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Santa Clara County has surpassed 1 million tests for the novel coronavirus since the pandemic began in March, the county’s testing officer said Monday. County COVID-19 testing officer Dr. Marty Fenstersheib said between 7,000 and 8,000 tests are being conducted per day in Santa Clara County. “The more testing we do, yes we may find and we do find more cases, but then we are able to educate those people that are infected and to keep them safe and others around them safe until they are no longer infectious,” he said. As of Sunday, 25,139 coronavirus cases have been confirmed...

On Monday, the mayors of California’s largest cities sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom imploring him to “modify” his stringent reopening guidelines for large theme parks. The missive said the governor’s requirements “would effectively keep parks closed indefinitely.” In their letter to Governor Newsom the mayors said: The guidelines put forth by your Administration were released within the framework of prioritizing public health and safety for guests and employees. This is the right focus. However, economic and public health are not mutually exclusive goals. We are concerned that the state’s guidelines would push re-opening of large theme parks up...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that more California counties are poised to move backward on the state's reopening system as COVID cases increase. (Oh Noes!) Earlier in the day, President-elect Joe Biden cheered news about the promising development of a coronavirus vaccine but cautioned that Americans need to be aggressive about mask-wearing and social distancing as infections continue to surge around the country. As of mid-morning Monday, California had more than 976,576 confirmed COVID cases and nearly 18,000 deaths related to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir Technologies, which just went public, and was an early employee at PayPal. But in recent years he's been a venture capitalist, running 8VC out of San Francisco. Now he's moving the investment firm to Austin, driven out of California by taxes and other concerns. According to CNBC, Lonsdale has already hosted Elon Musk and Michael Dell at his new Austin home.

They are everywhere! From Dr. Anthony Fauci slyly working yet another media opportunity to the nursing assistants in my friend’s doctor’s office to the members of the newly formed Hysterical Church of Karen on social media.  They seek to manipulate or have been manipulated everywhere they turn, and in every direction that they look.They are the ones who need to stop. They need to read more, dig deeper, and attempt to do some critical comparison in their thinking process.If after doing those things they still have reasons to keep their kids out of school, stay at home out of circulation,...

Last week Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed the mob to burn the police precincts in an expression of his alignment with their woke demands.  However, the Minneapolis mob was not satisfied with his permission to riot, loot and torch the city, the mob wants more.The mob always wants more. You can never be woke enough.The mob has an unquenchable blood lust for power.Today the social justice warriors demanded Mayor Frey prove his virtue by promising to eliminate all police officers and allow the woke community to take over the organization of their politically correct civic society.  The Mayor could not...

Minneapolis Mayor @Jacob_Frey Just Got His Struggle Session https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1269414091329867776?s=20  

"The health crisis is unlike anything we have ever experienced," Calhoun said, before detailing just how far the air travel industry has fallen. With passenger demand down more than 95% from early March, airlines in the U.S. have parked more than 2,800 planes, and airlines globally are on pace to lose $314 billion this year, according to the International Air Transport Association. As a result, Calhoun says airlines are "grounding fleets, deferring airplane orders, postponing acceptance of completed orders, and slowing down or stopping payments." Calhoun says, "It will take two to three years for travel to return to 2019...

“Encouragement for St. Timidity” (2 Timothy 1:1-14) Fear, or timidity, can paralyze a person and render him ineffective. This is true when it comes to our life as Christians. We live in a hostile world. We’re in enemy territory. The world is not friendly to the Christian faith. Where will we find the courage we need to be faithful Christians? Faithful Christians are those not ashamed of the gospel, nor afraid of suffering for it. Not ashamed, not afraid. The alternative is that we turn into tame and timid “people-pleasers.” St. Paul addresses this issue when he writes to Timothy...

Well, now it looks like we have a gay flag controversy, something Democrats are sure to make a 2020 campaign issue with the press ignorantly reporting that the whole thing is being done to be mean.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the deputy leader of the Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, said on Thursday that the PA rejects all the proposed political plans and would not grant legitimacy to any plan without the consent of the Palestinian people, its leadership, and its "President", a reference to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "We will never allow anyone to speak in the name of the Palestinian people ... and we will not accept arrangements that will not lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital," Abu Rudeineh said at a press conference in Ramallah. He added,...

Notre Dame gay and lesbian alumni group honors pro-LGBT celebrity priestSOUTH BEND, Ind. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pro-gay Jesuit celebrity priest Fr. James Martin is receiving an award from an LGBT alumni group at the University of Notre Dame. The notorious pro-LGBT Jesuit priest will be receiving the Thomas A. Dooley Award from a nationwide alumni group called the Gay and Lesbian Alumni of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College (GALA-ND). GALA-ND promotes the homosexual agenda on Notre Dame's campus, in part by funding and supporting PrismND, the university's official LGBT outreach organization. The award ceremony is slated for...

I’ve come to realize that there is a tyranny to liberal shame. Liberal shame is what we are constantly fighting because it is their primary motivation for their nihilistic behavior. White liberal shame has been the biggest permutation of liberal shame in our lifetimes. It has ushered in affirmative action, the abandonment of individual rights, the undermining of American pride and power, the expansion of the welfare state, the toppling of monuments and on and on. Liberal shame is what convinces liberals that they are right and everyone else is wrong. White liberal shame is what causes them to hate...

This weekend, abortion activists will flock to Detroit for Planned Parenthood’s “biggest, baddest” grassroots training conference. The “Power of Pink” conference, taking place from July 27 to 29, is being touted as the abortion group’s largest training conference to date, mobilizing more than 3,000 women and pro-abortion advocates in light of the fall midterm elections. One of the pro-abortion organization’s latest strategies to sway voters is to have women brag about their abortions. Planned Parenthood’s website explains the mission of the conference in more detail: “Over the course of two days, thousands of Planned Parenthood Action Fund members and supporters...

The bodies of a drowned woman and a toddler have been found – along with a sole survivor – still clinging to a wrecked migrant ship today, after Libyan coastguards 'left them to die' in the Mediterranean on Monday. Distressing photos of the two corpses, slumped on the remains of a table from the boat, have been published on Twitter by Proactiva Open Arms, a non-governmental organisation based in Barcelona. Libyan coastguards had sent out a message to the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination saying they had 'rescued' 158 Europe-bound migrants on Monday. However, they did not say two woman and a...

In May, Jack Peterson went on a Tinder date. With a woman. They ate at an Italian restaurant in downtown Chicago, and made casual chitchat about themselves. It was an ordinary date in every way. But for 19-year-old Peterson, it was an achievement of epic proportions. Until recently, Peterson identified as an “incel,” or involuntarily celibate. Incels believe that, due to reasons entirely beyond their control ― too short, too bald, too weak a jawline ― they cannot attract a female partner. They believe they’re doomed to remain alone, forever. For many incels, this fatalistic worldview is paired with a...

As an instrument for delivering publicity, terrorism clearly works. Or at least it did last week, when the hitherto obscure term “incel” went viral after Alek Minassian drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in downtown Toronto. Mr. Minassian, just before carrying out his attack, wrote a post on Facebook in which he proclaimed the arrival of an “incel rebellion.” Standing for “involuntarily celibate,” the term is used as a badge of honor among a fringe online subculture of misogynists who say they hate women for depriving them of sex. So now we know. Were it not for that...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 16 Saturday, Dec 23, 2017 (All times Eastern) Indianapolis at Baltimore 4:30 pm NFLN M&T Bank Stadium Minnesota at Green Bay 8:30 pm NBC Lambeau Field Sunday, Dec 24, 2017 Atlanta at New Orleans 1:00 pm FOX Mercedes-Benz Superdome Buffalo at New England 1:00 pm CBS Gillette Stadium Cleveland at Chicago 1:00 pm CBS Soldier Field Denver at Washington 1:00 pm CBS FedEx Field Detroit at Cincinnati 1:00 pm FOX Paul Brown Stadium L.A. Chargers at N.Y. Jets 1:00 pm CBS MetLife Stadium L.A. Rams at Tennessee 1:00 pm FOX Nissan Stadium Miami at Kansas...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 15 Thursday, Dec 14, 2017 (All times Eastern) Denver at Indianapolis 8:25 pm NFLN (& NBC) Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday, Dec 16, 2017 Chicago at Detroit 4:30 pm NFLN Ford Field L.A. Chargers at Kansas City 8:25 pm NFLN Arrowhead Stadium Sunday, Dec 17, 2017 Arizona at Washington 1:00 pm FOX FedEx Field Baltimore at Cleveland 1:00 pm CBS FirstEnergy Stadium Cincinnati at Minnesota 1:00 pm CBS U.S. Bank Stadium Green Bay at Carolina 1:00 pm FOX Bank of America Stadium Houston at Jacksonville 1:00 pm FOX EverBank Field Miami at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 14 Thursday, Dec 7, 2017 (All times Eastern) New Orleans at Atlanta 8:25 pm NFLN (& NBC) Mercedes-Benz Stadium Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 Chicago at Cincinnati 1:00 pm FOX Paul Brown Stadium Detroit at Tampa Bay 1:00 pm FOX Raymond James Stadium Green Bay at Cleveland 1:00 pm FOX FirstEnergy Stadium Indianapolis at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS New Era Field Minnesota at Carolina 1:00 pm CBS Bank of America Stadium Oakland at Kansas City 1:00 pm CBS Arrowhead Stadium San Francisco at Houston 1:00 pm FOX NRG Stadium Dallas at N.Y. Giants 1:00 pm FOX...