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October 31, 2020

Anyone else vote for ......SATAN?

COME AGAIN? Glenn Beck: A prophetic dream told me that 2020 election is a battle against ‘Satan himself’

https://deadstate.org/glenn-beck-a-prophetic-dream-told-me-that-2020-election-is-a-battle-against-satan-himself/

During a Thursday episode on Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel network, Glenn Beck claimed to have had a “terrifying” prophetic dream several years ago that revealed to him the supernatural stakes in the 2020 election.

According to Beck, the dream was so frightening that he hasn’t told anyone. He says he later had the same dream, where an unnamed religious leader called Beck and asked to meet with him. In the dream, Beck gets on a plane and meets the religious leader, who told him, “Sometimes the Lord speaks to us in dreams. … And you know exactly what I’m talking about.”

“All of a sudden it took on a completely new meaning,” Beck said. “I just warn you that we are in a spiritual battle against evil unleashed. We are not fighting the Democrats; we are fighting Satan himself.”

October 31, 2020

What undecided voters look like.

6:27 but you get the gist of it pretty quick

October 30, 2020

Clemson's QB Trevor Lawrence tests positive for COVID. D.J. Uiagalelei likely starter at QB

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30219908/trevor-lawrence-positive-covid-19-miss-boston-college-clemson

"Trevor has authorized us this evening to announce that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now in isolation," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said in a statement Thursday night. "He is doing well with mild symptoms but will not be available for this week's game against Boston College.

The rules established by the ACC's medical advisory group require anyone testing positive for COVID-19 to isolate for at least 10 days after the test before returning to practice, assuming they no longer are showing symptoms. That would also put Lawrence at risk for missing the Nov. 7 showdown with No. 4 Notre Dame.



While Lawrence has never missed a start for Clemson since taking over the offense in September 2018, he did go down with an injury in the first half of his first start against Syracuse that year. Chase Brice came on in relief and led a fourth-quarter comeback that preserved the Tigers' perfect record, and Clemson went on to win the national championship.

Brice is now the starter at Duke after transferring this offseason. That likely leaves true freshman D.J. Uiagalelei as the presumed starter for the Tigers. Uiagalelei has seen limited action, completing 12-of-19 passes for 102 yards with two rushing touchdowns. He was the No. 1 overall QB recruit in the country for 2020.
October 29, 2020

*burp* Kavanaugh has to correct his opinion on Wisconsin ballot counting.

Kavanaugh Fixes Error in Election Opinion After Vermont Complaint

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh made a correction to a concurring opinion after Vermont officials pointed out that he mistakenly said the state had not changed its election rules.

Though not unheard-of, such revisions are rare, experts said, adding that Justice Kavanaugh’s change highlighted the court’s fast pace in handling recent challenges to voting rules.

In the opinion, which was issued on Monday and alarmed Democrats worried about mail ballots being counted, Justice Kavanaugh wrote that while some states had changed their rules around voting in response to the pandemic, others had not.

“States such as Vermont, by contrast, have decided not to make changes to their ordinary election rules, including to the election-day deadline for receipt of absentee ballots,” he wrote in his original concurring opinion, which was attached to the 5-to-3 ruling against the deadline extension in Wisconsin.

On Wednesday, two days after the ruling, he (Vermont’s secretary of state, Jim Condos) wrote to Scott S. Harris, the clerk of the court, and said Vermont had made two key changes this year: All active, registered voters had received a ballot and a prepaid envelope, and election officials were authorized to start processing the ballots in the 30 days leading up to Election Day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-vermont.html

October 29, 2020

Chris Christie Makes Cameo Video For Montana Democrat (By Mistake)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/style/chris-christie-cameo-montana.html


The former New Jersey governor is the latest Republican politician to be tricked into making a video for the opposing party.

Mr. Christie is one of many of Mr. Trump’s current and former associates available for hire on Cameo, an app that allows users to commission personalized videos from minor — and increasingly major — celebrities.

The video, which cost $200, was framed as a jovial message to a person named Greg, who Mr. Christie was prompted to encourage to return to New Jersey, Greg’s former home.

What Mr. Christie did not know was that the video was meant for Greg Gianforte, the Republican nominee in Montana’s governor’s race. It was commissioned by the campaign of Mr. Gianforte’s opponent, Mike Cooney.

https://twitter.com/cooneyformt/status/1321799445571317760?s=21

The idea to prank Mr. Christie originated with Mr. Cooney’s campaign manager, Brad Elkins, who spotted the former governor on Cameo. The move was meant to emphasize a message that Mr. Cooney’s campaign has been pushing: that Mr. Gianforte — who was born in California and spent his early adulthood in New Jersey — is an outsider, with outsider values.

“It’s been a fun day,” said Matt Fidel, a campaign spokesman.
October 29, 2020

Washington Posts 3 part documentary Pandemic - Clinton & W - Obama - Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/administrations-pandemic-documentary/

Part 1 Fair Warning 20:30
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush never faced a pandemic, but both came to understand what a major global health crisis could mean for the United States, and each took steps to prepare. Through interviews with former high-ranking officials — including Kenneth Bernard, Tommy Thompson, Mike Leavitt and Frances Townsend — ‘Fair warning’ documents Clinton’s creation of the Strategic National Stockpile in 1999, Bush’s response to outbreaks of SARS and avian flu, and the passage of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act in 2006, which fast-tracked the production of future vaccines.

Part 2 Guided by Science 15:40
President Barack Obama put pandemic preparedness to the side upon taking office, focusing instead on an economy in free fall. But the 2009 outbreak of H1N1, the first flu pandemic in 40 years, made health security an urgent priority for his administration; later, it would confront the emergence of Ebola in West Africa. Through interviews with former top officials — including Dennis Carroll, Nicole Lurie, Ron Klain and Chris Kirchhoff — ‘Guided by the science’ portrays a White House that quickly gained critical expertise and that left behind a pandemic playbook for the next administration to draw upon.

Part 3 Playing it Down 41:09
Despite decades of warnings and preparation, President Trump has claimed that the novel coronavirus “came out of nowhere.” He downplayed the coronavirus as it began to take hold in the United States, disregarding the advice of experts and politicizing a health crisis. Through interviews with former Trump administration officials Mark Harvey and Olivia Troye, along with Washington Post reporters Dan Balz and Yasmeen Abutaleb, ‘Playing it down’ explores why the White House was slow to respond to the pandemic, and the far-reaching consequences of its inaction. After months of mixed messages, contradictory policies, divisive rhetoric — and more than 225,000 deaths — the president continues to insist the virus will one day disappear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/administrations-pandemic-documentary/
October 25, 2020

60 Minutes should start in about 5 minutes

The no one cares Charger and Jaguars game should be over soon.

October 25, 2020

So I made a note at some point this year about "frog slippers"

In regards to my wife. I don’t know what it means. I asked her and the little one - no one knows what it means.

Well.

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