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Bernie Sanders unexpectedly released a fact-sheet Monday night explaining that he'd pay for his sweeping new government programs through new taxes and massive lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry, as well as by slashing spending on the military, among other methods. The move sought to head off complaints from Republicans and some rival Democrats that his plans were economically unrealistic, especially after a head-turning CBS News interview in which the frustrated Vermont senator said he couldn't "rattle off to you every nickle and every dime" about his proposed expenditures. He released his plan on his website just minutes after promising...

Today we focus on the confusing consequences of godlessness. First, we break down atheist Richard Dawkins’ contradictory take on eugenics. Then, we analyze a troubling trend among young women: witchcraft.

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter. I begin this with the disclaimer that my Aunt has Stage 4 Cancer, and her daughter informed me she is looney as a nut job after treatments, in she doesn't know jack or shit. Rush Limbaugh after one treatment came up with this most bazaar reality check in the Coronavirus is maybe a Peking biological weapon, but it is just the common cold. Yes common if one is a bat, unknown in the human race until China made it into a bioweapon. There are a few facts that apparently Rush Limbaugh...

... Australian school cleaners have been offered jobs to clean a quarantine centre in Japan for the crew of the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship, a workers union says. United Workers Union is telling employees of cleaning giant Broadspectrum not to take up the company’s offer, which has been spruiked as a “great opportunity” to “earn some good money” in Japan. ...

Contra Costa County - There is a loophole in the law that potentially allows California voters to cast two ballots and some local elections officials say that they are powerless to stop it. Hundreds of voters have attempted to vote more than once because the state’s automated system sends a new vote-by-mail ballot if personal information or party preference changes. The issue has gone largely unaddressed for nearly four years, opening the door to potential voter fraud. The California Secretary of State has ignored calls to fix the flaw, leaving the responsibility up to counties to police thousands of votes.

Findings Of 710 patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, 52 critically ill adult patients were included. The mean age of the 52 patients was 59·7 (SD 13·3) years, 35 (67%) were men, 21 (40%) had chronic illness, 51 (98%) had fever. 32 (61·5%) patients had died at 28 days, and the median duration from admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) to death was 7 (IQR 3–11) days for non-survivors. Compared with survivors, non-survivors were older (64·6 years [11·2] vs 51·9 years [12·9]), more likely to develop ARDS (26 [81%] patients vs 9 [45%] patients), and more likely to receive mechanical ventilation...

(Reuters) - One of the cabin crew of Korean Air has tested positive for coronavirus, the airline said on Tuesday, prompting it to shut its office near the Incheon International Airport, where the crew briefing room is located.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won Saturday's Nevada caucuses decisively, after winning the New Hampshire primary and essentially tying former Mayor Pete Buttigieg for first in Iowa. So Sanders is the Democratic frontrunner, and he also leads nationally in a new CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday, drawing the support of 28 percent of Democratic primary voters. But Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) jumped to second place in the poll, at 19 percent followed by former Vice President Joe Biden (17 percent), former Mayor Mike Bloomberg (13 percent), and Buttigieg (10 percent). Warren came in fourth place in the Nevada caucuses, but a...

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The Mississippi Republican Party is welcoming some new members and all of them were elected public offices as Democrats or Independents in this most recent election cycle. The Mississippi Republican Party Chairman says he doesn’t expect this will be the last time they are welcoming new members to the GOP. “We have had a relentless focus on switching conservative Democrats over to the Republican party," explained MSGOP Chairman Lucien Smith. "They recognize increasingly that there is only one party that represents the conservative values of our state and that is the Republican party.” All eight of the latest party switchers...

Shares of Gilead Sciences were rising after the World Health Organization said the drugmaker's antiviral remdesivir may be effective against the coronavirus. The comments, which were reported by CNBC, came in a press conference at which the organization lauded the Chinese government for the measures it took to stem the spread of the virus. When identifying any drugs that could potentially combat the disease, WHO named the drug from Gilead Sciences. Remdesivir is an investigational antiviral that hasn't yet been approved anywhere globally for any use. However, Gilead Sciences has been working with global health officials in responding to the...

Well, this is the rant: First thing struck me, they play Russian music, even though Marx & Engels were English, state weddings, English started that crap. Where is church? Lenin; studied in France and went to England ( correct me if I am wrong) 1917 Russia revolution; Lenin, fresh out of the west goes back to Russia and just out of the blue creates a Revolution. Poor student stages a massive upraising against the mighty rich Czar, hmm... Nicholas refuses Central banking ( am I correct?), gets assassinated with the whole family(again, correct me if I am wrong). And you...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. She was 101. Johnson died Monday of natural causes at a retirement community in Newport News, Virginia, family attorney Donyale Y. H. Reavis told The Associated Press. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement that Johnson “helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space even as she made huge strides that also opened doors for women and people of color.” Johnson was one of...

(Reuters) - In just four years, marijuana use grew by 75% among Americans aged 65 and older, according to a new study, and researchers expressed concern over a lack of information on the potential health implications. The increase was most pronounced in women, those with higher incomes and more education, according to a report published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The findings continue a trend seen over the last decade, said the study's lead author, Benjamin Han, an assistant professor of geriatric medicine and palliative care at the New York University School of Medicine. "Consider that not even 10...

Classes at kindergartens and primary and secondary schools would be suspended until after the break in mid-April at the earliest, a source said on Tuesday. This year, Easter Sunday falls on April 12.

There’s a lot we don’t know about Covid-19 — the coronavirus now spreading around the world, aided by air travel. Fighting Covid-19 has been complicated by a lack of transparent information from China about the exact origin of the disease, but there’s much that we do know, including the genome of this virus, which will quickly lead to an accurate diagnostic tool. In the U.S., the next steps are to marshal that information and be smart about fully investing in our nation’s infectious disease safety net in order to protect people here at home. But, because infectious diseases don’t recognize...

Mike Bloomberg is preparing a massive media campaign against Bernie Sanders, whose commanding Nevada caucus victory has also drawn the attention of other top Democratic candidates -- and rankled establishment Democrats who believe that the far-left, self-avowed "democratic socialist" could alienate moderates and cost the party the White House. CNBC first reported Bloomberg's new approach, which will employ opposition research, surrogates, and advertisements across multiple platforms. The volley began on Monday, as the Bloomberg campaign unveiled a video accusing Sanders of being weak on gun control -- an issue that Bloomberg has previously sought to corner. The former New York...

Roughly 30 people, including many children, were injured when a car crashed into a carnival procession in a small town near the German city of Kassel, police said on Monday. Local police said they believed the driver rammed his car on purpose into a crowd of revelers in the town of Volkmarsen during the popular carnival celebrations. The man, identified by the local prosecutor’s office as a 29-year-old German from the town where the incident took place, was detained immediately after the incident.

Singapore reported the discharge from hospital of two recovered coronavirus patients on Monday, marking the fourth consecutive day that the total number of discharged patients has been higher than the number of infected ones. In all, 53 of the country’s 90 cases have “fully recovered from the infection”, the Health Ministry said in a statement, with one more case linked to a pre-existing cluster at The Life Church and Missions Singapore also being confirmed. [...] The city state has been working closely with the World Health Organisation and other countries, Lee said in the letter, pointing to “early indications” that...

Cardinal Kasper considered how Pope Francis could introduce female ministry. Here’s how it happened Pope Francis' call for official ministries for women is 'much bigger than the female diaconate' February 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – An idea about ministries for women presented by Cardinal Walter Kasper in a 2019 statement seems to have found its way into Pope Francis' post-synodal exhortation Querida Amazonia. The German cardinal had told LifeSite in June of 2019 that there are ways of giving women much more scope in the Church, and even a liturgical blessing, without giving them access to “sacramental ordination.” His idea was...