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  1. And from the wonderful land of AZ…
    ‘ Katie Hobbs accused of receiving Sinaloa cartel bribes;
    ‘ “Katie Hobbs and Runbeck election services have been named as recipients of Sinaloa cartel bribes via deeds of trust and phony mortgages in AZ senate investigation.” ‘—
    https://thepostmillennial.com/katie-hobbs-accused-of-receiving-sinaloa-cartel-bribes?utm_campaign=64466
    H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
    This should be rather interesting…even if it clearly belongs in the “Nothing to See Here, Move Along” Files…

    Who’s Sinaloa? you ask?

  2. Apropos of (5): There’s a new post over at Quillette by a gay man who a) is a drag queen; and b) argues that “the female impersonators reading stories to children aren’t ‘groomers.’ They’re just needy gay men desperate for validation from straight society. . . . Drag Queen Story Hour represents the sad, absurdist denouement of a doomed campaign to present gay men and their unique forms of cultural expression as safe, respectable, and bourgeois. The children will be fine. It’s the gay-liberation movement that’s dying.”

    It’s an incoherent article, as several commenters point out, but the author makes an interesting point about progs toward the end: “Meanwhile, straight progressives have their own kind of desperate aching—an aching to be seen as so abundantly tolerant that they will sit their kid down in front of a man dressed in what is clearly a sexualized imagining of a woman. In other words, these two communities, both needy and full of self-deception, have become weird co-dependents.”

    https://quillette.com/2023/02/26/the-sad-spectacle-of-drag-queen-story-hour/

  3. Your link to the spinal cord zapping article is very interesting, and could be of benefit to more than just individuals who have suffered a stroke, such as those paralyzed, or severely nerve damaged, by transverse myelitis. Interesting to juxtapose rushing mRNA jabs to market versus a treatment such as this which will in all likelihood take years to come to full fruition, let alone the market.

  4. Musk, to his credit, is defending Adams, while the hysterical SJWs on Twitter and in the mendacious MSM are caterwauling and howling. Anyone who doubts that Musk is correct in his assessment of the level of animus, from our ruling and absurdly-privileged Neo-Bolshevik elites (consisting of both white and non-white members), against ordinary and traditional white Americans need only consult the demographics of the Class of 2026 (at Stanford, the Ivies, and many other universities) or consider the favoring by Biden and his administration of corrupt Ukraine over the suffering of East Palestine.

  5. The analysis of McCarthy and the January maneuvering is interesting. He has so far done well. Keep it up, Kevin.

  6. At one time I may not have agreed with Scott, but when I constantly see Black’s saying being White is Evil and other such dreck my opinion has changed. Stay away from me and I will stay away from you.

  7. Sinaloa is the northern most province of mexico fiefdom of sean penns bff guzman loera (shorty in thr vernacular)

  8. The only difference between Scott Adams’ opinions about blacks and those of most affluent leftists is that Adams stated his out loud. As Joe Sobran once said “In their mating and migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the Ku Klux Klan.”

  9. Scott Adams is staging a very large scale public persuasion event. He is attempting to provide a public service by forcing an acknowledgement that the national conversation on race is broken. I don’t know what he is planning, but he is not finished maneuvering. It is an interesting show that is not yet in the final act. (Daily podcast on Youtube)

  10. Now it is upon black Americans to counter Adams by vociferously claiming it is definitely ok to be white.
    If they don’t, they are validating their racism. Start with the Obama’s, Al Sharpton, and the prominent black entertainers and talk show/news hosts.
    Brilliant.

  11. Scott Adams is staging a very large scale public persuasion event.

    Matthew M:

    Yes! I don’t follow Adams regularly but I know he’s an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) guy and he’s all about persuasion, which isn’t rational persuasion but Zen-like maneuvers to trick people into persuading themselves.

    At least, I hope that’s what he’s doing. Because he really could have boned himself here. Next stop, coffee dates with Milo Yiannopoulos.

  12. OR: McCarthy has revealed that he IS a RINO by choosing the debt limit as the hill he wants to climb. It used to be that the budget passed just before the fiscal year began on 10/1. The debt limit bill would follow shortly to up the limit to accommodate the new spending. Now the debt limit bill comes WAY AFTER the spending has occurred. And for several years under Obama the debt limit was ignored. The true battle imo is the spending. And McCarthy is not trying to climb that hill. He won’t cut NPR or Planned Parenthood, nor education, nor FBI, nor Census Bureau, nor CSC, nor ANY OTHER ENEMY DEPARTMENT. This article is nothing more than propaganda from the GOPe. And as far as PowerLine goes, is there a bigger group of RINOs than this group of weakling lawyers?

  13. JackWayne:

    Your suspicion of McCarthy is also the hope of RINOs, Democrats, and the Deep State. Needless to say, their suspicions require gestures in their direction.

    True enough, NPR is a malignant tumor that needs cutting out. But it is cherished by RINOs and their social circles. So McCarthy travels the path of enigma.

    We could do worse.

  14. If anyone had any doubts that “Biden” is NOT at all interested in your health…
    ‘ Not just ivermectin: New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors;
    ‘ Provision is buried in omnibus appropriations bill after FDA kept losing in court. “Potentially catastrophic for use of antibiotics,” says former Public Health England director. ‘—
    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/not-just-ivermectin-new-fda-authority-ban-label-uses-alarms-doctors
    Key word:
    “buried”
    Opening graf:
    “Doctors are speaking out against a new law that arguably paves the way for the FDA to prohibit treatments for purposes it hasn’t expressly authorized, going far beyond highly politicized subjects such as treating COVID-19 with ivermectin…”.
    Yep, for “Biden” it’s ALL about the POWER, about CONTROL…
    …and soon, the guvmint (such as it is) may cede all authority over the health of Americans to the WHO….

    (And one shouldn’t forget what happened—what’s happening—to/in East Palestine…..)

    Apparently, not enough people have been killed; not enough people have been allowed to die; not enough lives have been ruined….

    No wonder Sec. Pete was uncomfortable when he was put on the spot: he would have had to pretend to express sympathy, concern, care, responsibility…and to his credit, he was honest about it: Nope, I don’t give a ^%%#

  15. On a roll.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/to-catch-up-on-todays-news-man-just-reads-conspiracy-theorists-2-year-old-blog-posts

    “When I did some research, I realized all the conspiracy theorists were exactly two years ahead of the media in reporting the facts,” said Rorch

    Trusted experts confirmed that the last several years have proven conspiracy theorists to be 100% accurate on every claim they’ve made in that time. The experts then also confirmed that everyone should ignore that confirmation and proceed as if nothing happened. “We urge you to continue to get your news from trusted sources and avoid conspiracy theories, even though the trusted sources are always wrong,” said media researcher Dr. Franz Bugmann. “Trusting trusted sources is what makes you a good person, and that’s all that really matters here.”

    At publishing time, IlluminatiWatch.com had added a new post confirming Democrats will admit in two years’ time that Biden stole the election.

  16. Speaking of old news breaking as though new,
    …if the US media had swung behind the evidence in this story and pressed where did this virus come from, then it’s at least potentially conceivable that scientists in the United States would have forced the government of China to release the information they had about the genetic makeup of COVID. Maybe we would’ve had a vaccine that worked, for example. Or a medical response that saved Americans’ lives, but they didn’t. None of them did.

    Meanwhile,
    Would Vitamin D Have Saved Half of COVID Deaths?

    Per peer-reviewed studies,

    Vitamin D supplementation cut risk of death from COVID-19 by 51% and reduced risk of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) by 72%

    The results were deemed “conclusive” and suggest “a definitive association between the protective role of vitamin D and ICU hospitalization” from COVID-19

    Vitamin D may protect against COVID-19 by maintaining pulmonary barrier function, boosting the innate immune response and reducing the production of proinflammatory cytokines

    In another study, none of the patients with severe COVID-19 who received high-dose vitamin D died; instead, 100% of the group improved

    Regulatory agencies around the world are largely industry-funded, which is likely why they aren’t recommending vitamin D — a “dirt cheap” intervention — for COVID-19

  17. A more serious observation of subject of the Bee’s satirical post.

    https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/02/27/when-a-conspiracy-theorist-isnt-a-conspiracy-theorist-n709270

    But there comes a point where those referred to as “conspiracy theorists” aren’t actually what they’re being labeled as.

    When people are gathering information to fill in the blanks left behind by the “experts,” this does not make them lunatics. This makes them…human. They’re clearly smelling a rat and they wish to find it. Thanks to the internet providing information that the mainstream media would rather you not see, people are able to get the information they need to make an informed and educated guess as to what’s really going down.

    The lab leak theory is a very good example of this. What began as a small theory grew into the most likely explanation thanks to research pursued by the people and government figures actually doing their job.

    There’s a difference between the tinfoil hat-wearing weirdo suggesting lizard people are behind Hollywood and the guy gathering credible information wherever he can find it. It’s pretty clear at this point that many people have to go off-mainstream in order to get that info, but the mainstream has proven itself to be a massive source of misinformation itself.

    If this era in humanity has taught us anything, it’s that you’re probably better off not listening to the mainstream media and that trusting yourself and your gut instinct is the much better way to go.

    No complaints about the first clause, but although gut instincts are a good way of signaling you need to do further research, they are not data, or even anecdotes.

    They are, in some views, the result of a subconscious evaluation of whatever data or anecdotes one has encountered, processed though one’s own lived experiences.

    Some people’s guts are more reliable than others’.

    https://theconversation.com/is-it-rational-to-trust-your-gut-feelings-a-neuroscientist-explains-95086

    Emotions are actually not dumb responses that always need to be ignored or even corrected by rational faculties. They are appraisals of what you have just experienced or thought of – in this sense, they are also a form of information processing.

    Intuition or gut feelings are also the result of a lot of processing that happens in the brain. Research suggests that the brain is a large predictive machine, constantly comparing incoming sensory information and current experiences against stored knowledge and memories of previous experiences, and predicting what will come next. This is described in what scientists call the “predictive processing framework”.

    This ensures that the brain is always as prepared to deal with the current situation as optimally as possible. When a mismatch occurs (something that wasn’t predicted), your brain updates its cognitive models.

    This matching between prior models (based on past experience) and current experience happens automatically and subconsciously. Intuitions occur when your brain has made a significant match or mismatch (between the cognitive model and current experience), but this has not yet reached your conscious awareness.

    When you have a lot of experience in a certain area, the brain has more information to match the current experience against. This makes your intuitions more reliable. This means that, as with creativity, your intuition can actually improve with experience.

    Basically, our brain is a big AI, learning recursively from both random and deliberate inputs.
    Well, maybe a bit more complex than that.

    https://blog.i-nexus.com/data-driven-decision-making-choosing-gut-instinct-vs-data
    (Basically an extended advertisement, but makes some good points.)

    Back to the first article:

    Many take the division between analytic and intuitive thinking to mean that the two types of processing (or “thinking styles”) are opposites, working in a see-saw manner. However, a recent meta-analysis – an investigation where the impact of a group of studies is measured – has shown that analytic and intuitive thinking are typically not correlated and could happen at the same time.

    So while it is true that one style of thinking likely feels dominant over the other in any situation – in particular analytic thinking – the subconscious nature of intuitive thinking makes it hard to determine exactly when it occurs, since so much happens under the bonnet of our awareness.

    Indeed, the two thinking styles are in fact complementary and can work in concert – we regularly employ them together. Even groundbreaking scientific research may start with intuitive knowledge that enables scientists to formulate innovative ideas and hypotheses, which later can be validated through rigorous testing and analysis.

    What’s more, while intuition is seen as sloppy and inaccurate, analytic thinking can be detrimental as well. Studies have shown that overthinking can seriously hinder our decision-making process.

    In other cases, analytic thinking may simply consist of post-hoc justifications or rationalisations of decisions based on intuitive thinking. This occurs for example when we have to explain our decisions in moral dilemmas. This effect has let some people refer to analytic thinking as the “press secretary” or “inner lawyer” of intuition. Oftentimes we don’t know why we make decisions, but we still want to have reasons for our decisions.

    Trusting instincts
    So should we just rely on our intuition, given that it aids our decision-making? It’s complicated. Because intuition relies on evolutionarily older, automatic and fast processing, it also falls prey to misguidances, such as cognitive biases. These are systematic errors in thinking, that can automatically occur. Despite this, familiarising yourself with common cognitive biases can help you spot them in future occasions: there are good tips about how to do that here and here.

    Similarly, since fast processing is ancient, it can sometimes be a little out of date.

    Thus, for every situation that involves a decision based on your assessment, consider whether your intuition has correctly assessed the situation. Is it an evolutionary old or new situation? Does it involve cognitive biases? Do you have experience or expertise in this type of situation? If it is evolutionary old, involves a cognitive bias, and you don’t have expertise in it, then rely on analytic thinking. If not, feel free to trust your intuitive thinking.

  18. “…feel free to trust your intuitive thinking.”

    Of course this is far easier to do once you realize, understand, KNOW—since they tell you early and often…and PROUDLY, with a supercilious glint in their arrogant eye—that they’re lying.
    ALL THE TIME.

  19. RE: NY Times – Maoism Re-education

    I have zero sympathy for anyone at the NY Times that, metaphorically speaking, is sent off to the basement of the Lubyanka prison, forced to sign confession and then shot in the back of the head.
    They had it coming – good and hard.
    It’s just a micro version of the Stalinist show trials in which Lenin’s inner circle of advisors were murdered by Stalin’s stooges. They too had it coming.

    If you decide to work for the NY Times, it’s no mystery that you will be expected to adhere to their Stalinist, leftist agenda.
    Really now, what is so hard to understand about this ?

    Re: Scott Adams
    I pretty much agree with everything Scott Adams said; sorry about that and I really am sorry about that because it makes me out to be a racist but I am not.
    I have just had it with the white guilt bullshit.

    I used to work with several blacks (one was my boss) and they were nothing like those blacks promoting the “woe is me – the “man” is holding me back,” rubbish.

    When black folks of means have the opportunity to move away from mostly black areas, guess what ?
    They do.
    And where do they move? To mostly white areas.
    I guess that’s considered racist; black flight from blacks.

    Look where the Obama’s moved to: Martha’s Vineyard (near oceanfront) and an OCEANFRONT home in Hawaii, notwithstanding Michelle Obama’s comments about how white folks fled the neighborhood where she grew up because blacks were moving in (and totally contrary to barry Hussein’s climate change agenda).

    Does anyone think that Oprah Winfrey, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, black Hollywood millionaires, Maxine Waters , et. al., live in black neighborhoods?
    Maxine Waters does not even live in the black district she “represents.” She lives in a lily white neighborhood in a home worth millions of $$$.
    Is Maxine Waters a racist because she eschews living in a black neighborhood?

    But if Scott Adams says that he would not live in a black neighborhood or says he would move away from blacks, well, that’s considered racist. Blacks are “allowed” to do what Scott Adams stated, but if you are white, well, that’s racist.

    If Scott Adams were black, nobody would flinch because his statement would just be a description of what blacks-of-means routinely do; move away and avoid black neighborhoods.

    Recently finished reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglass and am half way through reading his “Great Speeches.”
    If he were alive today he most certainly would be looked upon (or more likely, totally ignored) by the mainstream media, black “leaders,” and white liberal progressives in the same way they view Tom Sowell or Clarence Thomas or
    Dr. Marilyn Singleton (see here: https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ )

    Re: Wuhan

    Of the many thousands ( I assume) of wet markets all around China, it was just a coincidence that Covid first appeared in a town that had a virology research lab.

    Yep, nothing to see here folks.

    If Anytown USA had an outbreak of a new, previously unknown virus, and people started dropping dead from it, AND it just so happened that nearby there was a virology research lab, who thinks that anyone on planet earth would believe that the outbreak had nothing at all to do with the lab??
    Oh, that’s right, aside from perhaps the CDC’s Il Duce, Anthony Fauci.

    What I do not understand – maybe someone can help me out here – is why there was a concerted effort by Fauci and many others, to deny / deflect the notion that the Chinese lab was the source of the virus.
    I still don’t understand this.

  20. Barry Meislin on February 28, 2023 at 2:46 am
    New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors.

    Very shocking. I knew that when Obamacare began to convert doctors from being small businesspersons to corporatized employees, it wasn’t good. But this is a whole other level.
    _______

    Banned Lizard on February 28, 2023 at 5:35 am

    Wow. The docs over at MedCram were telling us about vit. D early on. Someone here pointed me towards MedCram; I forgot who.
    _______

    AesopFan on February 28, 2023 at 5:54 am

    In order to compensate for cognitive biases, you’ve got to know what they are. David Foster posted an article that listed them a while ago. It’s nice and succinct. Maybe a little too succinct for the uninitiated like myself.

  21. They updated that article on cognitive biases above. At the bottom they mention:

    Apophenia is the tendency to perceive patterns in random occurrences.

    I’m guilty of that one.

  22. “What I do not understand – maybe someone can help me out here – is why there was a concerted effort by Fauci and many others, to deny / deflect the notion that the Chinese lab was the source of the virus.
    I still don’t understand this.”

    Because we funded it:

    https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/nih-admits-us-funded-gain-of-function-in-wuhan-despite-faucis-repeated-denials/

    Indirectly perhaps, through EcoHealth Alliance, but still. NIH (taxpayer) money. Consider the, as they say, optics. And the liability angle.

    P.S. Apologies to Miguel above, who was there first.

  23. EcoHealth, it appears, was the cut-out.

    Not stupid, Fauci.
    Just a cold-blooded, lying bast*#d with a lot of blood on his hands.
    Who really believed he would never get caught. (Wrong!)
    Or if he was caught, nothing would come of it. (Right! At least, so far…—it certainly helps to have the right friends in the right places…!…and the corrupt media at your back.)

    Most important of all, he helped deliver the WH (as he twisted the country around his dirty, slimy fingers and tied them up in grotesque knots.)

    As “Biden” said when asked, “Fire Fauci”; are you kiddin’ me?”…the clear message being, “We gotta protect our own”…

  24. Apophenia is the tendency to perceive patterns in random occurrences.

    Inferential logic is the modern model of science.

  25. More Faucimania…
    ‘ Cruz: “Abominable” Fauci Has “Hurt Millions Of Kids” ‘—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cruz-abominable-fauci-has-hurt-millions-kids
    …While “Biden” ‘s Brazilian squeeze falls in line, as expected, with the sinister WTF.
    (What a consequence!)
    “Brazilian President And WEF Member Lula Da Silva Pressures Population Into Total COVID Vaccination”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/brazilian-president-and-wef-member-lula-da-silva-pressures-population-total-covid

    (Coming soon to a North American country near you…)

  26. }}} Arm and hand function is more difficult for stroke victims to recover than leg function, so this is potentially groundbreaking.

    It is noteworthy that there are at least two types of strokes (I suspect you are aware of this, Neo, but others may not be).

    An elderly friend of mine (he was 85 in 2012, and passed away the next year) had a stroke when he went to a restaurant to eat (this was about 2010). Before getting escorted to the table, he went to the bathroom. After washing his hands, he went to reach for a paper towel, and could not lift his arm. He went out to the lobby and asked them to call him an ambulance, as he felt sure he’d had a stroke. Other than the mobility of his right arm (IIRC) he was otherwise unimpaired.

    Somewhat luckily for him, he was in probably the best possible place to have a stroke outside of the hospital… because he was just outside the hospital. The best hospital in the area was literally across the street from the restaurant.

    So he was there in the ER within about 20m of having the stroke. They had a drug back then that had already been available for a couple years, and, if the stroke is the “correct type” (don’t ask me), it can often reverse most of the side effects of the stroke. His stroke was determined to be that type, and indeed, he was able to lift his arm about 2h afterwards, and was nominally “fine” within a couple more. They (of course) kept him for some extra time before releasing him to PT in a convalescent home, and he was (mostly) fully functional from that point on.

    He did, however, lose some of his spatial perception. He did not tend to be able to drive after that as it became clear pretty quickly that he did not reliably judge the lane he was in, and, in the final case, accidentally ran over a lane separation. He tried to pass another driving test a couple times after that, but never managed it, mostly on parking, he’d hit the cones on the lane markers too often.

    So I wound up driving him around after that (it was convenient, my car needed expensive work so it gave me the use of his, in return for driving him when/where he needed, which wasn’t too bad.

    in 2013 he had another, similar stroke (I was with him. They took him to the same hospital, same treatment, and he was doing ok…) but when he was getting PT, he fell over one night and broke a couple ribs while going to the bathroom. So he was bedridden for a couple weeks, and he never walked again after that and steadily faded. It was sad to watch, as he was a very nice guy, worked at the Smithsonian as an entomologist for decades, and was one of the world’s top 5 experts on “Bruchids” (seed beetles). He’d retired in 1990 and lived for another 20 years.

    But the main thing is, if you even think you’ve had a stroke, get to the hospital as quick as possible and make sure they consider whether you are a good candidate for this drug… it can save you a lot of pain and suffering, as it works quite well, and I believe that, for it to work, you need to get it within a few hours of the stroke.

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