Month: January 2023

Now that the new House reps are in and doing their job, I thought that this may be appropriate. This blog was from January,2021:

“We Do Not Want Riots In the Streets, Do we?”

On 12/13/20, I wrote a blog titled “If Not This, Then What?” 

It had to do with why isn’t the Supreme Court getting involved in the 2020 election controversy?

When I went to bed late on the evening of 11/3/20, President Trump had a comfortable lead, but when I woke up the following morning, it was a totally different story. What happened? There are multiple suggestions as to what happened. Multiple accusations. In the days that followed, there were multiple examples of very suspicious behavior in multiple states. Of course multiple accusations do not necessarily translate into multiple transgressions. Some were probably true and some were probably not true.

The gist of my commentary back on 12/13 was that because any outcome would be very contentious, an impartial arbiter was going to be necessary. Because there were basically innumerable  accusations of wrong doing, and outright law breaking, who was going to decide if there was some serious lying and cheating? Who was going to have to be that impartial arbiter? Was the outcome of the election fraudulent?

As I said clearly back on 12/13, the Supreme Court was going to have to be involved, but the Supreme Court ducked. In one of the most contentious elections ever, the Supreme Court chickened out. There is no other polite way to say this . . . the Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice was a coward. 

Rumor has it that Chief Justice John Roberts was overheard screaming at his colleagues that getting involved would lead to riots in the streets, and “we don’t want that, do we?” So they basically sat on the sideline when the American people were pleading for them to get in the game.

The learned nine basically said, “We can’t have riots in the streets!” 

Well today in Washington, D.C., Mr. Roberts, there were riots in the streets surrounding the Capitol. There were hundreds of thousands there who felt that the election was fraudulent. Where were the arbiters? Perhaps home sitting on their hands chanting, “Hear no evil; see no evil; speak no evil . . . don’t look at us!” Mr. Roberts are your hands still blue from sitting on them for weeks? Do you feel any guilt about what happened today? Are your mouth and the mouths of your eight colleagues still proudly shut.

Now I do not condone the violence that occurred at the Capitol today, but come on . . . Why did the nine learned Justices not see this coming? Millions of Americans think that this election was stolen by the Dems. For years to come close to fifty percent of Americans will not trust the results of elections, and a lot of them will forever refer to 2020 as the year that the Robert’s Rules of Order turned into the Robert’s Rules of Disorder because of a lack of a spine.

1/14/23

Whether one is pro-  or anti- abortion there are a few basic moral tenets that we should all go along with. I say this because as opposed to Al Qaeda, most reasonable and rational individuals will agree that murder is wrong. Other than in self-defense, murder cannot be justified. It doesn’t matter what the age of the victim is. It doesn’t matter if the victim is an adult or a child, murder is wrong and cannot be tolerated by a society. If you do not agree with that you might as well stop reading and go back into your cave.

Note that here I am not talking about abortion, but rather, the killing of an out of the womb human being.

From Fox News and Life News from earlier in the week, “House Republicans have introduced new legislation that would stop infanticide and protect babies who survive abortion. This is a similar measure to one that pro-abortion former Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked 80 times when she ran the House. It would also penalize doctors who allow such infants to die or who intentionally kill a newborn following a failed abortion. The Born-Alive Act ensures that infants born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protection of law and degree of care as any newborn (Life News). Family Research Council: After four years of trying to force a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Republicans are finally in a position to hold one themselves. The House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday, 1/11/23.”

Now ask yourself why Nancy Pelosi would block a vote on a similar measure 80 times? Here we are not referring to abortion, but to the murder of a live newborn. Did she do this to protect certain Democratic representatives? If so, was she worried that they would vote ‘yes’ or vote ‘no?’

Whether one thinks that abortion is okay or not-okay, murder is not okay, despite what despicable Nancy Pelosi thinks!

On 1/11/23 a Republican bill ensuring that human beings born after failed abortion attempts receive the same protection of law and care as other newborns passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill passed in the House with the support of 219 Republicans and one Democrat.

The lone Democrat who supported the rights of abortion survivors was Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas); 210 Democrats voted against the bill.

[For what it’s worth I just gained a lot of respect for Henry Cuellar … not only did he vote against murder, but he had the fortitude to be his own man and not follow the rest of the Democrat lemmings over the cliff.]

Various Democrats had some ridiculous comments on this bill, including the usual cast of ne’er do wells:

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) voiced opposition to the bill, claiming, “It directs and mandates a certain medical care which may not be appropriate, which may endanger the life of an infant in certain circumstances.”

Vice President Kamala Harris bemoaned the possibility that America would respect the personhood of abortion survivors, tweeting, “House Republicans passed an extreme bill today that will further jeopardize the right to reproductive health care in our country. This is yet another attempt by Republican legislators to control women’s bodies.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who recently lost her speakership, similarly lost her cool on Twitter, denouncing Republicans for pushing “their extreme anti-choice agenda.”

(Democrats in the Senate are poised to make sure this bill does not become law.)

Meanwhile Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), a co-sponsor of the bill summed it up nicely when she suggested that “a child who survives an abortion attempt — who is outside the womb, breathing and struggling for life despite all attempts to end it” deserves equal protection under the law.

“Murder is illegal,” she added. “That shouldn’t be a controversial position.”

1/13/23

This is from a blog of mine on 10/26/22:

“Now consider another entity that is responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans this year. Here I am referring to the Mexican drug cartels who are responsible for the fentanyl coming across our southern border, and it is this fentanyl which is killing Americans. No one is disputing this! … and no one is doing anything about this. Here I am specifically referring to our “denying there is a problem” President and Vice President.

To me, the Mexican drug cartels are truly terrorists in a real sense that they are wantonly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans … and since they are terrorists, they should be eliminated.”

I was clearly ahead of the curve as is noted below. Did Congressman Waltz read my 10/26 blog, or is this an example of “great minds” thinking the same?

From Townhall on 1/9/23:

“Former U.S. Army Green Beret and Republican Congressman Michael Waltz plans on introducing new legislation that would allow for the United States to use military force against Mexican drug cartels. Waltz further said, ‘I’m not talking about U.S. troops, but I am talking about cyber, drones, intelligence assets, naval assets. We’ve done this before…in Colombia,’ Waltz continued. ‘[They have] heavy machine guns, armored vehicles, again, they are fighting the entire Mexican army to a standstill right now. We need to support them with our military assets and I want to authorize that.’

What took someone, anyone in the government, so long? In the over two months since my 10/26 blog, how many Americans have died as a result of fentanyl coming across our southern border? And how many more will die as a consequence of the fentanyl that is already here?

Now with the Mexican drug cartels basically at war with the Mexican army, Mexico could use our help. Now is the time to act. Use drones and bomb the crap out of the drug cartels … NOW!

1/12/23

Over the years any bookie or odds-maker who is consistently wrong in predicting the point spreads of professional or college sporting events will be out of a job. This is simply because he will have lost credibility, and in the gambling business, in order to stay employed an odds-maker needs to be accurate in his predictions. This simple, but basic tenet also extends to just about everyone … everyone except those who predict climate disasters! In fact with regard to these individuals, often their predictions are not only “wrong,” but “WRONG.”

Some examples from Real Climate Science:

2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013

OOPS,

From The Guardian 2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020

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OOPS!

1988: Maldives completely under water in 30 years

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Source: Agence France Press, September 26, 1988

OOPS! … now going on over 54 years and Maldives is still there !

 1988: Washington DC days over 90F to from 35 to 85

OOPS … the number of hot days in the DC area peaked in 1911, and have been declining ever since.

These are just a smidgen of the many, many wildly inaccurate climate predictions by made “experts.” 

Why does anyone believe this nonsense any more? 

What ever happened to that old proverb:  “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!”

1/11/23

No, Charles ‘Chugger’ Adair did not go to college in Ohio. More specifically, he did not go to school in Oberlin, Ohio. I would guess that the fact that Chugger Adair did not go to Oberlin College would possibly be at the very bottom of your list of important things to know. Actually, some of you may possibly be aware that Chugger Adair was born and raised in the San Diego area, and, in fact, went to college at University of San Diego. WTF … who cares?

Recently Oberlin College was a defendant in a case in which they slandered, accused of racism, and practically put a local family out of business. After the family bakery was awarded millions, Oberlin College issued a statement in which it basically maintained its innocence, and did not accept any guilt. To me this Oberlin verdict was simple as the facts clearly showed that Oberlin College was guilty.

And this brings me to Chugger Adair, who was the soccer coach at Virginia Tech. 

From BlazeNews:

“An ex-Virginia Tech soccer player who was allegedly penalized over her refusal to kneel during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest will reportedly be awarded a $100,000 settlement. Kiersten Hening claimed that she had lost her starting position on Virginia Tech’s Hokies women’s soccer team after she elected not to take part in a so-called pre-game unity ceremony on Sept. 12, 2020, in support of the scandal-plagued BLM movement.

She indicated that her refusal was met by a ‘campaign of abuse and retaliation’ launched by Virginia Tech Hokies coach Charles Chugger Adair.

TheBlaze previously reported that Federal Judge Thomas Cullen ruled on Dec. 2, 2022, that the lawsuit could proceed, denying a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

‘Ultimately, Adair may convince a jury that this coaching decision was based solely on Hening’s poor play during the UVA game, but the court, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Hening, cannot reach that conclusion as a matter of law,’ said Cullen.

Beyond castigating the player for refusing to signal agreeance with the claims advanced by BLM, the suit claimed that the coach had violated Hening’s First Amendment rights.

The three-day trial scheduled later this month has been called off.

Roanoke Times reported that Hening will receive $100,000 as part of an agreement to dismiss her federal lawsuit.”

What is amazing is Chugger Adair’s comment after the settlement.

In a poorly-received statement on Twitter, Adair wrote, “I am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrongdoing. … It’s unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and a disagreement about playing time.”

Attorney Adam Mortara responded, “If by clarity you mean you are paying my client six figures in a settlement then you’re right that’s pretty clear. Honestly, Coach, read the Court’s opinion. You are paying. Defendants don’t pay in cases that have no standing.”

To me, the tone of Adair’s response to the paying of $100,000, sounded like Oberlin College’s response to paying out millions … and thus the aforementioned question of whether the “woke” Adair had gone to the “woke” Oberlin College. 

Will the “woke” ever learn?

1/10/23

Some will resort to verbal pummeling and call you a “xxx denier,” if you disagree with them, or question what they are saying. Here the potential victim will include just about anyone who questions anything said by the left. Most recently this primarily includes “global warming” and the possible side-effects of the Covid vaccine or its boosters. Why can’t either of these things be discussed or questioned?

To me when anyone refuses to discuss an issue and merely resorts to name calling, either they really do not know much about the issue or they are trying to hide something. Recently Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers said it best, “If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore; it’s propaganda & that’s the truth” 

I thought about what Aaron Rodgers said when I read something by a British oncologist. On November 26, 2022, The Daily Sceptic published a letter to the editor of The BMJ, written by Dr. Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at St. George’s University of London, warning that COVID boosters may be causing aggressive metastatic cancers. 

He said:

“As a practicing oncologist I am seeing people with stable disease rapidly progress after being forced to have a booster, usually so they can travel. Even within my own personal contacts I am seeing B cell-based disease after the boosters.

They describe being distinctly unwell a few days to weeks after the booster — one developing leukemia, two work colleagues Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and an old friend who has felt like he has had Long COVID since receiving his booster and who, after getting severe bone pain, has been diagnosed as having multiple metastases from a rare B cell disorder.

“I am experienced enough to know that these are not coincidental anecdotes … The reports of innate immune suppression after mRNA for several weeks would fit, as all these patients to date have melanoma or B cell based cancers, which are very susceptible to immune control — and that is before the reports of suppressor gene suppression by mRNA in laboratory experiments. This must be aired and debated immediately.”

In a December 19, 2022, article in Conservative Woman, Dalgleish continues discussing the phenomenon of rapidly spreading cancers in patients who were in stable remission for years before receiving their COVID boosters. He notes that after his letter to The BMJ was published, several oncologists have contacted him to say they’re seeing the same thing in their own practices.

Will oncologists in the U.S. be able to openly discuss, evaluate, and write about what Dr. Dalgleish feels that he is observing in his practice, or will Dr. Dalgleish be written off as a British propagandist by the liberal Main Stream Media? 

I guess we will just have to wait and see. However, in the meantime, we should all recall what Aaron Rodgers said about questioning science.

1/9/23

As is my custom on Sunday I want to tell you the story of someone we can all admire and look up to. Brian Schwartz lives in the northern part of New Jersey, and in June 2020, because of the pandemic, he was laid off from his job. In addition at that time his wife was eight months pregnant and his father was dying with brain cancer. Obviously things were not looking up for Brian Schwartz. One day that summer he realized that mowing his lawn was somewhat therapeutic for him. This coupled with the fact that some seniors and those with disabilities could not take care of their own lawns led Brian Schwartz to offer his landscaping services to those who needed help. He then began to offer his services to those within a twenty mile radius. His first “customer” was a 92 year old woman who lived just inside that twenty mile radius. I say, “customer,” in quotes, because Brian’s services were and still are free.l

Brian said, “I look at this as a way to give back and do some good across the world.” Gradually he began reaching people looking for uplifting news, and then began to connect people looking for help with those who want to help.

Word of Brian’s free services to those in need spread and spread to well outside New Jersey. Eventually he developed a website … “I want to mow your lawn.com.” He now has 300 volunteers across 42 states.

When I read about Brian Schwartz, I thought about a inspirational quote from Ronald Reagan, “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

Truly Brian Schwartz is someone we can all look up to and admire.

1/8/23

Today I read three different interesting and somewhat frightening articles … No, they were not in my local “newspaper.”

The first had to do with a measles outbreak in Ohio. This outbreak

has infected at least 82 children and left 32 hospitalized. Although surreptitiously avoided in statements by health officials in Franklin County (Columbus, Ohio), immediately the elephant in the room should have been addressed, “Were these children vaccinated or unvaccinated, legal or illegal?” From my way of thinking, since these issues were not mentioned, these children were most likely both non-vaccinated and illegal. This is pertinent because if measles is being brought across the southern border, what else other than fentanyl is also being brought across the border?

The second article had to do with the catastrophic Covid epidemic in China.

From the Epoch Times:

“A respiratory and critical care medicine physician from The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University posted on Weibo on Dec. 28 that among the 60 patients he saw in the outpatient clinic, ‘80 percent had pneumonia of differing degrees.’

‘Almost all of them were positive for COVID, and most of them have the characteristics of viral pneumonia from the scanned images. The ‘novel coronavirus pneumonia’ is true to its name. The disease cannot be regarded as the upper respiratory tract infection of the novel coronavirus ‘flu,’ the doctor wrote.

President Biden is now going to require Covid testing of anyone coming out of China, starting on 1/5/23. Two questions: First, why wait until 1/5? and second, isn’t that the same thing that then candidate Joe Biden castigated President Trump for doing?

Here in the U.S:

The COVID-19 Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant nearly doubled in prevalence over the past week, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed on Friday, with it now comprising over 40 percent of new cases in the United States.

Japanese researchers also said their results suggest that XBB is “highly transmissible” and highly resistant to the immunity that was induced by people having had breakthrough infections of the previous Omicron subvariants.

Researchers from Columbia University, in a paper published Dec. 13 in the journal Cell, noted that the newly emerged subvariants raise concerns that they may “further compromise the efficacy of current COVID-19 vaccines and monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics.”

So pardon my asking … but if the vaccines do not prevent the present sub-variants, and mAb are compromised, isn’t it time for Ivermectin and/or Hydroxychloroquine to be made available?

1/7/23

This blog was from 12/18/20. It is interesting since earlier this week a White House spokesman finally admitted that there are no studies proving that face-masks actually work for Covid.

What if . . . ? 

What if some of those things which are supposed to make things better,   are in fact be making things worse? Here I am speaking about the coronavirus, and what the general populace is being told to do . . . “No questions. Just do it!”

Albert Einstein had many interesting quotes. For instance:

• “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
• “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

These two particular quotes came to mind this morning when I read an article in the newspaper this morning about one of my recurring subjects . . . the use of face masks to combat the spread of Covid. After reading this particular article, I asked myself, “What if the ubiquitous recommendations to wear face-masks, and the robot-like obedience to these recommendations is making the coronavirus spread worse? What if ?”

Here in California we are having the “surge of all surges,” and yet I am finding it difficult to find anybody who is maskless. People walking alone in parks, driving alone in cars, and sitting alone on their porches . . . all have face-masks on, despite the fact that they are alone. I had thought that the face-mask recommendations were initially for situations where social distancing was not possible . . . not when alone. Does anyone think that these solitary, alone face-mask wearers put on a fresh, clean, unused face-masks when they go from the porch, their car, or the park to Walmart or Costco, where social distancing is more fantasy than reality.

Now if all of the face-masks were of the tight fitting N95 variety, I would think differently, but now days “face-masks” come in all shapes and forms. More than 100,000 varieties of face-masks are presently for sale. They are made from a variety of different fabrics, cotton, silk, and various synthetics. Some are actually not wearing a face-mask but rather bandannas, gaiters, and even handkerchiefs, all masquerading as face-masks. What if a lot of these “face-masks” and face-coverings are in reality similar to a chain-link fence trying to keep out mosquitoes? 

Moreover, despite the dictums by “those that know best” to always wear face-masks (some even advocate wearing them indoors), what all of these face-masks and pseudo face-masks have in common is that none of them have any sort of evaluation as to their effectiveness or non-effectiveness in filtering our viruses or viral particles. Why not? Sunblocks all have a number that signifies how effective they are at blocking the potentially harmful sun rays from getting to our skin . . . but face-masks, nada. Now apparently this type of evaluation of the actual effectiveness of various face-masks will be coming soon according to the article I read today. Think about that for a second . . . Everyone should be wearing face-masks . . . err . . . but we do not actually know if some types of face coverings actually work at all.

Which leads me back to my original question:

“What if some of those things which are supposed to make things better,   are in fact be making things worse?”

And in the same context two other Einstein quote came to mind:

• Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
• “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

12/18/20

1/7/23

For the last month or so I have noticed a seeming increase in the reporting of sudden death in younger individuals. Now granted this apparent increase may be purely coincidental, but because of my scientific background, I started to annotate some of these cases as follows:

-Dax Tejera, an executive producer (EP) at ABC News, has died from cardiac arrest on Dec. 23, just a few weeks ahead of his 38th birthday.

-Joseph Marley, the eldest son of eight-time Grammy-winner Stephen Marley and second grandchild of reggae legend Bob Marley, has died at age 31. The Jamaican-American recording artist and DJ, known professionally as Jo Mersa, was found unresponsive in a vehicle on Tuesday, Dec. 27. A cause of death has not been revealed, although South Florida radio station WZPP has reported that the artist died of an asthma attack.

-Actor Brad William Henke has died at the age of just 56 years old.

The man’s agent, Sheree Cohen, informed the Hollywood Reporter that Henke passed away in his sleep on 11/29/22. (Henke, whose acting career included a role on “Orange Is the New Black,” previously played in the NFL — he got to play in the 1990 Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos.)

-Uche Nwaneri, a former offensive guard for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, was found dead at his home over the weekend, his wife and the team announced on Monday. He was 38. Preliminary autopsy results indicate the 38-year-old may have suffered a heart attack, said Tippecanoe County Coroner Carrie Costello, who also noted that there are no signs of foul play.

However, this suspicion of mine tilted dramatically toward reality when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field on 1/2/23 after making a tackle in the first quarter of his team’s Monday Night Football clash with the Cincinnati Bengals before 23+ million viewers. Hamlin is 24 years old, and reports indicate that he was in ventricular fibrillation. This means that if his heart was not converted back into a normal rhythm, he would have died. The medical term for this is “sudden cardiac death.” Reportedly Hamlin received CPR on the field for about nine minutes and was shocked back into a normal heart rhythm prior to being taken to the hospital.

Whereas Hamlin’s episode may have been just a quirk, the question must be asked, “How often does sudden death occur in athletes?”

Authored by structural biologist Panagis Polykretis, and board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, a study cited data  that found from 2021 to 2022, at least 1,616 cardiac arrests or other major medical issues have been globally documented in vaccinated athletes, with 1,114 of those being fatal.

The global data showed that between 2021 to 2022, former and current American athletes made up 279 of the mortalities.

Athletes have a lower chance of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death as compared to nonathletes. A 2016 U.S. study calculated that nonathletes, compared to athletes, have a 29 times higher chance of sudden cardiac death.

One of the reasons is because “athletes are screened out for the common causes of sudden death on the playing field,” Dr. Peter McCullough told The Epoch Times.

Players are screened for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which makes up almost 50 percent of sudden cardiac deaths in athletes (remember Hank Gathers back in March, 1990). Other than hypertrophic cardiomyopathy there are other less common heart abnormalities, which can precipitate sudden cardiac death. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as well as most of these other heart abnormalities are picked up by screening tests. The intensive screening is what makes competitive-level sports safer than everyday sporting activities, McCullough argued.

From the Epoch Times:

“In the United States, it is estimated that 100 to 150 athletes die every year from sudden death. However, one study showed that in 2022 alone, over 190 deaths from cardiac arrests have been reported in current and former athletes.”

If, in fact, the number of sudden cardiac deaths has increased substantially from 100-150 -> 190 in 2022, the question is why.

Could this be related to the Covid vaccine? The honest answer at this point is that we do not know. I find it interesting that an article from the Washington Post by Zakrzewski & Weber does not hesitate to call any claim that Covid vaccines might be associated with cardiac deaths as “baseless.” Also I find it interesting that in that same WaPo article that the  non-MD authors manage to sneak in anti-Trump and anti-Musk comments that intimate that any questions concerning the vaccine and it’s safety are political misinformation.

Hopefully, God forbid, no other professional athletes will need to suffer the same catastrophe as what happened to Damar Hamlin. Nonetheless, be forewarned that it might take another sudden death episode in a professional athlete to make the WaPo authors stop calling vaccine suspicions “baseless.”

1/6/23