or How the Governments Multiplied Their Power by Destroying the US Economy to Fight the Wuhan Coronavirus The United States has seen epidemics of new and old diseases many times in the past. The so-called Spanish Flu infected 500 Million people worldwide between 1918 and 1920, claiming between 17 and 50 million lives (figures vary, …
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Shall we try “canceling” the California teen…
...who tried, in a Twitter post (sorry, I will not link to anything on Twitter), to humiliate Trader Joe's Grocery into changing all their generic/ethnic product names? She did her best to bring down the wrath of the "Twitter Mob" on the grocery chain, who names some of its products after the countries in which …
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Lens-Artists Challenge #103-Surprise
A surprise is something unexpected, exciting, thrilling. On our Hillsdale College cruise to Hawaii in 2018, we had a few hours in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. We were taking a rest in a pleasant little shopping center, deciding where to go next, when I happened to glance at a tree behind me, …
Dispatches from Furlough, Day Seven
Yesterday was the first day I spent entirely at home. I didn't go out of the house, except to get the mail late in the afternoon. I did catch up on my Wall Street Journal, reading on my bed as usual. Protected by my Fierce Guard Cat. I did 26 minutes on my rowing machine, …
How Seattle businesses prepare for the 2-week “Stay at Home” edict-Updated with Yep!
Remember Seattle? The city on the Left Coast with the huge homeless population living in tents and under tarps on its streets? The city where street people are allowed to remain on the streets if they don't want to "accept help"? This article in today's news just made me laugh (and vow, once again, to …
It’s The Culture, Stupid! How we got the Wuhan Coronavirus
With Novel Coronavirus spreading like wildfire everywhere in the world now, perhaps you are wondering how it all started, where this virus came from in the first place. You might wish to know how it was that, last fall in China, someone in the medical establishment there noticed some cases of a particularly nasty pneumonia …
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See, I told you so
I have mentioned many times on my blog how I refuse to give up my single-person, fully-owned automobile, in the face of environmentalist wackos trying to get us out of our cars. My car is my Liberty. Any time I want to go somewhere, as long as my car is working well (99.99% of the …
A sample of RushBabe’s Email for this week-Coronavirus Edition
The past week has been pretty volatile for everyone, around the world. Whole countries "locked down", stock-market swings like never before (2,000 points in one day on the Dow!), panic-buying leading to empty store shelves, restaurants and other public venues closing, and a death-count rising almost everywhere. I live right smack in the middle of …
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Spotted at Costco, of all places
This is one of the benefits of owning a smartphone. When you come across something unusual you think your friends and blog followers might like, you just whip out your phone and take a picture. What do you think of this new item on the shelf in Costco's booze department? A most unusual item. I'm …
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