Monthly Archives: March 2020

OK … This shit has got to stop !!! …

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The Beer Store will be reducing their store hours and will no longer be accepting returned empty containers for the next two weeks.

According to a news release issued on Wednesday , the company made the changes in order to “ protect employees and customers ” amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“ As we continue to closely monitor COVID-19 , the Beer Store will reduce store hours to 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. , Monday through Saturday , as of March 19. Stores that operate from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. are unaffected. Sunday hours remain unchanged ” The Beer Store said in a statement.

” The Beer Store will also suspend the return of empty containers at all retail stores across the province , effective March 19 , through to March 31. Deposits will be fully honoured upon return when we resume operations. In addition , at times we may need to limit the number of customers in our stores”…

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This simply won’t do !!! … FIND A VACCINE NOW !!!! …

How Coronavirus Will Strengthen Trump’s 2020 Campaign – American Thinker

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This public health issue is ignored by all those Americans championing sanctuary cities. The issue is also ignored by Americans clamoring for open borders …

By the way , in the late 19th century and early 20th century , when masses of European immigrants were trying to enter our country , those with dangerous diseases were turned back from Ellis Island. Americans hadn’t ” progressed ” to the point of thinking anyone in the world has a legal right to live in America. Neither did they think it was cruel or racist to take measures to prevent our fellow Americans from catching diseases from foreigners.

In the final analysis , the coronavirus crisis will turn out to be a gigantic boost to Trump’s campaign in ways that could never have been foreseen and utilized if it had never happened. This is not to say the crisis is a good thing ; rather , it will be devastating for Joe Biden when he goes to campaign against Trump on the all-important and inter-related issues of  border security , health , and jobs.  

Biden simply will not be able to present a message that will be coherent or credible to counteract Trump’s ongoing and successful theme of always putting America first.

 American Thinker

Hit the ‘ ThinkLink ‘ for the whole read … Worth your 5 minutes …

Talk bout lettin’ the drunk close the bar for ya !!! …

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Canadian parliament has granted cabinet wartime spending power for the next ninety days as coronavirus fears begin to mount across the country and across the globe …

The bill was introduced at 10:15 am Monday , was fast-tracked into law by 12:14 p.m. , as reported by Blacklock’s.

And since Junior’s out on his skinny ,  pampered , useless ass in the near future , you watch how much money they piss down the toilet in 90 days !!! …

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What about FACTS ? …

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Quite an interesting 3:30 a.m. read in the blackness of this Tuesday I found over at BCF’s ;

America’s unique gift to the world is the idea of a democratic republic, in which citizens live under laws that they themselves have made through their elected representatives. We are not ruled. Our 1787 Constitution, perfected by the Bill of Rights, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the vote, details the mechanism for such a republic, but it is inert machinery until animated by a culture of independence, a spirit of liberty, that brings it to life. George Washington, who presided over the Constitutional Convention, made this point repeatedly. No constitution, however wisely designed, he warned—prophetically, it now seems—can protect a people against tyranny or conquest if it weakens itself by unchecked “corruption of morals, profligacy of manners, and listlessness for the preservation of the natural and unalienable rights of mankind.”

Manners, morals, and beliefs: you couldn’t find a more succinct definition of “culture” than this. It is our inherited reservoir of assumptions about what is good and bad, right and wrong, proper and improper—our largely unexamined ideas and habits, absorbed from our families and communities, that we so take for granted that they seem to come to us by instinct or intuition. They spring from the accumulated wisdom and experience of the human race, refined in America by the Western tradition and by our own exceptional history. This inherited cluster of beliefs and feelings, this moral imagination, forms the glue of society, the oil that smooths the friction of the social machinery, the rules of the road for self-government at the individual level, essential to a self-governing nation.

Ya see … I was with this individual up to this point , but sensed where he was leading me to … I was soon proven correct …

Washington, a quirky and unorthodox believer in a Providence that specially protected him, thought religion indispensable to the culture of liberty, if only for the utilitarian reason that people will do such improper things as tell lies in court if they don’t fear divine retribution …

AHA !!! … Here enters the HUMAN creation known in various forms ( which has caused all sorts of conflict , destruction and death over arguing whose ‘ story ‘ is THEE story ) as ‘ god ‘… Some mystical individual possessing ‘ ultimate ‘ power … Someone who has the ‘ final say ‘…

You , and society as a whole , can achieve all this writer speaks of two paragraphs above if they focus on the rights of their neighbors , the ‘ goodness ‘ and the betterment of their society by learning and passing on to the next generation all previously stated life guides for a growing society by simply attaching it the human concept of being decent and civil to one another …

It is both unnecessary , and extremely destructive to keep teaching conflicting human created scriptures and ‘ stories that have been spawned eons ago when tribes and the seedlings of many , many societies were sequestered in their own tiny little area of this planet … I’ve always argued that by the first world war societies , and mankind in general , should have all figured out we’re here with all the other animals and some of us behave as animals themselves … That we should have finally shed this religion nonsense when you can clearly see we are forging out own destinies and the technology of that day was plentiful proof …

But now , this writer really zeros in to his or hers main thought … THEIR ‘ story ‘… Obviously Protestant …

Today, when only half those polled belong to a church or synagogue, nearly half don’t believe in God, a mere 35 percent consider themselves Protestants, and three-quarters think that religion is losing its influence in American life, where do the rest of us get our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad? And what has become of the spirit of liberty ? …

I used to think that, without the support of religion, the cultural heritage that forms our moral imagination—at its highest, enshrined in the best that has been thought and said over the ages, as Victorian sage Matthew Arnold put it—would get passed down safely by humanities and civics courses in schools and colleges. How wrong I was! As I saw happen as an undergraduate in the 1960s, humanities professors lost confidence in the value of their enterprise, overawed by the triumphant march of science, from Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in 1953 to the Soviets’ first space satellite in 1957 and manned space flight in 1961, the year before I started college. For a decade, until two Americans walked on the moon in 1969, the Space Race was in full swing, and science soared in prestige. Here was knowledge that you knew was knowledge. You could state it in exact equations, formulas, and diagrams, and it yielded the power to fly you to the moon, to exorcise one of mid-century childhood’s worst terrors, and, in that same era, to concoct a pill that divorced sex from conception.

Again with the birth control and abortion issue ! …

In contrast with science’s confident certitude, if you asked an English professor how he knew that his interpretation of Hamlet was true, or why we should care about Henry James’s overprivileged characters in The Portrait of a Lady, he had no convincing answer, not even to himself, having not reflected much on why he loved literature or what use it had. The right answer is that the humanities embody a different kind of knowledge from that of science …

They inhabit the realm of value , not FACT : of ‘ judgement ‘,not PROOF … 

 

The old ” that’s what makes us right ! … The No Fact / No Proof ( that even we have figured out by now and must admit ) is the power of OUR FAITH !!! “…

Instead of creating this fantasy ‘ being ‘, with this ‘ all powerfullness ‘ nonsense attached to this human created ‘ deity ‘ ( in far too many variants around the globe ) … Enough with ‘ god ‘ bullshit … Why not just put those thoughts toward a human drive to be ‘ Good ‘ … 

Presidents and pandemics from American Thinker …

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By Steve Bigler

Let me offer a little perspective on COVID-19 from a physician’s viewpoint. Allow me to first state that the perfect governmental balance in handling a pandemic is virtually impossible to achieve. To illustrate that , let’s make you the president for the sake of this discussion.

Because of the exponential growth of a pandemic , to flatten the epidemiological curve , you have to take action before it’s apparent that action is needed. If you wait until it’s apparent , the curve will have taken its skyward turn , and it’s too late. But if you act significantly early , you’ll always be perceived by the populace as overreacting and inciting panic. The economy doesn’t like panic , so it will tank.

If that’s not bad enough , if your early actions ultimately work , and the pandemic curve is flattened such that things don’t turn out so badly , well … Then the populace will be all the more convinced you acted needlessly. No one will stop to think the measures you took were precisely what mitigated the pandemic.

On the other hand , if you act just a bit too late , the pandemic curve will not flatten , and many more lives will be lost. Then you will be crucified for not doing enough quickly enough ! No matter what you do , it will be a no-win proposition and your opposition party will gleefully use this reality against you , no matter the outcome of the pandemic.

Unfortunately , there is no scientific formula in existence that answers the question : when is precisely the exact right time to take massive economically and socially disruptive action in dealing with a pandemic ? It’s a judgment call. Aren’t we all glad we don’t have to achieve that impossibly delicate balance in making a judgment call that will impact the entire nation , if not the world ?

In such scenarios , critics always base their criticism on 20/20 hindsight. Shame on them. I’ve read all sorts of recent criticism about Trump waiting too long to take decisive action — or waiting too long to get tested himself. People who are critical of Trump would be just as critical of him had he taken earlier action , well before it seemed necessary. Those people should admit to themselves that whatever Trump does , they’ll dislike — simply because they dislike Trump.

As a reminder , how long did President Obama wait before taking action during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic ? The answer is , not until a little over 1,000 Americans had died. Did Obama ever get tested himself for H1N1 ?  Ever ? … The answer is no , he did not — at least not that he publicized to the nation. But I will give him credit for exercising his judgment to the best of his ability at the time. I don’t think he delayed because he was stupid , or callous , or because he simply didn’t care about American lives. Trump should be given the same consideration.

Could Trump have acted a little earlier ?  Yes. But perhaps only by a matter of a few days. Any earlier than that , and he would have been crucified for massively overreacting and destroying the economy , our educational system , and our social interactions. The outcry would have been furious.

As it is , he has taken measures that are unprecedented in my 72-year lifetime. His declaration of a national emergency happened much sooner in the progression of this pandemic than Obama’s. Never before have I experienced a total shutdown of travel from Asia and Europe. I can’t remember a time when sporting events of all kinds were canceled nationwide. I can’t remember a time in my 41-year medical career ( 49 years counting med school and residency ) that FDA regulations have been so quickly suspended in order to bring testing and treatments to the market more quickly.

And those who are firmly in the globalist camp should stop and think about our vulnerability due to a large majority of medical equipment and supplies being manufactured in China. How good does that idea seem now ?

So I suggest that we all take a deep breath, recognize that all governmental leaders are human , they’re never going to perform perfectly , and acknowledge that our current president has taken much more decisive action more quickly than any prior president has ever taken in the face of a viral pandemic.

And remember , it is impossible to 100% completely avoid a global pandemic — where zero people in a given country become infected and zero people in that country die.  The best that can be hoped for is a modest flattening of the pandemic curve.  At this point in time, it is my opinion that we’ll achieve that in the U.S.

Well put …

Source: Presidents and pandemics – American Thinker