HEALTH: My favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”

Saturday, September 27, 2025

FROM A REPLY TO ONE OF MY FORWARDED MEME-FILLED EMAILS

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FJohn, do you actually believe that vaccines are a hoax?

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Well, … … … …

 … … … … Just off the top of my head:

  • “Covid vaccines” are not what we knew as “vaccines”. Certainly not studied for “safety”. 
  • Older “true” vaccines have a track record. But again never studied for “safety”. 
  • Flu “vaccines” are of dubious value; I never took them. Many times I’ve heard people bitch that they took it and then got the flu. To me that’s was an “interesting factoid”, but not real “evidence”. But enough to make me skeptical.
  • Hep B vaxes are given to ALL babies even if their mother is NOT carrting the Hep B infection? That is at least unnecessary and maybe worse.
  • As far as the autism vaccine link, it’s reported that the Amish don’t get vaxed and they have zero cases of autism. 
  • Japan doesn’t vax children until 4. 
  • My middle age niece remarked, when discussing this, that when her boys were young vaxes were spread out over time; not bunched up at once. 
  • Throw in that Big Pharma is legally immune from vax injury damages. 
  • And that hospitals are incentivized to give them. 
  • And, doctors are paid based on the percentage of their practice that are vaxed.
  • Recently, the Gooferment under RFKjr reported that there was linkage between autism and young black males. 
  • The “advisory panel” for vaxes were merely a rubber stamp for Big Pharma. “Regulatory capture revolving door. They were replaced with respected people with no ties to Big Pharma. Now they are being more circumspect in their recommendation. This maybe be better, but not assured.

Again to repeat my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”.

I remember thalidomide when a “harmless” drug cause birth defects in mother’s  GRANDCHILDREN!

So I don’t think they are a “hoax”, but they are not “innocuous”.

Hope that helps understand my thoughts about them.

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POLITICAL: Jasmine Crockett Provides Head-Scratching Explanation

Friday, September 26, 2025

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/18/jasmine-crockett-provides-head-scratching-explanation-about-law/

Jasmine Crockett Provides Head-Scratching Explanation About Law: Committing Crime ‘Doesn’t Make’ Person ‘Criminal’
Jason Cohen
DCNF Reporter/Clipper

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-09-19>>

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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed on “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness” Wednesday that committing crimes does not make a person a “criminal.”

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“I do want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal,” the continually entertaining congresswoman said. “That is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset.”

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Most amusing quote.

I hope the voters in Texas take this to heart.

Maybe it’s me, but that seems “stupid”?

No wonder that the D’s are losing with quotes like these.

Maybe “three strikes and your out” is harsh criminal policy.  But surely “14 strikes and you’re still out” is just stupid. “We, The Sheeple” need the Judges to step up and protect us.

Argh!

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QUOTE: Success – Freddie Mercury

Thursday, September 25, 2025

“Success has brought me world idolization and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.” – Freddie Mercury

[JR: Guess we should pity all the “celebrities”]

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MONEY: The Federal Reserve has been unable to “provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system”

Thursday, September 25, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

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Federal Reserve Cuts Rates

The Federal Reserve announced a quarter-percentage-point cut in benchmark rates yesterday, bringing the range to between 4% and 4.25%—the lowest level in almost three years. The bank signaled the possibility of two additional cuts this year.

The decision saw the Federal Reserve prioritizing a hiring slowdown over inflation. A sluggish 22,000 jobs were added last month; weekly jobless claims reached their highest level in four years last week. The US has also downwardly revised job growth by 911,000 for the one-year period ending in March. Those concerns trumped sticky inflation, with consumer prices rising 2.9% annually last month.

The bank voted 11-1 in yesterday’s decision, with the only dissenter being newly appointed Fed Governor Stephen Miran, who preferred a half-point cut. Governor Lisa Cook participated in the meeting after an appeals court ruled the White House lacked authority to fire her. The White House plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.

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“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” — Milton Friedman

"Paper money eventually returns to it's intrinsic value, zero ...

Why do we have a “Federal Reserve Bank”?

The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

Why do we need them to “set” interest rates?

We don’t,  In essence, they are “price fixers”.  And, as we know, no one can know the correct “price” of anything.  The free market allows buyers and sellers to set a price where they are both “satisfied”.  Otherwise, it “win-win” or “no deal”.  

Why is there one “prime rate” of interest?

Because that allows the Gooferment to manipulate the market.  By hiding the “true cost” of money (i.e., the interest rate), buyers and sellers are making decision based on a fiction.  Everyone loses.

Why do we have “inflation”?

Milton Friedman: ‘Inflation is taxation without legislation.’  The FED “prints” money and the market reacts to the change in “the supply of dollars”.  It’s a silent thief that steals wealth from everyone who has an “old dollar” especially the poor, those on fixed incomes, and savers. 

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As gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, the market for money should be free from Gooferment.  The Federal Reserve has been unable to “provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system” which is its intended purpose.  So let’s follow Andrew Jackson’s lead and end the Federal Reserve Bank.

FYI, he was the last President to have zero debt.

Argh!

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MEME: Protect us from what?

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

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TECHNOLOGY: Why can’t I compile a spreadsheet?

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

https://a.tldrnewsletter.com/web-version?ep=1&lc=834d23bc-ea90-11ec-9258-0241b9615763&p=fed2061c-8fbc-11f0-a7bf-214dec94fde6&pt=campaign&t=1757673580&s=aa29e0273801d56e71f15cc32a41f44053f1403baf33cd1ccbc2231fcfb6c211

TLDR 2025-09-12

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That giant mountain of spreadsheets and screenshots standing between your startup and your success. 

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Why hasn’t someone come out with a simple way to “compile” a spreadsheet?

Once I’ve “perfected” my spreadsheet, why can’t I “freeze” into an app.  That app would allow input BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), not allow formulas or formatting changes.

When I was the bar manager at my local American Legion post, I had several spreadsheets for various functions.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t share them with my team because invariably some one would mess it up the formulas or format.  So even when we got square to take credit cards, my data entry work didn’t ease up; it increased.  Argh!

I could have coded an app in assembler, Fortran, or COBOL, but why bother?  That was more work than just entering, and in some cases, reentering the same data.  Luckly, COVID came an killed the Post’s business.  Thanks to Gooferment diktats and no reduction in fees to non-profits, we went from stay afloat to being underwater. Argh!

I still would like  de able to “freeze” a spreadsheet.  Maybe I should apply to Apple, Microsoft, or Google to develop it for them.  I don’t see them doing much to advance spreadsheet technology? 

FWIW!

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p.s., I’d like some TLDR swag. Laugh!

https://refer.tldr.tech/3dabce84/

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GUNS: A 30-06 from 200 yards puts a huge hole in deer; Chralie Kirk wasn’t shot with that round

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-mrna-and-government?publication_id=792813&post_id=173712846&isFreemail=true&r=69c48n&triedRedirect=true

Charlie Kirk, mRNA and Government Fraud

Sep 16, 2025 — Tom Renz

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Now, let’s talk about the Charlie Kirk tragedy. I’m not buying the official story one bit, no lone gunman, no “tranny shooter” nonsense they think we’ll just swallow because it fits some stereotype. The details don’t add up. They say Charlie was hit with a .30-06 from 200 yards, a round that’d blow through you like a freight train. But no exit wound? No spray? Come on, that’s not how physics works. Something’s fishy, and it reeks of another government cover-up. I’m not saying I know what happened, maybe foreign interference, maybe powerful folks didn’t like Charlie’s message, but the narrative stinks, and I don’t trust a government that lies as easily as it breathes.
 
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George carlin quote 3 500x270.

I think we have more than enough examples of this.  Pick your favorite:

  • JFK
  • MLK
  • RFK
  • Any of the CIA “operations”
  • Covid
  • The FED
  • Any Gooferment “temporary” program
  • 9/11
  • FDR and Pearl Harbor
  • The Lusitania
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Etc. etc. etc.

And that’s just off the top of my head. 

When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up and resist?

Probably when they are disarmed and being sent to camps.

Argh!

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MEME: One Well-Worn Pre-1965 Silver Dime With Just Melt Silver Value Now Costs $3.15 in FRNs

Monday, September 22, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/09/21/jwrs-meme-of-the-week-65/

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment diktats and “inspections” don’t keep us safe

Monday, September 22, 2025

https://www.malone.news/p/homesteading-the-food-emancipation?publication_id=583200&post_id=173665120&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Homesteading: The Food Emancipation Proclamation
By Joel Salatin
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Sep 15, 2025

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If you said, I want to buy a can of your homemade canned tomato soup, I can’t sell it to you. The current system only allows availability in the marketplace from the industrial choice. If you ever notice a food recall, they’ll put down the brands that are being recalled. There’s 25 brands, they’re all coming from the same tube. People walk into Walmart and they say, well, what do you mean we don’t have food choice? Look at all the brands, all the colored labels. Well, they’re all industrial. So what we want, what the society, the culture is yearning for right now. Buyers want affordable unadulterated food. You can’t get that at the supermarket. Old farmers need a way to get out. We talked about that on the tour. Young farmers need a way to get in and inner city food deserts need a solution besides the food bank.

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In order for me to offer you a chicken pot pie, did you like that chicken yesterday? Yeah. Yeah. In order for me to offer you a chicken pot pie, I have to have an inspected kitchen, a hasp plan, hazardous analysis, critical control point plan, and there’s no template for making these. And if you take the template off the inspection service website, they will automatically cast it out.

I have to have a licensed bathroom, not a composting toilet, and it doesn’t matter that our kitchen is a hundred yards from two in our house, two in mom’s house. It has to be on site, a licensed leach field for that bathroom and a certified cold chain with 24 7 thermometer, computer microchip reading. That’s just to get you a chicken pot pie.

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Ultimately, these food safety laws have nothing to do with food safety. All other hazardous substances, prescription drugs, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, name your thing, you can’t buy them. You can’t give them away. You can’t possess them, and you certainly can’t feed ’em to your kids. But food, the prohibition is only on the seller. You can buy it, you can use it, you can feed it to your kids, you can feed it to your neighbors, you can give it away. You just can’t sell it. So who’s kidding? Who here is this really food safety? If it was really dangerous for me to butcher a beef in the field and take out a T-bone steak and sell it to you, if it was really dangerous, it ought to be I can’t give it away. You can’t buy it and you certainly can’t feed it to your kids. So the hypocrisy of this is so glaring that it defies imagination.

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Argh!

What more can I say?

Sorry but the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats have a slew of regulations that don’t make sense.

Let the “free market” decide what we can and can’t put in out bodies.

We are NOT the Gooferment’s “livestock” to be “managed” at their whim.

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QUOTE: Hate speech does not exist legally in America … …  … … 

Sunday, September 21, 2025

“Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech, there’s gross speech, there’s evil speech, and all of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.” — Charlie Kirk

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