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NY Post takes a swipe at its peers:

“President John Adams signed a law making it a crime to criticize the government; 20 newspaper editors were imprisoned. Andrew Jackson not only had his own paper, edited by a member of his cabinet, but it got government subsidies. Kayleigh McEnany hurting your feelings is not a constitutional crisis.”

And then there's this guy “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” – JoeBob Biden, May 22, 2020

Our choices boil down to Whackjob A or Whackjob B.

Is it too late to get Bernie the Communist back?

The Trump administration's new Vaccine Czar, appointed to lead the ridiculously named Operation Warp Speed that would include the equally ridiculous notion of deploying a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine using the military, has accepted the position as an independent contractor. 

As a contractor, Moncef Slaoui is not subject to laws that would require disclosure of of positions, holdings, and other circumstances that would present a conflict of interest.

Don't worry, the HHS ethics office has cleared him.

Yesterday Trump wanted to be FDR by nationalizing pharma, today he wants to be Stalin by militarizing the distribution of a CoVID-19 vaccine.

“He's not dangerous for the reasons the left thinks he dangerous. He's dangerous because he doesn't know how stupid he is.” – James Jacobin

Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, a person who holds several silly hereditary titles of social rank in the United Kingdom, has encouraged members of Britain’s recently-unemployed ranks to assist the farming industry with the harvesting of crops to prevent the crops from “going to waste” and conveyed it is a matter of national pride.

How can a country tolerate the sanctimony of a person whose only troubles in life are the ones he created himself?

When I get stuck with the task of shucking the corn, I'm just grateful I'm not the poor sap who had to wrap it.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

“All I can say is that I don't have Leo's insecurities.” – mJ

A 6.4 quake struck Tonopah, NV today. Maybe it's time to let out the aliens.

(People talk about Area 51 because they don't know about Tonopah)

Public pension funds such as CalSTRS, CalPERS (the nation's largest), and the Florida State Board of Administration have invested in UBER.

State workers are having their futures placed in a company that has lost more money than Donald Trump.

UBER, a ride-sharing company that has lost more than $20,000,000,000 during its eleven year history and still loses money on its rides pays CEO Dara Khosrowshahi $1,000,000 per year.

In 2019, UBER reimbursed Dara $2,000,000 for work-related expenses.

Let Him Bee

What you call bees I call stinger-wielding nectar junkies.

“Regular exercise has far more health benefits than we know.” – Dr. Zhen Yan

Statements like these are why observant people regard the proclaimed experts as self-important dummkopfs.

Some news reports are calling SARS-CoV-2 a designer virus.

Great, now everyone will want it.

Almost every municipality has an ordinance against wearing masks in public.

Now, people are being fined for not breaking the law.

Everyone's favorite communist has suspended his presidential campaign.

As a further indicator of Bernie's lack of political acumen, he did not leverage his withdrawal for an appointment to a cushy government job with no accountability – oh, wait. He already has one.

With Boris in the ICU – but not on a vent, go figure – now is the time to remind (or inform) everyone that while Great Britain claims to be a Constitutional Monarchy, it never got around to actually writing a Constitution.

Many viruses do not deactivate under 165°F. SARS-COV-2 does not deactivate until at least 133°F. A high-grade fever (102°F – 109.6°F) does not approach the temperatures required to deactivate a virus.

There is anecdotal evidence that a low-grade fever (<102°F) is beneficial to the immune response, but do not expect your body to start incinerating viruses.

P.S. If you are inclined to use the Latin plural, it is vira, not viri.

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