Defund...

 

Tree

 

Notice the dog disappointment.

Gas...

 

Truth...

 

As the Vice President bragged before that during the Ebola Epedimic, while Joe Biden was a Vice President, only 2 persons died.

Now what happened during this Covid Epidemic. Where is Joe Biden's Magic.

Time will heal all wound but the ugly truth lingers.  Just a thought.

Lost...

 

Magic...

 

The human body's endocannabinoid system (ECS) is still in many ways a mystery to modern science. Only recently discovered in the 1990s, we know the ECS is a complex cell-signaling system that plays a major regulatory role. From sleep and appetite to mood and memory, the ECS helps ensure everything is running smoothly.

More detailed level, the ECS is made up of endocannabinoids, or molecules produced naturally by the body, and receptors for those molecules. 

It doesn't matter if you've never touched a joint in your life, everyone's body is filled with ECS receptors that endocannabinoids can bind to and activate if called upon. For example, endocannabinoids may bind to receptors within the spine in order to help relieve pain. 

THC, the cannabinoid found in marijuana responsible for the plant's trademark "high," also binds to ECS receptors.

See...

 

This current White House is anxious to do something to hang their legacy on. Any thing regardless.

While all desire for huge spending, actions against the Keystone Pipe line, and eliminate drilling in federal land didn't pan out. Now they are back to release some oil from the strategic reserve knowing that it is not working.  It doesn't matter. They desire the sound bite. But the media started to discover the fakeness with it.       Just a thought.

Style...

 

Policy...

 

Xenophobic...

 

Sink...

 

Inflation is rapidly becoming a problem for the Democratic party and President Joe Biden. They need to get a grip on it before it imperils their wider agenda and sinks their chances of keeping control of Congress in the midterm elections next year. 

As they think about how to address it, one thing is certain: what they’ve been doing so far isn’t working. A recent poll found that two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handling inflation, and the same number consider the issue “very important” in their evaluations of his presidency. 

Among those Americans concerned about the state of the economy, nearly nine in 10 ranked inflation as a reason why. Clearly something has to change.

Deaf...

 

When President Biden announced the federal government would be releasing 50 million barrels of crude from the strategic petroleum reserve, expected prices to go down significantly and stay down. Instead, prices rose, and OPEC+ gave a heavy hint it might cut supply. 

Energy analysts warned that the SPR crude is sour, and refiners don't like it because it needs additional processing to reduce the sulfur content—a process that requires natural gas, which is also expensive currently. These explanations fell on deaf but determined ears. Now, analysts are warning about $100 Brent.

"It's not going to work simply because the strategic petroleum reserve — any country's strategic petroleum reserve is not there to try to manipulate price," said Stephen Schork, editor of the Schork Report, speaking to CNBC earlier this week. "There's a considerable amount of bets out there that we will see $100 a barrel oil," he added.

If it is not going to achieve lower prices, why do it? 

It is for local consumption, sound bites, the President is doing all what he can to etc. etc. ...... . Just to convince some that we are doing something, not worth it but something.

 Just a thought.

May be...

 

Although the World Health Organization continues to classify Mu as a 'variant of interest' globally, the CDC lists Mu simply as a 'variant being monitored. ' The CDC counts 10 variants in the variant being monitored group.

 The lambda variant, has been spreading rapidly in South America, particularly in Peru where the earliest documented samples of the virus date from August 2020.

Infectivity can occur 1-3 days before the onset of symptoms. Infected persons can spread the disease even if they are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic. Most commonly, the peak viral load in upper respiratory tract samples occurs close to the time of symptom onset and declines after the first week after symptoms begin.

COVID-19 reinfections are rare, but they do happen. Reinfections might become more common with time and as new COVID-19 variants arise.

The new Omicron variant may be just much ado about nothing. Just a thought.

Devilshly...

 

But inflation, a complicated product of economics and mass psychology, is also devilishly difficult to understand, and even more difficult to control. 

Presidents have few tools to tame it, and the ones they do have can backfire. The inflation of the 1970s crippled Gerald Ford’s presidency and was doing the same to Jimmy Carter until he opted for an extreme cure – installing a chair of the Federal Reserve who dramatically raised interest rates, stopping inflation but also plunging the economy into a deep recession.   That handed the White House to Ronald Reagan. 

These experiences left inflation with a reputation as a presidency-killer, with either the disease itself or the medicine taken to combat it ultimately killing the patient.

Despite this, Democratic party elites have been slow to take the latest round of inflation as seriously as they should. American policymakers have not had to deal with levels of inflation as high as this for 30 years, and it shows. Many latched on to the message that inflation was “transitory”, a temporary consequence of the economy revving back into high gear as the country emerged from the coronavirus pandemic. 

Some liberals have even lashed out at those warning about rising prices, characterizing their concerns as an attempt to undermine support for Democrats’ plans to spend more to advance social welfare and combat climate change.

It is transitory until it isn't. Just a "permeant" thought.

Nitrates...

 

Used as a preservative and to enhance color in deli slices and cured meats like bacon, salami and sausage, nitrates may be connected with depression.

One recent study even suggests that nitrates can alter gut bacteria in such a way as to tip the scales toward bipolar disorder.

Sodium nitrate, a preservative that's used in some processed meats, such as bacon, jerky and luncheon meats, could increase your heart disease risk. It's thought that sodium nitrate may damage your blood vessels, making your arteries more likely to harden and narrow, leading to heart disease.

If you simply can't live without salami and sausages, seek out those containing buckwheat flour, which is used as a filler. Buckwheat flour contains important antioxidants that can counter some of the negative health effects of these meats.

Risk...

 

 

On Feb. 4, as President JOE BIDEN’s nearly $2 trillion stimulus bill was making its way through Congress, LARRY SUMMERS took to the Washington Post with a warning:

“[W]hile there are enormous uncertainties, there is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation, with consequences for the value of the dollar and financial stability. 

This will be manageable if monetary and fiscal policy can be rapidly adjusted to address the problem. But given the commitments the Fed has made, administration officials’ dismissal of even the possibility of inflation, and the difficulties in mobilizing congressional support for tax increases or spending cuts, there is the risk of inflation expectations rising sharply. Stimulus measures of the magnitude contemplated are steps into the unknown.”

The reaction from the White House was fierce. Top advisers repeated the Biden mantra: “the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risks of going big.”

Complacency...

 

Larry Summers is urging Washington to tap the brakes on stimulus or risk unleashing a serious burst of inflation.

"I think policy is rather overdoing it," Summers said in recorded comments at a CoinDesk conference that were released Wednesday. "The sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced."

The former Clinton and Obama official and Harvared professorl took issue with how the Federal Reserve and fiscal powers continue to turbo-charge the economy even though the once-real risk of a catastrophic deflationary spiral has since faded.

So what's Larry's saying?  

This White House is creating policies which will take the Country and the world to the abyss with speed.  Just a "Complacent" thought.

Failure...

 

Oil prices could climb higher despite the U.S. and other major consumers releasing millions of barrels of oil from their reserves to try to keep energy prices down, one analyst told CNBC.

"It's not going to work simply because the strategic petroleum reserve  any country's strategic petroleum reserve is not there to try to manipulate price," Stephen Schork, editor of the Schork Report, said Wednesday on CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia."

Strategic petroleum reserves exist only to offset short-term, unexpected supply disruptions, he explained.

"There's a considerable amount of bets out there that we will see $100 a barrel oil," Schork said, adding it could happen as early as the first quarter of next year, especially if there is a cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

Just a "Failed attempt" thought

Security ...

 

Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is calling on President Biden to restore the Keystone XL pipeline as gas prices across the country rise.

"I continue to call on President Biden to responsibly increase energy production here at home and to reverse course to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built which would have provided our country with up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, one of our closest allies," Manchin said in a Tuesday statement.

"To be clear, this is about American energy independence and the fact that hard-working Americans should not depend on foreign actors, like OPEC+, for our energy security and instead focus on the real challenges facing our country's future," he added, referring to the group of major oil-producing countries.

Manchin's call for action came shortly after the Biden administration announced a plan on Tuesday to release 50 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to curb rising gas prices, the news outlet noted.

The rest of the Democratic senators haven't noticed the INFLATION that is eating little people's lunch.  Just a thought.

Scratch...

 

Mayor Bill de Blasio called on ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to compensate taxpayers for using government employees to work on his pandemic memoir, even though Hizzoner has refused to cover the costs of using his NYPD detail for his failed presidential run.

Unlike the mayor, who owes taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds wasted on security costs during his embarrassing presidential campaign, staffers who volunteered on this project did so on their own time at no cost to the state,” said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

You scratch my back I'm sure I will do something for you.

NYS Democratic Parteeeeee at work.!!!  Just a thought.

Future...

 

Shell said Wednesday it had signed a deal to purchase power from a development dubbed "the world's largest offshore wind farm."

The 15-year power purchase agreement relates to 240 megawatts from Dogger Bank C, the third and final phase of the 3.6 gigawatt Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which will be located in waters off the coast of northeast England

Despite making deals related to renewable energy, Shell remains a major player in oil and gas. It has pledged to become a net-zero emissions energy firm by 2050.

Gradually moving forward.  Just a thought.

Creeping Up...

 

Face...

 

Just a thought.

Oxymoron...

 

Facing rising consumer discontent ahead of Americans hitting the road for the Thanksgiving holiday due to higher prices on gasoline and everything else.

"Today, the President is announcing that the Department of energy would make the release of oil in two ways: 32 million barrels will be an "exchange" over the next several months, and 18 million barrels that would be an acceleration into the next several months.

The actions of this Administration dealing with energy is a little problematic.  Earlier (few months ago) blocking the pipe line project with Canada, and stop the drilling in Federal Land, then later release some oil from the reserve and asking the OPIC to increase production, indicates great miscalculation and misguided decisions.  

The problem with higher prices of oil, is clearly leading US and the rest of the world to a nowhere but triple profits to OPIC members and triggered a worldwide inflation and economic disaster.

Just an " Oxymoron " thought.

Quitting...

 

Now that the New Covid Varient is creeping in, and the State is declaring emergency, we need all to be back to work.

We go from one extreme to another. Just a thought.

Look...

 

Unifier...

 

Gravy...

 

LOL...

 

The Democratic party will talk and stay on this subject for years to come. While the Country is been driven backward to the Carter's Administration time. However this time, it is caused by the Democrat themselves. They want to tax the rich, now inflating the prices thus taxing the poor.  Just a thought.

New Saga...

 

South African scientists have detected more than 30 mutations in the new Covid-19 variant, raising concern that it could possibly better evade the antibody protection created by vaccines and prior infections.

“We don’t know very much about this yet. 

What we do know is that this new variant has a large number of mutations. And the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said in a Q&A that was livestreamed on the organization’s social media channels.

The World Health Organization is holding a special meeting to discuss what the new variant may mean for vaccines and treatments, officials.

Always starts in SOuth Africa.   Just a thought.

Grab ..

 

San Francisco Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said that he has charged nine people with felonies in a series of shoplifting incidents that included a mass smash-and-grab at Union Square luxury stores.

At least 40 thieves allegedly broke into a Louis Vuitton store on Friday, grabbing whatever they could before loading it into a series of cars parked curbside out front. The shoplifting caravan cut a swath through San Francisco's high-end boutiques, creating a scene of chaos while stealing more than $1 million in merchandise.

Boudin said two of the nine people were charged for possession of firearms during the Friday incident. He said the nine face charges of grand theft, commercial burglary and possession of stolen goods at the felony level.

 The district attorney said he would seek in court to keep two of those charged behind bars because of the nature of their alleged crimes.

Any thing about New York City Smach and Grab?   Just a thought.

Walk back...

 

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's campaign tried to clarify his position on vaccines, walking back earlier comments that indicated he supported exemptions based on personal or religious beliefs.

The statement clarifying the mayor's position was sent to BuzzFeed after the article containing the initial statement was published and some on social media had expressed alarm at his apparent endorsement of "personal/religious exemptions." 

Freedom of speech is it?

Thanksgiving...

 

This was the best Thanksgiving ever. and mainly different. I did mute all the irritants and enjoyed it.

Hope you all enjoyed it.

Hike...

 

OPEC+ has issued a grave warning to Japan, the United States, China, India, and South Korea: unleash millions of barrels of oil from your emergency stockpiles, and we are likely to respond.

That response, although OPEC+ failed to mention specific figures, would likely be changing their plans to ramp up production more slowly to compensate for the extra barrels released. 

OPEC+ has been saying for over a month that the market will soon swing into a surplus, cautioning global oil markets against being too hasty and aggressive when it comes to ramping up production.

But immense pressure is building up on consuming nations over high gasoline prices—particularly in the United States, where gasoline prices often directly correlate to voter support for the current administration.

The Truth...

 

The results of a new poll finds that 28 percent of U.S. adults believe without evidence that the “truth about the harmful effects of vaccines” is being deliberately hidden from the public.

The findings are part of global research conducted by the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project, which looks at how different countries perceive a variety of conspiracy theories. 

According to the research, at least one-fifth to one-third of respondents said they were convinced that the truth about vaccines was being withheld from the public in 20 of 23 countries surveyed.

“Taken together, these findings emphasize the extent to which conspiracism has entered the mainstream politics of numerous electorates around the world,” Dr. Joel Rogers de Waal, YouGov’s academic director, said in a statement. 

“The same research also points to a new and deeper form of partisan antipathy, where people are divided not merely by policy preference or political identity but also by their fundamental perceptions of reality.   

Bath...

 

View...

 

Don't ask, don't tell

Fool...

 

U-Turn...

 

Long-term market bull Jeremy Siegel expects a serious pullback that it isn’t tied to the Covid-19 surge risks.  His tipping point: a drastic change in Federal Reserve policy in order to deal with hot inflation.

“If the Fed suddenly gets tougher, I’m not sure that the market is going to be ready for a U-turn that [chair] Jerome Powell may take if we have one more bad inflation report,” the Wharton finance professor told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday. “A correction will come.”

The consumer price index surged 6.2% in October, the Labor Department reported earlier this month. It marked the biggest gain in more than 30 years.
Siegel criticizes the Fed for being far behind the curve in terms of taking anti-inflationary action.

“Generally, since the Fed has not made any aggressive move at all, the money is still flowing into the market.”  “The Fed is still doing quantitative easing.”
He speculates the moment of truth will happen at the Fed’s Dec. 14 to Dec. 15 policy meeting.

If it signals a more aggressive approach to contain rising prices, Siegel warns a correction could strike. Despite his concern, Siegel is in stocks.

“I am still pretty fully invested because, you know, there is no alternative,” he said. “Bonds are getting, in my opinion, worse and worse. Cash is disappearing at the rate of inflation which is over 6%, and I think is going higher.”

Siegel anticipates rising prices will stretch out over several years, with cumulative inflation reaching 20% to 25%.

Un-Ruley...

 

Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men and wounded another amid protests and rioting over police conduct in Kenosha, Wis., was found not guilty of homicide and other charges.

After about 26 hours of deliberation, a twelve jury panel accepted Mr. Rittenhouse’s explanation that he had acted reasonably to defend himself in an unruly and turbulent scene in August 2020, 

Mr. Rittenhouse sobbed and was held by his lawyers after a clerk read the jury’s verdict, acquitting him of all charges.

The question is, 

How unruly was the crowd?

How many rioters walked the street carrying guns or various weapons?

  Just a thought.

Upside...

 

The vast majority of New York state's 62 counties are seeing sharp upticks in new COVID-19 positives: from a 32% increase in cases over the seven days through Thursday on Long Island, to a 37% increase in Niagara County in western New York.

And hospitals in New York reported 2,249 confirmed COVID-19 patients as of Friday, up 20% from the previous Friday.

Hospitalization rates are flat in some communities including Manhattan and Albany.

Monroe County, in the Finger Lakes, is up to 244 patients, up 30%.
And hospitals in Erie County reports 227 patients, a 23% increase.
Hochul earlier this week warned that a continued uptick in COVID-19 rates could mean New Yorkers will again face more virus protocols in high-risk communities.

So Manhattan is ok but not the suburb. This is an upside statistics that we ever seen.  Just a thought

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Low Risk...

 

Myocarditis and pericarditis refer, respectively, to inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium, the sac surrounding the heart. Myocarditis and pericarditis can occur after a viral infection, including COVID-19, as a result of an exaggerated immune response.

 Myocarditis and pericarditis can also occur after a vaccination, likely related to the immune response generated by the vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released data showing a small increase in cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after receiving the mRNA COVID-19 vaccination especially in young adults. In the great majority of cases, though, the myocarditis and pericarditis were mild and resolved on their own.

Risk of these complications is very low. However, if you experience chest pain or discomfort, shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting in the days following your COVID-19 vaccination, it would be prudent to seek medical attention to exclude these or other rare complications of the COVID-19 vaccine

Fight...

 

Republicans fighting President Joe          

Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandates are wielding a new weapon against the White House rules: natural immunity.

They contend that people who have recovered from the virus have enough immunity and antibodies to not need COVID-19 vaccines, and the concept has been invoked by Republicans as a sort of stand-in for vaccines.

Florida wrote natural immunity into state law this week as GOP lawmakers elsewhere are pushing similar measures to sidestep vaccine mandates. Lawsuits over the mandates have also begun leaning on the idea. Conservative federal lawmakers have implored regulators to consider it when formulating mandates.

Scientists acknowledge that people previously infected with COVID-19 have some level of immunity. Natural immunity is also far from a one-size-fits-all scenario, making it complicated to enact sweeping exemptions to vaccines.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in August that COVID-19 survivors who ignored advice to get vaccinated were more than twice as likely to get infected again. A more recent study from the CDC, looking at data from nearly 190 hospitals in nine states, determined that unvaccinated people who had been infected months earlier were five times more likely to get COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people who didn’t have a prior infection.

The question is the rate of severe infection and or hospitalization?  

Just a thought.

Crashed...

 

Trump's interventionist approach continued in April 2020 when oil prices crashed below zero for the first time ever. 

Realizing that dirt-cheap oil prices threatened jobs in key Republican states, Trump did an incredible shocking 180 and successfully urged OPEC slash oil production.

"It was one of the most stunning epiphanies in modern energy diplomacy," said McNally, who previously served as an energy official under former President George W. Bush. "The arch foe of OPEC became the master of a deal in which they cut production. That's man- bites-dog stuff."

The situation in the energy market couldn't be any more different today. After collapsing during the onset of Covid, energy demand is rising sharply as Americans hit the skies and the roads.

Yet supply can't keep up. OPEC+ continues to hold back the production it sidelined last year. OPEC pumped 25.5 million barrels per day in May, down sharply from the 2019 average of 29.3 million.

Powered by the shale revolution, domestic oil production hit a record 13.1 million barrels per day in March 2020. 

Biden should ease the restriction on energy production to overcome the disaster to come.  Just a thought.

Who...

 

Two of the men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X are expected to have their convictions thrown out on Thursday, the Manhattan district attorney and lawyers for the two men said, rewriting the official history of one of the most notorious murders of the civil rights era.

For decades, historians have cast doubt on the case against the two men, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, who each spent more than 20 years in prison. Their exoneration represents a remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in a case of towering importance: the 1965 murder of one of America’s most influential Black leaders.

A 22-month investigation conducted jointly by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and lawyers for the two men found that prosecutors and two of the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Department — had withheld key evidence that, had it been turned over, would likely have led to the men’s acquittal.

And people can go to sleep at night knowing that people wrongfully accused and convicted? Just an "exonerated" thought.

Pullout...

 

Shocked...

 

CNN published a lengthy piece admitting the anti-Trump Steele Dossier has been discredited after the liberal network spent years promoting it at every turn.

The dossier was used as the roadmap for CNN and other liberal outlets to paint former President Donald Trump as compromised by Russia. CNN’s piece, "The Steele dossier: A reckoning," by reporter Marshall Cohen, detailed why "the credibility of the dossier has significantly diminished."

"A series of investigations and lawsuits have discredited many of its central allegations and exposed the unreliability of Steele's sources. They also raise serious questions about the political underpinnings of some key explosive claims about Trump by shedding new light on the involvement of some well-connected Democrats in the dossier, and separate efforts to prod the FBI to investigate ties between Trump's campaign and Russia."

Broad band deliberate deception. As we call, The most trusted...  Just a thought.