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The mayor of Champaign, Illinois has declared a town emergency over the Wuhan coronavirus that includes a potential ban on the sale of firearms and ammunition. According to a local report from WAND 17, Champaign Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen has issued an executive order that would give her office "extraordinary powers." She has issued the order despite the town and surrounding area not having a single case of the disease.

My understanding is they have to pass the Senate - what are the chances people in VA? I say prepare for the worst - what will we do? Passive or active resistance?

On Wednesday December 6, Finland celebrates one hundred years of independence. Major festivities will make note of Finland's journey since 1917 – when the Finnish parliament proclaimed independence amid the Bolshevik revolution in Russia – from a poor provincial backwater to a global leader in technology, education and design, and a "social demographic triumph"as The Guardian put it.

The literary elite is using the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem to make Israel’s greatest victory synonymous with tragedy. It’s the new “nakba,” that being the Arabic word for “catastrophe” that Palestinians and their allies give to Israel’s victory in its 1948 war of independence, after Arab governments rejected the partition plan and declared war on the infant Jewish state. Palestinians could have had their own state all those decades ago, but chose war instead — and lost. There is something utterly nasty in trying to take a rare bright spot on the dark timeline of Jewish history...

C.G.E. Mannerheim (1867–1951) charted the course of Finnish history and was voted greatest Finn of all time. He served in the Russian Imperial Army for decades, and later became a war hero in his home country of Finland. He was the symbol of the Finnish struggle against Soviet Russia during the Winter War of 1939–1940. He was hailed as a champion of liberty throughout the Western world during those 105 days of stubborn resistance against a vastly superior enemy.

Hear a Finnish woman addressing the Islamic immigration problem.

Interesting commentary about Obama and his farewell speech full of "Horsedung" and everyone on there was clapping and singing Kumbaya..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8DgzgNudHM

The first half of last night was stressful. I could barely eat. Stupid Florida, always keeping us on the edge of our seats. I switched my networks around last night. I mostly relied on Fox News and Twitter. CNN wasn’t calling states as fast, and MSNBC is a last resort kind of thing. I vowed to stay away from that channel, UNLESS things started shaping up for Donald Trump. Then the results started coming in. Flyover nation. North Carolina. Ohio. Florida? Wisconsin?!!! That’s when the wheels started falling off their wagon. That’s when I started thinking about Hillary Clinton’s defeat....

How a Central Illinois college football player showed his respect to our flag. http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/cannot-remain-silent-young-man-just

http://www.ourlighterside.com/2016/10/06/dont-bite-hand-feeds/ A good commonsense tune.

So here we are again: the mainstream media predicts "it'll be the end of Trump's campaign" again. Here's my prediction on it.

DECATUR – Four days after an incident that had the potential of tearing a town apart, young people from throughout the city gathered together with a positive, hopeful spirit, after a few young leaders decided it is time for a serious change. “There's individuals out here who have tried to kill each other, and they're united,” said the Rev. Courtney Carson, 34, one of the organizers of the event which drew about 200 people to Hess Park on Friday evening. “There's individuals in this park who would not have spoken to each other a week ago. Now they're speaking to...

DECATUR – Four days after an incident that had the potential of tearing a town apart, young people from throughout the city gathered together with a positive, hopeful spirit, after a few young leaders decided it is time for a serious change. “There's individuals out here who have tried to kill each other, and they're united,” said the Rev. Courtney Carson, 34, one of the organizers of the event which drew about 200 people to Hess Park on Friday evening. “There's individuals in this park who would not have spoken to each other a week ago. Now they're speaking to...