Pelosi Praised Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Ford’s ‘Courage,’ But Ignores Biden Accuser Tara Reade | The Daily Caller

Pelosi Praised Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Ford’s ‘Courage,’ But Ignores Biden Accuser Tara Reade | The Daily Caller:

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supported and praised Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford, but has maintained silence on 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden’s accuser Tara Reade.
Ford leveled accusations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh in September 2018, launching a media onslaught and a series of congressional hearings into the allegations against the now-Supreme Court justice. Throughout these events, Pelosi expressed support for Ford.

The way we were-----50 Amazing Vintage Photos from the 1960s Volume 10

Boob-tube-----70s TV Show Stars Then and Now

Record unemployment AND companies unable to fill jobs!-----The $600 federal boost to unemployment is triggering confusion - Business Insider

The $600 federal boost to unemployment is triggering confusion - Business Insider:

• A $600 federal boost to unemployment payments has caused some confusion, with some people now earning more in unemployment than they were while working. 
• Some employed workers say the system seems unfair and are asking to be laid off so they can collect unemployment. 
• Some business owners are struggling to hire people and wondering whether they should stay open or allow their workers to get a pay boost through unemployment. 
• "How do I say no to employees who asked to be laid off so they can get a raise?" one restaurant owner asked.

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A Visit to NY...Health Worker Says EVERYONE Who Dies Has "Corona Virus" on their Death Certificate...

"The original video was posted on April 11, 2020 by Mr. Lincoln Karim, citizen journalist, and is titled
"A Visit to NY Pres/Weill Cornell Medical Complex - April 11, 2020”

David Katz: Americans need herd immunity and for US reopen - TheBlaze

David Katz: Americans need herd immunity and for US reopen - TheBlaze:

On Sunday, Katz appeared on Fox News' "Life, Liberty & Levin" to elaborate on his ideas to combat the novel coronavirus.
"That's what will happen if you lock everybody away from everybody else and kind of wait until things get better and then let everybody out into the world," Katz told host Mark Levin. "The virus is still out there. We don't have antibodies. We'll just get it later."
"If all you do is flatten the curve, you don't prevent deaths or severe cases. You just change the dates. We don't want to do that," Katz said.
Katz suggested that we don't need to test all 330 million Americans, but rather representative random sampling from communities all across the country could provide enough data to assign risks.

"Living" in a city controlled by the democrat party.

Think there might be some cause-of-death fudging?--New coronavirus symptoms added to CDC’s list of possible COVID-19 signs - syracuse.com

New coronavirus symptoms added to CDC’s list of possible COVID-19 signs - syracuse.com
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have added six new COVID-19 symptoms to watch out for.
The original list consisted of three familiar symptoms fever, cough and shortness of breath. 
Now the list includes 

• chills, 
• repeated shaking with chills, 
• muscle pain, 
• headache, 
• sore throat and 
• loss of taste or smell...

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Lunch video-----Fireside Chat Ep. 131 — The Question Adults Should Ask

Noon-toon

China pressured the EU to change a report about their pandemic coverup — and they did - TheBlaze

China pressured the EU to change a report about their pandemic coverup — and they did - TheBlaze:

A bombshell report from Reuters documented China's successful effort to soften a report from the European Union that would describe their "disinformation campaign" about the coronavirus pandemic.
The Reuters report cited four diplomatic sources and was published on Friday.
The sources said that the European report on the Chinese coverup was set to be released on April 21 when Chinese authorities heard about it and persuaded the E.U. to postpone its release and edit its contents.

Disengaging China: The Dangerous Inefficiency of Economic Efficiency | VodkaPundit

Disengaging China: The Dangerous Inefficiency of Economic Efficiency | VodkaPundit
"Think of the global economy as a fine Swiss timepiece. 
Expertly-made gears spinning frictionlessly on jeweled bearings, controlling multiple hands and a variety of complications, all to deliver immediate and easily-viewed results to its wearer.

The smartphone in your pocket is a similar marvel on a larger and even more complicated scale. 

• Resources from Africa, South America, and elsewhere get converted into LCD or OLED screens in South Korea, 
• accelerometers and gyroscopes in Europe, 
• cameras in Japan, 
• computer chips in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, 
• specialty glass in North Carolina, and 
• milled aluminum cases in China, where the final product is assembled. 
• From there the phones are shipped around the world on jet aircraft typically manufactured by Boeing in the United States or Airbus in Europe. 
• All of this runs on energy drilled or fracked and then piped or shipped from the Middle East, Russia, and the Americas. 

In each case, the necessary inputs come from the most efficient source, to be turned into outputs by the most efficient manufacturer.

Like a Swiss watch, it's a marvel of efficiency -- right up until it isn't.

Throw a little sand in the gears of a Swiss watch, and the whole thing freezes up. 

The global supply chains got a big dose of sand in the form of the Wuhan coronavirus.

A small example of just that comes from novelist Mike Massa on Facebook last week. Massa took a look at how an easy-to-make (and locally-made) product like yeast nevertheless fell victim to the collapse of the global supply chain. 

The Virus Insanity Shut-In Time has a lot more people baking at home, if only to kill time, so much so that Fleischmann's reported a 600% year-over-year increase in yeast demand for February and March.

Massa wrote:

Making yeast is dirt simple (almost.) Therefore, manufacturing the actual yeast, even at 6x normal for this time of year is no problem. Packaging? Yeah, that's a problem. For example (drawn from recent news), Fleischmann's yeast is packaged using jars and paper envelopes sourced from one, 
count'em, one factory. In India. Which is closed.

Since Fleishmann's can't easily ramp up an alternative (though I'm sure that they're working hard on that) to this single point of failure in their supply chain, they can't sell us dry yeast...

Beijing Using Red Tape to Slow Export of Critical Medical Supplies to the U.S.

...there are at least two lessons we need to take to heart -- and make real in policy -- as rapidly as possible.

They are:

• Offshoring manufacturing jobs in exchange for cheap consumer goods was not a good bargain.

• Allowing a bad actor like the mainland People's Republic of China sit at the epicenter of the global supply chains is a deadly risk the world can't afford to take a second time.

Even now, with its infected hand caught in the world's cookie jar, Beijing and their bought-and-paid-for global allies are in full-on Denial Mode.

Ed Morrissey

✔@EdMorrissey

We did ... when you announced that there was no evidence of community spread, even though Taiwan warned you about it two weeks prior. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1254803548518395906 …

AFP news agency

✔@AFP

Replying to @AFP

#BREAKING 'World should have listened to WHO' on #coronavirus: Director General Tedros

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True!

Finley: A dictator in Lansing, plus a debt we'll never repay

Finley: A dictator in Lansing, plus a debt we'll never repay

"Here's what's changed in Michigan's response to the COVID-19 crisis: Instead of a government that adheres to the state Constitution, it has a governor who has claimed dictatorial authority.

...The extension expires again on Thursday, and the governor will not go to the Legislature for approval to keep her orders in place. Instead, she will act unilaterally to give herself total control, with no checks on her actions.

This is a dangerous place to be, particularly when no one can say for certain when the crisis will end. She's already abused her powers for political purposes by hiring a firm tightly bound to the Democratic Party to track virus data. 

Ruining the future

...Cities and states are asking for a new bill to bail them out. If history is a guide, that $2 trillion plus will never come off the books. And the debt will never be repaid.

Etc.

We may never know how many people actually die of COVID-19. Even before the virus, one-in-three death certificates listed the wrong cause of death, thanks to miserably incompetent reporting procedures at the local level...

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#1 This day 1965-----Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter Herman's Hermits

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?--Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Joe Northcott

Fun for Kultura Friday.

• Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

DONALD TRUMP: I've been told by my many sources, good sources - they're very good sources - that the chicken crossed the road. All the Fake News wants to do is write nasty things about the road, but it's a really good road. It's a beautiful road. Everyone knows how beautiful it is.

JOE BIDEN: Why did the chicken do the...thing in the...you know the rest.

SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, he's a maverick!

BARACK OBAMA: Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to surrender her eggs. Period.

AOC: Chickens should not be forced to lay eggs! This is because of corporate greed! Eggs should be able to lay themselves.

JOHN McCAIN: My friends, the chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make why the chicken crossed the road.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or against us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white?

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he is acting by not taking on his current problems before adding any new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross the road so badly. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a NEW CAR so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way the chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

KING DAVID: O Lord, why dost the chicken cross the road? And why art the chicken hawks beset around it? Surely in vain the road is crossed in the sight of any predator.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it's lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2014, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2014. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

What it's REALLY about!

Authoritarianism On The Rise In America In The Age Of Coronavirus | The Daily Caller

Authoritarianism On The Rise In America In The Age Of Coronavirus | The Daily Caller:

To battle the coronavirus pandemic, states and cities across the U.S. have embraced authoritarian measures, but are they going too far?
Some public officials, like Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, have gone so far as to ban people from visiting friends and family unless they are doing so to perform medical assistance. Some cities have implemented mass surveillance programs, widely considered to be illegal. Police in 22 different cities have begun using DJI drones to enforce coronavirus restrictions, despite a ban on these drones by the Department of Justice.

Study: Historic Drop in U.S. Reading, Math Scores Since Common Core

Study: Historic Drop in U.S. Reading, Math Scores Since Common Core
A study released Monday by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute reveals a historic drop in national reading and math scores among U.S. students since the adoption of the Common Core Curriculum Standards a decade ago.

“The proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.”

...“The lowest performing students – those readers who struggle the most – have made no progress in reading from the first NAEP administration almost 30 years ago,” she added:

NAEP@NAEP_NCES

Dr. Peggy Carr, Associate Commissioner, notes that the lowest performing students--those readers who struggle the most--have made no progress in reading since the first assessment almost 30 years ago. Learn more: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/reading/2019/?anchor=percentiles-section …#NAEPDay

AM Fruitcake

History for April 28

History for April 28 - On-This-Day.com
James Monroe 1758 - 5th U.S. President, nickname: The Last Cocked Hat, (Nelle) Harper Lee 1926 - Author ("To Kill A Mockingbird"), Saddam Hussein 1937 - Iraqi leader


Ann-Margret (Olsson) 1941 - Singer, actress ("Viva Las Vegas", "Grumpy Old Men"), Jay Leno 1950 - Comedian, television talk show host ("The Tonight Show"), Mary McDonnell 1953 - Actress


1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.


1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.