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Some good news for a change.

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Perhaps we can persuade them to eat the homeless. Win-win!

“Nice city you’ve got here. Be a pity if something happened to it.”

Babylon Bee.

Well. There it is.

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Residents of Hubei province in China teamed up with their local police force to battle the police from neighboring Jiangxi province – who set up a roadblock on the Yangtze River Bridge to prevent the people of Hubei from crossing and returning to work.

Chinese, acting more like Americans than Americans.

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Democrats – Party of Hate.

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I guess she tested negative for having a brain.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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No shit, Sherlock.

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German researchers report in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology that they have identified and characterized a strain of bacteria capable of degrading some of the chemical building blocks of polyurethane.

“The bacteria can use these compounds as a sole source of carbon, nitrogen and energy,” said Dr. Hermann J. Heipieper, a senior scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig, Germany and co-author of the new paper. “This finding represents an important step in being able to reuse hard-to-recycle PU products.”

As Iran Hits 20,000 Cases, US Says ‘Coronavirus Won’t Save You From Sanctions’

Iranian Regime’s Reckless Disregard Made the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse

Vehicular Jihad at the Barcelona Airport

How Iran’s Dictators Laid the Foundation for the Country’s Coronavirus Crisis

Turkey Arrests 64 For ‘Provocative’ Coronavirus-Related Social Media Posts

Pompeo in Afghanistan to Jumpstart Stalled Peace Deal

Praying Muslims Defy the Coronavirus in Bangladesh

The Utrecht Tram Mujahid Gets Life in Prison

Gunmen attack Sikh religious gathering in Kabul, killing four

25 killed as Islamic State gunman takes hostages in Kabul Sikh temple

As Islamists Spread Conspiracies, ISIS Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis

Iran’s “Clerics” Steal $1 Billion in Medical Aid from the Public

Bob Levinson’s Family Says US Concludes He Died in Iran

Federal Prisons Are Failing To Monitor Communication Between Terrorist Inmates, Audit Finds

The Coronavirus is Allah’s Punishment Against the Kuffar

Man Pleads Guilty to Killing 51 in New Zealand Mosque Massacre

Christchurch Mosque Shooter Pleads Guilty To Terrorism, Murder

Iran Rounding Up Whistleblowers Who Try To Expose Real COVID-19 Death Toll: State Dept

Four Kidnapped Christian Aid Workers Returned From Iraq

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Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson – who originally estimated 500,000 deaths in the UK due to Coronavirus, now says that the virus will peak in just two or three weeks, and that UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, according to NewScientist.

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The race to create a genuine artificial leaf has heated up to the boiling point. The latest development is a new device that looks like a greenish tile the size of a stick of gum, but actually contains billions — yes, billions — of nanoscale tubes that react to light and convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. So what, you say? Good question! The carbon monoxide is a first step toward the ultimate goal of producing methanol. Hmmm…why methanol?

You can burn it. If you can burn it, it’s a fuel.

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If you reach the age of 110 or older, you’re called a supercentenarian and you’re known for having remarkable health. There are only 28 recorded supercentenarians alive in the world today, so when scientists managed to reprogram the cells of a 114-year-old woman for the first time ever, there was cause to celebrate.

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A report released earlier this month outlines steps that the United States can take to become closer to obtaining a commercially-feasible source of fusion power. The report, authored by 300 researchers, hopes to align the fusion community to realize this goal.

This giant glacier in Antarctica is melting, and it could raise sea levels by 5 feet, scientists say  CNN. “Could”.

Wired: Climate Denial is like Covid-19 Denial

Winter sea ice maximum extent on March 5 was the highest since 2013  Don’t tell CNN.

30% more likely that human-caused climate change caused Australian bushfires

“Global Warming” Alarmist Who Panicked the World By “Predicting” a Half Million Wuhan Flu Deaths In the UK Alone Now Says… Never Mind

British Climate Activists: “Corona is the cure. Humans are the disease”

Polar Push and Pull

Trump wants America reopened by Easter. That could send the US economy into depression CNN. On the other hand, it could actually avoid a depression. Which one do you think CNN would rather see?

Trump blasts reporter: No deaths are acceptable

Trump Doubles Down, Says Liberal Media Want Economy to Tank, Hurt His Reelection  Sure looks that way to me.

New York Times: Trump-Inspired ‘Spasm of Hate’ Leaves Asian-Americans ‘Terrified’  They don’t look ‘terrified’ to me.

CNN Analyst: It’s ‘Ridiculous’ Trump Thinks ‘We’re Rooting Against Him in This Crisis’  Except that they obviously are.

WRONG: Scarborough Claimed ‘Yesterday, 1,000 Americans Died of Virus’ in Trump’s NYC

Trump Campaign Warns of Legal Action Against PAC’s Coronavirus Ad

MSNBC’s Melber Justifies Democrat Obstruction By Citing Trump’s Taxes, Hotels

On Far Left Edge Of Sports, The Nation Mag Accuses Trump Of Anti-Asian Racism

NBC Insider: ‘Treat Trump Like Virus, Contained and Quarantined’

Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump Would Be Fine With People Staying Home If We Called Coronavirus ‘Vietnam’  They’re just making stuff up.

NBC’s Guthrie Asks Federal Reserve Chair: ‘Do You Just Ignore’ Trump?

Nasty Seth Meyers: ‘Sociopath’ Trump Cares More For His ‘Personal Fortunes’ Than ‘Saving Lives’

‘Morning Joe’ Panel Can’t Figure Out Why False Ad Bothers The Trump Campaign

NBC Journalist: ‘Trump Is Pitting Americans Against Each Other’

Trump’s Approval Rating for Handling the Wuhan Flu: 60% The Media’s? 44% — Eleven Points Underwater

Sick Kathy Griffin Accuses Trump of ‘Lying’ about Virus From ICU Unit

Jake Tapper: As People Die, Remember That Trump ‘Lied’ ‘Downplayed’ Coronavirus

MSNBC’s Ruhle Laughs Along as Harris Trashes Trump  Not even trying to disguise the bias.

DESPICABLE! Blaming Trump and Conservatives for Coronavirus

Old Political Meme: Trump Is an Authoritarian New and Improved Politico Meme: Trump Is Not Authoritarian Enough! He’s a Weakman, Not a Strongman!

WaPo Reporter Yet To Retract Trump Coronavirus ‘Hoax’ Accusation That Her Own Employer Already Debunked

Trump-Supporting Kanye West Torches Media Haters: ‘I’m Outta Their Control’

Pearl Jam’s Upcoming Album ‘Gigaton’ Features Song Which Takes Swipe At Trump

NY Times: Those Trump Virus Briefings We Wanted Could Be ‘Dangerous’ Television  Be careful what you wish for.

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Even New Yorkers don’t make good slaves.

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Passed on without  comment.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats  run your city.

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Coverup? What coverup?

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People began sharing pictures on social media of what items were left behind after the shopping surge. The foods — such as cauliflower crust pizza or chocolate hummus — and the empty shelves once stocked with more appetizing foods are juxtaposed.

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Hammer tech.

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People are waking up to the fact that the major ‘news media’ are a bunch of compulsive liars and FUD dispensers.

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It is difficult to describe how badly Biden performed in these appearances, where he got nothing but softball questions, yet repeatedly failed to express himself without stumbling. The elderly Democrat also kept coughing on camera, suggesting his health may be precarious.

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If The Washington Post and senior editor Marc Fisher want Americans to stop calling the press “the enemy of the people,” a place to start would be not publishing stories like Fisher’s March 25 item trying to tear down a man who, as of Wednesday night, had less than 400 Twitter followers.

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Greta preaches many of the first Earth Day’s failed predictions

How The World’s Deepest Point On Land Could Raise Global Sea Levels  “Could” Women and minorities hardest hit.

Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like  Giant piles of toilet paper everywhere….

Environmentalist Group: “Corona Is The Cure – Humans Are The Disease”

‘Conservative’ WashPost Writer Rubin Asks If Coronavirus Can ‘Obliterate Some Republican Myths’

Pablo Escobar’s invasive hippos could actually be good for the environment

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There has been quite a bit of talk in the past couple of days about when we might get back to normal. The president is hoping that might happen as soon as Easter while others are saying it could be 3-4 months. But some people aren’t interested in going back to normal. On the contrary, they see the crisis as an inflection point that presents and opportunity for some significant changes to the country.

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Switzerland is not generally seen as a center for radical Islamism, and compared to countries like Belgium and France, the radicalized population is small. Nonetheless, there are worrisome portents for the country’s future. A Federal Office of Police (FEDPOL) report released earlier this year on the Swiss jihadist and would-be jihadist population from 2012 to 2018 showed that the majority were radicalized in Switzerland, although 60 percent of them were born abroad. In fact, Jean-Paul Rouiller, director of the Geneva Centre for Training and Analysis of Terrorism, noted in an interview with Tribune de Geneve in 2017 that “we’re no longer seeing imported jihadism. A hotbed of Swiss jihadists is being created […] made up of people who grew up in Switzerland.”

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Coronavirus deaths leveled off in South Korea.

That’s because people in Korea could easily find out if they had the disease. There are hundreds of testing locations—even pop-up drive-thru testing centers.

Because Koreans got tested, Korean doctors knew who needed to be isolated and who didn’t. As a result, Korea limited the disease without mass quarantines and shortages.

Not in America. In America, a shortage of COVID-19 tests has made it hard for people to get tested. Even those who show all the symptoms have a difficult time.

Why weren’t there enough tests?

Because our government insists on control of medical innovation.

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Bernie Sanders is threatening to hold up the coronavirus relief bill unless Senate Republicans drop their amendment to cap unemployment benefits at an employee’s full salary.

I wish somebody would take him into a cloakroom and beat him to death. I don’t hate a lot of people but Bernie is squeezing himself into that select company.

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He’s pissed, not because NY businesses would suffer, but because government revenues wouldn’t be topped up far enough. Slimeball.

Maybe he ought to have thought about that before he shut the entire state down.

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Some entertainment while you are stuck sheltering in place.

Joel Kotkin.

Pandemics naturally thrive in large multicultural cities, where people live “cheek by jowl” and travel to and from other countries is a fact of international tourism and commerce. Europe’s rapidly advancing infection rate is, to some extent, the product of its weak border controls, one of the EU’s greatest accomplishments. Across the continent, cities have become the primary centers of infection. Half of all COVID-19 cases in Spain, for example, have occurred in Madrid while the Milan region, with its cosmopolitan population and economy, accounts for half of all cases in Italy and almost three-fifths of the deaths.

Severian sounds a warning.

The only differences between caveman days and the Current Year are scale and speed. The NKVD can deprive you of a lot more liberties, a lot more efficiently, than Mighty Pharaoh could. Mighty Pharaoh was a literal god on earth. He didn’t leave the fellaheen alone in their daily lives because he respected their autonomy (the very notion of personal autonomy was a few thousand years in the future when Mighty Pharaoh ruled). He didn’t monitor his subjects’ daily lives because he lacked the technology. That’s it. Put an Alexa in every mud hut along the Nile, and I promise you, Mighty Pharaoh would spend his days fucking with his slaves just on general principles.

Ace of Spades sums it up.

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and the breaking news is that evidently Cuck Schemer and Malig-Nancy Pelosi have caved and are going to support a $2 Trillion relief package crafted in the Senate late last night. I will assume some pork is in there but at least it’s not the whole Leftist hog. The Dow already posted a 2,113-point gain, the highest single day gain since 1933 and hopefully this good news (despite no one knowing where the money is going to come from; tick-tock debt clock) will also engender another positive gain on Wall Street. Surely, the President’s remarks that he wants to see the economy moving again by Easter may also give everyone a much needed boost of confidence, except of course the g-dless heathens in the Democrat-Media Complex who, like plague, thrive on misery, suffering and death itself.

If you aren’t reading Ace of Spades every day, you need to do that.

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Wouldn’t it be a pity if he died of it and never became king?

[chirp … chirp … chirp ….]

I SAID, WOULDN’T IT BE A PITY IF HE DIED OF IT AND NEVER BECAME KING?

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Oh, forget it.

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Yeah, we all look to a former Mousketeer for political advice.

‘Redistribution of wealth’? You first, sweetheart. I will gladly take a check.

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Only if you’re an obsessive-compulsive moron. Seriously, people, come on….

Ars Technica has an explanation.

The world was a strange place even before the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has gotten stranger still. One of the oddest things about this socially distanced new world is that a respiratory disease has made toilet paper worth its weight in gold. Why is everyone scrambling for toilet paper all of a sudden? Consumer behavior researcher Kit Yarrow suggests it’s a case of our social primate brains reacting to newsfeeds full of striking but sometimes disorienting visual cues.

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Wouldn’t he look silly if they had a well and a generator.

If I were in California, I’d have off-grid backups for all basic systems, just in case.

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Like the old RCA Victor ad: His Master’s Voice.

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Hey, it’s not like you’ve got anything else to do, right?

Trump vows to reopen US economy even as deaths from coronavirus rise  The Guardian.

The scariest thing Anthony Fauci said about Trump  CNN. Ooooo, scary….

Coronavirus Exposes the Virulence of American Conservatism  Bias?  What bias?

Trump can’t be trusted to make this decision  CNN. What decision? Relaxing restrictions (i.e. refusing to cooperate in destroying the economy).  But the clickbait business model of modern ‘news’ media bar anybody from putting useful information in the headline.

Trump, as usual, is just making things worse  Washington Post.

In order to save Dr. Fauci, we must destroy him  Boston Globe. Despite the headline, it’s All About Trump.

MSNBC’s Hayes: Conservatives, Trump Set to Kill a ‘Million’ Seniors to Save Economy  ORANGE MAN BAD!!!

VIDEO: Media Suffer 12-Day Meltdown Over Phrase ‘Chinese Virus’

Dr. Anthony Fauci Dumps Cold Water On The Media’s Latest Anti-Trump Narrative

Sunny Hostin: Stop Airing Trump Coronavirus Briefings, They’re a ‘Disservice to Country’  Yeah, they make Trump look good.

NY Times Man in Europe: ‘Selfish’ Trump Not Interfering Enough Overseas During Pandemic

NBC, MSNBC Rush to Blame Trump for Man’s Death

Axios Walks Back Suggestion That President Trump Caused People To Eat Fish-Bowl Cleaner

MSNBC Gives Biden Operative Platform to Lecture How He’d Better Handle Coronavirus

Kirstie Alley Praises Trump’s ‘Leadership’ During Pandemic, Triggers Hollywood

Media Backtracks After It Turns Out Dead Man Didn’t Take Drug Trump Touted — But Fish Tank Cleaner

Media Can’t Stop Asking Dr. Fauci Two Things And Neither Is About Coronavirus

‘View’ Melt Down: Trump Only Wants to Reopen Economy to ‘Line His Own Pockets’

Soros PAC, Big Donor Gave Combined $13,000,000 to Group Launching Anti-Trump Coronavirus Attack Ads

‘Don’t Amplify Misinformation’: Rachel Maddow Wants The Media To Blackout Trump

UN: Embrace the Paris Agreement to Solve the Covid-19 Crisis  Uh, no.

Reforesting is a good idea, but it is necessary to know where and how

Trump Lashes Out At Congress For Working ‘Ridiculous Green New Deal’ Into Phase 3 Coronavirus Stimulus

Celeb Idris Elba Blames Virus on Humanity’s Destruction of Environment  You are all sinners and heretics!

Red Greta Thunberg Says She May Have The ‘Rona and Is Isolating With Her Antifa Father  Unfortunately, I doubt that means she’ll shut up.

Victor Davis Hanson.

In a sophisticated society under lockdown, is it more existentially valuable to know how to fix a toilet, replace a circuit breaker, or change a tire, or to be a New York fashion designer, a Hollywood actor, or a corporate merger lawyer? At 9 p.m., when you go downtown in need of a critical prescription, are you really all that furious that a law-abiding citizen who has a gun and concealed permit is also in line—or would you be more relieved that gun control laws might ensure that his ilk never enters an all-night pharmacy?

So who is important and who not?

We were often told globalized elites on the coast were the deserved 21st-century winners, while the suckers and rubes in-between had better learn coding or head to the fracking fields.

But who now is more important than the trucker who drives 12-hours straight to deliver toilet paper to Costco? Or the mid-level manager of Target who calibrates supply and demand and is on the phone all day juggling deliveries before his store opens? Or the checker at the local supermarket who knows that the hundreds of customers inches away from her pose risks of infection, and yet she ensures that people walk out with food in their carts? The farmworker who is on the tractor all night to ensure that millions of carrots and lettuce don’t rot? The muddy frackers in West Texas who make it possible that natural gas reaches the home of the quarantined broker in Houston? The ER nurse on her fifth coronavirus of the day who matter-of-factly saves lives?

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“You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel said during the country’s last major emergency. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing this noxious idea back as she uses the coronavirus pandemic to permanently stamp identity politics on corporate America.

Pelosi’s coronavirus relief bill is a veritable pork barrel for programs that would force corporations receiving government aid to implement “diversity and inclusion” initiatives that have nothing to do with combating COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and preventing its spread.