tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84239672024-03-07T16:35:22.864-05:00Lex E. Libertas Dead man walkingLex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3721125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-85957436705249415952020-05-29T09:36:00.000-04:002020-05-29T11:26:24.442-04:00Democrats and MSM rely on fear mongering to shame world into wearing a mask<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">RE: Kaitlyn Helmchen's OpEd</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;"> "Students stressed out" of May 28, 2020</span><br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">I do not find it odd that young people are suffering
anxiety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That has been the goal of
Democrats and their leftist media lemmings who have been peddling one line of
doom and gloom after another for 50 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Democrats and the media know nothings peddle their “the sky is
falling” scenarios one after another, people are living longer healthier lives,
even in the middle of a pandemic, enjoying cleaner air and water and living in
a world at relative peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">The latest line of nonsense being pushed by the
Chicken Littles on the left is the Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We know the virus is a nasty deadly ordeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also know 80% of the deaths occur in the
age groups 65 and older.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know young
people, age 24 and under, have a better chance of being bitten to death by
ducks than succumbing to the Chinese Virus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">So the new “end of the world” scenario is that, out
of respect for others’ safety, we all have to wear masks 24/7 and remain in
lockdown until weak-kneed testing expert like Abe Schwab can get tested for the
Chinese Virus three times an hour and have a government minder tell him when it’s
safe to come out from under his bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
JG has sent their best virtue signaling reporter – Sherry Slater - out into the
cruel, cruel world to hector people who choose not to wear a mask.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">In early April <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new-study-questions-the-effectiveness-of-masks-against-sars-cov-2">Medical News Today published</a> a report that
indicates neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filters for the Wuhan
Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact it’s worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are told that we should wear a mask out of
respect for others so as not to spread our germs to the general population. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alas, here’s the bad news for virtue signaling
scolds like Slater and long list of fear mongering JG letter writers advocating
for masking. The study showed greater contamination on the outside of the mask
than the inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">It would seem that people wearing masks are more
likely to become infected and spread disease by the simple act of putting on
and taking off the mask.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">So fear not young people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignore the fear-mongering Democrats and their
crooked media boob army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing
you have to fear is fake news being generated from a purely political press
more interested in bringing down PDJT than they are in the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new-study-questions-the-effectiveness-of-masks-against-sars-cov-2"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new-study-questions-the-effectiveness-of-masks-against-sars-cov-2</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;">Students
stressed out</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As problem grows, cope by getting
organized, seeking help rather than choosing isolation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kaitlyn Helmchen</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As anxiety becomes
more recognized, people have wondered how we, as a society, can solve this
issue. Before we can do that, we must look at how it has been increasing in
recent years and the potential causes of stress and/or anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">More students are
becoming stressed and/or anxious about life. According to Higher Education
Research, in 1985, 18% of incoming first-year college students said they felt
stressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since then, this has
only gotten higher, with 28% of students saying this in 2000 and 41% in 2016.
As we can see, it has not decreased, and it is not stopping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What are some causes
of anxiety and stress? When some students in North Side High School's
senior class were surveyed recently, 60.2% said school stresses them out the
most. Now, this can include a variety of things such as grades, tests, friends
at school and homework. Other students said the future gives them anxiety and
stresses them out as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Students are taking
this issue into their own hands in several ways. In the North Side High School
survey, 39.3% of the students said they use music to relieve their stress
and/or anxiety, and another 21.8% said they use art/literature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The problem with these
choices is they can cause isolation and lead to overthinking as time goes on.
These ways can cause a cycle of a student feeling bad one day, listening to
music to feel better, and then feeling the same way again the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Students can start
having a better impact on their stressors by having a planner so they can
write down what needs to be done and when something needs to be completed. This
could lead to them being more organized and teach them time management skills,
which are useful when it comes to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Students can also talk
to their counselors about how they feel and how to go about doing things, such
as completing projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why should we care
about anxiety and stress so much? If anxiety continues to be a problem, other
issues can arise. As anxiety becomes severe, physical problems such as
headaches and feeling tired become more frequent. Over time, people can become
depressed and start using bad coping habits, such as substance abuse, to
lighten that stress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although stress and
anxiety may affect us all, it can become more severe and cause other problems
for us, which is why we should care about these issues right away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kaitlyn Helmchen will
graduate from North Side High School on June 5 and plans to study at Indiana
University-Bloomington.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Friday, May 29, 2020 1:00 am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;">Return to
campus? Weigh the risks first</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Abe Schwab</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Notre Dame, Purdue and
IU have all announced their plans to resume face-to-face classes this fall. And
this is understandable. Students surveyed want to be on campus and parents want
them there, too. It's what the customer wants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But taking part in
face-to-face classes has costs that students and their parents should consider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Face to face classes
will increase the spread of the coronavirus to students, employees and
their families. We don't know how these infections will affect students, and it
may be tempting to dismiss this concern. After all, the mortality rate seems
very low, especially for 15-to-24-year-olds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Woefully inadequate
testing in the U.S. means we don't know how many people have died from
COVID-19. Compared with the United States' six-year average, 30,000 more people
have died this year. We have 2,000 extra deaths from non-COVID-19 pneumonia in
Indiana. Only the most naïve would believe that most of these extra deaths are
from something other than undiagnosed COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">More importantly,
mortality is only one of the possible harms of COVID-19. The long-term effects
on cardiac and respiratory systems and other bodily functions are not fully
known but are obviously severe in some cases in which the patient doesn't die.
Without attention to the potentially life-long harms, both physical and
financial, of COVID-19, students and their parents might inadvertently ignore
significant non-lethal consequences of COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And these outcomes are
not limited to students. Students' families, employees and employees' families
will also be subject to these harms. And many of them are not in the 15-24 age
bracket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It's not surprising
that federal, local, and state governments would allow for individuals to take
on these risky choices. We routinely value economic activity more than saving a
single life. Preserving human life is important, but it's only worth so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A simple example: If
we enforced a speed limit of 20 miles per hour on any road anywhere in the
United States, we would have fewer fatalities from car crashes. We would save
lives. And yet we allow speed limits of 70 mph, and in some states even higher
than that. And this has economic benefits. Individuals can travel further for
work, organizations can transport goods faster, etc. We've accepted that
certain economic benefits are valuable enough to allow for a certain number of
additional deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We don't know in
detail what will happen over the next year, but we do know that increasing
interpersonal interactions will lead to more deaths and other severe medical
complications from COVID-19. We don't know who will be infected, who will be
hospitalized or who will die. But we know that when we increase our
interpersonal interactions, some will. And you have to ask yourself – do you
want to subject yourself or your children to that risk?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abe Schwab is
professor of philosophy and director of Ethics Across the Curriculum at Purdue
Fort Wayne who specializes in applied ethics.</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;">Letters</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Holcomb should mandate
masks, not play politics</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why is Gov. Eric
Holcomb so reluctant to issue a mandatory mask order? Citing ample evidence,
medical experts – including his own health commissioner, Dr. Kristina Box –
have repeatedly championed the effectiveness of wearing a mask in public
gatherings against the spread of the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The governor, ever
solicitous to protect business interests, has already expressed his fear of
offending, choosing to place the onus of any decision on them – much as an
irresponsible White House has done to individual states. And these essential
businesses appear just as reluctant, leaving the choice up to customers they
must feel are too easily turned off. Interesting that Menards, which requires
everyone to wear a mask in its store, seems to be suffering no lack of
customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or could the governor
also be acting out of the fear of alienating the base he shares as a member of
the Republican Party of Trump – those science deniers and lockdown defiers?
This we know Indiana has no shortage of. Could his reluctance stem from the nightmare
of a gun-toting mob occupying the Statehouse?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We would hate to think
Gov. Holcomb's risk-benefit analysis includes playing politics with human
lives. Requiring masks is surely worth it if it helps us feel less nervous
about going back to work or shopping for groceries and, what is more, if it
increases even slightly the chances of our survival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jack Hill</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fort Wayne</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Journal Entry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;">Woodburn
ceremony prompts wish for safer practices</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">SHERRY SLATER | The Journal Gazette</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Journal Gazette
has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic, as have many other local workplaces.
Reporters and editors have been asked to work from home since mid-March to
minimize our exposure to the potentially deadly virus. We remain scattered
across the city, working on laptop computers from our couches, dens and dining
room tables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My co-workers have
used various technology to cover news conferences by the governor, mayor,
county commissioners, and state and county health officials. They have kept our
readers updated on the growing number of Hoosiers and Allen County residents
who have died from COVID-19 or tested positive for the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I've kept up with
those sobering facts, part of my responsibility as a journalist and a citizen.
I've also kept up with the best advice medical experts have to offer for
reducing the spread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last Saturday was one
of only three times I've been asked to leave home to cover an event since the
statewide shutdown began. What used to be a routine part of my work duties has
become strange and even, I have to admit, a little scary. But I arrived in
downtown Woodburn with a face mask, some sanitizing hand wipes and a positive
attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What I found there
disturbed me deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">About 100 people were
gathered in the Woodburn Clock Tower Plaza for a dedication ceremony. Not one
of them was wearing a face mask. Needless to say, they weren't standing 6 feet
apart, either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The gathering was to
dedicate a “wishing stone,” where Woodburn residents could “make a wish or take
a wish.” Inspired by a book read by a fifth-grade class, the idea was to
encourage people to wish for peace or good health or some other intangible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If I had made a wish
that day, I would have wished that Woodburn's mayor and city council members
would step up and be the leaders their constituents deserve. My second wish
would have been that the other adults in the crowd would heed the advice of
medical experts. Woodburn's children – and vulnerable adults – are depending on
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sherry Slater is the
business reporter for The Journal Gazette.</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-63848677122510118032020-05-26T08:14:00.002-04:002020-05-26T08:15:47.533-04:00If you are allowed to,lie endlessly, it's easy to make your case<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">The shameless JG editorial staff let the cat out of
the bag when, in the “About the author” part of April’s Golden Pen Award they
revealed that Bea Jonas’ won because her letter “was the month’s most effective.”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy to write an effective letter
if you are not bothered by facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy
when the JG editorial allows a writer to quote people wildly out of context.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Jonas leaves out of her quotes from Herbert Hoover, Margaret
Thatcher, Ayn Rand and Adam Smith is that all were warning the people of
relying too heavily on government entities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hoover’s definition of “rugged individualism” was that to be truly free,
Americans required freedom from an overbearing onerous government – perhaps a government
that would order citizens into unconstitutional house arrest for months on end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">When Margaret Thatcher said there was no such thing
as society, she immediately followed that notion with this, “</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is
living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and
the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to
take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and
help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would Jonas and the editors leave that
part out??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Adam Smith’s truism that self-interest isn’t selfish but
rather human nature is seen all round every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Airliners reinforce
this notion on nearly every flight when they announce, in case of sudden cabin
decompression when oxygen masks drop, passengers should put their own mask on
first before helping small children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is
that selfish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s obvious that the helpless are of little
use during an emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Smith himself made a
distinction between self-interest and selfishness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew that too much of the latter would
lead a nation to ruin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s easy to write
an “effective” letter when a writer has no regard for context or truth and
editors don't even pretend to be interested in the truth anymore. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;">Golden Pen:
April</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Interconnectedness
evident in times of crisis</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As we grapple with the
challenge of COVID-19, many long-held principles are being called into
question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Herbert Hoover's
rugged individualism, for instance, which imagined an individual totally
self-reliant and independent from all outside forces. What about Margaret
Thatcher, who believed there was no such thing as society, only individual men,
women and families, all looking out for themselves? Then there's Ayn Rand, who
wrote that each man is an end to himself, with his own happiness as his highest
moral purpose. Finally, there's Adam Smith, who believed that self-interest
wasn't selfish at all, but simply human nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It's in times of
crisis (war, disease, natural disaster) that the hollowness of such beliefs is
finally revealed. The answer to the challenge we currently face isn't every man
for himself, but we're all in this together. As the poet John Donne wrote,
almost 400 years ago: “No man is an island, entire of itself, every man ... is
a part of the main ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in
mankind. ...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or, in the more recent
words of Jerry Seinfeld: “We're trying to have a civilization here!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-44199889966705864072020-05-22T08:42:00.002-04:002020-05-22T08:42:36.048-04:00Democrats are total azzbags<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Democrats and their lackey army of MSM butt
sniffers were in high dudgeon yesterday because PDJT was not wearing a mask
during his tour of the Ford plant. We are told that wearing a mask is to
protect other people from catching the Chinese Virus from the mask wearer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being the case and knowing PDJT is
tested for the virus daily and he’s also taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine,
which said to have prophylactic benefits, is there a safer person to be around who
is not wearing a mask?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">While the Dopes and MSM azzbags lampoon PDJT for not
wearing a mask, they give NY Governor “Killer” Cuomo a complete pass for
killing off thousands of New Yorkers due to his asinine order moving Wuhan
Virus positive cases into senior living facilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">While Grand Nan from San Fran Peloser hits PDJT on his
weight, Peloser, the MSM and Dopes give the fat tub of lard IL Governor Two Ton
Pritzker a pass on his weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
importantly they ignore the blob for violating his own extra constitutional house
arrest order by moving his privileged family to FL where Republican Governor DeSantis
has opened his state. What can that mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fat-so is comfortable enough sending his family to enjoy the privileges
of an open state, but won’t allow citizens from his own state to earn a living.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dopes are so mad at PDJT for not wearing a mask,
Willy Brown’s part time whore and full time pot head Kammi Harris is introducing
a bill in the senate banning the terms “Chinese Virus” and “Wuhan Virus” as
racist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the same Dope party that
let raging anti-Semites in their own party off the hook for their blatantly anti-Semitic
remarks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">What does all this prove? It proves Dopes are not
serious people about anything other than destroying America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time a citizen of one of these lockdown
states makes a move toward liberty, there’s the overbearing, onerous, freedom
sucking government stepping in to crush them under the weight of state law enforcement.
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sooner or later the people are going to figure out
that there’s a whole lot more of us than them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When that happens the revolt will begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-4803719926883098682020-05-20T08:56:00.000-04:002020-05-20T08:56:06.754-04:00Chinese Virus spikes may be Lefty Lib effort to sabotage reopening <br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">I ran across <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/498643-two-southern-churches-forced-to-reclose-after-leaders-and">this article</a> this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of things struck me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Would the Lefty Libs purposely infect themselves in order to cause a
spike in Chinese Virus cases – thereby forcing a re-closure? Yes I’m sure they
would.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know this because a key Dope constituency
– incarcerated criminals – was caught on video ignoring “approved social
distancing and mask” rules while they share a glass of water from a single cup.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2) Does the article prove that social distancing and
wearing a mask are futile efforts against the Wuhan Virus? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell yes it does. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s how I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church claims that they followed all of
the suggested rules for reopening and still the Chinese Virus struck. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“’Seating was marked to only permit sitting within the six
foot guidelines, all doors were open to allow access without the touching of
doors, and attendees were asked to enter in a social distancing manner and were
dismissed in a formal manner as well to ensure that the social distancing
measures were adhered by all,’ the church told the outlet.</span>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If that’s the cases, it confirms that the rules established
by “the experts” are pretty much useless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If the “the experts” rules are out to lunch and have little to no effect
on the spread of the Wuhan Virus, it’s game over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We might as well get on with things and let
the ChiCom Virus run its course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Somewhere in a post below, Lex asks - what will have changed
after 40 days of house arrest?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The virus
is still going to be out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As such it
will run its course over time irrespective of what the puny humans and their corrupt
tyrannical leaders do.<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-61191960105504894552020-05-19T09:15:00.000-04:002020-05-19T09:15:10.791-04:00As always, what's foul for a conservative, is fair play underhanded Demo-Dopes<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In his May 17 letter “Conspiracy
taking place in plain sight” George S. Wilson reports the White House burying CDC
reports and e-mails for reopening communities is a “cover up.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Covering up what: the CDC’s gross incompetence
during the Wuhan Virus pandemic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It’s nice to see Wilson is on
the ball calling out cover ups by the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now do Lois Learner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She hid or had destroyed all of the documentation
of her lawless and corrupt management of the IRS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learner weaponized the IRS to harass
conservative non-profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, when the
documentation was found backed up on different servers, Learner’s replacement,
John Koskinen, managed to have the backup files disappear. Was Wilson worried
about any of that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Then there’s the mother of
all destruction of government documents when rape enabler Hillary Clinton destroyed
over 33,000 subpoenaed e-mails as well as the servers and cell phones that contained
the incriminating information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does
Wilson have a problem with that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the original, 3 times doctored, FBI 302 on Michael Flynn’s interview has
disappeared. Does Wilson care about that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nope. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">May 17, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Conspiracy taking
place 'in plain sight'</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the May 9 Journal
Gazette is an article detailing how the White House has buried reports and
emails by the CDC that outlined measures for safely reopening communities. This
fits the pattern of lies, misinformation, deliberate disregard of the facts and
the coverup they have pursued since first learning of the impending coronavirus
pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So for all you
conspiracy theorists looking for something to hang your hat on, forget about
“Plandemic.” Here's your conspiracy, hiding in plain sight right before your
eyes – Trump!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George S. Wilson</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-27434782659772182682020-05-18T08:28:00.001-04:002020-05-18T08:28:14.370-04:00Demo-Dopes too stupid and/or lazy to buy a pen<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Saturday was a typical day for the JG’s
editorials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proving the point that there
are never enough things to be paranoid about, in his May 16<sup>th</sup> letter
“Signing our lives away?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s hope not”,
fear monger and pandemic panic pusher - Tim Harmon - uses a whopping 811 words
to warn us that we all may die if we use the same ”communal pen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">How about exercising a bit of personal
responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can solve Harmon’s
problem in four words – buy your own pen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s a three word solution – wash your
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">As far as “signing your life away” with the “communal
pen,” consider that if you are healthy and under the age of 65, you probably have
a better chance being struck by lightning while being mauled by a polar bear
than catching the Chinese Virus from a pen and then dying from it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paranoid pandemic panic pusher Harmon doesn’t
bother to let readers in on that little tidbit of information. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">I used to think that liberals throwing their minority
constituents under the bus for being too stupid and/or lazy to get an ID for
voting was just a cover for another of their voter fraud programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it appears that they have a whole other
group of people too stupid and/or lazy to buy a ball point pen or wash their
hands after using a communal pen people. I guess we may have to accept that the
Democrat Party is largely made up of stupid, lazy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>constituents <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Carrying your own pen or using your own hand
sanitizer is just too great a burden and doesn’t take into account the
following:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those solutions are racist, because poor
people of color cannot afford ball point pens and hand sanitizer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Using ball point pens and hand sanitizer are “white privilege” because
of all the “pen and hand sanitizer” deserts out there. 3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the rich can afford a personal pen and
hand sanitizer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lives away? Let's hope not</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TIM HARMON | The Journal Gazette</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is time to talk
about The Communal Pen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We've come a long way
in learning how to minimize exposure to coronaviruses. Just three months ago,
people were shaking hands and pushing elevator buttons without a second thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because I write a lot
about health issues, I had a few days' head start on concepts such as social
distancing, and during the first days of the shutdown, I dreaded my
interactions with people who hadn't quite caught onto the simple techniques
that minimize spreading the virus to others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course, some people
are blissfully going through life as they used to, seemingly unaware they are
in the midst of a pandemic. Many others, though, have adjusted to the concept
that we owe it to ourselves and those around us to do everything we reasonably
can to avoid spreading infection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am pleasantly
surprised to see how seriously workers in grocery stores, package delivery,
pharmacies and, especially, routine health care, have taken that
responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They are wearing masks
and making every effort to minimize contact. Evidence suggests their efforts
have saved lives. They've also contributed to making customers and patients
feel safer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But one thing hasn't
seemed to change. The Communal Pen – the customary, weather-beaten ballpoint
some businesses and organizations still offer customers for all manner of
transactions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems to me the
very definition of counterintuitive. Too often, cautious gloved and masked
workers go through elaborate rituals to spare contact with you – but before
they can give you your food, or your medicine, or even, sometimes, your medical
test, they direct you to ... The Communal Pen and ask you to sign something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This can happen
whether you've prepaid or not. It can happen whether you've taken advantage of
drive-up or cautiously ventured into the store. One of my favorite carryout
spots started requiring a signature with The Communal Pen on prepaid orders a
couple weeks ago, even though it had rarely done so before. Why? I asked. “To show
that you really got your food,” a worker explained. Really? If it came down to
a court case or whatever, wouldn't they have a video of my car going through
the drive-up? And why wasn't this a problem before a deadly pandemic came
along?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It happened, too, this
week at a highly respected local medical facility I was visiting for a routine
test.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Masked worker meets me
at the door, six feet away. Checks me in. Good. My name is on the list, and she
confirms what the test is for and which doctor ordered it. Good and good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just one more thing,
she says. You have to sign the check-in list at the desk. Though I have already
checked in and although there are only two other patients in the waiting room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And there, beside the
check-in sheet, is The Communal Pen. Perhaps, I think, they have sanitized it.
The check-in woman is busy with another patient – no way to ask her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And besides, I have a
wrinkled face with white beard hair sticking out from under my mask. I am not
just in the high-risk group – I am in the high-risk-for-coming-across-as-a-crotchety-old-man
group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then I notice there is
the customary jar full of identical Communal Pens sitting beside it. I reach in
and try to choose a clean one. Maybe I lucked out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During an interview on
other health matters this week, I mentioned my new obsession to Allen County
Health Commissioner Dr. Deborah McMahan. She said she hadn't been offered any
unsanitary pens during the pandemic. But she agreed places that neglect pen
sanitation are taking a risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“They should wipe
those things down all the time – not just during COVID, but all the time,” she
said. “I can't imagine how much disease is spread with those pens, when you
sign your name on the charge-card thing and then rub your eyes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me be clear. This
is nothing against all these workers who are trying so hard to keep their
customers, patients and colleagues safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, behind each of
these Communal Pens is a manager, maybe sitting safely in a home office
somewhere, neglecting to make a simple change in a long-held policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems to me those
managers need to waive needless signature requirements. For signatures that
still must be required – the law, for instance, mandates a signature to receive
some kinds of medicine – those managers could give workers training in how to carry
that out safely by properly sanitizing pens, using disposable covers, or
whatever other solutions might be available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And they could direct
employees to clearly state what precautions have been taken when they ask
customers to use those pens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's not a big thing,
compared to all the things those companies and organizations are doing right in
this troubling time. But just for the next few months, why not humor a
crotchety old man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tim Harmon is an
editorial writer for The Journal Gazette.</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-75539332503702646342020-05-15T09:05:00.000-04:002020-05-15T09:07:46.804-04:00Today's JG rant: If at first you don't succeed at destroying America try, try again<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">As the alert JG editorial staff loads up this page
with letters challenging the wisdom of reopening of America, remember this -
the purpose of the nearly nation-wide stay at home order (AKA House arrest) was
to flatten the curve of the number of Americans contracting the Chinese Virus
at the same time. The fear was that too
many people would be infected simultaneously causing medical facilities to
become flooded and causing shortages of beds, equipment and medical
personnel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">The goal has never been, “flatten the curve until a
vaccine is developed,” or “flatten the curve until therapeutic treatments are
developed,” or “flatten the curve until the infection and death rates hit zero.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Now that we have flattened the curve of infections of
a virus we now know 99.9% of Americans will survive, the azzbags who have been
wrong about everything regarding the disease, are now telling us the quarantine
of healthy must continue for as long as three extra months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">It’s time to revert to common sense and follow the science. We know the Chinese Virus is most deadly to people
over 65 with an underlying illness. Also
at greater risk are diabetics and the obese. Common sense, science and history would tell
us that asking the most at risk to self-quarantine is a far easier, more efficient
and cost effective solution than trying to quarantine 100% of the population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">As certain local governments creep closer and closer
to tyrannical socialism/communism, citizens are beginning to push back. The government’s response to anyone who might
dare resist their seriously stupid edicts is, as always, label them
racists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">If the tyrants ever insist that law enforcement arrest and
charge citizens who dare tell their brain-dead overlords to go hell it will not
be long until violence breaks out. </span></span>Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-11903047097409347342020-05-13T08:22:00.002-04:002020-05-13T08:32:48.978-04:00The case against Dr. Fraud<br />
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Never in the history of
mankind have so many surrendered so much to so few based on so little. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Fraud (AKA Dr. Fauci) got PDJT to close America
based on the data from a now debunked British study that predicted 2.2 million
deaths in America from the Chinese Virus. Dr. Fraud has been all over the place
on the Wuhan Virus from the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s
the Dr. Fraud timeline of conflicting advice from a Breitbart article. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">February 26, 2020</span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">:
Fauci said, “Travel restrictions become almost irrelevant because you can’t
keep out the entire world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“When you have a pandemic that involves multiple countries,
travel restrictions become almost irrelevant because you can’t keep out the
entire world,” Fauci said during an interview with CNBC News.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">February 29, 2020</span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">:
Fauci claimed there was no need for Americans to “change anything what you’re
doing on a day-by-day basis” during an <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/13/nolte-fauci-said-going-to-malls-movie-theaters-gym-okay-on-feb-29/"><span style="color: #00749e; text-decoration: none;">interview</span></a> with
the <i>Today Show</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Right
now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you’re doing on a
day-by-day basis,” Fauci <a href="https://www.today.com/video/dr-fauci-on-coronavirus-fears-no-need-to-change-lifestyle-yet-79684677616" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00749e; text-decoration: none;">said</span></a> in response to a question about changing lifestyle
habits. “Right now the risk is still low, but this could change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">March 9, 2020</span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">:
Well after concerns of the spread of the novel coronavirus had aroused, Fauci
suggested that it was okay to take a trip on a cruise if you were a “healthy
young person.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“If
you are a healthy young person, there is no reason if you want to go on a
cruise ship, go on a cruise ship,” Fauci <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-says-cruising-is-ok-if-you-are-healthy/#bb7f3222d4de" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00749e; text-decoration: none;">told</span></a> reporters at a White House briefing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“But the fact is that if you have … an individual who has an
underlying condition, particularly an elderly person who has an underlying
condition, I would recommend strongly that they do not go on a cruise ship,”
Fauci added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">March 9, 2020</span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">:
Fauci <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?470172-1/president-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00749e; text-decoration: none;">said</span></a> the decision to hold a campaign rally the next day
would be a “good judgment” if it were held at a venue where there was no
“community spread.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Not sure what we’re going to be able to say at the time where
you have a campaign rally,” Fauci said in response to a question regarding
political campaign rallies. “If you’re talking about a campaign rally tomorrow,
in a place where there is no community spread, I think the judgment to have it
might be a good judgment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“If you want to talk about large gatherings in a place where you
have community spread, I think that’s a judgment call,” Fauci added. “And if
someone decides they want to cancel it, I wouldn’t publicly criticize them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">March 12, 2020</span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">: In
contrast to his February 26 remarks, Fauci said that he believed certain travel
restrictions have “absolutely” helped with the prevention of the spread of the
coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I
think it absolutely has,” Fauci <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOBa7w_wnRk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00749e; text-decoration: none;">said</span></a>.
“I believe if we did not do that with China early on …”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“prudent choice.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fauci claimed during an interview with Fox News’s Jesse Watters that it was “in
January” when he believed that this was a problem Americans needed to worry
about, which contrasts several of his previous remarks made that month and the
months following, including his remarks on the <i>Today Show</i> in
February.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Dr.
Fraud decided that no one should ever shake hands again: </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Dr.
Fauci, “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with
you. Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease, it probably
would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now try to
square this circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Fraud bans
handshakes but appears to endorse homosexual internet hook ups when he responded
to a question about Tinder sex with this,</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “’If you’re willing to take a risk
— and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure
out if you want to meet somebody,’ said Fauci, who was </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/petition-to-make-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-man-alive-gaining-steam/"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">named a candidate</span></a><span style="background: white;"> for
People magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ award*.” <span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So according to Dr. Fraud, it’s safe and okay
to have sex with a possible carrier someone has met online as long as the participants
don’t shake hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very weird.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">*Note</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If that’s true, the award needs to establish an Electoral College ASAP.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In his testimony yesterday Dr. Fraud claimed that the actual death toll from the Wuhan Virus was probably much higher than reported. Dr. Birx said the death totals were probably inflated. Dr. Birx is correct. As the popular meme of Forest Gump sitting on the bench waiting on the bus points out with this line, "And just like that nobody died of natural causes." </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr. Fraud told us for
months that we needed to “social distance” and be placed under house arrest in
order to “flatten the curve” of Chinese Virus patients. We did that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The curve flattened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hospitals were not swamped with cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that that BS goal has been reached, Dr.
Fraud is moving the goal posts by telling us we have remain under house arrest
because someone might get sick and die from the disease if we don’t continue to
hide under the bed until a vaccine or effective treatment is developed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr. Fraud and the
rest of the globalist BS artists put the fear of God into the entire population
with BS models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have yet to tells
us they and the models were all F—ked up. If Dr. Fraud were in any line of
business and been this wrong about so much, he’d have had his azz fired months
ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Flynn case</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
Some azzbag judge – Sullivan – has decided that the Flynn case has not been
drug out long enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After DOJ decided
to drop the case Judge Idiot is now asking for the world weigh in on the case
by signaling he’s willing to take amicus briefs before deciding what to do with
Flynn’s case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Total BS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PDJT should call out the BS judge and pardon
Flynn, Manafort and Papadopoulos today in a Rose Garden ceremony with bands, a
brunch and souvenir Champaign glasses. The CNN/MSPMS reaction would be worth
the effort.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-87617716013775532202020-05-12T08:15:00.001-04:002020-05-12T08:27:20.024-04:00Today's JG rant: Preening azzbags with zero skin in the game urge keeping the economy shut down<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
his May 12 OpEd “State underplays risk of return” fear monger, Fran Quilgey, refers
to the Chinese Virus, a disease 99.5% of us will survive, as a “perilous condition” and
calls moves to reopen the state “reckless.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Quigley
informs us that, “</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Indiana law is clear
that unemployed workers are not required to accept offers of employment or
reemployment if conditions are not ‘suitable.’ The law says a job is not
suitable if it includes unacceptable risk to health and safety. Federal law,
too, is clear that workers are not required to appear or remain at a workplace
that poses a serious risk to health.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
if someone can refuse work because of a virus that 99.5% of us will survive,
what in the world does not represent a “risk to health and safety”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are Quigley and his doom saying ilk eating these days?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did they
get their food?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t come out
from under the bed to engage in the “reckless” behavior of visiting the Kroger,
a drive through or take advantage of a curbside food service did they?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess is that they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So seriously, can the conditions out there
really be that “perilous”? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My guess is that
Quigley hasn’t missed a payday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He should
donate any salary he has received since the governor unconstitutionally placed us
all under house arrest to charity, and he should continue to donate every penny
until the “perilous condition” is over by his own idiotic standard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only when this virtue signaling showoff and
people like him are totally broke with at least two mortgage payments due,
should anyone pay the least bit of attention them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We know what groups truly
are at perilous risk to the Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather than quarantining the healthy, maybe we should consider quarantining
people who are sick and the people most at risk of actually succumbing to the
disease while the rest of the world gets on with life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What we do not need is
hectoring from preening boobs like Quigley who have zero skin in the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go broke, then tell us we don't need to go back to work. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">t</span></u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">uesday, May 12, 2020 1:00 am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;">State
underplays risks of return</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Right to refuse perilous conditions
well-established<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Fran Quigley</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gov. Eric Holcomb and
his senior leadership team recently warned unemployed Hoosiers that they must
return to their jobs or risk losing access to unemployment benefits, even if
they believe going back to their workplace is unsafe. Those warnings misstate
Indiana and federal law and could put thousands of Hoosiers at risk of sickness
and even death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Claimants who have
been placed on a temporary layoff related to COVID-19 must return to work if
called back to remain eligible for benefits,” Indiana Department of Workforce
Development commissioner Fred Payne said during one of the governor's
daily news conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Getting the economy
back on track is of paramount importance,” Holcomb said, adding that the state
“can look into” getting involved if workers fear for their safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet the governor
followed that vague promise by emphasizing that Indiana's economic recovery
“requires every single Hoosier who has the ability to work to do so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a matter of law,
these statements are overbroad and misleading. As a matter of public safety,
they are reckless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">These inaccurate
warnings by our state's leaders may cause some Hoosier families to lose access
to desperately needed benefits. Worse, they could cause Hoosiers to be exposed
to unacceptable risks of infection for themselves, their loved ones and the
community at large.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Indiana law is clear
that unemployed workers are not required to accept offers of employment or
reemployment if conditions are not “suitable.” The law says a job is not
suitable if it includes unacceptable risk to health and safety. Federal law,
too, is clear that workers are not required to appear or remain at a workplace
that poses a serious risk to health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Determining whether a
work offer is suitable and whether a workplace is dangerous are complicated,
fact-sensitive legal judgments. Decades of statutes and court decisions dictate
that these judgments be made on a case-by-case basis, not in news conference
pronouncements by politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What about a Hoosier
with a high risk of deadly COVID-19 complications, or their neighbor whose job
is at a plant with close-quarters working conditions? Neither the governor nor
his team are qualified to pronounce that these people will lose their
unemployment benefits if they do not believe it is safe yet to return to the
workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From a public health
perspective, these warnings are ill-advised policy at a time when still-lacking
testing and rising infection rates mean that social distancing in Indiana is
still a top priority. Keeping as many workers as possible out of dangerous,
virus-spreading settings is one of the most important justifications for our current
system of extended unemployment benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hoosiers who fear that
returning to work endangers them or others have rights protected under the law,
rights that free legal services agencies can help them enforce. That is the
message Holcomb and his team should be delivering, not an ominous warning that
could trigger widespread sickness and an extension of the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fran Quigley is
director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney
School of Law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-4484317228156474902020-05-11T09:49:00.004-04:002020-05-11T09:49:50.692-04:00Today's JG rant: The fewer the facts the better for JG editors<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The JG editorial page takes a left leaning look at
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s their ink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask yourself this question:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does the JG have any responsibility to ensure
what appears on this page is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not talking about subjects like “tot or fries” where debate can rage without any
real harm or winner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">I’m talking about the Tim Tiernon fact-free opinion type
letters like “End sanctions to attack nations’ common enemy” of May 9, 2020. In his
ill-informed letter Tiernon states, “</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We cannot
claim to wage humanitarian wars while blocking medical supplies.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeesh how misinformed can one guy be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In his daily briefings PDJT has made
it clear he would help any country seeking assistance with the Chinese Virus.
He has in fact offered the world medical assistance to including our enemies
like China, Venezuelan, N Korea, Russia and Iran. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tiernon goes on to tell we are
committing “crimes against humanity” because the Democrats' favorite rapist,
Bill Clinton, signed something called the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court. That opinion is so 2000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Clinton
may have taken a break from sexually assaulting females who entered the Oval
Office long enough to sign the document, but when he got back to his main business
of forcing himself on any women who dare pass too close, he didn’t bother to
submit the piece of rubbish to the senate for ratification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">G. W. Bush effectively un-signed the
document 2002 when he notified the UN that United States had no intention to ratify
the treaty, and as such had no obligation to follow any of the garbage
contained within.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Tiernon uses the plural to tell us that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our</b> sanctions are a crime
against humanity,” he’s wrong again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
articles contained in the unratified globalist dung heap can only be applied to
individuals not countries or organizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nice try Tim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucky thing you live in Ft. Wayne where local
editors will print anything no matter how poorly researched as long as it’s
anti-American or anti Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you lived
in a town where the paper hired real editors, your nonsense would never see the
light of day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">End sanctions to
attack nations' common enemy</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One third of Earth's
population is actively avoiding COVID-19. City, state and national action can
be effective if the novel coronavirus is a one-time event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As much as we would
like it to go away, epidemiologists believe the virus will recur. We haven't
had this type of pandemic for a century, but self-interest should create a
better global response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The United States can
lend that response by ending economic sanctions on 38 countries that comprise a
third of the world's population. We cannot claim to wage humanitarian wars
while blocking medical supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Healthy, well-fed
people are more resistant to disease. U.S. sanctions are intended to make the
economies of countries we don't like “scream.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
countries we sanction are often guilty of electing leaders we don't like or
rejecting corporate suitors.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our sanctions are a
crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute signed by President
Bill Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wouldn't it be
wonderful if we recognized that defeating COVID-19 (and future pandemics) is
more important than economic warfare?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The state of Indiana
has taken time out of its busy day to sanction Iran. We cannot hurt others
without hurting ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Polio and smallpox did
not die out; they were eradicated by vaccines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Global pandemics
require coordinated global response. We cannot allow 38 countries to be a
reservoir for COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ending our economic
sanctions is the first step in defeating our real enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tim Tiernon</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-58656170397253210682020-05-08T09:29:00.004-04:002020-05-11T09:50:19.184-04:00Deep State running the ruin of the economy<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">After three years of a deep state Russia collusion
hoax, the lefty lib dream continues to disintegrate right before their eyes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, the same people who foisted the Russia hoax
on America expect us to believe their Chinese Virus BS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not know all the ins and outs of the BS
Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I do know is that if
Kroger can remain open to millions of shoppers daily since this BS began, it’s
impossible to believe that a barber shop and 10,000,000 other businesses are inherently
deadly and therefore cannot remain open. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Chis Wray has been FBI Director since July 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s been in charge for nearly two
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Richard Grenell has been NDI
since Feb 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did it take NDI Grenell
less than three months to order the release the transcripts proving Gen Flynn
was railroaded by his government?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wht
the hell was Wray trying to hide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is
he just another senile doddering old fool like Slowly Joe, Grand Nan, Nifong
Boob Mueller et al?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">The simplest explanation s most often the correct explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wray is a dep state anti-American POS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-46848976884699595412020-05-07T08:31:00.002-04:002020-05-07T08:31:40.101-04:00Something wierd is going on<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">As governors begin to relinquish some of their extra-constitutional
tyrannical power over their citizens, something nefarious is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The national effort is slowly transitioning from
“you will certainly die if you fail to hide under the bed” to time to get back
to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I’m seeing on the boob
tube is endless ads by national chains and public service notices for us all to
stay home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">So, WTF?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
do small businesses get back normal opening their business when the big guys
and the government are still encouraging people to hide under the bed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s an overreaction on my part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may just take time to get the new “let’s
get back to work” ad campaign up and running.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It’s time for some good old fashion civil disobedience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Open and tell the government to F—K off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If issued a fine, refuse to pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If arrested and jailed, refuse to eat. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The government at all levels during this manufactured
Chinese Virus crisis has acted like tin pot dictators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve gone along with the BS artists long
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">We know the government is overrun with deep state azzbags
through and through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched BS pols,
the FBI and CIA manufacture a Russian collusion case against PDJT, Gen Flynn et
al.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched anti-American deep state SOBs
manufacture Ukraine quid pro quo impeachment charges against PPDJT while
ignoring the real criminal activity by their brain dead, senile, dotard of a
candidate and his worthless no talent pis* ant of a son. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">We know the “models” for the disease have been wrong
by factors of 10 since they first rolled out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was all a scare tactic to keep us hiding under the bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that they’ve been exposed as BS, the new
tactic is shame anyone advocating for a return to normalcy as a murderer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They make it an </span>A-B choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A” reopen and be called a murderer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“B” hide under the bed until the country is a
shell of itself. There are all kind of variations in between.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It has all been BS from the start. Follow the science
for the first time since this BS started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Quarantine the sick and vulnerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let those age 65 and under in good health, get out and enjoy life.</span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">And as alwys F--K the government. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-49525480268881800222020-05-06T09:32:00.000-04:002020-05-06T09:36:32.853-04:00Tyrants rule <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">One of Lil Barry O’s butt-boy judges, a stoop who
goes by the name Eric Moye, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/05/05/report-texas-hair-salon-owner-gets-jail-sentence-for-violating-coronavirus-lockdown-order/">put a mom in jail</a> for 7 because she opened her
salon in violation of the May 8<sup>th</sup> reopen directive issued by the now
all-powerful chief executive of the great state of TX.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">We all know Lil’ Barry chief and favorite azz sucker
is Fox News’ Juan Williams, Judge Double D-bag Moye must be running a close
second. The Judge told the hair salon proprietor,
Shelly Luther, that she was being selfish by opening her shop to earn money to
feed her family. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">So the arrogant but hopelessly stupid Moye cast
dispersion on Luther for working. The
Double D-bag judge hasn’t missed a paycheck for doing his half-azzed job. He can’t
understand why Luther doesn’t lay around house like good Democrats sucking off
the government teat like Moye and his like demand and are perfectly comfortable
doing. For these weaklings living in government
funded squallier and poverty is so much better than getting job. Then in election year brain-dead Moye and the
Dopes can threaten to take away what little they provide if their victims don’t
vote Dope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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needs to have their checks withheld for 50 days before this arrogant moron calls
anyone selfish for working. Luther should
have demanded a jury trial by her owner operator peers. </span></span><br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Once in jail, Luther should immediately go on a hunger strike.
F—K these azzbags and the corrupt cops who arrested her.</span></span>Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-86872460123423111852020-05-05T08:08:00.003-04:002020-05-05T09:32:12.167-04:00Some things that make you go Hmmm<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">G W Bush releases a video critical of PDJT and just like that he's no longer Bushitler but rather a wise senior statesman.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">PDJT has Demo-Dopes rushing to the defense of the tyrannical,
murdering, godless Chinese Communist Party while at the same time blaming their
own government – of which they are a part last time I looked – for the spread
of the Chinese Virus.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Now the Chinese
have sent us Murder Hornets.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Demo-Dopes are supposed to support the “little guy”
yet they want to make it impossible for the “”little guy” to get back to work
in order to save his business. Instead they
insist that the little guy’s business remain closed. How many small businesses can survive a 6
month government ordered shut down? The
only ones that have the capital to remain in business after such draconian
rules are the big corporations. The
Dopes are proving that they are shills for the very big business they want us
to loath. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">“Essential workers” at the Kroger et al have been
working for nearly 50 days in the face of the “deadly” Wuhan Virus. Meanwhile weakling House Democrats remain at
home because it is supposedly too dangerous for them to return to work. Are they telling us that Kroger employees are
expendable?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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presiding over one of the most deadly states with regard to the Chinese
Virus. Andy encouraged New Yorkers and
in fact the world to ignore PDJT’s warnings. Instead King Azzbag encouraged NY’s
to get out and enjoy the various festivals etc. Then King Azzbag ordered senior homes to accept
patients known to have the Chinese Virus. Then King Azzbag told the world that
NY, due to his own mismanagement, was totally unprepared for an epidemic. So King Azzbag begged the feds for
100,000,000 ventilators, 200,000,000 extra hospital beds and 1,000,000,000 sets
of PPE. Only Dopes and MSM could hail
such a monumental loser a hero in the light of that evidence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Mayor De Blasio is so unpopular not even the MSM will
come to this total loser’s defense. SFB
De Blasio has ordered NY’s to snitch on each other if they see any one breaking
any of senseless edicts on masks, social distancing, etc. The only good news in that scenario is New
Yorkers flooded the tip site with pornography and pics of De Blasio – which is
the same thing. Mayor D threatened Jewish
gatherings with arrest while shipping 500,000 hala meals to NYC muslims. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">The Chinese Virus has a large percentage of American
willing to abandon their constitutional rights because some power hungry excrement
head demands it of them to “save lives” based on totally debunked BS models. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">While it is perfectly legal, some 2<sup>nd</sup> Ammendment
supporters are decrying MI protester’s carrying long guns into the state
capital. A right not exercised for fear
of arrest or fear of being ostracized by government or MSM is not a right. Idiot Sen Hannity said the protesters with long
rifles inside the MI state capital was “a distraction.” What a compliant fat-faced little twit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Demo-Dopes, the masters of the universe running
social media and the MSM insist we “follow the science” of their BS studies and
models while they bury and hide any information that demonstrates a differing
point of view. They ignore the science that people under 50 years old with no
underlying health issues have a 0.01% chance of dying from the virus and must “stay
at home.” They hype an unproven,
expensive Chinese controlled medication while casting lies on a certified,
inexpensive, proven decades old drug that has shown promise everywhere it has
been tried. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Demo-Dopes have conditioned us to stay home by insisting
on unsustainable unemployment checks of $600 a week for 39 weeks - which we all
know will be extended when it runs out. When people refuse to return to work
because they can get more money for staying home, those payments are going to
be used as the proof for a new minimum wage, a demand all Americans receive a “universal
income” etc. </span></span>Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-50568559188365312092020-05-04T07:41:00.001-04:002020-05-04T07:41:20.392-04:00I think it's about controlling us rather the Chinese Virus<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Here’s how I know that there’s something strange
going on with the Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We remain
in lock down but there’s no serious outbreak of the disease among “essential
workers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the disease was as deadly
as the “experts” want us to believe, shouldn’t about 3/4ths of the “essential
workers” been wiped out by now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">What’s keeping the people stocking the shelves at the
Kroger safe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tens of thousands of people
have been ushered through the Kroger every day, yet the stores somehow remain surprisingly
disease free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How in the world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">We know that the disease is deadliest for persons 65
or older with underlying health concerns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conversely, we now that if you’re under the age of 50 you have about a
0.01% mortality rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are we
shutting the entire country down?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shouldn’t it be closed to people 65 and older with underlying health
problems while the rest of the country get on with things?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">We know the disease spreads easily among people
trapped indoors while nearly impossible to spread outdoors in the sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why have certain governors closed state parks
and beaches?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know the “experts” want
us to social distance, why are certain governors denying us access to parks and
beaches where social distancing is a heck of a lot easier than in a crowded
apartment building?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Why are Democrat pols urging people to snitch n their
neighbors?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">There’s clearly something going on other than a
response to a pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dopes want us
to follow the science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fine, lift all
restriction for people 50 years old and under.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are nearly immune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Failure
to do so indicates the leftists are up to something else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the JG letters page<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Re May 4 letter Cephas Williamson, “The devolution of
the GOP.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's how the Journal
Gazette’s letter page became what is; first editors published only leftist lies
that appealed to ignoramuses, next there were leftist damned lies that appealed
only to angry ignoramuses, and then there were miserable damnedable lies that
appealed only to other anti-American miserable damnedable liars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The devolution of
the GOP</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's how the
Republican Party became what it is: First there were innovators, next there
were imitators, and then there were idiots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cephas Williamson</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-4936537600208022512020-05-01T08:11:00.003-04:002020-05-01T08:11:56.438-04:00The miracle of grocery shopping<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Churches apparently are hot beds of death and must be
closed to prevent the end of civilization as we know it due to the spread of
the Chinese Virus. Meanwhile, hundreds
of millions of us go grocery shopping every day without fear of dying from the
Wuhan Virus. For all the miracles they
have worked during the pandemic, we need to start the process of canonizing grocery
store managers who have miraculously kept us all safe from catching or
spreading a virus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Or maybe it’s just the store itself. As the human race is struck down everywhere
else, God has surely shined his light down on and caused the virus to “Passover”
grocery stores that by the hand of God offer protection to all who enter. Maybe
we need a kind of a modern “Passover” ceremony recognizing he miraculous nature
of grocery stores.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Exit question: How long are the sheepeople going to
adhere to draconian government overreach?
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Deep State azzbags
are deeply engrained into government healthcare agencies <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Gen Flynn was set up by corrupt anti-American deep
state double d-bags at the highest levels of government. Now the same people who told us to trust the
deep state sh*ts in that case are telling us we have to accept the “science”
coming from CDC, NIH, et al with regard to the Chinese Virus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Why? We should
never trust the federal government again.
The deep state Intell Community screwed Gen Flynn in an effort to
destroy PDJT. Is it really so farfetched
to think that there might be a deep state healthcare cabal willing to destroy
the American economy in order to “get Trump”? I don’t think so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">We have been lied to from the start on the morality rate
for the Chinese Virus. We’ve been lied
to as to seriousness of the disease to people who contract it. We’re being lied to right now about the
number of deaths attributed to the Wuhan Virus.
Essentially, anyone who dies is listed as a virus death. We’ve been lied to about how the virus
spreads. We’re being lied to about
existing proven, tested FDA approved, low cost treatments available right now
today. We’re being lied to about the
ability of the economy to function under rules laid down by the very people
lying to us about their own rules.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Somewhere below, Lex asks, “What happens when the
lock down ends?” The virus is still going
to be present. The virus is going to do
what a virus does – spread through the population until the herd becomes immune. To my way of thinking, all we’ve accomplished
with this lock down is lengthen the time that that natural process is going to
take. I suppose that was plan. Flatten the curve so as not to swamp
healthcare system with Wuhan Virus patients.
But that was a lie or a huge miscalculation. The surge never
materialized. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Now according to the CA docs banned by Youtube as
much as 99.97% of the population is going to survive. We know a large percentage of the population –
as high as 20% - are going to contract the disease but have no or very mild
symptoms. We know that the most vulnerable
population are those 65 and older with an underlying issue. Conversely, we know people 19 years old and
younger catch the virus at negligible rates and do not spread the disease as
easily as us older folk. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Now all the “experts” are telling us that we have to
follow the science. But those very
people seem to be ignoring the science as they advocate for a hide under the bed
– except for grocery shopping - through summer so as to insure the disease
doesn’t spread and no one dies from the disease. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Doesn’t the science tell us to quarantine older
people while the rest of us get on with it?
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As an aside, is anyone else tiring of Dr. Fauci? Why in the hell is he an expert on reopening economy
or anything else? Is he one of the aforementioned a deep state azzbags?</span></span><br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">America needs to sacrifice a state or two in order to
keep the Abe Schwabs and Belinda Corps of the America safe. I suggest the contiguous states of NY and
NJ. Those two state are already
suffering the most from the effects of the Chinese Virus. They would be the perfect place to ship all
the “we cannot come out from under the bed until we are 100% certain we will
not be faced with any risk” bunch. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Corps thinks John Crawford is “risking” her life by
advocating for a measured approach for the reopening of Indiana. No mama that would be you. No one is advocating forcing Corps or anyone
else out from under their bed if that’s where they choose to stay. They can stay there as long as they like
cowering in fear of a virus that 99.998% of Americans will survive. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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shopping. By her own idiotic standard,
that is a life threatening activity. She
shouldn’t expect anyone to deliver food to her door, because she’d be
jeopardizing someone else’s life. She
should just stay tucked up under the bed safe and sound…until she starves to
death. Better to starve to death than take a risk, no matter how miniscule.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reckless reopening
puts many at risk</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It really would be a
mistake to open the country unless there is a plan in place to continue
measures to keep people safe. Essential businesses that remained open are now
closed because OSHA/federal government/public health officials did not advise
managers how to run a business with needed measures to keep workers safe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for Michigan Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer, she did make some mistakes in her decrees in a desire to
protect people. Evidently, her advisers did not do a good job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everywhere you drive,
you see people grouping together, no social distancing, and not wearing facial
coverings over both nose and mouth. A virus, especially an infectious
one, knows no boundaries. It just looks for a host in which to dwell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. John Crawford
(“Fear is keeping us from recovery,” April 19), as are other people I have
heard, is willing to sacrifice others' lives just to open the country without
plans in place. Go ahead jeopardize your own life; do not risk mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before the pandemic
began, people died in car accidents, plane crashes, or from chronic diseases
such as diabetes or heart or kidney disease. We know we are all mortal.
But why die of something you might prevent with caution, hand-washing, social
distancing and masks?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-7282937180263686662020-04-30T08:42:00.002-04:002020-04-30T09:22:37.120-04:00There is no reality with the current data<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">UPDATE: The media lied <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/media-lied-people-died-italian-study-finds-incredible-prophylaxis-results-patients-hydroxychloroquine/">people died</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">What do we know about the Wuhan Virus? Probably not as much as we should. Deep state government azzbags and big tech
are hiding the ball from us. Take yesterday
as example. Dr. Fauci created much
hoopla about the drug Remdesivir. A
small study has shown that the expensive and invasive drug apparently is
somewhat effective against the Chinese virus.
WooHoo! Now there are calls to fast track the drug
through CDC trials so that the drug can be made widely available for treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Here’s an interesting note. Dr. Fauci heads up the NIH. The manufacturer of Remdesivir is a company
called Gilead. Gilead donated a bunch of
cash to the NIH. Is Dr. Fauci
compromised? Idunno. If it’s not an
outright conflict of interest, it certainly has the appearance of a conflict of
interest. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Meanwhile many studies have shown the inexpensive, already
tested, widely used drug, Hydroxychloroquine, is 98% effective in treating
Chinese Virus patients when given early.
No matter how many studies show success, the deep state azzbags come up
with the – the study didn’t have a “double blind control group” therefore we
cannot trust that the lives it saved under those circumstances are admissible as
evidence of success. Yesterday Turkey
claimed that they gave Hydroxy to all patients who tested positive for the
Chinese Virus and as a result the drug appeared to delay or eliminate the need
for intensive care for patients.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">So, how many score of tests and studies demonstrating
a benefit have to occur before the evidence passes the “anecdotal” threshold? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">While the deep state ignores, nay derides the
promising results of Hydroxy, the “scientists” studying Remdesivir are
withholding lifesaving protocols to sick patients so that they can run a control
group for a stupid study. Is that
ethical?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">But it’s not just the drugs the masters of the
universe are hiding from us. When PDJT
was spitballing about using UV light to treat the Wuhan Virus, the deep state
went nuts. Trump’s crazy!! Then Aytu Bioscience released a video on
using UV light internally to treat the Chinese Virus. Shortly thereafter, the masters of the
universe suspended their social media accounts, took their video down and hid
the ball. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">Not long ago two CA doctors conducted a statistical
study demonstrating that the chances of a Californian dying from the Wuhan
Virus were - 0.03%. When the doc’s video
went viral, the masters of the universe took it down and hid it from the public. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">The masters of the universe are also hiding any workable
data to allow us to see what is happening with the Wuhan Virus. The Masters of the universe want us to
believe that we’re all going to die if go out anywhere other than Kroger which by
some miracle has been determined to be safe while public parks are a hotbed of the
deadly disease sure to kill us all if we go for a walk there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt;">We know the models used to scare the bejeezzus out of
us are wildly inaccurate. Why don’t we
use new models? We closed the schools in
spite of the fact that studies show that children are all but immune to the
disease. We know that the most vulnerable are those 65 and older suffering from
an existing ailment. We know the disease is far more prevalent than the tests
show. Why aren’t public policies being
adjusted to reflect these realities?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Deep state azzbags are hiding the ball. They, along with
the MSM, want a population reliant on the federal government for rent and food
payments. </span></span>Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-39138710762531497092020-04-29T09:19:00.001-04:002020-04-29T09:19:44.159-04:00Governors not ordering business to open or shoppers to shop<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">For all the hoopla proclaiming a “lock down” or house
arrest type “stay at home” orders, we’ve been living under anything but for
over 40 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Kroger, Walmart,
Lowe’s, CVC, Walgreen, fast food drive throughs have been packed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truckers, Amazon and USPS have been moving
record amounts of goods and public services continue uninterrupted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Now governors are contemplating relaxing some
restrictions to their draconian and extra constitutional “stay at home” orders.
Predictably, the left is worried we’re moving too fast because the resultant
rebounding economy will redound to PDJT’s favor or someone might get sick or
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The timid souls insist all economic
activity must stop until after the election or at least until the economy is so
crippled it cannot help Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">My simple question to the “shut it down until no one
is at risk or we all die in place” crowd is, how can it be safe for Kroger to
operate but unsafe for say, a dog groomer, to reopen using the exact same
protocols in place at the Kroger?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
customer comes with face mask in place, drops Rover off at the door to the
groomer wearing a face mask, returns to pay at the door with a credit card and
then is reunited with a clean and trim Rover?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Also, any relaxation of rules is not an order that
entrepreneurs must open their doors any more than it’s an order that the public
must patronize opening shops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last, the
governor is not ordering the most vulnerable among us - i.e. people age 65 and
older with underlying health issues – out of the safety of their homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Responsible people are capable of making
these decisions on their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Nervous Nellies can continue to hide under the bed and wait for their
government minders to pay their rent and bring them food while the rest of us
get on with life. </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">In his Apr 27, 2020 letter “Quarantine reading list
reveals buried insights” Ron Flickinger claims to have read “The Manchurian
Candidate.” I doubt it. If he did, because he foolishly equates PDJT
to that candidate, he was too foggy of mind to comprehend Congdon’s convoluted
plot. At its center was </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the son of
a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting
assassin for a Communist conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">PDJT’s very first venture into the world of politics was in
2015 when he announced his bid for the presidency. By contrast, his likely 2020 opponent, the
lying, thieving, plagiarizing, senile, doddering, old fool who is a suspected
pedophile and sexual predator, Joe Biden, began his political career in 1969
and despite being wrong on every major issue since rose to become Obama’s Vice
President. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">PDJT and his children all earned their wealth before PDJT
entered politics. By contrast idiot Biden
and his worthless, no talent, drug addicted, other
than honorably discharged, deadbeat dad of a son got wealthy by parlaying a
supercilious buffoon’s political office into cash deals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Flickiger’s blind bias or ignorance makes it
impossible for him consider that PDJT has been warning America of an emerging
China for a decade before he ever ran for office. It was PDJT who made it a key promise in his
campaign to reign in China’s unsustainable trade deficits. It was PDJT</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> who imposed crippling tariffs
on Chinese goods coming into the country in order to get favorable trade deal. It was PDJT who suspended travel from China
on Jan 31 and rightly named the Chinese Virus what it is – a Chinese Virus.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> It is PDJT vowing to investigate the Communist
Chinese Party government and hold them responsible for their negligence in the
spread of the Wuhan Virus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By contrast the witless Chinese stooge, Joe Biden, has been
protecting his family’s miss gotten fortunes by apologizing for the ruthless,
godless corrupt as hell communist Chinese government for years. When PDJT issued his life-saving executive
order suspending incoming flights from China, the clueless Biden accused him of
being a xenophobic racist. Just last
summer Biden would have had us believe, “[the Chinese are] not bad folks,
folks. But guess what, they’re not competition for us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then there’s this from the Democrat’s favorite jug-eared dope
and his ignoramus of a vice president, the only person in America capable of
making the dope look smart by comparison. I</span><span style="background: #FCFCFC; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: .2pt;">n 2014 Obama
boasted that his new outreach initiatives with the communist Chinese would
“help affected countries to strengthen capacity-building on health and epidemic
prevention so as to place the epidemic under control as soon as possible.” Then in 2015 the inept Obama team sent 3.7
million dollars to the exact Wuhan lab credibly suspected of releasing the
virus on the world. It’s weird. It turns out Obama/Biden paid the Chinese to develop
the virus that would destroy our economy.
And you thought the Iran deal was BS. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFCFC; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: .2pt;">Given the facts, there are several
explanations for Flickinger’s dopey letter.
He didn’t read the book. He
couldn’t follow the plot. He doesn’t
know what the word “Manchurian” means.
He thinks everyone is as dumb as the points contained his letter and
will simply accept the senseless hogwash contained therein.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFCFC; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: .2pt;">Another possibility, and it’s not too
farfetched, is that the JG’s real audience for the daily anti-Trump/America
diatribes is not anyone with a functioning brain. Instead, the JG publishes poorly thought
through rubbish like Flickinger’s to sate the appetite of anti-Trump/America haters
and a vital Democrat voting mainstay – angry, braindead, morons suffering from
extreme cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quarantine reading
list reveals buried insights</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being “sheltered in
place” means time weighs heavy on one's hands. But it's actually a great
opportunity to get those things done that in normal times one would say, “When
I get around to it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I got around to doing
an in-depth inventory of my home library and, lo and behold, I found 12 books I
either couldn't remember reading or that I haven't read for a long tiime.
Consequently, I find myself strangely content with all this time on my hands.
It was like finding some old friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just finished two of
my previously read books and found a couple of things: First, my reading
continues to affirm author Jessamyn West's adage that “fiction reveals truth
that reality obscures” and second, that reading stuff published in 1959 and
1965 reflects human behavior exhibited in 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who does the following
sound like? Fill in the blanks with a 2020 national political leader(s).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From “The Manchurian
Candidate” (1959) by Richard Congdon come these two descriptions of a national
political leader: 1) “is a man who shall forever stand guard at the door of the
mind to protect the people of this great nation from facts.” And 2) “_ puts the
finishing touches on his sabotage of the morale of American scientists to the
enormous net gain of those who work against the interests of the United
States.” I can think of more than one name (actually four from Indiana
alone and one from New York) who might fit both descriptions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then Fletcher Knebel,
in “Night of Camp David” (1965) has a retired four-star general state a
sobering fact about the structure of the American political system when he
says: “Nobody — but nobody in this country can tell a president of the United
States that his mind is sick.” Ain't <i>that</i> the truth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-1523785046711414432020-04-28T07:35:00.002-04:002020-04-28T07:35:51.424-04:00Today's JG rant: Let's not pay people to hide under the bedsheets<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Survivability of the human race requires that the
overwhelming majority of the herd be made up of duly cautious people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, for the human race to advance, it
requires that there be an audacious minority -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>a daring few who lead the attack and by their example get the rest of
the herd on their feet in the face of danger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In the early days of the Island hopping campaign of
WWII in the Pacific, US landing forces were faced with a thorny dilemma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After storming the beaches under intense
enemy fire, they could either hunker down on the beach where they’d all surely
be killed or wounded under withering enemy direct and indirect fire, or they
could rise up in the face of those fires and physically assault enemy positions
delivering the fires. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fortunately, there were enough men of derring-do to
rise up and make the assault while bringing the rest of the herd to their feet
to do the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">When John Crawford’s article appeared, I knew the
JG’s alert leftist editors would have letters ready to go from the Abe Schwab,</span></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Branden Blaettner, Bill Burkhart, </span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">John
Steinbacher, Tom Hayhurst and </span></em><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul Dahm </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">types.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the risk adverse people who would
leave the false security of hiding from the virus under their bedsheets only long
enough to make fact-free ad hominin arguments against Crawford’s undeniable
truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s the truth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth is that we will, at some point,
need to get on our feet and go back to work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It’s not the least bit surprising that the timid hide
their affliction by offering up ridiculously unworkable unsustainable economic
models whereby the self-sufficient are ordered to hobble themselves so the
cautious ones can continue to hide under the bedsheets. In idiot Blaettner’s
world, landlords go bankrupt so renters don’t have to work, the banking system
collapses so that so that the fearful can run an unlimited line of credit,
states continue to be slaves to faulty pandemic models in order to keep the
population under unlawful house-arrest and the federal government continues pumping
out trillions of dollars of worthless notes in order to maintain the illusion
that things are swell. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">When the unsustainable nature of Blaettner’s economic
stupidity becomes apparent, the government will no longer be able to keep the gruel
machines running to feed the people and government checks will fail to arrive
on time because they are not long enough to contain all of the zeroes needed to
accommodate the out of control hyperinflation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When that happens, the thin veneer of a civil society will quickly
deteriorate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is then the Blaettners
of this world will be forced to their feet, or, given their supine nature,
maybe not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crawford's words cheap</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I read Dr. John
Crawford's opinion (April 19) stating that it would be a mistake to
continue the country's shutdown past May 1 and it's time to put fear aside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wonder if he would
have the same attitude if he had had the courage to offer his services to any New
York City hospital as they worked double shifts, risking their own lives and
those of their families to save others without adequate protective equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Actions speak louder
than words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crawford's arguments
illogical on many levels</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I picked up my April
19 newspaper and saw a disgusting article by John
Crawford. His irresponsible comparison of this virus to vehicle
accidents, heart disease and the flu shows a total lack of knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is immunization
for the flu; if people choose not to get it, then that's their choice – but it
does exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I never knew
vehicle accidents could spread from one person to another. Same with heart
disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The purpose of
quarantining is to stop the spread of this deadly virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also am wondering
why the newspaper gave you a platform. As a politician, Crawford
was rejected by all voters once and the second time by his own
party. How does this somehow warrant his opinion on the front page
and not in the letters like everyone else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lastly,
did Crawford feel he was stepping on anyone's
constitutional rights with his smoking ban? Did he think
maybe bar owners and restaurant owners should be allowed to make those
decisions as part of their business plan?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crawford's medical
advice not what we should heed</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In his April 19
column, Dr. John Crawford offered a fatalistic and politically tainted
assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He stated that 50,000
to 60,000 individuals die from influenza every year but failed to mention that
those deaths occur despite our concerted public health efforts to prevent every
one. He went on to suggest in a cavalier manner that we should now be willing
to abandon important and successful COVID-19 preventative measures and accept needless
deaths to protect the economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crawford is one of
many weighing in on this important public health debate. We should look not to
Dr. Crawford or Dr. Tom Hayhurst for their recommendations regarding the
COVID-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
nation's No. 1 infectious disease public health specialist, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, is a veteran of successful battles against HIV, SARS, MERS,
swine flu and Ebola. His opinion should guide our fight against COVID-19
locally as well as nationally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Letters to
the editor</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Former City Councilman
John Crawford offered up the idea that “people are going to die but we need to
get back to work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What we need to do is
vote out officials who share this idea. Also, for people to be able
to delay their mortgage and car payments so they can stay fed. For those
renting who can't pay their rent: Take the total owed and move it between the
remaining months on the lease. Utility companies should have the same system in
place for those who cannot pay for essential utilities (internet
included).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People who still
have an income can pay bills as scheduled. But we need to make concessions for
those who can't. Let those who aren't working be able
to live without the fear of eviction or shutoff. Allow for programs to make the
financial impact less by making the increase on payments affordable when we are
back to business<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Credit card companies
should be instructed to suspend late payment charges and lower interest rates
during this time. Banks should be forced to
lower insufficient-funds fees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taxes for businesses
as well as licensing should be based upon sales and give relief to the
businesses that had to close. Those that could remain open but saw a hit can
pay less to stay open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need to show
compassion to people. And tossing less-essential workers out into the wild will
only result in an increase of cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be human, for goodness
sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Branden Blaettner</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fort Wayne</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is Crawford willing to
put himself at risk?</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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irresponsible piece of April 19 states that reopening the country May 1,
regrettably, will cause additional individuals to die from the virus, but Fort
Wayne should reopen quickly to restore a healthy, vibrant economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like to see
Crawford offer himself as an additional specific individual to die in
exchange for a vibrant economy. I recommend he forgo medical treatment for coronavirus
to make room for someone who actually acted responsibly during this
crisis. Perhaps he can sign a DNV (do not ventilate) order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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should he infect anyone else in our community while they pursue a
vibrant economy, he be held liable in civil and criminal proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Burkhart</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-20476759275177077552020-04-27T08:03:00.002-04:002020-04-27T08:03:41.378-04:00Today's JG rant: Liars or ignorant fools?<br />
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of the lefty lib writers “liars,” because I don’t if what they write are
outright lies or simply the poor product of a mind formed by a public education
system that libs have destroyed over the last 30 years that can be summed up in
this truism – “idiots, teaching idiots, how to be idiots.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reflects collapse of Trump presidency, Apr 25, 20202) is a liar, damn liar or a
miserable damn liar, the charitable thing to do is just assume he’s just a
product of a lefty lib education system that has left him a totally uninformed
colossal ignoramus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In the midst of a pandemic loosed on the world by
Chinese negligence that threatens to result in a world-wide
recession/depression, commie loving Sowards wants to lay the blame of a tanking
US economy at the feet of the American president. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">But his buffoonery doesn’t stop there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sowards makes it up when he writes that Trump
is laying the blame for the pandemic on Democrats and Obama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Produce a quote, Dave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trump has correctly laid the blame exactly where it belongs – the
communist Chinese government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he
did, commie loving boobs claimed that stating the truth about the Wuhan virus
was racist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only blame Trump laid at
the feet of the inept Obama administration was their failure to restock PPE
supplies after the H1N1 outbreak. A fair question for whining hypocrites like
Sowards would be, “You’ve had three years, why didn’t your administration
restock?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">When a buffoon gets on a roll it’s hard to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sowards then repeats debunked BS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First he tries to breathe life into the long
debunked nonsense that Trump called the Chinese Virus a hoax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Provide a quote, Dave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trump called the Democrat response to communist Chinese Virus a hoax.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sowards tries his hand at propping
up another load of MSM bovine excrement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He claims Trump fired the entire pandemic response team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trump didn’t fire anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
head of the team quit when John Bolton joined the administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bolt disbanded the rest of the team that was
formed to fight the Ebloa crisis and like all federal programs refused to die
when its mission went away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Then ignorance gave way to hyperbole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sowards claims Trump did everything possible
to sabotage our preparedness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gee, I
must have missed when Trump took a sledgehammer to ventilators in the Rose
Garden and dumped loads PPE into the Potomac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ever the uninformed one, Sowards claims Trump is
encouraging the use of untested and possibly unsafe treatments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose that is a reference to the
president’s hope that Hydroxychloroquine might provide relief to people
suffering from the Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally
inaccurate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drug has been on the
market for decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been
thoroughly tested and been proven safe for use in humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is widely prescribed for other ailments
and has shown promise for patients suffering from the Chinese Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sowards apparently is rooting for the virus
and prefers that people suffer rather than Trump be proven correct on the
benefits of the drug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sowards may not be liar but he’s perfectly
comfortable repeating other people’s lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trump does not have a direct financial interest in any company producing
Hydroxychloroquine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has an interest
in a mutual fund that includes a small interest in French producer of the drug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His total financial interest has been
estimated to be somewhere between $29 and slightly over $1,000. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">So root for America and reject the commie lovers
rooting for the virus, which sadly includes many contributors to this
page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that Democrats have again
settled on a China loving, senile, doddering, old fool of a legacy candidate
who started feeding himself and his worthless, no talent, drug addicted, other
than honorably discharged, deadbeat dad of a son at the public in 1974.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pandemic reflects
collapse of Trump presidency</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For years, President
Donald Trump liked to take credit for the strong economy. Shouldn't he now take
the blame for the collapse and crash of the stock market and economy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What would it take for
Trump supporters to renounce their support for him? Losing a job?
Losing the house? Losing the car? Losing property? Losing their
savings and investments? Losing a business? Losing their family during
this crisis? What would it take to show them that ever supporting Trump was a
mistake?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trump is not
interested in dealing with a crisis such as this. He likes to play the blame
game, even blaming the pandemic on the Democrats and Barack Obama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The truth is that
Trump himself left the country unprepared for this situation by supporting
cutting funds for services and supplies that may have helped. He called the
coronavirus a hoax and tried to downplay or ignore the looming crisis while
playing golf. In 2018, he fired the entire pandemic response team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He did everything
possible to sabotage our preparedness. He even encouraged the use of untested
and possibly unsafe treatments for coronavirus in which he had a financial
interest. It's just like him to try to make a buck out of this situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, as millions file
for unemployment and bankruptcy, reject Trump and all who have supported him at
the polls. His presidency has been a disaster and we can do better with the
Democrats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-8707501137792183012020-04-24T10:47:00.002-04:002020-04-24T10:49:31.571-04:00Today's JG rant: It's not funny any moreYeah, Trump suggesting ingesting disinfectants was dumb as hell. <br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">I used to think that the majority of lefty libs who
contribute to the JG editorial page since Nov 8<sup>th</sup>, 2016 were just a
bunch of harmless sore losers who - due to their own destruction of public
education - were incapable of adjusting to the results of a free and fair election
that didn’t end the way they wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
have been wailing and braying like half-starved donkeys standing at the feeding
trough ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">I used to marvel at the long list of BS they’d fall
for that was peddled by a clueless MSM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It started with the MSM falsehood that Trump removed the bust of MLK
from Oval Office and now manifests itself in the MSM lie that Trump didn’t act
fast enough to the Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In between
the angry mob wrote angry letters ensuring us that Stormy Daniels, Wikileaks,
Trump Tower meetings, Paul Manafort, Michael Choen, Robert Mueller, Julian
Assange, secret internet servers, Fat Jerry Nadler, serial liar Adam Schiff,
LTC Vindman, impeachment et al were sure to lead to the end of Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Every single time the Wile E. Coyotes laid their
super genius traps for Trump the anvil fell on their own heads, the dynamite
blew up in their own faces, their rocket powered roller skates plowed them into
a sheer butte and the train that was supposed to flatten Trump ended up flattening
the libs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">In the end, the most effective thing the hyper
geniuses have been able to pull off to “hurt Trump” was the public temper
tantrum and display of pure petulance by their 80 year old millionaire thoughtless
and incompetent leader with bad dentures who publicly ripped up her copy of Trump’s
State of the Union speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Way to go
Nancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re doing a heck of a job.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">As the angry letters - long on ad hominem attacks and
short on logic – that littered the JG OpEd page piled up, I’d take their constant
braying as nothing more than a release for harmless half-wits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d take them in with a grain of salt and – I
admit – a bit of joy from their never ending anger and discomfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three and a half years in and the unhinged
anger has yet to subside. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How sad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Then reading another page of never ending insufferable
whining from the brain-dead on April 24<sup>th</sup>, it dawned on me, this probably
isn’t funny anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These people are actually
rooting for the demise of their own country for no other reason than Trump is
the duly elected president. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
perfectly happy for the ship to sink killing all onboard as long as the captain
goes down with the ship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">It starts with Patricia G. Stahlhut’s lazy letter “Trump
can’t measure up to leadership standard” where, incapable of original thought, she
simply lifts 98% of her piece from one of failed economist Paul Krugman’s columns.
Remember Krugman was the idiot who, on inauguration day, predicted that America
was headed to a years’ long recession. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead
the market hit all-time highs 70 times in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Way to go Paul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re doing a
heck of a job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The JG, too cheap to pay
Krugman for his work, gets Krugman’s piece in by printing Stahlut’s half-hearted
attempt at original thought. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Then the JG follows on with Dusty Roach’s vapid piece
“Pandemic presents a host of issues” where Roach tries but fails miserably to
point out where the strong man in the arena is failing. He starts with the
idiocy where he suggests that the US should be looking at other countries experiences
to guide us in our decision making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roach
must have his head buried too far in the sand to have listened to any of Trump’s
daily briefings where Dr.’s Birx and Fauchi have repeatedly said that that is
exactly what they are doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he
worries about where the testing sights in Walgreen and CVS parking lots are
while ignoring the over 4 million tests that have been completed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess in Roach’s warped world if the over 4
million tests don’t take place in a Walgreens or CVS parking lot they don’t
count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Roach, like a lot the JG’s
lefty lib writers, shows his preference for godless communist China and
worthless corrupt UN organizations when he correlates Trump’s temporary withholding
funds to the W.H.O. with his withholding his federal tax bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go ahead Dusty, make my day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, again like most lefty libs, he just
makes it up by stating Trump demanded his name appear on the stimulus
checks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Trump’s signature will
appear on the checks, there’s nothing to indicate that Trump “demanded” it or
that checks were slowed while the signature was affixed. It’s far less of a
vote buying scheme than the Democrats’ decades’ long effort to turn America
into a welfare state. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Last, the JG’s printed a letter by Kevin Paul Krajewski
“Our new anthem” where he suggest America adopt a new anthem “This is our end.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s your lefty libs in a nutshell - rooting for the Chinese and the
W.H.O. and betting on a virus to destroy America in their evil effort to get
Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way “This will be our
end” the lefty lib are hoping for is if the country elects the senile, doddering,
lying, thieving, old fool the Democrats have put forth as their best candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none;">No doubt JG editors will continue to print nothing
but the vilest letters they receive from the most unhinged bunch of America
hating commie loving letter writers so intent on “getting Trump” they have
little or no concern for the future of the county. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trump can't measure up
to leadership standard</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From Paul Krugman's
column in the New York Times:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Recent job losses
have been nothing short of apocalyptic. ... So how are the Trump administration
and its allies responding to this COVID-19-generated jobs crisis? Are they
taking it seriously? Or are they doing what they did as the pandemic
spread — dithering and refusing to take necessary action out of some
combination of wishful thinking and political pettiness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“... In sum, Trump's
response to the economic fallout from COVID-19 is looking a lot like his
fumbled response to the virus itself. He's in denial about the problem;
he's blocking essential action because of personal political vendettas; and his
party is opposing desperately needed aid because of its anti-government
ideology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“... The economics of
dealing with a pandemic were never going to be easy. But Trump and company are
almost surely going to make things even worse than they had to be.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And these quotes lead
me to the last genuinely great Republican president, Dwight David Eisenhower,
who said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Leadership consists
of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving
your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trump isn't even in
the running.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Patricia G. Stahlhut</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fort Wayne</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pandemic presents a
host of issues</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Questions for the
administration to answer ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since other countries
experienced this virus before us, doesn't it make sense to watch their
experiences coming out of it and model our plan after those who have had the
most success?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whatever happened to
the plan for nationwide testing in Walgreen's and CVS parking lots?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If the administration
can withhold funding from the World Health Organization for alleged
incompetency in foreseeing and managing this crisis, can I withhold my taxes
from this government for exactly the same thing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isn't demanding that
your name be on the disaster relief check an explicit admission that you are
literally trying to buy votes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dusty Roach</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fort Wayne</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our new anthem?</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thanks to President Xi
of China and President Trump, America in its current condition and for the
forseeable future has to adopt a new national anthem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recorded by a
group that sang antiwar songs more than 50 years ago, the
Doors, welcome, America, to your new Chinese nightmare: “This is the
end...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kevin Paul Krajewski</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fort Wayne</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-55808054437882647652020-04-23T08:28:00.002-04:002020-04-23T08:28:57.269-04:00If it saves one life banning bacon will be worth it - right?<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The, “If it saves even one life, it’ll be worth it” idiocy
is the meme lefty libs are using to fly drones to spy on Americans and keep the
country shut down till the end of time. It is a huge BS canard. </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">If true, we
should build the wall, because if it saves one life by stopping one shipment of
fentanyl it will be worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If true,
we should have a national speed limit on the highways of 15MPH, because if it
saves one life by stopping one high speed accidents it will be worth it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It’s all BS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The left is mocking GA Governor Brian Kemp for “opening GA.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key question no one ever asks these 50
wannabe dictators is, “By whose authority was the state shut down?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as I know, governors in America do not
become super legislators writing laws and proscribing sanctions if violated in
the face of an epidemic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Can a governor order a restaurant closed so his shifty
brother-in-law’s slop shack across the street can flourish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, how can he order every business in
the state to close?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And based on
what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The all-important “data” the feds
and state governments are using to kill American business has been wildly inaccurate
from the start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, we continue to rely
on it 38 days into a nation-wide shut down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The morbidity rate is pure BS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The govs are throwing every death possible into
the Wuhan Virus pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But an inaccurate Chinese
Virus death toll doesn’t begin to uncover the biggest problem with the morbidity
rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “data” on the total number of
Wuhan cases – the denominator if you will - could be off by as much as 5-10
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If true, the morbidity rate would
fall through the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Of course “the
experts” claim they won’t know the denominator until long after the crisis
passes. How convenient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing is
absolutely certain, the denominator is going to go up and the morbidity rate is
going to drop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">What is a bit difficult for my small mind to
understand is that, while he unlawfully ordered a state-wide shut down, Kemp is
not ordering anyone to open or anyone to patronize the open business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s simply lifting his unlawful order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, everyone is coming down on him as if he’s
ordering the spread of the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Further, it seems to me, if we can figure out how to shop
safely at the Kroger - an approved activity - we can also figure out a safe way
to dine out and get our hair cut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">With regard to tattoos, that industry is probably more
suited to open than most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
affected by the HIV scare and established safe operating procedures that remain
in place today to deal with that virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was probably safe to get a tattoo from the start. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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NJ Governor Phil Murphy, a man who admits that the constitution is “above” his
paygrade as he orders cops to violate citizens’ civil rights, has his shorts in
a wad over Mitch McConnell thinking states ought to be forced into bankruptcy
rather than relying on the nation to bail out poorly run lefty lib states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My opinion is F__K ‘em.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if the federal government does offer
assistance, that money should come with a list of restrictions a mile long for
most, two miles long for sh*tholes like NJ, NY, MI, CA etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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In his lame attempt at humor “Bank’s brainstorm could clear national debt” of
April 21, 2020, Clyde Markley demonstrates what happens when people insulate
themselves with the like-minded and live in a logic free zone for decades. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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outside Markley’s abilities to discern the difference between the Wuhan Virus
and the other viruses and ailments he lists in a misguided letter that only the
JG’s like-minded editors would think worthy of print.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the Sesame Street clue will help Markley:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of these things is not like the others. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Unlike the other sicknesses Markley lists, the
Chinese Virus was purposefully loosed on the world by the Communist Chinese
Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chinese knowingly misled the
world on the contagious nature of the Wuhan Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the Communist Chinese bastards closed
Wuhan to the rest of China, they continued to allow flights from Wuhan to the
rest of the world thereby willingly and knowingly spread infection. They have destroyed documentation
of the nature of the disease and Chinese doctors who dared tell the truth about
the disease have disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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zone, these facts indicate, at best, negligence, or at worst, malicious intent
on the part of the Communist Chinese government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In either case it shouldn’t be thought
unreasonable for the Chinese to be held to account. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Communist Chinese should either make
financial amends to the world or be shunned and isolated until they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Banks' brainstorm
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has been well
documented that Rep. Jim Banks is suggesting (shall we say, demanding) that
China pay for the damage coronavirus has caused our nation. While many people
say this notion is preposterous, I believe we should examine this in greater
detail. It could be that the honorable Mr. Banks is really on to something
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And perhaps we
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93-minute study, I have discovered other diseases and places of origin we could
sue the socks off as well. I suggest the following list could provide enough
money to pay off the national debt. God knows we have enough attorneys to
tackle the list. After all, since the quarantine, ambulance chasers have
nothing to chase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complete list, it is a great place to start: Malaria originated in
Africa. Diphtheria was discovered in France. Gout? Paris and
London are both to blame. Smallpox was first found in Egypt. Hoof and mouth
disease: Rush Limbaugh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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litigators!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-83954122648343418362020-04-22T09:29:00.002-04:002020-04-22T09:29:56.323-04:00The Wednesday round up<br />
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The death toll, though horrific, is probably nowhere near as bad as corrupt
Democrat politicians want us to believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lex has posted a couple of times about pols <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/padding-numbers-michigan-begins-dumping-extra-presumed-cases-coronavirus-death-totals-like-new-york/">running up the death count</a> a
la Puerto the Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico - in an effort to
secure more federal funding and to make PDJT look bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here's another example of Democrats not
letting a crisis go to waste in their never ending effort to divide then destroy
the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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Trump voters believe</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br />
Senile and deranged azzbag Slowly <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/think-mexicans-rapists-joe-biden-accuses-trump-voters-racist-xenophobes/">Joe Biden said</a>, “They [all Trump voters] think all
Mexicans are rapist.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No. All Trump
voters believe you’re an idiot and you and your lying, thieving, worthless, no
talent, drug addicted, dead beat dad of a son are flaming PsOS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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needs to pass fiscal responsibility pack</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
As the Caligula, D.C. azzbags rush to roll out Wuhan Virus stimulus package #57,
maybe the time is ripe for Republicans to propose a balanced budget amendment and
a nickel a gallon gas tax that is immediately applied against the deficit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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track to fiscal responsibility would ever pass muster with anti-American
Democrats – AOC+3 and such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That should
not prevent Republicans from proposing the plan and make the Democrats vote
against it every week before the November election. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There’s not much to disagree with Nancy Vinson’s letter “Pandemic highlights
society’s inequities” of Apr18, 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
notes,</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “the worker bees, who
get sick, go to war, arrest the other workers and go into debt to get an
education to achieve the ‘American dream.’”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Certainly they are the backbone of the country, but she conveniently leaves
out the fact that, except for “getting sick”, the “worker bees” volunteer for
all of the other activities. They do so to provide for themselves and their
families as best they can in order raise their own standard of living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do so in the hope of getting ahead and
achieving the American Dream – which is very real and requires no snarky air
quotes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With regard to why gun sales are essential, there’s this pesky little
thing called the Constitution which contains the 27 plain words of the Second Amendment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before leftists destroyed public education, School
kids used to learn such things in the classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not be infringed.”</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Reasonable people might consider an onerous government hack ordering gun
stores to close their doors during an emergency as an infringement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really pretty simple stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pandemic highlights
society's inequalities</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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12 editorial, “Crisis lays bare Indiana's misplaced priorities,” is
excellent. I hope everyone reads it and then, as I did, refers to it on social
media as a must-read.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I see an
editorial like this or hear a credible news program speaking truth, it gives me
hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm sad to see our
world suffer so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I want to see things
go back to “normal,” but I fear for my kids and grandkids because we (our
family and extended family) are the worker bees, not the top 1% or
even top 20%. It's always those in the trenches, the worker bees, who get sick,
go to war, arrest the other workers and go into debt to get an education to
achieve the “American dream.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The backbone of our
country is certainly not the politicians, but the rest of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wondering whether anyone knows why gun sales are considered
“essential”? To me, it makes so much more sense to make <i>flower </i>sales essential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-5649972066620241302020-04-21T08:26:00.000-04:002020-04-21T08:26:11.575-04:00Today's JG rants: Who's afraid of fair elections and stimulus checks not so stimulating to some fakers<br />
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank goodness the JG is willing to print so many letters from unhinged,
hysterical (i.e. funny as well as panic stricken) and logic free lefty libs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John M. Watson’s letter “GOP’s electoral
ploys reflect fear of voters” of Apr 19, 2020 is a perfect case in point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apparently for Watson voting is going to be life threatening
endeavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So people can park in crowded
Kroger, Walmart, Lowes, CVS etc. parking lots and go inside to shop while
remaining perfectly safe but going to a polling place where social distancing
can be more easily achieved and controlled, the machinery more easily cleaned
and workers more easily protected is going to be a life threatening
activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s your best argument?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then Watson demonstrates his soft bigotry of low expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watson and Democrats desire election policies
that would allow anyone in the entire world to stroll into as many polling
places as possible, be registered on Election Day and vote (If they aren’t too
afraid of dying.) without any form of identification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To justify this nonsense, Watson and the
Democrats fall back on the racist notion that their Democrat minority constituents
are too stupid or lazy to get a state issued photo ID. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fair elections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why they fight
any effort to cleanse the voting rolls of the dead and people who have long ago
moved away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want the names to
remain on the register to facilitate their ever expanding voter fraud programs.
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They are scared to death of voting policies that require voters show up
to polls on Election Day, produce an ID and cast their ballot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they demand 30 days early voting so
they have time to get their voter fraud programs in place. They want vote
canvasing where they can fraudulently produce tens of thousands of unverified
ballots weeks after the Election Day. They want nothing to do with voter ID
even though Americans are required to produce one to board a plane, drive, buy
a hunting license, cigarettes, alcohol, vaping products, firearms, spray paint,
etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The only thing most conservative voters are interested in suppressing is
voter fraud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Democrats lose an
election they go all Hillary on us and lie about “voter suppression” - as a sop
to corrupt tax cheat and failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy
Abrams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the last three plus years
the left has revealed that they are capable of doing anything short of
assassination – so far anyway - to win or overthrow an election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are anti-American, anti-democracy
whining sad sacks willing to lie, cheat and steal to get what they want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reflect fear of voters</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once again our
democracy has been attacked. The latest attack occurred on April 7 when the
Republican-controlled legislature in Wisconsin not only refused to allow a
later date for the state's primary, but also refused to extend the deadline for
accepting mail-in ballots. It also appears the state dragged its feet in making
mail-in ballots available, reflected in reports of people who had requested
them weeks in advance not receiving them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Republican
majority, in the face of a deadly pandemic, forced voters to venture out to
polling places, risking their lives. On top of that, the number of polling
places in Milwaukee (a city with a large African American population) were
reduced from 118 to five, further exacerbating the health issue for voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Republicans, and
Donald Trump (in a tweet), finally admitted what many suspected; when there is
a large voter turnout, Republicans do not do well. This admission is evidenced
by the blatant voter suppression that takes place in mostly southern states
where Republicans control the statehouses. They enact laws demanding voters
have some form of state-issued ID, an encumbrance that many (usually
minorities) find it difficult to comply with due to socioeconomic conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republicans, for
years, have engaged in gerrymandering voting districts, giving them the ability
to run in elections with virtually no opposition. Indiana is gerrymandered.
That is how it has evolved that our schools are severely underfunded, and the
teachers are highly underpaid. The Republican supermajority is able to overrule
the minority party and ram through legislation that maintains the status quo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is long past time
that we in Indiana insist that a referendum be placed on the ballot to demand
an independent, apolitical commission be established to draw fair and impartial
voting districts. Other states (most recently Michigan) have successfully done
this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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depth of corruption” David Williams slides into and away from the truth like an
expertly hurled curling stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
most Americans cheer, Williams laments that the IRS has been gutted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t bother to tell us that the
“gutting” began in 2008 and continued during the 8 years of the Obama
administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Williams then uses his best dyslexic thinking to complain
that he won’t get a stimulus check that he apparently does not want or need and
thinks it will contribute too much to an already exploding deficit until
September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As result of that delay, he “cannot
recall </span></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the IRS being so
incapable of carrying out its duties under any other president.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmm, I’m old enough to remember a couple names
over at the IRS under Obama, 1) lying thieving corrupt as hell Lois Learner and
2) her lying thieving corrupt as hell follow on </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John
Koskinen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Williams tells a half truth that Trump fired the IG
in charge of overseeing the stimulus but leaves out the fact that a new IG was
immediately put into place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also
leaves out – on purpose I suspect – the fact that the stimulus bill calls for
five member panel appointed by congress to monitor the stimulus program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">And what would a good lefty-lib JG letter be without
some grandstanding virtue signaling from the writer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Williams is going to give the money he
complains about how long it’s going to take to get that he doesn’t need to his grandchildren
to offset their portion of the national debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That solution kind of
misses the point of the stimulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
supposed to be spent now in effort to keep the economy afloat until the country
opens back up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But hey it’s your money
that you don’t need but whine like a cut dog about how long it’s going to take
to receive, do what you will with it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stimulus payout
reveals depths of corruption</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My wife and I are
expecting a tax refund. We have been waiting about six weeks, only to discover
the IRS has been gutted. I'm told the IRS is working on stimulus checks and
will get back to the money they owe us maybe by September or so. I just don't
recall the IRS being so incapable of carrying out its duties under any
other president.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking of the
stimulus money, what an incredible mess. At first, President Trump wanted no
oversight. Democrats insisted, Republicans finally agreed, and they passed it.
Trump signed it then not long after fired the inspector general in charge of
oversight. There was to be a public record (anti-swamp effort) to make sure
everything is aboveboard. Because of the vast swamp Trump has created, where
this money goes will never see the light of day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Just one more
thing. Haven't we already strapped our children and grandchildren with enough
debt for their lifetimes and then some? My wife and I intend to take the stimulus
money and split it among our four grandchildren's bank accounts (they can't
touch these until they are 18). The money from us will at least go to those we
all are stealing it from. We challenge everyone else out there to do the same
or something similar if you can afford to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National debt is truly
the national security issue of their time. By the time they are my age the
government will have to spend such a huge percentage of the budget to service
the debt there won't be enough left to pay Social Security, Medicare, pensions
and certainly not to defend the country properly. This is the legacy we leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quote our fearless leader, “So sad.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David Williams</span></i><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Lex E. Libertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14310749063366288550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8423967.post-57679843087463665852020-04-20T04:56:00.001-04:002020-04-20T04:56:41.716-04:00Today's JG rants: Self sufficiency and the weight of command<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Re: Bea Jonas letter “Interconnectedness evident in
times of crisis” of Apr 18, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Jonas thinks that great thinkers who advocate for
self-sufficiency are at the same time advocating for a social break down that
leads to caveman-like every man for himself chaos. It’s not surprising that lefty libs are left
to construct such idiotic strawmen. They do so because they are so out of touch
from reality that their own sham arguments are the only constructs that their
foolish notions deprived of any semblance of logic are capable of knocking
down. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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conveniently cherry picks blurbs from Herbert Hoover, Margret Thatcher, Ayn Rand and Adam Smith
but leaves out any context of the ideas expressed. She starts with Herbert Hoover advocating for "an individual totally self-reliant and independent from outside forces." In context Hoover was warning of an over dependence on the federal government as he later notes -</span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> "It is a question as to whether the American people on one hand will maintain
the spirit of charity and mutual self help through voluntary giving and the responsibility of
local government as distinguished on the other hand from appropriations out of the
Federal Treasury for such purposes."</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Then she offers half of a thought from Margret
Thatcher, there are </span></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt;">only “individual men, women and families, all
looking out for themselves [first].”</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #121212; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">Jonas doesn’t bother
to tell us how Thatcher ended her thought, “It is our duty to look after
ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours." It makes sense in
context. How can one look after his
neighbors if he and his family are homeless, naked and starving?</span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #121212; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">She does the exact same thing with her quote from Ayn Rand leaving out
Rand’s complex notion, which is also found in our own Declaration of Independence,
that man is free to pursue his own happiness first. Rand correctly notes that, “</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #323232; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of
irrational whims.</span>”<span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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she cite Adam Smith’s accurate notion that "self-interest is human nature," but leaves
out Smith’s warning to that opinion - which is</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">, “…all for
ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to
have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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quotes she offers up, I’m sure Jonas would fit right in with any of the MSM’s extensive
“fake news” divisions. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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evident in times of crisis</span></b><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As we grapple with the
challenge of COVID-19, many long-held principles are being called into question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herbert Hoover's
rugged individualism, for instance, which imagined an individual totally
self-reliant and independent from all outside forces. What about Margaret
Thatcher, who believed there was no such thing as society, only individual men,
women and families, all looking out for themselves? Then there's Ayn Rand, who
wrote that each man is an end to himself, with his own happiness as his highest
moral purpose. Finally, there's Adam Smith, who believed that self-interest
wasn't selfish at all, but simply human nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's in times of
crisis (war, disease, natural disaster) that the hollowness of such beliefs is
finally revealed. The answer to the challenge we currently face isn't every man
for himself, but we're all in this together. As the poet John Donne wrote,
almost 400 years ago: “No man is an island, entire of itself, every man ... is
a part of the main ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in
mankind. ...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or, in the more recent
words of Jerry Seinfeld: “We're trying to have a civilization here!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In his April 17, 2020 piece “Captain’s fate the
antithesis of naval ideal” D’Jaun Wilcher makes a half-baked defense of
disgraced Navy Captain Brett Crozier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here’s a different take. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">On June 1, 1813, while laying mortally wounded aboard
his ship USS Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence issued his last command, “Don’t
give up the ship.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawrence died and his
ship was captured by the British before her crew could scuttle her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lawrence’s last command became the battle cry
of the American fleet for the remainder of the War of 1812 and was emblazoned
on Oliver Hazard Perry’s battle flag before Perry’s stunning victory over the
British at the battle of Lake Erie. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lawrence’s final command remain watchwords in the US
Navy to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">But apparently not to all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On March 30, 2020, Captain Brett Crozier,
skipper of the forward deployed national strategic asset, the aircraft carrier Theodore
Roosevelt, turned over 200 years of US Naval tradition on its head when he changed
“Don’t give up the ship” into “Get us off the ship.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Captain Crozier’s plea wasn’t the worst of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He compromised the ship’s and our nation’s
strategic security by announcing to the world in an unsecured unclassified
e-mail that he could not maintain the TR’s operational capabilities due to
outbreak of the Wuhan Virus aboard the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">When US Naval officers are asked, “Which takes
precedence, the mission or the crew?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>99.9% answer, the mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Captain Crozier is an obvious outlier among his peers when performing
the mission or the crew calculus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
that, the Navy was absolutely correct in relieving him of his command.</span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">If Captain Crozier was incapable of fighting his ship
in calm waters during peacetime without violating basic operational security,
it’s doubtful he would have held up under the stress of actual combat. Given
his demonstrated hysteria and lack of discipline in this case, it’s difficult
to imagine Captain Crozier ever risking ship and crew by issuing an Admiral
Farragut like directive – “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” - in order to
carry the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Wilcher goes on to note, </span></span><span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sen. John McCain, Adm. William “Bull” Halsey and Adm. Chester
Nimitz all behaved similarly to Capt. Crozier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course he fails to cite a single incident where any of them acted as
recklessly as Crozier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It’s
unlikely that Wilcher or anyone else will be able to turn up an example where
any of these men flaunted Navy protocol or orders for the purpose of removing
themselves and/or their command from harm’s way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conversely, I doubt Wilcher or anyone else
can turn up an example where these men purposefully ignored operational
security and put themselves and their commands in danger by doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crozier did both. The Navy was correct to sack him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It’s obvious that neither Captain Crozier nor Wilcher
have what it takes to command a Navy or any other warfighting asset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of
the most challenging jobs in the United States Navy is command at sea. This
single officer orchestrates often thousands of crew members to work in concert
and complete complex daily missions while under crisis to protect America’s
national security.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyone in this position
must possess exceptional leadership qualities, virtue and courage. As our
nation faces unprecedented and frightening times, one would hope that these
traits would be lauded by our nation’s leaders, but this honor was wrongly
denied to Capt. Brett Crozier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On April 1, Capt. Crozier
was relieved of his duties for not following protocol when he penned a letter
to senior military officials requesting permission to disembark his entire crew
in Guam. Three officers on Crozier’s ship, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, had
tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks after the ship made a stop in Vietnam.
President Donald Trump publicly criticized the letter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyone who has served on
a ship knows that maintaining a 6-foot social distance is a physical
impossibility. Predictably, the virus spread like wildfire. Soon, more than 100
sailors tested positive, and Crozier requested that the crew be allowed to
quarantine on land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was reported that
Crozier’s letter bypassed his chain of command and used an unclassified system
to sound the alarm concerning the well-being of his crew — which he knew was in
urgent danger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abiding by protocol is
part of our culture in the Navy. It is drilled into our heads and expected from
us on day one. But the true test of exceptional leadership is knowing when and
how to divert from protocol, when that trusted protocol all of a sudden puts
your crew in danger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The U.S. services oath of
office provides officers the latitude to apply judgment to the orders that they
are to execute. Young naval officers are trained to believe that we have
license to draw attention to important issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And it is our duty to
ensure that our nation is operating at maximum effectiveness for war or other
service. No factor determines effectiveness more than the state of a
commander’s personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To relieve Capt. Crozier
of his duties for faithfully executing his oath of office, and to do so for a
“loss of confidence,” is inconsistent with our values and could have a chilling
effect on the trust that sailors have in leadership, and conversely, breed
risk-averse officers. Faithful execution of the oath of office and career
promotion potential should not be mutually exclusive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Days after his dismissal,
Capt. Crozier tested positive for the coronavirus, nearly 600 other sailors
contracted the virus, and one of his crew members died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great naval heroes such
as Sen. John McCain, Adm. William “Bull” Halsey and Adm. Chester Nimitz all
behaved similarly to Capt. Crozier during parts of their career. Should we have
fired them, too?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although the Navy does
not publicly ascribe to a zero-defect mentality, our culture has evolved to be
exactly that. The unfortunate example of Capt. Crozier should force the Navy to
decide what type of leaders it wishes to breed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am professionally
disappointed, and frankly, I am embarrassed by the decision to relieve Capt.
Crozier for his selfless action. The decision seemed shortsighted and could
negatively impact recruiting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the book “Command at
Sea,” Adm. James Stavridis wrote, “In each ship there is one man alone who in
the hour of emergency or peril at sea can turn to no other man. There is one
man alone who is ultimately responsible for the safe navigation, engineering
performance, accurate gunfire and morale of his ship. He is the commanding
officer; he is the ship.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was proud to see how
Capt. Crozier’s crew supported him as he crossed the brow for the last time.
Capt. Crozier gave a master class in what it means to be a servant leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D’Juan Wilcher is a U.S.
Navy reservist and former naval surface warfare officer. He is a member of the
Truman National Security Project and serves as a regional director at the
Travis Manion Foundation. This op-ed was distributed by Tribune News Service.</span></i><span style="color: #232323; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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