Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Clyburn prays for ‘swift justice’ in ‘senseless murder’ of 14-year-old Black boy falsely accused of shoplifting
Chow and his son chased after Carmack-Belton, who fell as they neared an apartment complex. But as Carmack-Belton got back up, Chow’s son claimed that he saw the boy had a gun, and Chow proceeded to shoot Carmack-Belton in the back.... Authorities later recovered a gun next to Carmack-Belton’s body.
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein
As the immunity provided by these vaccines rapidly wanes, their ability to prevent hospitalization and severe disease in individuals with comorbidities has recently been questioned, and increasing evidence has shown that, as with many other vaccines, they do not produce sterilizing immunity, allowing people to suffer frequent re-infections....
[R]ecent investigations have found abnormally high levels of IgG4 in people who were administered two or more injections of the mRNA vaccines… [E]merging evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG4 levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines may not be a protective mechanism; rather, it constitutes an immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS-CoV2 infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses. Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals....
It is worth noting that there are conflicting pieces of information about the level of protection offered by these vaccines. Although the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States has stated that throughout the pandemic, mortality rates have been higher in the unvaccinated than in the vaccinated, the data in the United Kingdom contradict the CDC’s findings. Specifically, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom has reported that from April to mid-November 2021, deaths in unvaccinated people were higher in comparison with vaccinated people who had received a second vaccine dose. However, from the end of November 2021 to December 2022, this situation reverted: deaths were higher in vaccinated people who received a third vaccine dose compared with the unvaccinated.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37243095/
SARS-CoV-2 spike ectodomain targets α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
The SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein contains a neurotoxin-like region that has sequence similarities to the rabies virus and the HIV glycoproteins, as well as to snake neurotoxins, which interact with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes via this region.
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Effeminacy
St. Thomas Aquinas defined effeminacy as the inability to put aside one's pleasure in pursuit of the arduous good.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (Take 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7FwW9fYSPU
http://www.beefheart.com/safe-as-milk/
My cigarette died when I washed my face
Dropped some drops on an ashtray in a wrong place
Open up my blinds to see spiders spinning nines
Its uh safe as milk it’s uh safe as milk
I never heard it put quite that way
The shape I’m in is uh worn away
They called a day they called a day
Yesterday’s paper headlines approach rain gutter teasing rusty cat sneezing
Soppin wet hammer dusty and wheezin’
Lusty alley whining trashcan blues
Children running after rainbows stocking poor
Gracious ladies nylon hanging onto line
Jumping onto leg looking mighty fine
Sorrows
lollipop lands stick-broken on a dark carnival ground
Pop up toaster cracklin
Aluminum rhythm and sound
Ev’ry day pencil lazy and sharp
Icebox inside looking like a harp
Electric bulb been out for years
Freezer fumes freezin’ glass tears
Cheese in the corner with a mile long beard
Bacon blue bread dog ear (repeat twice)
I
may be hungry but I sure ain’t weird
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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Friday, May 5, 2023
AN APOSTLE OF LITERATURE by Glenn C. Arbery
She understood that great literature worked through the imagination to educate the emotions and inform the intelligence of feeling....
Having experienced the effect of her reading voice too many times to count, I gradually saw that professing literature did not consist of saying brilliant things about it, but of taking others into the saving power of imagination. The calling is less to analyze literature or extract concepts from it than to enter the poetic space it creates and experience it whole—whether “it” is the scene in which Achilles and Priam gaze at each other in the last book of the Iliad, or the scene in which Ike McCaslin, at twelve, having left behind his compass and his rifle, encounters Old Ben, and reality, as Melville might say, outruns apprehension.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/04/an-apostle-of-literature
Thursday, May 4, 2023
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The Fat Scam of Industrial Ice Cream If you find yourself craving ice cream late at night, it may be because you are craving fat—but there are better ways to get it, including better ice cream
Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
3 egg yolks
1/3 to 1/2 cup maple or coconut sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Generous pinch of sea salt
1 quart heavy cream (pasteurized or raw, not ultra-pasteurized)
Whisk ingredients together and prepare in an ice cream maker.