Thursday, March 17, 2022
Monday, March 14, 2022
Fwd: Watch "Biden’s 17 GREATEST Achievements So Far!" on YouTube
I mostly agree, but I don't want to spread COVID misinformation. It is far from clear that COVID-19 was created in a lab or that Fauci was responsible. The most recent evidence links COVID-19 to the wet market in Wuhan.
From what I have read, the relatively small grant to the Wuhan lab was for cataloging bat viruses. What China did on top of that isn't necessarily Fauci's fault. Maybe we shouldn't have been funding them at all, but the reasoning was to go where the bat viruses were.
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From: Albert
From: Albert
This would be a lot funnier if it wasn't so true.
Friday, March 11, 2022
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Medicare For All explained: Real Costs, Pros, Cons: Definitive answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgDJ-Vl8CHA
I'm worried about the tragedy of the commons.
There is an appeal to a shared burden, but there needs to be a disincentive from overuse. Perhaps you would limit the number of services, and any extra would have to be paid for by the patient. Maybe some people would get insurance to pay for extra services.
My thinking is to get closer to a free market. Have a tax-deferred medical savings account, which could be used for insurance or medical cost directly. Allow all medical services to advertise prices, which is pretty much banned right now. Have employers contribute 5 to 10% of a person's income with an equal amount coming from the employee. Give employees the option to contribute more to the account if they feel that they need to. Allow the money in the account to be invested. If the account creates an apparent surplus, allow a portion of it to be used as taxable income in retirement. Make the account inheritable, so that it can be passed onto family members.
Such a program would need a subsidy for low-income people.
Ivermectin, more evidence
I'm neutral on this. It might take more studies to verify this. Too many times we have seen the results of studies that were refuted later.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Thursday, March 3, 2022
New Study Finds COVID-19 DNA Linked to Moderna Patent Filed in 2016, Sparks Discussion on Lab Leak Theory
"We're talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides," Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, was quoted as saying to Daily Mail.
"So it doesn't mean very much, to be frank, if you do these types of searches, you can always find matches.
"Sometimes these things happen fortuitously, sometimes it's the result of convergent evolution (when organisms evolve independently to have similar traits to adapt to their environment).
"It's a quirky observation, but I wouldn't call it a smoking gun because it's too small.
"It doesn't get us any further with the debate about whether COVID-19 was engineered," Young said.
A statement from the US drug maker Moderna is awaited, the report said.
"So it doesn't mean very much, to be frank, if you do these types of searches, you can always find matches.
"Sometimes these things happen fortuitously, sometimes it's the result of convergent evolution (when organisms evolve independently to have similar traits to adapt to their environment).
"It's a quirky observation, but I wouldn't call it a smoking gun because it's too small.
"It doesn't get us any further with the debate about whether COVID-19 was engineered," Young said.
A statement from the US drug maker Moderna is awaited, the report said.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Monday, February 28, 2022
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
George Carlin: Why we aren't ready for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
This is so dark.
I think that suicide is no joking matter.
Contrary to what he says, chimpanzees kill other chimpanzees. Other animals will engage in mortal combat with each other. Lions are incredibly brutal to their prey. The pride will start eating the animal before it is dead.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022
"Be a man"
I saw this great clip on Facebook titled: "Be a man."
Part 1:
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Friday, November 19, 2021
Friday, November 5, 2021
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Friday, October 1, 2021
Fwd: Biden Booster shot
FYI
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From: Larry
From: Larry
The Food and Drug Administration ruled it's safe for people over the age of sixty-five to get a Covid booster shot. Less than twenty-four hours after receiving his booster shot, President Biden is feeling disoriented, confused and discombobulated. In other words, there were no side effects.
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Comedy Cancel culture
From: Larry
"It's very dicey. It's very tricky," Spade responded. "You used to have to say anything to go as far as you could, to push the envelope, to get attention, and people would be like, 'I like this guy. He's pushing it.' And in comedy clubs, audiences really appreciate that."
He added: "Now you say the one wrong move and you're canceled. It's a very tough world out there."
"I think all the comedians have gotten together, in a way, to say we just have to keep doing what we were doing, and the people that come to the shows will appreciate it," he explained. "But you get an outsider that comes in and goes, 'I was so offended.' The intent is not to be mean… If the intent is to do it as a joke or a spin on something, and it is mean to people, but you're just making fun of that, I don't think that's horrible. I've been in the business doing it for 20 years, so I hope comics are allowed to be comics. I really hope so."
From the comments section....
All humor is strictly VERBOTTEN by our Regressive Hitler Youth who were created and programmed by the most powerful and corrupt corporate oligarchs in human history! So much for their lame cry that they're "speaking truth to power"! It's now "speaking propaganda for the BENEFIT of power"
Friday, August 6, 2021
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
I sent a similar email in May 2020, but it still makes me laugh.
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
DONALD TRUMP: I've been told by my many sources, good sources - they're very good sources - that the chicken crossed the road. All the Fake News wants to do is write nasty things about the road, but it's a really good road. It's a beautiful road. Everyone knows how beautiful it is.
JOE BIDEN: Why did the chicken do the...thing in the...you know the rest.
SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, he's a maverick!
BARACK OBAMA: Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to surrender her eggs. Period.
AOC: Chickens should not be forced to lay eggs! This is because of corporate greed! Eggs should be able to lay themselves.
HILLARY CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make why the chicken crossed the road.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or against us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white?
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he is acting by not taking on his current problems before adding any new problems.
ANDERSON COOPER: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
Friday, July 16, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Saturday, June 26, 2021
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