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Of course the flip side is that DoJ can keep "finding" more items that should've been turned over to Flynn years ago to turn over & get into the public before any indictments on other fronts are made. But, yeah, this is frustrating.

Until after the D's convention when they are locked into Biden as the nominee, IMHO 45 should not go all out on showing how unqualified Biden in his current state is. If he scores some significant body blows now we could end up with either Sanders or Cuomo (or possibly even somebody else that is even worse) that D's might have enthusiasm for. And if D voters are enthusiastic AND we have mail in voting, we could see a 2009 like supermajority. Which is extremely troubling given the direction D-led places seem to be heading.

My 2 cents. This, on 1st glance appears to be a very dumb thing to say and looks like an unforced error. But, am wondering what we'll hear / see come out in the next couple of days that will make it look not nearly as dumb. Probably 80% of the things that he tweets that are beyond cringeworthy when 1st sent end up being a way for him to get a lot of his enemies to go railing about something THEY end up on the wrong side of once more info comes to light. But, unless it was a gambit, as you suggested, to get the D's to want to open stuff back up; really not sure what wondering whether elections should be delayed gets him. Not seeing where "the rest of the story" jujitsu's this back onto the TDSers/NTers. But we shall see.

May you RIP, Mr. Cain.

Yes they certainly were.

Geez, maybe there's something to Nick Sandman's lawyer's tweets that Brian Stetzer could be on his way out at CNN, considering whining about mischaracterizations of CNN's mischaracterizations is normally Stetzer's job. If Tapper has to do that now, maybe the little guy is on his way out the door?

Maybe if he wasn't a lying turd who was instrumental in the soft coup against the current President which goes against a couple hundred years of tradition and if he wasn't also very likely a habitual leaker of classified information then the President wouldn't have ignored a few decades of precedent and allowed him to still have access to said classified information. Poor baby shnookums, who knew actions have consequences?

Same here. Go for the 1 boners and the wife likes the 2 boners. Makes for a happy marriage.

Pensions used to be a good thing where both the employee and employer had skin in the game. The employee took a lesser salary to have income post retirement and the company funded the plans adequately. Nowadays, most of the few pension plans that remain are essentially stealing from future owners of the company as the pension funds are oftentimes not fully/ adequately funded to provide for the defined benefits that are promised the employee. Defined contribution plans don't have that issue. The employee and employer each contribute what they've agreed to do and future owners/shareholders & employees aren't on the hook for covering for what didn't get done. And, by maxing out contributions to the plan, employees can take control of their own retirement and not be at the mercy of a company declaring bankruptcy. (Fully realize that people can be in situations where they can't contribute much to the 401k, but they can also often change those circumstances. Not much they can do if the company pulls the rug out from under them.)

No love for Buffalo's own Kevin O'Connell hosting "Go?"

The mayors & governors are on record as supporting the protesters. Presumably they are opposed to the destruction of their biggest cities. If both positions are held by them, and it seems that for the most part protests during daylight hours are peaceful & nighttime protests are anything but peaceful; then wouldn't it make sense that they'd support & enact curfews?

Considering we've been told for 4-11 years just how transparent & scandal freeTM the past administration was; shouldn't the Democrats WANT the results of these investigations be made public prior to the election? Wouldn't exoneration goose turnout of their voters? Unless, of course, they have reason to believe there aren't going to be exonerations ...

Over on Scott's Sabres board my suggestion was that whoever owns that parking garage overlooking the baseball field needs to remove the curtains obscuring the views of the field & make a killing. Pettibones should be able to make a killing as well.

It certainly seems to be going that way. And if the current hot spots wind down in the next couple of weeks & the original ones don't re-surge then we'll know there's something to that theory. And IMHO that theory being right will go a long way towards forcing the schools to reopen and only go virtual for limited times if the area they're in get hit hard. (Personally, expect they could stay open through a surge, but politically there is absolutely no will to do so.)

Let's hope that one passes scrutiny when it gets peer reviewed.

My hope is that he ended up with enough money to buy the WaPo.

Welcome back, DR! PLEASE put Gary & Billztime on ignore. :beer:

Hoping that is true (that there really were only 14 COVID deaths in FL yesterday). But what is Cardillo's source. Not seeing that claim ANYWHERE else.

Am saying the people that were in charge should have done better. (And, as you know, per the way our government is set up, those that were legally in charge were in those positions.)

Until they've actually been tested and shown to be effective & without significant adverse side effects, we BELIEVE we have them. And, until we actually have them, we don't have them.

Umm, the Navy Hospital Ship arrived on March 30. You really think that nobody in the NYC medical community could've figured out the logistics of using it for care of hospital discharged nursing home patients that were still contagious within 2 - 3 WEEKS? IMHO somebody should've been able to figure that out in that sort of a time frame. Had they started using that ship (or other available facilities) to house them by the 15th-20th they could've saved 1,000's of lives. Not giving them flack for making poor decisions in the heat of the moment. But at some point the leaders have to step back and say 'holy ####, we have to rethink what we're doing.' And that can't happen 1-1/2 months after assigning death sentences to the most vulnerable IMHO.

The original plan as of when the ship docked was to use the hospital ship to take non-COVID patients so the COVID patients could be kept together and non-COVID patients wouldn't come in contact with it. No data on why that plan flipped. News reports made it seem like that was an 'oops' on the part of the people running logistics but don't know that that was the case. Also don't know why neither the ship non convention center was utilized in any meaningful way. But would really know to know why that was.

A couple more comments like that and ALL of upstate will turn on him. (We won't be able to get rid of all D run government at the state level, but maybe we could get a different gov. C'mon Andy, talk trash about beef on weck and Zweigels too. Double dog dare ya.)

The hospital ship was supposed to be for NON-COVID patients, but they were sent COVID patients anyway, so that plan changed and there were several hundred available beds for nursing home patients on the ship. (IIRC, only 77 patients went to the hospital ship & only 3 went to the Javits Center; which could've worked wonders to keep non-COVID Nursing Home patients COVID-free.)

Agree with a lot of this. But, unless the plan is to drag out the virus spreading until after there is a vaccine (which could be available anytime between Friday and never) eventually a complete lockdown will end and the virus will spread through the population when the lockdown ends. We delay the inevitable, but don't prevent it. And if the idea is to get to "herd immunity" then lockdown the vulnerable tightly & don't lockdown the rest until the heavy transmission starts & then lockdown just enough to keep from overwhelming the healthcare system in that particular area. Try to keep the transmission rate manageable. If the goal is something else other than 1 of the 2 extremes, state it explicitly and let people know what the plan is to reach THAT goal. And getting back to Cuomo, won't criticize him for decisions made in March; but by mid-April at the latest he needed to rescind that Nursing Home directive. He still had the Navy Medical Ship & the converted Javits Center available both sitting nearly empty to use as temporary housing for the nursing home residents to stay after they were well enough to leave the hospital but were still contagious. How many lives would've been saved changing that order 3-4 weeks earlier than it was? And the subways were handled about as poorly as possible- they cut down on the # of trains running, crowding the remaining riders into tighter spaces but didn't stop train service at any hours to allow for ACTUAL disinfection rather than simply wiping them down for a few minutes at night. The disinfection via UV should've been happening by April 15 as well. Really expecting we'll find in hindsight that what finally slowed the spread in NYC was they'd already reached / approached herd immunity after having it rage through for close to 2 months. Would explain why LA & other major cities are getting hit hard now, but with similar behavior by its residents that NYC isn't seeing a 2nd wave commensurate to these other places initial waves.