Why can every Podunk Police Department in the US buy armored vehicles and automatic weapons, but our hospitals can’t buy decent protective clothing for nurses?

In this centennial of World War I it is important to remember that 17 million people died in that conflict, but 50 million people died in the Spanish influenza pandemic that followed.

The Federal government gave a grant to a small Alaskan fishing village to install a close circuit TV monitoring system to watch for terrorists, but cut funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control. From 2000 to 2010 a total of a little more than 3,000 Americans have died from terrorist attacks while 50,000 Americans die every year from the flu. How does that make sense?

The War on Terror™ is a scam that has cost us our liberties and about $ 1 trillion.

Position: 42.3N 57.0W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northeast [040°] near 39 mph [63 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 90 mph [150 kph].
Wind Gusts: 110 mph [175 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 290 miles [465 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 966 mb.

Currently about 360 miles [ 580 km] Southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Arnolds Cove to Chapels Cove, Newfoundland.

The cooling water and increasing wind shear are weakening the storm.

The storm’s movement has speeded up considerably and the wind field has expanded.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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