Category Archives: Joe Biden

Herd Immunity

sunbeam March 3, 2021 Comments Off

I was alerted by a friend to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Marty Makary. Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, chief medical adviser to Sesame Care, and author of “The Price We Pay.” Dr. Makary has been heavily involved in the tracking of the COVID caseload here and around the world.

We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April

Makary points out that the number of new cases is down 77% over the last month and a half. Why? Makary notes:

Random Idiocy

sunbeam February 23, 2021 Comments Off

There are legitimate concerns over the use of artificial intelligence. While it is a great labor saver, there are situations when its abilities are somewhat constrained.

Steve Sailer has an interesting example over at unz.com.

“We hear much about the menace posed by racist robots, but mighty Google appears to have succeeded in inventing artificial intelligence with the natural stupidity of a professor of intersectionality.

“Late last year, a YouTuber who produces popular chess videos found that his channel was blocked over charges of ‘harmful and dangerous’ content. Even though the channel was restored within 24 hours, YouTube did not explain why it had blocked Croatian chess player Antonio Radic, also known as ‘Agadmator,’ from its platform briefly, the Dailymail reported.”

Experts who viewed the comments section theorize that it was words like “white,” “black,” “attack,” and “threat” that caused Google AI filters to think that the comments were racist. A test of several hundred thousand chess comments revealed that AI software flagged an overwhelming majority (82%) of them as problematic.

Musings

sunbeam February 22, 2021 Comments Off

Despite the attempts of the cabal of Amazon Web Services, Google, Apple, and many other Big Tech monsters to take it down, Parler has been brought back to life.

Parler was falsely blamed as being the hub on which the Capitol Hill Riot was planned, but examination of DOJ indictments shows that Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter were the central hubs — yet no one shut them down. Fuzzy covered the findings in Parler Vindicated: Study Finds Facebook ‘Far and Away’ Most Used Social Media By Capitol Hill Rioters.

Parler was shut down because it was viewed as a place for Trump supporters, the rest of the excuses were pretext.

Parler has moved to a new computer server farm. The 20 million users can begin using their old app and logins Monday, Interim CEO Mark Meckler told Just the News.

Musings

sunbeam February 20, 2021 1 Comment

Over the years and decades, we have seen many coups take place around the world. The most common thread that has run through most such events is the occupation of the capital city of that country by the military and the installation of various “protective” measures to protect the instigators. These have usually included razor wire and other impediments.

Has anyone noticed Washington DC lately? Armed troops with orders allowing deadly force patrol our nation’s capital. Razor wire fencing surrounds the seat of government. Their occupation of the city has now been extended to September. Pretty soon there will be TSA-style checkpoints in different places around the city.

This is our political elite telling us they have executed a coup against the American people.

Newt Gingrich Speaks Out

sunbeam February 19, 2021 Comments Off

The following is from Newt Gingrich , a former speaker of the House of Representatives. I wholeheartedly agree with everything he says here. My thanks to RM for bringing this to my attention.

Texas Without Power

sunbeam February 17, 2021 Comments Off

As many have undoubtedly heard by now, many people in Texas are without electric power. Some 2 million households are struggling to stay warm without power during a major winter storm. When the state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), began implementing rolling blackouts at 1:25 a.m. Monday, the outages were intended to be implemented on a rolling basis — up to 45 minutes per affected area, according to the ERCOT.

However, many areas were continually without power before ERCOT decided on rolling blackouts and continued to be without power after that decision. “Unfortunately, if you are a customer who is currently experiencing an outage, you should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day,” tweeted CenterPoint Energy.

Jackie Sargent, the general manager for Austin Energy, said Monday afternoon that based on information from ERCOT, the local power outages could extend into Tuesday afternoon.

Contrary to what one might think, the energy problem wasn’t primarily due to downed power lines. Instead, in a state that has a quarter of America’s proven natural gas reserves, the power went away because Texas has turned to wind generation — and the generators froze. This coupled with a high demand for natural gas showed the folly of depending on “green” energy as a critical component of one’s energy grid.

This gives new meaning to “Houston, we have a problem.”

Miscellaneous Items

sunbeam February 17, 2021 2 Comments

The avatar in the President’s office removed the terrorist designation from the Houthis (primarily in Yemen). This designation had been put in place during the Trump administration.

Last week the Houthis bombed an airport in Saudi Arabia. The drone strike targeted Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia, an airport just 75 miles from the Yemeni border that is frequently targeted by the militant rebel group. The attack set one civilian plane on fire.

My memory fails me but isn’t there a word that is used for organizations that target civilian populations with violence? ...

President’s Day

sunbeam February 16, 2021 Comments Off

On Monday crowds of supporters gathered on the road to Mar-a-Lago to cheer and celebrate President Donald Trump. This was a huge show of love for PDJT today as he returned to Mar-a-Lago after a day on the links.

This is another one of those “this doesn’t happen” thing. Remember during the campaign when a TRUMP sign ala the Hollywood sign appeared in the hills around LA. And tens of thousands of people showed up for rally after rally, the crowds increasing as time went on. Toward the end 40k, 50k and 60k people were showing up.

Then there were the spontaneous gatherings of large numbers of Trump supporters in unlikely places like Beverly Hills. And mega Trump parades of all types, all over the country – a hundred miles of cars, hundreds of boats and bikers, long-haul truckers, golf carts, and an Amish horse and buggy parade, for Pete’s sake. This was all real. We saw it day after day, momentum and enthusiasm off the charts.

The Big Racket

sunbeam February 16, 2021 Comments Off

The Biden administration is considering curtailing the ability for citizens to travel freely but has effectively hung out an “Open Borders” sign for illegals to come into the country. That would mean the border would once again be overrun by drugs, sex traffickers and criminals. Is this just the usual hypocrisy from the Left? Or is there something more sinister going on?

ARIZONA […] In recent days, more than 1,000 people who had been detained after crossing into the U.S. have been released into the country in a reversal of the Trump administration’s near-shutdown of the border. Many more people are gathering on the Mexican side, setting up a test of America’s ability and willingness to admit migrants during a pandemic.

On Thursday in Mexicali, across from Calexico, Calif., migrants could be seen trying to scale a border fence. A migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, just across a bridge from Texas, has grown to 1,000 people over the past few weeks.

There is something more sinister going on. The best title for it might be “The Big Racket.”

Sundance over at CTH has written on this subject multiple times over the years. I will be quoting liberally from his posts.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle play political games with the issue of illegal immigration. As Sundance has noted:

There is no greater disconnect from ordinary Americans on any singular issue than the policy positions of Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC surrounding illegal immigration. President Donald Trump was confronting their unified interests.

Ending Freedom of Association

sunbeam February 15, 2021 Comments Off

Recently the Biden Administration has been talking about curtailing travel between the states to help stop the COVID virus. In particular, since Florida has been “flaunting” the supposed “best practices,” it has been singled out for “punishment” by the federal government. Of course, this was to be done under the guise of a public health emergency caused by a new variant of the COVID virus. This ignores the declining case rates across the country.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio slammed the Biden administration for considering such a domestic travel ban on the state, calling the threat “unconstitutional” and a “political attack” on Floridians.