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Live Slow, Die Whenever |
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist" | |||
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Ammoholic |
Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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california tumbles into the sea |
with a few spices and a 14oz can peeled tomatoes and a small can of tomato paste you can make your own ketchup. i was walking into the market and a random guy walking out says nothing there. i walked through and got a can of tomatoes and tomato paste, and a couple tubs of guacamole for the avocados. bottled water gone? we have a bunch of 5 gallon water containers and i just filled up three - no line, not sold out. still $1.75 to fill one. with a little imagination, as the stones once said - but if you try sometime, you find, you get what you need. | |||
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Driving down to Jacksonville today, hopefully I95 will be smooth sailing. | |||
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Now in Florida |
From the Struthers (Ohio)Police Department Facebook page. Nice to see that some people haven't lost their sense of humor in all this craziness: image hoster Classic! | |||
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This is an interesting chart, but also keep in mind that Italy's population is about 60 million, or about 20% of ours. Also they are much more densely populated at about 520 people per square mile, versus about 86 people per square mile in the US. . | |||
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Now in Florida |
Italy's population is also on average 10 years older than the US population, and ground zero for their outbreak is in the North where they have basically turned their leather industry over to the Chinese and have significant travel between the region and China. | |||
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Yesterday was the last day the Disneyworld parks were open. I guess no one wanted to miss the fireworks. | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
As usual, Victor Davis Hanson has an in-depth analysis for both Trump and America at large when we come out the other side of this madness: ... When the virus peters out and the panic fades, China may be permanently rebranded and re-calibrated by the world at large. Its trading partners will trust it far less to honor any commitments or to abide by any international agreements. Supply chains will be diversified. Tourism will be reduced in fears another such coronavirus will follow SARS and COVID-19 - and be hushed up. Countries that had particular close commercial and cultural ties with China - Iran, South Korea, and Italy - were hurt most during the epidemic by Chinese silence and duplicity... Ostensibly, the panic-driven shutdown of the U.S. economy could plunge us into recession or worse, with dire consequences for the 2020 campaign. Some on the Left see COVID-19 in unapologetically political terms, as the magic solution to ending the Trump presidency and his supporters in a way that all the past hopes and dreams of doing so - from subverting the Electoral College after the November 2016 election to Mueller and impeachment, and all in between - utterly failed. Whatever the ultimate human and economic toll from the coronavirus, there is no doubt that Trump, as president, will be blamed for the economic slowdown of spring and perhaps even early summer. The media despises the president as does entertainment, academia, and the media, ensuring in popular culture and the news that he will be demonized in a way Obama was not, despite reacting far more slowly, to the swine flu threat of 2009. But here are some caveats. Warmer weather and spring, global quarantines, travel bans, more testing and increased knowledge of the virus may all eventually conspire to slow its spread. And when its relative non-lethality is fully digested (perhaps 98 or 99 percent of those in the general population below 65 in previously good health who are infected recover), and the cases begin dropping off, the economy will not just recover but take off... https://amgreatness.com/2020/0...ew-upside-down-world "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Good information. And they were probably not nearly as proactive, or as early in acting, as we have been on this outbreak. . | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
de Blasio is opening his pie hole calling for nationalizing medical companies.
Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Fascists never let a good crisis go to waste. . | |||
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Overall population isn't really relevant to disease spread unless a significant percentage of the population is infected. As for population density being higher, population being older, and (your assertion) Italy's response being less effective... shouldn't all those things mean the spread in Italy would be faster than it is here? | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
When they are taken (by force = theft) who is going to run them? Government employees? Cronies of politicians? That's what Cuba did. That's what Venezuela did. Now they sit on an ocean of oil and don't have the ability to produce and refine it. nationalization = destruction "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Now in Florida |
So the good comrade wants to give control over critical private industries to Trump? These clowns never really think through their plans, do they? | |||
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Go ahead punk, make my day |
When DeBlazio opens DaPieHole, I know we should pretty much do the opposite of what he is saying. Nationalize medical companies / factories? Because the federal government is soooooo efficient and has so much experience running them??? Fucking facsist moron. | |||
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^^^^. Like Rahm Emanuel said, never let a crisis go to waste. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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If the outbreak in the US was limited to a certain geographic area, I might be inclined to agree with you. Since the outbreak is nationwide, then I think total population and population density plays a major role. . | |||
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Now everyone in Cali likes guns. Assholes. Have fun fighting off the hoards with your 5-round shotty. Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed. Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists. Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed. | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
If it saves one life. If the hystericals are willing to flush the US economy, do you think they care about private property Rights? I have a friend that is a small business owner. He is about one more over reaction by the government away from being done. And he’s good with it. He’s bought into the government saving him from a disease that he and likely everyone he knows will recover from anyways. He’s a grown man and should be able to flush his livelihood if he wants. But, it’s his employees that he is willing to sacrifice that bothers me. He seems not to give two shits about them. Everybody seems so willing to do whatever it takes to fight for the lives of those who might theoretically be afflicted, but they ignore horseshit like this. Or their answer is the government needs to come to the rescue. I especially liked the post yesterday where it was stated a giant “reset” needed to happen like the dates never happened. Don’t you think that lenders have bills to pay too? And those bills are the small business owners who already being crushed by government intrusion. I’m seriously starting to think that many really don’t understand economics or how it works. | |||
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