The job of the people protecting Joe Biden is to spin all of his f*ck ups so the blame falls on someone else. That dirty job lies mainly on White House Spokeessoulessginger Jen Psaki. We've already heard her blame Biden's horrendous poll numbers on the American people not knowing any better. One of her more recent questionable claims was saying the rise of meat prices ISN'T the fault of Joe Biden's policies causing everything to be more expensive. It's the fault of greedy meat conglomerates. Mike Rowe, a regular critic of our puddingheaded president, calls free-range cow manure on that one.
The highly infectious omicron variant of the coronavirus accounted for 73.2% of new Covid-19 cases in the United States last week, making it the virus’ dominant variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
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...The delta variant accounted for 26.6% of last week’s infections, and other variants accounted for 0.1%.
1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.
1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord.
1951 - Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, under King Idris.
1968 - Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon.
A law professor proposed Monday that two major edits must be made to the United States Constitution in order to place new restrictions on the First Amendment and Second Amendment.
Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the University of Miami Law School — published an essay in the Boston Globe advocating that both amendments be edited to promote the collective good, arguing that each is too individualistic in its current form.
They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration. "In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.”
In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists.
That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research. The tale unfolded in October 2020 after the launch of the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement by Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns...Read all.
"The editors of the BMJ—one of the oldest and most respected scientific journals in the world—have issued a blistering letter slamming Facebook for one of its "fact-checking" partners the editors are calling "inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible."
At issue is the BMJ's publishing of a report on "internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails" it received from an employee who had worked for a subcontractor of Pfizer during the company's COVID-19 vaccine trials. The materials "revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety," the editors claim. After the magazine published the report on the findings, however, readers of the BMJ "began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share [the] article" on Facebook.
Those issues were traced to a "fact check" performed by a Facebook partner, a check the editors deemed "inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible." Here's the whole letter. Read it to the end; it's a thunderclap...Read all!
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers — president and vice president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), respectively — reflected on the federal government’s internment of Japanese Americans following Japan’s attack of Pearl Harbor while discussing legislative measures proposed in New York to detain those the governor deemed “potentially dangerous to public health.”
Why COVID-19 Tests Don't Tell You Which Variant You May Have
"...While sequencing is commonplace for scientists and researchers, it is not used in clinical settings and individuals with COVID-19 rarely know which variant they are infected with...Read all.
Renowned psychologist and author Jordan Peterson has spoken out in support of billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who recently took the spotlight over a social media spat with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass
"...Pew Research reports that: Older adults in the U.S. are more likely than those around the world to age alone:
More than a quarter of Americans ages 60 and older live alone (27%), compared with a global average of 16%...
Various studies have shown that many seniors who live alone suffer higher rates of depression, obesity, anxiety, cognitive decline, and other disorders compared to those with closer ties to friends and family.
Some research indicates that loneliness also increases the risk of an early death.
So what can we do to help those who live alone – our mother in an assisted-living facility, our grandfather in the next town, that neighbor we pass in the hallway of our apartment building?
Here are five easy actions to help the elderly feel more engaged with the world around them.
Amazon Web Services and other major cloud providers underpin much of the internet. Here's what to know about them—and why they can fail. "In the first two weeks of this month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hit some bumps that caused two outages...catalyzed disruptions across a range of websites and online applications, including Google, Slack, Disney Plus, Amazon, Venmo, Tinder, iRobot, Coinbase, and The Washington Post.
These services all rely on AWS to provide cloud computing for them—in fact, AWS is the leading cloud computing provider among other big players like Microsoft Azure, Google, IBM, and Alibaba. To understand why the impact was so big, and what steps that companies can take to prevent something like these disruptions in the future, it makes sense to take a step back and take a look at what cloud computing is, and what it’s good for. So what is cloud computing and AWS?...Read all!
