US Delay and Dithering Destroying Ukraine

While Biden is busy patting himself on the back for his efforts related to Ukraine I think it is important to remind everyone about the situation. 

In 2014, Russia invaded the Ukraine and Obama and Biden did little.

Trump stopped Nord Stream 2, dramatically increased financial sanctions on Russia and began supplying anti-tank weapons to the Ukraine in December 2017.  

In 2021 as Russia threatened and began massing troops on Ukraine's border, Biden immediately told Putin that he wouldn't use US military force to stop Putin. In late 2021 Biden actually stopped providing anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to avoid "provoking" Putin. In February, right before the current invasion Biden tried to persuade Zelensky to leave Ukraine.  Zelensky's reply: "I don't need a ride I need bullets."

Biden has continued to limit and slow walk the military support for Ukraine (see chart below) only increasing the capabilities of the support as Ukraine nears total catastrophe.  Despite the heroic efforts of the Ukrainians they still need significantly more military support capabilities.

They need tanks, longer range artillery, jets and more anti-air weapons.  

How much more devastation and how much longer does Biden expect the Ukrainians to continue to fight with one hand tied behind their back.

The US goal should be to provide significant more support to help Ukraine regain its territory, its freedom and its security.

FDA continues to fail

Rapid antigen tests like we all have been using for Covid could have been available much sooner and could be available for many other things. It’s amazing how risk-averse the FDA is and how much harm the delay causes. 

These tests are widely available in Europebut have not been approved by the FDA. 

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/12/combination-rapid-tests.html

What Border?

Biden’s border policies continue to be a mess, put many innocents at risk AND allow Mexican cartels to get rich.

I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based  (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead). 

(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended) 

xy ≠ xx

Dr. Rachel Levine, the Biden administration’s trans-woman assistant health secretary called for health workers to pressure tech companies to combat misinformation about “the health equity of sexual and gender minorities.”

While on the surface it sounds fine to protect the health equity of everyone and anyone including the minuscule fraction of babies born with true ambiguous gender (intersex.)

The problem is that the Biden Administration is promoting and encouraging irreversible medical treatment for children (1) while the sane world recognizes that the majority of children need mental health care (2) (3) (4)

xy ≠ xx

Every egg is x. Sperm is y or x. At conception (save exceedingly rare cases), the baby human is xy (male) or xx (female). Nothing changes reality. Embrace the science.

(1) - https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/biden-doj-letter-pushes-transgender-misinformation-and-implies-gender-dysphoria-is-a-disability/

(2) - https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/exclusive-nhs-drafts-stricter-oversight-trans-youth-care-2022-10-14/

(3)  https://segm.org/Sweden_ends_use_of_Dutch_protocol

(4) https://www.nationalreview.com/news/norwegian-medical-watchdog-encourages-country-to-ditch-gender-affirming-care-guidelines/

FBI-becoming federal bureau of indoctrination

The FBI has transformed itself from one of the most trusted law-enforcement agencies of this country into one that is becoming one of the of the most powerful tools of the Democratic Party. 

No wonder people are losing trust in them

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3787443-when-the-fbi-attacks-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-its-time-to-reform-the-bureau/

Merry Christmas!

 

Sweden protects kids, Biden- not so much

Sweden gets another thing right. 

Just as Sweden managed COVID better by keeping schools open and avoiding lockdowns they seem to be better at managing children’s mental health issues. 

Unfortunately, this is opposite of Biden’s woke policies that are pressuring health care to quickly promote non-reversible treatments to children with mental health issues regarding their gender. 

And, by the way, I felt the need to include a short lesson on what cis and trans mean, as over the holidays I learned that teachers, at least 2 liberal ones related to me, are actively “learning” and teaching their students woke material that are factually incorrect. For anyone interested: 

What is the difference between cis and trans?

Cisgender, or cis, means that the gender you identify with matches your biological sex while Transgender, or trans, means you the gender you identity with is the opposite of your biological sex.

And for those who claim or believe their is a large number of people who actually have unclear biological sex, the actual data would say that there are only about 0.05% of humans that have a genetic defect, a gene transcription issue or a protein or hormonal biochemical processing issue that they may have unclear genitalia. (1)

(1) https://isna.org/faq/frequency/

Biden butchers women’s rights

 We are seeing how well Biden’s botched withdrawal from Miss Janice. Dan is affecting women in Afghanistan

https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistans-taliban-ban-all-education-for-girls-11671642870

https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/biden-to-address-end-of-afghan-war/amp/

Colorblind not Racist

“But color-blindness is neither racist nor backwards. Properly understood, it is the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race in our personal lives and in our public policy.” 

https://www.thefp.com/p/actually-color-blindness-isnt-racist

Woke Norway Nightmare

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11545859/amp/Gay-Norwegian-filmmaker-faces-three-years-prison.html

Weingarten a risk to America?

Spring 2022 California Test Scores are in.  Looking at overall Math and English scores compared to the scores in 2015 we see that there was a dramatic drop (loss of learning?) especially among black and Hispanic students. 

We know that countries like Sweden and health experts in the US like Dr. Jay  Bhattacharya recognized early on that COVID was not a significant threat to/through children and that remote schooling would have a significant harmful effect (Great Barrington Declaration).

We know that teachers' unions and Democrats worked to keep schools remote.

Maybe Randi Weingarten was (is) a significant risk to America.

Consumer Price Increases Still High

CPI, Consumer Price Index, released today, shows that while the rate of price increases has slowed down, we are still seeing significantly higher price increases than were seen in the previous two administrations.

Producer Price Increases still a problem

PPIFIS - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand was released today by FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).

An increase of 0.3% from previous month.

Inflation is still a problem.deral Reserve Bank of St. Louis

No Wonder Border’s Broken

 https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2022/11/broken-border.html?m=1

My read: Moore v Harper December 7, 2020

Liberal SCOTUS judges don’t want legislators, at least Republican ones, to determine the manner (districting) of choosing electors. 

The alternative being political, appointed and/or elected, state courts deciding election maps?

The US Constitution says legislatures.  

State constitutions may be able to define their state legislatures, but they are not given the right to determine the manner of elections.

Article I  Legislative Branch

Section 4 Congress

• Clause 1 Elections Clause

• The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

Where are you?

There is an interesting test you can take to see where you fall on the spectrum of left or right, and libertarian or authoritarian. 

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Question-Boosters for 18-29?

Boosters for adults aged 18-29 - expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission

Kevin Bardosh

University of Washington; University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Medical School

Allison Krug

Artemis Biomedical Communications LLC

Euzebiusz Jamrozik

University of Oxford

Trudo Lemmens

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Salmaan Keshavjee

Harvard University - Harvard Medical School

Vinay Prasad

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Martin A. Makary

Johns Hopkins University - Department of Surgery

Stefan Baral

John Hopkins University

Tracy Beth Høeg

Florida Department of Health; Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital

papers.ssrn.com

 

Gas Prices Still Up

 

People Still Not Working