Just saw that the Texas Lt Governor has paid the fine for the hair salon owner that was locked up by that POS judge and called his actions political grandstanding. The state AG has also called for her to be released. Question....if the judge digs in his heels, why can't the governor commute the sentence immediately and free her? I seem to recall that he also called for her to be let out.

updated......Gov. Abbott just revised his previous orders retroactively removing jail time as a option so the salon order will get out immediately. He specifically mentioned her when he revised it.

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Originally posted by AirmanJeff:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
^^If I was told I had to work for home, I'd be asking my boss how much he was planning on paying me for rent. Giving up valuable living space for company home office, no thanks. I could rent a spare bedroom for $750 a month. I'd want at least $300 a month to lease the space to them.

That's crazy. You only need a desk, and with the money I am saving in gas/tolls/maintenance, I am making out.

Yep. One of my friends told me he is saving about 400 bucks a month working from home just in gas and less car maintenance. Not to mention less stress with not having to deal with Atlanta traffic. Can’t put a price on that.

I like going into an office, I miss it. Right now being cooped up in the house sucks ass. I feel like I am a prisoner. I go drive and waste gas just to get out of the house. With the wife working full time in the house I need somewhere I can blast music and let off some steam.

At my current job (when working) I have coworkers but I don't see them. I miss having people in the office to talk to. March Madness pools, talking about the Redskins games, hearing about peoples kids.

I'd be fine with the option to work from home, just not having my house be my permanent workplace.

My wife is saving $190 a month in tolls and at least double it in gas money. I get it saves money, but I like seeing coworkers.

I am getting stir crazy I can't wait to go back to work. Zero deaths in VA in the last two days.

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I now fully expect to be under house arrest until next year at the very least. This asshole is determined to destroy Pennsylvania in order to ensure Trump does not win the state, which is crucial, it put him over the top in 2016.

^^^^^^^^^^^^
I do know you have a young family, and am uncertain about your ties to Pennsylvania. I would seriously considering moving if possible. I am originally from the urban Midwest, and have lived in Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin and now Mississippi on the GOM. The measures that are being taken in Pennsylvania are NOT happening here. We are 2nd Amendment friendly as well. The majority of the Southern states are not having these issues. Think about it.

I have not worked in an office since 2002. No way I could go back to daily commutes, office politics, etc... day after day. The freedom of working from home has been great for raising kids as well.

I've done both throughout my career - work from home, and office. There are advantages and considerations for both.

• No commute, commute costs
  
• More time off
  
• Flexible hours
  
• Quality time with family
  
• No (or fewer) "professional" interruptions
  
• Workplace not as ergonomic
  
• If multiple people working from home, competition for resources (office space, bandwidth)
  
• Family distraction
  
• Lack of collaboration
  
• IT systems not set up well work remote work (as an example, in my case, right now, the CAD program has to "phone home" for custom menus, color palettes, etc., which kills performance)
  
• Worker's comp issues (what happens of I fall down my stairs during work hours?)
  

The list goes on and on...

Whether or not I prefer to work from home depends on the job. In my current position, I prefer the office.

So there are trade-offs.

Last year, I lost a little over 20 days of my life commuting Since lockdown & working from home, I've gained a little over 4 days by not commuting.

Since I began working from home mid-March, the value of my home has increased 15k in curb appeal alone !

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Well the Supreme Court declined to get involved in the legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s dictatorial dickhead Governor Tom Wolf, who I think is second only to Gretchen Whitmer in terms of brutality with these EO’s and lockdown orders.

I now fully expect to be under house arrest until next year at the very least. This asshole is determined to destroy Pennsylvania in order to ensure Trump does not win the state, which is crucial, it put him over the top in 2016.

The sense of despair about being able to do anything is growing.

FYI, Mainline independent schools are already talking about the distinct possibility that shithead won't let us back to school in the rest of 2020.

Imagine that: starting a school year with brand new children...online.

I have been ready to see Wolf hanging from a lamp post for a while, but that sense is growing ever stronger.

Very good.

Yep! Texas is still a Red state!!

https://hotair.com/archives/jo...eaks-around-country/

“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,” said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health…

“New York acted as the Grand Central Station for this virus, with the opportunity to move from there in so many directions, to so many places,” said David Engelthaler, head of the infectious disease branch of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona.

some very interesting graphics at the link

There’s a graph in this story which compares the degree to which outbreaks in cities around the U.S. were seeded by New York City relative to the initial outbreak which took place in Washington state. As you can see, Washington is the only state where the majority of the outbreak had a west coast origin

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“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,”

No shit sherlock....that was very obvious from the outset for most of us. Those damn New Yorkers were fleeing the state trying to avoid it and were spreading the virus. The city of NY should have been closed off to travel into or out from the very start.

The earliest 10ish cases in AL were attributed to NY'ers who traveled to GA to get out of NY. Same thing happened in FL.

After that, they quit even trying to trace it because it exploded in NY, and the media was too busy obsessing over blaming Trump to care about the South.

All that pent up energy from being cooped up for weeks,

Video of Georgia mall brawl shows man 'fly-kicking' woman on first day of coronavirus reopening


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A video has emerged of a man “fly-kicking” a woman during a wild brawl outside a Georgia mall on the first day it reopened following the coronavirus pandemic.

The cell phone video recorded Tuesday outside the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta showed a mall security guard – wearing his yellow uniform and a face mask – attempt to pull three women off one another.

“Get off, or I’ll have to pepper spray both of you,” the security guard says, getting between two women now on the ground in the parking lot as they pulled each other’s hair.

A man suddenly jumps into frame and “fly-kicks" the third woman in the chest, knocking her down. He then pushes the security guard off the other two women, scoops up one of them and runs away with her across the parking lot.

Haha, that fly-kick did the trick apparently. No one in the group wanted another Air Jordan to the chest!

Good luck trying to get new recruits in the next couple of years. Good portion of the country will have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 by that time, whether they have symptoms or not.

Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military

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Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military

I'm confused, wouldn't you be actively recruiting them?

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Originally posted by PASig:
Well the Supreme Court declined to get involved in the legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s dictatorial dickhead Governor Tom Wolf, who I think is second only to Gretchen Whitmer in terms of brutality with these EO’s and lockdown orders.

I now fully expect to be under house arrest until next year at the very least. This asshole is determined to destroy Pennsylvania in order to ensure Trump does not win the state, which is crucial, it put him over the top in 2016.

The sense of despair about being able to do anything is growing.

FYI, Mainline independent schools are already talking about the distinct possibility that shithead won't let us back to school in the rest of 2020.

Imagine that: starting a school year with brand new children...online.

I have been ready to see Wolf hanging from a lamp post for a while, but that sense is growing ever stronger.

I just cannot understand how this can or will stand. It's become absolutely surreal now.

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Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military

That struck me as weird when I first saw it, but I can only think that they want to wait to see what long term effects the disease may have on people. I’ve mentioned that issue before, but otherwise it’s been ignored.

I would expect the policy to be reversed in time, but I can see how the military forces don’t want a bunch of people who can’t pass the PT test a year from now and who will be blaming it on COVID-19.

(Yeah, I know: Who cares? Someone could get hit by a car or get shot when Boko Haram attacks the local 7-11 and be jacked up worse than losing 30% of his lung function; it’s just a matter of fate, and three scenarios = 33% likelihood for each—right? )

Why? People still need to be hired, fired, and paid.

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With a bunch of people working from home, companies are soon going to realize there could be a savings by doing away with middle-managers

A lot of HR folks may suddenly become unnecessary as well, which would be a good thing in my opinion.