Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S.

Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S.
Despite efforts to expand, the continued glitches in the U.S. testing system are threatening to impede attempts to re-open the economy and return to normal life.


Fauci Says It Could Be Another Several Months of Him Dealing With This Asshole. - Andy Borowitz



The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

Covid Forces Putin To Lay Off Ten Thousand Election Meddlers. - Andy Borowitz





Trump: Red State Good. Blue State Bad.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has repeatedly complained that his state has been shortchanged by the $2 trillion economic stabilization package passed last month...Cuomo cited one estimate that said Nebraska would get about $379,000 per case while New York would only get $12,000.







We were the 45th country to impose travel restrictions on China. - Joe Lockhart

Republican Shenanigans




The U.S. had a program that put scientists all over the world to identify viruses early so we could get a head start on vaccines and treatments.
The program was working in the exact lab in Wuhan that identified coronavirus in January.
Trump shut the program down last September. - Sen. Chris Murphy





Republican Collateral Damage
Indianapolis radio host Tony Katz asked Indiana Republican Congressman Trey Hollingsworth to respond to critics who might say reopening the economy will “get people killed,” and Hollingsworth responded that the loss of life would be the “lesser of two evils” compared to the economic harm of keeping businesses shuttered.



My God, Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders Taking  Male Hormones?


Trumps name hasn’t been on this many checks since he had Cohen paying off Prostitutes.
But that was an entirely different kind of Stimulus. - Mike Farb




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Rock The Voter News

I do find it hilarious that Bernie got sick of the Berners too... - Jason Elias




Elizabeth Warren's endorsement is particularly moving considering that today is the 7th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. - Hillary Warned Us tweet




If history is any guide, Trump’s name on a check means that the check will bounce. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

Aetna Honors All The Brave Insurance Debt Collectors Continuing To Work In This Difficult Time. - The Onion




Interesting. Island Bound Rich People Are Getting Tested for Coronavirus Antibodies.
Things are different in Fisher Island, the exclusive enclave off Miami Beach that is one of the wealthiest places in America. No uninvited outsiders are allowed in. Entrance is permitted only by boat.
And everyone who lives or works there can now get tested to see if they have developed protective antibodies to the coronavirus.





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This is a Motmot. They live in a nearby Guanacaste tree. I couldn't snap a picture of it so I found this photo on one of the Internets.

Peace.


Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Obama endorses Biden

Obama endorses Biden for president in video message
Former President Barack Obama offered his formal endorsement of Joe Biden on Tuesday, injecting himself squarely in the presidential race ...


Obama’s Barrage of Complete Sentences Seen as Brutal Attack on Trump. - Andy Borowitz




The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

Mike Pompeo Warns Iran Stockpiling Tubes To Build Ventilator. - The Onion




Another Sailor Dies of Coronavirus
Coronavirus updates: A second sailor from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt has been moved to intensive care with shortness of breath, the Navy said Tuesday, a day after a sailor from the coronavirus-stricken ship died from COVID-19 complications.


Remember, Trump made these Sailors beg for help. 
Come November, you f**king remember that. - Stonekettle





Republican Shenanigans

Expecting Alan Dershowitz to show up at today’s COVID briefing with a new theory about the 10th Amendment. - Jonathan Reiner





Attorney General William Barr Hasn't Quite Destroyed The FBI -- But He's Trying!
“Travesty” is not a nice word. It usually is applied to gross perversions of justice, and that apparently is the context Attorney General William Barr desired when he dropped it into an interview answer the other day in the breezy courtyard of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
His composed, understated delivery almost disguised the weighty magnitude of that disturbing word and the loaded adjective that preceded it. “I think what happened to him,” he said, referring to the president and the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, “was one of the greatest travesties in American history.” 



National Archives Report Someone Tried to Scrawl “Total Authority” with Sharpie on U.S. Constitution. - Andy Borowitz




Just a reminder that if Democrats hadn’t won the House in 2018, all of this would have been buried by Republicans...
ALL OF IT
Your vote mattered then —and your continued participation matters too! - JCrongeyer

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New York City Hospitals ARE IN NEED. Trump Lied Again.
Hospitals across New York City are still scrambling for life-saving equipment and protective gear, even as the crushing impact of the deadly coronavirus hints at easing up.
Health care executives say they're not taking anything for granted despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio saying the burden on hospitals has started to dissipate in recent days. Some are banking on getting more ventilators, while others have been employing do-it-yourself adjustments to beef up their stockpiles. Nurses continue to bemoan a shortage of protective gear like gowns, masks and other face shields. And doctors in one of the largest hospital systems in New York were recently given guidance on how to ration ventilators, should it be necessary.






Trump Says He Has Been Treated Very Unfairly by People Who Wrote Constitution. - Andy Borowitz


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Business/Tech News

Fauci Says He Has Scientific Proof That Staring At Eclipse Fries The Brain. - Andy Borowitz





FORD Partners With Air Bag Supplier To Make Medical Gowns. Do They Inflate?
U.S. auto giant Ford on Monday announced that it is partnering with air bag supplier Joyson Safety Systems to produce 1.3 million medical gowns for the country's medical professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic by July 4.


Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I must protest.  I think it’s taking valuable resources from cookies. - Bette Midler







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Boynton Canyon, Arizona. Wow, what a beautiful photograph.

Peace.


Monday, April 13, 2020

White House Economic Coronavirus Task Force to Reportedly Include Ivanka and Kushner

White House Economic Coronavirus Task Force to Reportedly Include Ivanka and Kushner
President Donald Trump is reportedly set to unveil his economic task force that will be tasked with reopening the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday. According to Fox News, this council to reopen the country will include, among others, Trump daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, both of whom are senior White House advisers.
Besides Javanka, Fox News also reported that the council will include new White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and a number of other Cabinet heads.



Trump’s ‘Council to re-open America’ does in fact lack medical experts but if you count Kudlow’s freebasing skills and Jared’s & Vanky’s botox regime it’s kind of like chemistry. Also Wilbur Ross is cryogenically preserved. - Noel Casler



      God Help Us All.


The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

Last month was the first March without a school shooting in the United States since 2002. - Robert Klemko







Will Trump Fire Dr. Fauci? Naw, He'll Have Someone Else Do It.
President Donald Trump was clearly annoyed by Dr. Anthony Fauci‘s comments on CNN regarding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, retweeting a former congressional candidate’s post that criticized Fauci and used the hashtag “#FireFauci.”






Jared Kushner Says States Should Have Planned Ahead Before Joining The Union. - The Onion






Republican Shenanigans

What kind of sh*thole country murders its own postal service. - Jeff Tiedrich






Remember When Trump Said He Loved The Uneducated?
Thanks to an under-the-radar bookkeeping change at the Department of Education, hundreds of rural schools across the US are set to lose vital funds.
As reported in the New York Times, the department has changed the eligibility criteria for the Rural and Low-Income School Programme, which provides funding for school districts in some of the poorest parts of the country.
The change will make it harder for districts to demonstrate their eligibility, meaning hundreds of them will lose tens of thousands of dollars – and in some cases much more.



Trump says Jesus could have avoided crucifixion by taking hydroxychloroquine. - Conan O'Brien




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Obama Demands to See Trump’s Elementary-School Diploma. - Andy Borowitz

Sanders Endorses Biden But Will The Bernie Bros?
Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the Democratic nominee for president on Monday, adding the weight of his left-wing support to Mr. Biden’s candidacy and taking a major step toward bringing unity to the party’s effort to unseat President Trump in November.






Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case.
New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case.
We need a fair federal stimulus bill that is distributed by need. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo





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Business/Tech News

Nation’s Governors Consider Forming Country. - Andy Borowitz





Trump's Favorite Coronavirus Drug Is Killing People
Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of a malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested.


With all this time off I was hoping the arts would experience a new Renaissance period. But with all the snacks, it's gonna be our Rubenesque period for sure. - Tim Hanlon




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Coron, Palawan, Philippines. I hope there is no coronavirus there.

Peace.