RowdyRebel

The Constitutions exist to protect the people from leaders seeking to "suspend" it. There is no pandemic clause in the Constitution. Our Rights are unalienable.

It's easy to call for "paid leave" for employees when you aren't the one responsible for paying them. For a lot of businesses, paying all of their employees for a few weeks to a few months for NOT working when there is NO revenues being generated WILL cause the permanent closure of the company (meaning no more jobs for those employees). If the people calling for the closures aren't writing me a check (NOT a loan, either) to cover the lost revenue, I wouldn't be closing my business. Take reasonable precautions to minimize the risk...implement policies to keep folks as safe as possible...but don't get all stupid about it.

It was the democrats calling Trump a racist for his swift actions restricting travel from China first & other hard-hit countries as needed. It was democrats telling people to go out & celebrate the Chinese New Year, party it up at Mardi Gras, etc. Hell, when your nominee put out *his* plan as to what he'd do, it was nothing more than a restatement of what THIS president had already done...days, weeks, and sometimes even months prior, every one of them criticised by your nominee in real time as they were being implemented because orange man bad & racism and stuff. Democrats want open borders to allow this shit to freely flow into our country. Look at where the "hot spots" are. Democrat controlled cities in states with democrat governors. Nobody is ignoring the pandemic. We just aren't being stupid about it. I saw someone yesterday driving...by themselves...windows rolled up...holding a mask over their face with their bare hand. Or the people with full beards wearing masks that cannot seal properly because of the beard. Or the mother at Walmart wearing the mask & gloves, while 3 year old in the buggy and the father shopping with her didn't have any mask or gloves. Is she wearing that stuff at home, too? If not, it isn't doing her a lick of good wearing it at the store next to her family who isn't. Or the people who wear the gloves in the store, leaving them on when they climb into their car, use their phone, etc...touching/contaminating everything they are going to be handling later without their gloves. Those gloves didn't do a damn thing for them other than make them look absolutely ridiculous. If you're dealing with a large number of random people, and you want to wear a mask, go for it...but do it right. Make sure it fits right. Don't keep touching/adjusting it. Change it occasionally. If you're going to wear gloves, fine...but act as though you've been greasing your truck. If you need to touch anything you don't want "contaminated" you have to peel them off or put on a clean pair. Change them often...same effect as frequent hand washing, only you aren't washing. If you're wearing the same pair of gloves all day, using your phone, going into the fridge, etc...you may as well not bother wearing them because they aren't doing a damn thing to protect you. You think it makes you look smart, woke, etc...but the reality of the situation is that you look like a fool & aren't any better protected from anything than the person without the PPE who simply keeps a little space around him & washes his hands a few times during the day. Worse yet, that PPE might make you worse off, because while it isn't doing anything to actually protect you because you don't know how to properly use it, it gives a false sense of security...for example, you touch more things unnecessarily while wearing the gloves than you would if you weren't wearing them.

C. That "One death is too much" crap is why the sheeple have willingly allowed themselves to be locked down. News flash: EVERYBODY DIES! It's one of the few certainties of life. Eventually it comes to an end. Personally, I'd rather live a short, hard life pursuing my own happiness, rather than a long miserable one trying to conform to somebody else's idea of what ought to make me happy. I'm SO glad I work in an "essential industry". Other than not being able to take the kid to the park and stores closing early, my life hasn't really changed one bit. My wife still works her "essential" job, too. Life goes on. You're only here 'til the Good Lord calls you home anyway, and when that happens you're done. Might be a virus. Could be a wreck. Perhaps a heart attack, cancer, stroke, etc. SOMETHING will get you, so why worry about it? I'm not saying to go out & be stupid or not take simple precautions to preserve your health, but being imprisoned in your own home? Nope. There's more to living than just staying alive.

Along those same lines, I just read about a 97 year old man who died in a nursing home. He wasn't sick. Didn't show any symptoms of the disease. Just died because he was old. After his death, they tested him, because there were others in the nursing home who were sick with it. His test came back positive, and so he's been added to the fraudulently inflated numbers to help scare the masses into submission.

I've heard folks making the claim that the "medical device tax" imposed by Obamacare is partly to blame for the lack of ventilators & other medical devices that would've been subject to the tax had they been purchased...

That's not good... https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/is-pink-eye-a-symptom-of-coronavirus I remembered reading about that the other day. Hopefully it is just the ordinary variety & NOT ChinaVirus related. My wife & I are doing everything we can to do any running around we need to do when we DON'T have the boy. I'll stop on my way home after work (if I get off early enough) or do without. She works at Walmart, so even though the store is "closed" employees can buy what they need after their shift ends. Our 2-1/2 year old hasn't been anywhere but the house, the farm, and the babysitter's...just not worth the risk. As adults, we know to wash our hands, limit what we touch, and to keep distance. Kids just don't understand that. My 1st job is to keep him safe.

Any 1st year law student ought to have no trouble at all getting it tossed. 1st Amendment is pretty clear about the free exercise of religion, as well as the right to peaceably assemble. Article 4 Section 2 states in no uncertain terms that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and that all courts are bound to uphold it. Marbury v Madison declared any law repugnant to the Constitution is void. Bottom line, burden of proof is on the state. Unless they can prove that he was sick, or that he had reason to believe that someone in attendance was sick and would infect others, then the state has no case. If YOU are sick with a highly contagious disease, there is justification for placing some limits on your rights, as your rights END when they cause direct harm to others...for example my right to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose. However, the state lacks justification for preemptively limiting your rights when you pose no threat to others. If you don't have the disease, you cannot pass it on. Yes, it is wise to take precautions to prevent contracting this virus...but it is beyond the police powers of the state to prohibit a healthy individual from freely moving about...or in this case from peaceably assembling with others to exercise their religion Was it wise for them to do this? Absolutely not. Constitutionally speaking, though, there isn't a dern thing the state can do about it that will hold up in court. If anything, this preacher is going to hit the jackpot in the civil rights violation case that is likely to follow his arrest...especially if the state pushes the issue.

Saw him at the Rodeo last August...put on a pretty good show. China virus got him... https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/joe-diffie-dead-61-coronavirus

Lol! When my great grandaddy bought his 1st house that had indoor plumbing, the 1st thing he did was build an outhouse out back...because "You don't do 'that' in the house!"

Anyone else find it amusing that the police commish is an outlaw?😁

Problem with those numbers is they're comparing apples to oranges. "Confirmed" cases on one hand, vs "estimated" cases on the other. How many people have had this coronavirus and not been affected by it, or who had mild enough symptoms that they did not seek medical care? Then there are those who sought medical care, but were not tested to confirm the virus. When all of those people are factored in, the death rate is significantly lower. Likewise, if you only include folks who got sick enough to seek medical care for their flu as "confirmed" cases, then the death rate would be higher than by including all of those assumed to have had it. What standards are they using for their "estimations", anyway? Important info to have before you start extrapolating data to make comparisons.

Wife works at Walmart. Stupid crazy there, even though there are no reported cases within 100 miles. Empty shelves. Neighbor hauls out of P&G and says it's been stupid over there, too. Loading twice as many trucks as usual, at 3/4 or less of what they typically load in order to get SOMETHING to all of their customers, rather than complete SOME orders while completely neglecting others. Absolutely ridiculous. The governor here just said all restaurants & bars are to be closed at least through the end of the month...sucks for those who depend on those paychecks & tips. Absolutely crazy, considering the common flu kills way more per year. I'm just curious how many businesses are going to go under...how many jobs will be lost...how many homes will go into foreclosure...how many will file for bankruptcy. Hell, even the criminal & civil courts in this state are closed for 30 days...so much for the right to a speedy trial. People are absolutely out of their minds...no reason at all for this level of panic. If this is what happens over something less severe than the common flu, kinda makes you wonder how bad it'd be for something actually seriously bad.

Parents of kids twice his age were carrying their kids up there & sliding down with them...said their kids were scared & wouldn't do it alone. I think it was the parents scared to let the kids be kids & get a few bumps & bruises along the way. He must've climbed up there & slid down 100 times today...all by himself...and he's 2.

He sat there for hours...just watching the tractors. Some were pulling the sled. Some were fixing the track preparing for the next pull. Other than turning his head to watch them go by, he barely moved a muscle. Came time for momma to get her dinner break at work and I asked him "You ready to go see momma for dinner?" Shook his head and said rather emphatically, "NO!" He wanted to stay and watch the tractors. Gave him another 20 minutes before we HAD to go, and even then it was a fight. We had been there earlier watching the garden tractors pulling, then went to the park. He heard more tractors, though & had to get back to watch the big ones. That's my boy!

LOL! My truck is on there...TWICE!!!

I guess that's why folks out there just go in the street...can't figure out which restroom they're supposed to use, and when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

Rush Limbaugh nailed it with his Undeniable Truth of Life #24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

Factory hitches are notoriously weak. Buddy has a 1-ton dually...hitch is only rated for 5000#. Same with my 3/4-ton Suburban. My F250 didn't have a bumper hitch, and the one I installed is rated for 10K. Bottom line, that truck on that trailer likely exceeded the rating of that hitch by a lot...even if it were brand spanking new and NOT weakened by rust. He's lucky it failed during loading, and not going down the highway. THAT would've been ugly...

I had no idea...slept right through it. The wife was complaining about how tired she was because she couldn't sleep with the storm and all...and I was like "What storm?" Sure, there were tree limbs littering the yard...damn sweetgum tree drops them every time the wind blows a little, so that really doesn't prove much. Hadn't really spent much time outside since the alleged storm rolled through because the ground is a little soggy and all, so when I got home from work tonight & drove around behind the house like I always do, the scenery was a little off. The old shed that's been slowly deteriorating finally bit the dust...no big deal, other than I'll have to clean it up. I'll have to take a walk around the property during daylight hours to see if there's anything else tore up. NWS was in town today surveying the damage elsewhere in town...said it was an EF1.

Ranger's been back together for a week now. Took 3 weeks to find a transmission that would work...that 3L has a unique bolt pattern, so it HAD to come off a 3L truck. One a friend located for me was in AR and off a '98...so the tail housing & speedometer drive gear had to be swapped over since the '98 was electronic. Other than that, it bolted right up easy enough. It's nice to commute for $12/day in fuel again vs the $30/day it costs in the Suburban. Transmission will pay for itself pretty quick.

That sounds like a nice problem to have. Sad to say I don't have that problem, and likely never will...which has more to do with monetary deficiencies than any overabundance of brains.

I got to spend the entire day with my wife & kid, with absolutely nothing else on the agenda needing to get done. That was everything I could've asked for, since days off together are a rare commodity and when one of us DOES take a day off work, there is ALWAYS something we're trying to get done. The boy enjoyed ripping into his presents...didn't even wait to get some of them out from under the tree before he was going to town on 'em. The wife was a little upset that she had a couple presents under the tree and her gift for me hadn't arrived in time...so I didn't open a damn thing and couldn't be happier with how the day went. It's OK, though, because I didn't get around to putting hers together, so she got it in pieces. It's another thing on my "to-do" list...just wasn't worrying about any of that list on Christmas.

Pretty sure he's a southpaw. Even managed to find a little 9" LH ball glove for him to grow into in the next year or three.

It's what TSC had, and I didn't see any others.