Politics and science, humor and hypocrisy. METANOODLE
I haven't heard one for fifty years but they were popular when I was in high school.
Mummy Mummy, I don't want to go to Europe.
Shut up and keep swimming.Mummy,Mummy, my braids are too tight.
(Pulls the corner of her eyes out "chinese" style to illustrate).
Mummy Mummy, I don't want to see Grandpa.
Shut up and keep digging.The mother mother lode, however, is here and some are plenty sick.
Can I lick the bowl? Shut up and flush.
Are you sure this is the way to make ginger bread men? Shut up and get back in the ovenAnd so on.
A boy goes into a pawn shop
And during the polio epidemic in Canada in the fifties there were Iron Lung jokes too.
A boy goes into a pawn shop with the motor for an iron lung.
the pawn shop owner asks "where did you get this?"
the boy replies "from my father"
the pawn shop owner asks "what did he say when you took it?"
the boy replies: "AAAAUUUUGHHHH"
No., I'm not an anti-vaxxer but since we're getting personal, I haven't tried anal either. Have you?Also,
I've had lots of vaccines but I'm not ready for this one. The approvals were rushed, it's still a genetic experiment, and adverse reacdtions include more deaths than it took to cancel past drug tests on people.
Although it's a big deal to political brokers in the US who wins Tuesday's spot as Governor of Virginia, at bottom not so much. Lots of the Washington DC crowd call VA home.and Republican and Democrat pols share an outlook that upstate voters do not.
The Virginia Governor’s race is akin to two lovers debating whether Mercedes or BMW will be their next SUV
Coal ash is suddenly looking good. Rare earths (95% coming from China these days) can be extracted from ash without using toxic inputs. There's abundant coal ash which could be de-toxified with the new process. C02 is considered a waste product too and would be consumed.
Using food-grade citric acid as the carrier and modified carbon dioxide,
"in less than a day, at 158 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius) and 1,100 pounds per square inch pressure (about 70 times ordinary atmospheric pressure), the method extracted 42% of rare-earth metals present in coal waste samples."
It's not just Apple/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter/Google/YouTube vs The U.S. government that struggle for the upper hand in consumer media or far more likely for an accomodation with lots of money involved. In China, Jack Ma and more are being ordered to defer to the CCP. Moscow wants "pliable domestic entities" like Yandex, VK and Sber to replace the outsize US versions. The EU has the world's strictest privacy law and big fines, especially for US consumer media. (Outline from this article at PJ Media).
Who owns BIG DATA? The media, the military, the political parties, the deep state that persists beyond elections, corporations that pay the bills, the public? Ownership is still fought over as BIG DATA explodes bigger daily. We see local news. The same news is happening all over the world.
The BC Government declared the Covid-19 State of Emergency ended 11:59 pm June 30th 2021.
You didn't hear about it, did you? Some of the mandates issued under the protection of the State of Emergency were extended, however.
Sharyl Atkisson is a gem. I re-watched her 2015 TED talk on astroturfing, the pervasive "grass-roots" fake news machine. It's found everywhere, in medical ads and surveys and fact-checks and facebook opinions. Don't be surprised how much is caught in the net! Three simple rules to tag most of the fakery and propaganda:
1. Is the language inflammatory and dismissive? (debunk, kook, conspiracy, nuts, paranoid, myth, crackpot)
2. Are the people and organisations being attached instead of the facts they raise?
3. Is the scepticism aimed at the people calling out wrongdoing instead of the wrongdoers?
Australian engineer, Dr. Phil Greer, has done us a service framing over a hundred current WHY questions about Covid-19 , addressing under-reported but secure medical findings and government overreach. My brain has been going numb from the overload of information and misinformation. This one writeup in bullet form seems to hit all the high points of concern.
This chart is from The Lancet showing excess cold events are far more dangerous than excess heat events over time. Oddly, this same publication now predicts millions of deaths from warming, overlooking its own information. Wattsupwiththat.com
This is the perfect moment to slip in one of my favorite poems, crafted with such skill by Robert Frost.
Hatred towards the people I admire seems ascendent today.
Narrative Shift: Some 30,000 Mesoamericans liberated Mexico with help from "technologically advanced allies from overseas"(Cortez with about 700 Spaniards). They "overthrew a bloody death cult (The Aztecs) that had "subjugated its neighbors and rounded up mass civilian prisoners for execution".
"First, mandates need to be issued by a government agency or an elected official.. Secondly, they will often need a reason to introduce the mandate"
The mandate becomes:
"The authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country” and it is "legally enforceable."
"Mandates are often used to deal with emergency situations. They are known for being very fast to implement. This makes them the perfect way to address rapidly changing situations."
"There are a few conditions in which a mandate can be deemed invalid. These will be when:
They fall outside the government’s agency under the legislation. The law will state clearly what things the agencies can and can’t make laws about. For example, the health department can make decisions about a pandemic. But a terrorist attack will be outside of their purview.
The mandate can’t overrule any existing state or federal laws. These laws can also be changed by a legislature.
The mandate can’t override the Constitution. All laws and mandates will need to follow the rules established in the Constitution."
In British Columbia, the mask mandate and now the vaccine passport would have come under the agency of the Ministry of Health but the emergency situation undergirding the mandate has fomrally expired. BC cancelled the state of health emergency June 30th. Elements of the Canadian constitution are being overruled.
From over 3 billion metric tonnes of iron to 2400 tonnes of mercury. Glance the chart over and be better informed in seconds.
This is something new. We all know that mild disapproval, a little wrinkle of the nose is the politician's lot. This widespread intense dislike of Biden's presidency is something new. Rasmussen keeps a rolling 3-day poll of 1500, calling 500 people every day to chart these numbers. The folk who are really pleased with Joe Biden's presidency are withering away, their numbers eroding, subsiding without apparent let.
From NIH table updated July 8 2021.
Looks to me like stealth rehabilitation of Ivermectin as a tool in treatment of early SARS-CoV-2 infections.
LA and Long Beach ports are backed up but they are actually handling record levels of throughput. Mauldin's newsletter has some key charts. Besides the policy issues messing with supply chains, there is an enormous factor called demand. The demand is also a policy issue:
"The government sent trillions of dollars of “hot money” directly to consumers and/or businesses. Restaurants, hotels, and airlines were generally off the market, vacations were crimped, so people bought “stuff.” Thus, those ships off the shores of California contain extra goods that both manufacturers and shippers hadn’t planned for."
From Mauldin's letter (free to subscribe) is this chart showing throughput way up and a second chart showing prices up sharply for goods as money is being spent on goods more than services. Goods fill containers.
UPDATE: Bonus here from a real trucker.
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The Atlanta Federal Reserve has trimmed its third quarter GDP forecast from 6.1% to 0.5% annualized rate in eight short weeks and looks like other bellwethers are following suit.
