The Origins of Wuhan Flu

Wuhan Flue Origins

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In this current pandemic we find ourselves in there are many rumors and tall tales of what is actually going on. Strange things are even happening in politics when you have two staunch anti- President Trump governors actually praising the president for all of the effort and assistance that is being put in to fight this illness.

So much is being said about this issue that it’s hard to know what the truth is and what is fiction. Those of us who do this everyday have a hard time distinguishing the truth from fiction. This story is about such a case. We will leave it to our readers to form their own opinion.

National Reaction To The Wuhan Flu

Wuhan Flu

The Nation Reacts

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In the midst of the worst health crisis this nation has ever faced, the nation is struggling. Our government at all levels are taking extraordinary measures to help the citizens of this nation. Yet we look and see a nation in chaos. There is a simple reason for that. It is the lack of leadership from a vast majority of the alleged leaders at all levels of government. The news media is out there preaching the word of this being Armageddon when it’s not. There are far too many supposedly responsible elected officials and news agencies, from international to local, who are not being responsible when telling of the tale of this virus. We present to you a few highlights of their mis-adventures.

We will begin by putting before you what we feel is perhaps the most correct and important article reported since the outbreak started. The article which you can see here, states, and we’ll quote “The world’s leaders need to first and foremost calm people down,”. That, in our opinion, is the most profound and important statement made by anyone during this entire catastrophe. Leaders stop scaring people and start leading them.

Convention Of States: Are Our Legislators This Ignorant?

A LESSON ON GIVING AWAY YOUR VOTE:

ARE OUR LEGISLATORS REALLY THIS IGNORANT

We sometimes wonder why those we elect to represent us make such bad decisions. We always seem to send highly educated individuals to offices to represent us and we assume that because of their education that they are intelligent. That is the mistake the voters will make time and again. Just because they have a degree beside their name doesn’t mean they have the one vital element to make them intelligent. That one vital element is common sense. Ladies and gentlemen, it is glaringly absent in the Chamber of the Oklahoma State Senate and we shall show that here tonight.

What prompted our look into this story was an article from the www.muskogeepolitico.com which you can read here. Now there has been an attempt to get an Article 5 Convention of the States ongoing for several years now. We don’t consider even the remote possibility that they have the right to do so. What we question is the political climate in which they want to bring one up. We doubt that anyone would disagree that these are politically dangerous times in our great nation. We ask is it really the time to bring an untested, untried format of changing our Constitution to a convention where the only guidance given is that the Congress shall call for it? We think not.

A Senator's Conflict of Interest

A CASE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST

THE LOBBYIST ARE GETTING THEIR MONEYS WORTH.  

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We are not going to sugar coat anything here. We all know that politics is a dirty business. We all like to think that when we donate to the campaign of any politician that he cannot be bought by special interest groups. Sadly, that is often not the case. Many elected officials have their campaigns financed by those special interest groups with the idea of influencing the vote of the elected official. Far too many times they are successful.

What brought our attention to this subject was this article to the editor of the on-line news publication SoonerPolitics.org. The individual raised some very valid questions that needed to be investigated. So we did.

The very first thing we did was find the definition of what a conflict of interest is. Wikipedia has a definition that covers several areas. You can read their entire definition by opening this link. The area we found to be most appropriate in this situation stated, and we’ll quote “The presence of conflict of interest is independent of the occurrence of inappropriateness. Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs. A conflict of interest exist if the circumstances are reasonably believed (on the basis of past experience and objective evidence) to create a risk that a decision may be unduly influenced by other, secondary interest, and not whether a particular individual is actually influenced by a secondary interest.”