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It’s just the flu, bro. https://twitter.com/grahamneary/status/1337035542043701248?s=21 Ireland not showing excess dates. In fact, many months are less than historical mean death number, except for April. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm The USA shows excess deaths, unlike Ireland. Excess deaths are tricky to read as most places show excess deaths in April when COVID attacked the most vulnerable, coupled with poor treatment (ie. too much use of ventilators). The most vulnerable people are already dead, or are immune now because they survived. Death rates always go up in the winter so we may see more deaths overall in the winter, but this is normal. And...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that attorneys general who flooded their states with fraudulent mail-in ballots broke the law. BY ANDREW MIILLER • DECEMBER 11 United States President Donald Trump just announced that his administration is joining a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to block four swing states from casting electoral votes for Joe Biden. “We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case,” he posted to Twitter on December 9. “This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!” The lawsuit is led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who petitioned the U.S. Supreme...

Election fraud is a huge problem. But America has a problem even bigger than that. Now the ball is finally at the Supreme Court. At the heart of the issue is whether the election, at least in the states in question, violated the constitutional rights of the voters — or whether the election generally violated the Constitution of the United States. Elections and constitutional rights are highly interconnected. In democracy, elections are the mechanism where voters choose officials to whom they give power to legislate and to interpret and enforce their laws. They are pivotal to the quality of a...

As the world awaits a coronavirus vaccine, experts in Italy and the US are warning of another potential long-term consequence of COVID-19: erectile dysfunction. During a recent interview with the US broadcaster NBC, American physician Dena Grayson said there was growing concern that COVID-19 could cause long-term difficulty getting an erection. "We know that it causes issues in the vasculature," Grayson said. "So this is something that is of real concern - not just that this virus can kill, but can actually cause long-term, lifelong potential complications." A study out of Italy in July found that erectile dysfunction was both...

Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza recalled an unusual question the president asked him when he visited the White House in early 2020. “What do you think I should do?” asked the president referring to his career after leaving the White House. D’Souza didn’t hesitate to suggest the president -- who had been tormented by the mainstream media for four years -- launch his own independent news network. He envisioned the president breaking the chokehold Big Media has exerted on news cycles broadcasting 24/7 ((i.e. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, etc.). The president responded with: “You mean give up real estate?” That...

Essential Facts About Covid-19 - This is a long article but ought to be read in totality as it confirms what many of us have suspected all along: we are being played. Big time, by big players.A brief synopsis:the average death rate for people who contract Covid-19 is well below 1% and is much closer to that of the seasonal flu than figures that were commonly reported by the press. (ed. and yet there has never been anything close to a “lockdown” for any type of seasonal flu outbreaks)the average years of life lost from each Covid-19 death are significantly...

Simply put, they hate Trump because he represents ordinary Americans — those who are not part of the political and corporate elite, who lack the advantages and connections of the Deep State, who are not media, academics, or celebs. President Trump puts ordinary Americans first, and it drives the elite nuts. The elite have spent so many years enjoying their advantages, including the psychological advantage of despising ordinary people, that they panicked when someone tried to take it all away from them. They can't go on living without that warm, reassuring sense of superiority. Contempt for average Americans was palpable...

The clause has been mentioned rarely in Supreme Court jurisprudence and is usually consigned to the dead zone of "political questions." But now it's appropriate. The papers filed by Texas and its allies in Texas v. Pennsylvania do not invoke the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution: "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government" (Art IV, Sec. 4). The clause has been mentioned rarely in Supreme Court jurisprudence and is usually consigned to the dead zone of "political questions," which means that it is for the political branches, not the courts to...

VALDOSTA, Ga. - Convinced that the presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the young couple from Blairsville, Georgia at first resolved to skip the state’s Jan. 5 runoffs for two U.S. Senate seats. What’s the point, they figured, of voting in another rigged election? Then they thought better of it, setting aside their anger for the more pressing concern of keeping one of the two houses of Congress under Republican control. “Everybody is going to vote,” said Kayla Frank, 25. Frank and her partner - 28-year-old C.J. Townsend - had joined thousands of Trump supporters at a rally...

On the precipice of the 2020 presidential election, the American ruling class pulled off every stunt imaginable for its preferred candidate, Joe Biden. Presidential debate moderators deliberately refused to delve into the realm of foreign policy, an area in which Uncle Joe has been wrong on every major issue for four decades. Media elites dutifully praised the Supreme Court's unwise failure to intervene and clarify that state legislatures, not governors or state courts, retain sole power over changing election law. The most anodyne of questioning about the unprecedented proliferation of inherently destabilizing mail-in balloting was roundly denounced as "voter suppression."...

Question:I have come across a statement which a 7th Day Adventist claims. They say Jesus and the Archangel Michael is one and the same person. Their reading is in Daniel and also revelation with the war in heaven, I think its chapter 12. I find this hard to believe. What are your views in this?Answer:No, Jesus is DEFINITELY not Michael. I am a bit surprised to hear a 7th Day Adventist making this heretical claim. This would be no surprise at all coming from a Jehovah’s Witness, as they believe that Jesus is not God, but a very high and...

A group of state legislators and voters asked the Supreme Court on Thursday for permission to join Texas’s lawsuit challenging 2020 election results in four states. Among the members listed in the request (pdf) are those who had previously filed lawsuits seeking to de-certify election results either in state or federal courts. These include several voters and Pennsylvania state legislators Daryl D. Metcalfe, Chris E. Dush, and Thomas R. Sankey III, whose lawsuit was dismissed by a state judge.

In poker parlance, the D.C. crowd is bluffing that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and it's daring the American people to call it out. This is just an observation (because I'm not looking forward to gulag life), but I think the only thing keeping Trump voters from burning the whole corrupt system down right now is that nobody knows whom or what to attack. That should be a pretty sobering consideration for an establishment class that thinks it just stole the 2020 presidential election fair and square. If there were a ship out in the harbor loaded up with...

chickensoup is looking for a good dog. The dog from BC didn't work out. Could not get it across the border, never mind across the country. I am looking for an English Shepherdish sort of dog. Older, 2 to 6 or 7. Well trained calm and healthy. A dog who needs a home because of change in circumstances. I can provide a dog dream home on 30 acres off road, pleasant company, not isolated, a number of friends and family to provide attention, great food and vet care. A puppy is too much energy, a cheerful shepherd-y sort of guy...

South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said he thought Paul — who has provoked government shutdowns before — was using the time-crunch for maximum leverage to remove the provision on troop withdrawals. “I think he’s just trying to figure out ways to derail the bill. And … when you’re in the U.S Senate that’s your prerogative. But most of our people would like to get it done" this week, Thune said. “His thing is just to delay this and use all the time so it pushes the vote on (the defense bill) into next week, which...

The Hunter Biden scandal has reemerged the only way our Joe Biden-voting media will allow: through anodyne statements from Hunter Biden and President-elect Joe Biden's transition team. Biden's wayward son announced his "tax affairs" are being investigated by the U.S. attorney in Delaware. The transition team said the president-elect is "deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger." Repetition of these jejune statements seemed to be the bulk of the minimal television coverage this story received. The networks barely noticed. None of them featured a...

The State of Alaska has joined the Texas lawsuit on election integrity. “Alaska submitted a letter to the United States Supreme Court that adds Alaska to the list of amici states supporting Texas in its lawsuit against lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin,” the Department of Law said in a statement. “I agree with the attorney general that the integrity of this election is a critical bedrock principle of our republican form of government,” said Gov. Mike Dunleavy. “There are too many critical questions that need to be answered to give the American people confidence that their vote counts.”...

President-elect Joe Biden’s historically challenging transition to power is suddenly becoming even more complicated. A federal investigation into the finances of Biden’s son Hunter threatens to embolden congressional Republicans, who have already shown little willingness to work with the incoming president or even acknowledge his clear victory in last month’s election. For sure, it will complicate Senate confirmation hearings for Biden’s yet-to-be-named attorney general, who could ultimately have oversight of the investigation into the new president’s son. It all raises the prospect of even deeper dysfunction in a capital that is already struggling to address the nation’s most pressing crises,...

Some accuse Trump supporters of manufacturing allegations of voter fraud out of whole cloth and resisting the presidential election results in response to their supposed cult leader's wishes. As usual, President Donald Trump is the villain and his supporters are complicit. But again, the Trump-hating critics are wrong. Nationwide GOP distrust and outrage over the election is a grassroots phenomenon. Trump supporters did not take their cue from Trump. They witnessed the numerous anomalies on election night and beyond and recognized mischief when they saw it. Am I saying the election was stolen? Well, I firmly believe that massive cheating...

LONDON - Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi said Friday that their potential COVID-19 vaccine won’t be ready until late next year because they need to improve the shot’s effectiveness in older people. The companies said early trials showed the vaccine produced an “insufficient” immune response in older adults, demonstrating the need to refine the product so it protects people of all ages. London-based GSK and Paris-based Sanofi, now expect the vaccine to be available in the fourth quarter of 2021. “The results of the study are not as we hoped,” Roger Connor, president of GSK Vaccines, said in a statement. While...