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Friday, July 31. 2020Friday morning linksUN Officials Cite Study That Finds Lockdowns, School Closures Killing More Kids Than COVID Teachers Unions Want Wealth Taxes, Charter School Bans, and Medicare for All Before Schools Can Reopen Masks are the new condoms — and Americans need to get on board now! Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties Failed to disclose China ties Multiple Outlets, Journalists, Push False Stat that GDP Fell 32.9% in Q2; It Fell 9.5% I admit I believed it
Good Riddance To Drudge He served a purpose With silencing of speech, is America entering Orwellian territory? Dems Fear A Campaign-Altering Surprise From Durham CNN Claims Congress Can Pass Law To Stop Economy From Contracting Cool! Cuomo: Federal government needs to fill New York's budget gap States, seeking more coronavirus relief funds, have hardly spent the $139 billion approved in March: report. The National Governors Association said states need $500 billion to replace revenue lost during the recession From whom? Is New York Reaching Herd Immunity? What does China want? Comments
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32.9% annualized, not for the quarter. 32/4 = 8% for the quarter, not 9%. Everything is written to sensationalize the bad and minimize the good while Trump is President. Under Obama it was Camelot all the time, no matter how incompetent or vile.
China want: Yesterday they wanted 2 million tons of corn (a record buy) while at the same time selling 4.5 million tons out of their gov't holdings. Today they bought their 3rd largest buy.
This should raise the tent flap a bit. My belief is that last years crops where not as big, of normal nutritional quality, or storable as the government would have us believe. This is based on fields not planted (too muddy), too much rain not enough sun, & when it made grain, it was harvested at higher moisture which required more drying costs and then does not store as well as long. This years crop could be suspect too. It's overall sounding good, except for the people who report it's not! I don't know what the trade agreement with China is supposed to be, but in these past few weeks they are buying. Buying at what are bargain prices. Masks are the new condoms
It is really ironic that this article was so heavily politicized and whined about the fact that masks are so heavily politicized. Cloth masks are 8% "effective". If condoms were 8% effective would we advise that people use them because "they might help"? But it gets so much worse; do you touch and play with your condom all day and do you lay it on the kitchen counter and use it again day after day. If your condom worked and it was laden with HIV would you touch it, adjust it, re-use it??? Masks don't work. Ask a smoker to exhale through a cloth mask and and see if it filters out the smoke. The smoke particles are 10-100 times larger than the virus. The mask does not filter all of the virus. At best it will catch globs of liquid that could contain virus while easily passing through smaller or individual clumps of virus. It would be great if the mask worked but it does not. Very well said. Comparing a condom to a mask is just silly, as you laid out a few reasons. There is a comparison of the mask below the nose to made. Masks are more like the Star of David, Germany, 1939.
Re: Masks are the new condoms — and Americans need to get on board now!
If masks really work so well, why don't they use them in prisons and jails instead of letting those criminals free? Teachers Unions Want Wealth Taxes, Charter School Bans, and Medicare for All Before Schools Can Reopen: Nope! Not happ'nin'. Bummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmer.
Woke beyond words: Oh, the NYT! As I've said before, I despise, detest, and distrust the NYT (and its little dog WaPoo, too!) Good Riddance To Drudge: I gave up on him some years ago. CNN Claims Congress Can Pass Law To Stop Economy From Contracting : Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Re: Good Riddance To Drudge
Drudge is so over. I haven't looked at that site in almost a year. I've replaced it with https://bonginoreport.com, https://justthenews.com, https://protrumpnews.com, and more recently https://www.revolver.news. Life is much better now! :-) Re: Teachers Unions Want Wealth Taxes, Charter School Bans, and Medicare for All Before Schools Can Reopen
It's for the children of course! Only someone in the media could use the terms Fauci, masks, and science in the same sentence. Fauci's been on both sides of the mask issue in less than 3 months and hasn't cited any peer-reviewed scientific data in support of either of his inconsistent positions. And, they're really helping Japan and Hong Kong avoid COVID rebounds!
I have a suggestion for the RNC or Republicans in congress. Since it looks like vote by mail is going to be in our future whether we like it or not why not use it to prevent voter fraud. A little known fact is that every piece of mail (not advertisements) is photographed and a small amount of data is also captured at that time. Things like the date mailed, where mailed, etc. This is available as computer compatible data. It wouldn't take a genius to write a program/app that could index all of this data and compare it with data from each city/county/state to identify anomalies which essentially would indicate voter fraud and the extent. One added point is that since vote by mail envelopes have the voters signature on it that would be additional information to be used to hunt down potential defrauders.
Minneapolis is asking the Federal government for billions to rebuild the damage that the peaceful protestors caused. Terrible damage, looks like Germany after WW II. My suggestion is that they should not rebuild it, not clean it up and in fact dedicate it to BLM and Antifa. Let it become a monument to those who would tear down monuments and cities. It should become a field trip destination for grade school children to show them what the left/socialists/Marxist/communists have in store for us all if we give in to them.
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