tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3857182342431315764..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: You Shall Not Be Released...Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-64198507715236085542020-09-05T16:33:03.952-04:002020-09-05T16:33:03.952-04:00To mask or not to mask. One one hand you see a wed...To mask or not to mask. One one hand you see a wedding reception in Maine, one person not well left 147 people with covid. I live in western Ky and our county of 35K has 658 cases. County next to us with 67K has 540 cases. Our outbreak started in a nursing home with a sick aide not allowed to leave. So at 70 with 2 heart attacks but haven't had a cold or flu in more years than I can count. But, the last cardiac was 8 weeks ago. So do I want you to be masked? Not especially but I most definitely will not be getting close to you. Do I want to wear one? Nope, pain in the tushie but I can't enter any store in my area without one. My Doc does require a mask but he's had cancer 3 years ago so maybe that's his reason. Your health providers may have something they've never mentioned to you. My doc is also a personal friend so I may know more about him than his usual patients. squeeky's momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14280728218122440318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-67761873304986837952020-09-04T15:05:14.717-04:002020-09-04T15:05:14.717-04:00In the FL county I live there is actually a "...In the FL county I live there is actually a "mask required" ordinance (complete with fines for non-compliance). It only applies to indoor spaces, outdoors no mask required. Though oddly enough I often see people wearing one outdoors (must be masochistic, in 95 deg. 95% humidity FL that <i>must</i> suck) or even in cars <i>alone</i>.<br />Mind you that mask <i>does not</i> protect you in any way from even the common cold let alone anything else. The whole point is like the "social distancing" is to protect <i>others</i> from <i>you</i> (assuming you even are positive for the disease in the first place).YIHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149048850538200399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-17155185471109455932020-09-04T05:36:37.474-04:002020-09-04T05:36:37.474-04:00James: I don't know who wrote the text. I foun...<b>James:</b> I don't know who wrote the text. I found the graphic on Gab.com, and was impressed by it, as you can imagine. The truth it expresses had better be absorbed by our would-be oppressors before the match reaches the tinder.<br />Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-78829591368579925722020-09-04T00:29:40.641-04:002020-09-04T00:29:40.641-04:00The elected tyrants have locked arms with the appo...The elected tyrants have locked arms with the appointed tyrants and the corporate oligarchs to smother our liberties; to conduct retail business in person without a show of obeisance. Free men are not required to bend the knee to conduct business. I am past the boiling point. I am afraid that physical revolt will be required to end this tyranny. I see no end in sight otherwise. Perhaps a small group of 8-12 people can coordinate an attack on one of the enemies retail stores: 'either they end the mask business or we wreck the interior'. Something, anything, to get their attention.Andy Texanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08930212556020086701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-23948418845944247142020-09-03T23:59:27.693-04:002020-09-03T23:59:27.693-04:00Fran - please tell us, from whom did this great qu...Fran - please tell us, from whom did this great quote come? Yeah, I am one of dozens of men I know that are in "Leave me alone or I'll kill you" mode. Would love to know the source.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861191582000332595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-4655079958805194622020-09-03T23:57:27.858-04:002020-09-03T23:57:27.858-04:00Fran, do tell - from whom did this great quote (&q...Fran, do tell - from whom did this great quote ("Men who wanted to be left alone") come? I was hoping at the end of the article it would be noted. Could you fill us in?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05861191582000332595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-71584909195546212932020-09-03T12:27:38.003-04:002020-09-03T12:27:38.003-04:00Last night at dinner I glanced out the front windo...Last night at dinner I glanced out the front window, and saw a woman with her two small children strolling down our street. The three of them were alone; no one was near them in the early evening cool. And yet they were all masked up like faceless sheep.<br />I could feel my gut tightening, and that horrible cascade of rage at the idiocy, pity for the brainwashed, and futility in the knowledge that I could not go up to them and say, "You don't need to subject yourself to this mortification. This is a farce, this is..."<br />I know better. YOU CAN NOT REACH THEM.<br /><br />I feel like Kevin McCarthy's character in the penultimate scene from the old "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". He's seen his town taken over. He is near hysterical with exhaustion and fear, screaming at motorists on the highway. And no one will believe him.<br /><br />Every day on line I read posts from people who are similarly horrified at this. I'm not the only one. How many times a day? How many people experience this? There is no statistic, no measure for the toll this takes on our individual and collective mental health.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.com