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Music From This Week’s Show: Sitting In My Room by The Ramones
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Didn’t bother me at all. You all did really well.
Depending on where you currently reside, it would seem likely that you could receive Divine Inspiration daily. That is, you could once your “Stay at home” orders are rescinded.
I can go about two weeks because of dehydrated food. I need to get a little gas stove or something.
I’m strictly talking about things that are overtly political superstructures like the EU and the EMU. When they go beyond basic stuff like trade, forget it. They need to be far more careful with NATO.
Bank bail-ins are legal now. They can do it whenever they want.
Once again, Leslie says what needs to be said–and says it beautifully.
I only tuned in the hear the Dr.
Trump’s strength is never really discussed concerning the benefit of him handling this crisis. Deregulation. And business ties. And confidence. Not quite Churchillian, but his own form of fighting in the trenches.
He provides the needed tension between the narrowly focused researchers and those with an eye to long term economic danger, which is national security danger also.
If only the World Congress of Psychiatrists had sent in their troops to bring down the Berlin Wall, etc.
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One suggestion, for those unfamiliar with some of the details: you can get a Coleman gas stove that will run on special “camp fuel,” or you can get one that uses standard unleaded gasoline. The latter allows you to share a fuel supply with cars.
Same thing with the lanterns.
I absolutely would not get a propane or butane style – or lantern – which use rather small cylinders that don’t last very long.
Re the discussion of Tudor City and the way it turns it back on the old slaughterhouse site:
That’s what I meant. That’s not the design of a building that seeks to maximize the appeal of a river view.
there is a way to estimate it
as i indicated you don’t know what you are talking about
Americans in the private sector
better call saul or chuck
Discrediting and delegitimizing the Soviet Union (especially its socialist health care system): good.
Embarrassing the Soviet elite in front of their pals in the West: good.
Putting pressure on the Soviets to back off on psychiatric abuse of dissidents: good.
Thereby strengthening the dissident movement: good.
Towards the USSR, the WCP was Reaganite before Reaganism was cool.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Because the existing tests are only valid for a narrow range of all circumstances, and even people who are not CURRENTLY testing positive on the existing tests, might still be exposed but not yet having the characteristics the test works on, or may have been infected but recovered already…
You can GUESStimate if you like, but it’s not very useful. If at all.
That reminds me of how Bill O’Reilly used to say stuff like how his show put so much pressure on the Saudi government, they had to do something or other. Pssshht. Yeah, Bill, sure.
In answer to Dr. Bhattacharya’s call for ideas to study ongoing spread of disease in the population: How about voluntary tests of blood donations.
The existing screening questions when you give blood separate out healthy people who are feeling well at the moment of donation. If we were to tes the antibodies in the blood of lots healthy people over time, we will gather insights into diseases spreading throughout the population that have been recovered from.
I am assuming here that antibodies can be tested in the blood and the RNA tests would be applied to stuff coughed up out of the lungs.
I say voluntary because this is America
Ricochetti, any thoughts? Would this be helpful in the future?
To Peter’s comments on the reactions of state governors. I disagree that they are bending the knee to the federal government. I think they are showing signs of loving these “historic moments” they find themselves and glorying in the power they are grabbing. But then, I live in California…
It occurs to me you may have forgotten that the Berlin Wall wasn’t torn down by “troops”. Rather, the troops that were supposed to be guarding it became demoralized.
Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union was denounced in the course of the Congresses of the World Psychiatric Association in Mexico City (1971), Hawaii (1977), Vienna (1983) and Athens (1989). … The campaign to terminate political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR was a key episode in the Cold War, inflicting irretrievable damage on the prestige of Soviet medicine. — Wikipedia
Agree. I live in Michigan, and having virus problems isn’t enough, our gov picked a fight with Trump. Turns out she made a rookie mistake with FEMA. She couldn’t give an example of one company he ordered not to do business with. Michigan went for Trump in 2016, I believe she is a rising Dem star and hopeful for VP spot. Politicians have to Politic.
Well, then, you got me. If Wikipedia says it, it must be true!
For what it’s worth, I’m listening to @NanHayworth on Andrew Wilkow’s show and I would think she would make a great guest. Doctor and former Republican congressman. She’s good on TV, but she’s really good on radio.
She just said that New York City has a slightly below average number of ICU beds per capita. That seems like a really bad idea.
But not surprising, for democrats.
Was the video recorded? I can’t find the link on the member feed.
Yes! Here:
http://ricochet.com/736668/the-ricochet-podcast-the-video/
And y’know, I think it came out really well. Nice for such a minimal production.