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14 day lockdown in Denmark!
Here's the situation with Covid-19:
Every single school is closing for 2 weeks
All government employees in non-critical functions are being sent home
Families are urged to keep their kids home, starting tomorrow
Two people in critical condition due to Covid-19
All gatherings of 100 people or more are being discouraged
514 infected people
The strategy, about who is being tested, is changed
The Foreign State department has adapted their travel guides.
So this is essentially a 2 week lockdown of Denmark. Will this stop the spread of the virus? Who knows!
Every single school is closing for 2 weeks
All government employees in non-critical functions are being sent home
Families are urged to keep their kids home, starting tomorrow
Two people in critical condition due to Covid-19
All gatherings of 100 people or more are being discouraged
514 infected people
The strategy, about who is being tested, is changed
The Foreign State department has adapted their travel guides.
So this is essentially a 2 week lockdown of Denmark. Will this stop the spread of the virus? Who knows!
Trump ripping off people again. This time it's the tax payers.
From The Atlantic;
In response to:
Why Would a 'Billionaire' Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night ?
February 7, 2020
Last year, Eric Trump was asked about Secret Service protection at Trump Organization properties.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free,” he said. “So everywhere that he goes, if he stays at one of his places, the government actually spends, meaning it saves a fortune because if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like $50.”
You will be stunned to learn that this is not remotely true.
Instead, as the indefatigable David Fahrenthold and three colleagues at The Washington Post chronicle in his latest scoop on the president’s business, the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service (in other words, the taxpayer) $400 to $650 a night to stay at Mar-a-Lago while guarding the president. At another Trump property, his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, the Secret Service was billed $17,000 a month for a small cottage, even when the president wasn’t present. These are just snapshots. Despite heroic public-records work by the Post, there’s still no complete picture of just what the Trump Organization is charging the Secret Service.
It’s no longer news per se that the Trump Organization is profiteering from the presidency. Since Donald Trump refused to divest from his business at the start of his term, that’s been inevitable. There’s the massive emoluments scandal of the Trump International Hotel in D.C. There are Trump’s Irish properties, at which he “invited” the vice president to stay, then charged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. There was his shameless choice to hold the G7 summit at Trump Doral—a decision so universally reviled that the White House quickly reversed it. One of the arguments the administration offered for picking Doral was that it would allow savings on security. “He’s not making any money off of this, just like he’s not making any money from working here,” insisted Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The new Post story shows that was almost certainly false.
New or not, the question remains: Why does a billionaire charge the Secret Service $650 to stay at his property?
The issue is not whether taxpayers should pay for presidential protection. They should, unequivocally. The question is about the cost. As the Post notes, other presidents who allowed the Secret Service to use their properties, including both George Bushes and Bill Clinton, didn’t charge them. None of those presidents owned a for-profit business while serving as president either.
Why Would a 'Billionaire' Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night ?
February 7, 2020
Last year, Eric Trump was asked about Secret Service protection at Trump Organization properties.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free,” he said. “So everywhere that he goes, if he stays at one of his places, the government actually spends, meaning it saves a fortune because if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like $50.”
You will be stunned to learn that this is not remotely true.
Instead, as the indefatigable David Fahrenthold and three colleagues at The Washington Post chronicle in his latest scoop on the president’s business, the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service (in other words, the taxpayer) $400 to $650 a night to stay at Mar-a-Lago while guarding the president. At another Trump property, his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, the Secret Service was billed $17,000 a month for a small cottage, even when the president wasn’t present. These are just snapshots. Despite heroic public-records work by the Post, there’s still no complete picture of just what the Trump Organization is charging the Secret Service.
It’s no longer news per se that the Trump Organization is profiteering from the presidency. Since Donald Trump refused to divest from his business at the start of his term, that’s been inevitable. There’s the massive emoluments scandal of the Trump International Hotel in D.C. There are Trump’s Irish properties, at which he “invited” the vice president to stay, then charged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. There was his shameless choice to hold the G7 summit at Trump Doral—a decision so universally reviled that the White House quickly reversed it. One of the arguments the administration offered for picking Doral was that it would allow savings on security. “He’s not making any money off of this, just like he’s not making any money from working here,” insisted Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The new Post story shows that was almost certainly false.
New or not, the question remains: Why does a billionaire charge the Secret Service $650 to stay at his property?
The issue is not whether taxpayers should pay for presidential protection. They should, unequivocally. The question is about the cost. As the Post notes, other presidents who allowed the Secret Service to use their properties, including both George Bushes and Bill Clinton, didn’t charge them. None of those presidents owned a for-profit business while serving as president either.
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Commissar Bernard....
... is the logical favorite of the victim-oppressor crowd of Dems. The explanation? AOC and her marginally educated ilk form the vanguard of this political mindless set. Bernie's government handout pandering to the typical loser class is unprecedented in US politics. They eat it up, having failed to be competitive on their own in life, so why not put faith in the pied piper of the cradle to grave nanny state instead? So of all the initial two dozen candidates, it's no surprise that these pathetic failures in life gravitate toward Sanders. Not exactly what the founding FATHERS and those intrepid MinuteMEN on Concord Green had in mind. From those who work, to those who won't. Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. Can't make this stuff up folks.
I met Iggy last week...
Iggy was hanging out in a tree on the canal by the warehouse. It was a sunny day and he was enjoying himself. Out of range for my camera to take a clear picture, but you get the idea. Not a pretty sight.
Later in the week he was on my side of the canal, much closer. Easily six feet long from tip to tail. When he saw me, he did the 'neck flash' routine as though to dare me to walk over.
No thanks Iggy, I know one strike from your tail could inflict some serious pain.
You go your way and I'll go mine!
Later in the week he was on my side of the canal, much closer. Easily six feet long from tip to tail. When he saw me, he did the 'neck flash' routine as though to dare me to walk over.
No thanks Iggy, I know one strike from your tail could inflict some serious pain.
You go your way and I'll go mine!
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New Jersey...that democrat ruled socialist tax paradise...
...specifically, lovely and peaceful Newark.... Or, "the poor will always be with us". Give away program, mostly to the poor, designed by liberal city staffer, who is no longer in the job. Some 100 inner city abandoned lots, given away by town dictators for life, based on lottery, for a thousand bucks each. Over time, very few were built on by the winners. Issues included building permits, financing, non payment, probably scummy agents, and so on. Sometimes it's luck, but more often, the poor remain so for clear reasons. Said to be another 2,000 such abandoned lots available. Our best President, Republican Uncle Abe, had a quip on this sort of thing, concerning the poor, the rich, and taxation. First one to guess, gets an all expense paid fantasy date with BRAVO.
add Robert Conrad to the list...
we can add Robert Conrad to the list of actors who have passed on.
The Wild Wild West actor dead at 84
Betwixed!
The Wild Wild West actor dead at 84
Betwixed!
The Liar-in-chief
The more a person lies, the more we lose trust in them.
That's understandable. Afterall, they are likely to lie again.
People can't trust what they have to say.
One president has lied far more than any other.
Over 16,000 lies or misleading statements confirmed in just his first 3 years as president.
That's astonishing, despicable, and unprecedented !
And the worst part, is that each year of his presidency, he tells even more lies.
Although already the worst, somehow he manages to annually get worse.
From the Washington Post;
Lying has become his general way of communicating and oddly, it appears he has no shame in doing so. He has proven over 16,000 times, that he is untrustworthy.
Or as Jimmy Kimmel previously referred to him, as "the great misleader" ;
That's understandable. Afterall, they are likely to lie again.
People can't trust what they have to say.
One president has lied far more than any other.
Over 16,000 lies or misleading statements confirmed in just his first 3 years as president.
That's astonishing, despicable, and unprecedented !
And the worst part, is that each year of his presidency, he tells even more lies.
Although already the worst, somehow he manages to annually get worse.
From the Washington Post;
In response to:
Fact Checker Analysis
President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years
By
Glenn Kessler,
Salvador Rizzo and
Meg Kelly
Jan. 20, 2020 at 3:00 a.m. EST
Three years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading claims — a milestone that would have been unthinkable when we first created the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement he has uttered.
We started this project as part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, largely because we could not possibly keep up with the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements. We recorded 492 claims — an average of just under five a day — and readers demanded that we keep it going for the rest of Trump’s presidency.
Little did we know what that would mean.
In 2017, Trump made 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added 5,689 more, for a total of 7,688. And in 2019, he made 8,155 suspect claims.
In other words, in a single year, the president said more than the total number of false or misleading claims he had made in the previous two years. Put another way: He averaged six such claims a day in 2017, nearly 16 a day in 2018 and more than 22 a day in 2019.
As of Jan. 19, his 1,095th day in office, Trump had made 16,241 false or misleading claims. Only 366 days to go — at least in this term.
The president added to his total on Sunday evening with more than 20 Trumpian claims — many old favorites — during a triumphant speech at the annual conference of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He incorrectly described trade agreements — suggesting Canadian dairy tariffs were eliminated and an agreement with Japan to reduce tariffs on $7 billion of farm products was “a $40 billion deal” — and also falsely asserted that “tough” farmers and ranchers were crying as he signed a repeal of Obama-era regulations. A video of the event shows no one crying.
Fact Checker Analysis
President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years
By
Glenn Kessler,
Salvador Rizzo and
Meg Kelly
Jan. 20, 2020 at 3:00 a.m. EST
Three years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading claims — a milestone that would have been unthinkable when we first created the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement he has uttered.
We started this project as part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, largely because we could not possibly keep up with the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements. We recorded 492 claims — an average of just under five a day — and readers demanded that we keep it going for the rest of Trump’s presidency.
Little did we know what that would mean.
In 2017, Trump made 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added 5,689 more, for a total of 7,688. And in 2019, he made 8,155 suspect claims.
In other words, in a single year, the president said more than the total number of false or misleading claims he had made in the previous two years. Put another way: He averaged six such claims a day in 2017, nearly 16 a day in 2018 and more than 22 a day in 2019.
As of Jan. 19, his 1,095th day in office, Trump had made 16,241 false or misleading claims. Only 366 days to go — at least in this term.
The president added to his total on Sunday evening with more than 20 Trumpian claims — many old favorites — during a triumphant speech at the annual conference of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He incorrectly described trade agreements — suggesting Canadian dairy tariffs were eliminated and an agreement with Japan to reduce tariffs on $7 billion of farm products was “a $40 billion deal” — and also falsely asserted that “tough” farmers and ranchers were crying as he signed a repeal of Obama-era regulations. A video of the event shows no one crying.
Lying has become his general way of communicating and oddly, it appears he has no shame in doing so. He has proven over 16,000 times, that he is untrustworthy.
Or as Jimmy Kimmel previously referred to him, as "the great misleader" ;
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Is Bolshevik Bernie A Full On Marxist-Leninist Crypto-Communist
masquerading as a "Democratic Socialist"? 
Is the Green New Deal a watermelon - Green on the outside & Red on the inside?
It's unlikely in the extreme that 'Crats will brutally raise and address such questions during their upcoming Primary Race, but they should. They MUST!
Why?
If they fail to raise & address such questions in their Primaries and run Bern For Prez - they can be damned Certain the questions will be raised FOR 'em in the General Election
Some of The Don's early campaign ads suggest 'Publicans anticipate running against The Bern & are framing the Prez campaign as a Capitalism vs Socialism/Communism clash of Worldviews.
Is the Green New Deal a watermelon - Green on the outside & Red on the inside?
In response to: When does the risk of crypto-communism become disqualifying for a presidential candidate?
It's unlikely in the extreme that 'Crats will brutally raise and address such questions during their upcoming Primary Race, but they should. They MUST!
Why?
If they fail to raise & address such questions in their Primaries and run Bern For Prez - they can be damned Certain the questions will be raised FOR 'em in the General Election
Some of The Don's early campaign ads suggest 'Publicans anticipate running against The Bern & are framing the Prez campaign as a Capitalism vs Socialism/Communism clash of Worldviews.
new Serfdom ?
I came to say something about Karl Marx that got a friend of mine turn hostile. He is Trumpeter, believe in capitalism and hates anything that smell of socialism and communism. I suppose I have had leaning toward the right, but ...
Marx did study capitalism, but had nothing to do with communism most seems to think of it. Some of his thoughts was used by Lenin, Stalin, and others after he was dead and gone. A word of that first. Imagine a society that was based upon slavery and serfdom. Your body, your work, your children, was all the property of someone else. Then it is easier to understand what fueled the communist revolution.
One key aspect of Marx, was the evolution of a new class of owners, the capitalist, brought forward by the industrial revolution. Serfs working in factories. We have many examples of this today as well. ( example, correctional institution has become industries ) Marx proposed that people themselves should "own the means of production". It is easy to see why the "red scare" is the mortal enemy of capitalism. Imagine the scare of plantation owners if slaves should be free men ?
Instead of the industrial revolution, we experience an information revolution. Today, free men may be put back in chains. Facial recognition and surveillance, enslave people - you cannot buy goods at the store, not use transportation, have no means of income, except what some people decide you deserve based on a “social credit system” that will rate your human value, your freedom, your economic conditions. We will have 5G, mass surveillance, banking system, transportation, - it is already very much in place. We may soon see a toll system installed in your car for payment of road tax, insurance and maybe where you are allowed to go. Your personal data has become a commodity for large corporations.
So, what would "ownership of the production system" mean today ? Are we entering a new form of serfdom ?
Marx did study capitalism, but had nothing to do with communism most seems to think of it. Some of his thoughts was used by Lenin, Stalin, and others after he was dead and gone. A word of that first. Imagine a society that was based upon slavery and serfdom. Your body, your work, your children, was all the property of someone else. Then it is easier to understand what fueled the communist revolution.
One key aspect of Marx, was the evolution of a new class of owners, the capitalist, brought forward by the industrial revolution. Serfs working in factories. We have many examples of this today as well. ( example, correctional institution has become industries ) Marx proposed that people themselves should "own the means of production". It is easy to see why the "red scare" is the mortal enemy of capitalism. Imagine the scare of plantation owners if slaves should be free men ?
Instead of the industrial revolution, we experience an information revolution. Today, free men may be put back in chains. Facial recognition and surveillance, enslave people - you cannot buy goods at the store, not use transportation, have no means of income, except what some people decide you deserve based on a “social credit system” that will rate your human value, your freedom, your economic conditions. We will have 5G, mass surveillance, banking system, transportation, - it is already very much in place. We may soon see a toll system installed in your car for payment of road tax, insurance and maybe where you are allowed to go. Your personal data has become a commodity for large corporations.
So, what would "ownership of the production system" mean today ? Are we entering a new form of serfdom ?
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