Buy America - Remake America
And:
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Several poignant comments:
It seems Obama hired bureaucrats who cannot remember diddlysquat called to testify about their alleged nefarious actions. Most recently this is true of an UN Amb., several intelligence chiefs, the head of The FBI and other assorted incompetents. How is it we are able to run a government with people whose memory is so poor? Furthermore, Democrats are about to run another candidate for the top job who is both a blathering idiot and equally incapable of remembering what he had for breakfast? To make matters worse, Biden has a history, a long history, of having been wrong on every major decision.
My second comment relates to Trump and his handling of the Coronavirus matter.
Yes, he was late in responding but we were also confronted with something we had never experienced in terms of the virus' ability to mutate and spread so quickly.
So what did Trump face and eventually overcome.
First, The CDC failed in their initial testing equipment. Then Trump, to a host of derision and racial criticism, shut down traffic from China and elsewhere and probably saved an untold number of lives.
Then he took the advice of his medical scientists and did something unprecedented and never done in recent history - he shut down America's entire economy in order to stabilize the spread of the disease and flatten the medical curve.
Second, and most important, he melded government with the talent and capabilities of the private sector in order to overcome our unpreparedness which one can lay at the feet of former administrations and most particularly those who were Democrats, in other words Obama and the governors of our two largest populated states - California and New York.
Then he responded to the demands, pleas, appeals from every state for assistance of all kind regardless of politics.
We now have masks, ventilators and various essential medical supplies and test equipment coming out of our ears .
Finally, Trump had to make a Hobson Choice decision regarding opening the American economy knowing he will be taking political and social risks regarding more deaths. However, not doing so carries other great and permanent risks of an economic and security nature.
So he has chosen to do so but has given governors a large degree of guidance and leeway. Once again, I remind readers, this from a man who we were told by the biased mass media was a certified dictator.
I believe, in both instances, I have been fair minded in stating the facts unlike what one generally gets from the trash outpourings by the mass media.
You decide.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
A LAWYER WITH A BRIEFCASE CAN STEAL MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS.
Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school (although
Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976,except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Barack Obama was a lawyer. Michelle Obama was a lawyer. Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. Bill Clinton was a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer. Add Joe Biden to the list as their presumptive 2020 nominee. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer. Ex-Senator Harry Reid is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Trump is a businessman.
Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen. Vice President Cheney is a
businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5 star General Officer.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history
professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist.
Ex-House Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer. The
former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.
Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who
left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a
sitting president, running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976. The
Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work , who are often the
targets of lawyers. This is very interesting. I never thought about it this
way.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.
The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers . Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.
Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government.
We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers. Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.
America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and
reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our
next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big . When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our
nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and
business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work . Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's
lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress
several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in
ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the
establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge
medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked
from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.
When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for 0ur medical and product costs being so high.
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Maybe Kemp goes to Stacey Abrams?
Where Does Brian Kemp Go For an Apology?
The IHME model has revised down significantly the expected cases in Georgia and Democrats and the press are moving goal posts.
Erick-Woods Erickson
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On April 20, 2020, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp became one of the first governors in America to announce plans to reopen his state. He had been one of the last to impose a shelter-in-place order. Critics had blasted him for waiting so long. He did not impose shelter-in-place until the beginning of April.
On April 20, 2020, Kemp announced he would begin letting certain small businesses that were mostly sole proprietors with direct, personal relationships with customers reopen on April 25, 2020. Those included barber shops, nail salons, tattoo parlors, and, curiously, bowling alleys. What the media ignored was that Kemp put such stringent criteria in place for reopening that most of those businesses still could not open.
Bowling alleys, for example, typically met the technical criteria for a business that could reopen, but practically could not reopen because of the stringent health and safety protocols the governor put in place. Kemp also refused to end the shelter-in-place order early, necessitating that businesses could begin reopening, but customers could not actually get out and about. Again, the media failed to note that.
On May 1, 2020, the shelter-in-place order expired for most people. Restaurants and barbershops reopened, but under new protocols with to-go orders, face masks for barbers, etc. In a revision to his order this week, Kemp required that bars, night clubs, and live music venues must remain closed until June along with overnight summer camps.
Between April 20 and May 1, a recurring trending “hashtag” on Twitter was “KempHasBloodOnHisHands.” Democrat politicians and others assailed Kemp, claiming people were going to die because of him. We are more than three weeks from this tweet:
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The IAF upgrades:
IDF to shutter F-16 fighter jet squadron, making room for new aircraft
As part of military’s Momentum Plan, Ramat David airbase’s 117th First Jet Squadron to close, ending its 67-year history
The Israel Defense Forces announced it is closing a squadron of F-16 fighter jets later this year to streamline the air force and free up funds for more advanced aircraft as part of its Momentum Plan.
Israeli Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin decided Tuesday to close the 117th First Jet Squadron, which flies F-16 jets out of northern Israel’s Ramat David airbase. It will be closed in October, the military said.
“Under the multi-year ‘Momentum’ Plan, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi made a series of decisions geared toward internal efficiencies and cutting back old systems, alongside the acquiring and development of new systems. As part of these decisions, the chief of staff decided to close a fighter jet squadron,” the IDF said in a statement Wednesday.
In February, with the release of details of the plan, the military first announced that it would be closing two air force squadrons, as well as an armored brigade.
The military said Norkin picked the 117th squadron as the unit to be closed and notified its commanders.
“The squadron will continue to serve operationally and in training until the moment it is closed,” the IDF said.
According to the military, one of the reasons to close the F-16 squadron was to free up resources for new fifth-generation planes, namely the F-35 stealth fighter jet, which Israel purchased from the United States.
The 117th Squadron was formed in 1953, taking part in every war in the country’s history since then, as well as a number of major operations, including the 1981 strike on Iraq’s nascent nuclear reactor, known as Operation Opera.
“The squadron was the first in the world to shoot down an enemy plane with an F-16 [in 1981], and the first in the world to shoot down a MiG-23 [in 1982],” the army said.
Norkin praised the squadron’s “glorious heritage,” saying its history included both known and classified operations.
“We will become more streamlined and continue to develop relevant and influential aerial forces,” he said.
Earlier this year, the IDF began rolling out its five-year Momentum Plan, which is meant to make the military better equipped to operate in the types of operations that it is expected to face in the coming years.
The guiding principle of the plan is to take full advantage of the areas in which the IDF has superiority over its enemies — air power, intelligence and technology — in order to ensure the military maintains a constant and significant edge over its foes, notably Iran and Hezbollah.
Though some aspects of the plan require only internal restructuring and reallocation of existing resources, many of its key parts — namely the acquisition of new missiles, drones, armored vehicles, air defense batteries, helicopters and ships — are expected to be very expensive, something that will be difficult to accomplish in light of the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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From a dear friend and fellow memo reader who answers his own question:
Have we lost our minds?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Answer is: Yes we have.Have we become a nation that has lost its collective mind!
• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegal Mexicans voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for useless degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate Central-American gang-banger who jumps the southern fence is welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, and it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
* And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists".
Finally, A little tiny bird fell out of his nest today and when we found him Lynn put him back and I gave him a drop of water. We have no food so we hope his parents will return to feed him. Hope this little' creature's fate is not an omen of what's yet to come.
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