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Thursday, April 11. 2024

Thursday morning links


 Explore the tradition and conservation of red grouse in Scotland with pointing dogs during the spring season.


 Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure


 Marriage and babies really DO make women happier, says top researcher 


 Doctors outraged as psychiatrist 'funded by big pharma' suggests antidepressants should be given over-the-counter


Lukianoff:  My First Amendment concerns with ‘The Anxious Generation’. I love and respect my friend and co-author Jonathan Haidt, but I don’t always agree with him.


Even Senate Democrats Are Starting to Reject Biden's Radical Environmental Agenda


 The Latest On International Efforts To Save The Planet Through Climate Litigation


 The New Defenders of the Faith - Authors need to stop relying on victim narratives to sell books—not only because it tokenizes minorities, but also because it makes one dependent on the whims of liberal elites who are quick to adopt new pets


 Obama’s Americans - The former president’s atomized, placeless definition of who we are is a recipe for national disintegration


 US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China


 Islamophobia Reconsidered


 America Is Now in the Business of Losing Wars


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Islamophobia is a useless term. A phobia, by definition, is an irrational fear of something. Being afraid of Islam is wholly justified.
#1 Maniac on 2024-04-11 09:12 (Reply)
Submit, or die. Islam hasn’t changed their message in 1400 years. Unlike Christianity, which will happily water down God’s laws in order to fit the latest lifestyle fads.
#1.1 B. Hammer on 2024-04-11 10:14 (Reply)
So far Biden has encouraged and allowed 8 million known illegal immigrants and 1.8 million "got aways". The got aways choose to sneak in even knowing that if they turned themselves in to the border patrol that they would get debit cards and food and housing. Why? Because unlike the 8 million who came here for the free stuff the got aways came here to do us harm. 1.8 million men between the ages of 18-45 here to harm us. That is what the Democrat vision for America is. These got aways aren't out there picking fruit and vegetables. Many of them are foreign military and spies. The government knows this, they knew it some three years ago when this insanity began. The government, the CIA and FBI, are actively supporting this. Let that sink in. While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are trying to tell you that it is white Christian males that represent a threat to democracy they are behind the effort to bring in terrorists, spies, foreign military into our country where they hide from us even knowing that they would get thousands a month in support if they come forward. Do you understand yet that this is an invasion and our federal government is complicit. If that doesn't boggle your mind then now wrap you mind around this; the MSM is also in the conspiracy covering up what the government is doing and actively lying and misinforming us to facilitate this invasion.

Yes, you could say; well, nothing big has happened , maybe you're wrong. And it's kinda true; lots of murders and rapes, child molestation and crime but no 9/11 type attack. Maybe it's not as bad as those crazy conspiracy theorists claim. It reminds me of the joke: A man jumps of the top of the Empire State Building to commit suicide and as he is falling he passes an open window on the 12th floor and is heard to say "well, so far so good". That's where we are right now, in the so far so good stage of this invasion.

1,800,000 got aways, men between the age of 18-45, roaming our country god knows where doing god knows what and our congresses priority is more billions for Ukraine. We are so screwed!
#2 OneGuy on 2024-04-11 10:43 (Reply)
In Feb of 2024 1.2 million legal and illegal immigrants found employment in the U.S. and 500,000 American born citizens lost employment in the U.S. The Biden administration celebrated that on national TV.
#2.1 JustMe on 2024-04-11 11:52 (Reply)
A undercover video https://areaocho.com/nudges/ of FBI and CIA
#2.2 JustMe on 2024-04-11 12:19 (Reply)
O.J. Simpson Dead at 76 After Cancer Battle

https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-dead-dies-cancer/
#3 feeblemind on 2024-04-11 11:23 (Reply)
Well of course the media is abuzz with the death of OJ's ex and her latest lover. One commentator obsessed over the autopsy report on the two who were murdered insisting that the attack was so physically bad that this somehow means OJ was guilty. I don't know if OJ was guilty. I know that the jury selection was biased in favor of OJ and they needed to really have open and shut evidence to convict and they didn't have it. The timeline was wrong. Could OJ or anyone, have committed the murder at that location, make it back to OJ's house and get cleaned up and picked up by a car to get to the airport. Probably not. The prosecution obsessed over the blood found in OJ's Bronco but it was much later that we found out it was less than a drop of OJ's blood. My nose produces more than that every morning. (well, not OJ's blood, but you know what I mean.) Then there were the bloody gloves, OMG what a stupid mistake by the prosecution, it literally proved that OJ couldn't have committed the murders.

There was a very good and logical lead on those murders, the drug cartel probably did it. Again I'll say I don't know who did it but that is partly because they didn't tell us all of the facts and they lied about some of the facts. My first reaction to that is why do prosecutors and police do that; lie and cover up the facts? Especially in a high profile case like this. But then I realize that they do it so much, to puff up their case, that it is only on rare occasions that they get caught and look like the bad guys. They do it to guilty people to make sure they win the case and they do it to innocent people either because they are pissed of or tyrannical power hungry assholes. The police lie, the prosecutors lie.

So who killed the hoe and the shmoo? Probably a drug cartel hitman.
#3.1 OneGuy on 2024-04-11 12:36 (Reply)
Serious question here: What the hell is the matter with you?
#3.1.1 SK on 2024-04-11 13:21 (Reply)
Too much time on my hands, and you?

It would help if I knew what you meant. I suppose I'm not allowed to think that they didn't actually prove that OJ killed his ex.
#3.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-04-11 18:13 (Reply)
Nah, don't quit while you're behind. You're just as entitled to make a fool of yourself as anyone else. It's interesting to watch.

Any other mutilated women and young men you care to mock and insult?

And what exactly is a "shmoo"?
#3.1.1.1.1 SK on 2024-04-11 18:27 (Reply)
I thought that was cute that hoe and shmoo rhymed. You have no sense of humor. IF OJ killed his ex it was because (and this was from the news reports at the time and even used in his trial against him) he recognized the signs that she had invited this guy to her house for sex. This guy that she just met was invited up for sex makes her a what... wait for it... a hoe. He was a shmoo and she didn't know that a shmoo reproduces asexually.

Yeah mutilated was used at the trial too. Kind of like "hate crime" is used to make it worse. She was killed!!! Does it really matter how deep the knife went in? Well, other than to her of course. Yeah it's probably bad taste to say anything bad about someone who was killed. So almost everything in the news and on the internet is in bad taste. Calm down! Take a few deep breaths. Get over it.
#3.1.1.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-04-11 20:41 (Reply)
Regards: Doctors outraged as psychiatrist 'funded by big pharma' suggests antidepressants should be given over-the-counter


See Haim Belmaker's new courageous book on psychopharm. He points out the indefiniteness, lack of specificity of antidepressants and suggests learning three types of antidepressants, expecting one of three may work with a specific patient. Not for OTC , yet.
#4 ns on 2024-04-11 12:09 (Reply)
The first thing that came to mind was whether this headline described doctors worried about too-ready availability of dangerous pharmaceuticals, or whether they were just objecting to being cut out of the picture and no longer able to make money off of their prescribing.

Maybe some of both?
#4.1 ruralcounsel on 2024-04-14 10:48 (Reply)
Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hidden-behind-climate-policies-data-nonexistent-temperature-stations
#5 feeblemind on 2024-04-11 13:42 (Reply)
Ghost numbers from stations that no longer exist. That's a lot like the ghost numbers for inflation that exist only in the Feds imaginary formulas.
#5.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-04-11 23:30 (Reply)
Consumer reports came after Kraft Lunchables with a report that they found lead in the food. That's bad, right? Turns out that a lot of foods have various things we don't want in them naturally but in such small amounts that it is meaningless. Or to put it another way the ability to test for the smallest amount of lead has revealed that lead is in almost every food and got their naturally. The government sets some standards for these naturally occurring heavy metals and the Lunchables were well below those standards. So why the big deal? I'm guessing that Kraft pissed off someone at consumer reports. But the damage is done. Watch as Lunchables goes belly up.
#6 OneGuy on 2024-04-12 20:46 (Reply)
When you can test down to parts per billion or even parts per trillion, you gotta come up with good ways to explain your findings. This was from an EPA site.

" Another way to define these reportable units is by equating ppm to “1 drop in 1 million gallons,” ppb to “1 drop in 1 billion gallons”, ppt to “1 drop in 1 trillion gallons,” and ppq to “1 drop in 1 quadrillion gallons,” which shows that these units reflect a very small amount. "

But the media doesn't get clicks from being a calming influence, now does it?
#6.1 JLawson (Link) on 2024-04-12 22:29 (Reply)
Now, bananas on the other hand are really dangerous. There is an incredible amount of strontium-90 in bananas. I recently saw a YouTube video where some guy cooked down about 5 dozen bananas and got about a teaspoon of strontium-90. I suspect that if Kraft made those bananas that Consumer Reports wopuld have gone bananas!
#6.2 JustMe on 2024-04-13 10:43 (Reply)
You may be thinking of potassium-40. The vast majority of radioactivity in a banana is from potassium-40. There are about 422 mg of potassium in a banana, of which about 0.012% is radioactive potassium-40. In 60 bananas, that would be 3 mg or about half a teaspoon.

Potassium-40 is a naturally occurring radionuclide. There is some radiation in all things, so the amount of natural background radiation can be a benchmark for human health. The danger is that some elements accumulate in the body over time.
#6.2.1 Zachriel on 2024-04-14 10:01 (Reply)
The cesium-137 in a banana will emit about 0.2 Bq, while the potassium will emit about 1.7 Bq. The potassium-40 in a banana will also emit the occasional bit of antimatter. Positronium anyone?
#6.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2024-04-14 10:25 (Reply)
I'm not a psychiatrists (which makes it even more likely that I am right on this), but my observation is that most all of the women I see with blue, purple or other bizarre hair color are also, coincidently, bi-polar. Has the mental health community considered making hair color choices part of their mental evaluation? Or a more relevant question, have single men considered making hair color choices part of their dating choice evaluation?
#7 Dave in LA on 2024-04-13 11:30 (Reply)
It may not be obvious who is in charge of our government. It is a cabal of people with different agendas. Obama and others are directing the president. The Democrats and some Republicans in congress are running their own grift most to acquire more power and all to acquire money. In the process they have all either cooperated/conspired with the various security/spy agencies to further their agenda and as a consequence they have come under the thumb of these security/spy agencies. So while Obama, the Democrats and some Republicans are indeed dishonest and unconstitutional the real bogeyman are the security/spy agencies who have almost unlimited power and are actively working against our country and our people. They get away with this because they have the goods on our politicians AND because they help the politicians loot the treasury and buy power. The CIA, NSA, FBI, DOJ, MSM and the rest of the ABC agencies are full corrupt and actively working to destroy us. Recent revelation about the entire Covid debacle show with absolute certainty that these agencies knew where it came from that it's danger was exaggerated and that it could be used to further everyone's agenda. The alphabet agencies kept Trump's hands tied and played fast and loose with the truth to get even more power AND to get Biden "installed". These same agencies are behind the 96 criminal indictments against Trump and they WILL bring Trump down one way or another to prevent him from ever being president again. The most likely ploy will be multiple attacks from the many terrorists that Obama/Biden brought into the country. Keep in mind this will not include the thousands of Chinese and hundred of Russian spies who are smart enough not to act openly prematurely. They will be a longer term threat and likely used to destroy us outright. Most likely the Alphabet agencies are already too strong and to committed to stop even if Trump were elected. Understand that almost everything you hear in the news is a lie. They lie because there is 40% of Americans who will willingly and eagerly support the left wing agenda and they are clueless to what is really happening. The Democrats must continue to divide us on race or abortion or LGBQT or religion, etc. to keep that 40% on the communist plantation. But sooner or later this all has to enter the armed revolution phase and will look very much like the Russian revolution of 1917. That day is coming soon.
#8 Anon on 2024-04-14 10:51 (Reply)

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