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    Just found this article. What in Hell are we coming to?...

    New Houston survey includes going to homes and testing people for COVID-19 antibodies
    By Jessica Willey
    Thursday, September 3, 2020 10:55PM

    HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Teams of Houston Health Department staff and Houston Fire Department paramedics are hitting the streets of Houston for an antibody testing survey designed to give health officials a better picture of how COVID-19 has affected the community.

    A total of 420 homes have been randomly selected.

    Many of them are from hard-hit neighborhoods. Teams will be asking all members of the household to answer questions and give a blood sample.

    ..."If we knock on your door, I strongly encourage you and your loved ones to participate in this important survey," said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. "
    "If we knock on your door, I strongly encourage you and your loved ones to participate in this important survey," said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. "

    Hmm, sounds like a not-so-subtle warning to me, eh?


    Reference: https://abc13.com/antibody-testing-h...tions/6406699/
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    A slip of the tongue, or a slap in the face?...


    Dr Ferrer: Schools Won't Open Until After Election

    By john and ken staff





    Just as we all suspected....

    We think it's safe to say that the LA County goons who are trying to keep us locked down probably aren't Trump supporters, right?.

    In fact, they probably wouldn't have their gigs if they got caught wearing a MAGA hat, right?

    We all hope their political leanings aren't factors in how they are managing this pandemic, right?

    But we would not be surprised to learn that they would love to see Trump thrown out of office, right ?

    Well, stud KFI NEWS reporter Steve Gregory was sent a secret recording of Dr. Barbara Ferrer saying that schools won't open until after the election.

    WHY ? What does LA County re-opening schools have to do with the election?

    Just as we all suspected....

    Listen to Steve play this recording for John & Ken below. You decide....what are their true motives?
    Reference: https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/...fter-election/
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    Portland Mayor cracking down on violence

    Sounds like a plan. Makes sense, eh? This guy is on to something, right?

    Portland Mayor bans use of tear gas by police

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/po...?ocid=msedgdhp

    After months of protests, police officers in Portland, Oregon, will no longer use tear gas for crowd control.

    The mayor also noted that police would still take appropriate measures when necessary to curb criminal activity.

    "Arson, vandalism, and violence are not going to drive change in this community," he said. "I expect the police to arrest people who engage in criminal acts. I expect the District Attorney to prosecute those who commit criminal acts. And I expect the rest of the criminal justice system to hold those individuals accountable. We must stand together as a community against violence and for progress."

    The announcement comes after Wheeler said in June that police would no longer use tear gas to disperse crowds, "unless there is a serious and immediate threat to life safety, and there is no other viable alternative for dispersal."

    The protests have resulted in damaged buildings, injured police officers and protesters and hundreds of arrests.

    Through it all, tear gas has continued to be used on the crowds, despite Wheeler's June order.


    https://youtu.be/ZlzFr5xD_q8

    And in New York, we have de Blasio!

    By fostering crime, de Blasio has deepened the ‘two New Yorks’ divide

    https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/by-fos...rom%20%251%24s


    Democratic Governors and Mayors soft on crime, but Biden blames Trump for the unrest and failure in putting a stop to it. Focus on the Woodword book. Nothing to see here folks!

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    It seems that during the Swine Flu virus spread in 2009, President Obama, like President Trump in 2020, did not want to incite public panic, but Biden seems to have necessarily walk-backed some of his own rather panicky 2009 Swine Flu comments?...

    Biden says avoid planes, subways; puts out clarifying statement

    By CAROL E. LEE and AMIE PARNES 04/30/2009 07:57 AM EDT Updated 04/30/2009 04:59 PM EDT

    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued an apology Thursday for Vice President Joe Biden’s comments that he wouldn’t recommend taking a commercial flight or riding in a subway car because swine flu virus can spread in confined places.

    “Obviously, if anybody was unduly alarmed for whatever reason, we would apologize for that. And I hope that my remarks and remarks of people at CDC and Secretary Napolitano have appropriately cleared up what he meant to say,” Gibbs said during the daily briefing at the White House.

    Reference: https://www.politico.com/story/2009/...atement-021925
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    ‘NEVER FORGET’ – some state leaders have

    People remember 9-11 in different ways. The attack, resulting destruction, loss of near 3,000 lives is heart-rending to recall. I would hope that the public also recalls the bravery of the first responders, the resilience of the country / community and the leadership exhibited by state and local administrators that brought the state back from despair and economic diminishment.

    There is no Governor Pataki in office in this year of the pandemic, nor the likes of 9-11 New York City Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg. In their place, we are saddled with a Governor and Mayor who whine and play the blame game in a state and city that are experiencing increasing crime, property destruction, public safety concerns and higher taxes. Neither exhibit a rallying spirt, rather divisiveness, fear and anxiety.

    Andrew Cuomo going off the rails under the stress of NY’s pandemic woes

    https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/andrew...rom%20%251%24s

    150 of New York's biggest businesses send letter to Mayor de Blasio urging him to take action to reopen the city

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/15...?ocid=msedgdhp

    New York City will soon allow restaurants to reopen their indoor dining rooms at the end of the month— at 25% capacity and with other restrictions.

    The city is quickly approaching a new reopening milestone. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that restaurants can reopen their indoor dining rooms at 25% capacity with other restrictions starting September 30. The news comes 300 New York restaurants sued both him and Mayor de Blasio seeking $2 billion in damages saying the ongoing indoor dining ban was "violating their constitutional rights."

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    NEVER FORGET

    Never forget what we were:

    https://biggeekdad.com/2018/09/9-11-tribute-video/

    and what we have become

    CHIEFS FANS SMART TO BOO, TEXANS AND DOLPHINS SMART TO DISAVOW ‘EMPTY’ BLM GESTURES

    https://www.outkick.com/chiefs-fans-...-blm-gestures/

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    Don't they need to breath too?

    From Newsweek:


    L.A. Protesters Try to Break Into Hospital Where Two Officers Are in Critical Condition After 'A Cowardly' Shooting

    BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 9/13/20 AT 3:27 AM EDT

    Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies are fighting for their lives after they were shot multiple times at point-blank range in an ambush, authorities said.

    Crowds of protesters blocked the entrance to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where the wounded officers were in a critical condition, police said. Some protesters chanted "we hope they die," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter. A witness told ABC7 that some had tried to break into the hospital's emergency room.
    Reference: https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles...ooting-1531552
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    Interesting, eh?...





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    Police officer shootings in LA – disgusting

    Law & order – Biden condemns, offers nothing but usual, empty rhetoric.

    Trump and Biden condemn shooting of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgdhp

    And Ben Crump, a prominent lawyer representing families of Black men and women killed by police — including the relatives of a man fatally shot by Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies — urged people to come forward with information about the attack, after reiterating his calls to hold the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department “accountable for systemic brutality.”
    Violence such as the two deputies’ shooting “is NOT the answer,” he tweeted.

    Last year, 48 law enforcement officers were killed by an offender “while engaged in or on account of the performance of their official duties,” according to the FBI. Villanueva, who on Sunday tweeted appreciation for “overwhelming support” from across the country, expressed concern about other suspects opening fire on officers “unprovoked.”

    In tweets, the sheriff’s department said protesters were “blocking the entrance & exit” of the hospital’s emergency room. In videos of the event, protesters gather on paths outside the medical center and a person can heard saying, “I hope they die.” The department also announced the arrests of two people: a male protester who “refused to comply” after a dispersal order and a woman “later identified as a member of the press.”

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    Chinese virologist on the run claims Covid virus manufactured in Wuhan lab
    The Federal
    1:39 PM, 14 September, 2020


    A Chinese virologist who has allegedly fled China claims that she has proof that the SARS-Cov-2 virus is in fact man-made in a Wuhan lab.

    The new novel coronavirus outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, and was traced back to the sea-food market, which soon became the hotspot and was considered to be the origin centre, where a virus jumped from a bat or a pangolin onto humans.

    In April, a French Nobel prize winning scientist Luc Montagnier had also sparked a row by making the same claim.



    Speaking on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’, Dr Li-Meng Yan, who is described as “a scientist who was working at the Hong Kong School of Public Health when she turned whistleblower on the Chinese government after she alleged they knew about the spread of the coronavirus before publicly acknowledging the Covid outbreak.”

    The description refers to Dr Li’s claims that she had to flee to the US for her own safety and “is now determined to spread her findings to the world”. She is said to have joined the ‘Loose Women’ from a secret location.



    Dr Li said while working at Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, her supervisor first asked her to investigate a new ‘SARS-like’ virus in Wuhan on December 31, but her efforts were later “stifled”.

    She said she reported back that cases appeared to be rising exponentially but was told to “keep silent and be careful.”

    She also said she has proof that the virus came from a virology lab in the city and not from the wet-food market. “The genome sequence is like a human fingerprint,” she says on YouTube.



    “Based on this you can identify these things. I will (use this) evidence to tell people why this has come from the lab in China, why they are the ones who made it,” she says. “Anyone, even if you have no biology knowledge, will be able to read it, and check and identify and verify it yourself.”

    She said the Chinese authorities began to discredit her even before she fled the country. “They deleted all my information and also they told people to spread rumours about me,” she said. The Chinese National Health Commission, World Health Organization and University Of Hong Kong disputed her claims, according to The Sun.

    In July, Hong Kong University put out a statement: “Dr Yan Limeng was a postdoctoral fellow at HKU. She has left the University. HKU notes that the content of the said news report does not accord with the key facts as we understand them. Specifically, Dr Yan never conducted any research on human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus at HKU during December 2019 and January 2020, her central assertion of the said interview.”


    In March, a paper in science journal on the proximal origins of Covid-19 found that “analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”

    Early this year, a Chinese doctor Li Wenliang died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Wuhan. Last December he sent a message to fellow medics warning of a virus he thought looked like Sars — another deadly coronavirus.

    But he was told by police to “stop making false comments” and was investigated for “spreading rumours”.

    “I don’t think he was rumour-mongering. Hasn’t this turned into reality now?” his father, Li Shuying, had told BBC. “My son was wonderful.”
    Reference: https://thefederal.com/news/chinese-...-in-wuhan-lab/
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    The Republic as of today, though wobbly, still stands...


    "The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair-weather freedoms — in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in times of trouble," Stickman wrote. "There is no question that this country has faced, and will face, emergencies of every sort. But the solution to a national crisis can never be permitted to supersede the commitment to individual liberty that stands as the foundation of the American experiment. The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a 'new normal' where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures.

    "Rather, the Constitution sets certain lines that may not be crossed, even in an emergency. Actions taken by defendants crossed those lines. It is the duty of the court to declare those actions unconstitutional."
    Reference: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pe.../14/id/986879/
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    But the referendum is not about the candidates

    Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote an article declaring that, ‘If November’s election is a referendum on Trump, Biden will be our president.

    Robinson in his usual Trump hating style wrote:

    Two months before the election, this race has become what President Trump most fears: a referendum on his chaotic, incompetent, dishonest leadership and his lack of a moral compass. If this is the rubric voters use to choose between the candidates, Trump and the Republican Party are in serious trouble.

    He writes on the Woodward book and holds that Trump’s delay in addressing Covid and leadership thereon and declaring that many of the 190,000 deaths could have been avoided. He declares that this is not the record that Trump wants voters to consider, but that Trump would rather have voters square off in a race-fueled war.

    He writes of Trump calling the military losers and declares that Trump would rather have us argue about whether Joe Biden, who has been in the public eye for five decades, is some kind of closet Marxist.

    Robinson, in his usual mainstream media hate for Trump ends up telling us that Trump is not just unorthodox, impolite or uncouth, but that he is not an omelet-maker who necessarily breaks eggs, is inept, immoral and dangerously dishonest – and must be defeated for the good of the nation.

    Today Morning Joe rips Trump fans who swallow the president’s continued lies and asked, "Who are those people?"

    Who are those people indeed? Many people outright hate Trump. Some are solid Trump supporters. Some find much to dislike about Trump and wish he would just shut-the-f***-up! Some dislike Biden and his mainstream media lackeys and don’t believe the lies and BS they are also pushing as well: They are not buying into the Trump all-encompassing blame game and are becoming more disgusted at the asinine charges now labeled against him:

    The climate arsonist – now even blamed for the storms and resulting flooding

    The Covid killer

    The creator and instigator for the civil unrest, anarchy, property destruction and loss of life

    Racist – Michael Cohen now even claiming Trump’s disdain for Obama was because of ‘pure racism’

    Charged with the economy collapse when its tanking occurred because of the virus lockdown and the reticence on the part of Democratic Governors refusing to open the economy even where the virus is under control

    Like the 2016 presidential election, the referendum will not be about the candidates for some as both candidates are equally disliked, as then.

    The referendum will boil down to the economy, the continuing civil unrest, the virus and most importantly, what kind of government the public wants – traditional Republic or socialist-Marxist.

    ‘Morning Joe’ asks who are the people that really believe in Trump. It could also be asked: “Who are the people that really think Biden is a ‘centrist’? Is mentally capable when he stated in his Delaware speech today, “If we are elected.” Who believes Biden is driving the bus?

    But Biden has nothing to fear as he is far ahead in the polls. Those footsteps he hears as the polls narrow is nothing to fear. Ask Hillary!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post

    Two months before the election, this race has become what President Trump most fears: a referendum on his chaotic, incompetent, dishonest leadership and his lack of a moral compass. If this is the rubric voters use to choose between the candidates, Trump and the Republican Party are in serious trouble.

    He writes on the Woodward book and holds that Trump’s delay in addressing Covid and leadership thereon and declaring that many of the 190,000 deaths could have been avoided. He declares that this is not the record that Trump wants voters to consider, but that Trump would rather have voters square off in a race-fueled war.

    He writes of Trump calling the military losers and declares that Trump would rather have us argue about whether Joe Biden, who has been in the public eye for five decades, is some kind of closet Marxist.

    Robinson, in his usual mainstream media hate for Trump ends up telling us that Trump is not just unorthodox, impolite or uncouth, but that he is not an omelet-maker who necessarily breaks eggs, is inept, immoral and dangerously dishonest – and must be defeated for the good of the nation.

    Today Morning Joe rips Trump fans who swallow the president’s continued lies and asked, "Who are those people?"

    Who are those people indeed? Many people outright hate Trump. Some are solid Trump supporters. Some find much to dislike about Trump and wish he would just shut-the-f***-up! Some dislike Biden and his mainstream media lackeys and don’t believe the lies and BS they are also pushing as well: They are not buying into the Trump all-encompassing blame game and are becoming more disgusted at the asinine charges now labeled against him:

    The climate arsonist – now even blamed for the storms and resulting flooding

    The Covid killer

    The creator and instigator for the civil unrest, anarchy, property destruction and loss of life

    Racist – Michael Cohen now even claiming Trump’s disdain for Obama was because of ‘pure racism’

    Charged with the economy collapse when its tanking occurred because of the virus lockdown and the reticence on the part of Democratic Governors refusing to open the economy even where the virus is under control

    Like the 2016 presidential election, the referendum will not be about the candidates for some as both candidates are equally disliked, as then.

    The referendum will boil down to the economy, the continuing civil unrest, the virus and most importantly, what kind of government the public wants – traditional Republic or socialist-Marxist.
    As evidenced at times on this very forum, the Left and its sycophantic actors have such contempt for the very people it seeks to persuade that it boldly lies. It seemingly expects people to not only believe its lies, but to do so to without introspection, consideration of self-interest, intellectual honesty, and a basic confidence in their own sensory skills and experienced-based perceptions.

    What the Left appears to fear most is the presentation of unfiltered facts, indisputable evidence, unbiased commentary, and opposing credible viewpoints. Truth, a level playing field, a fair fight and an opposing message which is freely disseminated to a free-thinking audience are anathemas to the Socialist and Marxist revolutionaries.
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    A slip of the tongue or is Harris senile too?...



    Kamala Harris accidentally refers to ‘Harris administration’ during roundtable

    By Yaron Steinbuch

    September 15, 2020 | 6:58am


    Not so fast, Kamala Harris.

    The vice presidential candidate got a bit ahead of herself when she referred to the “Harris administration,” while discussing economic plans during a virtual roundtable.

    “A Harris administration, together with Joe Biden as the president of the United States,” she said Saturday before correcting her apparent Freudian slip.

    Reference: https://nypost.com/2020/09/15/kamala...dministration/
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    Are we being played

    The mainstream media, Biden and the left are quick to point out that Trump’s lies about the pandemic were a grave dereliction of duty. Numerous media articles are now being published questioning Robert Woodward’s culpability in not revealing what Trump told him early on.

    The following opinion written by Washington Post’s Margert Sullivan, appearing in today’s Buffalo News, not only speaks on Woodward’s culpability, but leads some to ask: Are we being played? How is it possible that Trump could have been the only person knowing the severity of the virus at the time when everything about this hated man and about what he was involved in was being leaked. Fauci, Congress, the health community all covered for this man early on? He is being labeled the Covid killer? Seriously? Why should we not believe we are being played for political gain, especially after reading the last paragraph:

    I don’t know if putting the book’s newsiest revelations out there in something closer to real time would have made a difference. Still, the chance – even if it’s a slim chance – that those revelations could have saved lives is a powerful argument against waiting this long.

    So, Woodward gets a pass, Trump gets the shaft. The timing of the book’s release screams ‘BS’. These people are shameless!

    Bob Woodward’s delay in revealing Trump’s virus revelations raises questions
    Margaret Sullivan - Washington Post

    Two waves of outrage greeted the news last week of Bob Woodward’s latest White House chronicle, a book titled “Rage.” The first was President Trump’s disclosure to Woodward that he knew as early as February – even as he was dismissing the coronavirus publicly – that the looming pandemic was far deadlier than the flu
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    The second was that Woodward, long associated with the Washington Post, didn’t reveal this to the public sooner. The fact that this second outrage mostly circulated among journalists talking to each other made it no less furious: If the famous Watergate reporter knew that Trump was lying to the public about a matter of life and death, why didn’t he reveal it immediately?

    Woodward is hardly the first journalist to save juicy information for a book. But “is this traditional practice still ethical?” tweeted David Boardman, dean of the Temple University journalism school and the longtime editor of the Seattle Times.

    Other critics were less circumspect: “This is really troubling. As journalists we’re supposed to work in the public interest. I think there’s been a failure here,” wrote Scott Nover, a reporter for the industry journal Adweek.

    The questions are valid – and as Boardman notes, far from new. They surface almost every time a journalist writes a book that contains newsy information, especially about matters of national security or public well-being: Why are we only reading about this now?

    As recently as last week, New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt was criticized for withholding some meaty revelations for his book about the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and the Robert Mueller investigation. “It is not immediately entirely clear why these reports, many dating back as far as three years, made it into the pages of Schmidt’s book rather than the subscription-based newspaper that employs him,” wrote Roger Sollenberger in Salon.

    I took the questions and complaints to Woodward, who initially was reluctant to speak on the record until after a “60 Minutes” segment airs on Sunday because he had promised the publisher and CBS not to give any interviews until then. But because my questions were about process, rather than the content of the book, he agreed to address the ethical issues.

    Woodward told me that – contrary to speculation – he did not have any signed agreement or formal embargo arrangement with Trump or the White House to hold back their conversations until the book published.

    “I told him it was for the book,” he said – but as far as promising not to publish in real time, or signing such an agreement, “I don’t do that.”

    Woodward said his aim was to provide a fuller context than could occur in a news story: “I knew I could tell the second draft of history, and I knew I could tell it before the election.” (Former Washington Post publisher Phil Graham famously called journalism “the first rough draft
    of history.”) What’s more, he said, there were at least two problems with what he heard from Trump in February that kept him from putting it in the newspaper at the time: First, he didn’t know what the source of Trump’s information was. It wasn’t until months later – in May – that Woodward learned it came from a high-level intelligence briefing in January that was also described in Wednesday’s reporting about the book.

    In February, what Trump told Woodward seemed hard to make sense of, the author told me. Back then, Woodward said, there was no panic over the virus; even toward the final days of that month, Anthony Fauci was publicly assuring Americans there was no need to change their daily habits. Secondly, Woodward said, “the biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump, is I didn’t know if it was true.”

    Trump spoke with Woodward on more than a dozen occasions, and in some cases, “he started calling me at night.” It took months, Woodward told me, to do the reporting that put it all in context, which is what he believes his mission as an author is: “My job is to understand it, and to hold him accountable, and to hold myself accountable.” He added: “I did the best I could” toward those ends.

    Woodward said he believes his highest purpose isn’t to write daily stories but to give his readers the big picture – one that may have a greater effect, especially with a consequential election looming.

    Woodward’s effort, he said, was to deliver in book form “the best obtainable version of the truth,” not to rush individual revelations into publication.

    And always with a particular deadline in mind, so that people could read, absorb and make their judgments well before Nov. 3. “The demarcation is the election.”
    Woodward, despite his longtime association with The Post, is no longer a Post employee, though he maintains an affiliation and the honorific title of associate editor.

    I don’t know if putting the book’s newsiest revelations out there in something closer to real time would have made a difference. Still, the chance – even if it’s a slim chance – that those revelations could have saved lives is a powerful argument against waiting this long.

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