“Embalmers around the country are reportedly finding staggering increases in the number of corpses presenting with “fibrous” clots post-mortem.
Alabama funeral director Richard Hirschman told The Epoch Times that, prior to 2020, he found these clots in around 5% to 10% of the bodies he embalmed. This number has since increased to between 50% and 70%, Hirschman said. According to results from a lab in Texas, clots lack a number of key health markers for human blood, including iron, potassium, zinc, and magnesium. This suggests that the clots were not formed in blood, but further research is needed to identify the root cause and origin of these clots in bodies, The Epoch Times continued.
…While some of the embalmers were quick to note there could be a relation between the clots, COVID-19 and/or the COVID-19 vaccines, most suggested this as a cause without having conducted the necessary scientific investigation to confirm their hypothesis, according to The Epoch Times.“
Nothing concrete yet (no pun intended), but stay tuned.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, since we’re on the subject of clogged arteries, the New York Post is reporting…
““Fat Leonard” is on the loose. The former military contractor at the center of the largest corruption scandal in the history of the US Navy escaped from house arrest in San Diego over the weekend by cutting off his GPS monitor — weeks before he was to be sentenced for defrauding the service of at least $35 million. Leonard Francis, a Malaysian citizen who tips the scales at 350 pounds, was arrested in 2013 and pleaded guilty in 2015 to bribery and fraud charges.
Francis, who had been under home confinement since 2018, was reported missing Sunday by police after the federal Office of Pretrial Services — which had been monitoring him — reported a problem with the GPS monitor. Police conducting a welfare check found the discarded ankle bracelet at Francis’ home and contacted US Marshals. The San Diego Regional Fugitive Task Force was activated and Naval Criminal Investigative Services is also involved.
Supervisory Deputy Marshal Omar Castillo said neighbors reported seeing U-Haul trucks coming and going from Francis’ multimillion-dollar home in a gated community, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. “He was planning this out, that’s for sure,” Castillo told the newspaper…”
No sh*t, Sherlock! Where’s Raylon Givens when we need him?!? Sorry, but this is too cute by half. Something tells us Fat Leonard had more than a little help from those who want this entire sordid chapter of Naval infamy to quietly come to a close.
“As the general election heats up, Democrats continue to pour tens of millions of dollars into advertising that hammers Republicans on the issue of abortion, and too many congressional GOP candidates are responding by looking at their feet, mumbling something about letting the states decide, and pivoting to a discussion of inflation.
That response simply won’t do. Pro-life candidates need to punch back before they pivot.
Congressional Democrats are perhaps one or two Senate seats shy of providing unlimited taxpayer funding of elective abortions for Medicaid recipients — a policy that would result in tens of thousands more babies being dismembered or poisoned to death in the womb each year.
Most congressional Democrats have pretended for decades that they support limits on abortion after viability, the point in pregnancy when a baby can survive outside the womb. But they havealmost unanimously opposed legislationthat would ban abortion beyond the fifth month of pregnancy, when babies are viable and capable of feeling pain. Congressional Democrats have almost unanimously voted for legislation that would create a national right to abort a baby beyond viability until birth whenever a midwife, nurse, or doctor asserts the continuation of that pregnancy poses a risk to the pregnant woman’s mental or emotional health. That same abortion bill — the one almost all Democrats are promising to make law in 2023 if they get the chance — would also gutconscience lawsthat protect health-care workers, strike downparental-consent abortion laws, and override some state lawsbanning partial-birth abortion.
Even after the fall of Roe, pro-life candidates for federal office should continue to focus on opposing taxpayer funding of elective abortions and ending the barbaric practice of elective late-term abortion in America.
Each human being is endowed with the unalienable right to life at her creation, not her birth. But at this time, the majority of the American public is not willing to support a law protecting life from conception. There is, however, national support for setting limits on abortion later in pregnancy when it becomes even more indefensible for anyone to deny the humanity of a developing child.
…When the U.S. Senate voted in 2015 for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which bans most abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy, it received the votes of 51 Republicans and three Democrats, falling six votes short of overcoming a filibuster. Pro-life congressional candidates and legislators should continue making the case for some national limit on late abortions for however long it takes to make it law.“
To which we can only add a hale and hearty, “AMEN“!!!
And in today’s edition of the EnvironMental Moment, Jim Freeman reveals why one particular Progressive politician is so keen on specific company’s unproven technology that is definitely…
“Depending on short-term political desires, President Joe Biden and his energy team are happy to encourage oil production, especially by foreign despots. But for the long term, the Biden administration seeks to wean the U.S, economy off fossil fuels. This will not be an easy ride for U.S. consumers or taxpayers.
By at least one significant metric, the president’s effort to discourage oil production is historic. Timothy Puko and Anthony DeBarros report for the Journal:
The Biden administration has leased fewer acres for oil-and-gas drilling offshore and on federal land than any other administration in its early stages dating back to the end of World War II, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
President Biden’s Interior Department leased 126,228 acres for drilling through Aug. 20, his first 19 months in office, the analysis found. No other president since Richard Nixon in 1969-70 leased out fewer than 4.4 million acres at this stage in his first term.
Along with limiting oil supply, Team Biden is also cheering efforts to restrict demand. Thomas Catenacci reports for the Fox Business Network:
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says she backs regulations California’s state government approved in August banning the sale of new gas-powered cars after 2034.
Granholm answered a question about the new law, saying she backed it and commending California for “leaning in” on climate policy, during an interview with Los Angeles reporter Elex Michaelson that aired Friday evening.She noted President Biden’s informal commitment to ensure 50% of all U.S. car sales are electric by 2030.
The administration is pushing out subsidies to electrify commercial vehicles as well. But sometimes environmental belief is not enough to create a smooth ride.
Clarise Larson reports for Alaska’s Juneau Empire:
The City and Borough of Juneau’s municipal bus service, Capital Transit, announced last week that it is set to be awarded close to $2.3 million from a federal grant which will go toward infrastructure replacement to aid the city’s long-term goal of electrifying its transit system moving forward…
Currently, Capital Transit only owns one electric bus — which has been in service since April 2021 and is the state’s first municipally operated electric bus — out of its 18 bus fleet.
The 40-foot Proterra bus has experienced mechanical problems since its launch and was not holding battery charges long enough to complete an entire route during this winter’s cold weather…
The 40-foot bus, manufactured by Proterra, has been out of service periodically due to mechanical problems.
A powertrain wiring harness issue recently sidelined the bus for six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
Although that issue is now fixed, according to the memo, more minor problems — such as issues related to the windshield wipers– still plague the bus… In addition, because of the length of the bus, it can’t run some routes that require a tighter turning radius. The electric bus is too long to service riders on Douglas. So, the electric bus mostly runs the commuter routes between downtown and the Mendenhall Valley.
Good thing politicians are so committed to electric vehicles or this product might really struggle to gain acceptance! In January Colleen Wilson of New Jersey’s Bergen Record reported:
Transit agencies around the country have had challenges with battery buses, forcing them to pull them from the road and return to diesel models.
For example, SEPTA — the Philadelphia transit agency just across the Delaware River from Camden — pulled its 25 electric buses off the road in 2020 after six months. The agency discovered cracking and failing mounting brackets for a rooftop equipment box on the buses and SEPTA is working with the vendor, Proterra, to fix the issues…
In Minnesota, transit agencies in Duluth and Twin Cities sidelined their new electric buses last year because of issues going up steep hills, shorter battery life especially in freezing temperatures, cracking chassis and problems with chargers.
Asked by this column to comment on the latest report from the Juneau Empire, a Proterra spokesman writes via email:
As the most experienced manufacturer of electric buses in North America with more than 30 million service miles driven across the United States and Canada, Proterra was excited about the opportunity to partner with the Capital Transit to provide clean, quiet transportation to the residents of Juneau. We look forward to supporting Juneau and Capital Transit’s electric bus fleet in the years to come.
The email from Proterra also says that the company’s technology is “rapidly improving” and let’s hope that it is, for the sake of taxpayers who are now buying plenty of it.
Consumers may or may not end up appreciating electrified bus service, but politicians and media folk have been enthusiasts for years. In June of 2017, Russ Mitchell reported in the Los Angeles Times:
The market for battery-powered electric buses seems ready to rocket. Orders in the U.S. are gaining traction.
Last week, Proterra said it had raised $55 million in investment capital atop $290 million raised earlier. The new money comes from Al Gore’s investment fund and BMW’s venture capital arm. GM Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers had already chipped in.
The company may ring a bell with readers given all the attention it’s received from politicians. CNN’s Kristen Holmes reported in May of 2021:
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ efforts to sell their green agenda and infrastructure plan are being complicated by a thorny conflict of interest for Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm – who stands to gain a windfall from stock options in a private electric vehicle company.
Last month, Biden took a virtual tour of Proterra, a company Granholm holds millions of dollars in vested stock options in and previously sat on the board of. During the tour Biden praised employees and the CEO for their work in the electric vehicle space…
Despite the hundreds of electric vehicle-related companies in the United States, Harris also toured a partner of Proterra, and the Proterra’s CEO Jack Allen later took part in a session at the administration’s US Climate summit…
Asked about the conflict of interest in a recent interview, the former Michigan Democratic governor said she “had nothing to do with” Biden’s tour. She also again committed to divesting her stock options – something she pledged to do within 180 days in the ethics agreement she signed when joining the administration.
Proterra became a public company a few months later via a combination with a special purpose acquisition company. At a Senate hearing this year Ms. Granholm said that she divested the stake last year.
As for the coming year, let’s hope that commuters have a good experience on electric buses. Winter is coming.
For those who failed to make the connection between the “one particular Progressive politician” and the “specific company” marketing the “unproven technology”, here’s the juice, in the form of a question: What’s to prevent Jennifer Granholm after a time, once she decides to abandon the Biden clown car, from rejoining Proterra, at which point she’ll receive her ill-gotten reward for enriching this quasi-private sector enterprise from the pockets of American taxpayers?
Answer:
Moving on, here’s a sextet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:
(2). What the German delegation to the U.N. thought was soooo funny then…
…ain’t so funny now!
Particularly as Russia has since announced the Nord Stream pipeline will be closed indefinitely. We’ve a feeling German citizens may find the situation even less amusing about the time Juneau’s Proterra buses stop working.
“Also note that if you buy into Trump’s argument that the documents in Mar-a-Lago are declassified, all of those documents are now subject to the Freedom of Information Act and must be disclosed to the public.
It doesn’t matter if you feel like President Trump should be able to verbally declassify any document or information he likes. The law says otherwise.“
(4). Oh, what tangled webs we weave…
DOOCY: “You tweeted in 2016 that Trump stole an election.”
KJP: “I knew this was coming.”
DOOCY: “If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn’t it then?”
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this from the Penguin…
…along with a number more from The Patriot Post:
That last one is SOOOO on point, and provides the perfect segue into our final item, which concerns this video featuring Ben Shapiro’s reasoned defense of human sexuality in the face of those advocating for the normalization of mental illness:
Which brought to mind this clip of a psychotic, hulking man masquerading as a woman whose only real argument was the threat of physical violence:
Note how the host and other guests refused to intervene, justifying his threat based on Ben’s supposed rudeness. If profanity is the refuge of the inarticulate, violence is the last resort of those losing a debate.
Magoo
P.S. Just a heads-up, we’ll be heading out Sunday the 11th on a week-long trip to the greatest golf club on the planet, so likely won’t be resuming our regularly scheduled programming before Wednesday the 22nd. So ’til then…
Video of the Day
John Stossel provides a glimpse of the dystopian future should Progressives’ green utopia come to pass.
Tales of The Darkside
Jonathan Turley exposes the party which presents the REAL threat to the Constitution.
On the Lighter Side
A little walk down Memory Lane on the occasion of the coal miners having to push the EV which ran out of juice. Some more of that sh*t you just CANNOT make up!
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