Month: January 2022

As I have done a few times in the past when the amount of material on a topic is voluminous, I am going to divide this long essay on vaccine safety into two parts. These two parts compliment each other even though the information is taken from things that are six months apart and are taken from sources that are not related in any way.

Today’s initial part is taken from an interview with Dr. Peter McCullogh, who is a world renown Covid authority. His credentials are far far more than I have the space for … Google him! Back in July, 2021 Dr. McCullough gave an unedited one hour interview on Brannon House Live. In this interview Dr. McCullogh goes over just about everything one could desire to know about the coronavirus with emphasis on the spike protein. In this essay, I am going to focus on what he had to say about vaccine safety … and he had quite a lot to say about vaccine safety. 

(From the very beginning I need to state clearly that I am not an anti-vaxer. In fact I received the standard two doses of Moderna way back last winter, and about a month ago, I received the Moderna booster.)

To start with from the time of the vaccine’s initial availability, Dr. McCullough was very straightforward in expressing his disagreement with vaccinating everybody. In general, he felt that seniors and those who cared for them should receive the vaccine. His reasoning had to do with the higher the percent of the population vaccinated, the higher the chance that different virus mutations would be produced. He further felt, and still feels very strongly that those who are under fifty years old without certain health conditions should have never received the vaccine.

Fast forward to Dr. McCullogh’s main points of emphasis concerning vaccine safety and vaccine caused deaths. The CDC had confirmed 10,000 vaccine caused deaths (recall that his interview and thus the CDC’s figures were back from last July.) … 50% in the first 48 hours after the vaccine and 80% in the first week with 86% of the deaths having no other explanation.

The longer term side effects from the vaccine are primarily in four organ systems, including neurologic, the heart, the immune system, and blood clotting. These side effects will continue to mount, and may never resolve.  He is repulsed that the CDC and the FDA are not publishing updated monthly numbers on side effects. He has quite a lot to say about pregnant woman receiving the vaccine … “NEVER!” Likewise he feels strongly about the advisability of those college aged and younger receiving the vaccine … “No! A thousand times no!”

Again because of space constraints, I cannot include much of what Dr. McCullough has to say. For those who are interested, he has a website – 

Americaoutloud.com.

State tuned for Part 2 on vaccine safety tomorrow.

1/31/22

As is now my Sunday custom, today’s piece is devoted to someone who is deserving of our respect.

From Blaze media:

Joe Kennedy, who started coaching in 2008, exercised his faith by silently offering a brief prayer to God at midfield immediately after football games. According to his lawyers, Kennedy would simply drop to one knee and “offer a silent or quiet prayer of thanksgiving for player safety, sportsmanship, and spirited competition.”

The tradition went on for years without any complaints and, in fact, was embraced by members of the community and players, who often joined him. Then suddenly, in 2015, the school district ordered Kennedy to stop, arguing his practice violated the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. When he refused, the district terminated him.

Bremerton School District’s decision in 2015 to fire Joe Kennedy — a Christian and 20-year Marine veteran who served as a high school assistant football coach in the district — drew national headlines and enraged religious liberty advocates.

Twice the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him.

This time around, First Liberty argued that Kennedy’s case involves more than just a high school football coach’s ability to express his religious views. Rather, it has far more wide-ranging implications for “practically everything public school teachers [do] or say during school hours or after-school hours.”

In an op-ed published by Fox News last year, Kennedy defended his ongoing legal fight, saying, “There are days when I want to give up and move on with my life. There are days when I don’t think I can keep fighting this fight. But that’s when I remember the hundreds of times I told my players not to quit no matter the challenge!”

“I also think of the thousands of other public school coaches and teachers whose inalienable right to freely exercise their faith in public is at risk if the court decisions against me are allowed to stand,” he added.

From the pseudo-announcer in the press box:

“It’s fourth and one with time running out. In a nationally televised game, Coach Kennedy decides to go for it. The crowd is roaring it’s approval. The entire nation is applauding his gumption and courage.”

1/30/22

President Joe Biden and his crack team in the White House have introduced a new term into the political vernacular … “scheduling conflicts.” I first noticed this term a few weeks ago when Stacey Abrams could not meet with Biden in Georgia because of “scheduling conflicts.” Okay, okay, even though we are all used to politicians “fibbing” now and then, did those responsible for Stacy Abrams schedule actually think that anyone would buy that feeble excuse? More important, did Stacey Abrams think that that excuse would pass the sniff test? Realistically I guess it’s possible that there was an actual good reason that Ms. Abrams just could not make it on the day that Biden visited … for instance, perhaps she was going to have open-heart surgery that day, and it could not be rescheduled! Even though I did not read anything about her heart surgery, perhaps Ms. Abrams preferred to keep her health issues private … and that I can understand.

Coincidentally, when President Biden was scheduled to visit Pittsburgh on 1/28/22, there were more “scheduling conflicts.” Two of Pennsylvania’s top Democrats, Josh Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, who is running for Senate, and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, the state’s attorney general, missed  the president’s visit because of “scheduling conflicts.” I suppose there could have been two more politicians scheduled to have open-heart surgery on the same day, and by pure happenstance, that day just happened to be the day that President Biden was visiting Pittsburgh. Hmmm!

BTW, if you think that actual “scheduling conflicts” were involved in any of these snubs, I have a bridge to sell you!

1/29/22

Most Americans with a modicum of intelligence realize that the presidency of Joe Biden has been … I’m trying to think of descriptive PG-rated term … okay, let’s go with a ‘disaster,’ and a disaster on just about all counts. Starting on the first day of his presidency with the shutting down of the Keystone Pipeline and the resultant spike in gas prices, just about everything that he gets involved with, turns to sh**. The border is a mess. His pullout from Afghanistan was incredibly inept, and it certified him as an inexperienced rookie as far as foreign policy was concerned.

Now he is engaged in a mano-a-mano exchange with Russia’s Putin over Ukraine. Who do you think is the favorite in this matchup? … Duh! 

Now to me this whole situation is scary, but not in a way that most are thinking. Follow me with this:

Biden’s favorability numbers are horrible and going downhill fast. The midterms are rapidly approaching, and the Democrats are in need of a life-preserver of some sort to distract the country away from Biden’s record. In the past what has been the best way to unite the country behind a President?  … and that’s what scares me! … as desperate people can oftentimes do really stupid things when they feel themselves going downhill fast.

1/28/22

I just read the results of a recent Rasmussen Poll, and was shocked when I read about some of the drastic measures that some people want to take concerning the unvaccinated. I thought, “What totalitarian country am I living in?”

I am perplexed as whether the mindset of some of those who would back  these drastic measures has been there all along, or if these totalitarian opinions were somehow related to Covid. When I say ‘related to Covid,’ I do not mean caused directly by the virus, but rather caused by the over-the-top panic porn that Covid has indirectly caused.

To start, let’s go over some of the findings in this poll of 1016 Likely Voters taken on 1/5/22:

Biden’s vaccine mandates on large corporations – 48% for, and 48% against.

Dr. Fauci – favorable view = 45%; unfavorable view = 48%.

A monetary fine for Americans who choose not to get the vaccine? Democrats -55% support; Republicans -19% support; unaffiliated -25% support.

Quarantine unvaccinated to their homes at all times except for emergencies? Democrats -59% approve; Republicans – 21% approve; unaffiliated -29% approve.

Putting unvaccinated in designated facilities? Democrats – 45% approval;  Republicans – 78% strongly disapprove; unaffiliated – 64% strongly disapprove.

Temporarily removing children from the custody of unvaccinated parents! 

Democrats – 29% support! Republicans – 7% support; unaffiliated -11% support.

I understand the close to 50/50 split between the vaccine mandates and Fauci, as the country is split close to 50/50 politically. Interestingly, for the most part the unaffiliated side up with the Republicans. Hoeever, what I am flabbergasted by and do not understand is the vindictiveness of the Democrats. 

President Biden’s strongest supporters are most likely to endorse the harshest punishments against those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine. Among voters who have a Very Favorable impression of Biden, 51% are in favor of government putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities,” and 54% favor imposing fines or prison sentences on vaccine critics. By contrast, among voters who have a Very Unfavorable view of Biden, 95% are against “designated facilities” for the unvaccinated and 93% are against criminal punishment for vaccine critics.

Have the Democrats always been this vindictive? Is this a reflection of the vindictive personality of their leader, Joe Biden, or are Democrats vindictive by nature? I have my opinion on their “my way or the highway” mentality … what’s yours?

1/27/22

“Democrats Warn That Republicans Plan To Steal Election By Blocking Democrat Efforts To Steal Election”

Granted that headline was from the satirical Babylon Bee, but think about it for just a minute.

As Joseph Stalin said, “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”

This past week another Joe said something very similar in a shocking statement that could easily be attributed to a third world dictator. When asked about election legislation this week, the president of the United States of America said that it’s not who can vote, but who gets to count the vote. Who counts the vote—that’s what this is about.

To me one Joe sounds a lot like the other Joe!

From Townhall:

What President Biden really thinks is that the Feds should take over elections, stripping states of their election responsibilities as designated by the U.S. Constitution.  The Dems want to control who counts the votes. Democrats want the federal government to have complete control over the election process and many haven’t tried to hide the fact that they think this is the only way they can win in 2022 and beyond. 

The Dems are seeking to institutionalize and nationalize every change they made to elections under the guise of protecting people from COVID. Eradicating voter identification … Weakening absentee ballot protections, and making it easier for fraudsters to steal ballots from vulnerable voters.

The Left has broadcast their plans to: eradicate voter identification, end signature matching on absentee ballots, allow strangers to collect and turn in ballots, place ballot boxes in unsecure locations, and mass mail ballots to people who did not request them. And if all of that doesn’t get them the win, they are ready to make sure that unelected federal bureaucrats upend state election integrity laws and determine who counts the ballots where you live. 

The scary thing is that one thinks about it, the headline from the Babylon Bee is really not too far off from reality:

“Democrats Warn That Republicans Plan To Steal Election By Blocking Democrat Efforts To Steal Election”

1/26/22

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati, which had almost entirely kept the coronavirus out, went into lockdown on 1/22/22 for the first time in the pandemic. The government imposed a 24-hour curfew after passengers on the first international flight in months tested positive for the virus.

Before this month, the island, one of the world’s most remote, had recorded just two infections – in two people returning on a ship in May last year, who quarantined on the vessel.

So you might be asking, “Where is Kiribati?” and “Who cares!”

First … “Where is Kiribati?”

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an independent island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is over 119,000, more than half of whom live on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba. Kiribati sits in the middle of the South Pacific between Hawaii and New Zealand.

Thirty-six people on a flight from Fiji tested positive on landing about a week ago on the first plane to arrive since the nation reopened its borders this month. All 54 passengers were quarantined at a facility, but at least four cases were since reported in the community, including a security guard at the quarantine center.

Second … “Who cares?”

I find the Kiribati situation interesting because it points out that isolation where possible, as on an isolated island nation, only works for so long.

A similar situation is occurring in American Samoa, which detected its first infection only in September, also announced a full lockdown for 48 hours starting Saturday after an uptick of 15 coronavirus cases that arrived on a flight from Australia.

And speaking of Australia which was in an over the top “lockdown-a-go-go” is now being overwhelmed by Omicron.

What Kiribati, American Samoa, and Australia have in common other than being island nations, is that they all have high vaccination rates, and so one would expect mild although prolific disease with Omicron.

Irrespective of how long and how stringent one’s lockdown policies are, it’s only a matter of time before Covid breaks through.

1/25/22

My dad was a “Ford guy,” meaning that he would only buy Fords. Granted he never bought a new car, so perhaps you could say that he was a “used Ford guy.” Because we had only one car, when I was growing up, I drove only Fords … Fords with the gearshift right there by the steering wheel. The car that I remember the most was “the Blue Flash,” which was probably a 1956 Ford sedan.

Although I cannot recall ever having a bad Ford experience, for the last thirty years, I have been a Toyota guy. However, based upon what Ford’s CEO recently did, I may be a Ford guy from here on out.

As many of you might recall last spring after the Georgia legislature voted on and passed new voting laws, some companies just could not resist, and caved to “the woke.” Major League Baseball caved. Delta Airlines caved. Coca-Cola caved. My response to these “woke” cavers was not to subsidize their products. 

According to auto news site, Jalopnik, a contingent of black and white employees at Ford Motor Company recently penned a letter airing their grievances over the company’s relationship with numerous police departments in America — about two-thirds of police vehicles in the country are Fords.

In the letter, the employees argued that Ford, by building vehicles used by police, is actively sustaining racism and oppression in America. As a way to address this, they urged executives to discontinue all production of police vehicles.

In my mind if the CEOs of Delta, Coke, or MLB had been in charge at Ford, we would soon be seeing police driving around in Priuses or Chevy Volts. Fortunately, the CEO of Ford, Jim Hackett had the perfect response the group of virtue-signaling employees after he  caught wind of the letter, or at least its sentiment, and he subsequently addressed the issue in an office memo.

In the memo, he kindly but forcefully clapped back at the demands with logic and common sense. Here’s an example: “The issues plaguing police credibility have nothing to do with the vehicles they’re driving.” One would think such a notion would be obvious, but evidently it needed to be explained.”

PJMedia provided a shortened translation of the memo: “No. We’re not going to stop making police cars. Now get back to work.”

It’s refreshing to see common business sense prevail over “wokeness,” and hopefully we will see more CEOs standing up instead of fizzling like the CEOs of Delta, Coke, and MLB did.

1/24/22

As has been my pattern on Sunday, today’s piece is about someone who should deserve our respect and praise. This week it is Mary Onuoha, who was born and raised in Nigeria now lives in South London.

From the Daily Mail:

The Christian faith was at the heart of the Nigerian village where Mary was raised, the eldest of ten siblings in a loving family. And it was there that a family tragedy set her on the path to becoming a nurse.

‘When I was 15 my beloved two-year-old brother died of measles,’ she recalls. ‘I was so sad that there wasn’t the medical care available for him that could have saved him at that time in the area where I lived. This made me passionate about caring for people and about medicine.

‘I was determined to help my mother and make sure it did not happen again.’

Mary moved to the UK with her husband Charles, settling in South London, where the couple have lived ever since with their family and where Mary qualified as a nurse.

In November 2001, she started to work at Croydon University Hospital, employed latterly as a theatre practitioner, a nursing role performed primarily in the operating theatre and providing pre- and post-operative care. Her cross was sometimes concealed by her scrubs, but was visible on other occasions.

However, it never attracted comment until 2014, when the theatre manager at the time asked her to remove it on health-and-safety grounds. ‘I refused and said words to the effect of ‘What about hijabs, turbans and kalava bracelets?’,’ Mary recalls. ‘She said she would get back to me but did not do so.

It was the first of many similar incidents, with a succession of managers asking her to conceal or remove her cross, deeming it a health-and-safety risk. If not, Mary was told, the matter would face ‘escalation’.

It was the start of what Mary says she can only describe as an ongoing campaign of intimidation by senior hospital managers, during which she was subjected to an investigation into her conduct.

By November 2018, she was suspended from clinical duties and instead assigned clerical work and told that security would be called if she attempted to enter a theatre area while still wearing her cross.

Nonetheless, by June 2020 the stress had become too much and Mary was signed off work by her doctor. Two months later she resigned, effectively forced out of a job she loved. For months afterwards she was unable to work, though she has now found a new job. ‘I never thought I would ever be in a situation like this, but I was determined to get through it,’ she says

She was equally determined to hold her employers to account – and last week her courage was vindicated by Judge Dyal who, in a damning ruling, said that the dress-code policy was applied ‘in an arbitrary way’ and with ‘no cogent explanation’ why plain rings, neckties, hijabs and turbans were permitted, but a cross necklace was not.

Kudos to Mary Onuoha.

1/23/22

Let’s be very clear from the beginning. I think the NBA is a woke organization that’s doesn’t really try to hide its sole intent, which is making money. Making money, irrespective of whom it has to step on, is at the top of its list, and of course, inherent in that philosophy is  … “do not piss-off China.”

Top players and league officials view China as a key market for the game’s future. The NBA’s relationship with China became an intense focus in 2019 after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for protesters in Hong Kong. What was the response of the NBA? … “no, no, no, must not say anything against the CCP!” (Chinese Communist Party)

During his All-In podcast interview, Clamato Palihapitiya, part owner of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, waved off concerns about China’s ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, saying, “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.”

Surprised? … Not me.

Palihapitiya, the CEO of Societal Capital which boasts that its call is “solving the world’s hardest problems,” shocked podcast host David Sacks when he dismissed concerns about the enslavement of millions of Chinese Uyghurs because he feels no one cares about them. Palihapitiya went on to add that he has other priorities to worry about.

Surprised? … Not me.

In addition to being a part-owner of the Warriors and a venture capitalist, Palihapitiya is also a major donor to the Democrat Party. He donated over $1 million to Democrats in the previous election cycle, including a $250,000 check to the Biden Victory Fund.

Hmmm!

Surprised? … Not me.

1/22/22