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Open thread 8/31/21 — 15 Comments

  1. My buddy who is ex-mil posts this:

    “Loyalty is DOWN before it is UP”
    The first time I heard that military saying I frankly didn’t understand it. My father said it to me when I made Sergeant in the Marines, and he explained what it meant. I later heard it numerous times in various leadership classes during my time in the Marines.
    For those who don’t know, here is the explanation.
    You cannot expect the men and women serving below you to show loyalty UP to you, until you show loyalty DOWN to them.
    Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller demonstrated his loyalty to the men and women serving under him, when he demanded…on their account and the account of ALL those serving in the armed forces…that those above him demonstrate accountability for the disaster in Afghanistan.
    Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller kept the faith with his Marines…and was immediately ABANDONED by those above him. Those above him showed NO loyalty down to him, and he resigned rather than pretend to have loyalty up to them. He explained clearly and concisely why they deserve NO loyalty, and NO respect.
    Semper Fi, Colonel Scheller

  2. JimNorCal:

    Thanks for the “Loyalty is DOWN before it is UP” explainer.

    I don’t understand the military well, but I like learning. And it’s very much to the point of these sad days.

  3. The Epoch Times on the FDA departures,

    … confirming the planned departures of Dr. Marion Gruber, the head of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), and Gruber’s deputy, Dr. Philip Krause.
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    The “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service,” wrote the agency’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio on Twitter.

    “These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Rick Bright, who formerly directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said on Twitter.

    He added that “Gruber is much more than the director,” adding she is a “visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-Cov-2, many others.”

    A hollowing out of a department?

  4. JimNorCal,

    We are in a Bio Medical Security State that is attempting to suppress an endemic respiratory virus with a 99.9% survival rate.

  5. Wow, a plausible explanation of what happened to National Review:
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    How The National Review Sold Its Soul to Google
    And Why Jonah Goldberg and David French Got Thrown Out

    There were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc. that would permanently discredit it with Republican voters.

    https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-national-review-sold-its
    _______________________________________

    Goldberg and French were 86’d because they were considered the two largest culprits in tanking the magazine’s subscriptions and donations.

  6. It’s been, of course, noticeable that GOPe is far more passionate about opposing any populist group compared to Dems.
    They’re collegial with AOC but mad dog frothing when fighting Tea Party or MAGA.

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