BRIAN IS INNOCENT

  Brian Laundrie is innocent—-(until proven guilty).

The golden thread that runs through English and American jurisprudence as our system’s core foundational premise is: the presumption of innocence. (See: John (1st Viscount)  Sankey,1935, in: Wilmington vs DDP ) 

In our juridical system, we are innocent until proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt”. 

In the Gabby Petito disappearance and “homicide” case, the nation has fallen prey to a form of mob rule, where prosecution and conviction takes place  in the press, with judgement based on innuendo supported with few or no facts.  Where only a supposition of guilt, leads to a public “trial” by press release..  What is known, at this time, proves nothing about Laundrie’s guilt or innocence. .

Brian has had a warrant issued for his arrest based on very flimsy charges— his possible use of a credit card that is presumed to be the property of Gabby Petito.   But the card’s  ownership and it’s past usage is unknown. It may have been a joint card shared by the couple.  

This person being chased by the FBI, local police, bounty hunters, who is sniffed out by bloodhounds, and has a bounty placed on his capture, has not been convicted of any crime—- and he is very much still presumed innocent. Attempts at arresting him must take into account that fact. The FBI and local police are not tracking down a fleeing convict, escaped criminal or convicted felon, but a citizen who is wanted for questioning, and the use of a credit card that might be his own. Nothing else. 

 

We are still a nation of laws, that protect us all from hysterical mob rule. If we ignore these our most sacred laws  we are all stripped of their protections and we descend into the jungle of injustice and chaos.

“FAR OUT” BIDEN ECONOMICS

BIDEN VOODOO ECONOMICS 

US Press Secretary Psaki::

“President Biden’s $3.5 trillion dollar plan will NOT cost even a dollar……Ahhhhh….I mean  .. ahh to those American taxpayers making less than $400,000 dollars a year.” ( Jen Psaki , WH Press Secretary. October 2921 ) 

Working Stiff 

“But wait, Jen,  I  don’t make $400K a year, but I do work for a guy who earns that much. He’s a  small business owner.  So if he has to pay more taxes, will he cut back my salary?  Or maybe even eliminate my job…I mean fire me?  (You know how it is Jen…a lot of us salaried guys work for these people. You know small businesses make up more than two thirds of our economy. ) 

Press Secretary

“I just said it.  It won’t cost YOU a dollar!….Just focus on all the Biden benefits you WILL get.”

Working Stiff

“But if I get a big pay cut or lose my job, .or inflation makes food so expensive, how will my kids go to college for free, or get free dental care ?”

Press Secretary 

Jen does not respond. She hurriedly leaves podium 

ORIGIN OF COVID AND SUSPICIOUS COVID 19 FURINE CLEAVAGE SITE

 THE SUSPICIOUS FURINE CLEAVAGE SITE

The French paper Le Figaro posted an interesting article yesterday (October 2,  2021) “ SARS Covid-2 la bizarreris genetiique qui ailments le soupcon.”   by V. Bordenave.   The post concerns the suspicious origin of the Covid pandemic virus.  

We know quite well that this virus had it’s  origin in Wuhan, China,  but not much else.  The Chinese have not been forthcoming and there are those in powerful positions here in the USA  who it seems would like to keep a lid on this subject as well.  Such reticence invites suspicions.  To add to the mystery, our so called “free American press” has  shunned the topic  as well. 

Thankfully, Le Figaro’s Vincent Bordenave was not shut down by his editor in Paris, and was able to post this piece on the “bizarre genetics” of the SARS COVID 2 virus—and why its unusual  genetics “nourishes suspicion”. 

Bordenave points out that there is a tiny morsel of the Covid genome  called the “furine cleavage site” which confers upon this pandemic virus the unique capacity to readily infect human epithelial cells.  Such a characteristic is known to occur in other viruses, such as the common flu or grippe virus.  But Bordenave points out that the scientific literature has not reported any other member of the SARS Covid-2 family of viruses with such a site.   

Thus the “ soupçon” or suspicion he writes about is the possibility that someone altered or genetically manipulated the framework of a bat Corona virus (which does not have such a site) and slipped in a furine cleavage site to create a completely new and extremely infectious novel virus— a so called chimeric virus.   This alteration of the genetic patterning of the virus could have occurred as  perhaps the result of “gain of function” research. 

Others, particularly the  prominent elements of the USA medical establishment and of course the Chinese, favor another less likely —“nature did it” —origin for the SARS Covid-2.  These  folks have close connections to Chinese virology labs, cushy government jobs, big offices,  submissive doting staffs, million dollar contracts and well established reputations and careers to protect.  Weighed down with these benefits they are less likely to assess the facts  and come to a valid conclusion. 

So we must look elsewhere for the answer to just how this tragedy occurred  how could we prevent a reoccurrence? 

See: “The genetic structure of SARS Covid-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin”.   R. Segreto  and Y Deigin.  In: Bioessays,  Wiley Blackwell.  Subtitle“: “SARS Cov-2 chimeric structure and furin cleavage site might be the result of genetic manipulation.”

SALMON DECLINE NOT A SIMPLE CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTION

SALMON DECLINE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

A MORE COMPLICATED STORY THAN WHAT IT FIRST SEEMS

I read today (10/3/21) in the AP News (See:  “Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River  tribes in crisis” by N Howard and G. Flaccus) that the  state of Alaska Fish and Game has closed subsistence fishing for chum salmon in the Yukon River and elsewhere.  Salmon is  an anadromous  fish that spawn in rivers, then as fingerlings swim out to sea where they mature.  As adults they return to the same river to mate and lay eggs in the very gravel beds where they hatched.  (Only one in one-hundred live long enough to return to lay their eggs.). Chum salmon are a  mainstay species which Native American fishermen have been harvesting and surviving on for years.  The more commercially valuable King and Chinook salmon have been in decline for many years, due to overfishing,  but the chum salmon have been  a staple and standby fish.  Many upriver natives who depend upon the summer run of this species will have no food in their freezers this winter. 

What is the cause?  If you accept stories in the press….it is of course— the catch-all  cause… ”climate warming”. Yes indeed the climate is warming.  The last glacial epoch  ended about 20 thousand years ago.  Glaciers have been retreating and the Earth and its oceans have been warming ever  since.  

No doubt, humans  have intensified and  sped up the natural end of the glacial epoch and warming process by cutting down vast global forests, plowing up the earth, denuding vegetation, and digging up carbon sources which had been long ago removed from the atmosphere by green plants and buried in rocks  for millions of years.  These fossil sources of carbon were mined by humans to generate energy by burning in the air.  In the process, ancient carbon in the form of CO2, a gas which tends to heat the atmosphere,  was added back into the atmosphere, from whence it had been removed eons ago during a much warmer period of earth history. 

But by focusing only on one cause—-“warming”  we tend to ignore the real culprits.  And many powerful forces with financial or political interests would like to keep it that way.  

In regard to the decline in the salmon fishery in both the Atlantic and Pacific,  there are many culprits other than the overused bugaboo of  “ climate warming”.   No one can prove that the tiny fractional heating of the oceans and the atmosphere, as a result of natural earth heating and human-induced warming in the last century can have as much detrimental affect on fish stocks as:  drastic overfishing, offshore trawl netting of salmon, fish lice parasites, pesticide pollution, and physical barriers such as dams and weirs.

In the best on times a salmon’s life is a hazardous one in which only 1% ever get back to spawn in the river where they were raised.  Only a small change in the perilous journey of a salmon can cause great changes in population.  These human caused and environmental effects  perhaps  minor when examined individually, combine in nature as “additive effects” to have a great impact on populations. 

What are the additive effects? Commercial fishing of salmon has grown exponentially in the last decades .  Netting  salmon before they spawn simply reduces the breeding stock.  Offshore ocean trawlers net  thousands of tons of fish as they seek cod, pollock haddock and halibut and other fish. Salmon are taken in the nets as  “ by catch” that  can not be harvested and are dumped overboard.  This clearly  reduces adult salmon that will spawn. . Sea lice infect “farmed salmon” kept in pens in near-shore or estuarine settings.  These farmed fish are vectors for fish parasites such as fish lice and other disease. Wild salmon are often found infested with sea lice which weaken, reduce vitality or breeding success,  or even kill fish.  

There is no need to explain or elaborate on the effects of dams  weirs , or other barriers that make it often impossible for salmon species to complete their life cycle. All of these above effects combine as additive effects  in nature to reduce the success of salmon breeding.  

Salmon decline does not have one cause—-climate warming.  Even if it did, we can not do much to alter the natural process of a closing and warming glacial epoch.  But humans have imposed their own “additive effects” which we can address to modulate the warming.  The Earth will become a warmer planet whatever we do.  It is a natural outcome of our geology, our drifting continents, and other natural earth cycles.   But we can begin a process of global reforestation, probably the most effective method of climate amelioration. We can begin realistically and reasonably reduce the use of carbon fossil fuels. It is also obvious that we must begin to stabilize and reduce our own burgeoning human populations. 

But as for the salmon,  we can help the salmon most by reducing those impacts to its survival which affect it most directly.  We can address the problems of commercial overfishing, of offshore trawlers and by catch, of fish disease, pesticides, pollution and dams, weirs and other fish barriers erected on spawning rivers. 

But that is the more complex answer.  

 

OBAMA: “BIDEN DOESN’T HAVE IT”

 President Obama: “And you know who does not have it, Joe Biden” 

Half of the nation knew Joe,  and agreed with President Obama  in 2020, but he was elected anyway.  Now after a summer of disasters Obama’s negative evaluation has become patently  manifest.

Joe had nearly eight  months of undeserved, slick, glowing, main-stream media coverage to protect his image and bolster his popularity polls— but then  Afghanistan happened to make the ex-president’s evaluation so prescient. .  

Mountainous, desolate Afghanistan,  the infamous  “graveyard of empires and generals” took a terrible  toll on our oldest President. .  Kabul was Joe Biden’s  “Little Bighorn”,  another closing conflict zone, where  an  overconfident, over optimistic, overrated leader foolishly ignoring protocols  stumbled into a battle unprepared,   where he  met ignominious defeat as he sacrificed the lives of his brave troops. 

The deadly, disastrous and poorly planned Afghanistan retreat, shattered our nation’s reputation and  resulted  in the moral stain of leaving Americans behind in Kabul, but also exposed this president’s  vanity, his stubbornness, his penchant for blaming others, his casual and constant prevarication, and his intellectual shortcomings  for all the world to see,  

Subsequent investigations  have revealed  how President Biden  insisted on retreating from  Afghanistan- ”his way” and in “his time”.  This latter insistence was revealed as a plan to generate  a political  vanity photo opportunity to underscore the idea  “Biden ended a  20 year war”.  His vanity plans did not materialize. He  ignored his military advisor’s warnings of danger, which resulted in the deaths of 13 brave American troops, two hundred Afghans, and an innocent family of aid workers and their seven children killed by a drone strike and who we re falsely  claimed to be terrorists .   

As a result of the sheer horror of published images the Biden media supporters were forced to expose the Kabul fiasco and the crisis for what it was—a disaster.   (These images revealed  the horrific scenes of Afghans falling from taxiing airplanes, resistive  mobs and  uncontrolled crowds surging onto the tarmac , suicide bombers blowing up  hundreds, and American retaliation-drone-strikes killing innocent children and aid workers—not terrorists) ,  This exposure  ended the disgraceful “news blackout” by the propaganda press which so well served Biden during the campaign and the president’s first months in office.  The news blackout  hid or underestimated Biden failures and flubs.  

But the Kabul disaster served too as a revealing  insight into Biden presidential character and  behavior.  As former President Obama so well observed— “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to (expletive) things up.” And in a remark on who is capable or not to be president. Obama stated:  “And you know who doesn’t have it, Joe Biden” 

Whether it be the chaos and crisis of Kabul, the Covid pandemic, the “vax” mandate,   the disaster at the  southern US border, ten thousands Haitians camped under the Del Rio bridge, or the looming insanity  of a Biden domestic, “fiscally insane” spending and tax  plan—its Kabul de’ja vu all over again.

In each of the  Biden serial disasters ones sees the same lack of presidential patience, poor planning, poor execution, uneven, or lack of  control over subordinates, poor staffing choice of heads of departments, stubborn insistence on vain plans, no thought of long term consequences, and actions seemingly designed  only to prove some point or right some past slight ( to the ex VP) , or for simple presidential self-aggrandizement. But for whatever cause with Joe, all ends in disaster.  

What’s next? A disastrous fall season?

Perhaps more of us should have listened to Obama.  He knew Joe better than all of us. 

ON BIDEN BLAMING UNVAXED, IGNORING ISRAEL AND UNVETTED IMMIGRANTS

President Biden took to the airways yesterday to address the nation regarding  his “Covid Response” (September 10,  2021) It was another divisive speech pitting one citizen group against another.  Rather than helping to solve the nation’s ills his remarks were an embarrassment to himself, his office and the nation by unfairly casting blame on the unvaccinated for the recent dramatic surge of Covid cases.  

Although Biden claims to “support ‘science’ ” this support is often highly selective.  And in this case, while he pushes for government mandated vaccinations,  he ignores the circumstances of  a nation which has followed these protocols ( Biden is attempting to foist on us) yet even fully vaccinated it has become the world’s hotspot of new Covid infections.  

The pandering MS media all  ignore  the blaring example of Israel’s vaccination and Covid surge in the face of its high vaccination rate.    Israel the most vaccinated nation in the world today is also the nation with the highest Covid infection rate. 

The facts of Israel’s high vaccination rate and it’s high Covid infection rate blows a huge hole in Biden’s  argument for mandated vaccinations.   Israel, is a nation with a superb health care system, with an educated and compliant citizenry and is also the center of modern cutting-edge technology.  Israel has rightly been  touted  as the world’s model for health care and  preparedness during this pandemic. 

Last spring that nation inaugurated an early and inclusive vaccination campaign which was a model of effectiveness.  It became the first nation to achieve the desirable goal of having nearly its entire population vaccinated with two shots. It also had instituted an indoor mask mandate and  a so-called “green pass” for  the vaccinated which permitted holders to enter concerts, bars, restaurants and other indoor or congested venues.  As a further precaution, the Naftali Bennet government even initiated a  booster shot program  (jab #3) in July of this year.    Almost two million booster shots have been administered to date —in a nation of 9 million..  As it’s cases declined early in this year it assumed it had achieved “herd immunity”. 

Yet, this week,  the WHO has reported that Israel—the world’s model on how to “get passed” the pandemic by effective inoculations—has unexpectedly become the world’s worst Covid hotspot  with the  highest level of new Covid cases reported per million population of all nations reporting.   Israel reported the world’s highest number of new cases in a week (@ 1,200 per million population ) becoming the world’s most infected “hot spot” for Covid. The Israeli rate is over two times the infection rate of the UK, and  more than that of the USA.    Remarkably, as of September 6, based on  Israel’s high level of infection Sweden (and Portugal) have closed their borders to Israelis attempting  enter. 

So is it fair for our President to blame  the Covid surge in the USA on  the unvaccinated?   While the Biden team ignores “the science” of the Israeli surge, it also ignores the implications of its chaotic open border policy.  The impact on our nation’s health of a million illegal unvaccinated and unvetted  immigrants surging over our southern border, combined with  hundreds of thousands of unvetted, unvaccinated Afghan refugees ( these latter the results of the Biden Administrations poorly planned and executed  retreat from Afghanistan).  All of these immigrants are potential disease vectors.  The Biden team has scattered these folks over the nation in an unplanned secretive fashion where they can pass on Covid and other communicable diseases to American citizens . These Biden policies have an obvious and detrimental  impact on the nation’s health and Covid infection rate, that may exceed the impact of the unvaccinated  American citizens Biden has smeared in his speech. 

The “science” emanating from the Israeli situation seems to suggest that “vaccines may blunt but not defeat” the Delta variant, and there also seems to be  an unexpected waning of protection of the vaccines with time.  That combined with a natural vaccination hesitancy of certain elements of every population all seem to have  contributed to the  surge  in a very highly vaccinated nation like Israel.  But for the USA the surge we are experiencing is compounded and exacerbated by the Biden Administration immigration polices at our southern border and the chaotic immigration of Afghan refugees.

Our President would like you to ignore this “science” and the travails of those good people  in Israel  as he pursues a policy of division and transfer of blame.  From  the Oval Office President Biden slimes and castigates millions of his own citizenry who will now be branded by their “president

” as “the.cause of a continuing pandemic”. These mostly  God fearing, hardworking, patriotic, people who the Democrats like to smear as  a “basket of ignorant  irredeemables” and troglodytes will be now tarred and feathered as  the cause of all of “their” and the nation’s  problems. 

Don’t let these phony socialist-infected Democrat elites who  can’t seem to get anything right, whether it be fair and valid elections, rampaging inflation, foreign policy debacles, uncontrolled  domestic violence, waves of illegals at our border, reasonable and consistent pandemic directives, or even a safe  orderly retreat from a war torn nation. 

God help us all if we do not get these incompetent radicals out of power.  

 

ON MERITOCRACY AND PRIVET HEDGES

 ON MERITOCRACY AND PRIVET HEDGES 

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Modern-day socialist “progressives” and associated fringe radicals propose the abandonment  of our national social system of meritocracy.  A system  which bases advancement in society on ability, merit and competition.  These disillusioned folks  would posit what they euphemistically call “equality” by  abandoning  competitive tests. They would assign jobs. and seats in our elite colleges on the basis of race.  They would shun SAT tests, close classes for gifted children, and eliminate grades, as well as numerical test scores (and even eliminate arriving  at the absolutely correct answers on math tests).  All simply to attempt to insure “equal” but lower outcomes for all.  But if not merit what criteria would the substitute for excellence?  Race, skin tone, political party, sexual orientation?

These foolish proposals remind me of the privet hedge  growing these many years at the edge of my front lawn.  In the summer that hedge has to be attended to every few weeks.  To keep it from becoming unsightly I  must cut down the runaway fast growing straggly stalks—to keep all at a lower but  equal level.  I use hedge trimmers to impose my “equality” on that hedge.     

Those who would eliminate our merit system are like the hedge trimmers. They would prefer to see us all cut low to some arbitrary level— a level they would impose.  Variation in a species is nature’s way to insure adaptation to an environment. Individuals in our communities all vary in abilities and characteristics.  Our merit system encourages excellence by choosing the best from this varied offering.   All modern civilizing advances in science and technology are attributable to those elements in our  population who like the fast growing spikes of flourishing privet grew faster and better than others.  Modern  advances from the wheel, the iPhone and even the messenger RNA,  Covid SARS vaccine were produced by those better, smarter, faster growing  members of our flourishing meritocracy.  We all benefit in a meritocracy from the talent of these innovators . And we all lose when we crop every one down to the “lowest common denominator”. 

Our great nation was built upon rewarding talent and ingenuity while keeping open all avenues to those who would take part in the great national competition.  Who among us would prefer an imposed “equality” living  an artificially .“leveled privet hedge” lifestyle, over life in the world’s most innovative, advanced society?   

As misguided as abandoning our meritocracy,  our ill-informed  modern Democrat progressives have come up with other foolish, dangerous ideas designed to generate unattainable “equal outcomes”for all  (while shunning Constitutionally guaranteed equal opportunity for all) :—They would defund the police, eliminate border control, end  cash bail, abandon  pre-trail detention for felonies, encourage runaway affirmative action—etc., etc.  These radical ideas threaten the very core and survival of our nation—still the greatest in the world.  

Such illogical Orwellian  ideas, as noted above, only underscore what we may expect as an outcome resulting from abandoning merit and excellence in: seating our students, populating our critical professions,  filling jobs,  and selecting leadership positions.   We clearly would not get the best.  Never having been tried in the caldron of competitive fire the faulty ideas of these would be radical revisionists clearly and frighteningly reveal the weakness of a dystopian system where 1984 style chaos and tyranny would reign.