They have an eye for what their friends want to read about . . .
It’s their idea of a grabber, and IMPORTANT! Oh yeah! Come on, kids.
Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Chicago police to suspend controversial merit promotion selection process (but reinstated by new chief?)
Chi police promotions back to old way, so-called merit promotions?
You read this story in December.
About the pro tem Chicago police chief stopping the so-called “merit” promotions as unfair and bad for morale and recommending it be stopped by his successor(s).
But did you hear that his successor as new permanent chief David Brown reinstated the process? I did today on WLS-AM. But online? Nothing. Important story doused?
Million-Dollar Bishops | New Oxford Review
Money apparently talked for clerical abusers . . .
Amazon.com: Watch The Peanut Butter Falcon — AGAIN, IT SAYS! WHEN I DIDN’T WATCH IT AT ALL YET! OR ORDER IT!
Very tricky billing here. Not the first time either, this billing when I did not order. To cancel, do this, it says. BUT THIS TIME NO OPTION OFFERED TO DO EITHER!
Trouble is, I hear it’s a good flick and we will watch it. Cheap too. But it’s the principle of the thing . . .
Great service, but yet and still . . .
via Prime Video
Coronavirus tests delayed by Covid-19 contamination at CDC lab
Boy. Is this the CDC we’ve been hearing about so much these days? Listening carefully to their advice?
A delay by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in quickly making coronavirus test kits available was the result of “a glaring scientific breakdown” at the CDA central lab, The Washington Post reported.
The Post reported that CDC facilities that assembled the testing kits “violated sound manufacturing practices, resulting in contamination of one of the three test components used in the highly sensitive detection process.”
James Le Duc, a virologist and former CDC officer who now heads the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, told The Post that the situation was “really a terrible black mark on the CDC, and the impact was devastating to the country.”
Flash: Washington bureaucracy is not always dependable.
Which Way Now to Fight the Coronavirus — Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
Doctors’ advice very important, but not absolute deciding factor . . .
One part of this arrangement is for sure, and it’s not the extent of virus threat.
Texas will be the first state to begin re-opening its economy. In the next few days more retail shops will reopen for pickup and online purchases. State parks will reopen. It’s far from normal, but it’s something.
One million Texans have filed for unemployment, overwhelming call centers. 22 million Americans have done likewise. This level of joblessness is simply unsustainable, but it’s still growing.
We cannot look solely to the CDC for solutions. No more than a doctor decides if you live or die. He or she gives options. You the patient, in this case you a whole country, decide.
Organizer of NJ coronavirus stay-at-home protest hit with criminal violation
It’s for your own good, Charlie . . .
The world begins to “social distance” itself from China in the wake of the pandemic
Is it over for Chi?
5G or not 5G (from China), that is the question.
Effectively answered by the Trump administration.
Can’t trust ’em, that is the problem.
via HUGE: The UK Just Dumped China’s Huawei in 5G Tech Roll-Out — Citing its Lies Over Coronavirus.
This is a major, major aspect of Trump-ism in contrast to what Obama allowed and Hillary would have allowed.
End the Shutdowns! Do It For the Children
Otherwise, they die the death.
Hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
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Compared with adults, children infected with the coronavirus are less likely to have symptoms and more likely to have a mild illness, U.S. and Chinese studies have found.But the U.N. report warned that “economic hardship experienced by families as a result of the global economic downturn could result in an hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020, reversing the last 2 to 3 years of progress in reducing infant mortality within a single year.
Poverty kills.
via Power Line
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