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'The Pretense of Knowledge' has Cost America Dearl
American Thinker.com ^ | April 25, 2019 | Nicholas J.Kaster

Posted on 04/25/2020 4:45:48 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: SharpRightTurn

Many Freepers are part and parcel of the shutdown hysteria. Most of them are probably getting government checks and they believe their safety is worth the suspension of our liberties. They think “we will be o’k” and find all sorts of Pollyanna reasoning that justify the terrible cost we are paying.

If liberty isn’t safe on FR where is it safe?


21 posted on 04/25/2020 6:32:10 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: null and void

Nice. The Experts! Of course they know best. So which Expert Fauci do you believe? The one who said “the flu” in January or the The Tyrant of today?

Or maybe the idiot institute in Cambridge?

Or maybe the scrub wearing face mask medical workers who are counter protesting?

Maybe the experts who deliberately scare Freeper with a meaningless “case fatality rate” instead of an infection fatality rate. Or the same experts who hoard hydroxychloroquine while telling others it won’t work?


22 posted on 04/25/2020 6:39:15 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: FreedomNotSafety
I, of course, believe my Gov. Sisolak, who threatened doctors with license revocation if they dared prescribe hydroxychloroquine.

The same Gov. Sisolack who was at the same time was hoarding HOCQ for himself and for convicted felons in prison...

23 posted on 04/25/2020 6:44:41 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Kaslin

I think it’s time for us to stop nit-picking amongst ourselves and start thinking about how we kill the Deep State for good.

This mess was instituted by the “experts” who have been running Deep State since the days of Woodrow Wilson. We need to completely abolish any and all “National Institutes of ....” These so-called “experts” have been grossly-wrong about everything they have foisted upon our society since the beginning. Remember how “butter was bad for you” in the 60s?

All of it is based upon failed science. Failed because people used Statistical Analysis in a very selective way.

Remember than Ayn Rand correctly called these people the looters....


24 posted on 04/25/2020 7:14:51 AM PDT by beancounter13
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To: central_va

i so agree!! It was a waste of gigantic proportions.. and between china and the media, it happened..in spite of all the good that was going on.

in a tragedy, i like to see some hood happen.. and a way to make up the loss.. that’s where china is forced to divvy up.. and the debt is a starter.

we have gone furthur in debt and china pays ...one way or another


25 posted on 04/25/2020 7:21:25 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Most of them ... believe their safety is worth the suspension of our liberties. ... If liberty isn’t safe on FR where is it safe?”

It was interesting, wasn’t it? For 20 years, “Freedom!” “Liberty”. Then in 2020, “I’m afwaid!”


26 posted on 04/25/2020 7:26:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND.)
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To: beancounter13

These National Institutes of....are typically infested and over represented with privilege and leftism at the top and the rest are then conditioned to fall in line, just like every facet of the media.


27 posted on 04/25/2020 8:20:07 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

It was. If a D were President right now we would have two scenarios.

First, just like SARS it wouldn’t be an issue because Dems care about people (/s)and a Dem President wouldn’t risk re-election by causing a Depression

Second, every single Freeper would be livid right now over Obama and the D govs seizing power.

I don’t blame the Dems or the Chicoms for the hysteria and the destruction of the worlds greatest economy. I blame Chicken Freepers.


28 posted on 04/25/2020 8:44:25 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Kaslin

Perhaps history will see this as China’s Pearl Harbor. The regime did not care if they lost millions of their own people. They have wrecked Western economies.


29 posted on 04/25/2020 9:30:11 AM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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30 posted on 04/26/2020 12:22:16 PM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konge again.)
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[T]his lockdown ... is a colossal public policy calamity

Hume is correct in his assessment, but the scope of the calamaty is much, much larger. This is turning out to be a colossal humanitarian calamity of epic proportion ... with more death and destruction to come as long as the lockdown continues (and, in some states, continues to lengthen) despite the virus waning!

31 posted on 04/26/2020 12:28:44 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: central_va

32 posted on 04/26/2020 2:00:24 PM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konge again.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
If liberty isn’t safe on FR where is it safe?

Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage

33 posted on 04/26/2020 2:04:09 PM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konge again.)
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To: Theophilus

Science falsely so called...

1 Timothy 6:19-21 King James Version (KJV)
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.


34 posted on 04/26/2020 2:07:47 PM PDT by Willgamer (Rex Lex or Lex Rex?)
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To: Theophilus

Not quite the same liberty is it? Being unshackled from the penalty of sin is no reason to accept the bondage of men.


35 posted on 04/26/2020 2:50:15 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: FreedomNotSafety; Willgamer
Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
36 posted on 04/26/2020 9:16:29 PM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger!)
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