Welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
I’m really ready to be done with this quarantine crap.
The RFH family watched “Die Hard” because Mini-me hadn’t seen it. Inspired by this, I bring you this week’s Easter egg with a probably-NSFW warning, but dayum, honey, John McClane would fly 2000 miles and kill terrorists for that.
Fake redhead for Carin.
Cold drink?
Looks like he ought to be a 1910’s meme.
Shadows.
Last, but not least, sunny.
Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
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Good Morning Bourgeoisie Quarantineers
My first thought upon viewing the Easter Egg was “80’s Hottie”
Will always watch any of the Die Hard movies. They’re on often enough I’ve never felt the need to buy the series on disc.
I thought it was Tuesday.
Days of the week as a mental health screening question is becoming harder to use these days
ChrisP raised a good point last night. Of course C19 numbers are rising, we’re testing more people! I mean, that’s intuitive, but the media wants to spin it as “See what happens when you eat at a restaurant or get your haircut?!? Are you happy now Grandma killer?!?” Do you think they’ll also tout the decreased mortality of it as we discover it’s much more prevalent than was previously known? I think not. Just prolonged misery for the people unfortunate enough to live in their jurisdictions.
Anything born of the media is a miscarriage. Forget it. There’s nothing useful coming from a regular media source.
And media folks smell of fish sticks. Fear and fish sticks.
Try as we might, getting normals to wean themselves from the constant stream of idiot milk, seems impossible.
https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
This is a pretty good rationale for opening GA. You can see that the cases and deaths over time has basically dropped to nothing.
I’ve been trying to pinpoint the moment that I officially moved from being interested in Covid to not giving AF. I think it’s when the media and everyone on the left started tracking the race of infections and deaths. That was the huge, bright signal that it wasn’t really a big deal.
^^ what mare said. But with tartar sauce.
Out of 1M people in my county, we’ve had 108 souls depart this earth because due to Kung Fluey.
I would wager that there were more admissions to ERs for ‘foreign object in rectum’ over the same time period.
WHERE DO I GET THE ASS DATA?
We’ve had 24 MJ and almost everyone was not only elderly, but in a nursing home or hospice.
But FUCKING GRETCHEN just divided Michigan into zones for reopening, and guess which region she put Lapeer in? Oh – that would be the same zone with Detroit 1682 deaths, Macomb 572, oakland 654 deaths, and Genesee 174 deaths.
Fuck Gretchen.
wakey wakey.
2/10 would smash (Gretchen)
I just think it would be funny to hit a Gretchen. I mean, retch is in the name. It’s awful when you think about it.
2/10 would smash (Gretchen)
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I’m assuming you mean, “in the face” “hard.”
I didn’t know what day it was either.
Gretchens often go by Greta, I think. Much more smashable name.
I knew a extremely smashable Gretchen a while back, good looking Hungarian girl. Gretchen is sort of an Old German compound word meaning “little beauty”, iirc, sort of like a French girl named Belle.
Sometimes names are lived, other times they’re ironic.
WHERE DO I GET THE ASS DATA?
FBI
Federal Butt Investigators
At this point, I’m convinced COVID was more a threat to my well meaning through economic stagnation with its likely results than through any actual illness that might result. Mostly because the former may get me evicted, while the latter remains…nebulous at best.
I did get “Die Hard” from Netflix because the last time I saw it on TV, they bleeped out “motherfucker”. I understand that for broadcast TV, but the iconic line needs to be there.
That, and trying to get on Mini-me’s calendar is not a small challenge.
Yipee-ki-ay motherlover doesn’t carry the same gravitas as the original
The DVD had the director’s commentary, too, and that was interesting. They didn’t have a finished script when they started shooting, so the scene with Hans and John McClane meeting only happened when they found out Alan Rickman could do an American accent. He hadn’t been in Hollywood very long, and I think this was his first movie.
the same group of people are always behind this shit.
Republican Group Releases Ad Describing Trump As ‘Unfit, Unwell, Unacceptable’
Link.
Republicans for the Rule of Law is the principal initiative of the conservative, anti-Donald Trump political group Defending Democracy Together, founded by Bill Kristol, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Sarah Longwell, and Andy Zwick in 2019. The project, a 501(c)(4) group, created an advertising campaign to pressure Republican members of Congress to “demand the facts” about the Trump-Ukraine scandal during the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
I had a cousin named Gretchen and she was a typical (in a good way) California beauty.
No make up
long eyelashes
big smile
olive skin
blue eyes
I always thought she was so lovely.
It must be so boring to be Bill Kristol.
He was pretty influential at one point but now he’s just an old fat guy slinging poo.
LOL’d at the Biden campaign putting Hillary on mute.
Don’t you know Bill wishes he could do that during quarantine.
Kristol is boring. Predictable is boring. You know exactly what he’s going to say and do.
The constant Trump bashing is boring.
It may be out there, but where has Kristol praised Trump for anything?
He’s done a ton of really, really good things.
i love the way they keep trying to rebrand their Never-Trumpism.
It reminds me of the scooby doo bit where Fred takes off the mask
If it ever gets to Shootin’ Time, Kristol & Kompany may actually be higher on the target list than the open Leftyrants.
Don’t you know Bill wishes he could do that during quarantine.
I doubt they’ve been in the same state, let alone the same house, and it’s not like they’re being impacted in the slightest by stay-at-home orders.
It’s kind of the same scam as all of the NGOs, non profits, and charities. Many of them run expenses at 90+%.
It’s a nice way to fund an extravagant lifestyle on the backs of clueless rubes or wealthy people looking for influence.
I remember a corporate charity, perhaps the Daily Beast or Vanity Fair that hosted a huge event every year; well attended by powerful and wealthy people. But at the end of paying for the party, they basically had nothing to give so they would just repeat the cycle.
Panic rifle secured yesterday.
The guys at the shop were super nice. The range is closed but they wanted to see it go pew pew so they let me try it out.
On a hobo?
If it ever gets to Shootin’ Time, Kristol & Kompany may actually be higher on the target list than the open Leftyrants.
Traitors before enemies, always.
We recently had a meme related to the Yippee Ki Yay phenomenon
If it ever gets to Shootin’ Time, Kristol & Kompany may actually be higher on the target list than the open Leftyrants.
It’s why McCain is so despised by so many wingers, after all.
Add Jennifer Rubin to that list. Bitch.
Elderly woman who is known to one of Pat’s work buddies died of covid.
She didn’t have it. She was in a nursing home, and since she’s not allowed to have family visit, she just gave up. Stopped eating, etc.
Car in, zones is how Iowa has decided to open up partially. but getting lumped in with Detroit sucks.
She didn’t have it. She was in a nursing home, and since she’s not allowed to have family visit, she just gave up. Stopped eating, etc.
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The “rules” of this COVID outbreak are a travesty.
That elderly woman merely fast tracked what I would be like if this never end (the “NEW NORMAL” bs). Seriously, what is the point of life if you can’t do … anything. You can work. You can walk or eat out but only if no one is near you.
Fuck that shit.
Fuck that shit.
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That is the correct response.
Yea, since Detroit will be the most restrictive in the state until who the fuck knows?
I’m going to stop eating.
(that’s not going to happen)
But still. We’re living on our knees right now.
In other words, by importing coronavirus from China with his incompetence, Trump has cured regular influenza and pneumonia.
Yeah Carin, this has been a mental health disaster. We have patients now that we should never see. If you’re 80 and suddenly you can’t play cards with your friends or see your adult children, yeah, you’re going to get depressed.
When really old people get depressed, it can manifest as psychosis. And then you get sent to the hospital, where you…still can’t see anybody or do anything, but now you’re in a strange environment, too, surrounded by strangers. So you don’t get better, and you’re parked there, taking up the last precious time you have left on the fucking planet.
Well, the left has succeeded in labeling the CA docs in favor of opening up the economy as anti-science, and their research and opinions are “debunked”.
I hate the left, and what they do to stupid people.
Hillary got muted?
Where can I see that?
it’s cool how they can “debunk” it by merely saying it’s debunked.
I think they go into the bathroom, turn out the light, and while using a lighter say “DEBUNKED” three times while looking in the mirror.
Hey MJ, does GND still have her kickass Bimmer?
it’s cool how they can “debunk” it by merely saying it’s debunked.
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This is the line that Stacey Abrams used last night about rapey Joe.
I think it was pretty good. And let’s be honest, the response doesn’t have to be really effective, it just has to have a veneer of respectability to get everyone to shut up.
Her response: Asked and answered! I believe Joe because of his background and the fact that the NYT did a rigorous investigation and found no evidence to support her claim. Still support all women, but this one has been debunked.
This will work, I think. Joe will survive this part, but sadly, not his own brain.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/28/stacey_abrams_on_tara_reade_biden_telling_the_truth_and_this_did_not_happen.html
Hey MJ, does GND still have her kickass Bimmer?
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LOL, it’s mine actually. But yeah, still have it.
Do you guys still have the mini? I love that car.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=387019
Here Scott
I just got a new one a few weeks ago – a 2020 S convertible.
Anyway, I got this bluetooth thing you plug into the OBD port, and an app for my phone called Bimmercode. You can go into the computer and adjust all sorts of codes for the car. You can get rid of all of the bullshit alarms when you start the car, make it always start in Sport mode, change sat heater settings, change lighting, etc., etc.
It’s a fucking blast.
Huh. I’ll have to look into that.
Just did.
Both of our cars are supported. She’ll be totally psyched because it’s a ass pain in the fucking to set it up the way you want it through the key.
Thanks Boomer!
It was hours not days though.
^^ Trump’s fault
The device I bought is this one.
HEARTBREAKING: Distraught NYC food truck owner slams Mayor de Blasio after she was forced to ice her own husband’s corpse for days after he died from suspected coronaviru
The real, filthy shame of this is that it was a verbal slam rather than a body slam into a dumpster that was already on fire.
1%er cars, pshaw.
those ODBC readers are great.
Oracle Database Connections?
@ MJ, Well? How did it shoot? Did you break it down and lube/clean it? I’ve never handled a kriss. Being a non traditional mechanism, does it require special attention to certain areas? Optic?
Dont make me interrogate you. I own felt shears.
Went back to the store and bought about 20# of chicken. Fifteen of which I put in MIL’s freezer. Took 5 lbs over to the kids, where daughter was sitting outside, waiting for me. She wasn’t going to let me in the house with possible ebola cooties. I went in anyway to say ‘hi’ to SIL (who was still on the clock) and to check out the contents of their freezer. With the five I brought them, they now have 10 lbs. Yep, totally prepared for the continued zombie apocalypse.
I know I said I’d only give her beans, but the maternal instinct is strong….that, and that boy is already too skinny.
Anyhoo, had a nice visit out in her driveway. My niece showed up with the service dog (a boisterous black lab) they’ve been boarding/training. I think the pup had her trained better than my niece had her trained. Lort, it was painful and funny to watch. Niece got a little miffed when I put on my teacher hat and the dog listened to me.
How did it shoot?
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Very nicely. Almost no recoil and def no muzzle rise between rounds. I was able to hit a 6 inch target every time at 50 and 75 feet (indoor range). And I’m not a particularly good shot.
Did you break it down and lube/clean it?
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Not yet. It’s on my list of things to do in the next few days. I only put 50 rounds through it. Supposed to lube first but I was all like, yep, gonna shoot it right now. Lube can wait.
Being a non traditional mechanism, does it require special attention to certain areas?
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It doesn’t. Just regular maintenance like any rifle. It’s pretty simple to take apart. 4 pins hold the upper and lower together to clean it or to switch calibers.
Optic?
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Flip up sites on the rail. Seemed to work perfectly fine. I’m going to hold off on any changes until I get more comfortable with it.
Pros – light, accurate, fun to shoot.
Cons – the mag drops out really fast.
I give it 76 out of 77 fully lubed Gretchens.
The one thing I can’t stand about dogs is when they jump all over you. When niece gave the command ‘free’, the dog knows she can go off script…which she immediately did to jump all over daughter.
Wth, I’d think that’d be one of the first things you teach a service dog – not to jump on humans. I told her I didn’t want her jumping on me, so she had to hold on to her leash until she calmed down enough for me to greet her and give her some skritchies. My command to ‘sit’ was heeded but oh man, the dog whined and twitched, fighting against her nature to stay ‘down’.
And I don’t know how many times niece put her fingers in the dog’s mouth to pull out rocks/twigs/helicopters.
Faced with the ability to open doors on Friday, many, probably a majority of restaurants around are choosing carry out only continuation. interesting.
And I don’t know how many times niece put her fingers in the dog’s mouth to pull out rocks/twigs/helicopters.
Life with a dog. They eat everything.
All the quarantine rules
Do I tell Costco I’m cancelling my membership or just tell them I’m not shopping there until they stop being retarded?
They’ll change their policy once enough people cancel. I’m sure they predicted a few percent but if it’s more than that, they’ll reconsider.
I’d cancel.
Heh, I have 2 filler poats, if anyone needs them, let me know. Hilarious.
I don’t think Costco will give in. Too many people just comply, and they won’t even blink if you stop shopping there. Same with Sam’s.
Lots of people try and mask shame now. I LOLd.
what did costco do ? What did I miss? Do you guys just start these thing w/o explaining to drive me nuts?
They’re going to require customers to mask up starting 5/4
Oh that’s right, oso doesn’t listen to H12 notifications.
Voluntary for our Members. Mandatory for us, unless you have a medical reason to not wear one.
They’re going to require customers to mask up starting 5/4
Two months into our descent into a Police State, long after it would make any fucking difference.
And no such requirement on NYC subways.
The time for violence is getting nearer and nearer.
Well, I mask up because I’m at risk, but I don’t expect everyone to do it, and if you’re sick, stay the fuck home.
Asymptomatic people who want to go out in public without a sock over their faces are violent psychopaths, Roamy, who must be arrested and held indefinitely.
They are worried about social distancing in a 10K clean room, ffs.
The people who walk around outdoors by themselves wearing a mask and gloves make me think that they must believe this virus is in the natural air all around them.
Yesterday and today were for recreational shoppers. Yesterday, the high was 85 and everyone was in clothing buying Summer clothes. We’re limiting meat again and tempers are flaring. There is a digital report I work daily. We updated the system and instead of 100 total items to audit, there was 500+. There is a receiver that is costing us thousands of dollars a week. Paperwork errors. I’m the reason she got coached yesterday.
Lauraw, I have a relative with no health issues other than obesity, who bags the mail for a week before reading it and disinfects her groceries. She’s the reason there are no Lysol or Clorox wipes to be had.
The people who walk around outdoors by themselves wearing a mask and gloves make me think that they must believe this virus is in the natural air all around them.
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My fav so far is people driving around in their cars masked and gloved.
I guess there could be some reason but that seems like a pretty long throw to get away from assing crazy.
There’s a couple in our neighborhood that walk everyday. They look like the invisible man. Wrapped up tight with nothing showing and always in sunglasses.
But she’s Asian so…
Beasn, I miss the Service Dog Trainers that used to train in our Club in the morning. There was a Boston Terrier that was totally enamored by the diamond case. She got in trouble for putting nose prints on the glass. There was a puppy that didn’t even make it in the Club on her first visit. She was so excited, she missed three straight outdoor commands. There was a Lab that was doing well until he made it to the back of the Club. They’re supposed to Stay in position while the trainer walks away. The Lab kept going up to Associates for scritches. Trainer took him out of the Club. He finally graduated, but it took him several weeks to stop going over to Dan.
If you work where you are required to wear a mask the whole shift, it’s pretty easy to just walk out to your car and go home, forgetting you have it on. You forget you’re wearing it, especially because you’re not trying to talk to anybody or do anything strenuous.
But nitrile gloves? No fucking way. Those things get sweaty-nasty in a minute. That’s insanity. Everybody peels them off as soon as they can.
anyone else set to start opening up? In my town, they want to stay closed, as far as I can tell. Haven’t found anyone opening up.
About half the people I see in grocery stores are masked. Most of the employees are masked – some with their noses sticking out. Other than deli, butcher, and some cashiers, no other employee wears gloves.
Some customers are wearing gloves and touch all the things that non-gloved people touch. What a pain in the ass extra work they must go through to get their stuff home and sterilized. I just grab a wipe when I get into the store and grab three on my way out. Anything not requiring refrigeration, I leave on the table for a few hours before putting away.
Masks are great if you have bad breath. Hate walking in/passing thru someone’s noxious breath cloud.
Walmart provides no wipes for customers and while someone is standing there with a spray bottle, I have never seen that someone spray down cart handles. Maybe we’re supposed to ask them?
Some places around here are opening. But there’s a full court press to shame businesses into staying closed.
Every headline is HOW MANY WILL DIE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO OPEN?
I hate that everything is so black and white. Reasonable people can’t even talk anymore.
Jay, I’m seeing more and more small businesses turning on their ‘open’ signs, around here. May take awhile before the people, who the media has scared shitless, to go back.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Never in my wildest imagination did I think that a fucking virus would become a political issue, but by God, it sure has.
It really makes me think that this is like a married couple who no longer love each other. There is no hope of reconciliation. We should just get a divorce.
We are moving from stage 4 (only people talking to astronauts on ISS) to stage 3 (“mission essential” work), probably Monday. I will still be mostly teleworking but on call for making measurements. I am ready to get back in the lab.
We shut down over 3 cases. I still think it made the rounds already when the Italians visited.
I hear you about the full court press against opening, MJ. I was going to go out Friday to support a business, but I haven’t found one that’s open.
We have 2 positives in the manufacturing plant. 30% of Iowa cases are in manufacturing, and meat packing plants.
There is no hope of reconciliation. We should just get a divorce.
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There is no common ground. I do not think, look at the world, act or speak like a lefty. I believe 100% that lefties have mental disorders.
I don’t know if it’s the low-fat diets, lack of red meat, soy, lack of testosterone, too much estrogen, plastics in containers and water, fluoride fossilizing our pineal gland, I have no effing idea but they are effing nuts and there are a lot of them. I don’t want them around, and I know they don’t want me around. Actually being around them makes me sick. I only live where I live* because of my daughter, otherwise, I’d try to find a conservative, beach enclave (harder than shit to find).
*Where I live used to be a wonderful, low key, older population, conservative town. Now it’s full of faggots and lesbians and northern liberals who are insufferable.
Local news is on. First story, covid hospitalizations up 50%…..the very next story, SSM Hospitals are furloughing 2000 staff without pay.
Umm…*scratches head*
I saw an ad where Michael Phelps was shilling for Soy Milk now, along with Aly Raisman (gymnast).
I don’t know if it’s the low-fat diets, lack of red meat, soy, lack of testosterone, too much estrogen, plastics in containers and water, fluoride fossilizing our pineal gland, I have no effing idea but they are effing nuts and there are a lot of them.
It’s pretty simple. They are driven by greed and envy with a dollop of sloth. Demrats are very good at tapping into that and turning those sorts into reliable dependent Karens.
At least that is the nature of those I’m related to.
Throw in some poor education and human nature of preferring the path of least resistance…..
I had a dentist appt scheduled for tomorrow but they called and canceled. That might be a good thing as I’m considering switching dentists anyway.
Today we saw a lady on a hiking trail who was wearing a mask and gloves.
For a walk in the woods?
We were walking towards each other. When she noticed us she quickly turned around and went the other way.
People are terrified.
People are terrified.
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Why? Because the dumbasses have the news on 24/7. And they are likely watching CNN.
It’s immoral that the news has frightened people enough to make them WANT to stay in their homes.
One of the women I know leaves everything in the garage for a week. Mail, deliveries, etc.
I’ve passed people in the woods and they get way off the trail 10 feet away into the woods … and turn their back.
So stupid.
Again, the educational system dick heads have done their jobs well.
People are not critical thinkers. They can’t do their own basic “research” (google search). They can’t see the big picture. They are too self-focused. They don’t understand or have ever read the Constitution and have zero knowledge of history, our Founding Fathers and who has died for what in this country.
I’m willing to risk my life (ha! because there is almost zero risk) to get our way of life up and going.
Remember when they tried to tell us AIDS wasn’t a homosexual disease? Yeah, they were lying their asses off.
Same with this fiasco, no one dies who doesn’t have something else very serious going on and kids don’t die at all.
“furloughing 2000 staff without pay.”
No elective surgeries and ER visits are way down.
Elective surgery pays the bills.
Beasn, everyone was stealing the wipes. All the carts are getting sprayed with disinfectant. You can see the spray residue. Our Greeters are spraying and wiping the cart handles. Wipes are put out sparingly.
Mare, we are having a record setting heat wave. Everything is still closed. The guy I’m voting for in the Primary, had a camera and was filming the Mayor that opened up Grants. We need more Mayors and Sheriffs to defy the Fat Tyrant in Santa Fe.
Navajo Nation numbers. The Detroit of NM.
I’m back to my regular office schedule next week. There was a meeting posted for sometime this week about opening up for elective surgery. I really don’t know if there have been furloughs, I’m sure there have been. If you have zero patients on the peds ward and one kid in the PICU you don’t need nurses or ancillary staff hanging around. Our office cut hours for the secretarial and ancillary staff.
I was talking with one of the trauma ortho guys last week and he said the guys in private practice have been snatching up trauma cases they ordinarily just admit and turn over to the trauma group. They primarily do elective cases and have their own surgicenter which can’t operate so they’re desperate for any income at all.
Reasonable people can’t even talk anymore.
STFUMJ
e is HOW MANY WILL DIE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO OPEN?
Fucking idiots. One the libs on facedouche would going on about how selfless and altrustic he was because he was content to just wait it out.
Dude barely supports himself, and doesn’t even really work. This is really no skin off of his back. He probably got his $1200 and can live off that for a while and he’s good.
https://tinyurl.com/Nice-robe-Mare
maybe a slow start is what we need. let the nervous nellies sit at home, and the braver ones can go out to restaurants and stores at partial capacity. After there is no really big spike, everyone will come around, and it will start out again.
Ugh, shutdown #2 would really suck.
Battery dying. 🤪👋🏻
Dan keeps planning vacations that the Rona keeps cancelling. Cheap North Shore vacays for Oahu in the Fall.
Travel will be almost free.
wow, Wiser has Sidney Powell, lawyer for Flynn, on the radio tomorrow.
Dan is guilting me into calling my mom. Claims I’ll be shedding years in purgatory. Pray for Oso. (If you are on FB, She’s the one calling me fat on FB. She got shredded by Morons)
Scott, yes. We are applying our airfare from cancelled vacations. Using points.
oso, if you don’t smack Dan, I will. It’s okay to distance yourself from toxic people….which includes family. I’ve seen the crap your mom spews and given the history there…..walk away. Pretty sure the angels and saints don’t expect you to keep taking abuse.
Or get serial, sit your mom down, and lay out your limits. If she can’t abide…buh bye.
Or tell Dan to call her.
Did I tell you my dad called day before Easter. I did answer because where could we possibly be during lockdown before Easter.
Me: Hello?
D: Hello?
Me: Hello?
D: Hello?
Me: Yes?
D: Who is this?
Me: …..
D: …..Hello?
Me: Can I help you?
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rinse/repeat…30 seconds later…
D: Hello?
Me: *finally exasperated as I’m in the middle of preparing for Easter* Is there something you want?
Small talk of 30 seconds more before handing the phone off to Mr. B.
Well, This TuCar is pretty relevant to today.
He pretty much calls bullshit…
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2020/04/30/tucker-our-leaders-are-making-a-mockery-of-their-own-quarantines/
This is so much bullshit, including Bill DeCommieo…
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2020/04/30/tucker-our-leaders-are-making-a-mockery-of-their-own-quarantines/
Well. Tomorrow is the long-overdue payment of rent deadline. I will be able to…barely…with ~$30 left over…if nothing goes awry.
“If”. Such a large word for only two letters.
And then I have three days for the NEXT one.
Meanwhile the useless donut-eaters at the IRS STILL have not processed my tax return and STILL have not sent my CoronaCheck.
Funny, what I owe MUST BE PAID, but what I’m owed will be paid…eventually…maybe.
Pray I never gain power and influence. I believe in pre-emptive strikes, parting shots, and highly disproportionate retribution.
During emergencies, remain placid.