David the Gnome

I don’t think those pushing for it are crazy idiots.  I think they are people who believe massive profit will be gained if China is “out of the way”.

China is not Iraq though.  If it does come to war, they have a very solid chance of winning.  That is even setting aside the potential use of nuclear weapons.

That getting vaccinated lowers the risk of actually getting COVID-19, though it doesn’t eliminate it completely.

I have heard nothing convincing about it causing fertility issues – though it is possible that some could have such a reaction to it.

@scottcrowder

I’d like to see whatever articles you’ve got that say otherwise.

The J & J vaccine has a 66% efficacy rate and the Pfizer and moderna are in the 80s or 90s as far as efficacy goes.  That is, the chance of not testing positive, I think.

So, this could be effective in dramatically reducing the number of new covid cases in LA.

I don’t really like it either, but I can’t fault the authorities for doing this, not…[Read more]

Depends, of course, on the type of “crazy”.  In this guy’s case, it is obvious that something is very wrong.  There have been more than enough incidents to draw the attention of the police, the media and so on… Yet… no hospital, it seems, that can care for him.

Shutting down the institutions was a mixed thing.  There was a lot of abuse and ge…[Read more]

Certainly makes it one heck of a coincidence, doesn’t it?  Unless perhaps there are no coincidences, could be the facebook people were up to something else.

Would probably mean the end of the world as we know it.  Whatever was left over afterwards would likely be mostly uninhabitable for quite some time.  The military leaders are aware of this – and for that reason I think it is unlikely.

It could happen, but it probably won’t.  All we really see is posturing – and I really hope it stays that wa…[Read more]

One of the primary concepts behind the practice, as I understand it, is to not be judgmental – and in not being judgmental, to assist others in also not being judgmental.  To balance the mind, body and spirit.  I have heard of yogis who can do amazing things – and I have seen some of them, at least from a physical point of view.

“Less light in t…[Read more]

It is one thing to get congress to agree to any kind of proposal – and that is clearly very difficult (not really, but they like to pretend it is) but to actually spend the funds wisely?  To avoid giving them to some shmuck who charges one hundred grand for a toilet?  Well…

They know this, we know this.  Nonetheless, that won’t change the re…[Read more]

A worldwide outage is a big deal, especially if it lasts for any length of time.  If we consider how much people rely on social media for communication and/or their general daily activities and routines… I expect that a whole lot of people were nervous and upset yesterday, when they couldn’t connect to their friends.  I don’t like facebook as a…[Read more]

The headline just makes me think of Gollum.

Why do any of the big Muckety mucks care if Assange is prosecuted?  Why do they have such hate for him?  I never thought much of his personality, but I do think the things he revealed should never have been hidden in the first place.

If we think about it… Assange and Snowden told us a lot more truth than the mainstream media generally does.  Th…[Read more]

Is a problem.  I’m not sure if lots of Russians see Americans the same way, perhaps they do, perhaps not.  I am reminded of an argument I had some time back with a guy who was telling me that Russians were basically like “another breed of human”, that they couldn’t be understood, shouldn’t be treated with decency – and that we (Nato, etc.) s…[Read more]