Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Libertarian America is as deluded today by cannabis as Italy was by astrology during the Renaissance
Taking cannabis regularly in your mid-20s can cause permanent damage to the brain and its legalization in some states has wrongly suggested to many that it is safe, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has told DailyMail.com.
Dr Nora Volkow, who has led the agency for almost two decades, warned that cannabis use among young adults was a 'concern' and called for more 'urgent' research into the 'potential health risks' for the age group.
Her agency — which is part of the National Institutes of Health — revealed Monday that a record number of 19 to 30-year-olds were using cannabis in 2021, with one in ten admitting to using it every day. Around 30 percent used the drug at least once a month, with four-in-ten having used the drug at least once last year. ...
Health agencies in the U.S. have been warning for years there is a 'real risk' that cannabis can harm a person's mental development and their social life — including triggering problems with relationships, education and careers.
But their concerns have largely been swept under the carpet as many states push forward with legalizing the drug for recreational use.
In November another six states — Arkansas, Maryland, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Oklahoma — are set to decide whether to also liberalize the drug's use.
More.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The FBI illegally deprived Trump access to his papers, and the hullabaloo about classified materials is total crap: Merrick Garland is a renegade who should be impeached
The
Presidential Records Act became effective in 1981, at the start of
Ronald Reagan’s
presidency. It established a unique statutory scheme, balancing
the needs of the government, former presidents and history. The law
declares presidential records to be public property and provides that
“the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the
custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential
records.”
The
PRA lays out detailed requirements for how the archivist is to
administer the records, handle privilege claims, make the records
public, and impose restrictions on access. Notably, it doesn’t address
the process by which a former president’s records are physically to be
turned over to the archivist, or set any deadline, leaving this matter
to be negotiated between the archivist and the former president. The PRA explicitly guarantees a former president continuing access to
his papers. Those papers must ultimately be made public, but in the
meantime ... the PRA
establishes restrictions on access to a former president’s records,
including a five-year restriction on access applicable to everyone
(including the sitting president, absent a showing of need), which can
be extended until the records have been properly reviewed and processed.
Before leaving office, a president can restrict access to certain
materials for up to 12 years. ...
In
making a former president’s records available to him, the PRA doesn’t
distinguish between materials that are and aren’t classified. That was a
deliberate choice by Congress, as the existence of highly classified
materials at the White House was a given long before 1978, and the
statute specifically contemplates that classified materials will be
present—making this a basis on which a president can impose a 12-year
moratorium on public access.
Monday, August 22, 2022
Every time you silence someone you make yourself a prisoner of your own action, because you deny yourself the right to hear something
-- Christopher Hitchens, in
. . . from David Irving’s edition of the Goebbels Diaries . . . I learned more about the Third Reich than I had from studying Hugh Trevor Roper and A. J. B. Taylor combined when I was at Oxford.
Sunday, August 21, 2022
John Locke did not believe in a chosen people, American let alone Jewish
In the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another the least pretence to have the right of inheritance.
-- John Locke
Friday, August 19, 2022
The Fed's quantitative tightening is a complete farce, same as under Trump: In the last two months it reduced its balance sheet by $83 billion when in the two months from Feb-Apr 2020 it increased it by $2.5 trillion
These people should be in jail for their crimes against capitalism.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
LOL Liz Cheney, trounced in her Wyoming primary, is "thinking about" running for president
When we had thought about it long enough . . . we declared war on the Union.
Monday, August 15, 2022
Jimmy Carter may very well be as upset as the next guy from Tehran that Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie [Ibn Rushd] has survived the knife attack
Jimmy Carter doesn't have to work too hard to be unlikable, but he does it anyway.
Rushdie for his part, like Rush Limbaugh, is a serial monogamist who can't seem to find a wife he likes, or who likes him.
Or maybe the wives just couldn't stand living under the cloud of the Ayatollah's 1989 fatwa, after which Rushdie divorced three times.
Carter threw gasoline on the fatwa fire with this piece in the paper of record not even three weeks after the fatwa was issued.
Biden lied about American citizens left in Afghanistan saying only 100 remained after the pullout when over 800 have been rescued in the interim
Republican efforts in Congress are responsible for the new information coming to light.
It is unclear how many American citizens still remain in Afghanistan.
Nor is anything said about the fate of tens of thousands of Afghan friends of the US who never made it out despite American promises to bring them here.
600 legal permanent residents of the US have also been rescued.
Columbus Man who said he raped 10-year old on May 12 who eventually had abortion in Indiana on June 30 is allegedly in relationship with her mother who is pregnant by him
10-Year-Old Rape Victim's Mom Is in Domestic Relationship With Child's Alleged Illegal Alien Rapist
He is thought to be an illegal alien from Guatemala and the mother an illegal alien from Mexico.
The Party of Violence desperately wants Election 2022 to be about abortion
Right off the bat this story lies, as usual from The New York Times, by omission:
In Michigan, Democrats took aim at the Republican nominee for governor almost immediately after the primary with a television ad highlighting her opposition to abortion, without exceptions for rape or incest. ...
Some abortion ads use the specific words and positions of Republican candidates against them. ... Some use Republicans’ unyielding stances on abortion to cast them more broadly as extremists.
The ad in Michigan actually says without exceptions for life of the mother, too, which is by itself a drive-by editing lie by "Put Michigan First".
A lie by insertion. Dixon never answered a life of the mother question that way, with "no exceptions".
You see how that works?
The New York Times sort of tells the truth about Dixon's position, which is no exceptions for rape and incest, but lies about the ad, which lies about Dixon's position by making her say something about the life of the mother which she didn't say.
Then later the former paper of record edges close to telling the truth about what's going on in the ad without actually telling you the truth about what's going on in the ad.
The chutzpah.
Democrats lie to you coming and going, and so does the New York Times, but I repeat myself.
Republicans, however, seem hopelessly, perennially, unequipped to counter this disinformation war.
They're like deer in the headlights.
And when the Democrats spot them, they floor it.
Saturday, August 13, 2022
The CDC is no longer saying, as it did in June, that mRNA from the vaccines lasts in the body only "a few days", and that the spike proteins last only "a few weeks"
Here's the screenshot from the "Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines" page as of June 16th:
As of July 15th, the facts have changed!
There's no "few days" language anymore, and no "few weeks" language either. Instead at the bottom of the page there's a link off-site to this page, which talks about how long the mRNA and the spike protein last in monkeys and mice, but not in YOU.
After all this time the CDC has no human data?
I'd be upset if I were you. They've been claiming for more than a year that the mRNA and the spike proteins are gone from the human body within days and weeks. They're not claiming that anymore.
The CDC is sweeping this under the rug hoping you won't notice, announcing, as it is, the new guidance.
Why do excess deaths in the US consistently outnumber pandemic deaths?
In 2020 the difference was a whopping 118,000.
In 2021, when vaccination got into high gear, the difference was way down, but still high at about 36,000. That's at least equivalent to a whole year of influenza deaths.
Many skeptics are convinced the vaccines have something to do with this, and the CDC's deletion of "facts" from the fact box above isn't going to help convince them otherwise.
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