping indictment about the financial management, organization and conduct of federal medical research looms large over a series of “what if” questions about the deadly and ever-spreading COVID-19 pandemic:
- What if the research community hadn’t bet all its marbles on the next pandemic coming from a flu instead of a version of the coronavirus?
- What if NIH or other agencies had funded research into the efficacy of drugs like chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, and HIV cocktails that had shown promise against coronavirus dating back to 2003?...
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Lunch video-----Climate Alarmism Kills
"One month ago, New York Governor Cuomo unveiled a $33 billion plan to stop climate change. He could have bought a lot of respirators with that money."
Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes
Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes:
Professors are now worried that the political bias they bring to the classroom will be easily recorded and exposed to the public now that their courses have been moved online due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
“The coronavirus-prompted shift to remote teaching was stressful enough for faculty members before Charlie Kirk weaponized online learning,” reported the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, noting a recent tweet by the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder calling on students to share videos of their professors’ “blatant indoctrination.”
“The coronavirus-prompted shift to remote teaching was stressful enough for faculty members before Charlie Kirk weaponized online learning,” reported the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, noting a recent tweet by the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder calling on students to share videos of their professors’ “blatant indoctrination.”
"For those still genuinely interested in understanding the data and its limitations, I recommend Alex Berenson's Twitter feed"
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Janet Shagam jk - "For those still genuinely interested in understanding the data and its limitations, I recommend Alex Berenson's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson
He makes very cogent and objective points, cites the scientific literature on things like the availability of critical care beds, ventilators, etc. "...
He makes very cogent and objective points, cites the scientific literature on things like the availability of critical care beds, ventilators, etc. "...
The Top 10 Lies About President Trump’s Response to the Coronavirus
The Top 10 Lies About President Trump’s Response to the Coronavirus
"It’s troubling to see how quickly disinformation about the government’s response to the coronavirus has spread.
Democrats and the mainstream media have willingly spread false information in the hopes of damaging Trump politically before the election in November.
Many of these lies were quickly debunked, but that hasn’t stopped the false information from being repeated over and over.
The left hopes these lies will continue to spread, but so far it doesn’t seem to be working since Trump’s approval numbers for his handling of the pandemic have gone up.
But that doesn’t mean the left will give up their disinformation campaign.
To help set the record straight, I’ve compiled the top ten lies that have been spread about Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
There are certainly plenty more, and you are welcome to mention them in the comments.
"It’s troubling to see how quickly disinformation about the government’s response to the coronavirus has spread.
Democrats and the mainstream media have willingly spread false information in the hopes of damaging Trump politically before the election in November.
Many of these lies were quickly debunked, but that hasn’t stopped the false information from being repeated over and over.
But that doesn’t mean the left will give up their disinformation campaign.
To help set the record straight, I’ve compiled the top ten lies that have been spread about Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
There are certainly plenty more, and you are welcome to mention them in the comments.
10. Trump downplayed the mortality rate of the
...And Trump was right. He wasn’t downplaying the mortality rate, as has been suggested. As testing in the United States has increased, the mortality rate has decreased...
Yet, there were so-called experts who greatly overestimated the mortality rate in order to spark fear and panic. MSNBC contributor Dr. Joseph Fair told a panel that up to 20 percent of the U.S. population might die from the coronavirus.
...9. Trump lied when he said Google was developing a national coronavirus website
1. Trump called the coronavirus “a hoax”
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Predictions of doom!-----Coronavirus likely to kill 81K in US in next four months: study
"The coronavirus is likely to kill more than 81,000 people in the US over the next four months — but the death toll could be twice that if precautions like social distancing are relaxed too soon, according to an alarming new study.
Deaths from the contagion are largely expected to peak in the second week of April — later in states where the spread is off to a slower start — and will likely still cause deaths until July, an analysis by the University of Washington School of Medicine forecasts.
The final death toll is unlikely to be less than 38,000 nationally and could be as high as 162,000 — with the team predicting the most likely number to be 81,114 deaths..."
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LA County Sheriff's Effort to Close Gun Stores Gets Shut Down
LA County Sheriff's Effort to Close Gun Stores Gets Shut Down:Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s efforts to close all gun stores in the county have been suspended pending Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) reconsideration of what constitutes an “essential business.”
On March 24, 2020, Fox 11 reported Villanueva’s order to close gun stores.
12 Chinese-Owned Media Companies, From Dick Clark Productions to AMC (Photos)
12 Chinese-Owned Media Companies, From Dick Clark Productions to AMC (Photos)
And while D.C. has finally taken notice -- and is asking the government to take a closer look at foreign ownership of American content companies -- Chinese firms have already accumulated a substantial portfolio of media and entertainment-related companies often at healthy premiums.
And Hollywood isn’t ready to look that gift horse in the mouth..."
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- Firms from China have been scooping up production companies and theater chains by the billion in recent years
And while D.C. has finally taken notice -- and is asking the government to take a closer look at foreign ownership of American content companies -- Chinese firms have already accumulated a substantial portfolio of media and entertainment-related companies often at healthy premiums.
And Hollywood isn’t ready to look that gift horse in the mouth..."
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History for March 29
History for March 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Tyler (U.S.) 1790, Cy Young 1867, Eugene McCarthy 1916
Sam Walton 1918 - Founder of Walmart, Elle MacPherson 1964 - Model, Lucy Lawless 1968 - Actress ("Xena: Warrior Princess")
1979 - The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy.
1999 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 10,000 mark for the first time.
Dow close 3-27-2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Border Authorities Find Nearly $37 Million Worth Of Meth In Shipment Of Tomatoes | The Daily Caller
Border Authorities Find Nearly $37 Million Worth Of Meth In Shipment Of Tomatoes | The Daily Caller:
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working in Laredo, Texas, discovered nearly $37 million worth of meth in a commercial shipment of tomatoes from Mexico.
CBP officers assigned to the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge — an international bridge that crosses over the Rio Grande river and connects Laredo, Texas to the Mexican town of Colombia, Nuevo Le n — on Wednesday encountered a 2007 Freightliner tractor. Upon a canine and imaging system inspection, a massive discovery was made.
CBP officers assigned to the Colombia-Solidarity Bridge — an international bridge that crosses over the Rio Grande river and connects Laredo, Texas to the Mexican town of Colombia, Nuevo Le n — on Wednesday encountered a 2007 Freightliner tractor. Upon a canine and imaging system inspection, a massive discovery was made.
Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes
Professors Worry Their Bias Will Be Exposed by Online Classes
"Professors are now worried that the political bias they bring to the classroom will be easily recorded and exposed to the public now that their courses have been moved online due to the Wuhan coronavirus...
"Professors are now worried that the political bias they bring to the classroom will be easily recorded and exposed to the public now that their courses have been moved online due to the Wuhan coronavirus...
To all college students who have their professors switching to online classes:
Please share any and ALL videos of blatant indoctrination with @TPUSA at
TPUSA.com/ContactUs
Now is the time to document & expose the radicalism that has been infecting our schools
Transparency!
...With regards to the possibility of professors’ course material being exposed by students, Jeffrey A. Sachs, a lecturer at Acadia University, in Canada, tweeted, “Simply put, faculty are alarmed because they are paying attention.”...
The vast majority of academics are centrist liberals. Those of you who fall into this category might think you are safe. But nobody cares what you actually think, or your actual political views. You are bait to make a point. We're all in this together.
“If you are recording a lecture on anything controversial, be prepared for right wing sites to ask students to share it,” said Texas Christian University associate professor Emily Farris, reported Breitbart News on Monday..."
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Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus — ProPublica
Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus — ProPublica:- The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds of pages of documents ProPublica obtained.
The agency was struggling with one of its most important duties: keeping track of Americans suspected of having the novel coronavirus. It had “an ongoing issue” with organizing — and sometimes flat-out losing — forms sent by local agencies about people thought to be infected. The email listed job postings for people who could track or retrieve this paperwork.
“Help needed urgently,” the CDC wrote..."
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