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Well I just saw the State of the Nation Broadcast by Mike Bloomberg. AKA Mini Mike, Lord Dark Helmet. I thing the thing self-serving, arrogant, along with condescending and patronizing at the same time. He took a backward to slap to Trump and the administration for their handling of the Coronavirus. He also intimated he could have done better and the nation would have been prepared under him. I contest all of his assumptions, there is no way to prepare and deal with a pandemic once it is out there, there is just not enough medical facilities , etc., we...

[Catholic Caucus] Despite crowded stores and bars, N. Italian dioceses suspend sacraments, citing Coronavirus Not being available to hear confessions is really something incomprehensible,' said one local Catholic. THIENE, Vicenza, Italy, February 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Catholics are being turned away from even the sacrament of penance in at least one Italian town. Several dioceses in Italy, including Bologna, Milan, and Padua, cancelled Ash Wednesday liturgies and have suspended all public Masses, thanks to the outbreak of coronavirus in the northern regions of Italy.  But the parish of the Madonna of Olmo in Thiene has gone even further, advising...

Here are the stats.   It is a BIG NOTHING BURGER. The Flu is far worse and nothing is being said.  https://www.worldometers.info/ and https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  

A 5,000 year-old sword, among the oldest Anatolian weapons in the world, was discovered by a PhD student at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, Vittoria Dall'Armellina, in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. The weapon is at the museum of San Lazzaro. It is a small sword, located in a window together with Medieval objects. The sword however is very similar to 5,000-year-old weapons discovered inside the Royal palace in Arslantepe, eastern Anatolia, believed to be the most ancient in the world. The museum of Tokat (Turkey) had a similar sword...

Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race, two aides confirmed to NBC News on Sunday, ending a campaign that enjoyed a meteoric rise and outshone more experienced competitors but ultimately fell short after being dogged by a lack of minority support. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was supposed to travel to Texas but will instead return to Indiana, where he planned to make an announcement later Sunday night. It isn't clear who Buttigieg's supporters will now back or whether he will endorse one of the remaining candidates. Representatives of both the Buttigieg and Biden campaigns...

Can't copy any of article. Details medical and social problems with trying to "change sex." Says Lupron, puberty suppression drug, lowers IQ 7-9 points (at least, I assume)

WASHINGTON — The head of the nation’s third-largest labor union said that the Democratic Party should not change its rules to award Bernie Sanders or any other candidate the nomination if they finish the primary with the most delegates but less than a majority. “We can’t change it. We can’t change it. We’ve got to live with the process, and I believe that there were improvements in that process,” Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), told Yahoo News. Saunders’s comments, in a 45-minute interview for Yahoo News’ podcast “The Long Game,” came...

A cruise ship carrying 2,000 passengers was greeted by protesters who threw stones and screamed at the crew as they tried to dock in Reunion Island because they thought the ship was infected with coronavirus. Police were forced to use tear gas to end the ugly clash after 30 locals from the French Republic, east of Madagascar, gathered as the Sun Princess docked on March 1. Protesters were concerned people on board could be carrying coronavirus after the ship docked in Thailand in early February. The disease has infected more than 88,000 people in 60 countries across the globe, killing...

President Trump is disrupting decades of multinational financial interests who use the U.S. as a host for their ideological endeavors. President Trump is confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA) ie. YOU. There are trillions at stake; it is all about the economics; all else is chaff and countermeasures. We are already familiar how China, Mexico and ASEAN nations export our raw materials (ore, coking coal, rare earth minerals etc.). The raw materials are used to manufacture goods overseas, the cheap durable goods are then...

Harrison Ford’s canine adventure “The Call of the Wild” is shaping up to be the latest box office dud for the Disney-owned 20th Century. The film, based on Jack London’s best-selling novel, has made $45 million in the U.S. and $79 million globally after two weeks in theaters. That wouldn’t be a bad result, had “The Call of the Wild” cost a moderate amount to make and market. However, it carries a price tag above $125 million, meaning the film needs to make between $250 million and $275 million to break even, according to sources close to the production and...

  Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Maj Gen Leonard Wood Info from here.             Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860 – August 7, 1927) was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines. Early in his military career, he...

Steve Bannon, chief executive of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and former White House strategist, has a warning for those who think it will be a godsend for President Trump to take on democratic socialist Bernie Sanders in a potential general election contest. “No one should get cocky about this,” Bannon said during an extensive podcast interview on The Pod’s Honest Truth With David Brody. “There’s more tears shed for answered prayers than for unanswered.” Of course, a Sanders nomination is by no means a foregone conclusion. The data shows that, at this point at least, he may fall short...

In a Muslim Brotherhood-style message, “a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media operative” is advising “ISIS supporters in the West who are not able to join jihad frontlines to wait patiently for the right time to carry out deadly attacks.” The woman — who goes by the name Greenlantern — delivered a theological message and call to jihad that resembled the message given by 9/11’s mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), who once advised…. “We will win because Americans don’t realize . . . we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by...

When you're weary Feeling small When tears are in your eyes I will dry them all... When you're weary of songs that feel small, it's nice to have a song that feels big - seems to be about something more than just boy-meets-girl, goes on twice as long as your run-of-the-mill pop record, has a sense of its own importance but not to the point of self-parody ("Bohemian Rhapsody"). For a long time "Bridge Over Troubled Water" fulfilled that role. In 1973, when Capital Radio became the first ever (legal) commercial music-format radio station in the United Kingdom, Richard Attenborough...

There is no need, however, to panic. If you're feeling in any way anxious about the coronavirus outbreak, here are five facts to help assuage your worries. 1. The number of cases in China is already falling significantly 2. The vast majority of cases are mild, and the death rate is likely lower than reported. 3. It is not that contagious. Only one out of every 1,000 people in Hubei Province has contracted the coronavirus. 4. There have been no reported deaths in young children. 5. The world already survived another pandemic just ten years ago

San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City currently make up 42 percent of the United States homeless population. These so-called sanctuary cities are in a mess. Due to decades of misguided and faulty policies, homelessness is a serious problem. Over half a million people go homeless on a single night in the United States. But that’s no reason for homeless people to crash into your backyard and stay there because the cops tell you that they will arrest you if you remove them! This might sound horrifying but one video that surfaced over the weekend shows a homeowner in...

Politicians across the Western world like to speak fondly of the “middle class” as if it is one large constituency with common interests and aspirations. But, as Karl Marx observed, the middle class has always been divided by sources of wealth and worldview. Today, it is split into two distinct, and often opposing, middle classes. First there is the yeomanry or the traditional middle class, which consists of small business owners, minor landowners, craftspeople, and artisans, or what we would define historically as the bourgeoisie, or the old French Third Estate, deeply embedded in the private economy. The other middle...

Good evening fellow Freepers. This may seem like an odd request but it's something that I've wanted to ask here because though I know computer PCs, I don't know audio visual very well. What I'm looking for is a device where an HDMI cable can be plugged in one side, and video and audio come out the other side separately. The audio output needs to be in the way of a 3.5MM audio port. The video output still needs be HDMI, or even Displayport and DVI. The reason for this request is because the antiquated equipment in our A/V room...

It could have been the end for Monty the jungle carpet python, who got a bit peckish recently and decided to eat an entire beach towel. Footage of vet Dr Olivia Clarke and her team extracting it from Monty's stomach was posted online and went viral.

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