Monday, June 27, 2022
Michigan Governor Won’t Stop Lying to Voters About Job Gains
Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer says she's added 25,000 "good-paying auto jobs" during her tenure. The state has actually lost thousands of auto jobs on her watch, labor statistics show.
In a June 2 press release, Whitmer said she was "proud" to announce Michigan has "added nearly 25,000 auto jobs since I took office." The Democrat roughly three weeks later repeated the claim, writing in a "mobility and electrification" fact sheet that she "is ensuring Michigan lives up to its legacy as the place that put the world on wheels by creating nearly 25,000 good-paying auto jobs."
Bureau of Labor Statistics data, however, contradict that claim. Whitmer inherited 169,500 auto jobs when she became governor in January 2019, according to the agency. As of May 2022, that number is 166,700—a decrease of nearly 3,000 jobs.
Whitmer's deceptive declaration shows how the Democrat is attempting to rebound on economic issues following her stringent stay-at-home orders, which shuttered local stores but deemed marijuana dispensaries, lottery ticket vendors, and big-box retailers "essential." While Whitmer has touted leading the "best economic recovery in Michigan history," a June WalletHub report ranked Michigan 46th in unemployment claim recovery.
Michigan Rising Action communications director Mary Drabik said Whitmer's "gaslighting" on auto jobs is "not surprising."
"When Gov. Whitmer's claims are this far detached from reality, it becomes difficult to believe anything she says," Drabik told the Washington Free Beacon. "But coming from the governor who claims her nursing-home policies saved lives and vacationed in Florida while telling Michiganders to avoid flying south, the gaslighting is not surprising."
Whitmer's office acknowledged that the governor's claim stems from "the number of jobs announced since January 2019," some of which are not yet actualized. Still, Whitmer communications director Bobby Leddy said the governor "is proud of her record of job creation, particularly in the auto industry, as we move to cement Michigan's legacy of manufacturing." Leddy did not address why Whitmer's statistic does not account for jobs that have left the state since 2019.
This is far from the first time Whitmer has faced criticism for failing to deliver on a claim. In April 2020, the Democrat pledged to give back a portion of her salary for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. But Whitmer ended the pledge just five months later in September, even as her indoor gathering restrictions and public face mask requirements lasted for 15 months.
Whitmer, who implemented a policy that required nursing homes to accept positive coronavirus patients who were discharged from hospitals, is up for reelection in November after a roller coaster of a first term. Whitmer's national profile exploded during the beginning of the pandemic thanks to her harsh restrictions and public feud with then-president Donald Trump. Whitmer went on to ramp up those restrictions, which sparked large protests, particularly as the Democrat defied her own rules.
Whitmer's potential Republican opponents include...
The Racial Assault on Medical Science and Public Health And its enablers in the I.R.S.
It would be a relief to learn that this is a view confined to an academic fringe – and a mediocre one at that. But Ibram X. Kendi is not only a best-selling author and self-styled “anti-racist” advocate, he is also the head of a multi-million-dollar, tax-exempt, “anti-racism” institute at Boston University. Moreover, his racist remedies have taken root in America’s medical schools, hospitals, and professional associations and have become an integral policy of the American public health system.
The Equity in Health Movement I: The Ideology
In 2021, the Biden administration issued an instruction to Medicare physicians to “create and implement an anti-racism plan.” Issued as a final rule in the Federal Register last November, it states, “The plan should include a clinic-wide review of existing tools and policies, such as value statements or clinical practice guidelines, to ensure that they include and are aligned with a commitment to anti-racism and an understanding of race as a political and social construct, not a physiological one.”[2] Under this rule, doctors who create and implement an “anti-racism” plan and discriminate in favor of black patients will receive a financial bonus for doing so – in the form of higher reimbursements for their services.[3]
An even more prestigious proselytizer of this racial perspective is Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH ’93, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.[4] Cooper’s evidence for concluding that the coronavirus pandemic has a racist dimension,\ which is “structural,” is the shared view of the entire progressive effort to politicize the medical profession. It is the product of Critical Race Theory and other Cultural Marxist ideas, whose “structures” erase individuals and their choices in favor of ideological categories, which allegedly lead to disparities in outcomes between different racial and gender categories. But as Thomas Sowell has pointed out, there are disparities in the achievements and outcomes of all racial and ethnic groups globally, which have nothing to do with racism.[5]
Thus, the faux evidence for COVID-19 having “racist” effects is that it impacts black Americans disproportionately to their representation in the general population. In the words of the Johns Hopkins magazine that interviewed Lisa Cooper: “Nationally, African American deaths are nearly two times greater than would be expected based on their share of the population, according to The COVID Racial Data Tracker.”[6] Q.E.D.
But why is that? According to the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Lisa Cooper: “Before COVID-19, minority communities were already disproportionately impacted by health inequities. People in those communities already have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease, so these are the folks who were actually going to be at more risk of getting seriously ill with COVID-19. These health inequities result from the financial stresses of being poor and the social stresses of being from a marginalized group with a history of institutionalized, sanctioned mistreatment by law enforcement and other societal institutions. There’s a confluence of all these different factors—not having access to food, not having access to good quality housing, being crowded in small houses where there are multiple generations and unable to engage in social distancing or stock up on groceries for several weeks at a time, having to use public transportation, to work in essential jobs, and having less access to health care. These are all manifestations of structural racism.”[7]
There are so many false statements and misrepresentations in these sentences, it is hard to know where to begin. In the first place it is an insult to black Americans (even though Cooper herself is black) to describe black America as living in inner city poverty, beset by the unhealthy conditions associated with that status. In fact, more than eighty-percent of American blacks are living above the poverty line and the majority are comfortably middle class.[8] If eighty percent of blacks live like other Americans of all colors, how can racism be an explanation for the plight of...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1062
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1762
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #492
George’s Inc. announced it would be closing its Caryville food processing plant, WVLT-TV reported.
The move would jeopardize the livelihoods of around 200 of the company’s employees during a time of record-high inflation and soaring gas prices, according to the news station.
“I have contacted the Tennessee Economic and Community Development staff to request assistance in keeping the plant open or facilitating a sale to another operator,” Morton said. “I have requested Governor Lee’s assistance as well.”
“My primary concern is for the welfare of the dedicated workers who have been the backbone of this operation. Our prayers go out to them, as well as our very best efforts to keep them employed in Campbell County,” Morton said.
George’s had purchased the plant from Oklahoma City-based Lopez Foods in 2017, according to TalkBusiness.
Before the sale, the plant had employed 285 employees. It produced fully-cooked pork, beef and turkey products that were then delivered to the retail, food service and convenience store sectors until George’s took over, according to TalkBusiness.
The Caryville plant’s closure comes as food prices have been rising in...
Pfizer Document Reveals High Rate Of Vaccinated Pregnant Women Who Lost Their Babies
- Updated June 25, 2022 with higher Covid rate among vaccinated
- Updated June 18, 2022 with Novavax heart concerns
- Updated June 14, 2022 with Bell's Palsy and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome concerns
- Updated May 11, 2022 with FDA limiting J&J due to blood clot concerns
- Updated April 26, 2022 with more Guillain Barre paralysis concerns
- Updated March 12, 2022 with studies on vaccine-related tinnitis
- Updated Feb. 14, 2022 with pathologist study on heart deaths in children after vaccination
- Updated Jan. 20, 2022 with new warnings about serious neurological and blood conditions
- Updated Jan. 12, 2022 with additional blood disorder warnings
- Updated Jan 13, 2022 with study confirming menstrual cycle changes in women after vaccination
- Updated Jan. 13, 2022 with concerns about repeat boosters
- Updated Dec. 24, 2021 with Danish study again confirming serious heart inflammation risk from vaccination
- Updated Dec. 16, 2021 with CDC warning of dangerous blood clot risk with Johnson & Johnson vaccine
- Updated Dec. 15, 2021 with CDC confirming Johnson and Johnson vaccine link to Guillain Barre paralysis
- Updated Dec. 14, 2021 with British study showing increased heart inflammation risk from vaccination
- Updated Nov. 21, 2021 with "dramatic" increase in risk of heart injury
- Updated Nov. 14, 2021 with Taiwan suspending second dose of Covid vaccine for children
- Updated Nov. 13, 2021 with concerns over Capillary Leak Syndrome
- Updated Nov. 10, 2021 with Germany limiting Moderna in young people; pregnant women
- Updated Nov. 7, 2021 with study showing 2 of 3 U.S. vaccines under 50% effectiveness after 6 mos.
- Updated Oct. 30, 2021 with UK study showing no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated in peak viral load
- Updated Oct. 29, 2021 with Israel study showing waning immunity in a few months in all age groups after vaccination
- Updated Oct. 23, 2021 with increased rate of preterm birth in pregnant women
- Updated Oct. 10, 2021 with Iceland pausing Moderna over increased heart problems
- Updated Oct. 8, 2021 with Vietnam study about vaccinated people carrying more Delta viral load; spreading Covid
- Updated Oct. 7, 2021 with Finland pausing Moderna vaccine for young males due to heart issues.
- Updated Oct. 6, 2021 with Sweden and Denmark halting Moderna in young people due to risk of heart injuries. Slovenia suspends Johnson & Johnson.
- Updated Oct. 4, 2021 with study about vaccine immunity quickly wearing off
- Updated Oct. 3, 2021 with EU blood disorder concerns and Hepatitis C death
- Updated Sept. 19, 2021 with British study about menstrual cycle changes in women
- Updated Sept. 12, 2021 with study finding teenage boys face much higher heart risk from vaccine than Covid
- Updated Sept.10,2021 with Israel study on majority of hospitalized being vaccinated
- Updated Sept. 9, 2021 with CDC study about increased myocarditis/heart inflammation risk, lymphadenopathy, appendicitis, and herpes zoster infection
- Updated Sept. 4, 2021 with acute CNS demyelination after Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
- Updated Aug. 30, 2021 with Functional Neurological Disorder
- Updated Aug. 24, 2021 with waning immunity
- Updated Aug. 17, 2021 with Bell's Palsy analysis, Hong Kong
- Updated Aug. 16, 2021 with Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) study
- Updated Aug. 5, 2021 with heart disorders more common than CDC reported from database
- Updated July 22, 2021 with EU warning about Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis after Johnson and Johnson vaccination.
- Updated July 12, 2021 with new FDA warning of Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis cases after vaccination.
- Updated July 12, 2021 with reports of Graves disease autoimmune disorder after vaccination.
- Updated July 1, 2021 with reports of Guillain-Barre paralysis cases after vaccination.
- Updated June 30, 2021 with news of first case of blood clot disorder in double-dose RNA vaccinE
If you find yourself confused about the mixed guidance when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines and safety concerns, you’re not alone.
While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is marketing widespread use of the emergency-use vaccines in the U.S. for both old and young alike, many other countries are limiting Covid-19 vaccine use. Health officials around the world are giving varying advice on safety issues as Covid-19 vaccines are given to more people, and more information can be collected.
Read CDC’s information here.
Moderna vaccine info sheet.
Below are summaries of some of the concerns that have emerged or been raised by medical officials:
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