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Gunmaker Remington Arms has stepped up to help coronavirus epicenter New York combat the contagion. Remington CEO Ken D’Arcy offered to manufacture ventilators, medical masks, and hospital beds to help the disease-infested state.

D’Arcy made the offer in a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump, where he also agreed to provide “approximately one million square feet of unused and available manufacturing space” at Remington’s plant in Ilion, New York.

Gunmaker Remington Arms steps up to help disease-ravaged New York

We are historically in the biggest gun sale in the United States. All manufacturers are pumping product as fast as they can and month-long delay for shipments are the new norm. So how come Remington Arms has “approximately one million square feet of unused and available manufacturing space”?

Because according to the grapevine that seems to be very healthy, Remington is being dissembled for the inside and on its way to disappear.

We have a reader that is involved with Remington and sent me an email about this. Here is what he had to say.

You take it for what is worth.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is Jew-hater.  That has been evident for a long time to anybody who knew his past.  He was a supporter of the Sandinistas and he knew about their vicious anti-Semitism.  He ignored attacks on Jews in New York City, despite numerous reports, and deflecting by blaming Trump even though the assailants were almost universally black and Hispanic young men, not white supremacists.

This time around, his anti-Semitism has gone from the passive to the active.  The Coronavirus being his excuse make NYC practicing Jew Judenfrei,

NYC Mayor to synagogues: Close for coronavirus or be shut down permanently

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the Jewish community that synagogues that continue to defy coronavirus regulations and hold services will be permanently shut down.

While the majority of synagogues have closed in accordance with city orders aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus by limiting social gathering, others have stayed open.

Some synagogues, however, are still holding minyanim, gatherings of 10 worshipers or more, to hold prayer services.

This has been tough for the Jewish community.  Certain prayers in Judaism require a quorum of ten adult Jews called a minyan, traditionally a minyan is all men, but less orthodox secs allow women to be counted in a minyan.  This is the real significance of the Bar Mitzvah.  Once a Jewish child has been Bar or Bat Mitzvahed, they are allowed to be counted in a minyan.

In order to read from the Torah, you have to say a prayer called the Barechu, which requires a minyan.  So does the mourners Kaddish and the Amidah.

Without a minyan, Jews, especially Orthodox Jews, cannot say daily prayers, pray for the dead, or read out of the Torah.

There was a great TV show back in the day that I loved called Northern Exposure.  One of the main characters was a young Jewish doctor from New York who was contractually obligated to run a medical clinic in a small town in Alaska to repay the state of Alaska for paying for his medical school.  The frame of the show was this doctor’s fish out of water experience in rural Alaska.  In one episode, someone close to him dies and he has to find ten Jews in Alaska to have a minyan to say the Kaddish, and the local Alaskan Jews were very different than the New York Jews he was used to.

A minyan is very important.

Reform Judaism has allowed a temporary virtual minyan to be done during the Coronacrisis using group telecommuting software like Zoom.  Our Synagogue has been doing live virtual Shabbat services on Friday nights.

This cannot be done for the Orthodox who cannot even use electricity during the sabbath.

“I want to say to all those who are preparing for the potential of religious services this weekend: If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church, and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services,” he warned, however admitting that he does not “say this with joy.”

The mayor called on religious citizens, asking that anyone who witnesses services taking place to report to the congregation’s officials and request them to stop services. Should that not be enough, the authorities may “need to take additional action up to the point of fines and potentially closing the building permanently.”

That’s right.  Mayor de Blasio wants New Yorkers to rat out the city’s Jews, when ten of them get together to pray, so he can shut them down permanently.  Permanently.

Ten Jews have a minyan in New York and de Blasio will shutter a Synagogue for good.

Tell me again that it’s Trump who is an anti-Semite and the Democrats are the party that supports the Jews.

It is in a crisis that peoples’ true character is revealed.

When there was a shortage in masks for nurses on the front lines against the Coronavirus, volunteers across the country made masks from patterns available online and donated them to health care facilities.

As a history buff, it reminded me of Knitting for Victory, where countless men and women knit socks, gloves, scarves, and other winter wear for American soldiers in WWI, who were critically short in cold weather gear.

The CEOs of Hilton, Columbia Sportswear, and Texas Roadhouse have given up their salaries to cover workers.  Mark Cuban is paying the salaries for the workers of the Dallas Mavericks – the team he owns – out of his own pocket.

Other people reveal themselves to be shit on the inside.

This group includes the owners of Hobby Lobby.

Darsee Lett is the daughter of the founder and CEO, David Green, and Creative Director for Hobby Lobby.

Green is worth $6.3 Billion.

It’s worth pointing out that Hobby Lobby states on its own website that Hobby Lobby is committed to:

Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles.

Serving our employees and their families by establishing a work environment and company policies that build character, strengthen individuals, and nurture families.

Providing a return on the family’s investment, sharing the Lord’s blessings with our employees, and investing in our community.

I don’t see how any of that jives with the above email.

I didn’t realize that when Jesus talked about how to treat the least of his brothers and sisters, be meant firing them without notice or severance.

My wife is a crafter and she’s decided that Hobby Lobby is no longer getting our business.

I’m fine with that.  I vote with my dollars.

I have a feeling that a lot of people are making lists right now of who has been magnanimous during this crisis and who has used it to be a selfish asshole, and when all this blows over those people will vote and spend their money depending on where a politician or business fell on that list.

I hope the Green family is happy with the mammon they have now because they just borrowed from the Dick’s playbook of how to piss off a customer base.

Update:

According to Business Insider, Hobby Lobby is engaging in both layoffs and salary cuts.

Hobby Lobby is laying off workers and slashing salaries of employees in states where it has been forced to temporarily shutter stores in response to state mandates issued to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

In a memo sent to store managers on March 23, Randy Betts, Hobby Lobby’s vice president of store operations, wrote that the company “is going to make every effort to continue working the employees.”

Further, in a note to employees allegedly written by Hobby Lobby founder David Green last week, the CEO wrote that the employees “may all have to ‘tighten our belts’ over the near future.”

“Guess this is the belt-tightening David Green was talking about in his letter,” one employee told Business Insider.

This was a followup to a previous article published by Business Insider on Hobby Lobby’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Hobby Lobby has remained steadfast in staying open for business. On Saturday, digital strategist Kendall Brown tweeted a widely circulated photo of a note allegedly written by Hobby Lobby founder David Green, in which the openly conservative Christian businessman repeatedly mentions the power of God as part of his justification to leave stores open.

Green wrote that while the future remains unclear, the company can “rest in knowing that God is in control,” adding that the company may have to “tighten our belts” moving forward. 

So far there is nothing to indicate this letter is fraudulent or a hoax.

If it turns out to be, I will recant and publish a retraction.

However, as of this update, it appears to be true.

Unknown artist. If anybody knows…

The NYPD is investigating what might be the city’s first coronavirus-related homicide — after a woman hit an elderly Brooklyn hospital patient in the head for violating social distancing, sources said Sunday.
Victim Janie Marshall, 86, died less than four hours after the tense confrontation with 32-year-old Cassandra Lundy in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Woodhull Hospital, cops said.
Marshall, who was at the hospital for a bowel obstruction, innocently grabbed a metal stand in a hallway near a bed where Lundy, a seizure patient, was sitting around 2 p.m. Saturday, police sources said.
Lundy lashed out, complaining Marshall wasn’t following coronavirus social distancing guidelines, and allegedly slugged her in the head, knocking her to the ground, according to police sources.

Brooklyn woman, 86, dies after she’s knocked to the ground by stranger for violating coronavirus social distancing: police sources

This is sad. You have to be one callous M-Fer to hit somebody that old.

But wait, it gets better thanks to a compassionate government who does not want jails to be overcrowded.

Some of the confrontation was caught on video, though no one witnessed it. Hospital police issued Lundy a disorderly conduct summons after the attack and released her, sources said.

And from the NY Post:

Her attacker allegedly told a Health and Hospitals Corp. police officer that she did it because Marshall “didn’t stay more than 6 feet away.”

The alleged assailant was issued a summons for disorderly conduct by hospital police and left the hospital without being admitted.

I guess it is officially OK to beat Jews and the Elderly in NYC, specially now with the pandemic.  Now that we have a corpse, the attacker is being sought by the NYPD.

Jesus Christ, what a fucked up town. I swear they will Out-Florida-Man us.

This is a followup to my post I don’t think D-listers cut it about human-garbage celebrity Kathy Griffin blaming Pence for not getting a Coronavirus test.

Her offending Tweet for reference.

He’s lying. I was sent to the #COVID19 isolation ward room in a major hospital ER from a separate urgent care facility after showing UNBEARABLY PAINFUL symptoms. The hospital couldn’t test me for #coronavirus because of CDC (Pence task force) restrictions. #TESTTESTTEST https://t.co/18fRiOBsdN pic.twitter.com/0sU9fHu4r0

— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) March 25, 2020

It turns out there was another perfectly good medical justification she didn’t get a Corovirus test.

She didn’t need it and wasn’t displaying any of the Coronavirus symptoms.

From Entertainment Weekly:

Kathy Griffin back home after stint in ER with abdominal infection, coronavirus concerns

In an interview published Thursday, the 59-year-old’s husband, Randy Bick, told the Los Angeles Times Griffin began experiencing stomach issues over the weekend, though they eventually subsided before returning in the form of violent vomiting, diarrhea, and intense pain.

Vomiting, diarrhea, and intense abdominal pain are not the primary symptoms of Coronavirus.

They are symptoms of imaging someone agreeing to lay with Kathy Griffin on a marriage bed.

“We were both nervous because we were stillin the incubation period after returning from [a trip to] Mexico, but also we had not left the house in days,” Griffin told the publication, confirming that she had also been self-quarantining as a coronavirus precaution. “We’d been hearing about a 14-day incubation period [for the coronavirus]. So for me to get what felt like food poisoning after six days, I thought, OK, is this a coincidence or what?”

Vomiting, diarrhea, and intense abdominal pain are symptoms of Montezuma’s revenge.

The closest thing she had to Coronavirus was drinking some contaminated Mexican piss-water.

Griffin said her doctor wanted to test for coronavirus, but she was allegedly told she didn’t meet the CDC’s requirements.

“The realization when they told me the guidelines was, ‘Wow … I now know not to come back unless my lungs are full with what feels like pieces of shattered mirror, unless I can’t breathe and unless my fever is 103 …,’” Griffin said.

She had all the wrong symptoms for Coronsvirus and all the right symptoms for the Mexican shits, but she is a celebrity so she wants her test, CDC guidelines be damned.

She wasted hospital resources and went to social media to blame Pence for not getting a test that she didn’t need and didn’t meet the guidelines for, because some Mexican busboy at whatever resorts she was staying in didn’t wash his hands after taking a shit and before handling her silverware.

She is more than just an unfunny actress.  She’s an entitled piece of shit who put her hysterics over CDC guidelines and other more needy but less famous patients.

Remember a while back I showed a copy of a Twitter post made by the World Health Organization spreading known Chinese Government propaganda about COVID-19.

This is not the only case of the WHO shilling for China over engaging in proper health work.

Despite extreme proximity to China, Taiwan effectively controlled the outbreak of Coronavirus without the sort of totalitarian actions China engaged in.

Taiwan has petitioned the WHO to be admitted as an independent member state.  It should be, considering how effective it was a minimizing an outbreak that should have, by any measure, infected huge numbers of people considering how much traffic there is between China and Taiwan.  Taiwan should be a model for how other countries react.

When this was brought up with Dr. Bruce Aylward, Director of Outbreaks for the WHO, he cut off the interview abruptly.

https://twitter.com/wilfredchan/status/1243887606569590784

It’s clear that the WHO is more interested in staying on China’s good side than fighting the spread of COVID-19.

The UN has more than just outlived its usefulness, it’s putting global politics above its own mission.