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Friday, May 27. 2022

Friday morning links

 A Promising Treatment for Mental Disorders: Fecal Matter Transplants


Gotta be a joke 


 Is the Stock Market Still Dangerous?


 Kevin Spacey Charged With 'Penetrative Sexual Activity Without Consent' in England…Isn't That Rape?


Such a talented actor. Why does he do these things? 


 The Surveillance Solution - a dangerous way to address crazed shooters


Does Anyone Really Believe in This Transgender Stuff?


 Bummer: Renewable Energy Is A Threat To Biodiversity Or Something


 ESG’s power grows as banker is canceled for talking sense on climate change


 Democracy Dies Without Disagreement


 Don't laugh off the left's attempts to change history


 Thomas Sowell was Right As Usual



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"Red flag laws" aren't merely about surveillance. They're also about wiping one's äss with evidentiary standards and due process of law. If there is evidence for probable cause, they should be arresting the person for the crime. The fact that they are even having the discussion means that they want the power to seize without even that level of evidence.
#1 Mark on 2022-05-27 09:04 (Reply)
A Promising Treatment for Mental Disorders: Fecal Matter Transplants

Gotta be a joke


Why? At least half the people in politics and the media already have shxt for brains. How could a bit more hurt?
#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-05-27 09:09 (Reply)
Har Har
Your question and Randomizer’s in reply to 99 below just hit me where I live. Get some better #%€* to be full of, of course.
#2.1 Franknbean on 2022-05-27 12:52 (Reply)
As I have often said, Thomas Sowell is arguably the wisest living human. Anyone with the courage to think critically could have predicted the exact outcomes here-- Asians and qualified blacks discriminated against, unqualified blacks failing, and the (not unreasonable) suspicion that black professionals are less competent than those of other races because standards were lowered for them. (The performance of some of the superstars in the Biden Administration are a case in point here.) Yet our self-appointed "elites" continue to force their ideologically-driven notions against majority sentiment (e.g., unlimited abortion, open borders, foreign wars, death penalty opposition, climate- and green energy hysteria, government schools, etc, etc), usually with the support or acquiescence of lefty courts. It ain't the way it was supposed to be, folks.
#3 Hairless Joe on 2022-05-27 09:34 (Reply)
I'm wondering what the thought process was in the "person who discovered" this treatment. I can hear it now.
"Hey, maybe if I put some of my shit in your ass, you'll feel better".
I gonna research if Anthony Fauci owns any of the rights to this treatment.
#4 I.......... on 2022-05-27 10:08 (Reply)
Fecal transplants have been known for some time to work like a charm on C. difficile--90% or so cure rate, and they sure as heck weren't getting that from the increasingly desperate antibiotic treatments they'd been trying before.

Whether it also works on depression, I have no idea. It's easy to observe that gut biota have a lot of effects we don't understand, and then to posit that altering the gut biota can achieve anything you can possibly imagine. It's all worth looking into, though.

And I'd take with a grain of salt the usual frantic warnings to rely 100% on experts in a clinical setting. They'll predict death from practically anything they don't control--just look at the crazy articles in recent weeks about the mortal danger from feeding a hungry baby some kind of homemade formula that no one would have batted an eye at 50 years ago.
#5 Texan99 on 2022-05-27 10:18 (Reply)
The gut biome research for C-diff makes a lot of sense, and could apply to other digestive disorders. It is surprising that the gut biome can effect behavior, but we are inclined to give it a try. In the last few decades, ascendant subcultures have convinced us that shoving things up our bums is all in good fun. If it can make our lives better, we would surely try.

We've all met people who really seem to have their shit together, so might we be inclined to capture some of that magic?
#5.1 Randomizer on 2022-05-27 11:46 (Reply)
I've a family member that seems to go through a spate of digestive tract issues and depression after every colonoscopy.

I'm not one to notdo what my doctor assures me is in my best interest, but I am beginning to wonder if having such regular 'cleanouts' of the gut biome doesn't on net cause more problems than it prevents.
#5.1.1 Douglas2 on 2022-05-27 16:07 (Reply)
Transgender stuff/Kevin Spacey...Baphomet character is well known and known for ages.

https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-transgender-origins-of-feminism.html

It is likely a rather cyclical adventure but then as baby boomers we found it thrilling and "brave" to break all the rules. (See The Fourth Turning)
#6 indyjonesouthere on 2022-05-27 10:23 (Reply)
Is the stock market still dangerous?

Short answer is yes! The correct answer is this is the wrong question. The correct question might be has the FED and the elite screwed the stock market so bad that it is inevitable that it crashes in an apocalyptic way? Again the answer is yes! The stock market and all financial markets have been manipulated for so long that a "reset" is inevitable. Some predict a 90% stock market crash. We are facing a great depression that will make the last one look like a vacation. Perhaps a billion people worldwide will die and half or more of all "democratic" governments will be overthrown (possibly to include our own).

The second most important question is can the FED and the elite continue to manipulate the stock market perhaps avoiding a crash for awhile but making everything much worse? Again, yes! And THAT is the unknown.
#7 OneGuy on 2022-05-27 10:34 (Reply)
Oh the rich can continue to manipulate the stock market. They will take all the money they can get their hands on and then push it for a crash hurting everybody else. Then they will but at a very low price and work it again for there. They don't care who they hurt as long as they get their hands on enough money, but the question is, do they ever feel like they have enough money?
#7.1 JC on 2022-05-27 11:53 (Reply)
RE: University of Oklahoma. Does anyone at MF have a list of states with legislation approved, or proposed to eliminate woke, equity, etc. Having a list of STATEs with an intent to outlaw would be very helpful!
#8 faculty wife on 2022-05-27 10:53 (Reply)
What’s the Matter with Oklahoma?

I wonder if Oklahoma has the same problem that Canada has. Texas is right there, and getting all the attention, so Oklahoma has to go overboard to because nobody is paying attention.

That Canada convoy situation was a slow motion train wreck. Yes, America had the January 6th self-guided tour of the Capitol that went haywire, but that was one day that went in a direction that nobody anticipated. The Canada Convoy was over weeks, and it just got darker and darker. It just seems like Trudeau overreacted because nobody ever pays them any attention.

Oklahoma might have the same problem.
#9 Randomizer on 2022-05-27 11:34 (Reply)
In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions, Collapsing-Morale Of Ukraine Front-Line Forces

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/wapo-stunning-first-admits-catastrophic-conditions-collapsing-morale-ukraine-forces-front
#10 feeblemind on 2022-05-27 12:25 (Reply)
Does Anyone Really Believe in This Transgender Stuff? I don't. I see it as Stupid on ICE. I admit that I could be wrong,,,

ESG’s power grows as banker is canceled for talking sense on climate change: The Climate changes, all by its lonesome, but i call it "Change of Seasons".

It is a sad day in America when we cannot agree to disagree. It is sadder when failure in that regard is overtaken by an effort to smear those with whom we disagree: but that's what Dems do.

Don't laugh off the left's attempts to change history: I don't.
Democrats SELENDA EST!!!
#11 Sam L. on 2022-05-27 12:47 (Reply)
I am a supporter of the police. I believe that 90%or more are good people who have done amazing things' saved lives, prevented crime, and helped people. I don't want to believe what I am hearing about the Uvalde police, but it seems that we have discovered the "cause" of school shootings deaths; the police. 12 minutes the shooter was shooting outside the schaool before the police showed up. Where the hell where they. Then the police went inside for four minutes and the only thing they did was barricade the door to the classroom where the shooter was. WTF! It was after that that the shooter shot the kids in the classroom. Did the police think to evacuate the rest of the building? Nope! They went back outside and milled around because they were afraid to get shot!!! WTF! It is their job to run towards the gunfire. Am I wrong? Yes I know they don't want to die, I don't want to die, the kids and teachers didn't want to die BUT it is their job to save those kids. They should resign. Resign and slink away to different towns and get jobs as shoe salesmen or whatever but get the hell out of law enforcement.

Just a reminder of why WE have the 2nd amendment because you cannot depend on the police to save you. When seconds count they are minutes away.
#12 OneGuy on 2022-05-27 13:27 (Reply)
There is going to be a red wave in the mid terms. But wait, Mitch McConnell and other Rinos and Republican fools want to give 40 billion to Ukraine to protect their borders and do diddly squat to protect ours. But wait, it gets worse. The vast majority of voters who will vote for conservatives in the mid-term are dedicated 2nd amendment supporters. The Democrats are going to use the crisis (don’t they always) to force gun control laws down our throat and convince a dozen or so stupid Republicans to vote right along with them. Everyone knows it will do nothing to protect the public or schools, duh! But that doesn’t matter for some of the more stupid Republicans, like Susan Collins and Mitt Romney they would do this without a crisis. I will not vote for anyone who votes for gun control!!! I would rather see the entire country go to hell in a hand basket than vote for any more lying assholes who are taking my rights away. The red wave will piddle out and all because some Republicans think it will make them look good to “protect the children” by passing laws that will ONLY result in good honest people being charged with crimes. BUT, that is exactly the plan. This is more of the left's’war on the middle class and the Republicans are too stupid to see it.
#13 JustMe on 2022-05-27 13:44 (Reply)
Such a talented actor. Why does he do these things?

Because he's a pervert.
#14 ccoffer on 2022-05-27 20:57 (Reply)
Maybe, maybe not.

He was charged, not convicted. Celebrity or not, he is entitled to due process. Just because someone says it doesn't make it so.
#14.1 Roy on 2022-05-27 22:19 (Reply)

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