Information Is Power
Good, solid information is the best resource that the public can use. Primary sources when possible and good discussions and studies when informative.
Is it AI | Elon Musk and Donald Trump Danceathon | Video: 36 Seconds
Haters will say this is AI 🕺🕺 pic.twitter.com/vqWVxiYXeD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 14, 2024
The Undeniable Hate Of The Left | Elon Musk | X | Video: 59 Seconds
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2024
Biden’s Latest Jobs Whopper
President Joe Biden’s empty boasts about his economic plan are going to make Americans long for the understatement of Donald Trump. They may already be longing for Trump-era policies on job creation
FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine for Children 12 to 15
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorized use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds in the United States, a crucial step in the nation’s steady recovery from the pandemic and a boon to millions of American families eager for a return to normalcy.
The authorization caps weeks of anticipation among parents, who have been grappling with how to conduct their lives when only the adults in a household are immunized. It removes an obstacle to school reopenings by reducing the threat of transmission in classrooms, and affords more of the nearly 17 million children in this age group opportunities to attend summer camps, sleepovers and Little League games.
“This is great news,” said Dr. Kristin Oliver, a pediatrician and vaccine expert at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. “It feels like we’ve been waiting a long time to start protecting children in this age group.” The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is already available to anyone over 16.
The F.D.A.’s go-ahead is not the final hurdle. An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to meet shortly to review the data and make recommendations for the vaccine’s use in 12- to 15-year-olds.
Facebook oversight board member rips social media giant as ‘inconsistent’ after Trump ban
Former federal judge on board says Facebook’s rules are both “arbitrary” and in “shambles.”
Utah County Censures Mitt Romney for Trump Impeachment Vote
Weber County GOP censured Sen. Mitt Romney Saturday during its convention for the senator’s vote to impeach former President Donald Trump earlier this year.
A Majority of Americans Support ‘Vaccine Passports’ for Some Activities, Poll Finds
by Andrew Trunsky
A majority of Americans support requiring proof of vaccinations when traveling on planes and attending events with large crowds, a Gallup poll released Friday shows.
The survey found that 57% of Americans supported requiring proof of vaccination on airplanes and that 55% supported requiring proof for events like concerts, shows and live sports. Just 43% and 45% of Americans said they were opposed, respectively.
Majorities of Americans, however, rejected “vaccine passports” for dining at restaurants, going to work and staying in a hotel. Just 40%, 45% and 44% of Americans supported requiring proof of vaccination for each activity.
The survey was published as more states plan to lift their coronavirus restrictions in the coming weeks and as more and more Americans get vaccinated, though the daily rate has slowed since April.
“Vaccine passports” became a political lightning rod almost immediately after the idea was floated, with Republicans railing against them and warning that they would infringe on civil liberties and give the government too much power. No more than 28% of Republicans supported requiring proof of vaccination for any of the five activities surveyed.
President Joe Biden’s administration also came out against them, saying that the government had no plans to require or enforce them.
The survey found that at least 62% of Democrats supported requiring proof of vaccination for the activities mentioned, with 85% saying that they supported it for air travel.
“Vaccine passports” have varied by state. Some have either implemented them or allowed private businesses to require them if they so choose, while others, like Florida, Montana and Texas, have passed legislation outlawing them in all forms.
Gallup surveyed 3,731 adults from April 19 to 25, and the poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
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Andrew Trunsky is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
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There Are Simple Reasons Liz Cheney Has To Go
Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Would you follow that guy into battle? Hell no. Even if you weren’t Irish, Italian, or from California, how could anyone trust him?
Now imagine if you’d found out that Eisenhower, as a side gig, was selling surplus ammunition and weapons to the Germans. “Hey, it’s just sitting around not being used, and they asked if I’d sell it to them,” or some such thing. Would anyone have faith in him?
Absolutely not. Yet, that’s what Liz Cheney has done as House Republican Conference Chair. And that’s why she has to go.
Her failure is not because she doesn’t like Donald Trump, that is the least important part of this whole drama, but because she can’t do the job. Her job is to hold the caucus together and advance the Republican agenda. She can’t do it, and it’s all her fault.
Cheney’s raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome aside, she has fired down her own trench too many times. Leaders, effective leaders, don’t attack their own troops. They can have differences with individuals, but when the chips are down, everyone has to be pulling in the same direction.
Scarlett Johansson urges boycott of ‘sexist’ Golden Globes unless organizers implement major reforms
Scarlett Johansson calls for boycott of ‘sexist’ Golden Globes after criticism of the HFPA for having NO black members.
- The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is made up of 90 international entertainment journalists who vote on Golden Globe Award winners
- The organization came under fire earlier this year when it was revealed there was zero black members
- Critics additionally claimed that the HFPA was also less inclusive to women and members of the LGBTQ community
- Earlier this week, the HFPA approved reforms to make their organization more inclusive; they vowed to hire diversity consultants and increase membership
- Scarlett Johansson has now hit out at the HFPA claiming she found the organization ‘sexist’
- She says stars should boycott the HFPA and the Golden Globes unless the reforms are properly implemented
- Fellow A-lister Mark Ruffalo has also hit out at the organization, despite winning a Golden Globe this year
- ‘Honestly, as a recent winner of a Golden Globe, I cannot feel proud or happy about being a recipient of this award,’ he said in a statement
Biden’s new left of racial radicals: Goodwin
The e-mail was short and nasty. After first calling Sen. Tim Scott “the token Uncle Tom” and the N-word, the writer added: “You knuckle dragging conservatives should be sent to the ovens.”
This is how political disagreement is often expressed today.
The writer, Mildred50, if that’s her real name, was one of many on the left who were infuriated that Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina, had the gall to declare that “America is not a racist country” in his rebuttal to President Biden’s address to Congress.
Scott did not duck the unfinished business on race or his experiences of being stopped for no reason by police. He was frank in acknowledging there is more work to do.
But he also put Biden to shame by hailing the enormous progress America has made, in stark contrast to a president who sounds stuck in the past when he compares new voting laws to the Jim Crow era and insists the country remains riddled with “systemic racism.”
For his common sense and optimism, Scott received deserved acclaim and, distressingly, an outpouring of hatred, with the “Uncle Tim” slur trending on Twitter for 12 hours.
Establishment Media Still Fixated on Donald Trump Four Months After Office
The establishment media’s fixation on Donald Trump before and after his astonishing 2016 victory over failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has sustained itself post-presidency.
The media on Saturday compiled the following headlines on their webpages to illustrate the fixation:
CNN:
- The ‘headache’ Trump left behind for Biden on the White House lawn
- Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general, judge rules
- Fact-checking Trump’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state
- Trump probably can’t pardon himself. He may still try
- How Trump’s fundraising could benefit his post-White House political life
- Cheney plans lengthy fight to turn GOP from Trump
- Trump Justice Dept. secretly obtained Post reporters’ phone records
- Liz Cheney’s months-long effort to turn Republicans from Trump threatens her reelection and ambitions. She says it’s only beginning.
- Trump’s out-of-power agenda: Retribution and GOP domination
- Ohio GOP censures Rep. Gonzalez over Trump vote, calls for his resignation
- Marooned at Mar-a-Lago, Trump Still Has Iron Grip on Republicans
- Justice Dept. Seized Washington Post’s Phone Records
- Inside the Decision on Trump’s Facebook Fate
- Virginia G.O.P.’s Choices for Governor: ‘Trumpy, Trumpier, Trumpiest’
- ‘It’s His Own Damn Fault,’ Top G.O.P. Pollster Says of Trump and Facebook
Asian Parents Rally Against NYC Schools Chancellor
Less than 4 percent of students at the city’s specialized high schools are African American, so the chancellor Meisha Ross Porter wants to get rid of the admissions test altogether.
But over 50 percent of students at the city’s specialized high schools are Asian American. A group of people who attended a rally Friday in Manhattan say they earned their right to be there.
Gordon Chang: Communist China Has Committed ‘Mass Murder’ of Americans
Last year, Congressman Eric Swalwell’s ties to the suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang brought Chinese espionage to the forefront of national discussion. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. And beyond espionage, the Chinese Communist Party has become increasingly belligerent globally—from fueling riots in America to encroaching in Nepali territory to celebrating COVID-19 deaths in India. What is the Chinese leadership hoping to achieve, and why do they believe—according to Chang—that they are running out of time? Furthermore, one year on, over 3 million people have died globally from COVID-19. Beyond covering up the initial outbreak, did China’s communist leaders intentionally spread this virus beyond its borders? And if it did, what does that mean for America and the world? In this episode, we sit down with China analyst Gordon Chang to understand the full scope of Chinese communist subversion. Subscribe to the American Thought Leaders mailing list …
Success Academy requiring all employees get vaccinated for COVID-19
The Success Academy Charter Schools network is requiring all employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19, raising questions whether the mandate is legal and will be imposed on all public schools, The Post has learned.
The network, which has 2,700 employees, runs 47 schools with 20,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. The schools — publicly-funded, but privately-managed — have kept all instruction remote since the pandemic, while the city Department of Education has offered in-person learning at many schools for up to five days a week.
But the city has not required teachers or other employees to be vaccinated, leaving it a personal decision.
“Starting on Monday, June 14, all employees will be required to be fully vaccinated. As we explained in an email in March, once vaccines were readily available, vaccines would be required,” Aparna Ramaswamy, Success Academy’s chief leadership and human resources officer, announced in a company email issued Friday.
The email continues, “Today, vaccine supply far outstrips demand and getting vaccinated is incredibly easy.”
COVID-19 vaccines are still under emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration, so mandates are not yet legal, some experts say.
Lockdown ‘has helped to rot kids’ teeth’: Number of children with dental decay is set to soar
Lockdown ‘has helped to rot kids’ teeth’: Number of children hospitalised with dental decay is set to soar due to reduced access to dentists during pandemic and disrupted routines.
- Dental decay is the biggest reason for youngsters being admitted for surgery
- Levels are runnin gmore than double rate for tonsillitis and is set to get worse
- Some 23.4 per cent of five-year-olds across England show signs of tooth decay
As A Mother Grows
This post was originally written in 2012. I have made updates and substantial changes that reflect my own family’s growth, as well as changes in my own experiences and outlook.
In March of 2011, the arrival of a beautiful little girl, daughter of my youngest son and his wife, made me a grandmother for the first time. A little over a year later we welcomed her younger brother, and a few years after that, another little brother.
About the time of the youngest grandson’s birth my middle son introduced us to his future wife, and our soon to be new grandson, who was five when we met him first. A few years after that we welcomed our now youngest grandson into the family.
Along the way, my oldest son met and married a young lady with three more children who became ours to love and enjoy. So, for those who’ve lost count, we now have eight grandchildren.
We adults tend to reflect on this day about our older moms, perhaps even mothers or grandmothers gone from us now, a picture specific to our grown selves, a mature and experienced mother we see in the now moment. I have been thinking of motherhood, the stages of it, for some time now, reflecting on the changes that happened to me as I had each child, as our family grew up, as they left the nest and grandchildren came along, as I watch my daughters in law and sons with their own families, the mothers who struggle so hard with the demands only a young family faces.
So, I would like to write about the stages of motherhood, and perhaps, for the sake of coherence and the story, I will make assumptions about families that may not match everyone’s experience. That does not mean I value your experience less. Families come in a lot of shapes and sizes these days, from foster families, step children, and those made up of “honorary” mom or grandmother who might have stepped into the role to help a child in need. […]
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Here’s How You Know Democrats Rigged and Stole the 2020 Election
The fix is in. It’s crystal clear to me now that not only was the election rigged but so is everything post-election. It’s simple psychology. Just look at the absurd reaction, or overreaction, by Democrats.
Would anyone dare ban the right to discuss a possibly racist police killing? Can you imagine the reaction by liberals, black activists and the American Civil Liberties Union? What if the Minneapolis police were to permanently ban any discussion of George Floyd’s death? What if every black American trying to give his or her opinion on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube were banned for life?
Who would react like that? Only guilty people. . .
Nearly 9 out of 10 young adults want a Covid inoculation, survey finds
A poll of almost 17,000 Britons found younger people’s attitudes to vaccination barely differ from those of the middle-aged, with at least 84 per cent looking forward to their jabs.
Minnesota gets creative in COVID-19 vaccine outreach
Dwindling demand forces new approaches to boost immunization numbers.
LEILA NAVIDI • Star Tribune
Health officials are adding a dose of creativity in their push to vaccinate more Minnesotans and slow COVID-19.
In Duluth, they’re offering vaccine shots in the downtown bus depot.
In St. Paul, volunteer physicians are working with a local brewery on a pop-up event that rewards those who get vaccinated with a free beer.
And in the northwest metro, an Elk River clinic is offering shots to patients as they seek help for other health care needs.
Apparently, We See Once Again Everyone Is Vulnerable Except Dominion Voting Systems | “Ransomware Attackers Up Ante as White House Vows Crack Down”
A series of major cyber-attacks in recent weeks has underscored the brazenness of the attackers and the challenges of tackling the problem of ransomware, just as the Biden administration announced plans to take on the issue.
In a matter of days, attacks were revealed against the police department in Washington, D.C. , where the hackers threatened to release information about police informants to criminal gangs; the Illinois Attorney General’s office, which had been warned about weak cybersecurity practices in a recent state audit; and San Diego-based Scripps Health, where medical procedures were canceled and emergency patients diverted to other hospitals.
Then on Saturday, Colonial Pipeline confirmed that it had joined the list of recent ransomware victims in an attack that threatened to upend gasoline and diesel supplies on the East Coast. While few details about the attack are yet known, Colonial shut down the biggest gasoline pipeline in the U.S. as part of an effort to contain the threat.
“The recent ransomware attacks illustrate, by their number severity and range of targets, why we need to treat this problem on the level of a real national security threat both here and around the world,” said Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department under President Barack Obama. “Fortunately, people in our government are paying attention.”
The string of attacks came as the Biden administration has vowed to take on ransomware, which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week called “one of our most significant priorities right now.” His agency in March announced a 60-day sprint to address ransomware, and the Department of Justice has created its own ransomware task force.
With Trump On The Sidelines & Biden In | “Jerusalem sees second night of clashes as Israeli security forces block Muslim pilgrims at mosque”
Jerusalem sees a second night of clashes as Israeli security forces block Muslim pilgrims arriving at Al-Aqsa mosque for holiest night of Ramadan – as President Erdogan brands Israel a ‘cruel terrorist’.
- Israeli forces fired a water cannon at Palestinian protesters and blocked busloads of pilgrims in Jerusalem
- Violence broke out as Muslims were heading to the Al-Asqa mosque on the holiest night of Ramadan
- Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Israel as a ‘cruel terrorist state’ amid the escalation
- Police defended their actions as security moves, but these were seen as provocations by Muslims
Astronomers observe black hole ‘spaghettification’ of a star for the first time
Scientists recently recorded the first known direct observation of the “spaghettification” of a star by a black hole, a process by which the star is pulled apart and devoured by the massive astronomical object.
The international team of astronomers, in a paper recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, describe having observed “the inner regions of a cooling accretion disc” from a star’s being drawn into the immense gravity of the black hole.
Stars being pulled apart by black holes can be “spaghettified” by them, a process by which the black hole pulls in a long trail of matter from the celestial body.
The “tidal disruption event” results in an immense output of visible radiation, which the scientists record having spotted in the paper.