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underpants's JournalNot one for conspiracy theories but - Melania's tennis pavilion
How do we know she’s not using it as a cover to tunnel out?
Secret Recording Reveals NRA's Legal Troubles Have Cost The Organization $100 Million
2:46 audio report at link including LaPierre himself
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/839999178/secret-recording-reveals-nras-legal-troubles-have-cost-the-organization-100-mill
The National Rifle Association's legal troubles have cost the powerful gun rights group $100 million, according to a recording of the group's board meeting obtained by NPR.
In the January 2020 recording, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre criticizes ongoing investigations by the New York and Washington, D.C., attorneys general, bemoaning "the power of weaponized government." And he told the NRA's board of directors, assembled for the group's winter meeting in January, that the organization has had to make $80 million in cuts to stay afloat.
"What we did in order to survive and adjust is we took in 2019 and 2020 ... about $80 million in real costs out of the NRA budget," LaPierre said. "I mean, we kinda reframed this entire association. We took it down to the studs."
"I've never seen anything like that in the United States of America, to tell you the truth. I mean, that is Cuba, that is communist China, that is Venezuela, it's Russia, it's every other country we look at and we say, 'Thank God we don't live there,' " LaPierre said
GRONK IS BACK (NFL) ......in Tampa
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/04/21/rob-gronkowski-forcing-bill-belichicks-hand-on-return-to-nfl/Rob Gronkowski couldn’t stay retired.
Not with Tom Brady still playing. And especially not with Brady playing for a team not named the Patriots.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the all-world tight end has imagined this scenario of reuniting with Brady for quite awhile. This wasn’t a spur of the moment decision to request a trade. If Brady ever left, Gronkowski was going to join him wherever he landed.
Gronkowski basically had Belichick over a barrel. If Belichick traded him someplace else, Gronkowski made it known he would stay retired. Returning to the Patriots wasn’t an option.
The fun-loving Gronk had his fill of The Hoodie. He wanted a change.
Can the coronavirus be spread through farts? - the New York Post
Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Post
April 20, 2020 | 3:49pm
Two Australian doctors are weighing in about the spread of the coronavirus “down under” — whether it can be spread through farts, that is.
During Friday’s episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Coronacast” podcast, producer and host Dr. Norman Swan made a cautionary suggestion when it comes to particles of feces set adrift within a fart and the spread of COVID-19.
“No bare-bottom farting,” Swan advised about posterior pandemic panic, in a measured, mildly amused tone.
Meanwhile, Australian emergency physician Dr. Andy Tagg also floated the question via Twitter, asking, “So, can the bottom-based emissions of someone with coronavirus be silent and deadly?”
https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/can-the-coronavirus-be-spread-through-farts/
😁 Coming May 16th
http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2020/04/set-your-alarm-jupiter-venus-and-moon.html
‘Smiley face’ – when you hear that, most likely you would think of an emoticon, not planets aligning to form one!
The moon, Jupiter and Venus are going to be showing off for us on the 16th of May 2020, by aligning in a rare position that will form a smiley face in the sky!
This rare spectacle is called conjunction and is not to be missed, as the last time this happened was 12 years ago in 2008, so not a regular occurrence. In 2007 this also happened in the Philippines when the sky lit up at night.
(Not) Coming to a Georgia movie theater soon
If nothing else all the Freedumbers can go to movie theaters and someone can yell FIRE! and that sounds like fun.
I double checked this on Esquire
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/g31871914/movies-streaming-early-coronavirus/
Official theatrical release schedule for all upcoming films in the year 2020. We tediously check and update this list to make sure the dates are 100% accurate. We also list both wide and limited release dates to the best of our abilities. If you find any discrepancies or missing films, just let us know
April 24 (Friday)
Bad Education (HBO)
Beastie Boys Story (Apple+)
Extraction (Netflix)
Robert the Bruce (VOD)
True History of the Kelly Gang (VOD)
To the Stars (VOD)
Summer 2020
MAY 2020
May 1 (Friday)
Arkansas (VOD)
Bull (VOD)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (VOD)
Deerskin (VOD)
Dream Horse (VOD)
Endings, Beginnings (VOD)
The Half of It (Netflix)
The Wretched (VOD)
May 8 (Friday)
The High Note (VOD)
How to Build a Girl (VOD)
Valley Girl (VOD)
Walkaway Joe (VOD)
May 15 (Friday)
Blood and Money (VOD)
Proximity (VOD)
May 22 (Friday)
The Lovebirds (Netflix)
The Trip to Greece (VOD)
May 29 (Friday)
Irresistible (VOD)
The Vast of Night (Amazon)
https://www.firstshowing.net/schedule2020/
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