California regime joins its comrades on other side of the Pacific

As California’s dictator is given kudos in the mainstream media for its “wise efforts” to reopen after the COVID-19 Panic Lockdown, it appears to all be “Pie in the Sky By and By.”

Supposedly beaches are to be open on Monday (the 27th) to limited use: you can swim, wade, run, surf, etc. but you won’t be able to just sit or lay on the beach. No sunning. Even so, apparently a lot of people went to the beach yesterday (Saturday, 25th April 2020). It seems (reported by WND and The Blaze) that at least three got arrested for staging an “illegal protest” which violated the dictator’s decrees.

Perhaps the police were afraid that these men and those with them were seeking to flee across the water to a country with more freedom than California now enjoys? Escapees are always harshly punished by totalitarian regimes, as we see even today in North Korea and China. Which California more and more resembles.

Of course, where will they go? Hawai’i is locked down worse than Californa (and its a long ways there). Oregon and Washington State and British Columbia and Alaska are also locked down to some degree. Mexico sure doesn’t want any Norte Americano Yanquis coming down to infect them.

Maybe they’d have done better to go north and east to the rebellious counties of Nevada (as I understand, everything outside of Clark County and the Reno-Sparks-Tahoe area). Or maybe some parts of Arizona (but don’t try the Navajo Nation, which is still on its latest 57-hour mandatory curfew this weekend). If you can get to some parts of Utah, you might find both freedom and welcome, but be careful.

You’d find yourself welcome in Wyoming, perhaps, as long as you hide that you are from California. The people there aren’t very tolerant of Californians even in good times, but they DO welcome refugees from the police state of the People’s Republic.

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Biggest victims of the novel Coronavirus: #2 is the economy

Not jut the American economy, but the world economy, has been severely damaged by the Pandemic Panic. Not the virus or the disease itself, but the reaction to it. Severely damaged and even destroyed.

Cars lined up at a Dallas food bank in a 2020 “bread line”

In the Fifty States right now, the riders of doom are proclaiming that famine is upon us. As eggs, milk, chicken, hogs, and apparently even cattle are being destroyed because the food processing and supply chain is broken, we are warned it might be months before something can be done to fully restore it. Even if the Lockdown ends this weekend. More and more Americans (26 million + as of this week; more than 20 million new in April so far) are out of work. The number grows by the hundreds of thousands each day.

But the rest of the world is in no better shape.

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Mandatory masks? Here’s an idea…

V for Vendetta Mask Anonymous Guy Fawkes Fancy Dress Adult ...

More and more states and counties and localities are MANDATING the wearing of facemasks to “protect the public health” from the evil, deadly, and hyped COVID-19 pandemic. As they continue to panic, many are criminalizing the failure to wear masks. The risks are fines (up to $5,000) and jail (up to a year). And of course (especially if you forgot to pay a parking ticket and your name shows up on their rat-computer), the risk of getting beaten, sodomized with a night-stick, or shot to death by the cops. (Who will gladly call the EMTs and stand around while you bleed out before they get there.)

So, why not “obey the law” AND twit the thugs and their authoritarian bosses at the same time? You CAN do that, with a Guy Fawkes mask (from V for Vendetta fame). They are perfect for everyday wear right now, and the stores (and maybe even the banks!) are less likely to get hyper about it. To say nothing of the people out on the street, hiding behind their own masks.

You can even make them as close to a “COVID-19” mask as what we are seeing on the street, by adding blue shop paper towels, a cutdown vacuum filter (or even coffee filter) or micro-fiber cloth into the lower part of the mask in the nose and mouth holes. (There are numerous ways to get a partially air seal and to protect your eyes.)

It makes a MUCH better political statement that shouts out FREEDOM! And certainly better than the statement that Nancy Pelosi, bless her shriveled little heart and blood-dripping hands, does with HER Highwayman/Bandit mask:

(Doesn’t that nice whit triangle make a great target? For a nice sloppy whipped cream pie?
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Biggest victims of the novel Coronavirus: #1 is liberty

The Panic-induced Lockdown to “prevent the spread” of COVID-19 across the nation is already revealed as a sham. Except for a few massive hotspots like Greater New York and New Orleans, the hospital system has not been overwhelmed (and even in those places, there are questions). The Lockdown isn’t preventing deaths – just “flattening the curve” (supposedly) to spread out the deaths over time. What the Lockdown IS doing is killing freedom and getting people killed by other people, not disease.

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Pushing harder – elite want more power for international organizations like WHO

The track record of international organizations has always been bad. The COVID-19 pandemic panic has blackened that already poor reputation.

The European Union is collapsing before our eyes as the countries locked down, returned the border guards to their little sentry boxes, and cut off not just immigration but ALL travel. And each forged their own way to deal with the deadly plague.

The UN has done absolutely nothing except continue to be a joke.

But the organization which has not just fallen into the gutter but rolled in it is the World Health Organization.

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Trashing every part of the First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

First Amendment to the US Constitution

There are six aspects to this Article of the Bill of Rights.

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If I pay you enough, will you take my oil?

I admit that I have never completely understood the futures market in commodities, much less the entire derivatives system. But it was a negligent discharge this week.


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Unintended consquences? COVID-19 brings out people’s true beliefs

Thoughts shared by a retired newspaper publisher and Great Plains farm wife:

Evidently, its taking a pandemic to bring out people’s true beliefs.

Politicians are fighting each other, citizens are losing their livelihoods, numbers of coronavirus victims are questioned, some nursing homes have become “death pits”, anxiety and stress are ruling some people’s days, and the blame game is being waged full force. We almost behave like rats fighting over a single piece of meat.

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Smile – even Beer Flu (COVID-19) has us punning and joking

We need a break, so here are some cute things to share from a friend and reader, Margaret:

Here is some fun to consider:

Pollution levels dropping at record-breaking rates, fewer cars on the roads, fewer cruise ships in our seas and fewer planes in the sky. Same number of cows.

If you are a hair stylist, sleep now – cuz when its all over, you better have your doors open 24/7 for the number of un-groomed, boxed hair dyed and home-cut dos you’ll have to fix.

Nothing should go back to normal. Normal wasn’t working. If we go back to the way things were, we will have lost the lesson. May we rise up and do better.

I have never been so thankful to be low maintenance. No nails, no lashes, no crazy hair upkeep, no tanning, no Botox. I’ll just be the same mess coming out of all this as I was going in!

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Lockdown Rebellion spreads

As discussed in previous commentaries, there is growing evidence that this time, American governments may have pushed too hard.

Even while there are those who tout their “conservative” credentials and demonstrate their fear of illness and the ability of others to be responsible. People who espouse that we can “give up individual liberty” to “fight a war” against coronavirus.

More and more people are NOT buying that.

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