Today started off with a giant scorpion in my window track.

Did I ever tell you how much I dislike scorpions?  I immediately sprayed all my window tracks -- a more correct description would be that I saturated my windows with insecticide. They love to hide in nooks and crannies. Ewwwww. Shudder.

I posted late yesterday because my son called and said he was evacuating from a wildfire. He's still evacuated at this writing and his home has not been affected. He wrote a funny line: Do you know what is an absolute treat of an experience? Evacuating your home during a pandemic due to a nearby wildfire! 

I've been watching the wind direction in his area and he's in good shape -- so far. Thoughts and prayers that the winds don't shift.

Since the scorpion shot my morning, and my mom instincts are all a tither, today's edition will be a collection of memes.

Oh, one more thing, Trump's valet has the coronavirus. Shouldn't Trump self-quarantine for 14 days?


One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus

The Stairway to Heaven on Oahu, Hawaii, is also known as the Haiku Stairs. 3,922 stairs lead up the imposing mountain ridge, often at a vertical incline, with only a handrail to catch you from falling into the valley below. All I want to know is -- are there scorpions?

Stay safe and peaceful.

How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies

How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies
This spring, as the United States faced a critical shortage of masks, gloves and other protective equipment to battle the coronavirus pandemic, a South Carolina physician reached out to the Federal Emergency Management Agency with an offer of help.



FYI:  Jared's father, Charles Kushner is an American real estate developer and a convicted felon. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. In 2005, he was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.

God Apologizes For Forgetting To Mention Jared Kushner in Book of Revelations. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Genocide by default’: Yale epidemiologist calls Trump’s coronavirus response a potential war crime
• Reopening meat plants amid coronavirus a 'huge step backwards': Iowa mayor
• Gov. Cuomo Reacts to 'Shocking' New Stats Revealing 66% of Hospitalized Coronavirus Patients Had Been Social Distancing
• Trump-loving Georgia governor issues dire COVID-19 warning less than two weeks after grand ‘reopening’
• De Blasio: New York City may lay off, furlough essential workers without federal bailout
• Mike Pompeo snaps at reporter who asked him why no other countries agree with him on China intel
• Pompeo accuses China of withholding vital information on coronavirus

He will be remembered for his corruption. He will be remembered for his criminality. He will be remembered for his cruelty, his incompetence, his failure to address COVID-19 early on, his failure to enact a national strategy, & his reckless reopening causing many more deaths. - Steven Beschloss

Things Are Not Going To Get Better By Lollygagging Around
Infection rate rising outside New York as states open up.
Take the New York metropolitan area’s progress against COVID-19 out of the equation and the numbers show the rest of the U.S. is moving in the wrong direction.

Gimme a real Christlike atheist over a Godless fake Christian any day. - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘Maybe our best work’: Trump praises his coronavirus response
• Michigan barber will defy coronavirus restrictions ‘until Jesus walks in’ because Gov. Whitmer is not his mom
• Michigan Republicans Sue Whitmer Over New Stay-At-Home Order 
• Republican Senate chairman rejects calls for Rick Bright to testify
• Win Or Lose, Trump’s Top Campaign Aides Are Raking In The Cash
• DeVos issues rules for sexual misconduct investigations in schools, bolstering protections for the accused
• Trump says he briefly wore a mask at Phoenix factory

Conservative Militia Group Prepares For Societal Collapse By Training As Hairstylists, Nail Technicians. - The Onion

Coronavirus Task Force Back On The Table
Trump: Task force will remain 'indefinitely'. President Trump said on Wednesday the White House coronavirus task force would continue its work, a day after he said it would wind down its operations.

#BoneSpursTrump is still insisting that graduating #WestPoint cadets return to school so he can address their Class of 2020. He probably sees this as a rare opportunity for his name to be used in the same sentence as the word “class.” - Bette Midler

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Rock The Voter News

• Poll: 7 in 10 voters more concerned about social distancing rollbacks over economic damage
• Obama Called GOP’s Bogus Biden-Ukraine Probe Part Of ‘Russian Disinformation’
• Judge will rule part of Florida felon voting law unconstitutional
• Senior Democrat blasts Trump for blocking Fauci from testifying on virus response
• Pelosi: Trump should be wearing a mask

Trump Launches “Celebrity Coronavirus Briefing” with Gary Busey and Dennis Rodman. - Andy Borowitz

Science versus Republicans
Republicans are nearly three times more likely than Democrats to say they won’t get inoculated if a coronavirus vaccine becomes available, according to a new poll. 

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Business/Tech News

• States cut Medicaid as millions of jobless workers look to safety net
• 9 states seek $36B in federal advances for unemployment claims
• Zoom taps former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster for board
• Reopened restaurant told workers: Don't wear face masks — or don't work

The Republican Party has gone from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. No wonder they don’t believe in evolution. - Middle Age Riot

Paint It Black. No, Not A Rolling Stones' Song.
President Donald Trump has reportedly been holding meetings about the southern border wall amid the coronavirus pandemic, and is set on painting it black.
According to the Washington Post, which obtained “government contracting estimates,” the president “has not let go of the idea” of painting the border wall black, despite a predicted $500 million cost to the paint job, “insisting that the dark color will enhance its forbidding appearance and leave the steel too hot to touch during summer months.”

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Odd News

• Coronavirus Researcher Who Was ‘on the Verge of Making Very Significant Findings’ Found Shot Dead
• Supreme Court draws giggles on social media after toilet flush heard on conference call
• Cook County Jail inmate switched identities with man set to be released, escaped wearing face mask
• Girl, 14, accepted into eight California universities
• Driver accidentally reverses onto two parked cars outside Florida bank

Time To Deflate Photo

When there are no words to describe the peak of Mt. Everest, only this picture.

Peace.

Happy Cinco de Mayo Everybody!

A mutant coronavirus has emerged, even more contagious than the original, study says
Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“Trump has definitely left us in the dust, threat-wise,” one murder hornet said. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Navajo Nation is behind only New York and New Jersey in rates of COVID-19 infection
• New Mexico Invokes Riot Law to Control Virus Near Navajo Nation
• ‘Like petri dishes for the virus’: ICE detention centers threaten the rural South
• Dr. Fauci To Reopeners: 'How Many Deaths And How Much Suffering Are You Willing To Accept?'
• Key Scientific Group Doubles Its Projected US Death Toll from Pandemic to 135,000
• CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta on NY Times Reporting CDC Projection of 3,000 Daily Deaths: It 'May Be Even Higher'
• Chris Christie pushes to reopen country despite dire Covid-19 projections: 'There are going to be deaths'
• Bodies on the streets and presidents in denial: how Latin America is emerging as a new virus epicentre
• Ousted vaccine chief alleges in whistleblower complaint his coronavirus warnings were ignored

President Trump Attacks...President Trump Lashes Out...President Trump Berates...President Trump Accosts...

Just sucks that women are too emotional to lead. - OhNoSheTwitnt

US & Russia Skip EU Covid-19 Fundraiser
An EU-led fundraising extravaganza for Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics fell just short of the European Commission's €7.5 billion goal on Monday — even after organizers decided to count money already spent or allocated...Russia and the United States, onetime superpower rivals in science as well as politics, pointedly did not participate, highlighting the real risk that some wealthy countries could look to control vaccines or treatments to benefit their own citizens first.

The president could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and kill 70,000 Americans, and his supporters would still have his back. - George Takei

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump emerges from White House bubble to visit Arizona mask-making company
• Trump Attacks Female CBS Reporters for Being 'Angry' at Briefings, Laments They Are Not More Like '50s TV Housewife
• Trump's Interior Sec'y Gave Him Special Exemption From Federal Law to Hold Fox News Town Hall Inside Lincoln Memorial
• George Conway mocks Trump’s ‘self-pity’ after president melts down over ‘Mourning in America’ ad
• ‘We’re on our own — the president has abandoned us’: MSNBC’s Morning Joe applauds Americans for social distancing
• Ratcliffe refuses to say whether or not Russian election interference favored Trump
• 85,000 voters could be removed from Florida rolls
• Graham's embrace of Trump fuels competitive fight in South Carolina
• Poll: Ernst lead evaporates in Iowa Senate race
• Man who wiped nose on clerk’s shirt at Dollar Tree arrested

Guess what? It doesn't matter one bit if COVID 19 came from a Chinese lab or an animal right now.
It's all a distraction to change the conversation away from trump's incompetence.#TrumpLiesAmericansDie - fen tweet

Trump Won't Let Dr. Fauci Testify Before The US House of Representatives
President Trump on Tuesday said Anthony Fauci will be allowed to testify before the Senate next week, but that he would prevent the government's top infectious diseases expert from appearing before the House because he believes it's full of "Trump haters."

I feel like we're dangerously close to the federal response to the pandemic becoming "thoughts and prayers". - Aaron E Carroll

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Rock The Voter News

• Obamas to participate in Class of 2020 virtual commencement
• Biden launches letter exchange series, 'Sincerely, Joe Biden'
• Warren calls Biden's denial of sexual assault claim 'credible' and 'convincing,' says she proudly supports him

BREAKING: Trump Requires All Federal Employees To Wear Masks That Prevent Them From Blowing A Whistle. - Andy Borowitz

No soup either!

No Voting By Mail For You!
Two-thirds of Americans support voting by mail as an alternative to voting in person on Election Day during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from USA TODAY and Suffolk University.
But while Democrats and independent voters overwhelmingly back vote-by-mail, the majority of Republican voters oppose it.

Real Presidents don’t compare themselves to Lincoln. 

They leave that to us.

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Business/Tech News

• Treasury to borrow record-breaking $3T as pandemic costs skyrocket
• Golf Course Owner’s Supreme Court Brief Calls Covid-19 ‘Mild Illness,’ Says State Must Reopen for ‘Herd Immunity’
• San Antonio theater owners lowered tickets to $5.41 — and thousands of Texans went to the movies: report
• Health care trade groups ask for $10 billion in emergency nursing home funding
• Democrats expected to force a vote on Small Business Administration oversight
• Sicily Wants To Lure Tourists By Helping Pay For Flights And Hotels Post-Lockdown

Report: Amazon Using Heat-Sensing Alien Hunters To Track Workers Attempting To Unionize. - The Onion

CNN Sent Cease-and-Desist Letter To Trump Campaign
Warner Media, the parent company of CNN, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign, demanding that it take down a new ad it began airing on Sunday, that the media company’s lawyers say is a “false, misleading, and deceptive” use of CNN footage.

You know how the White House knows that it’s safe to hold a press conference?
They test the reporters
What do they do before Pres. Trump meets business leaders?
They take temperatures & administer coronavirus tests
Why isn't there a plan to do the same thing for the country? - Sen. Chuck Schumer

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Odd News

• Watch This Dude Get Excruciatingly Stung By a Murder Hornet On Purpose: 'Did You Not See How Slow That Sting Was?'
• 'Murder Hornets' Both a Lethal Threat and a Tasty Treat in Japan
• Mississippi spent millions of welfare dollars on concerts, cars and Brett Favre events that didn't happen, audit shows
• Disc-shaped object on Florida beach identified as African fishing device
• A 5-year-old boy was pulled over in Utah on his way to California to try to buy a Lamborghini

Time To Deflate Photo

If I lived on the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. I would mow the rooftops but would not canoe there!

Peace.