Nine...

Nine inner-city tower blocks, home to 3,000 people, have been placed in "hard lockdown" after a surge in coronavirus infections in Melbourne, Australia.

Residents have been told they are not allowed to leave their homes and police have been stationed in the area after more than 27 cases were recorded among 12 households in large public housing towers.

They were among a record number of cases (108) found in a single day in the state of Victoria on Saturday, while a further 74 were discovered on Sunday.

The measure, announced by state premier Daniel Andrews on Saturday, is a response to the outbreak, which has "genuinely explosive potential" for the spread of coronavirus, the state's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, said.

Mr Daniels said: "This is not going to be a pleasant experience for those residents but I have a message for those residents: this is not about punishment but protection.

Rally...

Nice Rally.

Burning...

During demonstrations in downtown Portland, Oregon, protesters blocked traffic on Main Street and launched fireworks from the street, injuring officers, the Portland Police Bureau said in a Sunday statement.

The Saturday police protests began peacefully, police said, with people gathering in two public plazas to watch and listen to performers, but some in the group began launching fireworks on Southwest Main Street, the statement said.

The crowd also blocked traffic and launched "commercial-grade fireworks" toward the justice center and at the nearby federal courthouse, police said. The protesters ignored warnings from the actual police sound truck urging them to stop shooting fireworks at the buildings, they said.

Protesters burned an American flag.

And burning the flag message is what exactly?  ... 

No covering...

Fourth*...

Happy fourth of July. Enjoy it.

Love Life...

A doctor says to a man "You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day." 

Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says "How is your love life since you have been running?" 

"I don't know, I'm 140 miles away!"

Choice...

A man calls a lawyer's office. The phone is answered, "Schwartz, Schwartz, Schwartz and Schwartz." The man says, "Let me talk to Mr. Schwartz."

 "I'm sorry, he's on vacation." "Then let me talk to Mr. Schwartz." "He's on a big case, not available for a week." "Then let me talk to Mr. Schwartz." 

"He's playing golf today." "Okay, then, let me talk to Mr. Schwartz." "Speaking."

Chop Chop...

Seattle radio host Jason Rantz joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss the end of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest [CHOP], which the eponymous host sarcasticly described as a "fledgling state."

"We were not greeted as liberators today," Rantz told Carlson, "and it is kind of bizarre to figure out what to do with these folks from CHOP ... Are they refugees? I mean, we kicked them out of their sovereign land with overwhelming force via bicycle cops.

"And they did put up a little bit of a fight with their fortified borders of old couches, which, by the way, not what they used to be, because those bike cops got through them very, very quickly. They must have been IKEA."

"We're talking about a whole bunch of 20-something, imbecilic, progressive, white-privileged dudes who think that they basically don't have to work for a living. They can just turn to socialism and everything will be handed to them. Do we really even want them in Seattle? I think we should give them the Portland."

"There's some rumors that they're going to try to take up some new space. "So they're going from the East Police Precinct to the West Police Precinct.

"We don't know exactly who's going to be the leadership this time," he added. "Obviously, like a phoenix rising through the flames of a dumpster fire."

Ben...

Excuse...

"There's no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday. It is counterproductive," Obama said at a press conference from the White House.

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. 

They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson. And they're destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities. 

That robs jobs and opportunity from people in that area."

Tue April 28, 2015.