Saucy Papageno & Papagena Aria updated and in English too.

My favourite characters from the Magic Flute. For all their ridiculousness, the two Papa's are much more believable than the hoity toity ones with their dark manoeuvers.  Papageno and Papagena probably will vote for Trump in 2024.  Woke people who only listen to correct opinion will be offended. Posted in 2015 featuring Nathan Gunn and the Metropolitan Opera.

Freezing altitude drops by 10,000 feet along unusual weather edge in BC

See snap from ventusky.com November 14 2021.     I'm sitting by my computer right on the transition line and rain is pouring down.  

The disply legend is on the lower left and the altitude colours for freezing are on the lower right.  A visit to their site is rewarding.  Try clicking on "Temperature" and then "2 m anomaly" to find how many degrees today's weather is above or below the norm of the last 25 years.  Zoom out for the world.  Zoom in for  your home. 

"We begin by stating the obvious." Read for yourself why the appeals court busted the Biden Administration's OSHA gambit

"We begin by stating the obvious"

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans uses blunt language to kill Biden's misuse of OSHA to force medical policy on US workers.    Here's the complete document.

Quotes start on page 6.

"We begin by stating the obvious. The Occupational Safety and Health Act, which created OSHA, was enacted by Congress to assure Americans “safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources.”.... It was not—and likely could not be, under the Commerce Clause and nondelegation doctrine—intended to authorize a workplace safety administration in the deep recesses of the federal bureaucracy to make sweeping pronouncements on matters of public health affecting every member of society in the profoundest of ways.

—it is ... fatally flawed on its own terms...The Mandate’s strained prescriptions combine to make it the rare government pronouncement that is both overinclusive (applying to employers and employees in virtually all industries and workplaces in America, with little attempt to account for the obvious differences between the risks facing, say, a security guard on a lonely night shift, and a meatpacker working shoulder to shoulder in a cramped warehouse) and underinclusive (purporting to save employees with 99 or more coworkers from a “grave danger” in the workplace, while making no attempt to shield employees with 98 or fewer coworkers from the very same threat). The Mandate’s stated impetus—a purported “emergency” that the entire globe has now endured for nearly two years, and which OSHA itself spent nearly two months responding to—is unavailing as well. And its promulgation grossly exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority.

After the President voiced his displeasure with the country’s vaccination rate in September, the Administration pored over the U.S. Code in search of authority, or a “work-around,” for imposing a national vaccine mandate. The vehicle it landed on was an OSHA ETS. The statute empowering OSHA allows OSHA to bypass typical notice-and-comment proceedings for six months by providing “for an emergency temporary standard to take immediate effect upon publication in the Federal Register” if it “determines (A) that employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards, and (B) that such emergency standard is necessary to protect employees from such danger.” ... As the name suggests, emergency temporary standards “are an ‘unusual response’ to ‘exceptional circumstances.’” .... Thus, courts have uniformly observed that OSHA’s authority to establish emergency temporary standards under § 655(c) “is an ‘extraordinary power’ that is to be ‘delicately exercised’ in only certain ‘limited situations.’” .... But the Mandate at issue here is anything but a “delicate exercise” of this “extraordinary power.” .... Quite the opposite, rather than a delicately handled scalpel, the Mandate is a one-sizefits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers) that have more than a little bearing on workers’ varying degrees of susceptibility to the supposedly “grave danger” the Mandate purports to address."

 

Lies lies lies: US emissions of CO2 way down but the narrators don't like it.

h/t Instapundit linked to Schellenberger Twitter feed.

A quote about lies to go with the tweet

Lies lies lies: Rittenhouse reporting today

h/t Instapundit linking to AG Hamilton's twitter feed.

Team Obama vs Team Clinton still in play: "Bill Barr was the Bondo application, John Durham is the spray paint".

This is a new angle to me and rings true.  The divisions in the past White House between Team Obama and Team Clinton haven't gone away.  Durham is going after a few players that were close to Team Clinton and remote from Team Obama because the latter team is still in power, stocking Biden's white house.  Comments from Sundance below:

"Bill Barr was the Bondo application, John Durham is the spray paint.

No one from within the Obama loyalist camp will be touched by Durham. However, those who were in the Clinton camp can be targets of Durham depending on how close they are to the proximity of the dividing line between Clinton and Obama. Those who are close to the Obama line are more safe than those who are distant from it. That’s what we are seeing with John Durham.

Team Obama were radical progressives with idealistic objectives to fundamentally change America. Team Clinton were power hungry politicians from a traditional Democrat perspective. The Clintons focused on power for the benefit of their own affluence and gain. In essence, team Obama were true believers (communists). Team Clinton were following their traditional path looking for power and wealth (crony capitalists)."

Covid checklist: Advantage "Unvaxxed"

If you didn't know the answer is "yes" in the Vaxxed column, read some more background.

 

When you were vaccinated, did the nurse aspirate the needle?

This is major.   "Aspirate" means the plunger is pulled back briefly to see if the needle pulls up any blood.  Taiwan aspirates.  The USA and UK do not, and apparently Canada doesn't either.  The needle is supposed to unload into the deltoid muscle and avoid blood vessels.  The serious consequences of Covid-19 appear to be the result of virus spike protein being expressed by cells lining the blood vessels and then being counter attacked as aliens by the body's own defences.  Blood vessels go to the heart, they go to the lung, they go to the brain, you name it.

Illustrating aspiration 
detecting blood

A doctor reviews this.  Clearly risk of adverse consequences is higher if the needle penetrates a blood vessel and promptly distributes the mRNA for spike protein to all organs fed by the blood stream.

The Great Reset: This is policy of the World Economic Forum, not a conspiracy theory.

Here's the WEF Great Reset presentation page with a little video and a statement.

First the "OPPORTUNITY" for a few to decide what happens to many.

"As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being."

Then the "CONTEXT". Covid crisis puts leaders at an historical crossroads where multiple ways of solving problems can be replaced with one superior way of solving problems.

"The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems –from health and financial to energy and education – are more exposed than ever amidst a global context of concern for lives, livelihoods and the planet. Leaders find themselves at a historic crossroads, managing short-term pressures against medium- and long-term uncertainties."

Predict how you weathered the 2020 Covid crash with one simple trick: Check your 2019 income

Predict how you got through the Covid crash with one simple trick.  Check your income.
Everybody took a hit spring of 2020.
The less you were earning, the harder you were hit.

The top earners are now better than ever.
The mid earners are back where they were before.
The bottom earners are poorer than they were and still going down.
Down 25% on average!!!

The source is a Harvard study
and the interactive graphic from tracktherecovery.org
(Click on "explore the data" for the expanded interactive version).

Revolution and riot have been triggered by less.

 

The usual lies: Try searching "Joe Biden's Daughter's diary"

The diary was published by nationalfiles.com
The internet seems lit up about the diary.
Try seasrching for it in Duckduckgo and Google.   "Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary"

Google is all about Project Veritas' possible wrongdoing (They didn't publish the diary and turned the copy they received over to the FBI before the raids.) and nothing at all about Nationalfiles.com that actually published the story.  What help is this search, curated to keep you ignorant?

DuckDuckGo links to nationalfiles.com's actual story in the top half of the first page.

I refined the search to include "nationalfiles Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary".
This time Google yielded a link to Nationalfiles.com's home page but not to the story and it was about number 20 on the list, despite the specific inquiry.

Apart from being an ugly invasion of privacy, some politically tough news comes out that she may have showered as a young girl inappropriately with her father Joe Biden.

I'd stand in line for Pfizer's Paxlovid pill.

Pfizer is coming up with a pill that works somewhat like the HIV treatment protocol and you don't take it unless you get sick.  It's a protease inhibitor that suppresses an enzyme that gets hijacked by the virus for its own ends.  It doesn't inject genetic material.  I refused to be a vaxx guinea pig but I'd stand in line for this pill if the approvals look solid.  Maybe someday I can dine out in beautiful BC's restaurants again and go on the inland waters cruise.    (See Caveats below)

The pill is branded as Paxlovid, to be taken within 5 days of symptoms of Covid-19 showing, combined with a low dose of Ritonavir.  
From Wikipedia:  Ritonavir, which is also a protease inhibitor used in some HIV treatment, sounds like a normal addition in such a scenario.

"Ritonavir (RTV), sold under the brand name Norvir, is an antiretroviral medication used along with other medications to treat HIV/AIDS. This combination treatment is known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Often a low dose is used with other protease inhibitors".

Continuing tests include vaccinated people with breakthrough infections. 
A fairly complete Canadian writeup is here at CTV.  

Caveat:  Everything you read for the next few weeks is a re-hash of a Pfizer press release.
Caveat:  The promising results refer to hospitalizations and to deaths.  The total of deaths in the control group was 10, a small number to generalize from, even though there were no deaths in the treated group.  The numbers who were spared hospitalization are more significant.  Pfizer collapsed the control group because it seemed unethical not to offer the same treatment to them.  Sadly, the same was done with the gene vaccination trials whose disturbing consequences are still being discovered.

President Pelosi? She's next after Kamala (giggles) and Joe (dementia)

In line for president after Joe Biden (dementia)
and Kamala Harris (the giggles)
comes Nancy Pelosi (brain not working right any more)

Stroke or glitch? You decide. pic.twitter.com/m2a20pVOWs

— 💥Atomic💥BIonde💥 (@Ablonde20211) November 5, 2021

"Of 28 countries with universal health care, Canada among highest spenders, but ranks near the bottom for number of doctors, hospital beds, MRIs and has the longest wait times"

That's the summary of the Fraser Institute's latest study.
Our wonderful health care isn't  all that wonderful and is delivering poorly on our investment dollars
Their free infographic:

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?"