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...The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) website for the coronavirus lists the total deaths from COVID-19 – the disease caused by the virus – as 37,308 in the United States. That’s a much lower number than what has been reported in the media or by other coronavirus trackers. For example, the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker, lists the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. at 65,645. Even more confusing, a separate CDC website – dedicated exclusively to the novel coronavirus – lists the total COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. as 64,283. The NCHS website was updated on...

The Georgia Tech campus is buzzing about the allegation that students in a physics class posted questions from their final exam to the online tutoring service Chegg where tutors provided answers...the College of Science and Georgia Tech Legal is working with Chegg to figure out which Tech students accessed the tutoring site during the final exam -- for which there was a 24-hour completion window -- and cross-correlating it with the time students were on the testing platform, Gradescope. If the times overlap, students could end up with an F...

Shelby County State’s Attorney Gina Vonderheide Friday announced that her office has received inquiries regarding whether an individual wearing a mask while carrying a firearm would be prosecuted for the offense of Unlawful Use of Weapons. The Illinois Criminal Code makes it a Class 4 felony for anyone to carry a weapon on his or her person while “masked in such a manner as to conceal his or her identity.” Vonderheide said, "I want to emphasize that the circumstances of each case can vary. However, protecting our communities from Covid-19 certainly is important. The Shelby County State’s Attorney will not...

Well here we are in this stressful wartime situation. I am out working and even volunteering a bit six days a week experiencing what's real out there. Fear and anger and shortages of goods..... Covid-19 Russia Update: Almost 10-Thousand New Cases.... DC 19 Update: Spain's Inmates Allowed Out Of Their "Cells" To Exercise As one person put it to me today: "It's like we're living in North Korea" Well, we maybe on the way to Venezuela or North Korea with some signs appearing in front of us in plain sight but the folks there you can argue have it worse...

Backstory — The owner of the boat had a Trump flag on his dock, and the neighbors across from his house complained to the club. Admirals told him that he had to take the flag down, so dude takes revenge by sending his boat to be wrapped 100% in Trump swag.

Harvard University admitted Friday that Jeffrey Epstein had his own office and phone line at the university and also made several visits there even after he was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from minors. According to a new report from the university, Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in jail last year while awaiting sex crimes charges, visited Harvard more than 40 times after his 2008 conviction and unveiled deep ties between him and the university, with which he had no official affiliation. University President Lawrence Bacow said in a letter to the Harvard community that Harvard accepted...

Joe Biden is not an “imperfect candidate” for the Democrats. He is the perfect candidate, because he’s everything the party is: Demented. Decrepit. Bloodthirsty. Corrupt. Cronyistic. Authoritarian. Reactionary. Rapey. He is exactly what they deserve. He is exactly what they are. Joe Biden is the Democrat’s Democrat. He is the perfect representative of the party. They should even take it a step further and replace that donkey with Joe Biden. We know Biden is a liar. He’s been pinged for lying his whole career. Everyone is trying to undermine the victim’s character in order to discredit her while ignoring Joe’s...

Joe Biden has finally announced his running mate: Hillary Clinton. He made the selection while several laser dots were carefully trained on his vital organs.

May 03 2020 Fourth Sunday of Easter Reading 1 Acts 2:14a, 36-41 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?” Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive...

Desperate times do indeed call for desperate measures. For the Democrats, a truly desperate time could come if Joe Biden is forced to withdraw from the presidential race. While the former vice president is the presumptive Democratic nominee to face off against President Trump in November, his nomination is still far from official. Some Democrats tell me they fear that Biden’s political survival is getting more problematic with each passing day. They cite three main issues. The first is their concern that an allegation of sexual assault leveled against Biden by former staffer Tara Reade won’t go away anytime soon....

ANAMA, Fla. (CNN/WMBB) — A Florida man is not happy with the governor’s decision to reopen beaches, hitting the beach to protest in a Grim Reaper outfit. Residents and tourists across Walton County beaches were in for quite a scare Friday afternoon when Florida lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder took the sand in his Grim Reaper costume. “You know when we first saw him it was a little bit scary and didn’t know exactly what was going on,” Walton County resident Joe Villarreal said. Uhlfelder is the same lawyer who filed a suit against Gov. Ron DeSantis back in March. “People are...

“The Real Normal” (Acts 2:42-47) We’re hearing a lot of talk these days about “the new normal.” “The new normal”: It means that the way we’ve been living these last seven weeks is how we’re going to have to continue to live for the indefinite future. Depending on the state you live in and who your governor is, you’re going to have to stay at home, self-isolating, and not do any unessential travel. If you do go out for anything deemed essential, you’re going to have to practice social distancing--stay six feet apart from anybody. You’re going to have to...

Orange County Sheriff’s deputies found Richard McGuire on Disney’s Discovery Island on Thursday. He said he’d been there since Monday or Tuesday and had planned to camp there for a week, according to an arrest report. The 42-year-old said he didn’t hear numerous deputies searching the private island for him on foot, by boat and by air because he was asleep in a building. He told the deputy he didn’t know it was a restricted area, despite there being numerous “no trespassing” signs. Orange County Marine deputies on Bay Lake used a public address system to tell McGuire he was...

OK, this is my opinion and my opinion only but this COVID 19 thing has now reached ridiculous mode. Me, I've yet to put on mask since all this BS commenced. I've been to the grocery store many, many times. I've been to Lowes and Home Depot many, many times. I've been to the liquor store (need my triple IPA's....lol) many, many times. I've even been seeing my ladyfriend (she's a RN) on occasion and to this day, I've yet to wear one of those stupid masks. How many times have you worn one?

The U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCR) said on Twitter it was “gravely concerned” about the incident on Friday at the Los Llanos penitentiary in Portuguesa state. The South American country’s prisons are infamous for extreme levels of violence and poor conditions. “We urge the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation, tackle overcrowding, and guarantee basic rights,” the office said. The country’s prisons minister, Iris Varela, was quoted on a state radio station’s website as saying the incident resulted in the deaths of 17 inmates and injuries to the prison’s director, who tried to negotiate with...

Three potentially interesting background notes on the Tara Reade story: 1. She is not merely alleging "sexual assault". She is alleging rape. The FBI definition of rape is as follows: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition-rape If Biden were a Republican the press would surely know the correct word. They might even rediscover their dictionary if he were a Democrat who already served two terms and was no longer potentially eligible to...

As some Western studies found hydroxychloroquine ineffective as a potential Covid-19 therapy, a new Chinese research has reported that the anti-malarial drug brought down mortality rates significantly among critical coronavirus patients. The latest preprint study -- which means it's not yet peer-reviewed -- is based on the clinical analysis of 568 Covid-19 cases at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the pandemic, between February 1 and April 8. Funded by China's Ministry of Science and Technology, Nature Science Foundation and Ma Yun Foundation, the research is sent to the Science China Life Sciences journal for peer-reviewing. According to...

Many have pondered President Trump’s grassroots support in the nation’s heartland. Democrats, in fact, still marvel — or worry about — the 63 million folks who stood up and went to the polls in 2016 and voted for Mr. Trump. It appears they are still out there, and still support the president in a big way. Though the nation’s farmers are understandably fretting about their business outcomes, like most folks around America. But pessimism is not affecting their support for Mr. Trump, according to DTN, a Minneapolis-based research and marketing firm specializing in agriculture, livestock, crops and other related fields....

Another British Shorthair cutie-pie. Video, 4 minutes, 48 seconds

Since the DemonicRat party and one world government sycophants are trying their damndest to fool the public, how about songs pertaining to fools or being fooled.