Category: Current Events

26JAN2022 – OCF Update – This’N’That

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Hello folks.

Here we are in only the last week of January and already Dementia Joe is:

  • Preparing to start World War III with Putin and Xi
  • Planning to impose price controls on the US economy
  • Struggling to find even stupider things to do about COVID
  • Repackaging his Build Back Better disaster into newer and even less appealing “chunks”
  • Calling people racists if they don’t acquiesce to permanent voting fraud
  • Dropping his vocabulary from three hundred words to one hundred seventy five
  • Swearing at the White House Pool reporters

But we have more important concerns here at the Compound.  Camera Girl has heard there is a big snow storm coming on Saturday and she’s concerned.  Reports vary from twelve inches to twenty and she wants me to swear in blood that I’ll have it cleared for Sunday when Princess Sack of Potatoes is arriving for a sleep over event.  I have vowed to use all my snow clearing skills to handle this “blizzard.”

Now all this is hyperbole on her part.  Even twenty inches of snow is hardly a catastrophe.  In the good old days we’ve had thirty inch snow falls and they are nothing more than a day’s worth of work.  Not fun but not disastrous.  In fact thirty inches of dry snow is much easier and safer to deal with than a half inch of freezing rain turning to ice.  But I talked up my heroism in the face of climate catastrophe and vowed to clear that road!

I’ve discovered that my Capture One photo post processing software will not read the raw files from my new Sony A7 IV camera.  So I must buy the upgrade for the software.  And that’s not a problem except that means I’ll have to link that computer to the internet to download the upgrade.  And that means Microsoft will start messing with my Windows program to force a bunch of patches on it.  I’ll see if I can shut down those Windows programs.  I hate that stuff rattling around my desktop so I have that computer isolated from the internet for years at a time but then when I do have to connect it causes massive attacks by Microsoft and a few other software companies.  Ah, such is life.

I heard about the size of that Canadian trucker protest from Neil.  I’m curious to see if the Canadian feds buckle under the pressure.  I wonder if the truckers intend to call a strike.  Now that would get the attention of the population pretty quickly.

This seems to be another indicator that the world is fed up with COVID, vaccines, masks, mandates and petty dictators.  The Brits and the Irish have already thrown in the towel.  Individual states and the Supreme Court have chipped away at pieces of the insanity but Brandon is still hanging onto that albatross that is rotting around his neck.  I’m guessing he will “pivot” in about a month and declare victory.  Well, good luck with that.  My guess is he’s already pissed off so many of even his own voters that November is going to be a butt kicking to remember for the Evil Party.

And it’s time to start thinking about doing taxes again.  The IRS has gotten hyperactive of late so I use a professional advice.  I wonder what nasty surprises await me this year.

I found a cache of museum pictures I took about eight years ago of armor and other ancient war equipment.  I’ll sprinkle them in the daily photos as a change of pace.  I must get out and see some new stuff but the weather has been unhelpful of late.  Apparently that global warming is extremely unreliable around here.

I read about Trump’s new social media project coming on line in April or so.  I wonder if it will be all that much.  I did see that Bongino and Rumble has some sort of payment processing company that he claims is cancel proof.  Now that’s something I’m interested in.  I’ll have to check it out to see if it would be useful to me.

Well stay tuned and I should have something interesting today.

Post Covid

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As we continue along the painfully slow awakening from the COVID fever dream I guess it’s time to start wondering what will be the result of this whole thing. One of the things I’ve been debating is what percentage of people will continue to believe that all of this was justified. Another thing that I think about is will anyone go back and try to sort through all the lies and misleading information that were used to justify so many harmful actions.
For instance, for two years, we’ve handled statistics for hospitalizations and deaths that substituted cases that included COVID for cases caused by COVID. If this one thing were clarified it might enrage most of the country at the obvious dishonesty perpetrated. Another example is the refusal to admit that anyone who had COVID either asymptomatically or otherwise was just as immune (or more so) as someone who had been vaccinated and therefore shouldn’t have to be vaccinated.
One thing that seems clear is that someone like Fauci needs to be fired immediately. I’ve seen a video clip of his various pronouncements on masks, vaccines, boosters, mandates and other things. He has contradicted himself on almost every position and yet somehow, he claims he’s always following the science. This little troll is a pathological liar and is probably responsible for half of the anger afflicting Americans today. A doctor is supposed to, “first, do no harm.” That seems to be the opposite of what he does. The fact that he is one of the highest paid bureaucrats in the country is an affront to every tax payer living.
Another aspect of all that’s happened that needs daylight shed on it is the actual safety of the vaccines. The death and injury caused by these vaccines has never been tracked for the public beyond incidental news stories of unusual occurrences like teenagers and twenty-somethings dying of heart attacks and strokes. What needs to be aired is just how high the injuries and deaths are from these vaccines as compared to other vaccines like a flu shot. Without an honest appraisal of these injuries, doubt and anger will live on for decades and will hamper any subsequent vaccine effort, no matter how necessary it might be.
And finally, a law needs to be put in place to absolutely prohibit forcing Americans to submit to medication. Even if COVID really had been the bioweapon it was meant to be, people in the United States are supposed to be free. Forcing them to be used as guinea pigs for a biological agent whose efficacy and safety are wholly unknown is a crime that should disqualify those politicians from ever holding office again.
But the truth is nothing will be done. Our politicians are cowards and they bow before the might of the all-powerful administrative state. Fauci will be there as long as he wants. Morons in California and New York will continue to vote for creatures like Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo. The only good that has come from this whole fiasco is that some of us now see who the few leaders were who stood between us and the bureaucracy that wanted to treat us like cattle and trample on our rights. I guess the best example was DeSantis. He stood single-handedly against the Biden administration and the school boards and represented us and our children. And now it can be seen clearly that Florida has continued to live normally while every blue state is only now slowly staggering toward the light and realizing what they sacrificed.

Update

Chemist –

I’m a numbers guy.
Let’s put some numbers to this, shall we?
The number of Covid deaths over the past 2 years is about 800,000.
The director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, is on record telling us that 75% of those deaths were to people with four or more comorbidities!
FOUR OR MORE!
How many with 3? 2? 1?
How many people died from Covid and Covid alone? I don’t know, but since 25% of 800,000 is 200,000 we know that the number is less than that – so less than 100,000 per year.
In a year with a particularly deadly flu season, 50,000 people die from the flu.
It is safe to say that the Covid death toll is about on a par with a bad flu season and we don’t shut down the economy, make people wear useless masks, and inject them with untried vaccines for that!

Another number – again from the CDC: Natural immunity is six times more effective than artificial immunity from the “Vaccines.”
SIX TIMES!
Why then are we screaming that “Everyone mush get the jab!” when people who already had the disease are far better protected than the vaccinated?
Is it because the bureaucrats are lazy and don’t want to be bothered with the effort of tracking natural immunity?
Is it because its hard to say who has natural immunity? (Its not – a simple blood test will do.)
Or is it because the pharma companies got tens of billions of dollars from the federal government?
You decide. Corruption or sloth?
I know: “Embrace the power of and”.

 

I think if we had competent national health officials they would have embraced the idea of providing the elderly and chronically ill with isolation and treatments like anti-virals and other agents for pneumonia instead of locking down healthy adults and unaffected children.  Instead we got Fauci banging the cash register for Pfizer and Moderna.  I hate that man.

Update

Neil:

This is a twitter thread with videos from Canada about 50,000 trucks and 500,000 people heading
to Ottawa to protest the COVID mandate, etc. I found this very encouraging.

https://twitter.com/QuigginReport/status/1485422780015329281?s=20

 

What I Want to Hear From the 2024 Candidate

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Whether Donald Trump runs for president again and whether he or someone else wins the nomination that man owes us something. He owes us a blueprint of how he is going to change America back into a free country again. Here’s my wish list.
1) He has to explain how he’s going to make the Justice Department accountable to the presidency again.
2) Fire 90% of the FBI and start over. Get them out of the business of spying on Americans.
3) He has to show how he will eliminate or at least reform the Patriot Act.
4) He has to pledge to fire Anthony Fauci if the dirtbag is still employed by the federal government at that point.
5) He has to explicitly detail how he will deport all the illegal immigrants that invaded our country during the Obama and Biden administrations.
6) He has to criminalize any city or state using selective enforcement of laws by police and prosecutors to punish its own citizens. Especially for racial reasons. That means any state allowing BLM or Antifa to attack its own citizens will be punished severely.
7) He has to detail the plan he will use to get the Supreme Court to rule against affirmative action.
8) He has to detail the plan he will use to get the Supreme Court to restore the right to free association.
9) He has to detail the plan he will use to get the Supreme Court to reconsider the constitutional right to same-sex marriage .
10) He has to detail the plan he will use to get the Supreme Court to review all the restrictions on free speech that “woke-ism has spawned.
11) He has to shut down the Education Department.
12) He needs to pass a parents’ bill of rights that protects children from teachers and social workers who want to usurp parents’ authority to raise their children as they see fit.
13) He needs to provide school vouchers for parents who don’t like what the public schools provide either academically or socially.
14) He has to show the leadership to fund safe nuclear power plants. Some day we’ll run out of fossil fuels and we need a cheap source of energy to produce a fuel for our cars. Nuclear provides it.
15) He needs to punish the globalists who de-industrialized the United States and reward companies who will re-industrialize our country.
16) He needs to emulate Hungary and come up with federal incentives for women to stay home and raise more than a couple of kids.
17) He needs to prosecute the Silicon Valley companies for discriminating against conservatives.
18) He needs to bust up the monopolies, especially Amazon and Google.
19) He needs to prosecute anti-white bias in all its forms.
20) Outlaw gender re-assignment “medicine” for any patient under the age of thirty.

Now my list probably doesn’t match the one you have in your head. But I’m sure I’ve covered a lot of the same bases. I could have added even more. Things like homosexuals and women in the military but that’s enough for now. Have to save something for the second term. I’m interested in feedback on this one. What would you add? What would you delete? Leave it in the comments.

The COVID Cult Continues to Crumble

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Even an imbecilic inhabitant of Quebec secretly yearns to live like a Floridian even though his programming battle against reality in the freedom of Miami that surrounded him on his visit there.

It’s easy to spot Canadians at restaurants, as we’re the ones properly masked and nervously sitting on the terrace, even in the rain.

You can see the difference in the media, too. In Quebec, COVID totally dominates the news, because there’s almost nothing else happening.

In Florida, entire conversations happen without the C-word mentioned, unless you bring it up — which, of course, I did. I asked a group of seven 60-somethings I met at a restaurant terrace how they felt about Florida’s non-existent pandemic rules.

Every last one said they loved how Florida handles things. In the words of one woman “Our philosophy here is: I look after myself and you look after yourself. If you want to wear a mask indoors, you should. If you don’t want to go to a restaurant, you shouldn’t.”

When I asked about our collective responsibility to protect others she shrugged and said: “That’s just not how we think here.”

I mentioned Quebec’s recent curfew, but they all just laughed, dismissing it as “Canadian communism.” Many others obviously agree as more people moved to Florida during the pandemic than any other state .

Thousands of Quebecers have also looked into moving there since the pandemic.

It’s a tale of two worlds. Like most Canadians, I still think collective safety trumps some individual rights. But I’d prefer something between the cowboy individualism of Florida and the heavy-handed paternalistic rules of Quebec during this fifth wave.

You can hear both the sneer of superiority based on his alleged moral superiority and the wail of misery because he lives in a lifeless isolation ward of a country.  Canadians are just New Englanders with even more snow.  Misery is their natural element.  God bless Ron DeSantis for showing the world that the COVID emperor has no clothes.

I read Ireland is following Britain in eliminating the COVID mandates.  Who’s next?

How Do Things Get Better?

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Even though it’s clear that Biden’s presidency and by extension, the Left’s management of the blue cities and states, and the Left’s social hegemony are all demonstrably crashing and burning around us, it’s not clear to me how we reverse the course we’re on.

For example, the Supreme Court has ruled against Biden’s corporate vaccine mandate.  Okay, but how do we go from there to getting our lives back from all aspects of the COVID regime.  When can we stop pretending that being forced to wear a mask is a normal part of living in a free country?  When will forcing people to have their children injected with an unsafe vaccine be recognized as a crime?  When will we prosecute government doctors for lying about the actual numbers of people being harmed by COVID?  Currently none of those things seem even remotely close to happening.

I won’t even go into the crime wave engulfing the blue cities.  With leftists firmly entrenched in the city governments, there is not even a possibility of those places returning to normalcy in the foreseeable future.  Those areas will become no-go zones for normal people who don’t want to risk life and limb.

I’m afraid the answer to my question is they don’t anytime soon.  We will have to wait until November of this year to see the first chapter to the road to recovery.  When the Dems lose control of the Senate and House that will deprive Dementia Joe of one of his levers of power.  We will no longer have to depend on Joe Manchin to protect us from unlimited looting of the treasury by pork-filled trillion-dollar bills that line the pockets of “green” lobbyists and their Congressional clients.  And it should put an end to corrupt judges that Biden has been seating on the federal judiciary.  But think of it.  We have three more years of this nightmare.

So, what that tells me is the only way things get better is when we make them better ourselves.  And that begins when we stop pretending that we can depend on the federal government and their woke cronies for anything.  Lies and betrayal are their stock in trade.  Look over your assumptions on how you live your life.  For instance, if you live in or near a blue city do you assume that the police department in your area will keep you, your family and your possessions safe?  In the wake of the 2020 riots and looting is that a realistic assumption?  And if not, what is your smartest realistic option?  Should you move?  Should you buy a gun?  Should you make changes in the way you live your life?

These same questions should be asked about the state you live in.  If you’re tired of wearing a mask and being injected with unsafe medicines maybe living in a place like Florida might make more sense.  And that goes for other problems with blue states.  The high cost of living and the restrictions on freedoms are quite oppressive for some people’s tastes.

Look at who your friends are.  Can you depend on them?  Do they believe in what you do?  If not, maybe you need to find some people who do.  Seek out like minded people and get to know them.

And how about the way you spend your money?  Are you supporting the worst corporate offenders when it comes to Woke capitalism?  Coca Cola, Nike, and a whole host of corporations spit in your face every day.  Don’t you think you should go out of your way to seek out the few companies that at least stay neutral on the culture wars and reward them with your patronage.  Maybe you can make it a goal of finding one good company or website or movie every year and spending your money with that thing.  Here’s something easy.  Stop using Google for your search engine.  Use DuckDuckGo.  That will be helping them, hurting Google (infinitesimally) and helping yourself by avoiding Google’s prying eyes.  And most importantly tell ten conservative friends to check out Orion’s Cold Fire.  What better way is there to stick it to Dementia Joe?

My takeaway is things only get better when you act to make them better.  I’m not saying don’t vote for the better candidate.  You must.  But it’s not enough.  Your life has to reflect the things you believe in and that may mean making some changes.  And then maybe things will get better.  At least for you.

Aldous Huxley Precisely Foretold the Deep State 64 Years Ago

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Read this:

“In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a congestion of power able to shape and defy popular will. “Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature,” he predicted. “The quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism.”

The changes, according to the author of Brave New World, would be almost imperceptible. “All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial,” he continued. “Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.””

How’s that for hitting the bulls-eye from more than half a century in the past.

A Rabid Leftist Admits His Side Went Nuts When They Closed the Schools

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Jonathan Chait is a certified leftist loon, as bad as they come.  But even this dishonest cretin knows when his side has gone off the reservation

“…the Democratic Party’s internal debate on school closings was making room at the table for some truly unhinged ideas. The head of the largest state’s most powerful teachers union insisted on the record “there is no such thing as learning loss” and described plans to reopen schools as “a recipe for propagating structural racism.”

“Parents who advocated for school reopening were repeatedly demonized on social media as racist and mischaracterized as Trump supporters. Members of the parent group I helped lead were consistently attacked on Twitter and Facebook by two Oakland moms with ties to the teachers union. They labeled advocates’ calls for schools reopening “white supremacy,” called us “Karens,” and even bizarrely claimed we had allied ourselves with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s transphobic agenda.”

Obviously the Democrats are in the pocket of the teachers’ unions.  They sacrificed our children’s well being to placate the teachers.  And it’s going to be one of the things that cost them seats in Congress this fall.  Too bad it couldn’t see them prosecuted too.

Gangsters in Chicago Let Illinois Governor Know Who’s in Charge

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You can’t make this stuff up.  Even Al Capone couldn’t run amok like this.

“A crime spree unfolded recently in Chicago that evoked a scene from “The Godfather.” In one of the more memorable moments in movie history, the Corleone family leaves a severed horse’s head in the bed of the fictitious movie mogul Jack Woltz as a sign of their power. Earlier this month in the Windy City, thieves broke into two northside stores and stole cash registers. They emptied the contents and then dumped the empty registers on the front lawn of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s private home in Chicago’s swankiest neighborhood.”

And:

“Consider, for example, that Chicago saw six children shot this past Tuesday in just a matter of hours. The violence commenced with the afternoon murder of a 15-year-old high school freshman, Caleb Westbrook, who was killed in broad daylight as he walked home from school on Chicago’s west side. The ages of the victims shocked even a city very accustomed to war-like street violence. Chicago “won” the dubious title of America’s deadliest city in 2021, with almost 800 total murders, the most in over 25 years. The death toll could have been higher but for expert emergency room skills in Chicago hospitals, because over 3,500 people were shot in Chicago in 2021. Local health care workers have become so proficient at treating gunshot wounds that the U.S. military sent  medical staffers to Second City hospitals to train before deployment to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

I’m glad to hear that Chicago is reaching Mogadishu level so quickly.  As I’ve often said it will take rampant cannibalism to finally force the inhabitants to admit they’re wrong about police and crime.  Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on.

Larry Correia Shows How Mocking Biden is Really Done

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Larry gives a master class in wiping the floor with Dementia Joe’s stupid face.  It’s a humbling experience to see a master of the art apply a verbal smackdown on my favorite victim.

Bravo Larry Bravo.

This is a good bit:

“Biden has accomplished exactly one thing. And that’s demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt to all reasonable, thinking Americans that democrats are total shit at governing. They talk a big game, but it’s all just platitudes, wishful thinking, and magic unicorns farting free shit. Their claimed philosophy is childlike and disintegrates when it touches reality, exposing their actual philosophy, which is draconian control freaks who are compelled to meddle in everything. And the less they understand something, the more they feel the need to fuck with it.”

Meatloaf May be Dead, But He Still Owes Me Thirteen Bucks

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Back in 1978 when Camera Girl and I were still newlyweds and music concerts were still a very important part of the youth culture, I bought two $6.50 tickets to see Meatloaf perform the Bat Out of Hell songs on a local college stage but just days before that concert, the big fat  dopey bastard falls off a concert stage and breaks his leg and we never got the chance to see him again.

But never let it be said that I can’t hold a grudge beyond the grave.  I still have the tickets and a bargain’s a bargain.

Meatloaf, you big fat dopey bastard, you still owe me one Bat Out of Hell concert.  You’re gonna have to perform it even if it is at the gates of hell.  See you there.