No. We don’t, you senile totalitarian.

Gropin’ Joe spoke to the Swiss yesterday.


Joe Biden: You heard me say this before, again and again. I’m going to keep saying it. What’s that idea. We don’t derive our rights from the government. We possess them because we’re born. Period. And we yield them to a government.


Allow me to refer you to the Ninth and Tenth amendments to the Constitution. Get somebody to help you with the big words.

We delegated some powers to government. Some. We never willingly yielded our rights. Dim-ocrats — and far too many Republicans — have trouble grasping that.

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Spamglish

I’ve been going through spam traps at a few sites I admin. I like to glance over them occasionally on the off chance that a legit comment got caught. Hey, it’s been known to happen.

But some spam manages to catch my eye. Here’s a few, presented for your amusement.

As I web-site possessor I believe the content matter here is rattling wonderful , appreciate it for your hard work. You should keep it up forever! Best of luck.

That’s looks like two or three iterations of Google Translate. Or a Dimocrat congresscritter.

Heya! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any issues with hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing a few months of hard work due to no data backup. Do you have any methods to prevent hackers?

Backups, good passwords, and 5.56 NATO.

Magnificent website. Plenty of useful info here. I am sending it to several friends ans also sharing in delicious. And of course, thanks for your sweat!

My sweat? So that’s where my missing bandanna went.

Hi there, I do believe your site could be having internet browser compatibility problems. When I look at your website in Safari, it looks fine however when opening in I.E., it’s got some overlapping issues.

Internet Exploder? There’s your problem. (And just how long has that spammer been using that copy/paste block of text?)

The next time I read a weblog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I mean, I know it was my option to learn, but I truly thought youd have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about one thing that you can fix if you werent too busy on the lookout for attention.

Then perhaps you should stop visiting and commenting multiple times per day.

how do you dispose sex toys: “Can someone recommend Red Lingerie? Thanks x”

Perhaps you simply need better hygiene products for those high flow days.

Is anyone here in a position to recommend Nipple Tassels, Breast Covers and Nipple Pasties? Thanks xxx

No.

And different website and “name,” but I figure this is the same spammer, as the previous two:

Can someone recommend Prostate Massagers? Cheers xx

No. And please do not clarify whether you’re seeking a personnel recommendation or a toy product. Some things I’m not meant to know.

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Quote of the Day: Paging Dr. Pepper

“And there is a bit of research you haven’t aired it on your show, and it says more Americans rely on Dr. Pepper for their advice than they do Dr. Fauci.”
Cory Bernardi, (Australia) Sky News

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Quote of the Day: 100 lawyers

The Biden Administration has a real problem: nobody hires 100 lawyers to hide an election victory.

Nobody has the DOJ interfere in a state ordered audit because they won fair and square.
Emerald Robinson

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And Putin could be telling the absolute truth, so far as he knows.

The emphasis in on “know.”


Putin Flatly Denies That He’s Behind Recent US Cyberattacks
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied that he was behind the recent cyberattacks across the United States, calling the allegations against him “farcical.”

“We have been accused of all kinds of things,” Putin told NBC News Monday. “Election interference, cyberattacks and so on and so forth. And not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. Just unfounded accusations.”

Russian intelligence and Russian-speaking groups have launched wide-ranging cyberattacks in recent months, affecting American consumer goods ranging from gasoline to meat.


Unless US intel cares to share their proof that Putin personally ordered the alleged 2016 election hacks, I’m undecided on these recent ransomware attacks. I think it’s 50:50 whether it’s Russian intelligence or Russian mobs. Or a combination.

But say it is an actual Russian government op. Do you really think the head of state of any country knows absolutely everything some bureaucrat — especially bureaucrats already working in the dark — is up to? And there might not be much paperwork to track it down through.

Imagine someone wants funding for a black op. But they want to keep it black, and not even explain to… say, the SSCI by asking for the money. So you do an off-the-books operation to make money. Maybe you’ll secretly sell arms to one country, and use the profits to fund the black op you really. Iran Contra ring any bells?

Maybe you could create an entire shell company, like Air America.

So, yeah; there could be an op more-or-less run by the Russian government that even Putin wouldn’t have been told about. In fact, given stories I’ve heard about the interchangeability of gov and mob in Russia, I could be convinced to consider it likely. You’ve got this great hacking tool, and your upper level bosses don’t know it. It’s making millions for you. Not only is it funding the stuff you want to do, but…

There’s all that money just sitting there. Completely off the books, ready to skim. You cut your supervisor and co-workers in to keep them quiet. You buy a pleasant little dacha in the country.

Maybe the hacking started as an official op, but again,those great tools are just sitting there, begging to be used. So maybe you extort a couple more US companies on your own time. Boss and co-workers don’t even know, so you keep all. More dachas! But all strictly freelance; sorta like playing solitaire all day on company time.

Now, allowing for Putin’s intel background, he probably understands this. And so long as the fallout is useful, he won’t ask uncomfortable questions. But if it starts getting awkward, he’ll put out a quiet word. And maybe demand his own cut.

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Pennsylvania Elections: “Well Run”


Election Assessment in Pennsylvania County Uncovers Five ‘Issues of Note’
Wake TSI said in its report summary that it found that the election “was well run, was conducted in a diligent and effective manner and followed the directions of Pennsylvania.”


That’s good to know. “Well run,” except for the parts they list.

  • Dominion failed to meet the commonwealth’s certification standards
  • the election management system had Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools installed, despite the software not being part of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s certified configuration;
  • changes were made to the management system just three weeks prior to the election.
  • “allows any user with access to change and manipulate the EMS databases without logging [recording] to the Database, EMS, or [operating system] logfiles.”
  • Dominion failed to fill out a document that attests that the installed software versions conformed with certified reasons
  • the county not keeping documentation on whether logic and accuracy testing was done on the machines, which is inconsistent with the Pennsylvania Department of State’s conditions for certification
  • scanning errors identified in two sets of log files exceeded the allowable error rate set by the federal government.

But other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

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Guns In Real Estate Listings?

Lib urininalists are funny. Virginia Heffernan has a plan. (Normally I’d include screencaps, but I’m having trouble uploading images today.)

Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region.

Time to change what a “bad neighborhood” is.

Hun, New York is not America. How exactly does she propose to calculate that in the majority of the country, that doesn’t register firearms or the owners? Taking Georgia as an example… in fact, southeast Georgia.

Phone surveys? ‘Round here, if an anonymous stranger calls and asks how many guns you have, expect to be lied to.

Of course, as matter of local society, you could count the number of homes, multiply that by the number of people in each home, and get a low end approximation. Pro tip: if there’s a single family dwelling with a single resident, round that up two guns; front and back door guns are common.

Then there’s this.

…and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence.

No one should say “this is a great place to raise kids” about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.

I wonder what she’d consider “meaningful,” or if she’s even slightly aware that there’s already a federal tax on guns and ammunition. Several states add their own firearm-specific taxes, and then there’s the plain sales tax. Privacy isn’t the only reason I prefer private sales.

And taxing “gun violence”? How’s that work? Do we have revenuers patrolling bad neighborhoods and handing out tax bills to gangbangers? Or maybe gangs will have accounts where they make quarterly payments. How many people did your gang shoot JAN-MAR? Multiply line 7 by 10. Payment due is S X 10 = $NN.

Will mass shootings get a discount? Or a surcharge?

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ChinCOVID Can Cause Diabetes

Apparently doctors noticed people with ChinCOVID getting diabetes. I lost the link, but I think it was 14.4% of COVID-19 patients.

A couple of studies appear to have found the mechanism, and I find it a bit alarming. Here’s one of them, funded by the National Institues for Health.


SARS-CoV-2 infection induces beta cell transdifferentiation
Abstract
Recent clinical data have suggested a correlation between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and diabetes. Here, we describe the detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen in pancreatic beta cells in autopsy samples from individuals with COVID-19. Single-cell RNA sequencing and immunostaining from ex vivo infections confirmed that multiple types of pancreatic islet cells were susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, eliciting a cellular stress response and the induction of chemokines. Upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, beta cells showed a lower expression of insulin and a higher expression of alpha and acinar cell markers, including glucagon and trypsin1, respectively, suggesting cellular transdifferentiation. Trajectory analysis indicated that SARS-CoV-2 induced eIF2-pathway-mediated beta cell transdifferentiation, a phenotype that could be reversed with trans-integrated stress response inhibitor (trans-ISRIB). Altogether, this study demonstrates an example of SARS-CoV-2 infection causing cell fate change, which provides further insight into the pathomechanisms of COVID-19.


Basically, the insulin-producing cells seem to have the same ACE2 receptor that makes cells in lungs susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. That makes them vulnerable to damage by the antigen.

This makes me wonder about the Pfizer and Moderna pseudo-vaccines that prompt the body to produces the SARS-CoV-2 antigen itself. Are people getting those jabs going to be developing diabetes?

Something to watch for. And perhaps someone will research that possibility.

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