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Peace above all else!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-erupts-in-fury-over-biden-s-calling-putin-a-killer/ar-BB1eIyHE?ocid=msedgdhp

This is what I was afraid of. Hilary Clinton was the same way. Not afraid to completely demonize and hold a morally superior public stance on anyone we might have as a current soft enemy in this world. I think we (especially the democrat party minus Tulsi Gabbard) have completely forgotten what diplomacy is. Diplomacy does not mean you can’t think your enemy is a killer or have some other very low opinion of what they do. Diplomacy means publicly you can’t go around bashing dictators and leaders of countries like Russia and China without destroying attempts at maintaining long term peace. Mark my words there will come a day when a public attitude of condemnation of anyone we need to avoid war with will lead to the end of the world as we know it. A day will come when being the world’s policeman will result in horrific tragedy befalling millions of innocent lives (both of the people who live in our adversaries countries and in our own) There will come a day when throwing our moral weight around and spitting in the face of diplomacy will have consequences. Good diplomacy is ignoring our need to talk smack for the greater good. That greater good being making sure we don’t go to war with other countries. Say what you will about Trump but he was concerned with things like the economy...things like focusing on America. We weren’t at risk of war with North Korea, China and Russia with another Trump presidency. Killing General Suleimani was an extremely bad move but I think going forward there wasn’t going to be any other bad moves coming from him.  Going forward we had Tulsi Gabbard as a candidate. She was the only candidate who came close to embodying an attitude of good diplomacy. She doesn’t even have a cabinet position in the current administration from which good influence can be exerted. Sure we can take the attitude of judge of all but is our goal to judge them or be at peace with them? You owe American citizens AND Russian citizens better tact than this.

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“Politics! You disgust me!” :)

Trump must have had a fit when he heard about that HR1 voting abomination...It is basically shamelessly geared to increase the democrat voter demographic and so are the economic incentives which give out money to people democrats are targeting...letting anyone in and letting anyone that is let in vote?..requiring no real ID proof for voters??? Invitation for voter fraud..Trump complains about voter fraud so they make a system which is easy as pie to fraud..I really didn't pay much attention to the validity of his claims this election because I didn't think it would make the difference and turn the tide of the election but let us be very clear..the democrats absolutely have engaged in voter fraud in the past..registering dead people's votes..they have had groups paid by the DNC which did illegal things to affect the election outcome and were caught doing it..things that had more real effect than what you could accuse  Russia of attempting..(and lets not forget the not often spoken about story that the CIA has interfered in foreign affairs as well, there was talk of our influence on  the Ukrainian situation and I don’t doubt that we have attempted to influence things in Russia before)

"I was going to vote for Clinton but the Russians convinced me to vote Trump!" said no one ever! That is what is so disgusting about the DNC..They claim to have no shame in their game..they point the finger hypocritically towards Trump but they are just as corrupt.

P.S. Betsy Devos did a really great thing by getting due process and more rights for boys in college who are accused of sexual assaults, kangaroo courts and all..Biden’s “guilty as long as some girl says you are” new norm is a bastardization of justice. So In summation, sounds like this new administration is making a lot of new changes..a lot of stupid new changes.

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Watch those clothes! and Boil um in nerd immunity...

Well seems as if science finally caught up to my pandemic spider sense. They are now saying that the coronavirus can live on clothes in some cases up to 72 hours (I believe cotton allows a shorter survival time) The temperature required to kill covid on clothes before then (if you don’t want to practice social distancing from your laundry hamper) is 132 degrees F. This is a temperature which is achieved in hospital laundry so if you work at a hospital be sure to take advantage of their laundry for your scrubs. At home you might need to dry things on high heat for a good period of time or use products like bleach or the lysol laundry sanitizer which you can get on amazon. Boiling water (water boils at 212 degrees F) could be an effective means of cleaning toys or..well other things you could throw in a pot of boiling water without damaging them :) Another fun fact is that eye protection has been proven to decrease exposure. So in the times of more infectious mutations going around it would behoove us to practice a little eye protection. Glasses, sunglasses..(those sunglasses that wrap around and fit the eye snuggly) goggles (although that would look a little silly outside of the YMCA) would all be of some help with that. and don’t forget being outdoors and or well ventilated places is something we have known (even as far back as Hippocrates who commented on bad air and illness and dating back to hospital pavilions and outdoor tents) can cut down on getting a dangerous dose or illness at all. Stay safe!

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Can we heal?

What is a healing experience? What can a healing experience do for a mental health patient? Recently I found out that someone I knew of who dealt with mental health challenges in life had a baby. I couldn't help thinking that giving birth to a child must be something akin to a shower of healing white light engulfing you sent from heaven itself. (not the actual act of giving birth that's a real pita!) The first time you hear that baby cry...hold him/her in your arms... It has to be one of the most healing experiences in life. Now we all know that traumatic toxic occurrences in life can spark mental illness. We also know there are some very powerful ones like death of a family member which can certainly cause severe depression. Everyone experiences deaths in the family but does everyone take antidepressants for the rest of their life? Which people have lifelong "unfixable" mental health issues and which of them take lithium or prozac for a year and move on? Are some people permanently broken? Can healing life occurrences cure or calm our mental illness in the same way as toxic life circumstances can excacerbate or cause them? I think for every person that walks into a psychiatrist office their condition is not examined nearly enough for what can be done and certainly no attention is given to the concept of healing habits..leading a healing life..or powerful healing experiences like having a baby. Can people be spiritually healed? Healed by changing lifestyle? Through therapy to learn not to allow your mind to go to the place that causes a chemical release. Humans are very complicated and we also have very strong wills if we choose to exert them. Is there a potential to heal or are we broken? What are some other powerful healing experiences? Well religion I mentioned, getting a support animal (dog, cat, bird etc) can be extremely healing for some people. Finding love...a happy marriage..spending time int he outdoors..healthy diet paired with regular exercise..finding your passion in life and doing it...Good friends who make you feel loved and supported can be so healing,having the opposite is one of the most mentally damaging life influencers. Enemies..people who stab you in the back..feeling like you have no support..that no one cares..These all can be very damaging to the psyche...What would be the healing countering force to a family member dying? Having a family member alive that you have that love and caring relationship with. In summation, I believe we can heal and we need to pursue healing life environment as well as filling our life with as many powerful healing experiences as we can (while avoiding any toxic mentally damaging ones we can avoid)

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Big Brother is watching you!

Never thought I would see the day when America would so closely resemble George Orwell’s “1984″ but that day has come. At this rate it won’t be long before we have little cameras and microphones hidden in our rooms butchering our civil rights! but I digress. This article, posted on a web news source (msn) I am proud to be banned by, shows just how tyrannical social media has become. I am both terrified and disgusted by the power these platforms have and how they have broken the law of our country that allows for freedom of speech. How they have targeted someone they don’t like, not just that but the president of the United States! and blocked or restricted most or all of his communication ability. It is absolutely outrageous! His comments on twitter were by no logic man’s reason grounds for banning nor were they inciting violence. Calling his followers patriots does not equate to telling them to storm the senate building..We have all gone a little looney this year and it just keeps getting more ridiculous on all sides..I feel like I am living in “bizarro” America this year. The leftist movement, which has always been backed by almost overwhelming media support is completely off it’s rocker.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-twitter-account-permanently-suspended/ar-BB1cAUFv?ocid=msedgdhp

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Just say no!

To Psy Vi on the M.I.

https://www.zazzle.com/ant_psychological_abuse_t_shirt-235370338718881465

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We pay police handsome salaries with our taxes so they can harass, bully and brutalize our people. Defund Police! Stop supporting police tyranny.

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Who I am voting for and why...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-pitch-to-women-on-coronavirus-recovery-we-re-getting-your-husbands-back-to-work/ar-BB1arZhi?ocid=msedgntp

The fact that he could make a statement like this in the middle of a massive wave of coronavirus resurgence spreading like wildfire through the country. The fact that he could make this statement at the exact worst possible moment to ever be thinking like this. Is to me a deal breaker. Let me just say this though. I am disgusted with the racist pandering and systemic racism reverse racism narrative that the Democrats propagate and give ultimate power to during a light years more serious happenning, but my same criticism of them doing this is the reason I will probably vote for them.I place a higher priority on the coronavirus response than the social justice pandering and even though they don’t do this they happen to still have the best coronavirus response, which is why i choose to still vote for them despite my distaste for their social justice platform. I said how could they possibly focus on these social justice issues right now when people are dying in horrific fashion suffocating to death all over the country. By Trump simply not placing a higher focus on this issue than the pandemic he had my vote. BUT he has turned out ironically to be far worse on the pandemic than they are by making black lives matter a bigger focus for awhile. The only thing that will haunt me with a Biden vote is that with Trump i can honestly say 4 years of him and we will not have a war with North Korea or Russia. Biden? He may make me regret my vote by placing us in even greater danger than Trump’s horrendous handling of the Coronavirus pandemic by getting us in a nuclear war with North Korea that ends America as we know it. When you vote the most important thing you should consider is is he or she going to preserve American lives. EVERYTHING else is secondary. If you feel both candidates can do a similarly sufficient job of protecting American lives then you move on to other issues like the economy, the environment, social justice reform etc. Trump leads with economy and Biden led with the social justice/identity politics but also with some pandemic focus..Biden has shown more proper attention to the risk to American lives the pandemic is so he gets my reluctant vote. The North Korea issue does give me pause though. On a lighter note please take a look at the puppy on my page after reading this. Everyone needs a little more puppy time right now.

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Happy Days are Here ag.....!!!

If you are like a lot of people right now you are probably getting to that point where are you are sick of pandemic-ing. The extra precautions..cleaning..masks..social isolation..Probably seems like it is high time for this annoying pandemic thing to be over right? Well I am here to tell you tough cookies America! Suck it up and bear down for a COLLLLLDDDD winter! We are on track for a second wave of Covid which due to a perfect storm of reasons I am about to describe, could be completely devastating. The first  and possibly most deadly contributing factor to the perfect covid storm is the false sense of security. A second contributing factor is all the small businesses and well anyone who needs to work to keep afloat (no thanks tot eh idiots in Congress who all have their jobs and couldn’t agree on a stimulus package to save people who don’t) People want to open up, to go to work because for a lot of people the double whammy of lack of pandemic stimulus and length of time from the beginning of all this is taking to the breaking point financially. A third serious contributing factor is the fact that everyone is sick of social distancing..the isolation is wearing thin on people mentally so they are never more likely to take unnecesary risks..probably sick of wearing masks too.and of course painfully unaware of the difference in risk of death and transmissability between summer and winter. There is a higher risk of clots in the winter and coronavirus causes clotting problems the flu doesn’t even in mainly asymptomatic people. We stand on the cusp of a full winter flu season and covid loves the winter too..We are all going to be indoors, not wanting to open our windows which in the summer was a great way to thin out air that could give potentially deadly exposure levels from other infected household members. Sadly far UV technology is not being installed the way I hoped it might and the high heat grid technology which can easily be retrofitted over existing school and hospital ventilation systems, is not being used. Instead we get a leader who says go back to school! We got it covered...We have the antibody cocktail! Let me be soberingly clear about the blatant lie Trump is telling you. This antibody cocktail does exist and is probably very helpful BUT if we are inundated with cases of coronavirus like what is already starting to happen, we will have nowhere near the amount of this drug to cover all the cases. Especially since it is a drug best used in a prophylactic capacity or early intervention like what Trump used it for. It won't even be offered prophylacticly and I doubt early on in treatment, and rarely will it be available to the average Joe until next year. The good news is that if we don't act stupid now. If we realize that now is the time to be MORE proactive with masks (not just any mask get a n95) and more proactive with cleaning and social distancing, we can make it through the storm of winter to the calm seas of a spring blessed with abundance of vaccines and antibody treatments that can make a real difference. If I was president I would have made it a priority to have all school and hospitals retrofitted with the high heat grid filters or far UV so that after the first or second marking period in spring, when it is prudent to attempt in person or some in person school, we can start to send kids back to class. Oh and free n95 masks for any student or medical personnel as well as inmates in jails (where there should also be high heat germ filters) A good coronavirus response would have included working aggressively on all these things since last spring. Allowances in the pandemic package for these things to be fast tracked. The least Trump could do after not doing these things is NOT promote a false sense of security about a treatment which is present in insufficient supply, NOT encourage people not to wear masks and sympathize with them getting lazy about doing it,NOT push people to go back to in person settings when we are in flu season (which is the same thing as covid season) It is my opinion that our soldiers should never risk their lives in battle unless it is for a completely necessary cause and unless they are protected by the best our technology can provide. I feel the same about our citizens and work. He wants his economy to thrive and people to go back to work and kids to go to in person school but you should never ask people to risk their lives unless it is absolutely necessary and unless as the president of the greatest country in the world, you have provided them with every technological aid you can to improve their level of safety. It is so sad that even though we have the resources and technology to make things a good deal safer, we don't and even though despite not being proactive enough to do this we still have been given the simple ability to social distance and wear masks, we have a president who even seeks to discourage this. In closing let me borrow a saying often kept in the forefront of the minds of stroke experts. Time is brain. In this case time is life. Getting far uv and heat grid technology installed BEFORE winter BEFORE kids go back to school..Getting people access to lifesaving treatment BEFORE or when they get covid as opposed to 2 months after they are dead from it. Timing is everything and right now the redcoats of the infectious disease world are poised to launch an early morning raid on us proud descendants of patriots that will catch our country collectively snoozing if we don’t get smart and be diligent!

P.S. here are a couple of the more effective air disinfection systems.

https://www.intellipure.com/solutions/residential-solutions/

https://bgr.com/2020/07/13/coronavirus-news-air-filter-kill-covid-19-instantly/

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"Makin America Great Again?" How about "Makin it easy not to vote for you again!"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-blames-video-games-mental-health-in-wake-of-mass-shootings-condemns-white-supremacy/vi-BB18ZFsb?ocid=msedgntp

Wow every bit as scary as Kamala Harris here, except he is the president. We can at least hope Joe Biden doesn’t deteriorate. What is more scary than this actual statement (and it is pretty scarily off base and out of touch) is what  tyrannical invasive policing practices he plans to empower to do what he talks about. You thought ICE left a bitter taste in your mouth? This is the ICE of his next administration along with the good odds for martial law happening if Biden loses and the people rioting right now have to deal with Trump for another 4 years...There will be rights abusing and even greater police evils that are a biproduct of the direct call for martial law that may follow. The only monster with many red flags is Donald Trump and there is a much greater risk of REAL danger from this man because he will wield and has already wielded the power of the most powerful military in the world in haphazard fashion.

Oh and I love how  no one is wearing masks at his rallies! I wouldn’t go so far as to call his followers deplorables but I would certainly call them morons! but i digress, you know what the real motivation behind this complete garbage statement he is making is don’t you? I mean the timing of releasing this statement the day of a rally in Vegas where they are advertising gun sales aggressively says it all doesn’t it? He is blaming video games and mentally ill people (the vast majority of which are peaceful people who don’t plan mass murders) You aren’t going to stop evil people from picking up guns and causing mass carnage except by not making it possible for them to get those guns. To a certain extent you aren’t going to stop people from doing these types of things because people do these types of things that you don’t see coming..Even if you take away everyone’s right to privacy and witch hunt a bunch of people who would never do anything, you are still not going to stop the dude you don’t know about. Videogames don’t kill people..people kill people..and people like Trump make people who kill people.

The mindset of some of these shooters who go off and kill people is not all that different from the way Trump flies off the handle threatening to burn other countries in seas of fire or his "peace by bullying" military doctrine...which fits him perfectly..It is a power trip that motivates these people..Trump knows all about power tripping like when he had that general murdered in Iraq almost starting an all out war and resulting in US soldiers almost getting killed and ending up with TBIs! which Trump callously and ignorantly dismissed as "a few headaches" Yeah "a few headaches" is what you get when you and your buddies go a little overboard on a drinking night not  when you are on the receiving end of 15 ballistic missiles! 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/10/us-troops-brain-injury-iran-strike-military-to-report

and we will win....way to be totally incoherent..uh ok?

P.S. His attitude that all people that do these type of things are monsters and irredeemable is probably the same attitude that pushes people down this road, some are just plain evil but one thing is true. If they don’t have the guns they can’t commit the crimes and if they try the police can handle them much more easily..The real monsters in this world are the tyrannical bullies who ruin lives and still get elected president a second term.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Plight of the Average Joe

You hear all these people crying defund the police these days and it's for only one reason, but let's take a look at the broader picture. Basically they get paid exorbitantly to target other Americans and bring charges which often times derail  their lives.. Often targets of an investigation have  thousands of tax payer dollars spent to pay people to be their worst enemy. (and believe me many of them take a personal enjoyment out of it, often dehumanizing the people they pursue) How much do you think it costs to pay hourly and to equip a DEA swat team. To roll up on some pot growers with automatic weapons and body armor.. All the luxuries of modern technology paid for by our tax payers..What defense do these "criminals" or any criminals have? The US police are equipped with state of the art, extremely expensive equipment, spend months or years of their lives making ironclad cases against people using their far superior knowledge of all the loopholes of the law to make cases which are over before the poor shmuck American citizen even gets to call a public defender, who is trying to handle many cases at once and now has to play catch up on thousands of hours of work done against his/her client to either make them look guilty when they are not or to make them look more guilty than they are. Of course they always make sure to throw enough charges at you that it is never worth the risk of going to trial. Paying 40,000 or 50,000 dollars for a good laywer to put in the time to make a good case for you is a massive financial destroyer in itself. Many times you need to pay that just to be found innocent when you are in fact 100% completely innocent! If you don't start providing financial aid (something like the medicare accepted rate) which some private attorneys could accept or funding the public defenders to do more for the people you are never going to have a fair system. You should take the funds that are granting the police the power of God over the average joe and spend them on super charging internal affairs departments and public defender offices. You should make sure public defenders are staffed well enough so that they can do their own investigations and have enough active lawyers to give the same amount of attention to each client as the prosecution and police did. Ever hear the phrase "it takes an army" Many times it is a whole gang of people trying to get you sold down the river and what one overburdened public defender to defend you? Since you are the one whose life stands to be destroyed shouldn't YOU be the one with an army of people defending you? It's not like anything bad happens to them if they lose the case. Of course making laws more fair as far as reasonable punishments and making sure the right things are illegal would help but don't hold your breath on that happenning in the way it would need to. They say going up against the feds is like trying to win against the house in Vegas but I would argue that's how it is to deal with most modern day police. There should be a public defense advocate brought in during even the first interactions with police because make no mistake about it, if that doesn't happen you are essentially allowing 2 or 3 prosecutors who can lie about anything and who can and will use abusive psychological technique on the you to end someone's chances for a fair trial often in the first ten or twenty minutes. Police shouldn't be allowed to lie at all! What kind of a freaking country do we live in! It is the most ridiculous hypocrisy that I have ever heard of that police are essentially lying their pants off and expecting the truth from you in their attempts to fashion the version of the truth from you that makes you look bad (or sometimes to fashion a total lie to make you look guilty when you aren't) The only existing person who can make your situation is a just judge and there is no guarantee you are going to get one. In fact granted the amount of bias and unprofessional personal opinion that bleeds into what our politicians and all the powers that be in our world exhibit, don't count on having a judge that will make things fair. That really depends on the luck of the draw.

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"The anti-discrimination discrimination argument”

First of all I want to get a few things out of the way..I’m not an idiot... Ok now here’s the deal...

“Black people are disproportionately the targets of police brutality and systemic racism”

Let's get one thing straight. This isn't a "hard question" People who say that are giving credibility to the deceit and half truth of it. It's a derailer statement followed by a false conclusion portrayed as fact. The falsely portrayed fact being that our country is full of systemic racism and racist police who, according to the Democrat party, make it dangerous for any black person to leave their house.

A lot of black lives matter tools will throw around the terms "disproportionate black death's by police" followed by "systemic racism" and despite the fact that you know that the picture of systemic racism is greatly over-exaggerated and that the "why" of disporportionate black deaths is a complex answer which you could spend hours on, debating all of the reasons behind that being true...and all the reasons why it doesn't make black people the only ones deserving justice.

 In our country EVERY life matters, not just black people who commit a disproportionately larger amount of violent crimes and cop killings. Every unjust death, unfair target and victim of excessive force matters...(of which I am one too, luckily, i lived to tell the tale!)..lol Just kidding! not the unjust death just the excessive force part...(hey just smack me in the head I am kind of a smartass sometimes!)

I blame the disproportionate amount of blacks killed by police on 2 things.1- The disproportionate amount of violent crimes perpetrated by the African American community and 2- on a more defiant attitude towards police than any other demographic, which has been on full display in the last few months. In my own personal experience I have been a victim of mostly black perpetrated crimes. I have never bullied or attacked or ratted out a black person in my entire life and I never will... Second is the attitude bullying defiant belligerent..a lack of respect in general..confrontational and hostile..pack.. gang mentality... which is essentially what black lives matter is..one big black power gang. They promote an attitude of blaming police and white supremacy for systemic racism, life destroying discrimination and for racistly targeting them for more police brutality than others all the while ACTUALLY ruining the lives of anyone who would dare speak out against their movement by making statements like "All Lives Matter". Well despite being a disproportionately small percentage of the population blacks also just happen to commit a disproportionately large share of cop killings..They commit disproportionately larger amounts of all violent crimes for their population than any other race. This coupled with a fostered greater cultural attitude of defiance and hostility towards the police lead to more police brutality incidents and murders. The truth of the matter is that attitude of non compliance and defiance of the police rooted in a greater failure to show any respect to police escalates sitautions like gasoline thrown on a fire when you combine it with an equally flawed police authoritarian "obey me" attitude. Black lives matter tells people who are defiant towards police that they are right to be..What society essentially did is act as an enabler to all black people who are hostile towards police and breed an entire generation of and recruit many many more to cophaters and white people haters..The attitudes towards police will certainly persist through any changes in police protocol to prevent brutality. So by making it about racism instead of about police brutality..we have taken the demographic who are the biggest part of the problem attitude wise and enabled them to be even more defiant and hostile..it won't end with good legislation..like the coronavirus this may be the new hellish normal in our country.This is why it makes me angry when people go around crying "disproportionate deaths...systemic racism..racist police" It creates an entitled beligerence that won't soon cease to color future interactions between law enforcement and african americans. By failing to define the problem as having two parties to blame. You have enabled the bad acting of one while expecting the other to exercise even more restraint and be the sole one held responsible by society. This ironically is a lot like another large group that experience disproportionate amounts of death among the white population. Mental health diagnosed people. The credible abuser blames the mental health diagnosed person, has them committed without a fair trial..forces them to be on drugs and then continues their abusive treatment of the mental health patient which has essentially been enabled by the psychiatric community. There are two sides to every story and a wise man knows that where there is a problem often both parties share the blame and both parties need to change to properly resovle the situation. That is what needs to happen with police and african american people. Both sides need to make changes.

Shockingly  HALF of police shootings involve people with mental illness! The difference in risk comparing mentally ill white to other whites is greater than the difference in risk between whites nad blacks! Many times wellness checks are called on these people and are not handled properly by police who only escalate the situation. There needs to be changes in protocol and involvement of actual mental health advocates on the scene. Police not only don't know how to handle people like this. They almost always escalate the situation. Remember this slogan...We always have more time to save a life...How many lives would be saved by slowing crisis situations down? Incorporating mental health people and a mental health advocate for the person as a first line communication and police only as a back up in dangerous scenarios.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/half-of-police-shootings-involve-people-with-mental-illness/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/black-police-officers-likely-kill-black-people/

We have data on a total of 2,699 fatal police killings for the years 2013 to 2015. This is 1,333 more killings by police than is provided by the FBI data on justifiable police homicides. When either the violent crime rate or the demographics of a city are accounted for, we find that white police officers are not significantly more likely to kill a black suspect. For the estimates where we know the race of the officer who killed the suspect, the ratio of the rate that blacks are killed by black versus white officers is large — ranging from 3 to 5 times larger. However, because the media may under report the officer’s race when black officers are involved, other results that account for the fact that a disproportionate number of the unknown race officers may be more reliable.

Bottom line with this is..how can you claim systemic racism by police when black police kill black people as often or more often than white people?!!! Another fun fact...more police officer are killed by blacks than black people are killed by police...Of course you aren't going to see a worldwide outrage over their death. After all they're only police officers who risk their lives to keep the country safe. In all likelihood these officers who are killed are not the type of bad actor police BLM movement is making the general case against (and neither are 90% of the officers involved in the high profile cases in the media today). The truth is that in cases like Jacob Blake the victim was not being profiled or targeted racistly and it was the black girlfriend allegedly being sexually assaulted who called the police after which the police treated Blake no different than a white man. The excessive amount of times he shot him was yes extremely out of line and not even 1% motivated by the cop being “racist” The cop who choked George Floyd did not do it because he had racist anger at Floyd! He was just a bad cop. Another common denominator in all these incidents is the suspect trying to taze, shoot or possibly stab the police.

The sad fact is that they are propogating an untrue narrative about these incidents and politicizing these poor people's deaths. I mean seriously! Were the officers that killed George Floyd flashing clan signs? Did the officer have any history at all of white supremacist ties? How is George Robinson's death any less important than George Floyd's? I'll tell you how..he doesnt support their sick politicizing of tragedy. The party that supports their reverse racism movement not too ironically just had a nomination event full of the same politicizing tragedy tactics.

https://thegrio.com/2020/08/16/mississippi-police-officers-charged-for-murder/

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Covid..Clinton and the Latino vote...

The amount of blame placed on Donald Trump by the Democrats for covid deaths is nothing more than a pathetic weak attempt to garner support for a weak candidate with an even weaker running mate. Donald Trump didn't have any effect on whether or not someone social distanced at a bar and of course you won't hear them say anything about the massive amounts of people who for months looted, rioted and protested breaking social distancing in a way which has rarely if ever been done in our history, because those are the people who they are appealing to in their racist social justice pandering which excludes any other people in our country who have also been killed by police..who have also been harmed in myriad other ways and discriminated against. One that comes to mind is ICE agents and latinos. It is shameful to politicize people's tragedy and it is the strategy of a weak political party to use this in an attempt to win votes. Identity politics disgust me...pandering to one minority also disgusts me. They cut Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes's speech shorter than others and had few latino politicians in general. Trump could have taken advantage of this but instead he made some comments which would be offensive to some latinos and boasted about the wall. Bad timing for that. I might have been trying to make peace with the latino community which has silently been left by the wayside by the pandering party. I think it was a blunder for Clinton to make the claim that Trump doesn't do any work in the Whitehouse. He does. Clinton couldn't be more wrong in his comparison. Trump easily has far more stamina to do the work of the president. The unspoken truth is Biden is the one who won't likely be able to keep up with the workload of president especially for all four years. Clinton knows Trump does more than just sit around watching tv and tweeting. I guess that is typical though for Democrats to falsely represent the truth. While cruel, Trump's ad showing Biden's weak moments is completely honest. It is absolutely questionable how he will hold up for all four years. That is why it was imperative that he pick a VP who was president caliber and that, Kamala Harris, is not.

[theissuesthatmatter76]

Not my kid!

Let me just emphasize something here before I go on. IT’S A PANDEMIC!

IT’S A PANDEMIC! IT’S A PANDEMIC!....get it?

Ok now that you hopefully have gotten into the right mindset to discuss this topic. Let me explain what we should do about education right now starting with the “best” zinger argument point Betsy Devos had on the subject. “Your kids are only seven once.” Ok so for a seven year old kid we have a few options in working around the next few months after which we will have a much safer shot at moving into spring classes with 1- a vaccine 2- better treatments and 3-a massive n95 mask production paid for by the government and made available by that time to all students. Ok so here are the options..we provide virtual learning online which is a small price to pay for safety..We have had ALLL summer for schools to prepare these types of programs and if you can’t take one of these classes from your school you should be able to log on to a county wide or statewide program easily..So you provide online learning and if not able to do so courses should be available live or recorded and then monitored by your teacher for this fall. The ignorance to me is mostly surrounding the permanent devastating effects of the coronavirus on survivors. We are dealing with people with damaged lungs and heart..possibly cognitive mental damage..We were all 7 once but we lived the rest of our lives not hampered by damage from an illness like coronavirus. Imagine how much worse it is for a child with their whole life ahead of them to suffer permanent damage! My kid is not taking that risk sorry!

So aside from the virtual option we have next summer and summer school as an option. At this point I feel I should also throw in one more reminder of IT’S A PANDEMIC! ok? get it? Safety first.. So save your 7 year old’s life and future and work around in person classes this fall. Colleges have no excuse it should be mandatory closing for the fall semester outside of online courses which could be widely accessible. It is a small price to pay for protecting the lives of our youth.

Lastly just let me say I am thoroughly disgusted with the fact that Trump threatened to cut federal funding to schools who didn’t open. That is the tactics of a bully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=9g8lSmjMzLQ&feature=emb_logo

If you are sending your child to a dorm situation this fall here are some HEPA/UV light filter machines that might be helpful in a small dorm room environment.

https://heavy.com/home/2020/03/uv-air-purifier/

[theissuesthatmatter76]

The Mask Conundrum...

https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-face-mask-vent-valve-cdc

Ok here is the deal..You go on amazon and you all the good n95 and n100 masks are reserved for medical personnel. You go on ebay and you can find a n95 mask with poor strapping apparatus and not so great fit which does fulfill the no filter requirement. In this hot summer and depending on how long you are going to be wearing it... where you go.if you are exercising in it....a mask with no filter like this will have you pulling it off to get much needed air faster than a surgical style mask...The best n95 official mask for you that would fulfill their requirement is only able to be bought by medical personnel..That needs to change..Right now the only good masks you can buy which protect YOU from what is out there have filters..So really what they are really saying is risk heat stroke and a n95 mask with questionable inferior fit so that you, a person who doesn’t have it...won’t spread it..You have the right to best protection and they at the very least need to start making more official n95 and n100 masks with no filter available to people so that attempting to follow their recommendations doesn’t require you to sacrifice your own level of protection...The only way doing what they recommend would be superior protection for you to having a well fitted n95 mask is if EVERYONE wore a surgical mask and even then surgical masks don’t protect the spread of it the way a valve-less n95 with a good fit would..