Author: Californiacontrarian

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

From the perspective of an outsider I think that a display of Republican strength is what is needed in McCarthy’s fight to be the Speaker of the House.  In the latest vote McCarthy is increasingly falling short of the necessary votes. Critics and Republican naysayers are having a field day, and the Dems are eating it up.

I do have a potential solution to this enigma … ready? … Consider nominating Donald Trump as the Speaker of the House! 

First remember that the person elected to the position of Speaker of the House does not need to be elected House member. Also consider that Trump as the Speaker would be a total nightmare for the Democrats. Could the Republicans unite and gather the votes necessary to elect Trump to this position? I do not know that answer, and neither should anybody who is outside of those privileged few who are meeting behind closed doors.

The main question is: With the threat of electing Trump to this position, could any Democrats be cajoled into voting for McCarthy? What would be lesser of two evils for the Democrats? To have Donald Trump as Speaker or to have some of them vote for Kevin McCarthy?

An outlandish gambit? Worth a try? Only time will tell!

Truth or dare?

1/5/23

From today’s news it’s apparent that in this “woke” environment, it is impossible to know whether to speak or not to speak. Sometimes if you vocalize … you are in trouble. Whereas, sometimes if you don’t vocalize … you’re in trouble. It almost seems that it depends on which side of the bed the “woke” arbiter woke up on!

From Townhall:

A Christian pro-life leader in England was arrested not simply for standing in front of an abortion clinic. She was also arrested for the crime of praying while standing there, even though she was simply praying in her own head. Talk about being prosecuted for a “thought crime.” This really and truly happened.

In a video a police officer asks Vaughan-Spruce politely, “Are you praying?” She responds, “I might be praying in my head.”

In the words of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, leader of the UK March for Life, “It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalized for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK.”

Accordingly, “Whilst in the police station, Vaughan-Spruce was shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility. She said she could not recall from the pictures whether she was praying at these specific moments, or whether these had been taken at times that she was distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch. She maintains that all her thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that none should be criminalised.”

This was not Orwell’s 1984. This was England in 2022. Let that sink in.

Whereas in contradistinction to the UK, here in the U.S. one has to apparently refrain from verbalizing what’s on one’s mind.

From BlazeMedia:

Radio broadcaster Gary Hahn has been indefinitely suspended after mentioning “illegal aliens” during a broadcast.

While covering Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Friday, Hahn gave the score of the Sun Bowl, saying that “amongst all the illegal aliens” in El Paso, the game stood at UCLA with 14 and Pittsburgh with 6.

Now let’s be clear, Gary Hahn was not making anything up. He was commenting on what was actually happening in El Paso, where Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency earlier this month as the area grappled with an influx of migrants, according to CNN.

Likewise, in El Paso, Sun Bowl Association executive director Bernie Olivas announced that the Fan Fiesta was cancelled, mentioning the use of the convention center for migrants — the festivities had been slated to occur at the El Paso Convention Center.

Gary Hahn worked for Learfield Sports and Learfield has suspended Wolfpack Sports Network play-by-play announcer from his agreement indefinitely because … because he commented on what was actually happening in El Paso.

What a conundrum!

In Britain, a woman was arrested for being silent, whereas in the U.S. a sports announcer was suspended for commenting on something that was in the national news!

Both are ridiculous!

1/4/23