Posted on 03/25/2020 9:15:42 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Some mid-day notes everyone should be aware of:
America’s universities in action. – Harvard University has the largest university endowment on the face of the earth, currently estimated at over $40 billion. Yesterday, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon, Harvard laid off its dining hall workers in an effort to “cut costs”:
A Harvard spokesman said he was unable to provide the Free Beacon with the number of subcontract employees in dining services. In 2018, the New York Times reported that the university dining halls employed 275 subcontractors.
Based on the local living wage standard, it would cost Harvard $710,000 to provide four weeks of full-time paid leave for all of its subcontracted dining employees. This represents 0.001 percent of Harvard’s endowment.
Other universities that have transitioned to online classes have handled the situation with contract employees differently. The University of Chicago said last week it would continue paying its subcontract workers through the end of the academic year. The University of Chicago has an endowment of $8.5 billion, around one-fifth the size of Harvard’s.
Disgusting.
Speaking of disgusting people… – San Fran Nan is holding up the passage of the senate stimulus bill again. As reported by the Daily Caller, Pelosi is now using arcane House procedures as a tactic for delaying any action by her chamber for at least one more day:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delayed the passage of the Senate’s coronavirus relief package on Wednesday, as the House was in session for nearly three minutes and then adjourned until Thursday.
“House Democrats will now review the final provisions and legislative text of the agreement to determine a course of action,” Pelosi said about the nearly $2 trillion emergency relief deal which will be voted on Wednesday afternoon in the Senate after a long night of negotiations. Meaning, the House will not be able to vote on the package for another day.
This is yet another clear effort by Pelosi to cause another day of negative stock market reaction. She will do literally anything, including throwing people out of jobs and causing more human misery, in her neverending zeal to harm President Trump. The woman is a sub-human ghoul, a clear domestic enemy.
Speaking of Democrat ghouls… – The Democrat Governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak, last night issued an executive order denying coronavirus patients access to hydroxychloroquine, the safe, well-known medication that has been proven in multiple peer-reviewed studies as an effective treatment for the China Flu. As reported by Sifi.com:
Despite the world including India pinning the hope on anti-malaria drugs to treat serious COVID-19 patients, Nevadas governor has ordered to ban use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat new coronavirus patients.
The governor’s executive order came after US President Donald Trump termed the drugs as a potential treatment for treating the illness, reports NYPost.
A man in US state of Phoenix died and his wife was in critical condition after taking “an additive used to clean fish tanks called chloroquine phosphate, similar to the drug used to treat malaria”.
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Thus, we have a Democrat Governor, in a zeal to do political harm to the U.S. President, banning a safe and effective treatment to patients in danger of dying because a couple of idiots decided to ingest fish tank cleaner. It’s akin to banning the use of Clorox to bleach white shirts because a couple of kids found a bottle of it under the kitchen sink and had to have their stomachs pumped.
This is a special kind of Trump Derangement Syndrome depravity, folks. It is utterly beyond the pale.
That is all, for now.
“A man in US state of Phoenix died and his wife was in critical condition after taking “an additive used to clean fish tanks called chloroquine phosphate, similar to the drug used to treat malaria”.” State of Phoenix has fish tank cleaner?
Similar in the same way and to the same degree that all drugs for tropical diseases are similar to all aquarium cleaners.
No, they laid them off in an effort to shift costs... to the taxpayer.
Even though they know they will eventually be exposed for doing the wrong thing when the treatment has been shown to work
Very troubling to see Democrats enabling corona virus spread, obstructing effort to halt spread and develop effective treatments and cheering for it’s advance. The Dems are invested in a protracted panic filled shut down of our economy for as long as they can string it along
Remind me of her childish, petty refusal/ delay in moving the articles of. ‘Peachmant to the senate
Not sure about that, but the goldfish the guy swallowed with the fish tank cleaner is doing well...
The state of Phoenix has it all, man.
Looks as they "buy the rumor" is in effect today.
This whole fiasco is a political blunder of epic dimensions. She will get it passed today, but signaling her reluctance to do so is one more nail in the coffin of hopes to keep the House in (D) hands. Because . . .
Americans will never forget where they were the day(s) their hopes for personal financial relief and saving the economy were dashed (three or more times) by Sen. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in a cheap-ass series of ploys.
“A Harvard spokesman said he was unable to provide the Free Beacon with the number of subcontract employees in dining services.”
Impossible! There’s NO organization, in or out of the educational system, that doesn’t KNOW the number of people on its payroll.
No he died
The market up over 21000
Thanks, clueless GOP voters in Trump districts, who didn’t bother to go vote in 2018. You are the reason the Republicans lost the House and this witch is Speaker, a curse to our country.
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