Coffee & Covid mentions Jeffrey Tucker's work on the CDC. In this instance, the CDC ignored complaints about The Vaxx (3,300++ of them) and buried the actual complaints with a specially-designed form made to keep us ignorant.
That's bad enough.
But news today is that CDC has done a 180 and now "recommends" The Vaxx for infants and children.
Apparently there were not enough deaths and mutilations the first time.
This is good news and will be fun to watch.
...On Thursday, Florida sued Pfizer and its CEO Albert Bourla personally under the state’s deceptive and unfair trade practices act. Importantly, DUTPA claims exist in the elusive liminal spaces beyond the PREP Act’s iron liability shield. (Two other states have tried the same tactic; Texas’s was dismissed because of PREP, but Kansas’s has, so far, survived in its state court.)...
Bourla will have to spend money defending himself. Are you sad?
Remember this: that lying POS said that Americans who spoke out against The Vaxx are "criminals."
Let's hope that his defense lawyers get rich beyond the dreams of avarice on this one.
Last Refuge prints an interesting theory on the price of oil, BigBank interests, and the geopolitics.
Trump likes cheap fuel.
Big Green hates it--and BigBank, with London, Ottawa, and the EuroGreens--are in their corner.
So naturally, the Hate Targets of the day are Trump peeps who have interests in Lukoil, the Russia-based petroleum conglomerate (think ExxonMobil, or the old Standard Oil, except in Russia.) Also indirectly targeted? Petroleum producers, largely in the Middle East.
So happens that YOU are behind that target; as the guns fire, you will be hit.
Do you seriously think that Big Green or BigBank give a flying damn about YOU as collateral damage?
(It's Artificial Intelligence, not Super Intelligence. Trump's ignorance of metaphysics is disappointing but not surprising.)
Anyhow.
This whole "AI" gang is composed of people who are off-the-edge Gnostic nutbags.
...Anthropic’s founders and many of their staff are utopians who believe they are uniquely equipped to save humanity thanks to their superior intelligence and extreme wealth.
Of all the “frontier” AI companies, Anthropic has been the most alarmist about stoking public fears that the machines will kill us all.
It makes sense when you realize that the company is infused with the philosophy of the weird, perverted, vegan, quasi-religious Effective Altruism (EA) network, which has a cultish end-of-times attitude toward AI.
When he was a physics doctoral student at Princeton, Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei became an acolyte of EA’s intellectual leader Eliezer Yudkowsky, who admitted to being “polyamorous” with a “strong sexually sadistic streak” in a dating profile unearthed by the Daily Mail.
Bernie Sanders’ favorite AI doomer, Yudkowsky has argued that girls should sell their virginity, and thinks killing an 18-month-old shouldn’t count as murder.
The EA movement was largely shaped by the views of utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, the Australian-born Princeton professor emeritus, who has advocated bestiality, as long as the sex between humans and animals is “mutually satisfying.”
Singer claims it is “speciesism” to differentiate between humans and animals and does not believe that human life necessarily has a greater moral value than animal life. Nor does he believe that all humans are of equal moral value — newborns and disabled people, for instance, are worth less than able-bodied adults in his view....
The Democrat Party is fully on board with Singer's implicit license-to-kill 'useless eaters.' That's why they are pushing "Assisted Suicide," having established BabyKilling before this.
Good to know that Pp. Leo flat-out told Anthropic's Chief Yutz that no way in Hell would the Church agree that AI has "consciousness." Ontologically, it does not--but that doesn't stop these people from proclaiming it to be so.
Trillions are at stake.
A few days ago, Fr. Ripperger's brief lecture on "sophistry" was made available. It's worth a listen, especially if you do not know what "sophistry" is.
We sent the link to a fellow blogger who happens to be pretty damn good with such figures as Plato and Aristotle; he critiqued Fr. Ripperger's lecture and offered various quotes from those two Greeks while doing so.
One of his comments on Aristotle's thought was striking, as it directly condemns Democrat Party campaign rhetoric which they've used since FDR:
...Aristotle does not reject all sorts of emotion, however: he is specific that he is rejecting a set of prejudicial emotions -- he names especially anger, envy, pity. These emotions should never be raised in political rhetoric because they warp the judgment such that it is difficult to measure correctly even if you are devoted to it. This is the point that Fr. Ripperger makes explicitly. ...
We've said it often: envy is a vice and one of the Seven Deadly Sins. So Democrat talking point reliance on "Fair Share" and "Billionaires" in ALL their advertising, plus using pity in their 'please let us kill babies and the elderly' pushes are major-league violations of reasoned political discourse.
That's exactly why they do it, of course.
Here are the pertinent URL's:
Fr Ripperger: https://www.lifesitenews.com/episodes/fr-ripperger-how-to-identify-sophistry-and-avoid-being-misled/
Grim's (four) discussions, in order:
https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2026/10/sophistry-ii.html
https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2026/10/sophistry-iii.html
https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2026/10/sophistry-iv.html
Have at it!!
And by "tricks" we mean.........not GOOD ones.
A notoriously out-of-touch Swamp Pubbie (and friend of Paul Ryan!!) will be heading up the drug industry's lobbying group, PhRMA. That would be Eric Cantor. It is apparent that the Drug Boyzzz expect to get happy in '28. That is to say, RFKjr out. We'll see.
More interesting is this part of the essay:
...As someone who worked on Capitol Hill during the debate on Obamacare in 2009-2010, I recall that the head of PhRMA at the time was another former Republican member of Congress: Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., who had served as chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, with jurisdiction over most health care programs.
While working as PhRMA head, Tauzin played a key role in helping get Obamacare enacted. His organization and the pharmaceutical sector became the first to make a “backroom deal” with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., then the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and the Obama administration in support of Obamacare....
Of course, that "backroom deal" shows us how much of a lying sack of shit Obama really was....
... But all the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing also went directly against Barack Obama’s promise that all the health care negotiations would be televised on C-SPAN, as he pledged repeatedly during his 2008 campaign...
ObamaCare--as we now know--is the single largest driver behind out-of-control healthcare costs.
Not bad for a bastard from Kenya, eh?
Some 'academic counselor' at UW-Whitewater should be fired for duping these poor kids.
The University of Wisconsin--Whitewater enrolled only six undergraduate students across its Women's and Gender Studies degree programs during the fall 2025 semester....
Starbucks awaits your applications.
This appears to be a good start. But it may be inadequate, as Flock has a track record of doing whatever the Hell it wants to do....
...U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wants federal rules for Flock cameras and other AI-powered license plate readers. He doesn’t want to get rid of them.
The Missouri Republican on Wednesday rolled out the Stop Flock Abuse Act, which would bar local governments from selling the data, require written approval and a paper trail for every search, and force agencies to delete drivers’ information after 10 days unless it’s tied to an active criminal case....
Ban selling or sharing vehicle location data with private, non-government third parties
Require written approval before any search, with every search logged
Require audit logs showing who searched, why, who approved it and what came back, with supervisors reviewing those logs regularly
Require the data to be encrypted and kept inside the United States
Require driver data to be permanently deleted after 10 days, with narrow exceptions for active criminal investigations
Bar license plate reader technology from foreign adversaries
Prohibit facial recognition in license plate reader networks...
Hawley's bill includes supervisory written approval before running a search, however, it does NOT include a warrant requirement for searches. That's a weakness.
And it does not include penalties for abuse such as what we've seen by the FBI and such cretins as Jack Smith and the US Department of Justice's wholly partisan activities.
Penalties should be in place, and they should be severe.
Yes, that's a pun-headline. The US will be making steel at a plant in Iowa, using taconite from Minnesota's Iron Range. This happens despite the "stop-and-starve' efforts of Obama and Biden.
Thank you, President Trump!
...Thanks to President Trump, steel policy flipped after 2025. Raw steel output is up 9% since Trump returned to office. Nearly 6,000 steelworker jobs have been added after almost 10,000 were lost under the prior administration. American mills now supply 84% of the U.S. finished steel market, up from 77% in 2024. New mill orders hit $17.3 billion in July 2026. Domestic shipments hit $16.9 billion that month. Officials tie those numbers to 50% Section 232 steel tariffs, faster permitting, and domestic energy.
The United States surpassed Japan in crude steel production in 2025 for the first time since 1999 and is now the world’s third-largest producer.
Eastern Iowa is in line for a heavy-industry footprint it has not had in generations. Minnesota ore stays in a U.S. supply line, and the work stays in American towns. That is this administration’s commitment. Bring the jobs home, keep the steel American, and run the mine-to-mill chain from Minnesota to Iowa instead of from a foreign dock to a U.S. factory floor....
That steel will be shipped into Wisconsin--to Ariens, Kohler, Case-IH, Mayville Metals, and Deere among lots of others.
Yup. Crowley spent time with Kamala in sunny California.
You can tell because he is now in "Word Salad" campaign-mode.
....When asked about the trip to California for an event that reportedly included former Vice President Kamala Harris, he said he'll talk to everybody about the importance of Wisconsin.
Crowley was also asked how he would pay for his plans to lift Wisconsin families, and that's when he lashed out at his opponent and the president.
"When you look at what Congressman Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump are doing, they're peeing on us and telling us it's raining," Crowley said. "It's time for us to fight back and make sure that we're doing everything that we can to speak truth to power and undo the hurt and pain they have caused Wisconsin families."...
Huh?
"How to pay for plans": "....fight back.....truth to power.....undo hurt........"
OK, Dave. Whatever.
Less than 50% means "F" on your report card.
... According to data from the Wisconsin Student Assessment System — which includes the Forward Exam, Dynamic Learning Maps, the PreACT Secure and the ACT — 48.4 percent of students in grades 3-11 were proficient or above in ELA, while 48.7 percent were proficient or above in math. ...
Believe it or not, those scores are an improvement from last year.
Sure, they're dreadful, awful, terrible, and the children have been screwed.
So have the taxpayers, who are pouring more than $19K/year PER KID into Wisconsin public schools.
But the answer to this problem that will come from the mouth of Jill Underly, Tony Evers, and the MPS Board?
MO' MONEY!!!!
Because MO' MONEY has worked so well for the last 30 years....
And in Milwaukee? It's even worse.
English Language Arts: 23.6% to 25.1%, up 1.5 percentage points
Math: 19.3% to 20.1%, up 0.8 points
Science: 20.3% to 23.3%, up 3 points
Social studies: 27.4% to 29.3%, up 1.9 points
Who the Hell is going to hire these kids after graduation? They can't read. They can't speak. They can't add or subtract. They don't know history.
Nonetheless: MO' MONEY!!!
It's amusing that the Daily Caller headline says "backtracked"--when quoting Sen. Justice NOT "backtracking."
Justice' original remarks on immigration enforcement and ICE:
... “Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” he said in an interview....
It is clear as crystal: Justice is NOT happy with removing illegal aliens who have been here for a long time. Key word: "ILLEGAL"....
His "backtrack"--which is NOT a backtrack:
...“Our brave ICE officers are doing an incredible job protecting our communities, and they must continue to focus on criminals who are here illegally and putting Americans in danger. Violent criminals, drug traffickers, gang members and others who threaten our communities should be identified, arrested and removed,” ...
Oh. So illegals who are not violent criminals...........???
Never Mind, said Emily.
Sen. Foghorn Leghorn rides again!
In an article about the Taj Mahal renovated Fed HQ, ZeroHedge has this:
...One thing is certain: a building project that nearly doubled in cost thanks to poor planning, no price cap and "inflation" is a perfect metaphor for the institution it will house.
We think ZeroHedge's assessment is very wrong.
That 'building project' is a metaphor for the entire Deep State.
And--just like Jerome Powell and his Board of self-aggrandizing twits--they don't give a flying f**k what you think or how much you pay.
And if you object too loudly, or present a danger to their projects, there's always the FBI/CIA/NSA/JackSmith treatment, complete with 6-month to 2-year imprisonment BEFORE trial. (Think of the J6 grandmas as The Model.)
Meantime, Sundance calls for the execution firing of the entire Board of the Fed AND its "Inspector General" Clouseau Horowitz:
...The FED Board awarded a no-bid contract to the contractor, without an agreement on the building renovation project and the construction costs associated with it until President Donald Trump began drawing attention to it. This is gross corruption at a massive scale....
...It wasn’t until President Trump drew attention to the FED having spent over $2 billion, that FED Chair Jerome Powell, and the FED board requested the construction manager and construction company to provide a cost estimate. This is unreal, especially considering that IG Michael Horowitz finds no unlawful decision-making in the overall fiasco....
...The FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD just gave the construction company an open-ended blank check to spend as much as they wanted of TAXPAYER MONEY, with no limits and no expectations of cost. This, according to IG Horowitz is a little concerning, but entirely not a legal problem.
These are the people supposedly in charge of running monetary policy for The United States of America!
Now, we can understand exactly why IG Michael Horowitz was moved from protecting Washington DC corruption within the Dept of Justice, to protecting Washington DC corruption at the Federal Reserve.
Michael Horowitz is not an Inspector General. He is the corruption manager for the U.S. government!...
Being "Corruption Manager" for the entire USG is exhausting; the guy must be working 24X7. So he should get a long rest. At Leavenworth.
So should the Moron (ex-) Fed Chair. And the rest of the FRB Board.
But no. This will be another in the endless series of "We Fuc**ed You, and You Can't Do a DAMN THING About It."
It's actually hard to believe that GM did this.
General Motors is removing one of the most basic tools under the hood of its new trucks: The oil dipstick. No pulling it out. No wiping it clean. No physically checking your oil yourself. Instead, GM says newer engine hardware made it difficult to package a traditional dipstick, so engineers replaced it with an electronic oil-level sensor that lets drivers check their oil from inside the cab. But it was the way they explained it that really set people off. “We were able to delete the dipstick…” Delete the dipstick. Replace it with electronics.
Trust the sensor....
Trust the sensor?
Sure. Because sensor-warning lights NEVER give you a false flag. Sensors NEVER fail.
Right.
The REAL GM Dipsticks are in the engineering department.
For their next trick? Battery location change.
We all know that the Jim Jordan model (Talk, talk, talk, pound the table, talk, talk, talk) is preferred by the useless House and Senate figures whose only real concern is TeeeVeee Time and donations for their lifetime sinecures.
So this image is posted solely because posting it feels good. It will not DO any good....
We've seen all sorts of *stuff* about the diesel price problem. Two things stand out: 1) the US actually refines MORE diesel than it uses. And 2) Europe is desperate for diesel.
... At the heart of the problem is the fact that Europe won’t purchase cheap Russian diesel as they did before the start of the war in Ukraine. Instead, Europe now relies on the Middle East and the US for it’s supply. According to recent figures, the Middle East produces roughly 40% of Europe’s diesel imports while the U.S. now accounts for 50%. But as a result of the war in Iran, however, Middle Eastern infrastructure has been damaged, and energy flow through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed considerably. Without cheap Russian energy as an option and with limited Middle Eastern output, Europe has placed immense demand on U.S. diesel inventories. That, in turn, has driven up domestic diesel prices in the United States. And since Trump doesn’t have the diplomatic skills to immediately end the hostilities in the Middle East, supply pressure will continue to inflate the diesel market, at least in the near term....
The proposal that Trump should ban export of diesel becomes very interesting in light of the above, but you can bet your net worth that Big Oil is throwing a lot of........ahh..........incentives at Trump & Co. about such a ban.
The cost of Netanyahu's War continues to rise. Be sure to thank Ms. Adelson next time you're in Vegas.
"Peanuts" and "Calvin" were a couple of the best strips. Both are discontinued, but both have valuable lessons within them.
Here's one from "Peanuts":
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For many FBI agents, acting in accord with American principles will be a big change after years of McCabe, Mueller, Wray and Comey (among others).
Two veteran Washington, DC, FBI agents have been reassigned over their handling of a probe involving threats made to conservative podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, CNN claimed in a report late Saturday.
Sourcing “two people familiar with the move,” the network reported that Michael Burgwald, the special agent in charge of counterterrorism matters at the bureau’s D.C. field office, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, “were ousted from their positions by bureau leadership after investigators determined that allegedly harassing phone calls Katie Miller received from unknown individuals did not warrant further investigation.”...
There are plenty of vacant slots in--say--Wyoming, or Alaska, and plenty of open slots for transcriptionists, office-boys, and maintenance workers.
Gates, of course, this time with the tongue-bath of the NYT.
Remember: a computer does ALL and ONLY what it's programmed to do.
Last Refuge condenses all this DANGER!! DANGER!! folderol this way:
...Put AI control in the hands of government regulators and what exactly do you think they will do with the “trust and safety” mission? The answer to that question is self-evident from the U.S. government operation over the X (Twitter) platform, and the banning of unapproved information related to the issues of COVID.
The AI FEAR narrative serves two simultaneous interests. The first is the big tech group who wants AI immunity. The second is the big govt group who want AI control. When you understand this dynamic, things make sense.
The need for information control, is a reaction to information fear....
By the way: the Flock database is within easy reach of the US Government. That's the Government which brought you Covid-19 social controls, shutting down internet sites which had DISapproved content.
Some people still don't get it.
Laughing while he said it, Obama calls this "affordable care."
Some U.S. health-care workers are now dropping health insurance coverage as costs continue to skyrocket.
Many health professionals are currently grappling with unaffordable medical bills, according to multiple recent reports. More medical workers will likely forgo health insurance in the near future, potentially straining the nation's healthcare system, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation....
You can thank the dead McCain and a lackluster performance by Paul Ryan (and the Senate (R) Leader) for NOT killing ObamaCare.
And you can thank Obama for the disaster it is. Have you thanked him appropriately??
These people can join the no-longer-employed "reporters."
Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits....
Awwwww.
Most Hollywood actors campaigned loud and long for ObamaCare. Now that you're looking at it face-to-face, you don't like it?
Well, then: learn to code.
For all his recent vagaries, Carlson still has a grip on the Big Picture.
In this video, he notes that Middle Eastern and Russian refineries have been targeted and either destroyed or crippled--and that rebuilding them is a long-term project.
Very long-term, and rather expensive, too.
Then he notes that the Green Crowd has been dead silent about the wars and all the CO2 releases derived from those wars, not to mention the Russia-to-Europe gas-pipeline demolition which Biden did. (Oh, wait!!! You're told that it was Ukraine that pulled that off?? So sorry, my mistake.)
He notes the curious price of diesel, gasoline, and other petro-derived products such as fertilizer, those prices seemingly having nothing to do with the quoted price/bbl of petroleum. (See the price of gasoline vs. the quoted per-bbl price during Biden's regime and compare those numbers with today's.)
Then suggests that all of this ties together, using Bill Gates' unfortunate spilling of the (real) plot: there will be less humans, and the humans that remain will be creating far less CO2--meaning even less humans.
That "less humans" thing has been the Number One Goal of the Green bunch and the Malthusian Enthusiasts, and the Club of Rome, for decades.
Never thought of that, didja?
It would not surprise us in the least to learn that provoking Putin was part of the plan, and as Tucker notes, who the Hell in this world really cares about 2 oblasts, anyway? (A good question, that!)
Iranian nukes? Very responsible people--such as Tulsi Gabbard--simply do not believe that Iran was going to make nuclear bombs. Also recall that Trump told us that the Iranian nuke program--whatever its progress--was OBLITERATED. So why did the US have to "OBLITERATE IT" again? And now that it's gone, why the continuing aggression of the US?
You are right: Tucker did not explain the Houthis, nor is there a convenient explanation for all the "Who's on First?" dancing going on in the Middle East.
But his theory has the merit of causing one to pause, ain'a?
Such a sparkler she.......ahh......WAS.
...back in June, D.C. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan —a name that belongs on a glitter pen— ruled the whole thing was profoundly illegal and must stop. (Biden appointee.)
Her order scolded that “Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank,” and accused the administration of having “haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable,” thereby allowing states to “actively remove United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.”...
SCOTUS reversed, 6-3. That'll douse her sparkle!
The columnist here is a retired FEEB who has a serious case of TDS. But the surveys he presents are....ahh.....interesting.......in that Chinese Curse sort of way. The good news? Violence isn't in the cards soon. (But don't let your ammo supplies run down like the Pentagon's!)
...I listened to Pape discussing his idea with Mario Nawfal yesterday. The basic idea—based, he says, on five years of research—is that approval for political violence among Americans of all political stripes has soared in the last few years. His surveys, he says, show that no less than 30% of Americans of both Left and Right approve of political violence. Not fringe types, but ordinary seeming Americans. ...
But the stats he cites in the column do not reflect "all" stripes. Instead, he cites from:
... a survey that was conducted by The Center for Strategic Politics survey on Sept. 3 and Sept. 8-10 among 683 Democratic voters nationwide.....
K. So Lefties. You know them: the Peace and Love Bunch.
...Nearly six in 10 Democrats said they would react positively if military leaders removed President Donald Trump from power, while 55% said the same about Trump dying in his sleep.
Forty-three percent said they would feel “very positive” about the military scenario, while 16% said they would feel “somewhat positive,” bringing the total positive response to 59%. Twenty-eight percent said they would feel negatively, and 13% said they would feel neither positively nor negatively. ...
IOW, 'have someone else do the dirty work--like the Generals, or God. But hey! We're fine with Trump being dead!'
Now look at the cross-tabs tables in the column. What's noticeable?
Old. White. Just like you see at those silly March-A-Rounds and Sign-Wavings.
Maybe they would pound Trump-ists with their canes? Signs? Walkers??
Violence is not the answer, of course--and based on what he presented, it won't be.
This sort of crap is what leads to "Black Fatigue."
Milwaukee police released body camera footage Wednesday from the deadly shooting of 23-year-old Printis Smith.
The shooting happened around 6 p.m. near 37th Street and Meinecke Avenue following a car chase that ended about a block north in an alley near 38th and Wright streets on Tuesday, Sept. 8....
Occupants of the car had fired a few rounds off in Glendale; the Milwaukee police saw the car and gave chase. Eventually the car stopped and an officer began a foot-chase (that's the video.)
So what's the Stupid Question of the Month?
... Smith's family doesn't dispute that he was armed, but say that he never shot at the officer....
Implicit: Well, if the goblin didn't SHOOT at the cop, why did the cop shoot at HIM?
Yes, that's a stupid question; the goblin POINTED A GUN at the cop and the cop did exactly what YOU would do if someone pointed a gun at you from 6 inches away.
"Questions," my ass.
On another channel, the anchor went with another stupid question, which was "Why didn't the cop yell 'Drop your weapon!!!' (like they do on all the TeeVee shows)?"
He had to be reminded that the video was NOT a TeeVee show, for crying out loud. This anchor is a full-grown man.........we think........
The Stupid Questions were given to the reporters/anchors by a rabble-rousing black lawyer who miraculously turns up following every police shooting--if the person who was shot is black. Not if they were white (rare, indeed), nor Hispanic. Only the black ones.
Now you know why the term is "Black Fatigue."
