Paul Waldman: It's time to go big on this crisis. Here's how. (Washington Post)
"Phase four" - the next round of economic rescue funding to cushion the effects of putting the country's economy into a medically induced coma - is on its way. On Tuesday, both the Trump administration and congressional Democrats laid down their opening bids, and they reveal a good deal about how each side really views this crisis. There's a fundamental difference in the two approaches. Democrats are treating not just the public-health crisis but the economic crisis, as well as complex policy challenges, that require deep understanding and careful management. The Trump administration, perhaps not surprisingly, is not.
Helaine Olen: Start showing the unemployment numbers on TV (Washington Post)
Keeping the unemployment numbers on the television screen won't solve all of this; would that it could! But it will increase awareness among people who didn't lose a job - the still working, the retired, students and the like - and will help keep the issue front and center as we navigate the crisis. Unemployment, too, is a part of the tragedy of the covid-19 epidemic, and needs to be addressed as the emergency it is.
Joshua Keating: Global Poverty Could Increase for the First Time in 30 Years Thanks to the Coronavirus (Slate)
The economic devastation wrought by COVID-19 is still coming into focus in the United States, China, and Europe, but for the world's poorest countries, it's likely to be exponentially worse. Before it's over, the crisis could wipe out a decade of progress against global poverty and lead to the first overall increase in extreme poverty in 30 years, according to a new analysis. As many as half a billion people could fall below the poverty line.
John Tyler (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845 after briefly serving as the tenth vice president in 1841; he was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. Tyler ascended to the presidency after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. He was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights, and he adopted nationalist policies as president only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states. His unexpected rise to the presidency posed a threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other politicians, and left Tyler estranged from both major political parties.
Tyler fathered more children than any other American president. His first wife was Letitia Christian (November 12, 1790 - September 10, 1842), with whom he had eight children: Mary (1815-1847), Robert (1816-1877), John (1819-1896), Letitia (1821-1907), Elizabeth (1823-1850), Anne (1825-1825), Alice (1827-1854) and Tazewell (1830-1874).
Tyler's first wife Letitia died of a stroke in the White House in September 1842. His second wife was Julia Gardiner (July 23, 1820 - July 10, 1889), with whom he had seven children: David (1846-1927), John Alexander (1848-1883), Julia (1849-1871), Lachlan (1851-1902), Lyon (1853-1935), Robert Fitzwalter (1856-1927) and Pearl (1860-1947).
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
John Tyler, with 15 children.
Randall wrote:
William Henry Harrison
Alan J answered:
John Tyler fathered 15 children.
zorch said:
John Tyler 15 enough to fill a canoe and more.
Dave responded:
John Tyler fathered 15 children. The 10th POTUS became the first VP to succeed to the presidency when William Henry Harrison died after serving only one month in office. Tyler ran for election in his own right, but neither the Whigs or the Democrats nominated the Virginian slave owner for the 1844 election. During Tyler's presidency, he was widowed. Tyler and the late First Lady had 8 children together, and while still in the White House Tyler married a woman 30 years his junior and they had another 7 children together. Tyler's last child was born when the old coot was 70 years old.
Photo: John Tyler and a grandson. Amazingly Tyler, who was born in 1790, still had 2 living grandsons as of 2017. They were born over 60 years after their grandfather's death in 1862.
Jacqueline replied:
Didn't look it up, but Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind.
Mac Mac said:
Tyler
Cal in Vermont wrote:
President John Tippecanoe Tyler with fifteen of them by two different wives. 132 years passed between the birth of his first child and the death of the last one. Thank God Trump doesn't have that many childen because the ones he does have, have created enough destruction.
Daniel in The City answered:
John Tyler
Deborah responded:
The mighty Wiki tells me that John Tyler fathered 15 children by two different wives. Oy. That's a full house.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The president with the most children was President John Tyler, who served from 1841 to 1845. He had 15 children between the years 1815 and 1860.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
I had to look it up online: William Henry Harrison: 10 children and 25 grandchildren which is "very interesting" because he had only one wife.
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• Bette Midler got her start in the gay club known as the Continental Baths, where she was extremely popular. When she first started singing at a "real" nightclub, Downstairs at the Upstairs, no one came. Therefore, the Divine Miss M placed an ad in Screw magazine to let her gay fans know that "Bette from the Baths" was performing "at the Downstairs." After the ad appeared, the nightclub was packed with her fans.
• Lily Pons' voice was small, and she disliked curtains at the back of the stage, fearing that they would absorb too much of the sound of her voice. Instead of curtains, she wanted flats or screens at the back of the stage, as they would help her project her voice. At a concert in the south, no flats or screens were on hand, so she borrowed eight ping-pong tables from the YMCA, removed their legs, and used them instead.
• Some opera singers sing forte when they should sing piano because they are afraid that they won't be heard over the orchestra. Conductor Herbert von Karajan once was faced with a singer who did this. He solved the problem by telling her, "If you sing piano, I'll have the orchestra play piano and everybody will hear you. If you sing forte, I'll have the orchestra play forte and you'll never be heard in the first row."
• Richard the Lionheart composed music with his minstrel, Blondel de Nesles. According to legend, when Richard was being held captive - no one knew where - Blondel traveled the countryside, going from one castle to another, singing a song that he and Richard had composed together. One day, Blondel sang the song in a castle, and a musical reply came to him - it was Richard.
• At the Metropolitan Opera was a retired baritone named Désiré Defrère who still worked there and was very resourceful in meeting a crisis. Once, a singer at the Met ran out of breath before reaching a high note. Noticing this, Mr. Defrère sang the note offstage, and few people if any in the audience noticed that the singer on the stage had had a problem.
• Concert pianist André Watts, an African American, grew up in a tough neighborhood in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, where the Irish and the Italian and the African-American kids fought each other. André was in a few fights, but the fights stopped after he learned enough judo to protect himself.
• Enrico Caruso once rented a floor in a hotel that had uncomfortable Louis XVI chairs. His wife didn't like the chairs, but Mr. Caruso pointed out that they had an advantage: They were so uncomfortable that visitors did not stay long.
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• Ludwig van Beethoven's friend Carl Czerny insisted that he listen to a child prodigy, Franz Liszt, although Beethoven hated child prodigies. At first, Beethoven glowered at his visitors, but he did pay attention as Liszt played a piece by Ries, and then he asked Liszt to play a fugue by Bach. Liszt played the "Fugue in C Minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Beethoven then asked the young Liszt, "Can you transpose the fugue straightaway to another key?" Liszt did, and Beethoven smiled. Next Liszt played a piece of Beethoven's, and Beethoven kissed him on the forehead and said, "You are a lucky fellow, for you are going to make lots of other people happy and gratified. There is nothing better or more beautiful."
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Bull', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is a FRESH / RERUN-hybrid, with John Mulaney hosting, music by David Byrne.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a RERUN'American Idol'.
The CW offers some local crap and some '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back'.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King', followed by the movie 'Line Of Duty'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] WONDERS OF THE MOON
[7:00AM] CHIMP SANCTUARY
[8:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE
[9:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Urban Wild
[10:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Urban Wild
[11:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Islands
[12:00PM] WILD SINGAPORE - Forest Life
[1:00PM] SEASONAL WONDERLANDS - Extended
[2:00PM] SEASONAL WONDERLANDS - Extended
[3:00PM] SEASONAL WONDERLANDS - Extended
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Insects
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Hunters and Hunted
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Creatures of the Deep
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Plants
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Primates
[9:00PM] LIFE STORY - Extended
[10:23PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Hunters and Hunted
[11:23PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Creatures of the Deep
[12:23AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Insects
[1:23AM] LIFE STORY - Extended
[2:46AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Plants
[3:46AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Primates
[4:46AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE
[5:46AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Great Barrier Reef (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Very Cavallari', and way, way too much 'Chrisley Knows Best'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Mr. Deeds', followed by the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'Peter Rabbit', followed by the movie 'Peter Rabbit', again.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', then a FRESH'The UnXplained'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Fugitive Alien
[8:15A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
[10:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[12:45P] Mission: Impossible
[3:15P] Mission: Impossible II
[6:15P] Full Metal Jacket
[9:00P] American Sniper
[12:00A] Safe
[2:00A] Full Metal Jacket
[4:45A] Black Mass (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[3:00pm] Sahara
[6:00pm] Jumanji
[8:30pm] Jumanji
[11:00pm] Jumanji
[1:30am] Sahara
[4:30am] Law & Order
[5:30am] Law & Order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious', followed by the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', then the movie 'Fast & Furious'.
Artist Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics to The Beatles' hit song "Hey Jude" sold for $910,000 on Friday, nine times its original estimate, auction house Julien's Auctions said.
A vintage bass drumhead with The Beatles' logo that was used during the English band's first North American tour in 1964 was another top item, selling for $200,000.
The items were among more than 250 items of Beatles memorabilia offered in an online auction by Julien's Auctions to mark the 50th anniversary of the band's breakup.
A drawing by John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono called Bagism, a term they coined to satirize stereotyping, sold for $93,750, while an ashtray used by the Fab Four's drummer Ringo Starr at the Abbey Road recording studios in London fetched $32,500.
ABC is bringing some joy from celebrity homes to yours by way of next week's hourlong special, "The Disney Family Sing-Along."
Ryan Seacrest will host the special, which is set to air April 16 at 8 p.m. ET.
Families at home can gather 'round the television to sing along to their favorite Disney songs along with their favorite celebrities. The star-studded lineup includes John Stamos, Christina Aguilera, Erin Andrews, Bobby Bones, Michael Bublé, Kristin Chenoweth, Auli?i Cravalho, Luke Evans, Jordan Fisher, Josh Gad, Derek Hough, Julianne Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba, Little Big Town, Kenny Ortega, Donny Osmond, Thomas Rhett, and Amber Riley.
An animated character will guide viewers to sing along with the lyrics on-screen for songs from "Beauty and the Beast," "The Little Mermaid" and "Toy Story" to more recent movies like "Moana," "Frozen" and "High School Musical."
The special will also feature public service announcements from talent across Walt Disney Television to raise awareness about the Feeding America charity and what it's doing for those affected by COVID-19.
Donald Trump (R-Grifter) and transparency have never exactly had a close association, but thanks to a federal judge this week, America may finally get a glimpse at what really went on behind the scenes on The Apprentice.
Long rumored to be a cesspool of inappropriate language and behavior by the well-produced host and his corporate posing family, the long resisting MGM has now been ordered to hand over tapes of unaired footage from the NBC reality TV series in a long simmering class action over a marketing sleight of hand pulled by the Trumps on the show.
The order to hand over tapes of at least two Apprentice episodes leaves Team Trump with their second loss of the week as Judge Schofield had previous denied their and marketing company, ACN Opportunity's desire to have the whole thing moved behind closed doors to arbitration. In fact, the judge was clearly teed off that the Trumps and ACN had tried to shift things after getting access to all sorts of documents from the plaintiffs in the process of discovery in open court.
The much sued POTUS, plus offspring Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump and their corporate entity were hauled into court this time for allegedly falsely encouraging people to invest in ACN's video phone service over the 2005 to 2015 run of The Apprentice. As with almost all things touched by Trump, CAN turned out to be a shaky proposition. It also was revealed that the Trumps were actually being paid to endorse the product - a fact that they omitted from informing anyone.
Intending to appeal the April 9 order, Trump Corporation's lead outside counsel Joanna Hendon did not respond to request for comment on the latest legal loss. Correspondingly, reps for MGM were radio silent on the order too. However, following a previous loss earlier this week in Team Trump's desire to have the primary attorney for the pseudonymed Jane Doe, Mary Moe, Richard Roe and Luke Loe was playing this one pretty loud and proud.
The White House on Friday launched an unusual attack on the congressionally funded Voice of America, the U.S. broadcaster that for decades has provided independent news reporting around the world.
In a broadside directed against VOA's coverage of the pandemic and China on Friday, an official White House publication accused it of using taxpayer money "to speak for authoritarian regimes" because it covered the lifting of the lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus first emerged. VOA promptly fired back, defending its coverage.
"Voice of America spends your money to speak for authoritarian regimes," the White House said in its "1600 Daily" email summary of news and events. It said VOA's roughly $200 million annual budget should be spent on its mission to "tell America's story" and "present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively" to global audiences.
But, citing a VOA report from earlier this week on the lifting of travel restrictions and easing of the lockdown in Wuhan, the White House said that "VOA too often speaks for America's adversaries - not its citizens." It noted that VOA had also recently pointed out comments by Iran's foreign minister critical of the U.S.
Friday's attack followed another barb directed at VOA on Thursday by White House social media director Dan Scavino, who branded VOA a "disgrace" in a tweet.
In his 2014 book "The Loudest Voice in the Room," journalist Gabriel Sherman reported that top Fox News executives meet every morning to strategize about how the network can angle its daily coverage to advance the Republican Party's political agenda.
After first downplaying the threat of the coronavirus, then accusing Democrats of overhyping it to hurt President Trump, then claiming the "cure" of shutting down the economy could be worse than the disease, Fox News' hosts now seem to be following a new set of marching orders when discussing the deadly pathogen: questioning whether all that many people are really dying from it.
Like each of its predecessors, Fox's latest pandemic talking point - that the coronavirus death toll could be exaggerated because it includes individuals who had other health issues in addition to COVID-19 - doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
"We've made it very clear, every time I've been up here, about the comorbidities," Dr. Deborah Birx, the U.S. coronavirus response coordinator, said Wednesday during the White House coronavirus task force press briefing. "This has been known from the beginning. So those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their acute death when it's related to a COVID infection."
Yet that didn't stop former Fox News host Brit Hume from appearing on Tucker Carlson's show Tuesday to speculate that the overall U.S. death toll - by Thursday, more than 14,800 and rising - may be inflated.
President Barack Obama joined leaders from more than 300 cities around the world for a virtual talk hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, and in his remarks, the former president highlighted the crucial role mayors have in responding to the coronavirus crisis.
Attendees of the virtual COVID-19 Local Response Initiative included mayors, local leaders, and members of response teams, as well as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also spoke. Mr. Obama urged mayors to build strong, reliable teams of experts, saying, "The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be."
He also warned against the spread of misinformation during this time. "Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through," Mr. Obama said.
Many mayors and other local and state government officials have had to deal with unprecedented challenges like enforcing social distancing, deciding which businesses to shut down, and supporting struggling hospitals. In some cases, there has also been a disconnect between local and federal officials in the handling of the pandemic.
An attorney says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 12-year prison sentence given to an African American man in Mississippi for carrying his mobile phone into a jail cell after he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge.
The Mississippi Supreme Court said Thursday that it will not reconsider its earlier decision to uphold the sentence of Willie Nash.
Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Will Bardwell told The Associated Press that an appeal to the nation's high court is his next step.
Within days of the January ruling, Bardwell filed another appeal asking the Mississippi high court to reconsider. In rejecting the request on Thursday, justices revised a portion of their analysis about previous court decisions on sentencing, but did not change the outcome for Nash.
The sentence Nash received in August 2018 for possessing a cellphone in jail is longer than Mississippi courts would impose for second-degree arson or poisoning someone with the intent to kill, Bardwell wrote in his January appeal.
After President Donald Trump (R-Unfit) blasted the Wall Street Journal for an editorial that deemed his nightly coronavirus briefings a waste of time, Fox Rupert News' Brit Hume (R-Propagandist) had his own few words of advice.
The Journal editorial said that the briefings had become "a boring show of the president vs. the press." That triggered Trump, who tweeted on Thursday afternoon, "The Wall Street Journal always "forgets" to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are "through the roof" (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to @nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News!"
Trump has previously boasted about the ratings that have been generated by the nightly briefings, which have started with his opening statement, questions from the press, and then statements from Vice President Mike Pence and the Coronavirus Task Force. The next briefing is scheduled to start on Thursday at 6 PM ET.
But after Trump's tweet, Hume, senior political analyst for Fox News Channel, responded, "This is a ridiculous tweet. He could get his views across without bragging, endlessly repeating himself, and getting into petty squabbles with the junior varsity players in the WH press corps. And he could stop talking much sooner to give Pence, Fauci, Birx and Giroir more time."
Ever since the Virgin Mary was said to appear before six teenagers on a hill in Bosnia four decades ago, pilgrims have flocked to the town of Medjugorje, eager to witness a miracle.
Until now. With Easter upon us, the Catholic shrine normally packed with thousands of people is deserted as the coronavirus pandemic freezes travel around the globe.
The doors of St. James church are shuttered and the Franciscan priests who manage the site are in confinement.
Several nuns and priests infected by the virus and are now isolating in a nearby convent that has been transformed into a quarantine zone.
The controversial shrine, whose apparitions have not been authenticated by the Vatican, has built a reputation among the faithful for supposed miraculous healing powers.
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