October 16, 2020
My brother Brian - in addition to his duties teaching American history to mind-numbed Millenials at local universities - has been writing for a local magazine covering the St. Charles beat. He has to attend County Council meetings, something that sounds horribly boring but Brian assures me they are not; sometimes they are quite lively, even heated.
At any rate, Brian tells me that there was a big brouhaha at this week's meeting over accepting money to upgrade their voting machines. Why?
Because the money was coming from none other than Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg was going to give them $600,000 bucks to purchase new, high tech machines.
According to the Yahoo article:
The funds will support the Center for Tech and Civic Life to help ensure that "every jurisdiction that needs funding to help people vote safely can get it," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg and Chan donated $300 million last month to support the election infrastructure, which included voting equipment, personal protective equipment for poll workers as well as hiring additional poll staff.
AND there was a short deadline; the Council had to accept this offer right away or lose the money. In the end, despite heated debate, they accepted it.
You can't really blame them; how do you justify turning down over half a million bucks? Especially since the Council is worried they may have to raise taxes because of a series of shortfalls and decaying infrastructure.
And the Americans with Disabilities Act requires that every polling place be handicapped accessible. It is an unfunded mandate. Brian said they claimed one handicapped poll booth cost ten thousand bucks!
So Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife have effectively bought the St. Charles County Council. Like Don Corleone, they will probably have to do him a "small favor" in return.
I hope none of the Council members wake with a horse head in their beds.
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I was thinking of visiting the Ozark Hilton. I haven't been there for a while and it was past time to check on the old place (especially since yet another tree had fallen blocking my "driveway"; who knows what has happened to the old shack?)
(For new readers, the Ozark Hilton is a shack I built out of trash deep in the Ozark Mountains. It is, uh, rustic, with an oil drum for my hvac system, no running water or electricity or even a toilet. It's definitely not glamping.)
I have had to cancel my trip. Why you ask?
I am on a very low sodium diet. That means I get to eat food that would be rejected by most felons in maximum security prisons. I mean this stuff tastes like something they would feed Solzhenitzyn in a Siberian camp. But my dear wife tries her best to dress it up. Last night she fried some potatoes and onions. It was delicious! (Well, not bad. but to a guy eating rice cakes it tasted like something from a five star restaurant.) Unfortunately, I awoke inflated like the Hindenberg, and the subsequent crash rivaled what happened in New Jersey. I thought the Wehrmacht was storming Poland; well, they were storming Colond anyway. I fully expected to hear an hysterical Hitler speech to thunderous applause every time I opened my mouth. It was most disconcerting.
I took Pepto-Bismol and spent much of the rest of the night in my easy chair - it helped to ease the formation of a gas bubble. Of course that meant a gas cloud. I thought the Germans only used gas warfare during the FIRST World War!
While I'm feeling better it's a bit late to get going, and I don't dare leave until I get the inevitable bathroom explosion. It is yet to come.
You don't want to be at the Ozark Hilton with a bad stomach. I have a wonderful self-cleaning toilet down there; a couple of cinder blocks upon which I perch a toilet seat. Fresh air! But you have to contend with the flies if you are slow in conducting business. Fortunately the critters come and clean it up when I am gone (I am sure they are eating it, and I feel a bit guilty as my neighbor probably survives on some of the critters who fatten up on such fare.)
It is particularly bad to have to go at night. It gets DARK down there and you have to carry a light with you. It's pretty creepy, especially if the coyotes are out. I try to wait until morning if humanly possible, and if I can leave in time I drive to the state park.
But I did have an amazing experience once. I awoke at three a.m. with Panzers storming North Africa, and I knew it couldn't wait. In those days I used to blow out my kerosene lanterns; now I just burn them all night. It was December and had been pretty chilly, but not really cold. Grumbling I lit a lantern and dutifully trudged out toward my hillbilly lavatory.
It was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen. It had warmed up a lot; I didn't need a coat. And there was fog everywhere.
Now, the Ozark Hilton sits on a tongue of land dropping down into a valley. There are hollows on either side, the main road at the top. Fog had settled into both hollows, a very dense fog impenetrable to the eye. It settled farther down too. But it also was still at the road; I appeared to be in some sort of an eye. And the stars! They just blazed, brighter than I have ever seen them! It was a magnificent sight; as if I were on a tiny island of land in a sea of - nothing. At one point I wondered if the world had come to an end and only my cabin was left, or if I had died; it really was that spectacular! I have never seen anything like that before or since.
I was grateful for my misbehaving bowels. Had I not been forced outside I would never have seen that incredibly beautiful thing.
But most of the time it's just pitch dark and creepy. It doesn't help that the spiders like to spin webs in the evening and you never know if some enormous arachnid is going to bite your bottom, or if a scorpion may decide he didn't enjoy the view. It's terrible to think about the things that might assault your naked bottom in the woods at night.
At any rate, I am not willing to risk that. And I didn't get that much sleep, so I'll get pretty tired early, and I hate being pooped out while there; there is so much requiring my attention while I visit.
So the German army has conquered Tim's colon and prevented his trip. It was going to be a bit chilly anyway.
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October 15, 2020
Fauci says Thanksgiving plans amid coronavirus will be 'individual choice' based on risk
Do you suppose they're breathing a sigh of relief?With a number of regions across the country seeing a rise in coronavirus cases and a potential vaccine still months away, the pandemic is likely to impact Thanksgiving celebrations and plans this year. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said Thursday that people will have to make "their individual choice†when it comes to how to go about celebrating the holiday and seeing family.
"It’s a beautiful tradition of getting family together,†he told Yahoo News on Thursday during a live Q&A. "I think we need to realize things might be different this year, particularly if you want to have people who are going to be flying in from a place that has a lot of infection – you’re going to an airport that might be crowded, you’re on a plane, and then to come in -- unless you absolutely know you’re not infected -- there are many people who are not going to want to take that risk.â€
Fauci said his own children, three daughters who live in different states, have decided against coming to see him this year.
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If Fakebook and Twit-er are going to edit what people can say they are not a social platform. Hence they can be regulated and broken up. This proves they probably should.
Facebook, Twitter Make Editorial Decision to Limit Distribution of Story Claiming to Show 'Smoking Gun' E-mails Relating to Biden and His Son
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Researchrs say swearing helps the body combat pain. It's called the analgesic response, which makes the body more impervious to pain. ... Another study found people who cursed as they plunged their hand into icy water felt less pain and were able to keep their hands in the water longer than those who didn't swear.
Lalochezia - the use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
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For 4 years I have known thru my sources about what has been going on. The news has been completely hidden by much of the media. But the bottom line is this. Even without Hunter Bidens email showing Joe Biden did meet several months before with Burissma officials ( of course Biden is denying it, so the guy made it up, even tho his son got hired with no experience) He IS ON TAPE BRAGGING ABOUT BLACKMAILING THE UKRAINIANS INTO FIRNG THE PROSECTOR INVESTIGATING HIS SON. ON TAPE and what is amazing Trump gets impeached for what Biden actually did, And he gets investigated for3 years based on a Dossier payed for by HRC that originated with a known Russian spy, even identified by Obamas justice department, HRC does something, Trump gets blamed Biden does something Trump gets blamed There is no excuse for not having this out, at least so people can see it, THIS IS RIGHT OUT OF MARX blame someone for what you are doing. We are back in the USSR and Barr can do nothing because being above board he will not do anything to affect the election ( unlike what they did with Cap Weinberget for Clinton, indict him 6 days before on something proved baseless, but stopped what Momentum Bush had in his tracks, I think it does come out in the interim between Bidens inauguration and the election, because then there can be no question as to motive. Barr bends over backwards to play fair unlike what we be going on if the shoe was on the other foot. Moral of the Story God Help Us nothing else can ( and since there are organizations out there that want to destroy the family and religion Saying that. it may not be long before that gets you in more trouble than it does now
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CDC Goes from No Masks, To Wear Masks, To Masks are Better Than Vaccines, Now to Masks Don’t Work
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October 14, 2020
The moderator in the Pence v Harris Vice Presidential debate was able to favour Kamala Harris over Mike Pence in a number of obvious and not so obvious ways.
The obvious ways included not calling out Harris on her blatant lies. Like when she sad neither her or Biden had said they would ban fracking. The moderator also failed to make Harris give direct answers on a number of questions. The moderator only let Pence get away with that once.
But a much more subtle bias was when she asked questions loaded with misinformation. Like the continued myth that Trump hasn't condemned white supremecists.
In this videoTony Heller has taken apart a question laden with false statements on climate change showing the moderator's bias on the topic.
https://youtu.be/6y3ObG5Xyys
Tony Heller demolishes the moderators claims that hurricanes and wildfires are becoming more deadly as agreed by the scientific community due to man made climate change.
In the time allotted to respond there was no way Pence could unpack the misinformation laden question.
The video is instructive to watch, to know that you can't assume statements used by moderater in their questions, are factual.
Unfortunately the 'fact checkers' never bother to look at what the moderators claim.
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On Facebook Kevin Williams shares this:
"If men fight, and hurt a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him and shall pay as the judges determine. BUT if any harm follows, then you shall GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn..." Exodus 21;22-25
Dr Gleason Archer, Professor of Hebrew and Semetic Languages powerful comment on this text is as follows:
"There is no ambiguity here whatsoever. What is required is that if there should be an injury, either to the woman or to her child, the injury shall be avenged by a like injury to the assailant. If it involves the life of the premature baby, THEN THE ASSAILANT SHALL PAY FOR IT WITH HIS LIFE. There is no second class status attached to the fetus under this rule. It is avenged just as if it were a normally delivered child or an older person. LIFE FOR LIFE!"
I've seen countless people who want to promote abortion quote this verse from an archaic 500 year old English text and say it proves the unborn are merely ''Property" and a petty fine was all that was levied if you killed them. If St Peter said there are people who would twist the Scriptures to their own destruction how much more so when people twist them for the destruction of innocent unborn children?
Please read the following articlehttps://www.str.org/w/what-exodus-21-22-says-about-abortion
Tim adds:I've seen pro-abortionists try to use this to justify abortion. They claim it says if the foetus is aborted, not if no harm is done. They then say this means only if harm comes to the woman. Typical of how they operate.
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Claim: the Deep Sea is Slowly Warming
There’s even more deep sea data coming in from the year-long research trip across the Arctic by the Polarstern. No doubt they’ll have even better info regarding the Gakkel Ridge, with its line of submarine volcanoes arrayed along the length. The Gakkel Ridge spans under the entire Arctic Ocean with depths ranging from 3 to 5 km below sea level.
With the Earth as a globe, the thinnest part of the crust lies beneath the North Pole — closest to the Earth’s heat engine.
See Scientists Return from Arctic with Wealth of Climate Data
Hat tip; Tom Waeghe.
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This is another
example of the ebbing influence of Princeton, Stanford, UC-Berkeley,
Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, who have the same conflicts of interest,
especially with large amounts money available NGOs/
After the certainty of the Princeton study’s headline, the conditional and equivalent words of the second paragraph (SUGGESTS and COULD) bring another pedigreed university to use the bad habits of environmental reporting.
Tighter border policies leave migrants vulnerable to effects of climate change
By Princeton University
As the planet continues to warm, people living in the world's most vulnerable regions—like arid or low-lying nations—must contend with the decision to stay in a place where livability is decreasing or leave for countries with more stable climate and economic conditions.
New Princeton University research SUGGESTS that restrictive border policies COULD increase many people's vulnerability to extreme climate conditions and weaken economic prosperity by limiting their ability to emigrate from countries that are facing worsening conditions due to climate change, such as drought, heat waves, and rising seas.
By The Editorial Board
The folks at PrinceÂton are supposed to be smart. But you have to wonÂder about the inÂtelÂliÂgence
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October 13, 2020
https://thenewamerican.com/magazine/tna3620/page/91715/
Excerpt:
That "Fauci†in Italian means "jaws†or "mouth†certainly lends itself to some humor. First, there’s how our Dr. Anthony Fauci just loves talking to the media, attracted to cameras like a moth to flame. Then there’s how Lockdown Tony had helped position us in the gaping maw of economic death. There’s also, however, how heeding his counsel has placed us in the jaws of confusion — within which he, apparently, has been ensnared for decades.
Unbeknownst to most, the 79-year-old Fauci could be our country’s longest-serving bureaucrat....
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To culturally appropriate a term "oy ve!"!
The woke world goes to war against ‘Wonder Woman’
From the article by Jonathan Tobin:
Seems they want a black or darker Arab woman (like Moor). But why?
The first point to be made about the film is that, contrary to the nonsense we’re hearing from Gadot’s critics, the real Cleopatra was neither black nor Arab. She and the other members of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt were descendants of the first Ptolemy, who was one of Alexander the Great’s companions and generals. He and his successors were Macedonian Greeks. Over the course of the 250 years during which his family ruled Egypt, they almost always married their siblings or cousins. That produced a lot of the usual problems with incest but it also, despite attempts to try and justify the depiction of Cleopatra as a black woman, ensured that the last of the Ptolemys was as European as the first.
Nor was Cleopatra a figure from the period before the writing of history. We know a great deal about the details of her life. She was one of the most famous persons in the world at the time and, via her romances (with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony) and political intrigues that led to her death and the end of the Egyptian monarchy, right at the center of the Roman civil war that determined the fate of the Mediterranean for centuries. There are coins with her portrait, and though they are not the same thing as a photo, they make it obvious that speculation about her ancestry is foolish. All of which is to say that having a native Israeli or any other white woman from a Mediterranean background is entirely in keeping with a desire to tell her story in a way that doesn’t entirely contradict history.
Jews are now considered white colonialists by the Left. There was a time the "Progressive" movement thought of them as oppressed Peoples. Not any longer.The white man's world keeps getting bigger and bigger. We now include Jewish people and Asians of almost every stripe. Anybody who is successful and works hard and educates their children is now officially white and deserving of being canceled. Jews are now facing the white man's burden; being treated as evil for just being alive.
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It's ridiculous the way the liberals think. The "sacred" Black Hills belonged to the Sioux - for one hundred years. They stole that land from other native tribes, but that was o.k. It was bad when they lost it to the white man (with the help of the native tribes the Sioux stole the land from in the first place.)
This Tribal Map of America Shows Exactly Whose Land You are Living On
And Indians claimed large swaths of land without actually occupying it - or developing it. They simply said "ours" and fought other Indians for it simply because they could. There was no actual ownership.
Also, there were places that did not have any natives at all; the Ozarks is a prime example (Indians hunted there but never lived there as they believed these hills were haunted.) So who stole what?
Liberals are so simplistic and childish in their thinking.
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Mmm new study. Vast majority of those infected always wore masks. And WHO now came out against lock downs as it makes the poor poorer which has devastating consequences. And at the same time a leader of WHO criticized the herd immunity strategy. Mmm no mask, no lock down and no herd immunity, then what?
Tim replies:
What's next? Registration and tracking. Welcome to the New World Order!
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My latest.
Keith Olberman Calls for Trump and his "Supporters" to be Prosectued, Removed from Society
"In a 14-minute video rant that would have done Mao proud, ex-MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann called President Trump a "terrorist†who should be "expunged†and insisted that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and others be "prosecuted … and removed from our society.â€
...Olbermann’s rant, in other words, is exactly what you’d expect from a godless, relativistic person when the incompatible share borders and masks begin to drop. The only saving grace is that now, at least, you should know exactly what to expect if voters empower the Left."
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Trump's Incredible Covid-19 Recovery - What Worked?
You'd think the media would have a more forensic interest in Trump's Covid-19 treatment given how quickly he recovered. Especially since he is in the high risk category of age and obesity.
In this article I look at the drugs we know he has taken. These are Hydroxychloroqu
Hydroxychloroqu
We know that Trump had been taking hydroxychloroqu
Hydroxychloroqu
DMARDs are drugs that slow the progression of certain autoimmune diseases, such as: rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, lupus and apparently Covid-19.
It is not fully understood why hydroxychloroqu
Medical scientists believe that the drug alters cell communication in the immune system. This action inhibits the immune system response that ordinarily triggers inflammation and cell damage.
Scientists believe hydroxychloroqu
These studies suggests that by the time a COVID-19 patient is hospitalized, it might be too late for hydroxychloroqu
This is why most medical practitioners using hydroxychloroqu
In August 2020, Steven Hatfill, a veteran virologist, noted at RealClearPoliti
Hatfill continued, "Of the remaining four studies, two come from the same University of Minnesota author. The other two are from the faulty Brazil paper, which should be retracted, and the fake Lancet paper, which was.â€
"Two recent, large, early-use clinical trials
have been conducted by the Henry Ford Health System and at Mount Sinai
showing a 51% and 47% lower mortality, respectively, in hospitalized
patients given hydroxychloroqu
"Millions of people are taking or have taken hydroxychloroqu
The best way to show this is to compare deaths per capita in countries that are widely using hydroxychloroqu
Many countries either adopted or declined early treatment with Hydroxychloroqu
The graph below shows where countries are using hydroxychloroqu
The fact is, most studies show hydroxychloroqu
You wouldn't know this if you
relied on the Western mainstream media or big tech groups like
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube who censor or delete positive
reports on hydroxychloroqu
Why is that? Part of the reason may be that nobody stands to make a fortune out of hydroxychloroqu
Big tech companies are big investors in biotech companies which stand to make hundreds of billions of dollars from any patented drugs used to treat Covid-19. They stand to lose billions in research investment if a cheap readily available drug can do the job. Big Pharma, which owns patents on many drugs potentially useful, are big political contributors, and represent a large segment of the main stream media and social media advertising revenues.
There is clearly a lot of vested interests involved in trying to keep hydroxychloroqu
There is no doubt hydroxychloroqu
This of course doesn't mean a better treatment may be found, but if it's a patented treatment, it may not be readily available to poor people.
As for President Trump, it is possible that taking hydroxychloroqu
Remdesivir
The antiviral drug remdesivir has been one of the few treatments that's seemed to help curb death rates in COVID-19 patients so ill that they need a ventilator.
Gilead is currently seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for remdesivir, which is available now on an emergency basis for hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19. If the FDA approves it, however, the drug would gain wider use.
Remdesivir works by blocking the virus from copying itself. Trials of the drug showed that it can cut recovery time from COVID-19 by nearly a third in people with severe COVID-19.
Studies have found the drug is not as effective for "moderate" cases of COVID-19 -- patients hospitalized and perhaps needing oxygen to breathe, but not requiring a ventilator.
This is because some intact viral-genome copies still manage to get made, escape from the cell, and infect other cells. So it certainly isn't the full answer to treating Covid-19 and Gilead are looking for another treatment to work in combination with Remdesivir.
In terms of the above mentioned studies it would seem that even by Gilead scientist's own estimation the use of Remdesivir by President Trump was not efficacious. In light of the information about REGN-COV2, Remdesivir was most likely superfluous.
In late June, Gilead announced that it would charge U.S. hospitals $3,120 for a five-day course of remdesivir in a patient with private insurance. That's about A$4,450.
If 10% of cases worldwide are hospitalised, it would have cost A$16.645 billion to treat them all with Remdesivir, and that's assuming Gilead let the world have it at the US cut rate. That rate would be well beyond the means of most developing countries.
Regeneron, REGN-COV2
One of the treatments President Donald Trump received soon after testing positive to COVID-19 was an experimental antibody cocktail from Regeneron which they have dubbed REGN-COV2.
The drug is so new that the federal Food and Drug Administration has not approved it yet for most hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Trump received REGN-COV2 for COVID-19 under what’s known as a "compassionate use†request.
For an explanation of the development of the drug, and briefly how it works, I cut and pasted the following from Regeneron's website.
'Regeneron scientists evaluated thousands of fully-human antibodies
produced by the company's proprietary VelocImmune® mice, which have
been genetically-mod
They selected the two most potent, non-competing and virus-neutralizing antibodies to create REGN-COV2 and have scaled up this dual-antibody cocktail with the company's in-house VelociMab® and manufacturing capabilities.
REGN-COV2's two antibodies bind non-competitive
More recent research also demonstrates coverage against the now prevalent D614G variant.
Regeneron used the same 'rapid response' capabilities and cocktail approach to develop REGN-EB3, a novel triple antibody treatment for Ebola that is now under regulatory review by the FDA.' [From Regeneron's website]
The key question now is whether Regeneron therapy for COVID-19 works. Doctors conducting clinical trials on the experimental drug in Colorado and elsewhere are working to answer that question now.
Dr. Thomas Campbell,is a University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth virologist and infectious-dise
While preliminary findings announced in a Sept. 29 press release from the company look promising, the drug’s effectiveness remains an open question, Campbell says.
Jennifer Gommerman, a professor of immunology at the University of Toronto said REGN-Cov2 is very promising. "It appears that they've got positive results and that this antibody cocktail doses reduce the amount of time that the patients are sick, especially the patients that weren't able to mount their own antibody response," Gommerman said. "They're obviously going to have to do much more human experiments and bigger trials to really make sure."
Trump was given an 8 gram dose of the antibody cocktail early in the course of his infection. He has since said "I think it cured me. They call it therapeutics, but I think it's a cure."
He then promised to make it available at no cost to any American who needed it, but it is yet to finish phase 3 trials and be approved by the FDA.
Obviously there isn't enough evidence to claim that REGN-Cov2 was partially or entirely responsible for Trump's remarkable recovery from Covid-19.
The only pricing estimate for a course of REGN-Cov2 treatment wa from stock brokers. Citi Research analyst Mohit Bansal suggested that the antibody could fetch a price of $2,500 to $3,000 per course, and estimated that Regeneron could sell $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion of the drug a year.
That was before Trump used the drug and before Regeneron signed a deal where Roche would manufacture and distribute outside the US and split profits with Regeneron. Neither of those measures are likely to alter the price of the drug. It's more likely to support Regeneron's share price as they had been restrained by manufacturing capacity.
Either way the drug won't be as expensive as Remdesivir, but is exorbitant compared to the cheap and readily available hydroxychloroquine.
What part of any, did REGN-Cov2 have to play in President Trump's
recovery? It's difficult to say. Trump may have had a low viral load
possibly influenced by hydroxychloroqu
Regeneron's own scientists say they expect their drug to reduce the recovery time of patients because the antibody response is boosted. So it is possible Trump's recovery was sped up by REGN-Cov2.
Ongoing Covid-19 Treatment Protocols
If we take Remdesivir's own scientists at their word, it's unlikely it helped Trump, as they say it's more likely to be effective in serious cases, which Trump wasn't. And they say it's not effective in completely stopping the replication of the virus on its own.
For my money, I'd certainly consider taking hydroxychloroqu
If I did happen to have Covid-19 and I was serious enough to be admitted to hospital, I'd be keen to try the REGN-Cov2 cocktail to boost my antibody response.
If I was serious enough to need to go on a ventilator, I'd use Remdesivir as that has been found successful in treating the more serious Covid-19 cases.
Of course I am not a medical specialist, so I would take the best
available non-political medical advice available at the time. Based on
that, I have already determined to take hydroxychloroqu
There are many drugs currently undergoing stage 3 trials both as treatments and vaccines. Who knows what may be just around the corner? But I wouldn't let the political Left and biased media dissuade me from using a drug if the medical science supported it's safety and efficacy.
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October 12, 2020
No vote fraud my a, er, eye...
Carrollton Mayoral Candidate Zul Mirza Muhammad Arrested, Charged with 1000+ Counts of Voter Fraud
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So let me get this straight... NBC News is now hiring armed BLM and Antifa activists to provide "protection†for their reporters at "peaceful protests.†And when one of those activists murders a Trump supporter, NBC News has no comment. Right. Duly noted.
Police Identify Guard Suspected in Fatal Shooting During Denver "Patriot Rally"
Maybe the headline should read: "NBC News murders Trump supporter.â€
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Writing in the Federalist Kyle Sammin argues a recent unanimous SCOTUS ruling preserves the electoral college.
I'm not so sure.
Sammin says:
In a unanimous verdict earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled states have the power to punish presidential electors who refuse to vote for the candidate to whom they were pledged. So-called "faithless electors†have never altered the result of an election, but they could if enough of them acted together. Several, like the three in this case — Chiafalo v. Washington — conspired to do so in 2016. Their state government had a law against it and imposed a fine of $1,000 each.
The Supreme Court’s opinion, written by Justice Elena Kagan and joined by six other justices, held that the practice is legal. The remaining two justices agreed, although they had different reasons for doing so. The verdict puts beyond dispute the practice of requiring electors to follow the law and cast their votes not according to their own discretion but as conduits for the voters of their states.
It also does deep harm to the viability of a few fringe ideas of modern leftists. By reinforcing the rules of the Electoral College, the court showed it would have little patience for Democrat efforts to destroy the system of presidential elections enshrined in the Constitution. If they wish to do so, the only method left to them is a constitutional amendment.
The Electoral College was supposed to act as yet another check on pure democracy; well respected people were supposed to be chosen as electors, and they were in fact supposed to have the authority to deviate from the popular vote if necessary (such as if something came out the public didn't know prior to the election.) While faithless electors are a problem in our modern mafiosa era (where electors may be bullied or bought) the intent of the Founding Fathers was clearly to prevent the populace from being demogogued.I would point out that the very people who now complain Trump is a demogogue were the ones who favored unlimited democracy and have hated the Electoral College. They want demogogues - until it backfires on them.
The article continues:
The plaintiffs in Chiafalo argued that the vision of the founders of an independent Electoral College meant that they should be free to vote as they please. But that vision, even if it was universal among the Constitution’s authors, did not survive the Twelfth Amendment. Additionally, all of our practice since then makes the opposite point.
In fact, Kagan writes, "our whole experience as a Nation points in the opposite direction … Electors have only rarely exercised discretion in casting their ballots for President. From the first, States sent them to the Electoral College — as today Washington does — to vote for pre-selected candidates, rather than to use their own judgment. And electors (or at any rate, almost all of them) rapidly settled into that non-discretionary role.â€
While precedent matters, is it correct to accept what has been done just because it has been done that way? Did the Constitution authorize slavery? No, and it could well have been abolished without a constitutional amendment; the Supreme Court could have ruled it unconstitutional (which it clearly is if you look at the wording of the Constitution). Just because we had slavery didn't make it settled.I think popular vote is a terrible idea, but I don't like this ruling, most especially since the liberal wing of the Court was on board. It seems to me they have a reason for ruling in favor of the Electoral College.
Look; the EC was a part of Federalism. It was intended to take the Federal government out of the election equation. The States could choose electors any way they wished in the old days. There needn't even be an election; the state legislatures could choose the electors. This nationalizes the system, making the central government the final say on the matter. The Founders would have disagreed with this.
Nobody says we have to have a winner-take-all system either; the states are free to decide if they want to split those or not. This suggests that may be up for review soon.
In short, it's none of SCOTUS' business. This is a state matter.
That said, there are plenty of other problems with a national popular vote scheme. But I'm just addressing the Constitutionality of this.
The article addresses D.C. statehood too:
At any rate, this might make national popular vote harder, but at a price. I don't like tinkering with the system the Founders gave us.
And do not forget, this means that in the event of a stolen election the electors cannot reject a flawed vote. I think that's why Kagan and the other liberals are on board; they know their party plans to steal this upcoming election and they want to avoid electors refusing to vote for Joe Biden where it is clear they stole the vote.
Of course, the big reason for the E.C. is to give all parts of the country an equal say, just as the Senate gives small states an equal say. Without it not only would the coasts rule, but just a half dozen cities would dominate American politics. We need the E.C.
I am just not at all sure about this ruling.
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