OL, why won’t you get rent money from these small businesses that are getting loans to keep them afloat? My kids just relinquished their $3k security deposit toward April rent of $4k. No way they can open now before June. I thought the “loans” were forgiven if the money went to rent and/or payroll. I agree an apology to Massie is in order, but that’s not how our president rolls.

Plenty of protein available and they are armed.

Jane, they are just over the Utah/Nevada line. Practically wilderness but they are weirdly with great cell coverage. They have a generator and are using their hotspot.

Jimmyk! This is what happens when you go off the grid. My son and dil are on their remote 40 acres in NV. Their tiny restaurant was doing well in Park City but everything shut down overnight a week ago. They are living in a tent and went to HomeDepot to buy a chainsaw to cut firewood for warmth.

Ext, yup, our spring is 2-3 weeks early. Ski resorts closed with a combination of no new snow and the CV closings mandated . My son’s small restaurant impacted bigly losing nearly a month of business and still having to pay very high rent. (OL, feel your pain, too.) We are now lucky to have our place in St. George (s. Utah). Leaving Wednesday so we can play golf even if the other facilities are closed. Trying to decide if we should take all our TP supply with us. We didn’t stock up when the panic started.

Happy birthday, Porch. So glad we got to celebrate it with you last year. (Who has the photos?)

A wonderful tenor sang the Nessun Dorma at Mar a Lago, as well as a “perfect” rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. We have asked for his name. Will let you know when we get a reply.

MT, so agree on Sarah. What a breath of fresh air she was.

Gus! It would be a nice place to quarantine. 😷 But, no.😕

Amom, we are being forced to self-isolate. Probably more chance of picking it up on one of the 4 air legs we did and three airports each way than at Mar a Lago though. We were outside in a big tent most of the time. But it feels like everything is shutting down. No bridge. No new snow. Our Rhine river cruise is cancelled. The pre-trip Paris plans dead. Just found that the WWII museum in New Orleans is closed as of today so we cancelled our VRBO for 10 days from now. Likely the bars and music venues, too. JOM lives. My Kindle is charging.

When we left Jane’s happy hour I hugged all her friends. Was that wrong?

Porch. Yup.

Happy birthday, Jane! Coming to give you belated hugs next Tuesday. We will be stopping by after our Sunday meetup with Ronna, Brad and POTUS at Mar a Lago. Will be reporting back to JOM with any inside insight. Yikes, this veal chop porn is driving me crazy!

Heh, Clarice. I guess the point is...you never know. Shooting was a new skill for me. Love a challenge! We go for training twice a year at FrontSight. Near Las Vegas. I recommend it for you who don’t have a neighborhood range.

Is there no penalty for overstepping, misleading and mischaracterizing at such a high level? No wonder it continues unabated.

Happy birthday, you two!

Lyle! Right. I killed a mean tuna, but no lions. What a life Gertie had. Thanks, Ig.

Sad story, DrJ. Do you know how the young person came to have a gun? Gee. It is supposedly hard to get one in CA.

C, we knew that:-).

Lyle, Gayle King was a local newsreader in Hartford in the eighties. Better known now as Oprah”s bff. She still does network news somewhere, I think.

Saunders, in Lyle’s AmSpec link above uses the phrase “dig up dirt on Bidens.” She accepts this as fact. I think that is rampant even on our side. She is called out on this in the comments. Just shows that one phrase from Shiffty Schiff’s made up, phoney transcript permeated the news and became “common knowledge.”

Right-wing boors! Just another name for deplorables. So good to have you back, Elliott.

Has anyone asked what the other Burisma board members were paid each month? Cofer Black?

We are Rush 24/7 members. I mostly use it for podcasts but today I had to tune into the dittocam to see how he looked. He has a cold coming on but looks good and energetic as usual. Hard to get used to the beard though.

Do you have a Simply MAC store nearby? They are helpful.