The way we were-----Things That Arent Here Anymore with Ralph Story KCET PBS

Boob-tube-----Star Trek: The Last Voyage - SNL

Michael Smith--The Spark That Finally Ignites The Secession Conflagration | The Rio Norte Line

The Spark That Finally Ignites The Secession Conflagration | The Rio Norte Line
"On his Friday radio show, conservative talker and Fox News host Sean Hannity warned that the United States may fall apart if tax rates remain high.
...While I would prefer that we actually govern ourselves under a true federalist national model as the Founders intended, I’m beginning to believe that is going to be impossible.
...I think think the catalyst, the spark that sets the whole shebang aflame and finally pushes this over the edge will be what comes of three things that I was thinking about when reading about Hannity’s statements:

• States with lower tax rates are going to draw greater populations and more revenue generating businesses,
• They are going to object to paying for the spending in the spendthrift states,
• Population and business shifts will deplete the tax base of states with entrenched governments, unfunded pension liabilities and powerful public sector unions, thereby exacerbating the problems in states like Illinois, New York and California.

I predict that the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back will be a lawsuit, one filed by a high tax state like California against states that have low or no state income or property tax rates because they are unfairly “pricing” their states, the effect of which is to rob the high tax states of the taxpayers necessary to support their respective state governments. 

If the burden is increased in one state by out-migration to another, that will be called “unfair” and I think these states will turn to the courts for a remedy.
...The battle lines are about to be drawn in a little more stark relief.

Mark my words, we are headed for a crisis of constitutional proportions and it will be started by a lawsuit."

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Wasteful Spending: TSA spent $77 million on bomb-sniffing dogs who can't detect explosives | Just The News

Wasteful Spending: TSA spent $77 million on bomb-sniffing dogs who can't detect explosives | Just The News:

• The dogs are trained using outdated intelligence and training aids that are not updated to incorporate emerging explosive threats.

"The Golden Horseshoe...award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.

This week, our award goes to the Department of Homeland Security for spending $77 million on airport bomb-sniffing dogs who cannot detect explosive devices...
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Rep. Greg Murphy on Virus Lockdown: Get Americans Safely Back to Work

Rep. Greg Murphy on Virus Lockdown: Get Americans Safely Back to Work:

Rep. Gregory Murphy (R-NC), who is also a physician, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that “draconian” lockdown measures in many areas across the nation are no longer necessary and may even be harmful.

Hawaii coronavirus, travel restrictions trigger record unemployment

Hawaii coronavirus, travel restrictions trigger record unemployment
"For 32 years, Julie Gabot drove more than 80 miles round trip each day to work as a housekeeper at the Sheraton Waikiki, cleaning after tourists who enjoyed the resort's infinity pool and beachfront views.
But after tourism across Hawaii shutdown because of the coronavirus virus, she was let go without severance. 
Her husband, who worked at the resort for 28 years, was out also out of a job.
..."Our life is in danger because, of course, we don't know what will happen," she said.
"There's no real hope for good things in the future."
Hawaii is facing it's highest unemployment rate ever as strict stay-at-home orders and a virtual shutdown of the state's once mighty tourism industry have left residents reeling, leaning on their savings or unable to pay rent and feed their families.
Since March, the state's unemployment rate has soared from 3% to 34%, one of the highest in the nation...
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In Muskegon MI today!---Drive up. Get Tested. In the comfort of your own car, you will be able to self-administer the COVID-19 test under the supervision of a healthcare professional.

Drive up. Get Tested.
"In the comfort of your own car, you will be able to self-administer the COVID-19 test under the supervision of a healthcare professional."Muskegon County Informed-Local Politics, taxes and politicians.

• Free COVID-19 Test for all!
• Walmart, NOT your "friendly" government.
• Walmart on Henry. NE corner of parking lot.
• Drive-thru.
• Same Q-tip "up the nose" test.
• FREE-No Dr. approval required!
• Must sign up on line---make an appointment. No line this morning.

http://patient.questdiagnostics.com/LP=28

"Check for COVID-19 immune response without a doctor visit

Through QuestDirect, you can order your own immune response test to check for COVID-19 antibodies.

ORDER YOUR TEST

Drive-thru test to confirm active COVID-19 infection

Quest and Walmart are providing drive-thru COVID-19 self-swab tests at select locations across the country.

Drive up. Get Tested.

Lunch video-----How Ultraviolet Light Could Help Stop The Spread Of Coronavirus

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AG Barr: Mueller ‘Ignored’ Evidence Of Russian Disinformation In Steele Dossier | The Daily Caller

AG Barr: Mueller ‘Ignored’ Evidence Of Russian Disinformation In Steele Dossier | The Daily Caller:

Attorney General William Barr said in an interview aired Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigators “ignored” evidence of possible Russian disinformation in the Steele dossier.
“I think that’s one of the most troubling aspects of this whole thing,” Barr told CBS News when asked about the possibility that the Kremlin fed disinformation to Christopher Steele, a former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign.

Here are the Chinese 'propaganda' centers currently operating in the US

Here are the Chinese 'propaganda' centers currently operating in the US
"...For years, Campus Reform has reported on the number of Confucius Institutes on U.S. college campuses. 

Funded by the communist regime, these centers are marketed as Chinese language and culture centers. 
However, U.S. intelligence officials have warned that these centers are little more than "propaganda" arms of the communist country. 

[RELATED: Harvard's China ties are even stronger than you thought]

Even the former Chinese propaganda minister,  Liu Yushan, wrote in a 2010 article for Chinese-state media, “With regard to key issues that influence our sovereignty and safety, we should actively carry out international propaganda battles against issuers such as Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, human rights and Falun Gong. … We should do well in establishing and operating overseas cultural centers and Confucius Institutes," Politico reported in 2018...

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#1 Movie this week 1963-----Dr. No Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1962) HD

Of course, the story ultimately blames Trump-----He Had Never Sold a Ventilator. N.Y. Gave Him an $86 Million Deal. - The New York Times

He Had Never Sold a Ventilator. N.Y. Gave Him an $86 Million Deal. - The New York Times:

• An engineer landed one of the state’s biggest coronavirus-related contracts after FEMA volunteers forwarded his name.

"The offer to the Federal Emergency Management Agency sounded promising: A Silicon Valley engineer said that he could deliver thousands of ventilators from manufacturers across China to help hospitals treat coronavirus patients.

...“And the engineer, Yaron Oren-Pines, had no apparent background in procuring medical equipment.

Federal officials passed on the vendor’s information to senior officials in New York and, within days, the state struck a deal to buy 1,450 ventilators from Mr. Oren-Pines for $86 million, one of the largest contracts for medical supplies since the outbreak.

The deal, however, began to unravel as quickly as it had come together.

...But interviews with state and federal officials, as well as emails obtained by The New York Times, underscore how the challenges of a pandemic may have clouded a decision that placed millions of taxpayer dollars at risk...
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#1 This day 1963-----Peggy March - I Will Follow Him (remastered audio)

UK: Police Investigating People Who Post Tweets Critical of Lockdown – Summit News

UK: Police Investigating People Who Post Tweets Critical of Lockdown – Summit News

• Police in the UK are apparently investigating people online who post tweets critical of the coronavirus lockdown.
• Not content with using surveillance drones to publicly shame remote countryside dog walkers, the authorities are now also apparently keeping tabs on anti-lockdown social media posts.

Because it’s not like there’s much real crime to deal with in London, is it?
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Crooks paying crooks for media cover.

MI State Rep Demands Gretchen Whitmer Investigate Faked Testing Line

MI State Rep Demands Gretchen Whitmer Investigate Faked Testing Line:

Michigan state Rep. Steve Johnson is calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to investigate a fake line of patients waiting to be tested for coronavirus in a CBS News report.

Sean Malone - It's like deja vu talking to people about...

Sean Malone - It's like deja vu talking to people about...Sean Malone

"It's like deja vu talking to people about macroeconomic models a decade ago...

..."It is not as if Ferguson’s track record is good. 

In 2001 the Imperial College team’s modelling led to the culling of 6 million livestock and was criticised by epidemiological experts as severely flawed. 

In various years in the early 2000s Ferguson predicted up to 136,000 deaths from mad cow disease, 200 million from bird flu and 65,000 from swine flu. 

The final death toll in each case was in the hundreds. 

In this case, when a Swedish team applied the modified model that Imperial put into the public domain to Sweden’s strategy, it predicted 40,000 deaths by May 1 – 15 times too high."

Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College “stepped back” from the Sage group advising ministers when his lockdown-busting romantic trysts were exposed.

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Is the chilling truth that the decision to impose lockdown was based on crude mathematical guesswork?

Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College “stepped back” from the Sage group advising ministers when his lockdown-busting romantic trysts were exposed.

AM Fruitcake

History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com
Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist, Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter, Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"


Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam, Doug McClure 1938 - Actor, Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur


1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.


1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.

Elon Musk Tells Joe Rogan: Lockdowns Are 'Unconstitutional'

Elon Musk Tells Joe Rogan: Lockdowns Are 'Unconstitutional':

Musk stated during the interview that some of the restrictions violate freedom of assembly and that Americans should be concerned about the “massive infringement” on civil liberties. Musk stated that people fought and died for freedom and democracy and that “we should treasure that and not give up our liberties too easily. I think we probably did that.”

Paul Gosar Urges AG William Barr to Investigate Facebook's Censorship of Laura Loomer

Paul Gosar Urges AG William Barr to Investigate Facebook's Censorship of Laura Loomer:

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has written a letter to Attorney General William Barr calling on him to investigate Facebook for falsely labeling conservative influencers as “dangerous individuals,” and for making vast, undisclosed in-kind campaign contributions by censoring the political opponents of Democrats.
The letter highlights the cases of Republican congressional primary candidate Laura Loomer and the popular YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson.

The way we were-----Growing up in the 1950s

Boob-tube-----Jon Lovitz Appears as the Pathological Liar on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show

Coming to America?-----The Netherlands Legalizes Euthanasia, Even Against The Patient's Will

The Netherlands Legalizes Euthanasia, Even Against The Patient's Will
"In a case that marks a new descent into the darkness for humanity, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that a doctor who euthanized an elderly patient with dementia against her expressed wishes and while her family forcibly restrained her was innocent of any wrongdoing.
...Lower Dutch courts acquitted the doctor of wrongdoing and prosecutors dropped the charges.
...On that morning, the doctor had coffee with the patient, her husband, and her adult daughter.
Unbeknownst to the patient, the doctor put a sedative in her coffee.
The woman remained awake and a second sedative was administered via an intravenous drip.
The doctor began to administer the lethal injection but the woman woke up and her family was forced to restrain her to allow for the final injection..."
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Could this happen here? Today?-----Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Amazon.com: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland eBook: Browning, Christopher R.: Kindle Store
“...shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews...
...Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives...
Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: 

• a core of eager killers, 
• a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and 
• a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.

While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition. 
Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today."

Pennsylvania Businesses Reopening Despite Gov. Wolf's Orders

Pennsylvania Businesses Reopening Despite Gov. Wolf's Orders:

Some Pennsylvania business owners are reopening their businesses in defiance of Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home orders, citing the need to save their livelihoods.
“I had to save my business,” Julie Potter, owner of East Freedom’s Tame Your Mane salon, told NBC Philadelphia. “I couldn’t let it end like that.”

BEHOLD THE DISTORTION EFFECT OF THE DNC-MSM

Instapundit Blog Archive 
New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom. So…
BEHOLD THE DISTORTION EFFECT OF THE DNC-MSM: 

New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom. 
So why is Andrew Cuomo’s popularity at an all time high?
Evergreen:

Flashback to one of Glenn’s posts from 2011: 
UCLA Professor: Without Media Bias the Average US State Would Vote Like Texas or Tennessee. 
The professor is Tim Groseclose, author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

A nation of wimps!-----Honesty and compassion are key in guiding kids through the coronavirus | SummitDaily.com

Cuz this is sooo much worse than having Dad go off to war and Mom working full time in a munitions factory.
Honesty and compassion are key in guiding kids through the coronavirus | SummitDaily.com:

• Summit County experts share advice on how to talk to your child about mental health, grief and coronavirus in a time of crisis.

Searching for reasons to be a snowflake!

Lunch video-----The Left 'has attacked' Michael Moore for his 'Planet Human' documentary