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And:
I am doing what Trump has asked of all citizens, ie. social distancing.
I am now talking to my wife and playing tennis only with her.
Finally:
Report from Biden's surgeon: https://www.
Biden has had 2 surgeries for brain aneurisms, that we know of, the latter in 1988, I think. No medical info since then.
Autoworker Who Was Verbally Abused By Biden Speaks Out
(ThePatriotSource.com) – During a campaign stop in Michigan recently, Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden verbally abused an autoworker. It wasn’t just saying something mean, either – the former vice president swore at one autoworker, told another person to “shush” twice, and then even threatened to “go outside” with someone who challenged him.
The video quickly went viral as it showed, once again, that Biden has a serious temper issue that could become a major sticking point in the campaign.
The eye level view of Joe Biden telling a Michigan auto worker “You’re full of shit” and then shhhing a female staffer is a must watch.pic.twitter.com/gJ0BsP19UE— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 10, 2020
The autoworker who was at the receiving end of Biden’s abuse recently spoke out about the incident on Fox & Friends and confirmed that Biden not only told him he was “full of sh*t” but even called him “a horse’s ass.”
Speaking to Fox, autoworker Jerry Wayne explained how he didn’t know that Biden would be taking questions during his time in the factory, but had come prepared in case he had the opportunity to talk. When he had that opportunity, Wayne asked Biden about his gun control policies and noted that the Democratic presidential hopeful would be violating the Second Amendment with this proposals.
“He could have easily said I’m not taking questions and I would have very respectfully walked away,” Wayne told Fox. “But he wanted to listen to my question. And I don’t think he was ready for it.”
After a clip of the interaction was shown, Wayne also explained how he found it “disturbing” to see a politician who aims to become president who wants to take away his right to defend himself.
“He doesn’t need to touch anybody’s weapon at all,” Wayne said. “What we need to do is we need to concentrate on teaching people how to respect firearms and how to use them. Not take them away.”
Biden vehemently defended his gun policy during the exchange, claiming he did not want to take away anyone’s right to bear arms. The fact that he has publicly said Beto O’Rourke would be in charge of gun policy under his administration, however, suggests otherwise.
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Salena from Ohio:
Life Interrupted: Dispatch from Ohio
 Photo: Salena Zito
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio -- The bells at The First United Methodist Church ring out the noon hour Monday. For the longest stretch of time, it is the only sign of life along Washington Street.
Everywhere you look, the storefronts in this town are shuttered. This time, it has nothing to do with an economic downturn; it is the day after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine closed all of the schools and ordered bars and restaurants to shut down, all an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Outside city hall, a rental truck with voting machines is loading them into the municipal offices.
The new mayor, Greg Bricker, is considering closing the city offices to protect his firemen, police, paramedics as well as clerks -- officials who keep the city functioning -- and the health department workers.
He keeps his distance from the building that will be used for voting as he calmly paces back and forth, taking several calls and dialing into a conference call with the governor’s office.
 Photo: Salena Zito
By three o’clock, the governor has decided to postpone the election. The men who have been loading voting machines all day have done it all for naught. But maybe it isn't so -- soon enough, the decision will be reversed by a judge.
There are now 50 confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus in the state, so far there are none reported yet here in East Liverpool or anywhere in Columbiana County. But in a city where nearly 15% of the population is over age 65, Bricker is being cautious.He points to the city hospital in the distance, a highly acclaimed but small local facility that is limited to 152 beds for a city of 11,000. Those numbers and odds are weighing on the accountant turned mayor’s mind.
“First, we needed to do a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spreading of this, so we closed the city offices to keep this from spreading to our workers but also to our citizens, because if we don't take preventative measures, we'll just really overwhelm our hospital and our healthcare system,” he said.
This is life in America, interrupted. Aside from the older gentleman who groused about having to pay his water bill in a slot and not in person, people were doing what they had to keep themselves and their community safe.
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Israel continues to struggle with election results.
Democracy Thrives: Israeli Lawmakers Begin Forming New Government
Benjamin Netanyahu’s rival Benny Gantz was given the first chance to try to form a government.
By Dov Lipman,
Despite the coronavirus pandemic firmly on most Israelis’ minds, the country’s political process continued to unfold on Sunday as party leaders met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin for consultations in the wake of the March 2 election.
Israeli politics have been anything but routine over the past year, with political deadlock and three elections, and Sunday’s meetings with Rivlin proved no exception. In a surprise twist, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, despite finishing second in the elections behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, is to receive the mandate from Rivlin to try to form a government.
After consultations with all the parties elected to the Knesset on March 2, Rivlin heard 61 recommendations for Gantz as prime minister—33 from his own Blue and White Party, six from Labor/Meretz, seven from Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu and a unprecedented 15 from the Joint Arab List.
On the other hand, Netanyahu received the support of 58 MKs—36 from his Likud Party, nine from Shas, seven from United Torah Judaism and six from Yamina.
Joint List chairman Aymen Odeh made the surprising announcement that all four Arab parties comprising the Joint List recommended Gantz, saying that “we are against a unity government, we are against an emergency government, we are against Netanyahu.”
He explained that his party had met with Blue and White to discuss civilian matters that impact the Israeli Arab community, and that they had agreed on enough issues to put things in the right direction, enabling them to recommend Gantz for prime minister.
Unity Government Still on the Table
While Gantz has received the backing of enough MKs to form a government, talk of a unity government persists, especially in light of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Gantz and Netanyahu both met with Rivlin late Sunday at his residence to discuss a unity deal.
“The president emphasized that [Gantz and Netanyahu] should continue to intensify direct contacts between them and between the Likud and Blue and White negotiating teams, and welcomed both sides’ willingness to do so,” said a statement released by Rivlin’s office.
“At the end of the meeting, the two sides agreed that the two parties’ negotiating teams will continue the discussions,” the statement added.
The meeting Sunday night came on the heels of a unity government offer earlier in the day by Netanyahu.
During his meeting with Rivlin, Likud representative Tourism Minister Yariv Levin told the president that Netanyahu had extended an offer to Gantz to join him in creating an emergency unity government. According to Levin, Netanyahu offered two options:
1) A six-month emergency government led by Netanyahu in which Likud and Blue and White would divide the ministries equally. At the end of the six months, assuming the corona crisis has ended, the political situation would revert to the current one and the normal process of the president tasking a Knesset member to form a government would resume.
2) A full, four-year unity government with equal division of the ministries and a rotation deal for the premiership, under which Netanyahu would serve as prime minister for two years, followed by Gantz.
But Gantz tweeted that the offer was “not serious.” Blue and White MK and former Likud Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon explained to JNS that “while we will review all offers with seriousness, we are suspicious of this new offer coming just this morning [Sunday] before parties come to recommend a prime minister to the president. We are dealing with a prime minister who faces charges for breach of trust, and we have real suspicions about the decisions and offers that he is making.”
Ya’alon went on to say that if there is to be a unity government, “Benny Gantz is the one who needs to lead it with as many parties as possible participating. That way we all will know that decisions are being made with what Israel needs in mind and nothing else.”
Blue and White MK Karine Elharar told JNS that the party has a specific reason to refrain from accepting Netanyahu’s unity government offer.
“The fact that the prime minister had his justice minister shut down the country’s courts at 1:30 in the morning—which pushed off Netanyahu’s trial for two months—has to raise suspicions and we don’t know what his intentions are,” said Elharar.
‘State of Emergency’
Early on Sunday, Israeli Justice Minister Amir Ohana declared a 24-hour “state of emergency” for the country’s court due to the COVID-19 crisis, restricting the courts to urgent hearings only. The Jerusalem District Court later announced that Netanyahu’s trial would be postponed until May 24.
Likud Minister Levin told JNS that “this is a sincere offer and I hope that Blue and White will recognize the significance of the moment and join us in a stable government that not only leads Israel during this crisis but for the next four years. The election results themselves demand this solution to the political stalemate.”
Likud MK Keti Sheetrit told JNS that Blue and White’s acceptance of the Joint List’s recommendation and refusal to join a unity government was “shocking” to the party’s left-wing Zionist voters.
“Hatred for Netanyahu is what binds Blue and White together, and hatred to a Jewish state is what binds the Joint List together,” she said, adding that “now the [former] IDF chiefs of staff from Blue and White and the supporters of terror from the Joint List” have joined forces.
Gantz receiving the mandate to form a government does not mean he will be successful in doing so.
Two members of Blue and White, as well as Gesher Party leader Orly Levy-Abukasis, who was the only MK not to recommend anyone to Rivlin, have stated that they will vote against any government relying on the support of the Joint List. There are strong indications other Blue and White MKs may follow suit.
Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman has said that while he recommended Gantz to Rivlin, he will not cooperate with the Joint List to form a government and prefers the path of an emergency unity government. That would seem to make a Gantz-led government an impossibility.
But receiving the mandate does give Gantz and his party control over the Knesset and its agenda. The 23rd Knesset will be sworn in tomorrow (Monday) and Blue and White has announced that they will use their control over the Knesset and their majority to take actions including a review of the interim government’s handling of the corona crisis and replacing Likud Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein.
Edelstein said on Sunday that he would stop Blue and White from convening parliament on Monday to vote in a new Knesset speaker, The Times of Israel reported. Control of the Knesset speaker position would potentially allow Blue and White to push legislation barring Netanyahu from forming a government.
Liberman should move to America and join the Democrat Party. Very spiteful politician.
Liberman introduces bill to oust Netanyahu amid coalition jockeying
The first bill submitted to the newly sworn-in Knesset threatens to oust the prime minister in a move seen as a coalition ploy by Avigdor Liberman.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Former Defense Minister leader Avigdor Liberman appears to be following through on a threat to introduce a bill that would force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office, Ynet reported Monday.
Immediately after Israel’s parliament was sworn-in earlier in the day, Knesset member Oded Forer of Liberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party tabled the first bill of the new session, which would amend the law with the goal of forcing Netanyahu to step down.
The proposal is labeled the “termination of the Prime Minister’s term during a transitional government if he is indicted,” which would empower the Knesset to hold a secret vote to oust a sitting prime minister in a transitional government who has been charged with a criminal offense.
Since Liberman quit the government in Nov. 2018, he has been a thorn in Netanyahu’s side, seen by many as driving the events that have pushed Israel toward not one, but three Knesset elections within a year. To date, no clear winner has emerged from any of the votes.
President Reuven Rivlin gave opposition leader Benny Gantz the go-ahead Monday to try to form a new government. Liberman’s proposed legislation appears to be a pressure tactic as coalition negotiations progress in the coming weeks, the Ynet report said.
The message to Netanyahu is that the opposition now has the power to push him towards compromises during the negotiations, or remove him from power. The proposed legislation specifically targets Netanyahu, who has remained the head of the transitional government in place since the Knesset voted to dissolve itself at the end of 2018 and go to elections.
Netanyahu is facing trial on corruption charges, which he has labeled as a witchhunt, but that trial was delayed as Israel’s court system shut down this week as part of the drastic measures taken to contain the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
If the bill does pass and the Knesset votes to oust Netanyahu, the proposal states the government would elect a new transitional prime minister who is the senior Knesset member from the outgoing prime minister’s party, which would likely fall on the Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz.
The complex and complicated world of Israeli politics has been wracked by exceptionally vitriolic animosity from both sides of the political spectrum for the past few years. Unable to defeat Netanyahu at the ballot box, the opposition piled on legislative pressure to try to force him from office.
Pushing back, Netanyahu moved to revert to Israel’s previous practice of granting Knesset members immunity from prosecution so they could not be harassed by allegations.
As the new Knesset was sworn in this week, Liberman’s first shot was followed by moves by Gantz’s Blue and White Party to replace Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, a Likud loyalist, Ynet reported.
Having a speaker from their own party would make it easier for Blue and White to set the political agenda and advance bills like Liberman’s.
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Today's podcast features special guest star Andy McCarthy, who tells us about his important new COMMENTARY article "The Progressive Prosecutor Project" and schools us on what's really going on when it comes to the sentencing of Trump intimate Roger Stone.
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