Pilgrim, have you noticed that everyone these days seems to have feet of clay? They may be highly credentialed scientists, lawyers or academics … yet, if they turned in a term paper late in college, they are pariahs. Surely, kind readers, we should be able to apply a sliding scale of credibility to everyone … and not toss them all into the fiery pits of disbelief?
(I’ll even give the Biden clan a 1.3 on a scale of 10.0.)
STAND UP FOR SHOD FEET!
“It is what it is.” — Donald Trump
President Trump was pretty good at dealing with ambiguity. On the other hand, President Biden has not shown himself equally adept … in fact, he can’t even seem to be able to deal with biguity.
STAND UP FOR AMBIGUITY!
If Dr. Fauci is “science” then stars are just holes punched in the night sky. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!
Ghislaine Maxwell has the life expectancy of a cobra in a mongoose petting farm. — Fletcher
STAND UP TO COBRAS!
‘They’re all begging me’: Trump’s 2024 veep tryouts get underway
Bitcoin climbs back above $57,000 as cryptocurrencies rebound from selloff
New book reveals Chinese energy titan lavished Hunter Biden with offer of $30 million — sought access to Biden family
WHO warns omicron variant poses ‘very high’ risk …
McConaughey not running for governor of Texas
China could double down on its zero-COvID approach amid concerns about omicron, analyst says
Nine of the ten most popular governors are Republicans — Biden less popular than the least popular governor
62% of Swiss back new virus laws …
World Health Organization criticizes travel bans to southern Africa
Moderna says omicron variant vaccine could be ready in early 2022
Doctor who raised alarm about omicron variant says symptoms are ‘so different and so mild’
Will Epstein’s little black book send Ghislaine to prison for 80 years? Trial opens …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
The balance between tyranny and chaos in our society is difficult to maintain … particularly when governments stop paying attention to the details of civilization … like public health ambiguity, lax law enforcement and not maintaining our nation’s borders. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR CIVILIZATION!
Maximum fissures: Iran nuclear talks head toward oblivion
COvID variant spreads to UK, Germany and Italy
New York governor declares ‘state of emergency’ over omicron variant
China faces ‘colossal outbreak’ [of Covid]
South African braces for wave propelled by Omicron
Some college endowments had a record year while other schools face bankruptcy
Steve Bannon pushes for documents in court case to be released
Israel, Iran broaden cyberwar to attack civilian targets
U.S. lawmakers visit Taiwan; China conducts military patrols
Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels as Americans stay home
New Smithsonian exhibit asks visitors when we’ll see ‘single global government’
Mag 7.5 quake strikes Peru, developing …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
I once had an original thought … but got distracted by a pretty butterfly … and forgot it. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR SOMETHING!
If this Wuhan-Fauci virus pandemic has taught Americans anything, it has alerted us to be skeptical of know-it-all government. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
It the warmists get their way …
Afterward: I wonder how much carbon dioxide produced by all these workers scything, sheaving and threshing all this wheat by hand compares to that which would be emitted by a single gasoline-powered combine?
STAND UP FOR COMBINES!
The quoted facts and logic supporting most of President Biden’s policy positions are often fuzzier than a room full of teddy bears. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR CLARITY!
Omicron variant is high risk, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control assesses
Vaccine makers move quickly against new omicron COvID variant, testing already under way
World Health Org skips letters in Greek alphabet to avoid calling new COvID strain the ‘Xi variant’
Send in the Clowns: Sondheim dead at 91 …
FDA seeks advice on whether to limit COvID-19 pill in pregnant people
Dow tumbles 900 points for worst day of year on fears of new COvID variant, S&P 500 drops 2%
Bidenflation Friday: Black Friday prices were up 17% from last year
Supply-chain snarls leave SoCal swamped in unfilled containers …
Ukraine PM calls for NATO’s help against Russia
Black Friday loses some luster as shoppers turn out to hunt scarce deals
U.S. to restrict travel from eight African countries
Musk doubles down on plan to build ‘permanent moon base’ and ‘city on Mars’ …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
I have an idea for a cold open for Saturday Night Live … just a simple Biden presser …
Joe Biden so far is skating through Saturday night “comedy” openings. How come Lorne Michaels? His personality and speech mannerisms are a treasure trove of comedic opportunities: Smelling a girl’s hair, falling asleep, mispronouncing words, tag lines (“I mean it,” “This is no joke, “ “I’m not kidding”), forgetting names, “you know the thing,” whispering, repeating things, being folksy, telling a long story going nowhere, waking away from questions, “I’m going to get in trouble for this,” shouting, coughing, long pauses (for earpiece prompts), reading from list of who to call on … enough?
And then there is his son, Hunter!
Even ol’ stick-in-the-mud me could write a knee slapper using this material.
C’mon you supposed purveyors of comedy … get off your stale lefty schtick! Even Bill Maher and Dave Chappelle have sensed the changing political winds!
STAND UP FOR PARODY!
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I can pinpoint the seven places I and my family once resided there … and the five places I used to work …
STAND UP FOR GOTHAM!
Boris Johnson urges French and EU deals to halt migrant channel crossings
New COvID variant roils markets with oil sinking 5%
Here we go again: World Health Org. meets to discuss new Covid-19 variant
New super strain sinks stocks … new travel restrictions … vax resistant?
Weed lounges are coming to a city near you
A heavily-mutated COvID variant emerges in Southern Africa
Texas Democrat says she’s resigning over infighting on spending bill
Flash mob smash-and-grabs continue in high-end stores in LA …
Russian buildup sparks new push to send weapons to Ukraine
European officials voice concern over ‘alarming’ new COvID variant
White House stands by push to end cash bail in wake of Waukesha Christmas Parade attack
Ukraine Zelensky says Moscow plotting coup …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Wee Willie Clinton ran through the town
With cigar in his hand and his pants down.
And Hillary at the window, begging for some pelf
Says for their foundation, but really for herself!
STAND UP TO MONEY LAUNDERING!
Afterward: What does this suggest about the possible size of the population that our whole earth could support?
STAND UP FOR THE REST OF US!
I distinctly remember President Trump saying that he thought therapeutics would be more important than vaccines in combating the “China plague.” And this was after it was clear that his Operation Warpspeed had produced three effective vaccines. And I also remember scratching my head at this comment.
Now the new Wuhan-Fauci virus variants are emerging from South Africa to scare the piss out of the world … since, apparently, our current vaccines may be useless against them. So, we must pivot to therapeutics until our vaccines can be re-engineered.
We, once again, see the genius of the Orangeman … for, despite the media’s disinterest in anti-viral drugs, they may be our saving grace. Now Merck and Pfizer have pills which are apparently highly effective in reducing hospitalizations and deaths from this plague. IF we can get them through our government’s bureaucracy and approved. Are you listening Sleepy Joe? Or are you focused on racism this week?
And these aren’t the only therapeutics … see: HHS site. And, because Trump was for therapeutics, they have been mostly down-played by our unhinged media and our current administration … the not-geniuses that they are.
STAND UP FOR GENIUS!
Italy and France heal their rift with a treaty
Inflation is sticking around — and Biden will have to wait it out like the rest of us
5 Dems sink Biden’s Marxist banking nominee
Even in highly vaccinated New England, hospitals suffering
Legal experts see case for intent in Waukesha parade deaths
Merkel’s push for German lockdown reportedly blocked as death toll passes 100,000
Texas sees massive drop in abortions as heartbeat law took effect
Biden restarting ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy …
Renewable fuels are key to the transportation sector’s sustainable future
India might tighten crypto rules instead of imposing an outright ban, crypto exchange boss says
Georgia jury finds McMichaels, Bryan guilty in Arbery killing
Jobless claims lowest since 1969 …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Pilgrim, here are a few terms you might try to use, but what the media or your liberal friends might require of you instead:
Currently. Now Woke-Required
riot kinetic gathering
election protest Capitol Insurrection
Christmas Solstice celebration
arson facile rehab process
illegal immigrants border-crossing nomads
mob like-minded assembly
carjacking unwilling vehicle appropriation
rapper non-traditional poet
rape involuntary congress
shoplifting deferred payment acquisition
pimp sex-worker’s agent
Socialism governmental wealth leveling
autocracy Build Back Better
stabbing hood acupuncture
homeless self-actuated pioneer
STAND UP AGAINST SILLY SEMANTICS!
I saw this when originally aired … hilarious!
Afterward:
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STAND UP FOR COMEDY!
Conventional thinking is not thinking … it’s reciting.— Fletcher
STAND UP FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT!
The Buttigieg presidential buzz has penetrated the White House
Unusual holiday home buying surge pushes mortgage demand higher
Illegal immigration under Biden is worse since records began
Xmas smash and grab … Brazen robbers hit luxe retailers sound alarm
Trump says Kyle Rittenfouse visited him in Mar-a-Largo after the trial
Germany considers full COvID lockdown and mandatory vaccines
Biden places blame for higher energy prices on oil and gas companies suddenly becoming greedy
EU faces ‘700,000 more deaths by spring’
8-year old becomes sixth to die from injuries in Waukesha
Blockbuster art week sets record with more than $2.6 billion in sales
Christmas Parade massacre suspect shared social media posts promoting violence against white people
China’s top movie ever is war movie about American defeat …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
According to the White House’s Jen Psaki, a 20-pound Thanksgiving turkey costs only $1 … or 5 cents a pound more over last year’s.
True? See: Yahoo Finance numbers.
STAND UP FOR TURKEY!
Hunter, Hunter, the president’s son
Lost his laptop and away he run.
But the computer was luckily found
Which led to Hunter coming unwound.
Predictably, the FBI buried the case
So, once again, Hunter’s saving face.
STAND UP FOR INTEGRITY!
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Reputation is everything … even if it is nothing! — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR EPHEMERA!
Watched Trump interview on Hannity last night. Had to turn it off … due to his cringeworthy delivery … too frank! But, you know what pilgrim, I would love to have him back running things … his policies were that good!
He’s like bad tasting medicine that’s good for you.
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
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The American dollar is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. What are all the cryptocurrencies backed by … the full faith and credit of the greater fool?
STAND UP FOR THE DOLLAR!
Trump poll tests his 2024 comeback map
Biden says U.S. will tap strategic petroleum reserves as gas prices hover around 7-year high
Deadline day for federal COvID vaccine mandate arrives
Vaccines wane against infections …
Florida massacre families to get millions for FBI inaction
Turkish lira plunges to ‘insane’ historic low after President Erdogan sparks sell off
Only 3 in 10 Americans say country is doing well under Biden
White House: No. More. Lockdowns.
Germans will be ‘vaccinated, cured or dead by spring, health minister says
Treasury yields fall as markets digest Powell renomination
Obama Foundation takes $100 million from Jeff Bezos
Yellen: Wait another year for inflation to cool …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
The United States spends more money on the interest to service our national debt than we do for our defense budget … and a good deal of these interest payments go to China!
STAND UP FOR FISCAL SANITY!
This post was inspired by a burglary in a friend’s neighborhood.
I’m going to recall the following from memory so please excuse any minor flaws.
Louis Pasteur once did some experiments on the contamination of Petri dishes filled with agar-agar. Stay with me … you’ll soon see the connection.
He first left one dish uncovered to the air and overnight it had a bacterial culture growing in it. He then covered a fresh one, but with an open straight glass tube through the cover. It took two days to get contaminated. Then he put a L-bend in the tube to the next Petei dish. It took a week for a culture to start growing. Two bends kept the surface clean for two months. And finally, three bends never allowed contamination to take place within his window of patience … even though air could go through the bent tube.
Interesting … but I think this Pasteur experiment has application outside of the biology of bacterial contamination. What is that you ask?
Well pilgrim, if you want a home that is relatively safe from being burgled, make sure that it is at least three street turns required to get there from from a main thoroughfare.
No guarantees … but it seems to work. I think it has something to do with a burglar needing a quick escape without getting lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
STAND UP FOR LAW & ORDER!
Yes, you never-Trumpers, you thought that he was a meanie and said and even did some cruel things … but you must admit he pulled off some neat things for America (energy independence, border control, operation Warpspeed, full employment, no wars, awaking to China, rebuilding our military and a whole lot more) … and then look what you got in return for punishing him: Liberal Pipe Dreams. Have you lost all your sense of proportionality?
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Stubborn COvID surges signal bleak winter
‘It’s entirely doable, and it’s doable fast’: Experts on how to transition the energy crisis
RNC outraises DNC by $2+ million in October
Cloud seeding gets steam as West faces worsening droughts …
5 dead, 40 injured as SUV speeds into Christmas parade
Market is ‘one bad inflation report’ away from a correction, Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel warns
Democrats internal polls show they’re losing to Republicans
Rittenhouse: I support Black Lives Matter …
U.S. missionaries say 2 of 17 abductees freed in Haiti
Cramer’s week ahead: COvID market scares are buying opportunities
FBI raids house of GOP election clerk, conservative activist in Colorado
Disney puts vaccine policy on hold for employees …
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
Liberals are living inside a bubble of silly ideas that they have elevated, with the help of an unhinged media, to loopy dogma status:
- Battery power will one day run heavy machinery, 18-wheel trucks, jet planes, space travel, even ocean liners.
- Gender is determined by a state of mind
- Our national media is unbiased … and seeks the truth
- Carbon dioxide and now methane are the only things affecting our climate
- Socialism will succeed if only properly implemented
- America is as racist today as it has ever been
- China is a competitor and not an enemy
- Guns are inherently evil and should be outlawed
- Government is top-down and not bottom-up
- Open borders are humanitarian, moral, and not at all dangerous
- President Biden is on top of things
- Trump colluded with Russia to win in 2016
- Voter fraud does not exist … or minimal at most
- The U.S. Constitution is hopelessly outdated
- Law enforcement is the problem, not the criminal set
- The current inflation is transitory
- If you are white, you are necessarily evil
Afterward; And a few more:
- Bail needs to be abolished even for violent felons
- All abortions, even right before birth, are a woman’s right
- It’s a human right to live, shoot up and defecate on public streets
- Shoplifting of less than $950 in goods is not worth prosecuting
- It’s alright to burn down businesses … they have insurance
- Most historic statues and legends need to be destroyed
- It’s alright for government to lie and cheat for the greater good — e.g., vaccine mandates
- Loss of bank account privacy
(I’ve gotta stop! And most of these kumquats are being implemented!)
Maybe an ice-cold shower?
If people only knew how liberating it is to think what you really think instead of thinking what you are supposed to think … we would have a lot more rational world — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR FREE THINKERS!
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Warning for the media and politicians: There is a very high cost to incessant race baiting …
Afterward: Is Biden a race baiter? Was Trump?
STAND UP FOR UNIFYING MESSAGES!
As I have repeatedly and annoyingly pointed out, the only real food for plants is carbon dioxide … and a major source of this vital gas is the burning of wood and fossil fuels.
So kind reader, if the world accomplishes net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, what are our trees, wheat, corn, asparagus and marijuana plants going to consume to keep us animals going … unicorn dust?
See again: The Last Tradition post.
Afterward: Be careful pilgrim! Most of the unicorn dust is now being used to back cryptocurrencies!
STAND UP FOR BURNING FOSSIL FUELS AS PLANT FOOD!
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