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Open thread 10/15/22 — 44 Comments

  1. The fact that Biden keeps on doing this, after all the bad publicity, shows he’s got no control over himself at all any more.

  2. The pandemic (no, not monkeypox!) is b-a-a-a-a-a-ck!

    “Just a few short weeks back, Biden stated that the ‘pandemic is over’ as he toured the Detroit Auto Show maskless, noting everyone ‘seems to be in pretty good shape.’ But that was weeks ago, and things change. Like polls and inflation levels. So Biden is bitterly clinging to his covid emergency powers for the next 90 days, well past the Nov. 8th election. . . . While the Biden administration might hope that the application of pandemic rules during the election season may be helpful to the Democrats, it is also important to follow the money. Especially with Biden. . . . And as we head into the winter, be prepared for the administration and its media minions to gin-up fear about the new ‘variants,’ especially one that has recently been reported: XBB.”

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/biden-bitterly-clings-to-covid-public-health-emergency-declaration/

  3. Wow – what is that bloom? I’m seeing roses and zinneas in the background, but this is pretty spectacular. What is it?

  4. Family members in their forties, visiting from California and here for another three days, cannot stop boasting about how their bivalent Pfizer boosters—tested on eight mice, by the way, as even the New York Times has conceded—are preventing them from contracting and transmitting COVID, or at least from dying, and about how irresponsible “the unvaccinated” are.

    Then there are the random, evidence-free blurts concerning the racism and homophobia of Governor Ron DeSantis. I see that the 2024 playbook and talking points are already circulating in the Bay Area.

    It’s like interacting with people who are stuck in time, and captives to a cult. I’m just closing my mouth and thinking of Solzhenitsyn: “Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!

  5. Off topic:

    I’ve gotten this error message when posting comments from time to time:

    Not Acceptable!
    An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.”

    It seems to be related to having my VPN turned on. But only occurs sporadically.

  6. om, that’s curious. I use my VPN when here and haven’t seen any error like that yet.

  7. Ed Driscoll posts at Instapundit:
    _________________________

    DID THAT USED TO BE A CRIME? I DON’T REMEMBER HEARING IT IN ANY OTHER CONTEXT. Wyoming J6 man gets 30 days for “parading.”

    https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/10/15/wyoming-j6-man-gets-30-days-for-parading-n503508
    _________________________

    I recall another context — from 1969.

    –“Parading Without a Permit | Easy Rider (1969)”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVeb45kemvc

    Welcome to the counterculture!

    PS. I once met neo and Ed Driscoll at a gathering somewhere in Silicon Valley back in the 2000s.

  8. I’m not the only person to notice that conservatives are the New Counterculture.

    It’s a big reason I’m bullish that American culture can make the turnaround from Woke to whatever our side calls itself these days.

    (IMO Trump was our John the Baptist and Peace Be Upon Him, but I wouldn’t call myself a Trumpist.)

    We’re Americans. It’s in our DNA. We change quickly. Not always sensibly or gracefully, but we don’t stay stuck.

  9. Philip Sells:

    Correlation (weak) and not causation? I occasionally have had this problem and always use a VPN from home, so tonight when this happened, I turned off the VPN to test. and the comment went through. Turned the VPN back on and all the comments sense then have gone through.

    One of those interwebs mysteries?

  10. And even (even, even, etc.) MORE from the “Uncontested Election” (AKA MOST-HONEST-TRANSPARENT-ABOVE-BOARD-ELECTION-IN-AMERICAN-HISTORY) desk….
    “Bombshell Dominion ‘Error Code’ Uncovered in 97% of Georgia Counties;
    “Open records requests reveal 64 of 66 Georgia counties have the same unsolved ‘Tennessee Error’ that caused seven scanners to miscount hundreds of ballots.”—https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/bombshell-dominion-error-code-uncovered
    H/T Instapundit.

  11. From the ‘ “Biden” can (and will—to “his” heart’s content) F&^# with YOU…but don’t YOU ever F&^# with a “Biden” ‘ Files….

    “Dems Move To Transfer Air Defense Systems From Saudis To Ukraine As Punishment”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dems-move-transfer-air-defense-systems-saudis-ukraine-punishment

    Israeli voters—less than two weeks away from an election—might want to take note…or, if they’re already well aware of the glorious “Biden” M.O, not.

  12. President groper is kind of scary in his Armageddon talk. It brings back a lot of unpleasant fears. I was a SAC brat. I was born in a USAF hospital and from the time I knew what a nuke was I knew I lived in a “kill me first” location. When I was in the sixth grade, I read the novel ‘Alas Babylon’ which was a bit scary.

    The school I attended for sixth grade (Wake Robin) is shown being obliterated by a 15-megaton nuke here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4EXHBRiMU

    Remember this movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-phsyn3KQM
    The end of the world as we know it starts at the 42-minute mark.

  13. Chases Eagles:

    Dan Blather gave the game away when he spoke of a “relatively small” nuke in their simulation, which turns out to be 15MT (mega ton).
    Not 15KT. IIRC 15MT was the largest nuke that the US deployed.

    Classic information from the nuclear freeze era when R. Reagan was going to destroy the world. Our media, always precious.

  14. Om, Rather is an exaggerator. However, the Sov SS-9 originally carried a 25MT warhead and it does not change the fact the Wake Robin School was less than 3 miles from the SAC Hdq building.

  15. When I had a job in air defense research, I would get a proposed air defense system and simulate a bunch of cruise missile attacks. Both SLCMs and ALCMs. I nuked a lot of countries. We had a simulated air defense center that looked like the bridge of the Enterprise (the giant reboot version not the puny TOS bridge) and I would blow things up on the big screen. I nuked Seattle a lot. If a (simulated) missile malfunctioned or was shot down or whatever, the track would just drop. It wasn’t until I saw the SCUD engagements in the Gulf War that I realized a shot down missile might nuke suburbia.

  16. Chases Eagles:

    Exaggerator? Try liar, then and now. The Soviets had a 25MT and the US had 15MT neither were “small.” The largest and second largest would be closer to “truth.”

    And I grew up near Lorton, VA where the Army had nuclear tipped Nike missile batteries to defend Washington DC. You weren’t the only child living through the Cold War.

    In the early 80s when the oil patch cratered a lot of geologists went to work digitizing topography to provide guidance data for cruise missiles. Defense Mapping Agency IIRC.

  17. We were over the 0ccoquan Creek in Woodbridge in Poor White (Prince William) County. Gunston Hall is on Mason’s Neck in Fat Cat (Fairfax) County.

    Fort Belvoir (US Army Corps of Engineers) was to the north of Woodbridge and Quantico (Marine Corps) was to the south. There were lots of military families in the area.

    There was also a NSA(?) electronics signals intercept facility along the Occoquan Creek-Potomach River shoreline, enclosed with tall barbed wire-topped fencing replete with warning signs. Guards and guard dogs were inside the fence. I don’t remember the signs saying they were authorized to shoot tresspassers though.
    Childhood mysteries. Now it is a nature preserve of some sort.

  18. I read trinity’s child, which is what by dawns early light* was based on, I read arc light which was about what a russian chinese nuclear exchange degenerates into, I skimmed alas babylon, and canticle for leibowitz, I remember count down to looking glass, and threads and testament, most recently they ran dr strangelove, which was a dark comedy, and I recall quentin burdick’s failsafe,

    *the nuclear exchange happens with a nuclear detonation over donetsk,

  19. Banned Lizard:

    Untrue.

    See this, this, and also this – and there are plenty more like that.

    Whatever that doctor is reporting on Twitter is not being seen elsewhere. If it was, just about every single OB-GYN would be shrieking about it.

    Infertility and miscarriage already are far more common than most people know, long before the COVID vaccine.

  20. Starting in the sixties, I had recurrent dreams of nuclear annihilation. Sometime after the USSR fell, I stopped having them.
    _______________________

    The Dreams

    many of you have had the dreams
    the impossible light the blast
    the city consumed in a rising cloud

    or maybe you switched on the radio
    to the hoarse metallic hum
    of the emergency broadcast system

    if your neck prickled
    was that the caress
    of glowing fingers

    you did know
    it was a test
    didn’t you

    if a world were to die
    four billion people
    some fast some slow

    can you imagine the scream
    could it be loud enough
    to reverberate back in time

    can we hear it even now
    already many of us
    have had the dreams

  21. neo, MollyG:

    Thank you!

    I don’t know how good that poem was, but it was important for me to write it.

  22. Lee, thanks very much for the link to that extraordinary, absolutely superlative substack post….
    Phew, what a story…encapsulating the hope and then the doubt…and then the grim (horrible?) reality in a hard-hitting, personal, relatively concise exposition that jibes with my own suspicions and much I have read elsewhere.

    Pure dynamite.

  23. @ huxley & Neo > “Starting in the sixties, I had recurrent dreams of nuclear annihilation. Sometime after the USSR fell, I stopped having them.”

    I never had that particular dream (my nightmares had different cores).
    In fact, I don’t remember the Cold War as being a Thing at all during my childhood (1952-1970), and really only learned about it in college.

    Why wasn’t it part of the zeitgeist of my little Texas town, and my family and friends?
    No clue – maybe it’s just because I was too busy with other things to ever listen to the tv reports; I still dislike getting my news from talking heads.
    Maybe it’s because there were still oases of entertainment where injecting political content was just Not Done.
    (Well, there was a little bit of politicking in The Laugh-In show, and Tom Lehrer’s TWTWTW, and a few others, but it wasn’t ubiquitous as it is now.)

    Anyway, that’s just by way of leading up to this post by Sarah Hoyt on The Dream.
    https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/10/17/rumbling/

    I’ve been waking in the night not with the horrors, but with a dull, tired resignation, half wanting the worst to happen, so that we can move on… which will only matter if I survive.

    This has been going on for two weeks, after a dream so bad, so dreary that I will not describe it for fear that will seal it into truth. I’ve told it to three of you. But I don’t know if I conveyed the sheer sense of resigned dread in it. The sense of something horrible after which life will never be the same.

    And our idiotic titular “president”, the FICUS (Fraud In Chief of the US) has tried to bait four* nations now into nuking us. He’s now reduced to baiting 2nd line nuclear powers, to wit Pakistan. Bets are open on who will be next. Israel I suspect, knowing the minds of these idiots, but India is a contender, and hey, England has a chance.

    Why?

    I don’t know. Because ruling over a decimated land appeals more than having his carefully constructed public image destroyed in public? Because what they’ve done is so heinous that humanity will rightly recoil from them, if they find out? Because enough consciousness of their sins and failings remains that they’d rather kill everyone than admit it?

    Or of course because they hate us. They hate us for being us, for being individuals, for refusing to be manipulated like widgets.

    It is a bright and clear day where I live. But it might well be one of those spectacular Colorado sunsets I miss just a little, where it looked like the world had been dipped in blood, and you heard thunder rumble just over the horizon.

    The waiting is unnerving. And I don’t know if anything I do, if anything any of us does has any lasting meaning.

    But I believe it does. I believe it will find echoes if not now, not far off.

    I also don’t believe we will be nuked. Or if we are, it won’t be where the idiots think. I saw them bandy a map from the eighties, showing all the now closed/vacated silos in the heartland, as though trying to bait the enemy into nuking flyover. But I know how foreign minds work, and even they know we’ve decommissioned most silos. They also know — from knowing their own countries — the way to utterly cripple us: Hit the five or six biggest cities. Our centers of government.

    It would lead very neatly to that dream I had. That vivid, grey, evil nightmare.

    … it is not what I want. But it might not be mine to prevent. Just as the slow grinding of scarcity and anger and some precipitating incident that would lead to the same moment is not mine to prevent.

    So… So I’ll do what I can do.

    Truth and reality are coming back to the world.

    I pray it not be in fire and blood. But I wake up with the dull certainty I don’t get what I want.

    And what I — and you — can do might not be much. But we’d better do what we can to minimize the hurt and the loss.

    Be not afraid. Fear solves nothing and makes everything worse.

    This too shall pass. And the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train. Don’t be ridiculous. Where would we get fuel for a train.

    If we’re lucky, it won’t be all consuming fire either.

    Go work towards a better outcome. Maybe it counts for nothing. Or maybe we get lucky. In either case nothing is lost and something might be helped.

  24. Related (to the Covid vaccine comment thread); in the UK:
    ‘ Social media platforms target cardiologist who went from booster to critic of COVID vaccines;
    ‘ Latest wave of censorship comes as mainstream scientific discourse is taking heart inflammation following COVID vaccination more seriously. Studies suggest heart injuries can take “months to heal.” ‘—
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/social-media-platforms-target-cardiologist-who-went-booster-critic
    Opening grafs:
    ‘As a CDC committee votes this week to potentially add COVID-19 vaccines to the routine schedule of immunizations for all ages — making them mandatory for public school students — a British cardiologist who once promoted COVID vaccination on TV will go before Parliament to argue the opposite.
    ‘Aseem Malhotra, who recently wrote an unusual first-person medical paper calling for a “pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19,” has become increasingly vocal in his skepticism of the jabs since his healthy father’s inexplicable cardiac death six months after vaccination.…’ [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]

  25. Related (continued):
    “COVID-19 Vaccine Injury, Syndrome Not a Disease: FLCCC Conference Shares How to Treat It”—
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-19-vaccine-injury-syndrome-not-a-disease-flccc-conference-shares-how-to-treat-it_4802240.html
    Key grafs (RTWT):
    ‘The complex myriad of symptoms in people suspecting of COVID-19 vaccine injury has been given a new name and an extensive treatment protocol:
    ‘ “Post-COVID-19 vaccines syndrome,” said Dr. Paul Marik, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), on Oct. 15 at a conference in Orlando, Florida, aimed at education and sharing information on treating spike protein-induced health issues.
    ‘ Marik and 15 other experts including pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole, FLCCC co-founder Dr. Pierre Kory, and Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, presented their research and findings.
    ‘ Intended as an educational conference for health practitioners, the event attracted health providers cross-country….
    ‘ Several international doctors were also in attendance….
    ‘…Post-vaccine injury syndrome is “a multi-system syndrome … it’s not a disease,” Marik said. The condition does not fit a disease model, and therefore rather than targeting the symptoms, the entire body must be treated holistically….’
    Section Titles are:
    – Spike Injury: A Multi-System Disease
    – Treatment Options
    – Clearing Out Spike Protein
    – Alternative Treatments
    – Rebuilding to Personalized Patient-Focused Medicine

  26. Oops. Forgot to add the following “key grafs” to the above:
    ‘…[M]ost patients complain of an extensive list of symptoms not found in any disease, “[patients] will go to the doctor with all these complaints … and the doctor will say it’s all in your head,” said Marik.
    ‘ Marik said that many patients are thus referred to psychiatric specialties rather than physicians who understand and can treat their disease.
    ‘ “The vaccine-injured are vast,” said Kory, “the numbers are massive … they are underserved and their needs are not being met.
    ”….’
    [All emphases mine; Barry M.]
    – – – – – – – – –
    + Bonus (though it may already have been referenced):
    “Florida Surgeon General: Data Show Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines Shouldn’t Be Given to Young Men”—-
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-surgeon-general-data-show-messenger-rna-covid-19-vaccines-shouldnt-be-given-to-young-men_4801262.html

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