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Joe Biden says he'll bring dignity back to the Presidency. Nothing is more dignified than a confused, bungling, old man bumping into walls with a long history of groping and hair sniffing and dozens of money scandals in his family.— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) April 17, 2020

    ***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ Quarantine Playlist 2 ~ ***** ~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~   ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops     This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for their time...

I need some help and I can't think of a better place to get it then my very intelligent and informed and wise Free Republic community. I have a vacation scheduled for June 5th through the 13th flying from Cincinnati to Las Vegas renting a car from Hertz and going to Zion National Park and the north rim of the Grand Canyon and then Canyonlands and Arches. I would be staying in 3 Inns. Tomorrow on the 18th I plan to call Delta and the three ends and hurts and see if any of this is actually possible to happen....

A black Miami doctor was handcuffed outside his home last week while on his way to hand out tents to the city’s homeless during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Home / politic / Viral / Eric Holder: Coronavirus is 'an opportunity’ to permanently change US voting system Eric Holder: Coronavirus is 'an opportunity’ to permanently change US voting system Aprail Mathews April 17, 2020 politic, Viral Former President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that he sees the coronavirus as “an opportunity” to change the way U.S. citizens vote forever. “Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder told Time magazine. Holder went on to say that he supports shifting toward...

A Maine lawmaker is planning to join protesters next week who are demonstrating against the state’s stay-at-home order as similar protests play out across the country against state and local social distancing measures. State Rep. Chris Johansen (R) said he wants to Gov. Janet Mills (D) to ease some of the restrictions she put on local businesses that have been forced to close after being declared non-essential. Johansen is currently hosting an event on Facebook calling Mainers to circle the governor's residence in Augusta to join the “Re-Open Maine” Convoy and Parade. “The 1st amendment enshrines our Right to peaceably...

Professor Luc Montagnier, a central member of the team that identified HIV during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, is now bucking the media consensus on the novel coronavirus by claiming the pathogen was at least partially edited in a laboratory. Montagnier revealed his reasoning on a French medical podcast Thursday, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien. According to research performed by Montagnier, a Nobel Prize winner, and his mathematician partner Jean-Claude Perez, SARS-CoV-2 contains sequences of the human immunodeficiency virus — HIV. The medical legend took his claims a step further and asserted his confidence that the...

Paragons of Faith Paulo Uchibori and Sons A glowering, scar-faced volcano named Mount Unzen looms over the Shimabara Peninsula in southwestern Japan. Atop it, bubbling, sulfurous hot springs vomit out white crud and belch acrid steam. They call this place "Unzen Hell." From 1627 onward, the local ruler found the biggest of its caustic, skin-eating pools perfect for torturing Christians.  Arima Harunobu In the hands of the Catholic ruler Arima Harunobu, this peninsula, once known as Arima, had been the Christian bulwark of Japan. In 1612, though, the de facto shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu condemned Harunobu to death and entrusted Arima to Harunobu's...

A team of researchers in California found that the number of coronaviruses cases in one county may actually be up to 85 times higher than the what health officials have tallied, and say their data may help better estimate the virus’ true fatality rate. Earlier this month, Stanford University-led researchers tested 3,330 adults and children in Santa Clara County, who were recruited using Facebook ads, for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and found that the population prevalence of COVID-19 in Santa Clara ranged from 2.49 percent to 4.16 percent. ... “This probably aligns with what overall national exposure may be, on order of...

The White House on Friday said that states have enough coronavirus tests to be able to enter the first phase of its plan for reopening the economy. The statement comes as the administration is facing pressure to increase the testing capacity. But officials, including administration health experts, sought to push back on the alarm and express confidence in the testing capabilities, at least for the first phase of reopening. "Our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one if they choose to do so," Vice President Pence told reporters...

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Follow-up to 4 little kittens (Tom, Rose, Pebbles & Simba) being raised by their human mom. Video, 3 minutes & 21 seconds

The COVID-19 pandemic almost certainly began in Wuhan China under an authoritarian Communist regime that is alleged to have covered up the scope of the health crisis. Could the end of the disease, that has now infected close to 2.2 million people and killed nearly 150,000, be credited to India through an anti-malaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump?Let’s look at four factors that make the case:The MedicineHindustan Times, an Indian English-language daily newspaper has been told by a government official that India is shipping about 85 million hydroxychloroquine tablets and close to 500 million paracetamol tablets to 108 countries....

My suggestion for restarting the economy. We need to grant immunity to every person, business, governmental agency, from any lawsuit, concerning Covid / flu. Keep the lawyers away.

Rite Aid executives report the pharmacy chain saw a major increase in sales of hydroxychloroquine, the prescription malaria medicine that President Trump has urged Americans to take during the coronavirus pandemic despite some public-health concerns. Rite Aid is not experiencing a shortage of the drug but is closely monitoring supply. Finance chief Matt Schroeder mentioned the increased demand, which he did not quantify, during a Thursday call with analysts to discuss quarterly financial results. Sales of inhalers also are up, he said. For the fourth quarter, the company reported revenue of $5.73 billion and a net loss from continuing operations...

Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration has a message for construction firms that continue to work on nonessential projects during the coronavirus pandemic: Stop building. Or pay the price. In a letter sent Wednesday to Philadelphia’s approximately 6,000 registered contractors, the Department of Licenses and Inspections warned that they could face stop-work orders and $1,000-a-day fines, and lose their licenses if they continue to flout city and state orders to halt most construction to slow the spread of the virus.

A previously unknown church from the major medieval Bulgarian city of Cherven has been discovered and excavated over the past three archaeological seasons, exposing surviving church murals from the 14th century containing a scene with "warrior saints"... Cherven, in today's Ruse District in Northeast Bulgaria, was one of the major urban, religious, and economic centers of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396/1422 AD). While Cherven was one of the largest urban centers in the Second Bulgarian Tsardom (Empire), it has a much longer history, as its area also features remains from an Ancient Thracian settlement, an early Byzantine fortress, as well...

Last week I wrote about a doctor who serves as the medical director of a nursing home in Texas City, Texas testing hydroxychloroquine on a group of elderly patients. The test results are in. It’s good news.Dr. Robin Armstrong faced one of the largest outbreaks in the Houston area when 83 people tested positive for COVID-19 at the 135-bed facility in Galveston County. At the time, I wrote that he was treating 30 patients with hydroxychloroquine. Apparently those numbers have shifted. Now it is being reported that 39 elderly people gave Armstrong permission to treat them with hydroxychloroquine. Fifty-six...

[Catholic/Anglican Caucus] Fatima Bishop Mocks Pandemic-as-Punishment Notion Slams faithful prelates as ignorant, fanatic, mad FATIMA, Portugal (ChurchMilitant.com) - The bishop of the diocese of Leiria-Fátima, who oversees the site of Our Lady's 1917 apparitions, is scoffing at orthodox cardinals and those who speak of the pandemic as divine punishment as doing so "out of ignorance, sectarian fanaticism or insanity." Crowd at Fátima witnessing the Miracle of the Sun in 1917 Cardinal Antonio dos Santos Marto insists that the Wuhan virus is instead a wake-up call to "rethink the financial and economic system to achieve more justice and eliminate the flagrant inequality between the world's rich minority and the...