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Let’s Start Over Again
“Let’s start over again, let’s pretend we just met, but this time you’re going to tell me the truth.” This was a phrase I used when I had heard two different stories from someone on the street who was trying to avoid a trip to booking. Once I heard the second story I knew someone was trying to find one that I would like, and I knew story number three, and four were on the way.
My list of my observations on this current crisis:
I have watched the briefings from the White House and I’m bemused by the questions from some so-called journalists. I liken it to a pack of coyotes fighting over a rabbit. Yipping, barking, and howling. Ben Rhodes from the Obama administration and I don’t agree on much of anything, but we agree on this:
All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus, he said. Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.
China has dropped off the coronavirus charts. The list should include China with the tag “unknown” for the number of cases, and the number of fatalities.
Some governors are living the dream, issuing executive orders rather than legislating. Governors and some elected federal officials who have dreamed of controlling what you eat, what you can own (firearms), your transportation, and what type of bag you use to bring home your groceries are in heaven. They haven’t been too concerned about the environmental impact of the homeless. Their discarded needles, urinating, and defecating on sidewalks, or in parks are now public health scolds.
Releasing inmates who have not obeyed the law, but somehow will have an epiphany and will now obey the law to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Those inmates have something in common with the elected officials that release them. They believe in not letting a good crisis be wasted.
Published in General
Four days ago Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan issued a letter that threatened Michigan doctors with “administrative action” if they prescribed hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for coronavirus flu.
Today Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan asked the Federal government to start shipping hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to Michigan.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan is a puddinhead.
I read that the intent of the letter was to keep the drug from being widely prescribed to family and friends and otherwise over-utilized until stocks for hospital needs ran low.
Unlike leftists, to be “fair” to Whitmer, the letter came from the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. The original purpose was to avoid stockpiling:
The letter was written by Deb Gagliardi. Unfortunately, she included the bold items instead of realizing that doctors establish the “medical necessity,” not government workers or the leftist press. Why it took a long time to clarify this letter becomes Whitmer’s responsibility.
She was busy riding the Orange Man Bad wave.
The media certainly didn’t push that justification until her 180°. Maybe someone did so in print. If so I missed it.
You are too polite.
The letter was overblown by those intent in reading more into it than it said.
These people (Politicians/Media/Judges) haven’t exactly given us reason to trust them – their honesty, their sincerity, most of all their judgement – in the last three years of [fill in everything we’ve all been talking about here since 2016].
Why in the ever-loving eff do they think a reasonable person would believe or trust anything they say about anything? Reap/sow.
Now we’re here, and it matters. The “bubble” we all always talk about them living in – the little world they live in, the Beltway mentality – well all that is about to totally come apart.
I don’t think they have any idea what’s coming.
Today, thanks to Radio Free America, Voice of America, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and sites like this, at least one question about the continuing manipulation of data and information by the Chinese Communist Party did make its way into the press briefing.
Trump “I’m not an accountant for China.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-trump-says-he-doesnt-know-if-china-underreported-numbers.html
we should also include WHO for helping China suppress real information.
No one knew or cared about hydroxychloroquine until Trump said it at a press conference.
Now every never Trumper has adopted FDA mentality.
The left would rather see people die than admit Trump did and said the right thing.
“It may work. It may not work.”
when was the letter written?
Dated March 24, 2020.
The smart money is on them being chased down and eaten by packs of feral lobbyists.
As a safety measure in response to the virus, my county just banned reusable shopping bags. These are the same busybodies who just a few years ago banned disposable plastic bags and tried to force us all to reuse bags instead.
Same here. Fascinating how they can turn on a dime, but it’s never their own dime.
This is heady stuff. Giving it up will be hard for some.
Dictators of both parties are getting a high they’ll want to experience again and again.
Yet they want to arrest and jail citizens who violate the rules, putting them in jails where infected inmates are quarantined. Wait for the lawsuits when some of these citizens die, and the criminals who were wrongfully released commit murders . . .
Let the record show that iWe was all over it before Trump was. Correlation or Causality?
Trump mentioned Chloroquine 19 March, I believe.
iWe, on 12 March: http://ricochet.com/730834/drugs-that-work-on-corona/
And then several more posts before Trump got there.
and showing off her figure.
One to add to the genius roster for future reference:
The dateline is March 30, not April 1.
Did she look in the mirror before she left home?
When people criticized her wearing this dress, she made a big production out of it, saying that they were rude and sexist. She said that boys had been teasing her about her curves since the 5th grade and her mother always told her to walk proud and ignore them.
My criticism would not be about the dress per se, but the fact that it is very obvious she is not wearing underwear (as in nothing). I wonder what her mother would think about that.
I couldn’t get that far. And I don’t think that it’s an issue of “curves.”
I picture her standing in front of her husband while he’s watching the tube, and asking “How do I look, honey?”
“Oh fine dear, Just fine.”
If she’s not, she’s unnaturally perky.
term limits and recalls
Well that got my attention. I can’t tell. Must be getting old . . .
Well, when you can see someone’s “perky” bits and their navel, you know they are not wearing undergarments. And she is well aware of this.
I would bet she wore it just to get that attention and then be able to make her whole sexist claim. And the usual media suspects fell right in line.