If anything good can come out of this disease, there is this:

Folks are realizing that so many of their products that they use daily are produced in China, or made FROM or WITH products produced in China.

And may manufacturers are realizing that without China, they have nothing to produce….and they are realizing that their business depends of China to remain open and viable as a manufacturer.

I thing that this, along with Trumps push to “Make America Great” and return business and manufacturing to the US, will do a lot to bring manufacturing back the the US…*and other countries will move to bring their supply chains back home, or at least diversify them)*

“Paddle Shifters” (those little levers behind th steering wheel that will allow you to shift your automatic transmission on your street car like they do in race cars) are a somewhat useless addition on street cars when the steering ratio such that it is greater than 3/4 of a turn lock to lock.

If your steering ratio is such that you have to move your hands on the wheel, then the “Paddle Shifters” are a joke and are simply added so Millenials can feel like they are bad-assed drivers, much like the steering wheel your parents put on the front of your car seat when you were 3 years old. 

So it seems that what they thought was a painting by a Rembrandt protege is actually likely an actual painting by Rembrandt himself. 

Of course this painting has been examined by “Experts” many times.  No doubt the “experts” were sure and had reached a “Consensus” on the “fact” that it was not a Rembrandt.

Top Men there in the art world. I wonder if the decision was “peer reviewed”?

“Cocaine does Not kill the Coronavirus”

Who knew?

There goes my excuse….

Do people really believe this sort of shit?

As it is rumored some “eskimos” did with their elderly…

“If You Show Up with Cancer and You’re 95 – We Should Say We Can’t Do Anything” – Bloomberg Explains How Healthcare will Bankrupt Us Unless We Deny Care to Elderly

And, on a purely economic level, he is right. I mean, after all, after 70, most people begin to use the healthcare system at an ever more costly rate per year. (Forget that they likely paid a LOT into the health insurance system for years and years, the “New” Obamacare Socialized Medicine system needs the money because it has to cover everyone, no matter how little they contribute

(Which is how the NHS in Britain is starting to act, BTW)

But that is the real issue with Socialism, innit? Socialist Medicine is, after all, Socialism. And Socialism doesn’t really care about the individual, except for their usefulness to the State. Once that usefulness is gone, their value is zero….and they should be discarded.

It is even worse when your socialist leader is a short, mean, angry man with zero compassion who thinks he is better than the folks he wishes to lead. 

Mike Bloomberg thinks that farming is easy:

He thinks that machining is pretty simple:

He believes that all those farmers and all those machinists are too stupid to learn something he considers difficult.

Seriously, he thinks y’all are stupid and simple, and that your jobs don’t require much in the way of brains or intellect.

Look:

“Information Technology”, now that is hard work, requiring both brains and intellect, something which farmers and machinists just don’t have…If they can read and use a computer at all.

Probably better if you don’t tax yourself and think on it too hard.

Leave that to smarter folks like him and his chosen.

Pass this on to everyone you know.  Make sure that people know what elitist Mikey thinks about us plain people.

HT: Feral Irishman

MC brought this to my attention last week, and it seems that the story keeps going and has some legs:

Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market

I dunno, but it does seem as if the Chinese reacted very quickly and massively, at that. Almost as if they know that it was terribly virulent and easily transmitted.

Shades of The Stand there…..

So here I am, selling raffle tickets for my Gun Club in order that we can keep the cost of our Gun Safety and Hunter Safety classes artificially low in order that we can provide them to more people.

And some dude walks up with a 6 week old golden retriever puppy in his hands. He listens to my spiel about the tickets, the odds, etc and says, “yes, I’ll take one, hold this”.

He then hands a very sleepy female puppy to me, who immediately tries to snuggle to be warm and safe.

Bastard.

“She’s for sale, you know” as he filled out his contact info on the raffle ticket.
Fuck.
I was tempted. Very tempted. Greatly so. I haven’t had a dog since August 13 2012. Haven’t wanted one, really.
But Puppy.  pretty little girl labrador puppy.   Damn.

I took his money, gave him his ticket and handed her back, not without reservations.

I’m not strong enough for that yet. I couldn’t yet face this or this…..at least not now. Maybe never.

Seems that the City of Chicago is under fire for billing a CHURCH for water used by the church.

Why?

Why are church’s Churches exempt from water bills? Why should they be exempt and other organizations (and individuals) are not?

I fail to see why they should get a break for services or water or other consumables they use that are provided by the City…They don’t get free electricity, not gas….why is water free?
Water costs money to source, transport, and purify. The pipelines and pumping equipment needs maintenance and upgrades.

What makes the church special? They are, after all, simply an organization. Other Non-profits get the same treatment, but they use water, just as any business or organization with a building uses water and other services provided by the city.

The issue is not this particular church, but all churches in general.

I was unaware of this until the news team from CBS2Chicago chose to bring it to our attention.

++ Thanks to  SmileyFtW  for being a grammar/spelling nazi.