Archive for 2022
October 25, 2022
IT’S ACCOUNTABILITY TIME, JOE: House Republicans are planning a multi-front assault on the Biden family’s heretofore-ignored ability to make multi-millions on public service, with emphasis on China ties that may well endanger national security.
UNSURPRISING: Study: Regular physical activity may boost COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness.
So if you’re physically active and healthy — and thus at much lower risk from Covid anyway — the vaccine works better.
AS SHE SHOULD BE: Kathy Hochul on the Ropes in New York.
MAKE COOKING EASIER: Nonstick Restaurant Fry Pan. #CommissionEarned
THE FED’S BOGUS STUDY: Fake Science Fuels Climate Extremism. The Federal Reserve’s doomsday forecast of economic damage from climate change is statistical nonsense, but the media promote it instead of the forecasts from competent economists.
A FEW BEATINGS, OF THE SORT THAT USED TO BE ROUTINELY DEALT OUT BY BEER-AND-HOT-DOG ENJOYERS, WOULD BE SALUTARY:
And it wouldn’t take many, because these people are performance artists who thrive on cowardice and unnecessary self-restraint.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Linguists slam Cambridge University for teaching ‘woke’ German: Fury as students are taught ‘gender-neutral’ version of the language that avoids using masculine forms that are not ‘inclusive’ to non-binary people. “Oliver Baer, of the German Language Association, said non-native speakers attempting to chatter with Germans in the trendy new tongue are likely to get laughed out of the country. Mr Baer, from Dortmund, said: ‘My first reaction is it’s like Monty Python is back. ‘It’s a minefield and I would hate to recommend to any Englishman to have to go through the details of all that.'”
FLORIDA, LAND OF FREEDOM: Where to Get Legal Weed in Florida? Soon, at Your Local Circle K Gas Station.
HOT!! AND IMHO VERY IMPORTANT!!: Here is my “AGENDA FOR CONGRESS” essay in a form that is not behind a paywall. It’s all about what Congress should do if either (1) the Supreme Court finally holds race-preferential admissions to be illegal; or (2) it doesn’t.
It won’t matter what the Supreme Court does if the structural supports for race-preferential admissions are allowed to remain in place. Please take a look at the article (if you didn’t already read it in the New Criterion). Send it to your Congress critter … or your cousin from Peoria. It will likely take years to get this done either through legislation or litigation, but a useful first step is to get GOP Members of Congress and other conservatives familiar with the recommendations.
(If you subscribe to the New Criterion, try this version.)
WHAT GASLIGHTING LOOKS LIKE: Kathy Hochul dismisses NYer concerns on violent crime wave as ‘sense of fear.’
Related: Cyclist randomly slugs Jewish teen in suspected NYC hate crime: cops. Shockingly, not a “white supremacist.”
14-year-old boy shot outside NYC school, prompting lockdown.
Footage shows suspected gunman in NYC shooting of innocent 70-year-old woman.
Parents warned after creep in van tries to abduct young NYC girl near school.
READER FAVORITE: Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Why the Army hates Augmented Reality goggles. “A tool can only be useful so long as soldiers are willing to use it, and a report prepared for the Pentagon suggests that the actual infantry tasked with trying out the equipment would rather ditch the headsets than use them.” Motion sickness, headaches, eyestrain. . . .
WAS IT OVER WHEN “RASHEE SANOOK” BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?! “Rashee Sanook:” Joe Biden’s Gaffe While Congratulating New UK PM. Rishi Sunak is Britain’s third Prime Minister this year, after Liz Truss left office just 49 days into her term.
Forget it, he’s rolling trunalimunumaprzurering.
But what exactly did Brandon mean by this? “‘We’ve got news that Rashee Sanook is now the prime minister,’ Mr Biden said. ‘As my brother would say ‘go figure,’’ he added.”
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Defense of the Legislative ‘Officer’ Succession Provisions.
STUPID HUMAN TRICKS: Man uses gas generator in electric vehicle to drive 1,800 miles. “While Mikka made the 1,800-mile trip without plugging in at an electric vehicle charging station, he had to stop to allow the Tesla to charge on the side of the road. Mikka also said he had to drive at slower speeds in order to have enough energy to keep the Tesla charged. That, however, was the cause for him being pulled over.”
AND A NOW, A WORD FROM HAROLD STASSEN AND LYNDON LAROUCHE: Hillary Clinton says Republicans have plan to ‘steal 2024 presidential election.’
GREAT MOMENTS IN FEAR PORN: CNN claims pets have big climate impact, advises buying ‘smaller breeds’, feed them ‘insect-based food.’
FASTER, PLEASE: DARPA Wireless Power Beaming.
NO WORD YET WHEN HUGO BOSS WILL SIGN KANYE WEST:
Related: How could you be so heartless? Unpacking Kanye’s antisemitism. Let’s be the ones who set the example in our own communities and call out antisemitism. Our words will have a ripple effect, encouraging others to do the same.
More: Is Spike Lee’s Anti-Semitism More Tolerable Than Kanye West’s?
Well yes, because, as the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg would say, Lee is part of the left’s family. West, due to his dalliance with Trump, is not.
NOT GETTING COCKY, FINGERS ARE CROSSED: Herschel Walker Surges in Georgia.
SEPSIS: Machine learning enables an ‘almost perfect’ diagnosis of an elusive global killer.
The disease can cause decreased blood flow to vital organs, inflammation throughout the body, and abnormal blood clotting. Therefore, if sepsis isn’t recognized and treated quickly, it can lead to shock, organ failure, and death. But it can be difficult to identify which pathogen is causing sepsis, or whether an infection is in the bloodstream or elsewhere in the body. And in many patients with symptoms that resemble sepsis, it can be challenging to determine whether they truly have an infection at all.
Now, researchers at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub), the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a new diagnostic method that applies machine learning to advanced genomics data from both microbe and host—to identify and predict sepsis cases. As reported on October 20, 2022 in Nature Microbiology, the approach is surprisingly accurate, and has the potential to far exceed current diagnostic capabilities.
Well, good. Flashback: Sepsis causes more deaths worldwide than previously thought.
Related: Vitamin C infusion may reduce sepsis death risk. It sounds like this is just vitamin C, not the vitamin and steroids cocktail that has been so successful elsewhere.
Plus, a newer study: “Intravenous vitamin C of ≥ 5 days was significantly associated with decreased hospital and 90-day mortality in sepsis patients. Vitamin C combined with corticosteroids and/or thiamine in specific sepsis subgroups warrants further study.”
“THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GINA CARANO WARNED US ABOUT:” ‘Didn’t start with gas chambers:’ Susan Sarandon brutally honest about who Democrats really are right now with accurate AF meme.
