RochesterRob

Power play? I don't see a scenario where Democratically controlled states turn on Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, etc. if they don't get anymore federal money nor votes for Republicans if they do get more federal money. What am I missing in regards to this?

RIP. The world seems so strange anymore as we lose these entertainment greats.

The airlines mostly serves business. If they did not they would have gone the way of the dinosaur 40 years ago as they were looking for bailouts and anti-trust considerations (exemptions) for mergers.

I guess that I feel the opposite. Whiny is not endearing but is harder to do for an actor and that is what I watch for. To see an actor really stretch himself or herself. Anybody can do snarky, grumpy, or mean to at least be passable in terms of performance. I know that many do not like the show Gomer Pyle, USMC but the premise was set up perfectly for Frank Sutton as Sergeant Carter to go off on the title character frequently. Pyle would have been drafted if he did not enlist and most boots are there because they are anything but geniuses. The two characters because of circumstances have to be around each other. For sure not a perfect show as Pyle would have been transferred to the motor pool in short order and the series had quite a number of poorly conceived episodes but here and there had some real gems. The actors knew the fine line between believable and unbelievable and were able to straddle it most episodes. For the reasons above this is where other shows fall down flat. Given the temperaments Charles Winchester would have never stayed indefinitely at the 4077. He would have asked for and been granted a transfer early on.

None of the characters on Friends appealed to me but I found Chandler easily the most annoying. Matthew Perry has very little range and this was evident by the other roles he did. He even screwed up Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple reboot which was a role that did not require much of an actor.

The brisket is ready to grill. I'll make the potato salad after breakfast this morning.

Huh? What? Automation eliminated most of the jobs you are talking about. Robots replaced humans on the auto assembly line with one person monitoring a few machines so a net decrease in jobs. Nobody wanted to go 1,000 feet below the surface to mine coal so strip mining came to eliminate a dangerous job. Unions did push some industries off shore. Many people do make bad choices in terms of college education. Extremely few can make a good living on an Elizabethan Poetry degree. Make good choices in terms of a curriculum so you can secure your future.

I could name so many they would be able to fill the old LA Coliseum but I will limit it to several. Goober Pyle. Chief O'Hara. Any of the women on One Day at a Time other than Val Bertinelli. Schneider from One Day at a Time. Danny Partidge. Chief Daniels from Hill Street Blues. Brian Bonsall's Andy from Family Ties. The mother of the Nanny.

You forgot to throw in Joanie after they got their own show.

BJ I could not stand whatsoever. By the way was the name BJ an inside joke amongst the producers as to Hunnicutt's role relative to Pierce. I did not mind Winchester as Burns was played out but Winchester got to be rather pointless after his first season. The excess envy by Potter and others towards Charles was simply too much. Yep. After the parade of grumpy doctors including Dr McCoy, Dr Pierce, Dr Craig (St Elsewhere), etc. the concept kind of burned out.

Glad you put it that way as Nancy Marchand was born in Buffalo. Most comedians don't have what it takes to carry a television show in terms of performance. I love Jerry Seinfeld but he had no acting ability. Good thing that the producers let Jerry be Jerry.

I'm making brisket tomorrow. Doing the marinade today. Probably my own potato salad as well complete with fresh sweet onion and green pepper.

3143 counties, parishes (LA), and other bodies for the US. Let's round down to 3000 so divided into 75,000 would make for 25 in each area. A lot for Yates County that has a small population plus consists of a fair number of old order religious groups with the Mennonites and Amish. A county such as Allegany has over 2 dozen townships so that would be only one person per township in a county that has close to 50,000 people. If things get as bad as I think they will that just seems like too small a number. I am not trying to take a sort of morbid delight in this but it is one more area of concern for a population's health as well as a virus. The community at large should be trained to spot potentially vulnerable people with regards to suicide as a measure of prevention. I've sadly been close to a few people who ultimately took their lives and it is sad for both the victim as well as the survivors of the victims. I can still hear the gunshot of one in my mind as it happened when I was a preteen many years ago.

As it should.

Yes, but those who can't pay on time are subject to making regular payments which commences shortly after a plan is worked out. Quite simply I would guess that there are many people who probably could not make payments for several months if not longer. IRS protocol does not allow for a floating multi-year payment period lacking a schedule of payments. Usually, before that happens you are making weekly unpleasant contact with an IRS agent and delinquents are subject to income garnishment and asset seizure. Nobody wants to go to a place where this is wide spread because it greatly reduces the value of comparable assets and leads to a festering society where extremists prevail. Pushing back the clock on 2019 is not just an idle whim to buy votes in my mind but to keep a hole from blowing open in American society.

I guess that I will go against the grain and say there is good reason depending on the situation. Most businesses don't have huge cash reserves to deal with a 60 day interruption in income. If they have credit lines they most likely have already tapped into them to stay solvent. What would have been used to pay income taxes has already been raided to stay afloat. Whoever is advising Trump probably made him aware of this problem. Word as of late is many financial institutions are running for cover shutting off credit options for many businesses without direct cause such as late payment. Many business owners if they are not between a rock and a hard place soon will be there.

Given the number of counties across the US I think that 75,000 is an extremely low estimate. You are talking about people that most likely were succeeding in life and then had their feet knocked out from under them financially. Quite a few will never be employed as they were before the pandemic. There will be a great push towards automation now that AI is fairly viable and business owners will want to eliminate the human variable from their operations. In the millions would not surprise me over the next ten years. We are just starting to see the economic impact versus being better than half way through the fall out.

"It will be gone by April." Something that Tiberius' mom has said every March for the last 35 years.

Earth to Tiberius : The people who got incredibly agitated over Herbert Hoover are pretty much gone from this world. That aside if you had read anything about HH you would know that he was not a hater. Actually, fairly astute but not much of a public speaker and did not have FDR's flare for addressing the nation. The greatest irony will be that many so called intellectuals will still criticize HH but also will label Trump's stimulus efforts as purely wasteful as I heard on one weekend AM radio financial show.

I could see Goldie Hawn dancing around in those on Laugh-In so as to needle Cuomo a little.

Schiff and Pelosi "represent" very liberal districts in California. Their base no doubts eats up all the "Get Trump" nonsense with a shovel versus a spoon.

Burning people at the stake is trying to make a comeback.......................... Any day now Democrats are going to accuse Trump of being a witch (warlock)...........

There has to be more to the story than what you are saying. Any breeding cattle is normally kept to maintain a flow of stock. If he was just raising stock for processing you would have already seen the nature of the cycle. Some operators this time of year start moving stock to state lands that allow grazing which have lower costs.

The risk has always been there in terms of China nationalizing anything we place over there. Pandemic or not. I suspect that had the pandemic not happened the Chinese would have made their move as they saw a decline in what was being moved in from the West. Considering that the time would have come for foreign markets to have become mature meaning little future growth and perhaps a regression as others move to copy US companies. At some point there will be a decline in the US in terms of shifting new technology to the market place as some new tech may not have a direct application to consumers. Development of new technology may slow down period especially if a government comes to DC that fears the population having advanced technology. I figured that such a day of recogning would be 100 years into the future but now it might just be only a couple of years out if that. Watch ST:TNG Q Who for a similar type analogy as the figure Q pushes the time table up on the Federation's encounter with the Borg. There are things pertaining to business and economics to be learned from the pandemic which will affect our future perhaps real soon.

SOP. Two places I worked including one as a contract worker had in the agreement for employment that anything remotely connected to the business in terms of development the employee conceded rights to the employer. One employer retained those rights for 5 years after the last day of employment with them.