Manipulating the News, Daily Mail Version

In a lengthy story headlined "US Government Gave $3.7 million Grant to Wuhan Lab...." the Daily Mail refuses to give its readers one VERY important detail:

The date(s) of the grant.

Go ahead.  Read the entire thing.  Not ONE mention of the date, which leads to the suspicion that it was an Obama or 'Globaloney George' grant.  Actually, I have no problem with funding medical research.  But I DO have a problem with funding bio-weapons research for enemy States.

There is one hint:  the story refers to a '2016 paper' having to do with bat-virus findings.   Therefore, it's likely that the grant in question came before 2016........

This is clearly 'news manipulation' or--as we now know it--FAKE NEWS.

(Sure, we read the Daily Mail.  It's reliably TDS (just like the local kitty-litter-liner JS, Bloomberg, and Drudge.  Falls under "G-2" obligation.)

Evers, Layoffs, Tax Shortfall, and "News" Rummies

Since Tony Evers has never experienced managing a revenue shortfall, and since the State's tax revenues WILL take a serious hit this quarter, the question becomes "What Will Tony Do?"

Are all State employees "essential"?

Really?

Which Department of Education employees are "essential" when not one kid is in school in the entire State?  How many Revenooer auditors are "essential" when 25-33% of businesses are closed?  Does the LtGov still need limo-services courtesy of the Capitol police?  How about that UW-System?  Is every single Administration employee "essential"?

For that matter, have Fitzie and Vos thought about layoffs/furloughs for Leggie employees?  Why not?  Don't tell me that every single office aide is overwhelmed with work.  They're not--or won't be after your last session, when all the lobbyists go home.  One more thing:  are lobbyists "essential"?

Really??

We don't expect Tokin'Tony to respond, of course.  That's too many things for his poor little head to worry about, what with limiting church attendance to "drive-in" or "10-person max", and all.

Tony prolly intends to burn the entire projected budget surplus AND the FedGov "aid" money to protect State employees (union folks, of course) from any harm.  He knows who he has to protect.

One last question:  how come izzit that the "news" "reporters" haven't asked these questions?  Are they too damn busy figuring out how to blame Republicans and Trump for all this??  (That's rhetorical.  You know the answer.)

He Is Risen!!

Risen, indeed!!

From a sermon of St John Chrysostom:

O death, where is your sting? O hell, where is your victory?

Christ is risen! And you, O death, are annihilated! Christ is risen! 

And the evil ones are cast down! Christ is risen! 

And the angels rejoice! Christ is risen! 

And life is liberated! Christ is risen! 

And the tomb is emptied of its dead; for Christ having risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

"Mail-In" Ballots? Here's a Warning

The Democrats wanted "mail-in" voting, and got it.  But besides the mess in Wisconsin last week, with boxes of ballots left in Post Offices and no cancel-date on most returned ballots (and the incredibly sloppy work by a Hack-in-Black Fed judge in Madison), there are other glitches.

Roughly 16 million mail-in ballots ended up missing in the 2016 and 2018 elections, according to federal data. 

Data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the Election Administration and Voting Surveys for both the 2016 and 2018 elections show that 16.4 million ballots that were sent to registered voters by mail went missing, according to Breitbart News....

So it should come as no surprise that bunches of Wisconsin ballots were also missing--whether going to or coming from registered voters.

And those "registered" voters?  About 240,000 of them in Wisconsin alone do not have valid mailing addresses. So who is going to pick up their mail and fill out a ballot?

Answer:  Democrat Party vote-harvesting fraudsters!!

Barr Examining Bans on Church Attendance

Well, well.  This should be fun to watch.

Attorney General William Barr is “monitoring” government officials cracking down on religious services amid the coronavirus pandemic and is ready to take “action.”

Department of Justice spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted Saturday that U.S. citizens should “expect action" next week regarding state officials regulating religious services to enforce social distancing.

“During this sacred week for many Americans, AG Barr is monitoring govt regulation of religious services. While social distancing policies are appropriate during this emergency, they must be applied evenhandedly & not single out religious orgs. Expect action from DOJ next week!” she wrote....

Bill Barr is doing the work that Catholic Bishops will not do.  What a world, eh?

Kung Flu = New Cannonball Run Record

Due to the Chinese Lung-Rot, a new record speed for the Cannonball Run was established.  The team used an Audi 8, departed the Red Ball garage in NYC and arrived at the Portofino Lodge in just over 1 day.

Average speed:  103 MPH.

With very little traffic in the way thanks to the Peking Pox, it was also an exceptionally safe journey.

Mayors vs. the Gospel

A couple of mayors in Mississippi apparently are not acquainted with the Passion narratives of the Gospel.

Like, e.g., John 19:11.

Any authority they have is given to them 'from above,' meaning that they can exercise legitimate authority only when their exercise comports with the laws of nature and nature's God. 

C'mon, man.  Even Tony Evers understands how it should work.

MSM's Newest Fake News

The newest Fake News outburst has hit!!  Get your Fake News now!!!  Even Fox....

...The United States has reached a grim milestone in the fight against coronavirus, passing Italy to become the country with the most deaths in the world....

No.

The US has the highest REPORTED number of KungFlu deaths in the world.

Someone else is lying like Hell about their death-count.  You get one guess.

The MSM expects all of us to believe them, too.  Heh.

Tokin'Tony and the Consent of the Governed

The title of Andy McCarthy's essay reminds us that Tokin'Tony is nearing the edge.

...The Constitution is a solemn pact. It codifies the relationship between the people and the governmental system they have created — not the other way around. Before we ever get to the legal niceties, there is the fundamental issue of government’s political legitimacy. Do officials remember who the sovereign is? (Hint: It is not they.) Are those who so portentously remind us that they are in “government service” mindful of what a servant is, and of who the master is?...

...At a certain point, a free people — nearly 17 million of whom have now filed unemployment claims in an economy that was booming just a month ago — comes to realize that the de Blasios are pleaders, not rulers. Common sense emerges in the clarity of lives torn asunder by willful acts of elected officials and faceless bureaucrats. Our DNA reminds us that governments derive their just powers only from the consent of the governed....

A friend asked when we should start the mass demonstrations to set our people free--and whether a lawsuit against Tony Evers regarding his church-closure/limitations should be initiated.

To the latter question, I suggested that such a lawsuit would not prevail--at least partially due to the roll-over-and-play-dead reaction from our Bishops.

...The preservation of a free society requires ordered liberty. The government can never forget that the objective is not order for its own sake, or for the sake of “progressive” social transformation. The point of order is the flourishing of freedom....

While Tony and his marketing aide Andrea Palm may claim that "lockdowns" and "social distancing" are preserving the lives of millions of Wisconsin citizens, the raw numbers of infections and deaths in this State tell citizens another story entirely:  aside from Dane and Milwaukee Counties, this is just another Flu-A or Flu-B.  One hopes that the Bishops take note.

May 1st looks more like the date.....

Still Peddling "Projections"

Yah, now that last month's projections are proven to be pure crap, we have NEW projections!!

(Hint:  Hair-on-Fire, Hide Under the Bed, Scream.  All summer long.)

...The government projections, obtained by the New York Times, indicate that lifting the strict social distancing measures now in place will see a second wave surge in infections and deaths in about June and July. 

If the current shelter-in-place orders are lifted on May 30, the death total is estimated to reach 200,000, according to the projections obtained from the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services.  

The death toll could reach 300,000 without any restrictions imposed to contain coronavirus - including school closings, shelter-in-place orders and social distancing....

Wait, wait, wait.....

Those numbers came from the NYTimes?  And were re-posted at the Daily Mail?

Never mind.

Hack-in-Black Conley Screwed Up the Election

What you'd expect from a hack-in-black Lefty operative.

...Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said that so far her office has received more than 8,000 absentee ballots. Of those, 682 have no postmark, meaning that it's likely they won't be counted. ...

About 8% of the ballots. 

So how did this problem arise??

Simple.

...During a normal election, absentee ballots must be received by clerks by 8 p.m. on election day to be counted. If the ballot arrives after then, it cannot be counted. 

But last week, U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled absentee ballots could count as long as they were received by clerks by April 13 — six days after election day — regardless of when they were sent. Republicans appealed part of that decision and the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision sided with them late Monday and required that absentee ballots had to be in clerks' hands by the next day or postmarked by then. 

Conley didn't put a postmark requirement in place because he knew thousands of voters wouldn't receive their absentee ballots until after election day....

Nope.

Conley did not "know" s**t.  He ASSUMED that his ruling would be upheld (yes, that makes him a double-stupid) and didn't bother with cleaning up the details.

Let's pin the tail on the real donkey:  Hack-in-Black William Conley.

What Are the Hospitals and Evers Hiding??

Finally, someone in the MSM is asking a very good question about the Kung Flu story.

...Hospitals and the state Department of Health Services have refused to release information about how many patients with COVID-19 each hospital has, how many patients are on ventilators and what each hospital's remaining capacity is for intensive care beds or the potentially lifesaving machines....

Some things are known.  Columbia-St Mary's is very busy, while Froedtert is not.

But the formal responses have been laughable.

.....Ascension Wisconsin officials would not disclose the number of COVID-19 patients or answer specific questions about ventilators or bed capacity, citing “respect for patient privacy.”...

Right.  "Patient privacy" is violated with aggregate numbers.  Sure.

Here's another belly-laugh, predictably from Evers'/Gau's office:

...Melissa Baldauff, spokeswoman for Gov. Tony Evers, said the state and the Wisconsin Hospital Association are reluctant to release statistics about individual hospitals out of fear that the public will flock to not-so-busy hospitals and overwhelm them. 

“We want the systems working together regionally and to not have one system overwhelmed,” Baldauff said.

The approach taken by the state, paradoxically, means that patients will continue to go to hospitals that are busy and possibly overwhelmed....

Buffoonery has become the M.O. in the Wisconsin Governor's office.  I mean, when the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel calls you out............

That's today's mystery.

Five Dollar Packer Tix?? Brewers for Free??

The girly-boys and girly-girls are going to kill pro sports.

A survey by Seaton Hall University finds that 72 percent of Americans are reticent to attend a live sporting event, unless there is a coronavirus vaccine available for the public.

The poll found a large number of people leery about going back to the stadiums and arenas in this coronavirus scare. 72 percent overall and 61 percent of respondents claiming to be sports fans said they are afraid of attending large events, Bleacher Report noted....

Gee.  That very nice stadium that Charlie Sykes pimped and pimped and pimped....yah, that one....how will that look when it's only half-full?

And Just Like That........the Stasi!

The Ultimate Trailer Trash

James Carville, who looks in the mirror to see "trailer trash."

“This thing in Wisconsin was one of the most awful things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Carville added, referring to the controversy over whether to postpone the Badger State’s primary elections due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

“The extent that they will go to to hold onto power — it was all about one Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin — they will kill people to stay in power, literally.”...

Ignorant crawfish-eater doesn't know about local offices and that silly Constitution thing about those offices being officially turned over at the end of April.

So he opens his mouth and confirms.........yah.

'....Something Like a Yellow Star.....

News item

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed Friday the federal government is considering issuing Americans certificates of immunity from the coronavirus, as the Trump administration works to better identify those who have been infected and restart the U.S. economy in the coming weeks.

“You know, that’s possible,” Fauci told CNN’s “New Day,” when asked whether he could imagine a time when people across the country carry such forms of identification....

It is NOT true that it will be in the shape of the Star of David.  But it may be yellow.

Durham Still Working on Prison for Comey

Here's some good news:  Durham is still working on prison for Comey.  One can also surmise that he's working on prison for Hotlips and Hotbreath, McCabe, disgraceful ex-IG Atkinson and perhaps Susan Rice, Mary McCord, and a dozen other slimebuckets.

Sorry, not Hillary.

SUBPOENAS ARE ISSUED!!

Jimmy Carter vs. Tokin' Tony Evers on Mail-In Elections

Tokin'Tony (or Maggie Gau, the doctinaire Progressive) demanded that the State of Wisconsin mail out ballots to every registered voter for its April election.

(He also demanded that there would be no COUNT of those ballots until May 7th which conflicts with the Wisconsin Constitution, but to Tony/Maggie, the Constitution is handy as toilet paper these days....)

"Mail-in" elections, along with flushing the Electoral College down the toilet (and as a consequence, flushing all of Flyover Country's votes along with it) are the Golden Rings of the quasi-Marxist Party formerly known as "Democrat."

Fortunately for them, the Chinese Lung-Rot Disease cropped up this year, just in time for a hue-and-cry for mailing ballots to everyone!!

Too bad that Jimmy Carter, a Lefty with Cred, agrees this would be the end of election integrity.

...There is bipartisan consensus that mail-in ballots are the form of voting most vulnerable to fraud. A 2005 commission led by President Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III — George W. Bush’s secretary of state — concluded that these ballots “remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” Ballot harvesting scandals, in which political operatives tamper with absentee ballots that voters have entrusted to them, have marred recent elections in North Carolina and Texas....

In Wisconsin, "mail-in" became a nightmare this year.  There are reports (yet to be independently validated) that boxes of ballots were sitting in Post Offices and that hundreds--or thousands--of mail-in ballot requests were not satisfied.  Let me repeat:  none of these claims have been independently verified.

Guess what?  The Carter Commission predicted that.

...Mail-in technology is also far more complex than a poll worker stuffing ballots into envelopes and opening them on return. In some cities with diverse populations, hundreds of types of ballots in multiple languages must be designed and directed to the appropriate voters in the correct precincts. Envelopes must be thick enough to protect voter privacy, and the paper thickness must be appropriate for scanners used to count ballots. When ballots are received, machines often open the envelopes and sort and tabulate the votes. These machines are expensive, and they generally take several months to order....

Wisconsin already allows "mail-in" voting which is subject not only to massive fraud--the best way for Democrats to get elected--but suffers from ordinary human errors and/or laziness, as the above reports suggest.

Let's follow Carter's advice.  Flush "mail-in", not election integrity.

The Pachamama Pope

For roughly the last 65 years, Catholics paid attention to what a Pope said, because Popes never said anything patently silly.  One may or may not have liked what a Pope said, but you would know that what he said was based on 2,000 years of Tradition.

No more.

...Asked by British journalist Austen Ivereigh whether the COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for an “ecological conversion,” the pontiff reasserted his belief that humanity has provoked nature by not responding adequately to the climate crisis....

...“I don’t know if it is nature’s revenge, but it is certainly nature’s response,” he added....

Ivereigh is a silly twit who asks silly-twitty questions.  The problem is that Pp. Francis takes them seriously and winds up making silly statements in response. 

But the Ivereigh interview is not the first time Francis has gone into the Land of Silly.

....Late last month the pope expressed this same belief to a Spanish journalist, insisting that the coronavirus pandemic is nature’s cry for humans to take better care of creation.

Asked whether the COVID-19 pandemic is nature’s way of taking “revenge” on humanity, the pontiff suggested that nature is calling for attention.

“Fires, earthquakes … nature is throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her,” he said....

Umnnnh....

Nature is inanimate and does not 'send messages,' nor 'have tantrums.'  This Pope could say that 'plagues have been sent by God in the past as retribution' and be on very solid ground.  Ask the Egyptians.  That would be controversial, but only to the professional or practical atheists and agnostics around the world and on Francis' various ecological "advisory" groups, often masked as "Theological Ethics" assemblies.  With Francis, those two groups often intersect.  That's a problem.

All this fits perfectly with the Pachamama stunt that Francis' coterie pulled off last year.

We all know that the First Commandment has not been revoked.  Let's pray that Pp. Francis gains a better understanding of its plain text.  He could meditate on the message sent at the moment of Christ's death:  earthquakes, a ripped Temple veil, and bodies rising from their tombs.  That message was NOT sent by Gaia, nor Pachamama.  Nor was that message silly.

Pray that the Pope gets off the Silly Train so that Catholics can once again pay respectful attention to what the Pope says.

"Social Distancing" From 2.2 Million to 61,000?

Sure, it was "social distancing" that reduced the IHMR HAIR ON FIRE dead bodies guess to only 61,000 or so.

That's the ticket!

Democrats Body-Slamming Small Biz, Again

All you need to know:

Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a GOP-led $250 billion small business loan program aimed at preventing layoffs amid forced shut downs due to the Coronavirus panic....

Why?

Because they wanted $500 billion to go to the States, silly.  

Clinton Strategist Preps WI for Long Shutdown

Andrea Palm, whose career includes serving as a marketing strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign (a failure) is paving the way for bankrupting Wisconsin businesses (the ones not yet BK) AND for throwing the November election (!!)

Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm predicts the state’s coronavirus peak will happen in the next three to six weeks. The peak and an extension of “Safer at Home” depends on how much in-person voting contributed to the virus spreading. 

Palm told Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce in a webinar the prediction is based on how well Wisconsin continues to implement Gov. Tony Evers’ “safer at home” order and “what the impact yesterday’s election might have on transmission rate.”

“We’re going to have to deal that into our model as the data becomes more available and it becomes more clear what Tuesday did to us,” she said.  ...

“We believe at this point, based on our model, based on the four or five other models that are  floating around, that our peak is anywhere from the next three weeks to probably six weeks,” she said....

Three to six more weeks of Financial Winter, eh?

She throws in some 'comfort language':

“It is absolutely our goal to return to as normal a business life as possible, as quickly as possible and move into a place where we are being surgical in the way we are responding to this,” said Palm. “We can’t live like this until there is a vaccine, that’s just not tenable, we just can’t.

Here's the key language, because the November election is at play:

...A second wave of COVID-19, or a fall wave, is expected based on the experience of previous outbreaks, according to Palm. 

“I think everybody assumes that this virus will perform similarly and that you will see another wave in the fall into the winter,” she said. ...

Just like with Barrett's deliberate subversion of Milwaukee's vote (closing 175 voting locations), the Palm/Evers/Gau group will torture Wisconsin citizens with HAIR ON FIRE China-LungAIDS projections until we learn to vote Democrat.

Or something else happens.

MU Dumps Staff. What About UW-System??

Marquette University has dumped 10% of its staff, claiming to have taken a $15 million 'hit' from the Kung Flu.  The U will pay health-insurance premiums for those folks during the furlough.

That raises the question:  has the UW-System "furloughed" any of its employees?   Are newly-unemployed Wisconsin taxpayers supposed to pick up the difference for UW-System?

Inquiring minds, and all that.

ABC Lied About DIA "Report" on ChinaFlu

What a shock.  ABC lied when they claimed there was a Defense Intel Agency report on the Peking Pox-rot.

Next thing you know, LtCol Vindman or Eric Ciaramella will be ID'd as the "source."

"Vote By Mail" Not the Smart Thing

Since Democrats are all-fired excited about "Vote by Mail" recently, they should consult this news story about what "vote by mail" actually means in real life.  Of course, to the Democrats, what follows could be "FEATURES" rather than problems.

The Milwaukee Election Commission will seek a formal U.S. Postal Service investigation into what happened to absentee ballots that did not reach Milwaukee voters...

That's only the beginning.

Attention turned to missing absentee ballots Wednesday as state officials reported three tubs of them were discovered in a mail processing center...

Oh, yes, there's more!!

...And Fox Point officials said 100 or more ballots a day were returned to the village as undelivered in the week leading up to the election. ...

And finally:

...As clerks processed absentee ballots Wednesday, they found a new issue to consider — envelopes that don't have postmarks.

Postmarks aren't used on a majority of absentee ballots from municipalities that use postage meters, according to Albrecht..

He said he anticipated the postmark issue would become particularly problematic for ballots received Wednesday that were clearly sent by the deadline but that don’t have a postmark....

No doubt the geniuses who inhabit the Democrat legislative offices will have solutions in their upcoming legislative request to Fraud All The Elections Big!!

Yup.

Andrea Palm STILL Wildly Wrong

Well,  Ms. Palm's prediction of "up to 1,000 dead" by 4/8.......let's be charitable and say she was WILDLY WRONG.

Unless she mows down 900 or so Wisconsinites before midnight tonight.  She worked for Hillary; she knows how to make that happen.

Did Hospitals Lie About Readiness in 2018?

Gee.  Looks like a lot of people were lying in 2018.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general issued a report telling the Trump administration there was good news on the pandemic front: Long-struggling hospitals had fortified their preparedness for an infectious disease outbreak.

Just a few short years after 71% of American hospital executives warned they were ill-prepared for a disease outbreak like the 2014 Ebola virus, 86% were reporting they were prepared and ready, the department’s inspector general declared.

The report boasted: “Hospital actions to improve preparedness included updating emergency plans, training staff to care for patients with EIDs (emerging infectious disease), purchasing additional supplies, and conducting EID-focused drills....

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article.

...Like the federal bureaucracy that mismanaged early parts of the pandemic such as virus testing and failed to resupply respirators from the national stockpile after a 2009 swine flu pandemic, hospital bureaucracies were ill-prepared for the outbreak and provided far too rosy an assessment beforehand....

Hmmmmmm.  The CDC and FDA failed?  Ohhhhhh Nooooooes!!  Don't Fauci and Birks work in the Fed bureaucracy?? 

...The report from October 2018 underscores what experts have opined: that hospitals increasingly owned by mega-chains and worried about bottom lines weren’t willing or able to both stockpile and prepare for occasional pandemics and still keep profits healthy. So they chose the latter....

This is directly supported by reports that a local chain laid off RN's rather than move them to ER's or ICU's because the hospitals did not want to train the nurses.....after all, that costs money.....

Hmmmm.

Do "Endangered" Voters Shop for Groceries?

The MFM, with its usual clumsiness, "found" voters who complained that 'the Republicans' were suppressing votes, killing them with disease, ......yada.

Are 'the Republicans' forcing them to shop for groceries, too?

Milk-Carton Tom Barrett--who oversaw the demolition of one hundred seventy-five voting locations in his city, thus assuring himself of another term as Mayor--was also doing his best little-girl imitation.

Cdl. Pell "NOT GUILTY"--Oz High Court

The Australian Supremes reversed Cdl. Pell's conviction....

The High Court found that the jury, acting rationally on the whole of the evidence, ought to have entertained a doubt as to the applicant's guilt with respect to each of the offences for which he was convicted, and ordered that the convictions be quashed and that verdicts of acquittal be entered in their place.  -- quoted at LifeSite

A sole (lying) "victim" told a fable which was a near-carbon copy of a news story he read, and the prosecutors managed to overcome Pell's exculpatory statements--and the witnesses HE produced who agreed with his story.

The "Nurse Shortage" Scam

When next you hear about a "nurse shortage" from the Fake Press (or Fake Governor), it's just another scam.

At the end of March, Governor Tony Evers signed an executive order that loosened licensing restrictions, making it easier for retired, out-of-state, and student nurses to jump in and fight the COVID-19 pandemic....

Sounds like a real emergency.  Hair On Fire and all that, right??

Nope.

...All the nurses who spoke to FOX6 News work in departments that slowed down after elective surgeries were canceled. Many health systems took this step weeks ago in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Elective procedures are typically how health systems make the bulk of their revenue.

"And basically after that all happened, we were told that we were now not needed because they didn't want to train us to work in different units or to do our new computer system that we have," one of nurses said.

Nurses called FOX6 News when their hours were cut; on Friday, several received unpaid furlough notices....

The hospitals would not "train" the nurses on Chinese Virus procs, nor on some computer system, so the nurses are excess baggage and get dumped on the side of the road.

KUDOS to Channel 6 for running against The Narrative.  Keep it up!

Evers' Games Directed by Marc Elias

One wag tells me that Tony Evers is the only man in history to get bitch-slapped by both the Supreme Court of Wisconsin AND the Supreme Court of the US on the same day.

Heh.

Tony was jut following orders.  

Remember which lawfirm Tony's A.G. worked for?  Right.  Perkins Coie.  That's Hillary's lawfirm.  And the Perkins Coie lawyer most interested in facilitating vote fraud is Marc Elias.  Interesting that Elias popped up in the news today, no?

...Elias, the 2016 Clinton campaign attorney and “election expert” who, through his law firm Perkins Coie, “retained Fusion GPS to conduct the firm’s anti-Trump work on behalf of both Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the DNC,” has, in many ways, spearheaded the progressive push for changes to U.S. voting methods. Attempting to use the coronavirus pandemic as a catalyst, Elias over the weekend outlined a list of changes he believes the U.S. needs to make to “fix” voting rules ahead of November’s elections...

Provide adequate staffing @ the polls
Expand curbside voting to ALL ages
Allow early voting on weekends
Adopt vote-anywhere rules
Create systems for voters to vote @ non-peak times to reduce lines...

All of which vastly increase the potential for fraud which, of course, is Elias' objective.

So what does this have to do with Tokin'Tony?

...Elias is among those on the left who has sought voting rule changes in the courts rather than taking the proposals to the electorate, as voters, more often than not, support basic checks and balances on elections, including the highly contested existence of voter ID laws.

“He [Elias] was very strategic about it, very intentional abut seeding cases where he knew he was going to need to some ebb and flow,” True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht told Breitbart News last week.

“And now he is all over the airwaves talking about the coming mail-in ballot for November and the advent of voter harvesting and how that will work broadly,” she continued....

Elias will use the District Court and 7th Circuit rulings, along with selected elements of the SCOTUS ruling on Evers' gambits, to undermine vote security all over the country both for this November and forever, ensuring (D) victories at all levels.

We note that the Milwaukee Kitty-Litter Liner prints the Perkins Coie press release as an "editorial."  Don't you just love "independent" thinking?

The Second Wave? Sure!! We Flattened the First One

Another credentialed epidemiologist weighs in and he has a lot to say about this damn thing.  Inter alia, since we "social distanced" our way to a flatter curve, we also "social distanced" our way to a far LONGER curve.

He likes 'herd immunity.'  And he's AN EXPERT!!--but as he points out, he is NOT on a Government payroll.

HT:: Ticker

Experts Slice Doom-Projections by 50% or So

Well, maybe you'll only be HALF-dead, eh?

...overnight the IHME — the official group Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx have been promoting cut their numbers by more than half!
Here is what the IHME NOW HAS for April 5th:
– All beds needed: Was 179,267 … Now is 90,353
– ICU beds needed: Was 33,176 … Now is 17,589
– Invasive ventilators: Was 26,544 … Now is 14,951...

The Experts do not apologize, they do not explain.

Don't bother to ask.

Tsar(ina) Tony?

Tokin'Tony has promoted himself to Tsar-for-an-Hour with a ludicrous EO delaying the April election until June, and ordering all the local Governments to remain in place until June 30.  That's because the local elections on the ballot would cause changes in local officials....

It's at SCOWI now, and they will tell Tsarina Tony to FOAD.

Belling suspects that Maggie/Tony/Tony/Maggie, Tsarina, is putting on a dog-and-pony show to excuse their impending LOSS in the SCOWI race, and perhaps in the 2nd Circuit, too.

UPDATE:  SCOWI slapped the silly man, as expected.

Bill Gates Joins Steve Bannon on Nut-List

Yesterday we referred to a Fox News appearance by Stave Bannon wherein he apparently lost his mind.

Today, we refer you to a Bill Gates appearance wherein he does the same, but with his own vaccine as the promoted product.

Fame (and fortune) turns some people into looneys.

You'll Never Read This in the MSM

This essay is a bit involved, but the author (ex-Naval Intel) is informed and assembles the pieces very well. 

Let's amalgamate the ChiCom wealthy oligarchy, a bio-weapons lab, disappearing Chinese researchers, a large French pharma company, a soupcon of Soros, and Red China's current geo-political position.

Toss in some bats and the ChiCom interest in transforming bat viruses into super-viruses.

Add the year 2015, when everyone and their sister expected Hillary to be elected President of the US, thus continuing a kissy-huggy relationship with the most murderous regime of the 20th/21st Century.

Did the election of Trump and his AMERICA FIRST philosophy which led to a beat-down of Red China's economy...........ahhh...........trigger the release of a bio-weapon?

The essayist does not say so.  Is it "co-incidence"?  The author doesn't say so.

EWTN Reporter, Complete Boob

EWTN has been a pretty good Catholic broadcast network, playing a daily Mass, re-broadcasting old Bishop Sheen programs and various Q&A sessions on Catholic themes, etc.

Unfortunately, it has gotten into "news" and hired a complete boob as its White House correspondent.

Here's yesterday's exchange with the President:

...“Obviously, we know anyone can spread the disease unwittingly,” EWTN White House correspondent Owen Jensen said. “So, why even have a few businesses open? Why not just shut everything down?”

“There are grocery stores that are open, fast food places,” Jensen continued. “Why even take a little chance? Just shut it all down.”...

Trump deferred answering, letting this poor little fool sit in his own poopy diaper for a while.

Sheesh.

Pritzker the Incoherent

While attempting to blame Trump for the woes of Illinois, Gov. Pritzker managed to become logically incoherent.  But he has something far bigger than ChinaFlu on his mind.

Here's the setup:

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Go. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) argued that President Donald Trump “does not understand the word federal.”...

...In a clip, Trump said, “We have a federal stockpile, and they have state stockpiles. Frankly, they were, many of the states were totally unprepared for this. So we had to go into the federal stockpile. We’re not an ordering clerk. They have to have for themselves.”...

That is the very definition of the Federal system of the US Constitution, of course.  But Pritzker doesn't like that one, so.....

....“Well, the president does not understand the word federal. Federal Emergency Management Agency, we have a state emergency management agency, but if he were right, why would we need a Federal Emergency Management Agency? It’s because individual states can’t possibly do what the federal government can do. We don’t have a Defense Production Act. There’s no way we could stockpile in anticipation of a pandemic that no one anticipated. Yet, the federal government is responsible for doing precisely that.”...

So the FedGov is 'responsible' for stockpiling 'in anticipation of a pandemic that no one anticipated,', eh?  Is that the way you ran Hyatt Corp's relationship with your franchisees, Gov?

Pritzker is setting up an Illinois request for a FedGov bailout of Illinois' "unanticipated" bankruptcy.  Hold on to your wallets.

Why Bannon Was Pushed Out of the White House

Watch Bannon's first rant on this video and you'll know why he's no longer a White House figure.

He was right about appealing to populist-nationalism sentiments (and yes, those terms need careful definition.)  But after that...........

Wow.

More Con Law History

This was not in the history books you and I read.  HT Boots/Sabers

WI Republicans Want Easter "In Person"

The Ass'y Republicans wrote Tony Evers Maggie Gau requesting that he/she allow Easter and Passover "in person" rather than through TeeVee or livestream.


We await Abp. Listecki's open letter requesting the same.  But I'm not holding my breath.

What Barrett the Election-Whiner Does NOT Say

Tom (Milk-Carton) Barrett showed up on all the local newscasts whining and wailing about PANDEMIC!!  WORLDWIDE!!  WE NEED RESPONSE!!  PUBBIES EVIL!!!

Barrett is in favor of moving the election to May, or simply mailing blank ballots to everybody, or some damn thing.

In his narrative, the EVIL PUBBIES have suppressed all the voters.

Sure, Tom.  Whatever.

Here's what he won't tell you:

...As of today requests for absentee ballots are still being processed but nearly 1.3M ballots have been sent out. A reasonable estimate of voter participation for a spring election without a close presidential primary would be 1.5M. Turnout in 2016 was an all-time record at 2.1M but that included two very tight presidential primary races. In 2012 turnout was 1.1M voters without a presidential primary in doubt. The Tuesday in-person turnout is difficult to predict but if turnout at the polling places was 20% of the total we might see over 1.6M votes cast....--Dean Knudson quoted at Boots/Sabers

IOW, almost everyone who intends to vote has already requested an absentee ballot, based on voting history in this State.

Barrett's EMERGENCY!!!  DEMOCRACY KILLED BY PUBBIES!! is--as usual with Barrett--B.S.

Flu/Pneumonia vs. Corona in Wisconsin

Hmmmm.

Flu + Pneumonia deaths in Wisconsin in the last 3 weeks:  ~250.

Corona-19 deaths in Wisconsin, YTD total:  56

(While "flu-related" numbers are small (see the link), pneumonia commonly follows flu).

Deaths from Corona-19 are expected to rise significantly to about 950 total by June.

Total seasonal flu + pneumonia deaths to date:  ~1650.

Perspective matters.

Mueller's Corrupt. Surprised?

More info surfaces, demonstrating that Mueller is corrupt as Hell, just like the slime he hired.

...Despite learning the translator's information on July 12, 2017, just a few days after the media reported on the Trump Tower meeting, the FBI would eventually suggest Donald Trump Jr. was lying and that the event could be seminal to Russian election collusion....

...“Samochornov could not speak about other occasions, but said there was no discussion about the 2016 United States presidential election or collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign at the meeting,” the FBI reported.

“There was no smoking gun, according to Samochornov. There was not a discussion about dirt on Hillary Clinton. Samochornov did not think Hillary Clinton was mentioned by name at the meeting," the FBI report added. "Samochornov had not heard Veselnitskya say anything about having ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton. Veselnitskya did not offer any materials during the meeting and no papers were exchanged.”...

It wasn't just the FEEBS (and the MFM) that pushed this crap.

...The belated release of the FBI interview report under a Freedom of Information Act request is likely to raise serious questions among congressional oversight committees about why the information was suppressed in the Mueller report, why the FBI kept it quiet for two years while Trump Jr. was being politically pilloried, and why the news media has failed to correct its own record of misleading reporting....

There is no question as to "WHY" all this happened; it was at the explicit behest of the Obama/Clinton Cartel of Corruption which was in stark raving fear of being ousted from power and influence.

C-19 From Chinese Bio-Lab? Yup.

The Brits have finally caught on to the reality.

British politicians fear that the coronavirus pandemic might have been caused by a leak from a Chinese laboratory, The Mail on Sunday has revealed. 

Senior sources in the British government say that while 'the balance of scientific advice' is still that the deadly virus was first transmitted to humans from a live animal market in Wuhan, a leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city is 'no longer being discounted'. ...

Dr. Steve Mosher, an expert on Red China, mentioned the fact here:

At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future....

...the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is exactly what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”...

Mosher also observes that the ChiComs have always been sloppy about bio-weapon security matters.

...What’s more, the People’s Liberation Army’s top expert in biological warfare, a Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, was dispatched to Wuhan at the end of January to help with the effort to contain the outbreak.

According to the PLA Daily, Chen has been researching coronaviruses since the SARS outbreak of 2003, as well as Ebola and anthrax. This would not be her first trip to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, either, since it is one of only two bioweapons research labs in all of China.

Does that suggest to you that the novel coronavirus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, may have escaped from that very lab, and that Chen’s job is to try to put the genie back in the bottle, as it were? It does to me.

Add to this China’s history of similar incidents. Even the deadly SARS virus has escaped — twice — from the Beijing lab where it was (and probably is) being used in experiments. Both “man-made” epidemics were quickly contained, but neither would have happened at all if proper safety precautions had been taken....

Whether Corona-19 was accidentally or deliberately released remains a question.  There are good arguments on either side of that question.  Personally?  I think they let this thing fly deliberately, thinking that they'd never have it pinned on them.

Wrong thinking.

Same Old FDA, or Some Dogs Can't Be Taught

Well, here we go again.

...the private sector has stepped up to the plate by increasing production of ventilators, face masks, and much-needed hand sanitizers. In fact, more than 575 distilleries have committed to converting their operations from making alcoholic beverages to producing alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

However, in yet another case of regulations run wild, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inserting a wrench in “Operation Hand Sanitizer.” In other words, FDA bureaucrats are halting the production of millions of bottles of hand sanitizer to communities in need.

Because FDA regulations differ in regard to undenatured (food-grade) and denatured alcohol, this red tape is actually causing a pause in the production and distribution of hand sanitizer...

Yup.  Since FOOD-GRADE (un-denatured) alcohol is NOT approved for hand-sanitizer, FDA shut down production, preferring NOT food-grade (denatured) alcohol.

This.  Is.  FDA.

Joe Buck Gets His Jollies

Apparently Super-Twit Joe Buck offered to narrate videos for his fans.

Yes, actually, he DID get some.  But they were NSFW.

Joe, being a prudent sorta guy, .....

“I’ve had a couple of submissions from let’s say, a man and a woman, that just didn’t seem appropriate to put my voice to in this stage of my life. Maybe later in life, but not now. I look at these videos very carefully...

How many times, Joe?

HT:  AOSHQ of course.

Dems 2, Pubbies 1 (Maybe) at Appeals Court

While the Lefties won 2 of 3 points at the 7th Circus, the Pubbies won the important one--except the 7th managed to suggest a fraud-loophole big enough for a parade of Schneider Pumpkins.

A federal appeals court Friday night denied emergency requests from Republicans to stay a judge’s ruling pushing back to April 13 the deadline for absentee ballots to be returned in Wisconsin’s spring election.

The 7th Court of Appeals also rejected a request from GOP lawmakers as well as the state and national Republican parties to stay Judge William Conley’s order that gave Wisconsin voters an additional day to request absentee ballots in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the guv issuing a stay-at-home order for the state....

K.  Don't like it, but .......Run!!  Hide!!  VIRUS!!!!! is the current fad.

On the other hand, the blatant frauds schemed by the (D)s will not be too easy.

...[the] appeals court put on hold one piece of Conley’s ruling. He had ordered clerks to accept absentee ballots without a witness statement if voters submitted a statement explaining why they couldn’t safely obtain a signature from someone else on the envelope they used to mail back the ballot.

The court ruled Conley didn’t give enough weight to the state’s interest in enforcing that requirement to prevent fraud. It also noted the Wisconsin Elections Commission had posted guidance for voters struggling to safely find a witness for their ballot in light of the public health emergency....

Even so, the 7th came up with an escape plan for the Left.  This is called "legislating from the bench" in normal circles:

...we have every reason to believe the Commission, in keeping with the forward-leaning action it has taken thus far to accommodate voters’ interests while also striving to ensure their safety, will continue to consider yet other ways for voters to satisfy the statutory signature requirement (if possible, for example, by maintaining the statutory presence requirement but not requiring the witness’s physical signature).”...

Should take a Lefty fraud-schemer about .005 seconds to game that suggestion.

FISA Judge Spraying FooFoo Dust UPDATED

Looks like someone's trying to push all the blame to the FEEBS.

Yes, indeed, the FEEBS are dirty as Capone if not more so.  But the FISA Court of Credulous Cretins has no excuse for its total surrender to the FEEBS.

...the nation's intelligence court on Friday ordered the FBI to review more than two dozen wiretap applications to determine if they were so flawed as to have led to inappropriate spying on Americans.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Chief Judge James Boasberg gave the bureau until June 15 to complete the review...

So far, so good.

But here's the FooFoo Dust:

...The new IG memo "reinforces the need for the Court to monitor the ongoing efforts of the FBI and DOJ to ensure that, going forward, FBI applications present accurate and complete facts,” Boasberg wrote....

You mean the "monitoring" that you and your bunch of blackrobes NEVER BOTHERED WITH?

The Court of Credulous Cretins.

UPDATE:  Da Judge also wants the names of FEEBS who submitted "materially mis-stated" stuff.  He's thinking prosecutions.  You can bet that Christoper Wray, current FEEB-in-Chief, will delay this until .........oh...........2090 or so.

Is Evers Too Honest for Democrat Party?

Just a quick question here.....

Tony Evers adamantly resisted changing the Wisconsin local/state election date.  Then, under heavy pressure from (D) politicians, some of which was public, Evers changed his mind and is now attempting to make it into a much later AND mail-in affair.

Evers--until last week--knew better than to game the vote.

Was Evers just too honest for the Democrat Party?  Did the (D) bigwigs have to send death-threats to get Tony off his Boy Scout promises?

Inquiring minds, and all that.....

(By the way, we still think that Evers doesn't have a clue about being a Governor.  That's a quality distinct from honesty.) 

Andrea Palm: Wrong Answer

On March 24, Andrea Palm, a Hillary campaign marketing veteran and un-confirmed DHS secretary, told us that CoViD19 deaths "could" top 1,000 by April 8 unless we all sit at home and watch Netflix.

With 4 days to go, Andrea Palm's Hair-On-Fire Chicken Little prognostication is short about 950 deaths.

And Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation bureau is buried.

But shootings in Milwaukee have decreased.  That's something.  Maybe Andrea should be in law enforcement.

Fauci Goes Nuts

It's become more and more clear that Dr. Fauci--who is well-intentioned--is going nuts.  If he's not careful, he will be remembered as the SuperNerd of Economic Death.

Fauci said that we can start to "relax" social distancing once there are "no new cases, no deaths.

Where Dr. Fauci works, there are no layoffs, no furloughs, no missed or diminished paychecks, great benefits, and a wonderful pension system.

In the real world, UC claims hit SIX MILLION last week, 30% or more of restaurants/bars will be bankrupt by the end of this month, and manufacturing will soon be at a near-standstill with the closure of all Big Three and some other-label auto plants in the US--and that's just for starters.  Hotels, airlines, movie theatres, and churches also face serious negative financial impact, and to top it off, "What to do with the children no longer in school?" is a big question for two-income families.

"Work at home" only goes so far, and it's only good until one of those employers moves to Furlough or Layoff........which WILL happen.

This economy needs money-turnover to survive and that is rapidly diminishing.

Fauci is a doctor.  To him, every problem is a virus or a germ.  Sorry, Doc--that ain't the way it is.

Codevilla makes the same point (and the rest of his essay is worth the read):

...President Trump, as well as the governors of some states, have been stampeded out of their common sense into shutting down the country until further notice. The bureaucratic-media complex has done this on the supposed basis of medical authority. But the doctors have not been speaking as doctors on the basis of knowledge of the human body while offering cures or even palliatives. No. Their judgments are based on speculation about the meaning of mathematical models.

They are not acting like good doctors but rather like bad politicians....

He's well-intentioned and wrong as Hell.

The Fam's Gun Locker

Well, mine is a large family.  Didn't know that the AOSHQ got a pic.

The handguns are kept in a separate facility for security purposes.

Healthdata.org Projections: Hysterical

The good news:  this projection model is seriously over-projecting hospitalizations in Wisconsin.

It projects a need for 835 hospital beds as of April 2.

But on the ground, we find only 461 beds are occupied with the Kung Flu.

That's only 44% of the projection.  We can live with that.

Slapping Schumer S***less

You don't like Trump's style?  I find it very refreshing.  Idiot Schumer told Trump that he should put a military man on the procurement team.

Trump sent a response.

Vermont Pushes the "No Selling" Envelope

Frankly, this presents a BIG problem to the affected retailers.

“Large ‘big box’ retailers generate significant shopping traffic by virtue of their size and the variety of goods offered in a single location,” Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle said on Tuesday. “This volume of shopping traffic significantly increases the risk of further spread of this dangerous virus to Vermonters and the viability of Vermont’s health care system."...

Accordingly, the State has determined that these retailers will no longer offer certain "non-essential" items for sale, including.......

• Arts and crafts
• Beauty supplies
• Carpet and flooring
• Clothing
• Consumer electronics
• Entertainment (books, music, movies)
• Furniture
• Home and garden
• Jewelry
• Paint
• Photo services
• Sports equipment
• Toys

They may be "non-essential", a point I will not necessarily concede (clothing IS essential!).  Regardless,  the State has just told these retailers to shut off 70% of their sales volume, making the stores unprofitable, as grocery margins are much smaller than margins on "home and garden" or "sports" goods.

So then the stores will close and dump their employees into the street.

Hmmmm.

Pelosi Demands "Vote By Mail"

Good ol' (VERY ol') Nancy.  Still dedicated to stealing elections by any means necessary.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she would like to see "vote by mail" funding of up to $4 billion in Congress' next coronavirus stimulus package for upcoming elections....

Uh-huh.  Sure.  By the way, see if you can make any sense out of this direct quote:

..."Vote-by-mail is so important to our democracy so that people have access to voting and not being deterred, especially at this time, by the ammunition to stay home,"...

"Deterred.....by the ammunition...."?  WTF?  That's a Biden, Nancy. 

Here's the next laugh-line out of the superannuated speaker-slime:

..."The integrity of the election system is central to our democracy. I don't know how anyone could oppose our enabling the states to have vote by mail."...

The integrity of vote-by-mail is suspect; but even in states like Wisconsin which allow it, there are complaints that many people cannot upload the documentation required to obtain a mail ballot.

No doubt MaligNancy has a solution, like "Fuggedabout documents!!"

OK, then.  

How Stupid Is Mark Green (of USAID)??

Yup.  That's Wisconsin's Mark Green running USAID.  You know the type:  globaloney-Pubbie, loves him some Deep State......

How stupid IS Mark Green?  You be the judge.

Vice President Mike Pence's coronavirus taskforce is now looking at the process in which the United States Agency for International Development sends medical supplies to other countries to combat the coronavirus.  

Politico reported Wednesday that a Trump administration official tried last week to obtain protective gear for American doctors and nurses from Thailand - only to be told that a shipment of the same supplies was en route to Bankgkok from the United States. 

That mix-up prompted Pence's taskforce to look into USAID's deliveries of personal protective equipment and place a moratorium on new shipments from USAID's stockpile being sent overseas, Politico wrote. ...

Smooth move, Mark.  Your immediate resignation is expected......tick tock tick tock......

Pro-Abort Gates: "Shut Down Entire USA"

Bill Gates, notorious promoter of abortion and ardent supporter of Population Control, has an idea.

...Writing in The Washington Post, Gates complained about the piecemeal approach to shutdowns that are currently taking place across the country, as states decide on their own what the best policies are for them.

That’s a no-no, he says; there ought to be a “national policy” and it ought to mandate a total economic and society shutdown.

“Despite urging from public health experts, some states and counties haven’t shut down completely. In some states, beaches are still open; in others, restaurants still serve sit-down meals,” he wrote.

“This is a recipe for disaster. Because people can travel freely across state lines, so can the virus. The country’s leaders need to be clear: Shutdown anywhere means shutdown everywhere,” he added. “Until the case numbers start to go down across America — which could take 10 weeks or more — no one can continue business as usual or relax the shutdown.”...

OK, Bill, thanks for that idea.  We'll consider national economic suicide........ahhh..........later.

Huawei's in Trouble. Thank God

The 5G manufacturer/vendor Huawei--a wholly-owned and -operated subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party--may have lost its contract with England.

Oh, snap!

CDMedia has heard from two sources close to the matter that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will cancel the UK’s contract for 5G wireless service from the Chinese conglomerate Huawei. The move is a stunning reversal of fortune for Huawei, the flagship nationalized vehicle for advancing the CCP’s growing soft power in the West.

The implications are fraught for any sovereign country that agrees to contract with Huawei for 5G. The Chinese Communist Party is the de facto owner of the tech giant, and the CCP makes no secret of its plans for global domination. Given China’s history of intellectual and technological theft, agreeing to let them play host to all the online information of any nation is dicey enough on its face....

Frankly, we never understood why England committed to Huawei in the first damn place.

But this gets better!

...Johnson is said to be furious with China for a number of reasons, not least of which is his own positive test result for COVID-19 on March 27. Further complicating matters, a recent shipment of test kits bound for the UK were found to be contaminated with coronavirus.

In other words, take the test and get infected....

Huawei is very important to the ChiComs.  Naturally, the Party's bigwigs are raking in the profits from this venture (what?  you thought 'the people' got some?) just like any other venture in Commie-Land--so this will nick their piggy banks.  But this is only one of the very many ChiCom holdings which are now in Deep Shit.

And that's all good.

What's Behind the Newspaper Crash & Burn? Lefties.

In the last week or so, newspapers--including the local kitty-litter-liner--have been cutting salaries and imposing furloughs on staff.  Ad revenues have dropped off, as you might expect.  So some reporters will disappear and return; others will probably just disappear.  This is despite an upswing in subscriptions and "clicks" by the way--bear that in mind.

(This blogger will NOT suggest that the affected reporters and other staffers Learn To Code.  That would be nasty or curmudgeonly, or something like that.  Nope.  Not going there.)

Anyhow.  The revenue problem is partially due to the hard-left's invention of "ad blocking."

...Most advertisers purchase online advertising programmatically, through ad networks. With programmatic advertising, advertisers basically buy people, not publishers. They identify a person by, for example, past search history or they buy information, and then market directly to that specific person — whether that person is on their favorite sports site, news site, YouTube, wherever that person likes to visit… The ads follow the person. Notable exceptions are porn sites.

Once upon a time, programmatic advertisers did not care where on the Internet they reached their target persons — if those persons liked Fox News or Breitbart News, Fox News or Breitbart News would get paid. If those persons liked CNN or the New York Times, CNN and the New York Times would get paid. That’s how it was, until…

Trump was elected, and the left-wing blacklisters came along....

The left-wing blacklisters such as Media Matters and Sleeping Giants were very effective in scaring the bejabbers out of advertisers.  The weapon of 'blocking' was used against sites such as Breitbart and Fox News, and Fox reacted with a change in its news policy, just as did Drudge.

But now that weapon is biting the "news" organizations in the ass.  Hard.

...Turns out — as you read in the story excerpted above — advertisers not only care which news publishers their programmatic ads appear on, they began to care about which specific content their ads appeared against. Plane crash story? We don’t want to sell cars next to that story! COVID-19? We don’t want to sell cars against those stories! As is so often the case, the blacklisters created a monster that they can no longer control — a monster now running amok destroying establishment media outlets, too.

This changed the entire dynamic of advertising.

Terrified advertisers now, when placing ad buys, add words to a block list so that their product will not appear next to certain content. And now,.... one of the most popular words on the block list is “coronavirus,” and what subject is every news outlet in America covering right now? The coronavirus. The very subject skittish advertisers want nothing to do with for fear a Sleeping Giants or a Media Matters or another member of the left-wing Appropriate Police will launch a hate jihad against them: How dare you profit from death!

Here’s the short version: While Sleeping Giants and Media Matters were relentlessly pushing to blacklist Breitbart out of business, they ended up altering the way advertisers place their ads, and now that alteration is threatening to annihilate the mainstream news media whose ideas the blacklisters DO approve of....

Why yes, yes indeed:  the "news" people are gutless wonders. 

And of course, the New York Times is now pushing for FedGov funding of "news" papers.  Just like in Communist China.

Barrett's NEXT Problem

Below we speculated that the (D) Party in Wisconsin--which includes Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee, is in great danger of losing in the Spring election. 

Then there's Teh Virus, which is hitting the City of Milwaukee very hard, indeed.

Looming in the distance:  the cancellation of the Democrat Convention.

Losing the Convention will save the City a bunch of money for police services.  But it will cost the local (surviving) bars, hotels, and restaurants around $230 million in revenues.

Combine that with moving Summerfest to the fall--and losing Festa Italiana altogether--and Barrett will be running the City of Losses.

Makes the SCOWI election into a very minor loss indeed.

Screeching from McKenna.....Sheesh!

Ms. McKenna of Madistan has become irritating with her soprano-screech banging away on potential (D) vote fraud and losing the election(s), leading to The End of the World As We Know It.

Yah, OK.  Yes, I turned off the program and likely won't listen again until 4/8 or later.

Not to worry.  Belling will be doing the same thing in a baritone, not quite so screechy and certainly not hysterical (which is technically a property reserved to actual born-female types.)

Anyhow.

The reason that Barrett is running drive-through voting (with fries!) and the Milwaukee and Dane County clerks are suggesting that their employees will violate Wisconsin voting law is simple:  they are scared to death that they will LOSE, and LOSE BIG.

Oh?  Really?

Yes.  Really.

Q:  Where are the legions of UW, MU, and UW-M students now?

A:  NOT VOTING EN MASSE in Madistan, Milwaukee and Milwaukee.  They are home with Mom and Dad--in whatever State they actually live--and will not be providing votes for the LeftWad running for SCOWI, nor any LeftWads in general.

Next question:  since Barrett is forced to squeeze the entire voting population of Milwaukee into only eight to twelve polling stations instead of 180, how many of the mind-numbed Democrats will actually wait in line for HOURS to vote for.........Biden?  Karofsky?  You're right.  Not many at all.  Biden and Karofsky are as inspiring as a used Kleenex.

This is not to suggest that voting is no big deal for conservatives.  It is.  By all means, VOTE!!  But to save your hearing and sanity, turn to classical music or streaming movies.  Too much Vicki is more toxic than CoViD19.

Dead by Virus? Or Dead by Stay-Home Orders?

This is a very, very bad projection.

Economic output in the United States will shrink by 34 percent in the second quarter as the CCP virus pandemic delivers a worse-than-expected hit to the economy, Goldman Sachs stated in a new report....

..."We now forecast real GDP growth of -9 percent in Q1 and -34 percent in Q2 in qoq annualized terms (vs. -6 percent and -24 percent previously) and see the unemployment rate rising to 15 percent by midyear (vs. 9 percent previously),..."--ZeroHedge quoted at Gateway

Meaning that the number of unemployed will be between 34 and 66 million.

Ford Respirators, Inc. (!!!)

Not invented by any level of Gummint, including CDC or FDA.

NOT invented by "the press."

Invented by private-sector engineers with a will to find a way.

Ford will be building its own line of respirators.....

...using a makeshift design that includes fans from F-150 pickup seats, hoods from assembly plant paint shops, 3D-printed parts and portable tool battery packs that could allow the devices to run for up to eight hours. 

Some components and sub-assemblies are being made at Ford's advanced manufacturing center near Detroit in Redford, Mich....

We hear that this will replace the (discontinued) Taurus.

"Strong Black Woman" Should Be in Prison

Some "strong black woman"--who by any standard of justice should be convicted of perjury (and perhaps treason) is squirting ink into the water.

It's a well-known defensive technique.  Ms. Rice may have been told she's next up on the Bob Barr Inquisition into Obama-Clinton treachery.  (Yes, yes, I know......I assume that's still going on and that Barr/Durham are serious.)

Anyhow, as the Examiner points out, Rice sounds a lot like any Red Chinese propagandist.

There's a reason for that.

FBI Lies and Cheats; FISA "Judges" Don't Mind

Talk about a complete and total fail.......the FEEBS and "judges" on the FISA court.

A new IG report will be coming out soon, but the ugly truth has been released.  This review was NOT concentrated on the FBI's Trump-scam--instead, it's a review of a wide variety of cases using the "national security" label.

Part 1: 

The error rate in the files undertaken by the internal accuracy review was over 93% (3 compliant out of 42 reviewed). These were the FISA files with the greatest possibility of being accurate.

"Errors" is the ultra-CYA word for "lies and cheating."

Part 2:

 99% of the FISA warrant applications are rubber stamped approved.

FEEBS lie, and "judges" don't ask any questions.  Remind me again why we PAY these trolls.