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Elizabeth Holmes Convicted on Four of Twelve Counts

Elizabeth Holmes Guilty of 144 Million Dollar Fraud
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Spoiler: Both are factually accurate

My new eyeglasses have anti-glare coating.

Now people don't know when I'm annoyed with them.

Joe Biden announced yesterday that he will improve the federal government by – wait for it – expanding the government.

Now why hasn't someone thought of that before?

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is in a bidding war to acquire a pharmaceutical company that makes treatments for respiratory diseases.

Tell me again how wonderful capitalism is.

(Arguments conflating free market economics and capitalism will not be entertained)

In society's race toward Obliviating Inanity, Colorado has eschewed the term 'sex offenders' for 'adults who commit sexual offenses', nosing ahead of the vacuous would-be neologizers who replaced 'homeless people' with 'persons experiencing homelessness'.

Lots of talk about QR code vaccine passports, but a monkey can read, alter, and reproduce a QR code.

If the QR Code data are not validated in real time, it's a farce of farces.

The CDC has admitted the vaccines don't work.

Okay, they didn't say that, but they did say herd immunity is not achievable, which conveys the same message.

After pretending to know something about the global supply chain during his speech in Baltimore, Joe then urged people to Buy American; a bit of a contradiction, either there’s a global economy or there isn’t – but I digress…

The problem facing Americans today is record-setting inflation (okay, one of the problems). The solution to the biggest drop in purchasing power in thirty years isn’t buying American (stay with me).

Inflation happens because there’s too much Monopoly money floating around and it loses its value (ref. R. Mugabe). The answer to inflation is to reduce the money supply; ideally, by giving it to someone who wants it.

If people in other countries are willing to trade their physical goods for our worthless Monopoly money, thereby reducing domestic currency levels and increasing the comparative value of the dollar, what’s the downside?

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky released a video claiming that 'Wearing a mask reduces your risk of COVID-19 infection by more than 80%'.

With such miraculous protection, why bother with a vaccine?

While begging Russia and Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, Joe is contemplating shutting down a pipeline from Canada to Michigan that carries twenty-three million barrels of oil per day.

Is this a response to the anti-oil lobby, an effort to trash the economy, or is to further enrich Bill Gates who owns the trains that carry Canadian oil to the coast?

People often introduce their posts with "I don't usually do this, but …"

As if their lack of experience doing 'this' makes their observations more qualified or more salient than those who do 'this' regularly.

Part of today's social discord is created by disparate groups contending with each other about what society is supposed to be.

The only thing society is supposed to be is free.

If people are free, then society will be precisely what it is supposed to be.

They are all fake wars, the only difference is, who profits?

The Brits might be biased, but no primary domestic outlet has carried the story, including Military Times and Marine Corps Times.

 

 

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is worried that poor countries won't place their vaccine orders early enough for 2022.

Perhaps Pfizer could take some of the $65,000,000,000 they are raking in from the vaccine alone and donate some doses.

Remember a way long time ago (last month) when people who were prescribed Ivermectin for CoVID-19 were mocked on national television for taking what the hair helmets called 'horse de-wormer'?

Pfizer's new CoVID pill is based on the same vector as Ivermectin - protease inhibition.

Explain to me, again, how this isn't about profiteering?

If there is something more disturbing than the hypocrisy of 400 private jets flying to the COP26 climate conference in Scotland, where UK PM Boris Johnson said the doomsday clock is “one minute to midnight” before a climate catastrophe, it would be the hubris that they do not care about the hypocrisy.

Prior to 2020, no mRNA-based vaccines had progressed beyond animal trials – then a miracle occurred: in fewer than nine months two mRNA vaccines were authorized for use in humans.

One of the risks of mRNA vaccines is anti-body dependent enhancement (ADE): the immune system facilitates infection instead of neutralizing the virus.

As emerging studies indicate the increased susceptibility of vaccinated individuals to the Delta variant, this study proves ADE is happening: “Facilitating antibodies” outnumber “neutralizing antibodies” in vaccinated individuals infected with Delta – this means the body is helping the virus infect cells rather than killing it.

ADE is here to stay
It will never die
It was meant to be that way
Though I don’t know why (actually, I do)

OSHA will not be enforcing the rule that makes adverse vaccine reactions a recordable event. It seems the government is free to ignore its own rules when it chooses.

The only thing worse for the people than having bad laws is selective enforcement, especially pursuant to a political agenda.