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Wednesday, September 24. 2025

Wednesday morning links

Autism and Tylenol 


The sun sets on solar


Latest science further exposes lies about rising seas


" We have but a brief window of opportunity to seize the moment and rewind the clock back to sanity..." 


US's Poorest State Is Only $2K Yr From Overtaking Germany's Yearly Per Capita


Why Marco Rubio Obliterated ABC News' George Stephanopoulos


" The UN cut President Trump’s teleprompter to mess up his 15 minute
speech so he talked sh*t about the UN for 55 minutes off prompter."


Shutting down his teleprompter liberated him


 Charlie Kirk tribute scrapped by Sinclair after local TV giant got threats against its ABC stations


Israel Must Halt Fighting in Gaza: An Interview With Daniel Pipes

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The William Briggs article about Tylenol, focusing on the correlation/causation problem is excellent. RFK Jr is the worst of Trump's choices. Disruption may be necessary, but that doesn't make every type of disruption good.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-09-24 13:18 (Reply)
What I most liked about RFK jr decision is that he did not mandate a ban on Tylenol. He left that decision up to pregnant women. How many people paid a price, either job loss or physical disability, by a mandated VAXX? We need massive disruption in the medical and education systems.
#1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-09-24 13:36 (Reply)
The number of disabilities from the vaccination is vanishingly small. The increase in disabilities tracks with covid itself and the number of disabled people able to enter the workforce because of increased remote work. Vaccines reduced disability from what would have occurred with more covid.

For this reason the people who lost their jobs for refusing the vaccination, did so pointlessly.

The widespread claims otherwise have reduced the number of children being vaccinated, and measles is returning after being eliminated. Two generations of effort eliminating rubella and mumps thrown out the window.

This is why I believe not all disruption is good disruption.
#1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-09-24 19:09 (Reply)
I have found that mandates tend to be undesirable disrupters and it was mandates and censorship that created a massive amount of chaos. It was all unnecessary and added nothing useful except more division.
#1.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-09-24 20:43 (Reply)
I would agree with that. I don't want to make it worse from here.
#1.1.1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-09-25 09:37 (Reply)
A better title: The sun sets on taxpayer funded solar mandated by our expert politicians. Professional politicians are the bane of mankind.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2025-09-24 13:28 (Reply)
"Halt fighting in Gaza". Who benefits? Hamas! If you are not pro-Hamas and you want to stop the war in Gaza you are a useful idiot to terrorists. IF Israel stop before eliminating Hamas they will rise again and their next attack will make Oct 7 look like child's play. Israel should have already destroyed Hamas, their own and the worlds politics have slowed and prevented that. They should double their effort and do it ruthlessly.
#3 OneGuy on 2025-09-24 18:01 (Reply)
I would say the same, but Pipes has been very good on the topic for a long time. He is one of the few who would cause me to rethink my position.
#3.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-09-24 19:12 (Reply)
I find it extraordinary how many Americans continue to foment genocide, while almost everyone outside the US and Israel see this crime of the century for what it is. Let's not put a tooth in it, "Christian Zionism" is a deadly heresy and modern "Judaism" and its adherents bear almost no relation to Biblical Israel. The One Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church is, and has been since the Crucifixion of Christ, the New Israel.
#3.1.1 DeGaulle on 2025-09-25 15:30 (Reply)
It is ironic that you appeal to "what everyone else says" to convince us it's a genocide, while putting forth an idea of unchosenness that the overwhelming majority of Christians - including the RCC - do not accept as entirely true.
#3.1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-09-25 18:47 (Reply)
I'd appreciate if you'd explain your theological point. If you do not, I can only think that you believe in the notion of a 'Dual Covenant'.

For my own part, I refer to the Cathechism of the Catholic Church, 877; and to Matthew 21:43. Not to mention the views of multiple traditional Catholics.

As to what a 'genocide' is, some things are so fundamentally true that they can't be reduced any further-one knows it when one sees it. The more bellicose members of the 'Israeli' cabinet are not so circumspect.
#3.1.1.1.1 DeGaulle on 2025-09-26 07:51 (Reply)
The CDC and the FDA is literally and intentionally full of fools, thieves and traitors who are compromised or outright owned by big pharma and globalists. This has been true for more than 60 years. They do putter away at doing the right thing and sometimes even succeed but for the most part they do the bidding of big pharma and anti-American interests. This has long been hinted it even by our own corrupt main stream media. But the "pandemic" blew the cover off the lid and exposed them for what they are. Clean house! Please RFK Jr right or wrong about autism or healthy food or exercise, I don't care, throw the fools and thieves out and even prosecute any who have broken our laws.

I do not believe there has been an increase in autism I believe there has been massive political meddling with science and health care regarding autism mostly for personal gain but also because of the ignorance of government and government employees. But the failings and intentional errors of America's health care organizations The AMA for example) do not begin and end with autism. They have screwed the pooch on diet, infective illnesses, genetic diseases and literally everything even vaguely connected with health and well being.

Right now STD's are epidemic in inner cities and nary a headline to be found. Polio has made a stunning comeback but don't you dare say out loud why. The statistical rate of diabetes has doubled BUT the rate by ethnic groups hasn't changed. But knowing this our government pushes the lie that if we all just ate healthily we wouldn't "catch" diabetes. There are numerous other biblical level health issues teetering on the precipice that are ugly and ignored for political reasons. And there is still a cadre of government officials chomping at the bit to bring back mandates on masking for gods sake.

Our "experts" are fools our leaders are corrupt our government departments are inept. PLEASE RFK Jr. clean house even if it is for the wrong reasons clean house. Get rid of the bureaucrats and bring back intelligence. And if not intelligence bring back common sense.
#4 JustMe on 2025-09-24 18:27 (Reply)
QUOTE:
The sun sets on solar

That's not what the article actually says. It says one technology was replaced another technology, the latter becoming cheaper and much easier to scale.

QUOTE:
Ivanpah was a cutting-edge idea for a while. But, as the market changed, it couldn’t compete with newer and less expensive forms of creating solar power.

That's not atypical for new technologies. There is a proliferation of ideas, many of which won't pan out. A historical example is typesetting. Traditionally, typesetting had been done by hand, a letter at a time, backwards, then resorted for later use. So, the obvious idea was to have a machine set type a letter at a time. The author, Mark Twain, invested heavily in the invention. However, it proved impractical. The Linotype was the solution, which would cast in lead entire lines at once. In the early days of the automobile, for light, people used acetylene or oil lamps, just as they had for horse-drawn carriages. Then inventors and investors had the idea of using the automobile engine to create electricity for headlights. Many tried. Most failed.

(Biological evolution has a similar process. When a new niche opens up, life branches repeatedly. The adaptive radiation of Finches on Galápagos is an example.)
#5 Zachriel on 2025-09-25 10:01 (Reply)
Good to see you realise that 'chance' has no part to play in what is known as evolution. It's all pre-set, as you imply.
#5.1 DeGaulle on 2025-09-26 07:54 (Reply)
DeGaulle: Good to see you realise that 'chance' has no part to play in what is known as evolution.

That is incorrect. However, it turns out that "chance" can have determinable effects. For instance, while gas molecules bounce around randomly, a gas will expand to fill the available space in a predictable manner.

And while the analogy is not perfect, adaptive radiation will tend to fill available niches. So, Galápagos Finches (actually tanagers not finches; Darwin wasn't an ornithologist) diversified to fill niches often filled by other birds in other environments.

    FOOD . . . . . . .ANALOG

    Large seeds . . . Hawfinches
    Medium seeds . . .Sparrows
    Small seeds . . . Ground Finches
    Cactus flower . . Orioles
    Herbivorous . . . Plantcutters
    Insect probers . .Woodpeckers
    Mangrove insects .Flycatchers
    Foliage insects . Vireos
    Blood . . . . . . Oxpeckers
Genetics shows these birds all have a common ancestor, a South American grassquit. There's still a lot of chance in evolution, especially on the molecular level, and of course, there is always environmental happenstance.
 
#5.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-09-26 09:45 (Reply)
Conclusive proof that there is definitely no intelligence whatsoever connected with this strange 'bot'.
#5.1.1.1 DeGaulle on 2025-09-26 15:15 (Reply)
You might want to look at the scientific research of Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent 30 years studying Darwin's Finches. See, among many such papers, Grant & Grant, Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finches, Science 2002.
#5.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-09-28 10:47 (Reply)

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