Grinding through the Week

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Larry-Lambert

 

TRUMP!

If you splash on a little Trump, your woman will look at you the way Jill looks at Pres. Trump

 

 

National Public Radio

Some of you MAGA types have suggested an end to National Public Radio – not so fast, my patriotic friends. The cross-dressing people of color and pale lefties at NPR are rolling in cash. I don’t even know if they’ve had to accept laundered funds from Ukraine. Here’s how their financing looks.

In 2023, NPR’s endowment was $342.3 million.  NPR’s funding comes from several sources, including: 

  • Endowment: $342.3 million in 2023 
  • Revenue: $318.7 million in 2023 
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Less than 1% of its annual budget comes from this federally funded corporation 
  • Community service grants: NPR directs much of its funding to local public television and public radio stations across the country. 

NPR also accepts monthly donations to help save costs and provide a dependable support base. I agree that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting should see its sunset in the era of DOGE, but it won’t silence NPR anytime soon.

 

Bullet Points:

** If only Africa had more mosquito nets, we could save millions of mosquitos from dying every year of AIDS.

** Sen. Rand Paul is excited about DOGE: “The problem is not just Democrats in Washington. It’s Big Government Republicans…we sent [Elon Musk and Vivek] 2,000 pages worth of waste that could be addressed immediately.”

** When you call, “send it,” you need to know almost precisely when the artillery package will arrive. Trust me on that.

** THAT IS A COOL GATE!

** WSF, buy a golf bag and a bicycle at a second-hand store and take Banner out for a ride! Born to be wild!

** The key to a long and happy marriage is to be in tune with your wife’s needs.

 

 

They’re At it Again

The following information is from Children’s Health Defense.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its 2025 immunization schedule, recommending a new Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine for pregnant women. This decision removes a prior warning about the lack of safety data for such vaccines, sparking questions about the risks of this recommendation.

The CDC added a new Hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav-B, to its schedule for pregnant women this year after removing previous safety warnings. While the vaccine label still notes inadequate studies in pregnant individuals, safety claims are based on limited animal testing and a small post-licensure study involving 81 women. The change has raised concerns among providers about the adequacy of safety data.

Historically, vaccines were considered unsafe for pregnant women until 2009, when recommendations began to change, driven by broader public health campaigns. Before this shift, pregnant women were routinely excluded from vaccine trials, leaving gaps in safety data. Critics point out that these gaps still exist for many of the newer vaccines that are now being recommended.

In 2021, the CDC added the COVID-19 shot to the recommended vaccine schedule for pregnant women, a move met with international scrutiny. Some countries, including the UK and Japan, approached this more cautiously, withholding similar recommendations. Dr. Brenda Baletti of Children’s Health Defense highlighted concerns about the general safety of vaccines for expectant mothers.

“Vaccines recommended for pregnant women are often risky and ineffective, and long-term safety data are lacking.”
Dr. Brenda Baletti, Investigative Journalist, Children’s Health Defense

The RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccine, also added to the CDC’s schedule, has raised alarms due to findings of an elevated rate of preterm births during clinical trials. Despite these findings, the CDC has included the shot for high-risk groups, including pregnant women. Watchdog groups and experts have pointed out potential risks like these necessitate more robust transparency in vaccine approval processes.

“The key information is still being hid from Congress and the public.”
Tristan Leavitt, President, Empower Oversight

As the CDC’s vaccine recommendations expand, now suggesting more than 200 doses over a lifetime, concerns grow about the lack of sufficient safety data for specific demographics, particularly pregnant women. Experts urge individuals to evaluate these decisions critically, balancing risks and benefits while awaiting long-term studies.

For more information, read the full article here.

 

 

Global Warming

Finding a climate model that accurately reflects the planetary atmospheric structure has been elusive.

Nobody knows what causes ice ages to begin or end. Some say we’re just coming off the last ice age that ended 11,800 years ago.  Other’s stay we’re back in an ice age cycle, and 1000 years from now, Chicago will be under a mile of ice (again).

There’s a substance that’s shockingly abundant and has a far more significant effect on the climate and weather patterns than previously thought, and it hasn’t been considered in the current “global climate models” — but it’s hard to “quantify” how consequential this error is. According to CERN, climate models and predictions must be “refined” in light of the new information.

Try throwing it out and redoing it from scratch.

Although the impact of isoprene can’t be precisely quantified, we can roughly evaluate its effects and acknowledge that its “climate change” narratives (and accompanying agendas) began with a false premise.

We call that a fallacy—which, coincidentally, underpins all progressive weather theories.

This all begs the question: What else are they missing?

 

Christmas Corner

 

Identify the Aircraft

1

Not an F4F

Catapulted from USS Core, North Atlantic, 12 Apr 1944

 

2

If you look at it, it’s easy.

 

3

Identify the famous VMF squadron and their aircraft in the background.

 

4

Not a P-39

 

5

A land-based anti-submarine patrol bomber aircraft developed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. It was purposely designed with low-powered engines to minimize fuel consumption and increase flight/patrol time.

 

 

Parting Shot

(h/t Frank) I’m normally pro-turtle, but I can’t stand the War Turtle or his Chinese wife.

It’s time for God to call him home, bless his heart.

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54 thoughts on “Grinding through the Week”

  1. 1 is Grumman TBF Avenger
    2?
    3 is the Black Sheep squadron
    F4U-1A Corsair

    4 is probably Bell P-63 Kingcobra
    5 is Kyūshū Q1W Tōkai

    1. 1 – No, it’s closer to an F4F while not being an F4F.
      3 – Yes
      4 – Think export but you’re on the right track
      5 – Yes

  2. Identify the Aircraft:
    1. General Motors FM-2 Wildcat
    2. Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu
    3. VMF-214 (The Black Sheep), Vought F4U Corsair
    4. Bell P-400 Cobra
    5. Kyushu Q1W Lorna

  3. #3 is a photo of the Black sheep squadron. Maj. Greg Pappy Boyington is third from the right bottom row.MOH and Navy Cross recipient.

  4. Just came across this at the end of an article in the Guardian newsrag.
    How the Guardian will stand up to four more years of Donald Trump
    Throughout the tumultuous years of the first Trump presidency we never minimised or normalised the threat of his authoritarianism, and we treated his lies as a genuine danger to democracy, a threat that found its expression on 6 January 2021.

    With Trump weeks away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for Ukraine and the Middle East, US democracy, reproductive rights, inequality and our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.

    It’s going to be an enormous challenge. And we need your help.

    Trump is a direct threat to the freedom of the press. He has, for years, stirred up hatred against reporters, calling them an “enemy of the people”. He has referred to legitimate journalism as “fake news” and joked about members of the media being shot. Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump presidency, includes plans to make it easier to seize journalists’ emails and phone records.

    We will stand up to these threats, but it will take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take reporting that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of retribution from the White House.

    If you can, please consider supporting us just once, or better yet, support us every month with a little more. Thank you.

    Katharine Viner

    Editor-in-chief, the Guardian

    WOW are they totally tine deaf and unaware of how they themselves are part of the problem?
    Irksome that British newspaper believes itself at risk from American president while UK police chief ACTUALLY threatened American.citizens exercising our first amendment rights…..
    Such hypocrisy……

      1. Jules may: a) resemble that remark – or- b) be fully offended therefore proffer a ‘Churchill-Lady Astor’ retort…like a velvet hammer.

      2. the brits?

        do the brits even listen to the brits?

        I’ve real matters to address.

        ef em.

        didn’t our ancestors obliterate their wimpi bottoms twice already?
        pull those pathetic weasels from the high knees in the 40s?

        they are as relevant as the sycthians to me

        come on guys!
        we’re better than this!

  5. NPR “Funding” (aka ‘Taxpayer confiscatory monies from the Federal Grifter Trough’): Never knew NPR was so “endowed” that affords the ability to peddle their brand of Lefty propaganda porn.
    –
    Defund that grifter shop on Jan. 21, 2025 (gives PDJT a day to recover from writers cramp).
    ***
    CDC- “Hey kids, here’s another half dozen vaccines!” “Hey expecting moms, this HepB shot is safe! Trust us.” Yeah. That.
    –
    These Mengele’s are now constantly in the news…hardly heard from them for the first 50 years of my ‘more seasoned’ life. Now, every time someone catches a cold or their pals in some secret GoF Lab presses the wrong venting button releasing a new virus strain into the air, they’re telling you to buy a truckload of TP and masks, or peddling more culling agents to an unsuspecting or willfully ignorant general public that lap it up like mothers milk.
    –
    They’re done, trim them back to a single office with two or three 50’s era metal desks and a few files cabinets. SISU Curmudgeon ™
    –
    Incidentally, Luigi the Well Off and Educated Nutjob was wearing a mask while sitting in the Altoona Mickey-D’s. Clearly with all his ‘higher learning’ he was never learned the definition of “inconspicuous”. Whenever I’m out and about if I see a masked person I steer clear.
    ***
    Climate Change: Yes, it does. Nuf said.
    –
    With NCAR down the road in Boulder (plunked right at the base of the Flatirons on a prime piece of property, like NIST and a handful of other Letter agencies…but that’s government) having visited that facility years ago I never understood why we “study” climate as much as we do. What exactly has been the ROI? Read a credible report on the soils in NC, post flooding, the amount of “cloud seeding” elements found. Guess I’m the MTG of VM now for suggesting government is messing with the environment while fining Joe Normal for filling a swampy spot in his backyard.

    1. you can watch them on flighttracker24 on the net. there are even “weather modification” societies and associations.

  6. My heroes have always been cowboys (Boyington, Foss, Yeager, Boyd, Bong, Olds, [Hugh] Thompson, etc.).

    1. X2…Different medium but I have gained a massive appreciation for Carroll Shelby, who happened to wear a proper cowboy hat and boots.

  7. Global warming – or whatever we call it this week: The models have never been worth a crap. They’ve been dependent on a warm bubble-like layer in the atmosphere that has never been found to exist and temperature feedbacks that have never been demonstrated. The warmists have made a legendary list of predictions that have never come true. A recent study that’s almost funny is a recreation of global temperatures for the last half billion years (almost – 485million) that shows the warming behind all this panic is comparing our temperature to the end of the last “little ice age” (everyone knows that part) that was the coolest period in the last half billion years.
    .
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/22/msm-journos-inadvertently-reveal-shocking-truth-about-global-warming/
    .
    This is where it’s entertaining to compare engineering models to “the science” (as if electromagnetics or mechanical statics aren’t completely based in science). Engineering models are off by percentage points. Global warming models don’t even get the sign (negative or positive) right.

    1. [Repeat Comment] My dad (sometime in the early 80’s): “If the politicians can figure out a way to tax the air, they will.”

  8. wth is with the yankees in jersey going all batcrap over the drones? they offer every outlandish explanation but the obvious one. hello, open your eyes folks. picatinny arsenal? joint base dix/andrews? aberdeen a few miles away. does no one up there grasp the obvious? or have any idea what goes on in their ao? funny how its okay to fly over my house, but when the shoe is on the other foot they get all hysterical. goose, meet gander.

    1. No one wants to claim them as theirs. But, as soon as one gets shot down, the owners will be right over!

      1. Bubonic Plague (and Hanta Virus) are big killers on the Indian Reservations. Perfect conditions of crappy housing, drunk and malnourished people, a cycle of dry years followed by 2 wet years and untrusting, suspicious, idiotic people. Why? Crappy housing, garbagy yards and filth, are breeding grounds for mice. Drunk and malnourished people are less resistant to illnesses, especially viruses. Dry years force vermin into close contact with humans, and wet cycles mean the first year is very fertile and the second year means an overabundance of vermin. Untrusting, suspicious and idiotic people don’t trust health workers, especially white health workers, don’t trust or understand basic sanitation and cleanliness needs, don’t trust or understand that the cyclical pattern is cyclical because it keeps repeating and can only be broken by cleaning up the damn yard, feed your kids good food and get off the booze and drugs and attack the vermin constantly.
        –
        But, no, they’d just rather blame the Evil White Man and Oppression or some other bullscat, rather than being pissed at their Tribal Leaders who see them as just cash-cows to be farmed (ever see a poor Injun Chief? ever see an underfed Injun Chief’s gang of thugs and toadies? Thems that has, gets.)

        1. Hanta is a problem in Arizona for the reasons that you laid out. The Navajo travel to visit family a LOT and they spread Covid 19 among themselves and a lot of people died, including prime-of-life people. You don’t hear much about the virus culling the Navajo and Hopi tribes but it did. For them it was a significant event rather than just the occasional bad cold and a nursing home being wiped out.

          1. Funny that other insular communities didn’t suffer like the Navajo and Hopi. The Amish weathered Covid quite well. The Hassidic Jews in NYFC weathered it quite well. All four groups don’t trust ‘White’ medicines and doctors and are highly distrustful of even local government.
            –
            So what’s the difference? Two groups lives in filth and have an even worse attitude than ‘Inshallah.’ The others keep things and themselves clean, don’t live in filth and if something goes wrong they fix it.

          2. From what I can glean, the Hopis and Navajos traveled a LOT between family members spreading the virus while the Lubavich and Hassidic Jews and Amish kept to their closer circles.

  9. CDC: how many of the recent border-crossers/invaders/migrants have had their “recommended” vaccinations/shots?
    is the resident population at risk or are we the lab rats?

    1. Some of them have been said to have Bubonic Plague. I don’t know the truth of that. There are a lot of rats in New York City (The Big Apple) with fleas that can carry it. The (depressing) fact that NYC hasn’t been wiped out may suggest it’s only a rumor.

      1. There have been small outbreaks of plague both in NYFC and in Lost Angeles. Probably in Chicago and Deerborn and other big migrant cities, but who cares about those crapholes?
        –
        It’s something that happens and gets covered up way too much. Thanks to the eneMedia’s love affair for illegals and non-refugees and big cities.

        1. Yes, I’ve heard of the outbreaks, but they didn’t wipe out large swaths of the inner city populations. The disease promised big and delivered small.

          1. That’s partially because even our poor people and street people are better nourished than most of the people living in the Middle Ages.
            Good nutrition is the basis of fighting every transmittable disease known to Man.
            –
            As to the numbers killed by the outbreaks, well, the very cities where those diseases kill tend to not report deaths of the homeless or illegals because high numbers of deaders would upset the peons and said peons might start asking too many questions and making too many logic-based decisions that would affect the power-elite.

  10. in re “Global Warming/Climate Change”
    “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana
    “Those who do not study the past condemn the rest of us to having to listen to, read, and pay for repetitious fallacious nonsense and experimentation.” boron

  11. Computer models require accurate information. Considering how the thermometers in my yard can vary by a few degrees, which one is the best one to use for data? Personally, I think they just make something up when a station goes down, and the data is still used. Global warming? Maybe, but with the way temperatures are recorded, the corrupted data could just as easily show global cooling…except that doesn’t pay for carbon credits.

    1. I am willing to sell you carbon credits – virgin forest land will not be used for commercial purposes. Send gold and claim your trophy.

  13. As “one of you MAGA types”, one US penny dented with prints of my pinching finger tips winding up in the pocket of NPR is more than I wish them to have. Whether they go off the air or not due to the lack of my one penny is immaterial to me, cause I know how to fleep dat “off” switch. I’m also working to bring two beverage companies to their knees by not drinking their product any longer.

  14. I like Johnny Cash’s version but y’all realize it’s a cover of a Nine Inch Nails tune, eh?

    1. They came up with the lyrics to “Closer” – which means they were likely snorting the same chems as Cash was.

    2. I love both versions… but it’s on the very short list of “the remake was better than the original.”

  15. “** WSF, buy a golf bag and a bicycle at a second-hand store and take Banner out for a ride! Born to be wild!”
    Two problems with your illustration. First, Banner won’t fit in a golf bag. Second, I would rather french kiss a running chainsaw than own anything electric powered.
    Overall, I see some merit. Should you donate one of your spare Krugerrands, I could purchase a Ural Evolution and Banner could ride in style in the sidecar.
    As to the wild, the Denver PD is still looking for me after they wrecked two Harleys following me down stairs off the 6th Avenue viaduct around 1967. Loved that Yamaha!

  16. Given NPR’s percentage of government funding is so tiny, why do they scream so hard when it’s threatened?
    .
    The end result of the CDC pushing the Lung Pao Sicken shot on pregnant women and small children, in the assurance that it was safe without any trials or proof… is that 4 years later, those same moms they bullied are making their kids’ health decisions. And those decisions include: “In new data posted this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 37% of kids had received the vaccine as of Nov. 30 — down from 43% at the same time last year. … For the entirety of the last flu season, just over half of children — 55% — received the flu shot, marking the lowest rate in 12 years.”

  17. Thanks for posting the Cash song, never heard it before. Saw him and June in concert circa 1973 at the Nebraska State fair.
    I appreciate the life experiences being artisticly shared by Duval and Dillan as well.

  18. >I can’t stand the War Turtle or his Chinese wife.
    Anti-chelonianism AND anti-Sinotism in one sentence!
    It’s scientifically proven that expressing distaste for an individual from a protected class is equivalent to wanting to round up and murder ALL members of that class. Why do you hate turtles, LL? Also, I’m pretty sure that although Elaine Chao may be ethnically Chinese, she’s not an observant Chinese, so her Chineseness doesn’t count. Besides, her wiki page says that she and her mother came to the US aboard a freight ship, on a 37-day passage. Chao and her family have suffered, don’t you know.

    1. Poor Chao. If you post their address here, I’m sure we could send her some canned beans and old clothes to see her through the harsh winter in the mansion.

  19. And none of the models take into account the most powerful and deadly climate-change gas. Water Vapor. You know, all that water vapor tossed into the upper atmosphere by the Hunga Tonga underwater volcano explosion? That’s what’s ‘warmed’ the world for the last two years, by up to 2 degrees in some places.
    –
    Funny, though, it’s still not as warm now in these ‘overly hot’ times as during the early medieval era, starting in the 700s to 900s. You know, the heat that meant that overall temps were about 5 degrees hotter than now, with little real effect by human hands, no SUVs, no Coal Power Plants, no Freon, no Hairspray, no nothing. The main effect of all that heat was to allow the rapid increase in farming and ranching and fishing and hunting as far north as the top of Finland, which meant that the frozen Scandinavia was suddenly a friggin breadbasket and the side effect of all of that food was, of course, a huge population increase and a need for some place for all that excess population to go to either on a temporary or permanent basis. And that’s how we get ‘The Viking Age.’ Because the world was warmer. So warm that there’s suppressed evidence of Norse sailing westwardly over the Northwest Passage, and travelling via land eastwardly through Siberia and taking boats to possibly Japan
    –
    At the height of the Ice Age there were about 13,000 glaciers. At peak ‘Globull Warming’, there are about 13,000 glaciers. Such a great change. And when glaciers retreat, what do we find? Evidence of man, from Otzi to mining and farming villages, some of them from as recently as the 1200s AD. Greenland was, during the 1000’s, green all the way to the northern shores with only the center being ice covered.
    –
    But try to tell ‘normal’ people all of this and all you get is hatred and fear.

      2. That’s just plain stupid. Increased water vapor will, yes, block out the sunlight but will absorb and retain all that solar heat and raise the overall temperature of the world, which will cause more water to evaporate, which will generate more clouds, which will…
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        Gee, now I am beginning to sound like an alarmist, except that I actually used proven facts in my statement.

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