My Boring Life
Ruth Lawdog’s having a bad year it turns out. A bunch of folks have put together a raffle to help raise money for him. I can’t really donate financially, but I’m donating a chainmaille, stainless steel and crystal, 6 sided dice for the raffle. See the above link for how to enter to win it!
Ethical Skeptic on twitter: rate of infection V vs un-V, CDC may be hiding cancer deaths in the covid numbers, I haven’t checked his numbers.
Pregnancy complications spiked during the pandemic
I feel like I’m repeating myself, but apparently this is a novel concept for some people. When you stop exposing your immune system to things it stops working right.
Also, apparently when you terrify people into not leaving their houses they don’t exercise correctly and BMI increases, which also increases various risk factors for immune malfunction.
Social Security offices still dealing with the aftermath of covid closure
Pfizer exec admits vax was never tested on preventing transmission. Meanwhile, here’s an article from 12/21 where Twitter says that saying that will get you censored.
Paxlovid may cause clots
1 in 500 children given the covid vax require hospitalization
Biden Admin extends Covid Emergency through Jan
Meanwhile CA plans the end of the emergency.
Fauci must testify about covid censorship
ERRMIGAWD!!! We’re all GONNA DIE (again). Actually, “nightmare covid variant” would make an awesome band name….Oh wait, now its a TRIPLEDEMIC!!!! (*sigh*)
Also, apparently the .GOV didn’t actually learn anything from this whole mess
While the media insists on telling us that hospitals and ERs were overwhelmed by covid, records show otherwise.
Meanwhile: hospital kills down syndrome teenager who’s covid positive
Gov paid media to make fun of people who were reluctant to get the vax.
Pushback on Fordham U’s vax policy
Harvard announces booster requirement.
Finland says 2nd boosters make no difference for working age peoples
Nordic study of vax vs myocarditis
For the under 70 age group, the IFR of covid in 2020 was under 0.1%
ACT scores drop to lowest in 30 years
Turns out that if you actually TEACH MATH, and tutor the students who need it, you can raise your math scores. Who’da guessed??
Australia admits that closing schools wasn’t a good idea, also, if you die from the shot they’ll cover your funeral
Alberta Canada premier apologizes for covid response
I thought video games caused violence, but apparently its actually heart attacks (rlly?? thats right up there with saying global warming is causing heart attacks)
A historic look at vaccines and the associated sicknesses (I didn’t check the numbers)
USDA opens People’s Gardens initiative to nationwide
Dumbass causes his own accident
The Railroad strike might be back on.
Resistance training and mortality
Press gets ahold of military records of sexual assault of a public figure, releases them, public figure not amused
Dolly Parton will be sending children under the age of 5 in CA free books
Med Students recite woke pledge during ceremony.
Its Rolling Stone, so take it with a grain of salt
Social Credit in the UK
Ancient flood might have been real (gosh, really? Even I knew that)
I know there are good cops out there, but every time this sort of thing happens it makes it harder and harder to see them.
Drought is seriously affecting CA crops
Dutch plan to force buyout of farms from the farmers who refuse to comply
Diaper Crisis (totally the fault of the pro-life movement don’tcha know)
Mosque collapses in Indonesia
Baltimore high school senior with a GPA of 0.13 (no, I did not misplace that decimal point) ranks 62 out of 120 students in his class.
Gov reclassifies what classifies as contractor vs employee
Images from James Web Telescope might screw with theories
Canadian police at a USA gunshow
Europeans turn to wood heat in hopes of staving off the cold this winter.
National Grid planning on 3hr blackouts in the UK
New England (USA) looking at rolling blackouts this winter
Gov/media admit that they’re trying to buy voters by releasing more oil from the reserves
Italian rules for 2022 on how you can heat your house
A guide to strike anywhere matches
Signal Messaging removing SMS support from its Android app
Canada bans the buying, selling, or transferring of ownership of handguns
The boys feminism left behind
People are overdosing on wasp spray.
Communications cable to Shetland island cut
FDA recommends pulling drug from the market
Tufts shut down pediatric dept this past summer.
Well, if this is how they’re spending their budget for homeless shelters, no wonder they can’t afford it
Gut bacteria and rheumatoid arthritis
Female highschool volleyball player injured in game, all other schools in the district promptly refuse to play against the team that caused the injury. Turns out that the player who spiked the ball is a biological male playing on the girls team.
Vermont suspends father who’s daughter objected to biological male in the girl’s lockroom
Hospital denies life saving surgery to woman who wanted all female care team (specifically because she objected to a male in drag who looked in on an appt).
State Dept funding drag shows in Ecuador
Mercedes convertible found filled with concrete and buried
Gov restricts usage of chinese processing chips. More. Is it just me or is this VERY atypical for this .GOV?? I’m trying to figure out where the other shoe is going to drop.
Biden might block Twitter purchase
Mythbusters rerun helps free wrongly convicted man
Chainmaille inspired fabric is very very strong
Group of teen girls run their own auto repair shop
Uvalde school district suspends entire police force
3 weeks post hurricane FL has a temporary cause way back up to Sanibel island.
Gosh, its almost like Lawdog had a clue!
Title says it all. I’ll add links to this post specific to this.
NY already has legislation pending to add the covid vax to the mandated list. Please note that NY refuses to acknowledge religious refusal of such, and has a history of refusing medical exemptions with the covid vax.
NH states it has no intention of forcing the Covid vax.
ICANN getting ready to challenge laws requiring it
Meeting is Oct 19th
Edit: ok, the 10/19 vote was to add it to the Vaccines for Children program (which they did do), the vote today 10/20 is to add it to the childhood vax schedule. Lots and lots of blue checks reminding everyone that the CDC doesn’t mandate the shots on the schedule. Lots and lots of normal people shouting back that several states DO mandate large portions of the vax schedule and are set to have the mandate for the Covid shots go into affect as soon as its on the list. Also apparently adding a shot to the childhood vax schedule is an automatic protection from liability (gosh, if I had wondered WHY the childhood vax schedule had become so large in the last several years now I know why), which is not a good thing considering the complete lack of testing done on children.
I discovered LawDog’s blog years ago. If you’ve not been reading it you need to do so. He tells awesome stories from his childhood and officer of the law days. And he has a good head on his shoulders when it comes to identifying bullshit.
However, its possible, that when you click the link above it may not work. Or that the front page will work, but not the older stuff.
See, when the Nordstream pipeline had its issues LawDog dug up his memories as a child of an oilfield engineer and typed up a couple posts. And they went viral. And then some idiot decided he needed to be punished for it and set bots to blowing up his bandwidth allowance.
I have issues when it comes to letting the idiots win. So when another member of the community pointed out that LawDog’s posts are still available via the WayBack Machine I decided I had to help share the love.
The wayback machine can be slow to load, so be patient with it. And bookmark LawDog’s blog’s main link while you’re at it. He’ll be back up on Nov 1. He’s worth reading. Don’t let the idiots win, k?
Alzheimer’s might not be a brain disease
New drug shows mild promise to slow alzheimer’s progression.
FDA approves ALS treatment
Paypal shuts down acct of parents group
Paypal’s new UA says it will fine users up to $2,500 for “misinformation”. Discovers that “go woke get broke” isn’t just a meme and retracts new UA. Not sure thats going to save them though.
Time to undo the damage done to pain patients
LAUSD schools to get naloxone to combat drug overdoses
Unfinished Ford trucks visible from space
CDC says covid vax status should no longer be used to determine controls
Also that masking in medical settings is no longer required
JAMA Pediatrics twitter thread with links. Basically it turns out that telling pregnant and nursing mothers that getting the vax was safe for their babies was mis-information.
Tufts University requires community members to get new vax booster
Fordham U requires new vax booster, AND proof of vax for infants as young as 6 months
Amherst policy on masking in classrooms
NYPD ordered to reinstate members fired over vax mandate
CA paid (a LOT) less for covid tests than NY, company owned by Hochel buddy
Germany wants to bring back masks in schools
Study from England: vax may have INCREASED reinfection rate
Twitter thread: fentanyl overdose recorded as covid death
HCQ is good again (turns out it depends on your cholesterol)
Covid (or more correctly, the covid RESPONSE) caused personality changes
NIH gives money for bat corona virus research
Biden calls coast guard swimmer who rescued people during Ian. Coast guard swimmer due to be fired due to vax mandate. (I’d not have been nearly as polite as that dude)
FB lifts ban on posts stating Covid was man-made
CDC required to turn over Covid vax safety data. The numbers aren’t pretty.
Twitter thread: Shanghai quarantine
Twitter thread: Biden admin wanted schools to use extracurriculars to force student vax
30,000 Americans killed by ventilators in April 2020
Mouthwash helps kill covid germs
“This analysis found that there is an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.”
Twitter thread: NYU fires teacher because students aren’t willing to work in class. Link. Be very carefull choosing your doctors and engineers in the next several years!
CA bans natural gas heaters and furnaces
Charging your electric car at night makes the grid unstable
NYS to adopt CA rule requiring EVs by 2035
Norway wind farm destroyed by….the wind
Battery powered ferry runs out of power
Electric Hummer might take up to 4 days to fully charge
UN agrees to electricity power restrictions and caps due to energy crisis
Average gas prices in LA approaching record highs again
German bakery hit with $330,000 gas bill
Are EVs able to evac ahead of a hurricane?
Biden Admin wants to block offshore drilling completely
EVs and water damage
Bangladesh electrical grid failure
Your spellcheck might be allowing access to your passwords
Big name brands blast Twitter over their ads being put next to child porn
An honest to god street shark during Hurricane Ian
USA sends another Billion to Ukraine
Developing world problems in the USA
Student loan forgiveness? Maybe not
Turns out that running down a teenager is murder afterall
Hudson tunnel damaged in 2012, still not repaired, might take till 2038
FDA looking to change whats defined as healthy foods
NY pro life clinic sues police
CA restricts use of rap lyrics as evidence in trials
Gay couple sues to be allowed access to surrogacy.
Children conceived from frozen embryos at higher risk for cancer
NYC rolls back diversity programming in schools
Girls take state to court over boys in their sports
Pro-trans group plans to rehome kids who hate their parents
Scottish infant mortality rate spikes
Suicide rates spiked in 2021, actual mainstream news has noticed, wow
Twitter thread: Hurricanes are NOT becoming more frequent or intense
Hillary setting up presidential bid?
Biden Admin wants to create digital dollar
2000 steps a day helps prevent premature death (gosh, being active keeps you healthy, what a concept)
Infact, being active for 3 months results in genetic changes in mens sperm
Conservative women report being happiest
Twitter thread: the books your children are reading in school
Election software CEO arrested
Boston Dynamics promises NOT to weaponize its robots
Barge groundings in the Mississippi, more
Russians seek asylum in Alaska
CA to hand out stimulus checks to “help deal with inflation”
School counselor admits to sex with trans student
Amazon selling suicide kit
Cook County IL trying guaranteed income pilot program
Nope, still laughing at the irony here.
Federal judge strikes down portions of NYS’s new gun laws
Medicare fraud
Progress in predicting earthquakes
United threatens to drop JFK
2015: getting a flu shot every year might not be better (but yes, lets get a covid booster every 2 months!!)
International crisis due to vax injury/death
Risk/benefit analysis for covid shots for young adults
Twitter thread: a look at the ACIP booster meeting
Danes stop recommending covid vax for under 50’s unless immune compromised
Japanese study finds transplant recipients rejecting transplants after vax
Twitter thread: more Japanese studies, another.
CDC admits that it wasn’t actually tracking vax safety data for covid vax
Previous Covid infection, but not Long Covid, associated with bad reaction to vax
US Navy cancels vax mandate for SEALS
NYS Gov ends Covid emergency right before elections (but don’t worry, we still have the Polio emergency!)
Vax Mandate could cost NYC millions
NYC Mayor admits that there’s no logic to his vax mandates
Judge blocks Head Start mask/vax mandate
Canada drops vax mandate at border, ditto Japan
Feds keep extending Covid Emergency
Sweden’s children had no learning loss (therefor, the problem isn’t covid, it was the reaction to covid), meanwhile CA delays releasing its state data, and Oregon’s numbers dropped.
Reanalysis of Bangladesh mask study
M to F trans girls still reach adult male height
Schools planning on feeding children insects in the UK
Largest Nursing Strike in history
India bans some rice exports, adds Duty to others
CA rice harvest produced half of normal amount
US harvests disappointing, food supply tight. Expect it to take at least two years to recover, assuming nothing else goes wrong.
NJ discovers that reusable bags aren’t all that
Walmart to offer in-home grocery delivery
US nuclear scientists recruited by China
Germans looking at gas heat shortage for the winter
Saturated Fat might not actually be a cardiovascular risk
TN running almost a year behind in testing rape kits
Dutch City bans ads about meat
Blue light from device screens may be the cause of early puberty
CDC in 2021: Racism is a Public Health Threat. CDC in 2022: we can’t declare Fentanyl a public health threat because its not a communicable disease
Climate emergency not supported by the data
100’s of IRS employees failed to pay taxes
Facial scanning for website age verification
Why Progressives undermine civilization
IL law will release 2nd degree murderers without bail
Pallbearer killed by officers
Fedex warns of decline in stock
New Orleans takes over as Murder Capital of the USA
Waiting in line to charge your EV
If your father was exposed to these chemicals before you were born you are at higher risk of cancer (but hey, the science on the covid vax is settled!!)
41% of NYC students have chronic absenteeism post pandemic, meanwhile SanFran had close to 90%
Colorado police handcuff woman (in suspected road rage incident), place her in the back of police car parked on the railroad tracks. Police car hit by train. Latest report is that she’s expected to survive.
America’s Racist Roads
Skyrocketing electric bills
A quick and dirty explanation of why railroad employees were going to strike (yes, its a lot more complicated than that, but really, people aren’t widgets).
Air Canada buys 30 electric planes
41yr old admits to running down teenager in political dispute. Released on $50k bail.
Bombings have become normal in Sweden
2020: Blackstone acquires Ancestry.com, more, more, more
NYC schools student data hacked
Hotel Chain data hacked
Giant alligator interupts bow-hunt
Captain America helping rebuild roofs in Nola