Bitcoin Since 2015 Chart

 

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If anyone is worried about the price of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies in this current bearish atmosphere let this chart reassure you about Bitcoin price direction. The chart looks the same for many other cryptocurrencies as well. Don't let the FUD get you down. The chart removes the intervening highs (volatility) to emphasize price direction. Bitcoin (after rising 18,000 percent since 2015) is still sitting pretty and still works as a longer term investment (not investment advice).

 

And here's Ethereum!

 

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Prices from coinmarketcap.com

Check out: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin Mining: A Cryptocurrency Tutorial

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Cryptocurrency Price vs. Usefulness

Bitcoin ($56,000 on 4/7/2021) is an asset more than it is a currency, though it is a currency too, it's just that its high fees and slow transaction times limit its use as a currency (for instance, you wouldn't want to buy coffee with it, but you'd not hesitate to buy a Tesla with it). Because it is an asset and viewed by more and more people as a safe haven asset, it makes sense that its price would be high and track higher (due to limited supply). But if you look at most other cryptocurrencies you'll see that they were not created to be investments, they were created to be useable currencies for one function or another. BAT is a currency used by the Brave browser, LBRY coins are used on the video streaming site LBRY and Odysee, Filecoin is used in the Filecoin distributed storage ecosystem, and there are many more examples. 

Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Monero, Nano, and Digibyte are cryptocurrencies which are meant to enable cheap and fast transactions person to person, they are not intended as investment vehicles and do not need to be priced at hundreds of dollars per coin to work well. As an example, look at Digibyte which is $0.08 per coin today and functions well as a person to person payment option. 

Monero will function just as well as Digibyte as a payment option but the price of one Monero is $267 per coin today. The higher price is a function of the relative scarcity of the coin and the increased amount of usage which Monero has. But, the bottom line is that it will cost you about the same to send $20 with either coin, almost nothing, and transact just as quickly. So as far as usability is concerned, it doesn't matter what the price of a cryptocurrency is, you can still get 20 bucks worth of whatever coin you want to use and send it to your friends.

My point is, don't disregard the usability of a cryptocurrency based on low price and don't give too much regard to a cryptocurrency's usefulness based on a high price. 

 

Check out: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin Mining: A Cryptocurrency Tutorial

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Baseball shoots itself in foot.

And to think I was 5 minutes away from subscribing to MLB Season Pass for 2021. Now it's no baseball at all for 2021.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/former-president-trump-comments-major-league-baseball-pulling-all

Bitcoin = Lambo

 

 

Bitcoin is a Lambo with a 4-cylinder engine. It looks good in my garage, it may hold its value or increase in value, but I'm not going to race it or even drive it. 

 

#increasetheblocksize 🧡🧡🧡🧡

 

How Does Bitcoin Network Difficulty Affect Mining Profits?

Bitcoin network difficulty exists to make it more difficult to solve a block on the Bitcoin network so that the rate of block solving stays at around 10 minutes per block. But network difficulty doesn't just make it more difficult just for you, it makes it more difficult for everyone equally over the network. Over time rising difficulty has had the effect of obsoleting many generations of Bitcoin mining machines. The reason for this obsolescence is not that the machines no longer work but that they become much too expensive to run in terms of energy costs per Bitcoin retrieved. If you had free energy, then any Bitcoin miner can contribute shares to a pool and rake in some free Bitcoin, but not many people have access to free energy.

Bitcoin network difficulty also has the effect, when solo mining, of making it nearly impossible for older Bitcoin mining machines to ever solve a Bitcoin block except in a lottery-like fashion where 1-in-a-billion may do so. Even for the latest generation Bitcoin miners, solo mining a Bitcoin block is difficult because of the hundreds of thousands of late model Bitcoin mining machines competing at the same time to solve a block. But if you hope to solve a block while solo mining for Bitcoin you had better have the latest machines with the latest chips or you are just playing the lottery.

Bitcoin network difficulty affects pool mining a little bit differently. When you are mining in a pool, your Bitcoin mining machines never (!) have to solve a block to get paid, they just have to contribute shares to the mining that is going on at the pool. The more shares your miner contributes, the more share of the reward you get when someone in the mining pool solves the block. So to look at it simplistically, if there are 100 miners in the pool and they are all mining at the same rate, each miner will get paid the same amount when one of the miners solves a block. The network difficulty is not going to lower your share or the payout as long as someone in the pool can still solve a block. An increased network difficulty will make it more difficult to solve a block, yes, but it is more difficult for everyone at EVERY mining pool. Again, this favors (or biases) Bitcoin block production towards the newest, fastest Bitcoin miners. So, if you have a pool with 10,000 terahash of mining power and they are all Antminer S9s and you have a pool with 10,000 terahash of Antminer S19s, the pool with the S19s is going to solve most of the blocks because those are the latest/fastest miners. You can check blockchair.com and see which mining pools are solving the most blocks and assume that they are composed of the latest machines. If you want more frequent payouts you could sign up to mine with that pool. More frequent payouts will probaby result in smaller payouts. More hashpower and more miners on a pool result in smaller payouts.

So in conclusion, Bitcoin network difficulty will result in less chances of solving a block when solo mining but have little effect when you are mining in a pool since everyone is subject to the mining difficulty increase. Also, don't mine at a pool where all the miners are using older equipment because they will find blocks much less frequently.

Happy mining, happy HODLing.

Check out: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin Mining: A Cryptocurrency Tutorial

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Rush Passes February 17, 2021

Rush Limbaugh has passed on February 17, 2021 from lung cancer. In the past he had been an avid smoker of cigarettes and cigars, and though he had quit the cigarettes some years ago, he still had the occasional cigar until shortly before his cancer diagnosis. He had been having chemotherapy, which had extended his time with us by many months and for which his listeners are grateful. He was 70 years old.

Thank you, Rush Limbaugh for your words of wisdom over the years and for being a guiding light to me and many others in the conservative movement. You were indeed the voice of conservatism and the right for many years. You will be truly and sorely missed here on Earth but you will be welcomed with much love into your next phase of life. 

 

President Trump's Web Presence

If you want to see a real president's Whitehouse website check out this archived version of the Trump administration's Whitehouse website. It will remind you of his accomplishments and has many pictures and videos as well.

 

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/

The Truth About the COVID-19 Vaccine, Featuring Dr. Simone Gold, of America's Frontline Doctors

The Truth About the Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine, 

Featuring Dr. Simone Gold, of America's Frontline Doctors

 

This video is well worth the time it takes to watch it. The doctor presents plenty of facts, raises questions and especially questions whether healthy women who ever want to have children should take this experimental vaccine due to possible effects on the placenta and whether otherwise healthy individuals want to expose themselves to the potential of a cytokine storm* should they be exposed to COVID-19 after having this experimental vaccine.

*A cytokine storm, also called hypercytokinemia, is a physiological reaction in humans and other animals in which the innate immune system causes an uncontrolled and excessive release of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules called cytokines. Normally, cytokines are part of the body's immune response to infection, but their sudden release in large quantities can cause multisystem organ failure and death. (Wikipedia)

 

 

https://rumble.com/vd3aur-dr-simone-gold-the-truth-about-the-covid-19-vaccine.html 

  

Do you want to fly without being forced to take an experimental vaccine? Do you want to go to your job without being forced to take an experimental vaccine?
Help stop forced experimental vaccines. These are not time-tested flu or measles vaccines. They are still experimental. Sign the petition below.

 

stopmedicaldiscrimination.org 

Hate for President Trump Fails to Convict

On Saturday, February 13, 2021, the United States Senate did not find enough votes to convict President Trump of the alleged charge against him in the farcical impeachment trial which accused him of causing rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. 66 votes "for" would have been required to convict. 

Despite the fact that in this second impeachment there was again no evidence that President Trump did anything wrong, 7 Republicans, 48 Democrats and 2 Independents voted, not based on evidence, but on party affiliation, hate for Trump, or delusion. Forget the fact that the impeachment of a former president is unconstitutional by itself, but these 57 hooligans debased their offices, debased the U.S. Senate, and destroyed the representative trust placed in them by the citizenry of this country by voting to convict someone of wrongdoing when the evidence suggested otherwise. This impeachment was simply founded in hate for a man who was successful in his job where they and others in his position have failed constantly and repeatedly.

Question: Guilty or Not Guilty (Article of Impeachment Against "Former" President Donald John Trump )
Vote Date: February 13, 2021, 03:39 PM

For future reference, I will list here those Senators who voted to convict in the hopes that voters will remember these names and never allow them near the Senate again. 

Mitt Romney of Utah
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Ben Sasse Nebraska
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Susan Collins of Maine
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Richard Burr of North Carolina

Trusty RINOs Vote for Impeachment Trial to Move Forward

It is no surprise that all the Democrats would vote the way they did since they are used to acting without regard to the U.S. Constitution, but joining in the disregard for the Constitution were the usual RINO, weak-kneed, anti-patriot, anti-conservative, anti-Trump Republicans who also voted with the Dems that a Senate impeachment trial should move forward. An impeachment which is meant to remove a sitting office-holder from office. Sort of like firing someone from a job that they already quit. But "Let's heal the country."

 

Question: On the Motion (Is Former President Donald John Trump Subject to a Court of Impeachment for Acts Committed While President?)  Vote Date: February 9, 2021, 05:01 PM

 

As if we need any reminder about who these fake Senate Republicans (or fake conservatives) are, I hope that the people listed here will not be forgotten and will be primaried out of office on their next run. 

Susan Collins of Maine 

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana

Joe Manchin of West Virginia (a Dem who pretends to be conservative)

Mitt Romney of Utah and/or Massachusetts

Ben Sasse of Nebraska

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

RINO = Republican in name only, in case you didn't know

Stolen Elections Have Consequences

 

Central American Caravan of Migrants 2018

Coming soon to a border near you.

Supreme Court Must Not Allow Impeachment Trial

The Supreme Court of the United States needs to step out and say that impeaching a former president (a private citizen) is unconstitutional and put a stop to this constitutional erosion that is taking place. It is their constitutional duty to do this. Additionally, betrayer Mitch McConnell and every other Senator (of any party) should also know that it is unconstitutional and should say so if they care about the U.S. Constitution which they took an oath to preserve and protect.

Unfortunately, the swamp is pervasive in D.C., and the actors there don't mind eroding the Constitution if it can hurt President Trump.

List of Anti-Liberty Companies

The following is a list of corporations who have de-platformed President Trump and many other conservatives or Trump's supporters. Many of these companies have said they won't support candidates who questioned the fraudulent election results. HSBC has stated that you may be debanked if you don't wear a mask in their bank. Remember these companies when you are about to make a purchase and choose a nonbiased company when possible. You and I can grow this list together! Please help by commenting below with the names of other Companies who have shown their political liberalism and/or their intolerance of free speech and liberty.

 

AirBnB

Amazon (anti-free speech vs. Parler)

American Express

Apple

Bank of America

Banks United (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Bed, Bath & Beyond

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Coca Cola (requires law firms who work for it to have certain racial makeup; employee training asks employees to be less white - i.e., racism)

Comcast 

Deutsche Bank (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Disney (fired Gina Carano for a truthful social media post)

Gina Carano

Facebook (anti-free speech, cancelled President Trump's and other conservative accounts)

GoDaddy

Google (influences search algorithm to be pro-Democrat)

Hallmark

HSBC

Instagram (anti-free speech)

Kohls

Loews Hotels

Mailchimp

Marriott

MasterCard

Morgan Stanley

PGA (cancelled President Trump's golf course from having a PGA event)

Professional Bank (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Reddit

Signature Bank (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Simon & Schuster (cancelled Senator Josh Hawley book)

Snapchat 

Spotify

Stripe (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Square

Twitter (muzzled and cancelled President Trump's accounts)

WhatsApp

YouTube (anti-free speech)

Updated 2/22/2021

List of Republicans Who Have Betrayed MAGA

The following is a list of Republicans who did not side with President Trump for election integrity or who have subsequent to January 6 "stabbed" President Trump in the back. Remember these names when the next election for them arrives or they ask you to buy their book or watch their movie. They will not be welcome in the new Patriot Party (should there be one). You and I can grow this list together! Please help by commenting below with the names of other Republicans who have undercut President Trump and give a source for their betrayal (words or deed) and we will add them to this list. Thanks!

Jaime Herrera Beutler (congresswoman, voted to impeach)

Anthony Gonzalez (congressman, voted to impeach)

John Katko (congressman, voted to impeach)

Adam Kinzinger (congressman, voted to impeach)

Peter Meijer (congressman, voted to impeach)

Dan Newhouse (congressman, voted to impeach)

Tom Rice (congressman, voted to impeach)

Fred Upton (congressman, voted to impeach)

David Valdao (congressman, voted to impeach)   

Senator Mitch McConnell

Senator John Thune

Senator Romney
Senator Mike Lee
Senator Lindsey Graham
Liz Cheney (congresswoman, voted to impeach)
Megan McCain (irrelevant)
VP Mike Pence
ex-senator Kelly Loeffler 

ex-senator David Perdue 

Governor Brian Kemp
Senator Tom Cotton

Congressman Dan Crenshaw
Ben Sasse
Nicki Halley
Senator Lisa Murkowski
ex-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Senator Pat Toomey
ex-Governor Chris Christie
ex-Governor Mike Huckabee 

Senator Marco Rubio

Kevin McCarthy

 

Updated 1/14/2021

Just 7 U.S. Senators Cared About Election Integrity

Senator Hawley, Montana, Senator Hyde-Smith, Missouri, Senator Kennedy, Louisiana, Senator Tuberville, Alabama, Senator Cruz, Texas, and Senator Marshall, Kansas were the only United States senators willing to object to the electors from Arizona on January 6, 2021, even though those electors were certified by Arizona based on fraudulent votes. Every other Republican U.S. senator stabbed President Trump in the back and squashed election integrity. Senator Lummis, Wyoming was added to the vote on Pennsylvania electors.

A big thanks to these senators for fighting for election integrity. You will be welcome in the Patriot Party.

 

A Government Complicit

 

• The United States Legislative branch (Congress; Republicans and Democrats) has punted when presented with clear election fraud. 
• State legislatures had their chance and punted when presented with clear election fraud. Now they want a do-over, but it is too late, at least regarding the 2020 presidential election.
  
• The U.S. Judicial branch (Supreme Court) punted when presented with clear election fraud.
• State supreme courts and lower courts punted when presented with clear election fraud.
• The U.S. Executive branch in the form of the Justice department and FBI has punted when presented with election fraud. 

There has been a concerted effort to ignore the election fraud of the 2020 election by Republicans (most of them) and of course by Democrats (who benefited from or performed the fraud) and the news media. It seems that the entire government (except for some brave individuals) is set on ignoring the election fraud, either to be rid of President Trump or to begin initiating the socialist agenda, global warming agenda, and great reset agenda. There appears to be no interest by Washington DC politicians in ensuring the integrity of elections in the United States. That being said, many many millions, perhaps 80 million people will not have faith in the vote going forward. That leaves patriots with few options. 

1. Don't vote. This would result in increased oppression for conservatives and patriots. But voting is compromised.

2. Continue to vote Republican as if nothing happened for more of the same. Any Republican who did not vote to object to the fraudulent electors should be voted out of office, no matter how good they are on other issues (that is when we can trust the vote again).

3. Create a Patriot party. This is not a quick fix but certainly satisfying.

4. Actually have an insurrection. (Not recommending this, just saying it is an option. It is not even a good option because it doesn't address the root cause of the problem. It is also not a love thy neighbor-type option.) 

5. Leverage as much real estate of the Constitution as it can provide to crowbar fixes to the recent lawlessness of the Left. (lawsuits, impeachments, recalls, etc.)

6. Once some justice has been issued and unconstitutional laws and activity addressed, conservatives need to take back education in the United States because this is where the tide of liberalism/socialism/marxism is coming from today.

One action step to start with is that articles of impeachment must be drawn up and sponsored by many U.S. representatives and U.S. senators. On day one of the Biden administration he must be impeached (the articles of impeachment presented). The House and Senate members should be badgered every day until this happens.

#impeachBiden #illegitimateBiden

#declassify

#PatriotParty

#defundRepublicanParty

#prosecuteDemocrats

Bitcoin Moons Based on Solid Fundamentals

 

Bitcoin currently sits at about $39,666 (for one Bitcoin) at 12:30 pm EST on January 7, 2020. The all-time highs are happening every day (even every hour) recently. None of the crypto prognosticators predicted so much moon so fast. I do believe that the present bull-run for Bitcoin is supported by fundamentals which are 

1. institutional investment, 
2. economic uncertainty (extreme U.S. government debt, extreme dollar printing) so that Bitcoin is viewed as a safe harbor, 
3. limited supply.

However, most other cryptocurrencies which have seen a rise on Bitcoin's coat-tails as well do not have the same fundamentals supporting them and if one wants to apply the labels of "irrational exuberance" or "bubble" to them, the labels would be more appropriate than to Bitcoin. Actually some of the larger market cap altcoins like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and one or two others have some institutional investment in them as well, so their gains may be sustainable and credible, but if you're seeing lower market cap coins making huge gains, sell on the highs because those altcoins are less likely to hold any recent gains because there aren't any supporting fundamentals, in most cases, to justify large price gains. (Of course you should keep/hold any coin which you believe in, I'm just saying for investment purposes most altcoins will not keep up with the Bitcoin price increases.)

Bitcoin always has price pullbacks and that should be expected, but the trend is always going to be up until we get closer to the last minted/mined Bitcoin in the 2100s.

Check out: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin Mining: A Cryptocurrency Tutorial

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CDC U.S. Deaths All Causes

 

This is a bar chart of the U.S. Deaths reported according to the weekly counts of death dataset on the CDC website. Accessed 12/26/2020. The year 2020 includes COVID-19 deaths and indicates totals through 12/12/2020. Thank you to Q (drop 4842) for pointing to this data.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6

Covid-19 Survival Rates - CDC

 CDC Covid-19 Survival Rates in the U.S.

 

Age 0-19 — 99.997%

Age 20-49 — 99.98%

Age 50-69 — 99.5%

Age 70+ — 94.6%

 

So why are we having our businesses restricted, economy destroyed and personal rights trampled?

Also take note that the number of reported deaths from Covid-19 which is plastered on news channel screens is exaggerated and includes deaths from heart disease, cancer, flu, etc. This was reported by Johns Hopkins as total deaths in 2020 from other causes of death having decreased (i.e., deaths from heart disease and cancer showing lower numbers but attributed to Covid-19).

Most deaths in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were in nursing homes where the governors placed senior Covid-19 patients thus infecting healthy residents with Covid-19.

The numbers of cases are also suspect as false positives are associated with the tests.

https://www.icd10monitor.com/false-positives-in-pcr-tests-for-covid-19

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/fda-warns-of-covid-19-antigen-test-false-positives-as-report-flags-quidel-o/588507/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwkuac74lDg 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/about-30-covid-deaths-may-not-be-classified-such

2020 Election Fraud Information

It is important that the 2020 election be investigated, litigated, and adjudicated, and wherever fraud was performed by individuals or by groups of people or by organizations that that fraud be prosecuted. If this does not happen then the American peoples' faith in the fairness and legitimacy of its elections will forever be compromised. As it is half the voters in this country will not view Joe Biden as a legitimately elected office holder. And every other elected person in this country will be suspect as being illegitimate unless the election process is determined to be clean. 

But deeper than this, the atmosphere that exists where so many Democrats and liberals thought it was okay to cheat to get rid of a president that they didn't like needs to be addressed. People who cheat or tolerate cheating have no access to moral high ground but ought to have access to Rikers Island.

 

Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee Report on 2020 Election

The Immaculate Deception - The Navarro Report  (analysis of the 2020 election irregularities)

https://youtu.be/By7yNZsa8x0

https://youtu.be/ImU5wZWnm00

https://www.wnd.com/2020/11/ballot-count-watcher-claims-130000-votes-dumped-biden/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/05/lawsuit-at-least-21k-dead-people-on-pennsylvania-voter-rolls/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/29/jjudicial-watch-sues-pennsylvania-for-800k-inactive-voters-on-voter-rolls/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/justice-department-looking-allegations-voter-fraud-nevada-trump-legal-team-identifies-thousands-illegal-votes/

YouTube Looks to Make America Ignorant Again

YouTube will censor any video that claims that Joe Biden is not president elect. Please see my video comments regarding this issue.

 

 More YouTube Censorship

 

Reasons to Vote for Trump for President in 2020

Reuters

I'd like to talk today about President Trump's accomplishments and why I'm going to vote for him for president in 2020. 

(1.) First of all, he has pushed for an improved trade deal with Canada and Mexico and he promised that he would get rid of NAFTA and replace it. He did that and signed the treaty between the three countries.

(2.) President Trump is addressing illegal immigration. Do you know that there are 20,000,000 people in this country who should not be here, who have come here illegally? Previous presidents have promised that they would build a wall on the border between Mexico and the United States and President Trump has actually started that. I think he said the other day that they are building 10 miles of wall a week on the border right now. 

(3.) Supreme Court. President Trump has committed to appointing constitutional originalists to the Supreme Court and he has not disappointed in this respect.

(4.) President Trump pushed for federal Prison Reform. That's something other presidents have promised but President Trump delivered on. 

(5.) President Trump has pushed for "right to try" concerning drugs that are still under testing. So, pharmaceutical companies develop drugs and there's a long process to develop them and get them to market and when something looks promising and someone with a disease wants to take it, now they can try it because of this legislation. The legislation protects the companies and government from litigation and gives the patient a possible cure or relief from their deadly disease.

(6.) President Trump has overseen the lowest unemployment numbers in history through the beginning of 2020. The United States had the lowest unemployment overall in history up through February 2020. This includes the lowest minority unemployment in history and the lowest unemployment for women in decades. 

(7.) The stock market has risen almost consistently since November 2016 when President Trump was elected. Just the fact that he was elected was good for the stock market and overall since he's been elected the stock market has been going up.

(8.) President Trump has initiated a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and he has even received a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for this work that he and his administration have done. 

(9.) President Trump tried vigorously for a peace deal between North Korea and South Korea and North Korea and the U.S. and just because he hasn't succeeded yet doesn't mean he didn't try very hard, and because of what he's done so far I think the future looks bright for eventual peace between those two countries. 

(10.) President Trump is the only president to stand against China's unfair trade policies against the U.S. His tariffs on China (which are in response to China's tariffs on U.S. goods) have caused China to make deals with the U.S., particularly in their increased purchase of our agricultural products. U.S. steel companies have also benefitted from Trump's actions.

(11.) President Trump fights climate change extremism and the climate change hoax. He stopped the economically disastrous Paris climate accord and has been a vocal critic of this climate change lie. Do you know that the United States has reduced its carbon output (as if it matters) where countries like China and India have increased theirs. We have among the cleanest air of any industrial nation (overall). Reminder forest fires are caused by lightning, electrical sparks, and humans with lighters; hurricanes are not caused by or made worse by carbon emissions, polar bear populations are not decreasing, ocean water levels have not inundated any major coastal cities. The ice caps have not disappeared. It is all hysteria.

(12.) President Trump has put resources towards defeating ISIS and he and the military in conjunction with their military partners did defeat ISIS and that is something that President Obama did not do. 

(13.) President Trump pushed for and signed into law the tax reform bill lowering your taxes. 

(14.) President Trump beefed up the military which had become weak under Obama, even while he reduces U.S. forces presence overseas. He also loves the military and he shows it.

(15.) President Trump talks straight like a normal person and not like a politician. It's very refreshing to hear the truth that comes out of this person, saying things that politicians have never said because they were worried about being reelected.

(16.) Trump loves the United States of America and he shows it.

(17.) President Trump loves law enforcement and believes in the rule of law and keeping all Americans safe.

(18.) President Trump respects the Second Amendment and the rest of the U.S. Constitution.

(19.) President Trump is pro life (anti-abortion). 

(20.) President Trump supports religious freedom. 

(21.) President Trump mobilized the government and corporations to quickly produce needed PPE and respirators in the wake of COVID-19.

(22.) President Trump mobilized a speeded-up process for developing and testing vaccines to combat COVID-19. 

(23.) President Trump convened an economic council of leading business and economic leaders to advise the administration on how to bring the U.S. economy out of the depressive effects of COVID-19.

These are just some of the reasons that I'm voting for President Trump and I hope you will too. If you want a president who keeps his promises, a president who's all about action, a president who loves this country, a president who is a patriot in the style of Ronald Reagan, then please vote Donald Trump on election day (in person if you can because paper ballots can be so easily voided by pollworkers and lost in the mail). It would also be great for the country if you would vote for Republicans for the House of Representatives and Republicans for Senate on Election Day so that the stonewalling that goes on in the House of Representatives will come to an end. Vote Donald Trump for president on Election Day. Thank you.

It's an Elephant's Job

Vote Republican in 2020 to get the United States' economy back on track.

(cartoon political ad circa 1928)

Lockdown Lies

Tucker Carlson is so on point here. One of the best, clear-headed explanations of 2020.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-we-were-lied-to-about-coronavirus-and-the-mass-lockdowns-heres-the-proof

Global Warming Climate Change

Mars has a thin atmosphere made up of 95 percent carbon dioxide (CO2). If carbon dioxide was such an effective greenhouse gas (where on Earth it only makes up 0.04 percent of the atmosphere) it should keep Mars nice and toasty at 95 percent! However, the average temperature on Mars is -63 degrees Celsius. So if Mars is so cold, despite carbon dioxide being the most prevalent component of its atmosphere, how effective is CO2 going to be as a warmer on Earth where the percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere is 4 hundredths of 1 percent?

As an example, imagine that the atmosphere is all the people in this "Where's Waldo" image and CO2 is Waldo. Where is Waldo's ability to warm up all these other people? It doesn't seem likely does it?

References
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/earth's_atmosphere.htm

Some Coronavirus-19 Perspective - Flu Deaths Compared

Some Coronavirus-19 Perspective


According to the CDC, in the 2017-2018 flu season there were 61,099 influenza-related deaths. This averages out to 407 deaths per day in the United States if you calculate a 5-month flu season (November thru March). Most of the deaths for the "regular" flu are senior citizens. There were deaths in other age groups, but generally much less. We did not and do not shut the world down for terrible flu seasons such as the 2017-2018 epidemic. 

The reason people compare novel coronavirus to the flu is that they are both viruses, both have similar symptoms (not the same), and both result in deaths for people with weakened immune systems or other underlying problems. What is clear about coronavirus is that it is easier to catch than the regular flu. What we (the public) don't know is what the death rate for people who get it is. Italy's death rate seems to be close to 10 percent of people who get COVID-19 die. Italy has a larger senior citizen population and more smokers (per CNN). Maybe this accounts for the higher death rate. Transparency and truth from China regarding their numbers would make things clearer for the rest of the world. But they don't want to come clean. The United States mortality rate appears to be about 2 percent as of 4/1/2020. World mortality rate appears to be averaging 4 to 5 percent as of 4/1/2020.

What we do need to remember is that if this were just a bad flu season, 61,000 people (in the U.S. alone) would have died anyway. What will that thinking do to the overall COVID-19 mortality numbers? Should we have shut down our economy for this virus? Are lock-downs, which are anti-constitutional, necessary?

The good news is that hydroxychloroquine, an arthritis medicine that is also used against malaria, has shown in clinical cases to help against novel coronavirus and is undergoing trials to confirm. Work is also happening quickly for a vaccine. The vaccine won't help during this season since it won't be ready but it could be available for the next flu season if we're lucky.

Remember: Wash your hands after touching anything in public and don't touch your face until your hands are clean. Sleep is important since it allows a strong immune system. Drinking alcohol weakens your immune system, so do less of that. Smoking weakens your lungs and your immune system, so do less of that. Plenty of water and exercise also strengthen the immune system. Vitamins from natural foods or from supplements strengthen the immune system, especially Vitamin C and D.

If you pray or meditate, do it more; it will give you peace in this time of media hysteria. And if you want the peace to continue, don't watch mainstream media coverage of the pandemic 24/7. 

Grammar and Spelling: Affect/Effect

Grammar and Spelling

Proper Usage Examples of Effect and Affect

Some of the effects we will talk about can affect others around you, depending on the condition you are in.

Effects is usually more specific: One of the effects is this and this. There were two effects on the class.

Affect is usually more general: I wasn't affected by the quarantine.