tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267182671562399932024-02-07T16:04:46.409-06:00Apolloswabbie"The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave." Alexis de ToquevilleApolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.comBlogger2249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-61722555067444796252022-09-05T07:55:00.001-05:002022-09-05T07:55:17.706-05:00Old News, Brandon Is Dirty<p> <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/04/fbi-agent-timothy-thibault-hid-intel-from-whistleblower-on-hunter-the-big-guy-joe-biden/">https://nypost.com/2022/09/04/fbi-agent-timothy-thibault-hid-intel-from-whistleblower-on-hunter-the-big-guy-joe-biden/</a></p><p>How the FBI gets in the middle of these things is it’s own puzzle - why do all presidential candidates these days have to be so damned dirty …</p><p>One should never be so naive as to trust government, but I notice that I do anyway, and therefore find it disconcerting when it becomes clear how rotten all of these powerful institutions are …</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-45957042147480172032022-02-27T15:46:00.000-06:002022-02-27T15:46:02.147-06:00Stating what was obvious about mask and mask studies …<p> Masks served the political need to “do something”, and they ended up being a way for us to wear our fear on our faces - implied shared suffering. A symbol of our grief at the change COVID gave us. But there was never a reason to think they would help stop an virus that spread via aerosol. </p><p>As others have observed, the real injury will be when the CDC that has proven to be a political toy has to try to intervene if we see something even more nasty than COVID. </p><p><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">It wasn’t only Dr. Fauci. Miller subjects the CDC and its claims about masking to strict scrutiny and finds them wanting. The amount of cherry-picked data and flawed methodologies embraced in CDC studies of masking is astounding. None of the 15 studies the CDC used </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(182,35,40,var(--tw-text-opacity)); cursor: pointer; font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(182,35,40,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">to justify</span></a><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;"> its claims that masks work are randomized controlled studies, considered the standard for such research. Worse, when randomized controlled studies that were conducted during the pandemic did not bolster the CDC’s masking message, they were downplayed or ignored.</span></p><p><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/hubris-exposed/">https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/hubris-exposed/</a></span></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-87826142506396638992022-02-20T16:20:00.003-06:002022-02-20T16:20:12.355-06:00No Mandate, No Factor<p>They discuss conjectures about why lifting the mandate did not result in the catastrophe that the mask manic predicted. My speculation is that no one changed their behavior, which is to say, the mandate didn’t result in the mass masking everyone pretended would happen based on government edict. The 2nd reason is that, excepting N95/KN95 masks, the aerosol spread of COVID isn’t hindered by masks. </p><p>See/listen here for more on that: <a href="https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/">https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/</a></p><p>From the Atlantic:<a href="https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/"><br /></a>“In early march, Texas became the first state to abolish its mask mandate and lift capacity constraints for all businesses. Conservatives hailed Governor Greg Abbott’s decision, while liberals predicted <a href="http://l-sure-looks-politically-convenient-102008389835/">doom and death</a> and President Joe Biden<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/predictions-media-politicians-texas-mask-mandate"> disparaged it as</a> “Neanderthal thinking.”</p><br />“Nine weeks later, the result seems to be less than catastrophic. In fact, in a<a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28804/w28804.pdf">new paper</a>, economists at Bentley University and San Diego State University found that Abbott’s order had practically no effect on COVID-19 cases. “The predictions of reopening advocates and opponents failed to materialize,” the authors concluded.”<div><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/texas-mask-mandate-no-effect/618942/?utm_source=msn">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/texas-mask-mandate-no-effect/618942/?utm_source=msn</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-86958351301842572752022-02-20T08:03:00.005-06:002022-02-20T08:03:39.911-06:00Perspective on Masking, Mandates<p> </p><p>Cloth and surgical masks don’t help to stop aerosol transmission - N95 and KN95s might if they’re worn properly. So, it’s time to let go of the “mask to save someone from your breathing” peer pressure. Wear the right mask if you think you need it. </p><p>And … there are several angles on why these articles can be published now, when the information has been around for months. One is the political party that made hay via mask mania tribalism realizes the fun is over, folks have had enough of the religion of masking to save your mortal soul. So they have to find a graceful way to step back from their past mask madness. </p><p><a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/did-mask-mandates-work-the-data-is-in-and-the-answer-is-no">https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/did-mask-mandates-work-the-data-is-in-and-the-answer-is-no</a></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-52482804034011460322022-02-19T08:41:00.004-06:002022-02-19T08:41:47.936-06:00More Warming - Please?<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> There’s always good with the bad, this is one possible example:</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“The biggest benefit of emissions is global greening, the </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12257-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2e42; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.3s, border-color 0.3s, color 0.3s, opacity 0.3s;" target="_blank">increase year after year of green vegetation</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> on the land surface of the planet. Forests grow more thickly, grasslands more richly and scrub more rapidly. This has been measured using satellites and on-the-ground recording of plant-growth rates. It is happening in all habitats, from tundra to rainforest. In the four decades since 1982, as Bjorn Lomborg </span><a href="https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1490347483007963138/photo/1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c92121; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.3s, border-color 0.3s, color 0.3s, opacity 0.3s;" target="_blank">points out</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">, NASA data show that global greening has added 618,000 square kilometres of extra green leaves each year, equivalent to three Great Britains. You read that right: every year there’s more greenery on the planet to the extent of three Britains. </span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/15/why-global-warming-is-good-for-us/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/15/why-global-warming-is-good-for-us/</span></a></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-15002414478988395562022-02-16T15:41:00.004-06:002022-02-16T15:41:36.344-06:00Effective Propaganda<p> <a href="https://tv.gab.com/media/6168180dec0359aa6add4560?viewKey=8d83b2a2-2d72-4a1b-9f55-e418ecbb58af&r=1080p">https://tv.gab.com/media/6168180dec0359aa6add4560?viewKey=8d83b2a2-2d72-4a1b-9f55-e418ecbb58af&r=1080p</a></p><p>Fantastic slide show! Effective indeed. </p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-40895410908657430502022-02-13T15:43:00.003-06:002022-02-13T15:43:16.052-06:00Government Defends Itself<p> <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(22, 22, 22, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Studies acknowledged by FDA officials show that the FDA’s various safety databases only collect an estimated </span><a href="https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-support-public-health-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(22, 22, 22, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e12d00; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease;">1 to 13 percent of all adverse events</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(22, 22, 22, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">that occur. Multiple FDA drug safety epidemiologists have stated during official FDA presentation that it only takes a </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220108173328/https:/www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjPs8CC16L1AhUVkWoFHQl3AOYQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fda.gov%2Fmedia%2F89003%2Fdownload&usg=AOvVaw0TzIOlqPb8ukr5K1BQVS5q" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(22, 22, 22, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e12d00; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease;">single well-documented adverse event to justify a safety signal</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(22, 22, 22, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> investigation and in turn to warn the American public of the potential risk.</span></p><p><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/former-senior-fda-official-manufacturers-fda-negligent-in-not-investigating-covid-19-vaccine-risks-to-heart-health/">https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/former-senior-fda-official-manufacturers-fda-negligent-in-not-investigating-covid-19-vaccine-risks-to-heart-health/</a></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-11206783478880075562022-02-06T16:51:00.001-06:002022-02-06T16:51:01.596-06:00Free the Kids - of Nutty Mask Mandates<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: CJ-PalatinoLT, PalatinoLT, serif; font-size: 18px;">“There’s an extraordinary difference—even greater than widely recognized—between Covid-19’s effects on kids and its effects on adults, as fatality numbers show. Far from regarding this important fact as a godsend for the upcoming generation, however, many policymakers have treated it as an irrelevancy. At the same time, they have ignored that children living in mask-mandate states have had essentially identical Covid fatality rates as kids living in mask-free states.“</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/school-mask-mandates-are-unnecessary">https://www.city-journal.org/school-mask-mandates-are-unnecessary</a></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-30425969575692712982021-06-22T19:17:00.007-05:002021-06-22T19:17:54.729-05:00He Was Right about China<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Domine, serif; font-size: 16px;">Denounced by Democrats and the media as a racist for blaming China for COVID-19, Trump feels vindicated as evidence emerges suggesting that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese virology lab in Wuhan. But he believes it was unintentional, likely a product of “gross incompetence.” What was intentional, in Trump’s mind, was the decision by Chinese leaders to allow its citizens to travel globally, which spread the pandemic. Trump has </span><a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-transcript-at-north-carolina-gop-convention-dinner-june-5" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: Domine, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">called</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Domine, serif; font-size: 16px;"> for countries to cancel their debts to China as part of a down payment on a future reparations plan that he suggests ought to total some $10 trillion.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Domine, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/06/17/investigative_issues_an_interview_with_donald_trump_unbowed_781711.html</div>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-26174017660641182062021-04-29T19:55:00.001-05:002021-04-29T19:55:00.250-05:00Reading, Understanding<p> "A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anit-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx." President Ronald Reagan</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-55738435943624103272021-04-28T19:54:00.003-05:002021-04-28T19:54:49.913-05:00Where Socialism Works<p> "Socialism only works in two places. Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." President Ronald Reagan</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-51114092228462211222021-04-28T19:51:00.002-05:002021-04-29T16:17:19.378-05:00Science? What about passion and strongly held belief? <i><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is a sad irony that the teaching of science in American schools is so unscientific. In a more rational world, children would learn about nature and a mode of inquiry—the scientific method—that would awaken them to the awe, fascination, and surprise that the universe should inspire. Instead, the chronic problems afflicting K–12 education and the growing politicization of science have pushed us ever further from that ideal.<br /><br />Science has been misused and poorly taught for centuries. </span></i><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.city-journal.org/k-12-science-curriculum-environment</span></p><p>Now we teach passion and strongly held belief and call it "climate science". There is, of course, real climate science and hopefully those engaged in it will eventually start calling out those who use strongly held belief wrapped in the sheep skin of science.</p><p><br /></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-91487180931351757572021-04-28T19:49:00.003-05:002021-04-28T19:49:25.048-05:00The new version of speaking truth to power ....<p> Whatever you do, don't dare to speak the truth about tragic events.</p>"We will never hear the last of these names. Eric Garner. Alton Sterling. Michael Brown. George Floyd. Rashad Brooks.<br /><br />"And now Daunte Wright.<br /><br />"We will never hear the last of them because there will always be more. And because certain people are invested in forcing us to hear about them.<br /><br />But what they demand we hear isn’t the truth.<br /><br /><br />"Is it a tragedy that Daunte Wright is dead? Of course it is. Should he have been shot dead on Sunday by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer? Why, no, he shouldn’t have been."<p>https://spectator.org/daunte-wright-shooting/</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-68837614402420151762021-04-28T19:46:00.001-05:002021-04-28T19:46:31.846-05:00Worried about inflation? Just spend more!<p>I don't have any idea what to say about the so-called president's ideas. Maybe he's "crazy like a fox", but I doubt it. Who knows how many cronies you can pay off with a 6 trillion dollar spending spree.</p>"On the menu today: No, really, you can’t keep track of the Biden administration’s trillion-dollar spending bills without a scorecard — and this administration appears to be whistling past the graveyard on the threat of inflation; there’s some easily overlooked good news on COVID-19 over the past two weeks; another police controversy, this time in California’s Bay area; and looking ahead to Thursday night’s NFL Draft."<p>https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/bidens-trillion-dollar-train-wreck/</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-76533888301654124782021-04-26T21:25:00.003-05:002021-04-26T21:25:49.445-05:00AGW Alarmism as Obvious as Ever<p> What the science can determine versus what the Alarmists say - it’s just stupid. People make claims in the name of science that science cannot possibly have determined. </p><p>Science is conjecture, attempt to disprove, reassess or refine conjecture, attempt to disprove. If unable to disprove, conjecture may become hypothesis. </p><p>Alarmism is pure conjecture, strongly held belief. In other words, some weak assed shit.</p><p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-media-vs-climate-science-11618355224?mod=djemalertNEWS">https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-media-vs-climate-science-11618355224?mod=djemalertNEWS</a></p><p>Deming reportedly said “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us, it is what we know that isn’t so.”</p><p><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/obama-admin-scientist-says-climate-emergency-is-based-on-fallacy/">https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/obama-admin-scientist-says-climate-emergency-is-based-on-fallacy/</a></p><p>Who will you believe, your lying eyes or the climate alarmists?</p><p><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/23/how-global-warming-isnt/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/23/how-global-warming-isnt/</a></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-66694277434827750792021-04-01T19:48:00.007-05:002021-04-01T19:48:50.697-05:00Do you believe in cooperation or coercion? It's that simple<p>"I won’t quibble over the word “free,” for my interlocutor didn’t mean these benisons of modern society cost nothing but that the cost isn’t borne by the user in the form of fees. He knows full well that we pay for them with taxes and borrowing. And it can be conceded that they’d provide strong if not necessarily compelling grounds to support socialism if it deserved credit for them.<br /><br />"But does it? Does our impulse to help others start with a socialist impulse or any ideology? Or is the truth entirely different?" <br /><br />https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-selfishness-at-the-heart-of-socialism</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-39251302926788224872021-03-14T17:05:00.005-05:002021-03-14T17:05:32.275-05:00A Stinking Pile of Silly BSPresident Biden has not backed down from his <a href="https://fee.org/articles/3-glaring-problems-with-joe-biden-s-new-multi-trillion-covid-package/">$1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending proposal</a>, and House Democrats are <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/highlights-covid-19-relief-bill-progressing-house-75927734">pushing full steam ahead</a> on making his vision a legislative reality. But a top budget watchdog just warned that the budget-busting legislation, which costs roughly <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=1.9%20trillion%20divided%20by%20143.3%20million&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=1.9%20trillion%20divided%20by%20143.3%20million&sc=2-37&sk=&cvid=27955C32743D47DA88D1EF6CA681F86C">$13,260</a> per federal taxpayer, is full of spending that has nothing to do with the pandemic.<br /><br />“Only about 1 percent of the entire package goes toward COVID vaccines, and 5 percent is truly focused on public health needs surrounding the pandemic,” the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) <a href="http://www.crfb.org/press-releases/covid-relief-bill-losing-focus">warned</a> on Wednesday.<br /><br />“Meanwhile, nearly half of the package will be spent on poorly targeted rebate checks and state and local government aid, including to households and governments that have experienced little or no financial loss during this crisis,” the report continues.<div><br /></div><div>https://fee.org/articles/new-covid-legislation-contains-300-billion-in-unrelated-spending-budget-watchdog-warns/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020_FEEWeekly</div>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-87194762625066699092021-03-14T17:00:00.001-05:002021-03-14T17:00:07.919-05:00"It seems like as soon as something appears in a newspaper it ceases to be true ..." T-bone Burnett<div>Applies equally well 30 years later to the MSM. </div><div><br /></div><i>Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans for a 9/11-style commission to “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex.” Will that investigation include the media’s role in peddling flagrant falsehoods about what actually happened that day?<br /><br />Look up any story about the storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, and you will find it described as a “deadly riot” that killed five people.<br /><br />Worse still, one of the deaths was that a police officer who – the story goes – was killed by rioters after getting hit in the head by a fire extinguisher.<br /><br />Then there is the story of the protestor who “carried Zip Ties into the Capitol,” which led to accusations that the protestors intended to take hostages.<br /><br />There have also been endless media descriptions of the event as an “armed insurrection.” </i><div>https://issuesinsights.com/2021/02/19/exposed-the-media-has-been-lying-about-the-capitol-protests/</div>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-18748184803186163032021-03-14T16:53:00.000-05:002021-03-14T16:53:02.747-05:00Tamny Sends Off Rush<p> I can remember hearing Rush as far back as 1990 when I was in flight training in Corpus Christi, TX. He was already re-married and went through his first round of weight loss by 1991 when I had completed flight training and was learning to fly and fight a P-3C Orion in Jacksonville, FL. I was grateful to him for his ability to fight the absurdity of political correctness with logic. Ups and downs, joys and sorrows, trials and triumphs; Rush was fully human and therefore, fully imperfect. He was mostly in service of himself but he accidentally struck mighty blows for human liberty and I'm grateful for that, too. </p><p>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/02/19/remembering_the_great_rush_limbaugh_660896.html</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-8162328153778571752021-03-11T19:41:00.004-06:002021-03-11T19:41:33.592-06:00Forget Due Process, We Want Justice!<i>It’s always worth reminding people that if President Joe Biden were compelled to live by the standards he intends to institute for college students accused of sexual misconduct, he would be presumed guilty of rape, denied any legitimate opportunity to refute <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/the-hypocrisy-on-tara-reade-is-a-national-disgrace/">Tara Reade’s charges</a>, and tossed from office in disgrace.</i><p>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/biden-prepares-to-strip-college-students-of-due-process-rights/</p><p>Oh, so funny, that doesn't happen to the Bidens! C'mon man ...</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-76162123749355491042021-03-11T19:25:00.005-06:002021-03-11T19:25:27.784-06:00Buying Influence<i>Other outlets involved in the propaganda operation include Forbes, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC News, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, AFP, TIME magazine, LA Times, The Hill, BBC, and The Atlantic.</i><p><br /></p><p>https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/media-private-ccp-dinners-trips/ </p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-61655523489482337602021-03-11T19:24:00.001-06:002021-03-11T19:24:09.251-06:00About That Socialist Thing<i>My great-grandfather wasn’t a wealthy man, but he was relatively well-to-do by the standard of his time. He lived in a small village on the east coast of China where everyone was related to everyone else. In an old photo, he looked handsome and scholarly. He hoped one day to become a government official. Unfortunately, the imperial court ceased to exist when rebels forced the last Qing emperor to abdicate in 1912. With no court to serve, he became a wheat farmer. </i><p>https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-socialism-meant-for-my-great-grandfather-11562526670?shareToken=st8a60527b976d400384c94f7871464814</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-75028522528759588752021-02-27T10:48:00.002-06:002021-02-27T10:48:11.740-06:00Solution? Economic Growth Tamny always cuts through the crud:<br /><br /><i> What used to end careers in basketball no longer necessarily does.<br /><br />Notable about this is that all manner of maladies not related to sports used to amount to death sentences. As this column routinely makes plain, pneumonia used to be “Captain of Man’s Death” per the late surgeon and author, Lawrence D. Dorr. Tuberculosis was a quick life ender too. So was yellow fever. Cancer was a certain killer, but then most didn’t live long enough for some form of cancer to get them. See what used to bring on mortality first.<br /><br />So what happened? Economic growth did.</i>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-3088003755915778222021-02-27T10:46:00.002-06:002021-02-27T10:46:23.176-06:00All animals are equal but some are more equal than others ...<p> More animal farm:</p><p><i><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(210, 214, 220); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: "Source Serif Pro"; font-size: 18px;">The media? It is a Ministry of Truth. Informers and readers beg the Great Leader to let drop his favorite flavor of ice cream or the details of the Oval Office makeover. There is no need for censorship: the media </span><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(210, 214, 220); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: "Source Serif Pro"; font-size: 18px;">are </span><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(210, 214, 220); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: "Source Serif Pro"; font-size: 18px;">the censors. Whatever sinister idea a paranoid politician has for muzzling journalists, reporters themselves have already trumped it. </span><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(210, 214, 220); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: "Source Serif Pro"; font-size: 18px;">Pravda</span><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(210, 214, 220); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: "Source Serif Pro"; font-size: 18px;"> is their model. Who can be disinterested when there is a war to be fought for diversity and equity, against climate change and white supremacy?</span></i></p><p>https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/07/our-animal-farm/</p><p><br /></p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726718267156239993.post-58920485482095610412021-02-15T07:46:00.002-06:002021-02-15T07:46:03.181-06:00What if you held a pandemic and no body came?<p> That was stolen from an old anti-war quote, supposed penned by Leslie Parish: "what if they held a war and no one attended?"</p><p>That's Tamny's question. He's more sure of the answer than I am. However, I hope that some of us will remember how much extra damage was done by political over-reaction.</p><p>It is also fascinating to consider, following the yin yang that is inescapable in seemingly all things, that were we poorer and therefore dying younger, as people in this nation were 100 years ago, it is likely that no one would have noticed the virus. </p><p>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/02/04/what_if_the_coronavirus_had_spread_without_diagnosis_659087.html</p>Apolloswabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10048632865194585592noreply@blogger.com0