The New York Times Finally Admits COVID Cases Have Been Amplified and Inflated

It's something "conspiracy" bloggers and citizen journalists have been saying for months now:

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be

The article by Apoorva Mandavilli of the New York Times says "the PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious. This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called, the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are."

They amplifications are sometimes as much as 45X over until they get a confirmed positive, and most of those over 30 are considered non-infectious persons.

That is why the sick public health experts want to test, test, test, as fast as they can, and the fact of the matter is we all have herd immunity from the weaker mutation of whatever it is.

Related:

Berlin Police Halt Rally Against Coronavirus Restrictions

That was another NYT piece of crap, and deceptive headline by the Globe since "officials estimated that 18,000 people had turned out to march in Berlin, and the park rally had just as many," if not more.

The most telling thing, however, was the omission of the speech by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 

It was an amazing speech that had to be watched more than once, as he firmly ensconced himself as the greatest Kennedy of all.

Meanwhile, the Globe completely ignored the protest in London, calling into question the veracity of the protests they do report.

There is a spiritual awakening occurring across the planet, and the perps are running scared!

Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise

Abby Goodnough of the New York Times says "the program has drawn little attention since, but a review by The New York Times of payments made through it, as well as interviews with hospital executives, patients and health policy researchers who have examined the payments, suggest the quickly concocted plan has not lived up to its promise," -- just like Obama's Affordable Care Act -- and quotes "Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University, as saying “you’re seeing a clash between enhancing Medicaid to allow it to cover the uninsured, versus providing a fixed amount of bailout money for providers who can figure out how to get to it.”

That means skimping on PPE, according to the AP item the Globe carried today:

"Nurses on the front lines of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections. Health care industry leaders, though, warn that passing such a law would saddle facilities with billions of dollars in extra costs they can't afford. Under legislation now before a legislative committee, the state would for the first time set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, including a standard of one nurse for every two patients in intensive care units. California now has such a law. Other states don't. Supporters say the legislation would boost the quality of care, reduce staff burnout and let the state hold health care facilities accountable for inadequate staffing. Minimum staffing ratios also might have helped last spring, they say, when hospitals and nursing homes in the New York City metropolitan area were overwhelmed with a flood of COVID-19 patients. “If we had better staffing in place before COVID-19, if we weren’t stretched so thin, we would have been able to handle the flex and surge that was required,” said Pat Kane, who leads a union representing nurses statewide. Health industry groups have long called minimum staffing levels too costly and unnecessary. They say implementing staffing mandates now would be especially damaging, as hospitals face sharp revenue losses. It also is not clear whether staffing mandates would have made any difference in an extraordinary crisis like the one that enveloped the health care system last spring, when hospitals were seeing so many dying patients that they had to bring in refrigerator trucks to handle the bodies. Simultaneously, many health care workers themselves were falling ill, disrupting regular staffing plans. With help from the state and staffing agencies, hospitals brought in thousands of temporary staff, often people from other states, but it took weeks for the help to arrive."

They lost me with the lie regarding the refrigerated trucks, because those were proved to be empty and for show as part of the drill, and if they don't get what they want will they stop dancing and blow the whistle on this fraud?

It just may help save their careers and end his:

"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised in 2018 to set safe staffing levels, which he said was “linked to quality care,” but this month his health department released a report estimating the proposed staffing rules would force nursing homes and hospitals to hire a combined 35,000 nurses, at a cost of around $4 billion. “During the crisis, the increased costs would have been unbearable, coming on top of the extremely expensive surge costs frontline hospitals incurred,” Greater New York Hospital Association President Kenneth Raske told hospital leaders this month. “Now, in the COVID-19 transition era, when hospitals are fighting for their very survival due to a severe loss of revenue, such a mandate is unthinkable.” The state health department report said hospitals need to retain flexibility over staffing, especially during a crisis. Bea Grause, president of a statewide group representing public and nonprofit hospitals, said the report confirmed long-held concerns about “rigid, statewide government-mandated staffing ratios." Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a Democrat from New York City, called the report “disappointing.” “It acknowledges that higher levels of staffing saves lives,” he said, “but it doesn’t seem to offer any alternative to losing those lives.” Kane said the report repeats old arguments, ignores potential savings and inflates costs by over $1 billion. She said the state should have interviewed nurses on front lines and examined staffing levels in hard-hit minority communities. “Everything is such a fight for these nurses,” she said. “It’s one thing to say they’re heroes and they made the sacrifice, but listen to them, and that will show them you really mean that... Because they dread the idea, they can’t imagine going through something like that again.”

Then they will be woefully underprepared for the second wave and lockdown that is coming this cold and flu season as once again those cases will be dressed up and diagnosed as COVID.

Related:

Mass. reports 12 new deaths, 421 new cases due to COVID-19 Saturday


COVID-19 testing conducted on Buffum Street by the Lynn Community Health Center earlier this month (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff) 

This is literally getting ridiculous, and they can have my spot at the front of the line.

Bo$ton Sunday Globe Faces Front

It's all you get if you could see it:

"Democrats are wary of a 2016 repeat as Trump tries to divert attention from coronavirus pandemic" by Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff, August 29, 2020

By one significant measure alone — the cratered economy — history shows that President Trump’s reelection is a long shot. Think Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992. Pile on widespread civil unrest and the deadliest pandemic in a century, two crises most Americans believe he has handled poorly, and by traditional standards Trump should be toast this November, yet as the party conventions wrapped up last week and the fall campaign (such as it is, with coronavirus still raging) is set to begin, Democrats feel anything but confident in the outcome even though their nominee, Joe Biden, remains solidly ahead in the polls. To them, Trump looms like some horror movie villain who just keeps coming no matter how much is thrown at him.

Finally facing their fear, huh?

That is where the turn-in came, and before continuing I will relay my take on whether an election is stolen or not. I know I have a piece buried way back in this blog that went back quite a ways, but I will use 1968 as a jumping off point. 

The basic questions when it comes to American presidents and the voters, insomuch as we have a real choice which we really don't as the candidates are preselected and screened by ruling ma$ters, are peace and prosperity. If a president brings them or has them, they win.

So in 1968, there was neither peace nor prosperity and Nixon wins office. Four years later, he wins an overwhelming reelection as Vietnam was perceived to be winding down and the economy is stagnant, but not worse. 

By 1976, the economy was going south due to inflation even though the war had ended. The opposition party wins the White House in the form of Jimmy Carter, who loses both pillars due to runaway inflation and the Iran hostage crisis and thus is defeated by Reagan in 1980.

By 1984, it was morning in America, the economy was on the upswing and the wars had gone covert. It carried H.W. Bush to victory in 1988, but by 1992 the prosperity aspect had been lost so despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and victory in Iraq, the compromised Bill Clinton was elected.

By 1996, Clinton had both pillars in his favor. The economy was growing again and military action was minimal and couched under humanitarianism. That should have led to a Gore victory in 2000, and may well have; however, George W. Bush assumed office and within that year a fateful September morning changed the world. Eighteen months later, the United States invaded Iraq.

By 2004, Bush had lost the peace pillar and likely lost to John Kerry before the polls went down in Ohio with Kerry ahead 3. When they came back online hours later, Bush was ahead by 3 and had won the electoral college.

That set the stage for 2008 and the repudiation of Bush, who by then had lost the prosperity pillar for his party bas well, dooming McCain. Obama was elected president; however, by 2012 he had also lost not only the prosperity pillar but the peace pillar as well after Libya and Syria. Romney should rightfully have been president, but Obama won election.

That leads us to 2016. The same conditions that held sway in 2012 had been exacerbated, and Trump must have swamped Hillary Clinton so badly to eke out an electoral college win seeing as the Democrats under Obama have become masters at vote fraud, most likely in reaction to the unforeseen and surprising Bush thefts, and why they are so concerned about mailed ballots (all the better to fraud you with as the phone banks fill them out).

Since then, the world has literally been turned upside down. None of the tried-and-true methods or rules apply anymore, and that leads me to the 2020 election before us. Do to that changing dynamic, the forecast calls for Trump to win in a landslide with at least 320 electoral votes if not more. Democratic strongholds are now in play thanks to the city-sacking rioters as Trump support firms up in the South, Midwest, and Rust Belt. It seems counterintuitive, but that is the world in which we now live.

As for after the election, the shit still hits the fan. If the Democrats steal it, the communi$ts take over and I end up dead in a reeducation camp. If Trump triumphs, then Democratic activists will burn down the cities and the COVID vaccinations will still lurk in the near background. You can swear loyalty to the Chabads, but they will you take it and kill you anyway.

Fear was a theme of the Republican and Democratic conventions as the parties and their nominees offered competing views of the biggest threat facing the nation: the protesters in the streets or the virus in the air.

Biden tried to calm people worried about the future, as the pandemic claims more than a thousand American lives a day.

“United we can, and will, overcome this season of darkness in America,” he said in his acceptance speech, blaming Trump for much of it. “We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege.“

Trump tacked in the opposite direction. He sought to stoke anxieties not about the path of the pandemic, which Republicans cast as mostly vanquished, but the trajectory of the nation under Biden.

“This election will decide whether we save the American Dream, or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny,” he said.

With convention TV ratings off from four years ago, and two already well-known presidential candidates, the scaled-down party gatherings the past two weeks are unlikely to have changed the minds of many voters, said Michael Steel, who was an aide to former House speaker John Boehner, a Republican.

The race, he said, will hinge on the dominant factor in American life right now: the virus.

“Both parties are making a huge bet on what the coronavirus pandemic is going to look like by Nov. 3,” Steel said. “The president is betting on relative normalcy and the stirrings of an economic recovery. Biden is betting we’ll still be overly concerned and eager to embrace public health measures.”

We are already tired of tyrannical lockdowns, Joe.

The conventions highlighted the candidates’ different approaches to the pandemic and their standing in the race.

Democrats staged an almost completely virtual event. Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, delivered their acceptance speeches in a nearly empty room in a Delaware convention center. On the final night, they and their spouses — all wearing masks — went outside and watched fireworks with socially distanced supporters who had viewed Biden’s speech on a big screen from their cars as if they were at a drive-in movie theater. There was no postconvention rally, as Biden has avoided in-person campaign events since the pandemic took hold, a strategy that has been accompanied by his rise in the polls.

Republicans, while taping most of their speeches with no audience, took more risks and staged three major addresses outside in front of crowds of mostly maskless supporters, with little social distancing. Trump’s acceptance speech featured more than 1,000 people packed onto the South Lawn of the White House. On Friday, Trump flew to Manchester, N.H., for an airport rally similar to other in-person campaign events he has staged in recent months to try to revitalize his lagging campaign.

He was just across the border so the Globe couldn't ignore him, and the Trump convention was much more reassuring to the American people than that weird show the Democrats put on the week before. 

If virtual is the future, they failed.

“The two candidates’ chosen methods of campaigning reinforce their messages,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist who teaches at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley. “By campaigning in public in close proximity to voters, Trump is underscoring the progress he argues has been made in combating the virus. In being more careful and cautious, Biden is underscoring his message that things are much worse than Trump is letting on.”

That's not “hope over fear or facts over fiction,” Joe.

As the candidate behind in the polls, Trump needs to shake up the race. So the Republican convention largely ignored the coronavirus and focused on an issue the party hopes will motivate his base and resonate beyond: the flareups of violence in what have been mostly peaceful social justice protests around the country since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis three months ago and a broader rash of shootings in cities like New York and Chicago.

Keep deluding yourself and lying to us, Globe!

“Running on law and order and public safety, particularly in the middle of this unrest, is maybe Trump’s last best hope,” said Schnur. “The voters who are most open to a tough-on-crime message are seniors and suburbanites, and those are precisely the voting blocs that Trump has lost over the last several months.”

That is why Biden is belatedly calling for the violence to end.

Even Don Lemon has called for an end to it because it is "showing up in the polls."

A Pew Research Center poll released Aug. 13 found violent crime ranked just below coronavirus as a “very important” issue to registered voters, behind the economy, health care, and Supreme Court appointments.

“He can really effectively use that law-and-order message to get people who might be more afraid the next few months” to support him, said Wilnelia Rivera, a Boston-based Democratic strategist. “He might be doing things they don’t agree with, but his law-and-order message might make people feel safe where they live.”

He is preying on white fear, according to the Globe, even as most Americans have made up their minds as to which flag they fly.

Biden and Harris need to counter that message with a broad focus on addressing the inequities highlighted by the pandemic, which has hit harder in communities of color.

“They can’t be afraid to touch on the wedge issues, issues like immigration, issues like climate change,” she said. “Let’s have the hard conversations, understanding that can really galvanize people and motivate them to come out.”

Shoveling that garbage along with the identity politics isn't going to get it done, sorry.

Being more aggressive in the campaign will prevent Trump from setting the agenda, Rivera said. It will also generate more enthusiasm among an electorate that will face hurdles to voting during a pandemic, particularly people of color.

“If we don’t get people more motivated in this kind of environment, it’s going to be even tougher,” she said. “We know from previous vote-by-mail states that people of color are less likely to vote by mail because they trust it less.”

Why do they need to be motivated? 

We were told Trump-haters are chomping at the bit to vote.

Although Biden is up by 7.1 percentage points according to the RealClear Politics polling average, that’s down from 9.3 percentage points a month ago, and Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, remains wary after Trump narrowly won Pennsylvania in 2016, despite trailing significantly in state polls.

Fast Eddie is famously known for corruption and being a Clinton crony.

Some voters are “almost afraid to admit to a stranger on the phone that they’re voting for Trump,” Rendell said. “He runs about four points better than he polls.”

It's the threat of left-wing thuggery and communist political correctness under which we live.

Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, another swing state that Trump won in an upset in 2016, expressed similar concerns.

“There is not a single Democrat that I have talked to — and I talk to a lot of them — who feel smug in any way,” she said on CNN after Trump’s acceptance speech. “Democrats know that in 2016 there were a lot of people who were not counted in any of those polls.”

And we vote.

Representative Katherine Clark of Melrose, a member of the House Democratic leadership, said she is confident in the party’s presidential ticket.

Voters are motivated by the stakes in the election, she said, and Trump’s law-and-order pitch — an echo of the successful 1968 strategy by Richard Nixon during another time of social unrest — isn’t as potent, because the suburbs have become more diverse. She pointed to Democratic success with suburban voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Most of the 43 seats that Democrats won from Republicans to take the House majority were in the suburbs, even as Trump tried to stoke fears of an immigrant caravan descending on America.

“I think that 2018 showed us that suburban voters have changed from 1968, and they want an economy and they want a country that is more inclusive, and they want that in their representatives in the Senate, the House, and the White House as well,” Clark said.

But first, they want security from the mob even more than COVID, because the mob is an immediate threat rather than an "invisible enemy" and fraud!

Despite the limitations on campaigning caused by the pandemic, Clark said she is seeing great enthusiasm among Democrats, because they understand the importance of this election, and Democrats aren’t taking a victory for granted, she said.

“No, we won’t be able to relax,” Clark said. “We know they are going to do everything they can, that the true goal of this president and the administration and Republican Party at this point in its history is to retain power at all costs. We know what’s at stake for the American people.”

The retain power at all costs is a projection from her and her party as they take victory for granted again!

Will they never learn?

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Trump was joined on the front page by this feature:

Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. Alone

Nice to see the kid smiling at his own imprisonment, as I'm told by staffer Laura Krantz that "some unlucky students have to isolate for as long as 14 days. Draken Garfinkel, a 19-year-old Brandeis student from Arlington, was startled when university contact tracers called to inform him that a friend of his he’d spent time with recently had tested positive. Even though the friend eventually tested negative, Garfinkel was required to stay in his room for two weeks."

The Globe feigns concern for the kids as they help disable their futures.

Michael Gordon and the turnaround of Liverpool FC

Michael Silverman of the Globe Staff must be sucking up to the boss since John Henry owns the Liverpool FC as well as the Red Sox, while his wife is the managing director of the Globe.

It appears that the Globe is becoming an organ of exclu$ive reader$hip despite all pretensions otherwise!

An above-the-fold photo led me below the fold for these:

How an intimate wedding in rural Maine led to the state’s largest COVID outbreak

Hanna Krueger and Zoe Greenberg of the Globe Staff were lucky enough to attend.

For a Cambodian restaurant in Lowell, perseverance is the main ingredient

They catered the wedding, and its refuge owners are adapting and surviving with support, determination, and perseverance —as they always have.

Whatever Kara Baskin of the Globe cooked up, the stench is offensive given the state of restaurants in this state.

The rest of the slate is, as you can see for yourself, quite empty.

Looks to be there way of cutting me off, for I must be the only who person who does this. Strange how it didn't happen until I started questioning their weird advertisements possibly being a conduit for elite sex trafficking. It's actually censorship because as Reagan once said, "I paid for that paper, Mr. Bush!" It's allegedly part of the public record, not some proprietary information of the Fifth Column, 'er, Fourth Estate.

Related:

"President Donald Trump got a firsthand look Saturday at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip that allowed him to use the trappings of his office to try to project empathy and leadership. During the slightly more than two hours he spent in the city, Trump met with officials and relief workers but not with any of the residents whose homes had been ripped apart in the storm. He did, however, get a good look at the extensive damage and the debris strewn across the city of 80,000 people, beginning with the bird's eye view from Air Force One as it came in for landing. His first stop was a warehouse being used as a staging area for the Cajun Navy, a group of Louisiana volunteers who help with search and rescue after hurricanes and floods. “Good job,” Trump told them. Trump then toured a neighborhood with Gov. John Bel Edwards and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, making his way down a street blocked by felled trees and where houses were battered by the storm, one with its entire roof torn off. Trump has sometimes struggled with his role as consoler in chief, failing to project empathy when visiting places hard hit by tragedy and disaster. That includes in Puerto Rico, where Trump was photographed tossing rolls of paper towel into the crowd, which some saw as inappropriately playful, given the circumstances. During a trip to the Carolinas in 2018, Trump marveled at a yacht floodwaters had washed onto a family’s property, telling them, “At least you got a nice boat out of the deal,” and he was caught on camera telling a person he’d handed out food to “have a good time.” Other times, Trump has been a source of comfort. After a tornado ripped through Alabama last year, killing nearly two dozen people, Trump spent time with families who’d lost loved ones, listening to their stories and hugging them. Showing empathy has come more naturally for his Democratic rival, Joe Biden....."

Well, it would coming from a pedophile and pervert, but beyond that look at the way the AP savages Trump for being the comforter-in-chief.

He's using the trappings of his office to project empathy and leadership, as opposed to Obama who always meant it! 

Didn't meet with residents, but met with hero volunteers doing the Democrat's job!

He struggles with empathy (like the left-wing haters the Globe calls mostly peaceful) but did offer it to Alabama for a change.

They pre$$ puts out this slop and then wonder why the people of America gravitate toward the president?

What empathy are they offering, other than daily diatribes and hatred against all who oppose them and glee at their suffering?

Also see:

In race for Fourth District seat, uncertainty has reigned

They have a choice of seven Democrats, and we shall soon see for whom they stuffed the ballot box.

Meanwhile, others are looking for ticket to Beacon Hill and if everyone's pay was revealed the inequity would become harder to hide.

The Bo$ton Globe is Going Out of Bu$ine$$

It's one way to break a union, and probably for the be$t:

"Sales tax holiday seen as crucial in bringing customers back into stores" by Lucas Phillips and John Hilliard Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, August 29, 2020


Shoppers checked in before entering Best Buy, during the Tax free shopping weekend at CambridgeSide mall (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff).

CAMBRIDGE — Buffeted by a pandemic and subsequent economic downturn, the state’s local businesses hope this weekend’s sales tax holiday will entice coronavirus-weary consumers back through their doors to spend money there rather than online.

“It’s the beginning of a process of trying to bring the consumer back,” said Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts after the “twin crises” that have wracked the nation for the past six months.

Massachusetts retailers have been slowly reopening over the summer, while implementing measures meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, under a phased restart of the state’s economy.

The state’s annual sales tax holiday allows customers to buy products, such as televisions, grills, and kitchen appliances, that cost under $2,500 without paying the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax. Some items, including meals, alcoholic beverages, and marijuana products, are still subject to taxes, according to the state.

Local brick-and-mortar businesses are trying to emphasize what can’t be duplicated by online shopping, Hurst said.

“That shopping experience, that impulse-buying type of browsing experience that you don’t really duplicate well online or on your smartphone, is what keeps a lot of hope alive for these small businesses, and for our main streets,” Hurst said.

Yeah, keep hope alive! 

Good Chri$t!

I don't even know what to say knowing of the empty and bankrupt malls, the rotting Maine Streets, and the endless and onerous restrictions as the government at all levels fines folks for weddings, no church services are allowed, and bars are closed.

The whole thrust and theme of this BG pos is shallow and superficial $hit, as if everything is near normal so get out there and shop!

An experience like that attracted Rebecca Thompson, who visited the CambridgeSide Saturday to pick up a new phone she had purchased a day earlier.

The 27-year-old from Mattapan hadn’t planned on doing any shopping — but then, a pair of pink shoes caught her eye. Maybe she could check out one store after all.

“Just because I saw them,” she said.


Rebecca Thompson (cq) left waited on line to shop at the Apple store during Tax free weekend (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff).

I don't know how she saw them of that near-blinding muzzle!

I thank the Globe for allowing me to see all the masked ghouls, for it confirms my decision to keep what little money I have in my pocket.

On Tuesday, Governor Charlie Baker promoted the weekend’s sales tax holiday and importance of shopping at local businesses during a press conference at Wheelworks bicycle shop in Belmont.

Small businesses employ about half of the state’s workforce, and many of their employees live in the communities they work in, Baker said.

I will save the bike ride for a bit later, and the laughing jackal only wants the tax loot!

Hurst said retailers association would survey members to review how much business they had this weekend. The sales tax holiday comes as retailers prepare for back-to-school shopping and fall fashions. On the heels of that will be the holiday shopping season and November’s small business Saturday, Hurst said.

Listen to them! 

As if all is normal, the sales seasons are coming, it's back-to-school and the fall fashion set followed by holiday shopping and small biz November!

Forget what has been previously reported regarding the economic disaster this state is, or all the wealth flowing upward which in turns erects the enslavement system all around us under this massive fraud and lie called COVID, without a doubt the biggest lie of my lifetime and I've seen a lot of them.

Hurst said consumers are still very wary of going into businesses because of the coronavirus and over the past several months, many have increasingly turned to doing business with online retailers.

Who benefits at bottom there?

As businesses reopened, much of their messaging and advertising has focused on promoting options like curbside service and visiting stores by appointment only, he said. That outreach has included an emphasis on safety, like requirements for wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.

Expectations on sales are lower this year compared to previous sales tax holidays, Hurst said, but he anticipates this will be the best weekend for retailers since February, he said.

Consumers’ shopping at local businesses has a significant impact on the state’s economy and workers’ livelihoods, he said.

“They need to shop like jobs depend on it, because they do,” Hurst said.

Well, then you a$$holes shouldn't have done this. You can f**k off with your begging as we all suffer. 

Call the whole thing off, let us get us back to our lives, and jail the f**king political puppets and their ma$ters and then we will talk.

So what mall did the Globe go to?

At CambridgeSide Saturday, crowds were light as shoppers made their way into the mall. Among them was a 77-year-old Everett man who said he hadn’t been to the mall since February, but the opportunity to buy an iPad during the state’s sales tax holiday was too enticing for him to pass up.

“There’s too much to be saved,” said John, who declined to give his last name, as he used a magnifying glass to read a smartphone.

Melissa LaVita, a CambridgeSide spokeswoman, said social distancing rules imposed during the pandemic capped the mall at 40 percent of its capacity — about 6,000 people, she said.

Mask wearing at the mall was universal, save for a few people who sneaked sips from a drink here and there. Crowds were thin enough to make social distancing mostly easy.

Well, that couldn't have helped sales any after all this time with limited revenue. 

Even with the reduced numbers, some managers had taken precautions and were prepared in case of large crowds.

Sarah Hesbacker, general manager of the Best Buy store at CambridgeSide, said she had scheduled all of her employees to come in that day, with managers working at least 10 hours.

“This is our Black Friday dry run,” she said.

(Blog author simply shakes his head at the delusion of these people. It's the death of a dream and they are clinging to wisps of promises from state authoritarians planning a second, more destructive lockdown)

The store has three entrances, and Hesbacker said she had been planning how to manage potential crowds all week. One change was to not allow mallgoers to cut through the store, tying up capacity that would leave would-be shoppers waiting in a line, and to let in customers a few at a time, she said.

That threw off John Tuttle, 58, of Stoneham, who usually visits the Best Buy first on his trips to the mall.

When he arrived at the mall Saturday he feared would not be allowed in if he did not plan to buy anything, according to his sister Jane Tuttle, 59, who looks out for her brother, who has autism.

CambridgeSide is where Tuttle goes “to have time for himself, Jane Tuttle said.

So which vaccine poisoned him?

His world is all messed up, huh?

I'm supposed to feel sorry for him, is that it?

I mean, all our worlds are messed up for the benefit of a very few sick, psychopathic, sociopathic, genocidal eugenicists populating the ruling cla$$.

At least some guys don't have problems:

Michael Yeates, 66, of Cambridge said he had the tax holiday marked on his calendar for a couple weeks, after he read about it.

Recently retired and an avid TV watcher, it seemed like a good time to replace a 15-year-old television, he said, something he has been planning for a couple years.

“When I realized it was a tax holiday, I said ‘what can I get?’” Yeates said, after picking up a new television at Best Buy.

“At least I’ll get some discount,” he said, and a distraction from his home improvement projects.

Lucky he has a home he can keep, at least for now.


Michael Yeates checked out of Best Buy, with his 43 inch TV (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff).

As Bo$ton burns, Yeates watches TV!

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Did you see the lunch break they took?


Marie Darline had a lunch break with her children Stevenson and Stevenda at CambridgeSide (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

Was the food court off-limits or something?

Or is that a decontamination chamber so mall guests can eat?

Looks almost, dare I say, RACIST!!

Now that the kids are fueled-up they can hop on a bike:

"How big can BlueBikes get?; Expansion will double number of cities and towns in the bike-share system" by Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff, August 6, 2020

That date is not a misprint. 

The Globe is running or rerunning month-old reports in print now!

The upcoming expansion of the BlueBikes system will double the number of communities that use Greater Boston’s public bicycle rental program, spurring interest in its potential to expand across the region.

For seven years, BlueBikes was limited to Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline, gradually expanding to cover more neighborhoods, but never crossing their borders.

Not anymore. Everett joined the network last year, and BlueBikes stations are arriving in Arlington, Newton, Watertown, Chelsea, and Revere throughout the summer.

It’s causing other local leaders to consider whether they could join too.

“I would be more than open, and probably excited, to take a look at it,” said Lynn Mayor Thomas McGee, who noted that construction is well underway on a major bike path linking his city to nearby communities, including Revere and Everett. “BlueBikes is obviously another piece of the puzzle, once you start seeing the infrastructure come into play.”

What he is referring to, of course, is the Great Re$et whereby the $laves will bike to $erve the ma$ters so that the planet can be Green!

The fact that the Globe continues to pedal the agenda to self-destruction only adds to the sense of inevitable doom for their business model, which is no longer viable.

It’s unclear if the business model is viable.

“Part of the reason why the expansion is even possible in the first place is Boston and neighboring municipalities made a decision to own the system and invest in it,” said Stacy Thompson, director of the advocacy group Livable Streets Alliance, but that arrangement also means cities and towns must make a serious financial commitment to join. The five new communities are each paying $100,000 for the infrastructure. Some are receiving state grants, and Lyft is also subsidizing the expansion, according to Eric Bourassa, transportation director for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, a regional agency that helped negotiate the deal.

Are you flipping kidding me? 

Unemployment is the worst in the nation, the aid money has dried up, and taxpayer dollars are being spent outfitting the designs of the Great effin' Re$et?

Still, some officials view the price tag as a barrier.

“I don’t see us putting the money up,” said Kevin Duffy, a business development officer in Malden, who said the dockless bikes were more convenient for trips between home and MBTA stations.

Well, Harvard is making a big push for consensus on rebuilding, and with a stalemate threatening to undo much of the project’s promise the university wants the state to seriously consider a business-backed compromise in light of all the budget woes.

Quincy traffic director Chris Cassani said he is open to the idea, and that city investment could create a better system, but he was unsure that Quincy would be a good location for BlueBikes because it is so far removed from Boston’s major commercial districts.

As if all were "normal" in Boston's major commercial districts!

This BlueBikes expansion is a two-year pilot project, and there’s no guarantee it will succeed, but Lyft said it is open to conversations about bringing BlueBikes to other communities, particularly dense urban areas with good biking infrastructure. Bourassa said it may eventually make sense for the state or a regional organization to take greater control of BlueBikes as it expands, since it may be difficult to keep so many communities on the same page.

Yeah, no guarantee it will succeed but at least some tax loot was wasted on some well-connected intere$t pushing an agenda that somehow bikes its way to greater centralization and tyranny.

Time to ditch the bike!

Galen Mook, director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, envisioned a future BlueBikes system with both docked and dockless bikes to appeal to different types of communities. Electric-powered bikes would also make it easier to travel longer distances between communities, he added.

Does weather ever factor in here, or is Bo$ton to look like downtown Havana or Beijing in the years to come?

I'm sure Baker and Walsh will still be chauffeured to "work" via taxpayer expense, and all the pooh-bags of Bo$ton will have their caravans -- with less street traffic if the Globe has its wish!

Simply installing stations may not be enough to get people on bikes, said Vivian Ortiz, a cycling advocate in Mattapan, where BlueBikes stations were installed in 2018. She noted that ridership is higher at stations along the Neponset Greenway trail, but less in other parts of the Boston neighborhood, suggesting that creating better bike paths and lanes may be crucial to growing ridership in a new BlueBikes setting.....

If you build it, they will bike!

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Here is where they are headed first:

"Marijuana store proposed for Boston’s Quincy Market; Team behind the proposed shop includes former city officials" by Dan Adams Globe Staff, August 29, 2020

A recreational marijuana store could soon join the ranks of retailers in Boston’s historic Quincy Market, under new plans unveiled last week by a local businessman whose team includes several former top city officials.

Oh, the evil that flows from drug profits!

If approved by local and state authorities, the pot shop — dubbed “Redemption Cannabis” — would open on the second floor of Quincy Market’s North Market building, above Lucy’s League athletic apparel store.

“We’re imagining we can bring a respectful, responsible, and discreet marijuana establishment to the family-friendly destination that is Quincy Market,” Redemption founder and entrepreneur Geoffrey Reilinger said in an interview Friday.

Family-friendly, huh? 

They are as bad as the tobacco people!

Reilinger spent years trying to open a medical marijuana dispensary on Newbury Street with a well-connected team of political insiders but ran into stiff opposition from some neighbors.

Redemption’s ownership team includes Reilinger’s mother, former Boston School Committee chair Dr. Elizabeth Reilinger, and Alfreda Harris, who founded Roxbury’s Shelburne Community Center after serving as the women’s basketball coach at several local universities. Dan Linskey, former superintendent-in-chief of the Boston Police Department, will serve as the firm’s security consultant.

Hey, pa$$ the joint!

To open for business, Redemption will have to clear a number of hurdles, including winning an exception from a city rule that mandates a half-mile buffer between all licensed marijuana facilities; Patriot Care currently operates a medical dispensary on nearby Milk Street that is less than a half-mile from the proposed Quincy Market site.

“We think there’s more than enough room to go around in this neighborhood,” Reilinger said.

If the project receives local approval, it can then apply for a state license from the Cannabis Control Commission, a process that typically takes months and would set up the store for an opening sometime in 2021.

Reilinger said he reached out to Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., which manages Quincy Market, after noticing “for rent” signs while walking his dog through the plaza near Faneuil Hall. The company was interested, he said, in large part because the coronavirus pandemic has decimated the business of other retail tenants that rely on tourism and foot traffic.

They still haven't changed the name of that slave hall yet?

Summer is now over, too. 

How'd you do as we head into an economy-destroying second lockdown?

At least you can RIDE YOUR BlueBIKE THERE!

Don't let that last paragraph ruin your buzz, though!

“It’s no secret the struggle retail everywhere is facing, and being exclusively retail, Quincy Market was taking it on the chin pretty hard,” Reilinger explained, “but marijuana sales are thriving in this time, even when other stuff is really not.”

Quincy Market is owned by the city. A spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh declined to comment on the proposal, saying the public must weigh in first.

A virtual community outreach hearing at which neighbors may testify or ask questions is scheduled for Sept. 17 at 6 p.m.

Representatives of the nearby North End/Waterfront Residents’ Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Boston recently overhauled its marijuana approval process under pressure from progressive city councilors who said the previous system was opaque, convoluted, and unfair to smaller applicants without political connections. As of this summer, applications are reviewed by the new five-member Boston Cannabis Board, which gives preference to equity applicants from communities affected most by the war on drugs.

Redemption doesn’t qualify as an equity applicant, but Reilinger said the company would make specific commitments to hiring staff from a variety of backgrounds.

“We’re really focused on having this organization reflect the diversity that is Boston,” he said.

After a few hits, that's the end of the bike ride.

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Maybe the SOMA will quell the rioters, 'eh?

Baker activates National Guard, but gives no reason

The Globe infers that it is ostensibly because of "demonstrations against racial injustice and racist policing that have continued throughout the summer in Massachusetts and across the country, with the Wisconsin city of Kenosha the latest US community to experience widespread protests after a police officer there shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake, a Black man, on Aug. 23, and after Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, a white resident of Antioch, Ill., allegedly killed two men and seriously wounded a third during demonstrations in Kenosha on Tuesday" as the three-day old Washington Compost report implies that it is the patient right-wing that has been holding its powder that is responsible for the violence while ignoring the left-wing thuggery and calling it a "pushback when a group of people berated customers at D.C. restaurants this week who refused to raise their fist in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The confrontations were nonviolent, but conflicts occasionally have become physical," as the ADL instigates confrontation and a civil war (yes, indeed, it seems that Joos are once again at the bottom of the agenda and unre$t, be it on the ground or in the funding, $oro$).

I flip the page and am treated with a $elf-promotion (I won't call it an ad), then flip again and see an open letter to the governor from the Massachusetts Coalition of Police to close out the section.

I gue$$ the Globe will take money from anyone who gives it these days.

Also see:

"Plan are underway to build a machine gun range at a Cape Cod base used for training by the Massachusetts Army National Guard. The proposal for Camp Edwards at Joint Base Cape Cod, the first of its kind in the state, is contained in a 100-page environmental assessment prepared for the Guard and an accompanying draft finding that says the project would have no significant impacts, the Cape Cod Times reports....."

Planning to gun you lefties down, too, or just clear the beach?

Don't worry, they will take good care of your dogs and cats as they contemplate the city seal.

Related:

Protesters march for Blake in Kenosha 

'7 bullets, 7 days': 

Sharpton bemoans ‘broken promises’ as thousands march in D.C.

Looks like the charlatan has been called into action yet again, for the usual purpose.

I flip the page, it's another urgent self-promotion advancing the agenda, the Fierce Urgency of Now ($upported by Bo$ton's Bu$ine$$ leaders?) festival set for September 16-20, then I flip again and I see another self-promotion regarding the a political conventions debrief and how Democrats and Republicans are framing the stakes of the general election with Globe senior opinion writer Kimberly Atkins, who is no longer a Red Sox fan, and columnist Michael Cohen, who will both take a look back at the parties' national conventions and a look ahead at how the themes each party highlighted will frame the general election.

The Globe is literally becoming a satanic piece of horseshit, because that is the only reason I can see why the “ears are cut off, eyes removed, and an animal is emptied of its blood,” all being explained as "not a new phenomenon because in the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of horses in Britain, then in Germany, were mutilated while in medieval times, the tails, lips or ears of horses would be cut as acts of vengeance against owners, and theories abound in France as to whether the mutilations are a morbid rite of an unknown cult."

The Evil That Flows From Drug Profits

"Charlestown ‘code of silence’ defendant asks for early release: ‘I’ve been saying the rosary for the last 27 years, every day, for these people’" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, August 28, 2020

When US District Court Judge William G. Young sentenced John Houlihan and two others to life in prison in 1995 for their roles in a violent million dollar cocaine ring linked to multiple murders in Charlestown, he made no effort to conceal his contempt for the men.

Scoffing at the “code of silence” moniker for the trial that had taken hold in the media, Young told Houlihan and his associates, “There is nothing special about you, nothing unique, nothing extraordinary. ... This is the evil that flows from drug profits.”

The lecturing judge syndrome is a pandemic, and he didn't mean these guys:

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That's the face of evil looking back at you there, and they had a $pray for the pain at one point.

On Wednesday, Houlihan, now a 69-year-old inmate who says he’s in poor health and uses a wheelchair, acknowledged that evil as he expressed remorse for his crimes and asked Young to grant him compassionate release from the New Jersey prison where he’s incarcerated, citing the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors.

If released, Houlihan would live with his wife and daughter in Charlestown and be “essentially housebound,” owing to his health problems, his attorney, George Gormley, wrote in a motion filed Wednesday in federal court in Boston.

The health problems listed include cardio and respiratory illnesses, kidney disease and other ailments that make “inmates who are over 65 years of age, such as Mr. Houlihan, ... at increased risk for severe illness or death if they contract COVID-19.”

Gosh, they have released murderers and rapists, why would they not release this guy?

Houlihan, who’s also in remission from prostate cancer, submitted a five-page, handwritten letter attached to the motion, in which he offered an apology to everyone he’s harmed.

“I’ve been saying the rosary for the last 27 years, every day, for these people,” Houlihan wrote, adding that he’s dedicated himself to his faith, inmate programs, and helping other prisoners learn trades so they can avoid recidivism.

He also credited Young with helping him improve as a person.

“I want you to know that the time you sentenced me to gave me the opportunity to change my life and thinking for the better,” Houlihan wrote. “Through all of this I have learned a hard, harsh lesson. I ask myself this question in any situation I face. ‘If I do this, can I get in trouble or go to prison?’ If the answer is yes, I just don’t do it! Thank you for opening my eyes.”

At trial in 1995, jurors’ eyes were opened to a cocaine ring that prosecutors said Houlihan ran with associate Michael Fitzgerald from 1990 to 1993.

The men and two others, prosecutor Paul V. Kelly told jurors during closing arguments in 1995, ”had the arrogance to conduct themselves as if they were judge, jury, and executioners of Charlestown, enforcing and promoting a distorted code of silence in which other residents of this community were made to live in fear.”

Look at what we are living under now!

Houlihan and Fitzgerald formed a partnership in the late ’80s, Kelly said, after Fitzgerald was released from state prison, where he had served time for a double murder. They soon had a ring selling $1 million worth of cocaine annually, he said.

Kelly also reminded jurors that some testimony about the drug organization came as a “voice from the grave” from murder victim George Sargent, who was killed after telling police Houlihan had traveled to Florida to pick up drugs.

In a tape played in court, Sargent told police that Houlihan said “there’s two more that’s going to go” after another man, James Boyden IV, was murdered in March 1992.

Kelly described the defendants as “remorseless killers motivated by greed, power, and money, and who preyed on . . . and polluted the streets of Charlestown with high-quality and highly addictive cocaine.”

Shortly before the trial, two potential witnesses’ cars were firebombed, and the word “snitch” was spray-painted on the wall near the home of another. Some witnesses were moved to temporary shelters in motels.

“We expected it and we’ve done what we could to prepare for it,” one police source told the Globe at the time.

In his letter to Young submitted Wednesday, Houlihan insisted he’s completely separated himself from his former criminal reign in Charlestown.

“I’ve had no ties to any of my old friends and life, only family,” Houlihan wrote.

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Related:

"In the latest sign that major life science developers are looking beyond crowded Kendall Square in Cambridge, Kendall heavyweight Alexandria Real Estate Equities this week closed on a deal to buy a Waltham office park, along with room to expand. Alexandria paid $330 million for the Reservoir Woods East campus from Davis Co. and Marcus Partners, according to real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank, which helped broker the deal....."

They dress up their criminal enterprise with the self-flattering term "life sciences," and that is exactly what it is in their warped minds: the science of controlling our lives.

The modern day SOMA?

"Cannabis commission expands pot delivery, medical marijuana; Meanwhile, Commissioner Britte McBride steps down one year before term ends" by Dan Adams Globe Staff, August 28, 2020

Massachusetts regulators took several significant steps Friday to liberalize the state’s cannabis rules, voting to expand forthcoming pot delivery operations, permit small nonprofit medical marijuana cultivation operations in private homes, and allow severely ill patients from other states to obtain medical marijuana while undergoing treatment here.

The Cannabis Control Commission approved the changes as dozens of recently licensed marijuana facilities prepare to open in the state’s fast-growing recreational market.

The new regulations also reflected a barrage of criticism from advocates and local entrepreneurs, who argued during a recent public comment period that the Massachusetts marijuana business has been at once over-regulated — leading to high prices and poor availability — and inequitable, with people of color whose communities were hit hardest by the war on drugs struggling to win licenses as envisioned by state law.

“The changes made today [represent] progress for the disenfranchised, particularly people of color, medical cannabis patients, and people with disabilities,” Commissioner Shaleen Title said after the meeting.

Advocates also cheered a commission vote to establish an exclusivity period of at least three years during which the agency will issue delivery licenses only to participants in its social equity and economic empowerment programs — meant to benefit those affected by the war on drugs — and so-called microbusinesses, small-scale growers and manufacturers owned by Massachusetts residents. With the addition of the more robust retail-like business model that could offer far larger margins and opportunities for growth, they said Friday’s policy moves represent the best chance yet at achieving equity in the market.....

(Blog author exhales)

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The delivery vehicle drives itself, and it will also drop off some booze if requested.

Also see:

"President Trump employed his power of clemency on Friday for the second time this week in connection with his nominating convention, issuing a full pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a onetime drug convict, a day after she appeared in a campaign video praising his leadership. Trump had already commuted Johnson’s sentence in 2018, but he said he decided to elevate the action to a full pardon after seeing her in the audience at the White House on Thursday night when he delivered his speech at the Republican National Convention accepting nomination for a second term. The pardon came only three days after he pardoned Jon Ponder, a convicted bank robber who now runs a nonprofit organization for prisoners, in an act captured on videotape and then shown that evening at the convention. Critics complained that Trump was brazenly using the power of his office to stage an event for a partisan political gathering, while the White House said it was legal because it was an official event shown on a government website and the campaign then used video that was available to the public. Johnson, who had served 22 years of a life sentence on charges related to cocaine distribution and money laundering, has become a national symbol of the move to reduce what many in both parties view as excessive sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. Her case was originally brought to Trump’s attention by Kim Kardashian West, and she has become a vocal supporter of the president....."

The one-time drug convict description undersells her operation of a multi-million dollar cocaine ring, but be that as it may. The Wa$hington Compo$t is saying they have a secret audio recording of someone telling Trump's sister he did a Ted Kennedy and got someone else to take his college boards, and now some pointy-headed professor and six other faculty members have asked for an investigation.

Related:

House Democrats launch contempt proceedings against Pompeo

It's Chairman Engel as he is on the way out.

Also see:

"Just about everybody who arrives in New Zealand is required to spend 14 days isolated in a government-run hotel that is guarded by the military as the country spends billions of dollars on its efforts to eliminate the coronavirus, but the Browns said Friday they’re isolating themselves at home. New Zealand has stamped out most community transmission of the virus and is focusing much of its efforts on keeping the border safe. Because New Zealand has signed the Vienna Convention, which gives diplomats special rights, “we are unable to require diplomatic personnel to enter quarantine or managed isolation,” the ministry said in an email. United States Ambassador Scott Brown and his wife arrived back in New Zealand on Thursday after a trip on which Brown met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other dignitaries. Brown said he and his wife tested negative for the virus before leaving the U.S. and had been very careful about wearing masks and observing social distancing guidelines during transit. “Just like everyone else, we will be medically monitored while in isolation and tested again around Day 3 and Day 12,” Brown said in a statement. “We will not leave isolation until those tests come back negative.” The U.S. Embassy said the ambassador’s self-isolation would save New Zealand money and allow him to do his job remotely, which he couldn’t have done otherwise. The embassy said the household staff at the ambassador’s residence near Wellington will remain on leave until the couple complete their isolation. “Even before I left New Zealand, our two governments started exploring how best to manage my return,” Brown said in his statement. The Ministry of Health described that interaction a bit differently, saying New Zealand officials “were informed that Ambassador Brown would self-isolate.” Brown, a former Republican senator from Massachusetts, has close ties with President Donald Trump and was once considered a possible running mate. He plans to return to the U.S. permanently in January. Trump this month criticized New Zealand after the country had a small outbreak of the virus in Auckland, marking its first cases of community transmission in more than three months. “New Zealand, it’s over. It’s over for New Zealand, everything’s gone, they’re beautiful. They had a massive breakout yesterday,” Trump told one crowd in Pennsylvania. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern responded by saying Trump was wrong, and that anyone following “will quite easily see that New Zealand’s nine cases in a day does not compare to the United States’ tens of thousands.”

Nor does the level of totalitarianism, what with her government quarantine centers which will soon be coming here, and now New Zealand is requiring face coverings in public transportation with fines for violations.

Just proves tyrants come in all genders.

The Globe couldn't ignore Trump yesterday as he was  nearby, and thus it was the front-page lead:

"‘They’re agitators, they’re rioters, they’re looters’: Trump decries recent protests during N.H. campaign rally" by Zoe Greenberg, Dugan Arnett, Diti Kohli and James Pindell Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, August 28, 2020

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — President Trump painted a dark picture of America’s future under a Joe Biden presidency during his first rally of the general election here Friday evening, promising a raucous and largely unmasked crowd that he would restore law and order in “Democrat-run cities” he described as spiraling out of control.

The blatant bias made me laugh because even though it's all a show, the RNC was much more upbeat than the dour party held last week.

He returned to some of his favorite themes, accusing the media of stoking racial hatred, blaming China for supposedly planting the coronavirus, and describing himself as an outsider intent on taking down establishment politicians.

“We are all that stand between the American people and the left-wing mob,” Trump said to cheers.

He's right, but it isn't much of a choice. Neither one is going to be able to alter decline of the country into full-blown communism complete with controlling oligarchs or transformation into the Great Re$et or whatever you want to call it.

The president’s appearance in an airport hangar at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport came a day after his official acceptance of the Republican nomination, at a moment when he is trying to keep attention on his message in a reelection campaign that lags in polls.

The Globe says that as his approval rating has never been higher!

From the start, the crowd’s energy was palpable. Multiple times, they broke into shouts of “Four more years!” and “USA!”

Crowds vote, people, and the Democrats never get them! It's always a small setting or half-filled hall.

Trump — who slipped slightly as he made his way to the stage — wasted little time before attacking Biden, whom the crowd vigorously booed. He insulted the Democratic nominee as old and slow, a career politician whose “masters” control him.

What are they trying to imply? 

Was the surface wet?

Or are they just trying to achieve parity and lower Trump to decrepit stays like Joe despite his boundless energy?

Of vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, he said: “I want to see the first woman president also, but I don’t want to see a woman president get into that position the way she’s doing it. She’s not competent.” The crowd shouted its approval. “They’re saying, ‘We want Ivanka,’” Trump said.

I've seen Harris speak the last few days, and she sounds condescendingly evil.

The president scorned the recent protests over police brutality and white supremacy that have swept the country, trying to write them off as the work of “agitators” and saying he’d directed Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, to study how he might call troops into the nation’s capital.

“We’re not supposed to go in unless we call it an insurrection,” Trump said. “We’re going to have to look at it because we’re not going to let that happen to people that go to the White House to celebrate our country.”

Not too fast because Don Lemon is whining about what they set loose, saying it's showing up in the polls. That's why Biden just came out against the riots. Only those who believe in unicorns see them winning now.

Afterward, those in attendance praised the president for what they described as a high-energy speech in which he didn’t hold back.

“I love the enthusiasm,” said Peggy MacPherson of Auburn, who had arrived at 3 p.m. Friday but wasn’t able to get a seat inside and instead watched from a large outdoor screen. “I love the way he comes out no-hold-barred.”

Kimberly Cantrell, a paralegal from Londonderry who estimated that Friday was the fourth Trump rally she’d attended, likened the event to a family get-together.

“It’s refreshing not to feel that you have to shelter your beliefs,” Cantrell said following Trump’s speech. “It’s fun, everybody has a good time, we have good laughs.”

Pointing to the Trump sign she was holding, she said she’s too afraid to display it in her car — she worries someone would break her window.

“Here, I feel like I can breathe,” she said.

That sure is a charged shot at the intolerant leftist anarchists.

Biden, who consistently leads New Hampshire polls in the high single digits over Trump, hasn’t set foot in the state since he placed fifth in the presidential primary in February and he has announced no plans to return. Both candidates’ campaign schedules are expected to pick up in the coming weeks, with Biden announcing Thursday that he will soon resume limited travel.

Then New Hampshire goes red. They don't like being ignored up there, and it looks like Democrats still haven't learned the Wisconsin lesson.

Before Trump arrived, hundreds of supporters lined up to see him speak, and the venue reached capacity in the late afternoon. When an announcement came across the loudspeaker reminding those in the audience to wear masks in accordance with state law, many booed.

:)

For much of the day, organizers were taking attendees’ temperatures and offering free mini bottles of hand sanitizer to everyone, but most people milling about the paved lot were not wearing masks or had positioned them under their chin.

If you are outside you should not be wearing one, period!

At the convention this week, Trump and his allies painted a frightening portrait of a country under siege from the left, but the convention was also sometimes overshadowed by breaking news elsewhere, including growing protests over the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wis., and a major hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast.

Everything he does gets overshadowed now, and his support only increases.

New Hampshire has long held his interest. It is both the place that gave him his first-ever election victory in the 2016 primary and his narrowest loss in the general election, by just 2,700 votes. His campaign had planned a rally in Portsmouth in July, but abruptly canceled it the day before, citing a tropical storm that was not forecast to affect the area during his speaking time. That rally had garnered unfavorable attention, with public health and elected officials urging Governor Chris Sununu to require masks, fearing that a large gathering could spread COVID-19. The coronavirus has largely prevented the president from holding his rallies this campaign season.

The COVID crap story has conveniently sabotaged him and his greatest campaign weapon, and who benefits from the narrative again -- or at least was benefiting until the people started waking up and the Democrats reached too far?

The Globe's insinuation that he chickened out in the face of a storm is offensive, btw.

Biden has steered clear of large events, speaking with supporters virtually or at small, in-person gatherings instead. In a statement ahead of the New Hampshire event, Biden said, “Today, Donald Trump is bringing his message of division, lies, and chaos to New Hampshire, while Granite Staters suffer because of the president’s failure to lead when our nation needed it most.”

For two decades, New Hampshire has been a hotly contested presidential swing state. Candidates and surrogates held events nearly every week in the home stretch of the campaign. This year, larger states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania have drawn more attention as the places most likely to determine who wins the Electoral College and the White House.....

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Biden's tweeted response to Trump's renomination speech:

“Mr. President, Americans are canceling weddings and holding funerals without family. They’re sacrificing so more Americans don’t have to die, but instead of leading by example, you hosted a super spreader event on the South Lawn. When will you take the presidency seriously?”

In the wake of the RNC, four people tested positive after event, and the seriousness of his flagging campaign is evident in that he now says he will emerge from his basement after Labor Day -- which is still 10 days away!

Related:

"In the competition for attention at their makeshift conventions, Democrat Joe Biden can claim bragging rights over President Donald Trump, but it was close. The Nielsen company says that 23.8 million viewers watched the final hour of Thursday’s Republican convention on television, when Trump gave his acceptance speech before an audience gathered outdoors on the White House grounds. A week earlier, Nielsen said 24.6 million people were watching Biden accept the Democratic nomination for president. Democrats had more viewers on three of the four nights, Nielsen said. More people likely watched via video streams, but there was no reliable third-party measurement of those users. If anything, the ratings this year illustrated the tendency of viewers to stay with their tribes....."

I find the Nielsen ratings highly dubious.

The tribe will speak on November 3rd, and we will know soon after whose torch has been snuffed.

Also see:

Congress left town and let jobless benefits lapse

Unemployed Americans say they won’t forget it.

Joe Kennedy makes a final push for votes

He's down in the polls and just can't seem to get his message out for some reason, although I think you can see why.

This guy should have left on his:

"Lexington priest apologizes after O’Malley says church doesn’t allow clergy to endorse political candidates" by Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent, August 27, 2020

After Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley issued a statement reiterating a church ban on political endorsements and its opposition to abortion, a Catholic priest apologized Thursday night for his controversial endorsement of Democrat Joe Biden.

The Rev. Paul Garrity, pastor of the Lexington Catholic Community, acknowledged the “confusion and upset” caused by his Facebook post Sunday titled, “I am pro-life and support Joe Biden.”

“I am totally against legalized abortion,” Garrity wrote in an apology posted to Facebook. “I am committed to upholding Church teaching regarding the sanctity of life from the moment of conception until natural death.”

Reached for comment, Garrity referred to his Facebook post.

The apology came shortly after the Boston Pilot, the archdiocese’s newspaper, published a statement from O’Malley saying that Catholics have the right to expect priests “to be clear and unequivocal on the Church’s teaching concerning respect and protection for life from the first moment of conception to natural death.”

Priests and other representatives of the archdiocese, “following the guidance of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops … may not endorse or oppose candidates for election or political parties,” O’Malley said.

Garrity’s endorsement sparked controversy because Biden, who is Catholic, supports women’s access to legal abortions, and Garrity said he also supports “a woman’s right to choose.”

“I am pro-life and I believe in a woman’s right to choose,” Garrity wrote in the post, which was no longer visible on his Facebook page Thursday evening but was published by The Boston Pilot. “I will vote for Joe Biden for president because I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me. I believe that any woman who becomes pregnant should have the right to choose to give birth to her baby.”

Garrity went on to emphasize the support and opportunities women need to have healthy pregnancies and to take care of new babies.

In his apology, Garrity suggested he did not expect the backlash his endorsement unleashed.

“I was not prepared for the uncharitable responses that I am receiving from this post,” Garrity said. “The last thing that I would ever want to do is to hurt anyone with my words.”

O’Malley encouraged Catholics to play an active role in their communities and to vote in elections, and stressed that the church’s role is to provide instruction on moral principles.

“Our advocacy addresses protection of human life at all stages and in all circumstances, including issues of social and economic equality, the pervasive influence of systemic racism and welcoming immigrants and refugees,” O’Malley said.

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Trump shared the top of the front page with some shameless self-serving swill that advances the agenda further, while below the fold they rewrite history saying King’s Dream was a call for America to get its knee off their necks as the New York Times tries to rekindle the spirit of 1963 and as the late Breonna Taylor is laid to rest.

Rittenhouse, teen charged in Kenosha killings, stalls return to Wisconsin

A judge agreed to delay for a month a decision on whether to extradite, and both victims turned out to be Jewish?

As the blood runs on the ground from the slaughter, the Globe is arguing that if police reform is ever going to come, it has to be right here, right now. Activist groups are demanding action, and by missing the moment and not taking a knee, the Red Sox have lost a fan.

Game was rained out anyway:

"Laura victims may go weeks without power; US deaths reach 14" by Melinda Deslatte and Stacey Plaisance, Aug. 28, 2020

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Louisiana coastline devastated by Hurricane Laura began a long and gloomy recovery Friday as hundreds of thousands of people still without water and power confronted the possibility that basic services may not return for weeks or even longer. The number of dead climbed to at least 14.

A day after the Category 4 storm hit, more bodies emerged in the aftermath in Louisiana and neighboring Texas. The lack of essential resources was grim for the many evacuated residents eager to return. Thousands of people who heeded dire warnings and fled the Gulf Coast returned to homes without roofs, roads littered with debris and the likelihood of a harsh recovery that could take months.

The White House said President Donald Trump would visit the region Saturday and survey the damage.

Simply driving in Lake Charles, a city of 80,000 residents that sustained some of the worst damage, was a feat. Power lines and trees blocked paths or created one-lane roads that drivers had to navigate with oncoming traffic. Street signs were snapped off their perches or dangled, and no stoplights worked, making it a trust exercise with those sharing the roads.

Mayor Nic Hunter cautioned that there was no timetable for restoring electricity and that water-treatment plants “took a beating,” resulting in barely a trickle of water coming out of most faucets. “If you come back to Lake Charles to stay, make sure you understand the above reality and are prepared to live in it for many days, probably weeks,” Hunter wrote on Facebook.

Caravans of utility trucks were met Friday by thunderstorms in the sizzling heat, complicating recovery efforts.

Forty nursing homes were also relying on generators, and assessments were underway to determine if more than 860 residents in 11 facilities that had been evacuated could return. Water outages remained a major problem in evacuated facilities, the Louisiana Department of Health said.

In the storm’s wake, more than 600,000 homes and businesses were without power in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility reports.

Laura, which packed a top wind speed of 150 mph, was the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana, meaning it surpassed even Katrina, which was a Category 3 storm when it hit in 2005.

Meanwhile, the hurricane’s remnants threatened to bring flooding and tornadoes to Tennessee as the storm, now a tropical depression, drifted north. Forecasters warned that the system could strengthen into a tropical storm again upon returning to the Atlantic Ocean this weekend.....

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The advance stalled but is now going forward again:

"Police in Berlin on Friday requested thousands of reinforcements from other parts of Germany to cope with planned protests over the weekend by people opposed to the country’s coronavirus restrictions. Authorities in the German capital had banned the protests earlier this week, citing demonstrations a few weeks ago during which participants flouted rules on social distancing and mask-wearing. Germany has seen a rise in the number of virus infections in recent weeks and officials had expressed concern that protesters might contribute to the spread of coronavirus during their rallies and while traveling to and from Berlin. Germany has been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic through robust testing and contact tracing and has seen far less drastic pandemic-related restrictions than other European countries....."

What does that mean, more cases?

Does it mean new infections? Newly tested positive, but no symptoms? Sick people? Hospitalized people? People who died? – In fact, the death rate has not gone up whatsoever. Nobody has died from these “new cases” or “new infections,” but nobody reports on this important fact. It sounds dramatic: a case, an infection — but nobody dares ask the so-called pathetic and corrupted authorities such crucial questions. Nobody asks for an explanation what these “increased figures” really mean? – Are they increased as a function of increased testing? How is testing performed? Does anybody ever ask how the infamous and controversial polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are performed and analyzed, and the results reported into the annals of statistics, so as to produce ever more “virus-cases”?

You can see where it is all going:

"Groups representing nearly every public health department in the country called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday to reverse recent changes to its coronavirus testing guidelines stating that covid-19 patients’ close contacts need not be tested if they are asymptomatic. “Changing testing guidelines to suggest that close contacts to confirmed positives without symptoms do not need to be tested is inconsistent with the science and the data,” the National Association of County and City Health Officials and Big Cities Health Coalition wrote in a letter to the CDC and Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s testing czar....."

The “Second Covid Lockdown” is on its way:

"Coronavirus cases are surging again in Europe after months of relative calm, but the second wave looks different from the first: Fewer people are dying, and the newest and mostly younger victims of the pandemic need less medical treatment. Unlike the initial hit of the pandemic this spring, which overwhelmed hospitals and turned nursing homes into grim mortuaries, the European resurgence of recent weeks has not forced as many people into medical wards, but the increase is widespread, and it is unsettling societies that had hoped the worst was behind them. Paris on Friday joined some other French jurisdictions in imposing a citywide mask requirement, with cases spiking. France, Germany, Spain and others posted caseloads in recent days that had not been seen since April and early May....."

The COVID-19 coronavirus, whatever it is or was, has now MUTATED into a WEAKER VERSION -- exactly as true science would have it -- and populations have achieved HERD IMMUNITY!

The entire crisis has been a big lie and con, although I'm sure they have an engineered bioweapon (funded by the usual suspects so keep your distance) ready for release per WHO simulation protocol, perhaps on the 19th anniversary of 9/11 as the winter weather will herald a dark future if the past is any indication.