After Dave posted the healthcare article on Trump I’m liking him better. 13 million people’s healthcare expansion. Lookin good.
I also like Mike Bloomberg’s, health care proposal. My hope is that we can have a REAL contest, between billionaires - for the land’s highest office. 
Time to share some vacation slides. Here’s a brief sample.
From the CDC:
“You don’t need to do anything different today than you did yesterday,” Fauci said, “but the thing we need to do is to be understanding what we would have to do if we did see communities spread here.”
He added, “That’s what we call mitigation. Nothing has changed except outside, the outside world, the other countries are getting into more difficulty which may actually ultimately impact us.”
The U.S. currently has 14 confirmed cases of the virus, either in people who have traveled to China or been in close contact with someone who has. An additional 39 residents were infected with the virus while onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, but last week the health agency said those cases would be counted separately from the national tally.
Fauci praised U.S. health officials for properly containing the virus thus far, and reiterated his call for the public to continue to “do the things you always do” when preventing other viruses, such as the flu.
Was Sanders in the “hot seat”?
And evidence Russia is meddling in the US election.
Let me quote a bit. 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Weekly World News for almost two minutes to tell us that he had “no comment” about the existence of Russian spy geese. We asked if he could confirm or deny the rumors of spy geese following Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. He again said “no comment.” When asked if this picture of Mike Pompeo’s pet goose was a Russian spy, he simply snarled and left with his White Claw.
After hearing about the spy geese, Michael Bloomberg made a move to buy them off. But they were not swayed by his bribe and were insulted that he only offered them five million. They have a mission. They put the drop of Bloomberg.
“They have damning information on all the candidates, they can swing voters any way they want to. Put in is very happy. He’s thinking of sending over more spy geese and about a dozen spy cows,” said Ivan Boroclankeko, our Bureau Chief.
I suppose some will still say there is no bias in the MSM? But we have gotten many inside reports of definite and blatant bias. Here’s another:
"Senior ABC News correspondent David Wright accused his own network of denying President Donald Trump “credit” for his administration’s accomplishments and revealed that he’s a “socialist,” according to an undercover video captured by Project Veritas. "
And do get a kick out of wealthy people claiming to be socialists. Easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than a rich man to be a socialist?
And ‘refraining from giving Trump credit for accomplishments’? Wow - WHO would ever dream up that idea.
More pressing news.
Methinks this topic needs some humour to break the monotony.
Enter Mark Steyn:
Henry Kissinger’s famous line on the Iran/Iraq war was that it’s a shame they can’t both lose. In Tuesday night’s primary debate they somehow contrived for everyone to lose, including both the Democrat Party and the media. It reached its peak of perfection early on when all seven candidates began shrieking over each other and, as with some hideous atonal aleatoric modernist cacophonous symphony, its very unlistenability seemed an impressive feat of organization.
Five insipid moderators sat there like dowagers declining to catch the eye of the shrieking nutter on the Piccadilly Line as Elizabeth Warren ate up all the opening airtime with charges that Michael Bloomberg would make you kill your babies (she’s not concerned about the baby-killing, only that it shouldn’t be Bloomberg ordering the hit). Realizing that the show was in danger of degenerating into Screech White and the Six Dwarves , her comrades belatedly began screaming along, shredding the alleged “rules” even as the hopelessly inept moderators gamely persisted with all the usual bland over-formatted props of leaden telly debates - like making a big deal about interactively selecting random Twitter-submitted questions about the besieged Syrian city of Idlib.
Mayor Pete looked earnestly into the camera and declared, “I stand with the people of Idlib.” Which, translated out of of Demoblather, means: You guys are screwed. Still, the ability to adlib a line about Idlib is not to be disdained.
In other news, Joe Biden got tough with China: “They must play by the rules. Period. Period. Period.” Actually, I think “period period period” is an ellipsis… Which is oddly Bidenesque. But he was assessed by the experts to have delivered a killer performance - if only because he appeared to know what state he was in and which office he was running for, and did not claim to have been arrested on the streets of Soweto while trying to see a South African prisoner in a gaol cell nine hundred miles away. Great job, Joe!
On the other hand, he did assert that, thanks to Bernie’s crazy pro-gun Second Amendment absolutism, 150 million people had been killed since 2007. Which would be half the population of America. And is 149,997,230 people more than the coronavirus, and roughly a thousand times the entire population of Idlib, so you’d think somebody would have noticed it.
More generally, Joe’s response to any question on what he would do to solve this or that pressing crisis was that he’d already solved it during the Obama Administration or his previous half-century of public service. “I took the lead in…” well, pretty much everything: Barack apparently spent two terms playing golf and watching “Leave It to Beaver” reruns while Joe looked Mao Tse-tung in the eye and said, “Cut it out, pal - or it’s B501©3 bombers over the Straits of Vermouth at dawn. Period. Period. Period…” As his mountain of accomplishments piled up, Amy Klobuchar said, over one claim, “No, you didn’t.” “Yes, I did.” “No, you didn’t.” I forget what it was - Joe’s assertion that he’d taken the lead on Magna Carta, slapping around that punk King John and herding those sissy barons into line.
People wonder why Joe’s minders continue to put him through this. But they’re missing the point. To the minders, he’s the perfect candidate. That’s why all the professionals - the Consultant-Industrial Complex - hated Trump last time round: He had no minders and he just did what he wanted. Biden instead goes where they tell him, to get shoved out on stage in New Hampshire and announce he’s in Iowa, or Guam, talk gibberish and threaten to give some petite coed the thrashing of her life. From the minders’ point of view, a mindless candidate is a godsend. The last thing the entourage want is a guy with a mind of his own. Who knows who’d be running a Biden presidency? But it certainly wouldn’t be Joe, who’d be lost in rhapsodic dreams of when he rappelled into Robben Island to bust out Nelson Rockefeller.
What takes even more guts than Soweto Joe leaping from the Voortrekker Monument onto Hendrik Verwooerd’s passing landau, ripping a wheel off and necklacing the guy?
Mike Bloomberg telling jokes. The only attempts at humor on a fabulously humorless night were delegated to the guy least suited to try them. His team of lavishly remunerated gag-writers had provided the Designated Bomber with some duds about how he’d won the last debate and was really six foot tall, and he delivered them in his I-speak-your-weight-machine voice in the touching belief that the army of extras he’d hired would be splitting their sides and slapping their thighs. For the first time in his life, Bloomberg had come across something you can’t buy:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get away from Open Mic Night at Bloomberg 2020.
How many Bloomberg joke-writers does it take to change a light bulb?
The leaden self-deprecating one about Mike standing on a very tall step-ladder doesn’t quite work, so we’re leaving that till the afternoon shift comes in.
Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
That was a pregnant employee who told me I killed it.
The other billionaire? Wossname? At least Mike’s Open Mic Suicide-Bombing routine revealed a poignant vulnerability. The other guy’s just a nosebleed.
The Cherokee Dominatrix? The re-scalping wasn’t as much fun as the original. And, to be honest, the unvarying wardrobe of those cardigan-jackets is beginning to irritate me. Interestingly, unlike the others, she declined to clobber Bernie on policy or dictator suck-uppery. Which suggests to me, along with the relentless Bloomberg-bashing, that she’s running for veep.
Buttigeig and Klobuchar? They’re both bloody boring but in different ways. Amy is boring yet in a not unappealingly normal way - as in her acknowledgement that she’s perceived to be boring but, honestly, she isn’t really. Pete is boring in a deeply weird way - as in his acknowledgment that he’s perceived to lack passion and his explanation that his measured super-controlled manner is in fact proof of his passion, or whatever it was he said. He was undoubtedly the most super-controlled at talking over the others without flapping his arms and abandoning complete sentences. Which is itself deeply weird. At one point he remarked, re Bernie’s insistence that the socialism he has in mind is Scandinavian, that the Sanders plan wouldn’t fly either in Denmark or in Denmark, South Carolina.
Denmark, South Carolina is a town of three thousand people. It’s about two-thirds the size of Norway, Maine. Why would he know its name? Because someone thought it would be a cute line for a gotcha moment. But it’s too cute - and, rather than revealing anything about Bernie, it confirms he’s just the fakey-fakiest guy on the stage. Bore-wise, I’d stick with Amy - who was, almost spectacularly, the acme of uninterestingness last night.
That leaves Bernie - the original arm-flailer before all the others began doing it. Last night he turned on the audience for failing to be impressed by Fidel’s adult literacy program - not something the crotchety old Marxist expected he’d be reduced to doing. But in a parade of losers all he had to do was survive, and he did. South Carolina and Super Tuesday will winnow the field, and, when it does, Bernie will still be in the lead. Absent a stunning performance on Saturday by Biden or on Tuesday by Bloomberg, November is shaping up to be a choice between a populist nationalist and a populist socialist. Very European, as it happens.
If you watched on CBS, you’ll have noticed that the entire debate was brought to you by something called “Mike”, the new miracle product that will “get it done”. As seen in these lavish slickly-edited messages, Mike is confident, assured, professional, on his game… If only there were someone like that on stage…
Thanks Norm, Yugely funny! I’d be embarrassed being a Democrat and having those losers representing me.
Another Presidential contender is up and coming.
And some concerns from AARP. And when they make a statement, I fully support it.
“AARP is encouraged that the President continues to support comprehensive prescription drug reform. It is outrageous that Americans continue to pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. The House has passed legislation, and the President has called on the Senate to act. Now is the time for bipartisan action to lower prices for seniors and all taxpayers.
“We are however deeply concerned about proposed funding reductions to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, nutrition assistance, caregiver support, housing assistance, and other assistance for older Americans. AARP calls on Congress to protect these critical programs that millions of Americans rely on for their health and financial security.”
Malcolm Pollack:
Not long ago — in my own lifetime — an eruption of disease in central China would have caused not a ripple in American life; likely almost none of us would even have known about it. Today everyplace on Earth is in immediate and intimate contact with everyplace else, and every malign influence arising in any squalid corner of the globe can spread through all the world’s nations like a venereal disease through a Wild West mining settlement.
What have we got in return for shrinking the world in this way? Cheap manufactured goods, mostly, and a couple of new aisles at the supermarket. What price have we paid? Gutting of domestic production; titanic trade deficits with nations that despise us; intellectual-property theft on a hitherto unimaginable scale; a brittle global economy in which problems anywhere instantly become a problem everywhere; accelerating demographic replacement everywhere in the West; an extinction catastrophe among the world’s smallest and most fragile cultures and languages; organic local communities giving way everywhere to an atomizing, superficial, consumerist monoculture that is the death of all real diversity — and now this bloody virus.
A bad deal, if you ask me — and if there is any upside to this crisis, it may be that thoughtful people will look at this unholy new world we’ve bought, and start feeling a little buyer’s remorse.
What’s new in the BBC news?
And from the Weekly World News.
I was going to put this in my “News of the day” thread. But it’s better suited here.
Here are some pictures from the article.
And this is from the Patheos’ Evangelical newsletter.
Well, Mike now has my vote. In exchange for a $5000 check.
And in other political news.
"The long slog which began almost 1100 days ago is coming to close. No one probably remembers, but John Delaney declared his candidacy for President back in July, 2017. With the most recent departure of Buttigieg and Klobuchar from the candidate field and Warren’s soon to be announced campaign suspension, there are three guys left standing. **The joke? One guy is suffering from dementia, one guy is a communist, and the third guy is an oligarch. And that’s the punchline, except it’s not funny. Biden, Bernie, and Bloomberg are old, rich, white guys – not exactly the exemplar of liberal diversity. Furthermore, the Democrat party of yore has disintegrated; it’s fractured and splintered, hampered by the fact none of potential nominees will capture a majority vote and the Democrat’s political capital has been foolishly squandered trying to “get” President Trump. "
Well, anyway. Mike Blooming has dropped out.
And I really DON’T want Bernie to win. So I’m putting my support behind Trump.
However, hypothetically speaking…If Bernie Sanders gets the nomination and he runs with Mike Bloomberg as Vice President, then I throw my weight behind him.
Funny guy.
I’m reading “between the lines”. Bloomberg throws his support (and money) behind Biden. What does Mike get in return? Follow the hypothetical logic trail. 
Can they dance together?
Well, it looks like Bernie and the VP are going to sling it out. Interesting part of this whole thread is that some seem to have no inkling of what socialism really is. For the most part, it is a bunch of vocal retards that don’t want to work, to be honest, they can’t even get their asses off of the couch and away from the games to even go out and vote. The American way is and has always been, come here, work hard and achieve.
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