Author: Californiacontrarian

Even though there is much more info from Terry M. Campbell’s treatise on “global warming,” this will be the final part on my blog. I found this to be irresistible and compelling because what was written was based on real data.

Again from Campbell’s piece on Rip’s Newsletter:

“Now let’s look at some facts, analyze them and try to draw some reasonable conclusions.  To find these facts we must do a little looking around and ignore the liberal press while we do it. Most of the liberal non-scientific environmentalists who are talking about global warming (i.e. – Climate Change) are also the ones who used to spout an ice age is coming theory and the non-existent ozone layer problem, in the not-too-distant past.  I think we can discount all of them right off the bat.  A person can only cry wolf so many times before he is ignored. None of the climate change prophecies made by the climate alarmist has ever been proven to be true.  Mark J. Perry of the American Enterprise Institute (AIE) compiled a non-inclusive short list of their bogus predictions:ü 1967: Dire famine forecast by 1975.ü 1969: Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.ü 1970: Ice age by 2000.ü 1970: America will be subject to water rationing by 1974.ü 1970: America will institute food rationing by 1980.ü 1971: New ice age coming by 2020, 2030 at the latest.ü 1972: New ice age by 2072.ü 1974: Space satellites show new ice age coming fast.ü 1974: Ozone depletion is a great peril to all life.ü 1976: Scientific consensus planet cooling, famines imminent.ü 1978: No end in sight to a 30-year cooling trend.ü 1980: Acid rain will kill all life in lakes.ü 1988: Regional droughts in 1990.ü 1988: Maldives Islands will be underwater by 2018.ü 1989: Rising sea levels will obliterate nations if nothing is done by 2000.ü 1989: New York City’s west side highway underwater by 2019. The book by Danish author Bjorn Lomborg states the damage done by the Climate Alarmists.  False Alarm: How climate change panic costs trillions of dollars, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.John Kerry and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes and many other climate extremists state: “We only have months or a few years before earth’s extinction.” It is easy to conclude from the above that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a rare or trace gas.  There is not enough of it to have a measurable effect on the planet’s weather.  Temperature rise is the main cause of a rise in CO2 levels and lags a temperature rise by months sometimes years. There are true scientific atmospheric papers and charts about temperature and carbon dioxide in the air measured throughout thousands of years. These charts were from an in-depth analysis of ice cores and tree growth rings.  What was interesting is that the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere lagged the temperature rise by at least several months sometimes years.  Therefore, elevated levels of carbon dioxide did NOT cause the temperature to rise but the reverse is true.”

In summation the title of Campbell’s updated and revised treatise is:

“Global Warming … A HOAX!”

1/3/23

When I initially read about this case I was gobsmacked. Could it be that SCOTUS is actually going to put on their big-boy/girl pants, and in part tangentially address the issue of voter fraud. Here I am referring to the case of Brunson vs. Adams. If your response is “never heard of this case,”do not feel out of touch, as predictably it has not received one iota of publicity in Main Stream Media.

Before anyone gets fired up let me point out that there is no way that SCOTUS is going to consider hearing this case. A deadline for the Rule of Four has been set for 1/6/23. [If you are not familiar with the Rule of Four and how it pertains to SCOTUS, perhaps you could read my fictional novella, “The Keneally Chronicles” (available on Amazon), as the Rule of Four is a central part of that story.]

Brunson vs. Adams is not about election fraud per se, but rather is about the nonchalant and irresponsible approach that the Congress and V.P. Mike Pence took, or rather didn’t take, when considering the validity of the last Presidential election.

The following is from the editor of The Blackshear Times, 12/28/22:

“I am writing this letter to inform your readers about a highly significant case that will be coming before the U.S. Supreme Court January 6, 2023 which has not gotten the attention in the press that it deserves.  

Brunson vs Alma S. Adams et. al has been brought to  the court by four brothers from Ogden, UT none of which are attorneys. In their case they make the argument that when Congress certified  the election of 2020 without taking the 10 days to investigate charges of election fraud that they violated their oaths of office. That violation, if agreed by the court, would require that they would immediately be removed from office and could not stand  for office in the future. Those that would be affected by this ruling would include the former and present Vice Presidents, the present President and over 300 members of Congress. Should this occur it will be a political tsunami and the mainstream press remains strangely silent.”

Wow! Don’t get your hopes up. Word has it that in the past the Chief Justice, John Roberts, could be heard screaming behind closed doors about riots in the streets if SCOTUS took a look at anything that questioned the validity of the election. Tsk! Tsk!

BTW, who is Alma Adams? Alphabetically she happens to be at the top of the list that Mr. Brunson says committed treason.

1/2/23

After the massive snowstorm that hit in the Buffalo area around Christmas, undoubtedly there were many stories of heroism. Today as per my usual Sunday tradition, I am going to single out two instances where individuals did the right and praiseworthy thing.

First from BlazeNews:

The house where Danielle, Demetrice, and their four kids lived lost electricity at their home in Williamsville. They got into their car to drive to a nearby hotel. Like many other Buffalo residents, they got stuck in the snow.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. It was like looking at a white piece of construction paper,” said Danielleto CNN. “Even cars, with their bright lights on, you just couldn’t see anything.”

When firefighters got the call about stranded motorists, the family’s vehicle was one of the first they approached.

“Please don’t leave us,” said Demetrice, the father of the family.

“Don’t worry, man,” said the firefighter. “I promise we won’t leave you.”

The family was rescued and brought to the aircraft rescue and firefighting facility. That family was among 42 people saved, but they were the only family with children, so they stayed at the facility as the storm continued.

On Christmas, the firefighters came through again with presents for the children. They were able to find several items in the firehouse to wrap for the family. With the amazing help from the field office delivering some items from the terminal, we were able to make sure Santa paid a visit. “Those guys were amazing at the firehouse,” said Demetrice. “They treated us with nothing but love.”

Again from BlazeNews:

A woman in Buffalo, New York, rescued a man from a deadly storm that saw over 30 deaths in a short span.

Sha’Kyra Aughtry and her boyfriend spotted Joe White screaming for help while “being blown up and down the street” and decided to take the senior citizen inside to tend to his wounds, along with bathing and feeding him.

Aughtry also said White was so frozen that she had to blow-dry his hands to detach the bags the man was carrying with him.

After the two-day ordeal, White was finally transported to a Buffalo hospital.

According to a coworker of Joe White, Mr. White is allegedly mentally disabled and “did not understand the true severity of the storm.”

“Disoriented and crying out for help, he miraculously found himself at the doorstep of Sha’Kyra Rain Aughtry—a total stranger—who put her Christmas plans aside and tended to his wounds the best she could,”

Kudos and praise to Sha’Kyra Aughtry and kudos and praise to the firefighters – both of whom did over and above what was required.

1/1/23

For the past year or so one of my goals was to be banned, even temporarily, from social media. I had chosen Facebook as a vehicle to more broadly disseminate my blog, and being the contrarian I am, getting temporarily banned should have been a slam dunk. Many of my positions on various topics clearly went against the grain. Even though I had gotten the sequential initial Covid vaccines as well as one booster, I was, and still am against vaccine mandates … this position was clearly not in agreement with what “those that know best” in our government were pushing. Likewise, my positions on vaccinating school children as well as younger individuals, unending lockdowns, the coercive closing of churches, the use of Ivermectin, etcetera were all clearly against the policies of “those that knew best.” 

Why was I not banned? I suppose that the answer could have something to do with my total number of readers. Perhaps those that read my blog do not tell enough of their friends. However, I prefer to think that regrettably I had chosen the wrong social media site. If only I had chosen Twitter, my odds of being cautioned, temporarily restricted, or banned would have been much higher.

From BlazeMedia:

“In the latest Twitter files installment, New York-based reporter David Zweig shared how the United States government pressured the social media platform to silence and suppress users spreading information about COVID that did not align with the establishment’s narrative.

According to Zweig, Twitter participated in rigging the COVID debate by ‘censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy,’ ‘discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed,’ and ‘suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*.’

Internal Twitter files revealed that the U.S. government requested that the social media site elevate COVID content that corroborated its stance on vaccine efficacy while suppressing dissenting information.”

I was robbed!! If only I had been on Twitter, things may have been different. Nonetheless, since I am still a contrarian by nature, perhaps there is still some hope that next year this goal of mine might be achieved.

12/31/22

ThIs is my blog from 7/20/20

Enjoy!

Hmmm!

Facebook has taken down a video posted by right-wing news site, Breitbart, and retweeted by President Trump, showing a doctor at a press conference vehemently making claims that antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is a “cure for Covid.” The Facebook post had allegedly racked up 17 million views before being removed. . . .Hmmm!

Luckily I was able to view this post before it was censored, and listened to the entire “press conference.” The best part was a fervent plea by a black primary care physician basically begging that hydroxychloroquine be given a reprieve from politicians who are not doctors. She also challenged Dr. Fauci to stop his aloofness on the drug (he had famously said, “we need to do controlled studies”) She wondered out loud if he had ever treated a Covid patient. FYI,  the answer is undoubtedly, “no.” In a retort to Dr. Fauci’s haughty demeanor, she stated that she was seeing 10+ Covid patients a day, and had prescribed hydroxychloroquine hundreds of times with excellent success and no significant side effects! In fact she and many of her clinic staff are presently taking hydroxychloroquine 200 mg. twice a week for prevention. . . . Hmmm!

Then just this morning I read about an article in Newsweek by Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at Yale as well as the director of that school’s Molecular Cancer Epidemiology Laboratory. He argues in an op-ed that “the data fully support” the wide use of hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment of COVID-19.

“When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective,” Risch argues in the column.

Risch adds that multiple studies over the past several months have demonstrated that the drug is a safe and efficacious treatment method for COVID-19. . . . Hmmm! (I guess that it would be very difficult to censor Newsweek at this point!)

Recently I read about a study treating for severely ill Covid patients with hydroxychloroquine. The study was out of Henry Ford hospital in Detroit, and the mortality of patients treated with this drug was half compared to those without this drug. That sounds very impressive to me, but I have not read about these results in our local paper. . . . Hmmm!

Does anyone think that the pooh-poohing of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 has anything to do with the fact that in March, 2020 President Trump came out in favor of using that same drug? . . . Hmmm!

July 20, 2020

12/31/22

A cousin of mine often refers to “his rabbi.” On the surface his comment would not be viewed as unusual … except that my cousin is not Jewish. “His rabbi” is Dennis Prager. Okay, so who is Dennis Prager? He is a syndicated radio talk show host out of Los Angeles. ( A bit of background is appropriate here. My cousin had been an FBI agent, and consequently did a lot of stakeouts in Southern California. While doing stakeouts he would listen to the radio, and from 9am until noon on weekdays, he would faithfully listen to Dennis Prager. He thought that Dennis Prager was a brilliant Jewish man … and consequently “his rabbi.”)

I thought about my cousin as I recently read some comments that Dennis Prager made on his radio show on December 22.

“I have lost all faith in the medical profession and in the medical journals. I mean, if a medical journal writes about colon cancer, I believe it. But if it writes about anything that has to do with society and now with vaccination — you see, you can’t lie to people and then expect them to believe you. You lied about the vaccine. You lied about lockdowns. And you lied about masks. You ruined tens of millions of people’s lives around the world. You brought hunger to vast numbers of people. You brought unemployment around the world. You ruined American kids’ lives in the millions. They are more suicidal and depressed than ever because of your goddamn — excuse me for the language. I don’t know why that’s bad language. God should damn the lockdowns, but I’ll say g-damn if you prefer that.”

My cousin’s rabbi is right on! While the medical profession, especially here in America (e.g. The New England Journal of Medicine) and in Britain (e.g. The Lancet) were busy preaching to us, all they really accomplished was to make things worse. Dennis Prager is correct when he said, “You ruined American kids’ lives in the millions.”

From the Wall Street Journal: 

Learning loss could shave $70,000 off the lifetime earnings of children who were in school during the pandemic, according to a new study by a Stanford economist. The sobering forecast is based on an analysis of the sharp declines in the scores of eighth-graders on national math tests taken between 2019 and 2022. If the learning losses aren’t recovered, K-12 students on average will grow into less educated, lower-skilled and less productive adults and will earn 5.6% less over the course of their lives than students educated just before the pandemic, said Eric A. Hanushek, a Stanford University economist who specializes in education. He said the losses could total $28 trillion over the rest of this century.

Maybe from now on Dennis Prager will be “my rabbi” too.

12/30/22

Today I read about two separate legal decisions that give me hope. In each case one wonders, “what did they expect?”

First from the Epoch Times:

In Illinois a U.S. judge approved a multimillion-dollar settlement on Dec. 19 for workers who were fired by an Illinois health care system for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

U.S. District Judge John Kness, issued verbal approval for the settlement during a hearing, lawyers for Liberty Counsel and NorthShore University Healthsystem said. 

Like many health care systems, NorthShore imposed a vaccine mandate on employees in 2021.

NorthShore told workers that they could file a request for a religious exemption using a form that said the worker in question needed to provide “a description of my sincerely held religious principle or practice that guides my objection to receiving the required vaccination.” Northshore explicitly instructed applicants to not fill out lengthy answers.

NorthShore initially approved some of the exemption requests but then reversed the decisions and denied “all or virtually all of them,” according to filings from the plaintiffs. Officials said the employees failed to meet the standard for religious exemptions.

“Instead of engaging Plaintiffs in good faith, NorthShore denied Plaintiffs’ religious exemption requests en masse, providing nothing more than copy and paste responses, informing them that they lacked ‘evidence-based criteria,’ whatever that means,” one filing reads. “By failing to engage any of the Plaintiffs and its numerous employees with religious objections in good faith, NorthShore had no way to know whether an acceptable accommodation might have been appropriate. The only responses received by Plaintiffs and NorthShore’s employees were one-size-fits-all blanket denials.”

Whereas I can understand the concern of any health care system about employees being vaccinated, the en masse total disregard of possible religious objections is not acceptable.

The second legal decision is from a different type of legal case.

The background from Blazemedia:

In November 2016, three students attending the liberal arts school Oberlin College were involved in a scuffle in Gibson’s Bakery. The son, Allyn Gibson, confronted three students for stealing wine. The students accused Allyn Gibson of racial profiling and assaulting them.

When police arrived at the scene, they observed Allyn Gibson on the ground, surrounded by the three students, who were punching and kicking him.

Following the tense incident, Oberlin College staff and students protested outside the bakery and encouraged patrons to boycott the business. The school’s vice president and dean of students distributed flyers that claimed the Gibson family had a “long account of racial profiling and discrimination.”

The college also provided protesters with food and other supplies to support their rallying effort.

In September, the bakery owners told the New York Post, “A week after the incident, the school canceled all of our standing orders. … The school put out a statement that implied that this wasn’t an isolated incident.

“Our business from the students themselves and administrators … dried up completely. And the students kept showing up to protest,” the family added.

Even though the three accused students eventually pleaded guilty to theft, the bakery’s reputation had already suffered a devastating blow.

“Our business from the students themselves and administrators … dried up completely. And the students kept showing up to protest,” the family added. The family-owned bakery in Ohio recently won the lengthy defamation lawsuit against Oberlin College for falsely accusing the small business of racial profiling. The award … $36 million!

In this case the liberal Oberlin College got what it deserved. One might ask, “what did they expect?”

Interestingly, the response of Oberlin college after the award was some drivel about the “justice system.” Even though the initial three wine thieves owned up, and came clean, Oberlin College apparently still doesn’t see the ruination of a family business because of their lies and their subsequent vindictive response as wrong. Hopefully, when the college pays out the $36 million, a lightbulb will go on! Personally I wonder if the school’s Vice President and Dean of students are still employed by Oberlin.

12/29/22

For those who watch CNN, the name Leana Wen is a familiar name. She is an emergency doctor and professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She was previously president of Planned Parenthood and has also served as a medical analyst on CNN.

In July 2021, Wen spoke to Democracy Now! bemoaning vaccine hesitancy and claiming that “we know that we can’t trust the unvaccinated.”

The health policy professor suggested to CNN’s Chris Cuomo that societal reopening must be tied to vaccination status.

She said, “We need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated. … You have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you can’t go out in public.”

Wen also stressed that mobility rights and other human liberties should be tied to vaccination status.

However! Wen has ostensibly come a long way in her thinking in a short period of time.

From BlazeMedia:

On Dec. 9, Wen wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post calling for an end to the vaccine mandate for members of the military. The so-called health expert, in another piece in the Washington Post, now admits that natural immunity is optimal and that those who are vaccinated but had not previously caught COVID-19 are more susceptible to infection.

The CNN analyst appeared to defend stances she had taken earlier in the pandemic. However, Dr. Wen noted that things and standards changed when the Omicron variant turned up.

Wen said that research has shown that vaccines’ “effectiveness in reducing infection against the omicron subvariants is low and not lasting.”

What Dr. Wen seems to be saying is that she was right before and is right now, even with opinions that appear diametrically opposed. While some may be happy to see these long-censored claims printed in the Washington Post, others have suggested that what is missing from these public confirmations is an apology.

When is Wen going to say, “I’m sorry?” … Perhaps wen hell freezes over?

12/28/22

Now in its fourth week, I am continuing to address the topic of “global warming.” As was the case in the past three weeks all of the following is taken from a long treatise on this topic, written by Terry M. Campbell and posted on 10/28/22 in Rip’s Newsletter:

“All of the doomsday weather predictions are from faulty computer simulations with faulty input data, real facts were ignored.   Professor Phil Jones generated his infamous “hockey stick graph” back in the mid-eighties when he was the director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.  The raw data he used to produce this fraudulent graph has never been produced for peer review (now has been deemed lost or nonexistent).  After East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit released the results of their multimillion-dollar research grant in 1984, I requested a copy of the raw data through the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) they used to generate their “Relative Forcing Formula” (∆F = 5.35 x in C/Co Wm-2).  They informed me that the data was not available to do a peer review and that East Anglia had moved their archive storage to a new facility and the data could not be located.  Now we find out that it may never have existed (2009 e-mail releases). Their “Relative Forcing Formula” with the infamous ‘hockey stick’ graph it generated is what all the environmentalists religiously have used to forward their cause is not supported by current temperature readings.  The formula has been proven to be bogus.  The UN’s political non-scientific IPCC has based its global warming doomsday predictions on this graph and its faulty non-science.  They cannot predict accurately the weather next week much less hundreds of years in the future.   All of these simulation programs use statistical analysis as their basic or root algorithm. Their warming “science” is based on the supposition that Earth can absorb only so much CO2.  The fact is, over the past 160 years the Earth’s absorption of CO2 has remained unchanged, only 45% of all CO2 remains in the atmosphere as opposed to 100% that the warmers claim.  The East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit “Relative Forcing Formula” that all of the doomsday climate procrastinators use does not take this into account. More dissenters, who were silenced for years by the media, and ostracized by colleagues, are stepping forward.  Earth’s ecosystems are more complex and robust, meaning that the pseudo-scientists crying humans contribute to climate change, were limited in their comprehension.”

Well, well, none of the original data from “research” published in 1984 is available for review! Isn’t that just a bit too convenient! Hmmm!

12/27/22

After serious reflection could it be that I have been too harsh on the Covid vaccine, it’s side-effects, and it’s effectiveness? While the mRNA vaccines do have side-effects, and lose their effectiveness, perhaps, I should be more “fair and balanced!” I say this because of the latest news out of China, which as most are aware had its own vaccine, which was not the Moderna or the Pfizer mRNA vaccines. It now appears that China has possibly passed a Covid tipping point, as their medical resources are being thoroughly overwhelmed.

From the Epoch Times:

“As many as 37 million people are contracting COVID-19 in a single day in China, according to leaked minutes from a meeting of the country’s top health body confirmed by multiple news outlets.

In the first 20 days of December, 248 million people—accounting for about 18 percent of the population—were likely to have been infected with the disease, officials said during the National Health Commission’s internal meeting on Dec. 21. The figure is exponentially higher than the regime’s official virus tally, and if accurate, would mean that China’s outbreak is the largest in the world.”

Could this recent overwhelming number of Covid cases in China be a consequence of the less effective vaccine used in China? Certainly this is a possibility. Nonetheless, the other possibility is that the present explosion of cases is a consequence of their prior stringent isolation policies.

Again from the Epoch Times:

“Nearly three years under the regime’s stringent zero-COVID policy has left the Chinese public with little natural immunity against COVID-19’s highly contagious Omicron variant, which appears to be spinning out of control in the country.

The virus surge has overloaded morgues and hospitals across China. Beijing Tongzhou Civil Affairs Bureau told state-owned Beijing Youth Daily that the funeral home in its district is cremating 140 to 150 bodies each day as of Dec. 22, a stark contrast with the 40-per-day workload in the past. More than half a dozen funeral homes have confirmed a similar situation with The Epoch Times in recent days.

“A Beijing resident told The Epoch Times that he lost five family members over 10 days, at least two of which were COVID-positive. All of them had been vaccinated with homegrown vaccines from Sinovac, which has received heavy scrutiny in the past for alleged side effects from diabetes to leukemia.

“These fake vaccines really haven’t provided any protection,” he said in an interview on 12/21/22, requesting his name be withheld for safety reasons. “The commoners who contract COVID have nothing but their own immunity as a defense.”

The combination of an ineffective vaccine, crowded conditions, no herd immunity, prior strict isolation policies which have recently been loosened, and the highly contagious Omicron variant have combined to cause a humanitarian disaster in China. While I have contempt for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), I feel very bad for the commoners who are now paying the price for the CCP’s poor judgement and fallacious policies.

12/26/22