Strange Happenings

Apparently the Wuhan virus hates Republicans and only Republicans — President Trump, Melania Trump, Hope Hicks, much of the Orangeman’s campaign staff, Chris Christie, 3 “R” senators, Kellyanne Conway and Ronna McDaniel all have tested positive ... see: The Hill story.

Is this all due to the supposed “super spreader” event over a week ago announcing Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court? The media would like us to think so. But, considering the extreme precautions taken by the White House to protect the president’s health, one has to wonder ... see: Def-Con News.

I am not a conspiracy theorists ... but I am certainly a skeptic. Anything strange happening this close to an election and Barrett’s confirmation process must be viewed with suspicion. How can Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who was wearing a mask at this event, still come down with Covid? And finally, it would seem to this observer that, while wearing a mask might be helpful in not getting the Chinese virus, a much better strategy might be to declare oneself a Democrat.


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Headlines

‘This is the worst nightmare for the Trump campaign’

Jobs report shows fewer hires as recovery loses momentum

U.S. economy adds 661k jobs in September, unemployment falls to 7.9%

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien contracts coronavirus

Shock, sympathy, mockery: World reacts to Trump infection

Trump experiencing mild symptoms after coronavirus diagnosis

Chinese state owned firm praises Biden as ‘rare candidate’ who supports their interests

Poll: Trump gains after debate as race swings 3 points president’s way

RNC Chairwoman McDaniel tests positive for Covid on Wednesday

Tesla delivers 139,300 vehicles in Q3

Guatemala vows to detain and return caravan of Hondurans headed for U.S.-Mexico border

Kellyanne Conway tests positive


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My Mask

Yes, I wear a cheap Covid mask when I am in the grocery store, at the doctors and sometimes in close proximity to others elsewhere. But not at home, when outside or in the car. And, when I do wear a mask, I have to put my eyeglasses on my head because, otherwise they fog up. And why do my glasses fog up? Because my breath, goes out the top of the mask and not through it ... as must also be much of what I inhale ... which tells me that the purpose of this mask is compromised ... and it’s protection offered is less than all my betters are telling me. I can’t tell you how much less ... but I’m sure it’s far less than those much more expensive surgical masks which actually would filter my breath ... in and out ... but are pretty much restricted to hospitals.

Then why do I wear such an uncomfortable and ineffective thing? Social pressure, that’s why. What, me bowing to virtue-singaling orthodoxy? ‘Fraid so. Even your humble blogger would rather not have some crazed Karen hectoring me in front of the rutabegas. So I grope my way around the Stop and Shop ... asking other shoppers where I am or what aisle contains the mustard. Of course, I often get nasty responses even then ... because I didn’t notice the arrows on the floor ... which, if I had, would make me walk far further than my aging body would prefer.

So, yes, kind reader, to some degree, I am also a coerced member of the confused flock of sheep that follow around our scientists whose confusion and lack of preparation has enabled the demise of 200,000 other members of the flock ... a ‘grim milestone.’ Oops, I forgot, it was Trump who killed them on purpose.

If, like I, you are skeptical of Biden’s possible national mask mandate, see: Climate Depot Article

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A Distraction

Rather than congratulating President Trump, Nancy Pelosi called his negotiated break-through peace deal between Israel and two of its Arab neighbors, UAE and Bahrain. “a distraction from the Covid.” What a stupid, smarmy, snide, surly, sniveling, sinister, sanctimonious, supercilious, scurrilous, snot-nosed, stuck-ip, shady, snobbish, shallow, scolding, strident, slobbering, sotty, sagging, scornful, spiteful, spittle-flecked,  silly, simpleton swamp creature ... is Ms. Pelosi.


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Headlines

Tech sell-off resumes, NASDAQ down more than 8 percent in 3  days

Senate to vote on coronavirus stimulus plan as soon as this week

U.S. marshals have found 72 missing children in past two weeks

Mystery: Piles of mail dumped in California

Trump defends his campaign spending as cash advantage evaporates

Apple announces Sept. 15 event where it’s expected to reveal new iPhones

Iraqi forces kill two senior ISIS militants in raid

Lightfoot’s Chicago: At least 51 shot, 7 killed over Labor Day weekend

Vaccine makers promise safety amid shaky public confidence in Covid developments

Oil drops 8% to multi-mont low on demand fears

China offers to build the Taliban a road network in exchange for peace

Joe Biden touts Wall Street support for plan to abolish suburbs

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Trump’s Boneheaded Moves?

A DEN comment on a previous blog post (Why?) outlined what is alleged to be President Trump’s boneheaded moves (surprisingly, DEN didn’t call him a RACIST!)  I reproduce them below with my rebuttals in bold type. Doing this under the comments section would have been impractical.

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-Unilaterally abandoned a treaty with Iran that they were complying with.
Again it is NOT a treaty and, even in 2017, Iran was NOT complying ... see:  Center for Security Policy and, more recently, Iran is 3.5 months from A-bomb

-Started a trade war with China and others which has cost jobs, ruined farms and raised prices for Americans.
In February, a year after tariffs were installed and before Covid, unemployment rate was 3.5%, the lowest in history, see: CNBC Report ... and inflation is still a tiny 1% compared to the Fed’s target of 2%  ... see: Inflation Rate Calculator.

- destroyed our prestige and trust with other nations that were allies, made a laughing stock out of America, but mainly himself. No one except Putin wants to deal with him.
Panhandlers (like much of the EU) always love a sucker  ... and they don’t like to be called freeloaders ... but the head of NATO praises Trump ... see: USA Today article ... and he is a hero in much of the Middle East, Japan, the Ukraine, South America, the U.K. and now, Serbia and Kosovo. The only reason Putin sucks up to Trump, despite all the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia, is because he is rightfully scared of China. Trump is putting a stop to our being the world’s police force. Is this not a good thing?

- Gave a phony tax cut that mainly benefited large corps and rich people. 
First, they were real, not phony ... and, specifically, the corporate cuts did boost the economy. If they benefitted the wealthy it was only away from high-tax states like California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, etc, ... see: Washington Times article. Why are so many plutocrats moving out of these states? (Even after Gov. Cuomo offers to cook them dinner?)

- Has fired anyone who disagrees with him, gutting the competence of government leaders.
Trump has lived through a lot of Deep State leaks and subterfuge. He obviously tolerated a lot of disagreement but when subordinates actively worked against his policies (and they were rife) then they are shown the door. If anything, he has been too slow in this housecleaning.

- Put up a phony wall that can be breached with a power saw.
Sour grapes. Cutting through the wall with a saw takes a lot more time than stepping over a line. And there are sensors in the wall that alert authorities to any breach so that they can counterdict. There have now been build 216 miles of real (not phony) wall ... see: FoxNews Story ... with 700 more to go.

- Failed to take the pandemic seriously, proffered snake oil solutions. Never assumed responsibility for anything.
 Were you watching any of the Covid press conferences? It WAS the Trump administration, namely Fauci et al, who screwed the pooch by being on both sides of every issue. Trump is a natural optimist ... not a scientist and he made the mistake of putting too much faith in these incompetent bureaucrats ... and often had to cover for them. The CDC and NIH performed badly before and during this pandemic ... but Trump marshaled private industry and the drug companies only like a real businessman could. If you believe Biden could have done any better, you are a DNC ventriloquist’s dummy.

- Pulled troops out of Syria and betrayed Kurdish allies.
Did pulling out 50 US military advisors in northern Syria allow Turkey to destroy the Kurds there? Absolutely not! Biden is not raising this issue because it doesn’t exist. You need to read and study more. See: NY Post article.

- ignored Putin's bounty on US servicemen.
More silly fake news like The Atlantic canard ... designed to peel away military votes. Why on earth would he do this? Because Russia loaned his company money back in 1992? 

- encouraged supporters to vote twice, hired a guy with no experience to reduce USPS capabilities.
Not true. He said if North Carolina voters voted well in advance by mail, they should check to see if the their votes had been tallied. He didn’t single out Republicans. And the new head of the USPS is a logistics expert (see: Wikipedia Entry) ... and the post office is primarily a logistics business ... which badly needs to innovate.

- Solicited foreign influence. Bribed the Ukranian leader to dig dirt on Biden (this was proven but would not vote to impeach) Has undermined confidence in elections.
If anyone bribed the Ukrainian leadership, it was Biden. The Democrat impeachment case against Trump didn’t even charge that he had colluded ... don’t you remember? If Trump was charged with colluding and proven guilty, would any discussions between foreign leaders ever be possible in the future?

- refuses to show his taxes which would reveal chummy relations with Russians
You are guessing again. If there is anything illegal in Trump’s tax returns, it is for the tax courts and maybe the NY DA and grand jury to decide ... not the corrupt American media.

- could not find a replacement for ACA but would have dumped millions of people off health care just to spite Obama.
So far Trump has only eliminated the unfair individual mandate and penalty in Obamacare ... a very popular move. His other reforms were scuttled by a spiteful John McCain. Can you honestly say that your health care has gotten better or cheaper after ACA was passed? I certainly can’t.

Headlines

Judge strikes down DeVos plan to boost pandemic relief to private schools

Drug makers seek to reassure public about coronavirus vaccine with joint safety

President Trump purges ‘Critical Race Theory’ propaganda from federal agencies

Fmr acting AG: Facebook, Twitter algorithms could be viewed by DOJ as an ‘illegal campaign contribution’

Trump contradicts health officials, says ‘probably’ Covid-19 vaccine in October

The stock market’s shakeout is likely not over yet, even with Friday’s comeback

BLM harasses homeowners and trashes local businesses in Rochester

Oregon gov.: Not deploying National Guard to Portland because they aren’t trained or needed”

Biden: QAnon is ‘bizarre’ and ‘embarrassing,’ supporters should seek mental health treatment

Powell says low interest rates could last for years

President Trump oversees historic Kosovo-Serbia economic deal

Former Turkish PM says Erdogan aggression risks military clash with Greece

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School Openings

We already know that, when children get coronavirus, their symptoms are generally mild and there is virtually no chance that they will die ... less than 20 in the US since the pandemic began in March. Of course even one death is sad ... but it should not be driving national policy ... such as not reopening schools ... or being too restrictive in their operation.

Yes, the opposite is true for us old gasbags, but the risks to us can be managed. Please look at the profile of Covid cases and deaths in California and let’s assume it can be extrapolated to the whole country ... see: Covid in California.

Oh, but the children are going to infect each other and then the adults they interact with ... their teachers, parents, grandparents, etc. From this data, it is clear that, even if kids can easily spread this disease to adults (which is disputed), the risk to teachers under the age of 50 is quite small. All over Europe schools are reopening with no unmanageable outbreaks ... see: Breitbart Story.

Yes, the real danger for school reopening is for the grandparents involved ... particularly those with their immune systems compromised ... and co-morbidities. But, again with focused mitigations, this risk too can be mitigated. Our valued children need to go back to school! Old farts, like me, are not as important!

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Headlines

Karen Bass renounces her praise of Fidel Castro

Retail rents plummet across New York City, as glitzy shopping districts turn into ghost towns

Trump demands death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

Portland protesters burn Bibles, American flags in the streets

Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus

COVID-19 test delays create a nightmare as schools try to reopen

Twitter endangers Americans by suppressing medical debate

Farage: Government burying ‘their heads in the sand’ on migration

German leaders warn of coronavirus resurgence, condemn protests

Eastman Kodak’s top executive reportedly got Trump deal windfall on an ‘understanding’

There have more shootings in NYC this year than in all of 2019

Report: 21 shot, 6 dead, Friday-Saturday afternoon in Chicago


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I’ve Reformed

I never used to wash my hands. Now, due to COVID, I wash them at least once a week!

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Full Cycle

Why is the majority of the main-stream media devoted to helping Democrats get elected ... as revealed in Epipheny? Well, my best guess, I think that a lot of their readership and viewership is concentrated in our nations’s hell-holes ... see: Quick Quiz. (At least they had been before the Covid pandemic.)

We have come full cycle.

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Headlines

Kanye West holds his first event as candidate

NY Gov. Cuomo says young people at bars are ‘a threat’ to the state’s reopening

Allen West named new chairman of the Texas GOP

Bernie Sanders delegates from California reject Kamala Harris as VP

Trump says his relationship with ‘alarmist’ Fauci is ‘very good’

Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine  shows positive immune response in trial

Chinese state media fawns over anti-Trump Lincoln Project

Son of federal judge Ester Salas shot dead, husband wounded

Battle over Covid aid consumes Congress’ final sprint to recess

‘We need to close down’ — Florida reports more than 10,000 new virus cases for fifth day

Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly believes Epstein was murdered

Everything is fine: Boris govt REJECTS  petition to protect statues

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