Thursday, March 6, 2025

Sounds like a good appointment

"Trump Names COVID Contrarian to Head NIH, Restore Faith in Science".

Bhattacharya was one of the primary endorsers of the "Great Barrington Declaration." Signed by nearly a million academics and health professionals, it called out Fauci and the rest of the public health establishment for gravely miscalculating the effects of lockdowns. It warned that closing schools and shuttering factories would produce “devastating effects on short and long-term public health,” including “lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings, and deteriorating mental health.”

Update  This just in, from Doctor Bob "Magic Smoke" Wafula:


"Our profession cannot long survive the proliferation of unskilled poseurs like Bhattacharya, whose juju lacks any credibility whatsoever. He's pouring bad mogambo all over genuine science."

The Democrats are stupid and insane

"Democrats Mock Volleyball Player Who Suffered Brain Damage From Transgender Athlete".

The donks are rapidly casting themselves as the representatives of a giant freak show. The furious attempt to pass the abnormal off as normal, to break down and reconstitute reality, is an act, I am convinced, of diabolism. We may need a cabinet-level exorcist before we are done.

Update  Looks like some Democrats occasionally grasp reality, if only momentarily: "House CENSURES Dem Rep. Al Green for Disrupting President Trump’s Address to Congress with 10 Democrats Voting YES".

The Trump owl

"Rare Orange Snowy Owl Spotted in Michigan".

Interesting observation by Bill Murray

I don't know whether he was half-kidding or completely sincere, but it certainly has the ring of truth.

The video also includes an interview of Nixon from 1983 on the subject of Woodward, Bernstein and the press. Btw, this video is from a YouTube channel operated by the Richard Nixon Foundation. Whatever your views may be on Nixon, I have found the interviews to be invariably interesting and they provide some unique historical insights.


Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Death of an Australian hero

James Harrison, RIP: "Australian Blood, Plasma Donor Who Saved over 2 Million Babies Dies at 88".

Note to the Trump White House

With respect to Supreme Court justices, you're going to need to do a better job of vetting, going forward. "Supreme Court Orders Trump Administration to IMMEDIATELY Unfreeze Foreign Aid Payments With Barrett and Roberts Siding With the Majority -'Stunned' Alito Issues Scathing Dissent".

Amy Conehead Barrett is turning out to be a major disappointment. Roberts always has been. 

Not sure how I contrived to miss this

 

H/T to Gregory at The mind is an unexplored countryand to Mick, who first unearthed it.