Suddenly, a cow runs out onto the road, and a limo driving late at night, hits it head on, and the car comes to a stop.
The woman in the back seat, in her usual abrasive manner, says to the Chauffeur, "You get out and check on that poor cow. You were driving."
So the chauffeur gets out, checks, and reports that the animal is dead, but it appeared to be very old. Well, says the woman, "You were driving, so you go and tell the farmer in that lighted farmhouse over there."
Two hours later the chauffeur returns totally inebriated, a full belly, his hair ruffled, and a big grin on his face.
“My God, what happened to you?" asks the nasty woman.
The chauffeur replies, "When I got there, the farmer opened his best bottle of single malt scotch, the wife gave me a meal fit for a king, and the daughter made love to me."
“What on earth did you say?" asks the woman.
Well, I just knocked on the door, and when it opened, I said to them, "I'm Nancy Pelosi’s chauffeur, and I’ve just killed the old cow."
I'm not a fan. But during this crisis he's dropped all the partisan crap and done a very good job. Credit where its due. He's be a better candidate than Biden.
…comes from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who issued an order yesterday shutting down all “non-essential” businesses in the state. Of course, pretty much all businesses are essential to those who own them and work for them. But that isn’t what Cuomo meant:
“I want to be able to say to the people of New York — I did everything we could do,” Cuomo said. “And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.”
This is profoundly stupid. When you are dealing with the lives of millions of people, everything you do–or don’t do–has consequences. When you drive thousands of businesses into bankruptcy, people die. When you unemploy millions of people, some of them die. When tens of millions live in more straitened circumstances, some of them die. There is robust social science research on this point. Shutting down New York’s “nonessential” businesses will kill. How many, we will never know. So Cuomo won’t have to take responsibility for his ill-advised action. And, of course, millions of lives will be blighted even when no one dies.
[...]
A reader asks some good questions:
Is Saturday Night Live an essential business? Is the New York Times? MSNBC? New York magazine?
Not to mention the broadcast television networks. If the coronavirus caused the shutdown, even temporarily, of the New York Times and MSNBC, it would not be entirely in vain. But I don’t suppose that is going to happen. “Essential” means different things to different people.
sorry balls, but i must disagree. what cuomo is doing is for cuomo and no one else.
we already suck in terms of economic development, and now the dumb fuck wants to take what little of that we have and pile drive it into the fucking ground.
the man's an asshole on fucking stilts. and now he gets to play tyrant for a little while. whenever you hear a politician prattle on with the "...if it saves just one life..." bullshit, you can rest assured that you're being conned.
i have one remaining family member who's in their 80's and once they're gone i'll have this dysfunctional shithole in my rearview the day after the funeral.
When you lost the Public Debate. "Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio accused President Donald Trump of not lifting “a finger to help” with the coronavirus breakout."
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It's a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle "Buffalo Billion" solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.
Now the pandemic is actually here. Cuomo's grim reaper rules will be applied. New York City's deputy commissioner for disease control Demetre Daskalakis is anticipating "some very serious difficult decisions." So far, in New York City, 1 out of every 4 people with a confirmed case has been hospitalized, and 44% of them have needed a ventilator.
The task force claimed there was no point in buying ventilators because there's also a shortage of doctors and nurses trained to use them. Five years ago, that problem could have been fixed, too. Even now, the National Disaster Medical System can send staff to hot spots like New York.
"Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio accused President Donald Trump of not lifting “a finger to help” with the coronavirus breakout."
de blasio.
if there's a more worthless politician during this virus situation i don't know who it is.
“Global anxiety over the coronavirus centered on Europe on Saturday, where Italy is bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s unceasing spread. Italian officials announced that 793 people had succumbed to the virus in a single day. The staggering number brought the nation’s total dead to more than 4,800, the most for a single country,” the Washington Post reports.
“As death tolls mount across the continent, Italy has become a symbol of the enormous challenges facing public health authorities in Europe and in the United States, who are struggling to contain the virus.”
“Eleven days into Italy’s nationwide lockdown, which includes travel restrictions and the closure of most stores apart from groceries and pharmacies, the number of confirmed cases still soared, with 6,557 new cases since Friday. Hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed. The government has reported 53,578 total cases, concentrated in the northern part of the country.” ____________________
Three Weeks
Josh Marshall reviews the last three weeks:
February 26th, 2020. President Trump: “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
March 20th, 2020. Confirmed cases in the United States rise to 16,064.
John Gruber: “It’s not ‘playing politics’ to point this stuff out regarding the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. It is essential that we, collectively, see that Trump is temperamentally unfit for the office."
I expect more democrat governor will be floated as potential presidential candidates. And at least one more billionaire. Biden cannot possibly win and everyone knows it. Except people in cocoons.
And Biden will not have a clue what is going on behind his back.
“All Americans deserve the blunt truth, it is only getting worse… April and May are going to be a lot worse… I can’t be blunt enough. If the president does not act, people will die who could have lived otherwise.” — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in an interview with NBC News, on the coronavirus pandemic.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told CNN that inaction by the federal government has forced state governments to compete “against each other” for coronavirus supplies.
Said Pritzker: “We’re all competing against each other. This should have been a coordinated effort by the federal government and the National Defense Authorization that the president has to essentially push this manufacturing, really hasn’t gone into effect in any way… It’s a wild West out there. And, indeed, we are overpaying, I would say, for because of that competition.”
“Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby. Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew every day on direct flights into the United States (Washington and California especially) from late November to the beginning of February, until the Trump travel ban of January 31.
All this laxity was also known to the Communist apparat in Beijing, which must have been amused when Trump was roundly damned by his liberal critics as a xenophobe and racist for finally daring to stop the influx on January 31 — the first major leader to enact such a total ban.”
--Victor Davis Hanson
comrade wilhelm de blasio said what?
oh yeah... no one but the pederast cares what he has to say.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib has proposed sending everyone in the United States $2,000 immediately and then $1,000 per month to counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Michigan Democrat's plan would be financed by having the Federal Reserve create new money on behalf of the Treasury. To skirt the federal debt limit, the U.S. Mint would create two $1 trillion coins, and the Treasury would deposit them in its account at the Fed.
Tlaib, a member of the small group of left-wing freshman House Democrats known as "The Squad," described the plan as a "truly universal relief proposal."
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told CNN that inaction by the federal government has forced state governments to compete “against each other” for coronavirus supplies.
you don't say?
let's go check in on your fellow democrat numbskull from NY:
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It's a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle "Buffalo Billion" solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.
well i'll be darned. you guys could've had all the coronavirus supplies you wanted, but you chose to piss away the taxpayers money on other stupid shit.
As of Sunday, 26,747 has tested positive and 340 people had died, according to a Johns Hopkins tracker.
Nearly half the infections were in New York, which has quickly become the epicenter of coronavirus in America, trailed by Washington State and California.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo cautioned on Saturday that the high number of cases in the state was due to more tests being done. The state had done 45,000 tests, more than California (23,000) and Washington state (23,000) and more per capita than South Korea or China.
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015
And you could have been a millionaire if you had bought amazon stock at their IPO!!!!!! And maybe graduated college if you hadn't quit!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
"Nearly half the infections were in New York, which has quickly become the epicenter of coronavirus in America, trailed by Washington State and California."
As of Sunday, 26,747 has tested positive and 340 people had died, according to a Johns Hopkins tracker.
Death rate is 1.27 percent. Would like to see that go down more.
Looking at the numbers there may be a genetic vulnerability to the virus, in addition to age, the disease seems be especially severe to people of Asian, Middle East, and Mediterranean decent.
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Suddenly, a cow runs out onto the road, and a limo driving late at night, hits it head on, and the car comes to a stop.
The woman in the back seat, in her usual abrasive manner, says to the Chauffeur, "You get out and check on that poor cow. You were driving."
So the chauffeur gets out, checks, and reports that the animal is dead, but it appeared to be very old. Well, says the woman, "You were driving, so you go and tell the farmer in that lighted farmhouse over there."
Two hours later the chauffeur returns totally inebriated, a full belly, his hair ruffled, and a big grin on his face.
“My God, what happened to you?" asks the nasty woman.
The chauffeur replies, "When I got there, the farmer opened his best bottle of single malt scotch, the wife gave me a meal fit for a king, and the daughter made love to me."
“What on earth did you say?" asks the woman.
Well, I just knocked on the door, and when it opened, I said to them, "I'm Nancy Pelosi’s chauffeur, and I’ve just killed the old cow."
Don’t you just love a story with a happy ending?
H/T: AoS
Draft Cuomo has begun.
I'm not a fan. But during this crisis he's dropped all the partisan crap and done a very good job. Credit where its due. He's be a better candidate than Biden.
Remember when James had a shrewd of decency?. Me neither.
Lol @James
Given he financially and economically vapid.
"oh look , Jane stomps her feet after I stomped a mud hole in her ass, again.
"How much have you lost on the stock market, Kansas Dim?"😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
Answer : $0.00
Huffington Post is championing the Cause MyBalls stated.
THE DAY’S DUMBEST COMMENT…
…comes from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who issued an order yesterday shutting down all “non-essential” businesses in the state. Of course, pretty much all businesses are essential to those who own them and work for them. But that isn’t what Cuomo meant:
“I want to be able to say to the people of New York — I did everything we could do,” Cuomo said. “And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.”
This is profoundly stupid. When you are dealing with the lives of millions of people, everything you do–or don’t do–has consequences. When you drive thousands of businesses into bankruptcy, people die. When you unemploy millions of people, some of them die. When tens of millions live in more straitened circumstances, some of them die. There is robust social science research on this point. Shutting down New York’s “nonessential” businesses will kill. How many, we will never know. So Cuomo won’t have to take responsibility for his ill-advised action. And, of course, millions of lives will be blighted even when no one dies.
[...]
A reader asks some good questions:
Is Saturday Night Live an essential business? Is the New York Times? MSNBC? New York magazine?
Not to mention the broadcast television networks. If the coronavirus caused the shutdown, even temporarily, of the New York Times and MSNBC, it would not be entirely in vain. But I don’t suppose that is going to happen. “Essential” means different things to different people.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/the-days-dumbest-comment.php
sorry balls, but i must disagree. what cuomo is doing is for cuomo and no one else.
we already suck in terms of economic development, and now the dumb fuck wants to take what little of that we have and pile drive it into the fucking ground.
the man's an asshole on fucking stilts. and now he gets to play tyrant for a little while. whenever you hear a politician prattle on with the "...if it saves just one life..." bullshit, you can rest assured that you're being conned.
i have one remaining family member who's in their 80's and once they're gone i'll have this dysfunctional shithole in my rearview the day after the funeral.
When you lost the Public Debate.
"Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio accused President Donald Trump of not lifting “a finger to help” with the coronavirus breakout."
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It's a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle "Buffalo Billion" solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.
Now the pandemic is actually here. Cuomo's grim reaper rules will be applied. New York City's deputy commissioner for disease control Demetre Daskalakis is anticipating "some very serious difficult decisions." So far, in New York City, 1 out of every 4 people with a confirmed case has been hospitalized, and 44% of them have needed a ventilator.
The task force claimed there was no point in buying ventilators because there's also a shortage of doctors and nurses trained to use them. Five years ago, that problem could have been fixed, too. Even now, the National Disaster Medical System can send staff to hot spots like New York.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/18/new_yorks_ventilator_rationing_plan_142685.html
draft cuomo? i wouldn't draft him to sweep the floors of the empire state plaza.
"Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio accused President Donald Trump of not lifting “a finger to help” with the coronavirus breakout."
de blasio.
if there's a more worthless politician during this virus situation i don't know who it is.
MSN
@MSN
Drug touted by Trump to possibly treat virus can kill in just 2 grams
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
What’s your point? 2 grams of caffeine can kill you too, but no one is planning on prescribing that much.
This bullshit is why everyone hates and doesn’t trust the media. They are trying to create fear for clicks with misleading and irrelevant info.
You people truly suck!
as do the people who spread this shit. Doctors can now prescribe (not "journalists") and hopefully it will work. At least real Americans hope.
Italy’s Coronavirus Death Toll Feeds Fear In U.S.
“Global anxiety over the coronavirus centered on Europe on Saturday, where Italy is bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s unceasing spread. Italian officials announced that 793 people had succumbed to the virus in a single day. The staggering number brought the nation’s total dead to more than 4,800, the most for a single country,” the Washington Post reports.
“As death tolls mount across the continent, Italy has become a symbol of the enormous challenges facing public health authorities in Europe and in the United States, who are struggling to contain the virus.”
“Eleven days into Italy’s nationwide lockdown, which includes travel restrictions and the closure of most stores apart from groceries and pharmacies, the number of confirmed cases still soared, with 6,557 new cases since Friday. Hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed. The government has reported 53,578 total cases, concentrated in the northern part of the country.”
____________________
Three Weeks
Josh Marshall reviews the last three weeks:
February 26th, 2020. President Trump: “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
March 20th, 2020. Confirmed cases in the United States rise to 16,064.
John Gruber:
“It’s not ‘playing politics’ to point this stuff out regarding the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. It is essential that we, collectively, see that Trump is temperamentally unfit for the office."
Nope, Not-a-Pastor lives in fear .
I expect more democrat governor will be floated as potential presidential candidates. And at least one more billionaire. Biden cannot possibly win and everyone knows it. Except people in cocoons.
And Biden will not have a clue what is going on behind his back.
“All Americans deserve the blunt truth, it is only getting worse… April and May are going to be a lot worse… I can’t be blunt enough. If the president does not act, people will die who could have lived otherwise.”
— New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in an interview with NBC News, on the coronavirus pandemic.
fuck cuomo:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
— C.S. Lewis
Pritzker Says States Are Competing for Supplies
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told CNN that inaction by the federal government has forced state governments to compete “against each other” for coronavirus supplies.
Said Pritzker: “We’re all competing against each other. This should have been a coordinated effort by the federal government and the National Defense Authorization that the president has to essentially push this manufacturing, really hasn’t gone into effect in any way… It’s a wild West out there. And, indeed, we are overpaying, I would say, for because of that competition.”
The Fact that the Dems are still to the day struggling to find a Canidate is amusing.
What a FUCKING IDIOT the POS WATERBOY "pastor" is
MORE unattributed shit straight from political_lire
And the exact same shit pasted and repeated in other threads.
FUCK OFF
QOTD:
“Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby.
Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew every day on direct flights into the United States (Washington and California especially) from late November to the beginning of February, until the Trump travel ban of January 31.
All this laxity was also known to the Communist apparat in Beijing, which must have been amused when Trump was roundly damned by his liberal critics as a xenophobe and racist for finally daring to stop the influx on January 31 — the first major leader to enact such a total ban.”
--Victor Davis Hanson
comrade wilhelm de blasio said what?
oh yeah... no one but the pederast cares what he has to say.
the dumbest fucks among us have ideas:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib has proposed sending everyone in the United States $2,000 immediately and then $1,000 per month to counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Michigan Democrat's plan would be financed by having the Federal Reserve create new money on behalf of the Treasury. To skirt the federal debt limit, the U.S. Mint would create two $1 trillion coins, and the Treasury would deposit them in its account at the Fed.
Tlaib, a member of the small group of left-wing freshman House Democrats known as "The Squad," described the plan as a "truly universal relief proposal."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/tlaib-proposes-minting-two-1-trillion-platinum-coins-to-finance-monthly-coronavirus-debit-cards
it's hard to believe that being this fucking stupid doesn't come with some level of physical pain.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told CNN that inaction by the federal government has forced state governments to compete “against each other” for coronavirus supplies.
you don't say?
let's go check in on your fellow democrat numbskull from NY:
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It's a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle "Buffalo Billion" solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.
well i'll be darned. you guys could've had all the coronavirus supplies you wanted, but you chose to piss away the taxpayers money on other stupid shit.
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Cross 25,000 Mark
As of Sunday, 26,747 has tested positive and 340 people had died, according to a Johns Hopkins tracker.
Nearly half the infections were in New York, which has quickly become the epicenter of coronavirus in America, trailed by Washington State and California.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo cautioned on Saturday that the high number of cases in the state was due to more tests being done. The state had done 45,000 tests, more than California (23,000) and Washington state (23,000) and more per capita than South Korea or China.
--Victor Davis Hanson
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Another fucking loser like rat the whiner !!!!!!!!!
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015
And you could have been a millionaire if you had bought amazon stock at their IPO!!!!!! And maybe graduated college if you hadn't quit!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
IF, this China Flu is so bad how come no one posting here has it.
I know I have superior genes.
Liar James thought I am losing money, took great joy in the idea.
""How much have you lost on the stock market, Kansas Dim?"😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃"
The turds in the toilet bowl.
"Nearly half the infections were in New York, which has quickly become the epicenter of coronavirus in America, trailed by Washington State and California."
As of Sunday, 26,747 has tested positive and 340 people had died, according to a Johns Hopkins tracker.
Death rate is 1.27 percent. Would like to see that go down more.
Looking at the numbers there may be a genetic vulnerability to the virus, in addition to age, the disease seems be especially severe to people of Asian, Middle East, and Mediterranean decent.
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