Misericordia!
The FDA really does want to cause you maximum pain…and more!
“Doctors Appeal Ruling In Favor Of FDA Over Ivermectin Posts, Urge Court To Intervene”— https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/doctors-appeal-ruling-favor-fda-over-ivermectin-posts-urge-court-intervene
Opening grafs:
‘A group of doctors is urging a U.S. court to block the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from issuing guidance on using ivermectin, in an appeal lodged after a district court judge rejected their bid.
The FDA “cannot advise whether or for what purpose a doctor should prescribe, or a patient should take, an approved drug,” lawyers for Drs. Paul Marik, Mary Talley Bowden, and Robert Apter said in a February brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
‘Ivermectin is approved for several uses, including treating parasites. It is not approved for COVID-19, but prescribing drugs for a different purpose from which they were approved is common and known as off-label use.
‘Apter, Bowden, and Marik have all prescribed patients ivermectin but got into trouble with various organizations, who cited the FDA’s warning not to treat COVID-19 with ivermectin….’ [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
(Indeed, it does…but the FDA’s sheer malevolence should have been clear quite a while ago…)
We have visited Norte Dame several times. We cried while watching the fire ravage her. Last March we took a Dinner Cruise on the Seine and could see the scaffolding. This coming Sept will be in Paris again and I hope to walk by her again. It is the most beautiful building.
File under: And a new kidney for all who need one…. (Not just kidneys!!)
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is running for President as a Democrat.
This could be very interesting. He is a very vocal COVID vaccine skeptic and wrote an anti-Fauci book. He is outspoken about pharma’s influence on government… If he gets on a debate stage he would force Biden, Newsom and any other candidates into some uncomfortable conversations.
I think he’s also somewhat reasonable on climate change, at least weighing the costs vs. the benefits of government mandates.
the fda is just another revolving door, with each director see gottlieb having the brand logo
This could be very interesting. He [Kennedy] is a very vocal COVID vaccine skeptic and wrote an anti-Fauci book. He is outspoken about pharma’s influence on government…
This morning’s news is that the Biden admin. is going to take action on our nation’s fentanyl crisis. Solution? To put Narcan in the hands of millions of potential drug user’s hands.
Follow the money. It is difficult to be too cynical about our politics today.
TommyJay,
I’m not convinced it’s this simple, but it’s hard to ignore the direct and near perfect correlation with defense spending and pharmaceutical spending.
You can accurately predict the direction of any Federal policy or program by asking the question; what would be best for defense contractors and/or pharmaceutical companies?
Trump did real damage to both while in office; no new wars, slowed existing efforts. And, his right to choose legislation for experimentation with non-FDA approved treatments by terminally ill citizens. Was this the main reason for the unprecedented attack against Trump and his administration?
The nomination process that made whatever changes were necessary to anoint Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, regardless of the results of any primary, I’m sure will treat Kennedy perfectly fairly.
The media that so carefully made sure that all perspectives on COVID and Fauci got a respectful hearing will, I am sure, represent Kennedy’s views perfectly fairly.
I saw some alarming things about what they were going to do with the inside of Notre Dame. This video isn’t too specific about this. I hope it is not radically changed.
physicsguy– The Colorado school shooter-wannabe owned a copy of the Communist Manifesto, called Trump a “con man,” and thought Adam Lanza was smarter than the Columbine killers (“losers” in xer book):
“Whitworth also wrote a troubling list of ‘ways I want to die,’ which included murder, burning alive, and freezing, KRDO said.”
It seems as if the current trans movement is behaving more and more belligerently and brazenly violent of late. I don’t think they’ve fully grasped how this behavior is far more likley to drive sympathtic normies away from them rather than toward them.
They’re currently on the wrong side of popular opinion regarding several issues. Those being:
Legally allowing people under the age of 18 to undergo transitional surgeries without parental consent.
Allowing biological males compete in womens sports.
Having public school teachers teach young (k-3) children all about sexuality and transgenderism, often times without parents knowledge or consent.
None of these ideas seem to be particularly popular with a clear majority of normal people. And I don’t believe that becoming more and more violent will lead to the transgender community getting what they believe they’re entitled to. In fact it’s more likely to do the opposite.
@Nonapod:None of these ideas seem to be particularly popular with a clear majority of normal people.
There’s no need for them to please a majority of normal people, as long as they please the elite. If you work (and are not retired) you will be the one fired from your job and having your account closed at your bank if you object. Not any of them.
Re: RkJr running. I think it was yesterday that a CNN talking head right out called Kennedy a “quack” and a danger to society due to his “non-science” based view of the covid vax. The knives are already out; he won’t last long.
Don’t know what is more amazing; the repair/restoration of Notre Dame or the fact that the construction of the cathedral began in the 1300s.
And just as amazing is that Westminster Abbey began construction about 200 years before Notre Dame.
Half the planet’s people (if not more) were still in the Stone Age when Notre Dame and Westminster began construction. Why some civilizations seem to advance well before others is still a mystery to me
I’ve been having a power outage for several hours. Can’t post; I’m writing this comment on my phone. It probably will be a few more hours before power is restored.
Construction of Notre Dame began in 1162 and was largely completed by 1260. These Gothic structures are amazing, especially considering the lack of power construction equipment.
Re: RFK Jr. His problem will be not that he’s been an opponent of the COVID-19 shots, but that he’s been an opponent of practically all vaccines. I think he’s the source of the theory that MMR shots cause autism, which is not supported by evidence.
Two things are amazing about The View. First, that anyone actually watches it, and second, that Whoopi is still employed after one ugly statement on top of another.
Still think the fire was arson, hope it can be rebuild but will not be the historical masterpiece it was.
Trannies are the new Antifa, then BLM.
Mood lighting, light projections on the walls, modern and contemporary art. Nice museum; church, not so much.
Neo, I hope your power is restored soon. And hope it’s not just yours. (More people get attention a bit faster than 1 here & there!)
In central Texas we’ve been in an unusual cold & rainy window for 2 days so far.
Yesterday: we were in the 40’s (– really bizarre for April!), with heavy downpours & savage thunder!
Today’s high: only 53. (–
still better than the coming months of over 100 degrees for weeks.)
I’m hoping this rain deluge fills our lakes. Rain has been rare, for many years.
But Russian oligarchs still haven’t learned to fly after leaving the balcony.
And of course ProPublica is after Judge Clarence Thomas. Despicable sons of bachelors.
RE: Transgender developments as a sign of cultural collapse
Citing the histories of ancient Greece, Rome, and more recently of Weimar Germany, Camille Paglia–author of the 1990 book,”Sexual Personae; Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”–points out that, historically, when cultures reach their end stage–have become decadent and are about to disintegrate–one of the signs of their incipient disintegration is the change from the strictly masculine to a more fluid, more feminine notion of gender as seen in art and culture.
(Meanwhile, more masculine, less “advanced,” barbaric cultures gather on these culture’s peripheries, ready to overwhelm these decadent cultures, and in our instance she points to groups like ISIS) *
nice coinage om, yes pro publica, which is funded by the sendlers who were part and parcel of the subprime collapse, of course demand justice, which is funded by dark money, forced breyer off the court, and persecuted kavanaugh,
Rufus, TommyJay, …
“… what would be best for defense contractors and/or pharmaceutical companies?”
I agree, the gov hated how Trump helped Americans over big defense & pharma.
(His “Right to Try” new yet-unapproved drugs was a wonderful move!)
And now, FDA is pushing to ban our right to use drugs for “off-label use”.
IIRC, they want to make it a crime for doctors to prescribe a drug for off-label use. (– clumsy writing, in a rush).
To defense & pharma powers, I would add the big green industry players. Trump cut back on various overreaching EPA regs, and that stoked another huge hunk of TDS.
Barry —
FDA, re: fighting to keep us from using Ivermectin in more medically useful ways —
Yes that’s another awful overreach!
They want to make “off-label” use illegal, in general.
End goal: strict control of our healthcare and the very big dollars involved.
Not to mention life & death of the peasants.
How discouraging. I can’t understand a Frenchman speaking English either!
I saw some alarming things about what they were going to do with the inside of Notre Dame. This video isn’t too specific about this. I hope it is not radically changed.
Kate:
Me too. I was hoping the video would put my mind at ease.
I think [RFK Jr. is] the source of the theory that MMR shots cause autism, which is not supported by evidence.
–Kate
He’s certainly a source, but he’s just a civilian. It was The Lancet, a top British medical publication, which really stepped in it:
____________________________
The Lancet MMR autism fraud centered on the publication in February 1998 of a fraudulent research paper titled “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” in The Lancet.[1] The paper, authored by now discredited and deregistered Andrew Wakefield, and listing twelve coauthors, falsely claimed non-existent, causative links between the MMR vaccine, colitis, and autism.
As far as I’m concerned, medical science has made a bonfire of its credibility going back for decades.
Looking at the various current threads for discussion here, and reflecting on the bulk of past threads, these topics certainly seem to testify to our descent into decadence on virtually all fronts.
I thought that some time ago I read that there were some involved in the restoration who wanted to “modernize” Notre Dame, turn some or all of it into some sort of “homage” to “modernity” or some such by including, say, something like the glass pyramid at the Louvre.
But I thought that that idea was ultimately rejected in favor just restoring it exactly as it had been.
the lancet has continue to sink into the mire, in 2004 with the Iraq war, thereabouts and most recently repeating feely ferguson’s dubious lockdown and hcq proscriptions,
having skimmed through his book, he notes how fauci has repeated breached ethical and possibly criminal standards, and his second lieutenant was bill gates for at least the last decade or so,
miguel – The Lancet editor is Full On SWJ Wokie. At Powelineblog, Hinderaker did a nice, brief expose with LINKS, “The ‘Science’ isn’t science. In 2017, the editor wrote that he believe Marxism is the key to good Public Health!
In 2020, climate blogger Paul Homewood tells us that The Lancet editor backs the wacko pseudo-scientific Extinction Rebellion.
August is not the month to visit Paris, unless you like empty streets and a quiet city. I used to go through Paris every other year to return to my posting in Africa, and I usually spent one or two nights in the city just because I could do so at no extra expense.
About 40 years ago I was transitting Paris on my way back to post and had a day to kill. I walked and walked, especially on left bank, where there are small shops with lots of African art (which I collect).
I walked out of one small street and found myself looking at île de la cité and Notre Dame. So I crossed the bridge, walked into the cathedral, and took a seat in a pew near the back. There was a handful of people there, each captured by their own thoughts. It was very quiet, as only a large building can be.
Then the organist began to practice. It was a magical moment — the large organ filling that giant building with sound even though the volume was very low. I didn’t recognize the music, but it filled the cathedral and filled my soul. I stayed until he finished practicing for the next service, then left quietly. Pure magic.
Watching Gen Saltzman on C-Span. First time that I’ve seen the Space Force unifom – or at least flag officers uniform.
It looks like a 19th century Naval uniform. Adm Dewey would feel comfortable.
F:
Lovely story! How I envy your trips to Paris.
Do you speak French? What was it like to see Paris change all those years?
It will be hard to get rid of RFK, Jr. He has Money and can spend it how he wishes. I hope he is a Russian Olive thorn in their sides.
Snow on Pines
“Meanwhile, more masculine, less ‘advanced,’ barbaric cultures gather on these culture’s peripheries, ready to overwhelm these decadent cultures. . .” Does she mean us deplorables?
Matt Taibbi has written an introduction Jacob Siegel’s “Understanding The Hoax” of the century piece, with a big picture interview with the author.
Furthermore, Matt’s seeking broader exposure for himself and Siegel — Taibbi has been itching for somebody to do a serious synthesis of the disinformation fascism we face — and he thinks THIS is it.
ADD THIS to your bookmarks. Siegel wants to go book length. He dishes that he didn’t get anything out on the military side of intelligence, but wishes he can go there. He also hopes to go deeper in The Election Integrity Project which “fortified” (ie, ballot stuffed) the Democrat vote count.
Jacob Siegel could be the next Peter Baker, investigative journalist — or does that sell him too short?
Huxley:
Paris is a large city, and I tend not to favor large cities. But Paris has a charm all its own, and when I would go there I went without an agenda, so I could walk the streets and experience unhurried the architecture, the gardens, and the people who were still in town.
I generally spent at least one day in the Louvre, although on my later trips it was terribly crowded even in August. On a couple of occasions I would visit a friend at the Sorbonne, now called the University of Paris. A disappointing place to visit — not at all like what an old university should be.
And always, I would have a good lunch at a sidewalk cafe and just watch the people walking by. Many were wonderfully stylish, and this was in an era without cellphones so people would actually talk to each other. Overall, my memory from lo these many years is that iIt was like watching an old film, with fewer bicycles and motor scooters in more recent years than was the case during my earlier visits.
I always hoped I might be assigned there for a four-year tour. My friends who were, said it was very different from my unhurried visits when most of the residents were off for their summer vacation. They told me about disputes with French landlords, about crazy traffic, and about nasty weather. Those were not my recollections from my short stays.
Yes, I speak French, with what I’m told is an African accent. After spending more than a dozen years in the francophone part of that continent I suppose that is to be expected. I would have preferred a Parisian accent, or even one from Quebec, as that has a certain quaintness and explains your American wardrobe. Those were good years. Pleasant memories.
F:
Thanks very much for your amplification!
Re huxley — YES, F. Your first hand account is truly evocative.
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Looks like the trans community is now increasingly violent. Two articles today from the Daily Mail on trans violence:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11949057/Terrified-Riley-Gaines-ambushed-screaming-trans-activists-physically-attacked-her.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11948149/Transgender-Colorado-woman-19-arrested-plot-shoot-THREE-schools-churches.html
Misericordia!
The FDA really does want to cause you maximum pain…and more!
“Doctors Appeal Ruling In Favor Of FDA Over Ivermectin Posts, Urge Court To Intervene”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/doctors-appeal-ruling-favor-fda-over-ivermectin-posts-urge-court-intervene
Opening grafs:
‘A group of doctors is urging a U.S. court to block the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from issuing guidance on using ivermectin, in an appeal lodged after a district court judge rejected their bid.
The FDA “cannot advise whether or for what purpose a doctor should prescribe, or a patient should take, an approved drug,” lawyers for Drs. Paul Marik, Mary Talley Bowden, and Robert Apter said in a February brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
‘Ivermectin is approved for several uses, including treating parasites. It is not approved for COVID-19, but prescribing drugs for a different purpose from which they were approved is common and known as off-label use.
‘Apter, Bowden, and Marik have all prescribed patients ivermectin but got into trouble with various organizations, who cited the FDA’s warning not to treat COVID-19 with ivermectin….’ [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
(Indeed, it does…but the FDA’s sheer malevolence should have been clear quite a while ago…)
We have visited Norte Dame several times. We cried while watching the fire ravage her. Last March we took a Dinner Cruise on the Seine and could see the scaffolding. This coming Sept will be in Paris again and I hope to walk by her again. It is the most beautiful building.
Looks like the Dutch are giving Canada a run for its money.
No, it’s not hockey, speed skating or curling…it’s the Euthanasia Olympics.
(Those boers had better get their act together, but soon….)
“Dutch Euthanasia Deaths Soar, Mentally Ill Also Killed”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/04/07/dutch-euthanasia-deaths-soar-mentally-ill-also-killed/
File under: And a new kidney for all who need one…. (Not just kidneys!!)
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is running for President as a Democrat.
This could be very interesting. He is a very vocal COVID vaccine skeptic and wrote an anti-Fauci book. He is outspoken about pharma’s influence on government… If he gets on a debate stage he would force Biden, Newsom and any other candidates into some uncomfortable conversations.
I think he’s also somewhat reasonable on climate change, at least weighing the costs vs. the benefits of government mandates.
the fda is just another revolving door, with each director see gottlieb having the brand logo
This could be very interesting. He [Kennedy] is a very vocal COVID vaccine skeptic and wrote an anti-Fauci book. He is outspoken about pharma’s influence on government…
This morning’s news is that the Biden admin. is going to take action on our nation’s fentanyl crisis. Solution? To put Narcan in the hands of millions of potential drug user’s hands.
Follow the money. It is difficult to be too cynical about our politics today.
TommyJay,
I’m not convinced it’s this simple, but it’s hard to ignore the direct and near perfect correlation with defense spending and pharmaceutical spending.
You can accurately predict the direction of any Federal policy or program by asking the question; what would be best for defense contractors and/or pharmaceutical companies?
Trump did real damage to both while in office; no new wars, slowed existing efforts. And, his right to choose legislation for experimentation with non-FDA approved treatments by terminally ill citizens. Was this the main reason for the unprecedented attack against Trump and his administration?
The nomination process that made whatever changes were necessary to anoint Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, regardless of the results of any primary, I’m sure will treat Kennedy perfectly fairly.
The media that so carefully made sure that all perspectives on COVID and Fauci got a respectful hearing will, I am sure, represent Kennedy’s views perfectly fairly.
I saw some alarming things about what they were going to do with the inside of Notre Dame. This video isn’t too specific about this. I hope it is not radically changed.
physicsguy– The Colorado school shooter-wannabe owned a copy of the Communist Manifesto, called Trump a “con man,” and thought Adam Lanza was smarter than the Columbine killers (“losers” in xer book):
“Whitworth also wrote a troubling list of ‘ways I want to die,’ which included murder, burning alive, and freezing, KRDO said.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/wannabe-shooter-owned-communist-manifesto-called-trump-a-con-man/
It seems as if the current trans movement is behaving more and more belligerently and brazenly violent of late. I don’t think they’ve fully grasped how this behavior is far more likley to drive sympathtic normies away from them rather than toward them.
They’re currently on the wrong side of popular opinion regarding several issues. Those being:
Legally allowing people under the age of 18 to undergo transitional surgeries without parental consent.
Allowing biological males compete in womens sports.
Having public school teachers teach young (k-3) children all about sexuality and transgenderism, often times without parents knowledge or consent.
None of these ideas seem to be particularly popular with a clear majority of normal people. And I don’t believe that becoming more and more violent will lead to the transgender community getting what they believe they’re entitled to. In fact it’s more likely to do the opposite.
@Nonapod:None of these ideas seem to be particularly popular with a clear majority of normal people.
There’s no need for them to please a majority of normal people, as long as they please the elite. If you work (and are not retired) you will be the one fired from your job and having your account closed at your bank if you object. Not any of them.
Re: RkJr running. I think it was yesterday that a CNN talking head right out called Kennedy a “quack” and a danger to society due to his “non-science” based view of the covid vax. The knives are already out; he won’t last long.
Don’t know what is more amazing; the repair/restoration of Notre Dame or the fact that the construction of the cathedral began in the 1300s.
And just as amazing is that Westminster Abbey began construction about 200 years before Notre Dame.
Half the planet’s people (if not more) were still in the Stone Age when Notre Dame and Westminster began construction. Why some civilizations seem to advance well before others is still a mystery to me
I’ve been having a power outage for several hours. Can’t post; I’m writing this comment on my phone. It probably will be a few more hours before power is restored.
Construction of Notre Dame began in 1162 and was largely completed by 1260. These Gothic structures are amazing, especially considering the lack of power construction equipment.
Re: RFK Jr. His problem will be not that he’s been an opponent of the COVID-19 shots, but that he’s been an opponent of practically all vaccines. I think he’s the source of the theory that MMR shots cause autism, which is not supported by evidence.
Hateful, nasty and vile is no way to go through life. Unless you are a Democrat. In that case, it’s just normal daily living. https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-mocks-conservatives-who-lost-everything-in-tornadoes-there-hasnt-been-much-denying-of-climate-change
Two things are amazing about The View. First, that anyone actually watches it, and second, that Whoopi is still employed after one ugly statement on top of another.
Still think the fire was arson, hope it can be rebuild but will not be the historical masterpiece it was.
Trannies are the new Antifa, then BLM.
Mood lighting, light projections on the walls, modern and contemporary art. Nice museum; church, not so much.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/france-approves-controversial-updates-to-notre-dame-cathedral-180979214/
This article says: Some snakes can act like hang-gliders…while they fall, + other snakes can sometimes “do cartwheels” to walk around.
Please give this article a look.
https://www.koat.com/article/snake-cartwheels-to-safety/43515140
Neo, I hope your power is restored soon. And hope it’s not just yours. (More people get attention a bit faster than 1 here & there!)
In central Texas we’ve been in an unusual cold & rainy window for 2 days so far.
Yesterday: we were in the 40’s (– really bizarre for April!), with heavy downpours & savage thunder!
Today’s high: only 53. (–
still better than the coming months of over 100 degrees for weeks.)
I’m hoping this rain deluge fills our lakes. Rain has been rare, for many years.
But Russian oligarchs still haven’t learned to fly after leaving the balcony.
And of course ProPublica is after Judge Clarence Thomas. Despicable sons of bachelors.
RE: Transgender developments as a sign of cultural collapse
Citing the histories of ancient Greece, Rome, and more recently of Weimar Germany, Camille Paglia–author of the 1990 book,”Sexual Personae; Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”–points out that, historically, when cultures reach their end stage–have become decadent and are about to disintegrate–one of the signs of their incipient disintegration is the change from the strictly masculine to a more fluid, more feminine notion of gender as seen in art and culture.
(Meanwhile, more masculine, less “advanced,” barbaric cultures gather on these culture’s peripheries, ready to overwhelm these decadent cultures, and in our instance she points to groups like ISIS) *
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8BRdwgPChQ
nice coinage om, yes pro publica, which is funded by the sendlers who were part and parcel of the subprime collapse, of course demand justice, which is funded by dark money, forced breyer off the court, and persecuted kavanaugh,
Rufus, TommyJay, …
“… what would be best for defense contractors and/or pharmaceutical companies?”
I agree, the gov hated how Trump helped Americans over big defense & pharma.
(His “Right to Try” new yet-unapproved drugs was a wonderful move!)
And now, FDA is pushing to ban our right to use drugs for “off-label use”.
IIRC, they want to make it a crime for doctors to prescribe a drug for off-label use. (– clumsy writing, in a rush).
To defense & pharma powers, I would add the big green industry players. Trump cut back on various overreaching EPA regs, and that stoked another huge hunk of TDS.
Barry —
FDA, re: fighting to keep us from using Ivermectin in more medically useful ways —
Yes that’s another awful overreach!
They want to make “off-label” use illegal, in general.
End goal: strict control of our healthcare and the very big dollars involved.
Not to mention life & death of the peasants.
https://www.racket.news/p/the-craziest-friday-ever
How discouraging. I can’t understand a Frenchman speaking English either!
I saw some alarming things about what they were going to do with the inside of Notre Dame. This video isn’t too specific about this. I hope it is not radically changed.
Kate:
Me too. I was hoping the video would put my mind at ease.
I think [RFK Jr. is] the source of the theory that MMR shots cause autism, which is not supported by evidence.
–Kate
He’s certainly a source, but he’s just a civilian. It was The Lancet, a top British medical publication, which really stepped in it:
____________________________
The Lancet MMR autism fraud centered on the publication in February 1998 of a fraudulent research paper titled “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” in The Lancet.[1] The paper, authored by now discredited and deregistered Andrew Wakefield, and listing twelve coauthors, falsely claimed non-existent, causative links between the MMR vaccine, colitis, and autism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud
____________________________
As far as I’m concerned, medical science has made a bonfire of its credibility going back for decades.
Looking at the various current threads for discussion here, and reflecting on the bulk of past threads, these topics certainly seem to testify to our descent into decadence on virtually all fronts.
I thought that some time ago I read that there were some involved in the restoration who wanted to “modernize” Notre Dame, turn some or all of it into some sort of “homage” to “modernity” or some such by including, say, something like the glass pyramid at the Louvre.
But I thought that that idea was ultimately rejected in favor just restoring it exactly as it had been.
the lancet has continue to sink into the mire, in 2004 with the Iraq war, thereabouts and most recently repeating feely ferguson’s dubious lockdown and hcq proscriptions,
having skimmed through his book, he notes how fauci has repeated breached ethical and possibly criminal standards, and his second lieutenant was bill gates for at least the last decade or so,
miguel – The Lancet editor is Full On SWJ Wokie. At Powelineblog, Hinderaker did a nice, brief expose with LINKS, “The ‘Science’ isn’t science. In 2017, the editor wrote that he believe Marxism is the key to good Public Health!
In 2020, climate blogger Paul Homewood tells us that The Lancet editor backs the wacko pseudo-scientific Extinction Rebellion.
On a brighter note, spend 10 minutes and enjoy this mic dropping Q&A exchange between “What is a woman?” Matt Walsh and a piqued Transgender EMT….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HuOjm9n94ZQ
A APPLAUSE WORTHY CLIMAX he earns!
August is not the month to visit Paris, unless you like empty streets and a quiet city. I used to go through Paris every other year to return to my posting in Africa, and I usually spent one or two nights in the city just because I could do so at no extra expense.
About 40 years ago I was transitting Paris on my way back to post and had a day to kill. I walked and walked, especially on left bank, where there are small shops with lots of African art (which I collect).
I walked out of one small street and found myself looking at île de la cité and Notre Dame. So I crossed the bridge, walked into the cathedral, and took a seat in a pew near the back. There was a handful of people there, each captured by their own thoughts. It was very quiet, as only a large building can be.
Then the organist began to practice. It was a magical moment — the large organ filling that giant building with sound even though the volume was very low. I didn’t recognize the music, but it filled the cathedral and filled my soul. I stayed until he finished practicing for the next service, then left quietly. Pure magic.
Watching Gen Saltzman on C-Span. First time that I’ve seen the Space Force unifom – or at least flag officers uniform.
It looks like a 19th century Naval uniform. Adm Dewey would feel comfortable.
F:
Lovely story! How I envy your trips to Paris.
Do you speak French? What was it like to see Paris change all those years?
It will be hard to get rid of RFK, Jr. He has Money and can spend it how he wishes. I hope he is a Russian Olive thorn in their sides.
Snow on Pines
“Meanwhile, more masculine, less ‘advanced,’ barbaric cultures gather on these culture’s peripheries, ready to overwhelm these decadent cultures. . .” Does she mean us deplorables?
Matt Taibbi has written an introduction Jacob Siegel’s “Understanding The Hoax” of the century piece, with a big picture interview with the author.
Furthermore, Matt’s seeking broader exposure for himself and Siegel — Taibbi has been itching for somebody to do a serious synthesis of the disinformation fascism we face — and he thinks THIS is it.
Therefore, Matt Taibbi has posted up his substack text piece on YouTube — replete with text scroll with the author himself reading it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avi9aXP1eE8&t=473s
ADD THIS to your bookmarks. Siegel wants to go book length. He dishes that he didn’t get anything out on the military side of intelligence, but wishes he can go there. He also hopes to go deeper in The Election Integrity Project which “fortified” (ie, ballot stuffed) the Democrat vote count.
Jacob Siegel could be the next Peter Baker, investigative journalist — or does that sell him too short?
Huxley:
Paris is a large city, and I tend not to favor large cities. But Paris has a charm all its own, and when I would go there I went without an agenda, so I could walk the streets and experience unhurried the architecture, the gardens, and the people who were still in town.
I generally spent at least one day in the Louvre, although on my later trips it was terribly crowded even in August. On a couple of occasions I would visit a friend at the Sorbonne, now called the University of Paris. A disappointing place to visit — not at all like what an old university should be.
And always, I would have a good lunch at a sidewalk cafe and just watch the people walking by. Many were wonderfully stylish, and this was in an era without cellphones so people would actually talk to each other. Overall, my memory from lo these many years is that iIt was like watching an old film, with fewer bicycles and motor scooters in more recent years than was the case during my earlier visits.
I always hoped I might be assigned there for a four-year tour. My friends who were, said it was very different from my unhurried visits when most of the residents were off for their summer vacation. They told me about disputes with French landlords, about crazy traffic, and about nasty weather. Those were not my recollections from my short stays.
Yes, I speak French, with what I’m told is an African accent. After spending more than a dozen years in the francophone part of that continent I suppose that is to be expected. I would have preferred a Parisian accent, or even one from Quebec, as that has a certain quaintness and explains your American wardrobe. Those were good years. Pleasant memories.
F:
Thanks very much for your amplification!
Re huxley — YES, F. Your first hand account is truly evocative.