“Jeopardy” for a dollar fifty. … Why were we not surprised that Brian Stelter and Bill de Blasio (né Warren Wilhelm Jr.) ended up on the Harvard faculty?
Because there’s nothing surprising about it.
I know. That was too easy for a “Jeopardy” question.
Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League have been morphing into Institutions of Higher Indoctrination from Institutions of Higher Education for years now, sometimes at the behest of the Chinese communists and sometimes, incredibly, on their recognizance.
If you weren’t sufficiently brainwashed K through 12, you would be at an Ivy college—and then some. You would be trained to parrot the approved ideology all across the country and the world, through the media and, yet more insidiously, at colleges more lowly on the academic food chain, should you so choose.
So why not ex-CNN bloviator Stelter, who spent the better part of an hour a day for two years shamelessly lying to the American public about nonexistent Trump–Russia collusion, or the former mayor of New York who helped turn America’s greatest city into the crime-ridden garbage heap it is now and is nowhere near repairing?
They are simply the obvious next steps into what can only be described as deliberate anti-intellectual inanity, plus brainwashing by the university (masquerading as the ne plus ultra of thought, of course).
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But still no problem with getting plenty of applicants. I understand that Harvard admitted 3.5% (not a typo) of the applicants to the class of 2025 and Yale admitted 4.5% (but Yale just built two additional "colleges" or dorms a few years ago to accommodate about an additional 500 students or so.)
Not to mention that Harvard is worth $51B and Yale $42B. They can survive anything for quite a while.
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I of late have seen some pronouncements from the ADL which I would term as unacceptable
[FrontPage] Under Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL has become a threat to Jews.
by Daniel Greenfield
The latest numbers show that only 1 of the 118 thugs arrested for assaulting Jews in New York City since 2018 was sentenced to actual prison time. While attacks on Jews tripled, the ADL is promoting police defunding in its curriculum. The lesson’s only mention of crime proposes that it can be fought through police defunding by “investing more money in education, health care.”
Another high school lesson plan claims that evidence of privilege is parents telling a child “to find a police officer if I need help”. The numerous Jewish children assaulted by thugs in New York needed a police officer, not because they were ‘privileged’, but because they were beaten while the ADL treated their attackers as the victims threatened by a “school-to-prison pipeline”.
And so the antisemitic violence continues through the complicity of the ADL.
The ADL’s lesson plans promote the racist hate group Black Lives Matter, despite its support for BDS, and the Women’s March, despite the overt antisemitism of its leadership at the time,
The latest outrage over critical race theory materials in the ADL’s curriculum isn’t shocking.
Two years ago, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote a post defending BLM’s antisemitism and celebrating the “clarion call of ‘Black Lives Matter'” which in Los Angeles and a number of other communities were followed by pogroms against Jewish synagogues and businesses. Last year he authored another op-ed opposing “divisive concept” legislation to keep hate out of schools. That’s understandable since many of the ADL’s teaching materials foster such extremism.
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[American Thinker] The key people overseeing the safety of the Capitol building before and on January 6 were radical Democrats or their appointees: D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser and her appointees MPD Chief Robert Contee and DHS Coordinator Chris Rodriguez; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (this position includes responsibilities of mayor of the Capitol, if there were one), Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Representative Zoe Lofgren. Nancy Pelosi had had overall responsibility for the Capitol police since January 2018.
Prior to January 6, Trump had offered to D.C. the services of 10,000 National Guardsmen. The above-mentioned Democrats rejected the offer. On January 5, Mayor Bowser and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) separately wrote nasty letters to the heads of the DoJ and the DoD as well as Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, demanding that neither the National Guard nor any uniformed federal units (including special forces, such as the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team and about a dozen others) should deploy to D.C. on January 6 without Bowser’s permission and in accordance to Schumer-Murphy conditions. These legally dubious but politically effective letters prevented timely reinforcement of the Capitol police. On January 6, when requested by the USCP, MPD Chief Contee provided only approximately 100 police officers out of a potential force of more than 3,000. Democrats engaged in other maneuvers that handicapped protection of the Capitol building on January 6; nonetheless, President Trump was ultimately blamed.
The operational command of the USCP on January 6 was in the hands of Democrat favorites Yogananda Pittman and Sean Gallagher. They did nothing to defend the Capitol, per a letter written by a former Capitol police officer. Ms. Pittman also ordered the Senate and the House dispersed, despite objections of Republican Senators.
Only after dispersing the joint session of Congress and gaining armed control of the Capitol building did the Democrats allow in the National Guard and significant numbers of MPD. Then they had the Congress to immediately resume the joint session, although the law is clear that if this session is put in recess, it can resume only next day at 10am (§ 16).
Since then, we have learned that the FBI WFO have been lying and hiding evidence about the reported pipe bombs, which conveniently disrupted the work of the RNC but not the DNC. The FBI WFO has framed an innocent person. This fact alone suggests that those who planted the bombs were affiliated with Democrats.
In connection with January 6, 2021, the Democrat DoJ holds dozens of people detained without trial.
The hypothesis that the Democrat party and its allies are behind storming the Capitol, violent disruption of the joint session, and its improper resumption and conclusion deserves more consideration.
[Townhall] Let me say at the outset that I’d rather have Lindsey Graham in the United States Senate than any Democrat, especially the clown he beat last time who is now the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (liberals fail up). Jamie Harrison is a racist pile of garbage on top of being a moron who would do everything he was told by the White House. Graham is a lot of things, and one of them is significantly better than Harrison is in every way. But he’s far from perfect and getting farther away from it every day.
When John McCain was alive Lindsey Graham followed him around like a puppy and did all he could to imitate him. When McCain died, Graham was kind of lost and latched on to President Donald Trump. Since Trump left office, Graham has been kind of lost — desperate to matter and get media attention while trying to placate his progressive instincts to "do something" about whatever the domestic issue is and embracing every prospect for war because that’s been the only constant in his career.
In that attempt to "matter" and "do something," Senator Graham proposed this week to create a "new regulatory agency" to license companies like Twitter. As awful at these tech companies are and can be, the idea of a new regulatory agency is worse. Is there nothing that exists that could be repurposed? Graham isn’t even floating the idea of eliminating one or several existing agencies that have outlived their usefulness and reforming them to handle this, putting aside the idea of the feds licensing these companies. I might look favorably on it if there was a 3 to 1 elimination of existing jobs for the creation of new ones, something to shrink government at least a little. But it’s not part of this.
Graham’s proclamation on this new agency involves "teaming up" with Senator Elizabeth Warren, and there is no way she will ever allow for the shrinking of government or anything remotely good. How lost do you have to be to think Warren is an ally?
But working with a Massachusetts liberal is hardly the biggest problem Graham created this week. For reasons unknown, as he is not up this cycle, Graham decided to undercut the conservative argument against Roe v Wade being overturned and introduce a federal abortion ban after 15 weeks.
You might agree with the sentiment, but the execution is a horrible idea. First, it gives the left something to badger Republican candidates coast to coast on the issue. While that might play well in Georgia’s Senate race, it could be a different result in Pennsylvania or Ohio. Every campaign needs to be free to run however it deems best, they don’t needs some jackass in DC dictating terms and arming their opponents. Now they’ll all have to answer about Graham’s proposal repeatedly.
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...Graham - one of my two Senators, sadly - is a silly, stupid, wet-brained idiot. I have voted for him in the past, but not any more.
Mike
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Graham is a Grade A scum bag. I think SC (and we) have four more years of that twerp.
"...Graham decided to undercut the conservative argument against Roe v Wade being overturned and introduce a federal abortion ban after 15 weeks."
Funny, nothing from either side of the aisle in Congress was attempted legislatively on the abortion matter in the 50 years since Roe v Wade, and now this? WTF, over?
Graham and others are definitely a big reason to not donate one thin dime to the RNC.
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Funny, nothing from either side of the aisle in Congress was attempted legislatively on the abortion matter in the 50 years since Roe v Wade, and now this? WTF, over?
DDM,
Two reasons for that -
1) Nobody on either side of the argument EVER wanted to have their names on a vote for something like that. Screaming for or against for those 50 years is one thing - VOTING ON THE RECORD is something else entirely.
2) There's a real good chance that such a law would be blown out of the water by SCOTUS. There's a bit of inside baseball involved, but the short version is that FEDERAL abortion legislation is not something that comes under Congress' enumerated powers in the Constitution. Not that this possibility stops anyone; Congress is not known for it's assessment, understanding, or even awareness of the Constitution. But it's there, and no one on either side seems to be cognizant thereof.
Until we have a constitutional amendment dictating Term Limits, campaign donation limits and the prohibition of back-door "offers" for Family members (eg. Hunter). We will continue to see a bought and paid for DC Swamp like LG.
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Lindsey hung out with Kushner and subverted everything good Trump was trying to do.
The Dems were trying to stir up their base against a GOP federal effort to ban abortion. No such effort existed so the Dem base was not energized. No one in the Pro-Life side wants this issue decided with federal legislation that will be toggled on an off like the Mexico City Policy.
The GOP has a chance to take the Senate with a wave of MAGA candidates. There are two groups of Senators that oppose the wave: Dems and RINOs. Lindsey has made common cause with Schumer through Mitch. This abortion effort is in conjunction with the mass spending by the GOP against true conservative candidates,
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#1 I sympthize. He's my Senator, too. Our problem was that no one that anyone had ever heard of ran against him in the primary (Mick Mulvaney--or even Nikki Haley--where were you???) And the general election featured Lindsey or Jaime Harrison, now the head of the DNC. I voted against Lindsey in the primary but for him in the general election.
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To all those pushing the term limits button...That has been my wish since I started college 50+ years ago. There was one prof I had that pointed out that the problem in DC is that the unelected bureaucrats (aka the Deep State or Swamp) have a lot of power over what the pols do.
If you term limit the pols that gives even more power (aka seniority) to the swamp.
It's a hard argument to rebut. The best way is to vote the bastards and bitches out. Soros makes that even harder.
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#3 Funny, nothing from either side of the aisle in Congress was attempted legislatively on the abortion matter in the 50 years since Roe v Wade, and now this?
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Not true
Just a few months or so ago, the House passed and the Senate voted on (but did not pass) a bill to allow abortion until birth. It was called the "Women's Health Protection Act".
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Anybody who would go around with his nose up John McCain's ass must be an idiot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Hey, the media looooved Johnny Wardrums.
Except when they didn't...
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He was on Jessie Waters last night. Talked in circles. When Jessie said bringing up an anti-abortion bill the same day as the President's Victory Lap and party about the Inflation non-reduction act was probly not a good idea Graham kept saying he wasn't going to stand around and do nothing. Bugwit.
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@#9 - I meant before the SCOTUS reversed Roe v Wade. Anything after that doesn't really matter, but the 50 years prior was nothing buy legislative crickets and the ability by both parties to use the issue as a political football to stir up their adherents.
Mike @#3 addresses this. And, for sure, no Congressperson would want to put his/her name on such legislation (funny, and a failure by the GOP in a sense).
The Constitution? What's that? It gets trampled on every minute.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections. During a few bleak summer months when gasoline prices peaked and lawmakers appeared deadlocked, the Democrats faced the possibility of blowout losses against Republicans.
Their outlook appears better after notching a string of legislative successes that left more Americans ready to judge the president on his preferred terms: "Don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative."
The president’s approval rating remains underwater, with 53% of U.S. adults disapproving of him, and the economy continues to be a weakness for Biden. Just 38% approve of his economic leadership as the country faces stubbornly high inflation and Republicans try to make household finances the axis of the upcoming vote.
Still, the poll suggests Biden and his fellow Democrats are gaining momentum right as generating voter enthusiasm and turnout takes precedence.
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It's amazing, how when the LSD's control DC, Gas prices go up 100+%. But, always drop back 50+% during that magical 3 month window leading up to the next election.
GAS @ SAMS's was $2.89 yesterday and $2.92 at Murphy's Gas Stations, down from a high of $4.29 for my area.
There has been more than 200 million barrel drop since the Biden cabal cheated into the presidency. Currently pumping out ~1 million barrels/day. SPR is a politician's dream tool for short term control of energy prices.
[CNBC] If you’re thinking of getting an omicron-specific Covid booster shot, you might be wondering what its side effects are — and how severe they might be.
Rest assured: They’re not expected to be much different from what you may have experienced with previous vaccine and booster doses.
"We just don’t have any data on this [yet], essentially giving two vaccines in one shot — but biologically, I just wouldn’t expect the side effects, severity or the safety profile of the shots to be different from the current mRNA vaccines and boosters," Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and member of an independent advisory group to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tells CNBC Make It.
The reformulated shots from Pfizer and Moderna are bivalent, which means they target both the original Covid strain and omicron’s BA.5 and BA.4 subvariants. Side effect data isn’t available yet because the new boosters were approved by the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before fully completing their clinical trials.
The federal agencies based their approvals off several other pieces of safety data, including evidence from the original Covid vaccines — the updated formulations are merely a tweak to those originals — and lab data on the shots’ BA.5 element in mice.
They also examined clinical trial data on earlier versions of bivalent boosters targeting omicron’s BA.1 subvariant. Those shots were never released to the public, because BA.1 was quickly surpassed by other omicron subvariants — but their design is extremely similar to the shots now available at pharmacies and clinics nationwide.
Together, the evidence shows a potential roadmap for the side effects you can expect after getting one of the new boosters, and how severe those side effects might be.
THE EXPECTED SIDE EFFECTS
In Pfizer and Moderna’s clinical trials for the BA.1 shots, participants who were already fully vaccinated with a booster shot received an updated booster dose. In both clinical trials, the most commonly reported side effects within seven days of receiving the shot were:
Pain
Fatigue
Headache
Muscle pain
Chills
Joint pain
Redness and swelling at the injection site
Fever
That’s a familiar list: It’s the same group of side effects that came with the original formulations. But notably, in those clinical trials, the severity of the side effects was very mild.
Pfizer’s trial found that about 52% of participants that received the BA.1 shot experienced mild pain at the injection site, 8% experienced moderate pain and only 0.3% experienced severe pain. Roughly 26% of participants experienced a mild or moderate headache, while only 0.3% experienced a severe one.
Moderna’s trial found that nearly 59% of participants experienced fatigue, but only about 4% experienced that at a Grade 3 level, which is defined as significant fatigue that prevents daily activity.
Severe side effects are "generally" most common after receiving a second dose of a vaccine, not after receiving a third or fourth dose, says Offit. You’re only eligible for the new boosters if you’ve completed a primary vaccination series, meaning most people will have already received at least two doses ahead of time.
The same concept held true during the last round of booster shots. The new shots have the same dosage amounts as the original vaccines, which further suggests that their safety profiles could be similar, Offit says.
A single dose of Pfizer’s monovalent vaccine contains 30 micrograms of mRNA targeting the original Covid strain. The updated booster shots contain the same number of micrograms, with 15 targeting the original strain and the other 15 targeting BA.4 and BA.5.
Moderna’s monovalent shot contains 50 micrograms of mRNA per dose targeting the original strain. Its updated booster has 25 micrograms targeting the original strain, and 25 targeting the omicron subvariants.
The BA.1 trials only tested a few hundred people, which is a relatively small sample size compared to the thousands of Americans set to receive the new BA.5 doses, Offit notes. You can still be confident going in, he says — just don’t be 100% sure what to expect.
"We should keep our eyes wide open to what side effects and adverse events might occur, and still keep in mind that this is a new product," Offit says.
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Boiler plate bullshit. Where is the rest of the know side effects?? Here are a couple of the known effects off the list: Reduced fertility-both male and female, Not sure about the other 87 sexes, Myocarditis, Pericarditis, micro blood clots, sudden adult death, Herpes, Shingles, and a reduced Immune system. Not sure what I forgot, but these are the known. Take your shot with the full knowing of the possible side effects.
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Caught COVID twelve days ago, double vaxxed. Took Paxlovid, starting first day, was quite sick, still have something like a head cold. I’ll test again today.
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Denmark has eliminated Covid shots and boosters for the under 50. We will probably see pictures of politicians vacationing there soon.
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Paxlovid is marginal. The Ivermectin protocol is proving to be the best .
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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You have to wonder what might have been different if Trump had not set the media off by mentioning HCQ and ivermectin.
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Wasn't the argument that the vax was to buy time until we had reliable treatments?
Why would anyone want the vax for Omicron? It is supposedly the mildest version. I had it, was sick over a weekend with a bad headache, sinus running like a faucet, and fatigue. Took Pxlovid which cleared the worst of the symptoms after 36 hours, and completely cleared the virus (negative test x2) and all symptoms by the time I took the last prescribed dose.
It is obviously treatable, so why risk the vax (which isn't a real vaccination) at this point?
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I'm not sure Trump mentioning or not mentioning Ivermectin and HCQ would have mattered.
Big Pharma can't get an EUA if there is an alternative therapy, and those two medications (Ivermectin is OTC in Mexico, by the way) would get in the way of having an EUA...why they are so savagely attacked by Big Pharma's friends and recipients of ad dollars in the media (Fox not immune, either).
Big Pharma also put out the narrative to include those who all seem to be "grateful" for having gotten the vaccine even though they contracted COVID anyway. Just sickening.
[JP] Could reprogramming macrophages help fight cancer?
Impressive pre-clinical trials by the Israeli pharmaceutical company have reaffirmed the concept of reprogramming macrophages for the treatment of some cancers. If it proves effective in current clinical trials, the concept could transform the cancer therapy landscape.
Meet Enlivex Executive Chairman, Shai Novik, who has a decades-long track record in biotech and life sciences, including founding PROLOR Biotech, a company that developed a growth hormone for children, that eventually went public and was sold for $560 million. He also led the formation of a strategic partnership between PROLOR and Pfizer for continued development of the growth hormone drug during his time with the company. The drug, named NGENLA, has recently received marketing approvals in various jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, Japan and Europe.
Now, Novik hopes to help treat cancer patients that don’t respond well to other treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
[CNBC] If you’re thinking of getting an omicron-specific Covid booster shot, you might be wondering what its side effects are — and how severe they might be. 
