Category Archives: Current Affairs

60 Year Old Italian Woman Gets Fined For Walking Her Turtle

Italian law enforcement must be Very Proud of themselves Italian Woman Fined for Taking Her Turtle for a Walk During Coronavirus Quarantine A 60-year-old woman has been fined for breaking Italy’s lockdown measures—her excuse: she was walking her pet turtle. According to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, police found the woman outside her home on Monday. When […]

Michigan Residents Plan Protest Against That Woman In Michigan

Gretchen ‘Il Duce” Whitmer may not be happy Wednesday ‘A slap in the face’: Furious Michiganders are planning to protest their governor’s travel crackdowns in the state capital Paul LaFrance, a business owner who lives in the Detroit metro area, has never protested. But that’s going to change this week. He’s joining a group of […]

Press Corp Which Demanded Trump Has Authority To Close Everything Upset Trump Says He Has Power To Reopen Everything

This is one of those times I would have liked to see Trump take a bit more of an even tone, maybe work a bit more with folks across the aisle, but, then, Democrats in governor and city leadership positions seem to want to keep things closed as long as possible. Mostly because they want […]

Brits Send Their Luggage Separately To 2nd Homes

Like Michigan, Britain has a lockdown on traveling to a 2nd home, and they have found a novel way to get around it Coronavirus: Second home-owners ‘evading police checkpoint detection by sending luggage ahead’ Second-home owners are reportedly ignoring the coronavirus lockdown rules by posting their luggage ahead of them to avoid detection at police checkpoints. According […]

Shock: NY Times Offers Good Relief Idea On Coronovirus Response

This isn’t the first time the NY Times editorial board has offered a good relief idea. They offered one about paying up to 90% of worker’s salaries a couple weeks ago, along with other measures. And now they note something similar ‘We’re Going Down, Down, Down, Down, Down’ The federal government is struggling to deliver […]

Why Are Blacks Dying At A Much Higher Rate From Bat Soup Virus?

While some have fear-mongered and blame-stormed regarding racial inequality and the typical Race Card stuff they like to play, many of them could have done it a much different way, because there is a problem The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate, a Post analysis shows As the novel coronavirus sweeps […]

NY Times: Social Distancing Is White And Rich Privilege

You can obviously depend on the NY Times to provide lots and lots of hot takes on the backs of people getting sick and dying. You have this one Healthcare Workers Are Begging For Masks. Is The President Listening? The country that spends the most in the world on health care doesn’t have nearly enough […]

Apparently, Marijuana Stores Are Considered “Essential” In California

What about the cookie stores that are next door to them? Anyhow, one doctor is rather upset over this, as she writes to the LA Times Letters to the Editor: Pot vaping was ruining lungs before COVID-19, and now cannabis is ‘essential’? As an emergency physician, I believe treating marijuana shops as essential businesses during the COVID-19 […]

Hawaii, Laredo Ramp Up Fines And Threats For Bat Soup Virus Violators

These could make for some interesting Constitutional, both state and federal, lawsuits. Does Hawaii and Laredo, Texas, have the authority to do this? Hawaii will fine self-quarantine violators $5,000 or send them to prison If you were thinking of riding out the pandemic in sunny Hawaii, think again: Anyone traveling between the state’s islands must […]

ZOMG, Amazon Fired Worker For Staging Walkout Or Something

Here’s the HuffPost Amazon Worker Fired After Staging Walkout Over Company’s Handling Of Coronavirus Risk Amazon fired an employee who helped organize a walkout at one of its fulfillment centers over the company’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on Monday. Chris Smalls, the employee who helped organize the demonstration, said he felt Amazon had failed to enact adequate measures […]

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