Punxsutawney

That’s more than half of Oregon’s total deaths so far. Oregon’s population is about 60% of Arizona’s.

And given the numbers of new infections there the last three weeks, this will be typical.

@jbnw

Though Mr. TPP Obama more than deserves his share of the blame. We need a national manufacturing strategy. Like OB, I don’t trust Vichy’s like Biden for a nano second, but this is smart policy on there part, if only the tip of the…[Read more]

Hopefully medical science will come up with treatments to minimize the damage it does to human bodies.

He would have been on the freeway where the two women were hit except he was tired and took the night off. He has story after story of how the police have not followed the rules that they are supposed to and intentionally ratchet things up; how the protesters there are under constant threat from vehicles trying to hit them or shoot at them, often…[Read more]

If it exists, where has to be one of the most valuable secrets the world has known. Not to us hoi polloi,  but to those in power. And if discovered she’s f’d.

Nothing short circuits wars like a pandemic.

Looked for the most part as well disciplined. Well at least till bullets fly then all bets are off as is usual. Mostly black but there were other races there, including a blond woman carrying an assault rifle. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander but I’m not sure anyone benefits here.

Oh yeah, helps conservatives get elected.

So much for originalism.

It Burns!

Once watching someone set off fireworks under their eves. The stuff shooting out was hitting the bottom and bouncing back onto the driveway. Was amazed it didn’t set the underside of the roof on fire. Couldn’t believe the stupidity at the time.

OSHA’s Job is to protect employer’s not workers. As is the same with every HR department that ever existed.

More evil yes.

He hung around quite a bit as well.

I will admit that it didn’t bother me one bit that the Netflix series showed pics of Bill quite often though.

Thanks @thouartthat

To politics, history, or economics. Yeah, the paragarium theorem or the chemical structure of Benzene, or the geography of the Tierra del Fuego, have at it.

There are whole outfits on the right whose job it is is to rewrite the facts on history, or economics. And apparently, on the Democratic side as well. Notice I don’t call them the left.

Where he can cause trouble to his heart’s content.

That would actually leave the rethugs in a much better position. They can nominate one of their smarter, yet still despicable pols. Maybe Mitt will ride in on his white horse? 🎠

tRumpy is becoming so unpopular that the level of election fraud/vote flipping they normally do is going to be…[Read more]

Because it’s an election year and they new that they needed to keep people behaving normally, i.e. spending money they don’t have. Otherwise they would have negative effects on economic numbers. And that is the biggest predictor of whether the party in power wins, the economy. And the shutdowns were certain to do this, so deny, refuse to…[Read more]

@alittleweird

Yes, cases per 100,000 is a good metric. Oregon was one of the best states for this particular number. Not sure where we fit now, but total cases are about 220 per 100,000 of population. .22% as of today. Today’s case count would be 8.9 persons per 100,000 based on 2019 population.

And today’s numbers are again worse, a 4.2%…[Read more]

Yes, that’s a better % than Florida’s, Texas’s or most of the southern states. But we closed down fairly early and were for weeks at 40-70 cases a day, and even had a few sub 30 case days. Then Memorial day and opening, though most of the problems have been tied to low wage employers (food producers, processors, again poor brown people/poverty) +…[Read more]