“Trump businesses barred from getting coronavirus stimulus money”
(It’s not just Trump. The law applies to any high-ranking public official in the executive or legislative branches of the federal government.)
Category: Knowledge and News
Amy Locane in Carried Away (1996)
You probably know that she spent some time in the hoosegow for vehicular homicide. She received some bad news last year. There were some procedural errors in her original sentencing. She had been sentenced to three years for a charge that carried a five-year minimum. Upon reconsideration of the case she was re-sentenced to five years, meaning she still had time to serve. She remains free on bail pending an appeal.
“Their present emptiness, a public health necessity, can conjure up dystopia, not progress, but, promisingly, it also suggests that, by heeding the experts and staying apart, we have not yet lost the capacity to come together for the common good.”
“The Treasury secretary, however, declined to say if the Trump administration ignored intelligence officials on the COVID-19 outbreak.”
Unfortunately, the President responds to the word “facts” with the exact same reaction that Maynard G. Krebs used to have to the word “work.”
The story: JAMAL MURRAY POSTS QUARANTINE SEX TAPE WITH GIRLFRIEND ON IG, CLAIMS HE WAS HACKED
Harper is a volleyball star at Kentucky
Q: Could #ibuprofen worsen disease for people with #COVID19?
A: Based on currently available information, WHO does not recommend against the use of of ibuprofen. pic.twitter.com/n39DFt2amF
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 18, 2020
The Dow dropped another grand on Friday. It’s now about 550 points lower than it was on the day before Trump’s inauguration.
The Trump administration is asking state officials to hold off releasing unemployment numbers. As Trump likes to say, “I like the numbers being where they are.”
Mortgage Lenders Consider Plan to Suspend Payments Amid Crisis. One company, Bank of America, is already committed, and the Fed is taking action on Freddie and Fannie mortgages to suspend payments for those laid off during the crisis.
More light at the end of the tunnel: Although “there are no confirmed effective treatments specifically for COVID-19 to date,” a very small-scale French test (30 patients) has produced excellent results from a combination of hydroxycholoroquine and azithromycin. The Chinese are also reporting excellent results from the same combination. Although this combination has not been proven safe and effective through large scale clinical trials, it at least offers us a glimmer of hope.
BUT NOTE
Please don't take hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) plus Azithromycin for #COVID19 UNLESS your doctor prescribes it. Both drugs affect the QT interval of your heart and can lead to arrhythmias and sudden death, especially if you are taking other meds or have a heart condition.
— Dr. Edsel Salvana (@EdselSalvana) March 21, 2020
Italy and Spain record their highest single-day death tolls
Remember those dolphins in Venice? Maybe not. Definitely not. (I was among those conned by this one.)
The State Department has warned Americans abroad to either come now or plan to say out of the country indefinitely. And of course they are also advising Americans now in the country not to leave because coming back may not be possible.
Light at the end of the tunnel (for the Northern Hemisphere). New study says ‘high temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce’ spread of COVID-19. “An increase of just one degree Celsius and 1% relative humidity increase substantially lower the virus’s transmission, according to the data analyzed by the researchers.”
More light at the end of the tunnel? China reports zero new domestic virus cases for the first time!
Walmart to give hourly workers cash bonuses, seeks 150,000 new employees
This is how long coronavirus survives airborne — and on cardboard, plastic and steel, according to a peer-reviewed study
South Korea seemed to have the virus under control. How did they do it? Unfortunately, even they are experiencing a roller coaster ride, with numbers of new cases starting to creep up after many days of decline.
Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ Label, Ignoring Growing Criticism.
WrestleMania 36 WILL happen on April 5, but without fans., and it will last two nights.
Studio Movies in Theaters Will Be Offered for In-Home Rental. “Universal Pictures said on Monday that it would no longer give theaters an exclusive period of roughly 90 days to play new movies, a break with longstanding Hollywood practice that could have wide-ranging reverberations. At least some competing studios are likely to follow.”
With brick-and-mortar stores closing, Amazon will hire 100,000 new workers.. The only aggressive employers now are going to be places like Amazon, Supermarketers, Netflix and the toilet paper manufacturers.
This can’t be good: Man who recovered from covid-19 has become re-infected. At this moment it is not possible to determine whether the virus re-appeared without additional exposure or if he was exposed a second time.
After looking at these individual cases, I think:
Johnson seems to have been the victim of a completely wrongful accusation. His stock sales were complicated and seem to have nothing to do with either market fears or private briefings. He seems to have finally signed off on selling a portion of his family-held business to a large investor. That was part of a deal that had been in negotiation for years.
It appears to me that Loeffler, Feinstein and Inhofe have believable alibis – they don’t make their own investment decisions and are completely hands-off with respect to those decisions. If those alibis hold and they never contacted their portfolio managers to suggest those sales in some way, then they are golden.
Burr, however, is acting guilty AF and has no hard alibi. He did not deny making the decisions, but simply denied he had traded on nonpublic information. He said he had “relied solely on public news reports to guide my decision regarding the sale of stocks.” He of course baited the mainstream media, and in a move worthy of The Master Baiter himself, Burr blamed CNBC for his decisions!
And a reminder – Burr cast a vote against the anti-insider-trading bill that was passed 96-3 in the Senate and 417-2 in the House. Yup, he was willing to take the rare and courageous pro-corruption stance!
Tucker Carlson calls for Senator Burr to resign and await prosecution for insider trading if he cannot provide a reasonable explanation for his actions. He goes on to say it appears that Senator Burr betrayed his country in a time of crisis pic.twitter.com/q7yJa5wjuA
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 20, 2020
According to other news sources, Tucker was also instrumental in getting the administration to start taking COVID-19 seriously. I am having a hard time dealing with this harsh new reality.
From the “Where there’s smoke” department: In 2012, the US senate voted 96-3 to ban insider trading by lawmakers using non-public information. Burr was one of the three who voted against it! (It passed the House 417-2.) Of the three senators who voted against the bill, Burr is the only one still in office. One of the Representatives who voted “NAY” is still in office, but will not seek re-election in 2020.
I’m starting to think this Burr fellow may not be on the up-and-up.
“First, focus on hardship, not G.D.P.”
“What policy can do is reduce the hardship facing those who are temporarily out of work. That means that we need to spend much more on programs like paid sick leave, unemployment benefits, food stamps and Medicaid that aid Americans in distress, who need far more help than they’ll get from an across-the-board cash drop. This spending would also provide stimulus, but that’s a secondary concern.”
Quarantined Italians record messages for “themself from 10 days ago” during Coronavirus pandemic
To tell you the truth, I thought it was already dead but – it is now
So I guess they’ll be removing many of Trump’s tweets?
(Not to mention all of Nunes’s)
Content that increases the chance that someone contracts or transmits the virus, including:
– Denial of expert guidance
– Encouragement to use fake or ineffective treatments, preventions, and diagnostic techniques
– Misleading content purporting to be from experts or authorities— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) March 18, 2020
That was expected. The latest polls had Biden ahead in Florida by 39 points, Illinois by 30, Arizona by 18.
Excluding votes for other candidates:
- Biden won Florida 73-27.
- Biden won Illinois 62-38.
- Biden won Arizona 59-41
Sanders’ campaign strategists pointed out that a guy is outside their window calling “bring out your dead” and they are thinking of throwing Bernie on the cart.
I always treated coronavirus very seriously, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia …
Amazing foresight from the Nostradamus of our time! Heckuva job, Trumpy!
Some examples of his incredible powers of prediction:
Jan. 22, asked on CNBC whether he was concerned about coronavirus becoming a global pandemic: “No, not at all. We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan. 30: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”
Feb. 19: “I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.”
Feb 23: “Very much under control. We had 12, at one point. And now they’ve gotten very much better.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock market starting to look very good to me.”
February 26: “It’s going very substantially down, not up … 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
Also Feb 26: “We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”
Feb 27: Speaking of Democrats, Trump called his alleged mishandling of the coronavirus “their new hoax.”
March 2: “We’re talking about a much smaller range” of covid-19 deaths than from the flu.
March 4 to Hannity: “It’s very mild”
March 6: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”
March 9: “The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, ‘The risk is low to the average American.'”
March 10: “We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
“The coronavirus that has been ravaging the country could kill millions if people continue to ignore health and safety advice.”
The Ayatollah has now issued a fatwa against unnecessary travel, meaning people must stay out of the streets unless they see Salman Rushdie, in which case they can step out real quick to kill him, then head back inside.
“Cannabis dispensaries allowed to open despite city lockdown”
Deliver or pick-up only.
It sounds silly at first, but remember that they are technically in the healthcare profession – the only pharmacies available to medical marijuana users.
Are you Americans prepared for the upcoming pelt shortage?
The United States and Canada are preparing to issue a joint statement in the next 24 to 48 hours to suspend non-essential travel between the two countries, a Trump administration official says https://t.co/rSYyCd3dc6
— CNN (@CNN) March 18, 2020