Big Day!

Its off to the races - to South Carolina and beyond! (NO, not for me, for our nation's lonely eyes.)

Comments

[Jane]

Good morning! Who wins South Carolina?

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

The person with the most votes? OH wait.. it is the dems, so....????

[Buckeye]

Media says Uncle Joe.

I hope they go to Milwaukee needing to take Sanders out.

I want the Convention to be total chaos. Make 1968 look like an English high tea.

[Another Bob]

So, anyone see this???

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/425m-in-world-bank-catastrophe-bonds-set-to-default-if-coronavirus-declared-a-pandemic-by-june

WTF?

[Buford Gooch]

Bernie stepped in it big time with his Castro remarks. It will hurt him in most primaries. The question is how much it will hurt him. I had him figured to beat Biden in SC until the Castro stuff came out.

[Captain Hate]

That Outhouse link was infested with trolls even more insane than usual. They're starting to understand just what November looks like...

[Buckeye]

AB

I posted an email that covered that very subject a couple of days ago.

WHO either needs the pandemic or needs to sell a billion dollars in bonds. I’m sure the $425 million is long gone.

[Extraneus]

They should show this at the Republican convention.

Just a video of the coolest dude on earth

[GUS]

Trump is anti-science? What the fuck do these retards smoke. Trump believes in 57 genders, the SCIENCE is SETTLED.

[Melinda]

About that cop shooting in Chicago, the station it took place in is one of the two that are used for most of the “on Tourist” crimes are sourced. Since the new drug permissive laws have been passed here, plus a slew of anti-police shootings under Rahm police are more than a little reluctant to approach the obviously cranked on PCP CTA riders and get caught with another Laquan Macdonald Event, manufactured into an “event” by the local “woke” media types that iBama trained under.

Some may recall a video of a white man getting a beat down by two AA youth which only ended when said white male drew his concealed carry, held fire, and the two “yutes” ran off. That occurred at the McD’s at the top of the stairs of the CTA stop just one station north of the above shooting. These two stations are the source and escape routes for 95% of the Michigan Ave “Snatch & Grab” crimes, especially the school holiday timed “youth swarm” shop storming, where 30-40 kids will storm a store and clear the racks. Under Rahm, arrests were discouraged. Not long after, the conceal carry video was filmed.

Mayor Lightfoot may have a different approach coming, but Juicy Smollett (thank you Dave Chappelle for that name) was the perfect opportunity to tie her hands by her losing opponent. This fight is ongoing and that dirt will see the light of day, eventually, probably after the April elections, here.

New York may have bad bail issues making things worse, now, but they were tested here for years, as unwritten policy, first.

[James D.]

Re the Althouse link CH mentioned:

I cannot imagine sitting through one of her classes. I’d want to kill myself just so I wouldn’t have to hear her anymore, if this is a representative sample of her “logic”

I'm writing from a position of cruel neutrality. I like observing how this salad is made, and I understand liking it and resenting people who don't get it, but I also understand the people who are horrified.

[Melinda]

Buckeye,

There are TWO tranches that need to get paid on 7/15 if an event is declared.

Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

[Melinda]

PR Release with some of the terms:

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/06/28/world-bank-launches-first-ever-pandemic-bonds-to-support-500-million-pandemic-emergency-financing-facility

[Extraneus]

Nadler Announces He Will Call in the 4 Corrupt Roger Stone Prosecutors, US Attorney John Durham and US Attorney Jeff Jensen

[Melinda]

Coronavirus being one of the 6 criteria viruses that meet the trigger, which makes sense.

Now I can makes sense of US yield movement......

[Melinda]

Off to do day things.... Anyone able to connect in NYC on Friday?

Asking again before making other arrangements.

[GUS]

So SCIENCE is being manipulated for MONEY???

UNPOSSIBLE.

[Bela1]

Melinda one day I hope to travel out to Manhattan to meet you because you’re awesome!

[MissMarple2]

Extraneus,

I read yesterday that a higher per cent of blacks were fans of The Apprentice than whites.

Apparently the entrepreneurial bent of the show appealed to them.

What a great video! I think it should be shown at the convention, too. No chance of that, however, with the pearl-clutchers hanging around.

[Melinda]

Bela1, I’d love to meet the great you too, but I’m rarely in NYC, living in the 2nd City for my reality.

[Melinda]

Oh come on....

@julie_kelly2

All he has left is his art, says Hunter. From a 12k per month apartment while dodging a paternity suit and living large off his foreign-sourced slush fund that the reporter claims was just a matter of “poor choices.” Try to get thru this without a laugh:

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1233739433645682694?s=21

[GUS]

Bela, Melinda is the real deal in person too.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2020/02/29/angela-rye-cnn-shames-black-trump-supporters-katrina-pierson-don-lemon/

[Melinda]

US surgeon general on mask buying. STAHP IT.

https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1233725785283932160?s=21

[Melinda]

Heh, this is pretty funny:

@COsweda
Thread

WOW! They went for it, @realDonaldTrump!

I have to admit that I'm stunned.

https://twitter.com/cosweda/status/1233619423610540033?s=21

[clarice]

Mom to 2--In response to your question the keto bread (recipe posted yesterday evening) is the best yet. I toasted it and you might, too, to minimize the "wet" feel from the psyllium powder. It doesn't taste eggy. Because there are no preservatives in it, I recommend you slice it, wrap it and refrigerate or freeze it and then just take out a slice a day.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Heh.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Best illustration of socialism yet, though I see its appeal to Mayor Pete;

[James D.]

Melinda @ 10:31

Yeah, I saw it in the NYT this morning. Unbelievable

“All he has left is his art”

Oh, and 3 kids from his divorce (after his wife presumably dumbed him for being a crack addiction and sleeping with his sister in law), and his illegitimate kid in Arkansas. And of course the millions in foreign graft money that is doubtless squirreled away in foreign bank accounts far from the eyes of the IRS.

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I see art is apparently how they are going to funnel money to Hunter. No way in jell anyone would believe he wrote a book, plus he would be compelled to get too many stories to work together.

But a crappy painting that he could stamp a $50,000 price tag on? Easy-peasy! It doesn't even have to show skill, given how weird the art world has become. And of course, the New York Times is right there to help facilitate the fraud.

[MissMarple2]

THANK YOU SOUTH CAROLINA! pic.twitter.com/7i5BYCQfg8

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 29, 2020

Video at the link. Look how diverse that crowd is.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/steven-mnuchin-100-dollar-bills-disappearing

[Jack Lillywhite]

Any of you teachers out there use Kahoot in your classroom?

[Buckeye]

I have worthless currency from dozens of countries all over the world.

They saw me coming:)

[lyle]

https://www.idrlabs.com/communism/test.php

Test yourself and see if you’re a commie. I got a big fat zero. Yay me.

[lyle]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/02/pbs-religion-didnt-kill-americans-911-daniel-greenfield/

Of course not.

[MissMarple2]

Listen carefully to this member of the parliament of Ukraine...

$3B of the missing $5.3B was US taxpayer money, and a lot of the money ended up in the hands of relatives/close people of former and active officials of the US Government...

Full: https://t.co/tEn8FxrYE1 #QAnon pic.twitter.com/HeR7omjDmV

— M3thods (@M2Madness) February 29, 2020

Video clip begins with the link "pic". Full video of the episode is also linked.

[D]

Joe Biden in a squeaker with Sanders and Steyer close brr e hind.
Naturally Messnbc interviewed only Biden voters.
Not a very smart vote for a man with a cognitive reasoning disorder.

[MissMarple2]

D,

Agree with you, and the news people have made a big deal of the Clyburn endorsement, because he has a state-wide organization, and supposedly that will account for Biden's win over Sanders.

I wonder how Clyburn will be paid off.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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24m
I will be having a 1:30 P.M. Press Conference at the White House to discuss the latest CoronaVirus developments. Thank you!
==========================================
ANOTHER opportunity to watch the press expose themselves!

[D]

Buckeye:
Agree with you.
I have had just about enough of liars Pelosi and Schumer.

[Narciso]

Didnt the journal do a same piece for podesta

[Old Lurker]

MR "I have had just about enough of liars Pelosi and Schumer."

Get used to it until the Prog Movement is dead and buried. Getting Winston to accept blatant untruths as truth is a prime objective of 1984. The dumber people are, and the more emotionally WOKE they are, the easier that is for the left to accomplish.

[Extraneus]

Melania Trump kisses firefighter in unearthed ‘New York’ cover

(Click to open.)

[Jane]

Good for her!

[Captain Hate]

OL,

I 100% agree with you that the best thing in November would be a choice between DJT and Bernie. Capitalism versus communism; let's get it on. If you're looking for the biggest reason the Overton window keeps moving to the left, look no further than GOP Top Men trying to blur the differences between choices seeking that illusionary "middle". The last time there was a real ideological choice (Trump was still an unknown ideologically in 2016) Reagan won in a landslide yet Top Men learned nothing from that.

[Gentlejim]

JiB,
My two youngest had teachers that used Kahoot in HS. They both enjoyed it.

[Extraneus]

"I have had just about enough of liars Pelosi and Schumer."

They're pretty shameless. From the Russia email joke, to the very-fine-people hoax and now the virus hoax hoax, their leaders and troops are more than willing to repeat clear, provable lies without even a hint of embarrassment.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n, you have been dead right since the get-go that GOPe Top Men are the problem. Looking back to 1980 at least, they have been perfectly trained Judas Goats, and they have led GOP leaning sheep right to the door of the slaughter house.

[MissMarple2]

Extraneus,

I suppose that magazine cover is supposed to make us old ladies and Franklin Graham and all get all upset.

Pfft.

[Old Lurker]

Far as I am concerned, there is nothing good about "the middle" anymore. Wake up. Study the two choices (Communism v Capitalism constrained by a functioning Constitution). Make a choice. If you can't decide, sit down and shut up.

[Old Lurker]

What GOPe Top Men learned from the Reagan landslide was that they needed to improve the camouflage lest they be fired from their jobs as Judas Goats. Worked well for them until Trump called them out.

[Captain Hate]

Exactly, OL. I kept sitting and wondering "why do they keep avoiding what gave them landslides?" The answer was clear all along and I just refused to acknowledge it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This CH loves OL thing is gettin kinda creepy.

[henry]

Convenient.

Salvador Hernandez
@SalHernandez
·
8m
Washington State Health officials confirming that 1 person has died due to the coronavirus.
This just before planned press conferences by Pres. Trump and CDC today

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Cap'n, you have been dead right since the get-go that GOPe Top Men are the problem. Looking back to 1980 at least--

Swap those last two numbers and I think you'd be a lot closer to the truth, OL.
TeddyR may be on Mount Rushmore but perhaps that's because he was the original GOPey prog dope who first set the Republicans on the course of prog-lite.

[Captain Hate]

No fool like a rich fool

https://mobile.twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1233723323651153925

[MissMarple2]

Roscoe B Davis

@RoscoeBDavis1

So the Biden Camp donated $50k to Jim Clyburn's church Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston. So now we know what it took to get Clyburn off the couch for Biden. The delay in the planned endorsement was they were waiting for the check to clear. Not surprising at all

Thread and comments with more information:

https://twitter.com/RoscoeBDavis1/status/1233819653232828418

[Extraneus]

Students Demand Their School Treat Coronavirus-Themed Party as a ‘Hate Crime’

A group of students at the University of Albany are demanding that a coronavirus-themed party — featuring buckets of Corona beers and partygoers in surgical masks — be treated as a “hate crime.”

The controversy started when the Twitter account @BarstoolAlbany (which, by the way, is not officially affiliated with Barstool Sports) posted a now-deleted video of the off-campus party with the caption: “Corona virus isn’t gonna stop anyone from partying.”

WGY News Radio, a local station, also reported that a quick, “if you blink, you miss it” shot in the video seems to show “a white sheet with the word virus and two faces.”

The outlet’s report states:

One has the letter X over each eye and looks like a sick face. The other is a frown, with what looks like straight lines for eyes. Is it supposed to be an Asian person with the virus? It certainly looks like it could be.

In response, the school’s Asian American Alliance issued a statement on Instagram, demanding that the university “investigate this illegal student group and related UAlbany students, requiring them to delete this video and to apologize on their Instagram homepage.”

[peter]

iggy@ 1:18!

[GUS]

OL, the COMMIES are JUST LIKE US!!! They love their children, if they let them live.

THEO will explain this to you.

[MissMarple2]

Press conference live stream link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-gzon4Elqg

[Jim Eagle]

GJ,

Thanks about your reponse on Kahoot. I had to look it up since Frederick texted me and I asked him how come he wasn't in his Algebra 2 class. Told me it was Kahoot today:)

[Buckeye]

I suppose that magazine cover is supposed to make us old ladies and Franklin Graham and all get all upset.

Only thing that magazine cover made me wanna do is be a fireman:)

[Buckeye]

I took the commie test and got 6%.

Musta fat fingered one of the answers:)

[Narciso]

Isnt there am airbase im the seattle area?

[lyle]

Really disappointed, Buckeye. 😉

[Extraneus]

California Bill Prohibits Stores From Selling Toys That Don’t Actively Confuse Children’s Sexuality

[Neo]

White Supremacy Goes Green

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/far-right-climate-change.html

[Buckeye]

Sorry Lyle, you can send me my demerit badge:)

[MissMarple2]

Average American doesn't need a mask.
Feds stepping up orders for masks to protect
health professionals
Travel restrictions to high-risk areas, like
certain areas of Italy.

[henry]

First question... hoax. ::eye roll::

[MissMarple2]

I hate the press.

Hate them.

[Narciso]

More to the point wasnt there a flight from iran to vancouver?

[Jim Eagle]

narciso,

You mean Ft. Lewis Joint Base McChord?

[Narciso]

Yes that one,

[MissMarple2]

Friend texts me that they are going to get to the rallies eventually.

[D]

President at news conference on offense wrt coronavirus.
A good move.
Bolton making snarky comments saying taliban deal is like an Obsma deal.
At this rate they are going to tie his book up in review until President Trump is out of office in 5 years.

[Neo]

“investigate this illegal student group and related UAlbany students, requiring them to get training to help them retain a ‘sense of humor’”

[cathyf]

anonymom was asking about Notre Dame and their Rome programs -- they pulled the plug yesterday:

The CDC and the U.S. State Department travel warning levels for Italy have been raised to level 3 -- avoid unnecessary travel. In the interest of your safety, Notre Dame has made the difficult but necessary decision to suspend its Rome programs effective immediately and begin returning students to the United States as soon as possible. The University will book your flights for as early as Sunday to the major U.S. airport closest to your home. It is of the utmost importance that you return to the Gateway at Via Ostilia for and 8 a.m. meeting Saturday (February 29th) to prepare for departurs. Please respond to let us know if you can attend the meeting or not. Information on travel accomodations and re-entry procedures will be provided in a subsequent message. Please share this message with your parents and/or emergency contacts.

WonderGirl rebuilt the first 3 days of their tour to be by bus from Frankfurt to Ljubljana with stops in Munich, Nuremberg & Salzburg. Their tour company even got them singing gigs -- on ten days of notice! (A shout out to Peter's Way Tours!)

It all depends upon the steepness of that exponential for the spread of the virus...

[D]

Neo:
I just said the same thing to my husband.
Get a sense of humor and stop narcing out people.
Cathy:
My grandmother was born in Ljubljana and a friend who visited said it was a lovely place.

[MissMarple2]

Friend is worried about going to Italy, and on top of that her son made the reservations for them and he lives in Mallorca, so she doesn't know if they will get refunds.

Interestingly, President Trump said they would be doing these press conferences quite often. (Said that at the very end.)

[D]

I wouldn’t travel to these countries until the situation stabilizes.

[D]

Cathy:
Tell them in Salzburg they can see the cathedral where the Sound if Music had the wedding and the garden where they sang DoReMi.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Imperious ketonomom with one of her patients, and an Oxford comma joke to boot. :P

[Extraneus]

NY Post:

Democrats’ disgraceful dissembling only increases coronavirus threat

[jimmyk]

I'm still scheduled to go to Rome mid-April. Waiting to hear whether the conference is canceled or postponed.

I've Mel twice in the Windy City. Sorry I will miss him this coming week, but anyone in the area should grab the opportunity.

[jimmyk]

I've *met* Mel (sigh)

[sbwaters]

jimmyk, does the (sigh) apply to the typing or to having met Mel?

[Dave (in MA)]

I've *met* Mel (sigh)

Wow, sounds like he made a big impression, jimmyk.

[jimmyk]

Hah, sbw, maybe both. Seriously, I used to be able to type flawless posts, and now...not so much.

[Dave (in MA)]

I guess I'm a slower typist than Mr. Newspaper.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Maybe that was a lovelorn sigh. :/

[jimmyk]

He did, Dave, but not like that. NTTAWWT.

[jimmyk]

That's the last time I correct a type for you guys.

[jimmyk]

See what I mean?

[Melinda]

Funny men.

[Dave (in MA)]

Eye spend more thyme correcting than typing when I'm using a tablet.

[Old Lurker]

Iggy, yes, being nice to CH is creepy, right?

As to 1980 v 1908, couldn't agree more...and 1908 probably began in 1860 or so too.

Wilson, TR and FDR sowed the seeds of the whirlwind.

The significance of 1980, starting the book in the middle, is that the WWII-Depression generation was alive and kicking and even the Democrats had to be careful about trashing the country and the Constitution. Now Vietnam and us 60's brats were already nibbling away at the foundation and Ayers in Education, and Law Schools were minting SJW Living Document clowns fast as they could, but for awhile the old guys keep the "rules" in place somewhat.

With Bush #1, the Judas Goats started building the ramps up to the slaughter house entry and they hid their Uniparty from a whole bunch of us including me for several decades. They have had free run of the field ever since Reagan and came THIS CLOSE to sealing the deal before Trump came along.

[Old Lurker]

Buckeye "I took the commie test and got 6%."

Your first drink tonight on the Ledge will have to be lemonade with no sugar.