The greatest city in the world is teetering on the brink so its Mayor seizes the opportunity to remind us he is a useless buffoon:
Covid-19: De Blasio urges US enlistment program for doctors and nurses
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- Mayor calls for medics to be moved to places in greatest need
- New York City prepares for surge in coronavirus cases
"Enlistment program"?!? WHAT did he say?
New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, has called for a national enlistment program for doctors and nurses, to handle an expected surge in coronavirus cases in New York and across the US.
“If we’re fighting a war, let’s act like we’re fighting a war,” he told reporters on Friday.
...
"...unless the military is fully mobilized and we create something we’ve never had before, which is some kind of national enlistment of medical personnel moved to the most urgent needs in the country constantly … if we don’t have that we’re going to see hospitals simply unable to handle so many people who could be saved.”
OK, that won't be happening. As a minor point, there is no time for Congress to pass the relevant legislation. As a major point, this is still America, we abandoned the draft decades ago, and we don't force people to work at gunpoint.
And how would it work? NY hospitals are short of Protective Personal Equipment. So the Feds are going to threaten to arrest some doctor in Vermont unless he gets down to NY and imperils himself by treating coronavirus patients? And if the good people of the great state of Vermont need health care down the road, NY promises to send their doctor back, unless he's sick or dead or super busy saving New Yorkers in which case, well, that's a problem for another day?
I saw a poignant story of a retired 50-ish nurse from New York. She was planning to answer Gov. Cuomo's call for volunteers but had qualms she lives with two youngsters and her elderly parents. Working with coronavirus patents all day puts her at high risk of infection; going home puts her at risk of infecting her high-risk parents.
Her intention was to respond because Duty Calls, and I applaud her fighting spirit. But I have a hard time imagining a state legislator or judge would agree to lock her up if she chose to sit this one out and take care of her mom and dad.
As a further illustration that desperate times require desperate short-sightedness, this order by Gov. Cuomo is outrageous:
Cuomo said he would sign an executive order that allows the national guard to take ventilators and personal protective equipment from institutions that don’t need them right now, and redistribute them to those that do. He said those institutions would either have their ventilators returned to them or get reimbursements. Cuomo said there may be several hundred ventilators available because of the order.
Right now, the state is fielding a daily need for about 300 additional ventilators, he said. Those ventilators, officials have repeatedly explained, make the difference between life and death.
“Am I willing to deploy the national guard and inconvenience people for several hundred lives? You’re damn right I am,” Cuomo said.
Upstate NY legislators are pushing back. I haven't studied their local budgets and planning process but I imagine some of them are thinking they spent years in investing in appropriate capacity for their town and now, at the moment of crisis, its being taken away by people who couldn't plan far enough ahead to buy hot dogs for the Fourth of July.
As to the idea that they'll will get it back if they need it - oh, stop. NYC won't start unhooking people and letting them die just to return ventilators to some upstate burg. The absence of trust makes sharing difficult and this brute expropriation outrageous.
Apparently they won't take more than 20% of the ventilators from any hospital, so the plan isn't fully insane.
Some pushback from the Rochester area upstate:
Rochester Regional Health deferred questions to Monroe County. Both County Executive Adam Bello and U.S. Rep. Joseph Morelle, D-Irondequoit, expressed concerned over Cuomo's executive order.
"While it’s reasonable to share resources across communities when available, the reality is that Monroe County’s positive cases, hospitalizations, and ventilator usage increase daily," Bello said in a statement. "We do not have excess capacity to send supplies out of the region.”
Morelle echoed those sentiments.
"Unfortunately, our regional health systems have repeatedly indicated that excess ventilator capacity does not exist at this time," Morelle offered in a statement.
Rich Azzopardi, senior advisor to Cuomo, said, "...it is essential that we all work together."
He continued, "Ventilators literally save lives. They will be returned or reimbursed to those hospitals. Moreover, when the pandemic wave hits upstate New York, the Governor will ask downstate hospitals for similar help."
I guess Gov. Cuomo's message is "tough luck".
More pushback from Erie County Republicans:
We cannot allow the state to confiscate our public health resources by force and redistribute them to New York City. The offer to pay for them only adds insult to injury. Once they are taken, we will not get them back when we need them, and clearly none are available for purchase. We want to help, but if we hit our peak while our resources are elsewhere, Erie County residents will die. We cannot let that happen.”
No trust.
TK:
I figure you must know the gal who answers phone at tv station, by now, but I'm not so sure about Annie and Joe.
Stephanie: Greg Maddux? I had to look all these baseball guys up!
Momto2: Tammy Faye Baker?
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 04, 2020 at 11:52 PM
My list:
George H.W. Bush
Condoleeza Rice
Edwin Meese
Thomas Sowell
Milton Friedman
Paul Samuelson
Archbishop Sean O'Malley
Ben Bernanke
Caroline Kennedy
Loretta Lynch
Posted by: jimmyk | April 04, 2020 at 11:52 PM
jimmyk: Loretta Lynch?
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 04, 2020 at 11:54 PM
LOL, TK.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | April 04, 2020 at 11:59 PM
LoL, JMH.
It is The Pizza Guy.
I don’t eat any food that has been in a car I know nothing about. Years of working on cars and seeing the crap that layers up in them has been the ultimate turn off. Dog hair, people hair, Pepsi bottles full of chaw spit, dander, skin chunks off of cracked surfer heels.
Crawling on a floorboard to fix something under a dashboard is a horror movie every time.
Posted by: Threadkiller | April 05, 2020 at 12:03 AM
What do you mean “Your People”?
Mayor of NOLA admits they are tracking people thru their phones:
https://twitter.com/karluskap/status/1246642360727076865?s=21
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 12:08 AM
Nope not Greg nor TG. I used to own a BB card shop in the 90s. Had both in the store for signings.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | April 05, 2020 at 12:09 AM
Mine is Hal Needham. I was at a party with him in the 80s but never got introduced.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | April 05, 2020 at 12:10 AM
I think mt met him in memory serves
Posted by: Narciso | April 05, 2020 at 12:11 AM
I’m not really caught up yet, are y’all making fantasy drone kill lists or what?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 12:11 AM
JMH, we get our misty moments that can be Druidic, or Coastal Salish in their longboats. The archipelago nature is actually also rather Norsk which Is why my ancestors settled around here.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | April 05, 2020 at 12:17 AM
--5 deaths in Taiwan. 77 in Japan. 373 in Sweden. 445 in Brazil. No lockdowns. This was never going to be the “millions of people” killer the academics predicted. The question is, why is anyone still listening to them?--
There may be an argument against lockdowns.
This isn't it.
Sweden has gone to a semi-lockdown and is still increasing regulations pretty much every day or two.
Same with Brazil. It has gone from 100 cases on March 14th to 10,000 today and each day its regs get tighter.
Taiwan and Japan were fortunate as socially homogeneous islands who were still on guard from the threat of SARS to identify and isolate their early cases. Even so Japan keeps threatening to break out of its low range.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | April 05, 2020 at 12:23 AM
As far as getting jimmyk and Peter out of NYC, that’s quite doable, but they can’t bring anything except their sweeties. No luggage. Weight and balance, ya see. Fast, but small.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | April 05, 2020 at 12:23 AM
jim
I saw some New Jersey plates on a BMW turning into a Dollar General down the road. Are you running an interstate COVID numbers racket?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 12:28 AM
Stephanie: I figured you knew Hal Needham fer shure!
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 05, 2020 at 12:37 AM
Nope. At a distance only. Doesn't count.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | April 05, 2020 at 12:40 AM
Pin:
We're listing 9 famous people w have met and one whom we haven't, and we're trying to guess each other's fakes.
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 05, 2020 at 12:42 AM
Stephanie:
You've certainly had an interesting career path. Baseball cards, who'd a thunk it?
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 05, 2020 at 12:44 AM
Milwaukee County is 26% Black? That is disturbing:
The news from Milwaukee is deeply troubling. The county is 26% black...
https://twitter.com/trevondlogan/status/1246553898577518593?s=21
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 12:52 AM
Yep. I opened that in August 1991 just as the Braves were going from worst to their first WS. Crazy times. Sold it just after K was born in 93 but before the strike. It was more of a side track than on my career path.
Perfect timing.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | April 05, 2020 at 12:52 AM
JMH, No I met Loretta Lynch. She was in my college class, but I don't know if I ever actually met her then. But I met her when she was on the Board of the NY Fed.
Posted by: jimmyk | April 05, 2020 at 12:58 AM
That was a matter of time Pin.
Also a sign that media is getting tired of the “pandemic” story.
Posted by: Another Bob | April 05, 2020 at 01:00 AM
Yeah, Hal and me were besties for a couple of weeks back in 72. That guy was nutz. Had no sense of pain, so being a stunt guy was perfect. After we tried to kill him about five times, he went on to shoot a movie with John Wayne who played a cop (IIRC). So Hal sets up a stunt where he races a cop car down a beach at about 60 and has a mortar buried in the sand that blows the car up into the air in a roll maneuver. Of course, he broke his back on that one. Stunts Unlimited was his operation.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | April 05, 2020 at 01:02 AM
OK here are mine
Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Leslie Ann Warren
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
George Bush
Alan Ludden
Carol Baker
Jack Dempsey
Leonard Bernstein
Posted by: mike in houston | April 05, 2020 at 01:03 AM
Loretta Tarmac Lynch on the board of the Fed.
That inspires confidence we're in only the best of hands.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | April 05, 2020 at 01:04 AM
It was McQ. Seattle cop. Came out in 74.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | April 05, 2020 at 01:10 AM
HBO, you expect me to believe that Nathan Lane is a hardbitten detective who roughs up heterosexual males?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 01:11 AM
mike: Jack Dempsey?
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 05, 2020 at 01:13 AM
Man Tran:
That reminds me of a line in a car racing movie with Yves Montand who was asked if he ever worried about what might happen to him if he crashed? He replied, "To do anything truly dangerous requires a certain lack of the imagination."
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 05, 2020 at 01:17 AM
PIN,
If that was directed at me I sold my 68 Camaro in 2011 and haven't owned a car since then.
The last few years I had it I was suffering from undiagnosed PTSD and the car had an ancient outdated inspection sticker. I drove it once a week, after dark, for food and beer shopping.
I was driving so seldom that my insurance cost was the highest per mile expense. Like $1-2 per mile.
Posted by: jim nj | April 05, 2020 at 01:20 AM
A guy I dated back in the 70s is a stunt man. His brother was a stunt man back then (mostly retired now) and is married to Morgan Brittany of the Dallas TV show and Close up toothpaste ads. Both worked with Needham and were basically trained by him. He's how I met Tom Wopat. Wopat came to Atlanta for the Chattahoochee Raft Race and stayed with us. Nice guy.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | April 05, 2020 at 01:20 AM
Hal and Burt were roomies back then and I think Sally Fields was part of that group through some connection with Yakima Canuck who practically invented stunt work.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | April 05, 2020 at 01:43 AM
When I was in college, I went to Iran with a Persian-American friend and her mum, back before the revolution, but I never met Farah Pahlavi (or the Shah, either). :-)
Posted by: JM Hanes | April 05, 2020 at 01:51 AM
"Maya Angelou - both greek names
Maya - midwife (also a greek goddess)
Angelou - she of the messenger (angelos = messenger. ergo the english word angel)
Don't know if any of this is relevant."
Me either, but since it came up...
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 01:57 AM
jim
I wouldn't expect the "Godfather" to be running the actual numbers.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 02:00 AM
I think McQ was John Wayne's last movie and MAC-10's first
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 02:02 AM
I’ve led a sheltered life. Not sure I’ve met ten famous people.
One of my jobs as a kid was busboy. I bussed the table where Howard Cosell had dinner once. A few NFL players, one HOF. Probably the best hockey player in history. A player on the 80 US Olympic team.
Posted by: Another Bob | April 05, 2020 at 02:32 AM
Worldometers look see
Total US cases 311,635, new cases 34,160, %change 12.3%, deaths 8,454, recovered 14,825.
Recovered seems to be outpacing deaths. I haven't tracked those number closely so I can't give an exact %change for either. Intuitively a recovery should happen faster than a death. i. e. mild cases should resolve faster.
After yesterday's bi-state spike to 54.2% of all cases the lowering %change rate for NY has returned at 36.8%. NJ has 10.9% down from yesterday, but still up from 2 days ago.
recap
date total cases new cases %change
4/2 245,373 30,073 +13.9%
4/3 277,475 32,102 +13.0%
4/4 311,635 34,160 +12.3%
%change has been on a down trend for 9 days now.
With 5 smaller nations by population surpassing China's "official" statistics, and Iran's "true" stats likely doing the same there is no logical reason to believe China's numbers anymore.
Not that any of us did, but I think it's beyond any propaganda argument.
Posted by: jim nj | April 05, 2020 at 02:56 AM
Sheesh. 3 attempts to get that posted.
PIN,
Shush. Like that mafioso in Brooklyn or Queens who used to wander on the streets in a ratty bathrobe mumbling to himself, I've got the FEDs convinced I'm a poor brain-addled nobody in NJ. Don't blow my cover man, there will be consequences.
Watched "The Ten Commandments" tonight, again, somehow it never gets stale.
Posted by: jim nj | April 05, 2020 at 03:04 AM
Watched most of the press conference today.
I've said before I don't like Dr. Murray's projections. I got the sense that Trump is pushing back on that and Fauci and Birx are bending.
They mentioned that they are doing near real-time monitoring of ventilator and PPE requirements. Stuff is scarce and the model isn't as predictive as real-time monitoring is.
I've argued that the R0 is not a constant across the USA. That was admitted at the press conference.
A one-size fits all solution isn't needed.
While we were watching the "loud" outbreak in Washington State a "silent" hot-spot was building in the NYC area at about the same time.
It will take some time before we can map the spread of the virus through the US, but I imagine a very large portion will trace back to the NYC area.
Nassau and Suffolk counties on LI will be the easiest example to prove. Many of the other hot-spots will probably be traced back to the NYC area via people traveling on planes.
Posted by: jim nj | April 05, 2020 at 03:47 AM
I need to check my bookmarks to see if I have Bill Gates getting a pie to the face saved:
Bill Gates says all public events should be canceled until EVERYONE takes vaccine.
#ID2020
#TheMoreYouKnow Dizzy symbol
https://twitter.com/DonnaWR8/status/1246508141405184008?s=20
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 03:59 AM
Who would give a newborn ANY vaccine? Who would allow that?
In 1999 the CDC, NIH, FDA all knew that children who received the HepB #vaccines at day 1 of live had an increased risk of 1135% to get #autism over children who waited 60 days. Watch the deception unfold...
https://twitter.com/LotusOak2/status/1246539692092334087?s=20
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 04:42 AM
So World Bank issued “pandemic bonds” in 2017 with an interest rate of 12% that were set to mature in July 2020, with one catch: If “coronavirus“ became a pandemic - and in 2017 they called Coronavirus by name - then investors would lose all their money.
https://twitter.com/ml_1maria/status/1240310180455342083?s=20
Posted by: Pinandpuller | April 05, 2020 at 04:59 AM
TK, you never answered my questions when I asked:
Did you ask your doc for hydroxychloroquine?
Did he turn you down?
Are you getting covered in aerosolized virus multiple times a day in your line of work?
Posted by: anonamom | April 05, 2020 at 05:33 AM
Ig @ 10:13 last night
Interesting comment about audience expectations and the finale of The Prisoner. The thing is, if 90% of the audience doesn’t get what you were trying to say, that’s probably on you as the creator.
Posted by: James D. | April 05, 2020 at 07:23 AM
Brad Parscale - Text TRUMP to 88022
@parscale
At the worst possible moment, @JoeBiden
has endorsed tax increases on Wisconsin residents.
So desperate to be the Dem nominee, he’s getting involved in local issues.
@realDonaldTrump
is at work protecting the country & Sleepy Joe wants to raise taxes
=======================================
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
9h
He wants to raise taxes all over our Country!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 07:45 AM
My list & one lie:
TM
Daddy
Jane
Dave_in_Ma
jimmyk
Clarice
JMH
JiB
MissMarple
Tonto
Stephanie
and a few more
Posted by: sbwaters | April 05, 2020 at 07:46 AM
New hospitalizations and deaths are both significant.
Hospitalizations indicate instances of severe spread. Deaths indicate unsuccessful treatment.
Posted by: sbwaters | April 05, 2020 at 07:53 AM
Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
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21h
Of course Adam Schiff is complaining about ICIG Atkinson being fired. He was Schiff’s key impeachment enabler.
- Let the Whistleblower lie about meeting with Schiff’s staff
- Didn’t disclose the fact that the WB worked for Biden
Schiff still won’t release Atkinson’s transcript!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 08:04 AM
Not all our palms woven into crosses over the years have been burned to make ashes for the next year's Ash Wednesday.
Posted by: sbwaters | April 05, 2020 at 08:05 AM
OK, my list
Muhammad Ali
Princess Di
John Kasich
Jack Welch
Elizabeth Dole
Princess Caroline
Paul Newman
Edgar Winter
John Galbreath
Pete Rose
Posted by: Buckeye | April 05, 2020 at 08:11 AM
Retweeted by the President. Video at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 08:12 AM
Good morning JOM!https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/bet_your_life__vote_for_democrats.html
Posted by: clarice | April 05, 2020 at 08:20 AM
WTF?
Posted by: Extraneus | April 05, 2020 at 08:34 AM
Extraneus,
That seems to be a more effusive thanks than President Trump got.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 08:37 AM
clarice,
Excellent pieces today!
Brad Parscale needs to make an ad of Pelosi rupping up the SOTU speech.
I wonder how anonamom feels about DeBlasio wanting doctors and nurses drafted!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 08:40 AM
+1 for Clarice. Posted and passed on.
Our Democrat representative can claim that, after the last election, he did not vote for Pelosi for speaker.
Sorry. Nice a guy or not, removing Pelosi will require a House majority of Republicans this time.
Posted by: sbwaters | April 05, 2020 at 08:40 AM
The Chinese purposely allowed infected people to travel to NY long after they knew about the virus, and Cuomo kisses their asses because they "helped facilitate" a donation?
After 9/11, Giuliani publicly refused such a donation from a Saudi prince.
Compare and contrast.
Posted by: Extraneus | April 05, 2020 at 08:48 AM
The Chinese government helped facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators that will arrive in JFK today.
Never forget and never forgive what Xi did.
I understand exactly why Trump is playing nice with this POS at the moment, but that shouldn’t define the future.
Posted by: Buckeye | April 05, 2020 at 08:50 AM
Nope, JMH, nope Stephanie
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 08:52 AM
Jimmy,
Loretta Lynch
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 08:53 AM
Mike,
Leslie Ann Warren,
SBW, I know your lie but I won’t tell.
Buckeye, princess Di.
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 08:58 AM
My 10:
Robert Downey Jr.
Cesar Chavez
Huey P. Newton
Dolores Huerta
Elvin Bishop
Dave Casper
Ken Keysey
Joe Montana
Hunter S. Thompson
M.Scott Momaday
Posted by: KevlarKid | April 05, 2020 at 09:00 AM
Jane
No cigar.
Posted by: Buckeye | April 05, 2020 at 09:01 AM
Another list, one lie"
John F. Kennedy
Henry Kissinger
Frank Zappa
George W. Bush
Dick Clark
Hillary Clinton
Ken Kesey
Alexander Haig
Reba Macintire
Nelson Rockefeller
Otto Preminger
Posted by: sbwaters | April 05, 2020 at 09:02 AM
Video at the link. Worth listening to. 26 minutes. You may want to open a separate window. (Caution: lots of F words.)
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 09:03 AM
Good morning everyone
Clarice hit it right out of the park with her great Pieces today. I’m angry & disgusted again over just how low Democrats will sink to achieve their social & political aims.
Take care & stay safe everyone
Posted by: Bela1 | April 05, 2020 at 09:04 AM
I just heard on local news that "Only 15 counties have NOT reported a case of the RED DEATH so far".
They're disgusting.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:07 AM
I found out last night that my uncle has the virus.
He's old, health compromised, and lives in an assisted care facility on Staten Island. This morning we learned that he has been taken off of oxygen and doesn't need ICU, so all of my cousins are texting their relief.
Meanwhile, Cuomo is thanking the fucking Chinese.
Posted by: Extraneus | April 05, 2020 at 09:07 AM
Wow Buckeye. I’m impressed!
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 09:08 AM
GUS,
Are they really calling it "The Red Death?"
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 09:08 AM
SBW: Hillary
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 09:09 AM
Jimmy Carter,
Jerry Brown,
Scott Walker,
Jerry Glanville
Deborah Harry and all of Blondie
Cheap Trick,
The Smithereens,
Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Hank Aaron,
Aaron Rodgers
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:09 AM
KK,
The last one.
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 09:10 AM
JMH - Bingo - Tammy Faye Baker
Posted by: Momto2 | April 05, 2020 at 09:10 AM
It's the RED DEATH during the 30 day trial of Communism.
I prefer the YELLOW DEATH.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:10 AM
Gus:
Jerry Brown
Posted by: Jane | April 05, 2020 at 09:11 AM
I don't understand why Trump is retweeting about someone named Joe Rogan saying he'd vote Trump instead of Biden. Is he trying to use reverse psychology on the Dems by trying to knock Biden out and saying he'd rather run against Cuomo?
Posted by: Extraneus | April 05, 2020 at 09:13 AM
Reality Unmasked EP 2: Dr. Fauci's Dirty Secrets https://t.co/8QZDSTJkXY
My opinion about Fauci hasn't wavered since the 90s when HIV/AIDS canonized the homosexual agenda and bled other pressing research needs dry.
POTUS' people need to neutralize this jackal.
Posted by: KevlarKid | April 05, 2020 at 09:15 AM
The Shedd Aquarium penguin is on the loose again and this time meets the Beluga Whales😎
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/31/shedd-aquarium-penguins-field-trip-beluga-whales/
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | April 05, 2020 at 09:15 AM
Jerry Brown actually and literally ran into me at the UW-MILWAUKEE Student Union. He was over an hour late for a rally, and as he came through the front door, he banged into me, I said "excuse me", he just shoved past me and entered. Obviously I didn't vote for him. I would have liked to ask him how stinky Linda Rotsnatch was.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:17 AM
Jane
It was purely a weird crossing of paths. I was staying at Grosvenor Hotel in London. Had breakfast downstairs and she was at the next table by herself.
This was a few months before the wedding. I congratulated her and that lead to her wondering where in the US I was from.
Just a little polite chit chat.
Posted by: Buckeye | April 05, 2020 at 09:17 AM
So Cuomo's handlers have made their move to the FAR FAR FAR FAR LEFT. Trump to blame COMMUNIST CHINA NOT to blame. I guess CUOMO just got a whole lot MOAR blood on his hands.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:19 AM
How could I have forgotten Condoleeza Rice. I had dinner with her and my brother.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:24 AM
Extraneus,
Joe Rogan is a talk radio guy who is a super fan of Bernie Sanders. If the dems try to replace Biden with Cuomo, a fair number of the Bernie supporters will view it as a second stab in the back (the first was when Hillary got the nomination)and will either vote for Trump or stay home.
It will cause division in the party and cause more people to vote for President Trump. (Not to mention Biden was backing the Wisconsin governor's proposed tax increase!)
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 09:26 AM
It's funny how the FULL COMMIE is blaming TRUMP, when Fauci and Birx are RODHAM hacks.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:31 AM
Ha!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 09:33 AM
Sandra day oconnor
Pedro sevsec
Lupita ferrer (spanish genie francis)
Cesar gaviria
Xavier suarez
Brooke shields
Posted by: Narciso | April 05, 2020 at 09:35 AM
Jane: met him at the eastern sun dance ceremony, Tayak Territory near Port Tobacco MD. 1998.
Posted by: KevlarKid | April 05, 2020 at 09:37 AM
Prayers for him ext.
The ventilstors came via jack ma and the consul in hong kong
Posted by: Narciso | April 05, 2020 at 09:39 AM
I see the current IHME projection has risen from 80 something K to almost 94K for deaths in the USA.
This disease is proving to be a nasty, quick killer.
The world economy was going to get hammered no matter how aggressively we “shelter”.
Fallout is really mostly beyond our control. Doesn’t make much difference whether we borrow 10 times stupid money or 20 times stupid money.
Probably will prove to be the biggest “black swan” event in our lifetime.
On that cheerful note.....
Posted by: Buckeye | April 05, 2020 at 09:39 AM
Jane, we have a couple of pix of us at the White House with Hillary and Bill when I was on the National Newspaper Association board.
Better than those gatherings, though I love the WH, was the opportunity to visit different regions of the country where board members came from: Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina ...
Posted by: sbwaters | April 05, 2020 at 09:40 AM
Fascinating sbw
Yes ive met clarice jib catsmesr and rg. Would have likdd to have met daddy but it wasnt to be.
Posted by: Narciso | April 05, 2020 at 09:47 AM
SBW, I remember the good old days when Milwaukee had 2 Newspapers, morning was the Sentinel, afternoon was the Journal.
I wonder what ever happened to them.
Posted by: GUS | April 05, 2020 at 09:48 AM
This has Joe Biden's 3 tweets calling President Trump a xenophobe, etc.
https://twitter.com/Sunrise51052/status/1246777220846080000/photo/1
Posted by: MissMarple2 | April 05, 2020 at 09:49 AM
JFK (I was 16 y.o.)
Teddy Kennedy
John McCain
G.H.W. Bush
Clarence Thomas
John Steinbeck
Alan Ginsburg
Larry Coryell
Carlos Menem
W.E.B. Griffin (aka William E. Butterworth)
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | April 05, 2020 at 09:50 AM
Damn Yankees stole my wife's mask!
https://www.wcvb.com/article/after-a-long-planned-cruise-with-friends-was-canceled-she-recreated-a-cruise-vacation-at-home/32043992
But all those masks that Robert Kraft finagled ended up in the city where my wife works.
Posted by: Rocco | April 05, 2020 at 09:51 AM
We had the news for a time and thr herald, motr importatntly there is the diario de las americas.
Posted by: Narciso | April 05, 2020 at 09:52 AM
The other day I said Soros was at the top of my “list”.
Last few days, Xi has been giving him a run for the money.
Posted by: Buckeye | April 05, 2020 at 09:52 AM
Wrong link, here's the right one.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/3-million-masks-ordered-by-massachusetts-were-confiscated-in-port-of-new-york/32021700
Posted by: Rocco | April 05, 2020 at 09:53 AM