Monday, December 07, 2020

A-listers Matthew McConaughey and Russell Brand slam the left for their treatment of conservatives - TheBlaze

A-listers Matthew McConaughey and Russell Brand slam the left for their treatment of conservatives - TheBlaze

Actor Matthew McConaughey has blasted the "far left," and said that the "illiberal left" is condescending, patronizing, and arrogant when it comes to dealing with conservative Americans.

COVID!

 

California heads for Covid lockdown as US records 200,000 cases a day | Coronavirus | The Guardian

California heads for Covid lockdown as US records 200,000 cases a day | Coronavirus | The Guardian
"As large parts of California went back into lockdown and healthcare systems creaked under the strain in many states, new cases of Covid-19 in the US remained above 200,000 on Saturday, with more than 2,000 deaths.
...In an urgent attempt to slow the rapid rise of coronavirus cases, a vast region of southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay area and a large swath of the Central Valley were to be placed under a sweeping new lockdown from Sunday night.
The state public health department said intensive care capacity in southern California and Central Valley hospitals fell below a 15% threshold that triggers the new measures, which include strict closures for businesses and a ban on gathering with anyone outside of your own household. 
The new measures will remain in place for at least three weeks, covering the Christmas holiday...Read all.

#1 Movie this week 1941-----Keep 'Em Flying Official Trailer #1 - Lou Costello Movie (1941) HD

Anyone who believes 400 molecules of CO2 in a million molecules of air has any impact is deluded - Ice Age Now

Anyone who believes 400 molecules of CO2 in a million molecules of air has any impact is deluded - Ice Age Now
"The main point isn’t blackouts or more expensive electricity.
The main point is the whole effort is totally pointless !
If the lockdowns showed anything at all it is that our lock down emissions reductions didn’t even show up in the graphs of CO2 – it had zero impact !
Anyone who believes 4 hundred molecules of CO2 in a million molecules of air has any impact at all is so deluded that they’d believe Biden wasn’t corrupt despite bragging about it on TV and vote for Biden and Harris.
But they will be the losers – either Biden won’t keep his election promises on climate and he will be hated by the climate acolytes who voted for him OR he will try and he will ruin your economy and country and watch as China rises by using coal fired electricity and everyone will hate him.
Hoist with one’s own petard sounds plausible."

#1 This day 1942-----Bing Crosby - White Christmas (1942) Original Version

Doctor, When Will The Virus End? - NewTube

Doctor, When Will The Virus End? - NewTube (click link for video)
"Doctor, when will the virus end? 
"How should I know, I'm not a politician."


On the Clorox website. Don't drink (or inject) Clorox!


 

Top Dem pollster has eerie prediction for Democrats if they don't abandon socialism, 'defund the police' - TheBlaze

Top Dem pollster has eerie prediction for Democrats if they don't abandon socialism, 'defund the police' - TheBlaze

Doug Schoen, the longtime Democratic pollster who has worked for the Clintons, has a warning for the Democratic Party if they want to be competitive in upcoming elections: abandon the far-left progressive agenda. Speaking with the New York Post, Schoen said his data show that Democrats will suffer massive losses in the 2022 midterm elections if they "go the progressive route."

Never forget!-----Day of Infamy, Pearl Harbor Raid on Dec 7, 1941

AM Fruitcake


 

History for December 7

History for December 7 - On-This-Day.com
  • 1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
  • 1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
  • 1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
  • 1971 - Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's assets.
  • 1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
  • 1989 - East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the plan for free elections and a revised constitution.
  • 1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a racist, black gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
  • 1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.

Sunday, December 06, 2020

The way we were-----Why did Spain Decline? (Short Animated Documentary)

Boob-tube-----30 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1956

Fans jeer as players take a knee in English soccer match

Fans jeer as players take a knee in English soccer match
"Fans attending an English second-tier match between host Millwall and Derby on Saturday jeered as players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In video footage published on social media, booing was clearly heard from some fans in the stands containing Millwall supporters as both sets of players made the symbolic gesture after the referee blew the whistle to signal the start of the match at The Den, the home stadium of the south London club.
Only home fans are allowed into games due to pandemic restrictions...Read all.

Car caravan to support farmers in India blocks traffic on Bay Bridge

Car caravan to support farmers in India blocks traffic on Bay Bridge
"A protest in support of Indian farmers has clogged traffic at the Bay Bridge toll plaza on Saturday afternoon.
Posts on social media show the protesters, traveling in a car caravan from around the region, are demanding support for Indian farmers who are on strike...Read all.

"Science" to politicians and sheep.

 

Chicago Vs. Smith College | Power Line

Chicago Vs. Smith College | Power Line
"As is well known, you aren’t allowed to criticize Black Lives Matter (still less say anything as offensive as “All Lives Matter”), Critical Race Theory, or any aspect of transgenderism. 
And it seems increasingly difficult to criticize the orthodoxy of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in any way.
Witness the case of Dorian Abbot, a professor of geology at the University of Chicago, who has criticized the DEI orthodoxy. 
He’s spoken out about it, offering some presentations complete with slides, which you can find here, here, here, and here
Here are four of them as a sample if you don’t have time to chase down these links:

And Prof. Abbot’s three-page account of the matter is here.
You can guess what happened next...Read all!

UN Admits CO2 Cuts Have Been Futile In War On Climate Change | Climate Dispatch

UN Admits CO2 Cuts Have Been Futile In War On Climate Change | Climate Dispatch
"From a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release titled “Carbon dioxide levels continue at record levels, despite COVID-19 lockdown,” comes this statement about the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions during the COVID-19 lockdown:
"...This means that on the short-term, the impact [of CO2 reduction] of the COVID-19 confinements cannot be distinguished from natural variability…”
Let this sink in: The WMO admits reduced carbon dioxide emissions are having no effect on climate that is distinguishable from natural variability.
The WMO acknowledges that after our global economic lockdown, where CO2 emissions from travel, industry, and power generation were all curtailed, there wasn’t any measurable difference in global atmospheric CO2 levels. 
Zero, zilch, none, nada...Read all.

Lunch video-----MAGA Supporters Kick Off Bus Tour; Georgians Drive to 'Stop the Steal' |...

Noon-toon

 

This in a middle-class community with "help wanted" signs everywhere. (Mona Shores is the school district for most of Norton Shores MI)

 


"...pull my dogs tail"... naked?


 

Disaster was narrowly averted Under 180 ppm atmospheric CO2 concentration, life on earth begins to die

Disaster was narrowly averted Under 180 ppm atmospheric CO2 concentration, life on earth begins to die

"The earth came very close to that point not long ago during the Ice Ages (20,000 years ago). Then the planet warmed naturally, and an increase in atmospheric CO2 to over 200 ppm followed (new study here).

The earth saw CO2 levels of close to 8000 ppm in the past, i.e. about 20 times more than today. The following chart shows the earth’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations for the past 600 million years.

The ONLY definition that protects everyone!


 

Where libs rule-----San Francisco bans smoking inside apartments; pot smoking OK - ABC News

San Francisco bans smoking inside apartments; pot smoking OK - ABC News
SAN FRANCISCO -- City officials in San Francisco have banned all tobacco smoking inside apartments, citing concerns about secondhand smoke. 
But lighting up a joint inside
That’s still allowed.
The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to approve the ordinance making San Francisco the largest city in the country to ban tobacco smoking inside apartments, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The original proposal sought to ban residents from smoking marijuana in their apartments, but supervisors voted to exclude marijuana after cannabis activists said the law would take away their only legal place to smoke. 
It’s illegal under state law to smoke cannabis in public places...Read all.

#1 This day 1941-----Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo - Sun Valley Serenade (1941) HQ

MUST READ!---Cause of Death: A Primer | Watts Up With That?

Cause of Death: A Primer | Watts Up With That?

"There has been massive media attention on Covid-19 deaths – and there have been a lot of them.    The CDC as of noon on 26 November 2020 was reporting that there have been 259,005 total Covid-19 deaths in the United States. 

Yet anyone who reads widely is aware that there have been reports of a motorcycle accident victim being reported as a Covid death.  There are many who correctly report that all people dying from or with Covid and even suspected of dying from-or-with Covid-19 are all being counted as certified reportable must-make-the-headlines Covid-19 Deaths.

[Note:  This is a long and rather detailed explanation of what leads to the situation in which we find ourselves regarding Covid-19 Deaths reporting.  Those who want a better understanding of the issue should continue reading.  Readers with no or little interest can just accept this brief synopsis:  “It’s  Complicated”  and move on to other posts]

...Reporting of Covid-19 Deaths

Here’s the pivot point on Covid-19 Deaths:

This is from the CDC’s weekly Covid report.  See the Column 2 heading?  It says “All Deaths Involving Covid-19 (U07.1)1”.  The keyword is INVOLVING.  To be perfectly clear, what is being reported by the CDC, as collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, are All (every one) Deaths (people dying) that Involved Covid-19.  See the little footnote indicator “1”? 

Footnote 1 says:  COVID-19 deaths are identified using a new ICD–10 code. When COVID-19 is reported as a cause of death – or when it is listed as a “probable” or “presumed” cause — the death is coded as U07.1. This can include cases with or without laboratory confirmation.”

Not just verified cases in which Covid-19 was the immediate cause of death.   At least, to be even clearer, not necessarily what you, the average reader, would consider THE cause of death.

So, what exactly are they counting when the CDC and WHO report Covid-10 Covid-19 Deaths?  The World Health Organization’s official guidelines are:

2. DEFINITION FOR DEATHS DUE TO COVID-19

A death due to COVID-19 is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 caseunless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID disease (e.g. trauma). ….

A- RECORDING COVID-19 ON THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF CAUSE OF DEATH

COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate of cause of death for ALL decedents where the disease caused, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death.  

[ my emphasis – kh  source:  WHO here .pdf ]

Note that the Death Certificate — Cause of Death Part II is “Other significant conditions contributing to…”.  So, there is where Covid-19 (ICD code U07.1) would be written for any death in which Covid wasn’t “caused, or is assumed to have caused” but only contributed to the death.  If the decedent was a “Covid case” then he/she becomes a “Covid Death” if they die.  Read on . . .

For the general public, who want to know “How many people are being killed by the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic?”, this definition does not supply the answer to their question.  The vagueness and breadth of these definitions is exacerbated, in this “possibly-too-broad” sense, by the definitions being used to define “What is a Covid-19 case?”.  We see that the WHO definition of a Covid death includes “a probable or confirmedCOVID-19 case”.

So, how do WHO and the CDC define or advise doctors how to define/determine a Covid-19 case

Clinical Criteria

At least two of the following symptoms: fever (measured or subjective), chills, rigorsmyalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s)

OR

At least one of the following symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing

OR

Severe respiratory illness with at least one of the following:

      Clinical or radiographic evidence of pneumonia, OR

      Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

AND

No alternative more likely diagnosis

[ source:  CDC here ]

So, by this definition, I could at this very moment be declared to be a Covid-19 case...Read all!!!

Do NOT get this wrong!

 

Mother nature punishing us with morons!