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In a move that's being called "unprecedented tyranny," Walmart is now requiring all shoppers to wear pants in their stores.
Americans everywhere slammed Walmart for the move, saying it amounted to an infringement on our constitutional rights.
"I thought this was America," said one man as a greeter asked him to please put on some sweatpants or something before coming into the store. "It is my constitutional right to go into Walmart and shop for random stuff at 3 a.m. wearing nothing but some boxers and a giant Tweety Bird T-shirt I got in the '80s."
"Look, we don't think this is too much to ask," said a Walmart spokesperson. "Just throw on some sweats, pajama bottoms, whatever. This is for the health and mental safety of our employees. And for the love of God, take a shower once in a while, you know?"
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I've seen pictures of Walmartians who really need to pull up their pants
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Thought this was the Bee for certain. I went to Wal-Mart a couple of days ago. I don't recall whether I was wearing pants. Masks were required. There was only one door in or out and they were keeping track of how many shoppers were in the store at a given time. There were a lot of workers stocking shelves and many workers filling orders for curbside pickup. I tried to get someone to open one of the cabinets in electronics to no avail. Some customers had been waiting there for 1/2 hour and no one showed up. Not a very good way of doing business. No wonder people are being driven to Amazon.
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No worry. forget them and order home delivery. I have and I know many others will avoid shopping there. My son shops Dollar General and calls it his Walmart. Many of the men I talk with have expressed the same opinion. No longer provide a service place barriers to a pleasant shopping experience.
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The Walmarts in our area have been mandating this for months...surely 'cuz the guv'nah said so.
But I have other issues with Walmart. No joke/hyperpole: I went shopping this morning, and, front & center on a shelf was their brand of bread. Sell-by date was....July 3rd. Repeat, 07/03/2020. Another brand of bread was about a week past its sell-by date. It's not like these loaves of bread were stashed in the back somewhere...they were neatly arranged. Kudos to the visual merchandiser there.
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Out-of-date in any store is inexcusable. Inventory is pushed newest (back) to oldest (front) ...ALWAYS. One reason you have to check "use by" on bargain stuff
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[Reuters] Ikuko (pictured below), the "big sister" of Tokyo's Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel coronavirus pandemic has made her fear for her centuries-old profession as never before.
Though the number of geisha - famed for their witty conversation, beauty and skill at traditional arts - has been falling for years, Ikuko and her colleagues were without work for months due to Japan's state of emergency and now operate under awkward social distancing rules.
"There were more than 400 geisha in Akasaka when I came, so many I couldn't remember their names. But times changed," Ikuko, now 80, said. Only 20 remain, and there aren't enough engagements to take on new apprentices - especially now.
[Federalist] Former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Dr. Scott Atlas told Fox News there are "zero excuses" to keep children from returning to schools in the fall.
"There is virtually zero risk for children getting something serious or dying from this disease. Anyone who thinks schools should be closed is not talking about the children. It has nothing to do with the children’s risk," he said. "There’s no rational reason or science to say that children transmit the disease significantly."
Dr. Atlas pointed out that many American teachers are not in high-risk age groups and therefore, should not be concerned. He also noted that those who are nervous or high-risk can take extra precautions.
"It’s true that there are high-risk teachers and those teachers should be able to believe in their social distancing and masks. They can teach using social distancing. And if they still are afraid they can stay at home. There’s no reason to lock up the children," he said.
According to Dr. Atlas, closing down the schools and continuing online education would hinder children from a full learning experience that includes social interaction and hands-on teaching.
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Former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Dr. Scott Atlas
Wikipedia
Neuroradiology is a subspecialty of radiology focusing on the diagnosis and characterization of abnormalities of the central and peripheral nervous system, spine, and head and neck using neuroimaging techniques.
The study by the University hospital in Dresden analysed blood samples from almost 1,500 children aged between 14 and 18 and 500 teachers from 13 schools in Dresden and the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz in May and June.
The largest study conducted in Germany on schoolchildren and teachers included testing in schools where there were coronavirus outbreaks.
Of the almost 2,000 samples, only 12 had antibodies, said Reinhard Berner , a professor of paediatrics at the hospital, adding that the first results gave no evidence that schoolchildren played a role in spreading the virus particularly quickly.
As expected given COVID-19, China’s construction and, especially, investment around the world plunged in the first half of 2020. The decline may be exaggerated by Chinese firms not wanting to report global activity, but Beijing’s happy numbers are not credible.
From what little can be discerned, the Belt and Road Initiative is becoming more important, primarily because rich countries are more hostile to Chinese entities.
American policy needs to shift. Incoming Chinese investment is now extremely small, but technology is still being lost due to lack of implementation of export controls. Growing American portfolio investment in China is unmonitored and may support technology thieves, human rights abusers, and other bad actors.
[Al Ahram] The regime of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... turned the Hagia Sophia, the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Istanbul, the most iconic church of the Orthodox Christian world, into a mosque last weekend.
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I seem to recall that part of the Jihad is to turn infidels' religious and cultural landmarks into mosques as a symbol of their subjugation. Much about this when they tried to build a mosque or mosque-like structure at the site of the Twin Towers.
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I'm sure he does under that huge palace he built a few years ago
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I think it's time to do two things:
1) Kick Turkey out of NATO.
2) Remove all US personnel from Turkey, including all but one diplomat. That diplomat should be instructed say "I know nothing. . . NOTHING!" to every question asked.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
07/16/2020 19:42 Comments ||
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^ True Dat
Posted by: Frank G ||
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[Washington Examiner] The Unity Task Force created by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called for a "postal banking" system for people who don’t have access to regular banks, while experts and government reports pan the idea.
"I do not think it is the solution to improving the reach of financial services in our country," said Carrie Hunt, executive vice president of government affairs and general counsel for the National Association of Federally Insured Credit Unions.
Hunt is not alone in her assessment.
The Government Accountability Office, which audits the federal government, released a report in March that tapped the opinions of postal service officials and other stakeholders about the U.S. Postal Service adding banking to its amenities list and deemed that the post office "may not have the expertise nor the required capital" to pull it off.
The report also stated that the idea "may generate minimal revenue" as the post office seeks new income streams as it reported revenue losses of over $8 billion last fiscal year. This isn’t the first time that the agency has reported such losses.
The Postal Times reported on Friday that "over the past 14 years, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has lost $78.5 billion and now has $143 billion in unfunded liabilities. No one should be inspired enough by that performance to allow the agency to handle anyone’s money."
The Treasury Department also opposes granting the post office the power to provide financial services because of its limited capital reserves and lack of experience in the banking sector.
Its report from December 2018 stated that "given the USPS’s narrow expertise and capital limitations, USPS should not pursue expanding into new sectors, such as postal banking."
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The Postal Times reported on Friday that "over the past 14 years, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has lost $78.5 billion and now has $143 billion in unfunded liabilities. No one should be inspired enough by that performance to allow the agency to handle anyone’s money."
Insofar as it goes, true. But an appreciable chunk of that is the fact that Congress, always willing to bribe voters and let someone else pay for it, pulled this stunt:
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
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Let's get over it boys and girls. The Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 says Congress shall have the power to -
To establish post offices and post roads;
It's says nothing about profitability. Please use Article V to remove that if you believe you know better than the founders in a means of linking the country together that is not subject to private control (see today's media). It doesn't give Congress exclusive control, but says it will establish and run it.
[Mises] Imagine an articulate chief lemming bragging that not only had his followers jumped off a cliff, but that they had done so in far greater numbers than any other slice of the rodents. This is the position occupied by the US regarding testing for COVID-19.We’ve done more testing than any other country and bragged a lot about doing so; but no one seems to have survived to give a proper interpretation of the results. A lot of mathematical stuff at the link.
The professional and college athletics departments are making the same error. They are testing their athletes daily or every other day using a test that is no better than 70 percent sensitive. Eventually all the players will test positive. They will be isolated for fourteen days, after which they may again test positive, ad infinitum. Perhaps this explains some of the confusing reports we've read?
It should be obvious from the data above that all the testing we have done and continue to do has likely confused more than enlightened. The virus is real and in the wild. How should we effectively deal with it? The best indicator of our status is how many people are in the hospital because of a clinical diagnosis of viral pneumonia. More specifically, how many are in the ICU. Note that testing here is unnecessary, as the assumption today is that any case of viral pneumonia is caused by the coronavirus. Since May 18, in the US, according to Wordometers, the number of serious or critical cases has varied between 18,000 and 15,000, roughly trending downwards. Bit of an uptick in the last week.
If our situation regarding the epidemic improves, widespread testing will have played no role in this improvement. Why any improvement? We recognized who the at-risk population was and they took shelter and continue to do so. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that mortality from COVID-19 in patients younger than 50 is 0.05 percent. Virtually all of this mortality in younger patients comes from those with comorbidity. We also have gotten better at treating patients with severe pneumonia caused by the coronavirus.
The virus is likely to be with us for some time. Epidemics end either when those most susceptible to the pathogen have been exposed to it or when an effective and safe vaccine is available. We don’t have such a vaccine. It’s hard to know when or if one will be available. And the logistics of manufacturing and administering billions of doses are formidable. In the meanwhile, we have to coexist with it while not destroying society, socially and economically, in the process. We will also have to admit that our current testing regime has alarmed the planet without contributing a health benefit. But in April everyone told us we needed massive testing! I swear I remember that!
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If this were a deadly worldwide pandemic, we'd all know it. We'd personally know people who had died. There wouldn't need to be scary headlines daily to remind us.
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My Doc has 3 in ICU for 7 weeks so far.
(753 positive in the county, 8 dead)
My 2 degrees of separation is a gentleman who was unable to receive a stent due to 'elective' surgeries being postponed. Also, I'd say people on this board will have a higher rate of acquaintance with the vulnerable just based on age. But point taken.
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Ok. Let me try this a different way. How many of us know someone who passed in the last year from cancer, heart attack, accident, etc? Now, compare that number to COVID deaths.
I don't pay attention to the always increasing number. Because naturally if you add 1 to a number it increases and the medias usual PANIC laced headline follows: Convid-19 Virus cases surge (citing the total number),
What we do know:
* nationwide C-19 testing is finally underway.
More testing obviously produces what? If you said increased results correct.
* More testing increases false positives results.
* False Positives range from 15.2% to 26.9% we are told this by the CDC/WHO/NIH and etc...
* Plus testing uncovers 10's of 1000's that have the antibodies by either natural or acquired immunity. Or had a mild to bad cold and were over in 2-3 days at home.
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So here is how I look at the numbers:
there are ## Million residents in my state X # were infected over over 200 days since c-19 arrived. So on any given day of those 200 days X # of people were NOT INFECTED vs. how many that were. X # of Infected died vs. X number that did not die, out of ## Million.
Now use the US population of 342,000,000 (342M) X 200 days = 68,400,000,000 (68.4B) My odds getting C-19 are 68B ./.# of reported c-19 cases that day.
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"So if we only monitor deaths we'll at least have viable statistics."
If only. We are counting all deaths *with* COVID as deaths *from* COVID. In other words, if you die in a car crash and a postmortem test is positive for COVID (and all dead are being tested), then it's reported as a COVID death. I wish I were making this up.
Also, keep in mind the ~30% false positive rate from current tests.
[PJ] In June, while Americans were focused on the protests and riots that engulfed U.S. cities in the wake of the horrific police killing of George Floyd, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) released an online "teaching tool" called "Talking About Race." The page dedicated to "whiteness" includes an infographic attributing various aspects of American culture to "whiteness" or "white dominant culture." Among other things, this graphic suggests that the nuclear family, science, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition are forms of oppressive "whiteness" that non-white people should reject as part of an oppressive system.
"Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal," the Smithsonian "whiteness" page reads. The "teaching tool" suggests that "whiteness" needs to be overthrown in order for non-white people to become liberated from an oppressive "white culture."
The Smithsonian "teaching tool" takes a radical stance on "white privilege," arguing that every white person in America has benefited from his or her skin color ("If you are white in America, you have benefited from the color of your skin."). While it is true that white people do not have the same struggles as various racial minorities, some white people (like some Asian people) have been passed over in some cases due to affirmative action programs. White people have also been unfairly demonized as oppressors.
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I can't find it on the interwebs, but in a galaxy far, far away the great Boston Celtics center Bill Russell was asked whether being black gave him natural advantages when it came to playing basketball. Russell replied something like: "Well, gee, if I had known I had all that natural talent I wouldn't have spent 10,000 hours practicing in the gym."
Posted by: Matt ||
07/16/2020 9:36 Comments ||
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Time to defund that department...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
07/16/2020 11:20 Comments ||
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It's fine with me if non-white people choose to reject Western Civilization. They can go back to living in the jungle in grass huts with no running water, no plumbing, no electricity, and no agriculture. They can go to the witch doctor when they get sick. They can hunt with spears and bows and arrows and forage for nuts and berries. Some people might actually enjoy living that way. They just can't do it here in my neighborhood.
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I'm sure David Duke is smiling. His toxic ideas have taken root, just in unexpected places.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Reuters] Ikuko (pictured below), the "big sister" of Tokyo's Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel coronavirus pandemic has made her fear for her centuries-old profession as never before.
[Federalist] Former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Dr. Scott Atlas told Fox News there are "zero excuses" to keep children from returning to schools in the fall.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
[Washington Examiner] The Unity Task Force created by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called for a "postal banking" system for people who don’t have access to regular banks, while experts and government reports pan the idea.
[Mises] Imagine an articulate chief lemming bragging that not only had his followers jumped off a cliff, but that they had done so in far greater numbers than any other slice of the rodents. This is the position occupied by the US regarding testing for COVID-19.We’ve done more testing than any other country and bragged a lot about doing so; but no one seems to have survived to give a proper interpretation of the results.
[PJ] In June, while Americans were focused on the protests and riots that engulfed U.S. cities in the wake of the horrific police killing of George Floyd, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) released an online "teaching tool" called "Talking About Race." The page dedicated to "whiteness" includes an infographic attributing various aspects of American culture to "whiteness" or "white dominant culture." Among other things, this graphic suggests that the nuclear family, science, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition are forms of oppressive "whiteness" that non-white people should reject as part of an oppressive system.
