Monday Open Comments

Today is federal holiday, so the private sector will be working without banking and mail.

Meanwhile states and sanctuary cities blame their illegal alien overpopulation problem on Abbott, totally disregarding the many thousands more that being trafficked at the hands of the Biden administration.

In a similar vein, the reaction to the Wuhan Lung Rot distracts from the real disease problem accompanying those unvetted, unexamined, and unvaccinated individuals.

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The truth is we don’t even need a guy like McGinn to tell us we are unprotected from infectious diseases migrating to America. Common sense alone would tell you our ability to screen at the border is poor. The number of illegals crossing is too many. The border is understaffed. Congress isn’t funding the border effectively. The screening we are doing is mostly by self-report. Much of the potential disease is likely asymptomatic at the time of crossing. Busloads and planeloads of people are appearing in cities all over America. It is no wonder there have been spikes in TB and Measles in major urban areas.

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In addition, McGinn told UncoverDC that the screening and vaccination requirements are inconsistent. He also claims that “DHS has no protocols in place to randomly sample all a portion of all persons coming across the border for all the potential diseases that these persons might have. They are placed in a vector-rich environment with poor circulation and ten times too many people inside at many of these detention centers, with plastic drapes that trap viruses. These same people are being immediately put on buses and airplanes to further increase the spread of disease before being dropped off in most towns and major urban centers across our country. There is no effort to inform counties or cities what are the health challenges they are facing, and no requirement, like are required of Green Card applicants who are living in the same areas across the country as are the 10’s of millions coming into our country across our southern border. 

DHS isn’t even trying to protect its own employees, says McGinn:

“While neglecting their own employees and U.S. citizens’ health, OHS Acting CMO Wolfe takes great pride in receiving an award for vaccinating employees who were required to be vaccinated with a vaccine that in time will be shown to create a grossly unacceptable number of adverse reactions. DHS could have easily collected the health data instead of seeking awards. And, instead of health security, there is a neglect of voluntary record gathering across all DHS components. For example, DHS should attend to] the reporting of cases, monitoring impact and risk of exposure, effective oversight of its resources and training of DHS employees, conducting traceouts and follow adverse vaccine reactions (for COVID), monitor stress, implement sleep deprivation recommendations studied by our government to the tune of millions in taxpayer dollars, investigate disease clusters. The DHS should demonstrate the ability to do what most physicians are educated and experienced in managing: disaster medicine, epidemiology and infectious diseases. Most would likely agree the DHS Office of Health Security should rightly be labeled the Gold Medal Office of Health Insecurity.”
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What diseases are we talking about? The Department of Health and Human Services identifies many of them. In 2020, their focus was on “Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, congenital syphilis, hepatitis A and B, and bacterial enteric diseases (e.g., listeriosis, non-typhoid Salmonellosis, vibriosis).” Measles outbreaks continue to widen, according to ABC7NY. The CDC states on the same website there is a need to “monitor, control, and prevent the occurrence and spread of about 120 health conditions.”
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TB is airborne – just standing next to someone could transfer the germ.  I caught TB in the fourth grade from one of my Dad’s buddies.  Fortunately my immune system was strong enough to fight it off.
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Immigrants who lawfully apply for a visa must undergo health screenings and show they are vaccinated, and refugees are screened for TB before entering the U.S. Not so for those wading across the Rio Grande. Nationwide, 6,009 of the 8,300 people with TB in 2022 were foreign-born, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Florida was slammed with a 21% increase in TB since 2020. Texas border counties have a TB rate triple the national average.
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Yes, Joe – you did that.

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48 responses to “Monday Open Comments”

  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin!

    I’m guessing SD has all the cabinet drawers throughout the house torn out by now to fix em right.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT Ha! Working on the dishwasher as we speak. Naw just having my first cup of coffee, it’s about 5 AM here and I’ve only been up 15 minutes or so. 55 and rainy here in Moorpark but only a 50/50 chance today so we should be good to go to the Nixon Library.

    Mornin’ Gang

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Had a nice combined birthday dinner yesterday for the boys with all our little family at Schilleci’s New Orleans Kitchen in The Woodlands. A bit pricey but oh man it was good, I think it is right there with Pat’s of Henderson in Lake Charles good. Crawfish étouffée and bread pudding was to die for as they say.

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Going to be nice weather all week so I’m going to borrow my tractor and trailer back from my son to get my trimming done around the property. He’s been using it to prep for his new building going up while I have been using his zero turn.

    Later this week we are going to get started getting the race car ready for the season coming up. Have to change the starter out which it is an interesting setup. It is a Kawasaki ZX10R motorcycle engine, starter is a tiny thing, fits in the palm of your hand but it’s integrated in with the front crank/cam gears so you have to tear apart the front of the motor to access, and make sure you keep the timing right.

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    *Starter began to go out last couple of races last year, it was hit or miss. If in the pits I could tap on the starter to get it going but if on the track had to be push started.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    On this day in 2016 my sister got her a new tractor (new to her). I bet you can’t guess the brand? 😉

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #4 GJT, so you can’t even see the starter without taking the end cover off?! Crazy.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Dang that’s a big ‘em!

  9. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #7 SD

    You can see the starter body but the shaft end goes towards the front with a splined gear on it which meshes with the cam and crank gears. It is a tight fit.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT so it’s actually outside the engine but is splined into the timing case cover so you have to remove the cover and replace the seal when putting it back together. Not a bad job but it could have been made where you didn’t have to drip oil anywhere. Oh and I guess the engine is about 1000 CC’s and 100+ HP?

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s almost 7 AM here and not a creature is stirring,…I can’t believe the girls aren’t up yet. On Friday when we were off to the Mouse Kingdom they were up right after me, about 5 AM. 😉

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Yesterday I cut the cable, no more xfinity.  Headcrusher got the TV wirelessly hooked up to the new EarthLink 1 gig fiber cable and rigged our phones to be remotes.  Now I can stream a whole bunch onto my TV.

    I started with some FoxNews clips this morning and it was OK, but when the Fox clips ran out it defaulted to MSNBC for some danged reason.  The degree of Trump Derangement Syndrome is breath taking on that channel.

    They blamed Trump for the poop that keeps showing up in Biden’s pants. . . . .

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #12 SD

    Yessir, 1000 cc and around 150-175 HP at 11,000RPM. Our motor runs great but probably has lost some but we run with most of them in the straights. We have a quick change rear so we can dial in proper gear at the different tracks.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Meanwhile in Elbonia;    That’s two.   😀

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Lemme drop this right here

    Protestors Deliver 300 Pounds of Poop to Nancy Pelosi’s House

    I think that I will decline to comment further. . . . .

     

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Brother Phil

    Just wanted to make sure you looked cool in all you do.  We do not need any faux pas in public.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I think it would be more effective if Governor Abbott would start sending busloads of illegals to Pelosi’s front door….twice a week.

     

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    ‘F*** Around and Find Out’: Pro-Trump Truckers Boycott NYC After Civil Fraud Verdict

    Some Trump-supporting truckers are refusing to transport loads to and from New York City after the former president was fined $355 million and had his ability to run businesses in the state suspended in Friday’s civil fraud verdict.

    There is some salty language in the text and this may have been touched on yesterday; it bears repeating.  No trucks into NYC for a week or two would cause something close to a nuclear meltdown, rhetorically speaking.

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Whoa. New EarthLink set up?

    Do tell.

    Details about the unboxing and set up. Did you put it in your back yard?

    Send me some pics.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “Rigged our phones to be remotes”

    ???

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Perhaps Earthlink is the wrong name, Wife did it and I got some details fuzzy.  It is a 1 gig fiberoptic line from the trunk line that runs under my back yard.  ATT did the install but we contracted with a different company.  Our phones are now TV remotes in addition to all the other stuff they can do.  The original TV remote still works.

    I haven’t noticed the service being any faster than what we had before; the new service boasts 1 gig speed up and down.

    The modem is right underneath the TV so the TV is being fed wirelessly, unknown at this time if the other TVs in the house are smart enough to play the game or if the signal is strong enough to make the connection work.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh.
    I was thinking Musk Starlink satellite set up.

    Never mind.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is not a new story or unknown facts.  What is new is the fact it is a headline piece at Politico, the official stenographers of the DNC.

    It’s like when the capo dei capi gives someone the bacio della morte.  The veil of protection for Joe has been lifted.

    In 2017, a hospital operator set out to build a rural health care empire with the help of a Philadelphia-area consultant.

    The consultant, Jim Biden, had no experience running hospitals. But he did understand the federal government and had ties to labor unions. Perhaps more important, he was the younger brother of Joe Biden.

    and,

    Jim Biden spoke of plans to give his brother equity in Americore, according to one former Americore executive, and install him on its board, according to a second. He also said that if Americore could find a winning business model for rural health care, his brother could promote the company in a future presidential campaign, a third former executive told POLITICO. All were granted anonymity to discuss a company mired in legal and political controversy.

    but,

    Meanwhile, the Justice Department found that Americore’s hospital in Pennsylvania entered into sham service agreements and paid kickbacks as part of a scheme that billed the government for medically unnecessary lab tests the hospital shipped out to be performed elsewhere.

    Those actions are at the center of a federal prosecution of a $100 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare that has netted a guilty plea from the recipient of the kickbacks, and, according to a person familiar with the case, remains ongoing.

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. I’m enjoying my breakfast, but feeling sleepy. All 6 of the house cats have fallen asleep since they had their breakfast. I may do the same, as soon as I finish mine.

     

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly morning, Hamsters.

    Was 31 when I got up to feed Purrscilla at 6 this morning, and windy.  Winter has reclaimed our area again.

    Yea for the truckers holding up entry to Noo Yawk City for a week.  No wonder folks from New York State are leaving that state and moving elsewhere to civilized states.

    The follow-ups on the Covid disaster are mind-boggling.  Who let the nuts responsible for that debacle out of their cages?  Can’t blame Mr. Trump, this is all in balmy Biden’s lap and the laps of his handlers.  The more the Lefties claim Mr. Trump is responsible for all the disasters the Dems have created, the more the normal Americans support Mr. Trump.  Keep it up, Turkeys.  (No offense meant to the domestic turkeys intended.)

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    25 Texpat

    It’s amazing how lines of corruption so often trail all the way back to the southern law firms (from East Texas to Georgia) who got filthy rich off of the tobacco wars.

    What a bunch of scumbags.

  27. Tedtam Avatar

    Finally checking in.  I made two rosaries today, since the first one went to quickly and my new wire arrived yesterday.

    The wire is a heckuva lot thinner than what I thought I ordered.  I thought “what the heck?” and proceeded to make a second rosary so I could practice a wire wrapping method that I’ve been wanting to try.  It took me a lot longer than I had planned.

    The elbow wasn’t fond of it, and I’m not real happy with the final result.  It’s not my favorite; in fact, I’ll be happy to give this one away.  It’s not ugly, like some I’ve made (I just work the beads I have), it’s just not my style. But I had this conversation after mass last Sunday: just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean someone else won’t love it.  It has joined its sisters and I’m sure someone will take it home.

    After tweaking my elbow in service to my Lord, I warmed up some leftovers and went outside to eat lunch.  It was nice to sit in the sun since I doubt I’m going to be gardening today.  I hear the rest of the week will be great, great weather, so maybe I’ll play in the dirt tomorrow.

    Gonna try to tie up some loose ends today, finish a few tasks.  I might get my treadmill time in later, and if I’m lucky, either some house cleaning or office/craft room organization.

    Off to do my reading elsewhere and nose to the grindstone.

    I’m interested in details on the cable cutting, though.  Details?

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Not many details to share.  My lovely Mrs. and I both decided that we didn’t need to spend the money for a bunch of crap that we never watch.  The fiber connection was made on Thursday and on Friday they sent a different crew to bury it.  My TV is now a streaming device.  If I put an antenna on it, I could get the free local stuff; haven’t done that yet.

  29. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Yes, Joe – you did that

    id say the Kenyan part III has conquered the west with lots of help from the Kentucky swamp turtle gang of reptiles and the kangarooed branch of militant penguins.

    the wooden dummy does nothing.
    he’s completely out of it.

    boy the creature from the Kenyan lagoon is one heckuva slick con artist.
    A grade A+ smooth talking reptile he is.
    He hypnotizes the mr potato head propagandist press with his slicker than slick Willy-ness.

  30. Tedtam Avatar

    #29

    You’d think that’d be illegal, somehow.  Opening elections and elections offices to people who aren’t citizens is just destroying the concept of citizenship.

    On a similar note, pachapapa is having confabs with Freemasons (really bad juju, there), a much despised Anglican woman bishop to discuss how to change the church culture to go the way of the Anglican church (more really bad juju), and is also rumored to be having discussions about opening the sacrament of Communion to non-Catholics “in special circumstances”.

    That’s the proverbial camel-nose-under-tent phrase.  Pachapa is the hard-core democrat version of a Pope, just wanting to tear down what has worked and has been holy for 2,000 years, to create his version of some non-existent utopia.  Actually, from what I’ve read (“Infiltration” by Taylor Marshall, for one), the whole purpose of this papacy is to destroy the Church from within.  Pachapapa is probably a Freemason hisself, which is forbidden in the Church.

    We believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.  Giving Communion to those not in Communion opens those souls to grave sin and mortal peril. (1 Cor. 11:27,29).

    I forgot who it was, but some famous past mystic predicted that Benedict would be the last Pope.  There are many, many people who think that pachapapa is not the real Pontiff.  Some because Benedict didn’t actually vacate the Seat of Peter (not a theory I subscribe to, but I think there’s good reason for some of the arguments), others because pachapapa was not elected legally, following the rules instituted for his election.  Too many shenanigans in the background of his selection. Personally, I think that’s the better argument.  There’s more proof of that.

    There’s a even bigger and growing group of folks who think that pachapapa ceased being Pontiff when he began promoting heresy.  St. Bellarmine was the first to posit this position, and the Church has never had to really face it at this level before.  That goes to the concept of papal infallibility, which most people misunderstand.  Most folks think that PI means the Pope can say anything he wants, and that everything he says is Truth.  Far from it:

    1. Papal infallibility means that the Pope can expound dogma, but only when speaking “ex cathedra” (out of the Chair of Peter, an official and rare event) and only on matters of faith and morals.  This usually only happens after working with and through the Magisterium of the Church (the bishops).  IIRC, this has only happened about five times, and served to emphasize a point of existing belief, not to push the boundaries of the faith.  A press statement doesn’t fall under PI.

    2. When working and enforced properly, papal infallibility actually restricts what a Pope can say.  If Popes prior had papal infallibility, then what they said is infallible.  Infallible statements cannot be changed, by definition.  Therefore, no Pope can contradict what a previous Pope has stated – all the way back to St. Peter. I taught my students that PI was actually like a set of guardrails, keeping a rogue Pope from driving the holy bus off the road.

    3. Unfortunately, only the College of Cardinals can declare a Pope to be heretic.  This Pope has not only violated canon law on the number of Cardinals for the College, he’s loaded the College of Cardinals with modernists like him.  Think of it like the border problem:  there are existing laws and rules, but they are useless if they are not enforced.  If the College of Cardinals won’t step up to declare him heretic, then pachapapa will continue his tyranny: he’ll continue to shut down convents and monasteries, kicking nuns and priests to the curb, stealing their properties, shutting down faith filled parishes, etc.  There’s a growing pushback from some of the more conservative (or less deranged) cardinals because of the growing distress that pachapapa has created in the Church.  Will their influence be enough?  I doubt it.  Fr. Ripperger says we are headed for a great chastisement, and I think he’s right.  Like an iceberg flipping in the ocean, I think the tipping has started.

    I pray for my church.  Daily.

  31. Tedtam Avatar

     If I put an antenna on it, I could get the free local stuff; haven’t done that yet.

    Hubby and I have discussed cable cutting several times.  Our problem is that our location, especially its proximity to the airport, has real issues with a TV antenna.  The indoor antennas that we used to use would have to be moved, depending on the channel being sought.  If it was time for a bank of airplanes to land or take off, forget getting good and continuous reception until it was over.  I’ve suggested getting a really good outdoor antenna to try to overcome that.  We installed one for MIL that had a motor on it, so we could move it in order to gain better reception, but that entails finding a good place for it outside.  Hubby doesn’t want to put it on the roof, but on a pole.  A tall pole.

    Yeah, that won’t happen any time soon.

  32. Tedtam Avatar

    Dang.  I thought killing the blog was Dave’s super power.

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Brother Phil

    Just wanted to make sure you looked cool in all you do.  We do not need any faux pas in public.

    hahaha squawka Bruddah.

    do you have any suggestions on dance moves for this?

  34. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Brother Phil.  Just wanted to make sure you looked cool in all you do.  We do not need any faux pas in public.

    hahaha squawka Bruddah.
    do you have any suggestions on dance moves for this?

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I just got a text from “Jim” informing me that early voting begins tomorrow.

    I did not know that.

    Are there any Libertarians on the ballot?

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    Here is an article you would be interested in, I believe.

    VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It has opened up the files of controversial World War II-era Pope Pius XII to scholars and changed the official name to remove the word “Secret” from its title.

    But a certain aura of myth and mystery has persisted — until now.

    The longtime prefect of what is now named the Vatican Apostolic Archive, Archbishop Sergio Pagano, is spilling the beans for the first time, revealing some of the secrets he has uncovered in the 45 years he has worked in one of the world’s most important, and unusual, repositories of documents.

     

  37. bsue54 Avatar

    Tedtam – we put ours in the attic – and most of the time, it’s great! And we’re a LOT farther from the stations than ya’ll are. Ya’ll ought to get great reception (with this type antenna – but you’d have to ask Squawk what that is LOL – but it cost less than ya’ll pay for one month of cable)

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Brother Phil

    do you have any suggestions on dance moves for this?

    Well considering it is Tom doing a somewhat slow song I was thinking maybe………..

  39. Tedtam Avatar

    Bsue – the Dome has no attic.

    That’s why squirrels running across the roof remind me of tiny buffalo.

    When the planes fly by, everything on the TV gets all wavy and static-y. When you have 20 of ’em landing one after the other, it gets annoying. Channel 2 has always been difficult for reception.

  40. Tedtam Avatar

    Such a sad story: a 3 year old girl is beaten to death by a 10 and a 12 year old, while the “responsible adults” left the children home alone while they gambled.  They were wont to leave 8 kids alone often, and both of the mothers knew of the violent tendencies of the pre-teens.  Their children had asked for help and protection before.

    That poor baby took two days to die in the hospital after being resuscitated.

    So many levels of wrong and sad.

  41. bsue54 Avatar

    Tedtam, you’d be horrified at some of the things I saw at various Children’s Hospitals – I know I was… Some of us took turns touching the parts that weren’t injured, so that they could learn that all human touch is not filled with pain.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    And they wonder why people are leaving NYC in droves.

    Protect yourself and cargo and you end up in jail instead of the illegal alien perp.

    A Big Apple Amazon driver said he had to slam a naked and drunk migrant in the head with a snowball to keep the deranged asylum seeker from making off with his packages — only to find himself in handcuffs.

    The migrant, identified by police sources as Yeison Sanchez, 26, was allegedly stumbling drunk and clutching a beer bottle when the Amazon driver said he caught him red-handed trying to make off with packages he was delivering in Clinton Hill around 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.

    That’s when things got out of hand.

    “I was unloading my stuff, and a guy – he was like a pervert, he had his penis out,” the driver, who asked that he only be identified as Abu, told The Post on Monday.

    “He’s in the corner of the street j–king off and I told him, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’” Abu added. “And he went into my van where all my mail and everything was at, and I pushed him away, and he ran towards me like he was going to aggressively hit me.”

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Will a Harris County grand jury indict a man for shooting a thief who stole his BBQ grill right out of his backyard ?

    The robbery victim might get charged with homicide in New York or Philadelphia, but in Texas I am not so sure.

    Stealing somebody’s grill/pit is like stealing his horse.  If the shooter is black and the thief is white or Asian, it is a guaranteed No-Bill from the grand jury, although race may not even be a factor in something as dire and existential as the theft of a man’s BBQ pit.

    A Texas homeowner chased down and shot dead an alleged thief who stole a BBQ pit from his property over the weekend, according to authorities.

    The deadly confrontation took place early Sunday in the city of Humble when an unidentified man attempted to drive off with the BBQ pit, leading the homeowner to pursue him in his own vehicle, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a series of social media posts.

    The owner caught up with the accused thief and his passenger a short distance from the house when he got out of his car and approached the pair, the sheriff said.

  44. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Well considering it is Tom doing a somewhat slow song I was thinking maybe………..

    squawka Bruddah.

    That was a popular one in the 90s.

    never knew he was a Tom Jones fan:)

  45. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well we did the Richard Milhous Nixon Library and it was very interesting. My son didn’t really know anything about Nixon except that he was almost impeached and had something to do with Watergate but he learned a lot about Nixon and now thinks he was a pretty good President. I know he learned a lot because he explained it all to his wife. FWIW; I was impressed at what he learned in such a short time. Sadly we couldn’t tour his childhood home or Marine 1 because of the rain. And as you may know it never rains in southern California,…except when I show up. The last time I was here we missed the flight out of Burbank because of the low ceiling cause by the rain.

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