We're at least 95% ignorant

Remember being told we only use 10% of our brains?
Yet somehow every element is the result of millions of years competitive living and breeding.
You were right to be sceptical of the claim.

You know DNA codes the proteins that make our body but maybe didn't know only 1.5% of it is actually on the job.  All the rest, almost the totality of our generic inheritance, has been given a name: "Junk DNA".   That 98.5% is simply unknown, also the result of millions of years of competitive living and breeding.   Maybe that's changing.

You also know something about the universe and heard there's dark matter (which incidentally is the name of an excellent craft beer on the west coast).  Dark matter is now considered a mix of dark energy and dark matter, neither of which has been explained and between them they make up 95% of the universe.  Nobody knows what the heck it is but our 5% is very nice.

As Alexander Pope wrote:

"A little learning is a dangerous thing ;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ...

Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !"

CRT is a scapegoat for failed schools

 If Critical Race Theory blames everything on race and capitalism, that's the red flag that the schools themselves are failing and know it, looking  for a scapegoat.  Tony Kinnett, a science administrator in Indiana, confirmed this blaming is happening in his purview.

A footnote from Instapundit:

Nobody agrees on what constitutes CRT. And we are dealing in part with ideologues who don’t want to agree. They want to teach what they want to teach, and they’ll find a way to say that their chosen curriculum isn’t CRT, no matter how CRT is defined.

 

Western Australia Covid-Free and Hospitals are Overwhelmed Despite Lockdown and Intense Vaccination. What is the new factor?

Go to the source and read it for yourself:

Something Very Weird Happening in Western Australia – Hospitals Overwhelmed, Vaccinations Continue But They Have No COVID

COVID Miracle in Italy (Stats fixed) UPDATE

COVID death toll plunges from 130,000 to 4,000  Il Tempo reports.  
Hallelujah.  Oh wait, this is a data fix.
Now only deaths FROM instead of deaths WITH Covid-19 are being counted. The Italian Higher Insitute of Health made the change.
This isn't an edit, it's an atomic bomb adjustment.

A reasonable person will allow there was error in the 130,000 number and will allow the 4000 number can never be exactly known either.  That said, we both know the US won't fix their death toll soon. Heads would have to roll, elections lost, funding and acclaim lost, and great shame endured,

Added: "When will CDC correct its Covid death count?"

Simple fix for America

Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira:

Democrats would be well-advised to focus instead on an inclusive nationalism that emphasizes what Americans have in common and their right not just to economic prosperity but to public safety, secure borders and a world-class but non-ideological education for their children. That’s much more likely to work than simply denying a lot of these issues are problems.

Ken's Diet Cheat Sheet

 Like they say, you manage what you measure.  Click for my one page editable diet cheat sheet, a spreadsheet all in grams. Add your favourites.  Delete "Jena's cinnamon buns".

GOOGLE or DUCKDUCKGO, Will they tell you if the Pfizer needle for kids changes the buffer or adds a heart attack medicine?

 

GOOGLE bombs.  DUCKDUCKGO informs.

You are sure to read:
"Pfizer vaccine for kids 5-11 is safe". (The buffer to keep mRNA stable has been revised)
and you may also read:
"Pfizer vaccine of kids has added an ingredient used to treat heart attacks". (They know the vaccine may cause heart damage).
If you don't know much about biology, can you choose?

The short answer is "No", but I compared GOOGLE and DUCKDUCKGO for a clue November 4th, searching "Tromethamine pfizer kids vaccine" in the past month.

First, GOOGLE.
The first three results are about "authorized", not about Tromethamine.
The first mentions of "Tromethamine" are in the 8th and 9th results.
The results total is an astonishingly low 75 with most on the second page being foreign language.
I didn't see a result to answer my question.

Second, DUCKDUCKGO
The first seven results all address "Tromethamine".
There are far more results (English language too).
I found out what I wanted to know.

What did I learn?  Yes, Tromethamine is sometimes used to stabilize heart attacks by injection directly into the heart.  Yes, Tromethamine ("Tris") is a successful buffer for keeping mRNA from breaking down.  (Messenger RNA is the active ingredient in the vaccine).

What can we take a guess at?  Alarmists may be going too far too fast with the "heart attack" angle.  Tromethamine isn't used to prevent inflammation of the heart muscle. So it probably has no role in covering this threat to young kids.  Also, because Google skirts the topic and looks sneaky, emphasizing authority rather than science,  it's easy to believe in the possibility (likelihood?) there is an undisclosed ulterior purpose at Pfizer.  They've played tricks with data before.

US Presidency: Is the office becoming irrelevant?

Joe Biden didn't know what the reporter was talking about, settling large sums of money on each illegal immigrant.  Mr. Biden had an opinion but didn't have a clue.
Takeaway at theconservativetreehouse.com    

"The President of the United States doesn’t know about what is going on in his own administration, because the office of the presidency is an irrelevant agency to the people who are operating behind the curtain."

Red tide in every single VA county

Every single county in Virginia is redder today, no exceptions, and the graphic makes it easy to remember.
If this is a tide, any clever politician will swim in the same direction now.  As others have pointed out, Manchin and Sinema will find it easier to stick to their guns and a few more Democrats than usual will retire from the battlefield to spend time with their families.   Best of all, the majority of the American electorate which likes to follow the familiar and successful, will lean red too.

Is this trucker wrong, that the supply chain is more screwed than you thought?

Yes there are Policy issues and Macro economic issues, 
Now A smart trucker (Ryan Johnson) shows his end.  Is he wrong?

It ain't going to be fixed soon.
You will soon be paying big premiums to get timely freight delivery from Amazon.
Truckers who are working 14 hour shifts won't be working 24 hour shifts.
Most truck companies will have nothing to do with the container business.

What the heck is "Fully Vaccinated"? Is it like "Fully Married"?

Seen in comments here:

Until 2021, “fully vaccinated” was not a standard phrase, any more than “fully married” or “fully graduated from college.” Typically a person is considered “vaccinated” or “unvaccinated.”

Your consent is uninformed if -

Your consent is uninformed-
If you don't know what  CDC's VAERS is, and haven't glanced at it lately.
If you don't know about trending myocarditis in young immunized people.
If you don't know that your immune defences are depressed for a few weeks after vaccination.
If you haven't learned that Covid-19 is a disease of the blood system.
If you don't know some spike protein is built and pokes out of your blood vessel cells and triggers self attack.  (Antibodies patrolling your blood because of the first injection or because you caught the Covid previously think the spikes should be attacked).
If you don't know that some nations have very different results than ours.

It's probably too late for you, but please don't put your little kids at risk too.
The pressure to conform will be great.  Look at this Pfizer ad directed at kids to make them want to be Super Heroes.

What do you make of this? Shock proof the 2020 election was crooked in parts of Wisconsin? Or just another ho-hum tale because we have no chamption to stand in the gap?

 

What do you think?

Cute convertible turned into Halloween Covid Spoof

 

Seen in my neighbourhood.

Is Manchin sly enough to have just positioned himself as the next President of the United States?

 Sundance's opinion here says yes, maybe he is that sly,

Today Joe Manchin moved to put Nancy Pelosi and the communists in checkmate.
Manchin has the support of the House democrats and House republicans but not the communists or AOC. 

 

Knight took Queen off the board….It is not coincidental that Manchin makes this statement today as the NBC poll showing massive drops in support for Joe Biden is being discussed widely. Manchin knows he is sitting in a spotlight of an inflection point; Manchin in is politically astute and cunning to the ways of politics. Manchin comes across as meek and mild-tempered, a man of reasonable disposition… but that doesn’t accurately portray his cunning. This is his chance to make a big move.
Senator Joe Manchin also knows that Democrats are going to implode.

Manchin is making a BIG club move by positioning himself as reasonable right now.
Manchin is testing his strength against the strength of Nancy Pelosi.
Manchin will likely be the #1 contender in 2024, he knows it.
Manchin is cunning.
Manchin is not only reaching out to ‘moderate’ registered Democrats….
Manchin is reaching the minds of registered Republicans
Manchin is a very worthy adversary.

I don't even know how to process this: Putin makes more sense than our 'leaders' whom he compares to Bolsheviks.

 From Peter Lucas in the Boston Herald:

"It's a given that Putin is a .. smooth charlatan who has a habit of making dissidents disappear. And Putin, a serial killer, is probably the last man to take seriously when he criticizes racism, or social injustice in the United States, the most open and freest country in the world. But he may have a point.

The Russian leader in his sly way, made some sense on the militant wave of woke-induced cancel culture and alleged racism that has so consumed the United States that it can’t think straight.

He brought up King’s remarks about judging people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.

“Countering acts of racism is a necessary and noble cause,” Putin said, “but the new ‘cancel culture’ has turned it into reverse discrimination, that is, reverse racism. The obsessive emphasis on race is further dividing people, when the real fighters for civil rights dreamed precisely about erasing differences and refusing to divide people by skin color.”

Putin mocked the new woke nomenclature of the left for calling people “parent number one and parent number two, birthing parent instead of mother, and human milk instead of breast milk because it might upset the people who are unsure of their own gender.”

“Incidentally,” Putin added, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of other opinions, different from their own. “I think this should remind you of something that is happening. And we see what is happening in the Western countries. It is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia used to have and that we left behind.”

A more complete report on the Sochi speech is here at Moscow Times. 

Politics: The Ambrose Bierce definition

“Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Minimum wage won't go to the poor, it will simply squeeze more young people out of the job market.

 From the Fraser Institute:

"92.3 per cent of minimum-wage earners in Canada don’t live in low-income families. In fact, the majority of minimum-wage earners in 2019 (the latest year of available data) were teenagers or young adults aged 15-24, many of whom live with their parents or other family members."

Don't talk to me about hiking minimum wage before dealing with this uncomfortable observation.

VAERS has been running for 30 years and hundreds of millions have been vaccinated for this and that but only in 2021 have deaths piled up.

 The first chart shows VAERS  (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) deaths for thirty years.
The second chart shows that cumulative vaccinations for other diseases are at the same level as vaccinations for Covid-19 but the deaths that were almost unnoticed until 2019 are now almost off the chart.  For God's sake, stop or slow down this madness.