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It's real,no more Lakers,they are trippin'. Canceling everything,stay safe!

I'm the ultimate positive thinker. I'm also very cynical. You can be both. My favorite saying is "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst." So I'm going to give you both sides of the coronavirus story. Let's start with the bad. This is the worst mess of our lifetime. The economy is hanging by a thread. Stocks rebounded Friday but have been savaged. Small business is wrecked. Millions of Americans are about to lose their jobs. My beloved Vegas is -- for the moment -- down for the count. And I haven't even gotten to the health crisis yet....

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 124 A song of ascents. Of David. 1 If the Lord had not been on our side—     let Israel say— 2 if the Lord had not been on our side     when people attacked us, 3 they would have swallowed us alive     when their anger flared against us; 4 the flood would have engulfed us,     the torrent would have swept over us, 5 the raging waters     would have swept us away. 6 Praise be to the Lord,     who has not let us be torn by their teeth. 7 We have escaped like a bird     from...

This will be a weekly post. Count remains at 191 judges confirmed. 138 District Court judges 51 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices

Three new infections bring local tally to 140, with a patient separately testing preliminarily positive City also records first case of doctor becoming infected, involving medical professional who had travelled to the US Another public housing estate in Hong Kong came under scrutiny on Saturday after one of three newly confirmed Covid-19 patients was found to be from the same block as two earlier infected residents. ... Chuang noted that the patient lived in the same block as two earlier reported cases who joined a tour group to Egypt between February 27 and March 7. Both flats are numbered...

Immediate Release Statement by the Department of Defense on Domestic Travel Restrictions March 13, 2020 Today, the Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved new travel restrictions for service members, DoD civilians, and their families assigned to DoD installations, facilities and surrounding areas within the United States and its territories. This restriction will halt all domestic travel, including Permanent Change of Station, and Temporary Duty. This restriction will also pause civilian hiring at DoD installations and components for persons who do not reside within the hiring entity's local commuting area. Additionally, service members will be authorized local leave only,...

Image from PSA cropped by Dean Weingarten On Tuesday, 10 March, 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden got into a shouting match with a construction worker at a Detroit Chrysler Auto plant. From the nypost.com: “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. “To me that’s very...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela confirmed its first two cases of the coronavirus Friday, deepening anxiety in a crisis-stricken nation where many hospitals lack basics such as water and soap and struggle to treat even basic ailments. The announcement prompted President Iván Duque of neighboring Colombia to order his nation’s border with Venezuela closed as a coronavirus containment measure. “God help us,” hospital patient Carlos Chacón said after hearing the news that the pandemic had arrived in his native Venezuela. “My mom is old and sick. So is my father,” said Chacón, a 48-year-old electrician who was first hospitalized four months...

In 2014, former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously attacked then-Vice President Joe Biden as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” On Thursday, Biden made a major speech criticizing President Trump’s travel ban, warning that it will not stop the spread of the virus and that Trump is racist. That he rejects Trump’s isolationism. It is a constant theme that Biden has been taking, but he misses the point that Trump wants to slow the spread of the virus and help medical facilities deal with the inflow of cases.On January...

Jet2 planes from the UK to Spain have turned back in mid-air as the airline cancelled all flights to the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. The dramatic move by the low-cost airline comes after new infections rose sharply in Spain and the government put 60,000 people in four towns on enforced lockdown. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said a two-week state of emergency will come into force as the number of dead rose to 120. Jet2, which is is based at nine UK airports, has halted all flights with immediate effect to mainland Spain, as well as the Balearic...

As Wuhan’s Coronavirus poses an increasing global threat, more and more experts from various countries have also cast more attention to the source of the new crown virus (COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2). In this scientific investigation on the mysterious origin of Coronavirus we explore the sources of New Coronavirus from five major areas, including epidemiological investigation, virus gene comparison, cross-species infection research, key “intermediate hosts” and the findings on the Wuhan P4 lab, to provide readers with a deep and completely scientific perspective. Two months have elapsed since the outbreak of New Coronavirus in Wuhan, but the scientific community’s knowledge is...

The mayor of Champaign, Illinois has declared a town emergency over the Wuhan coronavirus that includes a potential ban on the sale of firearms and ammunition. According to a local report from WAND 17, Champaign Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen has issued an executive order that would give her office "extraordinary powers." She has issued the order despite the town and surrounding area not having a single case of the disease.

More people will be glued to their television sets as schools and sporting events are being canceled, along with legions of people now being told to work from home. As such, more potential eyeballs could venture into the twisted realms of MSNBC and CNN who are just thirsting for the Wuhan virus death toll to increase and markets to collapse to better the Democrats’ chances of booting Trump from office in 2020. It’s predictable. It’s grotesque. They’ve earned their new title with gusto: enemies of the people.  If Trump does anything, it’s terrible. He can’t win—and he knows that, so...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A Baltimore businessman pleaded guilty Monday to two federal charges stemming from bribes totaling $42,500 that he paid to a former state lawmaker while she was still in office. Lance Andre Lucas pleaded guilty to federal honest services wire fraud and a travel act violation, admitting to bribing former state Del. Cheryl Diane Glenn. The veteran Democratic lawmaker and leading advocate of marijuana legalization pleaded guilty in January to accepting more than $33,000 in bribes from people other than Lucas. **SNIP** Lucas made 11 payments to Glenn, starting with four money orders, each for $500, on May...

(CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday sent a note to supporters that included a chart showing the Dow Jones Industrial Average dramatically rising roughly at the time he began a news conference declaring a national emergency over coronavirus. The President signed the chart. The note, which was also sent to some members of Congress, included screenshots of television coverage of the stock market closing much higher than Thursday. "The President would like to share the attached image with you, and passes along the following message: 'From opening of press conference, biggest day in stock market history!' " read the note, a...

"World War C" can be taken in two ways: a war against coronavirus (COVID-19) or a world war against China, which is now being found out as the country responsible for unleashing a pandemic on the world. In times of uncertainty and crisis, the American people look to the president of the United States. As President Roosevelt once said, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." President Trump, in a White House Rose Garden event flanked by great captains of American private-sector companies, had his finest hour in instilled confidence that all will be well throughout America. Thoughtful, courageous...

A judge in Arkansas approved a settlement in the paternity lawsuit against Hunter Biden. **SNIP** Biden, 50, agreed to pay for child support, reimburse Roberts for the cost of their child's health insurance, and cover some attorney's fees and costs. The amounts are redacted as all the "essential terms" of the order have been sealed and will be kept "in a secure location inaccessible by the public," according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. **SNIP** Should issues arise in the future, Thursday's order said the Arkansas judiciary "retains jurisdiction of the parties and the subject matter of this case for any further...

Pope Francis on Friday reversed a decision to close all the Catholic churches in Rome amid Italy's coronavirus outbreak. The pope on Thursday had made the decision to close all churches to prevent the disease's further spread. But after further conversation about the matter, he decided that leaving churches closed would pose the spiritual risk of making people "feel more isolated." Priests in Rome are now advised to discern for themselves whether or not to remain open. "Be very close to the people of God, make each one feel loved and accompanied, help everyone to perceive that the Church does...

During his Friday press conference, President Trump announced that he had partnered with the private sector to fight the war against coronavirus. As the various CEOs spoke, someone at Fox News had the clever idea to put a stock market ticker on the screen. It’s mesmerizing to watch the ticker go up and up as Trump and the others speak. Trump also copied the WWII model for victory by having government retreat, not expand. During WWII, the government made demands on industry; it did not regulate it. The speakers at the press conference made clear that it was government regulation...

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