Saturday, December 9, 2023

and.. It's Saturday Night... Be Good Out There....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagine The Stamina... Brutal Bear Fight Caught In Wilderness... Never Give Up...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This AI Stuff Is Exponentially Getting Better And Better... What is real and what isn't????

 

 

 

 


 

 The video is digitally altered to show Ukrainian high-jumper Yuliya Levchenko, who is naturally beautiful, with a makeup face filter on. The original video can be found below:

 

Oh Look, Covid Part Deux, Just In Time For The Erection Season...

 via the EPOCH TIMES<



How bad is the pediatric pneumonia outbreak in China?
If you ask Chinese authorities, the answer would be that you shouldn’t be too worried.
Beijing has told the World Health Organization that there are no “unusual or new pathogens” or clinical symptoms.
Some of the Chinese media reports have described the illness as “preventable and controllable”—you might recall the same phrase being used back in early 2020 when the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread in Wuhan.
Whatever the case, the concerns from Chinese parents are real.
Families are waiting in long queues at Chinese hospitals for hours so that they could see a doctor. Many classes get suspended because too many children are sick.
“Everyone in the class is coughing—you can’t even hear what the teacher is saying,” a man with the surname Chen told The Epoch Times, recounting what he heard from his school-aged daughter from Beijing.
People have had to wait early in the morning to get a placement number at hospitals, and some health workers said they have to do the same. A number in the 1,000s isn’t uncommon. The wait time is so long that some people bring chairs and tents, and administer IV drips to themselves during the process.
While the WHO is seeking more information from the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese regime’s coverup is being noted by a number of U.S. lawmakers.
“We have no ability to trust the Chinese,” Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), told The Epoch Times’ sister outlet NTD on Nov. 30.
He had signed a letter asking the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigate the outbreak in China.
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), a practicing surgeon, also said he believes “China’s going to do everything possible so that they don’t look like they’re the genesis of another pandemic.”
“I don’t trust anything the Chinese say—not a word,” he told NTD. “You get burned once, you don’t get burned again.”
A number of Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, have called for a travel ban.
“A ban on travel now could save our country from death, lockdowns, mandates, and further outbreaks later,” they wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden.
No travel ban is being planned for the moment.
Asked if the State Department supports a travel ban, spokesperson Matthew Miller said they will “continue to monitor this situation closely and provide important updates should the situation change.”
“At this point the CDC has said publicly it does not have any evidence that it’s a novel pathogen,” he said in response to a question from The Epoch Times during a press briefing.
Chinese authorities seem to be using the same strategy it used three years ago to convince the public that the outbreak isn’t very severe.
There has been a lot of emphasis on the effect of flu and other contagions spreading around this time that could have contributed to the clusters of outbreaks; mycoplasma pneumonia is another cause cited.
But Sean Lin, a former lab director at the viral diseases branch of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, isn’t happy with that explanation. Respiratory disease seasons in the past hadn’t reached such a scale as it has now.
A whistleblower close to the top Chinese leadership told The Epoch Times that the Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping had ordered officials to play down the severity of the outbreak and emphasize that it’s not a result of COVID-19 mutation.
Some countries and regions are now expressing concerns. 
Taiwan has advised elderly, very young, and those with poor immunity to avoid going to China.
In China, COVID-19 isn’t heavily mentioned, but there's growing public speculation that a virus mutation may be at play here.
So far, the Chinese authorities are expanding hospital capacity, promoting traditional Chinese medicine, telling feverish students and teachers not come to class.

One of the main reasons Americans are feeling "a lot lighter" in the wallet

 

There is a scene in the movie Home Alone showing the main character going to a grocery store and buying $19.83 worth of groceries. Included are a TV dinner, half a gallon of orange juice, frozen mac and cheese, laundry detergent, cling wrap, a pack of army men, toilet paper, and dryer sheets. Keep in mind this is circa 1990. Last year those same items would have cost $44.40. Today that same buggy load of items would cost $77.28. FJB
I was reading this story about inflation on one of the "main media outlets" that will not allow me to hyper-link. Here it is.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/home-alone-fans-shocked-250-percent-increase-grocery-prices-iconic-shopping-trip

Friday, December 8, 2023

Friday Femme Fatale Farrago......

 

 


 


 

 

I am shocked, absolutely shocked I say!

It must be some kind of trick, but according to this article (and others), the Senate Republicans obstructed communist-demonrat measures calling for unanimous consent to pass assault weapons ban/background checks bill. I hope a lot of these RHINOS are getting the message that the Americans that work, contribute, build, produce, pay taxes, and who elect them to office are sick and tired of their double speaking-lying ways and their failure to put AMERICANS first. As for assistant commie-party chairman kommrade Schumer, he can stick this sort of legislation where the sun doesn't shine. Read the entire story here.


h/t to reader Bob in E-town

Mt Monadnock Hiking Then and Now...

 

 I saw this on book of face earlier today.

Someone had posted the first image as the "NOW" photo. 

Below that one is the "BEFORE" photo with a caption that it was 1904. 

119 years ago.

No Northface

No Timberland

No Keen

No Spandex

No Recycled "Green" Rubber Souls

No Gore-Tex

No Wicking Materials

No Freeze dried lunch

No Energy Bars

No helicopter rescue

No cell phone selfies... 

No GPS

No porta-potties in paved parking lot.

The list goes on......

And they all survived, I would assume.

 

Just men and women smartly dressed and out for a hike to the top of the mountain.

 

Note the similar overhanging rock, upper left of image. 

It appears the lead man in the second photo was standing where the new white arrow is painted.  (upper center of first picture)

Mt Monadnock White Arrow Trail.

 


 


Imagine the trip just to get there. Most likely horse and buggy which would have been a journey in

and of itself. Return home to the outhouse and no running water or electricity.