HEALTH: How COVID-19 Changes Our Sleep – The Atlantic

Sunday, December 27, 2020

The goal, then, is breaking out of this cycle, or preventing it altogether. Here the benefits of sleep extend throughout the body. “Sleep is important for effective immune function, and it also helps to regulate metabolism, including glucose and mechanisms controlling appetite and weight gain,” Miller says. All of these bear directly on COVID-19, as risk factors for severe cases include diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea. Even in the short term, getting enough deep, slow-wave sleep will optimize your metabolism and make you maximally prepared should you fall ill. These effects may even bear on vaccination. Flu shots appear to be more effective among people who have slept well in the days preceding getting one.

How COVID-19 Changes Our Sleep – The Atlantic

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Get your Z’s. Take your vitamins (even if you’re making some “expensive urine”)! And, drink your water.

Then, relax and hand on for the ride.

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HEALTH: When Covid-19 Swept Through a Country in the Mid-1970s

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Dr. X writes of a peculiar disease that swept through his country inn the 1960s and 1970s and was prevalent in many geographical areas. At first it was only 50 patients. Then a few years later it was more than ten-thousand patients.

Source: When Covid-19 Swept Through a Country in the Mid-1970s

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Could Covid-19 be beriberi?

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In This Season of Giving, States Are Exploring New Extremes of Tax-Taking

Saturday, December 26, 2020

A case being brought directly to the Supreme Court will likely have some far-reaching effects for state governments. Recently the state of New Hampshire filed a petition with SCOTUS to curtail neighboring Massachusetts from taxing its residents. The issue is that a large amount of the citizens commute to nearby Boston, and other areas inside the Baked Bean state, and in the days now of office closures and remote working those citizens are now working from home. That is, they are working inside New Hampshire.

In This Season of Giving, States Are Exploring New Extremes of Tax-Taking

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Sounds like we need a Constitutional amendment limiting the total taxation that may be imposed.

Let’s start with 10% and then we can pursue the little L libertarian dream of ZERO.

Taxation is theft.

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End the Great American Myth: We Want Secession, Not Revolution

Thursday, December 24, 2020

I remember the 1970’s driving around New York City with my family during the holidays like they were yesterday. Back then the talk in the front seat of the car between my parents was New York City’s bankruptcy. My dad, NYPD at the time, was as much a part of this as anyone since the Police pension fund helped bail out the city government back then.

Source: End the Great American Myth: We Want Secession, Not Revolution

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And that is that secession, not revolution, is always the better option rather than the pre-packaged violent one which the oligarchs always seem to prepare for us.

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Let’s hope that we can have a peaceful “collapse” of the American empire.  Just like the USSR!

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INNOVATION: Tiny homes see to solve homelessness?

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-12/los-angeles-tiny-homes-homeless?fbclid=IwAR1jiIIS3DL4O_rPz2IM9JLmfdTkSv7RYsa01MAwfhxfkuxOfgWUraN2dhQ

$130,000 for an 8-foot-by-8-foot shed? That’s what L.A. is paying in a bid to house the homeless
By DOUG SMITH, SENIOR WRITER 
DEC. 12, 2020

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Combining public and private funds, the nonprofit now manages 550 tiny homes in villages on public property, private property and church property around the Seattle area. It costs from $300,000 to $500,000 to set up 40 or 50 homes, depending on the sewer connection, Lee said. Portable toilets initially used have been replaced by permanent bathrooms and showers.

The villages function as communities, with residents all performing chores and, at some, taking part in self-governance.

Seattle’s citizen-driven model never got traction in Los Angeles.

When a self-styled homeless activist started delivering hand-made tiny homes to people living on the streets, the city ruled the structures illegal and quickly stamped out the movement.

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Too bad the Gooferment squashes any private attempt to solve the problem that the Gooferment created!

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Newt Gingrich discusses why he is not recognizing Biden as the winner in 2020 presidential election | Just The News

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

A friend had inquired why this was the case. “As I thought about it, I realized my anger and fear were not narrowly focused on votes,” Gingrich wrote. “My unwillingness to relax and accept that the election was over grew out of a level of outrage and alienation unlike anything I had experienced in more than 60 years involvement in public affairs.” In the piece Gingrich brought up various issues: “When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York Times and The Washington Post?” he wrote.

Newt Gingrich discusses why he is not recognizing Biden as the winner in 2020 presidential election | Just The News

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I think there a lot of people who feel the same way.

Outraged!

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VETERANS: Nemo Resideo

Monday, December 21, 2020

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/12/21/americas_mias_coming_home_653955.html

America’s MIAs: Coming Home
By Christopher D. Brady
December 21, 2020
 
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On December 23, 1944, 24 year old Captain Lawrence Dickson flew his P-51D Mustang on a routine surveillance mission into Italy and crashed. He became one of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen (Red Tails) Missing in Action (MIA) in World War II.  In spite of a post-war scouring of Europe for U.S. service members, it took 68 years to locate his crash site.  His remains were excavated in August 2017 and identified 15 months later using advanced DNA techniques.  This is indicative of how difficult it is to locate, excavate, and then identify missing service members.

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The concept of the Latin phrase nemo resideo, or “leave no one behind,” is almost as old as warfare itself. Greek mythology portrayed heroes who rescued those captured by enemies.

Unfortunately we have in the past and I guess “we” will in the future.

Personally, I think that the politicians and bureaucrats should be held to account for the girls and boys who ARE left behind!

AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY!

Maybe then they will be incentivized to get everyone home?

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Trump attorney Jesse Binnall’s CENSORED Senate testimony on election fraud in Nevada | Sharyl Attkisson

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Trump attorney Jesse Binnall’s CENSORED Senate testimony on election fraud in Nevada | Sharyl Attkisson

A summary of what Binnall testified to is:

* Aug. 3, 2020 after the legislative session, Nevada legislatures made changes to election law that included universal mail voting without sufficient safeguards to authenticate voters or ensure only one ballot was sent to each legally qualified voter.

*The number of such ballots rocketed from 70,000 in 2016 to 690,000 in 2020.

* 42,000 people voted more than once, as determined by reviewing list of voters and comparing it to other voters with the same name, address and date of birth.

* At least 1,500 dead people are recorded has having voted.

* 19,000 people who didn’t live in Nevada voted, not counting military or students.

* 1,000 people voted using nonexistent addresses.

* 15,000 people cast votes from disallowed commercial addresses.

* Almost 4,000 noncitizens illegally voted.

* Two technical experts came forward independently and reported that the number of votes changed overnight while the voting machines were stored.

* The Trump team was denied examination of the relevant USB drives.

* Officials with more evidence obstructed and stonewalled.

Trump attorney Jesse Binnall’s CENSORED Senate testimony on election fraud in Nevada | Sharyl Attkisson

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PRETTY DAMNING!

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Did Mark Zuckerberg’s $350M Contribution to ‘Safe Elections’ Project ‘Improperly Influence 2020 Presidential Election’?

Sunday, December 20, 2020

(From RedState) “The 2020 presidential election witnessed an unprecedented and coordinated public-private partnership to improperly influence the 2020 presidential election on behalf of one particular candidate and party. “Funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other high-tech interests, activist organizations created a two-tiered election system that treated voters differently depending on whether they lived in Democrat or Republican strongholds.”

Source: Did Mark Zuckerberg’s $350M Contribution to ‘Safe Elections’ Project ‘Improperly Influence 2020 Presidential Election’?

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Sure sounds like it does!

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Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know | Newsmax.com

Sunday, December 20, 2020

No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election.

Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know | Newsmax.com

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Something still stinks about it. Why have that “fudge feature” at all if not to cheat.

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