Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Astroturfing / A epiphanKnee

They say crude oil is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the world economy and watching crude oil yesterday was like stumbling over a a HUGE pile of dead canaries.

I noticed the price of a barrell when it was about the $5 mark yesterday and was SHOCKED  FIVE DOLLARS?  That is INSANE!  Then it kept going down   A DOLLAR THIRTY TWO??

SEVENTY NINE CENTS?

NINE CENTS?

A FREAKING NICKEL?  and then it stopped at a nickel.  BUT WAIT, it kept going down all the way to NEGATIVE THIRTY TWO DOLLARS.   Oil companies were PAYING people to take their oil.   That ain't good.

The stock market in normal times is a very good predictor of the American economy, at least when things are normal and buy and sells are done on actual fundamentals and not emotions like now.

Oil is the same but longer term and it's the world economy. 

Even as  Tucker Carlson and Fox Propaganda News persuade Trump to open the economy it's not goign to really help.  Car companies can't get parts to complete a car, heck we can't even get enough cotton swabs for testing (down another 14,000 test yesterday in America).

That is the real problem now.  Manufacturing cannot get parts to complete orders.  They need a widget from Honduras - too bad.  They need a chemical from South Korea, too bad.  NOBODY is working worldwide.

and yea - there were no protests about opening things up until a day after Tucker and Fox Propaganda news realized there was an opening to blast democrats.  Heath care was not working - how about putting  "Liberty AND Death" into the cult followers tiny little brains.

YUP - worked like a charm.  Confederate flags, AR-15s and anti government all egged on by our President who ODDLY  is telling them to protest against HIS very own orders!

Seems responsible to me!!

Remember when Biden was Obama's attack dog?  he would say things a President could not say (that has changed hasn't it)

HE's Back!  The BEST thing for Biden is Trump's campaign misinformation pressers. 




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Started selling masks on my website

https://rod-melotte.pixels.com/


I can take any of my images and put it on a mask




$15 and I make a whopping $3. Not trying to get rich as there are MANY people making masks and giving them away - BUT - will they go up in price with outstanding artwork?  A collectors item for 50 years from now? 

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WHO WANTS PORK!!   Well make sure you cook it before you eat it as 7 of the countries largest pork plants are STILL open but missing 1000+ workers who all are infected. However - the  plants are still open with workers working side by side with no masks.  The GOP governors don't want to shut down their economy. Who cares about their citizens.

The Mayor of Atlanta is FURIOUS that her governor is opening up Georgia.  And this is not some grass roots movement at all. 

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-Brett Smith

There is a TON of astroturfing (coordinated faking of a movement to make it look grassroots, when it's actually not) going on behind the scenes with these protests in various states.

If you look at the Facebook groups for "Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine" (over 55k members) and "Minnesotans Against Excessive Quarantine" (over 18k members), these two group descriptions have the EXACT same "About" section description, just the name of the governor changed for each state.

Weird, but maybe just a coincidence? Look at the sites each group links to, the Pennsylvania Firearms Association (reopenpa.com) and Minnesota Gun Rights (reopenmn.com). Their site layouts are IDENTICAL, again with only the state-specific content changed. Go a little further and do a whois lookup on each of those sites, to see who the sites were registered under and when they were registered. Oh look, they were registered under the same registrar on the same day, less than 2 minutes apart.    

So all of these groups get created, with identical websites and identical domains and identical registrars, within a few seconds of each other on April 17th.

You know what else happens on the night of the 17th? Trump starts tweeting "LIBERATE MINNESOTA", "LIBERATE VIRGINIA", "LIBERATE MICHIGAN".

and then you wonder why all of the pro economy anti health care workers all carry firearms?

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Not leveling off yet in Wisconsin


Pretty steady.

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There is so much sex going on under our bird feeder it's disgusting. Sorry I have a view of our feeder from this seat.  Freaking bird porno.   The worst kind

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My knee - YUP - it's been doing very well.  I mowed the lawn with 2600 steps and that was it.  If I really wanted to I would not get a knee operation but then I would go the rest of my life knowing I had a good 2600 steps in me before I had to stop for the day.  No hikes, no bike rides, no golf. 

That's not me.  I want to walk 9 holes (or 18) of golf. I want to work out in a gym, I want to take vacations and walk and take hikes.  Staying in shape with only one good knee seems REALLY hard. 

So yea - I THINK I still have an appointment for a CT scan in Columbus (Comfortis knee) in preparation for a total knee replacement in the fall.   I've been struggling for a while . . . should I? Should I not?  I should.

Case closed.  Let's get'r done this year so NEXT summer I'll be whole again         

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