1/1/2020

"Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's", That's what I believe.

West Point ain't all that.

The Senate Bill  H.R.  748  is available Here

The Coastal Literacy Program, Continued...

The Senate passed the bill as written.  It should be noted that if you work for minimum wage,

it is more likely that you will not be given an opportunity to receive unemployment.

These corporations are known for their ability to remain open at all costs.

Meanwhile;

She (Speaker Pelosi) told CNN the House won't take up the bill until 24 hours after the Senate passes the legislation so

"we can show them actually what the bill is so they know what they are voting on."

Pelosi told CNN that "I completely agree with him, governors need more money."

She suggested those issues would be addressed in later legislation. "This is not going to be the last bill," she told PBS.

The bill will not be available until it is passed and recorded.

The Coastal Literacy Program, Continued...

The stimulus bill is being held ($2T) on a sticking point of the difference of

the minimum wage of $290 a week verses $600 a week in unemployment benefits.

I realize the significance of Yum Brands (Burger King) vegan Impossible Burger.

Perhaps not to the extent of their chefs salary impeding a $2T stimulus bill.

Substitute the following in the stimulus bill...

One hundred percent of claimants weekly salary, or six hundred dollars, whichever is less.

Condolences to the celebrated chefs at Yum Brands and McDonalds corporations.

3-25

Announcing:

The First Annual Coastal Literacy Program

linked

If you live near the Pacific Ocean and you spent any time at all last night looking for a Tsunami;  please, for the sake of human evolution

                                      adjust your fitbit.

You know?

Local, state and federal governments issued a 'stay at home' warning,

so you went out and killed yourself in an auto accident.

A note of satire.

The House Bill in full, courtesy of National Public Radio.

(The real fun starts on page ten)

China: expulsion of US journalists was response to 'unreasonable oppression'

At some point, if you keep track of what is really is going on, is you say 'fuck you'

to Mitch McConnell, the U.S. State Department, and the C.I.A.

I watched as Republicans tried to shove their bill down peoples throats.

Knowing the bill would not be read in full to the public.

The Marine Corps get the placebo.

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I heard Bill Ackman's socialist crap....  We should all suffer equally and the government is responsible

                                                             for ensuring that Wall Street survive the catastrophe.

                                                            Individuals should abdicate society until Wall Street can make a profit.

The   wealthiest   health care system in the world just got a cotton swab bailout.

Now they talk about helping the citizens in a few weeks.

LA TIMES

Friday the 13th.

Friday the 13th.

Today's show, ask a Banker.

Interesting, in that real leadership skills come from the Agency France Press.

( see previous post )

An American woman who has recovered from the novel coronavirus has a simple message for people who are worried: Don't panic -- but do think about high-risk individuals and stay home if you feel ill. Elizabeth Schneider lives in Seattle, the biggest city of Washington state, which has the most deaths in the United States from the disease sweeping the globe.

The 37-year-old, who has a PhD in bioengineering, said she was sharing her story "to give people a little bit of hope" through her own relatively mild experience with the infection, which she treated herself from home. But, she added, "obviously, it's not something to be completely nonchalant about, because there are a lot of people who are elderly or have underlying health conditions. "That means that we need to be extra vigilant about staying home, isolating ourselves from others."

]This week, US health authorities citing Chinese data said 80 percent of cases have been mild, while the remaining serious cases that required hospitalization affected mainly people over 60 and those with conditions like diabetes, heart disease or lung disease.

- The party -

Schneider first began experiencing flu-like symptoms on February 25, three days after going to a party that was later identified as the place where at least five other people also got infected. "I woke up and I was feeling tired, but it was nothing more than what you normally feel when you have to get up and go to work, and I had been very busy the previous weekend," she told AFP in an interview Wednesday.

By midday, however, she felt a headache coming on, along with a fever and body aches. She decided to leave the office of the biotechnology company where she works as a marketing manager, and went home.

Because she didn't have the most common COVID-19 symptoms like a cough or shortness of breath, Elizabeth Schneider (pictured outside her house in Seattle) thought she "definitely" did not have the virus After waking up from a nap, Schneider found she had a high temperature, which peaked at 103 degrees Fahrenheit that night (39.4 Celsius).

"And at that point, I started to shiver uncontrollably, and I was getting the chills and getting tingling in my extremities, so that was a little concerning," she said.

She turned to over-the-counter flu medications to treat the symptoms and called a friend to be on standby in case she needed to be taken to an emergency room -- but the fever began to recede in the coming days. Schneider had been following news reports about the novel coronavirus. The first US case was detected in Washington in late January.

The state has since gone on to become the epicenter of the disease in the country, with more than 260 cases and at least two dozen deaths. Nationwide, there have been more than 1,100 cases and 30 deaths.

Because she didn't have the most common symptoms like a cough or shortness of breath, "I thought, okay, well that's definitely why I don't have coronavirus," said Schneider.

She had gotten a flu shot but assumed her illness was a different strain. A visit to the doctor would only result in her being asked to go home, rest and drink plenty of fluids.

- 'Pleasantly surprised' -  A few days later, however, she discovered through a friend's Facebook post that several people from the party had all developed similar symptoms, and she began to get more suspicious. Several of these people went to their doctors, where they were found to be negative for the flu, but they were not offered coronavirus tests because they too were not coughing or having breathing trouble. Knowing that she would also likely be turned down for the test, she decided to enroll in a research program called the Seattle Flu Study, hoping it might provide an answer. The team behind the study sent her a nasal swab kit, which she mailed back and waited several more days.

"I finally got a phone call from one of the research coordinators on Saturday (March 7), telling me that 'You have tested positive for COVID-19,'" she said.

"I was a little bit pleasantly surprised, because I thought it was a little bit cool," Schneider admitted, laughing, though her mother cried when she told her.

"Granted, I probably would not have felt that way if I was severely ill," she said. "But from a scientific curiosity perspective, I thought it was very interesting. And also the fact that I finally got confirmation that that's what I had."

By this time, her symptoms had already subsided, and she was told by local health authorities to remain at home for at least seven days after the onset of symptoms or 72 hours after they subsided.

It's now been a week since she's felt better. She has started going out for errands but is still avoiding large gatherings and continuing to work from home.

Schneider said she hoped her example, which will probably be typical of the high majority of cases, could comfort others.

"The message is don't panic," said Schneider. "If you think that you have it, you probably do; you should probably get tested."

"If your symptoms aren't life-threatening, simply stay at home, medicate with over-the-counter medicines, drink lots of water,

get a lot of rest and check out the shows you want to binge-watch," she said.

3-11

Crises Du Jour

Triple Double

3-10

Let's review...

Republican Containment Suit, CPAC Edition

3-8

The Virginia earthquake of 2011 August 23 occurred as reverse faulting on a north or northeast-striking plane within a previously recognized seismic zone, the "Central Virginia Seismic Zone." The Central Virginia Seismic Zone has produced small and moderate earthquakes since at least the 18th century. The previous largest historical shock from the Central Virginia Seismic Zone occurred in 1875. The 1875 shock occurred before the invention of effective seismographs, but the felt area of the shock suggests that it had a magnitude of about 4.8. The 1875 earthquake shook bricks from chimneys, broke plaster and windows, and overturned furniture at several locations. A magnitude 4.5 earthquake on 2003, December 9, also produced minor damage.

Previous seismicity in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone has not been causally associated with mapped geologic faults. Previous, smaller, instrumentally recorded earthquakes from the Central Virginia Seismic Zone have had shallow focal depths (average depth about 8 km). They have had diverse focal mechanisms and have occurred over an area with length and width of about 120 km, rather than being aligned in a pattern that might suggest that they occurred on a single causative fault. Individual earthquakes within the Central Virginia Seismic Zone occur as the result of slip on faults that are much smaller than the overall dimensions of the zone. The dimensions of the individual fault that produced the 2011 August 23 earthquake will not be known until longer-term studies are done, but other earthquakes of similar magnitude typically involve slippage along fault segments that are 5 - 15 km long.

3-6

JUMP

NASA Image of the Day

                 3-5-20

The Megan Mccain Weight Loss Program

Impeachment is such an ugly word...

  Pretty sure the next person Trump strongarms will not be Ukrainian.

2-27

Good news....Bad News.....

                                                                                 Linked

When your not busy with fake news...

A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir in adults diagnosed with coronavirus started at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health said.

The first participant is an American who was evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan.

Via CNN

Sans expletives on the holiday, perhaps Trump could further his grandstanding by

allowing his 'Einstein Visa' wife to part the waters as well as heal mankind.

2-25

Let's see.....where was I?

2-24

Thoroughly confused.

Is this an allegory to Trump's non-existent policy of 'draining the swamp', or is it an allegory to Bloomberg's campaign financing?

In other news.....

            The Democratic Party has concerns with the Nevada Culinary Union.

                       The people serving you institutional food are reluctant about institutional medicine.

2-23-2020

#  Ancillary Discussion

New York, New York.

Careful on the street.

2017 - 2020

19 + 4 = 23 T

       One and one third Trillion per year in spending, with a Republican majority.

       The real socialists are hiding behind capitalism, and Republican owned media.

February 13th., 2020

February 7-13th,

A special post for Stephen Pastis's new movie.

13 February 2020

Henry (NMI) Moseley CMST USAF Ret.  (Deceased)          Myself Circa 1966

I could have been a pilot in the USAF, I could have attended the Academy.  I chose otherwise.

If there is one thing my father hated (not Catholic), it was the United States Marine Corps.

He explained that they were merely cannon fodder.  With lives of no value.  Not because

those individuals placed no value on their lives, but because the government and the

institution itself placed no value on their life.

Your lives have no value.  You are expendable.

2-02

               Just Sayin'

Yeah, the ol' bait and switch routine.

Not sure what that says when Yasser Arafat's successor rejects you.

Probably not anything good.

January 18

Busy helping Alan Dershowitz prepare Trump's Constitutional defense, and other assorted antonyms.  Sorry!

11-02

This is post-secondary level Philosophy, so if your unfamiliar or don't understand it, a fifth grade education is now available online through remote learning.

Greece, the 2500 year old democracy, held debates left to right - senior to junior.

10-29

I cannot speak for the homeless guy posing as the CEO of twitter, but I can say-

If Ali Khamenei, the President of Iran has a twitter account (Ayatollah Khomeini died in 1989, they dropped

the casket at his funeral) he probably also reads the stocks, and

The Archdiocese of Berlin has a website where you can contact them directly.

10-27

Skunkwerks 101

or

Glitter Gulch Memoirs

or

Kamala Harris Chronicles

linked

Further comment would just be hate speech.

10-26

20 Oct 2020

There is a more sophisticated discussion to be had on the Lincoln Nebraska airport, and would

require empirical data to support a longer term discussion on a variety of GO's.

If I shorted something, it would not be Corporations

during a Republican administration.

All Your Wishes Come True!

Finally, there is no need for Langley to bother me on the weekends when they can't get enough attention.  There you go-and no need to hack anyones emails, or shoot Boogaloo's on a Denver street, or enable race riots or class warfare or undermine the drug war or....

10-18

Priceless is copyrighted through the Library of Congress.   About the only place in Congress that gets anything done.

Priceless is not affiliated with Visa©, it's advertisers, the National Debt, the U.S. Treasury, and never outsourced.

These two extraordinarily bright gentlemen are never

seen with Senator McConnell, have you noticed?

If they had objections, you would hear it from them.

10-15

10-13

Was this intended to be a Gina Haspell lookalike?  IDK.  Joyce Brothers wannabe is my guess.

Anyway...An interesting thought-Mexico's consideration of legalizing Marijuana might be the

               answer both countries are looking for.  This forces the more violent drug trade to

               focus their resources on more desirable intervention, namely-harder drugs. Republican

               held border states, both the source of poor immigration standards and the illegal

               marijuana trade would be the most likely target for the displaced entities (cartels and

               aspiring international criminals).  This enables Mexico to focus their resources on

               at least police, if not judicial intervention.   Win Win.

Still concerned these two left progeny.

R. Lee Emory                                                                          whatshername

10-7

Well, there's that!

B-52 Bomber Takes Off During Wintry Condition At Minot Air Force Base

10-5

There is no argument, knock yourself out!

9-30

The demise of 'dontcallus' and the replacement with 'international brotherhood of naricissists'

was created on the premise of a rise in 'selfie deaths' worldwide, now above 250, including the optimist shown here.

9-28

I do not know offhand which trailer park Cindy Bell is living in and I really haven't concerned myself with that...

Suffice to say, from where I am standing, I haven't any plumbing needs.

9-24

Well, Londoners got the truth, despite CNN quashing their footage...

A peaceful march turned violent last night as Louisville police open fire on a

peaceful protest march; spurred on by a clueless Ky. Attorney General who

was able to secure charges against the only policeman present whom didn't shoot Brenna Taylor.

9-23

Objects in mirror small than they appear.

As it turns out, Seal Team Six and Stealth Helicopters were not required to kill Bin Laden,

they just needed to call the Louisville Kentucky Police Department.

9-21

Various truck stop restaurants offer placemats and crayons to your children,

and they often feature a section for coloring in roadmaps.

You can cast me as 'undecided' as to how ugly this could get.

9-20

If there was a trail of logic here we could all follow it.

Seriously, the U.S. Government thrives on sensationalism.

Seems legit, doesn't it?  "Cause it's TicToc we are worried about.

So, what I say here really does not matter.

9-18

Lots to be said about Ruth Bader Ginsberg's position (everyone has an opinion),

little said about her as a figurehead to American Democracy.

I have always taken Edna, of the Incredibles movie to have been a satiric

sendoff to Ginsberg.  Edna, the petulant slightly abusive fashion nazi.

Tonight, at the conclusion of two very dark and twisted wet dreams

in the extraordinarily small minds of Trump and McConnell, she will need that persona.

See previous post.

9-17a

           Barr jokes, continued.

Money Talks, bullshit walks...

Having heard Barr's comments today, I would be willing to put down $20 that he has overestimated his intellect.

Of course, that would be the same $20 for which George Floyd was murdered, in public view.

A federal crime (both the alleged counterfeiting and the murder.)

He is welcome to discuss that, and other public crimes with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

https://judiciary.house.gov/about/members.htm

One of those Senate members is named Harris.

9-17

15 September '20

Presumably, you overpaid stupid (expletive deleted) at the Pentagon can tell time.  If not check

with those folks down in Louisa.

9-14

Stealth Bomber  $ 2,000,000,000  ($2B)                                                                                      Stealth Helicopter    canceled prior to mass production

                                                                                                                                                                                      commencing, by which point

                                                                                                                                                                                       nearly US$7 billion had been

                                                                                                                                                                                        already spent on the program.

9-14

This is not likely on your book club's list this (or any other) month, nonetheless-

2500 year old Greek tragedy's are fashionable and this is a great read, especially

as fall approaches.  Always nice to curl up with a good book and survey the changing colors of the foliage.

In the discussion of the glorification of War, there is room for a discussion of the examination or critique of the same.

9-09

                      Dune 2020     Written by Frank Herbert, screenplay written and directed by Denis Villeneuve.     Release Date: December 16th.

                      Dune 1984

                                            Roger Ebert gave Dune one star out of four, and wrote,"This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly,

                                            unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time.

                                            The movie's plot will no doubt mean more to people who've read Herbert than to those walking in cold."

                                                                                                                                                                                 Roger Ebert  C.1984

                     Juxtaposition is common in Science Fiction, and Herbert's work was transposed badly in the first adaptation.  I had read

                     the book, and much of Herbert's work.  It was a young man's first introduction to the word Mujahideen, used differently

                     here, still similar to the Afghan freedom fighters.

The new cast has some interesting additions-

Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem, both in Cohen's No Country For Old Men.

It is a large movie and a large cast with many of Marvel Comic's actors filling roles.

The single most intriguing feature will be:  What can an additional 36 years of movie making do for this story?

9-04

                     Public Service Announcement #194 in a series.

9-03-20 / 3-11-11

9-02

                  I cannot recall or corroborate anyone at the Hague putting a West Point flunky in charge.

9-1

Everybody is talking about wanting to put an end to the violence and murder,

but no one has figured out how to get the authorities to put down their weapons.

8-30

Strange, Nelson Mandela never mentioned his stay at Wakanda.

8-27

             The notion that if the Airlines layoff tens of thousands as a group that they should

              receive special treatment is a bit absurd when you think about it...

8-24

Notation that 'Ack Ack' is a term for anti-aircraft fire, and an editors term for shooting down a story.  More...Texas bullshit

8-24

8-23

The Explanerer

I tell people I am half-Irish, then I explain it is the better half.  This is an example of what I mean.

O'Bama's ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy.    The single most disgusting act in modern American diplomacy, and truly

the most disgusting act by Catholics I have ever witnessed in my entire life.

Suffice to say, I don't stutter, and neither do supercomputers.

8-21

8-19

See also: Phil_321  January XV

The check and the vote is in the mail.*

*Results may vary. Not valid in New Hampshire, most territories, urban war zones, certain congressional districts, southern Florida.

  Subject to legal requirements not specified.

8-09

My musings are derived not from a conversation that begins with China or ends with China;

but a conversation that begins with Cuba and Guantanamo Bay and more recently Puerto Rico,

and the conversation ends with the Bay of Pigs.

8-08

What have we learned?

That Congress can ratify executive orders as they wish,

similar to the situation yesterday when they imposed sanctions on Hong Kong.

8-07

Can any one person in Congress argue their way out a paper bag?

8-06

So, Beirut was not the Mother Of All Bombs...

8-02

I am not a big fan of drama, except when it borders on satire.  This piece is listed on

Youtube as instruction.  It's been ignored.

While noting that General Hospital is back in full production, someone mentioned that

Yellowstone is the new Dallas.  I thought that was a terrible thing to say about Yellowstone.

7-28

What I Said, continued...

                       Iran does not have a missile to reach Mar-A-Lago.

also,

Have a 'shinny happy people' kind of weekend.

7-24

Snowden is going to need more than a bedsheet in Hong Kong.

7-22

                'Ya Think'?

It appears your head is in an anatomically incorrect position.

I am thinking it would be safer left there.

More cost effective than Metal Detectors.

7-21-2020

Please remove your chewing gum before proceeding.

Less concerned with Twitler's nominees than with many other things, although this is the second time in a month the discussion of returning to gold standard has been raised.   And the second time we have seen a bull run on gold in this century. (2008)

A gold standard to what?  Debt?

7-20

Flipping burgers and Babysitting are  not  examples of 'modern computing'.

7-15

The 'life is unfair' and tennis shoe store riots largely over,  I reminisced that I have a old file labeled  BOH

for 'Badges of Honor' for all the bullshit tickets I earned over the last fortysomething years.  Two-hundred

dollar parking tickets, miscellaneous scrap that never got and will never get paid.  No-one who wears a

badge honorably is in that file.  No-one whom operates heavy equipment safely on our nations highways can do so without breaking some sort of traffic law in the course of their employment, every damn day.

It would please me very much if a person of responsible and legally gainful political employment -

Go before our nations children and explain:  Do not resist arrest!

                                                                       Our nation's judicial system is bigger than this.

As I reflect on my career in transportation I am guided by an article from the U.S. Labor Department,

Fiscally adjusted for 1980 wages, earnings in 2016 should be................$35 dollars an hour.

If you asked, no-I do not miss Reagan.

I was right when when I wrote this article, and I am right now.

A person whom exerted the effort to get four deferments, a unfit to serve discharge just ditched

decades of CIA involvement in Asia.  Just after showing up in Vietnam and ditching a Summit with the DPRK over complaints with our Constitutional process.

Never enough.

7-13

If it is said that I am 'old school', I would take it to be defined as:  Old enough to know better.

In that light, I am painfully aware when to let a sleeping dog lie.

7-07

I (We, me, myself, and I) are busy...

See if you can get through a national election without us...

Or Putin or China or Venezuela or Syria or East Rubber Boot, Montana.

If not, here's a referral...

7-07

Caveat:

              Coincidentally, Rubber Boot Montana runs congruent with it's state lines  because:

               In the language of the long forgotten Needygreedy tribe of The Great Winnebago Nation,

               it means 'stupid white people', see also; Eloise Cobell.

7/06

6-29

Perhaps we could exhume Sandy Berger, his socks and

underwear and get to the truths in classified documents.

A hearty hello to Tulsi Gabbard.

6-28

               One of these days you stupid motherfuckers on television are going

               look upstairs and figure out who is running YOUR show.

6-19