I live less than an hour away. It's terrifying, and my heart goes out to them--

they have been hit so hard time and again over the last few years with tornadoes and Hurricanes Irma and Michael. It was so awful just after Michael roared through, listening to local radio asking for anyone in the area to donate ATVs so that emergency responders could answer 911 calls. They didn't have enough vehicles that could physically reach the people who needed help. Poor Albany just keeps getting pounded.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-a-southwest-georgia-city-another-devastating-attack-from-mother-nature/2018/10/14/a9f099b0-cfcf-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

The frightening part is

I don't think he thought of it himself. I honestly believe we are once again dealing with an idiot puppet dancing on the stage while others pull his strings, letting him think he is still in charge. This doesn't absolve him, mind. He's no Ronnie Raygun. He knows exactly what he's doing.

But there are a whole bunch of people, foreign and domestic, having a high time watching the fool dance.

And we pay.

I'm not disturbed, TomSlick. I am comforted to hear this.

I'm a big old peacenik from way back, but...

Dad was Navy, uncle was Air Force, and I know to expect the best from all branches of service. Defending the country isn't always about guns and bombs, and military training is so much more than war. To know that the discipline and expertise of the Army medical staff, retired or not, is being prepared to help soon makes me feel much better tonight.

It appears a big beast of competence is stirring.

Thank you for sharing this. Thank you so much.

I saw that on Maddow tonight since my last post and it made me smile.

My bet is on Pelosi. She's tough as nails, she's on the side of the people, and she's angry. Never count her out.

You make a good point.

The human body is an amazing machine, and we humans are good at toodling along while ignoring the little health annoyances until they become big ones that really slow us down.

I had a clammy low grade fever, what seemed like allergy^2: stingy eyes, stuffy sinuses and a very runny nose, minor localized aches, headache and fatigue. The word malaise was being used a lot at the time and it fit what I was going through for about three or four days. No idea what my fever was as the battery in my electronic thermometer was dead and fever was gone by the time I got an old fashioned analog replacement by mail. Shortness of breath showed up at about the same time and has not been overwhelming, but hasn't gone away. Former smoker, so my wind isn't the best anyway but...



Small yard but I am starting a garden also - I should look for a DU garden forum for advice, because I am going to need it! Good luck on your planting.

That's what is so scary about this virus.

Healthy people are fine one moment, and then they aren't. It's devastating. I have been home two weeks solid and I'm starting to go stir crazy, but there is no way I want to get this thing if I have managed to avoid it so far.

I had a mild 'something' about the time I decided to stay home for good, and because I don't know what it was I am terrified of potentially passing it on to someone else. Trying to convince the rest of my family (not living with me) to stay home has been nuts.

I feel so sorry for Buchanan's family, and for all of the others who have lost loved ones or who have loved ones working in the medical field.

The man has no shame at all. None. Good link, stillcool.

This is what happens when leadership has a plan to address the needs of the people,

then gathers competent resources to enact the plan. Instead of denial and whining, pointing fingers, self aggrandizing, undercutting, hoarding, withholding, outbidding, and sowing general chaos for lulz, here's a responsible government leader getting the job done.

What a concept.

Agreed. It's precisely because they're white that they are not called terrorists.

I am white also, btw. My point is, the racism doesn't stop with the terrorists; it's so endemic and systemic in US society that it usually does not occur to news media to call them what they really are. Government, Republican admins in particular, simply do not want to do so for obvious reasons.

Recycling *and* finding a way around the tangerine tyrant's supply bottleneck: win/win! nt