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Open thread 3/24/22 — 32 Comments

  1. Is the Biden Administration even considering raising the amount of available acreage , aka “ allotments”, for grain farming this year, since Ukraine and Russia are MAJOR grain producers? We are eating last years crop right now, plus any crop grown in the southern hemisphere. The shortages produced by this war – while they may effect “ futures” pricing now- the ACTUAL shortages will start showing up in a few months, when the normal 2022 North Hemisphere crops would normally be harvested, but will not be there from Ukraine. Who is pressing Biden on seeing what is coming?

  2. Check this out:

    https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/reducing-reliance-on-russia-germany-s-economy-minister-goes-shopping-a-163abc12-f964-4796-ba44-2d86cef2b747

    The Germans are now – belatedly – trying to remove themselves as a customer of Russian natural gas.
    Better late than never I suppose.

    So where are joke bidet , crackling kamala, tony blinkers, et. al.?
    Why are they not in Berlin with US oil / gas executives making emergency deals with W.Europe to have US companies (e.g. US WORKERS ! ) begin supplying ASAP US natural gas, oil, whatever.

    Oh, I forgot, joke bidet did promise (there is a video of this) to shut down US production of oil and gas.

  3. More Covid data manipulation.

    Good news is that NC has now gone to weekly updates. I remind you that Florida did this several months ago, and as of this week has gone to biweekly. I wouldn’t be surprised if GA does so soon.

    Along with large changes in the national data at WoM, Colorado yesterday back filled their data by two weeks for cases. ie, the number of cases from Monday has now shifted backwards by 15 days and the intervening 15 days has completely new numbers. The same thing happened with their deaths numbers but extends all the way back to day zero. I have no idea what the hell they are doing, CYA? Like WoM, email inquiries will probably be met with silence. No mention of the data changes on the CO web site. I never did have a whole lot of confidence in Colorado’s data. Unlike the other states which would have day-to-day consistency, they would often have large changes in both the cases, and particularly in the deaths. For example, deaths would be zero for 3 days, then suddenly record several hundred.

    As the pandemic dwindles away, I suspect there’s going to be even more of this as the truth is going to be covered up. Maybe 50 years from now some epidemiologist will finally discover the real numbers.

  4. Turns out there was a pretty significant reporting error with the number of child deaths: Reported pediatric COVID-19 deaths plummet 24% after CDC fixes ‘coding logic error’.

    Also, driving a nail into the coffin of the so called “Covid Zero” policies that some countries enforced (and arguably lockdowns in general), South Korea is currently getting absolutely slammed with over 500,000(!!!) cases per day after having one of the lowest number of cases per capita up until now.

  5. Nonapod, that makes sense for S Korea. By extreme measures they avoided the virus, until they couldn’t avoid it any more. As the “vaxes” don’t really do anything in terms of preventing infection , it was inevitable they would see this. They are where everyone else was 18 months ago. Hopefully, for their sake, it’s with the less lethal omicron. Lessons hard learned.

  6. “Researchers have determined that baby humans become aware of themselves only after 18 months.”

    It’s obvious they have not studied Kamala Cackling Harris.

  7. The Millennials are such that you’d like to think America’s finally hit bottom.

  8. “Researchers have determined that baby humans become aware of themselves only after 18 months.”

    These are Canadian baby humans. You can bet their PM disapproves of even minimal self-awareness in his subjects.

    Speaking of le petit Justin, his European Grand Tour hasn’t exactly been a triumph: one member after another of the EU Parliament has slammed Turdoo for his authoritarian style, his hypocrisy, and his mistreatment of his own citizens:

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/03/23/roasted-pony/

    One MEP even boycotted Trudeau’s speech: You can’t come and teach democracy lessons to Putin from the European Parliament when you trample with horse hooves your own citizens who are demanding that their fundamental rights be respected. When you, a politician from the “west”, implement in your home methods of repression and the trampling of the rights of your own citizens, who demand their rights be respected, as Putin does at home, you are no better than him [sic]. On the contrary, through the tyranny that you’re implementing you add deceit and hypocrisy, destroying liberty and “western” values. These imposter leaders of today’s west have brought the world into the chaos we find ourselves in today, precisely because they have strayed from the values that made the “west” a free and prosperous world.

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/03/24/i-refused-to-validate-by-my-presence-the-facade-of-the-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau/

  9. The best of the Ukrainian TikTokers is @Xenasolo. She has many live TikToks, answering lots of q’s. Very knowledgeable. She may very well have a future in the international news business if she wants it.

  10. From the “So What?” files…

    Looks like the Democrats “test drove” a fully loaded “COLLUSION” vehicle before proceeding to accuse Trump of doing it.

    …Meaning that Hillary Clinton et al. knew precisely whereof they spoke regarding that Orange-Haired Russian Poodle. (So no, not merely “projection”.)

    “Uranium, oil and technology: How Russia got stronger as Bidens and Clintons got richer;
    “In the years before Moscow invaded Ukraine, Democrats enriched themselves politically and personally from oligarchs and businesses in the region while empowering Vladimir Putin with energy and technology deals.”—
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/thururanium-oil-and-technology-how-russia-got-stronger

    As they continue to lie seamlessly.
    With not a single ounce of shame…
    …as they—hell-bent—drive the nation over a cliff.

  11. “Baby Human”?
    What is this? The Jungle Book?…
    – – – – – – –
    Whatever…the following extraordinary link comes to us direct from the Faculty of Military-Strategic Prophetics at the renowned, if notorious, WTF Military Academy located just outside Moscow…
    (And the funny thing is that NATO is not even mentioned once…. Of course I don’t suppose it has to be(!)…)
    “The Russian who Predicted a Debacle in Ukraine”—
    https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/03/24/the-russian-who-predicted-a-debacle-in-ukraine/

  12. I can recall being only months old. I remember events that occurred when I was five months old and perhaps less. I remember discovering music. Song by many voices in church. Maybe I am an anomaly or perhaps I was just more impressed…

  13. RE: UFOs

    It is pretty clear that UFOs are attracted to and interested in anything nuclear—nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon storage sites, nuclear research facilities, and nuclear powered ships.

    There are also a number of documented instances of UFOs being able to temporarily disable nuclear armed US ICBMs— to take them off “Go” launch status. There are also reports that, in Russia, UFOs have been able to do the opposite, to make Russian ICBMs start their launch sequences.

    As I recently posted, Lou Elizondo usually reveals a little nugget of info during each appearance he makes and today, in an interview with Linda Moulton Howe on her Earthfiles channel, he dropped the information that, sometime in the 1970s, a UFO managed to shut down one of our nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

  14. “…brilliant…”

    Indeed, it has got to be one of the pinnacles of satiric performance.
    Too bad the subject is so macabre, so destructive, so awful…to the point where I feel pretty uncomfortable even laughing at it…and I certainly hope this fellow is in a safe place…

  15. Elfconsul, that’s neat that you can remember back that early. But then, you’re an Elf, after all, and no less an authority than J. R. R. Tolkien always pointed out that Elves are naturally sharper than Men, at least in the beginning.

  16. Elfconsul on March 24, 2022 at 2:08 pm: “I can recall being only months old.”
    I gather having such early memories is really unusual.
    My anecdote is that my earliest memory is from around age 4 years.
    I also have “memories” of a few events from around 8 or 9 years old that I am no longer sure were not really dreams, rather than recalls of real events, since many details of the “memory” are fuzzy or not too logical.

    Wouldn’t we expect to see a normal distribution in the 18 month old’s’ ability to understand their awareness, with a few recognizing this at (say) 15 months or delaying until (say) 20 months, with the majority in the 18 month level. But how many children were used for these tests? Would probably need at least 500 to 1000 for semi-reliable statistics.

    Also, consider that for big brained human babies, being born after “only” 9 months of gestation or they would not pass through the mother’s birth canal, they still require another 9 months of parental support before they have capabilities equivalent (sort of) to a chimpanzee baby at birth. Do we need to subtract those 9 months from the 18 month figure to claim the proper time span for “self awareness”? [And if 80 million people voted for Biden, then those 80 million cannot truly be considered to have self awareness of their better interests.]

  17. @ Barry > “I certainly hope this fellow is in a safe place…”

    According to the comments at the video, Nezorov saw the writing on the wall after the new law was passed making it illegal to refer to the “peacekeeping operation”* as a war, and fled to Israel a couple of days ago.
    “He has been charged with distributing “knowingly false information about the deliberate shelling” by the Russian army of the maternity hospital in Mariupol.”

    *Putin called it something else as well, which I don’t remember exactly, but which reminded me of Obama’s “kinetic military actions” in Libya.

  18. @ Molly Brown > “Child Abuse!”

    LOL – my exact first thought!
    However, a lot of these studies of children would probably be considered torture, by the Democrat definition of the Geneva Convention.

    This was my “favorite” psy-op:
    https://practicalpie.com/visual-cliff-experiment/

    The psychologists developed a test in which babies were placed on a large table of Plexiglass that was about a foot off the ground. One side of the plexiglass was covered in a tiled pattern that you might see on any floor. The other side of the plexiglass was left as it is – completely transparent. The pattern continued on the floor below the plexiglass.

    Babies or animals without depth perception may not perceive the depth between the two blocks of the tiled pattern. They would see the pattern as continuous and could walk freely over the Plexiglass without fear. With depth perception, things get tricky. The way that the experiment was set up gave the illusion of a visual “cliff” without putting the babies in danger.

    The researchers put the baby on the side with the first side of the Plexiglass and their mother on the other side. If the baby were to crawl to the mother, they would have to make a decision about whether or not to cross the visual cliff. If the baby was hesitant, thought the researchers, then it was presumed that the baby could perceive the depth and was scared to fall off the visual cliff.

    I wonder if the kids were thinking, “Why does my mother want to kill me?”

  19. @ physicsguy > “I never did have a whole lot of confidence in Colorado’s data.”

    Neither do I, and I live here.
    We don’t have a lot of confidence in the state’s election data either.
    Hmm. Wonder if there is some correlative factor there…other than some of us being right-wing nut-jobs.

    https://coloradonewsline.com/2022/03/18/election-deniers-reveal-themselves-as-charlatans/

    You can tell the bias of THAT “reporter” from the headline, but at least he did include the rebuttal by the Republican-adjacent (“independent”) organization he condemned for bias.
    The point being that not everyone in Colorado is convinced things were legitimate.

  20. @ Aesop > “a lot of these studies of children would probably be considered torture, by the Democrat definition of the Geneva Convention.”

    https://redstate.com/bradslager/2022/03/24/pathetic-fact-check-by-cnn-claims-kbj-argument-that-war-crimes-happened-was-not-her-calling-anyone-a-war-criminal-n540465

    To walk through the process is a bit arduous, but hang with me. It begins with Graham addressing a time when, as a federal public defender, Jackson was assigned the case of four detainees at Guantanamo prison. The filing concerned the length of time they were held, as well as the conditions they endured, with Brown arguing the plaintiffs experienced torture and inhumane conditions.

    I take no position on the merits (if any) of her charges, just note that the Democrats often define terms differently than most people.
    Like, “woman,” for one recent example.

    Oh yeah, KJB doesn’t even know a definition for that one — maybe she doesn’t know some other words, too.

  21. Sufficient to the day is the essay thereof.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1506615224228630532.html
    Doc Zero

    A crucial idea from natural law theory is that government places the lightest burden of compulsion on its citizens when the law conforms to nature – science, reality, the physical world. A great deal of coercion is required to force people to ignore or deny reality.

    The Left also understands this insight, but runs in the exact opposite direction with it. Much of the left-wing agenda is crafted to defy nature, precisely because the Left sees enormous power can be mined from creating systems of compulsion that force people to deny reality.

    The more radical the denial of nature – the larger the share of normal people who must be indoctrinated, re-educated, and punished to enforce the agenda of a few – the better. It’s a philosophy designed to erode liberty, leading inevitably to totalitarianism and authoritarianism.

    Totalitarianism, because everything becomes politicized, and enforcing unnatural law means the public must be bombarded with ideological messages at every turn. There can be no escape from the programming required to make people denounce common sense and observable reality.

    Authoritarianism, because the Left’s agenda is elitist by definition – designed by a few superior Anointed Ones and imposed upon the many by increasing levels of coercive force. Unnatural law means vast power, and power always concentrates in the hands of a few.

    Reality cannot be altered by political will. It remains, and ever-greater levels of violent force are required to subdue it, when its head pokes above the sea of ideology. It is a never-ending spiral that eventually fuses totalitarianism and authoritarianism into fascism.

    Fascism, because the enumerated powers of the State are never sufficient to cudgel the population into compliance with extremist ideology, especially with a pesky Constitution in the way. Private entities must be conscripted, so there is no escape for dissenting minds.

    Nature is often cruel and unfair, as any rabbit could tell you. There is a great difference between writing law that conforms with a clear understanding of nature, but also respects human aspirations and compassion – and laws that force people to accept ideology instead of truth.

    Those acknowledgements of inalienable rights and self-evident truths in America’s founding documents signaled an understanding that liberty could only flourish in harmony with nature, and that war against Nature would inevitably degenerate into war against Man. /end

  22. Okay, just one more.
    I can stop anytime I want to.
    Really.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1506603758624595972.html

    The funniest thing about Jackson’s “I’m not a biologist” dodge is that under current Democrat Party ideology, biologists are the absolute last people on Earth who have anything to say about the definition of womanhood.
    Biology and science left the room a LONG time ago in the politicized discussion of human sexuality, and they won’t be invited back into the room any time soon.

    The entire point of transsexual ideology is the triumph of individual will and collectivist politics over biology.
    This is highly relevant to Supreme Court confirmations, because militant transsexualism is all about using coercive force to make EVERYONE ignore biology.

    Trans fascism is quite literally about punishing anyone who brings biological science into the conversation.

    There will be legal fights over trans fascism in the years to come, and when they reach the Supreme Court, radicals and their enablers have no business being there.

    KBJ was caught lying far too many times yesterday for anyone who knows what time it is to vote for confirmation.

    These were not little lies she told, either. She lied about issues of great relevance to the American people, like critical race theory, pedophilia, and the 1619 Project garbage:
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/23/pollak-five-key-points-from-ketanji-brown-jacksons-tough-day-in-the-senate/

    It’s illuminating that even at this late date, Democrats feel obliged to back away from the madness they gleefully impose on America’s children behind closed doors. They still can’t be loud and proud about their indoctrination programs. That’s a hopeful sign for the country.

    But it matters a great deal that KBJ looks like another in the long line of Democrats who conceal their radicalism until they have the power to impose it on the rest of us. Our government is riddled with people like that, and it’s killing us. We need no more stealth radicals.

    The story of the Left over the past half-century has been talking one way to the normies, when it’s time to cadge their votes or slip a nominee through confirmation hearings, but acting very differently when there’s no scrutiny. That’s why they fight so hard against scrutiny.

    Supreme Court hearings are just partisan shouting matches and exercises of raw power these days, but if this were any kind of real deliberation or reasoned debate, KBJ would have disqualified herself yesterday. The GOP probably can’t stop this, but they should damn well try. /end

  23. About those baseless claims of election fraud.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/24/florida-counties-open-investigations-felons-voting-2020-election/

    A Politico report this week confirmed that investigations are underway after researcher Mark Glaeser began crossing-checking Florida voter lists against lists of the state’s convicted sex offenders and felons still in the Alachua County, Florida, jail.

    In one such case, an election official in Alachua County is accused of registering felons to vote at the county jail despite their being ineligible.

    This year, at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Florida legislators approved a measure to set up the Office of Election Crimes and Security to “investigate, detect, apprehend, and arrest anyone for an alleged violation” based on election fraud tips from the public.

    Aside from felons, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has been uncovering records showing foreign nationals on state voter rolls in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Jersey, and California.

    Most recently, PILF reached a settlement with North Carolina election officials to disclose the number of foreign nationals on the state’s voter rolls.

    In Florida, PILF has found that, as of November 2021, more than 150 election crime referrals had been forwarded to county election officials. None of the referrals had been followed up with action at the time of the report, indicating a severe lack of interest in investigating and prosecuting election crimes.

    As of 2018, there were nearly 250 counties across the United States with more registered voters on the voter rolls than eligible American citizen voters. There were also nearly three million individuals who are registered to vote in more than one state.

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