More evidence about the virus source

"Chinese scientists affiliated with the People's Liberation Army filed a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine in February 2020, with their research indicating they began working on a vaccine at least by November 2019, nearly two months before Beijing disclosed the Covid outbreak, according to a report on the virus compiled by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and his staff.

Additionally, Wuhan researchers filed for a patent in December 2019 for an "integrated system for use in biological protection" that would detect air pressure changes to maintain negative airflow and ensure that the lab operates safely.

The patent application also included data from between September and December 2019 indicating that the WIV was experiencing serious issues with its ventilation systems.

”The outbreak of an airborne viral pneumonia is one way that such problems could have become evident to the WIV leadership," the Rubio report states."

https://sharylattkisson.com/2023/05/report-early-chinese-vaccine-patents-adds-to-evidence-of-covid-lab-leak/?

Senator Tim Scott endorses Marco Rubio

To steal a comment from another Facebooker, "The nation's first black Senator from a "Deep South" state endorses the Hispanic son of immigrants for the Presidential nomination from the "party of old white men." That's pretty cool."

Ethnicity, gender and religion in campaign 2016

There's an interesting video out there with Rubio responding to questions about his religion.  One appears to be off the cuff (unless the question was planted) and the other in a prepared speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy2Fjk00tTA

 

Many Republicans who complained of Obama’s lack of experience (in anything), will have to eat their words if Marco Rubio is elected. Has Rubio done anything other than be a politician? The question in the video came from an atheist.  Atheists and agnostics are also condescending, accusing the religious people of being illiterate bumpkins and troglodites. Films for example, and some politicians with sketchy theology and history, but who pretend to be Christians. They are becoming very aggressive, putting up billboards that are anti-God and ads on TV. And of course, the anti-God people pretty much control the culture so they control the conversation.

 

The a second event on the video is linked to the first, with the audience member wanting to hear a "formula" statement about faith.  Rubio talks about his current church attendance and affiliation, which is Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic. Now that presents a puzzle, but he’s an excellent word crafter and seems to pull it all together. He says that when he and his family became Southern Baptist (had actually been Mormon for awhile) and he really studied the Bible it revitalized all the lessons and liturgy he’d learned growing up as a Catholic, so they “reverted” to Catholicism but continue to follow the Southern Baptist sermons (Christ Fellowship)  and still occasionally attend because they like the pastor (mentioned his name, but I’m not familiar with that). The Catholic church is a big umbrella with a lot of leeway on beliefs (Pelosi and Kerry for instance have not been denied communion for their abortion and gay marriage beliefs), whereas the Southern Baptist umbrella, if there is one, is pretty small with little deviation from doctrine allowed. Next to Cruz, Rubio is the most talented speechifier of all the candidates, and even if you don’t like him, you have to be amazed as his quickness.

 

If Rubio pulls ahead, Trump will find a way to smear Catholics, and then point to Rubio as being duplicitous because he attends two churches (like he stirred up the Cruz birther issue). However, this makes Rubio conversant in three religious languages and styles, Mormonism, Baptist and Catholicism—and all three have a very strong social action/justice commitment. Trump in a narcissistic know-nothing in any language. Especially religion.

Marco Rubio on Bill Clinton's sex life, Donald Trump's plans

“Those are issues [Bill Clinton] that in my mind are going to be discussed by others in this campaign. They want to raise them, they can raise them,” the Florida senator told The Daily Caller in a phone interview Saturday. “That’s not what my campaign is focused on.
“I’m not offended by it,” Rubio continued, referring to other campaigns raising the issue of Clinton’s sexual past. “It’s true, it’s on the record and I think it exposes a tremendous amount of hypocrisy in the mainstream media. I believe had that been a figure on the Right, the mainstream media would be giving extensive coverage to it.”

“But,” he said, “I, in my campaign, am going to focus on the issues that are confronting our country and the damage Barack Obama has done and how we are going to reverse them.”
Asked about the new emails released this week from Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department, including one where the Democratic presidential frontrunner seems to explain to an underling how to send classified information on an unsecured server, Rubio said he didn’t yet have “a chance to review them, but I think it is par for the course.”

“We know for a fact that she was looking for the most convenient way possible to read this information even if it irresponsibly subjected not just classified, but sensitive information to foreign espionage,” he said.
“I think it was recklessness on her part and I think it disqualifies her to be commander in chief,” he added.
Speaking of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, Rubio said that he didn’t think the real estate billionaire was running as a conservative, but said he intends to support the Republican nominee for president, even if it ends up being Trump.

“I think Donald Trump is running as someone who is angry at Washington, at what Washington is doing wrong, and offers to shake it up,” Rubio said. “But when it comes to the specific policies to shake it up, they are not conservative policies.”

Pressed on whether he could support Trump as the Republican nominee, Rubio said: “Well, I am going to support the Republican nominee, as I said before, whoever that is, but I don’t think it will be Donald Trump when it is all said and done. I think it is going to be me.”

Some have speculated the so-called establishment might get behind Rubio when the primary heads into New Hampshire as a way to potentially blunt or stop the momentum of Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz  coming out of Iowa. Asked whether he has sought the endorsements of John McCain and Mitt Romney, the last two winners of the New Hampshire primary who remain popular in the Granite State, Rubio said he hasn’t “talked to either one of them about ever endorsing me.”

“[W]e need to win this campaign on our own,” he said. “I don’t think voters in New Hampshire — or Iowa for that matter — are going to base their votes on endorsements.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/09/rubio-on-bill-clintons-sexual-scandals-not-what-my-campaign-is-focused-on/

Thank you for that, New York Times

Thanks to the New York Times investigative journalism, we now know more about Marco Rubio than Barack Obama. We know he took out student loans to go to law school and paid them back (shocker), that he lost money on one home sale during the housing bubble (wow), that he had 4 traffic tickets in 18 years (ouch), and he has an $80,000 boat bought after he got a $800,000 advance on his book. Gee, Bill Clinton can get more than that for two 15 minute speeches for foreign governments, and his speaking fees went up after Hillary became Secretary of State. NYT called Rubio's debt staggering, but Saturday one of their reporters, Lee Segal, wrote a piece on how to stiff tax payers and universities by defaulting on student loans.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/financial-expert-quoted-in-nyt-rubio-hit-job-is-obama-donor/

Can't wait to see what Soros money can dig up about Scott Walker. . . although actually just because David Brock is grateful for Soros' generosity doesn't positively identify his fingerprints all over the Rubio story. It was just the smell in the room.

Campaigning events

Hillary Clinton gave a speech at a very poorly attended gathering at a historically black college in Texas where she told them scare stories of Republicans trying to take the vote away from them with a voter ID, something they need at the bank, the airport, and any government building. Maybe she thinks they never leave town or use a bank? Maybe she doesn't know that in the last 2 elections blacks voted at a higher rate than whites. Maybe she doesn't know even a majority of Democrats approve of voter ID to eliminate vote stealing. In which cities do the dead vote? Those run by Democrats!

New York Times is reporting on the combined traffic tickets of the Rubios.  Desperate!  Snoop some more. In 18 years--there must be more.  Mr. Rubio with four and his wife with 13.  Are they bad drivers or do Florida police target Cubans?  And Hillary Clinton is a billionaire crime queen, but where's the outrage?  Besides, she has had a driver the last 20+ years.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/05/marco-rubio-and-his-wife-cited-17-times-for-traffic-infractions-2/?_r=0