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Whenever Im feeling the blues whether its because I cant make it to the parks anytime soon or Im just not having the greatest week I think of Walt Disney. Walt was full of optimism and a positive attitude, and of course, he created the theme park that started it all: Disneyland. And these vintage photos of Walt Disney in Disneyland are sure to make any fan smile!

The Instagram account @disneyland.retro constantly shares daily photos of vintage and retro Disneyland Resort. They always bring the biggest smile to my face and make me feel all warm and fuzzy as if Im spending time with an old friend. While I wasnt alive when Disneyland first opened and I didnt get to experience many of the attractions that are now extinct, I can still appreciate the parks history. After all, without Disneyland, we wouldnt have any of the other Disney Parks all around the world!

To help spread some joy, heres a handful of images of Walt Disney in the original Disneyland park. In these images below, you can see his memories of vintage Disney attractions and times he spent with his family, as well as how much he loved the park guests.

Walt Disneys dedication speech:

Walt, his wife Lillian, and their daughter Diane on the Mad Tea Party:

Walt and Diane having a chat with guests:

Walt living it up on Main Street, U.S.A. signing autographs for happy guests:

Walt with the rhino animatronic from Jungle Cruise, one of his favorite attractions in Disneyland park:

Care for a ride on the world-famous Jungle Cruise? Let Walt himself be your skipper!

The Enchanted Tiki Room was one of the most remarkable attractions at Disneyland, and Walt loved it:

Walt Disney also loved coffee. Here he is at Creole Caf, which is now Caf Orleans:

Finally, heres Walt with some of the cutest vintage Disney characters around:

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KEN MATTHEWS: We have a very special guest today. The host of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mr. Rush Limbaugh.

RUSH: Mr. Matthews, thank you very much. I found a way past the call screener on this program, folks, because I, as the architect of this whole enterprise, would know how to do that. And I cannot tell you how great it is to be back here, even if it is just for a half hour or so here on the phone today.

Im so sorry that Ive missed this week and some days last week. None of this was intended, of course. And I want to share with you some of the details of why Ive missed. Even though I vowed not to become a cancer patient, at some point Im gonna have to divulge some of this stuff because these absences are longer than expected. And, of course, watching whats happening in our country is unbelievable, and from the perspective of not commenting on it every day.

And Im traveling a lot. My treatment requires travel to different places. And no matter where weve been this country is shut down. Its just incredible. And Ill tell you, folks, it has been scary to me, it has been frightening to me to see how easy it has been to do this. In a matter of, what, weeks, we have destroyed all of the wealth created in the stock market the last three years? Its uncanny here.

And the bigger question that I have, which well address in much greater detail next week, is what kind of country are we going to have when this is over? Because it isnt gonna be the same country. I mean, why even have budgets? We dont have $2 trillion to be giving away to people. Im not objecting to doing it, dont misunderstand. We dont have the money. We have a national debt of 22, $23 trillion. We dont have this money. Were printing this money.

You remember how everybody was fit to be tied when Obama had a $787 billion stimulus? That wasnt even $1 trillion. That led to the creation of the Tea Party. People feared the meaning, the future, all that spending, what it would mean for their kids and their grandkids. Now look. And of course nobodys objecting to it because on the foundational side of this weve got this virus that is like a thousand airplanes crashing every day in terms of psychological effect its having on people. So, its a fascinating case study to me, and its worrisome and its troublesome.

And then, on the other side of it is, through all of this, Ive never had any doubt were gonna come out of it. Ive never had any doubt were gonna come out of it stronger and were gonna come out of it healthy. And I think its imperative that we have somebody like Donald Trump, who is outside the establishment expert class, who has a history of solving problems, to actually lead the country through this.

You know, weve talked about the deep state all these years since Trump was elected, the Trump-Russia collusion, the FBI the deep state extends very deeply. And the American people did not elect a bunch of health experts that we dont know. We didnt elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we dont know. And how do we know theyre even health experts?

Well, they wear white lab coats and theyve been on the job for a while and theyre at the CDC and theyre at the NIH. Well, yeah, theyve been there and they are there, but has there been any job assessment for them? Theyre just assumed to be the best because theyre in government, but these are all kinds of things that Ive been questioning.

And Ive been watching people routinely accept whatever the authorities say. Where I live, the local town government is driving around town trying to spot people violating the social distancing ordinances. And when they see it, they publish it on their website, This is very troublesome. We at the town are very troubled by groups of people congregating, violating the social distancing. Well, what do you think people are gonna do? People are not just gonna sit around here and stop living. Anyway, most of this is for next week. Im just kind of setting the table. Cause once I get going the time starts flying here and Im gonna be out of it before I know it.

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RUSH: And here we are back at it, Rush Limbaugh on Open Line Friday, the EIB Network, broadcasting to you from a secure and safe location. And, my friends, let me add something. I dont mean to be selfish here. I was sharing the details of the status of my cancer treatment. Even though I vowed I was not gonna become a cancer patient on this program, odd things have happened, and Ive been away longer than I intended, and I wanted to share these details because I know that all of you are going through difficult times.

Everybodys going through difficult times; I dont mean to focus on mine. I mean to say, Im among you. I mean to say that we are all in this together. We are all facing something. Im not complaining. Please dont misunderstand. Im simply informing you, because I got word that a lot of people were wondering where I was and why I hadnt come back, and I hadnt given any of the staff permission to share any of the information because dissemination of that information should come from me so that its done correctly with no errors, transmission, translation, or what have you.

But I think were all gonna persevere with American spirit. You know, were the United States of America, and we have been through things like this throughout our history and we have triumphed over all of them. I can only think of one instance where we didnt (and thats kind of a toss-up and it could be explained) and that would be the Vietnam War. If you want to talk about Washington experts and deferring to them

You know, I got a great note. Mr. Snerdley sent me an email that contained a really wonderful note from Rocky Bleier of the Pittsburgh Steelers, of the dynasty Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s. I met Rocky Bleier at a Bakersfield Business Conference some time ago, and I gave him a hug. I felt a connection simply because I loved the Steelers. Id never met him before.

So he sends Mr. Snerdley this very nice note saying he had just heard of my cancer diagnosis, and it reminded me that Bleier almost missed his NFL career because he was in Vietnam. He was sent there as a 19-year-old. He was severely injured in his foot, and it took a lot of rehab and a lot of medical care and treatment for Rocky Bleier to be able to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

I think ESPN just recently (within the past six months) took Rocky Bleier back to where he was in Vietnam, and they did a little documentary about it, and the heat and the humidity were such that he collapsed. He passed out. And I remember Im Rocky Bleiers age. Im of the Vietnam generation. Im watching it, and Rocky Bleier is breaking down and hes obviously

He did his duty. Everybody who was assigned went. But why were we there? What was the point? What was the objective served and who sent us there? Who sent us there was a bunch of Washington experts who, in that instance, may have thought they were doing what they should have done, but they were not. It was a giant mistake. But even that mistake

Time is dwindling away here. Ive got a point that I could relate to that and coronavirus if I had the time here, but thats what next week will be for. The point is, weve overcome all of these obstacles and we have done it by coming together, because there was always something that united us. There was always something we had in common, and that is that we were Americans, and there was great pride in being Americans.

It was almost like the kind of great pride being on a championship team of any kind baseball, football, basketball, you name it. We were Americans. And weve lost that. Weve lost that in recent years because of the partisan divide and because one of the parties in this country does not want America to be that anymore. That is what we will triumph over. That is why its so important to have somebody like Donald Trump in the White House who can see an end to this, who doesnt want to sit here and have to accept this as the new norm.

Even if it takes $2 trillion infusions, $3 trillion infusions to bring this country back, then so be it. We can do the postmortem when this is all done and taken care of. We still have obstacles. We still have obstacles to overcome in getting back to normal. Look, very quickly, theres a U.K. epidemiologist who got all of this started by predicting 500,000 deaths in the U.K. from coronavirus.

He just had to correct himself cause his models were wrong. Just like the climate change models are wrong, this guy admits that his models are wrong, and now we may not have more than 20,000 deaths in the U.K. The same thing is gonna be the case in the United States. Im out of time, folks. Its been great being with you. I appreciate the opportunity so much to be able to square things.

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Updated March 27, 2020 19:45:42

If a week is a long time in politics, it's an eternity during a pandemic.

Last week, this column described Donald Trump as a changed man: factual, decisive, upfront.

It seems the transformation was temporary.

This week, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson turned the health policy equivalent of the Titanic around.

He ordered his nation to hide in their homes after his advisers initially suggested "herd immunity" would see them through.

Over the same short period of time, Mr Trump was doing his second U-turn in as many weeks.

He suggested Americans could be set free and attending "packed churches all over the country" on Easter Sunday.

Indeed, on the very day the World Health Organisation warned America it could soon become the global epicentre of the pandemic, Mr Trump pushed for the US economy to be "opened up and raring to go" in just over two weeks.

"Our people are full of vim and vigour and energy," he told Fox News viewers.

"They don't want to be locked into a house or an apartment or some space. It's not for our country. We're not built that way."

Larry Brilliant, a veteran of the eradication of smallpox, told the New York Times ending the lockdown so early would be "an error of epic proportions".

Modelling suggests a nationwide lifting of restrictions by Easter would see 118 million Americans infected by October, resulting in more than 1.2 million dead.

That doesn't take into account the complete breakdown of the health system that would occur, increasing the mortality rate substantially.

Mr Trump insists the health of American citizens is forefront in his mind.

And his own White House advisers have watered down the suggestion of a nationwide lifting of restrictions.

Instead they're suggesting it could be possible in pockets where infection rates are low and only if much better data becomes available through widespread testing.

But the President has fallen back on misleading comparisons with the flu and fatal car crashes.

It seems keeping Americans alive during the most dangerous pandemic in a century isn't the only thing Donald Trump has to consider.

A national Gallop poll last week showed 73 per cent of Democrats feared exposure to the coronavirus, compared with just 42 per cent of Republicans a whopping 31 per cent difference.

That could be partly attributed to the misinformation initially pedalled by Fox News, which leans heavily toward the Republican side of politics.

But it probably has more to do with geography.

The early stages of the outbreak have had a much heavier impact in Democrat-leaning states like New York, Washington and California.

As the Atlantic points out, Republican-leaning states have displayed noticeably less urgency about the outbreak because most of them haven't been seriously impacted yet.

Republican governors and members of Congress have been urging the President to put the economy first.

"We don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways," said Republican senator Ron Johnson.

"Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 per cent of our population [and] I think probably far less."

Three-point-four per cent of America's population is 11 million people.

Despite his apparent willingness to accept those deaths, the Senator is right about one thing: the impact on the economy can't be ignored.

In the past fortnight, unemployment insurance claims in the United States have jumped 1,500 per cent.

That's not a typo.

More than 3 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week.

That's nearly five times the highest level of claims seen during the global financial crisis of 2007.

As the world fixates on Wall Street's daily convulsions, the broader economy of the richest and most powerful nation on Earth is crumbling before our eyes.

It's a prelude of what might be coming for Australia, which has been about 10 days behind America in terms of city-wide shutdowns, according to data from mobility apps like Citymapper.

The instantaneous loss of income is frightening for anyone and especially so in a nation where around half of American families claim to be living paycheque to paycheque.

The US Senate has now passed the biggest economic rescue package in history.

Worth $US2.2 trillion ($3.6 trillion), it's worth half the entire annual budget of the United States and about 10 per cent of America's annual entire economic output.

And here's the thing: it's not aimed at stimulating growth.

Mailing $4,000 cheques to millions of families and significantly boosting existing unemployment benefits is primarily aimed at staving off homelessness and hunger.

Anger too.

The unprecedented support for business large and small, had to come with something for workers and the unemployed.

Bailouts for business but not workers in the wake of the 2007 global financial crisis helped give rise to the Tea Party on the right, which fell in behind Trump.

It also inspired the occupy Wall Street movement, which helped bolster support for Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.

That seething anger remains in the hearts of millions of Americans.

And it can't have been soothed by news that Republican senator Richard Burr, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, dumped up to $US1.72 million in stocks in mid-February, while receiving daily briefings about the coronavirus threat.

He'd previously expressed confidence in the country's preparedness for a COVID-19 outbreak.

Standing in the corner of the Oval Office, there's an elephant armed with an AR-15.

The threat of a social unrest is very real in the minds of American policy makers and police chiefs.

An angry nation, heavily armed and cooped up through summer without income, is a dangerous proposition if there's any real sense of scarcity on the streets.

Look what happened in New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina when a slow emergency response left thousands trapped with little food or water.

Now the entire state of Louisiana is facing a new and potentially more serious disaster, recording per-capita the third highest rates of COVID-19 infection in the country, behind New York and Washington state.

In Louisiana, poverty is rife, the quality of healthcare is among the worst in America and levels of immune-compromising HIV are high.

Nationwide, the fear of looting, or worse, must be forefront in the minds of the President's security advisers as they watch lines at gun shops stretch around the block and businesses boarding up their shopfronts.

Perhaps that's why members of Congress started discussing the next economic rescue package even before this week's record-breaking stimulus was out the door.

And perhaps that's part of the reason the US President insists the coronavirus cure, involving months of social distancing accompanied by economic collapse, can't be allowed to be worse than the problem itself.

Topics:donald-trump,disease-control,infectious-diseases-other,business-economics-and-finance,economic-trends,globalisation---economy,united-states

First posted March 27, 2020 09:43:53

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Coronavirus could shut down America for months, and that scares Donald Trump for more than economic reasons - ABC News

Rick Santelli is sick and tired of the coronavirus. In fact, he hates the coronavirus so much that hes willing to infect everyone on the planet with it including you. That way, we can bring the spread of Covid-19 to an early end, and the global economy can return to normal.

Im not kidding; this is exactly what Santelli wants (via Twitter):

In a bizarre rant on CNBC yesterday, he railed against the precautionary measures nations and businesses are taking to protect people from coronavirus. He says authorities should force everyone to contract Covid-19.

Following some short-term pain, the economy can return to normal in a month or so. Minus the estimated 261.8 million people who would die from the deadly disease, of course.

Being a key figure behind the Tea Party movement, I guess this is what Santellis means by free market economics: The U.S. government kills off a bunch of old, sick, and/or poor people so that the stock market recovers and corporations continue making billions.

Unsurprisingly, Rick Santellis moronic diatribe attracted a considerable amount of flack on Twitter. And with good cause, because it was utterly insane.

Santellis primary argument is that wed never quarantine everybody because of the common flu. So why should we do it for the coronavirus?

Obviously, the editors at CNBC (they have editors, right?) forgot to remind Santelli that flu has a death rate of only 0.1%. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization confirmed that the coronavirus has a probable death rate of 3.4%.

So Santellis argument is already beginning to fall apart. Assuming a global population of 7.7 billion, infecting the entire world with the coronavirus would result in roughly 261.8 million deaths.

Not great. But the icing on Rick Santellis blood-stained cake is that he thinks infecting everyone at the same time would be a good thing.

Because the mortality rate of this probably isnt going to be any different if we did it that way.

Um, thats not quite right, Rick.

Yes, certain experienced and reputable virologists have said that as much of 80% of the worlds population will sooner or later be infected by the coronavirus. So the coronavirus will infect everyone (used here very loosely) anyway. So why not give it to everyone now?

If everyone on Earth had coronavirus at the same time, the shock to the global economy would be catastrophic.

For one, the strain on the worlds hospital systems would be unthinkably immense. Not only would an estimated 261.8 million people die from the disease, but hundreds of millions more would need medical attention.

Meanwhile, the worlds economies would come to a virtual standstill. Millions maybe billions of people would be unable to work. And yes, the stock market the very thing Rick Santelli is trying to save! would likely fall off a cliff as a result. Assuming it isnt closed altogether.

Still, we should thank Rick Santelli for making such a harebrained proposal. Its perfectly emblematic of the libertarian politics he represents: superficially logical, ridiculously self-interested, and hard-nosed but actually illogical, self-defeating, and superstitious.

After all, whats the one way to ensure that everyone contracts coronavirus? By calling on central governments to take the lead. But in Rick Santellis libertarian fantasy world, shouldnt governments be as small as possible?

Ah yes, I forgot: Whenit comes to protecting finance and capital, government should be as big as possible.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of CCN.com.

This article was edited by Josiah Wilmoth.

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90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2020

On today's program: Three decades into the ADA, Pittsburgh still has a long way to go; how fracking could influence the 2020 election; a new book explores how grassroots organizing is upending the democratic process; and questions remain about whether Allegheny County is pursuing facial recognition technology.

Celebrating the ADA, while making Pittsburgh accessible for all(00:00 10:15)

Thirty years ago, Congress approved the Americans with Disabilities Act to end discrimination in employment, housing and access to spaces open to the public. Advocates are celebrating the anniversary today at the Disability and Mental Health Summit in Pittsburgh.

Prior to 1990, if you were in a wheelchair and went to a movie theater, they could deny you entry because you were a fire hazard, says former California Congressman Tony Coelho, who wrote the original legislation.

Coelho, whos keynoting the event in Pittsburgh, says hes excited about the progress hes seeing in old Rust Belt towns like Pittsburgh, where accommodations like sidewalks, arts programming and building design are more thoughtfully considered than in years prior.

They make accessibility a key part of what theyre doing, as opposed to trying to provide accommodations after the buildings are built, he says.

Coelho, who has epilepsy, says the No. 1 need nationwide is jobs. According to Cornell University, 37 percent of Pennsylvanians with disabilities are employed, which matches the national average.

People need to look at us and see what we can do, as opposed to assuming what we cant do, Coelho says.

He says hed like to see the ADA expanded, but hes hesitant to push for any amendments since the House voted in 2018 to weaken the law.

Could an anti-fracking candidate win in PA?(11:26 17:52)

Climate change has become a key issue in the Democratic presidential primary, but it's tricky in Pennsylvania where fracking has become a controversial part of the economy. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier reports.

Political activism is flourishing in the 21st Century(17:54 30:31)

Since President Donald Trump's election in 2016, anti-Trump activists have responded by running for office, knocking on doors and building homegrown political organizations. A new book takes a look at that wave and the divisiveness that's affected nearly every corner of our democratic process.

For The Confluence, WESA political editor Chris Potter talks to co-author Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology at Harvard University, and essayist Lara Putnam, a University of Pittsburgh history professor who's been studying grassroots political movements in the Pittsburgh area.

Both will discuss Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance, now out in paperback, in person at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19 at Riverstone Books in McCandless. Co-author and fellow Harvard historian Caroline Tervo will also attend. Tickets are free, and books will be available at the door.

What does the DAs office want from its surveillance network?(31:35 40:00)

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala has built a five-county network of more than 1,000 cameras using $1.5 million in drug forfeiture money, and old emails acquired by the Harrisburg-based newspaper The Caucus suggest Zappala was considering enabling them to scan and store faces as far back as 2016.

Data journalist Mike Wereschagin reports that Zappala engaged the private facial recognition technology firm Biometrica in conversation that summer. An email immediately following an August meeting with Biometricas CEO asked whether its products were compatible with the Pennsylvania Justice Network, or JNET, which includes photos and personal data of people whove never been arrested. Only law enforcement agencies are permitted access to JNET, not private entities.

Wereschagin says theres evidence to suggest a potential partnership, which never materialized, between the county and Biometrica involved using facial recognition software to keep juveniles who are on probation out of certain areas, according to the reporting. Zappalas office has since said that the network doesnt employ facial recognition, and there are no plans to use it, but Wereschagin writes its the latest story to alarm privacy advocates, cybersecurity experts and civil libertarians.

He explains more about the network, the Chinese technology that supports it, and what he expects from a hearing Friday with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, which could compel Zappala to release more information.

90.5 WESAs Caroline Bourque contributed to this program.

The Confluence, where the news comes together, is 90.5 WESAs daily news program. Tune in weekdays at 9 a.m. to hear newsmakers and innovators take an in-depth look at stories important to the Pittsburgh region. Find more episodes of The Confluence here or wherever you get your podcasts.

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