Saturday, October 09, 2021

Dissent


The left is very efficient and effective when they want to disrupt things. We have all seen “Act Up,” “Code Pink”and “Antifa” disrupt things at Congressional hearings, police stations and church services … to the yawns of the FBI.


So, the right needs to organize their resistance to the widening woke world with their own dissenting organizations …  say, “Dissent Downward,”  “Code Red, White and Blue” and “AntiBern”?


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Hunter Biden’s Art?



“10% for the Big Guy” — a steal at $250,000


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Powerline Pic

 




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Today’s Poser



If electrical connectors can have genders, why can’t humans? — Fletcher


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Headlines

 


The debt drama that masked a brutal powe struggle: Schumer vs. McConnell

Senate passes short-term increase to the debt limit, House to vote on it next

Biden admin spending millions per day to ‘not’ build border wall

Poll: Majority say Joe Biden doing a ‘poor job’ in uniting the country

IMF weighs top officials fate in wake of China scandal

Tesla moves headquarters from California to Texas

Report: U.S. troops secretly training Taiwan forces

AG Merrick Garland son-in-law co-founder of company promoting Critical Race Theory 

CIA launches new China-focused unit

Global tax deal inches closer as holdout Ireland agrees to sign up

Republican AGs join up to warn Garland against using FBI to target parents

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva will not enforce mandates


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Friday, October 08, 2021

Hunter Biden’s Art?



“Pole Dancer” — A steal at $500,000



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Let’s Go Brandon!


President Biden’s nickname is “Sleepy.”

His whispering is getting truly creepy.

He continues to fade,

At making the grade.

His crowd chants, becoming quite bleeply.


LET’S GO BRANDON!


Some Numbers



- There were 168.3 million voters (real and imagined) in the 2020 presidential election

- Biden supposedly got 81 million of these “votes” to win

- Biden’s favorability in the latest Rasmussen presidential survey is only 38% (see: Powerline blog analysis)

- Meaning that maybe 64 million of these “voters” still support Biden

- Conclusion: maybe 17 million “voters” have abandoned Sleepy Joe


Pilgrim, are you one?



LET’S GO BRANDON!


Obvious Truth



Mandating, with meaningful possible negative consequences, vaccinations or booster shots for those who already have had the Wuhan-Fauci virus (natural immunity) is, to me, a tort … which should be punishable by civil and/or criminal penalties … not against the indemnified vaccine makers, but against the mandaters.  — Fletcher


Afterward: Even to those not previously infected?



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Today’s Poser

 

How can Democrats be so good at stealing elections, yet be so piss-poor at running the country?


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Headlines

 


Idaho Governor repeals political rival’s executive order

George Soros’ fund owns Bitcoin, CEO confirms

Republican governors unveil plan to end Biden’s border crisis

Report: Gas prices rise to 7-year high

European Union looks for help from Brussels with ‘unprecedented’ energy crisis

The U.S. was right — Europe has become a ‘hostage’ to Russia over energy, analysts warn

District Court blocks Texas’ abortion law

Victor Davis Hanson: America’s decline reminds me of the fall of Rome

Pope ashamed of sexual abuse in France, says church should be ‘safe home for everyone’

CDC director warns the U.S. is at risk of a serious flu season this year

Biden’s approval falls to a new all-time low of 38% in liberal Quinnipiac poll

Mitch McConnell caves, offers Democrats short-term debt fix


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Thursday, October 07, 2021

Hunter Biden’s Art?



“Homage to a Chinese Virus” — A real steal at $450,000 



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Wool Over Our Eyes (Updated)



Senator Ron Johnson has pointed out that the Pfizer vaccine that the FDA approved for full use IS NOT the vaccine that is being used in the United States … see: Conservative Treehouse posting.


Did our top scientists pull a bait and switch in order to get more unvaccinated people to get the shot? Was Sen. Johnson wrong?  Its either the same vaccine or it isn’t. Someone is lying. All I know is 2 people on the Advisory Panel voted against full approval. And the Pfizer stock is off big time in the last few weeks. I anxiously await the truth. 


And:


I also went to look at Pfizer’s press release (bold italics underline mine) here:


“ On August 23, 2021, the FDA approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty, for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.

The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 years of age and older, for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised people, and for a single booster dose in people:”

Hmm!? Do we prefer the wool over our eyes?


Afterward: See: John Hinderaker’s take. When combining these numbers with those of the vaccine risks themselves, is beginning to make the payback of getting vaccinated or boosted a push … particularly for younger people.


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Unvarnished Truth



A whole lot of people can’t handle raw reality that is not slathered with humility. — Fletcher



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Carnac




The Answer: Political Science


The Question: What did Anthony Fauci get his Doctorate in when he attended Cornell?


Afterward — see: Musings of an Angry Webmaster


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Headlines


Democrats infrastructure delays squeeze on endangered species: GOP centrists

Oil prices could hit an ‘off the carts spike,’ says strategist

Biden admin doubles down on allowing them to see your bank account  activity

Japan ‘making preparations for possible China attack on Taiwan

NATO head: China is not an enemy

Zuckerberg rejects claims that Facebook prioritizes profits over user safety

Biden DOJ launches effort to combat parents challenging school boards’ far-left policies

Q Poll: Republicans lead Democrats in generic ballot for midterms for first time since 2014

‘Complex EU’ leads Europe to diverge from U.S. on coronavirus vaccine booster

U.S. faces recession if Congress doesn’t address the debt limit within 2 weeks, Yellen

Meanwhile in Chicago: State’s Attorney Foxx refuses to prosecute gang shooting

NIH Director Collins: ‘I have no evidence at all to support’  lab leak theory


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Wednesday, October 06, 2021

Powerline Charts

 










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Brrrr!



For you warmists … apparently, things are not getting warmer all over … see: MK Weather Site.I know,  I know … global warming means that it can get very cold too … just like a $3.5 trillion Democrat spending plan costs zero!

Yipes!


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Truth in Comedy

 

                     From Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”


The above  is how Greta “Blah Blah Blah” Thunberg and the rest of the woke mob learned their leadership style.


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Obvious Truth?


Anti-vaxxers must be never-Trumpers because it was his Operation Warpspeed that produced the vaccines too quickly.  He is at fault! —  Fletcher


Afterthought: Then the opposite should also be true — vaccine zealots, like Fauci, must be pro-Trump MAGA hat wearers!




After afterthought: Inconsistency is the hobgoblin of little people. — Fletcher



STAND UP FOR VACCINES?


Woodsterman Pic





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Headlines



Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell

Chinese developer misses bond payment as stress expands beyond Evergrande crisis

Biden DOJ launches effort to combat parents challenging school boards far-left policies

Wat? Pope calls for net zero carbon emissions as soon as possible

French Catholic clergy sexually abused 216,000 children, report finds

‘Zero Covid’ strategies abandoned as the highly infectious delta variant dominates

China PCR test orders soared before first reported Covid case, Wuhan area purchases began May, 2019

Backlogged cargo ships off NY, CA face 4-week wait

Facebook faces wrath of European Union lawmakers working on online content rules

Oil analyst predicts a prolonged rally as OPEC resists calls to ramp up production

Biden says harassment of Sens. Sinema and Manchin ‘part of the process’

Lt. Col. Schiller rejects Trump, ‘I don’t need or want your help’


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Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Quotable Quotes

 


“You’ll be a long time gone.” — Everly brothers


Everyone declines and dies in their own way and at their own pace … some combative … some in easy denial … some resigned. Myself, I want to be oblivious. —  Fletcher


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Today’s Posers



First read: New York Post story.


If gain-of-function (GOF) research has its benefit in researchers being able to develop vaccines ahead of pandemics that might be so virus engineered. Then how come we didn’t have an effective vaccine for Covid-19 in the fall of 2020? Huh? Is this just a BS excuse for germ warfare research?


(I personally believe that GOF research is a crime against humanity … and should be a capital offense.)


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Big Data

 


One major downside of advancements in computer technology is that our now-enormous ability to capture, store and process huge amounts of data is beginning to allow governments to surveil and restrict the freedoms of their citizens.


China now collects megabytes of data on each of all its 1.4 billion citizens and composes a “citizenship score” that determines the freedoms that each resident is allowed to exercise: travel, luxuries, number of children, medical services, etc. China is also moving quickly toward its own digital currency to the exclusion of free-market ones … clearly to incorporate financial transactions into this big-data capture sweep.


No slouch the American left, they too are jumping on this surveillance potentiometer. The left, as part of its “Build Back Better” agenda want a huge expansion of our IRS coupled with the requirement for all financial institutions to report all transactions of $600 dollars or higher.


I can only compare these onorous attacks on individual freedoms to how farmers carefully manage the schedules, feedings and environments of their milking-cow herds in order to maximize production and profits.


It will not be too many years until China and then, America will turn full-on bovine … all facilitated by big-data technology.


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Quotable Quote


Well into the twilight of my life, I don’t ask for much … the main things I need are being warm in the winter and cool in the summer … and a smidgen of love. — Fletcher


STAND UP FOR A SMIDGEN OF LOVE!


Headlines

 


Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump

U.S. trade representative Lai to lay out vision for realigning trade policies toward China

New Fauci email reveals that he funded training for Wuhan’s most deadly lab

1,600 people shot June thru August alone in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

2 Koreas restore hotline despite North’s missile tests

Embattled  Evergrande set to raise more cash from partial sale of its property services unit

Biden’s decisions in Afghanistan caused planes to leave with empty seats while leaving Americans and allies behind

Fauci: ‘Too soon to tell’ if we can get together for Christmas

Fauci sees hope in new Merck drug

‘Catastrophic’ California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands

Seven of the ten states in worst financial condition are run by Democrats

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has paid no Illinois property taxes since 2015


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Monday, October 04, 2021

More Maher

 


Watch the above June, 2018 Bill Maher interview with Ben Shipero to see how wrong Maher was about Russiagate back then … and how right Shipero was … and then compare it with how far right Maher has recently slid during the Biden clown show.


Although conservatives are championing Maher today for his new-found good sense, is he merely a poll-watching political opportunist? 


(I can almost imagine his audience now breaking into the “Let’s Go Brandon” chant.)


And, as teased, here for contrast is a more recent Bill Maher closing.





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Ridicule vs. Debate



Ridicule is the currency of slopeheads. (This is ridicule.)  — Fletcher


When political discussions take place, they can be bifurcated into the categories of ridicule vs. debate. What is the difference?

Ridicule — when one or both sides are dismissive of the other side’s points … and use ad honinems to try to silence opposing arguments or facts. This dismissive approach is based on emotion with no attempt to understand or refute opposing facts or logic.

Debate— true debate occurs when the debaters can restate their opponents points correctly … and then point out counter facts and logic to refute these premises. It is the only form of political discussion that moves understanding forward.

(The above is debate.)


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Confession

 


On an intellectual level I don’t believe in signs or omens … but on an emotional level I am too often swayed. — Fletcher


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Obvious Truth



We on the right like to believe that Trump would have managed the Afghanistan pullout better than Biden’s catastrophe. But pilgrim, we can’t forget that, under Trump, General Milley still would have been our president’s top military adviser as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


Now, are we still so sure?


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Headlines

 


Kathy Hochul wants to clean up Albany. so did the last guy

Tesla delivered 241,300 vehicles in third quarter, topping expectations

Latest polling indicates Dems likely will lose control of the Senate in 2022

Poll: 52% of Trump voters want red states to secede from blue states

Chinese warplanes fly toward Taiwan for 2nd straight day

Women’s March targets Supreme Court, with access to abortion on the line

Biden says he will take questions before panicked staffers stop him

Bidenflation unexpectedly accelerated in August, worst in 30 years

House passes bill to halt Transportation Department furloughs

Why California is shutting down its last nuclear plant

Biden now says it ‘doesn’t matter’ when his spending bills are passed

Majority say Biden’s lying about Afghanistan and want him to resign


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Sunday, October 03, 2021

Today’s Poser (Udated)



An alternative theory to China’s Covid germ warfare: 


Since Drs. Fauci and Daszak really did prime the Wuhan Institute of Virology with funding and gain-of-function expertise resulting in the Covid-19 virus escaping into China … why wouldn’t Xi Jinping suspect U.S. germ-warfare sabotage (true or false) and decide to lock down his country … yet allow air travel to infect the rest of the world … as payback?


I hate to even think this thought.


Afterward: The main counter-argument to this thesis is the extraordinary measures that China took to cover up the Wuhan lab as the source of the Covid pandemic.


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Deeper in the Covid weeds!




It’s hard to believe that our intelligence people would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of American lives just to get rid of Trump! — Fletcher




If you thought things were convoluted before, read this new conspiracy theory: Conservative Treehouse theory . It speculates that because we already had the Covid-19 biological weapon, it was justified to give it to China and then release it?


 Huh?


However, I still believe that Covid came only from the poorly-protected Wuhan Lab … and Fauci either gave it to the lab or abetted its development. But China’s claim that it came from the U.S. military does have a glimmer of credibility. If the thesis that this was done by our intelligence agencies to get rid of Trump is even half true, then we are in serious trouble.


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Carnac



The Answer: Spoiled children


The Question: What happens if you leave children out of the refrigerator too long?



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Obvious Truth

 


Nobody wants to hear about our medical problems, but we persist in telling them anyway.  —  Fletcher


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Headlines


Philippine leader Duerte announces retirement from politics

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is a ‘toxic’ workplace, some current and ex-workers claim in essay

Biden scrambles as his agenda teeters on verge of collapse

Joe Biden bails to Delaware after agenda stalls in Congress

Trump donor files report to police alleging unwanted sexual advances from Corey Lewandowski

Biden’s top trade advisor will say China isn’t complying with phase 1 deal, according to sources

Email show Fauci congratulating Wuhan collaborator on ‘deserved’ Xi Jinping award

Gov. Gavin Newsom announces vaccine mandate for CA public schools

Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for Covid-19

Trump asks U.S. judge to force Twitter to restart his account

Former CBO director: Biden’s $3.5 trillion bill ‘a mess,’ may not pass

Food stamp benefits to receive historic increase in October


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Saturday, October 02, 2021

Obvious Truth

 


Being human, we spend much of our lives indulging in the seven deadly sins …  and much of the remainder trying to rationalize our transgressions. — Fletcher


Afterthought: “Gay pride” seems to endorse at least two of the seven.


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OCD

 


When I lived in New York City, I occasionally would see a man who could not enter the subway until he had completed a series of rituals whose meaning were his alone. This is called obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) … and pops up over and over in life … compulsive cleaners (my mother was one), compulsive sex addicts like Jeffery Epstein … even compulsive collectors … like me.


Often people suffering from OCD are rather harmless (although that subway stairs nut usually backed up things annoyingly … and Epstein was no slouch.) But when such behavior infects more than one person it can become quire dangerous. We call this a mania.


I think we are now in the midst of a mania caused by the Wuhan-Fauci virus … and this results in the unconstitutional vaccine mania. A great many people have the compulsive notion that we must all be vaccinated … and now booster shot … before we will rid ourselves of this plague. And this mandate includes those who have already had Covid … even though an Israeli study says that they are 27-times better protected than the vaccinated.


And even though these vaccines carry considerably more risks than prior vaccines for other diseases. this group OCD, or mania if you will, is a result of fear and has become an irrational objective (Biden wants 97-98% compliance) … instead of more realistic objectives. This mania on the left is fostering unnecessary dislocation and trauma. We all need to take a deep breath and get a little less manic and a little more reasoned.


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Powerline Pic



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Detective Work

 


Recently I have experienced a metallic taste to water. This comes on the heels of my doctor’s request that I hydrate more because of a newly prescribed diabetes drug. I concluded that some new plastic glasses that my wife had bought were the culprit … so she threw them out. The very next day I used another glass for my hydrating and experienced the same metallic taste. Oops! I then determined there must be something wrong with our local town’s water supply. So, I switched to bottled water!


I had already decided that it was not my new diabetes drug because I had already been taking it for a month.


So, did bottled water fix things? Pilgrim, you know that it did’t. Perplexed, I finally concluded that this taste must be the result of the radioactive fluoride tracer I had received interveniously earlier in the week before a PET scan … working its way out of my body.


Case solved? We’ll know in about a week (the time I was told for the tracer to work it’s way through my system.)


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Headlines



Pelosi delays infrastructure vote as Democrats struggle to reach deal

Merck to seek emergency authorization for oral Covid treatment after ‘compelling results’ in trials

Biden signs stopgap spending measure to avert shutdown — for down

Senate confirms Biden’s ecoterrorist nominee to lead  BLM

Federal appeals court preserves administration’s ability to use Title 42 to expel migrant families

Euro zone inflation hits highest level in 13 years as energy prices soar

Senior military officials claim to have killed Al-Qaeda leader in drone strike month after botched strike against ISIS-K

Greta Thunberg: UK one of the biggest ‘climate vilians’

House GOP aide targeted in latest subpoenas from Jan.6 select committee

U.S. auto sales forecast to plummet in third quarter as chip shortages plague industry

IG Horowitz discovers more FBI abuses of FISA process

Milley admits telling China he’d ‘probably call’ before an attack


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Friday, October 01, 2021

Covid Vaccine Risk Update (Updated)

 


To me, it seems apparent that someone or ones at the CDC is trying to tell America that Covid vaccines … and boosters … carry larger risks than is communicated by our political betters and most media outlets. If one takes some time carefully to peruse the VAERS Covid vaccine update you will note that this site is starting to get a little more agressive with its flashing red lights. (Click on embedded links.) Note  the graphs displaying the recent leap in vaccine deaths versus history … and how these deaths occur stretched out over the weeks after the jab.


And note too, kind reader that these statistics are only what are reported to the CDC. From my observations, there are far more averse vaccination reactions … admittedly mostly milder ones … that are not reported. This compendium suggest that there is an averse reaction for roughly every 30 vaccinations. I suspect the real number is more like one in ten … or even worse.


Yes, kind reader, as this site demonstrates, the chance of dying from these vaccines is about one in every 16,000 … but the chance of other serious consequences are roughly one in every thousand. This has clearly not been our experience with other vaccines … and the risks from not getting vaccinated or boosted are likely worse than this, but how much worse is impossible for me to say … but clearly not what it was before we are approaching herd immunity. So, pilgrim go into this adventure with your eyes open … thanks to some anonymous truth-teller(s) at the CDC.


You are entitled to manage your own risks … no matter what Joe Biden says.


Afterward: Sceptic? See also: Conservative Treehouse post.


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Democrat Accounting



If I am rash and buy a Tesla car for $87,000 and get federal and state rebates and tax credits totaling $18,000 … a down-payment rebate of $8,000 and then a car loan for $61,000 … then this means that this EV costs me “zero” … right?


No? But this is how Biden and Pelosi are figuring the cost of their new $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” bill … or better known as Democrat accounting.


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Quotable Quote

 


The easiest way to win a contest is to own the referees. In politics, the media often are the referees. — Fletcher


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Headlines


North Korea’s Kim seeks better ties with South, but slams U.S.

Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown

Biden’s cabinet clashes: Pentagon leaders blame State Department for botched Afghanistan evacuation

China and Olympics Committee allowing only Chinese citizens to attend 2022 Winter Games in Beijing

Biden administration says it will again try to end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

‘Covid will become manageable’: BioNTech co-founder says the virus will be with us for years

VP Harris hires crisis experts due to her wild unpopularity

Biden booed at Congressional baseball game

Brexit is ‘going badly’ say Brits in new poll

A flippant Elon Musk takes shots at Biden, the SEC and anti-nuclear sentiment

Biden security agencies oppose blacklisting Chinese govt tech firm

Mayorkas: 1 in 5 border crossers arrive in U.S. sock with illnesses


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