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Hey, New England: Roll, Tide!

Posted on | September 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Hey, New England: Roll, Tide!

When the New England Patriots drafted Alabama quarterback Mac Jones, I decided to become a Patriots fan, but after Sunday’s game — when Jones led New England to a 25-6 victory over the New York Jets — I’m thinking y’all New Englanders should become Alabama fans.

Jones isn’t the only Crimson Tide player on the Patriots roster. There’s also running back Damien Harris, defensive tackle Christian Barmore, and linebackers Anfernee Jennings and Dont’a Hightower.

During Sunday’s victory, Jones completed 22 of 30 passes for 186 yards and zero interceptions — a stark contrast to Jets QB Zack Wilson, who threw four interceptions. Like Jones, Wilson is a rookie (out of BYU) who was a first-round draft pick. The Jets had the second pick in the draft, and Jones didn’t go until the 15th pick, meaning there are 14 other teams out there who passed him over. So he beat one of them Sunday, on his long campaign of vindication, and made Jets fans feel the pain:

Jones was everything the Jets wanted — and needed — Wilson to be on this day. He was poised and played essentially mistake-free in that he didn’t turn the ball over while Wilson gave it away four times on interceptions — two of which came on his first two throws in the game.
After the game, Jets coach Robert Saleh delivered the most telling and appropriate quote of the day when he said he told Wilson, “Sometimes, it’s OK to be boring.’’
Because you know what Jones was?
Boring.
He was boring but efficient, completing 22 of 30 passes for 186 yards. Most importantly, though, Jones didn’t throw an interception or lose a fumble.
That’s the most important ingredient to winning in the NFL: Don’t beat yourself.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick has made a career out of forcing opposing teams into making mistakes and making them pay for them.
The two most memorable plays Jones made in the game, in fact, had nothing to do with him throwing the ball.
One came on New England running back Damien Harris’ 26-yard scoring run, on which he broke seven tackles and by the time he got near the goal line the entire Patriots offense was pushing him over the threshold — including the rookie quarterback who’d sprinted the 30 yards down the field to get into the fray.
Another came on an end-around by Kendrick Bourne when Jones threw a nice roll block on Jets defensive lineman Shaq Lawson, taking him to the ground.

Let’s see both of those plays on video:

Alabama: Where our quarterback blocks your defensive end.

Mac Jones is a team player. He waited three years for his shot at the starting QB job at Alabama, as backup first to Jalen Hurts (now with the Philadelphia Eagles) and then to Tua Tagovailoa (now with the Miami Dolphins, who beat New England in the season opener). He listens to his coaches, which is why he wasn’t throwing bombs Sunday. Apparently the game plan was for Mac to concentrate on completing short passes; his longest pass of the game was a picture-perfect strike down the middle.

The guy who caught that pass is Hunter Henry, a tight end from Arkansas who got picked up by the Patriots after four seasons with the Chargers. Henry was one of seven different receivers Jones connected with Sunday. His favorite target was veteran running back James White, whom he hit six times, including a 28-yarder. And then there was this razzle-dazzle:

Sweet! There were two negatives about Sunday’s game: First, Jones didn’t throw for a touchdown, and second, he got sacked three times. The sacks worry me most, because the one thing that could stop Jones from developing into — dare I say it? — the next Tom Brady is an injury. The Patriots’ offensive line needs to do a better job protecting their QB. Fortunately, Mac wasn’t hurt Sunday, so next up is a home game against New Orleans and then — well, it’s gonna be the next Tom Brady vs. the original Tom Brady when the Patriots play Tampa Bay on Oct. 3.




 

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 09.20.21

Posted on | September 21, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.20.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Three Justifiable Homicides In Just Over 36 Hours
EBL: FBI Believes Gabby Petito’s Body Has Been Found, also, Oh, Canada – Isn’t It Time To Give Justin Trudeau The Boot?
Twitchy: LA Department Of Health Explains Why Maskless Emmys Didn’t Violate Mask Mandate
Louder With Crowder: “F*** Joe Biden” Week Three In College Football, also, Nicki Minaj Exposes Media, Blasts Reporter Who Threatened To Dox Her Cousin
Vox Popoli: The World They Seek To Rebuild, Who Wants To Be The President, and The Devil’s Shot
Stoic Observations: Bad Black History
Gab News: Germany Wants To Force Gab To Censor. It’s Not Happening.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We’re Not Unvaccinated, We’re Purebloods
American Conservative: Do The Global Managers Want The Pandemic To End?
American Greatness: The Afghanistization Of America, also, Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrat Attempt To Include Amnesty In Reconciliation Bill
American Power: The Sharp U.S. Pivot To Asia Is Throwing Europe Off Balance, also, Biden’s Bad Day
American Thinker: What If The FBI Threw An Insurrection But Nobody Came? also, Is The Biden Administration Trying To Murder Its Political Opponents?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Slave Mechanics In South Africa Earn $67 Million For The Regime, also, Twelfth Cuban General Dies Since 7/11 Protests
BattleSwarm: Round Rock ISD Arresting Critics, also, Is Australia Not Going To Take It Any More?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, SpaceX Aiming For Six Commercial Manned Flights A Year 
Cafe Hayek: Socialism Must Lower – It Cannot Raise – Living Standards For The Masses
CDR Salamander: September Maritime Melee – On Midrats, also, Shippings Flock Of Swans
Da Tech Guy: The Navy Is Trending Toward Battleship, All Quiet Along The Potomac Last Night, and There Will be No Biden Reset
Don Surber: Why I Don’t Have Faith In John Durham, President FUBAR, and Democrats Turn On Biden & Harris
First Street Journal: Gee, She’s Dumb! also, The Catholic Church & The Right To Privacy
The Geller Report: Thousands Mass In Times Square To Protest Jab & Mask Mandates, also, U. Miami Muslim Professor Charged With Shipping Proscribed Gene Sequencer To Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, The Earth Seen From Space, and Nothing To See Here, Move Along
Hollywood In Toto: Comic – TikTok Censorship No Laughing Matter, also, Here’s Everything You Missed About John Carpenter’s Ghosts Of Mars
The Lid: Rewriting The History Of 9/11? Some Schools Are Trying, also, General Milley Often Went Rogue
Legal Insurrection: Beta O’Rourke Plans To Skateboard Into The Texas Governor’s Mansion, also, Tortilla Incident At High School Basketball Tournament Perpetrated By Leftist
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Video Game Music
Outkick: Cole Beasley Offers To Buy Tickets For Unvaxxed Fans Missing Bills Game, also, Did Mississippi State Get Screwed In Memphis?
Power Line: Haitians Moving Out From Under The Bridge, also, Will “Green” Energy Destroy Europe?
Shark Tank: Nikki Fried Poses With White Man Wearing Blackface
Shot In The Dark: What’s Up With The Japanese? also, Under The Table
The Political Hat: Praxis In The Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Milley’s Righteous Drone Shoot, What Passes For Education These Days, and Georgia WW2 Vet Given French Legion Of Honor For His Role In Helping Liberate France
Transterrestrial Musings: The Clinton Lawyer Indictment, The Jews, and The Real Human Exploration Of The Solar System 
Victory Girls: Mayor Breed Doesn’t Like The Fun Police, also, Pakistan PM Helps Evacuate Afghans When Blinken Won’t
Volokh Conspiracy: Horatio Hornblower With Dragons, also, Federal Court Rules Against “Public Health” Expulsion Of Illegals Under Title 42
Weasel Zippers: America Is Being Invaded, Someone Has To Stop It, American Stranded In Afghanistan Says She’s Been Abandoned By The Administration, and Biden Fires Downs Syndrome Advocate From Disability Board
The Federalist: Democrats Aim To Choke Off Arctic Drilling With Provision In Reconciliation Package, also, Denver Nursing Student Kicked From Program After School Reneges On Religious Exemption For Jab
Mark Steyn: Duality & Penitential Narcissism, Leave Them Wanting More, and Try A Little Tenderness

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Category: Linkagery

Fake ‘Right-Wing Rally’ in D.C. Attracts Mainly Media, Undercover FBI Agents

Posted on | September 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Fake ‘Right-Wing Rally’ in D.C. Attracts Mainly Media, Undercover FBI Agents

Last week, I warned (“The Post-Afghanistan ‘Pivot,’ as Predicted,” Sept. 10) that because the Biden administration “desperately needs a distraction from their endless bungling,” people were justifiably suspicious that the “Justice for J6” rally was an entrapment scheme.

Most people seemed to get that message — indeed, Donald Trump himself warned it was a “setup” — and the presence of numerous plainclothes FBI agents was painfully obvious. I say “plainclothes,” because if these agents were supposed to be undercover, the FBI really needs some new training protocols on what “undercover” means.

As I said before, organizers of the “Justice for J6” rally may have been entirely sincere in their desire to call attention to how those arrested in the Capitol riot are basically “political prisoners.” But this does not mean that they weren’t being influenced by FBI informants or undercover operatives — agents provocateurs seeking to undermine the organization they are pretending to support. In the two weeks prior to Saturday’s rally, the mainstream media was sounding alarms about how this event showed the potential violent danger of right-wing extremism.

AP sources: Intel shows extremists
to attend Capitol rally
— Associated Press, Sept. 2

As Sept. 18 rally approaches,
violent language ramps up online
— Roll Call, Sept. 8

Washington ramps up security
ahead of Sept. 18 rally
— The Hill, Sept. 13

DHS warns of potential for violence
surrounding the ‘Justice for J6’ rally
in intelligence brief
— CNN, Sept. 16

Capitol, D.C. police say city
prepared in case of violence
connected to Justice for J6 rally
— Washington Post, Sept. 17

All of these dire warnings from the media — and I’ve just cited a random few headlines from the dozens, if not hundreds of “news” articles sounding the alarm about this event — had about as much factual basis as, oh, I don’t know, the “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory.

Notice how the media’s errors, insofar as they confer any partisan advantage, always seem to work to the advantage of Democrats?

Do you think that’s merely a coincidence? Because I don’t think so.

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Category: Media Bias

Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With The Alabama Cheer Squad

Posted on | September 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With The Alabama Cheer Squad

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I should live so long. Here’s a pic of some lovely young Alabama ladies at what I assume is practice.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Roll Tide!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1477, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule 5 H.L. Mencken Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Worth, Come From Away, Otherlife, Israeli Army Rule 5, Nicki Minaj, The Tangle, Army Of One, Aging Gracefully, Occasional Cortex Wants To Tax The Rich, Grateful Dead On Playboy After Dark, Destroying Movie Franchises, The Voyeurs, MAGA – Miss Me Yet?, The Morning Show, and Kesari. 

A View From The Beach: God Save the Queen – Anya Taylor-Joy, Fish Pic Friday – Just Victoria, No Secret, We Need to Kill the Oysters to Save Them, Thursday Tanlines, Wednesday Wetness – The Golden Spiral, Election 2021: California Votes to Recall Newsome, As Chaos Consumes, Election 2021: Did Newsom’s Wife Attempt to Buy off Rose McGowan?, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

Brian Noggle: Girls of Route 66 – Arlene Martel & Susan Silo

Thanks to everyone for the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Take Me Out To The (Virtual) Ballgame

Posted on | September 19, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Take Me Out To The (Virtual) Ballgame

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Aside from the usual weekend sloth, this post is late because Da Tech Guy offered me the opportunity to experience once more the game that got me back into being interested in baseball after a twenty-year-long hiatus: like my father, who gave up on baseball after the Braves left Boston for Milwaukee in 1952, I lost interest in baseball after the Senators left Washington for Texas in 1972.* In 1989, one of my fellow soldiers in the Army Reserves invited me to join a Pursue the Pennant league, and after I signed up, the next thing I knew I was borrowing Bill James books from the library, buying new ones from the local bookstores, poring over a used copy of Total Baseball, and taking a part-time job scoring Twins games on the radio. I eventually dropped out of that league, and over the last few years baseball has been losing its charm thanks to its painfully woke commissioner, but I couldn’t resist the chance to take charge of my favorite Senators team ever, the 1969 squad that went 86-76 to finish fourth in the AL East, just one game behind the Red Sox. It’s been almost fifty years now, but I can still hear Shelby Whitfield exclaiming joyfully “Kiss it goodbye!” as Frank Howard blasted another massive home run into the upper deck at RFK. Anyway, I spent most of yesterday poring over Dynasty Baseball cards for 1969 baseball players in preparation for the coming weekend’s draft. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

My field of dreams – RFK Stadium in Washington DC

Rule 5 Sunday: Rabbit Season!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

‘Evil Can Never Be Dead Enough’
357 Magnum
Bacon Time
EBL

Jacksonville State Stuns FSU 20-17 With Last-Second 59-Yard Touchdown Pass
EBL

Serial Inseminator Arrested in Knoxville
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short
A View From The Beach
EBL

Democrats: The ‘Free Money’ Party
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.14.21 (Afternoon Edition) 
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.14.21 (Evening Edition) 
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.15.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Journalism 2021: CNN Fact-Checks Rapper’s Claim About Testicles
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.16.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.17.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

‘Science’ Fact-Checks Biden Agenda: FDA Nixes Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Vax
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

*So much so that when my wife asked me if I wanted to watch the 1987 World Series with her, I dismissively replied “What for? It’s baseball.” She was greatly amused a few years later when my obsession with the National Pastime rose from the dead.

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Category: Da Tech Guy, FMJRA Award

The Soul of Politics

Posted on | September 18, 2021 | Comments Off on The Soul of Politics

by Smitty
The Soul of Politics p.48:

In his essays and articles for the public, Jaffa made at least three significant contributions to American politics. First, by insisting on the centrality of the Declaration of Independence for understanding American constitutionalism, Jaffa was among the first and most influential writers to challenge the doctrine of judicial positivism and promote a natural law jurisprudence.

Second, in his scholarly and popular writings and through his many students, Jaffa promoted an explicitly political and practically focused application of classical political philosophy. Leo Strauss, virtually single-handedly, had revived the serious reading of the great authors of the Western canon, treating them as enduringly relevant rather than historical curiosities. But without Jaffa’s relentless efforts, this stupendous achievement might have settled into an effete sect of apolitical textualism.

Third, in part through his friendship with (and constant badgering of) William F. Buckley, Jaffa was largely responsible for pulling the modern conservative movement toward a more authentically American and pro-Lincoln stance, away from nostalgia for European throne-and-altar traditionalism or (worse) the old slaveholding South.

I’m really turning into a fan of this mode of thought, most readily captured online at American Mind.

Your attention is drawn to this for some clear thinking about where we are and how to correct the current decline. Maybe its distance from DC helps the Claremont Institute be less of a GOP toolbox.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Family Demands Answers’

Posted on | September 18, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Family Demands Answers’

One of the most tedious consequences of the Black Lives Matter movement is that the news media have taken hold of the notion that any time a black person dies in an interaction with police, this calls into question the motives and tactics of police. There is now a journalistic cliché in which family members tearfully recount what a wonderful person their deceased relative was, and call into police conduct question: “Family Demands Answers” has become the standard headline:

Family demands answers after Tallahassee
officer-involved shooting in March
— WTXL-TV, April 8, 2020

Family demands answers after police-involved
shooting that led to man’s death
— June 5, 2020

Family demands answers
after Ohio deputy fatally shoots Black man
— Dec. 7, 2020

Delaware family demands answers
after fatal police-involved shooting
— Feb. 5, 2021

Family demands answers
after DeKalb man shot, killed by police
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 14, 2021

Family demands answers in fatal
Birmingham police shooting: ‘I just
want to see my baby,’ grieving mom says
— Birmingham News, April 15, 2021

Family of man killed by D.C. police demands answers about what prompted officer to shoot
— Washington Post, Sept. 2, 2021

Am I asserting that, in each of these cases, the police were entirely justified, and that all these complaints are illegitimate? No, of course not. One must examine each case in detail to determine whether or not police procedures were proper and lawful. My point is not about police procedures, but rather about the lazy cookie-cutter approach to journalism that yields such a predictable series of headlines. And, in case you’d care to click those headline links, you will discover that in every case, the person shot by police is black. We know, as a matter of statistical fact, that cops actually shoot more white suspects than black suspects, but when did you ever see a news story about a white family “demanding answers” in such a case? I can only think of one off the top of my head — a crazy woman in Tennessee who charged cops with a pickax — but I’m sure there must be others. In general, when a white person does something that causes cops to shoot them, most white people are like, “OK, we can understand that.” There’s no protest, no angry rhetoric about “injustice” or “oppression,” no white people looting Target.

Whatever their race, people who get killed by cops don’t become victims at random. In almost every case, there was a reason this person died in a hail of gunfire — they did something, and whether or not they were a criminal menace to society, their death was legally justified.

Not many people in America have watched as many dashcam/bodycam videos of police shootings as I have in the past year or so. What happened was, the 2020 presidential election campaign became such a brutal bummer — psychologically traumatic — that I needed something to get my mind off politics, in order to maintain my sanity. That’s when I discovered the Police Activity channel on YouTube and started binge-watching videos of police shootings and, also, police pursuits. There’s nothing like an exciting high-speed car chase, ending with a PIT maneuver and a spectacular crash, to alleviate stress. It’s therapeutic.

You want these people to die. Watch enough police chases, and you’ll develop a profound contempt for these fleeing motorists. Why did they decide to run for it, after all? Over and over, the suspects in these chases either (a) have drugs in the car, (b) have guns in the car, or (c) are wanted on felony warrants, but sometimes (d) all of the above. When an otherwise law-abiding citizen gets pulled over for speeding or some other traffic violation, it’s a bummer, but no big deal. You’re not going to take off at 120 mph because of a mere traffic ticket. And the longer you watch that dashcam video of the fleeing suspect endangering everyone’s life by their recklessness, the more you hope that the video ends with them plowing into a tree — or getting wiped out by a high-speed PIT maneuver like the one that ended the criminal career of Lakita Annette Davis.

Sometimes, however, innocent people are killed because of these chases. It’s an unfortunate fact that can’t really be avoided, because what are you going to do? Make a rule prohibiting chases, which would mean that car thieves, armed robbers and drug traffickers can get away any time they make a run for it? No, sorry — we can’t prohibit police pursuits, because doing so would unleash criminal mayhem on society. So the more criminals are inclined to attempt eluding cops in chases, the greater the risk to public safety, and sometimes the results are tragic. That was the case recently in Paulding County, Georgia, where 12-year-old Leden Boykins died when he was a passenger in a vehicle whose driver attempt to outrun a cop car, and got wrecked by a high-speed PIT maneuver:

The Georgia State Patrol said they pulled that car over for speeding on Bethel Church Road in Paulding County around 1 a.m. Friday. Charles Moore was behind the wheel. They said he didn’t lower his window, troopers tried to burst it open, and Moore drove off.
A more than eight-minute-long recording of the 911 calls documents the moments before the tragedy.
“The officers are telling me to tell you to pull over, they’re going to hit you if you don’t,” an operator told Moore during the pursuit.
“I wish he would have just pulled over, but that doesn’t give them the right to flip that car over knowing there were kids in it,” Leden’s father said.
“He’s on a dark road, two small children, trying to get home and the police are aggressive, a Black man with two little Black boys,” [family attorney Zenobia] Waters said. . . .
Charles Moore faces a long list of charges including DUI, open container in a motor vehicle, and driving with a suspended license.
Officials also note that he’s wanted out of the Henry County Sheriff’s Office and Covington Police Department for various charges.

Did you catch that? Moore was drunk, driving with an open container of alcohol in the vehicle, with a suspended license, and had warrants for his arrest in two different counties. So why was there a 12-year-old boy in the vehicle with Moore at 1 a.m.? Here’s the sad answer:

His parents were in Michigan for a family funeral when he was killed. His grandmother, who was staying with Leden at the family’s Paulding County home, had given Leden permission this past Thursday to earn some money by accompanying a close friend and neighbor to his job, cleaning parking lots at night. The neighbor, who was driving, and his 14-year-old son went along for the ride.

(So it was grandma’s decision to let the boy go with Moore — the drunk driver with warrants in two counties — that was really to blame.)

On their way home, according to the Georgia State Patrol, troopers pulled him over for speeding. They said that he would not produce his driver’s license. Instead, according to the GSP, he drove off and began speeding again while driving recklessly, for three and a half miles along Highway 92, until troopers used a PIT maneuver to stop him. . . .
Leden’s father, Anthony, said the driver’s wife told him that he told the troopers he considered himself a “sovereign citizen” and would not roll down the windows while his 14-year-old son was calling 911.

Oh, no — a “sovereign citizen”!

If you never heard of the “sovereign citizen” movement, these are a species of kook who are, in fact, the domestic terrorist movement that most concerns law enforcement officers, because cops have to deal with these idiots who imagine themselves exempt from the law.
The “sovereign citizen” claims to be in possession of “rights” that have no basis in law, as for example they routinely claim that they don’t need drivers licenses and don’t have to comply with orders from the police.

This crackpot movement began with a fringe anti-tax protest movement in the 1970s led by an anti-Semite named William Potter Gale. So how did a movement started by a white supremacist end up with so many black devotees? Basically, blame the Internet. Various “black nationalist” types latched onto this anti-government conspiracy theory, putting their own Afrocentric spin on it, and it trickled out into the black community through fringe blogs, Facebook postings and YouTube videos.

“Family demands answers”? Well, there’s your answer: Charles Moore is a criminal, who apparently believed a dangerous conspiracy theory, and because grandma let this kid go off with Moore — who was drunk driving at 1 a.m. — now the little boy is dead. Don’t blame the cops.




 

Category: Crime

‘Science’ Fact-Checks Biden Agenda: FDA Nixes Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Vax

Posted on | September 17, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Science’ Fact-Checks Biden Agenda: FDA Nixes Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Vax

There is a huge backstory to what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did Friday, but first the basic news:

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel voted Friday afternoon to reject a plan to provide Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus booster vaccines for most Americans, due to a lack of data showing that the additional doses are safe and effective. However, the agency’s advisory committee said it may still approve the shots for older individuals.
The panel opposed the proposal by a vote of 16-12.
“I don’t think a booster dose is going to significantly contribute to controlling the pandemic,” Dr. Cody Meissner, Tufts University professor, said as panel members debate the requirement for a booster shot. “And I think it’s important that the main message we transmit is that we’ve got to get everyone two doses.”
“At this moment it is clear that the unvaccinated are driving transmission in the United States,” added Dr. Amanda Cohn of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Booster shots by Pfizer or Moderna have already been greenlighted for Americans who are immunocompromised.
The FDA panel’s overwhelming rejection came despite full-throated arguments about the need for boosters from both Pfizer and health officials from Israel, which began offering boosters to its citizens in July.

Pfizer is a multibillion-dollar enterprise and, like other companies marketing COVID-19 vaccines, they stand to profit handsomely from Biden’s plan to make vaccination mandatory. Guess what? Pfizer spends a lot of money on political contributions, ranking in the Top 200 of donors in the 2020 cycle, with more than $4 million in contributions, not to mention spending another $11 million on lobbying activity. Joe Biden repeatedly claimed that his COVID-19 policy would be based on science, but big money and political “optics” are clearly a factor. Last month, while Afghanistan was collapsing in chaos, Biden started talking up the idea of COVID-19 booster vaccinations, and two members of the FDA panel resigned in protest against the political pressure:

Joe Biden has said he would “follow the science” on coronavirus policy, but two Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have just resigned in protest against what they claim is political pressure to push coronavirus booster shots.
According to Politico, the two top FDA vaccine regulators — Marion Gruber and Philip Krause — resigned from the agency over what they see as “uncomfortable similarities between the Biden team’s top-down booster plan and former President Donald Trump’s attempts to goad FDA into accelerating its initial authorization process for Covid-19 vaccines and push through unproven virus treatments.” . . .
In fact, as many as 11 current and former FDA officials told Politico that they have grown frustrated with the administration’s “disjointed process” regarding the booster shots. . . .
In August, the HHS released a joint statement with medical health officials announcing the release of coronavirus booster shots by September 20, but senior health officials told Politico that “political appointees within the White House largely steered” the statement instead of the FDA and other medical professionals.
“The tension within the administration plus open skepticism from outside experts has fueled finger-pointing and divisions among health agencies,” according to Politico. “Career scientists, in particular, have been confused and surprised by the process, multiple people involved in the talks said.”
FDA officials were also confused over the fact that Biden abruptly shifted from suggesting that boosters be recommended 8 months after the first shots to 5 months after the first shots. His suggestion allegedly came “after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.”

About two-thirds of American adults (myself included) are fully vaccinated, and most of the unvaccinated people are just against it, period. So that means the end of Big Pharma’s government-funded vaccine profit bonanza is approaching quite soon. That’s the real reason (not “the science”) why the Biden administration is now trying to make vaccination mandatory, and also why they were trying to get booster shots approved. Big money is involved, see? And there’s also the narrative factor — Biden wants to be able to take credit as the Hero Who Defeated the Killer Virus, and he’s also desperate to distract from his debacle in Afghanistan and the mess he’s made on the U.S.-Mexico border.

That’s why Biden was ready to spend the next few weeks urging people who were already fully vaccinated to get booster shots, which would give him further opportunities to demonize Republicans (especially including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis) as being enemies of “science.” And it would’ve worked, too, if it weren’t for those damned FDA people!

Live by “the science,” die by “the science.”




 

Category: Joe Biden, Science
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