49 thoughts on “Here Comes The Death Rate”

  2. the hill:

    The liberal super PAC American Bridge is launching a new round of television, radio and digital ads in three battleground states aimed at weakening President Trump among key groups that supported his 2016 White House bid.

    One ad running in Pennsylvania features a man who says he voted for Trump in 2016 but who says he’s been let down by Trump’s presidency. The ad, which will run in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, is part of a $25 million campaign running through the end of August targeting rural voters and seniors.

    “Small businesses are really feeling the crunch right now,” the man says in the 30-second ad. “I’m talking about the average person trying to get by. I voted for Donald trump in 2016 but I do not think we were prepared for this. He does not want to assume any responsibility. He’s not interested in what’s best for the American people.”

  3. more from same article in the hill:

    A second ad, which will run in Michigan and Wisconsin, features a registered nurse accusing Trump of botching the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.
    “President Trump does not listen to the experts and now we’re trying to play catch up and I’m not sure we can,” the nurse says. “He just makes up things as he goes along that he thinks will make him look good. He doesn’t take any responsibility.”
    […]
    American Bridge has been identifying voters who cast ballots for Trump in 2016 that they believe are open to being persuaded to cast a ballot for Democrats in 2020 in key swing districts across the Midwest and Rust Belt.
    The super PAC is putting $20 million behind TV and radio ads and an additional $5 million behind a digital ad campaign in those three states.

  4. So we had a couple hours of thunderstorms last night accompanied by power outages Downtown and flood warnings. Today, predicted high of 94 with 96 slated for tomorrow. Summers here. 

  5. So according to a study they were talking about on the today show this morning (yahoo) I am 35% less likely to get COVID. O types are 35% less likely and A types are 45% more likely to contract the virus. Results are preliminary and aren’t from controlled trials, so stay tuned. 

  6. Pogo – anything about Type B?  I spotted on the CNN website that certain Neanderthal DNA segments might be a reason for the hyper immune response in some people.  Modern research is so cool.  There are so many new tools that were not available a decade or more ago.

  7. Interesting, I’m A-Pos. While I was still healthy I was a regular donor–gallons. Maybe I’ll start wearing my dog-tags just-in-case.

  11. and speaking of weather….
    NH is expecting very heavy rain on Saturday.  If trump’s rally kinda fizzles…  I bet he uses that as his excuse.

  13. Trump won’t wear a mask because people would see make up smeared on it and hear his hair crack when he moved it around

  14. BB, the guy discussing it said there was insufficient data to make any comments about Types A & B.  They also did not mention what the correlation levels or confidence intervals were, so it is just one of those interesting observations but little else at this point.
     
    So on the way into work I got stuck in traffic in an East Bumfuck traffic jam.  The Canadian geese that hang out around the West Fork River down by VA Hospital and VA Park this time of year were crossing the road and had 5-6 cars stuck at a standstill for close to 3 minutes.  City life at times is no life at all.

  15. Pogo, I enjoyed watching them when they blocked the freeway between St Pete and Tampa. I surmised they would have flown except they were shepherding their young.

  16. Crackers!  You’re right!  It’s his make-up smearing he fears.  I hadn’t thought of that.  Maybe there’s some sort of shellac that would keep the fake tan in place.  

  20. Gains Marius is adjusting his fearsome visage in the great hall mirror.  He has a full day of frightening underlings ahead.
     

  22. Flatus, I didn’t see any fledglings here.  I think they feel they own the place when they’re here and act just like that. I love it. It drives the rednecks nuts. 

  23. Men or women who arrive at that condition—it doesn’t matter what you did in your life—hero, bum, knave, oaf, or pious man—when they get to that point, they’re just all the same.  Drooling on the stage and hollering, “Foul!”

  26. Well, i’m type A+, so it was nice knowing y’all.✌️💀🇺🇸

  27. wapo:

    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as a national security aide at the White House until earlier this year and was up for promotion to colonel, will leave the military instead, his attorney, David Pressman, said in a statement.
    “Through a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, the president of the United States attempted to force LTC Vindman to choose: Between adhering to the law or pleasing a President. Between honoring his oath or protecting his career. Between protecting his promotion or the promotion of his fellow soldiers,” Pressman said. “LTC Vindman’s patriotism has cost him his career.”

  28. Vindman’s career was a resounding success reflecting the best upon the Army and himself. He should be standing tall as he marches out the gate with his brother at his side.

  29. Yes, Flatus, even (excuse me) John Bolton said his career represented the best of the best in the Army and that his brother’s only crime was being his brother.  The Army Chief of Staff should shun the Commander in Chief for his despicable behavior and interference with the career of a fine officer.

  30. Bad day for women at SCOTUS.

    Supreme Court says employers may opt out of Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate over religious, moral objections

     

    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration may allow employers and universities to opt out of the Affordable Care Act requirement to provide contraceptive care because of religious or moral objections.

    The issue has been at the heart of an intense legal battle for nine years, first with the Obama administration sparring with religious organizations who said offering contraceptive care to their employees violated their beliefs, and then with the Trump administration broadening the Obama administration’s exemption, angering women’s groups, health organizations and Democratic-led states.

    Wednesday’s decision greatly expands the ability of employers to claim the exemption, and the government estimates that it could mean that 70,000 to 126,000 women could lose access to cost-free birth control.

    “We hold that the [administration] had the authority to provide exemptions from the regulatory contraceptive requirements for employers with religious and conscientious objections,” wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.

    The decision sent the case back to a lower court and instructed it to dissolve a nationwide injunction that had kept the exception from being implemented.

    Liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen G. Breyer agreed with the court’s conservatives that the administration had the right to create an exemption, but they said lower courts should examine whether the decision to create this one was arbitrary and capricious.

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a blistering dissent, in which she said her colleagues had gone too far to appease religious conservatives.

    Until now, “this Court has taken a balanced approach, one that does not allow the religious beliefs of some to overwhelm the rights and interests of others who do not share those beliefs,” Ginsburg wrote in a brief joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

    “Today, for the first time, the Court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights to the nth degree.”
    (Continues)

    Anyone think holding the WH & Senate doesn’t matter?  Think again.

  31. …

    White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement that the decision was “a big win for religious freedom and freedom of conscience.”

    “Since Day One, the Trump Administration has sought to lift burdens on religious exercise for people of all faiths,” she said, adding the administration would work to allow “women who lack access to contraceptive coverage because of their employer’s religious beliefs or moral convictions to more easily access such care” through federal programs.

    If you ever wondered what an utter load of horse shit looked like, there it is. You can’t expand religious beliefs, which can be supported by the language of the constitution, to include moral convictions untethered to religious belief, which cannot, to try and firm up the RW religious crazy vote and claim to be working to increase access to contraception for those burdened by the decisions of employers, to try and get some of the suburban women’s vote, while your administration continues to wage war against Planned Parenthood, which was to firm up the vote of the RW crazy faction of the party.  I’m a lawyer, right?  And I have to be able to argue both sides of any issue so I can best advocate the side I am advocating.  But what I cannot do is simultaneously argue both sides of an issue.  McENinny is not constrained by that shortcoming of mine. I will never be a politician or the spokesman for one I guess.

  33. As soon as employers realize their insurance costs will go up when the statisticians figure how many probable births will come about from not covering birth control…and all of the maternity leave that will leave them short-handed…

  38. Old man, great selections. That Zimmerman kid has promise. 
    I just LOVE the Lincoln project ads. Dead on point. 

  40. You may be right Pogo. The important thing is we both got the ninny part right

  41. I had trouble getting in here for a day…or 2. How do I e-mail Craig?
    TEA (Texas Education Agency) gave this direction today for opening the schools: 1. Have kids was their hands, 2. Open a window.
    Many classrooms don’t have windows and those that do often can’t be opened. Brilliant.

  42. I texted the mother of a former student who’s now in 4th grade, I asked her what her 3 elementary and middle school kids will do next month. She said they want to go to school and so they shall.
     
    I got to thinking what I would have done when my kids where that age. I would have stayed home with them. I would have tried to get a leave of absence from my then day job, the school district and applied for Welfare and whatever else NYS had at that time. I’d probably continue at the university which I did in the evening. They’re doing it by Zoom now.  No Zoom then, though. I wouldn’t have taken the risk of this level of illness with my kids.  I wouldn’t have put them through this what with the  Kawasaki like Disease in the mix.  It’s going to be a blood bath.

  43. TT – An ER doc on TV said he couldn’t even decide what to do about his kid going to school or not.    I just cancelled my hair appointment.  It hasn’t been cut since December, but where am I going that it can’t be in a pony tail?  It’s not worth the risk.   I’ve got to get my eyes checked.  That can’t wait.  You text them when you park and the my come out and take your temperature…in the Texas heat.  

  46. BiD I went to the dentist this morning, their first appointment.I’d been putting it off waiting for the FLATTENING of the curve. It was better to finally go now rather than have a problem that’d require several appointment later.  
     
    I keep reading such sad stories of people that the orange bucket of lard has killed. A 47 year old mother of triplets in Dallas died. SO many stories. So many dead parents. A crime. A real crime. And yet he lives.

  49. The SCOTUS will report it rulings on the tax dox of the draft dodging, anti-US military, ablist, racist, russophiliac, religious bigot and rapist this morning.

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