FUN: Ever hear of “cork ball”? I hadn’t.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/corkball-the-mutant-baseball-game-thats-a-st-louis-tradition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theartofmanliness+%28The+Art+of+Manliness%29

In: Health & Sports, Sports
Brett and Kate McKay • May 6, 2021
Corkball: The Mutant Baseball Game That’s a St. Louis Tradition
 
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Welcome to corkball: a mutant baseball game hailing from the streets of St. Louis, that you just might want to import to your own neighborhood. 

The Origins of Corkball

In the 1840s, Irish and German immigrants came pouring into St. Louis. Many of the latter brought beer recipes from Deutschland and opened breweries that mass-produced German lagers for the country’s growing population. While brewing companies like Anheuser-Busch were innovating beer-making with pasteurization and refrigeration, the employees at these breweries were making innovations to American baseball and created a version of the game that allowed them to play with a limited number of players, in a limited space, without the usual regulation equipment. 

Legend has it that corkball got its start in an east St. Louis tavern sometime around 1900. Some bored, slightly drunk dude popped the cork bung off a beer barrel and wrapped some tape around it. He then tossed it to a drinking buddy who tried to hit it with a broomstick. 

Boom!

Corkball was born. 

The most significant difference between corkball and baseball was that corkball had no runners, so there were no bases. Because there were no bases or runners, men didn’t need a big space or many players to play corkball. They could technically get a corkball game going with just four total — two to a team. 

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Ever hear of “cork ball”? I hadn’t.

Sounds like it could be a real winner.

Except for calling balls and strikes.

That injects subjective judgments.

Have to think about how to eliminate that.

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RANT: For the “you had one job” folder

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-controller-wrote-49-million-checks-but-claims-she-cant-locate-any-of-them_3814923.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport

California Controller Wrote 49 Million Checks – Says She Can’t Locate Any of Them

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What does she “control”?

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HEALTH: Guess the WuFlu “vaccine” isn’t a vaccine like we’re used to?

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

https://deadline.com/2021/05/real-time-with-bill-maher-cancelled-this-week-tests-positive-covid-19-1234755973/

LATE NIGHT TV
‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ Cancels This Week’s Show After HBO Host Tests Positive For Covid-19
By Peter White, Erik Pedersen
May 13, 2021 3:29pm

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EXCLUSIVE: HBO has scrapped this week’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher after the comedian tested positive for Covid-19. Maher, who is vaccinated and asymptomatic, tested positive during the premium cable network’s weekly PCR testing ahead of the show.

It is a blow for the late-night show, which was set to entertain astrophysicist and StarTalkpodcaster Neil deGrasse Tyson as the top-of-show interview guest, and World War Z author Max Brooks and Hardcore History podcast host Dan Carlin as panelists.

“The Friday, May 14th taping of Real Time with Bill Maher has been cancelled. Bill tested positive during weekly staff PCR testing for COVID. He is fully vaccinated and as a result is asymptomatic and feels fine. Real Time production has taken every precaution following COVID CDC guidelines. No other staff or crew members have tested positive at this time. The show will be rescheduled at a later date,” an HBO spokeswoman told Deadline.

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How can this be?

If I’ve been vaccinated for polio, I can NOT get it?

Guess we’re in new territory and you can’t believe the Gooferment, politicians, or bureaucrats!

EVER!

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INSPIRATIONAL: No good deed?

Monday, May 17, 2021

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/05/11/consequences-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FutilityCloset+%28Futility+Closet%29

Dutch Anabaptist Dirk Willems had made good his escape from prison in 1569 when a pursuing guard fell through the ice of a frozen pond and called for help.

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TINFOILHAT: The only reason for a vaccine passport is a control-related one

Monday, May 17, 2021

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/05/10/the-rise-of-utilitarian-extremism.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210510&mid=DM880981&rid=1154288204

The Rise of Utilitarian Extremism, and How to Recognize It
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
May 10, 2021

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Proof of vaccination requirements for travel are rare, and limited to travel to certain destinations where the risk of contracting a disease and bringing it back to a population with nonexistent immunity against it is high
  • The U.S. government’s job is to protect the Constitutional rights of all Americans. Allowing or encouraging businesses to create a two-tier society where unvaccinated people are barred from participating in civic society is unconstitutional
  • Proof of vaccination against COVID-19 will not ensure safety. It won’t even promote it, as the so-called vaccines are designed to merely reduce symptoms of the infection
  • Utilitarianism, which is now being increasingly promoted, is a discredited pseudo-ethic that has repeatedly been used to justify horrific human rights abuses. It is based on a mathematical equation that some individuals can be sacrificed for the greater good of the majority
  • Utilitarianism appears to be at work already. The European Union’s vaccine injury reporting system had logged 330,218 adverse event reports, including 7,766 deaths, as of April 17, 2021, and the U.S. reporting system had logged 118,902 adverse event reports as of April 23, including 3,544 deaths and 12,618 serious injuries, yet all of these injuries and deaths are simply ignored and people are told to get the shot, no matter what

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I’m skeptical of the motivations of all the celebrities, politicians, and bureaucrats who are pushing the “WuFlu narrative” and insisting that everyone get a “vaccination”.

(What they are push is NOT a vaccine as it has always been defined. This is genetic engineering relabeled.)

Remember EPA Christie Whitman: “Ground Zero Air Is Safe”?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/epa-head-wrong-911-air-safe-new-york-christine-todd-whitman

Remember Thalidomide?

Remember the human experiments — Prison Inmates as Test Subjects, Electroshock Therapy on Children, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Syphilis Study?

The “elite” are not at all reluctant to use “We, The Sheeple” as guinea pigs for their “wise and benevolent” theories.

Argh!

Nancy Regan was right — “Just say no”.

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RANT: France has a lot to be ashamed of too!

Sunday, May 16, 2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9570845/Unseen-pictures-Frances-role-rounding-Jews-luring-fake-forms.html

France’s dark role in rounding up Jews: Previously-unseen pictures show men boarding a train in Paris watched by SS ‘Final Solution’ chief after thousands were lured to ‘routine registrations’ then arrested by French officials

  • The ‘green ticket round-up’ saw Jews in Paris invited for a ‘status review’ which appeared to be a formality
  • When they arrived, the Jews were immediately arrested and sent away to internment camps in France
  • They were held for as long as a year in the camps before they were sent to Auschwitz where they were killed
  • Photos of the round-up taken by a German soldier on a propaganda mission have been recently discovered

By JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE and AFP
PUBLISHED: 11:02 EDT, 12 May 2021 | UPDATED: 13:18 EDT, 12 May 2021

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Remember this when you think of the poor Americans of Japanese descent who were rounded up.

Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats can NEVER be trusted.

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TINFOILHAT: Cut the crap; the WuFlu came from that lab with USA taxpayer money

Sunday, May 16, 2021

It’s getting harder for the MSM to ignore the narrative around COVID lab origin

Some readers took exception to the item last week about the possibility that COVID-19 came out of a Wuhan Lab that was conducting gain-on-function experiments on Coronaviruses instead of a naturally occurring zoonotic transfer from bats at a wet market a few hundred meters away from that lab. It’s still very much verboten to bring this up in polite company (meaning social media platforms or mainstream media) and anybody who does so is subjected to ridicule and condemnation.

In the past week The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reprinted an article by New York Times science correspondent Nicholas Wade on the lab origin theory of COVID (The Bulletin are the folks who maintain the Doomsday Clock that’s been estimating how close the world is to ‘midnight’, which their shorthand for a global thermonuclear exchange. They’ve been doing this since 1945 and right now they put us at 100 seconds to midnight).

Wade’s piece  looked at the two theories of the origin, and found both scenarios to be plausible. He also added that statements favouring the first scenario, espousing zoonotic transfer, which was heavily amplified by the mainstream media and Big Tech “were not at first examined as critically as they should have been.”

Which is understandable, because anybody who questioned that narrative was deplatformed. Wade specifically calls into question the statement in the Lancet by a group of virologists that said “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” as being “too soon to call.”

Indeed it was, given what later emerged was that statement was organized and drafted by a member of an organization who funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is the very same lab that everybody who suspects lab origin believes COVID-19 escaped from (not intentionally, it is important to note).

The important excerpt from Wade’s article was:

“It’s documented that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were doing gain-of-function experiments designed to make coronaviruses infect human cells and humanized mice. This is exactly the kind of experiment from which a SARS2-like virus could have emerged. The researchers were not vaccinated against the viruses under study, and they were working in the minimal safety conditions of a BSL2 laboratory. So escape of a virus would not be at all surprising. In all of China, the pandemic broke out on the doorstep of the Wuhan institute. The virus was already well adapted to humans, as expected for a virus grown in humanized mice. It possessed an unusual enhancement, a furin cleavage site, which is not possessed by any other known SARS-related beta-coronavirus, and this site included a double arginine codon also unknown among beta-coronaviruses. What more evidence could you want, aside from the presently unobtainable lab records documenting SARS2’s creation?”

Even World Health Organization (WHO) head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted that the WHO had not been able to investigate the Wuhan Labs adequately enough to be able to rule out the lab origin theory, and that “as far as the WHO is concerned, all hypotheses remain on the table.”

For now, the Nicholas Wade piece is being picked up in more places, but the mainstream press is either avoiding it, or waiting until they have their hit pieces crafted to debunk it.

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

And: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/wade-on-the-lab-leak-theory-of-covid/

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I think it’s time to fire all the brain dead politicians and bureaucrats who ignored the OBVIOUS warnings.

One would hope that “We, The Sheeple” would take out their torches and pitchforks and tar and feather all involved.

I hear that McDonalds is hiring.

And, as far as “not intentionally”, that remains to be seen.  What better way for China to become a “world power”.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Dominion Ran Entire Maricopa County Election

Saturday, May 15, 2021

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/maricopa-county-elections-witness-testifies-dominion-ran-entire-election-county-officials-observers-never-access-passwords-video/

Maricopa County Elections Witness Testifies that Dominion Ran Entire Election – County Officials and Observers NEVER HAD Access or Passwords! (Video)
By Jim Hoft
Published May 9, 2021 at 4:45pm

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Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature.

Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION!  Dominion employees John and Bruce did.

Jan’s testimony might explain why Maricopa County officials do not have Admin passwords or access to the Dominion voting machines.

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Therefore, the election was fraudulent.

Per se, it’s flawed.

Everyone connected with it should be fired and a grand jury empaneled to indict any violations of the law. 

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Buying a Tesla? You could be “owned”

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Researchers hack into a Tesla from an aerial drone

This one is material for a scene in a cyber-thriller: a Tesla speeds down the highway carrying “The MacGuffin” in the trunk…. suddenly a scary looking drone with spikes and a razor teeth paint job zooms out of the sky, falls into pace above the car, our hero takes evasive actions but no, the drone has put the vehicle into autonomous mode and veers it… off a cliff… the hero bailing out just in time (or a red-shirt unceremoniously disposed of)… an LED lights up on the drone and trunk pops open, it zooms in, scoops out The MacGuffin and soars away, as the Ian Fleming-esque music begins rolling….

Well we’re not there yet. But security researchers did hover a drone over a parked Tesla, and used a weakness in the vehicle’s WiFi to take control of the onboard infotainment center and make changes to the vehicle’s internal settings, including unlocking the doors and moving the seats (perhaps in our cyber-thriller the drone ejects the driver at accelerated force through the front windshield).

The duo of researchers work for a German cyber-security research firm called Comsecuris GmBH and they’ve dubbed the security flaws “TBONE”

Read: https://futurism.com/the-byte/hackers-tesla-drone

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Seems like an obvious hack.  What about the important controls?

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HEALTH: Don’t eat the hospital food?

Friday, May 14, 2021

r/science 
•Posted byu/MistWeaver80 
18 hours ago
 

In Switzerland, among 645 people hospitalized with chronic heart failure, a randomized trial found those who were given regular hospital food – as opposed to a personal nutrition plan – had an almost doubled risk of mortality within 30 days.
 
Medicine

sciencealert.com/for-th…

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This is scary!

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