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Apr182020

Episode 156 Show Notes – FREEDOM! Soon Anyway

I don’t know about you but I am feeling the warmth from the light at the end of the tunnel. President Trump releases the plan for opening up the country.

But is it a good idea and is his plan solid?

 

Oh My Gosh! Normalcy?!

The CDC and FEMA have created a plant to get the country running again. The plan is a phased plan and is not an “open everything” plan.

The President is suppose to make the announcement on Thursday. But, essentially, the plan is already in action and the start of the opening is scheduled for May 1.

The Washington Post got an early copy of the plan:

“CDC and FEMA officials have worked on the public health response for at least the past week, and the resulting document has been discussed at the White House, including by members of the coronavirus task force,” The Washington Post reported. “The version obtained by The Post appears to be an early draft by FEMA and contains granular instructions for a phased reopening of institutions such as schools, child-care facilities, summer camps, parks, faith-based organizations and restaurants.”

The plan places all communities in three catagories:

  • Low Mitigation – communities where significant spread was never observed, can “re-open” soon
  • Moderate Mitigation – former hot spots entering controlled recovery, limited mitigation communities observing increased, but contained transmission
  • Significant Mitigation – current or emerging hot spots, moderate mitigation communities showing signs of strained capacity

 

Decisions on reopening individual communities – which will be made at the federal, state, and local levels – are contingent on:

  • Confidence that incidence of infection is genuinely low.
  • A surveillance system that is well functioning and capable of promptly detecting any increase in incidence.
  • A public health system that is reacting robustly to all cases of COVID-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in incidence.
  • A health system that has the capacity in all respects, including inpatient beds, staffing, an other services, to handle all cases and that is in a position to rapidly scale up to deal with a surge in cases.

 

“Based on the latest data, our team of experts now agrees that we can begin the next front in our war, which we are calling ‘opening up America again,” Trump said during the White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. “We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time.”

The administration released the proposed state or regional gating criteria (The following is from the DailyWire.com):

  • SYMPTOMS:
    • Downward trajectory of influenza-like illnesses (ILI) reported within a 14-day period AND Downward trajectory of covid-like syndromic cases reported within a 14-day period.
  • CASES:
    • Downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period OR Downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests within a 14-day period (flat or increasing volume of tests)
  • HOSPITALS:
    • Treat all patients without crisis care AND Robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers, including emerging antibody testing.

The plan then breaks out three phases for opening up the country.

  • PHASE ONE: For States And Regions That Satisfy The Gating Criteria:
    • FOR INDIVIDUALS:
      • ALL VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS* should continue to shelter in place. Members of households with vulnerable residents should be aware that by returning to work or other environments where distancing is not practical, they could carry the virus back home. Precautions should be taken to isolate from vulnerable residents.
      • All individuals, WHEN IN PUBLIC (e.g., parks, outdoor recreation areas, shopping areas), should maximize physical distance from others. Social settings of more than 10 people, where appropriate distancing may not be practical, should be avoided unless precautionary measures are observed.
      • Avoid SOCIALIZING in groups of more than 10 people in circumstances that do not readily allow for appropriate physical distancing (e.g., receptions, trade shows)
      • MINIMIZE NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL and adhere to CDC guidelines regarding isolation following travel.
    • FOR EMPLOYERS:
      • Continue to ENCOURAGE TELEWORK, whenever possible and feasible with business operations.
      • If possible, RETURN TO WORK IN PHASES.
      • Close COMMON AREAS where personnel are likely to congregate and interact, or enforce strict social distancing protocols.
      • Minimize NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL and adhere to CDC guidelines regarding isolation following travel.
      • Strongly consider SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS for personnel who are members of a VULNERABLE POPULATION.
    • FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF EMPLOYERS:
      • SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZED YOUTH ACTIVITIES (e.g., daycare, camp) that are currently closed should remain closed.
      • VISITS TO SENIOR LIVING FACILITIES AND HOSPITALS should be prohibited. Those who do interact with residents and patients must adhere to strict protocols regarding hygiene.
      • LARGE VENUES (e.g., sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues, places of worship) can operate under strict physical distancing protocols.
      • ELECTIVE SURGERIES can resume, as clinically appropriate, on an outpatient basis at facilities that adhere to CMS guidelines.
      • GYMS can open if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols.
      • BARS should remain closed.
  • PHASE TWO: For States And Regions With No Evidence Of A Rebound And That Satisfy The Gating Criteria A Second Time:
    • FOR INDIVIDUALS:
      • ALL VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS should continue to shelter in place. Members of households with vulnerable residents should be aware that by returning to work or other environments where distancing is not practical, they could carry the virus back home. Precautions should be taken to isolate from vulnerable residents.
      • All individuals, WHEN IN PUBLIC (e.g., parks, outdoor recreation areas, shopping areas), should maximize physical distance from others. Social settings of more than 50 people, where appropriate distancing may not be practical, should be avoided unless precautionary measures are observed.
      • NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL can resume.
    • FOR EMPLOYERS:
      • Continue to ENCOURAGE TELEWORK, whenever possible and feasible with business operations.
      • Close COMMON AREAS where personnel are likely to congregate and interact, or enforce moderate social distancing protocols.
      • NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL can resume.
      • Strongly consider SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS for personnel who are members of a VULNERABLE POPULATION.
    • FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF EMPLOYERS:
      • SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZED YOUTH ACTIVITIES (e.g., daycare, camp) can reopen.
      • VISITS TO SENIOR CARE FACILITIES AND HOSPITALS should be prohibited. Those
        who do interact with residents and patients must adhere to strict protocols regarding hygiene.
      • LARGE VENUES (e.g., sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues, places of worship) can operate under moderate physical distancing protocols.
      • ELECTIVE SURGERIES can resume, as clinically appropriate, on an outpatient and in-patient basis at facilities that adhere to CMS guidelines.
      • GYMS can remain open if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols.
      • BARS may operate with diminished standing-room occupancy, where applicable and appropriate.
  • PHASE THREE: For States And Regions With No Evidence Of A Rebound And That Satisfy The Gating Criteria A Third Time:
    • FOR INDIVIDUALS:
      • VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS can resume public interactions, but should practice physical distancing, minimizing exposure to social settings where distancing may not be practical, unless precautionary measures are observed.
      • LOW-RISK POPULATIONS should consider minimizing time spent in crowded environments.
    • FOR EMPLOYERS:
      • Resume UNRESTRICTED STAFFING of worksites.
    • FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF EMPLOYERS:
      • VISITS TO SENIOR CARE FACILITIES AND HOSPITALS can resume. Those who interact with residents and patients must be diligent regarding hygiene.
      • LARGE VENUES (e.g., sit-down dining, movie theaters, sporting venues, places of worship) can operate under limited physical distancing protocols.
      • GYMS can remain open if they adhere to standard sanitation protocols.
      • BARS may operate with increased standing room occupancy, where applicable.

The plan says that vulnerable individuals include the elderly and those who have “serious underlying health conditions, including high blood pressure, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma, and those whose immune system is compromised such as by chemotherapy for cancer and other conditions requiring such therapy.”

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-fema-have-created-plan-to-reopen-america-heres-the-projected-start-date

 

What Do I Think of This?

As far as the plan that I know of based on the reports on Wednesday, it is a good plan. Well, it’s the best plan one can come up with considering the information we have.

It does a couple of things well:

  • It is a phased approach. We’re not going to open everything at the same time.
  • It rates areas of infection. More information would have been better in order to be more accurate in the classification of communities. But it’s something.
  • It looks to classify communities, not just states and cities. It is important to go slow and open pockets of our civilization.
  • It gives states and local governments control the decisions. For some reason, people were fighting whether opening the economy was a federal or state decision. This was a stupid contraversy. Now we see, in the long run, it is going to be a community decision. This is huge.
  • The plan has been set up as scalable. It is defined an macro-phases not micro-phases. The reality is some decisions are not going to work. But this plan allows to take a macro-change and make little changes to perfect it. We’ve never been through anything like this and a plan needs to be written in pencil, not pen.
  • The CDC, FEMA, the Corona Virus task force and the state’s governors are involved. This is not President Trump saying, “Let’s do this now!” He’s letting the professionals make the recommendations and letting the governors help.
  • Finally, it is a plan. The light at the end of the tunnel can be seen. There’s hope.

 

There are some problems with this plan:

  • This whole thing depends on the models and the numbers being plugged into the statistics. None of which looks good for understanding what this virus is about. Remember that the death toll would be between 100,000 and 240,000. That’s kind of a bad range. But now they’re saying it could be as low as 60,000. Not great stats.
  • Viruses like these have a tendency to be seasonal. The flattening of the curving could be that it’s getting warmer. Could this thing come back in the fall and start all over?
  • What about a second wave? Is that possible?

 

This is going to be politicized by the Democrats and media But this is to be expected. They want to economy shut down until at least November. Because the economy is going to go back up when it opens again. And Trump is going to look like a hero. If one person dies because he catches the virus while going back to work, Trump is going to have, “blood on his hands.”

We already see some of this from Andrew Cuomo and the rest of the Dems in the northeast states that want to increase the stay-at-home order until May 15th. It’s their states. They can do what they want.

no matter what happens, Trump is going to get crap. Opening up the economy is the best way to handle this mess.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-new-coronavirus-guidelines-for-opening-up-america-again
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-releases-opening-up-america-guidelines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Apr182020

Episode 155 – Show Notes – Screw WHO and Where to Poo!

Sleepy, Creepy Joe finally got something he was wanted since he started his Presidential run. But he got it at a time that e didn’t really need it. But he’s got bigger issues. Thanks God the New York times is there to protect him.

Trump screws the WHO.

And I love left wing sites. There is so much funny stuff to talk about.

 

It’s About Time

Barrack Obama has finally decided to show some love for Joe Biden. Not really sure Joe really needs it now but OK.

In a statement, the former President said this:

I am not exactly sure what the point of this is right now. Joe could have used the endorsement during the primaries and he was no where to be seen.

This just shows how arrogant and self-centered Barrack Obama is. He doesn’t care about the country or thinks Old Joe is a good candidate. He waited until Joe got the nomination because, if he didn’t, it would have looked bad on what’s left of his legacy. It’s quite cowardly and is not the actions of a good friend like Joe has been peddling on us.

But Joe has a bigger issue that is going to haunt him, no matter how the media tries to spin it.

In two recent interviews with The Associated Press, Tara Reade alleged the assault occurred in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the spring of 1993. She filed a police report in Washington on Thursday saying she was the victim of a sexual assault by an unnamed person in 1993, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.

It’s not the first time Reade has made an accusation against the former vice president. Last year, Reade publicly accused Biden of inappropriate touching, but did not allege sexual assault.

“dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women. He firmly believes that women have a right to be heard — and heard respectfully. Such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press. What is clear about this claim: it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen”
I do not put a lot of faith in 30 year claims of sexual assault but a police report was filed and the claim is credible. Thank God for the New York Times.
The NY Times decided to hold the story and ignore it. This has been a story out there for 30 years. When the editor of the Time, Dean Baquet, he said that he did not thing it was a big story. At the time, which is strange in its own way, only a small news outlet called The Intercept, had reported the incident.
One thing to remember: it was the New York Times that, not only reporting the Brett Kavanaugh had committed sexual assault, but had hidden exculpatory evidence which said he didn’t do it.
When Baquet was asked about that, he said:
“Kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh’s status as a Supreme Court justice was in question because of a very serious allegation. And when I say in a public way, I don’t mean in the public way of Tara Reade’s. If you ask the average person in America, they didn’t know about the Tara Reade case. So I thought in that case, if The New York Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment moment.”

How about the big difference is that Kavanaugh was a conservative and Biden was not.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-barack-obama-endorses-joe-biden-in-video-message
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-editor-kavanaugh-accusation-was-a-big-story-biden-accusation-not-so-much
https://apnews.com/d922da60baa91121f4529fe51a0fd55a

 

The WHO Took It in the Tookus

Last week, we talked about how the World Health Organization was promulgating Chinese propaganda that increased the spread of the Wuhan flu by 95%, killing tens of thousands. This is not an exaggeration. The CDC and other disease control organizations have said that if the WHO had attacked the virus directly or, at least, questioned the Chinese about the virus, it could have been contained in Wuhan.

But the WHO’s loves of China. When China takes over, they want to be the main health organization.

So, when President Trump said he was thinking of suspending payment to the WHO, the director with a name I won’t attempt to pronounce, said this:

Here’s the problem with this jerkoff’s speech: if he or his cronies didn’t kiss China’s butt, there would be a whole lot less body bags filled.

This all started because Taiwan, a staunch opponent of China and heavily under their influence, asked why Taiwan was kicked out of the WHO and if the WHO would consider taking Taiwan back in. The WHO represented hung up on her. You know why? Because Taiwan is RACIST!

That’s right. The WHO director general said:

“When as a community people start to insult us, that’s enough. We cannot tolerate that. But since I don’t have any inferiority complex when I am personally affected or attacked by racial slurs, I don’t care because I am a very proud black person.This attack comes from Taiwan,” he added. “The foreign ministry knows about this campaign and they didn’t disassociate themselves.”

What a jerk. They’re pissed off at China and his decisions. Not because he’s a black guy from Africa.

Well, Trump responded on Tuesday:

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-health-organization-criticism-of-our-coronavirus-response-is-probably-racist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-slams-those-who-are-pointing-fingers-at-them-if-you-politicize-this-virus-then-youll-have-many-more-body-bags

 

Just Dumb

The bidet is a sink that is used for your butthole after one takes a dump. So, I dump in a toilet, then move to another toilet-sink thing and let a fountain of water do its work.

Vox.com asked if, because of the panic over toilet paper, should we bring back the bidet. They seven questions that they decided to answer about the bidet. I read the article but I’m going to answer these questions.

1) What is a bidet?

2) Is it weird to spray water at your butt after you use the toilet?

3) Why don’t Americans customarily use bidets?

4) Are bidets more sanitary than just using toilet paper?

5) Are bidets more environmentally friendly than toilet paper?

6) Are bidets easier to find than toilet paper right now?

7) Even if there wasn’t a toilet paper shortage, would you recommend buying a bidet?

OK, I lied. This is just too stupid so I’m going to quote from Vox:

“Toilet paper shortage or not, Americans should seriously consider the beauty of the bidet. We live in a world full of modern conveniences that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors. We can control lighting from our phones and have robots that vacuum our floors, yet we still wipe our butts with dry paper — just like our ancestors did. Perhaps a toilet paper shortage is the shock to the system Americans need to realize the joys of having a clean, non-irritated, environmentally friendly butt.”

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/14/21218467/bidets-toilet-paper-shortage-tushy-toto-washlet
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/november-election-post-office-bailout.html

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Apr142020

Episode 155 Show Notes – Happy Easter!

Easter is a very special time for Christians like me. This is a special time because of the Wuhan flu. And I don’t think it is a bad thing.

Let’s talk about Easter in the middle of a global pandemic.

 

An Easter Message

I’m a big fan of Easter. The reason is it is very difficult for the secular commercial industry to put their spin on it that makes it a Hallmark card holiday like they did with other holidays.

I know they tried to make it about bunnies and chocolate eggs. I think that failed because the thought of a rabbit giving kids a chocolate egg is kind of disgusting. It just doesn’t work.

I start my Easter week as I have since I was a kid. I just think of what happened and how it has affected the world. It starts on Good Friday when Jesus was crucified. I get a visual every year by watching Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ. That’s a movie that puts me in my place every year. It forces me to realize the suffering Jesus went through. It’s hard to disconnect the celebration of Easter with the suffering of Jesus. And I don’t want that disconnect. Holy Week, heck, all of Lent, is connected.

Suddenly, when seen this way, the whole bunny and Easter basket thing seems kind of irrelevant and petty. And the greatness that is Jesus really breaks out of the commercialism.

But this Easter is special. Very special.

We are all stuck at home, unable to join our families.

But this is not a bad thing. On this holiday, I think we appreciate what we have and what we are missing. Here’s the thing: though we cannot be with our families today, things could be a lot worse. Think of the families that lost a member and were not able to see that person because of this disease. They die in a hospital, alone. That is happening.

Here’s what I think: Easter could not have come at a better time. I think Easter is the holiday of hope and promise, not of bunnies or colored eggs.

I think Pope Francis in his Easter message said it best. The audio has sound bleed from music and another translator but the point at the end of the minute long clip is what I want to talk about:

His message is clear and powerful. I’m going to ad-lib here. the corona virus is a contagion of the lungs and body. But Jesus is the contagion of the heart. The holidays of Holy Week; Holy Thurday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter are contagions of the heart. We, Christians, are reminded of what Jesus sacrificed to save us.

Suddenly, not spending time with family and eating honey-glazed ham is not so important. A Zoom meeting with my parents, my kids and my grandkids was enough. They’re all health and that should be enough to make me happy.

 

President Trump’s Easter Message

President Trump had an Easter message for us. Listen:

I won’t lie: President Trump is clumsy with his words. But he said pretty much what I said in only 48 seconds. Have hope. We’re going to get through this and things will get better.

 

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Christmas Message

Another strong message came from Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is a realist and not the most positive guy in the world.

He said:

“I think faith means different things to different people. People with a strong foundation in faith, I think it’s very, very important when you go through serious, really terrible ordeals that the country is going through, I think faith helps people through this.”

Fauci’s father was a man who had a lot of faith in God.

“His faith was just extraordinary. I was always in awe of him. I think that there are many, many people that way. So, faith is a good thing.”

Fauci also showed hope for this virus going the way of the Dodo. Though he might have let his optimism take the better of him. We still have to think of second waves and things like that. But I appreciate it.

“It’s started to turn a corner… it’s cautious optimism that we are seeing that decrease. Once you turn that corner, hopefully we will see a very sharp decline. Then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way and prevent it from re-surging.

“I think it could probably start at least in some ways maybe next month. We are hoping by the end of the month we can look around and say, ‘OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on.’ If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down.”

Don’t know if we’re there yet but one can, and should, hope.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-easter-sunday-dr-fauci-says-faith-plays-an-important-role-in-addressing-coronavirus-pandemic

 

Queen Elizabeth’s Easter Message During the Pandemic

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain has also been taken out of her element because of the virus. She had to make a State of England speech, which she has only done once before. She is feeling the need to calm her country. And she should.

Boris Johnson is the leader of the country but when he was put in the hospital because of the Wuhan flu and had to put the second in command in charge of the country, the person who could control the country most is Queen Elizabeth.

Her leadership in Great Britain may be ceremonial, but her words have meaning. She also released a powerful Easter message.

Listen:

That was a beautiful speech and I have more respect for the Queen of England now more than ever.

With Trump could talk like that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-of-england-easter-isnt-canceled-risen-christ-gives-new-hope-and-fresh-purpose

 

Andrea Bocelli Live from Duomo di Milano

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-andrea-bocelli-wows-the-world-with-transcendent-easter-performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Apr122020

Episode 153 Show Notes

The Democratic Presidential race is down to one after Bernie bows out. But did he have an impact?

Joe Biden may the the Democratic Presidential candidate but his gaffes are being ridiculed by the Right and the Left demands that he stick with Comrade Bernie’s agenda.

The Wuhan flu is costing China as U.S. companies are leaving and Japan is encouraging business to relocate to anywhere but China.

And President Trump lays in to the World Health Organization for their repeated screw ups. Their response is typical.

 

Ciao, Comrade Bernie

Bernie Sanders has finally yelled, “no mas.” He has suspended his campaign paving the was for Joe Biden to gain the Democratic nomination.

In a speech earlier this week, Bernie said he could not see a path to victory and thought it would be better to pull out.

He said that, even though they lost the elections, they won the ideological war and the generational war. That their ideological fight was just beginning. And because the younger generations are accepting his crap about all the injustice in this country, they will win the war.

I’m thrilled Bernie is out. In this political climate, I was really worried he’ get the nomination. And that means he would have had a chance of winning. Even though it probably would have been a blow out, there was a chance.

But, worst of all, Bernie is right about some things. The ideological war is in his favor. Our youth, right now, has this chip on their shoulder. They like getting things for free, do not believe in personal responsibility and believe the our country is a crappy place.

What’s worse is that moderate liberals and conservatives have society stacked against them. The public schools and colleges teach socialism, the mainstream media confirms what the schools teach and the entertainment industry puts an emotional spin on the socialist ideologies.

The last two generations are so under educated when it comes to reason but are pummeled by ideology. Books like 1984, Animal Farm, The Gulag Archipelago, Fahrenheit 451, Atlas Shrugged, the Constitution and the Bible used to be required reading in high school. Controversial writers like Twain, Locke, Jefferson, Franklin, Sarte, Neithche and Camus, just to name a few, are not in high school curriculum whereas they were when I was in high school. These authors stirred debate. We didn’t all agree. And we students had to use reason to prove our arguments.

And that’s where Bernie has won with help from the education system, the main stream media and the entertainment industry.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-addresses-supporters-we-won-the-ideological-struggle
https://www.dailywire.com/news/stocks-surge-after-bernie-sanders-ends-presidential-campaign

 

Bernie is Out But Sleepy Creepy Joe Has Issues

So Sleepy, Creepy Joe is probably the Democratic nominee for President. Probably. We’ll get into that later.

Bernie is gone. But old Joe has got some issues. The guy is going to have to juggle to get all of the Democratic votes especially from the Left. And the Left is like a woman scorned.

Bernie’s group has issued a list of demand from Biden.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Brent Scher reported Thursday that the groups, calling themselves “leaders from a diverse array of organizations building political power for young people,” sent the letter to Biden just hours after Sanders announced he was dropping out of the race.

The following was read from the Daily Wire courtesy of The Washington Free Beacon’s Brent Scher.

“The letter demanding Biden embrace far-left policies such as the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and a wealth tax comes from eight groups with diverging policy focuses, from climate change groups such as NextGen America to the anti-Israel IfNotNow Movement. The groups write in the letter to Biden that if their demands are met, they will spend $100 million targeting youth voters and ‘work tirelessly’ to help him defeat President Trump in November.”

“While you are now the presumptive Democratic nominee, it is clear that you were unable to win the votes of the vast majority of voters under 45 years old during the primary. With young people poised to play a critical role deciding the next president, you need to have more young people enthusiastically supporting and campaigning with you to defeat Trump. This division must be reconciled so we can unite the party to defeat Trump.”

“Messaging around a ‘return to normalcy; does not and has not earned the support and trust of voters from our generation. For so many young people, going back to the way things were ‘before Trump’ isn’t a motivating enough reason to cast a ballot in November.”

“If I’m the nominee, I can tell you one thing. I would very much want Bernie to be part of the journey. Not as a vice presidential nominee but just engaging in all the things that he’s worked so hard to do, many of which I agree with.”

Biden is in trouble. He will lose the Left if he doesn’t get crazy but will lose Independents and moderates if he does take on these crazy policies.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-groups-issue-list-of-policy-demands-to-presumptive-nominee-joe-biden

 

That’s Sleepy Creepy Joe’s First Issue

The second issue Biden is going to have is that he’s an idiot. He can’t keep his foot out of his mouth. And he has screwed up this Wuhan flu thing beyond all belief. Everything he suggested Trump do, Trump did before he opened his mouth.

The Daily Wire had a list of seven things Biden suggested that Trump do during the pandemic. Unfortunately, Sleepy, Creepy Joe must have been too busy sniffing the hair of little girls to pay attention to the news to know what Trump has been doing. Let’s go over that list:

  1. Biden called for coronavirus tests to be free 9 days after Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
  2. Biden called for coronavirus testing to be available nationwide 12 days after Trump announced that testing was available in all 50 states
  3. Biden called for “cooperation” between the federal government and the states after numerous Democrat governors praised Trump for his work with them

 

  • On March 27, while talking on CNN about how Trump is supposed to be working with governors, Biden said, “I mean, this is — there’s supposed to be cooperation here. I mean, this has nothing to do with politics. And it really — it really doesn’t. It really doesn’t.”
  • On March 15, New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo praised Trump: “I often tell you when I am unhappy with the federal response to this state. The fairness dictates that kudos where kudos are due and here the President and the Vice President responded very quickly. So I want to thank them for that.”
  • On March 19, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom praised Trump: “We need more swabs… The president assured me, not only assured me, he was aware of where those swabs are being procured before I even offered my own insight. Not only is he on top of it, but they’re securing and beginning the process of distributing those swabs.”
  • Newsom later said that same day: “Let me conclude by just making a few points to fill in that. We had today, a very important conversation. It was punctuated earlier today by President Trump and his press conference with the CEO of Gilead, it’s a California based company, around treatments. I want to compliment the President in his focus on treatments. It is a focus of positivity as we work to bridge towards a vaccine. It was a very encouraging conversation. … Here’s the good news in the State of California. I was talking to the Vice President and the President today, thanking them for the first national stockpile transfer of assets that we just received, where we received quite literally, hundreds of thousands of gloves and face masks. Not just N95, but also surgical masks.”
  • On March 24, New Jersey Democrat Governor Phil Murphy praised Trump: “I want to thank the President and his Administration. We need hospital beds. So, we’ve got four field hospitals getting erected by the – by FEMA and the Army Corps, will – that will allow us to displace currently cared-for individuals, non-COVID, into those hospitals to free up critical care beds.”

 

Biden announced support for barring entry into the U.S. for individuals who had been to China 2 months after Trump announced a travel ban on China

Biden called for a CDC team to go into China 50 days after the Trump administration took action

Biden claimed that he called for the Defense Production Act to be used “before anyone,” which came shortly after Trump announced plans to use it

On March 18, Biden said Trump must, “Prioritize and immediately increase domestic production of any critical medical equipment required to respond to this crisis – such as the production of ventilators and associated training to operate – by invoking the Defense Production Act, delegating authority to HHS and FEMA.”

  • On March 18, Trump said during a White House press briefing, “We’ll be invoking the Defense Production Act, just in case we need it. In other words, I think you all know what it is, and it can do a lot of good things if we need it. And we will — we will have it all completed, signing it in just a little while. Right after I’m finished with this conference, I’ll be signing it. It’s prepared to go. So we will be invoking the Defense Production Act.”

 

Biden called for someone to be put in charge of handling the coronavirus response 5 weeks after Trump tapped Vice President Mike Pence to lead the White House Coronavirus Task Force

On March 31, Biden said, “Who’s in charge, this is not rocket science it is consequential, incredibly consequential that there is certain things that can be done now – should have been done a week ago, three weeks ago, a month ago. The test for me is what does he do from this point on and he has significant responsibility – put somebody in charge. This is a war, you need a general. Put somebody in charge every single day that is accountable. Let people know exactly what is happening. Tell them the truth, they can handle it.”

On February 26, Trump announced that he had selected Vice President Mike Pence to run the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-things-biden-called-for-that-trump-already-did-to-combat-coronavirus

 

 

 

 

 

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Apr072020

Episode 152 Show Notes – Time to See the Light and Identify the Dark

If someone could figure out how to hold a sporting event, that league would make billions right now. Guess what? All of the major sports are thinking the same thing.

President Trump and Nikki Haley blast China, as they should and the World Health Organization might be taking it in the butt because of it.

And why is the news agency protecting China?

 

Even a Virus Can’t Hold Down Capitalism

The country is getting antsy. People want to go to the mall, go to a restaurant to eat, go to the beach, go to work, be able to buy toilet paper and stop wearing those stifling masks.

But what they really want is to be able to watch a baseball game, watch the basketball and hockey playoffs and watch big men beat the ever loving crap out of themselves.

Seems to me anyone who gives the public what they want is going to make a load of money.

Good news, our professional sports teams aren’t afraid of the Wuhan flu enough to stop their seasons.

Baseball is looking to allow for regular season games to all be played in Arizona.  There are ten ballparks in Arizona for spring training. The thought is to let the teams play in Arizona when the epidemic enters the safety stage. They released the statement:

The NBA is looking to have their playoffs in Las Vegas.

The NHL is looking to play the hockey playoffs in rinks in Idaho.

In the biggest surprise, the UFC’s Dana White says he is very close to holding UFC 249 on a private island in a secret location. He is so sure it’s going to happen that he is promoting the fight. It’s scheduled for April 18th.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mlb-talks-may-return-hosting-games-arizona-report
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dana-white-ufc-249-secret-location-private-island-future-fights

 

The Real Blame for This Mess Goes to…

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hints-at-cutting-who-funding-over-coronavirus-handling-says-they-really-blew-it

 

World Health Organization Bending the Knee to China

The World Health Organization is an embarrassment. They really screwed this thing up. Trump and his allies are pointing this out.

Now,understand this: I hate any organization that is globalist in nature. That includes the United Nations, NATO, the European Union and the WHO. These organizations are typically run by leaders from countries that have the moral decency strep throat, vote against the United States at every turn, blame the United States for everything but expect the United States to foot the bill for these awful organizations.

Hell, the United Nations building is on prime property in New York and we were the idiots that built. it. As far as I’m concerned, we should build a Starbucks and a Subway on that property and send the United Nations to Brazil. But I digress.

The World Health Organization screwed this up from the beginning. They believed China when China said that the virus was just the flu. We now know it isn’t.

They believed China when they said it could not be transmitted from person to person because China said it couldn’t be transferred that way. We now know that exactly how it was transferred.

They chastised the United States when we banned travel from China, then Asia, then Europe before we really knew anything about the virus. We now know this was the best thing Trump could have done and it helped slow the virus down.

They believed China when they gave their numbers of sick and dead and believed them when they said the epidemic was all but over. We are finding out that the total deaths in China are not just under 4000 but closer to 40,000.

As we get closer to leveling off this virus, the United States is going to look to crap on someone. The WHO is already in the sights of former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley. She said on Twitter:

And that is absolutely correct. It is not the United States or Trump that has caused all this suffering, death and economic collapse. It is China that released and lied about this beast and it was the World Health Organization that was peddling China’s propaganda.

President Trump also had something to say about China (what a shock). Now, you may notice he does not call the Wuhan flu the Chinese virus anymore. That was after a conversation he had with China’s President Xi. I don’t know what they talked about but it had an impact on Trump. We’ll probably find out later.

But he did have something to say. He Tweeted:

What a great question? Why did they give us such crappy information? But here’s a better question: why do we give them so much money?

The United States gives the World Health Organization between $400 to $500 million a year. And that’s the information we get?

You might be asking how much China gives the WHO. Would you be surprised that China only give them $2 million a year?

What the hell is going on?

 

We Just Ain’t Globalist Enough

The best way to get an idea is to listen to this interview with W.H.O. director, Bruce Aylward, being asked if Taiwan should be a member of the W.H.O. one thing to understand: Taiwan and Hong Kong are considered Chinese territories even though the are free states and have their own governments. Neither Honk Kong nor Taiwan are happy about this because of the oppression of the Chinese. Heck, Hong Kong has been fighting China for the last year.

Listen to this jerk-offs response (or lack there of).

That long pause wasn’t crappy editing by me. Aylward said he couldn’t hear the question. Then, when the reporter asked again, he said skip it and move on. When she asked again, he hung up on her.

Wow!

But, in this next clip, we learn what Aylward thinks of China’s response to the Wuhan flu. Listen:

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hints-at-cutting-who-funding-over-coronavirus-handling-says-they-really-blew-it
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rantz-nbc-news-is-actively-promoting-chinese-propaganda
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-china-coronavirus-numbers-backlash

 

Have Some Fun

Here’s another parody song about COVID-19 from the YouTube channel of Mark O’Dea. It’s based off Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid. It’s short and sweet.

Enjoy!

 

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Apr072020

Episode 150 Show Notes – Trust But Be Wary

Good news! COVID-19 has allowed me to lift the Dave Rule and go for however long I want! Not sure I’m going to take advantage of it but we’ll see.

There is some good news with the virus. But there is some bad news too.

The media continues to be dumb and change the narrative again.

The World Health Organization continues to spread Chinese propaganda. Remind me again: why are we giving them half a billion dollars a year?

And COVID-19 must also be a brain disease because it is making supposedly smart people really stupid.

 

The Good News

Dr. Anthony Fauci was interviewed this week and he had some rather hopeful news. This is kind of refreshing because Fauci is the realist and his news usually strikes against what Trump says in his press conferences. This is not a real surprise because Trump is there to give the country hope and Fauci is there to give the country facts. But his words gave us some encouragement.

Auido clip from podcast

Now Fauci’s words are cautious. The fact is, he doesn’t know what exactly is going to happen. None of us do. But if a man like Fauci sees good news, I am going to believe it is good news.

There is more good news:

  • On Tuesday, Trump showed off a device that can test for COVID-19 in five minutes.
  • Russia’s Putin is sending medical supplies after a phone call with President Trump. The supplies include PPEs such as gowns, shields and masks.
  • The is positive signs that we are going to have a blood serum test. This will show whether or not someone actually had the virus without having any symptoms.
  • The My Pillow Company will stop making pillows and make 50,000 masks.
  • GM and Boeing are changing their production lines to make respirators and ventilators.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-new-5-minute-test-for-coronavirus-covid-19
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-fauci-cautiously-offers-hope-rate-of-increase-seems-to-be-dropping-off
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/russia-sends-medical-supplies-coronavirus-159009

 

The Bad News

But there is bad news. And Trump laid it out.

Play audio lip in podcast.

This was a rather somber press conference. The reality is we have not seen the worst of this. San Diego County, where I live, went from about 100 people being affected to close to 800 being affected in two days.

Not this shouldn’t be overdone. The numbers are going to go up simply because we are testing more. But the realities of us seeing a lot of people being affected in now hitting us right in the face. And we are probably going to be seeing the death and hospitalizations are affecting the other cities.

President Trump, to this point, has been positive. And he’s gotten a lot of crap about it. Now he is being realistic. Can’t wait to hear what the media and the Left will come up with now.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-americans-to-prepare-for-a-very-painful-two-weeks-as-white-house-releases-extended-coronavirus-guidelines

 

We Need to Stay Three Dimensional

In a Tweet, Donald Trump stated that Iran was at it again and was planning an attack on U.S. troops through one of their proxy groups in Iraq. Trump issued a very strong threat that would dwarf the retaliation we had before when Iran attacked our embassy in Iraq.

So, during his COVID-19 press conference, Trump announced that the United States was making its presence known with the drug drug cartels of Mexico and South America. Remember, about two weeks ago, Nicholas Maduro was indicted on a slew of drug trafficking charges.

Or do you remember? Probably not because this COVID-19 thing has been sponging up all the news. And that is a problem. Trump put us on the right path today.

We have to remember that the world has not stopped turning just because we are in the midst of a pandemic. Our enemies see us as weak and might decide to take a shot at us.

 

The Ugly: The Media

The media continues to act like children. Looking at their ratings, I’m apparently not the only one who thinks this. Let’s take a look at the infuriating Jim Acosta during Tuesday’s COVID-19. I still don’t know why Trump even lets him ask a question.

And that’s exactly what he should be doing. But what is the point of Acosta’s question? What information does that question hope to expel? The question does nothing but tries to make the President look like a dolt. No answer Trump could give would mean to anyone sitting in their home for the past two weeks or who is sitting in a hospital, struggling for breath.

But that’s the point of the press. They aren’t after information. They are out there to make Trump look bad and incompetent. They’re out there to blame Trump for this mess. They don’t blame China for this mess. I bet you could watch CNN all day, and they are doing nothing but talking about COVID-19, will only mention China when saying how great they’ve handled this compared to Trump. It’s disgusting.

Another example of TDS in the media comes via Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe on MSNBC. He said on Wednesday that everyone knew this virus was coming. Everyone except Trump. He was quoted saying:

“They saw this coming even several weeks ago. Doctors I know very well, scientists, health care professionals were saying, “Mr. President, 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 people could die from this virus if you don’t start moving.” The president didn’t want to hear it. This is, after all, a president who talked about one person dying and one person from China, but we’ve got it taken care of, it will be zero. And then soon after that in February, he was talking about, oh, we have 14, 15 people who were infected but we’ve done such a good job it’s going to go down to zero. Then, of course, he said the media was overblowing it, that their coverage was a hoax of the pandemic, that it was going to go away. And then he said that it would go away in April, the sun would come out, it would magically go away.”

Really, Joe? Did everyone know except for Trump? Here’s a clip from Grabien that says differently:

That montage by Grabian were composed by press and Democratic politicians over the last three months. They has no idea what would happen with the virus. Or they didn’t care.

Trump, while in the middle of his impeachment trial, banned travel from China and even mentioned the virus during his State of the Union speech. Joe Biden and the rest of the Left’s sicaphants called Trump a xenophobe.

This is the unfortunate detail the Left has forgotten: we live in an age were everything is recorded.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-says-everybody-but-trump-saw-coronavirus-coming-in-early-january-thats-not-true

 

 

 

 

 

Just Stupid

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-part-two-congressional-dems-exploring-a-9-11-style-commission-to-investigate-trump-administration-coronavirus-response
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-refuses-to-quarantine-still-doing-workouts-at-public-gym

 

 

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/31/21199917/coronavirus-covid-19-animals-pandemic-environment-climate-biodiversity
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/31/21201019/zoom-coronavirus-privacy-hacks
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-prosecutors-are-not-happy-with-bill-de-blasios-plan-to-free-high-risk-inmates

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Episode 149 Show Notes – Crazy!

The Left goes insane because, apparently, $2 trillion isn’t enough. That two week thing doesn’t seem to be getting steam as Trump decides to quarantine parts of the country. The Kennedy Center gets a $25 million stimulus and and does the unthinkable.  Good job Nancy.

And what things are going to change when this whole thing is over? I posed this question to my girlfriend and she came up with some interesting answers.

 

Remember: You Voted for These Guys

The $2 trillion, bipartisan wasn’t loved by all. Some on the Left thought that it didn’t go far enough. And those who didn’t like it pitched an absolute fit when the bill was changed, removing all the regulation crap that Nancy Pelosi put in it.

One person that through an absolute fit is AOC. She became really ticked off when all the Green New Deal crap was pulled out of the bill. This includes the guarantee by the airline industry be at zero carbon emissions by 2025 if they take bailout loans. How this has anything to do with the Wuhan flu. I have no idea.

Listen to her insanity. If you get the chance, go to my website and look at the video. Her arms are flailing around like a mad person.

Never let a crisis go to waste. I find it amazing that the government shuts down the economy and then the government wants to put conditions on loans to keep these businesses moving during the stopped economy.

But the insane rant of the week came from congresswoman Haley Stevens (D, Michigan). I added the entire video clip. The reason I did that is because I honestly have no idea what she is talking about or what she is trying to say. She just walked up there and started screaming for two minutes. Listen:

Any wonder why Congress hasn’t had approval rating over 20% for the last ten to fifteen years? These people are crazy and are actors, doing anything they can to get attention and power. This gal said nothing. She makes no sense. She just walked up there and started screaming.

I would have gotten the Sargent at Arms to walk up there and drag her ass out of the chamber.

President Trump has been getting a lot of crap for saying that we could be getting back to work in some parts of the country in the next two weeks and we all might be back to work by Easter, which is April 12.  I even heard that from some in my own family.

But Trump, on Saturday, said that the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut should be quarantined. No one really knows what that means. The restrictions have already been met, especially by Gov. Cuomo in New York. In fact, this seems to be nothing more than an agreement by Trump by what Cuomo is doing.

In fact, no one is really sure what could be done if someone decided to break the quarantine. That little thing called the Constitution might get in the way. But this is an indication that Trump is listening to his advisers and is flexible enough to go against his statements for the betterment of the country.

On Sunday, Trump continued to prove that he will listen to the experts and do what needs to be done even if it means going against what he said. On Sunday, Trump said that we will not hit the peak of infection for another two weeks. We must keep being shut down for, at least, another month, throwing out the whole Easter-thing.

I guess this means I’m spending Easter with Josie.

Everyone thinks this is a bad thing. That Trump being overly positive made him lose credibility. They’re wrong. Trump needs to be positive.

Here’s to thing: we are going to get through this. But, the way Democrats and the media talk, we never will. Trump is setting way points. He’s giving us hope that this thing is going to end and it is in sight. Dr. Fauchi, his lead doctor, is the one who bring us back to reality. Trump isn’t fighting him. He’s not going to fire Dr. Fauchi. But Trump is responsible for making the people stop panicking.

The democrats want us panicking. They want the economy to stop and remain stopped until the election. They don’t care about the people. They care about power. That’s it.

Good Job, Nancy

According to the DailyWire.com, The John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts received $25 million dollars for financial assistance. This was demanded by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.

Well, the Kennedy center took that $25 million, donated $5 million to the Democratic National Committee and then laid all their musicians.

That was a great use of $25 million. Good job, Nancy!

 

How Are Our Lives Going to Change?

How are things going to change in our lives when this crap ends? I have some thoughts. I’m thinking of gathering a panel to discuss this. Just hope I can get enough people. So let’s start with me:

  • Restaurants.
  • Shaking of hands
  • Staying at home when sick.
  • Stocking up for emergencies.
  • Washing one’s hands correctly.
  • Maybe, we’ll also take a little care of each other.

 

 

Another Fun Wuhan Virus Song

 

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/kennedy-center-lays-off-musicians-after-getting-25-million-in-stimulus-bill

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Apr042020

Episode 148 Show Notes – Just Weird

I am on my tenth day of being at home and I think I am going to do something different on Periscope and YouTube. I guess I have way too much time on my hands.

Trump hits it big. Great Britain loses its Prime Minister for two weeks. Sleepy, Creepy Biden trips himself up while trying to get some attention.

And China, once again, proves it’s a crappy country.

But we’re not going to spend a lot of time talking about the flu. There are more stories out there. And this one is weird.

Wuhan Virus Update

On Friday, the President signed into law a $2 trillion bill that is to help people and the economy get through this disaster. This was a bipartisan bill that should have been passed last week except Pelosi want $300 billion to help illegals.

England’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been diagnosed with the Wuhan flu. That’s not good.

And Joe Biden continues to try to get attention. And, every time he does, he keeps screwing up. Listen to this.

Finally, China has another problem they may have to worry about. They say, I don’t believe it, that they cleared the Wuhan virus. Well, they just had someone die of the Hanta virus. What a wonderful country.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/hantavirus-kills-man-coronavirus-hit-china-32-others-tested-report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-senate-strike-deal-on-historic-2t-coronavirus-relief-bill-but-house-support-remains-uncertain

 

Weird

This has got to be one of the most bizarre stories I have heard in a long time. And though this website and podcast are news and politics based, I think throwing in a little crime every once in a while is a good idea.I first heard of this story from Fox Nation and decided to research it further. And it did not disappoint.

The story is about a woman named Lori Vallow. She is married to a guy named Chad Daybell and has two children from a previous marriage. A 17-year-old daughter name Tylee and a 7-year-old named JJ. One day (well, that’s not completely correct) her kids just disappeared. No one, to this day, knows what happened to them. Vallow hid herself from the police and immediately became a suspect. She won’t tell the courts or police what happened to the kids and is not enjoying a stay in jail.

Now, I’m a big true crime guy. I love it. With that, hearing a woman who may have harmed her kids is not really weird. That’s what I thought when I first heard the story. It’s always tragic when kids are killed but, unfortunately, this isn’t something that rare.

But, then I saw Nancy Grace’s show on Fox Nation and heard the whole story and…wow. It has everything. A horrible mystery that is still not solved, a string of dead bodies whose demise was under strange circumstances, missing children, a love triangle and a doomsday cult.

This story started with two missing kids named Tylee (age 17) and JJ Vallow (age 7) Their mother Lori Vallow never reported the children missing for several months. Now she sits in an Idaho jail, the children still missing and neither she nor her current husband will tell the courts where the children are or in what condition they are in.

Let’s go over the timeline for this bazaar story.

  • In February, 2019, Lori Vallow was married to Charles Vallow. He files for divorce citing the fact that his wife believes she is “a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming in July 2020.” In fact, she has done work for an end-of-times cult known as Preparing the People ad she believed that the second coming of Christ is scheduled for July 2020. The two are currently living in Arizona.
  • March 7, 2019 Lori pulls JJ out of his special education school. Charles says it’s “she went crazy.” Charles says he’s going to take JJ and Tylee to Texas back to his family.
  • In June, 2019 – Lori puts JJ back into the special ed school with no explanation.
  • July 11, 2019, Charles Vallows is shot by Lori’s brother, Alex Cox. Cox said it was in self-defense and no further investigation was done. Later that day, Lori threw a pool party.
  • JJ saw Tylee for the last time on August 30 after a Facetime conversation. When asked by JJ, Lori would make up excuses as to why his sister was missing.
  • On August 30, JJ service dog is returned.
  • On September 5, 2019, JJ is pulled out of school with the excuse that Lori was going to California for a job.
  • Sometime between August and September, the family moves to Idaho.
  • September 23 is the last day JJ is seen. He was last seen in school.
  • September 24, 2019, Lori pulls JJ from school.
  • On October 1, 2019, Lori rents a storage unit. A video shows her and her brother, Alex Cox, putting things in the locker. It turns out that most of the stuff belonged to the children including clothing and bikes.
  • October 2, 2019 – Brandon Boudreaux, ex-husband of Lori Vallow’s niece, Melani Boudreaux, says he was shot at in a drive-by shooting. Brandon says the shooter was Alex Cox, and he was driving Charles Vallow’s Jeep.

 

Weird enough for you? It gets weirder.

  • October 19, 2019 – Tammy Daybell, wife of Chad Daybell, dies in Idaho. The coroner originally declares the cause of death as natural causes and she is buried a few days later. We haven’t talked about Chad Daybell yet. He’s a fantasy writer and speaker for a doomsday cult called Preparing the People. The cult is based on the Church of the Latter Day Saints “religion” (I thinks Mormons belong to a cult too) that thinks the world is going to end in July of 2020.
  • November 1, 2019 – Police begin surveillance of Lori Vallow. Detectives report never seeing Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow once during the month of November.
  • November 5, 2019 – Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow get married in Hawaii.
  • November 26, 2019 – Rexburg police say they receive a request for a welfare check on Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow at a home in Rexburg. After arriving at the home, officers say Lori and Chad tell officers the children are with a family friend in Arizona.
  • November 27, 2019 – After the children are not located in Arizona, police return to the townhome with a search warrant to find Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow. Officers say they find the house empty, and learn after further investigation that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had left Rexburg, possibly without the children. Police also search other homes in Rexburg looking for the children and the storage unit that Lori had rented.
  • December 1, 2019 – Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell fly from Los Angeles to the island of Kauai. Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow and Tylee Ryan do not fly with them.
  • December 6, 2019 – The family friend in Arizona tells police that both Lori and Chad had asked her to lie and tell officers Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow was with her. The friend says she declined the request.
  • December 11, 2019 – Tammy Daybell’s body is exhumed so investigators can conduct an autopsy and tests to determine cause of death.
  • December 12, 2019 – Alex Cox, Lori Vallow’s brother, dies at a home in Gilbert, Arizona . The cause of death has not been released to the public.

 

At this point, the police realize weird crap is happening. And they have no information about anything. So they decide not to screw around anymore.

  • December, 2019 – The police go public. Rexburg police update the public on Facebook with details from the case. Police believe Lori knows the location of the children or what happened to them, but say she refused to work with officers.
  • January 2, 2020 – The credit card Lori Vallow used to rent the storage facility is declined when the business tries to bill her.
  • January 3, 2020 – Deputies execute a search warrant at Chad Daybell’s home in Fremont County, Idaho.
  • January 16, 2020 – The State of Idaho files a protection order in Madison County on behalf of the children, ordering Lori Vallow to produce them.
  • January 25, 2020 – Police on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands give Lori Vallow the Idaho court order to produce the children to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare within five days.
  • January 26, 2020 – Police on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands give Lori Vallow the Idaho court order to produce the children to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare within five days.
  • January 30, 2020 – The deadline to produce the children to Idaho authorities is missed by Lori. No charges or warrants are filed at the time.
  • February 16, 2020 – Maui police say they have been advised that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell traveled to the island of Maui from Kauai, but also say that they are not involved in any investigation of the couple.
  • February 20, 2020 – Lori Vallow is arrested by Kauai police on multiple charges, including desertion and nonsupport of dependent children.
  • February 21, 2020 – Lori Vallow makes her first court appearance in Hawaii. Her attorney asks for her bond to be lowered from $5 million to $10,000. The judge refuses.
  • February 26, 2020 – At a court hearing, a judge denies Lori Vallow’s request to reduce her bond amount from $5 million. It is also announced that Vallow has agreed to be returned to Idaho to face the charges filed against her.
  • March 5, 2020 – Lori Vallow is booked into the Madison County Jail in Rexburg, Idaho. With a stupid smile on her face during her mugshot.

 

And today, she sits in jail, looking at a 14 year sentence for child abandonment and not caring for a dependent.

She did get her bailed lowered from $5 million to $1 million. Her husband is rich and can afford the $100,000 bond but no bail bondsman will give her a bond because she is so unstable and they do not believe she won’t try to run again. So she is still in jail awaiting trial.

If you did not think this story is weird enough, it has gotten weirder just a couple of days ago.

There were court document released that said she thought the devil stole the souls of her children and that the children were zombies. Like Night of the Living Dead zombies.

This new report has made investigator suspicious that the kids are dead.

Worse, it made lawyers believe that she now has an excuse as to why she may have killed her kids and could plead insanity.

This story interested me from day 1 and it is ongoing. I’ll keep you up-to-date as the news comes.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/doomsday-couple-chad-daybell-lori-vallow-what-to-know.html
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cult-mom-lori-vallows-husband-chad-daybell-emailed-white-camps-gravedigger
https://nypost.com/2020/03/02/doomsday-cult-mom-lori-vallows-kids-are-safe-stepdad-insists/
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/02/9367961/lori-vallow-chad-daybell-missing-idaho-kids-doomsday-cult
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/missing-rexburg-kids/verify-a-closer-look-at-the-facts-surrounding-lori-vallow-and-her-two-missing-children/277-ba5c5ac6-13e2-40b5-978f-f8a5b9f530ee
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lori-vallow-saw-her-now-missing-kids-joshua-tylee-zombies-n1167591

 

Just for Fun

Here’s a fun song by Andy Eversole about the Wuhan flu. It’s a happy little tune. Enjoy!

 

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Mar252020

Episode 147 Show Notes – Keys to Survival

Couple of stories concerning the Wuhan virus. But this is not going to be about that tonight. And how to survive self-containment.

 

Wuhan Virus News: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Stupid

Here is the news:

  • Democrats have packed so much pork in the recovery bill, set to be $6 trillion. That pork includes
    • Implementing Green New Deal regulations on any company getting bail out money.
    • Funding the John F. Kennedy Center.
    • Funding for Planned Parenthood and government paid abortion.
    • Making paid leave permenant.
  • Needless to say the Senate Republicans blocked this stupid bill that Pelosi came up with. Something better should be voted on tonight.
  • President Trump says he believes we should all be able to go back to work by Easter. Don’t know if that’s true or not but it is an attempt at a timeline. He says the cure for this mess cannot be worse than the mess.
  • With the coming stimulas package and the hope of the President to this thing being over soon, the stock market went nuts on Tuesday, crawling up 2100 point, a record.
  • The Presidents approval rating is also met his highest approval rating. He is holding at 49%. He is at 60% approval for his handling of the Wuhan virus including with independants.

 

That’s bad news for sleepy creepy Joe, who just can’t stay out of his own way.

Now, this wasn’t his fault, per say. The teleprompter didn’t work. But he still looks really old and really incompetant. The problem for Biden is that he has been hiding. Either for fear of the virus or because his advisors are afraid of him talking. Well, I bet it’s the latter. And the more he says, the more incompetant he looks.

An Arizona couple was sent to the hospital after they ingested chloroquine phosphate — a chemical compound used to clean fish aquariums — because they suspected it could help prevent coronavirus infections.

In an interview later that day, the woman told NBC News journalist Vaughn Hillyard that they each took 1 teaspoon of the chemical, mixed with soda, after finding it in their cabinet and coming to believe that it was “the stuff they’re talking about on TV.”

“It feels like, like my heart is broken and it’ll never mend,” said the woman, who blamed President Trump for their believing that chloroquine phosphate was safe to consume.

“Don’t take anything — be so careful and call your doctor. This is a heart ache I’ll never get over,” said the woman.

That’s right! It was Trump who told these people to eat fish bowl cleaner. God, I hope those two didn’t breed.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-dead-wife-hospitalized-after-self-medicating-with-chloroquine-phosphate

 

How to Survive Confinement

I’ve been stuck inside for seven days now. Considering I have a cold, not the flu, I’m probably going to stuck here another two weeks. There are two things I have learned to do to get through my working from home and keeping my sanity.

I need to develop routines and find things to amuse myself as the days come to a close.

A routine brings focus. I hate working from home because there are just so many things I would rather be doing. But if I start my morning the same way every day, sitting down at my computer to work for eight hours doesn’t seem so bad.

So, here’s my routine:

  • I get up at 5:30 AM.
  • I make my bed.
  • I clean my dishes and counter.
  • I get dressed and brush my teeth.
  • I log into my computer and clock in.
  • I say good morning to Josie.
  • I do my security checks, which is the same thing every morning.
  • I review my Emails and check my calendar.
  • I then go make a cup of coffee.
  • We have a meeting every morning at 9:15 AM.
  • I make a second cup of coffee and take a shower.
  • I take my lunch at 11:00 AM.
  • In the afternoon, I work on a project and try to get a part of my project complete before I clock out.

 

That’s my routine and I do it every day. I find I get my work done and have little trouble focusing. It took a week for me to figure that part out but it works for me.

But I also need a way to unwind and keep my mind occupied. So I decided I would take seriously my favorite hobbies:

  • This podcast and my blogging.
  • Watching movies: Netflix and Amazon Prime. Stop with the news.
  • My wood carving. I am actually working from a book now to master it.
  • And when none of the above is in my wheel house, do some light reading.

 

I can’t tell you how relaxing writing this is.

Something I have also started doing is doing push-ups and squats every hour of my work day. I’m getting fat so I thought this would be a perfect way to get some exercise. Eventually, I am going to leave this place and get some running in. I will do that during the work day because it will shorten the day.

 

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Mar242020

Episode 146 Show Notes – It is a Chinese Virus

The news is saturated with the Wuhan Virus. I am not going to bite on it anymore. I’ve been stuck in my place for a week. I’ve heard all the statistics and news. Let’s just talk about it from a real life perspective. And, since we’re all stuck inside, waiting for everyone to die a terrible plague-like death, lets talk about what is happening in the human terms. Not like what we hear on the news. Because what we are hearing on the news and from the government is stupid.

Then, lets talk about what we should be hearing. What we need as a society. What we need to hear from our government. What we regular people may need to do.to get through this.

 

No More News

Well, it seems that life has stopped. There isn’t any news except for this damn virus. I decided it was time to change some of the content of this podcast because there is nothing really in the news. No debates or news outside of this pandemic. Even the Presidential campaign has been put on hold. But is that a surprise? All the candidates are well in the age range for mortality for this virus. Not to mention I’m sure the campaigns don’t want their candidates saying anything because they are so dumb.

I love the politicizing of this virus though. My girlfriend came over one day and called Trump ma racist because he called the virus the Chinese flu. I asked if she was kidding. I then pointed out the different viruses that were named after where the started. That included:

  • Spanish flu
  • Asian Flu
  • Russian flu
  • Hong Kong flu
  • MERS (Middle East)
  • Lyme disease
  • Ebola

 

All of these are named after the place they started. COVID-19 started in Wuhan, China. It’s actually known as the Wuhan virus but got its name because the Chinese government is responsible for causing this pandemic and President Trump doesn’t want you to forget it. I’ll talk about that more a little later.

Here’s the thing, and it’s so simple I won’t waste a lot of time on it: this virus started in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government hid the virus as not to embarrass themselves, which is true of any communist dictatorship. If they had alerted the world of the virus and prevented their people from just doing their thing, including traveling to other countries, this thing would be done already. The virus did start in Wuhan but it is the Chinese government nthat aided in the spread of the disease. Seriously, folks, they killed the doctor who discovered and tried to alert the people about it.

So, it is the Chinese virus.

The second thing I keep hearing is how Trump messed this whole thing up. And, in the beginning, he did. He didn’t take this seriously, didn’t think of the impact and brushed it off.But he’s recovered. He has the best doctors in the country advising him, he place Vice President Pence in charge, distancing himself to allow others to control yet showing the government is involved and taking it seriously.

This is an unprecedented event. Nothing like this has happened since the Spanish Flu in 1918. No one today knows how to deal with this. Denmark decided to perform something called Herd Immunization. What that means is people would go out and do their thing while those who are susceptible to the virus would hide out. The virus would spread, people who can weather it would get sick, develop an immunity and they would live happily ever after.

Nope. Didn’t work out that way. Denmark is now doing what we’re doing. Best laid plans of mice and men, I guess.

The reality is, no one really knows how to deal with this.

 

What Can The Government and Trump Do

Why is the stock market flipping out? Why are there no rolls of toilet paper anywhere? Why are there lines of people wrapped around the Costco parking lot? Why can’t I find a loaf of bread for my tuna fish salad sandwich?

Because we are all in a panic.

There have been over one billion references to the Wuhan virus in the news media. That is 10 times more than there was for SARS, MERS, Ebola or H1N1. And those were more serious viruses (that we know of).

The fact is, we don’t know much about this virus. So the government must walk the fine line between we’re all going to die and everything is going to be fine. That’s easier said than done.

The media went far to one direction and told us we are all going to die. Statistics show that is not the case. The virus is more dangerous than the flu and it is showing that young people are susceptible. Italy has shown that.

Trump went the other direction. He minimized the virus. He told us we were all going to be fine, this is no big deal, nothing to see here. That wasn’t true either. This virus does suck. It is more dangerous and contagious than we thought. People will die. And the administration decided this was a serious thing and adjusted. Now, they are doing well.

What do I think? It’s probably kind of in the middle. This is a dangerous virus and I should stay away from my parents and others who are susceptible. But I am not sure it is as bad as the media plays it out. I think the government should overreact because this thing is scaring people and the government needs to take their fear seriously. And we don’t know anything about this virus. So we should think the worst of it and deal with it. If it ends up not being as bad as we thought, no big deal.

We also need to realize what we are doing. We are, justifiably, shutting down the economy. Stores and businesses are shutting down, people are losing the jobs and can’t pay their bills. We’re all stuck at home. This could kill our economy. Everything the government is doing, from ordering businesses to close to giving us a couple of grand a month, is meant to suspend the economy so that it doesn’t crash completely.

Here’s the problem: I don’t trust the government. You’ve heard me say this before. The government sucks at everuything. And I am afraid they are going to do things that help make the government bigger. This week, the Senate refused to pass a $1 trillion package, supported by the President, because some of the provisions would be made permenant. That’s scary. Business cannot support paid sick leave all the time and Universal Basic Income (which is what the Democrats want) is unsustainable. We can’t afford it. And this is not a time to allow a single payer health care system sneak into our lives. This is not the time to implement the Green New Deal, which a lot of Democrats are pushing with this $1 trillion deal.

The only thing the government is suppose to do is suspend the economy for a month, maybe two. Not make the government bigger.

Finally, The last thing the government can do is give us a timeline. I have been stuck in my house for a week and I am going nuts. My girlfriend is going nuts. Her kids are going nuts. My parents are going nuts. My friends are going nuts. We are all going nuts. And if the government thinks we are all going to sit in our homes for two months, they’re stupid.

The American people are too used to freedom. They are not going to last long imprisoned in their homes. We need to know there is light at the end of the tunnel. And we need to be given an idea when we might see that light. I know that the government may not know. That’s fine but tell us what they are thinking. Not just the doom and gloom. Because people are not going to do this forever. Hell, they’re not going to do this for three weeks.

China did not have a problem controlling their population. Anyone did what they did not say, they were killed or imprisoned. This is not that country.

Please, President Trump, come up with a plan and let us know what is going on. We know this is not going to last forever. Tell us how long we are going to have to go through even if it means the bad news of a second wave of an infection.

We are Americans. We can handle it.

 

Week On in Captivity

I have been stuck in my place for six days. and this sucks.

Good news is, after five days of not knowing what to do with myself, I developed a routine. That really helped today. I do work from home and this was the first time I was actually productive from home. I am not going to talk about my routine yet. We’ll save that for tomorrow’s podcast.

But I am watching a lot of Netflix and Amazon Prime. Not much news because the news is the same. So here’s some things you might enjoy too:

  • Read Loserthink by Scott Adams.
  • Watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
  • Watch 1917.
  • Watched The Platform on Netflix. Reminds me of The Cube.
  • Binge-watched BloodRide on Netflix.
  • Am binge-watching Frasier from Amazon Prime

 

This week, I’m going to start a new book called You Can’t Lie to Me by Janine Driver. I read this book before but I never annotated it. It is an awesome book so I want to spend sometime with it.

 

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