The Democrats’ HEROES Act Could Extend Our Economic Distress

Continuing to fund additional unemployment benefits will deter workers from returning as the economy tries to re-open.

Thanks to the economic relief packages that have already been implemented, the U.S. is set to run a $3.8 trillion deficit this year. But Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democrats have proposed yet another round of spending—the $3 trillion “HEROES Act.”

The bill includes a federal bailout for financially struggling states and localities and additional broad-based $1,200 relief checks for individuals. But the most significant provision could be its extension of enhanced unemployment benefits through January 2021. Critics warn this could undermine states’ efforts to reopen and put a drag on our economic recovery through 2021.

Here’s why.

Chinese deception fuels fears of ethnic biological weapons 'experiments'

Chinese government deception regarding the coronavirus outbreak is raising new fears about Beijing’s biological weapons activities, including population-specific research on germ weapons capable of attacking ethnic groups, according to current and former U.S. officials.

A senior Trump administration official told The Washington Times that China is known to be engaged in a covert program that includes development of biological weapons capable of attacking ethnic groups with pathogens.

“We are looking at potential biological experiments on ethnic minorities,” the official said on the condition of anonymity.

The official said China’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak has heightened concerns about its secret biological weapons work.

“We continue to have concerns with China’s BWC compliance as well as their international obligations,” the official said, referring to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, an international treaty that prohibits the development and production of biological agents. “If we’ve learned nothing else through this COVID episode, it’s that China cannot be trusted to do the right thing.”

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JC Penney is filing for bankruptcy

J.C. Penney is planning to file for bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter tell CNBC.

Its advisors are currently working on a bankruptcy filing that could come early Friday morning, they said. They cautioned there is still a chance that final negotiations between the retailer and its lenders spill into the weekend and delay the filing.

J.C. Penney employed roughly 90,000 full-time and part-time employees as of February. It is working on a plan that would contemplate closing 180 to 200 stores while in bankruptcy. The retailer had 846 department stores as of February.

The Plano, Texas-based retailer is planning on filing for bankruptcy in Corpus Christi, Texas, the people said. It has been negotiating with its first lien lenders a $450 million loan to finance the bankruptcy, which would require the troubled retailer to hit certain goals to receive the second half of it, CNBC previously reported.

Because it is working so quickly to finalize its bankruptcy documents, it may not get them all done in time to draw from the initial funds its first day in bankruptcy. As such, it may need to wait until a June 2 court hearing to begin drawing from the loan, the people said.

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Judge Opposing Flynn Ruled in 2012: ‘Abuse of Discretion’ Not to Allow Dismissal

Retired federal judge John Gleeson, who was appointed Wednesday to present arguments against letting Michael Flynn go free, ruled in 2012 that it would be an “abuse of discretion” for the court not to allow the government to drop a prosecution.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan appointed Gleeson to argue as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) against granting a Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss the case against Flynn, and to argue for finding Flynn in criminal contempt of court for changing his plea. On Monday, Gleeson co-authored an op-ed in the Washinton Post opposing the DOJ’s decision, saying it “reeks of improper political influence” — and not because Flynn was targeted by the lame-duck Obama administration.

But in a criminal case in 2012, U.S. vs. HSBC USA, Judge Gleeson approved a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) and made the observation that if the government had tried to dismiss the case, he would have had little choice.

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Two Vehicle Collision With Fatal Injury (Pittsville)

Nevada's vote-by-mail primary stirs fraud concerns, as unclaimed ballots pile up

Red flags are being raised about the all-mail voting system being used in Nevada’s most populous county ahead of the state’s June 9 primary election amid reports that thousands of ballots are being sent to inactive voters -- fueling concerns about the possibility of voter fraud and ballot harvesting.

Thousands of ballots have been sent out by the Clark County Election Department to inactive voters – those who have not voted in recent elections, a roster that can include people who either have moved or are deceased – and the envelopes are piling up in post office trays, outside apartment complexes and on community bulletin boards in and around Las Vegas.

The excess ballots have drawn complaints from local residents, who worry that anyone could pick up a ballot off the street and cast a fraudulent vote, as well as from Republican Party officials in the state who see a nefarious motive behind the vote-by-mail system being employed by the Democrat-dominated Clark County Commission.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevadas-vote-by-mail-primary-fraud-concerns

Sen. John Cornyn: 'Unmasking' of Michael Flynn bigger than Watergate

Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said Friday the scandal involving the unmasking of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is bigger than Watergate, which led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation in 1974.

“There has to be answers. This is a scandal,” the Texas Republican told Fox News. He noted there was no “bonafide” reason for several members of the Obama administration to have requested the unmasking that led to Flynn’s legal troubles.

Mr. Cornyn’s comments come after Judiciary Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said his committee will be holding hearings on the topic in June.

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Was Obama systematically spying on everyone who could threaten his legacy?

On Friday, Thomas Lifson wrote that last week’s news about the Flynn unmaskings was just the beginning. He cited a post by retired naval officer J.E. Dyer, at Liberty Unyielding, for insights about what Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell was carrying in a sizable satchel he delivered to the Department of Justice on May 7, 2020. Anyone could see that the satchel contained substantially more information than the five pages revealing the myriad Obama officials who unmasked General Flynn’s name.

Dyer’s article is worth reading in its entirety, but Lifson gives a quick, elegant summary:

The key message is that for years the Obama administration was mining the incomparable database of the National Security Agency (NSA), which captured virtually all electronic communications – emails, text messages, everything – launched into the ether. The potential for abuse is breathtaking. Everything that political enemies said to each other, except in private in-person conversations or in snail mail letters, could have been spied upon. And now it looks like staggering numbers of intercepts were monitored. Dyer makes that case.

What especially caught my eye was the exponential growth rate of queries that “desk jockeys” in the various federal agencies made to view information about United States Persons of Interest during Obama's second term, all without having to log the specific inquiry or the identity of the person unmasked. Here’s the data, straight from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:

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WinRed Sets Fundraising Record

GOP fundraising platform boosted Garcia's Calif. upset

WinRed, the GOP's digital fundraising platform, raised nearly $60 million in April, funneling more than $500,000 toward a Republican victory in a California congressional race widely seen as a bellwether for November.

WinRed raised $59.8 million from more than 1.6 million small donations in April, the largest monthly haul in its 10-month history, according to Axios. Those efforts helped steer $503,087 to former Navy fighter pilot Mike Garcia, who became the first California Republican to flip a seat from the Democrats since 1998. Garcia won the race to replace disgraced "throuple" congresswoman Katie Hill by double digits, despite the fact that the suburban district has 30,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Republicans launched WinRed in June 2019 to compete with ActBlue, an online fundraising platform that has funneled millions of small donations to Democratic campaigns since 2004. WinRed has since played a major role in fundraising, particularly in special elections. In September 2019, it raised more than $300,000 for Rep. Dan Bishop's successful campaign in a closely watched North Carolina special election. WinRed fundraising figures have continued to grow since then, helping to close the gap between Republican and Democratic grassroots fundraising efforts.

An effort to unite the party behind the platform remains a work in progress. Republicans who oppose the president, including his primary rivals Joe Walsh and Bill Weld and upstart candidate Justin Amash, continue to use a different platform called Anedot.

Donations made through WinRed played a major role in Tuesday's special election win, with money that flowed through the platform contributing to Garcia's victory. Well-known Republicans with a proven donor base—such as Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Dan Crenshaw (Texas)—used the platform to raise $245,498 for Garcia, or nearly half of the WinRed donations to the California Republican.

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Update On Accident On Rt. 50 In Pittsville

Spot The Difference: Two Governors Reopened Their States, Only One Was Accused of 'Human Sacrifice'

The governors of Georgia and Colorado have at least one thing in common. They both took steps to reopen their states' economies in late April amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But for some reason, the media's coverage of Gov. Brian Kemp (R., Ga.) has been slightly different from the media's coverage of Gov. Jared Polis (D., Colo.).

Kemp, for example, has been accused of experimenting with "human sacrifice." So reads the headline of an April 29 article published in the Atlantic, which accuses Kemp of turning Georgia residents into "unwilling canaries in an invisible coal mine, sent to find out just how many individuals need to lose their job or their life for a state to work through a plague."

In a brief aside, the article acknowledges that some other states, including Colorado, "have already put similar plans in motion." Polis, for some reason, is not identified as an accomplice in Kemp's murder scheme.

When Kemp announced his plan to gradually reopen some Georgia businesses, former National Journal editor Ron Fournier echoed the sentiment of many media pundits when he wrote on Twitter: "Mark this day. Because two and three weeks from now, the Georgia death toll is blood on his hands. And as Georgians move around the country, they’ll spread more death and economic destruction." Fournier hasn't tweeted about Colorado in years.

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GOOD FOR THEM!

Obama claims his presidency was free from scandal — but he’s full of it

Democrats like Barack Obama think government abuse toward President Trump cannot be abusive just because Trump is a frequent miscreant.

Q: What did Barack Obama know about the dodgy investigation of Michael Flynn, and when did he know it?

A: More than his attorney general, and before she did.

That is a detail worth keeping in mind.

Democrats take it as a matter of moral certainty that Donald Trump and his political allies can only do wrong and cannot be wronged. Trump and his colleagues insist that they have been wronged in a very serious way: by the Obama administration’s abusing federal counterintelligence tools as an extension (and a post-election extension) of the 2016 presidential campaign. That is a perversion of political power that should command the attention of all Americans irrespective of their assessment of President Trump.

The original decision to target Flynn in the counterintelligence probe was based on a pretty flimsy pretext. And it was driven by the White House, not by the top bosses at DOJ. When acting Attorney General Sally Yates heard about the investigation — from President Obama himself, not from her own department — she “had no idea what the president was talking about,” as she told investigators. The New York Times, not exactly the house organ of the Trump administration, reports that at every turn Obama aides were involved in the investigation even as the acting AG was in the dark.

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Democrats BLOCK Motion to Bar Illegal Immigrants from Getting Stimulus Payments

House Democrats blocked a motion on Friday to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus payments included in the Democrat phase four coronavirus bill.

As the House prepared to vote on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) $3 trillion, 1,815-page phase coronavirus bill, the Heroes Act, Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) offered a motion to recommit. Riggleman’s motion to recommit would offer an amendment to the coronavirus bill to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus payments in the Heroes Act.

The House rejected the motion to recommit, with 198 votes in favor of the motion and 209 votes against the measure.

Riggleman said that the bipartisan phase three bill, the CARES Act, stipulated that illegal immigrants and non-citizens could not get the $1,200 per person stimulus checks. The Democrat Heroes Act changes this mandate.

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Wicomico County Partnership for Family and Children

Drive-By Drop Off Food Drive
May 18 and May 20

We have planned another food drive event. It is a Drive by and Drop off food curbside on Monday May 18 and Wednesday May 20 at 10:00a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the front door of the Government Office Building. Our staff will be available to unload your donations.

Our last drive generated 134 pounds of food in a little over an hour. Please help us reach our goal of 300 pounds in 2 hours. Canned and box items go to MD Food Bank who replenishes our local food pantries!

Bad Accident On Rt. 50 In Pittsville

There's been a bad accident on Rt. 50 & Sixty Foot Road, east bound. Reported as a possibility of a priority 4.

50 was shut down. Eastbound traffic is being diverted onto westbound 50. Westbound traffic is being diverted to Old Ocean City Road.

1 priority 4. 2 priority 3's en route to PRMC. 1 patient refusal.

I'm So Excited!!!

China is renewing lockdown restrictions after new coronavirus clusters were found in Wuhan and Shulan, 2 cities hundreds of miles apart

Two new clusters of coronavirus cases in China have been reported hundreds of miles apart, sparking fears of another large-scale outbreak.

On Sunday, the country's National Health Commission reported 17 new coronavirus diagnoses, the highest number in almost two weeks, and the second day in a row new cases were in the double digits, Reuters reported.

Fourteen cases were in Shulan, a city of more than 700,000 near the Russian and North Korean borders. They were all traced to a 45-year-old woman working at a police laundry department with no history of recent travel or contact with an infected person.

The government has reclassified Shulan as a high-risk region, the only city in China with that classification. Authorities have closed public spaces, with residents told to stay home unless there were "unusual circumstances."

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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE AMERICA?

How to read New York’s ‘dashboard’ for reopening

The fate of a region's reopening rests on a New York State "dashboard" measuring everything from hospitalizations to intensive care unit capacity.

There are green checks and red Xs next to the benchmarks for each of the 10 regions. Seven green checks for a region mean it is a go – it can begin the gradual process of rolling back state restrictions on businesses and public gatherings.

The criteria are based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, state officials said.

The Western New York region, defined by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo as Erie, Niagara, Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties, isn't there yet. As of Friday, it still fell short on two measures: Western New York has not seen a 14-day decline in Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths.

Cuomo has urged New Yorkers to closely watch the measures in their own region. "I hope people get up in the morning, have their cup of coffee and go online to figure out how their county is doing," Cuomo said Thursday.

But the dashboard – which can be found at forward.ny.gov/regional-monitoring-dashboard – is not exactly easy to decipher. We broke it down for you:

No. 1 - Total hospitalizations

Nolte: Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Joe Biden Extend to Female Secret Service Agents

Joe Biden’s numerous sexual misconduct allegations extend to his creepy and abusive behavior in front of female Secret Service agents, reports Ron Kessler of the Washington Times.

Kessler, who wrote about the Secret Service in a book titled The First Family Detail,discovered that while former First Lady Hillary Clinton is the most reviled among Secret Service agents, former Vice President Joe Biden comes in a close second.

One of the reasons he was so disliked was his creepy habit of stripping down naked in front of female Secret Service agents to go for a swim.

“Mr. Biden’s lack of consideration was even more stunning when it came to female agents,” Kessler writes, “who were offended that the vice president bizarrely swam naked in front of them often daily at his pools at the vice president’s residence in Washington and at his home in Delaware.”

Daily.

Daily!

He put this perv show on almost every day.

While Secret Service agents have nothing but nice things to say about the Obamas and Trumps, who are consistently considerate of those protecting them, Biden was consistently thoughtless.

With just a few moments notice, Biden would decide to fly home to Delaware, disrupting any plans the agents might have had. This turned their “personal lives into nightmares.”

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Samantha Power Denied Unmasking Individuals in 2016

Then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power denied unmasking people in 2016, but recently released documents show that she unmasked former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn at least five times that year.

In October 2019, journalist Nicholas Ballasy asked Power after an event she was speaking at why she decided to unmask “so many individuals” in 2016.

She responded, “It’s false…completely false.”

She then began ignoring his questions, even as he walked down a hallway following her.

However, Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell recently unclassified names of former Obama officials who requested the unmasking of the name of a U.S. person in an intelligence document that revealed Flynn’s name.

Power requested unmaskings five times in 2016 and one time in 2017 just before the Obama administration left office.

The names were released as Republicans continue to investigate who illegally leaked Flynn’s name and his conversation with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak to the Washington Post.

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Nevada's vote-by-mail primary stirs fraud concerns, as unclaimed ballots pile up

Red flags are being raised about the all-mail voting system being used in Nevada’s most populous county ahead of the state’s June 9 primary election amid reports that thousands of ballots are being sent to inactive voters -- fueling concerns about the possibility of voter fraud and ballot harvesting.

Thousands of ballots have been sent out by the Clark County Election Department to inactive voters – those who have not voted in recent elections, a roster that can include people who either have moved or are deceased – and the envelopes are piling up in post office trays, outside apartment complexes and on community bulletin boards in and around Las Vegas.

The excess ballots have drawn complaints from local residents, who worry that anyone could pick up a ballot off the street and cast a fraudulent vote, as well as from Republican Party officials in the state who see a nefarious motive behind the vote-by-mail system being employed by the Democrat-dominated Clark County Commission.

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Salisbury made a national list of coronavirus hot spots. How many cases came from its poultry plant? Maryland won’t say.

Word spreads quickly in Salisbury — sometimes in English, other times in the Spanish or Creole of its immigrant communities. It’s how people learned about the young man who was hospitalized with COVID-19, or the father who developed an unrelenting fever and breathing difficulties and died.

The young man’s mother and the man who died were both chicken plant workers, a dominant employer in Salisbury, where Perdue Farms is headquartered, and throughout the Delmarva Peninsula.

“This is an intimate community,” said Amy Liebman, an occupational and environmental health specialist for a nonprofit. “We’re all connected here.”

The connective fiber has always threaded through the poultry industry, but perhaps no more clearly than now when its massive processing plants have emerged as hot spots of the global coronavirus pandemic.

State health officials say 362 poultry workers and family members have tested positive for the virus. Of those, 240 live in Salisbury or elsewhere in Wicomico County, although some may work at plants elsewhere in the three Delmarva states.

Those totals are the only figures the state has released. In response to repeated requests by The Baltimore Sun, the Hogan administration would not release specific numbers of cases for the two big plants on Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore — Perdue in Salisbury and Amick Farms in Hurlock in Dorchester County — saying it is still trying to test all workers on every shift and does not have complete data about the outbreak that has drawn national attention since April 23. That’s when The New York Times identified the Salisbury metro area as one of the country’s worst COVID-19 infection sites.

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For couple slain in cemetery, visiting son’s grave was a daily ritual

ELKTON — U.S. Army veteran Paul Marino and his wife, Lidia, visited the grave of their son, Anthony, at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bear, Del., almost every day for the past three years.

“It was like a regimen. Mom and Dad visited my brother’s grave every single day, without fail, unless there was inclement weather. They usually went there in the morning,” the couple’s son, Ray Marino, 60, of Elkton, said Wednesday.

The daily graveside visits served as a touchstone for the elderly Elkton couple – each day was another opportunity to express how deeply they loved Anthony and how heartbreakingly they missed him.

The couple would stand at the grave for 10 minutes or so. Sometimes they left fresh flowers; other times, they simply talked to their deceased son. “Hey, Anthony, Mom and Dad are here,” they would say.

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Has The Health Department Inspected These Outside Dining Locations?

I mean, let's get real here. If I am to open up outside dining I'm told I need to go through the Health Department, Fire Marshall, Planing & Zoning, I want to know, did these businesses go through the same BS? Is this even allowed? Are these businesses disinfecting properly? I want to know right here and now, what are THEIR protocols and what are MINE? Funny how cars are driving right past these tables too, very interesting! Yet my egress has to be 100 feet!?!?!?

California Colleges to Sue Feds for Not Giving Coronavirus Funds to ‘Dreamers’

Institutes of higher education are in the business of educating, but California community colleges are focused on suing the federal government for not providing money to students attending these schools who are not citizens but are protected from deportation for being in the country illegally through the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Close to a million DACA recipients — or “dreamers” as open borders advocates have dubbed them — attend these colleges and deserve money from the government, according to the Los Angeles Times:

"California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley and the system’s Board of Governors filed suit this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco against the Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos over eligibility restrictions placed on the use of federal aid money for students, arguing that the restrictions are unconstitutional.

“The Department of Education ignored the intent of the CARES Act to give local colleges discretion to aid students most affected by the pandemic, and instead has arbitrarily excluded as many as 800,000 community college students,” Oakley said in a statement.

Guidance from the Department of Education said that only students who are eligible for federal financial aid can get assistance, which leaves out DACA recipients, “students without high school diplomas; students enrolled in non-credit programs; and students who fail to maintain satisfactory academic progress.”

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As Citizens Face Hard Times, Dems Introduce 'HEROES Act' To Defend Illegal Aliens' Jobs

While many American citizens deal with the economic fallout of disastrous community lockdowns, House Democrats have moved to protect the employment of illegal immigrants with a new bill.

H.R. 6800, also known as the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, was introduced Tuesday by Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York.The bill has several big-name Democratic co-sponsors, including Reps. Jerrold Nadler of New York and Maxine Waters of California.

The measure seeks to remedy a number of problems that have appeared or become worse since the global outbreak ground many economies to a halt.

Unfortunately for the American worker, however, the substantial student loan forgiveness, “Heroes Fund” hazard pay grant scheme and extension of direct payments to taxpayers comes with a hefty progressive addition.

Along with those alluring payouts, the bill also contains a massive stand for illegal immigrants.
Under the act, illegal aliens lucky enough to work in “essential critical infrastructure” are protected from violating the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Police working to identify man who wore KKK mask into Dillon grocery store

DILLON, Colo. (KDVR) — Authorities are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who wore a hooded Ku Klux Klan mask into a grocery store in Dillon Thursday.

Images and video of the man were shared widely online.

He was seen inside the City Market on Dillon Ridge Road about 12:30 p.m.

The mask has images of a swastika and a peace sign.

Don Nechkash took a photo of the man.

Nechkash said he was one of several customers who confronted the man and called him a racist.

“He was walking around and just very obviously looking for attention,” Nechkash said.

A store employee repeatedly asked the man in the KKK mask to leave.

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Unbelievable Conversation I'm Having On Facebook This Morning!!!

Michael Oxbrough Delaware just set ours. June 1. 30% capacity.

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  Joe Albero You can't be serious??? That's restaurant suicide! It should be called murder. Do these Idiot elected officials actually believe ANY money can be made at 30%, let alone 50%? We all need to come together and file suit against each state.

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  Michael Oxbrough Joe Albero, that wasnt it. Mandatory masks, no walk ins...all tables must be through a reservation process only, patrons can remove mask only at their tables and aren't allowed to get up unless using restroom, bars can only be used as service bar..no seating or standing, all tables must be 6ft away, high top tables must be 8ft away, outside patios must remain original footprint and cannot move tables outside of it. There is more....

Coronavirus Cases in Georgia, Florida Continue to Decline Despite Business Openings

Some states engaged in reopening their economies have not yet seen coronavirus outbreaks feared by health officials.

In particular, Georgia and Florida, which were projected to see a sharp rise in new cases, have not experienced major new outbreaks in the past week. The average number of new daily cases in Florida declined by 14 percent over the past week, and Georgia’s average new daily cases dropped by 12 percent during the same time period, according to an analysis by Axios.

The data on new cases is imperfect because of variations between states in the amount and frequency of coronavirus testing. As of Wednesday, Florida has confirmed almost 42,000 coronavirus cases, while Georgia has confirmed 35,000 cases.

“Cases [in the U.S.] still continue to expand, and some of that is [due to] the fact that we’re testing more,” former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Wednesday on NBC’s The Today Show. Gottlieb cautioned that “this is an epidemic that hasn’t run its course nationally, and hasn’t really started to show sustained declines outside of the New York region.”

Florida governor Ron Desantis has stated that fears of an impending disaster in his state were overblown.

“There’s been a lot that’s been done to try to promote fear, to promote worst-case scenarios, to drive hysteria,” DeSantis said in late April. “People should know that worst-case scenario thinking — that has not proven to be true [in Florida].”

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Salisbury made a national list of coronavirus hot spots. How many cases came from its poultry plant? Maryland won’t say.

Word spreads quickly in Salisbury — sometimes in English, other times in the Spanish or Creole of its immigrant communities. It’s how people learned about the young man who was hospitalized with COVID-19, or the father who developed an unrelenting fever and breathing difficulties and died.

The young man’s mother and the man who died were both chicken plant workers, a dominant employer in Salisbury, where Perdue Farms is headquartered, and throughout the Delmarva Peninsula.

“This is an intimate community,” said Amy Liebman, an occupational and environmental health specialist for a nonprofit. “We’re all connected here.”

The connective fiber has always threaded through the poultry industry, but perhaps no more clearly than now when its massive processing plants have emerged as hot spots of the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Impossible Demands From States Destroying The Bar/Restaurant Industry

While we do not know exactly what Governor Hogan is going to demand when we go into stage II and bars and restaurants are "allowed" to reopen but as you can see above, Delaware is making it just about impossible to survive. 

In the noon hour I'll have yet another article/conversation with someone from Delaware. These restrictions are too difficult to survive with and yet we still haven't seen definitive instructions in Maryland. 

While some commenters here claim I'm complaining, I'm broke, I'm flip flopping, clearly I'm a lot smarter then these fools think I am. I have a venue that is read by tens of thousands of people a day. I am the only one willing to put my name, (and money) on the line to tell the TRUTH and challenge people all the way up to the Governor. Clearly elected officials read SBYNews daily as it was proven last Sunday when more then 25 of the top sate officials held a 2 hour long video conference call specifically on Caribbean Joe's opening on Mother's Day. 

Here's the difference between my bar and everyone else's. I own Caribbean Joe's, located in the very center of the Alamo complex. The concrete pad in the center of the complex is all a part of our liquor license. That being said, when you order to go food or drinks you do so ON my allocated licensed plat. When you step off that concrete pad and onto the gravel you are now on the Alamo property, two separate entities. Meaning you have left MY premises. No other bar/restaurant can make the same claim, none. 

What we had done last week was in fact 100% legal and our local officials absolutely supported us on that fact in that 2 hour long meeting Mother's Day. I/We are simply trying to think out of the box in a very safe and legal manor. Yes, I had stated I did not want to compete with other bar/restaurant/liquor stores and I have given them TWO months to make whatever they could. Now we are very close to reopening and it is time we start gearing up for such an opening. HOWEVER, putting these CRAZY restrictions on us will kill us, all of us. Anyone who says anything different is a liar. There's no possible way anyone can survive on 30% of your allotted business. 50% simply means you'll be LUCKY to survive. 

Last night the Maryland State Police continued to spy on Caribbean Joe's driving through our parking lot as if they were expecting us to violate the law. Last Sunday the Police went around to other bars/restaurants shutting down a car show and DJ stating they had just shut down Caribbean Joe's and proceeded using that claim to shut others down for lack of social distancing. IT WAS A LIE! No police EVER came by Caribbean Joe's last Sunday and they LIED to other businesses making such a claim. 

We are living now in a police state. Our local officials know we would NEVER violate the law, ever. I have NEVER been cited by anyone and the only time I ever called the police in the past year and a half was a week ago during this shut down when I caught someone trying to break into my car. Does this mean the local Police are going to "police" our businesses? In fact, WHO is going to police social distancing and or ALL of these new regulations? Then you have to really wonder, is it worth the effort and financial strain to be in this business any more. The obvious and honest answer is, NO! I don't want the gestapo standing over my tables watching with a keen eye to see if you lifted your mask too long to take a bite of your food. The next thing you'll know they're going to want you to put dates on your masks and create new legislation on an expiration date for masks. 

So what's next Governor Hogan? I put my finances on the line, took a HUGE risk redeveloping and recreating the old Alamo image into a new and vibrant business and now you want to cut me in half! How about the new Dough Rollers and the expense they've gone through. The new and upcoming Mulligan's. Seacrets Memorial Day tradition and income loss!!! I mean, you can now GOLF but you can't play MINIATURE GOLF? You are clearly going after Ocean City, the second largest tax income in the entire sate. You may have an R next to your name but it stands for RINO, not republican. 

Open us the hell back up and get the hell out of our way. Play your give me financial relief President Trump with REAL numbers and not fake ones because you put so any restrictions on us human being taxpayers/businesses we can't survive. You are a dictator who needs to be removed from office and your damn right my name is on this article. We want no favors, we are true conservatives who want to EARN our keep and go back to work, not ask for handouts from our government.  

ID to Eat But Not to Vote: Washington State Orders Restaurants to Track Dine-In Customers

Now Big Brother will watch where you eat…

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has ordered restaurants to track every dine-in customer if they want to reopen.

According to the order, restaurants must demand that customers show their IDs and then keep a log of everyone who eats there.

This is Inslee's attempt to make contact tracing easier if a breakout happens…

But many critics worry that this level of tracking sets a dangerous precedent.

There are legitimate constitutional concerns about the government's ability to track and record where and when people eat.

Restaurants are required to keep their logs for 30 days, which include the customer's phone number, email address, and date and time they came to eat.

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Republican 'Superstar' Melissa Melendez Wins Special Election for California Senate

With all the attention focused Tuesday on Republican Mike Garcia’s smashing win in the special U.S. House election in California’s 25th District (Los Angeles), it was not surprising that the national press pretty much overlooked the big Republican win for state senate in the Golden State’s 28th District (Riverside).

With nearly all votes counted, conservative State Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez rolled up 56 per cent of the vote over Democrat and Riverside County Board of Education member Elizabeth Romero.

The special election was called to fill out the remainder of the term of Republican State Sen. Jeff Stone, who resigned earlier this year to become regional director of the U.S. Department of Labor. Melendez's winning percentage was four percentage points above that of Stone in his last trip to the polls.

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Trey Gowdy: Leaking Flynn's name to media is a '10-year felony'

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said Friday that it's been almost four years since details of Gen. Michael Flynn's phone call with the Russian ambassador were leaked to the media, but the question of who leaked the information remains.

"It's a 10-year felony," Gowdy told "Mornings With Maria" on Fox Business Network.

Gowdy, former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a Fox News contributor, told host Maria Bartiromo that he was "struck" by how many people in the Obama administration had the power to request Flynn's name be unmasked.

"The undersecretary from Micronesia does not need unmasking power," he said, arguing that a leak investigation is difficult when so many people have access to the classified information.

Gowdy said the "serious crime" must be investigated and brought to a conclusion, especially considering how much effort was spent to bring charges against Flynn.

"So I ask the FBI again: how is your leak investigation going? I know how your Michael Flynn investigation went, I know the time and effort you spent to try to catch someone in a lie. How is your 10-year felony investigation going? It has been four years now," he argued.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/gowdy-leaking-flynn-name-media-felony

Maryland COVID-19 Data 5-16-2020

COVID-19 Statistics in Maryland

Number of confirmed cases : 37,968
Number of negative test results : 152,207
Number of confirmed deaths : 1,842
Number of probable deaths : 115
Currently hospitalized : 1,500
Acute care : 902
Intensive care : 598
Ever hospitalized : 6,755
Released from isolation : 2,806

Cases and Deaths Data Breakdown:
Parenthesis = Confirmed death, laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 test result 
Asterisk = Probable death, death certificate lists COVID-19 as the cause of death but not yet confirmed by a laboratory test
NH = Non-Hispanic

By County

County	Cases	Deaths
Allegany	160	(13)
Anne Arundel	2,801	(133)	8*
Baltimore City	3,719	(192)	8*
Baltimore County	4,549	(223)	17*
Calvert	237	(12)	1*
Caroline	200
Carroll	633	(66)
Cecil	308	(17)
Charles	844	(60)	2*
Dorchester	111	(2)
Frederick	1,402	(82)	7*
Garrett	7
Harford	678	(30)	3*
Howard	1,352	(41)	2*
Kent	138	(14)
Montgomery	7,988	(423)	38*
Prince George's	11,031	(399)	21*
Queen Anne's	112	(9)
St. Mary's	306	(10)
Somerset	55
Talbot	68	(1)
Washington	332	(9)
Wicomico	801	(20)
Worcester	136	(4)	1*
Data not available		(82)	7*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	743
10-19	1,437
20-29	5,000	(10)	1*
30-39	6,880	(22)	3*
40-49	6,818	(51)	4*
50-59	6,354	(123)	10*
60-69	4,665	(290)	12*
70-79	3,142	(449)	15*
80+	2,929	(817)	63*
Data not available		(80)	7*
Female	19,800	(915)	64*
Male	18,168	(927)	51*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	11,795	(760)	39*
Asian (NH)	738	(65)	5*
White (NH)	7,865	(762)	56*
Hispanic	8,615	(150)	7*
Other (NH)	1,814	(22)	1*
Data not available	7,141	(83)	7*