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An internal video obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows the director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Administration Medical Center in Roseburg holding a flash mob dance party in hospital offices with at least 16 staff, none of them consistently wearing protective equipment or maintaining social distance. “It just seems like they’re not taking it seriously,” said one VA employee, who is not being identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media. “We have veterans that are dying and we know the best thing we can do is these behavioral interventions and social distancing. “I understand this...

A man became diabetic, before that he had no desire for sweets, afterwards he started hiding candy around the house like an alcoholic hides bottles. Before my heart attack, I never wanted salt, never liked it. But afterward, "mmm, gimmie that salt, GOOD!!!". It's a variant on "the grass is always greener on the other side of the hill", that whatever we can't have is precisely what we want. How do we regard the idea of "healing" from the effects of sin? This is in an age when the chief sin, is disbelief in sin. When we are going along...

For the Church, it is the End of an Age: In the Covid-19 crisis, Pope Francis has forgone the transcendental approach of his predecessors: for the Church, it is the End of an Age: it has de facto abandoned its relationship with the Divinity Among the many things archived by the Corona virus, there is one which is rather dramatic, but possibly temporary: it is the Catholic Church.  The resulting impression is that it will have difficulty in recovering from this shock. I write this as an unbeliever, though for family reasons, I have been a frequenter of  priests, friars...

The European Union was scheduled to release a report last week detailing China's disinformation campaign to downplay its role in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party pressured the EU to downplay the regime's role in the pandemic after a POLITICO article quoted an advanced copy of the report. From the original POLITICO story: DISINFO WARNING: Russian and Chinese “official and state-backed” accounts continue to “widely target both conspiracy narratives both at public audiences in the EU and the wider neighbourhood,” according to a report by the European External Action Service’s StratCom division, obtained by Playbook ahead of publication,...

Dear Mr. President, You've been snookered by the "experts". President Nixon was snookered by the "experts" when they convinced him to order wage and price controls. The "experts" will always give disastrous advice because they rely on models, and no model can yet accurately predict a living system. Climate models can't predict next year's climate because climate models are based on limited variables and a closed system. The Earth is not a closed system. Nor is the Solar System. We can, at best, guess at future climates and weather based on past experience, but we should always be humble and...

DALLAS (AP) — A 36-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump, prosecutors said. Mickael Gedlu was sentenced Friday, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox’s office in Dallas. He pleaded guilty in December to making threats against Trump.

During a press conference on Wednesday, California emergency room doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care told reporters that nationwide lockdown policies are not an appropriate reaction to what current data shows about the China-originated novel coronavirus but are instead causing measurable public health issues, like spikes in domestic violence, sexual abuse, depression, and spreading fear to non-COVID-19 related would-be patients that are skipping out on vital health care. “We understand microbiology, we understand immunology, and we want strong immune systems,” Dr. Erickson told reporters, rebuffing inconsistent shelter-in-place orders . “I don’t want to stay in my...

Pelosi has overplayed her hand time and again, and her insistence that Trump is an illegitimate president has presented Americans with a stark either-or-choice. They wisely rejected impeachment as too radical, which is something she initially said herself before succumbing to the mob mentality. Now she has another scenario to create a panic that our President is not ready and his Coronavirus response was very bad. Within hours of President Trump’s decision to restrict travel from China on Jan. 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic — and they are now beating a...

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The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of its mission, according to Northwell Health, which provides operational assistance to the vessel. The USNS Comfort, docked at a Manhattan pier since March 30, will soon leave for its homeport in Norfolk, Virginia, where it will restock and be readied for another possible assignment, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said. He did not provide a date for the ship’s departure. As of Saturday, the 1,000-bed hospital ship...

A Brooklyn man was arrested Saturday for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman just 10 days after he was released from Rikers Island over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus behind bars, according to a report. Robert Pondexter, 57, was being held at the notorious New York City prison on a separate rape charge when he was released. He was charged Saturday with attempted rape and sexual assault among other offenses, the New York Post reported, citing anonymous police sources. NYPD responded to a 911 call at about 5:45 a.m. in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood. The caller told police a man had been walking across the street from a supportive housing development when he allegedly grabbed a 58-year-old...

For the first time since Easter weekend, President Trump did not hold a press briefing Saturday at the White House with the coronavirus task force, a move that could signal a change in the frequency of the president's appearances in the weeks to come. The White House press pool's call time on Saturday was pushed from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and at 5:11 p.m. the same day, a travel/photo lid was called. Since March, Trump and Vice President Pence have given almost 50 daily press briefings to update the country on the administration's ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic...

<p>A man who said he was fed up with racism against black people was convicted of killing four white men in a race-related rampage in California’s Central Valley, prosecutors announced Friday.</p> <p>Kori Ali Muhammad was convicted by a Fresno County jury Wednesday of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, attempted murder and other crimes, the Fresno County district attorney’s office said.</p>

This video was filmed by a drone controlled by a man sitting in a lawn chair. He would move his location to different sections where wall construction was taking place. Music and title work were then added and VOILA ! ... the resultant video. The filming was done in January 2020.

Drew Carey has mastered the art of forgiveness. The funnyman, 61, chatted it up with the hosting cast of “The Talk” on Wednesday, in an interview that aired on Friday, and admitted that as much as he has forgiven Gareth Pursehouse, the man who is charged with murdering his ex-fiancée Amie Harwick, the toll her murder has had on him has been difficult to understand. “After Amie’s murder, I took a week off. Really, I couldn’t function,” Carey said, adding that upon his return to the show for “Kids Week,” he had an opportunity to speak with high school students...

Jameis Winston, one of the biggest remaining question marks in free agency, is finalizing a one-year deal to play for the New Orleans Saints in 2020, sources tell Yahoo Sports. The deal is expected to be completed quickly now that the NFL draft has wrapped, bringing Winston’s surprisingly long free agency trek to an end. Sources told Yahoo Sports that Winston’s 2020 salary will be very economical, fitting inside the Saints’ already tight salary cap for next season.

A combat veteran who made a customized steel flag for President Trump has retooled his Alabama home decor business during the coronavirus pandemic to design free products for everyday heroes on the frontlines of the crisis. Colin Wayne, CEO of Redline Steel in Huntsville, decided to give away steel wall decor as a thank you to professionals putting their health on the line during the pandemic, including nurses, truckers, health care workers and U.S. Postal Service mail carriers. "It's just been a tremendous way that I can -- from a small town in Alabama -- make a difference," Wayne, a...

A one-time employee of the infamous Joe Exotic's Oklahoma zoo said that law enforcement is likely to file new charges against more people -- if investigators examine the web of those involved in animal cruelty crimes exposed by the Netflix series "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness." "A 'monster' is a relative term. And Joe fits the bill," Kelci "Saff" Saffery, a former worker at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, told former prosecutor and Fox Nation host Nancy Grace. According to Saffrey, Exotic -- whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage -- was motivated above all else by greed and...

Our favorite family of British Shorthairs. White kitty Coco having fun playing with her younger siblings. Video, 10 minutes & 35 seconds