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I heard this on public radio this morning and had to share this cheery tune. Julie Andrews' voice is so unmistakable...to old farts like me. Hope you enjoy and please dont flame the ignorant newb.

Indiana will continue easing the stay-at-home restrictions in stages over the next two months, as long as new COVID-19 cases don’t delay those plans. Gov. Eric Holcomb Friday unveiled a roadmap for the next two months, as midwestern states begin to move to a new normal from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the details below could change based on hospitalized COVID-19 patients, ICU and ventilator availability, testing capabilities, and centralized contact tracing, but this is the current plan state officials are using. Stage Two: May 4 – May 24 In stage two, the state plans to ease the restriction on...

The Centers for Disease Control has performed poorly during the COVID-19 epidemic. Its failures with regard to early testing are well documented. In addition, Ashish K. Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, says that CDC is failing in its traditional role as a national clearinghouse for data: Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CDC has been inexplicably absent, and Americans are suffering and dying for it. *** Want to know how many tuberculosis cases there were in the U.S. last year? Ask the CDC. Want to know about health-care-associated infections? Ask the CDC. It knows. But...

Companies seem to be taking Hillary Clinton's advice during this pandemic. "Never let a crisis go to waste."

Joe Biden was asked about Kavanaugh and if he deserves the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden refers back to the Anita Hill days and said she should be given the benefit of the doubt because it takes a lot of courage to come forward with the accusations. He says they should also be treated with respect and not face character assassinations.

In hometown of Allendale, James Comey is no 'nut job,' but principled career man

Anyone....Anyone....Bueller? Just curious to see if anyone I know or know of has had this virus. I don't know of anyone locally who has had it. If you have had it, I hope you have a swift recovery. If you know someone, I hope they have a full recovery.

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=RzFP4yzZzII Bottom line is i have zero trust in those producing it, i don't trust them to be acting in my best interests, they want immunity from permanently damaging or killing people, and they want to demand people take it and track people better than any dystopian society ever could. You all can take it if that's your choice, but not me. No one is forcing me to take it and it's a redline issue for me.

Precious little British Shorthair kittens cuteness. Video, 2 minutes & 44 seconds

<p>Tara Reade is Joe Biden’s eighth accuser, not his first, not his only. The fake news media want you to believe Reade is Biden’s only accuser, and that’s because there is no lie the media will not tell to protect the presumptive Democrat nominee.</p>

A preliminary study has found tentative evidence suggesting low levels of vitamin D may make it more likely an individual will die after contracting coronavirus.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system, which provides the electricity that supports our national defense, vital emergency services, critical infrastructure, economy, and way of life.  The bulk-power system...

From the comments: Ryan Pants Ryan Pants 1 month ago (edited) What disturbs me is that YouTube / Google are actively trying to hide this. Imagine virtue signaling to the world and then trying to cover up / bury evidence of child molestation because "politics." Mary Damer Mary Damer 3 days ago The one I sent yesterday where I felt so sorry for the girl was down from Facebook by today tuir fghfhg tuir fghfhg 1 month ago you know that guy is so creepy when even Hillary feels uncomfortable SouthernDarkness 99 SouthernDarkness 99 2 months ago It makes me...

...Already, trial lawyers in Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee are airing aids for COVID-related lawsuits. Lawsuit marketers are soliciting law firms to take advantage of cheap ad buys. Even litigation funders­­ — the group that takes a cut of settlements in exchange for financing lawsuits — are touting their services. There’s precedent for Congress to pass broad liability protections. The Y2K Act enacted a three-year ban on most lawsuits in state and federal courts over economic losses associated with Y2K glitches. Post-9/11, Congress ensured victims were compensated and curtailed needless, court-clogging lawsuits through the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Later, Congress passed...

Sweden's top virologist has admitted he is 'not convinced at all' that the country's lockdown-free strategy is right - as Sweden saw a sharp fall in its daily death toll and number of new infections today. The Scandinavian country has become a closely-watched case after keeping bars, restaurants and secondary schools open throughout the pandemic. State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has become the face of that strategy, but he admitted in an interview with Aftonbladet that he was not sure if it was right. 'I'm not convinced at all. We are constantly thinking about this at the [public health agency]. What...

Illinois' billionaire governor dodges question about his wife leaving town to see out coronavirus pandemic on their $12.1million equine estate in Florida as he extends stay-at-home order to May Billionaire Governor of Illinois J.B. Pritzker dodged a question about the whereabouts of his wife during a press conference Wednesday after it was reported she had left the state to ride out the stay-at-home from their $12.1million Florida equine estate. Gov. Pritzker refused to answer the question stating his family should not not be brought into politics, slamming the story as 'reprehensible' despite his wife M.K. Pritzker having an office in...

Thirty-eight states have started reopening or are planning to reopen soon from the near-total economic lockdown implemented to try to slow the spread of the CCP virus, according to an Epoch Times tally. Businesses in 21 states have already started reopening or will be allowed to welcome customers back on May 1. Alabama, Georgia, Montana, and Tennessee are among the states that have already started reopening. Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming are among the states loosening restrictions effective Friday. The other states that have reopened or are reopening on May 1 are: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico,...

The U.S. Department of Education has asked the University of Texas (UT) to supply documentation on its relationship with the China-based infectious-disease lab at the heart of the controversy surrounding the origin of the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease. Though scientists suggest the likeliest origin of the pandemic remains natural, investigators are looking into whether there is evidence to support a theory that the virus was the subject of scientific work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and somehow escaped. President Donald Trump, in remarks on Thursday, claimed to have seen evidence to support the...

Two U.S. warships in two days have sailed through separate disputed island chains in the South China Sea in a challenge to territorial claims, in what the U.S. Navy calls “freedom of navigation” operations. Beijing on April 28 said it had “expelled” the USS Barry, a guided-missile destroyer, from the seas around the Paracel Islands, which it claims as its own territory, saying China’s sovereignty had been violated. The U.S. Navy disputed the story, however, saying that the warship had carried out its operation successfully. The following day the Navy dispatched a larger cruiser, the USS Bunker Hill, through the...

...Nichols and his two kids were walking along a sidewalk when he allegedly pulled out a knife and told the jogger to cross the street. The 29-year-old man, also of Cambridge, later told detectives he was about 30 to 40 feet away from Nichols at the time, according to a police report...“It does provide a little information on some of the stress that may be on some people,” Cambridge police spokesman Jeremy Warnick told WFXT. “Certainly people have been in their homes for an extended period of time. We are going on six or seven weeks, which is a long...