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February 21, 2022

'Paper terrorism': Parents against mask mandates bombard school districts with sham legal claims

Source: NBC

Jill Griffin had a panic on her hands.

Teachers and staff members of her school district in Bethalto, Illinois, a small town outside of St. Louis, were suddenly worried that they would not be paid. They had seen videos posted online in which a parent who objected to the district’s Covid mask mandate said that she had filed a claim against the district’s insurance, causing the schools to lose all federal funding.

Griffin, the Bethalto schools superintendent, has spent weeks dealing with the fallout.

“You have district officials who are spending time on things like this, rather than on what we need to be spending time on — making sure that our classrooms are covered right now in the middle of a pandemic,” Griffin said.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/paper-terrorism-parents-against-mask-122100746.html

February 16, 2022

In warning to U.S., COVID rates soar after Denmark lifts all restrictions

Source: Yahoo via AOL News

At the beginning of February, Denmark became the first major country to lift the last of its COVID-19 restrictions and effectively declare its part in the pandemic over.

Around the world, and especially in the United States, Denmark’s “liberation” from indoor mask mandates, vaccine passports and nightclub closures was heralded as a watershed moment — the shape of things to come. Democratic governors across the U.S. started rescinding their own mask rules a few days later.

“This marks the transition to a new era for all of us, because Denmark will once again be an open society, completely open,” said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. “We dare to believe that we are now through the critical phase."

Since then, however, Denmark has continued to record more COVID-19 cases per capita than nearly anywhere else in the world, and both COVID hospitalizations and deaths have shot up by about a third.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/warning-u-covid-rates-soar-183342110.html



Wow . . . talk about an entirely predictable result.
February 16, 2022

My children's movie screenplay just won its 9th award

It's in the Top 15!!!



At an unnamed elementary in the mountains of New York, Clyde Gambol is an outcast; his teachers don’t like him, his parents don’t understand him, the principal wants to get rid of him, and his classmates bully him without mercy. To deal with his life, he escapes into his own little world where he is king. His parents think he he needs a friend, but since his classmates don’t like him, they decide to buy him a Newfoundland dog, which Clyde falls in love with instantly. He names the dog Bear.

As Bear adjusts, he develops the ability to talk to Clyde when they are alone and no one else is around. Only Clyde can hear him. Together, they have grand adventures through Clyde’s imagination which only strengthens the bond of friendship between the two.

Conflicts arise as bullies begin to bully Clyde outside of school, leading Bear to defend and attack the bullies. Bear is taken by the police and a hearing is set to determine Bear’s danger to the community as well as whether it should be put down for attacking a human. This destroys Clyde, but his problems are made worse when the principal tries to punish him for Bear’s actions, exposing the principal’s motives in his treatment towards Clyde. Clyde runs away, but is found and, while his parents finally begin to understand him, the principal starts an expulsion hearing for truancy.

Both hearings, because of flips by a few accusers, goes Clyde’s favor. While celebrating with Bear, Bear begins to feel his strength wane as well as complaining about being in constant pain. On another grand adventure, Bear’s change in health gets worse. The vet diagnoses hip-dysplasia and since the dog is so big, surgery is out of the question.

Clyde deals with this the only way he knows how. . .he avoids it by entering his own world, this time without Bear. Bear feels the abandonment and slips into a depression. As the disease progresses, Bear tries to join Clyde, but slips down the steps and breaks his hip. Now, in a critical position, the family must decide whether to put down Bear or not.

Clyde, while listening to his parents' discussions over Bear's future, goes to pieces one night, begging his parents not to kill his dog and spending the night talking with and apologizing to Bear for ignoring him. Bear forgives him.

The next morning, the parents still discuss Bear’s future, with the idea that they are leaning towards putting Bear down since they do not have the resources for the medical care Bear now requires and knowing Bear is in agonizing, excruciating pain.

Clyde spends the day with Bear, playing games as Bear sits, watching him, wishing he could join his best friend.

In the afternoon, Clyde goes out to meet the one friend from class he has made over this time, but stops and puts the leash on Bear. They meet the classmate, then go to the hilltop where they had all their adventures and, as the day ends, to watch the sunset. Clyde puts his arms around Bear and tells Bear that he is Clyde’s best friend in the world. Bear turns and starts licking Clyde’s face as the two watch the sunset together, possibly for the final time.
February 14, 2022

second valentine's day away from my wife.

Talked to her last night on wechat.

She was sobbing, saying how even seeing her parents together makes her unhappy. She kept saying she can't deal with this any longer. She sounded different, like the strain of all of it is about to make her crack.

Thank you, US Government, for keeping my wife and I separated. Thank you for all the heartache and misery you caused. Thank you for everything

Machiavelli stated that to get a man to hate you, you hurt his property or his wife.

February 14, 2022

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says a Trump statement that suggested the execution of former Hillary Clinton ca

Source: MSN

Full Headline: GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says a Trump statement that suggested the execution of former Hillary Clinton campaign aides was 'right on target'

Trump reacted to a report saying the Clinton campaign hired a firm to access Trump Tower servers.
The former president said the allegations were crimes that "would have been punishable by death."
Jim Jordan echoed Trump's talking points, saying his statement was "right on target."

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said former President Donald Trump's statement in which he suggested executing Hillary Clinton campaign aides was "right on target" on Sunday.

Jordan, a staunch Trump ally, was reacting to the 45th president's Saturday statement on a new court filing by the special counsel John Durham, reported by Fox News.

The filing said that former aides to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign paid a tech company to access servers belonging to Trump Tower and afterward the Trump White House in an effort to find links to Russia.

In his Saturday statement, Trump said the filing "provides indisputable evidence" that the Clinton team spied on his campaign and presidency "in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-jim-jordan-says-a-trump-statement-that-suggested-the-execution-of-former-hillary-clinton-campaign-aides-was-right-on-target/ar-AATPzTf?ocid=msedgntp



Again, remind me why we aren't at the beginning stages of civil war?
February 12, 2022

Sorry. . .I can't call these peons in Canada "protestors" as the media calls them

This is, if you read history, the first step towards a revolution/civil war.

It starts with a small "demonstration" and will balloon.

Ladies and gentlemen, if it happens here, we are in our second civil war. Canada is now in civil war.

Laying siege to a city, either with guns or what they are doing, IS an act of war.

February 11, 2022

45 more teaching days until I head to LA. I'm not counting them down

I have to spent a week in LA to do the COVID19 PCR seven day test, and the two day PCR-antibody test in LA. This is a travel to China requirement by the Chinese government.

I am completely fully vaccinated, but China only accepts their vaccines and not outside China vaccines.

110 days before I'm back with my wife.

February 11, 2022

Ukraine - The Country That Defied Vladimir Putin



Long video, but it shows how the traditional whipping boy of Russia (including the Stalin created war crime Holomodor) has stood up to the psychopath in the Kremlin.

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Name: Aram Katz
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Hometown: Sullivan County, NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Phuket, Thailand
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Demoralized, depressed, and destroyed by American immigration law written and pushed for in 1952 by two xenophobes determined to keep people out at the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
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