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Someone show me a peer reviewed study that proves any mask, other than a N95 respirator, is effective against any virus.

During the floods in New Orleans a policeman went to a lady’s house and advised her to evacuate. “No, the lord will help me” she said. Later as the water was up to her door a fireman arrived and told her it’s time to evacuate. She once again replied “no the lord will help me”. Finally she was on her roof when a National Guard soldier came in a boat and told her it’s time to evacuate. “No the lord will help me” she once again replied. Later she died and met the lord in heaven. “Lord why didn’t you...

It appears the protest mobs of the U.S. and Europe are bent on canonizing the late George Floyd, a former alumnus of Texas prisons, as Saint George of the Hood. Of course to be canonized as a real deal saint Mr Floyd has had to demonstrate a miracle and it appears in death he’s done it. We know the death of accused criminal Jesus Christ on the cross began the miracle of Christianity. Mr Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis police caused the birth of anti law & order in the U.S. So, before you get your shorts...

I'm about to say something a lot of people probably aren't going to be super comfortable with, but here goes... A lot of people in my feed are starting to point out that the goals of lock downs seem to have shifted from "flattening the curve" - which was about making sure hospitals aren't overloaded - to a new goal of trying to prevent people from getting sick or dying from coronavirus. I've definitely seen this trend, and it's a little disconcerting, because while the previous goal was probably misguided (for a number of reasons that I'll be happy to...

TRIBUTE TO A SOLDIER: Bob is my friend. Some of you know Bob as a photographer; however, long before he picked up a camera Bob rode bulls in the 50s and early 60s. Bob is also a Navy veteran, a submarine sailor, the best of the best. Bob's son who I'll call Jr for now enlisted in the Army and was deployed during the first Gulf War in 1991. While dug in with his unit somewhere in Iraq they came under an Iraqi SCUD missile attack. The missiles landed close to Jr's position but unlike other missiles these had a...

During the floods in New Orleans a policeman went to a lady’s house and advised her to evacuate. “No, the lord will help me” she said. Later as the water was up to her door a fireman arrived and told her it’s time to evacuate. She once again replied “no the lord will help me”. Finally she was on her roof when a National Guard soldier came in a boat and told her it’s time to evacuate. “No the lord will help me” she once again replied. Later she died and met the lord in heaven. “Lord why didn’t you...

CIRCUS MAXIMUS: U.S. SENATE 2020: Roman Senator Brutus would be amused to see the U.S. Senate today struggling to impeach a President using far more niceties than he did during Caesar’s reign.. In 44 BC when Caesar was Emperor and Dictator he was pushing hard to make himself a monarch; i.e. King. Some Roman Senators objected and decided to impeach him permanently. Brutus and others attacked Caesar and carved him up high, wide and continually. It was Rome’s day of the Long Knives.. Fast forward a couple thousand years to January 2020 and the U.S. Senate. The idea of carving...

My takeaway from yesterday's impeachment hearings was simply; Are you kidding me? Both witnesses, career diplomats William Taylor and George Kent assigned to the Ukraine offered little more than hearsay. Both men, knowledgeable about the Ukraine, including the high level of corruption in government offered nothing more that “I heard this or that, or “he said, or “she said”, or “I think possibly…”, “I believe this or that,” and it appears maybe.. and so on. To me it was laughable. Frantically stirring this empty pot of hearsay was Democrat Adam Schiff, the hearing chairman. Sort of funny watching Schiff getting...

BALTIMORE & SFO: CUMMINGS & PELOSI: One city, Baltimore is competing for crime capital of the U.S. and the other city, SFO for most feces strewn street award. Like other deteriorting cities across the U.S., they have one thing in common: Democrat administrations. Both cities awhile ago had charm and beauty, each enjoying a good tourist trade. Today, not so much. My friend Jeff Goldman recently pointed out the mind boggling crime statistics of Baltimore. Unfortunately, crime in Baltimore is not decreasing anytime soon since aggressive police tactics in the inner city might hurt race sensibilities upsetting local crime lords...

Think we are a republic and not a democracy? Think our Electoral College specified by our Constitution protects that republic? Think again folks. I borrowed some of this reasoning from a friend. In the last presidential election, Nevada had six electors (one assigned for each US Senator and one for each US Congressman from the state). Individual states may pass laws binding the electors to vote for the candidate of their respective party or impose any manner of "pledge" obligation on the electors. While it is rare, some electors (fewer than 1% since 1789) have been "faithless" and not voted...

Wake up America. If you believe the House of Representatives controlled by Democrats and the Senate controlled by the GOP is a good thing, you better think again.. For starters the House Democrats under blank brain Pelosi have made their intentions clear: Investigate, prosecute and maybe never legislate. They’ve already announced their intention to subpoena Trump as part of a wide ranging investigation probably collusion with Russia, his tax returns. women he grabbed, women who grabbed him, cheating in golf using a “foot wedge” and horror of horrors, using an environmental unfriendly hairspray. Seriously, the Democrats are about to unleash...

Trafalgar Square and it’s monument in the heart of London is dedicated to the British naval victory over Napoleons combined French and Spanish fleet at Cape Trafalgar in October 1805. The British fleet was under the command of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson, a statue of which sits atop of a 169’ granite and bronze column. Such a tall monument for such a small man in stature; 5’4”, 130 lbs , missing one arm and an eye from battle wounds. He also suffered from gout, chronic headaches, was often sea sick and had a ferocious temper. However, he was a tactical...

To my Democrat friends. No argument from me will follow: Considering the growth in the economy, the tax breaks, job growth, low unemployment numbers immigration reform etc., why would you vote for a Democrat on the ticket? Why vote Democrat when you know they'll block everything the President is doing to help the country economically? Why would you vote for a Democrat when you see their record of economic failure and inner city blight/crime around the country, particularly in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland etc? It doesn't make sense to vote for a Democrat so I'd like to know why...

The FBI on Friday announced that it has arrested all five "extremist Muslim" New Mexico compound suspects, just days after multiple charges were dropped against those involved. The suspects were charged with violating federal firearms and conspiracy laws. "The defendants, Jany Leveille, 35, a Haitian national illegally present in the United States, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, are charged in a criminal complaint that was filed earlier today in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico," the bureau said in a statement.

OK I have a question for our legal eagles. If Trump paying off women using his own money is not illegal, then no crime has been committed. How then can Paul Manafort plead guilty to something that was not illegal?

I think AG Jeff Sessons is the invisble man hiding under his desk waiting for the President to ask him: “He Jeff baby; why haven’t you filed charges against the governors and mayors of sanctuary states/cities for breaking federal law? And, why is Hillary Clinton not in jail, or at least indicted for E mail violations..? Come on Jeffy, you gotta step up.. Oh, and don’t forget Huma Abidin, Cheryl Mills, Donna Brazille and Debbie Wasserman Schultz as persons of interest or indicted for helping Hillary. Don't forget to indict the DNC and John Podesta for providing phony information for...

Al Franken didn’t resign, he announced he “intends” to resign in a few weeks (after the Judge Roy Moore election). If Judge Roy Moore gets elected in Alabama expect Franken to have a change of heart. He'll use Moore's victory as a reason to NOT resign. "I can't in good conscience resign and let a child molester fill a vacancy without me being here", or some such garbage. I think many of us agree the liberal hit squad is what is coming after Moore, not true "victims". Their timing, the amount of time it took for them to come forward,...

I remember when football was a man’s game. I mean a game played by real men not community organizers and feminists. Men who carried monikers like the mafia. Men who played with broken bones and strained muscles and played for the love of the game and of the violence of the game and didn’t really care if they got paid or not. Men like: • Ed “too tall” Jones who once jumped up in the center of the uprights and blocked a field goal kick at the goal posts. • Kenny “the snake” Stapler who had a great career as...

I have been hearing from friends via email, Facebook and Twitter that “ANTIFA” is apparently plotting a civil war in the United States that will begin on November 4, according to a pervasive right wing conspiracy theory. I'm wondering what freepers have heard. Many web sites and BLOGs on both sides of the issue.