Opinion
By Dave Scott, 9-1-23
Has anybody anywhere read or heard any RELIABLE government information about covid and the vaccines? I haven’t.
According to Covid & Coffee blogger and part time Fernandina Beach resident Jeff Childers, there isn’t any.
Both Linda and I can testify to that. Be very suspicious of anything the government tells you about covid.
Remember when that raspy voiced little weasel, Anthony Fauci, said: “Get two vaccine shots and a booster and you’ll never get covid.” Then recall that he said: “If you get covid you’ll never get it again”. “Oh, and wear a mask, even two, to prevent it,” he said. It was all BS just like the phony baloney that it came from a wet market, that it didn’t come from a lab, that the Chinese had nothing to do with it, and that he didn’t know about the research in the Wuhan lab or had anything to do with it, etc.
Senator Dr. Rand Paul had that little slimeball figured out when he raked him across the coals during Senate hearings. Now the creep is sitting on a massive undeserved taxpayer funded pension when he should be confined to the psycho ward in the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, in Mel Brooks film “High Anxiety.”
Linda and I had the shots. We had the booster and we had covid. And guess what? This past week we were diagnosed with it again. We felt lousy, but not bedridden lousy. It was like a miserable cold, annoying and inconvenient.
The five-day contagious period is over for me and will be for Linda Saturday.
In the meantime I’ll be taking a break from the blog, starting next week, and cranking it back up again September 22 unless something unusual motivates me before that.
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An EV Shocker! Not only is the electric vehicle industry a massive scam with its absurd claims about saving the planet by preventing climate change, but EV’s are turning out to be deadly even when tuned off and motionless.
If EVs are so great why does the government have to bribe companies with subsidies to make them and consumers with tax breaks to buy them?
Recent studies, including one at the University of California-Berkeley, indicate that most EVs are purchased by high earners. Fine with me, I just don’t want my tax money going to help pay for them.
The lithium batteries in these things have a tendency to overheat and catch fire. There are frequent news reports about boatloads of them at sea burning after their batteries exploded. Some shipping companies say they will no longer transport EVs and ferries in Norway have banned them.
Following Hurricane Ian last year residents who evacuated the Fort Myers area left their useless EV’s in the garage only to return home to discover their houses burned when the lithium batteries in them caught fire. Fire fighters can’t use water, because traditional water extinguishers do not stop lithium-ion batteries from burning.
If you’re stuck with an EV as your only transportation what happens when you evacuate during a disaster and there’s no electric chargers because the grid is down? What if you need a charge while stuck in traffic on a back road evacuation route and there are none or a charge takes two or more hours, and a hurricane or wildfire is bearing down on you?
A Wall Street Journal article in August detailed how electric bikes are even worse. It detailed how apartment buildings in the U.S. and England caught fire due to exploding e-bike batteries tragically killing numerous residents.
As a result many apartment buildings are banning them as are restaurants.
The EV industry is not a viable alternative to fossil fuels and won’t be for decades, if ever. It takes vast quantities of fossil fuels to run their charging stations and mine the minerals required to produce their batteries. Yet they’re proceeding full speed ahead. Hopefully the Republicans can pull the plug on this mindless sham with a victory next November.
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Wishing You Were In Dixie? If you live in the Southeast and need a job you’re in the right place.
The fastest growing region in the United Sates in population and economically is the South with Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia leading all other states.
According to Bloomberg Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee have a bigger combined economy than the entire Northeast corridor that includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
California, once the most populous and prosperous state is hemorrhaging people and businesses. The only new arrivals to that state are immigrants and those being born there. California residents who currently own a gas-powered vehicle should get out of that collapsing mess while they can still afford to fuel their vehicles. The doofus Newsome has threatened to ban all combustion engines in that state in 10 years.
The biggest losing states are Democrat-controlled with high taxes while the biggest gainers are Republican states with low taxes. That makes sense to everybody but Democrats who can’t figure out why tax payers with jobs don’t want to stay and fund their follies.
All the things folks need to live comfortably can be found in the red controlled states without all the inflexible environmental and labor restrictions and social nonsense found in the Democrat controlled nanny states.
When voting next November people might want to consider the southward migration and why it is taking place.
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How Bad Are Things In California? The homeless population in that state is exploding. More than half of all unsheltered homeless people now live in California alone, and Los Angele has more than 70,000 homeless people and encampments. These encampments take up entire parks, denying their use by tax-paying, law-abiding citizens. They have become conduits for diseases, as well as for robbery, rape, and open drug use. Taxes are going up, schools stink, crime is rampant, the loopy woke government officials keep piling on, and businesses are closing or moving out of state. And Gavin Newsome is portrayed as the Democrat Party’s White Knight. Good grief.
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Speaking Of California And The Homeless: In the original Brothers Grimm story of Snow White, Miss White was portrayed as a young princess whose skin was “white as snow.” The dwarfs were industrious miners who the princess treated with kindness. Disney, in an attempt to alienate even more parents and totally confuse their children, has cranked out what could be labeled a Mel Brooks parody, but with none of the belly laughs. Snow White is portrayed by a Hispanic gal who went on a recent publicity tour bad-mouthing the original story, even calling Prince Charming a “stalker.” And the dwarfs all resemble refugees from one of the Los Angles homeless encampments.
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Avoiding A GOP Waterloo: If the Republicans want to avoid an election Waterloo next November they should follow up on one of Napoleon’s maxims: “The art of sometimes being very audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.”
However to combat the combined forces of the Democrat-filled swamp of faceless unelected civil employees, the left wing media, and activist mobs they need to lean less on the prudent side and more on the audacious and keep in mind another of the French emperor’s sayings: “God is on the side with the best artillery.”
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Why We Voted For DeSantis: Wednesday afternoon, after a report of looting in Steinhatchee was reported Governor DeSantis immediately got in front of cameras, reminding looters that under Florida law, citizens may use deadly force to protect their homes when they are inside. What would a Governor Newsome say?
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Florida Man: While Hurricane Idalia was nothing to laugh at there were some lighter moments like this one that had a CNN on-the-scene-reporter flummoxed in Tampa. It reminded me of storms in the 1960s where local TV stations filmed cars pulling water skiers down Tampa’s Bayshore Drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjcfFRrmBI
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Amelia Island Awash In Literary Talent: Amelia Island is blessed with a bounty of talent including authors and authorities of national and international prominence including veteran writers Neal Freeman, John Gresham, Edward Kosner, David Baldacci, and Ken Timmerman. Up and coming writers include newcomers Bill Craun and Jerry Hester, both former military and law enforcement officials respectively, and Patrick J. Keogh, who writes on creating personal wealth through the stock market.
Timmerman, who is currently in the south of France where he also has a home, writes a weekly column and I thought that last week’s would be of particular interest. It follows as does Ken’s contact information. A former war correspondent who was once held hostage by Palestinian terrorists, Ken knows of what he writes. Here’s his latest.
Some things just don’t pass the smell test.
Take the Fani Willis indictment of President Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, last week. Every action she alleges to be part of a conspiracy was, she admits, a legal exercise of free speech. But combine them all together, add the sauce, and whoopee, it becomes criminal.
The same thing happens in the information sphere. I am a big fan of Tucker Carlson. The two of us shared a stage many years ago as recipients of the Reed Irving Award for investigative reporting from Accuracy in Media.
But I am not a fan of his “go-to” pundit on the Ukraine war, retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
In this latest interview, MacGregor comes off once again as a Putin stooge.
He claims, for example, that Ukraine has lost 400,000 soldiers – dead, not dead and wounded – since the beginning of the war, and 40,000 dead since the June counter-offensive began.
That’s about four times higher than the highest estimate I have ever seen. I’m not sure even Putin and his military would make such a claim.
Remember, this is the same Douglas MacGregor who, on day three of the war, said it would all be over in just a few more days when Russian troops would seize Kiev and depose Zelenskiy.
And then there’s this: MacGregor claims that Ukrainian commanders are surrendering to the Russians because they have so many wounded and can’t treat them “and from the very beginning the Russians have always treated the Ukrainians very fairly and gently.” That is a direct quote.
Now, I happen to believe the Russians currently have the advantage in manpower and equipment. The Ukrainian counter-offensive, mired in its third month, has clearly failed in its primary goal of breaking Russia’s supply lines to the Crimean peninsula by taking the port city of Mariupol.
But 40,000 dead in three months? Really? I don’t know what that man is smoking or whose water he is carrying, but he certainly stinks to high heaven of bovine excrement.
In these days of rampant disinformation and a media that is so obviously failing to do its job, it’s important to get ground truth. That’s what I have devoted my life as a war correspondent and investigative reporter to uncovering, as you can see by reading my latest book, And the Rest is History.
If you want better sources on this senseless war, I suggest you following the Institute for Study of War or the blog of my good friend Dr. Stephen Bryen, who makes a case this week that the GRU – not Putin – was behind the downing of Prigozhin’s private jet outside Moscow.
I discuss this, the expansion of the Russia-China-Iran axis into BRICS, and other subjects on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. Listen live as always at 1 PM on Saturday using the Jacksonville Way Radio app, or on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville area. Later on, you can listen to the podcast, here.
Timmerman’s 12th book of non-fiction, AND THE REST IS HISTORY: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies, is now available from PostHill Press. It can be ordered directly from Amazon by clicking here or by viewing his author’s page, here.
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