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Re: DEPARTMENT STORE REVERIE
« Reply #60 on: July 12, 2020, 01:59:21 PM »

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I believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.

I think/hope so.

I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them.  Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead.   I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part.  I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.

If the bars don't follow safety precautions are they liable for someone dying from covid?  Actually I think people throwing covid parties knowing they are sick should be liable for any deaths.  Of course that is a different issue.
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« Reply #61 on: July 12, 2020, 02:00:32 PM »

The antibodies test required a blood sample

Right, which is the one they were doing at the blood drive, not a regular covid test.
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« Reply #62 on: July 12, 2020, 02:00:53 PM »

Covid testing vibes for DR Vixmom!
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« Reply #63 on: July 12, 2020, 02:19:12 PM »

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I believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.

I think/hope so.

I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them.  Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead.   I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part.  I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.

Wouldn’t a health crisis such as the current pandemic be considered sufficient cause?

I don't believe so.  The constitution protects you from governmental overreach.  That's the whole purpose of the Bill of Rights.  You should still have a right to due process.  They should have to come forward with the evidence that closing someone's business will actually slow the spread, a Governor's order could be based on nothing or on bad science. You should have a right to go to court and insist they prove it.   I think you have the same problem with a lot of the orders right now. 
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« Reply #64 on: July 12, 2020, 02:19:30 PM »

Covid testing vibes for DR Vixmom!

And more vibes.
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« Reply #65 on: July 12, 2020, 02:20:23 PM »

I'm not saying whether the virus is spread that way or not, just legally, I don't believe the Constitution really allows a lot of what has been going on.  It needs to go to court to see
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« Reply #66 on: July 12, 2020, 02:30:46 PM »

Due process?  According to Facebook, there's no such thing anymore :)
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« Reply #67 on: July 12, 2020, 02:31:07 PM »

All is ready for the show, food is on its way so I don't pass out, and we're all very excited.
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« Reply #68 on: July 12, 2020, 02:31:34 PM »

I've tagged about two hundred people on the Facebook, but it's not as easy as it was even a month ago, which is very annoying.
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« Reply #69 on: July 12, 2020, 02:44:11 PM »

Happy Birthday DR Cillaliz!
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« Reply #70 on: July 12, 2020, 02:49:30 PM »

From DR TCB:
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I believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.

I think/hope so.

I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them.  Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead.   I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part.  I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.

If the bars don't follow safety precautions are they liable for someone dying from covid?  Actually I think people throwing covid parties knowing they are sick should be liable for any deaths.  Of course that is a different issue.

I agree with this. And I think that they should threaten to arrest people that are blatantly disregarding the law.
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« Reply #71 on: July 12, 2020, 03:28:44 PM »

Ninety minutes to show time.
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« Reply #72 on: July 12, 2020, 03:29:07 PM »

I ordered from Granville - mac and cheese with chicken chunks - very good!
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« Reply #73 on: July 12, 2020, 03:38:52 PM »

I made gluten-free pasta with a sauce that is akin to a bagna cauda: olive oil, butter, garlic, anchovies. You pour some sauce over the pasta, then top with chopped parsley. It's really good. The bird is enjoying a few strands of pasta, too.
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« Reply #74 on: July 12, 2020, 03:45:59 PM »

I have nothing to brag about, food-wise, just been snacking all day on whatever's here. But I got a lot of vacuuming and putting-away done.
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« Reply #75 on: July 12, 2020, 03:47:29 PM »

I'm in the last quarter of Chanel's Riviera. Her antisemitism shouldn't be surprising, but it is. Some of the stories of people in her circle are almost too bizarre to be believed. Writer Lion Feuchtwanger, for example, escaped from a concentration camp disguised as a woman. Picasso was largely left alone because of his international reputation, but the Nazis did try to bait him. The Duke and Wallis Simpson were more shallow and blind than I had previously thought.
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« Reply #76 on: July 12, 2020, 04:12:46 PM »

DR John is there a particular brand of gluten-free pasta you found tastes as good as regular pasta?

Alas, not that I can eat pasta right now.

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« Reply #77 on: July 12, 2020, 04:12:52 PM »

Keith was sweet and didn't make popcorn last night since I couldn't eat it.  I told him I still can't eat it tonight and to go ahead and make it for himself.  He isn't to ask me if I want any until I tell him I can have it again
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« Reply #78 on: July 12, 2020, 04:15:39 PM »

The Duke and Wallis Simpson were more shallow and blind than I had previously thought.

The more I have learned about them over the years the more grateful I am that he abdicated the throne to his brother.
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« Reply #79 on: July 12, 2020, 04:32:33 PM »

Places!
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Re: DEPARTMENT STORE REVERIE
« Reply #80 on: July 12, 2020, 04:35:22 PM »

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Vibes for a successful Kritzerland show tonight!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
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« Reply #81 on: July 12, 2020, 04:36:03 PM »

Places!

Isn't it a little soon for "places"? :-\ Shouldn't it be "half hour"??
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« Reply #82 on: July 12, 2020, 04:42:36 PM »

In the astonishing and hard to believe category - the house I grew up in and that features in all three Kritzer books, which my father paid just under 10,000 bucks for sometime in the mid-1940s (prior to my birth certainly and most likely prior to my brother's, before 1944 - the house was built in 1938 and maybe they even got it when it was new.  The last price it sold for was 36,000 bucks so that had to be in the mid 1970s or thereabouts, maybe even towards the end of that decade, since the neighborhood was terrible in those days.  The same people apparently still live there, since there's been no sales listed since.  Today, the estimate for the house is 1.3 million dollars.  I mean, if the absurdity of that isn't perfectly clear, nothing ever will be.  It's listed as a three-bedroom two bathroom house.  That means they had to turn what was our den into a bedroom.  There are only six rooms in the entire house - a dining room (unless they turned THAT into a bedroom), a tiny kitchen and porch area, a living room, and what they call the three bedrooms - that's IT, all 1600 sq. feet of it - 1.3 MILLION  dollars.  The world has gone completely insane as have the idiots who would actually pay that, because ANYONE who would pay that would then tear it down and spend ANOTHER two million to construct a monstrosity.  How does anyone live in Los Angeles anymore.

Our family home in Seattle was built around 1952 for, I believe, somewhere around 20+ thousand. 

After our parents died, we sold the house in about 1970 for about $40+ thousand.

Today, that house is worth about 2 million.

My parents bought their current home in 1976 for $28,000.  Zillow's "Zestimate" right now is $322,803.
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« Reply #83 on: July 12, 2020, 04:44:08 PM »

Oh my, DR Jrand69. I fear for the reaction you're going to get when David Lynch gets wind of this development.


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« Reply #84 on: July 12, 2020, 04:45:48 PM »

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Vibes for a successful Kritzerland show tonight!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~


i'll add to that!
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« Reply #85 on: July 12, 2020, 04:47:30 PM »

DR John is there a particular brand of gluten-free pasta you found tastes as good as regular pasta?

Alas, not that I can eat pasta right now.



This brand was Mariella and is from Italy. It was much better than any I had tried several years ago.
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« Reply #86 on: July 12, 2020, 04:48:26 PM »

I spent 40 minutes out in the garage, trying to straighten out some things. I took a superfan with me, but I'm still dripping from the heat.
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« Reply #87 on: July 12, 2020, 04:50:16 PM »

THANK YOU, TEN.
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« Reply #88 on: July 12, 2020, 04:50:16 PM »

Spending a little bit of Sunday with Huck Finn and the AMTSJ production of Big River.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcvShqLOM8

I love this score, but I've never seen the show.  I guess I can now!
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« Reply #89 on: July 12, 2020, 04:51:19 PM »

I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
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