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John Horton Conway, the famous Cambridge and Princeton mathematician, died on April 11th. I am sure those who know about him will be saddened.

In certain counties, first responders (police) are allowed to enter stores before others and make their purchases without any rationing. As Orwell wrote, some pigs are more equal. Everyone should have to live under the same rules, ESPECIALLY THE POLICE. To allow them special privileges and to escape the inconveniences associated with this lockdown is disgusting. Law enforcement must understand what it is like to live like those they have power over. To allow them special privilege is license for abuse and makes them more inclined to enforce laws that have no impact on them what so ever. . It...

The media are outraged that President Trump is talking about re-opening the country, following their previous position that he sure was taking his sweet time at opening up the country. Fortunately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's death forecasts from the Wuhan coronavirus have shrunk from 1.7 million Americans in mid-March; to 100,000 to 200,000 two weeks ago, provided there were massive suppression efforts; to -- most recently -- 60,000. Every week, it seems, we’re another two weeks away from the “apex.” According to a model recently published in The New York Times, if Trump had issued social distancing...

George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter "When the crisis is over...we must be ready to come together around a new strategy for globalization that secures its benefits and cures its ills."

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.( Isaiah 24:1-3)Isaiah is one...

In short: Lady has been given the run around about her SBA loan application Her bank won't tell her anything and the SBA won't tell her anything CSR agent has a breakdown mid-call Tells her the reason nobody can tell her anything is that all loan applications are being held in a third party database offsite Only the people running the SBA and Chuck Schumer have access, so he can't check on her application even if he wanted to Says that they're skimming the money to shell companies they own and not to trust anything the media says Shell companies...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Midway through his daily update in Frankfort on Wednesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear acknowledged the commotion just outside his briefing room, a group of protesters demanding the state re-open its economy. “Everybody should be able to express their opinions,” he said about the protesters, who were clearly audible during the WAVE 3 News broadcast of Beshear’s news conference. “They believe we should open the economy. It would absolutely kill people. We know we’re not to that point. My job isn’t to make the popular decision, but the right decision.” Among the chants heard: “Abortion is not...

I have heard reports of people getting their stimulus checks deposited into their accounts. My son has for sure. Mr mm went to the IRS webstie and it told him that they had not determined if we qualified or not, which is ludicrous based on the income we had for the last couple years. Has anyone else gotten their money or had problems like this? Does anyone know how to resolve it?

The question has been raised as to whether the President has authority to call a special session of the Congress in view of Senate Concurrent Resolution 33, pursuant to which the Congress now stands adjourned. That resolution provides that the Congress stands adjourned until January 2, 1948, unless in the meantime the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker, and the majority leaders of both Houses jointly notify the members of both houses to reassemble. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution provides that the President may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in...

Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.

I swear I don’t make this stuff up – who could? – Say you’re the Democrat Speaker of the House. And say that in that role, you pretend to care about the “little people” of this country. Now, say your country is in the middle of dealing with a global pandemic. And say that one of the thing congress has already done – despite your best efforts to screw it up – was to pass a stimulus bill that included $359 billion in what we’re calling a Small Business Relief Fund. And say that that SBRF is designed to replace...

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Microsoft released and then deleted an ad for its VR technology featuring Marina Abramović, the performance artist infamous for hosting a “spirit cooking” dinner at her house in 2015, to which Clinton campaign manager Tony Podesta and his brother were invited. The ad originally went live on Good Friday. Abramović, the daughter of high-ranking officials in Yugoslavia’s communist dictatorship, authored a book in 1996 called “Spirit Cooking with Essential Aphrodisiac Recipes.” The ingredients include “fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk” to be eaten on “earthquake nights.” In a Spirit Cooking themed performance in 1997, Abramović wrote for “fresh morning...

This has to be her "Let Them Eat Cake" moment!! In her mansion, dual refridgerator stocked by servants (do you think she masked up and went to Ralph's?), holding Congress in recess, and she does this?? If here is one example of the political elite, this is it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgfumenJbXE

If you were waiting with baited breath for how Nancy Pelosi would respond to Trump’s cutting of funding to the World Health Organization, your wait is over. She’s chimed in to make several nonsensical charges, including claiming that the cut is “illegal.” Zeke Miller ✔ @ZekeJMiller Pelosi on Trump WHO funding freeze: "This decision is dangerous, illegal and will be swiftly challenged.” 302 11:42 AM - Apr 15, 2020 296 people are talking about this Here’s the more full quote via Fox News. In a statement, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the halt in funding amid the global pandemic “is senseless.” “This...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday plans to give cash payments to adult immigrants living illegally in the state to help them weather the coronavirus crisis. The plan, which would use a mix of taxpayer money and charitable donations from corporations and philanthropists, will give 150,000 adults $500 each during the coronavirus outbreak, the governor said. California has had an estimated 2 million immigrants living in the country illegally. They have not been eligible for the $2.2 trillion stimulus package approved by Congress last month, which pledged cash payments to most Americans while boosting unemployment benefits by $600 per...

For three decades, Meshawn Maddock and her family have run A-1 Bail Bonds in Milford, Michigan. But just a few days ago, she said she was forced to lay off her last three employees due to courts being shuttered and jails being emptied to blunt the spread of coronavirus in the hard-hit state. Instead of staying in her house, adhering to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home orders, Maddock drove 60 miles from her residence to Lansing, the state capitol, to join a convoy of motorists Wednesday afternoon protesting the governor's pandemic directive and calling on state leaders to allow small businesses...

If so, do you know if they had the flu earlier?Between December and when the junk from china hit them. I was wondering if the effected ones had any antibodies from a previous bout with the flu.

It is most certainly past time to open the country for business again. Since mid-March, states and/or cities around the nation have gone above and beyond the call of duty to enact policies to keep citizens safe from contracting the China Virus. Attempts to “slow the spread” are noble. To say that is a given and pretty much understood. BUT… there are obvious “unintended” consequences that are now happening as a result. Unemployment has shot through the roof and is approaching Great Depression levels with between 3 and 6 million people filing for benefits WEEKLY. Not because there are no...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will “swiftly” challenge what she called President Trump’s “senseless” and “illegal” suspension of US funding to the World Health Organization. Trump stopped the funding on Tuesday, saying the WHO needs “meaningful reforms” after failing to report accurate coronavirus data from China, worsening the pandemic’s punch to the US. But Pelosi said Wednesday the United Nations body is essential to battling COVID-19. “This is another case, as I have said, of the President’s ineffective response, that ‘a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A weak person blames others,'” Pelosi said in a statement.