Yes, I'm Gettin' Angry

...at the fools that are treating the entire country like it is or could be NY City.

Time to get this country back to work. Folks that don't want to can stay home as long as they like.

Kids don't seem to carry or suffer much from this thing.

So many of the deaths are either NY/NJ or nursing homes.

Stop the crazy, government can sit back and let us choose, we know better than they the risks we can and should bear.

We are not all in this together. We have different risks, differing incentives, and different circumstances. 

We'll Get Him Somehow ...

"The story that source told me that day — initially I feared it may have been too spectacular to be true — was that FBI line agents had actually cleared former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn of any wrongdoing with Russia only to have the bureau's leadership hijack the process to build a case that he lied during a subsequent interview."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/dirty-dozen-12-revelations-sunk-muellers-case-against

Did the Models Kill Us?

Make some assumptions, run a few math problems, and poof, you have a model. The value of the model is determined later, by how well it comports with reality. The models were used instead to build worst case scenarios. It will never be known if those worst case simulations were possible.

Mark to model indeed. Much of the over bearing govt could be excused by the ignorance, but there's no justification for it now. We know enough to choose for ourselves, to use self-governance.

Time to put government back into its place, if we can.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/07/covid_marking_to_the_models_is_killing_the_economy_143139.html

The Flynn Thing, Nasty, Ugly and Brutish

Too ugly for words. A weaponized FBI - for those as naive as I am, it would have been unthinkable. 

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/29/explosive-new-flynn-documents-show-fbi-goal-was-to-get-him-fired/

More on Flynn

The over bearing force of the legal system, out of control. We should all be afraid.

For more than three years, Michael Flynn waged a strange battle to clear his name after pleading guilty to lying to FBI agents and then declining a judge’s invitation to withdraw the plea. But there has always been something very wrong about the case, and we’ve learned more about it in recent weeks.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/michael-flynn-case-is-a-travesty/

More than a year ago I wrote a series of columns that made the point that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had been set up by the FBI and may have committed no crime. I repeated my legal arguments in several interviews. This led the professional Trump-bashers — who care more about “getting” Trump than about protecting civil liberties — to attack me for “inventing” legal principles that help the Trump team.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/495718-michael-flynn-case-places-both-fbi-integrity-and-civil-liberty-on-the-line

Costs of Lockdown

Hopefully, my postponed medical appointments and tests won’t hurt me, but I hate not being able to address medical problems promptly because I know all too well how important early detection of illnesses is to good health outcomes. In January 2017, I experienced unexplained inflammation in my right foot. I saw a doctor but unfortunately he didn’t promptly refer me to a specialist and by the time I was diagnosed nearly four months later, the inflammation had spread around my body. As it turned out, I have a rare skin disease called pan-sclerotic morphea. I will be living with the consequences of the late diagnosis my whole life. 

Thousands or perhaps even millions of Americans have untreated and undiagnosed medical conditions right now that aren’t being addressed because of our singular focus on mitigating COVID-19. 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/30/rigid_lockdowns_imperil_public_health_im_in_a_position_to_know_143071.html

Defense, Cost, Benefit, Wilderness, Environment ...

How we 'gone strike the balance?

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/04/29/bring_american_security_home_by_ending_chinas_rare_earth_monopoly_115233.html