WHO HAD BRAIN PARASITES ON THEIR BINGO CARD? Today’s special guest animal is the Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) which becomes a brain parasite when it infects humans. Cases of Rat Lungworm infection are on the rise in the Southeastern US. Ivermectin, although not the preferred anthelmintic (your word for the day) for treating lungworm, is still effective at least in animals. The mere mention of the drug in the context of treating humans seems to trigger certain people – note the weaseling, fear-mongering, and misdirection about ivermectin in this article.
ADVOCACY JOURNALISM: Philadelphia resident Dayjia Blackwell, aka as “Meatball,” arrested on six felony counts after filming herself encouraging looters, taunting police to arrest her during Sep 26. Criminal use of a communication facility is, of course, a bullshit charge, but actively encouraging looters invalidates any claims of being a journalist or innocent bystander.
EVEN THE NAVAJO: Marijuana business on Navajo reservation accused of using forced labor. Buried in the story is how local police arrested the laborers (later to drop charges) but failed to notice anything else suspicious. Also buried in the story is how federal, state, and tribal police also busted the operation at a later date, again failing to notice the living conditions of the laborers.
AUTHENTIC PROG GIBBERISH: Sara Innamorato, Dem candidate for County Executive of Allegheny County, PA (Pittsburgh) is campaigning on “convening a coalition of experts to to ‘provide an action plan on steps toward opening a safe, restorative trauma-informed space towards divergent pathways for youth,’ her website says.” Also, raising taxes.
WOODCHIPPER AWARD: “A criminal trial for former Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler will head into its fourth day Thursday as he faces charges that he retaliated against a teacher for blowing the whistle on sexual abuse, and for cooperating with a special grand jury empaneled to investigate the school system following its coverup of a bathroom rape.”
MARS SAMPLE RETURN MISSION FUBAR: It’s going to cost a lot more money and probably happen a lot later than planned. It would be hilarious if Elon Musk sent a human crew to Mars to retrieve the samples and launch them back to Earth. He’d have to launch during the 2028/2029 Mars launch window.
Tonio has the best links.
He’s tired of winning?
Hear hear!
*Bangs walker on table
*Tennis ball falls off
Why did I picture you trying to fuck Chuck Norris?
For the record, I never tried to fuck Chuck Norris. Not even in the 1970s.
I thought my music links were the best.
I’ve never had brain parasites far from my thoughts over the last few years. It would explain a lot about the Uniparty.
There is a band named “Parasite.”
The playing field is wide open to start a band named “Brain Parasite.”
For those congress people that don’t get reelected.
Oh, I thought you said “Drain Parasite”
Damn Illithid
“The hospital had no idea what to do,” she said. “I spoke to a person at an emergency clinic and a physician. They said, ‘We don’t know. If you start having seizures or going numb then come in to the emergency room.’”
The best and brightest.
“On Monday, Barnett drove to the headquarters of the Rat Lungworm Working Group at the University of Hawaii Hilo College of Pharmacy”
Is there that much work to do?
We’re in real trouble if they decided it is a make-work project.
“Last year, an Australian hospital recommended albendazole as a safe treatment for children who have swallowed a snail or slug. But the price for the drug can be prohibitive in the United States, running for about $200 a pill, compared to four or five cents in other countries.”
Thanks, FDA.
“Some patients resort to other unproven medications that could actually do more harm than good, such as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug intended for horses.”
HORSE PASTE!!!!
“unproven medications that could actually do more harm than good”
They don’t say ivermectin, specifically. You also notice they only say “could” without saying what, exactly, the risk for harm is. They really, really hate having been burned on the ivermectin/COVID thing and are determined to keep it out of peoples’ hands at any cost.
FYI, ivermectin is also used in the monthly worming meds given to most dogs.
FYI, ivermectin is also used in the monthly worming meds given to most dogs.
And has been prescribed to humans around the world to the tune of billions of doses. For parasites. Used for parasitic infections in horses, OK. “Intended for horses” – fucking liars.
Dude, ivermectin had only been prescribed for treatment of human diseases about 4 billion times prior to COVID.
I’ll bet they’ve used it 11 zillionty times on horses. IT’S HORSE PASTE.
Seriously, man. What a perfect example of narrative uber alles.
The narrative must be preserved at all costs, including your life.
The guy who perfected Ivermectin got a Nobel Prize for doing it. Here’s a 2021 on Ivermectin vs. COVID-19.
“Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-1
In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honoured the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world’s most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls.”
From the NIH, no less, and it’s still up. I am confusal.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/
She’ll be breaking out of her body and flying away…. like a Bat out of Hell… oh, meat *ball*. In that case, she’s probably as stupid as Meathead. 😉
She excuses looters as hungry folks just trying to provide for their families. She, herself, doesn’t appear to have ever missed a hearty meal.
We have an epidemic of obesity in our country yet food is so hard to get people have to steal it.
Does she?
I thought her spiel was that they were protesting for racial justice after some cop shooting.
Whatever plays with the NPR set.
I wonder if she’s related to Corn Pop.
Kamala Harris fire brigade hardest hit.
I think you can trot out that sentence for just about any and every NASA program at this point.
“Brain parasites” – for a moment I thought you were honing in on Riven’s territory and reviewing Baldur’s Gate 3.
The DLC includes Ilithid Porn?
“convening a coalition of experts to to ‘provide an action plan on steps toward opening a safe, restorative trauma-informed space towards divergent pathways for youth,’”
How dumb do you have to be to use the term “expert” unironically in the 21st Century?
The whole sentence is a combination of random words.
Which candidate’s words aren’t?
That’s how people with college talk now. It’s a good way to stupify people, by using big cuddly words with no real definition. No message is conveyed other than “I went to college”.
Too many people with degrees suffer from being confident in their ignorance, because degree.
It’s intended to be opaque.
It’s harder to argue with them when can’t figure out what the fuck they’re saying.
I tell people who pull that on me to stop “using verbal diarrhea” and speak like a human.
“Speak English, MotherFucker!”
They’re saying: “I don’t know how to do this job, but I plan to hire people smarter than me to do it instead.”
I spent enough time being that guy to a politician who only knew how to get votes by being charming. The meaning of such gibberish jumps out at you with that relevant experience at close range.
“You appear to have been afflicted with Aphasia. We wish you all the luck in your recovery, but we need someone who is able to communicate.”
Well, I’ll go to college and I’ll learn some big words
And I’ll talk real loud, goddamn right I’ll be heard
You’ll remember the guy that said all those big words
He must’ve learned in college
How dumb do you have to be to vote for someone based on that word salad?
Now that’s an excellent question. What is the label attached to her name, because that’s more important than what she says, right?
It sounds like she’s looking for synergies in a new paradigm that leverages best of breed solutions.
I’ll take that as an action item, and we’ll discuss it on our biweekly touchbase session.
In other words, she is looking for the people to bubble it up to her, so she can trickle it down to those in need.
That sentence is inherently paternalistic.
Not going to click on the rat lungworm link because pics of brains ravaged by larvitic cysts give me the heebie jeebies for some reason but that is concerning.
A lot of herpy-derp but no parasite ravaged brains pictured.
At least in the last link.
She ain’t laughing in that mugshot.
“Ms. Innamorato has also said she supports gun buyback programs to reduce the number of firearms on the streets. And during a candidates forum in May, she said she would leverage relationships with state lawmakers in Harrisburg to “pass comprehensive, evidence-based gun regulation policies.”
I hope she gets shot in Minecraft.
“evidence-based gun regulation policies”
Evidence indicates that if everyone had a gun, people would be more polite and crime would decline. Impalement that.
Impalement? Like, shove it where the sun doesn’t shine?
IT’S ALL ABOUT ME!
https://www.insider.com/national-sons-day-makes-mom-nonbinary-child-feel-unseen-2023-9
Transhausen by proxy indeed.
Jesus… get over yourself, stupid woman. There are only 8 billion other people on the planet and you aren’t a deity. Not every thought must allow you to bask in reflected glory.
Sit tight lady: world mental health day is Oct. 10th and you’ll be able to find lots of providers to help you and your kid.
“9-year-old nonbinary child”
Bullshit.
Brain parasites have their own union. Randi Weingarten is in charge.
I posted in the dead thread about the CVS situation. Just wanted to make a comment on pharmacies:
People need to get out of the mindset that visiting a pharmacy is like visiting a fast food joint. And a lot of the issues are created by customers who are ignorant pieces of shit in general.
The fast food joint has less work and more staff.
CVS in particular is known for trying to operate with a bare bones staff if the place is fully staffed to begin with. Walgreens by comparison provides far more payroll for their stores.
I never said it was like visiting a fast food joint. No customer servicing area should have a line that does not move for 20 minutes. If that ever happens you should start a ticket and time system to reduce congestion and increase customer satisfaction.
That would be great. The simplest thing for the employees to do when someone is going to take a long time in the drive thru is to ask them to come inside and wait for their issue to be resolved.
But then the customers tend to bitch up a storm, refuse, refuse to move, and it’s a fight. I’m not accusing you of anything here, RJ. I’m just telling you how it goes very often and why the pharmacy techs don’t go that route as much as they should. It’s because people are incredibly entitled and/or ignorant of others.
Customers behave in ways at pharmacies that they never would at a doctor’s office. And a pharmacy is still healthcare, but everyone just views it as retail. And it’s incredibly difficult to keep experienced staff because the pay sucks and people get treated like burger flippers for doing something that’s just a little more complex. Good techs aren’t easy to come by, and most move on to bigger and better things. So, it takes months to get someone up to speed in the pharmacy if they’re even capable and there’s constant turnover.
CVS does appointments for things like vaccines. Only, the people in the store have no control over scheduling them and the system has no relation to how busy things will be in the pharmacy at the time scheduled. So, I wouldn’t trust them to put together any form of que system. Same thing with the covid testing they were doing (through the drive thru).
I can rant all day here. CVS is a mess, and extremely cheap. But customers exacerbate an already shitty situation in most stores.
Walgreens is becoming a mess but at least they didn’t get bought by Aetna. I think that is what crushed CVS.
Well, it crushed us because we love Walgreens and despise CVS, and then we got forced into CVS because Aetna.
I watched some of that impeachment inquiry and now I need to lower my blood pressure. The Dems were just as awful as you’d expect. “No direct evidence” indeed.
Best response I’ve seen on that front.
That is literally the only thing at this point that would count as evidence. It’s like Hillary and her emails all over again.
Watch how fast the NYT’s spots a conflict of interest when it’s a Trump, though.
Deplorable
A lot of deplorable things were said during the Republican debate on Wednesday night, but this comment from Republican candidate Tim Scott may take the cake.
During the debate Scott argued that welfare assistance was harder than slavery for Black Americans.
“Black families survived slavery!” he exclaimed. “We survived poll taxes and literacy tests.”
“We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country,” he added, in a line that for a moment sounded like he might actually be acknowledging systemic racism.
“What was hard to survive was Johnson’s Great Society, where they decided to put money—where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail.”
Johnson’s Great Society, launched in 1964, was one of the most significant federal social welfare programs in U.S. history. It greatly expanded welfare policy by writing Medicare and Medicaid into U.S. law, increasing Social Security benefits, and generally expanding assistance to the elderly and the poor.
That Scott had harsher words for welfare assistance than for slavery is not just an overt ahistorical reach. Frankly, it’s embarrassing.
Hitler himself would be ashamed to say that.
He’s right. First Johnson’s Great Society shit hooked people on free money, then Nixon eradicated the gold standard. The country destroyed in two administrations.
No disagreement. Pharmacies are not fast food joints, but they also don’t act like they’re in the service industry. I don’t know why people in healthcare think they don’t have to provide any consideration for patients or their time, but it’s a common complaint amongst the Hoi polloi
I like how they just entirely ignore his point about black fathers and families, because it’s a statistical fact that can’t be refuted.
“Let’s focus on the thing that I imagine means something else than the obvious meaning, and ignore the point of Scott saw this shit up close and personal.”
Sounds like Scott said the “Great Society” was yet another thing that fucked over many black people. No comparison of exact levels of each. Not unless you’re like the writer, who thinks they can read minds, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Scott must’ve read some Sowell. He has a quote that is something like “the Federal government with the welfare state managed to destroy the black family in just a couple generations, something that even hundreds of years of slavery and Jim Crow did not.”
Maybe, just maybe, he didn’t have harsh words for slavery because everyone knows it was wrong.
And possibly because slavery ended in the 1860s while the Great Society is still with us. It’s like failure to mention the horrors of crucifixion.
“Fool’s gold? Expert questions whether Costco’s $1,949 one ounce gold bars are REALLY a good deal, as shoppers rush to snap them up amid rampant inflation and bank failures”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-12571173/Fools-gold-Expert-questions-Costcos-1-949-one-ounce-gold-bars-REALLY-good-deal-shoppers-rush-snap-amid-rampant-inflation-bank-failures.html
I’m shorting hot dogs.
I haven’t bought gold in more than a year. But that looks like a decent deal from what I remember.
You know what’s really overvalued? Experts like the ones you find in articles like this.
‘Gold ETFs are another way to invest in gold, but to some investors lack charm’
That’s actually a very bad way to describe find ETFs. They hold gold, but they also sell it to pay their fees, so the long term value of the fund will be zero eventually.
Also, why are good deals taking 5% if the price has risen?
It’s like real estate agents still making 3% on property sales, despite the prices going through the roof. Thieves.
… Can I buy it in cash?
Sounds like a normal-to-good price for physical gold.
To sell.
Yep.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1707333422786478091
Tim Scott is not fit to wear the name “negro”.
I’m sure he didn’t vote for Biden either.
Would you prefer he goes by ‘boy ‘, Mr Biden?
Also, you need to start threading your replies cause I saw only this and thought it was a sincere sentiment.
A black man with his own opinions. Who does he think he is? Everyone knows a good nigger doesn’t have his own opinions!
NASA released Sept. 21 the final report of an independent review board it commissioned earlier this year to examine the state of the program to pick up samples cached by the Perseverance rover and return them to Earth.
“earlier this year”. So let’s say six months. Six months to state the obvious. Nice work if you can get it.
“Is Seattle set for a MEGAQUAKE? Scientists find two fault lines that are capable of releasing a 7.8-magnitude earthquake – and it could kill more than 1,600 people and destroy over 10,000 buildings”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12571885/Is-Seattle-set-MEGAQUAKE-Scientists-two-fault-lines-capable-releasing-7-8-magnitude-earthquake-kill-1-600-people-destroy-10-000-buildings.html
Well, OK, but I’d prefer Portland.
Color me skeptical that they can actually tell any of that. Sounds like a bunch of baloney.
“Rapper Bhad Bhabie is left STUNNED after discovering how British people eat baked potatoes: ‘I’ve never seen that before!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12567785/Bhad-Bhabie-Brits-serve-jacket-potatoes.html
How bout that?
No.pineapple topping?
That’s on her OnlyFans.
Roast beef.
“beans or tuna”
I can’t even. 🤢
“Cake or death?”
Ummm… beans, please.
Mmm, beans sounds kinda good. With some sour cream, cheese and chopped scallions. A little hot sauce to finish it off.
Is that even a human being, or some plastic creation?
Here the expression “I am gonna have to eat beans” means you need to really stretch. your money by eating cheap food.
Read whatever you want into that.
So, what’s up with the gays these days.
Met a guy out there today still trying to hook up with people at the park in the bushes. I guess that explains why there were no homeless there. #not all gays
😏
I had to beat him off… with a stick, sickos. 😛
So, you gave him the shaft, huh?
Imagine finding used condoms on our Disc golf course
/Balboa park, San Diego
Balboa Park?
No surprises there.
For the last time Lack, the truck stop is not a “park”
I have no doubts that’s his goal
Netflix is discontinuing its DVD-by-mail service…
https://kdvr.com/news/technology/ap-netflixs-dvd-by-mail-service-bows-out-as-its-red-and-white-envelopes-make-their-final-trip/
I’m still annoyed when Blockbuster discontinued their rival DVD by mail service.
Though I’m not going to drive all the way to Oregon to do an in-store exchange (which was one of the benefits from their offering)
Good thing I still have my Blockbuster card!
I think Red Box kiosks still do pretty well based on my casual observation.
If you’re ever in Bend…
That will finally date Zoolander 2.
Greed
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday called for a state regulator to transition early to a winter fuel blend to alleviate high gas prices. He also called for the California Energy Commission to look into whether prices are being manipulated by the industry.
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Earlier this year, Newsom signed a bill that would give regulators the power to punish oil refiners. The measure created a new committee within the California Energy Commission that will be empowered to gather private business information and data from refiners to consider whether to set a cap on company profits and a potential penalty when the cap is exceeded. The funds from the penalty would go into a fund, which the Legislature would then determine how to spend.
And then, when the lines and rationing begin, he can fine them some more.
Can industry start the decoupling process from California, the way some are promising to do with China?
‘called for a state regulator to transition early to a winter fuel blend to alleviate high gas prices. ‘
Why does he want to kill Gaia?
Also, I thought high prices were good.
1) Create the conditions that raise prices. 2) Prices go up. 3) Feign shock that prices went up and blame the companies.
Needs more burnout
Five United Auto Workers union picketers were struck by a car in a hit-and-run while protesting in Michigan Tuesday, police say.
The driver of a dark colored Chevrolet HHR was attempting to exit the General Motors facility on Bristol Road in Genesee County, but was blocked by picketers, the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County said in a news release.
The driver then drove through the line of picketers, hitting five people and fled the scene, police said.
The victims suffered minor injuries and one was transported to a local hospital.
“Investigators are in the process of identifying the driver of the hit-and-run vehicle,” police said.
And were the idiots blocking the road ticketed?
Thanks, Tonio!
Interesting lynx this afternoon.
The ivermectin thing is never going to not make me angry.
You’re a fucking cunt.
That’s quite a spread in valuation. Is Trump’s judge doing the analysis?
It’s $3Million for loans, $10Million for taxation.
800$ a lb. Times 2200?
‘Cuz pharmaceuticals are never, ever prescribed for “off label” use! 🙄
From the FDAs own website:
Wait ’til they find out that Paxlovid has been used off-label for Covid.
Viagra says hi.
Hey GT! Sorry not to have caught your comment this morning before the pre-links had become a dead thread. I was busy being willfully (and, to be fair, willingly) distracted by a gorgeous hunk.
Anyway. Laurie and Philip have been friends for years 😉 Tomorrow’s music includes a song by him with lyrics by her, sung by Linda Ronstadt, backed by The Roches.
They’ve collaborated on a number of projects.p, esp. having to do with Tibet House.
EotB was the first Glass I heard, and I’ll be forever grateful to the friend who rather gingerly offered it up. Blew me out of the water, and has been a near-daily companion for 40+ years, in one snippet or another. Not to everyone’s taste, but very much to mine. The release of the recent(-ish) production on DVD satisfied a deep need. Despite not having James Earl Jones intoning the love story that wraps up the piece. 😉 Not that he’s ever performed it, but he has the *perfect* voice for it.
Anyway, on to tomorrow!
Ermagerd! I can hardly wait! (I particularly love The Roches!!) Thanks! 😃
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E06/1003918
😉
“Find ways” to buy ivermectin? Like just going down to the local feed and sees and shopping? It’s not like people are buying it in the alley behind a strip bar at night for chrissakes. I’d rather chance it with ivermectin (it’s not that dangerous unless you really screw up the dose or you happen to have an allergy) than brain worms.
From what I’ve read it’s damn near impossible to kill yourself with the stuff. I hate these fuckers more than I should communicate on an unsecured platform.
Elon is making a quick stop before he heads to Mars.
This should be interesting.
I generally hate it when business tycoon’s start getting involved in politics. But in Elon’s case, government started this tiff. And his positions frequently align with mine. So, I get a lot of mixed feelings about his forays into the news of the day.
I’m reading his biography, a very interesting person,
and a hero to me.
Link or title?
Yes please
Also hello. Haven’t seen you in weeks.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elon-Musk/Walter-Isaacson/9781982181284
Coming soo…Yusuf Drives a Tesla.
That’s because most of them are wholly owned by the government.
*cough* Epstein *cough*
LOL Comet TV is blurring tiddies on Buffy. Mannequin tiddies.
The other day they were blurring music posters. I love the New Puritanism.
Books teaching blowjobs and fisting for elementary school kids, but adult tiddies are verboten?
Cleansing fire incoming.
No censoring tonight. See you in an hour.
Obviously not lesbo tiddies, those are okay.
That could possibly be due to licensing rather than censorship.
The mannequin on the other hand…
Mannequin
In a school sailor uniform.
https://youtu.be/Ggv1heiVrdM?si=OWifXueBvViimcPr
Vintage mannequin
Drugs, ass?
UK teen arrested after famous ‘Robin Hood Tree’ cut down at Hadrian’s Wall
I’m calling bullshit. No way a 16 year old limey has a chain saw big enough and experience enough to drop a tree that big. Now the question is, what stupid government fuckery is this intended to distract from?
Maybe he chewed through the trunk with his scraggly English teeth.
The government cut down a famous tree at Hadrian’s Wall?
“by accident”
The Muppets – Devil Went Down to Jamaica
why not
Fantastic!
OMG.
That may have restored my faith in humanity.
I assume you’ve seen this one.
Yeah. That’s so good
I guess we have a theme going.
Excellent. It’s a genre.
That was pretty sweet.
Things are getting really interesting as they are obviously playing with our lives.
https://thehighwire.com/editorial/breaking-top-japanese-virologist-warns-of-manufactured-omicron-strain/
“ The variants, when displayed in graphical form, displayed an incremental and methodically stepped-down ordering. Something nature doesn’t do. Natural mutations are random, and once they mutate, they don’t revert back. However, what professors Miyazawa and Tanaka found was that the Omicron mutations were switched off, and then back on step by step down the evolutionary ladder. ”
The evidence initially was that omicron was too far removed from the Wuhan stain to be a descendant. Now it’s looking purposefully engineered as well.
The first one didn’t kill enough of us.
The theory is that Omicron was made by white hat virus hackers to inoculate the populace against the more dangerous Wuhan strain.
But that ignores the fact that only the black hats had the genetic info.
My guess is that they realized they fucked up and released omicron to try to blunt the effects.
‘But that ignores the fact that only the black hats had the genetic info.’
Wasn’t it sequenced fairly early on, perhaps, suspiciously early on.
Your theory isn’t bad either.
*glances around the chat with bleary eyes, sips an Irish Powerade*
Newish job has me waking up at 2AM so by the time I get home, clean up, eat, and catch up on my mindless entertainment, I’ve found myself uninclined to catch watch or read about the news concerning the festering cesspool that is national and international mechanisms.
…and I gotta say, it’s been great. I mean just swell. The Bee’s Knees…
But you guys are still cool.
*slinks away to bed*
Hey! Good to hear from you.
– some dead white slave owner
Waking up at 2am sucks, but good for you, man. I hope it’s going well. Stop by anytime and just (try to) ignore the politics bullshit. Lately I seldom spend much time in morning links since they are usually the most current events/politics heavy. Gets to be too much sometimes.
I just want to say that comment wasn’t in any way meant to throw shade at Sloopy and Banjos. They do a fucking amazing job with THE LINKS!