Tulsi Gabbard throws away her integrity
Submitted by FreeSociety on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 6:20pm.
Tulsi Gabbard had always seemed to me like the rare exception to the rule.
Friday Photography - On The Bay ...
Submitted by janis b on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 6:07pmeverything looks normal, the tides come and go, the birds peck around, the setting sunlight illuminates the valley. But for us these are uncharted waters, and for many it will hold much pain. My wish is that the pain recedes in time and a new chart is drawn, one less harmful to all of life.
The Evening Blues - 3-27-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:48pm
Saudi regime is headed for disaster
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 2:35pmThe soon-to-be demise of the Saudi monarchy has come about from two stupid wars of choice that they intentionally started.
It couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of criminals.
The Oil Price War
Human sacrifice is not good for the economy, and neither is class warfare
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 12:23pmWednesday in The Guardian online there was a piece by Jonathan Portes titled "Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy." This is an attempt to rationally rebut the notion that "the economy" is some kind of god or gods which demands continual human sacrifice if the un
the weaponization of coronavirus: more evil than ever
Submitted by wendy davis on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 10:39am
Xi, not China this time; how coy of him:
‘Blame Xi, not China, for the impact of the coronavirus’, Austin Lowe, Opinion Contributor — 03/25/20, the hill.com (two paragraphs of a propaganda piece)
“To refer to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus,” as Trump and other members of the GOP leadership have, is deeply problematic. It is also misleading. The severity of the virus has nothing to do with action or inaction by the Chinese people; on the contrary, many Chinese citizens should be lauded for their efforts to sound the alarm on the issue.
Open Thread Friday 3-27-2020
Submitted by studentofearth on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 5:36am
My county is has 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Testing is still very limited in Oregon and we are in a partial lock down. Some optimization if we follow the guidelines may not overrun our capacity of hospital beds. This will go on for several weeks and every few days there area a few more restrictive orders.
Blackrock: Being on both ends of a scam
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 11:38pmThe Federal Reserve on Tuesday hired BlackRock Inc. to steer tens of billions of dollars in bond purchases. Again.
Heroes in a 1st world country that looks more like a 3rd world one
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 10:47pmHeroes.
.@nytimes has video from a hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. It is horrifying.
“We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying.”
“Five ventilators...there’s a mythical 100 ventilators out there that we haven’t seen.” https://t.co/zARPofu6pS pic.twitter.com/JxKl46H5RC
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) March 26, 2020
