OTC Covid Killer

Diphenhydramine (Benadryl), and a protein in milk. Link to article below.

Two Common Over-the-Counter Compounds Reduce COVID-19 Virus Replication by 99% in Early Testing

Covid Vaccine Fail

Well, this is interesting. According to this paper, vax effectiveness starts to drop off after about 90 days.

Click on the image to read el gato malo's summary, click on the link at the bottom of the page to read the Lancet pre-print.

 

Read the Lancet pre-print here.

Thing is, we kinda knew this already, given the re-infection rate of the vaccinated. 

I'm sticking with gin and orange juice.

Covid Vaccination In A Nutshell

 Update (This one is scary! More to think about!):

OMG! On this clip.

This doctor trained at the Mayo Clinic and runs the largest independent testing laboratory in Idaho.

Listen to what his lab testing is showing. pic.twitter.com/WmX7N3qKHK

— Jangled Nerves (@ToriaMart) November 14, 2021

Two articles I've come across give good reason to pause and think hard about the Covid vaccine.

With no further comment, here they are.

Article here.

Article here.

And they wonder...

...why I laugh when they complain about traffic back here!

From The Telegraph, via Drudge

Pipelines

Via the always unique XKCD

Meanwhile, Earlier Last Week...

The Jeff Bezos side of the Musk/Bezos Space Race

Mr. Musk's contribution:


McDonnell Douglas and NASA were futzing with this sort of thing back in the 90s, in the form of the Delta Clipper:


Sadly, it never really got off the ground.

(Bezos' and Musk's efforts found at SondraKistan)

 If you want to get an idea of the technologies involved in this kind of project, check out the job listings at Blue Origin!

Safe Spaces...

...and candidates.

Frazz on Safe Spaces...

Via Go Comics, Frazz by @JefMallett, Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

Pop Quiz

Ellison has a friend who's son is teaching a class on Introduction to Comparative Politics.  He was asked to add a bonus question to his final, which he did.  Here is the question:

Bonus Essay

Part I: Take one item from Column A and one item from Column B and do a comparative political analysis of the two, using an argument/theory/set of arguments that we have touched on this semester (midterm material is fair game here).

Part II: Choose one item from Column C and add it to your analysis from Part I. Would the argument change at all? How would item A and B deal with item C?

Be creative. If you can source from memory, do, but it will not hurt you not to source. Feel free to bring in culture, religion, economy, violence—anything; the world is your oyster on this one.

I'm, not going to spoil the surprise for you by listing columns A, B and C.

Click over to Lost In The Cheese Aisle and see for yourself!

Reading List Addition

I usually add sites to my "Reading List" without a comment. Same with removing them. The list is fluid, changing with sites I find, and my outlook on the world.

However, I want point out my addition of One America New Network, a cable channel based in San Diego, California. It aims to be the "next Fox", in a complimentary way. They are striving to be a real news channel, claiming 21 out of 24 hours are devoted to news.  And the talk shows are supposed to be talk, not yelling, and have viewpoints from all over the political spectrum,  I'ce skimmed their website, and it looks pretty good.  The channel is available on ATT and Verizon fiber TV services.  I'm going to poke around a bit and see if they stream anywhere on line.

Go, check them out!

(h/t Weasel Zippers, also a good source for news)

Obamacare Endgame...

Wait for it...

(Via Gerard)

Three Things...

...from the reading list.  

First, A Demon's Nest of Sentiments:

Next, Pastor Phil:

Finally, Chris Muir has the poster du jour:

See the whole thing at Day By Day Cartoon

But wait, there's more...

Lest I forget:

Public Secrets reports: 

Once there was this neat thing called “Western Civilization,” which gave the world such wonderful ideas as human liberty, the worth of the individual, and the freedom to speak, write, and publish without the fear of being punished for what we say.
That was then, this is now:

And this, from Kate:

Vodkapundit:

I clicked the link from RCP, because I couldn't believe the text was an accurate description of the headline. I screencapped the headline because I couldn't believe it was an accurate description of the piece. But when Sally Kohn is the author, all bets on sanity are off — so, yes, the headline and link both accurately reflect today’s pravda from her perch at CNN

I love a good juxtaposition (from Weasel Zippers):

Islamodespicio me... (Updated)

Update  You gotta read this:

Book Review: Introduction to the Qur’an (1953) by Richard Bell

Some thoughts on Islam from around the web. Some are serious, some are what I consider humorous speculation.

Enjoy.

Velociman breaks a seven month silence:  No, the wretched fact is, and remains, that the West has been at war with militant Islam, off and on, for 1,400 years  Also found at Gerards:

Pretty much says it all, don'tcha think??

DougM at Sondrakistan: A phobia is an unreasonable fear (perverted in Progspeak to mean opposition to Prog Canon).So, who is it that fears Islam … unreasonably?

Roger Simon at PJ Media:

But a “sleeper cell” in the White House?  It would certainly explain Obama’s not going to France, which was a decision that hurt the USA, hurt the effort against Islamic terror and hurt the president’s already tarnished reputation into the bargain.

From The Diplomad:

We, however, have no President; and Obama, the man who pretends to be President, watched TV, instead.