As a kid, the four big holidays were Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Candy in the stockings for Christmas. The Easter baskets full of candy. Lots of candy on Halloween. And the Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter feasts. For Thanksgiving and Christmas we always had Turkey. For Easter we had ham. When I learned more about the origins of Christianity I marveled at celebrating the resurrection of a nice Jewish boy by eating pork.

So it was a sad Easter this year. No church services. No large family dinners. No public Easter egg hunts for the kids.

A few years back, my weight had ballooned up to 205 pounds. During most of my adult life I weighed in at 165-170 pounds so I had become a real tub of lard. I attributed it to my love of chocolate so I cut back. I only allow myself chocolate three time a year: Leftover Snickers bars from Halloween, Sees pecan buds at my sister’s for Christmas, and the same thing for myself at home for Easter. Alas, Sees suspended operation a few weeks ago because of the Kung Flu.

How’s my weight? I’m down to 175 pounds. I was able to cut back on one of my blood pressure medicines. My BP was actually too low!

I really, really hate China. They ruined my Easter. I wasn’t able to visit my sister in South Carolina. She always cooked a good meal on Saturday night and I always provided a nice Bordeaux from my cellar. Not this year.

I also provided a nice wine from my cellar for the Sunday feast which, of course, was always ham. Nope. I was stuck at home.

No Sees candy. No ham. Bummer!

On the upside, the Kung Flu seems to be tapering off. Deaths were doubling every three to four days. Four days ago in the US we were at 16,000 deaths. Today we are at 23,500. New York, the epicenter was at 7,000. Today it is at 10,000. Too bad we had to kill the economy.

The next holiday is Mother’s Day. I usually visit my sister and we go out to eat at a place with a nice buffet, the same place we go for Thanksgiving. I fear that will be cancelled as well.

When we come out of this we need to make the Chinese pay. Move all of our manufacturing from China. There are other Asian countries with low priced labor. Better yet, move our manufacturing back home. Make Red China a pariah once again.

The Kung Flu is the price we have paid for the failed policies of globalism.

Trump started the disconnect from Red China. Pray he gets a second term so he can continue his policies.

Vote the Dimocrats out of the House and Senate since they will oppose his policies. Remember, they called him xenophobic for stopping flights from China. Now these same assholes are saying he didn’t do it soon enough.

Let’s hope this is the last bad Easter.

From Russ.

Almost forgot. My yearly Easter post.

Not a particularly happy Easter this year. I usually spend it with my sister in South Carolina but the Kung Flu put the kibosh on that.

We take a break from Scarlatti to showcase the beautiful Alexandra Whittingham playing one of my favorite guitar pieces, Asturias. She loves to play pieces by Latin composers. I can’t find anything of her playing Bach. Please Alexandra, learn some Bach.

Casey sent me this picture of a blonde with tan lines. (more…)

We have a repeat winner. Remember when Nevada governor Steve Sisolak banned hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the Kung Flu? How things have changed.

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, Democrat, had a kneejerk reaction to President Trump’s optimism about a malaria drug that might be an effective treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus. Trump was hopeful about the drug, so anti-Trump Democrats like Sisolak were against it. Gov. Sisolak banned (hydroxy)chloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, ostensibly over concern of hoarders stockpiling the medicine and causing shortages for patients who use the drug for other ailments like Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis. But while the governor restricted the public from receiving the potentially life-saving drug, Nevada’s Department of Corrections began stockpiling the drug for prisoners.

Just another Dimocrat asshole.

Have you seen how the Fake News Media has gone off on red state governors for not closing their states fast enough? Mike Luckovich, the super-liberal editorial cartoonist Of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, penned a cartoon showing the virus rolling down a highway to red states.

Hmmm. Let’s look at the top states infected so far.

1. New York. 161,504 infected. 7064 dead. Blue state. Dimocrat governor. Mayor Wilhelm of New York told his subjects to go out and mingle. How did that work out? Fredo’s brother didn’t do anything until it was too late.

2. New Jersey. 51,027 infected. 1700 dead. Blue state. Dimocrat governor. Prolly should have closed the border with New York City. Could have used a wall like in Escape From New York.

3. Michigan. 21,504 infected. 1076 dead. Blue state with a Dimocrat twit for a governor. Maybe this crisis will turn Michigan red.

4. California. 19,691 infected. 538 dead. Blue state. Dimocrat governor. I’m mystified why this hasn’t ravaged the homeless population.

5. Massachusetts. 18,941 infected. 503 dead. Blue state. RINO governor.

6. Louisiana. 18,283 infected. 702 dead. At last a red state! Oooops! It has a Dimocrat governor. Louisiana has a history of electing incompetent or corrupt Dimocrat governors. Think of Governor Useless during Katrina. Not canceling Mardi Gras was a big mistake but according to the Dimocrat mayor of Nawlins, that was Trump’s fault.

7. Pennsylvania. 18,228 infected. 338 dead. Went red in last election but has a Dimocrat governor.

8. Florida. 16,826 infected. 371 dead. At last! A red state with a Republican governor. His biggest mistake was in not closing his state to the New Yorkers fleeing New York, who prolly brought the virus with them.

9. Illinois. 16,422 infected. 528 dead. Another blue state with a Dinocrat governor.

10. Georgia. 10,566 infected. 379 dead. The virus prolly came in via our airport which before the Kung Flu was the busiest airport in the world. Another red state with a Republican governor.

So what about all of those failing red state governors? Only two Republican governors in the top ten infected states. Maybe the Fake News Media should turn the spot light on the Dimocrat governors and mayors and how they have failed their constituents. Nah! That won’t happen because that would be actual reporting, sumpin’ the Fake News Media quit doing a long time ago.

Ron opines.

Blog question today is . . . “Is the cure worse than the disease and is Trump in on the plot?”

Here’s my answer:

Wow! Loaded question alert.

O.K. First of all, with my pulmonary history, I’m likely a goner if the stuff gets into my system. But, I’ve had a good run, and you can’t just sit and worry about dying, ‘cause it’s gonna happen sooner or later no matter WHAT you do.

Now, that said, I don’t believe this is all a big plot of some kind . . . merely a mutation of a bug in bats that mastered the cross-species long jump. And believe me . . . the conspiracy theories are out there.

The most heinous is that it’s all a mechanism for culling the elderly population to reduce their drain on social services and benefits programs: i.e., they no longer contribute, and they drive up costs for health care and pension plans, so let’s get rid of ‘em.

And the second most scary, based on an existing paradigm, is Agenda 21, which a whole lotta people are in favor of – put people in kennels and corrals, preferably vertical ones, to preserve the environment: no individual travel, work from home, eat synthetic food, all that stuff.

Sometimes I get this ominous Twilight Zone tingle in which a fuzzy black-and-white déjà vu fragment pops into my consciousness of armed guys in uniform saying, “Don’t worry . . . we have a vaccine now, so get in the boxcar so we can take you for a nice disinfectant shower.”

Meanwhile, Pelosi and Rahm and Schumer and Clyburn as giddily pushing their own progressive wishlist, extorting the crisis by putting riders on relief legislation, riders which have absolutely nothing to do with remedying or preventing a recurrence of the infection.

It’s as if the virus has morphed again . . . this time into a stepstool giving libs just enough reach to get into the cookie jar while Mom’s busy tryin to sweep the cockroaches out of the kitchen.

I mean, good grief! “People are dying! We need nurses, hospitals, ventilators, medicines. Quick – let’s fund the Kennedy Center!!”

Of course it could turn out to be a blessing in some convoluted ways, such as showing people what life would be like in a socialist state where the shelves are empty and only the rich and powerful get the ventilators and hydroxychloroquine.

And . . . given a second term with even the slightest support from Congress, DJT might be successful in reviving domestic production of a whole lotta stuff we’ve become totally dependent upon east Asia for in the past 50 years.

No, I don’t b’lieve it’s all some kind of plot . . . merely the result of really bad judgment by Chairman Xi on how to handle the WetBat Lung Rot and the WHO, who were completely hoodwinked by his lies.

Throwing water into the fire under the boiler of the strongest economy this nation has seen since WWII was like the coach sticking his foot out and tripping the running back headed for a certain touchdown.

I am NOT confident that the US economy can recover completely. It’s like the docs told me about my frozen shoulder problem: We can repair it surgically, but you’ll never quite regain full strength, and you’ll very likely lose some range of motion.

And even if we get the vaccine and it all comes back on line before the stuff re-emerges next fall, it’s as if DJT personally developed a cure for cancer but the fraudstream media excoriates him for putting health-care personnel out of work.

In fact, that’s already happened in Nevada and Michigan with his comments on anti-malarial medicines, n’est ce-pas?

So Dimocrats Mayor Wilhelm and Governor John Bel Edwards are telling everyone not to look back at their incompetence and instead look forward. Meanwhile Dimocrats are telling everyone to look back at Trump’s incompetence.

Remember, Mayor Wilhelm, back when the incompetent Trump was stopping flights from China was telling New Yorkers to go out and mingle. His health commissioner told people to attend the Chinese New Year parade. New York now leads the country in Kung Flu cases and deaths. As I write this the cases are currently at 138,163 and deaths at 5489. No wonder Mayor Wilhelm doesn’t want anyone looking back. He is a maroon. You New Yorkers were maroons to have elected him not once but twice. You boo Trump but he is doing more for New York than Mayor Wilhelm.

Down in Louisiana, we have another hot spot for the Kung Flu. The mayor of Nawlins, LaToya Cantrell is blaming Trump for not telling her to cancel Mardi Gras. Do you really think that she would have cancelled Mardi Gras? She’s an African Dimocrat and would not have listened to Trump because he’s a racist.

No wonder the Dimocrat governor, John Bel Edwards is telling people not to look back but forward. Looking back only exposes the incompetence of Dimocrat politicians, yannow, how they opposed Trump’s closing our borders to China because it was xenophobic. But just you wait, they will soon be convening committees in the House to investigate Trump and try to impeach him because he didn’t close our borders sooner, something they opposed.

Don’t look back my ass! At least it gives me an excuse to post a Boston song.