THE CORONA VIRUS, TRUMP, AND DR. FAUCI

                              THE SOLUTION
                              By Hugh Murray
    In 2016 I voted for Donald Trump for President of the USA.  I was generally satisfied with his leadership until 2020.  Then the corona-virus hit China, the world, and America.  In response, Trump signed into law spending trillions of dollars to try to maintain the American economy, even giving $1,200 to many (if not most) Americans.  I was shocked - the weird, highly inflationary proposal by Andrew Yang, candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President, became American policy under Republican Trump.  Far worse, Trump appointed a virus committee led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose predictions about the virus are constantly being shown as grossly exaggerated, but whose prescriptions indicate his power-hungry, narrow-minded, authoritarian approach to society.  His implicit assumptions: the virus is quite deadly; we must limit infection so as not to overburden hospitals (while closing hospitals to "elective surgeries" even when they may be necessary to maintain health and life).  Fauci's influence has pushed Trump and state governors to crack down, and place most people under quarantine home arrest.  In the past, this has been imposed on the infected to prevent spread of the disease; under Fauci's expansive government authority - it is imposed on the healthy.  The economy is crumbling.  Fauci speaks of leveling the curve, so the rise in cases become manageable.  When Trump suggests use of an old malaria drug to cure the new virus, Fauci dismisses this as anecdotal.  We would need double-blind tests, etc.  I urge all to watch the US Public Television program, "Independent Lens" about Jim Allison, a cancer researcher who had to go against the medical establishment with his cure for some forms of cancer.  His early success was just anecdotal.  Eventually, he got FDA (Federal Drug Agency) approval for double-blind studies, which were quite costly and paid for by a major pharmaceutical company.  These took 5 years, before he won approval.
    Does Dr. Fauci, who says we must continue restrictive lives until a vaccine is found, mean we must remain shut down for a minimum of 5 more years?  He dismisses "anecdotal" evidence.  So America must await the approval of Dr. Fauci before we can re-open our society.  That would be, at earliest, in 2025.  Of course, he does not give a year, just hints of the virus may rise again in the fall of 2020.  Of course, it will because many have been hidden away under house arrest, unable to get the virus and the immunity it would provide.  Fauci is power-hungry and is destroying America.
    The virus is not very deadly for those under 50.  There is no reason for schools to be closed.  It is terrible that those following Fauci maintained that older patients who had stabilized in a hospital, should be released AND RETURNED to nursing homes, where they spread the virus among the most vulnerable to the disease.  The death rate at some nursing homes is quite high, because they were not meant to handle the serious virus cases (no ventilators, etc.).  But the govt. was contending they could not remain in hospital and must be returned to nursing homes.  A murderous policy.
      An open-America policy would allow most to become infected with the virus, and for the vast majority, there would be no serious consequences.  Recent data shows many more infected than previously thought.  Most are totally unaware they had it.
    Bottom line: I voted for Trump in 2016.  In 2019 I got Democrat Andrew Yang's inflationary policies.  I also got Fauci's police state restrictions against free speech, freedom of assembly, and at Easter, even against freedom of religion.  Horrendous!
      So I propose that President Trump now run against Democrat former VP Joe Biden, but run against Biden for the nomination of the Democratic Party for President in 2020.

A REMINISCENCE

To a friend

    , When we spoke on the phone yesterday, I mentioned that I studied at NYU in the summers of 1965-66.  My "dorm" had been a hotel a block or 2 north of Washington Square Park.  Apparently, one resident continued to stay in the building even tho it was no longer a hotel, but a dorm.  This was a tall building, probably about 50 stories.  Yesterday, on the phone I had a "senior moment," and could not recall the man's name.  I finally remembered his name - a fellow resident in the NYU dorm when I lived there during the summer of 1965 - Dr. Otto Nathan.  The elderly lady at the reception desk was always mean to him, harassing him, "you don't belong here," etc.  He tried to ignore her as much as possible but had to go through her to ask for his mail, etc.  We had some small chats.  Dr. Nathan was the executor of Albert Einstein's will.

    Other than my 3-day visit to NY - probably in 1962 - this was my first real visit to the city.  Fantastic.  The hotel/dorm was near Greenwich Village, Wash. Square park a block away, the Militant Labor Forum, the Free U. of NY, book stores everywhere, coffee houses on Bleeker, terrific.  And I met a surprising number of folks whom I knew from Tulane U. walking in the area.  I recently read a book and realized that in that 1965 summer I missed an important lecture at the Militant Forum, as its guest speaker was Malcolm X.  His speech from that occasion is discussed in Christopher Caldwell's 2020 book, The Age of Entitlement.  In the next summer, 1966, the same forum would be filled to hear another guest speaker, me.  Malcolm did not come to hear my lecture, either.

     By the mid-70s, the book stores had disappeared, replaced mainly by liquor stores.  The Strand and a few others were the hold outs, but the trend was not good, in so many ways.  By the 1980s, street bums would walk into the 8th St (or St. Marks) Bookstore, steal a few volumes, go outside and place them on their filthy blankets on the sidewalk, and try to sell the looted material.  All part of the decline of NYC.

    By the way, I did not look up Dr. Nathan's name on google, I remembered him (of course, after our phone call).  Now I'm waiting for a spin-off on the tv show Jeopardy, "The Next Day."  Instead of answering questions within a few seconds, contestants would have 24 hours to recall the answers to the required by the game-show host.  For those older than me, another spin-off will be called "The Next Year," giving seniors a year to remember the answer.  Just joking.  By the way, I call the program Jeo-pardy.

    Hey, you may not have to pay rent any more with the new Trump/Pelosi relief law?  

    Hugh Murray

THE END OF AMERICA - 1776 to 2020

This is a very sad day, Friday 27 March 2020.  It will live in history because today Congress passed, and Pres. Trump signed, the 2 trillion dollar corona-virus stimulus bill.  Were it simply an expensive but necessary monetary supplement to those laid off from their jobs because many governors are demanding that businesses close to prevent spread of the virus, if it were simply an extension of unemployment insurance, and loans or even gifts to airlines, ships, hotels, and other service and tourist industries shut down by government to halt further contagion by the virus, these things could be justified.

 But in the massive legislation there is money to be given to National Public Radio, which like BBC and Deutsche Welle, is a liberal left news and entertainment and "education" media source.  But the news is hate-Trump, smear conservative, cheer Obama and the Left.  Some of its interviews are repellent, preventing the interviewee from expressing the truth by the interviewers voiceover and hostile questions and interruptions.  Also in the bill, money for the Kennedy Center, a Democratic and left-wing culture venue.  Corporations that take federal funds are to add "inclusive" members to their boards.  This can mean a new set of extortions and shakedowns, to run the company into ruin.

 Worst, there are provisions to make it easier to register to vote, and to vote.  Already in some states, for example, illegal aliens are allowed to vote in some elections.  This will make it easier for Democrats to steal elections all over the US by encouraging more votes from illegal aliens, the dead, and others who will be voting more than once.  Stimulus bill?  It will stimulate stolen elections!  Instead of a democratic republic, the USA will become a Democratic Party, one-party state.  That party already favors restrictions on free speech, and on the right to own and carry weapons; the Democrats also favor the rights of violent criminals over the rights of their victims (most violent criminals are from Democratic Party voting blocs.)  During this crisis in states governed by Democrats, the Governors are letting more criminals out of jails and not putting more in (to avoid contagion), and at the same time closing gun shops so the honest people cannot defend themselves from the pumped up permanent criminal class on the roam.

      The Wuhan corona virus is bad enough.  The remedy of the Democrats under Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, AND the Republicans who control the Senate is far worse than the virus.  Pres. Trump, misled by Medicrats, bureaucrats with medical degrees,  has also whipped up some of the hysteria over the virus.  He has not been as much of a fear monger as some of the vocal Democrats, like NY Governor Cuomo of New York, but Trump caved more and more to the doctors, who were wrong about the AIDS epidemic, predicting millions of Americans would die, and that it would spread beyond homosexuals and drug users to the general population, when that proved mostly wrong too.  Why rely on those who were wront in the past?  Why rely on such alarmists like Dr. Anthony Fauci?  Trump was snookered by the Medicrats.  And when Trump declared he favored giving each citizen $1,000, I was stunned.  I had voted for Trump in 2016.  Suddenly I felt instead, I had elected Democrat Andrew Yang, whose signature policy while running for the Democratic nomination of President in 2020 was to give each American $1,000 a week.

     Trump has been infected - not by the virus, but by Democratic Party and Medicrat madness.
The media, Democratic and GOP leaders, including Trump, have denounced Kentucky Republican Representative Massie, who demanded that the House of Representatives hold a real vote, not a voice vote, on this most crucial legislation.  Massie was right to do so.  THOMAS MASSIE IS A HERO.

     Meanwhile, 27 March 2020, with enactment of this horrible 2 trillion dollar legislative package, will be seen as the beginning of the end of the America that the world has known.  How long before massive inflation destroys the American middle class and the whole economy?  America is now on a cruise ship to Weimar Germany, 1923 where one required a wheel barrel full of Reichsmarks to purchase some groceries.  Will we be paying $1,000 for some toilet paper?  Or will we be using the useless dollars to wipe up the mess?  The mess that began 27 March 2020.
      March 27, 2020 - a very sad day in history.
      Hugh Murray

PRESIDENT NANCY PELOSI?

     Afew comments on current events.  Hugh Murray

     DW Deutsche Welle (shown here on PBS) had an expose today on how the Chinese government mistreats its Uighur (Muslim) population.  What they did not say - of the many who have recently died in China from the coronavirus, as far as I know, not one of those victims was a Uighur Muslim.  See the advantages China gives to its Muslims China!  Those re-education camps.  It's like you read all the anti-German propaganda, but I don't think a single Jew died of obesity at Auschwitz.

     I was told that the virus in China has reduced sales of a Mexican beer.  Which?  Dos XXs.  Or was it Pacifico Cervesa?  The story was Corona Beer, but it may not be true.  Enough jokes.

     On the serious side:

     In all the media coverage of the impeachment, I don't think one fact was mentioned.  If something happens to Trump, next in line to replace him is Vice President Mike Pence.  And if he is removed, #3 is the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.  Did you know that?  Speaker Pelosi was one of the leaders in the impeachment process.  Moreover, at the conclusion of Trump's State of the Union speech before Congress, Pelosi openly tore up the copy of the speech that Trump had given to her.

    

WHEN DOLLAR MILLIONAIRE BLOOMBERG HAD SENSE

To All,  This is a copy of an article by Ann Coulter posted on Vdare.  Michael Bloomberg was a mayor of New York City, a Republican who followed Rudi Giuliani, a Republican and Liberal Party mayor of the 1990s.  Under Demcrat David Dinkins, his predecessor, the murder rate in NYC reached at least 2,200 a year.  The crime rate for lesser crimes was also high.  Under Republicans Giuliani and Bloomberg, things changed.  Bloomberg has become a Democrat and is seeking the Democratic nomination for president to run this year against Pres. Donald Trump.  As part of his campaign, Bloomberg has apologized for some of his actions as mayor.  Enjoy the article.  Hugh Murray

Ann Coulter To Michael Bloomberg: Stop Apologizing For Saving Black Lives

Ann Coulter

02/12/2020

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Earlier by Ann Coulter: Mass Incarceration Saved Black America

Idiot conservatives were doing the idiot thing this week, screaming “racism!” in response to an old tape of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg defending stop-and-frisk, one of the policies that drove New York City murder rates down to Mayberry levels. They weren’t being ironic.

In the 2015 tape, Bloomberg makes the blindingly obvious point that if “95% of murders and murder victims are young male minorities”—as is true in New York City—then police should be questioning about 95% young male minorities.

To stop crime, he said, you "put a lot of cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods.”

Bloomberg further explained that frisking young black and brown men for minor crimes is how you keep guns off the streets generally: “And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. And then they start, they say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to get caught.’ So they don't bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home.”

Does anyone with a functioning frontal lobe disagree with this? By pursuing the wacky idea of having cops frisk kids in high-crime areas for minor offenses like turnstile jumping, Mayor Rudy Giuliani cut the murder rate from more than 2,000 per year to about 600. No one thought it could possibly go any lower—and then Bloomberg got murders down to an unfathomable 300 or so per year.

Giuliani and Bloomberg did more for young minorities than all living Democrats combined. In New York City alone, at least 20,000 more black men are alive today than would be under the genius crime-fighting ideas of prior administrations (and The New York Times).

Unless liberal elites are pursuing a secret plan to reduce the black population by allowing young black men to kill one another (that would make a great movie by Jordan Peele!), stop-and-frisk is nothing to apologize for.

Well, guess what? Bloomberg apologized for it. He began his presidential campaign with a repudiation of his signature accomplishment in order to please a handful of black activists and a lot of white liberals. For that, he deserves the contempt of all men of good will.

Why not attack him for the gutless apology? Is Bloomberg sorry for saving so many black lives? Does becoming a Democrat make basic math incomprehensible? Is he a pandering coward? Can we trust anything he says?

But small-bore conservatives did what they always do: Give up winning a war in order to land a quick blow in a skirmish. They called Bloomberg’s earlier, logically insuperable point “RACIST!”

Great, so now conservatives are adopting the absolute worst aspect of liberalism—calling everything “racist."

As I wrote in 2016, when the media were going through their quadrennial demand that the Republican candidate for president “disavow” David Duke, these “racism” orgies never have anything to do with black people. It’s part of the Fabulous White People competition, where black people are the chips.

If anything, the urge to call other people "racist" has only gotten stronger since then, so I'll quote myself:

“Sad people with meaningless lives [are] suddenly empowered to condemn other people. I beat you in blacks yesterday; I'm going to beat you in women today. This is what makes them feel superior to other people, especially other white people. It's not about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.; it's just a self-actualization movement for people with emotional issues."

Why are conservatives leaping into this game? For the teeny-tiny pleasure of taking a cheap shot at Bloomberg, they are endorsing the idea that anyone who 1) grasps basic math and 2) is opposed to gun crime is a “racist.”

Our entire public dialogue will soon be nothing but white people calling one another “racist,” as if we’re trapped in an eternal Democratic presidential debate.

At the New Hampshire debate last Friday night, Tom Steyer—hedge fund manager and Hero to Black People Everywhere—kept hammering Joe Biden about some “racist” remark made by South Carolina State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a Biden supporter.

“One of the leaders of Joe Biden’s South Carolina campaign,” Steyer said, “made racist remarks about someone associated with our campaign.” Steyer then repeatedly called on Biden to “disavow” the remark and the man who made it. “Be on the right side,” he implored.

The story: Harpootlian had tweeted that another South Carolina Democrat, state legislator Jerry Govan, flipped his support from Biden to Steyer after being paid “almost $50,000” by the Steyer campaign. Calling Steyer “Mr. Moneybags,” Harpootlian concluded, “This is what happens when billionaires get involved ... They don't have to persuade anybody, they just buy them."

I’ve assembled a panel of black judges to rule on Harpootlian’s racism, and their response is: Keep reading. Get to the racism part.

Nope, that’s it! Govan is black, so pointing out that Steyer paid him $50,000 and got his endorsement is “racist.”

I would have gone with “anti-Semitic” myself, but what do I know? I guess I’ll check with the conservative “racism” fighters!

TRUMP AND TRUMAN

            by Hugh Murray

 In November 1948 a beaming Harry Truman had a photo taken of him hold the conservative Republican newspaper, the Chicago Tribune with that day's p. 1 headline: 'Dewey Wins!"  The Republicans, who had won a smashing victory in the off-year elections of 1946, took control of the House and Senate, and everyone expected them to handily win in 1948.  Dewey had run against Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 for his 4th term.  Though he was older and some suspected he was ill, FDR's doctors lied and assured the public he was ok.  WWII was still going on in Europe and in the Pacific, and most Americans thought it wiser not to change horses in the middles of a stream.  FDR won, but Dewey came closer than any of his other opponents.  And in 1948 Truman was no FDR.  The Republicans came up with the dream team, the Gov. of New York, Tom Dewey and the Gov. of California, Earl Warren.  Worse, the Democrats were not like the usual Democrats that year.  When a civil rights plank was proposed at the convention, several Southern states' delegations withdrew and formed their own convention and party, the States' Rights Democratic Party (often called the Dixiecrats).  Storm Thurmond of South Carolina would lead their efforts.  While they found Truman too left-wing, the left-wing Democrats also formed their own party, the Progressive Party.  FDR's Vice President prior to Truman was a man from Iowa, Henry Wallace, and and Wallace would lead this new Prog. Party.  For his VP, Sen. Glenn Taylor a guitar playing Democrat from Idaho would run.  Former football player All-American from Rutgers, Paul Robeson would be campaign manager.  Robeson's baritone voice and muscular physique had led him to star in several British film, and sing "Old Man River" in the 1930s MGM "Show Boat."  In the 1940s, playing Othello on Broadway to a white Desdemona, which set records for a Shakespearean production on Broadway.This Progressive Party had the support of many CIO unions, left wing organizations, AND it stimulated a civil rights movement in the South.  For example, when Sen. Taylor went to Birmingham to address the Southern Negro Youth Congress (the first Snick, before the Students Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee of 1960), Taylor was arrested by Bull Connor for entering the Negro entrance of the building.  Wallace himself, who refused to address segregated audiences, was sometimes met with eggs or tomatoes.  In addition to unions and civil rights activists, the Progressives were also endorsed by the American Communist Party (and therefore these early civil rights efforts are not discussed in the academedia complex).  Meanwhile, the States Righters, prevented Truman from getting on the ballot in Alabama - if you voted Democrat in that state you voted for Thurmond.  The SRP tried to kick Truman off the ballot in Louisiana too, but Earl Long, a maverick, was governor, and made it easier for Truman and Wallace to gain a place on the ballot, though Thurmond carried the state.  Despite the divisions in the Democratic Party, despite the polls and the pundits, Harry Truman fooled everyone when he won.

      Today, Pres. Trump proudly displayed the first page of the hostile Washington Post: "Trump Acquitted!"  The liberal media emphasized the role of Sen. Mitt Romney, Republican, who voted to convict and remove Trump from office on one of the 2 counts submitted to the Senate by the Democratic House of Representatives.  The vote seemed so close - on one count 53 to 47, on the other 52 to 48.  BUT IT WAS NOT CLOSE AT ALL.  TO CONVICT AND REMOVE TRUMP 67 SENATORS MUST VOTE IN FAVOR.  So even the high mark of the impeachment group of 48 is far short of the 67 votes required to convict Trump.

      Trump was acquitted by an overwhelming vote, as our great President should be.

SOME CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

To All,
     Different cultures have different ideas.  In some, it is impolite to point your feet in a given way; in others, to show the bottom of your feet or shoes; in some women must cover their hair in public; in some women at the beach can wear bikinis; in some, people do not eat pigs; in some people do not eat cows; in some people do eat dogs; and the list can go on for pages.
     The following is how Chinese culture describes certain features of an animal.  See if you can guess which animal is being described?
Xxxxx's are clever, quick thinkers; successful, but content with living a quiet and peaceful life.
In Chinese culture, xxxxx's were seen as a sign of wealth and surplus. Because of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children.

Ranking the first in the Chinese zodiac, the xxxxx represents wisdom. Personality traits for the people born in the year of the xxxxx are intelligent, charming, quick-witted, practical, ambitious, and good at economizing as well as social activities. The weaknesses are that the xxxxx's are likely to be timid, stubborn, wordy, greedy, devious, too eager for power and love to gossip.

WHAT IS THE ANIMAL DESCRIBED?

With all those clues, you probably were able to come up with the correct answer.  The answer is of course, not the tiger, not the snake, not the dragon, or the sheep, not the pig or the dog, but the rat is the answer. Cultures vary, and they also differ on how they describe different animals.

Meanwhile, Saturday 25 January 2020 is the Chinese New Year, and in Vietnam it is also the New Year called Tet.  In China and Vietnam this is the time to travel to visit relatives.  It is sad that in Wuhan there is a major outbreak of a virus, and travel is restricted.  To those in VN, Happy New Year!  To those in China, Happy Year of the Rat, though in English, that does not sound so good, so Happy New Year!  To those throughout the world, have a great year.  I wonder what Mickey Mouse thinks of all this at Disney?

HUGH MURRAY