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1.  Jailed Dallas hair salon owner Shelley Luther is free at last.   One day after a judge sentenced her to 7 days in jail and 7k out of her pocket, sanity got in the way of insanity.  The Texas AG, followed by the governor, quickly acted.  They both suggested that there were better ways to handle a business owner solely interested in reopening.  It was a bad look for the state to say the least.  Maybe a quick trip to the beauty salon will help.
2.  A Texas judicial watchdog group previously had labeled the judge as “left-leaning.” And, supposedly, people in the system have heard him say that he likes to be extra tough on people with “conservative principles.”  Remember, justice is blind.  In this instance, it was indeed, unfortunately, blind.
3.  Consider the terrible irony that is a result of an overzealous government wielding it’s power from the start of the Coronavirus till now in this situation.  We let criminals out of taxpayer-funded penal institutions for fear that the virus would spread like wildfire inside.  We told people when they could and could not work.  We told them who was essential and who wasn’t.  A salon owner wanted to work, pay her employees, and stop taking money from our government.  In fact, they would resume paying those same taxes.  When she went in seven days early (tomorrow salons may reopen in Texas) she was arrested, jailed, fined, and sentenced.  She was put in the very same place (jail) that we let criminals out early to reduce the virus’ transmission thereby increasing the chance of transmission to her, her employees, her customers, and her loved ones.  Only in America.
4. We mentioned yesterday that a good thing happened during this bad thing.  A GoFundMe page to help out Ms. Luther was created.  We even speculated that it would zoom (sorry) to over 100k by nightfall yesterday.   It did.  It did by an additional 400k.  The tally as of late last evening was nearly 500k. Only in America.
5.  Meanwhile, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo rejected the idea of waving the state income tax levied on workers who voluntarily answered the call and flocked in from out of state to help during the worst of the worst times.  The good governor said that he would like to do a lot of good things but his state was facing a 13 billion dollar budget deficit.  He added that he could do some of those things if the federal government would give him some money.  It sounds like he is asking for a handout, not a hand up.
6. New York was ill-equipped at the state level as were most.   It had a few ventilators.  It had a few masks.  It has more than a few citizens.  The federal government retro built the Javits Center into a temporary hospital.  It docked one of it’s two floating hospitals in Manhatten.  It retrofitted the ship to handle Coronavirus patients only at the request of Cuomo.  And, now, if it gives NY some money it would be helpful.  And, the national media is handing out plaudits for how “presidential” Cuomo looks, sounds, and acts as governor.  Hmm.  You mean they are thinking Joe Biden doesn’t?   Only in America.
7. Does any state put any money or supplies away for a rainy day?  Too few.  Does any citizen?  Too few.  If this economic watershed moment doesn’t teach the public and private sector to live below its means, what will?
8. The rise in the suicide rate caused by lockdowns in Australia is predicted to exceed deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus by a factor of ten, the Australian reported Thursday.  You should reread that sentence.  Australia fears a 50% rise in suicides this year and predicts that the increased rate could linger for years from the fallout of the lockdown.  Let’s hope their models are as inaccurate as the spike, curve, mortality rate, and infection rate models have been so far.
9. The Washington Post is running a series of articles about POTUS’s decision to get quotes to paint the border wall.  Cost estimates range from $500 million to over $2 billion (if two coats of powder coat are applied).  Trump wants to paint it black.  Why?  It would make scaling it in the summer months significantly harder as black absorbs the sun’s heat making the “The Wall” quite hot to the touch.  Only in America if you can get here.
10. The Post is outraged at the cost.  Wait until they see the infrastructure proposal tab.   Nevermind that we just appropriated over $3 trillion to assuage the historic economic hardship and fallout from this enemy that we cannot see.  There are too many government initiatives that hand out too much money.  What’s another $500 million to paint a wall?  Planned Parenthood gets $500 million a year and then some.   Would it be better if the wall was called “Planned Immigration?”

Get back to work when we tell you.  Only in America.