Not Anti Vax -- Anti Mandate

There are lots of good reasons to be vaccinated against COVID-19. And lots of reasons not to. I'm a 65 year old overweight diabetic. I decided it was probably a good idea to get vaccinated, even though I had heard, and still hear of problems people are having with the vaccine. My risk assessment came out slightly in favor of vaccination. But not all people have the same risks, or the same risk assessment, and they should not have to lose their jobs or their ability to buy groceries simply because some bureaucrat made a decision. 

We are not subjects, we are citizens. Sovereign individuals. We didn't invent this Republican form of government to manage us. It was supposed to help us. It was supposed to do our bidding; not the reverse. 

Many immunologists believe that natural immunity is better than synthetic immunity. Many immunologists believe that these vaccines are 'leaky', meaning that it trains our immune systems to fight off the weaker strains, but actually permits the stronger strains to persist, making the immunized into walking gain-of-function laboratories.

Many citizens believe that we have gotten insufficient information about the nature and makeup of these vaccines. Case in point: I just started on a new diabetes medicine. It starts with a very low dose, even below therapeutic levels, in order to determine if the patient will have a negative reaction to the drug before he begins taking a larger dose. Here is the information that comes with a drug that I take orally:

Side A - Rybelsus Information Leaflet

Side B - Rybelsus Information Leaflet

That's two large sheets printed in fly-speck font. For scale, the patterns on the bedspread are about 1 foot square. How much do you want to bet that the FDA was partly responsible for the large amount of information that Novo Nordisk must provide with their product?

Now here's a photo of the drug information leaflet that came with my COVID-19 shots:

Pfizer COVID-19 Information Leaflet

Why don't we get the same level of information about a drug that will be injected directly into our sovereign bodies, to tweak our immune systems? People deserve to know. The idea that government has the authority to mandate the introduction of foreign materials directly into our flesh ought to offend the hell out of you.

These People Ought to be Ashamed of Themselves

Journalists and research grant grubbers set the wrong expectations.

The Trouble With Communism

'Capitalism' was a word coined by Karl Marx as a term of derision for free market economies. Knowing this, I refuse to call it capitalism anymore. But I digress. Jordan Peterson explains the fundamental errors in the Communist Manifesto. 

This must have been part of a symposium about forms of government, or political systems. There are two other panel members with very dour looks on their faces, which leads me to believe that they are from a different school of thought from our friend JP.

Mother, Should I Trust the Government?

Back when Pink Floyd was touring with The Wall, the answer to that question by audiences worldwide was a resounding, "no!" What changed? We have been played. The media don't tell the truth. Social media outlets suppress the truth, and censor anyone who raises the 'wrong' questions. This video will probably be taken down. If it is, I will try to replace it somehow. But you can't even trust private enterprise anymore. Maybe it's Stockhom syndrome. But we are being played. Yes, Karen, this is why I don't believe you.

Mother | Pink Floyd

Yo, Karen: This Isn't Rocket Science

You have a 10% chance of contracting a disease with a 99.98% survival rate. But hey...

If masks work, then wear one. Protect yourself. It doesn't matter what I do. If masks don't work, it doesn't matter what any of us do.

If vaccines work, then take the vaccine. Protect yourself. It doesn't matter what I do. If vaccines don't work, it doesn't matter what any of us do. 

But let's get real: if you play music in the new, improved Afghanistan, you face a 100% chance of a bullet through the head. Mask or no mask. 

Worth Watching: Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Zo Rachel | Right Angle Lightning Round

Just when you think they couldn't pack any more wisdom into one video, they do another Lightning Round.

I tagged this post with Kakistocrat of the Year, because I'm pretty sure Uncle Joe is gonna be the one.

All Hail Diversity, Except for Intellectual Diversity

Censorship, cancel culture, mask mandates, vaccination mandates, oppression and arrogance.

 

To Prevent Their Kids From Being Socially Awkward And Weird, More Parents Opting To Homeschool

Click the pic to go to Babylon Bee...

To Prevent Their Kids From Being Socially Awkward And Weird, More Parents Opting To Homeschool

I'm a Walking, Leaky Gain-of-Function Laboratory

As a 65 year old overweight diabetic, I figured I should probably be vaccinated. I've had no noticeable negative effects so far, save for a mildly sore injection site for a day or so. And for a few weeks there, I was able to waltz into any business establishment without a mask, and say, "Yo, I'm fully immunized! I can't hurt you risk-averse cootie-phobes!" 

But then Emperor Inslee dropped the hammer again, and I have to wear a mask anyway. So no more practical advantage to being vaccinated. 

And now, we're finding out that the vaccine is 'leaky', i.e., it doesn't train our border guards to kill or fend off every invader. So the stronger variants escape, creating an even more powerful mutant. I just realized I'm actually a walking gain-of-function laboratory. Swell done, idjits!

I've Got a Hankering for Some Frog Music!

I was a freshman in high school in 1970 when this song hit the airwaves. It became an instant classic, and I still love to hear it. Three Dog Night were a powerhouse back then, and they put today's boy bands to shame. It's great to see Chuck talk about this song.

We went to see Three Dog Night in concert in Boise back in the 1980s. They played all their hits, and ended the concert. No Joy to the World. Of course, they got a standing ovation that wouldn't quit, and when they finally came back out on stage, Chuck stepped up to the microphone and said, "I've got a hankering for some frog music! Pandemonium. Here you go...

I Don't Know Whether to Cry or Puke

Kakistocracy: Government by the worst or least qualified people. 'Nuff said.

A catastrophe so bad that not even CNN could cover it up.

Let's see how long YouTube leaves these videos up.

Well... I'm Boned...

Sharyl Atkisson

I took the Pfizer COVID vaccine, not because I was mandated to, or because I believe the busybody
illiberal control freaks, but because I'm a 65 year old overweight diabetic. 

Now this: (STUDY) Why so many vaccinated people are getting sick: Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE). 

And of course, if the illiberal control freaks ever find out the vaccines are worse than the disease, we'll be right back to face diapers and lockdown city, for all the good that does. I think this is already happening in the People's Republic of California. 

The linked article is by Sharyl Atkisson, whom I trust explicitly and implicitly. She is one of the few true reporters left in the world. Fearless, objective and honest. 

Hey Busybody Control Freaks!

• If the vaccines work, and it fits your risk profile, then get vaccinated. What I do should have no effect on you. Live and let live.
• If the vaccines don't work, then what you or I do won't matter. So let me make my own decisions. Live and let die. 
• The same goes for masks. The same goes for lockdowns. If going out doesn't fit your risk profile, then stay home. 
• If you're afraid of me, then you're at liberty to stand six feet away, if it makes you feel better.

If Authoritarians Taught Self Help!

 This is hilarious. J.P. Sears is a most unlikely Classical Liberal. 

Follow the 'Science' and Shut Up

"Follow the science" has become a mantra by the left to impose their religion on us poor, poor, pitiful, unsuspecting, non-scientific Classical Liberals. Trouble is, science is a process, not a religion. Science is based on evidence and skepticism, not non-falsifiable conjecture. Honest, educated, smart people know this.

Conversation is futile. The left considers free speech a violent attack on the oppressed.
Are they saying the oppressed aren't smart enough to deal with intellectual diversity?

"Religion is a culture of faith. Science is a culture of doubt." -- Richard Feynman

The left obviously do not understand this. They mistake science for religion. 

We Have a New Racism Crisis in This Country

Sorry, but it's coming from the left. Stop sorting people by color. Just stop it.

How About a Nice Philosophical Discussion, Shall We? Let's Shall!

 Andrew Klavan and Jordan Peterson. Two of my favorite talkers. 

Bill Whittle Identifies the Problem, and the Solution | Must Watch

I have watched in horror over the past 50 years, but especially in the last ten or so, as our freedoms are simply swept away with impunity and arrogance. Bill Whittle lays it out as clearly as anyone I've ever seen. And the good news is, he has a solution. Watch & learn.

 

 So the video was taken down eh? Okay, YouTube, I'll try and find it elsewhere.

Try this... It's even bigger, longer, and uncut...

 

If that doesn't work, go here instead...

Property Rights No Longer Exist -- In the United States?!

Illegitimate means illegal. Against the law. Nobody in charge cares, and nobody who cares has the power to do anything about it. This is the most frightening time in my entire life. I have never seen anything like it. 

We. Are. Being. Played.

The truth is not allowed. You will be censored, censured, or arrested if you speak the truth.

 

The truth is out there. I want to believe.

You Decide Who the Kakistocrats Are

Democrat Washington State legislators have bound law enforcement for practically anything. The losers are the law-abiding citizens and property rights. 

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. I hope we come to our senses in the next election, but I'm not holding my breath.

Here's what they're doing in the People's Republic of California. Oh, and Washington State:

We Were Being Played

 Trust your instincts.

Follow the Money (and the Dogma)

Don't Tell Me What I'm Offended By

 

Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

 I have some observations about slavery. Humans throughout history have been enslaved, even by their own culture and race. It was only in the colonial era, seemingly, that slavery has taken on racial overtones. I think this is for a few reasons.

1. The southern regions of what is now the United States, or the southern colonies, was rife with malaria. Africans had a natural immunity to malaria, having evolved and adapted to malaria in Africa. Therefore, black farm workers were less likely to be taken down by malaria. Southern plantation owners sought out these more reliable farm workers. Since slavery was still generally accepted in the world at that time, they bought African slaves. I'm not saying it's okay, just that it was. Today, they might hire African farm workers, which I believe would still be considered acceptable today.
2. Once Negro slavery became the common form of slavery in North America, we suddenly had a natural way to distinguish freemen from slaves. The skin color and other racial properties became a sort of uniform. Again, I'm not saying it's okay, but it was the case. In the industrial north, of course, black people were not assumed to be slaves, although they might be considered fugitives. That's not a given, however. 

This excerpt from Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell describes some of the pertinent issues.

I Get on My Knees and Pray, We Won't Get Fooled Again

Most of you regular readers know that my mantra for 2020 was, 'we are being played'. We were hoodwinked, lied to, kept in a state of fear and oppression. Things weren't adding up. What I was being told didn't match up with my own lying eyes. I only hope we're older and wiser now, and next time, we'll be ready for the liars.

Meet the new boss... Same as the old boss... Play it loud!

Gain of Function Research Ought to be Criminalized

I have never been an advocate of over-criminalization of much of anything. I'm a limited government proponent. My default response to any problem is, 'can we solve this problem with more freedom, instead of less?' We should always at least ask the question. I think this is one of the rare instances where I think the answer is 'no'. 

It seems to me that if the government has any role in this SARS COV-2 goat rodeo, it should be not just a pause in government sponsored viral gain of function research (holy crap, I'm paying for that?), it should be to ban outright, with the same moral indignation as global warming prohibitions, any gain of function research whatsoever. It isn't a matter of if it will get loose, it's when. That is unacceptable. I think the good doctor bears some direct responsibility for the COVID pandemic in the first place, and again with his malpractice in the handling of it. 

In the video from my previous post, it is pointed out that gain of function research can be used for the monetary gain of actors such as Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, which ought to be a conflict of interest, but worse than that, for state-sponsored biological warfare development. We ought to have treaties outright banning this kind of work. 

 

OMG Were We Played

I have said repeatedly throughout the last year, that "we are being played". Things just didn't add up. But how much we were being played is only now becoming evident. Holy crap, follow the money. The evil is palpable. Someone is going to kill this man. He knows too much. 

This is a long video, but you simply must watch this to understand what is going on all around us.

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

 

Washington State Income Tax Begins January 1, 2022

My employer announced that it is required to begin withholding Washington State income tax from my paycheck on January 1, 2022. I learned this for the first time from my employer, not the mainstream media. Huh. 

I didn't vote for this. Did you? One of the reasons I moved to this state in 1986 is because there was no income tax. I suppose my residence here is no net positive for Olympia, but I digress.

It's for some kind of long term care insurance policy, like Social Security, which I already resent not having the freedom to invest and plan for myself. I'll be retired before I'll be eligible to collect anything, so basically I'm just paying in. There's no benefit for me at all. What's more, they're already saying this program is underfunded, so look out. Federal income tax and Social Security started out low too. 

The state thinks all my earning are belong to them. I think we need to make a big deal out of this. 

Washington State’s New Long-Term Care Payroll Tax Begins 1-1-2022: What You Need to Know

Nothing Would Surprise Me Anymore

They played us for a year in 2020; The state of fear is the new state of the state. Something better give, and soon. But the one thing I fear is that it won't. 

Reality... What a Concept

 

Oh. My. God.

 When are people going to come to their senses?

Does Government Lie to Us? Oh Yes...

 Just watch it. I have nothing to add here.

Important Principles to Reflect on For Independence Day

Read this first: What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant, by Randy E. Barnett.

This should be required reading for all Republicans and by all school children. Mr. Barnett comments on the text of the Declaration of Independence, which we supposedly celebrate on Independence Day. Maybe. Here's the preamble, in case you forgot:

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

 

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off

I'm afraid we're going to have to let this burn. It will set feminism back 50 years. Transgenderism is one of the few disabilities we're not allowed to treat rationally. I feel sad for the victims. Indulgence is not compassion.

 

It Isn't Big Government, It's a Runaway Train

 No one is accountable. No one is responsible.It's all fourth quadrant spending. It works like this:

1. Spend on myself. I care about cost and quality.
2. Spend someone else's money on someone else: I minimize cost. Quality doesn't matter.
3. Spend someone else's money on me: I don't care about cost, only quality.
4. Spend someone else's money on someone else: I don't care about cost or quality.

CRT is a Logical Regression From Which There Is No Escape

 

Stop It With the Fear Mongering!

This isn't the first heatwave we've had, and it won't be the last. The climate has always been changing. Give me a falsifiable hypothesis. The dire predictions we've had so far have been stunningly inaccurate. At some point, it's time to admit that the whole theory was bunk.

‘Jaw-dropping’ forecast is warning sign of climate change’s future impact in Washington, scientists say, says the Seattle Times. There's no excuse for this kind of political propaganda. 

Update: okay, it got up to 102.6 today, according to my weather station. I think that's hotter than I remember it ever getting around here. But that doesn't mean there's a causal link between that and human fossil fuel consumption.

Stop Sorting People by Race!

 Classical Liberalism is the only answer. 

She is really good.

California the Basket Case

 Larry Elder would make a great governor for California.

Falling into the sea would be an improvement, but so would Larry. What are people thinking?

Science Abuse

 As a lifelong student of science, it pains me to see what is happening to science.

I am frequently accused of 'politicizing science'. Nope, the science was politicized when I got here. I'm trying to fix the problem.

Bill Whittle Restarts the Firewall

 Disproportionate fear, and we were being played. Explained in one easy video, which I payed to help produce. 

We Were Being Played

 All through 2020, I kept repeating, "We are being played". Things just didn't add up. Well, the truth is gradually oozing out of the lower intestines of the news media.