Posted on 02/22/2021 7:51:08 PM PST by weston
I love that. It’s sad that many people don’t even realize that Liberty means that we get choices. I find that a lot in people from Europe, they don’t even recognize that they have lost their Liberty.
Many prayers for you.
Take care!
I’m so sorry you are in bad pain. Many prayers for you! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕💕
I think you just clarified this up for me in what you just said,
“It’s sad that many people don’t even realize that Liberty means that we get choices.”
For the life of me,I couldn’t understand the locals in Texas calling out Governor Abbott ending the mandate!
Silly me, I thought most would appreciate their freedom of choice back.
“For the life of me,I couldn’t understand the locals in Texas calling out Governor Abbott ending the mandate! Silly me, I thought most would appreciate their freedom of choice back.”
I felt the same a couple days ago when a frequent FR cruiser posted that he reads cruising-related blogs often. He (she?) said he was shocked to see that a LOT of people actually WANT masks on cruises. Like you, I thought most would appreciate their freedom of choice back.
“many people don’t even realize that Liberty means that we get choices.”
Amen!
Freedom Watch: China Behind Global Decline in Freedom
Freedom House on Wednesday released the 2021 edition of its annual Freedom in the World report, charting an alarming “deterioration of democracy” around the world in 2020.
The report cited the “malign influence of the regime in China” as one of the most “profound” factors in the rising tide of authoritarianism.
Of course, the pandemic that swept out of China to destabilize the world was a major factor as well, and it was a powerful force multiplier for the identified malevolence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the Freedom House report, subtitled Democracy Under Siege, put it:
Beijing ramped up its global disinformation and censorship campaign to counter the fallout from its cover-up of the initial coronavirus outbreak, which severely hampered a rapid global response in the pandemic’s early days. Its efforts also featured increased meddling in the domestic political discourse of foreign democracies, transnational extensions of rights abuses common in mainland China, and the demolition of Hong Kong’s liberties and legal autonomy. Meanwhile, the Chinese regime has gained clout in multilateral institutions such as the UN Human Rights Council, which the United States abandoned in 2018, as Beijing pushed a vision of so-called noninterference that allows abuses of democratic principles and human rights standards to go unpunished while the formation of autocratic alliances is promoted.
The spread of the Wuhan coronavirus was accompanied by a matching spread of “excessive surveillance, discriminatory restrictions on freedoms like movement and assembly, and arbitrary or violent enforcement of such restrictions by police and nonstate actors,” which is tantamount to saying the CCP’s worldview and ideology spread along with its virus. A growing number of ruling regimes took advantage of the coronavirus to “quash opposition and fortify their power,” and China is the world leader in exports for opposition-quashing tactics and technologies.
DeceptiCon Dealing, DOJ Declined to Take Up Chao Ethics Probe After Meetings With McConnell, Which Led to Chao Departing To Assist Insurgency Narrative
I’m not saying Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigned after the January 6 Capitol Hill riot just because she owed the DC team a favor following the post-election meeting between her husband, Mitch McConnell, and Attorney General Bill Barr; who just happened to *not* take up the ethics probe of Chao following the same meeting (noted below left), but….. It sure does look sketchy.
At first blush this rather obtuse article seems like no big deal. However, when you overlay the post election meetings between AG Bill Barr and then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one has to wonder if the dropping of this investigation was not part of the meeting that also never had a purposeful explanation.
In hindsight the appearance of some sketchy quid-pro-quo then takes on another level of sketch when we remind ourselves what Elaine Chao did to support the Deep State “insurrection” narrative after January 6, 2021.
January 7, 2021 – Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is resigning effective Monday, becoming the highest ranking member of President Donald Trump’s administration to resign in protest after the pro-Trump insurrection at Capitol.
In a statement Thursday, Chao, who is married to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, said the violent attack on the Capitol “has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.” (link)
A couple of co-workers are absolutely TERRIFIED of going anywhere or doing anything. Just before Valentines Day, I mentioned something about eating at a restaurant (sit down) and they wouldn’t even entertain the idea until they get their shots! And even then, I’m not sure they would go without their masks.
I tell them they have the freedom to keep their hineys at home, but they don’t have the right to tell me or anyone else how to live our lives.
They must be newly arrived Californians. đź¤
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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) voted to terminate its CEO following the failures of the state’s electrical grid during the February winter storm. Millions of Texas were left in the dark and cold while dozens died from the frigid conditions.
Yes this was what I read locally in the news on comments and some at work.
Saw this also.
I have a couple of quilting buddies who haven’t been out of their houses except to pick up groceries curb-side for A YEAR. Both did drive to FL from TN in December, but were paranoid about even stopping to get gas along the way. Now they’re there in FL, holed up like hermits.
Hmm...
Thanks!
And here I went to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge back in July! LOL
That really sent my co-workers into fits. Well, I didn’t ask you to go, darlin’. And didn’t get sick either, so there.
When i went to the doctor’s yesterday they asked me if I had been out of TOWN In the last 14 days.
Newsom calls for Californians to ‘double down’ on wearing masks, state recommends double masking
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday called for Californians who use cloth masks to consider double masking in some cases for better protection against COVID-19.
He called for people to “double down” on mask-wearing, saying that governors in Texas and several other states who this week said they would end mask mandates were giving “bad information.”
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