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Theme parks in California are planning to reopen as early as next month, but thrill seekers may be forced to control their excitement while riding roller coasters. The state's Attractions and Parks Association is recommending that park officials encourage riders to "mitigate the effects of shouting" on roller coasters and thrill rides to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Under the association's "responsible reopening plan" that was released in September, park officials can do so by requiring face masks and modifying the seating on rides.

Would the SCOTUS uphold such an unconstitutional order. While it hasn’t happened yet, it is obvious that the Biden administration, along with the rest of the globalists, thinks vaccinations should be mandatory despite the hesitation of many millions of Americans to submit to what is essentially an experimental vaccine, approved on an emergency basis, still unapproved by the FDA. “Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.” (Friedrich von Hayek) Testing that would ordinarily take at least five years has been rushed even though the mortality rate of Covid is low and...

It’s just the flu, bro. So we are in year 2 of the Flubros thread and we are also in year two of two weeks to flatten the curve. The plan was to keep the thread going daily at least until year two or when Texas was free. Texas is mostly free - the exception is the schools and some churches. Also some businesses still require them (Uber). The work is not done to have total freedom but it is getting there - those who want to be seen as protecting the children will be the hardest to to get...

The People's Republic of China is an existential threat to the national security, health, and prosperity of the United States. Communist China has viewed the U.S. as its primary enemy since its founding by Mao Zedong in 1949. For Beijing, the idea of the Chinese people embracing American-style freedoms is always a threat to their rule. We are a threat to them just by being who we are. As such, we must be attacked. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expanded its economy and military relentlessly, intending to supplant America in world prominence. And now, with a...

Flush with success, the Democrats have built a seemingly sturdy edifice "for our own good," but it's an illusion and theirs is really a house of sand. It is just past mid-March, about ten weeks into a new U.S. Congress and eight weeks into America’s forty-sixth presidential administration. Washington is now controlled by a ruling power monopoly owned by iron-willed Democrats, who dominate both legislative houses and a bizarre head-scratcher of a presidency. In this period, Americans have witnessed a mostly peaceful demonstration on Capitol grounds declared as “violent” by pols and pundits who, contrariwise, termed last summer’s violent urban...

“Up the Down Staircase” is a 1960s movie featuring an English teacher in an inner-city New York high school. Like other popular movies from years gone by, many are remade into a more woke or politically correct version. This past Friday, President Joe Biden remade the movie but in solo version, a soliloquy starring only himself. While ascending the staircase to Air Force One, Biden fell not once, not twice, but three times, going up the stairs. The White House blamed the three stumbles on the wind, as if brave Joe were scaling a mountain in the face of hurricane...

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ? Sun Tzu, The Art of War If you were the emerging world power but knew that aggressive military action against the United States would guarantee mutual destruction, how would you go about subduing your opponent? Cripple their economy? Make key politicians loyal to your support. Attack their vulnerable healthcare system? I’m just asking. We just marked the one-year anniversary since the public became aware of the China virus that was allowed to ravage the globe. It first traveled to Milan and Rome, then on to New York...

The Ford Motor Company, a multinational automaker, is reportedly planning to move a $900 million investment originally intended for an Avon Lake, Ohio plant to a site in Mexico, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union alleges. In a letter to Ohio Assembly Plant (OHAP) employees in Avon Lake, where Ford employs about 1,740 workers manufacturing its F-650 and F-750 medium duty trucks, UAW official Gerald Kariem said Ford had committed to investing $900 million in the project in 2019. The massive investment, Kariem wrote to workers, included a Ford commitment to bring a “next-generation product” to the Ohio Assembly Plant...

“Louisiana officials say the state’s oil and gas industry is in danger. This comes after President Joe Biden cancelled a March oil lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 80 million acres of available leases would have been sold this week. The damage to Louisiana’s (and the nation’s) oil and gas companies started in January when President Biden signed an executive order banning all new oil and gas leases on public land and waters for 60 days," reports KLFY. Now for the cheering: “Cancelling this huge offshore Gulf oil auction helps protect our climate and life on Earth. President...

“Here’s how Chinese state media describe baizuo,” Tucker began, quoting, “‘They are people who only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment, who have no sense of real problems in the real world, who only advocate for peace and equality to satisfy their own feelings of moral superiority and who are so obsessed with political correctness that they tolerate backward Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism.'”

Tucker Carlson revealed on Friday that the Chinese have a special, disdainful term for Biden and America’s other White wokesters. On Thursday, during a meeting in Anchorage, China’s top diplomat and its Foreign Minister showed Secretary of State Tony Blinken (an empty suit) and national security adviser Jake Sullivan stunning disrespect. It was almost as if the Chinese knew that these are weak, self-loathing, confused men – and it turns out they did know. Tucker Carlson revealed on Friday that the Chinese have a word for Biden and the other White wokesters now in power. They call them “baizuo,” and...

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What would you do with $100 million? Arkansas could let this hypothetical situation become their reality as the future of Medicaid expansion comes under debate. In 2014, Arkansas unfortunately took the bait of broken promises and expanded Obamacare to a new class of able-bodied adults. We’re not here to debate the merits of Medicaid expansion as a whole, though the research overwhelmingly says there are few, if any. Expansion has been a disaster for states across the country, but Arkansas managed to find a way to make it even worse. No, the topic of my reproach today is the specific...

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Speaking of China Joe, the elderly reprobate sock puppet for the DC Swamp currently pretending to be the legitimate President of the United States of America, he and his utterly incompetent, pathetic diplomatic staff are getting their heads handed to them by Putin and Xi Jinping this week. The corrupt Democrat toadies who staff our major news media outlets are all doing their best to pretend that this is all just fine, that there’s nothing to see here, but they’re lying to us as usual. This is not fine at all. It is in fact the opposite of fine.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 8Psalm 8[a] For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] A psalm of David. 1 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. 2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that...

The image of the new wall or fence with razor wire on top that now surrounds the Capitol is a disturbing symbol of what we're in for. The image of the new wall or fence with razor wire on top that now surrounds the Capitol has been floating across the screen of my mind since it was erected. Was it erected merely as a response to the horrible events of Jan. 6, and the fear of a right-wing uprising against the anti-Trump Democrats? Recently, this writer had a breakthrough and understood that this wall is actually an austere reminder that...

WASHINGTON – The mood is so bad at the U.S. Capitol that a Democratic congressman recently let an elevator pass him by rather than ride with Republican colleagues who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election. Republicans say it’s Democrats who just need to get over it - move on from the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, end the COVID-19 restrictions and make an effort to reach across the aisle toward bipartisanship. Not yet 100 days into the new Congress, the legislative branch has become an increasingly toxic and unsettled place, with lawmakers frustrated by the work-from-home limits imposed...

March 20 2021 Phát Diệm Cathedral, Vietnam Lectionary 249First readingJeremiah 11:18-20 ©'Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be quickly forgotten'The Lord revealed it to me; I was warned. O Lord, that was when you opened my eyes to their scheming. I for my part was like a trustful lamb being led to the slaughter-house, not knowing the schemes they were plotting against me, ‘Let us destroy the tree in its strength, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be quickly forgotten!’But...

The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Nazi-bought Guelph Treasure will not return to its Jewish heirs. The decision is in line with the court’s traditional tendency to avoid a situation where foreign plaintiffs bring cases to US courts even if they have little connection to the US, according to a New York Law Journal report. The ruling was made despite the fact that the Jewish owners of the medieval collection, who bought it in 1929, sold it to Nazi agents of Hermann Göring in 1935 during a time when they were under a lot of pressure to...