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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Late Morning Coffee - best of the interwebs

 The History of US Military Knives
"I love coffee, I love history, and I don’t hate edged weapons. So here’s a little something for while you drink your coffee. You might actually learn something. I promise it will only hurt for a minute."
Carry on.

Fashionable women wear lacy veils to protect against dust
"Virginia Postrel walks through the history of medical face masks:"
The 19th and 20th century saw great advances in safe medical protocol.

Florida Doctors Arrested For Stealing Trump Flag from Elderly Man.
"Florida physician-parents were caught on tape stealing an elderly man's Trump flag as their young son could be heard crying and begging them stop."
But I had it on good authority to trust medical professionals for wise counsel during this crisis

Operation Gridlock: The People Of Michigan Have Had Enough with their stalinist Governor

Four Michigan Sheriffs Say They Won’t Enforce Governor’s Totalitarian Orders
#Resist. Right, Leftists? America's county Sheriffs wield much, yet not widely known, power.

NJ Gov Murphy on Why He Ignored the Bill of Rights: “That’s above my pay grade”
"Note to Murphy: Ignoring the Bill of Rights isn’t popular with the American people."
Murphy is unfit for office and needs to resign.

The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear court by video conference.
"Lawyers, Justices, support staff and the press will all be participating remotely."
Pay no attention to that Habeas Corpus behind the curtain!

Floridians Are Almost As Heavily Armed As Texans
Stop me if you've heard this one before...

Russian Gourmet: Borscht
"Borscht is delicious and good for you, but most importantly it’s cheap and easy to make. A word of caution: you can’t make a small amount of borscht, there will always be more than you expected."
My wife is Mrs. Vegetable, and loves this type of meal. With my Deutsch extraction, I prefer the more singular and sour kraut made from cabbage. Our friend, Tatyana, grew up in St. Petersburg, and brought her delicious borscht with her to the USA. It's a prized delicacy at our regular church potluck luncheons.

Some Tangential Russiagate
"A lawyer whose firm hired Fusion GPS to produce opposition research on Donald Trump leading to the phony “Russia dossier” has written to the State of Nevada pressuring it to bow to Democrat demands to allow “ballot harvesting.”"
To paraphrase Obama's former WH chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, "Never let a crisis go to waste - in the cause of vote fraud."

One thing COVID19 has assured me of is that government remains terrible
"When my wife passed, we were out of town. The governor ordered a shutdown of the state and I couldn’t leave because she was in the hospital. Everything is shutdown. All of it. Except for fucking toll booths. I’m no epidemiologist but it seems to me that thousands of people coming into contact with a small group of people over a long time period would do more to spread the disease than people going to the beach. But the state’s gotta get that revenue."
Exactly. We're being scammed by this crap shoot. The NY MTA is STILL up and running, despite studies that show the Wuhan Virus spread along those corridors. Will NY's Trump-hating commie mayor pay any price for his malfeasance? Rhetorical.

Then:

Now: More evidence points to Chinese lab as virus origin
"“There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China’s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States,” the outlet revealed."
Humanitarian one-upmanship. From China??

The sign: WHO Director Bashes Taiwan Using Chinese Propaganda
"During this same press conference, Tedros also called for “global solidarity” and for people to “quarantine politicizing COVID.” He also demanded “honest leadership from the United States and China,” as if the Chinese Communist Party’s lies about the origin and spread of the virus were somehow equal to whatever “lies” he believes the U.S. has told."
'Global solidarity.' Then tell me again why WHO excludes Taiwan from its membership?

The wind-up: President Trump Cuts Off WHO Cash Over China Virus Cover-Up
"If WHO wants to serve China, let the PRC Communists fund them."
I've never understood this moral imperative that the USA fund every global 'do-good' cabal, or somehow the USA is nefarious. 

The pitch: WHO’s On First at the CDC
CDC mouthpiece Dr. Nancy Messonnier dodges questions from the media about WHO data out of China

The unforced error: Pelosi vows to challenge Trump's 'dangerous, illegal' move to freeze WHO funding
"“This is another case, as I have said, of the president’s ineffective response, that ‘a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A weak person blames others,...’”
- said this wicked shrew who does nothing but blame dreaded Trump-Hitler for all the world's sin.