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Iran Admits Crisis

sunbeam March 18, 2020 Comments Off

Events continue to move rapidly in connection with the current pandemic. After Iran’s leaders denied over and over that any kind of a problem existed with the Wuhan virus in their country, on Tuesday Iranian state TV journalist, Dr. Afruz Eslami, offered three scenarios going forward. Iran has now dramatically reversed course and is admitting a crisis of monumental proportions.

First, based on a study by Sharif University of Technology (Tehran), Eslami said that if people fully cooperate with the Ministry of Health’s protocols, Iran may be able to limit the number of infections to 120,000 with 12,000 deaths before the outbreak ends. Elsami is depicting this as the BEST CASE SCENARIO for Iran. Of course, she is saying this after angry crowds stormed into the courtyards of Mashhad’s Imam Reza shrine and Qom’s Fatima Masumeh shrine. Crowds typically pray there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, touching and kissing the shrine. Roughly 90% of all cases in the Middle East are centered in Iran.

Media Bias Reaches New Low

sunbeam March 17, 2020 Comments Off

While I have talked numerous times here about media bias, I am still astounded occasionally by the new lows that so called “unbiased” media personalities will stoop to in order to disparage PDJT. Last week after the President’s address to the country, Lawrence O’Donnell of the flailing MSNBC network (how many viewers have they lost in the last three years?) reached a new low water mark.

This says a lot considering that once again PDJT was called a racist and a xenophobe by many media types over on the far left for calling the Wuhan virus a foreign virus. This ignores the fact that it is common practice to associate new diseases with the site of its first major outbreak. Examples include the West Nile Virus, Guinea Worm, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Lyme Disease, Ross River Fever, Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Valley Fever, German Measles and Spanish Flu.

Decency & Dignity

sunbeam March 16, 2020 Comments Off

If there is one thing that characterizes Joe Biden, it’s his ability to say black is white, night is day with complete aplomb. Hours after an angry Biden had told a union worker “you’re full of s—,“ Biden was preaching a message of unity and dignity in Philadelphia.

“Tonight we are a step closer to restoring decency, dignity and honor to the White House,” Biden said. Really?!

The union worker in question had asked Biden about his plan to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens. Just the day before Biden had been quite outspoken about having Beto O’Rourke as his gun confiscation czar. The Trump team was quick to capitalize on this with the ad below.

Hugging

sunbeam March 14, 2020 Comments Off

Hugging is healthy.
It helps the body’s immune system.
It cures depression.
It reduces stress.
It’s rejuvenating.
It has no unpleasant side effects.
It is God’s miracle drug!
It is all natural, it contains no chemicals, artificial ingredients, no pesticides, and no preservatives!
Hugging is practically perfect.
There are no parts to break down, no monthly payments, non-taxable, non-polluting, and of course… It’s fully returnable!

Here are your hugs for the day!

CNN Proves Their Idiocy Again

sunbeam March 13, 2020 Comments Off

CNN has proven again and again just how much they hate PDJT and the Republicans. CNN hyped the Russian Collusion narrative for more than two years only to have it blow up in their face. Their efforts during the impeachment scam the Democrats tried were directed not at uncovering the truth but simply to get PDJT out of office by any means necessary.

CNN is now on to their next attempt to paint PDJT and the Republicans as evil people. The latest attempt is to try to frame the use of the term “Wuhan virus” or “foreign virus” or “Chinese corona virus” as being racist or xenophobic. Chris Cuomo led the attack.

A Good And Decent Man

sunbeam March 12, 2020 Comments Off

Joe Biden appears to have some momentum as he is slowly increasing his delegate lead over Bernie Sanders. The chances that he can get sufficient delegates to win on the first ballot are going up. The DNC has coalesced around Biden and removed any impediments. All of those who might have siphoned votes away from Biden have been sidelined.

CrowdStrike Runs For The Hills

sunbeam March 11, 2020 Comments Off

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a cybersecurity technology company based in Sunnyvale, California. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company has been involved in investigations of several high profile cyberattacks, including the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak, and the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks.

CrowdStrike was part of the narrative that Russians had colluded with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. This was a result of the supposed hack of the DNC computers by the Russians. This conclusion was reached by CrowdStrike without the FBI or any other US law enforcement agency being allowed to review computers, servers, server logs, etc. CNN was in the forefront of reporting that the DNC had declined requests from the FBI to review its computer services.

The denial of access was reported on various media sites on both sides of the aisle. These included The Hill, CBS News, Washington Times, CNN and RedState.

With all this in mind, why is CrowdStrike trying to back away from this narrative now? That narrative is that CrowdStrike reported the results of their investigation to be Russian links to the hack of the DNC servers.

COVID-19 Common Sense Precautions

sunbeam March 10, 2020 Comments Off

Panic has been oversold in the media right now. If you have high risk factors, then self-quarantine or limit your exposure to the public.

Following are common sense recommendations to reduce your chances of contracting COVID-19. These are simple precautions that can be taken to mitigate any potential exposure.

Great Numbers

sunbeam March 9, 2020 Comments Off

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the February jobs report last week that showed 273,000 jobs added in February. This shattered the experts’ predictions that were expecting 175,000. At the same time the BLS updated January and Decembers numbers to reflect 85,000 more jobs than previously reported.

These revisions are an interesting sidelight of the business of reporting labor numbers. The initial numbers due reflect some incompleteness in the reporting so the updates are always instructive. During the Obama administration there were updates on both sides of the ledger. That is, a few months saw increases. Most saw decreases. During the Trump administration the updates have always shown underreporting during the initial release of the numbers. I wonder why that is.

Mike Huckabee

sunbeam March 7, 2020 Comments Off

A good and somewhat humorous talk on personal responsibility by Mike Huckabee.