Category: “settled science”

Touching on a Sore Spot

Syphilis Emergency Looms in the US… [More]

Not among normal people it doesn’t.

They pull the same crap with the “gun violence epidemic,” taking numbers reflecting behaviors of an identifiable aberrant subsection of the population and making it seem like it’s a problem we all share, and in a way it is: Responsible people who don’t engage in high-risk stupid behaviors end up paying for the actions of those who can’t — or won’t — control themselves.

Give Us Time to Get Our Stories Straight, Will Ya?

An urgent investigation is needed into why excess deaths are near pandemic levels, because the lack of an explanation is fuelling “wild and dangerous theories”, experts warn. [More]

You know, like the truth.

When I went to my doctor’s follow-up yesterday, none of the office staff or waiting room patients were wearing masks– as everybody was when I first went in for a checkup over a year ago. There never has been an explanation about what’s changed, including the focus of media headlines on everything else but…

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Adventures in Settled Science

Bronny James, LeBron’s son, suffers cardiac arrest during basketball practice at USC [More]

It must be out of line to ask how many Covid shots he got because I don’t see the “real reporters” raising the issue.

That’s probably because Google-approved search results tell us such worries, just as with claims of election fraud, are “baseless.”

Physician Heal Thyself

Medical mistakes kill, permanently disable 795,000 Americans a year, study finds [More]

So with 1,077,115 total active physicians in the U.S., how does that compare with numbers attributed to the estimated 45% of U.S. households possessing guns?

I say “attributed” because we know all households don’t bear equal culpability.

And the gunquacks are all in a dither about us…?

Why do motes and beams come to mind?

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Survey SAYS…

Several policy proposals that would further restrict access to guns or ammunition continue to receive support from majorities of Americans. Smaller shares of Americans support several more permissive policy proposals. [More]

You know what I’ve never seen a survey of?

How much respondents actually know about the issues they’re being questioned on…

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Related UPDATE

Black Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos support gun measures more than any other racial group, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. [More]

Is this where I rest my case?

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Enslaving Private Ryan

French President Suggests Taxing America to Save the European Green Energy Dream [More]

Taxation without representation… where have we heard that before?

I just wish the Founders had been as concerned with representation without “taxation”.

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Tangentially Related UPDATE

That’s a lot of carbon those Frogs are putting up into the air.

They are Frogs, aren’t they?

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An Air of Disbelief

“The Toronto Sun has learned Quebec police are investigating the possibility that the smoke creating poor air quality in southern Ontario and making downtown skylines disappear may have been the result of arson… This narrative has not made as many headlines — and is polar opposite to what the likes of U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Environment Minister Steven Guibeault have been saying.” [More]

If you think they’re misdirecting now, wait ’til they find out the perp is one of their fellow environmentalcases or a “refugee”!

[Via Michael G]

Related UPDATE

There are Now 250 “Out-of-Control” Fires in Canada, Here’s Why Some Say It’s All ‘Planned’ [More]

And the outrageous thing is, that wouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention to how totalitarians operate.

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And Thank You for Your Service?

“Having a US military background is the single-strongest individual-level predictor of whether a subject . . . is classified as a mass casualty offender,” the study by Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) said. [More]

What it doesn’t say is what commonalities offenders share before enlisting. It also presupposes risks are evenly distributed rather than concentrated into observable subsets.

I can’t help but make the seemingly unrelated analogies that violent crime is not widespread but concentrated, and Trump is so good at firing people because he’s so lousy at hiring them.

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Enemies Foreign and Domestic

Europe’s top eco-zealots are plotting a huge ‘civil disobedience campaign’ of highway blockages and disruption at ‘federal properties’ in America’s first summer of chaos [More]

Good. Let the normies see your insanity and immaturity, and its adoption by the Democrat agenda.

Don’t forget to slash more tires!

Why would they be allowed to be here?

[Via WiscoDave]

Let Them Eat Bugs

Kerry Says US Farm Confiscations Not Off the Table [More]

Just not the farms that provide tomatoes to the feedhag he attached himself to…

Remember another time farms were confiscated?

Y’know, I rely on farmers for my family’s survival several times a day. I’m trying to remember the last time I relied on a treasonous piece of parasitic sh!+.

If this results in resistance, I know whose side I’ll be on.

Or am I supposed to be afraid to post such sentiments?

[Via Michael G and  WiscoDave]

At Least They’re Consistent

The political, cultural, academic, and media Elite literally promoted the idea that anybody who was skeptical about the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccine was a murderer and deserved to die. Deserved to die. Not just that they were placing themselves at risk, but that their failure to comply with the diktats of others made them worthy of death. [More]

In fairness, they’re the same people who want our children to die over guns.

[Via Michael G]

The Journalistic Turd in the Punch Bowl

Women are buying more guns, though studies suggest self-defense use is rare… A Harvard University analysis found people defended themselves with a gun in less than 1% of crimes from 2007 to 2011. More recently, a Stanford University study of 17.6 million Californians found that people who lived with handgun owners but did not own a gun themselves died by homicide more than twice as often as their gun-free neighbors. [More]

If what they say is true, NRA families must be self-destructing at an astonishing rate.

Somebody at Faux News decided it was important to offset reality by citing “statistics” and talking points from people who want to ban guns. Nothing like assigning such stories to a self-described “cat lady.”

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