I am not sure if Dershowitz knows himself. He has been a long running commentator on nearly every subject imaginable. He certainly sounds more intelligent that the typical dolts that are interviewed.

Although I have issues with his politics, I did rather enjoy Ted Koppel on Nightline. I think he just became too cerebral for the American public who preferred casual late night television. Tom Synder was another hoot from back in the day.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
I feel bad for the owner, especially since he's trying so hard, but I would not be the least bit interested in dining out under those conditions.

Agreed, and I live close to 30 Main, but we will definitely not be dining there...

We must be neighbors, then.

Today I received an invite from a very good friend in regards to staying at their cabin this weekend.

I accepted. Moments later I received this.

We will have some rules. You are not allowed to touch anything in the kitchen area (sink, fridge, micro, etc).

You have exclusive use of the bsmt BR and bathroom. There will be hand sanitizer at the front & back doors and we will all use it whrn going thru those doors. Masks must be worn by everyone inside if we are sharing the same small space.

No mask req'd outside so long as 6' distance is maintained. I think we can manage it in a way that we can be safe and still enjoy being here.

I sent a note back and politely declined the invite letting them know I would look forward to seeing them when they felt more comfortable having guests in their lakehome.

^^^ Wow. I wonder if these people will ever come to terms with how ridiculous they are.

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I sent a note back and politely declined the invite letting them know I would look forward to seeing them when they felt more comfortable having guests in their lakehome regained control of their sanity.

I think that might have been my more blunt response. I'll say it yet again...People have lost their goddamn minds over this bug.

Ronin, I wonder how many couples declined before he got to you, and how many more he has left in his phone book? Wow.

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I sent a note back and politely declined the invite letting them know I would look forward to seeing them when they felt more comfortable having guests in their lakehome.

I wouldn’t have been so polite.

My wife attempted to set up a dinner thing with friends of ours we haven’t seen in months who have young kids like us. She was putting out feelers to see if they would possibly like to get together and eat dinner on the patio at our house while the kids played in the yard. The wife of the other couple sends this response back about how she would be interested but also told my wife that her kids would not be permitted to play with any toys or on any outdoor playset equipment that our kids have touched. Naturally my wife got offended and told her we can wait until she feels the world is safe. I guess we won’t be doing anything with them for a long time, if ever, again.

People's true colors are being reveled.

With all the rules, I'm surprised they want to be around anyone, other than their own shadow.

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I sent a note back and politely declined the invite letting them know I would look forward to seeing them when they felt more comfortable having guests in their lakehome.

Good for you man. I abstained also from a similar invite. The rules weren’t as draconian but they were also lame with stated cleanings every morning we must all chip in and do and maintain our distances somewhat. And truth be told I wouldn’t have gone anyways without the virus. These 3 day weekends I like to just stay home because it’s a shit show here. 5pm on Friday it’s like NYE with the traffic, lines, people just losing their minds. I’d love to go to the lake and join but even without the mandatory cleaning chores every morning the lake is a shit show this weekend as well as Labor Day weekend. People just get smashed and act like ass holes.

Let the politicians take the vaccine first




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/B3xY6Ffy_wE

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I sent a note back and politely declined the invite letting them know I would look forward to seeing them when they felt more comfortable having guests in their lakehome.

You were a hell of a lot more polite than I would have been. I woud have told them to shove their invitation and their cabin up their ass.

The Sikh religion is interesting…

“NEW DELHI (AP) — At first, the kitchen at the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara cooked 40,000 meals each day for the hungry who live on the streets of India’s capital city, or who have lost their livelihoods to the coronavirus lockdown.

But the need was greater than that. So workers at the golden-domed temple in central New Delhi made 80,000 meals daily. Then 100,000. Soon, they expect to be making 300,000 -- all provided free to the growing ranks of the unfortunate.

For centuries the faithful have flocked to the temple for its healing waters and a free meal at the community kitchen, the symbol of equality found at every Sikh temple complex and open to all visitors…”

https://apnews.com/899653802ac863932c8cdc6cc2599f10

Brazil’s Health Ministry Recommends Wide Use of Hydroxychloroquine, Chloroquine

https://www.theepochtimes.com/..._stm_source=smartech

Brazil’s Health Ministry on Wednesday recommended using hydroxychloroquine and the closely related chloroquine in hospitalized patients, from the mild cases to the most serious ones.

Doctors should consider prescribing the increasingly popular three-drug combination of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with azithromycin, an antibiotic, and zinc, the new guidelines (pdf) state.

Brazil’s federal guidelines previously said hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine should only be used in patients suffering from severe cases of COVID-19. The new guidance says the anti-malarials should be used with azithromycin at the first sign of symptoms.

Patients will have to sign a waiver recognizing potential side effects caused by the medicines.

Because of the heightened toxicity of chloroquine, children should receive hydroxychloroquine, health officials said.

Chloroquine should be used with caution in patients with heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, and mental illness.

The guidance came after the national medicine council authorized the prescription of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine against COVID-19, a new disease that’s caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Brazil’s Health Ministry said patients with mild or moderate cases should receive two doses of 450 milligrams of chloroquine on day one and a single dose of the same amount on days two through five, along with 500 milligrams of azithromycin per day through day five. The same regimen is recommended for hydroxychloroquine at the slightly lowered dosing of 400 milligrams.

Patients with severe illness shouldn’t be given the chloroquine regimen, health officials said.

The ministry issued the guidelines in consideration of “the existence of several studies and the wide experience in the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of other infectious diseases and chronic diseases in the scope of the” healthcare system.

It said no other effective treatments for COVID-19 exist to date.

Interim Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello, an active duty army general, authorized the new guidelines after two trained doctors left the ministry’s top job. Nelson Teich, an oncologist and health care consultant, resigned on Friday after taking the position in mid-April.

“Life is made up of choices and today I decided to leave,” Teich told reporters in Brasilia.

Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have long been used around the world to prevent and treat malaria and other ailments and their use against COVID-19 has gained steam in a number of nations, including the United States, India, and Turkey.

The guidelines cited 76 documents, including some completed and ongoing studie, about the drugs, including studies in the early 2000s about the effectiveness of zinc, chloroquine, and hydroxychloroquine.

More recent studies included a March 22 study in France that found hydroxychloroquine was associated with a reduction in viral load; an April 10 study in China finding the use of the drug could “significantly shorten” time to clinical recovery; and a May 1 study from Chinese researchers that found hydroxychloroquine associated with a decreased mortality rate in critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Medical experts said studies have not confirmed the effectiveness of the drugs in treating the CCP virus, including Marcos Espinal, director for communicable diseases at the Pan American Health Organization.

“Our recommendations are crystal clear that they should not be used yet and in fact studies are suggesting a higher rate of secondary effects and cardiological problems in people who use it,” Espinal told journalists in a Tuesday briefing.

I'm at the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri and all indications are that our population will swell by 250,000 plus this weekend and possibly more....even yesterday the bars and restaurants I drove by were packed. Lots of people from the large cities in surrounding states will be here.
It will be an interesting weekend.

We are having a small family get-together Saturday, probably be 20 people here. Looking forward to it. We have a pretty big place and a large courtyard, so if they want to keep their distance they can do that if they choose. Hand sanitizer is still hard to come by, I might try to track some down and have that available.

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We are having a small family get-together Saturday, probably be 20 people here. Looking forward to it. We have a pretty big place and a large courtyard, so if they want to keep their distance they can do that if they choose. Hand sanitizer is still hard to come by, I might try to track some down and have that available.

Get in touch with your local distillery. They are making it left and right, heck, our local gin and whiskey folks are giving it away. I believe it’s a byproduct of the distilling process.

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Get in touch with your local distillery. They are making it left and right, heck, our local gin and whiskey folks are giving it away. I believe it’s a byproduct of the distilling process.

Good tip, didn't know that. Hmm, there are a couple of small winery places around here, I might contact them.

SummersAtTheLake: Yeah, it will be busy around here for sure. They are talking about some storms over the weekend which will push them off the Lake and make things even worse. Good weekend to stay home.

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Originally posted by irreverent:

Get in touch with your local distillery. They are making it left and right, heck, our local gin and whiskey folks are giving it away. I believe it’s a byproduct of the distilling process.

Good tip, didn't know that. Hmm, there are a couple of small winery places around here, I might contact them.

SummersAtTheLake: Yeah, it will be busy around here for sure. They are talking about some storms over the weekend which will push them off the Lake and make things even worse. Good weekend to stay home.

My wife bought a fifth of hand sanitiser that a local distillery was selling & she puts it in some small spray bottles that she has, for sanitising hands, surfaces, etc.

The only problem is that your hands smell like booze afterwards, so if you're driving & get stopped by a cop, you may have some explaining to do.

Great column from Ann Coulter this week:



CORONAVIRUS DOESN’T JUST KILL PEOPLE — IT’S WHITE!
By Ann Coulter


I guess now it’s OK to identify viruses by where they came from. Lately, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been calling COVID-19 the “European virus” 1 million times per press conference.

Here’s Cuomo at a single briefing last week: “… the virus that had attacked us from Europe … the virus came from Europe … the virus was coming from Europe … New York is where the European flights were coming in … Virus came from Europe … we had this European virus attack us … we had people coming from Europe bringing the virus.”

So “European virus” it is!

Who cares? It’s like referring to Muhammed the terrorist as “British man.” Verdict: true, but misleading. No one, not even the freaks at The New York Times, testy with Trump for calling it the “China virus,” disputes that “COVID-19” originated in China.

Yes, the virus carriers who infected New Yorkers arrived on planes from Milan, but they were infected by travelers from China.

Where did it come from before Europe?

I don’t know. I’ve lost my notes. Why do you ask?

To call it the “European virus” simply refers to the last transmitter. Chris Cuomo, the governor’s brother, got coronavirus, then infected his wife and son. He was the proximate cause of his family’s infections, just as people flying to JFK from Europe were the proximate cause of the coronavirus infections in New York.

How about we start calling it the “Chris Cuomo virus”?

But New York Times writers were all atwitter about the governor’s stroke of genius in calling it “the European virus.” “[H]is current spin,” Gail Collins wrote, “seems like a smart approach.”

Please come up with some way for us to blame this virus on white people!

You’re thinking, “It can’t be that stupid.” Oh yes, it can! It is not possible to exaggerate the obsession these people have with identity politics.

That’s why the media decided to make Russia — not China or Saudi Arabia — the center of their lunatic conspiracy theory on Trump. The whole story was imaginary, so they could have chosen any country in the world. Why Russia?

Hillary got right to the point, calling Vladimir Putin “the leader of an authoritarian, white-supremacist and xenophobic movement.” She said Trump “seems to want to be like Putin, a white authoritarian leader who could put down dissenters …”

Are there any non-white authoritarians in the world? Any at all? Yes, but for the left, “white” is nothing but an evil intensifier, a verbal MSG.

The New York Times decided to officially brand itself an anti-white site by defiantly keeping writer Sarah Jeong on staff, despite a long record of lovely tweets like these:

“#cancelwhitepeople.”

“Dumb–s f—ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.”

“White people have stopped breeding. You’ll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along.”

“Are white people genetically disposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?”

“oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.”

(One mistake old white men made was fighting and dying to liberate South Koreans like Ms. Jeong. So that’s on them. Score one for Ms. Jeong.)

There is ecstasy throughout media-land whenever …

1ST REFUGEE ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL

It’s as if we’ve had this problem forever with superior refugee talent being shut out of U.S. elections. Wait — didn’t they just get here?

No matter. Journalists wet themselves with their feelings of virtue whenever they can stick a finger in the eye of historic white (and black) America.

Triumphant news stories about hardscrabble refugees winning elections are always chock-a-block with tales of the “racism” that had to be overcome to achieve these “historic” victories.

E.g.:

“Racist trolls targeted a Somali refugee’s campaign. She still managed to pull off a historic victory.” — The Washington Post

“’It’s mindblowing’: historic wins for two Somali-Americans amid ugly smears” — The Guardian

A candidate for political office got some mean tweets. Oh my gosh — that’s never happened before in the history of politics!

The only actual racism on display — that can be attached to a name — is usually from the refugees themselves. Safiya Khalid, the FIRST SOMALI REFUGEE elected to the Lewiston, Maine, city council, for example, told the Post her desire to run “came from watching city leadership remain stubbornly white.”

So yes, the reason liberals are swooning over Gov. Cuomo’s ingenious decision to call COVID-19 the “European virus” is because that makes the virus white. (Yuck!) The only way we could ever get liberals to call a new disease the “China virus” is if it originated in Africa, then migrated to China.

https://anncoulter.com/2020/05...ll-people-its-white/

As restaurants re-open in Minnesota, it was announced yesterday that reservations were required.

Odd? Well this was done so that the Govt has a papertrail record of who ate there and when for tracking purposes. I'd like to introduce myself, Bob Berditzmen. Good to meet you!