Archive for 2023
August 20, 2023
HMM: US FDA staff raise no concerns about Otsuka, Medtronic blood pressure devices. “The surgery, known as renal denervation, is allowed in Europe and other parts of the world, but is not yet approved in the U.S., after initial studies of older devices used in the procedure failed key trials. The staff reviewers said the available safety data for the device made by ReCor, a unit of Otsuka Holdings, did not raise concerns, while pointing that there was limited long-term data. There was no specific comment on Medtronic’s device. ReCor’s device, a balloon-like structure inside a catheter, is inserted through a small cut into the kidney’s arteries and sends ultrasound energy to burn nerves that are believed to control blood pressure. On the other hand, Medtronic’s device is a spiral shaped catheter and generator combination that uses targeted radiofrequency energy to destroy select nerves.”
THE FIRST HALF OF DAVE FREER’S PROMETHEUS AWARD SPEECH: “A rebel I became…” Dave Freer’s 2023 Best Novel acceptance speech for Cloud-Castles. [VIDEO]
THROUGH. THEY FELL THROUGH THE SKY: Large ice chunk falls from sky, damages Massachusetts home.
Okay, fine. It fell from the sky, where the goddess of global warming was storing it in an airplane, which she uses for making carbon and increasing her horribleness. There. Art thou happy? There is the prefered explanation of lefties everywhere. Oh oops. The goddess of climate change. How heathenish of me.
PARTY LEADERS NEED THEIR DACHAS! Biden, Hunter vacation at billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer’s $18M Lake Tahoe mansion.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT, BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS ARE PURE: AOC, ‘squad’ spent $1.2M in campaign cash on private security despite calls to defund the police.
Also, know your place, peasant. You’re supposed to suffer crime and poverty, while the komissars relax in security and wealth.
YOUR OPINION IS NOT BASED ON THE TRUTH. EVERYONE, INCLUDING LEGISLATORS, HAVE LIED TO YOU: The Vexed Question Of Student Loans.
To put it bluntly: you’re being manipulated into taking a position that helps no one, but allows the left to farm their slaves for votes, while never freeing them. Bah.
THE WOKE RELIGION COLLECTS HUMAN SACRIFICE: Hawaii official concerned with ‘equity’ delayed releasing water for more than 5 hours as wildfires raged: report.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT: James Lindsay: The Real Strategy Behind the Trump Indictments. (VIDEO).
BUCKING FOR DEMOTION: Border Patrol Makes Major Drug Seizures, Halts Human Smuggling in 24-Hour Period.
PROOF SHE SHOULD GROWS DAILY: Doctor Sues Medical Board Over Long-Term License Suspension for Prescribing Ivermectin.
I WOULD SAY THIS WAS BY DESIGN, BUT I DON’T THINK THEY’RE THAT SMART: Growing Concern Vaccine Heart Damage in Adolescents May be Permanent. (Note I have absolutely no idea which Epoch Times articles are paywalled. I have a subscription.)
OH, BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: Chinese Economy a ‘Dead Man Walking’? Strategist Weighs In on Property Crisis. (VIDEO.)
It never was what it claimed to be. Because, you know, totalitarians lie, something our “smart” “elites” don’t seem to grasp. But then the complete idiots thought taking out their main customers would make them stronger and richer. Something only a Marxist could believe. The result was unavoidable.
CHINA IS DONE. IT MIGHT BE SLOWER THAN IT SHOULD, BUT CHINA IS DONE: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Great China-American Abyss.
However, yes, we thought we could trade with China and seduce them to freedom. This doesn’t seem to work. I don’t think we can engage in partnership with the unfree and remain uncorrupted.
THERE IS NO BIDENOMICS; THERE IS ONLY RUIN AND MARXIST PREACHING: How Bidenomics Paralyzed the Housing Market With Worst Mortgage Mess in 20 Years.
COME ON. THEY JUST MISSPELLED “FRAUDED”: CBS News Makes a Hilarious Error on This Report About Joe Biden.
August 19, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Aren’t you glad you’re here with me, and not drinking in some honky tonk bar?
SOCIALISM HURTS. SO DOES THE TRUTH: The Mississippi Question is real, spectacular — and the UK is losing. “It was nine years ago when Fraser Nelson, the editor of The Spectator, first suggested that the U.K. was poorer than any U.S. state but Mississippi. This came as an uncomfortable shock for many in Britain for whom Mississippi, as a byword for backwardness, conjures up clichés about the Deep South. Every time anyone has made the comparison since, there has been an indignant outburst from Britons keen to denounce the data.”
REPUBLICANS POUNCE: Ali’s tweet below is what happens when you believe, or at least pretend to believe, your own “intersectional” bullshit that requires you to think that all groups the left defines as oppressed are naturally allies.
It’s an updated, but even more ridiculous, version of the old Marxist belief that all workers naturally have solidarity with each other. Thus, for example, if American unions were excluding black workers, and black workers in turn eagerly served as strikebreakers, it was not because of racism or enmity but because they were being manipulated by capitalists. Believe it or not, this was, and maybe still is, the standard explanation for racist union policies in the labor history literature.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Two Moon Landers Will Touch Down Next Week.
READER FAVORITE: Carhartt Men’s Relaxed Fit Heavyweight Short-Sleeve Pocket T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)
A VICTORY FOR THE MOB: Law Prof Jody Freeman Resigns From ConocoPhillips Board After Activist Environmental Group Pressured Harvard To Fire Her.
The left: We need more women in high positions of academia and business!!
Also the left: Fire that woman!