FWIW to all TBP readers today? The site is really acting strangely regarding comments, images and links, as well as the thumbs-up or downer issues, in my experience.
I am not even sure my comments are visible. I haven’t been able to comment much today and when I did, the comments sometimes just disappeared.
Then, about an hour ago, El Coyote goes and posts this cliffhanger on a thread. And, since I can’t comment? I had to log in and post these questions.
I’m almost called the TBP Big Dogs in because if they have taken El Coyote, they are going to have to come haul a few more of us TBP critters away too.
Since I’ve just seen EC post again, I assume he did not get handcuffed, so Bea Attitude and I won’t have to try and smuggle him out in a midnight run with Stucky and Donkey. However, I would like for people to respond to my “what if” questions below. It might be something you really should think about.
What would you do if you saw authorities taking people in your area into custody, supposedly quarantining them for the safety of your community?
Would you accept the action as reasonable or would your question it? Who would you call to verify the authority of agents to do so?
If you could not verify the authority, to whom would you report it? Police? Politicians? Military? The Media?
Finally, this is my QOTD because I’m wondering if road blocks are coming soon:
If you had the means and opportunity to leave that quarantined area and distance yourself, would you leave?
It’s no conspiracy theory. For about two years we were able to operate without a spam filter. Then about a month ago the site began to get buried in spam, so we had to reactivate the filter. It occasionally catches good comments in the filter. That’s all there is to it. No need for a post.
Email me if your comments aren’t showing and I’ll check the spam filter and release them.
What’s all this problem with SPAM?
I just came back from Wally World with a shopping cart full of it!
Mark- Take that SPAM back to the store, it is now made by the Chinese.
BL ,
So Solly Wally…Ming Ding a Ling already took my Renminbi!
I’ve just logged back in. I’m not allowed to comment on my own post. I used to love spam when I was a kid. I thought it was exotic.
Maggie,
It’s super rare that I eat it…too much sodium, but I really like it fried with two eggs and one of my wife’s scratch biscuits
However, it could in real handy dandy during the Apocalypse…just thinking out loud.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-you-should-eat-spam_n_4923479
As an accomplished Boy Scout (way back when cars had tail fins and Scouting was a morally uplifting experience) when our troop went on overnights I was both cook and quartermaster. One of the favorite entrees was: Spam on a hot griddle topped with generous sprinklings of brown sugar; brown one side then turn over and add the brown sugar, removing just as the sugar starts to turn gooey. Usually we would have fixed Bisquick biscuits in a large Dutch oven, all covered with hardwood coals for perfect browning of the biscuits on all sides. Once I gave the guys the Spam no one ever wanted Mulligan stew ever again.
OMG… in Girl Scouts, we made cherry dumplings with biscuit dough in a big kettle full of cherry pie filling. It was like chicken dumplings but with cherry pie instead.
And, of course, Hershey graham cracker smores.
But, what about Coyote?
M G – I don’t think you could possibly take El back to where he came from. 🙂
good point
That was funny! I laughed on that one.
Interesting questions, Maggie
You should repost only the questions. Either way, I’ll have to think about them.
It was ur article that brung them.
Remember how those fake viagra and cialis ads kept popping up a month or so ago? I even pointed it out to you and now look what you did!!!!
Maggie, if TPTB knew you, Donk, Stucky and I were coming on a search and recover mission it would scare the BeJeebus out of their ass. We should have gone in to extract Snowden and Assange. EC does not need to worry, we’ve got his back.
As you may remember, my son came and took me to Sonic the Hedgehog, the Movie, which is like the nicest thing the boy’s done for me since he decided to go ahead and be born 12 days late. And I really did take him to a Megachurch nearby so he could collect hugs for Valentine’s Day when he was five, just to win the prize, so I may deserve some of his callousness.
Nevertheless* there is a scene where the crazy guy with the chainsaw who’s been ranting about the blue devil (Sonic) for years comes out to fight the evil Dr. Robotnik and has the best line in the whole movie: He may be a blue devil, but he’s OUR blue devil.
*Nevertheless and notwithstanding are words you should scan for in advance since they mean “ignore what I just said it doesn’t matter.”
This scene is the only one I could find… isn’t Sonic cute?
It appears the handcuffs where in E.C.’s dream.
When cops are in the area making an arrest, people in the neighborhood want to know what’s happening and either ask the cops or call dispatch to ask, or they call the local news agencies. If no answers, I guess you ask local government and move up from there.
I doubt I would leave a quarantined area because I work at home and have supplies on hand. If people tried to invade homes for food or something like that, I have things on hand for dealing with invasion situations, or if there, say, too many, I would leave.
How embarrassing, I would call this a tempest in a D cup. I had a bad dream and it reminded me that Big Red also had bad dreams about counting crows and a pandemic. What Big Red has given me is a sense of dread about pneumonia, I kinda like to breathe.
The roadblocks is a good question, Maggito. Flea said that fake officials could use them in a crisis situation to kidnap young women or kids. One guy said that it is not a good idea to get out of the car when told to do so and he preferred to hit that gas at that point. Of course he was talking about check points in Latin America.
There is a video where some Chinese considered their life more important than obeying the roadblocks, they rammed the cop cars and got the heck out of the quarantined city. So there is that aspect, do you obey orders that are contrary to your safety or do you run over the popo?
What about supplies, will stores like Target or Walmarts be looted? Over here, I expect Californians will proceed as Cali usually does, one gigantic free for all. This calls for some planning; which aisle to hit first, liquor or lingerie? This is no time to grab a free flatscreen. I suppose the “Armenian Method” is best; my wife says that in a sale, they grab all the jewelry or clothes and then find a table where they can cherry pick what they like. Perhaps I would use an arm to sweep all the canned goods onto a cart and toss out the canned brussel sprouts later.
What stuff would you grab?
P.S. I will give you my cell number if you want, Mama Red Rope.
That reminds me of a story one of the guys told. He said he went scuba diving and his jittery wife was at home imagining he’d drowned. She sent the cops and rescue units looking for him. When he walked out of the water a cop asked who he was and said, come with me, we’ve been looking for you, your wife thinks you drowned. He said he was pretty embarrassed.
I’ve got a BETTER scuba diving story. It wasn’t me, though.
My son took care of Dressage horses for a woman who was part of our “family of families” group, which was what we called our neighborhood prepper association in Oklahoma, or FF for email purposes back before social media stormed the worldwideweb.
She was the widow of a retired officer, perhaps an O-5, but nothing that got saluted at the base gate, you know? (Widows of full birds got saluted, I think.)
So, I got to know her fairly well over the years my son took care of her fancy prancy steeds for 8 bucks an hour. She was doing me a tremendous favor by teaching that brat of mine how to muck stables and handle and care for horses and she was paying him money to boot! I could put up with a lot of patronizing snootiness for that (I was enlisted and that is why she asked my son to do it, let’s not quibble about that. She wouldn’t have asked an officer’s kid.)
So, one of the last times we visited, she shared with me how her husband died. They were on vacation in the Bahamas and were scuba diving. The diving coach or whatever came down for her when her husband started having problems and she stayed on the shore with him for a couple of hours.
But, get this… when the coach said they had time for one more quick dive, she asked her husband if he minded and he said no, he felt fine, so she joined the divers for that last dive. And, you guessed it… he died of a heart attack alone there on the beach.
My son quit working for her not long after that. It was unrelated to that story, but it was time. The woman was kind of cold. But, my son learned a lot from having to cope with her and her fancy prancy horses. So, there’s that.
But, get this… And, you guessed it…
Guys do not tell stories that way. Maybe in dumb articles of yore but not now. Get it?
Mags has a better scuba story but it did not clear the filter
Had a neighbor-wonderful guy-an ex-Army officer and high school shop teacher, who went with his daughter and her husband to Santa Rosa, N. M. to dive in the famous waters; something went wrong and he came home in a box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hole_(New_Mexico)
I still can’t comment.
I’d head straight to the meat section and pick up as much beef, pork, chicken and lamb I could grab. Then I’d hit the fish and seafood.
I’d hit the liquor then pharmacy. Booze and antibiotics are great barterables.
Yep…for a time them little tiny one shot bottles will be worth their barter weight in silver…maybe even worth what ever the desperate trader has…depends on who you are trading with…an activity that could be more dangerous and deadly than the virus.
I picked up another big package of toilet paper while I was out yesterday.
EC: Aha, so you get those ‘dreams’ too, shades of The Stand. Pneumonia should make you nervous, I have scarred lungs as a result of pneumonia, so this virus would probably do me in if I was so unfortunate as to catch it. It took four days in the hospital to help me get over acute bronchitis, that wasn’t in ICU but I was being given drugs and respiratory treatment along with oxygen therapy. Think about what would happen if the hospitals were overrun with sick people.
As to what to do? Common sense mon frer. Be agile, think on your feet and assess the situation. Use your brain and not your emotions to make decisions. The key here is the disease itself, how contagious is it and what happens if you leave isolation?
There’s too many unknown variables at present. There are six confirmed infected in San Antonio at Lackland AFB. That’s almost eighty miles from me but still too close should the quarantine not work or they release them too soon. My concern is when is it the right time to close the gate and self-isolate? Everyone around me is acting like no biggie, business as usual. Look at Italy for an idea of what happens when the news gets out. Suddenly all shelves are empty and lots of panic because they weren’t prepared. Like the folk who last minute shop for a hurricane, especially those who decide that bread and milk are vital, none of that will be left.
What’s going to get REALLY scary is when the trucks aren’t making deliveries.
Thank you VV, BR!
At Lackland? Really? Do you have a link?
EC.
Lingerie? You?
Alliteration is important and makes it easier to read.
Sea Dog.
Whew!
Flea: Silly, the lingerie was for his sexy mulatta wife. EC is smart to hoover up the canned goods but the best items to latch onto are booze, cigs, toilet paper and Tide. Great barter items, along with Bic lighters and Slim Jims.
I remember at one of the crazy prepper meetings, some of us ladies were laughing about the kinds of things we found ourselves hoarding.
I got fixated on saving little slivers of soap because we could always melt them down and have nice soap to add to the stinky soap we were going to have to make… that was my thought process, I suppose.
Anyway, it turned out I wasn’t the only one and one of the others who’d moved into a charming little bungalow in the boonies of Little Axe had a big huge container of them she’d saved for YEARS.
But, at the meeting, one of the real die-hard hiking, camping, surviving types gave us a tip about dryer lint. Apparently, it is wonderful for starting fires because it burns a long time with a hot flame. He showed us a big wad of it and I got the laugh of the night when I said I was gonna draw the line on dryer lint, because quite frankly, one has to draw it somewhere.
I refuse to save dryer lint. It would be, to me, like saving belly lint. And now it is gross, too.
You are welcome.
Dammit… my comment dropped into the spam box again.
It was a good one too. Fortunately, I pasted it into an email to Admin.
We’ll wait.
Me too
He retrieved it finally… the dryer lint story above
Maybe not so good now… lol
I said belly lint.
After I read it again (when it was “released”) I decided the dryer lint and belly lint comparison wasn’t really all that funny.
Maggie, just keep a fire-lighting pouch, with some dryer lint, some birch bark if it’s in your area, some cotton balls with Vaseline on them, things of that nature. Don’t go nuts about it. Anything in the area, such as rush grasses, pine knots cut up, that will help start your fire are useful and should go in your pouch along with fire lighters. If it’s in your area, it’s renewable and doesn’t have to be collected until needed.
I am up watching this video Fleabaggs posted. I’m fascinated with this lady.
She looks like my cousin’s widow, mother of Huck.
I do have a really good firestarting kit, but I prefer the old fashioned way: Honey? Will you please build me a fire?
LOL.
Saying “D cup” is the equivalent of saying “Look! Squirrel!”…..
Watch the minds make a sudden U-turn 🙂
Mostly
At least u know we care.
Gross. Canned Brussel Sprouts.
I was worried I was gonna have to jump in my Jeep and ride.
Is this more embarrassing than being credited with helping post Tuesdays Bluesday on Wednesday?
Come on… all in the same week?
I had to log in to post here. The spam filter is set to “MG doppler”.
what in the world?
Damn popo learning us that even throwing a tantrum can get you arrested. Where is the damn principal? Back in the day, a principal was judge and executioner, he didn’t go weak and call the cops on a kid. You got your ass swatted, your parents got called, the world came to an end. Now, the bastards want to go full popo. Fuck that. You know what Dirty Harry would do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujx7dqfyVs
Well, I believe it was Mary Christine’s article which attracted the spammers.
I remember pointing it out.
It was her.
Yeah, it was her…she did it, it’s all her fault and I’m gonna tell Mom.
Lol! You might have to seperate us. We are hitting each other in the back seat while mom threatens to pull over.
Girl fight?
Not that kind Put your dirty mind back in the box.
Wow! Don’t talk about trying or being preggers and the spammers will stay away. AND FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, DON’T EVER TALK ABOUT THAT…shhhh…problem men have sometimes when they get older. You know, the one that causes the ummm…wet noodle issues.
I heard ec knows about noodles
Mary..
Is that a deliberate typo you left for EC. Just asking because a friend who knew a guy who told him he heard Preggers were on PornHub.
No,I’m trying not to attract spam bots. So I was looking for alternative words. I’m already in the internet corner for my last article attracting meds for that particular dysfunction.
Mary.
Ok.
I think they have a little blue pill for that – not that I need it, just heard about some such thing.
I hate to be the tin-foil hat guy but . . . I gonna be the tin-foil hat guy. When I was a kid (pre-teen) my grandfather had an older friend who was married to a woman who was less than half his age (she was 36; he was rich. Oh, and 75.) She was also pregnant. His kid, born with a bald spot and everything, no question. He was a rancher- north-central Missouri and stout, even at 75, and nobody fuxed with him. Ever. Thirty years later, I know a bunch of dudes in their fifties who can’t even get . . . un-wet-noodled, much less father a child.
The difference between that guy and those other guys?
The rancher had grown up in the boonies, lived in the boonies, raised a family in the boonies, and after he was widowered, started another. And all he ever knew was well water.
The other guys? Fluoridated city water.
Not kidding. Not a joke. Fluoride destroys endocrine systems. It’s not an accident that a lot of guys need blue pills nowadays.
That “old” man was healthy into his early nineties. Died at 96, when his kid was a junior in college. Most of us will die a decade sooner, if not more, and it’s not an accident.
Fluoride is a toxin, no doubt. Don’t even use toothpaste with fluoride. Dentist thinks I am a nut, but puts up with the family. Of course you need the opposite sex to comply. The wife does bio-indentical hormones prescribed from the naturopath from a compounding pharmacy – PRAISE THE LORD, no little blue pill needed here !
Neibo
Before the marriage his friends tried to warn him that May-December marriages could be fatal. He sighed and said, well if she dies she dies.
Good one.
This is Billy Joel and his newest wife, Katie Lee.
But, with a little imagination, it could be EC and the sexy mulatto!
Stop! it’s mulatta, dammit. That’s why I now call her the Salvy Queen. Only rich septuagenarian dudes can look forward to marrying gorgeous young babes. The rest of us have to keep the old model with the rebuilt engine.
So . . . a green-eyed blonde gold-digger in her late twenties meets an 84 year old tobacco farmer from Central TN and immediately thinks, “If I marry this guy, I’ll kill him during the honeymoon.”
Which sounds good to her cuz . . . gold digger.
Eight months pass. On their wedding night, after the ceremony and first dance and big party to welcome both of them into “Happy Nuptualand”, after the short flight to the southern coast and the taxi-ride across Naples to the Beach-side hotel and after a couple of drinks, green-eyed blonde is ready for bed, but to sleep, is “tuckered out”. So, while her “old man” is in the shower, she changes into her PJ’s and climbs into bed. But before she can relax, she hears the water shut off, and thirty seconds later, her husband exits the bathroom. He has half a “baseball bat” between his legs, wrapped in a “magnum” condom, wears earplugs AND has a nose plug crimped across his nostrils; right before he hops into bed, he announces, “I know I look crazy, but the two things i hate most are the smell of burning rubber and to hear a lady screaming.”
Ba-dump-bump-tss.
I was reared on unflouridated well water. My father even had a real hand pump in the house at the sink. He would drink right out of it, but we children preferred our water from the faucet.
Because we knew better. LOL
Niebo, somewhere in my files I have a study conducted long ago by I think the University of Missouri. They used 3 jersey bulls that were fighting mad (almost all jersey bulls go berserk after 3 years old.) They here isolated in pens and given high doses of Fluoride in their drinking water for six months. After six months, the bulls were gentle as kittens. I read that study over 30 years ago and have never used toothpaste with Fluoride since. Of course I do not have city water out here in the sticks, so that is not an issue.
A town not far from here, just voted down using Fluoride in their city water. They had meetings for several months on the issue and the town people became convinced of what you are saying is true. Stay away from Fluoride.
O.T.
You brought back memories. Jersey’s made up about half the dairy cows in my area and the contrast between the sweet gentle pretty cows and their psychotic serial killer husbands was rife in the local folklore.
That’s funny Flea but true. Jersey bulls are nothing to mess with. They are quick as a cat and often times mean
O.T.
But boy are they ever handsome rascals.
Listen, Fleabaggs and OT and EC, if he’s over the mulatto/mulatta thing.
I am not overly worried about the virus here, since the rocket scientist prefers to keep his cooties in Kansas City and we really do not have to interact with anyone else, unless we choose to do so for quite some time.
However, if this is indeed a weaponized virus, it is likely to have already mutated out of control.
https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/4-key-proteins-of-covid19-have-been-replaced-which-can-precisely-attack-chinese
I stumbled upon this woman’s blog and am listening now. Not suggesting you listen to it all, but certainly skim it and decide if you think it worth additional time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1246&v=AsKvEC0KV0Y&feature=emb_logo
Big Red has been all over this like she’s on a mission, you should read her stuff once in a while.
I do! I even comment, but the spam-o-filter hates me unless I’m logged into WordPress. Haha
GET THIS? I’m on my husband’s PC NOT LOGGED IN and the spam filter still knows it is me.
“Emerging Viruses” Aids and Ebola by Dr. Leonard Horowitz. I read it in 96 and it’s still relevant today.
I agree, Flea. I watched a lot of Dr. Horowitz’s stuff and truly believe he’s been smeared by the people who smear people for a living.
We know who they are and they are damn good at it.
As far as this thing being weaponized? I think the evidence is clear that it is indeed a biowarfare style of virus and that initially, it seemed to target Asians. Whether that was a distractor to allow widespread contagion or simply coincidental to its point of origin (wet market or BioLab nearby in Wuhan Province/Hubei city in the province), the thing is that NOW? we are seeing evidence that the UNITED STATES is covering up data.
What happens when the US gets caught covering up data? Lots of people die.
I’ll be frank with you Frank. I’m spooked.
MAGGIE.
To be Frank about it! I was the first one to talk about and show links to the Fed’s plans for cracking down on the US by way of Medical Martial Law. The CDC said openly they plan to have testing centers and surveillance nation wide soon and that the military was wargaming pandemics etc. Not because the virus is a threat to americans but because americans are a threat to government and getting control before the financil collapse is the prefferred method. Take the guns first, rights second kind of thing. Instead of just declaring martial law which would get ugly and expensive. Scare everyone into a quarantine, then shoot anyone in a car without a permit. Surround the Walmarts and then make everyone who wants food submit to a home inspection. No Looky no Eaty. Those of us left will be isolated and taken out in sections.
We spent 8 years in Nam learning how to eradicate cells and pockets of resistance.
How many have seen Napalm or a fuel air bomb.
We can win some battles against zombies but the real war is for God to win because “They” have evil entities in their camp.
Just don’t go to town without plenty of gas to get back and keep a get home pack in the car and a gun. Make up your mind now if you are going to kill someone to get back to your family. If you can’t then find another plan to get back where you are needed. Remember the lesson Selco learned about family being THE most important thing. If you don’t have a plan you’re gonna die.
We know it and our neighbors know it. It is comforting to see EVERYBODY packing a weapon these days.
Even the neighbor kids. That is probably most comforting to me. I don’t worry about the kids around here like I did in the city.
try using a VPN… I can be had for free by downloading Brave Browser
Change IP and your spam problem likely goes away
Maggie.
OK I’ll give it a go. I’m 90% certain it’s a weapon.
BTW. I listened to a scientist who explained the HIV connection. A portion of the HIV was grafted in to give it sticking power much like a grappling hook. It seems that the design was too smooth to stay in the lungs long enough to make trouble.
I believe it’s a weapon. I have said we should take the virus seriously, which may not be an actual “virus,” but I had to call it something. It appears the Russians are on to the fact that it’s a weapon also. War is on the horizon, well, actually already started. And thanks MG, I will check it out
Well, there are indications the US is involved. We already expected that, though.
I completely GET the grappling hook thing… Since a virus in not really alive until it replicates in your cells, it needs a way to adhere to the cell in a way that invites the cell to allow it inside.
The HIV strand would initiate certain immune system cells to grab onto, or grapple, with the virus chain, giving the virus a toe in the doorway, so to speak. Once inside the cell, the virus is free to bond and replicate…
Maggie.
That pretty much sums up what he said but I was unable to articulate it like you did.
Well, with my brain condition, I have to worry about secondary infections. I am very careful with things that are contagious. So, I do my homework when I can.
I thought the hydrocephalus condition was cured?
One does not cure hydrocephalus, but manages it with a valve and tubing to one’s abdomen (mine was until it failed) or one’s heart (which is where mine drains now.)
The current magnetic-tuned valve (the neurosurgeon literally had a big magnet with a dial) has been functional without failure for 10 years plus, a good sign that it has settled into function and will probably not fail, as my first two valves did fairly quickly and repeatedly that first few years after it manifested, for no real reason at age 42.
My husband knows how to test the valve, as does that US Navy doctor I see. My son does as well but he assures me he might test it but he is never going to pierce that scar tissue to relieve the pressure so why bother.
Brat.
I’m not going back into surgery. If the valve fails, my husband will just have to drain my brain with a syringe once in a while when I space out.
My son will leave me in a chair to fall over like Michael Corleone in Godfather III.
So, it ain’t cured, but it is managed. Sometimes, my husband checks it.
Me too. With 25% of my lungs left It’s dangerous to get a sniffle and leave it untended. Bought some of marks silver if it arrives for sinus flush. Once its in my lungs I can’t expel it without dropping my male junk to the ground.
Niebo used the “P” word. It’s not my fault, this time. Niebo can sit in the internet corner this time.
You may have brought them here, Mary Christine, but the filter is fine tuned to limit my ability to post unless I admit who I really am.
DAMN THE ELECTRIC FILTERS!!!
Damn it, MG! This time I fell out of my chair and spilled my coffee!
The sun ain’t even up where you are – why the hell are you even awake?!
🙂
It was a good one. I was looking for one about whacking a bull in the ass with a banjo and came upon this one.
We know that Big Brother knows and he knows that we know and he doesn’t care. Prepare accordingly.
M G,
I’ve been refreshing my browser after every comment I make. It seems to be working as all my comments seem to stick.
I can only comment if I log in. Seriously, I think the MWNN and Admin have conspired to prevent MG from doppling Paulita. She has to do it herself now.
Dammit. How will I explain to my husband that I need another computer in the barn?
Good luck with that!
Was the EC and his wife episode a false positive? Lol.
I see he is posting and not shaken up.
((EC)), can you write a post of what happened to you and your wife?
He said it was a dream he had.
Well, he knows we care enough to post for help.
Just discovered this youtube video, it has rain, artillery and gunfire all in one. Something to listen to if you want some prescient dreams…..;-)
Is this to calm those with PTSD into sleep?
Think of it as exposure therapy…those exposed become inured to the sound of gunfire, rain and artillery. Or not……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1246&v=AsKvEC0KV0Y&feature=emb_logo
I think this is something you might be able to decipher.
And, dammit, that one led to this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_RiO8yGZPA&feature=youtu.be
I am leaving the house now… MUST GET AIR.
As far as your questions, boy, I really don’t know what I’d do. I have enough supplies to batten down the hatches for a couple months so I’d probably do that.
Depends on what they are being quarantined for, no?
Am saying this COVID 19 was active in your area… would you just hunker down in place or would you try to get away from the contagion?
Farmer posted a link about paper pushing Govt. agencies stockpiling ammo. Here’s my reply.
What alarms me about these government workers getting strapped is they are unemployable Mall Cops. They remind me of seeing the “Auxiliary Police” responding to an emergency looking like they just pulled their uniforms out of the dirty laundry bin. Just like the ones in Nam who blocked the roads out of a village that was just flattened and grabbed all the kids to sell to the flesh peddlers in Saigon. Take it or leave it as you choose. Just remember Catrina, the real story not the BS the networks were selling and remember that scared people can’t reason well if at all.
I’m as serious as the DNC and RINOs are crooked. Yahoo Mail must monitor me: when I start writing stuff they don’t like, my computer acts up so bad I can’t finish my comment and sometimes it disappears. One day my screen went all blue and large orange letters said “How does it feel to be censored”. When I enter TBP direct, the problems don’t occur. MFR: I have blogged earlier this year about official night time low temperatures being routinely reported as much as 15 degrees F high. The NWS must have gotten the word because for the last two weeks, they have only been 5 degrees high and I will spot them that because their monitoring stations are in urban areas. PS: Twice I have been fraudulently enrolled for a monthly credit card charge by an online merchant. The first was an order for a dozen MAGA hats from a Walmart Drop Shipper who enrolled me in Amazon Prime, and dirty Discover Card would not give me my money back. The second was Checks Unlimited who enrolled me in Freeshipping ($13/mo) two weeks later. Freeshipping did apologize and gave me my money back; Wells Fargo Credit Card personnel were very helpful.
I’m fortunate in that my husband is very diligent on tracking shit like that. I think my comments are not showing up…
That censored screen popping up is really strange.
Some Judas Goat couldn’t resist the urge to break TPTB rules and stick a finger in my eye. This was like seeing a UFO or ghost up close and personal; that “KGB” proof made a solid believer out of me.
Now Now, you are starting to sound like my paranoid mother in law in the nursing home. Get a grip. Go Noles.
Mags cant comment even logged in. Lol
These are good questions. First thing I would do is figure out what the authorities are legally allowed to do in my state, federal and local jurisdictions. It varies state to state, and usually the state is in charge, but apparently the CDC can also do it. Here are some handy starting points:
Federal legal authority article
State Quarantine and Isolation Statutes
What would you do if you saw authorities taking people in your area into custody, supposedly quarantining them for the safety of your community?
I would go into concealment and evasion mode. Authorities are always best avoided even if you have nothing to hide.
Would you accept the action as reasonable or would your question it? Who would you call to verify the authority of agents to do so?
If they picked me up I would certainly question it, whether it was legal or not. If my neighbors got picked up I would not question it. My neighbors are mostly liberals. They love big powerful governments. If they survive their experience in the virus gulag they will come out wiser.
If you could not verify the authority, to whom would you report it? Police? Politicians? Military? The Media?
I would not report it. If gangs were going door to door saying they were authorities it will probably be obvious. Then it’s fight or flight time.
If you had the means and opportunity to leave that quarantined area and distance yourself, would you leave?
I would stay. I mostly have what I need. What I don’t have I can sneak out and get. I don’t expect quarantines in my area will be secure at all. Just have to keep those pesky neighbors away from my secret stashes.
Those are some well presented answers and I appreciate you taking the time, Mr. Shift.
I think most of us would respond like you suggest… we would probably stay out of it until they actually came for us. Especially those of us who have ended up in handcuffs on the concrete trying to fight city hall. It ain’t fun.
It is as if our answer to Solzhenitsyn is that we really don’t care who they come for as long as it isn’t me and mine.
The World Health Organization has decided to NOT USE THE WORD.
PANDEMIC Guidleines will soon be a hateful term.
Solzhenitsyn wasn’t dealing with a pandemic. I don’t think I can tell you what I would do unless I’m in that situation. It’s different in the rural areas. We can’t even see some of our neighbors from the road.
Once a medical quarantine or *Marshall* law goes into effect any laws on the state or federal books goes out the window. As a matter of fact, a lot of laws have already gone out the window. If you are an elite type person, you can get away with anything.
There wouldn’t be anyplace safer than our home. If we were young, maybe we could take bugging out, but still, where would you go and how would you get there?
I wonder if this pandemic thing is a way to make people stay away from others to make barter impossible?
I’ve said many times that I am not planning too be part of any remnant. I’m simply preparing a place for the remnant.
If this thing goes and makes a liar out of me, I’m going to go boldly to the throne and bitch, don’t you know!
Good job MS. I would write the same answers.
About Tú Sólo Tú (1995)
“Tú sólo tú” (Eng: You, Only You) is the title of the second single (first in Spanish) released from the album Dreaming of You, recorded by Selena. The track was written by Felipe Valdés Leal. It was the first Spanish-language single to be released following Selena’s death. The song is a cover of Pedro Infante’s original.
Look how I’m doing my darling because of your love
Drunk and impassioned just because of your love
See how I’m doing my dear
Given over to drunkeness and perdition
You, only you
Have filled my life with mourning
Opening a wound in my heart
You, only you
Are the cause of all of my crying
Of my disenchantment and despair
See how I’m doing my darling because of your love
Only your fatal shadow, shadow of gloom
Follows me everywhere with obstinance
In trying to forget you
I throw myself into a bottle and perdition
You, only you
Have filled my life with mourning
Opening a wound in my heart
You, only you
Are the cause of all of my crying
Of my sadness and desperation
50. I win. The dedication is for my friend, Stucky.
I wonder if I can comment yet?
Translate, please…
Mira como ando mi amor por tu querer
Borracha y apasionada, nomás por tu amor
Mira como ando mi bien
Muy dada a la borrachera y a la perdición
Tú, sólo tú
Has llenado de luto mi vida
Abriendo una herida en mi corazón
Tú, tú, sólo tú
Eres causa de todo mi llanto
De mi desencanto y desesperación
Mira como ando mi bien por tu querer
Sólo tu sombra fatal, sombra del mal
Me sigue por donde quiera con obstinación
Y por quererte olvidar
Me tiro a la borrachera y a la perdición
Tú, sólo tú
Has llenado de luto mi vida
Abriendo una herida en mi corazón
Tú, tú, sólo tú
Eres causa de todo mi llanto
De mi desencanto y desesperación
never mind… you already did… duh
Am listening to Peak Prosperity… Chris has been ahead of the curve for decades. People make fun of his mistaken Peak Oil prediction, but thanks to Chris? I’m pretty much set for Armageddon.
Look at this image. Are you kidding? Only 414 people tested in the United States?
And the WHO has decided to NOT say “pandemic” since it frightens people.
Since Stucky’s got dibs on the treehouse now, you can claim his old spot by the pond.
This thought just popped in my head. What if they don’t want to test because they don’t want to try to impose a quarantine? It would make our economy tank and the President is all about the economy.
They showed a couple of dudes in Italy wearing their face mask over their mouth with the nose exposed. Early on, people were talking of full head covering, using makeshift masks from plastic bottles, today, Xi shows up in a flimsy face mask. What happened to the protocol about covering your eyes too?
Then, I mention to the Salvy Queen that the Chinese were beaten to force them to comply. In Italy they suggest people stay indoors. That takes the terror out of the equation and keeps it focused on public health.
EC.
I take it you don’t know any Italians. Roman beaks don’t fit in the generic mask.
Since this has become the TBP chat spot today, I’ll add this one… Poppa G and his brother traveled to Italy to meet their brother and a New York Times* reporter did a story on it… The Nose Knows and had a photo of the three reunited brothers in profile. I have the picture around somewhere but this thread is already getting image laden enough.
*At the time, his son was a teaching Physics in New York, so it had local interest, not just in Italy. It was an interesting story.
I hope John Galt doesn’t mind.
flea,
that’s so stereotypical & unfair to say that about your family’s noses but what do you call it when an italian guy has a broken arm?
a speech impediment
Tampa, Flea,
Ha!
I resemble that re-mark!
Some body sprayed some graffiti on a wall back in the day in Jersey:
“What sound does a bag of shit make when you throw it against this wall? WOP!’
The artist was careful to stay anonymous otherwise there would have been a line of Guidos to show him the error of his ways.
However, my fluthered Irish half thought it was hilarious.
But my Italian donnaiolo half was not amused.
MickeyWop
now you are thinking like mags! I punctuated for you again!
I was watching some highlights of the Kobe memorial. The Salvy queen says Kobe was sure beloved around the world.
Where are all the idiots that attended Meghan’s wedding? They’re at the Kobe memorial service gettin’ they picture taken. I am so sick of Beyonce.
So yeah, I posted Selena to remind myself that she gave us big booty JLo and practically brought back big booties like Madonna brought back big boobs. Although big boobs are out now.
How can we possibly go on without him?
EC.
J-Lo allowed women to have hips again as well as a fine booty. She single handedly broke the Twiggy hex that made so many beautiful girls hate themselves.
JLo fell into a fortune, she was Selena’s replacement. Selena was coming to LA and I sent a clipping to my brother who lived in CC at the time. He’s not nice like me, he snarled, you like her? She’s got this big booty you could set your beer mug on…We didn’t get to see her because she got shot.
“For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
If I was in the family of the others killed, I would be pissed. Apparently, a whole memorial is called for, for Kobe and his daughter, with celebrities and famous singers, but the others that died only get a name mention. Rather patronizing. They simply don’t rate.
Agree. Looking at it from another angle, why is it all about black?
Huh?
Would you accept the action as reasonable or would your question it? Who would you call to verify the authority of agents to do so? The answer from me is below, but I am clocked a whole lot different than many.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3sTgBizQA
I would leave..
You got the old goat crib, Nova Scotia, if you need it. Full barn bathroom privileges.
If I can bunk with Iska, I get top bunk.
Thanks Mags!
When required I will bow out and Exit Stage Left
taking my favourite Rush Album… for Iska of course!
I wuz gonna let u sleep in the barn but I guess u will bunk with novascotia
You gonna stick EC in the barnloft? REally?
OK, so the plan for panic buying at Wally World is to go full Armenian housewife and grab all the meat, SPAM and canned veggies. Get some small liquor bottles, toilet paper and a quarantine flag. Got it. Am I forgetting something? Water? Dry milk?
I got rid of most of the beans, but I kept ALL of the dry milk. Am kind of glad I did. Did you get your refries? (I think Paulita has found a workaround for me… we will see.)
Everybody shut the fuck up, I just had an idea! Saran wrap would be more convenient for a makeshift face mask, be sure to leave the filter uncovered, unless you intend to hitch a ride on a passing comet.
Just piss in a cloth like they did in trenches on Western during First World War…
no wonder people hold their noses around canadians