Denver & Rio Grande steam at work.
Friday, May 15, 2020
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Truth in Humor
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Sharing helpful health tips with the American people, Senator Rand Paul said on Wednesday that the secret to social distancing is making everyone despise you.Sort of like I said elsewhere, incels are guys who use their personalities as a method of birth-control.
“People get all worried about whether other people are staying six feet away from them,” Paul said. “The trick is, if you act like a total jerkwad, people will stay much farther away from you than that.”
The only people who want to get close to Rand Paul are those who would like to punch him out.
What Autocrats Do
They hide data that displeases them.
Funny how Smithfield is so, so concerned about employee privacy that they're hiding the numbers of Covid-19 cases in their plant. Arbeit macht frei and all that, you know. Can't have the working poors concerned with such things.
For weeks, people in rural communities in Nebraska charted the rise of coronavirus cases at the state’s several meatpacking plants. First, there were handfuls, and then, many more. ... In a change initiated last week, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) announced at a news conference that state health officials would no longer share figures about how many workers have been infected at each plant.Funny how Republicans can lambaste the Chinese for hiding the true numbers of coronavirus cases and then turn around and do the exact same thing.
Funny how Smithfield is so, so concerned about employee privacy that they're hiding the numbers of Covid-19 cases in their plant. Arbeit macht frei and all that, you know. Can't have the working poors concerned with such things.
Where Are the Pandemic Bonds?
Trump says that this is a war. So where are the war bonds to help finance it?
The other two ways to pay it off are to either tax the rich or cut social services that help seniors, the disabled, and poor people.
Guess which the Republicans would choose.
The other two ways to pay it off are to either tax the rich or cut social services that help seniors, the disabled, and poor people.
Guess which the Republicans would choose.
Trump Wants You to Die of Alzheimer's. Especially If You're Black.
There is a strong link between PM2.5 exhaust particles and Alzheimer's. PM2.5 particles penetrate into the brain. People living in heavily-polluted areas have been found to have Alzheimer's-type brain lesions in their 30s.
Poor air quality has been linked to susceptibility to COVID-19. It's been shown that minorities are more affected by fine-articulate air pollution and are taking a hard hit from Covid-19. Areas where the air is bad are more likely to be populated by poor people.[1], [2]
Trump, of course, doesn't give a shit.
The Party of Hoover might as well have "Irrumare Populum Pauperem" inscribed on their seal.
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[1] Back in the day, when the tire factories were operating in Akron, the poor folk and the workers lived on the east side, the downwind side, of the factories. The rich lived upwind. While up in Cleveland, in the mid-1990s, the Cleveland Clinic proposed building a medical waste incinerator smack dab in the middle of the poorest neighborhoods of Cleveland (instead of, say, Chagrin Falls).
[2] "Cancer Alley, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, also has lots of minorities living there and bad pollution.
Poor air quality has been linked to susceptibility to COVID-19. It's been shown that minorities are more affected by fine-articulate air pollution and are taking a hard hit from Covid-19. Areas where the air is bad are more likely to be populated by poor people.[1], [2]
Trump, of course, doesn't give a shit.
Disregarding an emerging scientific link between dirty air and Covid-19 death rates, the Trump administration declined on Tuesday to tighten a regulation on industrial soot emissions that came up for review ahead of the coronavirus pandemic.Foul the air, poison the water, contaminate the land, it's all good as long as some quick-buck artist can make his and then bugger out, leaving the locals to deal with the consequences.
Andrew R. Wheeler, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said his agency will not impose stricter controls on the tiny, lung-damaging industrial particles, known as PM 2.5, a regulatory action that has been in the works for months.
The Party of Hoover might as well have "Irrumare Populum Pauperem" inscribed on their seal.
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[1] Back in the day, when the tire factories were operating in Akron, the poor folk and the workers lived on the east side, the downwind side, of the factories. The rich lived upwind. While up in Cleveland, in the mid-1990s, the Cleveland Clinic proposed building a medical waste incinerator smack dab in the middle of the poorest neighborhoods of Cleveland (instead of, say, Chagrin Falls).
[2] "Cancer Alley, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, also has lots of minorities living there and bad pollution.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Buffets Are Right Out!
What a Japanese TV network did was have a guy rub his hands with invisible flourescent dye, then he ate at a buffet with a bunch of other volunteers (all of whom wore protective eyewear). After thirty minutes, they switched off the lights and illuminated the place with a blacck light:
I think I'll pass on going to buffets unless I have full hazmat gear and possibly a flamethrower.
I think I'll pass on going to buffets unless I have full hazmat gear and possibly a flamethrower.
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