How the heck is it March already? Anyone?
“Former vice president Joe Biden decisively won the South Carolina primary Saturday, as the first Southern test of the nominating process dealt a blow to the surging candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders and held the potential to reshape the Democratic race.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-primary-potentially-reshaping-the-democratic-race/2020/02/29/20117978-5b0e-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html
I am not comforted at all by the people in charge here:
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-29-20-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html
Dude, at least wait until the ink is dry on the divorce!
“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, are expecting a child this summer, a spokeswoman for the couple announced Saturday. … [Symonds] said, “Many of you already know, but for my friends that still don’t, we got engaged at the end of last year . . . and we’ve got a baby hatching early summer. Feel incredibly blessed.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/29/boris-johnson-baby-engaged/
Click at your own risk.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/29/donald-trump-cpac-romney-comey-flag
DOT, Country Music Edition:
“For years, women have been told that there is only one spot for women on playlists and label rosters, that they should avoid releasing ballads, that their music isn’t good enough and that their songs cannot be played back-to-back.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/country-music-radio-has-ignored-female-artists-years-we-have-ncna1137571
“Garth Brooks played to more than 70,000 fans Saturday night at Ford Field, home of the Lions for the last 18 years — and he did so in a Sanders throwback jersey. Nice touch for the local fans, but it confused others who thought the singer was making a political statement.”
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-02-28/bernie-sanders-garth-brooks-barry-sanders-jersey
For laughs: “You just fold it in!”
Happy Sunday Funday!
Honestly it took me a second to realize they were talking about Barry Sanders. Just the thought of a bunch of redneck motherfuckers getting the impression that Girth (not a typo) was endorsing Bernie is hilarious.
The comments on the Insta were sooooo dumb!
BTW good morning to David Byrne and David Byrne only!
I love that people who voted for a reality TV personality tell a Country singer/songwriter to stick to singing and not get political, lol. Do they hear themselves?
Sadly yes. Yes they do.
Their brains would explode from the illogical overload if their brains actually worked… (reading some of the comments from those guys, that’s what they accuse never Trump fans of which just adds to the irony.)
Brooks performed at Obama’s 2009 inauguration but he’s a white dude and the most successful country artist of all time so he’s not going to get Dixie Chicked.
For this crowd, “anti-American” is political; Toby Keith is not.
Sunday that’s my… uh… workday.
Days like today are where I get annoyed with my job/finances that I HAVE to work OT instead of doing something non productive. Remember when folks talked about using productivity gains to reduce the workweek? Yeah, me neither.
Hope the workday goes quickly for you!
On the viral front, this Washington Post article will get the blood boiling:
“Inside Trump’s frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-frantic-attempts-to-minimize-the-coronavirus-crisis/2020/02/29/7ebc882a-5b25-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html
If you want your blood boiling for a different reason, scan the NY Times coverage. You’ll notice something different — no attempt whatsoever to dig into Trump’s response. They are clearly muzzling themselves to avoid assigning any kind of responsibility at all to Trump. They have a front page article about questions about US preparedness, and the only time it mentions Trump is a brief mention of criticism of his messaging.
Which is of course the MO of the Times. Skip the substance, frame criticism as a messaging issue, and by all means pretend like Trump isn’t incompetent and surrounded with hacks. It sounds, come to think of it, the way they deal with the failures of their top editors Dean Baquet and Michael Bennet.
We own a small medical clinic not too far from where a boy just showed up to school w/ the virus & a little further from where the first death happened in WA. Both the federal and state health departments are seriously fucking up. We have no guidelines or ways to test for the virus & if somebody shows up to our clinic with the virus, we could be shut down each time for 14 days! They are telling people to go to their primary but only a few places can even test for it. Good thing they put Pence on it, I am sure he will fix everything or at least have God come down and fix it. My kids teachers told them on Friday to make sure to take all their books home since they may be doing online school by Monday. Things are getting pretty crazy.
…damn…I have family closer to that neck of the woods than I’d like under the circumstances but not in your line of work
…the lack of testing is for sure a really nasty part of the equation with a “novel” infection – I read somewhere a conversation where people were quoting a value north of 3k for the cost to confirm or deny if a person is infected which seems hard to wrap my head around – given that various cases in various places have been confirmed & the virus itself (fully?)identified I confess I don’t understand how at least that much of the process isn’t already approaching whatever degree of ubiquity might be reasonable to expect in an effort to halt (or at least mitigate) a potential pandemic?
…& I honestly hadn’t even considered the impact of having to close to patients for two weeks anytime someone confirmed to be suffering shows up to your door which sounds like several kinds of nightmare getting together like Voltron to just royally fuck things up
…best of luck doesn’t really seem enough, to be honest…if a mass-produced vaccine is likely 18months or more away & there are people like that idiot at trump’s press thing the other day (the one who just had to get that line out about affordability being preferable but definitely coming second after paying out to the shareholders…in defiance of all context) with priorities more or less reversed from the ones we all need I don’t want to have to see how bad it needs to get for those assholes to get their shit together
…so I guess if I’m honest I’ve been wondering a lot how the CDC’s weathered storm donnie & failing to give due consideration to folks like yourselves…safe to say I’ll be thinking as many good thoughts in your direction as I can muster?
I do admin work for a manufacturing company. I have been talking to the different managers about what policies will be put in place if it hits where we are located. We run on a point system for absences and if you hit a certain number you are fired. Doctor excuses negate points but staying home for child care do not. So if the schools close we need to come up with an official policy. If one of our workers contract it and comes to work it would be a huge financial loss to quarantine the shop. Also we use dust masks in certain areas so we are stockpiling the hell out of them. Hopefully this will pass but I don’t have much faith.
You warned me not to click but I clicked.
“Please clap” should just be the anthem for this administration. Just an entire political party fueled by desperate need to be admired and voters cheering for their Stockholm Syndrome diagnosis.
I don’t want to say “I told you so”, but I told you so!
Catherine O’Hara! I love, love, love her!
I see seasons 1-3 on my library. SC goes on the list!
It’s a great show and really gets going after the first couple episodes so give it a hot sec. Catherine O’Hara is fabulous as always.