And the answer is: Neither.

Yes, there is a segment of the population that can be killed by the virus, but the numbers are small compared with the total and will be even smaller if common sense is applied to try to avoid contagion. If you are a 65 year old, chain-smoker asthmatic who like to lick hand rails in subway stations in China, well you will end up in some ER with the Beer Virus.

The real ranger is the sheer stupid panic of people overwhelming hospitals at the first hint of the sniffles demanding the cure for the Virus or at least the test to prove they are dying and need a private suit in the hospital’s penthouse.  Stay the fuck away from hospitals, sick people gather there and  die in them! The deal here is to avoid getting the damn virus which means do not go where sick people may be contaminated!  You don’t get your had bitten off by sharks unless you dip your arm in the shark tank at feeding time.
Plus it is rather stupid to waste the limited resources of a hospital on a allergy-caused dripping nose that could be cured with over-the-counter Claritin, but you search in WebMD made you think you had COVID-19 and TB together and need professional care right now.

Reducing contact with other people is a good health practice. Most of them are assholes anyway, so the health benefits include peace of mind. Stop being Web-Browsing hypochondriacs and let’s reserve medical facilities for those who are truly in need. In case you have not noticed,  all other sicknesses are still going strong affecting people and accidents are still happening. People having heart attacks did not just stop because you sneezed twice in a row and think you are a victim of the 21st Century plague.

Stay informed and stop panicking.

Today in “If a Republican did something similar, Lefties would be rioting with torches and pitchforks calling for blood.”

https://twitter.com/thealexvanness/status/1237105703954898945

Here is a close up of the relevant image from the website that sells the shirt.

To make it clear, that is Arabic for Palestine in the colors of the Palestinian flag, backed by the keffiyeh, which is a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, covering the entirety of Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The symbolism is not hard to parse.  It is a call to make all of Israel and Palestine a single Palestinian state.

This cannot be accomplished without the mass extermination of Israeli Jews.

Generations of Jews have fought for and died for an independent Jewish state of Israel.  They are not going to give that up without a fight.

Hamas, for all of its evil, is at least honest when they say that killing all the Jews in Israel is what they want to do to create a Palestinian Muslim state.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear he wants a Judenrein Palestine.  He says it, from his own mouth, to the press.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib clearly supports this.  The Democrats must support this as well because there has been no condemnation of it.

The mask has just about completely fallen off.

The position of The Squad, the defacto popular leaders of the Democrat Party is “kill the seven million Jews who live in Israel, take their land, and give it to the Palestinians.”

Do we need any more evidence that the Left is the enemy of the Jews before they start shoving us into gas chambers?

Reading J Kb’s post made me angry because we have imbeciles in the LGBQTREFVSNSM (etc) movement that demand respect, but apparently it is contraindicated for them to respect other people, namely Christians.

These assholes think they are edgy and brave because they pull insults to Christianity and get applauded by their supporters. Their egos refilled with faux bravery.

You want to impress me motherfucker? Go pray in full fucking make up and drag in a mosque. Walk on the rugs in Fuck-Me pumps and shriek the prayers. See what happens to you. Oh yeah, you don’t have the cojones to pull that one, right? Remember the Femens disrupting a Muslim conference?

Christians are easy target because we behave like Christians. But eventually we will run out of cheeks to turn and then we won’t give a fuck if you are given a vertical ride in a crane.

A buddy of mine sent me this.  I had to double check it because I couldn’t believe it was real.

Group gives out glitter ashes for Ash Wednesday

An Episcopal group at Michigan State University spent Wednesday afternoon giving out glitter ashes at Wells Hall as part of Ash Wednesday.

They combined the glitter with the ashes from palm leaves and placed them in the shape of a cross on students’ foreheads and the backs of their hands.

The group said they used glitter to show support for the LGBTQ community.

What the actual fuck is this shit?

I went to an Episcopal middle and high school.  We had a school-wide convocation every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  For the major holy days, the school priest would do an extended convocation teaching us the meanings behind these practices.

He even did a washing of the feet in the school gym.

I remember my lessons about Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, a period of fasting and repentance for Christians to commemorate and to a lesser degree experience the Temptation of Christ in the Desert.  Shrove Tuesday is the last party Christians get to have until they celebrate the resurrection on Easter Sunday.

Lent is a period of living subdued and in reflection of one’s sins and asking for forgiveness.  Part of this is the call to make a Lenten sacrifice, giving up an earthly pleasure.  One that is significant enough to cause oneself to be acutely aware of it and to feel it and reflect on the meaning of the sacrifice.

Traditionally, Catholics gave up meat for Lent.  This is why you know it’s Lent when the fast-food commercials all go from advertising burgers to fish sandwiches.  Fish is not meat, because it comes from the Kosher tradition where fish is parve.  This is also why I get a hankering for a terrible square fish patty sandwich every Lent because from 7th through 12th grade, my cafeteria gave up serving meat for Lent.  Even my College toned down the meat during Lent.

MIxing glitter with ashes for Ash Wednesday does several things that are sacrilegious.  Yes, that word is appropriate.

The Adorning of the Ashes is not supposed to be an external political statement.  It is a reminder of internal reflection.  Glitter turns the Ashes into a political statement.  It turns the reflection into a virtue signal.

It perverts the Ashes with identity politics.  Rich and poor, every Christian is Adorned with the same ashes.  There are not golden ashes for the rich to wear to show that they are pious and fashionable.  You don’t mix your ashes with the colors of your favorite sports team.

The ashes are to remind you that “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

The Bible reminds us several times about the importance of ashes and dust as a symbol of death and repentance.  In the Book of Job, Job says “Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

From glitter, we did not come and to glitter, we will not return.  An identity is elevated over the meaning of the ashes.

The group that promotes this, Parity NYC, actually says this on their website:

You can make your own Glitter Ashes with blessed ashes that have been purchased from a store or made by a local church, mixed with purple glitter (biodegradable recommended but not required).

Mylar glitter that lasts forever goes against the very message of the ashes, that to ashes and dust we shall return.

And perhaps most significantly, the identity that they are showing solidarity with is one that identifies with a particular sin.  This literally shows solidarity with a sin.

Personally, I don’t really care what two consenting adults do.  This is America, and it’s not a theocracy.  Gays are entitled to equality under the law, I believe that to my bones.

But this isn’t politics, this is religion, and for thousands of years “don’t have sex with other people with the same genitalia as yourself” has been a rule.

This comes from the Jewish tradition.  As Jews, we were expected to live Holy, holy meaning separately.  We don’t do what other peoples do.  Many cultures of that region practiced recreational homosexuality or pederasty.  The ancient Greeks, the Persians, and others.  It’s still practiced in Central Asia today.

Ancient Jews said, “no butt-fuckery, the locals do this shit, we won’t.”

So glitter ashes show solidarity with a biblically prohibited sin.

All of this is the anthesis of the meaning of Ash Wednesday.  Just look at the home page of Parity NYC:

Parity helps congregations and faith organizations, clergy, seminarians, denominations and seminaries become more LGBTQia sensitive and celebratory.

Parity also helps families, parents, youth, adults and elders to navigate what it means to be (or love) an LGBTQia person, and to have faith and flourish, too!

So what do we do?:

We empower new queer faith and social justice leaders

We help faith communities affirm and connect with queer people

We help LGBTQia organizations and communities to affirm spirituality

We promote LGBTQia religious liberty and freedom

Not more spiritual.  Not more holy.  Not more in touch with the teachings of God or the love of Jesus Christ.  None of those actual religious things.

LGBTQia sensitive and celebratory.  This is putting the LGBT identity above faith.

Auburn Seminary published this opinion:

While Glitter Ashes were received with enthusiasm by most, there are also those who are sharply critical, saying that the action “mocks a somber time” and is “blasphemy.” Under these protestations is a common theme – that queer people aren’t allowed to be people of faith, to be followers of Jesus. And that is our point: queer Christians are deeply faithful, and too often hidden from view because of the hatred and rejection that they too often receive from both the faith community and the queer community. It’s not popular to be a queer Christian, and yet, millions persist.

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that the gray of the ashes was symbolic of heterosexual sex or that gays were not allowed to be Christians.  This statement absolutely shows that they think that gays people should use this somber day of reflection to advertise their sexual identity.

“I stood outside on the sidewalk in front of our church for an hour at noon and offered people ashes. I’ve done this for the last 3 years, but this year was different. If people stopped, I told them I had regular ashes and glitter ashes in solidarity with the queer Christian community. If they wanted to know more, I told them that if anyone can teach us how to live with boldness and flair and courage in the face of death, it is the queer community.

Well, I guess this makes sense.  The Progressive love to remind us that illegal immigrants are better Americans than citizens, so clearly gays must be better Christians worthy of special ashes.

I’m not saying that gays can’t be good people or practicing Christians, but that using a two millennia-old Christan symbol to advertise their sexuality not the purpose of the day.

This Ash Wednesday, is there a little bit of sparkle in your eye, if not on your forehead?  Sparkle and shine with us, as we celebrate queer lives of faith and courage.

No, Ash Wednesday is to remind of people of their mortality and the start of Christ’s Temptation by Satan, not to celebrate a sexuality.

Wearing glitter ashes isn’t done by someone who wants to spend Lent in subdued reflection.  It is done by someone who wants to be asked why their ashes are purple and sparkly so they can proselytize their support for a Progressive cause and be congratulated for being so Woke.

This is exactly the fucking opposite of the purpose of a period of atonement.

Identity politics uber alles.

I want to make this clear.

This is not an anti-gay post.  I have defended gay rights may times before in this blog, it is part of my natural libertarian leanings.

What I am against is the destruction of religion at the hands of Woke Progressives who join the clergy, not to uphold the faith but subjugate religious traditions to current political whims.

I have walked out of synagogue when the Rabbi explained how it was a Jewish value that we vote for Barack Obama because of Tikkun Olam.

I post the things I do about Judaism because I’m trying to save my own religion from the clutches of Progressives who have forsaken God in the name of their own politics.

Jews who use their Judaism to defend illegal immigrant child rapists from deportation, demand Muslim refugees be imported into America who turn around and literally stab Jews in the back, and side with the anti-Zionists who want to bring about another Jewish genocide.

Christianity is not immune to this usurpation of religion by Progressives.  Christians, you are going to have to clean your own house.

The last and only one we had alive which was CS/HB 1437 Church Carry died for lack of giving a damn.

Good morning, Miguel,

My name is Jacob Sjostrom, and I work for Representative Trumbull. We were able to move this through 3 committees on the House side, but unfortunately, we did not have a Senate counterpart this Session. For that reason, it will likely not move forward this Session. Thank you.

Let me remind you once again that the Senate is of a Republican majority, but unfortunately we have as President Senator Bill Galvano (R- Bloomberg) and Anitere Flores (R-Moms Demand) who I am sure they have something to do with not having a companion bill in the Senate.

If you could do me a favor and send Representative Trumbull (Jay.Trumbull@myfloridahouse.gov) and Representative Williamson (Jayer.Williamson@myfloridahouse.gov) a thank you email for sponsoring the bill and encourage them to file again next year, I would appreciate it and I figure they would too.

And I guess I could include all the co-sponsors :
Thad.Altman@myfloridahouse.gov
Alex.Andrade@myfloridahouse.gov
Cord.Byrd@myfloridahouse.gov
Byron.Donalds@myfloridahouse.gov
Brad.Drake@myfloridahouse.gov
Mike.Hill@myfloridahouse.gov
Delores.HoganJohnson@myfloridahouse.gov
Spencer.Roach@myfloridahouse.gov
Anthony.Sabatini@myfloridahouse.gov
Charlie.Stone@myfloridahouse.gov
Clay.Yarborough@myfloridahouse.gov

Take a break and then we begin the road to the November Elections.

Bernie Sanders is like the Pied Piper for Left-leaning American Jews.

At a town hall, he was asked how his Jewish heritage impacted his politics:

.@BernieSanders on his Jewish heritage #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/omM5cX1KR2

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 7, 2020

That is an absolute dog-shit answer.  Total fucking dog-shit.

Like so many modern, Progressive Jews, he defines Judaism with the Holocaust because it gives Jews victim status.

He doesn’t talk about actual Jewish principles or values.

I would have answered question talking about the principles of tzedakah, the Hebrew word for charity.  In Judaism, there is a hierarchy for tzedakah.  While it is always good to give charity, some forms are better.

For example, it’s always better to give anonymously and take no credit.  If you give charity, but you do so because you want to be invited to a gala and given a humanitarian award, yes you did good, but you did it for the wrong reason.  Giving anonymously removes the temptation to give charity for selfish reasons.

The highest forms of tzedakah are tzedakah once given makes the recipient no longer dependent on tzedakah.  Often this is described as providing an education, teaching job skills, giving a no-interest business loan, or a business partnership.

Our ancient sages were aware of the welfare trap and guided us trying to avoid it.  I would apply those same Jewish principles to our economy and welfare state.

The idea is to elevate people off welfare by helping them with job skills so they can attain dignity through work – also a Jewish principle, it was ours long before the Protestants got ahold of it and called it the Protestant work ethic.

Sanders’s brand of tax the rich and give handouts to the poor is the antithesis of the values of tzedakah.  It creates a dependent class, stripped of their dignity.

His values are not Jewish values.  They are socialist values that he calls Jewish values.

We can prove this because, like all socialist leaders, anti-Semitism runs deep among his followers.

After this town hall, this is the asshole he promoted to the role of Senior Advisor.

Sanders’ new Senior Advisor, Phillip Agnew, is a co-founder of Dream Defenders, which contributed the section to the platform of the #BLM coalition, Movement for Black Lives, that singled out Israel for an accusation of “genocide” against Palestinians. His politics are in line. pic.twitter.com/c97qGmyP9y

— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 8, 2020

Bernie Sanders’ new Senior Advisor, Phillip Agnew, extends his vision of a savage America, somnolent about its brutal history, to Israel–a violent racist fraud “masquerading as a Jewish state”. What will be be advising @BernieSanders on? pic.twitter.com/PpNUAYGEbZ

— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) March 8, 2020

Since the 1960s, the US anti-Zionist Left has pursued a strategy of conflating the African-American & Palestinian plights. Stoking anti-Jewish conspiracism among blacks is a key element of Linda Sarsour's activism & why the leaders of @womensmarch eagerly ally with Farrakhan. pic.twitter.com/hBE25pOwVx

— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) May 2, 2018

Another piece of shit who fits right in with Linda Sarsour, Tamika Maloy, Ilhan Omar, and other grotesque intersectional Jew-haters who want to destroy Israel.

The CliffsNotes of being Jewish is:

God picked us to be His chosen people and live according to the Ten Commandments and 613 Mitzvot, and be exemplars of how God wants man to live on Earth.  It’s a duty and a burden.  In exchange for that burden, God has given us the land of Israel as our sacred birthright for eternity.   That is the covenant.  Every Jewish male renews this covenant at eight days old, in foreskin, with the Brit Milah which literally means “covenant of circumcision.”

If you reject the burden of living according to the Ten Commandments and 613 Mitzvot or you reject that the land of Israel as our sacred birthright for eternity, then you’ve broken the convent and ergo you have abandoned Jewish values.

How could Sander’s embrace his “Jewish heritage” and allow him to surround himself with Jew-haters who want to destroy Israel?

He can’t.  Anti-Zionism and Jewish principles are antithetical.

He’s not Jewish in any actual practicing way.  His Jewish identity goes as far as some distant relative of his was killed in the Holocaust.  But since that’s how so many modern Progressive Jews define their Jewish identity, they will follow Bernie Sanders into the consequences of Trotsky’s law.

They will be “Jews” who support socialism long enough to put socialism into power, at which point the guns will be turned on them.

Sanders is Pied Piper who will lead young Progressive Jews to their deaths.