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Your government, EVERY government does not love you. They don't even like you. They do not give a f--k about you. They are not here to help you. They will not protect you. Government exists for the sole purpose of self perpetuation. Whatever benefit you think you receive from it is best viewed through the prism of a farmer feeding livestock. Obligated indifference because it doesn't matter if all the cows live as long as enough go to market to pay the bills. Sure the farmer brings the feed and builds the fences. But the feed is only enough to exploit you later and the fences are so the farmer can find you when the time comes to take you to the slaughterhouse. The only people in the world who will protect you and yours IS you and yours. Realize that everyone and your years reading my writing on this board will not have been ill spent!

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Heck sometimes when I see him standing at the podium behind the great seal and still think "Wow, Donald Trump is the President of the United States. How the HELL did that happen???"

We are not even paying lip service to "working from home" except on Tuesday. So 4 1/2 days pay for 1/2 day of work. Sort of like a regular week only I'm home.

Nihilism leads to cynicism. And vice versa.

It's not for everyone but some of us are doing fine!

Ever notice how the majority of my good news stories have critters in them? Here is another one: Delivery dog offers curbside wine pickup during the coronavirus lockdown

No conspiracy theory is credible to me if: It requires a high level of intelligence to conceive If it requires the cooperation of a disparate group of people to achieve. Now I WILL consider them if the theory is describing success by accident. A serendipitous blunder that comes out well despite all odds. I'd far more believe the moon landing was a botched attempt to reach Mars that got lost rather than a hoax altogether!

https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-30-china-huawei-new-ip-proposal.html https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nato-warns-new-authoritarian/ Free access to information for everyone is the bane of every government. Even the "free" ones. Especially ones like China. I think what they are proposing will be found attractive to a lot of places.

Mystery man leaves doctors, nurses in tears as he holds sign up to hospital window

Ferret and his human friend have summited Colorado's 11 highest peaks together All you need to know is the ferret has his own tent!

I just read Vinton Cerf, one of the two inventors of TCP/IP has COVID-19. From what I read it sounds like he's in bad shape. Ironic. He is being killed by a virus caused by the disgusting eating habits of a country whose government it trying to undo his greatest accomplishment. It's almost symbolic.

Good point about polarization. God help us all if they ever really started working together!

They were just mad it didn't happen while they were in control. There is more than a little totalitarian drive in the Democrat Party. A LOT more than a little. The love of liberty does not abide in them. Would by tyrants on the left, would be tyrants on the right. There are no "good guys".

When it comes to politics sooner or later a wise man just has to say screw it and wash his hands of the whole thing. Elections are meaningless when all of the candidates are idiots or otherwise damaged individuals who should never be let anywhere near a position of power. When all of the choices are bad the outcome of every contest is pre-ordained. And it ain’t a good outcome

The folks who drink Busch are more likely to be power drinkers. People who like quantity over quality. No way in hell $100 lasts three months!

A few restaurants in Palo Alto CA have banded together for a "adopt a doc or nurse" taking donations from the public to provide meals for health care workers. https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/03/29/around-town-restaurants-nonprofits-supply-food-at-a-critical-time-barron-park-comes-alive-with-the-sound-of-music

Powell's City of Books in Oregon, one of the largest indy booksellers in the US closed it's doors and laid off it's workforce. Probably for good. But thanks to a local movement that is going viral (no pun intended) they are back in business due to a surge in online orders: https://www.newser.com/story/288863/bookstore-lays-off-hundreds-during-virus-then-does-a-180.html If you want to jump on that bandwagon here is their website: https://www.powells.com/ I did. I ordered this just a few minutes ago:

Retired Coal Miner Spends His Days Planting Trees at Abandoned Mines

Student working in a drive thru gets some big news:

Watched The Tiger King on Netflix yesterday. I'd say it was surprising but having grown up and lived a fair bit of my life in Florida, nothing surprises me.

Well look who decided to class the joint up. Nice to see you again!

Jon Bon Jovi's restaurant in New Jersey has been giving out free meals to people in quarantine. He has been working there personally helping out: