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Slap a 10% Veterans discount on top of that and I'm yours, I don't shop at Home Depot at all

I am not fan of Home Depot, but they gave me a lot less hassle about the 10% Veterans discount.

Lowe's, I had to go through a whole sign-up procedure, with all sorts of verification.

Home Depot, I just show my Driver License, with the Veteran indicator, at checkout, and I get the 10% discount.

There is a sign up procedure online but after that you just give them your phone number.

Lowes - Or scan your MyLowes card. Home Depot's veterans discount is intended for active, retired, or service-connected disabled military, not us "regular" veterans who served but did not retire. Lowes doesn't make that distinction.

We have had to wear a mask when inside shopping at grocery stores and any inside business for a while now.

I see people driving with masks on. OK sure if it makes you happy.

As the humidity goes up people are going to find wearing a mask just walking into a store is uncomfortable. Those that walk around outside with them on are in for a rude awakening as the humidity goes up. Heck, I've seen a few people jogging and biking with them on.

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Those that walk around outside with them on are in for a rude awakening as the humidity goes up. Heck, I've seen a few people jogging and biking with them on.

They'll continue to do what their commie overlords tell them to do. It's amazing at how many people there are that have fallen victim to the stupidity that is plaguing this nation right now.

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We have had to wear a mask when inside shopping at grocery stores and any inside business for a while now.

I see people driving with masks on. OK sure if it makes you happy.

As the humidity goes up people are going to find wearing a mask just walking into a store is uncomfortable. Those that walk around outside with them on are in for a rude awakening as the humidity goes up. Heck, I've seen a few people jogging and biking with them on.

The store I was working in today had broken A/C, I thought I was going to faint.

Well, looks like major media WuFlu coverage is over. And they aren't even lecturing the crowds of people in the major cities about social distancing. But many of the people I am seeing on TV are are wearing masks to avoid being idnetified, I mean to avoid catching WuFlu...

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And they aren't even lecturing the crowds of people in the major cities about social distancing. But many of the people I am seeing on TV are are wearing masks to avoid being idnetified, I mean to avoid catching WuFlu...

I saw on the local news this morning that there's a "rally" planned for a town up the road a ways today. The organizers are claimed to be requesting that "attendees maintain social distancing" and will be providing masks. What a circus that's going to be.

We are distant
But together
Mississippi Strong

From the highway signs this week. Knew you guys would live every bit of that.

Ooh, Department of Transportation Haiku! (Almost.)

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We are distant
But together
Mississippi Strong

Burma-Shave

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Home Depot's veterans discount is intended for active, retired, or service-connected disabled military, not us "regular" veterans who served but did not retire.

That might vary with the store, or maybe with the region.

I live in Altamonte Springs, FL, and work at my hangar in Apopka, FL. The Home Depot stores in those two cities just look at my Driver License with the Veteran indicator, and ring up my purchases with the discount.

Holy Carp! Stopped into the local drug store to pick up a scrip and damned if they didn't have a limited amount of hand sanitizer behind the counter!

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Holy Carp! Stopped into the local drug store to pick up a scrip and damned if they didn't have a limited amount of hand sanitizer behind the counter!

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Among The 1st To Get A Polio Vaccine, Peter Salk Says Don't Rush A COVID-19 Shot

When Dr. Jonas Salk first began testing his potential polio vaccine in 1953, he brought it home from his nearby lab at the University of Pittsburgh.

"I just hated injections," recalled his son Peter Salk, 76, and the oldest of three brothers. "So my father came home with polio vaccine and some syringes and needles that he sterilized on the kitchen stove, boiling them in water, and lined us kids up and then administered the vaccine."

Peter Salk, then 9, wasn't old enough to understand fully why he and his brothers were getting this injection. Yet he remembers that shot like no other.

"Somehow the needle must have missed a nerve, and I didn't feel it. And so that has fixed that moment in my mind," he said.

As the world awaits a vaccine for COVID-19, Salk recalled an era when polio terrorized the country every summer.



Kids were hit hardest. In the worst single year, 1952, nearly 60,000 children were infected. Many were paralyzed, and more than 3,000 died. Frightened parents kept their children away from swimming pools, movie theaters and other public places.

When Salk and his brothers were injected, it marked the beginning of the end of polio. But it was a protracted process. What followed was the largest human trial ever, with nearly 2 million American children receiving the potential vaccine. Finally, on April 12, 1955, nearly two years after the Salk boys had received their shots, the vaccine was declared "safe, effective and potent."

"What happened in the country at that moment was remarkable. There was jubilation," Salk said. "There was such a sense of relief that this fear, which had been hanging over everyone's heads for years and years and years, was finally lifted."

It's one of the great vaccine success stories, and Jonas Salk became one of the most celebrated men in America.

Polio was effectively wiped out in the U.S. by the early 1960s. Since then, it's been steadily eliminated around the world. These days, only a small number of cases crop up annually, mostly in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.



Peter Salk, who lives in La Jolla, Calif., is also a doctor and a part-time professor of infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh, and he heads the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation.

To stay safe, he continues to hang out at home with his wife, Ellen, even as government restrictions ease and shops and restaurants in the area begin to reopen.



The Race For A Polio Vaccine Differed From The Quest To Prevent Coronavirus
Given the long family experience in this field, Peter Salk said he is optimistic about a COVID-19 vaccine. But he cautioned about racing ahead before one is fully tested.

"I congratulate the impulse on the part of the federal government right now to want to speed things up as much as possible," he said. "What concerns me is knowing that in the past there have been unexpected things that have taken place with vaccines that had not been foreseen."

His father, who died in 1995, worked on his vaccine for seven years before it was approved. His research was funded by charitable donations, and he didn't seek a patent.

When journalist Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent, the doctor replied: "The people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

Then, as now, the need to vaccinate was urgent. But there were delays, Peter Salk noted.

"The vaccine was introduced, but haltingly. It wasn't done the way my father would have liked to have seen — 'Let's just get this out and get it into every single child's arm,' " Salk said.

At one point, a government health official was called before a Senate committee and asked why it was taking so long. Jonas Salk picked up a book and cited a passage about the episode:

"As to her failure to anticipate the need for adequate supplies of vaccine earlier than she did, she replied heatedly, 'I think no one could have foreseen the public demand.' "

Peter Salk said it took roughly a decade for the polio vaccine to be researched, tested and widely distributed to the American public. He said he hopes it will happen much faster this time.

LINK: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/30...rush-a-covid-19-shot

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Holy Carp! Stopped into the local drug store to pick up a scrip and damned if they didn't have a limited amount of hand sanitizer behind the counter!

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Very well



I could have had up to three, but I didn't want to be one of Those People, so I grabbed one each for my wife and me.

^^HOARDER!

Roberts joins liberals as Supreme Court rejects church challenge to CA virus restrictions

https://justthenews.com/govern...h-challenge-ca-virus

In a rare late-night ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-4 to reject an emergency appeal by a church that challenged California Gov. Newsom's limits on attendance at worship services designed to protect against the coronavirus.

Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, crossed over to join the court's four liberal justices as the deciding vote and to write the majority opinion.

Newsom's restrictions permitting churches to operate with 25 percent of seats filled and no more than 100 worshipers at a time are consistent with the First Amendment because they treated other public venues like concerts, movies and sporting events similarly, Roberts wrote.

"Although California’s guidelines place restrictions on places of worship, those restrictions appear consistent with the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Similar or more severe restrictions apply to comparable secular gatherings, including lectures, concerts, movie showings, spectator sports, and theatrical performances, where large groups of people gather in close proximity for extended periods of time," the chief justice wrote.

"And the Order exempts or treats more leniently only dissimilar activities, such as operating grocery stores, banks, and laundromats, in which people neither congregate in large groups nor remain in close proximity for extended periods," he added.

The Supreme Court's ruling upheld lower courts in rejecting the argument from South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif., that the restrictions on how many people can attend their services violate the Constitution's religious liberty protections.

In a dissent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued the California restriction “discriminates against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses."

You can read the full ruling here.

https://justthenews.com/sites/...-05/19a1044_pok0.pdf

Roberts is such an unbelievable piece of shit. Seriously, my four year old daughter could be read the 1st amendment and decide this case correctly. This is gross.

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Holy Carp! Stopped into the local drug store to pick up a scrip and damned if they didn't have a limited amount of hand sanitizer behind the counter!

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If you don't mind having the product shipped. This product is available. He was a businessman that brewed his own brand of spirits and when the COVID19 wave struck he either had to close his business up or come up with a plan. He decided that he had the products and equipment to make a sanitizer for hospitals and first responders as he had an excess of alcohol on premise and so he started making and distributing t a spray hand sanitizer with his equipment for all those on the front lines.

It became so popular, he was allowed to sell it publicly and is now set up to ship it. I personally purchased some and it works great. He uses a large amount of the alcohol that normally would be used for making his spirits and has reported his business is taking off without laying off any employees.

All this was reported on the news, thats where I found this product out. So if your interested, here's a link. It comes with a small portable spray bottle, portable enough to take with you on the go, and a refill bottle at home. It's worth a mention...

Miami Strong spray disinfectant

A couple of encouraging things I noticed at my local Aldi as I did my food shopping yesterday:

Eggs: 2 weeks ago were $2.50/dz, last week were $2.05/dz but this week were $1.35/dz

TP: loads of it available

Meat: good amount available, more than I’ve seen in the past month

Hand sanitizer: cases and cases of bottles of it on the shelf, Aldi brand gel type they must have geared up to make or contracted out to have made

Aisle directional arrows: still there but it seemed that 2/3 of the people in the place were totally over it and going whatever way they felt like, just like the old days

Limits on items: most seem gone now