Riding the Dragon

Got 40 minutes that you can devote to discovering the Chinese threat that we and the rest of the free world face? Then watch the above documentary based on a book by Peter Schweizer, a real  investigative reporter.

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Baltimore or Less

Here is a viral video by Kimberly Klacik who is a black woman running as a Republican for the House 7th District seat from Baltimore. Unfortunately her chances are nil to none.


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Benny Hill

For you millennials who missed this riské British classic. (Lots more where this one came  from.)

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Kamala

Kamala Harris has probably been picked to bolster the chutzpah of the brain-dead Biden campaign. Here she is questioning Judge Kavanaugh for his seat on the Supreme Court. If Trump has a 100-grit personality, Ms. Harris’s is 24-grit.

Censorship

YouTube took down the video from the two California doctors contending that the continuous lockdown was exactly the wrong strategy to deal with the coronavirus ... see: Freedom of Speech. It seems that they could not allow any opinions that were counter to Dr. Fauci’s dicta.

Now, the Masters of the Universe (Twitter, Google’s YouTube, FaceBook) are once again censorng what they don’t want Americans to see ... this time a Nigerian doctor vehemently attesting that hydroxychloroquinine (HCQ) is an effective Covid treatment ... see: RT Video.

I realize that the Masters of the Universe are private companies and therefore can censor whatever they want. But, it would seem when they have achieved such monopolistic powers over their media highways, that some constraints should be applied to their plenary powers.

And besides, Trump should have used reverse-English ... and disparaged HCQ to begin with ... and it would therefore have become the standard treatment ... possibly saving thousands of lives. So, in a way, these deaths really were the truculent anti-Trump media’s fault in the end.

Obvious Truth

YouTube style ... until it is taken down by the Masters of the Universe.

Politics Infects Medicine

There is increasing evidence that politics are infecting the science of medicine. Let me cite just a few incidences:

- A few weeks back four antibody studies (Santa Clara, LA, New York State and Miami/Dade) suggested that coronavirus infections were far higher than previously thought. This meant that death rates were close to those of the seasonal flu ... and we were approaching herd immunity in our hot spots ... not good news for those wishing to keep us locked down. So, why have more such studies disappeared from our news cycles? They must be being performed.

- That famous YouTube video of the two California doctors urging us to rethink our lockdown polices has all but been wiped off the Internet.

- Reported COVID-19 death statistics and resultant model projections are starting to go back up ... after plummeting for three months. Even though hospital and ICU coronavirus admissions are generally going down, many doctors are saying they are being pressured to list COVID as a cause of death in unrelated mortalities. Is this politically or monetarily motivated ?

- There is surprising negative media coverage against seemingly positive developments in the battle against this virus:  Trial results from therapeutics like  remesivir, hydroxychlorquine and other new treatments ... and their pooh-pooling of the Swedish herd-immunity strategy.

- There is a clear red-State, blue-State divide in how to reopen our economy. Libs are clearly more draconian in their ukases and have an extended timetable. Is this medically motivated or just to display hostility to the Orangeman?

Freedom of Speech (Update)

YouTube (Google) has poked this country’s Constitutional hornet nest by taking down a video of two California doctors discussing how we are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Basically their message is that we are not just quarantining the sick, we are quarantining the healthy too. This is bass ackwards and it is destroying our economy ... and also resulting in a far greater potential public health catastrophe. See: Banned on YouTube (Updated).

Now, these doctors’ message may be right or it may be wrong ... but a few techie pukes at YouTube do not and should not have the right to shut them down! This is totalitarian oppression of the first order! We are a country of sacred freedoms guaranteed by checks, balances and public debate.

The rise of social media’s power is coming dangerously close to negating our First Amendment freedoms.

Dear readers, don’t let this happen!

Afterward: Thanks to a clever reader, Lutfi, we know have another viewable video of these two California doctors that YouTube censored ... see: The Scoop.

Reader Contribution

A kind reader, Tom, has forwarder an interview by Bill Maher of Doctor David Katz of Yale University that replicates about 90% of what the two California doctors were saying in their censored coronavirus YouTube video. Of course Maher views it through a liberal lens which makes it permissible. But truth is truth no matter how it is slanted.

I hope those idiots at Google restore the video of the California doctors so you can see more of this truth from the trenches.

Maher is both a genius for having this guy on and an idiot for taking it as an opportunity to once again bash Trump and FoxNews. Unnecessary.

(FYI: Dr. Katz had previously appeared on the Tucker Carlson show of Fox.)

Virus Disease Vector?

Chinese Cheerios ...

Bashing Trump

As an equal-opportunity Jonathan Pie fan, I feel I must provide you his liberal side too ... see above for his take on Trump’s impeachment acquittal. There are at least three serious misrepresentations in this rant ... see if you can identify them.

(I tried to send this YouTube link to some of you kind readers via email, but Google had better ideas and kept inserting its ads into my effort.)

Skeptic

Did Elizabeth Warren have the above racist ceramic on top of her kitchen cabinets during her famous beer-drinking promotional video. Showing this as a still picture caused lots of reasonable Photoshop speculation.

However, can the Warren haters alter a YouTube video? Watch the below video and look closely to the left of Lizzie’s head.

You decide.


Afterward: To see how that “impartial arbiter of the truth,” Snopes, thinks of this accusation ... see: Snopes Explanation.

Measured Justice

Attorney General William Barr may be one of the few defenders of law and order left paddling around the DC swamp. Of course, he is now accused of being a Trump personal defender by the swamp creatures there ... but, to this observer, he seems perfectly apolitical and a measured defender of that old-fashioned concept called “justice.”

I can’t find a stand-alone YouTube video of AG Barr’s recent wide-ranging and informative interview with Pete Williams of ABC, so I have to reference it at a conservative website. So, dear reader, if you are liberal, ignore all the text therein and just watch the video ... The Interview ... and, if you still think that Barr is doing Trump’s bidding, I suppose you are forever frozen in your hatred of the Orangeman.

Headlines

Pelosi to climate change conference: ‘We’re still in Paris agreement’

In 2019, almost every investment worked

Factories extend contraction as Index misses forecasts ...

Trump restores steel and aluminum tariffs on Brazil and Argentina

Zelensky airs his grievances with Trump

Supreme Court shows little appetite for expanding gun rights in arguments over repealing New York regulation

Fed’s pumps another $98 billion [into economy] ...

[London mayor] Sadiq Kahn after terrorist attack: ‘Our strength is our diversity’

Pompeo cautions Europe not to trust Chinese firms with 5G

Cyber Monday shoppers on track to hit record $9.4 billion, Adobe says

300+ Trump ads taken down by Google, YouTube ...

Lisa Page speaks out against Trump’s ‘demeaning fake orgasm’

Lip Syncing

The video above, found on the Diogenes’ Middle Finger blog, is a lip syncing of Hillary saying something completely different from her actual comments. I post this not so much to make fun of Hillary, but to show how remarkable this technology is. Watch and wonder. (Although the ridicule does help my motivation.)

Headlines

Unlike U.S., Canada plans coordinated attack on foreign election interference

Alan Greenspan says it’s ‘only a matter of time’ until negative rates spread to the US ...

Social credit score to determine who can buy guns?

Obama, Biden briefed on private Trump meeting fed to FBI by Comey

Google’s YouTube hit with $120m fine over children’s privacy

Trump rolls back regulations on energy-saving light bulbs ...

Marianne Williamson: ‘I didn’t think the left was so mean’ ...

Iran offers to honor nuclear deal in return for $15 billion

Hong Kong formally withdraws controversial bill after weeks of unrest

‘Hundreds of other people could be implicated’ in Jeffery Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell court documents

[Bahamas] Island 70% underwater ...

Swedish king concerned over spate of explosions and shootings

Pepe Le Pew

From daily timewaster blog

Afterward ... see:

Headlines

Senate passes border funding package, setting up fight with House

Democrats take aim at big business, spar over health care at the first 2020 presidential debate

She [Gabbard] is most searched name during debate — Google ...

Cory Booker: We need to talk more about transgender Americans

Reddit cracks down on pro-Trump channel over ‘repeated rule breaking’

Huawei says it doesn’t cooperate with Chinese military — after report says its employees did

Trump [on debate]: Boring ...

De Blasio: Yes, Democrats are for 70% tax rate, free college

Appellate court raises new threat to Obamacare

Trump campaign shells out on YouTube ad to draw more views than Democrat debate

ISIS threatens to bomb New York ahead of Fourth of July ...

20 times Breirbart reported migrant deaths during Obama-Biden

Powerline Pic

Attempting to go viral on YouTube ...

Headlines

Trump strikes back at Pelosi as shutdown fight hits new low

Trump cancels US delegation to Davos World Economic Forum due to shutdown

California storm moving out after battering state for 3 days ... 100 inches of snow ...

Hoyer: Canceling Pelosi trip 'petty, mean-spirited'

'We're not going to sit idly by': Freshmen Dems look to seize shutdown optics

Asia stocks trade higher, boosted by optimism on US-China trade talks

Report: Trump directed his attorney to lie to Congress about Moscow tower project ...

YouTube admits it meddled with abortion search results

DOJ hiring attorneys to handle property seizures for border wall

Investors pulled a record $143 billion out of active funds during December plunge

Media turning against 'babbling' Beto ...

21 dead in car bomb attack on Colombian police academy