If you don’t approve of the looting, but are horrified by the murder and want to do something actionable that is consistent with your moral and political views, you might want to contribute to this guy. (There are hundreds more like him. You can locate them if you look.)
As to the perception that unarmed blacks are killed more often by police than unarmed whites… I assumed that was true. I looked it up. It’s not true.
From 2016 to 2019, there were 208 killings of unarmed people by police. That’s an average of 52 per year. Of that group, 62 (about 30%) were black. 100 (48%) were white. Last year, there were 41 deaths of unarmed people by police. Of that group, 20 were white and 9 were black.
Must watch: “Woman gives powerful speech to looters on streets of NYC”
Pandemic Facts:
* The shelter-in-place strategy was implemented to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. But hospitals didn’t collapse. We paid $660 million to set up mobile field hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients. Apart from the Javits Center, which cost $11 million to set up, all the other mobile field hospitals combined treated 82 patients. That’s $8 million per patient.
* In 48 out of 50 states, the R0 rate (basic reproduction number) is below 1. That means the epidemic can’t expand in those states.
* 38 million Americans are unemployed. It is expected that 40% will never get their jobs back.
* Of 600,000 cancer patients receiving chemo, half are now experiencing delays in their treatments.
* Calls to suicide lines have increased as much as 1000% in some states.
* Young kids are 20 times more likely to die from the flu than from COVID-19, yet children are still being kept out of school.
How to build the perfect squirrel-proof bird feeder…
Snoring is the sound of air trying to make it through the narrowed air passages in your throat. Having a large Adam’s apple and a thick tongue can contribute. Also being overweight, drinking, and smoking. Snoring is not particularly bad, but sleep apnea, which is what happens when no air gets through for 10 seconds at a time, can lead to serious health problems and even death. To defeat sleep apnea naturally, lose weight, limit your drinking, stop smoking, and sleep with your head elevated. Sweet dreams to you!
“70 Step Basketball Trick Shot” – I’ve watched a number of these ingenious games… devices? But this has to be the best.
Every year, the Washington Post holds a contest in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. Here are a few of the most recent winners that I was able to find:
* coffee – the person upon whom one coughs
* flabbergasted – appalled over how much weight you have gained
* esplanade – an attempt at an explanation while drunk
* lymph – to walk with a lisp
* flatulence – emergency vehicle that picks you up after you’re run over by a steamroller
* balderdash – a rapidly receding hairline
* testicle – a humorous question on an exam
* pokemon – a Rastafarian proctologist
* oyster – a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms
This is wrestling…
Camp David, the oft-mentioned presidential retreat, is located around 60 miles from Washington, DC, in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain Park. Officially a US Navy installation, it was built by the WPA in the 1930s to serve as a camp for federal employees and their families, and was formally named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
In 1942, during WWII, the camp was turned into a refuge for President Franklin D. Roosevelt when it was considered no longer safe for him to spend time on the presidential yacht, the USS Potomac. Roosevelt called it “Shangri-La,” a reference to the Himalayan paradise in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon. When President Eisenhower took office in 1953, he renamed it Camp David to honor his father and (then five-year-old) grandson, both named David.