May 25, 2020
Here is something the media is quietly passing over; a Muslim terrorist attacked the U.S. Naval base in Corpus Christi Texas, shooting one seaman before being shot and killed.
From the article:
The FBI officially identified the gunman killed in an attack Thursday morning on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, as 20-year-old Adam Salim Alsahli.
Alsahli’s attacked injured one sailor and is being treated as an act of terrorism, FBI officials said Thursday afternoon.
Alsahli was killed after Navy police responded to reports of an active shooter on the base at 6:15 a.m.
FBI agent Leah Greves said Thursday that there may be "a potential second related person of interest at large in the community.â€
"We would encourage the public to remain calm,†she said. "If you see something, say something.â€
Calling the investigation "fluid and evolving,†Greves declined to offer additional information regarding what happened.
One sailor was injured Thursday morning after being struck by a bullet, but a defense official said their protective vest stopped the round. The AP reported that she was able to roll over and hit the switch that raised a barrier, preventing the man from getting onto the base, the officials said.
This smells like a trial run.This is the perfect time to launch terrorist attacks. The public's attention is on the pandemic, and people are less vigilant as they worry about the untrue Wuflu.
But the media will try their best to ignore this; after all, Americans are nothing but drunken hillbillies who will go on a rampage, killing anyone with an arabic-sounding name. Just like they would go after people with Chinese names if Trump calls it the Chinese Flu.
Stars and Stripes gives more detail:
The gunman tried to speed through a base security gate, opening fire and wounding the sailor, a member of base security, U.S. officials told the AP. But she was able to roll over and hit the switch that raised a barrier, preventing the man from getting onto the base, the officials said.
Other security personnel shot and killed the man. The sailor sustained minor injuries and she was treated and released from a local hospital Thursday, said Steve Strickland, a spokesman with Navy Region Southeast
Just a reminder that there are still terrorists out to get us.
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At this point I don't believe a single thing they have said about this virus. It has been nothing but a pack of lies from the beginning.
Study Claiming New Coronavirus can be Transmitted by People without Symptoms was Flawed
This article goes back to February, but the facts have not been out there for us.
Chinese researchers had previously suggested asymptomatic people might transmit the virus but had not presented clear-cut evidence. "There’s no doubt after reading [the NEJM] paper that asymptomatic transmission is occurring,†Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told journalists. "This study lays the question to rest.â€
But now, it turns out that information was wrong. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German government’s public health agency, has written a letter to NEJM to set the record straight, even though it was not involved in the paper.
The letter in NEJMdescribed a cluster of infections that began after a businesswoman from Shanghai visited a company near Munich on 20 and 21 January, where she had a meeting with the first of four people who later fell ill. Crucially, she wasn’t sick at the time: "During her stay, she had been well with no sign or symptoms of infection but had become ill on her flight back to China,†the authors wrote. "The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential sources of 2019-nCoV infection may warrant a reassessment of transmission dynamics of the current outbreak.â€
But the researchers didn’t actually speak to the woman before they published the paper. The last author, Michael Hoelscher of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Medical Center, says the paper relied on information from the four other patients: "They told us that the patient from China did not appear to have any symptoms.†Afterward, however, RKI and the Health and Food Safety Authority of the state of Bavaria did talk to the Shanghai patient on the phone, and it turned out she did have symptoms while in Germany. According to people familiar with the call, she felt tired, suffered from muscle pain, and took paracetamol, a fever-lowering medication. (An RKI spokesperson would only confirm to Science that the woman had symptoms.)
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New Zealand, a low, sparsely populated country with little to fear from the Wuhan virus, has finally decided to reopen. Oh, but not churches!
From Lifesite News:
The legislation has now made it through all three readings in Parliament and has been granted Royal Assent.
At the last minute, funerals were granted a small carve-out allowing a maximum of 50 people to gather for no longer than two hours. More significantly, the revised measures that were supposed to be in full force for two years will now be up for review every 90 days.
The legislation, known as the COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill, was allowed to pass despite a public outcry, interventions by some members of Parliament — including the launch of a petition — and a joint effort of New Zealand Catholic and Anglican bishops urging the government to increase the limit on attendees at religious services.
But they have never been able to kill it. They've wounded it on more than one occasion but there has always been pushback, and a renewal of the spirit of the Faith.
Now we are seeing yet another example of the oh-so-tolerant Progressives trying their best to smash the Church of Christ. In the minds of the Left you have to tolerate anything - except Jesus. HE is der fiend, the Enemy.
What does that say about them? For that matter, what does THIS say about the government and people of New Zealand?
As Dinesh D'Souza argues in "What's so Great About Christianity?" Christianity is the root of all modern civilization, the very cornerstone. Uproot that and you take away the thing which restrains men's appetites and excesses - and leads to disaster. He is so very correct.
I fear we are going to learn that lesson the hard way.
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May 24, 2020
We have gone from death rate reports of 3.4 percent to 2.0 percent to now 0.26 percent. Seems that this virus is NOT as dangerous as we were told.
The CDC Just Gave Us the Biggest Reason to End the Coronavirus Lockdown
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Just reflecting once again about the media.
Orsen Welles reads "War of the Worlds†over the radio and the State of New Jersey soils itself. There was no charged up political backdrop so we all chuckle and say, people were so silly to react that way.
Now we have a scary story about a bad cold combined with a hyper-partisan media.
When this self-inflicted disaster passes, will the Democrats/
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Maybe Biden will adopt the song "Old Black Joe" as his campaign theme?
Iraq War veteran Rob Smith says Biden's 'ain't black' comment insulted millions of African-American voters
Here's a tip for Joe; Corn Rolls are not a way of growing maize in Iowa.
I offer you the new theme song for the Biden for President campaign. Sincerest apologies to Stephen Foster:
Gone are the days
When I didn't worry about what to say
gone are the coils
of girls hair that smell of spray
Gone to Ukraine
where my son makes lots of dough
I hear the Party bosses calling
Old Black Joe
I'm running! I'm running!
though my uptake's kinda slow
I hear Barack Obama calling
Old Black Joe
I'm comin' home (to the White House)
Well, I'm comin' home (to the White House in Washington State)
Though my head (my head, my head is awful slow)
I hear the Party bosses calling
Old Black Joe
Can you see my head? I did my hair in rows
That oughta win me those black voters
I'm old Black Joe!
I'm running! I'm running!
though my uptake's kinda slow
I hear Barack Obama calling
Old Black Joe
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In days gone by I often used the endless myriad of legalistic restrictions, which comprises much of modern environmentalis
By law in states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and which is apparently still at work in states like Minnesota and Michigan, recovering COVID patients released from hospitals, but who were still contagious, were sent directly to nursing homes – to facilities that really could not handle such cases in the first place, and then secondly, exposed to great danger the most vulnerable group of folks one can possibly imagine. In this way, thousands upon thousands upon thousands died – by law – and legalism was the primary executioner. Even the scene caught on camera in Michigan where a 20-year old repeatedly hit an elderly patient in the face and head at a nursing home over and over again, was sent there because he had COVID. Such are tragic examples of how legalism indeed leads to madness, death, and destruction. Legalism did not make people safe, but endangered many more thousands of people than necessary.
No small amount of the recent panic caused by this virus scare has been pumped up by the death toll counts being tallied in such northern tier states that is directly attributable to these laws. Indeed, Dr. Rand Paul, Kentucky Congressman who himself is also a real doctor, pointed out to Dr. Fauchi a few weeks ago that outside of the northeast, the actual data is telling us this flu season in America was better than last year’s flu season. He also said this not from an ivory tower point of view like Dr. Fauchi in D.C. Dr. Rand Paul himself contracted the coronavirus, recovered from it, and then later helped COVID patients in hospitals who were hit hard with it. In other words, legalism has killed many thousands and thousands of people this coronavirus flu season, and it promises to do even more if the lockdowns continue as other medical, economic and personal problems at home like suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, sex abuse, domestic abuse, etc. begin to take center stage.
Here is the local Detroit TV news story that covered the beating up of an elderly patient at a nursing home by a 20 year old who was sent there precisely because he had COVID -
Twenty Year Old Beating Suspect was Moved to Nursing Home Because He has COVID 19
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May 23, 2020
Naturally, there are those who objected. I'm aware of one Catholic parishioner who thinks the Archbishop went too far and that the Governor Knows Best; consequently he'll be staying home. I will not address this particular issue. But the Lord's hand is at work here!On Saturday, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) announced that churches and other houses of worship would finally be allowed to host services with more than ten people. His announcement came after Catholic and Lutheran churches warned the governor that they would reopen their churches to more than ten people before May 31, Pentecost Sunday, with or without his permission.
On May 13, Walz had issued an executive order with new guidelines for reopening businesses in the state as of June 1. The order allowed malls, shops, and other retailers — including medical marijuana operations — to open their doors at fifty percent capacity. Walz also offered a phased plan for reopening bars, restaurants, tattoo parlors, and salons. Any mention of loosening the restrictions on religious services — limited to ten people — proved remarkably absent from his orders.
On Wednesday, the Minnesota Catholic Conference and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) sent letters announcing that they would reopen on Pentecost at 33 percent capacity, regardless of Walz’s orders. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Sidley Austin LLP also sent a legal letter explaining why continuing to keep the ten-person restriction on churches would violate the First Amendment.
"Now that you have determined that current circumstances allow the partial reopening of almost every ‘critical’ and ‘non-critical’ Minnesota business with appropriate safeguards, there is no valid, non-discriminatory reason to continue the blanket closure of churches,†the letter argued.
The letter also noted that the churches Becket represents "have been—and remain—leaders in protecting public health.†They suspended in-person worship services before the stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, "their religious convictions have spurred them to provide front-line care to those most vulnerable to COVID-19— from comforting those in dying moments with the anointing of the sick, to urging assistance to at-risk prisoners, to advocating for increased federal assistance to schools.â€
It appears Walz listened. The governor announced on Saturday that starting Wednesday, houses of worship will be allowed to open at 25 percent capacity with up to 250 people. "We also know worship is an essential part of many Minnesotans’ lives, including mine,†he said,The Star Tribune reported.
The Catholic and Lutheran leaders celebrated the governor’s decision.
"We are grateful that Governor Walz entered into respectful dialogue with us, recognized the spiritual needs of our faithful, and agreed that it is possible to resume worship services safely and responsibly,†Bernard Hebda, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, said in a statement. "Hopefully, our experience of constructive dialogue can serve as a roadmap for churches across the country suffering from similar inequities, whether intended or unintended, in the wake of
"We are grateful that Becket and Sidley Austin LLP helped us to guard our first freedom—religious freedom—so that Catholics can receive the Eucharist and be strengthened in their response to the challenges of this trying time,†Hebda added.
"The ability to meet responsibly in person to worship God and support one another is invaluable to our community of faith. We cherish the church’s stewardship of the gospel and sacraments that enables Christians to live out their daily vocations as citizens contributing to the public good and serving their neighbors in love,†Rev. Dr. Lucas Woodford, president of the Minnesota South District of the LCMS, said in a statement. "We are grateful that Minnesota decided to reopen churches, without needing to resort to legal action.â€
Yet Woodford also insisted that Lutherans will remain vigilant. "We will remain prayerful and watchful, so that this agreement is just the beginning of a return to full, safe and responsible, in-person worship,†he added.
"Good things happen when people of faith stand up for their rights,†Eric Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, said in a statement. "Governor Walz is to be commended for seeing the light. Minnesota is setting an example by recognizing the importance of giving equal treatment to churches and other houses of worship, and that worship services can be conducted safely, cooperatively, and responsibly. Other closed-church states are on notice.â€
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This was science fiction when I was a kid. Amazing how it is all coming to pass!
US Navy USS Portland LPD 27 conducts laser weapon system firing test
LWSD is a high-energy laser weapon system demonstrator developed by the Office of Naval Research and installed on Portland for an at-sea demonstration. LWSD's operational employment on a Pacific Fleet ship is the first system-level implementation of a high-energy class solid-state laser. The laser system was developed by Northrup Grumman, with full System and Ship Integration and Testing led by NSWC Dahlgren and Port Hueneme.
"By conducting advanced at sea tests against UAVs and small crafts, we will gain valuable information on the capabilities of the Solid State Laser Weapons System Demonstrator against potential threats,†said Capt. Karrey Sanders, commanding officer of Portland.
The U.S. Navy has been developing directed-energy weapons (DEWs), to include lasers, since the 1960s. DEWs are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy and focusing it on a target, resulting in physical damage that degrades, neutralizes, defeats, or destroys an adversarial capability.
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Suicides on the Rise Amid Stay at Home Order, Bay Area Medical Professionals Say
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Clap on! Clap off! Clap on, clap off, Corona!
Scientists Propose 50 Days on 30 days off Coronavirus Lockdown
Yeah; the virus will take off during the "on" period...
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May 22, 2020
This was inevitable. We've cut off an entire leg to treat an infected toe.
California Doctors say they've seen more Deaths from Suicide than Coronavirus since Lockdown
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JP Morgan: Infection Rates Have NOT Increased in States Where Lockdowns Have Ended
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Self-defense is key: Due to economic hit, I'm forecasting that this will be the summer of crime in mainly cities but also commonly everywhere. And yet lives lost from this anticipated spike is NOT being discussed in media at all. Be prepared.
I'm thinking it will grow worse month-by-month.
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WHO flew that Wuflu from Wuhan? Gee it must be Xi!
Beijing to Set up 'Enforcement Mechanism' in Hong Kong to Protect National Security, as Head of Legislature Voices Support
It was inevitable that the Chicoms would crack down using this as a pretense.
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May 21, 2020
Kamala "backstroke" Harris is taking on the real ]pressing needs of the American People.
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S.Res.580 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): A resolution condemning all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19.congress.gov |
Yes, with so many unemployed, the economy crumbling, businesses going bankrupt, and America facing a nightmare unlike any we have ever witnessed, we must keep our priorities straight! We must make absolutely certain nobody calls it the "Kung Flu" or "WuFlu" or Chinese virus!
Harris, who slept her way to the Senate under the ministrations of the then decrepid Willie Brown, has in the past joined the very China-compromised Diane Feinstein in defending China over President Trump's punitive policies.
So now she doesn't want us to so much as call a spade a spade here. Pathetic.
The assumption is that the American People are so monstrously bigoted and easily manipulated that we are going to start attacking Chinese Americans in a drunken fit of outrage. (Well, if the American People are drunken at least it's because they've been locked up with liquor, and liquor stores were deemed "essential services".) This shows exactly what Backstroke thinks of the American People.
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One of the main prosecutors in the Mueller probe is running a fundraiser for Joe Biden.
Prosecutor -- Actually, The Guy Who Ran the Whole Show -- Headlining a Fundraiser for Joe Biden
From Ace of Spades:
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Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor on Mueller’s special counsel team, is headlining a June 2nd virtual fundraiser for Biden. pic.twitter.com/3lq7ld5m0u
— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) May 21, 2020
This is the prosecutor who also attended Hillary Clinton's tear-filled election night event in 2016. Doing his best to discredit the investigation. https://t.co/xMbn9LnzY5
— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 21, 2020
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The Influence of the ChiÂnese ComÂmuÂnist Party in AusÂtralia Universities
"AusÂtralian uniÂverÂsities have beÂcome inÂcreasÂingly reÂliant on
revÂenue from forÂeign stuÂdents, many of whom are ChiÂnese. CritÂics
say that reÂliance has made them esÂpeÂcially vulÂnerÂaÂble to ChiÂna’s
atÂtempts at soft power inÂfluence, as adÂminÂisÂtraÂt
"I think that the top levÂels of the uniÂverÂsity [of Queens-land] have esÂsenÂtially been groomed by ChiÂnese ComÂmunist Party agents over the years and they’ve come to beÂlieve that their first obÂjecÂtive is to keep BeiÂjing happy. They’ve forÂgotÂten what a WestÂern uniÂverÂsity should stand for,†said Clive HamilÂton, a proÂfesÂsor at Charles Sturt UniÂverÂsity in CanÂberra and auÂthor of the book "Silent InÂvaÂsion†about the inÂfluÂence of the ChiÂnese ComÂmuÂnist Party in AusÂtralia. "The level of conÂtact beÂtween the two is at a minÂiÂmum unÂseemly, and reÂally quite imÂproper,†he said.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano asks some VERY disturbing questions.
What if the Government has it Wrong?
What if there are as many credible scientists and physicians who disagree with the government as those who agree with it? What if the government chooses to listen only to scientists and physicians who would tell it what it wanted to hear? What if the government silences scientists and physicians, and even fires one, who attempt to tell it what it didn’t want to hear?
What if the government wants to stoke fear in the populace because mass fear produces mass compliance? What if individual fear reduces individual immunity?
[...]
What if we never elected a government to keep us free from all viruses, but we did elect it to keep us free from all tyrants? What if the government -- which can’t deliver the mail, fill potholes, stop robocalls, or spend within its income -- is the last entity on earth into whose hands we would voluntarily repose our health for safekeeping? What if the government won’t admit that its understanding of science is colored by politics?
What if the government has misunderstood its mandate? What if the government thinks it can do its job by keeping us safe but unfree? What if -- according to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence -- government’s first duty is to safeguard our rights? What if there is no legal basis for the government to keep us at home or to close our businesses?
What if the government gave itself the power to interfere with our personal choices? What if that self-imposed power violates the basic constitutional principle that the government derives its powers from the consent of the governed? What if no one consented to a government that interferes with our personal choices? What if our personal choices to take personal chances have never needed a government permission slip?
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E. Calvin Beisner observes:
Additional 2.4 Million Jobless Claims Filed This Past Week, Bringing Total Unemployment to 36.8 Million
A word from Tim:
But it's all about saving lives, right?
When have we ever done anything remotely like this? We didn't do it in the Spanish flu outbreak. We didn't do it during the H2N2 pandemic of 1957, nor the H3N2 pandemic of 1968. I might add the ideas of "shelter in place" and "social distancing" came from a science project from a 14 year old girl back in 2006 . It was widely rejected as a credible response for the very reasons most critics have cited. But the idea was rehabilitated during the Obama years and made part of the movie Contagion. So now we are basically employing a novel idea devised by a teenager to shut down the entire world economy. And to what end? Has this saved any lives? It was never intended to; it was to "flatten the curve" meaning give the medical community some breathing room. It should be pointed out that the most badly infected areas are the ones that had imposed the strictest lockdowns. Coincidence? Or are the things we are doing actually making it worse? That argument can be made. "Hard cases make bad law". So too do hard medical cases make bad public health policy.
It should be furthermore pointed out that most of the deaths from this cluster around people in enclosed spaces - nursing homes in particular, and hits primarily people with pre-existing conditions or advanced age. These people could have been quarantined and the rest of us allowed to live our lives. In that way we would have developed herd immunity sooner. Sweden has done it that way and has no worse infection rates than does any other European nation. And it will probably end in Sweden far sooner, as all we have done here is stretch out the time needed to develop herd immunity. \
Nobody was ever going to "die in the streets". If they were, why haven't we seen huge numbers of deaths of homeless? California and other places with high homeless rates have never rounded up such people, and yet we haven't had any reports of unusual numbers of dead in homeless camps.
You don't abrogate the Constitution (which has been done illegally in any number of instances, such as banning church services) just because you deem something an emergency. There is ALWAYS something you can find to declare a state of emergency. And you don't destroy the world economy on a shaky computer model.
Question; in 2018 1.5 million people died of Tuberculosis. Why are we acting differently now? The computer model put out by Neil Ferguson at the Imperial College was the basis for the panic - and has since been proven wildly wrong. Why are we continuing to act as though this is a planet wide disaster? It IS a planet wide disaster, because we have made it so.
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