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Obama withholds Biden endorsement while he waits to see if anyone else, anyone at all, will declare

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Biden campaign is ecstatic that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the race, making Joe Biden the presumed nominee of the Democrat party. Campaign aides broke the news to Joe Biden during his nightly campaign meeting, where they traditionally sit down to remind Joe what his name is and that he’s running for president.

Biden set down his glass of warm milk and danced a jig upon hearing the news. He then ran out into the street in his silk pajamas and stocking cap to go to his friend Barack Obama’s house to secure the nomination he had long waited for.

According to sources, Obama came to the door but refused to open it. “Lookie here Joe,” Obama was heard saying through the $80,000 oak door. “There’s uh… still plenty of time in this race. Let’s not be, um… too hasty here, OK, Joe?” Biden was then seen collapsing at Obama’s doorstep in a puddle of tears before a team of aides and nurses picked him up and led him back to the safety of his basement.

Oh, shut up. Please

Frances models his new muskrat alb and accessories

Mark Tapscott headlined this Expert on one religion speculates on another

Pope: Coronavirus is the response to global warming.

"We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?" the Pope said.

"I don't know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature's responses," he added.

Popie, there are no glaciers at the North Pole to melt, the area was not open 18 months ago, and no one could, or can, row a boat ashore up there to visit the penguins. Stick to your knitting.

$50,000, eight days

340 Stanwich Road has rented.

The owners bought the property for $2.995 in 2014, razed the existing house and built this one, completing it in 2017. I’m not sure I’d want to live in it permanently, but to rent for a few months? Pretty cool.

Meh — thought's always been in short supply

Well, that does it, I'm no longer going to take my guide for living from this man

“But vagina candles? Sure, they’re alright; Gwenyth told me so”

John Cusack, who has been in the throes of Trump Derangement Syndrome since 2016, who has called for a coup to be staged against the man, who has advocated refusing vaccination for children, has now determined the source of Kung Flu: yes, it’s the Chinese, but it’s not from their bioweapon labs, but from cellphone towers.

Actor John Cusack is the latest Hollywood star to jump on off-the-wall conspiracy theories railing about the alleged dangers of powerful new 5G networks, which some claim weaken human immunity, making people more susceptible to COVID-19.

“5 – G wil [sic] be proven to be very very bad for people’s health,” tweeted the star of the 2000 movie based on Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity” novel.

“I got sources in scientific community – and medical,” he claimed Tuesday — angrily calling his critics “just DUMB” and “ f—ing Sheep.”

I’ve always relied on celebrities and athletes to shape my thoughts, just because they wouldn’t have achieved success unless they were really, really smart, but these days my faith is a bit shaken.

By gosh, a genuine, big ticket contract to report

It’s just a vicious rumor that Bernie is adding this to his house collection

6 Loch Lane, asking $4.995 million, is reported as under contract. Sellers priced it at $5.995 a year ago April, and bought it new in 2011 for $5.250. Assuming the ultimate selling price is even close to asking, this is an encouraging sign of life.

Kurt Schlichter on the firing of Captain Crozier

14 March 1757: Admiral John Byng is permanently relieved of duty

Why it was justified

Schlichter was a Colonel in the Army and saw combat in both our sand wars. What he says here doesn’t, in my opinion, justify our now-former Secretary of the Navy’s publicly saying the same thing, but it does explain why Crozier was relieved of command.

Okay, about this USS Teddy Roosevelt captain…

No.

No, he’s not some sort of rebel hero who fought the power for his sailors and stuff because only he gave a damn about them. That’s crap….

I am not happy to see him get canned. I was an O6 myself, and I would prefer O6s, as a rule, not end up fired. But that was the only course of action available to the SecNav. The guy screwed up, big time.

To believe this CAPT Crozier guy is a hero, you have to believe stupid and wrong things which you should not believe due to their stupidness and wrongness.

You have to believe that the Navy “didn’t care” about sick sailors. Libs take this further to imply that the Navy “didn’t care” about sick sailors because that would have made Trump angry.

This is, as I said, stupid and wrong. 

The Navy brass has several things to think about, and there is an order of priority among those things. The priority order is 1) the mission and then 2) the sailors. Notice the order? One of the unique aspects of the military is that it is one of the very few institutions where the lives of its members are expressly and deliberately subordinated to the mission. An aircraft carrier is a major strategic asset, almost incalculably major. And this captain wanted to take it offline. Now, that could have been the decision. Command is about making tough decisions, but it was not his decision. Once he gave his input to his bosses, what he thought meant nothing.

Nothing.

We elect a commander-in-chief to make those decisions. He delegates them in a clear order of precedence to his subordinates. So, CAPT Crozier was not defying admirals or even Trump when he decided he should make the decision. He was defying you and me.

The chain of command is a thing, as he found out when he got his walking papers. And it did not stop being a thing when he did not like the orders it gave him.

If your sailors are your number one priority, you frankly have no business being in command. The mission is the number one priority. That’s hard, and no fun, but’s true. And that’s not an excuse to abuse or neglect your men – far from it. But it is a recognition that you have a mission and that is your priority.

Corzier was the captain of the carrier. There was an admiral down the hall – literally – who was his boss as task force commander. Why did he not go to the admiral? Or maybe he did go to the admiral and didn’t like the answer he got. Your commander disagreed with you? Gee, welcome to military service. Salute and drive on.

There’s no scenario where he’s right on this.

Nor is there any scenario where sending that letter to 30 people outside his chain of command was even not the worst idea in the history of worst ideas. If he did not intend to get it made public, then SecNav was right in wondering whether he was naive or stupid. That letter should have gone to the task force admiral. Now, the SecNav has said publicly that he authorized Crozier to communicate directly with him. Putting whether that was a good idea or not aside, it could have gone to him (you should, of course, cc your boss in that instance) and not dozens of other people. The mind reels.

Equally troubling is the report that he never consulted his command master chief petty officer, the senior noncommissioned officer on the ship. This is inconceivable to me. Your senior NCO (mine was a command sergeant major) should be attached to the commander at the hip and part of every decision. My CSM would have known if I was planning to send out an email like that. Then he would have shut the door to his office (I never used my office because I was always walking around) and told me this was an idiotic idea and that I should not do it. That’s why you get a senior NCO to tell you when you are about to curb stomp your Ted Lieu.

I know his guys cheered him when he left the ship. Maybe this captain thought he was morally obligated to do what he did. But he was wrong. The dereliction of duty is not validated by the transitory emotions of your troops. He had to be relieved. Period.

The headline says it all

this is the church, this is the steeple, open the door and see none of the people

Episcopal Church reports no change in attendance in recent weeks

Yes, it says it all, but America’s Paper of Record does have a bit more to add regardless:

A report indicated that the Episcopal Church has not been affected by the ban on many people gathering in one place at all, with most churches staying at exactly the same attendance number as before the pandemic.

"Business as usual for us," said Reverend Macy Bryers of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Ryder Falls, Iowa. "We didn't even know there was a lockdown, to be frank. I was just bringing the message of love and tolerance and Jesus being a good teacher and stuff to the empty pews just like normal. I just tell everyone they don't really need Jesus or the Bible or God -- they just need a positive, can-do attitude and some good, old-fashioned self-esteem."

One thing that won't survive this virus is the last remaining shreds of credibility of the main stream media

Obama White House aide Ben Rhodes: “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns… They literally know nothing.”

Case in point, this, from USA Toda’s Joel Shannon:



The USA reached a grim milestone in its fight against the coronavirus Monday: More than 10,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the nation.

That total surpasses the number of battle deaths from six U.S. wars combined, according to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

VA data says a total of 9,961 soldiers died on the battlefield during these six wars: The American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American Warand Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The data does not include other deaths related to the wars.

Oh my gosh, more lives lost than in the French and Indian Wars! Oh what will we do, what will we do?

Here are some interesting statistics for this juvenile, know-nothing “journalist” :

I suspect that the only people watching CNN are critics who then write it up so the rest of us can laugh at the pathetic clowns

CNN reporter tries, for the umpteenth time, to make a story about hydroxychloroquine; epic fail.

“Well, that didn't take long.

CNN host John Berman had hoped to talk about the – reading now from the lower third on the screen –"HEATED DISAGREEMENT IN WH SITUATION ROOM OVER UNPROVEN DRUG"!

…

As Real Clear Politics helpfully transcribed, Berman was trying to talk up the reported argument Navarro had with Dr. Anthony Fauci over trying the FDA approved malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine on coronavirus patients. Fauci says it's as yet unproven, due to a dearth of clinical trials in using it on COVID-19 patients.

….

“After a small study in France confirmed the drug's usefulness weeks ago, Trump advocated a let's give it a try, what the hell do we have to lose stance on it. It beats dying from COVID-19.

“But if you listened to CNN you'd think Trump was ordering every doctor to give the drug to coronavirus patients, which his administration's trade spokesman, Peter Navarro, said they were not.

“While Berman was arguing that Navarro didn't have medical credentials to make any assessments, Navarro replied that wasn't the issue:

"The issue wasn't about me offering my medical opinion. The question was whether we should take the 29 million doses in the FEMA storehouses and surge them into the zones, and it was unanimous in that task force meeting to do so. So, that's the only question I posed."

Unanimous. Fauci even agreed. And then Navarro hit Berman where he lives.

"You may find this interesting. In the city that you live in, in New York, in the New York health and hospitals system, virtually every patient now that comes in presenting COVID-19 symptoms is given a cycle of hydroxychloroquine, and when I discussed this last night with Mitch Katz, who is the head of that system, I asked him, are you doing that because the federal government is telling you or because you think it may work? And he said quite clearly that it may work." [emphasis added]

Oh.

But Navarro wasn't done.

"So you presented a false case there. Basically what I have said and the only thing I have said is that the scientific studies that I have seen point to the possibility that it has both therapeutic efficacy as well as possible prophylactic efficacy. When you speak to doctors and nurses on the front lines ask how many of them are taking hydroxy as a prophylactic in the war zone."

“Berman preferred to talk about the supposed fight between Navarro and Fauci saying "I'm not interested in the politics of it, only interested in the science of it. Why should we listen to you and not Dr. Anthony Fauci?"

But the trade representative said both points of view could be right and asked a question himself, "John. I don't know why you're so hard about this? Would you take it if you got sick?"

He said he would if his doctor said so.

Which was exactly the point.”