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Every. SINGLE. Coronavirus Briefing is Like This .

by Vanderleun on April 9, 2020

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Casey Klahn April 9, 2020, 8:56 PM

She’s hired!

That was perfect. Yesterday I began to feel fed up with the lack of news reliability with what’s available. BION, I am spending more time taking care of my family, less time on DeFaceBuhk, and more time on my art teaching career. I don’t have time to scour for that gold nugget which is a reliable briefing on the news.

Today I have reached it up to here. ShittyNews fatigue has overcome me. Every “fact” I’ve heard about the Chinese Virus situation has been reported both ways: 180 degree variety on the news. Today I read that Bill gates is pouring Chinese KoolAid down our throats. “They beat the epidemic! Why cant we?” That retarded gentleman with way too much money; I should’ve dropped him when I had him up on that rope.

Advice please.

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Jean April 9, 2020, 9:07 PM

I only watch our Governor DeWine’s reports.
T’hell with t’Trump.

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Casey Klahn April 9, 2020, 10:48 PM

In 2004, DeWine co-sponsored an amendment to renew the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. He has repeatedly received an “F” rating from the National Rifle Association.[77] He was endorsed by the National Rifle Association for Governor.[78] He was one of only two Republican Senators to vote against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,[79] which banned lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers for criminal misuse of their products. In the 2006 election cycle, DeWine was the first senatorial candidate to be endorsed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and displayed that endorsement on his campaign webpage.[80] In 2019, Governor DeWine proposed a Red Flag Law for Ohio that would allow courts to take a gun from a person if they are seen as a threat to others or themselves.[81]/ Wikipedia.

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ghostsniper April 10, 2020, 4:43 AM

The media today is a day care center with video cams.
They are not factual nor do they even try to be, and they don’t even have any entertainment value.
Like flying through a storm with no sight and no gauges – you’re on your own.

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H April 10, 2020, 5:31 AM

Shown as a threat by whom, Casey? Ah, there’s the rub! Who decides? “They, the plain and fancy they”, whoever they are. Welcome to the Star Chamber.

“show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” Lavrentiy Beria

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Casey Klahn April 10, 2020, 8:32 AM

H.

WTF you talkin; ’bout? Did I write “threat”?

Oh, I see it now. In the wikipedia quote. Yes, red flag laws are only sensible to commies. Normal people see straight through them instantly. When Gladys Kravitz is in charge of my guns…

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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.

Gary Snyder

The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

— BY THEODORE ROETHKE

from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND

The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.

from Preludes

His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.

I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

— Eliot

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