Sick day

Dear Viewers,

I don't think I have the virus, but I am not well -- maybe something I ate? I have no idea.  I hope to return as soon as possible.

Stay safe,
Lisa


Mike Pence is an evangelical idiot that continues to destroy common sense.

Pence tours clinic without a mask despite policy

Take care everyone.

Peace.

Tyson Foods chairman warns that 'the food supply chain is breaking'

Tyson Foods chairman warns that 'the food supply chain is breaking'
In recent weeks, the poultry producer has temporarily suspended operations at plants across the country.

Experts Warn That Applying Bleach To Brain Will Not Erase Memory Of Last Three And A Half Years. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• US total death rate spiked above coronavirus death count in early weeks of pandemic: report
• Trump is 'Just Asking' Why U.S. Should Be Helping 'Poorly Run' Blue States During Pandemic
• DC says supply shortfalls limiting tests to less than half capacity
• U.S. states ease coronavirus curbs, plot an economic path forward
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls state ‘God’s waiting room’
• Israel looks to reopen schools in easing of coronavirus restrictions
• Second Russian doctor plunges to their death amid coronavirus outbreak

New Zealand had some of the toughest shutdown restrictions in the world. 
New Zealand stopped coronavirus in its tracks.
New Zealand will go back to work before we do.
Turns out, doing the hard thing in the short run fixes the economy faster. - Walter Shaub

Is Kim Jong Un Alive or Dead?
Speculation about Kim Jong Un’s health intensified over the weekend after tantalizing -- yet unverified -- reports about a visit by a Chinese medical team and movements of the North Korean leader’s armored train.

Canadians are receiving $2000/month and their GDP per capita is about 2/3 of ours. So when you're struggling to pay rent remember - it's not that they couldn't help us more, it's that they chose not to. - Albert Lee

Republican Shenanigans

• White House tried to kick CNN out of their briefing seat 
• Trump Retweets Claim the Media is Inflating Coronavirus Mortality Rates to 'Steal the Election'
• National GOP Senatorial Committee warns candidates: ‘Don’t defend Trump’ on pandemic response
• White House press secretary insists Trump hasn’t ‘cut back’ on briefings as he skips third day in a row
• Trump looks to Hope Hicks as coronavirus crisis spills over
• Trump Seethes About Michael Cohen’s Early Release and New Tell-All
• Roger Stone has 'faith in Jesus,' prays for Trump pardon
• Trump Touts Self as 'Hardest Working President in History' While Fuming at NYT, Denying He 'Angrily' Has 'Hamburger & Diet Coke' in Bedroom
• Supreme Court declines to rule on its first Second Amendment case in nearly a decade
• Trump on 'Noble' Prize tweets: 'Does sarcasm ever work?'

Trump’s just mad he never won an Emmee. - Schooley

Trump's weird obsession with the Nobel Prize seems entirely rooted in the fact that Obama won it. - Ben Rhodes

Oh Well, This Is What Happens When You Ignore a Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic poses a grave threat to public health — and President Donald Trump’s re-election chances.
Trump’s campaign team is worried that he could lose Florida and Wisconsin, which he won in 2016 and will need again in November, and some advisers have basically written off Michigan as a loss this year

Republicans are so quiet after his tweet storm today, if you listen closely you can hear a poll drop. - Jesse D. Lifson

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Americans will accept 50,000 dead and 20,000 lies from a white president but not healthcare from a black one. - Adam Parkhomenko

Rock The Voter News

• Speaker Nancy Pelosi Endorses Joe Biden for President
• New York cancels June presidential primary
• Cuomo praises Kentucky governor for standing up to McConnell on bankruptcy for states
• Ex-Bernie Staffer Appears on Fox to Slam Vermont Senator's 'Fraudulent' Push to Stay On Ballot: 'Stop Playing Games'
• Sanders knocks aid for cruise line while Postal Service flounders
• Progressive super PAC prepares $800K ad buy hitting Trump on coronavirus

Everyone right now

There is no question. Trump’s mental illness is killing people. We are in a crisis of epic proportions. I call on Bush, Obama and every prominent American, Republican and Democrat, to step forward to stop this insanity and save human life. - Rob Reiner

Trump Ousts Another Expert
Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the ouster of a top vaccine expert at the Department of Health and Human Services would likely set back efforts to quickly roll out a vaccine for the coronavirus.

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In Bid To Restore Credibility, Sarah Palin To Replace Trump At Coronavirus Briefings. - Andy Borowitz

Business/Tech News

• Trump Economic Adviser Kevin Hassett Predicts GDP Will See Biggest Drop Since Great Depression
• One Trump Donor's Hotel Companies Got $96.1 Million Meant for Small Businesses
• Klobuchar, 21 other senators pressure Trump administration to ensure smallest businesses get loans
• Fox News' Howard Kurtz Knocks Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil: 'I'd Rather Hear from Medical Doctors Who Actually Know Something About Infectious Diseases'
• Supreme Court requires government to pay health insurers under Affordable Care Act

WEIRD...During the 1929 - 1933 depression, unemployment hit 25% and stocks sank 75%.  During the 2008 -2009 great recession, unemployment hit 11% and stocks sank 55%.  Today, unemployment hit 20% and stocks are only down 12%.  Why? - Thomas Kaine

Why The Rich Get Richer
CNBC’s Jim Cramer is irate over the bailout for Carnival Cruise Lines — and questioning whether it is a case of crony capitalism.
Appearing on CNBC Monday morning, Cramer reacted to a Wall Street Journal piece detailing how Carnival — thanks to the Fed launching a massive lending program — was able to raise $6 billion in bond markets at drastically reduced interest rates.

Everyone has to think outside the box — because there is no box. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweet

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Odd News

• A Brain Implant Restored This Man's Motion and Sense of Touch
• Scientists create glow-in-the-dark plants
• See a string of lights in the sky? It was probably SpaceX’s ‘Starlink’ satellites
• Police: Bandit skates off after Dunkin’ Donuts stickup
• Quilt carried off by Tennessee tornado returned to family
• Official resigns after throwing cat, drinking beer in Zoom meeting

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The Arenal volcano. Costa Rica is home to a great number of volcanoes — there are six active volcanoes and another 61 dormant or extinct ones. For the past 50 years, Arenal was the country's most active volcano. So, when I moved here from Florida I traded hurricanes for volcanoes and earthquakes.

Peace.

Lysol maker issues warning against injections of disinfectant after Trump comments

Lysol maker issues warning against injections of disinfectant after Trump comments
Lysol manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser (RB) on Friday issued a warning that “under no circumstance” should its products be administered into the human body or be used as a treatment for coronavirus, a day after President Trump discussed whether disinfectants could be used to treat the disease.

The world would be laughing at us, if it wasn’t for the weeping. - Dan Rather

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• U.S. surpasses 50,000 deaths from coronavirus
• Hong Kong and Taiwan face rising dangers from China
• China to give WHO $30 million more after US freezes funds
• Costa Rica prepares to develop its own coronavirus tests; will announce next steps in facing crisis
• 'Don’t Talk to Me’: Trump Refuses to Answer Question From CNN, Calls Report on Kim Jong Un ‘Fake’

Can't wait to tune into today's episode of How Will My President Kill Me. - Jeff Tiedrich

Lordy, Trump Owes Money To China
Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.
But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion. The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.

Let’s say it again: Trump’s “briefings,” which are a danger to public health, should not be televised live. - Steven Beschloss

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump says remarks about heat, light, disinfectant were sarcastic
• Trump disagrees with Redfield, Fauci on return of coronavirus next fall
• Pence to Rush Limbaugh: Coronavirus Epidemic Could Largely Be 'Behind Us' By June
• Trump team moves to scrap protections for LGBTQ patients
• Judge says California law requiring background checks to purchase ammo violates the Second Amendment
• Most Floridians don't want state to reopen yet, despite push from governor: poll
• Trump mulls tying USPS changes to emergency coronavirus loan: report
• Convicted Fraudster and Televangelist Jim Bakker Fears Bankruptcy After Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure
• Rep. Jamie Raskin Accuses Trump of Trying to Hijack Control of Post Office to Meddle With Voting: He Doesn't Want 'A Real Election'

One treatment you might consider for COVID-19 is Amendment-25. - The TweetOfGod

Trump Advisor Suggests We All Wear Spacesuits!
Stephen Moore, a member of President Donald Trump’s economic task force, “seriously” floated outfitting every American with a spacesuit in order to rapidly end coronavirus social distancing rules and allow businesses to reopen.

Me, half an hour ago, to nine-year-old daughter: "Lemme ask you. Would you ever consider taking a swig of Lysol?" Nine-year-old daughter: "NO! Why are you asking me *that*?" - Michael Tomasky

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Joe Biden has the guy who led the successful effort to eradicate Ebola as a senior staffer, and that would normally be just some insider factoid, but now it's a matter of life and death. - Brian Schatz

Rock The Voter News

• Biden predicts Trump will try to delay November election
• Biden builds early lead in battleground states
• Jill Biden says Michelle Obama would be 'wonderful' as vice president
• Gov. Cuomo Goes OFF on 'Grim Reaper' McConnell: 'Your State is Getting Bailed Out,' Not Mine

Please don’t poison yourself because Donald Trump thinks it could be a good idea. - Hillary Clinton

One of the Don's Capos Scored
A digital technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data and is working for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign received millions from the federal coronavirus relief fund for small businesses.

Suspend pay of ALL senators. Give them$1,200 to live on for 10 weeks. - Omen Ra

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Hanging garlic on your neck is now officially not the worst idea to fight Coronavirus. - Andy Slavitt 

Business/Tech News

• Republicans sharply divided over timeline for reopening economy
• Google makes heavy cuts to marketing budgets, begins hiring freezes
• Hedge funds, private equity firms barred from small business aid
• NASA develops ventilator prototype in just 37 days
• CNBC's Jim Cramer Calls White House Briefings 'Unwatchable' in Rant on Clinging to Hope Amid Pandemic

Both Presidents Bush promised low oil prices if we sent troops to war and we only had to wait til 2020 for it. #OilPrice - John Fugelsang

FDA Warns About Trump's Miracle Cure Drugs
The US Food and Drug Administration warned on Friday against the use of two drugs that have been touted by President Donald Trump as potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.
The drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, should only be used in hospitals or clinical trials because they can kill or cause serious side effects, the FDA said. 

Airlines sending me “we’re in this together” emails. When my suitcase was 52 pounds I was on my own. - Mikeyunbelievable tweet

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I hope this soothes your soul as much as it did mine.



Odd News

• MIT develops machine-washable sensors that embed in clothing for constant vital sign monitoring
• Insect numbers down 25% since 1990, global study finds
• Arkansas family creates hanging blanket for pandemic-friendly hugs
• Dolphins glow in bioluminescent waves off California
• London man attempting to clap for 24 hours straight

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Norwegian Forest Cat engaging in the practice of self-distancing.

Stay safe and best wishes for a peaceful weekend.