Author: coastcontact

I am a somewhat cranky but mostly optimistic 65 plus who refuses to give up on this maddening world. The purpose of this BLOG is to express my feelings, thoughts.

Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders

Frankly Bernie Sanders beat the hell out of Joe Biden.  What is worse is that Biden didn’t seem to know it had happened.

The question for me about Joe is his mental acuity. He has had a history of not being able to address facts and respond quickly.  While his responses were reasonable his answers to the positons he has taken in the past are troubling. Sanders hit Biden on his voting record and his positions.  That is exactly what Kamala Harris in the first debate.

If you think Sanders was tough on Biden what do you think Trump will do to Biden? Trump will attack Biden on his son’s job in Ukraine. Everything that Sanders brought up will be emphasized by Trump.

Joe is a nice man but in a debate against Trump he is just too slow. Joe Biden will be mincemeat.

Movie Predictions of a Pandemic

 

Were the fonts on this posting affected by a virus?  Is your computer infected by a virus?

The Last Ship

The 56 episode series appeared on TNT.  At the helm of the USS Nathan James en-route to the Arctic, Capt. Tom Chandler learns that the destroyer will be in the best possible place — a circumstance his crew must utilize — to save humanity from extinction.  A virus has wiped out more than half the population since the ship embarked, and despite orders from the U.S. government to return, Chandler — believing home is now a shadow of itself — decides the safest place to develop a vaccine is at sea.  That task falls mainly to virologist Dr. Rachel Scott, a civilian originally assigned to the Nathan James to study birds.  In that fiction the epidemic marched around the world and governments collapsed. Hulu has acquired exclusive streaming video-on-demand rights to all episodes.

 

Contagion

A 2011 movie about a pandemic with potentially eerie similarities to recent events.   The tag line on Netflix movie poster are the words “Nothing spreads like fear.” The movie has been climbing up the iTunes rental charts, reflecting how people often use fiction as a means to process reality.

 

Outbreak

An airborne virus gets inadvertently smuggled into the US from Africa, requiring a team of doctors (led by Dustin Hoffman) to race against time trying to save a town where the infection is spreading.

 

Of course you may not want to watch any of these stories while the world is under siege from the coronavirus.

A Failure of Government

We’ve been to three super markets and Costco in the past seven days.  People are in panic mode as they buy bulk quantities of water, paper goods, fruits and vegetables, meat and many other items as if there are or will be shortages.  The lines are long as their shopping carts are filled to the brim.

Today we called three markets to find ground beef.

The government has failed to assure the public that there should be no fear that the things they need will not be in short supply.

Who will be Best at leading this country when there is a National Emergency?

This is the presentation that the president should have made on Wednesday March 11.  The comparison between Trump’s presentatation and this Biden presentation should cause all Americans to wonder why we chose Donald Trump to lead this country.  The question we should be asking is “Who can best lead this country in a national emergency?” 

 

President Trump addresses the nation on coronavirus

Are you reassured?

I’m not. This was not a speech of reassurance like George W. Bush’s speech after 9-11 nor was this a speech of the kind given by Winston Churchill as England was under attack by the Germans nor FDR after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Nothing up lifting at all. It was a speech read from a teleprompter in which Trump seemed more concerned with the economics of this country than the health of its citizens.

There was not a word about the development of a medicine to cure the disease nor was there any words about the development of a vaccine. The President did not mention, for example, the shortage of testing kits, which means officials cannot even get a strong read on how far the disease has spread across the nation.  Instead the government will close travel from Europe for 30 days.

Well maybe I am wrong. Here is the YouTube posting of his speech.

Donald Trump is headed for a Second Term

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the likely Democratic Party nominee.  That will result in a  second term for Donald Trump.

The reason for that outcome is the fact that Joe Biden is: 1) a replica of Hilary Clinton.  Clinton offered no reason to elect her while Trump offered many plans.  2) Biden is a terrible campaigner who stumbles repeatedly at his rallies.  Biden’s staff has kept him hidden from most television interviews.  His appearance on The View was light on tough questions. The View ladies did not ask one serious question.  Instead they had Biden’s wife appear with him.  Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press interview on March 1 of similarly light on serious issues.

The only thing that can derail Trump’s re-election is a serious recession or his mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic.

Trump’s dream of becoming America’s first king has never been closer.

Bloomberg Reports Calabasas California Eclipses Beverly Hills

Britney Spears and her Calabasas home

The community of Calabasas has eclipsed Beverly Hills in Bloomberg’s annual ranking of the richest cities in the United States. The average household income in Calabasas is $194,010, more than twice the national average – and about $4,000 higher than Beverly Hills. Calabasas actually has fewer residents than Beverly Hills, checking in at a little over 24,000 compared to Beverly Hills’ 34,600. The Calabasas Country Club cites the “celebrity factor” as a reason to live there. Celebrities such as the Kardashians, Drake, Will Smith, Katie Holmes and Justin Bieber have all called Calabasas home. Currently at least 20 entertainment celebrities live in Calabasas.

Bloomberg reported Zillow states the median home price in Calabasas is $1.19 million, while it’s $2.76 million in Beverly Hills. “What you pay $20 million for in Hidden Hills you’re going to have to pay $50 million in Holmby Hills,” said Tomer Fridman, a luxury real estate agent who works with the Kardashians. The most expensive listing in Calabasas according to the report is a $32 million mansion in The Oaks gated community within another gated community.

Yes, you go through two gates to reach some homes. First you pass by the gate house where you provide identification before the gate is opened. The guard will provide a passcode to open the second gate that is located another mile down the road.