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I swim the Y 3/4 x's per week. looking for info on pools and Corona V Iam sure the locker room is worse than the pool but I will just by pass that and get in and get out Any one have any useful info please provide. I am in SW Fl and many geriatrics will be leaving soon which is a good thing, they have really "crappy" sanitary habits.

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault in landmark

One of the largest outside groups supporting President Trump’s reelection is releasing a new ad accusing former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of corruption ahead of a Senate vote on Wednesday to subpoena records about Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine. The Great America PAC, which has raised and spent more than $35 million in support of Trump, is putting six figures behind a new digital ad called “Quid Pro Quo Joe.” “Why is the U.S. Senate investigating Joe Biden’s family?” the narrator says in the ad. “Weeks after Joe Biden visits China as vice president, his...

Washington — The House is set to vote to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Wednesday after reaching a bipartisan deal that includes several reforms just days before the measure is set to expire. ...The White House has not said whether the president would sign the bill as currently written, but a senior Justice Department official told CBS News on Tuesday that the administration is "pleased with the direction that we're headed." ... The deal reached by House leaders would require officers overseeing FISA applications to certify that the Justice Department has been fully informed of any issues...

It looks like an act by a conservative trolling progressives, but a viral video of a college-age woman sobbing over the political demise of socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders no doubt reflects the emotional trauma of many in her generation.

Time to stay calm and continue on.... Yesterday's thread is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3823193/posts

Before Donald Trump was popular, his first supporter in the U.S. Senate was Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. They had a meeting of the minds on the issue of immigration. Sessions was his wingman. Sessions was named Trump's attorney general and things went along fine until... Sessions cowered at the prospect of the Trump-Russian collusion fictions. Sessions recused himself from making any decisions respecting the investigation into the president. He was, in effect, neutered as an AG. In the light of day, after all the investigations into DOJ, CIA and FBI corruption, we found out the Trump-Russia collusion story was a...

Rep. Jim Clyburn, who effectively rallied the black vote in South Carolina on behalf of Joe Biden, turning his electoral fortunes around, now wants to protect his investment in Biden from public scrutiny as comes from public debates. According to Breitbart News: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is suggesting the Democratic National Committee (DNC) “step in” and cancel the remaining presidential primaries and debates if it appears Joe Biden is favored to win the nomination. Clyburn, who was instrumental in helping the former vice president revive his campaign with a win in the South Carolina primary, floated the idea during...

Hillary Rodham Clinton recently claimed that she is the most investigated innocent person in America. Really? No doubt, many of her supporters and admirers readily agree with her. A recent report in The Daily Mail quotes the former secretary of state and presidential candidate saying, "I am the most investigated innocent person in America" and "... this is not just politics, this is deep cultural stuff. When I became Secretary of State, I decided to use the server that had been set up for Bill and his former president's office. I did it as a matter of convenience. There was...

LANSING, Mich. — In a message sent to members of the Michigan State University community, MSU president Samuel L. Stanley announced that the school will transition all in-person classes to online classes, amidst the emergence of the first cases of the coronavirus in Michigan. Stanley also says the school is suspending non-essential domestic university travel until April 20. The move to online classes has been done by universities across the country, in an effort to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Stanley's message is below: Yesterday I wrote to you about plans the university was taking to prepare for potential novel coronavirus...

Full story at Wash Examiner… https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/terrible-monster-or-caring-father-mulvaney-tells-on-trump

Weili Zhang and Joanna Jedrzejczyk fought an instant classic on Saturday at UFC 248 in Las Vegas. The merciless brutality that unfolded through five five-minute rounds would have been enough to make timid people recoil in horror, yet it was hailed as one of the greatest bouts in the history of women's combat sports. Now you can live through it all again: The UFC released slo-mo footage of the highlights, and you can see the strikes that caused both sides of Jedrzejczyk's forehead to swell so much that she was barely recognizable.

The number of people with the coronavirus in the UK has risen to 456 after a further 83 tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours. The number is the biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases in the UK, where six people have died from the illness. There were 54 new cases recorded in the 24 hours leading up to 9am on Tuesday, and 46 new cases were identified in the 24 hours up to 9am on Monday. The daily figures have been released by Public Health England. A drive-through coronavirus test site has opened in Wolverhampton to...

Misinformation about the coronavirus is continuing to spread online, and bleed into offline spaces as well, leading to some widespread misconceptions and confusion about the coronavirus. Experts say a lack of high-quality information has allowed false claims to fill in the gaps, raising concerns that people are actually following dangerous advice as a result. You may have seen some of the information yourself, whether it's on your Facebook feed, an email forwarded from an uncle you haven't spoken to in years, or even published by some news outlets. From the evidence-free recommendation of vitamin C as a cure, to claims...

Boosted by pro-gun-control millions in donations by Mike Bloomberg in the last election, newly empowered liberals in Virginia extended their legislative session this past weekend.  They enacted sweeping gun control and also broad expansions of gambling, which is backwards from what would help enhance prosperity and freedom. It will soon be legal in Virginia to bet on football games and other sporting events, except for contests involving Virginia college teams.  This unleashes a new, costly addiction for the millions of sports fans in the state who can soon waste their family savings in addition to their precious time.A misguided ruling by the...

LEWISBURG, Pa. — There aren't many people on Bucknell University's campus as school is out for spring break. When students return, they won't be coming back for classes; instead, students living on campus will have to move out. The university starts "remote education mode" next week because of the coronavirus.

Ministers have accepted that the coronavirus outbreak will spread in a "significant way’" within the UK, meaning many people are likely to need hospital treatment. So can the NHS cope with the increase in demand? How many critical care beds are there in England? Public Health England say one in every 20 coronavirus patients could need critical care, based on China's experience. NHS England has 4,048 adult critical care beds - around seven beds for every 100,000 people. Critical care beds run at between 70% and 80% capacity most months, according to data from NHS Digital. Figures vary by region,...

The Detroit construction worker who got into a shouting match with Joe Biden said the former vice president “kind of went off the deep end” when he asked a question about his intent to ban assault weapons. “I thought I was pretty articulate and respectful. I didn’t try to raise feathers,” Jerry Wayne said Wednesday during an interview with “Fox & Friends.” “He kind of just went off the deep end. … Once he got caught in a lie, I kind of wanted to ask him why he wanted to take our long arms rather than the handguns,” Wayne continued....

It’s not okay that Harvey Weinstein did it. It’s not okay that Charlie Rose did it. But when we learned in 2014 that then-Vice President Joe Biden exposed his naked body to women in the Secret Service, the media didn’t care. And the media still don’t care because Orange Man Bad.