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From an Austin Police Officer in response to the defunding of the department:

Dear Community,

We have served with the best of our ability for many years. We have missed anniversaries, birthdays, funerals, sports, and many other things so we could be there for you. When you called, we came. When you were being victimized, we stepped in and stopped it. When you were on your last breath, we gave you another and another. As many as it took to keep you alive. We held your child and loved on them when they were scared. We comforted you when your loved ones passed. We put our lives in harms way when the wolf came for you. When you ran from gunfire, we ran towards it. When you sat trapped in your car, we held your hand until the rescue crew could cut you out. We bought you lunch when others walked by and did nothing. We brought justice to your family when someone was taken from you. We gave you a voice when you had none. We stepped in when you couldn’t protect yourself. We saved your sons, daughters, husbands, aunts, brothers, and sisters.

The day came when we needed your help, but you never showed. When we asked you to stand up and give us a voice, you remained silent. When we were at our lowest, you offered no help. When we were being attacked, you watched from afar. When the time came for you to fight for us, you stayed home and kept silent. (To those who didn’t, thank you.)

The Austin Police Department has been almost completely defunded. There is barely enough to pay for our salary, medical care, and retirement. Now, when the wolf puts a bomb at your doorstep, we won’t be there. When a drunk driver kills your family member, we won’t be there. When your family member is drowning at the lake, we won’t be there. When someone crashes into your car, we won’t be there. When gangs take over your neighborhood, we won’t be there. When you’re assaulted on one of the many trails, we won’t be there. When your child is lost, we won’t be there to find them.

We won’t be there because your Austin City Council has shut down almost every unit needed to keep you safe and be there for you. They took everything from you while you sat in silence. They did it for their own personal gain and agenda. They won’t be there for you and made sure we couldn’t either.

Your Guardian,

An Austin Police Officer

THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION: August 15th – “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” [Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus 44].

COVID-19: A new CDC survey found that more than four in 10 Americans are struggling with mental health issues due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A shocking statistic: 25.5% of young people from 18 to 24 reported that they had considered suicide in the previous 30 days.

• https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-08-13/coronavirus-pandemic-causing-anxiety-depression-in-americans-cdc-finds

TRUMP: President Trump has brokered a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the fully normalize relations between the Jewish and Arab nations. First up will be a joint effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. The nations will also open mutual embassies.

While other Middle East countries, like Bahrain and Oman, are also considering full diplomatic relations with Israel, Palestinians (including Rep. Tlaib) were incensed at the idea of any Muslim nation considering peace with Israel.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/israel-united-arab-emirates-establish-full-normalization-of-relations-trump_3460430.html
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-israel-uae-peace-agreement
• https://djhjmedia.com/kari/palestinians-hysterical-including-tlaib-over-uae-declarations-of-peace-with-israel/

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GOOD GUYS: CLICK [3:05] to hear a passionate and timely message from Jon Voigt.

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MEDIA MALPRACTICE: On Sunday, Cannon Hinnant (5) was riding his bike in front of his home when Darius Sessoms (25) ran up to him, put a gun to his head and executed him in front of his two sisters.

Sessoms has been taken into custody and charged with first degree murder. According to neighbors, he lives next door to the victim’s family. They had dinner together on Friday.

If the skin colors were reversed, the Left would be screaming about this 24/7.

But since it doesn’t fit the Left’s narrative, they’re ignoring it.

• https://outline.com/R7rXSz
• https://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-5-year-old-s-death-lives-next-door-to-boy-s-father/19228045/

WORST VP PICK EVER: [13:57] – Also CLICK [10:46] to hear Tucker talk about the adulterous Kamala Harris whose “I was that little girl” story is a lie.

• https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/flashbacks-to-kamala-harris-wacky-policies-and-behavior/

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Recent highlights in blatant stupidity spewed by the Slime Stream Media.

The New York Times’s columnist Maureen Dowd published, “It’s hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket.” Uhh, no.

The column has been corrected.

The New York Times’ cybersecurity reporter, Nicole Perlroth, tweeted that Russia’s disinformation campaign to “suppress black turnout” in 2016 “worked.” In fact, the 2016 election saw some of the highest black turnout of any presidential election in the last 50-plus years.

The tweet has been deleted.

Washington Post’s national politics reporter, Colby Itkowitz, tweeted that former President Barack Obama never circumvented Congress to enact by fiat his legislative agenda.

Obama, who famously bragged that he didn’t need Congress, because he had “pen and phone,” repeatedly attempted to enact his agenda by legislative fiat.

The New York Times published a news report early Monday saying, “Overall, serious crime in New York City has not jumped this year, but murders and shootings have: The city is on pace to to [sic] surpass 800 shootings for the first time in three years.”

How does the New York Times define “serious crime” if not shootings and murders?

The Washington Post published a grotesque, glossy photo essay praising Portland rioters that was titled “Trump sent agents to quell unrest. But protest is what Portland does best.”

Setting fires, shooting off mortars, attempting to blind law officers is “what Portland does best”?

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-york-times-and-washington-post-staffers-spent-the-weekend-publishing-falsehoods-and-misrepresentations

The following is mostly excerpted from an article at American Thinker by Andrea Widburg with some editing and embellishments by CtH. If you want to see the original, feel free. The link is below.

What’s most striking about Kamala is that, like Barack Obama, she has nothing in common with the American black experience. She did not come from a family that has traveled through generations of the American black experience. There’s no history of Southern slavery, no Reconstruction, and no being part of the endless variety of post-Reconstruction stories.

Some blacks struggled through the Jim Crow South, some reveled in the Harlem Renaissance, some roped cows in the Wild West, some were part of the single biggest American migration when they moved to the upper Midwest, some embraced the middle class, and some got sucked into the undertow of the underclass. Each is an American story.

Kamala’s bio, by contrast, is that of a first-generation immigrant and child of very educated parents. Her mother is a high-caste East Indian breast cancer scientist, while her father is a Jamaican-born economist who is an emeritus professor at Stanford. She grew up in liberal enclaves that were anything but racist and got a first class education.

All she’s really got to offer is her skin tone, her lady parts, and her generic hard-left résumé.

Otherwise, she’s impressively unimpressive. Her affect is flat and her personality is naggy, aggressive and snide. And her personal history stinks.

She did horribly in the primaries, because even the base couldn’t like her. But now she’s going to carry the ticket to victory?!

CLICK [:38] to hear Harris laugh snidely and say, “Yes, we can” when asked if a president can execute illegal orders.

• https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/it_says_a_lot_that_biden_chose_kamala_and_none_of_what_it_says_is_good.html

COVID-19: I’m not condemning Trump or any other government that went with a shutdown. Initial findings did make it look like COVID-19 might be even worse than the 1918 flu. Turns out, that wasn’t true, but who could’ve known?

Still, when the pandemic struck, Sweden chose to continue life as normally as possible, while instituting mostly voluntary social distancing. The only exception was a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people.

The Swedish government said from the start that the fight would be a marathon, not a sprint, and that many people would die, but that continuing with a mostly normal life would get the country to herd immunity relatively quickly while maintaining economic stability.

And it turns out, Sweden had it right. After months of condemnations by the world community for not shutting down, Sweden’s coronavirus death rate is nearly zero.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/after-months-of-condemnation-swedens-covid-deaths-drop-to-near-zero
• https://tmp.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/lockdowns_never_again_sweden_was_right_and_we_were_wrong.html
• https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/10/new-study-finds-swedens-refusal-to-lock-down-saved-the-economy-without-sacrificing-lives/

2020: Vote Republican in November – Now that we know that the Swedes called it, there is nothing but fear-mongering to support Democrats’ continuing with shelter in place, mandatory masks, closed schools, threats of mass vaccinations, etc.

None.

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LOVE TRUMPS HATE: In August 2019, a Black Democrat and a White Republican visited the two sides of the street outside a Trump rally in Cincinnati, Ohio to see how Trump’s supporters and the Anti-Trump protesters would react to them.

The results were remarkable, though not at all surprising to any of us who have been paying attention.

If you have time, the full, raw, and unscripted video is worth watching @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFKTewi63U.

At the very least, CLICK [:50] to view a 50 second version of the 44 minute video.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-haters-shock-black-american-with-vicious-behavior-while-trump-supporters-embrace-him

FOREIGN THREATS: [4:05] – No matter what the realities are, Pelosi will disagree with Trump.

Democrats might have a teensy weensy bit more credibility if they agreed with Trump on occasion.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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I’ve been thinking that, while we’re still in the midst of the outbreak, we can’t truly judge the effectiveness of the various governments’ approaches to the pandemic. But this article by Sebastian Rushworth, M.D., a practicing physician in Stockholm, Sweden, is certainly intriguing.

Ok, I want to preface this article by stating that it is entirely anecdotal and based on my experience working as a doctor in the emergency room of one of the big hospitals in Stockholm, Sweden, and of living as a citizen in Sweden. As many people know, Sweden is perhaps the country that has taken the most relaxed attitude of any towards the covid pandemic. Unlike other countries, Sweden never went in to complete lockdown. Non-essential businesses have remained open, people have continued to go to cafés and restaurants, children have remained in school, and very few people have bothered with face masks in public.

Covid hit Stockholm like a storm in mid-March. One day I was seeing people with appendicitis and kidney stones, the usual things you see in the emergency room. The next day all those patients were gone and the only thing coming in to the hospital was covid. Practically everyone who was tested had covid, regardless of what the presenting symtom was. People came in with a nose bleed and they had covid. They came in with stomach pain and they had covid.

Then, after a few months, all the covid patients disappeared. It is now four months since the start of the pandemic, and I haven’t seen a single covid patient in over a month. When I do test someone because they have a cough or a fever, the test invariably comes back negative. At the peak three months back, a hundred people were dying a day of covid in Sweden, a country with a population of ten million. We are now down to around five people dying per day in the whole country, and that number continues to drop. Since people generally die around three weeks after infection, that means virtually no-one is getting infected any more. If we assume around 0.5 percent of those infected die (which I think is very generous, more on that later), then that means that three weeks back 1,000 people were getting infected per day in the whole country, which works out to a daily risk per person of getting infected of 1 in 10,000, which is miniscule. And remember, the risk of dying is at the very most 1 in 200 if you actually do get infected. And that was three weeks ago. Basically, covid is in all practical senses over and done with in Sweden. After four months.

In total covid has killed under 6,000 people in a country of ten million. A country with an annual death rate of around 100,000 people. Considering that 70% of those who have died of covid are over 80 years old, quite a few of those 6,000 would have died this year anyway. That makes covid a mere blip in terms of its effect on mortality.

That is why it is nonsensical to compare covid to other major pandemics, like the 1918 pandemic that killed tens of millions of people. Covid will never even come close to those numbers. And yet many countries have shut down their entire economies, stopped children going to school, and made large portions of their population unemployed in order to deal with this disease.

The media have been proclaiming that only a small percentage of the population have antibodies, and therefore it is impossible that herd immunity has developed. Well, if herd immunity hasn’t developed, where are all the sick people? Why has the rate of infection dropped so precipitously? Considering that most people in Sweden are leading their lives normally now, not socially distancing, not wearing masks, there should still be high rates of infection.

The reason we test for antibodies is because it is easy and cheap. Antibodies are in fact not the body’s main defence against virus infections. T-cells are. But T-cells are harder to measure than antibodies, so we don’t really do it clinically. It is quite possible to have T-cells that are specific for covid and thereby make you immune to the disease, without having any antibodies. Personally, I think this is what has happened. Everybody who works in the emergency room where I work has had the antibody test. Very few actually have antibodies. This is in spite of being exposed to huge numbers of infected people, including at the beginning of the pandemic, before we realized how widespread covid was, when no-one was wearing protective equipment. Continue reading →

WALK AWAY: “During the most violent storms, we are frightened by the deafening sounds of thunder, we brace ourselves as the wind rips apart everything in its path, but when it is over, we are so distraught and focused on the damage done that we are failing to see it is the rain and the sun that makes everything grow. The rain nourishes the earth and the sun calls upon the earth to rise from the ashes. This work is neither boisterous, violently wild, nor is it threatening. It requires no audience to showcase its beauty, it just is. I learned the hard way to look forward and pay no mind to those who aim to destroy. We, all of us who walk on the right side of freedom are the rain during the storm and the sun after the clouds have parted. We exist not to destroy, but to persevere over and over again. I am a proud republican mother. I am an American.”

WEEK IN REVIEW: Top headlines from last week [2:33].

RIOTS: [Photo] In Fort Collins, CO, BLM/ANTIFA “commie scum” attempted to disrupt a pro-police rally. When they resisted patriots’ efforts to walk them away, a fight broke out. They ended up leaving the hard way … unmasked and sporting bruises.

But in Portland, OR, where the stupid Democrats let the thugs do what they wanted for far too long, the violence and destruction continue. This time the focus was a labor union that represents members of the Portland Police Bureau, which was set ablaze. Some rioters filled pool noodles with nails and placed them in the road, causing extensive damage to a patrol vehicle. Three officers were injured.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/riot-declared-as-fire-burns-in-portland-police-union-offices_3455194.html
• https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/08/09/antifa-gets-wrecked-in-colorado-neighborhood-you-guys-came-to-the-wrong-city-boys-and-girls-957920

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