Here's a vid.

https://youtu.be/gW4OP7xPJBA

Lolipops, rainbows, cotten candy and gum drops.

"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."

EMILY DICKINSON

There's lots of talk about the "Traditional" marriage and family. What most all people don't understand is what we call traditional is in fact modern. Women were sold to men in the form of a dowry or some political arrangement which is traditional. Like becomes friendship, friendship becomes love is a modern concept for marriage.

Back when, men tended to die around 35 on the average and women would die in child birth. When people started eating better and medical science behave better these numbers increase which bumped the age up to 45. With hygen being improved and used the age you would normally live to is 65. "To death do us part" went from 10-20 years to 30-50 or more.

The modern way has only been around for a few hundred years. Love and friendship was considered a weakness. This system takes away the monetary aspect of marriage and makes each person have to valuable to another. The selfish, self centered and narcissistic values of nihilism that the majority of people are accepting through the delusional progressive socialism isn destroying this fragile system.

Here's a five hour livestream to listen to. If you want.
https://youtu.be/S-uKpYJp09s

It's raining.

"I think, therefore the world exists." If that's the case then, you're one sadistic freak to cause all the pain and misery people endure in life.

I exist because I do. I don't exist because you think I do. So, get off your Hobby Horse. 2+2=4 and a rose by any other name is still a rose no matter how much you strain your brain.

Reality is not subjective. So,believee as you will and be happy with that then.

AOC is a complete moron who represents Gen Y. All those little morons are afraid of Liberty so they drive themselves into the ground. "Freedom within reason" is to much responsibility for them to handle so they reject reality. 🤣

Sanders represents all those hippies from the Baby Boomer generation who sit around talking about how the commie state is the "bestest evor". A bunch of knuckleheads smoking their dope and not doing anything useful for themselves or others.

Trump is a Constitutionalist/Centralist in most things. Super Troll on the net and people like to watch the "Drama". He's giving all these politicians opportunity to run around and show people what they really stand for. Give them enough rope to hang themselves.

"Step right up and see the two-headed dog with five legs".

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week."

GENERAL GEORGE PATTON

I'm doing the smart thing this time and not writing a lot about what I know.

ow the CCP Virus Targets Its Victims

DIANA ZHANG

Two documents were recently leaked from inside the Chinese government, and they show a surprising picture of whom the CCP virus kills.

According to a document obtained in late March that lists the deaths of those who were part of a virus prevention unit, 88 percent were Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. This is an unusually high percentage. In China, 6.6 percent of the population, or 1 in every 15 people, is a CCP member. The death rate among party members is more than 13 times higher than one would expect from a random distribution.

Another leaked document shows a list of people who died in February. It gives each person’s name, gender, age, position, and date of death. The list also specifies whether the person was a CCP member. Out of 300 people on the list, there are about 200 CCP members. Is this coronavirus intelligent? Is it choosing CCP members?

According to centuries-old Chinese wisdom, during a time of plague, a spiritual plague army leaves hell, locks down an area, and looks for people who are on their name list. They have their minds set on certain people, and no one can escape the search.

This is similar to a traditional Western understanding. In classical artworks that serve as a record of history, an angel points at a door and a ghost takes action. Those who are meant to die from the plague will die. Those who are not meant to die will not, even if it seems certain they will.

We now live in a more materialistic world, and science has become a kind of religion. Do we truly have a better understanding of the plague now than our ancestors did?

We know the CCP virus, often called the novel coronavirus, started in China and spread around the world. We can see in the two leaked documents that the virus concentrates on CCP members.

As it has spread around the world, it has also focused on areas that have close ties with China.

Iran has been an important political ally to China.

The CCP helped Iran build its nuclear technology and has supported it financially, even in the face of tough sanctions, by purchasing its oil. And the CCP has successfully used Iran to deflect U.S. attention away from China’s bad behavior for years.

When major Chinese state-run companies were near bankruptcy, the CCP received help from U.S.

accounting firms, law firms, and Wall

Street to package the communist companies for the U.S. stock market.

This has drawn on investments from average Americans.

The virus has delivered a big hit to this political ally. Dozens of top Iranian leaders, including a vice president and 10 percent of the legislature, are known to have been infected.

Italy has been the first and only of the G-7 countries to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Italy has developed close business ties to China, and the country’s most productive business area was hit by the virus. It was the first area in the West to be locked down. The economic loss is hard to measure, but just the loss in tourism is estimated to be 7 billion euros.

The most mind-boggling situation is in New York. California has twice as many Chinese as New York does. In January, 3,600 people flew directly from Wuhan airport to San Francisco, one of the top 20 foreign cities to which people from Wuhan escaped. New York was not on the top 20 list. Now, the number of deaths in New York is 10 times that of California. And, ironically, Chinatowns in many cities haven’t seen more infections. No scientific explanation accounts for the numbers we are seeing.

Behind the virus’s concentration in New York City, in particular, we can see close ties with the CCP.

In the past two decades, China’s economy was near collapse a few times, and thus the CCP itself was near collapse. It was U.S. manufacturers, the U.S. market, and U.S. stocks that saved the

CCP. U.S.

capital proactively drove U.S. manufacturers and the supply chain to China.

When major Chinese state-run companies were near bankruptcy, the CCP received help from U.S. accounting firms, law firms, and Wall Street to package the communist companies for the U.S. stock market. This has drawn on investments from average Americans. CCP officials have a joke about the best way to save a bankrupt state company: “Go and scoop up money on Wall Street.”

The companies and capital in New York have nourished the CCP and extended its life. In two decades, New York has led the United States in providing $3 trillion to sustain the CCP.

If a plague army is cleaning out the CCP, those who have made major contributions to keeping it alive might also get hit hard.

Diana Zhang, Ph.D., is a staff writer with 20 years’ experience in the study of China. Based in the United States, she uses a pen name to protect her family members in China.

Tom,

The rule of distance is a catch-all for prevention of virus and disease contracting/spreading. 6 feet is far enough away so bugs don't jump on you and sneeze/cough/touch which give room to avoid. wearing a face cover or mask allow people to be in close contact without getting or transferring through breathing. These we're figured out a hundred years ago to stop things that were killing thousands.

People fly there true colors under adverse situations. With these governors and others trying to destroy religion in America. Remove a person's faith and they lose hope. Agreed we must do what we can to defend other's Rights thereby, defending our own.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Despite Pandemic, Churches Persevere, Push Back Against Overreach

MATTHEW VADUM

As politicians and lawyers argue over emergency powers claimed by government officials, the faithful are finding ways to cope amid aggressive public health orders that make it difficult or impossible to come together in person for worship.

As religious people go about their daily lives, battles are raging in courts across the land about how far governments can go in their efforts to combat the CCP virus.

Some Americans have been appalled at what they say are examples of government overreach. Before Easter Sunday, a federal judge in Kentucky enjoined Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from

enforcing a sweeping social-distancing order that banned drive-in church


JIM WATSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES


A woman on top of a car attends a Sunday church service held at Great Marsh Park in Cambridge, Md., on March 22, 2020.



services.

On April 18, a federal court in Kansas granted a temporary injunction against an executive order limiting church gatherings to 10 people, Fox News reported. The order came a week after the state’s supreme court ruled in favor of Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat whose order was reversed by a Republican-led panel of state lawmakers.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, said he supported the federal court ruling, which he said was “a much-needed reminder that the Constitution is not under a stayhome order and the Bill of Rights cannot be quarantined.”

He added, “The Constitution protects our liberties especially during times of crisis, when history reveals governments too quick to sacrifice rights of the few to calm fears of the many.”

The Trump administration is siding with the churches, which argue First Amendment rights are being abridged by overreaching executive orders by governors and mayors.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr has been monitoring government regulation of religious services. On April 14, he weighed in by issuing a statement.

Even in times of emergency, “the First Amendment and federal statutory law prohibit discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers,” Barr wrote. “Thus, government may not impose special restrictions on religious activity that do not also apply to similar nonreligious activity. ... Religious institutions must not be singled out for special burdens.”

Cary Gordon, senior pastor at Cornerstone World Outreach in Sioux City, Iowa, said on April 18 that he planned to go forward with a Sunday church service the next day, as he has been doing in recent weeks.

“After this Sunday, I have a meeting with our attorneys to discuss moving back inside instead of

our parking lot services we have been doing,” Gordon told The Epoch Times.

“Our decision will be based upon the illness in our county. It will not be made by the government.”

Gordon, a prominent religious leader in Iowa, shared his thoughts online on March 20 after the various lockdowns began across the country, in a statement that some other religious leaders have echoed.

The pastor was responding to a March 17 edict by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, that declared a public health emergency and prohibited mass gatherings of more than 10 people, including those of a “community, spiritual, [or] religious” nature.

Gordon wrote, “We have altered our Sunday services in a way that gracefully accepts her proper desire to protect our citizenry, while simultaneously rejecting the unconstitutional portion of that same problematic proclamation.

“ We will demonstrate how a local church is quite capable of exercising wise self-government, free from civil government interference, and meeting together in a way that will protect everyone and keep them safe and healthy.


We have altered our Sunday services in a way that gracefully accepts [Gov. Reynolds’s] proper desire to protect our citizenry, while simultaneously rejecting the unconstitutional portion of that same problematic proclamation. Cary Gordon, senior pastor, Cornerstone World Outreach

“We are taking the Coronavirus very seriously and desire as much or more than anyone to ensure YOUR safety and health during this difficult time. Yet, to the consternation of some, we believe we MUST go to church together.”

Some churchgoers shared their views with The Epoch Times.

In Tennessee, Scott Ballinger said he had “two watch party/streaming options in the morning.” Churches have been shut down in

the state since Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, issued a stayat- home order last month, and “we’ve been consigned to the cyber-catacombs ever since.”

Californian Victoria Silva Howard said her church was “still live-streaming, but if we don’t resume soon, I say it’s time to initiate house groups. The early Christians didn’t tolerate restrictions on their worship, and neither should we.”

Katherine Schoonover, the Virginia-based founder of Political Speech, a social media platform for political discussions, said her local diocese has suspended services for the time being.

“Our individual churches are going online,” she said. “My family does morning prayer on a conference call together too.”

Marylander Stephen DeMauri said he was using technology to satisfy his spiritual needs during the pandemic.

“Given the suspension of public Masses, I will watch a livestream or recording of a Mass,” noting the Mass is essential to his religious belief.

Another Maryland resident, Hyoun Jung Cho, said it’s difficult not to have a church to visit every Sunday.


COURTESY OF CORNERSTONE WORLD OUTREACH


Cornerstone World Outreach in Sioux City, Iowa.

Disney is destroying movies and removing others from the public. Of cause this is nothing new to those who are apart of the culture war in entertainment. The Progressives pushing their politically correct utopian worldview. Because we are to stupid they must censor movies and/or propaganda to socially engineering.

Slash has just been censored by covering the mermaids butt because that couple of seconds of seeing a woman's naked bottom will melt your brain.
https://youtu.be/uMIsXdoj2vU

The other one that has been censored is Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
https://youtu.be/gpDaNqSXxp0

So you should go to second hand store, flea markets, yard sales and other places to buy old copies of movies and shows before they were chopped. That's if you want them. The damage will just keep happening because progressive must destroy the past. Reality is be destroyed since it goes against their delusional worldview.

Give 2 (chits) shamelessly bold girls?
🤣

Some of these governors are going power mad from getting to use "Governor General" authority. Look at California and New York amongst the handful. They say a person flies their true colors in times of adversity. These morons believe themselves dictators, demigods and tirants. In the olden days we get a malisha together and hang them by the neck from a lamp post until they were dead.

"It's much better to do
good in a way that no one
knows anything about it."

LEO TOLSTOY

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything."

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

ONGRESS

Battle Brewing Over Non-Virus Spending in Next Relief Bill

Democrats demand billions for non-virus items, while Republicans seek aid for individuals and small businesses

News Analysis

A heated debate is brewing in Congress over non-CCP virus spending in a possible fourth recovery package aimed to steer the United States toward putting “Open for Business” signs back in the windows of the national economy.

Battle lines are forming along highly polarized lines, as Demo-crats demand billions for projects having little or nothing to do with the coronavirus pandemic and Republicans emphasize aid to help individuals and small busi-nesses get back on their feet.

What is beyond question is that the unprecedented $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) signed by President Donald Trump on March 27 contained billions of dollars for projects far removed from dealing with skyrocketing unemployment or failing businesses.

Research by the Taxpayers’ Protection Alliance (TPA) provided to The Epoch Times pointed to a long list of spending unrelated to the disease and its economic aftermath, including these:

• $30.8 billion for the Department of Education (DED) stabilization fund for elementary, secondary, and higher education programs

• $25 billion in transit infrastructure grants

• $10 billion in extended borrowing to the USPS

• $9.5 billion in agricultural programs

MARK TAPSCOTT

Congress is dysfunctional and can’t be trusted to restrain themselves.

Brian Darling, president, Liberty Government Affairs


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A man wearing a protective mask in Manhattan on April 8, 2020. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES


A man walks through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda during the pandemic, on March 24, 2020.



• $2.2 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs information technology systems

• $526 million in national network grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak)

• $345 million for Department of Labor training and employment services

• $324 million for State Department diplomatic programs

• $300 million for Social Security Administration salaries and overhead costs

• $100 million to the Federal Prison System

• $100 million for “Safe Schools and Citizenship Education”

• $95 million to the U.S.

Agency for International Development for operating expenses

• $88 million to the Peace Corps

• $75 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund National Public Radio

• $75 million each to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities

• $60 million to NASA.

• $50 million for the “ Institute of Museum and Library Services”

• $35 million for Department of Housing and Urban Development administrative support offices

• $25 million in additional salaries and expenses for the House of Representatives • $25 million for U.S.

Capitol “Construction and Operations”

• $9 million for miscellaneous Senate expenses

• $7.5 million for Smithsonian Institution salaries and expenses

• $3.1 million for Maritime Administration operations and training An April 7 Congressional Research Service (CRS) analysis of CARES explained, for example, that the DED stabilization fund assistance “provides for the distribution of approximately $14 billion to [colleges and universities] to address needs directly related to coronavirus, including, but not limited to, transitioning courses to distance education and grant aid to students for their educational costs such as food, housing, course materials, health care, and child care.”

How giving college students more money for food, books, housing, and other normal daily needs helps them cope with the pandemic wasn’t explained by CRS.

But Ross Marchand, TPA’s director of policy, told The Epoch Times on April 14 that “for the higher education portion, it looks like at least half of the funds need to go directly to students in emergency grants above and beyond what they are getting now. The other half can be used by the university to pay for switching instruction over to digital learning, but I’m sure there’s a lot of discretion there.”

Congressional Republicans have their own pork problems, according to Jim Manley, former senior aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

“Republicans aren’t even raising an eyebrow at one provision slipped into the CARES bill dealing with a tax break for wealthy individuals that the Joint Committee on Taxation suggests will cost $195 billion over 10 years,” Manley said.

The provision benefits hedge fund investors and real estate business owners.

Next Bill Worse?

David Williams, TPA’s president, warned the next relief package could be worse than CARES.

“The taxpayer wheel of (mis)fortune keeps spinning, with us never knowing how much Congress will spend on unrelated items. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) success in tacking unneeded, unnecessary pork-barrel spending to the CARES Act sets a troubling precedent for future coronavirus-related relief legislation,” Williams said.

Williams pointed to the Postal Service seeking another $75 billion in the next relief legislation, “despite the agency’s longstanding financial problems predating the pandemic. Awarding grants to irresponsible organizations and agencies does nothing for coronavirus patients and simply sets the stage for more problems in the future.”

A related issue is the timing of a fourth package. Brian Darling, former senior counsel to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and founder of Liberty Government Affairs, told The Epoch Times on April 14 that Congress “should not pass a fourth bill until the impact of the $2 trillion bill can be assessed to see if it worked as intended.”

Darling said that “the urge to ‘do something’ so Congress can provide themselves with political cover from voter blowback in November is strong and may cost taxpayers another $1 trillion by

the end of this year.”

Romina Boccia of The Heritage Foundation agreed with Darling, observing that “much of the relief provided in the CARES Act has yet to reach the intended businesses and individuals and lawmakers should be focused on constituent services to help people navigate the complex web of supports.”

That means, said Boccia, who directs the conservative think tank’s Grover M. Herman Center for the Federal Budget, that “all policies should be temporary and targeted directly toward addressing the public health crisis and keeping workers attached to their employers and widespread business failures to preserve the valuable infrastructure and networks, which will fuel the recovery once this becomes possible.”

The bottom line, Darling said, is that “Congress is dysfunctional and can’t be trusted to restrain themselves.”

But in a taste of the coming debate, Jimmy Williams, former senior economic adviser to Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), told The Epoch Times that “it’s Congress’ job to spend our taxpayer dollars. If a member doesn’t like the pork in these bills, vote against it.

“Frankly, I’m tired of members from both sides of the aisle complaining about deficits when they’ve done nothing to fix the problem in almost a decade.”

Contact Mark Tapscott at Mark.Tapscott@ epochtimes. nyc


CHUNG I HO/ THE EPOCH TIMES


A sign on the door of The Smith announces that its dining room is closed due to the CCP virus epidemic, in New York on March 18, 2020.

Macaroni cooked al dente style.

"STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS. Step right up!"

I came at it from "The Arts" point of views. Visual poetry and the Ol', "Rassamataz". Ads and such don't get me to buy crap. Guess being subjected to Petrocks in gumball machines when I was a kid made me immune. Yeah, there was lots of that P.T. Barnum stuff back in the 70s.

Doing research is a pain in the as' as well. Lots of people think the advertisements are the truth when it comes to history. Also, plenty of people parating each other. All these hacks today in entertainment never bothered to learn because being a real writer takes work.