Brother Gideon points out ...
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“For the budding “junior decorator”, her own little starter-Zebra rug!”
Found in a nice old Shorelands home, 3 Fairgreen Lane, reduced today to $2.395.
Biden's plan to stem the illegal alien crisis: put up street lights in Guatamala
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“i see'“, said the blind man, and he picked up his hammer and saw
Watch this performance of a woman who’s spent 31 years in the Deep State. no wonder Trump met so much sabotage.
Maybe they came back and saw it in daylight?
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21 Windrose Way, Mead Point, reported a contract on January 29th., when it was priced at $6.2 million.Today it’s back on the market, at a reduced price of $5.9
It's not all about wiping out the gig economy and forcing independent contractors back under the thumb of corporate employers – there's more, much more
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The PRO Act: Union density, mandatory dues, and graft
I knew all that, but hadn’t noticed that the law will finally give the unions what they’ve sought for decades, the elimination of right to work laws.
We’re witnessing true evil descend on America
Because our Congress so rarely displays its looting of the country in ways that lend themselves to video taping, here’s a symbolic representation:
Pending in Old Greenwich
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10 Ledge Road, asking $3.875 million. This took a while to find a buyer; it’s been kicking around since 2018 when it started at $4.250, but it’s a goregeous 1897 home, beautifully restored/renovated by its previous owners back in the ‘90s, when I used to visit. Judging from its pictures, it certainly hasn’t deteriorated since then, and probably been further improved.
No, Democrats don't "follow the science", they're just timid souls who long for the proper authorities tell them what to do
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Presumably this sign is now canceled, but the sentiment remains
Poll: 66% of Democrats say keeping K-12 schools closed is necessary to stop the Manchurian Plague
That’s certainly been my observation: visiting the uber-liberal cities of Portland ME and Portsmouth NH, I’m struck by the number of people wearing masks — not in stores, mind you, where everyone wears them regardless of politics just to avoid the harassment of panicked people, but everywhere. Driving in cars, alone, riding their bicycles, walking alone on empty streets. Get out of these pockets of woke and reason returns.
Fascinating. I won’t bore you further, but if you’re curious about the phenomenon, Google “Democrats risk aversion” — it’s what they do, how they approach life.
"Get the hell out of my way"
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John Stossel: The Real Experts
The vaccine rollout crawls forward. Most of us will spend weeks, or months, waiting.
Great Britain did better. As of today, one-third of the English are already vaccinated, twice as many as in America.
Why?
A big reason is that our government decided to rigidly follow its regimen for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines: two doses, about a month apart.
But why insist on two doses?
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are about 90% effective after one dose, according to clinical trial data.
British officials sensibly decided to give people one dose, before insisting that everyone get a second dose. It worked. Once people got a first dose, the coronavirus cases began to level off. Although COVID-19 was worse in Great Britain than in America, British cases have now dropped below America’s.
George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok helped convince British health officials to try the “first-dose-first” approach. But he couldn’t convince American officials.
“We have given out more than 20 million second doses,” Tabarrok complains in my new video. “Those could have been first doses!”
Had they been, 50% more Americans would have received a vaccine by now.
“Why would we believe you, rather than these specialist doctors?” I ask.
“Physicians (are) not necessarily thinking about the person who is not their patient,” he replies, “An economist, you’ve gotta be thinking about everybody.”
It’s not too late for America to change policy.
But our government’s planners won’t change without “a proper study.”
In the time the study will take, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, “we will already be in the arena of having enough vaccines to go around anyway.”
Tabarrok, wisely, says in a national emergency, we should skip that study and give one dose a real-world test. “You have to act quickly. Bureaucrats are just not used to doing that.”
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But we can’t do both. There are tradeoffs in life.
“We have to take into account scarcity,” says Tabarrok. “This is what economists are good at: thinking about scarcity and thinking about tradeoffs.”
America’s bureaucratic medical approval process is all about following certain rules.
“They’ve been too slow. They’ve made mistakes,” complains Tabarrok. “The FDA did not allow private companies to start testing.”
That meant that for weeks, labs sat idle.
The bureaucracy also slowed the distribution of vaccines.
“We had the doses stockpiled… ready to go. The state governments weren’t ready. They didn’t have websites ready,” Tabarrok points out. “Even though they’d been told months and months, this is coming, vaccines are coming… get ready. And they said, Oh, we don’t have enough money. Give me a break. They have tons of money.”
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Fortunately, people outside government stepped up.
Olivia Adams, a software engineer in Massachusetts, got frustrated with her state’s vaccine website and built a site that makes it easier to find COVID-19 vaccine appointments. So did Huge Ma, an engineer in New York.
“It’s been amazing to see how much expertise there is in the world, outside the usual expert channels,” says Tabarrok. “The government has just been behind the virus every single step of the way.”
Fortunately, big greedy corporations were on the ball.
“Thank God for the manufacturers of vaccines for Moderna and Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson that have been the one saving grace in this crisis. Capitalism has brought us the vaccines at a faster pace than ever before. And most of that was due to lifting of government regulations.”
He’s right. At the beginning of the pandemic, the FDA lifted regulations, which allowed companies to create vaccines more quickly. Without that freedom, vaccine approval would have taken years.
When the pandemic ends, politicians will take credit, but the solution, as usual, began when politicians got out of the way.
Exuberant Pricing? Time will tell
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50 Sumner Road is back on the market for $4.450 million, 17 months after the owners bought it for $3.1 million in November 2019. The builders who totally rebuilt the place in 2017 put it up for sale that year at $3.6 before finally finding these owners in 2019 at the aforesaid $3.1, so some caution might be called for here.
I see from the listing that a pool was added recently. Otherwise, it looks about the same. Is a pool worth $1.3 million? I’m skeptical.
Here's some good news, just for a break
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Eli Lilly Manchurian Plague drug combo cuts risk of hospitalizations, deaths by 87%
A combination of two Eli Lilly antibody drugs cut the risk of COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths by 87%, the company announced Wednesday, further upholding dosing already authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
You can read the full article at the link, but to this layman, it seems like a solid study, and because both these drugs are already approved by the FDA, the treatment can presumably be immediately implemented.
If the continuing shutdown orders are based on “protecting the most vulnerable among us”, and not because power-hungry politicians love the control they’ve taken over their citizens, maybe we’ll see an end to this nonsense. If there’s an effective treatment for those unfortunate enough to be infected, that, in addition to vaccinations, should only help the oppressed masses pressure their rulers to reopen the country.
Of course, that would stall The Great Reset™, so expect resistance from our betters, but there’s also a Great Do-Over scheduled for 2022; if we’re allowed to, we can deal with these people then
The cat's out of the bag: Gov. Noisome says aloud what his fellow Democrats are thinking
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“The struggle was finished ….He loved Big Brother”
Gavin Newsom’s State of the State address, Tuesday: “We’re never going to return to ‘normal’ “
Yes, the pandemic “will end soon,” he noted, but when that happens, “we’re not going back to normal.”
“Normal was never good enough,” he added. “Normal accepts inequity.”
Note that “equity” is the opposite of equality; we Moved On™ from that antiquated notion years ago. And now we have ‘The Great Reset”, hinged to global warming, overwrought COVID panic shysters, BLM, or whatever the crisis of the day is. Different crises, same solution: socialism and total governmental control.
Rahm Emanuel, Wall Streeter, political hack, former Obama Chief of Staff, and now mayor of Chicago (poor city) explained this strategy back in 2008;