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Thursday, October 1. 2020

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Swearing parrots removed from view

CDC Begins Issuing Holiday Coronavirus Guidelines, Recommends ‘Virtual Thanksgiving’

Why The Incentives Are Stacked to Overreact to COVID

Disney Parks to Lay Off 28,000 Employees; Cites California's "Unwillingness" to Reopen Disneyland

Lights, camera, overreaction! Iowa college cancels virtual play about gay Charlie Brown, blames coronavirus

Six COVID-19 Revelations the MSM Will Avoid

A great deal of confusion and uncertainty’: Trump coronavirus adviser infighting breaks into open

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Imposes $1000 Fines for Not Wearing Masks in Public

Student Journalists Walkout Because Boss Was Mean

Surprise: Minneapolis City Council Regrets Making Pledge To Defund The Police

Helping People With Dementia Exercise Their Right to Vote

Ohio State Professor Apologizes for 'Hurt, Sadness, Frustration, Fatigue, Exhaustion and Pain' Caused By Pro-Football Article. Matthew Mayhew is sorry. Very, very sorry.

Qulllette: The bias that divides us

Surprise: Team Hillary Had Plans To Accuse Trump Of Being Russian Assett

'Russiagate' Was Bogus From the Start

Democrat Insider Lanny Davis: Blue States are “leaving. We intend to form our own country…”

Nothing wrong with that

President Trump’s Economy in 2019 Had the Largest Increase in Median Household Income Ever – More Than Obama’s Increase in 8 Years

Why they made Biden run

Biden Told So Many Whoppers, Burger King May Sue Him

Joe Biden Tells Co-Debater Chris Wallace He Does Not Support the Green New Deal — But That’s Not What It Says on His Website!

The Weak Leading the Woke - What we ask about when we ask about Joe.

Chris Wallace Calls Out Trump to Tell His Supporters to Not Riot!! WTH? After BLM-Antifa Rip Apart the Country!

Trump Was His Own Worst Enemy At The Debate

Hamas opens up on arms, missile supplies from Iran

Hezbollah fuels Lebanon's descent to civil war

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Blue States; Gee Lanny, aren't most of the blue states bankrupt due to public sector unions trading union votes for sweet but unconscionable pensions? And, isn't the desperation to get a bail out from the chumps in the rest of the country, a contributor to Dem rage?

#1 Exasperated on 2020-10-01 08:36 (Reply)

Have to agree that Trump was his own worst enemy during the debate, he's a counter-puncher and he came across as somebody who had not done any debate prep and simply was responding to Biden and not setting out his own arguments. The way he kept interrupting Biden I think was a deliberate attempt to rattle Biden but it should have quickly been obvious that Biden wasn't going to be easily rattled. Whether it was drugs, adjusting Biden's sleep cycle, blood packing, or whatever, Biden was not the senile, feeble fool we were led to believe we would be seeing. Trump missed several easy chances to nail Biden - for example, when Biden brought up Trump's taxes, Trump could have simply brought up Biden's own S Corps, an obvious answer that Biden himself took advantage of the tax code to minimize his taxes, not Trump's fault that he was much better at it than Biden. Biden criticized Trump voting by mail while denigrating voting by mail, Trump could have jumped on Biden's disingenuous in conflating solicited ballots with unsolicited ballots, requesting a mail-in ballot is far different than simply sending out mail-in ballots to everybody. And Biden mentioned being in favor of allowing ballots that came in without a witness verification to be "fixed", an obvious tell that the Dems are in favor of counting illegitimate ballots, does Biden also favor counting ballots where signatures don't match, ballots that are not sealed, ballots with no postmark, ballots by people who aren't on the voter rolls?

Trump's constant interruptions simply served to remind me that Trump is incapable of keeping his fat mouth shut, even when he should.

#2 Jerryskids on 2020-10-01 08:53 (Reply)

The Trump team believed their own hype about Joe Biden.

#2.1 Exasperated on 2020-10-01 09:14 (Reply)

I couldn't watch more than a few minutes, but that's a standard reaction for me when it comes to political debating. Tuesday's debate was an embarrassment for anyone who was tuning in to hear platform positions or reasoned arguments.

In 2016 Trump did poorly in the first primary debate, and then mopped the floor in the subsequent ones. Some have observed he used the first debate as an opportunity to observe and analyze his opponents. I think he did the same with Hillary, who many thought won the first debate.

We shall see! But Trump has made a career of being a step or two ahead of his opponents and deceiving them into traps of their own making. I've learned to ignore what he says and watch what he does. And when you look at what he does, it would appear that not much is by accident.

#2.2 Aggie on 2020-10-01 09:23 (Reply)

"Trump was his own worse enemy"

Yeah, yeah! that is what 'well meaning' never Trumpers have been saying for over four years now. If only Trump would act more presidential... Yada, yada, yada!

The single thing I like most about Trump, other than he is so successful in making America great again, is that he is is a pit bull and not a Yorkie. The "debate" was set up against him and he knew it. Wallace 's job was to cover for Biden and make Trump look bad. Think about Wallace asking Trump if his supporters will riot if he loses and no mention of Biden's supporters rioting for almost 5 months now. Are we to believe that Wallace doesn't know that no Trump supporters have rioted or that Biden's supporters have rioted???

What is it that the deep state and the never Trumpers both Democrat and Republican want? They want to go back to the Halcyon days where they were able to loot the country and pass anti-constitutional laws and there was no judges, no congressmen willing to stop them. If Biden is elected THAT is exactly what we will get. China will again get our jobs, Canada and Mexico too, we will send trillions to countries that hate us and the legal and illegal immigrants will flood the country to take what few jobs are left.

Yeah! Trump is his own worse enemy, LOL!

#2.3 OneGuy on 2020-10-01 11:16 (Reply)

What do you make of this point of view?
richandsceptical said...
Everyone acts like the candidates were talking to the American people at large. Far from it. Trump was talking to blue collar, black males, and Hispanic males in swing states. Trump won the Telemundo poll. Trump only needs a couple point bump in blacks and Hispanics to win.

#2.4 FromtheAlthouseblog on 2020-10-01 11:53 (Reply)

That's interesting, a friend of mine from Puerto Rico also mentioned how well he did , which pleasantly surprised me, while others at the bar were doing the Never Trumper thing on him.

#2.4.1 grant1863 on 2020-10-01 22:30 (Reply)

DeBlasio: $1,000 fines
Cuomo: “If those schools are not safe, I will not allow them to operate. Period,”
How long until these two appear in public in the peaked hat and black uniform, with those self-glorifying medals on their chests?

Meanwhile, in Florida, Ron DeSantis has ordered the state reopened. Death by the 100,000s still not happening.

#3 barnhill on 2020-10-01 09:32 (Reply)

from article about deBlasio & mask fines:
"..Steps announced Tuesday include fines of up to $1,000 for people who refuse to wear masks in these neighborhoods: Gravesend/Homecrest, Midwood, Kew Gardens, Edgemere/Far Rockaway, Borough Park, Bensonhurst/Mapleton, Gerritsen Beach/Homecrest/Sheepshead Bay and Flatlands/Midwood."

These are all orthodox jewish neighborhoods, which deBlasio has previously targeted with more more restrictive actions than other neighborhoods. For example, these were the only areas where he welded shut the gates of playgrounds back in the spring. Is deBlasio anti-jewish? seems like it.

a comment from legalinsurrection.com:

Brave Sir Robbin | September 30, 2020 at 8:08 pm
"I might suggest Jewish residents of NYC start to wear masks with a gold Star of David emblazoned on them. Just to make the point of the actual intention of the Mayor and his supporters.
It’s a new sort of blood libel he is peddling that essentially asserts UNCLEAN JEWS caused the COVID epidemic and killed all those people in the nursing homes, and those JEWS must be controlled. Can the pogrom really be so far behind?"

Sooner or later, the orthodox community will say enough is enough, close their businesses which employ hundreds of thousands of diverse workers, and head for greener pastures. Then the NYC economy willreally collapse.

#3.1 nunnya bidnez jr on 2020-10-01 10:01 (Reply)

Re: Democrat Insider Lanny Davis: Blue States are “leaving. We intend to form our own country…

Please do this! Please! Please! Please! We’ll part as friends, we’ll trade with you, allow tourism, and maybe even immigration but please leave!

#4 mudbug on 2020-10-01 10:27 (Reply)

The problem with this is that they desperately need money to bail out their incompetence and their likely source will be the Chinese establishing "belt and road" projects along the coasts. I don't want the Chinese anywhere on the continent. Better to nuke the coasts until they are nice and level and glassed over.

#4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2020-10-01 13:27 (Reply)

No immigration, Florida has enough New Yorkers and more come every day. Maybe as Tourists, though we did get one pretty important New Yorker to become a Floridian!

#4.2 grant1863 on 2020-10-01 22:35 (Reply)

Why The Incentives Are Stacked to Overreact to COVID: Those who think they are our "betters" and "smarter than us" just want to scare us into submission.

Student Journalists Walkout Because Boss Was Mean: Mercy me!
I must to my fainting couch GO!

Surprise: Minneapolis City Council Regrets Making Pledge To Defund The Police: The STUPID was STRONG in these ones; Mega-strong!! (Note: NOT "Maga."

Democrat Insider Lanny Davis: Blue States are “leaving. We intend to form our own country…” Okie Doke! We'll help you by putting up barricades with border guards and land mines. NO PROBLEMO!!

Why they made Biden run: Don Surber KNOWS. Don's smart, he's witty, and he's funny. I HIGHLY recommend reading him daily.

Biden told so many whoppers last night, Burger King may sue him: Now...that's FUNNY!

#5 Sam L. on 2020-10-01 10:31 (Reply)

If conservatives - freedom loving people - think the dissolution of the Union will placate the marxist\socialist\democrats, you are not paying attention to modern times, or the last 150 years. After succession, you think they will let us live in piece? Whatever territory they have, will soon look like all socialist utopias; hell on earth. They will soon be clamoring for what we have; invading our space. The mindset of a lefty is to full of envy. To allow anyone within their sphere of knowledge, to live in piece; to live without the yoke of their command, is an anathema to their soul. They demand control of everything!

#6 B. Hammer on 2020-10-01 11:05 (Reply)

You cannot have "dissolution of the union". Any real attempt to do this would actually be provocation of civil war. I live in one of those states that the Democrats 'own' greater than 50% of. If this state chose to leave the union I would fight it. I would fight it with words and non-violence until it became violent and then I would have no choice but to fight it with violence. How could it possibly be otherwise?

I do believe this "threat" is no more meaningful than the oft heard threat to move to Canada if (_ fill in the blank). But none of those who threatened this ever moved. They could move and it would not incite violence (except maybe in Canada). BUT they cannot take over my state without violence.

#6.1 Anon on 2020-10-01 12:28 (Reply)

Re: Defunding the Police

It’s funny, but blacks have never asked for funding to create their own security patrols, such as the Guardian Angels. That’s because the blacks don’t want to protect anything, they only want to destroy. But the Maga People are standing in their way. These guys are taking a stand against dishonesty. And that’s a hard thing to do, because under communism, everything is a secret. As a result, most people don’t understand what’s really happening. Washington, in cooperation with Beijing and Moscow, is trying to enforce a totalitarian communist agenda on the American people. Everybody will be watched, tracked, and questioned. Life as Americans know it will end. So it’s up to white men to protect society. In the future, there will be black armed-militias walking around, demanding food and money. And heavily armed Police, who will protect black looters, and arrest white guardians of the community. Right now, the communists have the blacks, a large part of the army, and the police. Whites have their integrity, their courage, and a desire to keep the United States a free country. Let’s hope they succeed.

#7 Ron Liebermann on 2020-10-01 13:01 (Reply)

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Why is that a concern of yours? It's well known that you're not a white man.

#7.1 Bill Svens on 2020-10-02 19:11 (Reply)

Hezbollah fuels Lebanon's descent to civil war

Given the dysfunctional condition of Lebanon, and the impressive worldwide record of achievement of people of Lebanese origin, I am reminded of what an Irishman reportedly said when comparing Irish emigrants to those who stayed: "The cream left."

In Lebanon's defense, much of the conflict of the last 40 years comes from outside actors. 1) The Palestinians living in Lebanon, though that conflict is mostly in the past. 2) Iran's funding of Hezbollah.

#8 Gringo on 2020-10-01 13:07 (Reply)

Just did a search for something here. There were three pages of results. Clicking "Next Page" takes me to Google, not the next page. What's the secret?

#9 hansong on 2020-10-01 13:47 (Reply)

Advanced Google Search. Like Google or not, Google is the best search engine for locating something on a website.

#9.1 Gringo on 2020-10-01 14:01 (Reply)

You missed the point. I already performed the search, with three pages of results. I can view only the first page of three; when I click on "next page", to go to the next page of three, the Google search page is displayed rather than page two of the search results.

#9.1.1 hansong on 2020-10-01 15:59 (Reply)

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Swearing parrots removed from view

They should get Norwegian Blues. They are usually quite quiet.

#10 Jim on 2020-10-01 16:55 (Reply)

It’s all the pining for the fjords. It wears them out to the point exhaustion.

#10.1 Chadd Newman on 2020-10-01 21:23 (Reply)

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