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Fifteen Years Forsaken: A true story of castaways on a lost and hostile scrap of land, all thanks to some meddlesome Frenchmen and terrible luck.

Latest Search For Alien Civilizations Looked At 60 Million Stars, Detects No Signals

Groundhog Day: Dr. Doom Spits Out More Bad News

Fauci defends terrible new CDC guidance for masking little kids at summer camp

Classified Study: COVID-19 Could Have Originated in Chinese Lab

"An American Tragedy": Restaurants Ready to Hire, But Government Payments Keep Workers Home

The Power of Human Resilience

It’s Important To Be Honest About What Today’s Media Actually Are - They are Democrat propagandists and should be treated as such.

NYC Schools To Rename Columbus Day To Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day

‘Woke’ Coke Pauses Diversity Plan After ‘Intense Backlash,’ Plan Author Suddenly Resigns

Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account

Jewish ‘Harper’s letter’ decries lack of dissent in racial justice movement

Our Country Was Founded by Geniuses, but It's Being Run by Idiots

Powerline: MODELS ARE NOT EVIDENCE

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Remember that the Washington Post reported a year ago that the idea that the Wuhan virus originated in a lab was a debunked story spread only by conspiracy theorists and Twitter was banning people for spreading this sort of nonsense. How does a "debunked" story become un-debunked? How does an obvious lie become not so obvious, even a plausible story? It's a mystery how they could know for a fact that this story was not true and now they're not so sure that it is in fact a fact.

#1 Jerryskids on 2021-05-06 09:46 (Reply)

QUOTE:

"The new consensus: Anyone who asserts that a lab release of coronavirus isn’t a reasonable possibility is ignoring the real science."

Now are we referring to 'real' science, or is it 'real psuedo-science' used for conferring credibility to political goals to facilitate their acceptance? So confusing, knowing which science to blindly follow......

An excellent article was recently published that takes the reader through the whole 'origins of the virus' discussion, taking the approach of presenting the evidence and leaving it up to the reader to form conclusions. In The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, by Nicholas Wade:

[url] https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ [/url]

#2 Aggie on 2021-05-06 09:53 (Reply)

That organization is most definitely leftist. That turned me off. But. I did just finish reading the article. Remarkable exposé and deeply distressing. A "must read".

#2.1 Stargazer on 2021-05-06 10:00 (Reply)

I was just about to comment on that exact article - it is a rather thorough breakdown of the issue. But it does seem to me there's a bit of "survivor bias" in the "improbabilities" of the matter. Sure it's improbable that the virus would wind up being exactly what it was, but it's not so improbable that the virus would wind up being something equally improbable. It's like saying it's highly improbable that John Smith of North Haverbrook, Massachusetts is going to win the Powerball lottery next week, but the fact is it's not so improbable that somebody is going to win the Powerball lottery next week and for any given person the odds are just as improbable as those for John Smith.

I'm not discounting the idea that the virus was indeed released from a lab, I'm just saying that the "improbabilities" are not as strong as what the author seems to suggest. For my part, I strongly believe that the virus was indeed released from a lab for the simple reason that they developed a vaccine so quickly. At the time they started working on the vaccine, the official story was that only a handful of people had contracted this virus from a wet market and that there was no evidence it could even be spread via human-to-human contact. Why then the urgency to develop a vaccine for something that was officially a nothing-burger of an outbreak? Obviously, somebody (or a lot of somebodies) knew something they weren't telling.

#2.2 Jerryskids on 2021-05-06 10:12 (Reply)

I think one of the telling clues is the radical response of the CCP in Wuhan once it realized it probably had a manmade epidemic, including forcibly sealing off the city, blocking all the ingress and egress routes with dirt and rocks, and sending in large numbers of PLA soldiers to block access and exit to the city. They knew they were dealing with something bad, they just didn't know how bad.

I have also seen, but can no longer find on the net, what supposedly are copies of the Chinese health department disease vector reports and maps showing how the disease spread in Wuhan. The point of spread was not the wet market. It was the residential area immediately next to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

This will turn out to be the worst manmade environmental disaster in history, dwarfing the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters.

#2.2.1 Jim on 2021-05-06 14:59 (Reply)

I don't know it it's true but I just heard that "Coke" is going to rename itself to "Woke".

#3 oolioo on 2021-05-06 09:58 (Reply)

^^^ But I'll try to be "Less white" by turning myself into a ghost.

#4 oolioo on 2021-05-06 09:59 (Reply)

Sprout: "Grandpa, why do we have a holiday for Italians and Indigenes on the same day?"

Gaffer: "Because that's the day that an Italian named Columbus, working for the King and Queen of Spain, came to the new world so the Spaniards could stop the Aztecs from killing and eating each other. Many folks my age think that was a bad thing that Columbus did, and took his name off the holiday. I suspect those people would like to resume the cannibalism."

#5 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2021-05-06 10:13 (Reply)

Wouldn’t June 25 or 26 be a better day for indigenous peoples day? (Little Big Horn - Battle of the Greasy Grass)

#5.1 B. Hammer on 2021-05-06 12:49 (Reply)

Jerryskids, The WaPo, which I call the WaPoo because it WaPoops so much...

Coke going Woke convinced me to go "No Coke For Me". Henceforth and ever after, it's root beer and Dr.Pepper for me.
(Not at the same time, though.)

#5Mike: I like the way you think.

Classified Study: COVID-19 Could Have Originated in Chinese Lab: Nooooooo...Tell me it ain't SO, Joe! (sarc/)

Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account: Facebook is Fecesbook, and there ain't enough TP to wipe it out.

Our Country Was Founded by Geniuses, but It's Being Run by Idiots: We have NO SHORTAGE of idiots. See: Democrats.

#6 Sam L. on 2021-05-06 12:06 (Reply)

I don’t think propagandist, is a strong enough word for what the media have become.

#7 B. Hammer on 2021-05-06 12:53 (Reply)

Back when Dan Rather faked documents about Dubya's National Guard service to influence the presidential election, people were shocked and Rather was fired.

Now, that kind of behavior happens literally every day, and nobody blinks an eye. In fact, Time magazine boasts about how the media and hi tech "fortified" Biden's election by their anti-Trump media coverage.

And Dan Rather is now considered the "dean" of journalists.

#7.1 Jim on 2021-05-06 16:58 (Reply)

If you can rig elections you can rig the census count.

I have not found a link but I am hearing that blue states suddenly picked up 2.5 million people while red states lost 500,000 people. All in an effort to keep blue states from losing congressional seats.

#8 feeblemind on 2021-05-06 14:10 (Reply)

Castaways: Wow! What a story of perseverance!

#9 snopercod on 2021-05-06 14:32 (Reply)

Yes indeed snopercod. Quite right.

However, one wonder why they don't make it a movie?

The wokesters could have a field day.

All the right people would be the good guys and bad guys.

#9.1 feeblemind on 2021-05-06 15:11 (Reply)

Don't give Hollywood any ideas!

#9.1.1 snopercod on 2021-05-06 18:08 (Reply)

"Fifteen Years Forsaken" Wait, I have been assured by the left and Dems around this country that the United States was the ONLY country that had slaves! You mean that isn't true??

#10 JC on 2021-05-06 16:17 (Reply)

Slavery in Korea was formally abolished by King Gojong in the 1890s, but de facto slavery continued into the 1920s. Ironically, it was effectively ended because Korea became a colony of Japan, and Japanese law prohibited slavery. I say ironically, because basically Japan enslaved the whole country of Korea.

#10.1 Jim on 2021-05-06 17:10 (Reply)

I learned about them kidnapping artist to decorate their porcelain when I was an antique dealer. I know they have done it in more recent years since then too, not for artistic purposes for other nefarious reasons.

#10.1.1 JC on 2021-05-06 17:19 (Reply)

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