Category: Current Events

Why Write This Stuff?

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As D3F1ANT commented yesterday “But saying this, again, is ALSO akin to standing on deck with water at your neck. We’ve known this for as long as we’ve known the ship is sinking.”

He’s right.  There’s nothing more to say.  We already know what must be done.  But is there anyone willing to do it?  Maybe a DeSantis or an Abbott is willing to take on Washington.  I don’t know.  I’m watching and hoping but I’m not sure.

So why do I post this stuff?  I’m looking for other people who think like me.  I want to be a part of anything that could help.  And if it turns out that nothing will happen then I’m looking for a place to go.  I’m looking for a corner of the world where I can go to live with people that are like me.  It’s pretty awful in the blue states.  You feel like a zoo animal and you get tired of being an outsider.  One of these days I’ll convince Camera Girl that the grandkids can come visit us for a change.

So I talk to folks in other parts of the country where things aren’t as bad and I think about how I might fit in somewhere else.  Florida, Texas, Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas.  I think about lots of places where I could settle in and have neighbors and live in a town where my beliefs wouldn’t make me a pariah.

I write the political posts about what the latest outrage is from Dementia Joe or I talk about some positive result by a guy like DeSantis to keep my own spirits up.  And I put up my entertainment posts on books and movies and anything I find interesting like photography.  I try to do my part to provide something on-line that isn’t the garbage that the Left mandates.  Sometimes it’s discouraging because there’s just bad news as far as the eye can see.  But I think of what kind of odds there were against guys like Solzhenitsyn and Havel back in Russia and Czechoslovakia and I think things are nowhere near as bad here.  And I feel it’s worthwhile to keep writing and holding out for some kind of breakthrough.  Maybe somewhere someone will take a stand and give us all something to rally around.  I think that someone will say no and then make it stick.  And once it happens people will light a million fires and it will be too big for Washington to stamp them all out.

That’s what I hope will happen.

13SEP2021 – OCF Update – This”N”That

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I read some of Bush II’s 9/11 speech.  Boy, he’s really either an idiot or a liar.  Or maybe both.  That man was given all the support any president ever had and he abused it in a way that was criminal.  I gave him every benefit of the doubt and he failed us every single way he could.  He should just shut up and disappear.  With Biden, Obama, W and the Clintons all at one place at the same time it’s a shame that the Earth didn’t split open and swallow them all up once and for all.  What a better world it would be.

Another beautiful early September day.  The dragonflies are in a frenzy eating all the mosquitoes and gnats that fill the air and at night the bats take over, flitting around in the air like dive bombers.

 

Camera Girl’s gardens are essentially done.  Too much rain this year stunted the plants and curtailed the amount of produce she got.  A very strange year in terms of weather.  We closed up the pool last week and now I have to concentrate on repairing all the myriad things that break around here.  I’ve got wood damage on the garage wall, the lower balcony railing and the outside stair railing.  The pool fence needs shoring up and the poison ivy has to be beaten back in a number of places.  Ah the joy of country living.

Wednesday is the Republican Party monthly meeting in my area.  I’m not sure whether I should just go there to listen or leap up on a table and start into a Henry V speech.

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

Or maybe I’ll just listen to what they actually do there.

Some family visits coming up and a big party at the beginning of October so good stuff to keep me occupied.  There are kids’ birthdays and some photography outings planned and lots of other diversions so maybe I can forget for a part of the time that I live in Dementia Joe’s America.  Is this still the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?  It doesn’t appear so.  Maybe we’ll have to change the name.

Well let’s hope tomorrow has happier news to consider.

Lower the Lifeboats!

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I was thinking about writing yet another post about just how demented Joe Biden is when I couldn’t do it.  I felt like a guy standing on a sinking ship with water up to his neck screaming, “The ship is sinking!”  Sure, it would be a demonstrably true statement but what he should be screaming is, “Head for the lifeboats!”

And that’s where I think we are.  It’s time to stop pointing at the federal government and screaming that it’s illegitimate and instead start putting together a shield against it.  Now theoretically that would be the Republican Party but I won’t make you laugh or cry by saying that.  We need a new organization to coordinate activities and goals across the whole range of red state governments and other organizations that can resist the malevolent actions of the Left coming at us from Washington and all the resonant power structures it leads in the public and private spheres.

This organization must have the purpose of leading the efforts to save the freedoms of the people of the United States of America.  It will be funded by those people to identify and facilitate the actions needed and assist the agents who could perform these actions.  Specifically, the leadership of this organization needs to formulate legislation to be adopted on the state level and wherever possible on the federal level and coordinates with the state leaders to get it enacted.  In my mind the heads of this organization will include many of these state leaders as its executive board.  In addition, I can see this organization passing on marching orders to the congressional Republicans and in fact applying pressure to these senators and representatives to toe the line with the clear understanding that deviation from the program will result in negative publicity and a primary challenge at the next election.  And along with this stick they can use the carrot of campaign financing to assure compliance.

In essence I’m talking about a new political organization.  It doesn’t have to field any separate candidates.  They can run as Republicans.  But the important thing is that this organization doesn’t care what Mitch McConnell wants or Kevin McCarthy or even for that matter Donald Trump.  It must be answerable to the people who send in a hundred dollars or even five dollars.  It must be answerable to the people who don’t want to have to wear a mask to go to work or go to school.  It’s answerable to the people that don’t want a thing like BLM or antifa to exist.  But the most important attribute it must possess is effectiveness.  It must win victories for our people.  It must be smart enough to select targets that it can defeat.  And it must be able over time to show significant progress against the almost endless assaults that people in this country have been prey to for almost seventy years now.

I’ll leave it to some clever people to give it a name and a symbol.  It could be the Constitutional Party or the MAGA Party or the “Enough is Enough” Party.  But whatever we call it and whoever starts it, whether Donald Trump or some other billionaire or even if all the best governors like DeSantis and Abbott and whoever else get together to spark this fire it needs to start organizing the scattered resistance we see now into something effective and powerful and permanent.  Because if no one mans the lifeboats we’re gonna go down with this sinking ship.

11SEP2021 – OCF Update

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What a beautiful day.  Late summer has an amazing feel to it.  There’s almost a stillness.  As if it’s a pause before the descent.  Most of the plants are still alive but they’re almost ready to give up.  I walked around the yard and the gardens and the woods.  Sort of fixing it in my mind’s eye before the leaves change color and the flowers all dry up.

I thought about writing a 9/11 post today and decided not to.  Maybe a different day I’ll have something worth saying but today I’d rather not even think about it.  It’s too bitter.

I’m very curious to see what kind of trouble Biden tries to make for DeSantis.  That should be pivotal to where all of this will be going.  Will we endure a forever pandemic or will the free areas break free of the charade and move on?

I hope everyone enjoys this beautiful day and puts it to some good use.  I’ve got to take apart a pen that we were using for an outdoor rabbit enclosure.  Petey boy nipped one of the grandkids so out he went.  I’m glad he’s gone.  He was a loafer who didn’t pull his own weight around here.  But for Camera Girl’s sake I kept it to myself.  Let this be an object lesson to the hamster and the guinea pigs.  You are expendable.  So toe the line.

 

Well stay tuned.  Interesting subjects are always popping up.

How Well Does a Bio-Weapon Age?

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COVID-19 has been banging around for a couple of years now.  When it first hit the street, it did a number on Europe and North America but less damage in Africa, Asia and South America.  In 2021 the “Delta Variant” began killing off significant numbers of Brazilians and Indians.  And after the vaccination of the entire world the virus is still taking its tithe.

I decided I wanted to take a look at what’s going on to have something to compare to what the Great Half-Wit Liar had to say last night.  First off, he said that the great unwashed who haven’t been vaccinated are the Great Satan.  Apparently, they are filling up the ICU beds that otherwise could be used for the victims of amateur silicone buttocks enhancement mishaps.  But he also wanted to clarify that vaccinations are highly effective.  And that he would make sure that the private sector would be unleashed to punish anyone who didn’t get vaccinated.  And he also said we’d all be wearing masks again.  And, once again, if we do all the things he asks we can go back to our normal lives.

Put all that together and you have a totally incoherent set of claims and requirements.  If vaccines are highly effective why are vaccinated people wearing masks?  And if they’re highly effective why did the Delta Variant cause a spike in cases and deaths?  And if they’re highly effective why are vaccinated people catching and transmitting COVID?

And finally, why should we believe that he’s going to let us go back to our normal lives after he told us that same exact thing six months ago?

So, that’s all part one.  Joe is trying to make this thing happen and the biggest threat is Florida.  If Florida manages to ignore him and return to normal life it will be the biggest thumb in the eye to his presidency since the Kabul Catastrophe.  So, I assume Joe will go after DeSantis hammer and tongs.  Ron, you have my full sympathy and prayers for success.

Part Two:

Assuming that COVID-19 was a bio-weapon that accidentally got out of the lab, what is its future?  Well, so far, it’s doing pretty well.  It kills about ten times as many people as the common flu.  It tends to kill the same people who usually die from the flu.  It just kills them more efficiently.  It is harvesting the very old and the chronically ill.  It overcomes those with less ability to manage the respiratory tract symptoms.  The fact that it kills the old and weak explains to me why it attacks first-world countries harder.  I’m guessing there aren’t as many ninety-year-old Nigerians or Ghanaians.  For that matter the third world probably doesn’t have as many chronically ill people.  They tend to die earlier there.

So, this bio-weapon isn’t an extinction event but it is killing millions of people.  And the first major variant is still lethal in the same way as the original strain.  And as has been noted about corona viruses, the mutant strains are not well protected against by a vaccine for the original strain.  What about the Mu Variant?  Maybe it’s just as virulent and just as hard to protect against as the Delta Variant.  In that case we’ll see another spike in the winter.  And unless the COVID mutations start losing their potency we’ll see this COVID season happening every year and carrying away ten times as many people as the flu virus.

What would that look like?  Well, it might resemble our world back before we had antibiotics.  Back then pneumonia was much more serious situation.  The mortality rate was probably from ten to a hundred times higher than it is today.

Or it might trigger the medical community to make the same effort they did during the AIDS epidemic and find a reliable treatment that allowed most of the old and sick people to survive the onslaught of COVID.  I would assume that is the preferrable route for us to take.  But with Dementia Joe calling the shots maybe it’s too much to ask for.

But the other thing to remember is that these viruses do tend to mutate away from high lethality.  If that occurs then COVID might end up being a flu-like disease and would go back to being a background part of the human epidemiological environment.

Let’s see what November brings.  If the deaths shoot back up to a couple of thousand deaths of Americans a day, then COVID may be a permanent part of our lives.  In which case I’d say don’t bank on living to ninety anymore.  You’d be bucking the odds.

The Crisis of the 21st Century

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The Twentieth Century was the American Century.  And the Ruling Elite created the American Dream to fuel it.  They fed us the Walt Disney/Norman Rockwell version to get us to fight World War II and then they handed us the Right Stuff version to get to the moon and beat the Soviets.

But somewhere near the end of the last century this elite decided that they really didn’t want to be Americans.  They wanted to be the masters of the universe and rule Planet Earth in its entirety.  We got a preview of this when George H. W. Bush spoke of the “new world order.”  Well, the cat is now thoroughly out of the bag.  Our services are no longer required.  The people who own most of the wealth and control everything of importance are saying in no uncertain terms to get lost.

And to be totally honest my first impulse is to say goodbye.  Who wants to be somewhere you’re not wanted?  But as a practical consideration where can I go?  I guess I can return to the land of my ancestors.  I hear the pasta there is really good.  But the problem is that after four generations you become the place you’re from.  I’ll always be a twentieth century American.  That was the world I grew up in and knew.  I wouldn’t know how to be an Italian at this point if I tried for the rest of my life.  And the same goes double for anyplace else.  Sure, I might be able to make a living and I might be able to find a place there but it would never be home.  Leaving this country would be the last desperate act of a man with no other choice.  And I assume this is the case for tens of millions of other Americans who are no longer welcome in the land they were born in.  Where can they go?  The answer is nowhere.  We’re stuck.

What our betters hope happens to us is a quick death.  Their best case is opioid overdose.  The worst case is a marginal life as a welfare case with a shortened lifespan and no descendants.  This is the fate of people that no longer fit in with the plan.  And they’ve already made a decent start to the plan.  Lots of devastated areas of the rust belt are curling up and dying.  Upstate New York, Western Pennsylvania, large swaths of Appalachia, the upper Midwest and various places around the country are shocking remnants of what they were fifty years ago.  Some of them are almost depopulated.

But something happened back in 2016 that wasn’t supposed to happen.  Donald Trump held up a mirror to men like Jeb Bush and John Kasich and exposed them for the con men that they were.  They were in on the racket and were meant to block the emergency exit that people flee to when the building is on fire.  In the past when the Democrats got tired of the working-class people the people could go to the Republicans and get relief.  But the Bushes were given the franchise by the Democrats to hold that exit closed.  Both George Bushes did an excellent job at that station.  Now it was Jeb’s turn but Trump blew his cover.  He told us the true story.  And we got four years of relief and daylight.  We got a reprieve.

But in 2020 the Deep State cemented up the emergency exit and here we are.  We’re stuck inside a burning house and there’s no way out.  If anyone is going to save us it’s going to be ourselves.  No help is coming from Washington.  That’s where the fire is coming from.  If no one steps forward to lead us out then the only thing left is to jump out a window.  And when there is no other choice that’s what you do.  That’s what I consider leaving the country is.  It’s jumping out the window of a burning building.

But here’s the thing about arson.  If the victims survive the fire, they’re going to come looking for the arsonist.  And there’s a chance his house is made of wood too.  Our masters have depended on the fact that we’re too busy trying to raise our families and live our lives to notice that our masters don’t like us anymore.  Well, we know that now and maybe we’ll find some new masters.  And maybe the old ones are going to go where mobs usually send aristocrats.  Why let a good crisis go to waste?

Biden’s Decision to Push Booster Shots Forced Two FDA Leaders to Quit

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The Biden administration’s push to start triple vaccinating Americans against COVID has triggered the resignation of the two most senior members of the FDA vaccine review office.

“”Marion Gruber and Phil Krause, two of the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine reviewers, are leaving the agency, the regulator confirmed on Tuesday.”

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The White House announced plans to begin administering boosters the week of Sept. 20, a debated decision that got ahead of the FDA completing its own review. The Biden administration was criticized for the public announcement, which puts considerable pressure on the regulator to clear boosters in time for the planned rollout despite limited evidence they are broadly needed at this time for healthy adults.”

The fact that the Biden Administration refused to wait for the FDA to approve the additional dose before rolling it out shows us just what “following the science” means to them.  It means we’re their guinea pigs in a mad scientist version of science.