Faith

The word "faith" has in recent years been one of those many English words that we use frequently but that are virtually without any useful definition.

So we get to define such words as "faith" any way we please. And if it pleases us we can redefine such words any time we feel the need.

I just now felt the need to define the word "faith".

Faith is the willingness to enjoy the experience of looking positively and daringly into the abyss.

Gabrielle Louise, TIME

A few years ago I got to see this young lady perform in a small town meeting hall.

"TIME" written and performed by Gabrielle Louise, filmed and edited by Being Films

Stories for the Quarantine

Shooting the sh*t while confined by the COVID quarantine:

Notorious Pilot for the CIA and then the Colombian Cartels!

A Secret

Make sure this secret reaches as many people as possible:

Video: Coronavirus Treatment: New York Doctor Vladimir Zelenko Finds 100% Success Rate in 350 Patients Using Hydroxychloroquine with Zinc

This doctor was interviewed yesterday by former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani on his new YouTube channel:

EXCELLENT NEWS: Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Effective on 699 Patients

The key to this treatment is that hydroxychloroquine opens a pathway into the cells enabling zinc to enter and do its thing against the virus.

Apparently this is news that the lamestream media and big pharma don't want us to know about. But who knows, right. Make sure that everybody you know knows this secret.

Science

Recently, especially now with media coverage of the Wuhan coronavirus (as opposed to all other coronaviruses) I have become aware of the use of the word "science" as the one-and-only way to go about solving the problems and dealing with the threats created by COVID-19, the pandemic disease. Maybe you have noticed the same thing.

"Science" has also been touted as the only reliable source of solutions for the social terror of Climate Change.

I read the Wikipedia article on Greta Thunberg today. Science seems to be at the core of her pathological obsessions. She popped a cork so to speak when her science teachers began cluing her in on the apocalyptical predictions of climate change science.

For quite awhile now I have been wrestling with the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with how society views science and the role of science in society. It wasn't until today that I realized the problem.

Science, in its pure and original form, is a discipline by means of which it is permissible to challenge the notion that a concept or a claim is true. In other words, if science is allowed to proceed as it is meant to proceed, nothing can be thought (believed or proven) to be true. In real science everything that lays claim to being true is subject to being debunked. It is never OK to say the debate is closed, the truth is proven beyond any doubt. Making that claim violates the very nature of the discipline of science.

Yet the word "science" is now being used in the media and in leftist circles to refer to ideas and concepts that by consensus are declared to be true. We use the word "science" in exact opposition to what it actually means.

So why do we do this?

We do it to convince uneducated people like Greta Thunberg to support Socialist causes. Whenever you see the word "science" being used to convince people of the unquestionable truth of anything, you have jumped the gap from reason and rational thought to Socialism. You see the word "science" now in the media and what you are actually witnessing is totalitarian authoritarian Socialism.

It's as simple as that.

The Spread of Spring Break

I found this in a Fox News article today. Here's the Twitter source that Fox gave:

Tectonix GEO Map on Twitter

The Plight of Baby Booming

I am a Baby Boomer. Not just that, I am a retired Baby Boomer meaning I am on Social Security. Recently Social Security passed the point where revenues exceeded expenses. For many years Social Security revenues, often referred to as "payroll taxes", exceeded the various uses of Social Security money - including but not limited to retirement payments - with the excess going into high interest federal bonds. Of course this was an obvious Ponzi scheme but up until now that fact didn't matter. Payroll taxes were supplementing income tax revenues so nobody really cared. Pay a little more here, pay a little less there, who cares, right? It all evens out.

Well at least it all evened out until now.

Now the Social Security Administration is paying out more than it is taking in. How can it do that? Well it's cashing in its file cabinet full of federal bonds. A decade or so ago that file cabinet of bonds was expected to last until the mid 2030's but you know, that is a meaningless tidbit of information in reality. Why meaningless, you ask? Because in order to turn those bonds into real money the federal government needs to raise money through taxation and borrowing to pay back the principal and interest on those Social Security federal bonds. In other words the Ponzi scheme is over. It's time to pay the piper.

So now, people like me who are on Social Security retirement are 100% dependent on working people for our income. Well that's not exactly true. A large fraction of income tax comes from the wealthy, but all of the Social Security "payroll tax" income plus some of the income tax income plus some of the federal deficit each year (borrowed money) goes into meeting Social Security obligations. In other words we Baby Boomers have become a burden on the working class. That is our plight.

For the past two decades or so I have been saying that there will come a generation here in the land of the free that will not be happy with their plight of being required to support the Baby Boomer generation while we glory in our retirement, which in fact we do tend to do. If you don't believe the glory part, go read AARP The Magazine as well as the AARP Bulletin, both of which celebrate the retirement years.

Politicizing COVID-19

India, at the time of this writing, is reporting 887 cases of COVID-19. Worldwide the number of cases stands at 597, 072. These figures are from the Johns Hopkins interactive COVID-19 map that I linked to in my previous post.
From these figures it would appear that India's confirmed cases amounts to 0.15% of the world's total, fifteen one hundredths of one percent.
With that figure in mind, read this article in The Atlantic predicting impending doom and gloom and scolding about government delay and mishandling of the pandemic:

The Callousness of India’s COVID-19 Response  (I didn't find a current date on the article but assume the article was current as of today)

Did you find any advice in that article for the people of India? Did you find advice on, let's say, how to feed the people or what kinds of foods are healthy and what foods might lead to vulnerability to the disease? Did you find anything on what vitamins or herbs or alternative medicines might help the people bolster their immune systems? I didn't.

Did you find disdain for alternative medicines? I did - "homeopathic prophylactic treatment".

The media isn't trying to help anybody. The media is promoting only one thing. In the name of "science" the media is pushing for totalitarian, authoritarian socialism - government control. This one article should make that fact crystal clear.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not downplaying the significance of COVID-19. Nobody knows how many people will die from this new disease. Nobody knows how to stop it. Nobody knows if China has actually stopped it. We all know that nobody else has stopped it. We know what China has told us but nobody knows if that is the truth. China doesn't exactly have a reputation for trustworthiness and they don't seem to care to use this opportunity to repair their bad reputation. So nobody knows anything yet. But people around the world do know how people can eat healthy and use over-the-counter products to strengthen their immune system. Nobody in the media is spreading that information, though. Instead, they are spreading panic and spreading the false claim that government control is the only hope.

COVID-19 Map from Johns Hopkins

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases

Covid News March 27, 2020

This just came up in Fox News online, a healthy middle-aged Texas family man died from COVID-19. There don't seem to be many details other than that he was perfectly healthy otherwise which is, of course, what makes his death so frightening I suppose you might say. Here's the link to the local article:
Family: Virus killed a 'perfectly healthy' man

We the people have been led to believe that there was some sort of rush to get the two trillion dollar stimulus bill passed. The Democrats were taking their sweet time bickering with the Republicans about just how much socialist candy they should be stuffing into the bill in order to get Dems to vote for it. I imagine a bill like this is a risk for the Dems since if it does work it could make President Trump and the Republicans look good enough to vote for in November. Can't have that. But of course Washington isn't politicizing the pandemic.
Meanwhile the House of Representatives needs to vote on this stimulus bill but they don't want to congregate and pass the pandemic amongst themselves. Passing it is a rush now even though they have been stalling for over a week. The problem is there is a Republican from Kansas who is threatening to throw a monkey wrench into the process. Most of the representatives have already gone home thinking aw we don't need to hang out here in DC but this one Kentucky guy is saying he might call for a real vote meaning a quorum would be needed so panic has taken over in Washington and in all the news media because there is such a rush to get this stimulus passed. All this drama kind of hides another headline today, that the stimulus checks might take a month or two to actually get sent to the people. Ummmmm… Did somebody say there was a pressing need to get this legislation passed? Am I missing something?

President Trump seems to think the State of New York might possibly be doing the toilet paper thing with respect to the world's supply of respirators, trying to hoard that is. And the governor of New York State was so nice to the President just last weekend.

Trump is trying to mend some fences with China, like saying maybe we don't need to keep calling it the China virus. China is, after all, the primary manufacturer of America's medical supplies and supposedly they have miraculously been able to get their manufacturing back up and running while American manufacturing is staying put at home by social distancing everybody. Well, almost everybody. Not everybody. The airline industry is still actively spreading the disease all over the country but hey we don't talk about that now, do we?

Boeing Stock Today

Thirteen days ago I posted on Boeing stock noting how deeply it had fallen and pondering on how much lower it would go. Over this past weekend and into Monday Boeing stock hovered around and just below $100 a share. Today, Thursday, three days later, the current price is $180 a share.
Tell me that's not a good way to make money!

Schiff

This YouTube video very well might set the tone of the day for me. It was noted in the comments that the Schiff of fame in this moment in American history is not related. Hard to believe I know but hey, just sayin'. You'll note that Grace, the narrator and creator of this video, makes no family connection to the Schiff of congressional fame. Personally that makes sense to me since I see the Schiff of modern day fame and influence as a slave, not as a master.

The Richest Family in America You've Never Heard of

Virus Research, Bats, and China

For the past couple of years at least I have been watching these two guys, one from the USA and one from South Africa, who have been living in China teaching English. Both married Chinese women and have started families of their own. For years these two guys would get together and ride motorcycles around the cities and into the countryside in China while filming it with GoPro cameras and conversing about China on an intercom. The environment for foreigners in China soured recently and both of these guys left the country although for a little while they explored Vietnam and Taiwan by motorcycle. They both now are living in the U.S. but they individually and together still make YouTube videos about China.
One obvious advantage these two guys have is their ability to communicate in Chinese. They have nurtured relationships with Chinese people and are getting real world real time information from China.

Here is a video that brings to light something that no other news outlet has revealed concerning the coronavirus outbreak. Skip the cellphone part and forward to the 5:20 point in the video although the first five minutes is also quite eye-opening.

Coronavirus - 21 Million Cellphones Disappeared in China

The Airline Virus

From time to time I check out the Flightradar24 website to see if the travel restrictions are having an impact here in the USA. It always comes as a huge disappointment when I do that. There are airliners flying all over the country at any given point in time, hundreds of flights in the air. And there are international flights coming in from all over the world still despite the illusion in the media to the contrary.
Originally this virus was the Wuhan Flu or the Wuhan coronavirus. The Communist head of the World Health Organization in an effort to remove the stigma from  Communist China then renamed it and it has been renamed several different ways since with some even referring to it as the CCP virus - CCP for Chinese Communist Party.
While the initial spread of the virus within China was probably accelerated by rail, even Chin's new high speed rail, the spread worldwide was from people travelling in airliners. For that reason I suggest the world should refer to this pandemic as the airline virus, the AV. No reason to give it a year either since at this point there is no reason to assume it will stop spreading this way any time in the foreseeable future.
The world now has its first deadly worldwide airline virus.

So go check out Flightradar24 and see what I mean.

Covid News Today

Headlines this morning, Arizona man who died from anti-malaria drug actually died from taking a fish tank cleaner that some news outlets had identified as having the same active ingredient as the actual malaria drug. Some news outlets are making corrections to their original stories while, it seems, the Democrat governor of Nevada is banning the actual malaria drug for use against the covid virus.
The Dems in Congress managed to strike a deal in the night allowing a two trillion dollar stimulus package to pass. They had been accused of holding America hostage while they tried to stuff the bill with pork and with socialist candy like aspects of their "Green New Deal", abortion funding, etc. even after New York State's Democrat governor scolded them - scolded Democrats - on national TV for holding up the critically needed funding bill.

The news media are still trying to convince their audiences that President Trump is to blame for everything bad. It remains "racist" to say the virus came from China. China now is blaming new infections on foreigners, apparently even when those foreigners are Chinese citizens returning to China.

Cruise line stocks were a money-making proposition yesterday, not because cruise ships were vindicated but rather because the stimulus bill might pump money into the industry. Yesterday I came across an article that claimed that the Diamond Princess, the one stranded for awhile off the coast of Japan, eventually had over seven hundred confirmed cases. Wikipedia says over 800 with 10 deaths. A friend pointed out to me that it has been reported that the virus can remain on these ships for up to 17 days and there's even one ship that has a reputation for the noro virus. But the stocks were on the rise yesterday. I almost think that would be a bad investment. Yes people like going on cruises but what if the world eventually has to admit that cruise ships are a great place to get sick?

It's still nearly impossible to get tested for COVID-19 in my state, even for healthcare workers. You have to actually have the disease before they will allow you to be tested. And that's not old news, that's current.

My Sage for the Day

What is the Greatest Evil on this Planet?

Didn't See This Coming

Why this made me laugh I don't know. Laughing in the face of the Wuhan corona pandemic should make me feel some guilt.

Couldn’t have seen that coming (Funny) 

In other pandemic news, one study now suggests that vomiting and diarrhea could be early signs of COVID-19 up until now unrecognized. Not only that but people with these early symptoms could be more vulnerable. I keep hearing the gut is where most of the immune system exists.

That malaria drug they are talking about seems to be a miracle cure for some COVID-19 victims but that hasn't stopped the media from trying to convince us of the mortal danger that drug poses.

Democrats in the US House and Senate are holding COVID-19 relief legislation hostage to their Socialist agenda. Republicans, so far, are still trying to be nice to them.

China is lifting its ban even at the epicenter of the original outbreak. Nobody is yet trying to explain how this virus has suddenly become less likely to spread now in China. They must have a secret cure now, wouldn't you imagine? I mean if social distancing is no longer needed in China although it is a critical element of the fight everywhere else in the world? It's not like the spread of this disease has dropped to zero in China. It hasn't. So what's the secret?

COVID-19 Map

Here is an interactive world map showing the latest concentrations of COVID-19:

COVID-19 Animated Map

Note that you can use your mouse to zoom in and out as well as to drag your frame of reference around in the map, the way you can do in Google Earth, for instance.

Mind Expansion in the Age of Social Distancing

I just stumbled on a web site that might interest individuals who are practicing the discipline of "social distancing" by staying home and exploring the world via their computer but are somewhat bored with what they are finding out there in the now-heavily censored Internet:

SSRN - Tomorrow's Research Today

Imagine a web site dedicated to research that hasn't been subjected to consensus censorship via "peer review"!

Tulsi News

It seems that Tulsi Gabbard has suspended her campaign and has cast her support for the Democratic Party establishment status quo candidate Joe Biden.
Her supporters are acting surprised:

Tulsi Gabbard: An Important Announcement

AR-14

Come this November, vote for Joe - the most experienced idiot in the Democratic Party!

AR-14 machine guns my ass...

Update March 18, 2020

Here is the NRA response and it's a good one:
Autoworker Threatened by Joe Teams Up with NRA to Unleash a BRUTAL Message for Gun-Grabbing Dems

Boeing Ups and Downs

I just realized that something is going on in the financial markets with the Boeing stock price, BA on the stock exchange. Boeing stock peaked just after the first 737 MAX crash in October of 2018. The peak price was just under $430 a share. After the second MAX crash a year ago the stock fell but basically leveled off just over $340 a share with some ups and downs through the year with its most recent peak at $340.49 a share on February 10, just four weeks ago. Since that time it has dropped to just under $155 a share yesterday afternoon, March 12, 2020.
Why?
Well certainly for one thing there's the fall in stock prices around the world driven by uncertainty over the economic impact of the coronavirus COVID-19. While that in itself is a potential conspiracy theory bombshell, there appears to me that there might be something else going on as well. Yes the airline industry is being impacted by fears of flying with coronavirus infected passengers, but three days ago and again yesterday serious critical videos against Boeing concerning the 737 MAX and the erosion of Boeing's corporate philosophy concerning profit verses quality were published.

The first was published on YouTube by The Wall Street Journal on March 10, 2020:
Inside the Boeing 737 MAX Scandal That Rocked Aviation | WSJ

The second was published on YouTube yesterday March 12, 2020 by Bloomberg:
How Boeing Lost Its Way

So the question that comes to my mind is this:

Why would these two big-time financial publishers pick this moment in time to attack Boeing's financial worth? Why strike right now when all stocks, not just Boeing, are in jeopardy?

A conspiracy theorist would suggest, no doubt, that the idea is to drive this stock as low as it can be driven in order to make it one of the best investments possible on Wall Street. I can remember a time when bad publicity drove Apple stock down to somewhere in the range of $13.00 a share back in 1997 I think it was. We all thought Apple was finished. A lot of people made a lot of money on Apple after that bottoming out of the stock.

Update March 18, 2020

Boeing stock bottomed at $102 per share yesterday before bouncing back. It sits at $124 as of the start of the day today.
Contrast that news to this article dated February 17, 2020, just one month ago:
Will Boeing Stock Fly High Ever Again?  CNN online
So just a month ago experts were saying Boeing was a good deal in the $320 range. Now it's hovering just over one hundred and investors are wondering?

Boeing's near-term future hinges on two things right now. When will the airline industry recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and will the public ever trust the 737 MAX? It's hard to imagine a company with Boeing's production capacity failing so quickly, going belly-up, but how low can the stock price go before investors have faith in the company and the industry again? That's the question. If I had money to invest, at what point would I think Boeing was a good risk?

Coronavirus - and American politics

This video on YouTube explains a few of the current political controversies America is facing. Does a good job of it. This is the China Uncensored guy too.

CORONAVIRUS: Did Trump Make the US Less Safe?

Let Climate Change

Socialism Made Simple

Here's a simple way to understand what Socialism is:

Socialism is the view that if you are not a victim of scarcity then you are a greedy thief.