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Joe, Kudos for keeping the Education Forum Mark-Zaid-Thread-About-Everything alive this week. Everyone knows by now that our Stable Genius-in-Chief botched the pandemic response bigly, but the news that is bothering me today is Trump's signing declaration in which he rejected any Congressional oversight of his handling of the newly approved $500 billion corporate bailout slush fund. Donald Trump in charge of a $500 billion slush fund? What could possibly go wrong? 🤪

Rob, You left out the part where Elvis comes back to life, and promptly gets hooked on Oxycontin. 🤥

The final draft of the University of Alaska study debunking the NIST coverup of the WTC7 demolition on 9/11 is out this week. Anyone with a working knowledge of Newtonian physics could have concluded as much years ago. The 47 floor steel skyscraper collapsed in an abrupt-onset, symmetrical free fall, indicating zero resistance-- i.e., a synchronized, simultaneous demolition of the steel columns. It's an irrefutable smoking gun, indicating that the 9/11 demolitions were staged, in advance, by experts. https://files.wtc7report.org/file/public-download/A-Structural-Reevaluation-of-the-Collapse-of-World-Trade-Center-7-March2020.pdf

Details, please. What are the implications for us-- the little people? And, if the Titanic sinks, who will be in the luxury yachts and lifeboats, besides Moochin' Mnuchin and the Trump Crime Family?

I never owned a copy of the original Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan album, but my old college roommate may have. If it's really worth $30K, I may call him up and ask him if I can borrow that vinyl for old time's sake. 🤪 One thing the album cover photo brings to mind is the incredible cinematography of the Coen Brothers 2013 film, Inside Llewyn Davis, about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the early 1960s. Some of the sets in that film were closely derived from the album cover.

Dylan wrote Masters of War in the winter of 62-63, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the album was released in February of 1963.

Murder Most Foul, in a sense, is like a book end to Dylan's 57 year old Jeremiad about the military-industrial complex.

The only thing more karmic would be televangelist Jim Baker dying of Silver Solution poisoning. 🤥

Remarkable stream-of-historical-consciousness stuff by the Great One. And, as usual, Dylan gets the essential historical details right-- the murder most foul by the "Masters of War" who had their own man waiting in the wings to take over. He also succeeds in incorporating a vast array of related Americana into this dirge-- in a manner reminiscent of his brilliant Love and Theft songs. Mega gracias, Bob!

I remember that game well. Von Miller and the Denver defense (coached by the indefatigable Wade Phillips) really got after Tom Brady to eke out that win and a trip to Super Bowl 50. Von Miller had a post-season for the ages that year, ultimately finishing the season as MVP of Super Bowl 50. But the Broncos had been power-ranked down at #8 in the NFL that December, before Peyton returned from IR.

Things to do in Denver when you're not dead yet? I've been watching Season 3 of Babylon Berlin on Netflix this week. It's a terrific series produced by Sky Television-- a detective thriller set in Berlin in 1929, with complex subplots involving floundering Weimar Republic politicians, wealthy industrialists, scheming generals, racketeers, cabaret flappers, beleaguered socialists, and Nazi SA thugs. Somewhat similar to the great film, Cabaret, but more complex and realistic. In Hollywood productions, Germans are stereotypically depicted as either hideously ugly, misanthropic Nazi colonels, or mad scientists. But, in German films the actors always look like people from my old high school in Denver. The main character in Babylon Berlin, Gereon Rath, looks eerily like my late father looked when he was 40.

Reporting the facts is now "agenda driven journalism," Rob? I'll bookmark that in my folder of Goofy GOP Euphemisms-- along with, "Wise Use," for environmental desecration, and, "Virtue Signalling," for discussing social ethics in matters of public policy... 🙄

Yo, Rob, if you're interested in Presidential clown shows, cheggidout... 🤥 Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-team-failed-to-follow-nscs-pandemic-playbook/ar-BB11IjMW

Can't go skiing. Can't play golf-- the city courses are all closed, with menacing NO TRESPASSING/VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED signs. Can't play tennis, or even hit tennis balls against the wall -- the city courts are now locked. Drove to Wal-Mart this morning to buy a replacement basketball backboard/hoop for my garage roof (I threw out the old one when my garage roof was repaired two years ago.) Hadn't been to a Wal-Mart in years--but the store was open for business and surprisingly empty! But NO.... no basketball backboards in stock-- except for the ones with the goofy-looking poles on a stand. So, I bought a pickle-ball starter set for the backyard for $20. Then I listened to NPR on the way home from Wal-Mart. This was the story, as I recall it... NPR interviews the Chief of Epidemiology at UCSF-- one of the top 5 medical schools in the U.S. Trump repeatedly bungled the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in January. He ignored expert intelligence briefings and advice from top public health officials-- refusing to authorize the acquisition of accurate test kits that were effectively deployed in countries like South Korea. The U.S. and South Korea both identified their first COVID-19 patients on the same day, but South Korea was able to dramatically prevent the severity of the epidemic in their densely populated country by aggressive use of testing and quarantine measures. Russia has had even greater success in preventing the epidemic, through aggressive testing and quarantine measures. Meanwhile, Trump ignored the experts and made a series of disastrous, poorly-informed decisions that cost the U.S. an estimated four weeks-- and will ultimately result in massively high U.S. mortality rates. Trump and John Bolton also terminated the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018.

I nominate Rob Wheeler for the 2020 Roger Stone Brooks Brothers Riot Prize. 🤪

I'm postulating a "Russian" coronavirus theory in the true scientific and philosophic meaning of the word-- an explanatory theory that can be refuted by contrary evidence and supported by confirmatory evidence, and something that has heuristic value. What made me wonder about this was the bio-weapons essay from the Russian website of the Saker that made an elaborate case for the CIA being the coronavirus culprit, while exhibiting a surprisingly detailed knowledge of Russian bio-weapons researchers who now "work" for the CIA.

I have been reading articles at The Saker blog for awhile now-- partly because the mysterious "Saker" is a fellow member of the Russian Orthodox Church. But I discerned long ago that Saker's theology is aligned with the Russian Federation Moscow Patriarchate-- not with the former "White" Russian ROCOR Church in Exile. Ergo, I have long suspected that Saker is a KGB/FSB mouthpiece in Western Europe. SO, this latest anonymous commentary from the Saker's blog raises an interesting question-- and a theory. IS RUSSIA THE SOURCE OF THE CORONAVIRUS? Just a theory. But consider that Putin implemented aggressive testing and quarantine measures in January to keep coronavirus out of Russia-- and Russia has been largely coronavirus free, while China, the EU, and the U.S. economies are being decimated by the pandemic. It's almost as if Putin knew all along that the pandemic was coming. Cui bono? Russia's geopolitical adversaries have been severely damaged, while Russia has evaded the scourge. Also, everyone knows by now that the U.S.S.R. had an entire city dedicated to researching and producing biological weapons. Some of their former scientists were recruited to work for the CIA after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Well, so much for the mayor's shut down order... 🤥 After panicked crowds swarm Denver liquor stores and dispensaries, mayor reverses order to close both It only took three hours for the city of Denver to change course on listing liquor stores and recreational dispensaries as “non-essential” https://www.denverpost.com/2020/03/23/liquor-stores-dispensaries-closing-denver-shelter-in-place/

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock issued a stay-at-home order for the metro area today. The liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries will close at 5 PM tomorrow. Hmmm... 🤨

Here's another disturbing read, folks. This was published at the Unz Review ten days ago-- as a reprint of a lengthy commentary at The Saker, allegedly written by a former bio-weapons researcher from Fort Detrick. Can't vouch for the source, but this article is guaranteed make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Yes, they walk amongst us... 😮 Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China? https://www.unz.com/article/was-coronavirus-a-biowarfare-attack-against-china/

Good article at Consortium News on Friday.* One of the many fascinating chapters in Kuznick & Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States was the story of how the Democratic establishment conspired to keep the late, great Vice President Henry Wallace out of the White House by kicking him off of the FDR ticket at the 1944 convention. Is the DNC Repeating History in Derailing a Socialist Candidate? https://consortiumnews.com/2020/03/20/is-the-dnc-repeating-history-in-derailing-a-socialist-candidate/

First you download, then you use your digits? 🤪

One of my sisters spent a semester abroad in the U.S.S.R. back in the early 70s, and she told me that the Russians used to use Pravda for toilet paper. That was, allegedly, about all it was good for. A lot of U.S. newspapers nowadays could be similarly useful, including the Denver Post. Unfortunately, I only have a digital subscription.

No, thank God. I have a season ski pass for Keystone Resort, in Summit County, Colorado. Keystone had a visitor from Italy from February 29th to March 3rd who tested positive for COVID-19, but my last ski day was February 28th. (The ski resorts were all closed by Governor Polis earlier this month.) Keystone is owned by Vail Resorts (in neighboring Eagle County.) The severity of the epidemic up in Vail (Eagle County) is a real anomaly.