Maggie's Farm

The statistical differences

John 14:15-21

Muffy's stack of bird books is almost identical to mine:

Viruses hate rhubarb. Do not scoff. Did you ever hear of a rhubarb with a + test? That's scientific proof. 

Damn is it good, with some vanilla ice cream on top. So good, it adjusts the brain to a positive outlook. Trust me.

Useful detail: 6 cups of roughly-chopped (1" or less) rhubarb stems = 2 lbs. 

Stanley Tucci's life in quarantine

Samuel Pepys: The first pandemic blogger 

 The ACLU’s Conversion to Wokeness

How Dov Fischer learned to hate 

Sad story, but understandable. I do not hate yet, but I do get p-ed off often 

Transcripts: Clinton Aides Allied With Fusion GPS Pair After Election -- to Re-Push Anti-Trump Dossier

Big Surprise! 

 Nevada's vote-by-mail primary stirs fraud concerns, as unclaimed ballots pile up: 'Something stinks here'

Duh 

 Some Bearish Market Forecasts

 CNBC: Get Ready For New Trump EO To Force Essential-Drug Production In US

Good 

 Florida Man Wonders: Why Does Cuomo Get Better COVID-19 Press Than DeSantis, When Florida Has Done So Much Better?

Cuz "D" 

 Coronavirus job losses are hitting these states the hardest

 What’s Next For Bat Soup Virus? A Massive Wave Of Bankruptcy Filings

 Head Of NYC Hospital System Urged De Blasio To Follow Herd Immunity Strategy

DeB followed different experts. In hindsight, locking down NYC for 2 weeks might have been enough, and saved a lot of states a lot of trouble. 

 Coronavirus Isn't Nearly as Deadly as We Thought. So Why Did the Lockdowns Happen in the First Place?

Because of fear + lack of good data. Nobody's fault. 

 Gov. Cuomo extends New York City’s stay-at-home order until June 13

 Another Headline about ‘More New Virus Cases!’ That Ignores the Increasing Number of Tests

Obviously - but not to reporters who know no stats 

"According to a CNN poll released this week, nearly three-quarters of Democrats said the worst of the crisis is still ahead of us..."

Interesting... 

Related: The Lockdown Class War 

Related,  Protests show two Americas — those who lost their jobs and those still getting paid. People don’t appreciate being condescended to and bossed around, especially when the leaders ask them for sacrifices without empathy and humility.

There really are two Americas here: Those still getting a paycheck from government, corporations or universities, and those who are unemployed, or seeing their small businesses suffer due to shutdowns. And the America still getting paid is, so far, not showing a whole lot of sympathy for the America that isn’t.

Coyote chases Roadrunner 

 Georgia officials warn of 4-foot-long invasive lizards that eat 'anything they want'

 Norway to excavate first Viking ship burial mound in 100 years

Getting Distance Learning Right - Once again, Success Academy leads the way.

 Climate Change Experts Explain to Insurers They Don’t Understand Risk

 Are Democrats Trying To Eliminate Proof Of Who You Are To Vote?

 Flynn Was Never Charged With Perjury, But Now Could Be Facing Charges…of Perjury

 The New York Times Surrendered to an Outrage Mob. Journalism Will Suffer For It.

 Pediatrician: Closed Schools Could Be Harming Kids' Mental Health

Is Sweden's Herd Immunity Strategy the Best We Can Do?

 36,000,000: America's Disastrous COVID Unemployment Crisis Deepens

The ‘Just Stay Home’ Message Will Backfire. We need less extreme and more nuanced recommendations for navigating life during the pandemic.

 Los Angeles Will “Never Be Completely Open Until We Have a Cure.”

Why shutdowns are useless 

 Why Do Progressives Want To Keep The Economy Shut Down?

"Science shows" - which science is that? 

 World Health Organization doctor says coronavirus 'may never go away'

Powerline:

 The conventionally posed choice between fighting the disease and salvaging our economy is entirely wrong. The choice is not disease vs. economy. The disease is here, and there is nothing governments can do to stop it. (They can, of course, close down access to nursing homes, a mixed blessing if you are elderly.) The real choice is between the disease with a flourishing economy, and the disease with a devastated economy. The disease is a constant.

Revisiting of Sokolow v. PLO gives hope to victims’ families. The case, Sokolow v. PLO, has its roots in the bloody years of the Second Intifada – a terror wave that killed more than a thousand Israelis and dozens of Americans.

 Communist China Continues to Target American Creativity

 Rolling Back Iran in Iraq

 How much of a lemming was President Trump?  Or the state governors?  All of them were, to one degree or another.  Thus, we were plunged into the grandest of experiments in authoritarian paternalism, whereby we plebeians — i.e., those without government jobs — are deemed incompetent to judge if it's safe to take a dip in the ocean or a walk in the woods.  We can, though, crowd into a Walmart or the local supermarket.

Los Angeles Headed To Lockdown … Forever?

California Universities Cancel ‘In Person’ Classes for Fall Semester 2020

To reopen, Washington state restaurants will have to keep log of customers to aid in contact tracing

Makes zero sense 

 As Lockdown Grows Political, Resistance Stirs in Rural Maine

Ace:

We've been told that we need to "flatten the curve" before we can reopen the country. We were told that we don't want to overwhelm our country's healthcare system.

But I think we've done this. In fact, many hospitals that have geared up for a covid-19 rush are nearly empty and are laying off staff.

But now, suddenly, it's different. Now we're being told that we can't reopen the country until we get widespread testing. And when you ask them how much is widespread, the response is always more than we have now.

Soon it will be we can't reopen the country until everybody gets tested.

Coming up:

We can't reopen the country until there are no new cases

We can't reopen the country until we have an infallible vaccine

We can't reopen the country until Luke Skywalker and his plucky band of rebels destroy the Death Star

We can't reopen the country until Marshall Dillon marries Miss Kitty

We can't reopen the country until Jerry Lewis releases his 'The Day the Clown Cried' movie to the public.

We can't reopen the country until the return of Halley's Comet.

We can't reopen the country until Arthur returns as the rightful king of England

But ultimately it all boils down to: We can't reopen the country until Joe Biden becomes President.

Americans Have Baked All the Flour Away. The pandemic is reintroducing the nation to its kitchens.

Half-Time High School May Be Just What Students Need. For older students, the virus will change how the school day is structured. It’s about time.   

 The Title IX Pendulum That Wasn’t

Apple To Move A Fifth Of iPhone Production From China To India In Massive Supply-Chain Shift

 Trump To “Concast”: Fire Chuck Todd Over Barr Interview “Fraud”; NBC Admits “Error”

 The Real Reason Trump Didn't Name Obama's Specific Crime in 'Obamagate'

 "OBAMAGATE!" Trump Tweets Tucker Carlson's Crushing Breakdown Why The Former President Should Be Panicking

 Obama's Coup Attempt

 So What Was The Russia Hoax Really About?

 Twitter Takes Its COVID-19 Censorship Into Overdrive

 Facebook's Evidence-Free 'False' Rating

 “There Is Nothing from the CDC I Can Trust!” – Dr. Birx Tells Off CDC Director, Claims COVID-19 Mortality Rate Inflated By as Much as 25%!

 Has The WHO Done Anything Correctly? One More Example Of their Incompetence...Or Malfeasance (You Be The Judge)

 Germany’s Bild Newspaper Says ‘Lockdown Was a Huge Mistake’

The Wuhan Virus Lockdown is a Colossal Blunder

Lancet: Lockdowns just delay the inevitable 

Dr. Fauci Testifies: Trump Admin Hit The ‘Accelerator In Every Aspect’ In Responding To Coronavirus

From Vermont Digger.  Skiied it, and Smuggler's on the other side, many times. Never been there other than in winter. 

Sorry about that, but either the bug or governments' responses to it are messing up everybody's life in the US. May I ask one question: What happened to the "two weeks to flatten the curve" that was offered?

Let's return sanity to college admissions. Coronavirus pandemic gives us an opportunity.

Rutgers University prof: Reopening the country is about killing black people

Column: Americans are too afraid of risk. What we need in this pandemic is balance

 Social Distancing' is Snake Oil, Not Science

Could help flatten the curve, maybe, but lengthen the pandemic 

 Should Patients With Mild Cases Isolate At Home? 

Jacobson:  The center did not hold under prolonged and arbitrary lockdowns, as predicted. We are at the inflection point I predicted two months ago would arrive in May. Reopening the economy is the only sustainable option.

 Scientists Pushing The Goal Posts Further …Vaccine Needed Before Normal Returns

Don't hold your breath for that 

 Americans create new economic threat with their own savings

 Steven Mnuchin: Reopening needed to avert 'permanent economic damage' to the public

Some permanent damage has already happened. Seen it. 

 Now Chinese Hackers Are Trying to Steal Coronavirus Research

Duh 

Was there an emergency shutdown of the Wuhan lab in October? 

Whistleblower Chinese all died. Sheesh.

Mother's Day:  Michelle Obama describes having children as a ‘concession’ that cost her her ‘dreams’

Always unhappy 

 This Real Life ‘Lord Of The Flies’ Story Is Very Different From The Book

 80 years ago, lethal Nazi T4 center began euthanizing Germans with disabilities

 How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People

  Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent

 Why Don't I Hate Donald Trump?

He tried to hate him, failed 

Mexico's president calls for investigation into Obama-era Fast and Furious Operation. The Mexican government is asking Washington for cooperation in discovering how Operation Fast and Furious happened

 This Oval Office Meeting Attended By Obama and Biden Was Key To the Anti-Trump Plot

 Dirty Dozen: The 12 revelations that sunk Mueller's case against Flynn

Brian Stelter Flips Out That Fox Is Covering Flynn Dismissal Rather Than Virus. How dare people cover a huge, unprecedented in history scandal. Once again, it says something about CNN that they aren’t covering it.

 Jonathan Turley Rips Apart Obama’s ‘Leaked’ Statement About the DOJ and Flynn, and It’s Glorious

 WH Press Corps Learning The Hard Way – Don’t Mess With Kayleigh

MC:  Why Are Government Employees Supposedly Immune To Layoffs?

 FLASHBACK: NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With White House

A war? 

My Blood Boils When I Think Of Hypocrite Neil Ferguson

 The coronavirus lockdown is a luxury many Americans can’t afford

I think most 

  Economic Lockdown Is the 'Catastrophe'

Coronavirus in Minnesota 

 California's Governor Keeps Moving the Goalposts to Reopening State. Why?

 Narrative Fail: 15 Days After Lockdown Ease, Georgia Sees Lowest Day Of COVID Hospitalizations

 Republican Governors Are Kicking The Butts Of Democratic Governors On Covid-19 Response

 Ten Reasons To End The Lockdown Now

 Don’t Let Karens Kill Your Community

 San Antonio: No Calling Chinese Virus “Chinese Virus”

 China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak: German intelligence service

 EU Defends Bowing To Communist Chinese Censors

 Italy: China's Trojan Horse Into Europe

From 1970: Greenwood Mississippi  (h/t Powerline)

 John 14:1-14

I never knew that the Beatles had been an opening act for one of his tours: Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard dead at age 87.   Here's Ready Teddy from 1956.

 Schools Risk Drowning in Red Ink

 “Predictive models” rarely are predictive

 How can governments learn from their expert failings?

Why do so many diseases come from bats? Many viruses originate in bats, but that doesn’t mean we should live in fear of them.

 How the 1619 Project slandered America

 Banish Wrong Thoughts In Higher Ed Week At Legal Insurrection

 Biden Pledges To Strip Students Of Due Process Rights On Campus Reinstated By DeVos

 Everyone Deserves to Live Under the Biden Standard

 Facebook's New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line

 Kayleigh McEnany DESTROYS Liberal Hack Yamiche Alcindor and Fake News Media at Friday Presser

New Red Flags Emerging From FBI's Handling of Michael Flynn's Case

Related:  BARR SPEAKS

 Where Does Lt. Gen. Flynn Go To Get His Reputation Back?

 Trump On Obama Officials Behind The Russia Collusion Hoax: ‘Hopefully They’re Going To Pay A Big Price’

A Key Obama Meeting Was Held to Ensure FBI Russia Collusion Probe Wasn't Discovered by the Trump Administration

 Trump: The ‘So-Called Journalists’ Who Received Pulitzer Prizes for The Russia Hoax Should Be Forced to Give Them Back

 New Documents Show Obama Involved In The Flynn Takedown

 Democratic congressman said opening California beaches was 'reckless.' Then he was seen at a private beach.

 Bad State Decisions about Nursing Homes Are Heavily Driving the Coronavirus Outbreak

 Reopening The Country Seen As Greater Risk Among Most Americans

Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says

America the Wuss - From Rugged Pioneers to Cowering Sheep. What happened to the American spirit?

Althouse:  There's never enough freedom from all the things in the world that might hurt us if we're not kept in eternal lockdown.

 Worst Jobs Report In History: 20.5 Million Jobs Lost As Unemployment Rate Hits Record 14.7%

Dalrymple:  The Pandemic of Authoritarianism

 Nate Silver: 'Basic error' on coronavirus stories reveal media’s true goals

To Speed Vaccine Development, Infect Me With the Coronavirus

 Niall Ferguson to Newsmax TV: China Screwed Up, Covered Up

 The EU has admitted it let China censor an op-ed by the bloc's ambassadors

 The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps

 ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF ALL TIME?

 The Five Worst Types of Virtue-Signaling

The Pulitzer and  The Collapse of the Fourth Estate

 Facebook's New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line

 THE PRESS SECRETARY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DESERVES 

 Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Issues New Title IX Rules To Protect Free Speech, Due Process for Accused Students

 House intel transcripts show top Obama officials had no 'empirical evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion

 Justice Department dropping Flynn’s Trump-Russia case

Powerline:

Over and over, we see it asserted that the Wuhan epidemic is an “unprecedented” public health crisis. In what sense is that true? Certainly the reaction to COVID-19 is unprecedented...

Democrats hope killing the economy means an invincible voter base

 Tinseltown Moonbats Never Want to Go Back to Normal

 Are You A “Grandma Killer” If You Want To Reopen Now?

Some states considering house arrest tech to keep coronavirus patients home

 The Left Is Not Going to Like This, but Trump Has Been Proven Right Over and Over Again

Need a new hobby? License plate collecting 

 Barry Farber, conservative talk radio pioneer and author, passes away a day after his 90th birthday

 Lord & Taylor to liquidate its stores as soon as they reopen 

  Twitter Makes Big Move Into Thought Policing

"Biblical" Wave Of Bankruptcies Is About To Flood The US

 Trump: Now Is The Time To Open Our Country, Our Great Citizens Are Warriors

 'Every One of Them': California Begins Forcibly Quarantining People – Separating Families – Over COVID-19

 Andrew Cuomo Says Out-Of-State Health Workers Helping In NY Will Have To Pay NY State Taxes, Report Says

 New York Allowed Workers With Known COVID-19 Diagnoses To Remain On Job At Nursing Homes

 Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx Used Imperial College Model — NOW CONFIRMED AS A COMPLETE FRAUD — To Persuade President Trump to Lock Down Entire US Economy!

 North Carolina To Ease Stay At Home Rules At 5pm Friday

 The Pulitzers Cover Up Their Own Complicity in a Racist Historical Fraud w/1619 Project

 INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TRANSCRIPTS WILL FINALLY BE RELEASED

 Will The Rogue FBI/CIA/DOJ Operatives Ever Be Brought To Justice For Crossfire Hurricane?

Christopher Steele just threw Hillary and Susan Rice under the bus during testimony in British court. This is the first solid link between Hillary, the Obama White House, and the dirty dossier.

Joe Biden exposes the fraud of the #MeToo movement. Politics wins when the accused is a Democrat, and the accuser is expendable

 New Title IX Regulations Will Allow Cross-Examination Of Accusers In Campus Sexual Assault Cases.

 Chinese Lies Update For May 6, 2020

 Colorado River Delta Ecosystem Blooms After Historic Water Release

MID-WEEK IN PICTURES: GIANT MURDER HORNETS EDITION

 Poll: 78 Percent of College Students Want to Restrict ‘Threatening’ Ideas

 New York Taxpayers Have to Wear Masks, Not Welfare Takers

Harvard Canceled Human Rights Event as Its President Met With Xi Jinping Human rights scholar says university trades free inquiry for Chinese dollars

 Bill Gates Tacitly Admits Global Warming Is a Lie

Al Gore did the same thing, as did Obama - buying fancy homes on the shore near sea level. 

 Elvis Was King, Ike Was President, & 116,000 Americans Died In A Pandemic

 Corey Johnson’s deranged slam of Samaritan’s Purse — which only helped NYC

 Jesse Watters Imagines What The Media Would Sound Like If Obama Were President During Pandemic

 CNN Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Trump Over ‘American Comeback’ Video Ad

 Neil Ferguson, The "Scientist" Whose Crap Models Panicked the World, Forced to Resign From Government Job After Breaking His Own Social-Distancing Rules to Have Sex With His Side-Piece

It is immature to blame anybody for Acts of God, like hurricanes and diseases,  but I'll go immature here to blame that guy Ferguson, and especially China for closing China to Wuhan city but letting the Wuhan people fly all over the world. Ferguson cried Fire in a crowded theater, and China seeded the world. "Accidentally on purpose?" We'll never know. Regardless, governments destroying our economies, I've decided, was an overreaction. This is not The Plague.

Remarkable.

 The only Pulitzer the 1619 Project deserved was for fiction

 Bloomberg News: Import More Migrants Because Americans Can’t Get It Done

 Pro-lockdown extremists in denial about why we did it in the first place

 Nation's Political Class Perfectly OK With Your Financial Death

Faced with 19,000 Dead, Care Homes Seek Shield From Lawsuits

Trump Moves Coronavirus Projections From 60,000 To 80-90,000 Deaths

 Susan Rice: America’s Loss of Life Far Greater Because of Trump’s ‘Extraordinary Failings’

 New York Magazine writer lies about Georgia virus numbers

Comey’s Stalinists - Jail time is all they should have to look forward to.

 As China's Economy Implodes, Trump Ratchets Up the Pressure

With the dead guy's leg pressed against some controls

Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic

Pandemics were not media events then