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The other day I was reading a piece by John Seiler about the folly of the mandating of Electric Vehicles in California by 2035, and President Biden’s national goal of more than half of all vehicles sold being EVs by 2030.

In this article Mr. Seiler references some scientific papers, and ends up reminding everyone that this entire CO2 Kabuki theater is hypothesis rather than proven fact.

The following is from that article:

“The carbon monoxide emitted by gas and diesel engines is being shown not to cause global warming. Reported No Tricks Zone, “Three Polish physicists have focused their attention on this saturation principle as it applies to CO2 in three recently published papers (Kubicki et al., 2024, 2022, and 2020). Their latest (Kubicki et al., 2024), published in Applications in Engineering Science, summarizes the experimental evidence from their 2020 and 2022 publications substantiating the conclusion that ‘as a result of saturation processes, emitted CO2 does not directly cause an increase in global temperature.’”

Now thIs is something that I have not read anywhere in the Main Stream Media, and I would guess that Joe Biden is not familiar with the publication, Applications in Engineering Science.

“The authors are concerned about the recent push to rely on modeling and assumptions about CO2’s capacity to drive changes in global temperature rather than observational evidence. They point out the current CO2-is-the-climate-control-knob zeitgeist is no more than a hypothesis.”

The scientists themselves wrote: “This unequivocally suggests that the officially presented impact of anthropogenic CO2 increase on Earth’s climate is merely a hypothesis rather than a substantiated fact.”

 A hypothesis!! To remind everyone that we are basically being told by “those that know best” that we must change our entire life style based on a hypothesis!

5/21/24

It seems a bit strange to me that all of the sudden Joe Biden is suddenly all-in for two presidential debates.

The challenge was initiated when Biden released a 13-second video, which apparently contained “five jump cuts” because he “could not get through the whole thing.”

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for debate. Now, he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice. So, let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays,” Biden said in the short video.”

Why?

Peter Doocy asked KJP if Biden’s apparent change of heart was because of recent polling in which JB was behind in five of six critical states. As usual KJP responded but did not actually answer his question.

What I find the most strange is that the first debate is at the end of June. This is well before the Democratic convention. This is an extremely unusual time to have a Presidential debate … Hmmm!

Could it be that the real reason for the timing of this first debate is a “plan B” of sorts? Perhaps this first debate is meant to be somewhat of a test for J.B. If he does well then it could provide a necessary shift in momentum for old Joe. However, if he does poorly, it could be stimulus for his managers to figure out a way for him to exit the race prior to the convention. For instance, if his debate performance was poor, he could “develop” some “unplanned” illness or infirmity that would “unfortunately” necessitate that he withdraw from the race … serendipitously right before the convention. 

As Doocy brought up Biden is falling further behind  in some swing states, and if this continues, he basically cannot win. Once he is nominated at the convention, it becomes extremely problematic to substitute another candidate in his place. Ergo … “plan B!”

5/20/24

As many of you are aware on Sundays I write about individuals who deserve our respect and praise. Omri Michaeli is such an individual.

From the Epoch Times:

On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked, Israeli reserve Master Sgt. Omri Michaeli didn’t wait for orders to report. The veteran reserve commando kissed his girlfriend goodbye and headed to his base outside Jerusalem.

At the base, he quickly loaded weapons in his car, teamed up with three buddies who were ready to go, and drove south—to kill the terrorists who were killing Israelis.

They headed first to Yad Mordechai, a mile north of the Gaza frontier. They killed terrorists along the way, All the roads near Gaza were filled with terrorists. There were an estimated 3,000 terrorists on Israeli soil, the equivalent of a brigade.

Mr. Omri Michaeli was a reservist in the Duvdevan elite commando brigade specializing in urban counterterrorism. Its members sometimes go undercover in classified operations. Duvdevan regulars arrived at Kfar Aza via helicopters at about 9 a.m.

Inside the kibbutz, their commander sent them to clear the youth area. It had small apartments where young kibbutzniks moved upon leaving their parents’ houses. The apartments, on the kibbutz’s edge, back up to its fence. The Gaza Strip is a little more than half a mile away across the fields.

The IDF soldiers faced a unique situation: They were in Israel, attacking dwellings that might have Israelis inside. They couldn’t just toss in a grenade.

“The officer said, ‘OK, who’s going first?’ And there was a silence.

Omri stood up and said: ‘Are you joking? Come on behind me.’”

Mr. Omri Michaeli’s team of six got started and cleared three apartments in about an hour. At the fourth apartment, the team ran into trouble.

“Behind me.” Mr. Omri Michaeli was about 6 feet, 2 inches tall—and strong.

He went in, and they saw three guns, three terrorists, in the front room.

“When he made the first step, they shot him from up to down,” his father said.

Omri Michaeli died a hero!

5/19/24

Yesterday I watched video of part of a commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS. FYI: Benedictine College is a small (just over 2000 students), rural (located on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, northwest of Kansas City, Missouri), Catholic college.

The commencement speaker was Harrison Butker, who is the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. One might ask why Harrison Butker who is but a kicker. Why not get a big star to give this address?

Well the answer is probably twofold. First, Harrison Butker is a very good speaker, and second he is a Catholic. He does not just proclaim to be Catholic, but speaks and acts like a real Catholic … this in contradistinction to Joe Biden who says that he is Catholic, but acts otherwise.

Harrison Butker not only talks the talk, but walks the walk … again contradistinction to the pseudo-Catholic in the White House. He gave his views on women becoming wives and mothers. He came right out and called abortion evil, called DEI misguided, and called homosexuality wrong. It was a good speech, and without question he wrote it himself. He didn’t first check to see which way the wind was blowing or what the polls were indicating.

Of course the left attacked him for his speech. However, despite his speech receiving major backlash from liberals and far-left feminists, Butker’s jersey is in high demand among fans on the NFL’s website and others. 

What about the graduating students at Benedictine College? … the group to whom this commencement speech was directed?

From The Loop by Benedictine graduating senior, Shelby Bland:

 “Benedictine College is unapologetically Catholic. This shouldn’t be a shock to anyone who has spent at least 30 seconds looking at their website or Instagram. There has never been any attempt to hide or shy away from our identity. Rather, the college is proud to nurture traditional Catholic values.

As a young woman and a Benedictine student, I am proud of my college for its unashamed faith. It is a haven for young people, like me, who have not always felt accepted for what we believe and who often have to defend our views. 

Knowing this about my school, it didn’t come as a surprise to me when Benedictine asked Harrison Butker, an outspoken traditional Catholic, to give the commencement speech at this year’s graduation.”

She subsequently gave the speech a good review.

If you are interested in hearing a good commencement address, I suggest that you listen to Harrison Butker speaking from his heart.

In many ways it was better than what I often hear on Sunday. Perhaps Harrison Butker missed his calling!

5/18/24

One of the individuals that I have mixed feelings about is the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. He appeared to cave to the Democrats when the latest bill concerning the arming of Ukraine came across his desk. As you might recall there was nothing in that bill that mentioned our southern border, despite his prior protestations about that issue. Some may have referred to this as “the art of compromise,” although MTG and others, including myself, thought otherwise.

However, on 5/13, Speaker Johnson attended the Trump trial in NYC and afterwards reflected on how this Democrat inspired pseudo-trial might just boomeranging on them Dems. Reflecting on his travels across the country, Mr. Johnson conveyed widespread public discontent with the trial, “I’ve been in 102 cities in over half the states in the last few months, and I can tell you that no matter where we are around the country, I’ve been doing large events,” he said. “People from all walks of life come to these events, and they are concerned about this. They are disgusted about this. They are fed up. They’ve had enough because they see what’s happening.”

Now, not everyone would agree with Speaker Johnson’s “across the country” observation. For instance, I have an acquaintance who is an over-the-top leftist, a true MSNBC-aholic! Hopefully, this Trump pseudo-trial will boomerang on him and his leftist cohorts. Perhaps down the road he will be able to consider the consequences of what is happening in NYC. As both he and MSNBC are afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, it is likely that this potential boomerang will never affect them directly. However, crucial is whether or not Independents recognize what this trial is actually all about … and if they do, then this Dem  inspired pseudo-trial will boomerang on them just as Speaker Johnson has said.

5/17/24

Whereas most of my friends are conservative, the other day I was seated next to a progressive acquaintance at a group breakfast. Now this gentleman, let’s arbitrarily call him, Donald, is a nice enough retired older guy, who is politically far to the left. I have sat next to him before and we get along fine as long as we do not discuss politics. When I asked him what he did on most days to fill his time, he shrugged and said that he watched a lot of television. It was only later that I discovered that he and his wife watch a lot of MSNBC, and here I mean that they watch MSNBC throughout the entire day.

At some point the conversation at the table shifted to the conflict in Gaza. Notably I did not initiate this conversation, but Donald immediately chimed in. What I found very interesting was that I was more pro-Israel when it came to the Israel-Hamas conflict, than Donald, despite the fact the he is Jewish! When I mentioned that I was pro-Netanyahu, he was shocked as he was over-the-top anti-Netanyahu. He thought that the bombing should stop as  “all the continued bombing was going to do was to make the children of Gaza anti-Jewish for the rest of their lives.” When I pointed out that these young children had already been indoctrinated to hate all Jews, he just quickly skipped to the next topic, which was that Netanyahu was only in power because of hardline right wingers in Israel.

At one point he seemed a bit conflicted because there was continued rockets being fired from Gaza and aimed at Beersheba, where he had friends or relatives.

I found it especially interesting that he never mentioned the twelve-hundred or so Israelis that were ambushed and killed back on October 7th. When I alluded to this, he quickly moved on. Likewise when I mentioned the hostages that Hamas refused to turnover, it was like he never heard me.

On my drive home I thought, “A Jewish guy not supporting Israel. Did MSNBC cause this oxymoron?”

5/16/24

By this time most of you are aware that for quite a while I have been a big fan of Ivermectin for Covid … even before I took it for Covid.

I am also a lover of music, and after I listened to an interview with oncology surgeon, Dr. Kathleen Ruddy on Epoch’s American Thought Leaders, I was reminded of the song, Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. 

“Hello darkness, my old friend

I’ve come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence”

The interview with Dr. Ruddy was about the potential use of my old friend, Ivermectin in treating cancer. If you have thirty minutes or so to spare, I would strongly recommend listening to this interview.

In the interview Dr. Ruddy describes what happened to three separate cancer patients who began, almost serendipitously, to take Ivermectin. These three patients each had advanced cancer. One prostate cancer; one esophageal cancer; one pelvic cancer. While I am not suggesting that the three remarkable documented recoveries in each of these patients should suddenly change the present treatment for cancer, I am suggesting that the use of Ivermectin might indeed find a place in the treatment of various cancers.

I can hear many of you saying that perhaps a study could be done using Ivermectin as an adjunct to the other present accepted different modes of cancer treatment. 

To put things into perspective, no pharmaceutical company is going to be interested in studying a drug that literally costs about ten cents per tablet, and so a randomized controlled trial will never be possible. 

After some encouragement from Dr. Ruddy an observational multi-centered study has been started using ivermectin and historical controls. FYI: an observational study is one like the well known Framingham Study, the results of which are ongoing. As pointed out by Dr. Ruddy many cancer patients do not live long enough for comparisons after five years of Ivermectin versus no Ivermectin, and thus an observational study with historical controls is the only feasible way to examine for results.

Likewise after being used extensively in Africa for river blindness Ivermectin has a stellar safety record.

I know that if I develop metastatic cancer, I will go back and listen to Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence:

“Hello Ivermectin, my old fiend!

I’ve came to talk with you again”

5/15./24

Talking about, mandating, and then actually implementing EV truck usage epitomizes  the basic difference between midbrain thinkers (liberals) and frontal lobe thinkers (conservatives). On one hand we have those who are trying to minimize the adverse health effects of gasoline powered trucks, but without a well thought-out workable practical plan. On the other side we have those who think logically, and are basically saying that a rush-rush mandate to push EV trucks is not only not practical, but at the same time is also is not doable.

From Epoch:

“Freight movement continues to represent a significant share of local air pollution, increasing the risk of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization, and other adverse health outcomes for the millions of Americans, especially overburdened communities, who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, warehouses, and other freight routes,” the EPA states.

Likewise, the American Lung Association estimates that transitioning to zero-emission trucks could result in $735 billion in public health benefits by 2050.”

Meanwhile on the other side:

Taki Darakos, the vice president of vehicle maintenance and fleet service at PITT OHIO, raised concerns about the high costs involved in electrifying fleets.

The upfront costs of zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) “are much higher than their diesel equivalent, making it difficult for fleets to embrace electrification until they see meaningful year-over-year upfront purchase price declines.”

The company incorporated some EVs in its fleet, and Mr. Darakos said: “Increased vehicle weight from the batteries reduced our payload and limited our usage of haul. These limitations have impacted the company’s timeline on how and when to transition to ZEV.”

The American Transportation Research Institute estimated that electrifying the entire vehicle fleet in the United States will consume 40 percent of the United States’ existing electricity generation while requiring a 14 percent overall increase in energy generation.

“Yet our aging grid can hardly meet current demands,“ Mr. Darakos said. ”In California, where rolling blackouts and brownouts are not uncommon, utilities would need to generate an additional 57 percent beyond their current output to support an electric vehicle fleet.”

He pointed out that a truck driver can refuel a new diesel truck within 15 minutes for a journey of up to 1,200 miles. However, charging an EV truck for two hours provides a range of only about 200 miles.

Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation and logistics firm Ryder.

Florida-based Ryder analyzed the potential cost of transportation if internal combustion engine trucks are converted to EVs. There is a 5 percent cost increase for light-duty EVs and a 94–114 percent increase for heavy-duty trucks, the May 8 report states. For a fleet of 25 mixed vehicles—light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks—costs surge by 56–67 percent.

As transportation costs have a direct bearing on the price of goods sold in markets across the country, Ryder estimates such increases to eventually add about 0.5–1 percent to overall price inflation in the economy.

Certainly helping people breathe easier is a commendable goal. How to get there is another issue all together. Mandating the use of EV trucks without first addressing the practical aspects of this issue is foolhardy.

5/14/24

I saw an interesting world map recently. Although I have always been interested in geography, this world map had a twist. It was a world map which was color-coded for the incidence per 100K population of cancer rates in those less than fifty. Granted that while many different variables might affect this rate in different parts of the world, I was struck by a few things on this map (see below).

First: look at the extremely high incidence of cancer in those less than fifty in Australia and New Zealand, followed by the high incidence in the U.S., France, Italy and Portugal.

Second: look at the low incidence in most of central Africa as well as a few countries in Central America.

In a similar but not identical light … from People:

“North Carolina State University (NCSU) has launched an investigation after elevated levels of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were detected in a campus building. 

The investigation has now led to numerous alumni reporting health conditions that they claim may be linked to Poe Hall. 

Over 150 people have reported cases of cancer or other serious illnesses to WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina. The local outlet has been collecting health data from current and former students and employees since the university’s investigation was launched.

These cases have not been officially linked to Poe Hall and cannot be considered a “cancer cluster,” which is “the occurrence of a greater than expected number of cancer cases among a group of people in a defined geographic area over a specific time period,” according to the National Cancer Institute.”

Here we have two completely different situations, each with a statistical grouping that seems to be outside of random. Now while there is no proof for what I am going to say, these two separate unrelated situations got me thinking … “could either one or both of these statistical anomalies be be related to the Covid vaccine?”

The expected response to my query would be that since the Covid vaccines were used throughout the world, the vaccine cannot be responsible for the difference in young cancer rates per 100K population  in adjacent countries … e.g. between the US and Mexico. 

To that I would answer that despite the fact that San DIego and Tijuana are within a few miles of each other, the batches of vaccine used in these areas were not from the same distributor. Those batches used in the US were from a federal distributor while those batches used in Mexico were from a totally different distributor. Could it be that not all batches of vaccine are the same, especially when side effects are concerned?

Similarly, although at this point, PCBs seem to be the leading suspected cause for these alarming cancer stats in younger individuals who attended NCSU, to me it seems unusual that this increased incidence is just now showing up over forty years after Poe Hall was built. Is it likely or unlikely that these NCSU students were all vaccinated from the same batch of vaccine?

Hmmm!

5/13/24

On Sunday I write about individuals that we can all admire. Today I am writing about the youngest individual in my long list of Sunday honorees.

Kevin Ellis Jr. is only nine years old and lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

From CBS News:

About a month ago Matt Busbice, the 42-year-old owner of sporting goods store BuckFeather in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was awakened 

in the early morning by a fire alarm going off inside his condo complex. So, Busbice shot out of bed and raced down the stairs only to discover there was no fire. But he was awake now, so even though he was wearing mismatched clothes and was disheveled, he decided to go out for a cup of coffee.

As he was about to enter the coffee shop, he remembered he hadn’t done his morning prayer. So as the security camera shows, Busbice stepped to the corner of the patio to pray.

“And I started to slowly open my eyes, and there’s a kid coming at me, about my height,” Busbice said.

The boy had his fist clenched, so Busbice prepared for a confrontation. But instead, the boy opened his fist to reveal a $1 bill.

“And I go, ‘What?'” Busbice said.

“‘If you’re homeless, here’s a dollar,'” 9-year-old Kelvin Ellis Jr. recalls telling Busbice. “…I always wanted to help a homeless person, and I finally had the opportunity.” Ellis says he had just gotten the dollar for good grades. It was the only money he had to his name. 

“I haven’t had that much faith in humanity in a very long time,” Busbice said. He was so touched, he invited Ellis in for a snack and then connected with Ellis’ father, who was next door, and promised to stay in touch.

As a result of his kindness, Busbice rewarded Kevin Ellis Jr.  a shopping spree — 40 seconds to pick out whatever he wanted in BuckFeather, including a new bike. Ellis says it was great, but definitely not what he wanted to get for his dollar.

“Joy, because I helped someone,” Ellis said. “Give something away, and you feel like you’ve got a lot of things from it.”

Now even though Kevin Ellis Jr. is only nine, I would guess he’s got a bright future. Kudos to his parents who obviously had taught him about what is really important in life.

5/12/24