the computer was being used by the secretary, so I am not surfing the "news" as much as usual.
And then when I read headlines, I figure maybe I should just shrug and say WTF at the headlines.
Let's start with the entertainment field.
The Grammies had open pornography, and no one objected, leading the satire site Babylon Bee ("Fake news you can trust") to note:
In Edgy Grammys Performance, Fully Clothed Woman Sings Beautiful Song March 15th, 2021
Audiences were shocked at the 63rd Grammy Awards after watching an "audacious", "daring", and "edgy" performance by a fully clothed woman who sang a beautiful song.
... CBS executives have apologized for the "inappropriately decent and appropriate" performance and have promised to add more stripping and profanity to next year's show.
actually, that is not quite true: a couple years ago, Lady Gaga sang a duet while fully dressed with Tony Bennett, but now I guess she has moved on to more civilized songs.
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One of the more absurd stories pushed by the MSM was that Trump was seeking to overthrow Georgia's election by insisting some official "find" (i.e. illegally make up) a couple thousand ballots.
Most of us who read the censored aka "fake news" sites knew he was taking about fraudulent counting and fraudulently destroyed ballots, but that's not how it was portrayed when they tried to impeach him for the umteenth time.
But now, the esteemed WaPo ("truth dies in darkness") has had to pull the story when a tape of the conversation was found and it proved Trump's side of the story was correct.....
The absurd part of this is not about the votes (which is absurd enough) but about how they found a tape of the conversation ...in the trash can. No, not the metal trash can under the desk, but the one that saves your deleted files in case of an "opps".
Thank God that those stealing the election didn't ask their 12 year old grandkid on how to destroy files.
Instapundit has more on Voter Fraud link link2
if true, it puts the Hello Garci scandal to shame...
now, if only the MSM would find what was on Anthony Wiener's computer or on Epstein's videotape collection...both of which presumably have been disappeared by a professional...
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If you are wondering what is going on here in the Philippines, read the entire essay about the Philippines on StrategyPage.
a lot of it is about China's attempt to bully us, but hey, it also notes all the others who are busy bullying the Philippines. Why? Because they can. A dozen dead drug dealers, and voila, human rights SJW get their knickers in a know. A million Uighars in concentration camps, Hong Kong democracy fighters arrested, and the Catholic church there being made a puppet? No problem, because if you diss China, they bite back. But the Philippines? Hey, Dirty Harry is a hated figure by the left, and only beloved by those of us who are now not worried about being shot in a druggie home invasion or kidnapped by gangs for ransom.
SP points out that Duterte is popular here because we are safer, but that the world wide SJW lament the aggression against drug pushers. The SJW include the UN, The Catholic church (who laments cops killing drug pushers but had no problem in giving a fancy burial to the ex mayor behind the hit job that killed our nephew), and of course, the State Dept/CIA (Omidyar, who many believe is a CIA front, who funded the Ukrainian revolution by manipulating their news via money, helped fund Rappler, a website that is very anti Duterte... )
That nonsense has made Duterte more anti American: And this has geopolitical implications, not just for the USA but for Japan and Korea who rely on the open sea lanes in the West Philippine Sea.
and when it comes to the Vaccine, we are very slow in getting the shots even to protect our main line workers:
first the paper work to import the Pfizer vaccine in January wasn't signed so the US was unable to deliver it, and now we see a push to get the lousy (50 percent effective) Chinese vaccine.
Chinese offers to provide the SinoVac covid19 vaccine backfired when it was discovered that China was charging the Philippines three or more times per dose as other customers in east Asia and Africa were paying. Moreover, the SinoVac vaccine appears to much less effective than Western vaccines also available to the Philippines. Worse, all these negotiations and delays in Chinese deliveries have meant that the Philippines will be the last nation in the region to receive enough vaccine to suppress the covid19 threat.
Sigh.
in the meanwhile, China illegally gave the shot late last year to about 100 thousand local Chinese working here. But hey, don't expect the US State Department to try to get shots to their ex pats here, who are mostly either military veterans, guys married to lovely Pinays, or Balikbayans.
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I am staying out of the vaccine antivax kerfuffle: x number of deaths always in the headlines, but not presented as a tiny percentage of the total number of people who got the shot (2 or 3 per 100 thousand shots).
But those insisting everyone should get the shot are hitting a wall since there is so much anti vax stuff out there (from Chinese and Russian Bots but also from the Democrats when Trump was pushing the vaccine) that trust in the sytem has been lost.
My take as a doc?
Give the shots to the high risk folks: Caregivers, front line workers, the elderly, the obese, the diabetic, etc.
If a person refuses, well, okay.
So what about travel restrictions? Well, the "vaccine" passport used to be routine for cholera, small pox and yellow fever, so no big deal.
But it should be given not just to those who completed the vaccine series, but to those who tested positive for antibodies, meaning they are immune and won't spread the disease.
That lasts group could be as high as one third of Americans...
as for here in the Philippines; Yes there is a lot of suspicion of the shot, thanks to the bots on the social media that had been spreading anti American Anti Wesetern vaccine smears, and of course, the failure to get paperwork done by some in government so we didn't get the western vaccine... one suspects China was behind this, so they could get credit for their "help"..... But no one trusts the Chinese vaccine either.
but given a choice between getting the shot so you can work or starving, well, poor folks don't have much choice... now if we can only speed up the vaccination plans.
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