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Ok, I get it. I'm at risk. If we open up the country I might die. You know, I'll miss my wife, my children, and my grandchildren. I'll miss my other family. They're called FReepers. BUT HELLS BELLS, I've had my time. I don't want the future ruined for my children and my grandchildren, as well as the families of multiple millions of my precious fellow citizens. So please, President Trump, and all Governors, open it back up as fast as you safely can. God Bless America and MAGA!!!!!

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Adult clubs in one Florida city are suing over a new law that raised the minimum age for strippers from 18 to 21. The law in Jacksonville was enacted March 5 in a bid to reduce human trafficking. But lawyers for the clubs, including the lead plaintiff Wacko’s, contend in a federal lawsuit that it violates the First Amendment by restricting the ability of performers to dance. “The Constitution does not permit the deprivation of First Amendment rights based on the age of … citizens who have attained the age of 18,” attorneys Gary Edinger and...

The report says Miller, who was a chief architect in drafting the immigration order, said Trump's immigration order is not intended to be a stopgap measure, but rather a long-term vision to shape immigration flow. "The most important thing is to turn off the faucet of new immigrant labor,” Miller said, ....As a numerical proposition, when you suspend the entry of a new immigrant from abroad, you’re also reducing immigration further because the chains of follow-on migration that are disrupted,” said Miller, one of the executive order’s main authors. “So the benefit to American workers compounds with time.”

A team of Chinese doctors sent to North Korea to help determine the status of ruler Kim Jong-un's health according to the Reuters News Agency. Also a report by Hong Kong Satellite Television stating that Kim was dead..... A police crackdown in Vienna, Austria today as hundreds protested against coronavirus house arrest restrictions.... You Tube censorship with word that "medically unsubstantiated" content will be banned..... President Trump signing the latest big spending bill..... Its beyond the statute of limitations, but the Metropolitan Police in Washington DC are investigating the sexual assault allegation of Tara Reade agains former Vice-President and presumptive...

China has reportedly dispatched a team of officials and medical experts to North Korea just days after reports emerged that leader Kim Jong Un might be having health issues. The team is led by a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department, which deals with the hermit nation. The delegation left on Thursday, according to Reuters. It is unclear what the delegation’s visit means in terms of the dictator’s health. State Department spokesperson said at the time of the reports that the department is aware and “continuing to monitor the situation.” An official with the Office of...

Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker weighs in on state's anti-lockdown protests.

America’s coronavirus lockdown is causing economic pain across the country like nothing this nation has seen since the Great Depression. In just the past five weeks, more than 26 million have lost their jobs, as US commerce has come to a virtual standstill while people stay home to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. The grim unemployment numbers don’t even include the workers who have seen their hours slashed, salaries cut and sales commissions evaporate... The Post has talked to a group of hard-hit people, here are their stories:

Not dead, just at the beach: reports Kim Jong-un seen at tourist resort

In 1976, the artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic. You know the one: Manhattan heavily in the foreground, the Hudson River, a brownish strip called “Jersey,” the rest of the America vaguely in the distance. It could almost be a map of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States. ***As of Friday, there have been more Covid-19 fatalities on Long Island’s Nassau County (population 1.4 million) than in all of California (population 40 million). There have been more fatalities in Westchester County...

As the nation's leader in COVID-19 fatalities, New York officials are searching for the factors that may have contributed to this negative outcome. One factor that may have played a role was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) March 25th order requiring nursing homes to admit and readmit individuals who tested positive for the virus. While the Governor tried to profess ignorance of his order, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker confirmed it. "I know that in hindsight it looks stupid," Zucker admitted, "but no one stopped to think about what we were doing. We thought old people belong in nursing homes. It just...

Federal Bureau of Investigations Director Christopher Wray fought to prevent exculpatory evidence from surfacing in the case of President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, a source with direct knowledge of the situation tells Daily Caller. New court documents were filed in Flynn’s case Friday containing the aforementioned exculpatory evidence, commonly referred to as Brady Material. Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, announced the new filing on Twitter. She has repeatedly accused the FBI and Justice Department of hiding evidence in the case. “This afternoon, the government produced to Mr. Flynn stunning Brady evidence that proves Mr. Flynn’s allegations of...

What did "Event 201" (held Friday, October 18, 2019, from 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at the Pierre hotel in New York, NY) have to do with how the media and the left reacted to COVID-19 ?About the Event 201 exercise

As coronavirus hysteria cripples society and destroys the global economy, a bizarre trend is emerging of “first responders” performing orchestrated dance routines on social media. There have been dozens of videos that have emerged of nurses and other medical personnel coordinating dance routines in hospitals while on the job, presumably neglecting COVID patients for likes on TikTok and Instagram.

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some Democrats opposed lockdowns. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged visitors to “come to Chinatown” in San Francisco while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told residents “to go on with your lives” and “get out on the town.” Positions have since aligned politically, though, with Democrats now favoring extended lockdowns with no release dates in sight, while conservatives, Republicans, some libertarian thinkers, and even a few Democrats are demanding we all be freed to make our own decisions. As puzzling as it might seem, there’s an obvious explanation: Democrats realized lockdowns could...

April 25 2020 Feast of Saint Mark, Evangelist Reading 1 1 Pt 5:5b-14 Beloved: Clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for:God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you.Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in faith, knowing that your brothers and sisters throughout the world undergo the same sufferings. The...

Whitmer signaled that she is not going to back down to the protests or the Republican demands, and said that she is going to veto the measures meant to limit her authority. "I'm not going to sign any bill that takes authority away from me or from any future governor," she said. "The powers of the Executive Office are incredibly important, especially in times of crisis where lives are on the line." She went so far as to demand that legislators respect the stay-at-home order and not leave their homes to vote.

The $3 billion firm, which is publicly held, had 26,000 employees in 18 states before the pandemic. AutoNation used separate tax identification numbers assigned to dozens of its more than 300 locations to apply for at least $266 million in funds for separate dealerships, including Jaguar and Land Rover of Bethesda, Porsche Orlando and Lexus of Cerritos, outside Los Angeles, according to the documents.

Pagan-influenced ordination of indigenous deacon shows Church with ‘Amazonian face’ The ordination included indigenous songs, dances, bead necklaces, and traditional headwear, as well as the use of animals’ teeth, shells and snails, and bracelets made of vegetable fibres. April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — For the first time, a member of the Ticuna tribe in the Brazilian diocese of Alto Solimões in the Western province of Amazonia was ordained a permanent deacon of the Catholic Church on March 15, in a ceremony fraught with indigenous symbols. The event received international attention when the Holy See’s official  news service, Vatican News, published...

Four Indiana men who allegedly broke into a woman's home and confined her for hours to steal her stimulus check have been charged, police said. Paul Blankenship, Phillip Guzman and Jacob Baughman, all of Lake Station, along with Christopher Henderson, of Hobart, were taken into custody Sunday after the woman reported she had been the victim of a crime, Lake Station Police Chief James Richardson said. They were each charged Monday with burglary with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon and burglary of a dwelling and residential break and enter, court records show....

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