September 12, 2020
Sweden has shown us how to handle a pandemic.
From The Daily Mail:
Sweden announced only 7,131 new cases in the month of August, down from 11,971 in July and a far higher figure of 30,909 in June.
By contrast, cases quadrupled from July to August in Spain and France, and more than doubled in Germany and Italy, while Britain this week tightened restrictions after a rise in cases.
The highest infection rates in Western Europe are now in Spain (200 cases per million) and France (118), while Britain is on 37 with Sweden well below them on 17.
Sweden's current figure is lower than in Norway (19) and Denmark (38), with Finland the lowest of the four mainland Nordic countries on seven cases per million.
Schools re-opened in Sweden mid-August and health officials say they do not expect a large resurgence of the virus in the coming weeks.
On Tuesday, Sweden announced that it had carried out a record number of tests last week with only 1.2 per cent coming back positive - the lowest rate since the crisis began.
At the peak of the crisis in the spring, 19 per cent of of tests - nearly one in five - were coming back positive in some weeks.
Hat tip: Dissecting Leftism.
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Common Sense and Wonder chronicles a story of scientific fraud.
From the article:
The inquiry centers on Antonella Caccamo and Salvatore Oddo, who recently lost their 2016 article in Molecular Psychiatry, a Nature journal, titled "p62 improves AD-like pathology by increasing autophagy.â€
Caccamo once held a research appointment in the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center. Oddo, also worked in the center, where he was an associate professor.
While at ASU — including Banner Health — Odd received more than $11 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was co-PI on grant from the National Science Foundation worth more than $220,000. Caccamo received one grant from NIH, in 2018, totaling roughly $543,000.
See how government money corrupts science; the National Institute of Health (NIH) bankrolled these guys and they were happy to falsify data and results to keep the gravy train rolling. I fear this is happening all over the world these days as "scientists" who are more medicine-show barkers tailor their results to make the authorities happy.
We see this in global warming. we see this in the Coronavirus issue. We've seen this in psychology and sociology for a long time.
Now we're reaching the point where basic research is being corrupted. This will lead to an inevitable decline in scientific advancement.
This is how a dark age is born.
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Communist terrorist and U. of Chicago Professor William Ayers says the civil war has begun.
He should know; he's been trying to foment the Revolution since he was a young monster.
It certainly appears the Left is revolting (I'll say; they stink on ice!)
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(Surely not taught in Academia) -
It took Czechoslovakia 22 years ('68-'89) to undue Communism (Velvet Revolution). A struggle in which a half-million Czech patriots were killed at the hands of the USSR.
PS- it is the ONLY example of a country dropping Socialism without a civil war in modern times.
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My sister-in-law took these photos of her dentist's parking lot. It is a sign of the times.
Kind of a homage to the Covid economy and what the Democrats want for all of America.
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Now Facebook, after having encouraged me to vote in Virginia despite my profile stating clearly I live in Missouri, is trying to get me to sign up to be an election judge there.
Here is the message on my page:
Well, I'd love to oblige them, but they wouldn't like that. This is despicable.
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Driven by Blind Prejudice and Sometimes Jealousy, Leftists Again Target Nick Sandmann
"I understand they've been gunning for the man who goes by the name of the Sandmann"
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Democrats Tell Supporters To Punch People Then Blame Trump When Riots Start
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Wildfires to bring down the economy?
From Reuters:
Economists have traditionally seen natural disasters like
wildfires as localized shocks. That’s changing [or it is still
localized], according to the report, produced by a 35-member panel for
the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. The group included
representatives
MARKET PERCEPTIONS
Climate catastrophes [or large regional forest fires] can make
investors aware of risks not priced into markets, the report said.
"A sudden revision of market participants’ perceptions about climate
[or poor forest management] risk could trigger a disorderly repricing
of assets, which could have cascading effects on portfolios and balance
sheets and, therefore, systemic implications for financial stability,â€
the report said.
Sounds to me like the Left is trying to set up an excuse for the bad economy if Biden wins.
It also is an attempt to frighten skittish investors so the economy does not come back prior to the election.
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The New Jersey Turnpike Association removed more than a dozen American flags that had been posted on overpasses by local police departments. It has been a statewide tradition since the September 11th terrorist attacks.
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As California arson arrests increase several of the perps appear to be connected. Antifa ?
Woman Accused of Intentionally Starting Fires on Rte. 101 Arrested
Tim adds:
I'm not surprised; they were doing that in Australia during the big fires earlier this year.
Perhaps it's time to coin a new phrase; Antifarsonists.
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Looks like after six months of industrial emissions reductions due to Covid 19 we see NO reduction in the rate of carbon dioxide growth
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Hat tip: James Hatem at Watts Up With That.
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September 10, 2020
Retired Army Lt. Col.Alexander Vindman, a key impeachment witness against President Trump, was the "original source" of the Trump-Russia collusion push, not the whistleblower, Fox News contributor Byron York said Wednesday.
York reveals Vindman, who retired from the Army in July after being fired from the National Security Council in February, was the driving force for Democrats' impeachment in his new book,"Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment's Never-Ending War on Trump."
"It didn't take a real rocket scientist that the source of this, the original source of this, was Lt. Col. Vindman, "York told "The Ingraham Angle" Wednesday night, laying out the facts of the case.
"If you remember early on in the Ukraine matter, the Democrats said they wanted the whistleblower to testify, and then they changed their mind and they didn't want the whistleblower to testify and they began to shut off any Republican attempts to find out who the whistleblower was," he said.
The Washington Examiner chief political correspondent asked, "So the question is if the whistleblower wasn't in the White House, how did he learn what was going on?"
He points out Vindman was one of several people who listened to Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, "but [Vindman] was the only one who was disturbed by what took place. He was the only one who thought there was a problem there."
Vindman testified to the Intelligence Committee that he only told two people outside the White House, George Kent, who was a State Department official who specialized in Ukraine, and a member of the intelligence community.
"At that point, Adam Schiff, other Democrats interrupted, you cannot say, you cannot ask the other person he spoke to, and Republicans said well, why can't we ask about that? And they said because it would tend to identify the whistleblower."
Republicans had a "very difficult time handling" Vindman because, although they felt he was the "origin of all this," he was a decorated military officer, York said.
Trump reacted to an excerpt on Vindman in York’s book Thursday.
"No, Vindman knew the call itself to the Ukrainian President was ‘perfect’, but also knew the whistleblower report described the call incorrectly, way off. Why didn’t Vindman say so? That’s why Shifty didn’t want the whistleblower to testify. A big scam!†Trump tweeted.
York also claimed former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, formed in May of 2017, knew early on there wasn't evidence for Trump-Russia collusion but continued to investigate.
And so on, and so forth. I know you may have lost interest in this story, but if you are the kind who likes to see loose ends neatly tied up, go here https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vindman-whistleblower-impeachment-byron-york-book-obsession-laura-ingraham-angle to read the rest of this article and get some closure. The comments are appropriately snarky, too -- from our point of view.
A personal comment: during these proceedings, I was very annoyed with the Republicans, who played footsie with the Democrats over the idea that the "whistleblower's" identity had to be protected over all other considerations. Many people pointed out that that was not the case, and many believed the GOP was bending over backwards to the donkeys and should instead have demanded to know the "whistleblower's" name. I am one of those. The Donkey Party lives and dies on the strength of "anonymous sources," and it would be wonderful to see that ended.
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Sorry gang; a lot on my plate, so blogging will be light for the next few days.
I'll do what I can.
Cheers!
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I watched two football games this past week, games which perfectly reflected what happens with differing reactions to corona virus. Two teams, both military academies, both running the same "triple option†offense.
Army played Middle Tennessee and won 42-0. Yes, I realize it was Middle Tennessee, but the Army offense was like a well oiled machine. The triple option is actually fairly easy to stop unless it is executed with outstanding discipline and precision. Army did precisely that. It was delightful to watch.
Navy played Brigham Young University and lost 55-3. Yes, I realize it was BYU, but the game was not as close as the score would indicate. The Midshipmen wandered around on the football field like a herd of unguided sheep. It was easy to see why US Navy ships are staggering around in the Pacific Ocean colliding with cargo ships.
The Navy coach admitted that his team looked like a team that was not ready to play. The announcers were telling us that, due to the corona virus, the team had not been permitted to engage in contact drills or practice live tackling. They applauded the coach for "putting the safety of his players first.â€
Well, his players would have been safer yet if he had not allowed them onto the field at all. Perhaps he should have done that. But that is America today. We no longer care about being effective, or doing the job. We care about safety. A military that practices that philosophy has soldiers that stay in their foxholes, and it loses wars.
We will applaud the coach that lost 55-3, because he "kept his players safe.â€
I will tell you from my observation, that Army team did not look like a team obsessed with safety. It did not look like a team unwilling to practice because it was terrified of a virus. It did not look like a team that cared more about themselves than it did about the job with which they had been charged. It looked like a bunch young men with balls.
Dana Mathewson adds:
I'm glad to hear that Army upheld their tradition. Sorry to hear that Navy has forgotten theirs. I really wonder if those who are "teaching" them at Annapolis remember WW II, especially around the time of the Battle of Midway? Safety was not a consideration then.
I'm also reminded of the Army-Navy football game years ago, when the vaunted Roger Staubach was quarterback, and Navy got their heads handed to them by Army, led by a relative unknown quarterback named Rollie Stichweich (sp?) (pronounced "stitch-weigh"). The score was heavily in favor of Army, though I don't remember it. From then on, I always though Staubach was under-rated, and if I remember correctly, his NFL career with the Cowboys was less than stellar.
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September 09, 2020
Why does she need an 8 foot fence? The face of the Big 10 football shutdown. 3 governors, and she is the ringleader.
Biden Surrogate Builds Wall, Makes Michigan Taxpayers Pay For It
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File this under "Political Correctness Idiocyâ€.
Just listened to Mark Steyn who talked about a craft beer company in Vancouver which introduced a new beer that they named "Uru-Uru†(spelling ?)
Apparently someone from New Zealand complained because "Uru-Uru†means pubic hair in Maori. The company changed the name to something else to avoid offending anyone.
From Tim:
They should market that in San Francisco under the Maori name.
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A real doctor,
(not the medical bureaucrat pictured below who worked his way up the
government ladder by conflating the AIDS scare to include any number of
other possible candidates who could eventually contract the virus), Dr.
Brian Joondeph, has written a very good article saying similar things
to what a personal doctor friend of mind already told me before we left
the states a month ago or so to travel back overseas. While there are
always exceptions which are easy to find in a country the size of
America at well over 300 million people, for the most part, the vast
majority of deaths from COVID were terminal patients. Nursing homes in
particular became targets, and in certain northeastern states, became
willful euthanasia centers supplied with body bags to boot. The CDC
then coughed not long ago that only 10,000 people in America have died
strictly of COVID. This means at once that the numbers are vastly
conflated and speculative as to what the real cause of death is. COVID
probably helped hasten some deaths, but again, it is not clear. Yet the
media reports have been telling us everyday all these numbers ipso
facto as if this is why people died - and the Hollywood/
My doctor friend complained about how health officials were pushing the COVID narrative even onto the death certificates, and compared all the singular coverage on this virus as a form of panic porn. Now a UCLA study has declared that the odds of people dying from COVID between the ages of 50-64 are astronomical. We already knew young people have virtually no chance of dying from it.
I also write all this coming from experience. It has been shown my own wife had this virus back in the late winter and/or early spring, which we already knew, but finally had it confirmed. It is a bad virus, no question, which is full of a vast array of symptoms that last 2-3 weeks. She had virtually every COVID symptom, but she treated it like the regular flu, and recovered just fine. It is also true that one person connected to our ministry work overseas did became gravely ill from this virus, but with strong medicine, he also recovered - a $700 medical bill to fix it was far better than trillions of dollars.
I have never felt so robbed in all of my life, robbed of 6 months work and ministry that is lost time, water under the bridge now that cannot be recovered, not to mention all of the foolish madness my life was subjected to from time to time just trying to do normal, simple things. I have also been robbed of no small amount of cash with any number of ministry trips that had to be cancelled. And for what? I still do not have any answers to that question.
In his article Dr. Joondeph essentially has the
same questions that I have had circulating in my mind as soon as they
began the lockdowns which I knew back then were sheer madness, "Are
these rules and restrictions for the public good or are they a means of
power and control over the people? The most draconian measures are
being pushed by Democrats at the local, state, and national levels. Yet
personally they often ignore the mandates they impose on the rest of
us. Do they know more about the dangers, or lack of, than they are
letting on? Are they hiding the truth about the Wuhan virus for
political reasons? Such as data from a UCLA/
Is this a form of insider trading? A company insider knows of an upcoming announcement, merger, or acquisition that will affect stock price. They buy or sell stock accordingly based on that knowledge that the rest of the market does not yet possess. Such insider trading is unfair, and also illegal, except for members of Congress, who granted themselves an exemption. It would be one thing if Democrat officials themselves abided by these burdensome diktats that they impose on others, but don’t." While the virus is not a hoax, the colossal government response to it is another thing entirely ...
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Country Singer Chris Stapleton Says He Now Realizes America is Evil
From Tim
Funny; it seems to have done well for HIM! Maybe if he gave all his money away then came out and said it I'd have a shred of respect for him.
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