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Morgan James has posted a treasury of stripped-down acoustic versions of classic songs during the pandemic sequester, and I could post just about any of them, but my fondness for Billy Joel has overwhelmed my instincts.
Morgan also does one of my favorite versions of “Dream On” with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox.
The two famous quotes on statistics, the one titling this piece and its sibling “figures don’t lie but liars know how to figure.” could hardly have a better illustration than the CCP virus pandemic we find ourselves dealing with. There is a confusion of figures and percentages flying around like budgerigars on speed. We should […]
Chicago jails have begun installing voting booths as part of their “No prisoner left behind” law. I guess this is the only way the democrats can ensure certain victory in the upcoming elections. Inmates awaiting trial but not yet convicted have the right to vote in Chicago and should not be prevented from from doing […]
Covid-19 has been a world-wide Game Changer in unexpected ways, especially here in America. The USA has been THE dominating force, militarily, economically, and culturally, for the past sixty years. Everyone (as a rule) respected or feared us, because they knew that we could outshoot, outspend, or outlast them, in ANY contest. Everyone knew, even […]
Just watched the 2005 video of President George W. Bush addressing the National Institutes of Health about preparing for the threat of a global pandemic, which our Member, Ralph Kopera, posted here. In it, President Bush mentions that the federal government has created a website to help us. The URL — PandemicFlu.gov — Bush says […]
A week or two ago (I can no longer reckon the passage of time), Bill talked about the hypothesis that the Wuhan virus has been present in California since last fall, and that a far larger percentage of the population has already had it and is asymptomatic than the currently accepted numbers. The hypothesis takes […]
My uncle in NYC sent me this video from President Bush in 2005! 15 years wasted.
We finally have a date! Crew Dragon launches for the ISS on May 27. American astronauts on American rockets from American soil, as the NASA Admin keeps saying.
A recent headline in the dead tree edition of the Opinion section in The Washington Post bore the ominous headline, “Coronavirus is Killing You, but Climate Change is Killing Us!” I figured this would be an entertaining read, and of course it did not disappoint. When I searched for the ones and zeroes version for blog purposes, the title didn’t come up.
Our second Members-only video chat, recorded April 15, 2020, wandered far and wide, and we had a great time! Because we’re too cheap to pay for more time, the video ends abruptly…but perhaps not a moment too soon. If you’d like to be part of the next one, send a Private Message to me (Scott Ott) with your email address.
Participants in Ep. 002 (left to right, top to bottom) Rod, Scott, Gene, William, Ray, Ralph, James, Steve, Bill, Kevin, Laura
That supply chain light on the economics board has gone solid red and it’s threatening to melt through the panel.
This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts. As a nation we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply-chain across the country
Few Americans are aware of this. However, that stored food supply is the supply-chain for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket. That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc. For almost 8 weeks the retail supply chain has been operating beyond capacity and the burn rate of raw food products is up a stunning 40 percent.
Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, are starting to run low. Believe me: (1) we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out; and (2) the food supply chain will be a big part of President Trump’s decision-making on reopening the economy thereby re-opening restaurants, cafeterias, etc…. and switching consumption back to fresh supply.
Hello everyone! For those of you still on the wretched hell site that is twitter.com, I have created a fan account so that we have some presence there, since all the sane people have left. I will be posting some of my favorite quotes from Bill, as well as giving updates when videos are uploaded […]
It appears the CCP may have been awaiting an opportunity like this (no big carriers around) before testing the waters around Japan and Taiwan.
Cardinal George Pell has been found not guilty of pedophilia a few days ago by the high court and released from jail. Bill and the guys have talked about Pell on several occasions so an update is needed. However I thought it wise to delay until an interview was out. The high court is the […]