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My Dog Is Going To Be Extremely Upset

Employees at a Tyson plant in Independence, Iowa, say they’re fearful and on edge after a colleague died from complications of Covid-19.

They work in an industry few realize has been deemed essential by the federal government: the pet food industry. Plant workers tell CNN Business they don’t feel properly protected from the virus. The company temporarily shut down two other plants in the state earlier this month due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus.

Tyson says the Independence plant, which employs nearly 250 people, is critical infrastructure and essential to the nation’s food supply. The plant manufactures dog treats.

WOC TV Davenport

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

'Joe Biden has pledged to pick a VP who is a woman. He's also announced that *CHRIS DODD* is on his VP vetting committee'.

If you'll recall, Dodd, the former senator from Connecticut was once involved with the infamous waitress sandwich with Teddy Kennedy. In drunken stupors in a D.C. restaurant both of the esteemed senators got the waitress on the ground, one was on the bottom and the other on top while the waitress screamed in horror. Boys will be boys.

Actually, it wasn't their fault. They were drunk.

From The Sublime To The Ridiculous

Holly Marie Combs, you remember her? Don't worry. Not many others do, either. Anyway she is a semi-celeb who starred along with the brilliant Alyssa Milano in the TV series. Charmed. Her grandpappy died yesterday, the day after his 66th weddong anniversary. Guess what? It's Trump's fault.

Maybe she read a script for a new series or movie, something like "I Ate The Wrong Person'.

Was It A Hoax Perpetrated By The Media

When the postmortem is done on the media’s coverage of COVID-19 (and it will be), it will be clear that the virus was no Black Plague — it’s not even the flu on a bad year.

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has killed 56,749 Americans as of Tuesday.

That’s not good. But it’s not as bad as the 2017-2018 flu season, when 80,000 -plus perished. And it’s a long cry from what all the experts were warning about just a few weeks ago: First, they predicted 1.7 million Americans dead; then they redid the models (this time apparently entering a few more “facts”) and said 100,000-240,000 dead.

Now, a major model relied on by the White House Coronavirus Task Force predicts about 70,000 dead by the end of August.

And for that we shut down the U.S. economy?!

Gateway Pundit

How Dangerous Is The Left?

If I were mention the name, Gary Ridgeway would it ring a bell? I doubt it.

What if I then showed you his picture?




Are you still clueless? Okay, but what if I told you he was the infamous Green River Killer? Aha! Most of you would say, "Yes, I've heard of the Green River guy" but then when pressed for details you'd stop. Well, he was convicted of 49 murders and is serving life sentences in the State of Washington.

The State came within one vote of releasing him into society to keep him from getting the coronavirus while in prison.

Think about this, really think about this.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/insanity-wash-state-came-one-vote-away-from-releasing-green-river-serial-killer-so-he-wouldnt-get-wuhan-virus/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Who Remembers The Hong Kong Flu?

In 1968-69, the Hong Kong flu ravaged the world; it wound up killing more than one million people worldwide, over 100,000 of them in the United States. No lockdowns were imposed and people still went to work, albeit lessening bus travel and implementing social distancing and more washing of their hands.
The American Thinker

Modern Journalism

"Hey, Do You Have A Smoke?"

No experts are remotely advocating for people to take up smoking to prevent COVID-19, but some researchers have theorized nicotine may be playing some role in keeping the virus at bay, Vice reports. That's because there's a surprisingly low rate of smokers among coronavirus hospitalizations.

In France, for example, 25 percent of the population smokes, but only 5.3 percent of coronavirus patients have been recorded as smokers, and studies have found low rates in China and New York City, as well.

The Week

Quote Of The Day

"Former Vice President Joe Biden ripped President Donald Trump’s policies Monday night, saying the U.S. needs to engage in more “economic intercourse”

Joe Biden

"Some People Aren't Happy Unless They're Miserable"

In earlier posts I'd mentioned I'd never, not once, consider getting sick and/or dying. It's a sad commentary on my thinking that I have not once wore a face mask except when I was a catcher in baseball.

To say some of us have overreacted could be an understatement. I have a friend who lives in The Villages. In March he was in a panic and emailed me he was more than certain 60 million Americans, not folks in the world, but Americans were going to die due to this virus. I 'bout choked on my Doritos.

You 'll have to believe on on some of the items I write down. I'm not a Joe Biden. I don't plagiarize or make up items. My Catholic conscience would kill me mentally. I happened to read a doctor's report this morning. He stated, "The amount of deaths for people under 50 is practically nil". If this is the case then let those over 50 do the right thing. For those under 50 go out and get drunk, attend NASCAR races and puke in the woods.

Laura Ingraham had two doctors, Stanford by the way, on her show last night who refuted the stats given to us by the government for deaths. Oh, did you know the most populace state in the Union, Californa, has had only 1700 deaths and for all we know these might be made up. They had come out with You Tube video explaining this but after the Ingraham show last night You Tube eliminated it.

Spain has instituted very stringent laws to for sequestering. People are absolute confined to their homes except to have a brief walk with their pets around the block. What if one doesn't own a pet? You could buy a gerbil and carry it in your pocket or as one thinking man did he carried his fishbowl. I like this guy's thinking.

I do believe the longer this goes on the more we'll learn. It's good that officials started strictly but it's best to slack down. When I was a teacher I set a strict standard for the first week. I wanted to put the proverbial fear of God into the students to cut down on shenanigans. As time went on I eased off only to let them know I was human. Parents who don't crack down from the get go will someday be visiting their children in the county jail.

I'm amazed at how well nations have done with few deaths. Russia says they've had 750. China chimes in with 5,000 and, of course, North Korea has had zero. Wowie! And I thought we had excellent medicine.

Are you waiting for a vaccine? Don't hold your breath. There has never been a vaccine developed for any virus, not one. But what about the normal flu, you say? You know, the one that sees 60,000 deaths in the U.S. every year. Guys and gals, it's a 50-50 proposition on its effectiveness. This year I went to Walgreen's three times to get a shot but they were out so I finally decided not to waste my time.

The Queen is bound and determined to stay home no matter what. She hasn't seen her Scottsdale grandkids since last August. She had air tics scheduled for April 10 and canceled. At this time a person can purchase a tic to Phoenix from Cincinnati for $29 but she won't go. Hell, I'd ride on the wing for that price.

My best friend in Columbus wears a handkerchief where ever he goes. We hit golf balls yesterday and he was in his bank robber outfit. I love the guy but, to me, that's a little over the top.

I'm beginning to wonder if citizens want to get back to work. Heck, yesterday Pelosi told us she like to introduce legislation to give everyone a guaranteed monthly income. The voters would not go for that. Like heck they wouldn't or those who pay taxes wouldn't. Poor Pelosi and Schiiff.
As I said, "Some people aren't happy unless they're miserable."

The Day Joe B. Supported A 700 Mile Border Wall----40 Stories High

A viral resurfaced video from then-Senator Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign shows Biden professing his support for a 700-mile physical barrier along the U.S. southern border.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/video-joe-biden-railing-illegals-calling-700-mile-border-fence-2006-goes-viral/

Biden also calls for a harsh crackdown of American employers who hire “illegals.”

“Folks, I voted for a fence,” Biden can be heard saying, referencing his backing of the Secure Fence Act. “I voted, unlike most Democrats ― and some of you won’t like it ― I voted for 700 miles of fence. But, let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high ― unless you change the dynamic in Mexico and ― and you will not like this, and ― punish American employers who knowingly violate the law when, in fact, they hire illegals. Unless you do those two things, all the rest is window dressing.”

As I Always Say, "Follow The Money"

Hospitals get paid more money if a patient is coded for the novel coronavirus, even if they haven’t been tested in some states, multiple fact-checking sites have confirmed, including USA Today, Politifact, and the despicable Snopes. Hospitals get a 20% add-on for COVID-19-coded patients and roughly three times as much if such patients are placed on a ventilator.

“Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000,” Jensen said on the Fox program. “If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. 
The Daily Wire

That's It For Emails And A Wee Bit About Cookies

Folks, I'm emailed out. I can't take it anymore but I understand why we all have been receiving so many. It's a pain to open the damned things.

If I receive a personal email that's good. If I get the kind I have to open then download no way Jose'.

How many times can a guy sit through pictures of world islands, animals in jungles, acts being performed in front of television audiences? I could go on and on and on.

I've received a plethora of golf videos, some funny and others not. Yesterday I received a 45 minute video of great golf matches played in history. I'm sure it was entertaining. I deleted it after three minutes.

I look at the UK Daily Mail. I've been know to forward stories from it. Many are of the weird and gross nature; murders, assassinations,child molesters and animal abusers. I won't email these.

One story from that site I picked out today dealt with one of my downfalls. The quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven. There is nothing as scrumptious as biting into a perfectly baked cookie with the warmth on the roof of you mouth and chocolate dripping on your lips. My Grandma Dickerson lived with us until she passed in 1960. The made the most perfect ones and they weren't the size of silver dollar. These bad boys were a good 5" in diameter.

Every so often I'll get a craving for these cookies and head out to Walgreen's or CVS. What a waste of time and money. The morsels break when the package seal is opened.

Well, I looked at the Daily Mail today and they had one picture of the 'perfect cookie' and other pictures of not so perfect and why.

I need to get the Queen working on this and I need to make more than certain we have plenty of milk for dunking.

Drunk Monday

Life In The United States

Minnesota! Who Knew?

This isn't a joke or cartoon. SOMEONE, I don't know who, at CNN came up with this graphic to describe the spread of the virus in Minnesota. Considering we own a cabin in Minnesota where in the hell have I been driving the last 26 years?

Sort Of Like When The Nazis Burned The Books

Back in the early 1930's the Nazis had a book burning festival to get rid of all writings offensive to the regime. It occurred on a limited scale in the second largest school district in Alaska. The reason given  by the Board of Education by a vote of 5-2 for this measure; some of the books contained bad language and had examples of racism.

The Matanuska-Susitna School Board,(MSSB) serving the second largest school district in Alaska (about 16,000 students), has just committed a dire act of censorship. 

 “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison

“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I would like to write, can you believe it, but yes I do.

From why evolution is true

It's A Charlie Day

How appropriate I placed this photo of my pal wearing his raincoat in today's post.(SORRY, I couldn't get the picture inserted. He is wearing a yellow raincoat). Folks, it's raining with due diligence. Know what this means? Charlie won't step outside. His bladder and bowel have been trained to hold it in forty days and forty nights if necessary.

Do you remember when your children were infants? When they were able to sit up or crawl on their knees? It seemed as though every day brought a new success for us and them. That's the way it is with our pooch since he came into our lives a year ago. There's more good than bad but we've learned to cope.

For instance, if Charlie isn't following me around he's with The Queen doing the same. Last night SHE called out, "Is Charlie with you?". I answered with a "No". When this happens red flags go up. The first thing we do is head for the kitchen and she did. Then I heard, "CHARLIE!" I knew right away he's committed a no-no. He'd gotten into the garbage. He has this trick of slithering away from us, four times to be exact,  then opening the door under the sink, tipping over the garbage can and preparing for a feast fit for a mutt. Her Majesty had spent part of yesterday cutting fat off chickens and beef; about 16 ounces worth. It was gone. All dogs know when they've bit off more than they can chew. After they've been caught they'll run to the other Master, lie down on their stomach with head on paws, eyes upward. It's their attempt to gain sympathy and it works. Dogs hate to be yelled at in a loud voice. It scares them and creates anxiety.( I read this in a dog bible).

Besides, what can I do: take away the car keys or ground him. So, I only say "Oh Charlie", pat his head and move on. We're still waiting for him to barf. Speaking of barf Charlie has done it three times. I'm trying to figure out why, with all the hardwood floors we have, he has to puke on our expensive carpet. Is he trying to say, "Screw you. I'm sick of the treats you buy me".

Charlie has learned quite a bit since we got him. If I point he goes in that direction. When I say, "Let's go home", he does. If I should say, "Let's get the mail', go for a ride, take a walk" he's at the front door.

When I use the magical word 'treat' he jumps around like a 6 year old child waiting to open Christmas presents. When we go for a walk in the field behind the house I'll yell, "Go, go, go" and he'll take
off running like Secretariat headed for the finish line.

Chaz loves to play Tug O War. I always let him win but I don't think he knows it.

Did you know dogs in general can smell 40,000 better than people which leads me to wonder why do they get a charge out of smelling another dog's feces? Actually, I know the answer. Pooches can tell quite a bit about another animal doing this.

Breeds of dogs act differently. Some of them walk upright looking around. Mine has his nose down constantly searching for, I believe, food.

Charlie is a Cairn Terrier. The breed came out of Scotland and were used to go down into holes and kill rats. Charlie, one time, ran after a mouse we had in the house. He did this until he had a heart attack and had to quit. He couldn't have caught that critter if it was on crutches.

The good news is we got through the night, with fat in his belly, sans barf in the house.

Public Opinion

If you are interested in knowing if you are buying products from China look at the bar codes on the products you purchase.

The Chinese prefixes are 690---691---692---693---694---695

00 – 09 … USA & CANADA
30 – 37 FRANCE
40 – 44 GERMANY
471 … Taiwan
49 … JAPAN
50 … UK

NY Must Be The Center Of The Universe

Every major television network is located in New York. The New York Times is in NYC. The City contains the major talking heads. All of these people determine the policies of the United States.

People want to get on with their lives in the U.S. but the state of New York won't allow it. New York has had 27, 000 deaths. New Jersey across the river has had 6,000 deaths. The other 48 states have had 30,000 meet their demise.

That's all. Think about it.

Saturday Toons

Follow The Money

Pennsylvania has had to remove hundreds of coronavirus deaths from its official death count this week, following questions of accuracy and highlighted discrepancies by area coroners.

The PA health department decided to include “probable” coronavirus deaths, or an assumed COVID-19-related death without testing for the virus, to their death tolls, dating back days and even weeks ago. But the death toll spike raised questions from coroners who came forward to highlight a discrepancy in death totals, which were not adding up to the number of all-cause deaths.

The scrutiny triggered multiple revisions and statements from the department, including the removal of 200 “probable” COVID-19 deaths and a claim of computer “glitching.”

“Pennsylvania started to include ‘probable deaths’ in its fatalities. As a result, the total number of coronavirus deaths grew by 276, then 360, in successive nights, almost doubling the number of deaths in the state in two days".

Washington Examiner

You Get What You Vote For

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was the only Democrat in the House or Senate to oppose the $484 billion coronavirus relief package to replenish the depleted small business loan program.

She argued her problem with the bill — which was overwhelmingly passed — was “giving Republicans what they want.”

MichellesMirror.com

Care To Ask What's Going On With COVID? Don't Ask Me

A few days ago my cell phone rang. On the other end was a long time friend and the man who was my best man in our wedding. His opening question was, "MJ, what's your take on everything that's going on"?

As background let me explain this guy is no dummy. He graduated Iowa State University with a major in Ceramics Engineering, whatever that is. He spent his entire career with Owens-Corning. At the time of his retirement he was the plant manager of the largest Owens-Corning Fiberglas plant in the world.

Well, I listened and responded: "Craig", I said, "I'm a Physical Education Major with Minor in American History and you expect me to know the problems of the world"? He laughed and understood what I was saying.

In essence, I am the same as 99.9% of the American people. I am clueless so if you want the answers I couldn't tell you what to do. The best answer is go with the flow.

There is an old saying; opinions are like a**holes. Everybody has one.

'Show Off'

The Call To Prayer In Minneapolis

For the first time in the history of Minnesota, the Muslim call to prayer was broadcast over an outdoor speaker placed over the rooftop of Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis.

The “adhan” will be broadcast five times a day throughout the month of Ramadan, which began Thursday night.

“This is a historic moment tonight for us to be celebrating the first call to prayer, adhan, in a major city in the United States,” said Sheikh Abdisalam Adam, board chairman of Islamic Civic Society of America & Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque, the Sahan Journal reported.

Gateway Pundit

Watch The Hands. They Never Leave The Wrists

Golf's Biggest Thrill

No, Trump Didn't Say People Should Disinfect Themselves

CLAIM: President Donald Trump suggested injecting people with disinfectant to cure coronavirus.

VERDICT: False. Trump was speaking generally about new information about sunlight, heat, and disinfectant killing the virus.

President Trump is being quoted out of context — as usual — by left-wingers on social media who are accusing him of suggesting injecting people with disinfectant as a way of curing coronavirus infections.

Trump used the word “inject,” but what he meant was using a process — which he left “medical doctors” to define — in which patients’ lungs might be cleared of the virus, given new knowledge about its response to light and other factors.
Summit.com

Stupidity Kills

We evacuated schools but crammed the vulnerable into care facilities. Stupidity kills.

• In Wisconsin, those under 50 compose less than 7 percent of coronavirus deaths while people 70 or over make up 68 percent of coronavirus deaths.
• In Ohio, people under 50 constitute 2 percent of coronavirus deaths while people over 70 represent 75 percent of all coronavirus deaths.
• In Florida, people under 55 account for 7.2 percent of coronavirus deaths while people 65 or older constitute 82 percent of deaths.

If we gave all the condoms and clean needles to nuns in the aftermath of the AIDS outbreak, then we could cite a precedent. As it stands, our idiocy knows no benchmark. We go for the cathartic over the constructive. Unfortunately, what makes us feel good kills others.

The American Spectator

Our War-Time President

We're Doomed!

The government tells us the virus dies quickly with massive amounts of sunlight. If you live in Central Ohio you know we're doomed to die.

"Smoke If You Have Them"

The title of this post refers to the orders of a military sergeant to his troops. Mostly it dates to the move, the DI starring Jack Webb.

Well, studies out of France tell us the nicotine patch MIGHT help fight the Coronavirus. I find this highly doubtful but what the heck. If this is the case can one only imagine the investments made in these companies. Someone's going to get rich; probably the pols first.

Whenever there's a calamity an new idea or invention is conceived and from the strangest places and products.

French researchers are planning to trial whether nicotine patches will help prevent - or lessen the effects of - the deadly coronavirus. 

Evidence is beginning to show the proportion of smokers infected with coronavirus is much lower than the rates in the general population. 

Scientists are now questioning whether nicotine could stop the virus from infecting cells, or if it may prevent the immune system overreacting to the infection.

Doctors at a major hospital in Paris - who also found low rates of smoking among the infected - are now planning to give nicotine patches to COVID-19 patients. 

UK Daily Mail

The Good 'Ol Days Return To Ocala, Florida

You knew it had to happen and it had to happen in a state not run by nitwit governors. Ocala, Florida has reopened the one and only Drive-In movie theater in the country. It shows films on Friday and Saturday's only and is sold out.

 Families are together laughing and joking and watching favorite movies in the confines of their own cars. And I only thought drive-ins were good for making out. Silly me.

Not Surprised. It's In Their Genes.

If You're Black Don't Pay Trump A Compliment

Detroit Democrats plan to vote Saturday to censure and bar any future endorsements of a Democratic lawmaker who credited President Donald Trump with advocating for the drug that she said cured her of COVID-19.

State Rep. Karen Whitsett, D-Detroit, broke protocol by meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during an April 14 meeting of COVID-19 survivors, during which she credited hydroxychloroquine for saving her life. 

“Thank you for everything that you have done,” Whitsett told Trump at the meeting. “I did not know that saying thank you had a political line. … I’m telling my story and my truth, and this how I feel and these are my words.”

Detroit News

You Know Your Country's In Trouble When.............................

You know your country's in trouble when the governor of Connecticut goes on television and says understanding the Bill of Rights is above his pay grade.

You know your country is in trouble when the police in Mississippi and now four other states arrest and fine citizens attend church services in their cars with windows rolled up.

You know your country's in trouble when the governor of New York tells his citizens if they don't like their economic situation to get a job as a First Responder.

Priorities

The Night George Bush Threw Out The First Pitch At Yankee Stadium

In my mind the last time this nation was truly united was a few short days after 9/11. George Bush went to Yankee Stadium to throw out the first pitch. I long for that day when this nation, Democrats and Republicans alike were one in thought and spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/bxR1tZ08FcI?rel=0%3Cbr

Congratulations! You Survived

Bin Laden Wanted To Assassinate Obama So Biden Would Be President

Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the "totally unprepared" Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States "into a crisis," according to documents seized from bin Laden's Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011.

The secretive documents, first reported in 2012 by The Washington Post, outlined a plan to take out Obama and top U.S. military commander David Petraeus as they traveled by plane.

“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency," bin Laden wrote to a top deputy. "Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour ... and killing him would alter the war's path" in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden specifically wanted fellow terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri to shoot down Obama

Fox News.

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