I love hydrangeas. They grow like weeds here in Puget Sound. My wife dislikes them because they are so ubiquitous here. She likes plants that are less common and more of a challenge to grow. 🙂
I caught just a tiny piece of Ted Cruz on Fox News last night. The first three minutes gives Jon Stewart a run for his money in the realm of politics as absurdist comedy.
“These are not the droids you are looking for.” Indeed.
Hi, JimNorCal. Alex Berenson’s article is very interesting – it seems he takes an interest in data-driven analysis, which I like. I’m not too familiar with him, though, in general; any comment on his other work or career generally?
It’s kind of funny… I was at my first real big-group outing finally over the weekend (the wine meetup that I go to), and a number of hugs were exchanged. The question of who was vaccinated was broached immediately thereafter, and it was interesting to see the interpersonal attitudes change perceptibly in some cases upon answers to the questions being shared. I expected this to some degree, but nonetheless an interesting data point.
Here’s a joke – I’ve just created it; thanks to TommyJay for the inspiration:
Saint Patrick is traveling through the Irish countryside in an oxcart in the company of a couple of the local elders. As they come round a bend in the road leading to the village, they run across a group of Roman legionaries looking very out of place in this wilderness. The centurion orders them to halt the cart, which is done, and starts to question the saint about these two suspicious-looking characters in the cart with him. He says solemnly, “Oh, sir, I’m so sorry – these aren’t the druids you’re looking for.”
Alex Berenson has been a regular on Laura Ingraham’s show. Between him and her “medicine panel” of doctors you got a much less politicized picture of the pandemic. Berenson has written three books about the Covid-19 pandemic. “Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and Lockdowns” are available on e-bay.
He also writes spy novels.
Re Covid-19:
If you have a spare hour or so, here’s Professor John Ioannidis streamed live on June 26.
I found a secret message in the fourth Indiana Jones movie.
Dr. Irina Spalko is Stalin’s pet psi-research scientist. She wishes to harness the psychic powers of the Crystal Skull for the Soviets in the Cold War:
_____________________________________________
Imagine. To peer across the world and know the enemy’s secrets. To place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders. Make your teachers teach the true version of history, your soldiers attack on our command.
We’ll be everywhere at once, more powerful than a whisper, invading your dreams, thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep.
We will change you, Dr. Jones, all of you, from the inside. We will turn you into us.
And the best part? You won’t even know it’s happening.
–Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
_____________________________________________
I think this has already happened!
You mean they turned Indiana into a Bond film? (Those studio stinkers will do anything, I guess. OTOH they’ve been hemorrhaging cash and whatever credibility they had left. On the third hand, who really cares….)
File under: Jones. Indiana Jones?
Yeah, JJ answered already. Berenson, I believe, is not an MD but is a former NYT reporter who wrote about the medical field. Smart enough to have strong seat of the pants insight. Old enough to have integrity and critical thinking skills
And the bus is busy as the vicious and vituperative (but giggly) VPOTUS Monologues continue apace. (Soon to be a major dramatic work.)
You mean they turned Indiana into a Bond film?
Barry Meislin:
This is the Indiana Jones film which came out in 2008. It’s still good ole Indiana Jones, only it’s 1957 and he’s fighting Commies instead of Nazis with the same wits, whip and fisticuffs.
The Weird Archaelogical Artifact involved is the Crystal Skull, supposedly of alien origin.
They are now shooting a fifth Indiana Jones film and I hear distressing rumors it will be “woke.”
The Crystal Skull is running things now.
Seems the Crystal Skull has just recently caused our hero a whole lotta pain….
Go woke, get broke? (Though he’s been injured on the set before, of course. Seems to thrive on it, actually…)
Philip – brilliant.
I am going to move the story to Wales and Stonehenge for purposes of my Welsh heritage conference later this summer.
After all, St. Patrick was a Welshman, despite being the Patron Saint of Ireland.
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I love hydrangeas. They grow like weeds here in Puget Sound. My wife dislikes them because they are so ubiquitous here. She likes plants that are less common and more of a challenge to grow. 🙂
Who is at risk from Covid?
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/why-covid-is-like-aids
I caught just a tiny piece of Ted Cruz on Fox News last night. The first three minutes gives Jon Stewart a run for his money in the realm of politics as absurdist comedy.
“These are not the droids you are looking for.” Indeed.
Hi, JimNorCal. Alex Berenson’s article is very interesting – it seems he takes an interest in data-driven analysis, which I like. I’m not too familiar with him, though, in general; any comment on his other work or career generally?
It’s kind of funny… I was at my first real big-group outing finally over the weekend (the wine meetup that I go to), and a number of hugs were exchanged. The question of who was vaccinated was broached immediately thereafter, and it was interesting to see the interpersonal attitudes change perceptibly in some cases upon answers to the questions being shared. I expected this to some degree, but nonetheless an interesting data point.
Here’s a joke – I’ve just created it; thanks to TommyJay for the inspiration:
Saint Patrick is traveling through the Irish countryside in an oxcart in the company of a couple of the local elders. As they come round a bend in the road leading to the village, they run across a group of Roman legionaries looking very out of place in this wilderness. The centurion orders them to halt the cart, which is done, and starts to question the saint about these two suspicious-looking characters in the cart with him. He says solemnly, “Oh, sir, I’m so sorry – these aren’t the druids you’re looking for.”
Alex Berenson has been a regular on Laura Ingraham’s show. Between him and her “medicine panel” of doctors you got a much less politicized picture of the pandemic. Berenson has written three books about the Covid-19 pandemic. “Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and Lockdowns” are available on e-bay.
He also writes spy novels.
Re Covid-19:
If you have a spare hour or so, here’s Professor John Ioannidis streamed live on June 26.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ehqHQOBO0
The excellent Ivor Cummins has cut it down to 32 minutes here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4grP1718Ps
I found a secret message in the fourth Indiana Jones movie.
Dr. Irina Spalko is Stalin’s pet psi-research scientist. She wishes to harness the psychic powers of the Crystal Skull for the Soviets in the Cold War:
_____________________________________________
Imagine. To peer across the world and know the enemy’s secrets. To place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders. Make your teachers teach the true version of history, your soldiers attack on our command.
We’ll be everywhere at once, more powerful than a whisper, invading your dreams, thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep.
We will change you, Dr. Jones, all of you, from the inside. We will turn you into us.
And the best part? You won’t even know it’s happening.
–Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
_____________________________________________
I think this has already happened!
You mean they turned Indiana into a Bond film? (Those studio stinkers will do anything, I guess. OTOH they’ve been hemorrhaging cash and whatever credibility they had left. On the third hand, who really cares….)
File under: Jones. Indiana Jones?
Yeah, JJ answered already. Berenson, I believe, is not an MD but is a former NYT reporter who wrote about the medical field. Smart enough to have strong seat of the pants insight. Old enough to have integrity and critical thinking skills
Trying to out-Maxwell Ghislaine Maxwell is certainly a bracing challenge….
But why does this person remind me of Robin DiAngelo?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/30/judge-sentences-smallville-actress-allison-mack-for-nxivm-sex-cult-charges-n1458652
And the bus is busy as the vicious and vituperative (but giggly) VPOTUS Monologues continue apace. (Soon to be a major dramatic work.)
You mean they turned Indiana into a Bond film?
Barry Meislin:
This is the Indiana Jones film which came out in 2008. It’s still good ole Indiana Jones, only it’s 1957 and he’s fighting Commies instead of Nazis with the same wits, whip and fisticuffs.
The Weird Archaelogical Artifact involved is the Crystal Skull, supposedly of alien origin.
They are now shooting a fifth Indiana Jones film and I hear distressing rumors it will be “woke.”
The Crystal Skull is running things now.
Seems the Crystal Skull has just recently caused our hero a whole lotta pain….
Go woke, get broke? (Though he’s been injured on the set before, of course. Seems to thrive on it, actually…)
Philip – brilliant.
I am going to move the story to Wales and Stonehenge for purposes of my Welsh heritage conference later this summer.
After all, St. Patrick was a Welshman, despite being the Patron Saint of Ireland.