Shermann
Shermann's JournalPost your survival renditions of breakfast and dinner dishes from The Before Time
I'll start. So I had some Spam and Eggs. This is actually a bit like ham and eggs. Spam is a pantry staple during hard times with a shelf life of a few years. Cut a few lengths approximately 1/4" thick. Brown those up in a little oil and serve with fried eggs. Fast, easy, and surprisingly good. This certainly beats making a sortie to the supermarket just for breakfast meat.
Spam is high in calories, fat, and sodium but also contains some protein, zinc, potassium, iron and copper.
Yard work and gardening are not essential activities!
Well I scoped out our local Lowes yesterday for pool supplies. I was shocked at the number of people there, there were cars circling around that huge parking lot looking for spots. Many customers seemed to be buying plants and shrubs. It occurred to me what was happening. With the nice spring weather and non-essential businesses closed in SC, everybody has the same idea : yard work and gardening.
I get it, I need to get caught up myself. However this seems to be illuminating an unintended consequence of the shutdown. With fewer activities possible, everybody is zeroing in on the remaining options. This crowd was larger than any restaurant crowd, larger than any church crowd, as large as a small concert audience.
This is a problem. Perhaps the parks need to be reopened?
In any event, I did not go inside. It's not worth it people.
C.O.V.I.D. alternate acronym
Conservatives Oblivious to Very Imminent Danger
Anyone else?
Trump appoints Climate Change Overseer
The success and popularity of Dr. Fauci has not gone unnoticed by the White House. Acting as a Pandemic Overseer, Fauci has brought scientific credibility to an administration lacking any shred of it previously. He has routinely sobered up the President's incoherent and blissfully ignorant messaging. Trump has seen modest gains with independent voters, while his base has remained surprisingly tolerant of the onslaught of math and science in the face of this crisis.
Looking to build on this momentum, the White House has appointed a Climate Change Overseer to clean up the anti-science and conspiratorial muck on that front.
Yeah about that Trump coronavirus approval rating
It appears that Great America PAC is running at least one of those polls. They are running ads on Fox News and do a little pitch about how you should vote when you call (vote APPROVE of course).
https://www.greatamericapac.com/
If only one person holds a set of spiritual beliefs...
...they are certifiably insane.
If a hundred people share the spiritual beliefs, they are a cult.
If two hundred people share the spiritual beliefs, they are a church.
If ten thousand people share the spiritual beliefs, they are a movement.
If a hundred thousand people share the spiritual beliefs, they are a sect.
If a million people share the spiritual beliefs, they are an organized religion.
If billions of people share the spiritual beliefs, those beliefs then become a default position.
The warning here is that there may be no correlation between the above categorization and the validity of the beliefs held. Majority fallacy applies here.
Anyone enjoy a Shamrock Shake today?
I had to fast for eight hours and risk venturing in to my doctor's office at noon for a routine blood test before heading back to work. The weather has been overcast and dreary here. I'd been looking forward to 16 ounces of escapism in the form of a McDonalds Shamrock Shake. I've not had one in decades and don't even remember what they taste like.
Sadly, their ice cream machine was broken. 
Connect these two dots to win the General Election
Dot #1 - Trump fired the US Pandemic Response Team in 2018 and cut funding for the CDC (with even deeper cuts proposed)
Dot #2 - A glitch in the coronavirus test rollout slowed the U.S./CDC's response dramatically compared to other affected countries
Trump is trying to connect Dot #2 with Obama, which is absurd. All we have to do is establish strong causality between Dots 1 and 2 and it's all over. Put it on a bumper sticker and POUND POUND POUND it home.
Partnership for America's Health Care Future
This organization is running ads non-stop on YouTube. There isn't a lot of information about them, but they seem a bit shady.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_America’s_Health_Care_Future
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNQGanv4plFDbcziniOO8ZQ
https://americashealthcarefuture.org/
They must be spending a fortune on these ads. I think there is some serious hand-wringing going on over Bernie. That has me thinking he's on to something with M4A (I've been on the fence regarding ACA versus M4A). Thoughts?
I believe restraint is in order when demonizing entire industries. But perhaps some swamp-draining is on order here.
Give 'em hell, Bernie!
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